Jackson Browne: “Doctor My Eyes” (Live on Austin City Limits)

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Jackson Browne performs “Doctor My Eyes” on Austin City Limits.

From his self-titled debut album. Click here to listen: https://www.jacksonbrowne.com/discography/jackson-browne/

Jackson’s Austin City Limits episode premiered November 13, 2021 on PBS. Watch at www.pbs.org/austincitylimits

Subscribe to the official Jackson Browne’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1KYlOjI34ob_hicXVBuukA?sub_confirmation=1

Listen to Jackson’s Top Tracks playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1johUKKdwwjRTB2YR3rEtU?si=45695d3c09414690

LYRICS:
Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears without crying
Now I want to understand
I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good without hiding
You must help me if you can

Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what is wrong
Was I unwise
To leave them open for so long

As I have wandered through this world
And as each moment has unfurled
I’ve been waiting to awaken from these dreams
People go just where they will
I never noticed them until I got this feeling
That it’s later than it seems

Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what you see
I hear their cries
Just say if it’s too late for me

Doctor, my eyes
They cannot see the sky
Is this the prize
For having learned how not to cry

Written by Jackson Browne
Administrated by Drive Publishing, ASCAP

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458 comments
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:40:18pm

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:40:58pm

Shallow note: Jackson Browne is still gorgeous in his advanced age. Always loved his songs.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:46:44pm

Here’s something for you shutter bugs. The camera was destroyed.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:46:51pm

Look at WaPo’s wording:

“many” - like, who? Certainly not the grassroots MAGA nuts. Not the GOP deep pockets.

Oh, and “rein” in Disney - that is some twist right there.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:47:40pm
Doctor, my eyes
They cannot see the sky
Is this the prize
For having learned how not to cry

It’s hard to imagine being 22 and able to write like this.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:47:55pm

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:48:17pm

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

Joe Bacon wrote about this in March.littlegreenfootballs.com

My comment then —littlegreenfootballs.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:49:50pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:51:46pm

re: #7 Hecuba’s daughter

Okay. Thanks. I’m seeing from your comment that he used it for legitimate purposes. But he shouldn’t have been pushing it for non-legit reasons or for parents to give it to their children. Oh well.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:52:06pm

re: #6 Patricia Kayden

The surest sign that Republicans know what’s coming is their attempt to destroy it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:52:14pm

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:53:19pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

First time I’ve ever agreed with her on anything. They really should quit and Fox News should shut down. Works for me.

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:54:56pm
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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:56:30pm
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sizzzzlerz  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:56:54pm

re: #2 Patricia Kayden

Shallow note: Jackson Browne is still gorgeous in his advanced age. Always loved his songs.

Noticed the same thing although I wouldn’t use gorgeous. Distinguished would be my take. In his youth, he looked like every other pimply faced kid with a guitar and a bad haircut. Still sings and plays like back then, however.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:57:09pm

The NBA playoffs dominate the cable ratings, but once they are over it’ll be interesting to see if FoxNew’s cable ratings in the Tucker slot go down.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2023 • 4:59:09pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:00:16pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:00:43pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:00:53pm

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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And Disney is taking him to Court (Fed?) for violation of their 1st Amendment rights as well as using his Office to damage their Florida business.

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:01:11pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

one of his kids (I want to say a teenager, but I can’t swear to it) is trans.

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:01:15pm
Private messages sent by Mr. Carlson that had been redacted in legal filings showed him making highly offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often racist comments of his prime-time show and anything disclosed in the lead-up to the trial.”

“Despite the fact that Fox’s trial lawyers had these messages for months, the board and some senior executives were now learning about their details for the first time, setting off a crisis at the highest level of the company.”

So he was a pig off the air too

Link

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:01:46pm

re: #22 Dangerman

So he was a pig off the air too

Link

Surprising nobody.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:03:20pm

NBC is running a 90th birthday celebration for Carol Burnette. Today is her birthday.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:03:22pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:03:58pm

re: #21 sagehen

one of his kids (I want to say a teenager, but I can’t swear to it) is trans.

His daughter, Zaya

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:06:40pm

re: #24 Belafon

NBC is running a 90th birthday celebration for Carol Burnette. Today is her birthday.

So delightful in Better Call Saul.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:06:54pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

I don’t pretend to share D Wade’s life experiences but I too am considering getting out of here sooner rather than later… we are locked into a 5 year business lease but if things really start getting scary here we will have to pull kids from school and start again elsewhere… perhaps Cali but looking to get out of the entire country as well.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:07:16pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Kari Lake says every host and news person at Fox should quit and she will help them find new jobs.

YES PLEASE!

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:08:05pm

re: #22 Dangerman

So he was a pig off the air too

Link

As Gomer Pyle was fond of saying, “Well, golleee”.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:08:27pm

re: #24 Belafon

NBC is running a 90th birthday celebration for Carol Burnette. Today is her birthday.

One still encounters the urban legend that Carol Burnette and Willie Nelson were born on the same day. Almost but not quite, Willie will be 90 this Saturday, the 29th.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:09:50pm

The all time champion for coincidental birthdays is February 12th, 1809. Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born that day.

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:12:41pm

Update on Twitter censoring the incitement to murder trans people by Blueticks…

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:14:07pm

re: #22 Dangerman

It’s so shocking that a lying, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic troll who supported a violent insurrection on television is a horrible human being in real life, ain’t it?

Hats off to Dominion for suing Fox News and forcing them to dump Carlson.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:15:28pm

Grrrr…. Banking issues…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:16:30pm

re: #28 Florida Panhandler

I don’t pretend to share D Wade’s life experiences but I too am considering getting out of here sooner rather than later… we are locked into a 5 year business lease but if things really start getting scary here we will have to pull kids from school and start again elsewhere… perhaps Cali but looking to get out of the entire country as well.

I’m working on getting my visitor visa for Canada. Having that will be a added plus (so I have been told) if I need to apply for political asylum.

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Cheechako  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:16:56pm

Another comment about unions.

The Federal Government has many individual units represented buy various unions. An example, using the US Forest Service, as they were my previous employer. Union eligible employees could vote to unionize on a specific work unit such as a National Forest, Regional Office, or Research Unit. Only employees who did not have any Supervisory responsibilities could vote. If a majority of these employees voted to unionize, then a Union Local was established.

Under the unionization rules, these union locals were required to represent all eligible employees, whether or not they paid their union dues.

The only way the Government could identify the relative strength of the union was by counting the number of employees who had their membership dues with-held from their paycheck. Some Unionized National Forests had only 2-3 employee with-holding their dues. I suspect most of the employees not with-holding their dues were also not paying directly and were just union freeloaders.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:17:13pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:21:31pm

re: #38 BeenHereAwhile

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards San Jose to be born?

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dat_said  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:21:59pm

Received a postcard in the mail a couple of days ago. It is supposedly about an opportunity to open up a cannabis dispensary in the state (MN). Has a phone number and website. Quotes in English and Spanish: “Own a planted cannabis dispensary at no cost to you!” “Must have a marijuana conviction on your record to qualify.” “The State is offering cannabis dispensary licenses to persons convicted of a cannabis offense. To find out if you qualify, call or visit our we website at …” “Have you or anyone you know been convicted of a cannabis offense?”

Alas, I’ve never been convicted /s

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:24:19pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:25:33pm

re: #5 jaunte

It’s hard to imagine being 22 and able to write like this.

Jackson has always had a gift for putting complex emotions into song lyrics.

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Nojay UK  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:27:56pm

re: #38 BeenHereAwhile

Internet ancient my arse. Where were you when Froggy was recycling Usenet groups? Do the names Canter and Siegel cause your blood pressure to spike? Were you on the battlements during the Big Seven reorg? Whose side were you on? Whose side were you on?

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:28:14pm

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:29:44pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:32:20pm

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:34:20pm

Gretchen Carlson on Chris Hays tonight.
Good (Someone’s looking for a job) interview.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:37:51pm

re: #47 Dave In Austin

Isn’t she the one that called out all the sexist shit at Faux?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:39:05pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:39:59pm

Good guy with gun?

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:40:30pm

re: #43 Nojay UK

Internet ancient my arse. Where were you when Froggy was recycling Usenet groups? Do the names Canter and Siegel cause your blood pressure to spike? Were you on the battlements during the Big Seven reorg? Whose side were you on? Whose side were you on?

pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:43:28pm

re: #48 Ace Rothstein

Yep. The demise of Roger Ails

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:45:05pm

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:45:32pm

re: #53 Patricia Kayden

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GOD DAMN YOU, STAN!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:45:47pm
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Ace Rothstein  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:47:12pm

re: #54 Nerdy Fish

GOD DAMN YOU, STAN!!!

HAIL STAN!!!!

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TedStriker  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:48:26pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s what happens when you chase a shitload of blow with an ivermectin enema…

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:48:48pm

re: #47 Dave In Austin

Gretchen Carlson on Chris Hays tonight.
Good (Someone’s looking for a job) interview.

Some who were devoted Republicans have turned out to be valuable assets: Nicole Wallace, Jennifer Rubin and Michael Steele. Carlson has had a varied background — who knows where she may end up.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:50:34pm

re: #53 Patricia Kayden

If “The Devil” fired Tucker…

I just can’t imagine Spinal Tap singing “Christmas With The Murdochs”

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:54:57pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

Because a few people in the tweet replies were calling it fake:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:57:40pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 5:59:42pm

Deleted

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:00:59pm

Bannon is still on the streets.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:01:52pm

re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hate that evil bitch.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:01:58pm

I’m seeing reviews saying the new Flash movie is one of the best DC movies ever. As I told my wife, that’s what happens when they actually go to the comic books for source material.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:02:06pm

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:02:53pm

re: #63 Crush White Nationalism

Which I don’t understand. LOCK HIM THE HELL UP!!

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:03:53pm

Opinion The next level of AI is approaching. Our democracy isn’t ready.
By Danielle Allen
wapo.st (gift link)

Good essay.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:05:05pm

The Flash - Official Trailer 2

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:05:19pm

re: #67 Patricia Kayden

Which I don’t understand. LOCK HIM THE HELL UP!!

I think Trump pardoned him for this.

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:06:02pm

re: #60 Belafon

Because a few people in the tweet replies were calling it fake:

What took Newsmax so long?

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William Lewis  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:08:06pm

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William Lewis  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:08:19pm

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William Lewis  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:08:29pm

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:09:04pm

re: #70 Crush White Nationalism

I think Trump pardoned him for this.

Yes he did. But Bannon is almost surely involved in criminal activity that isn’t covered by the pardon. I think he’ll get his comeuppance in the legal challenges to his sugar daddy Guo Wengui.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:11:43pm

re: #75 Barefoot Grin

Yes he did. But Bannon is almost surely involved in criminal activity that isn’t covered by the pardon. I think he’ll get his comeuppance in the legal challenges to his sugar daddy Guo Wengui.

I hope so. Criminals shouldn’t have fascist propaganda shows. They should be in prison.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:12:59pm

Darthstar’s Mastodon timeline, viewed in my browser extension.

Just thought you might like a preview.

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:13:50pm

re: #60 Belafon

Because a few people in the tweet replies were calling it fake:

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Moe Avattar  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:15:51pm

re: #70 Crush White Nationalism

No, Trump pardoned him for something else. He was later convicted of other crimes.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:16:44pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:20:35pm

re: #79 Moe Avattar

That’s what I thought. I assume he’s out of prison while appealing his conviction or something along those lines. Bannon needs to be in prison ASAP.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:20:46pm

re: #44 Dangerman

When the GQP talks about the economy they mean rich people.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:24:07pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:24:28pm

Vandalizing synagogues is anti-Semitism, period.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:24:42pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Darthstar’s Mastodon timeline, viewed in my browser extension.

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Just thought you might like a preview.

Like the white background.

(Dislike the Mastodon default black background)

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:26:32pm

re: #84 The Pie Overlord!

Vandalizing synagogues is anti-Semitism, period.

Echoes of the Kristallnacht Pogrom, no less.
*sighs*
Why do we have to fight this beast again?

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:32:30pm

re: #84 The Pie Overlord!

Vandalizing synagogues is anti-Semitism, period.

If it were a “political protest” against “the government of Israel”, there’s embassies and consulates they could picket, or project slides, or paint on the street…

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Joe Bacon  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:37:45pm

re: #84 The Pie Overlord!

It has never gone away. It always resurfaces in another ugly permutation. And there is always someone who loves to stoke the flames of hate. Across the street from me is a freshly painted swastika with a tribute to Kanye attached…

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:37:56pm

re: #78 Teukka
To take a well-known narrative, the various versions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion tend to have the same general set of allegations, where the Jews:
• … use liberalism to weaken church and state,
• … control the press,
• … work through radicals and revolutionaries,
• … replace traditional educational curriculum to discourage independent thinking,
• … encourage immorality among Christian youth,
• … use intellectuals to confuse people,
• … weaken laws through liberal interpretations,
Now, change the scapegoats, bogeymen and victims around:
• Democrats use liberalism to weaken church and state,
• Liberals control the press,
• AntiFA works through radicals and revolutionaries,
• Libs replace traditional educational curriculum to discourage independent thinking,
• LGBTQIA+ encourage immorality among Christian youth,
• Scientists use intellectuals to confuse people,
• Activitst judges weaken laws through liberal interpretations,
Same poison, different minutiae.

And yeah, The Protocols aren’t the only “coincidences”.
Remember the red triangle thing Team Trump did?
Or the Odal Rune stage at CPAC?
Or, the Satanic Panic (which still is popular with these folks) and the QAnon adrenochrome conspiracy theory - which are rebadged versions of the ancient blood libel…

How many “coincidences” does it take?

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:46:20pm

Is MTG going to quit Congress in order to take over Tucker’s show? I might watch the first 2 minutes unless I am overcome by a sudden attack of projectile vomiting.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:54:03pm

re: #90 The Pie Overlord!

Is MTG going to quit Congress in order to take over Tucker’s show? I might watch the first 2 minutes unless I am overcome by a sudden attack of projectile vomiting.

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I got this bad feeling that they’ll put Tulsi in as Tucker’s replacement…

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:56:56pm

re: #91 Joe Bacon

I got this bad feeling that they’ll put Tulsi in as Tucker’s replacement…

Bobby Kennedy Jr. is probably being considered about right now.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2023 • 6:57:08pm

When I first picked up a Flash comic (around 1964) the character had been around for about eight years. I was impressed that he was so creative with a single super power, using speed in ways Superman didn’t seem to imagine.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:00:08pm

I think the comic above is from the mid-70s; the price on the ones I remember was 12¢.

