The Bob Cesca Interview: Reed Galen

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

Reed Galen — Reed is an independent political strategist and co-founder of The Lincoln Project. A veteran public affairs and political professional with more than 20 years’ experience. Today we talked a little Star Wars, plus RFK’s brain worms, Kristi Noem’s scandals, the future of our insane politics, and more. You can find Reed on Twitter along with The Lincoln Project. Stick around for this one. Meantime, don’t forget to support this podcast by subscribing at patreon.com/bobcescashow. Music by Dreamkid.

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162 comments
1
EPR-radar  May 8, 2024 • 4:27:28pm

re: #142 Joe Bacon ✅

BUT

We can count on the New York Times to spin the “Democrats in Disarray” crap over and over.

Of course. Part of Republican privilege is not being held to any standards at all. Everyone expects Republicans to be freaks like MTG.

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silverdolphin  May 8, 2024 • 4:30:21pm

From below:

re: #138 Jay C

Presumably, the MSFT plant announced by the Administration today is not related to the over-hyped and under-achieved Foxconn project (Racine?) which the Scott Walker government in WI spent so much time hyping (and denigrating its skeptical opponents) - and which never worked out even remotely close to the GOP’s utopian predictions?

I’m guessing that this time - it being under Joe Biden, who prefers to spend his time touting committed (and real) projects, rather than rosy “projections” - there’s actually going to be a facility there (not just a rip-off of tax breaks)….

MSFT is using the same land that Foxconn was, but the money is there from Biden;s legislative efforts. And Biden makes sure everyone there knows.

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Jay C  May 8, 2024 • 4:32:42pm

re: #2 silverdolphin

And Joe didn’t need a shovel to get that dig in….

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 4:33:20pm

this is exactly what a brain worm would say

— darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) 2024-05-08T23:17:30.543Z

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 4:33:37pm

That time Jeff Tweedy and Steve Albini played cops for a healthcare•gov commercial.

“Stakeout”

What a gut punch. I can think of many other people who need to die of a heart attack. RIP Steve

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 4:40:41pm

Worm in cozy underground burrow reading book entitled How To Get A Head In Politics

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 8, 2024 • 4:41:31pm

In the fizzy world of carbonated beverages, today marked a notable anniversary. On May 8, 1886, a pharmacist in Georgia named John Pemberton sold the first glass of Coca-Cola, inaugurating what is arguably the most successful product in history. According to the beverage maker, Pemberton sold nine servings per day during the soft drink’s first year; by the time The New Yorker’s E. J. Kahn wrote about it, in 1959, that number had soared to forty thousand servings every minute. European royalty drank it; so had Hitler. The Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie imported special deliveries on his imperial plane—or he did, that is, until a bottling plant opened in Addis Ababa.

newyorker.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 8, 2024 • 4:51:21pm

The more I think about it the madder I get

” Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania are asking the public to be on alert for dog treats stuffed with fish hooks following their disturbing discovery along a portion of the Appalachian Trail over the weekend.

The potentially deadly treats were found by hikers on Sunday scattered along a trail northwest of Allentown in Washington Township, State Game Warden Dustin Stoner with the Pennsylvania Gaming Commission told HuffPost. … “

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Unabogie  May 8, 2024 • 4:57:48pm

So did Trump go see his neglected son graduate high school or was that just another lie from the raping fraudster?

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 4:59:21pm

re: #9 Unabogie

“…Looks like Donald Trump has scheduled a doubleheader for May 17 — his son Barron’s graduation and a Republican Party dinner in Minnesota.”
palmbeachpost.com

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 4:59:41pm

re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Man, that is truly fucked up.

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Nerdy Fish  May 8, 2024 • 4:59:54pm

re: #9 Unabogie

So did Trump go see his neglected son graduate high school or was that just another lie from the raping fraudster?

It’s next week - next Friday, I think. He’s also supposed to be in Minnesota glad-handing our dumbass Republicans, so I imagine the timing is tight. I bet he intentionally scheduled those for the same day so he could get out of court and get an extra day to “campaign”.

