Zefrank's True Facts: Reef Coral Is a Crazy Animal!

Zefrank’s True Facts: Reef Coral Is a Crazy Animal!

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During the nights following a full moon, things get dirty.

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262 comments

austin_blue Sep 21, 2023 • 7:48:49pm

So, day two of Paxlovid, fourth dose an hour ago:

COVID, even if you are vaxed and boosted (we were to get our fall boosters today until we tested Positive on Tuesday) hits like a mule’s hoof to the face. Throat scrubbed with Steel Wool, an immediate reminder that your alimentary canal is actually *outside* your body and is closed by two sphincter’s, the uppermost of which can fail spectacularly, a splitting headache, low fever, and a dry, increasingly hacking cough, and, for me, no sense of taste or smell.

We picked up a BUNCH of meds on Wednesday morning, including the Paxlovid (anti-viral), Benzoatene (cough suppressant), Levocitrinizine (antihistamine), Tussin (expectorant, and a weaker decongestant).

Paxlovid has its own side affects, the most obvious for us was a sudden disfunction of the lower alimentary canal sphincter (either Montezuma’s Revenge, or in Tom Pynchon’s world, a Nazi inside you squeezing your bowels and yelling “Yah! You vill Schitt now, yah!?!).

Also, tired. Getting up is tiring, getting in the laundry is tiring, eating is tiring, and for She Whom Must Be Obeyed, Paxlovid has given her disgussia, which I suffered from three years ago when I got aspergillosis. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone

HOWEVER—-

The bottom line is that we are much better now than we were two days ago and will continue the protocol until we are done and clean.

Anyone who could get vaxed and boosted and didn’t deserves whatever wretched results ensued. Fuck those people.

Captain Ron Sep 21, 2023 • 7:56:31pm

I’m getting e-trike ads. I’m not that old!

I ordered my enduro emtb today.

Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 21, 2023 • 8:02:40pm

Ah I heard from my Facebook pal in Australia…aw crap there was no rapture at midnight Down Under…

austin_blue Sep 21, 2023 • 8:10:59pm

And. I. Am. Dead. Tired.

Off I go, sweet dreams, dear ones.

mmmirele Sep 21, 2023 • 8:12:05pm

I was in Boston, in fact going to the airport in an Uber, when the last government shutdown ended. I was also sick as a dog with bronchitis. I was very cranky going through the TSA inspection. By the time I got on the plane, I was so exhausted, I collapsed into a seat and proceeded to spend the first half of the flight snoring and drooling snot onto the front of the shirt I was wearing. I was a walking disease factory. A little over a year later, we had Covid going around and I just knew that I would have been escorted to the door over the wing and gotten punted had I shown up to fly with my drooling, snotty nose.

My hope is that we don’t have a government shutdown and I don’t get sick.

sizzzzlerz Sep 21, 2023 • 8:15:51pm

re: #2 Captain Ron

I’m getting e-trike ads. I’m not that old!

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I ordered my enduro emtb today.

Git your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure
And whatever comes our way

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Sep 21, 2023 • 8:16:17pm

re: #3 Joe Bacon ✅

Ah I heard from my Facebook pal in Australia…aw crap there was no rapture at midnight Down Under…

Yeah, but, you know, Australians.

I’m still here, but that’s probably not shocking.

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Belafon Sep 21, 2023 • 8:16:40pm

re: #3 Joe Bacon ✅

Ah I heard from my Facebook pal in Australia…aw crap there was no rapture at midnight Down Under…

We all know the only real Christians are in the Southern US states.

Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 21, 2023 • 8:27:32pm

Patricia Kayden Sep 21, 2023 • 8:44:45pm

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Sep 21, 2023 • 9:02:44pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅

Is it just my mental picture, or would Senator John Fetterman in a well-tailored suit look seriously intimidating? Maybe his detractors should be careful what they wish for.

mmmirele Sep 21, 2023 • 9:04:58pm

re: #11 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Is it just my mental picture, or would Senator John Fetterman in a well-tailored suit look seriously intimidating? Maybe his detractors should be careful what they wish for.

He’s a BIG guy, I’m thinking he would be *very* intimidating.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 21, 2023 • 9:20:05pm

A lie from the past. I was not aware FOX News apologised for it.

(CNN, August 23, 2023)

Fox News apologizes to Gold Star family after facing backlash over false story

Fox News apologized Saturday to a Gold Star family for publishing a false story last month claiming that the family had to pay $60,000 to ship the remains of their fallen relative back from Afghanistan because the Pentagon refused to pay.

“The now unpublished story has been addressed internally and we sincerely apologize to the Gee family,” a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement, referencing the family of fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, who was one of 13 service members killed in a terror attack at the Kabul airport in 2021 while assisting with US withdrawal efforts.

The apology came after a military.com report this week drew attention to the issue and indicated that the right-wing outlet’s top executives had repeatedly been notified by senior members of the Marine Corps that it was pushing a false story.

In an email to Fox News President Jay Wallace and other network personnel, Marine Corps spokesman Maj. James Stenger privately accused the outlet of capitalizing off Gee’s death “to score cheap clickbait points,” according to documents obtained by military.com through a public records request.

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teleskiguy Sep 21, 2023 • 9:24:04pm

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Driving to Denver tomorrow to pick up 250 pairs of skis (if the truck can fit them all) and parts for bindings. Work is about to really ramp up.

Eclectic Cyborg Sep 21, 2023 • 10:02:18pm

re: #11 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Is it just my mental picture, or would Senator John Fetterman in a well-tailored suit look seriously intimidating? Maybe his detractors should be careful what they wish for.

No Malarkey! Sep 21, 2023 • 10:19:35pm

re: #5 mmmirele

I was in Boston, in fact going to the airport in an Uber, when the last government shutdown ended. I was also sick as a dog with bronchitis. I was very cranky going through the TSA inspection. By the time I got on the plane, I was so exhausted, I collapsed into a seat and proceeded to spend the first half of the flight snoring and drooling snot onto the front of the shirt I was wearing. I was a walking disease factory. A little over a year later, we had Covid going around and I just knew that I would have been escorted to the door over the wing and gotten punted had I shown up to fly with my drooling, snotty nose.

My hope is that we don’t have a government shutdown and I don’t get sick.

Shutting down the government is what Republicans do. The only question is how long will their tantrum last until the political pressure forces them to reopen it.

No Malarkey! Sep 21, 2023 • 10:21:01pm

Kari Lake, who never gets tired of losing, is losing her race for governor, again.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 21, 2023 • 10:26:02pm

re: #36 Swampwitch

The Rapture is happening on my 63rd birthday? Cool. I’m just gonna assume I’ll still be around tomorrow and rent Barbie and eat cheesecake.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 21, 2023 • 10:27:44pm

re: #39 Markm1960

Happy bday, I hit 63 two days ago.

Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 21, 2023 • 10:28:33pm

Hmmm didn’t happen in the Eastern or Central time zones.

Maybe JC is waiting for midnight on the West Coast…

Targetpractice Sep 21, 2023 • 10:28:37pm

re: #16 No Malarkey!

Shutting down the government is what Republicans do. The only question is how long will their tantrum last until the political pressure forces them to reopen it.

The more important question is just how desperate is Qevin to hold onto the gavel. Because that really is the only thing preventing him from just agreeing to pass a “clean” CR with a majority of Dem votes. The Senate Repubs are (with notable exceptions) on the same page that it’s not worth staging a shutdown just to score a few points with the people who are gonna vote “R” next year anyway.

Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 21, 2023 • 10:31:38pm

re: #16 No Malarkey!

Shutting down the government is what Republicans do. The only question is how long will their tantrum last until the political pressure forces them to reopen it.

From what I’m hearing from the AFGE and NTEU union leadership the Radical Republicans are saying they will shut the government down and they won’t budge until Biden gives in.

QAnon folks are demanding that the GOP keep the government shut down until Biden and Harris are forced to resign, Trump becomes Speaker Of The House and he gets back in the White House…

Targetpractice Sep 21, 2023 • 10:35:09pm

re: #20 Joe Bacon ✅

Hmmm didn’t happen in the Eastern or Central time zones.

Maybe JC is waiting for midnight on the West Coast…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 21, 2023 • 10:49:41pm

Europe is raptured, I woke up in hell. I had to send this via phone modem

sagehen Sep 21, 2023 • 11:09:38pm

re: #20 Joe Bacon ✅

Hmmm didn’t happen in the Eastern or Central time zones.

Maybe JC is waiting for midnight on the West Coast…

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Or maybe his measure of who’s really a good Christian and deserves rapture is… not what the Southern Baptists think, or at least pretend to think, it is. Maybe JC is looking for people who took the sermon on the mount seriously, live by it, and he’s just not finding any.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 21, 2023 • 11:16:20pm

re: #92 Backwoods Sleuth

And my wife and I just got done watching “Megs” on YouTube.

Spoiler alert: The megalodon ate the rich guy.

Teukka Sep 21, 2023 • 11:18:39pm

re: #11 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Is it just my mental picture, or would Senator John Fetterman in a well-tailored suit look seriously intimidating? Maybe his detractors should be careful what they wish for.

re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg

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More like, he looks like a decent guy, but at the same time, one BAMF you do not wanna mess with…

Teukka Sep 21, 2023 • 11:26:08pm

What — and I can’t stress this enough — The Fuck?

— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) September 22, 2023

JC1 Sep 21, 2023 • 11:29:25pm

re: #20 Joe Bacon ✅

Hmmm didn’t happen in the Eastern or Central time zones.

Maybe JC is waiting for midnight on the West Coast…

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Nah, I really don’t care 🤣

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 21, 2023 • 11:40:09pm

re: #28 Teukka

Not the first time dance has exploited a military theme.

However, it is not clear to me is the dance is merely a comment on being a soldier, or is trying to be a recruitment tool.

Teukka Sep 22, 2023 • 12:01:35am

With the risk of sounding like a broken record:

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it probably is a duck…#NeverAgainIsNow

— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) September 22, 2023

Teukka Sep 22, 2023 • 12:02:22am

re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Not the first time dance has exploited a military theme.

However, it is not clear to me is the dance is merely a comment on being a soldier, or is trying to be a recruitment tool.

Knowing where it is implied the dancing is taking place, recruitment tool, sadly…

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Sep 22, 2023 • 12:17:07am

re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I turned 63 last month. I hope this isn’t like The 27 Club.

Teukka Sep 22, 2023 • 12:21:18am

What do you expect, when they bomb pre-schools and theaters full of children?
*checks notes*
No, that apparently is because they really fear midget Ukronazis…
👀👀👀
*begins looking into massive airdrops of straightjackets into the Russian Federation*

— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) September 22, 2023

Teukka Sep 22, 2023 • 12:21:28am

Wait until you tell and prove to them the rapture actually isn’t Biblical, but is a 19th-century invention…

— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) September 22, 2023

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 22, 2023 • 12:34:42am

re: #35 Teukka

The Rapture? I understand why I’m here because I’m an atheist. The question is why are you still here?

Teukka Sep 22, 2023 • 12:36:11am

re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Rapture? I understand why I’m here because I’m an atheist. The question is why are you still here?

