Mammoth WVH, “Take a Bow” (Official Lyric Video)

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No
Now what have you done? No
How far will you run?

Falling one by one
Is that enough for you my love?
Failing everyone
Am Ienough for you my love?

I swear It hought it was over
Just let me know when you’re done

And when the lights start fading
Take a bow it’s over for me
You’re wrong at the right time. Save me
Take a bow you’re devastating

Now
take back what you’ve done
Now
Got nowhere to run
nowhere to run

Oh god just let it be over
I can’t believe what you’ve done

And when the lights start fading
Take a bow it’s over for me
You’re wrong at the right time. Save me
Take a bow you’re devastating

Lost in darkness
Did you forget what you’re fighting for?
Crossed and heartless
Did you forget what you’re running from?

#mammothwvh #wolfgangvanhalen

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361 comments
1
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 5:45:26pm

Giuliani interviewed by special counsel’s probe into Trump’s 2020 election plot

cnn.com

Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has been interviewed by federal investigators as part of the special counsel’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told CNN.

The meeting between Giuliani, his attorney Robert Costello, and investigators took place in recent weeks. The sources declined to say what investigators’ questions focused on during the meeting, which has not been previously reported.

Special counsel Jack Smith has not announced any charges stemming from his investigation into efforts to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election, but prosecutors appear to be nearing charging decisions, sources familiar with the case have said.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2023 • 5:52:58pm

When Giuliani caves under the pressure it’s going to be epic.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2023 • 5:53:19pm

And he will. Oh yes, he will.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 5:58:05pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

When Giuliani caves under the pressure it’s going to be epic.

Will his head start leaking motor oil again?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 5:58:44pm
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Nerdy Fish  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:01:10pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

And he will. Oh yes, he will.

He’ll fold like a cheap suit, because while he talks a big game in front of Trump’s loyal fanatics, he is a coward. He did his best not to lie in front of the court, even when he was lawyering on behalf of the Big Lie. As a lawyer, he knows what kind of trouble he’s in.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:03:01pm

re: #158 jaunte

I’m still waiting for “mainstream” pundits and news outlets to acknowledge that the anti-trans efforts nationwide are battles in a religious war, and that anti-trans hysteria is fueled primarily by fundamentalist Christians.

Well, you may ask, what about all the macho ultra-male MMA guys (such as Rogan) who jump on this issue too and decry the “war on masculinity”?

They exist, sure, but by themselves would not have a very loud voice.

You’re going to find, by far, many more voices from pulpits crying about the issue.

Example:

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:04:35pm

re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Covid supply chain issues were also involved.

If you’re going to make a Barbie movie, make it pink — very pink — so pink that it will wipe out an entire company’s global supply of pink paint.

That’s exactly what happened during production of the new Warner Bros. “Barbie” film, according to the company that supplied set designers.

“They used as much paint as we had,” Lauren Proud — vice president of global marketing at Rosco, which is known for its deep ties with Hollywood’s film and television industries — said Friday in an interview with The Times.

She was referring specifically to its supply of fluorescent pink paint, which was used for creating the sets for the film’s Barbieland.

‘Barbie’ production emptied a company’s worldwide supply of pink paint (LA Times)

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Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:05:07pm

I DON’T DO THINGS WRONG

I DO THINGS RIGHT

I’M A LEGITIMATE PERSON

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:06:20pm

“I didn’t even see the recording.”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:07:12pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

I DON’T DO THINGS WRONG

I DO THINGS RIGHT

I’M A LEGITIMATE PERSON

Now that he’s claimed to be a person, I think he may really be the ugly side of America made flesh by some evil force, wrapped in an old hotdog skin, and painted orange. Trump always lies.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:08:45pm

re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Because, of course, being transgender is primarily a crime against morality (a singular specific morality, namely, White American Jesus Christianity). Even the most macho of “macho men” don’t really care about the existence of transgender people or participation in sports, except when it’s revved up to them as a hot button cultural issue that other people care about. But to the people who believe that being anything other than a white, red-blooded American, male, Christian is a grievous sin, they have been hating the transgenders for as long as they have existed, even before it was “cool” to do so.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:10:56pm

This movie is going to be blindingly pink.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:11:12pm

Speaking of McDowell, he won’t let a culture war topic go, so I just repeated myself:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:18:29pm

Another day, another one.

#ChristianNotOtherwiseSpecified (wingnut non-denominational)

KFDX-TV (Wichita Falls, Tex.), about an hour ago

Local pastor Ronnie Killingsworth indicted on multiple child sex crimes

The longtime pastor of a Wichita Falls church has been indicted on six counts of sex crimes against children involving three different victims over eleven years.

According to court documents, Wichita Falls pastor Ronnie Allen Killingsworth, 78, was indicted by a Wichita County Grand Jury on six counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact. The indictment was filed on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.

According to the indictment, one count stems from October 16, 2000, one count stems from September 25, 2001, and four counts stem from May 29, 2011. The indictment identified three different victims by pseudonym, all three of which were females under the age of 17.

(more)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:19:35pm

re: #13 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I love her smile!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:21:32pm

re: #16 Joe Bacon ✅

I love her smile!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:22:31pm

re: #17 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Ah if she had her baseball bat and played amateur brain surgeon on a certain person I would love her forever…😈

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:24:03pm

I missed this Airbnb crash story last month; maybe this will help rental prices.

Airbnb Stock Craters — Cofounders Lose $3 Billion In One Day
forbes.com

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:24:57pm

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:26:48pm

Who wants to rent an Airbnb in Beaumont, FFS.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:27:40pm

re: #17 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

She looks more approachable.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:28:01pm
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Vicious Babushka  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:32:27pm

Hi Lizards! We are in a Holiday Inn Express in Clearfield, PA. It is a place we have been before and never had a problem getting a room. Until this evening!

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Tomorrow we will be in Brooklyn!

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:33:27pm

Barbie can do everything. Him, he’s just Ken.

Reportedly, in French, “Ken” is a double-entendre for “fucking”. I loved this poster but didn’t know this fact.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:33:58pm

Love the sinner, hate the sin.

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JC1  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:34:32pm

re: #17 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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She’s great in everything she’s been in.

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piratedan  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:43:18pm

re: #20 jaunte

i do wonder if there’s a casual relationship with Tourism being down and Texas more or less calling for war on:

women
LGBTQ
Minorities
Science
Infrastructure
gun control

and people saying, why the fuck should we go there?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:45:55pm

Christians promoting slavery (again).

30
Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:49:08pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:49:18pm

re: #15 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That pastor up there? When the indictment was handed down, the Texas Rangers allowed him to turn himself in (because Christian pastor).

The charges in Texas carry a required $150,000 bond. He has six charges. He posted $900,000 cash bond within an hour.

This isn’t a particularly large church (I checked). Where’d he get all that money?

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austin_blue  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:50:21pm

re: #27 JC1

She’s great in everything she’s been in.

So:

105 110 ( huge undercount).

Oh and Elmo hates Chemistry!

It can exist as either of two geometric isomers, cis-1,2-dichloroethene or trans-1,2-dichloroethene, but is often used as a mixture of the two.

Oh noes! It’s woke science!

And the wing nuts have no concept of what geometric isomers are or how they differ.

This is as common as dog shit in chemistry.

So when Elmo bans the use of very common chemical definitions, he reveals himself as an ignorant fuck muppet.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:52:15pm
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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:52:32pm

@TristanSnell
By the way, you know Trump’s fingerprints are on all those documents. You know that, right?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:54:27pm
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Captain Ron  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:57:47pm
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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 6:58:21pm

I mentioned a couple of threads ago that one of the things the Ukrainians are waiting for before they ‘go for broke” is the depletion of the Russian reserves. (Also referred to as the “Fire Brigade”. That is to put out figurative fires. ) Here is an example.

(The Russians have multiple units in their reserve. Which are spread out across occupied Ukraine. The hope is that the Russians will lose the reserve units in one area, then the front lines would be depopulated. Opening up an opportunity for the Ukrainians to advance with out resistance faster than the Russians could respond.)

This area is along the Southern/Eastern bank of the Dnipro/Dnieper River, East of Enerhodar and the Russian occupied nuclear power plant.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:01:07pm

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That pastor up there? When the indictment was handed down, the Texas Rangers allowed him to turn himself in (because Christian pastor).

The charges in Texas carry a required $150,000 bond. He has six charges. He posted $900,000 cash bond within an hour.

This isn’t a particularly large church (I checked). Where’d he get all that money?

George santos’ dad and aunt

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:01:51pm

The Libertarian Party will be holding a convention next month where one of their principal speakers is an anti-vaccine quack and racist.

Bret Weinstein (Wikipedia)

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Belafon  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:05:59pm
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Belafon  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:06:14pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:06:52pm

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That pastor up there? When the indictment was handed down, the Texas Rangers allowed him to turn himself in (because Christian pastor).

The charges in Texas carry a required $150,000 bond. He has six charges. He posted $900,000 cash bond within an hour.

This isn’t a particularly large church (I checked). Where’d he get all that money?

I’m sure he fleeced his flock and got enough cash from those suckers to make bail.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:10:46pm

re: #42 Joe Bacon ✅

I’m sure he fleeced his flock and got enough cash from those suckers to make bail.

They just get really high rollers at the church rummage sale and Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:11:23pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:11:40pm
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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:15:29pm

The Webb county TX medical examiner says that nine people have died due to the heat during an eight-day span in the Laredo area.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:18:11pm

re: #21 jaunte

Who wants to rent an Airbnb in Beaumont, FFS.

“Silvia was workin’ as waitress in Beaumont
She said I’m movin’ away, gonna get what I want.
I’m tire of these small town boys who don’t move fast enough.
I’m gonna find me one who wears a leather jacket
And likes his livin’ rough.”

Lucinda Williams

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:20:43pm

re: #47 Barefoot Grin

Reminds me of a girl from Beaumont that once smashed into me on her way out of state; I was too slow, and she wound up all the way out in San Francisco.

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Captain Ron  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:26:29pm
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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:26:34pm

Treasury Sanctions Illicit Gold Companies Funding Wagner Forces and Wagner Group Facilitator

“…The targeted entities in the Central African Republic (CAR), United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Russia have engaged in illicit gold dealings to fund the Wagner Group to sustain and expand its armed forces, including in Ukraine and Africa, while the targeted individual has been central to activities of Wagner Group units in Mali.”
home.treasury.gov

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:27:45pm

JUN 14, 2017
Trump’s Conflicts of Interest in the United Arab Emirates

Few countries have been more blatant about their desire to buy favor from President Trump with lucrative financial deals than the United Arab Emirates.
americanprogress.org

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:33:21pm

He knows he is going to jail.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:34:54pm

re: #52 Vicious Babushka

He’s going to be really mad at whoever he thinks explained the Presidential Records Act to him.

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austin_blue  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:36:39pm

re: #46 jaunte

The Webb county TX medical examiner says that nine people have died due to the heat during an eight-day span in the Laredo area.

And those are citizens, not illegals. The Rio Grande Valley has been dealing with 118 to 123 degree temperatures. That’s not heat index, that’s clear air in the shade bulb temperature.

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A Cranky One  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:37:46pm

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:38:34pm

He keeps bringing up the “Clinton Socks!!!” like he thinks it exonerates him or something.

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BigPapa  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:41:33pm

Charles, what are these chords called?

Chords
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Jay C  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:41:35pm

re: #52 Vicious Babushka

He knows he is going to jail.

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And just BTW, who is this “Joe Bidden” ??

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austin_blue  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:41:45pm

re: #52 Vicious Babushka

He knows he is going to jail.

[Embedded content]

He’s certifiably off the rails bug shit insane.

And I’m toddling off to the rack.

Night all, be kind to each other.

It’s important.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:42:00pm

re: #56 Vicious Babushka

He keeps bringing up the “Clinton Socks!!!” like he thinks it exonerates him or something.

