XKCD: Could You Make an Umbrella Out of Lasers?

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I don’t think I’d call the xkcd videos wild or hilarious, but they’re certainly amusing and sometimes that’s more than enough. And they’re short. Don’t forget short.

Stopping rain from falling on something with an umbrella is boring. What if you tried to stop rain with a laser that targeted and vaporized each incoming droplet before it could come within ten feet of the ground?

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Randall Munroe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers What If? 2, How To, What If?, and Thing Explainer; the science question-and-answer blog What If?; and the popular web comic xkcd (xkcd.com). A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time.

Henry Reich is the creator of MinutePhysics and executive producer of MinuteEarth and MinuteFood and founder of Neptune Studios (the parent company for all three youtube channels).

Credits
Narrated by and based on “What If?” by Randall Munroe
Written & Directed by Henry Reich
Illustration and Video Editing by Lizah van der Aart
Illustration and Animation by Ever Salazar
Music & Sound Effects by Know Art Studios

Laser droplet animation based on footage by:
Physics of Fluids - University of Twente

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What If? The Video Series is the official adaptation of the What If? books by Randall Munroe and is produced by Neptune Studios LLC.

©2023 xkcd, inc.

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1
Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:20:39pm

Basically, if you could make a device that does this, you’d be walking around in a fog of superheated steam.

I feel like that most of the time anyway.

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:26:12pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Basically, if you could make a device that does this, you’d be walking around in a fog of superheated steam.

I feel like that most of the time anyway.

Not counting the incoming parts of tree branches, telephone wires, occasional birds, etc…

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:26:52pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Basically, if you could make a device that does this, you’d be walking around in a fog of superheated steam.

I feel like that most of the time anyway.

For similar reasons, using lasers or a flamethrower to clear your driveway (or the road in front of you) is a Bad Idea (tm), in addition to being so inefficient as to be impractical.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:30:59pm

In which a law professor estimates Trump could end up with more than $600 million in penalties. Starting to add up to real money now.

How will Trump pay legal penalties in his fraud, Carroll cases? : NPR

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:31:22pm

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

For similar reasons, using lasers or a flamethrower to clear your driveway (or the road in front of you) is a Bad Idea (tm), in addition to being so inefficient as to be impractical.

As tempting as it might be.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:31:49pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

As tempting as it might be.

Here in the frozen wastelands of the wild north country, this topic comes up distressingly frequently.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:36:55pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

walking around in a fog of superheated steam.

Most of the year in SE Texas.

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JC1  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:37:22pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Basically, if you could make a device that does this, you’d be walking around in a fog of superheated steam.

I feel like that most of the time anyway.

I just want a laser that zaps mosquitoes.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:37:53pm

Wow! The Michigan GOP follies continue!

‘I’m still legally the chair’: Ousted MI GOP leader refusing to stop spending party’s money

And she’s still spending the party’s money!

alternet.org

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:42:49pm

Zwillich Xitter post

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Captain Ron  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:45:05pm

re: #8 JC1

I just want a laser that zaps mosquitoes.

I don’t trust them.

YouTube

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:45:44pm

Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Say Feds Mistook ‘Lines of Sawdust’ for Cocaine

While digging through his electronics, investigators executing a search warrant found photos and videos that Biden had taken of “apparent cocaine, crack cocaine, and drug paraphernalia,” as they described it in an exhibit filed last week as evidence that he had been lying about his drug usage when he bought a gun in Delaware in 2018.

One of the images included in the filing showed three lines of a yellow-tinged, powdery substance on a plank.

“The prosecution is flat out wrong—both that Mr. Biden ‘took’ this photograph and in claiming that it depicts ‘cocaine.’” Biden’s attorneys wrote on Tuesday. “Multiple sources have pointed out, and a review of discovery confirms, this is actually a photo of sawdust from an expert carpenter and it was sent to Mr. Biden, not vice versa.”

The filing goes on to explain that the carpenter—in recovery from cocaine addiction himself—set up the gag shot and sent it to Biden’s then-psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Ablow. The doctor sent it on to Biden, telling him he’d told the carpenter he’d have to choose between his art and his drug.

thedailybeast.com

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:52:25pm

re: #10 ckkatz

Repeat after me: James Comer is a Russian asset.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:53:15pm

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:54:00pm

The entire Republican Party has gone totally bugfuck nuts.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:54:04pm

re: #13 darthstar

Repeat after me: James Comer is a Russian asset.

So is Gym Shorts.
So is Grassley
So is Speaker Jesusbot
So is Empty Green
So is Trump
So is most of the GOP!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:54:47pm

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2024 • 5:56:11pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:01:17pm

re: #13 darthstar

Repeat after me: James Comer is a Russian asset.

The entire GOP is a Russian asset.

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:01:28pm

This is pretty fuckin’ cool. The Great Green Wall…

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:02:03pm

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:02:38pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:04:58pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

I used an umbrella this afternoon to go to the doctor’s office.

Should have had a laser, it would have been so much more impressive.

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:08:48pm

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:13:21pm

re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I used an umbrella this afternoon to go to the doctor’s office.

Should have had a laser, it would have been so much more impressive.

We got some big-ass raindrops this afternoon. Be glad when this storm is over.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:22:15pm

Merde de l’orange says that NATO is no big deal because there’s an ocean separating us from Europe.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:23:39pm

He also said that all mail-in ballots are fraud, and when Mommy Dearest pushed back he just talked over her. Please keep saying this to keep your idiot base at home.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:27:24pm

Anne has cut large interesting chunks out of it at balloon-juice.com, including this insight:

The students’ demographics were as revealing as their chosen majors. Roughly 80% were white. Over 70% were men. There was not a black man in the room. The way these percentages diverge from national higher education averages should tell you something about what kind of intellectual community UATX is building. In practice, UATX is recruiting a student body whose racial and gender makeup resembles a pre-civil rights university.

…

The subtext of these remarks was simple. The social capital, political influence, and access to wealth that was formerly the uncontested and exclusive prerogative of straight white men was now under question. They felt it at school. They saw it in the media. They were here, at UATX, to live out a dying dream, to vent their frustration at its loss, and to help one another cling to it as long as possible.

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wrenchwench  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:30:04pm

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

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Jay C  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:30:40pm

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CleverToad  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:31:16pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:36:20pm

Georgia Gov. Kemp reveals he was interviewed by special counsel in 2020 election interference case

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who resisted intense pressure from former President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election results in his state, revealed Tuesday that he has been interviewed by special counsel Jack Smith’s office.

“I basically told them the same thing I told the special grand juries: that I follow the law and the Constitution and answered all their questions truthfully,” Kemp told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source,” noting that the conversation took place “months ago” and “really didn’t last that long.”

cnn.com

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:39:10pm

Holocaust denier David Irving has died. His grave A new public toilet will be built.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:39:31pm

re: #35 teleskiguy

Holocaust denier David Irving has died. His grave A new public toilet will be built.

There is no evidence.

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:39:46pm

Screwed up the paella again…forgot the tomato paste and the paprika. So basically saffron rice with lobster and chicken for dinner tonight…tasty, but meh. That’s what I get for trying to throw together dinner while doing shit online.

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:40:35pm

re: #35 teleskiguy

Holocaust denier David Irving has died. His grave A new public toilet will be built.

Tots and Pears? Or just fuck that guy…I think I’ll go with fuck that guy.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:41:10pm

re: #36 Vicious Babushka

Well fuck.

Hope he doesn’t live as long as Kissinger.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:44:20pm

I am against the death penalty. Buuut…

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:47:09pm

re: #39 teleskiguy

Well fuck.

Hope he doesn’t live as long as Kissinger.

I meant I will not acknowledge he is dead unless he can prove it to me according to my own definition of deadness.

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Interesting Times  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:49:19pm

re: #42 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Reminds me of what was said about Roger Ailes when he assumed room temperature:

Speak only good of the dead.
David Irving is dead?
Good.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:49:33pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

I actually don’t buy that. It wasn’t even a generation before white Republicans decided that they were more interested in the industrial revolution than the welfare of blacks. After 40 years, there were plenty of adults who had no clue what the reasons for the Civil War were.

I offer as evidence the current Republican party, which has gone full totalitarian, supporting Putin, after most of the Cold War leadership has died.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:49:33pm

re: #41 Vicious Babushka

I meant I will not acknowledge he is dead unless he can prove it to me according to my own definition of deadness.

Earlier today his Wikipedia article said he was dead. It has been corrected.

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Semper Fi  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:50:27pm

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:52:32pm

re: #44 Belafon

I think the Nuremberg Trials and subsequent executions and making the Nazi political party completely illegal has worked for Germany for many generations, way more than 40 years.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 6:57:18pm

re: #47 teleskiguy

I think the Nuremberg Trials and subsequent executions and making the Nazi political party completely illegal has worked for Germany for many generations, way more than 40 years.

And the fact that they have had a foreign military force in their country most of the time, and the country was split in two, with a threatening army pointing at them for most of that time. And it hasn’t been that long since they became a single country.

But it wasn’t just the trials, as you said, they made Nazis illegal. We didn’t do that to Democrats. They’re also forced by their laws to remember what they did. We don’t have that.

It’s not the hangings that have had the big effect. It’s the forced repudiation that is the effective part, and Republicans ended that in the South in the late 1800s.

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:06:36pm

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:07:50pm

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:11:16pm

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:11:40pm
A Michigan man was charged Tuesday under the state’s new law requiring safe storage of guns after his 2-year-old daughter shot herself in the head with his revolver the day after the law took effect.

The 44-year-old Flint man became the first person to be charged with violating the law that took effect on Feb. 13, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said. The girl is hospitalized in critical condition.

This law “went into effect one week ago today,” Leyton said at a news conference announcing charges against the man. “This incident occurred the very next day.”

Flint man becomes first person charged under Michigan’s new gun storage law (AP via MSN)

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:12:48pm

re: #52 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

“There are no accidents with guns, only negligence.”

–Jim Wright, aka Stonekettle

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:13:19pm

re: #52 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Flint man becomes first person charged under Michigan’s new gun storage law (AP via MSN)

I hope his daughter recovers, and that he enjoys missing her next four or five birthdays because he was too fucking irresponsible to be a gun owner.

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silverdolphin  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:17:01pm

re: #12 Joe Bacon ✅

Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Say Feds Mistook ‘Lines of Sawdust’ for Cocaine

While digging through his electronics, investigators executing a search warrant found photos and videos that Biden had taken of “apparent cocaine, crack cocaine, and drug paraphernalia,” as they described it in an exhibit filed last week as evidence that he had been lying about his drug usage when he bought a gun in Delaware in 2018.

One of the images included in the filing showed three lines of a yellow-tinged, powdery substance on a plank.

“The prosecution is flat out wrong—both that Mr. Biden ‘took’ this photograph and in claiming that it depicts ‘cocaine.’” Biden’s attorneys wrote on Tuesday. “Multiple sources have pointed out, and a review of discovery confirms, this is actually a photo of sawdust from an expert carpenter and it was sent to Mr. Biden, not vice versa.”

The filing goes on to explain that the carpenter—in recovery from cocaine addiction himself—set up the gag shot and sent it to Biden’s then-psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Ablow. The doctor sent it on to Biden, telling him he’d told the carpenter he’d have to choose between his art and his drug.

thedailybeast.com

Another thing the prosecutors discuss is that there is a brown pouch that they say was fom Biden and contained cocaine residue. But, as they now state, the package was given to them by a garbage diver who went into the garbage cans and that they did not test for cocaine reside for 5 years and never tested for fingerprints!!

