Free Speech is a fragile thing…
re: #329 PhillyPretzel ✅
Gee. This is the second time in as many weeks that I have had someone come to my door to sell me new windows. No thanks.
I bet you saw right through it
re: #3 Dangerman
lol. I talked to them through my Ring Doorbell.
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Free Speech is a fragile thing…
And with it comes responsibilities, like every other right.*
* Except the 2a which as we know is consequence free
(from previous thread)
This is because of the embedded tweets. They don’t load right away, and when they finish loading they make the page longer, so if you’re at the bottom before they finish, you’ll end up somewhere above where you were.
But I have a feeling this won’t be an issue much longer because it’s just a matter of time until Musk kills embedded tweets.
Same thing happens on pages where the damn embedded videos just keep following you around; they make the page jump around like a frog on a dynamite pond.
I finally learned how to get rid of the damn Temu ads; it took going into settings for blocking adult content and adding temu.com to the list of blocked sites. I’m leaning towards reinstating NoScript as an extension, even if it does become a real PITA when trying to view multimedia content.
Oregon Supreme Court to decide if state GOP legislators who were absent 10 or more times to deny the legislature a quorum can run for reelection despite a voter approved constitutional amendment that says they can’t. They are claiming the amendment doesn’t mean what it says.
re: #7 No Malarkey!
Oregon Supreme Court to decide if state GOP legislators who were absent 10 or more times to deny the legislature a quorum can run for reelection despite a voter approved constitutional amendment that says they can’t. They are claiming the amendment doesn’t mean what it says.
Huh, I voted for that amendment and explicitly remember the “no” pamphlet describing the intent in detail.
re: #3 Dangerman
I bet you saw right through it
Worse is the roofing guys. They’ll offer you a “free inspection” and then once they’re up on the roof and you’re no longer watching them, they start damaging the gutters, prying up the shingles, etc.
They’ll come down and put concerned looks on their faces, telling you that while the roof is OK for now, you should probably replace the whole damn thing because it’ll leak sooner or later.
A few weeks/months later, the damage they did cascades, there’s a failure and water gets in. So who you gonna call then? Why, the nice forward-thinking guys who told you to replace the roof, and you (blaming yourself) didn’t take them up on it at the time …
re: #8 Unabogie
Huh, I voted for that amendment and explicitly remember the “no” pamphlet describing the intent in detail.
The interpretation they are asking the Court to adopt is obviously nonsense; here’s hoping the Justices use some common sense in ruling against them.
My MacBook Air is in the middle of an update.
Trump posting unhinged rants because he is losing bigly in the NY civil trial.
Trump continues his afternoon of very unhinged rants about Judge Engoron in the NY business fraud case. pic.twitter.com/Z4XNLTzjt2
— Ken Cox (@kencoxca on threads.net) 🇨🇦 (@KenCox) October 26, 2023
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
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Clearly a Liberal Democrat.
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The “Zuby music” account is a well known black rapper on the right wing grift- circuit. His schtick includes bashing trans and gays in general. Of course he also has appeared on Joe Rogan.
Lewiston is yet another community torn apart by senseless gun violence.
As we mourn for those killed and pray for the many injured, let us also be clear: It does not have to be this way.
Congress can and must pass reasonable gun safety laws to save lives. Read my statement: pic.twitter.com/QLnlWXTz5a— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) October 26, 2023
re: #16 Backwoods Sleuth
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Every SCOTUS member should be forced to walk the crime scene then be forced to attend every single funeral of the victims of their judgment. Let them see firsthand what their “well-regulated militia” has done.
re: #16 Backwoods Sleuth
Kamala is absolutely right.
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
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Clearly a Liberal Democrat.
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A lot of Elon Musk, Babylon Bee, Catturd, Dinesh D’Douza, Dan “the angry baseball” McLaughlin, Jordan Peterson, and Fucker Carlson in his visits.
BREAKING: Police say they have found the body of 49-year-old Pedro Argote — ending a week-long hunt for the man suspected of gunning down Maryland Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson in his driveway last Thursday. https://t.co/xt5yQOdK1W
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) October 26, 2023
re: #17 Florida Panhandler
Every SCOTUS member should be forced to walk the crime scene then be forced to attend every single funeral of the victims of their judgment. Let them see firsthand what their “well-regulated militia” has done.
Slappy T and his treasonous wife can’t be bothered with such trivialities. They have more important things to do.
re: #6 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
If you wait a few seconds before clicking the “Jump to bottom” button, so the tweets have time to load, your position won’t jump around.
re: #17 Florida Panhandler
Fuck that. I simply want the corrupt three and Roberts to die in Guantanamo Bay cells of old age.
re: #7 No Malarkey!
