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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:08:30am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:09:04am

Late again, promoted from last string:

Saw that a dozen eggs cost 3.83 at Walmart today. I think this seems exorbitant only because shoppers have become accustomed to very cheap eggs in recent years. The price of eggs, even with recent increases, has not in fact kept pace with inflation (765%
since 1970).
How Much A Dozen Eggs Cost The Year You Were Born
(I was not born in 1970 btw, it just seemed a convenient reference point as the beginning point of my adult life.)

It is more than a gallon of gasoline, at least here in Texas, but It is not twice as much, and that is typically what eggs cost relative to gasoline in the past. In 1970, for example, eggs were 60 cents a dozen, gas was about 32 cents a gallon. The disparity was even higher in 1940, 33 cents for eggs, 14 cents for gas. Thirty three cents was quite a bit of money in 1940.

I’m belaboring this because it represents the kind of perspective that the Republican base seems to lack and that lying Republican activists and media shills revel in exploiting. They compare the price of gasoline now to what it was at the height of covid in 2020, ignoring that it was a fair amount higher in abolute terms several times before that (3.55 in December 2004, for instance) and much higher relative to inflation.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:10:15am
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Mattand  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:10:30am

Pinging off what I said the other day: I doubt Cruz will put in an appearance at Citizens Bank Park when the World Series shifts to Philly. It looks like he was in NYC for that The View* interview and he’s got next to no reason to be in the area, period.

That said: he’ll be lucky to get away with just copious amounts of middle fingers if he shows up there.

*Will someone please explain the appeal of that show to me?

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:11:41am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

People can draw their own conclusions

No, you can’t.

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Mattand  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:15:33am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

I know I’m being cynical, but the odds of Jon Stewart following this up with an “exposé” of how Biden or AOC or Democrats in general are horrible monsters are probably pretty high.

I admire the career he’s made for himself, but a lot of times, it seems at heart he’s a False Balance junkie at heart. That was pretty much the thesis of the Rally for Sanity twelve years ago, and I know he’s pulled the “atheists are merely the flip side of the religious” bullshit on The Daily Show in an interview once.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:16:59am
Hillary Clinton warns that extremist Republicans already have plans to steal the 2024 presidential election.

In a video posted to Twitter by Indivisible Guide, a group that builds progressive grassroots activism, the former secretary of state stresses the importance of voting for Democratic state legislatures to thwart such efforts.

“I know we’re all focused on the 2022 midterm elections, and they are incredibly important, b but we also have to look ahead, because our opponents certainly are,” Ms Clinton says. “Right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election, and they are not making a secret of it.”

She continues: “The right-wing controlled Supreme Court may be poised to rule on giving state legislatures … the power to overturn presidential elections. Just think, the 2024 presidential election could be decided not by the popular vote, or even by the anachronistic electoral college, but by state legislatures, many of them Republican-controlled.”

yahoo.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:17:56am

Yesterday, I added the Halloween theme over a video of MAGAt talking heads. I didn’t do anything particular as far as syncing the video and audio, it’s just a simple overlay. That said, it’s kind of scary (no pun intended), how well it works.

Hidden behind the tag because it’s under my real name:

MEhnTEY0djgyZjJCMEpOUWo4S01TOVBoYS9aUG9lNm04S3BVU1ptT2NBQkdHTVVneU04Z0N1aHVXNmIvWUt0SXl4TlYzL09nWkptK09yRUlaQ09kNFRFZkVaS3NkcnpIQXFvQU9jZWFKVVo5TU5JblVpUnFvVjNoOVFkbTFZdTYyYUkvLzdKU1dJMG04MFpDdm1OaURWUzBJRWhpR3NnaFd0dmpKWFAyckVuUUZpaG5xM1pCejFNTW9TY09ndDYzUFZsL0NiRXR4czJWMmpCblhkNFZUQkRLbGtoUmpxbTJvb2lmeUpMTmZHMkVuQnBCTzV4ZS8yUUVBK3AvbFMzSmFiUlVuOGdoV2tjazdVanE4YVlNdmRWd1REcjNrZW5OTm1OZXVyK3lWTzZRZ3ZEN3pmcXVySWRvYVI2aFZGbmNBU2JHRXVUbFR2OUxLY20veDMxZXJnYWhTTWpIblBqRTB0YnVCZW00aW11eXFLSEZFRHJ2UU1YbnBmMUphVTlDcWVDdWdTREJudVRrS3NyaUFQTEZXNXBtODNGeUZRaVloSTJJc01QYUlOdHI1K0FiZjBTQkw4dWd2NHhFMDB1UWVlMFBxcVNjR2xpNi93d2I3aFJ4WWdISkRSdldMZVo5Yk5lb0VXZ1Rid1JRTHRTT01JSlBEUlZBUUd4TWx4SlJ4RjIyWTdpSS9FUlZYamZGcEJ4VDlORGNpeXM1SE1xQnlEeVNXMnZNZHQ1bGRndVptZXVPNXZjZ3NVNnNpS3IvSldBZW1hblMrTjFWQ2ZQRStscVVSVXFYS3lXb3JCTVZ3QjlmaURmVUdzdlFXRWJyTEdLeEpndUFkWFFMT2cwbC9RcnFhMTFJSitTSmxOL2NzUzNEczFJN0pFeDFPRDRYUXVvQWFldEdNQjdVL042ODM0eXBmTVBiNUxWRkRPQnMrc3A2K0VmUVdpc0FVaFQvMU5NOWlUNlJtb1RrN0JUNGt3VFNzaTYrZHVkR1hpUU8xbytOUE1HdHlmM2JBd1IwNmZsNGNHbmc5UUhRREM1QmM4ajRabEsxY3dXWndGaURlNXQrV2RReDVuLzRja0hLWkNweFlWQnBIS1hzVXZWZVUrYUpic280Y0RJc0Q2eVJJOUZpZnlIYmpXRmhyY2E3YUwrUHVzMnNaQ2wxNFk1MnRGVGxEcGdLRmdFWDdlNGtOdFNNMS9kL1BZZHNsNVRHWE1lN2xWMjJMY0lXeG92bHUyQWgrd3JTRmdjQnpjeUlrRzFIVzAvcThMWHFTeTI5RDlVcDN1VEU3Sm9xUnRVTkZ3V1VhREFSTlo4T3BHaHp1RGdteFVZSVdLN3AzamZVNTA5MWNtZTBqdThSWVpsQlJjdTBBaEVKM0VYbDdHVVFHclhrY08wNXVHQlZVQlFBTUw1d1A4NDg3cnFKczJtT1hLYitYQmNKRVplckpFSStWQXdKWUczQXA1ek5COWs5ckhYOWFrYWVoa0hmNnFpQVRRN2ZjbmUzSmRHaENRSG5aalMxQXJOdE1xRW9xeGJ6US80Unc1VjhUOGxzWlNTalB2RTdMNllSNUF4YjZLOTdMUGJld2pYRWg0NThvNGlLUmorR2tqR3NrVkxqcGlHZFRCMjlTcloxZkxwS0VrYllBRGhBa2RDWERBRXYrWGpQSFlKazJTM2lXczhvYzZSVmw5MTE4b2dRL2xCcjVjVEhEdUI4Sjg2MnpSYVgvNHJVa1NKbFB1Wis3blRsai83S0plclMrSkcxM2szczlielRHWGpQRk1yQ0JYNDhnaGFnNlRMS0VORzNjSUxkbmxLbW00SjVNZVp1R1JmZlVvTVFjNkU5SFNWVW9DWGdvWUhWeVhqTy9Ecmh6VHViSjUxam9ZTXlrdUUxRFEvczBYRHQwR25BekYvUE1salM1dnhPNnBYYUVkZEY2eXovR2VYK211eHNxUXR0eTc1Z3NTS25PcDd1SzhBS1pteDFLWHVZM0ROby9QcFUzUm5malBBL3N3YVh3dmY4enh2TGpRUzRXMEVGcDZwMkRBU0F1c3BKek0zdTk4ck0xYXhmNnZMWFFLVlY5SVJWOTM2ME5qNk1OdzhJNldvRDROSE9mWHR3dWNqcWtnQmNwR2FVNHlJQ2FUaXFFdmRXYW5jajFoNGE3NzFPMnRQcnJqYW1vaGFmaE1kYUF3cmlEWnptcVpGVHZMdUNSL1FISU5jNEljeS9uNDVFU1JKYkozaDdITnlldjl4VFB3anRMZXQ5MjNUL1ZOeHhoaEpyQnVBeDkrT2VOZ3RWcm9BWSthWHpINHo0Zk1xakUvWGx0WUpoWjNuaWtvOTRyTFdtRVB4empXclZNUEliQWl2YXhSNzFHTHY0TVlRU2NaRVdQcUtHSU8rQUkyOWNFZUs4dDFCU2dkQmFkOU1BVzYwaFV0WGFYdHVuVWoyRWYrN0dqSmg0cWdKY0hQTzBYMFBMY2RQN29Qc0xYcU5McENJTTlDN2NjbVdjRWppbE1UNEFhdXV4OXBUKzQ3OFh6QkEySE9wK2dTU2xqMDNmUnlXQmZHSE4zQ0lzNm5IdnVXNjlrRDV5c1pjNHcvQnYvZkgwTXVoNkljUXVhRGFLbFBZbytoT2x2N2J2SUJuMmY4emZVTnZaSTdGUktqOXZEbkwzMDRVT2dlZVBndWxVTlNkaU5TL1pJZW4wRElGUEdUMXRjRGxMYTRxRHpaVWl2aVB2MlRQS3kxS1QxNEc1NlRDVVduME5SU0lLQ2hZVHVSamRobThZUTM5TitneG9meE5FcE1uUHVQTEhxZ3IzVFVYYmJMWERZZndPd1MzbVRhcmEwdWhGYlNJTGFqRGxrQ3VMU3lFS0JCQ01reHZBWGNmS2hjWG1VMTkrMk5ubStTSWJNVEhPeWdEVEVDSE5RTnVSaFNMZ2lNaDU0TGhXOTJMcngvTU5NbW5tUVk1Slg3Z1BFY0c2V21vZ1RyMjloSlVMTEZrUXl6dTBxbC9Cd0JFN0p0aHJhZmRQNGorT3g4Ym9VY1JoMmhXZnQ0cVV5ejloV1g4QjFZeGpPNkc1NHZNcXA5cDE4SHpkLzdSbGhqTS9mb3lhcVJwV3Q5Ujc3eWNmekF2OFhjRDdGOXNqaUpQcnVNMWJaTzc3SkdaMVR0MUtXcjlqSE02bHhTcEU4cXR2MS8wZFd1K0VpR0Y0NERtcU02YWhTRTNuTno4cVpIcmFhMEFJL2VPUE5TY2VRRnBreHdKc3dxWmU1N2Z4MVA3cHlRejdMRXl2S2E2Z3RUK0kxSGMzcFJxbldnNStSQm9lckpvc0pXeVRTazdMdHFXUHJFOTE2U0QzSkJGNDkySlNVZHBsMXhWOWlodksrTU5OWjg2d1hOVC91d2lzbDgwSllScHJyRlVPUU1IMFF0YkRIakw2dXdWak1NQ2R4di9tQTJwUGMvZkNBSTZ4R0lGQjkrY3NkYUtKTmhqT1EyNDdKSlB0ZGtMR0QzSVFCb3FYUVJjYWQrcXlHNFRaci93aXJ2WVN5T2xDNEJXaTc5dm0yanU4Y3Nvc3ZtRVMvOG5lcGw4ODZWdEFHRmJBTjdQMndBVTM0SGg4c1JaUmJEREMvVVhJS2tvMWFTWlhhTWdmenJwQ2V2NkJSbDNNZ2tyWnVBdFFlZHFuempqbWRUYWFpdGhvbnI1bnNpcXBzcmFuY05mNUNuVWhpNm10b0tMdFIwY3NQQ093NDNZZkN5aUJiM2lOVWxDTnZwZzUrWTRPZm5wbi8wMkMwZmNZWVovRUFkckI0eEZjVkw4cGtGMHZLbGtYblFjNmIzUWNRcHp4dFdJb2RJRzVVY1owT0IrMHVMQ3JwQUcyV2ZzaEpYbXZubGVVcmx0WWJuUDMzNTFUd3kwYVdjYUIxUDRzUUdneW1qb3d3TitidFZlejJjdkU4ampZQ2k3WXljdkZWTTNDYlpFakhBYkRUUTR5Zk81VzRJc1laVitKRWFSR0VPbXNSdFUwbWt6aFdtWm1Kc1lTeWtRVlhGV2ozeEdLS0RacDY2Z2tBa0haRXhEQlNVMnladm96b1NTOFhoSXZTeXc0emR6VG5iaFlZWEVpRUVZSzl3aU1oV0pJTGtCTXN1TXVvQmtrRng5cEIvb3ljbStpbk15QTZ5d2t5c21xYkF4VFlLU2l2Y3BWbmRJeG5TN3hKS2U2TE1pemdOK3VzQ2tma3haZGl5U09GM0Jza3ZCNStxaXF3TXBqZWJaUU9OcDZoZEpqbHVJaUFBVEVFMkh3dHp1QnYzRnBsdXJuQ1NJOFl3Z1lsK0RZVDRjamdKdC9ZY2JuVi9sVVZ1MTUvOWdXT2kwck0vbk5Mbkg1b20xSnlXVS9PT29kQ0RzZnFXaFppT1hTaEc1cmxtbE8wVDlmUkZCcFBST3dOV0ZPcldQZkNPQ1lOeVpNWmlyb1dNV2g3L1IwMXRuZ3dab2IrV2tNdFJLSmZMZU5SZ2ZqVXJZSm43ZDh1ZVZjVlJnZ0hIaTh3TjJieDZUUHRSa05leEl6Q3IxRDdSQmVjV25UdkxKaTN3UzM2OHdLQzN6T2pBPT06Or/XhQzFujpXuyfPfJ9WOyg=