So no real provenance and nothinbg to tie it directly to Biden. Just like the laptop.

One final thing - Biden’s lawyers mention that the IRS agent who illegally released Trump’s tax return was just sent to prison. But the 2 IRS agents who did the same illegal release of Hunter’s tax returns are still working for the prosecutor. Working for the prosecutor!!

If this case ever gets to a trial, how in the world are they ever going to prove beyond a reasonable doubt?

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:18:31pm

re: #55 silverdolphin

12 white men.

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silverdolphin  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:31:14pm

re: #56 Belafon

12 white men.

Maybe but I believe the prosecutor purposefully brought the charges in California, a hotbed of liberals even if white men because he wants to lose the trial. He knew the case was a bust long ago, for these reasons. He hoped he could cover his butt with a deal (which was overseen by a judge in Delaware!) but that was tossed because of political pressure. So he went to CA to start the trial knowing that its weakness would result in not guuilty. Then he could say he tried.

But I expect his reputation is gone.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:38:25pm

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

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calochortus  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:39:09pm

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:40:37pm

re: #56 Belafon

12 white men…

…with new cars.

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silverdolphin  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:49:29pm

How much are people interested in Joe Biden’s age?

essentially, not much. And 4-5 times less than 3 years ago.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:51:31pm

Received my Democratic Presidential Primary ballot in the mail. In Colorado it’s all mail voting and it’s pretty fucking cool. I’m voting for Joe Biden. Colorado’s primary elections are on 5 March.

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Jay C  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:52:21pm

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 7:53:59pm

re: #62 teleskiguy

In 2020 I voted for Elizabeth Warren. I was in jail. My folks had to mail the ballot to me at the clink and I had to mail it back to them.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2024 • 8:04:53pm

@clancyny.bsky.social

The Gannett chain of 400 newspapers apparently banned this Doonesbury comic. The topic: suppression of the true history of the Civil War and the danger facing those teaching real history
cracked.com

gocomics.com

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silverdolphin  Feb 20, 2024 • 8:22:51pm

Trump’s re-election campaign spent more money than it raised in January

Trump raised $8.8 million. His largest super PAC raised $7 million but sent $5 million to his other PAC which is paying his legal bills.

Haley raised $12 million. Biden took in $42 million!!!

Biden is a fundraising machine. He has now over $130 million on hand to spend. Trump had $30 million, $3 million less than the month before.

So Biden is getting huge amounts of money from small donors yet the MSM decides this is a problem for Biden. The CBS article spends half its paragraphs discussing how independents and Democrats do not want Biden.

So why are they sending him so much money? Really hate the MSM. Not even internally consistent.

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silverdolphin  Feb 20, 2024 • 8:37:54pm

Dads Forced to Step Up This Week as P! NK Tour Renders All 35-55 Year-Old Women in Australia Unavailable

A littl ebreak from Taylor-mania. Pink’s tour last year was the 7th highest grossing concert tour ever by a woman (she already has the #4 from 2018. She is right there with Swift, Beyonce and Madonna for tour revenue by women.)

And I like her songs ;-) So What? is not only a fun breakup song, but she included the guy she broke up with in the video (they had reconciled by then and are still married)

P!nk - So What (Official Video)

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 20, 2024 • 8:48:19pm

re: #66 silverdolphin

Dark Brandon out there raising them fat stacks while Trump is reduced to hawking spray-painted Nike QC rejects he picked up off Alibaba to pay his legal fees.

You love to see it. 😄

BTW, “So What” is one of my all-time favorite music videos.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:00:05pm
Haven’t seen any DK coverage on this Feb 1st Daily Beast story by Sam Brodey and Roger Sollenberger, and wanted to make sure to call attention to it. Well worth clicking on the link and reading in its entirety. Sinema’s spending patterns lately have been decidedly odd for someone who plans to run for reelection. LOTS of luxury travel, which she publicly deplored when running for office in 2018. “Mind-boggling” spending by both herself and her Getting Stuff Done leadership PAC on security, adding up to $105K/month, most of it on buddy Vrindivan Bellord, the sister of her former colleague Tulsi Gabbard.

She has spent very little on advertising, and took in less money in the fourth quarter of 2023 than her fellow Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, who is not running again till 2028. “Leadership PACs are generally for spreading cash around to allied politicians, party organizations, or other political causes”, says the article, but her PAC is running badly in the red and has spent only $25K or about 2.25% of last year’s revenues on other candidates. She still hasn’t officially declared and only has till April 8th to file. Maybe this means we’ll get lucky and it will be a two-way race between Ruben Gallego and notorious 2020/2022 election denier Kari Lake. If so, I’d give Gallego good odds.

dailykos.com

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silverdolphin  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:01:51pm

re: #68 Dr Lizardo

Dark Brandon out there raising them fat stacks while Trump is reduced to hawking spray-painted Nike QC rejects he picked up off Alibaba to pay his legal fees.

You love to see it. 😄

BTW, “So What” is one of my all-time favorite music videos.

Pink has an edge to her that I really like in my pop music. So What? is up there with Goodbye, Earl by the Chicks for badass woman song.

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teleskiguy  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:03:10pm

Dobbs.

I’m sanguine. Republicans have forever fucked themselves because of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Abortion bans have failed by popular vote in Kansas and Ohio and Kentucky.

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silverdolphin  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:12:03pm

Alabama Declares Frozen Embryos Are Children, Creating Nightmare Rule Against Perpetuities Hypo

Wow, I had not thought about the Rule agaist Perpetuities essentially, this prohibits the control of property long after the death of those originally involved in it. Most times the interest has to end within 21 years of anyone who was alive at the time it was created. In Alabama it is:

(a) A nonvested property interest is invalid unless:
(1) when the interest is created, it is certain to vest or terminate no later than 21 years after the death of an individual then alive; or
(2) the interest either vests or terminates within 100 years after its creation.

Keep the freezers going and (1) never holds. The individual will never die. And then they can cover (2) by using a rolling set of interests that say vest then revest again.

I bet there are going to be some great attempts to abuse this.

Of course there is another huge problem. The embryo is both alive and dead because the only way to prove it is alive is to put it into a womb, at which point it may not survive, thus killing it. Gonna be great lawsuits.

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sagehen  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:12:47pm

re: #70 silverdolphin

Pink has an edge to her that I really like in my pop music. So What? is up there with Goodbye, Earl by the Chicks for badass woman song.

Plus she’s got that circus act, the aerial maneuvers.

and while we’re on the subject of badass women…

Danai Gurira - “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” | The Daily Show

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mmmirele  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:17:26pm

re: #29 Belafon

The funny thing about UATX is it’s trying to be the UT Austin of 40+ years ago, the UT Austin I graduated from 40 years ago and to some extent still is today. I looked up UT Austin’s current student stats:

Gender
Women: 56.3%
Men: 43.6%
Ethnicity/Race
American Indian or Alaskan Native: 0.1%
Asian: 22.0%
Black: 4.5%
Hispanic: 25.2%
International: 9.6%
Multiracial (excl. Black or Hispanic): 2.8%
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: 0.1%
White: 33.0%
Unknown or Blank: 1.8%

utexas.edu

When I went to UT Austin, the gender ratio probably skewed to more men than women and definitely far more white than minority. (And back then, there was no breakout into Hispanic.) It’s still depressing to see that even though the state population is 14% Black, that UT Austin is still a long fucking ways away from representing the state’s population.

But there’s a whole attitude that Bari Weiss and her friends are reaching for, an attitude that was being recognized for what it was even in the 1980s. Yeah, let’s call it white racism, let’s call it white elitism. And yeah, it was there in the 1980s. I’m still depressed that I walked past the Robert E. Lee and Jeff Davis and Woodrow Wilson* statues for YEARS and didn’t even think they shouldn’t be there, much less gotten a rope and tried to pull them down. This racist, elitist attitude is still there, I’m sure, just covered up. Bari and friends want to bring that back to the forefront and as a grad of UT Austin (class of 1984) all I can say is *blergh*.

* Wilson segregated the Federal civil service. It was decades later when I learned this, and that’s why he got a statue on the UT Austin campus, not because he founded the League of Nations.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:22:47pm

Abandoned.

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silverdolphin  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:23:14pm

Biden-Harris HQ

Love them so much. Every day Biden-Harris HQ is brutal.

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Captain Ron  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:24:54pm

Artificial Intelligence played Wargames. The result isn’t reassuring.

YouTube

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:26:01pm

bsky.app

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:28:33pm

re: #76 silverdolphin

One of Trump’s “skills” and the MAGA cult loves it, is that nothing applies to him. He won Florida. There was nothing wrong there. There’s only fraud where he lost, even if the rules are the same in both places.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:31:20pm

What if we’re all descended from these:

The red-lipped batfish or Galápagos batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini) is a fish of unusual morphology found around the Galápagos Islands and off Peru at depths of 3 to 76 m (10 to 249 ft).[2] Red-lipped batfish are closely related to rosy-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus porrectus), which are found near Cocos Island off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. This fish is mainly known for its bright red lips. Batfish are not good swimmers; they use their highly adapted pectoral, pelvic and anal fins to “walk” on the ocean floor. When the batfish reaches maturity, its dorsal fin becomes a single spine-like projection (thought to function primarily as a lure for prey).

en.wikipedia.org

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silverdolphin  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:37:09pm

Lots of money

Yeah, no enthusiasm for Biden. He has more cash on hand at this point than any democratic candidate ever.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:43:15pm

bsky.app

As Tom Nichols said:

Reinforcing my theory that millions of Americans are a bored lumpenbourgeoisie, who wish they were in a movie or anywhere but their own unsatisfying lives.

bsky.app

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:43:56pm

re: #74 mmmirele

* Wilson segregated the Federal civil service. It was decades later when I learned this, and that’s why he got a statue on the UT Austin campus, not because he founded the League of Nations.

Grandma Bacon worked as a clerk in the Navy Department when Wilson was President and she remembered the day Wilson purged a lot of career people out of the department because they just happened to be 1) black and 2) Republican. Of course he claimed that he was removing the Republican “partisan influence” in the department.

Sadly Grandma’s boss executed those purges—one Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was the Assistant Secretary Of The Navy…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:46:48pm

re: #82 Belafon

Gee I wonder how many folks in that Trump crowd are $¢ientologi$t$...🤔

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wrenchwench  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:47:12pm

re: #80 Belafon

What if we’re all descended from these:

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en.wikipedia.org

Just another branch on the tree…

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:47:28pm

re: #84 Joe Bacon ✅

Gee I wonder how many folks in that Trump crowd are $¢ientologi$t$...🤔

Definitely not main street people.

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Captain Ron  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:50:37pm
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Captain Ron  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:51:42pm

I think they mean $87.5K

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mmmirele  Feb 20, 2024 • 9:59:08pm

re: #88 Captain Ron

I think they mean $87.5K

You’re right. And I don’t think grifters Grant & Elena Cardone are collecting even enough daily to cover the interest currently accruing.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 20, 2024 • 10:14:51pm

re: #82 Belafon

I’ve long thought that was MTG’s motivation.

Housewife was so fucking boring so she became a rabble rousing nutcase. Now her life is exciting.

