The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Pig Man

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

The Pig Man — We react to the news that the Supreme Court is conspiring to help Trump avoid prosecution for January 6. It’ll ultimately be up to American voters to decide whether Trump goes to prison. Reactions from Glenn Kirshner, Allison Gill, and Norm Ornstein. Trump removed from the Illinois ballot. Mitch McConnell will step down from Senate leadership. Trump tried to scam the NY appeals court with a settlement offer. Senate Republicans blocked a bill protecting IVF. The Michigan primary. Lauren Boebert’s son arrested. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Jody Hamilton and Lonny Paul, Bill Toms, and more!

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Dave In Austin  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:13:36pm

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:14:15pm

Mentioned Rush Limbaugh on the earlier string. Here are some belated congratulations on his permanent return to sobriety (3 years the 17th):

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jaunte  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:17:12pm

re: #2 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Good job, Rush.

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IngisKahn  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:18:53pm

Hrm, is it better to comfort a slave and appeal to the slave driver’s humanity in the hope that their suffering is at least slightly diminished, or is it better to catfish them, thus giving them less time to scam the innocent?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:22:54pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:23:37pm

patreon.com

Freethoughblogs and PZ Meyers main blog are no longer accessible because someone complained to the domain registrar with an unsubstantiated claim. Without checking, the registrar removed them from the database and has so far refused to reinstate them

This is worrisome. That a single unverified complaint can bring down a progessive scientific web site.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:24:17pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

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Just line up the kids on Sunday and give them their weekly allowance.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:25:43pm

re: #3 jaunte

Good job, Rush.

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Somebody give those worms an injection of Narcan.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:29:11pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

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Mastodon

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darthstar  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:35:39pm

re: #9 Backwoods Sleuth

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Those no votes are the short list to replace McConnell.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:37:25pm

re: #10 darthstar

Those no votes are the short list to replace McConnell.

good luck to them in trying to herd the rest

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darthstar  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:38:33pm

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

That asshole is saying they’ll address Ukraine aid after they pass a budget.

Discharge petition needs to be rammed through so hard Mike’s asshole could fit Trump’s sneakers in by the pair.

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jaunte  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:41:33pm

@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

NEW: Ex-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is now targeting a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter over some of her reporting on the state’s $77 million welfare scandal as part of his defamation trial against Mississippi Today.

He’s also sought to uncover sources.
mississippifreepress.org

More GOP domestic terrorism.

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Charles  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:46:36pm

Good news for Biden: bad news for Biden.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:46:56pm

Donald Trump has been found to have fraudulently boosted the value of Scottish homes by up to £200 million. A judge’s civil fraud case revealed that the Trump Organization had valued a 2,500-home development at £83,164, significantly lower than the actual value[1]. The fraudulent methods used by the Trump Organization included inflating property values and using false numbers in property valuations[2][3]. As a result of this fraudulent activity, Donald Trump has been ordered to pay over $350 million in damages in a civil fraud case, with potential interest charges adding another $100 million[4]. Despite denying committing fraud, Mr. Trump is facing significant financial consequences and legal restrictions as a result of these findings[5].

Citations:
[1] thenational.scot
[2]
[3] heraldscotland.com
[4] bbc.com
[5] apnews.com

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:51:48pm

where is the lightning bolt?
where is the meteor?

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Charles  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:54:20pm

how many of y’all have really stopped to consider what it will be like if Donald Trump’s grotesque, idiotic fascist policy ideas are enacted in the real world, with a government run by a cult leader who’s also a vengeful con man with a large following of legalistic henchmen and feral thugs?

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:56:41pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

It’ll be like Alabama, but with more torchlight parades. I love a parade…

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:59:32pm

re: #18 Decatur Deb

It’ll be like Alabama, but with more torchlight parades. I love a parade…

Many of us will die. They’re actively planning a civil war against blue states now, with plans to nationalize the National Guards of red states and have them invade states that won’t bow to their demands on abortion and other stupid culture war bullshit. Let that sink in: They are literally planning to go to war with their political enemies after they win. This is straight up third world banana dictator shit.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 29, 2024 • 5:59:45pm

re: #18 Decatur Deb

It’ll be like Alabama, but with more torchlight parades. I love a parade…

So do i. It’s nice when they all bunch up like that. //

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Jay C  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:00:56pm

re: #15 Backwoods Sleuth

A judge’s civil fraud case revealed that the Trump Organization had valued a 2,500-home development at £83,164, significantly lower than the actual value

Hoot mon!
So “2500 homes” at that value comes out to each “home” being valued at all of £33.26 each.
JFC, you’d be lucky to get a curry takeaway for 4 at £33 in Scotland…

OK: on reflection, it seems like MAYBE that was £83 million
still seems low…

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piratedan  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:01:08pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

If such a thing happens, I suspect that at first if the usual means (legal, protest, etc) fail, we’ll devolve into a civil war.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:02:22pm

re: #19 Nerdy Fish

Many of us will die. They’re actively planning a civil war against blue states now, with plans to nationalize the National Guards of red states and have them invade states that won’t bow to their demands on abortion and other stupid culture war bullshit. Let that sink in: They are literally planning to go to war with their political enemies after they win. This is straight up third world banana dictator shit.

Many of us are dying now, in Alabama prisons, traffic stops, OB/GYN wards. It will ramp up, but it’s not new.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:03:03pm

re: #20 Romantic Heretic

So do i. It’s nice when they all bunch up like that. //

I’m too damn old to go chasing after them.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:05:57pm

re: #21 Jay C

Hoot mon!
So “2500 homes” at that value comes out to each “home” being valued at all of £33.26 each.
JFC, you’d be lucky to get a curry takeaway for 4 at £33 in Scotland…

OK: on reflection, it seems like MAYBE that was £83 million
still seems low…

So Trump is looking at tax and fraud charges in other countries. Countries without a purchased Supreme Court?

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Charmingly Persistent  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:08:08pm

re: #22 piratedan

If such a thing happens, I suspect that at first if the usual means (legal, protest, etc) fail, we’ll devolve into a civil war.

I believe this. What do I do when democracy in my country is coming to an end? Never been violent in my life but …

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:09:14pm

re: #16 Backwoods Sleuth

where is the lightning bolt?
where is the meteor?

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But the real burning question is…which one is the bigger asshole?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:10:47pm

re: #18 Decatur Deb

It’ll be like Alabama, but with more torchlight parades. I love a parade…

the floats are the best part!

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Belafon  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:11:33pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

how many of y’all have really stopped to consider what it will be like if Donald Trump’s grotesque, idiotic fascist policy ideas are enacted in the real world, with a government run by a cult leader who’s also a vengeful con man with a large following of legalistic henchmen and feral thugs?

You mean 2017-2021? Yes, I know it will be worse the second time around, but we have seen it.

If you feel like thinking about it every day, cool. You do you. As long as you GOTV - yourself, family and friends - and don’t let the thoughts paralyze you.

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TedStriker  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:12:14pm

re: #15 Backwoods Sleuth

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re: #25 Decatur Deb

So Trump is looking at tax and fraud charges in other countries. Countries without a purchased Supreme Court?

Trump’s gonna wish for the the GOP-crippled IRS when HM Revenue and Customs comes after him…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:13:02pm

Watch for the breakup of the Religious Right as Fundy Xtians turn on Catholics and both of them turn on Mormons.

And that will just be the start.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:13:43pm

re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅

But the real burning question is…which one is the bigger asshole?

Show some sympathy. They’re both products of abusive upbringing.

“In the opinion
Of this court, this child is depraved on account he ain’t had a normal home.”

“Hey, I’m depraved on account I’m deprived!”

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JC1  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:14:28pm

re: #19 Nerdy Fish

Many of us will die. They’re actively planning a civil war against blue states now, with plans to nationalize the National Guards of red states and have them invade states that won’t bow to their demands on abortion and other stupid culture war bullshit. Let that sink in: They are literally planning to go to war with their political enemies after they win. This is straight up third world banana dictator shit.

Why do you think that such orders would be obeyed?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:16:04pm

re: #24 Decatur Deb

I’m too damn old to go chasing after them.

that’s why we keep the young’uns around

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:16:29pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

Show some sympathy. They’re both products of abusive upbringing.

“In the opinion
Of this court, this child is depraved on account he ain’t had a normal home.”

“Hey, I’m depraved on account I’m deprived!”

When it comes to Fucked-Up Franky—where are all those “mole children” Q says Fucked-Up Franky rescued from the caves under Central Park where Hillary and Bill kept them locked up harvesting adrenochrome from them? Q said Franky was going to reveal them to the whole world when Hillary and Bill were arrested…

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:19:44pm

re: #33 JC1

Why do you think that such orders would be obeyed?

There are several states (such as Texas) that have been grooming their National Guard with white nationalists. Not all would obey such orders, but undoubtedly they know which ones will.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:19:52pm

You must sit down before you peruse this!

Meet The Lady Who Rode Giraffes Bareback With Jesus In God’s Petting Zoo

And then a gorilla pushed her on the swingset and then…

Friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta brings us the testimony of prophetess Donna Rigney, who went to heaven and got to fuck around in God’s petting zoo with our Lord Jesus Christ. We guess he had the day off from saving souls.

It started right after she consecrated her house back to Jesus, and then Jesus was like “come on, open your spiritual eyes,” and THEN ALL THIS HAPPENED:

Prepare yourself for the video clip…

wonkette.com

putting the Wonkette link because I refuse to link to Shitter!

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:20:44pm

re: #19 Nerdy Fish

Many of us will die. They’re actively planning a civil war against blue states now, with plans to nationalize the National Guards of red states and have them invade states that won’t bow to their demands on abortion and other stupid culture war bullshit. Let that sink in: They are literally planning to go to war with their political enemies after they win. This is straight up third world banana dictator shit.

Who is proposing these plans? I hadn’t heard anything about nationalizing the National Guard to invade other states.

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Charles  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:21:56pm

re: #29 Belafon

You mean 2017-2021? Yes, I know it will be worse the second time around, but we have seen it.

If you feel like thinking about it every day, cool. You do you. As long as you GOTV - yourself, family and friends - and don’t let the thoughts paralyze you.

I probably do think about it too much. It’s because I see a bad future headed for the US if we continue on our present collective trajectory.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:23:26pm

re: #36 Nerdy Fish

There are several states (such as Texas) that have been grooming their National Guard with white nationalists. Not all would obey such orders, but undoubtedly they know which ones will.

Florida and are a few more states as well

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:23:52pm

re: #36 Nerdy Fish

There are several states (such as Texas) that have been grooming their National Guard with white nationalists. Not all would obey such orders, but undoubtedly they know which ones will.

The structures and mechanics of that just aren’t there. Worst case could be a lot of chaos, perhaps with crime rising to the level of guerilla bands. We would settle into a situation like occupied France, but with no one to mount Operation Overlord. Then we all get to find out how brave we are.

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:24:32pm

We have to defeat the fascist shitheads. And we will.

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Charles  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:25:04pm

“Collective trajectory” - say that 10 times fast.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:25:52pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

We have to defeat the fascist shitheads. And we will.

Better if we do it by donating, organizing, and volunteering for the right candidates.

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jaunte  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:25:55pm

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

And then there’s this:

Creepin’ Jimmy O’Keefe Stalks Judge Engoron At The Gym
Threatening judges now new national pastime.
wonkette.com

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TedStriker  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:26:24pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

We have to defeat the fascist shitheads. And we will.

We have to, or there’s gonna be no “we” left.

However, whenever, wherever… fight.

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Belafon  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:26:55pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

I probably do think about it too much. It’s because I see a bad future headed for the US if we continue on our present collective trajectory.

I do worry about us here. We can be a bad echo chamber and we don’t have any real younger people here, so at times I worry that our years of fighting just to stay in place, and losing as often as winning, is breaking us. We gotta just keep fighting and doing what we can.

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silverdolphin  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:27:50pm

re: #19 Nerdy Fish

Many of us will die. They’re actively planning a civil war against blue states now, with plans to nationalize the National Guards of red states and have them invade states that won’t bow to their demands on abortion and other stupid culture war bullshit. Let that sink in: They are literally planning to go to war with their political enemies after they win. This is straight up third world banana dictator shit.

IMHO, Its a lunatic’s fever dream so let them play and fanaticize . The US is just too large in population and size for this to work. We know from previous efforts how many troops it takes to pacify and subdue a population. Even if they could get every member of the entire National Guard and all the soldiers from around the world to follow their orders (something I find very unlikely), they would only have enough people to pacify California. After tremendous loss of life. If they somehow deputized every LEO in the US, they could perhas pacify NY. Then there is no one left over for anywhere else. Like Texas and Florida that have more Democrats than NY.

And that asssumes they could overcome the huge logistical problems of moving soldiers and material across the country from so many locations, all against active efforts to stop them. That would likely take a genius and take a large amount of time (It took us 6 months to get into Iraq for the First War, with a much smaller and less populated foe) I simply do believe they have the mind power to be successful at this.

Doesn’t mean they won’t try and kill some people. But I worry that it is more likely they will do much more harm with indirect, political means - such as replacing all the civil servants with cronies, cutting SS and Medicare, forcing women to have children, removing contraceptions from the marketplace, etc. Cutting off all federal funding to Blue states, not seating house members from blue states, etc.

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garzooma  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:31:45pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

how many of y’all have really stopped to consider what it will be like if Donald Trump’s grotesque, idiotic fascist policy ideas are enacted in the real world, with a government run by a cult leader who’s also a vengeful con man with a large following of legalistic henchmen and feral thugs?

I’ve talked about how most of the countries in the world are and have been autocracies. I’ve long felt that people weren’t aware of the danger. I’m actually feeling better now that people seem more aware.

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JC1  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:32:18pm

re: #45 jaunte

And then there’s this:

Creepin’ Jimmy O’Keefe Stalks Judge Engoron At The Gym
Threatening judges now new national pastime.
wonkette.com

Judges are protected by US Marshalls. One of these days, one of these idiots will find out in a fatal way.

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:35:12pm

re: #44 Decatur Deb

Better if we do it by donating, organizing, and volunteering for the right candidates.

Way ahead of ya on my personal front. Mom and I donate to the county Democrats, we put up signs (AFTER LABOR DAY, it’s a strict rule), and I’ve been asking the people around me if they’re registered to vote. That last one I’ve never done until 2020. Now I do it in all casual conversation if politics comes up.

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garzooma  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:40:36pm

re: #29 Belafon

You mean 2017-2021? Yes, I know it will be worse the second time around, but we have seen it.
[…]

No, we haven’t. 2017-2021 were the “malevolence tempered by incompetence” years. But now, as David Frum has pointed out “the Velociraptors have figured out how to work the doorknobs”. In particular, Trump didn’t know about Inspector Generals. He does now, and there will be no more Vindmans to blow the whistle on schemes to go after political opponents.

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Charles  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:41:29pm

I really should stop stopping to consider. Never ends well.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:42:45pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:42:59pm

Super long shot, tbh I don’t blame anyone who agrees with her 100% but still won’t donate. Pro ski mountaineer Caroline Gleich is running for U.S. Senate in Utah as a Democrat.

I met her in person earlier this month. We followed each other on Twitter for years, until teleskiguy got banned.

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:43:15pm

re: #36 Nerdy Fish

There are several states (such as Texas) that have been grooming their National Guard with white nationalists. Not all would obey such orders, but undoubtedly they know which ones will.

There are 23,000 in Texas that are part of their military forces. That simply is not enough to subdue much of America. At the counterinsurgency ratio that is the minimum seen historically for success of 20 soldiers to 1000 civilians, this would let the subdue a population of about 1 million. Biden received 5 million votes in 2020.

They will maybe have enough to hold Austin. But nowhere near enough to hold any other major city. And they will not have the materiel and ammo to accomplish much.

Because there will be a strong counterinsurgency.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:45:33pm

This must be the new MAGAT theme song.

NSFW…

Redneck Piece of White Trash

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:49:40pm

re: #56 silverdolphin

There are 23,000 in Texas that are part of their military forces. That simply is not enough to subdue much of America. At the counterinsurgency ratio that is the minimum seen historically for success of 20 soldiers to 1000 civilians, this would let the subdue a population of about 1 million. Biden received 5 million votes in 2020.

They will maybe have enough to hold Austin. But nowhere near enough to hold any other major city. And they will not have the materiel and ammo to accomplish much.

Because there will be a strong counterinsurgency.

The Texas National Guard is likely to be under new leadership very soon.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:49:47pm

re: #36 Nerdy Fish

There are several states (such as Texas) that have been grooming their National Guard with white nationalists. Not all would obey such orders, but undoubtedly they know which ones will.

When Trump faces large scale mutiny, sabotage and desertion from established
forces, he is likely to respond by deputizing large masses of armed MAGAts. Besides existing gangs like the Proud Boys, the NRA and Evangelical church networks could help provide an ad hoc organizational framework of sorts. These could be called something like the “Freedom Guard.” This was the name of the 20th Century Confederacy’s SS-style party militia in Harry Turtledove’s Timeline 191 alternate history series.
The MAGAt forces wouldn’t really stand a chance, but they are so arrogant and delusional that it will take massive losses to convince them of that. Among other things, their reflexive rejection of legitimate media will cause them to ignore reports of defeat and loss until they see it with their own eyes.