Oregon Supreme Court to decide if state GOP legislators who were absent 10 or more times to deny the legislature a quorum can run for reelection despite a voter approved constitutional amendment that says they can’t. They are claiming the amendment doesn’t mean what it says.
Which states were the ones purging voters from the rolls for non-participation and not informing them of such?
re: #17 Florida Panhandler
Every SCOTUS member should be forced to walk the crime scene then be forced to attend every single funeral of the victims of their judgment. Let them see firsthand what their “well-regulated militia” has done.
Thomas: But can I get a loan for an RV from you?
re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which states were the ones purging voters from the rolls for non-participation and not informing them of such?
Ohio…
re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Philly does that. I am not sure of the time but after a period of 2-3 years of inactivity that person is removed from the voter rolls.
Don’t fucking tell me about the heroic efforts to save the lives of the last mass shooting.
Tell me what the fuck Congress and legislators around the country are doing to prevent the next one.
Because thoughts and prayers are never the answer to mass shootings, unless you want mass shootings to continue.
You know what makes mass shootings inevitable? GOP/NRA fuckers blocking sensible gun regulation and banning assault rifles. Mass shootings accelerated as an event after the assault weapons ban was allowed to expire. That’s why we see all these mass shootings.
The ease with which someone can buy a gun that has no business being on the streets and then use it to commit mass carnage is why it’s the weapon of choice for domestic terrorists and mass shooters alike. They know how easy it is to obtain and that
GOP and NRA are blocking all efforts to rein in the sale of these weapons.
GOPers don’t mind the carnage and the violence, even as they’re the ones claiming that they abhor crime rates.
Know what would reduce crime rates? Gun regulations that make it harder to get guns. It would save lives, save health care costs, reduce all the ancillary costs to society, and yet the GOP does nothing except offer up empty platitudes and tots and pears.
Fuck the GOP. They offer the nation nothing but a nihilistic worldview that ends in calamity.
re: #28 PhillyPretzel ✅
Philly does that. I am not sure of the time but after a period of 2-3 years of inactivity that person is removed from the voter rolls.
without notice?
re: #23 William Lewis
Fuck that. I simply want the corrupt three and Roberts to die in Guantanamo Bay cells of old age.
not me, I want them to be struck by lightning. Preferably in public, with hundreds of witnesses, on a day when it isn’t even raining.
re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I honestly do not know because I vote in every election. I think there is a notice asking the person to re-register.
Many women use abortion as a form of birth control, you know, in certain segments of society, and it’s just shocking and sad, but this is where we are. When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it’s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.”— Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), in a 2015 interview.
Sounds like a great argument *for* gun control
Man claims he can solve the mystery of who was D.B. Cooper, who, of course, was actually Loki.
In Seven States, Removing Voters from the Rolls Just Got Easier
In April 2021, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) signed a bipartisan voting bill into law that made several key reforms to Kentucky elections, like early voting, drop boxes and voting centers. But the bill also included some provisions that could risk voter purges — the law requires registrations to be deleted within five days of receiving a notice that they registered in a new jurisdiction like another state. The law doesn’t require voters be notified in case the information is wrong or there are mistakes, leaving voters with no recourse to prevent their registrations from being wrongly canceled.
re: #29 lawhawk
But the Tiny Penis Club will never allow any infringement of their right to compensate for their inferior masculinity!
I early voted today for local school board at the local library. Extremely straightforward.
I fear low turnout off year election is going to result in some way less than desirable folk making it onto the board. Then it’ll be 6 months to tear down a good school system and twenty or more years to recover.
re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In Seven States, Removing Voters from the Rolls Just Got Easier
In April 2021, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) signed a bipartisan voting bill into law that made several key reforms to Kentucky elections, like early voting, drop boxes and voting centers. But the bill also included some provisions that could risk voter purges — the law requires registrations to be deleted within five days of receiving a notice that they registered in a new jurisdiction like another state. The law doesn’t require voters be notified in case the information is wrong or there are mistakes, leaving voters with no recourse to prevent their registrations from being wrongly canceled.
To be fair to Andy, if he had vetoed the law, the GOP supermajority in the state legislature would’ve overridden his veto, and it would’ve become law anyway.
re: #29 lawhawk
Apparently, there’s a police BOLO out on Card in Massachusetts. Then again, there’s tons of rural areas in Maine where he could try to go to ground.
Time to call it a day - got work tomorrow. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
If you wait a few seconds before clicking the “Jump to bottom” button, so the tweets have time to load, your position won’t jump around.
But I’m in a hurry
Don’t you know who I am??
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re: #33 Dangerman
When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it’s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.”
— Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), in a 2015 interview.
