The Bros. Landreth, Live: "These Days" (Jackson Browne)

The Bros. Landreth, Live: “These Days” (Jackson Browne)

Dave here — I had the pleasure of being one of the bass players in the earliest iterations of the @krisulrich band and he used to do this @jacksonbrowneofficial song. I loved listening to him sing and play it — I’m only doing my best impression of Kris’ version here. Legend has it Jackson wrote this when he was 16. Hope you dig it!

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 20, 2024 • 6:06:54pm

Trump is a BONER

Busted
Old
Nincompoop
Extremist
Racist

ckkatz Mar 20, 2024 • 6:20:26pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅

Very true!

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*snip*

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*snip*

At the time of this writing, hundreds of verified mental health and other medical professionals have signed the petition. This group includes some of the leading experts in their respective disciplines. Some of these signers have also offered detailed comments about what they have concluded, based on the obvious evidence, is Donald Trump’s increasing cognitive difficulties, and why he is therefore unfit for office.

*snip*

jaunte Mar 20, 2024 • 6:22:22pm

re: #2 ckkatz

Dr. Ronny Jackson demands a debate!

ckkatz Mar 20, 2024 • 6:25:22pm

re: #3 jaunte

Dr. Ronny Jackson demands a debate!

Ha!

Wasn’t he demoted for demanding stuff?

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 6:40:42pm

So we’re going to Mexico for my 60th next week…were supposed to leave on Tuesday and return on April 1st. We booked the flights, then we booked a condo for the final three nights at a beach we love to surf in Punta de Mita just about 25 miles north of Puerto Vallarta. Then we went to book a place in PVR we also like to stay for the first three nights, but they have a six night minimum…so my wife came up with a marvelous solution (as she is wont to do)…we’ll fly down three days early and front load the extra days onto our vacation. (We’ve traditionally added extra nights on the back side of trips to Hawaii because we’re like that sometimes…so this counts as different).

Of course that means I need to cook another batch of dogfood for the boys…let the neighbor know we’d like her to keep the cat alive three extra days as well.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 6:41:07pm

re: #4 ckkatz

Ha!

Wasn’t he demoted for demanding stuff?

That was for distribution of stuff.

Nerdy Fish Mar 20, 2024 • 6:44:03pm

re: #5 darthstar

This year is my 40th, and I’m not going to lie, I have no idea what I want to do for myself. Part of it, I hope, is finally getting around to getting Mrs. Fish’s big land yacht back on the road and running, so whatever I’m doing, I’m doing it in style.

ckkatz Mar 20, 2024 • 6:46:44pm

re: #5 darthstar

So we’re going to Mexico for my 60th next week…were supposed to leave on Tuesday and return on April 1st. We booked the flights, then we booked a condo for the final three nights at a beach we love to surf in Punta de Mita just about 25 miles north of Puerto Vallarta. Then we went to book a place in PVR we also like to stay for the first three nights, but they have a six night minimum…so my wife came up with a marvelous solution (as she is wont to do)…we’ll fly down three days early and front load the extra days onto our vacation. (We’ve traditionally added extra nights on the back side of trips to Hawaii because we’re like that sometimes…so this counts as different).

Of course that means I need to cook another batch of dogfood for the boys…let the neighbor know we’d like her to keep the cat alive three extra days as well.

Sounds really nice time!

In your honor:

Samba de Puerto Vallarta

The Alberto Perez is part of the Perez family who runs the La Palapa Restaurant. (Palapa - hut with a thatched roof.)

teleskiguy Mar 20, 2024 • 6:47:20pm

re: #7 Nerdy Fish

I’ll be 42 in May. And there’s no plans. We’re dealing with all the shit that goes with Dad dying, still a lot of stuff to deal with and go through. It’s exhausting.

Nerdy Fish Mar 20, 2024 • 6:47:58pm

re: #9 teleskiguy

I’ll be 42 in May. And there’s no plans. We’re dealing with all the shit that goes with Dad dying, still a lot of stuff to deal with and go through. It’s exhausting.

I was going to say, you have a lot on your plate. I’m sorry for that. Many happy returns (early); be sure to remind us in May, so we can celebrate you properly.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 6:50:04pm

re: #7 Nerdy Fish

This year is my 40th, and I’m not going to lie, I have no idea what I want to do for myself. Part of it, I hope, is finally getting around to getting Mrs. Fish’s big land yacht back on the road and running, so whatever I’m doing, I’m doing it in style.

I loved my 40th. It’s a great feeling to be out of the 30s. 50 didn’t suck either. Decided against a big party for 60 and we’re going to have a private affair in Mexico…there’s a Michelin starred restaurant we’ve been to before down there so we may go again as the food didn’t suck (was for the missus’ mom’s 80th five years ago).

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 6:51:39pm

re: #8 ckkatz

Sounds really nice time!

In your honor:

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The Alberto Perez is part of the Perez family who runs the La Palapa Restaurant. (Palapa - hut with a thatched roof.)

La Palapa is one of our favorite places…we got to know the two young men who played there back before Covid…or rather, they got to recognize us when we visited and would play Tom Petty songs as soon as they saw my wife coming (Free Falling was a favorite singalong)

I tipped them well for the songs I requested. Everything is so inexpensive, so it’s good to make the buskers happy.

teleskiguy Mar 20, 2024 • 6:53:18pm

The original drummer for Grateful Dead, Bill Kreutzmann … him and I were both born on May 7th…

Nerdy Fish Mar 20, 2024 • 6:53:24pm

re: #11 darthstar

I loved my 40th. It’s a great feeling to be out of the 30s. 50 didn’t suck either. Decided against a big party for 60 and we’re going to have a private affair in Mexico…there’s a Michelin starred restaurant we’ve been to before down there so we may go again as the food didn’t suck (was for the missus’ mom’s 80th five years ago).

I already told Mrs. Fish parties were out. She threw me a big party at 30, to “remind me how loved I was” (because there was… well, a lot going on at 30, stuff I can’t get into, but it was a sincere attempt), and I made the mistake of telling her a few years later that it was my worst birthday ever. Which it was, but not because of the party… Anyway, long story short, I don’t want to have to be sociable for my 40th, and she agreed. So now we’re both struggling to find out what we actually can do that won’t cost an arm and a leg.

wrenchwench Mar 20, 2024 • 6:56:35pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

The original drummer for Grateful Dead, Bill Kreutzmann … him and I were both born on May 7th…

I probably already told you this. My younger brothers are May 8 and May 9 (1968 and 1960). Now you can forget it again.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 6:57:47pm

re: #14 Nerdy Fish

My then in-laws brought out a cake with a big yellow 3 and white 0 candle on it and my initial reaction was, “God, what a fucking ugly number!” - they laughed…which was good. But I hated that number.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 6:59:51pm

re: #15 wrenchwench

I probably already told you this. My younger brothers are May 8 and May 9 (1968 and 1960). Now you can forget it again.

No…we have to commit these days to memory now.
Cinco de Mayo
Siete de BallfootSki
Ocho de sesente ocho
Nueve de sesente

Nerdy Fish Mar 20, 2024 • 7:00:00pm

re: #16 darthstar

My then in-laws brought out a cake with a big yellow 3 and white 0 candle on it and my initial reaction was, “God, what a fucking ugly number!” - they laughed…which was good. But I hated that number.

My parents came up, my wife invited all my friends and people from church I knew, she bought all my favorite foods, she tried so hard. But there was no way she was going to make that birthday into anything other than a train wreck, given everything else that was going on. I still feel guilty for saying that out loud, even ten years later.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 20, 2024 • 7:01:22pm

So I got to ask…does Kid Rock do the music for this?

Dangerman Mar 20, 2024 • 7:01:39pm

Wait.

Whaaaaaatttttttt????????

Marco Rubio is moving up the list of Donald Trump’s potential vps

Link

Nerdy Fish Mar 20, 2024 • 7:01:50pm

re: #19 Joe Bacon ✅

So I got to ask…does Kid Rock do the music for this?

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A “workout video.” Is that what they’re calling it these days.

teleskiguy Mar 20, 2024 • 7:02:24pm

re: #15 wrenchwench

I probably already told you this. My younger brothers are May 8 and May 9 (1968 and 1960). Now you can forget it again.

August is a good time to get pregnant sometimes!

Nerdy Fish Mar 20, 2024 • 7:02:50pm

re: #20 Dangerman

Wait.

Whaaaaaatttttttt????????

Marco Rubio is moving up the list of Donald Trump’s potential vps

Link

So is he declaring himself to be a candidate from New York? Because picking a VP candidate from Florida is extremely frowned upon, thanks to the rule that delegates cannot vote for a President and a VP from the same state.

Decatur Deb Mar 20, 2024 • 7:06:30pm

re: #20 Dangerman

Wait.

Whaaaaaatttttttt????????

Marco Rubio is moving up the list of Donald Trump’s potential vps

Link

Go for it. I want to see MAGAs vote for a name that ends with a vowel.

Jay C Mar 20, 2024 • 7:07:49pm

re: #23 Nerdy Fish

So is he declaring himself to be a candidate from New York? Because picking a VP candidate from Florida is extremely frowned upon, thanks to the rule that delegates cannot vote for a President and a VP from the same state.

Rule for who?
RNC rules? Because the only same-state rule I can recall is the Constitutional provision that electors for POTUS and VPOTUS can’t vote for two candidates from their own state.

Nerdy Fish Mar 20, 2024 • 7:08:19pm

re: #25 Jay C

Rule for who?
RNC rules? Because the only same-state rule I can recall is the Constitutional provision that electors for POTUS and VPOTUS can’t vote for two candidates from their own state.

I meant electors but said delegates.

sizzzzlerz Mar 20, 2024 • 7:10:16pm

re: #23 Nerdy Fish

So is he declaring himself to be a candidate from New York? Because picking a VP candidate from Florida is extremely frowned upon, thanks to the rule that delegates cannot vote for a President and a VP from the same state.

Rules? Where TFG wants to go, there are no rules.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 7:12:43pm

Mastodon

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 20, 2024 • 7:13:29pm

TURDLEY fucks up again.

‘Wrong you idiot’: The judge Jonathan Turley claims just ‘slammed Michael Cohen’ died in 2021

alternet.org

silverdolphin Mar 20, 2024 • 7:16:53pm

TFG will make bond, but not yet

I think this is correct. The deal will be done just before the deadline, on Monday. So I expect the deal to be anounced over the weekend.

I think what we will see is that several of the properties he is a minority owner will buy up his percentage. He puts the money into escrow for the bond. If he loses, they keep the money. If he wins (and this may only be a handshake agreement) they let hm buy back his ownership for nearly the same price he sold them at.

Or close, they have to make something on the deal. I mean, they could do the same thing with the state so Trump has to give them something.

Dangerman Mar 20, 2024 • 7:16:55pm

re: #18 Nerdy Fish

My parents came up, my wife invited all my friends and people from church I knew, she bought all my favorite foods, she tried so hard. But there was no way she was going to make that birthday into anything other than a train wreck, given everything else that was going on. I still feel guilty for saying that out loud, even ten years later.

I know why we do birthdays, and milestone dates, round numbers etc.

Im not the first to wonder why that day is special. Not the day before or after. Or the other 364.

I am notorious for sending bday cards months early (or late). No one else does so I stand out. Hopefully it slaps you out of your drone mind, and reminds you to cultivate some mindfulness (again).

every day matters. Use them accordingly. Don’t squander.

Celebrate whenever you feel like it.
Not because a calendar says you “should”.

teleskiguy Mar 20, 2024 • 7:18:49pm

Some music, super groovy, flute solo and stuff.

Dangerman Mar 20, 2024 • 7:19:45pm

re: #23 Nerdy Fish

So is he declaring himself to be a candidate from New York? Because picking a VP candidate from Florida is extremely frowned upon, thanks to the rule that delegates cannot vote for a President and a VP from the same state.

Nah. Its a stupid story. Never gonna be marco.
Right now they probably got 100 names. They don’t know what they’re doing.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 20, 2024 • 7:22:46pm

Dr. Miano still trying to find just the right date:

Reptilians are NOT a conspiracy theory! #ancientcivilization

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 7:24:15pm

I just saw a commercial with little twin dwarfs standing in front of men and one guy’s dwarfs looked like the Geiko cavemen…then they were bald and happy and I realized the commercial was for a ‘manscaper’ for shaving one’s balls.

jaunte Mar 20, 2024 • 7:25:50pm

re: #35 darthstar

google.com

teleskiguy Mar 20, 2024 • 7:26:02pm

re: #9 teleskiguy

I’ll be 42 in May. And there’s no plans.

This isn’t true. My Mom and I are going to see Umphrey’s McGee at Gerald Ford Amphitheater together in June.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 7:28:26pm

re: #33 Dangerman

Nah. Its a stupid story. Never gonna be marco.
Right now they probably got 100 names. They don’t know what they’re doing.

And having Marco doing the thirst quench water bottle SOTU response clip airing constantly would be a gift.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 7:29:30pm

re: #36 jaunte

google.com

It’s fucking gross. Who shaves their balls?

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 7:30:12pm

And I’d better not get a bunch of “I do” “I do” “I do”….because this isn’t X.

jaunte Mar 20, 2024 • 7:31:12pm

re: #39 darthstar

It’s probably the influence of more readily available porn on personal grooming.

Nerdy Fish Mar 20, 2024 • 7:32:19pm

re: #40 darthstar

And I’d better not get a bunch of “I do” “I do” “I do”….because this isn’t X.

There’s a case to be made for it. I’ve talked to ladies who say they prefer their men to be trimmed down there. I’ve actually done it, for a time in my life. I wouldn’t say it’s a strict necessity, but definitely a matter of communication with one’s potential partner(s) as to preference.

GlutenFreeJesus Mar 20, 2024 • 7:37:32pm

Judge Dee’s Mystery on Netflix is great.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Mar 20, 2024 • 7:41:08pm

William Lewis Mar 20, 2024 • 7:42:52pm

Don’t have to work tonight so I just had one of my new to me Delta 9 gummies. 10mg. Given I am quite the lightweight I expect that by 11 CDT to hit by a hammer 🤣

As for trimming, I remember being in Germany in the early 80’s as a young fellow. The fashion there at the time for women was no shaving at all. I got very used to “au naturel” hair in/on arms, pits, groin and legs and still to this day prefer it if my partner doesn’t mind. But there in is the key - the partner’s preference comes first because in the end for me, that kind of cosmetic detail is a minor thing.

Hecuba's daughter Mar 20, 2024 • 7:46:49pm

re: #29 Joe Bacon ✅

TURDLEY fucks up again.

‘Wrong you idiot’: The judge Jonathan Turley claims just ‘slammed Michael Cohen’ died in 2021

alternet.org

AFAICT, Turley posts a thread and then never revisits it to respond to comments. His mistake remains there forever with no apology or additional post or refutation of other comments. Or has someone here observed an interaction between Turley and anyone responding to him?

austin_blue Mar 20, 2024 • 7:48:08pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump is a BONER

Busted
Old
Nincompoop
Extremist
Racist

I gotta say, posting craptastic new takes of Jackson Brown songs like this that add nothing to his brilliance is just musical masturbation.

calochortus Mar 20, 2024 • 7:49:52pm

re: #39 darthstar

It’s fucking gross. Who shaves their balls?

