Samba Party - Live in Studio - Matteo Mancuso - Riccardo Oliva - Gianluca Pellerito

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And now, the guy whose fingerstyle technique is blowing minds all over the world.

As promised here’s some Live in studio footage of one of the songs from my Album! We had tons of fun recording this tune, That was one of the very first takes (that’s why there are a lot of funny moments here!) Many thanks to my companions @riccardo_oliva and @gianlucapellerito94 for their outstanding musicianship!

My Album “The Journey” Here!: lnk.to

Video: Iphone XS max
Gear: Yamaha Revstar Custom, Line6 Helix

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114 comments

Acemarilllion (yes, three 'l's) Aug 26, 2023 • 11:42:12am

fDJT

darthstar Aug 26, 2023 • 11:50:52am

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Jay C Aug 26, 2023 • 11:52:12am

re: #1 Acemarilllion (yes, three ‘l’s)

Or in digital form:

6-18-3-11
20-18-21-13-16

The sentiment remains the same…..

Nerdy Fish Aug 26, 2023 • 11:52:33am

I can’t believe there are people in this country who are seriously delusional enough to believe that indicting a criminal former President is “weaponizing the justice system against political opponents.” My God, the man was literally leading chants of “LOCK HER UP” on the campaign trail.

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 11:56:48am

I’m hoping that the trials will wear down some of these delusions. But this reaction is one of the reasons why I was so critical of the long delay in taking action. This process should have begun immediately, to make it clear to these fuckers that they cannot get away with that kind of shit. Now, they actually think they can get away with it, because Trump seems immune to punishment.

I wasn’t just being a “do something” guy, either. The recent reporting about Merrick Garland and the DOJ makes it very clear they were deliberately dragging their heels for WAY too long.

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 12:04:00pm

If anyone knows “Semper Fi” in real life, he’s been having trouble logging in (forgot pw) and emailing me about it, and I’ve been replying but he’s obviously not getting my replies. I think it’s an issue with Cox Internet’s ridiculous spam filter, but I haven’t even gotten through with Gmail.

nines09 Aug 26, 2023 • 12:05:24pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

“Just wait until (fill in blank) gets here!”
The rule of law was drawn and quartered.
The bastards celebrated right in front of America, lending strength to the shit stains and showing anyone with half a brain that, yes, the American Justice system plays favorites.
That’s my childhood lesson.
We broke. Don’t get caught. Run for your life.
It’s like the “They go low, we go high” argument.
No.
Tear their throat out.
But the problem seemed to be they either did not wish to be seen as them, throwing dirt, or they were scared or just did not know what to do or how to do it.
It’s like you learned something from a book, but you never had to implement it in real life.
Yes, they screwed the pooch on this.
And to think Georgia, freaking Georgia, will hold their asses to the fire is otherworldly.

Belafon Aug 26, 2023 • 12:07:03pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

I’m hoping that the trials will wear down some of these delusions. But this reaction is one of the reasons why I was so critical of the long delay in taking action. This process should have begun immediately, to make it clear to these fuckers that they cannot get away with that kind of shit. Now, they actually think they can get away with it, because Trump seems immune to punishment.

I wasn’t just being a “do something” guy, either. The recent reporting about Merrick Garland and the DOJ makes it very clear they were deliberately dragging their heels for WAY too long.

Trump seems immune to punishment which is why he did the poopy face in his mug shot. Trump is running about the same schedule as Nixon, and is currently well behind Biden in the polls.

Fixed a word.

Jay C Aug 26, 2023 • 12:07:53pm

re: #4 Nerdy Fish

I can’t believe there are people in this country who are seriously delusional enough to believe that indicting a criminal former President is “weaponizing the justice system against political opponents.” My God, the man was literally leading chants of “LOCK HER UP” on the campaign trail.

For myself, I can’t believe there are people in this country who are seriously delusional enough to believe that electing a dishonest charlatan like Donald Fucking Trump POTUS was a good idea, but here we are…..

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 26, 2023 • 12:08:34pm

re: #8 Belafon

Trump seems immune to punish which is why he did the poopy face in his mug shot. Trump is running about the same schedule as Nixon, and is currently well behind Biden in the polls.

His poopy face seems to be an attempt to warn all his enemies that he is coming after them once he emerges from all this triumphant and exonerated

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 12:10:39pm

re: #8 Belafon

Trump seems immune to punish which is why he did the poopy face in his mug shot. Trump is running about the same schedule as Nixon, and is currently well behind Biden in the polls.

Maybe the trials will break Trump’s hold over his cult. But his crimes are far more serious than Nixon’s, and should have been treated that way.

Belafon Aug 26, 2023 • 12:12:04pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Maybe the trials will break Trump’s hold over his cult. But his crimes are far more serious than Nixon’s.

I agree. But our court system moves at a speed almost inversely proportional to the scale of the crime. And his is the biggest crime since the Civil War.

Hecuba's daughter Aug 26, 2023 • 12:19:14pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Maybe the trials will break Trump’s hold over his cult. But his crimes are far more serious than Nixon’s, and should have been treated that way.