There are lots of factors leading to the breakup of nuclear families. MJ just assumes the reasons are all the fault of liberal ideology. Because he would ban no-fault divorce and force women to stay with their neglectful or even abusive spouses.
re: #32 PhillyPretzel ✅
I honestly do not know because I vote in every election. I think there is a notice asking the person to re-register.
Different rules in different places: Alabama is supposed to purge the rolls after a few years of inactivity, but only after a prescribed sequence of notification (postcards to last address, etc.). They have not been keeping up, which does no real harm, but opens the BS accusations of “dead voters”.
re: #29 lawhawk
Don’t fucking tell me about the heroic efforts to save the lives of the last mass shooting.
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Tell me what the fuck Congress and legislators around the country are doing to prevent the next one.
Because thoughts and prayers are never the answer to mass shootings, unless you want mass shootings to continue.
You know what makes mass shootings inevitable? GOP/NRA fuckers blocking sensible gun regulation and banning assault rifles. Mass shootings accelerated as an event after the assault weapons ban was allowed to expire. That’s why we see all these mass shootings.
The ease with which someone can buy a gun that has no business being on the streets and then use it to commit mass carnage is why it’s the weapon of choice for domestic terrorists and mass shooters alike. They know how easy it is to obtain and that
GOP and NRA are blocking all efforts to rein in the sale of these weapons.GOPers don’t mind the carnage and the violence, even as they’re the ones claiming that they abhor crime rates.
Know what would reduce crime rates? Gun regulations that make it harder to get guns. It would save lives, save health care costs, reduce all the ancillary costs to society, and yet the GOP does nothing except offer up empty platitudes and tots and pears.
Fuck the GOP. They offer the nation nothing but a nihilistic worldview that ends in calamity.
Sue the parents and everyone else who “knew”
I know.. Never
re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There are lots of factors leading to the breakup of nuclear families. MJ just assumes the reasons are all the fault of liberal ideology. Because he would ban no-fault divorce and force women to stay with their neglectful or even abusive spouses.
They never address like what if a spouse died?
Nuclear family is just as broken up
re: #47 Backwoods Sleuth
Now that Mike Johnson has gained the spotlight, I don’t expect his “pleasant” smiling mask to remain his public face for long.
re: #46 Dangerman
Know what stresses a nuclear family? The fact that wages don’t keep up with costs of living. Minimum wage and wages overall stagnated for all but the ownership caste, and ownership wages/compensation grew exponentially while everyone else saw slow/no growth.
That forced more 2-parent wage earners into the job market, required child care, and all the added costs. Crime and gun violence thanks to leaded gas (and the scientists who thought that leaded gas and leaded everything was a good idea in the first place). Reduce the lead exposures, and you reduce crime. More guns = more violence and broken homes. Influx of guns into poor communities and communities of color. Racist policing and discrimination that continues to this day.
Yeah, it’s abortion and lack of good Christian families. Fuck him and the Christofascist horse he rode in upon.
Love that judge. Lol. Let me reconsider………. ehh’ NOPE, I was right the first time! Lol
— Pissd Florida Girl Mom Resist DeSantis (@RePurposeRelics) October 26, 2023
Never heard of this happening before!
Sam Bankman-Fried @SBF_FTX just took the witness stand in Manhattan court. In an unusual move, the judge sent the jury home and allowed SBF to testify before him alone, deciding to rule later on what the jury will hear or not.
We have @CBerthelsen1 in the courtroom now.…— Dawn Kopecki (@Dawn_Kopecki) October 26, 2023
Weird cryptic node error of the day:
RangeError: WebAssembly.instantiate(): Out of memory: Cannot allocate Wasm memory for new instance at lazyllhttp
(The server has plenty of free memory.)
Senate moves swiftly in response to veteran with a mental disability slaughtering 18 people*
The Senate adopted an amendment yesterday making it easier for veterans with mental disabilities to buy guns. Sen. Angus King of Maine voted in favor. Chris Murphy said it will allow “actively suicidal,” veterans to buy deadly weapons.
https://t.co/JW4wnw17Ik— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) October 26, 2023
*actually happened yesterday, but still WTF are they making it easier for the mentally ill to get guns?
re: #51 No Malarkey!
It’s very uncommon, but it has happened.
Considering Reagan’s track record of allowing 90,000 queer people to die of AIDS I’d say this is accurate
In other news, No Labels is an op.
re: #55 Thanos
One of their fanatical “warriors for Christ” is now second in the line of succession to the presidency.
No Labels is not a “centrist” group. It’s a right wing astroturf operation.
re: #60 Charles Johnson
No Labels is not a “centrist” group. It’s a right wing astroturf operation.
