The Bob Cesca Podcast: Performative Dumbf**kery

PoliticsMay 2021 • Views: 23,357

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

Performative Dumbf**kery — [Explicit Language] Cliff Schecter from the Unpresidented Podcast sits in for Buzz Burbank. Foul-Mouthed Barack is here today, too. Plus, the new Texas gun law and its ramifications; Sen. John “Gohmert” Kennedy’s NRA video; Slow-motion red state secession; Half of all American adults have been fully vaccinated; the misleading WSJ article about the Wuhan lab; Trump insists he was right all along; Debunking the WSJ article; A look back at the 2013 NSA reporting; George Will on the Republican Party’s fear of Trump voters; With music by Trysette & 3MindBlind and Option Y; and more!

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 25, 2021 • 6:07:47pm

RAND PAUL: Republicans need to leave Twitter. pic.twitter.com/RHCCp2fEEE

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) May 26, 2021

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 25, 2021 • 6:08:26pm

Hundreds of thousands to millions of people in Roman Judea died at the hands of Roman soldiers. That’s not something that is central to our current US social dialogue.

Police killing suspects *is* central to our current US social struggle.

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 26, 2021

Charles Johnson May 25, 2021 • 6:08:59pm

Nothing to see here, move along.

Charles Johnson May 25, 2021 • 6:09:14pm

Law enforcement descends on Al Capone’s South Florida mansion, 1938: pic.twitter.com/oO3YFZS8OV

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) May 25, 2021

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 25, 2021 • 6:12:17pm

So you want to use your cult membership as a campaign tool - we got that.

What you don’t seem to accept is that cult membership is not applicable to official offices of the US government. The US is by Constitution a secular state, and no religious qualification is applicable.

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 26, 2021

Charles Johnson May 25, 2021 • 6:12:50pm

Sorry but I’m just not very hopeful that the Trump crime family will ever truly be brought to justice, because it’s never worked that way in the US before. But I’m open to being surprised.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 26, 2021

EPR-radar May 25, 2021 • 6:17:48pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

IMO it is essential that there be consequences for Trump. If there aren’t, then the decay of the US is already an accomplished fact, and the only things left to see are the tedious details of its downfall into empire and ruin.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 25, 2021 • 6:18:07pm

Trumper thinks Trump is clean:

Trump discriminated. He settled out of court, so as to not go to court. So yes, he was accused of a crime.

And yes, you’re trying to justify discriminating against people.

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 26, 2021

JOE 🥓 May 25, 2021 • 6:19:28pm

And in today’s chapter of the Xtian Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama…

Jim Bakker Claims His Imprisonment for Fraud Was an Example of ‘Cancel Culture’

Jim Bakker Cancel Culture 5-25-21.mp4

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 25, 2021 • 6:20:14pm

When bigots openly declare that their policy of discrimination is justified because those people are bad people… yeah, you know that American culture is deeply, deeply bigoted.

A Mom Anon May 25, 2021 • 6:21:36pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

The only glimmer of hope is that the grand jury and maybe a regular courtroom jury will be made up of New Yorkers who know what an awful person Trump is. He’s not the most popular guy there, but he’s got away with so much to this point, it’s also possible he’ll slide again.

EstebanTornado1963 May 25, 2021 • 6:21:59pm

Ok uncle T

— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) May 26, 2021

Hecuba's daughter May 25, 2021 • 6:28:47pm

re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

When bigots openly declare that their policy of discrimination is justified because those people are bad people… yeah, you know that American culture is deeply, deeply bigoted.

As it has been since the inception of this nation: born with slavery and genocide under its ruling patriarchy. A racism that was embedded in its Constitution and that permeated the society until the 1960’s when, finally, blacks began to gain the right to vote and discrimination by race was outlawed, for all public facing businesses and government operations. Unfortunately too many people rejected these changes and wanted to return to the “traditional” culture, where the color of your skin determined your place in the social structure

Jay C May 25, 2021 • 6:30:08pm

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Trumper thinks Trump is clean:

OK, I can’t recite the docket off the top of my head: but I seem to recall a number of investigations (less indictments/plea deals, more’s the pity) of Trump and his sleazy Organization going back years before he ran for President. And I think all those jokes about Trump running for office solely to get executive immunity from prosecutions were only partly “humorous” …. 😬

PhillyPretzel May 25, 2021 • 6:33:23pm

re: #14 Jay C

I see that everyone here has heard or read the news that Vance is convening a grand jury to hear about DT and Co and their illegal actions. I just read it in The Washington Post.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 25, 2021 • 6:39:40pm

re: #9 🌹UOJB!

And in today’s chapter of the Xtian Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama…

Jim Bakker Claims His Imprisonment for Fraud Was an Example of ‘Cancel Culture’

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How is this fucking guy even allowed in polite society?

Hecuba's daughter May 25, 2021 • 6:41:17pm

re: #12 EstebanTornado1963

Ok uncle T

— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) May 26, 2021

Uncle Tom of the original novel was a good guy and a hero; unfortunately the term has become an insult because of the way he has been mischaracterized in popular lore. Vernon Jones seems instead to have become Stephen, the Samuel L. Jackson villain in Django Unchained. But Uncle Tom is the contemporary insult that all recognize.

jaunte May 25, 2021 • 6:46:01pm

Totally legal and totally cool pic.twitter.com/eBZi0gPywz

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 26, 2021

EstebanTornado1963 May 25, 2021 • 6:48:32pm

re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter

Unfortunately when I use the Sam Jackson gif, I tend to get suspended 😆😆

lawhawk May 25, 2021 • 6:48:58pm

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It was a consent decree. They agreed to the terms set by the DOJ, with DOJ oversight to stop discrimination. Trump was discriminating in violation of multiple federal laws, and the DOJ put a stop to it.

calochortus May 25, 2021 • 6:54:06pm

re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter

Uncle Tom of the original novel was a good guy and a hero; unfortunately the term has become an insult because of the way he has been mischaracterized in popular lore. Vernon Jones seems instead to have become Stephen, the Samuel L. Jackson villain in Django Unchained. But Uncle Tom is the contemporary insult that all recognize.

I read Uncle Tom’s Cabin a few years ago and was surprised that the characters weren’t who I expected them to be. For example, Uncle Tom being a Christ-like figure, sacrificing himself for others. There was a lot of Victorian verbiage to work through, but it was a worthwhile read. If you don’t suffocate in the aforementioned Victorian verbiage.

Dangerman May 25, 2021 • 6:55:09pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

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I believe he would have easily gotten away with it all if he didn’t run in 2015

Sorry but I’m just not very hopeful that the Trump crime family will ever truly be brought to justice, because it’s never worked that way in the US before. But I’m open to being surprised.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 26, 2021

Patricia Kayden May 25, 2021 • 6:59:34pm

re: #9 🌹UOJB!

😂 😂 😝
Bakker is a great comedian as well as a seasoned con artist. Who knew? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Charles Johnson May 25, 2021 • 7:01:40pm

I have to confess I still sometimes click my saved search link just to see this message because it makes me happy. pic.twitter.com/rCBdCtDnHS

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 26, 2021

jaunte May 25, 2021 • 7:03:05pm

For philosophical reasons, I am strongly opposed to the formation of the “Committee To Uncover Who Drank All of the Beer”

— Thanks For Sharing Jerk (@Thx4SharingJerk) May 24, 2021

DesertDenizen May 25, 2021 • 7:03:49pm

re: #25 jaunte

Brett Kavanagh?

sagehen May 25, 2021 • 7:11:17pm

re: #14 Jay C

OK, I can’t recite the docket off the top of my head: but I seem to recall a number of investigations (less indictments/plea deals, more’s the pity) of Trump and his sleazy Organization going back years before he ran for President. And I think all those jokes about Trump running for office solely to get executive immunity from prosecutions were only partly “humorous” …. 😬

The fraud case for Trump University predates his declaring his candidacy. He settled in summer 2016, for $25 million.

bratwurst May 25, 2021 • 7:13:41pm

Would that be the same Josh Hawley who was cheering on the guy in the Camp Auschwitz shirt on January 6? pic.twitter.com/GLtCjBGDjA

— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) May 26, 2021

plansbandc May 25, 2021 • 7:17:50pm

Watching “Sense and Sensibility” for the first time. Yeah it’s good.

PhillyPretzel May 25, 2021 • 7:20:12pm

re: #29 plansbandc

Which version? My personal favorite is the 1995 version.

JOE 🥓 May 25, 2021 • 7:22:19pm

re: #28 bratwurst

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No, Hee Hawley!

Don’t even think of kissing our collective asses!

Eric The Fruit Bat May 25, 2021 • 7:22:38pm

Here’s an idea - since News Corp is the one making the change, they should be the ones footing the bill. Better still - stop showing Fox News on all DoD properties…

Oh you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me https://t.co/UUfIi5QD1q

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 26, 2021

JOE 🥓 May 25, 2021 • 7:23:54pm

re: #32 Eric The Fruit Bat

Here’s an idea - since News Corp is the one making the change, they should be the ones footing the bill. Better still - stop showing Fox News on all DoD properties…

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Yeah. Make Screwpert and his spoiled brat son foot the bill…and then turn around and block the dishes from receiving their fucking propaganda!

Hecuba's daughter May 25, 2021 • 7:24:22pm

Mumble grumble. Have ATT U-verse and the DVR stopped working. The main TV (which I never use) shows No Signal but the other TVs are operating — but just like ancient days, no way to pause live TV and no access to my recordings. The helpful tech people at ATT are sending me a new box but they have advised me that all my recordings are gone. Sigh.

JOE 🥓 May 25, 2021 • 7:26:19pm

re: #34 Hecuba’s daughter

Mumble grumble. Have ATT U-verse and the DVR stopped working. The main TV (which I never use) shows No Signal but the other TVs are operating — but just like ancient days, no way to pause live TV and no access to my recordings. The helpful tech people at ATT are sending me a new box but they have advised me that all my recordings are gone. Sigh.

I lost count of how many DVR boxes from Road Runner/Spectrum failed before I finally had enough and dumped cable.

plansbandc May 25, 2021 • 7:28:21pm

re: #30 PhillyPretzel

The Emma Thompson version. I’m already charmed.

PhillyPretzel May 25, 2021 • 7:30:25pm

re: #36 plansbandc

It does not follow the book too closely but it is good.

jaunte May 25, 2021 • 7:47:18pm

Echoes of Rwanda

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 26, 2021

Orange Impostor May 25, 2021 • 7:53:31pm

re: #34 Hecuba’s daughter

Mumble grumble. Have ATT U-verse and the DVR stopped working. The main TV (which I never use) shows No Signal but the other TVs are operating — but just like ancient days, no way to pause live TV and no access to my recordings. The helpful tech people at ATT are sending me a new box but they have advised me that all my recordings are gone. Sigh.