As a mere female, I wouldn’t have direct experience, but is that somewhere you’d want to have stubble?

Belafon Mar 20, 2024 • 7:51:51pm

re: #40 darthstar

And I’d better not get a bunch of “I do” “I do” “I do”….because this isn’t X.

Yes, but people who say it here are telling the truth.

Some men do just shave everything, you know, like some women do.

Belafon Mar 20, 2024 • 7:53:52pm

For a site that is mostly accepting of things, I find some of the reactions to finding out that some people do some things we never thought of to be quite amusing.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Mar 20, 2024 • 7:54:12pm

re: #39 darthstar

It’s fucking gross. Who shaves their balls?

You don’t shave your balls? Are you some kind of savage?
/It really doesn’t seem like a good idea.

Belafon Mar 20, 2024 • 7:55:27pm

re: #51 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

You don’t shave your balls? Are you some kind of savage?
/It really doesn’t seem like a good idea.

It’s why waxing was invented. :)

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Mar 20, 2024 • 7:56:38pm

re: #52 Belafon

It’s why waxing was invented. :)

Just reading that hurts.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 20, 2024 • 7:57:02pm

re: #39 darthstar

It’s fucking gross. Who shaves their balls?

Pro bodybuilders…

austin_blue Mar 20, 2024 • 8:06:40pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

Pro bodybuilders…

Which other men shave their pubic hair?

Porn actors.

Incels (hoping!).

And who doesn’t?

Married people.

Why would they?

piratedan Mar 20, 2024 • 8:14:09pm

re: #55 austin_blue

Which other men shave their pubic hair?

Porn actors.

Incels (hoping!).

And who doesn’t?

Married people.

Why would they?

I’ve been informed by those who are partial to perform fellatio that a lack of hirsuteness is a positive. As always, ymmv.

austin_blue Mar 20, 2024 • 8:17:33pm

re: #56 piratedan

I’ve been informed by those who are partial to perform fellatio that a lack of hirsuteness is a positive. As always, ymmv.

I don’t think we shed that much.

Hecuba's daughter Mar 20, 2024 • 8:23:22pm

Cannot believe this — was looking for youtube videos on Dune — and discovered Ben Shapiro created one — And he thinks that Dune 1/Dune 2 is the best epic scifi film of all time! Who expected this of him?

silverdolphin Mar 20, 2024 • 8:24:05pm

Can Donald Trump file for bankruptcy?

Not sure he really gains anything here, even if he could. I think the way it will play is over the weekend, he will do a deal with the majority owners of some of this properties. They will buy out his shares at a reasonable price (since lowering the value hurts them also). And this would be less than if they really tried to buy him out. Win-win.

So it is not a loan and they have their money. If he wins his appeal and gets all the money back, maybe be buys back his investment or invests in others. But no one will have to worry about being paid back.

Jusy MHO

William Lewis Mar 20, 2024 • 8:24:34pm

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

Cannot believe this — was looking for youtube videos on Dune — and discovered Ben Shapiros created one — And he thinks that Dune 1/Dune 2 is the best epic scifi film of all time! Who expected this of him?

Blind Squirrel effect.

Jay C Mar 20, 2024 • 8:28:11pm

re: #59 silverdolphin
minor correct

So it is not a loan and they have their ~~money~~ equity in the property. If he wins his appeal and gets all the money back, maybe be buys back his investment or invests in others. But no one will have to worry about being paid back.

A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Mar 20, 2024 • 8:29:31pm

Another day of good connections, so here’s a view of Nuku Hiva, with possibly the island’s first food cart.

austin_blue Mar 20, 2024 • 8:30:24pm

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

Cannot believe this — was looking for youtube videos on Dune — and discovered Ben Shapiros created one — And he thinks that Dune 1/Dune 2 is the best epic scifi film of all time! Who expected this of him?

Well here’s the thing about Ben. He’s not an idiot, he’s just a complete fuckwit who occasionally finds an acorn.

Belafon Mar 20, 2024 • 8:31:23pm

re: #55 austin_blue

Married people.

I think you’re making way too many assumptions.

Belafon Mar 20, 2024 • 8:32:13pm

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

Cannot believe this — was looking for youtube videos on Dune — and discovered Ben Shapiros created one — And he thinks that Dune 1/Dune 2 is the best epic scifi film of all time! Who expected this of him?

Wait until he finds out what the plot was about.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 8:38:33pm

austin_blue Mar 20, 2024 • 8:40:34pm

re: #64 Belafon

I think you’re making way too many assumptions.

Maybe so. I’m Irish and raised Catholic, although I’m retired from the Church. We don’t shave our pubes, by and large. They don’t interfere with anything other than a camera.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 8:42:11pm

CleverToad Mar 20, 2024 • 8:42:33pm

re: #52 Belafon

It’s why waxing was invented. :)

And the amount of research funding for painless and safe depilatory concoctions/ methods has probably quadrupled with this silly fad, as well as the market for expensive specialty razors. Women are conditioned to accept quite a bit of discomfort — if not outright pain — to comply with the beauty standards du jour that men and fashion magazines decree. The marketers have to gauge how much most guys will endure in the pursuit of a trend.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 8:44:23pm

re: #60 William Lewis

Blind Squirrel effect.

All that sand reminds him of his wife’s vagina.

jaunte Mar 20, 2024 • 8:47:33pm

@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social

imagine only having three body problems

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 8:50:23pm

re: #70 darthstar

All that sand reminds him of his wife’s vagina.

Remember… This is the guy who doesn’t think women get wet.

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 8:54:18pm

darthstar Mar 20, 2024 • 8:55:19pm

Looks like desert themes are in.
Time for bed

austin_blue Mar 20, 2024 • 8:56:49pm

And I’m off for the rack. We’ve got to finalize the UK trip.

Fly to Heathrow from Austin nonstop, and spend Easter weekend with our Family?

Yes.

Couple of days in Glasgow?

Yes.

Six days in Edinburgh for the Harp Festival, with a day trip to Rosslyn Chapel?

Yes.

Day in Durham to see the Best Cathedral in the UK?

Yes.

Back to Leighton Buzzard to spend the last five days with Family?

Yes.

Fly back to Austin on BA nonstop?

Yes.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 20, 2024 • 9:07:36pm

What would he do for a Klondike Bar?

silverdolphin Mar 20, 2024 • 9:21:29pm

Nice.

😇 pic.twitter.com/DPrAhe3bIh

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 20, 2024

Belafon Mar 20, 2024 • 9:23:51pm

re: #77 silverdolphin

Nice.

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I estimate half of the replies are from people stating that it’s contributions from foreign governments and people via Hunter.

Targetpractice Mar 20, 2024 • 9:29:16pm

re: #78 Belafon

I estimate half of the replies are from people stating that it’s contributions from foreign governments and people via Hunter.

Laugh and tell them they’re only bitter because Vlad and Bonesaw aren’t returning Donny’s calls anymore.

Belafon Mar 20, 2024 • 9:31:14pm

re: #77 silverdolphin

Note that it is never just Biden.

silverdolphin Mar 20, 2024 • 9:32:28pm

re: #78 Belafon

I estimate half of the replies are from people stating that it’s contributions from foreign governments and people via Hunter.

Still lots of sequential responses that are positive. Love the one about how the amount of money undercuts the fake polls.

Great Biden support

mmmirele Mar 20, 2024 • 9:35:22pm

Well, this is awful.

Representatives of Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani on Wednesday accused his interpreter of engaging in a “massive theft” of the ballplayer’s funds to place bets with an allegedly illegal bookmaker who is the target of a federal investigation.

Lawyers for Ohtani made that claim after The Times learned that Ohtani’s name had surfaced in the investigation of Mathew Bowyer, an Orange County resident. Ohtani’s representatives looked into the actions of the interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, in response to The Times’ queries, a source close to the matter said. Two sources told the newspaper that the money involved was in the millions of dollars.

In a statement, the West Hollywood law firm Berk Brettler said, “In the course of responding to recent media inquiries, we discovered that Shohei has been the victim of a massive theft and we are turning the matter over to the authorities.”

Attempts to reach Mizuhara were unsuccessful. Mizuhara placed bets with Bowyer, according to the sources, who requested anonymity to share sensitive information.

Ohtani, a global sensation who signed a record 10-year, $700-million contract with the Dodgers in December after playing six years with the Angels, could not be reached for comment. He is with the Dodgers in Seoul for a season-opening series against the San Diego Padres.

more at the link:

latimes.com

Takeaways:

1) Ohtani is not in trouble, but his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara—he could be.
2) Mizuhara has not been arrested or indicted yet.
3) MLB has a strict anti-gambling policy (the one that has kept Pete Rose out of the HOF). From this article, it doesn’t look like Ohtani would be in trouble with the MLB.
4) (not gleaned from the article, obvs) According to Japanese sports Twitter, Mizuhara is apparently a celebrity in Japan as a translator.

Belafon Mar 20, 2024 • 9:41:39pm

re: #81 silverdolphin

Still lots of sequential responses that are positive. Love the one about how the amount of money undercuts the fake polls.

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Estimate was the wrong word. I should have said something like “suspect”.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 20, 2024 • 9:49:16pm

re: #59 silverdolphin

If he files for personal bankruptcy then he has to list all of his assets and debt, no?

The court certainly would scrutinize that closely, given the result of the NY trial.

And bankruptcy cannot be used to escape legal judgements, correct?

So if Trump is currently upside down personally, bankruptcy would take care of that, but then he still owes the judgements, and NY will take assets at the value that the bankruptcy court has determined, correct?

silverdolphin Mar 20, 2024 • 10:00:50pm

re: #84 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

If he files for personal bankruptcy then he has to list all of his assets and debt, no?

The court certainly would scrutinize that closely, given the result of the NY trial.

And bankruptcy cannot be used to escape legal judgements, correct?

So if Trump is currently upside down personally, bankruptcy would take care of that, but then he still owes the judgements, and NY will take assets at the value that the bankruptcy court has determined, correct?

I think so,. I just do not see any benefit for him to declare bankruptcy. Better to just let the state take and sell his properties than do that. If he wins he gets the money back.

I still think he will have the majority owners of some of his properties simply buy him out. They get his equity. He puts up the money. If he wins, he gets it back and can then re-invest back if he wants to. The hold up would be the price they pay. I would think they do not want to go too low as they might affect their equity. But I expect it will be less than having to directly buy out Trump.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 20, 2024 • 10:15:26pm

re: #85 silverdolphin

I still think he will have the majority owners of some of his properties simply buy him out. They get his equity. He puts of the money. If he wins, he gets it back and can then re-invest back if he wantes to. The hold up would be the price they pay. I would think they do not want to go too low as they might affect their equity. But I expect it will be less than having to directly buy out Trump.

For sure.

I suspect your scenario is the one that will play out.

Targetpractice Mar 20, 2024 • 10:16:08pm

re: #85 silverdolphin

I think so,. I just do not see any benefit for him to declare bankruptcy. Better to just let the state take and sell his properties than do that. If he wins he gets the money back.

I still think he will have the majority owners of some of his properties simply buy him out. They get his equity. He puts of the money. If he wins, he gets it back and can then re-invest back if he wantes to. The hold up would be the price they pay. I would think they do not want to go too low as they might affect their equity. But I expect it will be less than having to directly buy out Trump.

I heard the suggestion earlier this evening that it’s not that banks and bond companies refuse to loan to him, it’s that he refuses to abide by the terms they offered him. And I’d be willing to bet there’s some merit to such, that he was offered loans in exchange for whatever he can scrap together in cash plus real estate as collateral…it’s just that what they want are the “crown jewels.” That they wanted his most valuable properties (possibly including MAL) and all he was willing to offer was his least valuable and most leveraged properties in his portfolio instead. So that it’s not a case of “nobody will loan to him” so much as “nobody will loan to him on his terms.”

silverdolphin Mar 20, 2024 • 10:18:00pm

Trump’s PAC Burned $230,000 a Day on Legal Bills in February

Almost $7 million a month he cannot spend on ads.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 20, 2024 • 10:20:08pm

The eruption north of Grindavik is still going on:

Reykjanes volcano 20 Mar 2024

That image is looking east, and somewhat downward. The camera is on a hill just to the west of the eruption.

However, lenses can be quite misleading as to size.

Here’s the same area, but with a camera on the east looking west, nearer to ground level, during the day (yesterday I think):

Reykjanes volcano 19 Mar 2024 with hoomans

So sightseers appear to have broken the exclusion zone, and they are highlighted with the red arrow.

The nascent cones are much larger than they appear in the first image. The forming cones are up to 100 feet high.

This eruption is not like the prior three, which were over in a day or two.

No one knows how long this one will go on.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 20, 2024 • 10:22:38pm

Traitor never knows when to shut up…and why the hell is it taking so long for the California Bar to terminate his law license?

rightwingwatch.org

Pro-Trump attorney John Eastman, a former law professor at Chapman University, was a featured speaker Monday night in an online event hosted by the Salt and Light Council, according to the research group Right Wing Watch.

“We have to understand that we are dealing with pure evil,” Eastman said of his political opponents. “They don’t consider destroying our country as collateral damage for their overall mission, they consider that icing on the cake for their overall mission.”

Eastman was the author of an infamous memo detailing steps then-Vice President Mike Pence could take to keep Trump in the White House after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. That document has since been criticized as “a blueprint for a coup.”

According to Right Wing Watch, Eastman told listeners Monday he was making “a heroic stand for truth and against tyranny, as he did last fall while fighting efforts by the California Bar Association to have him disbarred.”

Eastman also promoted his Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, which has received more than than $630,000 to support his legal defense fund, according to reporter Peter Montgomery.

“He said he’s ‘about a million in the hole beyond that right now,’ adding that he thinks his total legal costs will run between $3 million and $3.5 million,” the report notes.

LOCK.
HIM.
UP.

mmmirele Mar 20, 2024 • 10:22:43pm

OK, so probably some of you have heard of Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist at Harvard who has become somewhat notorious for being an actually credentialed version of Giorgio Tsoukalos (you know, the “I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens” guy). A few years ago, Loeb got a lot of attention for saying that interstellar interloper Omuamua maybe could have been an alien spacecraft, or at least powered by a light sail. By that point, Omuamua had whipped around the sun and was on its way out of the Solar System on its cold, lonely journey to who knows where. So of course it couldn’t be confirmed in any way possible.

More recently (last year) Loeb and one of his students said that they’d pulled materials from the ocean they said were related to a meteor fireball from 2014. Of course, lots of raised eyebrows. Now new research from Johns Hopkins says, um, *probably not*.

Here’s the article header as a photo because, well, it made me laugh:

Link: hub.jhu.edu

Part of me thinks that finding aliens (or having them visit) might be cool, but the other part of me is “oh fffffffffff, they’re invaders and we’re dead.” So yeah, mixed emotions.

