Surreal, Disturbing Short Horror Film: “Unreel”

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I went looking for a good short horror film at YouTube and watched a bunch without finding anything that really grabbed me, and then I found this enigmatic and surreal short directed by C.I. Smith. I like horror films that don’t spell out all the details of whatever nightmare is unfolding, and this is a prime example.

A young projectionist discovers that the horrors she watches on screen might have invaded reality. Unreel is a short macabre horror film about the death of cinema.

Connect with director C.I. Smith:
Website: citizensmith.net
Vimeo: vimeo.com
Youtube: youtube.com
Instagram: instagram.com

Crew:
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY / C.I. Smith
PRODUCED BY / Simon Alexander
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Cult Modern
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY / Tom Martin
ART DIRECTOR / Sasha Stamp
EDITOR / C.I. Smith
COLOURIST / Brendan Buckingham
WARDROBE / Emily Pond
SOUND DESIGN / Jane Lo
SOUND RECORDIST / Edward Smallwood
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Amy Upton
LINE PRODUCER / Lola Enape
LOCATION MANAGER / Alex Warnham
VFX ARTIST / Jonathan Klahr
VFX ARTIST / Mitchell Kendall Smith
MAKE UP AND SFX / Hannah May Khan
SFX DESIGNER FIEND / Alexander Halsall
SFX ARTIST / Sira Stevenson
PROD. ASSISTANT / Natalya Mykhaylyuk
ART DEPT. ASSISTANT / Giovanni Almonte
GAFFER / Dan Hilltout
ASSISTANT CAMERA / Elliot Wallis
STILLS PHOTOGRAPHER / Connor Diffley

Cast:
LILY / Nicole Joseph
THE DARKENER / Alexander Halsall
MOTHER / Jacqueline Reljic
FATHER / Connor Williams
CHILD / Alice Allen

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249 comments
1
Egregious Philbin  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:41:32pm

Just back from Mexico. This was Friday night just after the sunset on the low tide.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:42:01pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:45:13pm

32% seems awfully low for a group that’s losing their bodily autonomy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:50:34pm

re: #3 jaunte

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32% seems awfully low for a group that’s losing their bodily autonomy.

Were these numbers calculated before or after Roe went down?

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jaunte  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:54:50pm

AEI:

In 2021, 44 percent of young women consider themselves liberal, compared to only one quarter (25 percent) of young men, a nearly 20-point gender gap. A decade earlier, roughly similar numbers of young men (27 percent)
americansurveycenter.org

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Charles Johnson  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:55:30pm

Whole lot of nasty infighting going on all over social media.

Lots of people freaking about the election even though it’s still almost a year away. I’m trying to avoid getting into it, tbh, but I cannot deny that some of the far left takes I’m seeing are irritating af.

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jaunte  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:55:57pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

A Gallup poll from 2009 show 32% of “single, never been married female”
say they are Democrats.
news.gallup.com

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:57:47pm

re: #3 jaunte

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32% seems awfully low for a group that’s losing their bodily autonomy.

I wonder how that number is impacted by the trend for leftists to categorize “liberal” as a weak sauce / centrist right / collaborationist status quo label.

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jaunte  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:58:00pm

I guess it depends on how you slice up ‘not Republican’ .


teenvogue.com
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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:59:17pm

re: #1 Egregious Philbin

Shore matches sky. Beautiful.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 26, 2023 • 4:59:44pm

The same purity ponies who want Joe gone did not learn the lessons from

1968
1980
2000
2016

And now I see THE SAME DSA members going for Jill Stein again…as they did in 2016…

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jaunte  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:00:18pm

Washington Post Editorial Board to liberal women: Close your eyes and MAGA

“…But what takes this article beyond the usual concern trolling about liberals exercising their freedom of association are the sources WPEB relies on to support its main argument (which is buried beneath concern trolling about political polarization): Some women must marry men who hate them. For America.

In addition to the AEI study, there are three links to two articles by members of the Institute for Family Studies and an unlinked reference to the institute’s work. However, the WPEB doesn’t mention the IFS in the piece. More about the organization and its founder in a bit, but you can read about the IFS here if the name isn’t enough of a hint.”
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:06:39pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Whole lot of nasty infighting going on all over social media.

Lots of people freaking about the election even though it’s still almost a year away. I’m trying to avoid getting into it, tbh, but I cannot deny that some of the far left takes I’m seeing are irritating af.

I’ve graduated to being irritated by almost everyone.

To varying degrees, but still.

Like, I totally get where most of the far left arguments originate, and am frustrated af with milquetoast “liberal” policies that concede way too much to conventional wisdom, but their conclusions are so often filled with absolutist self rectitude which invariably terminates in apocalyptic nihilism that I have to pull the ripcord.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:07:56pm

Just more proof that justifies the last page I posted.

You cannot count on the New York Times or Washington Post to defend democracy from Trump. They are essential cogs in the 24/7 GOP Bullshit Machine.

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darthstar  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:08:14pm

From downthread:
re: #111 BigPapa

So, hear me out.Dungeness pizza. White sauce, hint of garlic and butter, Little chorizo.

I’ll post it here when I make it.

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darthstar  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:08:51pm

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:13:19pm

re: #13 goddamnedfrank

I’ve graduated to being irritated by almost everyone.

To varying degrees, but still.

Like, I totally get where most of the far left arguments originate, and am frustrated af with milquetoast “liberal” policies that concede way too much to conventional wisdom, but their conclusions are so often filled with absolutist self rectitude which invariably terminates in apocalyptic nihilism that I have to pull the rip chord.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend just doesn’t fucking work when the second enemy is just a stuck control rod in a nuclear reactor and the first enemy is talking pile of U-235 saying “fuck the control rod let me cook.”

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Belafon  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:14:04pm

re: #3 jaunte

[Embedded content]

32% seems awfully low for a group that’s losing their bodily autonomy.

Don’t confuse “calling themselves liberal” with “votes for Democrats because of issues.”

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jaunte  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:17:57pm

@fawfulfan.bsky.social

There’s a really cool halo effect around the moon over Central Texas tonight.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:18:19pm

Thing is, I’m fairly sure there are bot networks and coordinated campaigns doing everything possible to make the general agita worse. There’s a real blizzard of disinfo going on and it’s only going to get worse, apparently, now that most of the social networks have just stopped pretending to give a fuck about keeping it under control.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:23:12pm

I would love to see Joe Bonamassa do a Tiny Desk concert. He would tear the NPR office up.

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darthstar  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:25:19pm

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Unabogie  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:28:11pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

I would love to see Joe Bonamassa do a Tiny Desk concert. He would tear the NPR office up.

Serious question: how do they make it sound so freaking good in that room? There’s some serious science going on around those acoustics there.

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darthstar  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:29:54pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:32:17pm

re: #24 Unabogie

Serious question: how do they make it sound so freaking good in that room? There’s some serious science going on around those acoustics there.

I think I remember watching a YouTube interview with their sound engineer a while back.

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William Lewis  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:32:57pm

Watched The Doctor Who episode. Cute, fun, the twist was telegraphed a bit too loudly but I still didn’t mind all that much. Hopefully the rest will be at least as good.

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Unabogie  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:34:51pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

I think I remember watching a YouTube interview with their sound engineer a while back.

Sound engineers are the unsung heroes of music.

My best ever gig was when we got the sound engineer from the band Venice to do a show for us at FM Station. It was magical. I think he charged us $75 for the night, which was a king’s ransom at the time. Everything was perfectly blended and even their cheap stage monitors sounded fantastic.

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darthstar  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:34:53pm

I’m with Joe. Fuck Bibi. He wanted this war and sacrificed 1,400 civilians to justify it and everyone knows it.

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Sherlock Hound  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:34:56pm

re: #11 Joe Bacon ✅

The same purity ponies who want Joe gone did not learn the lessons from

1968
1980
2000
2016

And now I see THE SAME DSA members going for Jill Stein again…as they did in 2016…

Massachusetts has an infuriating kind of voter. In 1972, Richard Nixon won in a landslide.

Except in Massachusetts. Voters went for McGovern, unanimously.

Ever since, those same voters got older. And much more smug.

In 2016, these same voters went for Bernie. They were proud to play spoiler. How did I know they voted for McGovern, for Bernie, and against HRC.

They told us.
All over social media.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:35:42pm

re: #25 darthstar

Yes, he used “the only way” to refer to a 2-state solution. Probably pissed Netanyahu off. Things are tense.

tbh I’m glad to see the US government starting to set some boundaries with Netanyahu and his shitty right wing government. The guy needs to go.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:35:47pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Yeah, the far left can be almost as stupid and insane as the far right at times.

