PBS Eons: When Ants Took Over the World

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How did ants take over the world? Well, it looks like they didn’t achieve world domination all by themselves. They may have just been riding the wave of a totally different evolutionary explosion.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:27:48am

Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr Goes There!

RFK Jr. Isn’t So Sure About 9/11: ‘Strange Things Happened’

Kennedy told journalist Peter Bergen that he doesn’t know if he believes the government’s explanation that al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks

Here’s the exchange, which takes place halfway through the pair’s wide-ranging conversation.

Peter Bergen: The official explanation of 9/11 — do you buy?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Which is what?
Bergen: Al-Qaeda attacked us on 9/11.
Kennedy: I don’t know what happened on 9/11. I mean, I understand what the official explanation is. I understand that there is dissent. I have not looked into it. I haven’t examined it. I’m not a good person to talk to about it.
Bergen: Well, I mean, so there’s doubt in your mind that al-Qaeda was responsible?
Kennedy: Well, I know, I don’t know, you know. I know there’s strange things that happened that don’t seem—
Bergen: What are the strange things?
Kennedy: Well, one of the buildings came down that wasn’t hit by a plane. So, you know, was it Building 7 or Building 10?
Bergen: That collapsed because two of the world’s biggest buildings collapsed on top of it.
Kennedy: No, they didn’t collapse on top of it. My offices were down there. My offices were closed—
Bergen: So one of the buildings, next to the Trade Center—
Kennedy: There’s pictures of it collapsing. There’s nothing collapsing on top of it. I mean, listen, I don’t want to argue any theories about this because all I’ve heard is questions. I have no explanation. I have no knowledge of it. But what you’re repeating now, I know not to be true.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:28:46am

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No Malarkey!  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:31:53am

MY CL’ed comment about Alabama trying to run out the clock on redistricting:

SCOTUS scotched that strategy by rejecting Alabama’s appeal. Now the lower court is going to pick a map that will be de facto district used in 2024 if Alabama’s appeals aren’t exhausted in time.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:35:11am

When ants took over the world?

Sounds like Phase IV…

Phase IV Trailer (1974) Saul Bass Director Feature Film - HD Classic Trailers

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:39:04am

There are a lot of things that got buried about 9/11, mostly to hide the incompetence of the Bush administration, which was cuddly-cozy with the feudal royal family of a nation which supplied 15 of the 19 assailants.

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:41:30am

re: #1 Joe Bacon ✅

Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr Goes There!

RFK Jr. Isn’t So Sure About 9/11: ‘Strange Things Happened’

Kennedy told journalist Peter Bergen that he doesn’t know if he believes the government’s explanation that al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks

Here’s the exchange, which takes place halfway through the pair’s wide-ranging conversation.

Peter Bergen: The official explanation of 9/11 — do you buy?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Which is what?
Bergen: Al-Qaeda attacked us on 9/11.
Kennedy: I don’t know what happened on 9/11. I mean, I understand what the official explanation is. I understand that there is dissent. I have not looked into it. I haven’t examined it. I’m not a good person to talk to about it.
Bergen: Well, I mean, so there’s doubt in your mind that al-Qaeda was responsible?
Kennedy: Well, I know, I don’t know, you know. I know there’s strange things that happened that don’t seem—
Bergen: What are the strange things?
Kennedy: Well, one of the buildings came down that wasn’t hit by a plane. So, you know, was it Building 7 or Building 10?
Bergen: That collapsed because two of the world’s biggest buildings collapsed on top of it.
Kennedy: No, they didn’t collapse on top of it. My offices were down there. My offices were closed—
Bergen: So one of the buildings, next to the Trade Center—
Kennedy: There’s pictures of it collapsing. There’s nothing collapsing on top of it. I mean, listen, I don’t want to argue any theories about this because all I’ve heard is questions. I have no explanation. I have no knowledge of it. But what you’re repeating now, I know not to be true.

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7 WTC. These fuckers again are going with conspiracies about 7 WTC that are easily debunked from the day, when you see that the North Tower carved a huge chunk out of the 7 WTC facade, and hours of fires caused that building to collapse after the twin towers collapsed. Everything else about that is just bulkshit.

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:43:36am
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Nerdy Fish  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:44:42am

re: #5 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are a lot of things that got buried about 9/11, mostly to hide the incompetence of the Bush administration, which was cuddly-cozy with the feudal royal family of a nation which supplied 15 of the 19 assailants.

While true, none of it has to do with any conspiracy involving the US government to intentionally bring down the WTC towers or blow up the Pentagon. The government failed spectacularly in detecting the plot due to widespread incompetence and willful ignorance, but it was not intentional.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:45:41am

Obligatory:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:46:39am

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

While true, none of it has to do with any conspiracy involving the US government to intentionally bring down the WTC towers or blow up the Pentagon. The government failed spectacularly in detecting the plot due to widespread incompetence and willful ignorance, but it was not intentional.