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wrenchwench  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:52:03pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

“Collective trajectory” - say that 10 times fast.

We sell a line of clothing called ‘Trajectory’. I thought that was aggressive. There is a line from ‘Democracy’ and a line from brand name ‘Free Country’. Those two are from China. That’s aggressive, too, although it doesn’t look like it at first.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:52:32pm

If Trump is elected, he will direct the military to shoot migrants. He will also openly take bribes from foreign countries and brag about it. He will do whatever he wants, so much so that even Clarence and Sammy are like “What the fuck, dude??!!” as the SCOTUS rules against him and he will give them the finger again and again and again. He may be impeached but he will never ever be convicted in the Senate for anything. Assuming all Democrats vote to convict, you would need say 17 Republican senators to go along. Can you name 17 that would do it? I can think of maybe six.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:54:01pm

Well, today I had a “Girl’s Day” with my 14 year old granddaughter. We walked on the beach, then we had lunch, then we went to the spa to get our nails done. Then we waited for a while until our nails were dry and then we went swimming in the infinity pool.

I would say it was very productive, for a vacation.

There were some parasailers flying above the beach. My gdr is like “I would love to do that!” and I’m like “Keep those things the hell away from me!”

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silverdolphin  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:56:00pm

re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

When Trump faces large scale mutiny, sabotage and desertion from established
forces, he is likely to respond by deputizing large masses of armed MAGAts. Besides existing gangs like the Proud Boys, the NRA and Evangelical church networks could help provide an ad hoc organizational framework of sorts. These could be called something like the “Freedom Guard.” This was the name of the 20th Century Confederacy’s SS-style part militia in Harry Turtledove’s Timeline 191 alternate history series.
The MAGAt forces wouldn’t really stand a chance, but they are so arrogant and delusional that it will take massive losses to convince them of that. Among other things, their reflexive rejection of legitimate media will cause them to ignore reports of defeat and loss until they see it with their own eyes.

THe logistics of moving a rowdy, untrained group of thugs around are mind-boggling. How do they get fed? How many types of ammo will have to be somehow made and distributed because they all have different weapons? Will they just drive their own cars to the battles? Will they be reimbursed for their expenses?

ANd finally, how will their leaders prevent them from bolting at the first battle with the counterinsurgents?

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Belafon  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:57:32pm

re: #52 garzooma

No, we haven’t. 2017-2021 were the “malevolence tempered by incompetence” years. But now, as David Frum has pointed out “the Velociraptors have figured out how to work the doorknobs”. In particular, Trump didn’t know about Inspector Generals. He does now, and there will be no more Vindmans to blow the whistle on schemes to go after political opponents.

Depends on your definition, especially since I included “Yes, it will be worse.”

I think, personally, another thing we fail to do here is take into account what other people have gone through. I’ve gone for three days without food, which torpedoed my first attempt at college, a psychological nightmare I didn’t get through until the end of my Navy time, a one point which I almost killed myself.

So, yes, the upcoming shit will be horrible if he wins, but I’m not going to sit here and doom out a scenario in place of continuing to make sure people are motivated to vote and get others to vote. If doom motivates you, go right ahead, but it doesn’t me and I have seen it paralyze others.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 29, 2024 • 6:58:03pm

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:00:21pm

re: #61 Ace Rothstein

If Trump is elected, he will direct the military to shoot migrants. He will also openly take bribes from foreign countries and brag about it. He will do whatever he wants, so much so that even Clarence and Sammy are like “What the fuck, dude??!!” as the SCOTUS rules against him and he will give them the finger again and again and again. He may be impeached but he will never ever be convicted in the Senate for anything. Assuming all Democrats vote to convict, you would need say 17 Republican senators to go along. Can you name 17 that would do it? I can think of maybe six.

Clarence and Sammy objecting?? I don’t think so. They will support whatever violations of the law he commits because he is the law. (Absolute power available only to Republican Presidents).

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:02:38pm

Trump will not be bound by the law. He will literally do whatever he wants, and getting paid is at the top of the list.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:04:21pm

re: #67 Ace Rothstein

Trump will not be bound by the law. He will literally do whatever he wants, and getting paid staying out of prison is at the top of the list.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:07:55pm

re: #63 silverdolphin

THe logistics of moving a rowdy, untrained group of thugs around are mind-boggling. How do they get fed? How many types of ammo will have to be somehow made and distributed because they all have different weapons? Will they just drive their own cars to the battles? Will they be reimbursed for their expenses?

ANd finally, how will their leaders prevent them from bolting at the first battle with the counterinsurgents?

Look to medieval times…those same questions asked at the time, the answers are not pleasant.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:09:41pm

niterz, lizardz…sweet dreamz…

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:09:46pm

re: #61 Ace Rothstein

About that…

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:11:45pm

re: #63 silverdolphin

THe logistics of moving a rowdy, untrained group of thugs around are mind-boggling. How do they get fed? How many types of ammo will have to be somehow made and distributed because they all have different weapons? Will they just drive their own cars to the battles? Will they be reimbursed for their expenses?

ANd finally, how will their leaders prevent them from bolting at the first battle with the counterinsurgents?

Quite true. They won’t be able to move far from their homes so we won’t see anything resembling a concerted, strategic offensive. The Evangelical gun churches are especially prevalent, even in blue states, though. We could see very widespread, and extreme, violence in many areas. This would be especially true in places with MAGA-friendly law enforcement. This is why it is important to be prepared for individual and, if possible, community self defense. The difference between this objective and the MAGAT’s grandiose power fantasies will be another advantage for counter-insurgent forces: Community defense goals are achievable with the available resources, MAGAT goals are not.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:18:18pm

Our military is not going to be part of an unconstitutional coup. Its doctrine and training keeps it from ever wanting to. Even if it did, it cannot sustain itself without top-down reserve activation. The design of the force, since Viet Nam, has been deliberately organized to break down regional and class differences—that’s the Powell Doctrine. Any large scale operation marries Active Duty, National Guard, and US Army Reserve into predetermined, interdependent, combatant commands.
This was done to prevent the “disinvolvement” that led to the 1960s anti-war movement, but it also makes a War Between the States impossible. A bizzaro President can do a lot of harm, but a bizzaro Commander in Chief will find he has nothing to command.

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silverdolphin  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:18:19pm

re: #69 Backwoods Sleuth

Look to medieval times…those same questions asked at the time, the answers are not pleasant.

Oh, I expect they will do what the Russians do and shoot anyone bolting. But moving large groups of soldiers across the US will be even harder and more damaging than Napoleon attacking Moscow. Just getting to California will be very hard. Logistics are critical for modern warfare based on fossil fuel based weaponry.

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Dangerman  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:22:09pm

re: #68 Vicious Babushka

TIL the password “Viciousbabushka!” Would take 50m years to crack

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:22:17pm

re: #72 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I’m close with almost all my neighbors.

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austin_blue  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:25:03pm

re: #72 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Quite true. They won’t be able to move far from their homes so we won’t see anything resembling a concerted, strategic offensive. The Evangelical gun churches are especially prevalent, even in blue states, though. We could see very widespread, and extreme, violence in many areas. This would be especially true in places with MAGA-friendly law enforcement. This is why it is important to be prepared for individual and, if possible, community self defense. The difference between this objective and the MAGAT’s grandiose power fantasies will be another advantage for counter-insurgent forces: Community defense goals are achievable with the available resources, MAGAT goals are not.

Logistics:

The weakest link of any pick-up militia.

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darthstar  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:25:27pm

Cheesy white beans with focaccia. Didn’t suck.

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TedStriker  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:27:27pm

re: #75 Dangerman

TIL the password “Viciousbabushka!” Would take 50m years to crack

Not now, you’ve let the cat out of the bag!

///

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TedStriker  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:29:20pm

re: #77 austin_blue

Logistics:

The weakest link of any pick-up militia.

As the old saw goes, amateurs talk about tactics, professionals talk about logistics.

As the much, much older saw goes, armies march on their stomachs.

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William Lewis  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:29:36pm

re: #73 Decatur Deb

Our military is not going to be part of an unconstitutional coup. Its doctrine and training keeps it from ever wanting to. Even if it did, it cannot sustain itself without top-down reserve activation. The design of the force, since Viet Nam, has been deliberately organized to break down regional and class differences—that’s the Powell Doctrine. Any large scale operation marries Active Duty, National Guard, and US Army Reserve into predetermined, interdependent, combatant commands.
This was done to prevent the “disinvolvement” that led to the 1960s anti-war movement, but it also makes a War Between the States impossible. A bizzaro President can do a lot of harm, but a bizzaro Commander in Chief will find he has nothing to command.

Yup. There are a lot of nut jobs out there that don’t understand that and will regret it if push comes to shove.

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ipsos  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:29:41pm

re: #10 darthstar

Those no votes are the short list to replace McConnell.

And that’s very important, because it means even if we don’t get 50 seats + Harris in November, a 51- or 52-seat Republican “majority” will be just as dysfunctional as the current House situation.

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darthstar  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:30:09pm
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Vicious Babushka  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:34:17pm

re: #75 Dangerman

TIL the password “Viciousbabushka!” Would take 50m years to crack

To think I have been doing this all wrong using my real name as a password. //

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darthstar  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:36:42pm

Good dog, Lassie. Good dog.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:36:49pm

re: #62 Vicious Babushka

Well, today I had a “Girl’s Day” with my 14 year old granddaughter. We walked on the beach, then we had lunch, then we went to the spa to get our nails done. Then we waited for a while until our nails were dry and then we went swimming in the infinity pool.

I would say it was very productive, for a vacation.

There were some parasailers flying above the beach. My gdr is like “I would love to do that!” and I’m like “Keep those things the hell away from me!”

One of the parasailers went up very high and out over the ocean. I heard screaming. NOPE NOPE NOPE.

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darthstar  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:39:32pm

I loved this about Sluggo…

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:41:28pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:45:58pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:46:48pm

I have a confession to make. I’m 64 years old and I had no idea these tools existed.

I’ve always cleaned my brushes by removing the hair by hand (I’ve had super long hair my whole life. Now it’s the shortest it’s ever been, just below my shoulders.) Then I happened on these tools when I was on Amazon looking to replace a nail clipper.

I’m. Obsessed.

I brush my hair for 10 minutes every night just to play with my little rakes. Oh, and I bought a high end boar bristle brush ($30), too.

Did I mention I’m obsessed?

And for my fellow olds our there. This is really nice. Something I never knew I needed (since I can still twist myself up into a pretzel pretty easily), but yeah, this is good.

amazon.com

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:48:16pm

re: #36 Nerdy Fish

And why is there an assumption that blue states wouldn’t fight back or break with the red states?

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darthstar  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:51:24pm

re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s not that I can’t reach my toes…but I can’t see them and the clipper at the same time. Will get a pair of these hedge trimmers for feet and give them a try…I turn 60 in March so I’m allowed I guess.

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retired cynic  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:53:03pm

re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I hadn’t seen those, either! My hair had straggled ends that I could sit on, but it was really uncontrollable and falling out. I threw out my old brush because it was really hard to clean by hand, and got one that is much easier to clean. But now I am tempted to get a good brush and a rake! (This week I asked my son if he would hack my hair off, so that it was even and about six inches shorter. Less hair to pile up on the floor. He brushed out all the tangles and trimmed me, and it is MUCH easier to care for. Bless his heart!)

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retired cynic  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:54:09pm

re: #92 darthstar

Medicare pays for a podiatrist’s nail assistant to trim my toenails every three months, and that is such a blessing.

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darthstar  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:55:26pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:57:11pm

re: #94 retired cynic

Medicare pays for a podiatrist’s nail assistant to trim my toenails every three months, and that is such a blessing.

I take Eartha in for a mani-pedi so she doesn’t destroy the furniture about evrey 5-6 weeks…She’s due again as she’s playing with the leather couch…and the Eames is six feet away.

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Charmingly Persistent  Feb 29, 2024 • 7:57:45pm

re: #41 Decatur Deb

The structures and mechanics of that just aren’t there. Worst case could be a lot of chaos, perhaps with crime rising to the level of guerilla bands. We would settle into a situation like occupied France, but with no one to mount Operation Overlord. Then we all get to find out how brave we are.

I agree. The U.S. Army / reserves / national guard will not be used to invade and defeat states. No hard coups. But if Trump wins he doesn’t need a hard coup. He can use armed forces in quasi legal ways to “put down insurrection” and “defend the border.” He can slowly expand their duties. He won’t make the mistake of having anyone in leadership with principles again, so things will get worse and worse. A soft coup.

So yeah we will get to find out how brave we are.

I do tons of GOTV. I am not sitting around paralyzed with fear. But if Trump wins I believe things will get very bad faster than seems possible.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:08:29pm

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silverdolphin  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:08:32pm

re: #97 Charmingly Persistent

I agree. The U.S. Army / reserves / national guard will not be used to invade and defeat states. No hard coups. But if Trump wins he doesn’t need a hard coup. He can use armed forces in quasi legal ways to “put down insurrection” and “defend the border.” He can slowly expand their duties. He won’t make the mistake of having anyone in leadership with principles again, so things will get worse and worse. A soft coup.

So yeah we will get to find out how brave we are.

I do tons of GOTV. I am not sitting around paralyzed with fear. But if Trump wins I believe things will get very bad faster than seems possible.

You are right. But I actually worry more about what happens when Biden wins but the Democrats lose control of the House or Senate (I really have a hard time seeing a path for us to keep the Senate. But then I think about Cruz and I have hope ;-). At least 2 more years of political chaos.

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Belafon  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:12:09pm

Seen on my Ring neighborhood notifications:

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jaunte  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:15:12pm

re: #100 Belafon

Sounds like a variant of this:
politifact.com

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William Lewis  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:16:38pm

re: #100 Belafon

Seen on my Ring neighborhood notifications:

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Smells like BS to me. Why am I supposed to GAF about this?

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:23:56pm

re: #91 Patricia Kayden

And why is there an assumption that blue states wouldn’t fight back or break with the red states?

It is a key element of MAGA mythology that liberals cannot, and will not, fight even in their own defense. “Pop ‘em and drop ‘em, it’s that simple” as one delusional MAGAt said on Xitter recently. When attacked, the liberals will take off their pants, gather in a drum circle, and pray to Sol Alinsky (aka “Solinski”) to rescue them.

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William Lewis  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:27:03pm

re: #103 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

It is a key element of MAGA mythology that liberals cannot, and will not, fight even in their own defense. “Pop ‘em and drop ‘em, it’s that simple” as one delusional MAGAt said on Xitter recently. When attacked, the liberals will take off their pants, gather in a drum circle, and pray to Sol Alinsky (aka “Solinski”) to rescue them.

Can I show them my CCW permit and a photo of the PPK/S I carry daily? I’m sure they’d almost believe I’m a socialist and an NCO vet 🤣

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calochortus  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:31:09pm

re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have a confession to make. I’m 64 years old and I had no idea these tools existed.

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amazon.com

Well, I’m 70 and until fairly recently I owned one of the wire kind (Fuller Brush Company, no less) but I usually just use a comb to get the hair out of my brush.

And thanks for the toenail clipper rec.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:35:28pm

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Rightwingconspirator  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:55:04pm

At work it was suggested we get a special lunch for leap day. Then I said frog legs…

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William Lewis  Feb 29, 2024 • 8:56:32pm

re: #107 Rightwingconspirator

At work it was suggested we get a spcial lunch for leap day. Then I said frog legs…

I’m sure they didn’t get that, the joke was a bit of a leap…

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silverdolphin  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:05:36pm

So I was reading the transcript from Hunter Biden’s deposition. This exchange happened before any questions were asked.like in the first 5 minutes. And given we now have the transcript, I had to laugh. Love Rep. Swallwell.
________________
Redacted Comer staff: Under the rules, the chairman and ranking minority member shall consult before any release of testimony, transcripts, including portions thereof.
Mr. Swalwell. Hey, Chairman, about that, parliamentary inquiry, when are you going to release this transcript?
Redacted Comer staff: I’m going to get to that in one moment, sir.
Mr. Swalwell. I’m asking the chairman, not you. Chairman Comer, when are you going to release the transcript on this?
Chairman Comer. We’re conducting the deposition.
Mr. Swalwell. Yeah, but you’ve got 91 of them buried and —
Chairman Comer. I don’t care what your question is.
Mr. Nadler. Well, I care what his question is. When are you going to release the transcript? There are 91 transcripts that haven’t been released yet.
Chairman Comer. We will release the deposition — the transcripts like we always do when we agree to release the deposition, the transcripts.
Mr. Swalwell. . Shouldn’t the witness know?
Redacted Comer staff: Yeah, we want to put the transcript out within a day.
Mr. Nadler: Within a day? Very good. Thank you.
Redacted Comer staff: We’ll do our best, yeah.
Mr. Swallwell: In English or Russian?
Redacted Comer staff: Excuse me? What’d you say?

wish I knew how to put in a line of smiley faces alternating with clapping hands ;-)

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Charmingly Persistent  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:18:42pm

re: #109 silverdolphin

😃😂👏🏻👍🙌🏻💅🏻🤗

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:20:49pm

re: #103 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Heh.

I grew up in and live in the mountains of Colorado. I know more about guns than most people. And you bet your sweet ass I’m pretty fucking liberal politically.

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wrenchwench  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:31:50pm

Angela Ferrell-Zabala, Executive Director of Moms Demand Action, and Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett talk about running for office and talking to kids about guns and politics. And then about talking to adults.