So, unfortunately, are ours.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 20, 2024 • 10:21:16pm

re: #72 silverdolphin

Alabama Declares Frozen Embryos Are Children, Creating Nightmare Rule Against Perpetuities Hypo

Wow, I had not thought about the Rule agaist Perpetuities essentially, this prohibits the control of property long after the death of those originally involved in it. Most times the interest has to end within 21 years of anyone who was alive at the time it was created. In Alabama it is:

Keep the freezers going and (1) never holds. The individual will never die. And then they can cover (2) by using a rolling set of interests that say vest then revest again.

I bet there are going to be some great attempts to abuse this.

Of course there is another huge problem. The embryo is both alive and dead because the only way to prove it is alive is to put it into a womb, at which point it may not survive, thus killing it. Gonna be great lawsuits.

If I were an Alabama fertility clinic holding a bunch of frozen embryos, facing possible homicide charges if a blackout occurs, I would notify all the parents of frozen embryos that they have thirty days to pick up their children. After the deadline passed, for all of the frozen eggs still in my possession, I would notify child protective services that they had been abandoned by their parents, and they need to take custody of them to farm out to foster homes.

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Captain Ron  Feb 20, 2024 • 10:26:33pm

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Captain Ron  Feb 20, 2024 • 10:30:41pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 20, 2024 • 11:20:27pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:09:08am

Half a century ago, nothing could stop progress from coming to Wigan:

1970: Is WIGAN Becoming TOO MODERN? | Nationwide | Voice of the People | BBC Archive



..

I wonder what people 50 years from now will look back upon and think is OBE.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:23:15am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:29:17am

re: #8 JC1

I just want a laser that zaps mosquitoes.

larger targets and more energy efficient: it doesn’t have to vaporize them, just kill them.

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silverdolphin  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:29:20am

re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Half a century ago, nothing could stop progress from coming to Wigan:

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Video

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I wonder what people 50 years from now will look back upon and think is OBE.

I was waiting for Eric Idle to step out ;-) What I know about Wigan are: The Verve (Bittersweet Symphony is a favorite) and it is where Wallace and Grommit live.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:30:56am

re: #13 darthstar

Repeat after me: James Comer is a Russian asset.

Putin has a thick dossier of juicy kompromat on them: serious underage stuff. They are at his mercy.

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silverdolphin  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:32:46am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

larger targets and more energy efficient: it doesn’t have to vaporize them, just kill them.

Looks like Bill Gates is on the case. Or at least his Foundaiton is.

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ckkatz  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:45:29am

Thought for the night:

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Feb 21, 2024 • 12:54:24am

Your Next Wordle intends to climb Mount Everest from the inside.

Click to Reveal

The ghastliness of yesterday’s vista has thankfully departed. I extended it the middle finger of farewell.

Wordle 977 4/6

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:14:38am

So this is what happens when we as a nation cannot agree on a common set of basic values to teach to our children: we have parents who seek to “protect” their children from Evil (we just had the story about the couple who sought the Moral Purity of a theocratic Russia) and now we have these Mormon Mom batshit cray-zees.

I am sure this is just the tip of the iceberg:

Ruby Franke: Parenting advice YouTuber given maximum sentence for child abuse

A Utah mother whose harsh parenting advice made her a YouTube influencer has been sentenced to at least four years in prison for child abuse.

Ruby Franke, 42, tearfully apologised in court as she learned her fate. She previously pleaded guilty to starving and abusing her children.

In court, Utah prosecutor Eric Clarke said that two of Franke’s children, aged nine and 11 at the time, lived in a “concentration camp-like setting” and called her a significant threat to the community.
…
“I was led to believe that this world was an evil place, filled with cops who control, hospitals that injure, government agencies that brainwash, church leaders who lie and lust, husbands who refuse to protect and children who need abuse,” she said.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:32:51am

😞
Bullied nonbinary teen murdered in OK.

huffpost.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:34:30am

re: #104 Patricia Kayden

😞
Bullied nonbinary teen murdered in OK.

huffpost.com

And yet politicians tell us that we need to protect our children from those very people.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:41:28am

re: #96 No Malarkey!

Judge Cannon could score some credibility points if she just replied, “TL;DR…denied.”

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 2:50:44am

re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Putin has a thick dossier of juicy kompromat on them: serious underage stuff. They are at his mercy.

What’s that old adage? “A dead girl…or a live boy.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:16:42am

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

What’s that old adage? “A dead girl…or a live boy.”

I suspect that Putin has enough dirt to bring down the entire GOP and will not hesitate to use it if they cease to do his bidding.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:26:58am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I suspect that Putin has enough dirt to bring down the entire GOP and will not hesitate to use it if they cease to do his bidding.

Or if the GOP fails in their current pro-Russian shenanigans. Who knows…maybe if Putin senses the GOP is heading for a wipeout come this November, he’ll start dumping kompromat he has on Republican lawmakers as a kind of burn notice.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:30:39am

re: #109 Dr Lizardo

Or if the GOP fails in their current pro-Russian shenanigans. Who knows…maybe if Putin senses the GOP is heading for a wipeout come this November, he’ll start dumping kompromat he has on Republican lawmakers as a kind of burn notice.

Putin is in a position to do a lot of damage: his saber-rattling over NATO (of course aided by DJT’s outrageousnesses) are enough send serious jitters through an already shaky EU economy, and their collapse can only harm the US economy…

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Randall Gross  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:32:58am

re: #50 darthstar

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Rich Man’s Spiritual - Gordon Lightfoot

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:34:20am

I’m not trying to discount the possibility of Putin having kompromat on the Republicans, but I wonder sometimes if we give too much credit to our foreign adversary. I tend to prefer Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” We don’t need Putin holding dossiers of unsavory material over Republicans to arrive at the same result. The Republican Party of today is a reactionary party; they react to whatever their leader says, because they feel that showing unity is the only way to preserve their power in a country that is very clearly passing them by. They’re scared and angry because the world is changing around them, and they want to change it back, because White American Jesus (or any one of a dozen assorted reasons that essentially add up to the same thing, since not all Republicans are necessarily religious). With that in mind, Putin is a staunch believer in the status quo; just look at his efforts to bring back the glory of the Russian Empire. Once the tangerine wankmaggot voiced his admiration and approval of Putin, the lapdogs fell into line. It’s as simple as that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:36:51am

re: #112 Nerdy Fish

Right now they are clearly and blatantly working against their own party’s interest: very few people have any sympathy left for Putin and his special Military Operation.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:39:24am

re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Right now they are clearly and blatantly working against their own party’s interest: very few people have any sympathy left for Putin and his special Military Operation.

But the entire point of the Republican Party right now is two-fold: Be yes men for the Boss, and be against the other guy. Whether it’s technically against their interest or not doesn’t matter. Democrats are pro-Ukraine, the former guy is pro-Putin, the choice is obvious even if it’s painful.

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:42:44am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I suspect that Putin has enough dirt to bring down the entire GOP and will not hesitate to use it if they cease to do his bidding.

Hopefully on a “Dead man’s switch” so that when he goes, naturally or not, it all gets released 😈

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:47:13am

Happy Hump Day!
This drivetime tune may sound familiar, and I hope everyone has a very nice day!

Alaska Reid - Feel the Pain (Official Audio)

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:50:11am

Should’ve had this in 3. I made a mistake.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 977 4/6*

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:51:03am

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

FAMILY

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 3:53:03am

Beyoncé is simply amazing!!!!

Beyoncé just made history once again.

On Tuesday, Billboard revealed that the “Alien Superstar” musician, 42, became the first-ever Black female artist to top the Hot Country Songs chart thanks to her single “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which also debuted at No. 2 on the Hot 100 chart.

“Texas Hold ‘Em,” which was officially serviced to country radio on Feb. 13, took the top spot from Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves whose duet “I Remember Everything” has sat at No. 1 for 20 weeks.

The track amassed 19.2 million official streams and 4.8 million in all-format airplay audience, with 39,000 sales in the U.S. through Feb. 15, per Luminate.

Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD ‘EM (Official Lyric Video)
people.com

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:24:45am

This looks pretty good - a legit, kinda old-school creature feature/giant bug on the rampage film.

Putting it in a spoiler tag for the arachnophobes.

Click to Reveal

STING | Official Trailer | Starring Ryan Corr & Alyla Browne | In Theaters April 12

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:25:44am

Unfortunate for all those involved.

A little girl who was digging a hole on the beach with her brother Tuesday afternoon at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea died when what began as a fun day in the sun took a tragic turn — the 5- to 6-foot deep hole suddenly collapsed, burying the siblings in the sand. Pompano Beach Fire Rescue paramedics, after digging them out of the sand on the beach at 4424 El Mar Drive, rushed the girl to the Broward Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, where doctors pronounced her dead, according to the department’s spokesperson. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies took the young boy to the hospital in stable condition, said Pompano Beach Fire Rescue spokeswoman Sandra King.

miamiherald.com

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:31:33am

Let’s remember the issue with trump properties was not dueling independent appraisers.

Among many other lies…tfg lied:

about square footage. That’s objective, not open to interpretation

about allowable usage of MAL ignoring the covenant restrictions. Objective not open to interpretation

Was wildly, almost absurdly aggressive about future sales values

And then simultaneously, massively devalued everything for property tax purposes.

These were not mere differences of opinion or approach. They were reckless and deliberate frauds with the intention of doing exactly what they did:

Reduce property taxes
Gain more favorable loan terms (if not loans at all)

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:31:57am

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:36:21am

Keep it coming! Killed by a HIMARS missile.

Putin humiliated again as 65 Russian soldiers killed by US-made missile while on parade

Putin humiliated again as 65 Russian soldiers killed by US-made missile while on parade

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:38:12am

re: #93 Captain Ron

[Embedded content]Amid rising measles cases, a new generation of doctors is being taught how to spot it.

Deliberate?

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silverdolphin  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:38:39am

Texas is good but I actually prefer her other release -16 Carriages. It was number 9 last I saw.

It really should remind everyone that black music traditions are deeply rooted in country. It feels like it has a real connection to the old rhythmic slave songs, sung while working in the fields.

For me, it feels like a ‘real’ song, a personal one, one she did without any consideration of it being popular or successful. Not a song you can dance to, One you just listen to. I find it one of her most powerful songs.

Beyoncé - 16 CARRIAGES (Official Lyric Video)

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:40:04am

Michael Strahan will have an update on his daughter Isabella’s fight with brain cancer this morning on GMA. I wish her and her family the best of luck with their battle.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:41:47am

This is one did not go well.
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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:42:24am

Heads up! 5,000 pound satellite coming in hot!

A European Space Agency satellite is expected to reenter and largely burn up in Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday morning.

The agency’s Space Debris Office, along with an international surveillance network, is monitoring and tracking the Earth-observing ERS-2 satellite, which is predicted to make its reentry at 3:53 p.m. ET Wednesday, with a 7.5-hour window of uncertainty. The ESA is also providing live updates on its website.

“As the spacecraft’s reentry is ‘natural’, without the possibility to perform manoeuvers, it is impossible to know exactly where and when it will reenter the atmosphere and begin to burn up,” according to a statement from the agency.