But then we ignore Nixon’s other crimes. They may not have undermined democracy but they had deadly consequences. His sabotaging of Johnson’s efforts at a peace in Viet Nam may have led to many more deaths in this conflict that would have been avoided if the efforts were successful and his bombing in Cambodia led to the overthrow of the government there and the installing of the genocidal Pol Pot regime.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 26, 2023 • 12:23:53pm

Wagner mercenaries must swear allegiance to Russia - Putin

President Vladimir Putin has called on all employees of Wagner and other Russian private military contractors to take an oath of allegiance to the Russian state.

The decree applies to anyone participating in military activities in Ukraine, assisting the army and serving in territorial defence units.

That runs against the very nature of being a mercenary in that your allegiance is to the highest bidder.

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 12:27:07pm

Finally got through to Semper Fi, by using the web version of Gmail which I absolutely despise with the heat of a thousand suns. The Cox spam filter probably allows that through and blocks almost everything else including the official Mac Mail app. Cox has one of the worst spam filters on the web.

Nerdy Fish Aug 26, 2023 • 12:27:11pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Maybe the trials will break Trump’s hold over his cult. But his crimes are far more serious than Nixon’s.

The problem with that is that, unlike Nixon, the Republicans have turned this into a religious affair. I don’t necessarily mean Trump as the leader of the Republican cult, though there is that. I mean the far more insidious integration of Christianity with Republicanism, the fusing of religious and political identity. They’re seeing it as literal religious persecution because Trump is, to them, the Avatar of Christ.

I just made that latter term up, so I want to expound on it a little bit. Christians have always had a deference to authority, as Paul teaches in his epistles that Christians are to submit to the governing authorities unless they try to force us to do something that is against our religious beliefs. (Specifically, trying to get us to renounce Christianity, though modern churches have taken a far more liberal view of this concept recently.) As the political identity and religious identity have merged, the figure of the President (or Presidential candidate) has emerged as the man God has chosen to lead His favored nation. Like the Kings of Israel of old, the Republican nominee has become a literal stand-in for God; to them, he is the ultimate authority in the land (not in reality, but we’re in religious cloud cuckoo land now), and anything he says must be coated in religious overtones and preached from pulpits on Sundays.

Because of the deep ties to such a long-established religion, I fear that prosecuting Trump isn’t going to make even the slightest impression on the cult of personality he has fostered, nor on his perception in the Party.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 26, 2023 • 12:29:33pm

re: #254 Unabogie

This is an ironic accusation considering the conversation just yesterday about Marsha Blackburn accusing Democrats of forcing everyone to be vegan against their will. Here, you are saying that vegans ought to be forced against their will to do something they find morally repugnant.

I said no such thing. I said “vegans were coming in to defend him, not over the fraud, but over the veganism.”

Bear in mind that “vegans” (hardly a monolithic group) are objecting to prisoners - in general - being forced to eat meat when in jail. And although I’m sure SBF is guilty of fraud, he’s also only an *accused* criminal and that anyone else accused of a crime might be subject to the same treatment. Which again, vegans find morally repugnant.

He’s also only accused of fleeing the country as well. That’s why his bail was revoked.

Lots of people in prison find things about prisons morally repugnant. Plus Mr. Bankman-Freid is not being forced to eat his pork chops. He is choosing a bread-and-water hunger strike. Let’s see how long he keeps it up (probably only until it doesn’t get him press any more).

I can’t imagine any other group, religious or otherwise, forced to do things like that. You and I would scream if an atheist were forced to pray in prison. Or if kids were forced to declare fealty to Donald Trump in schools.

Huh. Atheists would “scream” versus vegans would “complain.” Is that a deliberate choice of wording?

It was only two days ago I brought up the case of an atheist in West Virginia who is being denied parole under their system because he refuses to enter an explicitly Christian programme required for parole and is suing. (This is far more egregious than literally every state getting sued over requiring AA/NA for substance abuse. In this case, the state runs the religious programme themselves.)

Judge: West Virginia can’t require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming (CBS News, July 20, 2023)

If he’d just lied, he’d have already been out.

I live in a society in which “vegans” are routinely accused of wanting to force our beliefs on everyone else, or being preachy by just existing and telling other people about how we choose to live

I live in a society where I’ve been harassed in public for my food choices in a restaurant by vegans. That’s one advantage of living here now: There aren’t any. At least vegans didn’t try to burn down my house though, so yay?

And yet in this thread, there are several people who want to force vegans to eat meat against our will, solely based on any accusation of a crime that puts us in a jail long enough for us to require eating there.

So to sum up: One of these is a protected religious viewpoint in the Constitution. (Unless you’re arguing veganism is a religion.)

-atheism
-veganism

I don’t recall “food choice” being in there anywhere.

And that’s about as much attention I want to give to this massive false equivalence.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 26, 2023 • 12:30:36pm

re: #16 Nerdy Fish

Because of the deep ties to such a long-established religion, I fear that prosecuting Trump isn’t going to make even the slightest impression on the cult of personality he has fostered, nor on his perception in the Party.

