New Zealand Meets Saskatoon: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams

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Bob Boilen | March 29, 2021 - Across hemispheres, despite a nearly 8,000-mile separation, the Saskatoon, Canada duo of cousins Kacy & Clayton and New Zealand’s Marlon Williams manage to create harmony and intimacy. The Tiny Desk (home) concert, on the surface, is joyful and playful with animated illustrations by Daniel Syrnick. But a careful listen to “Plastic Bouquet,” the title track to the 2020 collaboration between Kacy Lee Anderson, Clayton Linthicum, and Marlon Williams, reveals a depth of storytelling more familiar in murder ballads than the trio’s upbeat Americana sound.
Kacy sings,
When a small four-door car was severed in two
Three girls were killed by a boy they all knew
Out for a party, they’d never attend
Pockets with money they never would spend

The devastatingly sad tale is met with smiles across hemispheres while an animated teacup pops on screen for Kacy to sip. Clayton’s guitar twangs and Marlon’s Roy Orbison-like voice conjure a 1950s rock and roll sound that’s a surprisingly perfect match for Kacy’s serene voice. It’s a magic collaboration of the very far north meeting the very deep south. The wizardry of technology reminds me of the wondrous world we often share these days, from a distance.

SET LIST
“I Wonder Why”
“Plastic Bouquet”
“Arahura”
“Isn’t It”
“Devil’s Daughter”

MUSICIANS
Kacy Anderson: vocals, guitar
Clayton Linthicum: guitar
Marlon Williams: vocals, guitar

CREDITS
Video: Little Jack Films
Audio: Micah Erenberg
Illustration: Daniel Syrnick

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Video Producer: Kara Frame
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Associate Producer: Bobby Carter
Tiny Production Team: Maia Stern
Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#kacyandclayton #marlonwilliams #tinydesk #nprmusic

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205 comments
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plansbandc  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:34:54pm

I think this is really cool…

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:45:19pm
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Belafon  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:46:39pm

Random words strung together:

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:47:54pm
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🌹UOJB!  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:48:30pm

When SCTV met G Gordon Liddy!

Mrs. Falbo’s Tiny Town - G. GORDON LIDDY

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retired cynic  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:49:47pm

What a lovely voice that girl has. The harmony was amazing, with few glitches, for that far apart.

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stpaulbear  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:52:08pm

re: #5 🌹UOJB!

When SCTV met G Gordon Liddy!

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It’ll be interesting to listen to Bob Cesca’s show next Tuesday. Both he and Buzz have worked with Liddy.

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austin_blue  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:55:48pm

This Michigan/UCLA game is kind of exciting.

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:56:38pm

re: #365 Belafon

“Then explain why it started under Barr.”

They’re trying desperately to split the difference between “There is no investigation, it’s all lies!” and “It’s all a massive DOJ/Deep State conspiracy to bring down a powerful fighter for justice!”

Right now, it seems they’re trending towards “This lawyer from Florida who nobody knew about before today was going to magically get the DOJ to gin up a totally fabricated investigation in order to bring down Gaetz.”

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BeachDem  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:58:28pm
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Mar 30, 2021 • 8:59:47pm

re: #358 A Mom Anon

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:02:38pm
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austin_blue  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:04:56pm

re: #3 Belafon

Random words strung together:

Dear MTG;

I have gotten both Moderna shots. My protection is between 95 and 98% against the virus.

People who will not take the vaccine are 0 to 0 % protected against the virus.

Please do us all favor, and fuck off and die.

I’m sure your North Georgia mouth-breathers love you, but as a public policy wonk, you are as capable as a one-legged woman in an ass-kicking contest.

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CleverToad  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:05:36pm

re: #358 A Mom Anon

From downstairs:

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austin_blue  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:07:52pm

UCLA advances, Michigan is deed.

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:10:01pm

re: #13 austin_blue

I did find it funny reading all the people attempting to define and defend “corporate communism.”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:12:14pm

Republicans trying to distance themselves.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:13:18pm

re: #17 Dread Pirate Ron

Republicans trying to distance themselves.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:13:25pm

But what about Nestor?

Night people. Sweet dreams.

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:13:39pm

re: #17 Dread Pirate Ron

Republicans trying to distance themselves.

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And let me guess, they’re all doing it from behind anonymity so that when the call goes out to circle the wagons, nobody has to publicly walk back their statements.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:14:20pm

I hope a coyote grabs Ted’s, uh, wallet on his next trip.

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austin_blue  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:14:56pm

Night all, about what I expected tonight except that UCLA would beat Michigan. Good for them! The lowest seed (#11) in either the men’s or women’s brackets advances.

It’s been fun to follow!

(I still think Baylor got robbed against UConn last night. That was as obvious a foul as a foul could be with 2 seconds left.)

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Mattand  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:17:17pm

re: #3 Belafon

Random words strung together:

Marjorie Taylor Greene says that a vaccine passport is “Biden’s Mark of the Beast” and that any company the requires one is engaging in “corporate communism.”

I’m pretty good at teasing English out of Republican speak but this one is giving me nosebleeds.

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JC1  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:18:51pm

re: #23 Mattand

I’m pretty good at teasing English out of Republican speak but this one is giving me nosebleeds.

It’s her version of the Chewbacca defense.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:21:05pm

re: #17 Dread Pirate Ron

Republicans trying to distance themselves.

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Please, Please, Please, Please let Gym Jordan be the next to go down!

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austin_blue  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:24:09pm

re: #23 Mattand

I’m pretty good at teasing English out of Republican speak but this one is giving me nosebleeds.

As well it should. It’s just a giant pile of bullshit.

And horribly worded bullshit.

She’s just dumb. A smart woman, knowing she wasn’t very good at Social Media, would hire someone to to turn the MTG arglebargle into usable tweets. But not our MTG! She proudly mangles thought into arglebargle.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:29:56pm
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Mattand  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:38:43pm

re: #26 austin_blue

As well it should. It’s just a giant pile of bullshit.

And horribly worded bullshit.

She’s just dumb. A smart woman, knowing she wasn’t very good at Social Media, would hire someone to to turn the MTG arglebargle into usable tweets. But not our MTG! She proudly mangles thought into arglebargle.

LOL at the bolded.