Ah, yes, the famous “United States v. Clinton Socks,” a legal precedent up there with “Borat’s Daughter v. Giuliani’s Penis,” “Levi Jeans v. Hillary’s Acid-Washed E-mails,” and “Reality v. Trump’s Ass.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:42:05pm

re: #55 A Cranky One

Memories of my first exposure to computers in 1972—IBM System 360 and this was the memory drive—If I remember correctly the stack held 16 KB…

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piratedan  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:42:25pm

re: #56 Vicious Babushka

it allows Trump to “both sides” the issue, which gives him immediate ‘consideration’ in the eyes of the low information voters that believe that Faux is a legit news network. We know it’s bullshit, hell, it’s likely that Trump knows its bullshit but these guys will double-down on every opportunity and ride that plane all the way to the site of the crash.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:43:04pm

re: #11 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Now that he’s claimed to be a person, I think he may really be the ugly side of America made flesh by some evil force, wrapped in an old hotdog skin, and painted orange. Trump always lies.

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BigPapa  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:43:36pm

Every time I hear ‘Clinton socks’ I think of their cat and laugh. We’re in the Silly phase of our dystopian demise.

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austin_blue  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:43:37pm

re: #57 BigPapa

Charles, what are these chords called?

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Vi-enners.

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sagehen  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:43:42pm

re: #57 BigPapa

Charles, what are these chords called?

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the one on the lower left is the Dread Pirate Roberts.

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:44:25pm

Considering that Hawaiian centipedes can be quite venomous and some can get as big as 10”

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:44:46pm

So Onle Skum is a recreational ketamine user, and that he takes “full doses at parties.”

He’s full of shit. As a dude who went into a k-hole once (and never again, I’ll explain shortly) you don’t do something like that at parties. It tends to ruin parties for a couple of hours, as was my experience in a condo in Crested Butte over 20 years ago.

I was so out of it I picked up a guitar and I couldn’t play it, it was like I forgot how. That scared me. Why I never had that drug experience ever again.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:44:54pm

re: #52 Vicious Babushka

He knows he is going to jail.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:44:58pm

re: #52 Vicious Babushka

He knows he is going to jail.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:47:19pm

re: #68 teleskiguy

Really funny. I’ll never forget this night. The setting, the location, who I was with. Just because every one of us had a bad trip.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:48:47pm

The shit you do in college when you’re 18, 19 years old. Especially in ski towns!

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Captain Ron  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:49:01pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:49:57pm

re: #68 teleskiguy

So Onle Skum is a recreational ketamine user, and that he takes “full doses at parties.”

He’s full of shit. As a dude who went into a k-hole once (and never again, I’ll explain shortly) you don’t do something like that at parties. It tends to ruin parties for a couple of hours, as was my experience in a condo in Crested Butte over 20 years ago.

I was so out of it I picked up a guitar and I couldn’t play it, it was like I forgot how. That scared me. Why I never had that drug experience ever again.

If you could remember what a guitar was for, you’d had an underdose.

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BigPapa  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:50:53pm

re: #67 ckkatz

Dunford is in HI? What a trip.

I never got stung by a huge MFer but I caught one and put it in a stainless salad bowl with salad tongs. The sound it makes trying to scurry up the side… nightmare fuel.

I’ve been hit with smol and 3 to 5 inchers. All equivalent to a bee sting. So maybe I’m lucky.

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William Lewis  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:51:56pm

re: #55 A Cranky One

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Makes me wish I still had my pawn shop IBM XT - I got it with 640k ram, 2 360k 5 1/4” floppies, a Huge 10mb Seagate hard drive :), Hercules Graphics Card, & a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem that was murderous to my phone bill. I’d later swap out the 8088 for a NEC V20 for a slight speed bump while running Minix (this was before Linus came out with Linux and needed, like Jolitz BSD, a 386 anyway)… Ah, memories… :D

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:52:19pm

re: #75 BigPapa

The little ones keep coming into the house here to cool off.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:52:45pm

re: #70 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I checked and… oh fuck IT’S REAL!!!

Nice of him to mention Jack Smith’s friends and family.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:54:22pm

re: #74 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

If you could remember what a guitar was for, you’d had an underdose.

I can remember picking it up and for a li’l moment there I didn’t know what it was, I was laying on my back, I think?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:54:49pm

Mid-70s at Pitt. I was going to play in a chess tournament. Friend slipped some LSD into my coffee. It kicked in when I was playing the first game. All of a sudden the pieces were talking to me. I saw the pieces moving by themselves and there was blood being spilled on the board. The white pieces were in KKK robes and the black pieces were militant screaming at the KKK.

I actually won all five games and got a brilliancy prize. Walking back to my dorm room and everything was in multiple images. I managed to get back to my dorm room, get a shower and sleep it off with wild dreams—The Marx Brothers were the Beatles with Zeppo as John and Harpo on the drums.

The morning after I gave a dose of TONGUE-FU to my buddy Jim and roasted him for doing that. “But you needed an edge to win that tournament”…yeah…knife’s edge…

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:56:39pm

re: #80 Joe Bacon ✅

Glad you got through that psychologically in one piece. That’s fucked up, should be (maybe is?) a felony. I’d a gotten into fisticuffs.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 7:57:06pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

I can remember picking it up and for a li’l moment there I didn’t know what it was, I was laying on my back, I think?

I’ve written software on acid to win a bet. There’s no way I could do that on ketamine. The real world isn’t much use to you, and you’re not much use to it, when on that very powerful drug.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:00:22pm

re: #82 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I’ve written software on acid to win a bet. There’s no way I could do that on ketamine. The real world isn’t much use to you, and you’re not much use to it, when on that very powerful drug.

I’ve skied some stoopid fun powder days in Steamboat on acid, I’d eat that shit at seven in the morning, lifts open at 8:30, and I’m just a fuckin’ Energizer Bunny™, first chair last call only stop for water. I only did that twice but boy howdy those were a couple of the funnest fuckin’ days I’ve ever had on skis.

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:03:20pm

re: #75 BigPapa

Dunford is in HI? What a trip.

I never got stung by a huge MFer but I caught one and put it in a stainless salad bowl with salad tongs. The sound it makes trying to scurry up the side… nightmare fuel.

I’ve been hit with smol and 3 to 5 inchers. All equivalent to a bee sting. So maybe I’m lucky.

Dunford was in England finishing up his PhD coursework, but moved back to Hawaii some months ago.

And yes, those big ones (Vietnamese or Scolopendra) are really nasty. Their venom can cause an entire limb to swell up. And their feet are sharp enough to puncture human skin.

Oh yes, and watch out for the wallabies!

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:03:36pm

re: #83 teleskiguy

These were the early days of being able to take your MP3 files with you in your pocket. My Sony MiniDisc player in those days were instrumental in those acid ski days. Headphones! I can tune out the world. There were a lot of moments on the chairlift where someone would say Hi! to me and I would sit there stone silent. Dude, I’ve got some crazy drum ‘n’ bass going on in my ears and I’m tripping on acid!

Salad days, those were…

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darthstar  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:04:04pm

Well, those wasps certainly picked an interesting way to sculpt in their nest…

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:05:14pm

re: #84 ckkatz
Someone Captured Video of the Rare Kalihi Valley Wallaby
hawaiimagazine.com.

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BigPapa  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:05:49pm

re: #84 ckkatz

Dude I know was wearing slippahs and a monster bit him on the pinky toe. Whole foot swelled up bigly. Do not recommend.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:06:29pm

re: #85 teleskiguy

And for some reason I would listen to Zappa’s “Uncle Meat” and “Burnt Weeny Sandwich” on these acid skis…

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:09:11pm
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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:09:18pm

re: #88 BigPapa

Dude I know was wearing slippahs and a monster bit him on the pinky toe. Whole foot swelled up bigly. Do not recommend.

Suddenly Hawaii is starting to look a bit less “tropical paradise”-like.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:09:59pm

re: #90 jaunte

Spoiler alert: The jury failing to hold him liable does not mean it isn’t true. Is he really sure he wants to go down this road again?

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:10:10pm

re: #91 ckkatz

It’s like a pocket-sized Australia, but with lava.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:15:32pm

If this bears out, I can well imagine that Putin’s paranoia is gonna go off the charts:

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Nojay UK  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:16:32pm

re: #84 ckkatz

An eccentric (crazypants person with money) lady put some wallabies on an island in Loch Lomond here in Scotland back in the 1940s. Their inbred disease-ridden descendants are still there to this day.

My Mad Friend Norman set himself a challenge one year, to swim across Loch Lomond at night four times, once each season when the moon was full. He’d swim from the shore to an island then from there to the next island until he reached the other side. The island with the wallabies was one of his stopovers. He said they’d spook when they saw his torch, bouncing away. He just had to be careful not to step in fresh wallaby droppings, that’s all.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:16:46pm

Well, on the subject of drugs…

Great Times on Drugs

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:18:27pm

re: #95 Nojay UK

An eccentric (crazypants person with money) lady put some wallabies on an island in Loch Lomond here in Scotland back in the 1940s. Their inbred disease-ridden descendants are still there to this day.

My Mad Friend Norman set himself a challenge one year, to swim across Loch Lomond at night four times, once each season when the moon was full. He’d swim from the shore to an island then from there to the next island until he reached the other side. The island with the wallabies was one of his stopovers. He said they’d spook when they saw his torch, bouncing away. He just had to be careful not to step in fresh wallaby droppings, that’s all.

Hah!

Wallabies from Hawaii to Scotland was not on my 2023 bingo card.

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BigPapa  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:19:49pm

re: #91 ckkatz

Suddenly Hawaii is starting to look a bit less “tropical paradise”-like.

Hawaii: like Australia, but smaller, closer, and less shit that can killya.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:20:18pm

re: #95 Nojay UK

bbc.com

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:21:13pm

Great hopping Scottish rednecks!

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jeffreyw  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:21:15pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:21:58pm

re: #99 jaunte

Giphy

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Belafon  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:22:00pm

re: #52 Vicious Babushka

He knows he is going to jail.

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:24:01pm

re: #93 jaunte

True, I also understand that Australia doesn’t have volcanoes. (Although I understand that New Zealand does.) Other than that one deficiency, I understand that Australia has a full complement critters happily and easily able kill one slowly, painfully and completely.

Of course Texas is no slouch, iirc, it has something 15 different venomous snakes. (Virginia only has 3. Which is fine by me, thank you very much.)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:25:14pm

re: #99 jaunte

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bbc.com

I wouldn’t mess with them, even after checking and seeing that they’re only three feet tall.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:25:15pm

re: #104 ckkatz

Australia claims some islands in the Indian ocean, that are volcanic.

But other than that, all the volcanoes on the Australian continent are long gone.

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Belafon  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:27:17pm

re: #104 ckkatz

True, I also understand that Australia doesn’t have volcanoes. (Although I understand that New Zealand does.) Other than that one deficiency, I understand that Australia has a full complement critters happily and easily able kill one slowly, painfully and completely.

Of course Texas is no slouch, iirc, it has something 15 different venomous snakes. (Virginia only has 3. Which is fine by me, thank you.)

Right after graduating from high school, my best friends and I went out to an old abandoned soap factory outside Abilene. When we got ready to leave, I jumped over piece of sheet metal rather than down into the grassy area between it and the foundation. And it was a good thing I did. Right after I landed, we heard the rattle, and saw a small rattlesnake in that spot. We were 20 miles from a hospital.

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silverdolphin  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:28:32pm

re: #73 Captain Ron

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Fucker does not know what he is talking about. It really pisses me off because people doing vaccine research are some of the most altruistic people around. They spend years trying to find a tool to fight disease that kill people and this asshole makes them monsters. The COVID vaccines are the results of 20 years of research, done with little hope of a big payday.

Other idiots will probably threaten these researchers, making it even harder to fight emerging diseases.

Anyone supporting RFK Jr is either selling something or one of the stupidest people in the world.