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:01:56pm
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jaunte  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:03:04pm

A small victory:

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:09:01pm

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:10:49pm

Jack Texeira, mass shooter in waiting.

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austin_blue  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:32:46pm

re: #43 Nojay UK

Internet ancient my arse. Where were you when Froggy was recycling Usenet groups? Do the names Canter and Siegel cause your blood pressure to spike? Were you on the battlements during the Big Seven reorg? Whose side were you on? Whose side were you on?

I can’t speak for BeenHereAwhile, but I was an early adopter on Usenet as a proud member of Die Purple Dinosaur!, Die, Die, Die!

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:34:36pm

re: #38 BeenHereAwhile

@XanIndigo@writing.exchange
“But why are you still on Twitter?”

Listen. I am an internet ancient. I stood amidst LiveJournal as it crumbled while I watched the fall of Flickr. I was there both times Tumblr burned down, toasting marshmallows over its smouldering ruin, laughing at the folly of Verizon. The death of Twitter was foretold by the dark prophecies of the forgotten internets. I am there to witness its passing as the old internet is dying and the new internet struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

FWIW, I’m an old netcommie.

And the mastodon comments to the above post are hilarious.

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:35:56pm

re: #99 austin_blue

I can’t speak for BeenHereAwhile, but I was an early adopter on Usenet as a proud member of Die Purple Dinosaur!, Die, Die, Die!

Ooh, “Jihad Against Barney”…

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:42:10pm

Friend of ours in Las Vegas who runs a great record shop (is personal friends with Elton John - their best customer), and who loves dogs.

Best. Kissing Booth. Ever.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:42:44pm

re: #53 Patricia Kayden

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Come on, now! Who photoshopped Rolling Stone on to The Onion front page?

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austin_blue  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:42:51pm

re: #90 The Pie Overlord!

Is MTG going to quit Congress in order to take over Tucker’s show? I might watch the first 2 minutes unless I am overcome by a sudden attack of projectile vomiting.

Unless?

I hurl just thinking about the possibility! And I don’t have cable!

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:45:54pm

re: #94 jaunte

I think the comic above is from the mid-70s; the price on the ones I remember was 12¢.

It’s from 1974.

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:48:01pm

I was the first person in my family to use the Internet. It was called Prodigy and it required a Packard-Bell PC with a 386 Intel processor, a modem that made crazy noises when you made the phone call, and a long distance phone call to Grand Junction over a landline. I was severely time restricted by the parents (half hour at a time, once a day) mostly because if anyone tried to call our phone it would be busy because I was surfing the Internet. Pre Cell Phone! Mid 90s. But I showed my Dad some stuff, I remember, and he immediately approved. I distinctly remember him saying something along the lines of “Everything is going to be on computers soon” or something to that effect. Mid 90s!

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:50:06pm

Another nice day for biking it was about 71 when I started and 85 when I got home. Today’s high was 90. Tomorrow will be 94. Summer is breaking through. 10 days ago it was 58.

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:50:28pm

re: #102 darthstar

Friend of ours in Las Vegas who runs a great record shop (is personal friends with Elton John - their best customer), and who loves dogs.

Best. Kissing Booth. Ever.

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Same person just posted this on FB…

Caught the last 20 mins of WITNESS..great movie..then I remembered the Amish r prob the worst illegal dog breeders in the USA😕

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:51:03pm

One thing this job at the telemark ski company has changed rather dramatically in my work life is that I now stare at a computer screen A BUNCH. It’s a big change.

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:51:35pm

re: #107 Captain Ron

Another nice day for biking it was about 71 when I started and 85 when I got home. Today’s high was 90. Tomorrow will be 94. Summer is breaking through. 10 days ago it was 58.

It was pleasant on this side of the big water…mid 60s. Missus was in Foster City - got close to 80 there.

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:56:01pm

Seriously, it’s the first job I’ve gotten that I sit down most of the day. Even assembling bindings, I’m sitting down. I remember being astounded by this back in December. Wow! I’m working, but I’m sitting down! 25 years of working jobs where you have to stand on your feet will do that to you.

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austin_blue  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:56:21pm

re: #106 teleskiguy

I was the first person in my family to use the Internet. It was called Prodigy and it required a Packard-Bell PC with a 386 Intel processor, a modem that made crazy noises when you made the phone call, and a long distance phone call to Grand Junction over a landline. I was severely time restricted by the parents (half hour at a time, once a day) mostly because if anyone tried to call our phone it would be busy because I was surfing the Internet. Mid 90s. But I showed my Dad some stuff, I remember, and he immediately approved. I distinctly remember him saying something along the lines of “Everything is going to be on computers soon” or something to that effect. Mid 90s!

My first browser was Mosaic running on a Motorola 68000 CPU on a Mac box in 1994. Quickish, decent graphics, stable. Oh, and a Modem to connect to the web, of course.

(Edited to change 1984 to 1994)

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 7:58:34pm

re: #112 austin_blue

My first browser was Mosaic running on a Motorola 68000 CPU on a Mac box in 1984. Quickish, decent graphics, stable. Oh, and a Modem to connect to the web, of course.

I remember using a Mosaic that was a very early WWW portal.

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Acemarilllion (yes, three 'l's)  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:01:23pm

re: #112 austin_blue

My first browser was Mosaic running on a Motorola 68000 CPU on a Mac box in 1984. Quickish, decent graphics, stable. Oh, and a Modem to connect to the web, of course.

Mosaic didn’t debut until 1993.

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austin_blue  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:02:36pm

re: #114 Acemarilllion (yes, three ‘l’s)

Mosaic didn’t debut until 1993.

Yup, a fat finger fuck up. Fixed in the OP.

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William Lewis  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:02:44pm

Web browsers were a neat toy but I went back to command line clients for usenet, gopher, ftp & telnet for a couple of years till there was enough content on that www thing to bother. Alta Vista made a difference too. (edit: 1995 for AV from DEC)

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:04:55pm

re: #91 Joe Bacon

I got this bad feeling that they’ll put Tulsi in as Tucker’s replacement…

Whoever it is will be ten times worse than Fucker.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:07:28pm

I used the Prodigy service; I can barely remember it, to be honest. My parents were wary of the Internet and of the possibility of strangers arranging to kidnap us or worse. I was in read-only mode on the Internet for the longest time. My first proper Web browser would’ve been the timeless classic Internet Exploder 4, whenever my dad finally got around to upgrading to Windows 95. (Probably shortly before the release of Windows 98, if my memory w/r/t my dad’s technological timing is correct.)

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:07:46pm

When I was a teenager if I was staring at a computer screen for an extended period of time I was playing Doom. I played so much Doom. Doom 2, IMHO, is a video game masterpiece.

I quit playing video games in the mid aughts.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:09:36pm

re: #119 teleskiguy

When I was a teenager if I was staring at a computer screen for an extended period of time I was playing Doom. I played so much Doom. Doom 2, IMHO, is a video game masterpiece.

I quit playing video games in the mid aughts.

Made up your mind to? Or filled your time with other things…

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:10:01pm

re: #120 wrenchwench

Made up your mind to? Or filled your time with other things…

The latter, mostly.

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JC1  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:12:25pm

re: #116 William Lewis

Web browsers were a neat toy but I went back to command line clients for usenet, gopher, ftp & telnet for a couple of years till there was enough content on that www thing to bother. Alta Vista made a difference too. (edit: 1995 for AV from DEC)

My first browser was Lynx on a VMS box with a T1 connection; this was in 1993. Did a bunch of dialup BBS stuff before that.

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:15:51pm

re: #118 Nerdy Fish

My early Internet experiences are pretty funny. I and a gal who lived in Arizona my age (15, I think?) exchanged phone numbers over Prodigy (our PARENT’S landline) and proceeded to run up each other’s parents phone bill.

Never heard from her again after we were caught by our parents. Stephanie was her name.

Wow. I haven’t thought about that in decades.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:17:03pm

re: #6 Patricia Kayden

Hellooooo 2A…..

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austin_blue  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:17:11pm

re: #117 Ace Rothstein

Whoever it is will be ten times worse than Fucker.

I dunno, maybe, I suppose.

The thing about Fish Stick was that he had a really good schtick (see what I did there?). He had this whiny little voice that was “Just Asking Questions”. Which he answered with Loud Bombastic Authority, often justified with complete and utter bulkshit (AKA blatant lies).

It was very effective, made Rupert a lot of money, and anchored the “Faux News” of Fox News. I have a really hard time imagining what could be ten times worse.

Unless his replacement wore two little lightning bolts on his, or her, collar points.

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:17:41pm

Yes. In 1995 a teenaged teleskiguy and some random teenaged gal in Arizona exchanged phone numbers over the Internet and talked to each other.

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austin_blue  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:20:40pm

re: #126 teleskiguy

Yes. In 1995 a teenaged teleskiguy and some random teenaged gal in Arizona exchanged phone numbers over the Internet and talked to each other.

Goddam groomer!

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:24:13pm
Jackson Browne: “Doctor My Eyes”

I’m going to an eye doctor on Friday. That’s probably not enough time to put my symptoms to this melody. Major earworm though. Eyeworm. I’ll stop now.

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:27:50pm

re: #127 austin_blue

The cops were involved! After Steph’s parents’ phone bill came through they were like WTF and they thought my Dad was making the phone calls. Dad and I have the same name, I have a suffix. Statements were made to law enforcement, by me and Dad, and nothing happened.

Steph and I talked for hours, about stupid teenage shit, and about how we found each other on the Internet. I wonder about her…

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austin_blue  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:33:17pm

re: #129 teleskiguy

The cops were involved! After Steph’s parents phone bill came through they were like WTF and they thought my Dad was making the phone calls. Dad and I have the same name, I have a suffix. Statements were made to law enforcement, by me and Dad, and nothing happened.

Steph and I talked for hours, about stupid teenage shit, and about how we found each other on the Internet. I wonder about her…

Oof! And your dad was a high school teacher!

Fortunate that it was an earlier time and place.

Which is the only reason this song isn’t banned on radio:

The Police - Don’t Stand So Close To Me

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:37:09pm

re: #130 austin_blue

Oof! And your dad was a high school teacher!

Fortunate that it was an earlier time and place.

Fuckin’ aye. And that’s why I got in so much trouble with my parents at the time. My Dad was furious.

I’m still the only member of my family who has been to jail.

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:38:28pm

re: #116 William Lewis

Web browsers were a neat toy but I went back to command line clients for usenet, gopher, ftp & telnet for a couple of years till there was enough content on that www thing to bother. Alta Vista made a difference too.

I have a good friend who helped make Alta Vista. When money got tight, they let her go for cheaper young’uns. She just got let go by Amazon in this latest big crunch. She’s getting older, and her salary was probably pretty high. Same as with Alta Vista earlier.

Tough biz!

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:38:55pm

I’m an only boy. I have three sisters.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:40:51pm

Paul Kelly - Careless (Live)

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:44:40pm

This is a great tear jearker:

Paul Kelly - Deeper Water (Live)

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austin_blue  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:47:54pm

re: #131 teleskiguy

Fuckin’ aye. And that’s why I got in so much trouble with my parents at the time. My Dad was furious.

I’m still the only member of my family who has been to jail.

There but for the Grace of Dog are many of us who pushed the envelope in our yoot, or later. And didn’t get caught.

Whether it was drink, drugs, the need for speed, or any mixture of the previous, many of us could have been the guest in a Law Enforcement Greybar Motel.

Just dumb luck.

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immigrant  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:49:49pm

Heh! My internet voyage started in 1982-ish. Not quite certain that it was the internet, then. Cambridge ring and a lot of proprietary networking.

But, I had a Prestel modem (1200/75 baud if I recall correctly - you could type more quickly than it could send), and there were 100’s of travel agents spamming endlessly. Then there was Telecom Gold email in 1983 - not much use if you’re the only one with the equivalent of a telephone handset. My (then) boss had an Apple original Macintosh, and we managed to exchange a couple of messages. At the time, I deemed it a technology fail.

Later, in the mid-early 1990’s, I encountered Mosaic, and the World Wide Web. Effing useless, so slow, and no useful content. Usenet and IRC were much more interesting. And that’s how I encountered my now bride in California.

True story.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2023 • 8:49:56pm

re: #116 William Lewis

Web browsers were a neat toy but I went back to command line clients for usenet, gopher, ftp & telnet for a couple of years till there was enough content on that www thing to bother. Alta Vista made a difference too. (edit: 1995 for AV from DEC)

Before Mosaic; gopher, Veronica, Archie & Jughead.

My personal email address is a shell account.

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teleskiguy  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:02:34pm

re: #131 teleskiguy

I have been my mother’s and father’s biggest headache since I stepped on a toothpick when I was three and probably way before that. They’ve bailed me out of jail a few times. My Dad paid for a colonoscopy I had done to me, it was almost $5K, this was back in 2007.

I’m extraordinarily lucky. My parents genuinely LOVE ME and want me to survive and thrive.

I am so fortunate. And privileged. I am a walking talking over-privileged white asshole who GREW UP right next to all this world class skiing.

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:04:32pm

I just calculated how this winter affected my riding. In 22 weeks I only rode 110 miles. Normally I ride 85-100 miles a week. I’ve been using minimum power and using lower gears on hills to get my leg strength back.

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:05:37pm

re: #139 teleskiguy

You are blessed, and I would bet they both feel it was all worth it.

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:09:35pm
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sagehen  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:10:12pm

re: #136 austin_blue

There but for the Grace of Dog are many of us who pushed the envelope in our yoot, or later. And didn’t get caught.

Whether it was drink, drugs, the need for speed, or any mixture of the previous, many of us could have been the guest in a Law Enforcement Greybar Motel.

Just dumb luck.

You’re leaving out trespassing and vandalism, shoplifting… I bet there’s even somebody or several here who stole their parents’ car (or the neighbors car) for a joyride…

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austin_blue  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:10:21pm

Well, it’s 11:00 CDT, and 5:00 AM GMT for my poor jet-lagged body (although I am almost back to a normal body clock).

And to our dear friend in Colorado, we love you too, at least vicariously. You scared us all to death a couple of years back, but I think I speak for us all by giving you a virtual bro hug.

Night all! Sweet scaly dreams.

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:10:49pm

re: #142 Captain Ron

Holeee Sheeet!

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:13:13pm

re: #143 sagehen

You’re leaving out trespassing and vandalism, shoplifting… I bet there’s even somebody or several here who stole their parents’ car (or the neighbors car) for a joyride…

I used to hot-wire my father’s Volkswagen and drive around when I was 15. We almost got pulled over in a CHP safety checkpoint.