Modern day media is easily confused
re: #52 Charles Johnson
Weird cryptic node error of the day:
RangeError: WebAssembly.instantiate(): Out of memory: Cannot allocate Wasm memory for new instance at lazyllhttp
(The server has plenty of free memory.)
Are you using WASM inside NodeJS? Mind sharing what you’re trying to do with it?
this is batshit pic.twitter.com/iRvPLahhm8
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 26, 2023
“Maggot Hagerman”…O_o
re: #60 Charles Johnson
No Labels is not a “centrist” group. It’s a right wing astroturf operation.
100%!
re: #64 Backwoods Sleuth
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“Maggot Hagerman”…O_o
Oh my Trump has turned on his #1 Stenographer!
re: #60 Charles Johnson
No Labels is not a “centrist” group.
They’ve convinced everyone from the New York Times, NPR, C-Span and Politico to extend that lie.
re: #56 lawhawk
It’s very uncommon, but it has happened.
I can’t think it will make a very good impression of SBF on the jury that they don’t get to hear his testimony live.
re: #63 Unabogie
Are you using WASM inside NodeJS? Mind sharing what you’re trying to do with it?
I’m not! I think the new built-in fetch() function is throwing that error.
re: #64 Backwoods Sleuth
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“Maggot Hagerman”…O_o
I cannot believe this maniac has a good shot of winning. Like, a really good shot.
re: #64 Backwoods Sleuth
What on earth is he talking about? What witness? What appeal?
re: #60 Charles Johnson
No Labels is not a “centrist” group. It’s a right wing astroturf operation.
LIEberman is associated with that group. That’s enough of a red blinking light to stay away from them!
re: #71 Charles Johnson
I’m not! I think the new built-in fetch() function is throwing that error.
Huh! Which version of Node are you on? 21.0.0? So far I’ve found a few glitches when trying to update to that.
re: #73 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What on earth is he talking about? What witness? What appeal?
the witness is Michael Cohen
re: #75 Unabogie
Huh! Which version of Node are you on? 21.0.0? So far I’ve found a few glitches when trying to update to that.
This is 20.9.0. I ended up going back to the node-fetch module - no problem there.
re: #76 Backwoods Sleuth
the witness is Michael Cohen
And I suspect the appeal is him mixing up his trials, because Judge Chutkan’s gag order was temporarily enjoined while the ruling was appealed, but AFAIK, Judge Engoron’s was not.
re: #72 Unabogie
I cannot believe this maniac has a good shot of winning. Like, a really good shot.
Only with a shitton - and I mean a megashitton - of shenanigans. The republican party is about maybe 40% of the voting public
He doesn’t have support of all republicans.
re: #64 Backwoods Sleuth
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“Maggot Hagerman”…O_o
“Thank you, sir, may I have another?” - Maggie Haberman
re: #73 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s pretending he won the case because Michael Cohen didn’t testify that Trump told him to put a specific dollar number valuation on a property. He thinks that gets him off scot-free.
re: #76 Backwoods Sleuth
the witness is Michael Cohen
Right. But what did Cohen say that’s even remotely like what trump tweeted?
re: #82 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Right. But what did Cohen say that’s even remotely like what trump tweeted?
Cohen did admit he lied to Congress
re: #79 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Only with a shitton - and I mean a megashitton - of shenanigans. The republican party is about maybe 40% of the voting public
He doesn’t have support of all republicans.
Shenanigans are available. He got elected once. Shenanigans were deployed successfully. The only reason I’m not sure he can’t get elected, is that I was sure last time.
re: #77 Charles Johnson
This is 20.9.0. I ended up going back to the node-fetch module - no problem there.
That works!
I’m a big fan of Axios, just for the ergonomics (for non-nerds, I’m not referring the news site).
ON NEW HOUSE SPEAKER MAGA MIKE JOHNSON pic.twitter.com/sFgF5CPv5l
— Trae Crowder (@traecrowder) October 26, 2023
Breaking: The United Auto Workers union and Ford have agreed in principle to the terms of a tentative agreement that could signal the end to the nearly six-week strike with the Big Three automaker, sources confirmed to CNBC.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 26, 2023
re: #85 wrenchwench
Shenanigans are available. He got elected once. Shenanigans were deployed successfully. The only reason I’m not sure he can’t get elected, is that I was sure last time.
I completely get that. But trump killed off a million or so of his voters and turned off a bunch of those who remain. He didn’t have the batshit crazy track record then that he does now, he was an unknown politically and people could and did assign whatever they wanted his views to be to be his views.
I just don’t think now is then. Just my two cents.
re: #85 wrenchwench
Shenanigans are available. He got elected once. Shenanigans were deployed successfully. The only reason I’m not sure he can’t get elected, is that I was sure last time.
