Stunning New Music and Video From Crowded House: “Teenage Summer”

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Is it real
Or a fiction of your mind
Am I gone
In a fraction of your time
You mistake my real intentions once again
Want to be near you, wanted to hear you

My words alight
Like paper drifting in the sky
Not enough to be a witness of your life
All along
I was hoping we would come of age
Walking around you
Want to surround you
But I can’t get close enough
Can’t get close enough
Wanted to find you
Wanted to break through
Life’s imitation
I’ve been away too much
I’ve been locking it away too much

I’m here tonight
And I’m gone again
You pick up your bags
and you ready to fly
Pick up your bags

Baby come on
Wanted to hear you
Want to be near you
But I can’t get close enough
I can’t get close enough
Want to surround you
Want to be near you
But I can’t get close enough
Wanted to be near you
Wanted to care for you
But I can’t get close enough
Wanted to break through
Life’s imitation
I’ve been away too much
I’ve been locking it away too much
I’m gonna call you
Life’s imitation
I’ve been away too much
I’ve been locking it away too much
I ‘m gonna call you
Life’s imitation, blue heaven

Are we gonna have some teenage summer
Are we gonna have some mad new year
Are we gonna have some teenage summer
Am I gonna have some mad idea

Are we gonna have some teenage summer
Am I gonna have some mad idea
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#crowdedhouse #Teenagesummer #gravitystairs #officialvideo
@crowdedhouse release the official video for brand new single ‘Teenage Summer’ via BMG.

Pre save / add the single & join the community here: crowdedhouse.lnk.to

The new album Gravity Stairs out May 31, 2024. Pre-order/save now: crowdedhouse.lnk.to
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Credits:

Directors: Lynn-Maree Milburn & Richard Lowenstein
Cinematographer: Andrew de Groot
Editors: Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn
Animators: Lynn-Maree Milburn, Nick Seymour
Original Artwork: Nick Seymour
Producers: Richard Lowenstein, Andrew de Groot, Lynn-Maree Milburn 
Prod Manager: Tayler Martin 
Camera Assistant: Joshua Zhi Lee 
Gaffer: Joshua Zhi Lee
Sound Playback: Matthew Ellery
Make Up: Madeleine Stewart, Emily Stacey
Prod Assistant: Saffron Bos
Editing Assistant: Tayler Martin
Stills: Matthew Ellery

Visual Effects: GHOST POST
Andrew de Groot 
Lynn-Maree Milburn 
Richard Lowenstein

Location: Bakehouse Studios, Quincy McLean

Production Company: Ghost Pictures Pty Ltd
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Management: Carl Stubner & Dave Gibson for Shelter Music Group
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retired cynic  Apr 13, 2024 • 3:38:57pm

I needed that today. Thanks much!

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silverdolphin  Apr 13, 2024 • 3:43:32pm

Food inflation is close to zero

And it has been for almost a year.

“Since the start of 2023, the price of food has increased 1.2%. Average earnings have gone up 4.3%.”

Food inflation is now at the same rate as it was before the pandemic. But you’d never know that from the news. Of course, being on a fixed income is what will cause a problem for many but COLA have been trying to keep up. Since 2018, cost of food is up 27% while COLA has gone up about 23%.

Food inflation vs CPI
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goddamnedfrank  Apr 13, 2024 • 3:46:39pm

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A Cranky One  Apr 13, 2024 • 3:53:51pm

Was in the grocery store recently when a person in front of me in line didn’t have enough to pay for their purchase.

Old woman using the electric cart to shop. Seems she didn’t have enough money to buy the roasted chicken and beverages she wanted. Several minutes were spent trying to figure out what to take off the selections to be able to afford the roasted chicken. With no success.

Asked the cashier what the shortage was and then provided cash to cover the purchase. Also said to give the change to the woman who didn’t have sufficient funds.

For me it was no big deal, I could afford to pay for her purchases.

On the other hand, I was pissed that an elderly woman couldn’t afford a cheap meal. I mean, I mean WTF.

I’m no saint. But I was happy knowing that someone struggling was able to get a good meal. I’m blessed in that I could help with minimal sacrifice.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 13, 2024 • 3:53:55pm

Sirens across Israel, mostly in the northern and southern regions but Jerusalem as well - rocket barrage from Lebanon, ballistic missiles from Iran (seems they did fire some after all).

IDF Homefront Command’s national missile and rocket warning notifications
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Varek Raith  Apr 13, 2024 • 3:54:48pm

Sigh, this is so pointless.

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Varek Raith  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:04:18pm

British and American jets reported downing drones in Iraq. per live stream posted above.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:04:39pm

bsky.app

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:06:13pm

re: #9 goddamnedfrank

I’m seeing that in about an hour.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:07:04pm

Dozens of intercepts over Israel. Direct hit reported in the Israeli-Arab city of Umm al-Fahm.
Oh and Iran just threatened Jordan it would attack them next if it helps Israel. They’ve lost it.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:08:02pm

bsky.app

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:11:08pm

First victim of Iranian attack - ten-year-old Bedouin child in serious condition after being hit by missile fragments near the southern city of Arad.

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cat-tikvah  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:18:45pm

re: #11 (((Archangel1)))

Dozens of intercepts over Israel. Direct hit reported in the Israeli-Arab city of Umm al-Fahm.
Oh and Iran just threatened Jordan it would attack them next if it helps Israel. They’ve lost it.

Just saw news Jordan shot down Iranian drones

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Varek Raith  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:22:36pm

Jordanian jets have shot down dozens of Iranian drones flying across northern and central Jordan heading to Israel, according to two regional security sources.

Earlier Iran said it was watching Jordan for any moves in support of Israel during the retaliatory attacks.

It warned that Jordan may become the “next target”, a military source told the semi-official news agency Fars on Sunday.
reuters.com

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:24:52pm

re: #15 Varek Raith

The test: will Netanyahu help Jordan if that happens.

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Varek Raith  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:24:56pm

I highly expect drone factories in Iran/Syria to be a target in the coming hours/days.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:26:51pm

Things appear to be escalating quickly. If this spurs Mike Johnson to put the Israel/Ukraine/Taiwan aid bill to a vote Monday, it will have been worth it. Iran will back down in another day.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:28:14pm

re: #18 darthstar

Moscow Marge will never allow it.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:28:26pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:32:11pm

re: #19 Ace Rothstein

Moscow Marge will never allow it.

We’ve still got 15 Democrats who haven’t signed the discharge petition…they’re all on my shit list.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:34:09pm

Oh, I’m just going to let Russia have Ukraine because I disagree with US Aid to Israel…fuck you. Your protest vote is killing more people than allowing aid to go through and pushing for conditions on how it is used would.

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retired cynic  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:34:52pm

re: #2 silverdolphin

Food inflation is close to zero

And it has been for almost a year.

Food inflation is now at the same rate as it was before the pandemic. But you’d never know that from the news. Of course, being on a fixed income is what will cause a problem for many but COLA have been trying to keep up. Since 2018, cost of food is up 27% while COLA has gone up about 23%.

[Embedded content]

Man, it sure doesn’t look that way to me. I buy basically the same things every week, year in, year out. And what used to cost $110, is now closer to $150. That meshes with the 27% since 2018, but not at 1-2% per year over that time. There is a real disconnect between those two sets of numbers. I don’t blame Biden, of course. I blame some core inflation and some corporate greed.

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cat-tikvah  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:37:30pm

re: #22 darthstar

Oh, I’m just going to let Russia have Ukraine because I disagree with US Aid to Israel…fuck you. Your protest vote is killing more people than allowing aid to go through and pushing for conditions on how it is used would.

Signing the discharge petition doesn’t even mean they endorse it or are obligated them to vote for the bill.
Really, they can fuck right off.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:40:26pm

FWIW the people at TWZ have gathered video links to the air over Israel. Video clips of drones on the way etc.

twz.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:44:01pm

re: #23 retired cynic

The pandemic gave all kinds of companies a very convenient excuse to raise prices and they took full advantage.

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JC1  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:46:50pm

re: #23 retired cynic

Man, it sure doesn’t look that way to me. I buy basically the same things every week, year in, year out. And what used to cost $110, is now closer to $150. That meshes with the 27% since 2018, but not at 1-2% per year over that time. There is a real disconnect between those two sets of numbers. I don’t blame Biden, of course. I blame some core inflation and some corporate greed.

That’s due to the inflation 2-3 years ago. Prices haven’t dropped overall (deflation), but the rate of increase fell well below the rate of earnings growth. Again, these are national averages; individual areas, items, and circumstances can vary greatly from the averages.

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William Lewis  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:48:51pm

From early this morning at an older local park…

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:49:05pm

Iran: “Israel will destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque!”
Also Iran: * indiscriminately fires missiles over Al Aqsa Mosque *

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William Lewis  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:49:13pm

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William Lewis  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:49:30pm

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William Lewis  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:49:48pm

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:50:58pm

re: #24 cat-tikvah

Signing the discharge petition doesn’t even mean they endorse it or are obligated them to vote for the bill.
Really, they can fuck right off.

I’m going to tell every single one of them to fuck right off after we get past the Trump fascism fad.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:51:15pm

I mentioned seeing a short horror film that impressed me yesterday - I went back and watched again and wasn’t quite as impressed; noticed a few flaws the second time. It’s still very good though, and I may post it anyway just for the excellent score and soundtrack.

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silverdolphin  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:51:54pm

re: #23 retired cynic

Man, it sure doesn’t look that way to me. I buy basically the same things every week, year in, year out. And what used to cost $110, is now closer to $150. That meshes with the 27% since 2018, but not at 1-2% per year over that time. There is a real disconnect between those two sets of numbers. I don’t blame Biden, of course. I blame some core inflation and some corporate greed.

It was much higher from 2018 to about 2222. But since 2023 it has been about 1%. ANd some individual things have been crazy, like eggs, mostly due to culling of flocks due to bird flu.

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JC1  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:53:58pm

re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg

The pandemic gave all kinds of companies a very convenient excuse to raise prices and they took full advantage.

Companies don’t need excuses to jack up prices. They’re supposed to do that: earn more for their owners (shareholders). In a market economy, competition is supposed to keep prices low, not the lack of excuses. So the issue is lack of competition; the feds have been asleep at the wheel for far too long with enforcing antitrust laws. Companies shouldn’t have the pricing power to jack up prices on necessities outside of short term supply disruptions.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:56:07pm

re: #27 JC1

That’s due to the inflation 2-3 years ago. Prices haven’t dropped overall (deflation), but the rate of increase fell well below the rate of earnings growth. Again, these are national averages; individual areas, items, and circumstances can vary greatly from the averages.

That is always the issue: inflation dropping to near 0 means that prices remain about the same as they were yesterday, not that they revert to prices before inflation struck. 1.2% over the past year just means overall food prices are only a little higher than last year — but they are significantly higher than 5 years ago.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:56:55pm

re: #23 retired cynic

From 2019 to 2023 I saw quit a jump locally in what food I buy.

The past 12 months not so much.

I suspect the big players in the food industry milked (!) the market as much as possible and when they saw that consumption finally had to contract they decided that food prices had hit their current limit.

But there will be another round of food price inflation soon enough.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:57:59pm

Looks like the onions outside of Visalia are getting a lot of rain, another “atmospheric river”.

Down here we’re not expecting much rain.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 13, 2024 • 4:59:05pm

re: #29 (((Archangel1)))

Iran: “Israel will destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque!”
Also Iran: * indiscriminately fires missiles over Al Aqsa Mosque *

[Embedded content]

During the Scud missile attacks on Israel in 1991, Saddam Hussein reportedly avoided targeting the Jerusalem area specifically because he did not want to risk a hit on Al Aqsa.
The Iranians are either more confident of their targeting or they believe they can simply blame Israel if the worst happens.

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JC1  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:00:05pm

re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter

That is always the issue: inflation dropping to near 0 means that prices remain about the same as they were yesterday, not that they revert to prices before inflation struck. 1.2% over the past year just means overall food prices are only a little higher than last year — but they are significantly higher than 5 years ago.

Historically inflation has been over 3%/year. The 15 years prior to the pandemic where we had close to 0% rates and sub 2% inflation were an anomaly.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:01:45pm

re: #41 JC1

Historically inflation has been over 3%/year. The 15 years prior to the pandemic where we had close to 0% rates and sub 2% inflation were an anomaly.

It was a good long anomaly.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:05:23pm

re: #34 Charles

Kanopy is carrying this, though you might be aware of it:

kanopy.com

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JC1  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:06:00pm

re: #42 darthstar

It was a good long anomaly.

Due to the ‘evil of globalism’. We may see something similar in the coming decades due to the productivity improvements driven by AI.

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silverdolphin  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:06:05pm

re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter

That is always the issue: inflation dropping to near 0 means that prices remain about the same as they were yesterday, not that they revert to prices before inflation struck. 1.2% over the past year just means overall food prices are only a little higher than last year — but they are significantly higher than 5 years ago.

Many people think it should be like gas prices and drop when things get back to normal. But not likely to happen wrt food.

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Unabogie  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:06:08pm

re: #275 A Cranky One

Heh.

bmaz says:
April 12, 2024 at 12:07 pm

Welp, I was right that it is completely open season at Emptywheel now. This is absurd, and not how th blog came to prominence, indeed the antithesis of it.

[Moderator’s note: you have been warned several times that comments complaining about this site’s moderation will be binned. At least two comments you’ve made in this thread have now been removed. Furthermore, you have claimed to be a First Amendment absolutist and yet you attack other commenters here who are doing nothing more than sharing opinion in relation to the subject of the post above. Give it a rest. /~Rayne 2:58 p.m. ET ]

That dude is a bully, and a self-important one. I’m really enjoying how poorly he’s taking his demotion. All he’s got left if name-dropping and bragging about being the One True Lawyer in America!

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:09:07pm

Weather report says ‘48% chance of showers’ but i’s been raining like a motherfucker for the last few hours.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:09:54pm

When it comes to film soundtracks the most awesome one I remember is Gil Melle’s soundtrack to The Andromeda Strain. Dad bought the LP and it was in the shape of a hexagon.