*something* *something*
Stay-behind service.
*something* *something*

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Sep 22, 2023 • 12:57:27am

A critic after my own heart:

creativity is human

Teukka Sep 22, 2023 • 12:58:56am

re: #38 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A critic after my own heart:

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timeline cleanser! rt these cute cats pic.twitter.com/Xt4ermw9pf

— animals going goblin mode (@mischiefanimals) September 21, 2023

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 1:24:54am

So, are they all gone now? Or has the Rapture been postponed again?

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 1:30:06am

Burned through a lot of letters here.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 1:44:55am

re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Not the first time dance has exploited a military theme.

However, it is not clear to me is the dance is merely a comment on being a soldier, or is trying to be a recruitment tool.

Our US military wanted to do that with football games, remember how they had the teams come out and stand for the National Anthem? (They used to wait in the locker room and not come out until afterwards)

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 1:46:03am

re: #31 Teukka

This morning at Penn, while people were arriving for prayer at Hillel, a man walked in shouting “F the Jews, you killed Jesus Christ”

Spin: “Man arrested on campus for speaking Biblical Truth”

Nojay UK Sep 22, 2023 • 2:10:37am

re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg

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There’s talk about a new version of the original Command and Conquer games. I think they can remaster the Kane cutscenes, just give Sen. Fetterman a call.

darthstar Sep 22, 2023 • 2:51:06am

re: #1 austin_blue

Sorry to hear you got the ‘Rona. My recent experience was similar, though I didn’t take the Paxlovid (got it…didn’t take it). Worst part for me was how foggy my mind felt for a week. I didn’t like feeling mentally impaired.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 2:58:07am

Last string
re: #37 austin_blue

Huh. Maybe they need one of these:

The Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion is a heavy-lift helicopter that is designed to provide unparalleled transport capabilities for the United States Marine Corps. Developed by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, the CH-53K is the largest and most powerful helicopter in the Marine Corps inventory. With a maximum payload of 36,000 pounds, the CH-53K is capable of transporting heavy equipment and supplies over long distances. Its advanced avionics and sensor suite provide pilots with situational awareness in even the most challenging environments. The CH-53K also features an impressive range and endurance, allowing it to operate effectively in both combat and humanitarian relief operations.

The helicopter has a maximum takeoff weight of 38,600 kg (85,000 lb) and can lift up to 16,329 kg (36,000 lb) externally, making it one of the most powerful helicopters in the world.

The heaviest E-windmill vanes I can find are around 24,000 lbs, so no problem for one of these beasts.

Well, so long as it’s calm. And clear.

Let’s call in an expert- Hey, Shiplord!— wanna chime in?

The CH-53K could handle the weight, though it probably couldn’t carry it very far. The problem would be the axial stability of a slung load that long and with that much surface area. It is much longer than the chopper itself. Once it starts swinging, it would be hard to stop. The oscilations would increase until control was lost. There might be some ways around that, with some kind of active control or a rigid attachment of some kind. I would bet that someone, somewhere has been looking at the problem.

darthstar Sep 22, 2023 • 2:58:46am

Great short article on how fucked that Russian sub is.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 3:05:43am

darthstar Sep 22, 2023 • 3:15:41am

Nojay UK Sep 22, 2023 • 3:16:50am

re: #46 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

One problem with moving large wind turbine blades anywhere is the weather. Strong winds and especially gusty conditions will cause all sorts of issues even on roads. The canyon in the video shown would be a nightmare to manoeuvre something that big, lightweight and designed to convert airflow into thrust if the local winds were anything over a couple of metres per second (Beaufort scale 1, Light Air).

Dr Lizardo Sep 22, 2023 • 3:33:55am

Surprise, surprise, surprise…..

It looks increasingly like Tucker Carlson is going to have his own dubbed show on Russian state TV’s rolling news channel

The same trailer as two weeks ago is now being shown on Rossiya 24 with the added caption of “at the weekend” (my own screengrab) https://t.co/ozJPqHyraD pic.twitter.com/wapqAxnp7k

— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) September 22, 2023

Dr Lizardo Sep 22, 2023 • 3:56:31am

Looks like someone got caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

Paris public prosecutor’s office has said that hard-right leader Marine Le Pen and 24 others should stand trial over alleged misuse of EU funds.

telegraph.co.uk

Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 4:00:08am

re: #31 Teukka

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Given that Jesus HAD to die in order for His plan for redemption to succeed (and yes, this is all predicated on “if you believe that sort of thing,” as all of my posts about religion are, I understand there are a lot of atheists here), I literally don’t understand this talking point. I get that it’s been around since the early Christian days, I just… why? The combined Jewish and Roman groups who effected the execution of Jesus were doing God’s will. Shouldn’t we be thanking them instead?

ericblair Sep 22, 2023 • 4:05:49am

Our new story:

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events – a breach of judicial norms that one federal judge said “takes my breath away.”https://t.co/nmdZbi0XEi

— Justin Elliott (@JustinElliott) September 22, 2023

Another totally surprising/well-not-surprising news piece. This piece of shit is literally bought and paid for, and Roberts is very firmly and vigorously staring at his shoes.

Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 4:16:34am

NO EFFING WAY.

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TarHellion Sep 22, 2023 • 4:16:58am

50/50 call went the right way

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TarHellion Sep 22, 2023 • 4:18:51am

re: #55 Nerdy Fish

You’ve been tearing is up this week! Way to go!

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 4:20:21am

This will make your blood boil. A volunteer censor working with a county commissioner is ransacking the shelves for “objectionable” books but tells a reporter to “Back off. This is private business.”
Midland is Dubya Bush’s adopted hometown but he no longer lives there.

West Texas city is seeing a tense battle of book censorship and bans

Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 4:20:24am

re: #57 TarHellion

You’ve been tearing is up this week! Way to go!

Considering how rough this week has been otherwise, it’s a good bright spot to have.

Dr Lizardo Sep 22, 2023 • 4:22:59am

Looks like Russia’s air defenses in Crimea are starting to break down.

🔥🔥 russian fleet HQ in Sevastopol 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/183f7daZ1x

— Margo Gontar 🔱 (@MargoGontar) September 22, 2023

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 4:23:56am

re: #53 Nerdy Fish

Given that Jesus HAD to die in order for His plan for redemption to succeed (and yes, this is all predicated on “if you believe that sort of thing,” as all of my posts about religion are, I understand there are a lot of atheists here), I literally don’t understand this [“Christ killer”] point.

Just like it was Jewish scientist Theodore Herzl who saved Germany in WW1 by coming up with a chemical process for nitrates after they were cut off from their overseas supplies, without which they would not have been able to produce explosive munitions.

Instead, Jews were accused of “stabbing Germany in the back” and bringing about defeat.

Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 4:24:22am

re: #60 Dr Lizardo

Looks like Russia’s air defenses in Crimea are starting to break down.

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“Starting to”? Have they really ever had a coherent air defense? I suppose the Ukraine has lost a few planes, so I can’t say it’s never existed to begin with, but it seems like that ship still sailed a long time ago.

Dr Lizardo Sep 22, 2023 • 4:25:13am

At least one Ukrainian missile has hit a major Russian military command post in Crimea, Putin’s local puppet governor admitted on Friday.
Smoke was seen billowing out of a huge hole in the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea navy in the port of Sevastopol shortly after explosions were heard.

Locals in the nearby city centre reportedly saw missiles fly overhead moments before, with footage showing smoke visible from a busy high street.

Nothing a little drywall tape and a fresh coat of paint won’t fix, amirite?

Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 4:26:00am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just like it was Jewish scientist Theodore Herzl who saved Germany in WW1 by coming up with a chemical process for nitrates after they were cut off from their overseas supplies, without which they would not have been able to produce explosive munitions.

Instead, Jews were accused of “stabbing Germany in the back” and bringing about defeat.

I guess it all comes back to, “When in doubt, blame the Jews,” as it always has been since there were Jews to blame. It’s just supremely ironic to blame the Jews for killing the man who was intentionally sent as a blood sacrifice, whose very mission was to die anyway.

Dr Lizardo Sep 22, 2023 • 4:27:00am

re: #62 Nerdy Fish

“Starting to”? Have they really ever had a coherent air defense? I suppose the Ukraine has lost a few planes, so I can’t say it’s never existed to begin with, but it seems like that ship still sailed a long time ago.

The Ukrainians have been heavily targeting Russian air defense in Crimea as of late. But it seems their air defense network isn’t up to snuff and it’s weakening every day.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 4:27:12am

Reading a Time article (I’ll spare you the link) about the upcoming GOP debate…

To qualify, candidates needed to draw donations from 50,000 individuals and reach 3% support in two national polls or in a mix of national and early state polls. Their donors must include 200 individuals from 20 different states. Additionally, they needed to sign a loyalty pledge agreeing to support whoever the party eventually nominates.

Pledge, smedge. They all lie so, “Sure, ok! I’ll support whomever!” and then not.

Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 4:29:01am

re: #66 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Reading a Time article (I’ll spare you the link) about the upcoming GOP debate…

Pledge, smedge. They all lie so, “Sure, ok! I’ll support whomever!” and then not.

No, with the exception of Trump himself, they’ll all line up behind whomever is the Republican Party nominee. The truth of the matter is, there’s very little possibility it’ll be anyone other than Trump; even if he’s in jail, he’ll still run. It’ll be a fun election with the Presidential candidate for a major party literally sitting in a makeshift prison facility somewhere.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 4:33:12am

re: #64 Nerdy Fish

I guess it all comes back to, “When in doubt, blame the Jews,” as it always has been since there were Jews to blame. It’s just supremely ironic to blame the Jews for killing the man who was intentionally sent as a blood sacrifice, whose very mission was to die anyway.

“Jesus would not have been crucified if he and his disciples ha were properly armed!”

Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 4:35:08am

re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Jesus would not have been crucified if he and his disciples ha were properly armed!”

That’s probably true. They would have been attacked as insurrectionists and slaughtered by the well-trained Roman legions instead. Gee, kind of gives you the same vibe as the Second Amendment fetishists in the current day, doesn’t it?

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 4:36:39am

Holy shit did you guys see this MAGA for Biden ad?!? pic.twitter.com/8FD1gnUM3N

— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) September 21, 2023

Note MTG’s remarks connecting Biden with LBJ and FDR. The latter are still arch-villains in hinterland repug dogma. Republicans really have not forgiven FDR for “starting it all,” in the form of WPA, Social Security etc.
Many of them have also not forgiven him for involving us in the war against Hitler, though they have been reluctant to say so out loud until pretty recently.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 4:46:05am

re: #53 Nerdy Fish

Logic. Fundies and anti-semites don’t got it.

lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 4:51:27am

re: #28 Teukka

Red Room?

Ruska Roma?

Dr Lizardo Sep 22, 2023 • 4:55:03am

Off to do some real world stuff. Back later.

William Lewis Sep 22, 2023 • 4:58:43am

re: #72 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Logic. Fundies and anti-semites don’t got it.

It’s against their religion? < whistles innocently >

lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 5:00:21am

Grain of salt ™:

CNN/UNH general election poll in NEW HAMPSHIRE:

Biden 52
Trump 40

Trump only gets 79% of the vote among NH Republicans. Trump at dismal 30-62 fav/unfav in state.

Trump not only relatively weak in the Granite State GOP primary but also in the general.

