Some More News: The Crummy Behavior of Under-the-Radar Tech CEOs

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In today’s episode, we look at some tech CEOs who may not make the headlines as much as your Musks and Zuckersberg, but who nonetheless have a huge (negative) impact on our society with their anti-worker, privacy-shattering decisions.

Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Katie Goldin
Edited by John Conway
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell

Sources: docs.google.com

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:51 - Okay, A Few Elon Musk Things First
05:02 - Mark Zuckerberg
10:14 - Evan Spiegel
17:18 - Andy Jassy
23:56 - Dara Khosrowshahi
27:21 - Sundar Pichai
31:04 - Tim Cook
39:05 - Brian Roberts
43:49 - These Guys Suck

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261 comments
1
PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:30:55am

Ahh. There is nothing like the scent of a new thread.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:33:22am

Tech CEOs, like most corporate bosses, only care about one thing: making money.

It does not matter to them how much damage they do in pursuit of that goal.

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Teukka  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:35:17am
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Florida Panhandler  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:39:22am

2nd Amendment Solutions * enters the car-negotiation transaction, or just another beautiful day in a corrupt SCOTUS- inflicted Well-regulated Militia dystopia.

click2houston.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:39:49am

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

Tech CEOs, like most corporate bosses, only care about one thing: making money.

It does not matter to them how much damage they do in pursuit of that goal.

They see it as a Holy Duty to uphold Shareholder Value above all, even at the cost of basic humanity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:40:33am

re: #4 Florida Panhandler

2nd Amendment Solutions * enters the car-negotiation transaction, or just another beautiful day in a corrupt SCOTUS- inflicted Well-regulated Militia dystopia.

click2houston.com

Stand Your Ground obviously applies to price negotiations!

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rhuarc  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:40:54am

I wonder if that Old Glory bank would welcome customers wearing face masks, sunglasses, and carrying 3 or 4 guns?

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gocart mozart  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:41:11am
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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:41:26am
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Dangerman  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:41:27am

Why are they holding more votes?

Why didnt jordan just declare himself winner on the first ballot?
He is an election denier after all

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Teukka  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:41:36am

Yikes. Local news here interviews Hamas government employee, they’re doubling down and said the 500 died in under a minute…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:44:05am

re: #7 rhuarc

I wonder if that Old Glory bank would welcome customers wearing face masks, sunglasses, and carrying 3 or 4 guns?

On the website it says “We stand with you. No matter where you stand.”

I have my doubts.

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Dangerman  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:44:06am

Wait for Trump

Who is this jim Jordan?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:44:42am

re: #11 Teukka

They’re desperate to pin this on Israel and get people riled up.

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Teukka  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:45:51am

re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg

They’re desperate to pin this on Israel and get people riled up.

You don’t say… /S

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:46:13am

re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg

That is what it looks like. And they are doing it when Biden comes up with a possible solution to the crisis.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:46:35am

re: #8 gocart mozart

“Loser” has a nasty, negative ring. As a kindness, we should refer to Jim Jordan as “differently victorious”.

President Ebert to German soldiers returning from the Western Front at the end of World War 1: “No enemy has vanquished you! You return undefeated from the field of battle.”

And he was technically correct; they had only signed an armistice, the Treaty of Versailles would not be ratified until the following year.

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Dangerman  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:48:48am

re: #8 gocart mozart

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Participation trophy

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gocart mozart  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:51:55am

[This tweet may have been deleted.]

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retired cynic  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:52:02am

re: #9 No Malarkey!

I got my three yesterday. Doin’ good.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:52:16am

re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage”.

—Hirohito, Aug 1945

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Interesting Times  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:55:08am

threads.net

It looks like when it comes to Jim Jordan, his fellow House Republicans just weren’t…

😎

…willing to go to the mat for him.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:55:51am

re: #22 Interesting Times

let alone vote for him.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:56:10am

re: #22 Interesting Times

threads.net

That’s the first link to Threads that I’ve seen since their userbase collapsed.

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lawhawk  Oct 18, 2023 • 10:57:45am

re: #22 Interesting Times

You’re on the ropes for that one.

What a heel.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:00:55am
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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:01:29am

I love this version - first the second season, then the first season then an instrumental solo then a third verse Joan wrote.

Beautif-it-fuck-ing-full.

Now if that idiot Letterman wasn’t there spoiling things…

Joan Jett Mary Tyler Moore Theme (LOVE IS ALL AROUND)

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:02:14am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:03:29am

re: #26 Backwoods Sleuth

Marge says Mackey’s sentence for trying to trick black and Hispanic voters into thinking they could vote by text is an injustice.

We should be allowed to post whatever we want without personal, economic or legal consequences. Including death threats against members of Congress.

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:04:05am

re: #26 Backwoods Sleuth

Evidently in Conserva-dystopia Felonies are now merely “memes.”

The Party of Law and Order is now the Party of Memes and LuLz.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:04:27am
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Ace Rothstein  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:05:08am

Travis Kelce is ahem Taylor Swift and your dusty ass is on Joe Rogan. Aaron Rodgers, you’re an asshole.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:05:30am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:05:39am

re: #30 Florida Panhandler

Evidently in Conserva-dystopia Felonies are now merely “memes.”

The Party of Law and Order is now the Party of Memes and LuLz.

“It was only meant as a joke!”

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:05:48am

re: #26 Backwoods Sleuth

7 months is an injustice.

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Interesting Times  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:05:55am

re: #24 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That’s the first link to Threads that I’ve seen since their userbase collapsed.

Doesn’t exactly look like collapse according to this:
quiverquant.com

137 million users (I’m seeing more and more accounts that used to be Xitter-only come over)

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:06:23am

re: #28 Backwoods Sleuth

As I said downstairs, thank you for this priceless ad for the Democrats.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:06:55am

Parents outraged that a photo of their son is being used on the cover of an antivaxxer book linked to RFK Jr. The 12 year old wasn’t vaccinated when he died tragically.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:06:58am

re: #37 Ace Rothstein

As I said downstairs, thank you for this priceless ad for the Democrats.

The GOP sees governmental dysfunction as a feature, not a bug.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:07:42am

re: #38 No Malarkey!

Parents outraged that a photo of their son is being used on the cover of an antivaxxer book linked to RFK Jr. The 12 year old wasn’t vaccinated when he died tragically.