It will make a big impression on them by making their leader a Holy Martyr who is being perssecuted for and in the name of All of Us

Hecuba's daughter Aug 26, 2023 • 12:34:56pm

re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It will make a big impression on them by making their leader a Holy Martyr who is being perssecuted for and in the name of All of Us

I know fanatic Trump supporters who are not Christian and who don’t have a religious take on him at all. It’s Marxism! Socialism! DEI! Wokeism! CRT! that they denounce on a regular basis. They aren’t interpreting this through a Christian lens at all.

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 12:35:17pm

re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter

But then we ignore Nixon’s other crimes. They may not have undermined democracy but they had deadly consequences. His sabotaging of Johnson’s efforts at a peace in Viet Nam may have led to many more deaths in this conflict that would have been avoided if the efforts were successful and his bombing in Cambodia led to the overthrow of the government there and the installing of the genocidal Pol Pot regime.

That’s true, but Trump is no slouch at mass murder, either, with the way he deliberately obstructed the response to COVID-19, despite knowing full well what the consequences would be. And it was virtually unreported but he also massively increased the use of drone strikes and other military actions in many areas.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 26, 2023 • 12:36:58pm

re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter

I know fanatic Trump supporters who are not Christian and who don’t have a religious take on him at all. It’s Marxism! Socialism! DEI! Wokeism! CRT! that they denounce on a regular basis. They aren’t interpreting this through a Christian lens at all.

But they still see him as a victim and a martyr who is being persecuted for going against the Political Establishment

HypnoToad Aug 26, 2023 • 12:37:41pm

re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It will make a big impression on them by making their leader a Holy Martyr who is being perssecuted for and in the name of All of Us

It’s also possible that trump’s deep association with religion, could accellerate the decline of the latter.

Belafon Aug 26, 2023 • 12:38:08pm

re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It will make a big impression on them by making their leader a Holy Martyr who is being perssecuted for and in the name of All of Us

Which would be totally counter to the way personality driven cults work. Trump feeds their rage and anger. When he can’t do that anymore, it will be like Tucker leaving FOX.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 26, 2023 • 12:40:33pm

re: #22 HypnoToad

It’s also possible that trump’s deep association with religion, could accellerate the decline of the latter.

That form of Fundamentalism is in decline and that is why it is lashing out so vociferously as it realizes that it is under an existential threat

But not from Satanism, Secularism or Marxism but from its own hypocrisy, bigotry and ignorant inflexibility

Barefoot Grin Aug 26, 2023 • 12:42:49pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

That’s true, but Trump is no slouch at mass murder, either, with the way he deliberately obstructed the response to COVID-19, despite knowing full well what the consequences would be. And it was virtually unreported but he also massively increased the use of drone strikes and other military actions in many areas.

And despite the real problems with Obama’s drone campaigns that the right endlessly harped on, Trump’s were far more deadly (and much less reported on).

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 26, 2023 • 12:43:44pm

re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter

I know fanatic Trump supporters who are not Christian and who don’t have a religious take on him at all. It’s Marxism! Socialism! DEI! Wokeism! CRT! that they denounce on a regular basis. They aren’t interpreting this through a Christian lens at all.

Right. They’re delusionally nuts.

Unabogie Aug 26, 2023 • 12:44:43pm

re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I said no such thing. I said “vegans were coming in to defend him, not over the fraud, but over the veganism.”

He’s also only accused of fleeing the country as well. That’s why his bail was revoked.

But this isn’t about bail being revoked. It’s about being forced to eat something in prison, with no alternatives, that go against strongly held beliefs. Even guilty people can have those and deserve rights.

Lots of people in prison find things about prisons morally repugnant. Plus Mr. Bankman-Freid is not being forced to eat his pork chops. He is choosing a bread-and-water hunger strike. Let’s see how long he keeps it up (probably only until it doesn’t get him press any more).

This is an odd accusation which presumes that he’s only saying this as some sort of attention-grabbing scheme. The vegans in that thread, I’d assume, are not. They are responding to the idea that they, who do not hold these tenets as a fad, would not want to be forced food that goes against their beliefs. It may seem foreign to you, but giving moral consideration to animals is not something you just abandon for no reason.

Huh. Atheists would “scream” versus vegans would “complain.” Is that a deliberate choice of wording?

I don’t think so since I’ve been an atheist since my teen years.

It was only two days ago I brought up the case of an atheist in West Virginia who is being denied parole under their system because he refuses to enter an explicitly Christian programme required for parole and is suing. (This is far more egregious than literally every state getting sued over requiring AA/NA for substance abuse. In this case, the state run the religious programme themselves.)

And this is just as egregious, yes. We agree.

I live in a society where I’ve been harassed in public for my food choices in a restaurant by vegans. That’s one advantage of living here now: There aren’t any. At least vegans didn’t try to burn down my house though, so yay?

So to sum up: One of these is a protected religious viewpoint in the Constitution. (Unless you’re arguing veganism is a religion.)

Technically, neither atheism nor veganism are religions. That doesn’t mean they aren’t deeply held beliefs.

I live in one of the most vegan-friendly cities in the world, also home to a joint called “Lardo.” This harassment does not comport with any version of reality I’ve seen. Vegans are a minority in the world. Meat is everywhere as the norm.

-atheism
-veganism

I don’t recall “food choice” being in there anywhere.