Realclearpolitics poll average has Trump slightly ahead, 44.8-44.1, but IMHO, I believe that is close to Trump’s ceiling and Biden’s floor for support, especially if Trump goes into the election as a convicted felon.
re: #57 jaunte
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Reagan supported gun control, and amnesty for the undocumented with a path to citizenship. Reagan was vehemently anti-Soviet. Reagan sold arms to Iran, and had the Taliban in the Oval for a photo op.
Are there really truly any Reagan Republicans anymore?
re: #91 No Malarkey!
Realclearpolitics poll average has Trump slightly ahead, 44.8-44.1, but IMHO, I believe that is close to Trump’s ceiling and Biden’s floor for support, especially if Trump goes into the election as a convicted felon.
This is what I’m saying. We can unskew these polls if we’re so inclined but I’m comparing to 2020, in which Biden was ahead by 4-10 points in most polls. It’s crazy that Trump is ahead and not at all reassuring.
re: #91 No Malarkey!
Realclearpolitics poll average has Trump slightly ahead, 44.8-44.1, but IMHO, I believe that is close to Trump’s ceiling and Biden’s floor for support, especially if Trump goes into the election as a convicted felon.
RCP averages, especially early in the race, are heavily dosed with Rasmussen.
re: #93 Unabogie
This is what I’m saying. We can unskew these polls if we’re so inclined but I’m comparing to 2020, in which Biden was ahead by 4-10 points in most polls. It’s crazy that Trump is ahead and not at all reassuring.
Well you know, Biden is old and the price of gasoline is high. There are people who would prefer another Democrat to Biden, so they won’t say they support him right now. But a majority of voters loathe Trump, so once Biden and Trump are the official nominees, I expect that the undecided will break heavily in favor of Biden.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
[blockquote]WTF are they making it easier for the mentally ill to get guns?[/blockquote]
NRA $$$$
with lots of Russian money flowing into the NRA to bribe Republicans and gun loving Democrats.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
[blockquote]WTF are they making it easier for the mentally ill to get guns?[/blockquote]
NRA $$$$
I hope Angus King is mortified by his vote for this yesterday.
re: #84 jaunte
That podcast has some interesting detail about Chris Kise (FL) and Alina Habba’s (NJ) miscalculation of the powers of a New York senior law clerk which likely led to Trump’s most recent fine.
re: #21 Joe Bacon ✅
Slappy T and his treasonous wife can’t be bothered with such trivialities. They have more important things to do.
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The rest of the picture makes it even worse.
‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Says Ginni Thomas’s Assistant (Yes, Clarence’s Wife)
And as you scroll down, it just gets worse and worse.
re: #98 No Malarkey!
I hope Angus King is mortified by his vote for this yesterday.
He won’t be. Republicans are incapable of shame.
re: #101 Eclectic Cyborg
He won’t be. Republicans are incapable of shame.
Angus King is an independent who caucuses with Democrats.
re: #100 BeachDem
The rest of the picture makes it even worse.
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‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Says Ginni Thomas’s Assistant (Yes, Clarence’s Wife)
And as you scroll down, it just gets worse and worse.
Jesus, the people are holding power in this country right now are just evil.
re: #102 Interesting Times
Angus King is an independent who caucuses with Democrats.
Didn’t know that. Not sure what he’ll think.
re: #103 Unabogie
Jesus, the people are holding power in this country right now are just evil.
Not far from the historical baseline. The process was not designed for philosopher-saints.
Apparently the Family Foundation thinks that it is “pro-family” to allow violent and mentally ill people, like the Maine shooter yesterday, to possess guns.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) October 26, 2023
re: #107 No Malarkey!
“Until they kill someone, they’re just our members.”
Good thing they have strong gun laws.
cat burglar
pic.twitter.com/8XPopV2rl5— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) October 12, 2023
This cat has very clear logic. I m shocked pic.twitter.com/CDAhccumFE
— place where cat shouldn’t be (@catshouldnt) October 19, 2023
re: #44 Decatur Deb
Different rules in different places: Alabama is supposed to purge the rolls after a few years of inactivity, but only after a prescribed sequence of notification (postcards to last address, etc.). They have not been keeping up, which does no real harm, but opens the BS accusations of “dead voters”.
“Round these parts, we called them ZOMBIE VOTERS (well, Alan—son of Joe-You-Lie Wilson did, and the guv, Nikki, agreed).
“We found out that there were over 900 people who died and then subsequently voted. That number could be even higher than that.”
— Wilson, on Fox News, Jan. 12, 2012
“Without Photo ID, let’s be clear, I don’t want dead people voting in the state of South Carolina.”
