The Bob Cesca Podcast: Honey I Shrunk the Liar

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

Honey I Shrunk The Liar — [Explicit Content] We have a new Spicy Jody sound. Happy 90th to Carol Burnett. Tucker Carlson loved using the c-word to describe Fox executives. The secret opposition file on Tucker. Tucker posted a video that doesn’t make any sense. Ted Cruz and Maria Bartiromo discussed a way to overturn the 2020 election. Trans lawmaker in Montana silenced by Republicans. Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill will never be passed. Alvin Bragg wants a gag order against Trump. South Korean president serenades the White House with Don McLean’s American Pie. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Antiquity, SubRedLux, and more!

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1
Barefoot Grin  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:24:12pm

“Don’t watch TV
it’s all lies;
I watch TV day and night
I believe everything that I see
and I can’t turn it off”

Wish The World Away

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:24:12pm

Good man with a gun?

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:24:32pm

MTA took the last train out of crazy town.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:32:15pm

It’s hard to reconcile the Age of Napoleon with photography but here is one its most important figures, many years later obviously. Napoleon himself died 8 years before photography was invented. Wellington and Napoleon were nearly the same age, both born in 1769, but Napoleon died at 51, while Wellington lived on 30 more years, till 1852 and age 83.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:35:03pm

re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

It’s hard to reconcile the Age of Napoleon with photography but here is one its most important figures, many years later obviously. Napoleon himself died 8 years before photography was invented. Wellington and Napoleon were nearly the same age, both born in 1769, but Napoleon died at 51, while Wellington lived on 30 more years, till 1852 and age 83.

Speaking of Napoleon, I read this thread on the train this morning…good stuff.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:35:57pm

re: #3 darthstar

Maybe they will join Transit. That is the app I use to keep track of SEPTA buses and trains. It is in the Apple App Store.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:44:42pm

Btw, Geraldo will be 80 on July 4th.

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Unabogie  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:52:55pm

re: #2 Patricia Kayden

Good man with a gun?

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I wanted to crack a joke here but it was $40. Who would kill someone over $40?

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retired cynic  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:53:04pm

Thousands of Meticulously Layered Strips of Metal Bring Selçuk Yılmaz’s Big Cat Sculptures to Life
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You won’t regret taking two minutes and looking at these sculptures. Really.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:53:10pm

re: #8 Unabogie

I wanted to crack a joke here but it was $40. Who would kill someone over $40?

Difficulty: Texas.

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Jay C  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:53:54pm

re: #8 Unabogie

I wanted to crack a joke here but it was $40. Who would kill someone over $40?

You’d be surprised.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:54:46pm

re: #8 Unabogie

“I wouldn’t have killed him, but I had a gun.”

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:54:49pm

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:55:15pm

And you think you had a bad day:

Gnarly Snapper! #fish #floridakeys #vivathekeys #flkeys



..

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:55:39pm

“When you have a gun and you get mad, it’s easy to follow through.”

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 4:57:01pm

re: #2 Patricia Kayden

Good man with a gun?

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So no second date yet?

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:02:15pm

Good to see Bernie Sanders deciding not to be a turd in the punchbowl again.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:03:01pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Good to see Bernie Sanders deciding not to be a turd in the punchbowl again.

We’ve already got the No Labels ratfuckery going on, so Sanders’s rare moment of sanity gives us more resources to deal with that.

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:04:10pm
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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:04:32pm

Texas Republicans thinking Mexicans are bringing most of the fentanyl into the US:

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Moe Avattar  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:09:24pm

re: #20 Belafon

What happens when they find out it’s being distributed by White Nationalists?

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Nojay UK  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:15:19pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

He’s up for re-election to the Senate next year (2024) which is why he could be a spoiler in 2016 and 2020. Kinda difficult to run as a Democrat in the Presidential primaries and an independent in the Senate at the same time, even for Bernie. 2028 is another matter, of course.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:19:51pm

re: #20 Belafon

Texas Republicans thinking Mexicans are bringing most of the fentanyl into the US:

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They’re prosecuting their own base!

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gocart mozart  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:20:07pm
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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:20:38pm

re: #21 Moe Avattar

What happens when they find out it’s being distributed by White Nationalists?

Vote no on this bill or we’ll primary you!

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:21:49pm

JFC

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BigPapa  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:25:11pm

Did anybody ever hear of Leneeen? Leneen?

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:27:46pm

re: #26 The Pie Overlord!

He’s gone Parisian.
en.wikipedia.org

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:28:40pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

I heard that and wondered if there will be burning of bernie paraphernalia on tiktok now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:28:51pm

hi

Breaking from Nebraska: The anti-abortion law has been defeated! Pictured hugging surrounded by cheering supporters, Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (wearing red) and Sen. Megan Hunt (wearing black).

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:30:02pm

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:30:05pm

re: #18 Nerdy Fish

We’ve already got the No Labels ratfuckery going on, so Sanders’s rare moment of sanity gives us more resources to deal with that.

Ah, yeah.

That brand new centrist fuckery that definitely hasn’t been an ongoing thing.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:32:13pm

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:34:28pm

re: #33 darthstar

I just had to get a new case for my PC and had Microcenter handle transfering everything from one case to another, was it pricy? A bit but they had it done overnight and were NOT geek squad

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:35:17pm

The filibuster continues.

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BigPapa  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:37:36pm

re: #33 darthstar

We’ve been laughing at that for weeks on the nerdo forums. I still think it’s a fake.. but it’s funny AF.

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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:38:15pm

re: #33 darthstar

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Given the quality of TV, that seems really appropriate, actually…

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:39:01pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:39:06pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:39:28pm

The GOP could not break the filibuster to pass their anti-abortion bill.

Another video (0:54) showing Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (in red) hugging Sen. Jen Day (in blue with pink flowers) hugging each other and supporters in the rotunda of the state capitol.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:41:45pm
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DodgerFan1988  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:42:57pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:47:42pm

The thread is full of morans.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:48:11pm

re: #33 darthstar

What could go wrong?

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:49:46pm
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BigPapa  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:51:37pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

What could go wrong?

The lag bolts will never overheat, being liquid cooled.

How many of your friends have liquid-cooled lag bolts? Exactly.

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teleskiguy  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:54:44pm

re: #42 DodgerFan1988

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:58:03pm

re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The thread is full of morans.

He can speak about this freely because the NWO has bagged their limit on Kennedys….

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2023 • 5:59:21pm

RFK Jr. makes me sad.

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teleskiguy  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:00:45pm

re: #48 The Ghost of a Flea

He can speak about this freely because the NWO has bagged their limit on Kennedys….

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:01:56pm

re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The thread is full of morans.

New World Order is so 1993. Get with the times, Kennedy. It’s all about the Jews now.

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:02:48pm

re: #45 Patricia Kayden

WOWK TV, eh. Is that how they spell ‘woke’ in West Virginia? Seriously, in my mind, ‘woke’ was used a while ago to mean, this person realized that bad actors were doing it intentionally, with impunity, and not just to their self. There were lots of fellow victims, and there is strength in numbers. That’s woke. That’s what’s happening in the FO phase.

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teleskiguy  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:04:10pm

re: #48 The Ghost of a Flea

I totally stole this. :\

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:05:20pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

I’d be careful circulating that statement outside the context of this board, though. Everyone here knows that I’m being unserious.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:07:16pm

re: #45 Patricia Kayden

#NotADragQueen

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teleskiguy  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:08:35pm

re: #54 The Ghost of a Flea

On my Twitter, which has no reach and is only read by people who know I’m being unserious too.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:11:53pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

RFK Jr. makes me sad.

RFK Jr. makes me ENRAGED.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:12:24pm

As the state legislative session is running out of time, Republicans are putting their pet bills forward against the filibuster. Since they don’t have enough votes to get cloture, the bills are being defeated.

This shows what’s actually important to our Republicans. If the anti-abortion bill was really their most important bill, they would be pulling the anti-trans hate bill.

On the other hand, in the last session their anti-abortion bill was specifically filubustered and still went down in defeat.

The conservaDem Sen. Davidson, who was expected to break the filibuster to pass the anti-abortion bill, voted against it.

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Jay C  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:14:57pm

re: #22 Nojay UK

He’s up for re-election to the Senate next year (2024) which is why he could be a spoiler in 2016 and 2020. Kinda difficult to run as a Democrat in the Presidential primaries and an independent in the Senate at the same time, even for Bernie. 2028 is another matter, of course.

Bernie Sanders* would be 87 years old on Election Day of 2028**, and despite the example of our present incumbent vigorously combatting stereotypes of ageism in politics, yeah: it would be “another matter”….

* Born Sept, 8, 1941
** In the classic Jewish expression: “he should only live so long”.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:15:08pm

What a monster. I’m so glad his “unblemished bride” left him. I hope she has a good support network.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:16:00pm
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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:17:32pm
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gwangung  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:18:01pm

re: #61 The Pie Overlord!

I think Biden can get away with doing these Dad jokes…

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teleskiguy  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:19:17pm

re: #61 The Pie Overlord!

TFG. Man, that fucking guy. Talking about Studio 54 and orgies on yachts at the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, remember that?

To this. Just adorbs!

The pendulum swing has been crazy.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:21:05pm

re: #57 The Pie Overlord!

RFK Jr. makes me ENRAGED.

Well, yeah, that too.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:21:06pm

re: #61 The Pie Overlord!

One looks familiar.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:26:43pm

LOL

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BigPapa  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:29:15pm

If Chump had a Take Your Child to Work Day it would be baby Proud Choads.

But he never would because he’s a fucking douche.

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Jay C  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:29:25pm

re: #66 jaunte

One looks familiar.

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SRSLY.
That red-headed kid is definitely a “Do Not Mess With” type….

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teleskiguy  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:29:29pm

Biden wants to get reelected.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:29:34pm

Just the Libertarian Party telling people to violate the law. They also lie about what due process is.

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EPR-radar  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:30:30pm

re: #68 BigPapa

If Chump had a Take Your Child to Work Day it would be baby Proud Choads.

But he never would because he’s a fucking douche.

Heavily armed baby chuds.

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EPR-radar  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:32:08pm

re: #70 teleskiguy

Biden wants to get reelected.

Look at that. Basic political competence by one of the good guys.

It’s a pity this is newsworthy.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:33:35pm

From Mrs. Fish, captioned, “Why you can’t allow the public to name military things.”

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EPR-radar  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:33:38pm

re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Anyone against red flag laws is objectively in favor of domestic abusers murdering their victims.

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TedStriker  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:39:42pm

A slight diversion from the news of the day (and one of Dire Straits’ finest songs… fight me ;-P):

Dire Straits - Tunnel Of Love (Official Music Video)

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:40:30pm
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Dave In Austin  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:55:58pm

We shall see

I’ve been on a ATT 1st gen DSL line here in CenTex for the last 17 years. It’s been slow, intermittently faulted. Just Horrible.

I guess the COO of ATT decided to finally pull the plug on these line and this is the migration tool they are going to use.

A small glitch in the cut over and I’ll keep the DSL line for a week. So far so good.

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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:56:12pm

re: #76 TedStriker

A slight diversion from the news of the day (and one of Dire Straits’ finest songs… fight me ;-P):

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Agree, though the live version on Alchemy was even greater. The use of the Carousel Waltz from Rodgers and Hammerstein in the intro was a touch of genius…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 27, 2023 • 6:58:39pm

re: #42 DodgerFan1988

I thought I hated him before….

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teleskiguy  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:01:47pm

The Board is getting two Ween tunes because I said so.

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Mastodon

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:03:38pm

re: #42 DodgerFan1988

Crowder sounds seriously disordered. Good for her for getting away.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:03:52pm

Gov. Jim Justice (R-WVa) held a press conference March 29, 2023 on the allegations against the W. Virginia State Police. He says as far as he can see, the rapes are one serial rapist.