I’m still trying to figure out how corporate communism would work. If I understand the concept of ‘regular’ communism, the government takes over all businesses and corporations on behalf of the people, in order to disturb wealth evenly.

So that means in corporate communism, a corporation takes over its own means of production, which it already has GODDAMMIT MY FRONTAL LOBE JUST EXPLODED OWWW!!!!

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:41:34pm

But you know, they White House isn’t providing enough gotchas, I mean information, so they have to talk to Biden.

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:43:07pm

re: #29 Belafon

Reload if you don’t see my added text.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:44:08pm

Yeah, not feeling the whole “what about Nestor?” tee-hee stuff.

While there’s one narrow band of possibility in which Nestor is somehow an active and malicious actor collaborating with Gaetz, there are far, far more versions of this story where he’s a kid who trusted an older person and has been used in one way or another. And if the story twists toward him defending Gaetz as this gets more real that’s more sad than anything else: bonds you form as a kid don’t suddenly become rational and set in sharp relief when you hit young adulthood.

Honestly…just let it play out. It’s already a fucking horrorshow and doesn’t need embellishment. If it’s real, it means at least one real person was horribly used, and that doesn’t require some kind of ghoulish and prudish lagniappe to be worth attention.

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sagehen  Mar 30, 2021 • 9:58:15pm

re: #28 Mattand

I’m still trying to figure out how corporate communism would work. If I understand the concept of ‘regular’ communism, the government takes over all businesses and corporations on behalf of the people, in order to disturb wealth evenly.

So that means in corporate communism, a corporation takes over its own means of production, which it already has GODDAMMIT MY FRONTAL LOBE JUST EXPLODED OWWW!!!!

Not exactly.

In a Kibbutz, the bunch of people who drained the swamp and planted the crops and built the buildings are all owners; that ownership passes down through the generations. Some kibbutzim are successful enough, and wealthy enough, to send any of their kids who want it to foreign colleges, or give them a travel year between military service and college, etc. They have big-screen TVs and expensive cars and members get a monthly profit-sharing sum of money. The workers own the means of production.

The building I live in (NYC) is a co-op; there’s a corporation that owns the building, hires the staff, pays the taxes, repairs the roof and elevators, etc. Shareholder/tenants have a proprietary lease, their share allotments vary based on how big is their apartment and what floor are they on. The Board of Directors all live here, they’re elected by the shareholders, they decide on improvements (e.g., the gym in the basement, upgrades to the laundry room, green energy projects). If you own a condo you can sell it or sublet it at your whim, in a co-op the buyer has to be board-approved, sublets are strictly limited, and notable changes need majority shareholder support (like the co-ops on Riverside Drive that used to be Trump-branded, but the shareholders voted to change the name and remove the Trump signage.)

These examples are kinda-sorta corporate communism.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:03:14pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:06:30pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:09:32pm

From downstairs

re: #358 A Mom Anon

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:18:07pm

Rachel has it wrong about Trumpster reactions to S1 - the Senate version of the voting rights bill: while it may be true that a neutral explanation of the bill would get support from conservative voters, these voters hear only Newsmax lies and they are dead set against this legislation. They oppose any bills that would make it easier for “those people” to vote.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:21:38pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:23:58pm

I’m going to be interested to hear from wingnuts why the FBI was supposedly so invested in this alleged extortion scheme that they not only had Matt’s dad wear a wire, but also had orchestrated a sting operation to catch the extortionist in the act of accepting the “down payment,” but suddenly drop the whole thing and play dumb now that the investigation that he was going to “make go away” has been exposed to the press.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:27:29pm

So, I wake up here in Europe and practically the first thing I read about is Rep. Matt Gaetz being investigated for kiddie fiddling.

It’s always the ones you never suspect, amirite?

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:38:53pm

The MAGAts are all over the fucking board tonight on how to defend Gaetz. Besides those who are trying to carve out a little exception in their whole “KIDDIE DIDDLING IS EVIL!!!” worldview for Repubs they like, the rest have basically turned the whole thing into a case of Schrodinger’s Investigation: It’s simultaneously an on-going investigation totally cooked up by the Deep State and also something that McGee was threatening to start if Gaetz didn’t pay up. And while he’s apparently a minor celebrity in Florida, none of them can explain how David McGee suddenly became the mastermind behind this whole plan to bring down Gaetz.

This is gonna be a wild week.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:43:56pm

This is why I don’t have TV.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:44:42pm

Oh shit, it’s on Netflix.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:47:14pm

“Quick, change the subject.” he thought.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:47:22pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:52:58pm

I noticed this tonight.

5X increase

still going down

What is different in Michigan vs. California?

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Mar 30, 2021 • 10:55:45pm

re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron

Wingnuts are not in any positions of power anywhere in California that matters as far as dealing with COVID or the Vaccinations.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 30, 2021 • 11:04:31pm

re: #40 Targetpractice

Wasn’t Gaetz contemplating leaving Congress early so he could go work for Newsmax?

Uh huh. It’s not that a better gig came along….it’s that a major scandal was about to blow up.

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piratedan  Mar 30, 2021 • 11:09:34pm

re: #47 Dr Lizardo

safe to say, hoping for lots of collateral damage.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 30, 2021 • 11:14:35pm

re: #48 piratedan

Same here.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 30, 2021 • 11:20:06pm

re: #49 Dr Lizardo

Same here.

Me too!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 30, 2021 • 11:20:42pm

re: #47 Dr Lizardo

Wasn’t Gaetz contemplating leaving Congress early so he could go work for Newsmax?

Uh huh. It’s not that a better gig came along….it’s that a major scandal was about to blow up.

Okay, so that seems intuitively right with the new information, but…

…is it really surprising absent that one data point?

The GOP has gone from normal political corruption to something closer to straight up ten-and-one carny grifting. The point used to be to establish your dandelion-root like system of corrupt bargains and kickbacks that were technically inside the law, but in the current day the fastest way to make cash with less chance of backfire is simply to…treat politics as a performance piece and be paid for being an entertainer. Gaetz has always been a fundamentally unserious figure who nonetheless always tries to get time under the spotlight, and it is entirely in keeping with his previous behavior to just go make a salary doing the same sideshow.