The exact time of the satellite’s reentry remains unclear due to the unpredictability of solar activity, which can change the density of Earth’s atmosphere and how the atmosphere tugs on the satellite. As the sun nears its 11-year cycle’s peak, known as solar maximum, solar activity has been ramping up. Solar maximum is expected to occur later this year.

wbaltv.com

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ipsos  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:42:33am

re: #65 jaunte

Gannett sucks, yes, but they didn’t censor this specific Doonesbury. They dropped the comic entirely at the end of January as part of a plan to run identical comics pages across all of their hundreds of newspapers.

It’s cheaper for them to do that than to lay out separate pages for each paper. (Or to have editors or local reporters, but that’s a different sob story.)

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silverdolphin  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:44:48am

re: #130 ipsos

Gannett sucks, yes, but they didn’t censor this specific Doonesbury. They dropped the comic entirely at the end of January as part of a plan to run identical comics pages across all of their hundreds of newspapers.

It’s cheaper for them to do that than to lay out separate pages for each paper. (Or to have editors or local reporters, but that’s a different sob story.)

Stupid. But then, I have not read a Doonesbury in a paper for close to 20 years now. Same with every other comic.

It is why Go Comics exists.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:50:06am

re: #52 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Flint man becomes first person charged under Michigan’s new gun storage law (AP via MSN)

“Control your weapon at all times” includes storage. How hard is this?

Apparently so hard a lot of them shouldn’t be allowed to own guns

If you lose control, then prepare to lose your freedom, finances and future.

If you can’t control your weapon at all times don’t own a gun.

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silverdolphin  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:54:37am

Biden Cancels Another $1.2 Billion of Student Loans

Over 150,000 people will see their student debt canceled. Only happens under a Democrat. With both Houses it would be a lot more.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 4:54:55am

re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅

Wow! The Michigan GOP follies continue!

‘I’m still legally the chair’: Ousted MI GOP leader refusing to stop spending party’s money

And she’s still spending the party’s money!

alternet.org

Offs cancel the credit card. How hard is this?

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:02:58am
Four school committee members asking the Massachusetts National Guard to help with security issues at Brockton High School say students are “causing chaos” and disrupting the learning environment too often.

School committee members Joyce Asack, Tony Rodrigues, Ana Oliver and Claudio Gomes held a press conference Monday to discuss their request.

“We do need to take our schools back into control and make sure our students have a safe learning environment,” Rodrigues said. “Because what’s going on at the high school is disheartening. Kids are losing precious learning time when kids are causing chaos.”

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey issued a statement Sunday saying she is “committed to ensuring that schools are safe and supportive environments.” Healey added that she has been in touch with local officials about the concerns at Brockton High School.

cbsnews.com

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:04:19am

re: #134 Dangerman

“Families sometimes don’t get along,” Campbell told the Detroit News. “But they’re still family. And that’s what we look at this dispute as.”

And the idea that family somehow supercedes other relationships, when parts of the family are toxic, is bullshit.

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Mike Lamb  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:08:22am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I suspect that Putin has enough dirt to bring down the entire GOP and will not hesitate to use it if they cease to do his bidding.

Nah. I think they just care about power above all.

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ipsos  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:11:32am

re: #131 silverdolphin

Stupid. But then, I have not read a Doonesbury in a paper for close to 20 years now. Same with every other comic.

It is why Go Comics exists.

And it’s not just Gannett. Lee Enterprises, the other huge vile chain publisher, did the same thing last year, cutting all its papers down to just half a page of comics.

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ipsos  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:12:55am

re: #134 Dangerman

Offs cancel the credit card. How hard is this?

“I’m sorry, the only authorized user on the card with the authority to cancel is one K. Karamo…”

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Randall Gross  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:15:09am

Biden cancels 1.2 Billion more in Student Debts
cbsnews.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:15:38am

re: #140 Randall Gross

Yay. Go Joe. :)

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:18:58am

re: #124 Shropshire Slasher

Made me think of this WWII operation carried out by that wonderful aircraft, the Mosquito.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:23:24am

re: #72 silverdolphin

That’s giving me 1L flashbacks. You can bet that someone will try to abuse this, by purposefully creating an embryo for freezing, so as to maneuver assets in a way to avoid taxation or to engage in estate planning. Either way, it’s a scam that the AL SCT has enabled. Because some rich white guy will try to take advantage of this.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:34:02am

The Ones Who Live Special Preview | Premieres February 25th on AMC and AMC+

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:34:35am

CNN is finally using the words like false and liar and “crazy shit” when referring to Trump and the things he says.

Headline this morning on cnn.com: Trump makes a false comparison between himself and Navalny

More please. Because this is the fact. There’s absolutely nothing inaccurate about how CNN described Trump’s statements.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:36:21am

re: #145 lawhawk

That is good to hear. And if we are lucky maybe a few others might pick up on it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:37:31am

Gee just how many conspiracy kooks are on the payroll of Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK’s campaign?

motherjones.com

Yeah, The Usual Gang Of Idiots…

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:40:53am

re: #131 silverdolphin

Stupid. But then, I have not read a Doonesbury in a paper for close to 20 years now. Same with every other comic.

It is why Go Comics exists.

And one more reason newspapers are failing.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:41:11am

Gotta love me some swollen nuts in the morning!

Ford Eco Sport Front CV Axles

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:43:47am

NBC: back to back stories on their homepage:

Doctors and patients fearfully proceed with IVF after Alabama court rules embryos are children
How the 2024 presidential election may threaten health coverage for millions

The first is what we’ve discussed here since the ruling came down yesterday. The second is magic balance fairy bulkshit burying the lede.

One party is threatening health coverage for half of all Americans, and undermining health coverage for the rest. The GOP are out to wreck health care and coverage for all women. They want to reduce their health care coverage, make reproductive care options impossible to obtain, and increase maternal mortality rates and infant/prenatal care worse.

The other party is trying to save women and their health care options.

NBC needs to do better and explicitly state that it is the GOP that intends to threaten health coverage for millions. That’s the story. GOP is intent on trying to go after Obamacare again, even though it’s more popular than ever.

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:46:35am

re: #75 Belafon

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Teukka  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:50:46am

I’m getting so sick and tired of some pro-Palestinians. A statement by the US UN Ambassador is being twisted to imply that US is preparing for a genocide of the Palestinian people.
It should be obvious for all, that repeated making hens out of feathers increases the likelihood of the real deal (real genocide, real serious war crimes etc.) being dismissed totally if it comes to pass.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 5:57:25am

The Trump CFM scam is up to 830K (15,000 donors), and is within the GFM ToS according to the site. They did not show that there is a pathway from the sponsors to Trump.

GoFundMe did not respond to a request for comment by publishing time. However, Newsweek reported that Jalen Drummond, GoFundMe’s director of public affairs, told Newsweek that “this fundraiser is currently within our terms of service.”

12newsnow.com

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:02:48am

Reporters Still Aren’t Covering Trump Properly

“Reporters are habituated to the fact that Trump’s base doesn’t care how corrupt he is, so they never frame new frontiers of corruption or accountability in the metaphorical language of dark clouds, which appear over Joe Biden’s campaign anytime he garbles a sentence.”

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Oblongatis  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:03:18am

re: #41 Vicious Babushka

Klingon pain sticks?

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:06:48am

re: #136 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

And the idea that family somehow supercedes other relationships, when parts of the family are toxic, is bullshit.

This is not a family
Its a business of sorts
And has made representation s to the public about what its goals are and what it’s gonna do with their contributions

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:09:05am

re: #132 Dangerman

If I ever had kids, all my guns would be stored away from the home until I was an empty nester.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:12:02am

re: #139 ipsos

“I’m sorry, the only authorized user on the card with the authority to cancel is one K. Karamo…”

Well played

Any entity of this size that doesn’t have multiple signatories (each allowed to act independently. -or, not and), and bank resolutions at the ready for just such an event* is negligent.

Oh wait…

*someone dies, incapacitated, hospital, unreachable, etc

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:12:07am

Sam Alito is mad that anti-gay Christians were struck from the jury in a case about a lesbian

Awww the bigot has a sads…

friendlyatheist.com

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:12:48am

re: #143 lawhawk

That’s giving me 1L flashbacks. You can bet that someone will try to abuse this, by purposefully creating an embryo for freezing, so as to maneuver assets in a way to avoid taxation or to engage in estate planning. Either way, it’s a scam that the AL SCT has enabled. Because some rich white guy will try to take advantage of this.

This is going to scotus, right?

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:13:27am

re: #157 GlutenFreeJesus

If I ever had kids, all my guns would be stored away from the home until I was an empty nester.

The Army trains and licenses dependant families to provide child care in assigned quarters. They will not license a home where guns are stored. (AR 608-10)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:13:41am

re: #160 Dangerman

This is going to scotus, right?

Yep and guess how quickly the corrupted court sides with Alabama!

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:16:26am

re: #150 lawhawk

…. That’s the story. GOP is intent on trying to go after Obamacare again, even though it’s more popular than ever.

And as always with no plan of “then what”?

That way it can’t be criticized

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:16:58am

re: #160 Dangerman

This is going to scotus, right?

The AL Supreme Court is the final arbiter of state law, and the case was decided under state law. This could be appealed to the US SCOTUS if the party that lost wants to claim a federal issue is involved, but it was a state law that the AL Court used to make its ruling.

That said, I doubt the court wants to explicitly come down on the side of claiming that an embryo outside the womb is a person. That raises all kinds of questions and legal issues for everything from insurance to inheritance rights to taxation.

Alabama’s Supreme Court doesn’t give a shit what they did to all the other areas of law, so long as they stick it to women and hold that a bunch of cells outside the body are a person.

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:17:16am
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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:19:29am

re: #165 gocart mozart

42.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:19:57am

re: #157 GlutenFreeJesus

If I ever had kids, all my guns would be stored away from the home until I was an empty nester.

A lot of people care more about their “children” than their offspring. //

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:22:18am

Every GOPer who amplified James Comer’s compromised lying “witness” Smirnov was peddling Russian misinformation - by the witness’ own admission.

The man accused last week of delivering false allegations to federal investigators about Hunter Biden and President Biden’s business dealings told officials after his arrest that individuals “associated with Russian intelligence” were tied to apparent efforts to peddle a story about the first son, federal prosecutors revealed in a court filing Tuesday.

Alexander Smirnov was arrested last week after being charged with two counts that alleged he lied to the FBI. Special counsel David Weiss — the Trump-appointed prosecutor tasked with investigating the president’s son — accused Smirnov of providing his FBI handlers with fake allegations about Hunter and Mr. Biden in 2020. He claimed the two Bidens each accepted $5 million from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. The claims “were false, as the Defendant knew,” according to the charging documents filed against him.

A judge ordered on Tuesday that he be released from custody on a personal recognizance bond.

Smirnov’s attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, declined to comment further.

In a court memo unsuccessfully urging a judge overseeing the case to keep Smirnov behind bars pending trial, prosecutors wrote Tuesday that after he was arrested last week for lying, “Smirnov admitted that officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story about Businessperson 1.” Businessperson 1 appears to align with Hunter Biden.

This should permanently kill Comer’s hardon to get Hunter impeached.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:24:20am

re: #164 lawhawk

The Alabama mess was actually a 2-stage process. The first step was a post-Dobbs “personhood” law. The ALSC ruling expanded the definition. That crosses AL borders if it becomes the definition for other “personhood” states, like FL. Might become a national issue at that point.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:24:36am

re: #159 Joe Bacon ✅

Sam Alito is mad that anti-gay Christians were struck from the jury in a case about a lesbian

Awww the bigot has a sads…

friendlyatheist.com

Lost me at “traditional religious views”

As if that has some magical, protected status

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:24:41am

re: #168 lawhawk

Could Smirnov hotfoot it back to Mother Russia? Or has his passport(s) been seized?