Further down in the article from NPR, several lawyers representing women weigh in saying they believe this is not so. They also say they have notified the FBI.

West Virginia law requires notifying the state thirty days in advance of a lawsuit against the state.

The state police say they have reassigned two officers and demoted them. None are suspended pending investigation.

Alleged Rapes Part Of State Police Misconduct Investigation (West Virginia Public Radio, March 29, 2023)

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:04:48pm

re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just the Libertarian Party telling people to violate the law. They also lie about what due process is.

I wonder how long the Libertarian Party has been supported by the USSR/Putin’s Russia? Probably since 1970 or so, maybe longer to my surprise.

It would seem like a dubious connection at first but if the destruction of the US by any means possible is paramount, it makes sense.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:06:35pm

re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Our Esteemed Host upfisted my comment! I am moxxed (no flum was involved). /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:10:17pm
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TarHellion  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:11:07pm

re: #66 jaunte

It looks like the proctologist stuck his finger up the wrong ass … YAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:12:51pm
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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:17:57pm

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:18:12pm

re: #61 The Pie Overlord!

I’m using this as an opportunity to block blue checkmarks. Two things I hadn’t heard about: Ashley’s diary, supposedly something about Joe, and this:

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:22:58pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:23:15pm

Reuters, April 26, 2023

False claim: Saul Alinsky listed a scheme for world conquest, creation of the “social state”

Viral images on social media are circulating quotes allegedly attributed to the late American community activist Saul Alinsky.

The images make the claim that Alinsky’s work, in particular the books Rules for Radicals and Reveille for Radicals, laid out eight fundamental rules for creating a “social state”. The text in the images seems to equate these with the socialism or communism seen in the Soviet Union under Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin ( here , here ). The claims attributing these rules to Alinsky are false.

The text in the image was allegedly written in 2015 during Barack Obama’s second presidential term. The images imply that liberal politicians like Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reserved praise for Alinsky, noting that his writings influenced “those in political control of our nation today”.

(more)

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TarHellion  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:23:26pm

Sports update: Carolina Panthers take QB Bryce Young No. 1 in the NFL draft. Great pick! Super talent and described as “obsessed” with being the best. Meanwhile in baseball, the Oakland A’s (soon to be Las Vegas A’s) are on the verge of being the worst team in MLB history. They are on pace to give up more runs than the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, generally regarded as the worst team ever.

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:26:58pm

re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just the Libertarian Party telling people to violate the law. They also lie about what due process is.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:28:53pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:31:57pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:34:24pm

Meanwhile, in the Fascist Republic of Missouri:

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:34:57pm

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Reuters, April 26, 2023

False claim: Saul Alinsky listed a scheme for world conquest, creation of the “social state”

(more)

Didn’t Saul Alinsky start Antifa?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:36:38pm

Meanwhile in Virginia:

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:37:29pm

One of the world’s worst dictators doesn’t like Joe Biden. And this is a bad thing because….?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:38:08pm

Media: Glenn Younkin is a centrist (tm).

Youngkin:

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:39:29pm

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Meanwhile in Virginia:

If Youngkin’s a centrist, I have 2 left hands.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:40:35pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

If Youngkin’s a centrist, I have 2 left hands.

Our corporate-controlled media insists there is such as beast as a “moderate conservative.”

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:42:12pm
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William Lewis  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:42:20pm

re: #93 TarHellion

Sports update: Carolina Panthers take QB Bryce Young No. 1 in the NFL draft. Great pick! Super talent and described as “obsessed” with being the best. Meanwhile in baseball, the Oakland A’s (soon to be Las Vegas A’s) are on the verge of being the worst team in MLB history. They are on pace to give up more runs than the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, generally regarded as the worst team ever.

Yeah, I read about them moving to Vegas the other day and I couldn’t help but think that would leave no professional sports teams in Oakland or Vegas … ;)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:45:23pm

A Libertarian has a thought. It is a stupid thought. So are the thoughts in the thread.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:46:59pm

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The perpetual fantasy that they stand outside the rest of society.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:47:16pm

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A Libertarian has a thought. It is a stupid thought. So are the thoughts in the thread.

Anyone who’s dumb enough to fall for Bitcoin deserves to be mocked.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:48:20pm

re: #107 jaunte

The perpetual fantasy that they stand outside the rest of society.

When society collapses due to their shenanigans, their bitcoins will be worthless for a loaf of bread.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:49:24pm

When Dad first heard about the Libertarian Party in 1972 he said they were a bunch of kooks who live in their Laisseiz Fairyland.

Pop…you were right about them 50 years ago!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:51:17pm

re: #93 TarHellion

Sports update: Carolina Panthers take QB Bryce Young No. 1 in the NFL draft. Great pick! Super talent and described as “obsessed” with being the best. Meanwhile in baseball, the Oakland A’s (soon to be Las Vegas A’s) are on the verge of being the worst team in MLB history. They are on pace to give up more runs than the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, generally regarded as the worst team ever.

People around here are a bit giddy with the best start by the Pirates since 1992.

I joked today that what happened was the Steelers just missed making the playoffs. Followed by the Penguins just missing making the playoffs. So there was an accumulation of sports mojo which catapulted the Pirates into a better than expected season (to date).

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:53:02pm

re: #104 Belafon

Yes Rover. I know where all the bones are! AHHHHAAAA!

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austin_blue  Apr 27, 2023 • 7:53:16pm

re: #8 Unabogie

I wanted to crack a joke here but it was $40. Who would kill someone over $40?

The guy with the gun?

Who never should have been able to purchase one?

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teleskiguy  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:02:11pm
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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:03:35pm

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:05:09pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

New entrance to the Rio Tinto Mining hiring hall.

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teleskiguy  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:05:15pm

Alito’s Calvinball Court has unleashed a huge wave of bloodshed among pregnant people in abortion-ban states. And Sam doesn’t give a fuck.

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Dragonomics  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:06:24pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

That’s what they want. Please insert lily white baby into hole and adoption by Christian nationalists will be immediately expedited. Thank you. Come again.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:06:31pm

re: #117 teleskiguy

Alito’s Calvinball Court has unleashed a huge wave of bloodshed among pregnant people in abortion-ban states. And Sam doesn’t give a fuck.

Sam Alito is all about the chaos. He just wants to see his agenda enacted.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:08:04pm

More babies will not stimulate a demand for more adoption. The babies will have to find other work.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:08:44pm

Modest proposals will be entertained.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:09:06pm

re: #119 Nerdy Fish

Sam Alito is all about the chaos. He just wants to see his agenda enacted.

Alito and his five fellow radical Catholics on the corrupted court want to completely break down the wall between State and church and make their Opus Dei Catholicism the State Religion.

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austin_blue  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:19:47pm

re: #57 The Pie Overlord!

RFK Jr. makes me ENRAGED.

RFK Jr’s Agency makes me ENRAGED.

He should be relegated to the shit pile of history at this point.

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austin_blue  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:24:24pm

re: #74 Nerdy Fish

From Mrs. Fish, captioned, “Why you can’t allow the public to name military things.”

[Embedded content]

Many planes in WW2 were named for the Cities that paid for them

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:25:44pm

Not A Drag Queen…yet again…

Michigan ex-priest pleads guilty to molesting boy after officiating family funeral

thedailybeast.com

A former Michigan priest accused of abusing a 5-year-old boy after officiating a family funeral service in 1987 had pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct, state officials said Tuesday. The accusation against Vincent DeLorenzo, 84, was one of eight complaints against him, and stemmed from a case brought in 2018 to the Diocese of Lansing, where he served from 1965 to 2002. He pleaded to a lesser charge in a settlement with the state that saw prosecutors throw out a separate case of sexual assault against another 5-year-old boy between 1995 and 2000. DeLorenzo is expected to serve five years of probation, and will be forced to register as a sex offender. “Our team continues to work day and night to bring an end to an era of abuse that has hidden in plain sight for far too long and provide justice to those who have suffered years of unimaginable trauma,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement Tuesday. “This guilty plea will hopefully close this painful chapter and open the opportunity for much-needed healing for those victimized by DeLorenzo.”

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:31:17pm
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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:31:48pm
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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:34:56pm

re: #125 Joe Bacon

When he’s dead, they should bury him in the prison yard. Then maybe they can keep him long enough.

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austin_blue  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:36:42pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

Every town? In every State? Really? How stupid can a public policy be?

It used to be that in Ireland these unwanted kids were dumped on the steps of Churches/Nunerries, who would adopt the kids and use them as unpaid labor (at best) or slaves (at worst) until they reached their majorities. In the meantime, they had been been beaten and raped throughout their childhoods.

Some survived, many didn’t in the long run.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:39:56pm

re: #129 austin_blue

That’s the intent of the policy. Physical torture for the children and mental torture for their mothers who dared to have unauthorized sex.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:41:35pm

re: #129 austin_blue

Every town? In every State? Really? How stupid can a public policy be?

It used to be that in Ireland these unwanted kids were dumped on the steps of Churches/Nunerries, who would adopt the kids and use them as unpaid labor (at best) or slaves (at worst) until they reached their majorities. In the meantime, they had been been beaten and raped throughout their childhoods.

Some survived, many didn’t in the long run.

It was worse than that. They enslaved the mothers, forcing them to work at the laundry “to work off the debt they incurred for medical care they received.” The nuns then sold the babies to wealthy childless couples.

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austin_blue  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:45:48pm

re: #130 jaunte

That’s the intent of the policy. Physical torture for the children and mental torture for their mothers who dared to have unauthorized sex.

Well yeah, that’s my point. The policy was to inflict pain on the kids and allow them to be objects of abuse, to punish the mother’s, second-hand.

It was torture, pure and simple, and anyone still alive and involved in the policy should be put in jail until they die.

Fair is fair.

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austin_blue  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:49:55pm

re: #131 The Pie Overlord!

It was worse than that. They enslaved the mothers, forcing them to work at the laundry “to work off the debt they incurred for medical care they received.” The nuns then sold the babies to wealthy childless couples.

This is a verifiable fact.

Thank you, Babushka.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 8:55:38pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

It will only be a short matter of time in the fascist states where these will be installed in great numbers, that a corrupt person will use them for a infant kidnapping-and-exploitation ring.

Other things that can go wrong:

a) That heated bassinet goes wonky and roasts an infant.
b) The alarm doesn’t go off and an infant starves or dies of thirst.
c) Very ill infant is left to die, or spread a communicable disease.
d) Theft from the boxes by other people of infants.

Things we could do instead:

a) Quit interfering in women’s rights.
b) Allow everyone who is capable to adopt, not just the people bigot Christians say can adopt.

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austin_blue  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:02:50pm

Shaking off the last bits of jet lag (we got back last Sunday six hours different than when we left three weeks earlier) has been tough for both of us. I think it might be an aging thing. We are both over 65 and this trip was tougher than last year.

What a drag it is getting old!

Night all, sweet scaly dreams.

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:03:18pm

re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The countries that are first to offer free, high-quality childcare will top all the prosperity metrics.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:06:28pm

re: #129 austin_blue

Every town? In every State? Really? How stupid can a public policy be?

And of course it wouldn’t be “in every town.” It would be “in large cities.” Rural areas? Fuque’em.

