Astounding: Michael Brecker Solo, AVO Session Basel 2001
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We are facing the possibility of a Theocratic takeover led by a serial rapist.
Vote and make sure those votes are counted and certified.
Former President Donald Trump is “a little confused” by several of his former associates accepting plea deals in the Georgia election interference case, according to Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington.
Harrington spoke on The Absolute Truth program on [Mike] Lindell TV Sunday after four of Trump’s associates — bail bondsman Scott Hall and attorneys Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro — pleaded guilty in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ RICO case against the president and 18 co-conspirators.
As part of their plea deals, the four defendants have agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and write a letter of apology to the state of Georgia.
Oh, Bullshit Liz! You’re lying for that liar!!!
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
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Seen in the parking lot of a grocery store just now.
Somebody’s got jokes. 🙄
I would love for one of these chuds to explain how they would feel if they were forced, against their will, upon threat to separate them from their parents or put their family in prison, to undergo the wrong puberty with the promise that they could deal with the fallout once they reach adulthood and the damage was done. If even then?
Trump claims electric cars are no good because you can only drive them for 10 minutes before they need to be charged. pic.twitter.com/M0kcjlnwrl
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 29, 2023
These aren’t just exaggerations and hyperbole.
They’re like symptoms of serious dementia.
Indistinguishable
re: #5 Dangerman
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These aren’t just exaggerations and hyperbole.
They’re like symptoms of serious dementia.Indistinguishable
Here’s another one
Eta: oops I left it out
Trump says gas in CA is $8.15 a gallon. pic.twitter.com/8NOuMDwWMe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 29, 2023
re: #5 Dangerman
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These aren’t just exaggerations and hyperbole.
They’re like symptoms of serious dementia.Indistinguishable
You’re mistaking his sounds for language. They are calls and vocalizations whose only purpose is to induce momentary adulation in a troop of primates.
And they work very well.
re: #8 Decatur Deb
You’re mistaking his sounds for language. They are calls and vocalizations whose only purpose is to induce momentary adulation in a troop of primates.
And they work very well.
Looks like we might get some snow for Halloween.
re: #8 Decatur Deb
You’re mistaking his sounds for language. They are calls and vocalizations whose only purpose is to induce momentary adulation in a troop of primates.
And they work very well.
Meow
re: #5 Dangerman
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These aren’t just exaggerations and hyperbole.
They’re like symptoms of serious dementia.Indistinguishable
It doesn’t matter what Gawd’s Anointed King does on stage. His groupies will still worship him.
Even if he says he is going to fart on stage his groupies will form a line to inhale it.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We are facing the possibility of a Theocratic takeover led by a serial rapist.
Vote and make sure those votes are counted and certified.
Last I checked, you were an expat living in Germany. You’re isolated from the direct danger WE are in.
WE know the dangers of a Trump victory. WE have direct experience from having already lived through four years of a Trump administration 24 hours a day. WE know that if he gets back in, his second term will be worse for us than his first.
When it comes to being an existential danger to the future of democracy, his being a serial rapist is far down on his list of crimes.
Seen on Bluesky: Judge Chutkan denies Trump’s motion to stay the gag order pending appeal, and lifts the temporary hold.
re: #8 Decatur Deb
You’re mistaking his sounds for language. They are calls and vocalizations whose only purpose is to induce momentary adulation in a troop of primates.
And they work very well.
re: #12 Joe Bacon ✅
It doesn’t matter what Gawd’s Anointed King does on stage. His groupies will still worship him.
Even if he says he is going to fart on stage his groupies will form a line to inhale it.
Trump telling his voters to stand by:
“they” will never allow the Democrats to cheat in an election again. Thus, in any election in which a MAGA loses, and clearly in 2024 — Trump will only accept a victory.
If he is defeated, we already know what he does. He sends his army on the attack.https://washingtonpress.com
re: #16 Dangerman
lol. Thanks for making me laugh.
re: #12 Joe Bacon ✅
It doesn’t matter what Gawd’s Anointed King does on stage. His groupies will still worship him.
Even if he says he is going to fart on stage his groupies will form a line to inhale it.
There is precedent.
The Grand Lever of the King
partylike1660.com
re: #5 Dangerman
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These aren’t just exaggerations and hyperbole.
They’re like symptoms of serious dementia.Indistinguishable
No, this is chum for his audience.
They don’t want accurate information, they want to be told that things they don’t like are pathetic and ineffectual, and thus the moral and correct position is to despise those things.
This is the appeal of Trump…he’s a pornographer and fact-checking of the porn will not stop it being consumed as porn. It doesn’t make sense, you can’t pay for pizza with sex, but the appeal doesn’t go away because the alternative is boring and fulfills no deep personal gratification needs. The magical moment in which the exact right Snapple fact hacks the Gibson and makes these people realize they’re wrong and stupid such that they disappear in a puff of shame is never going to happen.
There’s a deep irony at play here, where the appetite is for rendering Trumpism as some kind of atavism…primitive or mad…when it’s the end point of an enormous amount of cultural effort that’s quintessentially American.
His shit sounds reasonable because Americans are hyper-individual, and through stuff like New Thought have absorbed many many versions (secular and sacred) of “I can make something true by asserting it’s truth”…and they’ve done so as citizens well-serviced by their position in the imperial center, so they’ve been raised on a diet of self-importance and being told that the world should bend to their expectation through shit like “American exceptionalism” and also presented a very flattering picture of American history in which all good things emanate from Whigs that don’t cuss.
re: #6 Dangerman
Here’s another one
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Gas in Gorda, CA has been over $8 before. No idea what it is now, but it’s half way along the Big Sur coast, and I would charge a lot of money to haul gas there, not to mention the fact they are the only station for a loooong way in either direction and are not constrained by competition.
That said, gas prices have been declining for 3 weeks or so here in civilization.
re: #22 calochortus
Spot price for oil is $84.57 a barrel.
It’s also just end-stage capitalism brain.
The marketplace of ideas, like the regular marketplace, need not pick the best idea but the most engaging idea, and a real easy way to make your idea engaging is to just festoon your rhetoric with titties and sweets.
re: #10 Eventual Carrion
Looks like we might get some snow for Halloween.
One Halloween when I was living with my grandparents in Ottawa we got a snow/slush storm. Worst Halloween weather I have ever seen. Not many trick-or-treaters that night.
The sad thing is the evening before had perfect October weather. About 62 degrees, partly cloudy skies and almost no wind.
This year for Halloween it’s supposed to be cool (40s), but no precipitation.
re: #20 The Ghost of a Flea
No, this is chum for his audience.
They don’t want accurate information, they want to be told that things they don’t like are pathetic and ineffectual, and thus the moral and correct position is to despise those things.
This is the appeal of Trump…he’s a pornographer and fact-checking of the porn will not stop it being consumed as porn. It doesn’t make sense, you can’t pay for pizza with sex, but the appeal doesn’t go away because the alternative is boring and fulfills no deep personal gratification needs. The magical moment in which the exact right Snapple fact hacks the Gibson and makes these people realize they’re wrong and stupid such that they disappear in a puff of shame is never going to happen.
A good analogy is trying to get people to stop watching Fast and Furious movies because “physics doesn’t work that way.”
Like, they’re not there for the realism. It makes them feel good. That’s Trumpism. It’s escapist joy-riding for bad people.
re: #20 The Ghost of a Flea
Wait… I can’t pay for pizza with sex???
re: #28 Patricia Kayden
Seen recently on Facebook.
If ‘People are the problem’ why are we giving guns to the problem?
re: #29 Decatur Deb
Wait… I can’t pay for pizza with sex???
Depends. Does it have pineapple on it?
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Of course you can pay for pizza with sex! It says right here, “you can use sex for pizza as long as the person is fungible.” Hang on, let me get my reading glasses I may have that last word wrong…
re: #33 Unabogie
Could swear I saw a documentary on that.
re: #34 Decatur Deb
Could swear I saw a documentary on that.
“Documentary” doing a ton of heavy lifting there.
Young. Earth. Creationist.