Gil Melle, “The Andromeda Strain” [CP-028]

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jaunte  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:12:50pm

Did someone say horror film?


liveauctioneers.com
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Charles Johnson  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:13:10pm

Still blows my mind that we’re about to see a former president be tried in criminal court. This is some wild shit, y’all. Still doesn’t seem normal to me at all.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:15:22pm

re: #46 Unabogie

Coulda told ‘em this 10 years ago, tbh.

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nines09  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:16:21pm

re: #50 Charles

Still blows my mind that we’re about to see a former president be tried in criminal court. This is some wild shit, y’all. Still doesn’t seem normal to me at all.

What is really crazy is he is fund raising in two spots in Pennsylvania today, running his yap, making threats and lying. With huge police escorts and massive security.
Paid for by guess who.
*spit*

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:19:39pm

re: #52 nines09

What is really crazy is he is fund raising in two spots in Pennsylvania today, running his yap, making threats and lying. With huge police escorts and massive security.
Paid for by guess who.
*spit*

And you can bet the farm that those police are 100% behind Trump.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:19:46pm

The missus just put a Neville Brothers disc in the player….yeah, we’re dancing in the groove pit. Also, today’s DIY adventure. I’m 6’2” so this will be good to test tomorrow morning. I found the unit I want to put in the master bath…built in riser so I’ll be able to stand in the tub and shower as well.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:21:31pm

re: #50 Charles

Still blows my mind that we’re about to see a former president be tried in criminal court. This is some wild shit, y’all. Still doesn’t seem normal to me at all.

We’re about to see a shit show of legal malpractice as his lawyers do everything they can to obstruct, delay, and distort the process. And through that all, if Judge Juan Merchan can work a miracle, the process will prevail and he’ll be getting his ass handed to him by a jury of his peers.

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nines09  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:21:37pm

Photos of his Cult. Schenksville Lehigh Valley Pa

Lots of empty there.

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:23:07pm

re: #46 Unabogie

That dude is a bully, and a self-important one. I’m really enjoying how poorly he’s taking his demotion. All he’s got left if name-dropping and bragging about being the One True Lawyer in America!

I posted in the last thread he can’t be that great of a lawyer if he doesn’t understand how free speech works.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:24:07pm

I like that the sapper is holding a fucking hammer as he prepares to defuse a 500kg bomb.

Mastodon

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jaunte  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:25:31pm

re: #56 nines09

Young women making themselves scarce.

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jaunte  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:28:08pm

re: #56 nines09

This one encapsulates the attraction.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:30:17pm

re: #56 nines09

Photos of his Cult. Schenksville Lehigh Valley Pa

Lots of empty there.

Whole lot of stupid there.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:32:03pm

re: #61 darthstar

Whole lot of stupid there.

From the captions, a lot of it is imported from other states.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:35:00pm

re: #60 jaunte

He seems nice.

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steve_davis  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:35:33pm

re: #2 silverdolphin

Food inflation is close to zero

And it has been for almost a year.

Food inflation is now at the same rate as it was before the pandemic. But you’d never know that from the news. Of course, being on a fixed income is what will cause a problem for many but COLA have been trying to keep up. Since 2018, cost of food is up 27% while COLA has gone up about 23%.

[Embedded content]

one other way that folks with cars have the luxury of doing is just shopping for the best price. yes, la croix has become outrageously expensive. you can: 1)not buy lacroix and instead buy some cheap-assed aquifina, where 8 bucks buys you 32 bottles 2) just buy a filtered-water pitcher and drink gallons almost for free 3) just wait for either Ingles or Publix (or whoever you’ve got) to do one of their 3 for 2’s, or 2 for 1 sales. Eggs are no longer expensive unless you really insist on buying the ones laid by the chickens that have access to a coffee bar and free wifi. Publix meat is outrageously expensive, but if you’re willing to hold off on particular cuts until they run a special, those also become manageable. Currently working my way through a 4-lb boston butt that got cut down to about 8 bucks. it will take me the better part of a week, even though it was bone-in so not really 4 lbs of meat (plus there’s always a little slab of ass that they include and that isn’t really edible).

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:36:44pm

re: #60 jaunte

This one encapsulates the attraction.

[Embedded content]

No ring…ladies, he’s single! Quelle surprise!

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:36:58pm

re: #54 darthstar

The missus just put a Neville Brothers disc in the player….yeah, we’re dancing in the groove pit. Also, today’s DIY adventure. I’m 6’2” so this will be good to test tomorrow morning. I found the unit I want to put in the master bath…built in riser so I’ll be able to stand in the tub and shower as well.

[Embedded content]

Wow. You don’t photograph that tall.

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steve_davis  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:37:51pm

re: #5 A Cranky One

Was in the grocery store recently when a person in front of me in line didn’t have enough to pay for their purchase.

Old woman using the electric cart to shop. Seems she didn’t have enough money to buy the roasted chicken and beverages she wanted. Several minutes were spent trying to figure out what to take off the selections to be able to afford the roasted chicken. With no success.

Asked the cashier what the shortage was and then provided cash to cover the purchase. Also said to give the change to the woman who didn’t have sufficient funds.

For me it was no big deal, I could afford to pay for her purchases.

On the other hand, I was pissed that an elderly woman couldn’t afford a cheap meal. I mean, I mean WTF.

I’m no saint. But I was happy knowing that someone struggling was able to get a good meal. I’m blessed in that I could help with minimal sacrifice.

buying a rotisserie chicken out of a grocery store is not a “cheap meal.” it’s basically the most expensive way to buy a chicken in a grocery store other than buying a breast pack. (you can literally buy an entire freakin’ chicken cheaper than you can buy a two-pack of breasts, much of the time).

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Charles Johnson  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:39:35pm

tfw you wake up at 2:30 am with a weird saying in your head that seems incredibly APT and you make a note to remember it, and then you remember the note but you cannot fucking remember the saying

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:40:22pm

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:40:56pm

re: #66 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

Wow. You don’t photograph that tall.

The camera takes off 10 inches.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:41:43pm

re: #51 Charles

Coulda told ‘em this 10 years ago, tbh.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:41:49pm

re: #68 Charles

tfw you wake up at 2:30 am with a weird saying in your head that seems incredibly APT and you make a note to remember it, and then you remember the note but you cannot fucking remember the saying

It’s 5:30pm right now…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:43:06pm

re: #62 Decatur Deb

From the captions, a lot of it is imported from other states.

This. The fat fuck has a bunch of a groupies who follow him around.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:43:50pm

re: #72 darthstar

and i still can’t remember it

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Charles Johnson  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:44:08pm

it had something to do with crime

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Charles Johnson  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:44:57pm

it was a saying about crime, i think

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Charles Johnson  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:45:54pm

obviously i need to start practicing my lucid dreaming because this ain’t lucid

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teleskiguy  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:57:02pm

Drudge is just a sea of red text. Oy.

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IngisKahn  Apr 13, 2024 • 5:59:58pm

Let’s ask AI

“Crime doesn’t pay, but it certainly makes for a rich story.”
“Crime is like laundry; it’s a dirty business that always comes out in the wash.”
“Stealing may help you get rich quick, but honesty has a much better interest rate.”
“A life of crime may seem exciting, but it’s just a shortcut to a dead end.”
“Crime is a fool’s gold; it glitters from a distance but turns to lead in your hands.”
“The problem with making a killing is that it often leads to a life behind bars.”
“Crime is a merry-go-round; round and round it goes, and where it stops, only the judge knows.”
“A thief’s best tool isn’t a crowbar, it’s an opportunity.”
“Crime might not climb mountains, but it sure can dig some deep holes.”
“In the economy of crime, the costs are high and the profits are an illusion.”
“Crime is like a stray cat, feed it once and it’ll never leave your porch.”
“They say crime doesn’t pay, but it certainly has a lot of overhead.”
“A criminal’s plan is just a recipe where every ingredient is hot.”
“Crime is a game where the board is always rigged and the dice are loaded.”

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:04:04pm

re: #67 steve_davis

buying a rotisserie chicken out of a grocery store is not a “cheap meal.” it’s basically the most expensive way to buy a chicken in a grocery store other than buying a breast pack. (you can literally buy an entire freakin’ chicken cheaper than you can buy a two-pack of breasts, much of the time).

At my local Smith’s (a Kroger subsidiary), a rotisserie chicken will generally run somewhere between $7.99-9.99.

A whole, uncooked chicken will typically run between $7.19-9.99.

The rotisserie chicken is already cooked, warm, and ready to eat. Your (marginally) cheaper chicken will take me additional time and effort to prepare … time I may not have and effort I may not have the energy to spare, especially if I’m old and dealing with chronic medical conditions that affect my energy level and mobility.

How about we stop policing people’s food choices based on anecdotes and assumptions of what’s proper?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:11:23pm

re: #67 steve_davis

buying a rotisserie chicken out of a grocery store is not a “cheap meal.” it’s basically the most expensive way to buy a chicken in a grocery store other than buying a breast pack. (you can literally buy an entire freakin’ chicken cheaper than you can buy a two-pack of breasts, much of the time).

I’ll stick with the Costco rotisserie chickens because they are so addictive to me.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:11:32pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:12:17pm

TIL about this.

Rappin’ Rodney

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steve_davis  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:13:53pm

Yes, Fallout was satisfying. Even if for some reason there were no season 2, the sense of the further story arc is there, so it isn’t like they’re leaving us completely hanging.

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:14:13pm

re: #83 teleskiguy

TIL about this.

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Oh, yeah. I forgot how young you are.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:14:29pm

Oh joy. Another Iranian barrage inbound. Well it’s not like I was planning to sleep tonight anyway… /

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silverdolphin  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:15:10pm

Iran sues for peace

Looks like it was mostly for show. If so, will Biden get any credit?

“For now, anyway, this is yet another example of President Biden getting the job done. He made it clear to Iran that they crossed a line a few months ago, when a militia attack killed three American soldiers, and they’ve been quiet ever since. They couldn’t literally do nothing in response to the embassy attack, but this is the next best thing. They plainly have no interest in escalating things to a point that might get the US directly involved.”

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teleskiguy  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:17:00pm

re: #85 A Three Hour Tour

Oh, yeah. I forgot how young you are.

I was only a year old when it came out!

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:20:54pm

re: #82 (((Archangel1)))

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FYI @sentdefender is a well known disinformation account.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:22:34pm

If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:25:47pm

re: #87 Charles

Ohhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I sure wasn’t expecting that…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:28:25pm

And the weekend rain is finally showing up here…

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:29:52pm

re: #46 Unabogie

That dude is a bully, and a self-important one. I’m really enjoying how poorly he’s taking his demotion. All he’s got left if name-dropping and bragging about being the One True Lawyer in America!

Dear bmaz: I am a first amendment absolutist. I will defend your right to not be arrested by the government for your speech. Now go away, asshole.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:31:06pm

re: #11 (((Archangel1)))

Jordan already shot down a bunch of drones in their airspace.

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steve_davis  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:34:48pm

re: #54 darthstar

The missus just put a Neville Brothers disc in the player….yeah, we’re dancing in the groove pit. Also, today’s DIY adventure. I’m 6’2” so this will be good to test tomorrow morning. I found the unit I want to put in the master bath…built in riser so I’ll be able to stand in the tub and shower as well.

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at some point, my apartment was rented by the jolly green goddamned giant. There are still rod connectors for the shower curtain close to the ceiling, above the newer ones.

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jaunte  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:39:28pm

Horseshoe theory live

“…Former president Donald Trump kicked off his campaign rally Saturday night in Schnecksville, Pa., by addressing Iran’s strike against Israel, claiming it “would not have happened” if he was president.

“I want to say God bless the people of Israel. They’re under attack right now,” he said. “We show great weakness.”

As Trump vowed U.S. support for Israel, the crowd chanted “genocide Joe” — a term used by pro-Palestinian demonstrators as a way of criticizing President Biden’s support for Israel in its war in Gaza.”

washingtonpost.com

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steve_davis  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:41:05pm

re: #80 A Three Hour Tour

At my local Smith’s (a Kroger subsidiary), a rotisserie chicken will generally run somewhere between $7.99-9.99.

A whole, uncooked chicken will typically run between $7.19-9.99.

The rotisserie chicken is already cooked, warm, and ready to eat. Your (marginally) cheaper chicken will take me additional time and effort to prepare … time I may not have and effort I may not have the energy to spare, especially if I’m old and dealing with chronic medical conditions that affect my energy level and mobility.

How about we stop policing people’s food choices based on anecdotes and assumptions of what’s proper?

Not policing! I’m impressed they can do a chicken for anywhere under about 12 bucks. Mine do the “super mutant” chickens that have breasts like a kardashian. and they definitely make you pay for it, but not like the rotisserie chickens that are built like little guinea hens.

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jaunte  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:45:31pm

Stolen on Netflix has some amazing reindeer shots.

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prairiefire  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:46:13pm

re: #98 steve_davis

Watch out for the sodium content on those.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:46:14pm

re: #97 jaunte

Horseshoe theory live

washingtonpost.com

Raw Story has this

Adlinthin,” “Magastine,” and “weak nicks” are among the things Donald Trump said at his Saturday rally in Pennsylvania. The internet had a field day with all of them.

Trump this weekend gave a rally speech in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where he opened the talk by drawing attention to the ongoing Iranian attacks on Israel. But political onlookers and citizen journalists were quick to point out the former president’s “glitches” that occurred throughout the campaign event.

Trump in one instance said that the people of Israel are under attack because the United States has shown “great weak nicks.” Actress Morgan Fairchild was quick to point that one out.

“Weak NICKS?” she asked on social media following Trump’s comment.

@JoJoFromJerz said, “‘Weak nicks’ sounds like a knock-off Crazy Eddie where they only sell shitty made in China Trump merch.”

“Trump’s decline continues,” the @TrumpsTaxes account wrote.

