Any knocking on wood, or is that just for Florida?
They’ll sing a different tune when a superstorm wipes out The Villages.
Translation: I’m finding out this ecosystem I helped create isn’t all that much fun. pic.twitter.com/15VDoFuYvA
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 31, 2023
re: #3 Joe Bacon ✅
They’ll sing a different tune when a superstorm wipes out The Villages.
They won’t, actually. Nobody from the GOP donor class is there.
The “Herd Immunity” approach to climate change_
Makes sense, survival of the richest and all
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
In other words, the particular conspiracy theories she favors aren’t popular in right wing fever swamps.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
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who believes ‘everything is as the media says’?
i mean who’s not been foxed
The consensus view of the GOP is the truth will always hurt them. Climate. Economy. Vaccines.
re: #3 Joe Bacon ✅
They’ll sing a different tune when a superstorm wipes out The Villages.
I’ve been considering writing a short story about a bunch of Uber wealthy people about to lose their mansions and coastal gated community to climate change. They beg governments for help. They beg companies for help. They beg scientists for help. Then they try to buy their way out of the problem only to realize they can’t.
Haven’t nailed down an ending yet but I’m leaning towards a not happy one.
re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The “Herd Immunity” approach to climate change_
Makes sense, survival of the richest and all
The coming resource wars are going to fuck up things for everyone, including the richest.
It’s bad enough that we have a plutocracy, but what’s even worse is that these ultra-rich crap stains and skid marks are totally fucking incompetent as a ruling class.
re: #9 Rightwingconspirator
The consensus view of the GOP is the truth will always hurt them. Climate. Economy. Vaccines.
Reality has a left-wing bias!
re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg
IMO the most satisfying ending to a story like that is one where a mob with torches and pitchforks gets their hands on these jackasses, but it would be a bit unfair unless the people caught by the mob are all fossil fuel executives and the like.
re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg
They could build a final refuge in a walled compound near a good source of geothermal power, which will provide a surprise uplifting ending.
re: #9 Rightwingconspirator
The consensus view of the GOP is the truth will always hurt them. Climate. Economy. Vaccines.
That’s why I’m a broken record on “axiomatically dishonest” as applied to conservative apologetics and the like. IMO there is no such thing as conservatism without its associated Big Lies.
re: #14 jaunte
They could build a final refuge in a walled compound near a good source of geothermal power, which will provide a surprise uplifting ending.
The best ending would be for them to find out that their compound is actually part of a Native American reservation and that they will end up owing the tribe scores of millions of dollars in land-rent fees….
I know many of you will be disappointed, but this is one of the longest sentences handed down for J6.
FLASH: Judge Tim Kelly sentences Proud Boys seditious conspiracy defendant Zach Rehl of Philadelphia to 15 years prison
Half of what Feds sought— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 31, 2023
re: #16 Jay C
The best ending would be for them to find out that their compound is actually part of a Native American reservation and that they will end up owing the tribe scores of millions of dollars in land-rent fees….
In that scenario, it would be better for their money to be useless, and for them to get kicked out of the compound by the tribe because the tribe needs the land to survive. Let the plutocrats try to buy water in deserts created by their policies with their useless money.
But I’m mean like that.
Just for kicks, listening to David Cassidy’s solo album _Rock Me Baby_. I mean, it’s not bad. I can understand why he was frustrated to the point of lifelong battles with alcohol: he clearly had talent, and pretty good taste in music, and just had it go away—partly because of his own demons.
Overheard in a local diner at breakfast from local farmers on the GOP debate (I could write for the NYT with this stuff):
When we walked into the Gurley Café, there were several local farmers getting breakfast. They were discussing the GOP debate (so I guess they watched it).
After they said “hi” to us, they went back to their political conversation.
One said “I like that Indian guy. He sounds really intelligent.” (I wasn’t going to tell him the “Indian” guy’s name.) A couple others agreed they could vote for him. None seemed to talk favourably about Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis.