This Could Very Well Be The Stupidest Person On The Face Of The Earth

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Belafon  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:29:32pm

I’m surprised Musk hasn’t tried to kill off context yet:

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:31:11pm

We’re remodeling the telemark ski company HQ. Today we ripped out half the carpet and all the big stuff is in a big blob so moving things around going forward will be easier than it was today. Moving things around we encountered (and moved out of cardboard boxes into plastic bins) the owner’s ski binding archive, both alpine and telemark. I was impressed by what I found, we’ve got at least one version of almost every mass production telemark binding going back 30+ years. And in the alpine archive we have this… in the original box with instructions and everything.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:33:00pm

I saw Besser and right away I thought of…

Joe Besser - Three Stooges - The Best of Joe

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:34:33pm

re: #21 jaunte

Who wants to rent an Airbnb in Beaumont, FFS.

Brenham is nice.

I’ve been there.

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sagehen  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:34:35pm

re: #94 Dr Lizardo

If this bears out, I can well imagine that Putin’s paranoia is gonna go off the charts:

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And if it’s total fiction… it’s still good that we said so, and Putin can wonder if it’s true or not.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:35:48pm

re: #110 teleskiguy

The owner of the ski company I work for, he was three years old when these bastards came out.

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:36:02pm

Speaking of Mike Dunford —

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:37:02pm

re: #112 BeenHereAwhile

That’s where I go for groceries.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:38:16pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

My old wooden skis have Cubco bindings.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:38:30pm

We found all the prototype stuff, sheets and rods of steel, bizarre jigs that had to be seven feet long. Today was quite interesting at work. Yesterday I shipped a lurk to Australia.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:39:54pm

re: #117 jaunte

My old wooden skis have Cubco bindings.

You’ve mentioned this. I have an image saved in my LGF Image Library.

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piratedan  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:40:17pm

re: #115 ckkatz

vacation in Virginia! We’re not fucking insane! We have theme parks and beautiful national parks and history!

I can see a whole lotta states wanting to pile on to that theme…..

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:46:57pm

re: #120 piratedan

I don’t think it’ll be long before either Jared Polis, Michael Bennet, or John Hickenlooper cease this moment to shit all over this. I hope their social media teams are on this.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:51:09pm

re: #113 sagehen

And if it’s total fiction… it’s still good that we said so, and Putin can wonder if it’s true or not.

Precisely. Even if it turns out to be false, someone in the Russian security services is still going to have to look into it, just to sure - especially after Prigozhin’s little road trip on Saturday.

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:52:43pm
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darthstar  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:54:18pm

re: #119 teleskiguy

You’ve mentioned this. I have an image saved in my LGF Image Library.

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My wooden skis had bear trap bindings. My dad got Burt Bindings which were big metal bindings locked onto the ski by retractable steel cables…so the ski would “come off” in a fall but snap back on automatically when you went to stand up.

My first non-beartrap bindings were Spademans…I loved them. Mounted a small plate on the foot of the boot and it locked in - no toe-bit. Pre Ski-Break so still used straps.

Link to Burt bindings on ebay
ebay.com

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darthstar  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:57:34pm

re: #124 darthstar

Oh, and I had Scott boots - loved them because that’s my middle name - but jesus they were painful.

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darthstar  Jun 27, 2023 • 8:59:37pm

Dude.

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darthstar  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:00:47pm

Just picked this up from FBV on FB

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:02:07pm

re: #126 darthstar

I totally do the dude thing. Everything is dude. A bare spot in the snow when I’m skiing is dude.

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darthstar  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:03:27pm

re: #128 teleskiguy

I totally do the dude thing. Everything is dude. A bare spot in the snow when I’m skiing is dude.

Brah…bare spots are bullshit.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:06:55pm

re: #129 darthstar

Brah…bare spots are bullshit.

Having skied across a couple of ‘em in my day, I couldn’t agree more.

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darthstar  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:07:19pm

Storm Shadows doing the needful.

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:10:17pm

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William Lewis  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:11:03pm

Hole - Celebrity Skin

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:17:57pm

Mastodon

By all accounts a “good” billionaire who cared about his workers (questionable, by me) and the environment (no question from me, he’s an innovator in “greening” the ski industry). Barack Obama himself paid his respects very soon after his death.

Died suddenly driving a racecar into a wall. Totally needless.

Like my friend Nick last month, good people, the best dude, drowns on a rafting trip inexplicably.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:20:46pm

These things happen in the mountains with alarming frequency. High risk situations kill people sometimes, and there’s lots of high risk situations you can get into in the mountains.

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coin operated  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:22:22pm

I’ll admit…Wolfie had to grow on me.

That said…the kid can rock!

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Targetpractice  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:25:37pm

re: #73 Captain Ron

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This is one of the biggest reasons not to give conspiracy theorists attention: The bigger the spotlight you give them, the bigger and more elaborate the kudzu plot becomes. Now we’re supposed to believe that not only vaccines themselves harmful, but that some of the deadliest diseases of the 20th century are the result of vaccine research. Don’t ask for evidence because he has none, just nod along to him as he babbles that everything back to Spanish Flu was developed in a lab and that’s why vaccine research is evil.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:26:13pm
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Egregious Philbin  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:26:25pm

re: #55 A Cranky One

I remember buying an 8K memory cartridge for my Commodore 64.

BTW, I was able to migrate to Windows 11 today, even though my motherboard didn’t support it. I was able to go to my Microsoft account and download the .iso and use a program to put it on a thumb drive and remove the TPM requirement. It all went incredibly smoothly.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:32:25pm

re: #135 teleskiguy

These things happen in the mountains with alarming frequency. High risk situations kill people sometimes, and there’s lots of high risk situations you can get into in the mountains.

We also have the highest rates of gun ownership and the highest rates of suicide per capita. It’s really bad in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. Oh, and Alaska. It’s really bad there too. Lots of people shoot themselves to death with guns in these places. I’ve been to four funerals in the last seven years. All were GUNS.

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:33:08pm
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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:36:14pm
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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:36:34pm
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Targetpractice  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:38:27pm

re: #55 A Cranky One

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I watch computer restoration YT videos frequently and I still find myself frequently amazed by how haphazard computer design looks to somebody who grew up in the 1990s. The plethora of cards you needed to handle functions so basic that they’re now handled by a single chip on the motherboard, how many of those same cards would grow to the size of 2x4s because of the number of individual chips needed, and how hobbyists today have become so sophisticated that they’re replicating said boards with modern chips and materials with as little as a picture and a copy of the code.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:40:19pm

OK, off to work. Back later today.

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:43:27pm

Good night all!

Thought for the night -
I’m not weird. I’m limited edition.

The carefully curated ‘Dad’ joke of the evening -

A rich Frenchman showed me his yachts.
“This is Un, this is Deux, this is Trois, this is Quatre, this is Six.”

Me: “where’s the fifth one?”
“Cinq.”

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coin operated  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:50:57pm

re: #124 darthstar

My wooden skis had bear trap bindings. My dad got Burt Bindings which were big metal bindings locked onto the ski by retractable steel cables…so the ski would “come off” in a fall but snap back on automatically when you went to stand up.

Before my parents house burnt down…there are pics of me skiing on Jackass Ski Bowl in a set of those bindings. I think I was 7 at the time

My first non-beartrap bindings were Spademans…I loved them. Mounted a small plate on the foot of the boot and it locked in - no toe-bit. Pre Ski-Break so still used straps.

I got lucky…later models of the Spades had a ski-break right under the heel.
Before that…yeah…I’ve been hit in the head with a ‘helicopter’ ski behind a ski strap

Edited…spellcheck turned ski into sky

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:52:52pm

I’m pretty sure I posted this already, see it again.

Bishop Telemark athlete Silvia Kino at Snowbird, Utah’s closing day

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Belafon  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:53:24pm
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has had plenty of run-ins with Christian nationalist GOP members of Congress over the years. There was MRFF founder and president Mikey Weinstein’s 2014 testimony before the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Personnel that was crashed by members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus who weren’t members of the subcommittee to berate Mikey. (Watch video here.) And there have been a slew of letters written by GOP, and more recently MAGA, House members and senators to the Secretary of Defense or VA Secretary decrying this or that MRFF victory and demanding that these victories be reversed. (See here, here, here, here for a few examples.) Mainly consisting of ineffectual letter-writing and some bitching on Fox News and occasionally on the House floor, the GOP’s attacks on MRFF have been easily taken in stride — UNTIL NOW.

In an almost inconceivable action, a Christian nationalist GOP congressman, Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio, has introduced actual legislation to shut MRFF down — to make it ILLEGAL for Department of Defense personnel to even communicate with MRFF!

Yes, this is how scared the Christian nationalists are of MRFF’s success in fighting for the religious freedom of our service members and against the spread of Christian nationalism in our military. They now see the only way to try to stop us is to make us illegal for military personnel!

Turner’s legislation comes in the form of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2024 — an amendment that was PASSED last week in the GOP-led House Armed Services Committee’s markup of the NDAA.

His amendment:

LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS RELATED TO MILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION.

None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2024 for the Department of Defense may be used—

(1) to communicate with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, its leadership, or its founder; or

(2) to take any action or make any decision as a result of any claim, objection, or protest made by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation without the authority of the Secretary of Defense.

dailykos.com

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coin operated  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:54:45pm

re: #125 darthstar

Oh, and I had Scott boots - loved them because that’s my middle name - but jesus they were painful.

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Hanson…hot wax injected between the boot molding and the liner. After the wax cooled…you were locked in. Great for groomer runs…murder in the mogals because of the lack of flex. They moved to a gel pack later on and were pretty comfortable boots.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:55:39pm

re: #148 teleskiguy

I and a couple of others assembled those bindings. I look at this and say, “I made that!”

My job is pretty cool.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:55:46pm

Recipe Time

Skillet Corn Casserole!

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 ounce; 30g)
1 large onion, diced (about 1 1/4 cups; 7 ounces; 200g)
1 small bell pepper, diced (about 3/4 cup; 4 ounces; 110g)
2 tablespoons sugar (1 1/2 ounces; 40g)
Scant 1/4 cup fresh sage (about 1/2 ounce; 15g), finely chopped
1 tablespoon kosher salt (1/4 ounce; 7g); for table salt, use half as much by volume or use the same weight
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
15 ounces fresh or frozen corn kernels (about 3 cups; 425g)
1/2 cup white or yellow cornmeal (2 1/2 ounces; 70g)
3 large eggs
1 1/4 cups milk, any percentage (10 ounces; 280g)
1/2 cup heavy cream (4 ounces; 115g)
1 cup finely shredded cheese (3 ounces; 85g), such as cheddar, Monterey Jack, or Parmesan

Use a 10-inch cast iron skillet

Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat to 350°F (177°C). Melt butter in a 10-inch cast iron skillet over medium heat, then add onion, bell pepper, sugar, sage, salt, paprika, and cayenne. Cook, stirring, until onions are translucent and just beginning to brown, about 10 minutes, then add corn. Continue cooking, stirring frequently, until no water remains in skillet, another 8 to 10 minutes, then stir in cornmeal and remove from heat.

In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, and cream, then pour into corn mixture. Stir well to combine, sprinkle with cheese, and bake until softly set, about 20 minutes. Turn on the broiler and broil only until lightly browned, just a minute or two more.

This casserole can be prepared in a 12-inch cast iron skillet, but will cook faster on the stove and in the oven, so use the visual cues as your guide. If you don’t have a cast iron skillet, prepare the casserole in a large stainless steel skillet, then transfer to a 7- by 11-inch glass or ceramic dish to bake.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:56:01pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So we get to stone Trump then?

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Targetpractice  Jun 27, 2023 • 9:56:45pm

re: #149 Belafon

His amendment:

dailykos.com

There’s the GQP again, showing their love for the Constitution by declaring that freedom of association is a crime if they don’t like the association.

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:08:11pm

re: #126 darthstar

Dude.

Here’s a thing I called Dude quite recently.

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:26:52pm

re: #83 teleskiguy

I’ve skied some stoopid fun powder days in Steamboat on acid, I’d eat that shit at seven in the morning, lifts open at 8:30, and I’m just a fuckin’ Energizer Bunny™, first chair last call only stop for water. I only did that twice but boy howdy those were a couple of the funnest fuckin’ days I’ve ever had on skis.