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:17:41pm

re: #146 Captain Ron

I was so goody two shoes that I did nothing naughty. Like zip.

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:29:16pm

re: #146 Captain Ron

I used to hot-wire my father’s Volkswagen and drive around when I was 15. We almost got pulled over in a CHP safety checkpoint.

I would *never* risk my life by touching Dad’s caddy. Mom’s station wagon, that’s another story.

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:29:34pm

THE DISCORD LEAKS
Russia can fund war in Ukraine for another year despite sanctions, leaked document says
wapo.st (gift link)

… The document does not address the impact of newly imposed sanctions or the long-term pain of oil price ceilings in Europe. Russian oil revenue has plummeted.
Even if Russia in theory could fund the war for another year, the leaked assessment does not explore other factors that could affect Russia’s ability to fight, such as ammunition expenditure and the need to recruit or conscript new soldiers.
The Treasury Department declined to comment on the documents in question. The White House did not respond to questions about them. …

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:31:38pm
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darthstar  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:32:27pm

It’s spring…so my friend’s wife is back to taking her horse out for mounted archery…he’s off getting his 150th day of skiing this year.

This is Jack. He’s a big horse. He was in their wedding five years ago. Lovely beast.

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:41:10pm

re: #151 darthstar

It’s spring…so my friend’s wife is back to taking her horse out for mounted archery…he’s off getting his 150th day of skiing this year.

This is Jack. He’s a big horse. He was in their wedding five years ago. Lovely beast.

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Oh, and she doesn’t suck…

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:42:15pm
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Belafon  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:52:11pm
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Belafon  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:52:58pm
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mmmirele  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:53:59pm

I had to go into the office today because my manager’s manager and his manager were in town. I have to go into the office again tomorrow because my manager’s manager is still here and I need to represent.

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:54:29pm

re: #154 Belafon

my god

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:55:21pm

Just reserved my car for Mother’s day weekend. $55/day for a mid-size SUV (economy car would be $35/day)…using my Emerald card which I renewed under my last company (which I left 4 years ago) who had a great deal with National. Well, I still get the Corporate discount, which I confirmed by looking at the same vehicle on a second browser - $96/day…I hope they keep me on their contract for years to come. I’ve saved several hundred dollars on multiple Hawaii trips where I got a truck for a week for $340 instead of >600…

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2023 • 9:57:23pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2023 • 10:01:59pm

re: #155 Belafon

Bigotry so engrained that this mother would rather her daughter end her life than seek to assist her with gender affirming care.

Might be true that she is a monster or it might be that, as often happens, when a parent discovers that the child is trans (or gay), it is the parent who changes her perspective. It’s easier to make this assertion when it’s not real — when you aren’t facing a person you have loved your entire life.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2023 • 10:14:23pm

Par for Thursday

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But a 3 for the midnight word hurdle

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2023 • 10:17:32pm
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jaunte  Apr 26, 2023 • 10:44:03pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2023 • 11:17:32pm

re: #155 Belafon

Let me repeat myself (and I get that this could be offensive): Christianity is (too often) a death cult.

A deep, deep dive into religion takes up back to the early days of the neolithic, long before writing. Myths and rituals have a very deep history. Mostly to do with death, less so with birth.

Thousands of years later, and us humans organizing ourselves into towns with hierarchical social structures, we then justified our governing through religion.

Fast forward to today: many Americans today cannot deal with the full impact, the meaning, of the 21st century. Belief systems are upended.

What was conveniently far, far away is (through modern inventions) upon us.

That woman in the video has a fear of losing her beliefs. Beliefs that presumed gender roles. Beliefs that she inherited from our recent past, a violent past in which sects fought and killed each other over who was “right”.

If she allows that gender roles are not set in stone, not written down by some god as absolute, then what else will she have to give up? (Likely her belief that she is going to exist after death in some sort of heaven.)

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2023 • 11:42:45pm
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2023 • 11:51:45pm

re: #165 Captain Ron

Feinstein needs to resign so Newsom can appoint a Senator to take her place. No disrespect to Senator Feinstein, but it’s time for her to step aside.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 12:35:11am

re: #2 Patricia Kayden

Shallow note: Jackson Browne is still gorgeous in his advanced age. Always loved his songs.

It does make one jealous.

Doctor My Eyes is the first Jackson Browne song I recall hearing on the “underground” FM radio stations in Chicago in the early seventies.

Although I later read from Glenn Frey that he wrote it because he came down with conjunctivitis and had to go see a doctor about it…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 12:44:01am

re: #86 Teukka

Echoes of the Kristallnacht Pogrom, no less.
*sighs*
Why do we have to fight this beast again?

because it will never die, we can only hope to contain it

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 1:37:40am

hi

We got back from Cheyenne at about 10PM. I survived the VA.

The Commissary extracted over $500 from our chequing account (not counting liquor and cigarettes at the Exchange).

The Commissary bagger’s gast was flabbered when he pushed out two of the large carts they use for packing groceries out, and it all fit in the Smart.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 1:40:43am

re: #90 The Pie Overlord!

Is MTG going to quit Congress in order to take over Tucker’s show? I might watch the first 2 minutes unless I am overcome by a sudden attack of projectile vomiting.

The I Amendment does not apply to FOX hiring or firing employees. The GOP weaponises ignorance against the I Amendment as badly as they do the II Amendment.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 1:52:52am

re: #170 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The I Amendment does not apply to FOX hiring or firing employees. The GOP weaponises ignorance against the I Amendment as badly as they do the II Amendment.

The GOP know what those Amendments are about, they just cynically exploit the fact that their constituents are clueless about their own Constitution.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 1:56:54am

We are now the 3³

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:01:23am

re: #69 Charles Johnson

In a world of superheroes, property insurance must be one helluva bite.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:04:42am

re: #70 Crush White Nationalism

I think Trump pardoned him for this.

That’s correct.

Bannon’s pardon was especially notable given that the prosecution was still in its early stages and any trial was months away. Whereas pardon recipients are conventionally thought of as defendants who have faced justice, often by having served at least some prison time, the pardon nullifies the prosecution and effectively eliminates any prospect for punishment.

Bannon was charged in August with duping thousands of donors who believed their money would be used to fulfill Trump’s chief campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border. Instead, he allegedly diverted over a million dollars, paying a salary to one campaign official and personal expenses for himself. His co-defendants were not pardoned.

(more)

Trump pardons ex-strategist Steve Bannon, dozens of others (Associated Press, January 20, 2021)

One unifying theme amongst those he pardoned in the final hours of his presidency is the preponderance of fraudsters.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:09:48am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In a world of superheroes, property insurance must be one helluva bite.

I think that was the concept behind The Incredibles, namely that insurance companies could no longer finance all the collateral damage caused by the Superheroes’ powers and forced them into retirement.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:10:48am

re: #86 Teukka

Echoes of the Kristallnacht Pogrom, no less.
*sighs*
Why do we have to fight this beast again?

Antisemitism has been stoked by Christianity as long as Christianity has been around. I’m not sure you get rid of antisemitism without getting rid of Christianity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:11:07am

re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One unifying theme amongst those he pardoned in the final hours of his presidency is the preponderance of fraudsters.

One still can (and should not hesitate to ) refer to him and Rodger Stone and D’Souza as “convicted criminals”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:12:38am

re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Antisemitism has been stoked by Christianity as long as Christianity has been around. I’m not sure you get rid of antisemitism without getting rid of Christianity.

plenty of non-Christian Antisemites out there.

but you cannot get rid of Antisemitism without overcoming religious Fundamentalism in all its forms.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:19:31am

The filibuster continues against the Nebraska legislature. Nothing has passed yet.

Businesses here are starting to turn against the Republican Party. The blame is being put in the correct place, despite all the blame-shifting by Sen. Kauth (the author of the bill) and Sen. Erdman (my state senator)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:24:17am

re: #43 Nojay UK

Internet ancient my arse. Where were you when Froggy was recycling Usenet groups? Do the names Canter and Siegel cause your blood pressure to spike? Were you on the battlements during the Big Seven reorg? Whose side were you on? Whose side were you on?

Quantum Link main screen
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:30:21am

re: #46 Belafon

A whole lot of bigots in that thread on Mastadon.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:32:40am

re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s correct.

(more)

Trump pardons ex-strategist Steve Bannon, dozens of others (Associated Press, January 20, 2021)

One unifying theme amongst those he pardoned in the final hours of his presidency is the preponderance of fraudsters.

And personal relationships

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:36:41am

re: #181 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A whole lot of bigots in that thread on Mastadon.

I signed up to Mastodon the other week mostly out of curiosity. Have not spent much time there and and really clueless on how to use it in any manner that suits my interests.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:37:07am

re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth

A thousand parrots in that thread “Where does it say it cuts veterans’ benefits” despite the bill clearly cutting discretionary spending. When that is explained as if it is a good-faith question, the next parrot drops in and asks “Where does it say it cuts veterans’ benefits?”

Most of the men in my town are veterans. I’ve been damn sure to let people here know what’s going on with this bill. They’ll still pull the lever for Adrian Smith anyway, but they can’t say they didn’t know.

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sagehen  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:41:43am

re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s correct.

(more)

Trump pardons ex-strategist Steve Bannon, dozens of others (Associated Press, January 20, 2021)

One unifying theme amongst those he pardoned in the final hours of his presidency is the preponderance of fraudsters.

coincidence.

The relevant unifying theme is they were people who knew stuff about him and/or his campaign he’d rather they not talk about in public.

i.e., people who’d have something to trade if the prosecutor offered them a plea bargain.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:52:43am

re: #112 austin_blue

My first browser was Mosaic running on a Motorola 68000 CPU on a Mac box in 1994. Quickish, decent graphics, stable. Oh, and a Modem to connect to the web, of course.

(Edited to change 1984 to 1994)

My first introduction to the Internet (outside of the military) was my Commodore 64. I geared up to running the 6485 BBS Program, first as a part-time BBS, then with a second phone line in my house to a twenty-four hour BBS (when there were few twenty-four hour BBSs in Tidewater, Virginia).

From there to Quantum Link, until it became America On-Line. (After it became AOL, I used up all our credits then shut the account.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:58:12am

re: #143 sagehen

You’re leaving out trespassing and vandalism, shoplifting… I bet there’s even somebody or several here who stole their parents’ car (or the neighbors car) for a joyride…

I feel inadequate. The most severe law I broke any time in my life was a ticket for careless driving in Jacksonville, Fla. (I had a seizure behind the wheel of my car and rear-ended a pickup truck, pushing out into an intersection at a red light). That was an expensive ticket.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:10:49am

re: #155 Belafon

Bigotry so engrained that this mother would rather her daughter end her life than seek to assist her with gender affirming care.

Same vibe as “I’d rather my kid be dead than autistic,” “I’d rather my kid be dead than disabled,” “I’d rather my kid be dead than atheistic,” &c.

If the kid isn’t a carbon-copy of the parent, conservatives would rather see them dead.

But they’re the pro-life people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:18:48am

re: #143 sagehen

You’re leaving out trespassing and vandalism, shoplifting… I bet there’s even somebody or several here who stole their parents’ car (or the neighbors car) for a joyride…

I didn’t steal it, but I trashed the front end of my mother’s car by jumping level crossings with it. And I occasionally stole change and small beills $5 or $10 from their purses/wallets.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:20:31am

re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter

Might be true that she is a monster or it might be that, as often happens, when a parent discovers that the child is trans (or gay), it is the parent who changes her perspective. It’s easier to make this assertion when it’s not real — when you aren’t facing a person you have loved your entire life.

The essence of conservatism: It only matters if it happens to me personally.

Empathy precludes a person from being a conservative.

Long before I ever heard the term transgender, my wife and I were part of a large group of people at a dine-out in Cheyenne. The server was a trans woman. Throughout the meal there was nothing but slurs and hate directed at the woman when she wasn’t at the table. (She could probably overhear from the kitchen though.)

When it came time for the tip, all of them announced they wouldn’t be leaving a tip for (slur here).

I hung back until they were all gone from the restaurant, then gave her a $150 tip. I did not apologise for their behaviour; I apologised for being caught in a group of people who I thought were decent but were bigots.

They aren’t my friends any more.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:25:27am

After yesterday’s embarrassment, this is a welcome return to form.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:25:27am

I fail to see the “threat” posed by LGBTQ.

Grooming/sexual abuse of our children?

There I perceive a much larger threat from hetero/cis members of the clergy or other educational/social organizations to whom we entrust our children.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:26:59am

re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Antisemitism has been stoked by Christianity as long as Christianity has been around. I’m not sure you get rid of antisemitism without getting rid of Christianity.

Well, I mean, I guess it’s good to know where you stand. Personally, I feel like I haven’t engaged in much antisemitism, but I’ll be sure to let you know when it starts.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:30:25am

re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I fail to see the “threat” posed by LGBTQ.

Grooming/sexual abuse of our children?

There I perceive a much larger threat from hetero/cis members of the clergy or other educational/social organizations to whom we entrust our children.

As has been pointed out, the perceived “threat” comes from a broken logical chain that goes as follows:

1) Any sexual orientation other than cisgender heterosexuality is contrary to what the Bible teaches;
2) Anything contrary to the Bible must necessarily be “unnatural”;
3) Homosexuals cannot reproduce, reinforcing that homosexuality must be “unnatural”;
3) Anything “unnatural” must be man-made; therefore, homosexuality et al. is a choice;
4) Because LGBTQ+ is a choice, kids cannot be “born to it”;
5) QED, LGBTQ+ people must be grooming kids to “choose” to be LGBTQ+.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:34:01am

re: #193 Nerdy Fish

Well, I mean, I guess it’s good to know where you stand. Personally, I feel like I haven’t engaged in much antisemitism, but I’ll be sure to let you know when it starts.

I make Jewish jokes, but only to my Jewish friends.

One of them used to work for a Swiss bank, so you might imagine the sort of jokes I would make…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:36:38am

re: #194 Nerdy Fish

As has been pointed out, the perceived “threat” comes from a broken logical chain that goes as follows:

“logical” is really not the word for it, it is doctrine based on cherry-picked Scripture.

and yes, Teh Ghey is Evil and God does not make Evil

Satan brings Evil (and God is somehow not responsible for that)

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:38:56am

re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“logical” is really not the word for it, it is doctrine based on cherry-picked Scripture.

and yes, Teh Ghey is Evil and God does not make Evil

Satan brings Evil (and God is somehow not responsible for that)

I could have put the “logical” in quotes there, yes. The theology of the Church has basically evolved along the lines of, “Anything I don’t understand must necessarily be evil,” since at least the Middle Ages.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:39:34am

re: #193 Nerdy Fish

Well, I mean, I guess it’s good to know where you stand. Personally, I feel like I haven’t engaged in much antisemitism, but I’ll be sure to let you know when it starts.