In another instance, as Trump was calling Rolling Stone a liberal outlet, he accidentally called it a “magastine.”

Then the Joe Biden rapid response team, Biden-Harris HQ, stepped up to the plate.

“Trump, confused: This was a magastine that I’ve never read,” the account wrote.

@Leslieannscott wrote, “What is a magastine???”

In a third example, Trump at his rally was talking about immigration when he invented the word “adlinthin,” according to onlookers.

“Just last week it was reported that an illegal adlinthin— and you just look at this, what’s happening,” he said Saturday.

Journalist Bill Grueskin chimed in on that one.

“Hmm. That sounded more like ‘adledirthin’ than ‘adlinthin’ which if true kind of changes everything,” he wrote.

@JoJoFromJerz added, “We see what’s happening alright. It’s called dementia. And it’s getting worse.”

@Trumpnado2016 asked, “What’s an adelethelin?” The account added, “We all fumble words, but these Trump glitches are getting really weird.”

rawstory.com

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jaunte  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:49:26pm

re: #101 Joe Bacon ✅

AdelEtheline, the conjoined twins.

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TedStriker  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:50:10pm

re: #76 Charles

it was a saying about crime, i think

Forget it, Charles… it’s Dreamland.

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mmmirele  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:50:54pm

re: #73 Eclectic Cyborg

This. The fat fuck has a bunch of a groupies who follow him around.

How many of these people followed the Grateful Dead around back in the day? /just wondering.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:54:17pm

re: #100 prairiefire

Watch out for the sodium content on those.

Yep yep. That’s how they get the rotisserie chickens to look so big. Injected with brine.

They’re still fucking delicious though.

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teleskiguy  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:55:00pm

re: #104 mmmirele

How many of these people followed the Grateful Dead around back in the day? /just wondering.

I’ll bet a few of ‘em did. Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson went to a bunch of shows.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 13, 2024 • 6:57:17pm

re: #104 mmmirele

I think they’re more KISS fans.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 13, 2024 • 7:01:39pm

Looks like 99% intercepted, leaving a trail of downed drones from Israel to the Iraqi border. So, Iran’s massive aerospace assault on Israel is turning out to be another Marianas Turkey Shoot, but without the thousands of dead people.

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teleskiguy  Apr 13, 2024 • 7:08:47pm

@ygrene.bsky.social

Bird: *standing in middle of road challenging me*

Me: *swerving and driving off cliff* you have won again bird

bsky.app

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 13, 2024 • 7:25:41pm
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jeffreyw  Apr 13, 2024 • 7:35:56pm

bsky.app

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silverdolphin  Apr 13, 2024 • 7:41:31pm

re: #108 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Looks like 99% intercepted, leaving a trail of downed drones from Israel to the Iraqi border. So, Iran’s massive aerospace assault on Israel is turning out to be another Marianas Turkey Shoot, but without the thousands of dead people.

Seems like kabuki to me. Iran needed to make a response and Biden/Israel allowed it to. They all knew just where the attacks were coming from and when. Now Iran can settle down and let things play out.

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wrenchwench  Apr 13, 2024 • 7:54:24pm

I have another fabulous ‘bands of color’ sunset in front of me, and it’s raining.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 7:55:53pm

The latest from Shower Cap and this time Cap has really outdone himself!

Marj in Charge, and Other Freaky Shit That’s Actually Happening

showercapblog.com

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:00:18pm

re: #112 silverdolphin

Seems like kabuki to me. Iran needed to make a response and Biden/Israel allowed it to. They all knew just where the attacks were coming from and when. Now Iran can settle down and let things play out.

Allowed it to only in the sense that they didn’t do a pre-emptive strike. Had they struck before launch, inside Iranian airspace, it would have been the US’s word that Iran was going to launch a strike.

From what I understand, a kid died. I doubt the US or Israel wanted that.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:08:41pm

Original tweet got posted a few floors downstairs earlier toiday

So folks won’t have to open the USMC tweet up to read the whole thing:

On April 11, 2024, a @marforres unit, 4th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, supported a nonpolitical event hosted by a civic organization at the Mar-a-Lago Club by providing a color guard and static display.

The civic organization, Grey Team, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Boca Raton and they submitted an official request for military support to a community event.

The request was reviewed by Marine Forces Reserve Community Relations and deemed eligible for support. The event was open to the public and helped raise awareness about military and veteran suicides. The event was neither a political fundraiser, nor was the 45th President of the United States in attendance.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:11:00pm

re: #116 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Original tweet got posted a few floors downstairs earlier toiday

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So folks won’t have to open the USMC tweet up to read the whole thing:

It was at Mar-a-Lago. So it is political.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:11:40pm

re: #111 jeffreyw

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silverdolphin  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:19:47pm

re: #115 Belafon

Allowed it to only in the sense that they didn’t do a pre-emptive strike. Had they struck before launch, inside Iranian airspace, it would have been the US’s word that Iran was going to launch a strike.

From what I understand, a kid died. I doubt the US or Israel wanted that.

Recent reporting (website updated 9:30 PM eastern) indicates that no one was killed and one boy was hurt. Might change but that is pretty low for the number of drones and missiles launched.

But I expect we will never know until the definitive book of BIden’s administration is written in about 50 years.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:21:07pm

re: #116 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

re: #117 Hecuba’s daughter

It was at Mar-a-Lago. So it is political.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:23:33pm

re: #120 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

So the speculation is that some higher up in the Navy who is in the bag for Trump thought it was A-ok for uniformed Marines to be at a political event?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:29:55pm

re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg

So the speculation is that some higher up in the Navy who is in the bag for Trump thought it was A-ok for uniformed Marines to be at a political event?

Grey Team advertises itself as a organization whose goal is to prevent veteran and service member suicides, so it’s likely not some deep conspiracy leading to the approval of support for their annual gala. More likely they didn’t do much of a deep dive into their guest list

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jaunte  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:34:01pm

re: #116 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Trump really does as much as he feels like to support those suckers and losers, as he calls them.

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teleskiguy  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:39:32pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:42:10pm

re: #124 teleskiguy

Seeing the same thing

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:42:59pm

re: #124 teleskiguy

I believe that has been an on and off issue here for a little while around here.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:43:28pm

re: #123 jaunte

Trump really does as much as he feels like to support those suckers and losers, as he calls them.

Trump has bills to pay and rented out some space

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teleskiguy  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:45:25pm

man, I bought alcohol for these dudes in Steamboat Springs, CO, we smoked weed together after a show they played at the bar I worked at.

Cross the Line

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teleskiguy  Apr 13, 2024 • 8:52:06pm

Tennessee Mountain Angel

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:02:09pm

OK, it may be time to sit down and have a talk with 4th ANGLICO’s leadership

that occurrence was 4th ANGLICO holding their own event at MaL, as opposed to supporting someone else’s event this time

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No Malarkey!  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:03:34pm

Just got back from watching Civil War. Very intense and graphic combat scenes, so you have been warned.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:04:08pm

re: #130 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Marine Commandant Angry With Florida Unit for Booking Gala At Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

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Targetpractice  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:04:38pm

re: #45 silverdolphin

Many people think it should be like gas prices and drop when things get back to normal. But not likely to happen wrt food.

Folks could be somewhat forgiven for that because virtually every time they turn on a TV, their radio, open a newspaper, or check a news site, they’re bombarded with the idea that inflation means things are more expensive than “normal.” That it’s not a measurement of how much the overall prices of goods/services has gone up compared to a prior period of time but instead the idea that prices are over a certain “normal” and thus if inflation comes down then prices will do so as well. So if inflation were to drop down to 0.5% and thus prices virtually stuck in place, you’d still hear folks complain about how prices are “higher” than they were a year ago.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:15:48pm

Live Xitter link in box so you can hear another example of how Trump’s speech is degenerating as he loses what passes for his mind.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:17:16pm

re: #133 Targetpractice

Folks could be somewhat forgiven for that because virtually every time they turn on a TV, their radio, open a newspaper, or check a news site, they’re bombarded with the idea that inflation means things are more expensive than “normal.” That it’s not a measurement of how much the overall prices of goods/services has gone up compared to a prior period of time but instead the idea that prices are over a certain “normal” and thus if inflation comes down then prices will do so as well. So if inflation were to drop down to 0.5% and thus prices virtually stuck in place, you’d still hear folks complain about how prices are “higher” than they were a year ago.

We understand that, but we all understand compound interest.

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Targetpractice  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:17:39pm

The Ink Spots - Maybe

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:21:40pm

WHOA!

I got something…3 numbers plus Powerball on my single shot…

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BeachDem  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:21:46pm

re: #117 Hecuba’s daughter

It was at Mar-a-Lago. So it is political.

And if you look at the sponsorship costs
americafirstgala.com
then figure in tickets and realize that their 2023 event (same gaudy location)only raised about $35,000, you know somebody with the initials djt probably made a bundle.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:24:40pm

re: #138 Joe Bacon ✅

WHOA!

I got something…3 numbers plus Powerball on my single shot…

Cool. A little bit of money.

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William Lewis  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:27:20pm

Turns out that Table-Tennis tournament college kids are into serious partying. Going to be a _long_ night I think…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:29:09pm

re: #140 Belafon

Cool. A little bit of money.

Yeah! one of the advantages of playing in California because it’s based on parimutuel sales.

Any other state would pay $100 for 3 and the Powerball

In California tonight 3 and the Powerball pays $156. Not bad for a single play

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Targetpractice  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:29:41pm

One thing you learn working in the hospitality industry is to multiply time estimates people give you by a factor of four. Think of it like when your relatives tell you when they’ll be arriving for a holiday meal: If they say “I’ll be there in 30 minutes,” that means they won’t arrive for at least 2 hours. If they say “It’ll take me five minutes,” you’re going to be waiting at least 30 minutes. The exception is “It’ll only take a second,” in which case you might want to clear your schedule from now until the Heat Death of the Universe.

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JC1  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:52:58pm

re: #84 steve_davis

Yes, Fallout was satisfying. Even if for some reason there were no season 2, the sense of the further story arc is there, so it isn’t like they’re leaving us completely hanging.

Makes me want to replay the games. Just need 500 hours of extra time somewhere.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:56:42pm

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Targetpractice  Apr 13, 2024 • 9:57:11pm

re: #144 JC1

Makes me want to replay the games. Just need 500 hours of extra time somewhere.

Makes me want to throttle some Bethesda exec and demand to know when Fallout fans can expect to hear that Fallout 3 and/or New Vegas will be getting the “remaster” treatment.

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JC1  Apr 13, 2024 • 10:01:14pm

re: #146 Targetpractice

Makes me want to throttle some Bethesda exec and demand to know when Fallout fans can expect to hear that Fallout 3 and/or New Vegas will be getting the “remaster” treatment.

I would prefer a remaster/remake of the original. This may be sacrilege, but I don’t care for the way Bethesda games scale with the player level, so by the time you’re high level, every scrub is running around with elite gear. I prefer the approach where different areas of the game world are statted for different levels and remain relatively constant. Just a personal preference.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 10:05:57pm

F those asshole Republicans.

alabamareflector.com

Fatal anomaly exception didn’t spare Alabama mom who needed an abortion

A heart defect and large fetal tumor weren’t enough for doctors to feel comfortable granting abortion care.

Kelly Shannon was grieving a pregnancy she would need to terminate because of multiple fetal anomalies when she got the call that Alabama doctors wouldn’t approve an abortion procedure despite exceptions in the law. That meant she would have to leave the state.

Shannon, 36, was about 16 weeks along in January 2023 when genetic testing - and confirmation from an amniocentesis - showed her fetus likely had Trisomy 21, better known as Down syndrome. It didn’t take long for the doctor to determine the fetus likely wouldn’t survive to term. There was fluid buildup in the head and body, evidence of a heart defect, and a tumor on the abdomen that was roughly one-third the size of its entire body.

“There was so much decision-making and processing, and you’re still feeling the baby kick the whole time,” Shannon said. “And every time she would kick, I was just sitting there like, ‘I’m so sorry. I wish I got to be your mom, but I don’t get to be your mom.’”

Shannon filled out paperwork and made a termination appointment pending approval from the other maternal-fetal medicine specialists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her doctor felt confident that given the severity of the anomalies, the abortion would be allowed.

A few days later, in the car on her way to meet her husband and toddler at a local dog park, the doctor called back.

“I knew why she was calling me. I knew that was the day the (second) committee was supposed to meet and she’d be calling me with their decision,” Shannon said.

The termination had easily been approved by the first committee, and it seemed like the higher-level committee would sign off too. But in a halting manner, the doctor explained the committee had decided since each condition by itself was survivable, it didn’t meet the criteria for termination. She told Shannon it was the hardest phone call she’d made in her professional career.

A scheduling error meant Shannon had to wait two more weeks before she could get an appointment at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia — an 11-hour drive. Rather than bring her husband and toddler along for the ordeal, Shannon’s parents accompanied her. It was the first night she’d ever spent away from her toddler.

The logistics of what to do with the remains became more complicated since she was now more than 700 miles away from home and wouldn’t be able to visit a burial site in Virginia the way she could have in Alabama. She opted to have her daughter buried with other babies that had died because of miscarriage, termination or other premature causes.

Those fucking Republicans scarred this woman for life.

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JC1  Apr 13, 2024 • 10:10:31pm

re: #148 Joe Bacon ✅

F those asshole Republicans.

alabamareflector.com

Fatal anomaly exception didn’t spare Alabama mom who needed an abortion

A heart defect and large fetal tumor weren’t enough for doctors to feel comfortable granting abortion care.

Kelly Shannon was grieving a pregnancy she would need to terminate because of multiple fetal anomalies when she got the call that Alabama doctors wouldn’t approve an abortion procedure despite exceptions in the law. That meant she would have to leave the state.

Shannon, 36, was about 16 weeks along in January 2023 when genetic testing - and confirmation from an amniocentesis - showed her fetus likely had Trisomy 21, better known as Down syndrome. It didn’t take long for the doctor to determine the fetus likely wouldn’t survive to term. There was fluid buildup in the head and body, evidence of a heart defect, and a tumor on the abdomen that was roughly one-third the size of its entire body.

