A Short British Comedy Film That Just Might Make You Appreciate “TOAST”

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After a young man agrees to help a reclusive elderly neighbour with their grocery shopping through lockdown, they form an unlikely friendship that changes them both.

A British BIFA-Qualifying Comedy-Drama Short Film set during lockdown, starring Roger Sloman (Nuts in May, EastEnders, Inside No. 9), and up-and-coming actor Harry Walters. Directed by Benedict Webb. Written by Harry Walters

Awards and Selections:
*Finalist - National Youth Film Awards (Best Screenplay, Editing & Lead Actor)
*Finalist - Horsham Film Festival (Best Comedy)
*Finalist - Cut International Short Film Festival (Best Comedy)
*Runner Up - INDIs Film Festival (22-25)
*Honourable Mention - BIFA Qualifying Sunderland Shorts Film Festival
*Official Selection - BIFA Qualifying Little Wing Film Festival
*Official Selection - IndieFlicks Film Festival
*Official Selection - Crossing the Screen Film Festival (Sussex Film)
*Official Selection - Lift Off Sessions Global Network

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2024 • 6:44:01pm

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:02:35pm

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:03:54pm

re: #49 Joe Bacon ✅

Europe has Socialism for all

The US just has Socialism for the rich and corporations.

Everyone hates socialism until they need it.

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jaunte  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:05:29pm

re: #3 Ace Rothstein

“Ag exemptions for hobby farmers is socialism.”
And just about everyone in this county is taking them.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:07:21pm

re: #4 jaunte

Farmers have been subsidized since the dust bowl. That was 90 years ago.

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jaunte  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:09:15pm

re: #5 Ace Rothstein

I’m thinking of the wealthy suburbanites around here who get a significant property tax break for growing hay on their 25 acre ranchettes.

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ckkatz  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:15:23pm

While the damage will fall mostly on Russia, there may be effects downstream into the rest of the world.

Telenko Xitter post

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:25:07pm

re: #7 ckkatz

While the damage will fall mostly on Russia, there may be effects downstream into the rest of the world.

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I was thinking about that. Who will be the first Republican to say “Biden has to stop suporting Ukraine so that this war will end and gas prices will come down”?

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:33:02pm

Terpsichore;

CDK - Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:34:37pm

So after the February eruption created a lava flow that ran over the main road that goes down to Grindavik, Iceland decided to plow through the still cooling lava and make an operable road (though I believe there were minimum speed requirements to make sure rubber tires did not melt.)

Well, tonight that repaved road went up in smoke:

Reykjanes volcano 16 Mar 2024

Meanwhile, another lava flow is heading for Grindavik itself:

Reykjanes volcano 16 Mar 2024

The lava is piling up at a berm. In the foreground is lava from the January eruption, the greenhouse that survived because of its local berm, and then you can see workers’ lights on the berm farther East that is currently holding back the latest lava.

Supposedly today’s eruption came from a nearly 4 kilometer long set of fissures, and the flow was the largest yet. That’s why there are flows of lava both south to Grindavik, east to an empty field, and west over the road and eventually piling up by the geothermal power plant.

Icelanders are working hard to save their little port town, but I suspect by the time this period of eruptions complete (in a few decades?) that the Reykjanes peninsula will have changed.

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ckkatz  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:39:42pm

It’s been a drone kind of news week-

1. Confirmation that Langley Air Force Base has been buzzed by unidentified drones for the past 3 months.
The Warzone:Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB For Weeks

2. The attacks on Russian Petroleum Industry facilities discussed earlier.

3. Reported drone attack on Russia’s Buturlinovka Airfield

UKikaski Xitter post
Last night, unknown mystery drones reportedly attacked the Russian Buturlinovka Airfield (50.793132, 40.609030) in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, which appears to be home to a fleet of Su-34’s.

4. Russian National detained in Moscow

Reuters:Russian national detained in Moscow for launching drones for Ukraine
MOSCOW, March 15 (Reuters) - Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday that a Russian national had been detained in Moscow on suspicion of treason and had confessed to assembling and launching drones on behalf of Ukraine.

5. ” “Mark my words - in six months to a year, both sides will begin to produce enough FPVs to target every single soldier”

(Quoting Ukrainian expert on drone warfare Serhii Flesh)

Bendett Xitter post

Ukraine’s Sergyi Flesh: “Mark my words - in six months to a year, both sides will begin to produce enough FPVs to target every single soldier - all will be detected and destroyed day and night in a zone of up to 5-8 km. All infantry will retreat underground, and all surface activity will belong to ground robots.”

6. Myanmar drones
January Guardian article: ‘We killed many … drones are our air force’: Myanmar’s rebels take on the junta from above

A rebel drone squadron drawn from engineering students and hobbyists, who gain battlefield training partly through YouTube tutorials, is proving decisive in the struggle against Myanmar’s brutal military government
Aakash Hassan in Camp Victoria and Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Sat 20 Jan 2024 07.00 EST
Last modified on Sat 20 Jan 2024 13.51 EST

As the drones flew silently over western Myanmar’s Chin hills, the junta did not know what was about to hit them. Their operators were hidden a few hundred metres away in the dense forest. As the images on their screens indicated the drone fleet was hovering exactly above the target - a key military base in the town of Lailenpi - they hit the button on their controllers and bombs began to fall.

“We had precise hits,” said Noah, 20, one of the specialist drone fighters in the Chin National Army (CNA), one of the ethnic rebel groups who have been fighting Myanmar’s military for almost three years. “It took them by surprise. We killed many, including the second-in-command of the base.”
*snip*

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ckkatz  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:44:51pm

re: #8 Belafon

I was thinking about that. Who will be the first Republican to say “Biden has to stop suporting Ukraine so that this war will end and gas prices will come down”?

Very True

And of course the MAGAts will be pushing Iran and Saudi to raise oil prices. Fortunately, we are among the top producers of petroleum, if not the top producer and exporter.

This could also affect grain supply. Fortunately, we are again among the top, if not the top producer and exporter in food. Including grain.

As usual, the poor countries of the world are the ones who are most likely to feel the effects. And to lack the infrastructure needed to allow timely delivery and distribution of aid and support.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:45:35pm

re: #7 ckkatz

While the damage will fall mostly on Russia, there may be effects downstream into the rest of the world.

OTOH, if Russia achieves hegemony over Ukraine, Russia will control 30% of the world’s grain supply.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:49:08pm

Are the drumbeats of war getting louder?

There is going to be a limit to what Ukraine can do, without greater support from the US and NATO.

Putin is not so much a mystery as he is an immovable object.

This war is about resources, papered over with religion and revanchism.

What will happen if the US gives Ukraine the ability to totally eliminate the Russian Black Sea fleet?

That will get Putin’s attention for sure.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:50:39pm

How willing are we to dive in deeper in Ukraine?

I suspect that is a question that will have to be answered before the November election.

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ckkatz  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:51:51pm

Also, it sounds like the Biden Administration and a bunch of other NATO members are getting tired of Orban’s crap. Particularly since Orban dived into the middle of US internal politics.

Reuters:US envoy warns over Hungary’s ‘close and expanding’ links with Russia
BUDAPEST, March 14 (Reuters) - NATO allies are warning Hungary of the dangers of its “close and expanding” relationship with Russia and if this is Budapest’s policy choice “we will have to decide how best to protect our security interests”, the U.S. envoy to Hungary said on Thursday.

Relations between Budapest and Washington have soured because of Hungary’s foot-dragging over the ratification of Sweden’s NATO accession - finally passed by Budapest last month - and also over nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s warm ties with Moscow despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“These legitimate security concerns - shared by Hungary’s 31 allies - cannot be ignored,” U.S. Ambassador David Pressman said in a speech marking the 25th anniversary of Hungary’s membership in the NATO military alliance.

*snip*

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:52:26pm

Primarily directed to Illinois residents — especially those in Cook County.

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ckkatz  Mar 16, 2024 • 7:58:49pm

re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

How willing are we to dive in deeper in Ukraine?

I suspect that is a question that will have to be answered before the November election.

I think that you are correct. And not only the US , but all of Europe as well.

My guess is that what Macron is trying to do is get Europe to agree on a unified approach to Russia. One that includes the possibility of armed force and one that would work in the event of tfg getting elected. It requires agreement as to what Russian-Ukrainian War outcomes are unacceptable.

This all under the theory “We possibly could be hanged together. But we will most certainly be hanged separately.”

Germany is a bit of a weak link because of its WW2 legacy and the cover the US has provided it until now. Europe is going to have to agree, 80 years after WW2, what they find acceptable regarding the Germans and military action.

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William Lewis  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:09:39pm

re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:17:26pm

re: #19 William Lewis

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:23:09pm

Biden-Harris Q got this out a few hours ago.

Biden response to bloodbath

Calling Trump a loser has to hurt.

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:28:06pm

From Biden-Harris HQ:

Translation: “Trump wants to create mass detention camps and round up millions of Latinos, ensuring that his deportation operation will be larger than the 1950s military operation “Operation Wetback.”

Wonder if this will have any impact on Latino votes? How will anyone of them prove they are American citizen when millions are being rounded up?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:31:11pm

re: #22 silverdolphin

Trump will not stop with rounding up Latinos and Muslims. We know that he will next go after Jews.

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:35:30pm

re: #22 silverdolphin

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:35:59pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump will not stop with rounding up Latinos and Muslims. We know that he will next go after Jews.

They’ll just kill blacks.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:37:32pm

re: #21 silverdolphin

Make ads about all of his disturbing promises. I’m a bit worried that I am not seeing any ads from Biden/Harris as yet. I’d expect to be seeing them by now here in the DMV area.

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:41:12pm

re: #22 silverdolphin

From Biden-Harris HQ:

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Translation: “Trump wants to create mass detention camps and round up millions of Latinos, ensuring that his deportation operation will be larger than the 1950s military operation “Operation Wetback.”

Wonder if this will have any impact on Latino votes? How will anyone of them prove they are American citizen when millions are being rounded up?

They won’t, that will be the point. They’re going to get grabbed by cops and state troopers who are under pressure to make quotas, tossed in overcrowded cells while they await their turn in front of a judge, and any documentation they have on them confiscated and labeled “fake.” Keep that last part in mind every time your racist uncle asserts that an “illegal” can get a US birth certificate for a few pesos at a bodega in Tijuana, then pick up a driver’s license and government check in Los Angeles.