I had my U-verse fiber optic modem/router fail over the weekend where it only got the power LED flashing and no service lights at all, thus totally knocking out internet, TV and digital phone service. Good news is that they immediately recognized the issue and overnighted a new one. Bad news is I didn’t get the replacement unit until mid-afternoon today (which fortunately does work and required very little reconfiguration from me). That being said, this was really inconvenient since the database IT team I’m on is still on enforced work from home until early summer at the earliest. I had to get special permission to go onsite for the first time since last fall so I could actually get some work done.

Orange Impostor May 25, 2021 • 7:57:04pm

re: #30 PhillyPretzel

Which version? My personal favorite is the 1995 version.

I think the better question is the version with or without zombies?

Hecuba's daughter May 25, 2021 • 8:01:15pm

re: #40 Orange Impostor

I think the better question is the version with or without zombies?

Zombies were only in a Pride and Prejudice update, though apparently there was a Sense and Sensibility with Sea Monsters novel.

The Pie Overlord! May 25, 2021 • 8:08:28pm

WE MADE IT TO BROOKLYN!!

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sagehen May 25, 2021 • 8:08:51pm

how many of us are of an age to find this relevant?

Menopause Rhapsody - Bohemian Rhapsody Parody Song for every Queen

jaunte May 25, 2021 • 8:10:22pm

New Idaho bill just dropped. Public schools *and also* universities are forbidden from endorsing a “divisive concept”, NOR may they invite a speaker who endorses it, NOR even assign a book or video that endorses it.

So long, James Calhoun and John Locke.https://t.co/KOinjqh7Pr pic.twitter.com/XFYd5gJV9L

— Jeffrey Sachs (@JeffreyASachs) May 25, 2021

“And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your mortality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears - that’s what soma is.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Hecuba's daughter May 25, 2021 • 8:14:18pm

re: #44 jaunte

I’m confused. If no one who promotes a racist or sexist viewpoint is permitted, doesn’t that bar most Republicans, and most Faux News personalities (Tucker, Hannity, etc)?

jaunte May 25, 2021 • 8:15:04pm

re: #45 Hecuba’s daughter

It seems to boil down to “don’t talk about stuff we don’t like.”

jaunte May 25, 2021 • 8:16:47pm

re: #45 Hecuba’s daughter

I mean, if racist and sexist concepts are forbidden, that pretty well prohibits the Bible.
Of course they don’t mean it.

EPR-radar May 25, 2021 • 8:19:39pm

re: #47 jaunte

I mean, if racist and sexist concepts are forbidden, that pretty well prohibits the Bible.
Of course they don’t mean it.

It also bans the Republican party.

austin_blue May 25, 2021 • 8:23:07pm

re: #45 Hecuba’s daughter

I’m confused. If no one who promotes a racist or sexist viewpoint is permitted, doesn’t that bar most Republicans, and most Faux News personalities (Tucker, Hannity, etc)?

You don’t understand modern politics, where any attack on anyone who disagrees with you is legitimate without a single fact.

This world is a shitshow. We are just the victims, watching it unfold because the people who could stop it don’t have the balls.

austin_blue May 25, 2021 • 8:27:33pm

And that’s it for me. Night all, sleep well.

Drumpf is going to explode tomorrow. Can’t wait.

No Malarkey! May 25, 2021 • 8:31:48pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I am optimistic. So much crack law enforcement investigating so many crimes makes me think there is a good chance Trump is going down.

Sherlock Hound May 25, 2021 • 8:39:07pm

re: #38 jaunte

Rwanda. And Germany. Again.

No Malarkey! May 25, 2021 • 8:47:55pm

Fun statistical fact totally unrelated to anything else happening in national news today: Grand Juries return indictments on between 95-99% of the cases they’re empaneled to review.

— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) May 25, 2021

Eclectic Cyborg May 25, 2021 • 8:50:13pm

re: #42 The Pie Overlord!

WE MADE IT TO BROOKLYN!!

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Glad you made it…and stayed awake.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David May 25, 2021 • 8:51:59pm

re: #51 No Malarkey!

I am optimistic. So much crack law enforcement investigating so many crimes makes me think there is a good chance Trump is going down.

Taking him down for the crime-ing he was doing as a businessman before being president is helpful, but if he doesn’t get prosecuted for things he did as president, bad actors will take it as a win for Trump and carte blanche to do all that shit again with no consequences. Probably smarter and more successful the next time. Until the DOJ is taking action rather than local and state authorities, this is just “fine”.

No Malarkey! May 25, 2021 • 8:54:33pm

re: #55 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Taking him down for the crime-ing he was doing as a businessman before being president is helpful, but if he doesn’t get prosecuted for things he did as president, bad actors will take it as a win for Trump and carte blanche to do all that shit again with no consequences. Probably smarter and more successful the next time. Until the DOJ is taking action rather than local and state authorities, this is just “fine”.

We all heard the recording of Trump trying to blackmail the Georgia SoS into committing election fraud, so that is something Georgia could indict him for soon that he did as president.

calochortus May 25, 2021 • 9:01:29pm

As much as I’d like to see Trump in jail, I don’t think we have the stomach for putting a former president in jail. We may have to be satisfied with financial ruin. And maybe a kid or two in jail. I’m not even betting on that.

sagehen May 25, 2021 • 9:02:43pm

re: #53 No Malarkey!

the other 1-5% being white cops accused of excessive force against dead black guys…

No Malarkey! May 25, 2021 • 9:03:58pm

re: #57 calochortus

As much as I’d like to see Trump in jail, I don’t think we have the stomach for putting a former president in jail. We may have to be satisfied with financial ruin. And maybe a kid or two in jail. I’m not even betting on that.

I hope you are wrong. Trump becoming President was an obscene mistake, and he doesn’t deserve any special treatment for besmirching that office.

calochortus May 25, 2021 • 9:04:33pm

re: #59 No Malarkey!

I hope you are wrong. Trump becoming President was an obscene mistake, and he doesn’t deserve any special treatment for besmirching that office.

I hope I’m wrong too.

sagehen May 25, 2021 • 9:05:46pm

re: #42 The Pie Overlord!

WE MADE IT TO BROOKLYN!!

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David May 25, 2021 • 9:07:08pm

re: #57 calochortus

As much as I’d like to see Trump in jail, I don’t think we have the stomach for putting a former president in jail. We may have to be satisfied with financial ruin. And maybe a kid or two in jail. I’m not even betting on that.

If he doesn’t get incarcerated, he runs again. If he wins, and they are successfully trying to rig the game for that outcome as we speak (thanks a lot dirt-bag lefties who just couldn’t vote for email-lady), democracy is over.

Hecuba's daughter May 25, 2021 • 9:12:34pm

re: #49 austin_blue

You don’t understand modern politics, where any attack on anyone who disagrees with you is legitimate without a single fact.

This world is a shitshow. We are just the victims, watching it unfold because the people who could stop it don’t have the balls.

I do understand: the real racists are those who are anti-racist and want children to learn the truth about our racist past; taking down statues of Confederate leaders is a racist act against the Southerners who were fighting for their “heritage”. It is those of us who are Caucasian who suffer the true brunt of racism.

AFAICT, everyone who remains committed to Trump is a danger to the survival of our nation; but they are not the only ones: everyone who fails to support the voting rights legislation is a fellow traveler of the Trump cult, and even if they are vocal in their hostility to Trump himself and the insurrection, they are culpable in widespread attack on voting rights being conducted nationwide by Republican legislators and governors. Neither Cheney nor Kinzinger, the most prominent Trump critics, have expressed any criticism in this Republican assault, nor has either one supported the Democrats’ efforts to expand voting rights.

No Malarkey! May 25, 2021 • 9:13:07pm

re: #62 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

If he doesn’t get incarcerated, he runs again. If he wins, and they are successfully trying to rig the game for that outcome as we speak (thanks a lot dirt-bag lefties who just couldn’t vote for email-lady), democracy is over.

This is why its so critical to indict and convict Trump of at least some of his crimes before 2024. Ther is no reason, for example, that Trump couldn’t be indicted for directing Michael Cohen to commit the crimes Cohen pled guilty to.

JOE 🥓 May 25, 2021 • 9:20:32pm

re: #56 No Malarkey!

We all heard the recording of Trump trying to blackmail the Georgia SoS into committing election fraud, so that is something Georgia could indict him for soon that he did as president.

But what pisses me off in regards to the Georgia case is that we know Brian Kemp will pardon Trump..and Trump will pay him back by stabbing him in the back and endorsing Vernon Jones for the GOP nomination…

Belafon May 25, 2021 • 9:22:15pm

Biles does a routine basically no other woman can do, and the judges meh her with a 6.6:

This happens in figure-skating, too. There’s a stigma against the rare women who have the physicality to do feats that haven’t traditionally been part of the women’s program. And of course there’s racism. https://t.co/xYFpQukWIt

— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) May 24, 2021

Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David May 25, 2021 • 9:23:10pm

re: #64 No Malarkey!

This is why its so critical to indict and convict Trump of at least some of his crimes before 2024. Ther is no reason, for example, that Trump couldn’t be indicted for directing Michael Cohen to commit the crimes Cohen pled guilty to.

Yeah any or all of these state charges are useful for helping with 2024. To put back the movement decades and stop a 2028 and beyond Trumpite, he needs to be prosecuted for the things he did in office or on the way to it: the things he was impeached for, everything to do with Russia, all the ways he intentionally mishandled COVID, abuse of power during BLM protests, interfering with the count of the 2020 election, and last and certainly not least, attempting a coup. All of his kids and that useless idiot Jared need to go down too. Bill Barr needs to go to prison. Louie Dejoy needs to go to prison. Literally all of them. The line has to be drawn here or were fucked with a capital F and that stands for Fascism.

calochortus May 25, 2021 • 9:24:45pm

re: #62 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

If he doesn’t get incarcerated, he runs again. If he wins, and they are successfully trying to rig the game for that outcome as we speak (thanks a lot dirt-bag lefties who just couldn’t vote for email-lady), democracy is over.

I don’t take quite such a dim view. I can’t imagine his being reelected. To be fair, I couldn’t imagine his 2016 win either. But he did lose in 2020.

Hecuba's daughter May 25, 2021 • 9:34:20pm

re: #68 calochortus

I don’t take quite such a dim view. I can’t imagine his being reelected. To be fair, I couldn’t imagine his 2016 win either. But he did lose in 2020.