Bassinet heater failed in the winter? Infant freezes to death.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:07:05pm

re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

During my family’s adoption adventure, the Southern Baptist foster family objected to us because we weren’t churchgoers; managed to wangle a 6 month delay so they could keep the sisters as decorations during the Christmas season, though they had been told that they were going to be adopted in August. On the day we picked them up we had to go to a church service where the congregation swooned over the girls and promised to keep in touch (no one did). One of the highlights was the preacher standing with his wife and three daughters, explaining as they listened that he really wanted a son and was just going to keep on trying until he got one. Oh, and the private ‘witnessing’ session between my wife and the foster mother in which one day Jesus had rung her doorbell.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:09:12pm

This gave me a perhaps unfair view of Rockwall, TX in general.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:10:13pm

re: #138 jaunte

During my family’s adoption adventure, the Southern Baptist foster family objected to us because we weren’t churchgoers; managed to wangle a 6 month delay so they could keep the sisters as decorations during the Christmas season, though they had been told that they were going to be adopted in August. On the day we picked them up we had to go to a church service where the congregation swooned over the girls and promised to keep in touch (no one did). One of the highlights was the preacher standing with his wife and three daughters, explaining as they listened that he really wanted a son and was just going to keep on trying until he got one. Oh, and the private ‘witnessing’ session between my wife and the foster mother in which one day Jesus had rung her doorbell.

I’m sorry you had to go through all that. I’m happy your family’s “adoption adventure” ended in a positive note.

This is sort of like Christian homeless food centres holding your sandwich hostage to a sermon, except babies.

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austin_blue  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:12:23pm

re: #136 wrenchwench

The countries that are first to offer free, high-quality childcare will top all the prosperity metrics.

Should. Don’t ever say “will”. The same country could cut secondary education funding on a whim one year after funding child care and screw the whole system.

What needs to happen is a worldwide system of funding childhood education through the western level of high school.

It will never happen. We need to buy More Gunz!

I’m out.

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:21:09pm

re: #141 austin_blue

Should. Don’t ever say “will”. The same country could cut secondary education funding on a whim one year after funding child care and screw the whole system.

What needs to happen is a worldwide system of funding childhood education through the western level of high school.

It will never happen. We need to buy More Gunz!

I’m out.

I would separate child care from education. I would also separate health care from employment.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:21:19pm

Centrists: Rape only half of the women. /s

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retired cynic  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:22:24pm

re: #142 wrenchwench

I would separate child care from education. I would also separate health care from employment.

I vote for you for Empress!

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:23:17pm

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Funny, he doesn’t mention anyone raping the men.

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:24:43pm

re: #144 retired cynic

I vote for you for Empress!

Can I run things as a Back Room Bureaucrat? I don’t wanna hafta wear a dress. Thanks!

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retired cynic  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:25:14pm

re: #146 wrenchwench

Can I run things as a Back Room Bureaucrat? I don’t wanna hafta wear a dress. Thanks!

You can be King, okay?

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:27:29pm

re: #146 wrenchwench

You’re The Diplomat.

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:27:55pm

re: #147 retired cynic

You can be King, okay?

Okay.

Riding With The King

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:30:59pm

Mrs Davis is the weirdest show since Legion.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:34:07pm

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Goes to show just how sick these Xtian Nationalists are.

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:36:05pm
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mmmirele  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:43:47pm

re: #131 The Pie Overlord!

It was worse than that. They enslaved the mothers, forcing them to work at the laundry “to work off the debt they incurred for medical care they received.” The nuns then sold the babies to wealthy childless couples.

If they didn’t kill them through neglect. See, for example, the Bon Secours Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. en.wikipedia.org

From the Wikipedia:

In 2012, the Health Service Executive raised concerns that up to 1,000 children had been sent from the Home, for the purpose of illegal adoptions in the United States, without their mothers’ consent.[2] However, subsequent research discovered files relating to just 36 illegal foreign adoptions from the home.[3]

Separately in 2012, a local historian, Catherine Corless, published an article documenting the history of the home before she uncovered the names of the children who died in the home the following year. In 2014, Anna Corrigan uncovered the inspection reports of the home, which noted that the most commonly recorded causes of death among the infants were congenital debilities, infectious diseases and malnutrition (including marasmus-related malnutrition).[4] Corless’ research led her to conclude that almost all had been buried in an unmarked and unregistered site at the Home, and the article claimed that there was a high death rate of residents.[5][6] Corless estimated that nearly 800 children had died at the home.

That “home” was in operation something like 37 years, and during that period, it’s believed 796 babies died from various causes. That’s like over 20 children per year. So while a relative few were sold to wealthy people, quite a few more died under suspicious circumstances.

Obviously, this is not the only example where babies were taken and treated abominably or sold. Off the top of my head, nuns removed newborns from Spanish mothers who the nuns deemed not fit to be parents and told the moms their children had died. In Argentina, the infants of women opposed to the military dictatorship were taken and given to people loyal to the regime (leading to “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo”). Some of these were actually grandmothers, because the mothers were later murdered—in some cases flown over the Atlantic and pushed out of planes. In fact, just to be clear, probably every military dictatorship in Latin America during the 1950s to the 1990s encouraged confiscation of babies from mothers who were not deemed appropriate.

Here in the USA, one of my college roommates gave up a baby (from a rape) for adoption. She was a devout Catholic, and it fucked her up terribly. Of course she didn’t get any sort of counseling and this was only a couple of years after Roe v Wade, when pregnant teenagers were still treated as disposable after whichever predatory operation got their hands on the baby (Edna Gladney Home, I’m looking at you in general). I’ve always wondered what happened to her.

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:46:37pm

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LOL

President Biden is a fucking national treasure.

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:48:48pm

re: #139 jaunte

This gave me a perhaps unfair view of Rockwall, TX in general.

Naaah, sounds about right.

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:49:16pm

re: #153 mmmirele

If they didn’t kill them through neglect. See, for example, the Bon Secours Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. en.wikipedia.org

From the Wikipedia:

That “home” was in operation something like 37 years, and during that period, it’s believed 796 babies died from various causes. That’s like over 20 children per year. So while a relative few were sold to wealthy people, quite a few more died under suspicious circumstances.

Obviously, this is not the only example where babies were taken and treated abominably or sold. Off the top of my head, nuns removed newborns from Spanish mothers who the nuns deemed not fit to be parents and told the moms their children had died. In Argentina, the infants of women opposed to the military dictatorship were taken and given to people loyal to the regime (leading to “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo”). Some of these were actually grandmothers, because the mothers were later murdered—in some cases flown over the Atlantic and pushed out of planes. In fact, just to be clear, probably every military dictatorship in Latin America during the 1950s to the 1990s encouraged confiscation of babies from mothers who were not deemed appropriate.

Here in the USA, one of my college roommates gave up a baby (from a rape) for adoption. She was a devout Catholic, and it fucked her up terribly. Of course she didn’t get any sort of counseling and this was only a couple of years after Roe v Wade, when pregnant teenagers were still treated as disposable after whichever predatory operation got their hands on the baby (Edna Gladney Home, I’m looking at you in general). I’ve always wondered what happened to her.

And science finally gives us a choice and the godam politicians want to take it away.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:50:34pm

re: #153 mmmirele

Edna Gladney Home

When we first started thinking about adoption my wife called them, and the woman who answered was eager to get us set up, wanting photos so she could ‘match us right up’ with a baby that looked like us. My wife told her “we’re not going to pretend this didn’t happen,” and that ended the conversation.

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:51:13pm

re: #138 jaunte

Was it the big church on the highway, or closer to downtown across from the post office?

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mmmirele  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:52:19pm

re: #157 jaunte

When we first started thinking about adoption my wife called them, and the woman who answered was eager to get us set up, wanting photos so she could ‘match us right up’ with a baby that looked like us. My wife told her “we’re not going to pretend this didn’t happen,” and that ended the conversation.

The Edna Gladney Home used to advertise on local TV in Houston. Every girl knew who they were and there was the implicit threat that if you got pregnant, you’d end up there. They did not have a good reputation, and this was in the mid-1970s.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:52:41pm

re: #158 Belafon

I don’t remember a highway, but it was in the mid 90’s, so the landscape may have changed.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:53:32pm

re: #159 mmmirele

It seemed odd for an adoption provider to act like it was something to be hidden.

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:54:28pm

re: #133 austin_blue

This is a verifiable fact.

Thank you, Babushka.

Judy Dench starred in a movie about it.

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wrenchwench  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:57:34pm

Hardest working band in LA. So far as I can tell.

Los Lobos: Kiko Live - “The Train Don’t Stop Here”

Time for another set of train songs.

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mmmirele  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:58:15pm

re: #161 jaunte

It seemed odd for an adoption provider to act like it was something to be hidden.

Well, I heard of this happening when I was a kid in California. One of my mother’s friends had adopted three children (at different times) and the adoption agency was very much into trying to “match” the families, particularly ethnically. In this particular case, if memory serves, the adopting parents were of Polish ancestry and on three separate occasions, the agency served up three children of alleged Polish ancestry. However, since this was the 1960s and the adoption records were closed, there was no way to be sure or whether this was agency bullshit in order to facilitate an adoption. Obviously, I also knew that this Was Not To Be Mentioned even as a kid.

ETA: If I ever harbored thoughts about whether I was adopted, those were completely busted by doing a DNA test, which brought up relatives from both sides of the family. So yeah, I am the descendant of poor, restless Southern white people who didn’t have land and who moved from state to state, finally ending up in California.

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:59:42pm

re: #160 jaunte

I don’t remember a highway, but it was in the mid 90’s, so the landscape may have changed.

Interstate 30 has run through Rockwall for a while. Do you remember was one of those megachurch designs or just a large older church with a steeple?

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 9:59:44pm

Fucking AI is bullshit…and yet I’m being asked by management to see how it will work for creating test plans because PEOPLE ARE FUCKING LAZY.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:00:55pm

re: #165 Belafon

Since I was focused on getting out of there asap I didn’t register much, but I think it was an older church with a steeple.

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mmmirele  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:01:47pm

re: #166 darthstar

Tell your employers that banks trust ChatGPT so much that it’s banned. Seriously, it’s not allowed.

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:01:49pm

re: #166 darthstar

I was taking about that with some college students I was working with and one of them made the observation that the generated code seems to always have one serious flaw.

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jaunte  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:01:59pm

re: #166 darthstar

The I is a lie!

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:06:57pm

re: #168 mmmirele

Tell your employers that banks trust ChatGPT so much that it’s banned. Seriously, it’s not allowed.

Plan on doing just that…

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darthstar  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:08:15pm

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EPR-radar  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:08:32pm

re: #169 Belafon

I was taking about that with some college students I was working with and one of them made the observation that the generated code seems to always have one serious flaw.

I have to believe for coding of any complexity at all, it will be easier for a programmer to debug their own code (or most other human-written code) than code produced by an AI chatbot.

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:11:55pm

re: #167 jaunte

Since I was focused on getting out of there asap I didn’t register much, but I think it was an older church with a steeple.

Downtown then. The First Baptist Church most likely.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:13:12pm

Our friend Grunthos hasn’t been around the past few days — but — managed a birbie for Friday, without his hints.

Click to Reveal

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retired cynic  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:19:29pm

re: #175 Hecuba’s daughter

I hope he’s okay…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:24:56pm

re: #145 jaunte

Funny, he doesn’t mention anyone raping the men.

King Soloman, centrist. Discuss.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:26:30pm
TALLAHASSEE — Dozens of cities and counties across Florida have passed bills of “rights” for tenants, setting standards around rent increases, applications and evictions.

State lawmakers are looking to undo all of them.

On Wednesday, the House passed HB 1417 on a vote of 81-33, largely along party lines, and the Senate is preparing to take up its companion, SB 1586, on Friday. The bills would prohibit local governments from governing the relationships between tenants and landlords, like the ones created by Pinellas and Miami-Dade counties last year.

Instead, landlords and renters would have to follow the state’s Florida Landlord and Tenant Act, which is less robust than local ordinances.

Republican lawmakers said the bills are meant to eliminate the patchwork of regulations that vary from city to city and, they say, drive up rents.