As if it would have mattered had he been vaccinated.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:09:29am

re: #39 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The GOP sees governmental dysfunction as a feature, not a bug.

FUCK YEAH!! ELIMINATE MY SOCIAL SECURITY!!!

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:13:18am

I know teleski’s not here right now but hey dude? This one’s with you in mind. Hope you see it and enjoy. My beard is long and full of grey 🤣😁

Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey (Official Music Video) [HD]

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:26:01am
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Charles Johnson  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:26:21am

Fearful symmetry…

Wordle 851 3/6*

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:30:37am

re: #43 Backwoods Sleuth

Fetterman: Depression is so sinister because it convinces you that even though you won, you actually lost.

And hubris and arrogance does the opposite: convince you that you won when you actually lost.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:30:45am

re: #43 Backwoods Sleuth

Thank you John. A lot of people will look up to you.

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lawhawk  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:34:53am
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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:35:28am

This is why official Washington wasn’t prepared for January 6; they blinded themselves to GOP extremism, and continue to insist on parity between the two parties.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:38:19am

re: #7 rhuarc

Is that the same Old Glory that offers robot insurance?

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Thanos  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:40:30am

Remember the good old days when this consumed all the news cycles?

Prime suspect admits to Natalee Holloway’s 2005 murder in Aruba, gets plea deal in extortion case

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:40:34am

re: #48 No Malarkey!

That text tries to wed the Democrats to various LW ranters. There are progressive nutcases out there, but we don’t put them in charge.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:43:39am

So are we having another Speaker vote today or does the GOP feel they’ve beaten themselves up enough for now?

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:45:08am

re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg

So are we having another Speaker vote today or does the GOP feel they’ve beaten themselves up enough for now?

He hasn’t said the safeword yet.

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:45:47am

re: #47 lawhawk

I get what you’re saying but until the hammer actually falls on the Qatar ruling family, what does it matter? Fuck ‘em and the horse they rode in on.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:46:15am

re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg

So are we having another Speaker vote today or does the GOP feel they’ve beaten themselves up enough for now?

Another Speaker vote today would be like punching yourself in the nuts and yelling, “Jumanji!”. So maybe the GOP will do it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:46:50am

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:47:24am

re: #55 Dr Lizardo

Please watch the trigger words for those of us who are dealing with urologists.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:49:46am

Every American doing a British accent

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retired cynic  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:53:08am

Trump Is Taking His Legal Sh*tshow Overseas Now
Remember the Steele dossier? Time to think about that again.
By Charles P. Pierce esquire.com

From Politico:

His lawyer noted in court Monday that Trump is a “controversial figure” who “expresses himself in strong language” and has faced criticism from judges in the U.S. However, he said none of that is relevant in the current case…Tomlinson said [the Steele dossier] “contained shocking and scandalous claims about the personal conduct of President Trump” and included allegations he paid bribes to Russian officials to further his business interests. Trump’s case “is that this personal data is egregiously inaccurate,” he said. Tomlinson said Trump plans to vindicate himself in court by providing evidence that the report’s claims were false.

Oh, will he now? I don’t pretend to be a British lawyer even on this blog. (I look stupid in a wig.) So I am unfamiliar with British discovery procedures but, if they’re anything like ours, I’m anxious to see the evidence provided. I know British libel law is looser than ours is, but the former president* isn’t suing for libel. But his ability to use the legal system to dodge responsibility has now reached across the Atlantic. Go, Fleet Street. Attack.

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:54:03am

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

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You can actually see the mice running in their cage

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:56:53am

re: #60 sizzzzlerz

You can actually see the mice running in their cage

and they’re doing their damnedest to get out of there…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 11:59:44am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:00:38pm

re: #59 retired cynic

Watch him try to claim Free Speech violations in a British court.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:01:27pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

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Remember the official outrage when the comedian at the Correspondents Dinner said Sanders lies? Watch Michelle Wolf Roast Sarah Huckabee Sanders | NBC News

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:02:35pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:04:49pm

re: #66 Vicious Babushka

West: That just proves I can unite the country.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:08:42pm

re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Stand Your Ground obviously applies to price negotiations!

Reminds me of the Bircher freak who was head of Lubbock Right to Life a few years ago. He and his church were also open, up-front, advocates of hoarding and price gouging during shortages and emergencies. This would ensure that scarce goods were distributed to the people who were “best prepared to make use of them and would benefit most,” ie the wealthy. He asserted that actual possession was the ultimate negotiating position and should therefore be paramount. I asked him whether a shotgun in his face might, in fact, be a superior negotiating position. He thought that was immoral.

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danarchy  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:10:50pm

re: #36 Interesting Times

Doesn’t exactly look like collapse according to this:
quiverquant.com

137 million users (I’m seeing more and more accounts that used to be Xitter-only come over)

There is a difference between total users and daily active users. The number of daily active users plummeted after the first month by 80%. It may have bounced back, I haven’t checked but total users is a pretty meaningless statistic if they aren’t using it.

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lawhawk  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:12:00pm

re: #69 danarchy

Twitter could still point to a big user base, but if people just stop using it (as opposed to outright deleting their accounts and feeds), then it’s useless as a metric.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:12:13pm

he is so pathetic

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:13:42pm

re: #68 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Reminds me of the Bircher freak who was head of Lubbock Right to Life a few years ago. He and his church were also open, up-front, advocates of hoarding and price gouging during shortages and emergencies. This would ensure that scarce goods were distributed to the people who were “best prepared to make use of them and would benefit most,” ie the wealthy. He asserted that actual possession was the ultimate negotiating position and should therefore be paramount. I asked him whether a shotgun in his face might, in fact, be a superior negotiating position. He thought that was immoral.

It is truly remarkable how the people who are the most outspoken about their commitment to Christ have adopted a theology which is very nearly the exact opposite of what Jesus is quoted as saying in the Bible. One would think a follower of Jesus would be hoarding supplies for the purpose of sharing with the community in a time of need.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:13:50pm

re: #71 Backwoods Sleuth

he is so pathetic

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Why? What role does Donald Trump play in US foreign policy, that his presence is required or even desired there? What is his current title in the United States government that gives him any authority to represent the United States while he is there?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:14:26pm

re: #71 Backwoods Sleuth

That will mess up all of the talks going on there.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:14:27pm

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:14:51pm

re: #73 Nerdy Fish

Why? What role does Donald Trump play in US foreign policy, that his presence is required or even desired there? What is his current title in the United States government that gives him any authority to represent the United States while he is there?