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) September 22, 2023

Everyone who thinks Trump is unbeatable, or that he’s got a lock on anything other than a jail cell, seems to be missing that Trump’s actually weaker than anyone realizes, especially his GOP opponents, who still can’t figure their own way out of a paper bag.

lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 5:02:14am

re: #76 lawhawk

If you want to know why the GOP is desperate to impeach Biden, it’s because the GOP knows that Trump’s toast regarding any of the four criminal cases against him.

They need to smear Biden to equivocate between the bogus claims against Biden somehow and the overwhelming pile of evidence against Trump on any number of federal or state felonies that would have resulted in Trump being held in jail pending trial (as any other person indicted on said charges would have been).

Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 5:04:37am

re: #76 lawhawk

Grain of salt ™:

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Everyone who thinks Trump is unbeatable, or that he’s got a lock on anything other than a jail cell, seems to be missing that Trump’s actually weaker than anyone realizes, especially his GOP opponents, who still can’t figure their own way out of a paper bag.

…..

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said that Donald Trump is “too dumb to be a danger to democracy,” the Texas Tribune reports.

Said Sununu: “Let’s not give him that much credit… I want everyone to relax. It’s all going to work out… Asshole leaders come and go, but our system stands strong.”

lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 5:07:35am

re: #78 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

…..

Our system stands strong? Oh really?

GOPers across the nation at the state and federal level are busy tipping the scales to permanently favor authoritarian/fascist GOPers by rigging redistricting, packing courts with those who’d rubber stamp those illicit redistricting efforts, gut the VRA, CRA, and thumb their nose at the Constitution and all of its provisions, while imposing a right wing Christian belief system on the rest of us by actively subverting the 1A.

Or the GOPers who are busy obstructing and sabotaging functioning government because they don’t want to govern or legislate, but rather destroy government to deliver more tax cuts to billionaires and burden shift to everyone else.

But other than that, the system remains strong.

steve_davis Sep 22, 2023 • 5:16:45am

re: #25 sagehen

Or maybe his measure of who’s really a good Christian and deserves rapture is… not what the Southern Baptists think, or at least pretend to think, it is. Maybe JC is looking for people who took the sermon on the mount seriously, live by it, and he’s just not finding any.

well hell, Cato guards Purgatory and Saladin is to this day presumably wandering around in the field of virtuous pagans. And Saladin was still almost a living memory to Catholics as the scourge of Jerusalem. There were easily still people in Florence when Dante was born who’d been alive and conscious enough to know a living Saladin.

Belafon Sep 22, 2023 • 5:18:41am

re: #38 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A critic after my own heart:

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Ok, so let’s get more technical about this real quick. What “AI now lets anyone make art” means is that I can now use AI to generate that image that suddenly popped into my head that I will never have the actual skill to do.

The one thing on that note is that most people aren’t creative enough to come up with truly original works. Their “art” is going to be big boobs or Mona Lisa in a party hat.

Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 5:22:24am

Shropshire Slasher Sep 22, 2023 • 5:22:43am

How was everyone’s rupture?

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 5:24:48am

re: #76 lawhawk

Grain of salt ™:

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Everyone who thinks Trump is unbeatable, or that he’s got a lock on anything other than a jail cell, seems to be missing that Trump’s actually weaker than anyone realizes, especially his GOP opponents, who still can’t figure their own way out of a paper bag.

The reliably republican news people are going to help trump get off the ballot because numbers like they are bad for horserace news. They need a hook and while trump is great for doom scrolling, they’ll lose out on all that sweet election cash if they can’t make a horserace.

lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 5:25:41am

re: #81 Belafon

AI can create something entirely derivative. It will mash together something that approximates “new” but is really not. It doesn’t understand irony or sarcasm, or how a joke is formulated or how it will make someone laugh.

For now.

I don’t know if it will ever get to the point where AI can create something entirely new, but it might with sufficient processing power.

AI takes data and scrunches it all together and spits it back out based on the prompts it gets. If you say: create a new piece of art based on X, Y, and Z, it will look at all the works by X, Y, and Z, and mash something together that takes bits and pieces of each and tumble dries them into something.

Is that new? Is that derivative?

And more to the point, is it the AI that is creating the new art, or the person who asks and sets up the prompts to output the content they want. After all, it’s the person who asked for the output who set up the prompts and limiters to deliver something that fits the person’s ascribed notion of what the output should be. Did the person create that art then, and the AI is only the tool through which they did it?

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 5:26:40am

re: #80 steve_davis

Hey Steve. Did you see my PM to you yesterday? About the Bluesky codes?

lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 5:29:04am

re: #82 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

That’s no different than the photo above (prior thread?) of the megalodon and great white shark for comparison.

The newest cruise ships can be almost 1,200 feet long and over 250,000 gross tons. In fact, they can carry more than 7000 people on board, plus crew. Titanic was under 900 feet long and 46,000 gross tons. The cruise ships have grown by +30% in length and 5x in displacement.

Shropshire Slasher Sep 22, 2023 • 5:30:47am

I guess Mush is a thing, I have been eating oatmeal mixed with yogurt for years.

Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 5:35:27am

re: #85 lawhawk

AI can create something entirely derivative. It will mash together something that approximates “new” but is really not. It doesn’t understand irony or sarcasm, or how a joke is formulated or how it will make someone laugh.

For now.

I don’t know if it will ever get to the point where AI can create something entirely new, but it might with sufficient processing power.

AI takes data and scrunches it all together and spits it back out based on the prompts it gets. If you say: create a new piece of art based on X, Y, and Z, it will look at all the works by X, Y, and Z, and mash something together that takes bits and pieces of each and tumble dries them into something.

Is that new? Is that derivative?

And more to the point, is it the AI that is creating the new art, or the person who asks and sets up the prompts to output the content they want. After all, it’s the person who asked for the output who set up the prompts and limiters to deliver something that fits the person’s ascribed notion of what the output should be. Did the person create that art then, and the AI is only the tool through which they did it?

It’s a hit or miss result
Maybe it’s cool or provocative
Or not

It doesn’t have a vision or an aim or goal

But it can’t (imo) be brilliant or clever because it didn’t intend anything specific.

It’s not even Jackson Pollock or Rorschach.

It’s spaghetti thrown at a wall in search of post hoc acceptance or even mere pareidolia

Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 5:36:56am

re: #87 lawhawk

That’s no different than the photo above (prior thread?) of the megalodon and great white shark for comparison.

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 5:40:21am

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet HQ in Sebastapol is burning courtesy of the Ukrainian military.

More video footage of the damaged Black Sea Fleet headquarters, Sevastopol.

The fire consuming the building can be easily seen. pic.twitter.com/0DiJMyretw

— Jimmy Rushton (@JimmySecUK) September 22, 2023

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 5:41:44am

I carry a length of stout line just in case there really is a Rapture today.

You see a Christian starting to lift off, throw a loop around one ankle and lash the other end to something heavy. Rapture Balloons.

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 22, 2023

Hecuba's daughter Sep 22, 2023 • 5:43:31am

re: #54 ericblair

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Another totally surprising/well-not-surprising news piece. This piece of shit is literally bought and paid for, and Roberts is very firmly and vigorously staring at his shoes.

Can Roberts actually do anything? It’s not like he has any rules that he can enforce and that the other justices are forced to accept. Isn’t it only Congress that can remove a judge through impeachment and conviction?

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 5:45:09am

re: #93 Hecuba’s daughter

Can Roberts actually do anything? It’s not like he has any rules that he can enforce and that the other justices are forced to accept. Isn’t it only Congress that can remove a judge through impeachment and conviction?

Hey now. Ethics is hard! Especially for those on the highest court of the land!

lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 5:46:45am

re: #87 lawhawk

Speaking of cruise ships - Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood is gridlocked every time the new cruise ships come to port, and deal with the diesel emissions from those ships that refuse to hook up to shoreside power.

Bar Harbor Maine has a rule that limits ships to 1000 shoreside visitors per day, which is being litigated.

I was in Quebec City a few years ago when the Queen Mary came to port, and all of a sudden, the lower city was swamped by thousands of visitors all at once, and it was hard on the local businesses that suddenly had to deal with all these people at once. Other places deal with similar problems, including Venice, Rome, and other cities worldwide.

Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 5:46:54am

re: #94 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Hey now. Ethics is hard! Especially for those on the highest court of the land!

Double especially for those responsible for policing themselves //

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 5:49:59am

re: #96 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Double especially for those responsible for policing themselves //

Policing. How droll. Not for these guys!

Hecuba's daughter Sep 22, 2023 • 5:50:37am

re: #67 Nerdy Fish

No, with the exception of Trump himself, they’ll all line up behind whomever is the Republican Party nominee. The truth of the matter is, there’s very little possibility it’ll be anyone other than Trump; even if he’s in jail, he’ll still run. It’ll be a fun election with the Presidential candidate for a major party literally sitting in a makeshift prison facility somewhere.

I don’t think Hutchinson or Christie would, nor Hurd (who may have already dropped out by now). These candidates are firmly opposed to Trump.

Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 5:54:39am

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

I don’t think Hutchinson or Christie would, nor Hurd (who may have already dropped out by now). These candidates are firmly opposed to Trump.

They may be firmly opposed to Trump now. However, if it comes to a choice between Trump or Biden, let there be no doubt: They will choose Trump. The Republican Party is in such a state that they cannot see Democrats as anything other than the embodiment of evil. The party loyalists, the ones who are running for the highest offices - they are all believers in the idea that Democrats are responsible for literally all the bad things they think are wrong with this country. Put another way, for the religious among us: Instead of Trump v. Biden, picture Trump v. Satan. Who do you think they will pick?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 5:56:24am

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

I don’t think Hutchinson or Christie would, nor Hurd (who may have already dropped out by now). These candidates are firmly opposed to Trump.

That would eliminate Christie from the debate stage. Have to declare full loyalty to get in the stage.

That in itself is gonna be interesting.

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Hecuba's daughter Sep 22, 2023 • 6:01:20am

re: #100 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That would eliminate Christie from the debate stage. Have to declare full loyalty to get in the stage.

That in itself is gonna be interesting.

Christie made it clear that the pledge they made to support the eventual nominee is meaningless; it’s not as though it’s enforceable. Indeed, after all, the pending government shutdown is due to Republicans reneging on commitments they made a few months ago.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 22, 2023 • 6:10:12am

re: #88 Shropshire Slasher

I guess Mush is a thing, I have been eating oatmeal mixed with yogurt for years.

I’m waiting on a new order of Maypo and Wheatena. It should be in the mail Monday.

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jeffreyw Sep 22, 2023 • 6:10:37am

Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 22, 2023 • 6:14:42am

re: #93 Hecuba’s daughter

Can Roberts actually do anything? It’s not like he has any rules that he can enforce and that the other justices are forced to accept. Isn’t it only Congress that can remove a judge through impeachment and conviction?

The Justice Department might be able to, though there would be keening Republican voices about “witch hunt” you could hear all the way to Neptune.

a) Jack Smith or others may be investigating whether any of these shady deals Thomas has been involved in are connected in some way to the insurrection.

b) As Smith continues up the ladder from the insurrectionists themselves to those who planned and funded it, Virginia Thomas’s name sort of stands out. DOJ offers a quiet “resign and we won’t jail your wife for the rest of her life” might go on the table.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 22, 2023 • 6:16:37am

re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter

Christie made it clear that the pledge they made to support the eventual nominee is meaningless; it’s not as though it’s enforceable. Indeed, after all, the pending government shutdown is due to Republicans reneging on commitments they made a few months ago.