That said, I think you’re right that he’s exiting fast and loudly precisely because he’s fucked up in a way that might be beyond the comfort zone of his audience, and thus he has to put in the extra effort of creating a framing narrative for his fuck-up…. His political career is comparable to the oeuvre of reality TV stars and Twitch streamers, and not having the discipline to, um, not party with teenagers strikes me as an entirely likely choice for someone’s who’s got no real skills except being a spectacle.

The man ended as he began, radiating that particular energy that says “my daddy owns a dealership.”

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 30, 2021 • 11:30:08pm

re: #51 The Ghost of a Flea

I figure if Gaetz does indeed resign in the next few weeks or so (to spend “more time with his family”, or take that gig at Newsmax), then it’s a tacit admission that he’s up to his neck in serious trouble.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 31, 2021 • 12:43:26am

YouTube

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Ace-o-aces  Mar 31, 2021 • 1:54:36am
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Dave In Austin  Mar 31, 2021 • 1:57:34am

re: #16 Belafon

I did find it funny reading all the people attempting to define and defend “corporate communism.”

I’m still pondering that one.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 31, 2021 • 2:10:58am
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Dave In Austin  Mar 31, 2021 • 2:15:00am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2021 • 2:57:59am

re: #57 Dave In Austin

now that is just creepy - in way too many ways

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 31, 2021 • 4:47:03am

re: #19 I Would Prefer Not To

But what about Nestor?

Night people. Sweet dreams.

Good question. 😂

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Mike Lamb  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:03:38am

re: #59 Patricia Kayden

Good question. 😂

I kind have to school marm on this one: given context, not sure laughing emoji is appropriate.

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:07:44am

New wrinkle in the Gaetz case:

I’ve seen two similar theories in the past hour as to why McGee is suddenly a character in this drama. The first is that he is representing the victim or is connected in some way to the investigation and contacted the Gaetz family about a settlement that they are characterizing as “extortion” in the hope of making the whole thing go away. The second is that Don Gaetz reached out to McGee after learning of the case in the hope that he could pay him off to make the whole thing “go away.”

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:24:24am
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:34:50am

re: #62 DodgerFan1988

Because Gaetz is one of their own. If he was a Democrat, they’d be singing a different tune.

re: #60 Mike Lamb

You’re right. I’m just amazed at the hypocrisy from the Party of Family Values. Here we go again.

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jeffreyw  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:34:54am

Good morning!

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:36:25am

Two US Capitol Police officers who say they were injured during the January 6 insurrection are suing former President Donald Trump for inciting the crowd.

The officers — the first police to sue in court following the riot — say they suffered physical and emotional damages because Trump allegedly “inflamed, encouraged, incited (and) directed” the violent mob that stormed the Capitol.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:36:49am

Good! Monster.

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:37:37am

re: #29 Belafon

But you know, they White House isn’t providing enough gotchas, I mean information, so they have to talk to Biden.

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The reason that the media are kvetching and bitching and caterwauling about how Biden isn’t giving them quotable quotes. The real issue is that they’re being overwhelmed with quality information and Pskai isn’t taking crap from anyone during those briefings because she’s giving everyone information and not spewing the kind of bulkshit that the prior admin made routine.

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Jay C  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:40:22am

re: #66 Patricia Kayden

Good! Monster.

Yeah: real model citizen: guy was a convicted murderer (for stabbing his mother to death in 2002) out on lifetime parole since 2017.

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:41:59am

re: #29 Belafon

But you know, they White House isn’t providing enough gotchas, I mean information, so they have to talk to Biden.

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47 minutes of presenting information and not lying vs 23 of nothing but lies

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:43:17am

Q has been looking in all the wrong places for that child sex trafficking ring all along. It was a mighty case of the projecting like IMAXes. They claimed that Democrats were involved, when it was really Trump, Trump buddies like Maxwell and Epstein, and now Gaetz.

Make no mistake here, we’re not talking about inappropriate sex. We’re not talking about nonconsensual sex.

We are talking rape.

The victim was underage. That means by law she cannot give consent. She was raped.

That means Gaetz is an alleged child rapist and child sex trafficker, and every last motherfucking article/headline needs to treat it as such. Use the proper words to describe his actions and the allegations. She was a child when these events occurred and that makes it illegal and rape.

And yeah, it puts all of his weird behaviors/actions around Nestor into question as well.

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:46:32am

re: #34 Targetpractice

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Best rando explanation I’ve seen so far:

Tucker slowly began to realize that the very people who had helped make him famous, the ones who helped turn a bow-tied. plaid suited, bottom-of-the-class, unpopular high school kid with a faceful of zits into a national media sensation and front runner for the 2024 Presidential election, were also willing and able to put him in federal prison.

Tucker stared steely eyed into the camera, as he had learned to do from his mentor, BillO, when confronted by logical arguments he couldn’t even begin to fathom. He couldn’t decide whether Matt was handing him a story guaranteed to win his slot for the next 6 months, or if he simply wanted a cellmate who would listen to him for the next 20 years.

He paused. And paused. And paused. Finally he heard the voice in his head that had always helped guide him to the right path. “Tucker, what the hell’s wrong?

End this - we need to get to a MyPillow ad asap”

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:49:06am

re: #40 Targetpractice

The MAGAts are all over the fucking board tonight on how to defend Gaetz. Besides those who are trying to carve out a little exception in their whole “KIDDIE DIDDLING IS EVIL!!!” worldview for Repubs they like, the rest have basically turned the whole thing into a case of Schrodinger’s Investigation: It’s simultaneously an on-going investigation totally cooked up by the Deep State and also something that McGee was threatening to start if Gaetz didn’t pay up. And while he’s apparently a minor celebrity in Florida, none of them can explain how David McGee suddenly became the mastermind behind this whole plan to bring down Gaetz.

This is gonna be a wild week.

Reminder whose doj started this investigation…
The former guy’s

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:49:26am

re: #68 Jay C

A murderer shouldn’t be out of prison in the first place. That poor woman. I’m having nightmares just from watching that video. And the people who watched and did nothing — horrible human beings.

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:53:30am

re: #63 Patricia Kayden

Because Gaetz is one of their own. If he was a Democrat, they’d be singing a different tune.

You’re right. I’m just amazed at the hypocrisy from the Party of Family Values. Here we go again.

No, you’re really not anymore

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 31, 2021 • 5:54:03am

re: #40 Targetpractice

The Deep State is still a thing?