— South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), in an interview that aired on Fox News, April 21, 2012
Of course, it was bogus (quelle surprise)
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson can rest easy: there is no rampant “zombie” voting in South Carolina.
re: #99 jaunte
That podcast has some interesting detail about Chris Kise (FL) and Alina Habba’s (NJ) miscalculation of the powers of a New York senior law clerk which likely led to Trump’s most recent fine.
I haven’t listened to the whole thing, but I thought I heard Trump refer to the clerk as the judge’s ‘secretary’. He’s paying for that, I hope.
re: #94 Decatur Deb
RCP averages, especially early in the race, are heavily dosed with Rasmussen.
Also, too, are they still only calling landlines? Because those skew older.
re: #99 jaunte
There’s absolutely no one in Trumpworld that knows local court rules - he can’t find competent lawyers in any of the jurisdictions where he’s facing liability (criminal or civil), because he’s a shit client and no competent lawyers want anything to do with him.
That’s part of Trump’s problem, and he continually pushes motions and actions that are out of line with the court rules or practices.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
[blockquote]WTF are they making it easier for the mentally ill to get guns?[/blockquote]
NRA $$$$
The MAGNA patriots are today’s red dawn.
(no Russian invasion necessary)
re: #110 Captain Ron
That second cat is terrifying. That’s one that would kill you in your sleep.
re: #110 Captain Ron
Both cats are smart. That orange and white cat clearly knows what needs to be done.
re: #116 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That second cat is terrifying. That’s one that would kill you in your sleep.
It has to have been trained to do that.
re: #113 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Also, too, are they still only calling landlines? Because those skew older.
The various RCP source polls have differing techniques, supposedly it all averages out eventually. RCP itself is a center-right shop.
re: #117 PhillyPretzel ✅
Both cats are smart. That orange and white cat clearly knows what needs to be done.
Yeah. Kill you while you sleep. 🤣😂🤣
re: #120 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I do not have any cats in my house. Allergies.
This tech uses a material that emits heat at a frequency that passes through the atmosphere. It stays below ambient temperature, even while in sunlight.
SkyCool Systems’ patented technology turns the sky into a renewable resource for cooling by rejecting heat into the cold universe.
The SkyCool team was the first to demonstrate that the natural phenomenon of radiative cooling can be used during the day, and SkyCool Systems is the first company to employ radiative sky cooling with air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
We’ve developed radiative cooling materials that use the sky as a renewable resource for cooling (Skycool Systems)
Sabine mentioned it in this video.
re: #93 Unabogie
This is what I’m saying. We can unskew these polls if we’re so inclined but I’m comparing to 2020, in which Biden was ahead by 4-10 points in most polls. It’s crazy that Trump is ahead and not at all reassuring.
11% neither and a year out. Pfft.
re: #95 No Malarkey!
Well you know, Biden is old and the price of gasoline is high. There are people who would prefer another Democrat to Biden, so they won’t say they support him right now. But a majority of voters loathe Trump, so once Biden and Trump are the official nominees, I expect that the undecided will break heavily in favor of Biden.
Ta-da
re: #125 Backwoods Sleuth
Oy. McGuire is in a lockdown. ::: eye roll :::
re: #112 wrenchwench
I haven’t listened to the whole thing, but I thought I heard Trump refer to the clerk as the judge’s ‘secretary’. He’s paying for that, I hope.
Part of his schtick is throwing words around to sound smart.
he bluffed his way through 4 years of presidency understanding none of it
He has no idea what he’s talking about
He blusters and bullies his way into making you believe he does
So sometimes he appears smart
He’s Chauncey Gardner with ‘tude
I refuse to accept he’s a savant or some Machiavelli
re: #74 Joe Bacon ✅
LIEberman is associated with that group. That’s enough of a red blinking light to stay away from them!
I’m really sad that Joe Cunningham got swept up in their bullshit.
This is becoming a thing:
5 people found shot to death in North Carolina home: “This is not normal for our community”
cbsnews.com
re: #132 Decatur Deb
This is becoming a thing:
5 people found shot to death in North Carolina home: “This is not normal for our community”
cbsnews.com
It’s the new normal.
re: #125 Backwoods Sleuth
USAF base in New Jersey posts on Facebook about a lockdown due to an active shooter reported.
A Daily Beast article says;
The Maine bulletin also said that, according to authorities, Card “recently reported mental health issues,” which allegedly included “hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco, ME.”
Not his target, but where is he?
Michael Cohen’s testimony got so far under Trump’s skin that he is lashing out at his favorites in the media and using imaginary words.https://t.co/jFLMuHlnC8
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 26, 2023
re: #125 Backwoods Sleuth
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I have a niece (#2) on base. Lockdown just was cleared.
re: #73 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What on earth is he talking about? What witness? What appeal?