But it sure spawned a whole petri dish of viral CTs

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:50:14am

...

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:52:15am

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:52:44am

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:57:53am

re: #6 lawhawk

NIST findings.

NIST Video: Why the Building (WTC7) Fell

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BigPapa  Sep 26, 2023 • 10:59:13am

Kirk is losing his shit this AM: RFK Jr could turn libertarian ticket. He stated the RFK Jr/Clapton event that just happened had 15 TPUSA donors there. Then he noted all the conservative $ behind RFK. He’s terrified all the ConservaCash could influence RFK to run on the Libertarian ticket.

The GQP Civil War is going to be awesome.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:01:16am

re: #15 BigPapa

Kirk is losing his shit this AM: RFK Jr could turn libertarian ticket. He stated the RFK Jr/Clapton event that just happened had 15 TPUSA donors there. Then he noted all the conservative $ behind RFK. He’s terrified all the ConservaCash could influence RFK to run on the Libertarian ticket.

The GQP Civil War is going to be awesome.

I better stock up on popcorn.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:01:41am

re: #12 Vicious Babushka

These characters and themes cannot exist.

That is a stark summary of what they want: A world in which people who are inconvenient to them “cannot exist.” Everyone must be a nice, clean, conforming worshiper of White American Jesus. A world of cookie-cutter people.

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:05:18am
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IngisKahn  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:10:46am

Reminiscing about toys from childhood.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:13:37am

re: #15 BigPapa

Kirk is losing his shit this AM: RFK Jr could turn libertarian ticket. He stated the RFK Jr/Clapton event that just happened had 15 TPUSA donors there. Then he noted all the conservative $ behind RFK. He’s terrified all the ConservaCash could influence RFK to run on the Libertarian ticket.

The GQP Civil War is going to be awesome.

This is why Trump should pick RFK Jr as his VP, unless he can get JFK Jr/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:14:38am

re: #18 lawhawk

JOE BIDEN SLIPPED ON THE STEPS OF AF1!!! HE IS TOO OLD AND UNFIT TO BE PREZZYDENT!!!

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:14:40am

re: #20 No Malarkey!

This is why Trump should pick RFK Jr as his VP, unless he can get JFK Jr/

JFK Sr. is still alive. Come on! Get with the program. ////////////////////////////

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:14:45am

re: #19 IngisKahn

I had the Godzilla one and another one, from Mattel’s “Shogun Warriors” line.

Projectile toys of the 1970s. Good times. Well, provided you didn’t put your eye out or something, that is

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:15:00am

re: #12 Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

Let’s see, there goes Greek history and literature, some Roman, need to check and purge biography…

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IngisKahn  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:16:17am

I was born in 1980, but my half-brother was 8 years older, so I inherited a bunch of 70’s toys.

There’s one toy that I had that I can’t find any info on or even a single picture. It was a liquid motion toy, where you turn it upside down and watch the liquid bubble move past each other. It was about the size of a piece of paper and 1/4” thick, filled with red and blue liquid. Dying to get my hands on one. Anyone remember that one?

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:19:25am

re: #25 IngisKahn

Was it this?

Fluid Fantasy, made by Wham-O
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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:20:50am

re: #23 Dr Lizardo

My little man is playing with the same one I grew up with in the *cough* ancient times.

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BigPapa  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:21:36am

re: #20 No Malarkey!

This is why Trump should pick RFK Jr as his VP, unless he can get JFK Jr/

This is Why It’s Bad For Biden

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2024 Blue Wisconsin  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:22:30am

I remember playing with these - a little before my time but they were very common in the thrift stores my mother used to visit back in the 70’s.

mattel’s strange change machine

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:23:21am

Main thing is for Biden to stay safe and healthy. Imagine the RW media shitstorm if he has to be hospitalized for even the most minor condition.

Unlike Trump who went to Walter Reed in the middle of the night for a “routine checkup”.

To miss the traffic, of course.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:23:48am

re: #27 lawhawk

I remember those. And toys like “Smash-Up Derby” and that Evel Knievel motorcycle toy and a good many others. I remember I also had a Steve Austin figure with rocket/bionics lab and Maskatron from The Six Million Dollar Man.

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:24:55am

re: #31 Dr Lizardo

Stretch Armstrong!

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IngisKahn  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:25:11am

re: #26 Dr Lizardo

Was it this?

[Embedded content]

Holy shit. You did it. Thanks. Now to find one that hasn’t leaked.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:26:52am

re: #32 lawhawk

Stretch Armstrong!