Courtesy of the benighted Electoral College, the margin in 2020 was razor-thin. And unless the Republican efforts on voter suppression are overturned, we may not repeat that success. Unfortunately, the EC is not going away.

calochortus May 25, 2021 • 9:36:18pm

re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter

We can’t know for sure, but I just don’t think Trump will be as popular after a gap of a few years.

Anyhoo, it’s time for me to log off for the evening.
Hasta mañana, Lizards.

Eclectic Cyborg May 25, 2021 • 9:43:00pm

So I’m just seeing the stories regarding this whole John Cena/Taiwan flap and realizing how much it sucks that the entertainment industry has to constantly kiss Chinas ass because of how important that market is.

Dave In Austin May 25, 2021 • 9:50:20pm

Excuse me, but I recognize a Rancor’s hand when I see one. 👀 https://t.co/plAYuXpI4d

— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) May 26, 2021

Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David May 25, 2021 • 9:54:23pm

re: #68 calochortus

I don’t take quite such a dim view. I can’t imagine his being reelected. To be fair, I couldn’t imagine his 2016 win either. But he did lose in 2020.

I can’t imagine him legitimately winning, but as far as I know, several red-states either have, or are trying to pass laws saying they could ignore the state’s popular vote and assign electors to whoever they want.

Basically making legal things that the kooks *thought* they could do and tried to get them to. The game is rigged. If we don’t put him away and hit back with such a surge in 22 and 24 so we can actually have the time and court spots to fix all of this, it’s over.

Hecuba's daughter May 25, 2021 • 10:08:29pm

re: #73 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I can’t imagine him legitimately winning, but as far as I know, several red-states either have, or are trying to pass laws saying they could ignore the state’s popular vote and assign electors to whoever they want.

Basically making legal things that the kooks *thought* they could do and tried to get them to. The game is rigged. If we don’t put him away and hit back with such a surge in 22 and 24 so we can actually have the time and court spots to fix all of this, it’s over.

But this outrageous effort to ignore the popular vote doesn’t aid just Trump, any Republican presidential candidate will benefit from states adopting a law that allows them to select whomever they please, regardless of voter preferences. Unfortunately this is totally constitutional.

ckkatz May 25, 2021 • 10:39:11pm

re: #72 Dave In Austin
“the now-extinct bird,”Moa”“

So there’s no Moa….

TedStriker May 25, 2021 • 10:59:37pm

re: #75 ckkatz

“the now-extinct bird,”Moa”“

So there’s no Moa….

Ace-o-aces May 25, 2021 • 11:38:55pm

pic.twitter.com/1XUmvl6MRm

— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) May 26, 2021

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 12:03:10am

One Million Moms (one Christian mom and a whole bunch of Christian men) has launched a boycott against Etsy. Good luck with that, Christian fascists.

They are concerned children looking for Father’s Day presents would stumble upon sex dolls and buy those for Dad.

All conservatives lie. Etsy does not sell sex dolls.

Amazon does sell a nude Velma (of Scooby Doo) portrait (which Robyn Pennacchia helpfully links to—there is a reason she writes for both Wonkette and The Friendly Atheist).

Strangely, One Million Moms hasn’t launched a boycott against Amazon, which sells a whole host of sex toys and nude art.

One Million Moms Scared Kids Are Gonna Buy Sex Dolls For Father’s Day On Etsy (Wonkette)

sagehen May 26, 2021 • 12:39:23am

re: #75 ckkatz

“the now-extinct bird,”Moa”“

So there’s no Moa….

Actually, there’s mo’. Mo’ money, mo’ problems, Mo’ moa.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 26, 2021 • 12:56:56am

re: #42 The Pie Overlord!

/cXANQcd5rCQCXerjuufsFZGzRcwlA8l6FxWOOfDxdAS2miZwMcU1HzdWRrShXyiv/tTRhNJkzIeRxuqKyQwog==

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 26, 2021 • 12:58:07am

re: #46 jaunte

It seems to boil down to “don’t talk about stuff we don’t like.”

Sounds like ideal legislation for lawyers to profit from.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 26, 2021 • 12:59:53am

re: #59 No Malarkey!

I hope you are wrong. Trump becoming President was an obscene mistake, and he doesn’t deserve any special treatment for besmirching that office.

Or does deserve the special treatment of being put behind bars in an orange jumpsuit simply to drive home that he is a bad example that should not be emulated in the future.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 2:14:39am

re: #82 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Or does deserve the special treatment of being put behind bars in an orange jumpsuit simply to drive home that he is a bad example that should not be emulated in the future.

Especially when he loses his combover privileges.

I hate to say that I have been rendered cynical enough to believe that he will walk: the most optimistic outcome I can foresee is that he will be stripped of his assets and left with a criminal record that renders him ineligible to hold public office ever again.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 2:24:40am

Extremely local hand rehab news behind the hide bar, since most would find it boring.

Click to Reveal

My fine muscle control in my hand has improved enough I made a new attempt to use my straight razor.

On my fourth attempt (right after my hand surgery), I was unable to hold it properly and dropped it, slashing my fingers of my left hand and my left wrist.

About an hour ago I tried again (I have not shaved at all since that surgery), and although I wound up with a bunch of nicks on my face, I was able to cut down the overgrowth on my face. I get to report that tomorrow to the occupational therapist.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 26, 2021 • 2:29:33am

Joe Cuba Sextet Push Push Push Latin Boogaloo classic (1966)

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 2:32:51am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hand and finger injuries totally creep me out. I can watch a movie where whole limbs get hacked off and it does not bother me half as much as anything above the knuckles…

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 2:48:12am

re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Hand and finger injuries totally creep me out. I can watch a movie where whole limbs get hacked off and it does not bother me half as much as anything above the knuckles…

I still have a red slash across my left wrist. Although it has healed, it’s taking a long time to return to normal.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 2:52:11am

okay, that’s bearable.

Digitotraumophobia

fear of finger injuries

Better than xylophallophagiphobia

Fear of getting your dick eaten by a tree.

Happened to my son, he went off to the side of the trail to have a widdle and someone had carved a face into the tree that startled him.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo May 26, 2021 • 2:53:53am

re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter

Uncle Tom of the original novel was a good guy and a hero; unfortunately the term has become an insult because of the way he has been mischaracterized in popular lore. Vernon Jones seems instead to have become Stephen, the Samuel L. Jackson villain in Django Unchained. But Uncle Tom is the contemporary insult that all recognize.

Same thing with the “Ugly American” character of the novel by that name. He was a saintly figure revered by the local people.

The “Ugly American” of the book title refers to the book’s hero, plain-looking engineer Homer Atkins, whose “calloused and grease-blackened hands always reminded him that he was an ugly man.” Atkins, who lives with the local people, comes to understand their needs, and offers genuinely useful assistance with small-scale projects such as the development of a simple bicycle-powered water pump

.
The plot follows his conflicts with the callous and ignorant US diplomats who oversee his work.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 2:56:58am

And King Canute, who was actually a humble man who was so tired of his courtiers fawning over him that he wanted to demonstrate that he was a mere human who could not command the tides.

That was the point of his demonstration that has gone down in history as an example of megalomania rather than humility.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 3:52:54am

A new hire that’s worked for me for 5 days called me a dumb fuck today for wearing my Biden shirt and he also got to find out that I’m his bosses boss.

It was fun. 🙃

— CHARLIE (@ChazMontana3) May 25, 2021

Dangerman May 26, 2021 • 3:55:07am

sad and pathetic

The Republican Governors Association on Tuesday threw out Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and a top Trump ally, after he showed up to its spring conference in Tennessee, Politico reports.

Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 3:56:20am

re: #92 Dangerman

Yes, the entire GOP is sad and pathetic. And extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 3:59:55am

re: #93 Patricia Kayden

Yes, the entire GOP is sad and pathetic. And extremely dangerous to our democracy.

With the full blessing of the National GOP, the various GOP controlled state legislatures are putting legislation and procedures into place that will allow them to disqualify any future vote counts that they don’t like.

Dangerman May 26, 2021 • 4:15:26am

from politicalwire.com reporting that that the New York Post reports about a Newsmax interview of a twice impeached Florida blogger.

Former President Donald Trump claimed in an interview Tuesday that “it was obvious to smart people” that the coronavirus emerged from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the New York Post reports.

now for anyone with a brain:

“Knowing whether the virus came out of a lab or not… the truth is that 100s of 1000s of Americans are dead today not because ‘China lied’ but because our government last year… was almost uniquely… incompetent, negligent, & dishonest.”

My #minirant:pic.twitter.com/a0fzCH5e0g

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 25, 2021

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 4:16:48am

In today’s Public Pulse, two letter writers use the same word to describe the failure of a bill in the #Nebraska Legislature that would have increased support for developmentally disabled people: Shame.

Read their letters and more here: https://t.co/g5QV4PcYed

— Omaha World-Herald (@OWHnews) May 25, 2021

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 4:21:22am

689% more popular than last year.

Canadian-invented pizza deemed most popular in the U.S. this year https://t.co/uYasVT5WVq via @CTVNews

— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 26, 2021

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 4:22:11am

All three of these bills were introduced by Republicans. Why? Because Republicans care about people too. It really is just you. https://t.co/lqpT05AqOq

— Senator Machaela Cavanaugh (@senatormachaela) May 25, 2021

Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 4:35:45am

re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Does it have pineapple? That’s what is important.

Yes!!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 4:42:50am

re: #99 Patricia Kayden

Does it have pineapple? That’s what is important.

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Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 4:44:56am

re: #100 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

👍🏿

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Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 4:46:49am

re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I don’t understand how that is democratic or constitutional at all. Then why bother to vote then? Just let the GOP select the President.

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Dave In Austin May 26, 2021 • 4:46:53am

Good Lord. I am so tired of the “a few bad apples” analogy when it comes to police. There seem to be a whole lot of assholes in law enforcement. https://t.co/W8szgWSk5q

— HawaiiDelilah™ — Fully Vaxxed — (@HawaiiDelilah) May 26, 2021

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steve_davis May 26, 2021 • 4:48:29am

re: #56 No Malarkey!

We all heard the recording of Trump trying to blackmail the Georgia SoS into committing election fraud, so that is something Georgia could indict him for soon that he did as president.

Yes, but I’m guessing that isn’t as nearly clear-cut as news networks like to claim it is. “We’re just asking you to find 15,000 votes” may be a request for voting fraud, or may just be a politician asking that the secretary dig harder for what trump perceived as obvious fraud.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 4:53:43am

re: #103 Dave In Austin

Just found this update https://t.co/nW9akmCar8

— UsuallyAnnoyed (@GerryLikeTacos) May 26, 2021

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 4:55:57am

Rino has been out flying again. 🐶 🐾 pic.twitter.com/GKSNehDhps

— Rino & Roy (@RinoTheBeagle) May 26, 2021

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Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 5:00:43am

re: #103 Dave In Austin

Straight up Thug.