He could throw paper towels at refugees.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:17:17pm

re: #71 Backwoods Sleuth

he is so pathetic

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Do they not extradite criminals to the U.S.?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:18:07pm

re: #73 Nerdy Fish

Why? What role does Donald Trump play in US foreign policy, that his presence is required or even desired there? What is his current title in the United States government that gives him any authority to represent the United States while he is there?

The only benefit I see is the slight chance of dying in a plane crash.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:19:29pm

re: #71 Backwoods Sleuth

he is so pathetic

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There’s no way that he’s going anywhere that puts his life in jeopardy.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:19:57pm

re: #78 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The only benefit I see is the slight chance of dying in a plane crash.

How in the hell does he still have a passport?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:21:11pm

re: #80 Decatur Deb

Influence.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:22:20pm

re: #75 Backwoods Sleuth

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And people here were worried about exactly the opposite.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:24:41pm

re: #80 Decatur Deb

How in the hell does he still have a passport?

If it was common for presidents to be so outrageously criminal our system would be better prepared to handle him. As it is, you need law enforcement and the judiciary to work together to properly contain someone, and even the good ones in those groups aren’t sure how to properly handle the situation.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:26:34pm

re: #83 Belafon

He’s out on bail a couple times over. He is the definition of a flight risk. WTF?

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:26:44pm

re: #83 Belafon

If it was common for presidents to be so outrageously criminal our system would be better prepared to handle him. As it is, you need law enforcement and the judiciary to work together to properly contain someone, and even the good ones in those groups aren’t sure how to properly handle the situation.

The problem is that the Founding Fathers put so much faith in the basic integrity of people who would run for office. I’m pretty sure, if you asked them if a man who was currently actively being indicted for “high crimes” should be allowed to run for President, their answer would be, “Abso-fucking-lutely not, are you high?!” But they didn’t think they had to spell that out explicitly, and now, here we are.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:28:16pm

Jim Jordan, breaking a century old record for failure.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:28:37pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

He’s out on bail a couple times over. He is the definition of a flight risk. WTF?

He’s a flight risk in the same way that Taylor Swift would be. The only way he would get out of the country is if he went a route that didn’t require a passport.

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lawhawk  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:30:04pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

Conditions of his bail do not include surrendering his passports nor does it require him to check in with the court to inform them of where he’s going. They require him to be present at court when required.

For instance:
documentcloud.org (anything circled or checked is applicable to Trump).

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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:30:15pm

re: #87 Belafon

He’s a flight risk in the same way that Taylor Swift would be. The only way he would get out of the country is if he went a route that didn’t require a passport.

Yes, Trump doesn’t go anywhere without a cadre of Secret Service agents, so the federal government always knows exactly where he is.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:31:47pm

re: #87 Belafon

He’s a flight risk in the same way that Taylor Swift would be. The only way he would get out of the country is if he went a route that didn’t require a passport.

And he’s accompanied everywhere by his Secret Service detail. He has to believe that they would turn him in if he tried to flee — unless they are true MAGAts who would accompany him anywhere.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:32:49pm

re: #72 No Malarkey!

It is truly remarkable how the people who are the most outspoken about their commitment to Christ have adopted a theology which is very nearly the exact opposite of what Jesus is quoted as saying in the Bible. One would think a follower of Jesus would be hoarding supplies for the purpose of sharing with the community in a time of need.

The REAL God of the Religious Right is Ayn AS IN MINE Rand.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:33:48pm

re: #90 Hecuba’s daughter

And he’s accompanied everywhere by his Secret Service detail. He has to believe that they would turn him in if he tried to flee — unless they are true MAGAts who would accompany him anywhere.

If he has a passport it wouldn’t be fleeing until he refused to return. All he needs once overseas is a friendly foreign embassy.

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lawhawk  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:34:38pm

You know things are fucked up when even the members aren’t bothering to show up for pizza themselves. They had their staffers grab boxes b/c things are in such a state of disarray. GOP can’t agree to even hold meetings in person at this point. They’ve got nothing to discuss, and the saboteurs are content with this outcome.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:37:07pm

re: #93 lawhawk

Winners get pizza. Second place gets steak knives.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:37:16pm

re: #93 lawhawk

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You know things are fucked up when even the members aren’t bothering to show up for pizza themselves. They had their staffers grab boxes b/c things are in such a state of disarray. GOP can’t agree to even hold meetings in person at this point. They’ve got nothing to discuss, and the saboteurs are content with this outcome.

The Republican Party as we know it is going to end up splitting into two parties: The Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs party, and the Evil but Not Stupid party. Both will be bad, but in different ways; and neither of them will command the power they both had together.

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KGxvi  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:37:58pm

re: #66 Vicious Babushka

He’s running as an independent now instead of running for the Green Party nomination. He (and Kennedy) are going to have a very hard time getting on the ballot in all 50 states. It is a lot of work and very costly. There’s a reason why it hasn’t happened since 1992, and I’m willing to bet that a lot of states have made it even more difficult to get on the ballot since then.

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KGxvi  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:39:14pm

re: #90 Hecuba’s daughter

And he’s accompanied everywhere by his Secret Service detail. He has to believe that they would turn him in if he tried to flee — unless they are true MAGAts who would accompany him anywhere.

As I’ve been saying since the first indictments came down, he’s technically in federal custody at all times.

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BeachDem  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:41:06pm

re: #86 No Malarkey!

Jim Jordan, breaking a century old record for failure.

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darthstar  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:41:20pm

Saw a post on dKos with a tweet saying that Jordan’s opposition in the GOP is adding a few more no votes with every ballot. So expect more people to vote against him if he tries again.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:41:39pm

My question: Some Republicans apparently are calling Jordan the Speaker-Designate. What in the world does that title even mean? Just that he has a majority of the majority? That a majority of their conference voted for him (just like they previously did Scalise) during their closed meeting?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:41:52pm

re: #93 lawhawk

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You know things are fucked up when even the members aren’t bothering to show up for pizza themselves. They had their staffers grab boxes b/c things are in such a state of disarray. GOP can’t agree to even hold meetings in person at this point. They’ve got nothing to discuss, and the saboteurs are content with this outcome.

