Seth takes a closer look at Trump appearing on Fox News for the first time in six months as he faces an expected indictment and ratchets up his attacks on Florida governor Ron DeSantis.
This is interesting reading, though I’m not quite ready to believe *anything* the GOP says about *anything* because they are the quintessential embodiment of cynicism and bad faith.
Last night Georgia legislature gave final approval to a new oversight commission for DAs attorneys solicitors-general.
(It’s not about Fani Willis and Trump)
Final bill: https://t.co/2mUa3aNXIK
Background:https://t.co/LaS0FZ7cIl— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) March 28, 2023
re: #1 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
Of COURSE it’s about Willis. The more they deny it, the truer it is.
If public schools are underfunded and circumscribed by political agitation such that fail to educate children, and guns are so ubiquitous that children are routinely massacred there, more and more women and kids will be forced to stay home—where men can control them more easily. https://t.co/eJGTaxSmDS
— Moira Donegan (@MoiraDonegan) March 29, 2023
I’d buy their album. pic.twitter.com/hX3SKFTv60
— Catherine Curzon (@MadameGilflurt) March 29, 2023
re: #2 retired cynic
Of COURSE it’s about Willis. The more they deny it, the truer it is.
Brian Kemp is racist trash who spent his life in public office disenfranchising black voters. The only reason Georgia now has 2 Democratic Senators is because of the fit Trump threw in 2020 when he lost reelection. This means little in the long run because the state level positions are all held by the GOP who will be making sure that this will not last permanently, with the assistance of the GOP run SCOTUS which has never met a gerrymander and a voter disenfranchisement it won’t support.
Today’s big news in AI images is a new version of Stable Diffusion:
Stable Diffusion XL is here — What’s new?
Looks great.
I just started playing with Adobe Firefly a few days ago and already it is overtaken by StabilityAI.
Still waiting for Google to unleash Imagen.
Well this is bonkers. San Jose cop union head busted for allegedly smuggle fentanyl into the country!!!!! pic.twitter.com/Ms3RHSAUfa
— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) March 30, 2023
Here is our story https://t.co/AYCn9oZXO6
— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) March 30, 2023
“…The complaint against Segovia said that she told federal investigators she had nothing to do with the drug smuggling and blamed the shipments of pills on a woman she identified “as a family friend and housekeeper.”
I referred to her numbers as “between Pence and a dust bunny”https://t.co/AcVQOmVkEk https://t.co/5e3Nu1QSTu
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 29, 2023
re: #6 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Today’s big news in AI images is a new version of Stable Diffusion:
Stable Diffusion XL is here — What’s new?
Looks great.
I just started playing with Adobe Firefly a few days ago and already it is overtaken by StabilityAI.
Still waiting for Google to unleash Imagen.
I’m working my way up. First the horror of Dal-E mini, then Midjourney, which is so much better, but extremely limited and error-prone, and I’ll start playing with Stable Diffusion next. It looks like it’s a lot more useful than Midjourney.
New poll shows ‘startling’ decline of traditional values https://t.co/rTJdePAYwR
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 30, 2023
A new poll shows Americans care more about money and less about religion and patriotism than they did a quarter century ago, and a New York Times columnist calls the decline in the extent to which Americans care about traditional values “startling.”
According to the findings of the newly released Wall Street Journal poll, 43 percent of respondents cited money as very important, a 12 percentage point jump from 1998.
Patriotism has tumbled from being a top priority among 70 percent of respondent to 38 percent today, and religion has fallen almost as much as a top priority, from 62 percent in 1998 to 39 percent today.
Patriotism and religion don’t pay bills for most of us.
re: #12 Crush White Nationalism
Midjourney is liked because in its latest version users seem to appreciate that few images are categorically “bad”.
But Midjourney images all seem to be from a same look, like the same art school.
The silencing of conversations on here — compared to a few years ago experts are now mostly quiet — has meant I’ve found it a bit harder to follow complex news events such as the current banking crisis or events in Israel. Weird non-pro accounts now seem to dominate most debates.
— Ben Judah (@b_judah) March 27, 2023
re: #13 Targetpractice
This is why the religious right is fervently trying to install a theocracy.
They are losing the ability to get new converts by choice, so they are going to embrace the way of the sword.
re: #13 Targetpractice
According to the findings of the newly released Wall Street Journal poll, 43 percent of respondents cited money as very important
Sounds like traditional ‘Murican values to me.
VINDICATION. https://t.co/AQqPw7qrFI
— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) March 29, 2023
re: #13 Targetpractice
Patriotism and religion don’t pay bills for most of us.
And patriotism and religion seem to be a common justification for trotted out for cruel and inhumane behaviors and laws.
re: #19 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And patriotism and religion seem to be a common justification for trotted out for cruel and inhumane behaviors and laws.
Considering the 25 year gap since the last poll taken in 1998, I think there’s a strong argument to be made that the far-right’s total freakout in the wake of 9/11 and over-reliance upon accusing their opponents of being insufficiently patriotic and religiously devoted had a good deal to do with the sharp change in results.
a Twitter Blue paid verified account is spreading a fake local news tweet calling for violence against trans people https://t.co/LEt7dE5U9K
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 29, 2023
re: #21 Teukka
This is a fake post made by a far right account, yet the daily mail still has it in their article. This person is mma fighter Alana McLaughlin and they’ll be lucky is she doesn’t sue them for everything they’re worth. pic.twitter.com/LyBzbFQfIi
— Merrick 🌻🦂 (@punishedmother) March 29, 2023
The fight with the VA to get treatment for my bleeding continues
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re: #18 ckkatz
Similarly, not letting my kids win at games against me after a certain age has taught them that the world isn’t going to end if they lose. And that it feels really good when they win.
re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #25 Belafon
Yep. Then they know that the win was truly theirs.
But what happens when they start letting you win? ;)
re: #27 ckkatz
Yep. Then they know that the win was truly theirs.
But what happens when they start letting you win? ;)
I’ll be too out of it to realize at that point.
re: #25 Belafon
Similarly, not letting my kids win at games against me after a certain age has taught them that the world isn’t going to end if they lose. And that it feels really good when they win.
My oldest brother taught each younger sib how to play all the games. And for about 60 years, has enjoyed the hell out of winning most of them.
He went to California while my brother from Germany was there, and told me about the German one buying a Scrabble set to take back to Berlin, where apparently they can’t be found. Then the oldest brother described how he won the game they first played on it.
Only 1 person needs to change their vote on the trans healthcare ban and the session will move forward. Will it be McDonnell who is hoping to be Omaha’s next mayor? Will it be one of the Rs who privately confessed that they hate this bill + don’t support it? Let’s move it along! pic.twitter.com/7zygQVb85G
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) March 29, 2023
re: #26 ckkatz
Only 1 person needs to change their vote on the trans healthcare ban and the session will move forward. Will it be McDonnell who is hoping to be Omaha’s next mayor? Will it be one of the Rs who privately confessed that they hate this bill + don’t support it? Let’s move it along! pic.twitter.com/7zygQVb85G
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) March 29, 2023
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re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The fight with the VA to get treatment for my bleeding continues.
WTAF?!
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There are hundreds of thousands of attorneys and legal workers. I would suspect that many of them do understand that if the justice system is degraded to the point that Trump is not held accountable for his misdeeds, it diminishes they and their life long participation in the legal field. At some point, they become irrelevent.
Judge Luttig on @BulwarkOnline podcast: If Trump is not indicted for 1/6, “I will believe that’s a great disservice to democracy and to the rule of law in America.”https://t.co/EaDOYK6XxV pic.twitter.com/GquoWSfVy4
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) March 29, 2023
re: #8 jaunte
Thread, six tweets.
What is not being talked about enough is that the cops have a massive fentanyl addiction problem.
Dozens of cops are ODing every week, sometimes on video.
Additionally, cops are constantly being caught dealing fentanyl, including to children.
We know far more are not caught https://t.co/MrLAydFfrr pic.twitter.com/ayE77g9OrF— Elm Fork JBGC (@elmforkJBGC) January 24, 2023
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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This tweet is honestly so disgusting that I honestly didn’t think it was real. pic.twitter.com/gOtsfecFTN
— ChudsOfTikTok (@ChudsOfTikTok) March 30, 2023
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thread, six tweets.
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So does this mean that the cop dramas that usually show one or more of the characters as raging alcoholics will have to start showing them shooting up with fentanyl instead?
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1 out of 4 children strip-searched by police in England and Wales were between ages 10 to 15.
~40% of strip-search cases targeted Black children, who make up less than 6% of the child population.
Police have an “adultification bias” against Black children, the report said. pic.twitter.com/krtgre7sDm— AJ+ (@ajplus) March 29, 2023
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Chaserrrrrrr:
Share it man.
Side Note, do people actually think they tracked suicide attempt rates of slaves & holocaust victims? Would successfully escaping count as a suicide attempt due to the high likelihood of execution/retaliation? pic.twitter.com/NAYFai8JQd— ChudsOfTikTok (@ChudsOfTikTok) March 30, 2023
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m not surprised that asshole is spreading those lies.
One of these days Karma is going to bite Clam Crowder in the ass.
“You can’t ban guns because bans never work.”
—Republicans who have banned abortion, contraception, books, drag queens, vaccines, honest history lessons, and talking about LGBTQ people.— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) March 29, 2023
re: #41 Joe Bacon
I’m not surprised that asshole is spreading those lies.
One of these days Karma is going to bite Clam Crowder in the ass.
His Karma will be a kennel full of female Alsatians…
Woke up this morning in Europe to read this:
Board members picked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee the governance of Walt Disney World said Wednesday that their Disney-controlled predecessors pulled a fast one on them by passing restrictive covenants that strip the new board of many of its powers.
The current supervisors of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District said at a meeting that their predecessors last month signed a development agreement with the company that gave Disney maximum developmental power over the theme park resort’s 27,000 acres in central Florida.
The five supervisors were appointed by the Republican governor to the board after the Florida Legislature overhauled Disney’s government in retaliation for the entertainment giant publicly opposing so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, as well as lessons deemed not age-appropriate.
And here’s the neat part 😄 -
Under the terms of the agreement, the district is prohibited from using the name “Disney” or any symbols associated with the theme park resort without the company’s permission, nor can it use the likeness of Mickey Mouse, other Disney characters or other intellectual property in any manner. The company can sue for damages for any violations, and the agreement is in effect until perpetuity, according to the declaration.
If the agreement is deemed to violate rules against perpetuity, it will be in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of England’s King Charles III, the declaration said.
In a statement, Disney said all agreements were above board and took place in public.
re: #47 retired cynic
why did my mind go to “ass chowder”?
eww
*something* *something* Synonyms *something* *something*
Interesting thread on civil-military relations in Israel and how they played out in the current strife there. It mostly matches my understanding.