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William Lewis May 26, 2021 • 5:14:44am

Good morning all,

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 5:15:24am

re: #102 Patricia Kayden

I don’t understand how that is democratic or constitutional at all. Then why bother to vote then? Just let the GOP select the President.

The process for electing a President was never meant to be a fully democratic process under the Constitution.

The GOP have come to realize that relying on the outcome of the popular vote is not going to get the desired results, even with the weight of the Electoral College in their favor, so they are falling back to the old methods of leaving it up to the state legislatures, which they know will guarantee success.

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Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 5:18:54am

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So let’s just leave it all up to state legislators then and cancel the elections.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 5:19:37am

re: #110 Patricia Kayden

So let’s just leave it all up to state legislators then and cancel the elections.

That would be just fine with the GOP.

They control a majority of state legislatures.

Each state gets one vote, so New York and California have just as many votes as Wyoming and North Dakota, just as our Founding Fathers foresaw it…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 5:29:43am

Via the Texas Tribune, Texas passed priority legislation from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick yesterday.

Texas House votes to yank state funding from sports teams that don’t play national anthem at games

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick named the bill one of his legislative priorities after Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, stopped playing the anthem before home games.

The Texas House gave final passage Tuesday to the so-called “Star Spangled Banner Protection Act,” a conservative-backed bill that would require any professional sports teams with contracts with the Texas state government to play the national anthem before the start of a game.

Senate Bill 4 heads next to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.

House Republicans defeated several proposed amendments along partisan lines, signaling more division on the issue in the lower chamber than was seen in the Senate, which passed the bill last month with overwhelming bipartisan support and only two votes against it.

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 5:30:14am

Texas Legislature: guaranteeing the best Patriotism that money can buy:

Texas state lawmakers have approved a bill that withholds funding from sports teams that choose not to play the national anthem before games.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 5:31:14am

re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I don’t know what happened to my comment, it didn’t post correctly.

I looked in the edit box and I can’t see any errors.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 5:32:04am

re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Aha. I left a quote mark out, which deleted everything after it. Fixed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 5:35:30am

GMTA

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Florida Panhandler May 26, 2021 • 5:36:24am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Via the Texas Tribune, Texas passed priority legislation from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick yesterday.

Texas House votes to yank state funding from sports teams that don’t play national anthem at games

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick named the bill one of his legislative priorities after Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, stopped playing the anthem before home games.

(more)

I would play Hendrix’s version and watch the Republican heads explode.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 5:37:31am

re: #117 Florida Panhandler

I would play Hendrix’s version and watch the Republican heads explode.

Or Rosanne Barr.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 5:41:55am

The GOP throws fits when the Federal Government threatens to withdraw funding from institutions that discriminate against gays, women & minorities but don’t hesitate to pull the same stunt when it suits their narrative.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 5:43:07am

Crisis of Faith (goes to Juanita Jean’s)

Writer Nick Carraway notes the continuing decline of Christianity in the nation. Mr. Carraway used to sit on a parish board, and notes this phenomenon started long before the Former Guy was elected.

He wanted to get to the bottom of why the church was losing members, and the parish board approached the pastor for permission to conduct exit surveys at church.

The pastor wouldn’t hear of it, insisting people were moving away (despite a boom of construction in their town).

Statistics clearly show that church attendance and faith in general is on the decline. Obviously, for some this is not an issue at all. For some of us it is an issue felt deeply. I certainly can’t speak for everyone, but what I see is a schism between the beliefs that most Christians have and how the faith is practiced in most denominations in the American church. When one can no longer reconcile a benevolent God with all of the hate being spewed by people that call themselves Christian they no longer go.

and

Yet, we have allowed Christianity to be hijacked by conservatives. So, progressives that are also Christian really have three choices. They can stop being progressive and give into the conservative message. They can stop being Christian so they can adhere to a progressive message. The final possibility to continue to be both. However, that requires that they bang their head against both walls. I often feel like that is where I’m at.

The problem with allowing the numbers to get smaller is that those remaining have abandoned progressive ideals. It’s similar to what is going on in the Republican party. Think of it as the Liz Cheney problem. If Cheney gets primaried then gets primaried by a guy that impregnated a 14 year old when he was 18. It seems nice to just assume a Democrat would win, but that’s not likely in Wyoming. So, you replace an ultra conservative with someone more conservative and less reasonable. Multiply that a few dozen times and that’s what’s happened to Congress.

(more)

He predicts that churches will go the same way as the Republican Party, only getting worse as good people decide they are done with them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 5:45:46am

Church attendance is a metric that can be measured.

Faith is not.

Apples and oranges.

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Dr Lizardo May 26, 2021 • 5:45:50am

re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Amazon does sell a nude Velma (of Scooby Doo) portrait…

I know that “sexy Velma” is definitely a thing, but if I saw that portrait hanging up someone’s fireplace mantle, I’d have some questions.

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HRH Stanley Sea May 26, 2021 • 5:52:25am

RIP Senator John W. Warner, who served Virginia and the nation from 1979-2009. Veteran of both WWII and the Korean War. He was 94 and passed peacefully last evening in his home in Alexandria, VA.

— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) May 26, 2021

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 5:55:45am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Church attendance is a metric that can be measured.

Faith is not.

Apples and oranges.

It can be measured in surveys.

“Do you believe in God?”

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Eventual Carrion May 26, 2021 • 5:55:46am

re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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William Lewis May 26, 2021 • 5:56:57am

re: #122 Dr Lizardo

I know that “sexy Velma” is definitely a thing, but if I saw that portrait hanging up someone’s fireplace mantle, I’d have some questions.

If a person is into that, there are a number of much better images on deviant art.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 26, 2021 • 5:59:38am

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One of my soapboxes that many of you are probably tired of reading my prattle: The US is undergoing a worldview collapse as the nominally Christian populace is becoming more diverse, meaning less nominally Christian.

While most people don’t turn into atheists, they become “nones” who hold some belief in a soul (because all of us know we are going to die someday) and some sort of afterlife.

The structural nature of Christianity in a society has, for some 16 centuries now, tended to form theocracies or monarchies bent towards theocracy. Democracy is antithetical to Christian dogma, and the more democratic a society wants to be the less it can adhere to traditional Christian orthopraxy.

The writer you linked wants a progressive reinterpretation of Christianity and many people try that, to some degree of success. But it is an inherently underdog position, a sort of an oddball among monotheism.

Sure, at times the most progressive people in the US were also religious (famously so, the abolitionists.) But their progress-minded ideals tended to be singular issues (e.g., slavery.)

Because some of the colonies that became the US were noted for their religious tolerance (Pennsylvania) the US has a history of needing to allow variations in beliefs. But the parameters American society has put on itself are pretty tight.

See the outlawing of polygamy, for example, though various religions allow it, or even encourage it.

So the weakening of the traditional Christian societal structures in the US is causing the wringing of hands of many.

MAGAheads are among those who are driven by the fear of losing their religion.

Our politics will be defined by this issue for decades to come.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 26, 2021 • 6:01:24am

The writer at Juanita Jean’s references an article from John Pavlovitz. Mr. Pavlovitz is a pastor.

If MAGA Christianity is Christianity—I’m Not a Christian and Neither is Jesus (May 21)

If being a Christian means embracing a man who boasted that he could grab women by the genitalia, I’m out.
If being a Christian means denying the votes of people of color or justifying their executions at traffic stops, I’ll pass.
If being a Christian means nurturing mindless conspiracies and shunning safeguards and stoking hate crimes, I’m gonna opt out.
If being a Christian means pretending a deadly terrorist attack on our Capitol was just a “group of tourists,” I denounce it as a my former religion.

(more)

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lawhawk May 26, 2021 • 6:06:58am

re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The pathetic fact is that bigots, white supremacists, white nationalists, and goddamned Nazis have all used Christianity/religion as an excuse to impose their racist views on others.

They’ve long corrupted teachings from the Bible to further their own agenda.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 26, 2021 • 6:07:36am

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And I have realized that I am much less trusting than I used to be towards those that wear their Christianity openly on their sleeves. Which shows to me that the dominance in media and popular culture of the conservative nut versions have started to poison the general perception of religion.

Piled on this multiple personal anecdotal pieces of having acquaintances and coworkers who are conservative Catholics and seem to have drunk deeply of the Trump brand Flavor-Ade. Or at a minimum have been largely silent while their beloved GOP sinks further and further into alt-reality fascism. (WHICH quickly leads to me wondering what these people really believe about democracy, government, minorities, etc.)

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jeffreyw May 26, 2021 • 6:08:09am

Good morning!

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Belafon May 26, 2021 • 6:10:25am

58% of voters support passing Biden’s $4 trillion infrastructure plan without any Republican votes, poll finds https://t.co/swHxjw9qSm via @businessinsider

— Zac Petkanas (@Zac_Petkanas) May 25, 2021

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Belafon May 26, 2021 • 6:10:49am

lol biden’s ingenious plan https://t.co/UaqDpy3Bv7

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 25, 2021

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Dr Lizardo May 26, 2021 • 6:12:55am

re: #127 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Interestingly, Jodo Shinshu is growing, albeit modestly, in Portland, Oregon. This is a traditionally Japanese sect of Pure Land Buddhism, but as a friend of mine noted (she was going there routinely before the pandemic), the congregation is not only expanding, but far more diverse as well. The Buddhist Churches of America has also been busy doing their outreach work, so that might help account for it. But yes, America is getting more religiously diverse, and I’m sure the Bible-thumpers feel particularly threatened by this.

You can read about Jodo Shinshu here: en.wikipedia.org

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darthstar May 26, 2021 • 6:13:23am

re: #131 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Good morning, but did you have to catch her taking a squirt?

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Belafon May 26, 2021 • 6:17:07am

Big news — For the first time in 14 months, @DeptVetAffairs had zero #coronavirus-related deaths among its patients yesterday. https://t.co/5HqCotwjgS

— Leo Shane III (@LeoShane) May 25, 2021

At this point, there are plenty of vaccines to go around, to anyone who wants one. Almost every COVID-19 death in the US from this point on is an entirely preventable tragedy.

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) May 26, 2021

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Belafon May 26, 2021 • 6:18:16am

Ultimately, it seems that you either get the population vaccinated or you kill off all of the susceptible people:

Vietnam widened lockdown measures in its industrialised north on Tuesday to combat its biggest COVID-19 outbreak so far, as authorities reported a daily record in new cases that was more than double the previous high. https://t.co/Nhz3n4R3cc

— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) May 25, 2021

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PhillyPretzel May 26, 2021 • 6:19:19am

re: #136 Belafon

I agree it is preventable but some folks like a couple of my co-workers still say COVID-19 is a hoax. One person still refuses to wear a mask on the train.