Leading Black Gun Violence Prevention Champions: Rep. Jasmine Crockett

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mmmirele  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:36:09pm

I am so tired. My day started by rolling out of bed, getting dressed and out the door. I went over to my brother’s house to get him some clothing (he texted me a list) and to feed his parrot. Today the parrot got out of the cage when I was filling up his water dish and flew up to the top of a door. Before I could even get out an “Oh, shi—-” he had divebombed me and landed on the cage. I was still wearing the leather gloves I use when feeding him (he nips), and I made a split second decision to grab him. I was successful and shoved him back in the cage saying, “Back in your house, BUCKO!”

Then I had to drive over to the hospital, find a place to park, walk to and through the hospital to my brother’s room, where I dropped off his clothes. I hung around for a bit while he was waiting for breakfast, which had not yet arrived, and it was 8:30 by then. He was wondering if surgery had been scheduled and he was NPO, but a couple minutes later food came. They really did give him half an English muffin in the center of a big plate. (Also a fruit plate, a bowl of oatmeal and a cup of coffee.) He’s on a diabetic plus heart healthy diet.

After that I walked back to my car, got back on the freeway and drove in to work. I was tired. I stayed there for nearly 6 hours, and then drove back home, finishing out my work day. Then I listened to videos and half-dozed.

I’m zonked.

ETA: I forgot to mention the HVAC system at work, which seems to be right over/under my desk. When it starts running, it’s like having small earthquakes going on, makes my monitors vibrate. I don’t even need that.

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:36:21pm

re: #109 silverdolphin

Swallwell has big balls. He goes further than his other big balled compadre over in the Senate Fetterman.

Swing them balls around, fellas!

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:38:53pm

re: #112 wrenchwench

Jasmine Crockett is so fucking cool and awesome and I love her.

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Belafon  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:40:11pm

re: #113 mmmirele

Get some sleep.

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Targetpractice  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:40:29pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

Swallwell has big balls. He goes further than his other big balled compadre over in the Senate Fetterman.

Swing them balls around, fellas!

Swalwell starts things off with a bang, but the bits I’ve seen elsewhere indicate that no shits were given by either the Dems or Biden. The latter in particular must have come as a bit of a shock to a GQP who came in figuring that they were going to be dealing with a witness that was both evasive and vague.

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:44:33pm

re: #117 Targetpractice

Swalwell starts things off with a bang, but the bits I’ve seen elsewhere indicate that no shits were given by either the Dems or Biden. The latter in particular must have come as a bit of a shock to a GQP who came in figuring that they were going to be dealing with a witness that was both evasive and vague.

Because they have fucken DiDlEy sQuAt from the jump.

I’m convinced more than ever, at this point in my life, that everything “conservative” is based on some grotesque lie.

It’s comforting, and also terrifying? Oy!

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wrenchwench  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:45:37pm

Jasmine Crockett in her own venue

re: #115 teleskiguy

Jasmine Crockett is so fucking cool and awesome and I love her.

I had to watch the above again after hearing a little bit of where that energy comes from. I couldn’t pull it from Tictoc nor x.

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:47:39pm

re: #119 wrenchwench

I check my Xitter burner account and I see her eviscerating Congresscritters on the regular. She’s fucken cool! I can’t stress that enough.

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jaunte  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:50:59pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:55:27pm

YouTube

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Captain Ron  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:57:53pm

YouTube

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:59:04pm

re: #118 teleskiguy

Because they have fucken DiDlEy sQuAt from the jump.

I’m convinced more than ever, at this point in my life, that everything “conservative” is based on some grotesque lie.

It’s comforting, and also terrifying? Oy!

Read Stuart Stevens It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. Makes that very point. He was part of the GOP lie machine for decades until he saw the light.

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Charmingly Persistent  Feb 29, 2024 • 9:59:12pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

Heh.

I grew up in and live in the mountains of Colorado. I know more about guns than most people. And you bet your sweet ass I’m pretty fucking liberal politically.

Yeah, same. And my husband.

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EPR-radar  Feb 29, 2024 • 10:02:28pm

re: #124 Hecuba’s daughter

Read Stuart Stevens It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. Makes that very point. He was part of the GOP lie machine for decades until he saw the light.

See also the immortal “conservatism consists of exactly one proposition” rant.

crookedtimber.org

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Captain Ron  Feb 29, 2024 • 10:06:31pm

YouTube

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teleskiguy  Feb 29, 2024 • 10:07:12pm

I’m sorry.

Carry Stress in the Jaw

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mmmirele  Feb 29, 2024 • 10:13:54pm

oh yeah, the other thing I’ve been seeing lately…

So the Planned Parenthood in Mesa is in the shopping center on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Southern. The past two days, because I’ve been driving home around 3 pm, I have seen the same guy on the sidewalk holding a sign. It’s written like one of those screeds, all capital letters, but he doesn’t use thick markers and it’s illegible. I tried to take a picture of it as I went by today, but it was illegible.

I’m very certain he’s an anti-abortion protester.

The website for this Planned Parenthood location says very clearly they do not do abortions at that location.

I am happy he is wasting his time standing out at the curb with his illegible sign in front of the parking lot of a Planned Parenthood which does not do abortions. I’m not going to stop or bother him. He might then pick up and start harassing people over at the Tempe Planned Parenthood, where they do medication abortions.

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silverdolphin  Feb 29, 2024 • 10:28:41pm

re: #118 teleskiguy

Because they have fucken DiDlEy sQuAt from the jump.

I’m convinced more than ever, at this point in my life, that everything “conservative” is based on some grotesque lie.

It’s comforting, and also terrifying? Oy!

Having read more of the transcript it is obvious why they wanted it in private. First Biden’s lawyer is excellent in the deposition, jumping in to keep the GOP lawyer from being misleading in their questioning.

And mislead they had to do. They had nothing. Things like showing him page 6 of a bank statement (the only page) asking him about money being moved around. A bank account Biden said he did not have any control over so why are they asking the questions. Then some more pages from another account that Biden had no control over. All because they had similar names to a bank account Biden did control.

They asked him about a draft letter he supposedly sent with his letterhead on it. His lawyer said what letterhead. It has Hunter’s name and address typed on it. That is not a letterhead. And , as was so obvious, he did not draft the letter. It was from a business partner. It was an attachment sent to him from a partner. But the GOP lawyer made it sound like Hunter drafted and sent it. (Reminds me of the ‘coke lines’ )

When Raskin had a chance to ask, he introduced the actual application form for the accounts showing that Biden was not onl the application at all. So ALL the questions, asked in misleading ways to suggest Biden was moving money around to hide it, were realy out of bounds.

Then they suggested he was moving money around on a certain date in order to hide the money from his divorce proceedings. It is obvious both he and his lawyer were livid. First, the divorce was done by this time. And secondly, what relevance did it have to Joe Biden?

I actually found the depostition kinda gripping. The GOP kept trying to ask misleading questions hoping Hunter would fall into sounding bad. He was excellent in his responses and his lawyer was wonderful.

If I was a juror hearing this, Hunter wins big time.

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wrenchwench  Feb 29, 2024 • 10:49:45pm

re: #127 Captain Ron

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Video

An hour and 20 minutes? Not even when I was selling such things…..

I’m a non-proselytizing curmudgeon, myself. I have Grant Peterson suspension (air in my tires).

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wrenchwench  Feb 29, 2024 • 11:00:54pm

I worked an unusual shift, so I forgot about wordle. I got a Partridge. Wordle 985 4/6*

Click to Reveal

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Amory Blaine  Feb 29, 2024 • 11:19:40pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

My schadenfreude will be off the charts and my vindication will be pyrrhic as I’m faced against the wall.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 29, 2024 • 11:23:42pm

re: #55 teleskiguy

Dude, your stache is fucking glorious.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 29, 2024 • 11:28:32pm

re: #63 silverdolphin

THe logistics of moving a rowdy, untrained group of thugs around are mind-boggling. How do they get fed? How many types of ammo will have to be somehow made and distributed because they all have different weapons? Will they just drive their own cars to the battles? Will they be reimbursed for their expenses?

ANd finally, how will their leaders prevent them from bolting at the first battle with the counterinsurgents?

The third amendment will vaporize into thin air.

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ericblair  Feb 29, 2024 • 11:45:27pm

Welp, that convinces me, we gotta do something about border security.

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Targetpractice  Feb 29, 2024 • 11:58:39pm

re: #130 silverdolphin

It was a fishing expedition, putting document after document in front of him in the hopes that they’d either trip him up or get him to admit something they weren’t already aware of. And when that failed, they tried to embarrass him about his former addictions and instead found that he’s comfortable admitting he’s a recovering addict. And then they embarrassed themselves by invoking testimony from “witnesses” only for the guy in the hot seat to point out that one’s in prison, one’s in jail pending trial, two are on the lamb, and the last is a disgraced conman.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:03:08am

re: #47 Belafon

I do worry about us here. We can be a bad echo chamber and we don’t have any real younger people here, so at times I worry that our years of fighting just to stay in place, and losing as often as winning, is breaking us. We gotta just keep fighting and doing what we can.

It’s already broken many people in my circles on Disabled Twitter. Between COVID and 10/7, a lot of people I once respected are now unfollowable.

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silverdolphin  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:14:33am

re: #137 Targetpractice

It was a fishing expedition, putting document after document in front of him in the hopes that they’d either trip him up or get him to admit something they weren’t already aware of. And when that failed, they tried to embarrass him about his former addictions and instead found that he’s comfortable admitting he’s a recovering addict. And then they embarrassed themselves by invoking testimony from “witnesses” only for the guy in the hot seat to point out that one’s in prison, one’s in jail pending trial, two are on the lamb, and the last is a disgraced conman.

Absolutely. They misleadingly quoted one of those guys making it sound like the guy had said under oath that Joe had been given money. But when it was Raskin’s turn, he read into testimony that like 40 ages later in the guy’s deposition he specificaly said no money was ever given to Joe.

Yeah, I think they were hoping he would commit perjury or something. But he was really great. His dad should be proud.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:41:03am

Bengali!?

VOCES8 announces Lyyra: Jhoro Jhoro arranged by Shabnam Abedi


..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:53:43am

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Trump entering his prison block
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 1:07:32am

re: #21 Jay C

Hoot mon!
So “2500 homes” at that value comes out to each “home” being valued at all of £33.26 each.
JFC, you’d be lucky to get a curry takeaway for 4 at £33 in Scotland…

OK: on reflection, it seems like MAYBE that was £83 million
still seems low…

83K per home? then it comes to around 200 mil

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 1:10:21am

re: #63 silverdolphin

THe logistics of moving a rowdy, untrained group of thugs around are mind-boggling.

Don’t expect to get them through a set of turnstiles intact…

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silverdolphin  Mar 1, 2024 • 1:25:51am

re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Don’t expect to get them through a set of turnstiles intact…

Or through the Gov. William J. Le Petomane Thruway Toll Booth with a single exact change lane.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 1:52:53am

Oh to be a bedbug…

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 2:38:32am

MAGAt “civil war” fantasies always depend upon the idea that not only will they face no significant opposition, but that there will be such widespread support that even the Armed Forces will join them. Hence why, whenever they actually try to live out said fantasies (ex: Bird Sanctuary Stand-off & Jan 6th), they can’t make sense of why nobody’s riding to their rescue and everybody in uniform they run into either wants nothing to do with them or actively oppose them.

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steve_davis  Mar 1, 2024 • 2:39:06am

re: #99 silverdolphin

You are right. But I actually worry more about what happens when Biden wins but the Democrats lose control of the House or Senate (I really have a hard time seeing a path for us to keep the Senate. But then I think about Cruz and I have hope ;-). At least 2 more years of political chaos.

Don’t get frantic. This election is going to be a blue tsunami. Dems will keep the senate and house. Biden will win reelection comfortably. Trump will be convicted in the march 25 state trial. The judge will sentence trump to prison and he will be incarcerated before November. He will deny bail for the same reason any other convicted felon would be denied bail while facing multiple additional felony trials in other states. Chutkan will get that trial moving again by mid July.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 2:40:53am

re: #146 Targetpractice

and they think that all “leftists” abhor guns and would never use them in self-defense.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 2:46:51am

re: #101 jaunte

Sounds like a variant of this:
politifact.com

Any post post that discusses women and uses the the term ‘female’ instead, is suspect.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 2:47:28am

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 2:55:02am

re: #147 steve_davis

Don’t get frantic. This election is going to be a blue tsunami. Dems will keep the senate and house. Biden will win reelection comfortably. ….

If we make it so.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 2:56:03am

re: #147 steve_davis

Don’t get frantic. This election is going to be a blue tsunami. Dems will keep the senate and house. Biden will win reelection comfortably. Trump will be convicted in the march 25 state trial. The judge will sentence trump to prison and he will be incarcerated before November. He will deny bail for the same reason any other convicted felon would be denied bail while facing multiple additional felony trials in other states. Chutkan will get that trial moving again by mid July.

This sounds reassuring but please keep in mind: the worse things get for the GOP with their flaming dumpster fire of a Presidential candidate and total lack of policy beyond banning abortion IVF, libraries and Transvestite book readings, the less they have to lose.

And that means that they will not shrink from highly disruptive and even violent measures to create enough electoral chaos to get the election sent to the House or even the SCOTUS, which is shaping up to be the only way they can possibly win.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:02:32am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This sounds reassuring but please keep in mind: the worse things get for the GOP with their flaming dumpster fire of a Presidential candidate and total lack of policy beyond banning abortion IVF, libraries and Transvestite book readings, the less they have to lose.

And that means that they will not shrink from highly disruptive and even violent measures to create enough electoral chaos to get the election sent to the House or even the SCOTUS, which is shaping up to be the only way they can possibly win.

They might try that, but any election day violence will be sporadic, uncoordinated, and quickly put down. Cops don’t like rioters or shooters, it disrupts their day. It’s more likely they’ll try some post-election crap, but they don’t have the White House to give them cover.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:04:53am

re: #153 Decatur Deb

They might try that, but any election day violence will be sporadic, uncoordinated, and quickly put down. Cops don’t like rioters or shooters, it disrupts their day. It’s more likely they’ll try some post-election crap, but they don’t have the White House to give them cover.

I do hope that enough pre-emptive measures are put in place to guarantee the integrity of the election. But they will try everything to get votes disqualified. All they need is to get enough thrown out so that neither candidate can claim a majority of EC votes and it gets thrown to the House, where the GOP state delegations outnumber the Democrat-run states.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:13:32am

re: #151 Decatur Deb

If we make it so.

Indeed. 2020 showed us the map: Turn out in such numbers that efforts to ratfuck the results are next to impossible. Get out there and vote, then try to help as many people as you know to vote as well. If you can, vote early or by mail so you don’t have to fight the lines on Election Day. Make sure that not only is your voice heard, but so are the voices of everyone around you. And don’t be afraid to shout down the voices of those who dismiss the importance of voting or suggest that it is “rigged,” because you may not convince them in the end but you could prevent their viewpoint from influencing others not to vote.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:14:07am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We do need enough turnout to make it un-stealable. It’s time to be finding effective organizations to support. ACLU, SPLC, League of Women Voters are all in this, not just candidate and party campaigns. So is the DoJ.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:22:37am

I think the problem a lot of us have was highlighted up above: We’ve been fighting what seems to be a losing war since 2017. (Key phrase: seems to be. We’re still here to fight it, which means we aren’t losing yet.) Fighting is grueling work; I don’t know about you, but to me, every day since about 2019 has felt like a roller-coaster day where you have no idea, when it starts, if things are going to well or poorly, and it’s all things that are outside your direct control. And all you can do to fight it is scream into the void and hope your voice, combined with others’, is enough to convince other people to do the right thing. I miss the innocence of the teenage years; despite having all the wrong ideas of how the world worked, I lived in relative ignorance of what daily news was affecting me.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:26:57am

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:30:45am

re: #157 Nerdy Fish

I think the problem a lot of us have was highlighted up above: We’ve been fighting what seems to be a losing war since 2017. (Key phrase: seems to be. We’re still here to fight it, which means we aren’t losing yet.) Fighting is grueling work; I don’t know about you, but to me, every day since about 2019 has felt like a roller-coaster day where you have no idea, when it starts, if things are going to well or poorly, and it’s all things that are outside your direct control. And all you can do to fight it is scream into the void and hope your voice, combined with others’, is enough to convince other people to do the right thing. I miss the innocence of the teenage years; despite having all the wrong ideas of how the world worked, I lived in relative ignorance of what daily news was affecting me.

Is it sad that I immediately thought of this scene?

I Wish The Ring Had Never Come To Me - Lord Of The Rings Scene

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:31:32am

re: #159 Targetpractice

Is it sad that I immediately thought of this scene?

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No, not really, because I feel like that’s the conversation that’s going on. Like, yeah, we just have to grin and bear it, but man, it suuuucks.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:35:53am

Mastodon

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:45:13am

re: #161 Patricia Kayden

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That’s how I ended up with a scar on the back of my right hand. My cat was totally focused on the microwave for some reason, just intently looking at it as it made noise. Foolish me, I gave her a light tap on the back, and she gouged me on the way towards the ceiling.