“This bill protects tenants, this bill protects property owners and this bill protects capitalism,” said Rep. Tiffany Esposito, R-Fort Myers, the sponsor of the House bill.

Democratic lawmakers say they see the legislation as a giveaway to landlords, and they said the state law doesn’t go far enough to protect struggling renters.

(more at the Tampa Bay Times, yesterday)

Florida House moves to eliminate local renters’ rights ordinances

Republicans always thinking about local control, as in how they can control it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:26:56pm

re: #176 retired cynic

I hope he’s okay…

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Targetpractice  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:28:05pm

re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(more at the Tampa Bay Times, yesterday)

Florida House moves to eliminate local renters’ rights ordinances

Republicans always thinking about local control, as in how they can control it.

Gee, what could be more “local” than the landlord that knows all the ins-and-outs of the state law and the ways they can screw you legally?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:43:15pm

Meanwhile, in the Fascist Republic of Louisiana
(Banton Rouge Advocate, six hours ago)

Louisiana Senate committee blocks opponent testimony on library bill, then approves it
TL;DR:
On the bill being heard in the Senate Education Committee, no opponent was allowed to speak against the bill, then the committee passed it.

A Louisiana Senate panel cut short testimony on a bill that would limit access to content about gender and sexuality in libraries, preventing opponents of the measure from speaking before unanimously approving the legislation Thursday.

The Senate Education Committee had heard testimony from two supporters of Senate Bill 7, which would set up guardrails against children’s’ access to sexually explicit materials in public libraries, when state Sen. Bodi White, R-Central, motioned to end the testimony.

“They can speak without me. I’m leaving,” White said, his microphone still on. “I’ve got 14 people waiting on me.”

State Sen. Heather Cloud, R-Turkey Creek, is sponsoring SB 7 amid a handful of other efforts in the legislature that target content dealing with gender and sexuality. Critics say the bills disproportionately target LGBTQ+ materials and hearken back to dangerous past censorship movements.

Opponents of Cloud’s bill did not get time to testify Wednesday. On White’s microphone, Cloud could briefly be heard asking if people could continue to testify because “I know individuals have driven from all over Louisiana to share their support or opposition.”

Some who had arrived to speak against the measure cried out in protest as Education Committee chairman Sen. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, approved White’s motion and adjourned the meeting. Senate rules allow for an abrupt end to public debate over bills if a motion is offered and approved to do so, regardless of how many people are waiting to be heard.

(more)

The committee consists of six Republicans and one Democrat. All seven voted to cut off people in opposition from speaking on the bill. It now heads to the full state Senate.

In the state House, there are two bills which would amount to the same thing as Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill.

Louisiana Senate committee blocks opponent testimony on library bill, then approves it

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:45:16pm

re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(more at the Tampa Bay Times, yesterday)

Florida House moves to eliminate local renters’ rights ordinances

Republicans always thinking about local control, as in how they can control it.

Like Republicans here in Texas who removed Dallas and Houston rules requiring water and bathroom breaks for construction workers during the summer.

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Targetpractice  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:48:55pm

re: #181 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Meanwhile, in the Fascist Republic of Louisiana
(Banton Rouge Advocate, six hours ago)

Louisiana Senate committee blocks opponent testimony on library bill, then approves it
TL;DR:
On the bill being heard in the Senate Education Committee, no opponent was allowed to speak against the bill, then the committee passed it.

(more)

The committee consists of six Republicans and one Democrat. All seven voted to cut off people in opposition from speaking on the bill. It now heads to the full state Senate.

In the state House, there are two bills which would amount to the same thing as Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill.

Louisiana Senate committee blocks opponent testimony on library bill, then approves it

Welcome to Louisiana, be sure to set your clocks back 100 years.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:50:42pm

re: #164 mmmirele

Well, I heard of this happening when I was a kid in California. One of my mother’s friends had adopted three children (at different times) and the adoption agency was very much into trying to “match” the families, particularly ethnically.

Sounds like the Children’s Home Society.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 10:58:27pm

Tonight’s haute cuisine: Hebrew National frankfurters on homemade New England hotdog buns.

The Commissary at FE Warren AFB started stocking Hebrew National. They come in two package sizes: 10 frankfurters, and 10 pounds of frankfurters.

I have not had them in many years. They are not available in the Nebraska Panhandle. They’re also way more expensive than any other brand, but that might go to their advertising that they “answer to a higher authority.”

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:10:25pm
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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:13:15pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:13:47pm

“Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry of wonderful times to come.”—Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

Brecht was a Marxist playwright and poet who came of age during the Weimar Republic. He fled Nazi Germany to the United States, where he was placed under surveillance by the FBI. When the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed him to appear, he fled to East Germany.

(10:10)

Dinner for few | Animated short film by Nassos Vakalis

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:14:50pm

re: #186 DodgerFan1988

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Belafon  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:18:03pm
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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:31:55pm

re: #186 DodgerFan1988

Just so happens that denying mentally ill people rights, such as the right to, life was a known feature of another ideology
Receipt: en.wikipedia.org
Receipt: Aktion T4

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Targetpractice  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:37:31pm

Morning shift: “Let’s gets things cleaned up and put away so that we look impressive the next time inspectors drop by. Just cram it all in any available spot in the cupboards and leave no notes, we’ll remember where we put everything.”

Night shift: “WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYTHING?!”

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:44:09pm

re: #172 darthstar

he has two right hands.

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Teukka  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:56:10pm

re: #191 Teukka

Just so happens that denying mentally ill people rights, such as the right to, life was a known feature of another ideology
Receipt: en.wikipedia.org
Receipt: Aktion T4

Addendum: Notice Twitter Blue Checkmark.

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Captain Ron  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:58:33pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 27, 2023 • 11:59:01pm
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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:00:58am

re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So, anyone want to perform last rites on DeSantis? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:12:39am

re: #195 Captain Ron

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Feinstein has already confirmed she’s not planning to run for another term and is retiring in 2025. The only thing being asked of her is to speed up the timeline of her retirement so that somebody who will actually show up to work is there to cast votes in the name of the voters of CA.

Or does she plan to be yet another of those assholes who says they’re not going to run again, only to change their minds when primary season starts?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:13:52am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:15:49am

re: #8 Unabogie

I wanted to crack a joke here but it was $40. Who would kill someone over $40?

Guns are a means of self-expression in modern American civic discourse, remember? He was expressing his rage over being scammed for the value of over a half-day’s work at minimum wage.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:17:00am

re: #21 Moe Avattar

What happens when they find out it’s being distributed by White Nationalists?

Rehab and therapy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:17:39am

re: #26 The Pie Overlord!

Trump quotes Vladimir Lenin, a Communist tyrant, while continuing to deny outcome of 2020 election

Must’ve picked it up from Steve Bannon

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:18:31am

re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Just another exhibit at the trial that Tiny D’s lawyers are gonna give him very dirty looks for.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:22:41am

re: #74 Nerdy Fish

From Mrs. Fish, captioned, “Why you can’t allow the public to name military things.”

From the folks who gave us “Boaty McBoatface”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:24:16am

re: #90 Belafon

Granted, DJT used to take his kids to work every day.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:25:43am

re: #98 wrenchwench

Didn’t Saul Alinsky start Antifa?

/

He bred baby Obama from a Soviet Testing Lab site.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:27:03am

re: #107 jaunte

The perpetual fantasy that they stand outside above the rest of society.

Libertized it for ya

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:28:21am
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Captain Ron  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:29:45am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:33:45am

Sinema does overdo it with the flushed-cheeks effect sometimes.

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Captain Ron  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:34:03am

There was a short discussion on low carb diets this morning and since then MedCram dropped thisreport.

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:42:14am

re: #195 Captain Ron

Sen. Stabenow (R-Mich.) is not the only Democrat to call this sexist. Rep. Pelosi (D-Calif.) has as well.

Stabenow says she first came to the Senate when Strom Thurmond (R-So. Car.) was in office, and claims no one ever called for him to resign (she wasn’t listening). She also says no one is calling on Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to resign over his prolonged illness (Mitch McConnell is somewhat different here, in that he returned to work). And lots of people have called on Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.) to resign.

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2023 • 12:54:44am

re: #209 Captain Ron

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Meanwhile, Manchin’s already deep into campaign mode, once again portraying himself as a right-leaning “moderate” because this go-around he’s got an opponent (Jim Justice) who polls show could actually take Joe’s seat. So look for a lot more begging and pleading from the party Old Guard to the party base to give Joe another chance as spends the next year working hard to convince the voters of the wasteland that is West Virginia that he hates Biden as much as they do.

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Captain Ron  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:01:44am

I wonder what a RC-135 is doing up there.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:19:05am

re: #214 Captain Ron

I wonder what a RC-135 is doing up there.

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Some comms/radar shenanigans which are interesting (in the ancient Chinese curse sense)?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:35:21am

???

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:35:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:47:22am

re: #214 Captain Ron

I wonder what a RC-135 is doing up there.

Looking for a Lapp dance?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:50:58am

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yes…..for his sake you should go. Talk about a moral high horse. And he’s the issue because he’s a non-believer???

again, the “logic” they employ is that she has repented and been forgiven for her bastard offspring.

But he cannot be forgiven because he has not accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior and continues to live as a non-believer.

This is why Herschel Walker can have five illegitimate children and pay for multiple abortions and still be considered a “Good Christian” while Pastor Raphael Warnock is going to hell for supporting abortion and LGBTQ rights.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:51:46am

Today in the Oppression Olympics:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:51:50am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:52:33am

re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Looking for a Lapp dance?

[smack]

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:54:29am

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Christianophobia is a legitimate issue in America that deserves greater attention and discussion.

Fear of people whose Scriptures tell us to kill witches adulterers and homosexuals.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:54:51am
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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2023 • 2:03:48am

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Today in the Oppression Olympics:

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“Phobia” implies that the fear is irrational and excessive fear of something. Yet everyday you get up and turn on the news, there’s politician after politician out there saying if you are not a straight white Christian fanatic like they are then you are a “threat” to everything good and right with America. And that they feel a calling from “God” to pass every piece of legislation they can to make your life an utter miserable existence until they can get the courts to agree to allow them to toss you in camps.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 2:04:58am

Now playing in this lizards lair (playlist of 328 tracks):

To Aru Majutsu no Index OST 2 - Gensou Koroshi

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 2:11:19am

re: #225 Targetpractice

“Phobia” implies that the fear is irrational and excessive fear of something. Yet everyday you get up and turn on the news, there’s politician after politician out there saying if you are not a straight white Christian fanatic like they are then you are a “threat” to everything good and right with America. And that they feel a calling from “God” to pass every piece of legislation they can to make your life an utter miserable existence until they can get the courts to agree to allow them to toss you in camps.

Yup. Phobias are fears.

Sort of like saying women have a phobia of strange men on unlit streets when they cross to avoid meeting them. While the overwhelming majority of men would not bother them, a large number would catcall (or worse).

Being afraid of documented behaviours is not a phobia. It’s prudence.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 2:20:29am

Only international source I’ve found on this story making the rounds in Swedish Media.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 2:26:32am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 2:29:27am

Seculariphobia is perceived issue in American Christianity that deserves greater attention and discussion.

Fear of losing Christianity’s status as the majority religion and de facto state religion, fear of losing religious exemptions and privileges that have been enjoyed for centuries for lack of challenge.

Failure to recognize that Freedom of Religion does not apply to churches or denominations, it is a purely personal right and includes the right to be areligious.

And of course, fear that God will open up an Armageddon-sized can of Ass-Whoop and smite us to smithereens for falling away from His Divine Grace.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 2:38:35am

re: #228 Teukka

Only international source I’ve found on this story making the rounds in Swedish Media.