Targetpractice Mar 20, 2024 • 10:25:14pm

re: #91 mmmirele

OK, so probably some of you have heard of Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist at Harvard who has become somewhat notorious for being an actually credentialed version of Giorgio Tsoukalos (you know, the “I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens” guy). A few years ago, Loeb got a lot of attention for saying that interstellar interloper Omuamua maybe could have been an alien spacecraft, or at least powered by a light sail. By that point, Omuamua had whipped around the sun and was on its way out of the Solar System on its cold, lonely journey to who knows where. So of course it couldn’t be confirmed in any way possible.

More recently (last year) Loeb and one of his students said that they’d pulled materials from the ocean they said were related to a meteor fireball from 2014. Of course, lots of raised eyebrows. Now new research from Johns Hopkins says, um, *probably not*.

Here’s the article header as a photo because, well, it made me laugh:

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Link: hub.jhu.edu

Part of me thinks that finding aliens (or having them visit) might be cool, but the other part of me is “oh fffffffffff, they’re invaders and we’re dead.” So yeah, mixed emotions.

“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”

Jay C Mar 20, 2024 • 10:31:36pm

re: #91 mmmirele

OK, so probably some of you have heard of Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist at Harvard who has become somewhat notorious for being an actually credentialed version of Giorgio Tsoukalos (you know, the “I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens” guy). A few years ago, Loeb got a lot of attention for saying that interstellar interloper Omuamua maybe could have been an alien spacecraft, or at least powered by a light sail. By that point, Omuamua had whipped around the sun and was on its way out of the Solar System on its cold, lonely journey to who knows where. So of course it couldn’t be confirmed in any way possible.

More recently (last year) Loeb and one of his students said that they’d pulled materials from the ocean they said were related to a meteor fireball from 2014. Of course, lots of raised eyebrows. Now new research from Johns Hopkins says, um, *probably not*.

Here’s the article header as a photo because, well, it made me laugh:

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Link: hub.jhu.edu

Part of me thinks that finding aliens (or having them visit) might be cool, but the other part of me is “oh fffffffffff, they’re invaders and we’re dead.” So yeah, mixed emotions.

Yeah: I read about the “alien artifacts” thing last year: and noted that what they had found on the seabed were quite tiny metal spheres whose origins were supposedly the core of the “mystery” Loeb was flogging.
My first thought was if it had been an extraterrestrial spacecraft that blew up, we would probably find more than just their ball-bearings, but IANAS…. 👽

silverdolphin Mar 20, 2024 • 10:36:19pm

re: #86 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

For sure.

I suspect your scenario is the one that will play out.

Well, I did a little more digging and my scenario about Trump selling minority shares of buildings might be a little trickier than I thought. Based on this article, there should be more than enough money in these buildings in SF.

But getting access to that capital could be tricky. They tried to sell the 2 buildings in SF for $5 million, which would have given Trump enough. But they could not find a buyer. So the parties took out a $1.8 million loan to cover costs until they can sell.

And they are office buildings in SF which have seen a large drop in value. So it may be that the majority partners themselves may not be able to come up with the money to pay Trump. Like Trump, they are developers. Like Trump they do not have a lot of free cash. They are leveraged up the wazoo, like him. So where do they get the money to give him for his equity? Who is going to loan them money and what will the collateral be?

So it may not be as advantageous to get his equity. Their capital only exists if they can sell the properties and that is not happening anytime soon. ANd they still have their own loans to deal with.

So they may not be the answer.

mmmirele Mar 20, 2024 • 10:38:51pm

re: #93 Jay C

Yeah: I read about the “alien artifacts” thing last year: and noted that what they had found on the seabed were quite tiny metal spheres whose origins were supposedly the core of the “mystery” Loeb was flogging.
My first thought was if it had been an extraterrestrial spacecraft that blew up, we would probably find more than just their ball-bearings, but IANAS…. 👽

I came across this article from last week which opined on Loeb’s non-find, and I recommend it if only because it has pictures of actual extraterrestrial micrometeorites that have been deposited and then found in Antarctica. These pictures are cool. Loeb’s bead, not so much.

bigthink.com

There’s lots more discussion about what Loeb’s metal beads are, where they came from and how they got there in the rest of the article. Much more fun than actually finding aliens and then wondering when they are coming back.

William Lewis Mar 20, 2024 • 10:44:41pm

re: #92 Targetpractice

“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”

Well, it could end up like when the Skræling & Norse met in, perhaps as far as, New Brunswick, instead. Then we could build up a Team of Avengers!

Er, wait. They did that movie already. Darn.

silverdolphin Mar 20, 2024 • 10:56:44pm

re: #93 Jay C

Yeah: I read about the “alien artifacts” thing last year: and noted that what they had found on the seabed were quite tiny metal spheres whose origins were supposedly the core of the “mystery” Loeb was flogging.
My first thought was if it had been an extraterrestrial spacecraft that blew up, we would probably find more than just their ball-bearings, but IANAS…. 👽

I always wondered if anyone of them had ever read Rendevous with Rama, which has a stunningly similar sort of object - extrasolar, high speed eccentric orbit, rotation, oblong shape. Lots of people had noticed the similarity which is maybe why they fell into such bad confirmation bias.

William Lewis Mar 20, 2024 • 11:02:16pm

As I am not at the hotel tonight and am about to wander off to rest for the night, I just wanted to comment that a 10 mg Delta 9 gummie is very nice for an old lightweight 🤣

Later all!

Belafon Mar 20, 2024 • 11:04:50pm

re: #91 mmmirele

I’m part of the “no we’re not ready for ftl travel yet, but take me with you” crowd.

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silverdolphin Mar 20, 2024 • 11:33:39pm

re: #99 Belafon

I’m part of the “no we’re not ready for ftl travel yet, but take me with you” crowd.

Until proven that we can, I assume FTL is not a possibility. So what would a planetary-system spanning, intelligent species do? Perhaps send lots of autonomous units to observe other planetary systems and recruit other species to exchange ideas. Complex problems do not get solved when everyone thinks the same way. That way is the path to collapse. Wise solutions arise from diverse viewpoints.

I think this might be universal for intelligent species. Diversity of thought is needed to be adaptive enough to survive, control planetary resources and span the entire system. (Yes, I know this is all a bunch of conjecture but lets have some fun)

A species that has figured out a way beyond its waste problems will also know this and yearn for even greater ideas to solve its problems. So it sends out autonomous devices to keep an eye on other’s systems and the emergence of intelligent life. Because of their nature, they can survive huge acceleration rates and likely get to other systems quite rapidly.

Since the observations will likely take place over centuries, the lag time for radio waves to get back may not be a big problem. ANyone looking at us would have had well over 50,000 years since our creation of culture and trade wo watch.They are looking for new partners in the galactic exchange of information and possible economies that are derived from them. (How do we build a Stanford Torus?)

But the aliens will not waste time on intelligent species unless they have shown themselves to be sustainable and past the point of collapse due to resource management. Dealing with climate change is one of these milestones.

And as a species passes the needed milestones, new and more specialized autonomus devices can be sent, ones with a greater ability to make complex decisions about contact (the greater resources needed for such a complex AI would likely keep them from being used every time. Save it for the few important civilizations.)

So,we have not heard from others because at the moment we would just be a waste of their time. But if we solve climate change and become a solar-system spanning civilization, we might hear from them. That would be fun.

Maybe our unique insights and approaches would actually produce FTL. (And yes, if you want to write a novel about this, please just mention me.) (Of course, anyone who has read Gordon Dickson’s Dangert-Human knows of another possibility.)

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Captain Ron Mar 21, 2024 • 12:00:37am

Biden campaign has amassed $155M in cash on hand for 2024 campaign and raised $53M last month https://t.co/cxSUm4Opxv

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 17, 2024

Outside Democratic-leaning groups have pledged more than $1 billion to help President Joe Biden’s reelection. https://t.co/LkkyzuJOdT

— Forbes (@Forbes) March 19, 2024

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 12:46:35am

re: #47 austin_blue

I gotta say, posting craptastic new takes of Jackson Brown songs like this that add nothing to his brilliance is just musical masturbation.

Newgrass Revival has a decent cover

These Days by New Grass Revival.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 12:47:27am

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

Cannot believe this — was looking for youtube videos on Dune — and discovered Ben Shapiro created one — And he thinks that Dune 1/Dune 2 is the best epic scifi film of all time! Who expected this of him?

He dreams of being a Mentat

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 12:52:56am

re: #99 Belafon

I’m part of the “no we’re not ready for ftl travel yet, but take me with you” crowd.

It will be possible yesterday

As in the joke:

The bartender says “We don’t serve your kind here!”

Two tachyons walk into a bar.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Mar 21, 2024 • 2:34:44am

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steve_davis Mar 21, 2024 • 2:44:19am

re: #100 silverdolphin

Until proven that we can, I assume FTL is not a possibility. So what would a planetary-system spanning, intelligent species do? Perhaps send lots of autonomous units to observe other planetary systems and recruit other species to exchange ideas. Complex problems do not get solved when everyone thinks the same way. That way is the path to collapse. Wise solutions arise from diverse viewpoints.

I think this might be universal for intelligent species. Diversity of thought is needed to be adaptive enough to survive, control planetary resources and span the entire system. (Yes, I know this is all a bunch of conjecture but lets have some fun)

A species that has figured out a way beyond its waste problems will also know this and yearn for even greater ideas to solve its problems. So it sends out autonomous devices to keep an eye on other’s systems and the emergence of intelligent life. Because of their nature, they can survive huge acceleration rates and likely get to other systems quite rapidly.

Since the observations will likely take place over centuries, the lag time for radio waves to get back may not be a big problem. ANyone looking at us would have had well over 50,000 years since our creation of culture and trade wo watch.They are looking for new partners in the galactic exchange of information and possible economies that are derived from them. (How do we build a Stanford Torus?)

But the aliens will not waste time on intelligent species unless they have shown themselves to be sustainable and past the point of collapse due to resource management. Dealing with climate change is one of these milestones.

And as a species passes the needed milestones, new and more specialized autonomus devices can be sent, ones with a greater ability to make complex decisions about contact (the greater resources needed for such a complex AI would likely keep them from being used every time. Save it for the few important civilizations.)

So,we have not heard from others because at the moment we would just be a waste of their time. But if we solve climate change and become a solar-system spanning civilization, we might hear from them. That would be fun.

Maybe our unique insights and approaches would actually produce FTL. (And yes, if you want to write a novel about this, please just mention me.) (Of course, anyone who has read Gordon Dickson’s Dangert-Human knows of another possibility.)

Wife: (flipping through paper) looks like another of those silly probes from the Valin sector is flying by.
Guild Steersman: (muttering while chomping on toast) I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
Wife: what? That you’ll find yourself enslaved if they ever discover you can move them between stars?
G.S.: no, that we’re about to start getting a flood of Dianetics commercials.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 2:46:31am

The big breakthrough will be when we discover that travel through space and time are linked. Relativity theory shows us a connection but obviously not the whole one.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Mar 21, 2024 • 2:53:14am

Followup to a story from last June.
Delta captain was given 10 months in prison after showing ‘reckless disregard’ for safety by turning up intoxicated for a transatlantic flight

A Delta pilot was at double the legal alcohol limit when he reported for duty in June, prosecutors said.
Airport security staff found two bottles of Jägermeister in his luggage.
Lawrence Russell was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months in prison by a court in Scotland.

I’ve long suspected that drunkenness was the cause of quite a few otherwise mysterious aviation accidents. Fire and impact can destroy evidence, after all.
Back in the 90s, Lubbock had a rare state-level prosecution for drunk flying (a specific offense in the Texas Criminal Code). A local fat cat and his ladyfriend were out carousing and decided to go joyriding in his Cessna P210 at 3 AM. It ended up on its nose in a cotton field. A state trooper witnessed the crash and rushed to the scene to provide assistance. The soon-be-be unhappy couple were not injured but they were falling down drunk. They were hustled off to jail. PI charges against the woman were dropped but the boozy pilot got a suspended jail sentence and a hefty fine (5 grand iirc) from the state. Needless to say, the FAA also took a very dim view of this. They fined the pilot $16,500, confiscated what was left of his plane, and suspended his license for ten years.

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Amory Blaine Mar 21, 2024 • 3:00:14am

I feel the press is burying the significance of the Parnas testimony.

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Randall Gross Mar 21, 2024 • 3:28:58am

There is also this cover

These Days - Jackson Browne (chamber ensemble version) | stories, Rachael Price & yMusic

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ericblair Mar 21, 2024 • 3:34:09am

re: #109 Amory Blaine

I feel the press is burying the significance of the Parnas testimony.

Seriously, it’s the second to last paragraph on a long WaPo article on the “hearings”:

“The only information ever pushed on the Bidens and Ukraine has come from one source and one source only: Russia and Russian agents,” Parnas testified.

Aaaand that’s that.

Most people have no idea how significant anything is unless they have personal experience with it. They’re relying on the press to tell them and the press is lying or distorting it.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 3:47:04am

re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Newgrass Revival has a decent cover

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Ive always been partial to Gregg Allman’s.
That should be no surprise

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Patricia Kayden Mar 21, 2024 • 3:47:57am

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Eventual Carrion Mar 21, 2024 • 4:10:58am

re: #69 CleverToad

And the amount of research funding for painless and safe depilatory concoctions/ methods has probably quadrupled with this silly fad, as well as the market for expensive specialty razors. Women are conditioned to accept quite a bit of discomfort — if not outright pain — to comply with the beauty standards du jour that men and fashion magazines decree. The marketers have to gauge how much most guys will endure in the pursuit of a trend.

One thing I did hear about this grooming trend is that the occurrence of pubic lice has fallen dramatically, so there is that.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 4:11:25am

Grr. My third guess was a dumb.
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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 4:14:03am

There were a lot of possibilities here. I got really lucky.

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Decatur Deb Mar 21, 2024 • 4:16:03am

re: #114 Eventual Carrion

One thing I did hear about this grooming trend is that the occurrence of pubic lice has fallen dramatically, so there is that.

A bit of alcohol-based hand sanitizer and a BIC lighter makes the whole issue go away.

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Eventual Carrion Mar 21, 2024 • 4:26:25am

re: #105 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your next Wordle scratched a hole in the wall of Filthy Cell 25 and crawled through to find itself in Filthy Cell 26.

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Captain Magic Mar 21, 2024 • 4:29:22am

re: #13 teleskiguy

I share the same birthday with Weird Al-including the year…

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Eventual Carrion Mar 21, 2024 • 4:38:14am

re: #119 Captain Magic

I share the same birthday with Weird Al-including the year…

I share mine with Chrissie Hynde, 10 years apart to the day. She Sept. 7 1951 and me Sept. 7 1961.

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Dave In Austin Mar 21, 2024 • 4:39:43am

re: #53 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Just reading that hurts.

Wax Hell….
Real Men just use flypaper and glue traps.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 4:40:29am

Music is everything
It is brilliant
Even the stuff you dont like
Sometimes it is just…clarity

That is all

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Dave In Austin Mar 21, 2024 • 4:43:25am

re: #56 piratedan

I’ve been informed by those who are partial to perform fellatio that a lack of hirsuteness is a positive. As always, ymmv.