The witness he is referring to is Cohen.
The appeal he is referring to is the appeals court said in June that the statute of limitations prevented any charges for anything prior to 2014. Engoron then ruled that evidence from prior to 2014 would be allowed to prove charges that occured after 2014. That’s my best guess anyhow.
Trump spits things out in a stream of conciousness and one sentence does not necessarily have to be connected to the next.
re: #100 BeachDem
The rest of the picture makes it even worse.
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‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Says Ginni Thomas’s Assistant (Yes, Clarence’s Wife)
And as you scroll down, it just gets worse and worse.
Spoken like good gawd-fearing Xtians.
re: #125 Backwoods Sleuth
Grammar question: Define “take” as it’s used in “take cover.”
re: #132 Decatur Deb
This is becoming a thing:
5 people found shot to death in North Carolina home: “This is not normal for our community”
cbsnews.com
Sure it is. Just because you anti-American Scumbags don’t want to admit that…
re: #141 Belafon
Grammar question: Define “take” as it’s used in “take cover.”
It’s what I say to Mrs Cranky when I wake up cold at night. Preceded by DON’T.
As if having a mass shooter on the loose isn’t enough, armed neo nazis from NSC-131 are claiming to be on the ground and engaged in a armed vigilante manhunt in the woods of Lisbon, Maine. pic.twitter.com/N6YcdIXlZG
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) October 26, 2023
re: #139 danarchy
Trump spits things out in a stream of conciousness and one sentence does not necessarily have to be connected to the next.
+1
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re: #144 Backwoods Sleuth
All the world loves a volunteer.
The Quiet One
The disease spreads if you refuse to treat it
marytrump.substack.com
Somehow, I don’t think Mary Trump (the good one) likes MJ. She goes over the history of the man from central casting.
In honour of my clever followers solving a Middelburg mystery for me today, I offer 4 Dutch autochrome enhancements: Jacob Olie jr in the Netherlands 1913, a Fisherwoman & partner in Volendam 1929, Edam 1907, & a Dutch fisherman in 1916. All original colour, not colourised. pic.twitter.com/JIgwNXj2fw
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) October 26, 2023
Confederate monument melted down to create new, more inclusive public art
The massive bronze sculpture of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in uniform, astride his horse Traveler, stood in a downtown Charlottesville park for nearly a century. It was at the center of a deadly white nationalist rally in 2017, when Neo-Nazis and white supremacists tried to stop the city’s plans to remove the statue.
It came down to cheers in July of 2021.
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Lawsuits to stop the project failed, and last weekend organizers moved forward, with great secrecy, to disassemble and melt down the Lee monument.
The work is being done at an out-of-state foundry. NPR agreed not to reveal its location or the identity of the workers because they fear repercussions.
They use a torch to score the head of the statue, in the pattern of a death mask. Lee’s face falls to floor with a loud clank.
more at the link
re: #149 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
BabelColor is one of the few Twitter users I would miss.
re: #150 Backwoods Sleuth
Confederate monument melted down to create new, more inclusive public art
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more at the link
Lee, like every Confederate General and C.S.A. office holder, should’ve been strung up for treason, every plantation should’ve been given to the freedmen and the Union army should’ve occupied the South for as long as it took to secure the rights of all Americans. Instead, the modern Confederates are doing everything SCOTUS will allow to deny Black Americans their rights.
re: #150 Backwoods Sleuth
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace.
The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, was secretly melted down and will become a new piece of public art.
More on the process:… pic.twitter.com/XatZUfvku3— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 26, 2023
I have Wells-Fargo texting me about an account I don’t have. I blocked and deleted.
NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures an Astounding Photo of the Gaseous Pillars of Creation
thisiscolossal.com
The red areas around the new stars can be studied in greater detail. The image is just amazing!
[A] composite recently released from the James Webb Space Telescope uses near-infrared light to highlight the region in even more detail.
This new 122-megapixel photo features a deep-blue expanse studded with light, and the pillars themselves appear less opaque than in the earlier shot. When cropped, the new image shows the Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away. The bright red fiery orbs apparent from this view are new stars, which are formed “when knots with sufficient mass form within the pillars of gas and dust… begin to collapse under their own gravity (and) slowly heat up.”
Ahead of Halloween, it’s time to post this marvellous articulated #Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small silver … 1/2 pic.twitter.com/b4d7TpTKYk
— Nina Willburger (@DrNWillburger) October 26, 2023
..skeleron with moveable joints and poses it in several ways. Reciting a poem, he reminds his guests of their mortality and that life should therefore be enjoyed. This bronze skeleton may have been used in the same manner.