It was reported some time ago. Nexta is just catching up.

First on CNN: European security officials observed Russian Navy ships in vicinity of Nord Stream pipeline leaks (CNN, September 29, 2022)
Denmark confirms sighting of Russian ship near Nord Stream pipeline days before explosion (Yahoo!, four hours ago)

A Russian SS-750 specialized vessel, which carries a submarine on board, was photographed close to the location of the Nord Steam pipelines that were sabotaged in September 2022.

(more)
You may recall when the explosion happened, Germany boarded a rented ship and Russia tried to blame the blast on Ukraine. American right-wing outlets then ran with “Ukraine did it.” The deflection then made it on to NBC News.
nbcnews.com (March 8, 2023)
Russian naval vessels ‘near Nord Stream’ days before attack (The Times of London, March 26, 2023)

There are many more.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 2:44:44am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 3:08:20am

(32:38) YouTuber originally from Munich now living in Cincinnati.

Do Germans Talk About World War II? What Do They Teach About the Holocaust? | Feli from Germany

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 28, 2023 • 3:12:47am

re: #84 Florida Panhandler

I wonder how long the Libertarian Party has been supported by the USSR/Putin’s Russia? Probably since 1970 or so, maybe longer to my surprise.

It would seem like a dubious connection at first but if the destruction of the US by any means possible is paramount, it makes sense.

The Lubbock County Libertarian chairman told me on the air that rt.com was the only reliable source of news. In 2011.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 3:18:57am

re: #233 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Only major issue I have is that a lot of Germans seem to be indoctrinated to equate anything military with militarism and to reject it.

It took none other than Green Party leader (and then German Foreign Minister) Joschka Fischer to remind his people (during the Balkan Crisis) that “The motto is not just ‘No More War’ but also ‘No More Auschwitz’!”

Although it seems the war in Ukraine has done a lot to change Germany’s attitude about the military.

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Targetpractice  Apr 28, 2023 • 3:36:51am

re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Only major issue I have is that a lot of Germans seem to be indoctrinated to equate anything military with militarism and to reject it.

It took none other than Green Party leader (and then German Foreign Minister) Joschka Fischer to remind his people (during the Balkan Crisis) that “The motto is not just ‘No More War’ but also ‘No More Auschwitz’!”

Although it seems the war in Ukraine has done a lot to change Germany’s attitude about the military.

From an outsider’s perspective, it seems that since ‘91 it has been less “No More War” and more “No More War Budgets.” That the leadership of the nation decided to use the “peace dividend” after the Wall fell to focus on reunification and reorganization. That money that had previously gone into weapons R&D and production would have to be spent instead largely on rebuilding the former “East Germany” into a modern functioning economy rather than a total basketcase.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 3:43:00am

Fun word. I was 100% sure guess 3 had it.

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Thanos  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:17:45am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:20:27am

re: #236 Targetpractice

From an outsider’s perspective, it seems that since ‘91 it has been less “No More War” and more “No More War Budgets.” That the leadership of the nation decided to use the “peace dividend” after the Wall fell to focus on reunification and reorganization.

That played a major role as well, whereas parts of East German industry could be salvaged, their military was a total write-off.

The job of Defense Minister was always left to the least-liked member of the ruling party/coalition: it was nearly impossible to do one’s job with the budget provided and if you did it well nonetheless you were seen as a militarist and warmonger.

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Thanos  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:20:48am

Lenny Kravitz tribute to Harry Belafonte:

Lenny Kravitz - How Long Have You Been Blind (Harry Belafonte Tribute)

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Thanos  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:32:21am

Republicans redefine insurrection, because there’s no word they won’t Orwell to serve their needs.

Silenced by her Republican colleagues, Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr looked up from the House floor to supporters in the gallery shouting “Let her speak!” and thrust her microphone into the air — amplifying the sentiment the Democratic transgender lawmaker was forbidden from expressing.

It was a brief moment of defiance and chaos. While seven people were arrested for trespassing, the boisterous demonstration was free of violence or damage. Yet later that day, a group of Republican lawmakers described it in darker tones, saying Zephyr’s actions were responsible for “encouraging an insurrection.”

apnews.com

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:36:15am

re: #241 Thanos

Republicans redefine insurrection, because there’s no word they won’t Orwell to serve their needs.

apnews.com

They are desperate to downplay what happened on 1/6/2021. They can’t abide the fact that they and their supporters were responsible for an actual insurrection, and they have to find a way to both-sides it so that the media has a narrative to latch onto.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:44:16am

re: #242 Nerdy Fish

They are desperate to downplay what happened on 1/6/2021. They can’t abide the fact that they and their supporters were responsible for an actual insurrection, and they have to find a way to both-sides it so that the media has a narrative to latch onto.

They could send the complete video recordings to Tucker to re-edit and broadcast ..oops, too late!

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:50:45am

re: #33 Thanos

Probably one of the best headlines of the day at The Guardian, haven’t read the article yet:
Trump and Tucker Carlson were codependent. Their Venn diagram was one angry white circle

I’ve seen more than a few people muse that Carlson is actually better situated to run against Trump than anyone, or to be his running mate.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:53:07am

re: #244 lawhawk

I’ve seen more than a few people muse that Carlson is actually better situated to run against Trump than anyone, or to be his running mate.

Don’t scare me like that.

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Thanos  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:54:06am

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:55:37am

re: #232 Dangerman

The newsmax chyron that Biden cares only about enriching his own family all while Trump spews garbage is full on DARVO and projection like IMAX.

Trump’s the one who purposefully hired family to enrich themselves and get in tight with foreign despots and leaders to direct their money to his family. He encouraged GOPers and lobbyists to stay/spend money at his golf and hotel businesses, especially Trump DC - enriching his family and keeping his Trump DC hotel afloat until after he left office and the place got sold because it was a ghost town.

Saudis “invested” in Kushner businesses to the tune of billions. So, if you think Biden may have profited in a few hundred thousand to million range, these fuckers are obfuscating and distracting from the openly corrupt Trump nepo grifts.

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Thanos  Apr 28, 2023 • 4:56:59am

Lawhawk, that’s too true: any of those nattering Fox news Yobs could jump up and win the Primary. Even the old guard ones like O’Reilly and Beck could run.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:01:05am

re: #247 lawhawk

The “logic” behind it is that Biden, as a professional politician, does not get to engage in any such dealings: it is just proof of nepotism and corruption.

But Trump, having been a successful businessman before sacrificing his career to enter politics, is somehow allowed to continue doing so because reasons.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:09:30am

re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The “logic” behind it is that Biden, as a professional politician, does not get to engage in any such dealings: it is just proof of nepotism and corruption.

But Trump, having been a successful businessman before sacrificing his career to enter politics, is somehow allowed to continue doing so because reasons.

…had to turn to his ‘kids’ to sacrifice their own private lives to do those jobs because there was not one other person in the entire country qualified to help him like they could

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:12:14am

re: #250 Dangerman

…had to turn to his ‘kids’ to sacrifice their own private lives to do those jobs because there was not one other person in the entire country qualified to help him like they could

…there was nobody who was both competent and willing to throw their career away by being associated with him.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:14:57am

re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…there was nobody who was both competent and willing to throw their career away by being associated with him.

There’s been a steady stream of lawyers who have done just that…

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:15:15am

former RNC chair (cause the current one is unsurprisingly silent)

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:16:26am

re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…there was nobody who was both competent and willing to throw their career away by being associated with him.

i was being facetious why he had no choice but to turn to his children to run the country, appearance of nepotism and opportunism be damned.

this is sacrifice!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:19:29am

re: #253 Dangerman

Marjorie Taylor Greene says that adopted or parents through marriage aren’t real parents because they’re “not biological.” She just told a witness who is a mother through marriage that she is “not a mother.”

She can talk all the crap she wants about Jewish Space Lasers and National Divorce and billions of dollars going to kindergarten CRT programs and get away with it, but I hope that this outburst really comes back to bite her in the ass.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:20:57am

re: #253 Dangerman

I’ve seen a few people complain that this wasn’t an attack on adoptive parents, and yet she specifically cited claim that Weingarten wasn’t a biological mother.

In other words, she’s attacking any parent who isn’t a biological parent. That includes adoptive parents, SSM partners who have children, and even blended families.

That’s some family values right there.

Her gist was that someone who isn’t a biological parent shouldn’t make decisions about public health, safety, and education for others. I prefer someone who isn’t a racist insurrectionist shitgibbon making decisions for anyone else.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:22:12am

re: #256 lawhawk

I’ve seen a few people complain that this wasn’t an attack on adoptive parents, and yet she specifically cited claim that Weingarten wasn’t a biological mother.

Ah, the old “listen to her heart and not to her words” defense.

Worked for DJT.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:22:16am
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:23:26am

re: #242 Nerdy Fish

I kind of disagree with you because had the insurrection succeeded (not sure how that could have happened), they’d have stood behind Trump and installed him as the god-king they believe him to be. When Pence certified the election results, that was a wrap. They are only upset that the insurrection failed and Trump’s violent supporters are now in jail cooling their heels until the next time around.

How many of them voted against certifying the election AFTER the insurrection? That’s your clue that they aren’t upset about the insurrection — only that it didn’t result in Trump being declared the President regardless of the election results.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:27:52am

Speaking of Pence, he spent 7 years giving testimony before the Smith grand jury.

Screw that guy (Pence). He refused to testify, claiming privilege. Trump tried to block Pence from testifying claiming privilege too. It took court rulings to deny their privilege claims. Pence should be more than willing to testify against Trump for trying to have him assassinated, but instead Pence would rather observe the Reagan rule of never speaking ill of another fellow fascist. He’d have rather remained silent than call out Trump criminal conduct.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:28:20am

re: #259 Patricia Kayden

How many of them voted against certifying the election AFTER the insurrection? That’s your clue that they aren’t upset about the insurrection — only that it didn’t result in Trump being declared the President regardless of the election results.

They are not going to repeat the mistakes they made in 2020: they will make sure that there is enough chaos that results get disqualified, leaving neither candidate without a majority of EC votes and forcing the issue to the House.

And when that happens they will crack down hard on any protests or dissent against the “official” outcome of the election.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:32:25am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

She can talk all the crap she wants about Jewish Space Lasers and National Divorce and billions of dollars going to kindergarten CRT programs and get away with it, but I hope that this outburst really comes back to bite her in the ass.

I’m curious if any random GOP-er in that district in Georgia could primary her out with the sole slogan of “Vote for the sane one”.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:33:11am

re: #253 Dangerman

former RNC chair (cause the current one is unsurprisingly silent)

Almost as soon as she said that and was countered, someone sent the talking points out to the Republican parrots. There are two, and they are repeated everywhere Rep. Taylor-Greene’s comments come up:

a) She’s not really a mother because she did not physically give birth:
i) because they’re adults
ii) because she’s in a same-sex relationship and those aren’t real marriages

b) She’s a union organiser
i) she once objected to closing schools (leaving out the reason for the objection was there was no plan to provide education)
ii) unions only care about themselves and not children (projection of what conservatism is)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:40:34am

re: #262 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I’m curious if any random GOP-er in that district in Georgia could primary her out with the sole slogan of “Vote for the sane one”.

You would have to find a sane Republican first.

If you did, the answer would be “no.” The Republican Party base does not want sane Republicans.

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wins GOP primary in Georgia (Associated Press, May 25, 2022)

She ran against five other Republicans.

It’s pretty much the same everywhere a crazy Republican holds a seat. In Colorado, Lauren Bobert had no primary challengers, and in the general election three people ran as independents. (The three drew a total of 153 votes.)