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:20:23am

re: #7 Shropshire Slasher

yahoo.com

I don’t think the Republic survives that. I can see large blue states refusing to recognize that result and mass casualty events at protests.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:22:14am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:23:07am

CLed
re: #258 Hecuba’s daughter

21 F is not that terrible!! At least if there is no wind chill. I don’t even need my warmest coat.

But squidward lives in Bikini Bottom, so….

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:25:16am

re: #9 Scottish Dragon

I don’t think the Republic survives that. I can see large blue states refusing to recognize that result and mass casualty events at protests.

There is always the possibility, but I don’t see even this supreme court giving them that easy of an out. The ruling will be along the lines of “A constitutional government means that the constitutions restrain our elected officials.”

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:27:47am

HAWK is still a good system

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Alephnaught  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:30:52am
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Dr Lizardo  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:32:42am

re: #10 Dr. Matt

Weird. From what I understand (and I may be wrong on this), WhatsApp added some new privacy feature and that’s apparently what caused their problems.

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jaunte  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:32:46am
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:32:46am

re: #12 Belafon

There is always the possibility, but I don’t see even this supreme court giving them that easy of an out. The ruling will be along the lines of “A constitutional government means that the constitutions restrain our elected officials.”

The main risk is that Alito’s Calvinball Court seems to be perfectly willing to ignore precedent, rule of law, and damn near anything else aside from their ideology in making their decisions. However, it should be noted that they repeatedly refused to hear Trump’s election cases and have upheld some surprising Biden cases. I’m willing to bet that enabling permanent Republican rule, thus ending the Republic after which their party is named, is a bridge too far even for these partisan hacks.

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Nyet  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:33:54am

Hahahaha

progressives.house.gov

“The letter was drafted several months ago, but unfortunately was released by staff without vetting.”

Ehhh. It mentions the annexations that happened just recently, not months ago.

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Nyet  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:39:44am

First-person story of how some mobilized are forced to fight without any training.

meduza.io

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:55:23am

re: #9 Scottish Dragon

I don’t think the Republic survives that. I can see large blue states refusing to recognize that result and mass casualty events at protests.

I can see two sets of electoral votes being sent to Congress, one set selected by the voters and another set selected by GOP state legislators, Congress fighting over which set of votes to count, and President Biden refusing to step down if Congress chooses to count the latter votes instead of the former, giving us two presidents, Biden and Trump. It could be the greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:56:04am

re: #17 Dopamine Fish

The main risk is that Alito’s Calvinball Court seems to be perfectly willing to ignore precedent, rule of law, and damn near anything else aside from their ideology in making their decisions. However, it should be noted that they repeatedly refused to hear Trump’s election cases and have upheld some surprising Biden cases. I’m willing to bet that enabling permanent Republican rule, thus ending the Republic after which their party is named, is a bridge too far even for these partisan hacks.