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Belafon May 26, 2021 • 6:20:53am

The @CDCgov :
10,262 #vaccine breakthrough #COVID19 cases have been ID’ed in US, out of 101 million vaccinees.
That’s a rate of 1 out of 10,000.
Just 995 needed hospitalization, or 1:100K vaccinees.
Sadly, 160 died of COVID, or 1:1million vaccinees.https://t.co/W7nrQkiCSr

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 25, 2021

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Belafon May 26, 2021 • 6:26:54am

re: #138 PhillyPretzel

I agree it is preventable but some folks like a couple of my co-workers still say COVID-19 is a hoax. One person still refuses to wear a mask on the train.

Just tell them winter is coming.

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PhillyPretzel May 26, 2021 • 6:27:44am

re: #140 Belafon

lol.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 6:31:22am

re: #92 Dangerman

sad and pathetic

Gee I wonder why they give Crackhead Mike the cold shoulder especially since he now says JFK Jr. will appear on Memorial Day to announce “The Storm” that puts Trump back in the White House…

The Republican Governors Association on Tuesday threw out MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell after he showed up to its spring conference in Tennessee https://t.co/zflDWvohlS

— POLITICO (@politico) May 26, 2021

Lindell tried to join transportation for members only for a dinner at the Tennessee Governor’s Mansion and was denied, an official told us.

“These events are for RGA members, and Mike Lindell is not currently an RGA member.” https://t.co/zflDWvohlS

— POLITICO (@politico) May 26, 2021

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 6:40:23am

re: #122 Dr Lizardo

I know that “sexy Velma” is definitely a thing, but if I saw that portrait hanging up someone’s fireplace mantle, I’d have some questions.

I find her sexy but would not be hanging up a painting of her anywhere in my house…

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jeffreyw May 26, 2021 • 6:40:37am

re: #135 darthstar

Good morning, but did you have to catch her taking a squirt?

That is a selfie.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 6:41:32am

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It can be measured in surveys.

“Do you believe in God?”

The answers to that question are entirely subjective.

Counting butts on pews on Sunday Mornings is objective.

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gwangung May 26, 2021 • 6:41:42am

re: #117 Florida Panhandler

I would play Hendrix’s version and watch the Republican heads explode.

Then there’s Uncle Bonsai’s version:

Uncle Bonsai, ”The Star Spangled Banner” (1986)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 6:43:41am

re: #146 gwangung

Then there’s Uncle Bonsai’s version:

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Video

Forgot about that quaint little band.

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PhillyPretzel May 26, 2021 • 6:57:50am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

re: #117 Florida Panhandler

re: #146 gwangung

How about going to the other end with opera. Have a singer like Renee Fleming sing it with all of the high notes sung and held for an extra count. Heads may not explode but they might have headaches. ::: evil grin :::

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lawhawk May 26, 2021 • 6:59:08am

Do we need to understand the origin? Absolutely.

Does this change Trump’s disastrous handling of the pandemic? Absolutely not.

Does this change GOP’s mishandling and covering for Trump’s awful handling of pandemic that led to 500,000+ deaths on his watch? Absolutely not.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) May 26, 2021

Getting to the origin of the pandemic is important for researchers. It’s not as important as understanding how badly we handled the pandemic when it entered the country, and in the weeks and months after covid19 was identified inside the US.

Trump’s disastrous handling maximized the body count. 500,000+ on his watch. Most of those would be avoidable had Trump insisted on masking and social distancing and lockdowns to slow the spread. He took the opposite tact, and incited violence and politicized masking all while undermining public health measures to contact trace and limit spread.

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Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 7:08:50am

re: #149 lawhawk

I don’t need to hear from Republican propagandists like Rubio that the Coronavirus was started in a lab. If this is a question for scientists, then I’ll wait to hear from them on the lab issue. Rubio will never acknowledge how badly and criminally Trump mishandled the pandemic. He’s simply looking for someone else to blame for the 500,000 plus deaths under Trump’s watch.

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darthstar May 26, 2021 • 7:10:52am

holy fucking shit, while Republicans have been projectile-vomiting nonsense about imaginary bamboo ballots and holocaust masks, Joe Biden has been vaccinating half of America. I’ll take quiet competence over performative fucknuttery any day of the week

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 26, 2021

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darthstar May 26, 2021 • 7:13:01am

re: #142 🌹UOJB!

Gee I wonder why they give Crackhead Mike the cold shoulder especially since he now says JFK Jr. will appear on Memorial Day to announce “The Storm” that puts Trump back in the White House…

The RGA kicked him out because he would have been a distraction from their primary goal, suppressing as much minority vote across the country as possible.

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PhillyPretzel May 26, 2021 • 7:13:14am

re: #151 darthstar

So will I. Joe is doing what should have been done and he will continue to do what needs to be done.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 7:14:23am

re: #152 darthstar

The RGA kicked him out because he would have been a distraction from their primary goal, suppressing as much minority vote across the country as possible.

They don’t even need to suppress the votes, just throw them all out as “invalid” as soon as the numbers start to skew against them.

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darthstar May 26, 2021 • 7:15:33am

My first thought was it was a rat, but then I read your tweet and yes, I see the bear now.

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 26, 2021

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darthstar May 26, 2021 • 7:18:23am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They don’t even need to suppress the votes, just throw them all out as “invalid” as soon as the numbers start to skew against them.

They want to get someone as corrupt as Trump but whom they think they can control. The problem is, they won’t be able to control a corrupt president because they realize how much power they actually have once in office. Trump had no idea what he could get away with until he started…then all bets were off and he crimed with impunity.

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Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 7:20:54am

re: #136 Belafon

Thank you President Biden!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 26, 2021 • 7:21:44am

re: #156 darthstar

They want to get someone as corrupt as Trump but whom they think they can control. The problem is, they won’t be able to control a corrupt president because they realize how much power they actually have once in office. Trump had no idea what he could get away with until he started…then all bets were off and he crimed with impunity.

Especially when he saw people getting up to defend or at least rationalize and both-side whatever he did. Nobody even seemed to care about his egregious violations of the emoluments clause and the blatant conflicts of interest surrounding his family business.

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No Malarkey! May 26, 2021 • 7:28:28am

This should be interesting. But I wish he had bought them in 2016.

Bezos just bought behind-the-scenes tapes from The Apprentice.

— David Carroll (@profcarroll) May 26, 2021

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PhillyPretzel May 26, 2021 • 7:30:02am

re: #159 No Malarkey!

Lets hope he finds “gold” in those tapes.

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No Malarkey! May 26, 2021 • 7:37:13am

It will be interesting watching mainstream Republicans explaining why they are supporting a convicted felon and prison inmate for President.

Don’t laugh. The former guy absolutely would do it. He could even get the nomination. And I’d go farther than this article: A decent constitutional argument could be made that, were he elected, they’d have to spring him so he could serve—which increases the likelihood he’ll run. https://t.co/JVmCyQ59EJ

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 26, 2021

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Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 7:38:36am

re: #159 No Malarkey!

What could he find to make a difference with MAGATs?

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 7:39:07am

Awwww somebody hates them rainbow Lucky Charms!

“I think General Mills has a gay leprechaun, right?…He wears high heels shoes, prances around in tights - leads me to believe, probably, that little Lucky Charm leprechaun might be gay” pic.twitter.com/THaBfIWtZ3

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) May 26, 2021

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Eclectic Cyborg May 26, 2021 • 7:40:41am

OT:

Auto-play video is the work of Satan. That is all.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 7:46:51am

breaking: obama (two years old in 1963) killed jfk https://t.co/ZzWlN6p0GG

— matthew. (@iAmTheWarax) May 26, 2021

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lawhawk May 26, 2021 • 7:49:23am

re: #159 No Malarkey!

It doesn’t matter what is in those tapes.

It didn’t matter that Trump revealed that he was a serial sex predator. The GOP considered that a benefit.

The focus needs to be on making sure the ongoing criminal investigations into Trump result in indictments.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 7:49:35am

Q can’t get enough of that anti-Semitism.

The GhostEzra channel, which has 335k members, whas gone from Antisemitic to holocaust denialism in less than a week. It is also networking the QAnon adherents in that channel to more extre groups on Telegram. It has become a hub for radicalization pic.twitter.com/CH8VGeAs6R

— Marc-André Argentino (@_MAArgentino) May 26, 2021

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 7:50:33am

re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Oswald lived there in the early 50s. Obama early ~~70s~~ 80s (excuse me)
So, the “factors” are the lack of time travel

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The Ghost of a Flea May 26, 2021 • 7:51:29am

re: #167 🌹UOJB!

Q can’t get enough of that anti-Semitism.

Been listening to Qanon Anonymous recently, and GhostEzra is a relative newcomer in Q but has gained a lot of clout and attention really really fast.

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Hecuba's daughter May 26, 2021 • 7:55:35am

re: #82 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Or does deserve the special treatment of being put behind bars in an orange jumpsuit simply to drive home that he is a bad example that should not be emulated in the future.

As a lifetime resident of Illinois, I am accustomed to our chief executives being sent to prisons for crimes committed before being governor (Ryan), while they were governor(Kerner and Blagoyevich), and after they left the office (Walker), but all of them tried to do the right thing during their term in office. They weren’t grifters whose goal was to enrich themselves, while ignoring the well-being of the citizens of their state. Blagoyevich may have been a total idiot but he wasn’t vicious or cruel. It benefits a nation to throw a miscreant top official in jail as a warning that no one is above the law.

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No Malarkey! May 26, 2021 • 7:55:39am

re: #162 Patricia Kayden

What could he find to make a difference with MAGATs?

Nothing. But Trump repeatedly using the N word would hurt him with independents.

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Hecuba's daughter May 26, 2021 • 7:57:40am

re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Especially when he loses his combover privileges.

I hate to say that I have been rendered cynical enough to believe that he will walk: the most optimistic outcome I can foresee is that he will be stripped of his assets and left with a criminal record that renders him ineligible to hold public office ever again.

A criminal record does not bar a person from becoming President.

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Eventual Carrion May 26, 2021 • 7:58:19am

re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Maybe they played at the same playground

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 7:59:20am

re: #168 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Oswald lived there in the early 50s. Obama early ~~70s~~ 80s (excuse me)
So, the “factors” are the lack of time travel

Unfortunately I can’t time travel and correct my typo

lol

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 8:05:32am

In case you’re wondering, Emily Miller was the Assistant Commissioner for Media Affairs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the Trump Reich in August of last year, a position she held for exactly one scaramucci.https://t.co/rKqQ2taHyR

— DCPetterson (@dcpetterson) May 22, 2021

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:06:31am

re: #175 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Jason, Steven, Emily—Trump sure loved those asshole Millers!