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austin_blue  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:47:25pm

I’m off for the rack. Things got a little (very) dark tonight.

Hopefully we’ll have a healthier conversation tomorrow.

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:52:29pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump will not stop with rounding up Latinos and Muslims. We know that he will next go after Jews.

Anyone in any minority group that (predominantly white) conservative Christofascists hate is a target for (eventual) elimination.

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:52:45pm

re: #24 Belafon

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People from a 150 nations fly to the Southern border to sneak in “illegally,” yet the common stereotype of an “illegal” is anybody who looks browner than a paper bag.

Funny how that works…/////

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gwangung  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:53:26pm

re: #29 A Three Hour Tour

Anyone in any minority group that (predominantly white) conservative Christofascists hate is a target for (eventual) elimination.

That’s just about all of us.

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 8:59:17pm

re: #26 Patricia Kayden

Make ads about all of his disturbing promises. I’m a bit worried that’s not seeing any ads from Biden/Harris as yet. I’d expect to be seeing them by now here in the DMV area.

Don’t look for these sorts of ads yet on MSM. They are all over social media, etc. Over half a million people have seen several of the Biden-Harris HQ ads (Ie the bloodbath, etc.) at Twitter in the last 5 hours.

There are also several regular ads that are on youtube, threads, instagram and other outlets. He is hitting the places where the youngsters are. The ads for the oldsters take a little more time to get through the MSM sausage but they are coming. I read there is a $30 million ad buy on the way.

Here is an example of what they are doing. I hitnk it is brutal even as it is an incredible story:

President Biden Meets Harry | Biden-Harris 2024

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:02:46pm

re: #29 A Three Hour Tour

Anyone in any minority group that (predominantly white) conservative Christofascists hate is a target for (eventual) elimination.

I used to have friendly arguments with my wife about the realism of The Siege. I felt that it was a fun movie but we would never see something like that in the US.

Now millions of Americans are following a tyrant who wants to make this scene a reality:

The Siege - “Not Their Sand-n***** Anymore” - Tony Shalhoub x Denzel Washington

Fuck them all. We will never allow this to happen.

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:03:13pm

Seriously, which sounds more realistic: A guy from Eastern Europe applies for a work visa through his local consulate, flies into JFK on his way to his new job in the States, overstays the 90 day grace period after he gets fired from said job, and yet avoids the deportation process for several years until his driver’s license comes up for renewal?

OR

Same guy flies to Mexico, then spends thousands of dollars and risks his life to sneak into the US without proper documentation so he can work in unskilled labor for money under the table knowing that at any time he could get ratted out to immigration by his “employer”?

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:04:40pm

re: #26 Patricia Kayden

Make ads about all of his disturbing promises. I’m a bit worried that’s not seeing any ads from Biden/Harris as yet. I’d expect to be seeing them by now here in the DMV area.

I wouldn’t expect them until after Labor Day unless Trump gets money to start ads.

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JC1  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:07:36pm

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:08:04pm

re: #35 Belafon

I wouldn’t expect them until after Labor Day unless Trump gets money to start ads.

Biden is already having an effective, IMHO, rapid response effort. They have out videos every day within hours or minutes of Trump saying it. Same with the White House response to something like the bloodbath comment.

They are getting this stuff out before there is any time for a response fromn the oither side. This all makes it easier gtom lazy MSM guys to ask any Republicans about say the bloodbath comment by asking for a reaction the the WH.

I think the ad blitz that is going to hit in the next few months will be awesome.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:09:37pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump will not stop with rounding up Latinos and Muslims. We know that he will next go after Jews.

Not sure if Jews would be targeted given the religious background of his Son-in-Law and his favorite daughter-wife. Plus, The evil clown pushing all of this, Stephen Miller, is himself Jewish. This will me targeted against those from sh*thole countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Trump isn’t going to target White immigrants like his wife.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:11:22pm

re: #38 Patricia Kayden

Not sure if Jews would be targeted given the religious background of his Son-in-Law and his favorite daughter-wife. Plus, The evil clown pushing all of this, Stephen Miller, is himself Jewish. This will me targeted against those from sh*thole countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Trump isn’t going to target White immigrants like his wife.

Just wait. Trump just might round up Miller and Ben Of The Corn because that’s what the Radical Xtians demand. And we know which group Trump will stand with.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:11:31pm

re: #32 silverdolphin

That’s good to hear!! I have yet to see one on tv. Glad to see they’re out there though.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:12:44pm

re: #39 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump is so erratic that you may be right. He’ll do as his puppet master says. So whatever Putin wants will happen.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:12:55pm

re: #11 ckkatz

Community defense organizations need to build a viable drone force, and train with it, by election day.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:21:58pm
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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:23:38pm

re: #42 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Community defense organizations need to build a viable drone force, and train with it, by election day.

They also need to practice drone defense, including detection, jamming and capture, and low tech solutions like nets and birdshot.
The proper use of drones could be a decisive advantage in the “disturbances” that are sure to follow a Trump defeat. There would be exceptions of course, but Trumpite vigilantes and insurrectionists are just not tempermentally
equipped for this kind of operation, owing to the lack of performative visuals.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:33:34pm

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:40:07pm

re: #38 Patricia Kayden

Not sure if Jews would be targeted given the religious background of his Son-in-Law and his favorite daughter-wife. Plus, The evil clown pushing all of this, Stephen Miller, is himself Jewish. This will me targeted against those from sh*thole countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Trump isn’t going to target White immigrants like his wife.

They’ll be allowed to pick from two options: Conversion to the “truth faith” or deportation to their “homeland” of Israel, so that when they’re kicking people as white a Klansman’s sheets out, they can stress that they gave them a “choice” and any who refused obviously aren’t “true Americans.”

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:40:44pm

Nice. Use for anyone asking how we were doing 4 years ago.

First reply:

“More than a million Americans could not be reached for comment.”

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jaunte  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:47:24pm

Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social

It is reported that Trump’s new sober tone is due to a shocking study warning that 2 million Americans could die if no measures are taken to slow infection. On this day, the death toll is 105.
Four years later, despite many measures taken, 1.1 million Americans have died of Covid 19.

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2024 • 9:49:15pm

re: #47 silverdolphin

Nice. Use for anyone asking how we were doing 4 years ago.

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First reply:

“More than a million Americans could not be reached for comment.”

A couple months ago, this one couple checked in and the husband brought up the election and asked me if I looked forward to Trump being back in the WH again. Since I was at work I couldn’t tell him more than “No,” and he asked me why not because “everything was cheaper!” When I pointed out that everything was “cheaper” because everybody was out of work, he mumbled about how that was just COVID and then walked off.

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ckkatz  Mar 16, 2024 • 10:04:59pm

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Belafon  Mar 16, 2024 • 10:06:43pm

re: #48 jaunte

Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social

And Trump bragged that it was below 2 million.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 16, 2024 • 10:11:58pm

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What Did You Do

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mmmirele  Mar 16, 2024 • 10:14:21pm

re: #33 silverdolphin

I used to have friendly arguments with my wife about the realism of The Siege. I felt that it was a fun movie but we would never see something like that in the US.

Now millions of Americans are following a tyrant who wants to make this scene a reality:

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Fuck them all. We will never allow this to happen.

Reminds me of the Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos in Santiago, Chile. It was used as a site for mass imprisonment, torture and murder during the Pinochet dictatorship after the 1973 coup.

And to be blunt, I am reminded that people left Chile to avoid getting killed, but that there were extraterritorial executions, including that of Orlando Letelier and his coworker Ronni Moffitt. The execution of Letelier was ordered by Pinochet. It is also strongly believed that poet Pablo Neruda’s death is very suspicious and should be investigated.

npr.org

This is the kind of thing that could happen here. It’s crazy not to admit the possibility exists there is a list of people that people like Stephen Miller want to round up.

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2024 • 10:36:37pm

Now folks, perhaps we’re looking at this all wrong. I mean really, Trump could tell folks about all the great things that happened back in 2020 that they’ve forgotten:

- The weeks/months long vacations they got from their jobs!

- Everybody suddenly visiting their relatives in the hospital!

- Parents getting to spend more time with their kids at home!

- The economy doing so great that basic goods flew off the shelves!

- The public suddenly showing care and support to service sector employees!

- And oil prices so low that we had to beg the Saudis and Russians to cut production!

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 16, 2024 • 10:46:29pm

re: #54 Targetpractice

Now folks, perhaps we’re looking at this all wrong. I mean really, Trump could tell folks about all the great things that happened back in 2020 that they’ve forgotten:

- The weeks/months long vacations they got from their jobs!

- Everybody suddenly visiting their relatives in the hospital!

- Parents getting to spend more time with their kids at home!

- The economy doing so great that basic goods flew off the shelves!

- The public suddenly showing care and support to service sector employees!

- And oil prices so low that we had to beg the Saudis and Russians to cut production!

Wasn’t that actually: everyone barred from visiting their relatives in the hospital

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teleskiguy  Mar 16, 2024 • 10:57:10pm

I’m in Crested Butte, CO. Can’t sleep. I’m participating in this tomorrow while my colleague runs the demo tent at the base. I’m dressing up as a “Bishop” (that’s the name of the company I work for, heh) with a robe, pope hat, staff.

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teleskiguy  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:00:41pm

Mastodon

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piratedan  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:06:34pm

just indulging in some booze and mindless music rabbit holes….

Your Sister Told Me - Don Dixon

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:11:25pm

re: #37 silverdolphin

Biden is already having an effective, IMHO, rapid response effort. They have out videos every day within hours or minutes of Trump saying it. Same with the White House response to something like the bloodbath comment.

They are getting this stuff out before there is any time for a response fromn the oither side. This all makes it easier gtom lazy MSM guys to ask any Republicans about say the bloodbath comment by asking for a reaction the the WH.

I think the ad blitz that is going to hit in the next few months will be awesome.

Trump’s words:

“We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole - that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it.”

The bloodbath was basically in context of the auto industry and the economy as a whole. I think we need to be careful in extending comments to more than their intended meaning, because we lose credibility.