If the Arizona Republicans managed to get a constitutional amendment added that gave the legislature sole authority, no matter how shady the way they did it was, would the court rule against it? I wouldn’t bet money on any outcome.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:58:30am

re: #21 Belafon

If the Arizona Republicans managed to get a constitutional amendment added that gave the legislature sole authority, no matter how shady the way they did it was, would the court rule against it? I wouldn’t bet money on any outcome.

The thing is, that would be their right to do so. That’s the process. What’s being litigated before the Supreme Court right now is the ability of state legislatures to override whatever legal mechanisms have been put in place by federal law and the state constitution, but if they went to the effort to get an amendment added to the state constitution that says, “In our state, the legislature just gets to pick the electors and we don’t hold a vote for President,” that would be AOK under current US law. Fucked up, sure, and there would be a serious outcry about it, but that’s how it works.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:58:46am
The gunman who killed a student and teacher at a south St. Louis high school before police killed him Monday had about 600 rounds of ammunition inside the school and left behind handwritten notes about being a loner with no social life, which he called the perfect storm for a mass shooting, authorities said Tuesday.

St. Louis Interim Police Chief Michael Sack read a passage to reporters Tuesday from a notebook belonging to 19-year-old Orlando Harris.

Harris left the notebook in the car he drove to the school, Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.

“I don’t have any friends, I don’t have any family,” it read. “I’ve never had a girlfriend. I’ve never had a social life. I’ve been an isolated loner my entire life. This was the perfect storm for a mass shooter.”

Harris, a former student, broke into the high school on Monday morning armed with an AR-15 rifle. Police confronted him inside the school and shot and killed him, 14 minutes after police received the first call for an “active shooter.”

stltoday.com

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 10:59:39am

re: #21 Belafon

If the Arizona Republicans managed to get a constitutional amendment added that gave the legislature sole authority, no matter how shady the way they did it was, would the court rule against it? I wouldn’t bet money on any outcome.

We will get a sense of things when the Court rules on the “independent state legislature” theory. If five Justices rule that state legislatures can flout their own constitutions, then everything is up for grabs.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:00:35am

“Released by staff without vetting…”

Oh COME ON. Take responsibility, you jackasses.

I don’t dislike the progressive caucus as much as some do, but this is just bullshit.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:00:42am

re: #23 Shropshire Slasher

stltoday.com

Another heavily armed incel.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:01:46am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

“Released by staff without vetting…”

Oh COME ON. Take responsibility, you jackasses.

I don’t dislike the progressive caucus as much as some do, but this is just bullshit.

Translation: “We didn’t realize how bad this was going to look two weeks before the election, so we’re throwing our staff under the bus.”

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:02:29am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

“Released by staff without vetting…”

Oh COME ON. Take responsibility, you jackasses.

I don’t dislike the progressive caucus as much as some do, but this is just bullshit.

They realized that making common cause with MAGA in support of their leader, fascist dictator Vladimir Putin, was a very bad look, so they threw the staff under the bus.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:03:31am

re: #20 No Malarkey!

I can see two sets of electoral votes being sent to Congress, one set selected by the voters and another set selected by GOP state legislators, Congress fighting over which set of votes to count, and President Biden refusing to step down if Congress chooses to count the latter votes instead of the former, giving us two presidents, Biden and Trump. It could be the greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War.

I think the gambit would be to simply count neither slate and throw it to the House for a delegation vote. Each state delegation gets only one vote, meaning the GOP would win. I also think SCOTUS would not interfere, but it would be a blatant theft of an election and would be irrefutable proof that elections no longer matter if your vote simply won’t be counted.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:03:40am

re: #27 Dopamine Fish

Translation: “We didn’t realize how bad this was going to look two weeks before the election, so we’re throwing our staff under the bus.”

GMTA

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:04:29am

Dope and Malarkey within 45 sec with the same comment

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:04:40am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

First time I have been really disappointed in AOC

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:06:00am

re: #29 Scottish Dragon

I think the gambit would be to simply count neither slate and throw it to the House for a delegation vote. Each state delegation gets only one vote, meaning the GOP would win. I also think SCOTUS would not interfere, but it would be a blatant theft of an election and would be irrefutable proof that elections no longer matter if your vote simply won’t be counted.

Yes, that is a likely scenario, and even then Biden should stand his ground if the actual vote count shows he won the election, and call on the American people to take to the streets in support of democracy.

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BlueSpotinAL  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:06:10am

I call this session of Cat Congress to order!

Feral cats in Old San Juan
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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:10:26am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

“Released by staff without vetting…”

Oh COME ON. Take responsibility, you jackasses.

I don’t dislike the progressive caucus as much as some do, but this is just bullshit.

Like she does in the next sentence?

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:12:04am

re: #33 No Malarkey!

Yes, that is a likely scenario, and even then Biden should stand his ground if the actual vote count shows he won the election, and call on the American people to take to the streets in support of democracy.

Of course if Trump actually does win the electoral college fair and square, we are just fucked.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:12:51am

re: #35 Belafon

Like she does in the next sentence?

After lying about it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:13:28am

re: #36 No Malarkey!

Of course if Trump actually does win the electoral college fair and square, we are just fucked.

At this point I don’t know how 2024 becomes anything other than a huge clusterfuck.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:14:38am

re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg

At this point I don’t know how 2024 becomes anything other than a huge clusterfuck.