However, one thing I understand differently is that the reservists who refused service did so because they. do not divide themselves into two parts, citizen and reservist. They view themselves as citizen and that their reservist duty derives from that.
As always, there are some lizards here who are far more knowledgeable in this than I am. I always look forward to hearing their thoughts.
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First off, all of the usual caveats apply. I generally study/think about US civ-mil, so not an expert. And Israeli civ-mil is generally super understudied for reasons I don’t know. But both their system and their history makes for really interesting discussion. 2/
— Carrie A Lee (@CarrieALee1) March 29, 2023
re: #43 ckkatz
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In a similar vein, I’ve lost count over the years how many times I’ve been told by ammosexuals that any proposed gun control law that cannot stop 100% of gun crime isn’t worth pursuing if it in any way infringes upon the 2A rights of anybody, BUT draconian anti-immigration laws that would not stop even 5% of all “illegal immigration” are worth pursuing at any cost.
re: #32 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
WTAF?!
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re: #46 Dr Lizardo
Woke up this morning in Europe to read this:
And here’s the neat part 😄 -
Don’t FAFO with Disney lawyers.
re: #46 Dr Lizardo
Woke up this morning in Europe to read this:
And here’s the neat part 😄 -
Yeah, after weeks of privately wondering if Disney was gonna do anything to snuff out Ron’s little stunt, I find out today that they did something but that it pretty much went under the radar because the “liberal media” was too busy oohing and aahing at how the FL GQP had stripped the Mouse of all their power.
This is the language of genocide. https://t.co/Ueisuqgl4S
— LeftOfTheDial (@EricShapiro3) March 29, 2023
“Trump has left no doubt that he is a violent authoritarian who intends to reject any election that does not restore him to power… This should be said, every day, in every medium,” @RadioFreeTom writes in The Atlantic Daily. https://t.co/gnaatpYTSW
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 27, 2023
re: #117 ckkatz
Oops, apparently there’s a Leroy Bar in Wellington, New Zealand.
That’s the one. A short walk from the office and a regular Thursday lunch thing since that’s our team’s “everybody in the office” day.
For the love of god we’ve reached “American school shootings are Ukraine’s fault.” pic.twitter.com/FW6w0S5bFV
— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) March 30, 2023
re: #54 Teukka
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So we’ll get to watch this continue until either Faux moves on to a new group to shame/attack…or until one of their more trigger-happy viewers decides to “fight back” by attacking a grouping of the “trans movement” to the cries of “WE NEVER MEANT FOR THIS!!!” from Faux’s lawyers.
re: #56 Grunthos the Flatulent
That’s the one. A short walk from the office and a regular Thursday lunch thing since that’s our team’s “everybody in the office” day.
That sounds like a delightful afternoon break for a Thursday.
(That has already come and gone for you folks. Even though it is only 1:45AM Thursday on the East Coast of the US.)
And now I am hungry. And I think that I will be enjoying a hamburger later today myself.
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #58 Targetpractice
So we’ll get to watch this continue until either Faux moves on to a new group to shame/attack…or until one of their more trigger-happy viewers decides to “fight back” by attacking a grouping of the “trans movement” to the cries of “WE NEVER MEANT FOR THIS!!!” from Faux’s lawyers.
“We’re not responsible” would be the song and dance from Faux News lawyers in that event. “we never meant this” instead would be bad for their business.
getting to the point where I feel like we’re in a race between the DOJ/state AGs filing charges or each state GOP controlled state going completely batshit insane because of the imminent loss of power that is coming when the house of cards finally falls. Each day that passes without this fever breaking means more crazy shit being done at the State level where they’re busy trying to find a way to legislate each person to be a heterosexual church going person or have their civil rights revoked.
re: #52 Captain Ron
re: #53 Targetpractice
Did anyone really think Disney was going to lose to a punk like DeSantis? Disney was there long before him and will be there long after him - or until the seas swallow the entire state of Florida, in which case Disney World will become its own country, surrounded by a seawall. Tourists will visit thanks to repurposed icebreaker ships, which will plow their way through the ruins of flooded Floridian towns.
re: #63 Dr Lizardo
Did anyone really think Disney was going to lose to a punk like DeSantis? Disney was there long before him and will be there long after him - or until the seas swallow the entire state of Florida, in which case Disney World will become its own country, surrounded by a seawall. Tourists will visit thanks to repurposed icebreaker ships, which will plow their way through the ruins of flooded Floridian towns.
Kevin Costner was great in that movie.
re: #63 Dr Lizardo
Did anyone really think Disney was going to lose to a punk like DeSantis? Disney was there long before him and will be there long after him - or until the seas swallow the entire state of Florida, in which case Disney World will become its own country, surrounded by a seawall. Tourists will visit thanks to repurposed icebreaker ships, which will plow their way through the ruins of flooded Floridian towns.
That’s just it, due to my ignorance of the move on Disney’s part to effectively neutralize the new board before it could even be appointed, I saw no indications that they were really taking the blatant attempt to seize control seriously. A part of me assumed there was something legal in the works, but the overall impression (via the media) was that they were just accepting the impending appointment of their new overlords.
re: #65 Targetpractice
I am sure the Disney team went to great lengths to have that be the general impression.
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #67 Dr Lizardo
It was brilliantly executed on the part of Disney’s legal eagles. No one had any idea until DeSantis’ cronies went to take up their new jobs, only to discover Disney had left them utterly powerless.
It really demonstrates how cocky and ignorant these fuckers are that they were totally in the dark about this move on Disney’s part until after they’d taken office and found out how screwed they were. This is a company that has been effectively running itself as its own little fiefdom in the state for decades, did they not think that The Mouse’s lawyers were hard at work finding an angle to neutralize them?
This part at the ABC article immediately leapt out at me:
Under the terms of the agreement, the district is prohibited from using the name “Disney” or any symbols associated with the theme park resort without the company’s permission, nor can it use the likeness of Mickey Mouse, other Disney characters or other intellectual property in any manner. The company can sue for damages for any violations, and the agreement is in effect until perpetuity, according to the declaration.
So not only have they been stripped of power, but Disney also basically ruined all the plans that Ron and his underlings were slinging around about using the board to take control over the company’s intellectual property in order to remove “woke” influences from it. Nor will they be able to bypass Disney to continue advertising the park to maintain revenues from tourism by advertising the park and its attractions.
The Richmond Highway barricade situation reportedly has ended.
UPDATE: The woman was safely taken into custody. Richmond Highway will be opened soon. Thank you for your patience.
— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD) March 30, 2023
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia,” but only slightly less well known is this: “Never go in against the Walt Disney Corporation, when money is on the line!” pic.twitter.com/mKm7GVweaU
— Lethality Jane🌻 (@LethalityJane) March 30, 2023
And the hostage situation in Congress continues…
And they do not want anything other than to burn the country down-
I’m increasingly convinced that McCarthy is not going to raise the debt ceiling, and all negotiations are just for show. I believe his goal is to destroy the US economy, and hope the chaos makes it easier for Republicans to reclaim the WH, House, and Senate in 2024.
— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) March 29, 2023
So DeSantis has now committed the state of Florida to a long, costly legal battle with Disney right as he’s preparing to launch an ill-fated presidential bid. There’s no “option B” as Ron has done everything he can to make it clear that this was a politically-motivated power grab, and Disney has no financial incentive to do anything more than bleed the state dry by prolonging the fight. So we’re looking at weeks or months of the witless fools that apparently comprise whatever legal force the state possesses versus attack lawyers that pick their teeth with the bones of poor fools that get caught selling bootleg Mickey Mouse plushies.
Remember when CNN realigned to the rightwing in order to capture Fox viewers?
CNN crapped on its actual viewers in an attempt to appease people who were never, ever going to tune in. Genius. https://t.co/OCnIvs1yx7
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) March 29, 2023
re: #73 ckkatz
And the hostage situation in Congress continues…
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McCarthy’s up shit creek without a paddle and it’s been plainly obvious for weeks now. Every question about a GQP budget proposal is met with stalling tactics and empty promises. It’s becoming pretty much impossible to even suggest the bare bones of one with how every new suggested cut immediately sparks massive public backlash. And even if he finally manages to piece something together, it’s almost a guarantee that it will immediately be savaged by Trump to wild cheers from the base.
At least in 2011 John of Orange was making a genuine (if ill-fated) effort to reach something resembling a compromise with the WH. Qevin seems to stuck in a position where the only option is to just keep bullshitting about how he wants “negotiations” when it’s obvious he has no basis for negotiations and the only “deal” his caucus will accept is Biden’s unconditional surrender.
re: #77 Targetpractice
Exactly!
McCarthy has no budget, has shown no interest in developing any, and has no policy goals. Basically, he does not seem to want anything from the Administration. There appears to be nothing sane that the Administration can offer him.
It will require defections from the GOP House caucus to the Democrats to stop this mess. And that would require constituent pressure. Which would mean businesses would have to conclude that the damage threatens to be too great.
In other countries, people who work to put weapons in the hands of domestic terrorists are called traitors.
Here, they’re called the NRA.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) March 29, 2023
And BTW, Trump is yukking it up at Ron “puddin’ fingers” DeSantis’ expense…
Former President Donald Trump’s team is taking a gleeful victory lap after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ law to punish Disney for speaking out against his anti-LGBTQ legislation hit a brick wall, reported Florida Politics publisher Peter Schorsch on Wednesday.
“President Trump wrote ‘Art of the Deal’ and brokered Middle East peace,” an unidentified Trump campaign staffer told Schorsch. “Ron DeSantis just got out-negotiated by Mickey Mouse.”
You love to see it.
New: Several schools across PA and at least one in NJ were shut down Wednesday after reports of school shootings, just days after the horrific shooting in Nashville. But multiple police agencies have said the reports were swatting calls. https://t.co/Tj9rbHotZf
— Paul Blest (@pblest) March 29, 2023
Good nite all!
And here is one of the most Classic Dad Jokes ever. Is everybody sufficiently embarrassed yet?
Waitress: How did you find your steak Sir?
Dad: I just looked next to the potatoes and there it was.
re: #60 EPR-radar
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Hartfoud Courant, yesterday.
A reported occurrence under investigation by the Archdiocese of Hartford as a possible miracle at a Roman Catholic church in Thomaston has similarities to Jesus’ miracle of multiplying the loaves and fishes, which itself resonates with the Last Supper, according to the chaplain of Albertus Magnus College.
But while the reported increase in Communion hosts occurred at St. Thomas Church, where the Rev. Michael McGivney served, the possibility that it would be the miracle that will raise him to sainthood is not highly likely, the Rev. Jordan Lenaghan, a Dominican friar, said Tuesday.