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Nerdy Fish  May 8, 2024 • 5:00:30pm

re: #12 Nerdy Fish

As in, he specifically scheduled the event with the MN Republican Party for the day of his son’s graduation, betting he could get out of court that day.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 8, 2024 • 5:08:56pm

re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 5:08:56pm

Worm night!

@lilacsunday.bsky.social

I love this manuscript. Pomegranate, Worm, and Peach, from Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta (a calligraphy manual!), made in Vienna by Georg Bocskay (text, 1562) and Joris Hoefnagel (illumination c. 1591-1596).
#EarlyModern

Getty Museum, Ms. 20 (86.mv.527), fol. 83.

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jeffreyw  May 8, 2024 • 5:09:00pm

Well crap. My A/C is out, screen on ‘stat says system malfunction - call for service. I thought it was warming up in here.

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Dangerman  May 8, 2024 • 5:09:45pm

re: #145 sizzzzlerz

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I looked up the Buescher Band Instrument company as I’d never heard of them before. Being that I played both the clarinet and the tenor sax all through school and college in the 70s, I’ve had some interest in the various manufacturers for some time. The company made a line of wind instruments out of their Elkhart, IN factory but were primarily known for their saxophones. They were in business from the late 19th century until 1963 when they were bought by the Selmer company. Selmer discontinued the brand in 1980. Conn-Selmer, today, owns a variety of brands and it continues to manufacture instruments in Elkhart as well as importing instruments from France and Japan. Paul Desmond and Sonny Rollins were among pro musicians who played Buescher at one point in their careers.

Ebay is currently listing a number of saxes and trumpets for sale.

Thanks for this

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Nerdy Fish  May 8, 2024 • 5:10:32pm

re: #16 jeffreyw

Well crap. My A/C is out, screen on ‘stat says system malfunction - call for service. I thought it was warming up in here.

It’s that time of the year. This is why I sprang for a full new system this year. My furnace was malfunctioning recently, but my father-in-law’s heating/cooling company came out and finally tracked the problem down after several perplexing days of investigation.

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2024 • 5:11:42pm

Posting this for no reason I’m sure

— Star Trek Minus Context (@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social) 2024-05-09T00:07:03.801Z

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TedStriker  May 8, 2024 • 5:15:01pm

re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

The more I think about it the madder I get

[Embedded content]

Some people deserve to be staked naked to a fire ant mound.

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gocart mozart  May 8, 2024 • 5:15:20pm
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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 5:17:18pm

re: #21 gocart mozart

One more time, Mike. Undocumented people are here to work or take refuge; they’re not going to take the risk of voting illegally, because there’s a huge imbalance in the gigantic risk and the nonexistent reward.

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TedStriker  May 8, 2024 • 5:17:19pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

A quip reportedly attributed to Walter Koenig:
Star Trek II: Chekov Screams Again!

(Chekov also got hurt by one of V’ger’s attacks against Enterprise in The Motion Picture, so that’s where that comes from.)

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 5:20:09pm

Those brainworms must be spreading.

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Nerdy Fish  May 8, 2024 • 5:21:33pm

re: #24 jaunte

Those brainworms must be spreading.

[Embedded content]

The stupid, it burns…

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 5:23:37pm

Is it time to update LGF’s comment action icons?

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 5:24:39pm

re: #21 gocart mozart
@donmoyn.bsky.social

If you’re a House Speaker planning to refuse to accept the results of an election that your candidate lost, this is what you would be saying now to lay the groundwork.

Gift article:

The 2020-was-stolen crew is here to stoke fears of noncitizen voters
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) led a news conference featuring key Trump allies in which he tried to amplify baseless warnings about non-citizen voters.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 8, 2024 • 5:24:51pm

re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

The more I think about it the madder I get

[Embedded content]

GRRRR. A fitting punishment would be to force feed those “treats” down the perps throat and then let then die from having their digestive track torn apart.