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:25:48am

re: #170 Dangerman

Lost me at “traditional religious views”

As if that has some magical, protected status

It’s code for, “My religion is right and all others are wrong, which means that we should be treated special.”

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:28:14am

re: #172 Nerdy Fish

It’s code for, “My religion is right and all others are wrong, which means that we should be treated special.”

It’s OK to base a court decision on a god’s will if the god appears and testifies under oath.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:28:33am

re: #162 Joe Bacon ✅

Yep and guess how quickly the corrupted court sides with Alabama!

Maybe
But not born, not a child keeps a whole lot of legal issues buried in Pandora’s box.

In addition to those mentioned
Couple divorces
In the settlement, wife gets embryos
Ex husband now on the hook for future child support?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:30:45am

re: #174 Dangerman

Maybe
But not born, not a child keeps a whole lot of legal issues buried in Pandora’s box.

In addition to those mentioned
Couple divorces
In the settlement, wife gets embryos
Ex husband now on the hook for future child support?

Take it from someone who was a member of the “216 Club” Yeah that’s gonna happen when ex-hubby shells out child support to keep those cells frozen…

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BeachDem  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:31:08am

re: #153 Decatur Deb

The Trump CFM scam is up to 830K (15,000 donors), and is within the GFM ToS according to the site. They did not show that there is a pathway from the sponsors to Trump.

12newsnow.com

So about 10 days interest (if he ever sees the money.)

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:32:23am

re: #168 lawhawk

Every GOPer who amplified James Comer’s compromised lying “witness” Smirnov was peddling Russian misinformation - by the witness’ own admission.

This should permanently kill Comer’s hardon to get Hunter impeached.

Still closed door hearings scheduked for next week hunter and his brother

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:33:12am

re: #176 BeachDem

So about 10 days interest (if he ever sees the money.)

If he wants the money, it’s going to cost him a lot of shoes.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:33:57am

The shutdown is coming, kids!

alternet.org

A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed For Putin!

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:36:39am

re: #171 Dr Lizardo

Could Smirnov hotfoot it back to Mother Russia? Or has his passport(s) been seized?

Does anyone (not you) think in 2024 thats bullet proof effective?

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:38:07am

re: #173 Decatur Deb

It’s OK to base a court decision on a god’s will if the god appears and testifies under oath.

If a justice says god appeared and testified is that good enough?

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:41:02am

re: #181 Dangerman

Should be good enough for a mental health hold. Hat tip to the lawyer who produces Chthulhu.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:43:24am

re: #168 lawhawk

Every GOPer who amplified James Comer’s compromised lying “witness” Smirnov was peddling Russian misinformation - by the witness’ own admission.

A judge ordered on Tuesday that he be released from custody on a personal recognizance bond. to be an easier target for Putin.

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:44:24am

I made the awesome discovery this morning that one of my cats likes to chase the mouse pointer. I had my work laptop in bed* and was doing all the little tasks required when one takes a day off work (put the sick day on the corporate calendar, put the sick day on the internal calendar, send an email to my manager, send an email to the team) and Sakura was with me on the bed. She noticed what I was doing and then she noticed the mouse pointer and it was GAME ON to try and catch the pointer.

The last cat I had who would attack the mouse pointer (but on my computer monitor) was the late, lamented Xena. But I would let Xena sleep on my desk (or, rather, she slept on my desk and that space was dedicated to her). These guys know that my desk is off limits except when the Great Temptation (the printer) is making a racket. So I don’t think it’s generally going to be a problem. Other cats I’ve had have been all, “I see nothing.” It’s weird how some cats notice things and for others, it’s just not there.

* For the record, 99.95% of the time I sit at my desk when working on my work laptop. This was an exception because I was being lazy.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:45:30am

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:45:47am

re: #171 Dr Lizardo

Could Smirnov hotfoot it back to Mother Russia? Or has his passport(s) been seized?

He lost his passport and can’t leave the country.

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jeffreyw  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:47:42am

Beef & Broccoli

Good morning!

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:47:48am

re: #186 Belafon

He lost his passport and can’t leave the country.

He could go in a Russian urn.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:49:37am
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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:49:49am

re: #187 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:50:14am

re: #188 Decatur Deb

He could go in a Russian urn.

What’s a Russian urn?///

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:50:57am

re: #191 Dangerman

What’s a Russian urn?///

Six rubles per deployment.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:51:39am

re: #191 Dangerman

What’s a Russian urn?///

The average annual salary in Russia is 1,240,000 Rubles (RUB) or USD 14,771.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:51:58am

dammit, google made me late.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:52:20am

re: #193 Shropshire Slasher

Putin has made them all millionaires!!

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:54:49am

explaining the currently undecided voters

Link

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:57:50am

re: #157 GlutenFreeJesus

If I ever had kids, all my guns would be stored away from the home until I was an empty nester.

I remember being seven or eight years old and finding my granddad’s shotgun in the house somewhere and wanting to take it to school for show and tell. It was not loaded. This was in the 1960s before the Black Panthers scared Ronald Reagan and the conservative white establishment so much they passed *gasp* gun control. However, my father carefully took it away from me and hid it somewhere to where I never found it again. But yeah, people, lock your guns up, OK?

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Charmingly Persistent  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:57:58am

re: #61 silverdolphin

How much are people interested in Joe Biden’s age?

essentially, not much. And 4-5 times less than 3 years ago.

I have been wondering about that. If you ask someone if they are worried about Biden’s age, they say yes (me too). But are they worrying about it if they aren’t reminded? And will it affect their vote? (not me)

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:59:07am

re: #196 Dangerman

explaining the currently undecided voters

Link

Our view is that it’s partly #3, but it’s mostly #2. As we have written several times, we think that most people who are going to vote for Trump in November have already reconciled themselves to that fact, and so there will be no “coming home” for them, because they’re already there.

Do they have a poll to back up their assumption!?

//

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:00:01am

re: #186 Belafon

He lost his passport and can’t leave the country.

Good.

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:03:22am

Gil scott
Monday

He’s back today but no pic

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:04:05am

Today would have been Nina Simone’s 90th birthday.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:04:34am

So, when do Republicans in Congress accuse Smirnov of being a Democratic plant? Before or after he tells the FBI that they knew he was getting information from Russian intelligence?

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:08:21am

I know we don’t like ads here but I found this small online shop out of the UK which is run by a lovely trans girl.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:10:26am

Donald Trump has some work to do in narrowing down his shortlist for running mate in 2024—with the former president confirming at least six names during a town hall event on Fox News Tuesday night. Moderator Laura Ingraham tried to pin him down by listing a series of Trump’s former primary rivals, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Vivek Ramaswamy, as well as Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, but Trump simply confirmed that all are on his shortlist. “Honestly, all of those people are good,” he said. “They’re all good, they’re all solid.” Trump had especially nice things to say about Scott, who was in attendance at the South Carolina event ahead of that state’s primary on Saturday. “He’s been such a great advocate,” Trump said. “I have to say this in a very positive way: Tim Scott, he has been much better for me than he was for himself.”

thedailybeast.com

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:10:56am

re: #203 darthstar

So, when do Republicans in Congress accuse Smirnov of being a Democratic plant? Before or after he tells the FBI that they knew he was getting information from Russian intelligence?

“SLEEPY JOE BAMBOOZLED US AGAIN!!”

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:13:29am

re: #205 Joe Bacon ✅

What? Where’s Elise Stefinak on that list given that she’s one of his biggest ass kissers.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:14:06am

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

For similar reasons, using lasers or a flamethrower to clear your driveway (or the road in front of you) is a Bad Idea (tm), in addition to being so inefficient as to be impractical.

Of course, you realize a product like this is bound to be used to threaten, injure, and kill people, especially since we here in the US, otherwise lack the means to perform mass carnage. The manufacturers of said product will be absolved of any liability because they put warning labels on the packaging stating not to point the device at others or at animals.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:20:47am

re: #207 lawhawk

What? Where’s Elise Stefinak on that list given that she’s one of his biggest ass kissers.

Where she belongs…off of it.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:23:53am

re: #209 darthstar

Where she belongs…off of it.

Or, the more likely reason is that he was asked leading question and simply responded to the names Ingraham presented, rather than volunteering the list himself.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:25:35am

President Biden…strong on security

Mastodon

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:26:26am

re: #210 lawhawk

The list is subject to change. Tim Scott? Trump’s too racist to have a black VP.

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:34:31am

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:34:47am

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:35:03am

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:35:17am

Things I didn’t know about the male anatomy for a thousand please. I may get the surgery if they throw in the six-pack.

They want pecs like Becks.

New York City surgeons are seeing a surge in men seeking to have their nipples reduced in size — and David Beckham is their aesthetic inspiration.

The soccer superstar’s small, symmetrical, “almond-shaped” nips have cashed-up men forking out $5,000 for a procedure to perfect their pecs.

“People want David Beckham’s nipples,” Dr. Marc Everett, a plastic surgeon on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, told the Daily Mail on Wednesday.

Dr. Elie Levine, who also has a practice in the same swanky neighborhood, says he’s now performing the procedure once every two weeks — up from a handful of times a year.

“It’s definitely a growing trend,” he declared, saying he’s also heard men saying they need their nips to look just like Beckham’s.

nypost.com

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dat_said  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:35:54am

re: #210 lawhawk

Or, the more likely reason is that he was asked leading question and simply responded to the names Ingraham presented, rather than volunteering the list himself.

It’s too bad she didn’t throw in a few rational choices in with the nonsense names: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis? Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)? Clark Kent? Vivek Ramaswamy? Lamont Cranston? South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem? Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:37:42am

Jeff has a way with words…

Comer Fudd and Jim Jordan are fucking idiots who got duped by Russian spies

jefftiedrich.com

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:38:31am

Dominion gains access to Newsmax texts, thanks to a ruling that allowed Dominion access to personal texts by employees and journalists:

Dominion Voting Systems is entitled to review personal communications and text messages of Newsmax Media journalists in its defamation suit against the conservative media company, a Delaware judge ruled last week.

The ruling is a blow to Newsmax, which successfully avoided such a mandate in a similar case and sought to allow its employees to voluntarily offer up any relevant communications.

Dominion sued Newsmax for $1.6 billion in 2021, claiming that the conservative news network defamed its company and falsely claimed it rigged the 2020 election. The case is one of more than 10 suits brought by voting machine companies against media companies and individuals who made stolen election claims.

A trial in this suit is scheduled to begin in September 2024.

In legal filings, Newsmax said it was unable to obtain and deliver employees’ private communications on personal devices, arguing it had “no legal right or practical ability to obtain this data.”

It also argued it wasn’t required to give Smartmatic, another voting company maker suing the conservative news network, access to personal cellphones in a similar case, and shouldn’t be forced to do so in this case.

But Judge Eric Davis, the Delaware Superior Court judge who oversaw Dominion’s case against Fox News and Fox Corporation earlier this year, disagreed with their argument and ruled on Dec. 1 that the company did in fact have to comply with a court order requiring such materials.