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Hecuba's daughter May 26, 2021 • 8:08:19am

re: #99 Patricia Kayden

Does it have pineapple? That’s what is important.

Yes!!

My vegetarian niece tells me not to knock pineapple on pizza without trying it. I told her “Never!”

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:10:26am

Is this acceptable?

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Ming5000 May 26, 2021 • 8:11:44am

Last Friday I had a deli sandwich with pulled pork and other things, including a few pieces of pineapple. Someone else bought the sandwich so I was surprised by the pineapple. It tasted pretty good.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp! May 26, 2021 • 8:14:13am

re: #131 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:14:22am

While we’re on the subject of pineapples…

Barnes & Barnes - “Pineapple Princess” (1986)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 8:14:31am

Arizona voters passed a tax hike on income over $250k last year, via a ballot measure that passed 52-48. Six months later, this proposal would nullify the new tax. The trend continues. https://t.co/MYuRbsd37f

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 26, 2021

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gocart mozart May 26, 2021 • 8:16:07am

Ross Douthat doesn’t know Foucault about a lot of things.

— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 26, 2021

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Hecuba's daughter May 26, 2021 • 8:17:21am

re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That would be just fine with the GOP.

They control a majority of state legislatures.

Each state gets one vote, so New York and California have just as many votes as Wyoming and North Dakota, just as our Founding Fathers foresaw it…

re: #102 Patricia Kayden

I don’t understand how that is democratic or constitutional at all. Then why bother to vote then? Just let the GOP select the President.

The Constitution only specifies that the legislatures select the electors; there is nothing that requires an election at all. However it’s not one vote per state, it’s the number of electoral votes per state. So the larger states will continue to get more votes, just not proportionately so.

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jaunte May 26, 2021 • 8:20:42am

Several states have done some version of this and it is absolutely intended to shame and punish women who have done nothing except suffer tragedy.

It’s unspeakably cruel. https://t.co/Q350nsgfOm

— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) May 26, 2021

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 8:21:30am

BREAKING: A suspected shooter “is down” following an active shooting investigation in San Jose, California, officials say. https://t.co/CbVytX6Eaq

— ABC News (@ABC) May 26, 2021

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The Pie Overlord! May 26, 2021 • 8:23:43am

re: #161 No Malarkey!

It will be interesting watching mainstream Republicans explaining why they are supporting a convicted felon and prison inmate for President.

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The Trumporrhoids will compare him to Nelson Mandela. I’m not joking, they totally will.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:25:43am

re: #185 jaunte

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This is why I left Pennsylvania in 1982 and will never go back. Remember how Martin Mullen led the antiabortion crusade in the 70s and repeatedly whipped bills thru the legislature to ban abortion and give vouchers to Catholic schools…and the PA Grand Jury report showed how bishops were shuffling pedophile priests from parish to parish…

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plansbandc May 26, 2021 • 8:25:53am

re: #185 jaunte

This makes me feel sick. I saw it yesterday, and I didn’t research it, so didn’t amplify it. Now it’s proving to be legit. JFC

I mean, how could this possibly be a law? I have relatives who’ve had miscarriages, and have been absolutely devastated by them. How in the world could anyone make the woman who has had a miscarriage fill out this form? And fucking PAY for it?

I hate the world.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:26:50am

re: #187 The Pie Overlord!

The Trumporrhoids will compare him to Nelson Mandela. I’m not joking, they totally will.

They absolutely will do that and those Pulpit Pimp Preachers will equate Trump with the prophet Jeremiah…

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jaunte May 26, 2021 • 8:27:24am

re: #189 plansbandc

My wife almost died from an ectopic pregnancy. They would demand a fine from her too.
Republicans are actively doing evil.

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jaunte May 26, 2021 • 8:28:24am

That’s EXACTLY where these religious nuts are going with this

It won’t be enough

If they get their way, then the moment a woman becomes pregnant, she must considered nothing more than an incubator with no rights or self-determination. Property of the State and of their religion https://t.co/hhv2nxOld5

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 26, 2021

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Punish Domestic Terrorists May 26, 2021 • 8:30:08am

re: #191 jaunte

My wife almost died from an ectopic pregnancy. They would demand a fine from her too.
Republicans are actively doing evil.

They’ve been doing evil for my whole lifetime. They don’t believe in democracy or giving the most skilled person the job. They’re a white nationalist cult who want to control decent people.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp! May 26, 2021 • 8:30:19am

re: #150 Patricia Kayden

I don’t need to hear from Republican propagandists like Rubio that the Coronavirus was started in a lab. If this is a question for scientists, then I’ll wait to hear from them on the lab issue. Rubio will never acknowledge how badly and criminally Trump mishandled the pandemic. He’s simply looking for someone else to blame for the 500,000 plus deaths under Trump’s watch.

We need to be clear on one thing: the possibility that covid-19 escaped from a lab is real (though definitely not proven). The nonsense that Rubio et al. are pushing is that covid-19 was created in a lab, and that’s the one that reputable scientists do not entertain.

The people who peddle the “Chinese virus” silliness do not distinguish these (intentionally? or they’re just not bright enough?), so I would argue that it’s best to assume they mean it was lab created and laugh them out of the public arena.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:30:31am

re: #191 jaunte

My wife almost died from an ectopic pregnancy. They would demand a fine from her too.
Republicans are actively doing evil.

1974 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial primary—rabid Catholic Martin Mullen ran against Governor Shapp. Mullen was asked if a woman had to carry a dead fetus to term, Mullen said Yes…and he was also asked if a woman’s life was endangered from a pregnancy should she have an abortion…Mullen said she had to die because the baby’s life comes first.

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Targetpractice May 26, 2021 • 8:31:14am

re: #149 lawhawk

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Getting to the origin of the pandemic is important for researchers. It’s not as important as understanding how badly we handled the pandemic when it entered the country, and in the weeks and months after covid19 was identified inside the US.

Trump’s disastrous handling maximized the body count. 500,000+ on his watch. Most of those would be avoidable had Trump insisted on masking and social distancing and lockdowns to slow the spread. He took the opposite tact, and incited violence and politicized masking all while undermining public health measures to contact trace and limit spread.

It’s important that no matter whether they agree on it being an intentional release or an “accident,” the same point remains: The virus was artificial in nature, either engineered or through “weaponizing” naturally-occurring strains, and thus China is responsible for the pandemic. And any investigation that concludes otherwise is a “cover-up” to avoid angering the Chinese government.

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jaunte May 26, 2021 • 8:31:14am

Mullen said she had to die because the ideology comes first.

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jaunte May 26, 2021 • 8:31:49am

Republicans don’t give a shit about babies.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp! May 26, 2021 • 8:32:26am

re: #155 darthstar

My first thought was it was a rat, but then I read your tweet and yes, I see the bear now.

I see a big rat with a little one to its left.

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Targetpractice May 26, 2021 • 8:33:51am

re: #192 jaunte

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And he’s right. Once you concede that a woman bears responsibility for the death of a fetus, no matter how viable or healthy it was, then you’re not far from arguing that the law says a woman must be controlled in order to ensure the delivery of that fetus.

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sagehen May 26, 2021 • 8:34:39am

re: #179 Ming5000

Last Friday I had a deli sandwich with pulled pork and other things, including a few pieces of pineapple. Someone else bought the sandwich so I was surprised by the pineapple. It tasted pretty good.

It’s the interplay of sweet and salty. Just like some chocolate and/or caramel bars have a little sea salt sprinkled in.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 8:35:55am

re: #186 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Multiple people were killed and a suspect was “down” after a mass shooting at a San Jose transportation facility in northern California, according to authorities.https://t.co/CND0rZzg4m

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) May 26, 2021

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A Mom Anon May 26, 2021 • 8:36:40am

re: #185 jaunte

And they charge the mother who just lost her baby 20 dollars, just to be even more assholish about it. JFC. Women ought to just start filling these fucking forms out monthly, I mean why not? That unfertilized egg could have been a baby if she was a good woman and not some murderous harlot. I swear I would contribute money to a fund for filing fees.

(Back home after my procedures today. Beyond a lot of gas pains, I’m ok. Propofol is amazing. I talked to the doctor afterwards and no memory of it at all. My throat seems to be ok, most likely smoking too much weed to quell my anxiety caused irritation. The doc dilated my throat anyway, there was a small stricture and he was there and I gave permission to do it if he felt it needed to be done. They found two polyps in my intestines, those were removed and biopsies sent off. But no internal bleeding was found, which they worried about since I’m anemic. Most likely caused by not being able to eat well for 6 months. So I am laying down and chilling for awhile. Food is next. )

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Patricia Kayden May 26, 2021 • 8:37:49am

re: #195 🌹UOJB!

And why exactly should the baby’s life be put above the life of the mother? There’s nothing in the Bible which supports such a bizarre and inhumane outcome. These forced birthers are pretty much saying that women are nothing but birth canals.

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Hecuba's daughter May 26, 2021 • 8:39:18am

re: #189 plansbandc

This makes me feel sick. I saw it yesterday, and I didn’t research it, so didn’t amplify it. Now it’s proving to be legit. JFC

I mean, how could this possibly be a law? I have relatives who’ve had miscarriages, and have been absolutely devastated by them. How in the world could anyone make the woman who has had a miscarriage fill out this form? And fucking PAY for it?

I hate the world.

But won’t the governor veto this so that it will never become law?

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:40:22am

re: #205 Hecuba’s daughter

But won’t the governor veto this so that it will never become law?

Tom Wolf will veto that bill. However every Republican and a lot of Catholic Democrats will vote to override it.

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John Hughes May 26, 2021 • 8:42:44am

re: #103 Dave In Austin

merriam-webster.com

What to Know

A bad apple is generally understood to refer to someone who creates problems for other people, and whose actions or behaviors negatively influence the larger group. The phrase is often interpreted erroneously by implying that a bad apple is not representative of the whole, when in fact the term stems from the larger phrase “one bad apple can spoil the barrel,” which suggests that the negativity is not an isolated incident.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:43:45am

Here’s another cracker motherfather who shot his mouth off and gets to stay in Uncle Sam’s B&B

Meredith’s lawyer argued his threats weren’t meant to be taken seriously; he wrote at one point: “LOL. I’m just having fun.”

ABJ: “The problem with this argument, of course, is that defendant’s statements were not the least bit funny. No one was laughing out loud then or now.” pic.twitter.com/JM9iPDcgUe

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 26, 2021

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Belafon May 26, 2021 • 8:45:03am

re: #206 🌹UOJB!