Must clarify! When the fresh snow is deep and everything is buried a skier of my caliber can get close to Zen. This happened A LOT when I lived in Steamboat Springs, CO. Those acid skis were amazing because deep powder (the first time I skied on acid it snowed 19 inches the night before !!!) and my skiing ability. Perfect combination, got me a charter membership to the Too Much Fun Club. This kind of event happened to me dozens of times while I lived in Steamboat Springs, CO.

First time I ever laid eyes on LGF was in the Bud Werner Memorial Library on my laptop after I heard Charles give an interview on Matt Drudge’s Sunday radio show, they were talking about doctored Reuters photos of bombings in Israel, I think…

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:30:42pm

re: #104 ckkatz

Australia: Where the primary spoken language is screaming.

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Targetpractice  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:31:51pm

re: #157 Romantic Heretic

Australia: Where the primary spoken language is screaming.

Screaming and swearing. I’ve learned over the years that if an Aussie isn’t swearing in casual conversation, that means something is very wrong.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:37:37pm

re: #141 ckkatz

The reason for the rate hike was not clear, but at least one Florida lawyer who had seriously considered representing Nauta decided several days ago that the reputational and legal risk of working with Trump’s co-defendant in the documents case presented major complications.

Have the court appoint a federal public defender.

Local counsel for a case like this is mainly to satisfy S FL District Ct local rules.

Let Trump arrange for a gun slinger out of town attorney for his co-defendant. As Nauta’s case goes, so does Trump’s.

FWIW, Roy Black started out as a public defender, and today if I needed a criminal defense attorney in S Fl I’d hire Roy Black.

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JC1  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:56:23pm

re: #32 austin_blue

So:

105 110 ( huge undercount).

Oh and Elmo hates Chemistry!

It can exist as either of two geometric isomers, cis-1,2-dichloroethene or trans-1,2-dichloroethene, but is often used as a mixture of the two.

Oh noes! It’s woke science!

And the wing nuts have no concept of what geometric isomers are or how they differ.

This is as common as dog shit in chemistry.

So when Elmo bans the use of very common chemical definitions, he reveals himself as an ignorant fuck muppet.

Not sure what this has to do with me saying that Margot Robbie has been great in everything she’s been in 😉.

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JC1  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:02:19pm

re: #76 William Lewis

Makes me wish I still had my pawn shop IBM XT - I got it with 640k ram, 2 360k 5 1/4” floppies, a Huge 10mb Seagate hard drive :), Hercules Graphics Card, & a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem that was murderous to my phone bill. I’d later swap out the 8088 for a NEC V20 for a slight speed bump while running Minix (this was before Linus came out with Linux and needed, like Jolitz BSD, a 386 anyway)… Ah, memories… :D

Any of those would still run Hack.

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William Lewis  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:08:11pm

re: #161 JC1

Any of those would still run Hack.

Always built moria, instead, once i discovered it :)

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JC1  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:12:43pm

re: #162 William Lewis

Always built moria, instead, once i discovered it :)

True. Then there are Angband and ADOM.
I’ve played through Angband multiple times.

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William Lewis  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:15:21pm

re: #163 JC1

True. Then there are Angband and ADOM.
I’ve played through Angband multiple times.

Got a copy of Angband on the USB stick that comes with me to work ;)

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teleskiguy  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:15:49pm

Song For Our Ancestors

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:49:41pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:56:32pm

re: #46 jaunte

The Webb county TX medical examiner says that nine people have died due to the heat during an eight-day span in the Laredo area.

were they vaccinated?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 12:13:48am

re: #149 Belafon

When the Heavenly Hosts descend with Jesus leading them on a White Horse, it is imperative that the US MIlitary be on the side of the Christian God and not shot through with heathens, atheists and heretics.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 12:19:13am

26 users: two rugby league teams

TIME TO SCRUM!!!!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 28, 2023 • 12:28:08am

re: #149 Belafon

His amendment:

dailykos.com

We’re going to have to crush these people.

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Cheechako  Jun 28, 2023 • 1:05:13am

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day:

Liz Cheney on what’s wrong with politics: ‘We’re electing idiots’

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Targetpractice  Jun 28, 2023 • 1:13:22am

re: #171 Cheechako

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day:

Liz Cheney on what’s wrong with politics: ‘We’re electing idiots’

Liz’s only real problem with Trump is that he’s a walking dumpster fire of a human being, that it’s impossible to separate his personal failings from his political career. She doesn’t have any real objection to the fascism, she just hates that it comes attached to a walking garbage pile. And that extends to the shitheels that have followed in his wake, the MTGs and Boeberts and the Gaetzs of the party that are the kind of childish, destructive asshats that she’s used to looking down at party functions rather than treating as colleagues in the halls of Congress.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 1:21:07am

re: #172 Targetpractice

Liz’s only real problem with Trump is that he’s a walking dumpster fire of a human being, that it’s impossible to separate his personal failings from his political career. She doesn’t have any real objection to the fascism, she just hates that it comes attached to a walking garbage pile. And that extends to the shitheels that have followed in his wake, the MTGs and Boeberts and the Gaetzs of the party that are the kind of childish, destructive asshats that she’s used to looking down at party functions rather than treating as colleagues in the halls of Congress.

The only issue that prevents Cheney from being a GOP officeholder in good standing is her opposition to the violent coup attempt; GOP politics requires you to either support or condone the coup. Cheney prefers to subvert democracy through laws suppressing the vote and giving money free reign over elections.

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Targetpractice  Jun 28, 2023 • 1:36:33am

re: #173 No Malarkey!

The only issue that prevents Cheney from being a GOP officeholder in good standing is her opposition to the violent coup attempt; GOP politics requires you to either support or condone the coup. Cheney prefers to subvert democracy through laws suppressing the vote and giving money free reign over elections.

Nah, she’d already ended up on the MAGAt shitlist when she had the audacity to stand up during the first impeachment and acknowledge that trying to extort a foreign ally to help your reelection campaign is not how it’s done by voting for the impeachment. If she’d kept silent or even voiced support for his “acquittal,” she’d still have a seat at the table as a Good Republican.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 28, 2023 • 1:50:55am

I think the Cheneys, both Darth and the Evil Daughter, have known for a long time where Trump was headed (prison) and that MAGA would end in disaster for the GOP. They are positioning Liz to pick up the pieces.

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TarHellion  Jun 28, 2023 • 1:54:43am

Waking up and hearing the sweet sound of a birbie.

Getting the new heat pump installed today after the slug convention fried the current unit last Friday. It’s been as warm as 88 in the house since - though there should be ample cold air inside to ward off the projected weekend highs in the 90s.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 1:57:31am

re: #175 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I think the Cheneys, both Darth and the Evil Daughter, have known for a long time where Trump was headed (prison) and that MAGA would end in disaster for the GOP. They are positioning Liz to pick up the pieces.

Good luck with that; most GOP voters hate her. She lost the GOP primary for her House seat by 37 points, the second worst drubbing for a House incumbent in 60 years.

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ericblair  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:05:50am

Therefore teaching everybody that trying to sit on the fence to see what happens doesn’t work, they will hang you for a sheep as for a lamb, and so next coup if you have any doubts about Great Leader you might as well climb on board the insurrection train.

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Targetpractice  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:12:50am

re: #178 ericblair

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Therefore teaching everybody that trying to sit on the fence to see what happens doesn’t work, they will hang you for a sheep as for a lamb, and so next coup if you have any doubts about Great Leader you might as well climb on board the insurrection train.

In keeping with the theme of Putin as the new Tsar, we now have the officer purges intended to suppress mutinous beliefs but will instead encourage those on the fence to see Putin as a tyrant who needs to be removed before they themselves end up on the wrong end of a gun.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:13:01am

re: #178 ericblair

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Therefore teaching everybody that trying to sit on the fence to see what happens doesn’t work, they will hang you for a sheep as for a lamb, and so next coup if you have any doubts about Great Leader you might as well climb on board the insurrection train.

Well the idea is to ensure that the next coup never happens, and that the best strategy is to swallow any doubts you have about Great Leader. Prigozhin had, past tense, a private army loyal to him; who would attempt a coup now? Certainly not the corrupt lackeys currently at the MoD.

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ericblair  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:16:00am

re: #180 No Malarkey!

Well the idea is to ensure that the next coup never happens, and that the best strategy is to swallow any doubts you have about Great Leader. Prigozhin had, past tense, a private army loyal to him; who would attempt a coup now? Certainly not the corrupt lackeys currently at the MoD.

Prigozhin is walking around free, for now anyways, and his torso is still firmly connected to his head.

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TarHellion  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:21:16am

re: #181 ericblair

At least until he eats a polonium breakfast with a side of defenestration.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:21:37am

re: #181 ericblair

Prigozhin is walking around free, for now anyways, and his torso is still firmly connected to his head.

He is in exile, and his private army is being folded into the regular military, no longer his to command. I see an open window or a polonium tea in his near future.

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ericblair  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:25:55am

Thread. TLDR: Shoigu is unsackable because he knows too much and has too many loyalists, but was essentially a prisoner during the coup and negotiations. Prigozhin couldn’t just be disposed of because, again, there are too many loyalists to him in the Russian Ministry of Defense. Both sides knew something was up days in advance. Putin didn’t know whether to shit or go blind during all of this, and now nothing’s really resolved.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:29:50am

re: #177 No Malarkey!

Good luck with that; most GOP voters hate her. She lost the GOP primary for her House seat by 37 points, the second worst drubbing for a House incumbent in 60 years.

As I said, this assumes a complete exposure/collapse of the current party. There are diehard fanatics who will never give up but most are opportunists and bigots who will turn on a dime when they finally see that power is no longer on their side. I remember an American columnist, perhaps William L. Shirer, noting sardonically how hard it was to find a Nazi in Berlin at the time of the Potsdam conference (July 1945). Just 3 months earlier, millions of them were still prepared to fight to the death for the Fuhrer. Similarly, in 1925 the Ku Klux Klan had more than 5 million members, about 1 of every 4 eligible men. It collapsed to within a few thousand in less than two years. Authoritarian cults seem to be especially susceptible to this sudden collapse effect; the leader is perfect and infallible, until he isn’t. We haven’t reached the end of the MAGAts’ devotion but that does not mean that the end cannot happen.
Btw, I think the GOP survived Watergate because Nixon was not a cult figure. Reagan was close to it but he stayed out of serious trouble until his senile ass was trundled off into retirement.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:39:25am

re: #185 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

As I said, this assumes a complete exposure/collapse of the current party. There are diehard fanatics who will never give up but most are opportunists and bigots who will turn a dime when they finally see that power is no longer on their side. I remember an columnist, perhaps William L. Shirer, noting sardonially how hard it was to find a Nazi in Berlin at the time of the Potsdam conference. Just 3 months earlier, millions of them were still prepared to fight to the death for the Fuhrer. Similarly, in 1925 the Ku Klux Klan had more than 5 million members, about 1 of every 4 eligible men. It collapsed to within a few thousand in less than two years. Authoritarian cults seem to be especially susceptible to this sudden collapse effect; the leader is perfect and infallible, until he isn’t. We haven’t reached the end of the MAGAts’ devotion but that does not mean that the end cannot happen.
Btw, I think the GOP didn’t survived Watergate because Nixon was not a cult figure. Reagan was close to it but he stayed out of serious trouble until his senile ass was trundled off into retirement.

Post-Trump, if sane people are able to wrest control of the party away from the fascists, it’s probably going to have to arise from a new generation of leaders not associated with the stench of failure. And they are going to have to offer voters something more than regressive tax cuts and foreign wars to counter the fascists heady brew of racism and misogyny.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:40:04am

The image of Nixon with a Trump-style cult following is pretty funny; ghastly, but still funny.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:42:25am

re: #187 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

The image of Nixon with a Trump-style cult following is pretty funny; ghastly, but still funny.

Nixon cultists could have been called NITOs, from “Nixon’s the one!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:42:28am

re: #149 Belafon

So I read the amendment offered by Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio. It is exactly as MRFF describes it.