“There was so much decision-making and processing, and you’re still feeling the baby kick the whole time,” Shannon said. “And every time she would kick, I was just sitting there like, ‘I’m so sorry. I wish I got to be your mom, but I don’t get to be your mom.’”

Shannon filled out paperwork and made a termination appointment pending approval from the other maternal-fetal medicine specialists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her doctor felt confident that given the severity of the anomalies, the abortion would be allowed.

A few days later, in the car on her way to meet her husband and toddler at a local dog park, the doctor called back.

“I knew why she was calling me. I knew that was the day the (second) committee was supposed to meet and she’d be calling me with their decision,” Shannon said.

The termination had easily been approved by the first committee, and it seemed like the higher-level committee would sign off too. But in a halting manner, the doctor explained the committee had decided since each condition by itself was survivable, it didn’t meet the criteria for termination. She told Shannon it was the hardest phone call she’d made in her professional career.

A scheduling error meant Shannon had to wait two more weeks before she could get an appointment at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia — an 11-hour drive. Rather than bring her husband and toddler along for the ordeal, Shannon’s parents accompanied her. It was the first night she’d ever spent away from her toddler.

The logistics of what to do with the remains became more complicated since she was now more than 700 miles away from home and wouldn’t be able to visit a burial site in Virginia the way she could have in Alabama. She opted to have her daughter buried with other babies that had died because of miscarriage, termination or other premature causes.

Those fucking Republicans scarred this woman for life.

I hope she sues everyone involved. It won’t undo the damage done to her, but malpractice suits can help swing the pendulum back towards sanity until Alito and Thomas are worm food.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2024 • 10:11:15pm

re: #148 Joe Bacon ✅

F those asshole Republicans.

alabamareflector.com

Fatal anomaly exception didn’t spare Alabama mom who needed an abortion

A heart defect and large fetal tumor weren’t enough for doctors to feel comfortable granting abortion care.

Kelly Shannon was grieving a pregnancy she would need to terminate because of multiple fetal anomalies when she got the call that Alabama doctors wouldn’t approve an abortion procedure despite exceptions in the law. That meant she would have to leave the state.

Shannon, 36, was about 16 weeks along in January 2023 when genetic testing - and confirmation from an amniocentesis - showed her fetus likely had Trisomy 21, better known as Down syndrome. It didn’t take long for the doctor to determine the fetus likely wouldn’t survive to term. There was fluid buildup in the head and body, evidence of a heart defect, and a tumor on the abdomen that was roughly one-third the size of its entire body.

“There was so much decision-making and processing, and you’re still feeling the baby kick the whole time,” Shannon said. “And every time she would kick, I was just sitting there like, ‘I’m so sorry. I wish I got to be your mom, but I don’t get to be your mom.’”

Shannon filled out paperwork and made a termination appointment pending approval from the other maternal-fetal medicine specialists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her doctor felt confident that given the severity of the anomalies, the abortion would be allowed.

A few days later, in the car on her way to meet her husband and toddler at a local dog park, the doctor called back.

“I knew why she was calling me. I knew that was the day the (second) committee was supposed to meet and she’d be calling me with their decision,” Shannon said.

The termination had easily been approved by the first committee, and it seemed like the higher-level committee would sign off too. But in a halting manner, the doctor explained the committee had decided since each condition by itself was survivable, it didn’t meet the criteria for termination. She told Shannon it was the hardest phone call she’d made in her professional career.

A scheduling error meant Shannon had to wait two more weeks before she could get an appointment at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia — an 11-hour drive. Rather than bring her husband and toddler along for the ordeal, Shannon’s parents accompanied her. It was the first night she’d ever spent away from her toddler.

The logistics of what to do with the remains became more complicated since she was now more than 700 miles away from home and wouldn’t be able to visit a burial site in Virginia the way she could have in Alabama. She opted to have her daughter buried with other babies that had died because of miscarriage, termination or other premature causes.

Those fucking Republicans scarred this woman for life.

And they will take this shit nationwide if Trump gets re-elected.

VOTE.

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Targetpractice  Apr 13, 2024 • 10:25:57pm

re: #147 JC1

I would prefer a remaster/remake of the original. This may be sacrilege, but I don’t care for the way Bethesda games scale with the player level, so by the time you’re high level, every scrub is running around with elite gear. I prefer the approach where different areas of the game world are statted for different levels and remain relatively constant. Just a personal preference.

They did something similar with New Vegas, with certain areas naturally spawning creatures above a certain level so as create a “meat wall” meant to keep players from jumping off the plot railroad too quickly.

Overall, I like the idea of enemies keeping up with you, if only to avoid a game getting piss-easy towards the end game. I mean yeah, there’s the initial adrenaline rush of wading into a pack of low-level scrubs with high-level gear and reducing them to bloody chunks, but then you realize you could walk away to make a drink and come back 10 minutes later with only a token portion of your health bar whittled down and the game just becomes a joke.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 13, 2024 • 10:33:59pm

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Targetpractice  Apr 13, 2024 • 10:43:52pm

re: #148 Joe Bacon ✅

The only purpose “exceptions” serve in abortion bans is to get the bans past “moderate” voters, anybody who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves. That toad Paxton gave that reality away during a filing in the Kate Cox case, that the extremists who impose such bans believe that granting even one “exception” would invalidate the law because doctors would simply start granting abortions while claiming the “exception.” Hence why the laws are written vaguely, because it gives asshats like Paxton and his fellow evangelical prosecutors wide latitude to go after doctors for “murder.”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 13, 2024 • 10:44:18pm

I had an Ink Spots cassette as a kid because my dad like old crooners.

I’m…mixed…on Fallout but it picked a really banger of a band to establish it’s vibe.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 13, 2024 • 10:51:39pm

re: #154 The Ghost of a Flea

I had an Ink Spots cassette as a kid because my dad like old crooners.

I’m…mixed…on Fallout but it picked a really banger of a band to establish it’s vibe.

It wasn’t until I went to college that I heard The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots and The Platters. Mom and Dad only had opera, Broadway and Movie soundtracks. I had to hide my copy of Frank Zappa’s Freak Out…until the day Mom found it and all hell broke loose…

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JC1  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:01:20pm

re: #151 Targetpractice

They did something similar with New Vegas, with certain areas naturally spawning creatures above a certain level so as create a “meat wall” meant to keep players from jumping off the plot railroad too quickly.

Overall, I like the idea of enemies keeping up with you, if only to avoid a game getting piss-easy towards the end game. I mean yeah, there’s the initial adrenaline rush of wading into a pack of low-level scrubs with high-level gear and reducing them to bloody chunks, but then you realize you could walk away to make a drink and come back 10 minutes later with only a token portion of your health bar whittled down and the game just becomes a joke.

New Vegas wasn’t technically Bethesda, but yeah.
I get that it’s a personal preference thing. Neither approach makes ‘sense’ in a game where the starting and ending power disparities are huge.
For me the Bethesda approach is more immersion breaking than the different level zones.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:06:55pm

re: #147 JC1

I would prefer a remaster/remake of the original. This may be sacrilege, but I don’t care for the way Bethesda games scale with the player level, so by the time you’re high level, every scrub is running around with elite gear. I prefer the approach where different areas of the game world are statted for different levels and remain relatively constant. Just a personal preference.

The first and second Borderlands did a good job of this.

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Captain Ron  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:21:05pm
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Amory Blaine  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:24:56pm

76 and others are free at Amazon right now.

kotaku.com

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Targetpractice  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:26:49pm

re: #156 JC1

New Vegas wasn’t technically Bethesda, but yeah.
I get that it’s a personal preference thing. Neither approach makes ‘sense’ in a game where the starting and ending power disparities are huge.
For me the Bethesda approach is more immersion breaking than the different level zones.

IMO, the only way different level zones really makes sense is in one of two contexts: MMORPGs where they might have characters backtrack to zones with lower level caps to play new content or finish up old quests or the zone becomes inaccessible once you progress past a certain point in the plot.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Bethesda’s level progression system is broken because there’s nothing that really prevents you from punching way above your weight class if you know how to min-max your character or where to get uber powerful gear early in the game. Like in FO3, you can break the game pretty early if you have the “Operation Anchorage” DLC and you save scum your way through the content, because you end up with end game skills and gear that allow you to mow your way through the rest of the game.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:33:07pm

Was a lovely (for sleeping) 58F here for a few hours… then rain came through and the temp dropped to 51F.

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William Lewis  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:33:26pm

re: #159 Amory Blaine

76 and others are free at Amazon right now.

kotaku.com

If they were on Steam, I might be interested. This? Noping time.

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Targetpractice  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:42:21pm

re: #159 Amory Blaine

76 and others are free at Amazon right now.

kotaku.com

Yeah, hard pass. Both games with all the DLCs are available for less than $10 on Steam.

And 76? Yeah, it’s a little better these days than getting eaten alive by a radroach, but not by much.

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William Lewis  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:46:17pm

Just had to break up the party time, couple too many noise complaints. Good enough kids, just not that kind of hotel.

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Targetpractice  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:51:54pm

re: #164 William Lewis

Just had to break up the party time, couple too many noise complaints. Good enough kids, just not that kind of hotel.

There are times I miss working at my old hotel because I didn’t have to deal with things like washing/folding linen or setting out breakfast in the mornings. But the trade-off was dealing with drunken parties in the lobby and douchebros trying to sneak into the pool in the dead of night.

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Captain Ron  Apr 13, 2024 • 11:59:06pm

LOL

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JC1  Apr 14, 2024 • 12:00:56am

re: #157 Belafon

The first and second Borderlands did a good job of this.

Wasteland 2 as well. I still haven’t played the 3rd one.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 14, 2024 • 12:30:24am

re: #158 Captain Ron

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Its good to see a billionaire who considers an issue other than whether a candidate will give him a tax cut or not.

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2024 • 12:40:26am

re: #168 No Malarkey!

Its good to see a billionaire who considers an issue other than whether a candidate will give him a tax cut or not.

if all the billionaires were like Mark Cuban, Michael Bloomberg and Mercedes Bezos, we’d like them and admire them and want there to be more of them.

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William Lewis  Apr 14, 2024 • 1:05:47am

re: #169 sagehen

if all the billionaires were like Mark Cuban, Michael Bloomberg and Mercedes Bezos, we’d like them and admire them and want there to be more of them.

The problem is that they are so rare we _can_ name the good ones.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 1:18:37am

re: #67 steve_davis

buying a rotisserie chicken out of a grocery store is not a “cheap meal.” it’s basically the most expensive way to buy a chicken in a grocery store other than buying a breast pack. (you can literally buy an entire freakin’ chicken cheaper than you can buy a two-pack of breasts, much of the time).

cheaper than a restaurant and nearly as convenient.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 1:24:04am

re: #148 Joe Bacon ✅

Those fucking Republicans scarred this woman for life.

It was God’s Divine Will, we mere mortals may not tamper with it

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William Lewis  Apr 14, 2024 • 1:38:19am

re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It was God’s Divine Will, we mere mortals may not tamper with it

/

Those blaspheming scumbags are enough to make me hope hell is real. No sarc.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 1:46:57am

re: #173 William Lewis

Those blaspheming scumbags are enough to make me hope hell is real. No sarc.

Their boneheaded, backwards interpretation of God’s Divine Will has become Law of the Land.

There are no levels in hell deep enough for scum like that.

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EPR-radar  Apr 14, 2024 • 1:48:33am

re: #173 William Lewis

Those blaspheming scumbags are enough to make me hope hell is real. No sarc.

If God ever needed to balance the budget in Heaven and Hell were real, all he would have to do is strike a deal with Satan for pay per view.

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silverdolphin  Apr 14, 2024 • 2:21:33am

re: #148 Joe Bacon ✅

F those asshole Republicans.

alabamareflector.com
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Those fucking Republicans scarred this woman for life.

One major aspect of these draconian laws is the impact on so many others besides the pregnant woman. For example, what struck was her OB/GYN saying that this was the most difficult call she had ever made. This is a job where almost routinely they have to tell people the most horrible news you can imagine. But at least they can offer the best medical care to get everyone through it.

Now, they can do nothing but just watch. OB/GYN is already one of the toughest specialties with the highest malpractice issuance rates. I expect besides many of them leaving red states that we also see many simply quit due to the sorts of PTSD ths could illicit. In 2020, over 15% have thought about suicide within the last year. I’d expect this is higher after Dobbs.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 14, 2024 • 2:58:39am

Good news no Fox News watcher will ever hear.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 3:20:01am

re: #177 No Malarkey!

Good news no Fox News watcher will ever hear.

because it is woke fake news!

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 14, 2024 • 3:29:23am

re: #155 Joe Bacon ✅

It wasn’t until I went to college that I heard The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots and The Platters. Mom and Dad only had opera, Broadway and Movie soundtracks. I had to hide my copy of Frank Zappa’s Freak Out…until the day Mom found it and all hell broke loose…

My dad was into jazz, but mom liked groups like the Platters and such. They were mostly ok with the stuff I would listen to. Only one my mom ever really mentioned she didn’t really like was when I bought Alice Cooper’s “Goes to Hell” album. Black Sabbath albums kinda annoyed her also. I tried to explain what they were really talking about but it didn’t seem to matter. Oh well.

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2024 • 3:31:46am

re: #177 No Malarkey!

Good news no Fox News watcher will ever hear.

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Wouldn’t matter if you told them or not, because what matters to them is what they “feel” is the reality. Like how their cousin’s friend’s bridge club partner saw a kid “steal” a candy bar from the local 7-11 and that’s all they need to “know” that crime is out of control. These are people who grew up in a period of some of the worst crime rates, yet will repeat the same BS about how things were so “safe” when they were kids that they could leave the doors unlocked or play outside as late as they liked.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 3:32:26am

re: #179 Eventual Carrion

My dad was into jazz, but mom liked groups like the Platters and such. They were mostly ok with the stuff I would listen to. Only one my mom ever really mentioned she didn’t really like was when I bought Alice Cooper’s “Goes to Hell” album. Black Sabbath albums kinda annoyed her also. I tried to explain what they were really talking about but it didn’t seem to matter. Oh well.