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silverdolphin  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:45:31am

re: #147 steve_davis

Don’t get frantic. This election is going to be a blue tsunami. Dems will keep the senate and house. Biden will win reelection comfortably. Trump will be convicted in the march 25 state trial. The judge will sentence trump to prison and he will be incarcerated before November. He will deny bail for the same reason any other convicted felon would be denied bail while facing multiple additional felony trials in other states. Chutkan will get that trial moving again by mid July.

I really do think something like this will happen. We are transitioning to our 7th political party system. And we are in the endgame, with old coalitions breaking and new ones forming as our country adapts to entirely new economic systems driven by disruptive technologies - water-powered mills, telegraph/railroads, Bessemer steel, ICE, integrated circuits, the internet.

We are almost done with the tranisition as the GOP begins to fracture - watch as more Republicans begin to work with moderate Democrats to get mutually beneficial things done, leaving the MAGAs in the dust with little political power. Wall Street prefers steadiness over crazy. Thus why it has done so well under Biden.

One real hallmark of these transitions is that the Presidents who lead us throught these transitions are some of the most important in our history - Washington/Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Teddy, FDR, Reagan. And now Biden. And, for reasons I won’t go into now, the odd transition Presidents are the most important. They help solve fundamental problems.

And who do we have but a President who already has gotten more things done with less than almost any other. I really beleive that when this is all said and done, Biden will be seen as one of the greats.

Biden has this.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:48:56am

re: #162 Targetpractice

Oh no!! I’ve been scratched by a kitten before. Very painful.

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silverdolphin  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:01:46am

re: #157 Nerdy Fish

I think the problem a lot of us have was highlighted up above: We’ve been fighting what seems to be a losing war since 2017. (Key phrase: seems to be. We’re still here to fight it, which means we aren’t losing yet.) Fighting is grueling work; I don’t know about you, but to me, every day since about 2019 has felt like a roller-coaster day where you have no idea, when it starts, if things are going to well or poorly, and it’s all things that are outside your direct control. And all you can do to fight it is scream into the void and hope your voice, combined with others’, is enough to convince other people to do the right thing. I miss the innocence of the teenage years; despite having all the wrong ideas of how the world worked, I lived in relative ignorance of what daily news was affecting me.

We have gone through similar periods in the past. It always looks bleak in the middle of it. Yet 10 years after it ends, the winners look inevitable. And I know we will win because the winning side has always had certain characteristics in how it organizes itself.

The losing side is alays more hierarchcal and stratified (ie the British, the South, the Axis). Thus poor decision-making as the information must flow through many steps to get to the ones who actually have the power to make the decision. The lack of diversity creates epistemic closure making it hard to come up with creative solutions. Only those at the top are allowed to make decisions.

The winning side is always more diverse and pushes power out to the edges, distribuiting it away from the center, allowing rapid flow of important ideas and wise decision making to flourish. It is adaptive in ways the losing side can never be.

And it always looks forward. The losing side always looks back. We are almost done, I believe, wth this battle. The losing sid is beginning to fracture because of its inability to make wise decisions, constably getting outmaneuvered by those on the side that will win.

I do not know what the exact events will be. I certainly hope the Republicans break up evenfaster than they are. But break they will.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:06:04am

Good morning! Have some potato quality drive time music!
This movie reminds me of one of my favorite porn movie titles, Romancing the Bone.

Romancing The Stone - Eddy Grant (HQ Audio)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:09:22am

It is funny how long we took certain things for granted, like personal freedoms, women’s, minority and GLBTQ rights, not to mention our electoral system.

There was a time when it functioned without much conflict and only the occasional disputed outcome, all based on mutual trust & goodwill with a minimum of oversight, checks and balances.

The goodwill is gone, replaced by open malice and distrust of mysterious unidentified outside forces from Italian satellites, myriads of mules and Chinese infiltrators (just follow the bamboo traces), and we have to get back to ensuring that it functions reasonably and that our country can effect a change of government without riots and bloodshed, which is generally seen as one of the key features of a sound and functioning democracy.

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silverdolphin  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:09:58am

re: #160 Nerdy Fish

No, not really, because I feel like that’s the conversation that’s going on. Like, yeah, we just have to grin and bear it, but man, it suuuucks.

These were the other words that came to mind in addition to Frodo’s. Much less introspective and more generally rousing for the times we are in.

Henry V (7/10) Movie CLIP - Saint Crispin’s Day (1989) HD

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:14:33am
There is a new concern about guns that are supposed to be destroyed as part of gun buyback programs effectively ending up back on the streets.

New York City has a robust gun buyback program- perhaps the biggest in the country.

So, Congressman Dan Goldman of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn is seeking to confirm New York City guns are being properly destroyed.

The cause for concern comes because of a growing industry where companies, including a popular one known as “Gunbusters” offer to destroy buyback guns for free. But they are not exactly destroying everything.

“What they do is they just remove the one part that is serialized and make it actually a weapon and then they’ll re-package all the other parts and sell them online,” Goldman said.

snip

He is also writing to the ATF asking it to change its gun buyback guidance to require complete destruction- to prevent more untraceable guns from flowing to the Tri-State.

pix11.com

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:19:51am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Breakfast in Bed”

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:27:45am

Everyday heroes walk among us.

A sheriff’s deputy in Florida is being hailed a hero by the family of a 6-month-old baby he helped save after a fatal car crash.

Sgt. David Musgrove, a 20-year veteran of the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, was on patrol the night of Feb. 8 when he said he saw a motorcycle speed by his car. Shortly after, he heard a loud crash.

When he arrived at the scene, Musgrove said, he saw the motorcyclist, who was killed in the crash, and heard screaming coming from the driver’s side of the car that was hit.

Inside the car was Kayleigh Foley, who was driving to dinner in Englewood, Florida, with her two daughters, 3-year-old Ariel and 6-month-old Lola, when they were struck by the motorcycle, which Musgrove said was traveling at least 90 mph at the time of the crash.

abc7chicago.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:31:29am

re: #170 Dave In Austin

“Breakfast is Bed”

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:34:05am

Heat straightening.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:46:15am

Good morning…before I fall asleep with my computer on my chest as I do most mornings, it looks like a few people turned out for Navalny’s funeral in Moscow.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:18:14am

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:21:07am

re: #164 Patricia Kayden

Oh no!! I’ve been scratched by a kitten before. Very painful.

Kittens have even more razor-claw than adult cats.

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:25:16am

Nicole Wallace talks to Malcolm Turnbull, about Trump:

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joins Nicolle Wallace

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:29:21am

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:32:22am

Looks like we’re may be able to see a classified docs trial against Trump this summer. Judge Loose Cannon was given two alternative dates - a July date from Prosecutor Smith, and an August date from Trump’s lawyers.

BREAKING: Trump criminal trial suddenly possible BEFORE election

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:36:39am

re: #179 lawhawk

Looks like we’re may be able to see a classified docs trial against Trump this summer. Judge Loose Cannon was given two alternative dates - a July date from Prosecutor Smith, and an August date from Trump’s lawyers.

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August date is to try and stop the Georgia case from going to trial. July date Trump hates because it’s not going to be a long trial. There’s physical evidence and a short time line.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:37:50am

And his first criminal prosecution starts in 24 days. Should have marketed an advent calendar for this.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:39:03am

re: #179 lawhawk

Looks like we’re may be able to see a classified docs trial against Trump this summer. Judge Loose Cannon was given two alternative dates - a July date from Prosecutor Smith, and an August date from Trump’s lawyers.

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I’m not sure I understand this. Isn’t this whole case on hold pending the “presidential immunity” debacle from the Calvinball Court?

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:39:39am

re: #181 darthstar

And his first criminal prosecution starts in 24 days. Should have marketed an advent calendar for this.

The Nakatomi Tower one will suffice!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:40:37am

re: #181 darthstar

And his first criminal prosecution starts in 24 days. Should have marketed an advent calendar for this.

Let’s make this like the bond appeal in reverse: continue the trial, if SCOTUS finds him immune, then any sentence will be reversed.

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lawhawk  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:42:38am

re: #182 Nerdy Fish

Insurrection case is on hold. The classified docs case isn’t, because he isn’t president at the time the documents were stolen and mishandled. He was hoping to delay because of conflicting the times and his overall scheme to obstruct the rule of law to avoid consequences for any of his crimes.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:45:47am

Women don’t need The 67 year old Virgin telling them what to do with their bodies.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:45:51am

re: #185 lawhawk

Insurrection case is on hold. The classified docs case isn’t, because he isn’t president at the time the documents were stolen and mishandled. He was hoping to delay because of conflicting the times and his overall scheme to obstruct the rule of law to avoid consequences for any of his crimes.

Okay, suddenly I feel a lot better. So, to recap:

1) Defamation - done and dusted. He raped E. Jean Carroll, then defamed her when he claimed she was lying about it.
2) Civil Fraud - done and dusted. He got busted for a whole bunch of fraud in his real estate disclosures and dealings in New York.
3) Criminal Fraud - still on. State charges, not related to conduct while President.
4) Insurrection - on hold. Calvinball Court decided to interfere for currently undisclosed reasons.
5) Classified Documents - still on. Federal charges, but not criming while Presidenting, so unaffected by the Calvinball Court’s attempt to stall.
6) Georgia RICO - still on. State charges, not affected by Presidential immunity. Potentially impacted by the outcome of the Fani Willis shitshow.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:45:53am

re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Let’s make this like the bond appeal in reverse: continue the trial, if SCOTUS finds him immune, then any sentence will be reversed.

This is for Election Interference BEFORE he became POTUS.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:47:36am

re: #187 Nerdy Fish

Yes, for those keeping score at home, this is a good summary.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:48:00am

re: #186 Joe Bacon ✅

Women don’t need The 67 year old Virgin telling them what to do with their bodies.

National abortion ban will not be effective if childbearing-age women can go abroad to access them. So we will need mandatory pregancy tests and medical examinations for all such women leaving or re-entering the country.

Welcome to Gilead

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:49:25am

re: #189 darthstar

Yes, for those keeping score at home, this is a good summary.

I’m gonna need a fukken spreadsheet for this.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:50:09am

re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

National abortion ban will not be effective if childbearing-age women can go abroad. So we will need mandatory pregancy tests and medical examinations for all such women leaving or re-entering the country.

Welcome to Gilead

Don’t worry.

Republican congressman will sneak in a carve-out for their mistresses.

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Jay C  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:50:53am

re: #191 Nerdy Fish

I’m gonna need a fukken spreadsheet for this.

As I keep telling the Spouse, it’s hard to keep your Trump Trials straight without a program…

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:55:48am
Acclaimed investigative reporter Catherine Herridge was held in contempt of court Thursday for refusing to reveal the unnamed sources in a series of 2017 articles on a Chinese American scientist probed by the FBI.

US District Judge Christopher Cooper imposed a daily fine of $800 for each day that Herridge — who was recently let go from CBS News as part of mass layoffs by parent company Paramount — withholds the names of her source or sources for the Fox News articles penned nearly seven years ago.

The veteran journalist, however, has some time to file an appeal before the fine goes into effect.

She has repeatedly refused to answer questions about her confidential sources and invoked her First Amendment rights in doing so under oath.

nypost.com

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lawhawk  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:56:37am

re: #187 Nerdy Fish

Okay, suddenly I feel a lot better. So, to recap:

1) Defamation - done and dusted. He raped E. Jean Carroll, then defamed her when he claimed she was lying about it.
2) Civil Fraud - done and dusted. He got busted for a whole bunch of fraud in his real estate disclosures and dealings in New York.
3) Criminal Fraud - still on. State charges, not related to conduct while President.
4) Insurrection - on hold. Calvinball Court decided to interfere for currently undisclosed reasons.
5) Classified Documents - still on. Federal charges, but not criming while Presidenting, so unaffected by the Calvinball Court’s attempt to stall.
6) Georgia RICO - still on. State charges, not affected by Presidential immunity. Potentially impacted by the outcome of the Fani Willis shitshow.

1 - appeals are likely, but the judgment is in on both of the defamation cases. Judgment in favor of E Jean Carroll for more than $80 million.
2 - civil fraud judgment against Trump for more than $464 million (and growing by $100k+ a day in interest). Appeals are expected, both to overturn verdict and/or reduce the amount found by Engoron. Overturning verdict is highly unlikely, reducing the verdict is also unlikely but possible.
3 - state financial crimes re: campaign finance fraud (aka payments to Stormy Daniels) - still on and unaffected.
4 - insurrection - on hold. SCOTUS is actively undermining democracy by taking the case, instead of letting the lower court ruling stand (which found no immunity of a kind that Trump insists exists - but can’t be found anywhere in any reading of the law, facts, or mythos of the Founders). SCOTUS decided to further immolate itself on the Trumpworld defense.
5 - classified documents - Trump still trying to delay the case, by trying to schedule this to block other cases against him from going forward, but this case should it go to trial would be a very short one, with an outcome from a jury determined in short order. That’s why Trump is desperate for Loose Cannon to tip scales of justice to his favor. A summer trial date is expected. Cannon has gotten smacked down from the 11th Circuit enough times that she knows they wont stand for her bulkshit rulings.
6 - GA insurrection RICO case - should still proceed, despite the smear campaign case against Fani Willis. We’ve already had guilty plea deals by a number of Trump coconspirators/accomplices, including Chesebro and Powell, so there’s a lot for Trump to worry about here regardless of what happens with Willis. Chesebro is in further trouble in other states thanks to his lies about tweeting and using social media.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:57:00am

And then there’s this TexAssHole

“Retaliation”: Texas AG Paxton Demands PFLAG Provide Names, Addresses Of Trans Members

On Thursday, a legal filing by PFLAG National revealed that Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas was seeking identification of transgender members. The organization alleges retaliation.

In a legal filing Thursday, PFLAG National sought to block a new demand from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that would require the organization to identify its Texas transgender members, doctors who work with them, and contingency plans for anti-transgender legislation in the state. The civil investigative demand, issued on Feb. 5, calls for extensive identifying information and records from the LGBTQ+ rights organization. PFLAG, in its filing to block the demands, describes them as “retaliation” for its opposition to anti-transgender laws in the state and alleges that they violate the freedom of speech and association protections afforded by the United States and Texas constitutions.

The demands are extensive. The letter to PFLAG National demands “unredacted” information around claims made by Brian Bond, PFLAG’s Chief Executive Officer, in a legal fight against the ban on gender-affirming care in the state. Bond’s claims highlighted that PFLAG represents 1,500 members in Texas, many of whom are seeking contingency plans if SB14, the ban on gender-affirming care, takes effect.

Per the lawsuit, PFLAG National states that it would be required to disclose Texas trans youth members, including “complete names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, jobs, home addresses, telephone numbers, [and] email addresses.” It also states they would need to hand over documents and communications related to their medical care, hospitals outside the state, and “contingency plans” discussed among members for navigating the new laws on gender-affirming care in Texas.

erininthemorning.com

Why hasn’t this fucking crook been brought to trial?

Oh silly me, I keep forgetting that Republicans are above the law!

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:59:00am
If you think seeing a total eclipse of the sun will be a cheap thrill, you’re mistaken.

On Monday April 8, the US will experience its first total eclipse since 2017 — and the cost to witness it is already soaring.

The “zone of totality,” where you can see the sun vanish completely, goes from Mexico’s Pacific coast on a north-easterly path through Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine before passing through Canada’s maritime provinces.

nypost.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:01:38am

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:03:29am

re: #194 Shropshire Slasher

nypost.com

littlegreenfootballs.com

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:07:40am

Mastodon

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:11:48am

re: #183 darthstar

The Nakatomi Tower one will suffice!

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I’ll set it up for everyone. I put mine somewhere easy to get to, it’s just too early in the morning for me to remember where.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:12:24am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:12:37am

Christian Nationalists are furious at reporter Heidi Przybyla for accurately reporting on them

Conservatives are mad that the POLITICO reporter connected the dots between their religious faith and their plans for a second Trump term

They just want Heidi to shut up about Trump unleashing the Xtian Sex Police on us.

friendlyatheist.com

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:13:09am

re: #201 Belafon

I’ll set it up for everyone. I put mine somewhere easy to get to, it’s just too early in the morning for me to remember where.

Fitting that he’s wearing a red tie.

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:15:05am

re: #191 Nerdy Fish

I’m gonna need a fukken spreadsheet for this.

And the guy’s still the frontrunner!

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:17:27am

re: #195 lawhawk

I should’ve clarified: When I said “done and dusted” in my shorter summary, the initial trial is over and he was found liable. There is still the whole appeals process to go through, but in the two cases that have completed the trial so far, I (as a layperson) don’t see any easy argument to winning an appeal. I can’t say he has no chance of a reversal or a reduction, but as the Magic 8 Ball says, “Outlook not so good.”

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:18:39am

re: #196 Joe Bacon ✅

Absolutely outrageous. The U.S. DOJ needs to step in to protect the transgender community in Texas. Paxton is obviously seeking this information so he can persecute a minority group. This needs more visibility and pushback.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:26:49am

Hunter Biden Transcript Is Smoking Gun That House Republicans Are Biggest Buffoons In US American History

Wonkette has a way with words!

wonkette.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:27:24am

re: #192 Joe Bacon ✅

Don’t worry.

Republican congressman will sneak in a carve-out for their mistresses.