On March 5, after Communion had been distributed, the Rev. Joseph Crowley, pastor of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish, which includes St. Thomas, announced that, during the Mass, “one of our eucharistic ministers was running out of hosts and yet they didn’t, and suddenly there’s more hosts in the ciborium.
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Archdiocese of Hartford investigating report of possible miracle at Thomaston church
re: #13 Targetpractice
I’d like to see the questions asked but let’s be real, I’m finding it hard to be proud of America some days. And as for religion, well, of late, I’m starting to think it should be outlawed (no offence meant to the faithful). If I was a kid praying attention to the world these days I’d run fast from religion as too many loud-mouthed creeps are trying to force everyone into a submission few are interested in.
It’s already ridiculous that in the year 2023 I’ve got so many people wanting to pay for a pile of stuff from our market with physical money when I know they’ve got credit cards and debit cards. Doubly so when they insist upon using a fistful of coins as though they just went digging through their couch cushions just to make a food run. But when you sit there, digging in your change purse with one hand while a fistful of bills is in your other, I really wanna just reach across the desk and whap them upside the head.
About as ridiculous as the people staying in a hotel with full kitchens in every room insisting upon buying overpriced bottle water when they can get it from the tap for free. And before you say “But they might be from out of town…,” at least 2/3 of the folks staying here right now are locals who grew up with this water. I must be one of the few of my generation who grew up with a grandmother who’d nag me to death for buying bottled water when there’s plenty of water coming out of the tap.
re: #3 jaunte
In case you haven’t completely guessed the Republican game, their school shooting solution is women. At home. In the private sphere. And charters but mostly women at home. It’s all reproductive justice.
They are fine with private schools, especially private religious schools.
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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The beagle has landed. BOOYAH!
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re: #16 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This is why the religious right is fervently trying to install a theocracy.
They are losing the ability to get new converts by choice, so they are going to embrace the way of the sword.
they will use whatever means they find expedient and necessary.
re: #29 wrenchwench
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He went to California while my brother from Germany was there, and told me about the German one buying a Scrabble set to take back to Berlin, where apparently they can’t be found. Then the oldest brother described how he won the game they first played on it.
While Rep. Tim Burchett went on about how Congress has no role in doing anything to stop the slaughter of children, he does give a solution in a longer interview.
The nation must have a Christian revival.
Apparently we don’t have enough people “thoughting and praying” hard enough. If we can just force them all to do it… . (video, 1:22)
Tim Burchett (R) on the Nashville shooting- we can’t do anything…but we need a Christian ‘revival’ to solve this… (Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake)
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Jews in concentration camps didn’t have to commit suicide, you fucking odious sack of offal.
re: #87 Targetpractice
It’s already ridiculous that in the year 2023 I’ve got so many people wanting to pay for a pile of stuff from our market with physical money when I know they’ve got credit cards and debit cards. Doubly so when they insist upon using a fistful of coins as though they just went digging through their couch cushions just to make a food run. But when you sit there, digging in your change purse with one hand while a fistful of bills is in your other, I really wanna just reach across the desk and whap them upside the head.
About as ridiculous as the people staying in a hotel with full kitchens in every room insisting upon buying overpriced bottle water when they can get it from the tap for free. And before you say “But they might be from out of town…,” at least 2/3 of the folks staying here right now are locals who grew up with this water. I must be one of the few of my generation who grew up with a grandmother who’d nag me to death for buying bottled water when there’s plenty of water coming out of the tap.
Huh. Western Nebraskans not welcome, since the majority do not have credit or debit cards and banks here don’t issue them. Well, there aren’t a whole lot of us so I imagine the economy of Virginia Beach won’t be affected too much. /s
re: #67 Dr Lizardo
It was brilliantly executed on the part of Disney’s legal eagles. No one had any idea until DeSantis’ cronies went to take up their new jobs, only to discover Disney had left them utterly powerless.
Disney has one of the slickest law departments: they know every in and out and Disney can afford to hire the very best of the trade.
re: #77 Targetpractice
McCarthy’s up shit creek without a paddle and it’s been plainly obvious for weeks now.
Just like Bibi in Israel has to accommodate every fringe party to form a government, McCarthy has to bend to the Freedom Caucus, and they are severely limiting his options to basically: 1) blow up the government, 2) burn it down or 3) declare Civil War.
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tim Burchett (R) on the Nashville shooting- we can’t do anything…but we need a Christian ‘revival’ to solve this… (Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake)
Federally Mandated Thoughts and Prayers
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Disney has one of the slickest law departments: they know every in and out and Disney can afford to hire the very best of the trade.
Disney’s lawyers drink their morning cappuccinos from the skulls of their foes. Meatball Ron is screwed.
re: #100 Dr Lizardo
Disney’s lawyers drink their morning cappuccinos from the skulls of their foes. Meatball Ron is screwed.
This has been the problem with authoritarians and would-be dictators like DJT or DeSantis for ages: they simply cannot attract or retain the best people.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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The reality is those two asshats are basically rephrasing the “herd immunity” BS from the early days of the pandemic, suggesting that governments and scientists should have just allowed the virus to burn through the global population like it was the fucking return of the Black Plague. Why? Because they’re still bitter that they had to put their lives on hold out of basic fucking concern for their fellow human beings.
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This has been the problem with authoritarians and would-be dictators like DJT or DeSantis for ages: they simply cannot attract or retain the best people.
Exactly. I mean, c’mon, Disney is the company that famously influenced copyright laws just to make damned sure that Steamboat Willy will never fall into public domain. Pretty much everyone (except DeSantis, it seems) knows that you don’t play games with the House of Mouse.
re: #102 Targetpractice
I recall a GOP politician saying that we needed to get back to work because “Although people die from Covid, they also die from poverty!”
People do not die from poverty. They die from lack of proper shelter, nutrition and medical care. Because we have decided that poor people do not deserve such things in our society.
re: #103 Dr Lizardo
.. Pretty much everyone (except DeSantis, it seems) knows that you don’t play games with the House of Mouse.
Woke business, indeed
Happening now: members of the @nyguild protesting inside the @nytimes newsroom. The contact expired 2 years ago today. Staff haven’t gotten a raise in 3 years, while top executives have given themselves multimillion dollar raises. pic.twitter.com/y85kdPUrV7
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) March 29, 2023
re: #2 retired cynic
Of COURSE it’s about Willis. The more they deny it, the truer it is.
That’s axiomatic. Like Neil Gaiman’s demons in Sandman, Republicans have a hundred motives for everything they do, at least 99 of which are malevolent.
re: #103 Dr Lizardo
Exactly. I mean, c’mon, Disney is the company that famously influenced copyright laws just to make damned sure that Steamboat Willy will never fall into public domain. Pretty much everyone (except DeSantis, it seems) knows that you don’t play games with the House of Mouse.
Which reminds, me, it’s about time for another Mickey Mouse act to go through Congress like crap goes through a goose.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Huh. Western Nebraskans not welcome, since the majority do not have credit or debit cards and banks here don’t issue them. Well, there aren’t a whole lot of us so I imagine the economy of Virginia Beach won’t be affected too much. /s
I’m having a hard time imagining anywhere accepting reservations in cash. How do you travel with no credit or debit card?
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This has been the problem with authoritarians and would-be dictators like DJT or DeSantis for ages: they simply cannot attract or retain the best people.
It really has all the feel of an authoritarian who totally overplayed his hand. Ron probably went into this figuring that once he made his threat to strip Disney of self-government, they’d cave and issue an apology as well as come groveling to him to “make amends.” When that failed, he pushed forward with the bill figuring that they’d change their minds they realized he wasn’t afraid of the possible public backlash of picking a fight with The Mouse. Once that didn’t happen, he told himself that once the board was in place and starting to cause them headaches, they’d change their tune and he could negotiate from a position of strength in forcing them to bend to his will.
Now? Now he’s gonna look like Putin, swearing up and down that everything is going well as he keeps feeding resources into the meat grinder in the desperate hope that there’s a “win” to be had somewhere at the end of all this. Perhaps he thinks he has more lawyers than Disney does and all he has to do is keep sending them in kamikaze attacks until Disney is too exhausted to put up a fight.
What’s this sound coming from the sky??
It’s a rumble, a crash, an longer rumble…
Who knew the sky makes noises?
re: #110 Targetpractice
I’m expecting a Trump/DeSantis ticket in 2024.
Don’t think their current squabbling is substantive. They are workers, deceivers of the dimwitted.
Ooohhh… that was a big flash and a bigger boom….
I like the sound of rain.
Just wish it was not so cold.
This is the longest cold streak that I can remember, since living here nearly 40 years.
I’m back in Birbie’s arms. Working from home today and tomorrow. This weekend headed down east with my lawyer buddy for our annual fantasy baseball draft - or as MrsTarH calls it, “The League of Dorks.” Happy Friday Eve!
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re: #50 Targetpractice
In a similar vein, I’ve lost count over the years how many times I’ve been told by ammosexuals that any proposed gun control law that cannot stop 100% of gun crime isn’t worth pursuing if it in any way infringes upon the 2A rights of anybody, BUT draconian anti-immigration laws that would not stop even 5% of all “illegal immigration” are worth pursuing at any cost.
The goal should be to reduce the number of deaths. Many proposals will do that.
They will do something.
They just won’t do everything.
These people don’t want to do anything.
re: #67 Dr Lizardo
It was brilliantly executed on the part of Disney’s legal eagles. No one had any idea until DeSantis’ cronies went to take up their new jobs, only to discover Disney had left them utterly powerless.
And actually did it publicly
Allen Weisselberg, Trump Org. CEO, has fired his lawyers, reports NBC. This has led to speculation that he has flipped. Daily Beast says just the opposite is true: his prior lead attorney was seen as being too accommodating and the Trump Org. is just replacing him with a more aggressively pro-Trump team. He walks soon anyway, I think.
Just as the Manhattan DA ramped up a pressure campaign to flip Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Org has swapped out his lawyer.
Sources tell @thedailybeast this lawyer was seen as too aggressively advocating for Weisselberg—not Trump.
Exclusive: https://t.co/C5dn8PjYZ5— Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) March 30, 2023
There’s a world in which this could have been a beagle.
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re: #119 Nerdy Fish
Would not be surprised if we saw some today.
re: #120 TarHellion
Would not be surprised if we saw some today.
I was very close to it. If I had determined to try a different order for the 3 letters I guessed in #1, a beagle it would have been.
re: #109 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m having a hard time imagining anywhere accepting reservations in cash. How do you travel with no credit or debit card?
I have a credit card and an ATM card (not a debit card; my bank does not issue those). I don’t use the credit card for much locally.