Thank you, I was trying to find the correct verbiage. That “covers” it well.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 21, 2024 • 4:44:37am

Heckova way to start the day! 2/6

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 5:08:07am

re: #59 silverdolphin

Can Donald Trump file for bankruptcy?

Not sure he really gains anything here, even if he could. I think the way it will play is over the weekend, he will do a deal with the majority owners of some of this properties. They will buy out his shares at a reasonable price (since lowering the value hurts them also). And this would be less than if they really tried to buy him out. Win-win.

So it is not a loan and they have their money. If he wins his appeal and gets all the money back, maybe be buys back his investment or invests in others. But no one will have to worry about being paid back.

Jusy MHO

He’s not going to declare bankruptcy (reorganization or liquidation) because it would again prove he’s anything but the smartest businessman. It wont stop the seizure of assets. All of his creditors and lenders would be fooked though, as they’ll see pennies on the dollar they proffered for investing in Trump businesses.

It is more plausible that co-owners of the properties will somehow rework deals to do share sales, but he’s going to lose these cases on appeal, so Trump is effectively losing these properties.

It’s just a function of how Trump’s business fall is going to end.

The problem remains that Trump is looking to foreign sources in Saudi Arabia or Russia to cover his $465m judgment.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 5:10:44am

re: #125 lawhawk

The problem remains that Trump is looking to foreign sources in Saudi Arabia or Russia to cover his $465m judgment.

It’s a little bit ironic that a Fox reporter asked the question…Habba wasn’t expecting it.

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 5:14:21am

re: #126 darthstar

*sad trombone* (price is right loser trill).

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Eventual Carrion Mar 21, 2024 • 5:21:01am

Perfect! Connections

But did have to stare at it for quite a while for the blue line.

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 5:24:40am

SOTU - Biden says he’s protecting SS. Gets into a back and forth with GOP over protecting SS. The GOP after SOTU claims that Biden lied and that GOP isn’t going to slash and burn SS.

Today: GOP is proposing raising the retirement age, which is a slash and burn of SS, and should be a vivid reminder that the GOP cannot be trusted on anything.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 5:26:05am

re: #129 lawhawk

SOTU - Biden says he’s protecting SS. Gets into a back and forth with GOP over protecting SS. The GOP after SOTU claims that Biden lied and that GOP isn’t going to slash and burn SS.

Today: GOP is proposing raising the retirement age, which is a slash and burn of SS, and should be a vivid reminder that the GOP cannot be trusted on anything.

It’s a slash and burn of SS without actually cutting anything, so they can go, “SEE, we told you we weren’t going to cut Social Security! It’s just that people are living longer, so they should work longer in order to pay more into the system!”

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 5:29:44am

re: #130 Nerdy Fish

Anyone making under the max income, is already paying into the SS system to cover their future benefits. The problem is that the rich are not paying their fair share into the system, and increasing the max income threshold would help stabilize the system without requiring the age be increased - causing people to essentially work to death.

The GOP is going to fuck over their one last bastion of support. Old white guys, who are over 65. If you’re going to make them work longer, they’re not going to enjoy retirement.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 5:31:39am

re: #131 lawhawk

Anyone making under the max income, is already paying into the SS system to cover their future benefits. The problem is that the rich are not paying their fair share into the system, and increasing the max income threshold would help stabilize the system without requiring the age be increased - causing people to essentially work to death.

You know that, and I know that, and I suspect the Republicans also know that. But they are bound by their determination to oppose the Democrats. Whatever Democrats are for, Republicans must be against, and since Democrats are in favor of a strong social safety net to care for our elderly and poor, the Republicans have to try to destroy it.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 5:48:51am

Well I am going to take my poll book lessons tomorrow. So that means that I will get close to $200 for Primary day. I am just hoping that it is not as crazy as the last election was.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 5:53:41am

Another reason why I’m retiring—I’ve had it with the Republican assholes and their shutdown games.

Congressional leaders unveil $1.2T funding deal ahead of shutdown threat

Congressional leaders have rolled out a sprawling package funding large swaths of the government for the rest of fiscal year 2024 after last-minute drama over Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding threatened efforts to avert a shutdown later this week.

The package combines funding for half of the 12 annual government spending bills, and sets off a sprint for lawmakers to put a stamp on the more than a trillion dollars in spending and prevent major agencies from suffering a lapse in funds.

The plan includes measures funding for DHS; the departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and State; the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); and general government and foreign operations.

Funding for the agencies could lapse on Saturday morning, leaving lawmakers with little time to get the package to President Biden’s desk. House Republicans are hopeful of a vote on Friday, but Senate procedure could draw out the consideration process into the weekend.

Both sides have started claiming early wins in the spending fight ahead of the rollout on early Thursday. Republicans have touted funding cuts in areas like foreign operations and diversity, and Democrats have boasted investments in childcare and domestic programs, while fending off GOP-backed so-called “poison pill” riders.

Some of the highlights Republicans have seized on in the package includes cuts to overall foreign aid funds, the elimination of funds to a key United Nations agency that provides relief for Palestinian refugees, cuts to NGO funding, as well as previously secured concessions yanking back dollars for the IRS and coronavirus relief efforts.

thehill.com

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 5:54:12am

re: #109 Amory Blaine

I feel the press is burying the significance of the Parnas testimony.

Today’s electoral-vote.com

—-Many voters aren’t reacting to Trump’s many outrages because they have never heard about them

…a large fraction of the country does not follow the news. Not on TV, not in newspapers, and not on the Internet. They are busy living their lives and politics is simply not important to them. Political junkies (which probably includes most/all of our readers) can’t believe this. But do you follow all the latest developments in sports, music, fashion, and business? Dedicated sports fans probably can’t believe there exist people who don’t have a clue who Caitlin Clark is and dedicated stock market junkies can’t believe there are people who don’t know whether the Dow-Jones index is closer to 20,000, 40,000, 60,000, or 80,000. But these folks exist.

One study shows that only about one-third of the population follows any news. Another study shows that until close to an election many people spend less than 10 minutes per week looking at political news. That’s probably about the amount of time they spend brushing their teeth.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 5:55:13am

re: #134 Joe Bacon ✅

Me too. That is why I will be looking into different positions for future Election days.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 5:57:13am

re: #131 lawhawk

Anyone making under the max income, is already paying into the SS system to cover their future benefits. The problem is that the rich are not paying their fair share into the system, and increasing the max income threshold would help stabilize the system without requiring the age be increased - causing people to essentially work to death.

The GOP is going to fuck over their one last bastion of support. Old white guys, who are over 65. If you’re going to make them work longer, they’re not going to enjoy retirement.

Abortion wasn’t enough
They had to shoot the other foot

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 6:00:53am

This is not how politics works here.
Maybe in some mythic place
not the us congress

Maybe the cheese has slipped off

News: Manchin says he will oppose all judicial noms who lack GOP support

“This is my own little filibuster. If they can’t get one Republican, I vote for none,” he says in interview

Bad news for Mangi and makes any party-line nominees that much tougher https://t.co/OqUynun1li

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 20, 2024

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 6:01:21am

I’m retiring at 63. The five years January 2029. 30 years at FDA.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 6:01:50am

re: #138 Dangerman

Rando:

Hey Manchin, wouldn’t a better way to do this be looking at the nominee and considering if they’re worthy to holding the office they are nominated for instead of considering what the OPPOSING political party does?

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 6:02:24am

re: #138 Dangerman

This is not how politics works here.
Maybe in some mythic place
not the us congress

Maybe the cheese has slipped off

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So he won’t vote for (or against) them based on their qualifications, but purely because he has sour grapes. I guess that makes him a Republican.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 6:05:17am

re: #141 Nerdy Fish

He is making the correct sounds for the GOP.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 6:07:02am

If Politico is going to call Biden “deeply unpopular,” isn’t it only fair they call Trump “deeply broke” and “deeply under criminal indictment”?

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 6:10:56am

re: #141 Nerdy Fish

So he won’t vote for (or against) them based on their qualifications, but purely because he has sour grapes. I guess that makes him a Republican.

Yeah but he caucuses with the dems. //

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 6:12:17am

re: #138 Dangerman

This is not how politics works here.
Maybe in some mythic place
not the us congress

Maybe the cheese has slipped off

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Nope Boris Manchin and his partner Natasha Sinema have worked in tandem with Fearless Leader Moscow Mitch to ensure the billionaires keep getting their way.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 6:13:34am

re: #144 Dangerman

Yeah but he caucuses with the dems. //

Well, he did, until now. Now, he’s deciding to be a petulant little tyrant, because he can.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 6:15:24am

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 6:17:04am

re: #147 Dangerman

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Our resident hotel desk workers can probably relate to this.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 6:17:26am

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 6:17:57am

re: #148 Nerdy Fish

Our resident hotel desk workers can probably relate to this.

Yup
Waiting for reactions

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Eventual Carrion Mar 21, 2024 • 6:20:37am

re: #131 lawhawk

Anyone making under the max income, is already paying into the SS system to cover their future benefits. The problem is that the rich are not paying their fair share into the system, and increasing the max income threshold would help stabilize the system without requiring the age be increased - causing people to essentially work to death.

The GOP is going to fuck over their one last bastion of support. Old white guys, who are over 65. If you’re going to make them work longer, they’re not going to enjoy retirement.

This right here. I have been saying that for years. In fact in the extreme I propose that any income UNDER $140,000 a year should not have any tax taken for SS, every penny after that number should be taxed to support it. But I know that will never fly because the rich fuckers get to make the rules, and the rules always fuck us little people and benefit them.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 6:23:26am

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 6:24:14am

Gee what’s the latest with Mr. Twitter Files?

‘Twitter Files’ journalist Matt Taibbi: Musk proved to be ‘very disappointing’ on free speech issue

thehill.com

No shit, Sherlock!

Taibbi, who published the first installment of the “Twitter Files” after Musk bought the platform, argued the Tesla CEO has fallen short of his promise of being a “free speech absolutist.”

“I do believe that Elon proved to be very disappointing on the free speech issue,” Taibbi said during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” Friday. “All of us who worked on the Twitter Files felt the same way. We went in feeling tremendously optimistic that he actually meant a lot of the things that he said about being in favor of all legal speech and, being a free speech absolutist and all these other things.”

“That proved not to be the case. He’s currently disenfranchising thousands of Substack writers, including including me. And no one seems to care in the press,” Taibbi told host Chris Cuomo.

uh, when you sell your soul to the Devil there are consequences you f’n Pre$$titute!

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 6:26:36am

re: #153 Joe Bacon ✅

The ‘I thought I was special’ tone in that makes it kind of funny.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 6:31:12am

Mastodon

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 6:34:23am

re: #154 darthstar

The ‘I thought I was special’ tone in that makes it kind of funny.

And since we’re on the subject of Musk

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Mike Lamb Mar 21, 2024 • 6:34:28am

re: #138 Dangerman

This is not how politics works here.
Maybe in some mythic place
not the us congress

Maybe the cheese has slipped off

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Jesus fuck…not only did he draw them a road map, he picked them up and drove them there.

And it is a really convenient stance. He got to be the lone Dem to vote in favor of shitty Trump judges sp he could be a self-fulfilling prophecy for his principals.

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Swampwitch Mar 21, 2024 • 6:35:04am

re: #155 darthstar

Leslie Knope now. Leslie Knope forever.

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jeffreyw Mar 21, 2024 • 6:37:05am

Pickle Onion Mustard

Good morning!

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 21, 2024 • 6:40:34am

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No Malarkey! Mar 21, 2024 • 6:43:55am

Live Xitter thread in the box explaining how easy it would be for Trump to become a full fledged fascist dictator if he regains power. It can happen here, and our institutions will not save us.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 6:44:24am

Kyle Rittenhouse is chased off stage and heckled by BLM protesters during University of Memphis speech

msn.com

Rittenhouse was barely able to get a word out after he took the stage on Wednesday before his voice was overwhelmed by protesters.

The speech was a stop on his tour for conservative group Turning Point USA, focusing on the Second Amendment, and ‘the lies of Black Lives Matter’.

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Belafon Mar 21, 2024 • 6:50:10am

re: #135 Dangerman

Another study shows that until close to an election many people spend less than 10 minutes per week looking at political news.

Which is why any major ad buys now are meaningless.

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Belafon Mar 21, 2024 • 6:51:51am

re: #100 silverdolphin

I think the actual Star Trek episode was shorter than your reply. :)

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GlutenFreeJesus Mar 21, 2024 • 6:51:59am

So much for any conspiracies. Angela Chao was drunk at the time of her fatal accident.

Of course, being unable to rescue her from the car is a whole different thing…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 6:54:23am

re: #122 Dangerman

Music is everything
It is brilliant
Even the stuff you dont like
Sometimes it is just…clarity

That is all

To me there are only two kinds of music:

Music that people make because they have someting in their soul that they wish to express and share

and

Music that people make solely to earn money or gratify their egos.

I can do entirely without the latter.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 6:54:33am

Meanwhile in North Carolina…

‘These are your own words!’ CNN reporter grills GOP candidate over ‘execute Obama’ posts

rawstory.com

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Belafon Mar 21, 2024 • 6:56:07am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

To me there are only two kinds of music:

Music that people make because they have someting in their soul that they wish to express and share

and

Music that people make solely to earn money or gratify their egos.

I can do entirely without the latter.

Those circles are one except for people who don’t publish their work. It takes a certain amount of ego to believe others would pay for your work and that you deserve to be paid.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 6:57:45am

re: #162 Joe Bacon ✅

Kyle Rittenhouse is chased off stage and heckled by BLM protesters during University of Memphis speech

I am waiting to see this spun as “Kyle Rittenhouse: Victim and Martyr of Liberal Intoleratnce and Hatred of Free Speech!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 6:58:46am

re: #168 Belafon

Those circles are one except for people who don’t publish their work. It takes a certain amount of ego to believe others would pay for your work and that you deserve to be paid.

Plenty of music that people perform at cost or free of charge, at schools, churches, clubs, etc…

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 7:00:59am

re: #152 darthstar

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I figured they think their car is 12’ wide.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 7:02:26am

re: #165 GlutenFreeJesus

So much for any conspiracies. Angela Chao was drunk at the time of her fatal accident.

Of course, being unable to rescue her from the car is a whole different thing…

I had a Tesla for three years. The acceleration in reverse is no different than it is in the forward gear. She could have just thought she put it in drive and floored it…putting her in the water at about 20-30 mph.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 7:06:40am

re: #171 wrenchwench

I figured they think their car is 12’ wide.

When I bought my Ram 1500 the increased size took some getting used to. I spent the first few days constantly checking the blind spot mirror to see how far my wheels were from the edge of the road with relation to the painted lines crossing under my hood.

Now it’s getting to be cyclist season on the twisty roads through wine country where we bought, so I’m well aware of how far over I need to be to pass safely. Still slow down and give a courtesy tap on the horn before I go to pass.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 21, 2024 • 7:13:00am

Mike Johnson has broken virtually every promise he made when he became Speaker, including 3 days to read a bill. pic.twitter.com/IvCkk8oSVk

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 21, 2024

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 7:21:35am

re: #173 darthstar

When I bought my Ram 1500 the increased size took some getting used to. I spent the first few days constantly checking the blind spot mirror to see how far my wheels were from the edge of the road with relation to the painted lines crossing under my hood.