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:14:07pm

re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter

Trump’s words:

The bloodbath was basically in context of the auto industry and the economy as a whole. I think we need to be careful in extending comments to more than their intended meaning, because we lose credibility.

Two words: “Clingers” and “Deplorables.”

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teleskiguy  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:18:51pm

re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter

The bloodbath was basically in context of the auto industry and the economy as a whole. I think we need to be careful in extending comments to more than their intended meaning, because we lose credibility.

Lose credibility to who, exactly? The MAGAts? They want us dead.

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teleskiguy  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:25:17pm

Context or no, HE FUCKING SAID IT! BLOODBATH!

And a commenter here is saying “Don’t take him out of context, we’ll lose credibility.”

FOH! You think Fuckface and his MAGAt brownshirts are worried about context when it comes to those they literally want destroyed?! FOH!!!

It’s this kind of pussyfooting by liberals that has lead to us being against the wall.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:25:26pm

re: #61 teleskiguy

Lose credibility to who, exactly? The MAGAts? They want us dead.

No — to those few voters (but they can make a difference) who are persuadable — who are generally oblivious to most of the news and are making decisions based on limited information because they don’t watch or read much news.

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:33:22pm

re: #63 Hecuba’s daughter

No — to those few voters (but they can make a difference) who are persuadable — who are generally oblivious to most of the news and are making decisions based on limited information because they don’t watch or read much news.

IOW, the sort of low-information voters who listened to the MAGAts in their social circle screaming about how Obama said white people “cling to guns and religion” or that Hillary said anybody who supported Trump belonged in a “basket of deplorables”…and couldn’t be bothered to look into the context of those statements but instead took them at face value.

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teleskiguy  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:34:25pm

OK, I guess it’s the dumbest and least informed of the electorate that is going to choose the next president. How did I not know this? Why did I not see this obvious truth? Need to trawl more internet comment sections for more information.

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:36:30pm

re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter

Trump’s words:

The bloodbath was basically in context of the auto industry and the economy as a whole. I think we need to be careful in extending comments to more than their intended meaning, because we lose credibility.

Sorry. Trump is incoherent. I do not see it as in the context of the economy as a whole. He said that he would put 100% tariffs on cars from China if elected. And if not elected it would be a bloodbath. For the whole country. How in the world does that follow? If there are not 100% tariffs on the cars, there will be a bloodbath? No, he was not clear at all and the context is negligible, IMHO.

Making excuses for his incoherence, trying to interpolate what he really means is not our job.

I’m with Biden. Put out a release and make Trump try and explain. If he is explaining, he is losing.

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teleskiguy  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:36:55pm

TFW I write a three paragraph comment and CTRL-D the fucking thing because I’m on perma-thin ice around here.

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piratedan  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:38:04pm

re: #64 Targetpractice

true, we need to combat them, whenever and wherever we can. Enough of us here are savvy enough to be fully aware of the receipts and still be polite. I don’t want to hate on these people, they’re simply ignorant and have lived in their bubble long enough. Pushback. Challenge their logic (as if they had any of it). Explain that you’re not convinced, ask them to convince you. Most of the time, all you will get is just bad faith bullshit, but for those on the margins, maybe you stick a spanner into those spokes. Make them aware that all this Trump/GOP bullshit is not inevitable much less universally approved of.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:38:08pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:39:12pm

re: #66 silverdolphin

This is what pissed me off about the comment, like Fuckface has any cogent policy proposals. He’s a fucking addled psychopath that can’t string a complete sentence together.

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piratedan  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:40:21pm

re: #67 teleskiguy

it’s okay, that old saw that you’re only as strong as your weakest link is still applicable. Sometimes all you gotta say is ‘I don’t agree” and just walk the fuck away. Letting them know that not everyone sees the country they do matters.

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:42:47pm

re: #70 teleskiguy

This is what pissed me off about the comment, like Fuckface has any cogent policy proposals. He’s a fucking addled psychopath that can’t string a complete sentence together.

At this point, if someone is going to ignore Trump’s 15,000 and counting lies and misrepresentations, and use this obvious bit abut the bloodbath to say they will not vote for Biden, they were never going to vote for Biden anyway.

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teleskiguy  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:46:11pm

Trump: If I’m not elected there will be a bloodbath.

Some lib: He didn’t actually say that, if you look at the context.

Fucking infuriating.

OK, I’m out.

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Targetpractice  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:46:48pm

re: #72 silverdolphin

At this point, if someone is going to ignore Trump’s 15,000 and counting lies and misrepresentations, and use this obvious bit abut the bloodbath to say they will not vote for Biden, they were never going to vote for Biden anyway.

Indeed, I find it a bit unbelievable that someone would be so incurious about current events that they would be totally isolated about Trump’s inane babbling but simultaneously so skeptical that they would feel compelled to immediately research the context of anything attributed to him. Even more so that such people compromise a significant portion of the voting population, whether at the state or national level.

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:49:24pm

re: #70 teleskiguy

This is what pissed me off about the comment, like Fuckface has any cogent policy proposals. He’s a fucking addled psychopath that can’t string a complete sentence together.

I completely agree with you. As always happens during these times, the complex gets whittled down to somehting very simple - for the British or theYaknees. For the North or for the South. For the Nazis or for the Allies. For Trump or against him. Anyone sitting on the fence at this point is not our friend.

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:50:26pm

“If this election isn’t won, I’m not sure that you’ll ever have another election in this country.” Trump -3-16-24

I do not think there is any context that makes this sentence means something else. If he does not win, it will be a bloodbath and we will never have another election. That holds together pretty well.

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silverdolphin  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:56:37pm

re: #73 teleskiguy

Trump: If I’m not elected there will be a bloodbath.

Some lib: He didn’t actually say that, if you look at the context.

Fucking infuriating.

OK, I’m out.

Sometimes, we outsmart ourselves. At this point, we have to use every tool in our possession. War is hell and lots of bad shit happens during a war. Sometimes we have to be lawyerly rather than fully honest. Sometimes we have to resort to rhetorical tools that are more logical fallacies than we would prefer. This is a relatively minor kerfuffle and will likely not result in anyone’s death. Not like Trump’s rhetoric.

And remember, we are all on the same side trying to accomplish the same thing. We may not always agree on the tactics but we must keep our eyes on the prize - destroy Trump as a viable candidate and break the GOP into pieces. We do this and America can move on.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 16, 2024 • 11:59:20pm

theunpopulist.net

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Amory Blaine  Mar 17, 2024 • 12:17:00am

Yes we are all on the same side and there’s no harm here in exploring different perspectives. Because I guarantee the Sunday shows will be awash in that very argument.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 17, 2024 • 12:18:35am

re: #79 Amory Blaine

Yes we are all on the same side and there’s no harm here in exploring different perspectives. Because I guarantee the Sunday shows will be awash in that very argument.

And the bootlickers they bring on will get softball questions and no follow-up rather than holding their legs to the fire to explain their chosen candidate who is blathering and threatening the future of elections.

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silverdolphin  Mar 17, 2024 • 12:23:26am

re: #79 Amory Blaine

Yes we are all on the same side and there’s no harm here in exploring different perspectives. Because I guarantee the Sunday shows will be awash in that very argument.

Yep. and the response if anyone brings up context should be that Trump is very unclear with what he says and what he means. Followed by some real examples. Politics is not always fair and it is not our job to interpret the tea leaves about what he REALLY means. He needs to be clear so people do not get confused. Isn’t that what we want in a President?

See, even an amateur can do it ;-)

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 17, 2024 • 12:23:37am

re: #74 Targetpractice

Indeed, I find it a bit unbelievable that someone would be so incurious about current events that they would be totally isolated about Trump’s inane babbling but simultaneously so skeptical that they would feel compelled to immediately research the context of anything attributed to him. Even more so that such people compromise a significant portion of the voting population, whether at the state or national level.

1. Doesn’t need a significant portion of the voting population to affect the outcome: a change of fewer than 80,000 votes in 2016 would have led to a Clinton Presidency and a change of about 40,000 votes in 2020 would have led to re-election of Trump.
2. The issue isn’t that someone would research Trump’s statements — it’s that they would be subjected to Trump ads disputing those remarks or articles directly “refuting” the statements and the result would be like me with the current state’s attorney race in Illinois: dueling ads that attack the other candidate and I ignore both sides.
3. However, I do have to say that if the ad directly shows the video of the candidate saying something, it has more weight, even if the quote is taken out of context.

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Targetpractice  Mar 17, 2024 • 12:37:19am

re: #82 Hecuba’s daughter

1. Doesn’t need a significant portion of the voting population to affect the outcome: a change of fewer than 80,000 votes in 2016 would have led to a Clinton Presidency and a change of about 40,000 votes in 2020 would have led to re-election of Trump.
2. The issue isn’t that someone would research Trump’s statements — it’s that they would be subjected to Trump ads disputing those remarks or articles directly “refuting” the statements and the result would be like me with the current state’s attorney race in Illinois: dueling ads that attack the other candidate and I ignore both sides.
3. However, I do have to say that if the ad directly shows the video of the candidate saying something, it has more weight, even if the quote is taken out of context.

But that’s not really an argument about credibility, it’s an argument about attention spans. If a voter’s first instinct when met with opposing views from two parties is to tune them both out because they can’t be bothered to decide who is right and who is wrong, then it doesn’t really matter if you lie your ass off or not because they’re not listening.

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silverdolphin  Mar 17, 2024 • 12:43:38am

re: #82 Hecuba’s daughter

1. Doesn’t need a significant portion of the voting population to affect the outcome: a change of fewer than 80,000 votes in 2016 would have led to a Clinton Presidency and a change of about 40,000 votes in 2020 would have led to re-election of Trump.
2. The issue isn’t that someone would research Trump’s statements — it’s that they would be subjected to Trump ads disputing those remarks or articles directly “refuting” the statements and the result would be like me with the current state’s attorney race in Illinois: dueling ads that attack the other candidate and I ignore both sides.
3. However, I do have to say that if the ad directly shows the video of the candidate saying something, it has more weight, even if the quote is taken out of context.

I appreciate your viewpoint. It is people like you who will keep us from falling too far down tha rabbit hole in combattig MAGA and become the monsters we fight. As to your points, we are not fighting the same battles as 2016 or 2020. Dobbs and the GOP House have changed things a lot. As have demographics. If someone is still sitting on the fence today, playing both-siders wrt Trump, they are not our friends. IMHO. I agree which is why the Biden quick response has video. It may be distasteful but we can and should use propaganda when we can. We are not making up totally new shit here but taking an ambigous phrase he said and using it to fight back. I think this should be fine.