I’ve written my Republicypher representative in response, arguing he should move to strip the amendment from the National Defense Authorization Act before it is voted on in the US House.

If you wish, you may use my E-mail as a template.

Dear Rep. Smith,

I call your attention to an amendment submitted by Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2024 and implore you to vote to remove the amendment from HR2670 when it comes up for a vote in the US House of Representatives.

Please see Page 17 of the bill linked to here:

https: // www .congress .gov /118/meeting/house/115846/documents/BILLS-118-HR2670-B001299-Amdt-MLPEB2.pdf [remove the spaces; that PDF is massive so I didn’t want it to display here]

This amendment is unconstitutional and Christian fascism.

Clearly it targets uniquely the MRFF as the leading organization fighting for separation of church and state in the military and for the religious freedom of ALL our service members (including Christians). Of note, the majority of MRFF’s membership are Christians, though that shouldn’t matter.

This a bill of attainder: It singles out an individual (Mikey Weinstein, USAF Retired) and the group he leads (MRFF) to prohibit military commanders to respond to MRFF, even freedom-of-information act requests, by making any contact with MRFF a crime, including requests for information.

This is unconstitutional on its face. “Freedom of Association” doesn’t mean “except associations one Republican congressman doesn’t like.” Mr. Turner is showing utter contempt for the I Amendment.

I trust you’ll stand up and for the Constitution both you and I swore an oath to defend. That oath is lifelong; it did not end when I left the United States Navy.

Please let me know what you will do to prevent this from making it into the final bill. You must defend service members’, veterans’, and their dependents rights, as you swore to do when you took your oath to the Constitution. Do not simply use us as props for photo ops for your reëlection campaign.

Defend our rights.

Thank you.

[me]
AT1, USN (retired-disabled)

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Targetpractice  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:45:09am

re: #184 ericblair

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Thread. TLDR: Shoigu is unsackable because he knows too much and has too many loyalists, but was essentially a prisoner during the coup and negotiations. Prigozhin couldn’t just be disposed of because, again, there are too many loyalists to him in the Russian Ministry of Defense. Both sides knew something was up days in advance. Putin didn’t know whether to shit or go blind during all of this, and now nothing’s really resolved.

Again demonstrating that, aside from the lurid fantasies of the vatniks, the reality is that Putin came out the loser on Saturday and there’s no clear path to correcting that. He can’t move against Shoigu, Prigozhin is out of his reach, and anything he could offer Lukashenko would pale in comparison to getting out from under the Kremlin’s yoke. So he’ll have to settle for trying to inspire further terror, both in the population and in the military, except that’s a well that is very shallow if not already dried out.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:52:36am

re: #184 ericblair

re: #190 Targetpractice

On a somewhat tangential note, this apparently happened today in Russia:

Rumor mill via Russian Telegram milblogger Rybar is that a purge of officers is underway, though Rybar claims a lot of things, so take this one with a grain of salt:

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 28, 2023 • 2:57:33am

re: #174 Targetpractice

Nah, she’d already ended up on the MAGAt shitlist when she had the audacity to stand up during the first impeachment and acknowledge that trying to extort a foreign ally to help your reelection campaign is not how it’s done by voting for the impeachment. If she’d kept silent or even voiced support for his “acquittal,” she’d still have a seat at the table as a Good Republican.

She may have been totally on board with Trump’s domestic policy but, like Joe Walsh, she has always been opposed to his foreign policy. Except for his discarding the Iran nuclear deal, there is no aspect to the Trump FP that any Cheney would accept.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:01:58am

re: #188 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Nixon cultists could have been called NITOs, from “Nixon’s the one!”

And tattoo his face on their backs! (There are linkages.)

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:12:52am

Yikes! This makes my dad’s 1950s home movies look like Citizen Kane. Note ring lights reflecting on the actors’ glasses.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:23:00am

re: #134 teleskiguy

Died suddenly driving a racecar into a wall. Totally needless.

Wait, he died of the Covid-19 vaccine? /s

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darthstar  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:36:42am

re: #191 Dr Lizardo

On a somewhat tangential note, this apparently happened today in Russia:

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Never drive your ATV out a fourth story window.

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William Lewis  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:43:53am

re: #191 Dr Lizardo

On a somewhat tangential note, this apparently happened today in Russia:

It’s not an uncommon practice in pre-soviet, soviet or post-soviet Russia to scapegoat the officer corps this way so I’d consider it highly probable that such purges are happening, perhaps somewhat less lethally than during some other eras.

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Targetpractice  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:47:47am

re: #197 William Lewis

It’s not an uncommon practice in pre-soviet, soviet or post-soviet Russia to scapegoat the officer corps this way so I’d consider it highly probable that such purges are happening, perhaps somewhat less lethally than during some other eras.

It’s a common practice in authoritarian regimes to target trained professionals of virtually any strip for branding as “traitors” and liquidation. Those not targeted will lay low and try to avoid making themselves targets, those connected to the deceased will virtually disappear, and the fanatics will only become more fanatical in their support for the leader if only out of fear that they’re next.

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darthstar  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:49:18am

re: #197 William Lewis

It’s not an uncommon practice in pre-soviet, soviet or post-soviet Russia to scapegoat the officer corps this way so I’d consider it highly probable that such purges are happening, perhaps somewhat less lethally than during some other eras.

A lot of officers who commanded Russia based deployments are going to get redeployed to places like Tokmak and Melitopol.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:53:12am

re: #194 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Bad pornos are better than that hot mess.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:56:06am

re: #196 darthstar

Never drive your ATV out a fourth story window.

Should put a Cyrillic warning sticker on ATVs sold in Russia: “CAUTION: Driving your ATV off the roof of a building could result in serious injury or death.”

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 3:56:36am

re: #197 William Lewis

It’s not an uncommon practice in pre-soviet, soviet or post-soviet Russia to scapegoat the officer corps this way so I’d consider it highly probable that such purges are happening, perhaps somewhat less lethally than during some other eras.

I’m sure there’s some kind of purge going on, but like you said, a more low-key sort of affair this time around.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:03:25am

That was the weirdest 50/50.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:04:43am

Ran across some sociopathic religious types on Twitter, all gun-ho, relocate away from “liberal” areas, patriarchal, etc.

Twitter is a breeding ground for sociopathy.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:05:22am

He fucked around.

He found out.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was staring into the political abyss on Tuesday when a federal electoral court (TSE) justice voted to bar him from office until 2030 for anti-democratic abuse of power during last year’s fraught election.

The vote by Benedito Goncalves, the lead justice in the case against Bolsonaro, does not amount to a full conviction, but may set the tone for subsequent judge’s votes.

The outlook appears increasingly bleak for Bolsonaro, a career politician who was until recently Brazil’s most powerful man. The far-right nationalist narrowly lost Brazil’s most troubled election in a generation to his leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and now faces an institutional reckoning for having forged a nationwide election denial movement.

reuters.com

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:09:08am

re: #203 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, I would have had the birb, but my brain said, nah, it won’t be that word.
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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:12:44am

Getting in his frequent flier miles.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has arrived in Belarus, the country’s President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday, days after the mercenaries’ 36-hour military insurrection posed an unprecedented challenge to the authority of Russia’s leadership.

“I see that Prigozhin is already flying on this plane. Yes, indeed, he is in Belarus today,” Lukashenko said, according to Belarusian state TV Tuesday.

Prigozhin’s exact whereabouts are unknown. The warlord hasn’t been seen in any videos or photos since he left the Rostov-on-Don military headquarters Saturday evening.

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But wait, there is more:

It comes as Flightradar data appeared to show Prigozhin’s jet leaving the Belarusian capital late last night on a flight path to Moscow, sparking speculation that the Wagner chief is now headed for in-person talks with Vladimir Putin.

Probably forgot to turn the lights off in Moscow. Don’t drink the water!

dailymail.co.uk

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:15:29am

With photographs of the comic book’s pages.

When Cops Tell You Who They Are, Listen (In These Times, December 20, 2022)

Published under the imprint “Real-Life Horror Stories”

“A cartoonist illustrates police union leaders’ statements, in their own words.”

As an artist, I primarily make nonfiction comics that utilize real-world voices quoted verbatim, voices I consider under-listened to. In the wake of the 2020 uprising following the police murder of George Floyd, I began to listen carefully to the police.

One key theme appeared again and again in police union statements, present in the unions’ carefully crafted talking points and in their off-the-cuff social media postings: They want us to be afraid.

Jamie McBride, former head of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, regularly characterizes Los Angeles as a city stuck in a crime wave, a city similar to a horror film setting. He told Fox News in late 2021 (and repeated in several other interviews) that Los Angeles ​”is like that [horror] movie [The] Purge. Instead of 24 hours to commit your crime, these bad people have 365 days to commit whatever they want.” He then told Fox viewers in a subsequent interview not to visit Los Angeles for the holidays because the police ​”can’t assure your safety.” In a later interview, he described one area of the city as ​”the set of The Walking Dead.”

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:19:05am

re: #194 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Yikes! This makes my dad’s 1950s home movies look like Citizen Kane. Note ring lights reflecting on the actors’ glasses.

WTF_

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:21:17am

re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

WTF_

I see you like the video. /s

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:22:08am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I see you like the video. /s

Unable to process. Is this humor or is this some parody of how RW idiots see modern classroom instruction?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:24:10am

re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Unable to process. Is this humor or is this some parody of how RW idiots see modern classroom instruction?

It’s not parody. RWNJs really do see classroom instruction that way, and they have for decades.

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darthstar  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:24:50am

re: #202 Dr Lizardo

I’m sure there’s some kind of purge going on, but like you said, a more low-key sort of affair this time around.

Well, Putin’s already made himself look weak a couple of times in the last five days. He needs for this incident to fade a bit so it doesn’t look like he’s retaliating emotionally.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:25:43am

re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s not parody. RWNJs really do see classroom instruction that way, and they have for decades.

the people who assumed that Critical Race Theory was being taught to kindergartners?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:28:58am

re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

the people who assumed that Critical Race Theory was being taught to kindergartners?

And find a communist under every bed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:30:52am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And find a communist LGBTQ groomer under every bed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:33:00am

re: #204 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Ran across some sociopathic religious types on Twitter, all gun-ho, relocate away from “liberal” areas, patriarchal, etc.

Twitter is a breeding ground for sociopathy.

It always has been. For years before Elno took over you could see that following along on #atheism

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Dr. Matt  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:37:01am

The next daily addiction game:

Connections
Puzzle #17
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:37:05am

I’m going to trundle off to bed. Catch y’all later. I urge you to write your congresscritter to stand for the Constitution to remove Rep. Mike Turner’s amendment from the FY 2024 NDAA.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:37:38am

Some footage - and history - of the now defunct Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg, MD, which closed on 31 March 2023 and is slated for demolition next year.

Requiem for Lakeforest Mall | Taubman’s Titanic Legacy | ExLog 117

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darthstar  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:38:20am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:44:29am

re: #218 Dr. Matt

The next daily addiction game:

Connections
Puzzle #17
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got the first two then whiffed three in a row before getting the last two.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2023 • 4:47:48am

There was just a segment on MSNBC on the rise of hate online in the last year. A representative from ADL who was formerly a FB exec made the obvious points that it’s not actually that hard to moderate hate, but the will has disappeared, esp. after Musk gutted his moderation and security departments. A finer point is that hate is especially acute among teens.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:02:31am

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:11:24am

re: #224 Dr. Matt

Much to the surprise of absolutely no one on the planet. 😄

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:16:22am

re: #224 Dr. Matt

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oh she’s got to enjoy reading this

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:17:22am

re: #203 Nerdy Fish

That was the weirdest 50/50.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:18:51am

And today is the 25th anniversary of the match between Mankind (Mick Foley) and The Undertaker (Mark Calaway) in which The Undertaker threw Mankind 22 feet into an announcer’s table at the WWF “Hell in a Cell” match.