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Dangerman  May 8, 2024 • 5:25:13pm

re: #22 jaunte

One more time, Mike. Undocumented people are here to work or take refuge; they’re not going to take the risk of voting illegally, because there’s a huge imbalance in the gigantic risk and the nonexistent reward.

Give us one case Mike
One
Can’t even do that can you?

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 8, 2024 • 5:25:20pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

Is it time to update LGF’s comment action icons?

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dat_said  May 8, 2024 • 5:25:31pm

CNN: More than 200 people with diabetes injured after software issue drained insulin pump batteries

I’ve done many a hazard analysis for medical devices so I understand the process. I know the process is not easy and is humbling and disheartening and frightening.

So, I can guarantee they did a hazard analysis and they did note the hazard of app crashing with the mitigation of reset. But, as they now learned, you don’t stop at the first mitigation and say all good. Thankfully, app crashing can be fixed with a software update. Until the next bug that causes a crash.

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jeffreyw  May 8, 2024 • 5:26:05pm

What’s worse than a worm in your brains?

HALF a worm!

-Zombie Dad Joke

— Still Peachy (@stillpeachy.bsky.social) 2024-05-08T20:45:42.657Z

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 5:26:12pm

re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Noem’s story may have touched off some other psychopaths.

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 5:27:12pm

I notice that the minus button for comments is definitely not much in favor on the Big SM sites these days. Wouldn’t want to spread negativity, would we?

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 5:29:36pm

Seems to me that a “don’t like” button can be a good social tool to convey disapproval without making a huge deal out of it. Sometimes that’s necessary.

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Dangerman  May 8, 2024 • 5:29:38pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

Is it time to update LGF’s comment action icons?

I’d like to be able to upding a comment while looking at the rating

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 5:30:02pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

Other possible reaction symbols

🤮. 🤡. 🍆

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2024 • 5:30:48pm

“They wouldn’t last a day in Gaza” is kinda the point of the protests though

— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono.bsky.social) 2024-05-09T00:19:19.183Z

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EPR-radar  May 8, 2024 • 5:30:56pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

I notice that the minus button for comments is definitely not much in favor on the Big SM sites these days. Wouldn’t want to spread negativity, would we?

Well, you can’t have down votes with consequences on a social media site that isn’t properly moderated, and none of the big social media sites are properly moderated.

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Nerdy Fish  May 8, 2024 • 5:31:12pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Seems to me that a “don’t like” button can be a good social tool to convey disapproval without making a huge deal out of it. Sometimes that’s necessary.

I think they’re wanting to avoid the review-bombing phenomena, where everybody dogpiles on something that is temporarily unpopular. It’s the difference between having a well-curated membership, as we have here, and open membership, like the big open wastelands of social media.

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darthstar  May 8, 2024 • 5:31:24pm

So MTG moves to vacate, House votes to table, then Trump sends request via truthtoot to table so he can be on the winning side. Desperate man-child…and tomorrow he’s got to stare down Stormy again.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 5:31:45pm

re: #24 jaunte

Deeply unserious people. And they have a lot of money and power.

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darthstar  May 8, 2024 • 5:34:04pm

Bobby and the Brain Worms sounds like he name of a garage band.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 8, 2024 • 5:34:17pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

Is it time to update LGF’s comment action icons?

Bigger for mobile use please!

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 5:34:39pm

re: #43 darthstar

Bobby and the Brain Worms sounds like he name of a garage band.

Bobby Junior and the Brain Worms

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2024 • 5:35:37pm

The first thing I’d do if I were a brain worm piloting a Kennedy is fake my own death

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank.bsky.social) 2024-05-09T00:34:59.679Z

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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 5:37:18pm

re: #21 gocart mozart

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 8, 2024 • 5:37:19pm

re: #43 darthstar

Bobby and the Brain Worms sounds like he name of a garage band.