Laws are only there for the Common Folk.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:28:41am

Re: the election. MAGA isn’t going to trouble themselves with the popular vote this time. It’s been a lost cause for them for many cycles anyway. Expect lots of fuckery with the EC. Trump loses, expect non-stop lawsuits/full-court press from the MAGA entrenched in the house and senate.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:29:11am

White House demands Fox News retract coverage of bribery allegations against Hunter Biden, president

The White House is demanding Fox News retract its coverage of bribery allegations against President Biden’s son, Hunter, in the wake of the arrest of a key figure in the accusations against the Biden family.

Calling the allegations against Hunter Biden “false,” White House special assistant to the president Ian Sams blasted the network for covering claims of bribery against the president’s son both online and over its airwaves “aggressively.”

“I would cite the number of times Jesse Watters and Sean Hannity promoted this allegation and made false statements about President Biden on primetime television throughout this time period, but the footnote citations would fill multiple pages,” Sams wrote in his letter to Fox News top brass, which was obtained Thursday by The Hill.

“As you of course now know, the source of this allegation has been federally indicted for making the whole thing up,” Sams continued. “Despite this, Fox has taken no steps to retract, correct, or update its reporting on this false allegation from 2023.”

thehill.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:29:58am

re: #210 GlutenFreeJesus

Re: the election. MAGA isn’t going to trouble themselves with the popular vote this time. It’s been a lost cause for them for many cycles anyway. Expect lots of fuckery with the EC. Trump loses, expect non-stop lawsuits/full-court press from the MAGA entrenched in the house and senate.

They will try to get as many votes disqualified as they possibly can with the target outcome of leaving neither candidate with an EC majority.

That is the only path to victory open to them at this point.

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garzooma  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:37:15am

For XKCD fans: a great treatment of Every Major’s Terrible:

YouTube

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:39:04am

re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Bush/Gore all over again, with the SCOTUS paying Trump back for their lifetime appointments.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:40:41am

DARK HUNTER vs. Matty Mattel

When Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) asked if Biden was on drugs when he was on the Burisma board, Biden asked a loaded question of his own.

“Mr. Gaetz, look me in the eye. You really think that’s appropriate to ask me?”

“Absolutely,” Gaetz said.

“Of all the people sitting around this table, do you think that’s appropriate to ask me?” Biden said, seemingly alluding to allegations of drug use that have swirled around Gaetz.

huffpost.com

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:43:44am
Mass deportations are going to start, if you don’t like that, then don’t vote for President Trump.”

— Steve Bannon, on his podcast.

Wilco stevie

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:44:58am

re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have a confession to make. I’m 64 years old and I had no idea these tools existed.

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After breaking or bending several toenail clippers on my gnarley toenails, I pulled a 4-1/2” diagonal cutter out of my toolbox. Works great. The diagonal cutter in the photo is prettier than mine, as I’ve owned mine for ~60 years.

OBTY, hand tools have a lifetime guarantee, so if you should happen to break them (gnarly toenails?), just take them back and get a free replacement - no question asked.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:46:00am

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:50:08am

re: #17 Charles Johnson

how many of y’all have really stopped to consider what it will be like if Donald Trump’s grotesque, idiotic fascist policy ideas are enacted in the real world, with a government run by a cult leader who’s also a vengeful con man with a large following of legalistic henchmen and feral thugs?

Yes, I think things can get really, really bad. Kentucky now considering legislation that making it a Class E felony and addition to the sex offender registry for teachers to assist any student in social transition, including using a preferred name or pronouns.

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cat-tikvah  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:51:47am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

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послушный инструмент
aka obedient tool

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:02:58am

re: #196 Joe Bacon ✅

Any system that will let his wife vote on his conviction is broken, and this is Texas we’re talking about.

This decision should take 5 minutes from a judge: You can’t have that information because the Constitution says you can’t.

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:04:16am

Rando explainer

What are his personal liquidity requirements that he was required to have for his personal guaranty of his companies’ mortgages?

To simplify:
1. His business entity executed the note and mortgage. In case of default and foreclosure, the business entity is a risk, not Trump personally.
2. To get better terms, including lower interest rates, Trump offered a personal guaranty.

3. The mortgage lenders agreed to accept his personal guaranty and give better terms (in part because he lied about his net worth), provided Trump maintained personal liquidity (cash on hand).

He can’t fund the appeal bonds because either doesn’t have cash on hand or he would default in the personal liquidity requirements or both - he doesn’t have the cash on hand and he is in default of the personal liquidity requirement(s).

The irony of a long professed billionaire tycoon holding rallies to whine to poor racists in his shitty merchandise about legal fines he brought on himself…

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lawhawk  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:05:08am

E Jean Carroll on Twitter:

Trump has one week to pay up.

Heh…

Loser who claims he’s a billionaire suddenly claims poverty and inability to get the money together to pay escrow amounts if he’s appealing.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:05:15am

This is so delicious!

Here are Swalwell’s questions and Biden’s responses:

SWALWELL: Any time your father was in government, prior to the Presidency or before, did he ever operate a hotel?

BIDEN: No, he has never operated a hotel.

SWALWELL: So he’s never operated a hotel where foreign nationals spent millions at that hotel while he was in office?

BIDEN: No, he has not.

SWALWELL: Did your father ever employ in the Oval Office any direct family member to also work in the Oval Office?

BIDEN: My father has never employed any direct family members, to my knowledge.

SWALWELL: While your father was President, did anyone in the family receive 41 trademarks from China?

BIDEN: No.

SWALWELL: As President and the leader of the party, has your father ever tried to install as the chairperson of the party a daughter-in-law or anyone else in the family?

BIDEN: No. And I don’t think that anyone in my family would be crazy enough to want to be the chairperson of the DNC.

SWALWELL: Has your father ever in his time as an adult been fined $355 million by any State that he worked in?

BIDEN: No, he has not, thank God.

SWALWELL: Anyone in your family ever strike a multibillion dollar deal with the Saudi Government while your father was in office?

BIDEN: No.

SWALWELL: That’s all I’ve got.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:05:35am

re: #222 Dangerman

To answer the rando’s question, I believe it was stated in another thread here that he was required to keep $50M liquid to secure the mortgages.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:08:41am

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:10:30am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:11:00am

re: #224 Joe Bacon ✅

And just from that list of questions it is a very obvious attempt to pin the things that DT did on Joe.

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mmmirele  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:14:59am

re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

National abortion ban will not be effective if childbearing-age women can go abroad to access them. So we will need mandatory pregancy tests and medical examinations for all such women leaving or re-entering the country.

Welcome to Gilead

Considering that a huge chunk, if not a majority of abortions in the USA are medication abortions, it’s just as likely there will be a huge underground drug market for misepristone and misoprolol. I predicted this decades ago.

Plus these guys are idiots if they think women are going back to no abortions. Women will do what we’ve always done—get the abortion whether it’s illegal or dangerous. And there are more options than there were in 1972. (Also more surveillance, that’s true.)

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:15:30am

re: #226 sizzzzlerz

Had a birdie but I mistyped the last letter and hit return too quickly. Life is so unfair!

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:18:29am

Yikes!
Dairy Queen manager forced employees to eat cleaning solution-tainted ice cream: report

Employees at a Kentucky Dairy Queen were forced to eat ice cream that had been tainted with cleaning solution, sending some of them to the emergency room.

A manager at a Campton, Ky., location of the chain called all employees to a mandatory staff meeting Friday night where they forced the staffers to down the chemically contaminated soft serve “whether or not they liked” it, according to the parent of one of the young staffers.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:19:15am

re: #231 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Yikes!
Dairy Queen manager forced employees to eat cleaning solution-tainted ice cream: report

There had better be jail time.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:19:42am

Can’t be said too many times: vote!!!!

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:19:54am

re: #231 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Yikes!
Dairy Queen manager forced employees to eat cleaning solution-tainted ice cream: report

Criminal assault

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JC1  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:21:55am

re: #233 Patricia Kayden

Can’t be said too many times: vote!!!!

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True and unfortunate.
The DoJ should be doing more: going after Congress critters that participated in the insurrection and leaving no stone unturned on Gini and her hubby.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:22:54am

re: #231 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Yikes!
Dairy Queen manager forced employees to eat cleaning solution-tainted ice cream: report

He was just trying to teach them a lesson on food safety…may he contemplate his methodology behind bars for an extended period.

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gocart mozart  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:23:30am
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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:24:09am

re: #235 JC1

True and unfortunate.
The DoJ should be doing more: going after Congress critters that participated in the insurrection and leaving no stone unturned on Gini and her hubby.

Which would do nothing to change the fact that one political party has decided that they no longer like democracy. There is no action that a single part of the government can do to fix this. It is solely on us.

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jeffreyw  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:25:05am

Good morning!

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:27:46am

re: #232 Belafon

There had better be jail time.

Buncha whiney Gen Zs complaining about free ice cream. In my day we ate the contaminants, and we liked them.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:28:14am

re: #232 Belafon

There had better be jail time.

re: #234 Scottish Dragon

Criminal assault

“In an email to the media, Dairy Queen’s national parent, the DQ Corporation, has announced that they have hired a Mexican drug cartel to re-train the wayward manager.”

Nah, made that up. It might be a temptation in their position though, facing mega settlements to forestall lawsuits they would have no chance of winning.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:28:16am

re: #233 Patricia Kayden

Can’t be said too many times: vote!!!!

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We did vote, and the institutions have still failed us. I submit that if our only plan to avoid fascism is to win every vote from now on, then we don’t have a plan at all.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:29:09am

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:29:27am

re: #242 Scottish Dragon

We did vote, and the institutions have still failed us. I submit that if our only plan to avoid fascism is to win every vote from now on, then we don’t have a plan at all.

We voted, and we won. We are better positioned to win this time.

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steve_davis  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:29:44am

re: #191 Nerdy Fish

I’m gonna need a fukken spreadsheet for this.

if you look on Google for Trump trial timeline, there’s a site that specializes in keeping all the day to day stuff up to date.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:30:49am

re: #229 mmmirele

Plus these guys are idiots if they think women are going back to no abortions. Women will do what we’ve always done—get the abortion whether it’s illegal or dangerous. And there are more options than there were in 1972. (Also more surveillance, that’s true.)

That’s why all these new state bills require mandatory data registration for pregnant women, and I assume as with Texas, the Pregnancy Police will be offering a reward for turning in women who miscarry (which has to be her fault as God doesn’t make mistakes, remember?)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:32:02am

re: #234 Scottish Dragon

Criminal assault

Send him right off to jailato!

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:32:49am

re: #235 JC1

True and unfortunate.
The DoJ should be doing more: going after Congress critters that participated in the insurrection and leaving no stone unturned on Gini and her hubby.

Counting on the govt to effectively police itself is just as pointless as counting on the police to police themselves

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:33:07am

re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Send him right off to jailato!

Make mine dulce de veleno.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:33:36am

re: #65 Vicious Babushka

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Teukka  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:33:43am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

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You forget a “S” before “tools”…
I’ll see myself out…

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:34:17am

re: #242 Scottish Dragon

We did vote, and the institutions have still failed us. I submit that if our only plan to avoid fascism is to win every vote from now on, then we don’t have a plan at all.

We have a party in charge of one branch of government that wants to end democracy. So our choices are:
1. Vote
2. Shoot ‘em all
3. End our democracy our way

Which do you want to go with? Oh, I would love for the DOJ to go after them all, but it would take years. And the other party can block the effort. Do we throw the bad actors out of Congress? Republicans can block that.

Sorry we’re stuck in a situation where voters must finally do their part, but if voters had been doing their part, we wouldn’t be here. But it’s a big part, like the foundational part of the system.

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:34:39am

re: #241 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

“In an email to the media, Dairy Queen’s national parent, the DQ Corporation, has announced that they have hired a Mexican drug cartel to re-train the wayward manager.”

Nah, made that up. It might be a temptation in their position though, facing mega settlements to forestall lawsuits they would have no chance of winning.

“They all agreed. They coulda said no and walked out”. //

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:35:50am

And the other party got Dobbs by just making sure to turn up to vote.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:35:52am

re: #244 Decatur Deb

We voted, and we won. We are better positioned to win this time.

The analogy I keep going back to is the endgame of the Peloponnesian War. Athens had to win every single battle. Sparta only had to win one.

Unless the GOP manages to suddenly start nominating sane candidates again, we have to face up to the likelihood that they will win an election and effectively end democracy at some point. Hoping to draw an inside flush every four years isn’t a strategy.

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:35:55am

re: #245 steve_davis

if you look on Google for Trump trial timeline, there’s a site that specializes in keeping all the day to day stuff up to date.

Again: that we need this tech at all and about a frontrunner

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:36:03am

re: #251 Teukka

You forget a “S” before “tools”…
I’ll see myself out…

In both the sense of pigeons and feces

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:37:38am

re: #254 Belafon

And the other party got Dobbs by just making sure to turn up to vote.

That and stacking the court

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:39:31am

re: #255 Scottish Dragon

The analogy I keep going back to is the endgame of the Peloponnesian War. Athens had to win every single battle. Sparta only had to win one.

Unless the GOP manages to suddenly start nominating sane candidates again, we have to face up to the likelihood that they will win an election and effectively end democracy at some point. Hoping to draw an inside flush every four years isn’t a strategy.

We can survive one rabid nutcase president. Trump 1 proved that. It’s kind of important that we don’t get Trump 2. Beyond that, it’s a thousand year war, and that’s optimistic.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:40:42am

re: #258 Dangerman

That and stacking the court

I will never, ever forgive Mitch the Putin Bitch for sitting on one open vacancy for a year after Scalia died and then railroading the nomination after RBG.

May he rot in fucking hell for that forever.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:41:16am

I’ll tell you one thing. Anti-abortion bounty-hunters who invade pro-choice states should get a downright toasty welcome from the locals.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:41:43am

re: #252 Belafon

We have a party in charge of one branch of government that wants to end democracy. So our choices are:
1. Vote
2. Shoot ‘em all
3. End our democracy our way

Which do you want to go with? Oh, I would love for the DOJ to go after them all, but it would take years. And the other party can block the effort. Do we throw the bad actors out of Congress? Republicans can block that.

Sorry we’re stuck in a situation where voters must finally do their part, but if voters had been doing their part, we wouldn’t be here. But it’s a big part, like the foundational part of the system.

Our opponents have a say as well, and they might just go with “shoot and jail them all”(meaning the rest of us)

At some point this is likely going to break down, and what comes after will be chaotic and probably bloody.

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gocart mozart  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:42:17am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:43:25am

re: #262 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I’ll tell you one thing. Anti-abortion bounty-hunters who invade pro-choice states should get a downright toasty welcome from the locals.

The Fugitive Slut Act of 2023…

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:44:46am
“I don’t know if most people in the country even know what party is in the Senate majority at times.”

— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in an interview with Brian Beutler.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:44:50am

re: #264 gocart mozart

People were speaking Spanish in the American Southwest long before anyone spoke English. And they were speaking Native languages a lot longer before anyone spoke Spanish.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:45:10am

re: #255 Scottish Dragon

The analogy I keep going back to is the endgame of the Peloponnesian War. Athens had to win every single battle. Sparta only had to win one.

Unless the GOP manages to suddenly start nominating sane candidates again, we have to face up to the likelihood that they will win an election and effectively end democracy at some point. Hoping to draw an inside flush every four years isn’t a strategy.

You’ve got it backwards, though. There are more of us than them. They have only won the popular vote once since 1988, and that was still under the shadow of 9/11. THEY have to win every battle. Trump can’t lose a single case. Republicans can’t afford to lose House seats. They have to gerrymander the shit out of things just to stay in the race.

They’re on their heels, not us. We’re just fighting for every inch because we started slow.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:46:41am

re: #266 Dangerman

again, we just took things for granted, like personal freedoms, women’s rights, minority and GLBTQ rights, and ultimately the right to vote and have our vote counted.

There are people actively working to remove all those things from us and turn the clock back by decades.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:47:18am

re: #266 Dangerman

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wrenchwench  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:50:09am

Takes a lot to get the umbrellas out here. Umbrellas are out.

Not metaphorical, but it could be.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:51:22am

We have to remember that currently it is Caucus/Primary season and that whatever happens we must GOTV for Joe.

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lawhawk  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:51:37am

Good. Gun nut in upstate NY who murdered a young woman after mistakenly driving on to the guy’s driveway is sentenced to 25 years to life. The group driving was lost, had no cell coverage, and the guy started shooting, claiming he felt threatened.

The driver claimed that they were already backing out when the shots started coming. They had to drive for 5 miles to get phone service, and the woman bled out from being shot in the neck.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:55:35am

re: #268 Belafon

You’ve got it backwards, though. There are more of us than them. They have won the popular vote once since 1988, and that was still under the shadow of 9/11. THEY have to win every battle. Trump can’t lose a single case. Republicans can’t afford to lose Hiuse seats. They have to gerrymander the shit out of things just to stay in the race.

They’re on their heels, not us. We’re just fighting for every inch because we started slow.

I’m not sure you understand how this works: If they win (or take by force) one election, they can effectively end liberal democracy right there. We become a authoritarian Hungary style democracy in name only where you vote but it’s meaningless (which is the most likely scenario), or steps are taken to becoming a defacto one party state. Its extremely uncommon for one party to win the presidency 3 times in a row, so at some point, they will take the presidency. After that, all bets are off.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:01:16am

re: #274 Scottish Dragon

I’m not sure you understand how this works: If they win (or take by force) one election, they can effectively end liberal democracy right there. We become a authoritarian Hungary style democracy in name only where you vote but it’s meaningless (which is the most likely scenario), or steps are taken to becoming a defacto one party state. Its extremely uncommon for one party to win the presidency 3 times in a row, so at some point, they will take the presidency. After that, all bets are off.