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:01:06am

Vox

Nine of Biden’s 11 nominees are women, and a majority are people of color. So Biden is clearly signaling that he intends to name judges who will add racial and gender diversity to the bench. His list would also add a different kind of diversity to a bench populated with former law firm partners and prosecutors, as almost half of the nominees worked as criminal defense lawyers for indigent clients.”

“If this list is any sign of how Biden plans to pick judges in the future, an ambitious young lawyer with judicial aspirations is better off taking a job representing poor Americans during the most vulnerable moment of their lives than they are taking a job trying to lock up those Americans.”

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:01:36am

re: #75 Patricia Kayden

The Deep State is still a thing?

“Deep State” these days is up there with “Illuminati” and “Majestic-12,” this shadowy cabal working behind the scenes, though in this case they’re supposedly all federal gov’t employees who are working in secret to destroy Trump and all his cohorts. It’s how they explain why the Trump-era DOJ would open an investigation into a member of Congress, an action that would require the AG to sign off on and would involve way more manpower and resources than would be conceivably be justified for a “hoax.”

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:14:21am

re: #77 Targetpractice

Barr is deep state man… he was working layers and layers under the deep state. The moment he stopped helping protect Trump and covering up Trump crimes, he became the thing he fought against. ////////////////////////// <-to infinity and beyond.

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:15:54am

Girls. Plural. Fuck this guy with a rake.

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:18:50am

Over the last few years the Russians compromised the State Department’s mail servers

While clinton’s server could have been breached on Obama’s watch, this definitely happened on trumps

Think tucker will ever mention it?
Maybe to deflect from gaetzgate

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:18:54am
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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:23:45am

As we suspected at the time.

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:26:43am

re: #82 darthstar

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:27:57am

Speaking of child rapists, sex traffickers, and all around monsters:

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:31:51am

GOP: Biden’s raising taxes on corporations. Waaa.

Biden: We’re paying for trillions in investments in our infrastructure that were deferred, delayed, or denied by GOPers who didn’t care if people die from infrastructure failures, lost wages/economic losses from traffic, congestion, rerouting goods/services because of infrastructure limitations, and grid issues.

GOP thinks only of the taxes for companies that can afford to pay tax (but don’t).

They don’t give a shit about anything else.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:34:05am

Regardless of the new infrastructure bill, the relief bill is going to pay for a lot of new infrastructure!

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:34:18am

GOP: you’re making companies pay more in taxes.

Biden: We’re paying to replace 100% of lead lines into homes and businesses and schools nationwide to limit lead exposures that can have serious and costly health effects.

We’re going to upgrade power grids and reduce damage from natural disasters/more resilient grids and networks. We’re going to think big and build big because we need to compete globally for decades to come.

GOP cares only about taxes for those who can afford to pay tax. They don’t care about anything else and have no plan to do anything else but obstruct and block any progress that a majority of Americans crave.

whitehouse.gov

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:35:41am
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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:38:08am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:39:15am

re: #85 lawhawk

GOP: Biden’s raising taxes on corporations. Waaa.

Biden: We’re paying for trillions in investments in our infrastructure that were deferred, delayed, or denied by GOPers who didn’t care if people die from infrastructure failures, lost wages/economic losses from traffic, congestion, rerouting goods/services because of infrastructure limitations, and grid issues.

GOP thinks only of the taxes for companies that can afford to pay tax (but don’t).

They don’t give a shit about anything else.

The GOP is so committed to redirecting all resources to billionaires and corporations, they wouldn’t do popular infrastructure or Covid relief spending when it could’ve helped a Republican President get reelected. When they controlled the Congress, all they cared about was attempting an unpopular repeal of Obamacare to cut taxes on the rich, then when that failed, they passed an unpopular tax cut for the rich, and that was pretty much that, other than confirming judges.

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:40:38am

re: #88 Belafon

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-tax capital gains as regular income for the wealthy

That alone would send the GQP through the fucking roof, but all of it together is gonna cause a tidal wave of “outrage” the likes of which God has never seen.

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:41:29am

We’ll have to see how invested Fox News is in protecting Matt Gaetz…because it’s going to take the whole network to smear this guy.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:41:46am

I might download this just because.

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:42:04am

re: #88 Belafon

I always knew Joe had a big package.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:44:05am

I think one of the interesting things for someone to study is how the virus surges move around the country.

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:45:32am

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:48:16am
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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:55:24am

re: #91 Targetpractice

That alone would send the GQP through the fucking roof, but all of it together is gonna cause a tidal wave of “outrage” the likes of which God has never seen.

Talking Corp tax *rates*
35% less than 4 years ago

Dems want to raise current 21 to 28

And that’s only rates. Amazon paid zero tax last year.
So they’d pay zero at a higher rate. //

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 6:58:45am

re: #98 Dangerman

Biden’s proposal includes a minimum tax, which means they’d pay tax. How that fits in with NOLs and other tax reduction strategies remains to be seen how the tax code changes are drafted.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:00:48am

re: #76 Dangerman

Vox

Nine of Biden’s 11 nominees are women, and a majority are people of color. So Biden is clearly signaling that he intends to name judges who will add racial and gender diversity to the bench. His list would also add a different kind of diversity to a bench populated with former law firm partners and prosecutors, as almost half of the nominees worked as criminal defense lawyers for indigent clients.”

“If this list is any sign of how Biden plans to pick judges in the future, an ambitious young lawyer with judicial aspirations is better off taking a job representing poor Americans during the most vulnerable moment of their lives than they are taking a job trying to lock up those Americans.”

Biden is clearly trying to make up for the overwhelmingly white male (ultra-conservative) imprint that Trump (and McConnell) foisted on the courts. It’s going to take a long time to repair the damage the GOP has inflicted on this nation and Biden will have to do it very quickly. There is no guarantee that he will retain a Senate “majority” even during his first 2 years, let alone during his 4 years in office.

I hope that Schumer is working assiduously to court Lisa.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:03:36am
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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:05:03am
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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:07:19am

Wisconsin courts side with covid19 and against common sense.

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:07:35am

re: #99 lawhawk

Biden’s proposal includes a minimum tax, which means they’d pay tax. How that fits in with NOLs and other tax reduction strategies remains to be seen how the tax code changes are drafted.