Now it’s getting to be cyclist season on the twisty roads through wine country where we bought, so I’m well aware of how far over I need to be to pass safely. Still slow down and give a courtesy tap on the horn before I go to pass.

I can do without a ‘tap on the horn’, but I have the biggest helmet mirror ever made, and local traditions vary.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 7:26:15am

Mastodon

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GlutenFreeJesus Mar 21, 2024 • 7:27:14am

re: #172 darthstar

Being drunk with the new on-screen gear shifting controls is not a good combo.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 7:28:38am

re: #177 GlutenFreeJesus

Being drunk with the new on-screen gear shifting controls is not a good combo.

Blurry R looks a lot like blurry D

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 7:29:25am

“On May 19, 2017, Hunter Biden and Bobulinski had a confrontation over the SinoHawk deal. WhatsApp messages show Biden invoking Bobulinski’s ties to Vekselberg, blasting him as immature and insulting, and at one point threatening to break his jaw.

“I’ll say it one final time. I don’t care how much money you’ve made what teams you were captain of or how many soulless oligarchs you call friend,” Hunter Biden wrote. “Money doesn’t interest me winning is ephemeral and fleeting and I have no interest spending my days on a super yacht measuring my dick with the people on the super yacht next to me.”“

thedailybeast.com

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GlutenFreeJesus Mar 21, 2024 • 7:30:58am

re: #179 Joe Bacon ✅

MAGA truly is drowning in Russian sludge.

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 7:31:39am

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles….

Hijacked Metro bus crashes into Ritz Carlton in Los Angeles

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 7:32:11am

re: #179 Joe Bacon ✅

Sounds like, whatever mistakes Hunter Biden has made in his life, on the whole, Joe raised a man of integrity and character. Not surprising.

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Unabogie Mar 21, 2024 • 7:32:55am

re: #179 Joe Bacon ✅

“On May 19, 2017, Hunter Biden and Bobulinski had a confrontation over the SinoHawk deal. WhatsApp messages show Biden invoking Bobulinski’s ties to Vekselberg, blasting him as immature and insulting, and at one point threatening to break his jaw.

“I’ll say it one final time. I don’t care how much money you’ve made what teams you were captain of or how many soulless oligarchs you call friend,” Hunter Biden wrote. “Money doesn’t interest me winning is ephemeral and fleeting and I have no interest spending my days on a super yacht measuring my dick with the people on the super yacht next to me.”“

thedailybeast.com

So random how everyone in the GOP orbit is being funded by Russian oligarch money. What’s crazy is that this is the party who lived in abject fear of Russian power just 25 years ago. And all it took to swing them 180 degrees was a little campaign cash.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 7:35:00am

re: #183 Unabogie

So random how everyone in the GOP orbit is being funded by Russian oligarch money. What’s crazy is that this is the party who lived in abject fear of Russian power just 25 years ago. And all it took to swing them 180 degrees was a little campaign cash.

The GOP, like the Ringwraiths from LOTR, are addicted to power. When they realized they were going to start losing it, they turned to people with money to try and buy it. They were successful, but sold what little soul and principles they had in the process. And now they’re going to lose power for good. Maybe not this year, maybe not in 2026 or in 2028. But it’s coming for them in the end.

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 7:37:03am

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 7:37:16am

re: #184 Nerdy Fish

They see it coming. I reckon by 2032 or 2034, the GOP will become a permanent minority party concentrated mostly in the Bible Belt and rural areas of the Western United States.

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 7:37:36am

re: #183 Unabogie

So random how everyone in the GOP orbit is being funded by Russian oligarch money. What’s crazy is that this is the party who lived in abject fear of Russian power just 25 years ago. And all it took to swing them 180 degrees was a little campaign cash.

Reagan’s ‘we start bombing in 15 minutes’ was an effective ‘joke’. Maybe that started the cash flow.

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dat_said Mar 21, 2024 • 7:39:54am

NPR: U.S. sues Apple for abusing its power to monopolize the smartphone market

The heart of the lawsuit centers around claims that Apple stopped smaller companies from accessing the hardware and software in its iPhones, which led to fewer options for customers.

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 7:42:26am

My greenest birb ever. Wordle 1,006 3/6*

Click to Reveal

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Unabogie Mar 21, 2024 • 7:43:04am

re: #187 wrenchwench

Reagan’s ‘we start bombing in 15 minutes’ was an effective ‘joke’. Maybe that started the cash flow.

I’m not a historian, but it sure seems like Perestroika was the impetus for former KGB folks to raid the national coffers and become rich beyond belief. A total vacuum in power and they seized the moment. Once they started sloshing around trillions in untraceable money, it was like honey to people like Trump.

And it’s no coincidence that Trump is treating the RNC like Putin treated Russian assets. You steal it all and walk away rich.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 7:43:06am

re: #183 Unabogie

So random how everyone in the GOP orbit is being funded by Russian oligarch money. What’s crazy is that this is the party who lived in abject fear of Russian power just 25 years ago. And all it took to swing them 180 degrees was a little campaign cash.

Thanks to the corrupted court’s Citizens United decision.

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Unabogie Mar 21, 2024 • 7:44:18am

re: #191 Joe Bacon ✅

Thanks to the corrupted court’s Citizens United decision.

Which we now know included much of the same bribery as they have in Russia. Oligarchs were feeding Clarence Thomas (and probably the rest of them) free money and they returned the favor.

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 7:45:32am

That was painful….

Wordle 1,006 6/6

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But, the 109 day streak is intact! 🙌🏻

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 21, 2024 • 7:47:36am

re: #188 dat_said

It’s similar to the EU fining Apple for limiting access to the iPhone App Store.

But I find the whole thing a bit sad, because Android phones are still popular (see Samsung).

I don’t have an iPhone. Many people don’t have iPhones.

Apple does not have a monopoly on smartphones.

But they have billions of dollars of cash in the bank, and that draws lawsuits from all over.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 7:49:07am

re: #162 Joe Bacon ✅

Fuck that crybaby murderer.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 21, 2024 • 7:50:37am

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 7:52:03am

re: #196 Patricia Kayden

Unfortunately you are correct. I wish it were different.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 7:52:10am

re: #165 GlutenFreeJesus

So much for any conspiracies. Angela Chao was drunk at the time of her fatal accident.

Of course, being unable to rescue her from the car is a whole different thing…

i said yesterday: drunks arent entitled to doors that open?

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 7:52:13am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

I got reset to 1 again today. My total game count is intact, but it randomly wipes my streak and I haven’t missed a day in months.

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Sherlock Hound Mar 21, 2024 • 7:52:37am

re: #133 PhillyPretzel ✅

Well I am going to take my poll book lessons tomorrow. So that means that I will get close to $200 for Primary day. I am just hoping that it is not as crazy as the last election was.

Or the next.
/

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 7:53:30am

re: #198 Dangerman

i said yesterday: drunks arent entitled to doors that open?

The front of the armrest is a manual release. Just pull up on it. She was drunk and scared and she panicked.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 7:53:50am

re: #200 Sherlock Hound

Tell me about it.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 7:55:04am

Only the best people…

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 21, 2024 • 7:55:47am

re: #194 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Here’s what Google’s AI tells me:

As of January 2024, Apple, the US phone maker, had a 29.27% market share of the global smartphone market, meaning that almost three in 10 smartphone users use an Apple phone. Apple’s iOS has a 29.2% market share while Android has a 70.1% market share

Yet this is what the the NPR article says:

Apple, one of the world’s richest companies, is now under fire from the U.S. government. The Department of Justice and 16 states filed a lawsuit against the Silicon Valley giant on Thursday, accusing the company of abusing its power as a monopoly to edge out rivals and ensure customers keep using its products.

The heart of the lawsuit centers around claims that Apple stopped smaller companies from accessing the hardware and software in its iPhones, which led to fewer options for customers.

Apple is worth nearly $3 trillion, making it one of the highest valued companies in the world. And its iPhone is one of the most popular phones on earth, dominating the global market, according to market analyst firm IDC. The Justice Department alleges it’s by no coincidence that Apple was able to ensure its place at the top.

If the rival has 2.5x of the market compared to the iPhone, how is the iPhone a monopoly?

The real point, as suggested by NPR’s word, is simply that Apple is the biggest whale in the sea and thus is the target for such actions.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 21, 2024 • 7:56:35am

re: #194 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Apple and Samsung are basically a duopoly in the North American smartphone market.

I mean, yeah Google has their Pixel line and there are a few smaller manufacturers.

But it’s primarily a two dog yard.

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Sherlock Hound Mar 21, 2024 • 7:56:54am

re: #150 Dangerman

Yup
Waiting for reactions

“He was part of the member program. Was.”

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 7:59:25am

re: #201 darthstar

The front of the armrest is a manual release. Just pull up on it. She was drunk and scared and she panicked.

honestly, im just having a bit of fun

drunks arent entitled to obvious door releases because they didnt read the manual? //

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Sherlock Hound Mar 21, 2024 • 8:01:49am

re: #161 No Malarkey!

Live Xitter thread in the box explaining how easy it would be for Trump to become a full fledged fascist dictator if he regains power. It can happen here, and our institutions will not save us.

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No Malarkey! Mar 21, 2024 • 8:03:10am

re: #192 Unabogie

Which we now know included much of the same bribery as they have in Russia. Oligarchs were feeding Clarence Thomas (and probably the rest of them) free money and they returned the favor.

It is gobsmacking that oligarchs can just throw money and goodies at Supreme Court Justices, and there is apparently nothing that can be done about it.

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Sherlock Hound Mar 21, 2024 • 8:03:12am

re: #162 Joe Bacon ✅

Kyle Rittenhouse is chased off stage and heckled by BLM protesters during University of Memphis speech

msn.com

Rittenhouse was barely able to get a word out after he took the stage on Wednesday before his voice was overwhelmed by protesters.

The speech was a stop on his tour for conservative group Turning Point USA, focusing on the Second Amendment, and ‘the lies of Black Lives Matter’.

Kyle Rottenhouse.
Kyle Rottencrotch
Etc.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 8:03:22am

re: #208 Sherlock Hound

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 8:03:45am

re: #153 Joe Bacon ✅

I first read that as ‘Starbucks” 😬

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 8:06:50am

re: #203 darthstar

Tarrio wants to piggyback on the immunity claim? So, the conspiracy was actually real and confirmed? He was acting on command of Trump?

Thanks for proving that.

But besides that, this is again proof that the SCOTUS foot dragging is a disaster for democracy and they should have ruled on the spot that Trump was no immune from prosecution, and that Trump’s conduct rose to level of high crimes - and felony conduct.

But of course the bought six are going to delay, distract, and deny justice being served against Trump.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 8:07:43am

re: #161 No Malarkey!

Thread reader digest so you don’t have to go to shitter

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Mike Lamb Mar 21, 2024 • 8:12:40am

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

They see it coming. I reckon by 2032 or 2034, the GOP will become a permanent minority party concentrated mostly in the Bible Belt and rural areas of the Western United States.

The GOP already is in the permanent minority. It wields outsized power due to gerrymandering and anti-democratic institutions/policies baked in to the system.

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 8:13:44am

Trump’s already claiming the 2024 elections are rigged.

You don’t need any more proof that Trump knows he’s losing the popular vote, and losing in enough states that he’s not getting back in the WH.

He wouldn’t spew this crap unless he was trying to overthrow the outcome of the legitimate election by claiming voter fraud - which he has NEVER proven to have occurred. We have indisputable proof of Trump and his coconspirators and associates engaging in election fraud.

He’s doing all he can do to delegitimize the results of an election.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 8:13:45am

re: #215 Mike Lamb

The GOP already is in the permanent minority. It wields outsized power due to gerrymandering and anti-democratic institutions/policies baked in to the system.

and they know that and are doing everything they can to cement their power despite having killed off a good share of their own voter base

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Mike Lamb Mar 21, 2024 • 8:15:00am

re: #198 Dangerman

i said yesterday: drunks arent entitled to doors that open?

This. It depends on the comparative/contributory negligence rules in whatever jurisdiction the lawsuit would get filed, but the fact that no one could get her out is really problematic for Tesla.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 21, 2024 • 8:15:17am

re: #216 lawhawk

Trump’s… doing all he can do to delegitimize the results of an election.

The new RNC “Election Integrity Commissions” are basically seek-and-destroy missions to disqualify enough votes so that neither candidate can claim an EC majority, which would throw the election to the House delegations, which is their only Constitutional chance of winning.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 8:15:54am

re: #213 lawhawk

I can see Trump’s lawyers arguing that the court should ignore the testimony offered by his co-conspirators and grant him alone immunity.

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GlutenFreeJesus Mar 21, 2024 • 8:18:38am

re: #188 dat_said

Longtime Apple user and shareholder. This is good as far as I’m concerned.

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 8:18:59am

Via Kyle Griffin on xT:

President Biden, speaking at a Texas fundraiser: “Just the other day, this defeated looking man came up to me and said: ‘Mr. President I need your help. I’m in crushing debt. I’m completely wiped out.’ I had to say, ‘Donald, I can’t help you’.”

Someone call out the burn unit.

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GlutenFreeJesus Mar 21, 2024 • 8:21:34am

re: #198 Dangerman

Of course they are. But by then the car was likely under some depth of water making it impossible to physically open any doors. Apparently they weren’t able to break the windshield, and were just too late by the time the side windows were broken.

It’s very tragic.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 8:23:04am

re: #203 darthstar

Only the best people…

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Gee wonder why that Proud Baby is doing that since Trump will pardon him…

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 8:25:21am

re: #214 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Thread reader digest so you don’t have to go to shitter

i read the first page and stopped
i am not a pollyanna

they wouldnt have enough people.
replace all the military commanders? all of them? say you do.
ranks below them 1/3 to 1/2 are not true believers. you need bodies to carry out ‘policy’. you’ll lose half of what you’re starting with and even that’s not nearly enough.

insurrection act? mass roundup of immigrants?
what ‘army’ is gonna walk into a blue state?
what do you think they’ll face if they tried?

doj, fbi, etc - again 1/3 to 1/2 are not believers. wont be enough bodies. could they target? do some damage? sure

disaster yes

sieze and hold power where the entire country submits and falls into line? nope.

there’s just not enough trained and equipped and disciplined boots to control a big city, let alone the country

the real reason i know this isnt gonna happen:

he’s gonna lose.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 8:26:29am

re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The new RNC “Election Integrity Commissions” are basically seek-and-destroy missions to disqualify enough votes so that neither candidate can claim an EC majority, which would throw the election to the House delegations, which is their only Constitutional chance of winning.

never happen.

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danarchy Mar 21, 2024 • 8:27:44am

re: #221 GlutenFreeJesus

Longtime Apple user and shareholder. This is good as far as I’m concerned.

I am torn on this. I like an open eco system which is why I go with Android, but Apples whole schtick is delivering a very cultivated and curated end user experience. If you take that control away from them it sort of makes them not Apple and just another phone. If Android didn’t exist with over 70% of global market share I would be fine with this, but people choose apple because they want the apple experience. It is hard to see how Apple delivers their “walled garden” if they have to take down all the walls.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 8:31:20am

just got an ‘alert’ from my bank about my credit

apparently i’m using 11% of my available credit

that means i probably have some borrowing power.