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Sherlock Hound  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:38:03pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅

Just more proof that justifies the last page I posted.

You cannot count on the New York Times or Washington Post to defend democracy from Trump. They are essential cogs in the 24/7 GOP Bullshit Machine.

If you’re a large media concern, you’ll be OK with fascism. You’ll adjust. Some of your staff may not, but you will persist as an institution. No matter what your values turn out to be afterwards.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:38:57pm

OT; Since she knows I love writing, my sister-in-law asked me to write the family message for my nephews senior yearbook.

Since I have no kids of my own and adore the nephew in question, I’m very touched she asked me to do this. ❤️

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Jay C  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:40:53pm

re: #25 darthstar

Good. Netanyahu is grimly opposed to a two-state solution, and also opposed to Biden/US Dems.
Hopefully this critique is just the beginning from Dem leaders.

I hope I’m wrong, but I wouldn’t count on it - the Israel Lobby still has a lot of juice, politically; and Bibi and his settler cronies still have a very potent card to play in the PR war: i.e. trying to turn ANY “concession” to the Palestinians (like, frex, characterizing them - as a whole - as anything other than violent subhuman genocidaire vermin) as a sort of “justification” (or at the least, excusal) for the October 7 atrocities. And he has - potentially - the whole power of the American RW media machine to amplify the message. And it ain’t going to be pretty.

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darthstar  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:43:23pm

27 foot waves in the Black Sea apparently doing some lovely reconfiguring of coastside attractions as well as Russian defense barriers, one would assume…

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:43:30pm

re: #27 William Lewis

Watched The Doctor Who episode. Cute, fun, the twist was telegraphed a bit too loudly but I still didn’t mind all that much. Hopefully the rest will be at least as good.

It’s pretty on brand for recent Doctor Who. The message it was meant to send came through loud and clear (perhaps a little heavy-handed). It had plenty of light-hearted comedy, and throwbacks for the people who have been with the series for a while. It was somewhat predictable, but not so much that you could just snooze through the episode.

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darthstar  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:45:18pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

Yes, he used “the only way” to refer to a 2-state solution. Probably pissed Netanyahu off. Things are tense.

tbh I’m glad to see the US government starting to set some boundaries with Netanyahu and his shitty right wing government. The guy needs to go.

The thing that scares me the most is he, like Trump may soon be, is a convicted felon…and he comes back into power? What the fuck kind of democracy allows that? Is it fair to convicted felons to ban them from ever holding high office? Maybe…but they fucked themselves when they got convicted for crimes they committed. So self-inflicted wound, IMO.

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ipsos  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:46:50pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

I think I remember watching a YouTube interview with their sound engineer a while back.

They mic almost everything with shotguns, which are super directional and eliminate a lot of the room echoes you’d get from the typical cardioid SM58s or similar that you’d usually see on stage.

(Good mic selection is so important. One reason Gracie Lawrence sounds as fantastic as she does in the videos like “23” yesterday is that very expensive Sennheiser 441 she’s using. Hand-holding it is an unusual choice, but she makes it work. I wish I had one of those for vocals, but it’s close to four figures!)

And those cluttered bookcases behind the performers are great sound absorbers, too - almost as good as the fancy wooden absorption panels in the “real” studios a few floors down.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 26, 2023 • 5:52:03pm

re: #39 ipsos

And those cluttered bookcases behind the performers are great sound absorbers, too - almost as good as the fancy wooden absorption panels in the “real” studios a few floors down.

Yeah, those undoubtedly help. The shotgun mics capture just what they’re aimed at, without a lot of reflected sound.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:02:48pm

re: #36 darthstar

27 foot waves in the Black Sea apparently doing some lovely reconfiguring of coastside attractions as well as Russian defense barriers, one would assume…

[Embedded content]

And if one has minefields laid make sure the sweepers go out first in case the storm shifted some of them.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:03:49pm

re: #11 Joe Bacon ✅

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:08:20pm

re: #1 Egregious Philbin

Amazing shot.

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teleskiguy  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:10:49pm

Hometown hero Mikaela Shiffrin won her 90th World Cup ski race today in Killington, VT.

Mikaela Shiffrin takes her sixth win in Killington | Audi FIS Alpine World Cup 23-24

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William Lewis  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:10:49pm

re: #37 Nerdy Fish

It’s pretty on brand for recent Doctor Who. The message it was meant to send came through loud and clear (perhaps a little heavy-handed). It had plenty of light-hearted comedy, and throwbacks for the people who have been with the series for a while. It was somewhat predictable, but not so much that you could just snooze through the episode.

Spoilers, so …

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Unabogie  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:12:14pm

Sometimes learning the law really well blinds you to the idea that the law is arbitrary and not actually special. It becomes very difficult to grasp thinking outside the box of legalities instead of bigger questions. In this case, yes, state and local taxes are different than federal taxes. That wasn’t the point. The fact that SCOTUS will outlaw taxes for rich people but not the rest of us is something we really ought to be more upset about.

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:15:19pm

re: #45 William Lewis

Click to Reveal

Right, but that speaks to my point. If you were paying attention to the episode, the conclusion wasn’t a major surprise, but how he got there might have been. But you had to be paying attention to the episode.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:15:31pm

re: #43 Rightwingconspirator

Its an amazing place. My wife and I took a selfie together a minute later, and it was even more intense.

Xmas card pic.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:21:49pm

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:22:39pm

re: #18 goddamnedfrank

The enemy of my enemy is my friend just doesn’t fucking work when the second enemy is just a stuck control rod in a nuclear reactor and the first enemy is talking pile of U-235 saying “fuck the control rod let me cook.”

The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy, it says nothing about your relationship with either other than your goals may be temporarily aligned. Nothing more.

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silverdolphin  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:25:40pm

re: #2 Backwoods Sleuth

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As a biologist, I’d think the best strategy for many men would be to be whatever they could be in order to get laid.men shaved off body hair because women liked it more. If wearing short shorts would get a guy laid, many would wear them. I mean, if saying you were liberal was all it took to get a woman in bed. Only idiots would say “No, I am the type of man you hate. Let’s go to bed.”

Really make one think that testosterone poisoning is real.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:33:52pm

re: #50 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy, it says nothing about your relationship with either other than your goals may be temporarily aligned. Nothing more.

You’re really messing my memories of that time G.I. Joe allied with Cobra Command to kick Headman the drug dealer’s ass.

That was pure, don’t take that away from me.

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wrenchwench  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:35:24pm

re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg

OT; Since she knows I love writing, my sister-in-law asked me to write the family message for my nephews senior yearbook.

Since I have no kids of my own and adore the nephew in question, I’m very touched she asked me to do this. ❤️

I am SO glad these were not a thing when I had a yearbook.

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Belafon  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:38:05pm

re: #53 wrenchwench

I am SO glad these were not a thing when I had a yearbook.

I’m glad those aren’t a thing I had to do for my kids, one of which graduated last May. I’m sure it’s a particular family thing.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:41:04pm

re: #53 wrenchwench

I am SO glad these were not a thing when I had a yearbook.

Not for me either, but I can see how the kids might appreciate the messages once they get older.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:42:19pm

WHAT
THE
F????????

Official lay dying unnoticed in DeSantis’ office for 24 minutes: law enforcement report

Peter Antonacci left a meeting with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Sept. 23, 2022, and several moments later, he was dead mere steps from the room.

No one noticed.

It has been over a year, and the information about the incident is only now being revealed.

Florida Bulldog reported Sunday that the man DeSantis hired to head up his so-called “elections fraud unit” lay dead or dying in the governor’s office before anyone noticed. With security cameras turned to watch, for 24 minutes, Antonacci lay motionless on the ground.

At the time, authorities claimed “he died while at work in the Capitol building, of which the governor’s office is a part,” said the Bulldog.

The information is only coming to light now because the Florida Bulldog filed a public records request about the matter in February after being tipped off that Antonacci died in the governor’s office.

The report by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) continues: “At approximately 1:46 p.m., Mr. Antonacci is observed standing up and walking out of the conference room [redacted]. … “He steadies himself on the left wall. The hall [redacted] when he falls and appears to strike his head on the door on the [redacted] (sic). There appeared to be no foul play in the Room (sic) or hallway. At approximately 2:10:05pm, FDL Comm. [Mark] Glass appears to notice Antonacci down the hallway to his aid (sic).”

The 911 call from a staffer in the governor’s office reported that someone was doing CPR and they were searching for a defibrillator. She thought he had a heart attack.