Christian. Nationalist.
Misogynist.
Queer. Hater.
Eight words that should always never describe a Speaker of the House, third in line from the Presidency.
re: #16 Dangerman
Put that behind a hidden tag for Chthulu’s sake.
Of course I know tfg is full of shit and just talks like a salesman.
The point was if biden said any of that even if clearly a joke or exaggerating you know what would happen
If something terrible happens to both the president and vice president of the US, the next person in the line of succession is a far right religious fanatic who thinks we need to return to those good old 18th century values.
re: #45 Charles Johnson
If something terrible happens to both the president and vice president of the US, the next person in the line of succession is a far right religious fanatic who thinks we need to return to those good old 18th century values.
re: #45 Charles Johnson
If something terrible happens to both the president and vice president of the US, the next person in the line of succession is a far right religious fanatic who thinks we need to return to those good old 18th century values.
Two bullets. US civilians buy 6-8 billion rounds per year.
“…As religion scholar Paul Thomas observes in his new book, “Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and the Museum of the Bible,” the world created by the designers of the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter satisfies the evangelical longing “for a time and place governed by biblical principles, even if that idealized time and place … never really existed.”
theconversation.com
“…AiG requires all Ark Encounter employees to affirm a 46-point faith statement. They must agree, for example, that “gender and biological sex are equivalent and cannot be separated,” modern understandings of “social justice” are “anti-biblical,” and all humans “are sinners” and “are therefore subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.”
This emphasis on the overwhelming wrath of God is perhaps the most noteworthy feature of Ark Encounter as a tourist site.”
theconversation.com
My brother is also named Mike Johnson so this punkass speaker of the house shit really pisses me off.
re: #50 jaunte
“It’s a Large Hell, After All.”
re: #51 Charles Johnson
My brother is also named Mike Johnson so this punkass speaker of the house shit really pisses me off.
I’m going to hazard a guess that your brother isn’t a frothing wingnut piece of shit, although now the two of you have something in common - people with the same name who are (literal or figurative) floor-shitters.
re: #53 Nerdy Fish
I’m going to hazard a guess that your brother isn’t a frothing wingnut piece of shit, although now the two of you have something in common - people with the same name who are (literal or figurative) floor-shitters.
The Louisiana Johnsons are an especially bad branch on the family tree. Nobody likes them.
re: #51 Charles Johnson
Both Matt Gaetz and I were born on 7 May 1982.
re: #20 The Ghost of a Flea
No, this is chum for his audience.
They don’t want accurate information, they want to be told that things they don’t like are pathetic and ineffectual, and thus the moral and correct position is to despise those things.
This is the appeal of Trump…he’s a pornographer and fact-checking of the porn will not stop it being consumed as porn. It doesn’t make sense, you can’t pay for pizza with sex, but the appeal doesn’t go away because the alternative is boring and fulfills no deep personal gratification needs. The magical moment in which the exact right Snapple fact hacks the Gibson and makes these people realize they’re wrong and stupid such that they disappear in a puff of shame is never going to happen.
Trump is a cult leader so it does not matter at all whether he makes sense to anyone but the cult. In fact, they probably care more about the pace and tone of his words than the words themselves (It is likely why they play “Born in the USA” so much. You can tell when he is being asked to just stick to the teleprompter. His words and cadence are just dead.
But when he goes of script, he livens up. So he will break the gag order and he will try to fore them to put him in jail. Because speaking like that is how he keeps his people under his power.
Is Mike Johnson unable to afford a good barber?
re: #57 teleskiguy
Anyone want a Bluesky invite?
I am skeptical that Bluesky is going to make it. I offered 4 codes to the site for scientists and only one was taken. Many are still hanging on to Twitter because (broken record am I) they don’t want to manage multiple platforms and they are waiting to see who the final survivor is. It’s annoying but that is where we are.
re: #39 austin_blue
Young. Earth. Creationist.
Christian. Nationalist.
Misogynist.
Queer. Hater.
Eight words that should always never describe a Speaker of the House, third in line from the Presidency.
It is odd that they built the system where someone who gets less than 140k votes (2020) could be president of the entire United States.
that 140k was just 60% of the vote.
The total population of the district was 761k
140/761 is barely 18% of one district in the entire country
re: #43 jaunte
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A gag order *is* a limitation to free speech.
A perfectly legal one.
re: #51 Charles Johnson
My brother is also named Mike Johnson so this punkass speaker of the house shit really pisses me off.
Apparently his name is actually James Michael Johnson
Which verse did Jesus use to say that we shouldn’t have waiting period to buy a gun, Mr. ‘The Bible is my worldview’
— alternative sanity (@thevirtualidiot) October 30, 2023
Donald Trump’s spokesperson says he is “confused” about why Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, and Ken Chesebro would plead guilty because they are lawyers and should’ve known there was no case, Rolling Stone reports.Said Liz Harrington: “According to the law, there’s literally nothing to plead guilty to because there’s nothing that was — no laws that were broken. Speaking out against a fraudulent election and telling people to watch hearings and petition their elected officials about fraud that was happening on camera. I mean, it’s just surprising.”
I see why you and tfg would be confused.
No one was indicted or pleaded guilty to any of the things you said.
American hockey player dies after getting slashed by skate blade during game in UK.
🇺🇸American ice hockey player Adam Johnson dies during Elite League Game in UK for Nottingham Panthers - after blade appears to catch his throat#hockey #eliteleague #AdamJohnson pic.twitter.com/Lk6tNvDRzy
— Attentive Media (@AttentiveCEE) October 29, 2023
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
I am skeptical that Bluesky is going to make it. I offered 4 codes to the site for scientists and only one was taken. Many are still hanging on to Twitter because (broken record am I) they don’t want to manage multiple platforms and they are waiting to see who the final survivor is. It’s annoying but that is where we are.
This is my problem. I do not have enough time to touch everyplace daily. So I have come to rely on LGF to filter the Twitter, Blue Sky and Mastodon for me. Saves me time.
re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg
Is Mike Johnson unable to afford a good barber?
Being a slob is part of the Republican brand.
My poor Mom… Good thing I’m close by, her only son…
re: #71 teleskiguy
My poor Mom… Good thing I’m close by, her only son…
You got this, buddy. You can do it.
re: #72 Nerdy Fish
You got this, buddy. You can do it.
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re: #75 teleskiguy
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I think my concern is the mix of a power drill, an alarmingly large kitchen knife, and booze.
Making a slight change to creator monetization:
Any posts that are corrected by @CommunityNotes become ineligible for revenue share.
The idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2023
re: #76 Nerdy Fish
I can vouch that Charles is a responsible American. I know this because of his zeal for skiing. Trust me on this.
Looking at the bright side of things… Dodged a bit of a bullet today.
re: #80 JC1
Looking at the bright side of things… Dodged a bit of a bullet today.
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OH DEAR GOD. You are a lucky individual.
re: #80 JC1
Looking at the bright side of things… Dodged a bit of a bullet today.
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Oh my… that looks like something from r/JustRolledIntoTheShop…
Eartha got out somehow…she’s an inside cat. Loses her shit when she’s outside. I found her on the deck but she got spooked before she recognized me and is now somewhere in the yard hiding. Going to sit outside and see if she comes to our voice…or she’ll have to wait until morning…We’ll leave the doors open for her of course.
re: #68 silverdolphin
This is my problem. I do not have enough time to touch everyplace daily. So I have come to rely on LGF to filter the Twitter, Blue Sky and Mastodon for me. Saves me time.
Are there really no apps or programs that would cross post to multiple social networks?
Maybe I’ll write one. I have some free time coming up in December.
re: #80 JC1
Looking at the bright side of things… Dodged a bit of a bullet today.
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That is serious. Good rule, investigate all thumping.
re: #85 Semper Fi
That is serious. Good rule, investigate all thumping.
Rule #1: If it didn’t make a noise yesterday, and it is today, pull it over and figure it out.
re: #85 Semper Fi
That is serious. Good rule, investigate all thumping.