And you know it’s REALLY bad when Republican Congressmen won’t be shown with a Papa John pizza!

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:42:00pm

re: #70 lawhawk

Twitter could still point to a big user base, but if people just stop using it (as opposed to outright deleting their accounts and feeds), then it’s useless as a metric.

Exactly. I am still seen as a user, but I am suspended (have been for a couple years) so I can’t login to delete my account.

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darthstar  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:42:25pm

re: #100 Hecuba’s daughter

That’ll look great on his LinkedIn profile.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:42:28pm

re: #97 KGxvi

As I’ve been saying since the first indictments came down, he’s technically in federal custody at all times.

Probably not if he’s in a bunch of foreign countries. USSS is just a tour group some places.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:43:32pm

re: #100 Hecuba’s daughter

My question: Some Republicans apparently are calling Jordan the Speaker-Designate. What in the world does that title even mean? Just that he has a majority of the majority? That a majority of their conference voted for him (just like they previously did Scalise) during their closed meeting?

It’s their pretentious attempt to sound like they are united in their support for a single Speaker candidate. I think they came up with it after this absurd “let’s all pow-wow together and figure out who we can all support” closed-door process, which blew up in predictable fashion, when the lying backstabbers lied to his face and then stabbed him in the back.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:44:01pm

re: #100 Hecuba’s daughter

My question: Some Republicans apparently are calling Jordan the Speaker-Designate. What in the world does that title even mean? Just that he has a majority of the majority? That a majority of their conference voted for him (just like they previously did Scalise) during their closed meeting?

It means someone is blowing smoke.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:45:14pm

re: #106 Decatur Deb

It sounds like wishful thinking on their part.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:45:16pm

re: #105 Nerdy Fish

It’s their pretentious attempt to sound like they are united in their support for a single Speaker candidate. I think they came up with it after this absurd “let’s all pow-wow together and figure out who we can all support” closed-door process, which blew up in predictable fashion, when the lying backstabbers lied to his face and then stabbed him in the back.

TBF they stabbed him in the front for the whole world to see!

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:46:15pm

re: #94 Decatur Deb

Winners get pizza. Second place gets steak knives.

Pizza is for closers.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:46:53pm

re: #104 Decatur Deb

Probably not if he’s in a bunch of foreign countries. USSS is just a tour group some places.

I haven’t been tracking him, but which countries has he been to since Jan, 2021?

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:48:24pm

re: #110 Belafon

I haven’t been tracking him, but which countries has he been do since Jan, 2021?

Can’t name one. The important date would be after an indictment and making bail/release.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:48:34pm

re: #106 Decatur Deb

It means someone is blowing smoke.

…out their ass!!!!!!

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darthstar  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:49:43pm

re: #109 Dr Lizardo

Pizza is for closers.

Bring those boxes to the press pool. They can eat and report on GOP spending tax dollars on pizza they don’t eat.

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EPR-radar  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:50:27pm

re: #100 Hecuba’s daughter

My question: Some Republicans apparently are calling Jordan the Speaker-Designate. What in the world does that title even mean? Just that he has a majority of the majority? That a majority of their conference voted for him (just like they previously did Scalise) during their closed meeting?

Republicans believe that only Republican votes count, as part of their larger pattern of thinking that only Republicans are people. That’s what under this silly title, IMO.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:50:42pm

re: #112 Joe Bacon ✅

Interesting usage. We’re both from PGH, but in my part of town that would be “up (someone’s) ass”. A new sub-dialect of ‘Burghese !!!

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darthstar  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:51:44pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:52:05pm

re: #115 Decatur Deb

Interesting usage. We’re both from PGH, but in my part of town that would be “up (someone’s) ass”. A new sub-dialect of ‘Burghese !!!

Mom and Dad always told folks they detested to blow it out their ass…so I guess I picked it up from them…

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 18, 2023 • 12:59:26pm

re: #117 Joe Bacon ✅

Mom and Dad always told folks they detested to blow it out their ass…so I guess I picked it up from them…

Yeah around here it is “suck it up your nose and blow it out your ass”

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lawhawk  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:00:31pm

No more voting for Speaker today. They’ll be at it again tomorrow, with the same outcome.

This is why the entire GOP needs to be razed. They know this stops work in Congress and the CR is set to run out in a few weeks. No speaker means no one to negotiate a new CR. No speaker means key legislation doesn’t get passed. No speaker means the extremist GOP intent on shutting down govt and defunding key programs gets to do it by other means.

That’s why they’re doing a vote a day. And they’ll still fail to pick a speaker. Because that’s the outcome they want.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:02:36pm

re: #92 Decatur Deb

If he has a passport it wouldn’t be fleeing until he refused to return. All he needs once overseas is a friendly foreign embassy.

I would not exactly be upset if Trump chose permanent exile and never came back.

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EPR-radar  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:02:45pm

re: #118 Eventual Carrion

Yeah around here it is “suck it up your nose and blow it out your ass”

The two variations on this that I’m familiar with are “blowing smoke up someone’s ass” for bullshitting, and “blow it out your ass” as a colorful version of fuck off.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:04:53pm

re: #119 lawhawk

And anyone associated with DT should be prohibited from running for office.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:06:28pm

re: #110 Belafon

I haven’t been tracking him, but which countries has he been to since Jan, 2021?

I think he went to Scotland.

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EPR-radar  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:07:16pm

re: #122 PhillyPretzel ✅

And anyone associated with DT should be prohibited from running for office.

Republicans should be banned from running for office? Works for me. The entire party is a cesspit of Satan.

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EPR-radar  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:08:41pm

re: #119 lawhawk

That’s why they’re doing a vote a day. And they’ll still fail to pick a speaker. Because that’s the outcome they want.

If only the goddamn US political media would do its only fucking job, and report on the actual state of the Republican party.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:09:16pm

Fetterman is the one who filed for Menendez’s expulsion:

Thus far, only one Senate Democrat has called for an expulsion vote to take place and say they would vote to expel Menendez: Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who lit the fuse of what has quickly become a nasty back-and-forth with Menendez over his future.