Not every Christian. The religion and its prominent apologists from the New Testament’s attacks to the Reconquista and Inquisition to Thomas Aquinas to Martin Luther to William Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” to the KKK to … &c.

The vast majority of Christians are not antisemites. The religion itself in its foundational text and two thousand years of theology is antisemitic.

It’s the problem of ignoring the inconvenient bits of the religion. Anti-abortion activism (for Protestants) is rooted in the loss of segregation. Father Coughlin was quite able to justify his hate of Jewish people using the Bible as his reference. So did Billy Graham.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:41:37am

re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“logical” is really not the word for it, it is doctrine based on cherry-picked Scripture.

and yes, Teh Ghey is Evil and God does not make Evil

Satan brings Evil (and God is somehow not responsible for that)

“God does not make Evil” cherry-picks in reverse (leaves out) Isaiah 45:7, where God specifically says he creates evil.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:44:47am
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:44:54am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What’s your handle on Mastodon?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:48:15am

re: #201 Patricia Kayden

What’s your handle on Mastodon?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:49:02am

re: #199 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“God does not make Evil” cherry-picks in reverse (leaves out) Isaiah 45:7, where God specifically says he creates evil.

Oh good, so we can worship Evil in the name of God.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:54:27am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:54:38am

re: #200 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The issue is her trans son. Because she’s advocating against Sen. Kauth’s hate bill, Republicans are accusing her of having a conflict-of-interest.

Of course words don’t mean anything to fascists. The bill they are citing to sustain this allegation has to do with financial conflicts. That doesn’t matter to them.

Regardless of what the Bible says about transgender people (if you twist the Old Testament just right you can throw that in with the other abominations), it is Christians in the name of Christianity who are pushing these hate bills. (You can see all the Christian love in the responses to Megan Hunt in that thread.)

They’ve wanted the atheist out of the legislature anyway (my own state senator claims we have no rights—not just no religious rights, but no rights at all). I suspect it won’t be long before she is either censured or expelled from the legislature. If they do go that far, she won’t get sufficient support from Democrats in the legislature to fight it off (it was Democrats who attacked her religious beliefs in her first Democratic primary as a reason not to vote for her).

It is Machaela Cavanaugh (a Christian) who is leading the fight against this bill. Since there doesn’t appear to be any moral clarity for Christians about these hate bills across the country, it would seem like that book is not a reliable standard for morals.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:54:52am

re: #193 Nerdy Fish

Well, I mean, I guess it’s good to know where you stand. Personally, I feel like I haven’t engaged in much antisemitism, but I’ll be sure to let you know when it starts.

You can’t take that personally. My family members (in laws) are all Catholic (some are very religious) and wonderful people. You’re an absolutely lovely person. But the fact remains that most people who are extremely religious (evangelists, fundamentalists) aren’t. And many who are just regular old whatever flavor their religion is aren’t either. And a shit ton of Easter/Xmas religious folks suck as well. And I’d venture to say that there are atheists who are equally bad. People in general suck.

That said, those who are horrible in Jesus’ name are especially offensive because that wasn’t what Jesus was about and I have an exceptional level of disgust for those people. They deserve being called out as do their churches.

I was raised Jewish but am an atheist now (and truth be told, probably was for most of my life). And I’m more christian than many Christians (in thoughts and deeds).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 3:59:56am

Hate is costly.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:02:30am

re: #206 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:02:40am

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:03:03am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:14:40am

Mastodon

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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:22:23am

YIKES Re: Jack Texeira

Yeah, it seems FBI et al. got stupid lucky

*tehee*

JFC.

The Ukraine Documents leaker was indeed a fan of the Russian military.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:27:01am

Chairman of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce. I wonder if he read the Wall Street Journal editorial board article saying they no longer believed the Republican Party is the party of business.

“As the lead economic development organization for the region, the Greater Omaha Chamber is on the front line of ensuring our community can recruit and retain a talented workforce. For these reasons, the policy areas of workforce development and ensuring Nebraska is a welcoming place have joined the long-standing policy pillars of maintaining a tax policy and necessary economic tools to make Nebraska competitive. This is consistent with the recommendations from Blueprint Nebraska that inclusivity is the right thing to do. It is suitable for business and good for Nebraska.

While, as a chamber, we are not equipped to weigh in on issues that involve personal medical care decisions or medical decisions regarding parents, their children, and their healthcare professionals, we are prepared to speak up and remain fully committed to the ongoing importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion as an essential element of workforce development and community placemaking. We ask our elected officials to focus their work on being part of the long-term solution on the policy matters of the highest importance to Nebraskans and position our state as the best that it can be, particularly on issues that work against and threaten Nebraska as the warm and welcoming state we know it to be.

The best of Nebraska is not demonstrated by divisive ongoing political fighting on a national stage. The best of Nebraska is demonstrated by a healthy discussion where all voices are heard and which strives toward a consensus decision to move us forward. We all want our state to remain a great place that is supportive and inclusive, with a focus on creating the best environment to do business and live. And we want the entire country to know that Nebraska is, in fact, for everyone.”

Greater Omaha Chamber Statement on Legislative Activity in Nebraska Unicameral (April 26, 2023)

The conflict-of-interest ethics complaint against Sen. Megan Hunt is by a private lawyer in Omaha named Dave Begley, an estate-planning lawyer and huge supporter of the private Catholic college Chreighton University in Omaha.

This nonsense argument about a conflict-of-interest files in the face of logic, but lines up with his religious views. Should gun owners be voting on gun laws? Should corn farmers be voting on ethanol bills? Should mothers be voting for or against abortion and sex-education legislation?

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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:30:17am

re: #212 Teukka

YIKES Re: Jack Texeira

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ericblair  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:31:36am

re: #206 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

You can’t take that personally. My family members (in laws) are all Catholic (some are very religious) and wonderful people. You’re an absolutely lovely person. But the fact remains that most people who are extremely religious (evangelists, fundamentalists) aren’t. And many who are just regular old whatever flavor their religion is aren’t either. And a shit ton of Easter/Xmas religious folks suck as well. And I’d venture to say that there are atheists who are equally bad. People in general suck.

It’s also the little matter of the institutions of the Church protecting the racists and abusers instead of the people and their own flock. If it were isolated cases where the Churches tried to correct and punish those responsible that would be one thing, but in general uh no.

And I would say that it is a moral and ethical issue about how much the members of the Church are responsible for the Church’s institutions: obviously one member can’t change an institution themself, but how far does their responsibility extend? I don’t think you need to throw your body into the gears of the machine, but it can’t be enough just to shrug.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:32:04am

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So if I’m a Black legislator, I have a conflict of interest if I vote for legislation which helps people of color such as civil rights laws? WTH? So Republicans are silencing (or trying to silence) Democratic legislators in red states. This is not how democracy operates.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:32:42am

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So having a transgender child is grounds for a conflict of interest investigation, but doing sweetheart property deals with people who have cases on the docket before you isn’t. The funny part of all this, to me, is that the Republican Party is still trying so hard to hide who they really are. If your agenda is so popular, if this is what your constituents want, why hide it? Why do you pretend that the issue in Montana is one of decorum, rather than because the individual is transgender, if the majority of voters believe the same way about her as you do? Why were the young Black men who were expelled from the chamber in Tennessee officially removed for being out of order, if pro-gun and anti-Black policies are so popular?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:33:00am

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This is the same Dave Begley (CNN, July 4, 2019)

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg rebuked a man at an Iowa July Fourth barbecue for suggesting that Buttigieg “just tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing drugs.”

“Sir, I think that racism is not going to help us get out of this,” the South Bend, Indiana, mayor told David Begley, of Omaha, Nebraska. “The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence there’s systemic racism. It is evidence of systemic racism, and with all due respect, sir, racism makes it harder for good police officers to do their job too.”

(more)

Pete Buttigieg rebukes man at July 4th event: ‘Racism has no place in American politics’

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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:36:30am

re: #214 Teukka

Wait, there’s more…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:36:34am

re: #217 Nerdy Fish

So having a transgender child is grounds for a conflict of interest investigation, but doing sweetheart property deals with people who have cases on the docket before you isn’t. The funny part of all this, to me, is that the Republican Party is still trying so hard to hide who they really are. If your agenda is so popular, if this is what your constituents want, why hide it? Why do you pretend that the issue in Montana is one of decorum, rather than because the individual is transgender, if the majority of voters believe the same way about her as you do? Why were the young Black men who were expelled from the chamber in Tennessee officially removed for being out of order, if pro-gun and anti-Black policies are so popular?

Or even locally, Sen. Tom Brewer (R-Gordon, Sheridan County) living in Hall County (but he claims he really lives in a log cabin inside an equipment shed where no one has seen the log cabin).

This is sort of like the Tennessee House Speaker (right down to the mileage claims) but without the half-million dollar house.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:36:48am

re: #216 Patricia Kayden

So if I’m a Black legislator, I have a conflict of interest if I vote for legislation which helps people of color such as civil rights laws? WTH? So Republicans are silencing (or trying to silence) Democratic legislators in red states. This is not how democracy operates.

You’re quite right about this, but it’s been clear since at least the Obama Administration that these people are not in favor of democracy. They can see their majority slipping away, but they refuse to give up their power as would happen in a proper democracy. Instead, they’ve opted into creeping fascism in order to ensure that the “morally right” side can continue to rule over the “morally wrong” majority. It’s illustrating what many of us have known for some time: They are only interested in theocracy. When they were winning, all was well and good. Now that they’re not winning, it’s time to change the rules.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:36:57am

Mastodon

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ericblair  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:39:20am

re: #214 Teukka

Aside from leaking classified documents onto Discord for his pals, it also appears Jack was really into mass shootings.

This should be a massive, heads-rolling scandal for the military. He was kicked out of high school for this behavior, just a couple of years before. There’s no way they should have missed this, even without talking to the guy (which they have to do for TS and SCI investigations).

From the compartments he had access to, I’m also guessing he had to take a polygraph, which is a stupid pseudoscientific waste that the intelligence community has insisted on keeping despite its history of failure. If anything comes out of this, maybe they can put the nails in the coffin for this bit of crap.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:40:54am

re: #221 Nerdy Fish

I think the bigger problem is that Democrats are not fighting back. We’re allowing a minority to act with impunity without consequences. Trump should be in jail for his crimes. Ditto Bannon. Merrick Garland is practically curled up in a ball sleeping. Now, I am hearing that Senator Feinstein refuses to step down so that Governor Newsom can replace her with a Democratic Senator who can actually show up to work and vote on important nominations/legislation.

ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:43:21am

Comic relief: How Elon Came Up with the Cyber Truck

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:44:45am

re: #224 Patricia Kayden

Now, I am hearing that Senator Feinstein refuses to step down so that Governor Newsom can replace her with a Democratic Senator who can actually show up to work and vote on important nominations/legislation.

Didn’t I just read upthread that the Republicans’ vile debt limit “deal” actually passed the Senate because Feinstein was out of commission, thus letting Joe “I’m actually a Republican, except on judicial appointments” Manchin be the key swing vote?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:54:34am

kaydenpat
Patricia Kayden @kaydenpat

@jeffjarvis This shows you how spineless Democrats are. He should have been canned as soon as President Biden was inaugurated.

President Biden does not have that authority. That rests with the board which governs the USPS. For a long time an appointee to the board by President Biden was blocked by the Republican Party in the Senate, denying a Democratic majority on the board.

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lawhawk  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:56:45am

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

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#FAFO.

Trump and the GOP pushed all this crap into the mainstream, and it will take years to recover from the harms imposed by GOP policies on public health and safety.

They’re still at it - GOPers are still trying to undermine vaccination efforts, and the rest of the world is noticing too - as it undermines their efforts too. Communicable diseases are making a comeback thanks to GOP dumbfuckery.

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lawhawk  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:59:43am

re: #214 Teukka

That guy’s bedroom was like a homage to ISIS or terrorism chic.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:01:30am
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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:04:18am

re: #221 Nerdy Fish

You’re quite right about this, but it’s been clear since at least the Obama Administration that these people are not in favor of democracy. They can see their majority slipping away, but they refuse to give up their power as would happen in a proper democracy. Instead, they’ve opted into creeping fascism in order to ensure that the “morally right” side can continue to rule over the “morally wrong” majority. It’s illustrating what many of us have known for some time: They are only interested in theocracy. When they were winning, all was well and good. Now that they’re not winning, it’s time to change the rules.

Ffs
It makes advocacy for anything a conflict. Because you want it for whatever reason.
Double ffs that’s what legislating *is*

This is “alternative facts” territory

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:05:05am

re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter

Might be true that she is a monster or it might be that, as often happens, when a parent discovers that the child is trans (or gay), it is the parent who changes her perspective. It’s easier to make this assertion when it’s not real — when you aren’t facing a person you have loved your entire life.

Possibly, but we still hear of families kicking out children who are gay.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:09:51am

re: #231 Dangerman

You’re quite right about this, but it’s been clear since at least the Obama Administration that these people are not in favor of democracy. They can see their majority slipping away, but they refuse to give up their power as would happen in a proper democracy

Things started going downhill once the franchise was expanded beyond white Protestant property-owning males

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:12:32am

re: #228 lawhawk

#FAFO.

Trump and the GOP pushed all this crap into the mainstream, and it will take years to recover from the harms imposed by GOP policies on public health and safety.

They’re still at it - GOPers are still trying to undermine vaccination efforts, and the rest of the world is noticing too - as it undermines their efforts too. Communicable diseases are making a comeback thanks to GOP dumbfuckery.

There’s not much we can do about people who want to die by suicide by drugs or disease. All we can do is protect ourselves from them. (Side note: When I was at the VA yesterday, not a single person, patient or staff, was without a mask. Perhaps my complaints to the IG had an effect.)

Conservative strategies in evolution tend to turn out badly for the organisms which pursue them. While animals don’t think like humans do, a stratagem such as “the plains are drying out so we should move” doesn’t really work very well if the plains keep drying out.

If conservatives are hell-bent on killing themselves through disease or misuse of medications, all we can do is stay out of their way if they won’t listen to reason.

The endless bleating of centrists and right-wingers arguing that the reason-based community should not be cutting out parents or grandparents from seeing children, putting them outside of the circle they associate with, banning them from their social media feeds, &c are the same shills for “civility” that existed in the XIX and XX Centuries over the rising voices demanding their civil rights be respected.

I’ve long lost my empathy for someone who wants to die horribly. That’s their choice and I won’t obstruct it, as long as they don’t try to take others with them.