Tom Wolf will veto that bill. However every Republican and a lot of Catholic Democrats will vote to override it.

What was the vote count, broken down by party.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 26, 2021 • 8:46:47am

Ever notice that none of these abortion bills are proposed by women?

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Hecuba's daughter May 26, 2021 • 8:49:11am

Regarding a person elected President while being imprisoned: if they are in prison for federal offenses, they can pardon themselves. However, for non-federal offenses, it would seem to me that they are stuck behind bars UNLESS the governor of the state decides to pardon them.

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John Hughes May 26, 2021 • 8:49:29am

re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Currently unavailable.

We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.

Boo!

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danarchy May 26, 2021 • 8:50:18am

re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg

Ever notice that none of these abortion bills are proposed by women?

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I am not sure this is true. I’m not going to go looking, but a lot of the more rabid pro-lifers I have met have been women.

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Hecuba's daughter May 26, 2021 • 8:50:48am

re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg

Ever notice that none of these abortion bills are proposed by women?

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Many women are anti-abortion fanatics. MTG is someone perfectly capable of proposing such legislation.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:51:36am

re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg

Ever notice that none of these abortion bills are proposed by women?

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but there are plenty of Xtian women who are in the Kim Davis mold who will vote for those bills.

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jaunte May 26, 2021 • 8:52:42am

re: #215 🌹UOJB!

“It’s a living.”

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:52:50am

re: #213 danarchy

I am not sure this is true. I’m not going to go looking, but a lot of the more rabid pro-lifers I have met have been women.

My sisters were all rabid antiabortionists who picketed clinics and boasted of how they harassed women trying to get an abortion.

They cheered when Dr Tiller was executed.

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BigPapa May 26, 2021 • 8:53:48am

So yesterday in Waikiki I witness a white dude standing outside his convertable Mustang, Confederate infantry hat on, with a hand painted sign:

TRUMP: Make it Civil War in 2024

I should have taken a snap. He was staring at everybody coming by and gave off the Start Shit energy.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 26, 2021 • 8:54:17am

re: #185 jaunte

These fucking assholes:

Rep. Frank Ryan, R-Lebanon County, introduced the bill on burial options because of his own experience after losing a child, a story he has shared previously.

He said he was “asking the ladies in the room” to “recognize how men feel.”

He said his bill is optional and gives families a chance at closure after losing a baby, he said.

“This is about giving choice to those people whose faith says that life begins at conception,” Ryan said.

Frankel argued that Ryan’s bill mandates cremation or burial and does not make it optional after abortion or miscarriage. To get a burial, a death certificate would also be required for abortions and miscarriages.

I’m no funeral expert, but don’t folks already have the option of doing something to memorialize an unborn child if they want?? (Full disclosure: My wife miscarried back in 2013. We hadn’t even realized she was pregnant yet)

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 8:55:23am

re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg

Remember what Prick Santorum did in that situation…

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wrenchwench May 26, 2021 • 8:55:34am

re: #43 sagehen

how many of us are of an age to find this relevant?

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The downside:
re: #203 A Mom Anon

…Women ought to just start filling these fucking forms out monthly, I mean why not? That unfertilized egg could have been a baby if she was a good woman and not some murderous harlot. I swear I would contribute money to a fund for filing fees….

I no longer have used period products to mail off to radical Republicans (and others as needed).

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BeenHereAwhile May 26, 2021 • 8:57:06am

re: #29 plansbandc

Watching “Sense and Sensibility” for the first time. Yeah it’s good.

Thanks, I’ll add it to my list.

I binged watched the first five episodes of “The Kominsky Method” last night on Netflix.

Superb acting and story line, bolstered by exceptional writing; with Michael Douglas, Alan Arkin, Sarah Baker, Nancy Travis, and Kathleen Turner.

A guest appearance by Danny DeVito will forever change how I feel about physical exams.

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Dangerman May 26, 2021 • 8:57:18am

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 9:03:03am

Evangelical obsession w/sex is one topic in my book. I’ve never met any group who talks, dreams, fantasizes, polices, instructs, and way over shares about sex. And I was raised Catholic. https://t.co/Dime6I45G3

— kim sheram (@ksheram) May 26, 2021

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Eclectic Cyborg May 26, 2021 • 9:06:58am

re: #224 🌹UOJB!

There’s plenty of weird sex stuff IN THE BIBLE as it so happens.

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PhillyPretzel May 26, 2021 • 9:06:59am

re: #223 Dangerman

start rant:
You know how I feel? You have no idea what it is like to have everyone in your family killed because of being Jewish. You are nowheres near how anyone who is Jewish feels about the Holocaust. MTG do everyone a favor and shut up for the rest of your term.
end rant:

I am sorry I had to get that off my chest.

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jaunte May 26, 2021 • 9:07:57am

The Trump years and the pandemic were a clarifying look at how the American ruling class see other people: not as people at all.

We now know the elites think nothing of killing vast numbers of people and overturning our government if anything even slightly inconveniences them.

— Dr. Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) May 26, 2021

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 9:10:47am

I’ll keep going to Taylor’s Steak House 3 blocks from me. It’s a Mom & Pop place run by the nicest family whose culotte cut is only $21.95.

Steak 48 is owned by a contractor Prime Steak Concepts that don’t pay their laborers fair wages 🤐

will never be going there. https://t.co/5hcTGjLutv

— صفية (@safeeyiah) May 26, 2021

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darthstar May 26, 2021 • 9:10:57am

They say millions of Americans will be traveling for Memorial Day weekend. We just became two of them. Driving down to San Juan Bautista for a couple of nights. Feels good to be fully vaccinated…and my wife is regaining her comfort with going out.

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The Ghost of a Flea May 26, 2021 • 9:12:14am

re: #227 jaunte

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jaunte May 26, 2021 • 9:12:17am

re: #215 🌹UOJB!

but there are plenty of Xtian women who are in the Kim Davis mold who will vote for those bills.

ID state Rep. Priscilla Giddings (R) said during a recent town hall, “I will not be muzzled.”

Giddings previously shared an article revealing identifying info of a 19-year-old intern who accused state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger (R) of rape.@highbrow_nobrow https://t.co/9c9qiqMktU

— Ale (@aliasvaughn) May 26, 2021

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A Mom Anon May 26, 2021 • 9:14:30am

re: #228 🌹UOJB!

So their employees and their families can’t afford to eat there. Because you know this asshole doesn’t give anything to their workers. That’s a pretty good summary of “business owners” and how they view workers.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 9:15:59am

The NRA gets more blood to feed the tree of liberty…

Several people killed in rail yard shooting in San Jose, California, police say shooter is dead https://t.co/cow6Gmw4on pic.twitter.com/KEXI6l7FX8

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 26, 2021

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A Mom Anon May 26, 2021 • 9:17:56am

re: #231 jaunte

These are sheltered women who either have never suffered at the hands of men, or they have and think it was their fault or worse, “God’s Will”. It’s easy to judge when you don’t have to deal with consequences. Or when you can use religion to push it aside as no big deal.

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John Hughes May 26, 2021 • 9:19:21am

re: #149 lawhawk

Trump’s disastrous handling maximized the body count. 500,000+ on his watch. Most of those would be avoidable had Trump insisted on masking and social distancing and lockdowns to slow the spread.

I’m not so sure about “most of those”.

The US, mostly under Trump, did badly, but not uniquely badly.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 26, 2021 • 9:22:09am

re: #235 John Hughes

I’m not so sure about “most of those”.

The US, mostly under Trump, did badly, but not uniquely badly.

Stupidity knows no borders.

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BigPapa May 26, 2021 • 9:22:44am

Patriarchy requires the complicity of women to submit or become it’s enablers or enforcers.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 9:23:19am

OH just what we need…These two assholes are at it again with their greatest hits…

How Trump is ‘teaming up with’ Newt Gingrich for a 2022 version of the Contract With America: Report

alternet.org

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Dr Lizardo May 26, 2021 • 9:23:56am

This looks promising - from director Edgar Wright, Last Night in Soho.

Last Night in Soho Trailer #1 (2021) | Movieclips Trailers

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Belafon May 26, 2021 • 9:25:39am

re: #235 John Hughes

I’m not so sure about “most of those”.

The US, mostly under Trump, did badly, but not uniquely badly.

I know cases are rising in countries that did well early on, but have there been any other countries not led by Trump-like autocrats that are doing as poorly as us?

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Sufficient unto the day... May 26, 2021 • 9:26:23am

re: #238 🌹UOJB!

I’m watching a video about that right now, why yes, I’m using this as an excuse to post a Beau video…

Let’s talk about Trump’s plan for 2022 and why Democrats have to act now….

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Targetpractice May 26, 2021 • 9:26:39am

The cult eats another of their own:

‘Stop polling!’ Trump supporters freak out after his favorite pollster again shows Biden approval at record high https://t.co/FcIOJ5sl2j

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 26, 2021

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 9:27:20am

re: #233 🌹UOJB!

The NRA gets more blood to feed the tree of liberty…

The facility is apparently a light rail facility that is next door to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department
google.com

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Dr Lizardo May 26, 2021 • 9:29:37am

re: #225 Eclectic Cyborg

There’s plenty of weird sex stuff IN THE BIBLE as it so happens.

14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[a] portrayed in red, 15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. 18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. 19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.”

- Ezekiel, 23: 14-21

Kinky.

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BeenHereAwhile May 26, 2021 • 9:30:22am

re: #53 No Malarkey!

Patrick S. Tomlinson
@stealthygeek
Fun statistical fact totally unrelated to anything else happening in national news today: Grand Juries return indictments on between 95-99% of the cases they’re empaneled to review.

I testified before a federal grand jury, and what struck me was the grand jurors are allowed to ask questions of the witness after the AUSA finished his questioning.

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PhillyPretzel May 26, 2021 • 9:34:10am

re: #241 Sufficient unto the day…

Another reason to GOTV for the midterms.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 9:34:14am

It’s launch day in Florida! #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Starlink

Article by @Bubbinski: https://t.co/Riep1eJ66N

Webcast: https://t.co/4DsfSG2iGj pic.twitter.com/hhZIFflDhR

— Thomas Burghardt (@TGMetsFan98) May 26, 2021

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danarchy May 26, 2021 • 9:35:13am

re: #240 Belafon

I know cases are rising in countries that did well early on, but have there been any other countries not led by Trump-like autocrats that are doing as poorly as us?

Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, France, the UK all are basically in the same neighborhood. Some a little worse, some a little better.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 9:36:00am

‘They’re all going to have to answer’: Mike Lindell explodes after being banned from Republican meeting

He’s now attacking Ducey and Kemp!