Just as long as we have people like you to keep us honest.

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ericblair  Mar 17, 2024 • 12:48:25am

This has been going on for a while now, on and off. Civilian GPS around Kaliningrad is being jammed, with hundreds of flights going through the area.

Any airliner has multiple navigation systems running, including inertial navigation, so the nav system will notice the problem and give the pilots a warning while retaining a pretty good location estimate. However, this is an electronic warfare attack, and a real potential risk if something else happens on one of these flights.

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piratedan  Mar 17, 2024 • 12:52:39am

re: #84 silverdolphin

I appreciate that the GOP is essentially making the ads for us as we go along. I’m not saying that we’re going to change the minds of many that have been caught in the webs of Newsmax and Faux News because they’ll never see any bad press about Trump and many of them by this time will call it a hoax.

What these do accomplish is that they take those short attention span theatre types that tune into CNN once every couple of weeks and expose them to shit that Trump (and other GOP candidates) actually says. I’m sure that a good number of them may still discount what they see and hear, yet the young vote is still coming out Democratic in outlook and Dobbs has pissed off a lot of people (and continues to do so and the GOP is STILL stepping on that rake) and post COVID, they’ve killed off a significant number of their voters. Couple that with a strong recovery, the GOP coming after your SS and Medicare and screwing Ukraine and refusing to deal with guns, reneging on their own border deal… if none of that suits anyone with a pragmatic bone in their body, then guess what, they are so flawed a person that what is the likelihood that they can even be bothered to fill out a ballot?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 1:12:51am

re: #39 Joe Bacon ✅

Just wait. Trump just might round up Miller and Ben Of The Corn because that’s what the Radical Xtians demand. And we know which group Trump will stand with.

Just a matter of time

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 1:13:17am

re: #54 Targetpractice

We couldn’t visit families in hospitals because of Covid restrictions

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Targetpractice  Mar 17, 2024 • 1:28:47am

re: #88 Patricia Kayden

We couldn’t visit families in hospitals because of Covid restrictions

We could when we were in the beds next to them.

//

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 1:36:11am

I think the “bloodbath” context is that of the auto industry but the context of January 6th where he told his followers to march on the Capitol: “We’re going to walk down there and I’ll be with you” is clear.

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Targetpractice  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:03:31am

To me, if the question is one of credibility, then the answer is simple: Trump has none. It’s not 2016, it’s not even 2020, the man has been nattering on without a filter for nearly a decade now. If you’re someone who still believes that anything you hear about him should be treated with skepticism and would think negatively of someone who told you something he said without context…then what’s it like living at the bottom of the ocean?

I honestly find it more realistic that there are tens or hundreds of thousands of Repub voters who can be coaxed into voting Dem or staying home than I’m willing to believe that there is an appreciable number of fence sitters who are willing to believe that Donald Trump still deserves the benefit of the doubt.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:04:54am

When it comes to the “bloodbath” comment, I don’t think the context matters very much. Regardless of what he’s talking about, the subtext is clear: It’s a threat. “Vote for me, or something very bad will happen to this country.” Regardless of whether it’s physical violence or economic ruin, that’s mob boss talk. An actual presidential candidate should not be out there saying, “Vote for me, or else,” regardless of what the “or else” is.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:08:02am

re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter

Nope. Hell no!! He said there was going to be a bloodbath if he doesn’t win. Words have meaning and we already saw the deadly riot that he incited when he didn’t win in 2020. It’s dishonest not to express alarm at the language this dictator wannabe who has routinely encouraged violence uses.
Why the hell would I reinterpret his words to mean anything else but what he said?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:08:03am

re: #92 Nerdy Fish

When it comes to the “bloodbath” comment, I don’t think the context matters very much. Regardless of what he’s talking about, the subtext is clear: It’s a threat. “Vote for me, or something very bad will happen to this country.” Regardless of whether it’s physical violence or economic ruin, that’s mob boss talk. An actual presidential candidate should not be out there saying, “Vote for me, or else,” regardless of what the “or else” is.

and his famous quote from January: “When there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months…”

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Targetpractice  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:08:49am

Another semi-frequent FYI from the dude chilling at your hotel’s front desk: Ask for a late check-out no later than the night before you need it, do not wait until the morning of check-out assuming that they’ll grant you one if you just ask. Keep this saying in mind: “A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”

Perhaps it’s something that goes with having a brain that functions above the brain stem, but I always have most of my stuff packed the night before, so that I have time the next morning to make sure the things not packed are ready to go long before check-out. If you’re someone who scrambles at the last moment to get things out of the room so you don’t get charged, then you’re an idiot and an asshole.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:11:25am

re: #92 Nerdy Fish

“An actual presidential candidate should not be out there saying, “Vote for me, or else,” regardless of what the “or else” is.”

It’s fair for President Biden to say, “Vote for me or the alternative will be the end of democracy as we know it.” That’s not fear mongering given what Trump (and his supporters) has promised to do should Americans be deranged enough to reelect him.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:12:07am

re: #96 Targetpractice

Because of my long-standing habit of being a morning person, when I do go to a hotel, I am usually packed up and ready to leave before the place starts serving breakfast. Even if I plan on staying in the area past checkout time - which has frequently happened when I take my solo vacations - I’ll just load my stuff up in the car and go find a public park or something to hang out at until I’m ready to head home. The sense of entitlement some people have, especially as regards staying in a hotel, is mind-boggling.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:13:29am

re: #97 Patricia Kayden

“An actual presidential candidate should not be out there saying, “Vote for me, or else,” regardless of what the “or else” is.”

It’s fair for President Biden to say, “Vote for me or the alternative will be the end of democracy as we know it.” That’s not fear mongering given what Trump (and his supporters) has promised to do should Americans be deranged enough to reelect him.

It’s also not a threat. “Vote for me, or the other guy is going to do X” is fine. “Vote for me, or I’m going to make sure everything goes to hell” is not.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:19:12am

re: #69 DodgerFan1988

This is perfect. Playing Donald’s promise of a bloodbath over video of the January 6th insurrection.
Perfect. Donald needs to be held accountable for his violent language. It is not presidential.

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William Lewis  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:19:14am

re: #96 Targetpractice

Another semi-frequent FYI from the dude chilling at your hotel’s front desk: Ask for a late check-out no later than the night before you need it, do not wait until the morning of check-out assuming that they’ll grant you one if you just ask. Keep this saying in mind: “A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”

Perhaps it’s something that goes with having a brain that functions above the brain stem, but I always have most of my stuff packed the night before, so that I have time the next morning to make sure the things not packed are ready to go long before check-out. If you’re someone who scrambles at the last moment to get things out of the room so you don’t get charged, then you’re an idiot and an asshole.

We do have a very liberal policy for offering it to our rewards club members but otherwise? Nope.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:26:54am

re: #26 Patricia Kayden

Make ads about all of his disturbing promises. I’m a bit worried that I am not seeing any ads from Biden/Harris as yet. I’d expect to be seeing them by now here in the DMV area.

God no, please. It’s March. It’s way too soon for ads.

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Targetpractice  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:30:24am

re: #101 William Lewis

We do have a very liberal policy for offering it to our rewards club members but otherwise? Nope.

Even when we were still with Marriott, it said clearly on the benefits charts “Based upon availability,” i.e. at the manager’s discretion. 30+ departures in a single day? Not a fuckin’ chance.

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William Lewis  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:31:31am

re: #103 Targetpractice

Even when we were still with Marriott, it said clearly on the benefits charts “Based upon availability,” i.e. at the manager’s discretion. 30+ departures in a single day? Not a fuckin’ chance.

Yup!

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:32:25am

re: #102 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

No it’s not. Based on some comments above, Biden/Harris pushing ads but just not on tv as yet.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:32:34am

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:38:46am

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Dangerman  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:43:06am
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:51:22am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:57:39am

If the tree of Liberty needs watering, who better to hire to do it than an immigrant gardner?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 17, 2024 • 3:59:30am

re: #105 Patricia Kayden

No it’s not. Based on some comments above, Biden/Harris pushing ads but just not on tv as yet.

I’m talking tv ads. It’s way too soon. While I completely get the urgency of this election, there’s no way I want a 8 or 9 month election season of political ads on tv to become the norm. And that’s what would happen.

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Targetpractice  Mar 17, 2024 • 4:00:49am

re: #107 Patricia Kayden

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Ever since 2016, it’s “I just KNOW that it’s more dangerous in my neighborhood than it used to be!”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 4:34:06am

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 17, 2024 • 4:41:18am

re: #113 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I see you, too, got burned by the multiple choices in that second letter slot.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 4:42:28am

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 17, 2024 • 4:55:51am

re: #113 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Yeah. Not good. I could have been worse, I guess.

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William Lewis  Mar 17, 2024 • 4:59:27am

This would be a good day to have a jar of gummies waiting at home… oh well…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 5:13:37am

re: #114 Nerdy Fish

Ridonkulous.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 5:15:37am

re: #112 Targetpractice

Ever since 2016, it’s “I just KNOW that it’s more dangerous in my neighborhood than it used to be!”

They are haunted at night by images of BLM rape and revenge gangs roving at will through white neighborhoods while the defunded police are too disheartened and demotivated to do anything about it

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 17, 2024 • 5:29:47am

This morning it is Freddie’s turn to commandeer the recliner.

Freddie taking over the recliner
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Eventual Carrion  Mar 17, 2024 • 5:36:45am

re: #56 teleskiguy

I’m in Crested Butte, CO. Can’t sleep. I’m participating in this tomorrow while my colleague runs the demo tent at the base. I’m dressing up as a “Bishop” (that’s the name of the company I work for, heh) with a robe, pope hat, staff.

Need pics

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 17, 2024 • 5:51:08am

re: #93 Nerdy Fish

I was annoyed at the number of choices.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 17, 2024 • 5:52:48am

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 6:04:49am

re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And yet they’re voting for a man who was found liable for rape. Go figure.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 6:08:27am

re: #124 Patricia Kayden

And yet they’re voting for a man who was found liable for rape. Go figure.