Larger chain hotels and motels here do take credit cards. Hotels near the Interstate take them as well. Smaller hotels or motels here will take cash with a deposit.
My ATM card turned into a problem when my bank shut off everyone’s ATM cards and issued new ones while we were in Newfoundland. We had to get a cash advance on our credit card (ugh).
We also had a problem with our ATM card when we were in Massachusetts in 2015. It turned out all of the banks around Chicopee had changed to chip cards, and my bank didn’t issue those (they do now). We wound up driving to Longmeadow to find a bank which would accept magnetic stripe cards.
re: #118 Barefoot Grin
Allen Weisselberg, Trump Org. CEO, has fired his lawyers, reports NBC. This has led to speculation that he has flipped. Daily Beast says just the opposite is true: his prior lead attorney was seen as being too accommodating and the Trump Org. is just replacing him with a more aggressively pro-Trump team. He walks soon anyway, I think.
These could both be true. His lawyers were too accommodating to Mr. Weisselberg (because they were urging him to flip which would screw the Trump Organization). That doesn’t help Mr. Trump, so he orders his company to replace the lawyers to protect him.
People are assholes, swatting in Massachusetts.
The day after more than two dozen towns received what authorities say were hoax calls that reported school shooters inside area high schools, police departments continue to investigate.
On Tuesday, 28 Massachusetts communities received similar threats that began with calls to local police departments reporting violence occurring at high schools, according to the Massachusetts State Police.
Locally, there were swatting calls Tuesday morning at Algonquin Regional, Framingham, Franklin, Hudson, Medway and Milford high schools.
“Detectives will continue to work together with other law enforcement agencies, including the Mass. State Police and the FBI,” Milford police said in a statement.
We got a tenth of an inch in about 10 minutes of downpour… then it stopped.
But radar tells me another band will arrive in the next hour.
At least the loquats are happy. Neighborhood trees are putting out the biggest leaves I’ve seen in years.
re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The fight with the VA to get treatment for my bleeding continues
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re: #52 Captain Ron
Don’t FAFO with Disney lawyers.
The Windsors are a famously long lived bunch, so if the Board can’t void the contract in court, these covenants are likely to remain in effect into the middle of the 22nd Century.
re: #128 No Malarkey!
The Windsors are a famously long lived bunch, so if the Board can’t void the contract in court, these covenants are likely to remain in effect into the middle of the 22nd Century.
What I’ve been reading this morning suggests that Disney’s actual clause with the District is “in perpetuity,” and the bit about King Charles’s descendants is merely a fallback in case “in perpetuity” is ruled invalid under contract law at some point in the future.
re: #74 Targetpractice
So DeSantis has now committed the state of Florida to a long, costly legal battle with Disney right as he’s preparing to launch an ill-fated presidential bid. There’s no “option B” as Ron has done everything he can to make it clear that this was a politically-motivated power grab, and Disney has no financial incentive to do anything more than bleed the state dry by prolonging the fight. So we’re looking at weeks or months of the witless fools that apparently comprise whatever legal force the state possesses versus attack lawyers that pick their teeth with the bones of poor fools that get caught selling bootleg Mickey Mouse plushies.
It gives DeSantis the opportunity to shovel taxpayer money to GOP connected lawyers billing $800/hour to fight his culture war with Disney, so there’s that.
re: #129 Nerdy Fish
What I’ve been reading this morning suggests that Disney’s actual clause with the District is “in perpetuity,” and the bit about King Charles’s descendants is merely a fallback in case “in perpetuity” is ruled invalid under contract law at some point in the future.
Perpetuities are frowned upon in the law, hence the rule against perpetuities.
Hi Senator Rubio,
As a former Israeli intelligence analyst I can tell you your statement is absolutely wrong. Happy to help #Israel https://t.co/TKkQizrXp8— Nadav Pollak (@NadavPollak) March 30, 2023
re: #46 Dr Lizardo
Except for Winnie the Pooh, that is public domain.
The characters of A. A. Milne’s 1926 classic Winnie the Pooh are free to use legally without repercussion. US copyright law means that works of authors are avalable to use either 70 years after the author’s death or 95 years after publication. In the case of Pooh, it is the latter.
That does not mean that every character is free to use. Characters introduced in follow-up books like The House at Pooh Corner cannot be used until 2023 which means Tigger, the jumping Tiger, will not appear in the film.
However, not all of the character is the public domain. Aspects of Pooh’s appearance like his red shirt remain trademarked by Disney, even if the character itself isn’t. This is due to differences in American law between trademark and copyright. Copyright can never be reintroduced but trademarks can be applied for and renewed.
re: #117 Dangerman
And actually did it publicly
Yep, and all while DeSantis and his toadies were strutting around and crowing about how they TOTALLY OWNED THE LIBS!!
Here we go again.
Train derails, catches fire in western MN (KVLY-TV, Fargo, ND)
NEAR RAYMOND, Minn. (Valley News Live) - People evacuated their homes as emergency crews deal with a train derailment and fire.
KARE-TV is reporting a BNSF train derailed along the western edge of Raymond, MN around 1 a.m. on Thursday, March 30.
Raymond is a small town in southwest Kandiyohi county, just southwest of Willmar.
The station is reporting several of the cars carried a form of ethanol and a corn syrup liquid that started on fire.
People living within a half mile of the derailment site were told to leave their homes.
As of this writing, emergency crews are still dealing with the situation.
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Here we go again.
Train derails, catches fire in western MN (KVLY-TV, Fargo, ND)
Ethanol and corn syrup, sounds like the authorities may be worried about a BLEVE and the resulting blast wave rather than any hazardous materials. So there’s that, at least.
So I’ve long wondered how Youtube can have all the music in the world available for free-to-listen.
Except where there is a region ban.
For some reason this copy of Nat Cole is blocked for me in the US but when I use a VPN (Norway in this case) I can play it:
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Cole’s Stardust is freely available in many copies on Youtube, but that one is blocked.
I found it from another video where it was being played (as part of a stereo demo.) The auto-filled Youtube embed called it the “SACD” version.
Oddly, in that video above Youtube credits The state51 Conspiracy as the provider… but that company on their own website and own Youtube channel just have their own recordings.
Just another example of how IP rights are a morass, a swamp in which the 21st century is sailing and likely sinking.
As someone commented, “this guy is on the premium low-grade meth.”
From Reddit’s r/NotHowGirlsWork (nsfw post)
re: #138 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
When posting music videos I always try to find the official channel, that way the original artist / digital rights owner or heirs gets the proceeds of the ads that post for that video.
e.g. here is Nat King Cole’s
re: #141 Thanos
Yes, but that is a different performance (a show.)
There are many masterings of Cole’s works, to say nothing of performances.
The state51 Conspiracy video track is from an SACD or so Youtube thinks.
The official Youtube Cole channel seems to be mostly a UMG claimed videos.
re: #54 Teukka
“People who believe they’re God can’t stand to be reminded that they’re not.”
Yeah, but I thought you were talking about trans people, not Christians.— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 30, 2023
It was cute, they set up a tennis net and Billie Jean hit a few tennis balls. I couldn’t find the video.
Fifty years after Billie Jean King helped form the WTA, she was nominated by the Washington D.C. legislation for a Congressional Gold Medal.
King, who famously beat Bobby Riggs in the Battle of Sexes exhibition in 1973, would become the first female athlete to be honored with this distinction.
King is largely recognized for her lifelong endeavor to champion women’s rights, most notably her tireless advocacy for equal pay.
re: #132 DodgerFan1988
From “Saviour of the Republican Party” to “Fourth Most Important Republican in the State of Florida”: The Marco Rubio Story.
— William Earl Burns (@williameburns13) March 30, 2023
re: #146 Shropshire Slasher
It was cute, they set up a tennis net and Billie Jean hit a few tennis balls. I couldn’t find the video.
Nice. I’m old enough to have watched that match and remember it.
re: #149 Barefoot Grin
Nice. I’m old enough to have watched that match and remember it.
I grew up watching her play, she was always strong in the face of adversity, and I admire that.
#DEVELOPING: Fiery train derailment sparks evacuations in Minnesota https://t.co/hTe2vTIiiN
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) March 30, 2023
Greets and saluts from the suddenly cold and frosty NYC metro area. Here, we thought spring had sprung way back in January and February, but here came a cold snap this morning that was chilly (not super cold mind you, but when temps have been above average all year long, anything approaching normal feels cold).
We’ve got the usual assortment of things going on today - a derailment sparking evacuations, GOPers trying to end democracy and women’s rights, GOPers in a death spiral fighting to see which fascist leads the GOP going forward, and Fox continuing to prove that they knew Trump claims about the election were bulkshit, but they kept putting their propaganda numbers out there because they thought the base demanded it, instead of refuting all the toxic bulkshit because it was straight up lying to their viewers.
Dominion and Smartmatic should win this case, because IMO they’ve proven actual malice aforethought here. They show that Fox knew that they were defaming these companies, all to maintain their viewer numbers when they knew that the info they were spewing was straight up lies as per their internal memos, texts, calls, and other conversations. They even tried to fire the very people who’d speak out against the bogus information, because it would undermine their viewership and send people flocking to other media outlets spewing the same agitprop.
it is an illusion to believe you have it under control
even just right now. that things are ‘stable’. if only for a little while.
when the reality of this delusion slaps you in the face, don’t fall to pieces.
Breathe and practice grace.
that is all
Good morning all, in the good news department minor leaguers are set to become actually paid for Spring Training:
… and the bad news :
“Spero said that in common fund cases, the 25% benchmark for fee awards is merely a “starting point for analysis.” He said the plaintiffs’ attorneys devoted 54,988 hours to the case and “achieved exceptional results for the class,” creating a settlement fund that is “about 89% of the class members’ unpaid wages on their class claims.”
re: #154 Dangerman
it is an illusion to believe you have it under control
even just right now. that things are ‘stable’. if only for a little while.
when the reality of this delusion slaps you in the face, don’t fall to pieces.
Breathe and practice grace.that is all
Wanna guess how my yesterday went?
What I forgot to do.
And why in the calm of it all being over it’s all so clear…now.
re: #66 retired cynic
I am sure the Disney team went to great lengths to have that be the general impression.
Disney probably also had this plan sitting in a folder in a secure filing cabinet for a couple of decades. “What if the State of Florida decides it wants to take over” is something Disney probably thought was worth contingency planning for decades back.
re: #74 Targetpractice
So DeSantis has now committed the state of Florida to a long, costly legal battle with Disney right as he’s preparing to launch an ill-fated presidential bid. There’s no “option B” as Ron has done everything he can to make it clear that this was a politically-motivated power grab, and Disney has no financial incentive to do anything more than bleed the state dry by prolonging the fight. So we’re looking at weeks or months of the witless fools that apparently comprise whatever legal force the state possesses versus attack lawyers that pick their teeth with the bones of poor fools that get caught selling bootleg Mickey Mouse plushies.