Yep. Pulled over, put on the donut, and decided to bail on the party and just go home.
re: #87 JC1
Yep. Pulled over, put on the donut, and decided to bail on the party and just go home.
I bet that’s fun in NYC.
re: #88 teleskiguy
I bet that’s fun in NYC.
Haven’t updated my profile in a while. We haven’t lived in NYC for close to a decade. Currently spending some time in Western Mass, in the Berkshires. Quiet, sleepy town. Very different from midtown.
re: #90 JC1
AH! Okay! Yeah, man! That’s a different place! fo sho
Back from Boston. I am tired. But I had a good time. It was just good to be away from Arizona for a few days. My mother is still with us (currently in respite care, coming home tomorrow morning). I have to go work in the morning, so I’m going to lay down on my bed and try to make friends with my cats, who are all “who are you??” right now.
re: #90 JC1
Haven’t updated my profile in a while. We haven’t lived in NYC for close to a decade. Currently spending some time in Western Mass, in the Berkshires. Quiet, sleepy town. Very different from midtown.
Which one?
We used to spend a good deal of time at our country palazzo house up thataway.
Imagine spending the majority of your life in jail for Trump.
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) October 27, 2023
re: #83 darthstar
Eartha got out somehow…she’s an inside cat. Loses her shit when she’s outside. I found her on the deck but she got spooked before she recognized me and is now somewhere in the yard hiding. Going to sit outside and see if she comes to our voice…or she’ll have to wait until morning…We’ll leave the doors open for her of course.
She’s back…she was hiding under the deck and we sat outside begging her to come home and she did.
Oh Eartha’s back and there’s gonna be trouble
hey-ya, hey-ya, ole Eartha’s back!
re: #92 mmmirele
Back from Boston. I am tired. But I had a good time. It was just good to be away from Arizona for a few days. My mother is still with us (currently in respite care, coming home tomorrow morning). I have to go work in the morning, so I’m going to lay down on my bed and try to make friends with my cats, who are all “who are you??” right now.
“Mom went OUT!”
//
re: #98 darthstar
She’s back…she was hiding under the deck and we sat outside begging her to come home and she did.
Oh Eartha’s back and there’s gonna be trouble
hey-ya, hey-ya, ole Eartha’s back!
A good friend who is down to 2 cats, but in recent years usually had at least 3, became very cautious about opening doors when she discovered that one of her cats would seize the opportunity to head outdoors. Too dangerous out there in suburban Chicago, even on quiet streets, where a car can appear at any moment.
re: #84 JC1
Are there really no apps or programs that would cross post to multiple social networks?
Maybe I’ll write one. I have some free time coming up in December.
Wordpress used to be able to post to multiple ones at once (Facebook, Twitter, LinnkedIn) but with the changes in API over the years, it is much more limited.
re: #96 Captain Ron
With luck, we won’t have to see that face in the news any more.
re: #103 teleskiguy
When you’re the only ski area with a spinning chairlift in an entire state (Colorado).
Pic taken today.
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Is that where you’ll be tomorrow?
For the record, the country he’s talking about, was Canada.
America’s most loyal ally & friend, its number one trading partner, its NORAD partner & NorthWest passage guardian.
The country which it shares one of the longest & most peaceful borders on the planet.
YES, CANADA.— Phoenix_Ranger_ProdigalSon (@Phoenix_Ranger2) October 29, 2023
re: #89 teleskiguy
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If you have a Billy Batts in your trunk, you have many more and much worse problems…
You think someone would have learned a lesson from the leaked tape incident involving three morons on the Los Angeles City Council.
Here’s a fool who didn’t learn the lesson…someone I had a VERY DISTASTEFUL ENCOUNTER with when he moved to expel me from Los Angeles DSA.
LA Councilman’s Aide Resigns After Holocaust Jokes About Amy Schumer
Josh Androsky, a former comedian (emphasis on FORMER), thought it would be fun to share puns about concentration camps.
An adviser for a Los Angeles City Council member is out of a job after making Holocaust jokes about Amy Schumer on social media.
“The social media posts made by my staffer earlier today were disturbing and reprehensible,” Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez wrote in a statement after Josh Androsky’s vile tweets began to circulate.
“With antisemitism on the rise in recent years and especially in recent weeks, cracking jokes about the Holocaust isn’t just disgusting, it’s dangerous.
“These antisemitic and misogynistic posts sickened me, and I have accepted his resignation effective immediately.”
I will not post the garbage he put on Shitter.
Androsky is a former comedian and writer and is Jewish. Soto-Martínez is a former labor organizer who was elected last year to the LA City Council, which was rocked this year by a leaked-tape scandal that revealed several members making racist comments.
re: #104 wrenchwench
Is that where you’ll be tomorrow?
Yes! It’s a weekday so it’ll be less people. I leave about 8 AM.
And What a Post It Is Ron. Its Full of Earth 2 fantasy and paranoia, a full 3d universe of petty grievance and adolescent maturity! ..Hez on a one way ride on the dementia train to the nearest retirement home and care center.
— Michael Lerch (@mungonna8) October 30, 2023
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re: #5 Dangerman
Trump claims electric cars are no good because you can only drive them for 10 minutes before they need to be charged.
that’s all the time you need to drive to the store to buy flypaper…
re: #13 A Three Hour Tour
Last I checked, you were an expat living in Germany. You’re isolated from the direct danger WE are in.
Still a US citizen, still have family in the US and I still vote.
re: #21 The Ghost of a Flea
There’s a deep irony at play here, where the appetite is for rendering Trumpism as some kind of atavism…primitive or mad…when it’s the end point of an enormous amount of cultural effort that’s quintessentially American.
His shit sounds reasonable because Americans are hyper-individual
and we are taught that it is an expression of personal freedom that indivuals with limited incomes and resources should negotiate with multi-billion-dollar international corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services because anything else is socialism.
re: #56 silverdolphin
But when he goes of script, he livens up. So he will break the gag order and he will try to fore them to put him in jail. Because speaking like that is how he keeps his people under his power.
That is the problem he has with a partial gag order: he has no control over what he says once he starts talking.
re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is the problem he has with a partial gag order: he has no control over what he says once he starts talking.
It’s a joke but also true: he has the right to remain silent but not the ability. He will not stop, and the judge will have to either surrender to this or lock him up.
re: #118 ericblair
It’s a joke but also true: he has the right to remain silent but not the ability. He will not stop, and the judge will have to either surrender to this or lock him up.
and when they do (I see it as an inevitability) he will paint himself as a victim of government repression and his cult will buy it
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
very true and I suspect that the judges have been very circumspect with the idea that any of their actions will undergo a great deal of scrutiny from “higher courts” that may be looking to overturn on the slightest pretense (which would be the kind of political and media coup that the GOP and Trump seeks).
Do I wish that so much latitude was being offered, no… understand it though. Myself, either the court’s order has weight or it does not, so I would prefer her to simply enforce those rules and let them bitch since they’ve been violated so blatantly, media outrage be damned.
Further proof of an inability to self-edit any thought that pops into his head before it leaks out his pie hole, a recent DJT quote:
“People are leaving now and they’re all endorsing me,” Trump said to the crowd. “I don’t know about Mike Pence. He should endorse me. You know why? Because I had a great, successful presidency and he was the vice president.”
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Everybody on the planet worries about America and what it chooses to do when its President wakes up in the morning. No-one gives a shit who’s in charge of Somalia.
re: #122 Nojay UK
Everybody on the planet worries about America and what it chooses to do when its President wakes up in the morning. No-one gives a shit who’s in charge of Somalia.
Unless the US has decided that it is in their interest to replace said leader…
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
deepest condolences and smypathy.
re: #124 mmmirele
I’m sorry for the loss of someone you cared for, literally.
I still remember the four o’clock in the morning call from the local hospital to tell me my father had just passed away. They go in the night and they stay with you forever.
re: #126 Nojay UK
I’m sorry for the loss of someone you cared for, literally.
I still remember the four o’clock in the morning call from the local hospital to tell me my father had just passed away. They go in the night and they stay with you forever.