Republican voters want crazy. On top of that, they have been trained since 1964 that they must pull the lever for the R candidate no matter how crazy they are.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:42:14am

re: #253 Dangerman

former RNC chair (cause the current one is unsurprisingly silent)

mtg apparently is against that whole adoption over abortion thing

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:46:01am

Mastodon

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TarHellion  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:46:22am

Interesting birbie today. After the first 2 guesses, not a lot of options left. We got 2.8 inches of rain last night, pushing us to more than 22 inches for the year. Looks as if we are on pace for a 5th straight year of 60-plus inches - more than 20 percent above normal. Then again, this is the new normal.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:48:38am

re: #260 lawhawk

“Speaking of Pence, he spent 7 years giving testimony before the Smith grand jury.”

It probably felt like 7 years to Pence since he was forced to testify against his lord and savior, Donald J Trump. He certainly fought having to testify with all his might.

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jeffreyw  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:50:18am

Good morning!

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:51:14am

Trying to somehow claim that Biden isn’t capable of doing the job because he wants to hold meetings during regular business hours? That, after ignoring that Trump would ignore PDBs, would shit post on Twitter at all hours, and basically treated classified documents as toilet paper and left them everywhere.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:52:28am

re: #246 Thanos

Or, more appropriately, the fish rot from the head down.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:54:38am

re: #254 Dangerman

this is sacrifice the way !

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:54:58am

re: #270 lawhawk

Some White House officials say it’s difficult to schedule public or private events with the president in the morning, in the evening, or on weekends: The vast majority of Biden’s public events happen on weekdays, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m

They are also trying to imply that if Biden is not taking part in some event that he is not working.

As DJT found out to his great annoyance, Presidenting is not all giving public appearances and reaping adulation.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:56:32am

re: #270 lawhawk

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 5:59:48am

re: #274 Patricia Kayden

10am-4pm. That also makes sense if you’re trying to prep events for the evening news or noon news, instead of every hour call ins like Trump used to do with Fox.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:01:31am

re: #259 Patricia Kayden

I kind of disagree with you because had the insurrection succeeded (not sure how that could have happened), they’d have stood behind Trump and installed him as the god-king they believe him to be. When Pence certified the election results, that was a wrap. They are only upset that the insurrection failed and Trump’s violent supporters are now in jail cooling their heels until the next time around.

How many of them voted against certifying the election AFTER the insurrection? That’s your clue that they aren’t upset about the insurrection — only that it didn’t result in Trump being declared the President regardless of the election results.

I think we’re in violent agreement here. They’re only trying to downplay 1/6 now because they failed. They’re trying to downplay it because it looks bad on them right now. To their base, they’re still trying to sell themselves as pro-Big Lie, pro-insurrectionist, pro-Trump. They just go out and try to both-sides it to the media because they’re aware that none of those things play well among the general population.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:01:53am

re: #270 lawhawk

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:03:42am

re: #277 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You realize he’s the President, right?

And that matters… why? Is the President supposed to be some super-human who powers himself through public appearances from 6 AM to 10 PM every day and never makes time for himself, his staff, or the actual job he was elected to do? Should I remind you, dear Patrick, that Trump spent more weekends away from the White House golfing than any other President in history?

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Jay C  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:05:13am

re: #273 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are also trying to imply that if Biden is not taking part in some event that he is not working.

As DJT found out to his great annoyance, Presidenting is not all giving public appearances and reaping adulation.

“Bullshit hit-piece” indeed.
IMO, every minute POTUS devotes to “public events” is actually a minute taken away from his actual “working”. Maybe in countries where the “Head Of State” is an apolitical figurehead, time spent on ceremonials doesn’t distract from the tasks of governance, but not here.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:07:27am
A new Fox News Poll finds most voters favor the following proposals:

Requiring criminal background checks on all gun buyers (87%)
Improving enforcement of existing gun laws (81%)
Raising the legal age to buy a gun to 21 (81%)
Requiring mental health checks on gun buyers (80%)
Allowing police to take guns from those considered a danger to themselves or others (80%)
Requiring a 30-day waiting period for all gun purchases (77%)
Another 6 in 10 favor banning assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons (61%).

What is happening at Fox?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:08:25am

re: #280 Dangerman

What is happening at Fox?

People are getting tired of reading headlines every day about how many people (especially kids) have been shot, or shot at?

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:09:07am

re: #279 Jay C

It’s also respectful towards everyone working for him that he schedules events during the working day, and gives them time at start and end of day to do other things.

Meetings are often time spent not working on things that need to be worked upon.

Some positions are 24/7, or are on call 24/7, like CoS or Press Secretary, but other people work long hours, so this gives them the time to do their jobs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:09:58am

re: #278 Nerdy Fish

And that matters… why? Is the President supposed to be some super-human who powers himself through public appearances from 6 AM to 10 PM every day and never makes time for himself, his staff, or the actual job he was elected to do? Should I remind you, dear Patrick, that Trump spent more weekends away from the White House golfing than any other President in history?

There are a whole lot of Republican parrots in that thread with the same comment. President Biden is the President: He is not available at the beck-and-call of any rando lobbyist, and is certainly not available during public appearances.

As for truly needed things like natural disasters or national security, he is available even during a public event.

The other main parrot talking point is “what about all the trips to Delaware” (whinge whinge Delaware is only a few miles from Washington you tools). Again to the first point: He is available to anyone with important information to impart.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:11:39am

Rando:

We know the GOP is getting killed on the abortion issue, but I’m also wondering if we’re not hitting a tipping point on people being fed up with guns.

I get it, “after Sandy Hook I realized nothing would change.” But Sandy Hook was such a horror, almost a parody of horror, that maybe it was easy for people to distance themselves from it. “A nightmare, but it won’t happen to me.”

The latest news blasts about people being gunned down for knocking on the wrong door might be the kind of thing that really pushes people forward. We’ve ALL turned down the wrong street, pulled into the wrong drive, or accidentally run afoul of someone else in our lives. If it seems like every basic interaction with another human being in this country is fraught with the prospect of deadly violence… well, maybe that’s just too much to bear.

Still nothing’s gonna happen till all the Rs are voted out
They don’t gaf what the people want

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:12:08am

re: #283 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The other main parrot talking point is “what about all the trips to Delaware” (whinge whinge Delaware is only a few miles from Washington you tools). Again to the first point: He is available to anyone with important information to impart.

To which my rejoinder is, again, pointing to the former guy and all the time he spent on one of his own golf courses on weekends - made worse because he personally profited from those trips, whereas Biden does not own or operate a business in Delaware from which he profits when he goes home to relax after a stressful week in Washington.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:13:50am

re: #279 Jay C

“Bullshit hit-piece” indeed.
IMO, every minute POTUS devotes to “public events” is actually a minute taken away from his actual “working”. Maybe in countries where the “Head Of State” is an apolitical figurehead, time spent on ceremonials doesn’t distract from the tasks of governance, but not here.

A lot of constitutional monarchies work like that. The monarch, as the living embodiment of the state, does all the state’s ceremonial representation to the nation or the world. The prime minister does the nuts-and-bolts of leading the government in day-to-day governance.

From my personal observations (YMMV), Commonwealth nation prime ministers tend to do more ceremonial things (mostly because the King represents so many nations), but far less than the USA’s president.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:15:04am

re: #233 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(32:38) YouTuber originally from Munich now living in Cincinnati.

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Made it into a tweet.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:16:34am

re: #284 Dangerman

Well, my state of Nebraska looks about as safe as California and Washington, so yay?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:18:31am

re: #287 Teukka

Made it into a tweet.

Stand by for a bunch of Republican chuds to flood your Twitter timeline.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:19:02am

re: #288 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, my state of Nebraska looks about as safe as California and Washington, so yay?

And Minnesota appears to be the safest state in the entire Midwest region, which is not exactly surprising, given our track record. The right-wing nutjobs can bleat about BLM and violent riots all they like, but even with the racist provocateurs trying to burn our fair city down in 2020, gun deaths just aren’t common here. Even one person getting shot in a Minneapolis neighborhood will make the evening news.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:19:32am

Inflation rates have eased, but still higher than what the Fed wants. Expect more interest rate hikes and people to complain about wage pressures instead of companies using inflation as excuse to hike prices far above what inflation suggests is necessary.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:20:42am

re: #279 Jay C

“Bullshit hit-piece” indeed.
IMO, every minute POTUS devotes to “public events” is actually a minute taken away from his actual “working”. Maybe in countries where the “Head Of State” is an apolitical figurehead, time spent on ceremonials doesn’t distract from the tasks of governance, but not here.

That’s partially what we have a VP for (1/2)
At least what the role has become

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:22:55am

re: #127 jaunte

😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:23:16am

Over the Easter weekend, my parents brought an Easter-themed gingerbread house for my kids to assemble and decorate. It looked beautiful, but it is now well past its prime, and it was time to dispose of it. Mrs. Fish had originally pitched it in the trash, but then she had a better idea: She placed it beneath the bird feeder. As I write this, the squirrel is enthusiastically attacking the gingerbread bunny ears that were attached to the roof of the structure. Hey, if it keeps the squirrel happy and away from the feeder itself for a few days, I’m all for it.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:26:26am

re: #283 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are a whole lot of Republican parrots in that thread with the same comment. President Biden is the President: He is not available at the beck-and-call of any rando lobbyist, and is certainly not available during public appearances.

As for truly needed things like natural disasters or national security, he is available even during a public event.

The other main parrot talking point is “what about all the trips to Delaware” (whinge whinge Delaware is only a few miles from Washington you tools). Again to the first point: He is available to anyone with important information to impart.

“Some say”
Its click bait

Ps…Biden still rides his bike

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:28:03am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:29:08am

Evidence that America is not yet a completely failed democracy: Abortion bans failed to win passage in two deep red states, Nebraska and South Carolina, where abortion remains legal through 22 weeks.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:34:37am

re: #296 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Poor Jason. But then he did choose to work for a vapid woman who fully believes in and pushes woo. Oh well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:35:14am

They will not speak ill of her. Ronald Reagan’s dictum of never speaking ill of another Republican demands they must even deny their own humanity and parents if that’s what conservatism calls for.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:37:24am

re: #297 No Malarkey!

Evidence that America is not yet a completely failed democracy: Abortion bans failed to win passage in two deep red states, Nebraska and South Carolina, where abortion remains legal through 22 weeks.

And yet the national Democratic Party completely ignores us here, except where they can fundraise off our incredibly skilled politicians (and the rank-and-file just write us off as a flyover state).

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:38:24am

re: #299 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They will not speak ill of her. Ronald Reagan’s dictum of never speaking ill of another Republican demands they must even deny their own humanity and parents if that’s what conservatism calls for.

Or they’ll distract from that by claiming that an LGBT woman should not be making policy or have a family. Because that’s the focus of what MTG was getting at - an LGBTQ+ woman heads an education union and is helping shape education policy. Right wing Christian fascists think that LGBTQ+ should not exist and denies them their rights.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:39:11am

re: #289 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Stand by for a bunch of Republican chuds to flood your Twitter timeline.

Yeah. But I can hack it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:42:25am

re: #297 No Malarkey!

In that photograph: Dressed in black, Sen. Megan Hunt (D8-West Omaha). Dressed in red: Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D6, West-Central Omaha)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:45:18am

Nebraska and South Carolina remain havens for women who are in healthcare deserts created by Republicans in other states.

The bill fell one vote short of the 33 needed in order to advance, after two senators did not vote. Gov. Jim Pillen, a Republican who had supported the bill, said after the vote that it was “unacceptable for senators to be present not voting on such a momentous vote.” Pillen, who described himself as “a staunch defender of life” said he was “profoundly disappointed” by the outcome.