He is a lusty, powerful man brimming with masculine vigor which needs a healthy release.

And she is a tramp and a gold-digger who obviously wanted it.

End of discussion.

/

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jeffreyw  Mar 17, 2024 • 6:25:33am

Good morning!

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darthstar  Mar 17, 2024 • 6:38:42am

Looks like the blue lagoon is getting too hot to bathe in.

Mastodon

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:01:51am

re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think the “bloodbath” context is that of the auto industry but the context of January 6th where he told his followers to march on the Capitol: “We’re going to walk down there and I’ll be with you” is clear.

The normalization of violent rhetoric has been Trump’s MO for a long time and has been increasing. Normalizing his frequent usage of words or phrases containing “blood”, “killing”, “vermin” is preparing his cult to act on their worst impulses and dehumanize others so his dictatorship can take hold. What’s more is that he also consistently praises his own ability to evade law, taxes and regulation giving his followers an understanding they too should follow his example.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:03:05am

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Oblongatis  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:04:06am

re: #129 Florida Panhandler

I’m holding out for sub-human. I know he can do it if he puts what there is of his mind to it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:06:27am

re: #129 Florida Panhandler

The normalization of violent rhetoric has been Trump’s MO for a long time and has been increasing.

I agree and I am not defending him. I still cannot believe that he got away with “Let’s march on the Capitol, I will be with you!” on Januarly 6th.

That was clearly in context but they let him slide on that.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:13:23am

Just bought this set of coffee tables for the living room.

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While the wife was still alive she needed room to maneuver her electric mobility chair around the first floor, so we got rid of the coffee table that was taking up a large part of the floor space in the living room. Since she passed at the beginning of the year I have been thinking of getting a new one. Saw these nesting ones and they will be perfect. Don’t take up a lot of space and also act as 2 separate pieces if needed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:14:31am

re: #133 Eventual Carrion

I have never had a living room coffee table. I have end tables for the sofa, but never a central piece.

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Belafon  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:20:30am

re: #133 Eventual Carrion

I bought one of these a few years ago when my kids no longer ran around the house:

amazon.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:23:15am

re: #135 Belafon

I could live with one of those

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:28:22am

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:28:33am

re: #135 Belafon

I bought one of these a few years ago when my kids no longer ran around the house:

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I was actually looking at those type, thought they were cool looking. But they are larger than I really wanted. Also looked at those with LED lighting but they look so “Lounge Lizard” to me. Would have been cool in the 70’s if they had been around then.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:31:19am

Whatever 2 over is called [grumble, grumble]

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William Lewis  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:33:01am

It’s St Paddy’s day, I have Guinness in hand & Lucifer S2E5 playing much to my delighted amusement. Good as the first season was, the second is rapidly proving to be seriously better in every way.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:36:14am

The house smells wonderful.

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:36:57am

re: #77 silverdolphin

Sometimes, we outsmart ourselves. At this point, we have to use every tool in our possession. War is hell and lots of bad shit happens during a war. Sometimes we have to be lawyerly rather than fully honest. Sometimes we have to resort to rhetorical tools that are more logical fallacies than we would prefer. This is a relatively minor kerfuffle and will likely not result in anyone’s death. Not like Trump’s rhetoric.

And remember, we are all on the same side trying to accomplish the same thing. We may not always agree on the tactics but we must keep our eyes on the prize - destroy Trump as a viable candidate and break the GOP into pieces. We do this and America can move on.

There’s enough real stuff to hang around Trump’s neck that we shouldn’t need to take things out of context. Is taking things out of context helpful in this situation? If so then do it; all’s fair in love and war and politics. I’m just not sure that it’s helpful in this case.

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Belafon  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:37:09am

re: #138 Eventual Carrion

I was actually looking at those type, thought they were cool looking. But they are larger than I really wanted. Also looked at those with LED lighting but they look so “Lounge Lizard” to me. Would have been cool in the 70’s if they had been around then.

I’m more of a functional than looks type. I still haven’t convinced my wife to let me build wall-mounted fold-out desks in the bathrooms, though,

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:37:41am

This wimp voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment.

And he STILL wimps out when asked this question

GOPer sighs when asked if Trump will follow Constitution

Once again he puts Party over Country!

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:40:55am

re: #92 Nerdy Fish

When it comes to the “bloodbath” comment, I don’t think the context matters very much. Regardless of what he’s talking about, the subtext is clear: It’s a threat. “Vote for me, or something very bad will happen to this country.” Regardless of whether it’s physical violence or economic ruin, that’s mob boss talk. An actual presidential candidate should not be out there saying, “Vote for me, or else,” regardless of what the “or else” is.

Bloodbath is commonly used in finance to describe a major selloff. If you search Bloomberg or WSJ for the term you’ll find plenty examples of it from times of financial crisis. Using it in terms of the auto industry makes sense from that perspective, though I think that he’s completely wrong about it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:41:29am

And it’s Marathon Day here in Los Angeles which means traffic will be gridlocked until this evening…

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darthstar  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:42:46am

Who doesn’t like bathing in a little blood every now and then?

Based on what I’m seeing here and dKos and mastodon, someone really likes using that word in speeches…probably trending on X as well.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:44:37am

re: #147 darthstar

Who doesn’t like bathing in a little blood every now and then?
.

We know the members of the NRA love to see that blood flow in the streets. So do radical Xtians. And MAGATS lust to feed the tree of liberty with fresh blood of their enemies…

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:46:28am

Some examples of the bloodbath term from various financial publications:
economist.com

forbes.com

huffpost.com

ft.com

Like I said above, it’s a common term in finance circles for a major selloff/loss.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:47:41am

Automotive tariffs… “THAT WILL BE THE LEAST OF OUR PROBLEMS, there will be a bloodbath….. blah blah.

No need for context and it isn’t about the car industry.

He wants this. Period.

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darthstar  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:48:19am

I blew my nose on this one and picked a green bogey with my middle finger. Oh, and wordle reset my streak to 1 day…was 31 yesterday…should be 32.

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Teukka  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:48:59am

threads.net

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darthstar  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:51:40am

re: #148 Joe Bacon ✅

We know the members of the NRA love to see that blood flow in the streets. So do radical Xtians. And MAGATS lust to feed the tree of liberty with fresh blood of their enemies…

Cosplay patriots who are just enjoying the spectacle. His rhetoric is getting more violent because he’s trying to ignite a new wave of enthusiasm for himself. His crowds, meanwhile, are smaller. His rallies more infrequent. His surrogates almost non-existent.

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garzooma  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:53:39am

re: #142 JC1

There’s enough real stuff to hang around Trump’s neck that we shouldn’t need to take things out of context. Is taking things out of context helpful in this situation? If so then do it; all’s fair in love and war and politics. I’m just not sure that it’s helpful in this case.

Even if you do think it’s helpful, I at least appreciate knowing that things were taken out of context.

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A Cranky One  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:57:48am

Sigh.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:58:41am

re: #155 A Cranky One

Oh yes. And English teachers especially.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:59:08am

re: #93 Nerdy Fish

I was annoyed at the number of choices.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 7:59:44am

Trump doesn’t strike me as a master of metaphor. He has the mob, he has the money, and there’s no reason to give him the benefit of deniability.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:00:30am

Sex, Lies, and Murder: GOP Candidate’s Former In-Law Goes Scorched Earth on Her

Elizabeth Helgelien’s ex-mother-in-law torched her in a scathing op-ed on Wednesday, accusing her of being a liar and adulterer who “raised a murderer.”

A wild feud between a rising GOP star and the mom of her late ex-husband erupted into public view on Wednesday when candidate Elizabeth Helgelien’s infuriated former mother-in-law accused the MAGA-centric Nevada politician of being a liar and an adulterer.

Daniel Halseth, Christine Halseth’s son, was stabbed to death in 2021 by the couple’s teenage daughter, Sierra Halseth, and her boyfriend, Aaron Guerrero. The pair are now serving life sentences.

In a scathing op-ed published Wednesday in The Nevada Globe, Halseth pleaded with Helgelien to drop out of the race for the state’s 3rd Congressional District “for my family’s sake, and out of respect for voters and the office she’s seeking.”

“Elizabeth raised a murderer, was forced out of office after a series of sex scandals, was caught in a series of lies, posed for lewd photographs, and has already proven to be unelectable,” Halseth wrote. “…We cannot, in good conscience, allow Elizabeth Helgelien to represent honest, decent Americans in Congress.”

“I don’t care about the politics,” Halseth told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “I just want to stop her.”

thedailybeast.com

Just another typical Republican candidate here folks….nothing to see…

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:02:24am

re: #155 A Cranky One

Sigh.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:18:46am

re: #140 William Lewis

It’s St Paddy’s day, I have Guinness in hand & Lucifer S2E5 playing much to my delighted amusement. Good as the first season was, the second is rapidly proving to be seriously better in every way.

I enjoyed the whole thing right up to the end

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:21:42am

re: #155 A Cranky One

Sigh.

only one teacher’s needed?

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Unabogie  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:23:16am

Regarding taking Trump “out of context.”

Trump has no context. He meanders from topic to topic several times in the same sentence. He throws out buzzwords that communicate ideas without actually saying them. He calls the J6 criminals “hostages.” He calls immigrants “not human.” He calls liberals “vermin.”

So when he says there’s going to be a bloodbath and we won’t have another election if he loses, I see zero reason to extend some sort of translation service to his words. He said it. If he meant something else, let him explain it in more detail and I’ll decide if that checks out. It won’t. Meanwhile, hammer the shit out of him because he’s threatening more violence and is in fact trying to make it happen.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:24:25am

The faithful at Freep understand the subtlely of Trump’s rhetoric:

To: hardspunned

The “bloodbath” is coming when Trump is back in power. There is going to be payback the likes the world has never seen before. The payback may take the form of a bloodbath but it will be entirely justified.

All those scumbag Bolsheviks at MSDNC are going to get what they deserve. I will not be satisfied with anything less than 20 million dead democrats. An ocean of blood starting with every single member of the deep state. /spit

20 posted on 3/17/2024, 10:03:38 AM by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:25:27am

re: #163 Unabogie

He has said enough things to demonstrate to any normal person that he is dangerously unfit to serve in public office and am not going to linger on this latest utterance.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:26:30am

re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He will become ever more clear as Fall approaches.