Yes, I lost my mom just over 20 years ago in spring of 2003.
re: #126 Nojay UK
I’m sorry for the loss of someone you cared for, literally.
I still remember the four o’clock in the morning call from the local hospital to tell me my father had just passed away. They go in the night and they stay with you forever.
Mine was 5 am. It’s always like this, it seems.
re: #124 mmmirele
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
So sorry for your loss.
And yes, phone calls very late at night are usually bad news.
Condolences.
Head of Dagestan Sergei Melikov says last night’s pogrom at Makhachkala airport was incited by traitors and Banderites in Ukraine. https://t.co/QzzxN6csXN
— XSovietNews 🇺🇦 (@XSovietNews) October 30, 2023
They’re just phoning it in at this point. Also, calling their own radicalized nutbags a bunch of traitors and Nazi stooges might have a few adverse consequences of its own.
The Russian media will continue to call Ukrainians Nazis, not only because of the usual rubber/glue lying bullshit. To a lot of Russians, Nazis are Nazis because they attacked Russia, not because they tried to genocide Jews.
re: #124 mmmirele
{{{{mmmielw}}}} May the light be gentle on you all.
re: #64 Captain Ron
How can you be against background checks before you can purchase guns? What the actual hell?!!! So we should give guns to everyone without checking their background? Really?
Unbelievable that this is an actual position held by a whole political party.
re: #124 mmmirele
So sorry for your loss. May she rest in peace.
re: #124 mmmirele
You have my condolenses. I got woken up very early in the morning when my father passed in 2001.
re: #124 mmmirele
My deepest sympathy for your loss.
re: #124 mmmirele
Sorry for your loss. May her memory be a blessing.
re: #129 Jay C
So sorry for your loss.
And yes, phone calls very late at night are usually bad news.
Condolences.
Oh, yeah. My phone popped up a voicemail in the middle of the night, tonight from my Dad’s cell phone O_O but in that case it was the phone company just finally giving me notice of a message from this morning when he made his usual Sunday morning call.
Got teh Birbie
Killers of the Flower Moon was excellent. Probably DeNiro’s best work in years. The pacing is slow, though I never felt bored. It’s a story that needed to be told.
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re: #124 mmmirele
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
I’m sorry for your loss. Let us know if there’s anything we can do to be of assistance to you and your brother.
re: #138 TarHellion
Got teh Birbie
Killers of the Flower Moon was excellent. Probably DeNiro’s best work in years. The pacing is slow, though I never felt bored. It’s a story that needed to be told.
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Saw also that the was set in a time period of our history where unscrupulous men would be doing the sort of evil things in a somewhat banal way while spouting all the usual “American” justifications for it. Along with the realization that our culture is still that way and that a sizable minority of it yearns to return to more openly acting that way.
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re: #124 mmmirele
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
[[[Deana]]] I’m so sorry 😢
Actually heard a pronoun joke that was funny.
A donkey’s pronouns are he and haw.
re: #124 mmmirele
I think I live close to you, so sending Mesa thoughts your way.
re: #148 Dangerman
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Well, well, well. https://t.co/91qrEZwnPb
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 30, 2023
Our new jeezoid speaker pal was never really vetted, or actually noticed, by anybody before elected to one of the most powerful offices in the country. Now you never know what you’re gonna find turning over some nice new rocks. Well, you might have a few ideas.
re: #124 mmmirele
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
Hugs and Condolences M….
Let the feels have their way. You’re entitled to them. Folks who care are always here.
re: #124 mmmirele
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
So sorry to hear, you are in my thoughts.
re: #154 Shropshire Slasher
Effing rain…
It’s cold raining and in the 30’s this morning in CenTex. We ‘ll take all we can get. Lake Travis is up about 5ft so far.
re: #158 Dave In Austin
That where you fish?
re: #149 IngisKahn
I think I live close to you, so sending Mesa thoughts your way.
Thank you, it’s appreciated.
re: #161 mmmirele
Thank you, it’s appreciated.
It can be tough, so lean on anyone that offers help/listening. My mother passed on Aug. 3rd of this year. Take care.
re: #160 Dave In Austin
Amazing what can be done with recycled drapes.
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The wrong name was the difference between good luck and being lost at sea. Changing the name of a ship has historically been considered bad luck.#SpeakerMikeJohnson #MagaMike #TrumpIsALaughingStock pic.twitter.com/gbQCxM659t
— Tarquin 🇺🇦 (@Tarquin_Helmet) October 30, 2023
Happy Monday everyone. It promises to be an entertaining week in legal land for Senor FaFo…gag order back in place, his spokesshill Lizzy going on TV saying he’s confused by his co-defendants taking deals and pleading guilty to felonies that didn’t happen, and this week he gets to watch his three eldest spawn jockey for who will get the biggest part of his estate once he gets sent to prison.
re: #160 Dave In Austin
Amazing what can be done with recycled drapes.
“I saw it in the window and couldn’t resist!”
The video from this is supposed to be horrifying, I’m not going to watch because I need to keep my BP down.
Hundreds storm airport in Russia in antisemitic riot over arrival of plane from Israel
re: #166 ericblair
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One of the funniest bits from that show.
Marlon just flew in.
He sees water movement and a fin and thinks breakfast.
Then he sees a two foot koi and has a sad.
But he’s keeping up appearances looking tough
re: #164 Dave In Austin
One thing that confused me…where did Noah keep all the fish?
re: #124 mmmirele
So sorry to hear of your mother’s passing.
May her memory be a blessing.
Sending a long distance hug!
re: #169 Dangerman
Marlon just flew in.
He sees water movement and a fin and thinks breakfast.
Then he sees a two foot koi and has a sad.
But he’s keeping up appearances looking tough
re: #103 teleskiguy
When you’re the only ski area with a spinning chairlift in an entire state (Colorado).
Pic taken today.
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Yesterday we decided on roast beef hash (what you do with leftover prime rib since it would not have kept another day,) so today it’s Chile time & decorating for Halloween in the PM.
Roast beef hash:
Rasher of bacon cut into small chunks
onions
garlic
potatoes
Chunk it up, fry it all up together, crisping the potatoes at finish with higher heat.
***not heart healthy, you’ve been warned.
re: #124 mmmirele
{{{mmmirele}}}
re: #130 ericblair
Head of Dagestan Sergei Melikov says last night’s pogrom at Makhachkala airport was incited by traitors and Banderites in Ukraine.
Because they are all Zionist Nazis.
re: #132 Patricia Kayden
How can you be against background checks before you can purchase guns? What the actual hell?!!! So we should give guns to everyone without checking their background? Really?
Unbelievable that this is an actual position held by a whole political party.
Because they can potentially be used to keep guns out of the hands of political opponents.
Remember argument during the Cold War back when the NRA was against gun registration at all on the grounds that if the Communists took over, they could used the registration rolls to round up weapons?
re: #140 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Saw also that the [film] was set in a time period of our history where unscrupulous men would be doing the sort of evil things in a somewhat banal way while spouting all the usual “American” justifications for it.
And any attempt to come to terms with it objectively is branded as “woke” and stricken from school curricula.
re: #152 ericblair
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As was pointed out, one of the main reasons he was chosen is that he was so low profile that he had not (yet) offended anyone in the party
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because they are all Zionist Nazis.
Russia officials in the “incompetent or criminal” decision tree since they have to either admit they are losing control of their people/nuts or that they are complicit with said nuts rioting and trying to hold a pogrom - though it appears they failed to find anyone to lynch.
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was picked for the same reason GOP base went with Trump. They didn’t care. They saw exactly what they wanted - someone who said he’d do what they want to wreck govt.
re: #124 mmmirele
{{{mmmirele and brother}}}
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As was pointed out, one of the main reasons he was chosen is that he was so low profile that he had not (yet) offended anyone in the party
Da Putin.
What is happening over the past few hours is not being reflected in this media.
There is a growing number of prominent personalities, many from the security & intelligence communities, calling Netanyahu not only unfit and unworthy, but mentally incompetent.