The turnout of Democratic voters is paramount. A big enough win by the Dems will make moot any reactionaries’ arguments.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:16:38am

Because there is absolutely NO WAY a letter like this gets released with no vetting.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:21:15am

re: #4 Mattand

Pinging off what I said the other day: I doubt Cruz will put in an appearance at Citizens Bank Park when the World Series shifts to Philly. It looks like he was in NYC for that The View* interview and he’s got next to no reason to be in the area, period.

That said: he’ll be lucky to get away with just copious amounts of middle fingers if he shows up there.

*Will someone please explain the appeal of that show to me?

Yeah, Philly fans have batteries.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:22:09am

I’m sure the letter is authentic in the sense that they have been trying to think of a way to word a letter to encourage Biden to put pressure to end the war. And there have been revisions over time as it has bounced between the members of the group. But, as it is truly noted in Jayapal’s statement, at no time have they voted against funding Ukraine, nor have they held up votes in an attempt to put pressure that way. It’s an untimely release, but was there actual support at it’s release?

Sorry, I’ve seen a few things released in my company before they were complete, including an announcement of pay raise levels.

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:25:28am

re: #42 Belafon

The letter was legit, and this was a sounding exercise. They wanted to see what kind of support and/or blowback they’d receive from sending it out. Blame the staffers, but the staffers did it at the direction of their leadership.

Their attempt at plausible deniability isn’t very convincing.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:29:17am

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The turnout of Democratic voters is paramount. A big enough win by the Dems will make moot any reactionaries’ arguments.

That’s the problem; it won’t, if MAGA has its way. Their plan is for state legislatures to void vast numbers of votes as “fraudulent” and certify electors for Trump, no matter how badly he loses.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:30:13am

re: #43 lawhawk

The letter was legit, and this was a sounding exercise. They wanted to see what kind of support and/or blowback they’d receive from sending it out. Blame the staffers, but the staffers did it at the direction of their leadership.

Their attempt at plausible deniability isn’t very convincing.

Because now, when Ukraine is pushing Russia back, makes more sense than back when things were going worse for Ukraine?

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:31:03am

re: #45 Belafon

No one said that they were smart about it…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:33:20am

Working on coaxing the AI to make a summary image of the current GOP…

Here are two variations from one idea:

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:35:19am

re: #46 lawhawk

No one said that they were smart about it…

Except you are trying to imply they have a plan: Let’s see if other people will go for it. And I just don’t see that as a plan when it’s really darn easy to see the sentiment on the Democratic side for supporting Ukraine. Like every vote and every poll.

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JC1  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:35:21am

re: #44 No Malarkey!

That’s the problem; it won’t, if MAGA has its way. Their plan is for state legislatures to void vast numbers of votes as “fraudulent” and certify electors for Trump, no matter how badly he loses.

Dems really screwed the pooch by not focusing more on state races.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:36:13am

re: #49 JC1

Dems really screwed the pooch by not focusing more on state races.

Number one priority ought to be to flip at least a few houses of the state legislatures.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:37:12am

I mean, let’s say a group wanted to keep a letter they are working on a secret. What’s the rule on keeping secrets?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:40:33am

The reason US political parties have arrived at today’s arrangements is due to demographic shifts.

People moving to coastal cities, once they graduate either HS or college, especially the latter, has led to the coastal elite syndrome.

The populated regions on the coasts are much more democratic (little d) and progressive.

This left the remainers in the empty quarters of this country.

Hence places like Iowa, which used to send progressive Dems to Congress, now being taken over by the religious right.

GA is in flux because Atlanta has become a megalopolis, now the major city in the old South.

Resentment is now the primary election technique.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:41:00am

re: #51 Belafon

I mean, let’s say a group wanted to keep a letter they are working on a secret. What’s the rule on keeping secrets?

Don’t send it to Mar-a-lago?

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:47:31am

re: #17 Dopamine Fish

The main risk is that Alito’s Calvinball Court seems to be perfectly willing to ignore precedent, rule of law, and damn near anything else aside from their ideology in making their decisions. However, it should be noted that they repeatedly refused to hear Trump’s election cases and have upheld some surprising Biden cases. I’m willing to bet that enabling permanent Republican rule, thus ending the Republic after which their party is named, is a bridge too far even for these partisan hacks.

I disagree. It is not a bridge too far.

From now to the midterms they will tread more lightly in general after the fiasco ruling of Roe v Wade. The strategy (and they are now an organ of the Republican Party political apparatus) is to not cause the apple cart to be upset enough to trigger an even more massive voter turnout for Democratic candidates. But after 2024 look out- we are in for the full court press of an utterly corrupt SCOTUS with certain Conservative members dedicated to exerting pure power, religious fervor and vengeance.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:48:09am

re: #22 Dopamine Fish

The thing is, that would be their right to do so. That’s the process. What’s being litigated before the Supreme Court right now is the ability of state legislatures to override whatever legal mechanisms have been put in place by federal law and the state constitution, but if they went to the effort to get an amendment added to the state constitution that says, “In our state, the legislature just gets to pick the electors and we don’t hold a vote for President,” that would be AOK under current US law. Fucked up, sure, and there would be a serious outcry about it, but that’s how it works.

It is certainly Constitutional. The Constitution doesn’t require the citizens to vote for president at all; only that the legislatures choose the electors. The continued existence of the Electoral College is an abomination that will destroy our nation.

There are even conservative groups out there also agitating for the repeal of the 17th Amendment, which would make everything even a couple orders of magnitude worse that it is today.

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Captain Ron  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:52:58am
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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:59:07am

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:59:36am

re: #56 Captain Ron

it wasn’t about the nightstick.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 25, 2022 • 11:59:55am

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

My ballots went in the mail a couple weeks ago.