The two senators also got into an in-person tiff as they rode the escalator in opposite directions to the Capitol from the Senate subway area Tuesday morning. According to sources, Fetterman told Menendez that Tuesday would be a great day to resign.

Menendez reacted, telling Fetterman that he is hanging onto this issue too closely, echoing a line he told HuffPost a night earlier. Fetterman mockingly responded that he is “consumed” by Menendez’s indictment.

thehill.com

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:09:28pm

Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:10:39pm

re: #123 No Malarkey!

I think he went to Scotland.

I haven’t found any trips post-president, but there is this interesting article. Ex-prez are expected to become goodwill ambassadors. Yeah—goodwill.

Rules Former US Presidents Have To Follow After They Leave Office

thedelite.com

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:12:48pm

If you’re inclined to give, balloon-juice.com has a fundraiser set up to donate to Democrats running in VA.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:14:46pm

re: #94 Decatur Deb

Winners get pizza. Second place gets steak knives pizza with pineapple.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:15:46pm

re: #129 Belafon

[Embedded content]

If you’re inclined to give, balloon-juice.com has a fundraiser set up to donate to Democrats running in VA.

That’s also where my likely next car is.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:16:55pm

re: #129 Belafon

…….

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:18:18pm

re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Stand Your Ground obviously applies to price negotiations!

You can do that? That sounds a lot easier than haggling.

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:18:32pm

A rabbi helps a young man put on tefillin while a pro-Palestinian rally marches behind them, shouting genocidal slogans. (I did not visit X but found it reposted at a different site)

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:18:46pm

re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter

I am probably missing something but where is there a donate button or link on that page?

Never mind — found it..

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Charles Johnson  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:21:24pm

AMERICAN FICTION | Official Trailer

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:23:14pm

re: #134 Vicious Babushka

I know it is a college campus and it is a very narrow scope but from the brick walkway it might be the U of Penn campus.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:30:34pm

Wonkette just has a wonderful way with words!

Strap in for a newsy surprise nobody coulda seen coming! The first major poll has come out since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stopped “running” for “president” as a “Democrat,” and started running as just an independent ratfucker whose true motivation here is God-knows-what.

Shockingly, this fucking crazy person who spent all his “Democrat” time warbling on right-wing media bout how unfairly the real Democrats were treating him takes FAR MORE VOTES from Donald Trump than he does from Joe Biden. Which means Republicans are reacting correctly, if totally desperately, by turning on a dime and treating Kennedy like a virus for which there’s no vaccine.

Ooh dang, he would hate that joke on so many levels.

Oh well!

Damn I love WONKETTE!!!!!!

wonkette.com

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:32:46pm

re: #28 Backwoods Sleuth

We all know it’s the huge tax cuts you all gave to billionaires. That’s what we all know.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:34:36pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:35:04pm

I love this child

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Dangerman  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:39:18pm

re: #133 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

You can do that? That sounds a lot easier than haggling.

But it only works once

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:39:51pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:42:03pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:44:45pm

re: #142 Dangerman

But it only works once

And you don’t get the car, but you do get housing.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:46:49pm
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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:47:54pm

Our chow hall food (including barbecued water buffalo) was generally pretty good and I didn’t have a lot of exposure to C-rats. I would tend to agree that the spaghetti dinner was the best of the lot though.The lima beans with ham was universally reviled but I sort of liked it. Could not stand the beef stew, which I called “turds in wax.” The accessory pack, which included cigarettes, toilet paper, and the all important tabasco sauce, was worthwhile.

Best of the bad: What was the best C-ration during the Vietnam War?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:50:23pm

re: #146 Backwoods Sleuth

This is going to end up like McCarthy, isn’t it? Whoever gets the gavel will have to cut so many deals they’ll be weak as hell and we’ll be right back here six months from now.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:51:11pm

re: #143 Backwoods Sleuth

I can’t watch at work. What is the highlight?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:51:56pm

I have a question for the room: Should I throw away all of my PPA clothing or just save a blouse and pants as a memento?

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HRH Stanley Sea  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:56:08pm

re: #150 PhillyPretzel ✅

Did you retire? I missed this!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:59:06pm

re: #150 PhillyPretzel ✅

Did somebody win the Pennsylvania Lottery and they didn’t tell us????

Inquiring minds want to know! 🤔

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:59:18pm

re: #151 HRH Stanley Sea

Not yet. My right hand (I am right handed) was injured. I had to have corrective surgery. The bones needed to be re set. And right now I am going to see a 2nd doctor regarding said matter. My lawyers made the appointment for me.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 18, 2023 • 1:59:52pm

Me pondering: will Biden’s approach to the current Israel crises cost him millions of votes among the under-25 crowd?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:00:01pm

re: #153 PhillyPretzel ✅

OWTCH! 😢

Hoping everything will work out OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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HRH Stanley Sea  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:01:12pm

re: #153 PhillyPretzel ✅

Ooooh. Good luck & healing thoughts.

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:01:19pm

JVP (Neturei Karta without the cosplay) making trouble in the Capitol.

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:01:22pm

re: #155 Joe Bacon ✅

Me too. The lawyers have me filling out Disability forms (Social Security).

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:02:29pm
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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:02:38pm

re: #153 PhillyPretzel ✅

Not yet. My right hand (I am right handed) was injured. I had to have corrective surgery. The bones needed to be re set. And right now I am going to see a 2nd doctor regarding said matter. My lawyers made the appointment for me.

Do you still have what you were wearing when injured? That, and one more, would be keepers.

I hope it doesn’t hurt.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:04:01pm

re: #160 wrenchwench

Oh it does ache on a day like today. The storms are coming in and I feel it.

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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:05:05pm

re: #161 PhillyPretzel ✅

{{{Philly}}}

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:08:59pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:12:10pm
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:13:38pm

re: #160 wrenchwench

Yes, I do have the pants and short sleeved shirt that I wore on that day. There is a small tear on the pants and nothing on the blouse.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:17:07pm

re: #94 Decatur Deb

Winners get pizza. Second place gets steak knives.

And there’s no fucking steak knives.

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gocart mozart  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:17:58pm
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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:20:27pm

re: #163 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

It wasn’t Biden who canceled the meeting with the Palestinian president.