He will not resign. https://t.co/vxmxB3kxFX— Daniel Seidemann (@DanielSeidemann) October 30, 2023
The parallels with Trumpism and Bibi and Putin’s fingerprints all over events in hotspots around the world cannot be dismissed. Putin’s an expert at misinformation and soft power to get what he wants because he knows his military and technology lags behind the US and the West. So, he plans for infiltrating foreign political parties and investing in candidates that will advance his goals.
re: #191 Florida Panhandler
Expecting a NYT pitchbot:
Trump Growing even more Senile.
Why this is bad for Biden.
“If a Stable Genius like Trump is having problems, imagine it must be for an already Senile Old Geezer like Boden.”
The op-ed writes itself.
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
in the basement
Sure, everyone knows that the ark’s ballast was actually two fish tanks, one saltwater, one freshwater…
re: #192 Thanos
It is too early to speculate if this is ethnically racially or religiously motivated, so I will, just based on the names.
re: #194 Thanos
Sure, everyone knows that the ark’s ballast was actually two fish tanks, one saltwater, one freshwater…
and one for amphibians.
I’m off to get ingredients for chile, see you all in a bit.
Did Jesus poop?
— InfiDale ⚡️ (@InfiDale3476) October 30, 2023
re: #171 darthstar
One thing that confused me…where did Noah keep all the fish?
In a multistorey carp-ark?
re: #197 Thanos
I’m off to get ingredients for chile, see you all in a bit.
Making your own country are ya?
;-)
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re: #171 darthstar
One thing that confused me…where did Noah keep all the fish?
it’s a very proper question. salt content would be near zero if the waters rose that high. or the alternative is that god miraculously kept the salt content high, killing all the fresh water fish in the process.
re: #124 mmmirele
I am very sorry, send you some good vibes from PHX.
…and how many gophers would a gopher wood would if a gopher wood would gopher wood?
re: #202 wrenchwench
That’s the NM spelling.
;-)
mmmmm memories of REAL New Mexico Hatch Chili Burgers!
re: #204 steve_davis
it’s a very proper question. salt content would be near zero if the waters rose that high. or the alternative is that god miraculously kept the salt content high, killing all the fresh water fish in the process.
The plants! The plants! Where was their ark? The seaweed survives…
re: #204 steve_davis
it’s a very proper question. salt content would be near zero if the waters rose that high. or the alternative is that god miraculously kept the salt content high, killing all the fresh water fish in the process.
re: #215 darthstar
You know it’s his because it floats on water.
Also my favorite athiest joke from when I was a kid: Why could jesus walk on water?
shit floats.
Looks like today is 300K day.
c.im
Story saying Russia’s at 299,940 losses.
So much for Republicans being stronger on defense…
Plenty more Trump litigation this week, as the NY state civil case resumes, and a trial to bar Trump from the ballot in Colorado pursuant to the Insurrection Clause begins.
re: #219 darthstar
So much for Republicans being stronger on defense…
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re: #220 Dave In Austin
Two important lessons learned from 60’s TV.
1. Never wear a red shirt on an away mission.
2. Don’t marry Ben Cartwright.
re: #223 Swampwitch
Personally, I was looking at the boots and having period piece questions in my head.
Justice Department asks court to jail J6 defendant for violent, racist and anti-semitic texts he sent to law enforcement. Behind the fold due to language.
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re: #222 darthstar
Apparently Trump was talking about not defending Canada if Russia invaded…Tuck Frumper made shit up…again.
Going Deep Y’all……
‘WITHOUT A DOUBT’: @joerogan expresses nostalgia for Trump era, says country was better than under Biden. https://t.co/YGouuz9HZf pic.twitter.com/Tsa4vrYsZH
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 30, 2023
re: #199 Dave In Austin
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re: #227 Dave In Austin
Going Deep Y’all……
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The Young Life ministry that allowed Mike Johnson to “take custody” of a 14-year-old Black boy in the 1990s has a history of failing to protect teenagers from sexual misconduct.
In 2019, Johnson’s 1st timeline of the “adoption” put him at 25 and single. https://t.co/aZTlqZJ67h— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) October 30, 2023
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re: #227 Dave In Austin
Everybody loved Trump. He was like this wheeling, dealing billionaire character that everybody enjoyed.
Maybe everyone around you, you ignorant jackass, but the majority of us were horrified at the crazy shit he did that put us all in danger on a daily basis. Oh, and he’s no billionaire, as his financial worth was built on an empire of lies and fraud.
The Colorado insurrection trial has begun. The case will be decided by a judge, no jury.
… it was a $100 contribution she made to the “Colorado Turnout Project,” i’m not sure how long ago. Wallace says she’d forgotten she ever made it. Thought she gave only to individuals. Says she’s formed no opinion on either whether J6 was an “insurrection” or whether
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re: #229 Belafon
They need Joe Rogan for a positive-Trump news story.
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re: #124 mmmirele
My deepest sympathy to you and your family. {{{{mmmirele}}}}
re: #219 darthstar
So much for Republicans being stronger on defense…
Strong on spending money on military hardware that does not do the job it promised to do
re: #227 Dave In Austin
everybody in the media loved Trump because he gave them a 24/7 reality show packed with tweets, quotes, family scandals, scurrilous revelations and criminal associates quitting or being fired
A female hostage was found on the street in Gaza..
I don’t like thinking about the details.
re: #144 Eventual Carrion
Well, another Perfect Connections
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re: #124 mmmirele
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
Very sorry for your loss. I got the dreaded middle of the night / early morning call for both of my grandmothers.
The young German-Israeli tattoo artist whose body was paraded through the streets of Gaza after being kidnapped by Hamas has been found dead after “sadistic” terrorists “chopped off her head,” Israel’s president revealed Monday.“I am truly sorry to report that we have now received news that Shani Nicole Louk has been confirmed murdered and dead,” President Isaac Herzog told the German newspaper Bild.
“Her skull was found,” he said, with the 23-year-old victim’s family also confirming that the death was confirmed by DNA on parts of her skull.
“This means that these barbaric, sadistic animals simply chopped off her head as they attacked, tortured and killed Israelis.
re: #227 Dave In Austin
Going Deep Y’all……
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What a plot twist!
re: #227 Dave In Austin
Going Deep Y’all……
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re: #226 darthstar
Apparently Trump was talking about not defending Canada if Russia invaded…Tuck Frumper made shit up…again.
thanks, I didn’t realize that it was a clickbait bot — now blocked
re: #232 Nerdy Fish
Maybe everyone around you, you ignorant jackass, but the majority of us were horrified at the crazy shit he did that put us all in danger on a daily basis. Oh, and he’s no billionaire, as his financial worth was built on an empire of lies and fraud.
I am not sure why nominally sane people can’t sniff out these closet wingnuts sooner. For me, it’s not so much what they say, it’s who they don’t draw bright lines with in the name of “free speech.” An example might be Bill Maher. When I found out he dated Ann Coulter, I knew he was a guy with rotten morals. So now his heel turn is unsurprising.
re: #185 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Russia officials in the “incompetent or criminal” decision tree since they have to either admit they are losing control of their people/nuts or that they are complicit with said nuts rioting and trying to hold a pogrom - though it appears they failed to find anyone to lynch.
My vote is for complicit.
re: #124 mmmirele
Condolences on your loss. You’re in my thoughts.
re: #252 Hecuba’s daughter
My vote is for complicit.
I would say complicit in the same way “moderate” Republicans are complicit in MAGA. Which might be what you’re saying.
re: #124 mmmirele
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
(((hugs)))
I’ve lost a parent and it’s so hard. My sincerest condolences in this difficult moment.
re: #256 Thanos
Good. Hopefully it will work.
re: #256 Thanos
Colorado seeking to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in 2024, arguing that his
insurrectionistoverall conduct tied to Jan. 6 disqualifies him from serving in any public office under Section III of the 14th Amendment.
re: #257 PhillyPretzel ✅
Good. Hopefully it will work.
Even it it works in the legal sense, the GOP will never recognize it.
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I realize that. Still it might help.
re: #124 mmmirele
I am so sorry for you and your brother.