“By the time a Capitol police officer arrived a minute or two later and hooked the pulseless Antonacci up to an automated external defibrillator (AED), the machine that can administer a life-saving electrical shock to victims of sudden cardiac arrest, assessed Antonacci and advised that ‘no shock’ was needed,” the site explains.

His doctor confirmed that Antonacci had heart disease and other cardiac issues, signing off on the cause of death being related to that condition.

The local news site also observed that the report went into detail about what Antonacci was wearing, but couldn’t identify all 11 people who were in the meeting at the time. FDLE chief of staff Shane Desguin noted that he knew there was an emergency because he heard the “thud” of Antonacci hiding on the floor and then, about 25 minutes later, heard Glass shouting for help. The law enforcement official did not investigate the “thud.”

The Bulldog spoke to a Florida medical examiner who called it unusual not to have an autopsy in such a case.

“I’m wondering why he didn’t go through the medical examiner’s office seeing that he died in the governor’s office. Wouldn’t they want to do that, just to CYA? I mean, gosh, [Gov. Lawton] Chiles died at the executive mansion and he went through the medical examiner’s office,’ the medical examiner told the Bulldog.

floridabulldog.org

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A Cranky One  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:47:03pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Obviously the staff was used to seeing people passed out trying to flee after dumbsantis farted.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:53:16pm

The jokes write themselves.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:54:02pm

re: #58 GlutenFreeJesus

That is a sharp-looking photograph of the VP. Very nice.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:54:53pm

Passengers who sold their homes and paid hundreds of thousands for a three-year cruise around the world have been left ‘with nowhere to go’ after the company behind the trip abruptly cancelled.

Life at Sea Cruises customers had their dream trip stripped away less than two weeks before it was due to set sail after failing to secure funding for a vessel to take them.

The luxury cruise was originally due to leave Istanbul on November 1, before the departure date was changed to November 30 in Amsterdam.

But following weeks of uncertainty, passengers who have forked out up to $360,000 to secure cabins have been told they will not set sail as the company cannot afford to buy the boat promised.

Now furious customers who had already sold off their possessions or shipped them out to the vessel have been told they will only get their money back in monthly installments, CNN reports.

Full story

Took a ton of money from people for a big ass cruise and didn’t even have a ship to carry them on.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 26, 2023 • 6:56:39pm

re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg

I believe that is what they call a “scam,” and I believe the EU will take a dim view of this activity.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:01:13pm

re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg

Passengers who sold their homes and paid hundreds of thousands for a three-year cruise around the world have been left ‘with nowhere to go’ after the company behind the trip abruptly cancelled.

Life at Sea Cruises customers had their dream trip stripped away less than two weeks before it was due to set sail after failing to secure funding for a vessel to take them.

The luxury cruise was originally due to leave Istanbul on November 1, before the departure date was changed to November 30 in Amsterdam.

But following weeks of uncertainty, passengers who have forked out up to $360,000 to secure cabins have been told they will not set sail as the company cannot afford to buy the boat promised.

Now furious customers who had already sold off their possessions or shipped them out to the vessel have been told they will only get their money back in monthly installments, CNN reports.

Full story

Took a ton of money from people for a big ass cruise and didn’t even have a ship to carry them on.

I’m really resisting the impulse for schadenfreude here but in the post 2020 pandemic world I really do have to wonder at the kind of person who thinks going on a cruise at all is a good idea let alone selling everything and centering their entire life around doing so with a company that doesn’t even own a fucking boat.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:02:28pm

re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg

That reminds me of the Windjammer Barefoot Cruises scam that promised people cruises in the Caribbean and then shut down and refused to refund money to over a thousand people.

One of my Coworkers was a victim of that in the oughts.

en.wikipedia.org

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:03:51pm

re: #62 goddamnedfrank

My Mom and Stepdad are due to go for another cruise in early December after they’ve already caught COVID on a cruise and all I can do is shake my head and remember the serenity prayer.

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teleskiguy  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:07:27pm

re: #58 GlutenFreeJesus

I thought these people believed that Joe Biden isn’t even President, Fuckface is running the show through the military, and the Biden we see is a body double.

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darthstar  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:08:45pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:10:37pm

Young men are doing fine. Really.

That WaPo op/ed on how poorly men are doing is based on real misinformation - youngmen are unemplyed at the same rate they have been for a quarter if a century. Same with educational attainment, and illicit drug use.

in fact,, Women have seen a much larger increase in deaths of despair than men. Horrible job by this paper.

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austin_blue  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:12:48pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Whole lot of nasty infighting going on all over social media.

Lots of people freaking about the election even though it’s still almost a year away. I’m trying to avoid getting into it, tbh, but I cannot deny that some of the far left takes I’m seeing are irritating af.

I’m just reminding everyone that there are lots of people that post as the far Left and those that are the far Left.

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EPR-radar  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:20:31pm

re: #67 silverdolphin

Young men are doing fine. Really.

That WaPo op/ed on how poorly men are doing is based on real misinformation - youngmen are unemplyed at the same rate they have been for a quarter if a century. Same with educational attainment, and illicit drug use.

in fact,, Women have seen a much larger increase in deaths of despair than men. Horrible job by this paper.

It’s malice, not incompetence. Fascism thrives when young men see nothing of value in society, and so lying to that effect is a fascist imperative if the truth is less convenient.

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austin_blue  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:22:26pm

re: #24 Unabogie

Serious question: how do they make it sound so freaking good in that room? There’s some serious science going on around those acoustics there.

Magic!

Or professional acoustic engineering. You choose.

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EPR-radar  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:23:33pm

re: #68 austin_blue

I’m just reminding everyone that there are lots of people that post as the far Left and those that are the far Left.

E.g., the last 10 members of the CPUSA are probably 7 FBI agents/provocateurs, 1 clueless nitwit, 1 person that actually understands communism, and 1 doddering ancient that doesn’t know what day of the week it is any more.

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silverdolphin  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:25:20pm

Could a ‘funky’ pathogen be sickening dogs? Scientists search for clues

First mention I had read that it might be a form of Mycoplasma. That is a nasty bug. We would get contaminations in our cell cultures because they are so hardy and hard to kill. A mycoplasma is also responsible for what we call walking pneumonia.

I had that - hard, non-producitve cough - for almost a month. And these are not just coughs but ones that doubled me over. So I feel really sorry for the doggies if that is what they have.

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austin_blue  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:27:25pm

re: #71 EPR-radar

E.g., the last 10 members of the CPUSA are probably 7 FBI agents/provocateurs, 1 clueless nitwit, 1 person that actually understands communism, and 1 doddering ancient that doesn’t know what day of the week it is any more.

Exactly.

Social media is a dumpster fire.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:28:39pm

Well, that little film was disturbing.

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wrenchwench  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:31:05pm

Mastodon

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austin_blue  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:31:05pm

re: #74 Romantic Heretic

Well, that little film was disturbing.

It was designed to be. It was very successful.

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austin_blue  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:36:20pm

re: #75 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

Actual Headline that would be correct:

Climate Change Wildfires have pushed Wolves back into SoCal.

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William Lewis  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:37:01pm

re: #71 EPR-radar

E.g., the last 10 members of the CPUSA are probably 7 FBI agents/provocateurs, 1 clueless nitwit, 1 person that actually understands communism, and 1 doddering ancient that doesn’t know what day of the week it is any more.

There is a certain amount of truth though I did know an actual “Red Diaper Baby” as they were called, when I lived in Madison. She was fairly elderly then and may have passed by now.

Red Diaper Baby

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William Lewis  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:39:06pm

re: #63 Joe Bacon ✅

That reminds me of the Windjammer Barefoot Cruises scam that promised people cruises in the Caribbean and then shut down and refused to refund money to over a thousand people.

One of my Coworkers was a victim of that in the oughts.

en.wikipedia.org

That was less a scam (they’d been running for 60 years) and more bad biz practices catching up with them. The one kind of cruise that could have tempted me.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:39:41pm

re: #50 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy, it says nothing about your relationship with either other than your goals may be temporarily aligned. Nothing more.

See: US and Soviet Union in WWII.

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austin_blue  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:41:55pm

re: #80 Romantic Heretic

See: US and Soviet Union in WWII.

See: Bibi and Hamas in 2006.

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Cheechako  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:42:33pm

The preliminary numbers are coming in. My little hometown, (Juneau, AK) had
1.65 MILLION cruise ship visitors this past summer. Listening to the fire department/EMS scanner, two or three passengers would be taken to our hospital as Covid+ each day. Covid is still alive and catch-able.

Still wear our masks whenever we go out.

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austin_blue  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:45:54pm

re: #82 Cheechako

The preliminary numbers are coming in. My little hometown, (Juneau, AK) had
1.65 MILLION cruise ship visitors this past summer. Listening to the fire department/EMS scanner, two or three passengers would be taken to our hospital as Covid+ each day. Covid is still alive and catch-able.