Look for Newsmax to settle, given that their exposure in this case is even worse (and the damages request is for nearly $1.6 billion). Bankrupt these fuckers.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:39:00am

re: #70 silverdolphin

Pink has an edge to her that I really like in my pop music. So What? is up there with Goodbye, Earl by the Chicks for badass woman song.

Halestorm - Here’s To Us [Official Video]

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:41:15am

Well, here I am at the airport on a plane heading to Orlando, and the captain has just announced that they have a problem that can be solved by powering down and starting up again. I didn’t know that they ran on Windows….

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:42:04am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

I am no expert but those three lines look like sawdust to me. Then again some folks might consider me an “expert” because I like to watch “This Old House.”

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:42:44am

re: #220 Eventual Carrion

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Yup, that’s another hella good one.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:45:07am

re: #221 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Well, here I am at the airport on a plane heading to Orlando, and the captain has just announced that they have a problem that can be solved by powering down and starting up again. I didn’t know that they ran on Windows….

The other day, the wipers on my wife’s SUV got in a weird state where they would stop in the middle of the windshield on intermediate. We could only get it to clear when we turned the car off.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:48:30am

re: #224 Belafon

The other day, the wipers on my wife’s SUV got in a weird state where they would stop in the middle of the windshield on intermediate. We could only get it to clear when we turned the car off.

Hitting it a few times can always help if the 3 fingered salute wont (ctrl-alt-delete).

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:49:15am

re: #219 lawhawk

Dominion gains access to Newsmax texts, thanks to a ruling that allowed Dominion access to personal texts by employees and journalists:

Look for Newsmax to settle, given that their exposure in this case is even worse (and the damages request is for nearly $1.6 billion). Bankrupt these fuckers.

Nooooo we don’t want Snoozemax to settle. We want to see that liar Christopher Ruddy squirm on the stand when confronted with his fucking lies!

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:50:38am

re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅

Nooooo we don’t want Snoozemax to settle. We want to see that liar Christopher Ruddy squirm on the stand when confronted with his fucking lies!

The only “settlement” should be for the full amount Dominion is asking for. Not one penny less.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:52:07am

re: #224 Belafon

The other day, the wipers on my wife’s SUV got in a weird state where they would stop in the middle of the windshield on intermediate. We could only get it to clear when we turned the car off.

Memories of my 1970 1/2 base model AMC Gremlin with wipers that ran off of the engine vacuum. There was a dial on the dash that you had to keep moving to get the wipers to work and sometimes they wouldn’t stop wiping unless you pumped the brake a couple times…

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:52:26am

re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅

Nooooo we don’t want Snoozemax to settle. We want to see that liar Christopher Ruddy squirm on the stand when confronted with his fucking lies!

I know we want this to go to trial and watch them get completely crushed by a judgment in excess of what was requested as damages. But Newsmax lawyers are probably of a better kind than those who offer their services to Trump and they’ll insist on settling to keep the damage to a minimum. It’ll still be for hundreds of millions, but that beats paying out a billion or more. I think the lawyers will ultimately hold sway on the corporate bosses at Newsmax.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:53:36am

re: #228 Joe Bacon ✅

Memories of my 1970 1/2 base model AMC Gremlin with wipers that ran off of the engine vacuum. There was a dial on the dash that you had to keep moving to get the wipers to work and sometimes they wouldn’t stop wiping unless you pumped the brake a couple times…

There was also a time a little later when the wiper control module was located under the hood, and not with the rest of the electronics under the dashboard. I had to replace mine once when the control module burned out, as you would expect, from electronics exposed to engine compartment temperatures.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:54:31am

re: #91 No Malarkey!

If I were an Alabama fertility clinic holding a bunch of frozen embryos, facing possible homicide charges if a blackout occurs, I would notify all the parents of frozen embryos that they have thirty days to pick up their children. After the deadline passed, for all of the frozen eggs still in my possession, I would notify child protective services that they had been abandoned by their parents, and they need to take custody of them to farm out to foster homes.

I can take a few thousand in, I have a chest freezer.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:54:44am

re: #102 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:54:59am

re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅

Nooooo we don’t want Snoozemax to settle. We want to see that liar Christopher Ruddy squirm on the stand when confronted with his fucking lies!

Tell him they’ll settle for twice the original amount. They might be dumb enough to agree.

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Teukka  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:56:21am

So… Where did all the hoopla about the US UN Amb saying “final solution” come from?
Everyone knows who Quds News Network is allied with.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:56:26am

re: #231 Eventual Carrion

I can take a few thousand in, I have a chest freezer.

Alabama pays an average of $550/month for foster children, so you should do well.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:56:50am

re: #229 lawhawk

Frankly I want to see that liar Christopher Ruddy get the REAL Spanish Inquisition treatment. Never will forget how Ruddy was hired by that scumbag Richard Mellon Scaife to set up the “Arkansas Project” to slime Bill and Hillary.

Ruddy also pushed the lie about Hillary killing Vince Foster. He’s just another SMOTI with a Sugar Daddy who paid his bills.

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:57:50am

re: #228 Joe Bacon ✅

Memories of my 1970 1/2 base model AMC Gremlin with wipers that ran off of the engine vacuum. There was a dial on the dash that you had to keep moving to get the wipers to work and sometimes they wouldn’t stop wiping unless you pumped the brake a couple times…

Oh God. Army vehicles with vacuum wipers. Pardon the expression, but holy hell they really sucked. The ones on the Jeeps were bad but let me tell you about a rolling horror movie known as the “Gamma Goat”… Let me start by saying that was the least of it’s myriad of nightmares.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 7:58:39am

Diaper Don’s screech about “Russia, Russia, Russia” is 100% correct. The GQP is the party of Putin/Mother Russia. Putin literally has the GQP wrapped about his bloated white finger. He has played them and continues to play them.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:06:26am

No, Kari.

We just want you to STFU once and for all.

Kari Lake moans about defamation case: ‘They’re trying to sue me into oblivion’

rawstory.com

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:08:38am

re: #204 Vicious Babushka

I know we don’t like ads here but I found this small online shop out of the UK which is run by a lovely trans girl.

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:09:48am

re: #239 Joe Bacon ✅

No, Kari.

We just want you to STFU once and for all.

Kari Lake moans about defamation case: ‘They’re trying to sue me into oblivion’

rawstory.com

No… keep talking Kari. You’re writing checks that your bank accounts can’t cash.

Your career light is flashing red because you’re a seditious treasonweasel who is enabling those seeking to invalidate election results when GOPers lose. You back Trump and those who tried to overthrow the govt to keep him in power despite losing the election based on certified election results that were free of voter fraud - voter fraud that none of Trump and his coconspirators could prove in a court of law. The GOP, however, engaged in rampant election fraud - trying to invalidate results that were properly conducted and counted, and smeared those workers who put in their time and effort to count the votes.

Make her pay… and keep paying.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:11:22am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

Jeff has a way with words…

Comer Fudd and Jim Jordan are fucking idiots who got duped by Russian spies

jefftiedrich.com

Bought off is more likely. No, I don’t think Boris Badenov is going around passing out bags of cash, though that method is suitable for pulpit pimps since they could claim that a bag of cash literally fell out of the sky and the IRS would have to take their word for it. Instead, I suspect the Russian influencers work by indirect blackmail, they bribe their targets with information and other favors they have extorted from others. They troll the pedophile networks, and possibly other forms of criminal communication, looking for people who might be able to provide, say, insider investment information or such esoteric favors as elite college admissions. This is easy stuff for professional agents. This is especially so since, unlike legitimate law enforcement, they have no obligation to obey the law.
There are exceptions who can be blackmailed directly. The forgotten but not gone Madison Cawthorn, for example, was an almost laughably obvious conduit for Russian propaganda. This included statements he clearly did not understand, for example, that Russian hypersonic missiles would easily “sink our [non-existent] Black Sea fleet.” Then he ran his reckless mouth about repug coke orgies and, lo, the embarrassing “cousin video” became public and he was duly defeated by the simple suspicion that he might be gay.
This raises another important point that should be obvious to everyone: Conservatives are easier to blackmail because they appeal to the puritanical bigotry of their base and are therefore much easier to catch violating their own loudly declared standards. The revelations about Jerry Falwell, for instance, would not have hurt, say, a liberal Hollywood producer. Similarly, the cousin video would have embarrassed a liberal politician but it would not have ended their career. Voters would have seen it as a disgusting, and potentially misleading, intrusion rather than a deal breaker.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:11:31am

re: #239 Joe Bacon ✅

‘They’re trying to sue me into oblivion’

Sounds good to me.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:11:58am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:13:01am

re: #244 darthstar

Good. Put those buildings to good use.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:13:47am

Gym Neighbors doubles down on the Hunter lies.

‘It’s Not True!’ CNN’s Manu Raju Confronts a Defiant Jim Jordan Over Debunked Biden Claims

mediaite.com

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:16:15am

re: #138 ipsos

And it’s not just Gannett. Lee Enterprises, the other huge vile chain publisher, did the same thing last year, cutting all its papers down to just half a page of comics.

I subscribed to my local Lee paper’s e-access for 1 month. I dedicated a half-hour on the phone to cancel it.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:16:22am

re: #245 PhillyPretzel ✅

Good. Put those buildings to good use.

Trump Tower would be a great place for affordable housing.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:20:26am

re: #248 darthstar

That is what I was thinking. And some of that retail space would be great for small businesses.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:21:01am

re: #244 darthstar

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Dave In Austin  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:21:05am

re: #248 darthstar

Trump Tower would be a great place for affordable MIGRANT housing.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:21:49am

re: #249 PhillyPretzel ✅

That is what I was thinking. And some of that retail space would be great for small businesses.

Or a medical clinic.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:21:49am

re: #248 darthstar

Trump Tower would be a great place for affordable housing.

We could turn it into a jail for Republicans when “Cheney’s beartrap” closes on them.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:21:57am

re: #246 Joe Bacon ✅

Gym Neighbors doubles down on the Hunter lies.

‘It’s Not True!’ CNN’s Manu Raju Confronts a Defiant Jim Jordan Over Debunked Biden Claims

mediaite.com

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:22:15am

re: #250 Dr. Matt

E Jean Carroll Tower.
Immigrants Get the Job Done Tower

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:22:49am

re: #251 Dave In Austin

Abbott’s buses would have a place to drop off people.

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sagehen  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:22:49am

re: #119 Shropshire Slasher

Beyoncé is simply amazing!!!!

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:24:09am

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:30:26am

re: #246 Joe Bacon ✅

Gym Neighbors doubles down on the Hunter lies.

‘It’s Not True!’ CNN’s Manu Raju Confronts a Defiant Jim Jordan Over Debunked Biden Claims

mediaite.com

Gym Jordan: “Hunter Biden was put on the board of Burisma and gets paid a million dollars a year. Fact number two, he’s not qualified to be on the board.”

You mean the guy who is educated at Georgetown University and Yale University and has worked as hedge fund principal, a venture capital and private equity fund investor, as a banker, a lobbyist, and a legal representative for lobbying firms is NOT qualified? Gym Jordan, and his record of covering up sexual abuse, isn’t qualified to be walking freely among society.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:31:17am

re: #246 Joe Bacon ✅

Isn’t Jordan’s other “star witness” on the lam, apparently being a Chinese spy/gunrunner? Or am I getting that confused with another GOP nothingburger?

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Mike Lamb  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:31:22am

re: #210 lawhawk

Or, the more likely reason is that he was asked leading question and simply responded to the names Ingraham presented, rather than volunteering the list himself.