Note from the article however that one of the outside (and expense) legal firms hired by Ron is run by a buddy of his and has connections to Cruz and Cotton. So Ron has worked a nice grift into this of course as well.
Now on to business
What’s the difference between
the 14th “shall not be questioned” and
the 2nd “shall not be infringed”
Not the word, obviously
What did the FFs intend? Hmmm?
Disney CEO Bob Iger on Monday said his company will begin laying off staff starting this week, the first of three rounds of expected cuts following his announcement in February that the company would axe 7,000 jobs.The cuts to Disney’s global workforce are part of a multibillion-dollar cost-cutting initiative aimed at streamlining the company’s operations in a period of media industry turmoil.
In a memo to staff obtained by CNN, Iger said the layoffs would come in three waves. The first round will begin this week, and managers will soon start to notify affected employees. A second, larger round of layoffs will take place in April, Iger said, with several thousand staffers let go. A third round of layoffs will then occur “before the beginning of the summer” to reach the company’s planned goal of eliminating 7,000 jobs.
In the sad news dept: Can or should BLM be an actual organization instead of a movement?
Struggle for control of the Black Lives Matter organization heads to court https://t.co/O0uiYY2dTR— Tarkloon (@Tarkloon) March 30, 2023
re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m expecting a Trump/DeSantis ticket in 2024.
Don’t think their current squabbling is substantive. They are workers, deceivers of the dimwitted.
I’ve seen that already on some of the flags the nuts put up around here. But I think it is a combo of:
1. They’ve decided Pence is a traitor for some reason.
2. DeSantis is the flavor of the day as Trump’s second fiddle.
(That his assholeness is being openly shown in the media is probably viewed as a positive as well I am sure.)
WIll be interesting to see if the signs start to change up now that Trump is firing shots at DeSantis. Not sure who the next entity for the #2 slot will be.
re: #163 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I don’t think either guy could tolerate being VP and thus be seen as “inferior” to the other.
re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t think either guy could tolerate being VP and thus be seen as “inferior” to the other.
It would take the equivalent of an “I am Reek” moment of capitulation from DeSantis for that to happen, true.
Heads up if you are running old Windows versions:
re: #54 Teukka
National Review went one better. Compared trans people to heretics that the Catholic Church massacred in the 11th century.
National Review writer compares trans people to Catharism, a Christian sect that was completely massacred by crusading Catholics. This mass murder and torture of thousands was the origin of “Kill them all and let God sort them out” https://t.co/rE3P20Nh5w https://t.co/bvoz5sSbW0 pic.twitter.com/RDshwBxVcT
— 🧜♀️ Zinnia Jones 🤝 Judgment Snake 🐍 (@ZJemptv) March 29, 2023
re: #163 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
My best guess at this time is Noem. They will want a woman to advocate for forced-birth.
re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t think either guy could tolerate being VP and thus be seen as “inferior” to the other.
Probably true.
But whoever is making and selling the flags and posters probably doesn’t care. They are just fulfilling a demand allowing deluded assholes to self-identify.
re: #168 TarHellion
My best guess at this time is Noem. They will want a woman to advocate for forced-birth.
Which beggars the question “how long would he be able to resist his urge to grab her by…”
For anybody who missed it, a ‘vagina phrenologist’ had a two day public meltdown on twitter over transgender women who had GRS, with increasingly hilarious results until her account was mercifully shut off.
Lord give me the confidence of this terf lecturing a porn star about what her own genitals look like pic.twitter.com/hhswVpack8
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) March 26, 2023
re: #168 TarHellion
My best guess at this time is Noem. They will want a woman to advocate for forced-birth.
If Trump goes with a woman he’ll want a “hot” woman. He won’t gaf about policy.
desantos won’t get the nom so it doesn’t matter.
When Radical Xtian Republicans insist on making Ashli Babbit’s Birthday a National Holiday…
“I remember sitting there at my kitchen table, watching Jan. 6 on the computer, texting furiously,” Sharlet said. “We heard about a white woman being killed. It was very soon after that we knew the cop was Black, and I thought, ‘Holy sh*t, it’s ‘The Birth of a Nation.’ They just did a live re-enactment of their fantasy!”
re: #170 Thanos
Which beggars the question “how long would he be able to resist his urge to grab her by…”
Sure would be a fair question for the press to ask…
Grrr…
BREAKING: Judge Reed O’Connor also rules that the PrEP coverage mandate violates RFRA and rules that it cannot be applied against the plaintiffs in the case. https://t.co/ZdhrlujWi8 pic.twitter.com/mBclysVdu8
— Chris “Subscribe to Law Dork!” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) March 30, 2023
AIDS treatment mandate somehow violates the RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act).
re: #175 lawhawk
Grrr…
AIDS treatment mandate somehow violates the RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act).
The GOP pet judge in Texas who decided he is POTUS
re: #176 Scottish Dragon
The GOP pet judge in Texas who decided he is POTUS
How has his record of judicial activism decisions held up over the long term?
Has he pretty much been reversed or overruled on almost everything by the rest of the circuit or the Supreme Court?
re: #176 Scottish Dragon
The GOP pet judge in Texas who decided he is POTUS
Is anyone surprised that a radical Xtian on the bench hates gays so much that he wants them dead?
re: #177 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
How has his record of judicial activism decisions held up over the long term?
Has he pretty much been reversed or overruled on almost everything by the rest of the circuit or the Supreme Court?
His other rulings on Obamacare have generally been struck down ASAICT. Lawhawk would know more.
re: #61 EPR-radar
“We’re not responsible” would be the song and dance from Faux News lawyers in that event. “we never meant this” instead would be bad for their business.
When O’Reilly incited the Tiller assassination, Faux paid no price for that. There is no reason that they will suffer any consequences for Tucker’s support for slaughter.
re: #91 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The beagle has landed. BOOYAH!
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re: #180 Hecuba’s daughter
When O’Reilly incited the Tiller assassination, Faux paid no price for that. There is no reason that they will suffer any consequences for Tucker’s support for slaughter.
However, they very likely WILL suffer consequences for trashing Dominion Voting over and over.
CatTurd is complaining about how much Twitter sucks.
lol this is exactly what you deserve if you pay for twitter blue pic.twitter.com/aFN5QlewwI
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) March 30, 2023
re: #183 The Pie Overlord!
Awwwww Cattturd has a sads…
Catshit got the litterbox pic.twitter.com/ZkSuD9Kn4T
— Warhammerchick🇺🇦🏳️⚧️ (@celticdragon10) March 30, 2023
re: #185 Joe Bacon
Awwwww Cattturd has a sads…
It’s messed up that a walking turd has that many followers.
re: #175 lawhawk
Grrr…
AIDS treatment mandate somehow violates the RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act).
Create a binding law that grants license to to nonbinding impressions.
Basically, the same logic as “Stand Your Ground”—the actual legal system now incorporates vibes, but only if those vibes can be filtered through acceptable cultural norms.
Religious people will not have to, beforehand, state what they won’t do…they’re the deciders now, in the breach.
re: #187 Crush White Nationalism
It’s messed up that a walking turd has that many followers.
#185 Joe Bacon
Awwwww Cattturd has a sads…
It’s messed up that a walking turd has that many followers.
Inquiring minds want to know how many of those 1.6 million followers of Catturd are robots?
re: #187 Crush White Nationalism
It’s messed up that a walking turd has that many followers.
I wonder how many he added since Saint Elno started boosting him as one of his besties.
You seemed to be enthusiastic about Twitter being turned into a racist oligarch’s grift. The reality isn’t ever going to match the fantasy.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 30, 2023
You chose to be grifted by Elmo. That’s all you.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 30, 2023
re: #183 The Pie Overlord!
CatTurd is complaining about how much Twitter sucks.
Yeah, but that may in fact be the peak experience of his life.
Well, no shit!
Fact Checker | The data is clear: There is no “clear epidemic” of transgender mass shooters https://t.co/Mu7HdY6dww
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 30, 2023
Gift link:
wapo.st
re: #188 The Ghost of a Flea
Create a binding law that grants license to make people according to nonbinding impressions.
Basically, the same logic as “Stand Your Ground”—the actual legal system now incorporates vibes, but only if those vibes can be filtered through acceptable cultural norms.
Religious people will not have to, beforehand, state what they won’t do…they’re the deciders now, in the breach.
I am sure hospital lawyers will be gritting their teeth at this if it holds up. One fanatic in the ER who refuses to treat due to a claimed religious exemption. And then the hospital gets sued based on a number of state or federal statutes. And I am pretty sure a hospital will not be allowed to question potential employees along these lines and hire or not hire accordingly without challenge.
re: #195 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I am sure hospital lawyers will be gritting their teeth at this if it holds up. One fanatic in the ER who refuses to treat due to a claimed religious exemption. And then the hospital gets sued based on a number of state or federal statutes. And I am pretty sure a hospital will not be allowed to question potential employees along these lines and hire or not hire accordingly without challenge.
Of course not, because that would be discrimination based on religion, which is definitely illegal.
re: #197 Nerdy Fish
Of course not, because that would be discrimination based on religion, which is definitely illegal.
At least until the next big SCOTUS ruling.
When we say “crime is a social construct”, what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail.
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) February 17, 2023
re: #9 jaunte
“…The complaint against Segovia said that she told federal investigators she had nothing to do with the drug smuggling and blamed the shipments of pills on a woman she identified “as a family friend and housekeeper.”
Only problem is that the drugs were ordered, not only from her home computer, but from her computer AT WORK!
Clearly, she did not consider the possible issues with using a computer linked directly to her.
Great news over at TOR!
The Entire Cast of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Is Reuniting for Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Anime Series
At this point, should we call Scott Pilgrim vs. the World a classic? It came out thirteen years ago and is one of the quirkiest, most enjoyable comic book adaptations—due in considerable part to its excellent cast.
Now, that cast—yes, including Captains Marvel and America—is reuniting, in full, for an anime Scott Pilgrim series that has original Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley as one of its showrunners.
The show has been in development since January 2022, but only now is it officially ordered to series. O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski share showrunning, writing, and executive producing duties; Abel Gongora will direct; Science SARU provides the animation; and Edgar Wright, who directed and co-wrote the film, is also an executive producer.
I’ll have my class dig the M60 pit in front of the admin building while I fill out the range card. We’ll have the mortar team account for the dead space behind the planter walls and the tree line. Classic shake and bake combo with WP and HE.