TFG was likely already using 111% of his available credit
see his problem?

just cause he’s got more zeros doesnt mean he deserves any kind of different treatment than the rest of us

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 8:32:05am

LOL, this is a great takedown of the Cybertruck:

Tesla Cybertruck: A Tragedy On Four Wheels

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 8:32:52am

re: #227 danarchy

The one thing that I love about Apple is the Genius Bar. You can actually go in with an appointment and get live help from an actual live human being. That in itself is for me the reason why I have Apples (iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air).

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 8:34:30am

re: #227 danarchy

I am torn on this. I like an open eco system which is why I go with Android, but Apples whole schtick is delivering a very cultivated and curated end user experience. If you take that control away from them it sort of makes them not Apple and just another phone. If Android didn’t exist with over 70% of global market share I would be fine with this, but people choose apple because they want the apple experience. It is hard to see how Apple delivers their “walled garden” if they have to take down all the walls.

This is a more helpful description of Apple and Android than most I have seen. I’m thinking of taking the smartphone step this year, and when I asked my friend from Seattle, who was here last weekend, what she thought of Android (as she used her Apple) she said, ‘they’re stupid and I hate them’. She does tend toward the blunt, but usually not that blunt.

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garzooma Mar 21, 2024 • 8:35:52am

re: #225 Dangerman

[…]
the real reason i know this isnt gonna happen:

he’s gonna lose.

This would be more convincing if you can show where you correctly predicted he would win in 2016.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 8:43:06am

re: #222 lawhawk

Via Kyle Griffin on xT:

Someone call out the burn unit.

The only thing he left out was ‘with tears in his eyes.’ LOL…

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Mike Lamb Mar 21, 2024 • 8:43:31am

re: #231 wrenchwench

This is a more helpful description of Apple and Android than most I have seen. I’m thinking of taking the smartphone step this year, and when I asked my friend from Seattle, who was here last weekend, what she thought of Android (as she used her Apple) she said, ‘they’re stupid and I hate them’. She does tend toward the blunt, but usually not that blunt.

I think you’d be hard pressed to find substantive differences in functionality between an iPhone and Android. A lot comes down to people becoming accustomed to the appearance of one vs the other; where items are located on the phone; and how the phone generally functions. If you are only just migrating to a smart phone, you won’t have that issue.

One thing to consider is whether you have other Apple products—a Mac or iPad or Apple watch for instance. I’m an Android user, by and large, and have both a phone and a watch. My wife is immersed in the Apple ecosystem. I think Apple is easier to integrate with other devices.

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 8:45:05am

re: #231 wrenchwench

The reason I went with the iPhone SE 2022 was because I’m not a heavy phone user, I like the compact design and I really like that it’s scheduled to get updates until 2029 - five years from now.

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jeffreyw Mar 21, 2024 • 8:45:23am

bsky.app

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 21, 2024 • 8:47:53am

re: #128 Eventual Carrion

Perfect! Connections

But did have to stare at it for quite a while for the blue line.

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danarchy Mar 21, 2024 • 8:50:12am

re: #234 Mike Lamb

One thing to consider is whether you have other Apple products—a Mac or iPad or Apple watch for instance. I’m an Android user, by and large, and have both a phone and a watch. My wife is immersed in the Apple ecosystem. I think Apple is easier to integrate with other devices.

If you have a macbook then airdrop alone is probably enough reason to go with an iphone. If apple doesn’t already have their hooks into you and you just want a phone and a mobile web browser there really is no need to drop Apple money on an iphone when you can get a near flagship Android phone under $300.

There are lots of considerations though, do you have family members that use facetime? I am OS agnostic, you get the right tool for the job, you just need to define the parameters of the job.

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 8:53:02am

re: #238 danarchy

If you have a macbook then airdrop alone is probably enough reason to go with an iphone. If apple doesn’t already have their hooks into you and you just want a phone and a mobile web browser there really is no need to drop Apple money on an iphone when you can get a near flagship Android phone under $300.

There are lots of considerations though, do you have family members that use facetime? I am OS agnostic, you get the right tool for the job, you just need to define the parameters of the job.

My 6 siblings are all Apple. I have no apple anything, and financial considerations make me lean towards android.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 21, 2024 • 8:54:06am

re: #130 Nerdyre: #130 Nerdy Fish

It’s a slash and burn of SS without actually cutting anything, so they can go, “SEE, we told you we weren’t going to cut Social Security! It’s just that people are living longer, so they should work longer in order to pay more into the system!”

How are they not cutting anything? They are explicitly cutting benefit amounts.

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William Lewis Mar 21, 2024 • 8:57:37am

re: #234 Mike Lamb

I think you’d be hard pressed to find substantive differences in functionality between an iPhone and Android. A lot comes down to people becoming accustomed to the appearance of one vs the other; where items are located on the phone; and how the phone generally functions. If you are only just migrating to a smart phone, you won’t have that issue.

One thing to consider is whether you have other Apple products—a Mac or iPad or Apple watch for instance. I’m an Android user, by and large, and have both a phone and a watch. My wife is immersed in the Apple ecosystem. I think Apple is easier to integrate with other devices.

Very little difference. I have Android because Apple doesn’t make a folding phone - dumb like Cricket or smart like my Razr - so that’s part of it, plus Windows 10 is my last Windows, I’ll be moving to Linux only eventually and that’s easier to integrate with Android.

Apple as a company is still better than Google but honestly, that’s a really really low bar to get past.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 8:58:24am

re: #229 Dr Lizardo

LOL, this is a great takedown of the Cybertruck:

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Video

so it’s a salad shooter

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 8:59:45am

re: #242 Dangerman

It’s the Elmomatic 600. It slices, dices, minces, rinses, and even crushes hands.

All yours for the very low low low price of $61,000 (or $100k if you want all the bells and features, excluding clear coat that protects your silly assed stainless steel that stains with the first glimpse of rain and/or sun).

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Romantic Heretic Mar 21, 2024 • 9:00:19am

re: #236 jeffreyw

I’m of the opinion that fire, as a tool, was discovered multiple times. But the people in power got rid of it, and the people using it, as quickly as possible before fire threatened their power.

Better to freeze in the dark than to risk becoming powerless.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 9:01:14am

re: #232 garzooma

This would be more convincing if you can show where you correctly predicted he would win in 2016.

this is not 2016
for scads of reasons
one of the most important is complacency. not this time.

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 9:02:49am

re: #242 Dangerman

On the bright side, though the bed might not have room for a bicycle, at least you can put a pretty nice-sized Caesar Salad in there.

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Decatur Deb Mar 21, 2024 • 9:08:12am

re: #239 wrenchwench

My 6 siblings are all Apple. I have no apple anything, and financial considerations make me lean towards android.

Wife is long-term Apple. Every few years she gets a new one and I take her old phone. At least I finally convinced her to skip the pink and chartreuse skins.

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DodgerFan1988 Mar 21, 2024 • 9:10:43am

Uncovering and revealing an anonymous influencer’s name is not doxxing. It is journalism, and in the public interest. Twitter has no specific rules against outing an anonymous user, except when the site’s owner wants the cool kids to like him. Then there’s a rule against it. https://t.co/mgRQ7Fufr4

— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) March 20, 2024

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 9:12:06am

Last week part of my 7th cranial nerve woke up or reconnected or whatever it’s doing in there, and a muscle worked for the first time in a year. I could tell, because I tried to smile, or do some facial expression, and I got a cramp in my face.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 9:13:16am

re: #249 wrenchwench

I am happy for you. That is good news.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 9:17:34am

Are they that stupid?

Yeah.

tennessean.com

Tennessee Senate passes bill based on ‘chemtrails’ conspiracy theory: What to know

SB 2691/HB 2063, sponsored by Rep. Monty Fritts, R-Kingston, and Sen. Steve Southerland, R-Morristown, passed in the Senate on Monday. The bill has yet to advance in the House.

The bill claims it is “documented the federal government or other entities acting on the federal government’s behalf or at the federal government’s request may conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere, and those activities may occur within the State of Tennessee,” according to the bill.

The legislation would ban the practice in Tennessee.

“The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited,” the bill reads.

The bill is scheduled to go to the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday.

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Decatur Deb Mar 21, 2024 • 9:18:25am

re: #249 wrenchwench

Last week part of my 7th cranial nerve woke up or reconnected or whatever it’s doing in there, and a muscle worked for the first time in a year. I could tell, because I tried to smile, or do some facial expression, and I got a cramp in my face.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
- Yoko Ono -

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 9:21:40am

re: #240 Hecuba’s daughter

re: #130 Nerdy Fish

How are they not cutting anything? They are explicitly cutting benefit amounts.

Because they’re not saying, “We’re reducing the amount of money in your Social Security checks.” Think in terms of weasel words; this is the language of Republicans. By defining “cutting Social Security” in very narrow terms, they can get away with saying, “but we’re not cutting Social Security,” and a large portion of their base will buy it.

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Belafon Mar 21, 2024 • 9:22:03am

At Titan Comics off of Forest Lane in Dallas, and I have never seen a (more) organized comic book store. Back issues are alphebatized and in pull out drawers, it makes my home collection feel disorganized:

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Belafon Mar 21, 2024 • 9:22:55am

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 9:25:17am

re: #252 Decatur Deb

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
- Yoko Ono -

I should send that to facialpalsy.org.uk, they say not to, because I’m supposed to work on relaxing the muscles. I can’t help it. One side is stuck. I’m just attempting symmetry.

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Decatur Deb Mar 21, 2024 • 9:27:06am

re: #256 wrenchwench

I should send that to facialpalsy.org.uk, they say not to, because I’m supposed to work on relaxing the muscles. I can’t help it. One side is stuck. I’m just attempting symmetry.

Who ya gonna listen to, the punk rocker or some egghead in a white frock?

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Mar 21, 2024 • 9:27:41am

re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am waiting to see this spun as “Kyle Rittenhouse: Victim and Martyr of Liberal Intoleratnce and Hatred of Free Speech!”

I bet they would have listened if he’d had his AR-15!

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 9:30:58am

re: #251 Joe Bacon ✅

Are they that stupid?

Yeah.

Let’s build a wall around Tennessee.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 9:33:00am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

Let’s build a wall around Tennessee.

Just waiting for thousands of Tennesseans to do this.

Woman spraying vinegar at the sky to kill chemtrails

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danarchy Mar 21, 2024 • 9:33:24am

re: #251 Joe Bacon ✅

Are they that stupid?

Yeah.

tennessean.com

Is it really that stupid? There are serious proposals to combat climate change by releasing sulphate particulates into the atmosphere to mimic volcanic eruptions. I don’t think any of those proposals are near implementation, but if it is something you want to block then passing the legislation before it happens is probably a good idea. I’d argue not the most pressing issue and probably a waste of time at the moment. But a “Hey, test that shit somewhere else” doesn’t seem completely stupid to me. Of course if you are dropping tons of sulphates into the atmosphere, unless Tennessee can control the airspace in all the states upwind of them it is probably pretty futile.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 21, 2024 • 9:34:54am

re: #180 GlutenFreeJesus

MAGA truly is drowning in Russian sludge.

Let’s just hope the sludge doesn’t drown us too.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 21, 2024 • 9:37:26am

re: #183 Unabogie

So random how everyone in the GOP orbit is being funded by Russian oligarch money. What’s crazy is that this is the party who lived in abject fear of Russian power just 25 years ago. And all it took to swing them 180 degrees was a little campaign cash.

And Russia abandoning communism to become a kleptocratic petro-state — just like those in the middle east. So the ideal government for Republicans to emulate.

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JC1 Mar 21, 2024 • 9:37:36am

re: #204 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Here’s what Google’s AI tells me:

Yet this is what the the NPR article says:

If the rival has 2.5x of the market compared to the iPhone, how is the iPhone a monopoly?

The real point, as suggested by NPR’s word, is simply that Apple is the biggest whale in the sea and thus is the target for such actions.

I don’t think that AAPL is a monopoly. But, if you look at profits, the picture looks very different than unit sales.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 21, 2024 • 9:41:02am

re: #189 wrenchwench

My greenest birb ever. Wordle 1,006 3/6*

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Note: if you are missing only letter 4, there are at least 7 valid entries

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 9:42:47am

Biden alone in Oregon voters’ pamphlet after Trump declined to submit statement

Oregon voters will see a big name missing when they open their state-issued voters’ pamphlet next month: Republican Donald Trump.

Laura Kerns, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office, said Trump’s campaign declined to provide a statement for the pamphlet and didn’t share a reason. Candidates aren’t required to submit statements, but most choose to pay the fee - $3,500 for a presidential candidate - and draft a statement of 325 words or fewer that will be mailed to every voter in Oregon.

Trump still will appear on ballots mailed to Republican voters.

[…]

Primary, end of May.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 9:43:36am

re: #261 danarchy

The problem is that it’s not a thing that is happening, nor would it happen under a sane and rational government. (What would happen if kooky conspiracy theorists had their way is a prospect I don’t like to think about.) It’s purely performative nonsense that panders to literal insanity.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 9:44:04am

re: #266 wrenchwench

Biden alone in Oregon voters’ pamphlet after Trump declined to submit statement

Primary, end of May.

Campaign genius.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 21, 2024 • 9:45:25am

re: #199 darthstar

I got reset to 1 again today. My total game count is intact, but it randomly wipes my streak and I haven’t missed a day in months.

I play on my computer and haven’t had any of that type of problem, but I think I am logged into my NY Times account

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 9:45:32am

re: #268 darthstar

Campaign genius.

Saves $3,500!

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Decatur Deb Mar 21, 2024 • 9:45:35am

re: #266 wrenchwench

Biden alone in Oregon voters’ pamphlet after Trump declined to submit statement

Primary, end of May.

Trump can’t issue 325 words without including a felony.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 21, 2024 • 9:46:39am

re: #251 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s about geoengineering measures to counter AGW.

Since TN nitwits don’t believe in AGW, I can see how your outlet thinks it’s all about “chemtrails”.

But it is really about AGW denial.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 9:46:57am

HERE
SHE
GOES!

alternet.org

Letitia James takes first step to seize Trump’s Seven Springs resort and NY golf course

GO GO GO!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 21, 2024 • 9:48:38am

Sulfur injection into the stratosphere is commonly discussed as a means of cooling the surface.

The sulfates in the stratosphere reflect sunlight.

Conceivable one could cool the surface temps that way.

But one will need a fleet of craft continually delivering sulfur to the stratosphere. It’s not a one-and-done kind of thing.

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 9:51:56am

re: #273 Joe Bacon ✅

HERE
SHE
GOES!

alternet.org

Letitia James takes first step to seize Trump’s Seven Springs resort and NY golf course

GO GO GO!

Doesn’t she have to wait until Monday?