We had a buddy whoe Evangelical parents had banned the Beatles in their home but I guess they had never heard of the Rolling Stones, I remember giggling as we sat down in his basement to listen to “Their Satanic Majesties Request”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 3:34:46am

re: #180 Targetpractice

. These are people who grew up in a period of some of the worst crime rates, yet will repeat the same BS about how things were so “safe” when they were kids that they could leave the doors unlocked or play outside as late as they liked.

And minorities knew their place, gays stayed closeted and guys did the Right Thing and married their girlfriends when they got knocked up.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 14, 2024 • 3:37:51am

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 14, 2024 • 3:44:18am

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2024 • 3:49:36am

re: #184 Dr Lizardo

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No Malarkey!  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:01:57am

Civil War has sparked a lot of discussion about what exactly it’s about. The Director Alexander Garland deliberately kept contemporary US politics out of it. Though it’s easy for me to see a lot of Trump in Offerman’s hated President in his third term, I imagine that consumers of rightwing media would see Joe Biden, who they are told is a totalitarian dictator. The terrifying death squad leader played by Jesse Plemons would be a Trump supporter in our reality, but the movie doesn’t tell us which faction, if any, he supports in the war, or if his death squad is just opportunistically using the chaos to engage in some local ethnic cleansing. The movie is more about how civil society collapses in war generally than it is about American politics and that is true, but it is also and maybe primarily about the journey of young photojournalist Jessie. Spoilers in box!

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:06:05am
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William Lewis  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:12:48am

re: #186 No Malarkey!

Civil War has sparked a lot of discussion about what exactly it’s about. The Director Alexander Garland deliberately kept contemporary US politics out of it. Though it’s easy for me to see a lot of Trump in Offerman’s hated President in his third term, I imagine that consumers of rightwing media would see Joe Biden, who they are told is a totalitarian dictator. The terrifying death squad leader played by Jesse Plemons would be a Trump supporter in our reality, but the movie doesn’t tell us which faction, if any, he supports in the war, or if his death squad is just opportunistically using the chaos to engage in some local ethnic cleansing. The movie is more about how civil society collapses in war generally than it is about American politics and that is true, but it is also and maybe primarily about the journey of young photojournalist Jessie. Spoilers in box!

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Sounds as wishy washy as it had to be in order to actually get filmed. They would have probably been better off dressing it in a SF or fantasy garb and making it more explicitly about our current situation - if with more “plausible deniability” - than this, ala Captain Pike on Kiley 279?

That or do rip off Capa and Taro in Spain which could easily be used to tell a very similar story line with real political elements as well.

But no, that’s too difficult these days. Can’t show the movie in too many places and risk too many whines here.

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:15:43am

Last night’s SNL was better than most. Apparently the cast thought so as well, every one of them broke at least once (most of them more than once). Also, some very very good special surprise guests.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:19:00am

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:24:14am

re: #186 No Malarkey!

Civil War has sparked a lot of discussion about what exactly it’s about. The Director Alexander Garland deliberately kept contemporary US politics out of it. Though it’s easy for me to see a lot of Trump in Offerman’s hated President in his third term, I imagine that consumers of rightwing media would see Joe Biden, who they are told is a totalitarian dictator. The terrifying death squad leader played by Jesse Plemons would be a Trump supporter in our reality, but the movie doesn’t tell us which faction, if any, he supports in the war, or if his death squad is just opportunistically using the chaos to engage in some local ethnic cleansing. The movie is more about how civil society collapses in war generally than it is about American politics and that is true, but it is also and maybe primarily about the journey of young photojournalist Jessie. Spoilers in box!

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There was a RTS game released back in ‘05 called Shattered Union that involves the player as a general leading one of the various factions in a Second American Civil War. The backstory for the game is that a presidential candidate with historically low polling manages to win the presidency, leading to increased tension and strife among the various states. When he runs for reelection four years later, he ends up “winning” after several presidential candidates are disqualified from holding office through “surprise” Supreme Court ruling. The capper is that a nuclear bomb is detonated in D.C. on Inauguration Night, not only decapitating the government but also throwing the nation into disarray. Within days of the bombing, Texas and then other states announce they’re seceding while a UN force moves to occupy D.C. and begin rebuilding the government.

Since the game’s so old, it’s not much of a spoiler at this point, but once your faction (either a state coalition or the UN “peacekeepers”) defeat all the other factions, you find out that the party actually responsible for the bombing and the subsequent civil war…was a group of Russian oligarchs who wanted to remove the US from world dominance in order to rebuild their own country’s power.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:26:11am

re: #188 William Lewis

Sounds as wishy washy as it had to be in order to actually get filmed. They would have probably been better off dressing it in a SF or fantasy garb and making it more explicitly about our current situation - if with more “plausible deniability” - than this, ala Captain Pike on Kiley 279?

That or do rip off Capa and Taro in Spain which could easily be used to tell a very similar story line with real political elements as well.

But no, that’s too difficult these days. Can’t shot the movie in too many places and risk too many whines here.

If Garland had made the movie explicitly about Trump and the MAGA movement, it would’ve faced thunderous denunciation on the Right, and you can imagine our reaction if it had taken a MAGA viewpoint and made Offerman’s President a Democrat. Perhaps by not immediately shutting down conservative brains, it will give MAGA some second thoughts about whether they really want that Civil War they have been prepping for. Or maybe it made war look so thrilling MAGA will be all the more eager to take up arms if Biden wins in November as I expect him to. Who knows!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:27:19am

Par for me. 🏌️🏻‍♀️

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No Malarkey!  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:30:41am

re: #191 Targetpractice

There was a RTS game released back in ‘05 called Shattered Union that involves the player as a general leading one of the various factions in a Second American Civil War. The backstory for the game is that a presidential candidate with historically low polling manages to win the presidency, leading to increased tension and strife among the various states. When he runs for reelection four years later, he ends up “winning” after several presidential candidates are disqualified from holding office through “surprise” Supreme Court ruling. The capper is that a nuclear bomb is detonated in D.C. on Inauguration Night, not only decapitating the government but also throwing the nation into disarray. Within days of the bombing, Texas and then other states announce they’re seceding while a UN force moves to occupy D.C. and begin rebuilding the government.

Since the game’s so old, it’s not much of a spoiler at this point, but once your faction (either a state coalition or the UN “peacekeepers”) defeat all the other factions, you find out that the party actually responsible for the bombing and the subsequent civil war…was a group of Russian oligarchs who wanted to remove the US from world dominance in order to rebuild their own country’s power.

And a decade later Russian oligarchs meddled in US politics for that very reason. Pretty prescient for a game!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:54:23am

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 14, 2024 • 4:59:09am

re: #112 silverdolphin

Seems like kabuki to me. Iran needed to make a response and Biden/Israel allowed it to. They all knew just where the attacks were coming from and when. Now Iran can settle down and let things play out.

Pretty much my take that there was some backdoor diplomacy between Iran and Israel beforehand. Iran pretty much had to make some show of retaliation for the attack on the consulate for the consumption of their public and their various proxy groups. I’m not sure the saber-rattling at Jordan was necessarily really in their own interests.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:14:42am

Given how often cars and sometimes other machines have been marketed on “sex appeal,” I’m a little surprised this isn’t more common. Maybe it is and nobody associated it with criminal activity. After all, most of us have heard lurid tales of gruesome vacuum cleaner accidents.
NC man charged with crimes related to what police call “mechanophilia.”

KINSTON, N.C. (WCTI) — A North Carolina man was arrested after a months-long investigation into activity related to mechanophilia, or a sexual attraction to vehicles or machines.

Walter McCray, 52, was seen on video tampering with a victim’s vehicle on Apr. 7, 2024.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:24:46am

re: #197 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I cannot find the Zippy the Pinhead I am thinking of, but in one, I recall he gets emotionally involved with the pert round nose of a Studebaker sedan and wants to take it home and dress it up in hot pants…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:30:35am

from new smax

Trump: ‘Everybody Knows’ Israel Wouldn’t Be Attacked if I Was in Office

Of course not. There would be no inflation and gasoline would be two dollars a gallon, the border would be zippered shut and our Cities would be Safe, toilets would flush and showers would gush

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cat-tikvah  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:39:45am

re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

from new smax

Trump: ‘Everybody Knows’ Israel Wouldn’t Be Attacked if I Was in Office

Of course not. There would be no inflation and gasoline would be two dollars a gallon, the border would be zippered shut and our Cities would be Safe, toilets would flush and showers would gush

I have had trumpers state that to me word for word (except for the plumbing parts).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:43:19am

re: #200 cat-tikvah

I have had trumpers state that to me word for word (except for the plumbing parts).

Because that is MAGA Doctrine.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:45:38am

re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

from new smax

Trump: ‘Everybody Knows’ Israel Wouldn’t Be Attacked if I Was in Office

Of course not. There would be no inflation and gasoline would be two dollars a gallon, the border would be zippered shut and our Cities would be Safe

And without that 5 billion dollars Obama gave (back) to them, the Iranians (GDP 413 billion) could never have financed all those drones and missiles.

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Targetpractice  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:48:59am

re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

from new smax

Trump: ‘Everybody Knows’ Israel Wouldn’t Be Attacked if I Was in Office

Of course not. There would be no inflation and gasoline would be two dollars a gallon, the border would be zippered shut and our Cities would be Safe, toilets would flush and showers would gush

And Brexit has been a total success and if it hasn’t it’s because it’s been implemented wrong…wait, sorry, wrong script. Sorry, my bad.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:49:07am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

cheaper than a restaurant and nearly as convenient.

All three sets of my grandkids, known as starbrats, live within 20 minutes so every time I go to Costco I buy an extra rotisserie chicken and drop it off at one of their homes. That’s a LOT of good food for only $5.

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2024 • 5:53:13am

I bake my own chicken, but Citarella has rotisserie duck that I just adore.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:01:28am

re: #192 No Malarkey!

Generally speaking I am against ideations of war, “Civil” or not. I’m not even fond of gory horror movies.

Garland’s movie will be interpreted by viewers in light of the viewers’ own current belief systems.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:03:47am

re: #205 sagehen

I bake my own chicken, but Citarella has rotisserie duck that I just adore.

Problem I’ve found with that is that finding a whole chicken weighing less than a small turkey. Yeah, left over, etc.

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ericblair  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:04:43am

re: #156 JC1

New Vegas wasn’t technically Bethesda, but yeah.
I get that it’s a personal preference thing. Neither approach makes ‘sense’ in a game where the starting and ending power disparities are huge.
For me the Bethesda approach is more immersion breaking than the different level zones.

Agreed, it is pretty immersion-breaking to have some rando road bandit be more powerful than all the previous bosses you’ve defeated. How does that make any sense? Why didn’t this guy by himself knock off the Dread Wizard and take all his loot instead of wandering aimlessly in the forest? He’s pretty much a match for you!

This gets paired with the weird invisibility your character generally has with the world at large. You should be famous! You’ve run through a bunch of major world threats like shit through a goose, and outside of the main plot, nobody seems to know who you are and keeps demanding you get them bear asses and that book they’ve dropped somewhere.

I think the best approach makes use of this: you’re in the same world when you’re a powerful character, but you’re well known. The low level rando road bandits don’t come near you now because you’re terrifying, and you’ve attracted the attention of the really powerful because you’re now a serious threat. So it keeps the world sane, but also challenging.

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jeffreyw  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:05:54am

His & Hers

Good morning!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:06:09am

As expected. The GOP will push for more Welfare For The Rich if they get the trifecta in November!

GOP confirms 2025 tax plan If Trump wins

The GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing Thursday on “expanding the success” of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)—widely derided by opponents as the “GOP Tax Scam.” Republican committee members couched a policy that the Center for Popular Democracy said “delivered big benefits to the rich and corporations but nearly none for working families” as “relief to help hardworking American families.”

Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the committee’s ranking member, pushed back during Thursday’s hearing, noting that “in the last three decades, Republicans have skyrocketed the deficit with trillions in tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations, always with the same result: the top 1% benefits while nothing trickles down for workers.”

Neal continued:

In 2017, Ways and Means Democrats saw the GOP corporate tax giveaway for what it was: a scam. We knew that their Tax Scam would disproportionately benefit the wealthy and well-connected. We knew that it wouldn’t pay for itself. We knew that big corporations, not their workers, would feel the most benefit. Six years since the GOP Tax Scam was signed into law, we’ve been proven right on every count. It didn’t pay for itself, it didn’t increase revenue, and it didn’t increase wages. A recent study whose authors included [Joint Committee on Taxation] economists—let that sink in—found that ALL of the corporate gains from TCJA went to shareholders and high-paid executives, with absolutely nothing flowing to workers. Fifty-six percent of the tax cuts enriched shareholders, and the remaining 44% lined the pockets of execs. Zero percent went to workers. ZERO!

“There are 20 years of data showing trickle-down economics doesn’t work, yet today will still be a whole lot of revisionist history and wishful thinking on the singular largest failure of fiscal policy in recent memory,” Neal added. “If workers and the middle class are actually your priorities, putting them ahead of big corporations and billionaires is the only way.”

Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.)—who also sits on the committee—agreed, asserting on social media that “the Trump tax cuts were a huge ‘success’ if you were a billionaire or an executive at a large corporation. They made out like bandits, with a huge amount of the benefits from the GOP tax law going to the wealthiest. Now Republicans want to give the superrich even more tax cuts.”

Trump is open about this. At an exclusive fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week, he shouted out his “rich as hell” supporters, telling them, “We’re gonna give you tax cuts, we’re gonna pay off our debt.”

alternet.org

And of course the GOP 24/7 Bullshit Machine is cranked up to 11 to make the suckers forget about Trump adding 8 TRILLION to the National Debt during his term…

GOP—The Party that believes in Socialism for the Rich and Screwing Everyone Else in the name of Jesus!