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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:00:01pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

Absentee ballot mailed in.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:00:52pm

re: #22 Dopamine Fish

It’s one thing to do that before an election and presumably face the wrath of voters.

It’s quite another to simply throw out an election after the fact.

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rhuarc  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:01:54pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

My wife has us scheduled for tomorrow in Illinois.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:07:51pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:10:13pm

re: #57 Belafon

My ballot has already been counted by the San Diego Registrar of Voters.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:10:46pm

Not that I actually want to see either of them again, but can you imagine what Trump will do to DeSantis?

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EPR-radar  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:11:36pm

re: #61 Scottish Dragon

It’s one thing to do that before an election and presumably face the wrath of voters.

It’s quite another to simply throw out an election after the fact.

Indeed. The issue before SCOTUS is whether state legislatures can lawlessly ignore their own laws and constitutions to give the state’s electoral votes to a Republican jackass.

If a state legislature wants to give their state’s electoral votes to a Republican jackass, that would be perfectly legal to do if they were open about it and told their state’s citizens “neener, neener, neener, you don’t get to vote for president”

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:12:42pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

Tonight after work

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:12:48pm

I used to be a “Vote on Voting Day” person, but I switched to voting early so that the people who can’t do it early won’t have as many people to stand in line. Now I’m encouraging everyone to vote early because it will reduce the chance of the jerks crowding the voting places on voting day to cause problems.

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:13:49pm

“Yeezy” does not sound like something good.
I can’t make it to work today. I’m feeling yeezy.

After ending its partnership with Ye’s Yeezy label last month, Gap Inc. is now pulling all remaining Yeezy Gap products from its stores and online after the rapper and designer made antisemitic remarks.

Gap Is Pulling All Remaining Yeezy Products, Shuts Down Website (Bloomberg)

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:14:05pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

Yes. Voted yesterday in person, the first day of early voting. No line at all but 2 minor annoying experiences in the voting booth: (1) there was a referendum that I never heard about, because it applied only to my township and I live in a different one from 90% of those in my suburb and (2) there was an irritating popup reminding me to print when I was reviewing my votes on the screen — it was fine to display it once but it popped up several additional times.

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:14:40pm

re: #2 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Late again, promoted from last string:

*snip*

It is more than a gallon of gasoline, at least here in Texas, but It is not twice as much, and that is typically what eggs cost relative to gasoline in the past. In 1970, for example, eggs were 60 cents a dozen, gas was about 32 cents a gallon. The disparity was even higher in 1940, 33 cents for eggs, 14 cents for gas. Thirty three cents was quite a bit of money in 1940.

I’m belaboring this because it represents the kind of perspective that the Republican base seems to lack and that lying Republican activists and media shills revel in exploiting. They compare the price of gasoline now to what it was at the height of covid in 2020, ignoring that it was a fair amount higher in abolute terms several times before that (3.55 in December 2004, for instance) and much higher relative to inflation.

In 2008, the last year of W’s administration, one gallon of 87 octane 10% ethanol gas at discount gas stations in middle TN cost more than $4.00. Diesel was above $5.00.

I remember thinking, it’s 2008, regular gas costs ~$4.35; we have a Republican presidential campaign not trying to manipulate the cost of gasoline below $4.00.

Come on, that’s pretty stupid.

Then I knew things were going to get *real*stupid*; when the smart people made fun of Obama saying that the most effective way to maximize your gas mileage was to maintain proper tire pressure in your vehicle.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:17:58pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:20:42pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

My county received my mail-in ballot yesterday here in IL. 😎

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Egregious Philbin  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:21:01pm

re: #57 Belafon

I voted last week, mailed them, got the text that they were received, got one the next day verifying my signature. Mrs. Philbin is filling hers out right this second.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:21:38pm

re: #69 Crush White Nationalism

“Yeezy” does not sound like something good.
I can’t make it to work today. I’m feeling yeezy.

Gap Is Pulling All Remaining Yeezy Products, Shuts Down Website (Bloomberg)

Yeezy: the bloated feeling after eating too much cheese off the charcuterie board

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Captain Ron  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:23:15pm
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Nyet  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:24:45pm

re: #69 Crush White Nationalism

“Yeezy” does not sound like something good.
I can’t make it to work today. I’m feeling yeezy.

Gap Is Pulling All Remaining Yeezy Products, Shuts Down Website (Bloomberg)

Definition of skeezy
slang. : morally or physically disgusting or repulsive : skeevy, sleazy In Sleeping With Other Friends, Matthew has slicked hair parted to the side with a thin mustache. He looks like a skeezy guy that you wouldn’t trust.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:28:06pm
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EPR-radar  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:28:18pm

re: #76 Captain Ron

Yeah, that one was hard to miss. Fortunately a 5.0 isn’t a big deal.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:29:46pm

re: #27 Dopamine Fish

Translation: “We didn’t realize how bad this was going to look two weeks before the election, so we’re throwing our staff under the bus.”

Translation: “We didn’t realize that everyone would read the headline and nobody would read the letter, so we’re withdrawing it.” (Also, since it says any diplomatic solution would have to be acceptable to Ukraine, it changes nothing in the current position of the US, it’s redundant.)

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KGxvi  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:29:54pm

re: #17 Dopamine Fish

The main risk is that Alito’s Calvinball Court seems to be perfectly willing to ignore precedent, rule of law, and damn near anything else aside from their ideology in making their decisions. However, it should be noted that they repeatedly refused to hear Trump’s election cases and have upheld some surprising Biden cases. I’m willing to bet that enabling permanent Republican rule, thus ending the Republic after which their party is named, is a bridge too far even for these partisan hacks.