And that’s about as much attention I want to give to this massive false equivalence.

They are absolutely analogous, and I say that as a vegan atheist.

The issue here is bodily autonomy and consent. Once the state takes away our bodily autonomy, we all, even guilty and heinous criminals, should have the right to consent to what goes in our bodies.

Hecuba's daughter Aug 26, 2023 • 12:51:50pm

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

But they still see him as a victim and a martyr who is being persecuted for going against the Political Establishment

True that!

Nerdy Fish Aug 26, 2023 • 12:52:36pm

re: #27 Unabogie

BTW, thank you for your perspective on this. You totally gave me a new look at the issue, and changed my opinion.

Unabogie Aug 26, 2023 • 12:57:19pm

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

BTW, thank you for your perspective on this. You totally gave me a new look at the issue, and changed my opinion.

Thank you for saying that, I appreciate it!

For me, it’s the same consideration I give to issues like abortion, organ donation, and the death penalty.

Humans have the right to control their bodies, even in prison. Of course that is severely limited for people incarcerated. Freedom of movement and freedom of speech is gone, for example. But we don’t force prisoners to donate blood or marrow. We don’t force them to even take vaccines. We give some deference to the idea that our bodies are ours, even when we’re guilty of a crime.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 26, 2023 • 12:59:13pm

A chance to dig at fegans cannot be missed.

Don’t forget these are the people who wanna take us away our right to cheezburgerz

Backwoods Sleuth Aug 26, 2023 • 1:02:28pm

A sad day when you can’t rely on the unimpeachable character of Stage Magician Eustace Marvello. https://t.co/dTbPCNW5VW

— Dan Devine (@YourManDevine) August 26, 2023

Backwoods Sleuth Aug 26, 2023 • 1:04:58pm

re: #32 Backwoods Sleuth

it’s a joke

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 1:06:03pm

re: #33 Backwoods Sleuth

it’s a joke

Put a star on the wall behind him and you’da got me.

Decatur Deb Aug 26, 2023 • 1:07:36pm

re: #33 Backwoods Sleuth

it’s a joke

The hair looks Trumpian enough.

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 1:08:08pm

Obvious hoaxes are now indistinguishable from MAGA reality.

Backwoods Sleuth Aug 26, 2023 • 1:08:29pm

This is for Maui, from a far away friend. I am so terribly sorry. pic.twitter.com/6EIJcFvP47

— Yo-Yo Ma (@YoYo_Ma) August 25, 2023

darthstar Aug 26, 2023 • 1:10:21pm

Mouse over for the Alt text.

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darthstar Aug 26, 2023 • 1:12:09pm

re: #32 Backwoods Sleuth

That’s a very courageous hair style. Not sure I could go out in public wearing it.

Teukka Aug 26, 2023 • 1:12:33pm

re: #38 darthstar

Mouse over for the Alt text.

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The Mastodon poster misspelled “P01135809“…

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 26, 2023 • 1:12:54pm

re: #39 darthstar

That’s a very courageous hair style. Not sure I could go out in public wearing it.

that’s not a hairstyle, it’s his pet octopus

BlueSpotinAL ✅ Aug 26, 2023 • 1:13:17pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

That’s true, but Trump is no slouch at mass murder, either, with the way he deliberately obstructed the response to COVID-19, despite knowing full well what the consequences would be. And it was virtually unreported but he also massively increased the use of drone strikes and other military actions in many areas.

Trump can kill a lot of people without even trying. As a matter of fact, the lazy bastard doesn’t do anything with trying.

I haven’t forgotten his changing of the rules for drone strikes. He doesn’t care about anybody else, and it cost him nothing.

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 1:14:25pm

Mastodon

Teukka Aug 26, 2023 • 1:15:55pm

re: #43 wrenchwench

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More accurately risk descriptive name than “floofy cow”…

darthstar Aug 26, 2023 • 1:19:52pm

Mastodon

darthstar Aug 26, 2023 • 1:21:13pm

re: #40 Teukka

The Mastodon poster misspelled “P01135809“…

Thanks. Fixed! Refresh and mouse over again.

Rightwingconspirator Aug 26, 2023 • 1:22:01pm

Our new kitty! A rehome cat. Meet Jenner. Our 15 year old male ginger furred newbie. So far introductions to our other cats have been smooth.

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 1:22:28pm

Not a lizard. More closely related to frogs. Lizard-shaped, looks like a smol alligator.

Mastodon

darthstar Aug 26, 2023 • 1:25:12pm

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 1:26:26pm

re: #47 Rightwingconspirator

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Our new kitty! A rehome cat. Meet Jenner. Our 15 year old male ginger furred newbie. So far introductions to our other cats have been smooth.

That’s an old newb. May you have many years together. Nice whiskers.

Backwoods Sleuth Aug 26, 2023 • 1:26:41pm

re: #48 wrenchwench

Not a lizard. More closely related to frogs. Lizard-shaped, looks like a smol alligator.

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it’s a red eft/eastern newt!

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 1:27:57pm

re: #47 Rightwingconspirator

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Our new kitty! A rehome cat. Meet Jenner. Our 15 year old male ginger furred newbie. So far introductions to our other cats have been smooth.