Yeah I know that

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:08:57am
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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:09:06am
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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:09:30am

re: #103 lawhawk

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Wisconsin courts side with covid19 and against common sense.

Republicans: We should be more like Brazil.

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:11:35am

re: #107 Belafon

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil…

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:14:47am

re: #98 Dangerman

Talking Corp tax *rates*
35% less than 4 years ago

Dems want to raise current 21 to 28

And that’s only rates. Amazon paid zero tax last year.
So they’d pay zero at a higher rate. //

More zero.

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:17:32am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:23:29am

re: #62 DodgerFan1988

For some reason, QAnon people are refusing to take their dream scenario coming true — a sitting congressman being investigated for child trafficking — at face value. They love Gaetz’s inscrutable double agent story because it sounds like 5D chess.

Because they love conspiracy theories, the more far-fetched the better.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:24:50am

re: #67 lawhawk

The reason that the media are kvetching and bitching and caterwauling about how Biden isn’t giving them quotable quotes.

It shows how atrophied they have become. Now that they are forced to actually report news and not just celebrity scandal and gossip, they are dumbfounded.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:26:00am

re: #75 Patricia Kayden

The Deep State is still a thing?

Whenever and wherever anything happens that distresses the GOP, the Deep State will be there to take the blame.

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:27:24am
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plansbandc  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:28:09am

re: #68 Jay C

It almost seems as though it was a bad idea to let him out of prison.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:29:13am

re: #105 Belafon

Josh Hawley has been frozen out by Senate Dems since Jan 6—w/ none of them signing onto his legislation and Dems back home hope to paint him as ineffective pariah.

He will use this to try to market himself as a Washington “outsider” and victim of Liberal Bullying.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:36:25am

2008: Ketchikan, Alaska on an 87F Day

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:38:42am

re: #95 Belafon

I think one of the interesting things for someone to study is how the virus surges move around the country.

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Can we really believe the numbers from many of the GOP run states? Texas? Florida? Have to say, though, that SD has had a very aggressive vaccination program, so that after killing so many in her state without a single concern, Noem finally does seem to be doing something right.

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:41:48am

Listening to Matt’s interview again, he really does sound like the frat boy douchebro that he is at heart. “Yeah, I had sex with her, but she swore she was 18 when we did it! I know the law, man, I wouldn’t have sex with a girl who was underage! You know what that’s like, right dude? Anyway, this is all gonna go away soon because my dad totally owns a dealership.”

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:45:20am

re: #103 lawhawk

Wisconsin courts side with covid19 and against common sense.

Fortunately, Kentucky courts have sided with Governor Beshear so far, which is why we have had 11 consecutive weeks of declining cases.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:45:26am

re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He will use this to try to market himself as a Washington “outsider” and victim of Liberal Bullying.

Until he is indicted for sedition…

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:47:41am

re: #106 Belafon

If Chauvin isn’t convicted, it’s going to be bad. People will riot, with good reason.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:48:42am

re: #120 No Malarkey!

Fortunately, Kentucky courts have sided with Governor Beshear so far, which is why we have had 11 consecutive weeks of declining cases.

Unfortunately, we were doing well at reducing cases, but the governor is opening us back up and I feel that it’s still too soon, despite being ahead of the curve w/r/t vaccinations. That’s why our cases have climbed back up a little bit recently.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:51:37am

GOP insiders now!

“Matt Gaetz? Who? We don’t know who he is!”

“Gaetz? Meanest asshole we ever encountered!”

thedailybeast.com

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:51:41am

re: #118 Hecuba’s daughter

Can we really believe the numbers from many of the GOP run states? Texas? Florida? Have to say, though, that SD has had a very aggressive vaccination program, so that after killing so many in her state without a single concern, Noem finally does seem to be doing something right.

I also saw that she has enraged the theocrats by opposing discrimination against transgender children. Can you imagine, she worked so hard to kill as many people as she could, and she still isn’t cruel enough for the GQP.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:55:14am

re: #123 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Unfortunately, we were doing well at reducing cases, but the governor is opening us back up and I feel that it’s still too soon, despite being ahead of the curve w/r/t vaccinations. That’s why our cases have climbed back up a little bit recently.

It’s so obvious we should keep mask mandates and social distancing until community spread ends, but the morons can’t wait to open things up, recklessly killing more people for no good reason.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:55:57am

re: #122 No Malarkey!

If Chauvin isn’t convicted, it’s going to be bad. People will riot, with good reason.

This diary, dailykos.com, does a good job of describing what happened yesterday in the courtroom. If he isn’t convicted, it won’t be because the witnesses were wishy-washy.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:56:02am

Lawyer Denies Gaetz’s Extortion Accusation, Slams ‘Blatant Attempt To Distract’ From Probe

David McGee, a onetime Justice Department prosecutor whom Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has accused of extorting him, denied the congressman’s accusation on Tuesday night.

“This is a blatant attempt to distract from the fact that Matt Gaetz is apparently about to be indicted for sex trafficking underage girls,” the attorney said.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:56:24am

Good news on vaccine trials for children!

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 7:58:01am

re: #129 No Malarkey!

Good news on vaccine trials for children!

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But does it give them mutant powers? They’re the right age according to Marvel.

(Wouldn’t that be a great way to introduce mutants into the MCU: A vaccine against a pandemic.)

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:02:19am

Uber-Qaren MTG has found one paedophile she has no trouble defending:

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:02:45am

Washington Post News Alert—Joe fires 40 Trump stooges from EPA Advisory panels.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:03:44am
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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:04:11am

re: #133 No Malarkey!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:04:40am

re: #132 🌹UOJB!

Washington Post News Alert—Joe fires 40 Trump stooges from EPA Advisory panels.

Good, get scientists back on instead of industry shills.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:05:36am

More on the EPA firing Trump Stooges!

EPA dismisses dozens of key science advisers picked under Trump

The Biden administration says it needs to restore trust in the agency by “resetting” membership on two key science advisory panels

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan will purge more than 40 outside experts appointed by President Donald Trump from two key advisory panels, a move he says will help restore the role of science at the agency and reduce the heavy influence of industry over environmental regulations.

The unusual decision, announced Wednesday, will sweep away outside researchers picked under the previous administration whose expert advice helped the agency craft regulations related to air pollution, fracking and other issues.