— Warhammerchick🇺🇦🏳️⚧️ (@celticdragon10) March 30, 2023
re: #199 The Ghost of a Flea
When we say “crime is a social construct”, what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail.
Donald Trump will not go to jail.
Best-case scenario is that he becomes politically irrelevant and his businesses all go under.
But then his career is made with appearances and speeches and (ghost-written) memoirs of his struggles as the Most Persecuted President…
lolwut
The Jerusalem Post and Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem say DeSantis will deliver a keynote speech at an event that will address current tensions in the country. https://t.co/grKVU4ndDv
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) March 28, 2023
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When we say “crime is a social construct”, what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail.
Donald Trump will not go to jail.
Best-case scenario is that he becomes politically irrelevant and his businesses all go under.
But then his career is made with appearances and speeches and (ghost-written) memoirs of his struggles as the Most Persecuted President…
His ego and his cult-like following will never allow Trump to submerge into being politically irrelevant. The following itself is simply too vital to the GOP’s current voting numbers for them to ignore him or attempt to fully dissociate from him.
re: #202 Scottish Dragon
Don’t forget hammer and anvil technique with the fire team pushing them into the path of the mg fire.
re: #207 William Lewis
Don’t forget hammer and anvil technique with the fire team pushing them into the path of the mg fire.
Not to mention planting a few claymores as a “surrpise” in that little fold of defilade.
re: #130 No Malarkey!
It gives DeSantis the opportunity to shovel taxpayer money to GOP connected lawyers billing $800/hour to fight his culture war with Disney, so there’s that.
I’m sure it will be a mixture of State funds with lots of effluent dark money helping.
re: #206 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
His ego and his cult-like following will never allow Trump to submerge into being politically irrelevant. The following itself is simply too vital to the GOP’s current voting numbers for them to ignore him or attempt to fully dissociate from him.
you’re right. we’re fucked
democracy is entering its final days
re: #191 Crush White Nationalism
Catturd thinks he should be paid for spewing hate on Twitter?
re: #202 Scottish Dragon
Armed police at every entrance/exit.
Trained teachers to carry in every classroom.
SAVE LIVES!!— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) March 30, 2023
Hmmm what will Graham Allen say when 9th grade algebra teacher Ms. Jones flunks Football Hunk Joey Jockstrap, Joey gets the gun, kills Ms. Jones and goes on a shooting rampage?
re: #211 darthstar
Catturd thinks he should be paid for spewing hate on Twitter?
Doesn’t understand that it’s Elon that wants paid. Catturd is supposed to spew the hatred for free and the robotic follower numbers.
The Nazi cancel culture is “outraged”:
🚨BREAKING🚨Here’s a screenshot of the #StateFarm company’s internal login screen today, stating “State Farm Celebrates #TransgenderDayOfVisibility “. 👎🤮
Bye bye, State Farm. #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #AudreyHale pic.twitter.com/A6wJ6whsnL— Arch Kennedy (@ArchKennedy) March 30, 2023
Isn’t that special. Dumping State Farm today. Go woke get broke
— Staz (@StazDiStazio) March 30, 2023
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you’re right. we’re fucked
democracy is entering its final days
He’s only one asshole. And the really dangerous assholes are using him as the tip of the spear. Once he’s of no use to them they will let the law take care of him.
We need to pay more attention to those people and less to TFG.
re: #214 Dr. Matt
The Nazi cancel culture is “outraged”:
Well, now I’m even more glad I switched to them. Go fuck yourselves, exterminationist scum.
re: #214 Dr. Matt
The Nazi cancel culture is “outraged”:
People most likely to file claims dumping State Farm? Win win.
re: #212 Joe Bacon
Hmmm what will Graham Allen say when 9th grade algebra teacher Ms. Jones flunks Football Hunk Joey Jockstrap, Joey gets the gun, kills Ms. Jones and goes on a shooting rampage?
The Nazis want to arm teachers with firearms, but won’t allow teachers to discuss gender identity or teach US history. Fucking idiots.
re: #212 Joe Bacon
Armed police at every entrance/exit.
Trained teachers to carry in every classroom.
More guns are the only answer.
re: #214 Dr. Matt
The Nazi cancel culture is “outraged”:
Isn’t it funny how every company they’ve said that about is doing _better_ ?
‘In 2022, the Regional Court of Cologne ruled that denying that trans people were targeted by the Nazis qualifies as “a denial of Nazi crimes”.’
— Katy Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) March 29, 2023
Adam Kinzinger & Liz Cheney would like a word.
Jordan: I’d point out that Democrats ran a committee for a year and a half which gave no ability to Republicans to cross examine witnesses pic.twitter.com/tmM54tj7zz
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 30, 2023
Dropped the EV6 off for service. Has a good time joking with the tech about all the problems he needs to check…oil leak, knocking sound…he asked if the fan belt squeaks when it’s cold.
re: #223 darthstar
Dropped the EV6 off for service. Has a good time joking with the tech about all the problems he needs to check…oil leak, knocking sound…he asked if the fan belt squeaks when it’s cold.
Just make sure he refills the blinker fluid while he’s in there.
re: #223 darthstar
Dropped the EV6 off for service. Has a good time joking with the tech about all the problems he needs to check…oil leak, knocking sound…he asked if the fan belt squeaks when it’s cold.
Check the blinker fluid.
re: #223 darthstar
Dropped the EV6 off for service. Has a good time joking with the tech about all the problems he needs to check…oil leak, knocking sound…he asked if the fan belt squeaks when it’s cold.
You need a left-handed torque wrench to fix a squeaky fan belt.
re: #228 Dr. Matt
You need a left-handed torque wrench to fix a squeaky fan belt.
I’d always confuse greenhorn kitchen crew by asking them to fetch me my left-handed knife. Oh, and also go downstairs and get a bucket of steam.
re: #229 teleskiguy
I’d always confuse greenhorn kitchen crew by asking them to fetch me my left-handed knife. Oh, and also go downstairs and get a bucket of steam.
What would you do if they gave you an immediate side-eye when you made that request?
re: #230 darthstar
I could see someone beginning to suffer depression if they had to see and hear Ted Cruz every working day.
re: #231 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
What would you do if they gave you an immediate side-eye when you made that request?
That never happened. We’re talking teenagers here.
re: #229 teleskiguy
I’d always confuse greenhorn kitchen crew by asking them to fetch me my left-handed knife. Oh, and also go downstairs and get a bucket of steam.
Back in the day as a fresh out of training airman entering the fleet in the Navy, my shop supervisor sent me around the base looking for a left-handed torque. By the third stop I paused and realized I was suffering from temporary idiocy. The upside, I got out of the shop for an hour.
I know a lot of us have been having fun playing around with the newly emerging AI tools, but gentle reminder: These tools aren’t always as great as they seem. Use with caution.
WTF. When a celeb gets caught close to a school shooting twice…
On more than a few occasions the hapless new kitchen guy had an empty five gallon bucket in his hand and earnestly asked “How do you put steam in here?”
How “olds” can prevent car jackings:
VIDEO: Teens who carjacked man at Maryland gas station thwarted by manual transmission, police say https://t.co/ZoKqkNm9qB
— KMBC (@kmbc) March 30, 2023
re: #237 teleskiguy
On more than a few occasions the hapless new kitchen guy had an empty five gallon bucket in his hand and earnestly asked “How do you put steam in here?”
Depends, wet steam or dry steam?
Ask a newbie carpenter to get a wood expander to address a short cut. /
re: #235 Nerdy Fish
Remember the blowup over The Interview over terror threats from North Korea?
Or the time that they had to completely rework World War Z or the remake of Red Dawn to remove anything critical of the Chinese?
That is them bowing to the reality of a 1.4 billion-person market.
A role originally played by William Hurt.
Harrison Ford as President Thunderbolt Ross on the set of ‘CAPTAIN AMERICA: NEW WORLD ORDER’
(📸: @JustJared) pic.twitter.com/tkLrxoiCgC— Thunderbolts News (@thunderbnews) March 29, 2023
re: #220 William Lewis
Isn’t it funny how every company they’ve said that about is doing _better_ ?
Crypto, MyPillow, Twitter and that Christian Bank on the other hand…
re: #236 Teukka
Not sure why, but I’m not seeing your post again.
re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember the blowup over The Interview over terror threats from North Korea?
Or the time that they had to completely rework World War Z or the remake of Red Dawn to remove anything critical of the Chinese?
That is them bowing to the reality of a 1.4 billion-person market.
Oh, I’m well aware of this. I’m a gamer; I have seen firsthand the impact of game companies kowtowing to the Chinese. In every instance, I think it is the wrong decision, even though it may be better financially. And in particular, a tech company pre-censoring the ability everywhere of their tool to create content that is objectionable in a specific country is not a good look. Now, if you want to disable that functionality in China, that’s fine (though now you get into the whole arcana of needing to keep up with and implement every local law in every country where your service could be used).
re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember the blowup over The Interview over terror threats from North Korea?
Or the time that they had to completely rework World War Z or the remake of Red Dawn to remove anything critical of the Chinese?
That is them bowing to the reality of a 1.4 billion-person market.
Which is pretty why in so many political thriller movies the “bad guy” is often cast as a smaller nation who real world military projection capability and footprint is often fairly close to nil. And how it’s pretty easy to see who the audience is expected to project the real menace to be. (And even more so in the books. Which are often as formulaic as romance novels.)
re: #245 Nerdy Fish
And in particular, a tech company pre-censoring the ability everywhere of their tool to create content that is objectionable in a specific country is not a good look.
All comes down to money, as usual. Too expensive and time consuming to keep up with all the local laws, so they just make a product that will please the Chinese and stick everyone with it.
re: #220 William Lewis
Isn’t it funny how every company they’ve said that about is doing _better_ ?
Worthless bigots keep saying “go woke go broke,” but these bigots lack the wealth and numbers to harm companies that reject their evil hate.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 30, 2023
re: #247 Eclectic Cyborg
All comes down to money, as usual. Too expensive and time consuming to keep up with all the local laws, so they just make a product that will please the Chinese and stick everyone with it.
See that with games and some of the EU (or German) rules regarding certain symbols.
re: #212 Joe Bacon
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Hmmm what will Graham Allen say when 9th grade algebra teacher Ms. Jones flunks Football Hunk Joey Jockstrap, Joey gets the gun, kills Ms. Jones and goes on a shooting rampage?
You don’t even have to go that far. According to the interwebz, there are ~90k public schools in the country. Let’s be real conservative and say each school has 5 entrances. That’s at least 450,000 armed security guards. (This, of course, assumes you have schools that are enclosed in a single building. Most schools in Phoenix, for example, are a grouping of several buildings, with numerous ways to get on to the campus). Who is paying for those security guards? Who is footing the bill to train teachers and arm them?
re: #248 Crush White Nationalism
They hate woke business, it’s as if they are apostates: those who follow the Capitalist Path should not be allowed to engage in any sort of activism or social justice warrioring
re: #250 Mike Lamb
Who is footing the bill to train teachers and arm them?