Still wear our masks whenever we go out.

Us, too, in any crowded building.

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teleskiguy  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:48:55pm

Dad. 40 years ago. At his Teachers job in Bloomfield, NM (Bloomfield High School, a public school that had a large Navajo population). Shared on FB.

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teleskiguy  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:51:55pm

re: #84 teleskiguy

I’m friends with a few of Dad’s students on FB who are of Navajo descent and they loved him. Dad once told me that he wanted to stay but he also wanted his kids to have good lives. He chose the latter. First time I ever went skiing I was 5 or 6 at Beaver Creek in Colorado, Dad had a job as a school teacher 25 miles to the west.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 26, 2023 • 7:52:23pm

So someone tried to turn Disneyland’s “It’s A Small World” into “It’s A Streaker’s World”!

Man arrested after stripping naked, disrupting iconic Disneyland ride

ktla.com

Disneyland guests on “It’s a Small World” got an unexpected and unwelcome show Sunday when a man stripped nearly naked and got up close and personal with some of the set pieces on the iconic ride.

Officers with the Anaheim Police Department responded to the theme park at around 1:30 p.m. to assist Disney security with the incident.

Video of the streaker obtained by KTLA shows the man, eerily lit in blue, orange and pink lights, walking around nearly in the buff to the sound of Christmas music.

“I am on Small World and there was a streaker, I cannot believe this happening,” Ashley Esqueda posted to X, formerly Twitter.

Disneyland officials told KTLA that the man stepped out of the ride’s vehicle as the attraction was in operation and that park employees stopped the ride as soon as they were made aware of the situation.

“At some point, somebody snapped him outside of the ride … and it looks like he went for the full birthday suit look out in the sunshine,” TMZ reported.

The man’s clothes were seen in a pile on the floor of the ride near the boats and characters.

The 26-year-old man was arrested for indecent exposure and being under the influence of a controlled substance. He was first taken to a hospital as a precaution, Anaheim police told KTLA.

His name was not immediately released…but I’m sure TMZ will do the work to find it!

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Belafon  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:06:37pm

re: #86 Joe Bacon ✅

“It’s A Small _____”

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retired cynic  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:07:47pm

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jeffreyw  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:20:42pm

CAYTION! Rabbit Holes Ahead
periodictableoftools.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:26:59pm

re: #29 darthstar

I’m with Joe. Fuck Bibi. He wanted this war and sacrificed 1,400 civilians to justify it and everyone knows it.

Yes — that is likely true but everyone doesn’t know that.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:31:36pm

re: #30 Sherlock Hound

Massachusetts has an infuriating kind of voter. In 1972, Richard Nixon won in a landslide.

Except in Massachusetts. Voters went for McGovern, unanimously.

Ever since, those same voters got older. And much more smug.

In 2016, these same voters went for Bernie. They were proud to play spoiler. How did I know they voted for McGovern, for Bernie, and against HRC.

They told us.
All over social media.

It’s so infuriating — the voters on the left who handed the presidency to Trump in 2016 hate compromise — either they get what they want now or they think by handing the torch to the conservative that the public will see the error of their ways and be converted to support their messiah who will bring a new era of socialism and green energy to this world. I know too many who hated Hillary and thought that nothing could be worse than her in the WH — and many still feel that way.

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Belafon  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:35:42pm

A nextdoor post started with this:

We are losing our language!

In my day, it was suspicious, not sus!

…it was cuz (short for cousin), not cu!

In the future, we’ll just communicate in grunts and moans apparently!

A whole lot of people replied with various points about how languages evolved, including these:

Languages are always evolving. That’s why the farther back you go in English literature, the harder it is to read it. Even some books from the 1900s read so strange now. Some countries have language preservation laws on the books, but most Americans don’t speak a native tongue.

and one from me:

In my day, it was thou not you, it was pughny not puny, bad never meant good, texting wasn’t a word, googol was a number not the act of looking up information.

But one of them:

hat’s how life is. That’s why American English and England English are a bit different. It’s why Spain Spanish has an extra verb tense and different pronunciations than Spanish in Mexico. That’s why Russian and Ukrainian are so similar yet so different. Language evolves. That evolution is what makes etymology so fascinating.

Led to this reply, which got an inordinate number of likes:

That’s how life is?!? Same could be said about men in woman’s sports child trafficking and so on. Doesn’t make it better or acceptable. Sorry for those of you that get “triggered”

And yes, I replied to this idiot:

Um, wow, comparing the evolution of language to all that other stuff. Sorry, unless we’re going to speak Sanskrit, you’re already speaking an evolved language, in particular a language that not only grew from Latin, German, and Nomadic languages, but borrows words from other languages all the time. Facade, pinto, tsunami, and hundreds of thousands of other words.

And by the way, displaying how easily you allow tv (should I use television?) to manipulate you in a discussion on language is pretty telling.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:39:44pm

re: #37 Nerdy Fish

It’s pretty on brand for recent Doctor Who. The message it was meant to send came through loud and clear (perhaps a little heavy-handed). It had plenty of light-hearted comedy, and throwbacks for the people who have been with the series for a while. It was somewhat predictable, but not so much that you could just snooze through the episode.

I have to confess: I remain irritated with Tennant for his apparent refusal to return to the series for the “Crash of the Byzantium” episode. In retrospect, this failure made the conversation between River Song and the Doctor in the “Silence in the Library” inconsistent with the event.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:41:13pm

re: #38 darthstar

The thing that scares me the most is he, like Trump may soon be, is a convicted felon…and he comes back into power? What the fuck kind of democracy allows that? Is it fair to convicted felons to ban them from ever holding high office? Maybe…but they fucked themselves when they got convicted for crimes they committed. So self-inflicted wound, IMO.

I didn’t think he was convicted yet — not even tried for the allegations against him.

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:41:57pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:46:25pm

re: #90 Hecuba’s daughter

Half of what’s being complained about isn’t even language evolution, it’s just the contemporary vernacular, which makes their hard stance and pre-emptive “sorry if I offend” all the more shallow.

“Sus” and “cuz” are far less portentious developments for the English language than, say, the incredibly trite language of edginess that’s rewarded by reactionaries, who treat discourse like a game of Snap.

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Targetpractice  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:46:57pm

re: #2 Backwoods Sleuth

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The op-ed reads like yet another iteration of the “liberals need to sit down and hash things out with conservatives” bit we’ve been hearing ever since Nov ‘16 when the Beltway went home for the holidays and realized that their liberal relatives were giving them the cold shoulder and not acting as if electing a president was some chore like taking out the trash. The ones who started whining about “economic anxiety” and “not all Trump supporters are racists!” with a particular vehemence that said their conservative relatives at the same table discovered nobody wanted to hear their opinion on “migrant caravans” or “safe spaces.”

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Targetpractice  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:49:20pm

re: #92 Belafon

A nextdoor post started with this:

A whole lot of people replied with various points about how languages evolved, including these:

and one from me:

But one of them:

Led to this reply, which got an inordinate number of likes:

And yes, I replied to this idiot:

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 26, 2023 • 8:52:29pm

re: #64 goddamnedfrank

My Mom and Stepdad are due to go for another cruise in early December after they’ve already caught COVID on a cruise and all I can do is shake my head and remember the serenity prayer.

Cruise ships have always been floating petri dishes. Now that Covid is no longer as lethal as originally and most people already have lived through it, sometimes repeatedly, those who enjoy cruise ships, despite their appalling record pre-Covid, see no reason to continue to avoid them.

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jaunte  Nov 26, 2023 • 9:12:26pm

re: #92 Belafon

A comment from 1927:

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Targetpractice  Nov 26, 2023 • 9:34:39pm

The new Doctor Who special was basically what it said on the tin: A RTD/Tennant special that was largely a funny little romp that evolved into a more serious story before ending on a big happy climax. I feel like they should have put more thought into how they addressed Tate’s being thrown over the gunwale better than “Oh, she needed to have a kid to fix the problem,” but at this point in the franchise I’ll take what I can get. Really, the feeling is like that of the specials they used to cap off the RTD-era, starting in a sort of silly way and ratcheting up to the big soft reboot at the end.

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Captain Ron  Nov 26, 2023 • 9:36:39pm
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jaunte  Nov 26, 2023 • 9:43:32pm

re: #102 Captain Ron

I hope enough Republicans can recover their spines long enough for this to happen.