My guess is that they’ll fall into the “you can’t change the rules after the fact” a la the basic premise of Bush v Gore. It will potentially give the state legislatures the ability to change the rules for future elections (though, let’s be honest, I don’t think most state legislators around the country really want the smoke of “we will override the vote if we don’t like the way you voted”).

What really needs to happen is a real movement to amend the constitution and abolish the electoral college.

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:30:42pm

re: #79 EPR-radar

Yeah, that one was hard to miss. Fortunately a 5.0 isn’t a big deal.

When you start getting above 5.5 you start to see serious damage

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:33:50pm

re: #81 KGxvi

My guess is that they’ll fall into the “you can’t change the rules after the fact” a la the basic premise of Bush v Gore. It will potentially give the state legislatures the ability to change the rules for future elections (though, let’s be honest, I don’t think most state legislators around the country really want the smoke of “we will override the vote if we don’t like the way you voted”).

What really needs to happen is a real movement to amend the constitution and abolish the electoral college.

Republican-run legislatures in purplish states will be happy to amend their state constitutions to make it easy to throw out votes inconvenient to them.

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Nyet  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:34:46pm

Nice if true.

Allegedly dozens of Kadyrovite scumbags have been deshaitanized.

meduza.io

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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:35:52pm
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:36:47pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

I will vote before election day, but I vote much closer to the deadline day because of a little thing called California Propositions. They take a while to figure out, and sometimes very late information arrives to change my opinion on one of them.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:37:22pm

re: #68 Belafon

I used to be a “Vote on Voting Day” person, but I switched to voting early so that the people who can’t do it early won’t have as many people to stand in line. Now I’m encouraging everyone to vote early because it will reduce the chance of the jerks crowding the voting places on voting day to cause problems.

That reminded me to do that today, thanks.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:38:04pm

re: #76 Captain Ron

MAGA scum celebrating and claiming librul values caused this yet?

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EPR-radar  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:39:11pm

re: #88 Dr. Matt

MAGA scum celebrating and claiming librul values caused this yet?

This isn’t enough of a disaster to get MAGA freaks excited.

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Nyet  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:39:45pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

Has reminded me of this:

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Which in turn reminded me of this:

There Will Come Soft Rains (1984)

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:41:18pm

re: #90 Nyet

I can’t read that without thinking of the Ray Bradbury story

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KGxvi  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:42:52pm

re: #83 Hecuba’s daughter

Republican-run legislatures in purplish states will be happy to amend their state constitutions to make it easy to throw out votes inconvenient to them.

Maybe, but I’m guessing most state constitutions require an election to amend their constitutions and I can’t imagine an election centered on “we don’t want you to vote for president anymore” is the sort that would turn out well for those electeds in support.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:43:33pm

Waukesha trial. Off to the other room with him. For like the 5th time today.

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A Three Hour Tour  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:43:56pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

Yes, my son and I voted early on the first day of early voting here in New Mexico. The Spousal Unit voted early several days later.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:44:41pm

re: #93 GlutenFreeJesus

Waukesha trial. Off to the other room with him. For like the 5th time today.

This was another “when worlds collide” for me, since Waukesha isn’t all that far away, and a co-worker is apparently following this trial with avid interest. She mentioned it on a conference call this morning and my head asploded.

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coin operated  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:45:53pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

Nevada went to universal absentee (mail) voting during the pandemic and made the change permanent last year. Wife and I got our ballots this morning. We’ll get them sent off in a day or so.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:48:50pm

re: #95 Dopamine Fish

Yep. I’m an hour away. Have several acquaintances that live in the area.

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EPR-radar  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:49:16pm

re: #92 KGxvi

Maybe, but I’m guessing most state constitutions require an election to amend their constitutions and I can’t imagine an election centered on “we don’t want you to vote for president anymore” is the sort that would turn out well for those electeds in support.

Back in the day, the US state legislatures just picked the presidential electors. Over time, the states got tired of their legislatures becoming a circus every 4 years, so one way or the other they all changed over to deciding their presidential electors via elections.

There really is no Federal constitutional right for people to be able to vote for president. That’s why the voting rights act etc. pertain to Congressional elections.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:50:51pm

re: #76 Captain Ron

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Didn’t feel a thing. (It was south and east of San Jose).

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Scottish Dragon  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:53:17pm
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Nyet  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:55:35pm

re: #91 Scottish Dragon

I can’t read that without thinking of the Ray Bradbury story

The Uzbekfilm animation is based on it.

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Captain Ron  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:57:16pm
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Thanos  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:57:26pm

re: #62 rhuarc

My wife has us scheduled for tomorrow in Illinois.

The early voting lines in Johnson County KS are long right now. (Johnson is mostly liberal.)

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KGxvi  Oct 25, 2022 • 12:57:55pm

re: #98 EPR-radar

Back in the day, the US state legislatures just picked the presidential electors. Over time, the states got tired of their legislatures becoming a circus every 4 years, so one way or the other they all changed over to deciding their presidential electors via elections.

There really is no Federal constitutional right for people to be able to vote for president. That’s why the voting rights act etc. pertain to Congressional elections.

Oh, I know all that. It’s also why most states had popular elections for the Senate before that amendment was even ratified. The fact that we have no living memory of appointed electors or non-popularly elected Senators is something that is going to work against these RWNJs trying to restrict voting.

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gwangung  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:03:01pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

WA is all mail and just returned mine.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:06:24pm
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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:07:35pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:07:43pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:08:43pm

re: #107 Dave In Austin

8 seconds
damn you

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:10:33pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:11:49pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:12:28pm
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calochortus  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:12:52pm

re: #111 No Malarkey!