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:15:17am

re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Antisemitism has been stoked by Christianity as long as Christianity has been around. I’m not sure you get rid of antisemitism without getting rid of Christianity.

You would have to get rid of the human tendency of exclusion, which would also end most professional sports.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:19:25am

re: #235 Belafon

You would have to get rid of the human tendency of exclusion, which would also end most professional sports.

not choosing someone for your team is a bit different than choosing a race for extinction

it is the tendency to push exclusion to such an extreme

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:20:23am

re: #228 lawhawk

You can’t reason with this.

​​”No one can convince me that he died because of ivermectin,” one member wrote this week. “He ultimately died because of our failed western medicine which only cares about profits and not the cure.”

Ivermectin is Western medicine. They’ve turned what they believe into who they are. In other words, it’s a religion. You can’t logic someone out of religion. Only they can do it. They will keep going back to their temple (Telegram) and keep singing the hymns (what Ivermectin will “treat”) even if it kills them.

If the law is strict enough, and neighbours are paying attention, children could be seized from these asshats for endangerment. (The problem being the large overlap in “Covid-denier” and “gun nut.”)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:20:35am

re: #208 Nerdy Fish

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:23:19am
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lawhawk  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:26:14am

re: #229 lawhawk

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:37:27am

Thread, two tweets, first video 2:08, second part 1:29

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:41:15am

re: #237 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You can’t reason with this.

Ivermectin is Western medicine. T

Ivermectin is good old American horse-doctor medication, not that elitist MRNA Big-Pharma voodoo medicine.

I will state again that if Hydroxychloroquine had turned out to be the least bit effective, DJT would still be President - and would have been hailed as the great Avatar of Science and Medicine and Savior of America and all of Humankind.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:48:51am

re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Ivermectin is good old American horse-doctor medication, not that elitist MRNA Big-Pharma voodoo medicine.

I will state again that if Hydroxychloroquine had turned out to be the least bit effective, DJT would still be President - and would have been hailed as the great Avatar of Science and Medicine and Savior of America and all of Humankind.

Ah but there are lots of deluded Xtians who insist that the horse paste and Hydroxychloroquine do work and they were “cured” of the INSERT RACIAL SLUR HERE Virus.

But then they follow Pulpit Pimps who still insist that Trump will be returned to the White House any second now…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:53:03am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:54:26am

re: #244 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Twitter has now officially installed memory holes.

We have always been at war with Eastasia

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:54:58am

Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht Prayed Over Multiple Elected Officials: ‘Nothing Can Stop the Kingdom of God’

Sean Feucht is the enemy.

rightwingwatch.org

Christian musician turned right-wing political activist Sean Feucht made a stop at MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer’s church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last Thursday, where he proudly declared himself a Christian nationalist.

Christian nationalists believe the U.S. and state governments should operate and legislate according to their interpretation of the Bible, and that only Christians who share their political and religious worldview should control the reins of power. While many right-wing activists seek to downplay or obfuscate their Christian nationalist agenda, Feucht was very open about his intentions.

“We want God to be in control of everything,” he declared. “We want believers to be the ones writing the laws. Yes. Guilty as charged.”

Feucht was in Oklahoma last week because it was the latest stop on the “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour, a joint project he launched with right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA to bring Feucht’s mix of worship and hard-right politics to every state capitol in the nation.

Last Friday, Feucht and his “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour set up shop on the grounds of the Oklahoma capitol, where Feucht was welcomed by Gov. Kevin Stitt, who last year dedicated “every square inch” of the state to Jesus.

Following brief remarks from Stitt, Feucht laid hands upon the governor and led the audience in praying over him.

“This is so biblical, and it’s so appropriate for us to come as the people of God and release a blessing over this building, over this man, over the government,” Feucht proclaimed. “This is really Davidic what we’re doing here, it’s like David bringing an offering to the Lord at the most important governmental building in the state, and we’re just so honored to have the governor here with us.”

This is the sickness that right wing Xtians want to force on us.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:57:42am

re: #243 Joe Bacon

Ah but there are lots of deluded Xtians who insist that the horse paste and Hydroxychloroquine do work and they were “cured” of the INSERT RACIAL SLUR HERE Virus.

But then they follow Pulpit Pimps who still insist that Trump will be returned to the White House any second now…

Arguably no different than the leaders who have their followers starving themselves to death in Kenya since the Second Coming is about to happen.

Makes one ponder whether the ability for self-delusion is a potential defining characteristic for humans.

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lawhawk  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:59:07am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:02:04am

Time for a nap now.

We vote tuna

It is lining up to be that sort of day. Therefore, preemptive cat photo strike.

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A Cranky One  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:02:15am

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:03:34am

The only thing missing in this video clip is the Twilight Zone theme.

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lawhawk  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:06:08am

re: #250 A Cranky One

Best was the wall mount phones…. because you knew that you were truly slamming the phone down if you ripped it from the wall entirely.

Good Fellas He’s Gone Tommy Gets Whacked


Tabletop phones just didn’t give that same satisfaction, though you also didn’t have the realization that you just ripped the phone off the wall and lost your phone access.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:08:22am

re: #250 A Cranky One

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Those things were heavy.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:09:42am
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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:11:42am

Marist College poll

63% of Rs would vote for Trump even if he has been convicted of a crime

They don’t care

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:16:17am

‘Christianity is on the verge of extinction’: Here’s why evangelicals embrace QAnon

During an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” author and evangelical expert Jon Ward was asked by host Joe Scarborough why it was that so many Christians came to wholeheartedly embrace the conspiracy theories of QAnon.

In response, Ward, who wrote the book “Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation,” said there is a fear among evangelicals that their way of life is fading away and they’re looking for a lifeline.

“I’ve never understood the victimhood, constant victimhood,” host Scarborough began. “I’ll just speak like evangelicals speak to each other. If you believe, then you’re in on the greatest thing you ever have, the greatest story ever told. You’ve been taught the greatest story, the most extraordinary story ever told so why do you have to wallow in QAnon conspiracy theories? What are they compensating for?”

“Yeah, one of the most painful things for me, I think, in 2020 was seeing certainty about things that were, you know, lies,” Ward told the host. “That was, I think — I try to tell the story through my own life, of growing up in a world in which we were pretty isolated from reality in a lot of ways. We were so far inside our church bubble, that I think we became vulnerable to manipulation; we were really in that church bubble for a lot of reasons.”

MSNBC 04 27 2023 07 41 07

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:19:18am

re: #246 Joe Bacon

Lots of people complain that religious fundamentalism is the real problem.

Religious fundamentalism only seems to be a problem now, because the Enlightenment came along and reined in the excesses of religious faith. Hanging witches, crusades, inquisitions, wholesale slaughter of people with slightly different religious views: Those weren’t fundamentalism. They were Christianity.

The only reason murdering an atheist or a Jew is not permitted now is because secularism was imposed and enforced on Christians.

The “fundamentalists” are the ones behaving the way the religion has always behaved. They want those restrictions of the Enlightenment gone. They want to impose the iron fist of their religion on all society again.

There’s a reason why when Christianity was in charge, we called it the Dark Ages.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:24:35am

re: #255 Dangerman

Marist College poll

63% of Rs would vote for Trump even if he has been convicted of a crime

they would be proud of him for being convicted and sentenced by a woke liberal court (because any court which would convict and sentence him is by definition woke and liberal)

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:25:09am

Buying $100 worth of beer you’re “boycotting”. Pure MAGA. Well played Nazis.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:25:43am

re: #256 Joe Bacon

‘Christianity is on the verge of extinction’: Here’s why evangelicals embrace QAnon

QAnon is secular Fundamentalism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:26:42am

That’s because conservatives have to lie. They are compelled to. Facts have a liberal bias.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:27:41am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

What’s the deal with all the bra’s bra?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:28:37am

re: #257 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s a reason why when Christianity was in charge, we called it the Dark Ages.

And Biblical Literalism is actually a fairly recent trend, one which is embraced by Fundamentalism.

Even the Pope sees no inherent conflict between Evolution and Creation; one describes the method, the other the meaning behind it.

But if you are a Biblical Literalist, then you have to reject Evolution along with all the science that supports it, along with history and even logic, as the Bible contradicts itself in several places (including giving two different versions of the Ten Commandments)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:29:41am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

what’s with all the bikinis festooning the background?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:29:56am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

Buying $100 worth of beer you’re “boycotting”. Pure MAGA. Well played Nazis.

I saw an article that said that Anheuser-Busch’s sales did momentarily drop due to the announced boycott, but these political boycotts never last long. I know they quickly apologized for their ad, which is mostly just dumb pandering, but still, I doubt AB InBev is seriously hurting from this (and as we’ve seen, most of the “boycotters” wound up buying other AB InBev products anyway, LOL).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:30:05am

re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

QAnon is secular Fundamentalism.

Nope, it’s definitely Christian. Even Christians say so.

There aren’t 41MM atheists in the country.

(RNS) — A new study finds devotees of the conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon number in the tens of millions, a sizable coalition that claims a number of white evangelicals but draws from other religious groups as well.

And while QAnon believers are vastly outnumbered by those who reject or doubt their claims, researchers say they represent a politically motivated worldview that diverges sharply from the views of other Americans when assessing current events, such as the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol last year.

The study, compiled from a series of surveys conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute in 2021, gauged Americans’ attachment to QAnon, whose followers are often loyal to former President Donald Trump, by asking whether respondents agreed with three statements associated with the movement:

The government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex-trafficking operation.
There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.
Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save the country.

Those who completely or mostly agreed with these statements were dubbed QAnon believers, those who mostly disagreed were described as doubters and those who completely disagreed as rejecters. Researchers discovered 16% of American adults — roughly 41 million people — were QAnon believers, while 48% were QAnon doubters and 34% rejecters.

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Study: QAnon draws from several faith groups, numbers more than 40 million (Religion News Service, February 24, 2022)

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:31:01am

re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

what’s with all the bikinis festooning the background?

Because boobs are American, or something like that? I have no idea, really.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:32:01am

re: #266 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nope, it’s definitely Christian. Even Christians say so.

There aren’t 41MM atheists in the country.

I think their definition of “atheist” is “anyone who does not regularly attend a Christian church”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:32:53am

re: #267 Nerdy Fish

Because boobs are American, or something like that? I have no idea, really.

Beer soaked bikinis = a sight and smell no Real American Male can resist.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:34:16am

re: #262 Dave In Austin

What’s the deal with all the bra’s bra?

Apparently trans women wear them?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:34:39am

re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think their definition of “atheist” is “anyone who does not regularly attend a Christian church”

The idea “a cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles” automatically excludes the non-religious. Satan is a Christian and Muslim figure.

By definition to believe in Satan, you must be a Christian or Muslim (the small number of cranks who belong to Anton LeVay’s Randian Church of Satan notwithstanding).

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:38:39am

The Nazis still do not realize that calling your boss the c-word is a fireable offense:

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:39:29am

re: #267 Nerdy Fish

Because boobs are American, or something like that? I have no idea, really.

American Jesus invented B00bs, the AR15, and pick-up trucks.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:41:10am

re: #270 Dr. Matt

Apparently trans women wear them?

Look, if all these red-blooded American women want to walk around topless, that’s fine with me. They should probably realize that it’s a crime in many places, though, so they’re probably going to wind up getting arrested.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:41:30am

re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

QAnon is secular Fundamentalism.

No. It’s not.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:42:42am

re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And Biblical Literalism is actually a fairly recent trend, one which is embraced by Fundamentalism.

Even the Pope sees no inherent conflict between Evolution and Creation, one describes the method, the other the meaning behind it.

But if you are a Biblical Literalist, then you have to reject Evolution along with all the science that supports it, along with history and even logic, as the Bible contradicts itself in several places (including giving two different versions of the Ten Commandments)

Biblical literalism is the overwhelming majority of Christianity’s history, only suppressed for a relatively short time by the Enlightenment. Christians didn’t figuratively hang witches or crusade against Muslims and other Christians.

Most Protestants don’t care what the Pope thinks. A lot of Catholics don’t care what the Pope thinks either.

Biblical literalism requires you to reject a whole lot more than evolution (cough Scopes Monkey Trial). You have to reject everything from the heliocentric model of the solar system (the prosecution calls Galileo to the stand), to history (Your Honour, I enter into evidence this map of Lebanon, showing the city of Tyre still stands), to the secular US Constitution (the hated Establishment Clause and No Religious Tests Clause).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:43:31am

re: #275 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

No. It’s not.

I meant in the sense that it appeals to the same sort of blind faith and desire to believe what we already want to believe in. And to do so passionately, in public and at great volume.

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A Cranky One  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:44:03am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:44:52am
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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:45:53am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

Buying $100 worth of beer you’re “boycotting”. Pure MAGA. Well played Nazis.

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That many of these boycott tweets involve shooting g guns is …problematic
Why is the gun necessary for the boycott message? Its not
It’s an excuse

It reinforces all those other unjustified recent shootings
The wrong doorbell
the wrong driveway
The food delivery in Florida, wrong driveway redux
The leaf blower

Etc
The gun is the problem because the gun is the message

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:48:19am

re: #280 Dangerman

That many of these boycott tweets involve shooting g guns is …problematic
Why is the gun necessary for the boycott message? Its not
It’s an excuse

It reinforces all those other unjustified recent shootings
The wrong doorbell
the wrong driveway
The food delivery in Florida, wrong driveway redux
The leaf blower

Etc
The gun is the problem because the gun is the message

Yep. It’s part of the normalization of gun culture. Shooting things you don’t like is “natural,” “American,” “masculine/feminine,” etc. That “things you don’t like” can be extended to “people you don’t like” is left unspoken, but heavily implied. They want a society in which you can be shot for any transgression whatsoever, because they think that will result in no transgressions ever occurring. They don’t seem to realize that it will result in everybody being shot at all the time, because people are complicated.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:48:48am

re: #261 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s because conservatives have to lie. They are compelled to. Facts have a liberal bias.

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They lie to justify what they’re trying to get

Doesn’t have to make sense
Or be consistent
It just has to work
And it does

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:50:06am

re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And Biblical Literalism is actually a fairly recent trend, one which is embraced by Fundamentalism.

Even the Pope sees no inherent conflict between Evolution and Creation; one describes the method, the other the meaning behind it.

But if you are a Biblical Literalist, then you have to reject Evolution along with all the science that supports it, along with history and even logic, as the Bible contradicts itself in several places (including giving two different versions of the Ten Commandments)

It will always come back to which “the bible”? //

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:51:32am

re: #265 Nerdy Fish

I saw an article that said that Anheuser-Busch’s sales did momentarily drop due to the announced boycott, but these political boycotts never last long. I know they quickly apologized for their ad, which is mostly just dumb pandering, but still, I doubt AB InBev is seriously hurting from this (and as we’ve seen, most of the “boycotters” wound up buying other AB InBev products anyway, LOL).