They then switched to crops, lamenting what’s been the worst wheat harvest here in generations. (All the hailstorms we had this Spring did in the wheat.) For a couple who did harvest some wheat, they couldn’t seem to understand why with worldwide shortages they were paid so low for their harvest. (The answer is price-gouging by capitalists. Farmers aren’t capitalists.)
The corn also took a beating, but came up later in Spring so it wasn’t as bad off. Farmers who planted sorghum this year are going to see a bumper crop though, as sorghum comes up late in Spring.
The talk then switched to South America. They couldn’t understand why Brazil and Argentina were beating American farmers in the world market (they didn’t connect that with Donald Trump’s trade wars).
A few elderly women sat at a different table. They were discussing local church stuff but also politics surrounding abortion. Apparently the church in Gurley doesn’t have a position on that, but they seemed to think the GOP was going too far and it would spark a backlash.
When we got home from Sterling, the pastor of the church across the street from my house came over. She wanted a tour of our new (to us) car.
I only sat and listened. I didn’t want to get in a political fight with a bunch of farmers when I wanted breakfast.
re: #17 No Malarkey!
I know many of you will be disappointed, but this is one of the longest sentences handed down for J6.
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15 years is a goddamned slap in the fucking face.
If these were black folks they’d get life. Full fucking stop.
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Overheard in a local diner at breakfast from local farmers on the GOP debate (I could write for the NYT with this stuff):
When we walked into the Gurley Café, there were several local farmers getting breakfast. They were discussing the GOP debate (so I guess they watched it).
After they said “hi” to us, they went back to their political conversation.
One said “I like that Indian guy. He sounds really intelligent.” (I wasn’t going to tell him the “Indian” guy’s name.) A couple others agreed they could vote for him. None seemed to talk favourably about Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis.
They then switched to crops, lamenting what’s been the worst wheat harvest here in generations. (All the hailstorms we had this Spring did in the wheat.) For a couple who did harvest some wheat, they couldn’t seem to understand why with worldwide shortages they were paid so low for their harvest. (The answer is price-gouging by capitalists. Farmers aren’t capitalists.)
The corn also took a beating, but came up later in Spring so it wasn’t as bad off. Farmers who planted sorghum this year are going to see a bumper crop though, as sorghum comes up late in Spring.
The talk then switched to South America. They couldn’t understand why Brazil and Argentina were beating American farmers in the world market (they didn’t connect that with Donald Trump’s trade wars).
A few elderly women sat at a different table. They were discussing local church stuff but also politics surrounding abortion. Apparently the church in Gurley doesn’t have a position on that, but they seemed to think the GOP was going too far and it would spark a backlash.
When we got home from Sterling, the pastor of the church across the street from my house came over. She wanted a tour of our new (to us) car.
I only sat and listened. I didn’t want to get in a political fight with a bunch of farmers when I wanted breakfast.
Talking to people who think a fast-talking bullshitter sounds intelligent would not have been a good use of your time, and is risky. They might tell you they love Ben Shapiro.
re: #17 No Malarkey!
That’s pretty pitiful after a ruling that the guidelines as applied to this case were 30 to life.
There is a real structural problem of the judiciary mostly not getting it regarding J6 (even after talking a good game about law and order).
The Republican judges can be dismissed as ideologues helping fellow travelers as much as they can, but what about the others? Is it just too terrifying to face the simple truth that the J6 mob was the brown shirts of the Republican party called to action by their neo-Nazi leader?
re: #21 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
15 years is a goddamned slap in the fucking face.
If these were black folks they’d get life. Full fucking stop.
And communists who did what the J6 mob did would be executed.
re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg
I’ve been considering writing a short story about a bunch of Uber wealthy people about to lose their mansions and coastal gated community to climate change. They beg governments for help. They beg companies for help. They beg scientists for help. Then they try to buy their way out of the problem only to realize they can’t.
Haven’t nailed down an ending yet but I’m leaning towards a not happy one.