In South Carolina, the senate rejected a bill that would ban most abortions in the state. The bill had already been passed by the House, but the Senate’s five women — three of whom are Republicans — opposed the bill and spoke forcefully against it.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:49:10am

re: #304 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nebraska and South Carolina remain havens for women who are in healthcare deserts created by Republicans in other states.

I am hoping Kentucky will become one as well after voters rejected a constitutional amendment that the Constitution doesn’t protect abortion rights, but for now, all abortions except to save a dying woman are banned until the courts decide.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:50:57am

With all the defeats on the abortion issue (Kentucky, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Michigan, Connecticut, Minnesota, &c), any Democrat who isn’t running a full-throated campaign on this issue (especially for women) is a moran.

Even our ConservaDem state senator Davidson, who political pundits were sure was going to vote with Republicans to restrict abortion to six weeks, voted “hell naw.” (He might be very conservative, but he isn’t stupid. He wants to keep his seat in the Unicameral.)

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:54:56am
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Joe Bacon  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:58:00am

re: #270 lawhawk

Jim VandeHei is doing a real piece of Pre$$titution with that hit piece on Joe. But then that’s what’s expected of Axios since it’s just another cog in the 24/7 GOP Bullshit Machine.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 6:58:30am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:00:22am
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Joe Bacon  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:00:56am

re: #293 GlutenFreeJesus

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:06:16am
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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:07:45am
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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:09:14am
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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:10:28am

re: #231 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It was reported some time ago. Nexta is just catching up.

First on CNN: European security officials observed Russian Navy ships in vicinity of Nord Stream pipeline leaks (CNN, September 29, 2022)
Denmark confirms sighting of Russian ship near Nord Stream pipeline days before explosion (Yahoo!, four hours ago)

(more)
You may recall when the explosion happened, Germany boarded a rented ship and Russia tried to blame the blast on Ukraine. American right-wing outlets then ran with “Ukraine did it.” The deflection then made it on to NBC News.
nbcnews.com (March 8, 2023)
Russian naval vessels ‘near Nord Stream’ days before attack (The Times of London, March 26, 2023)

There are many more.

Checking further on the story, Danish authorities have today released photos of the Russian ship, SS-750, specialized for underwater activities. So that seems to be what’s new.

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:12:59am
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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:13:59am

re: #315 Teukka

Checking further on the story, Danish authorities have today released photos of the Russian ship, SS-750, specialized for underwater activities. So that seems to be what’s new.

Exactly!

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:14:12am

re: #314 ckkatz

*sighs* Idiots like this are only going to make it worse for victims of SA and CSA.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:17:35am

re: #314 ckkatz

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:19:22am

re: #318 Teukka

*sighs* Idiots like this are only going to make it worse for victims of SA and CSA.

SA and CSA?

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:20:10am

re: #318 Teukka

*sighs* Idiots like this are only going to make it worse for victims of SA and CSA.

And a whole bunch of other stuff too!

And, as you point out in #319, another blue-check -

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:20:32am

re: #273 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are also trying to imply that if Biden is not taking part in some event that he is not working.

As DJT found out to his great annoyance, Presidenting is not all giving public appearances and reaping adulation.

TFG has always treated the Presidency as a kind of beauty pageant, in which the primary goal is campaigning in order to be chosen “Mr. President” after which his reward is making ceremonial appearances for 4 years.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:21:49am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

SA and CSA?

Sexual Assault and Child Sexual Abuse.

And yeah, forgot to add trafficking.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:25:20am

After catching up with the tweets in this thread over the last 30 posts or so I’ve decided maybe today’s a good day to ignore the internet.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:26:26am

re: #324 darthstar

After catching up with the tweets in this thread over the last 30 posts or so I’ve decided maybe today’s a good day to ignore the internet.

So, just another day ending in -y, then.

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:28:21am

A weirdness of the US. (And only one of many.) In parts of the US, particularly in the SouthEast, ‘CSA’ is used pretty much exclusively as the abbreviation for “Confederate States of America”. Ie the 1861-1865 Confederacy.

(I’m cracking up just thinking of the response of a Virginia local. A blank look followed by a “You’re not from around here, are you?”)

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mmmirele  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:28:55am

re: #190 Belafon

You know it’s bad when banks have more ethics than the g-d Supreme Court.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:29:20am

Mastodon

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:31:02am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:34:07am

re: #329 Teukka

I lost brain cells reading that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:34:15am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

SA and CSA?

SA: Sexual Abuse
CSA: Child Sexual Abuse

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:35:07am

re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg

I lost brain cells reading that.

I think it gave me a concussion. Seriously /S

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:35:22am
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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:36:23am

Hoarse Whisperer, after tweeting some of his more successful bird pictures, decided to tweet some of his perhaps, less successful ones-

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:37:13am

re: #327 mmmirele

You know it’s bad when banks have more ethics than the g-d Supreme Court.

I had to tell two vendors that gifts needed to be less than $100…

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Markm1960  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:38:12am

re: #279 Jay C

“Bullshit hit-piece” indeed.
IMO, every minute POTUS devotes to “public events” is actually a minute taken away from his actual “working”. Maybe in countries where the “Head Of State” is an apolitical figurehead, time spent on ceremonials doesn’t distract from the tasks of governance, but not here.

If memory serves me right, and please correct me if I’m wrong, but W liked a late start and early finish to his day as well as taking a mid-day break for a bike ride and clean up/ rest time after the ride.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:38:44am

Sleepytime for me. Catch y’all later.

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:39:15am

re: #335 darthstar

I had to tell two vendors that gifts needed to be less than $100…

I work for a defense contractor. We can’t take anything more expensive than a bottle of soda, and that’s only if we are in a session where lots of people are getting drinks, like a conference or training.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:39:32am

re: #327 mmmirele

You know it’s bad when banks have more ethics than the g-d Supreme Court.

public servants (and yes scotus are servants) who police their own ethics render the entire process irrelevant.

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Teukka  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:39:36am

re: #333 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:39:52am

re: #328 darthstar

Supermajorities support all these measures. GOP/NRA in Congress block all measures that a supermajority of Americans want, including and especially among GOPers themselves.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:41:07am

Shooting up lingerie takes it to a whole other level…

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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:41:11am

re: #335 darthstar

I had to tell two vendors that gifts needed to be less than $100…

In my biz, tips can be however much the guest wants them to be but I can count the times they’ve been over $5 on one hand in 8 years.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:41:25am

re: #341 lawhawk

Supermajorities support all these measures. GOP/NRA in Congress block all measures that a supermajority of Americans want, including and especially among GOPers themselves.

Largely because sparsely populated red states hold outsized power in Congress.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:42:52am

re: #338 Belafon

I work for a defense contractor. We can’t take anything more expensive than a bottle of soda, and that’s only if we are in a session where lots of people are getting drinks, like a conference or training.

in the old times (1980’s) irs agents wouldnt even go out to lunch with us independent auditors.
nope. not even with separate checks.
separate tables? not likely
they needed separate restaurants

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:43:12am
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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:43:36am

re: #341 lawhawk

Supermajorities support all these measures. GOP/NRA in Congress block all measures that a supermajority of Americans want, including and especially among GOPers themselves.

what the people support has nothing to do with what elected R’s want.

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:45:08am
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dat_said  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:45:45am

re: #335 darthstar

I had to tell two vendors that gifts needed to be less than $100…

Since 2008: reuters.com

New guidelines released on Thursday by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) prohibit drug makers from giving out pens, as well as other “non-educational” items such as mugs, to healthcare providers and their staffs.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:48:00am

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:50:04am

re: #349 dat_said

Since 2008: reuters.com

My dad was a country doctor and he got some pretty cool gifts from his Pharm salesmen…a cherry wood muzzle loader, a semi-automatic Weatherby shotgun…he used that for duck hunting for years.

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ericblair  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:50:34am

re: #338 Belafon

I work for a defense contractor. We can’t take anything more expensive than a bottle of soda, and that’s only if we are in a session where lots of people are getting drinks, like a conference or training.

And to expand on this, if you’re a defense contractor (or employee of one, there’s a bit of a difference), you don’t give government employees anything except maybe a glass of tapwater. Don’t buy them lunch, don’t buy them coffee, nothing. And absolutely don’t give them a lift unless transport is part of your company’s contract.

If you host a catered lunch as part of a day of meetings, usually for convenience and saving time, you put out a “fair share” box and the government guys pay in whatever they think is appropriate for the meal so they’re not getting, uh, bribed by Panera sandwiches and chips.

Then, you, as the poor employee who hosted the meeting, spend the next six months with a pile of cash in your drawer trying to get an answer out of management as to where you send the money you collected. (Protip: you pocket it and write a check for that amount to the company’s treasury and send it to Financial.)

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JC1  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:52:41am

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Blue Sky CEO replies with a thread.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:54:32am

@JayC — curious as to why you think “the fish rots from the head down” in response to the whole Carlson FU rates a down-ding? Fat thumb, or do you not like the metaphor for a shit-bird?

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dat_said  Apr 28, 2023 • 7:56:01am

re: #351 darthstar

My dad was a country doctor and he got some pretty cool gifts from his Pharm salesmen…a cherry wood muzzle loader, a semi-automatic Weatherby shotgun…he used that for duck hunting for years.

The no pens and no mugs thing seems overkill at first glance but I was in the implantable medical device world for decades and, prior to this change, which pacemaker your doctor chose to implant in you was directly influenced by which company sales rep brought in the best donuts or bagels for the office staff.

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Markm1960  Apr 28, 2023 • 8:00:23am

re: #329 Teukka

Little known fact: Jesus was raised on Similac and Judas was raised on breast milk.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 28, 2023 • 8:02:40am

re: #356 Markm1960

Little known fact: Jesus was raised on Similac and Judas was raised on breast milk.

JC didn’t drink Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Soda?

I’m shocked…

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2023 • 8:07:10am

re: #355 dat_said

The no pens and no mugs thing seems overkill at first glance but I was in the implantable medical device world for decades and, prior to this change, which pacemaker your doctor chose to implant in you was directly influenced by which company sales rep brought in the best donuts or bagels for the office staff.

He had a plastic cross section of a vagina and cervix with different sizes of diaphragms on display that confused me as a kid. Try as I might I couldn’t blow up those damn balloons.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2023 • 8:13:30am

Tapioca still going with Trump’s just a victim defense…

Mastodon

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Nojay UK  Apr 28, 2023 • 8:13:37am

re: #355 dat_said

The no pens and no mugs thing seems overkill at first glance but I was in the implantable medical device world for decades and, prior to this change, which pacemaker your doctor chose to implant in you was directly influenced by which company sales rep brought in the best donuts or bagels for the office staff.

The all-expenses-paid weekend symposium at a residential country club with attached Championship golf course to introduce a new wonder drug or treatment is, of course, an educational opportunity and not an attempt by the pharma corp to influence the attendees. No sirree.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 8:14:39am
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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 8:19:17am

re: #361 lawhawk

fwiw, we knew almost all of this at the time

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Jay C  Apr 28, 2023 • 8:31:46am

re: #354 Colère Tueur de Lapin

@JayC — curious as to why you think “the fish rots from the head down” in response to the whole Carlson FU rates a down-ding? Fat thumb, or do you not like the metaphor for a shit-bird?

A). Sorry. Must have been “fat-fingered” (likely on my iPad).
B). Thanks for the note: ding since corrected.
C): FYI, that Twitter link is not me (no space between “Jay” and “C”): yr humble svnt isn’t (and has never been) On The Bird….

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 28, 2023 • 8:37:52am

re: #363 Jay C

Is good. Was curious.