Our goal was to hurt the brand not the company
Checkmate libtards
//

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:53:34am

Imagine a world where you think criminals and Nazis are truthtellers:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:54:54am

re: #280 Dangerman

The gun is the problem because the gun is the message

Brandishing and firing guns should be protected political speech under the First Amendment

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jeffreyw  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:55:56am

Ham & Eggs

Good morning!

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:56:44am

re: #281 Nerdy Fish

Yep. It’s part of the normalization of gun culture. Shooting things you don’t like is “natural,” “American,” “masculine/feminine,” etc. That “things you don’t like” can be extended to “people you don’t like” is left unspoken, but heavily implied. They want a society in which you can be shot for any transgression whatsoever, because they think that will result in no transgressions ever occurring. They don’t seem to realize that it will result in everybody being shot at all the time, because people are complicated.

+1

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:56:56am

India’s BJP party has removed evolution from school education.

Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks (Al Jazeera, April 14, 2023)

New Delhi, India - In 2018, a year before the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stormed back to power for a second term, a federal education minister said he believed Indians were the descendants of Hindu “rishis” (sages) and not monkeys.

Satya Pal Singh, who was the minister of state for human resource development, said Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was “scientifically wrong”.

“It needs to change in the school and college curriculum. Since man has been seen on Earth, he has always been a man. Nobody saw an ape turning into a man,” he said.

By the 2021-2022 academic year, Darwin’s theory was quietly removed from the examination syllabus for the students of Class 9 and Class 10. By 2022-2023, the topic of evolution was completely purged from school textbooks, teachers and education experts told Al Jazeera.

Now, millions of school students will not know who Darwin was or what his theory says - unless they opt for biology in Class 11 and Class 12.

(more)

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:58:49am

re: #287 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Do you deliver?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:58:57am

re: #289 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

India’s BJP party has removed evolution from school education.

Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks (Al Jazeera, April 14, 2023)

(more)

India is the sort of Theocratic Paradise that our Fundamentalists dream of

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:59:37am

re: #280 Dangerman

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:01:58am

re: #286 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Brandishing and firing guns should be protected political speech under the First Amendment

i do want to be clear
i have no problem with these videos - in general
as long as they’re controlling their weapons at all times, etc

brandishing/firing etc OFF the range, is a whole different thing. it would directly demonstrate irresponsbility, recklessness and being out of control.

should be punishable by losing their freedom, finances, and future, etc..

however, i think the message of these shoot em up videos is wrong - and that’s a separate topic

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:06:34am

re: #285 Dr. Matt

Imagine a world where you think criminals and Nazis are truthtellers:

Whistleblowing from a journalistic sense is tricky: if it is exposing illegal activity, then it is justifiable.

But if in doing so it compromises other (embarrassing but nonetheless completely legal) classified information, then it makes you a lawbreaker.

That is what people like Assange, Snowden and Jack Texeira overlooked, especially the latter as he was not even pretending to blow a whistle, just waving his dick

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:06:43am

Baptist News, April 26, 2023

Five ‘Christian influencers’ still face defamation case by former Dominion executive

Despite the much-publicized settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems, five “Christian influencers” still face defamation lawsuits brought against them by Eric Coomer, former director of product strategy and security for Dominion.

A recent article by Steve Rabey for MinistryWatch documents and explains Coomer’s case against the five conservative Christian personalities who he claims defamed him with their blatant lies about the 2020 presidential election.

Coomer says he was doxed, faced death threats and had to repeatedly change residences to protect his family’s safety because of these Christian antagonists.

“MinistryWatch has confirmed that Coomer’s defamation lawsuits against 15 people and entities continue, but have been slowed by pre-trial jockeying,” Rabey reported.

He quoted Steve Skarnulis, an attorney with the Colorado law firm Cain and Skarnulis who affirmed: “They’re ongoing” but declined to offer further information.

These lawsuits are distinct from Dominion’s claim against Fox News and another case still pending against Fox News by the voting machine company Smartmatic.

(more)

One is Eric Metaxas, who has millions of followers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:09:09am

re: #293 Dangerman

however, i think the message of these shoot em up videos is wrong - and that’s a separate topic

yes, venting one’s rage by shooting things up has been a common topic in GOP campaign videos for decades now, generally involving the candidate firing a semi-automatic weapon at some some symbol of government or a hostile ideology.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:12:01am

Another day, another pastor goes down for child rape, another Not A Drag Queen.

(WSAW, Wausau, Wisc., April 25, 2023)

Plea deal likely for former Plover youth pastor accused of child sexual assault

PLOVER, Wis. (WSAW) — The former Plover youth pastor charged with child sexual assault is scheduled to reach a plea agreement in his case this summer.

Jordan Huffman, 52, is charged with eight counts including first-degree sexual assault of a child, child enticement and contributing to the delinquency of a child. Huffman was arrested last August in Florida. He was extradited to Wisconsin and remained in custody until September. He’s free on a $100,000 cash bond. According to online court records, Huffman will be monitored by GPS or electronic monitoring.

Court documents state the alleged victim said the crimes began in 2017 when the victim was 12 years old. Authorities were told Huffman was working as a youth pastor at Woodlands Church in Plover when he was contacted to mentor the victim. The incidents were reported by the alleged victim’s father in June. Court documents stated the assaults happened more than a dozen times over a two-year span.

(more)

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:13:45am

re: #287 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Two country bumpkins decided to leave their little hamlet and go to the big city to make it big. They got to the city and were amazed at how large it was. They couldn’t walk from one side of it to the other like they could back home, so they decided to buy some transportation.

They went to a car dealership and were looking around. The salesman came up and asked if he could help them. They said, “We are looking for a car to get around town with.”. The salesman asked them, “How much do you want to spend?”. They replied, “We have about $16.”. The salesman laughed and then said, “I can’t sell you car for that little money. But we do have a camel out back that we took as a trade in. We need to get rid of it. I think the manager would let it go for $16.”

The bumpkins said, “We don’t know how to drive a camel.”. The salesman assured them, “This camel is well trained. Point it to where you want to go and it will stop at red lights and go at green lights. It should get you where you want to get to.”.

The bumpkins bought the camel and rode off. I few days later the salesman was driving to work and saw the two bumpkins walking along the road. He picked them up and asked them, “What happened to the camel I sold you?”. The bumpkins told him, “It worked fine the first couple days. But yesterday we were stopped at a red light and these guys pulled up beside us in a fancy car. We heard one guy in the car say “look at the 2 assholes on that camel”, and when we climbed off to look the light turned green and we haven’t seen the camel since.”

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TarHellion  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:15:22am

Par is acceptable. Supposed to rain buckets tonight. Just a few showers and a chilly 54 at the moment. Just workin’ for the weekend. Be cool Lizard peeps!

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:16:27am

Have the GQP Nazis started shooting up their Fox “news” swag?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:17:58am

re: #229 lawhawk

That guy’s bedroom was like a homage to ISIS or terrorism chic.

The camo wallpaper is just HIDEOUS.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:18:08am

Vicksburg News, April 25, 2023. Not Antifa.

A preacher in Fayette, Mississippi has been arrested and charged with one count of conspiracy to commit arson.

Reverend Elvis E. Colenburg was arrested on Tuesday by Fayette PD and received a $20,000 bond. His arrest comes after a home was burned down on Shannon Street which also resulted in the arrest of 65-year-old Charles E. Oliver who was charged with arson. A church van was also destroyed in the arson.

(more, includes photographs)

A Preacher in Fayette has been arrested for conspiracy to commit arson

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lawhawk  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:19:16am

re: #239 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Specifically, it’s because he’s got a trans daughter.

Guy who was a hero to many in South Florida because of the Heat’s championship run is being run out of Florida because they’re a bunch of bigots.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:19:19am

re: #259 Dr. Matt

Buying $100 worth of beer you’re “boycotting”. Pure MAGA. Well played Nazis.

I’m guessing she takes off her patriotic bikini top and they shoot that next along with the other bras and panties they have on their fantasy trophy wall.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:20:22am

re: #285 Dr. Matt

Imagine a world where you think criminals and Nazis are truthtellers:

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Blue checkmark = crackpot. Elon is fleecing dummies who insist on other people hearing their stupid ideas.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:21:30am

re: #299 TarHellion

Par is acceptable. [snip]

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:21:45am

re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I meant in the sense that it appeals to the same sort of blind faith and desire to believe what we already want to believe in. And to do so passionately, in public and at great volume.

It’s right-wing Christians doing what they do.

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TarHellion  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:22:39am

re: #302 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Elvis has burned the building!

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Birb today
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Nojay UK  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:25:50am

re: #308 TarHellion

“Elvis has left the building.” Someone in the audience muttered “But he ate everything else in the place.”

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:26:59am

By the skin of my teeth:

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:28:48am

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

An Ivermectin Influencer Died. Now His Followers Are Worried About Their Own ‘Severe’ Symptoms.

Just saw this story. Let me clear my throat: LOL!!

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:30:07am

re: #306 Eventual Carrion

3/6 for me this morning

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Took a minute to wake up my inner Spock but I made par.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:34:06am

Jerry Springer just died, according to the tweets.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:34:52am

re: #314 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Jerry Springer just died, according to the tweets.

wlwt.com
cincinnati.com

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:35:11am

re: #314 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Jerry Springer just died, according to the tweets.

Did they get a DNA test to be sure?

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:35:54am

re: #316 Eventual Carrion

Did they get a DNA test to be sure?

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:37:18am

Jerry Springer died. Cancer.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:37:46am

MRFF Gets Commander to Immediately Put the Kibosh on Unit’s Plan to Change Name to “Crusaders” and Use Gruesome Decapitated Head Artwork (Military Religious Freedom Foundation, April 26, 2023)

MRFF Special Ops client’s description of Crusader artwork that had been voted for by unit:

“It shows a picture of a crusader in his armor with a cross on the front in red color holding up his sword in one hand while standing on a mountain top. The sky was a big American flag with 2 lighting bolts forming a Christian cross. In his other hand was the severed head of his enemy. Dripping with blood and with black hair and a long hook nose. Our boss said this was supposed to be the head of Satan but how would anyone even know that? He said it would put fear into the hearts of our enemies. And this one was the least gross and obnoxious of the three we voted on.”

(more)

Copy of E-mail to MRFF

I am one of the several military special operators who came to the MRFF for help about our Team Leader trying to change the name of our unit to The Crusaders.

First off I am a Christian and all of the others who joined me in asking for the MRFF’s help are also.

Our Team Leader also wanted a new patch for the new Crusader name. He had 3 of them drawn up and we voted on the best. Let me say that many of us including our (Senior NCO’s title withheld) were totally against this FUBAR idea of the new name and patch. But in our world defying such a “suggestion” by the guy in charge of our war fighting unit can get you jacked up and shitcanned forever. And this is why we called for the MRFF.

The patch drawing that got the most votes was the least offensive one and yet it still sucked big time. I can’t send a photo of it w/o getting ID’ed but I will describe it.

It shows a picture of a crusader in his armor with a cross on the front in red color holding up his sword in one hand while standing on a mountain top. The sky was a big American flag with 2 lighting bolts forming a Christian cross. In his other hand was the severed head of his enemy. Dripping with blood and with black hair and a long hook nose [note from me: Christian antisemitism]. Our boss said this was supposed to be the head of Satan but how would anyone even know that? He said it would put fear into the hearts of our enemies. And this one was the least gross and obnoxious of the three we voted on.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:45:34am

re: #314 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Jerry Springer just died, according to the tweets.

Jerry Springer, legendary talk show host, dead at 79 (WLWT-TV, Cincinnati, half an hour ago)

Outside of his famed chair-throwing, tabloid-style television show, Springer was also known for his political chops and background.

He entered politics with an unsuccessful congressional race in 1970. He was elected to Cincinnati Council the following year, resigned in disgrace three years later in a Northern Kentucky sex scandal, then was re-elected a year later, demonstrating his popular appeal despite the fresh baggage.

He served as Cincinnati’s 56th mayor in 1977.

His lone attempt at higher office came in 1982, when he took a run at the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor and lost.

After that, he left the political candidate track and became a news anchor and commentator at WLWT in Cincinnati before taking on a new role as a talk show host in the early ’90s. After serving the city of Cincinnati as a newsman, Springer bid farewell to the Queen City in 1993.

In recent years, Springer has made a splash with his podcast “The Jerry Springer Podcast,” and was also the star of the courtroom show “Judge Jerry.”

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No cause of death was given by his family, other than to say he died peacefully at home.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:49:51am

re: #320 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So are his fellow talk show hosts going to have their audiences break out into fighting in remembrance of Mr. Bad Taste?

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steve_davis  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:51:47am

re: #32 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

The all time champion for coincidental birthdays is February 12th, 1809. Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born that day.

1564. the year when two of the greatest minds in history were born. and then Newton is born the year that Galileo dies. I always found that kind of cool.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:52:07am

re: #303 lawhawk

Specifically, it’s because he’s got a trans daughter.

Guy who was a hero to many in South Florida because of the Heat’s championship run is being run out of Florida because they’re a bunch of bigots.

because he’s not ‘performing’ at their demand anymore

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:54:28am

re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

India is the sort of Theocratic Paradise that our Fundamentalists dream of

Complete with oppression of anyone not a believer in the dominant religion.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:54:42am

re: #305 Crush White Nationalism

Blue checkmark = crackpot. Elon is fleecing dummies who insist on other people hearing their stupid ideas.

The Twitter Blues

- if all a blue check mark means now is that you can afford to waste $8/mo, it isn’t much of a status symbol.

- some of the celebrities who have recently gotten their blue check mark back for free, don’t want it anymore… Some are thinking of going further and suing Twitter to remove the unwanted check marks claiming that they imply a false endorsement of the product.

but genius, right?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:56:38am

re: #325 Dangerman

The Twitter Blues

- if all a blue check mark means now is that you can afford to waste $8/mo, it isn’t much of a status symbol.

- some of the celebrities who have recently gotten their blue check mark back for free, don’t want it anymore… Some are thinking of going further and suing Twitter to remove the unwanted check marks claiming that they imply a false endorsement of the product.

but genius, right?