Wow, look at those eyes!

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 1:28:17pm

re: #51 Backwoods Sleuth

it’s a red eft/eastern newt!

Alt-text agrees. You didn’t need no stinkin alt-text, did you.

Decatur Deb Aug 26, 2023 • 1:28:31pm

re: #43 wrenchwench

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Deep in her thread is this NYT article from 1894. It has a certain bikewench flair:

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 1:32:33pm

re: #54 Decatur Deb

Deep in her thread is this NYT article from 1894. It has a certain bikewench flair:

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Imma hafta get a natty bicycle costume.

‘Please pull the cork.’

Decatur Deb Aug 26, 2023 • 1:34:31pm

re: #55 wrenchwench

Some literary suggestion it was a pennyfarthing. Even cooler.

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 1:34:41pm

OMG SHE DRANK HER ALE AT THE BAR

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 1:35:47pm

re: #56 Decatur Deb

Some literary suggestion it was a pennyfarthing.

‘mounted her wheel’ is a penny-farthing thing to say.

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 1:36:53pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

‘mounted her wheel’ is a penny-farthing thing to say.

Was this a unicycle?

Unabogie Aug 26, 2023 • 1:37:24pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

‘mounted her wheel’ is a penny-farthing thing to say.

Pennyfarthings were the Ford Pintos of Tesla fires.

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 1:37:44pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

Was this a unicycle?

Little back wheel, hardly bears mentioning.

Decatur Deb Aug 26, 2023 • 1:37:51pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

‘mounted her wheel’ is a penny-farthing thing to say.

An image to savor.

Decatur Deb Aug 26, 2023 • 1:42:20pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

OMG SHE DRANK HER ALE AT THE BAR

In 1960 or so, I went with my aunt to her fav cafe on the South Side of Pittsburgh. It had two entrances—one straight to the bar, one into a separate part of the room. The ladies’ part was railed-off from the bar.

jaunte Aug 26, 2023 • 1:46:58pm

A natty bicycle costume.

Teukka Aug 26, 2023 • 1:47:07pm

Not endorsing Birdchan account, only posting for Guardian link:

Well, if we had any doubts about this guy before…Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants Elon Musk to be his presidential adviser https://t.co/FKRUcUbH2o

— Sharon Heath (@TheFleurTrilogy) August 26, 2023

jaunte Aug 26, 2023 • 1:50:09pm

re: #65 Teukka

Vivek Remoray, seeking buoyancy.

Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 26, 2023 • 1:52:17pm

re: #49 darthstar

Which is why I prefer Amtrak since they still serve something called…FOOD!

jaunte Aug 26, 2023 • 1:53:27pm

Emptywheel:

“…Remember how I’ve promised I would start yelling if I believed that Cannon was doing something clearly problematic to help Trump? I’d say we’re there.”
emptywheel.net

Cannon is just as much in the bag for Trump as you may have imagined.

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 1:53:46pm

re: #64 jaunte

A natty bicycle costume.

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The ‘after’ hat. (That front brake is deadly).

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 26, 2023 • 1:54:13pm

re: #67 Joe Bacon ✅

Which is why I prefer Amtrak since they still serve something called…FOOD!

apples and oranges.

preparing and serving food on an airplane is much more tricky than serving it on a train, especially a dining car

The Ghost of a Flea Aug 26, 2023 • 1:56:24pm

Imma stick my head out and say that the religion versus cult versus not-religious distinction is largely meaningless for this discussion.

This is because what we’re watching is people willing to accept bullshit—neither truth nor lies, but the constant shifting of meaning so long as their rhetorical objectives are met—because their actual motive is incredibly basic and grasping: they want to be on top, they want power over others, they want no accountability…and they want to be told that they good people no matter what they do with the former three.

Belief rooted in commitment to hierarchy and ownership is both an act of preservation-of- self-image and a necessary component to maintaining a comfortable status quo in spite of it’s obvious cruelties. It’s is a machine that runs the same on all ideological fuels, which is why the same behaviors and outcomes keep being replicated in entirely different circumstances. High abstractions that justify their distinctions: IQ scores, God, “Reason,” Western civilization, monarchy…these things are not only used interchangeably, but are constantly recombined in an attempt to make a more-encompassing excuse for what they want. No one form of argumentation is allowed to have primacy such that it could pull away from the core, protected conceit of hierarchy.

You can believe in God, but not a God who questions the worth of lords. You can believe in the equalizing power of capitalism, but not so much that you create policy that actually levels the playing fields in markets or give labor power to negotiate. Et cetera, et cetera.

The step that makes them awful people is the base assumption that there are inferior and superior kinds of people, and that is an acceptable solve for the problem of human suffering and the moral struggle of what to do in the face of suffering. It doesn’t matter if that system is gamified, like money and ownership, or rendered sacred, the function remains the same: the holder of the thought is entitled, and others are not only not entitled but deserve their privation.

You can’t tell if Trumpism is a religion because it’s a syncretic horror itself derived from existing American syncretism: it is the chimera, bacterium and Lycian monster, that springs from our cultural hybridity.