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TarHellion  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:06:56am

Really enjoyed the first season of Fallout. Walton Goggins is great - and the show nails so many of the elements from the game universe. Also appreciated the cameos from several actors. Is the show a bit cheesy? Sure. But it certainly kept my attention and looking forward to Season 2. Just hoping we get to see a battle with a Deathclaw!

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Dangerman  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:12:45am

re: #210 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump is open about this. At an exclusive fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week, he shouted out his “rich as hell” supporters, telling them, “We’re gonna give you tax cuts, we’re gonna pay off our debt.”

Mathematically not possible

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:19:41am

re: #211 TarHellion

Really enjoyed the first season of Fallout. Walton Goggins is great

They did an awesome job on his backstory.

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Randall Gross  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:27:18am

re: #211 TarHellion

Really enjoyed the first season of Fallout. Walton Goggins is great - and the show nails so many of the elements from the game universe. Also appreciated the cameos from several actors. Is the show a bit cheesy? Sure. But it certainly kept my attention and looking forward to Season 2. Just hoping we get to see a battle with a Deathclaw!

I loved it that they actually included the Mr Handy voice actor, that was great.

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Randall Gross  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:28:45am

re: #213 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

They did an awesome job on his backstory.

I also like it that they worked in that every vault was an experiment as well.*

*Vault Tec fits right in that pantheon of Umbrella, Cyberdyne, Weyland Yutani, and Protogen.

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steve_davis  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:29:25am

re: #213 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

They did an awesome job on his backstory.

yep. and I don’t get the “cheesiness” criticism that some offer. The entire Fallout universe is already completely insane. Small fusion reactors powering armor, radiation creating ghouls as a byproduct. Frankly, if there weren’t moments where it decidedly didn’t take itself too seriously (the scene where the heroine’s brother has the conversation with the thoroughly impotent brain in a bowl, in Vault 31), it would just run the danger of becoming another bloated Walking Dead, which takes itself way too seriously considering the ridiculousness of its own premise (they’re dead. they don’t breathe. Why the fuck are they eating anything?)

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:35:56am

Happy jury selection eve to those who celebrate.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:40:36am

re: #212 Dangerman

Mathematically not possible

It doesn’t matter to those greedy billionaire parasites. They are addicted to greed and will do anything to get more welfare.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:46:47am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

They’re hoarders. It’s like a form of OCD, but instead of hoarding newspapers and stacking them to the ceilings or having endless shelves of bric-a-brac, they mindlessly hoard money.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:50:03am

re: #217 darthstar

The last time I did jury duty I had a fringe benefit.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:51:24am

‘Whole thing is an epic fraud’: RFK Jr. official admits goal is to elect Trump

“Whole thing is an epic fraud. Kennedy is spouting Russian propaganda, is now openly betraying the country,” said political strategist Simon Rosenberg, referring to the candidate’s recent comments about Russia’s claim that it aims to “de-Nazify” Ukraine.

“RFK Jr.’s campaign is saying the quiet part out loud,” Matt Corridoni, spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, told CNN. “As the saying goes, when people show you who they are, believe them: RFK Jr.’s campaign isn’t building a plan or a strategy to get 270 electoral votes, they’re building one to help Trump return to the Oval Office.”

alternet.org

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 6:56:46am

Groupie for Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs posts this in Go Comics.

When Robert Kennedy Jr. is not acknowledged as a candidate by the Democrats…….I’m talking about Robert Kennedy Jr. here, something is so very wrong with the system. President John F. Kennedy’s nephew!!!!….Bobby Kennedy’s son!!!!….and Biden won’t even allow him securiity protection. Are you kidding me? Biden is so corrupt it just amazing that he gets away with this crap. CBS…NBC….ABC….For shame on all of you!

And that troll gets endlessly smacked down in the comments.

gocomics.com

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:08:03am

re: #222 Joe Bacon ✅

Groupie for Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs posts this in Go Comics.

When Robert Kennedy Jr. is not acknowledged as a candidate by the Democrats…….I’m talking about Robert Kennedy Jr. here, something is so very wrong with the system. President John F. Kennedy’s nephew!!!!….Bobby Kennedy’s son!!!!….and Biden won’t even allow him securiity protection. Are you kidding me? Biden is so corrupt it just amazing that he gets away with this crap. CBS…NBC….ABC….For shame on all of you!

And that troll gets endlessly smacked down in the comments.

gocomics.com

Wiley Miller is an long time friend of Laffy (whose mastodon posts appear here frequently) and he posts regularly there.

This is a great non-sequitur, btw.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:11:16am
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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:16:22am

I watched “Blood Simple” last night, the Coen brothers’ 1984 film debut. I really enjoyed it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:16:31am

‘I know it doesn’t make any sense’: Chris Sununu melts down after flip to support Trump

Chris Sununu melts down while explaining Trump support

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:18:14am

re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅

‘I know it doesn’t make any sense’: Chris Sununu melts down after flip to support Trump

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The perfect quote to explain it all.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:18:49am

re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅

What a weasel.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:18:57am

This is pretty hilarious:

Ryan Gosling Monologue - SNL

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:18:58am

re: #227 Ace Rothstein

The perfect quote to explain it all.

Like every other Republican Sununu puts Party Over Country.

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Dangerman  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:26:28am

re: #218 Joe Bacon ✅

It doesn’t matter to those greedy billionaire parasites. They are addicted to greed and will do anything to get more welfare.

True
But they alone aren’t enough votes
Each billionaire is(theoretically) one vote

It’s the masses that are bound to lose who vote for this idiot that will crush them economically or literally kill them (see COVID)

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:28:09am

One investor: “I feel like I’m trying to catch a falling knife.”

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:32:29am

re: #217 darthstar

Happy jury selection eve to those who celebrate.

It’s been 10 years since my last celebration, which was my inaugural selection to a jury. Sitting on a jury usually gives you a 5 year reprieve from being called again. I got double that before being on-call this coming week. I could have requested a 6 month deferral but let’s get it over with now.

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:34:04am

Mastodon

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:34:34am

The 2028 Democratic nominee is on MTP (Gretchen Whitmer).

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:35:58am

re: #235 Ace Rothstein

The 2028 Democratic nominee is on MTP (Gretchen Whitmer).

Naaah, 2028 nominee is currently with Biden trying to figure out Russia and the Middle East.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:36:38am

re: #236 Belafon

Naaah, 2028 nominee is currently with Biden trying to figure out Russia and the Middle East.

I’ll put money on it!

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:36:46am

re: #235 Ace Rothstein

The 2028 Democratic nominee is on MTP (Gretchen Whitmer).

so you’re saying you’re not a Newsome fan?

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:39:32am

re: #238 sagehen

so you’re saying you’re not a Newsome fan?

I don’t dislike him, but I think a governor in a critical state is more important.

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Jay C  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:41:41am

re: #236 Belafon

re: #238 sagehen

re: #235 Ace Rothstein

The 2028 Democratic nominee is on MTP (Gretchen Whitmer).

so you’re saying you’re not a Newsome fan?

I would (and will) happily vote for any of them: but I’ll go out on a limb to predict that the ‘28 primaries are going be pretty wild….

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:42:37am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:47:02am

Let’s get through 2024 before we start the next primary season.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:48:10am

re: #232 darthstar

One investor: “I feel like I’m trying to catch a falling knife.”

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No Malarkey!  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:51:43am

re: #239 Ace Rothstein

I don’t dislike him, but I think a governor in a critical state is more important.

As a proven winner in a red state Andy Beshear will be the 2028 nominee*

*or at least make a good VP to balance a ticket

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:53:45am

re: #243 No Malarkey!

MAGA are the most credulous bunch of marks a grifter could ever hope to shear.

Born again, worn again, porn again, shorn again…

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:53:47am

re: #216 steve_davis

My problem with zombies in zombie apocalypse movies is: Why don’t they ever run out of energy? They’ve killed off/converted their food source. Are they photosynthetic?

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:57:56am

re: #239 Ace Rothstein

I don’t dislike him, but I think a governor in a critical state is more important.

I genuinely dislike him, because he doesn’t really stand for anything except his own advancement. Reminds me a lot of John Edwards in that way. Someone once described Newsome as a guided missile calibrated to seek out political vacuums and that fits.

So no, not a fan.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:59:59am

re: #246 Romantic Heretic

My problem with zombies in zombie apocalypse movies is: Why don’t they ever run out of energy? They’ve killed off/converted their food source. Are they photosynthetic?

Might as well ask yourself what angels eat while they are dancing on pinheads.

As I have mentioned, I am no zombie fan at all but I liked World War Z (the novel) as it is not so much about zombies as it is about humanity’s reaction to any serious crisis: first ignore it, then deny it, then try to cover it up, then enact poorly-considered countermeasures that only worsen things and then mass panic when the coverup is blown, etc…

And Shawn of the Dead of course because it is brilliantly done British film comedy.

My daughter got me to watch the series I Zombie, which I could appreciate again for being witty and full of really bad music-related puns and gags. At one point the protagonist’s handsome boyfriend turns to crime, and the episode is entitled Felonious Hunk

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:03:44am

re: #246 Romantic Heretic

My problem with zombies in zombie apocalypse movies is: Why don’t they ever run out of energy? They’ve killed off/converted their food source. Are they photosynthetic?

And unless whatever has turned them into zombies in the first place has somehow arrested decomposition, then you could expect that the whole zombie apocalypse would come to an end in about two months or so. Maybe sooner in hot climates.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:05:40am

Faux News. The usual suspects are having a good time with this. The headline neglects to mention that the offender is a candidate of the Green Party, though that is stated in passing in the story itself.

. Senate candidate goes viral for blaming NY earthquake on climate change, deletes post

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:08:11am

re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Might as well ask yourself what angels eat while they are dancing on pinheads.

As I have mentioned, I am no zombie fan at all but I liked World War Z (the novel) as it is not so much about zombies as it is about humanity’s reaction to any serious crisis: first ignore it, then deny it, then try to cover it up, then enact poorly-considered countermeasures that only worsen things and then mass panic when the coverup is blown, etc…

And Shawn of the Dead of course because it is brilliantly done British film comedy.

My daughter got me to watch the series I Zombie, which I could appreciate again for being witty and full of really bad music-related puns and gags. At one point the protagonist’s handsome boyfriend turns to crime, and the episode is entitled Felonious Hunk

Except for m.imdb.com, every good zombie movie is about the non-zombies.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:08:26am

re: #183 Eventual Carrion

Hey hey, a 2/6 morning

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:11:29am

re: #250 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I do think that some of our geological event are going to be cause by climate change - the amount of water being added to the oceans is changing the planet’s rotation - but, like other things like tornadoes, no individual one can be blamed on climate change.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:11:47am

At least I, Zombie offers some explanation (a virus caused by tainted designer drugs) and indicates that zombies who do not eat fresh human flesh will start to decompose and perish.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:12:47am

re: #253 Belafon

I do think that some of our geological event are going to be cause by climate change - the amount of water being added to the oceans is changing the planet’s rotation, but, like other things like tornadoes, no individual one can be blamed on climate change.

They will efffect Solar Eclipses because God will need to warn us more frequently about the dangers of being too woke

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nines09  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:20:43am

Hello all. I will turn on SNL and if it grabs me and makes me smile I’ll watch. Ryan Gosling hosted and he just seems to get along and have the kind of fun that makes the cast have fun.
I think they didn’t show Heidi the characters before the skit.
Great skit.

Beavis and Butt-Head - SNL

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:23:37am

re: #256 nines09

Papyrus 2

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Randall Gross  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:24:29am

My Sunday recommended long read is an in depth dive into the myth and realities of the Molly McGuires, the mass hanging, the trial, etc.
michaeldunnauthor.com

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jeffreyw  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:45:49am

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wrenchwench  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:49:03am

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jeffreyw  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:50:50am

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:51:02am

re: #112 silverdolphin

Seems like kabuki to me. Iran needed to make a response and Biden/Israel allowed it to. They all knew just where the attacks were coming from and when. Now Iran can settle down and let things play out.

War games beta weapons testing for Iran, Israel, Jordan, and the US.

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wrenchwench  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:53:35am

re: #261 jeffreyw

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Birbosaurs. Can they both win?

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:54:18am

Old white guys talking about abortion never ends well.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:55:45am

re: #264 Ace Rothstein

Old white guys talking about abortion never ends well.

They can always afford to fly their daughters out of state, or abroad if they have to…

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:56:01am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They will efffect Solar Eclipses because God will need to warn us more frequently about the dangers of being too woke

Wait! What? He was warning us about the persecution of his Son, Bestie, and Chosen One for POTUS.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 8:56:46am

re: #266 sizzzzlerz

Wait! What? He was warning us about the persecution of his Son, Bestie, and Chosen One for POTUS.

That is why the path of totality crossed so many swing states…

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:00:41am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is why the path of totality crossed so many swing states…

He ain’t no dummy, that God! Forseeing this lo, these many billions of years ago and positioning the moon just so to make it all happen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:02:24am

re: #268 sizzzzlerz

He ain’t no dummy, that God! Forseeing this lo, these many billions of years ago and positioning the moon just so to make it all happen.

Checkmate, Evolutionists and Copernicans!!!

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:05:35am

Moscow Marge said that ThE eClIpSe WaS a SiGn To RePeNt

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wrenchwench  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:07:22am

re: #270 Ace Rothstein

Moscow Marge said that ThE eClIpSe WaS a SiGn To RePeNt

I’ll have to figure out how to pent, so I can pent again.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:08:33am

re: #271 wrenchwench

I was thinking that and then there it was.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:09:49am

re: #271 wrenchwench

I’ll have to figure out how to pent, so I can pent again.

Pentin’ ain’t easy.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:11:55am

Pentin’ ain’t easy, though time gets you worrying, my friend, it’s o.k.
Just take your life easy and stop all that hurrying, be happy my way.
When tension starts mounting and you’ve lost count of the pennies you’ve missed,
Just try hard and see why they’re not worrying me, they’re last on my list.
It’s not easy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:15:47am

re: #273 Ace Rothstein

Pentin’ ain’t easy.