+100. There is zero chance he’d name DeSantis. None. Doubt he actually knows who Gabbard is. Noem might actually be on the list because of her appearance. Bigger thing, is that none of that list gets Trump anything (and a few probably hurt).

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:33:13am

re: #239 Joe Bacon ✅

No, Kari.

We just want you to STFU once and for all.

Kari Lake moans about defamation case: ‘They’re trying to sue me into oblivion’

rawstory.com

What’s funny is that Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County Recorder, is a Republican. She’s pissing off her own party.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:37:11am

re: #257 sagehen

the. Oklahoma station that initially refused to air the song has apologized; “we didn’t realize she had done a country record, we just assumed a new Beyonce release would be R&B. But after the backlash to that decision we gave it a listen, it’s absolutely a country record. Our bad.”

I can’t wait for the “Black women can’t be doing Country Music” backlash. It’s going to be awesome.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:37:29am

re: #122 Dangerman

Let’s remember the issue with trump properties was not dueling independent appraisers.

Among many other lies…tfg lied:

about square footage. That’s objective, not open to interpretation

about allowable usage of MAL ignoring the covenant restrictions. Objective not open to interpretation

Was wildly, almost absurdly aggressive about future sales values

And then simultaneously, massively devalued everything for property tax purposes.

These were not mere differences of opinion or approach. They were reckless and deliberate frauds with the intention of doing exactly what they did:

Reduce property taxes
Gain more favorable loan terms (if not loans at all)

We might not have huge budget deficits if everyone in the real estate industry were forced to pay their fair share of taxes; but they are all Trumps, except most know better than to run for President and expose their criminality to public view. My guess is that almost all Leona Helmsley their taxes.

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jeffreyw  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:41:44am

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:43:16am

Trump Campaign Spent More Than It Raised, While PAC Helped on Legal Fees

Donald Trump’s campaign spent more than it raised in January, a worrying sign for the Republican 2024 presidential frontrunner whose broader political operation is also funding his legal fees.

A Trump-allied political action committee spent $2.9 million on legal fees in January alone. Separately, Trump’s campaign took in $8.8 million, but doled out $11.4 million last month, according to filings late Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission. The campaign began February with $30.4 million cash on hand. Its biggest expense was the $4.7 million it paid for advertising time.

Bankrupting his campaign, and the RNC, will be added to his looooong list of bankrupt entities. Bravo.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:45:12am

re: #266 Dr. Matt

If Donnie Brasco Moscow bankrupts the GOP just in time for the November elections, I might end up laughing myself to death.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:45:27am

This ignorant motherfather shot his mouth off.

‘I think we should kill ‘em all’: GOP Rep. Andy Ogles on Palestinians in Gaza

Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee said Tuesday that “we should kill ‘em all” after an activist pressed him to respond to atrocities that the U.S.-backed Israeli military is committing against Palestinians in Gaza, including children.

“You know what? So, I think we should kill ‘em all, if that makes you feel better,” Ogles responded. “Hamas and the Palestinians have been attacking Israel for 20 years. It’s time to pay the piper.”

rawstory.com

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Jay C  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:46:13am

re: #242 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

This raises another important point that should be obvious to everyone: Conservatives are easier to blackmail because they appeal to the puritanical bigotry of their base and are therefore much easier to catch violating their own loudly declared standards. The revelations about Jerry Falwell, for instance, would not have hurt, say, a liberal Hollywood producer. Similarly, the cousin video would have embarrassed a liberal politician but it would not have ended their career. Voters would have seen it as a disgusting, and potentially misleading, intrusion rather than a deal breaker.

Gotta disagree: or rather, proffer the observation that the level of negative blowback for transgressions of “standards” by conservatives
tends to vary depending on the status (wealth, influence, official position, fundraising ability, etc.) of the transgressor. “Puritanical bigotry” is certainly the philosophical foundation of the American RW, but it’s generally used as a means of enforcing standards on “THEM” - “US” usually get a pass (though normally after some public ritual of confession/contrition; sincerity optional).

Case(s) in point: Rep. George Santos (R) is outed as a liar, fraud and scamster: yeah, he got booted out; but there was a non-trivial bloc of his fellow Republicans who thought he got a raw deal and should have brazened it out. Sen Bob Menendez (D) got indicted on some scam, and Senate Democrats immediately called (near-unanimously) for his resignation.

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sagehen  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:55:49am

re: #166 lawhawk

42.

So Jackie Robinson is the meaning of life?

Okay, I can accept that.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:59:35am

re: #270 Dr. Matt

Considering Ukraine is one of the world’s largest grain producers, a lot even if you’re being selfish.

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 8:59:36am

re: #126 silverdolphin

Texas is good but I actually prefer her other release -16 Carriages. It was number 9 last I saw.

It really should remind everyone that black music traditions are deeply rooted in country. It feels like it has a real connection to the old rhythmic slave songs, sung while working in the fields.

For me, it feels like a ‘real’ song, a personal one, one she did without any consideration of it being popular or successful. Not a song you can dance to, One you just listen to. I find it one of her most powerful songs.

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Finally took the time to listen to this.

This really reminds me of old school country. Pre-1980 stuff before they started getting all “Do it by the book or we won’t play you on the radio” even worse than they were even earlier. My parents liked soft pop and a lot of country so I grew up around it even if I got … other influences (my father was a janitor who innocently brought home a lost & found record - The Ramones “Rocket To Russia”. I was never the same boy again… 😱😈😎 I also learned from his Miles Davis and Herb Alpert records so perhaps it balanced out in the end… Sketches of Spain, Bitches Brew & Whipped Cream as well as that Rocket to Russia 🥰 and those are just the names I remember. ..) But Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Loretta, Glenn, Hank Sr. (his son when he wasn’t being too stupid), etc… and so on. So much impact of Sturgeon’s law now but my memory is full of the 10%…

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sagehen  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:00:52am

re: #173 Decatur Deb

It’s OK to base a court decision on a god’s will if the god appears and testifies under oath.

Oh, God! (1997) - Courtroom Miracle Scene (9/10) | Movieclips

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dat_said  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:01:04am

re: #264 Hecuba’s daughter

We might not have huge budget deficits if everyone in the real estate industry were forced to pay their fair share of taxes; but they are all Trumps, except most know better than to run for President and expose their criminality to public view. My guess is that almost all Leona Helmsley their taxes.

Shark Tank guy, Kevin O’Leary, pretty much said all real estate developers are frauds on CNN (cnn.com). Right after CNN Business puts up screenshot listing Trump fraud crimes (falsification of business records in the second degree; issuing false financial statements; insurance fraud; conspiracy), the Shark guy: “everything you just listed off is done by every real estate developer everywhere on earth in every city.”

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:04:01am

re: #252 darthstar

Or a medical clinic for reproductive care (including abortion).

ftfy

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:05:46am

re: #120 Dr Lizardo

This looks pretty good - a legit, kinda old-school creature feature/giant bug on the rampage film.

Putting it in a spoiler tag for the arachnophobes.

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Girl’s name is Charlotte, I like that. Web and all

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:07:49am

You just know Trump won’t be able to refrain from mentioning the possibility of having his assets seized…’They want to take away my buildings…Trump Tower…can you imagine? They’d probably turn it into a crack house…’ (Mike Lindell perks up in attention)

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dat_said  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:08:23am

A distant acquaintance (friend of a friend), Dr. Cristin Welle, was on CNN to talk about Elon Musk’s Neurolink: video.snapstream.net

I think she did a fantastic job. She is definitely correct in that results really need to be vetted and peer reviewed and validated.

one thing that I think is important to recognize is that you know, neuralink and Elon Musk are not the first to have a person control a cursor with their thoughts. In fact, BlackRock, the company along with their collaborators at brain-gut, have been doing this for decades. So actually what he’s describing is not particularly new in the broader scheme of scientific literature.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:09:29am

re: #272 Belafon

Considering Ukraine is one of the world’s largest grain producers, a lot even if you’re being selfish.

The price of sunflower based birdseed is horrible

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:10:13am

re: #166 lawhawk

42.

What do you get when you multiply six times nine?

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:11:22am

GA Supreme Court throws out decades of its own precedent to fuck over defendants.

The Georgia Supreme Court has overruled two decades of its own precedent by deciding that a criminal defendant’s guilty plea can stand in cases where a judge failed to advise the defendant of all the rights they waived when pleading guilty.

In a unanimous opinion issued Tuesday, the court said it was wrong to have invalidated guilty pleas in cases where defendants were not expressly told about each of the rights they waived.

The court declined Tuesday to set aside the guilty plea and life sentence of Donald Green in the shooting death of Andre Winder, after a Fulton County judge failed to tell Green that he was waiving his right to be protected from self-incrimination.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:13:10am

re: #281 Romantic Heretic

What do you get when you multiply six times nine?

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:14:48am

re: #281 Romantic Heretic

What do you get when you multiply six times nine?

42 in base 13.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:15:17am

re: #278 darthstar

You just know Trump won’t be able to refrain from mentioning the possibility of having his assets seized…’They want to take away my buildings…Trump Tower…can you imagine? They’d probably turn it into a crack house…’ (Mike Lindell perks up in attention)

Trump can just tap into his line of credit from Putin.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:15:31am

re: #231 Eventual Carrion

I can take a few thousand in, I have a chest freezer.

You know this, but needs a -80 deg C, not -20 deg C.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:19:44am

re: #285 Shropshire Slasher

Trump can just tap into his line of credit from Putin.

Buddy can you spare 50 billion rubles?

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:19:52am

re: #282 lawhawk

GA Supreme Court throws out decades of its own precedent to fuck over defendants.

Cops and courts can do no wrong.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:20:19am

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:21:09am

re: #286 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

You know this, but needs a -80 deg C, not -20 deg C.

So, four chest freezers? In sequence?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:22:50am

re: #285 Shropshire Slasher

Trump can just tap into his line of credit from Putin.

Putin: Darth Vader - You Have Failed Me For The Last Time

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jeffreyw  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:23:48am

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:23:51am

re: #291 Dr Lizardo

Trump as Lando…

Robot Chicken: This Deal’s Getting Worse All The Time

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:26:10am

re: #292 jeffreyw

27 pounds of Mac & Cheese…

And a couple of gallons of insulin for my pancreas to handle all that…

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jeffreyw  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:27:12am

Mastodon

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:28:29am

re: #292 jeffreyw

“Once open, the contents must be used within a week.”

I don’t know if it says that on the bucket, but some of the packages of deli meat say that, and you realize after opening that two of you aren’t going to be able to consume that much of one thing that quickly.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:29:04am

Well whodathunk it when it comes to that asshole Christopher Rufo?

Chris Rufo, a frequent Fox News guest who has the ear of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, contributes to the far-right IM-1776 magazine and maintains an explicitly collaborative and supportive relationship with its editors and writers, including would-be “warlord” Charles Haywood who leads a network of armed extremists bent on ending liberal ideals, reported The Guardian.

“[IM-1776’s] editors and writers — many of them so-called ‘anons’ working under pseudonyms — have variously advocated for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act; celebrated figures such as the ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski and the proto-fascist Italian nationalist Gabriele D’Annunzio; and advanced conspiracy theories about the Covid pandemic, and what they term the ‘regime’, a leftist power structure that they imagine unites the state, large corporations, universities and the media,” the newspaper reported.