Nationalism and spirituality:
Nationalism and racism;
Racism and spirituality;
Spirituality and Capitalism;
Capitalism and Nationalism;
Individualism and all of the above.

The trick here is that no one of these things actually matters, because all have the same point: define hierarchy, justify enforcement of hierarchy. As such, no one is valued so much that it cannot be altered to better fit the general purpose.

We have a century of telling people a just-so-story that society can only be fixed by singular, heroic rich white dudes because all of the alternatives are dangerous and collectivist. Donald Trump succeeds because he assures his audience his IS that singular figure, that all his accomplishments are individual triumphs with no systemic components or contexts…and that their specialness, their like-him-ness, has been robbed from them by inferior types that need to be humiliated and punished.

America has a just-so-story in which we can never be wrong, never fail, and never be subject to the kind of suffering we perceive as happening to inferior outsiders. Donald Trump succeeds because he shamelessly says anything that sustains that core premise: we aren’t wrong, we didn’t fail and you suffer because our inferiors made us fail and suffer, and the solution is both more hierarchy and more brutal enforcement of hierarchy.

Each Trump supporter then puts their preferred justification structure over this appetite like an Instagram filter. Trump is godly; Trump is an alpha male; Trump is a billionaire genius; etc. Their framework is bullshit, but it’s bullshit enough other people believe in that the whole thing’s inflating like an economic bubble.

As an outsider, you’re not going to be able to fit this in one framework, because frameworks require there to be core conceits that don’t change, that hold stable definitions. These people aren’t religious, or political, or philosophical in any structured way because they’re prideful to the point that all ideas simply become the same idea. They’re currently going fascist, and brushing elbows with both existing fascists and with conspiracy theories that fascists bud from, because it’s the one political system that will most nakedly promise them the level of license and prestige they feel owed.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Aug 26, 2023 • 1:57:57pm

re: #54 Decatur Deb

Deep in her thread is this NYT article from 1894. It has a certain bikewench flair:

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I wonder if she showed a well-turned ankle? Nah, too much to hope for.

Decatur Deb Aug 26, 2023 • 2:01:19pm

re: #64 jaunte

A natty bicycle costume.

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Sort of thing she might wear to ride to the polls—26 years later.

goddamnedfrank Aug 26, 2023 • 2:07:02pm

re: #54 Decatur Deb

Deep in her thread is this NYT article from 1894. It has a certain bikewench flair:

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“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”

-Susan B. Anthony

Barefoot Grin Aug 26, 2023 • 2:09:08pm

re: #49 darthstar

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Tray jammed against tummy.

sagehen Aug 26, 2023 • 2:12:03pm

re: #64 jaunte

A natty bicycle costume.

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She looks like someone who would smoke cigarettes, and be arrested for trying to vote.

Barefoot Grin Aug 26, 2023 • 2:12:38pm

re: #72 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I wonder if she showed a well-turned ankle? Nah, too much to hope for.

My father, 98 now, loved a “well-turned ankle” according to my mom, who had a well-turned ankle until she actually turned her ankle in her 60s and got screws in her leg.

wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 2:13:57pm

re: #77 Barefoot Grin

My father, 98 now, loved a “well-turned ankle” according to my mom, who had a well-turned ankle until she actually turned her ankle in her 60s and got screws in her leg.

Then she had a well-torqued ankle.

Barefoot Grin Aug 26, 2023 • 2:16:04pm

re: #78 wrenchwench

Then she had a well-torqued ankle.

LOL

Semper Fi Aug 26, 2023 • 2:16:14pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

If anyone knows “Semper Fi” in real life, he’s been having trouble logging in (forgot pw) and emailing me about it, and I’ve been replying but he’s obviously not getting my replies. I think it’s an issue with Cox Internet’s ridiculous spam filter, but I haven’t even gotten through with Gmail.

So happy to be back…thank you Charles for your efforts to contact me.

Charles Johnson Aug 26, 2023 • 2:19:43pm

Anyone who uses Cox Internet might want to know about this page, that can help you receive email that gets through their very aggressive spam filter.

How to white list in Cox Email - Whitelist Guide

jaunte Aug 26, 2023 • 2:20:17pm

Looks at those prices.

$1 in 1897 is worth $36.83 today

Backwoods Sleuth Aug 26, 2023 • 2:22:04pm

re: #53 wrenchwench

Alt-text agrees. You didn’t need no stinkin alt-text, did you.

Those wee critters live in my yard. They are so cute.

Backwoods Sleuth Aug 26, 2023 • 2:26:29pm

re: #76 sagehen

She looks like someone who would smoke cigarettes, and be arrested for trying to vote.

and demand higher education, even *gasp* medical or law school!

Decatur Deb Aug 26, 2023 • 2:30:57pm

re: #82 jaunte

I have a reproduction 1903 Sears catalogue. I’ll bring it on, some quiet thread.

Barefoot Grin Aug 26, 2023 • 2:31:03pm

re: #84 Backwoods Sleuth

and demand higher education, even *gasp* medical or law school!

Which causes infertility.