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A Cranky One  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:07:56am

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:10:05am
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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:10:28am

re: #238 Thanos

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Jason Isbell on Austin City Limits “Cover Me Up”

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Belafon  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:11:29am

re: #365 Crush White Nationalism

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We enjoyed the series. And I’m surprised we have seen the big reveal reaction turned into a meme yet.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:13:33am

re: #341 lawhawk

Supermajorities support all these measures. GOP/NRA in Congress block all measures that a supermajority of Americans want, including and especially among GOPers themselves.

And it won’t matter until they stop pulling the voter lever next to (R) because of it.

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:15:23am
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:16:12am

re: #359 darthstar

A whole lot of us hate Trump — some more than others. That has zilch to do with the merits of Ms. Carroll’s allegations.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:17:09am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:21:26am

re: #345 Dangerman

in the old times (1980’s) irs agents wouldnt even go out to lunch with us independent auditors.
nope. not even with separate checks.
separate tables? not likely
they needed separate restaurants

I recall attending a few conferences hosted by the company we bought logistics support software from. The forum rep, who worked for Exxon-Mobil at the opening session of the conference would go over the things that could not be discussed* by the attendees since it could be viewed as illegal collusion.

The interesting thing the one time in Houston was our group being taken to dinner at a very expensive steak place by another company. We could talk shop with them because they were an ag company and not oil-related like we were.

* - If you were in a related industry, like oil, just about any technical details were off the table. What software you’d bought could be mentioned, but no details of any modifications, and what it used it to adjust.

There is/was a thing in the logistics industry where companies started charging customers money if they held onto a railcar delivering product past a set period. (People were finding customers using railcars are extra warehousing for a temporary product stockpile. Annoying to you who are trying to manage the use of a railcar fleet and also paying monthly rent for the railcar as well.) Talking about this with other companies was a very big no-no.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:21:43am

re: #373 Dave In Austin

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“Shower” is clearly a euphemism for “stoned.”

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Dr. Matt  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:24:54am

re: #373 Dave In Austin

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A whole new level of stupidity to rival Bill O’Reilly:

“Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.”
~Bill O’Reilly

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wrenchwench  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:30:28am

I got approximately a borb.

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:31:10am
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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:32:14am
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Joe Bacon  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:34:11am

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wrenchwench  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:35:23am

re: #380 Joe Bacon

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Now, take two tablets and don’t call me in the morning.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:38:33am

re: #371 ckkatz

Is Elmo ever going to figure out that almost NO ONE wants to pay to use Twitter?

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Dr. Matt  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:38:39am

re: #379 ckkatz

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Who wants to tell MTG that she’s a terrible mother and isn’t a teacher, a scientist, a doctor or a human?

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Thanos  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:42:49am

re: #242 Nerdy Fish

They are desperate to downplay what happened on 1/6/2021. They can’t abide the fact that they and their supporters were responsible for an actual insurrection, and they have to find a way to both-sides it so that the media has a narrative to latch onto.

I agree - between this and the “capital demonstrations” in Michigan where plotters planned to kidnap the Governor, they will “wuddabout” any democrat party capital demonstrations to deflect from their darkly planned past insurrections; on the surface they will distance themselves from the perps when necessary, but really they are folks heroes on the far right, going all the way back to the Bundys. We can’t forget that they will keep trying until they hit on a model that works, while downplaying and deflecting from their evil in the public eye.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:44:22am
Square Enix has just released an AI-powered remaster of one of its most revered video games, “The Portopia Serial Murder Case.” But don’t get too excited. According to journalists and hundreds of angry gamers, it absolutely stinks — specifically because of the new AI.

On Steam, the game client of choice for PC Gamers, “Portopia” sits at an embarrassing “Very Negative” rating, with only 13 percent of the over 350 reviews being positive. That makes it the worst-rated Square Enix game on Steam by a considerable margin.

“AI =/= text adventure,” wrote one user, who gave up less than an hour into the game.

All told, it unfortunately sounds like the game has turned out to be a pretty lazy AI vehicle — symptomatic of the game industry’s shaky ongoing adoption of the new technology.

AN AI-POWERED VIDEOGAME JUST CAME OUT AND GAMERS HATE IT (Futurism)

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ckkatz  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:46:50am

re: #383 Dr. Matt

Maybe I am old school. But I do hope that eventually this craze of “performative assholery” is going to fade and the she will return to being unemployable and shunned. Even in the wilds of North Georgia.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:47:17am

re: #385 Crush White Nationalism

AN AI-POWERED VIDEOGAME JUST CAME OUT AND GAMERS HATE IT (Futurism)

The funny thing about this is that AI is literally at the core of the majority of video games. This is not a new technology to anyone in the video game industry, especially Square Enix; any game with computer-controlled enemies employs some form of AI (even if it is primitive) to direct them.

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William Lewis  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:47:29am

re: #366 A Cranky One

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My lady friend loved this one ;)

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Thanos  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:47:44am

I’m a sucker for time lapse construction & build videos, here’s a cruise ship build:

Youtube Video

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Dr. Matt  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:51:11am

re: #386 ckkatz

Maybe I am old school. But I do hope that eventually this craze of “performative assholery” is going to fade and the she will return to being unemployable and shunned. Even in the wilds of North Georgia.

I wish that was true and once shared your optimism watching the right lose their mind during the Clinton years. But the right has only become more hostile, more unhinged, and more openly racist as the years go by.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:51:32am

I’m a sucker for international cinema, especially films widely regarded to be masterpieces of their genre.

So, here’s Solaris - the 1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Original Russian dialogue, with hardcoded English subtitles.

Solaris | SCIENCE FICTION | FULL MOVIE | directed by Tarkovsky

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:54:49am

Story at Raw Story about a Republican who, having failed as a candidate, pulls a gun on other Republicans…I thought GOP meetups were supposed to be gun free events.

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KingKenrod  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:56:46am

re: #310 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s one of the most insightful articles I’ve ever read - thanks for the link.

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darthstar  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:58:40am

re: #387 Nerdy Fish

The funny thing about this is that AI is literally at the core of the majority of video games. This is not a new technology to anyone in the video game industry, especially Square Enix; any game with computer-controlled enemies employs some form of AI (even if it is primitive) to direct them.

Calling programming AI is just a fad. If the game was truly capable of learning, it would study the player’s behavior patterns and exploit their weaknesses, making the game unusable after a few short sessions.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2023 • 9:59:03am

re: #392 darthstar

Casteel “walked out of the building, saying that he would be back,” the Tribune-Review reported. “Three others attending the meeting followed Casteel outside in an effort to de-escalate the situation and told police they saw him put what appeared to be a firearm in his waistband. They tried to retreat to one of their trucks, but said Casteel approached them with the firearm in his hand, according to the complaint.

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:01:02am

re: #372 Patricia Kayden

A whole lot of us hate Trump — some more than others. That has zilch to do with the merits of Ms. Carroll’s allegations.

rapists tend to be loathesome people who are easy to hate

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:02:27am

re: #274 Patricia Kayden

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Nice to see A.J. Delgado being honest. Happens rarely but every occasion should be celebrated.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:02:46am

re: #394 darthstar

Calling programming AI is just a fad. If the game was truly capable of learning, it would study the player’s behavior patterns and exploit their weaknesses, making the game unusable after a few short sessions.

There are games that do learn and adapt from players’ tactics. Some of them are quite good at it. However, they’re artificially limited by the designers to ensure that they always have some kind of weakness that clever players can exploit to still be able to play and beat the game. As I’ve said many times as a D&D DM, “It’s not my goal to kill you. Where’s the fun in that? You wouldn’t get to see any of the cool stuff I built for you.”

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:03:57am

re: #397 Hecuba’s daughter

Nice to see A.J. Delgado being honest. Happens rarely but every occasion should be celebrated.

Is she often intentionally dishonest? My impression is that she’s just not clear thinker, and is easily fooled.

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Thanos  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:06:43am

Just a reminder: everything we call AI today isn’t really artificial intelligence - just because you can simulate artificial intelligence in a narrow field by coupling rulesets, a deep database of selections, query algorithms and some minimal randomness doesn’t make it real AI, but rather Artificial “artificial intelligence” or AAI.

Until we hit that skynet moment where it has self awareness & develops Free Will we are not there yet…

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:08:27am

re: #378 ckkatz

this is a totally wrong take

“Cannot overstate how bad this is for democracy around the world.”

‘everybody’ adopted twitter and started using it for all kinds of things
everybody who relied on it assumed it’ll always be there & always work the way it was

bad assumption. very bad.
twitter is a private company. there was absolutely no basis for this reliance.
lots of bad things could have happened
someone buying it is just one
any of these private companies can flip the switch off tomorrow.

in a sense, yeah it’s bad for democracies.
in another, hoping/predicting twitter would always behave in a certain way was naive on everybody’s part

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Dr. Matt  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:09:19am

re: #392 darthstar

Story at Raw Story about a Republican who, having failed as a candidate, pulls a gun on other Republicans…I thought GOP meetups were supposed to be gun free events.

Webster’s definition of “groomer” should have a photo of him:

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:09:36am

re: #399 Crush White Nationalism

Is she often intentionally dishonest? My impression is that she’s just not clear thinker, and is easily fooled.

I mean, Jason Miller.

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Mike Lamb  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:11:37am

re: #256 lawhawk

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I’ve seen a few people complain that this wasn’t an attack on adoptive parents, and yet she specifically cited claim that Weingarten wasn’t a biological mother.

In other words, she’s attacking any parent who isn’t a biological parent. That includes adoptive parents, SSM partners who have children, and even blended families.

That’s some family values right there.

Her gist was that someone who isn’t a biological parent shouldn’t make decisions about public health, safety, and education for others. I prefer someone who isn’t a racist insurrectionist shitgibbon making decisions for anyone else.

GOP: No abortions! Put the baby up for adoption!

GOP: But adoptive parents aren’t really parents.

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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:12:04am

re: #389 Thanos

That’s an amazing view of how they build a petri dish /half

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:13:49am

in the last few days we got low altitude buzzed by what are clearly military jets.
three or four times

finally figured it out

ft lauderdale air show this weekend

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:14:55am

re: #372 Patricia Kayden

A whole lot of us hate Trump — some more than others. That has zilch to do with the merits of Ms. Carroll’s allegations.

TFG likes to complain that “People Hate Trump” as though “Being Donald Trump” is the same thing as “Being Black” or “Being a Jew” that “Trump” is a protected racial, ethnic, religious group all by himself.

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Captain Ron  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:16:09am
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lawhawk  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:19:09am

re: #404 Mike Lamb

GOP: No abortions! Put the baby up for adoption!

GOP: But adoptive parents aren’t really parents.

Adoptive parents who aren’t good Christian cisgenders aren’t good parents.

There’s a whole lot of stuff going on in MTG’s comments that let all the hate come bubbling to the surface. It’s the anti-LGBTQ+. It’s the Christian fascism.

They just let the hate flow…

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Dangerman  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:19:56am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 28, 2023 • 10:20:16am

re: #408 Captain Ron

“Just $60 / month”

Yeah, sure. Because everyone keeps an extra $800 lying around for things like this.

/

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 28, 2023 • 11:41:16am

re: #408 Captain Ron

Matthew Chapman
fawfulfan
It is absolutely imperative that every driver of a car that offers a “subscription” to unlock extra car features refuse to pay it.

We need to kill this business practice in the cradle.

John Deere tractor owners have had to pay a dealer certified mechanic $$ to unlock their tractors after being self serviced for some years.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:07:12pm

re: #175 Hecuba’s daughter

Our friend Grunthos hasn’t been around the past few days — but — managed a birbie for Friday, without his hints.

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Maybe the dingo’s got him

Maybe the Dingo Ate Your Baby

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:10:03pm

re: #187 Belafon

How does he do drag with that beard?

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 28, 2023 • 1:35:40pm

re: #237 Nerdy Fish

Fun word. I was 100% sure guess 3 had it.

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