The stock market rally resulted in more big gains today.

“Why this is bad for Democrats”

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:14:30pm

re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Makes you wonder how many foxes there are in London. At least they don’t have to worry about them being rabid.

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:15:29pm

If you haven’t yet seen the full Webb telescope picture of the Pillars of Creation then you need to take a moment:

nasa.gov

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:15:59pm

re: #114 No Malarkey!

Makes you wonder how many foxes there are in London. At least they don’t have to worry about them being rabid.

The London Wildlife Trust estimates that there are 10,000 foxes in the city.
standard.co.uk

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:18:28pm

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aatharuv  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:18:47pm

re: #76 Captain Ron

I felt it, but I’m less than 30 miles from the epicenter. But people on the call I was on could hear it 30 miles away from me in the opposite direction from the epicenter.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:18:59pm

Personal health update.

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Mattand  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:19:24pm

re: #41 Eventual Carrion

Yeah, Philly fans have batteries.

I’m the rare Philly sports fan that acknowledges and is actually embarrassed by the idiotic behavior of the others, often to my detriment. Eagles fans absolutely earn their rep, closely followed by Flyers fans. The Phillies fans are on a sliding scale; weirdly, the better the Phils do, the crowds start to get worse. Sixers fans are pretty chill for the most part.

Hardly an expert, but this is based on nearly 50 years of attending games for all four teams.

I unequivocally condemn hurting someone because of the artificial tribal boundaries created by rooting for the local sports concerns.

But if Ted Cruz shows up and gets a battery/soft pretzel/Phanatic scat chucked at him?

Fuck him. I won’t shed one fucking tear over that. Dude is doing his best to tear this country apart. A beer dumped on his head will not make me lose an ounce of sleep.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:19:28pm

re: #119 The Pie Overlord!

Personal health update.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:20:02pm

re: #114 No Malarkey!

Makes you wonder how many foxes there are in London. At least they don’t have to worry about them being rabid.

Almost 2 years ago in Dublin

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:20:38pm

re: #119 The Pie Overlord!

Personal health update.

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nines09  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:21:32pm

Me and my wife voted weeks ago. We do the mail in ballots, then we take a 15 minute ride to the county courthouse and drop them off hand to hand. The woman I handed mine to asked if I signed the envelope and I thanked her for asking.
My wife then did the same as we can only drop off our own ballot.
Then I get an email verifying my ballot was received.
This is in Pa.
Fuck Oz and Mastriano.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:24:38pm

re: #115 Thanos

If you haven’t yet seen the full Webb telescope picture of the Pillars of Creation then you need to take a moment:

nasa.gov

So many stars.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:26:01pm

I think everyone else disliked this one as well…..

Wordle 493 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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nines09  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:26:19pm

re: #125 Charles Johnson

And yet we are the only intelligent life.
Amazing.
How very special we are.
that is dripping sarcasm btw

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:27:40pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:30:45pm

Wallace and Gromit

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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:31:10pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:31:22pm
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:39:06pm

re: #125 Charles Johnson

So many stars.

But are there globular clusters?

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:39:13pm

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Charles Johnson  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:39:31pm

re: #132 Dopamine Fish

But are there globular clusters?

Deep cut.

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A Cranky One  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:41:47pm

Spouse and I did the final signatures to create an estate trust today, to hopefully make life better for our kids when we’re gone.

Got our mail-in ballots completed and ready to mail tomorrow, to hopefully make life better for our kids when we’re gone.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:43:24pm

re: #117 GlutenFreeJesus

Objecting during closing arguments. Yet the judge is still giving him the time of day.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:52:08pm
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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2022 • 1:57:32pm

Dad joke I just saw:

If your company requires you to change your password every 90 days, just use the name of the current UK Prime Minister and you’ll be fine.

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 25, 2022 • 2:01:33pm

re: #120 Mattand

I’m the rare Philly sports fan that acknowledges and is actually embarrassed by the idiotic behavior of the others, often to my detriment. Eagles fans absolutely earn their rep, closely followed by Flyers fans. The Phillies fans are on a sliding scale; weirdly, the better the Phils do, the crowds start to get worse. Sixers fans are pretty chill for the most part.

Hardly an expert, but this is based on nearly 50 years of attending games for all four teams.

I unequivocally condemn hurting someone because of the artificial tribal boundaries created by rooting for the local sports concerns.

That had been my experience 1990 - 2000.

Based upon my reading the After Action Reports after Miami Dolphins home games submitted by Miami-Dade PD (lead agency at the stadium), there had been more arrests for fighting, public intoxication, and other offenses during Dolphins - Eagles games than any other visiting NFL teams.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 25, 2022 • 2:34:11pm

re: #65 Belafon

Not that I actually want to see either of them again, but can you imagine what Trump will do to DeSantis?

spy45 has got to be so envious of Crist’s real tan

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 25, 2022 • 3:12:43pm

re: #125 Charles Johnson

So many stars.

Will. Not. Do. Carl. Sagan. Impression.

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CleverToad  Oct 25, 2022 • 3:21:28pm

re: #57 Belafon

Totally only slightly related question: Has anyone else voted early? Texas voting opened yesterday, and I got mine done at lunch.

Just got the email confirming my ballot has been received and is in the system. Presumably hubby’s is as well, dropped off in the same box/same time. Also dropped off the (adult) kid’s ballot this afternoon. We have a good County rep handling the elections — a Dem of course, we definitely voted for her to stay in office.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 25, 2022 • 4:46:45pm

re: #76 Captain Ron

klys was working in her yard and never felt it

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 25, 2022 • 4:53:49pm

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