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Bobby Junior and the Brain Worms

Bobby Brain Worm and the Parasites

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 5:37:57pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 8, 2024 • 5:37:58pm

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 5:38:27pm

Bobby Brain Worm and the Parasites singing “You don’t have to live with a vermifuge”

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 8, 2024 • 5:40:45pm

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 5:42:16pm

one of the candidates for president in this election says he had a worm that ate part of his brain then died in there inside his skull, but it’s fine now, it won’t affect him, he took a shower

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-09T00:40:59.000Z

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 8, 2024 • 5:43:27pm

re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅

Hmmm….

People with large portfolios of equities are better off.

That means not most Americans.

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darthstar  May 8, 2024 • 5:45:55pm

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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 5:46:21pm

re: #52 Joe Bacon ✅

When I popped up the image Bacon put up, it’s big enough that it needed scrollbars at first, but when I resize Chrome, it makes the picture bigger, and keeps the scrollbars. The scrollbars were still there when I closed the image and reopened it.

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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 5:47:09pm

re: #55 darthstar

[Embedded content]

It all goes back to Laurel and Hardy, who are part of our DNA.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 8, 2024 • 5:50:32pm

re: #55 darthstar

That’s the cabbage lady.

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DodgerFan1988  May 8, 2024 • 5:51:16pm
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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 5:55:26pm

re: #59 DodgerFan1988

I’m curious how much of that tech money was actually going to Biden.

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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 5:56:07pm

re: #59 DodgerFan1988

Also, I can’t wait for them to get sued for campaign contributions when they “lend” Trump their platforms for his message.

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Decatur Deb  May 8, 2024 • 5:59:30pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Seems to me that a “don’t like” button can be a good social tool to convey disapproval without making a huge deal out of it. Sometimes that’s necessary.

I downdinged someone once—Walter Newton. It was a fumble-finger, but before the ability to correct by upding.

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darthstar  May 8, 2024 • 5:59:54pm

Okay…this is a good Trump cartoon.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 8, 2024 • 6:00:28pm

re: #61 Belafon

Also, I can’t wait for them to get sued for campaign contributions when they “lend” Trump their platforms for his message.

A meaningless threat since recent events have shown that the wealthy can simply lawyer up and drag out lawsuits for an essentially infinite time. Even then, it would be a pocket change level fine.

And if the illegal actions help win Trump the election then all the shenanigans were worth it. Even if there are fines, etc. for violations afterwards since nothing will reverse the election.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 6:00:58pm

re: #62 Decatur Deb

I remember that guy. Curmudgeon who lived in the foothills above Denver. Kind of an asshole. Probably dead, who knows.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 6:02:08pm

“Kind of an asshole” can easily describe me. If not worse. 🫤

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 8, 2024 • 6:02:32pm

re: #60 Belafon

I’m curious how much of that tech money was actually going to Biden.

This. Most tech bros aren’t exactly left leaning.

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darthstar  May 8, 2024 • 6:03:51pm

re: #66 teleskiguy

“Kind of an asshole” can easily describe me. If not worse. 🫤

I prefer to think of you as a ‘free-heeling asshole’…

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Decatur Deb  May 8, 2024 • 6:04:23pm

re: #65 teleskiguy

I remember that guy. Curmudgeon who lived in the foothills above Denver. Kind of an asshole. Probably dead, who knows.

Sort of liked him. Sort of like assholes, which is just as well.

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 6:06:07pm

PAPOON FOR PRESIDENT!

HE DOESN’T HAVE BRAIN WORMS!

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-09T01:03:50.000Z

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 6:06:34pm

If I’ve learned anything about the life of Steve Albini it’s to own up to your past shitty behavior and try to become a better person at all costs, that’s the righteous thing to do.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 6:07:35pm

Only the good die young…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 8, 2024 • 6:08:18pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

If I’ve learned anything about the life of Steve Albini it’s to own up to your past shitty behavior and try to become a better person at all costs, that’s the righteous thing to do.