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:21:25pm

re: #157 Vicious Babushka

JVP (Neturei Karta without the cosplay) making trouble in the Capitol.

“Jewish Voice For Peace” sells pro-Hamas merch like this. Behind a tag for reasons.

Click to Reveal
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:23:31pm

re: #169 Vicious Babushka

“Jewish Voice For Peace” sells pro-Hamas merch like this. Behind a tag for reasons.

[Embedded content]

That does not seem like a Jewish voice or a voice for peace. I know hate when I see it.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:23:41pm

re: #167 gocart mozart

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:26:36pm

re: #170 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That does not seem like a Jewish voice or a voice for peace. I know hate when I see it.

They are marching shoulder to shoulder with pro-Hamas stans, shouting RIVER TO THE SEA which is a genocidal slogan. JVP, like Neturei Karta, think Israel should not exist.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:28:28pm

re: #147 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Our chow hall food (including barbecued water buffalo) was generally pretty good and I didn’t have a lot of exposure to C-rats. I would tend to agree that the spaghetti dinner was the best of the lot though.The lima beans with ham was universally reviled but I sort of liked it. Could not stand the beef stew, which I called “turds in wax.” The accessory pack, which included cigarettes, toilet paper, and the all important tabasco sauce, was worthwhile.

Best of the bad: What was the best C-ration during the Vietnam War?

As DoD civilians in Korea (79-80) we were required to maintain an emergency food stock. Cases of expiring C-rats from the commissary were recommended. (Some of them were older than the Vietnam war.) My favorite entree was beans and wienies. Once curiosity got the kids to the can of Thomas Date-nut dessert, the whole idea of a “reserve stock” sort of fell apart.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:32:11pm

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cat-tikvah  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:35:14pm

re: #134 Vicious Babushka

Do you know/can you tell where this happened?
Federal Donuts is a Philly business. I wonder if it was downtown Philly.

profoundly disturbing wherever it was

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:36:21pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:36:36pm

re: #147 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Our chow hall food (including barbecued water buffalo) was generally pretty good and I didn’t have a lot of exposure to C-rats. I would tend to agree that the spaghetti dinner was the best of the lot though.The lima beans with ham was universally reviled but I sort of liked it. Could not stand the beef stew, which I called “turds in wax.” The accessory pack, which included cigarettes, toilet paper, and the all important tabasco sauce, was worthwhile.

Best of the bad: What was the best C-ration during the Vietnam War?

Lima beans with ham.

“Ham & motherfuckers.”

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EPR-radar  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:37:37pm

re: #176 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Anyone who is sick and tired of the usual shit in US politics needs to support the end of the GOP as a national party. There can be no progress on any other issues until that is dealt with.

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:38:21pm

re: #175 cat-tikvah

Do you know/can you tell where this happened?
Federal Donuts is a Philly business. I wonder if it was downtown Philly.

profoundly disturbing wherever it was

This video was posted at crownheights.info but you would not see a pro-Hamas parade march through Crown Heights.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:39:15pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:43:33pm

re: #180 Belafon

[Embedded content]

Frank Luntz worked his focus groups overtime to figure out that slam of Hakeem…

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:45:18pm

re: #181 Joe Bacon ✅

Frank Luntz worked his focus groups overtime to figure out that slam of Hakeem…

They’re not sending their best.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:45:36pm

re: #181 Joe Bacon ✅

I read it as a sly compliment, though I don’t know the bent of the poster.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:46:03pm

re: #175 cat-tikvah

Upstream I posted that it might be the U of Penn campus because of the brick walkway. The buildings in the background look like they are from that area.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:47:07pm
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Romantic Heretic  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:47:41pm

re: #28 Backwoods Sleuth

But ignore the defence budget! Also, the tax breaks for the wealthy and megacorps.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:47:53pm

re: #185 HRH Stanley Sea

That’s dark.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:47:58pm

re: #183 Decatur Deb

I read it as a sly compliment, though I don’t know the bent of the poster.

He’s a Republican, but I haven’t been paying enough attention to know if he’s been supporting Jordan.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:49:10pm

Three Blue Sky invite codes, for the brave and the bold:

TFJ4ZHVKN1lnYVhQcDd2dHFUV0tmN1ZDVXY4R3FHM3E0Tmhvbkw5OFc3dmpBWXduUWZQTXdrckkwMi8vQVZJb2JlazJMcWJrc2JjRENFL0FhWWZCV1ZPTDlHZCs4RnBwTzllRWlrT3pJbzYxZUZaL0Y2anU2WjA5Vjc2YURmYmJOc2hYb2tMQmdLb2tlcGhDTW53UHVRPT06OotVrkTacUldvrrrF62WyNU=

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:49:33pm

re: #185 HRH Stanley Sea

THOU SHALT NOT F WITH DARK BRANDON!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:49:50pm

re: #188 Belafon

He’s a Republican, but I haven’t been paying enough attention to know if he’s been supporting Jordan.

I believe he has.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:51:18pm

re: #177 BeenHereAwhile

Lima beans with ham.

“Ham & motherfuckers.”

call them butter beans and it’s all good.

At least, I’ve heard that…

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:51:53pm

re: #39 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The GOP sees governmental dysfunction as a feature, not a bug.

Government can’t do anything good because otherwise people wouldn’t understand that government is bad.

to which I reply, “Just because a sentence is symmetrical doesn’t mean it isn’t nonsense.”

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:53:01pm

re: #185 HRH Stanley Sea

re: #190 Joe Bacon ✅

Do not F with Joe Biden. I know I would not survive the tongue lashing.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:54:30pm

re: #192 Backwoods Sleuth

call them butter beans and it’s all good.

At least, I’ve heard that…

Mom knew what to do with butter beans. She added thin sliced fried onions in butter, added some Good Seasons Italian dressing and topped it off with a little bit of REAL grated Parmigiano-Reggiano and mixed it all up.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:54:50pm

re: #191 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I believe he has.

Then he’s an idiot. Jeffries beat Jordan by 13 votes.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:56:43pm

From a Sabine email.

This Is What Happens When You Let an AI Design a Robot

Researchers at Northwestern University asked an artificial intelligence (AI) to design a robot that could walk across land. The result is not exactly what you’d expect.