We can hold them off until that party dies of its own toxicity. I work one election at a time, one foot in front of another. We are more likely than not to win the next. What happens after that depends more on how we create and nurture our replacements.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:02:18am

re: #132 wrenchwench

I worked an unusual shift, so I forgot about wordle. I got a Partridge. Wordle 985 4/6*

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Par here too.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 986 4/6

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Group: 2,4,4,5

The woman with the 2 has an unusual start word that works wonders for her!

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Dr. Matt  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:03:28am

Ice-T needs to write a new song. “Fuck the SCOTUS”.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:04:35am

re: #260 Decatur Deb

We can survive one rabid nutcase president. Trump 1 proved that. It’s kind of important that we don’t get Trump 2. Beyond that, it’s a thousand year war, and that’s optimistic.

I tend to see it differently. The dumber half of the local gentry is the true base, the heart, of the Republican Party. I am around these people more than I like to be. They are going all in on fascism because they are teetering on the brink of extinction, and they know it. They are lashing out in a desperate bid to save their privilege while they still have the power to do so.
They are on the wrong side of history, so they will be defeated. I dread the potential cost, though.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:05:18am

re: #275 Decatur Deb

Exactly. That is why I am going to get the second half of my training closer to the April 23rd Primary day. And for me April 23 is the first day of Passover. Right now this election is just as important if not more important than a religious holiday.

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wrenchwench  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:05:46am

re: #276 Hecuba’s daughter

Par here too.

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I got a rabbit (5) on 986. You win!

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:06:37am

re: #139 silverdolphin

Absolutely. They misleadingly quoted one of those guys making it sound like the guy had said under oath that Joe had been given money. But when it was Raskin’s turn, he read into testimony that like 40 ages later in the guy’s deposition he specificaly said no money was ever given to Joe.

Yeah, I think they were hoping he would commit perjury or something. But he was really great. His dad should be proud.

Hunter has shown himself to be a very intelligent and thoughtful guy, brought down by an addictive personality.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:06:45am

My attitude about the GOP and Putin are much the same: they are backed into a corner, dealing with a massive, debilitating dumpster fire of their own creation (War, DJT) and are getting closer to the point where they have nothing to lose by lashing out and fomenting massive chaos.

The attitude being that “If I’m going down, I’m gonna take you all with me!” In Putin’s case, he can really tank the European economy with serious saber rattling and threats of nuclear war, which would have a knock-on effect in America, destablizing things here.

And when it comes to the election, the GOP might as well just try to kick over the table and salvage as many pieces as it can and claim victory on technical grounds: SCOTUS will certainly back them up if they can get that far.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:07:38am

re: #274 Scottish Dragon

They had to win in 2000, then McConnell had to play games in the hopes that Trump would win in 2016. And finally, they have to win in 2024. Because if they don’t, it all comes apart around them.

I get it, we could do this all day. But they have reached a point where the only way they have a shot at maintaining their Christian Nationalist ideals for running the government is to win and destroy it all. Because they don’t have the numbers.

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Unabogie  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:10:51am

re: #252 Belafon

We have a party in charge of one branch of government that wants to end democracy. So our choices are:
1. Vote
2. Shoot ‘em all
3. End our democracy our way

Which do you want to go with? Oh, I would love for the DOJ to go after them all, but it would take years. And the other party can block the effort. Do we throw the bad actors out of Congress? Republicans can block that.

Sorry we’re stuck in a situation where voters must finally do their part, but if voters had been doing their part, we wouldn’t be here. But it’s a big part, like the foundational part of the system.

This is my thinking exactly. We voted ourselves into this mess. The way out must be a more informed electorate voting for sane and responsible people. If voting wasn’t so effective, the fascists wouldn’t be spending so much of their time and energy trying to stop it.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:12:16am

re: #277 Dr. Matt

Ice-T needs to write a new song. “Fuck the SCOTUS”.

It’d be NWA doing that song.

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nines09  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:14:26am

instagram.com

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:14:58am

re: #279 PhillyPretzel ✅

Exactly. That is why I am going to get the second half of my training closer to the April 23rd Primary day. And for me April 23 is the first day of Passover. Right now this election is just as important if not more important than a religious holiday.

I am told there are wartime exceptions to a lot of the commandments.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:15:27am

re: #239 jeffreyw

Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway (Official Video)

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:16:06am

re: #287 Decatur Deb

Yes. There are. I am sure VB would know more about them.

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Jay C  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:17:17am

Word-gaming:

Click to Reveal

Good day at the NYT Games page today: birdied the Wordle:

Wordle 986 3/6

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Also aced the Spelling Bee (no hints) - AND: zipped thru Connections in about a minute.
Yay me

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:19:34am

re: #283 Belafon

They had to win in 2000, then McConnell had to play games in the hopes that Trump would win in 2016. And finally, they have to win in 2024. Because if they don’t, it all comes apart around them.

I get it, we could do this all day. But they have reached a point where the only way they have a shot at maintaining their Christian Nationalist ideals for running the government is to win and destroy it all. Because they don’t have the numbers.

They killed off a big chunk of their already dwindling constituency with Covid.

They refuse to appeal to the socially conservative elements of the Latino community because, well, they are dark-skinned

And although I think most good Christian Americans oppose abortion on moral grounds, a lot more of them want to keep it available as a last-ditch option in case one of their daughters suffer a moral failing involving some minority member or caucasian loser…

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:25:37am

re: #285 Mike Lamb

It’d be NWA doing that song.

Ice-T - Cop Killer (Lyrics)

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:31:23am

re: #125 Charmingly Persistent

Yeah, same. And my husband.

Same here (except rural Pennsylvania). At this moment I only have one firearm, but I have many weapons. And as I have mentioned before, most all the others are fairly silent. Don’t need the big boom giving away your position.

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:31:26am

re: #289 PhillyPretzel ✅

Yes. There are. I am sure VB would know more about them.

pikuach nefesh
פיקוח נפש
based on texts such as Leviticus 19:16 and Deuteronomy 30:19, the Talmud states that in an emergency pikuach nefesh overrides all other laws, even those relating to Shabbat, Yom Kippur and Kashrut.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:32:22am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This sounds reassuring but please keep in mind: the worse things get for the GOP with their flaming dumpster fire of a Presidential candidate and total lack of policy beyond banning abortion IVF, libraries and Transvestite book readings, the less they have to lose.

And that means that they will not shrink from highly disruptive and even violent measures to create enough electoral chaos to get the election sent to the House or even the SCOTUS, which is shaping up to be the only way they can possibly win.

Hidden because it deals with Succession and didn’t want to give a plot point away if someone hadn’t yet seen it….

Click to Reveal

A possible scenario:
the Milwaukee center that had 100,000 uncounted absentee ballots is burned down and, without those votes, the state goes to the Republican candidate as does the Presidency.

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gwangung  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:33:23am

If some white people are tired of fighting, they should think of black people. Been fighting since the 1860s and they STILL ain’t free. But they. Are. Still. Fighting.

Fight like the black community. Fight for every single inch of progress.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:35:05am

re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They killed off a big chunk of their already dwindling constituency with Covid.

They refuse to appeal to the socially conservative elements of the Latino community because, well, they are dark-skinned

And although I think most good Christian Americans oppose abortion on moral grounds, a lot more of them want to keep it available as a last-ditch option in case one of their daughters suffer a moral failing involving some minority member or caucasian loser…

Actually, I don’t think most good Christian Americans oppose abortion. Not even most American Catholics oppose abortion. The ones who oppose it have to make a lot of noise to compensate for the fact that they are in the minority. But most women know that pregnancy is tough, even when you want to have children, and that all sorts of things go wrong if you don’t want to have one.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:35:11am

re: #294 sagehen

This is Passover not Shabbat. Then again there was the Yom Kippur War. In a manner of speaking the current Primary is a battle of sorts. And the fact that Gov Josh Shapiro is also Jewish (he says he is Orthodox) I think it is okay to work the polls.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:35:57am

re: #296 gwangung

If some white people are tired of fighting, they should think of black people. Been fighting since the 1860s and they STILL ain’t free. But they. Are. Still. Fighting.

Fight like the black community. Fight for every single inch of progress.

That’s what I always fall back to, when I’m down, I know that others have been doing this longer than me and are still doing it.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:36:42am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:37:31am

re: #295 Hecuba’s daughter

Hidden because it deals with Succession and didn’t want to give a plot point away if someone hadn’t yet seen it….

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Except it will not be close, the point will be to invalidate enough ballots to prevent either candidate from gaining an EC majority. From there, the House and SCOTUS will declare GOP the winner as per the Constitution.

Remember: the vote is sent to the House delegations, not the individual members: even if the Dems gain a majority, there will still be more GOP-run states than Democratic ones, due to the fact that Wyoming and South Dakota each get one vote, as do New York and California.

All Constitutional and above-board.

I hate to be all Cassandra about it, but this is a scenario which favors chaos and massive ratfuckery. Two things the GOP are past masters at.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:38:18am

re: #297 Belafon

Actually, I don’t think most good Christian Americans oppose abortion. Not even most American Catholics oppose abortion. The ones who oppose it have to make a lot of noise to compensate for the fact that they are in the minority. But most women know that pregnancy is tough, even when you want to have children, and that all sorts of things go wrong if you don’t want to have one.

They might be against it on moral principles but not necessarily on legal grounds.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:39:31am

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:40:10am

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:40:30am

“Not all Christians..”

Never confuse a Evangelical for and old school Episcopalian……..

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:41:05am

Okay…gotta get on the road. Play nice everyone.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:41:49am

re: #162 Targetpractice

That’s how I ended up with a scar on the back of my right hand. My cat was totally focused on the microwave for some reason, just intently looking at it as it made noise. Foolish me, I gave her a light tap on the back, and she gouged me on the way towards the ceiling.

A few months before their marriage over 12 years ago, my niece and her fiance were sound asleep when suddenly they were awakened by yowling from the kitchen — they rushed in to discover one of their cats managed to turn on the stove and burnt himself (fortunately a minor injury for him — and fortunately it didn’t happen when they were out)

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:43:22am

re: #283 Belafon

They had to win in 2000, then McConnell had to play games in the hopes that Trump would win in 2016. And finally, they have to win in 2024. Because if they don’t, it all comes apart around them.

I get it, we could do this all day. But they have reached a point where the only way they have a shot at maintaining their Christian Nationalist ideals for running the government is to win and destroy it all. Because they don’t have the numbers.

The plan going around right now in some quarters is that the Speaker refuses to seat Dems after the next election and then votes to not confirm the election if Biden wins, thereby throwing the election to the House and Trump is confirmed. All of this is entirely legal, but not likely the Senate would join in. It still sets stage for both candidates claiming victory next January 6.

Note this is very close to what Trump et al tried to do last time. This time they will be better prepared at the state level to overturn unwanted results and have governors install alternative EC slates. This is part of why I said we may not be able to just vote our way out of this. They are prepared to simply ignore our votes. We need to be ready for mass strikes and to stand by blue state governors who refuse to bend the knee in this. I think there is a very high possibility that organized armed violence is on the table and we have to be prepared for that. The Speaker is an apocalyptic dispensationalist nut who claims he is on a mission from God. Don’t believe for moment he isn’t capable of setting off the next civil war.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:45:55am

The Lipjobs are amazing.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:45:55am

re: #298 PhillyPretzel ✅

This is Passover not Shabbat. Then again there was the Yom Kippur War. In a manner of speaking the current Primary is a battle of sorts. And the fact that Gov Josh Shapiro is also Jewish (he says he is Orthodox) I think it is okay to work the polls.

Not a rabbi, not even Jewish, but I suspect anything that jacks up a nazi is a mitzvah.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:47:44am

re: #310 Decatur Deb

Yes, it is. Anything that messes up DT and his cronies it worth it.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:48:11am

re: #308 Scottish Dragon

The plan going around right now in some quarters is that the Speaker refuses to seat Dems

People seem to want to get this wrong. At the beginning of every session, there is no House. There is no one in charge. Every two years it starts over. Mike Johnson will not be in charge on the first day of the next Congress unless, on that day, he is voted as Speaker. At that point, the Speaker then swears everyone in. If he is not voted Speaker, he has no power. Oh, they like to do a ceremony in the House to make it look formal, but it’s no different than a new president coming in. The old one doesn’t have to be there.

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dat_said  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:49:06am

Local news: A pair of swans on the neighborhood lake.

Ice out about a month early apparently also means waterfowl a month early. Currently seeing Canada geese, mallard ducks, and a pair of swans.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:49:21am

re: #132 wrenchwench

I worked an unusual shift, so I forgot about wordle. I got a Partridge. Wordle 985 4/6*

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Today’s took me all the way to 6/6

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:52:46am

re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

National abortion ban will not be effective if childbearing-age women can go abroad to access them. So we will need mandatory pregancy tests and medical examinations for all such women leaving or re-entering the country.

Welcome to Gilead

It will be effective for most women since they don’t have the resources (financial or time) to travel outside the country.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:53:52am

re: #315 Hecuba’s daughter

It will be effective for most women since they don’t have the resources (financial or time) to travel outside the country.

especially if they fear a forced medical examination

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:55:48am

re: #312 Belafon

People seem to want to get this wrong. At the beginning of every session, there is no House. There is no one in charge. Every two years it starts over. Mike Johnson will not be in charge on the first day of the next Congress unless, on that day, he is voted as Speaker. At that point, the Speaker then swears everyone in. If he is not voted Speaker, he has no power. Oh, they like to do a ceremony in the House to make it look formal, but it’s no different than a new president coming in. The old one doesn’t have to be there.

Yes that’s been brought up and I’m not sure how their thinking is to get around it without the parliamentarian, unless they are confidant he will go with it or they simply Calvinball the constitution and trash the quorum. If they have a majority going in, I think the going assumption for the last 3 years is that they will refuse to affirm a Biden win and try to run the one vote per state gambit and Biden’s ppl have been preparing for it. Trump will almost certainly have 4 votes on SCOTUS for that.

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:01:18am

Since we were discussing hard boiled eggs a day or so ago, I put up a page on the right, step by step, with pictures

littlegreenfootballs.com

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:02:52am

re: #294 sagehen

pikuach nefesh
פיקוח נפש
based on texts such as Leviticus 19:16 and Deuteronomy 30:19, the Talmud states that in an emergency pikuach nefesh overrides all other laws, even those relating to Shabbat, Yom Kippur and Kashrut.

This is why they were able to evacuate large numbers of civilians, including schools of children, from the war zones in Ukraine. The rabbis rode on the buses with the children until they reached safety in Berlin (of all places)

At no time are the Sabbath and Festivals cancelled, just that the methods of celebration may be somewhat subdued.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:03:10am

re: #310 Decatur Deb

Not a rabbi, not even Jewish, but I suspect anything that jacks up a nazi is a mitzvah.

From another tradition, it would be worth a few extra weeks — or years — in Purgatory to get that job done.

Oh hi, all! I’m back from the Star Trek cruise, surviving an overnight in Florida, and a long day in Orlando airport (cruise ships kick you off early, cross country flights all leave in the evening). A good time was had by all.

And I have a partridge to celebrate my return. I kept playing on the cruise, but had too much else to do, so no posting.

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Randall Gross  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:05:28am

New from St Vincent

St. Vincent - Broken Man (Official Video)

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:08:31am

A pastry chef’s contribution to the ambiance:

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gocart mozart  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:09:03am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:09:06am

re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just sayin’.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:13:56am

re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Except it will not be close, the point will be to invalidate enough ballots to prevent either candidate from gaining an EC majority. From there, the House and SCOTUS will declare GOP the winner as per the Constitution.

Remember: the vote is sent to the House delegations, not the individual members: even if the Dems gain a majority, there will still be more GOP-run states than Democratic ones, due to the fact that Wyoming and South Dakota each get one vote, as do New York and California.

All Constitutional and above-board.

I hate to be all Cassandra about it, but this is a scenario which favors chaos and massive ratfuckery. Two things the GOP are past masters at.

When a party is reduced to hoping they can play shenanigans in the House to win, you know they’re struggling to hang on.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:15:33am

re: #302 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They might be against it on moral principles but not necessarily on legal grounds.

That’s the thing, I don’t think they opposed to it on moral grounds either. Why would they be?

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:15:35am

re: #325 Belafon

When a party is reduced to hoping they can play shenanigans in the House to win, you know they’re struggling to hang on.

Finish them!

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nines09  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:15:40am

re: #309 Dave In Austin

The Lipjobs are amazing.

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I wonder if she would stick to the wall with them….
Mystery to me. I see so much butchered plastic jobs and just insanely bad ink, it’s like a circus clown car.
“I think I overlined my lips.”
No. You look perfect. Like a river lamprey.