Teachers will be expected to pay for their guns and training out of their salaries just like all the other classroom equipment they have to pony up for…
re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They hate woke business, it’s as if they are apostates: those who follow the Capitalist Path should not be allowed to engage in any sort of activism or social justice warrioring
Unless it’s the right sort of activism. Like allowing religious feelings as a valid justification for discrimination.
Dear MAGA, this is what a peaceful protest inside a government building looks like.
pic.twitter.com/G25HE12W7A— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) March 30, 2023
re: #244 William Lewis
Not sure why, but I’m not seeing your post again.
Your browser may have restrictive settings…
Melissa Joan Hart’s insta, she put up a video. Apparently, she was driving by Covenant school+church when it happened and helped kindergarteners out of the woods where they had fled. Second time for her, she was nearby when Sandy Hook happened :’(
Insta link
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Teachers will be expected to pay for their guns and training out of their salaries just like all the other classroom equipment they have to pony up for…
And if the public schools can’t afford this, and aren’t allowed to raise taxes on the public than the schools can just be closed and the (poor and minority) children sent to work in the mines and factories to keep them off the street.
re: #250 Mike Lamb
at least 450,000 armed security guards.
Guaranteeing several hundred armed, predatory child molesters looking for an opportunity.
re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They hate woke business, it’s as if they are apostates: those who follow the Capitalist Path should not be allowed to engage in any sort of activism or social justice warrioring
They expect businesses to support fascism. Nothing less will satisfy them.
re: #256 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And if the public schools can’t afford this, and aren’t allowed to raise taxes on the public than the schools can just be closed and the (poor and minority) children sent to work in the mines and factories to keep them off the street.
This is seen as a desired effect, not a problem.
Minoritized conservatives really do hate themselves:
Not all ofc but this Radical Rainbow Mafia is real. I have lots of stories of this as well. They are the reason I stopped my philanthropy to LGBT orgs. https://t.co/EBQ6Ztjd5U
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) March 30, 2023
re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg
“Radical Rainbow Mafia”
Where do they come up with this shit?
Rhymes with Tomi Lahren.
A reasonable proposal by GA Gov Brian Kemp:
If this has been posted earlier, I apologize:
This is an amazing level of intelligence. Wow pic.twitter.com/WKhnhTDTQB
— winsh (@winsh) March 28, 2023
Conservatives have been waiting for this opportunity to come out swinging and demonize trans people as mass murderers. They want to declare pre-emptive open season on trans people in the name of protecting our innocent youths.
Pro gun rally in Springfield, Illinois.
“Rittenhouse is a friend of mine”
Children were murdered and THIS is the first thing they do! pic.twitter.com/agnTfUNMcU— GR Hénault-Soucy (@GaryHenault) March 29, 2023
darth woke up
what did i miss
tell me every thing pic.twitter.com/vBaqkDbjkr— darth™ (@darth) March 30, 2023
re: #255 Teukka
Your browser may have restrictive settings…
Could be. It’s only been happening since I ditched Edge for Firefucked.
You see, this obscenely rich asshole bought Twitter…
— Elon Musk Blows Goats (@ballfootski) March 30, 2023
re: #220 William Lewis
Isn’t it funny how every company they’ve said that about is doing _better_ ?
As far as they are concerned Disney losing billions and laying off 7000 employees is all the evidence they need. Couldn’t be any other reason than they are woke.
re: #261 Dr. Matt
Minoritized conservatives really do hate themselves:
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We see what you are, post-coup-attempt Republican. Decent people have nothing to do with the lawless, bigoted, right.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 30, 2023
re: #273 Crush White Nationalism
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Did we expect that fool Caitlyn Jenner to post anything else?
WTFITS
A new dinner series in New York City requires patrons to dine without clothes on (via @EaterNY) https://t.co/vaQcUQDxFQ
— Eater (@Eater) March 30, 2023
re: #265 retired cynic
If this has been posted earlier, I apologize:
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Please post that once each thread. At least once.
Yup. Literally I’m only going to Frankfort today for that ounce of happiness hope left that could be SB 47 medical cannabis. Which could have been done the first week, then throw #kyga23 away https://t.co/PXR59LWHzq
— Alex Berling (@Alexissublime) March 30, 2023
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
Longtime medical marijuana advocates Eric Crawford and Jaime Montalvo are very confident about the chances of SB 47 in committee and the House floor today. #kyga23
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 30, 2023
The Onion, straight news.
Politicians Explain Why Abortion Pills Should Be Banned https://t.co/iqD6hiSMWh pic.twitter.com/Wt1ZUIhD0j
— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 30, 2023
re: #267 Joe Bacon
Looks like a real diverse bunch there…
re: #276 The Pie Overlord!
WTFITS
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Different strokes for different folks. I hope they removable seat covers though…
Even the bot quality on the site has gone down. Also, this reply was on a post that had nothing to do with Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/6RcBqWv24z
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 30, 2023
re: #280 teleskiguy
The Onion, straight news.
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You know things are bad when The Onion gets serious.
re: #282 danarchy
Different strokes for different folks. I hope they removable seat covers though…
‘Place settings’ will have additional components.
re: #276 The Pie Overlord!
WTFITS
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Tickets cost $88 per person.
That’s an…interesting choice of price point.
re: #271 BlueSpotinAL
Good morning from the Patton museum. The flag is from when Patton landed in West Africa near Casablanca. Western Task Force.
We
Trample
Fascists
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, you guys get medical marijuana, but no trans people. WTAF.
re: #284 Crush White Nationalism
You know things are bad when The Onion gets serious.
They are frustrated because no satire they can come up with can top the self-satire of current American political discourse.
re: #288 Nerdy Fish
So, you guys get medical marijuana, but no trans people. WTAF.
Approving medical marijuana in 2023 is also backward. Sensible states reached full legalization some time ago.
re: #288 Nerdy Fish
So, you guys get medical marijuana, but no trans people. WTAF.
Lotsa Libertarians, I guess…
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia,” but only slightly less well known is this: “Never go in against the Walt Disney Corporation, when money is on the line!” pic.twitter.com/mKm7GVweaU
— Lethality Jane🌻 (@LethalityJane) March 30, 2023
re: #290 Crush White Nationalism
Approving medical marijuana in 2023 is also backward. Sensible states reached full legalization some time ago.
Full legalization has been in effect in Colorado and Washington for over a decade.
re: #288 Nerdy Fish
So, you guys get medical marijuana, but no trans people. WTAF.
This resonates. Imagine being a kid and being targeted by the people with the power. Our @KYGOP lawmakers are bullies. https://t.co/j5V0Cfzy14
— Teri Carter (@teri_atthepaper) March 30, 2023
re: #290 Crush White Nationalism
Approving medical marijuana in 2023 is also backward. Sensible states reached full legalization some time ago.
Yes, but I can’t judge. Minnesota had state mandated dry Sundays until 2017. Progress on some issues takes longer in some places than it does in others, for a variety of reasons.
This is hearsay about the recent school shooting, and it goes to the Daily Mail ( I know I know).
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That fake Twitter post, where the father of one of the murdered Nashville student calls for violence against all trans people , the “Day of Vengeance” poster that the Daily Mail mentions, and the ‘manifesto’ which referenced that the shooting was an act of revenge against non-trans children that has made its way around the far-right sites were all fakes that were created by the neo-nazis over at the 4chan /pol/ board, in an attempt to sow hatred and trigger violent acts against the trans community. Over the past several days, they’ve gone into a fever pitch demanding a purge.
I see Shaman Jacob has been released early.
Germany has decriminalized marijuana for personal use for ages now and is even considering legislation to allow adults to grow up to two plants.
But medical or recreational marijuana is far away…well, at least only as far as the Dutch border…
re: #298 Shropshire Slasher
I see Shaman Jacob has been released early.
Let me guess: Fox has had him on already?
The same people who have decided people can be forced to give birth against their will have now decided that insurances companies do not have to cover contraception or pre-natal care. https://t.co/Pbs9Zzoi0u
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 30, 2023
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The main difference between that and banning vaccines is the part of the population most affected.
re: #300 Eclectic Cyborg
Let me guess: Fox has had him on already?
They will have to visit him at his halfway house. I posted a link only because of the mugshot in the story, and that his sidekick looks like he is missing a chromosone.
If I had clout and capital I’d open some weed stores along the Colorado/Utah border. Currently there is only one town that allows for weed stores along the CO/UT border, Dinosaur.
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
The same people who have decided people can be forced to give birth against their will have now decided that insurances companies do not have to cover contraception or pre-natal care.
End game:
National abortion ban (no exceptions)
National contraceptives ban (no exceptions)
Screening of all childbearing-age women leaving the country (no exceptions)
re: #212 Joe Bacon
Hmmm what will Graham Allen say when 9th grade algebra teacher Ms. Jones flunks Football Hunk Joey Jockstrap, Joey gets the gun, kills Ms. Jones and goes on a shooting rampage?
why should teachers have to be trained?
nobody else does.
dont you know what ‘shall not be infringed’ means?
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Armed police at every entrance/exit.
Trained teachers to carry in every classroom.
SAVE LIVES!!— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) March 30, 2023
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
I work for a non-profit insurer. Insurance companies will still cover these things. We do not need the government to tell us to reduce our costs with contraception and preventative medicine.
re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We
Trample
Fascists
Though in the case of the initial landings they were fighting Vichy French troops. (While hoping that the French would opt not to fight at all and that would allow early movement eastward into Tunisia to fight the Germans and Italians.)
And the WTF landings were to a degree a contingency plan since the Americans did not want all the landing inside the Straits of Gibraltar and wanted to establish a backup beachhead just in case. And the Vichy French naval presence in that area had to be neutralized in any case.
re: #272 danarchy
As far as they are concerned Disney losing billions and laying off 7000 employees is all the evidence they need. Couldn’t be any other reason than they are woke.
That’s why Bob Iger was brought back, though - to clean up the mess left by the former CEO.
Minnesota thread:
My dad never takes the plow off the truck until May and this is why (looking at all of you who made seasonal decisions before we were out of the clear)
— Lydia Kauppi (@lydiakauppi) March 30, 2023
re: #307 Dangerman
why should teachers have to be trained?
nobody else does.
dont you know what ‘shall not be infringed’ means?//
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Time to write young adult fiction about armed teachers and watch the books, or some of them, get banned.
re: #235 Nerdy Fish
I know a lot of us have been having fun playing around with the newly emerging AI tools, but gentle reminder: These tools aren’t always as great as they seem. Use with caution.