The Undertaker throws Mankind off the top of the Hell in a Cell: June 28, 1998 - King of the Ring

That was, to say the least, one hell of a stunt performed by Foley and he did suffer several real injuries as a result. Frankly, he’s damned lucky he wasn’t killed. Sure, these guys are basically professional stuntmen, but even so, it’s all too easy for a stunt like that to go horribly wrong, no matter how well it’s been planned or rehearsed.

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TarHellion  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:25:17am

re: #228 Dr Lizardo

Remember watching the 1999 documentary Beyond the Mat. Foley already was showing signs of cognitive challenges.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:32:40am

re: #228 Dr Lizardo

And today is the 25th anniversary of the match between Mankind (Mick Foley) and The Undertaker (Mark Calaway) in which The Undertaker threw Mankind 22 feet into an announcer’s table at the WWF “Hell in a Cell” match.

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That was, to say the least, one hell of a stunt performed by Foley and he did suffer several real injuries as a result. Frankly, he’s damned luck he wasn’t killed. Sure, these guys are basically professional stuntmen, but even so, it’s all too easy for a stunt like that to go horribly wrong, no matter how well it’s been planned or rehearsed.

They’re professional stuntmen who take very real hits for entertainment. While the more audacious hits, throws, etc., are trained and rehearsed set pieces, at the end of the day, all that violent motion is going to take its toll on your brain. As I’m fond of saying, “It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.” The same is true of being thrown around like a rag doll; it’s the cumulative action of your squishy bits rattling around inside your skull repeatedly that’s going to be your undoing.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:37:07am

re: #229 TarHellion

re: #230 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, the injuries those guy suffer - particularly brain injuries from being tossed around - are extremely real. Sure, they plan out the crazier stuff, but even that can go wrong. I recall watching one match where one of the wrestlers took a real six-string guitar upside the head…the prop breakaway guitar wasn’t put in place before the stunt.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:40:35am

re: #231 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, the injuries those guy suffer - particularly brain injuries from being tossed around - are extremely real. Sure, they plan out the crazier stuff, but even that can go wrong. I recall watching one match where one of the wrestlers took a real six-string guitar upside the head…the prop breakaway guitar wasn’t put in place before the stunt.

It’s American football levels of violence, but with so many more added variables due to things like props, stages, etc. At least in American football, there’s only 11 guys on the field who are doing their level best to kill you.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:51:30am

re: #224 Dr. Matt

Finish the thought. 🤢🤢🤢🤮

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 5:54:49am

A bit of a heads up, there are rumors going around the Czech internet that Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who was recently named in a N.Y. Times article suggesting that he might have had inside knowledge about the recent Wagner mutiny (or as I’m now calling it, “Mr. Prighozin’s Wild Ride”), has been arrested by Russian security services.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:06:50am

re: #205 Dr Lizardo

Banned for just seven years? That doesn’t sound like much to me. Banned for life sounds better. Like Trump, he instigated a violent insurrection. There should be a tougher penalty for that. What happens if he runs in 2030 and wins?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:09:18am

Morning Lizards. OTDIH

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:15:09am

re: #235 Patricia Kayden

Banned for just seven years? That doesn’t sound like much to me. Banned for life sounds better. Like Trump, he instigated a violent insurrection. There should be a tougher penalty for that. What happens if he runs in 2030 and wins?

I agree, banned for life would’ve been preferable, but them’s the breaks. Let’s hope that in the intervening seven years, Bolsonaro either shuffles off this mortal coil or has second thoughts about staging a political resurgence.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:15:27am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:20:35am

Starting to see rumors that General Surovikin has been arrested now appearing outside the Czech-language internet. Most likely, what Czechs are gossiping about is originally from Russian sources.

So we’ll have to wait and see if this is in fact what happened. That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if General Surovikin was somehow involved in this imbroglio.

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mmmirele  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:20:49am

Microsoft Teams decided to shit the bed while starting its day beginning around 07:40 ET. It’s now resolved. ETA: it was global and was apparently the result of a change that has now been backed out.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:26:27am

re: #240 mmmirele

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:33:11am

re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That oath is lifelong; it did not end when I left the United States Navy.

A lot of civilians don’t know that.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:36:49am

re: #231 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, the injuries those guy suffer - particularly brain injuries from being tossed around - are extremely real. Sure, they plan out the crazier stuff, but even that can go wrong. I recall watching one match where one of the wrestlers took a real six-string guitar upside the head…the prop breakaway guitar wasn’t put in place before the stunt.

In the WWE at least, the violence has been toned down considerably since not long after the Chris Benoit incident in 2007. Steel chair hits to the head are banned and piledrivers are rarely used (due to neck injury risk). Blood is generally banned as well. Also worth noting the company has gotten better about looking after its performers. Wrestlers today are certainly not dying at the rate they were in the late 90s and early aughts.

Other promotions still do the really violent stuff though.

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gocart mozart  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:38:54am

Morning Deep Cut

Leave My House - The Modds

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:41:41am
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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:44:37am

re: #245 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I know it’s Kaitlan Collins, but why are we still talking to Trump officials as if they matter? I understand that in ordinary circumstances, a former President’s cabinet members would have valuable experience and be free to give insight that current officials cannot. These are not ordinary circumstances. We should not be giving any of that corrupt bunch any air time whatsoever.

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Belafon  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:53:25am
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Belafon  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:54:15am

Please tell me again how he’s not the right person the get reelected:

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gocart mozart  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:54:20am
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Jay C  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:56:11am

re: #246 Nerdy Fish

I know it’s Kaitlan Collins, but why are we still talking to Trump officials as if they matter? I understand that in ordinary circumstances, a former President’s cabinet members would have valuable experience and be free to give insight that current officials cannot. These are not ordinary circumstances. We should not be giving any of that corrupt bunch any air time whatsoever.

In general I’d agree with you, but Jon Huntsman isn’t the usual run-of-the-cesspool hack Trump liked to promote: he’s your Classic Old-School Establishment Republican, with (an oddity these days) both electoral and diplomatic experience. If you want to get an opinion on Russia from a former Ambassador to the place, Huntsman is probably as good as you can get: though what this “end the war in a day” nonsense is beats me (can’t play the video)….

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:57:56am

re: #240 mmmirele

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 6:59:23am

re: #250 Jay C

though what this “end the war in a day” nonsense is beats me (can’t play the video)….

He’s addressing Trump’s insane old man ramblings that if he were President, he could end the Ukraine war in a day, which is as ridiculous on its face as it sounds - and on this, Huntsman is correct, at least.

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Nojay UK  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:05:25am

re: #242 wrenchwench

I signed the 1911 Official Secrets Act section 2 as amended about fifty years ago and I am still bound by it. Saying that I had very little exposure to actual secret material due to need-to-know but some of the stuff I was exposed to is still theoretically covered.

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darthstar  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:09:00am

re: #246 Nerdy Fish

If Trump is to have a close race with President Biden, he needs to be seen as capable, and giving his former admin recognition helps establish that.

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:15:15am

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:22:12am

re: #253 Nojay UK

I signed the 1911 Official Secrets Act section 2 as amended about fifty years ago and I am still bound by it. Saying that I had very little exposure to actual secret material due to need-to-know but some of the stuff I was exposed to is still theoretically covered.

And you’re not waving around any of the stuff you did have access to, talking about how cool it is?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:22:36am

re: #203 Nerdy Fish

That was the weirdest 50/50.

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Birbie for me.

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:25:26am

I try to keep my inner grammar fascist under tight wraps. One that I can’t stop reacting to is rein-reign-rain. Judd Legum just blew that one. He’s my favorite, after Charles (who would NEVER do such a thing). I will not send Judd an email, I’ll just post this comment and go sit for a while. Where’s the corner?

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:36:39am

so he’s gone from ‘the tape totally exonerates me’ to ‘the tape was just a joke’

ps - it doesnt matter

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:38:10am

TFG is a complete degenerate, part eleventy.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:43:32am

re: #260 No Malarkey!

TFG is a complete degenerate, part eleventy.

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Gosh that really ought to piss off his Pulpit Pimp Posse.

Oh silly me they see nothing wrong with it and they will say “Jay-Zuss forgives his Anointed King of all sins”

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Unabogie  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:44:57am

In the Bedminster tape, Trump calls Anthony Weiner a “pervert.”

It’s always, always, always projection.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:45:09am

re: #258 wrenchwench

I try to keep my inner grammar fascist under tight wraps. One that I can’t stop reacting to is rein-reign-rain. Judd Legum just blew that one. He’s my favorite, after Charles (who would NEVER do such a thing). I will not send Judd an email, I’ll just post this comment and go sit for a while. Where’s the corner?

Led-lead. Its-it’s. Also, happy Wednesday!

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darthstar  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:47:55am

re: #260 No Malarkey!

TFG is a complete degenerate, part eleventy.

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Let’s not forget he allegedly had Stormy spank him with a Forbes magazine with Ivanka’s picture on it.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:49:08am

Interesting story about the early years of personal computers as a batch of 40 year old like new pcs stored in a barn for decades were dumped on Ebay for sale.

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danarchy  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:55:44am

re: #260 No Malarkey!

TFG is a complete degenerate, part eleventy.

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While I don’t doubt Trump is a total degenerate, every one of this guys stories seems to be “I heard”, or “someone told me”

If the Kelly thing is real, why isn’t he telling that story? It isn’t like he is Trump’s biggest fan these days and former generals don’t tend to be shrinking violets.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:57:54am

re: #266 danarchy

While I don’t doubt Trump is a total degenerate, every one of this guys stories seems to be “I heard”, or “someone told me”

If the Kelly thing is real, why isn’t he telling that story? It isn’t like he is Trump’s biggest fan these days and former generals don’t tend to be shrinking violets.

Saving it for his book? Has Kelly written a Trump book yet?

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jeffreyw  Jun 28, 2023 • 7:59:01am

Ginger Boy

Good morning!

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Nojay UK  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:02:23am

re: #256 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

And you’re not waving around any of the stuff you did have access to, talking about how cool it is?

I visited an air museum in the UK with some friends a while back. It had a side-gallery of assorted missiles and one of the missiles on display was a (hopefully dummy) Polaris SLBM, cut away to show the British-built Chevaline “bus” at the top. I pointed and proudly said “You see that bit? That’s MY bit.” Okay, it was something a number of people worked on, not just me but as far as I could see and from memory it looked just like my bit. Further deponent sayeth not, subject to Official Secrets Act 1911 section 2 as amended.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:04:55am

re: #181 ericblair

Prigozhin is walking around free, for now anyways, and his torso is still firmly connected to his head.

The Warriors- The Baseball Furies/ Fiasco @ 96th Street Station, R.I.P. Fox

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:12:12am

re: #258 wrenchwench

I try to keep my inner grammar fascist under tight wraps. One that I can’t stop reacting to is rein-reign-rain. Judd Legum just blew that one. He’s my favorite, after Charles (who would NEVER do such a thing). I will not send Judd an email, I’ll just post this comment and go sit for a while. Where’s the corner?

i don’t always immediately write off errors that maybe could be explained by autocorrect. yes, still careless, but not in the category of ‘wah-lah’
(there’s probably an internet law for this by now named after someone obscure)

my samsung s10 autocorrect is very good.
it’s mostly right, doesnt suggest stupid things and tends to be invisible.
it also suggests emoticons. that’s how i know it knows what i’m saying and not just how the words sound.

my kindle fire is an idiot
has no concept of context. it substitues words that are asinine. (except for asinine), making a sentence nonsensical, that i then have to edit.
and if a word has one wrong letter, it will suggest….nothing (and yes these are words in its dictionary)

/rant off

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:16:43am

Spineless groveling motherfucker is spineless.

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silverdolphin  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:18:29am

Malaria Spread in the U.S. for the First Time Since 2003, CDC Says

Malaria was endmic in the US, particularly the South, for decades. The CDC was created after WW2 to get rid of malaria in the US, which it did inside of a decade. Until these new cases, we had not seen a home grown case in 20 years.

No one expects malaria to be back but it is hard to know just yet.