They can build dikes around the community. Rename it 9th Ward Rotterdam.
re: #12 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Reality has a left-wing bias!
Reality is woke.
Don’t Drive Your Chevy Corvette on a Beach Like This Goober
Happened in Pismo Beach California. Driving his car out on the beach to impress everyone. Boy, did they ;-)
re: #29 silverdolphin
That is what the main drag is for. I think it is called cruising.
re: #21 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
15 years is a goddamned slap in the fucking face.
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Depends on your perspective.
Have had non capital crime clients who would prefer 10- 15 years as opposed to mandatory life without parole (848(b).
re: #23 EPR-radar
That’s pretty pitiful after a ruling that the guidelines as applied to this case were 30 to life.
There is a real structural problem of the judiciary mostly not getting it regarding J6 (even after talking a good game about law and order).
The Republican judges can be dismissed as ideologues helping fellow travelers as much as they can, but what about the others? Is it just too terrifying to face the simple truth that the J6 mob was the brown shirts of the Republican party called to action by their neo-Nazi leader?
Kelly is a Trump appointed judge.
re: #30 PhillyPretzel ✅
That is what the main drag is for. I think it is called cruising.
Yep, but cruising on dry, loose sand as the tide is coming in and getting stuck does not really impress the chicks. Wasn’t that demonstrated in “Beach Blanket Bingo” or “How to Tame a wild Bikini”? Or am I misremembering ;-)
re: #33 silverdolphin
That was before my time. I am a child of the early ‘60’s.
Apocalypse isn’t that bad if you have more beans and bullets than the rest of humanity.
Gordon Gee’s reckless spending spree will ruin many careers
Lots of colleges are going to close, driven by falling enrollment and increasing expenses as the Administrators work the death spiral. Another Ponzi scheme on the way to its end.
The most likely to survive are those with strong research funding as the government provides the dollars falling enrollment doesn’t. But then, I expect that research institutes will be even more successful because the researchers can just do their research without having to deal with the encumberance of teaching.
Many colleges will only stay in business if the government enters the education market and funds at least 2 years of college. But then that would require an efficient organization. And, as the article states, a lot of universities are the opposite.
re: #24 EPR-radar
And communists who did what the J6 mob did would be executed.
My thought is that the nearest comparable event was the 1954 attack on the House of Representatives by 4 Puerto Rican nationalists, who were sentenced in effect to life. They fired 30 rounds and injured 5 representatives, none of whom died. Their sentences were commuted after serving about 24 years. In the current case, no members of Congress or the Senate or their staff were injured and none of the insurrectionists shot those they attacked.
The real criminals, though, were not these foot soldiers but Trump and all those in the government and outside who designed and helped implement the plot to overturn the results of the election.
re: #33 silverdolphin
Yep, but cruising on dry, loose sand as the tide is coming in and getting stuck does not really impress the chicks. Wasn’t that demonstrated in “Beach Blanket Bingo” or “How to Tame a wild Bikini”? Or am I misremembering ;-)
Now there’s a title I haven’t heard in a long, long time, only it was “How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.”
Too young to have seen the movie, but the chorus of the theme song is still lodged in the memory banks. Will have to take your word on the Corvette :)
re: #33 silverdolphin
Yep, but cruising on dry, loose sand as the tide is coming in and getting stuck does not really impress the chicks. Wasn’t that demonstrated in “Beach Blanket Bingo” or “How to Tame a wild Bikini”? Or am I misremembering ;-)
He’s got a Little Dead Corvette.
The Volunteer Moms Poring Over Archives to Prove Clarence Thomas Wrong
By Mark Joseph Stern
slate.com
Jacob Charles, who served as the executive director of the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University School of Law, sees real value in the effort. Few scholars have paid keener attention to the post-Bruen fallout than Charles. The center is compiling a repository of historical gun laws that’s approaching 2,000 entries; the findings are meant to assist lawyers and judges, though it is also open to the public.