Critics say that under Trump, membership of the two panels — the EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) — tilted too heavily toward regulated industries and their positions sometimes contradicted scientific consensus.

washingtonpost.com

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Teukka  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:06:16am

re: #129 No Malarkey!

Good news on vaccine trials for children!

Am I too jaded when my first thought is “oooh boy, are the Q’s, antivaxxers and covid skepdicks gonna freak out”?

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:08:28am

re: #64 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

The mo’ai with the eyes
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Teukka  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:17:43am

So this video slid by in my feed:

The Houses that Can’t be Built in America - The Missing Middle

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:19:49am

re: #7 stpaulbear

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:24:42am
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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:26:24am

To all of the Matt Gaetz defenders out there…

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:27:07am

re: #134 🌹UOJB!

You are never in a good spot when you start demanding the DOJ start releasing stuff.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:28:21am

re: #134 🌹UOJB!

I feel sorry for these kids in the photo with the creep.

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:28:28am

re: #114 darthstar

*they’re…shit.

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:29:08am

re: #143 b.d. (America is Great Again)

You are never in a good spot when you start demanding the DOJ start releasing stuff.

And you’re in a worse spot if they do.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:29:52am

re: #143 b.d. (America is Great Again)

You are never in a good spot when you start demanding the DOJ start releasing stuff.

Falling back on the old Rumsfeld “known unknown” defense…

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:30:00am

re: #143 b.d. (America is Great Again)

You are never in a good spot when you start demanding the DOJ start releasing stuff.

See, ploys like this only work if you’ve got credibility. People actually have to believe you’re being honest when you insist that you’re the victim of a conspiracy and there’s evidence to prove it.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:31:32am

Gaetz getting thrown under the bus.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:34:28am

re: #149 No Malarkey!

Gaetz getting thrown under the bus.

[Embedded content]

If it showed, McCarthy should be willing to kick him out of Congress. He should be willing to force him to get out of the assignments right now because of the fact that the investigation seems to be credible.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:36:11am

re: #149 No Malarkey!

Gaetz getting thrown under the bus.

[Embedded content]

Matt would join MTG, just roam the halls and recite QAnon shit.

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nines09  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:38:39am

I am reminded of when Canada open casinos all along the border years ago. All the states along the CN/US border screamed about losing revenue.
All the states around NY will now watch the money flow out. This may be the state that tips the nation towards total legalization.

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:40:09am

It is a day early…

Introducing the self-driving bicycle in the Netherlands

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:41:20am

re: #139 Teukka

Deriding NIMBY’s is probably not productive, if one wants to change people’s minds.

Here in the San Diego area, a non-trivial portion of the central region does allow for 4-plexes. And there is a real change to denser townhome arrangements on land that was once single family.

But again I want to stress that allowing higher density housing does not mean more affordable housing. As I’ve often shown here, there are plenty of examples where replacing a old single family structure with say a duplex or triplex doesn’t lower the price of each unit. Indeed, the newer (and denser) structures cost more than the old single family housing.

And not all NIMBYism is racism. And I doubt that most NIMBYism today is racism. It’s just adopted cultural habit from the parents/grandparents who raised today’s house buyers.

For example: lawns. People expect lawns, even out here in the desert part of the country where such grasses are not natural and if you want a healthy lawn then water is the real problem. The need for a lawn is just programming from childhood.

There is no easy answer to living on a crowded planet.

For the US, changing our work culture alone may be the best answer. It has been shown that remote working is possible for many people. And even labor intensive businesses like manufacturing do not have to be all put into one locale in a county and houses in another thus requiring long commutes. A more distributed US economy is necessary to combat rising cost of housing.

Another problem with Americans is that even if they live in a city and decide to buy a townhome in say a redeveloped area, Americans still want an automobile. So parking becomes a real issue. This is the problem that is getting worse in San Diego as the older parts of city see properties changed from single family units to 4-plexes or townhomes.

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:41:32am

FUN PATRIOT GATHERING IN BIG D!!!

Keynote Speakers:

General Michael T. Flynn, Sidney Powell, Wayne Dupree, George Papadopoulos, Juanita Broaddrick, Bevelyn Beatty & Edmee Chavannes, Gene Ho

Featured Speakers:

Andre Popa (our event MC), Brad Getz (WWG1WGA on YouTube), Zak Paine (RedPill78), Inevitable ET (IET), Jordan Sather, The Kate Awakening, Henry Davis, Erica Kious (SF salon owner), Jason Frank

What a group.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:42:23am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:43:33am

re: #156 Dave In Austin

“If the President can’t handle his dogs, how can he run our country?”

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:44:01am

Another one gets the boot from You Tube!

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:44:30am

re: #153 BlueSpotinAL

LOL that had me for a second - right to the very end. That was well-done.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:46:39am

re: #155 b.d. (America is Great Again)

FUN PATRIOT GATHERING IN BIG D!!!

[Embedded content]

What a group.

It’s Assholepalooza!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:48:36am

I could have written this, except for being in the Navy and shooting coyotes.

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Interesting Times  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:48:57am

re: #155 b.d. (America is Great Again)

FUN PATRIOT GATHERING IN BIG D!!!

What a group.

I think the process server for Dominion Voting Systems ought to attend.

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:49:20am

re: #152 nines09

NJ legalized this year.

NY is legalizing this year.

Map of legalizing marijuana (not current through NY legalization effort).

I do think NY may be a tipping point towards national legalization of marijuana and normalization of marijuana law to allow legal dispensaries to operate as other businesses instead of as all cash concerns b/c of federal criminal law treating marijuana as a schedule 1 drug.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:51:36am

So Biden and Congressional Democrats want a big infrastructure bill.

Which sounds all nice and yes, no doubt will help in regards to jobs for many people.

But I doubt there will be the fundamental shift away from a car-centric culture because of any such bill. No matter how “green” activists declare their desires, changing lifestyles is much more difficult.

For example: replacing internal combustion engines with electric vehicles won’t shift housing habits, because people will just do the commute with an electric vehicle.

And while gasoline usage will go down with such devices, housing will not fundamentally change.

The real need is to find a way to create opportunities in the smaller to mid-size cities, where regional change can still be made to live healthier lifestyles. Redesigning Los Angeles or Seattle or Dallas or Atlanta is just not going to happen in anything less than several generations.