We may be close to an effective malaria vaccine but it is a very tricky disease (the best ones maybe about 75% effective) so exoect some fireworks if we do need one.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:21:58am

re: #273 silverdolphin

Malaria Spread in the U.S. for the First Time Since 2003, CDC Says

Malaria was endmic in the US, particularly the South, for decades. The CDC was created after WW2 to get rid of malaria in the US, which it did inside of a decade. Until these new cases, we had not seen a home grown case in 20 years.

No one expects malaria to be back but it is hard to know just yet.

We may be close to an effective malaria vaccine but it is a very tricky disease (the best ones maybe about 75% effective) so exoect some fireworks if we do need one.

So the region in greatest danger is also the region with the most yahoos who would rather contract malaria than get vaccinated.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:21:59am

re: #203 Nerdy Fish

That was the weirdest 50/50.

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No 50/50 choice for me!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:23:04am

re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg

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Spineless groveling motherfucker is spineless.

we know what he is
we’re not even arguing about the price

it’s ANYTHING to keep that chair

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:23:28am

Favorite response to report that Trump made lascivious comments about Ivanka:

“Great, this is going to get him another 5 points in primary polling…”

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A Cranky One  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:26:34am

Another sign the apocalypse is near…

apple.news

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:26:40am

re: #259 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

so he’s gone from ‘the tape totally exonerates me’ to ‘the tape was just a joke’

ps - it doesnt matter

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:26:54am

re: #248 Belafon

Biden has closed the Black-White Unemployment Gap for the first time in American history…seems like this should be a bigger deal.

“Bidden had all the competent white guys fired for not being woke enough and replaced by underqualified blacks!”

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:27:35am

re: #279 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:30:26am

re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

the people who assumed that Critical Race Theory was being taught to kindergartners?

Remember: the right’s definition of CRT is any teaching about the evils of slavery, Jim Crow, racism or the reason the South fought the Civil War.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:32:38am

re: #282 Hecuba’s daughter

Remember: the right’s definition of CRT is any teaching about the evils of slavery, Jim Crow, racism or the reason the South fought the Civil War.

CRT was redefined as simply teaching the racial aspect of US history.

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:33:38am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:34:15am

re: #277 Barefoot Grin

Favorite response to report that Trump made lascivious comments about Ivanka:

“Great, this is going to get him another 5 points in primary polling…”

because the base is all hot for ivanka or they’re ok with men going after their own daughters?

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silverdolphin  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:35:02am

re: #274 No Malarkey!

So the region in greatest danger is also the region with the most yahoos who would rather contract malaria than get vaccinated.

There is a good argument that slavery in the US was sustained by malaria. The endemic nature of malaria created a labor shortage of outdoor workers in the South. Slaves from Africa had greater resistance and fewer cases of severe malaria.

It will be devastating to the South if malaria returns. It does not matter if they themselves use a vaccine. Would the tourist indistry in Florida take a big hit (I’d expect so)? Would Texas find it harder to recruit workers? Would people leave the South if they could?

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:35:19am

re: #285 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

because the base is all hot for ivanka or they’re ok with men going after their own daughters?

yes

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:35:24am

re: #285 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

because the base is all hot for ivanka or they’re ok with men going after their own daughters?

If you can’t beat your wife and molest your daughters, what’s the point of being a Conservative?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:36:43am

re: #285 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

because the base is all hot for ivanka or they’re ok with men going after their own daughters?

He votes big among guys who to to family reuinions to meet women

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:37:43am

re: #289 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He votes big among guys who to to family reuinions to meet women

Like Rudy G.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:38:40am

re: #237 Dr Lizardo

I agree, banned for life would’ve been preferable, but them’s the breaks. Let’s hope that in the intervening seven years, Bolsonaro either shuffles off this mortal coil or has second thoughts about staging a political resurgence.

Or he loses his support. In the modern world, 7 years is a lifetime.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:41:38am

re: #281 Barefoot Grin

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as far as i can tell this is not that big a deal.
it only goes to whether he actually showed any of this (classified, secret, whatever) to someone else.

it doesnt matter whether he now says i was holding blank paper, or whatever nonsense.

the other people in the room he was talking to - on the tape can testify.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:42:23am

re: #284 wrenchwench

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Memories when I was a kid when Birchers denounced Ike as a Communist….

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:43:32am

re: #287 Barefoot Grin

yes

i was half afraid to post that.
i’m glad it didnt get dog piled

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:43:59am

re: #286 silverdolphin

There is a good argument that slavery in the US was sustained by malaria. The endemic nature of malaria created a labor shortage of outdoor workers in the South. Slaves from Africa had greater resistance and fewer cases of severe malaria.

It will be devastating to the South if malaria returns.it does not mater if they themselves use a vaccine. Would the tourist indistry in Florida take a big hit (I’d expect so)? Would Texas find it harder to recuit workers? Would people leave the South if they could?

Is this Southern land so good?
Would you leave it if you could?
Ja this Southern land is good!
We would leave it if we could!

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Jay C  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:44:11am

re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Bidden had all the competent white guys fired for not being woke enough and replaced by underqualified blacks!”

Kinda like the reaction I thought we’d eventually/inevitably see from certain sewage outlets, though more likely expressed as:

“SeNile Joe and tHe wOke grooMer coMMie DummyCrats hiring [epithets] to gEt There vOtes, at tHe exPensE of Honest hArd-wurkin’ AmurricAns!!!”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:49:32am

Cry like Johnie Ray, Eastman. Ain’t gonna help you!

rawstory.com

John Eastman whines after coup plot: ‘They all say we were using this to overturn the election’

uh, that’s what you were actually doing fuckhead!

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:51:21am

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:51:28am

This made me sad. of course, I’m part of the problem, since I just don’t subscribe to any magazines anymore.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:51:40am

re: #250 Jay C

In general I’d agree with you, but Jon Huntsman isn’t the usual run-of-the-cesspool hack Trump liked to promote: he’s your Classic Old-School Establishment Republican, with (an oddity these days) both electoral and diplomatic experience. If you want to get an opinion on Russia from a former Ambassador to the place, Huntsman is probably as good as you can get: though what this “end the war in a day” nonsense is beats me (can’t play the video)….

Have to say I had forgotten about Huntsman. If the Republicans wanted to show they had rejoined the real world and become a decent party, Huntsman would make an excellent candidate for President. Huntsman was Obama’s ambassador to China — and I recall speculation at that time that Obama appointed him to prevent him from being the GOP candidate against him in 2012. He would pose a real challenge to Biden in 2024.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:53:31am

re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter

Have to say I had forgotten about Huntsman. If the Republicans wanted to show they had rejoined the real world and become a decent party, Huntsman would make an excellent candidate for President. Huntsman was Obama’s ambassador to China — and I recall speculation at that time that Obama appointed him to prevent him from being the GOP candidate against him in 2012. He would pose a real challenge to Biden in 2024.

Zero chance the GQP would nominate Huntsman for President.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:53:33am

re: #297 Joe Bacon ✅

Cry like Johnie Ray, Eastman. Ain’t gonna help you!

rawstory.com

John Eastman whines after coup plot: ‘They all say we were using this to overturn the election’

uh, that’s what you were actually doing fuckhead!

I’m assuming this is the by-now bog-standard twoo-believer “but the election was stolen, so we weren’t trying to overturn anything, only prevent a gross miscarriage of justice” argument that every Big Lie promoter has been making.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:53:43am

re: #188 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Nixon cultists could have been called NITOs, from “Nixon’s the one!”

Futurama - Nixon’s Back!

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JC1  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:53:47am

re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter

Have to say I had forgotten about Huntsman. If the Republicans wanted to show they had rejoined the real world and become a decent party, Huntsman would make an excellent candidate for President. Huntsman was Obama’s ambassador to China — and I recall speculation at that time that Obama appointed him to prevent him from being the GOP candidate against him in 2012. He would pose a real challenge to Biden in 2024.

Yeah, but he wouldn’t break into double digits with today’s GOP primary voters.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:55:50am

re: #299 No Malarkey!

This made me sad. of course, I’m part of the problem, since I just don’t subscribe to any magazines anymore.

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Well hell. I just pulled mine out of the mailbox this morning. Very sad news. My daughter always gets me a years sub every Christmas. My youngest son gets me a years sub of Scientific American every year also.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:56:27am

re: #302 Nerdy Fish

I’m assuming this is the by-now bog-standard twoo-believer “but the election was stolen, so we weren’t trying to overturn anything, only prevent a gross miscarriage of justice” argument that every Big Lie promoter has been making.

Yep he said “If you count only the legal votes, Trump would’ve won.” And by “legal votes” he means “votes cast by white people.”

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wrenchwench  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:57:07am

re: #299 No Malarkey!

This made me sad. of course, I’m part of the problem, since I just don’t subscribe to any magazines anymore.

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I know a guy who lives in a 2 room studio apt. One room is 50% Nat. Geos. stacked high. In an outbuilding, he has 6 bikes (Custom made to his specs. I made 4 or 5 of them.) One bike in the apt.

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A Cranky One  Jun 28, 2023 • 8:59:50am

IT’S INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:01:50am

re: #308 A Cranky One

IT’S INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY!

But every day is Caps Lock day at Mar-A-Lardo!

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:03:07am

re: #306 No Malarkey!

Yep he said “If you count only the legal votes, Trump would’ve won.” And by “legal votes” he means “votes cast by white people.”

I know they’re using weasel language and several layers of indirection there, denouncing their racism by saying, “No, we mean that only same-day in-person votes are legal, we didn’t say anything about white people.” Of course, white people are overwhelmingly the demographic who have the means to be able to vote same day in person, especially in 2020 - a pandemic year, in which many people were uncomfortable going out at all - so it amounts to the same thing in practice.

It still boggles my mind that they are so against making it easy to vote. I mean, I get why, because more people voting is bad for them, but… Isn’t that the actual definition of being anti-democratic? “I don’t want people to vote because they might vote against me” seems like a very un-American take.

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:04:25am

re: #302 Nerdy Fish

I’m assuming this is the by-now bog-standard twoo-believer “but the election was stolen, so we weren’t trying to overturn anything, only prevent a gross miscarriage of justice” argument that every Big Lie promoter has been making.

Well, yeah. I mean, everybody knows preventing gross miscarriages of justice means using non-judicial means to invade and trash the nation’s capitol, attack the police, steal equipment you find in offices, and defecate in them. Oh, and carry around nooses so you can lynch people.

It is common sense, afterall.

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silverdolphin  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:05:50am

re: #279 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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The tape episode brings up something I have been talking about - it took place at Bedminster. We have heard nothing about evidence or a search or anything happening at Bedminster from the DOJ, yet we know he transported documents there in boxes from Mar-a-Lago.

Could there be new indictments from a NJ grand jury? We can hope.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:05:50am

re: #306 No Malarkey!

Yep he said “If you count only the legal votes, Trump would’ve won.” And by “legal votes” he means “votes cast by white people*.”

*in red states

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:07:17am

re: #310 Nerdy Fish

I know they’re using weasel language and several layers of indirection there, denouncing their racism by saying, “No, we mean that only same-day in-person votes are legal, we didn’t say anything about white people.” Of course, white people are overwhelmingly the demographic who have the means to be able to vote same day in person, especially in 2020 - a pandemic year, in which many people were uncomfortable going out at all - so it amounts to the same thing in practice.

It still boggles my mind that they are so against making it easy to vote. I mean, I get why, because more people voting is bad for them, but… Isn’t that the actual definition of being anti-democratic? “I don’t want people to vote because they might vote against me” seems like a very un-American take.

if’ i’m not in charge, then it’s un-american.

qed

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:07:24am

re: #299 No Malarkey!

This made me sad. of course, I’m part of the problem, since I just don’t subscribe to any magazines anymore.

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There’s an argument the internet is killing good writing/journalism because no one wants to pay for it anymore.

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A Cranky One  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:07:36am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:08:33am

re: #312 silverdolphin

The tape episode brings up something I have been talking about - it took place at Bedminster. We have heard nothing about evidence or a search or anything happening at Bedminster from the DOJ, yet we know he transported documents there in boxes from Mar-a-Lago.