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:15:41am

re: #308 Scottish Dragon

The plan going around right now in some quarters is that the Speaker refuses to seat Dems after the next election and then votes to not confirm the election if Biden wins, thereby throwing the election to the House and Trump is confirmed. All of this is entirely legal, but not likely the Senate would join in. It still sets stage for both candidates claiming victory next January 6…..

gonna jump in here
most of the scenarios being discussed today simply will not happen.
that they ‘could possibly’ happen is another matter.

for this one specifically, that’s not the way it works
- when this congress adjourns, there is no speaker anymore.
- when the new congress convenes (i believe on 1/3), the first job is to elect a speaker
- the previous speaker is not in charge of this process and has no say. he just has one vote, like everyone else.
- every elected congressperson gets to vote their one vote.
- no business happens until a speaker is elected
- while the speaker is elected ‘by the house’ we know it’s by the majority party
— if there are more dems, it’s Jeffries

second, refusing to accurately count the certifications is not ‘all perfectly legal’ and everyone would not simply sit by and say ‘well that’s how it works, that’s the way it goes…”

if the actual election results are ‘obvious’ and every knew the ‘true’ count, there would be instantaneous lawsuits. and the facts would win.

yes they would.

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sagehen  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:15:43am

re: #320 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Oh hi, all! I’m back from the Star Trek cruise, surviving an overnight in Florida, and a long day in Orlando airport (cruise ships kick you off early, cross country flights all leave in the evening). A good time was had by all.

You can’t say “Star Trek cruise” and not post pictures.

What color shirt is your Starfleet uniform?

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:16:21am

re: #312 Belafon

People seem to want to get this wrong. At the beginning of every session, there is no House. There is no one in charge. Every two years it starts over. Mike Johnson will not be in charge on the first day of the next Congress unless, on that day, he is voted as Speaker. At that point, the Speaker then swears everyone in. If he is not voted Speaker, he has no power. Oh, they like to do a ceremony in the House to make it look formal, but it’s no different than a new president coming in. The old one doesn’t have to be there.

damn!
im a slow typist
(it’s part of my charm)

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:18:12am

Mastodon

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:18:59am

I saw a clever comment on the hellsite earlier today about Tolkien and his strong dislike for Dune when he was asked to review the manuscript (because he disliked it so much, he refused to publish as he thought it would be unfair to a working author. His opinion was in a private letter not made public for decades)

Dune has a profound pessimism you don’t see with LOTR. Galadriel refuses to touch the One Ring and Frodo resists it to the point of almost dying. Paul grasps his One Ring with both hands and burns entire worlds.

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dat_said  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:19:12am

The big box is a plug-in-the-wall pacemaker from around the 1950’s that can be found at the Earl Bakken Museum in Mpls. The package in front contains a Medtronic Micra pacemaker - a leadless pacemaker implanted in the heart without any leads to a pectorally-implanted pacemaker.

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:20:56am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:22:13am

re: #334 dat_said

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The big box is a plug-in-the-wall pacemaker from around the 1950’s that can be found at the Earl Bakken Museum in Mpls. The package in front contains a Medtronic Micra pacemaker - a leadless pacemaker implanted in the heart without any leads to a pectorally-implanted pacemaker.

technology is grand.
this happened in a similar vein (no pun intended)

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:22:43am

re: #331 Dangerman

damn!
im a slow typist
(it’s part of my charm)

You put in better details,

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Teukka  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:23:47am

re: #336 Dangerman

technology is grand.
this happened in a similar vein (no pun intended)

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Add to that a RasPi 5 compute module…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:24:30am

re: #330 sagehen

You can’t say “Star Trek cruise” and not post pictures.

What color shirt is your Starfleet uniform?

I have very few pictures — the organizers ask us not to take them, because they have photographers documenting everything and they (will, in a couple of weeks) post their pictures for everyone. The pastry shot is one of the few I have.

Uniform is red — TNG “command” uniform. I got it because when I bought mine, the other colors didn’t match well with the “real” colors. Otherwise, I’d have gone for blue (surprise!).

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:26:05am

re: #337 Belafon

You put in better details,

thats why it took me so long…

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:27:50am

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:28:43am

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lawhawk  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:30:20am

re: #342 Dangerman

IOKIYAR - words the GOP lives by: It’s OK If You Are Republican.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:34:59am

re: #336 Dangerman

I was looking up computers on NASA rockets, and while the flight software for the Apollo rockets truly was a binary program, it was a hardwired board, requiring worker, women, to essentially sew ones and zeroes on a grid to run.

It took eight weeks to weave the memory for a single flight computer. The computers in the command module and the lunar module were identical, but their programming was different, and the programs for each Apollo flight were also different.

While tedious, the work demanded attention, skill and experience. Raytheon found that out during Apollo when there was a brief strike in the mid-1960s that included the Waltham factory.

Managers and supervisors attempted to keep the Apollo computer assembly line going by sitting down to do the weaving themselves. According to Ed Blondin, a senior manager at the facility, “Everything they made was scrap.”

history.com

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nines09  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:35:43am

Now for something that has been bouncing in Philly for a while….

Mannequin Pussy - “Perfect”

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:36:09am

re: #333 Scottish Dragon

I saw a clever comment on the hellsite earlier today about Tolkien and his strong dislike for Dune when he was asked to review the manuscript (because he disliked it so much, he refused to publish as he thought it would be unfair to a working author. His opinion was in a private letter not made public for decades)

Dune has a profound pessimism you don’t see with LOTR. Galadriel refuses to touch the One Ring and Frodo resists it to the point of almost dying. Paul grasps his One Ring with both hands and burns entire worlds.

Sigh. In fact, he tries to do things different from his visions to stop the jihad until he realizes that there is nothing he can do, and he recognizes the horror of what is happening. I don’t know about Tolkien’s views of it, but the profound pessimism in the novels is because of the inevitability of the outcomes.

“My Liege makes a joke,” Korba said, voice trembling. “The Jihad has brought ten thousand worlds into the shining light of—”
“Into the darkness,” Paul said. “We’ll be a hundred generations recovering from Muad’dib’s Jihad. I find it hard to imagine that anyone will ever surpass this.” A barking laugh erupted from his throat.
“What amuses Muad’dib?” Stilgar asked.
“I am not amused. I merely had a sudden vision of the Emperor Hitler saying something similar. No doubt he did.”

Dune Messiah

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:42:03am

re: #345 nines09

Well that was fun……

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nines09  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:43:37am

re: #347 Dave In Austin

Got punk rock energy.
I like punch in the face songs.
Drop you and walk out.

Still there. Click on larger.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:46:28am

re: #345 nines09

They’re good. I’d love to see them on a double bill with Amyl and the Sniffers.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:47:02am

Anyone watching Shogun on FX? We watched the 1st 2 episodes last night and enjoyed it. The dialogue was not what I expected but and found the humor between characters amusing.
I’m a big Clavell fan and consumed everything he wrote as a teenager and young adult. A true master in my mind.
I think it will be a good series.

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Captain Magic  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:48:44am

re: #324 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I have a coworker who uses Eeyore as his icon.

I use the bear from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law as my icon.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:49:27am

re: #350 Dave In Austin

On our list, but we haven’t started it yet.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:51:17am

re: #329 Dangerman

gonna jump in here
most of the scenarios being discussed today simply will not happen.
that they ‘could possibly’ happen is another matter.

for this one specifically, that’s not the way it works
- when this congress adjourns, there is no speaker anymore.
- when the new congress convenes (i believe on 1/3), the first job is to elect a speaker
- the previous speaker is not in charge of this process and has no say. he just has one vote, like everyone else.
- every elected congressperson gets to vote their one vote.
- no business happens until a speaker is elected
- while the speaker is elected ‘by the house’ we know it’s by the majority party
— if there are more dems, it’s Jeffries

second, refusing to accurately count the certifications is not ‘all perfectly legal’ and everyone would not simply sit by and say ‘well that’s how it works, that’s the way it goes…”

if the actual election results are ‘obvious’ and every knew the ‘true’ count, there would be instantaneous lawsuits. and the facts would win.

yes they would.

Considering that we are in a world where a mob directed by the former POTUS very nearly murdered the previous SOTH and the VP and he is still free and has a 50 percent chance of winning next fall, I’d say a whole lot of things are real, real possible.

1) Rules and laws must be enforced, and as we saw with emoluments etc last time, if nobody can enforce them, then they become meaningless. I don’t know what their thinking is to get around the new congress has no speaker issue but I’m guessing they will try to ratfuck it before adjourning if Dems might take control, or they are sure they will retain control and proceed. Facsists don’t obey laws that inconvenience them, so I’m not sure how we expect them to do it when they have a supermajority in SCOTUS that is making entirely new shit up out of thin air and they have a shot at permanent power for the rest of our lives. I’d expect to see some red state governors refusing to certify dem congressional wins if it looks like control is close. Even if they eventually get confirmed, it could take months. Enough time for the damage to be done.. See Trump’s phone calls to Georgia and elsewhere threatening officials to make things happen.

2) Refusing to count the certification is legal unless SCOTUS says otherwise, but how would you even force that? SCOTUS has no way to make a coequal branch obey it. Again, permanent power is on the line. Why would they let it go over Roberts getting cold feet? This was has been telegraphed for the last three years that a GOP congress will not certify a Biden win.

and the facts would win.

Did they with the Kavanaugh hearings? Have they won so far with Gini Thomas or the other coup leadership cadre? Have anyone in January 6 leadership paid any price at all?

We have facts and they matter not a bit if our opponents have institutional power to ignore them. Belafon’s point that they are desperate and outnumbered is correct. However, they are also entrenched in a majority of the governorships and state legislatures with the ability to exercise a Samson option and wreck the Republic if they don’t get their white grievance despotism. I firmly believe this is our most dangerous moment since the end of the Civil War, because this really is their best shot for permanent minority rule and we already know they are planning to use the military and federal LE to begin mass arrests and gunning down protests. I don’t think they are going to let the constitution or regular order stand in the way of what they want.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:54:28am
The Pirate Queen Sets Sail Next Month On Quest & PC VR

Announced last spring, The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend comes from Singer Studios and won the Immersive Storyscapes Award during last year’s Tribeca Festival. Directed by Eloise Singer, this narrative adventure game focused on puzzle solving and exploration stars Lucy Liu as Cheng Shih, who sailed the South China Sea with the Red Flag Fleet. Previously announced for February 2024, that’s now arriving on March 7 in time for Women’s History Month.

uploadvr.com

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nines09  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:54:57am

re: #350 Dave In Austin

Yes. Very well done IMO. I remember little of the Richard Chamberlain series, and this is just so much better at painting a clear picture of the history at that time. Kamons of the Samurai Shogunates are present, and the Tokugawa was the last of them. The imprisoned lord is Tokugawa. I have a Japanese money clip with that symbol on it.

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danarchy  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:58:05am

re: #326 Belafon

That’s the thing, I don’t think they opposed to it on moral grounds either. Why would they be?

Polling shows that about 75% of weekly church goers think abortion is morally wrong. A similar number think abortion should be illegal in most circumstances(with the usual exceptions, rape, incest, life of the mother)

If you look at less regular church goers the numbers fall way off, so I guess it depends on your definition of “good christian”

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:04:53am

re: #356 danarchy

I’m more into the helps others than the attends church kind. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:04:56am

re: #356 danarchy

Polling shows that about 75% of weekly church goers think abortion is morally wrong. A similar number think abortion should be illegal in most circumstances(with the usual exceptions, rape, incest, life of the mother)

If you look at less regular church goers the numbers fall way off, so I guess it depends on your definition of “good christian”

Weekly church goers will be a lot more extreme than they were even a decade ago, as Americans move on from Christianity because it’s gotten so openly hateful.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:05:57am

re: #357 Belafon

I’m more into the helps others than the attends church kind. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian.

It does however make you a member in good standing in a Conservative community that bullies each other to attend their hate-churches.

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danarchy  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:06:34am

re: #358 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Weekly church goers will be a lot more extreme than they were even a decade ago, as Americans move on from Christianity because it’s gotten so openly hateful.

This polling is very consistent going back more than a decade.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:06:47am

re: #359 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

It does however make you a member in good standing in a Conservative community that bullies each other to attend their hate-churches.

Going to a bank doesn’t make me a dollar either.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:10:16am
About 80% of Turkey Track Ranch, listed for $180 million, has been destroyed by wildfire.

The owners said Texas’s Smokehouse Creek Fire has decimated the pastures, plains, and vegetation.

The fire has spread to nearly 1.1 million acres — an area bigger than Rhode Island.

businessinsider.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:10:18am

From the AP: US health officials drop 5 day isolation time for COVID-19
(personally I think this is a big mistake)

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Teukka  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:13:44am

re: #344 Belafon

I was looking up computers on NASA rockets, and while the flight software for the Apollo rockets truly was a binary program, it was a hardwired board, requiring worker, women, to essentially sew ones and zeroes on a grid to run.

history.com

Also, check out CuriousMarc’s YouTube channel for fun stuff on the gear that went to the moon (both embeds are entire playlists):

Apollo Comms Part 1: Opening the S-Band Transponder and Amplifier

Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:16:05am

Tankies love this guy

Mastodon

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nines09  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:18:11am

re: #342 Dangerman

Trump works for Russia along with the GOP.
There. It makes sense.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:25:16am

re: #362 Belafon

And Abbott is at the border.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:28:28am

re: #367 GlutenFreeJesus

And Abbott is at the border.

What is it with Texas leaders and running away as soon as things start to go wrong? First Cancun Cruz, now this.

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aatharuv  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:28:36am

re: #367 GlutenFreeJesus

And Abbott is at the border.

Well, he was in India when the caused by him migrant crisis first occurred, so now that there’s a worse crisis, he can now run away to the border.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:29:18am
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday it would wind down much of its remaining guidance specifically targeted at COVID-19, including an official end to a pandemic-era plea for Americans to stay home for five days after testing positive.

The agency cited improvements in the rates of hospitalizations and deaths inflicted by the virus this past season for the change in its recommendations.

“COVID-19 remains an important public health threat, but it is no longer the emergency that it once was, and its health impacts increasingly resemble those of other respiratory viral illnesses,” the agency said Friday in a report justifying its decision.

Instead of offering recommendations specific for COVID-19, the agency said it would switch to offer a “unified, practical approach to addressing risk” from the virus alongside influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

“We’re taking this unified approach so things can be simpler and more likely to be followed. And if they’re easier and more likely to be followed, then we’re protecting everyone, right? So the folks who are more vulnerable were top of mind when we did this,” CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen told CBS News.

cbsnews.com

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:29:46am

re: #368 Nerdy Fish

What is it with Texas leaders and running away as soon as things start to go wrong? First Cancun Cruz, now this.

They elect Republican grifters instead of leaders. They do not want to be led away from destructive policies and beliefs.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:34:13am

With any luck, maybe alternative rock (or college radio, grunge, indie, whatever you wanna call it) is starting to stage a comeback.

Desert Sharks - Deeper (Official Video)

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:34:24am

I heard this while driving around aimlessly, and it brought a smile to my face, as I hope it brings a smile to yours.

The Curly Shuffle video

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silverdolphin  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:37:34am

Just a reminder that demographics disfavor the GOP. Millennials are no longer young voters. They range in age from 27-43, prime voting years. Along with Gen Z, they will make up 44% of the electorate this year, larger than Boomers.

And they dislike the GOP 2:1. The easiest way to win is to get them out to vote. Reproductive freedom is important to them. Legalization of marijuana is important to them. Student debt is important to them.They are also the demographics that realize democracy is under attack.

That is why I;ve been watching how Biden connects with them.This will be critical for a blue wave.

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Ferdinand  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:39:13am

re: #353 Scottish Dragon

Considering that we are in a world where a mob directed by the former POTUS very nearly murdered the previous SOTH and the VP and he is still free and has a 50 percent chance of winning next fall, I’d say a whole lot of things are real, real possible.

1) Rules and laws must be enforced, and as we saw with emoluments etc last time, if nobody can enforce them, then they become meaningless. I don’t know what their thinking is to get around the new congress has no speaker issue but I’m guessing they will try to ratfuck it before adjourning if Dems might take control, or they are sure they will retain control and proceed. Facsists don’t obey laws that inconvenience them, so I’m not sure how we expect them to do it when they have a supermajority in SCOTUS that is making entirely new shit up out of thin air and they have a shot at permanent power for the rest of our lives. I’d expect to see some red state governors refusing to certify dem congressional wins if it looks like control is close. Even if they eventually get confirmed, it could take months. Enough time for the damage to be done.. See Trump’s phone calls to Georgia and elsewhere threatening officials to make things happen.

2) Refusing to count the certification is legal unless SCOTUS says otherwise, but how would you even force that? SCOTUS has no way to make a coequal branch obey it. Again, permanent power is on the line. Why would they let it go over Roberts getting cold feet? This was has been telegraphed for the last three years that a GOP congress will not certify a Biden win.

Did they with the Kavanaugh hearings? Have they won so far with Gini Thomas or the other coup leadership cadre? Have anyone in January 6 leadership paid any price at all?

We have facts and they matter not a bit if our opponents have institutional power to ignore them. Belafon’s point that they are desperate and outnumbered is correct. However, they are also entrenched in a majority of the governorships and state legislatures with the ability to exercise a Samson option and wreck the Republic if they don’t get their white grievance despotism. I firmly believe this is our most dangerous moment since the end of the Civil War, because this really is their best shot for permanent minority rule and we already know they are planning to use the military and federal LE to begin mass arrests and gunning down protests. I don’t think they are going to let the constitution or regular order stand in the way of what they want.