The outlet ran a “manifesto” by Rufo called “The New Right Activism” last month in both its online and print versions, and he has publicly urged his followers to buy and subscribe to IM-1776. He said during one of the Twitter spaces he’s co-hosted with the magazine’s editors that he hoped to incorporate the “dissident right” into mainstream conservatism.

“I think there is a room for engaging the dissident right and the establishment right,” Rufo said. “I think we need to have a bridge between the two and engage in thoughtful dialogue.”

Haywood, a former shampoo manufacturer turned wannabe warlord, contributes to IM-1776 and apparently helps fund its publication, has published six bylined articles on the website using eliminationist rhetoric against his enemies and calls for “the total, permanent defeat of the left, of the ideology at the heart of the Enlightenment.”

rawstory.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:29:44am

re: #216 Shropshire Slasher

Things I didn’t know about the male anatomy for a thousand please. I may get the surgery if they throw in the six-pack.

nypost.com

Rich people have way too much money, exhibit #13663.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:30:37am

re: #293 lawhawk

LOL

James Earl Jones’ voice acting in The Empire Strikes Back (and Return of the Jedi) was, IMHO, the gold standard. That perfect tone of menace you can feel right to your bones.

Star Wars Episode VI Return Of The Jedi Opening Scene HD720p

Using your voice alone to create one of the most iconic villains in cinema history - that’s one hell of an achievement.

300
Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:31:57am

re: #290 wrenchwench

So, four chest freezers? In sequence?

/

Somewhere deep in the Scientific American archives is a Home Scientist article showing how to modify a household refrigerator to produce serious cryogens.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:32:54am

Mastodon

I once dreamed that I woke up. Twice, actually. In sequence. I’m pretty sure I really woke up after that.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:34:03am

re: #173 Decatur Deb

It’s OK to base a court decision on a god’s will if the god appears and testifies under oath.

I will tell the truth, the whole truth, so help me me

303
FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:35:40am

re: #173 Decatur Deb

It’s OK to base a court decision on a god’s will if the god appears and testifies under oath.

“So help me me.”

IIRC, George Burns got that line in “Oh, God” since he did exactly that.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:41:40am

re: #119 Shropshire Slasher

Beyoncé is simply amazing!!!!

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I can’t wait for Laura Ingraham to spend weeks raging about Beyonce going blonde (“blonde is for White people, it just is”) and her country hits (“country hits are for White people, they just are”).

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:43:01am

It’s kind of frightening when you encounter a Freeper who has had an epiphany.

Under wraps, because, Freep:

Click to Reveal

If anyone wonders why Republicans will probably lose the WH, the Senate, and the House in the coming years, look no further than INSANE stuff like this. All Republicans have to do is be normal, and we can’t. Dems will use this to scare independents and women to vote for them in droves. As someone whose wife is currently going through IVF, this ruling is absolute lunacy. This issue is why there was no “red wave” in 2022 and it will rear its ugly head in 2024. Great job, everyone!
1 posted on 2/21/2024, 10:23:07 AM by thefactor

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:47:24am

Well this was utterly predictable:

Fearing prosecution, UAB pauses in vitro fertilization after Alabama embryo court ruling

The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system has paused in vitro fertilization procedures following an Alabama Supreme Court decision due to fear of criminal prosecution and lawsuits, a spokeswoman said.

A statement emailed by UAB spokeswoman Hannah Echols said they are “saddened” for patients who want to have babies through IVF. The process, which involves fertilizing eggs outside the body and then transferring embryos to the womb, accounts for about 2 percent of births in the United States, according to RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association. The UAB Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility made the move after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos had the same status as children in wrongful death lawsuits.

“We must evaluate the potential that our patients and our physicians could be prosecuted criminally or face punitive damages for following the standard of care for IVF treatments,” Echols wrote in the email.

al.com

And not that I think fertility specialists are reading LGF, but I’d think hard, very hard, before treating any person resident in Alabama with IVF. It’s not just the possibility you could end up in court, but your insurance might not want to cover you either, because of the insane possible liability.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:47:57am

re: #304 Dr. Matt

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I can’t wait for Laura Ingraham to spend weeks raging about Beyonce going blonde (“blonde is for White people, it just is”) and her country hits (“country hits are for White people, they just are”).

And a bunch of men will complain about that picture, waving it around for being uncountrylike after coming out of the bathroom panting and sweaty.

308
Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:49:31am

re: #305 Decatur Deb

It’s kind of frightening when you encounter a Freeper who has had an epiphany.

Under wraps, because, Freep:

[Embedded content]

The Left has been warning the Right for decades about their stupidity, about being out-of-step with society, about going to war over every social issue, about embracing the most radical elements in their wing……the Left TOLD them you are voting against your own best interests. Bravo, it only took 30+ years to realize this. They deserve to suffer. My empathy has evaporated.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:51:37am

re: #308 Dr. Matt

heh:
“All Republicans have to do is be normal, and we can’t. “

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:52:23am

re: #309 Decatur Deb

heh:
“All Republicans have to do is be normal, and we can’t. “

That should be their bumper sticker.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:52:46am

re: #308 Dr. Matt

The Left has been warning the Right for decades about their stupidity, about being out-of-step with society, about going to war over every social issue, about embracing the most radical elements in their wing……the Left TOLD them you are voting against your own best interests. Bravo, it only took 30+ years to realize this. They deserve to suffer. My empathy has evaporated.

Right, and it’s not Dems scaring people. Republicans are just frighteningly delusional and want to push their religious rules that do not apply to other people onto all of us.

312
Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:53:03am

re: #225 lawhawk

Hitting it a few times can always help if the 3 fingered salute wont (ctrl-alt-delete).

Yes, percussive maintenance.

313
Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:53:26am

The war of attrition continues.

Ukrainian troops confront escalating challenges amid depleting resources during Russian war

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Dr. Matt  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:55:47am

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:56:57am
FOREIGNER guitarist Mick Jones has revealed that he is battling Parkinson’s disease.

The 79-year-old musician, who has not performed with FOREIGNER since 2022, opened up about his diagnosis in a social media post earlier today.

He wrote: “Fans will have become very aware that for some time now, I have not been performing onstage with the band. Several years ago, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. I want everyone to know that I am doing alright. However, I’ve always liked to be at my best when performing onstage, and sadly, at present, I find that a bit difficult. I am still very much involved in the background with FOREIGNER and remain a presence.

“Parkinson’s is a daily struggle; the important thing is to persevere and remind myself of the wonderful career I’ve had in music.

“I thank all the fans who have supported FOREIGNER throughout the years and continue to attend our concerts — I want you to know I appreciate your support; it always means so very much to me, but especially so at this point in my life.”

blabbermouth.net

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:59:14am

re: #193 Shropshire Slasher

The average annual salary in Russia is 1,240,000 Rubles (RUB) or USD 14,771.

we must work on your sense of humor sometimes

317
William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 9:59:34am

re: #299 Dr Lizardo

LOL

James Earl Jones’ voice acting in The Empire Strikes Back (and Return of the Jedi) was, IMHO, the gold standard. That perfect tone of menace you can feel right to your bones.

[Embedded content]

Using your voice alone to create one of the most iconic villains in cinema history - that’s one hell of an achievement.

That remains the ultimate moment to send a shiv into your spine. “The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am”.

318
Hecuba's daughter  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:00:46am

re: #297 Joe Bacon ✅

Well whodathunk it when it comes to that asshole Christopher Rufo?

…….
“[IM-1776’s] editors and writers — many of them so-called ‘anons’ working under pseudonyms — have variously advocated for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act; celebrated figures such as the ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski and the proto-fascist Italian nationalist Gabriele D’Annunzio; and advanced conspiracy theories about the Covid pandemic, and what they term the ‘regime’, a leftist power structure that they imagine unites the state, large corporations, universities and the media,” the newspaper reported.
…….

My befuddlement here— what does Kaczynski have to do with any of this, given he was a crazy environmentalist against modern technology ? AFAIK there was nothing in his background to suggest that he was racist at all or would approve of any views expressed by Rufu and his fans. Is it his violence that they admire, even though it was in service of a very different ideology?

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:00:55am

re: #316 Dangerman

we must work on your sense of humor sometimes

Comrade, in my head, I think I am hilarious!

320
Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:01:20am

re: #205 Joe Bacon ✅

…but Trump simply confirmed that all are on his shortlist
thedailybeast.com

it’s “all of them katie”

because he doesnt know how to answer the question

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:01:25am

re: #306 mmmirele

Well this was utterly predictable:

al.com

And not that I think fertility specialists are reading LGF, but I’d think hard, very hard, before treating any person resident in Alabama with IVF. It’s not just the possibility you could end up in court, but your insurance might not want to cover you either, because of the insane possible liability.

Agreed. I imagine Alabama will soon have a shortage of such specialists due to this stupid ruling.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:01:50am

re: #232 Hecuba’s daughter

Par here too

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Same here

Click to Reveal

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:02:00am

re: #316 Dangerman

we must work on your sense of humor sometimes

That was funny, if a little slower than my sloppy answer. (I tee’d the setup, so I had the advantage.)

324
William Lewis  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:02:38am

re: #313 Shropshire Slasher

The war of attrition continues.

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And every Republican in congress deserves nothing but a prison cell for treason.

And for every Ukrainian child that dies? Add a charge of capital homicide.

325
ipsos  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:04:27am

re: #320 Dangerman

it’s “all of them katie”

because he doesnt know how to answer the question

He’s actually (gasp) right insofar as his VP pick won’t make any difference in the outcome of the election.

At which point he’s probably trying to figure out how he could name Uday or Qusay for a Trump-Trump ticket.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:05:33am

re: #317 William Lewis

That remains the ultimate moment to send a shiv into your spine. “The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am”.

Yeah, pitch perfect delivery. After all, we saw Vader killing his underlings for their failures in the previous installment and it nicely sets us up for the Emperor, who at first, looks like a frail old man. But when that Force lightning starts flying, yeah…we can see exactly what Vader means.

327
wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:06:29am

Mastodon

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jeffreyw  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:07:09am

re: #296 Belafon

“Once open, the contents must be used within a week.”

I don’t know if it says that on the bucket, but some of the packages of deli meat say that, and you realize after opening that two of you aren’t going to be able to consume that much of one thing that quickly.

If someone gave a bucket like that I would vacuum seal and freeze most of it. I think it’s aimed at diners and dives, maybe family picnics.

329
Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:10:28am

re: #275 dat_said

Shark Tank guy, Kevin O’Leary, pretty much said all real estate developers are frauds on CNN (cnn.com). Right after CNN Business puts up screenshot listing Trump fraud crimes (falsification of business records in the second degree; issuing false financial statements; insurance fraud; conspiracy), the Shark guy: “everything you just listed off is done by every real estate developer everywhere on earth in every city.”

i repeat from above:
lying about actual square footage?
ignoring the limitations on deed covenants?

330
Dangerman  Feb 21, 2024 • 10:13:06am

re: #290 wrenchwench

So, four chest freezers? In sequence?

YouTube

331
austin_blue  Feb 21, 2024 • 6:37:16pm

re: #304 Dr. Matt

[Embedded content]

I can’t wait for Laura Ingraham to spend weeks raging about Beyonce going blonde (“blonde is for White people, it just is”) and her country hits (“country hits are for White people, they just are”).

cnn.com

Ingraham is a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand. The curtains don’t match the rug.


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