You’re working on it and doing a good job. Keep it up! We’re proud of you.

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 6:09:14pm

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austin_blue  May 8, 2024 • 6:11:03pm

re: #8 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

The more I think about it the madder I get

[Embedded content]

Soros strikes again…

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 6:12:19pm

It’s like waking up and finding out Ian MacKaye suddenly died. Finding out Steve Albini just checks out suddenly, it’s pretty devastating. Ian and Steve are about the same age.

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JC1  May 8, 2024 • 6:15:59pm

re: #60 Belafon

I’m curious how much of that tech money was actually going to Biden.

Most of it, and most of it will continue to do so. Musk/Sacks/Thiel are a minority.

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 6:17:50pm

Wasn’t there a series in the early days of streaming about brain worms infecting politicians in DC?

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Charles Johnson  May 8, 2024 • 6:19:34pm

re: #74 jaunte

Why does that image always remind me of George Conway?

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 6:19:46pm

re: #73 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That is awfully nice of you to say. 🥰

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 6:20:04pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

“Brain Dead”

imdb.com

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 6:20:56pm

There’s a “nice dog” line in the Brain Dead trailer.

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Ace Rothstein  May 8, 2024 • 6:21:03pm

re: #22 jaunte

One more time, Mike. Undocumented people are here to work or take refuge; they’re not going to take the risk of voting illegally, because there’s a huge imbalance in the gigantic risk and the nonexistent reward.

If I lived in a foreign country, the last thing that would ever cross my mind is voting in their elections.

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Ace Rothstein  May 8, 2024 • 6:21:36pm

re: #29 Dangerman

Give us one case Mike
One
Can’t even do that can you?

No.

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 6:22:00pm

re: #83 Ace Rothstein

Yes, it’s a ridiculous accusation that assumes the people they’re accusing are too stupid to act in their own best interest.

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Decatur Deb  May 8, 2024 • 6:24:05pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

Wasn’t there a series in the early days of streaming about brain worms infecting politicians in DC?

Plot to 1950s Invaders From Mars.

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Ace Rothstein  May 8, 2024 • 6:24:31pm

re: #85 jaunte

Yes, it’s a ridiculous accusation that assumes the people they’re accusing are too stupid to act in their own best interest.

By Jesusbot’s logic then, voter ID doesn’t work if all these illegals are voting.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 6:25:24pm

This track was recorded by Steve Albini way back in 1988.

Pixies - Where Is My Mind? (Official Lyric Video)

The list of recordings Steve Albini was involved in is very long.

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Dave In Austin  May 8, 2024 • 6:25:40pm

What does one expect when one dines on Gas Station Sushi……….

Tuna Days…. Filled with mercury and parasites.

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Ace Rothstein  May 8, 2024 • 6:27:49pm

The Galleria, Houston.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 6:29:32pm

Born in Pasadena, moved to Missoula very young, grew up there, heard a Ramones record one time when he was a teenager, blew his fucken mind. Moves to Chicago from Missoula when he’s 20. Spends the rest of his life in Chicago doing things. Steve Albini.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 8, 2024 • 6:30:05pm

re: #86 Decatur Deb

Plot to 1950s Invaders From Mars.

The Stuff.

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jeffreyw  May 8, 2024 • 6:33:44pm

Mastodon

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 8, 2024 • 6:35:01pm

re: #92 GlutenFreeJesus

The Stuff.

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darthstar  May 8, 2024 • 6:39:13pm

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Decatur Deb  May 8, 2024 • 6:39:55pm

Let me count the ways…

Popular Dothan breakfast spot near daycare approved for liquor license
wdhn.com

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 6:43:56pm

re: #90 Ace Rothstein

Old high school hangout. One of my friends’ fathers worked for a radio station; he had a reel of about a thousand free admission tickets to the ice rink.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 8, 2024 • 6:50:11pm

Lil Awful Annie resurfaces to slime Ramadamdingdong!