The AI first came up with a spongy block that would deform when water was pumped into it. This robot could jiggle but not walk. In the next iteration, the AI found a shape that would make the sponge hop and shuffle. Nine iterations and twenty-six seconds later, the robot could hop effectively. While Spongebob 2.0 doesn’t look like any walking creature we’ve seen before, it does have features that resemble legs, so maybe evolution was up to something with those.

Significance

AI systems have taken massive strides designing prose, artwork, gameplay, software, and proteins but have yet to master the design of complex physical machines. Here we introduce an automatic optimization method that can design self-moving machines—robots—from scratch by tracing failures in their behavior back to errors or inefficiencies in particular parts of their physical structure. Because this method improves the robot in this way, it can optimize the interdependent parts of the robot much more rapidly than the current approach, in which the designer tries different robot designs in a trial-and-error fashion. This opens the way toward bespoke AI-driven design of robots for a wide range of tasks, rapidly and on demand.

pnas.org

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:57:17pm

re: #71 Backwoods Sleuth

Trump will do what no one else can do, unite the Middle East.

As in everybody saying, “Please, no. Stay the fuck away!”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:57:22pm

re: #196 Decatur Deb

Then he’s an idiot. Jeffries beat Jordan by 13 votes.

Georgian republican. Need you say more?

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 2:59:06pm

re: #196 Decatur Deb

Then he’s an idiot. Jeffries beat Jordan by 13 votes.

They’re desperate to not have Republicans seen as losers.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:00:09pm

re: #200 Belafon

They’re desperate to not have Republicans seen as losers.

too late

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:00:28pm

re: #200 Belafon

They’re desperate to not have Republicans seen as losers.

Pitiable.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:01:07pm

re: #197 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

From a Sabine email.

[Embedded content]

pnas.org

It’s putting more thought into it than nature did.

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EPR-radar  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:01:55pm

re: #199 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Georgian republican. Need you say more?

Fixed that for you. Republicans are either sociopaths or idiots led by sociopaths, with the most rapidly rising faction in the party being sociopaths that have come to believe their own lies, thereby transforming themselves into idiots.

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EPR-radar  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:03:02pm

re: #203 Belafon

It’s putting more thought into it than nature did.

Nature had billions of years to work with, and any hallucination inconsistent with reality would rapidly die out.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:05:42pm

First, that is just such a Trump thing to say. Second, it’s a lie. I know, what a surprise. And Trump has told this lie before in the past, so it’s been fact checked. Trump vacillates between being first in his class or top of his class with honors. Well, he didn’t do that either. Both records from the University of Pennsylvania and Trump’s classmates dispute these claims.

In 1968, The Daily Pennsylvanian published a list of the 56 students who were on the Wharton Dean’s List that year — Trump’s name is not among them.

“I recognize virtually all the names on that list, ” 1968 Wharton graduate Stephen Foxman said, “and Trump just wasn’t one of them.”

1968 Wharton graduate Jon Hillsberg added that there was no indication on the 1968 Commencement Program that Trump graduated with any honors whatsoever. A copy of the program acquired from the Penn Archives lists 20 Wharton award and prize recipients, 15 cum laude recipients, four magna cum laude recipients and two summa cum laude recipients for the Class of 1968. Trump’s name isn’t anywhere on those lists.

“If he had done well, his name would have shown up,” Foxman said.

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CleverToad  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:07:09pm

re: #150 PhillyPretzel ✅

I have a question for the room: Should I throw away all of my PPA clothing or just save a blouse and pants as a memento?

Yowtch! {{Philly}}
Do you have a union for this job?
When hubby started working (for a fairly short time) for the Post Office, the local union kept a pass-along bin for donated pieces of official clothing & accessories, free for new hires. Does your job have something similar?

All the best wishes for the next steps in this involuntary journey. Fingers crossed for you.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:08:07pm

Debbie Harry & Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:11:04pm

re: #207 CleverToad

There is a union but they do not do anything for my local. That is one of many reasons why I have lawyers and being 61 years old I am thinking of retirement.

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piratedan  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:11:10pm

re: #148 Eclectic Cyborg

Just like everyone else, we simply don’t know, is there a limit to the number of times the GOP needs to self immolate before someone can rally them? Who will win, the “normies” or the “radicals”? I do believe that there is a small group of GOP members that are possibly reaching max frustration with their own party, who might throw in the towel and help elect Jeffries as speaker, but we’re talking a very small number, like the rough equivalent of the size the prevented McCarthy for so long. They know that doing so would be political suicide (among them the most outspoken is Representative Bacon of Neb.), so they would be doing so as a means of allowing the GOP to essentially shoot their careers as hostages in order to get the country moving again.

Not entirely sure that those folks have reached that breaking point yet.

I would not be shocked to see Jordan fail multiple times again and even attempts to renominate McCarthy and Scalise. I would not be shocked to see Stefanik make an attempt or a few others might put themselves forward as some sort of “compromise”.

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BeachDem  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:12:02pm

re: #188 Belafon

He’s a Republican, but I haven’t been paying enough attention to know if he’s been supporting Jordan.

Yep, he is—both rounds.

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jaunte  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:13:13pm

Mudhoney - Who’ll Be The Next In Line (The Kinks cover)

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:18:13pm

Mastodon

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nines09  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:23:45pm

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:27:14pm

re: #214 nines09

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The peacock really outdid everyone else.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:30:54pm

re: #204 EPR-radar

Good point.

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Semper Fi  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:34:29pm

MSNBC just summed up Jordan’s congressional career in one sentence:
His 16 yrs in congress has been spent blocking legislation and pushing his party to the right.
I gotta big smile out of that.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:39:17pm
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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:39:39pm

Cannabis news, from Forbes. I don’t know why this person put a cover on it.

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:41:42pm

re: #218 Backwoods Sleuth

Rutherford is correct. They must compromise in order to get on with the business of running the government.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:42:00pm

I wonder if this latest failure to destroy the US government will earn Gym Jordan a polonium cocktail.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:42:41pm
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retired cynic  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:43:30pm

The 2023 Photomicrography Competition Winners Will Make You Appreciate Earth’s Minute Details
Now in its 49th year, here are the top 20 photographs from this year’s Nikon photomicrography competition.
digg.com

Each one more astounding the the previous one.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:45:28pm

re: #219 wrenchwench

Cannabis news, from Forbes. I don’t know why this person put a cover on it.