Trump made that pledge himself in 2016 then immediately reneged on it.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 6:18:00am

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That’s why millions of people support him. They identify with him because he is just like they are. Evil and destructive though he is, Cheeto himself is not the problem. The problem is the millions of ignorant, immoral, vicious, and bigoted individuals that Republican strategists have spent the last 60 years mobilizing into a reliable voting block.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 22, 2023 • 6:33:22am

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Senator Marco Rubio weighs in with his idea for the future of the Republic of Gilead.
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ericblair Sep 22, 2023 • 6:35:03am

A press event will be held today at 11:00 a.m. to announce the unsealing of an indictment charging Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator from New Jersey, and his wife, Nadine Menendez, with bribery offenses in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen. pic.twitter.com/CLTXnU0mAm

— US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) September 22, 2023

Not good, Bob.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 6:36:35am

re: #93 Hecuba’s daughter

Can Roberts actually do anything? It’s not like he has any rules that he can enforce and that the other justices are forced to accept. Isn’t it only Congress that can remove a judge through impeachment and conviction?

Roberts WONT do anything because he’s just as corrupt as the other 5 Federalist assholes on the corrupted court.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 6:37:39am

re: #109 ericblair

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Not good, Bob.

Again?

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JC1 Sep 22, 2023 • 6:39:44am

re: #83 Shropshire Slasher

How was everyone’s rupture?

Woke up to find my partner missing. Hopefully she just went for a morning hike 😬

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 6:40:29am

re: #109 ericblair

Menendez has been investigated for decades (that’s a 2018 article). A 2018 bribery trial ended in a hung jury.

I’ve always had an uneasy feeling about him, and met him once at a local street fair, and had to check to see if my wedding ring was still on my hand. He gave off that smarmy vibe.

It’s definitely not a good look for Menendez, and the Democrats have a razor thin margin in the Senate.

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 6:43:50am

re: #113 lawhawk

It’s the investigation and prosecution of corruption that GOPers can get behind.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 6:46:08am

re: #75 William Lewis

Logic. Fundies and anti-semites don’t got it.

It’s against their religion? < whistles innocently >

If you are a Fundamentalist who holds the Bible to be both completely true and literal, then you not only have to reject science, history and physics, but you have to reject logic itself as the Bible contradicts itself in several places

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Sep 22, 2023 • 6:48:23am

On the way out:

Potential Tropical Cyclone Sixteen has formed well off-shore east of Savannah, Georgia.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect from southern North Carolina to the Maryland/Delaware line, including the Chesapeake Bay.

Tropical storm conditions will be felt in North Carolina starting this morning.

It will move over the Tidewater area, so weakening will be slow; the National Hurricane Center does not show it becoming an extra-tropical depression until it reaches the District of Columbia. It will then turn eastward over Delaware.

nhc.noaa.gov (tracking map)

SUMMARY OF 800 AM EDT…1200 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…31.3N 75.3W
ABOUT 250 MI…465 KM ESE OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
ABOUT 245 MI…450 KM S OF CAPE HATTERAS NORTH CAROLINA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…50 MPH…85 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…N OR 350 DEGREES AT 14 MPH…22 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…996 MB…29.41 INCHES

A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for…
* Duck North Carolina to Chincoteague Virginia
* Chesapeake Bay south of Windmill Point
* Neuse and Pamlico Rivers
* Portions of Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for…
* Cape Fear North Carolina to Fenwick Island Delaware
* Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds
* Tidal Potomac south of Cobb Island
* Chesapeake Bay south of North Beach

A Storm Surge Watch is in effect for…
* Surf City to Duck North Carolina
* Chesapeake Bay north of Windmill Point to Smith Point
* Tidal Potomac south of Colonial Beach
* Remainder of Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds
nhc.noaa.gov (public advisory, more at the link)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 6:49:26am

re: #84 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The reliably republican news people are going to help trump get off the ballot because numbers like they are bad for horserace news. They need a hook and while trump is great for doom scrolling, they’ll lose out on all that sweet election cash if they can’t make a horserace.

It is not just the horserace, it’s the 24/7 political/crime/scandal/family show that he offers the news networks everyday: they don’t have to do any investigating, just report on his crazy tweets, speeches and antics (and those of his revolving-door “very best people” and his family)

Joe BIden is an entirely competent and effective President, but he is dead fucking boring, even hanging up and beating on Hunter only produces minimal clouds of dust.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 6:52:30am

We must not ignore the lessons of history. Jefferson Davis served just 2 years in prison and most of the Confederates went free, with the result being Jim Crow and a delay in the implementation of justice that continues to this day.
Adolf Hitler served just a year for the failed Beer Hall Putsch, with results that likewise still plague us.
Once convicted, Trump and his accomplices must be kept locked up until they rot.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 6:52:32am

re: #106 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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That’s why millions of people support him. They identify with him because he is just like they are. Evil and destructive though he is, Cheeto himself is not the problem. The problem is the millions of ignorant, immoral, vicious, and bigoted individuals that Republican strategists have spent the last 60 years mobilizing into a reliable voting block.

They hate politicians and what they perceive as “politics as usual” (i.e., the way a functioning democracy actually works) and have bought into the image of DJT as the ultimate outsider and anti-politician (and now martyr for daring to act against the Deep State cabal)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 6:54:14am

re: #118 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Once convicted, Trump and his accomplices must be kept locked up until they rot.

at least that will not take very long

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cat-tikvah Sep 22, 2023 • 6:55:43am

re: #106 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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That’s why millions of people support him. They identify with him because he is just like they are. Evil and destructive though he is, Cheeto himself is not the problem. The problem is the millions of ignorant, immoral, vicious, and bigoted individuals that Republican strategists have spent the last 60 years mobilizing into a reliable voting block.

And the Republican jellyfish in Congress who capitulated and enabled him and continue to do so.
The Senate had two - two! - opportunities to oust him and keep him from ever holding office again and refused to do it. Some have discovered they love the taste of unfettered authoritarianism and one-party rule; others are just too feckless.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 6:56:55am

re: #83 Shropshire Slasher

How was everyone’s rupture?

I’m going to Houston to see if I can find Joel Osteen’s Ferrari.

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 6:59:16am

It’s fall in NJ, and apple cider donuts are the stock in trade.

My favorite is from Demarest Farms. Alba’s Farm is a distant second. If you can get them while they’re warm, they’re even better.

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Jay C Sep 22, 2023 • 6:59:58am

re: #113 lawhawk

Menendez has been investigated for decades (that’s a 2018 article). A 2018 bribery trial ended in a hung jury.

I’ve always had an uneasy feeling about him, and met him once at a local street fair, and had to check to see if my wedding ring was still on my hand. He gave off that smarmy vibe.

It’s definitely not a good look for Menendez, and the Democrats have a razor thin margin in the Senate.

Well, as a minor consolation, the Governor of NJ is a Democrat, and is likely to appoint a relatively decent and honest replacement for Menendez (low bar, etc. for sure!) - and Sleazy Bob’s term is up next year anyway, so a replacement would have to (if they wanted) to run in the GE.
To me, a viable indictment of Menendez seems like a great opportunity to kick his ass out, appoint a more-attractive replacement , and milk the “ethical” aspects of the whole thing as a partisan virtue (vs. most Republicans) - sort of like an Al Franken opportunity, but over serious charges, not just (IMO) bullshit.
But unfortunately, Senators can’t be booted, they have to leave on their own (and Menendez likely won’t) - and, of course, it’s Jersey…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Sep 22, 2023 • 7:01:47am

re: #55 Nerdy Fish

NO EFFING WAY.

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This is getting eerie.

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cat-tikvah Sep 22, 2023 • 7:05:21am

re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Jesus would not have been crucified if he and his disciples ha were properly armed!”

Homer Simpson - If Jesus had a gun

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jeffreyw Sep 22, 2023 • 7:06:34am

Mrs. Clarence Gasque is having her cake and eating it, too.

Mastodon

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 7:07:24am

re: #122 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I’m going to Houston to see if I can find Joel Osteen’s Ferrari.

First, of course, I’ll be making the short hop to DFW to collect Kenneth Copeland’s Gulfstream.

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A Cranky One Sep 22, 2023 • 7:10:09am

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 7:10:56am

re: #128 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

First, of course, I’ll be making the short hop to DFW to collect Kenneth Copeland’s Gulfstream.

Memories of Carl McIntyre praying on his radio show that Jesus would let him get possession of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy jet and consecrate it for Jay-Zuss.

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 7:13:07am

NY AG is going to the judge to seek a motion for summary judgment. They indicate that the evidence is beyond a reasonable doubt and that there is no issue of fact.

Trump’s lawyers are also seeking a MSJ but on grounds that there’s no reason to have a trial at all, because he did nothing wrong.

Trump’s attorneys, on the flipside, will seek to boot the case.

Both parties have filed what are known as motions for summary judgment.

Read up on both of their latest filings here: https://t.co/9mDjksBdAZ

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) September 22, 2023

Only one side can be correct, and it isn’t Trump.

It’s beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump inflated values or deflated them based on his whims and the audience he was making his financials available to - he would inflate them for investors and banks and deflate them for taxing authorities. This is fraud in the inducement for any creditors or investors, and tax fraud by shielding value from taxing authorities who relied on his financials (and his accounting firms verifications).

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 7:13:57am

Oh, and there’s a sanctions motion that will be decided Tuesday.

Also on the table today:

The NYAG’s sanctions motion.

The judge announces he will issue a decision on Tuesday.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) September 22, 2023

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 7:15:48am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Justice Department might be able to…

though look at paxton
there was no doubt about any of it and still…

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 7:17:47am

Menendez indictment. He and his wife stashed hundreds of thousands of dollars around the house, and even had gold bars.

per Menendez indictment: “Over $480,000 in cash—much of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe—was discovered in the home”

— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 22, 2023

I’m sure this is because he was about to out the deep state. /

If you think about mob movies like Goodfellas (Henry Hill stashing stuff around his house), that’s the vibe this indictment gives off about how Menendez stashed stuff around the house.

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A Cranky One Sep 22, 2023 • 7:18:02am

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 7:18:12am

‘What is the theory?’ Anchor baffled by Trump supporters who believe JFK is still alive

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Belafon Sep 22, 2023 • 7:19:57am

re: #134 lawhawk

Menendez indictment. He and his wife stashed hundreds of thousands of dollars around the house, and even had gold bars.

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I’m sure this is because he was about to out the deep state. /

If you think about mob movies like Goodfellas (Henry Hill stashing stuff around his house), that’s the vibe this indictment gives off about how Menendez stashed stuff around the house.

One of the city council members in Dallas a few years ago actually hid money in his freezer.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 7:20:27am

re: #136 Joe Bacon ✅

Of course JFK is dead, they had to pull the life support to keep him from giving aay the fake moon landings.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Sep 22, 2023 • 7:21:02am

re: #95 lawhawk

Speaking of cruise ships - Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood is gridlocked every time the new cruise ships come to port, and deal with the diesel emissions from those ships that refuse to hook up to shoreside power.

Bar Harbor Maine has a rule that limits ships to 1000 shoreside visitors per day, which is being litigated.

I was in Quebec City a few years ago when the Queen Mary came to port, and all of a sudden, the lower city was swamped by thousands of visitors all at once, and it was hard on the local businesses that suddenly had to deal with all these people at once. Other places deal with similar problems, including Venice, Rome, and other cities worldwide.