BenCisco@mastodon.online:
c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance@mastodon.cloud
Fun reminder that Lucille Ball is the only reason that Star Trek exists.
As the head of Desilu Productions, she green-lighted a pilot; then when it was deemed “too cerebral” by the networks, funded a financially-risky SECOND pilot that got the series picked up by NBC.
re: #42 BeenHereAwhile
BenCisco@mastodon.online:
c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance@mastodon.cloudFun reminder that Lucille Ball is the only reason that Star Trek exists.
As the head of Desilu Productions, she green-lighted a pilot; then when it was deemed “too cerebral” by the networks, funded a financially-risky SECOND pilot that got the series picked up by NBC.
The cast of TOS were treated poorly, with Shatner and Nimoy considered the stars, and the rest of the cast treated as lesser actors even though they were all more talented than Shatner has ever been.
re: #29 silverdolphin
Don’t Drive Your Chevy Corvette on a Beach Like This Goober
Happened in Pismo Beach California. Driving his car out on the beach to impress everyone. Boy, did they ;-)
re: #44 BigPapa
This doesn’t seem like a good idea.
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I heard from my parents that a teenager at their church’s youth group got ahold of one of these, wolfed it down, and nearly went to the hospital. I’m sure it’s manageable, if eaten properly.
re: #38 CleverToad
Now there’s a title I haven’t heard in a long, long time, only it was “How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.”
Too young to have seen the movie, but the chorus of the theme song is still lodged in the memory banks. Will have to take your word on the Corvette :)
Crap. I knew that. Main reason I remember the movie is for two things - loved Harvey Lembeck as Eric von Zipper the incompetant leader of a mortorcycle gang that tried to torment the surf gang, to no avail (I may be thinking of a time his cycle got stuck), and for Buster Keaton. When I first saw it, my father told me about Buster and his sad life. This movie only hinted at his genius. Very sad
The few years I saw “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” just to see him in his last role. He has a better role but it was not until I saw “The General” that I saw what he could do. Stole almost every scene he was in. This one with him, Zeo Mostel and Jack Gilford is a great example of his stillness vs Mosgtel’s craziness.
Even as an old, dying man, he makes this scene work. Plus they even found a “Prok Pie” har for him.
re: #44 BigPapa
This doesn’t seem like a good idea.
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People like to prove to their friends that they’re stupid with things like that. As proving you’re stupid goes, it’s relatively harmless.
re: #49 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
People like to prove to their friends that they’re stupid with things like that. As proving you’re stupid goes, it’s relatively harmless.
E.g. it’s almost certainly not as bad as eating a Tide Pod.
re: #50 EPR-radar
E.g. it’s almost certainly not as bad as eating a Tide Pod.
Or trying to launch a fireworks mortar from on top of your head and losing your head like one attention-seeking kid did.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
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…in which Candace Owens attempts to reclaim any sense of humanity she has squandered away in a career full of Conservative lies, power-seeking deceit, sadistic Self-promotion and a celebration of ignorance.
re: #51 Vicious Babushka
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Boehbert’s face always looks like she’s a connoisseur of her own farts.
re: #45 Vicious Babushka
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Ali Baba Bunny has so many of my favorite lines.
Turn left at Albuquerque.
Hasan chop.
Open Saskatchewan. Open septagenerian.
It’s mine. All mine.
I can’t help it. I’m a greedy slob. It’s my hobby.
Consequences. Schomsequence. As long as I’m rich
I’m rich. I’m a happy miser.
I’m rich. I’m wealthy. I’m comfortably well-off.
Donald Trump really is Daffy Duck. Wish he were as funny.
re: #47 Dave In Austin
Have you seen the videos?
Yup. I had a small piece of one before, it’s def really hot. I’m going to try the whole one next.