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Jay C  Nov 26, 2023 • 9:48:20pm

re: #102 Captain Ron

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Good for Chuck!
Took him long enough, though: but I guess Tuberville’s grandstanding BS finally got even Senate Republicans fed up. Well, fed up enough to actually DO something in spite of whatever arcane Senate rule the asshole was exploiting to block those promotions.
Are said promotions retroactive? ISTR that some senior officers’ retirement benefits were/had been affected.

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Jay C  Nov 26, 2023 • 9:50:27pm

re: #103 jaunte

I hope enough Republicans can recover their spines long enough for this to happen.

The language makes it sound like it’s a done deal. Though I’m sure SOME Senate GOPers will vote “nay” just out of innate assholishness…

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jaunte  Nov 26, 2023 • 9:52:43pm

re: #105 Jay C

That old “bipartisan help” the article says is needed has been notably absent lately. I hope Schumer’s optimism is based on real commitments.

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Targetpractice  Nov 26, 2023 • 9:53:10pm

re: #103 jaunte

I hope enough Republicans can recover their spines long enough for this to happen.

Given that it’s made it this far without Yertle bitching up a storm, I imagine that he’s assured Schumer the votes needed to get it over the line. The alternative is that the vote fails and the party as a whole owns this grandstanding BS.

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William Lewis  Nov 26, 2023 • 10:16:38pm

re: #107 Targetpractice

Given that it’s made it this far without Yertle bitching up a storm, I imagine that he’s assured Schumer the votes needed to get it over the line. The alternative is that the vote fails and the party as a whole owns this grandstanding BS.

I think Yertle is PO’d that Coach Shitbird won’t do as the Party tells him to.

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mmmirele  Nov 26, 2023 • 10:34:05pm

This is a very long Twitter thread, but I think it’s worth a read. Jewish Lizards might want to especially take a look—this guy has his finger on what Evangelical support to Israel actually means.

The tl;dr is Evangelical support is not about supporting Jews and Israel, it’s about fulfilling a fantasy involving the Second Coming of Jesus. And Jews who fail to convert will suffer eternally. It’s something I first heard about in the 1970s, it’s been a constant for the last six decades, and if anything it’s been whipped to a fever pitch in the last seven weeks.

I am so sick that I believed this shiz. I reject it utterly. Dammit.

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piratedan  Nov 26, 2023 • 10:34:53pm

re: #108 William Lewis

I think that take is dead nuts. Mitch is very much the power behind the throne in the GOP, with his own power base and donors. Problem is, he could be subject to the same MAGA puke funnel as everyone else, so the moves he makes are very much firmly rooted in shades of bipartisanship that play well with the press and the less rabid members of the GOP. He’s a cold calculating sonofabitch who has a crapload of irons in the fire and letting some fucking asshat football coach continually making an idiot of himself when McConnell is trying get people elected by telling the truth about how the GOP intends to deal with abortion is probably got ol’ Mitch in a world of pissed off.

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Targetpractice  Nov 26, 2023 • 10:40:11pm

re: #108 William Lewis

I think Yertle is PO’d that Coach Shitbird won’t do as the Party tells him to.

Pretty much. I doubt it started with Yertle’s blessing but perhaps there was a backroom handshake that Coach Chucklefuck was free to go forward with it until told otherwise. If it succeeded then they’d caught Biden in a bind over his support for abortion rights, and if it failed it would have only gone on long enough to “make a point.”

But then egos got involved, the order to can the whole mess was rejected, and now the party is stuck very publicly kicking one of their own in the jimmies just to make the whole mess go away. Yertle knows this a no-win scenario for him, that even if the majority of voters forget the blockade there will be plenty in the MAGAt ranks who will nurse this grievance all the way up to next November and possibly beyond.

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mmmirele  Nov 26, 2023 • 10:49:51pm

I’ve been embroidering for decades and I only recently splurged for a needle minder—some place to park my needle when I have to stop for something. This needle minder was on sale on Etsy. It’s a Tarot card with Gomez and Morticia on it, with Thing hovering above. It puts a smile on my face.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 26, 2023 • 11:29:18pm

Jaron Lanier, chief ivory tower guy at Microsoft, recently gave a lecture (informal) at UC Berkeley. His background is notable and Wikipedia gives some of his accolades:

In 2005, Foreign Policy named Lanier as one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals. In 2010, Lanier was named to the TIME 100 list of most influential people. In 2014, Prospect named Lanier one of the top 50 World Thinkers. In 2018, Wired named Lanier one of the top 25 most influential people over the last 25 years of technological history.

His topic of course is “AI”, him being one of the movers and shakers in Microsoft’s involvement in OpenAI.

The whole thing is interesting but I’ll like to near the end in the Q&A part, with a chilling bit of fear mongering. Watch to the end:

Data Dignity and the Inversion of AI

..

Once you’ve watched that, go back to the beginning to get the gist of what he’s talking about in wish to change the way AI is trained.

The whole this is worth watching, but he gets to the meat of his soapbox around the 17 minute mark.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 27, 2023 • 12:41:48am

re: #2 Backwoods Sleuth

The [WaPo] argue *someone will have to compromise *(meaning women) or else marriage rates will tumble

It also implies that ideology is immutable (which is perceved in the case of those who believe that they alone trod the True Path)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 27, 2023 • 12:44:43am

re: #58 GlutenFreeJesus

The jokes write themselves.

Your an idiot!

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silverdolphin  Nov 27, 2023 • 12:48:33am

re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The [WaPo] argue *someone will have to compromise *(meaning women) or else marriage rates will tumble

It also implies that ideology is immutable (which is perceved in the case of those who believe that they alone trod the True Path)

Most of the men I went to college with were willing to change their ideology to anything if it would get them laid. Have things changed that much?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 27, 2023 • 12:49:28am

re: #109 mmmirele

The tl;dr is Evangelical support is not about supporting Jews and Israel, it’s about fulfilling a fantasy involving the Second Coming of Jesus. And Jews who fail to convert will suffer eternally. It’s something I first heard about in the 1970s, it’s been a constant for the last six decades, and if anything it’s been whipped to a fever pitch in the last seven weeks.

and this is how they can manage to be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic at the same time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 27, 2023 • 12:51:47am

re: #116 silverdolphin

Most of the men I went to college with were willing to change their ideology to anything if it would get them laid. Have things changed that much?

I recall seeing an editorial piece from some Young Republican site entitled “Why I’ll Never Date a Feminist”. It included a photo of the author.

I am sure it led women all over to reconsider their dedication to the movement.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 27, 2023 • 1:17:13am

re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The [WaPo] argue *someone will have to compromise *(meaning women) or else marriage rates will tumble

It also implies that ideology is immutable (which is perceved in the case of those who believe that they alone trod the True Path)

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ericblair  Nov 27, 2023 • 1:31:12am

Lazy, lazy, lazy. Is it really so hard to lie about getting 3,227 votes rather than 3300? There’s just no craftsmanship anymore.

And the usual surefire way to see ballot stuffing is by noticing a weird correlation with the percentage of ballots returned and the percentage of votes for the government. Ballot stuffers only insert government ballots, not opposition ones, so you get weirdly high participation and weirdly high government votes in the same places. Sticks out like a sore thumb.

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Targetpractice  Nov 27, 2023 • 1:47:54am

re: #116 silverdolphin

Most of the men I went to college with were willing to change their ideology to anything if it would get them laid. Have things changed that much?

They mention the issue towards the beginning, but only as part of the overall narrative that incel men are such victims: Modern women can afford to be picky. Women have been dating and marrying douchebags for ages, what’s really changed in the last couple generations is the shrinking of the pay gap and the opening of opportunities to unmarried women that previous generations either couldn’t access or were restricted from.

If you can only make $30K a year and the douchebag pursuing you can make twice that as their starting salary, then you’re more likely to lie back and think of Macy’s. But if you’re making $60K and he’s only make $65K, then you’re a little less willing to put up with the red ballcap and the screeching about “illegals.”

The rest of the op-ed is just the author laughably trying to use links to right-wing, pro-marriage sites (white, heterosexual only need apply) to argue that old chestnut that women won’t ever be truly happy unless they’re married and popping out kids.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 27, 2023 • 1:54:54am

re: #121 Targetpractice

They mention the issue towards the beginning, but only as part of the overall narrative that incel men are such victims: Modern women can afford to be picky. Women have been dating and marrying douchebags for ages, what’s really changed in the last couple generations is the shrinking of the pay gap and the opening of opportunities to unmarried women that previous generations either couldn’t access or were restricted from.

If you can only make $30K a year and the douchebag pursuing you can make twice that as their starting salary, then you’re more likely to lie back and think of Macy’s. But if you’re making $60K and he’s only make $65K, then you’re a little less willing to put up with the red ballcap and the screeching about “illegals.”