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 6:50:36pm

@segalmr.bsky.social

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Admitting rap music or videos in criminal trials is highly prejudicial, especially bc “by no means is rap the exclusive genre for glorification of criminal activity.”
https://search.txcourts.gov/Case.aspx?cn=PD-0677-22&coa=coscca

Some examples from the Court:

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Nerdy Fish  May 8, 2024 • 6:51:22pm

re: #98 Joe Bacon ✅

Lil Awful Annie resurfaces to slime Ramadamdingdong!

[Embedded content]

Ramalamadingdong is still kicking around? Damn. I hadn’t heard from him since he got curbstomped into obscurity by the Trump Train.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 6:52:17pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman  May 8, 2024 • 6:59:09pm

re: #83 Ace Rothstein

If I lived in a foreign country, the last thing that would ever cross my mind is voting in their elections.

Someone who managed to get here and is not ‘legal’ is probably not thinking of imfluencing our political system as a priority.

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austin_blue  May 8, 2024 • 7:00:02pm

I had never heard of Stave Albini before today, but I gotta say, the reviews are just fantastic.

Seems like I should have paid more attention, but music producers are generally below my radar.

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IngisKahn  May 8, 2024 • 7:00:04pm

I had to down ding Charles’s anti down ding button post. Seemed apropos.

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austin_blue  May 8, 2024 • 7:00:45pm

re: #104 IngisKahn

I had to down ding Charles’s anti down ding button post. Seemed apropos.

Cheeky Monkey.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 7:02:20pm

re: #101 teleskiguy

If Steve saw that Apple iPad ad he would’ve gone full Elvis on his monitor.

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 7:04:18pm

re: #103 austin_blue

Seems like I should have paid more attention, but music producers are generally below my radar.

Steve was loathe to be labeled a “producer.” He preferred “engineer” or “recording engineer.”

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Nerdy Fish  May 8, 2024 • 7:05:42pm

re: #107 teleskiguy

Steve was loathe to be labeled a “producer.” He preferred “engineer” or “recording engineer.”

My people.

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Patricia Kayden  May 8, 2024 • 7:07:35pm

Brainworm says that having RFK Jr as its host will not affect its ability to serve as President.

— Arkenor (@arkenor.bsky.social) 2024-05-08T23:20:52.202Z

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 7:08:37pm

For those who don’t know about Steve Albini, I recommend this.

Although they only existed for seven years and released just three albums, Nirvana were a band of immeasurable influence in the music world thanks in no small part to Smells Like Teen Spirit, a single track on Nevermind, their second album. It was this song that brought them out into the open, going on to sell millions of copies and win countless awards, its iconic video seemingly broadcast on MTV every 20 minutes for the next six months. 17 months after Nevermind’s release, the band began to record what would be their final album, In Utero—produced by Steve Albini, outspoken engineer extraordinaire. In November of 1992, shortly before they formally agreed on his involvement, Albini wrote to Nirvana and laid bare his philosophy in a pitch letter that is fascinating from start to finish.

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austin_blue  May 8, 2024 • 7:11:38pm

re: #107 teleskiguy

Steve was loathe to be labeled a “producer.” He preferred “engineer” or “recording engineer.”

Noted, and thanks. It was the moniker I saw on CNN.

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TedStriker  May 8, 2024 • 7:15:15pm

re: #43 darthstar

Bobby and the Brain Worms sounds like he name of a garage band.

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Bobby Junior and the Brain Worms

Sounds like a mid-late 60s SoCal psychedelic band.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 8, 2024 • 7:16:19pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Seems to me that a “don’t like” button can be a good social tool to convey disapproval without making a huge deal out of it. Sometimes that’s necessary.

Agreed. I’ve been the recipient of more than a few down-dings during my time here. They serve as reminder that this space ISN’T a echo chamber without beating my head against a wall.