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:51:41am

This is the sort of hair-splitting that Matt was hoping to spark with his “I’M BEING EXTORTED!!!” BS:

A read through the replies is pretty informative of where the MAGAts are today: Even though Gaetz and his lawyers are on record as admitting he’s under investigation by the FBI, they’re all convinced that it’s a story concocted by the NYT to “smear” him and some have even suggested he should sue them for “libel.”

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:52:10am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:52:24am

re: #163 lawhawk

NJ legalized this year.

NY is legalizing this year.

Map of legalizing marijuana (not current through NY legalization effort).

I do think NY may be a tipping point towards national legalization of marijuana and normalization of marijuana law to allow legal dispensaries to operate as other businesses instead of as all cash concerns b/c of federal criminal law treating marijuana as a schedule 1 drug.

In Illinois they can now take debit cards. It’s much better than having to bring a pile of cash to the dispensary.

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:53:00am

re: #163 lawhawk

Great news, but its amazing how long it will take them to open dispensaries. In AZ we voted in November, and the recreational dispensaries were open by the end of January. The first ones were existing medical dispensaries, but new rec only ones are still opening.

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darthstar  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:53:31am
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nines09  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:54:32am

re: #163 lawhawk

All the negative propaganda is being shown to be lies after years of legal states making so much money.

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:55:27am

re: #154 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Deriding NIMBY’s is probably not productive, if one wants to change people’s minds.

Here in the San Diego area, a non-trivial portion of the central region does allow for 4-plexes. And there is a real change to denser townhome arrangements on land that was once single family.

But again I want to stress that allowing higher density housing does not mean more affordable housing. As I’ve often shown here, there are plenty of examples where replacing a old single family structure with say a duplex or triplex doesn’t lower the price of each unit. Indeed, the newer (and denser) structures cost more than the old single family housing.

And not all NIMBYism is racism. And I doubt that most NIMBYism today is racism. It’s just adopted cultural habit from the parents/grandparents who raised today’s house buyers.

For example: lawns. People expect lawns, even out here in the desert part of the country where such grasses are not natural and if you want a healthy lawn then water is the real problem. The need for a lawn is just programming from childhood.

There is no easy answer to living on a crowded planet.

For the US, changing our work culture alone may be the best answer. It has been shown that remote working is possible for many people. And even labor intensive businesses like manufacturing do not have to be all put into one locale in a county and houses in another thus requiring long commutes. A more distributed US economy is necessary to combat rising cost of housing.

Another problem with Americans is that even if they live in a city and decide to buy a townhome in say a redeveloped area, Americans still want an automobile. So parking becomes a real issue. This is the problem that is getting worse in San Diego as the older parts of city see properties changed from single family units to 4-plexes or townhomes.

Bolded is the original problem. The housing issue is an outgrowth. Deriding NIMBYs is just a beginning. Not On My Planet. NOMP. Cultural change to keep the planet livable is what we need.

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:58:12am

re: #169 darthstar

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It’s the usual whataboutism. “What about Hunter?” “What about Durham?”

What it’s really about is that none of those cases they thought were gonna bring down the whole of the Dem Party and usher in a glorious Fourth Reich under Hair Furor have come to pass and it’s got them all sorts of pissed. It’s also why they absolutely hate Barr now, as they’re convinced (as they were with Comey) that he was totally in cahoots with Dems all along because he’s “Deep State.”

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 31, 2021 • 8:59:46am

re: #170 nines09

All the negative propaganda is being shown to be lies after years of legal states making so much money.

It’s unfortunate that it took corruption, the states getting paid, to make this happen. A legal oz should not be $300.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:06:19am

re: #171 wrenchwench

We really need to change our work culture. Not go back to the industrial golden era that is part of the idealized 1950s.

We need to find a way to break out of the idea that all industry happens in only one zone, and all people live in another.

Now some industries need to be isolated for safety. But there is a great deal of design, finishing, etc. that can be done just blocks from where people live.

We don’t have to become Japan, at least not all the way. But they have found a way to house themselves (very low homeless rate) and still have business and industry near where people live.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:07:06am

re: #164 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The only way to get people to move to small to medium size towns is for there to be job opportunities there. Some of that can happen if we were to build the necessary high speed data network to allow people to work in those small towns, probably from home.

But it’s going to require companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, State Farm, AT&T, and a whole host of other major companies to get out of needing people in a few concentrated places to do their work (and managers like to monitor their employees). And if you really want to go 1984, think of what will happen if all of these companies require people to have a camera in their homes so they can monitor their employees.

But that only works for jobs that are data based. Manufacturing jobs can’t be distributed very well. And places like stores, restaurants, fitness clubs, etc., require a certain minimum of people to survive. A big reason people migrate to cities is that there are more opportunities to get a new job when the one you have fails. Here in the DFW area there are plenty of companies, not just restaurants, that have had help wanted signs up during the pandemic.

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nines09  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:08:14am

re: #173 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Here in Pennsylvania, a 1/4 OZ Medical is more like 90 to 100 dollars. And it’s 7 grams. Because the 1/8 OZ is 3.5 grams.
So, $400 bucks for a light OZ.
Wish I could have pulled that off back in the day.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:11:46am

Yes, Jeet!

What could go wrong?

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:12:02am

re: #174 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We really need to change our work culture. Not go back to the industrial golden era that is part of the idealized 1950s.

We need to find a way to break out of the idea that all industry happens in only one zone, and all people live in another.

Now some industries need to be isolated for safety. But there is a great deal of design, finishing, etc. that can be done just blocks from where people live.

We don’t have to become Japan, at least not all the way. But they have found a way to house themselves (very low homeless rate) and still have business and industry near where people live.

What’s the car-culture like in Japan? An awful lot of cars are made there, but it seems trains get more respect than they do here.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:13:30am

Some music.

Steam Powered Giraffe - Malfunction

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:14:58am

re: #178 wrenchwench

Well, their cars are smaller…..

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:17:59am
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Belafon  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:19:47am

re: #181 lawhawk

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2021, the year Democrats went bold. Will progressive voters show up in 2022?

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:21:33am

re: #181 lawhawk

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:21:53am

re: #178 wrenchwench

What’s the car-culture like in Japan? An awful lot of cars are made there, but it seems trains get more respect than they do here.