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re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
Minnesota thread:
Relevance: We are getting 4-8” of snow tomorrow night into Saturday morning. Yes, it’s the end of March. No, our winters (and springs) don’t give a shit.
re: #250 Mike Lamb
You don’t even have to go that far. According to the interwebz, there are ~90k public schools in the country. Let’s be real conservative and say each school has 5 entrances. That’s at least 450,000 armed security guards. (This, of course, assumes you have schools that are enclosed in a single building. Most schools in Phoenix, for example, are a grouping of several buildings, with numerous ways to get on to the campus). Who is paying for those security guards? Who is footing the bill to train teachers and arm them?
they’ll take it from the no longer needed library budget line //
I’m just here for the confusion.
— B_Sharp 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Ah. There’s the rub. (@DoubleDumas) March 30, 2023
re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
Minnesota thread:
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You couldn’t pay me enough to move any further north than my current spot in Chicagoland. Winter is bad enough here. Moving to where buildings are connected by tunnels like a moonbase is not for me.
re: #318 Crush White Nationalism
You couldn’t pay me enough to move any further north than my current spot in Chicagoland. Winter is bad enough here. Moving to where buildings are connected by tunnels like a moonbase is not for me.
My brother in Christ, you haven’t lived until you’ve stepped outside in a T-shirt and shorts when the wind chill is approaching -40 (°F or C, it’s the same). Also, you might not live long thereafter, if you don’t get right the fuck back inside.
re: #309 Eclectic Cyborg
Save lives by putting guns EVERYWHERE.
I see a small flaw in this theory.
not enough guns!
The latest outrage. I am outraged! //
Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have been spotted enjoying views of Sydney from the city’s iconic Harbour Bridge.
The former president arrived in Sydney at the start of the week for a highly anticipated series of talks with former Australian foreign Minister Julie Bishop, the first of which was held before a sold-out crowd on Tuesday night in Darling Harbour.
According to BridgeClimb Sydney, tickets to scour the Australian landmark range from $268 to more than $400.
While guests on the Bridge climb are ordinarily ordered to wear jumpsuits and harnesses for safety reasons, the Obamas and their entourage were seen without either.
re: #320 Nerdy Fish
My brother in Christ, you haven’t lived until you’ve stepped outside in a T-shirt and shorts when the wind chill is approaching -40 (°F or C, it’s the same). Also, you might not live long thereafter, if you don’t get right the fuck back inside.
About as attractive as stepping outside on the moon.
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #306 Dr Lizardo
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mrsdm predicted something like this at breakfast
she said mickey would have his foot on desantos’ neck
re: #318 Crush White Nationalism
You couldn’t pay me enough to move any further north than my current spot in Chicagoland. Winter is bad enough here. Moving to where buildings are connected by tunnels like a moonbase is not for me.
re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
Minnesota thread:
My dad never takes the plow off the truck until May and this is why (looking at all of you who made seasonal decisions before we were out of the clear)
— Lydia Kauppi (@lydiakauppi) March 30, 2023
once the hurricane shutters go up, they stay up…
re: #325 Dangerman
mrsdm predicted something like this at breakfast
she said mickey would have his foot on desantos’ neck
Disney might well have had a contingency plan in effect for the case that some anti-Disney yahoo tried to move against them.
re: #323 Crush White Nationalism
About as attractive as stepping outside on the moon.
So fun! This is me coming inside to thaw after skiing all morning at Wolf Creek, 29 November 2019.
re: #325 Dangerman
mrsdm predicted something like this at breakfast
she said mickey would have his foot on desantos’ neck
Yep - DeSantis’ flunkies (or maybe better to say “flunctionaries”) just found out they’re subject to the rules of the Home Owner’s Association.
And that HOA is run by the Disney Corporation. 😂
re: #318 Crush White Nationalism
You couldn’t pay me enough to move any further north than my current spot in Chicagoland. Winter is bad enough here. Moving to where buildings are connected by tunnels like a moonbase is not for me.
SUNY Albany
re: #329 teleskiguy
This was in the middle of a weird early season storm cycle where they got four feet in a few days. The day I was up there it was so windy and snowing so hard! I watched a dead tree fall over right in front of me, had to, uh, ski somewhere else…
re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Disney might well have had a contingency plan in effect for the case that some anti-Disney yahoo tried to move against them.
I’ve seen speculation to that effect, that Disney’s power move here was something they’ve probably had sitting in a desk drawer somewhere in their legal office, as a “just-in-case” contingency plan.
re: #329 teleskiguy
So fun! This is me coming inside to thaw after skiing all morning at Wolf Creek, 29 November 2019.
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The ski equivalent to the biker’s bugs in my teeth
Classic fascist messaging: accuse the other side of that which you are guilty, and use that as an excuse to commit more violence against the outsider social group. https://t.co/nzoZbTJwpi
— Warhammerchick🇺🇦🏳️⚧️ (@celticdragon10) March 30, 2023
re: #335 Dangerman
The ski equivalent to the biker’s bugs in my teeth
That’s why fairings exist. I’ve taken a Junebug to the forehead, but never anything in the mouth.
re: #290 Crush White Nationalism
Approving medical marijuana in 2023 is also backward. Sensible states reached full legalization some time ago.
When the world ends, you’ll want to be in Kentucky, which is always 20 years behind.
And this bullshit….
QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley Released 14 Months Early to Halfway House https://t.co/Qb24TAZ4m6
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 30, 2023
“What you’re telling me is, you don’t mind infringing free speech to protect children from this amorphous thing you think of, but when it comes to children that have died, you don’t give a flying f*ck.”
Jon Stewart is a national treasure.pic.twitter.com/ROzKmaEhAC— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) March 29, 2023
re: #313 wrenchwench
Time to write young adult fiction about armed teachers
Horton Hears a Boom
Green Eggs and Ammo
Jack and the Bumpstock
Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the High-Capacity Magazine
Old Mcdonald had a Glock
I upset him
SURRENDER YOUR SKULL TO KHORNE, PATHETIC MORTAL
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE pic.twitter.com/mRsQKHF0qO— Warhammerchick🇺🇦🏳️⚧️ (@celticdragon10) March 30, 2023
re: #315 Nerdy Fish
Relevance: We are getting 4-8” of snow tomorrow night into Saturday morning. Yes, it’s the end of March. No, our winters (and springs) don’t give a shit.
Tell me about. Planned on taking my youngest daughter to see her aunt and uncle in North Dakota on Tuesday. Thought to myself, I better check the forecast - MN is ok, I can handle a little rain; Fargo - damn; Bismarck - double damn and sugar. Now I’m scrambling to see if we can leave early afternoon Monday because I am not going to be driving through up to 5 inches of snow with winds from 20 to 30 mph.
Went about two weeks ago with the other daughter (different spring breaks). Blue sky above with 30 mph winds and an inch of snow overnight meant not being able to see the road farther than 20 feet ahead for at least 3 hundred of those miles.
re: #337 Crush White Nationalism
That’s why fairings exist. I’ve taken a Junebug to the forehead, but never anything in the mouth.
;-)
re: #346 dat_said
Yeah, driving in high winds is dicey even without snow. Fishfolk are arriving shortly, and the rain will be coming in a little bit later. And then the fun starts.
My Chemical Romance is now classic rock?
Emo Yankees fans hearing YES Network use Welcome to the Black Parade for the season opening montage pic.twitter.com/cWoGMnJwJ1
— Nick Parco (@nick_parco) March 30, 2023
The 2023 Yankees are about to take the field.
We are here for all of it.#YanksOnYES x #OpeningDay pic.twitter.com/lMAGgwbKON— YES Network (@YESNetwork) March 30, 2023
re: #343 Eclectic Cyborg
Horton Hears a Boom
Green Eggs and Ammo
Jack and the Bumpstock
Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the High-Capacity Magazine
Old Mcdonald had a Glock
Nancy drew approaches it—Seuss is not ‘young adult’. But maybe I aimed too high…
re: #349 Crush White Nationalism
He’s an imbecile who lives with his mommy, who is also an imbecile AND a convicted felon.
re: #351 wrenchwench
Nancy drew approaches it—Seuss is not ‘young adult’. But maybe I aimed too high…
Yeah, I know lol. I was just goofin.
re: #343 Eclectic Cyborg
Horton Hears a Boom
Green Eggs and Ammo
Jack and the Bumpstock
Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the High-Capacity Magazine
Old Mcdonald had a Glock
Good Night World
The Lion, The Witch and Bullet-Proof Wardrobe
Charlie and the Cartridge Factory
re: #350 Dr. Matt
My Chemical Romance is now classic rock?
Shades of the song “1985”
(She hates time, make it stop
When did Motley Crue become classic rock? (Classic rock)
And when did Ozzy become an actor?
Please make this stop, stop, stop )
re: #354 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Good Night World
The Lion, The Witch and Bullet-Proof Wardrobe
Charlie and the Cartridge Factory
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang
re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m expecting a Trump/DeSantis ticket in 2024.
Don’t think their current squabbling is substantive. They are workers, deceivers of the dimwitted.
Not a chance. Trump won’t share the spotlight with anyone who speaks. DeSadist is too popular in his own right. Trump won’t ever, ever allow that.
This is the most compelling argument I’ve seen for banning TikTok.
Chaos in congress. 🤡🤡@Jim_Jordan allows witnesses to spew mass conspiracies, then dismisses them without allowing questioning.
(Posted in two parts because fuck Elon and his $7) /1 pic.twitter.com/oDhbHcboBP— Michelle (@LivingBlueTX) March 30, 2023
re: #358 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not a chance. Trump won’t share the spotlight with anyone who speaks. DeSadist is too popular in his own right. Trump won’t ever, ever allow that.
I see it as a distant possibility, as the party establishment (who still have a role to play in the process) would like to groom DeSantis for 2028 and that would be the best way.
The GOP are going full Culture Wars and Family Values and Party of American Moral Renewal, etc., and who could be the better pos(t)er child for that than RDS?
re: #360 jaunte
Who would’ve ever expected Performative BS Club to just do Performative BS?
/
re: #181 Eventual Carrion
I use a different start word every day.
Goldman: Did you discuss the substance of your testimony with any members of this committee? pic.twitter.com/o84SQgBm84
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 30, 2023
Goldman: You imagined in your opening statement a world where the FBI sends a list of books that should be pulled from their shelves. Luckily we don’t have to imagine that sir. Are you aware that recent laws in Florida have resulted in the mass removal of books.. pic.twitter.com/f5OIG0oWuR
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 30, 2023
re: #261 Dr. Matt
Minoritized conservatives really do hate themselves:
Ok, BRUCE. There is no Caitlyn, amirite?
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