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sagehen  May 8, 2024 • 7:17:20pm

The Amazing Adventures Of Worm In Brain-Man

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 8, 2024 • 7:17:34pm

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Patricia Kayden  May 8, 2024 • 7:21:02pm

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austin_blue  May 8, 2024 • 7:21:56pm

re: #112 TedStriker

Sounds like a mid-late 60s SoCal psychedelic band.

In the mid-80’s Austin punk scene, it would have been Dead Worm in Bobby’s Brain.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 8, 2024 • 7:24:03pm

2025

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Dangerman  May 8, 2024 • 7:25:54pm

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Dangerman  May 8, 2024 • 7:28:15pm

re: #116 Patricia Kayden

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Someone posted “don’t ask why she cried. ask why she didn’t quit”

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Dangerman  May 8, 2024 • 7:29:54pm

One more

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 8, 2024 • 7:34:11pm
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Hecuba's daughter  May 8, 2024 • 7:37:13pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Seems to me that a “don’t like” button can be a good social tool to convey disapproval without making a huge deal out of it. Sometimes that’s necessary.

FB doesn’t have one but it does have an angry button and a lol button — not the same but does allow a different perspective.

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austin_blue  May 8, 2024 • 7:40:27pm

Night all. Let’s get all Jesus and feed the hungry, heal the sick, and house the homeless.

Or admit that Jesus was a Liberal, whatever.

It’s America in 2024!

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Patricia Kayden  May 8, 2024 • 7:40:36pm

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austin_blue  May 8, 2024 • 7:41:38pm

re: #125 Patricia Kayden

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I love that. I really do.

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darthstar  May 8, 2024 • 7:47:41pm

Watching Fox News try to cover President Biden in Wisconsin today it dawned on me that they’d be better off just embracing him and being on the winning side.

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darthstar  May 8, 2024 • 7:56:16pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  May 8, 2024 • 7:59:18pm

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 8:01:34pm

re: #101 teleskiguy

Steve Albini died suddenly on 7 May 2024, my 42nd birthday. I will always think about that.

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2024 • 8:08:40pm

re: #103 austin_blue

I had never heard of Stave Albini before today, but I gotta say, the reviews are just fantastic.

Seems like I should have paid more attention, but music producers are generally below my radar.

Pro tip, check out Bob Power

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2024 • 8:10:38pm

Steve Albini was a great argument against “you’ll get more conservative as you get older”

— Padishah Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 (@kennedytcooper.bsky.social) 2024-05-09T02:22:23.560Z

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mmmirele  May 8, 2024 • 8:10:50pm

re: #27 jaunte

We went through this shiz in Arizona in 2020. Along with other MTG fever dreams like Chinese bamboo ballots. Johnson can sit on a cactus and I know of several I could recommend.

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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 8:13:30pm

re: #103 austin_blue

I had never heard of Stave Albini before today, but I gotta say, the reviews are just fantastic.

Seems like I should have paid more attention, but music producers are generally below my radar.

The producers I know, like Timbaland and Bruno Mars, are the ones who became singers.

135
A Cranky One  May 8, 2024 • 8:16:09pm

My new band name

136
Lancelot Link Returns!  May 8, 2024 • 8:19:29pm

This is my favorite record producer

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2024 • 8:22:54pm

re: #131 goddamnedfrank

Pro tip, check out Bob Power

The interesting thing about Power and Albini is how they both found niches working in extremely different genres by somehow finding a way to convince artists to work with them primarily on the basis of authenticity. Power’s case is even more interesting to me because he was working way the fuck outside what society would normally expect of him as a white dude born in 1952 whose education focused on classical music and jazz.

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darthstar  May 8, 2024 • 8:25:31pm

Dogs

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2024 • 8:28:59pm

re: #137 goddamnedfrank

The interesting thing about Power and Albini is how they both found niches working in extremely different genres by somehow finding a way to convince artists to work with them primarily on the basis of authenticity. Power’s case is even more interesting to me because he was working way the fuck outside what society would normally expect of him as a white dude born in 1952 whose education focused on classical music and jazz.