The rest of the op-ed is just the author laughably trying to use links to right-wing, pro-marriage sites (white, heterosexual only need apply) to argue that old chestnut that women won’t ever be truly happy unless they’re married and popping out kids.

“My body, my choice” only applies to vaccination. For issues like marriage, birth control and abortion, its “your body, my choice.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 27, 2023 • 3:06:02am

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Exodus




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Patricia Kayden  Nov 27, 2023 • 3:29:27am

re: #102 Captain Ron

Good!! There’s no reason that a member of the minority party should have so much power. Republicans wouldn’t tolerate similar conduct by any Democratic Senator.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 27, 2023 • 3:51:05am

re: #122 No Malarkey!

“My body, my choice” only applies to vaccination. For issues like marriage, birth control and abortion, its “your body, my choice.”

“What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine.”

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 27, 2023 • 3:56:10am

Well, that was a word.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:01:51am

One word left for line four.
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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:14:49am

Beaver moon tonight, oh, and good morning!

Some drive time music from the absolutely amazing Dolly!

Dolly Parton - Why’d You Come In Here (Video)

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:16:00am

re: #42 Patricia Kayden

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:18:07am

Waxing moon last night

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:32:19am

re: #91 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s so infuriating — the voters on the left who handed the presidency to Trump in 2016 hate compromise — either they get what they want now or they think by handing the torch to the conservative that the public will see the error of their ways and be converted to support their messiah who will bring a new era of socialism and green energy to this world. I know too many who hated Hillary and thought that nothing could be worse than her in the WH — and many still feel that way.

Theyve been voting that way a long time. Lots of experience.
So can they point to that ever working?
Didn’t think so.

Something about insanity…

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:38:43am

re: #120 ericblair

[Embedded content]

Lazy, lazy, lazy. Is it really so hard to lie about getting 3,227 votes rather than 3300? There’s just no craftsmanship anymore.

And the usual surefire way to see ballot stuffing is by noticing a weird correlation with the percentage of ballots returned and the percentage of votes for the government. Ballot stuffers only insert government ballots, not opposition ones, so you get weirdly high participation and weirdly high government votes in the same places. Sticks out like a sore thumb.

Back when Bush v Gore was on the horizon CBS News had a poll that showed Bush with 35%, Gore with 22% and Pat Buchanan with 3%. I decided to run a performance script on the site as it was a stupid poll in my opinion and when i was done it was Gore 32%, Bush 29% and Buchanan 14%(I thought that would be funny). 37,000 votes in 20 minutes. CBS blocked the IP of the company where I was doing training and removed the poll from their site.

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:40:14am

Not my fault. It was a simple http post and no cookie.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:42:49am

re: #72 silverdolphin

One of my dogs has a persistent cough which has lasted for over two weeks. I’ve taken her to two different vets and they haven’t given me a diagnosis. She has been on antibiotics for over a week now.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:44:40am

re: #133 darthstar

Not my fault. It was a simple http post and no cookie biscuit.

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:44:57am

re: #83 austin_blue

Us, too, in any crowded building.

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:50:04am

A Republican in congress

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:51:06am

Sochi seeing a little bit of storm surge…

Mastodon

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 4:52:30am

re: #135 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Only English websites use those.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 27, 2023 • 5:13:06am

Par. Not a terribly commonly used word but not all of them should be.

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lawhawk  Nov 27, 2023 • 5:35:25am

re: #22 Charles Johnson

I would love to see Joe Bonamassa do a Tiny Desk concert. He would tear the NPR office up.

He’d have tough competition from Sesame Street.

Sesame Street: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

To the li’l man, this is gold.

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:15:43am

re: #119 No Malarkey!

On a related note, the new Page.

Enough With The ‘All-Female Crew Caused The P-8 Crash’ Nonsense

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:15:45am

Atlantic writer slaps back at ‘sociopath’ Trump over Truth Social attack

Following an extended diatribe by MSNBC “Morning Joe” Joe Scarborough aimed at Donald Trump’s ugly rhetoric as he makes a third bid for the presidency, Atlantic writer Peter Wehner fired back at the former president, who flipped out on the Atlantic over a piece the former GOP speechwriter wrote about him.

After Scarborough harshly criticized Trump’s threats to have military officials executed for treason for opposing him and making jokes about an assistant attacking Nancy Pelosi’s 83-year-old husband with a hammer, Wehner theorized that the former president is simply a sociopath.

“There is a long history of this dehumanization, these passions consuming people, including people of faith,” Wehner said of Trump’s rabid fanbase. “That’s why I think there has to be such a pushback from others, to try, in a sense, to shake them and say, ‘Do you know what you’re doing? Do you know what you’re a part of? You’ve jettisoned everything you claim to most cherish in your life to make inner peace with this man who is a sociopath, an unfiltered sociopath.’”

“And he is undisguised in who he is and what he wants to do,” he worried. “That not only pushes them away, but it brings them toward him. It is a sickening episode in the history of American politics and the history of American Christianity.”

rawstory.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:30:13am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:42:48am

Trump furiously denies he’s ‘cognitively impaired’ in rambling Truth Social post

Early Monday morning, Donald Trump addressed reports that his mind is slipping with a rambling defense claiming his speech blunders are part of a greater strategy.

Questions have been raised about the former president’s seemingly declining mental abilities after recent speeches where he seemed to think he is running for president against Barack Obama and where he has confused world leaders and their respective countries.

In an attempt to apparently allay such concerns, Trump took to Truth Social to boast, once again, that he recently took “a cognitive test as part of my Physical Exam, and ACED it.”

rawstory.com

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Decatur Deb  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:44:06am

re: #142 Rightwingconspirator

On a related note, the new Page.

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When the dust settles, the Navy Safety Center will know what caused the accident. It’s not that difficult when the airframe is recovered intact.

In the case of the rare “unknown causes” accident, the tendency is to look for pilot error—regardless of gender.

(Note the new page is not showing in my sidebar.)

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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:44:53am
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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:45:45am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:47:40am

msn.com

Michael Voris founded the radical far-right “Church Militant” organization in 2006 to speak out against reforms in the church and to play an active role in right-wing politics. Voris and Church Militant has been persistently at odds with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, especially for their stance on liberal immigration.

In addition to fiercely opposing immigration, Voris has consistently spoke out against LBGTQ rights, climate change, and other issues he deems as “woke.” He said the 2020 election was stolen, Democrats are all communists and not real Americans, and cheered on Elon Musk’s recent lawsuit against Media Matters.

It turns out that Voris, by his own admission, has a very dark past and present. So much so, that he was just forced to resign from the organization he led and founded for the past 17 years. Voris issued a statement about the resignation, but typically for the hypocritical right-wing hate squad leaders who won’t own accountability for their actions, refused to say exactly what he did. This is part of what he did say:

“There have been failings in that area with regard to me - my own personal behavior. I don’t want to make any excuses for what I’ve done. There aren’t any for what I’ve done … Sometimes it takes horrible events, even at your own hand in your own life to surface certain things that need to be faced. There are some very, very ugly truths from my past that I have avoided facing because I didn’t want to … There are things that I have to go away and address and work on. They are horrible, ugly things. I’m not going to share them. It’s nobody else’s business except mine.”

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Mattand  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:52:46am

re: #3 jaunte

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32% seems awfully low for a group that’s losing their bodily autonomy.

I really try to avoid accusations of the mainstream press purposely sabotaging election reporting in order to gin up the horse race aspect, but Jesus Effing Christ; going from 20% to 32% is not “slight”.

Also, I can see that 32% being a function of “Well, it’ll never happen to me, so who cares?”

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wrenchwench  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:53:13am

re: #141 lawhawk

He’d have tough competition from Sesame Street.

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To the li’l man, this is gold.

I was a little old for that when it came out, but fortunately, I’m second of seven and did a lot of babysitting.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:56:09am

re: #149 Joe Bacon ✅

msn.com

… I’m not going to share them. It’s nobody else’s business except mine.”

Anti-abortion zealot has a delicate approach to privacy.

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jeffreyw  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:59:17am

Gabe and Homer Kitty

Good morning!

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Teukka  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:05:26am

Well, this is going to go over well in Sweden…

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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:09:32am

re: #154 Teukka

Well, this is going to go over well in Sweden…

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Yes, but he filed the suit in Texas.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:10:38am

re: #155 Belafon

Yes, but he filed the suit in Texas.

en.wikipedia.org

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:10:50am

re: #145 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump furiously denies he’s ‘cognitively impaired’ in rambling Truth Social post

Early Monday morning, Donald Trump addressed reports that his mind is slipping with a rambling defense claiming his speech blunders are part of a greater strategy.