This tracks with my thinking. I’ve gamed it out for years with my bestie, a lawyer here in Colorado, and my eldest kiddo in grad school. I see a clear enough blue wave to get the US through the transformative crisis. Or, a Trump victory that functionally results in the end of the US.
Primarily, the only path where Trump is installed that I can see results in a critical mass of states voting to secede. The whole left coast and northeast just won’t go along.
So that’s the de facto all bets off civil war scenario I suppose.
Probably no more than a 27% chance of happening ;)
“The readiness is all” - Hamlet

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:46:47am

Depending on how SCOTUS goes with Trump it could be a perfect time for left agitators to demand an expansion of the court.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:55:18am
The University of Florida is firing all employees in positions related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) according to a memo sent on Friday. It follows the passage of a state law in 2023 targeting college funds spend to DEI.

UF officials say they have closed the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors. Officials say 13 positions were eliminated and 15 administrative positions were ended for faculty.

The decision was made to comply with the Florida Board of Governor’s regulation 9.016 on prohibited expenditures. Approximately $5 million previously allocated to DEI initiatives will be reallocated into a faculty recruitment fund.

Eliminated employees will receive 12 weeks of standard pay and are encouraged to apply before April 19 to other positions in the university.

wcjb.com

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:56:16am

re: #264 gocart mozart

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I don’t think she’s all that picky about her own southern border…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:56:58am

re: #377 Shropshire Slasher

Florida - Whites welcome. All others proceed with caution.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:58:49am

re: #362 Belafon

businessinsider.com

But Climate Change is fake. I know i shouldn’t feel this way, but Karma is a bitch. I really don’t have much sympathy at this point.

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Jay C  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:59:15am

re: #376 Amory Blaine

Depending on how SCOTUS goes with Trump it could be a perfect time for left agitators to demand an expansion of the court.

NO: not until after the election (if then). The last thing Joe Biden and the Democrats need is to hand Trump and the GOP “court-packing” as an election issue. It didn’t work out well for FDR; I can’t see where it would be a winning approach for Joe…

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lawhawk  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:00:50am

re: #381 Jay C

NO: not until after the election (if then). The last thing Joe Biden and the Democrats need is to hand Trump and the GOP “court-packing” as an election issue. It didn’t work out well for FDR; I can’t see where it would be a winning approach for Joe…

You can’t get to that point without having majorities in the House and Senate. Right now, the fascist GOP controls the House, and the Senate is razor thin held by Democrats.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:06:21am
The woman charged with drunk driving in the death of a Folly Beach bride is expected to be released from jail on house arrest after prosecutors in Charleston County failed to meet a court-imposed deadline to bring the 26-year-old to trial.

Jamie Lee Komoroski has been jailed since her arrest the night of April 28, 2023, on the charges of reckless vehicular homicide and three counts of felony DUI. The death of Samantha Miller, a 34-year-old bride, in her wedding gown provoked national outcry and worldwide media attention.

The defendant was denied bond at an emotionally raw, televised hearing in August in Charleston County’s General Sessions Court. But the presiding judge, who usually handles cases in Florence and Marion counties, advised attorneys to expedite Komoroski’s trial due to what he called “the very extraordinary circumstances” of the case.

postandcourier.com

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:06:45am

This is good.

The Pill - Salaryman (Official Music Video)

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:10:56am
Driver pulled from truck dangling from Louisville bridge over Ohio River in dramatic scene

nypost.com

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:11:49am

re: #376 Amory Blaine

Depending on how SCOTUS goes with Trump it could be a perfect time for left agitators to demand an expansion of the court.

We will get a gauge this June of just how receptive SCOTUS might be to GOP congressional tampering next December and January.

Everybody on Twitter and Blue Sky convinced SCOTUS will ultimately rule against Trump, but appears there might be at least 4 votes in his favor as God Emperor in Perpetuity considering how certain it seemed that the DC court had settled the matter once and for all.

There may be real chance they invalidate the Jan 6 charges and go all in for Republic of Gilead. I mean, it’s simply insane. We are off the map.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:14:19am

re: #323 gocart mozart

“An anchor on CNN
called my father a PIECE of Shhhit”

a man who has referred to entire nations in Africa as “shitholes”.

If you can’t take the shit, away from the outhouse…

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:15:14am

Damn, I thought he had a heart attack-ack-ack-ack.

Thomas Kingston, the husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor, was found dead at his parents’ home with a “catastrophic head injury” and a gun close to his body, a coroner has said.

Kingston, 45, died at the property in a Cotswold village on Sunday.

Katy Skerrett, the senior coroner for Gloucestershire, said the financier, who was the son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, had lunch with his parents before his body was found in an outbuilding.

She said a post-mortem had been undertaken and that a provisional cause of death had been given as a “traumatic wound to head”.

telegraph.co.uk

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:18:17am

re: #388 Shropshire Slasher

Damn, I thought he had a heart attack-ack-ack-ack.

telegraph.co.uk

DCI Morse is going to hate this case.

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dat_said  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:19:01am

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:21:48am
GMC Sierra ABS Pump Motor Failure - Part II

GMC Sierra ABS Pump Motor Failure - Part II

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:24:03am

Bless the maker and his water. We have 7:00 tickets.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:24:52am

re: #362 Belafon

businessinsider.com

I take it they didn’t practice safe raking.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:25:42am

Let them eat cake cereal.

dailydot.com

For the past few years in commercials, Kellogg’s has been touting Frosted Flakes as the perfect dinner-time treat. But things took a darker turn when WK Kellogg CEO Gary Pilnick suggested that struggling Americans could save money by eating cereal—bearing in mind that he recently upped the prices of Kellogg’s products by 28%.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:26:03am

re: #393 sizzzzlerz

I take it they didn’t practice safe raking.

They should rush the Texas National Guard to the relief area.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:28:10am

re: #394 GlutenFreeJesus

Let them eat cake cereal.

dailydot.com

Probably the worst way to spend a nutrition dollar.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:28:29am

re: #325 Belafon

When a party is reduced to hoping they can play shenanigans in the House to win, you know they’re struggling to hang on.

That is their only realistic path to victory and they are becoming increasingly and painfully aware from it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:31:24am

re: #355 nines09

Just started watching Shogun and it is already brilliant, especially as the Japanese speak Japanese.

And they use real cannons!

In the original series they just had a show gun.

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William Lewis  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:32:33am

Just because 😈

Riders on the Storm, if it were written by Dire Straits

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:34:57am

ZEDDO UPDATE

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:34:59am

re: #398 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just started watching Shogun and it is already brilliant, especially as the Japanese speak Japanese.

And they use real cannons!

In the original series they just had a show gun.

*WHACK!*

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:36:21am

re: #350 Dave In Austin

Anyone watching Shogun on FX? We watched the 1st 2 episodes last night and enjoyed it. The dialogue was not what I expected but and found the humor between characters amusing.
I’m a big Clavell fan and consumed everything he wrote as a teenager and young adult. A true master in my mind.
I think it will be a good series.

Saw the first episode on hulu and I’m hooked. I saw the miniseries in 1980 but i remember but little of it other than i thought it was great. This one has the same potential. The actor playing toranga kind of reminds me of toshiro mifune who played the role in the first one. He has some huge shoes to fill, however.

The only downside were the myriad number of commercials. They had none the first 1/2 hour, a batch every 3 or 4 minutes, it seemed.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:37:11am

Brought out the 130 year old huge chicken fryer cast iron pan last night. Unusual thin cast type, so it’s surprisingly easy to handle despite the size. Three large diced chicken breasts for white bean chili. Friend chimed in in FB saying she wants one and I’m like It’s an 1885-1890 pan and it was almost 200 dollars as a bday gift to my wife, so good luck finding one lol

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:37:18am

re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg

Florida - Whites welcome. All others proceed with caution.

Arizona: Whites welcome. All others proceed with extreme caution.

Arizona Republicans Advance Bill To Allow People To Murder Migrants

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:37:22am

re: #399 William Lewis

Just because 😈

[Embedded content]

and thats why Jim Morrison wrote it

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:38:08am

re: #401 Nerdy Fish

*WHACK!*

WHACK izashi

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:38:43am

re: #404 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Arizona: Whites welcome. All others proceed with extreme caution.

[Embedded content]

Horrified to find out my parents are all for shooting immigrants on sight.

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steve_davis  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:39:11am

all right, so I think I’ve just got to get motivated to complete grading for the week, and then my weekend entertainment will be watching Napoleon on Apple. First though it’s the prosecution in the Fani Willis debacle.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:43:28am

re: #408 steve_davis

all right, so I think I’ve just got to get motivated to complete grading for the week, and then my weekend entertainment will be watching Napoleon on Apple. First though it’s the prosecution in the Fani Willis debacle.

Napoleon was cool, but the Battle of Austerlitz was, ahem, not even remotely accurate. Waterloo was much better done and pretty close to the historical events.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:44:29am

re: #407 Scottish Dragon

Horrified to find out my parents are all for shooting immigrants on sight.

Meanwhile, juan is out cutting the grass while jesus and miguel are installing fencing next door

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:45:53am

re: #410 sizzzzlerz

Meanwhile, juan is out cutting the grass while jesus and miguel are installing fencing next door

I’m pretty sure ppl like me are next on the enemies of the state list

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:47:03am

re: #407 Scottish Dragon

Horrified to find out my parents are all for shooting immigrants on sight.

My ex-GF moved down near Douglas, AZ with her boyfriend, he joined the Border Militia and even built a 30-foot observtion tower on their property.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:47:15am

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:47:49am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:48:05am

re: #409 Scottish Dragon

Napoleon was cool, but the Battle of Austerlitz was, ahem, not even remotely accurate. Waterloo was much better done and pretty close to the historical events.

I looked at the battle scenes from the perspective of how much they conveyed the look and feel of being in the midst of one, not the historical accuracy. For that, they were okay.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:48:28am

re: #411 Scottish Dragon

I’m pretty sure ppl like me are next on the enemies of the state list

I think with mob it would be the Friends of the State list.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:49:09am

re: #412 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My ex-GF moved down near Douglas, AZ with her boyfriend, he joined the Border Militia and even built a 30-foot observtion tower on their property.

They can’t wait to start a bloodbath

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:50:12am

re: #417 Scottish Dragon

They can’t wait to start a bloodbath

Just to prove what a “crisis” the border is

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Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:50:28am

re: #412 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My ex-GF moved down near Douglas, AZ with her boyfriend, he joined the Border Militia and even built a 30-foot observtion tower on their property.

No Gurlz Allowed sign?

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:51:59am
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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:52:21am

re: #415 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I looked at the battle scenes from the perspective of how much they conveyed the look and feel of being in the midst of one, not the historical accuracy. For that, they were okay.

The Duelists is really, really good about that both for actual authentic representation and brilliant cinematography. Ridley Scott’s first movie just before Alien. The fighting is probably some of the best you will see on screen. 5 bucks on your Roku.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:59:12am

re: #404 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There’s a lot of worry above that what’s coming is an immediate civil war if Trump is elected, but I think that the more likely outcome is that it will accelerate what Republicans are have always tried, in different forms, to make in their image: Fraenkel’s Dual State.

Prerogative state creep is something we can observe in Republican rhetoric pre-Trump: every possible chance they get, conservatives argue for less formal accountability and more brutality for their preferred groups. The future they’re planning isn’t absolute control over everyone with troops, it’s slowly escalating and normalizing state terror and state intervention in ways that reflect their hierarchical preferences.

Laws like this probably can’t stand…for now…but the purpose is threefold: it signals to their followers what kind of license they’ll be granted if they participate in building the conservative prerogative state; it functions to instill terror in everyone that falls into the class of “could be interpreted as a migrant”; it begins the normalization of subjective individual impressions…that’s a migrant, I’m scared, therefore I can kill them…into the structure of law.

(with that last one, consider how “Stand Your Ground” exists to create ambiguity in shootings, such that there’s no longer a clear standard for self defense but instead a kind of interpretative gap in which narrative control can *make* the shooting self defense.)

(It’s also worth considering how cops have taken the accountability of cameras in stride, and simply release edited footage to press sources to create visual narratives in which they’re not the instigators or the ones that escalate. At the same time you find them inventing pretexts in which filming them is an attack, and arguing in the breach that filming is illegal such that they permitted to check or confiscate phones. This is all prerogative state creep, the creation of unaccountable institution permitted arbitrary power.)

It’s also worth talking about how this, and measures like this, are not really intended to end migration…because American industries that fund conservatives use a lot of exploited, cheap-because-it-is-unfree labor…but is a kind of sop for nativists. In effect, this is not a “solve” for migrants but a kind of cathartic gesture granted to the ingroup.

(A very, very likely way that conservative migration policy will bend is to further elaborate on the prison-industrial complex’s existing routing of captive migrants into the labor stream…in other words, the jobs will still be taken but by penal labor that more perfectly captures the value made)

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:02:06pm

re: #422 The Ghost of a Flea

Immigrants begin to occupy a niche similar to helots in Sparta. You need them for the work but you can abuse and kill them without repercussion whenever you like

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:15:09pm

My suggestion would be Mr. Hankey!

Americans Guess Who Will Replace Mitch McConnell

theonion.com

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mmmirele  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:17:34pm

re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

especially if they fear a forced medical examination

I can’t guarantee some irate mama won’t take her little pink pistol out of her purse and threaten anyone who wants to do a medical exam of her daughter. Because I could see that happening.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:19:29pm

re: #356 danarchy

Polling shows that about 75% of weekly church goers think abortion is morally wrong. A similar number think abortion should be illegal in most circumstances(with the usual exceptions, rape, incest, life of the mother)

If you look at less regular church goers the numbers fall way off, so I guess it depends on your definition of “good christian”

And that is 75% of the actual people that go to church weekly or more. What percentage of people go to church weekly or more. I have seen and found estimates that is from maybe 1/4 of our population down to an estimate of only 3% of our population. So maybe we meet them somewhere around the middle and say 18% actually go to church weekly or more. So 75% of 18% of our population think that.

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jaunte  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:20:44pm

@faineg.bsky.social

If you’re on the beach in parts of Europe, note that rocks that resemble amber may actually be WWII era white phosphorus that can ignite in your pocket.
dw.com

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:21:25pm

re: #357 Belafon

I’m more into the helps others than the attends church kind. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian.

Not any more than standing in a garage makes me a car.

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retired cynic  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:24:42pm

Found on the book of faces:

When winter’s grip tightens on Norway, particularly in the northern reaches above the Arctic Circle, the stage is set for ice flowers to bloom. Their emergence hinges on a unique interplay between elements. Primarily, they require extremely cold temperatures, typically below -20°C (-4°F). Additionally, calm, clear skies are key, allowing efficient heat radiation from the ice surface. These factors combine to create a phenomenon known as supercooling, where water remains liquid even below its freezing point.
Then, a trigger arrives, often in the form of a tiny speck of dust or salt. This microscopic “imperfection” disrupts the equilibrium, sending a ripple of crystallization through the water. In an instant, the supercooled liquid transforms into ice, but not in the usual way. Instead of forming a solid sheet, the ice nucleates outwards in intricate branching patterns. These delicate tendrils, resembling the veins of leaves or flower petals, are sculpted by subtle variations in temperature and wind.
Some ice flowers resemble miniature snowflakes, while others unfurl like delicate lace, each one a unique masterpiece sculpted by nature. While captivating to the eye, ice flowers play a vital role in the arctic ecosystem. They provide crucial habitat for microorganisms and algae, forming the base of the food chain for larger marine life. They also influence gas exchange between the ocean and atmosphere, impacting global climate processes.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:24:44pm

re: #427 jaunte

Amber if gently rubbed will give off a pine aroma. I do not think white phosphorus will have that aroma.

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JC1  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:26:44pm

re: #284 Unabogie

This is my thinking exactly. We voted ourselves into this mess. The way out must be a more informed electorate voting for sane and responsible people. If voting wasn’t so effective, the fascists wouldn’t be spending so much of their time and energy trying to stop it.

The Dems need to realize that the past norms have been replaced by pure power games. The Dems need to do stuff like McConnell did and more, until the GOP is gone or until they accept that the old norms are better for everyone.
This means that blue states need to undo fair map rules and gerrymander a supermajority in the house. There should be 0 GOP congressman from CA. Expand the court to 13 seats. Add some territories as states, etc.
It’s absurd to keep playing by the same rules.

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Teukka  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:30:55pm

re: #430 PhillyPretzel ✅

Amber if gently rubbed will give off a pine aroma. I do not think white phosphorus will have that aroma.

Melted skin aroma?

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Teddy's Person  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:53:37pm

re: #318 Dangerman

Since we were discussing hard boiled eggs a day or so ago, I put up a page on the right, step by step, with pictures

littlegreenfootballs.com

Look at you being all helpful and stuff. 😍

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Teddy's Person  Mar 1, 2024 • 12:54:58pm

re: #327 Decatur Deb

Finish them!

Sweep the leg!

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TedStriker  Mar 1, 2024 • 3:23:54pm

re: #434 Teddy’s Person

Sweep the leg!

Get ‘em a body bag!

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cat-tikvah  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:53:10pm

re: #392 Scottish Dragon

Bless the maker and his water. We have 7:00 tickets.

[Embedded content]

We saw it this afternoon.
Intense! And we loved it.


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