All of this history, by the way, is what AI is promising to steal from us humans who grew up and are used to living in a human fucking civilization.

Just in case, y’know, you haven’t quite yet figured why what AIs produce isn’t “art.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 8, 2024 • 8:34:35pm

The Amazing Adventures Of Worm In Brain-Man

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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 8:45:51pm

re: #139 goddamnedfrank

All of this history, by the way, is what AI is promising to steal from us humans who grew up and are used to living in a human fucking civilization.

Just in case, y’know, you haven’t quite yet figured why what AIs produce isn’t “art.”

1. I’m pretty sure people said the same thing about cameras.
2. Most people don’t want art. That’s why most country and pop exists.
3. There will be people who will continue making art, and people who will prefer to pay actual artists.
4. Current AI isn’t intelligent, but I expect it to actually get there one day. I wonder what its art will look like.

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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 8:50:35pm
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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 8:51:05pm
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Sherlock Hound  May 8, 2024 • 8:52:06pm

re: #135 A Cranky One

“Annular Throbbed”
…

*WHACK*

///

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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 8:53:24pm
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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 8, 2024 • 8:56:07pm

re: #142 Belafon

30% of the population: Too Little Too Late!
30% of the population: This Proves He’s Antisemitic!
NYT: Most Americans Oppose Biden!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 8, 2024 • 9:01:31pm

re: #142 Belafon

Meanwhile Trump would be all like: “How many nukes do y’all need?”

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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 9:02:18pm

re: #146 Lancelot Link Returns!

30% of the population: Too Little Too Late!
30% of the population: This Proves He’s Antisemitic!
NYT: Most Americans Oppose Biden!

I’m assuming you mean 30% of the 3% seriously paying attention.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 8, 2024 • 9:03:15pm
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Belafon  May 8, 2024 • 9:03:35pm

re: #148 Belafon

Because the only thing most of my coworkers know is that Israel was attacked on October 7th.

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Captain Ron  May 8, 2024 • 9:06:18pm
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KingKenrod  May 8, 2024 • 9:09:57pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

Wasn’t there a series in the early days of streaming about brain worms infecting politicians in DC?

BrainDead, with the guy from Monk and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Ants, not worms. I loved that series but it only got one season.

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TedStriker  May 8, 2024 • 9:12:12pm

re: #152 KingKenrod

BrainDead, with the guy from Monk and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Ants, not worms. I loved that series but it only got one season.

Tony Shalhoub.

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goddamnedfrank  May 8, 2024 • 9:12:17pm

Charles, I have no idea if this is useful information or not but occasionally when I click on my own bio and load recent posts the BlueSky embeds will embed properly. It’s super rare and inconsistent but it’s happened a couple times around this time in the evening which might point to a rate limit being tied to an Eastern time zone midnight server reset.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 8, 2024 • 9:12:24pm

re: #148 Belafon

I mean the ones who answer the “carefully balanced” poll

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teleskiguy  May 8, 2024 • 9:16:39pm

I’m listening to Grateful Dead’s concert on this day in 1977 with my Mom. She is loving it.

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Captain Ron  May 8, 2024 • 9:31:20pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  May 8, 2024 • 9:35:42pm

re: #157 Captain Ron

Christian NAZIonism. That’s what Chip Roy and his fellow radicals want.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 8, 2024 • 9:41:47pm

re: #148 Belafon

On further thought, probably closer to 20%/ 40%

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 8, 2024 • 9:44:49pm

re: #157 Captain Ron

They’ve been on the Shariah Law shit for over 20 years now. SMH.

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Captain Ron  May 8, 2024 • 9:47:23pm
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A Three Hour Tour  May 8, 2024 • 9:58:04pm

re: #161 Captain Ron

“Dark Brandon didn’t say he’d cut off weapons sales if we leveled a Bedouin village instead of Rafah. Checkmate, Americans.”

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