Rome’s population is more than four million — a cruise ship or ten isn’t going to make a difference. (Also, it’s inland — the port is at Civitavecchia.) “Greater” Venice is about a quarter million — the issue with cruise ships isn’t the numbers they carry, but honking big ships in their waterways.

Both cities have issues with numbers of tourists (Venice especially), but the fact that they arrive by ship doesn’t really affect that problem.

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 7:22:18am

re: #137 Belafon

Congressman William Jefferson hid $90k in his freezer, wrapped in aluminum foil.

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Jay C Sep 22, 2023 • 7:23:03am

re: #133 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

though look at paxton
there was no doubt about any of it and still…

But Ken Paxton’s impeachment/removal was (AFAICT) entirely a *political* issue: both sides of the process handled by the Texas State Lege - and entirely subject to whatever political whims the TX Republicans felt like indulging (I believe Paxton’s criminal trial(s) is(are) still pending).

DoJ (and Virginia Thomas’ case) is a different situation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 7:25:56am

re: #141 Jay C

But Ken Paxton’s impeachment/removal was (AFAICT) entirely a *political* issue: both sides of the process handled by the Texas State Lege - and entirely subject to whatever political whims the TX Republicans felt like indulging …

and as I understand, Paxton’s impeachment and insuing acquittal highlighted a schism betwen Texas’ “establishment” (Bush) GOP and the Trump GOP. They managed to embarrass the fuck out of themselves in the process, so although Paxton got off, his party suffered, and that aspect of the outcome can be seen as positive.

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JC1 Sep 22, 2023 • 7:29:29am

re: #134 lawhawk

Menendez indictment. He and his wife stashed hundreds of thousands of dollars around the house, and even had gold bars.

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I’m sure this is because he was about to out the deep state. /

If you think about mob movies like Goodfellas (Henry Hill stashing stuff around his house), that’s the vibe this indictment gives off about how Menendez stashed stuff around the house.

Of course having money or gold stashed around the house isn’t illegal in and of itself. But I doubt that he’s a ‘banks are evil, mattress is safer’ guy.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Sep 22, 2023 • 7:32:52am

re: #136 Joe Bacon ✅

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JFK would be about 105, if he were still around.

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 7:33:00am

3. Highlighting this allegation.👇

Sen. Menendez disseminated “highly sensitive” details of U.S. embassy staff that “could pose significant operational security concerns if disclosed to a foreign government.” Info was then provided via Senator’s wife to Egyptian official. pic.twitter.com/NvLPn7s5ga

— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) September 22, 2023

He is also accused of passing along sensitive info to the businessmen that could be problematic.

You know, along the lines of what Trump regularly did after leaving office.

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 7:34:45am

Interesting article on the anti-caste discrimination bill and the conservative Hindu opposition to it in California.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 7:35:44am

OH NO!

What has Comer Pyle found in…Joe e-mails????

‘Sexy’: Comer obtains unredacted emails to VP Biden revealing women ‘privately mused’ they found him attractive

Is he jealous? 🥴 OR is he hoping to find another stained blue dress? 🤔

politico.com

Amid the chaos of what top Democrats are calling the GOP House’s “civil war,” infighting that threatens to shut down the federal government in nine days, Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Comer has been obtaining some of then-Vice President Joe Biden’s emails from the National Archives.

Politico reveals Chairman Comer has been able to obtain several unreacted emails, including one which relayed a tidbit of hearsay, or, “private musings,” from 2009, after an overseas trip Biden took: “multiple” women said they found the Vice President “sexy.”

The emails “include schedules with ordinary family get-togethers,” Politico adds. “One shows Biden had lunch with Hunter Biden’s then-15-year-old daughters, Maisy and Finnegan. Another reveals that the Ukrainians were praising his now-deceased brother, Beau. And then there are the private musings of multiple Georgian women saying they found Joe Biden ‘sexy’ during a 2009 trip that also included a stop in Ukraine.”

“‘Must-read email below,’ read an email forwarded by Biden’s then-national security adviser Tony Blinken to Joe Biden and his sons, Hunter and Beau. The email’s subject line: ‘Biden as new Georgian sex symbol.’”

Oh My Gawd! THE HORROR!!!!!

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b.d. Sep 22, 2023 • 7:35:45am

Senator Menendez is running for re-election, he is in the middle of a campaign during election season, how can they indict him?

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austin_blue Sep 22, 2023 • 7:35:58am

re: #83 Shropshire Slasher

How was everyone’s rupture?

You are reading the tea leaves incorrectly!

Midnight on September 22 means *tonight* at midnight, as every true believer knows! Last night was September 21st.

Geez Louise, you lefties will believe anything!

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 7:38:00am

re: #148 b.d.

As a few have already noted, there’s no way Menendez resigns because he needs to fundraise for his legal defense fund and the rules are set up to facilitate shifting campaign funds to legal defense funds.

It’s as though the politicians knew that corrupt politicians needed a way to fund their defenses when caught, and this is the way to do so. /nope, not sarcasm.

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Eventual Carrion Sep 22, 2023 • 7:40:05am

re: #33 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

I turned 63 last month. I hope this isn’t like The 27 Club.

I have a year to go then, I just turned 62 at the beginning of this month (the 7th).

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austin_blue Sep 22, 2023 • 7:40:06am

re: #150 lawhawk

As a few have already noted, there’s no way Menendez resigns because he needs to fundraise for his legal defense fund and the rules are set up to facilitate shifting campaign funds to legal defense funds.

It’s as though the politicians knew that corrupt politicians needed a way to fund their defenses when caught, and this is the way to do so. /nope, not sarcasm.

You are his constituent.

Do you find this, in a any teensy-weensy way, surprising?

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 7:40:50am

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If you are a Fundamentalist who holds the Bible to be both completely true and literal, then you not only have to reject science, history and physics, but you have to reject logic itself as the Bible contradicts itself in several places

that’s charitable

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 7:42:10am

re: #53 Nerdy Fish

Given that Jesus HAD to die in order for His plan for redemption to succeed (and yes, this is all predicated on “if you believe that sort of thing,” as all of my posts about religion are, I understand there are a lot of atheists here), I literally don’t understand this talking point. I get that it’s been around since the early Christian days, I just… why? The combined Jewish and Roman groups who effected the execution of Jesus were doing God’s will. Shouldn’t we be thanking them instead?

They are looking for excuses to hate jews; they aren’t using logic or reason.

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 7:42:15am

re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is not just the horserace, it’s the 24/7 political/crime/scandal/family show that he offers the news networks everyday: they don’t have to do any investigating, just report on his crazy tweets, speeches and antics (and those of his revolving-door “very best people” and his family)

Joe BIden is an entirely competent and effective President, but he is dead fucking boring, even hanging up and beating on Hunter only produces minimal clouds of dust.

where you say ‘report’ that really means merely repeat

biden requires actual reporting and that’s too much work for them

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BigPapa Sep 22, 2023 • 7:43:21am

re: #140 lawhawk

Congressman William Jefferson hid $90k in his freezer, wrapped in aluminum foil.

Cold hard cash, right?

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BigPapa Sep 22, 2023 • 7:45:13am

‘Passing information’

Did you fart? Because you just blew me away.

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 7:45:30am

re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They hate politicians and what they perceive as “politics as usual” (i.e., the way a functioning democracy actually works) and have bought into the image of DJT as the ultimate outsider and anti-politician (and now martyr for daring to act against the Deep State cabal)

while at the same time they either dont understand or refuse to acknowledge that government actually functions to protect their individual lives and liberty and that allows them to pursue ‘happiness’

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 7:46:32am

re: #152 austin_blue

See my #113. I’ve always had a bad feeling about him.

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Belafon Sep 22, 2023 • 7:47:14am

re: #158 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

while at the same time they either dont understand or refuse to acknowledge that government actually functions to protect their individual lives and liberty and that allows them to pursue ‘happiness’

If it was an actual god-given right, we wouldn’t need the second amendment.

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wrenchwench Sep 22, 2023 • 7:50:27am

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Sep 22, 2023 • 7:50:41am

It’s that New Jersey work ethic
“The Sopranos” was a documentary

— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) September 22, 2023

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 7:50:55am

MAGA slammed for Russell Brand and Rudy Giuliani ‘pity party’: ‘Trigger the feminists’

Pro-Donald Trump Republicans and other right-wingers are beginning to rally the flag not just around Rudy Giuliani amid his sexual harassment accusations, but they’re now even rallying around Russell Brand, the comedian accused of rape and sexual assault.

Figures including Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson are all jumping to the British star’s defense - and claiming a conspiracy against him.

That’s not an accident, argued Amanda Marcotte for Salon. Supporters of Trump — who himself has been accused by dozens of women of varying degrees of sexual misconduct and assault — view supporting accused men as part of their ideology.

“Like clockwork, the MAGA masses are rallying to Brand’s side, treating these allegations like they are evidence that the ‘deep state’ is trying to take Brand out for some vague reason,” wrote Marcotte.

It’s not necessarily the case that they’re intentionally celebrating rape, she continued: “There’s always the ‘just trolling’ defense. In this case, the argument would be that it’s just that MAGA types just really love to ‘trigger’ the feminists. Throwing a pity party for an accused rapist is a virtual form of ponytail-pulling.”

rawstory.com

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 7:51:54am

re: #141 Jay C

But Ken Paxton’s impeachment/removal was (AFAICT) entirely a *political* issue: both sides of the process handled by the Texas State Lege - and entirely subject to whatever political whims the TX Republicans felt like indulging (I believe Paxton’s criminal trial(s) is(are) still pending).

DoJ (and Virginia Thomas’ case) is a different situation.

thats what i was implying
it was hard for other R’s to find fault with texas R’s prosecuting an R

the DOJ wouldn’t have that kind of cover with thomas, no matter how obvious it is what he did

then there’s that other guy.
91 indictments and the party line is he’s being ‘persecuted’

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Unabogie Sep 22, 2023 • 7:52:01am

re: #53 Nerdy Fish

Given that Jesus HAD to die in order for His plan for redemption to succeed (and yes, this is all predicated on “if you believe that sort of thing,” as all of my posts about religion are, I understand there are a lot of atheists here), I literally don’t understand this talking point. I get that it’s been around since the early Christian days, I just… why? The combined Jewish and Roman groups who effected the execution of Jesus were doing God’s will. Shouldn’t we be thanking them instead?

I gotta admit that the Jesus myth just makes no sense at all to me for lots of reasons.

Supposedly, there’s a god who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good.

But humanity is screwed up, so he sends himself as a sacrifice to himself. But after he dies, he just comes back and continues living, so whatever “killed” Jesus must have happened years after the supposed crucifiction. And if so, was that also a sacrifice?

But finally, none of the reasons for “dying for our sins” makes any sense, since there’s supposed to be a heaven in which we still have free will, still experience joy, and still learn new things. So then why have a realm in which a huge swath of people are born (with this deity’s full knowledge) for the sole purpose of being tortured for eternity? Why not just adjust humanity to their liking in order to minimize suffering and maximize the fun?

If I had knowledge of the future and could do a system update, I’d do a much better job than this jabroni!

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austin_blue Sep 22, 2023 • 7:55:51am

re: #159 lawhawk

See my #113. I’ve always had a bad feeling about him.