I’ll be happier when the media at-large decides that Twitter happenings (and what is posted there) is no longer worthy of any media attention at all. Once the cites and links to it disappear then it has simply converted itself into another echo chamber.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:02:51am

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

They misspelled “LIES”

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:05:21am
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BigPapa  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:05:56am

re: #89 Teukka

I did not see that coming.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:07:04am

re: #316 Eventual Carrion

Did they get a DNA test to be sure?

Maury Povich was the DNA test guy. He’s still around.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:07:37am

Last week’s sermon at Sugar Creek Baptist Church in Sugar Land, Texas. It is the church’s Vimeo channel.

Pastor Mark Hartman, preaching the New Testament passage Ephesians 1:1-6 on God choosing you, compares that with his wife choosing him, starting at 32:35.

He tells during his sermon to men on how to get dates to use his strategy: “I convinced her to marry me when she was so young she didn’t know any better.”

Part 1 – This Changes Everything

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:09:42am

re: #331 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wanted to ask you something: Is it possible the Nebraska GOP could use this bullshit investigation of Megan Hunt to expel her from the Unicameral?

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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:13:27am
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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:15:26am

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:15:46am

re: #327 The Pie Overlord!

They misspelled “LIES”

Jebus. That’s where we are now: Fox = Liberal? FFS. The right are irreparable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:17:08am

re: #322 steve_davis

1564. the year when two of the greatest minds in history were born. and then Newton is born the year that Galileo dies. I always found that kind of cool.

My middle daughter was born the day that John Entwhislte of the Who kicked it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:17:40am

re: #295 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Baptist News, April 26, 2023

Five ‘Christian influencers’ still face defamation case by former Dominion executive

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One is Eric Metaxas, who has millions of followers.

I hope Dominion makes every last one of them homeless and penniless.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:17:42am

re: #324 Florida Panhandler

Complete with oppression of anyone not a believer in the dominant religion.

Including oppression even of those who believe (the lower castes)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:19:51am

re: #332 Eclectic Cyborg

Wanted to ask you something: Is it possible the Nebraska GOP could use this bullshit investigation of Megan Hunt to expel her from the Unicameral?

It is possible. It is an ethics investigation. Citizens of the state can provide evidence to the Unicameral’s ethics board, the board makes a recommendation, and the senators vote on it.

It is noteworthy (well, not really) that the Catholic lawyer went after the atheist bi-sexual single mother, rather than the Christian leader of the filibuster (or any of the other supporters, who are also all Christians).

His claim is that she will somehow financially gain by using Medicaid for him to receive gender-affirming care. Nebraska law specifically prohibits Medicaid funding in being used that way, and I don’t think Sen. Hunt qualifies for Medicaid anyway.

For his part, Speaker John Arch thinks it’s BS. We’ll see how much pull he has over the Rs. Megan Hunt in standing to protest the request for the investigation called out the so-called centrists for being silent on the issue.

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danarchy  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:20:57am

re: #326 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I’ll be happier when the media at-large decides that Twitter happenings (and what is posted there) is no longer worthy of any media attention at all. Once the cites and links to it disappear then it has simply converted itself into another echo chamber.

I would argue that it never was. The laziest “news” articles ever were the “look at this twitter exchange” or “Look how pissed twitter users are” articles that were basically just reposts of tweete with some filler.

Twitter was never a representation of the real world and now it is even worse.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:22:33am

re: #333 Teukka

Embryo=Slave. That’s quite the distinction.

I guess that fits with wingnuts wanting to put children to work in mines or such though. Might as well get them while their really young.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:24:49am

re: #340 danarchy

I would argue that it never was. The laziest “news” articles ever were the “look at this twitter exchange” or “Look how pissed twitter users are” articles that were basically just reposts of tweete with some filler…

Remember when news organizations saw investigative journalist salaries an unnecessary drain on expenses and simply got some intern to mine the Internet for trending stories?

Right about the time that people like Drudge and Breitbart figured out that all you had to do was float some story out there and it would get picked up as #TrendingonTwitter and develop a life of its own.

And you wonder how news and political discourse has reached such a low point in America and it is still on its way down down down….

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:27:11am
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:27:54am

re: #343 Crush White Nationalism

Motion to remove to state court (or a motion to recuse) in 3… 2… 1…

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:30:08am

re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My middle daughter was born the day that John Entwhislte of the Who kicked it.

My middle son’s birthday is Sept. 11th. Attacks happened on his 10th BDay.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:31:35am

I’m going to slide off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later.

(5:21)

Dream On - Postmodern Jukebox ft. Morgan James (Aerosmith Cover)

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:31:38am

re: #341 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Embryo=Slave. That’s quite the distinction.

I guess that fits with wingnuts wanting to put children to work in mines or such though. Might as well get them while their really young.

But, hey, they’re recognizing embryos as people, at least, amirite? Pro-life!////

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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:32:08am

re: #341 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Embryo=Slave. That’s quite the distinction.

I guess that fits with wingnuts wanting to put children to work in mines or such though. Might as well get them while their really young.

I wonder what’s next? Recriminalization of miscegenation?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:32:49am

So much for the hand wringing about Biden being too old or unpopular.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:34:44am

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:35:57am

re: #340 danarchy

I would argue that it never was. The laziest “news” articles ever were the “look at this twitter exchange” or “Look how pissed twitter users are” articles that were basically just reposts of tweete with some filler.

Twitter was never a representation of the real world and now it is even worse.

Point taken. I guess I await that being widely accepted as true and accurate.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:37:09am

re: #341 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Embryo=Slave. That’s quite the distinction.

I guess that fits with wingnuts wanting to put children to work in mines or such though. Might as well get them while their really young.

Of course, once that embryo attempts to implant inside a woman it immediately assumes supremacy.
/

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:38:09am

re: #352 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Of course, once that embryo attempts to implant inside a woman it immediately assumes supremacy.
/

But you still can’t get life insurance on it.

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Mattand  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:38:28am

re: #349 No Malarkey!

So much for the hand wringing about Biden being too old or unpopular.

Even factoring in a huge chunk of Americans are in a political cult, I don’t get how a President overseeing a 3.3% unemployment rate can somehow only muster 51% approval.

The amount of functional morons that vote in this country is staggering.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:39:05am

re: #346 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She’s off key…. Badly.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:39:36am

re: #354 Mattand

Even factoring in a huge chunk of Americans are in a political cult, I don’t get how a President overseeing a 3.3% unemployment rate can somehow only muster 51% approval.

The amount of functional morons that vote in this country is staggering.

Tell that to my brainwashed MAGAT relatives who insist Joe is wrecking the country and destroying the economy with his “Marxist” policies.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:39:55am

re: #354 Mattand

Even factoring in a huge chunk of Americans are in a political cult, I don’t get how a President overseeing a 3.3% unemployment rate can somehow only muster 51% approval.

The amount of functional morons that vote in this country is staggering.

It bears repeating that at least 30% of the country will disapprove of him, no matter what he does, simply because he exists and he isn’t Donald J. Trump.

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:41:01am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:42:39am

re: #358 Captain Ron

politics is about maintaining ideological purity and integrity for its own sake.

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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:42:47am

re: #350 Eventual Carrion

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Which implies that crocodiles live even longer since they’ll see you after a while…

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:45:03am

re: #358 Captain Ron

Did we expect Greenwald to tweet anything else?

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:46:20am

Got the birdie!

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:47:18am

Gee last night I dreamed I was playing chess with Bela Lugosi which I thought was really cool.

Other folks dreams are out of the Twilight Zone…

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:48:03am
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:49:07am

Joe Biden is a senile old man in the throes of dementia but yet still manages to be a sinister Communist mastermind. This is the state of MAGA “thinking”

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Mattand  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:50:15am

re: #357 Nerdy Fish

It bears repeating that at least 30% of the country will disapprove of him, no matter what he does, simply because he exists and he isn’t Donald J. Trump.

Yeah, I allowed for that. It just blows my mind that people are always like “Herp durp, I vote my pocketbook” and then when presented with evidence that Democrats are better stewards of the economy, the Dem can barely get over 50%.

I looked up inflation yesterday. Even acknowledging that It’s still high, it’s been steadily dropping: 7% in 2021 to 5% currently. Wouldn’t shock me to see it as low as 2.5% next year.

One thing I’ve noticed we’ve been blessedly free from is the asinine “real unemployment” number that the idiots trot out when Dems are in office. So there’s that, at least.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:51:23am

re: #335 Dr. Matt

Jebus. That’s where we are now: Fox = Liberal? FFS. The right are irreparable.

they do not need to be consistent
or logical
or reasonable
or make sense
or be non-hypocritical

they need to be right - as in correct.
in this very moment
so anything they say is toward that end
wont agree with yesterday or even a minute ago
won’t be valid tomorrow

just right now

and right now there is no other way to explain (to them, for them) what fox did or why

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:51:32am

re: #365 The Pie Overlord!

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jeffreyw  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:52:40am

re: #290 Dr. Matt

Do you deliver?

No, but walk-ins sans reservations are always welcome.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:54:33am

re: #369 jeffreyw

No, but walk-ins sans reservations are always welcome.

NO?! You’re getting one star Yelp review. Sorry.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:54:41am

re: #339 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is possible. It is an ethics investigation. Citizens of the state can provide evidence to the Unicameral’s ethics board, the board makes a recommendation, and the senators vote on it.

It is noteworthy (well, not really) that the Catholic lawyer went after the atheist bi-sexual single mother, rather than the Christian leader of the filibuster (or any of the other supporters, who are also all Christians).

His claim is that she will somehow financially gain by using Medicaid for him to receive gender-affirming care. Nebraska law specifically prohibits Medicaid funding in being used that way, and I don’t think Sen. Hunt qualifies for Medicaid anyway.

For his part, Speaker John Arch thinks it’s BS. We’ll see how much pull he has over the Rs. Megan Hunt in standing to protest the request for the investigation called out the so-called centrists for being silent on the issue.

and in the blink of any eye threat of expulsion is the new normal
because of they have the votes, they can

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:55:40am

re: #340 danarchy

I would argue that it never was. The laziest “news” articles ever were the “look at this twitter exchange” or “Look how pissed twitter users are” articles that were basically just reposts of tweete with some filler.

Twitter was never a representation of the real world and now it is even worse.

i dont know how much the numbers have changed since 1999 2019

Only 22% of Americans are on Twitter at all. Also, 80% of the Twitter content is created by 10% of its users. In case you don’t have a calculator handy, this means that 2% of Americans create 80% of the content on Twitter. So Twitter is not representative of anything other than the 2% of the population that spends its whole day tweeting. Yet the media act like if something is trending on Twitter, then the whole country is talking about it and it is important. Nope and nope again.

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JC1  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:57:29am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I signed up to Mastodon the other week mostly out of curiosity. Have not spent much time there and and really clueless on how to use it in any manner that suits my interests.

I’m curious about blue sky, Jack’s new project.

Tinfoil hat time: Jack convinced Elon to buy Twitter, knowing that Elon would inevitably fly it into a mountain. This would remove Blue Sky’s biggest competitor, and create a vacuum that Blue Sky can fill.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:57:31am

re: #343 Crush White Nationalism

for all but the most fervent two or three trumpist judges, desantis et al position is untenable

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:59:23am

re: #372 Dangerman

i dont know how much the numbers have changed since 1999

I mean, that’s a long time ago, but I wouldn’t expect the numbers to have gone from 22% to 90%.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:00:26am

re: #354 Mattand

Even factoring in a huge chunk of Americans are in a political cult, I don’t get how a President overseeing a 3.3% unemployment rate can somehow only muster 51% approval.

The amount of functional morons that vote in this country is staggering.

see above, 63% of R’s would vote for a criminally convicted trump

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:02:38am

Oh shit, this is about a mile away from me.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:03:34am

re: #375 Nerdy Fish

I mean, that’s a long time ago, but I wouldn’t expect the numbers to have gone from 22% to 90%.

Twitter didn’t exist in 1999.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:05:03am

re: #359 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

politics is about maintaining ideological purity and integrity for its own sake.

democratic / representational politics depends upon the recognition of the legitimacy of the opposition.

democratic politics is negotiating agreements between groups having different interests with the object of finding a common way forward.

it is a clash of value systems, each of which is in some way valid; a competition between basically well-intentioned people who see the world differently.

honest disagreements and arguments are good *if* they lead to statesmanship.
Statesmanship *is* compromise.

otherwise it’s all just theater.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:05:45am
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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:07:43am

re: #366 Mattand

Yeah, I allowed for that. It just blows my mind that people are always like “Herp durp, I vote my pocketbook” and then when presented with evidence that Democrats are better stewards of the economy, the Dem can barely get over 50%.

I looked up inflation yesterday. Even acknowledging that It’s still high, it’s been steadily dropping: 7% in 2021 to 5% currently. Wouldn’t shock me to see it as low as 2.5% next year.

One thing I’ve noticed we’ve blessedly free from is the asinine “real unemployment” number that the idiots trot when Dems are in office. So there’s that, at least.

biden has presided over one of the steepest/quickest declines in unemployment

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:10:11am

re: #380 Joe Bacon

“Expressed interest in a 3-year-old and an 18-month-old.”

I think I’m gonna throw up.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:11:34am

re: #221 Nerdy Fish

You’re quite right about this, but it’s been clear since at least the Obama Administration that these people are not in favor of democracy. They can see their majority slipping away, but they refuse to give up their power as would happen in a proper democracy. Instead, they’ve opted into creeping fascism in order to ensure that the “morally right” side can continue to rule over the “morally wrong” majority. It’s illustrating what many of us have known for some time: They are only interested in theocracy. When they were winning, all was well and good. Now that they’re not winning, it’s time to change the rules.

Some may be interested in theocracy but far more (see Trump as an example or Peter Thiel) are interested in white supremacy and oligarchy : keeping wealth in their hands and preventing others from challenging them.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:14:52am

re: #375 Nerdy Fish

I mean, that’s a long time ago, but I wouldn’t expect the numbers to have gone from 22% to 90%.

depending on source, maybe 42m more users now than 2019
that could up the 22% to 25% of the population

dont know what that does to the 10% ‘engagement’

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:15:20am

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:15:26am
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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:15:52am

re: #378 Eclectic Cyborg

Twitter didn’t exist in 1999.

my mistake - i had the quote tagged as ‘190822’

so 2019

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:16:20am

FFS. Coming from the doofus who posted a fake story about Nancy Pelosi’s husband.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:17:25am

re: #232 Belafon

Possibly, but we still hear of families kicking out children who are gay.

Definitely true — Alan Keyes being one; but there are others who change their views when it affects them personally.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:17:34am

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:19:30am

re: #388 Dr. Matt

Convince the people and let the chips fall where they may.

no
‘convincing’ is not any kind of truth or accuracy standard

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JC1  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:20:33am

re: #354 Mattand

Even factoring in a huge chunk of Americans are in a political cult, I don’t get how a President overseeing a 3.3% unemployment rate can somehow only muster 51% approval.