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re: #124 mmmirele
My mother died about 01:15 MST. It rolled to my voicemail-who calls in the middle of the night? I finally struggled awake and called back and was given the news. I’m here with her now at the nursing home and waiting for my brother to get here.
{{{{{{{{Deanna}}}}}}}}
Inspired by the brilliant @NotHoodlum’s comment about the court stenographer’s struggle this Wednesday when con junior testifies 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/KDT5N6DT8o
— Tarquin 🇺🇦 (@Tarquin_Helmet) October 30, 2023
re: #260 PhillyPretzel ✅
I realize that. Still it might help.
In a saner world it would be the last straw in the Camel’s back a grounds for the GOP disqualifying DJT as a nominee.
But instead they will double down on their efforts to turn the entire election into a goat rodeo worthy of the Colosseum with the end game of getting the decision kicked on to the House which is the only way they can hope of gaining a majority.
re: #126 Nojay UK
I’m sorry for the loss of someone you cared for, literally.
I still remember the four o’clock in the morning call from the local hospital to tell me my father had just passed away. They go in the night and they stay with you forever.
I was at work when my sister called that my mother was on her death bed. I was not alone, I was sitting at one of those long tables that were set up to replace cubicles, so everybody heard me crying. There was a meeting taking place at one end of the table which had to suspend. Two co-workers hugged me. It was awful. My supervisor told me to go home.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has lowest approval rating of any Arkansas governor over last 20 years
…but it won’t stop her from getting re-elected ‘cause Jesus loves her.
re: #267 A Cranky One
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Anti-semitic, racist insurrectionist who sent threatening texts to agents finds out.
Marshals order courtroom cleared as GossJankowski is physically resisting agents who are trying to cuff him. He makes gutteral screams and fights off agents.
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 30, 2023
Seven to eight agents finally get GossJankowski under control. He’s going straight to DC jail
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 30, 2023
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even it it works in the legal sense, the GOP will never recognize it.
I dunno: it may be an unpopular opinion, but personally, I am of two minds on the whole disqualify-Trump-from-the ballot case. On one hand, I loathe Trump, hope he goes to prison, regard the fact that this dishonest, unfit character was actually elected President to be an unparalleled Historic National Disgrace, and believe that his reelection would upgrade that disgrace to Historic National Disaster.
OTOH, though: I really don’t think these kind of suits are a good precedent to even TRY to set. Bad as Trump may be is, I can easily see some red-state GOPers quickly abusing any such precedent to try to keep Joe Biden/any generic Democrat off the Presidential ballot* for “reasons” far flimsier than any arguments which can be raised against Donald Trump**.
Myself, I think (even mindful of the timeframe issues) any such Disqualification moves ought to wait for a resolution of Trump’s criminal trial(s): if/when convicted - well, yeah, toss his disgusting orange ass off the ballot, into slam, and move right the fuck along….
* or any public office
** as we’ve seen with the current “impeach Biden” bullshit circulating in the House
re: #269 No Malarkey!
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re: #269 No Malarkey!
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well… if he’s huge and strong, jail won’t be as bad for him as it is for many.
re: #269 No Malarkey!
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Go To Jail.
Go Directly To Jail.
Do Not Collect $200.
re: #273 Joe Bacon ✅
Go To Jail.
Go Directly To Jail.
Do Not Collect $200.
I’m making coffee, any preference for drip or french press?
re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, Joe Rogan mistakes ‘everyone” for the mass media that did indeed love him for all the reasons given. The chaos, the mismanagement, the criminal activity, the brain-dead mouth noises and sinister threats to everyone in the country and outside, the coddling of dictators, the enmity towards democracy, ..all of it.
It all added up to a reality show about how the whole planet can come crashing down around a billionaire-only island and “everyone” will applaud as they watch.
re: #270 Jay C
I dunno: it may be an unpopular opinion, but personally, I am of two minds on the whole disqualify-Trump-from-the ballot case. On one hand, I loathe Trump, hope he goes to prison, regard the fact that this dishonest, unfit character was actually elected President to be an unparalleled Historic National Disgrace, and believe that his reelection would upgrade that disgrace to Historic National Disaster.
OTOH, though: I really don’t think these kind of suits are a good precedent to even TRY to set. Bad as Trump
may beis, I can easily see some red-state GOPers quickly abusing any such precedent to try to keep Joe Biden/any generic Democrat off the Presidential ballot* for “reasons” far flimsier than any arguments which can be raised against Donald Trump**.Myself, I think (even mindful of the timeframe issues) any such Disqualification moves ought to wait for a resolution of Trump’s criminal trial(s): if/when convicted - well, yeah, toss his disgusting orange ass off the ballot, into slam, and move right the fuck along….
* or any public office
** as we’ve seen with the current “impeach Biden” bullshit circulating in the House
It would be hard to disqualify a candidate for “insurrection” without there having been an insurrection. Don’t forget, Republicans tried to disqualify President Obama for birther BS, but it didn’t go anywhere, so don’t imagine that if Democrats show restraint in applying the Insurrection Clause now, that would in any way inhibit Republicans from filing batshit lawsuits.
Not so sure this is a bad thing.
Don’t think Dean Philips is gonna be a Bernie bro clone fuckhead.
When Dean losses the primary, expect he will align with Biden’s ticket:
(And maybe Republican expat Schmitz can induce some kickass into Democratic Party campaign tactics)
Kim Scheinberg
@kims@mas.to
Famous Liberal Podcaster: Gosh, Steve Schmidt* turned out to be a nightmare! I really should have listened to the people who warned me about him
People who warned her: We did try…
FLP: I’m sorry. I’ve learned my lesson. I’m going to start listening
PWWH: So you’ll be distancing yourself from Rick Wilson now?
FLP: What!? No! Why would I do that? He’s an ally and my friend
PWWH: -bangs head against wall-
*Steve Schmidt, The Lincoln Project co-founder, is working for Dean Phillips’ (D MN 3rd congressional district) presidential campaign
re: #275 Florida Panhandler
[DJT] added up to a reality show about how the whole planet can come crashing down around a billionaire-only island and “everyone” will applaud as they watch.
why waste money on expensive and troublesome investigative journalism when you can just get an intern to mine the Internet for the latest Tweets and scandal stories?
re: #270 Jay C
……
OTOH, though: I really don’t think these kind of suits are a good precedent to even TRY to set. Bad as Trump
may beis, I can easily see some red-state GOPers quickly abusing any such precedent to try to keep Joe Biden/any generic Democrat off the Presidential ballot* for “reasons” far flimsier than any arguments which can be raised against Donald Trump**.
……
The initial problem was the failure of the GOP cowards in the Senate to convict Trump on his 2nd impeachment. Without that, we would be living in a very different world.
Four pfizers and now my first moderna.
It felt like moderna uses thinner needles //
re: #276 No Malarkey!
It would be hard to disqualify a candidate for “insurrection” without there having been an insurrection. Don’t forget, Republicans tried to disqualify President Obama for birther BS, but it didn’t go anywhere, so don’t imagine that if Democrats show restraint in applying the Insurrection Clause now, that would in any way inhibit Republicans from filing batshit lawsuits.
I know: hence my qualms about bringing Disqualification actions in the absence of actual convictions. Yes, of course Republicans will be filing batshit lawsuits (it’s what they do) - but (IMHO)it’s the reeking batshittery of said suits that has kept them from being successful so far: I just don’t like the idea of having a precedent on the books that might “deodorize” said suits….
re: #281 Dangerman
Four pfizers and now my first moderna.
It felt like moderna uses thinner needles //
Reverse for me: 4 modernas and then a pfizer. But have no recollection of needle size for any of these shots — or any other shots. My gaze is always averted.
re: #280 Vicious Babushka
Favor to ask:
Would you post your list for reliable news sources again for Israel/Palestine/Gaza?
When I see articles, reports on events and such I want to know who the source is.
Thanks so much.
re: #216 Eventual Carrion
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re: #204 steve_davis
it’s a very proper question. salt content would be near zero if the waters rose that high. or the alternative is that god miraculously kept the salt content high, killing all the fresh water fish in the process.