Shall we start a pool to guess when Crackhead Mike falls off the wagon?

Mike Lindell explodes after being banned from Republican meeting

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PhillyPretzel May 26, 2021 • 9:50:49am

I am watching Frontline June 16, 2020. The episode is titled, “The Virus.”

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Scottish Dragon May 26, 2021 • 9:54:32am

Periodically, I get sternly and earnestly lectured about the need to get rid of cars, parking places etc and transition cities to walking, bicycles and buses. This seems endemic to a particular set of progressive young male bike riders (never women) at @jbouie feed on twitter.

Drive less, more public spaces, and teach well off suburbanites to stop associating public transportation with being poor.

— M^3 (@MC3b3D) May 26, 2021

I said a few things back this time

I used public transportation for half a year in Indianapolis.

Fuck that. I had to start taking a weapon with me even though it was illegal. I fled from 2 attempted assaults at bus stops. Harassment from drug users or medicine non compliant mentally ill riders. Sexual harassment

— Spring Deidre 🍀 (@mandalorchick) May 26, 2021

…why it’s almost always young guys who are proponents of mass transportation on twitter?

How many women have you talked to who were stalked, assaulted or raped at a bus stop?

I was fucking scared to death several times. I very seriously thought I was going to have to fight..

— Spring Deidre 🍀 (@mandalorchick) May 26, 2021

…Could be up to 2 hours to complete by bus, depending how you caught connections.

There’s a reason only poor ppl use a dangerous, unsanitary and time wasting system: they are stuck with it because they can’t afford better.

— Spring Deidre 🍀 (@mandalorchick) May 26, 2021

If it were somehow forced into being that you have to take a bus to get to city locations, then either I’m insisting on *open* carry of a firearm the entire time or those businesses can do without my money and I can find other places to be.

— Spring Deidre 🍀 (@mandalorchick) May 26, 2021

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 26, 2021 • 9:56:11am

Off-duty Texas officer opens fire on woman during traffic confrontation https://t.co/jzj9pi7cfq pic.twitter.com/G9fyhAr1mt

— New York Post (@nypost) May 26, 2021

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Scottish Dragon May 26, 2021 • 9:56:51am

re: #252 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Something something good guy with a gun

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John Hughes May 26, 2021 • 10:01:38am

re: #240 Belafon

I know cases are rising in countries that did well early on, but have there been any other countries not led by Trump-like autocrats that are doing as poorly as us?

Here’s the top 25 (ignoring tiny countries):

US vs top 25 total deaths 2021-05-26

Yes, some of those are being run by people of an authoritarian bent, but not all.

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steve_davis May 26, 2021 • 10:02:23am

re: #155 darthstar

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i see a rat, with a smaller rat immediately behind it. Probably Eric Trump.

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John Hughes May 26, 2021 • 10:02:49am

re: #244 Dr Lizardo

As usual, tells us more about the writer than the subject.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists May 26, 2021 • 10:04:11am

re: #249 🌹UOJB!

‘They’re all going to have to answer’: Mike Lindell explodes after being banned from Republican meeting

He’s now attacking Ducey and Kemp!

Shall we start a pool to guess when Crackhead Mike falls off the wagon?

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He’s never been on the wagon. The guy didn’t go through rehab to learn to live a normal life. He sought the high of extremist religion and white nationalist politics.

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Scottish Dragon May 26, 2021 • 10:05:07am

It’s amazing that the boiling frog syndrome has progressed to a point where there are articles being written entertaining the prospect of Trump running for President from PRISON.

Remember the 15 minutes we once had when it looked like the Access Hollywood tape might derail him?

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 26, 2021

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 10:06:53am

Arizona GOP leader incredulous after CNN confronts her over Trump-backed ‘audit’

CNN confronts woman behind bogus Arizona election audit

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Scottish Dragon May 26, 2021 • 10:07:10am

DARVO

“Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.”

It’s a standard sex abuser tactic being used on a national scale.

— Spring Deidre 🍀 (@mandalorchick) May 26, 2021

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 26, 2021 • 10:11:21am

Next time, get room service and keep your diseased ass away from the rest of us. https://t.co/kNlPOTHGm6

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 26, 2021

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Punish Domestic Terrorists May 26, 2021 • 10:11:22am

This seems less destructive than Instagram, but naming an app after a menace may not be a great ideal.

A photo app that bans selfies is blowing up online. Here’s how Poparazzi works. (BI via MSN)

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Scottish Dragon May 26, 2021 • 10:11:27am

re: #244 Dr Lizardo

Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.”

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Eclectic Cyborg May 26, 2021 • 10:12:51am

re: #263 Scottish Dragon

Wait until we get to the Song of Solomon.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists May 26, 2021 • 10:13:26am

You clearly can’t be trusted to do the right thing, so need to keep to yourself where a requirement to behave as if you care about other people’s survival won’t be a problem for you.

— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 26, 2021

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 10:13:49am

re: #263 Scottish Dragon

- Ezekiel, 23: 14-21

I’m sure that Jimmy Swaggart preached sermons on that porno part of the Bible….

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Scottish Dragon May 26, 2021 • 10:13:53am

re: #264 Eclectic Cyborg

Wait until we get to the Song of Solomon.

/

The day my breasts look like gazelles, imma go to the doctor with some questions.

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HRH Stanley Sea May 26, 2021 • 10:14:25am

Wat

An ESPN investigation found that U.S. Senator Arlen Specter was offered campaign cash to stop his probe of the Patriots’ Spygate scandal in 2008.

According to Specter’s son, the man offering was Donald Trump, who was acting on behalf of Robert Kraft: https://t.co/flCoi78e9U

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) May 26, 2021

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 10:14:29am

re: #267 Scottish Dragon

The day my breasts look like gazelles, imma go to the doctor with some questions.

Don’t forget the pomegranates!

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 26, 2021 • 10:16:01am

Boris Johnson and other politicians would do well to learn that the people they serve aren’t stupid. If you fail to reply to a straightforward question they will draw their own, obvious conclusions. https://t.co/p8pnmDHkC7

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 26, 2021

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Scottish Dragon May 26, 2021 • 10:18:54am

re: #269 🌹UOJB!

Don’t forget the pomegranates!

I’m still picturing the bit where I see a lion and my boobs turn into white tailed ruminants, spring suddenly off my chest and go bounding into the tall grass.

It seems painful, but at least it would divert the lion.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists May 26, 2021 • 10:19:25am

I watched someone get radicalized over the course of a couple of months on Facebook.

She was a pretty good writer who once cared about what was right, but now all she can do is derp about “cancel culture” and says the Democrats need to fall to end it, as if the party was dictating the demand that bigots be fired, and as if the alternative wasn’t fascism.

She lost her sane followers, which was most of them, and has nuts encouraging the derp now, so is locked in to seeking the approval of idiots. I fully gave up on her today.

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 26, 2021 • 10:19:58am

O_o

Who had ‘vote for me because I defeated the Soviets’ on your 2021 bingo card? 🙄https://t.co/0eQIJ7KXdt

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 26, 2021

Politics
Caitlyn Jenner Claims She Can Take On ‘Big Tech’s Woke Cancel Culture’ Since She Beat The Soviets
Heidi Dockery
May. 26, 2021
Paul Archuleta/Getty Images

In the midst of her gubernatorial campaign in California, Republican Caitlyn Jenner claimed she would be able to take on the “woke cancel culture” and Silicon Valley after comparing it to the Soviet Union.

She posted of her prowess on Twitter.

Jenner reasoned, “I took on the Soviet Union and won”—not referring to political or military experience but her win at the 1976 Olympics where she won the gold medal in the decathlon.

Jenner said:

“In 1976 I took on the Soviet Union and won. Today Silicon Valley’s mono-culture seems to espouse the same values. I will take on Big Tech’s woke cancel culture and win for all of California and America.”

However, Jenner failed to mention any plans to address the issues mentioned—beyond touting her decades old Olympic win.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists May 26, 2021 • 10:20:40am

re: #271 Scottish Dragon

I’m still picturing the bit where I see a lion and my boobs turn into white tailed ruminants, spring suddenly off my chest and go bounding into the tall grass.

It seems painful, but at least it would divert the lion.

It’s a good strategy, like a lizard’s tail falling off to distract the predator with a meal.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists May 26, 2021 • 10:22:06am

re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

She’s a stridently bigoted transgender woman, in the mold of Ben Shapiro.

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Scottish Dragon May 26, 2021 • 10:22:37am

re: #272 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I watched someone get radicalized over the course of a couple of months on Facebook.

She was a pretty good writer who once cared about what was right, but now all she can do is derp about “cancel culture” and says the Democrats need to fall to end it, as if the party was dictating the demand that bigots be fired, and as if the alternative wasn’t fascism.

She lost her sane followers, which was most of them, and has nuts encouraging the derp now, so is locked in to seeking the approval of idiots. I fully gave up on her today.

Sorry to hear that. It’s distressing to see someone slipping away like that.

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JOE 🥓 May 26, 2021 • 10:23:05am

re: #275 Punish Domestic Terrorists

She’s a stridently bigoted transgender woman, in the mold of Ben Shapiro.

She’s always been an obnoxious stupid asshole who got away with killing a person in a hit and run.

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Scottish Dragon May 26, 2021 • 10:24:00am

re: #277 🌹UOJB!

She’s always been an obnoxious stupid asshole who got away with killing a person in a hit and run.

She wonders why the rest of the trans community ignores her.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp! May 26, 2021 • 10:30:30am

re: #244 Dr Lizardo

14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[a] portrayed in red, 15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. 18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. 19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.”

- Ezekiel, 23: 14-21

Kinky.

Of course, “she” is Israel, and that is an extended metaphor.

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steve_davis May 26, 2021 • 1:09:56pm

re: #196 Targetpractice

It’s important that no matter whether they agree on it being an intentional release or an “accident,” the same point remains: The virus was artificial in nature, either engineered or through “weaponizing” naturally-occurring strains, and thus China is responsible for the pandemic. And any investigation that concludes otherwise is a “cover-up” to avoid angering the Chinese government.

well, the chinese are currently involved in a coverup, so they aren’t really helping matters.

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steve_davis May 26, 2021 • 2:18:06pm

re: #251 Scottish Dragon

Periodically, I get sternly and earnestly lectured about the need to get rid of cars, parking places etc and transition cities to walking, bicycles and buses. This seems endemic to a particular set of progressive young male bike riders (never women) at @jbouie feed on twitter.

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i had students who came up by bus from the 9th ward. It could take them 2 hours to get on campus using public transit. They’d have to switch busses and sometimes the delay could be long, depending on what was going on elsewhere on the line.

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