Car culture in Japan is largely built around the reality that much of the population is concentrated in large cities because most of the rural areas are mountainous. Not to mention the nation spent much of the last century either trying to play catch-up with the rest of the industrialized world while having limited domestic resources or rebuilding post-WWII while largely dependent upon foreign imports to meet their needs. So most of those resources were put into building efficient public transport networks as part of the modernization/rebuilding effort, because that was what made the most sense when the average person considered themselves lucky if they owned a motorcycle rather than a bicycle.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:22:04am

If nothing changes on the federal level, NH will likely be the only state in the northeast without legal sales. Folks drive here for the tax-free booze and we drive there for the 20%-tax added weed, a good part of which goes to the local gov’t.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:24:12am

re: #183 lawhawk

Not passing without filibuster reform.

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Dangerman  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:24:56am

re: #131 Targetpractice

Uber-Qaren MTG has found one paedophile she has no trouble defending:

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sure, cause thats how investigations work
they ‘release’ evidence because some rando asks for it

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:25:10am

re: #186 No Malarkey!

It’s heading in that direction.

As is this:

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lawhawk  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:28:09am
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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:32:33am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:32:54am

re: #178 wrenchwench

What’s the car-culture like in Japan? An awful lot of cars are made there, but it seems trains get more respect than they do here.

Many families own a car. The cars tend to be smaller than US market cars, but these days some are the same basic model.

More importantly, though, the cars are driven much less. And they are turned over much more frequently. When I lived there the only old cars I would find are the classics (including American autos.)

So the car industry survives by people not keeping cars as long.

That is why there popped up some decades back, her e in the US, the import business of buying used Japanese cars. They tend to be low mileage and in good shape.

Geography shapes life, and in Japan that means living with less space.

Here in the US we have a whole continent to roam, and we like to take up a lot of space.

Geography rules societies.

So we will not live like Japan because our geography is different.

But our cities could learn a lot from the Japanese, in how to live more densely but remain clean and much more affordable.

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mmmirele  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:35:55am
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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:37:02am

re: #182 Belafon

2021, the year Democrats went bold. Will progressive voters show up in 2022?

Will the voting rights bill allow people to hand out weed to people in line? ///

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Interesting Times  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:37:14am

re: #192 mmmirele

I’m going to assume until proven otherwise that the dog in question was asked to comment on Ted Cruz.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:37:33am

Of course he does…….

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Ferdinand  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:39:00am

re: #176 nines09

Here in Pennsylvania, a 1/4 OZ Medical is more like 90 to 100 dollars. And it’s 7 grams. Because the 1/8 OZ is 3.5 grams.
So, $400 bucks for a light OZ.
Wish I could have pulled that off back in the day.

Oh my. Here in WA an average 1/4 (7 oz) of recreational is about $35. So a third the price. $120 can buy an ounce on sale.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:40:53am

re: #193 BlueSpotinAL

Will the voting rights bill allow people to hand out weed to people in line? ///

Yes, because the munchies will make them want to leave the line to go eat.

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:41:52am

re: #187 Dangerman

sure, cause thats how investigations work
they ‘release’ evidence because some rando asks for it

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Matt knows, as his cohorts know and have done in the past, that the DOJ is bound by rules and regs on what it can and can’t divulge to the public about investigations (ongoing and closed). And he’s relying upon those to write him a “Get Out of Jail Free” card with the court of public opinion.

If they say that they can’t comment on on-going investigations, then he’ll demand (and his sycophants will repeat) that the FBI immediately arrest McGee and the “bogus” investigation into his kiddy diddling be closed.

And if they say no such investigation exists or that no such tapes exist, then it will be proclaimed as proof of a “cover-up” and lead to demands that Congress immediately open an investigation into whether or not the DOJ is engaged in a conspiracy to “smear” him.

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 31, 2021 • 9:47:01am

re: #196 Ferdinand

I’ve paid as much as $55 for an eighth of Girl Scout Cookies and $50 for Mimosa, that is before all the state taxes in AZ. Problem is finding good strains…

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nines09  Mar 31, 2021 • 10:05:41am

re: #196 Ferdinand

Oh I’m very aware of prices elsewhere. One other thing Pa does is all growers grow what they sell in Pennsylvania. And they sell flower but the law says you must vape it.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 31, 2021 • 10:08:25am

re: #195 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Of course he does…….

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And I trust his judgement on sexual assault matters, don’t you?

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 31, 2021 • 10:12:55am

re: #199 Egregious Philbin

I’ve paid as much as $55 for an eighth of Girl Scout Cookies and $50 for Mimosa, that is before all the state taxes in AZ. Problem is finding good strains…

Those are roughly the MA prices. I try to research the strains and growers, but it can be hard to find information on which growers are considered better and which put out inferior products. I’ve found a couple of shops I trust and that helps. I’m a lightweight, though. An 1/8 will last me a long time. Now I’m getting nostalgic for those $35 ozs of Colombian Gold.

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retired cynic  Mar 31, 2021 • 10:17:51am

re: #138 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Western good morning!

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Been saving this for you!

The Lost Language of Easter Island, atlasobscura.com
A wooden fish could help linguists learn more about the writing system known as rongorongo.

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austin_blue  Mar 31, 2021 • 10:45:40am

re: #70 lawhawk

Q has been looking in all the wrong places for that child sex trafficking ring all along. It was a mighty case of the projecting like IMAXes. They claimed that Democrats were involved, when it was really Trump, Trump buddies like Maxwell and Epstein, and now Gaetz.

Make no mistake here, we’re not talking about inappropriate sex. We’re not talking about nonconsensual sex.

We are talking rape.

The victim was underage. That means by law she cannot give consent. She was raped.

That means Gaetz is an alleged child rapist and child sex trafficker, and every last motherfucking article/headline needs to treat it as such. Use the proper words to describe his actions and the allegations. She was a child when these events occurred and that makes it illegal and rape.

And yeah, it puts all of his weird behaviors/actions around Nestor into question as well.

Don’t forget Prince of the Realm Randy Andy Windsor over in Buck House.

Disappeared, didn’t he?

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John Hughes  Mar 31, 2021 • 11:46:12am

re: #131 Targetpractice

The DOJ needs to release the tapes instead of allowing another witch hunt to take place.

— weird person.

Of course the DOJ needs to release the tapes. As evidence during the trial.


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