Could there be new indictments from a NJ grand jury? We can hope.

why, yes. yes there could.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:10:23am

re: #315 Eclectic Cyborg

There’s an argument the internet is killing good writing/journalism because no one wants to pay for it anymore.

imo the form of delivery of the media is less the issue (as it were) than simply “no one wants to pay for it anymore”

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:16:46am

re: #175 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I think the Cheneys, both Darth and the Evil Daughter, have known for a long time where Trump was headed (prison) and that MAGA would end in disaster for the GOP. They are positioning Liz to pick up the pieces.

They have a new “Lost Cause.”re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s not parody. RWNJs really do see classroom instruction that way, and they have for decades.

They should have seen how my freshman year high school football coach taught World Geography.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:18:42am

re: #299 No Malarkey!

This made me sad. of course, I’m part of the problem, since I just don’t subscribe to any magazines anymore.

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It probably doesn’t help that FOX bought National Geographic. At that time they fired 9% of the company’s staff, because capitalists will always tell you the way to grow your company is fire all the people who make it run.

It also didn’t help them in 2018 the publisher noted that their coverage is routinely racist (possibly from the 2015 acquisition by FOX).

With FOX’s financial troubles (thanks, Dominion!), firing staff at a minor outlying property at National Geographic is a no-brainer.

In the meantime, plenty of magazines are doing just fine.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:22:23am
Capitalists will always tell you the way to grow your company is fire all the people who make it run.

Not true, of course. However, that is a way the big shots can grow their bonuses, so…

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ericblair  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:24:40am

I don’t know how accurate this is, but it would explain some of the half-assery of the final plan. Capturing Shoigu and Gerasimov would have been wild. Prigozhin still managed to take over a significant part of southern Russia: I wonder if he could have hung onto it as the local warlord like Kadyrov. Alas, the dreams of a murdering thieving shitbag were not meant to be.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:29:03am

re: #306 No Malarkey!

Yep he said “If you count only the legal votes, Trump would’ve won.” And by “legal votes” he means “votes cast by white people.”

Eastman is a POS racist. If there is any justice, he will be disbarred.

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gocart mozart  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:30:17am
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gocart mozart  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:32:07am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:34:53am

re: #321 Eclectic Cyborg

Not true, of course. However, that is a way the big shots can grow their bonuses, so…

The big shots are the capitalists. Workers are not capitalists.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:38:07am

re: #324 gocart mozart

So instead of taking our enemy’s insult and making it proudly your own, you are taking an opponent’s neutral descriptive term and turning into an insult?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:38:43am

re: #326 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The big shots are the capitalists. Workers are not capitalists.

That’s what I meant.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:39:53am

re: #325 gocart mozart

JFC. It’s worse than the screencap suggests:

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:42:35am

re: #294 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i was half afraid to post that.
i’m glad it didnt get dog piled

I hesitated and probably should have taken a pass. But given the ceaseless reports of extreme (esp. Christian) rightists who get busted for sex and incest crimes, I went ahead. I know it’s not really something to joke about, just feeling really angry these days.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:42:53am

re: #329 Eclectic Cyborg

JFC. It’s worse than the screencap suggests:

I get the sense that Miller was this close to drafting an order, having the braindead President sign it, and then shoving it in the Pentagon’s face, like, “Blow up those goddamn *insert racist slur here*, I don’t care about the morality, and here’s the paper that authorizes the action! Nobody’s going to care, and if they do, they can’t do anything about it!”

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Dr. Matt  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:51:41am

re: #325 gocart mozart

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:52:06am
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darthstar  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:54:44am

re: #331 Nerdy Fish

Miller needs a visit from a karma angel.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:57:03am

A follow-up from my post above (regarding TFG wanting to bone his daughter): This is not a NSFW, but I’m hiding the pic because it may turn your stomach….

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:57:08am

re: #258 wrenchwench

I try to keep my inner grammar fascist under tight wraps. One that I can’t stop reacting to is rein-reign-rain. Judd Legum just blew that one. He’s my favorite, after Charles (who would NEVER do such a thing). I will not send Judd an email, I’ll just post this comment and go sit for a while. Where’s the corner?

Adolph Hitler’s speech writer was a grammar Nazi.

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steve_davis  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:58:21am

re: #286 silverdolphin

There is a good argument that slavery in the US was sustained by malaria. The endemic nature of malaria created a labor shortage of outdoor workers in the South. Slaves from Africa had greater resistance and fewer cases of severe malaria.

It will be devastating to the South if malaria returns.it does not mater if they themselves use a vaccine. Would the tourist indistry in Florida take a big hit (I’d expect so)? Would Texas find it harder to recuit workers? Would people leave the South if they could?

not here. every Friday during skeeter season the skeeter truck hums its way around our streets, with the fog that some kids, now long dead from various cancers, used to ride their bikes into, laughing, when I was much younger.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:58:55am

re: #334 darthstar

Miller needs a visit from a karma angel.

It is so difficult for me to comprehend that people like Miller exist. I literally cannot understand the level of sheer, pure, unadulterated hatred that this man has toward anyone who doesn’t look like him. I can understand, for example, my pastor, who, having spent years being shot at by Middle Eastern folk, has (and admits to having) difficulty trusting them now. But to hate someone, incessantly, deeply, with every fiber of your being, to decry their very existence, just because of what they look like… It feels unreal to me.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:59:29am

re: #336 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Adolph Hitler’s speech writer was a grammar Nazi.

*WHACK!*

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Dr. Matt  Jun 28, 2023 • 9:59:47am

re: #334 darthstar

Miller needs a visit from a karma angel.

I was actually thinking the exact same thing. Get out of my head.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:00:01am

re: #335 Dr. Matt

It’s not like there is any doubt at this point he’s a seriously creepy motherfucker.

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silverdolphin  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:03:40am

re: #337 steve_davis

not here. every Friday during skeeter season the skeeter truck hums its way around our streets, with the fog that some kids, now long dead from various cancers, used to ride their bikes into, laughing, when I was much younger.

Yep, we had those foggers in Houston when I grew up there. Always wondered if staying inside actually helped protect us?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:05:04am

re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s not like there is any doubt at this point he’s a seriously creepy motherfucker.

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I, the Wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I will found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen. Together, we shall rule this entire continent. We shall endure.

- Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

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jeffreyw  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:07:16am

re: #319 BeenHereAwhile

They have a new “Lost Cause.”

They should have seen how my freshman year high school football coach taught World Geography.

It’s been nearly 70 years ago, but I still remember my sixth grade teacher describing just how many people were in China: “You could march them in a column of four past a machine gun and you couldn’t kill them faster than they breed.”

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jaunte  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:08:50am

Good afternoon, fellow bad, sick people!

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:09:27am

re: #344 jeffreyw

It’s been nearly 70 years ago, but I still remember my sixth grade teacher describing just how many people were in China: “You could march them in a column of four past a machine gun and you couldn’t kill them faster than they breed.”

That’s pretty not woke.

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Nojay UK  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:10:47am

re: #325 gocart mozart

Refugees in ‘1984’ by George Orwell

April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water, audience shouting with laughter when he sank.

Then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middle-aged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a child’s arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didnt oughter of showed it not in front of kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kids it aint until the police turned her turned her out I dont suppose anything happened to her nobody cares what the proles say typical prole reaction they never…

George Orwell, 1984

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austin_blue  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:19:43am

re: #334 darthstar

Miller needs a visit from a karma angel.

They’re called “Hellfire Missiles”, now, I think.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:20:52am

It’s hazy in Frankfort, Kentucky today, so I guess the Canadian wildfire smoke got all the way down here.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:22:26am

Herr Miller…….

I’d be real interested in who his parents are/were. After all, they are what he is.

At least that’s how I look at it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:24:49am

re: #350 Dave In Austin

Herr Miller…….

I’d be real interested in who his parents are/were. After all, that are what he is.

At least that’s how I look at it.

Miller’s parents are slumlord. Ultra right-wingers. Other relatives have denounced them

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:25:06am

re: #349 No Malarkey!

It’s hazy in Frankfort, Kentucky today, so I guess the Canadian wildfire smoke got all the way down here.

I forgot you’re in Franklin. We went a few times the years we lived in Lexington for my son’s soccer and for a couple of cultural events—such a neat place in the midst of beautiful nature, I would have loved to live there.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:26:35am

re: #352 Barefoot Grin

I forgot you’re in Franklin. We went a few times the years we lived in Lexington for my son’s soccer and for a couple of cultural events—such a neat place in the midst of beautiful nature, I would have loved to live there.

Thanks, I appreciate its small town charms.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:27:35am

Ok that went wrong

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Dr. Matt  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:29:22am

I’m filing this under: ‘I don’t give a fuck and Hunter has lost my vote for POTUS’

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:30:29am

re: #338 Nerdy Fish

It is so difficult for me to comprehend that people like Miller exist. I literally cannot understand the level of sheer, pure, unadulterated hatred that this man has toward anyone who doesn’t look like him. I can understand, for example, my pastor, who, having spent years being shot at by Middle Eastern folk, has (and admits to having) difficulty trusting them now. But to hate someone, incessantly, deeply, with every fiber of your being, to decry their very existence, just because of what they look like… It feels unreal to me.

Unfortunately, this seems to be a single sourced report with no other person in the meeting supporting the story and no contemporary written documentation or recording. Miller denies this and without additional confirmation, the story is likely to receive limited publicity.

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austin_blue  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:37:44am

re: #350 Dave In Austin

Herr Miller…….

I’d be real interested in who his parents are/were. After all, that are what he is.

At least that’s how I look at it.

He was raised as a nice jewish Boy in SoCal, I believe.

He ran for President of his Santa Monica High School Class, but was referred to as “The Surf Nazi” by his classmates and got trounced

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:45:44am

re: #310 Nerdy Fish

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It still boggles my mind that they are so against making it easy to vote. I mean, I get why, because more people voting is bad for them, but… Isn’t that the actual definition of being anti-democratic? “I don’t want people to vote because they might vote against me” seems like a very un-American take.

Because conservatism isn’t about democracy. Conservatism ever since it was defined has been against democracy. Truly democratic societies never elect conservatives (at least not on a regular basis).

Conservatism is about concentrating power. Democracy is about distributing power. They are fundamentally incompatible.

That is also why you will occasionally catch a Libertarian say they are also opposed to democracy (since they are simply conservatives who like to smoke weed).

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 28, 2023 • 10:51:49am

re: #355 Dr. Matt

I’m filing this under: ‘I don’t give a fuck and Hunter has lost my vote for POTUS’

[Embedded content]

Isaac Schorr is a reporter for National Review. I wouldn’t believe a word out of his mouth unless confirmed by a legitimate journalist.

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silverdolphin  Jun 28, 2023 • 11:54:19am

re: #318 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

imo the form of delivery of the media is less the issue (as it were) than simply “no one wants to pay for it anymore”

I think that is some cases, the business model is changing. I pay for several journalists who do their own reporting and put it out in an online newsletter format. I spend about as much as a subsciption to a few newspapers. I’ve followed them for years and know they know their shit (ie biotechnology, high tech).

Sturgeon’s Law states that 90% of everything is shit. But today, we can find the 10% that is great and support it if we can.

So I hear about a lot of things first without the filter ad-driven processes do.. I can comment on their work and have a ‘personal’ relationship with them. They have created communites much like this one, and I will do all I can to keep those communities going..

It is no longer a mass market that supports them but a personal market. We need to do a better job separating out the wheat from the chaff, because mainstream is mostly chaff.

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silverdolphin  Jun 28, 2023 • 11:57:29am

re: #344 jeffreyw

It’s been nearly 70 years ago, but I still remember my sixth grade teacher describing just how many people were in China: “You could march them in a column of four past a machine gun and you couldn’t kill them faster than they breed.”

One of my favorite works is The Marching Morons by Cyril Kornbluth. Instead of Chinese he has stupid people marching by in a neverending line. I think that is a greater danger to us today.


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