Pentagin and Pentatonic

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JC1  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:16:43am

re: #236 Belafon

Naaah, 2028 nominee is currently with Biden trying to figure out Russia and the Middle East.

I’m thinking Gavin Newsom or someone not even on our radar. Don’t think that Kamala is going to happen.

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:17:19am

re: #270 Ace Rothstein

Moscow Marge said that ThE eClIpSe WaS a SiGn To RePeNt

There was an earthquake in a place that doesn’t have a lot of them. Then the eclipse. And coming soon…

LOCUSTS!!!

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wrenchwench  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:21:11am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Pentagin and Pentatonic

Pent a gone.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:22:35am

re: #278 wrenchwench

Pent a gone.

Pent a gram

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:23:22am

re: #276 JC1

I’m thinking Gavin Newsom or someone not even on our radar. Don’t think that Kamala is going to happen.

Yeah, let’s look at a big reason Biden chose her and then start talking about the party blowing her off in 2028.

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wrenchwench  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:23:23am

re: #279 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Pent a gram

In for a pent, in for a pound.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:25:56am

Frankie Pent won’t say nothing if Vincenzo is there.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:28:54am

re: #277 sagehen

There was an earthquake in a place that doesn’t have a lot of them. Then the eclipse. And coming soon…

LOCUSTS!!!

GoD mUsT bE ReAlLy PiSsEd BeCaUsE ThErE aRe EaRtHqUaKeS eVeRy DaY

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:29:40am

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

Gettysburg Address 2.0 just dropped.


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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:31:06am

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

Not many people know that one of the pivotal battles at Gettysburg took place on “Talk like a pirate” day.

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jeffreyw  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:32:03am

re: #263 wrenchwench

Birbosaurs. Can they both win?

Yes! Just not at the same time.

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Unabogie  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:32:44am

re: #284 jaunte

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

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So is his point that we no longer look at a traitor to America “in favor?”

Or that hills are bad?

His brain is mush.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:33:34am

re: #287 Unabogie

Straight pander to white supremacist tradition.

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Unabogie  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:33:51am

Also, how was there a battle in human history that was “beautiful is so many ways?”

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jeffreyw  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:33:58am

re: #271 wrenchwench

I’ll have to figure out how to pent, so I can pent again.

At least they’re well housed.

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darthstar  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:34:11am

My front door camera died on me so I took it down and plugged it into a phone charger to bring it back to life. I think the solar panel for it went kaput so I ordered another one from Amazon. Going to charge it up inside, reconnect to the panel, and see if it gets juice when the sun comes out full. If it begins charging again, I’ll return the panel…or hold onto it for an outside phone charger…maybe find a USB-C —> USB splitter so the missus can use it on her iPhone in the summer.

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Unabogie  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:35:16am

re: #288 jaunte

Straight pander to white supremacist tradition.

Uh…

During the American Civil War, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania played a critical role in the Union, providing a substantial supply of military personnel, equipment, and leadership to the Federal government. The state raised over 360,000 soldiers for the Federal armies. It served as a significant source of artillery guns, small arms, ammunition, armor for the new revolutionary style of ironclad types of gunboats for the rapidly expanding United States Navy, and food supplies. The Phoenixville Iron Company by itself produced well over 1,000 cannons, and the Frankford Arsenal was a major supply depot.

Pennsylvania was the site of the bloodiest battle of the war, the Battle of Gettysburg, which became widely known as one of the turning points of the Civil War.[1] Numerous more minor engagements and skirmishes were also fought in Pennsylvania during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign, as well as the following year during a Confederate cavalry raid that culminated in the burning of much of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Seems like Robert E. Lee was never in favor in that state, Donnie.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:36:19am

re: #262 BeenHereAwhile

War games beta weapons testing for Iran, Israel, Jordan, and the US.

Perma-conflict also contextualizes domestic issues in ways that turn down the importance of structural problems, or just, you know, being a dicatorship.

Dictators often as not start international beefs as a way of creating internal solidarity…not the brotherly-love kind, the “well, fuck that guy” or even “oh shit we have no choice but to go along” kind. But democracies pull this shit too…look at the Falklands, or the sheer number of shitheels that waxed on about the “9/12” spirit.

I’m not exactly an individualist…it’s a trash concept…but governments do not exist to protect or serve people in any granular specific way, only to parse what “protect and serve” means through the lens of the governing ideology; shitty governments that serve their own ends—or the ends of something like regional oligarchy or just plain capital—can just invent parses where keeping things status quo is worth every so many normal people.

Iran is reaffirming it’s regional clout and notifying it’s often-protesting citizens that they’re trapped inside the country at the low, low cost of whoever is maimed or killed by such a random launch. Eventually Israel will respond with some kind of action, and that price will also be comparatively low.

Israel’s more likely to get more bomb coupons from the USA than it was five days ago, and existential external threat re-contextualizes the shitty incompetent government, that they’re using an black-box AI to invent bombing targets, and that they’re once again expanding settlements. All at the cost of one maimed Bedouin kid.

The USA gets to return to comfortable positions of facilitating selling arms to sketch-ass client governments while pretending to have the moral high ground. As a bonus, nobody’s asking difficult questions about our own drone program any more because we once again are the humane-by-comparison blower-up-of-random-people.

In the third paragraph I mentioned ideology, but I feel like I should qualify that at the end, because I’m not talking about the stated “-ism” of the government, but rather what, codified, it’s choices and priorities amount to. In a sense many of the powerful governments of the world function the same: there is a blob of insiders that will do anything to remain a blob of insiders…generally because that way they can steal enough to set up dynasties of blob-failsons and blob-faildaughters…and a lot of what happens with government is a balancing act between keeping things normal-enough that there isn’t an ikko-ikki and incrementally increasing the blob’s ability to scrape money and power.

The funny thing about realpolitik is that if you just constantly manufacture problems that require fast, dirty, compromised solutions you can just infinitely defer all reform and mostly silence skepticism: the idealists are always stupid if there’s always an existential crisis. Which I feel explains a lot of why we have perma-conflicts: it’s theater, with each blob-state benefiting from the “we can’t say/do X, look over there!”

As Margaret Thatcher, accursed avatar of the modern blob-era, said: there is no alternative. Except “there is no alternative” is an ongoing process: everyone with power is working very hard to make sure there is no alternative, at the low, low cost of dead normal people. If you have power, you can turn everything into a trolley problem that’s rigged so that your little oligarchic clique can never be tied to the rails.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:36:54am

re: #292 Unabogie

But he knows who he’s talking to now.
splcenter.org

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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:38:40am

re: #292 Unabogie

Uh…

Seems like Robert E. Lee was never in favor in that state, Donnie.

Trump made the mistake of spouting his intern’s gibberish in front of a local crowd that is very likely to know and care about the facts. Let’s see how that plays.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:40:38am

re: #280 Belafon

Yeah, let’s look at a big reason Biden chose her and then start talking about the party blowing her off in 2028.

She was a good choice. But if she campaigns in 2028 the GOP response will be
(Obama + Hillary)³ x a million flaming suns of racist, misogynist hatred.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:42:32am

re: #284 jaunte

This is the equivalent a third-grader winging his class report on Gettysburg that he blew off until the last second. To him, “Little Round Top” was just another snarky nickname that Stormy Daniels came up for him.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:43:33am

re: #250 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Faux News. The usual suspects are having a good time with this. The headline neglects to mention that the offender is a candidate of the Green Party, though that is stated in passing in the story itself.

. Senate candidate goes viral for blaming NY earthquake on climate change, deletes post

We’re so used to Republican superstition and ignorance that it didn’t even occur to me to point out that the Green candidate’s far-fetched hypothesis still makes far more sense than MTG’s moronic fantasy about the earthquake and the eclipse (the latter predictable centuries in advance) as a warning from God.
Personally I think the quake, anyway, was a sign of Cthulhu’s growing anger with hare-brained Republican superstition. It was centered on Cheeto’s golf course after all. I think zombie Ivana will rise from the grave and miraculously grow to 666 feet in height. She will rampage across the country grabbing Republicans and tossing them into the dreaded Basket of Deplorables for the Biden/Cthulhu victory banquet and all-you-can eat buffet this coming November.
.

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jeffreyw  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:45:54am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:47:27am

re: #299 jeffreyw

That is one way of putting it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:49:42am

re: #295 Decatur Deb

Trump made the mistake of spouting his intern’s gibberish in front of a local crowd that is very likely to know and care about the facts. Let’s see how that plays.

that isn’t even an intern, that is just him winging it because he knows they will lap up anything that emanates from his piehole

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:50:27am

re: #298 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

We’re so used to Republican superstition and ignorance that it didn’t even occur to me to point out that the Green candidate’s far-fetched hypothesis still makes far more sense than MTG’s moronic fantasy about the earthquake and the eclipse (the latter predictable centuries in advance) as a warning from God.
Personally I think the quake, anyway, was a sign of Cthulhu’s growing anger with hare-brained Republican superstition. It was centered on Cheeto’s golf course after all. I think zombie Ivana will rise from the grave and miraculously grow to 666 feet in height. She will rampage across the country grabbing Republicans and tossing them into the dreaded Basket of Deplorables for the Biden/Cthulhu victory banquet and all-you-can eat buffet this coming November.
.

But this isn’t genuine superstition, it’s someone chock full of hubris, talking to an audience bloated with hubris coming from a culture that teaches them they are inherently better people, once again stating that they, as a collective of better kinds of people, exclusively know the mind of God and should act upon that gnosis.

Because the point is only their entitlement, the “beliefs” constantly change while the subtext—their license to do anything—is retained. In a few days there will be some other things and this one will be dropped: narcissists need constant fresh supply.

You can say whatever clever counterproposal you want they’re just setting up the pretext on why they’re beating you to death with a rifle butt.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:51:20am

re: #284 jaunte

@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Gettysburg Address 2.0 just dropped.

Doesn’t have quite the cachet that Lincoln’s words had, does it? I doubt many 6th graders are going to have to memorize and recite that.

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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:52:51am

re: #303 sizzzzlerz

You can see how some aspects of the battle appealed to him.

“Charge uphill at the guns, me boys; I’ll be right there with ye.”

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:53:26am

re: #293 The Ghost of a Flea

The USA gets to return to comfortable positions of facilitating selling arms to sketch-ass client governments while pretending to have the moral high ground. As a bonus, nobody’s asking difficult questions about our own drone program any more because we once again are the humane-by-comparison blower-up-of-random-people

And there’s the realpolitik of “buy US wespons “

They’re proven efective against enemy action, and by purchasing our wespons, you gain the appearance of having the US in your corner.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:53:37am

re: #296 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

She was a good choice. But if she campaigns in 2028 the GOP response will be
(Obama + Hillary)³ x a million flaming suns of racist, misogynist hatred.

At this point, though, it’s more about the party responding to her than Republicans.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:54:36am

re: #295 Decatur Deb

Trump made the mistake of spouting his intern’s gibberish in front of a local crowd that is very likely to know and care about the facts. Let’s see how that plays.

Trump cultists? He could say the south won the civil war and they’d be like YEAH!!!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:58:08am

Remember that a bunch of these people used to be pre-millenial dispensationalists: their fantasy was that they would just be lifted away from pain and complexity of the world until God killed all the gross/bad people and handed them back a clean world.

Now that keeps not happening so they’ve switched to post-millenial dispensationalism, in which they have to do the dirty work to make God come back.

Co-morbid with and (theoretically) interstitial between the two is the entire prosperity gospel grift, in which material gain is actually spiritual uplift.

In all these beliefs, what is preserved is their inherent entitlement to power. Everything else about the action and nature of God is adjustable: that they exclusively own God and the products derived from God stays the same.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2024 • 9:58:16am

re: #307 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Trump cultists? He could say the south won the civil war and they’d be like YEAH!!!

Jury’s still out on that.

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:01:57am
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jaunte  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:02:22am

re: #303 sizzzzlerz

I doubt many 6th graders are going to have to memorize and recite that.

Seth Cotlar:

“…Anyway, the fake news media will little note, nor accurately report what we say here, but none of you little people will forget what I did here. It is for us the true Americans, rather, to be dedicated to the work of making America great again. It is for those of us who aren’t losers — and those few non-losers who maybe just caught a bad break and died — that we all promise that I will have not have skipped so many beautiful golfing days in vain — so that this nation, under God, but kind of a dump if I’m going to be completely honest with you, shall get a complete remodel as only I can do — and that, believe me, government of my people, by my people, for my people, is not going anywhere. Not gonna happen. Let ‘em try it.”
https://sethcotlar.substack.com/p/dateline-september-6-2068-the-original-text-of-the-historic-billings-address-26c5b4d618be?r=alsf&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

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Captain Ron  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:08:59am
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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:09:35am

‘I was told I’d be killed if I didn’t leave’: Himalayan state is a testing ground for Modi’s nationalism

It was at the Haridwar gathering that the idea of Uttarakhand being a Hindu Dev Bhoomi, [God’s land], began to gain public prominence: that of a holy state just for Hindus, where Muslims had no right to exercise their religion or, in the eyes of some, exist at all. The same priests who took part in the dharma sansad warned that “Dev Bhoomi has come under the control of jihadis”, a thinly veiled slur for Muslims, and called for the state to be protected by any means necessary.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:14:50am

re: #312 Captain Ron

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No one on the left is shocked….and everyone on the left [probably] predicted this.

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retired cynic  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:19:40am

re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅

‘I know it doesn’t make any sense’: Chris Sununu melts down after flip to support Trump

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Video

That guy makes me want to vomit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:21:14am

re: #302 The Ghost of a Flea

We’re so used to Republican superstition and ignorance that it didn’t even occur to me to point out that the Green candidate’s far-fetched hypothesis still makes far more sense than MTG’s moronic fantasy about the earthquake and the eclipse (the latter predictable centuries in advance) as a warning from God.