Questions have been raised about the former president’s seemingly declining mental abilities after recent speeches where he seemed to think he is running for president against Barack Obama and where he has confused world leaders and their respective countries.

In an attempt to apparently allay such concerns, Trump took to Truth Social to boast, once again, that he recently took “a cognitive test as part of my Physical Exam, and ACED it.”

rawstory.com

Rando

…a doctor would never describe someone’s cognitive test results as “exceptional” (and if they did, it would be a bad thing). However, I know somebody who would describe the Donald’s dubious cognitive abilities as exceptional, and he has the initials DJT.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:13:02am

re: #157 Dangerman

At first glance I thought I saw DDT instead of DJT…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:13:47am

re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅

You are not the only one.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:14:01am

re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅

At first glance I thought I saw DDT instead of DJT…

One of those is dangerous, but not useless.

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Florida Panhandler  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:17:59am

re: #154 Teukka

Well, this is going to go over well in Sweden…

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When America-centric Libertarian dude-bro default mentality meets real-world worker’s rights reality.

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Teukka  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:19:16am

re: #161 Florida Panhandler

When America-centric Libertarian dude-bro default mentality meet real-world worker’s rights reality.

In the US, it’s “you never pick a fight with a Teamster”, while in Sweden, it’s “you never pick a fight with a trade union”, just sayin’…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:21:29am

re: #162 Teukka

Musk is going to have more than he bargained for.

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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:21:53am

re: #162 Teukka

In the US, it’s “you never pick a fight with a Teamster”, while in Sweden, it’s “you never pick a fight with a trade union”, just sayin’…

Don’t you see, though? Musk is picking a fight with all of them. That’s how he’s going to win.

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gocart mozart  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:30:08am

Winfield Scott: “We don’t want your stupid Bakersfield, Mexico!”
Santa Anna: “Please. We insist. In 175 years, a great leader will arise to represent that land in congress.”
Winfield Scott: “OK fine. We’ll take your stupid Bakersfield off your hands, but you owe us big time.”

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dat_said  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:30:24am

re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅

At first glance I thought I saw DDT instead of DJT…

Depending on whether I go by the name instilled upon me by the drunk priest during my baptism (which my mother insisted was my real name “because”) or the one that’s on my birth certificate and social security card, my initials are either DDT or DJT (or DDJT when my mother was particularly frustrated with me).

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:32:16am

re: #154 Teukka

Well, this is going to go over well in Sweden…

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Volvo is making some really nice all electric cars now, Tesla is handing them a huge gift on their home turf.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:32:53am

re: #165 gocart mozart

Another fine case of mythology over history.

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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:33:09am

re: #165 gocart mozart

Let’s not forget how we acquired the rest of the Continental US and Hawaii.

edited

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:42:01am

re: #164 Belafon

Don’t you see, though? Musk is picking a fight with all of them. That’s how he’s going to win.

I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:45:35am

re: #126 Nerdy Fish

Well, that was a word.

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:48:52am

re: #165 gocart mozart

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re: #165 gocart mozart

The US has acquired numerous territories through conflict,

And there’s the Panama Canal Zone.

“I took the Isthmus.” -President Theodore Roosevelt, 1904.
(via the agency of Sullivan and Cromwell)

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:49:58am

Another par day.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:50:47am

re: #172 BeenHereAwhile

And there’s the Panama Canal Zone.

“I took the Isthmus.” -President Theodore Roosevelt, 1904.
(via the agency of Sullivan and Cromwell)

Philippines until 1946

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Decatur Deb  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:50:55am

re: #172 BeenHereAwhile

Hey!! We gave it back when we were done with it.

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austin_blue  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:51:31am

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

and this is how they can manage to be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic at the same time.

Sure. In their scenario, Jews are simply Useful Idiots, a Means to a required End.

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:55:16am
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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:00:04am

re: #175 Decatur Deb

Hey!! We gave it back when we were done with it.

And the US personnel who were forced to leave the socialistic economy of the Canal Zone voted Republican in every election thereafter.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:04:10am

re: #178 BeenHereAwhile

And the US personnel who were forced to leave the socialistic economy of the Canal Zone voted Republican in every election thereafter.

They created a sizeable community here.

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austin_blue  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:10:55am

re: #142 Rightwingconspirator

On a related note, the new Page.

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“All Male cockpit crew causes worst disaster in Airline History!!!!”

historynet.com

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lawhawk  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:11:46am

Trump files a 1902 page brief in support of the interim stay issued by the Appellate Division on the gag order, despite 100s of death threats and other threats against court staff in Judge Engoron’s trial for Trump’s business fraud (which he’s already found occurred).

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:12:44am

Stop with the whining you goddamned traitor!

rawstory.com

John Eastman whines about legal fees: ‘Trying not to deplete my wife’s retirement fund’

Deserves to be depleted and your ass should be in jail for life!

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:12:47am

re: #181 lawhawk

1902 pages? The judges are never going to read that. Their clerks probably won’t even read that.

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lawhawk  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:13:51am

re: #183 Nerdy Fish

1902 pages? The judges are never going to read that. Their clerks probably won’t even read that.

It’s a restatement of a bunch of other filings, consolidated into a single filing. It’s quick reading, especially considering that they play fast and loose with the facts and public safety.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:14:28am

re: #183 Nerdy Fish

1902 pages? The judges are never going to read that. Their clerks probably won’t even read that.

probably assembled via AI…

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dat_said  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:14:38am

re: #177 DodgerFan1988

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Amazon Best Seller lists are pretty meaningless as they’re easily manipulated by bulk buys but being at #9805 means selling about 10 copies a day.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:15:24am

re: #185 Joe Bacon ✅

probably assembled via AI…

Nah, credit where due, even Trump’s lawyers aren’t that stupid. But I wonder where their leave to file overlength is, because you can’t tell me the judges didn’t put a limit on the brief.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:19:52am
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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:20:10am

re: #140 sizzzzlerz

Par. Not a terribly commonly used word but not all of them should be.

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Group:3, 4, 5, 6 — Both the 5 and the 6 made the same oversight: forgot one letter(the same letter!) they had uncovered

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lawhawk  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:20:36am
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:20:48am

re: #188 HRH Stanley Sea

That is good news.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:22:20am

Trump supporter would need to see ‘video of him punting a baby’ to abandon him: report

A supporter of former President Donald Trump said this week that there was a limit to her devotion — but said she need to see her idol do something incredibly extreme such as a wanton act of child abuse.

In an interview with journalist Ben Jacobs at Slate, Iowa Trump supporter Ashley Long said she would abandon Trump if he did “something super heinous.”

“It would have to be a video of Trump punting a baby for him not to be my guy,” she specified.

Trump has already been found liable for sexual abuse and has been indicted on 91 felony counts related to hush-money payments to adult film stars, obstructing government efforts to retrieve top-secret documents from his Mar-a-Lago resort, and his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.

Long was not the only Trump supporter who expressed feverish devotion to the former president.

Minnesota Trump supporter Chris Seedorf, for instance, told Jacobs that he was willing to “take a bullet” for Trump and expressed confidence that Trump would do the same for him.

“He’d do it, too, for everyone else,” he said.

And Iowa Trump supporter Pam Bygness told Jacobs that Trump’s criminal indictments had only strengthened her admiration for him.

“He is truly a patriot,” she said. “You tell me what other man could go through what he has gone through to keep fighting for this country.”

The end result of 45 years of the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine Brainwashing the Suckers.

rawstory.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:26:43am

Now WaPo is saying that the pause is being extended by 2 days.

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:27:53am

re: #183 Nerdy Fish

1902 pages? The judges are never going to read that. Their clerks probably won’t even read that.

A 1902 page filing gotta violate some state court local rules.

What’s next - a 12 hour final argument?

“We’re just doing a Clarence Darrow.”

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lawhawk  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:28:04am

re: #193 PhillyPretzel ✅

Confirmed. Multiple outlets confirm a 2 day extension on the ceasefire, along with additional hostage transfers, though the names have yet to be provided to media outlets.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:30:56am

Mastodon

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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:31:23am

re: #192 Joe Bacon ✅

*Trump punts baby*
“Well, it wasn’t my baby, so I’m not really all that concerned.”
*Trump punts his baby*
“Well, I said I would take one for him.”

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A Cranky One  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:37:22am

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:40:24am

re: #179 Decatur Deb

They created a sizeable community here.

And Jimmy Carter takes the blame for Tommy Tuberville.

Auburn’s loss is our gain.