Many a New Jersey Senator has exhibited a short shelf-life.

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Belafon Sep 22, 2023 • 7:57:35am

re: #165 Unabogie

Most of it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but the Heaven described by Jesus involves less free will and more just worshipping God. We have evolved that into a much more interesting place over 2000 years.

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 7:57:45am

re: #150 lawhawk

As a few have already noted, there’s no way Menendez resigns because he needs to fundraise for his legal defense fund and the rules are set up to facilitate shifting campaign funds to legal defense funds.

It’s as though the politicians knew that corrupt politicians needed a way to fund their defenses when caught, and this is the way to do so. /nope, not sarcasm.

Is there no prominent Democrat in NJ who can primary this scuzzball? Menendez may walk, because SCOTUS has made it nearly impossible to convict a public official for bribery, but it seems clear Menendez is corrupt as hell, and if the GOP doesn’t nominate a fascist lunatic the Democrats could lose a Senate seat they absolutely can’t afford to lose.

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Shropshire Slasher Sep 22, 2023 • 7:58:28am

She should be indicted for her pants!

Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine Arslanian have been indicted by a federal grand jury over corruption allegations in an investigation that focused on a luxury car, $400,000 in gold bars and an apartment allegedly received by Menendez and his wife.

dailymail.co.uk

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 7:59:56am

re: #146 No Malarkey!

Interesting article on the anti-caste discrimination bill and the conservative Hindu opposition to it in California.

Religious Freedom!!!

(except Hindoo-ism ain’t a real religion, it’s just pagan idol worship)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 8:01:28am

re: #155 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

where you say ‘report’ that really means merely repeat

yes, get an intern to glean the Internet for whatever is #trending and “report” that as news

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Sep 22, 2023 • 8:02:26am

So… maybe the reporting wasn’t as far off as some people thought. https://t.co/zm2BhUpT5S

— Doctrine Man (@Doctrine_Man) September 22, 2023

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 8:02:47am

re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Religious Freedom!!!

(except Hindoo-ism ain’t a real religion, it’s just pagan idol worship)

You should add a sarc tag to that.

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Unabogie Sep 22, 2023 • 8:05:13am

re: #167 Belafon

Most of it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but the Heaven described by Jesus involves less free will and more just worshipping God. We have evolved that into a much more interesting place over 2000 years.

I don’t think there’s widespread agreement on that, but if that’s true, then heaven is your transformation into a vapid automaton with no desires and no happiness, in which people you knew on earth are completely forgotten lest you consider that most of them are being tortured until the end of time for no real reason.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 8:05:31am

re: #165 Unabogie

I gotta admit that the Jesus myth just makes no sense at all to me for lots of reasons.

I have an issue with the Resurrection (except in the metaphorical sense).

Dead means dead.

That is by definition a one-way street. If you “come back from the dead” it simply means you were never really dead in the first place, just in a death-like state

We are better at detecting such states now but back then, that was the reason they held a “wake”.

And don’t get me going on VIrgin birth. Same thing. by definition. At least until Louise Brown was implanted from a test tube.

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 8:05:54am

re: #168 No Malarkey!

Is there no prominent Democrat in NJ who can primary this scuzzball? Menendez may walk, because SCOTUS has made it nearly impossible to convict a public official for bribery, but it seems clear Menendez is corrupt as hell, and if the GOP doesn’t nominate a fascist lunatic the Democrats could lose a Senate seat they absolutely can’t afford to lose.

Menendez nearly lost the primary to a no-name Democrat after his first indictment and bribery trial ended in a hung jury. If they back and nominate someone stronger, they’d win handily.

Not sure who’d make the short list of primary opponents though. I’d have to dig into that a bit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 8:06:29am

re: #173 No Malarkey!

You should add a sarc tag to that.

that’s what the wingnut font signifies

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 8:08:16am

UAW hits Tim Scott with NLRB complaint for saying striking workers should be fired

The United Auto Workers filed a National Labor Relations Board complaint against Republican Sen. Tim Scott on Thursday for publicly saying striking employees should be fired in response to a question about the UAW’s ongoing and popular walkouts.

The complaint, first reported by The Intercept, argues that Scott unlawfully “threatened employees with adverse consequences if they engage in protected, concerted activity” by declaring, “You strike, you’re fired.”

Scott, a 2024 presidential candidate, made the remark during a campaign event in Iowa, where he invoked former President Ronald Reagan’s termination of more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers—who, unlike the striking autoworkers, were federal employees.

“I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided they were going to strike,” said Scott, who proceeded to bash the UAW’s demands for better pay and benefits and a shorter workweek.

The National Labor Relations Act states that it is illegal for employers to “interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise” of collective bargaining rights.

As The Intercept’s Daniel Boguslaw reported, the UAW’s complaint “was filed against Scott in his capacity as a representative for Tim Scott for America,” the senator’s presidential campaign arm.

“In addition to being a senator representing the state of South Carolina, Scott is running for president, making him an employer as well,” Boguslaw noted. “The premise of the complaint is that Scott’s comments could be construed as a direct threat against his campaign staffers, whose right to strike is enshrined in federal law.”

Shawn Fain, the president of the UAW, wrote on social media that Scott’s comments were “just another example of how the employer class abuses the working class in America.”

“Employers willfully violate labor law with little to no repercussions,” Fain added. “Time for more stringent laws to protect workers’ rights!!”

“We had a few minutes between bargaining sessions today to advocate for all workers’ rights.”

The UAW’s complaint against Scott came hours before the union’s planned strike update. Benjamin Dictor, counsel for the UAW, wrote in response to reports of the complaint that “we had a few minutes between bargaining sessions today to advocate for all workers’ rights.”

On Friday at noon, Fain is expected to announce that more locals will be walking off the job—joining the roughly 13,000 autoworkers already on strike in Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio—as the management of the Big Three car manufacturers refuses to meet the union’s demands.

Citing unnamed sources close to the negotiations, Axiosreported Thursday that “there’s zero chance that the automakers will reach a labor deal with the UAW before Friday at noon.”

“With both sides dug in, a prolonged strike is looking more likely. The question is how much pain UAW president Shawn Fain is prepared to exert on the companies—and how swiftly,” Axios continued. “The union could continue the selective strike strategy that began Sept. 15 by ordering targeted walkouts at engine or transmission plants, slowly starving other factories of critical components. Or it could go straight for the jugular by striking factories that build the companies’ most profitable vehicles—full-size pickup trucks.”

rawstory.com

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 8:09:18am

re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

that’s what the wingnut font signifies

But the part in parentheses isn’t in wingnut font.

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Jay C Sep 22, 2023 • 8:11:22am

re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and as I understand, Paxton’s impeachment and insuing acquittal highlighted a schism betwen Texas’ “establishment” (Bush) GOP and the Trump GOP. They managed to embarrass the fuck out of themselves in the process, so although Paxton got off, his party suffered, and that aspect of the outcome can be seen as positive.

Disagree: one analysis I read (and agree with) is that Paxton’s skating on the impeachment was a clear victory for the “Trump GOP” faction: that the TX GOP might actually (i.e. electorally) “suffer” for this is, IMHO, a highly dubious proposition. In the absence of any serious opposition* - and given that Texas has - governmentally - run itself as a near-fascist oligopoly since forever - I think the result of Paxton getting off will be to basically cement the control of the State government in the hands of the most extremist right-wingers. Which can hardly be viewed as “positive”…

*My - admittedly fallible - analysis of TX politics: corrections/clarifications gratefully accepted

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Vicious Babushka Sep 22, 2023 • 8:14:23am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just like it was Jewish scientist Theodore Herzl who saved Germany in WW1 by coming up with a chemical process for nitrates after they were cut off from their overseas supplies, without which they would not have been able to produce explosive munitions.

Instead, Jews were accused of “stabbing Germany in the back” and bringing about defeat.

It must have been zombie Herzl because he died in 1904. But either you forgot to use the sarcasm tag or there may actually be some Anti-Semites who believe this Scheiße.

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wrenchwench Sep 22, 2023 • 8:20:25am

The Portland OR police union’s insurance company made a ‘business decision’ to pay $680,000 now, because otherwise they’re going to trial next week.

Jo Ann Hardesty accepts $680,000 to settle leak lawsuit against Portland Police union, 2 officers

RTWT, it scratches the surface of the department’s problems.

Hardesty’s lawsuit, filed in December 2021, accused former Portland Police Association president Brian Hunzeker of leaking the incorrect allegation to The Oregonian. Hunzeker stepped down from his post at the union shortly after the incident, citing a “serious, isolated mistake” related to the hit-and-run investigation.

While on the council, Hardesty was a frequent critic of the police bureau and repeatedly called for greater oversight of the agency. In an internal affairs interview after the incident, Hunzeker confirmed that Hardesty’s criticism factored into his decision to leak the information.

[…]

According to one of Hardesty’s attorneys, the lump sum of $680,000 comes from the union and the two implicated officers. It’s not public how much each individual contributed to the total payout.

Hunzeker is no longer employed by the Portland Police Bureau. He resigned in April after news broke that he had been moonlighting as a Clark County sheriff’s deputy. Wheeler fired Hunzeker in February 2022 for his role in the hit-and-run leak, but an arbitrator reinstated Hunzeker a year later.

[…]

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 8:20:32am

Got my Covid booster this morning, my sixth Covid vaccination and the first one in a year.

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wrenchwench Sep 22, 2023 • 8:23:34am

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter Sep 22, 2023 • 8:24:11am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Justice Department might be able to, though there would be keening Republican voices about “witch hunt” you could hear all the way to Neptune.

a) Jack Smith or others may be investigating whether any of these shady deals Thomas has been involved in are connected in some way to the insurrection.

b) As Smith continues up the ladder from the insurrectionists themselves to those who planned and funded it, Virginia Thomas’s name sort of stands out. DOJ offers a quiet “resign and we won’t jail your wife for the rest of her life” might go on the table.

Certainly true that if Thomas violated a real law, he could be charged. After all the ridiculous policy from the DOJ that a current president cannot be charged does not apply to a sitting justice. And it would be great if they could get him to resign by threatening Ginny — but Ginny needs to be charged anyway for her disgraceful role in trying to overturn the 2020 election.

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Unabogie Sep 22, 2023 • 8:27:03am

re: #182 wrenchwench

The Portland OR police union’s insurance company made a ‘business decision’ to pay $680,000 now, because otherwise they’re going to trial next week.

RTWT, it scratches the surface of the department’s problems.

This was a huge abuse of power. They didn’t like her so they manufactured a false charge against her. And they did so in a way they thought would never need to be proven in court. Just leak that she was part of a hit-and-run to a friendly newspaper and let the howler monkeys do the rest. And you can say it worked because she’s no longer a commissioner.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 8:27:55am

re: #178 Joe Bacon ✅

“Employers willfully violate labor law with little to no repercussions,” Fain added. “Time for more stringent laws to protect workers’ rights!!”

and they will insisit that they only do so in order to remain competitive with other employers who violate labor law…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 8:30:02am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

It must have been zombie Herzl because he died in 1904. But either you forgot to use the sarcasm tag or there may actually be some Anti-Semites who believe this Scheiße.

He developed the process before the war, but if it had not been there , Germany would have been unable to produce explosives once it was cut off by seas from supplies of guano, which was a key component of munitions at that time.