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DodgerFan1988 Mar 21, 2024 • 9:52:27am

Thank you for your question. The answer is yes. Lying about the border, lying about crime, lying about govt budgets—and using those lies to cut spending on things/people you don’t like—lying about who faces what levels of racism, and lying about trans people are right-wing, yes. https://t.co/srJogeaoxH

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) March 21, 2024

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 9:55:04am

re: #276 DodgerFan1988

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“anti-civilizational woke mind virus” - what in the ever-loving word salad, Elno? If you don’t know what “woke” is, just say so. I’m sure there are people who would be more than happy to educate you.

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 9:55:29am

I hope that Trump has to go to Barb Jones every time he wants a Big Mac….. 😄

The Trump Organization will now be under even more control of a former federal judge who has been monitoring Donald Trump’s eponymous family company, following a court order on Thursday that punishes the former president for committing bank fraud.

Barbara S. Jones, who has been babysitting the real estate company for more than a year, was granted enhanced powers by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron—the same judge who ordered Trump to pay $464 million for lying about his wealth for years.

While the company previously had to notify Jones anytime it shifted more than $5 million or engaged in business deals, she now has the right to essentially do whatever she deems necessary to keep the Trump Organization from engaging in dirty business practices.

At a recent three-month bank fraud trial, Justice Engoron determined that Trump had faked personal financial statements by vastly inflating the value of his buildings and assets—enriching the company by giving it access to loans and insurance policies on false pretenses.

Jones, a former federal judge who’s now a lawyer in private practice, now has the authority to review the entire company’s “day-to-day operations,” internal records and financial accounting. She can also hire any outside contractors she wants to keep the company honest—and put it on Trump’s dime.

Engoron’s new order called it “a productive and enhanced monitorship.”

thedailybeast.com

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 9:55:34am

re: #275 darthstar

Doesn’t she have to wait until Monday?

Okay… registration is a preparatory step.

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Jay C Mar 21, 2024 • 9:56:43am

re: #276 DodgerFan1988

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“Is this right-wing?”

Well, when you head your list of policy goals with ~~a phrase~~ trite buzzwords like “anti-civilizational woke mind virus”, then yeah: fuckin-A wingnut….

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darthstar Mar 21, 2024 • 9:57:31am

Mastodon

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 9:59:22am

re: #279 darthstar

Okay… registration is a preparatory step.

She’s laying the groundwork to seize assets on day 1 (when Trump is likely to be unable to meet the statutory deadline on Monday).

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 9:59:30am

re: #260 Joe Bacon ✅

Just waiting for thousands of Tennesseans to do this.

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Video

I wonder if she sprays car exhausts on chilly mornings?

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TedStriker Mar 21, 2024 • 9:59:42am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

Let’s build a wall around Tennessee.

Hey, you know there’s a bunch of us here screaming WTF at all of this shit, right?

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Randall Gross Mar 21, 2024 • 10:00:21am

re: #251 Joe Bacon ✅

Are they that stupid?

Yes! So no cloud seeding for them next drought…

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 10:00:50am

re: #282 lawhawk

She’s laying the groundwork to seize assets on day 1 (when Trump is likely to be unable to meet the statutory deadline on Monday).

Yeah, she’s just getting all her ducks in a row, like any good attorney would do.

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 10:00:53am

Tribes ask U.S. interior secretary to deny proposed casino in Medford

Four Oregon and California-based tribes are opposed to a casino proposed by the Coquille Indian Tribe off reservation land in Medford

Four tribes opposed to a proposed tribal casino in Medford are asking U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to stop the project from moving forward.

For 10 years, the Coquille Indian Tribe has been working to turn a bowling alley on land it owns in Medford into a casino, more than 150 miles from the tribe’s reservation near the Oregon Coast. The project would need to be approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which is part of the Department of the Interior, and the land would have to be put into a federal trust. Under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, casinos operated by tribes can be built on reservations, land held in trust by the U.S. for the benefit of a tribe and on land governed by a tribe.

Four tribes in the region oppose the project, which they say would cause them harm. Earlier this month, the chairs of the Karuk Tribe, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Elk Valley Rancheria and the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation sent Haaland a letter asking that she visit their homelands in northern California and southern Oregon to hear their concerns. They said approval of the casino would violate the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and would cause “irreparable harm” to other tribes in the region. They’re also worried that approval of the casino would encourage tribes across the U.S. to also open casinos off reservations, including in urban areas, drawing revenue from existing tribal casinos. In Salem, the Siletz Tribe is also proposing a casino off reservation lands in Salem and seeking federal approval to put it into a trust.

[…]

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danarchy Mar 21, 2024 • 10:02:15am

re: #267 Nerdy Fish

The problem is that it’s not a thing that is happening, nor would it happen under a sane and rational government. (What would happen if kooky conspiracy theorists had their way is a prospect I don’t like to think about.) It’s purely performative nonsense that panders to literal insanity.

Here is the Whitehouse report on solar radiation modification research released last year. It is certainly a “needs more research and we aren’t there yet and would need global coordination”, but not a “that’s insane no sane government would ever do that!”

And I could see approval for a limited release to test disperasal patterns etc.

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 10:02:25am

Manhattan DA Bragg files motion to have Trump’s criminal trial start April 15, noting Trump’s ongoing and pervasive dirty tricks campaign to undermine and slow the creep of justice about to grab him by the wrists and treat him like a bitch.

In motion filed today, the Manhattan DA asks the court to send the case to trial on April 15, calling out the Trump team’s grab bag of delay tactics. pic.twitter.com/aQHjLXQQvP

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 21, 2024

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 10:06:56am

re: #279 darthstar

Okay… registration is a preparatory step.

“James has said she’s prepared to start seizing Trump assets if he misses a March 25 deadline to post a bond for 120% of the judgment to put it on hold while he appeals,”

So, does a “March 25 deadline” mean close of business deadline, 11:59 pm on the 25th deadline, something else deadline…..?

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Jay C Mar 21, 2024 • 10:09:50am

re: #287 wrenchwench

Tribes ask U.S. interior secretary to deny proposed casino in Medford

A few thoughts:
1. The G should rename the “Bureau of Indian Affairs” to something less old-fashioned/condescending.
2. On the face of it, [IANAL disclaimer] it sounds like the plaintiff tribes (though they don’t seem to be actual “plaintiffs”; this looks like a regulatory, not a judicial move) have a valid point: does simply buying off-res property make it “tribal land”?
3. If this would be allowable, it would make a great deal for the tribes in New York: the Seneca or Mohawks could buy Trump Tower from the State at Tish James’ fire sale, and turn it into a casino. I’d bet THEY could turn a profit running it (unlike you-know-who)…

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Belafon Mar 21, 2024 • 10:12:19am

re: #276 DodgerFan1988

THIS is Elon Musk’s brother, Kimbal Musk. Kimbal went off script a little bit - and admitted that he and Elon were illegal immigrants. Elon, realizing what just happened, tried to joke “it’s a grey area”, then laughed.
I’ll submit: more of a white area.pic.twitter.com/7h5SccDLvd

— BigBlueWaveUSA® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦 (@BigBlueWaveUSA) February 26, 2024

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wrenchwench Mar 21, 2024 • 10:13:35am

re: #291 Jay C

A few thoughts:
1. The G should rename the “Bureau of Indian Affairs” to something less old-fashioned/condescending.
2. On the face of it, [IANAL disclaimer] it sounds like the plaintiff tribes (though they don’t seem to be actual “plaintiffs”; this looks like a regulatory, not a judicial move) have a valid point: does simply buying off-res property make it “tribal land”?
3. If this would be allowable, it would make a great deal for the tribes in New York: the Seneca or Mohawks could buy Trump Tower from the State at Tish James’ fire sale, and turn it into a casino. I’d bet THEY could turn a profit running it (unlike you-know-who)…

IMHO:

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. That’s some of the ‘chaos’ the opposing nations warn of.

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William Lewis Mar 21, 2024 • 10:16:56am

Well, only got one good one today but I do think it was a good one…

Titled “Self Made Man” I really have to fight the urge to weld a sickle to it somewhere 😈

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 10:17:58am

re: #291 Jay C

A few thoughts:
1. The G should rename the “Bureau of Indian Affairs” to something less old-fashioned/condescending.
2. On the face of it, [IANAL disclaimer] it sounds like the plaintiff tribes (though they don’t seem to be actual “plaintiffs”; this looks like a regulatory, not a judicial move) have a valid point: does simply buying off-res property make it “tribal land”?
3. If this would be allowable, it would make a great deal for the tribes in New York: the Seneca or Mohawks could buy Trump Tower from the State at Tish James’ fire sale, and turn it into a casino. I’d bet THEY could turn a profit running it (unlike you-know-who)…

1. Agree - the government should make a more concerted effort to modernize language used in statutes and regulations to remove offensive and antiquated language.
2. It’s not just buying off-reservation lands, but having the land designated as lands governed by tribes or held in trust for the tribes by the US government. The concern is that tribes not normally in the area/region would set up competing casinos that undermine existing casinos on pre-existing tribal lands.
3. They could buy up all of Trump’s golf courses and turn them into public facilities for the benefits of the tribes.

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 10:18:30am

re: #290 Dr. Matt

So, does a “March 25 deadline” mean close of business deadline, 11:59 pm on the 25th deadline, something else deadline…..?

I just need to know when I should crack open the 21 year old bottle of scotch.

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 10:20:52am

re: #296 Dr. Matt

I just need to know when I should crack open the 21 year old bottle of scotch.

Crack it open Monday, but don’t take a swig until the marshals change the locks and seize the property (slapping their notices on the front doors). Let it air and savor the flavor profile. /

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Belafon Mar 21, 2024 • 10:21:15am

re: #276 DodgerFan1988

If you think woke is anti-civilization, then you’re thinking civilization is only for whites.

— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 21, 2024

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Jay C Mar 21, 2024 • 10:24:00am

re: #295 lawhawk

3. They could buy up all of Trump’s golf courses and turn them into public facilities for the benefits of the tribes.

Except for Bedminster in NJ: it’s a “sacred burial ground”.

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Mattand Mar 21, 2024 • 10:25:14am

re: #296 Dr. Matt

I just need to know when I should crack open the 21 year old bottle of scotch.

I’d hold off if I were you. I was thinking this yesterday and Chris Hayes and another blog I can’t remember pretty much confirmed it: Trump’s going to make an 11th hour deal with someone and put up the bond.

Partly because that’s just the way this motherfucker skates through life; partly because Trump is negotiating with people that we’re not privy to, and they’re going to rake him over the coals for the best deal right up to the deadline.

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Randall Gross Mar 21, 2024 • 10:26:03am

re: #291 Jay C

A few thoughts:
1. The G should rename the “Bureau of Indian Affairs” to something less old-fashioned/condescending.
2. On the face of it, [IANAL disclaimer] it sounds like the plaintiff tribes (though they don’t seem to be actual “plaintiffs”; this looks like a regulatory, not a judicial move) have a valid point: does simply buying off-res property make it “tribal land”?
3. If this would be allowable, it would make a great deal for the tribes in New York: the Seneca or Mohawks could buy Trump Tower from the State at Tish James’ fire sale, and turn it into a casino. I’d bet THEY could turn a profit running it (unlike you-know-who)…

Excellent points all the way around Jay, I’m sure Spirit has an answer in here somewhere…

Spirit’s Guide to Being Your Best Self | Reservation Dogs | FX

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Mattand Mar 21, 2024 • 10:26:08am

re: #299 Jay C

Except for Bedminster in NJ: it’s a “sacred burial ground”.

I see what you did there.

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 10:27:16am

re: #297 lawhawk

Crack it open Monday, but don’t take a swig until the marshals change the locks and seize the property (slapping their notices on the front doors). Let it air and savor the flavor profile. /

Sage advice.

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 10:30:33am

re: #300 Mattand

I’d hold off if I were you. I was thinking this yesterday and Chris Hayes and another blog I can’t remember pretty much confirmed it: Trump’s going to make an 11th hour deal with someone and put up the bond.

Partly because that’s just the way this motherfucker skates through life; partly because Trump is negotiating with people that we’re not privy to, and they’re going to rake him over the coals for the best deal right up to the deadline.

Of course that’s entirely possible.

But it’s also entirely possible this may be when it all finally catches up to him. All his power of positive thinking, all his bullshit and braggadocio, just might not save him this time.

And as we all know, it only takes that one time - and it all comes crashing down.

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 10:33:31am

re: #300 Mattand

I’d hold off if I were you. I was thinking this yesterday and Chris Hayes and another blog I can’t remember pretty much confirmed it: Trump’s going to make an 11th hour deal with someone and put up the bond.

Partly because that’s just the way this motherfucker skates through life; partly because Trump is negotiating with people that we’re not privy to, and they’re going to rake him over the coals for the best deal right up to the deadline.

I accidently turned on Michael “I’m so fucking centrist that I sniff my own farts” Smerconish this morning and caught a few minutes of his drivel….the topic of du jour was that Diaper Donnie may be coming in on a windfall if the Truff Sokkkial shareholders vote to float him 3+ billion.

Here is the story: Donald Trump to make $3.4bn if shareholders back plan to float Trump Media

Donald Trump’s wealth is set to increase by about $3.4bn (£2.7bn) if a shareholder vote on Friday paves the way for the float of his Trump Media business.

The former US president is preparing to list Trump Media & Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social tech platform, via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, or Spac.

The Spac, called Digital World Acquisition, has scheduled a vote on the merger with Trump Media for Friday. However, there are complications around the planned vote after Digital World sued sponsor ARC Global Investments, which is trying to delay the deal, to back the merger.

If the merger goes ahead and Trump Media goes public as soon as next week, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee would not be able to cash in any of his potential paper wealth immediately. The merger document contains a provision that blocks major shareholders from selling stock for six months.

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Belafon Mar 21, 2024 • 10:33:39am

re: #300 Mattand

I’d hold off if I were you. I was thinking this yesterday and Chris Hayes and another blog I can’t remember pretty much confirmed it: Trump’s going to make an 11th hour deal with someone and put up the bond.

Partly because that’s just the way this motherfucker skates through life; partly because Trump is negotiating with people that we’re not privy to, and they’re going to rake him over the coals for the best deal right up to the deadline.

James: Mr. Trump, show me where you got this money.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 10:34:08am

re: #282 lawhawk

She’s laying the groundwork to seize assets on day 1 (when Trump is likely to be unable to meet the statutory deadline on Monday).

and rattling his cage in advance for good measure

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 10:34:39am

re: #305 Dr. Matt

I accidently turned on Michael “I’m so fucking centrist that I sniff my own farts” Smerconish this morning and caught a few minutes of his drivel….the topic of du jour was that Diaper Donnie may be coming in on a windfall if the Truff Sokkkial shareholders vote to float him 3+ billion.

Here is the story: Donald Trump to make $3.4bn if shareholders back plan to float Trump Media

He can’t sell that stock for 6 months, though, and do you really think anyone’s going to take those stock shares at face value to secure a $450M+ bond? I sure as hell wouldn’t.

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Belafon Mar 21, 2024 • 10:35:14am

re: #305 Dr. Matt

Is this the one where some of the investors are pissed because Trump split the stock to dilute their holdings?

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Decatur Deb Mar 21, 2024 • 10:36:32am

re: #309 Belafon

Is this the one where some of the investors are pissed because Trump split the stock to dilute their holdings?