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Unabogie  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:27:42am

re: #164 Decatur Deb

The faithful at Freep understand the subtlely of Trump’s rhetoric:

This is it right here. They get it exactly as Trump means it. I see no need to apply a filter to Trump’s violent rhetoric. I hope Biden runs thousands of ads about it and ignores the tut-tutting completely.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:30:04am

St. Pat’s Day for me—I do what I’ve done for years!

Deli time with a Reuben.

The best way to get one’s Corned Beef and (fermented) cabbage on Green Day!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:31:01am

re: #168 Joe Bacon ✅

Mmm. That looks delicious.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:31:15am

To celebrate St. Paddy’s Day and honor his Irish Terrier heritage, Conor O’Fluffykins is proud to be wearin’ the green

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:31:50am

re: #170 sizzzzlerz

is that dye or was he swimming in a pond?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:33:08am

Even Dr. Smith gets into a Green Mood on St. Pat’s Day!

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darthstar  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:33:20am

Mastodon

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:33:49am

re: #168 Joe Bacon ✅

For temporary medical medical reasons, I’m limited to a bit of corned beef hash and can’t have the Guinness in the beer fridge. The canned hash satisfies the sacramental requirement.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:34:37am

re: #173 darthstar

Quiesling

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:35:15am

Chardonations

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William Lewis  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:36:01am

Somethings I’m loving about Lucifer that aren’t the usual things that I think might be on most fans radar:

Gunshot wounds _HURT_. That alone is better than the vast majority of TV.

They take real time to heal. Ditto.

They leave scars. The shower scene in season one where you see the exit wound on The Detective’s back? Astonishing for mainstream TV. To show these physical and psychological scars like this is astonishing.

Weapons have effects appropriate to their actual physical capabilities that are much more accurate than 99.999% of Hollywood productions.

So much supernatural stuff and yet so much is very carefully in accordance to a certain take on a set of that mythos. Not always the usual western mythos but it is an internally consistent one and that’s no small thing.

There is still so much that is rule of cool and rule of smartass. But in the end, it’s well written and certain aspects are so much better shown than anything I’ve seen on TV in forever…

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darthstar  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:36:27am

re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Villain Blanc

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:37:39am

re: #174 Decatur Deb

For temporary medical medical reasons, I’m limited to a bit of corned beef hash and can’t have the Guinness in the beer fridge. The canned hash satisfies the sacramental requirement.

Mary Kitchen To The Rescue (Reduced Sodium Version so Dr won’t get mad!)

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Mattand  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:38:29am

re: #149 JC1

Some examples of the bloodbath term from various financial publications:
economist.com

forbes.com

huffpost.com

ft.com

Like I said above, it’s a common term in finance circles for a major selloff/loss.

You know how people are always complaining around here about how the mainstream press normalizes the horrible things that Trump says, and tries to rationalize them five ways to Sunday?

This is exactly what you are doing here.

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:39:49am

re: #180 Mattand

You know how people are always complaining around here about how the mainstream press normalizes the horrible things that Trump says, and tries to rationalize them five ways to Sunday?

This is exactly what you are doing here.

Yeah, sure, that’s exactly what I’m doing. 🙄

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:40:00am

re: #179 Joe Bacon ✅

Thnx. That low-salt version is very good to know.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:40:41am

re: #180 Mattand

You know how people are always complaining around here about how the mainstream press normalizes the horrible things that Trump says, and tries to rationalize them five ways to Sunday?

This is exactly what you are doing here.

He has said enough things clearly in context (encouraging Russia to invade delinquent NATO countries, caling journalists vermin and scum, calling African nations “shitholes”, talking about being “dictator for a day”) that there is no real reason to linger on this particular one.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:42:13am

re: #182 Decatur Deb

Thnx. That low-salt version is very good to know.

I’ve also seen a Turkey version on the shelves at the local Vons/Safeway/Albertson’s

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:42:35am

In racist revolutionary circles, “bloodbath” is a common term for a bloodbath. Fuck him.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:43:16am

re: #184 Joe Bacon ✅

I’ve also seen a Turkey version on the shelves at the local Vons/Safeway/Albertson’s

That would be Irish treif.

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Mattand  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:43:22am

re: #181 JC1

Please re-read this comment from Unabogie, particularly the bolded.

re: #163 Unabogie

Regarding taking Trump “out of context.”

Trump has no context. He meanders from topic to topic several times in the same sentence. He throws out buzzwords that communicate ideas without actually saying them. He calls the J6 criminals “hostages.” He calls immigrants “not human.” He calls liberals “vermin.”

So when he says there’s going to be a bloodbath and we won’t have another election if he loses, I see zero reason to extend some sort of translation service to his words. He said it. If he meant something else, let him explain it in more detail and I’ll decide if that checks out. It won’t. Meanwhile, hammer the shit out of him because he’s threatening more violence and is in fact trying to make it happen.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:45:45am

re: #179 Joe Bacon ✅

Mary Kitchen To The Rescue (Reduced Sodium Version so Dr won’t get mad!)

[Embedded content]

As always, read the label. What your doctor may consider reduced sodium may not coincide with what the manufacturer puts in their product. 20% less salt off of a ridiculously heaping amount may still be way too much.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:47:52am

re: #188 sizzzzlerz

As always, read the label. What your doctor may consider reduced sodium may not coincide with what the manufacturer puts in their product. 20% less salt off of a ridiculously heaping amount may still be way too much.

The dose makes the poison.
en.wikipedia.org

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:48:28am

re: #189 Decatur Deb

The dose makes the poison.
en.wikipedia.org

Like fugu

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:50:17am

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

Like fugu

Et tu, fugu.

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Mattand  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:53:57am

re: #163 Unabogie

Regarding taking Trump “out of context.”

Trump has no context. He meanders from topic to topic several times in the same sentence. He throws out buzzwords that communicate ideas without actually saying them. He calls the J6 criminals “hostages.” He calls immigrants “not human.” He calls liberals “vermin.”

So when he says there’s going to be a bloodbath and we won’t have another election if he loses, I see zero reason to extend some sort of translation service to his words.

Sorry to keep harping on this, but this is a pitch perfect description of how everyone: press, politicians, the public, should be treating anything Trump says.

The fact that people are still giving him the benefit of the doubt eight years down the road is fucking insane.

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coin operated  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:54:51am

re: #181 JC1

Yeah, sure, that’s exactly what I’m doing. 🙄

All I’m going to say…for now…is that you pick some really strange hills to die on.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:55:30am

re: #188 sizzzzlerz

As always, read the label. What your doctor may consider reduced sodium may not coincide with what the manufacturer puts in their product. 20% less salt off of a ridiculously heaping amount may still be way too much.

I remember looking at some frozen paella in the supermarket freezer and thinking “this looks healthy: chicken and fish and veggies and rice”, and then reading the sodium level and seeing that one small portion was like 80% of one’s RDA

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 8:58:52am

These liars are actually praying to Ayn Rand.

Fox News introduces sponsored prayers to Jesus: ‘Thank you again for this partnership’

Fox News on Sunday introduced Christian prayers that were sponsored by a Bible app.

“We have more Fox and Friends coming up, but you know what this is a transition for transitions if you’ve ever had one so so so Fox and Friends, this is very Fox and Friends, so ready your heart,” Fox News host Pete Hegseth said on Sunday, segueing from a rant against TikTok.

“It’s the 5th Sunday of Lent, and our prayer series continues with the reading of prayer from the Hallow app. We all need it, let’s do it this morning, close your eyes — if you would bow your head,” he continued.

Fox News puts sponsorship on Jesus

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:03:58am

re: #195 Joe Bacon ✅

Have you had a bath in the blood of the Lamb?

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Unabogie  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:05:03am

re: #195 Joe Bacon ✅

These liars are actually praying to Ayn Rand.

Fox News introduces sponsored prayers to Jesus: ‘Thank you again for this partnership’

Fox News on Sunday introduced Christian prayers that were sponsored by a Bible app.

“We have more Fox and Friends coming up, but you know what this is a transition for transitions if you’ve ever had one so so so Fox and Friends, this is very Fox and Friends, so ready your heart,” Fox News host Pete Hegseth said on Sunday, segueing from a rant against TikTok.

“It’s the 5th Sunday of Lent, and our prayer series continues with the reading of prayer from the Hallow app. We all need it, let’s do it this morning, close your eyes — if you would bow your head,” he continued.

[Embedded content]

This country is heading to a very, very dark place.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:05:35am

Now I’m just waiting for FAUX to do a reading from the Torah.

Buddhists wait for FAUX to do a reading from the Lotus Sutra

Hindus wait for FAUX to do a reading from the Bhagavad Gita

Muslims wait for FAUX to do a reading from the Koran and do their prayers while they bow to Mecca…

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Teukka  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:07:03am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:07:21am

re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Have you had a bath in the blood of the Lamb?

Nope. Ever since Dad saw the Alfred Hitchcock episode showing what Barbara Bel Geddes did with a leg of lamb he FORBADE Mom from ever again buying one for dinner…

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:09:13am

re: #187 Mattand

Please re-read this comment from Unabogie, particularly the bolded.

Trump says enough stupid/evil shit directly without the need for interpretation. I tend to interpret what people say charitably.
I don’t think that it serves me well to interpret everything my opponents say in the worst possible light, or interpret what my allies say surrounded by a halo. But you do you.

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coin operated  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:11:27am

re: #201 JC1

Trump says enough stupid/evil shit directly without the need for interpretation. I tend to interpret what people say charitably.

and Trump likes to defraud charities…but you do you.

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Unabogie  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:12:53am

re: #201 JC1

Trump says enough stupid/evil shit directly without the need for interpretation. I tend to interpret what people say charitably.
I don’t think that it serves me well to interpret everything my opponents say in the worst possible light, or interpret what my allies say surrounded by a halo. But you do you.

This is a category error. Trump talks this way on purpose. And yet, if you read above, the MAGAts understood him perfectly. You extend this charity at the peril of all of us.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:12:59am

re: #166 Decatur Deb

He will become ever more clear as Fall tomorrow approaches.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:13:37am

re: #198 Joe Bacon ✅

Now I’m just waiting for FAUX to do a reading from the Torah.