Backwoods Sleuth Aug 26, 2023 • 2:32:23pm

re: #86 Barefoot Grin

Which causes infertility.

which may actually be a huge benefit…

Backwoods Sleuth Aug 26, 2023 • 2:33:26pm

Yes, apparently kids in Iowa now need parental permission to go by ‘Joe’ instead of ‘Joesph’ thanks to state law. Not the Onion. https://t.co/BGZsTJ942o

— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) August 26, 2023

ericblair Aug 26, 2023 • 2:37:11pm

How the biggest Dutch daily presents the US: “American cities, often run by black Democratic mayors, are falling apart. Fentanyl leads to hordes of zombies in the streets, migrants overflow reception centers, crime is exploding” bc “police are in the naughty chair since BLM” https://t.co/gxYXY9tA6V

— Matt Steinglass ❌ (@mattsteinglass) August 26, 2023

In case you were worried that European papers didn’t have enough racist shitbags.

Many Europeans believe the sort of Fox News crap about what hellholes American cities are, basically mid-70s New York frozen in amber.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 26, 2023 • 2:38:46pm

re: #80 Semper Fi

So happy to be back…thank you Charles for your efforts to contact me.

Welcome home!

Barefoot Grin Aug 26, 2023 • 2:40:48pm

re: #88 Backwoods Sleuth

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“We call him ‘dickhead’ at home.”

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 26, 2023 • 2:41:36pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

Anyone who uses Cox Internet might want to know about this page, that can help you receive email that gets through their very aggressive spam filter.

How to white list in Cox Email - Whitelist Guide

In the comments, the first one is this:

Options have changed and this option to provide exceptions or move everything from SPAM into your inbox is no longer available. Very frustrating since it is putting everything from .church into spam.

The Ghost of a Flea Aug 26, 2023 • 2:43:39pm

re: #88 Backwoods Sleuth

Shit makes sense if the core premise is that parents just own kids.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 26, 2023 • 2:51:39pm

It’s never-ending.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking legal action to preserve its 2018 New Jersey Supreme Court win that halted unconstitutional official funding of church repairs.

The state/church watchdog filed a motion today, on behalf of itself and New Jersey taxpayer David Steketee, to intervene as a party to a recently filed lawsuit seeking to overturn its court victory ending Morris County’s practice of funneling taxpayer money to churches. FFRF secured a unanimous decision from the New Jersey Supreme Court in April 2018 declaring the county’s practice of funding church restorations unconstitutional under the Religious Aid Clause of the New Jersey Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review that decision in March 2019, which should have brought finality to FFRF’s legal victory.

However, a new lawsuit, brought by First Liberty Institute (a Christian nationalist outfit) on behalf of two New Jersey churches in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, seeks to overturn the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling, arguing that the state’s Religious Aid Clause violates the U.S. Constitution’s Free Exercise Clause. The two churches are asking a trial court to strike down this provision meant to protect taxpayers from having to fund religious institutions.

(more)

BREAKING: FFRF legally intervenes to preserve its N.J. Supreme Court funding win (August 10, 2023)

The Freedom From Religion Foundation says the Abilene-Wylie Independent School District in Texas deserves an “F” for its practice of imposing multiple prayers during mandatory staff meetings.

A concerned district employee informed the state/church watchdog that staff were led in prayer several times during mandatory staff meetings on Aug. 7 and 8. During the Aug. 7 meeting, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Tommy Vaughm led staff members in prayer following recitation of the United States and Texas pledges. A second prayer was delivered that day by a financial donor, Ryan Holmes, prior to the lunch break. Additionally, Superintendent Joey Light led staff in prayer at the Aug. 8 meeting while acting in his official capacity.

(more)

FFRF asks Texas school district to stop imposing prayer at staff meetings (August 24, 2023)

Belafon Aug 26, 2023 • 2:54:40pm

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I know that shithole: Abilene-Wylie, though they were separate school districts when I was there.

Belafon Aug 26, 2023 • 2:55:31pm

re: #88 Backwoods Sleuth

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Yes, my son would like to go by Susan.

Belafon Aug 26, 2023 • 2:55:53pm

re: #89 ericblair

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In case you were worried that European papers didn’t have enough racist shitbags.

Many Europeans believe the sort of Fox News crap about what hellholes American cities are, basically mid-70s New York frozen in amber.

And then, when they get here, they get shot by a white man.

jaunte Aug 26, 2023 • 3:02:36pm

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

As long as we’re advising other people on their names, I think Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Tommy Vaughm should consider changing his spelling.

A Three Hour Tour Aug 26, 2023 • 3:03:58pm

Well, IF my sister-in-law’s genealogical research is correct, my brothers and I are descendents of Chief Justice John Marshall through our maternal grandfather.

If true, that answers a question that’s lingered in my mind since fourth grade Virginia History class (the one with the notoriously racist textbook in the mid-seventies that has come up in discussion here).

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A Three Hour Tour Aug 26, 2023 • 3:07:39pm

re: #76 sagehen

She looks like someone who would smoke cigarettes, and be arrested for trying to vote.

And would be pictured in a Virginia Slims ad in the seventies with the tagline, “You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby.”

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Backwoods Sleuth Aug 26, 2023 • 3:08:10pm

re: #89 ericblair

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In case you were worried that European papers didn’t have enough racist shitbags.