Tried to. At last I saw they were suing.

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 10:36:35am

re: #308 Nerdy Fish

He can’t sell that stock for 6 months, though, and do you really think anyone’s going to take those stock shares at face value to secure a $450M+ bond? I sure as hell wouldn’t.

It’s a meme stock, FFS. Anyone taking those shares at face value has no functioning frontal lobe.

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Scottish Dragon Mar 21, 2024 • 10:37:34am

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 10:38:00am

re: #290 Dr. Matt

So, does a “March 25 deadline” mean close of business deadline, 11:59 pm on the 25th deadline, something else deadline…..?

it means she’s already got the lien paperwork prepared

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Nerdy Fish Mar 21, 2024 • 10:39:08am

re: #311 Dr Lizardo

It’s a meme stock, FFS. Anyone taking those shares at face value has no functioning frontal lobe.

I will say that if they drop their value by 90% (which would be around the point when they would be insufficient to cover the value of the bond), there’s something deeply wrong with the whole endeavor… but then again, it is Trump and Twoof Social, so that’s actually a fairly plausible scenario.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 10:39:44am

re: #296 Dr. Matt

I just need to know when I should crack open the 21 year old bottle of scotch.

just to be safe, start early

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 21, 2024 • 10:41:37am

re: #253 Nerdy Fish

Because they’re not saying, “We’re reducing the amount of money in your Social Security checks.” Think in terms of weasel words; this is the language of Republicans. By defining “cutting Social Security” in very narrow terms, they can get away with saying, “but we’re not cutting Social Security,” and a large portion of their base will buy it.

Maybe it’s because it’s future retirees who will have reduced benefits, not current retirees. Relying as always on their base whose motto is “I’ve got mine and that’s all that matters. Who cares about you”

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 10:41:40am

re: #299 Jay C

Except for Bedminster in NJ: it’s a “sacred burial ground”.

sure
of stolen natsec

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Scottish Dragon Mar 21, 2024 • 10:43:52am

re: #314 Nerdy Fish

I will say that if they drop their value by 90% (which would be around the point when they would be insufficient to cover the value of the bond), there’s something deeply wrong with the whole endeavor… but then again, it is Trump and Twoof Social, so that’s actually a fairly plausible scenario.

You know those properties are all over leveraged.

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No Malarkey! Mar 21, 2024 • 10:45:05am

re: #313 Dangerman

it means she’s already got the lien paperwork prepared

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 10:45:11am

Charlie “Afraid of Black Pilots” Kkkirkkk claims liberals ‘hunt you down in the streets’ after Kkkyle Rittenhouse protest

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kkkirkkk accused liberals of hunting conservatives down “in the streets” after Kkkyle Rittenhouse was booed off stage at an event at the University of Memphis.

On his Thursday podcast, Kkkirkkk reacted to the protest against Rittenhouse at Wednesday’s Turning Point event.

“I mean, we haven’t seen this for a little while at Turning Point USA,” he said. “We haven’t seen this kind of where they hunt you down in the streets, blockade staffers from leaving, and dox the personal information of individual students, but we have experienced very similar instances like this.”

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GlutenFreeJesus Mar 21, 2024 • 10:47:06am

re: #300 Mattand

Imagine the favors Donnie is going to owe these unsavory people should be win in November. It’s nothing but a bribe.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 10:48:11am

re: #305 Dr. Matt

I accidently turned on Michael “I’m so fucking centrist that I sniff my own farts” Smerconish this morning and caught a few minutes of his drivel….the topic of du jour was that Diaper Donnie may be coming in on a windfall if the Truff Sokkkial shareholders vote to float him 3+ billion.

Here is the story: Donald Trump to make $3.4bn if shareholders back plan to float Trump Media

so since he cant sell, he could try to offer his stock position as collateral.

think it’s worth $4.5bn even though the company has never made money?

me neither

i suppose if they discounted it 10x. that’s actually pretty close, if i got my decimals right

but that would be *all* his shares…and i dont think he’s agree to that

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Patricia Kayden Mar 21, 2024 • 10:49:14am

re: #320 Dr. Matt

I’m very proud of the Black students who challenged Rittenhouse. They did absolutely nothing wrong. It’s horrifying that a murderer is allowed to speak on a college campus. What are his qualifications for being there? That he is a murderer? His only claim to fame is that he murdered two protesters. That is it.

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 10:50:20am

re: #319 No Malarkey!

Here’s the story…

The New York attorney general’s office has filed judgments in Westchester County, the first indication that the state is preparing to try to seize Donald Trump’s golf course and private estate north of Manhattan, known as Seven Springs.

State lawyers entered the judgments with the clerk’s office in Westchester County on March 6, just one week after Judge Arthur Engoron made official his $464 million decision against Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization.

Entering a judgment would be the first step a creditor would take to attempt to recover property. Additional steps, such as putting liens on assets or moving to foreclose on properties, or taking other actions in court would follow, if the asset is going to be seized.

The judgment is already entered in New York city where Trump’s properties including Trump Tower, his penthouse at Trump Tower, 40 Wall Street, his hotel abutting Central Park, and numerous apartment buildings are located.

edition.cnn.com

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 10:51:01am

re: #312 Scottish Dragon

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i thought she was taller

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 10:51:24am

re: #314 Nerdy Fish

I will say that if they drop their value by 90% (which would be around the point when they would be insufficient to cover the value of the bond), there’s something deeply wrong with the whole endeavor… but then again, it is Trump and Twoof Social, so that’s actually a fairly plausible scenario.

gmta

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 10:51:58am

And at the very tail end of that CNN story I linked to in my #324, there’s this little tidbit…

Engoron also empowered the monitor to have copies of the Trump Organization’s monthly bank and brokerage statements, be notified in advance of any transfers above $5 million, be provided information about the creation or dissolution of business entities, and be informed in advance of any debt financing.

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Dr. Matt Mar 21, 2024 • 10:54:06am

re: #323 Patricia Kayden

I’m very proud of the Black students who challenged Rittenhouse. They did absolutely nothing wrong. It’s horrifying that a murderer is allowed to speak on a college campus. What are his qualifications for being there? That he is a murderer? His only claim to fame is that he murdered two protesters. That is it.

The “Pro-life Party” puts a murderer on a speaking tour.

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lawhawk Mar 21, 2024 • 10:54:18am

re: #327 Dr Lizardo

Trump’s businesses are getting a colonic with the amount of scrutiny on all of their dealings and following the financial maneuverings needed to keep them viable.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 11:00:01am

‘Work until you drop dead’: House GOP plan takes axe to Social Security, healthcare and civil rights

alternet.org

The Republican Study Committee has released its proposed 2025 budget which would take an ax to major elements of the social safety net, healthcare system, and civil rights, while affecting nearly every American, either now or in the future.

Calling it “Fiscal Sanity to Save America,” the budget proposal from the far-right MAGA-affiliated group of about 170 House Republicans would effectively create a national abortion ban and ban on in-vitro fertilization procedures (IVF) by creating legal protections for human embryos starting at “the moment of fertilization.” It mentions the word “abortion” 77 times.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is a member and former chairman of the Republican Study Committee.

“The House GOP Study Committee (largest House GOP bloc) released a budget endorsing the Life at Conception Act, which would provide 14th amendment legal protections at every stage of life,” explained Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Semafor’s domestic policy and politics reporter. “Amounts to near-total ban on abortions with no IVF exceptions.”

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) blasted the Republican Study Committee’s budget.

“Wow today a group comprising 80% of republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed a far-right bill that would impose a national abortion ban and outlaw birth control and in vitro fertilization IVF,” he wrote on X.

“Just now 80% of republicans in Congress called for raising the retirement age and tying social security to life expectancy. Republicans want you to work until you drop dead,” he added minutes later.

The only thing missing from this death warrant is a return to the Poor Houses and Poor Farms that existed before The New Deal!

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 11:00:55am

re: #329 lawhawk

Trump’s businesses are getting a colonic with the amount of scrutiny on all of their dealings and following the financial maneuverings needed to keep them viable.

LOL Trump’s gonna be hating this. Makes it damn near impossible for him to pull his usual shady shit.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 21, 2024 • 11:02:26am

re: #288 danarchy

Here is the Whitehouse report on solar radiation modification research released last year. It is certainly a “needs more research and we aren’t there yet and would need global coordination”, but not a “that’s insane no sane government would ever do that!”

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And I could see approval for a limited release to test disperasal patterns etc.

Given the human history of trying first without careful examination or understanding of long term consequences, I could see objecting to the government taking these measures only to unleash disaster on all of us.

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DodgerFan1988 Mar 21, 2024 • 11:04:47am

Man Who Shot Ronald Reagan Says He’s a ‘Victim of Cancel Culture’ https://t.co/xYe0CC8FWc

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 20, 2024

You should be able to assassinate the President without consequences! Woke Libtards ruined everything!

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Mike Lamb Mar 21, 2024 • 11:05:29am

re: #330 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Work until you drop dead’: House GOP plan takes axe to Social Security, healthcare and civil rights

alternet.org

The Republican Study Committee has released its proposed 2025 budget which would take an ax to major elements of the social safety net, healthcare system, and civil rights, while affecting nearly every American, either now or in the future.

Calling it “Fiscal Sanity to Save America,” the budget proposal from the far-right MAGA-affiliated group of about 170 House Republicans would effectively create a national abortion ban and ban on in-vitro fertilization procedures (IVF) by creating legal protections for human embryos starting at “the moment of fertilization.” It mentions the word “abortion” 77 times.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is a member and former chairman of the Republican Study Committee.

“The House GOP Study Committee (largest House GOP bloc) released a budget endorsing the Life at Conception Act, which would provide 14th amendment legal protections at every stage of life,” explained Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Semafor’s domestic policy and politics reporter. “Amounts to near-total ban on abortions with no IVF exceptions.”

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) blasted the Republican Study Committee’s budget.

“Wow today a group comprising 80% of republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed a far-right bill that would impose a national abortion ban and outlaw birth control and in vitro fertilization IVF,” he wrote on X.

“Just now 80% of republicans in Congress called for raising the retirement age and tying social security to life expectancy. Republicans want you to work until you drop dead,” he added minutes later.

The only thing missing from this death warrant is a return to the Poor Houses and Poor Farms that existed before The New Deal!

Surely this will appeal to swing voters and suburban women!

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 21, 2024 • 11:05:55am

re: #332 Hecuba’s daughter

Given the human history of trying first without careful examination or understanding of long term consequences, I could see objecting to the government taking these measures only to unleash disaster on all of us.

You can also examine human history and see a pattern of lukewarm mitigation while continuing the root issue that unleashes disaster.

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 11:06:25am

re: #331 Dr Lizardo

LOL Trump’s gonna be hating this. Makes it damn near impossible for him to pull his usual shady shit.

if she does her job right and gets true, current and accurate information, she’s gonna learn a lot about how the whole thing has been operated. how it’s been a house of cards for years, if not always

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Dangerman Mar 21, 2024 • 11:07:47am

re: #333 DodgerFan1988

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You should be able to assassinate the President without consequences! Woke Libtards ruined everything!

it’s unfair that people wont buy the nonsense i’m trying to sell because they know what i did

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Eventual Carrion Mar 21, 2024 • 11:10:24am

re: #252 Decatur Deb

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
- Yoko Ono -

And then scream like a banshee.

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ckkatz Mar 21, 2024 • 11:12:35am

re: #285 Randall Gross

Yes! So no cloud seeding for them next drought…

Not only that -

From the article:

“The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited,” the bill reads.

Sunglasses? Windowshades?

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Dr Lizardo Mar 21, 2024 • 11:13:01am

re: #336 Dangerman

if she does her job right and gets true, current and accurate information, she’s gonna learn a lot about how the whole thing has been operated. how it’s been a house of cards for years, if not always

You know, if Trump hadn’t put himself under the microscope, we probably never would’ve found about any of this until after he died.

It would’ve all ended up in probate court to untangle the whole, ugly mess.

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sizzzzlerz Mar 21, 2024 • 11:13:04am

re: #338 Eventual Carrion

And then scream like a banshee.

Only when cutting a track.

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Jay C Mar 21, 2024 • 11:16:49am

re: #334 Mike Lamb

So this is the GOP strategy - in an election year - ~~run~~ ram a budget plan through slashing Social Security (and altering its qualifications for the future), slash healthcare support, AND push a maximalist national abortion ban, and crimininalize a large proportion of womens’ healthcare issues in the process?

Gee: sounds like a real ballot-box winner, there ().

And I’m guessing the KooKoo Kaucus is also planning to hold the entire 2025 budget hostage to their demands…

Sounds like fun.

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Mattand Mar 21, 2024 • 11:20:24am

re: #305 Dr. Matt

I accidently turned on Michael “I’m so fucking centrist that I sniff my own farts” Smerconish this morning and caught a few minutes of his drivel….the topic of du jour was that Diaper Donnie may be coming in on a windfall if the Truff Sokkkial shareholders vote to float him 3+ billion.

Here is the story: Donald Trump to make $3.4bn if shareholders back plan to float Trump Media

LOL, yeah, know all about Philly’s own “I wanna be Rush Limbaugh, no wait, all hail the Magic Balance Fairy!” My conservative-turned-“independent” buddy worships him. Although to Smerconish’s credit, he openly admitted to voting for Obama at least once. I never asked, but I have a feeling that my friend would claim “My vote is my own business” to disguise the fact he still votes GOP 99% of the time.

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Teddy's Person Mar 21, 2024 • 11:21:15am

re: #158 Swampwitch

Leslie Knope now. Leslie Knope forever.

Precious Cargo

Leslie Meets Her Hero - Parks and Recreation

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sizzzzlerz Mar 21, 2024 • 11:26:32am

re: #333 DodgerFan1988

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You should be able to assassinate the President without consequences! Woke Libtards ruined everything!

So is applying modern memes to events that happened 40 years ago a thing now? Or is it because someone did something at that time that they’re still try to push off as being someone else’s fault and allowing them to play the victim card once again?

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Axolotl Mar 21, 2024 • 11:27:35am

re: #231 wrenchwench

This is a more helpful description of Apple and Android than most I have seen. I’m thinking of taking the smartphone step this year, and when I asked my friend from Seattle, who was here last weekend, what she thought of Android (as she used her Apple) she said, ‘they’re stupid and I hate them’. She does tend toward the blunt, but usually not that blunt.

The great way to start a non political argument at a party is to ask people which they prefer.

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Mike Lamb Mar 21, 2024 • 11:38:16am

re: #342 Jay C

So this is the GOP strategy - in an election year - ~~run~~ ram a budget plan through slashing Social Security (and altering its qualifications for the future), slash healthcare support, AND push a maximalist national abortion ban, and crimininalize a large proportion of womens’ healthcare issues in the process?

Gee: sounds like a real ballot-box winner, there ().

And I’m guessing the KooKoo Kaucus is also planning to hold the entire 2025 budget hostage to their demands…

Sounds like fun.

They are sooooooooo high on their own supply.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 21, 2024 • 11:40:34am

re: #333 DodgerFan1988

Jim Brady’s kids would like to have a word with that ass.

Spy Auto

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