Buddhists wait for FAUX to do a reading from the Lotus Sutra

Hindus wait for FAUX to do a reading from the Bhagavad Gita

Muslims wait for FAUX to do a reading from the Koran and do their prayers while they bow to Mecca…

Just waiting for a Muslim org to sponsor a prayer on FNC. Personally, I recommend Ayāh al-Kursī (Surah 2, Verse 255):

“Allah! La ilaha illa Huwa, the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists. Neither slumber, nor sleep overtake Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth. Who is he that can intercede with Him except with His Permission? He knows what happens to them (His creatures) in this world, and what will happen to them in the Hereafter. And they will never encompass anything of His Knowledge except of that which He wills. His Throne extends over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. And He is the Most High, the Most Great.”

Those clowns would choke having to read that on the air, LOL. Also, bonus point or two if they can read it in the Arabic original 😄

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:16:20am

As far as Trump’s bloodbath comments are concerned, if Biden can use it to hurt that orange fascist and keep him out of office, I din’t give two shits about the context.

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:17:23am

re: #202 coin operated

and Trump likes to defraud charities…but you do you.

And I never said that he didn’t.
Trump is a conman and a liar. He’s unfit to be president. I’m voting for Biden.
None of this changes that I don’t see a point in running with the bloodbath thing. Doing so just provides (IMHO a justifiable) example of ‘both sides’ exaggerating/lying about what the other side says/means.
Do I think that both sides do it to the same degree? Of course not. It’s not even close. But I’d be willing to bet good money that over the next 2 months someone will use this as a counter point when I point out that the GOP is lying about Biden.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:18:28am

re: #206 Ace Rothstein

As far as Trump’s bloodbath comments are concerned, if Biden can use it to hurt that orange fascist and keep him out of office, I din’t give two shits about the context.

He will slide on this one, like a squid through ink. And he’ll use it again, more pointedly, within a month.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:19:16am

re: #208 Decatur Deb

He will slide on this one, like a squid through ink. And he’ll use it again, more pointedly, within a month.

Try Monday.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:20:07am

‘It hasn’t been proven in court’: Fox News host knocks election claims to Trump’s face

Did somebody get a spine…OR DID SCREWPERT ISSUE AN ORDER IN FEAR OF THE IMPENDING SMARTMATIC LITIGATION?

Fox News host shoots down Trump on ‘rigged’ election

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:20:26am

re: #203 Unabogie

This is a category error. Trump talks this way on purpose. And yet, if you read above, the MAGAts understood him perfectly. You extend this charity at the peril of all of us.

Trump can’t simultaneously be a dementia addled incoherent liar and keen purposeful orator. That the MAGAs interpret it in some other way is not my problem. The MAGAs don’t matter in this election. It’s about the independent voters.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:22:04am

re: #209 Ace Rothstein

Try Monday.

Depends on how much grace he’s given on today’s regurgitations.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:23:18am

re: #212 Decatur Deb

Depends on how much grace he’s given on today’s regurgitations.

Rest assured the Screw York Times will continue to grant a lot of grace to Orange Foolius!

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:23:35am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:23:46am

re: #210 Joe Bacon ✅

‘It hasn’t been proven in court’: Fox News host knocks election claims to Trump’s face

Did somebody get a spine…OR DID SCREWPERT ISSUE AN ORDER IN FEAR OF THE IMPENDING SMARTMATIC LITIGATION?

just following Corporate Guidelines

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Unabogie  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:24:16am

re: #211 JC1

Trump can’t simultaneously be a dementia addled incoherent liar and keen purposeful orator. That the MAGAs interpret it in some other way is not my problem. The MAGAs don’t matter in this election. It’s about the independent voters.

I never said he was keen and purposeful, and he is an incoherent liar. Yet the fact remains that he has a habit, formed over decades, of speaking in mob code. There’s nothing subtle or clever about it, but the public has decided to grade it on a curve for reasons I can’t understand and pretend that we can’t ascertain the true meaning of stuff like this.

Hint: when Henry Hill says in Goodfellas that you just “light a match” he was talking about insurance fraud. It isn’t a requirement for him to say that explicitly. We got it from the context.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:24:51am

re: #210 Joe Bacon ✅

I guarandamntee you there is no “hidden Democratic support.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:26:25am

Damn!—He play flawlessly despite the “interference”

Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch - Larks’ Tongues In Aspic: Part Four

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:27:08am

St. Patrick was a great American. It says so right there in the old testament in English.

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:29:33am

re: #216 Unabogie

I never said he was keen and purposeful, and he is an incoherent liar. Yet the fact remains that he has a habit, formed over decades, of speaking in mob code. There’s nothing subtle or clever about it, but the public has decided to grade it on a curve for reasons I can’t understand and pretend that we can’t ascertain the true meaning of stuff like this.

Hint: when Henry Hill says in Goodfellas that you just “light a match” he was talking about insurance fraud. It isn’t a requirement for him to say that explicitly. We got it from the context.

And I’m saying that the term bloodbath is more commonly used in finance than to mean a literal bloody purge. Trump’s a NYC real estate guy.

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BeachDem  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:30:34am

re: #216 Unabogie

I never said he was keen and purposeful, and he is an incoherent liar. Yet the fact remains that he has a habit, formed over decades, of speaking in mob code. There’s nothing subtle or clever about it, but the public has decided to grade it on a curve for reasons I can’t understand and pretend that we can’t ascertain the true meaning of stuff like this.

Hint: when Henry Hill says in Goodfellas that you just “light a match” he was talking about insurance fraud. It isn’t a requirement for him to say that explicitly. We got it from the context.

David Corn explains it well:

At this point in the game, trying to parse a word like bloodbath strikes me as being entirely absurd,” he added. “In the same speech, he calls hundreds who beat up cops, unbelievable patriots. When he says the word bloodbath, he knows what he’s doing, whether he means an economic bloodbath or something else in the same speech. He is endorsing political violence and when he says we’ll never have another election if I don’t win, well, that too, has a tone of violence to it as well.”

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Jay C  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:34:12am

re: #219 Ace Rothstein

St. Patrick was a great American. It says so right there in the old testament in English.

After all, he has that big cathedral in New York….

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:34:19am

Stop giving that fat orange fascist motherfucker the benefit of the doubt.

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Unabogie  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:34:43am

re: #220 JC1

And I’m saying that the term bloodbath is more commonly used in finance than to mean a literal bloody purge. Trump’s a NYC real estate guy.

More commonly used by whom? Normal people who didn’t stage a violent coup? Sure, I’ll grant you that one. But Trump isn’t a normal person and he did stage a violent coup. So hammer the shit out of this until the normies hear it.

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:39:02am

re: #224 Unabogie

More commonly used by whom? Normal people who didn’t stage a violent coup? Sure, I’ll grant you that one. But Trump isn’t a normal person and he did stage a violent coup. So hammer the shit out of this until the normies hear it.

NYC finance people.
Pretty much everyone not discussing Transylvanian 16th century nobility.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:39:16am

YIKES!

Colorado Man’s Cause of Death Was His Pet Gila Monster

A Colorado man was killed by his illegal pet Gila monster’s venom, according to an autopsy report—the first such fatality in nearly a century. Christopher Ward, 34, and his girlfriend bought Winston and another Gila monster named Potato at a reptile show in October, according to the Associated Press. In February, Winston bit Ward’s hand with immediate consequences: vomiting, loss of consciousness, and difficulty breathing. The animal’s bites are not usually fatal, but by the time Ward got to a hospital—he waited two hours to call an ambulance—he was in dire condition and suffered several seizures before dying. It’s believed that Winston latched onto Ward’s hand for four minutes. “They bite, they hold on, and they chew, and that’s how they deliver their venom,” Kevin Torregrosa, curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo, told The New York Times. Ward had underlying medical conditions that contributed to his death, the autopsy found.

thedailybeast.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:41:35am

Alabama Senator Tuberville: ‘We’re Losing Our Kids to a Satanic Cult’

And Coach Dumbass held a copy of the Constitution upside down when he uttered this inane shit on Twitter.

Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville described his opponents as a “Satanic cult” in a speech he made on Friday in Utah. Armed with an upside down copy of the U.S. constitution, the diehard Trump ally addressed about 100 GOP delegates. “I’ve traveled all over the country—all 50 states—I’ve been in good places and bad places. The one thing I saw, we are losing our kids to a Satanic cult,” Tuberville said. He was campaigning for Trent Staggs, one of the Republican candidates vying for Mitt Romney’s soon-to-be-vacated senate seat. Tuberville added that the 2024 election was really a contest of “anti-American versus American.” “There’s not one Democrat that can tell you they stand up for God,” he said, before launching into tirades about transgender people, immigrants, and left-wing mobs. He also claimed the justice system was corrupted by the federal “cult” to let criminals walk free but hunt “innocent people who really love this country”—an apparent reference to Jan. 6 rioters.

sltrib.com

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Unabogie  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:43:08am

re: #225 JC1

NYC finance people.
Pretty much everyone not discussing Transylvanian 16th century nobility.

[Embedded content]

Conway is right. Bremmer is full of shit. There is no “lie” and Trump was talking about the end of elections and constantly invokes violent imagery to warn about his trials and any loss in elections. This is a weird hill to die on and I’m hoping people who think like you aren’t running the Biden campaign.

You are making a terrible case here. I hope Biden hammers this quote for months.

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coin operated  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:43:42am

re: #220 JC1

And I’m saying that the term bloodbath is more commonly used in finance than to mean a literal bloody purge. Trump’s a NYC real estate guy.

To me, this is where you lose the plot. Trump is no longer a real estate guy…he’s a mob boss. Treat him as such.

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Unabogie  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:45:00am

re: #227 Joe Bacon ✅

Alabama Senator Tuberville: ‘We’re Losing Our Kids to a Satanic Cult’

And Coach Dumbass held a copy of the Constitution upside down when he uttered this inane shit on Twitter.

Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville described his opponents as a “Satanic cult” in a speech he made on Friday in Utah. Armed with an upside down copy of the U.S. constitution, the diehard Trump ally addressed about 100 GOP delegates. “I’ve traveled all over the country—all 50 states—I’ve been in good places and bad places. The one thing I saw, we are losing our kids to a Satanic cult,” Tuberville said. He was campaigning for Trent Staggs, one of the Republican candidates vying for Mitt Romney’s soon-to-be-vacated senate seat. Tuberville added that the 2024 election was really a contest of “anti-American versus American.” “There’s not one Democrat that can tell you they stand up for God,” he said, before launching into tirades about transgender people, immigrants, and left-wing mobs. He also claimed the justice system was corrupted by the federal “cult” to let criminals walk free but hunt “innocent people who really love this country”—an apparent reference to Jan. 6 rioters.

sltrib.com

But can we really be sure he meant the violent J6 rioters? Maybe he meant something else! We can’t hammer him on this if we care about being charitable!

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garzooma  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:45:01am

re: #206 Ace Rothstein

As far as Trump’s bloodbath comments are concerned, if Biden can use it to hurt that orange fascist and keep him out of office, I din’t give two shits about the context.

It’s possible to think this is a good tactic and like to know the correct context.

silverdolphin above mention the Biden “rapid response” effort, which I definitely think is necessary to combat Trump’s successful “firehose of bullshit” tactics. If you’re focusing on speed, you’re going to sacrifice nuance.

That said, I’d like to know the nuanced version for my own benefit.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:46:09am

re: #227 Joe Bacon ✅

“There’s not one Democrat that can tell you they stand up for God,” he said, before launching into tirades about transgender people, immigrants, and left-wing mobs. He also claimed the justice system was corrupted by the federal “cult” to let criminals walk free but hunt “innocent people who really love this country”—an apparent reference to Jan. 6 rioters.

Mah esteemed senatah.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:50:15am

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Markm1960  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:52:01am

re: #193 coin operated

All I’m going to say…for now…is that you pick some really strange hills to die on.

Even if Trump intended his words to refer to the economy, his people hear “civil war” “kill or imprison anyone against us” Look at how they heard and still hear his January 6th messaging.

When Bill O talked about “Tiller the killer” he never said go out and kill George Tiller, but that’s what people heard. Did everyone hear it that way? No of course not, but enough people heard wild bills message as a call to kill and made it happen.

I find trumps people to be more fanatical than they were 4 years ago. So nothing is off the table for their behavior and his messaging…except decency.

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:52:09am

re: #170 sizzzzlerz

I have an Irish Terrier, my second, amazing breed, smart and fearless. I’ve had airdales too, they are just goofy assed.

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:52:36am

re: #228 Unabogie

Conway is right. Bremmer is full of shit. There is no “lie” and Trump was talking about the end of elections and constantly invokes violent imagery to warn about his trials and any loss in elections. This is a weird hill to die on and I’m hoping people who think like you aren’t running the Biden campaign.

You are making a terrible case here. I hope Biden hammers this quote for months.

IMHO, an independent voter watching that speech and the 30 seconds before and after the bloodbath statement, would not get the impression that Trump was talking about anything other than an economic bloodbath.
If you think that screaming from the rooftops that Trump meant something other than that will help sway those independent voters then by all means do it.

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Belafon  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:55:59am
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Markm1960  Mar 17, 2024 • 9:57:21am

re: #201 JC1

Trump says enough stupid/evil shit directly without the need for interpretation. I tend to interpret what people say charitably.
I don’t think that it serves me well to interpret everything my opponents say in the worst possible light, or interpret what my allies say surrounded by a halo. But you do you.

If Trump didn’t have the track record that he has, I would agree that maybe there should be some leeway in how we interpret him, but…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:00:07am

When I hear folks say an “old man” doesn’t know how to govern I remind them of Jerry Brown returning to the Governor’s mansion in 2011 and how he proceeded to undo the damage Ah-nold had inflicted.

It took Jerry a couple years to stabilize the state’s finances but he did it and he was competent in handling the state’s affairs UNLIKE RED INK AH-NOLD!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:05:43am

re: #239 Joe Bacon ✅

GOTV for Joe. This is what all of us have to do.

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Markm1960  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:07:14am

re: #222 Jay C

After all, he has that big cathedral in New York….

Hand built by St Pat and George Santos

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gwangung  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:07:38am

re: #238 Markm1960

If Trump didn’t have the track record that he has, I would agree that maybe there should be some leeway in how we interpret him, but.,,

COrrect. We GAVE him the benefit of the doubt before and he abused it. And he KNOWS we know this.

Won’t get fooled again.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:10:05am

re: #236 JC1

IMHO, an independent voter watching that speech and the 30 seconds before and after the bloodbath statement, would not get the impression that Trump was talking about anything other than an economic bloodbath.
If you think that screaming from the rooftops that Trump meant something other than that will help sway those independent voters then by all means do it.

If there’s something out there that resembles an independent voter, how do you think they took “Obama beat Biden” and all the other weird assed shit that came out of his piehole?

I, personally, think it’s weird af that you even try to add context to his insane ramblings like you’re the trump whisperer. He could have spewed whatever nonsense he said based on a thought he had six sentences prior or one that’s currently spinning up in his ever more twisted mind.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:11:04am

I know it is St Patrick’s Day and everyone is celebrating that. It is also St Gertrude’s Day and she is the patron saint of cats. I know the cat lovers at LGF are happy for that.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:12:48am

re: #244 PhillyPretzel ✅

I know it is St Patrick’s Day and everyone is celebrating that. It is also St Gertrude’s Day and she is the patron saint of cats. I know the cat lovers at LGF are happy for that.

Thus far, pretty much sleeping.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:16:29am

SCOTUS is ‘not doing its job’ and ‘only worried about itself’

SCOTUS is ‘not doing its job’ and ‘only worried about itself’: legal expert

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darthstar  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:16:44am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

Damn!—He play flawlessly despite the “interference”

[Embedded content]

Video

Robert Fripp is a gift.

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JC1  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:18:53am

re: #243 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If there’s something out there that resembles an independent voter, how do you think they took “Obama beat Biden” and all the other weird assed shit that came out of his piehole?

I, personally, think it’s weird af that you even try to add context to his insane ramblings like you’re the trump whisperer. He could have spewed whatever nonsense he said based on a thought he had six sentences prior or one that’s currently spinning up in his ever more twisted mind.

I think it’s the opposite. The people saying that he meant bloody revolution by that statement are the ones acting as Trump whisperers.

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BeachDem  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:21:17am

re: #239 Joe Bacon ✅

When I hear folks say an “old man” doesn’t know how to govern I remind them of Jerry Brown returning to the Governor’s mansion in 2011 and how he proceeded to undo the damage Ah-nold had inflicted.

It took Jerry a couple years to stabilize the state’s finances but he did it and he was competent in handling the state’s affairs UNLIKE RED INK AH-NOLD!

My favorite moment of Jerry’s tenure was the pain on his face when the orange buffoon kept referring to Paradise as Pleasure (what a name)

Video: Trump Inadvertently Refers To Fire-Scarred Area Of ‘Paradise’ As ‘Pleasure’

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:21:29am

Christ on a cracker, are we still on about the “bloodbath” comment? I think we can universally agree it was a bad remark to make. Also, since context is important, there’s the additional context that most of his audience is sympathetic to the 1/6 insurrection, so using the word “bloodbath” is kind of loaded to evoke that kind of imagery, regardless of the context in which it is being used.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:22:13am

The latest eruption proceeding according to pattern, the fissures now consolidating into a few cones:

Reykjanes volcano 17 Mar 2024

Some of the lava marched towards Grindavik and the sea, but the berms held:

Reykjanes volcano 17 Mar 2024
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EstebanTornado1963  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:23:58am

Are people here really defending trump’s language?
Unbelievable

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:24:38am

re: #214 Ace Rothstein

Where is Whales? And only N. Ireland is under British rule. And there is no queen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:25:14am

re: #252 EstebanTornado1963

Are people here really defending trump’s language?
Unbelievable

Again, he has given us enough examples of how dangerously unqualified he is to hold office, I see no need to linger on this latest utterance.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:25:41am

re: #253 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Where is Whales? And only N. Ireland is under British rule. And there is no queen.

Heiniken comes in green bottles so I guess it’s Irish…

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jaunte  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:27:01am

Stand back and stand by; the chaos agent is at work.

Don’t let him redefine what you will tolerate.

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Belafon  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:28:15am

After sitting through hours of jokes about his age at Saturday’s Gridiron Club and Foundation dinner, President Biden turned the tables on the journalists putting on the skits.

“The big news this week is, two candidates clinched their parties’ nomination for president. One candidate is too old, mentally unfit to be president,” Biden said. “And the other is me.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 17, 2024 • 10:30:11am

re: #240 PhillyPretzel ✅

GOTV for Joe. This is what all of us have to do.

and make sure those votes get properly counted, registered and certified. I am convinced that the GOP sees their only chance of winning in getting as many votes “lost” or “compromised” through “irregularities” or “suspected voter fraud”.

Expect to see a lot of bamboo shavings being strewn about polling places.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 17, 2024 • 11:08:13am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have never had a living room coffee table. I have end tables for the sofa, but never a central piece.

What I’ve kept as my living room table has been in the family since the mid-50s. Pretty simple slab of redwood with three simple legs underneath. A bit ragged along a few edges but I recall it from the house as I was growing up.

I am assuming my father purchased, or potentially made it himself, while in California in the late 50s right after he left the Navy.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 17, 2024 • 11:09:14am

re: #144 Joe Bacon ✅

This wimp voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment.

And he STILL wimps out when asked this question

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Once again he puts Party over Country!

Bootlicker.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 17, 2024 • 11:12:36am

re: #145 JC1

Bloodbath is commonly used in finance to describe a major selloff. If you search Bloomberg or WSJ for the term you’ll find plenty examples of it from times of financial crisis. Using it in terms of the auto industry makes sense from that perspective, though I think that he’s completely wrong about it.

Tariffs on Chinese auto imports are already over 25%. And it seems to be less aimed at complete cars* as compared to automotive parts, especially batteries and parts for EVs. Thus some of the tariffs and the Biden Administration trying to get US battery and associated industries established or otherwise built up to properly compete.

* - The joint venture schemes and brand/name mixtures for automobiles seems to be a pretty complex thing. So there are probably Chinese produced autos being imported, but the name and brand might not be obvious. Plus apparently they send cars and parts to Mexico for further assembly before they are imported to the US that way.


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