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Jay C Sep 22, 2023 • 8:30:50am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

I think someone has mixed up their “Famous Zionist Scientist” tags: Theodor Herzl was a journalist: however Chaim Weizmann (better known as a leading advocate for Zionism and first President of Israel) WAS a scientist (a biochemist), and helped develop important synthesizing processes vital to WWI - though for the British, not the Germans.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 8:33:15am

re: #189 Jay C

I think someone has mixed up their “Famous Zionist Scientist” tags: Theodor Herzl was a journalist: however Chaim Weizmann (better known as a leading advocate for Zionism and first President of Israel) WAS a scientist (a biochemist), and helped develop important synthesizing processes vital to WWI - though for the British, not the Germans.

thank you for sorting out my Overlords

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 8:33:31am

Good news for Ukraine if true, though no details yet.

I have no idea what JS meant when he spoke yesterday, but I can’t imagine that at that point the ‘future’ was a few hours away. https://t.co/OaHPtgfFi1

— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) September 22, 2023

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 8:33:55am

New York Pest:
Crabby tourist calls police after being charged $700 for seafood dish

Who do they think they are? Eli Lilly?

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 8:34:41am

re: #186 Unabogie

This was a huge abuse of power. They didn’t like her so they manufactured a false charge against her. And they did so in a way they thought would never need to be proven in court. Just leak that she was part of a hit-and-run to a friendly newspaper and let the howler monkeys do the rest. And you can say it worked because she’s no longer a commissioner.

‘impeachment’ by other means

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 8:36:14am

re: #192 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

New York Pest:
Crabby tourist calls police after being charged $700 for seafood dish

Who do they think they are? Eli Lilly?

They did not read the fine print on the menu

I find that very bad practice on the part of the restaurant, but nothing illegal

Too bad it didn’t happen in the USA so they could blame it on Biden

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Sep 22, 2023 • 8:36:48am

I guess that means there will be a good deal of housing becoming available

— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) September 22, 2023

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 8:36:49am

First time I ever heard of a prison break-in!

Drug Dealer’s Drone Loaded With Opioids, Porn Crashes Into Prison Yard

An Australian drug dealer used a drone to deliver a stash of opioids and a USB stick loaded with pornography to a Brisbane prison yard, only for it to crash. Prison officers found the drone crashed near an exercise yard in April 2022, loaded with 79 strips of the opioid Buprenorphine as well as almost a gram of methamphetamine. Cheyenne Anniki Petryszyn, 27, appeared at Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday after pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated supply of dangerous drugs in a correctional facility. Her two co-accused also pleaded guilty. Petryszyn, who procured the $75,000 worth of drugs, was on parole at the time for a previous drug-dealing conviction and is also facing an unrelated murder charge. She was returned to jail after her arrest.

thedailybeast.com

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 8:37:14am

re: #192 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

New York Pest:
Crabby tourist calls police after being charged $700 for seafood dish

Who do they think they are? ~~Eli Lilly~~ David Brooks?

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 8:39:50am

Virginia Republicans leaning into restricting abortion after 15 weeks to see if it will play with voters, but don’t be surprised if they pass a six week ban in the event they gain control of the Virginia legislature.

NEW: Some GOP leaders are pushing for abortion bans as early as 6 weeks.. Va Gov. Glenn Youngkin is holding firm at 15.

With early voting under way TODAY.. his legislative counterparts are leaning into abortion instead of avoiding it.https://t.co/XXptOHISUn w/ @GaryGrumbach

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) September 22, 2023

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 8:40:59am

House GOP Tries Long-Shot Strategy to Avoid Shutdown

you don’t need a long shot
or “one weird trick”

pass the deal McCarthy made with Biden
or
negotiate in good faith

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 8:41:31am

re: #198 No Malarkey!

Virginia Republicans leaning into restricting abortion after 15 weeks to see if it will play with voters, but don’t be surprised if they pass a six week ban in the event they gain control of the Virginia legislature.

They will stop at nothing short of a complete nationwide ban

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 8:44:06am

re: #192 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

David Brooks

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wrenchwench Sep 22, 2023 • 8:45:00am

15 minute warning:

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 8:45:05am

re: #198 No Malarkey!

Virginia Republicans leaning into restricting abortion after 15 weeks to see if it will play with voters, but don’t be surprised if they pass a six week ban in the event they gain control of the Virginia legislature.

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They won’t stop there. If Youngkin gets his way he will ban contraception as well.

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Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 8:46:13am

This piece of shit needs to go.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
*
2h
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk refuses to grant relief to Texas college students who may be punished for hosting a drag show.

His condemns drag as “vulgar and lewd” “sexualized conduct” that harms children and is likely unprotected by the First Amendment.

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Jay C Sep 22, 2023 • 8:48:44am

re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They did not read the fine print on the menu

I find that very bad practice on the part of the restaurant, but nothing illegal

Too bad it didn’t happen in the USA so they could blame it on Biden

IMO, the worst “bad practice” here seems to have been the restaurant’s serving of 3500g/7.7 lbs. of the crab for a party of four: i.e. something line nearly two pounds each - of some of the most expensive seafood on anyone’s menu. I mean, I’m sure their king crab specialty is probably pretty good, but pounds of it…?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Sep 22, 2023 • 8:57:29am

re: #205 Jay C

IMO, the worst “bad practice” here seems to have been the restaurant’s serving of 3500g/7.7 lbs. of the crab for a party of four: i.e. something line nearly two pounds each - of some of the most expensive seafood on anyone’s menu. I mean, I’m sure their king crab specialty is probably pretty good, but pounds of it…?

somebody must’ve thought they were gonna get a really big tip…

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Hecuba's daughter Sep 22, 2023 • 8:59:41am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

It must have been zombie Herzl because he died in 1904. But either you forgot to use the sarcasm tag or there may actually be some Anti-Semites who believe this Scheiße.

Maybe it was Fritz Haber, who was also Jewish. In any case, Herzl was a journalist and not a scientist.

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darthstar Sep 22, 2023 • 9:03:29am

Android made an offer. I declined.

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Eventual Carrion Sep 22, 2023 • 9:03:31am

re: #56 TarHellion

50/50 call went the right way

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Took me to 4/6

Click to Reveal

Wordle 825 4/6

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darthstar Sep 22, 2023 • 9:04:23am

re: #208 darthstar

Android made an offer. I declined.

[Embedded content]

Oops. Missed an off switch. Fixed

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William Lewis Sep 22, 2023 • 9:05:18am

Last day of summer in the Neighborhood. Bit of color starting to show. Leaves starting to dust the streets.

Picture a day challenge. Day 22 of 30.

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dat_said Sep 22, 2023 • 9:13:02am

This might be a useful tool: goblin.tools (not that I’m implying anything at all about any of you. Nope, not implying anything at all).

Type in “Piss off.” and select make text more formal and it suggests “I kindly request that you give me some space.”

However, select make text more passionate and you get “Get the hell out of here! Your presence is a blight upon my very existence. I reject your presence with every fiber of my being. Your actions and words have cut through me like a knife, leaving behind a searing pain that will not dissipate. How dare you toy with my emotions, twisting and manipulating them to suit your selfish desires. It is with utmost disgust that I utter these words: piss off! Leave me be and never return, for I will not tolerate your toxicity any longer. May you find your happiness elsewhere, far away from the havoc you have wreaked upon my heart and soul.”

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Vicious Babushka Sep 22, 2023 • 9:14:44am

Mastodon

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darthstar Sep 22, 2023 • 9:16:31am

Mastodon

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Sherlock Hound Sep 22, 2023 • 9:18:50am

re: #126 cat-tikvah

I was discussing anime in a group and the discussion somehow turned to Jesus. I suggested that He be inserted into the Fist of the North Star mythos. Conversation between Kenshiro and Jesus:

Ken: “You are already dead.”
Jesus: “Kenshiro, my child, I have always been already dead!”

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wrenchwench Sep 22, 2023 • 9:21:08am

re: #213 Vicious Babushka

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I can see why nobody offers the ability to repost more than once. But I would not abuse it, honest! I don’t ask for much!

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 9:22:30am

re: #214 darthstar

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I’ve been on Placebo for years and I think it’s great! Cured my headaches, diarrhea, and dizziness. Only side effects of Placebo are headaches, diarrhea, and dizziness.

bet it keeps away the tigers though

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Sherlock Hound Sep 22, 2023 • 9:23:02am

re: #137 Belafon

One of the city council members in Dallas a few years ago actually hid money in his freezer.

A Massachusetts state rep, Dianne Wilkerson, hid bribe money in her bra! She wasn’t bright.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Sep 22, 2023 • 9:23:44am

re: #205 Jay C

IMO, the worst “bad practice” here seems to have been the restaurant’s serving of 3500g/7.7 lbs. of the crab for a party of four: i.e. something line nearly two pounds each - of some of the most expensive seafood on anyone’s menu. I mean, I’m sure their king crab specialty is probably pretty good, but pounds of it…?

I’d think the pounds come in mostly shells. King crab is very expensive to start buti don’t think $700 would cover 8 pounds of king crab meat.

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dat_said Sep 22, 2023 • 9:24:48am

re: #214 darthstar

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Isn’t there an old joke out there something like:

Patient: how long will it take if I do this?
Doctor: 7 days
Patient: how about if I do this?
Doctor: a week
Patient: oh, that’s much better, I’ll do that.

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Patricia Kayden Sep 22, 2023 • 9:25:49am

re: #20 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s weird to see people still pushing these lies after the embarrassment that happened to Harold Camping. You’d think they would stop this nonsense.

bing.com

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Vicious Babushka Sep 22, 2023 • 9:25:57am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 9:27:25am

re: #222 Vicious Babushka

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Is anyone surprised that Rafael is playing the race and misogynist cards at the same time?

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Belafon Sep 22, 2023 • 9:29:14am

re: #204 Nerdy Fish

In the replies:

Read it pretty quickly…did he really say, “frat being punished for their drag ‘ugly woman contest’ was a 1A violation, bc it had a discernible message, but prohibiting a drag show to raise money for the Trevor Project wasn’t, bc it doesn’t, even though it was prohibited for being ‘misogynistic’”?

In other words, he doesn’t even try to be consistent, he just works from his feelings backwards.

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wrenchwench Sep 22, 2023 • 9:29:52am

re: #222 Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

Ted Cruz thinks Michelle Obama is scarier than Kamala Harris. Interesting. Is it the arms?

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wrenchwench Sep 22, 2023 • 9:30:32am

re: #223 Joe Bacon ✅

Is anyone surprised that Rafael is playing the race and misogynist cards at the same time?

From his deck of jokers.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Sep 22, 2023 • 9:31:28am

I’ll say it again
“The Sopranos” was a documentary https://t.co/Ry5B9oJffF

— 𝙒𝘽🦍𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) September 22, 2023

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 9:32:08am

grrrr

dangermom dreams about when she used to go out for a kosher deli tongue sandwich.
alas she doesnt go out much anymore.
and no one around here sells tongue. not even the kosher grocer in town.

both mrsdm and i independently tried to find who carried it
(we’re in sync that way)
two deli cafe’s in town have it on their menu!
she found one, i found the other
when we told each other what we were doing…well…

so
this AM i go to the website of the one that’s 10 minutes from here and place an order - you know, to verify they have it.
i cancel the order before paying
out goes mrsdm.

nope they dont have it. grrrrrrr. and what the effing eff?

and still mrsdm pulls it out of the fire.
she either grilled them or goggled where she can actually get some and is now driving to Pompano Beach.

mrsdm rocks.

so dangermom will be surprised with a deli dinner.
she and I will have tongue on rye with ba-tampte mustard and crispy french fries.

mrsdm and dangersis don’t see the attraction in tongue.
they are going for my homemade egg salad.