Many Europeans believe the sort of Fox News crap about what hellholes American cities are, basically mid-70s New York frozen in amber.

the same people who think Zwarte Piet is nothing to apologize for.

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Belafon Aug 26, 2023 • 3:08:56pm

re: #95 Belafon

I know that shithole: Abilene-Wylie, though they were separate school districts when I was there.

I don’t think any of the top 25 from my 1988 high school class still live in Abilene, though my best friends lived there until they moved to Plano about a decade ago. Back when I was there, Abilene had the second highest church per capita rate in the nation and, causationally, the second highest teenage pregnancy rate in the nation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 26, 2023 • 3:12:05pm

Florida Republican files another Nazi-friendly bill in the legislature (Wonkette, three hours ago)

Florida Republican Is Fighting For His ‘Right To Rock’ And You’re Really Gonna Wish He Would Not

Florida state Rep. Joel Rudman once said that his “entire reason for being here in the Florida Legislature” was to help pass a bill that allowed healthcare workers and insurers the freedom to discriminate against patients when said discrimination is based in their own “conscience.” The medical doctor turned far-right state legislator has, however, found himself another raison d’etre, and surprise — it’s another very stupid bill largely based in protecting people from the consequences of their own bigotry.

And this time, it’s of the musical variety.

On Wednesday, Rudman filed the (get ready for a full-body cringe) “Right To Rock Act,” which would bar venues from canceling acts for being horrible on social media or turning out to be Nazis or what have you.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 26, 2023 • 3:24:34pm

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If you want to hear this guy’s band, Wonkette has the YouTube video of “Dr. Rudman and the Freedom Fighters” performing an hour set.

He’s currently promoting their “Gods, Guns, and Less Government” tour. He complains those tricksy liberals gamed Eventbrite to keep him from getting accurate metrics on how many people to plan for his concerts (lying about it, since the problem was with Eventbrite and liberals never heard of this guy’s band).

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wrenchwench Aug 26, 2023 • 3:28:14pm

Mastodon

[…]

A witness, who was moments from walking into the store, said the only thing that kept him from entering the Dollar General was when he realized he didn’t have any money on him, so he went to another store nearby.

Moments later, according to the witness, he heard gunshots ring out. He said the shooter was firing at cars before he went inside the store.

The witness said he turned around a saw a woman running and another man fall back.

Nixon also called the situation “tragic” and said they were trying to calm the residents down and offer support.

“These are things that we want to try to avoid by making sure that our communities are fully resourced, making sure we’re creating a climate of love and not tension,” Nixon told city leaders were seen gathering in the street for a prayer circle over the tragedy.

[…]

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jaunte Aug 26, 2023 • 3:29:19pm

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Never interrupt Florida Man when he is making a fool of himself.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 26, 2023 • 3:41:12pm

re: #105 wrenchwench

WJXT quotes the sheriff of Duval County as saying this was a “racially-motivated shooting.”

Odds on how long before wingnuts start calling him a Democrat and demand to see the manifesto his parents found at their home?

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Joe Bacon ✅ Aug 26, 2023 • 3:42:23pm

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Semper Fi Aug 26, 2023 • 3:43:12pm

re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Welcome home!

Thanks so much, Anymouse, but I must tell you I was thinking of alternative ways to make contact with Charles and you were included in one of them:
I’m planning to visit some mid-west family in the Fall. Your small village is about 1hr from I80. It wouldn’t take much time to drive up and down a few streets looking for a Smart then leave a note on the windshield asking you to contact Charles on my behalf.
I guess there’s always a way when desperate.

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sagehen Aug 26, 2023 • 3:43:32pm

Definitely racially-motivated.

He went first to an HBCU, a security guard spotted him putting on a tactical vest and mask, couldn’t catch him because the guy ran too fast but then went to the Dollar General.

ETA: swastikas painted on the weapon.

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silverdolphin Aug 26, 2023 • 3:43:37pm

‘Anybody else would be in jail by now’: AZ independent voters ditch ‘delusional’ Trump

I think this will accelerate as time goes on and more evidence comes out. It will be a death of 1000 cuts as all the trials overrun his “wining streak”.

One aspect of Trump’s appeal has been his increasingly unhinged exhortations about how he is a winner. His supporters love winners. So he can never lose. Thus why he cannot admit he lost the election.

But, being indicted and perhaps having a trial, turns that on its head. He has always portrayed prison is for loser.Trials are for losers. Winners do not have mug shots.

He loses independets and he loses bigly.

Hope so.

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Belafon Aug 26, 2023 • 3:53:46pm

re: #105 wrenchwench

In his replies:

Mastodon

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austin_blue Aug 26, 2023 • 4:01:01pm

re: #48 wrenchwench

Not a lizard. More closely related to frogs. Lizard-shaped, looks like a smol alligator.

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red eft

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SandwichKed Aug 26, 2023 • 6:49:08pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I was working on getting back in a week ago (hi, delurk!) and gmail absolutely ate all the password reset messages I triggered. Eventually I found my original registration message from years and years ago and it actually had the password listed (eek) which I got in with… but yeah, gmail really doesn’t like wherever the password reset messages are sending from.

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