Good time to be a bull shark.
re: #285 cat-tikvah
Favor to ask:
Would you post your list for reliable news sources again for Israel/Palestine/Gaza?
When I see articles, reports on events and such I want to know who the source is.
Thanks so much.
The Atlantic is a good source (the article I just posted), unfortunately it is paywalled.
jpost.com (Jerusalem Post)
timesofisrael.com (Times of Israel)
haaretz.com (Haaretz is a left-leaning Israeli source, but it is paywalled)
jta.org
re: #185 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Russia officials in the “incompetent or criminal” decision tree since they have to either admit they are losing control of their people/nuts or that they are complicit with said nuts rioting and trying to hold a pogrom - though it appears they failed to find anyone to lynch.
It is very doubtful this was somehow staged or allowed by the Russian government. The Kremlin is having crisis meetings now to figure out what to do.
You have to remember that Putin came to power and promised that the 1990s were over. No more Chechen wars, no more economic disasters. The Russian equivalent of Those People overrunning airports and hotels in the Caucasus is a very bad look.
re: #280 Vicious Babushka
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“Hey, cool! A death-ray!!” 🤪
pic.twitter.com/6M5743taRa— InfiDale ⚡️ (@InfiDale3476) October 30, 2023
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My company just sent out an email stating all employees must undergo active shooter training this week.
Yay, America!
🙄
re: #269 No Malarkey!
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re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg
My company just sent out an email stating all employees must undergo active shooter training this week.
Yay, America!
🙄
This is just to protect the company against any lawsuits that might potentially arise from a potential shooting event: they are covering their legal asses, not that they really care about your personal safety
re: #291 A Cranky One
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Pelosi also had the advantage of working with a caucus comprised mostly of sane and rational actors who understood what was being asked and why, as opposed to grandstanding firebrands whose only purpose is to get clicks and… well, I was going to put something crude in here out of deference for Ms. Boebert, but I will refrain for now. Those jokes have all been done to death.
They fell down on the job.
Police were told Maine gunman might ‘snap and commit a mass shooting’ 6 weeks before massacre
Law enforcement officials in Maine had previously been made aware that the perpetrator of the recent mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine last week that killed 18 and wounded 13 was on the verge of a violent outburst, according to a new report.
CNN reported Monday that in September, the national guard sent a letter to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office warning that 40-year-old Army reservist Robert Card could potentially “snap and commit a mass shooting,” according to an unnamed fellow guardsman concerned about Card. County sheriffs tried unsuccessfully to conduct a welfare check at Card’s home on September 16, though Card apparently refused to answer the door or talk to the responding officer.
According to CNN’s unnamed source, the Sagadahoc County sheriff’s deputy who responded generated a File 6 missing person’s report on card, but the case appeared to have been closed on October 1 — roughly three weeks before Card went on two separate shooting sprees at a bowling alley and a local bar and restaurant.
The letter in question detailed how Card was kept at a mental health facility for a 14-day period in July, following an altercation with several fellow guardsmen. While at West Point this summer, Card and several others were on their way to a convenience store to buy beer, when Card accused one of his fellow reservists of calling Card a pedophile.
“One of the soldiers who had been friends with [him] for a long time was there. [He] got in his face, shoved him, and told him to stop calling him a pedophile,” the letter read.
The day after the altercation, one of the guardsmen present with Card took him to a base hospital, where staff deemed Card in need of further treatment, leading to the 14-day stay. After Card’s release, he reportedly had another altercation with another member of the Maine National Guard while they were on their way back from a casino. When Card started making threats in regard to people calling him a pedophile, a friend tried to calm him down, only for Card to allegedly punch him in the face.
“When [his friend] told him to knock it off because he was going to get into trouble talking about shooting up places and people, [he] punched him,” the statement said. “According to [the friend], [he] said he has guns and is going to shoot up the drill center at Saco and other places … [the friend] is concerned that [he] is going to snap and commit a mass shooting,” the letter read.
re: #299 Joe Bacon ✅
They fell down on the job.
Police were told Maine gunman might ‘snap and commit a mass shooting’ 6 weeks before massacre
Our interpretation of the 2nd Amendment makes it very difficult to deny access to guns based on any reason, much less suspicion of murderous tendencies.
re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Our interpretation of the 2nd Amendment makes it very difficult to deny access to guns based on any reason, much less suspicion of murderous tendencies.
Put another way, we don’t really have things set up to try to predict crime in advance and prevent it on a speculative basis. We have to wait for a crime to actually occur, and hope that our responders can stop it in progress.
re: #204 steve_davis
it’s a very proper question. salt content would be near zero if the waters rose that high. or the alternative is that god miraculously kept the salt content high, killing all the fresh water fish in the process.
My mother got very upset at me when I told her that I could prove Noah’s Ark had never happened because of this very reason “but some fish would have to die.” My father told me NEVER to mention religion in front of her again.
re: #302 mmmirele
My mother got very upset at me when I told her that I could prove Noah’s Ark had never happened because of this very reason “but some fish would have to die.” My father told me NEVER to mention religion in front of her again.
If you are dealing with Biblical literalists, then yes, don’t. These people not only reject science and history as they contradict the literal words of the Bible, they have to reject logic as the Bible contradicts even itself in numerous places.
re: #124 mmmirele
Condolences to the family, may her memory be eternal!
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a VERY large brown black and orange striped iguana just scared the shit out of me. 4’ easily
he’s got magnificent spikes on his head
like this
big change from the large green one that used to live here
went for a pic and instead of running he slid into the pond.
im sure there’s three koi right now going, wtf. we didnt have this at home.
now we know whose been messing up our deck
re: #204 steve_davis
it’s a very proper question. salt content would be near zero if the waters rose that high. or the alternative is that god miraculously kept the salt content high, killing all the fresh water fish in the process.
Not to mention Noah could not possibly have had two of every animal since some animals are not native to the Middle East.
And then there are animals who reproduce asexually…
re: #292 Dave In Austin
How different is this from Thanos’ snap? And the snap gave me the *willies* because it played out the same as the Evangelical rapture. I still remember a scene from the end of Infinity War where a helicopter crashes into a building because the pilot had been snapped. Then I asked myself why God would do something like this that would send the planet into utter chaos and no doubt kill people who hadn’t been raptured? For the record, the rapture is a very late Christian doctrine that only came to prominence at the beginning of the 20th century. But damn, it’s not all sweetness and light.
re: #301 Nerdy Fish
Put another way, we don’t really have things set up to try to predict crime in advance and prevent it on a speculative basis. We have to wait for a crime to actually occur, and hope that our responders can stop it in progress.
Bull pucky. Sometimes speculation is all we have - we call it a diagnosis.
When my son was diagnosed with juvenile onset schizophrenia, I didn’t just shrug my shoulders. Rather I sold my all of my semi-automatic firearms. I lost over a thousand dollars that day (I took a huge loss on on my M1 Carbine & a smaller one on m1911 and I am so glad I’d already sold my Mauser C96 at breakeven) because I didn’t want to have anything available he might even POSSIBLY use in that kind of shooting because of a mental health crisis.
There are things that can and must be done then and now.
The evil fucks at the NRA are the ones preventing it. I’m a gun nut, as loud and proud as any still here and I despise the idea that we can’t do much more to prevent these shootings.
That guy in Maine should still be in a hospital. That’s on Ronnie RayGun and is just one of many reasons I actually hope hell is real and that he is in it. His weapons should have been confiscated instantly. That’s on the NRA. Every one of those deaths _should_ be a charge of 1st degree intentional homicide against Wayne but our system doesn’t work that way, alas.
A Federal Red Flag law is a minimum starting point. With a mandatory minimum sentence for any LEO who refuses to carry it out. Say 10 years in Club Fed…
re: #309 William Lewis
A Federal Red Flag law is a minimum starting point. With a mandatory minimum sentence for any LEO who refuses to carry it out. Say 10 years in Club Fed…
+1…especially on holding recalcitrant LEOs to account.
re: #306 Eclectic Cyborg
Not to mention Noah could not possibly have had two of every animal since
somevast majority of animals are not native to the Middle East.