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Dizzy Sep 22, 2023 • 9:37:42am

Wes Anderson!

YouTube

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wrenchwench Sep 22, 2023 • 9:42:22am

re: #228 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

When I was a kid, we moved from Wisconsin to southern California. We would sometimes be visited by relatives from back in the midwest. Mom got to be an LA tour guide of sorts. She loved taking people to Grand Central Market in downtown LA. They could see meat cases with rows of tongues and a whole head of a pig at the end (nothing kosher in Mom’s tours). Other people probably went to the zoo and the beach. We did do beach trips. When Gramma came, she would take us to Disneyland. It cost a lot more than Grand Central Market.

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gocart mozart Sep 22, 2023 • 9:52:05am

Sen. Jon Stewart NJ (D)

— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) September 22, 2023

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Sep 22, 2023 • 9:56:23am

Latest take on Stonekettle: The Rapture actually happened but there were few if any deserving Christians so nobody noticed.

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EstebanTornado1963 Sep 22, 2023 • 9:59:04am

Idiot, should learn what words mean.

Hey @POTUS, my mother is currently on a train to NYC without a mask or a booster. She didn’t listen to any of my warnings. For some reason, she’s convinced the pandemic is over, and I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that you said “the pandemic is over.”

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) September 22, 2023

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Joe Bacon ✅ Sep 22, 2023 • 10:02:27am

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BigPapa Sep 22, 2023 • 10:05:59am

I can’t repent. I’ve never pented. So I’d have to do that first.

Maybe next week or next decade. I got time.

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Dangerman Sep 22, 2023 • 10:14:39am

re: #233 EstebanTornado1963

Idiot, should learn what words mean.

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damn right reading comprehension is your friend

these people cannot hold two even slightly divergent thoughts at the same time

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Dr Lizardo Sep 22, 2023 • 10:17:54am

Russian Telegram is abuzz that the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Viktor N. Sokolov, was killed in the missile strike in Crimea earlier today.

That’s a big get, if that turns out to be the case. We shall see.

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Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 10:18:36am

re: #237 Dr Lizardo

Russian Telegram is abuzz that the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Viktor N. Sokolov, was killed in the missile strike in Crimea earlier today.

That’s a big get, if that turns out to be the case. We shall see.

Now that would be news.

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 10:19:22am

re: #204 Nerdy Fish

This piece of shit needs to go.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
*
2h
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk refuses to grant relief to Texas college students who may be punished for hosting a drag show.

His condemns drag as “vulgar and lewd” “sexualized conduct” that harms children and is likely unprotected by the First Amendment. [Embedded content]

He has a lifetime appointment; he’s not going anywhere unless a future GOP President nominates him to the Fifth Circuit or the Supreme Court, Dog forbid.

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darthstar Sep 22, 2023 • 10:22:04am

Mastodon

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Belafon Sep 22, 2023 • 10:22:05am

re: #239 No Malarkey!

Wait until he discovers women can be topless in New York.

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BigPapa Sep 22, 2023 • 10:22:23am

I’m still wondering about the veracity of 230k KIA Russians in that report. Giving it some time to get fleshed out.

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Mattand Sep 22, 2023 • 10:22:44am

re: #231 gocart mozart

As a long time NJ resident, I will pass on Jon Stewart as Senator:

1. He’s sidles up to the Both Sides bar enough (he literally made a movie and created a rally around that idea) that I’d worry about him doing that on a critical vote.

2. He’s been semi-embracing the “Why can’t we call it the ‘Wuhan flu’??? It’s where it started!!!” bullshit (see his appearance on Colbert’s first episode back after lockdown)

3. “Hey, just because my good friend Dave Chappell is an open transphobe and is actively harming that community with his act doesn’t mean he’s a bad person!”

I’m good.

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 10:22:45am

Sen. Menendez Drops Defiant Statement on Bribery Indictment, Calls It a ‘Smear Campaign’ to ‘Silence My Voice’ https://t.co/MXvzG2zajh

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) September 22, 2023

Figures. And he’s already shown that he can beat the DOJ on bribery charges once. Problem is that he doubled down, included his wife, and the evidence seems far stronger this time around.

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Nerdy Fish Sep 22, 2023 • 10:24:55am

re: #239 No Malarkey!

He has a lifetime appointment; he’s not going anywhere unless a future GOP President nominates him to the Fifth Circuit or the Supreme Court, Dog forbid.

I know Texas and Florida intentionally rigged their federal court systems to enable forum-shopping. It pisses me right the fuck off that they can do this. I wish the President could just say, “Go fuck yourself, I’m appointing two more judges to your circuit and you can roll the dice just like everybody else.”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈 Sep 22, 2023 • 10:25:25am

VoteVets - TIGHT LIPS COULD SINK SHIPS (TV)

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TarHellion Sep 22, 2023 • 10:25:52am

re: #145 lawhawk

Wonder how MSNBC will handle the airtime of Alicia Menendez, who is the daughter of the accused senator.

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darthstar Sep 22, 2023 • 10:26:47am

re: #247 TarHellion

Wonder how MSNBC will handle the airtime of Alicia Menendez, who is the daughter of the accused senator.

Breaking news: my daddy is fucked!

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 10:26:53am

re: #243 Mattand

As a long time NJ resident, I will pass on Jon Stewart as Senator:

1. He’s sidles up to the Both Sides bar enough (he literally made a movie and created a rally around that idea) that I’d worry about him doing that on a critical vote.

2. He’s been semi-embracing the “Why can’t we call it the ‘Wuhan flu’??? It’s where it started!!!” bullshit (see his appearance on Colbert’s first episode back after lockdown)

3. “Hey, just because my good friend Dave Chappell is an open transphobe and is actively harming that community with his act doesn’t mean he’s a bad person!”

I’m good.

Senator Springsteen sounds good to me.

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Mattand Sep 22, 2023 • 10:28:18am

re: #249 No Malarkey!

Senator Springsteen sounds good to me.

He literally sings “Born to Run” all the time.

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No Malarkey! Sep 22, 2023 • 10:29:34am

re: #245 Nerdy Fish

I know Texas and Florida intentionally rigged their federal court systems to enable forum-shopping. It pisses me right the fuck off that they can do this. I wish the President could just say, “Go fuck yourself, I’m appointing two more judges to your circuit and you can roll the dice just like everybody else.”

The Democrats are still respecting the hoary old Senate tradition of the blue slip, so Cruz and Cornyn aren’t going to let anybody Biden would nominate be confirmed to Kacsmaryck’s District.

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HRH Stanley Sea Sep 22, 2023 • 10:31:57am

re: #250 Mattand

He literally sings “Born to Run” all the time.

Ya’ll watch out for Senator Teresa Guidice

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 10:33:00am

re: #231 gocart mozart

That’s a hard pass.

I’d say Steve Fulop is a better option, though he’s eyeing the governorship.
Gottheimer and Sherill are both in the House, and could make a run at the Senate, but that throws the House D composition in doubt. Gottheimer in particular has been pushing his bipartisanship hard. That’s not hard to understand given that his district includes what was formerly deep red Sussex county areas where extremist GOPer Scott Garrett was the long time incumbent.

Most everyone else is basically waiting and seeing what will shake out.

Watch for a lot of backroom calls and pressure to get someone to challenge Menendez who has local party and national party backing. Menendez has survived for so long b/c of deep ties in state party politics. This latest indictment might finally shake that up.

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 10:34:18am

re: #250 Mattand

He literally sings “Born to Run” all the time.

Senator Bonjiovi. Living on a Prayer. Panders to the evangelicals. /

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lawhawk Sep 22, 2023 • 10:35:03am

#FAFO 1/6 edition:

Judge sentences Capitol riot defendant Rodney Milsteed to FIVE YEARS in prison

Feds argued Milsteed “forcibly assaulted a group of U.S. Capitol Police officers” by throwing his wooden pick handle, with a Trump flag still attached, into the line of officers

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 22, 2023

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mmmirele Sep 22, 2023 • 10:42:34am

re: #232 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Latest take on Stonekettle: The Rapture actually happened but there were few if any deserving Christians so nobody noticed.

Every year around the High Holy Days this rapture fever comes out. And I can tell you why. Because there are some people who have spent their time figuring out what Jesus did during his life (based on the Gospels, written years and years after the events in question) and they noticed that Jesus was not in Jerusalem for the High Holy Days. So of course Jesus is going to return to Jerusalem during the High Holy Days, but this has to be fitted in to the rapture formula, so Jesus returns *secretly*, etc.

I didn’t say it made any sense. I’m just reporting what I’ve heard for the last half century of my life.

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Dr Lizardo Sep 22, 2023 • 10:43:11am

Ukrainian troops from the 112th Territorial Defense Brigade recreate Ilya Repin’s famous painting “Zaporizhian Cossacks Reply to the Turkish Sultan.”
(Photo: Emeric Lhuisset) pic.twitter.com/qNk1EIzeJv

— Business Ukraine mag (@Biz_Ukraine_Mag) September 21, 2023

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Vicious Babushka Sep 22, 2023 • 10:47:28am

re: #256 mmmirele

Every year around the High Holy Days this rapture fever comes out. And I can tell you why. Because there are some people who have spent their time figuring out what Jesus did during his life (based on the Gospels, written years and years after the events in question) and they noticed that Jesus was not in Jerusalem for the High Holy Days. So of course Jesus is going to return to Jerusalem during the High Holy Days, but this has to be fitted in to the rapture formula, so Jesus returns *secretly*, etc.

I didn’t say it made any sense. I’m just reporting what I’ve heard for the last half century of my life.

Mashiach (the messiah, whoever that may be) is going to appear in Jerusalem, he will see swarms of people protesting the awful government, different religious factions fighting one another, and NOPE right on outta there. But he’s feeling a bit peckish so first he visits a soup kitchen for a good meal. And that’s how he meets my daughter and son-in-law.

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Teukka Sep 22, 2023 • 10:49:16am

So, Re: the Russell Brand saga… Is Rumble “out there” for claiming the below letter from a Bri’ish MP is tantamount to a request to demonetize Russell Brand’s content on Rumble?
IMO, it’s not, it’s the MP very dryly asking questions.

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sagehen Sep 22, 2023 • 11:03:20am

re: #252 HRH Stanley Sea

Ya’ll watch out for Senator Teresa Guidice

She and her husband are both convicted felons. They’ll fit right in.

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Eventual Carrion Sep 22, 2023 • 11:38:05am

re: #137 Belafon

One of the city council members in Dallas a few years ago actually hid money in his freezer.

What a fool. That’s where you keep the bodies.

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Eventual Carrion Sep 22, 2023 • 11:43:23am

re: #149 austin_blue

You are reading the tea leaves incorrectly!

Midnight on September 22 means *tonight* at midnight, as every true believer knows! Last night was September 21st.

Geez Louise, you lefties will believe anything!

And the 21st century began in 2001, not 2000.

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