The amount of functional morons that vote in this country is staggering.

Inflation. Many of the jobs are crap and people have trouble making ends meet. General cynicism.
Biden has exceeded my expectations.

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austin_blue  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:20:38am

((As Stonekettle says:

“No more self-awareness than a dog licking his balls on a public sidewalk.”))

“On Wednesday, Carlson shared a cryptic two-minute video on his Twitter account that did not explain his exit, but offered sweeping complaints about the state of American discourse. He said what he noticed ‘when you step away from the noise for a few days,’ is how nice some people are.

‘The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are,” he added. “They’re completely irrelevant. They mean nothing. In five years we won’t even remember we heard them. Trust me, as somebody who participated.’ “

I got this from The Guardian because CNN is run by idiots.

theguardian.com

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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:22:58am

re: #391 Dangerman

no
‘convincing’ is not any kind of truth or accuracy standard

These people believe in the utter heresy which is that truth is defined by who is the loudest or convinces the most people… While it is always defined by reality.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:23:08am

re: #390 The Pie Overlord!

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

What gets me is that ONE PARENT COMPLAINING cancels the field trip for the WHOLE CLASS. Why in the ever-loving fuck should one parent being a snowflake mean my kid can’t have nice things? In what world is that just?

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:24:13am

File this under: FAFO

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:24:36am

re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thread, two tweets, first video 2:08, second part 1:29

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The same people who don’t care when one child kills another with a gun because it’s G-d’s will don’t care that women are dying — because it’s G-d’s will.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:27:30am

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:29:36am

re: #390 The Pie Overlord!

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

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So if ONE parent complained, their child (or children) don’t go on the trip. Everyone else shouldn’t lose out because of one moron.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:34:26am

re: #396 Dr. Matt

File this under: FAFO

They are smart to settle.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:35:36am

re: #399 Eclectic Cyborg

So if ONE parent complained, their child (or children) don’t go on the trip. Everyone else shouldn’t lose out because of one moron.

And that’s how the school should explain it.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:38:31am

re: #395 Nerdy Fish

What gets me is that ONE PARENT COMPLAINING cancels the field trip for the WHOLE CLASS. Why in the ever-loving fuck should one parent being a snowflake mean my kid can’t have nice things? In what world is that just?

Exactly. Leave that parents kid(s) back at school and take the rest.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:39:50am

re: #398 darthstar

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Fishing reel for Blue whales

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:42:36am

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:43:17am

re: #322 steve_davis

1564. the year when two of the greatest minds in history were born. and then Newton is born the year that Galileo dies. I always found that kind of cool.

I was talking about the same DAY rather than the same year. Galileo and Shakespeare were both born in 1564, but about two months apart, Galileo on February 15 and Shakespeare on April 26. A pretty good year just the same.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:44:23am

Her not facing charges for nearly 70 years proves Critical Race Theory is real.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:45:07am

re: #328 Captain Ron

I got re-districted into Schweikert’s district. Not happy about it, nor are all the others. He just barely eeked out a win last time against a complete nobody.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:46:37am

re: #311 Dr. Matt

By the skin of my teeth:

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:49:49am
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jeffreyw  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:54:02am

re: #370 Dr. Matt

NO?! You’re getting one star Yelp review. Sorry.

Sorry. Had to implement the no deliveries when a customer refused to return the mason jar that I sent with the apple butter. Needs must.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:07:07am
The Supreme Court is speaking with one voice in response to recent criticism of the justices’ ethical practices: No need to fix what isn’t broken,” the AP reports.

There is undoubtedly the appearance of impropriety.

That *is* an ethics problem.
it most definitely needs fixing.

Further no one should be the arbiter of their own ethical purity

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:09:23am

My new toothpick dispenser. I assume he’s sad because his whole existence is just about handing out toothpicks.

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Dizzy  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:15:55am

re: #412 Crush White Nationalism

My new toothpick dispenser. I assume he’s sad because his whole existence is just about handing out toothpicks.

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YouTube

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:17:27am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:19:35am

You know if I was Tucker, I probably would have just laid low and chilled for a few weeks. Take a break from the grind, recharge, etc.

But nope, he’s right the fuck back at it.

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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:22:29am

So did you hear about how three dinosaurs were in a car accident?

The raptor spins, the triceratops somersaults, and the tyrannosaurus… wrecks.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:25:57am

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lawhawk  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:26:51am

re: #417 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I was all amped up for dad jokes, and you came along…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:29:36am

re: #379 Dangerman

otherwise it’s all just theater.

and it’s all about playing to the cheap seats ‘cause we can’t win without ‘em

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:34:25am

re: #414 Captain Ron

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Ignore the words and the topics
All he’s doing is testing the waters to see if he has engagement / a following

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:34:31am

re: #418 lawhawk

I was all amped up for dad jokes, and you came along…

It was short.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:38:21am

As you know, I live in Ontario where we have public healthcare, and every time we get a ‘conservative’ Provincial government they do sneaky things to dismantle it.

For example I have a couple of cysts I can’t get removed because a previous ‘conservative’ government declared them to be non-reconstructive plastic surgery not to be covered by OHIP.

I just received from my healthcare provider notice of the latest fuckery from ‘conservatives’. My provider can no longer do on-line bookings because they no longer receive funding for it from the provincial government. I read the notice without the tiniest bit of surprise.

Have I mentioned how much I need this place? Without it I’d lose all faith in humanity.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:39:20am

re: #421 wrenchwench

It was short.

I’m shocked

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:39:48am

re: #363 Joe Bacon

I wonder if most of those Raptured are simply being called to Heaven so they can be dropped even farther?

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:40:14am

re: #423 Dangerman

Standing on a shaky ground.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:40:47am

re: #425 jaunte

Standing on a shaky ground.

I don’t get it. Must not be my generation.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:41:41am

Sickos see a vulnerable person and their instinct is to do something terrible.

Five special education staff members at an Indiana elementary school were charged with neglect or failure to report neglect after video showed them instructing a 7-year-old student in a life skills program to eat and clean up his own vomit, police said.

Police in Brownsburg, Indiana, a suburban community outside Indianapolis, announced a life skills teacher for students with disabilities at Brown Elementary School, Sara Seymour, and an instructional aide, Debra Kanipe, were charged with neglect of a dependent, a felony. They were also charged with failure to report, a misdemeanor.

Indiana special education workers charged with felony after they made student eat his own vomit (USA Today via MSN)

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:42:50am

re: #426 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I can’t explain!

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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:43:31am
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jeffreyw  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:46:22am

My doctor has advised me to go on a diet.
Sadly it’s going to be a massive change for me.
I’ve been with that doctor for 15 years.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:47:26am

re: #429 Teukka

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:48:06am

re: #430 jeffreyw

My doctor has advised me to go on a diet.
Sadly it’s going to be a massive change for me.
I’ve been with that doctor for 15 years.

A little work and that’s a haiku

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lawhawk  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:48:44am

re: #429 Teukka

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:54:21am

re: #429 Teukka

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Hell is imaginary.
Her only punishment was dying of cancer.

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:54:30am
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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:56:04am

re: #433 lawhawk

If I’m not mistaken, she owned up to it after the statute of limitations kicked in. Not right after…

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:57:50am

Mastodon

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A Cranky One  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:59:08am

Spring has sprung.

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jeffreyw  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:01:24am

re: #432 Dangerman

A little work and that’s a haiku

YouTube

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sagehen  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:02:29am

re: #414 Captain Ron

this is probably the right time to re-run how and why Jon Stewart got Tucker fired from CNN:

Jon Stewart on Crossfire

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danarchy  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:10:38am

re: #437 darthstar

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Anyone who tells you there is one reason for anything that complicted is full of shit and should probably be ignored. The US doesn’t have universal health care but Over 90% of americans have coverage through either private insurance or some public program. And yet over 40% of US adults are obese.

Health coverage certainly plays a role, though I am not sure it is the most important one. Lots of people have health insurance and never use it. Hell I have had great health insurance pretty much always and between the age of 18 and 48 I think I went to a doctor maybe once, until an extended stay in the ICU due to several undiagnosed problems. People in the US tend to eat worse, walk less, work too much etc.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:11:17am

Great lecture here with Irving Finkel (Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum), on the Flood story from Sumerian mythology. Very well delivered and with a sly sense of humor:

Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:15:36am

re: #415 Eclectic Cyborg

You know if I was Tucker, I probably would have just laid low and chilled for a few weeks. Take a break from the grind, recharge, etc.

But nope, he’s right the fuck back at it.

Drinking his own kool-aid.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:19:10am

re: #441 danarchy

…until an extended stay in the ICU due to several undiagnosed problems. People in the US tend to eat worse, walk less, work too much etc.

Medical care is pointless if you don’t have regular check ups.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:21:52am

re: #442 Dr Lizardo

Great lecture here with Irving Finkel (Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum), on the Flood story from Sumerian mythology. Very well delivered and with a sly sense of humor:

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He totally looks the part

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Dr. Matt  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:22:03am

re: #429 Teukka

If there is a Hell, she can spend eternity with Limbaugh, Babbitt, Breitbart, Scalia, “Diamond”, etc., etc.,

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:22:18am

re: #444 darthstar

Medical care is pointless if you don’t have regular check ups.

And do what they tell you

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:23:04am

re: #445 Dangerman

He totally looks the part

Indeed he does. He has a great sense of humor, too.

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:25:32am

re: #441 danarchy

Anyone who tells you there is one reason for anything that complicted is full of shit and should probably be ignored. The US doesn’t have universal health care but Over 90% of americans have coverage through either private insurance or some public program. And yet over 40% of US adults are obese.

Health coverage certainly plays a role, though I am not sure it is the most important one. Lots of people have health insurance and never use it. Hell I have had great health insurance pretty much always and between the age of 18 and 48 I think I went to a doctor maybe once, until an extended stay in the ICU due to several undiagnosed problems. People in the US tend to eat worse, walk less, work too much etc.

repeating:

Health coverage certainly plays a role, though I am not sure it is the most important one.

The original poster, Annalee, said;

The secret is access to health care. It’s always access to health care.

She is sure it is the most important one. You agree that it’s one. Not so far off, is it?

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danarchy  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:29:02am

re: #449 wrenchwench

repeating:

The original poster, Annalee, said;

She is sure it is the most important one. You agree that it’s one. Not so far off, is it?

Sure The OP says that is the secret…that one thing. I would say that most americans have access to health care and we are still overweight and unhealthy. I would put access to health care probably at number 3 on the list after diet and lifestyle.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:31:12am

re: #444 darthstar

Medical care is pointless if you don’t have regular check ups.

how many people have insurance they cant afford to use?

because of the time off work issue
or knowing what the deductibles and copays would cost
or…

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lawhawk  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:32:06am

Guy who was eyeballs deep in the grift and undermining the SCOTUS to advance right wing agenda alongside Federalist Society and billionaires was right there at the place where it happened all while claiming that everything was legit.

Those attending from L-R: Rutledge, a former Thomas clerk; Leonard Leo - head of Federalist Society and a millionaire who directs considerable funds at right wing causes and reshaping the judiciary with extremists; Mark Paoletta - a guy who writes for NRO and claimed that this was all legit; Thomas; and billionaire buddy Harlan Crow.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:34:37am

re: #444 darthstar

Medical care is pointless if you don’t have regular check ups.

All we need is the ‘mectin. We’re Americans.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:35:24am

re: #424 Romantic Heretic

I wonder if most of those Raptured are simply being called to Heaven so they can be dropped even farther?

To hear sentence pronounced.

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Dangerman  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:41:32am

re: #452 lawhawk

Justice Thomas Acted Properly and Was Not Required to Disclose His Trips

this still misses the point

smart, honest, ethical people do all kinds of things they’re not ‘required’ to do.
they don’t get anywhere close to the line
to avoid even the appearance of impropriety
so a serious question can not be legitimately raised

this looks bad. it looks so bad it stinks.

when something like this looks bad it undermines your credibility
his and the larger court
and that’s before adding in his wife’s behavior
and gorsuch and the sale of his land
and the questions about who lied in their confirmation hearings to gain the lifetime seat.
and whatever else we don’t know

granted, they dont care.
because right now they’re in charge.

you and only you are in charge of managing your ethical behavior.
personal responsibility and all that.

you should never be in charge of governing your own ethics.
that would be an absurdly insane system.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:52:50am

re: #452 lawhawk

Guy who was eyeballs deep in the grift and undermining the SCOTUS to advance right wing agenda alongside Federalist Society and billionaires was right there at the place where it happened all while claiming that everything was legit.

Those attending from L-R: Rutledge, a former Thomas clerk; Leonard Leo - head of Federalist Society and a millionaire who directs considerable funds at right wing causes and reshaping the judiciary with extremists; Mark Paoletta - a guy who writes for NRO and claimed that this was all legit; Thomas; and billionaire buddy Harlan Crow.

Yet Bill Clinton talking for 15 minutes with Loretta Lynch on a plane on a tarmac was the epitome of backroom dealing and scheming and should have been punished.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:53:53am

re: #422 Romantic Heretic

As you know, I live in Ontario where we have public healthcare, and every time we get a ‘conservative’ Provincial government they do sneaky things to dismantle it.

For example I have a couple of cysts I can’t get removed because a previous ‘conservative’ government declared them to be non-reconstructive plastic surgery not to be covered by OHIP.

I just received from my healthcare provider notice of the latest fuckery from ‘conservatives’. My provider can no longer do on-line bookings because they no longer receive funding for it from the provincial government. I read the notice without the tiniest bit of surprise.

Have I mentioned how much I need this place? Without it I’d lose all faith in humanity.

Fouryears ago my wrist started acting up. I finally went to the doc and he referred me to the specialist in London, ON. That referral was more than 3 years ago.

They called me last week.

I lived on bottles of Advil, Tylenol and Naproxen for years and when the border opened the first time I (for like 2 weeks) I immediately went to an ortho surgeon in the states, got a cortisone shot. Fixed me right up.

Mind you this was two years after I went to that same clinic because this same thing has been going on for like 20 years, both have been previously operated on, and those clowns in London said “nothing is wrong, if it keeps up we’ll do an MRI” to which I responded “the MRI was done a month ago”. She then said “oh right, there’s nothing wrong” whatthefuckever.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 27, 2023 • 2:34:49pm

re: #418 lawhawk

I was all amped up for dad jokes, and you came along…

What did the jazz band conductor name his identical twin daughters?

Anna 1 Anna 2


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