FTFY
Something else just occurred to me: Why would an all-powerful God need 7 days to bring a universe into existence?
Couldn’t he like, just snap his fingers and do it all at once?
Half /
re: #309 William Lewis
Here’s the thing: I won’t disagree that there are things we can do. I agree with red flag laws, background checks, licensing and insurance, being held liable for stolen/misplaced/”borrowed” weapons - all of it. Where I’m disagreeing - and the point that gun-fuckers will make - is that this activity should not be based on whether they will speculatively commit a crime at some point in the future. The argument is that guns enable people who are a danger to themselves or others because of mental illness, causing them to be an even more unpredictable danger. That’s a health and safety thing. Saying, “We’re going to take your guns because we think you might shoot somebody with them” is heading into Minority Report territory. Saying, “We’re going to take your guns because in your mental state, they make you too dangerous” is a subtle but important distinction.
re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg
Something else just occurred to me: Why would an all-powerful God need 7 days to bring a universe into existence?
Couldn’t he like, just snap his fingers and do it all at once?
Half /
He had to create the 7 stones first then he was able to snap his fingers…
< whistles innocently >
re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg
Something else just occurred to me: Why would an all-powerful God need 7 days to bring a universe into existence?
Couldn’t he like, just snap his fingers and do it all at once?
Half /
Well, she was creating billions of other universes at the same time. A girl does have to get some rest, now and again.
re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg
Something else just occurred to me: Why would an all-powerful God need 7 days to bring a universe into existence?
Couldn’t he like, just snap his fingers and do it all at once?
Half /
Naaah: He took seven days because He wanted to create the weekend….
I just had an epiphany. Back in 1984 I was home on leave and a friend wanted to go to Minneapolis to go to the various record stores there (Electric Fetus especially) and so I borrowed my mother’s car. Now my mother had a bit of racer in her - she had a ‘76 Trans Am in gold paint with the big bird on the hood and a 455CI monster engine. That thing was insane. He realized at minutes before 3 that we had to be back to Eau Claire (legally 90 minutes away) for his radio show at 4. I smiled. “Get in”. I came off the on ramp to I-94 at 3 figures and never slowed down. It’s fun being 20 and immortal :LOL: Even more fun when you’re passing on the interstate on the right but never seeing a State Trooper the whole way.
But the thing I was suddenly realizing…
We were going EAST the whole way back to Eau Claire…
re: #314 Nerdy Fish
Saying, “We’re going to take your guns because in your mental state, they make you too dangerous” is a subtle but important distinction.
And I disagree having lived with people who really are too dangerous. And not just my son who was, actually, the best of the bunch - med compliant for example.
That’s Russian roulette with other people’s lives.
Every freedom has limits.
‘Holy cow!’ Boebert scrambles to reassure Christians rattled by ‘Beetlejuice’ blunder
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is reportedly showing unusual humility to her constituents after she got booted out of a performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical and was then shown on security camera footage vaping during the show and publicly groping her date.
The Associated Press reports that these actions have damaged her efforts to cultivate an image of herself as an upstanding Christian woman, and she’s delivering public apologies to constituents when meeting with them during campaign stops.
“”Most of us were like ‘holy cow,’” Boebert supporter Beverly Cuyler tells the Associated Press of seeing video of the congresswoman’s behavior at the musical. “And one of the big reasons for that is a gap between how she presented herself as a Christian and what ended up happening.”
Boebert has implicitly acknowledged the damage that the scandal has done, and the AP reports that she acknowledged recently that “Democrats certainly smell blood in the water” about her congressional seat, which she won last year in an unexpectedly close election by under 600 votes.
Republican Dusty Mars, 44, for one, tells the AP that he’s unsure about supporting Boebert again in the Republican primary and he’s frustrated by the fact that it’s seemingly so hard to hold onto what should be a safe seat for the GOP.
“It should be a lot easier to get a Republican candidate into the district. We shouldn’t be pulling teeth to get votes,” he explained.
Media: Here’s why UAW getting deals with the automakers is bad news for Biden.
BREAKING: GM and UAW reach a tentative deal that is expected to end the autoworkers strike just days after similar pacts were made with Ford and Stellantis. https://t.co/kygzI9aPPp
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 30, 2023
Remember when media and financial types were claiming that the UAW would crater the economy and wreck the automakers? Turns out that the automakers are still going to walk away profitable and workers get more money and benefits.
Weird.
Right?
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, I lost my mom just over 20 years ago in spring of 2003.
30 years next February. I was called by one of my aunt’s at 12 AM but didn’t understand the call, so I found out in the morning.
re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg
Something else just occurred to me: Why would an all-powerful God need 7 days to bring a universe into existence?
Couldn’t he like, just snap his fingers and do it all at once?
Half /
Vastly more powerful than you or I doesn’t mean ALL-powerful. Greek, Roman, Norse and Egyptian gods were super-powerful too, and their limits are well beyond ours, but there are limits.
The main distinguishing characteristic of the Jewish/Christian/Muslim God is s/he’s singular, not part of a pantheon. Must be lonely.
re: #322 lawhawk
Media: Here’s why UAW getting deals with the automakers is bad news for Biden.
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Remember when media and financial types were claiming that the UAW would crater the economy and wreck the automakers? Turns out that the automakers are still going to walk away profitable and workers get more money and benefits.
Weird.
Right?
To me, it looks like having a President walk in your picket line has a 100% success rate as far as ensuring a successful strike. Who wants to be the next to call President Biden over? SAG-AFTRA is still on strike, aren’t they?
re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg
Something else just occurred to me: Why would an all-powerful God need 7 days to bring a universe into existence?
Couldn’t he like, just snap his fingers and do it all at once?
Half /
Six not seven
Makes perfect sense that way and all the difference
Checkmate blasphemer
//
What. The fuck.
🤡 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said that “the key role in the incident at Makhachkala airport was played by the Kyiv regime.” pic.twitter.com/2pLEpc4iND
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) October 30, 2023
re: #124 mmmirele
Ah, crap. Sorry to hear that. Hang in there and condolences.
Beginning to think the Illinois Soybean Association just wants to sell equipment ads and doesn’t really care about my neglectful Alabamian attitude.
re: #327 Teukka
What. The fuck.
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re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg
Something else just occurred to me: Why would an all-powerful God need 7 days to bring a universe into existence?
Couldn’t he like, just snap his fingers and do it all at once?
Half /
It had an outline it was following.
re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg
Something else just occurred to me: Why would an all-powerful God need 7 days to bring a universe into existence?
Couldn’t he like, just snap his fingers and do it all at once?
Half /
Agile development for universes.
re: #322 lawhawk
Media: Here’s why UAW getting deals with the automakers is bad news for Biden.
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Remember when media and financial types were claiming that the UAW would crater the economy and wreck the automakers? Turns out that the automakers are still going to walk away profitable and workers get more money and benefits.
Weird.
Right?
Treating one’s workers as a commodity or the enemy is not the way to have a well-running or happy corporation. You might have profits, but you’re also often sort of on the ragged edge of losing everything.
I think the automakers and a number of other large industries only survive because the capitalization to get into said business is so high. Someone generally buys into the existing set rather than trying to do a true start-up. Some small niche makers nibble around the edges. (IIRC, Tesla in part survives due to selling their carbon credits to the the others and are not solely dependent on their product being profitable.)
re: #305 Dangerman
a VERY large brown black and orange striped iguana just scared the shit out of me. 4’ easily
he’s got magnificent spikes on his head
like this[Embedded content]
big change from the large green one that used to live here
went for a pic and instead of running he slid into the pond.
im sure there’s three koi right now going, wtf. we didnt have this at home.
now we know whose been messing up our deck
Grab it when it’s in torpor during a cold snap
re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg
My company just sent out an email stating all employees must undergo active shooter training this week.
Yay, America!
🙄
You never know when you’ll need to be an active shooter, so the training is important.
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