Photo: https://t.co/nB8UCCsFkw
2/2— Nina Willburger (@DrNWillburger) October 26, 2023
re: #144 Backwoods Sleuth
They want to protect one of their own.
re: #149 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
When I was 5 and my sister was 6, my father worked for a time in the Hague. We took a trip one weekend to Volendam. My mother had dressed us up in traditional Dutch clothing to look much like that fisherman and wife portrait. We encountered a lot of American tourists who photographed us as ‘genuine traditional Dutch children.’
I’d love to see those family albums.
I just left the courthouse where Sam Bankman-Fried was still testifying without a jury present, giving rambling, vague answers that didn’t address the prosecutor’s questions. Judge admonished him. Tons of “I can’t recall.” Inability to give simple answers. Seemed bad.
— Jacob Silverman 🤌🪨 (@SilvermanJacob) October 26, 2023
re: #70 No Malarkey!
I can’t think it will make a very good impression of SBF on the jury that they don’t get to hear his testimony live.
That sounds like a judge that wants a preview of that testimony.
re: #160 Backwoods Sleuth
Is he trying to be deliberately obtuse because he thinks it will help him?
North Texas neo-nazis identified:
texasobserver.org
Reading Mike Johnson’s response to the Supreme Court’s ruling against laws that criminalize homosexuality and its important to note he supported the criminalization of *any* sex outside of marriage
re: #165 jaunte
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Since same sex marriage is now legal, it would seem that Johnson’s only objection now should be if the parties are not married to each other. Isn’t that right?
re: #157 Backwoods Sleuth
Had a smaller memento, got a larger one. About the size of a quarter. Sterling and stamped by a coin maker. Good weight and nicely made.
re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter
Since same sex marriage is now legal, it would seem that Johnson’s only objection now should be if the parties are not married to each other. Isn’t that right?
It should be noted that the hard right wing/Incel alliance from Hell also desires young women to be the actual property and control of fathers. The daughters would basically be bought and sold for marriage.
Sex outside of marriage being a criminal act plays into this desire for control ensuring young men get virgins, or so their theory goes. The pathetic losers who I knew that just hung out in their dorm rooms in college before the Internet feeling sorry for themselves are now well organized into a self-propagating circle jerk of misery and hate. The amount of social media and You Tube space allotted to this movement came as a shock to me when I first started looking into it.
Right wing Women grifters and misogynist black men who otherwise would not ally themselves with these racist-adjacent assholes find common ground and blindly lean into helping them them and into their own eventual subjugation once democracy is gone.
re: #168 Florida Panhandler
It should be noted that the hard right wing/Incel alliance from Hell also desires young women to be the actual property and control of fathers. The daughters would basically be bought and sold for marriage.
Sex outside of marriage being a criminal act plays into this desire for control ensuring young men get virgins, or so their theory goes. The pathetic losers who I knew that just hung out in their dorm rooms in college before the Internet feeling sorry for themselves are now well organized into a self-propagating circle jerk of misery and hate. The amount of social media and You Tube space allotted to this movement came as a shock to me when I first started looking into it.
Right wing Women grifters and misogynist black men who otherwise would not ally themselves with these racist-adjacent assholes find common ground and blindly lean into helping them them and into their own eventual subjugation once democracy is gone.
Mike Johnson is in a ‘covenant’ marriage. So no no-fault divorce supposedly?
businessinsider.com
Catching up:
On the Notion of a Trump 2024 Election Win: aGaaaah! I’m trying to imagine staffing the cabinet of a Trump administration, who would be secretary of state who would be secretary of defense or chief of staff, or any of his counsel given the myriad of legal and reputational problems everyone in 45th Presidency had, who were already kind of a bottom of the barrel persons. Damn it’s a truly terrifying notion And given that Trump is who he is, any state that votes for him in majority has to go on my list of Do I really need to go there? Kind of places, no matter how enticing they may be, but I have that luxury of staying here in Southern California right on the edge of red state America
On defining “take”: my guess in the context of take cover is, conduct a rapid analysis of alternatives and act on best one asap
On close up animal views: see photo
re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
Is he trying to be deliberately obtuse because he thinks it will help him?
he probably thinks he’s the smartest person in the courtroom
boy, is he in for a surprise
YouTube is now threatening to shut off videos if you are using an ad blocker. Last week, it was just a caution. Now if you view 3 videos without disabling the ad blocker it will shut down.
re: #175 TarHellion
Yep. Google wants their money it appears.
re: #175 TarHellion
YouTube is now threatening to shut off videos if you are using an ad blocker. Last week, it was just a caution. Now if you view 3 videos without disabling the ad blocker it will shut down.
And if you want to watch a Jewish music video, you have to sit through a Christian missionary ad.