It reminds us that her brain rejects modern science, history and even logic in favor of her belief system.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:22:10am

re: #306 Belafon

At this point, though, it’s more about the party responding to her than Republicans.

They are asking themselves how much they are willing to shoulder to see her through.

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Belafon  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:22:56am

re: #317 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are asking themselves how much they are willing to shoulder to see her through.

They are asking themselves how much racism the Demicratic party itself has.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:23:42am

re: #310 Captain Ron

After historic increases under Trump, crime has plummeted under President Biden.

“It’s just like the stock market, see? They know that polls are favoring DJT so those cities don’t want to be at the top of his Shit(hole) list when he takes office again!”

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jeffreyw  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:26:45am

bsky.app

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No Malarkey!  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:29:56am

Rachel Bitecofer explains polls mean nothing right now. Election whisperer says DON’T PANIC about Trump vs Biden polls | Rachel Bitecofer

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Teukka  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:30:31am

re: #320 jeffreyw

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bsky.app

Jaws - Theme song

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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:30:47am

re: #317 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

re: #318 Belafon

Let’s win 2024 before we set the stage for losing in 2028.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:33:25am

re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅

‘I know it doesn’t make any sense’: Chris Sununu melts down after flip to support Trump

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Like all Republicans (except for a few like Kinzinger and the Cheneys), he is a coward with no ethics or loyalty to our Constitution or our nation. These “Profiles in Cowardice” may doom our country, and eliminate any hope for our future.

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JC1  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:35:07am

re: #284 jaunte

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

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Time flies when you’re having rum mi boys, time flies when you’re having rum.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:35:18am

re: #323 Decatur Deb

Let’s win 2024 before we set the stage for losing in 2028.

I am just saying that Kamala Harris does not have much of a practical chance as a Democratic prsidential candidate, which I find unfortunate because I believe she is eminently qualified in every major respect.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:35:48am

re: #321 No Malarkey!

Rachel Bitecofer explains polls mean nothing right now. [Embedded content]

They will be significant again as soon as DJT gains a lead

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teleskiguy  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:36:36am

ARR! Up the hill, me boys!

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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:37:11am

re: #326 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am just saying that Kamala Harris does not have much of a practical chance as a Democratic prsidential candidate, which I find unfortunate because I believe she is eminently qualified in every major respect.

If we fragment in the next 6 months, she will never get the chance.

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steve_davis  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:38:44am

re: #284 jaunte

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

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I had no idea Robert E. Lee was a goddamned leprechaun working for Lucky Charms.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:39:19am

re: #327 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They will be significant again as soon as DJT gains a lead

I don’t think Trump will. For all his bluster and BS, what Trump is really afraid is two little words.

Convicted felon. “Republican Presidential candidate and convicted felon, Donald Trump, said earlier today….”

While it’s true that it’s still way too early for polls to be taken all that seriously, there are several polls that indicate that if Trump is, in fact, convicted of felonies, his support in the polls drops dramatically.

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steve_davis  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:40:47am

re: #292 Unabogie

Uh…

Seems like Robert E. Lee was never in favor in that state, Donnie.

sorry, the pedant in me, which is 99% of me, is calling “Gettsyburg viewed as a turning point” as complete and utter bullshit. By the time Gettysburg happened, the South had already lost the war. Vicksburg was the turning point. Gettysburg was just lee trying desperately to find boots for his nearly shoeless army.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:43:27am

Now they are giving us Woke Scrabble

Scrabble Together: ‘It feels a bit like cheating’

This week, for the first time in its 75-plus year history, a new “collaborative” version of Scrabble was launched in an attempt to entice Generation Z players to the traditional word-making game.

My partner and I worked out a lot of House Rules to make it a bit more competitive and collective. e.g.:

if you have three of the same letters, or all vowels or consonants, you can cash them in without losing a turn. (but you have to show your letters to prove it)

You get three chances to use the dictionary to check a word per game (but you have to let your opponent know that word you want to check and let them do it for you)

A blank tile can serve as more than one letter as long as it works in both variants.

Extra points for dirty words.

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mmmirele  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:44:40am

re: #313 The Ghost of a Flea

‘I was told I’d be killed if I didn’t leave’: Himalayan state is a testing ground for Modi’s nationalism

That article is super-depressing. Muslims in Uttarakhand are still voting for the BJP even though the BJP are Hindu nationalists who are going to chase them out of Uttarakhand and that’s if the BJP doesn’t find a pretext to slaughter them. It reminds me of people who are voting for Trump, like some American Muslims who don’t realize that they will be persecuted if Christian nationalism comes to real power.

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sagehen  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:50:48am

Weekend Update: Caitlin Clark on the WNBA Draft - SNL

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:51:02am

This 71 year old tree trimmer from OK City invested his entire $25K nest egg in DJT and the accompanying picture of him using a chainsaw without eye or hearing protection really puts it all into perspective.

bsky.app

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:51:35am

re: #332 steve_davis

sorry, the pedant in me, which is 99% of me, is calling “Gettsyburg viewed as a turning point” as complete and utter bullshit. By the time Gettysburg happened, the South had already lost the war. Vicksburg was the turning point. Gettysburg was just lee trying desperately to find boots for his nearly shoeless army.

Lee’s troops fought at Gettysburg saying, “two more years, two more years.”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:54:12am

re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It reminds us that her brain rejects modern science, history and even logic in favor of her belief system.

It’s not so much that I disagree as that I shrug; I don’t accept the premise that rationalism and Enlightenment spirit have ever illuminated human beings such that there exist benighted individuals that are the drag on the species as a whole. As always—this is not stupidity it’s cruelty.

Also…and this is also consistent, stamp your bingo card of things I go on about…I find the largely-liberal assertion that all reactionary politics is a function of disability—intellectual impairment or mental illness—to just be gross. It’s eugenics for people that eat crudites.

She’s operating at peak performance while fixating on all the embarrassing, ugly stuff that Americans prefer to pretend aren’t a part of our history: white supremacy, colonialism, class warfare, and a nationalist-religious hybrid that justifies all the above. None of that shit ever went away, it’s embedded in the culture so deep that people that think themselves above such notions still adopt nationalist posturing when poked—to the tune of several million Iraqis—and smooth public figures that lean into whig enlightenment still talk about “American exceptionalism” like it’s not Manifest Destiny wearing a greasepaint mustache.

Reason is only as good as it’s shittiest base assumption, and our society is built on shitty base assumptions mostly proposed by thieves and creeps, euphemized and bronzed by whigs. Greene isn’t like that because her brain is bad, she’s like that because it is entirely rational to be that way if you live in a country that was built on racism, flipping countries to get cheap bananas, and bought into the same kind of religious nationalism that white Europeans did.

America is cruel. You have to build cruel into your culture if you’re going to own people, fuck them, and sell the kids so produced; you have to build cruel into your culture to see homeless people and addicts and single moms and decide they did it to themselves and thus shouldn’t be helped; you have to build cruel into your culture so that most people won’t feel rattled by the constant drip-drip of extrajudicial death handed to keep both the international and domestic “peace” (commodity prices and property values, respectively).

[America is cruel because it’s culture has all the worst parts of capitalism, unfettered by a pre-existing culture that merely by valuing commnity—just people sharing space together—is anti-capitalist. The American Dream is being a little king, with a suburban demense and a service-industry sector of short-term-rental vassals. Assimilation to America is assimilation to being your job and thus earning your life; fighting in the class war guarantees citizenship. Stamp the bingo card twice.]

Scratch a center-left American and you find someone down for cruelty as long as it’s characterized as moralistic punishment. Scratch a young American going hard left and likely the grossest thing about them is their fixation of punitive measures, or their personal attacks: they learned that from their environment not from a book on theory. Fuck, what portion of social media is just socially-acceptable bloodletting for the Anglosphere? Every day I’m on here there’s a cloud of posts that amount to “well, the important thing here is we all get feel schadenfreude.”

Hence the constant pocket-pool about how half the country are retard hicks.

[Oh hey did I forgot to mention the weird fucking class thing where all the bad reactionary people aren’t just stupid but poor and rural? That persists even as all the fascists are suburbanites with small businesses or rental property? Also, stamp the bingo card.]

Marjorie Taylor Greene is honest about the ubiquity of cruelty in American culture: it makes us great, she proposes; it makes us blessed, she opines. And lots of people agree with her: actually it was good when we were just actively banana warring the world, we should do that more.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2024 • 10:59:30am

re: #332 steve_davis

sorry, the pedant in me, which is 99% of me, is calling “Gettsyburg viewed as a turning point” as complete and utter bullshit. By the time Gettysburg happened, the South had already lost the war. Vicksburg was the turning point. Gettysburg was just lee trying desperately to find boots for his nearly shoeless army.

If we’re going to pedant, Antietam is usually counted as the most serious slaughter of the war, though the overall PA 3-day toll could be higher.

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retired cynic  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:01:59am

I know we have some French Bulldog lovers, and Persian cat lovers and probably English Bulldog lovers, too, here. The fashion breeding of ever-more flattened faces brings with it some animals that snore and snort and have major trouble breathing. We had a dumped cat who was brachycephalic, and she fought breathing issues the rest of her life. At the end she had trouble eating and breathing at the same time, and I was constantly on call to keep her nostrils open, and to find something she could eat.

A vet at the U of I has developed a surgical response to these problems, so that the animals can be relieved. The article pertains to dogs, so I’m not sure how successful this has been on cats, but for our Frenchie owners, here is the link:

vetmed.illinois.edu

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:07:50am

re: #338 The Ghost of a Flea

It’s not so much that I disagree as that I shrug; I don’t accept the premise that rationalism and Enlightenment spirit have ever illuminated human beings such that there exist benighted individuals that are the drag on the species as a whole. As always—this is not stupidity it’s cruelty.

Also…and this is also consistent, stamp your bingo card…I find the largely-liberal assertion that all reactionary politics is a function of disability—intellectual impairment or mental illness—to just be gross. It’s eugenics for people that eat crudites.

……..

Reason is only as good as it’s shittiest base assumption, and our society is built on shitty base assumptions mostly proposed by thieves and creeps, euphemized and bronzed by whigs. Greene isn’t like that because her brain is bad, she’s like that because it is entirely rational to be that way if you live in a country that was built on racism, flipping countries to get cheap bananas, and bought into the same kind of religious nationalism that white Europeans did.
……..

True that — reason and logic are useful tools for deriving “truths” based on your premises. If a premise is faulty, logic will lead you astray. For most people, that’s what they want — something that will justify the cruelty and dishonesty they repeat daily. It’s especially true of MAGAts.

MTG is a liar par excellence; there is no reason to think she truly believes in anything she spouts but she manages to rise in power through her lies and cruelty.

Sununu’s argument is that because Republican voters believe a lie, the lie should not be challenged but, instead, promoted among the base and the population at large. He is as dishonest as MGT, but couches his views in more acceptable rhetoric, but he is no different from her.

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garzooma  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:09:30am

re: #332 steve_davis

sorry, the pedant in me, which is 99% of me, is calling “Gettsyburg viewed as a turning point” as complete and utter bullshit. By the time Gettysburg happened, the South had already lost the war. Vicksburg was the turning point. Gettysburg was just lee trying desperately to find boots for his nearly shoeless army.

Lincoln disagreed. As of over a year later he was sure he was going to lose re-election to a candidate committed to letting the South win:

On August 23, 1864, the outcome of the Civil War was very much in doubt. The two grand campaigns initiated by Ulysses S. Grant in the spring, twin offensives towards Richmond, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia, were sputtering in the face of heavy Confederate resistance. Abraham Lincoln was up for re-election in November, and he expected to lose to a candidate who would seek a negotiated peace with the Confederacy. On August 23, Lincoln wrote the memo below, folded it into an envelope, and asked his cabinet members to sign the envelope without reading the memo.

Executive Mansion
Washington, Aug. 23, 1864.
This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
LINCOLN

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:11:36am

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to the needs of a nation of car dealership owners that secretly yearn to be Lavrenty Beria.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:12:24am

re: #343 The Ghost of a Flea

They post on Freep daily.

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terraincognita  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:30:03am

re: #336 goddamnedfrank

You know, I feel sorry for the tree trimmer. Seems like a decent person, a hard working man, getting fleeced by the king of the grifters. What is for absolutely certain is the Donald Trump doesn’t give two shits about this individual and is only concerned what he is going to make off his labors.

Trump considers him a rube and feel totally justified in extracting money made by honest hard work away from him…a sucker born every minute.

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Jay C  Apr 14, 2024 • 11:38:12am

re: #332 steve_davis

sorry, the pedant in me, which is 99% of me, is calling “Gettsyburg viewed as a turning point” as complete and utter bullshit. By the time Gettysburg happened, the South had already lost the war. Vicksburg was the turning point. Gettysburg was just lee trying desperately to find boots for his nearly shoeless army.

Not that it’s not a useful pastime re-fighting Civil War campaigns, BUT….
1. The capture of Vicksburg as a (“the”?) turning point of the ACW was noted, generally, only afterwards: the final surrender on July 4 was the culmination of a six weeks’ siege; and was looked on at the time as vaguely a sort of anticlimax. Though no one in the North wasn’t going to celebrate, anyway. (My own opinion is that the Union finally seizing control of all of the Mississippi served to validate Winfield Scott’s much-derided “Anaconda Plan” of 1861, which few on the Blue side wanted to be reminded of)
2. The story of the Confederates raiding Gettysburg looking for shoes rests on a single post-war account which (AFAIK) has been questioned by most modern historians. It’s considered more likely that the two armies collided at that particular town because of the way the local road system was oriented: leading the more-mobile Confederates to concentrate their forces quicker. Which, as usual, they did.
3. Not that it needs much repeating, but Donald Trump’s grasp of the Battle of Gettysburg is like most else in that lump of mush he calls a brain… a National Disgrace.

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Vicious Babushka  Apr 14, 2024 • 7:53:49pm

re: #320 jeffreyw

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