As for you saying it’s stupid, how dare you. I’m going to prove it’s not stupid by doing it and not dying although coming close to dying. Because.
re: #29 silverdolphin
Don’t Drive Your Chevy Corvette on a Beach Like This Goober
Happened in Pismo Beach California. Driving his car out on the beach to impress everyone. Boy, did they ;-)
We went to Pismo once and parked at the entrance to the sand. They have a flag marked lane for people who want to go off-roading that people are supposed to follow. The Corvette’s mistake was thinking it could drive on the smooth sand where the wave wash was. That sand is all deep and soft down there. And it gets EVERYWHERE. The first intersection after you leave the beach has a berm of fine sand that has fallen from the vehicles that go out there. We parked next to it and our car had wind blown sand in the front and back as well as under the hood on top of the engine.
re: #54 Barefoot Grin
Boehbert’s face always looks like she’s a connoisseur of her own farts.
I feel judged.
re: #58 darthstar
We went to Pismo once and parked at the entrance to the sand. They have a flag marked lane for people who want to go off-roading that people are supposed to follow. The Corvette’s mistake was thinking it could drive on the smooth sand where the wave wash was. That sand is all deep and soft down there. And it gets EVERYWHERE. The first intersection after you leave the beach has a berm of fine sand that has fallen from the vehicles that go out there. We parked next to it and our car had wind blown sand in the front and back as well as under the hood on top of the engine.
From my few years of going to the beach while going to school there (usually Hermosa beach), finding sand in everything was a life long lesson. Had to wash down the car after every trip.
re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg
I’ve been considering writing a short story about a bunch of Uber wealthy people about to lose their mansions and coastal gated community to climate change. They beg governments for help. They beg companies for help. They beg scientists for help. Then they try to buy their way out of the problem only to realize they can’t.
Haven’t nailed down an ending yet but I’m leaning towards a not happy one.
Robo-Trump appearing to offer them pennies on the dollar for their now practically worthless real estate. “Let’s talk fire sale here.”
re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg
I’ve been considering writing a short story about a bunch of Uber wealthy people about to lose their mansions and coastal gated community to climate change. They beg governments for help. They beg companies for help. They beg scientists for help. Then they try to buy their way out of the problem only to realize they can’t.
Haven’t nailed down an ending yet but I’m leaning towards a not happy one.
Poor people come in the night and weld the gates shut to their gated communities.
PLAIIOS!S!!S!!!
Pretty comical to hear the Projection King say this about Biden today: “I believe that he has gone mad. A stark raving lunatic.” pic.twitter.com/0EQBVYwz9V
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 30, 2023
Not to mention “executive time” watching cable news shows and posting on Twitter.
re: #64 piratedan
still…. my most favorite challenge video of all time
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Nice challenge. Accepted.
re: #36 silverdolphin
Gordon Gee’s reckless spending spree will ruin many careers
Lots of colleges are going to close, driven by falling enrollment and increasing expenses as the Administrators work the death spiral. Another Ponzi scheme on the way to its end.
The most likely to survive are those with strong research funding as the government provides the dollars falling enrollment doesn’t. But then, I expect that research institutes will be even more successful because the researchers can just do their research without having to deal with the encumberance of teaching.
Many colleges will only stay in business if the government enters the education market and funds at least 2 years of college. But then that would require an efficient organization. And, as the article states, a lot of universities are the opposite.
He certainly fucked things up when he was at Ohio State (after previously fucking things up at Brown and Vanderbilt), while earning big bucks—in 2013, Gee earned $6,057,615. Then he “retired” and went on to fuck up West Virgina. So, I guess it’s safe to say, E. Gordon Gee is and has always been a fuckup.
re: #51 Vicious Babushka
I’m just going to assume Rep. Bobert is lying about this unseen boy.
re: #47 Dave In Austin
Have you seen the videos?
I don’t know why they’re so upset about Carolina reaper chips. I regularly use Carolina reaper or Trinidad scorpion pepper powder on stuff.
I’m off to take a nap. I’ll catch y’all later.