//

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A Cranky One  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:44:29am

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:58:07am

re: #145 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump furiously denies he’s ‘cognitively impaired’ in rambling Truth Social post

Early Monday morning, Donald Trump addressed reports that his mind is slipping with a rambling defense claiming his speech blunders are part of a greater strategy.

Questions have been raised about the former president’s seemingly declining mental abilities after recent speeches where he seemed to think he is running for president against Barack Obama and where he has confused world leaders and their respective countries.

In an attempt to apparently allay such concerns, Trump took to Truth Social to boast, once again, that he recently took “a cognitive test as part of my Physical Exam, and ACED it.”

rawstory.com

As I keep saying, it’s not clear Trump has declined noticeably since 2016. He just does his usual free associations. It may be more complicated for him now because he has to lie about different issues from 30 years ago.

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:59:04am

Mastodon

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KGxvi  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:06:05am

re: #201 Hecuba’s daughter

As I keep saying, it’s not clear Trump has declined noticeably since 2016. He just does his usual free associations. It may be more complicated for him now because he has to lie about different issues from 30 years ago.

I think the decline with him is that he’s less able to stay on message. He would always do the crazy rants and free association stuff, but he had let’s say 60% message discipline… now it seems like he’s at 30% message discipline. He also had something in 2016 that resembled an agenda, now he doesn’t have anything that resembles an agenda, so it gives him more time to riff.

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wrenchwench  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:10:16am

I wondered why it wouldn’t take my misspelling. It looked like a word. Wordle 891 4/6*

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:13:47am

Mastodon

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ericblair  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:20:48am

More real life evidence of goopers in serious trouble. BuT tHe PoLl NuMbErZ!11!

Also, an actually useful comparison with the same point in the last election cycle.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:21:40am

Collage of fallen leaves.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:25:30am

re: #207 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

My postage stamp lawn looks the same way.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:25:36am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:27:56am

re: #206 ericblair

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More real life evidence of goopers in serious trouble. BuT tHe PoLl NuMbErZ!11!

Also, an actually useful comparison with the same point in the last election cycle.

Three media will make up for any deficit with “News” coverage of Republicans who can’t afford prime time advertising.

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lawhawk  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:29:38am

re: #206 ericblair

Better question is what Trump has with his corrupt PACs and how much dark money is going to be spent propping him up, along with billions in free press from right wing outfits to give Trump every opportunity to steal an election.

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wrenchwench  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:32:45am

re: #204 wrenchwench

I wondered why it wouldn’t take my misspelling. It looked like a word. Wordle 891 4/6*

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Fixd.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:34:18am

And a Perfect! Connections

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Connections
Puzzle #169
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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:39:10am

re: #211 lawhawk

Better question is what Trump has with his corrupt PACs and how much dark money is going to be spent propping him up, along with billions in free press from right wing outfits to give Trump every opportunity to steal an election.

It’s the entire GOP that has benefited from the Citizens United which unleashed a storm of unregulated money from any source. These funds don’t show up in the official statistics. The most corrupt SCOTUS in history and the 2nd worst (after Taney) in terms of actual decisions.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:42:56am

re: #213 Eventual Carrion

And a Perfect! Connections

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Me too! Possible clue below…

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As often happens, started out without seeing relationships that produce groups of 4 (in this case, had to look up a term online since I was totally unfamiliar with a meaning)

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:44:25am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:45:48am

re: #216 Backwoods Sleuth

To be the fly on the wall for that conversation.

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:48:13am

re: #217 PhillyPretzel ✅

To be the fly on the wall for that conversation.

Watching two naked mole rats in a cave.

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:48:43am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:50:55am

re: #219 Vicious Babushka

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Teukka  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:51:53am

re: #216 Backwoods Sleuth

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:53:41am

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:54:13am

re: #219 Vicious Babushka

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sagehen  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:55:36am

re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s the entire GOP that has benefited from the Citizens United which unleashed a storm of unregulated money from any source. These funds don’t show up in the official statistics. The most corrupt SCOTUS in history and the 2nd worst (after Taney) in terms of actual decisions.

one of the cable channels recently did a 4-part series on the history of the Court… I lost interest when one of the analysts tried to say that there wasn’t this kind of backlash when the liberal court was making sweeping changes, it’s just outrageous and unprecedented. The guy looked to be in his 30’s, but if he’s going to call himself a historian he should be aware of the Impeach Earl Warren billboards that were all across the South in the 60’s. How can he pretend “there was no backlash”?

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lawhawk  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:57:03am

re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter

[This tweet may have been deleted.]

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wrenchwench  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:02:46am

re: #219 Vicious Babushka

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lawhawk  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:14:03am
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Teukka  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:19:06am

And people still claim that Hamas using protected persons and places and shields is bullshit…

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:19:58am

re: #168 Romantic Heretic

Another fine case of mythology over history.

Just a lack of education

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:20:41am

re: #116 silverdolphin

Most of the men I went to college with were willing to change their ideology to anything if it would get them laid. Have things changed that much?

Sure. Now they think they can be assholes as big as they like and women will have to fall into line because… Reasons. Win-Lose use the MAGA way. No one else can win, only them.

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:22:41am

re: #177 DodgerFan1988

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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s new memoir “MTG” ranks number 9,805 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list.

Because there was no 9806

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:24:34am

re: #126 Nerdy Fish

Well, that was a word.

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It’s a very rare day where I am able to best you. Very rare.

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lawhawk  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:25:55am

Trump’s disastrous TCJA tax scam pushed through Congress by the GOP cost trillions in debt and it’s likely to cost even more as a key amended provision is being litigated in a case going before the Supreme Court.

Section 965, if it is ended by SCOTUS, would likely result in the IRS being required to refund hundreds of billions in taxes gathered from partnerships, and flip the scoring on this provision from raising hundreds of billions to costing hundreds of billions (if not trillions, as the scope of the decision could undermine the rest of the tax code).

The GOP is determined to wreck the government by any means necessary, and that includes by overt sabotage, underfunding, defunding, and dismantling the tax code and enforcement.

Moore v. United States threatens wrecking the tax code and tax collections from wealthy and businesses.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:26:39am

re: #201 Hecuba’s daughter

You cannot “ace” a cognitive test. The findings are either normal or they’re not.

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:29:16am

re: #202 Vicious Babushka

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This is the youngest hostage. He is still being held in Gaza. Who kidnaps infants?

Who separates them from their families the border?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:29:33am

re: #231 Dangerman

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s new memoir “MTG” ranks number 9,805 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list.

Because there was no 9806

Even after all those bulk purchases from megachurches? Gee that’s too bad…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:29:40am

re: #227 lawhawk

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And in another sign X is hopelessly fucked up, a good chunk of the replies are trashing Mark Hamill.

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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:31:06am

re: #237 Eclectic Cyborg

And in another sign X is hopelessly fucked up, a good chunk of the replies are trashing Mark Hamill.

And yet they’re nowhere close to the number of likes.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:31:19am

re: #231 Dangerman

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s new memoir “MTG” ranks number 9,805 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list.

Because there was no 9806

laugh harder

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:31:53am

re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s the entire GOP that has benefited from the Citizens United which unleashed a storm of unregulated money from any source. These funds don’t show up in the official statistics. The most corrupt SCOTUS in history and the 2nd worst (after Taney) in terms of actual decisions.

They’re not done yet

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wrenchwench  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:32:41am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:33:59am

re: #241 wrenchwench

Squirrel is not going to change his habits. That is how they are.

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:41:53am

Trump urges a New York appeals court to continue to pause the gag order against him in his civil fraud trial, saying that threats to the judge and his law clerk do not ‘justify’ limiting the former president’s constitutional right to defend himself

So admitted threats are “defending himself”

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aatharuv  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:45:19am

re: #241 wrenchwench

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My local squirrels were much more polite with my apples this year, though they’ve been throwing and burying more half-eaten persimmons and citrus fruit in my yard.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:48:00am

re: #235 Dangerman

This is the youngest hostage. He is still being held in Gaza. Who kidnaps infants?

Who separates them from their families the border?

Under Pinochet, Chile kidnapped 20,000 infants to adopt out to foreign countries.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:49:00am

re: #237 Eclectic Cyborg

And in another sign X is hopelessly fucked up, a good chunk of the replies are trashing Mark Hamill.

Seemed to be many comments that supported Mark.

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Captain Magic  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:55:31am

re: #219 Vicious Babushka

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 11:10:21am

re: #219 Vicious Babushka

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 27, 2023 • 11:29:14am

re: #209 Backwoods Sleuth

Alchemy roots is my bet

Star of David turned up multiple times as imagery in a French beer museum I visited in 2016. My presumption was that brewing sort of linked back into alchemy and such as a source.


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