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I had seen people claim that it kept it out of their lungs when they were sick. They may have been right.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:47:16pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:47:31pm

re: #224 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I had seen people claim that it kept it out of their lungs when they were sick. They may have been right.

Or it helped with mental health.

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KGxvi  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:47:59pm

so, there was a massive motorcade in LA this morning… saw it on the 405 South between Long Beach and El Segundo. But can’t find any indication of what/who it was for.

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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:49:25pm

re: #224 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I had seen people claim that it kept it out of their lungs when they were sick. They may have been right.

I’m semi-blocked from the article (I can’t copypasta), but the second to last paragraph talks about local research supportive of that.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:49:57pm
Most Europeans have a unique idea about what Americans look like in each US state, and artificial intelligence has brought these views to life in lifelike images.

Midjourney, a system that creates images based on users’ text prompts, created an image for each of the 50 states based on how those across the Atlantic perceive them.

According to AI, Europeans think Alabamians typically have missing teeth, all Utahans are Mormons and Virginians are stuck in the Victorian era. And everyone is white.

dailymail.co.uk

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:51:05pm

re: #226 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Or it helped with mental health.

It’s essential to mine.

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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:51:10pm

re: #226 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Or it helped with mental health.

And. Always ‘and.’

The line between mental health and physical health is imaginary.

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jaunte  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:52:52pm

Neo nazi Bluesky account to block and report.

bsky.app

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:55:52pm

re: #94 Decatur Deb

Winners get pizza. Second place gets steak knives.

Et tu, Little Caesar’s ?

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cat-tikvah  Oct 18, 2023 • 3:56:53pm

re: #184 PhillyPretzel ✅

There was a student and faculty walkout last week supporting Gaza and condemning Israel so could be.
My frickin alma mater.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:05:17pm
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TarHellion  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:05:27pm

re: #225 Backwoods Sleuth

That’s no moon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:06:48pm

re: #235 Backwoods Sleuth

Joe is correct. As Sen Cory Booker said Hamas are like Nazis/ISIS.

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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:07:41pm

Mastodon

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:08:47pm

re: #229 Shropshire Slasher

dailymail.co.uk

They think all of us in Pennsylvania are fat and eating chocolate. Ok, I like chocolate. But my weight isn’t over by much (doc would like me to lose about 10 lbs).

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:14:00pm
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Captain Ron  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:15:17pm
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darthstar  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:16:12pm

Putin makes a death threat to President Biden.

Mastodon

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:17:38pm

There are Alabamians who look like that. It’s not because they are from Alabama, it’s because they’re on meth.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:18:05pm

re: #242 darthstar

Joe is sharp enough to catch the meaning.

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steve_davis  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:19:17pm

re: #148 Eclectic Cyborg

This is going to end up like McCarthy, isn’t it? Whoever gets the gavel will have to cut so many deals they’ll be weak as hell and we’ll be right back here six months from now.

nah. the only deal hakeem jeffries will be cutting is to evenly split committees and to ensure bills that actually have bipartisan support make it to the floor for votes.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:19:19pm

re: #244 PhillyPretzel ✅

Joe is sharp enough to catch the meaning.

He should invite Putin to visit the top of the Washington monument, for the view.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:20:28pm

re: #246 Decatur Deb

lol. I do not think Vlad would go.

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KGxvi  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:21:36pm

I am shocked to learn that the latest wingnut creature has turned against them:

an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll released Tuesday offered an early prediction: Biden would beat Trump by 7 percentage points when Kennedy is factored in.

If the election were held today, Biden would snag 44% of the vote to Trump’s 37%, followed by Kennedy’s 16% with 3% undecided, according to the survey.

Head to head, Biden was leading in the poll - apparently Kennedy draws about 5% from Biden and 10% from Trump. But it’s honestly much more entertaining to see the results of a three person poll. As I said earlier though, I don’t expect RFK Jr to make the ballot all 50 states, the system is stacked against independents and third parties.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:21:56pm

Mastodon

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HRH Stanley Sea  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:23:22pm

re: #223 retired cynic

The 2023 Photomicrography Competition Winners Will Make You Appreciate Earth’s Minute Details
Now in its 49th year, here are the top 20 photographs from this year’s Nikon photomicrography competition.
digg.com

Each one more astounding the the previous one.

Sugar = paper
Caffeine = rocks
Bad

Breast cancer cells = what!!!

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:25:42pm

re: #250 HRH Stanley Sea

Sugar = paper
Caffeine = rocks
Bad

Breast cancer cells = what!!!

Yeah, did you see that heart shaped one.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:30:46pm
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:32:57pm

re: #252 Backwoods Sleuth

That sounds like something DT would hire.

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darthstar  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:35:35pm

re: #252 Backwoods Sleuth

This isn’t the Docs case though is it? - never mind…it’s DC. Stupid of them.

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A Cranky One  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:38:32pm

re: #251 Eventual Carrion

Yeah, did you see that heart shaped one.

Yup,, thought that was curious.

Having said that, my cardiologist once drew a picture of the heart to explain a procedure. It was the standard heart symbol. I looked at him and said, “If you think the heart looks like that we’ve got issues”. Got a great laugh and we’ve been good since.

I should note that when my heart condition was first diagnosed, I was sent to my cardiologist and got a next day appointment. Because I need to know who I’m working with, I investigated him and discovered he was considered one of the best in a wide area.

My first question was, “What the fuck is going on that I got a next day appointment with this guy?”

But with a special pacemaker I’ve been good. Doc is great.

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Captain Ron  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:43:35pm
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wrenchwench  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:46:03pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:47:41pm

re: #251 Eventual Carrion

Yeah, did you see that heart shaped one.

Slime mold is pretty.

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Captain Ron  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:49:10pm
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TedStriker  Oct 18, 2023 • 4:56:46pm

re: #238 wrenchwench

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NTTAWWT…

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Unabogie  Oct 18, 2023 • 5:18:51pm

re: #78 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The only benefit I see is the slight chance of dying in a plane crash.

That’s a terrible thing to say. There might be innocent people on the ground!

Please specify “side of mountain” next time.


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