Remember the drone attack in Pskov two days ago? Apparently it wasn’t a one-off.
re: #9 Rightwingconspirator
The consensus view of the GOP is the truth will always hurt them. Climate. Economy. Vaccines.
Spotted today on HWY 242. Younger white woman with a 3% sticker too.
Prisoners of Trump
We’re in the dump
Our coup it could not fail
Prisoners of Trump
We kissed his rump
Goddamn it we’re in jail
Oh, they locked us up
Put us in the can
Cause we are stupid
Republicans
Prisoners of Trump
We’ll take our lumps
We’re just prisoners
Yeah just prisoners
We’re just Prisoners of Trump!
re: #74 Ace Rothstein
Not somebody you’d want to date.
re: #74 Ace Rothstein
Spotted today on HWY 242. Younger white woman with a 3% sticker too.
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I really should get a biz card printed up that says
“Thank you for your bumper sticker. It’s always nice to be warned that someone is as stupid as you are. It’s always good to know you’re an Idiot in advance so we don’t have to wait for you to do something that might kill us as well as yourself.”
Someone tell this Pulpit Pimp that the Big G hung up on him.
I don’t know why anyone in Florida is worried about Hurricane Idalia since right-wing pastor Curt Landry rebuked it last night.
“We cancel you! We cancel you tonight in the name of Yeshua. We cancel you, Idalia!” pic.twitter.com/s07oxoMpcs— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) August 30, 2023
re: #79 Joe Bacon ✅
Someone tell this Pulpit Pimp that the Big G hung up on him.
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Conservative religious leaders are rarely punished for being wrong about everything, even when they make it so obvious. There’s nothing to motivate them to try to be reasonable.
re: #74 Ace Rothstein
Oh gee. Another kook.
re: #80 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Conservative religious leaders are rarely punished for being wrong about everything, even when they make it so obvious. There’s nothing to motivate them to try to be reasonable.
Doesn’t the College of Prophets have a malpractice standard?
re: #82 Decatur Deb
Doesn’t the College of Prophets have a malpractice standard?
That standard is set by the deliberate credulity of their audience. So, no, there is no standard.
re: #79 Joe Bacon ✅
If this guy had any real faith, he’d do his little circus act outside just as the eye passes over his position.
But he’s just a lying clown telling stupid lies to equally stupid “believers”.
Another Angry Woman (@stavvers@masto.ai)
… a clinically insane yet correct take
@pyrrhiccomedy: Trump would be such a good drag queen like just such an unbelievably incredible and talented drag queen it’s such a bummer that he’s decided to be a fascist and a threat to democracy because that **** would devour at the House of Yes
such a loss
@wizzard890:
his cadence, his tiny bitchy hand gestures, his ****y little nicknames for people that are insane but also somehow stick to your brain?
“the problem with ron desanctimonious is that he needs a personality transplant, and those are…… noT yet available.”
if he’d laid the garbage fire of his entire soul aside for a wig and heels back in the 80s, we’d live in a better world.
so they’ve released the transcript of Tump’s deposition for the NY case. Among other tidbits… he blames it all on Eric.
GOP congressional candidate Jeff Zink urges the cavalcade of right-wing conspiracy theorists at the ReAwaken America event to send him to Congress, promising that he and Trump “will march through for God and bring this country back to where it’s supposed to be.” pic.twitter.com/zE0SItPyNU
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 30, 2023
MAGAt thinks Star Trek is a documentary.pic.twitter.com/jbIY1PL6QI
— 👑Nullen, Biscuit Overlord. Disinfo Ninja. (@Nullen80) August 31, 2023
re: #92 Joe Bacon ✅
Back to where a man can rape a woman to marry her.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) August 31, 2023
re: #87 Barefoot Grin
Fair. I should have considered the diversity in the field.
Have some respect for the game.
re: #91 sagehen
so they’ve released the transcript of Tump’s deposition for the NY case. Among other tidbits… he blames it all on Eric.
But at least it is a golden bus he was thrown under.