Stretch the Strangler

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:27:20am

Mastodon

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Decatur Deb  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:28:02am

Grandson1 is a 6th grader at a STEM-oriented school. He just got busted for handing in a chatgpt’d homework. My feelings are somewhat mixed.

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:28:23am

Words and deeds have meaning, and if MI voters have memories, they’ll remember when President Biden crossed a picket line to protest with them. He’s the first POTUS to do so.

Trump’s a wannabe dictator whose own party would like to see striking workers fired and scabs replace them. GOP are for gutting worker and employer rights. GOP support billionaires getting tax cuts and cutting safety net programs that help workers stay afloat.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:29:59am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:30:15am

re: #33 IngisKahn

Holy shit. You did it. Thanks. Now to find one that hasn’t leaked.

No problem. And finding one that hasn’t leaked is probably not gonna be cheap, I’d venture.

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IngisKahn  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:31:06am

re: #26 Dr Lizardo

Was it this?

[Embedded content]

What it’s supposed to look like:

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:33:15am

re: #39 Dr Lizardo

No problem. And finding one that hasn’t leaked is probably not gonna be cheap, I’d venture.

Amazon has something called “liquid motion,” which isn’t identical, but also isn’t expensive and might work as a substitute.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:33:18am

re: #40 IngisKahn

What it’s supposed to look like:

[Embedded content]

Nice. Might be able to find one on Ebay. But some of those vintage toys are damned pricey, especially if they’re in the original packaging.

Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.

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gocart mozart  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:35:30am

Great podcast episode by a physicist about the science of science fiction, and she’s a lot cuter than Lawrence Kraus.

humanoid robots belong in the trash

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Captain Magic  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:38:12am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:51:16am

re: #43 gocart mozart

Great podcast episode by a physicist about the science of science fiction, and she’s a lot cuter than Lawrence Kraus.

[Embedded content]

Video

I thought it would probably be Angela based on your description.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:52:13am

re: #187 darthstar

“Wages like nobody has ever seen ” is pure and unadulterated bullshit. Promising people a ‘liveable wage ’ puts a relatable spin on it as everyone has their own concept of what a liveable wage is for them.

Aside from which he has zero control over widespread wages.

Plus doesn’t he want to gut the fed govt?

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Dave In Austin  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:54:41am

re: #43 gocart mozart

Great podcast episode by a physicist about the science of science fiction, and she’s a lot cuter than Lawrence Kraus.

[Embedded content]

Please tell us you didn’t eat the whole thing at once.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 26, 2023 • 11:59:19am

re: #44 Captain Magic

[Embedded content]

Drudge report started turning against Trump in 2019 and basically supported Biden in 2020. If someone other than Trump gets the GOP nomination, he will probably return to the fold.

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:00:06pm

NYC Mayor Adams calls for dorm style apartments to relieve housing crunch.

Another way to frame that is that he’s offering up modern tenements. Because that’s exactly what tenements were. They had common bathrooms and limited amenities for things that we all take for granted - like kitchens and bathrooms in your own apartment that you don’t share with anyone else.

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Belafon  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:00:16pm

re: #18 lawhawk

Here’s at least one place that quotes him correctly: newser.com

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:01:06pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:02:31pm

re: #46 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Aside from which he has zero control over widespread wages.

Plus doesn’t he want to gut the fed govt?

Trump was the one years ago who said American workers were too highly paid. In a 2015 GOP Presidential debate, his words were: “Taxes too high, wages too high, we’re not going to be able to compete against the world.”

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lawhawk  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:07:34pm

A few bad apples?

Just 10 police officers in NYPD accounted for $68 million in judgments/settlements costing NYC taxpayers over the past decade.

In the decade between 2013 and 2023, 10 NYPD members accounted for more than $68 million in misconduct payouts, according to a new report by the Legal Aid Society. All of them are still on the public payroll, according to the analysis and police records.

Earlier this summer, the Legal Aid Society analyzed police misconduct payouts to show that the NYPD had already paid $50.5 million in the first half of 2023 alone.

Now the public defender group has analyzed 10 years worth of data to highlight two types of officers: The ones with the most legal settlements against them and the ones whose settlements have cost the city the most money.

“Collectively, these active members of the NYPD have garnered hundreds of lawsuits, costing taxpayers millions of dollars in cases raising shocking allegations of misconduct, yet they are still allowed to wear a badge and carry a gun. It is also deeply concerning that many have attained ranks of sergeant or above,” Jennvine Wong, staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, said in a statement.

You have a PBA that covers for the worst offenders and cows prosecutors and politicians alike into doing what the PBA wants, which is unfettered ability to commit violence against the public with no accountability or oversight. Even after these lawsuits and settlements, these officers are still around to commit more wrongdoing.

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darthstar  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:08:49pm

re: #26 Dr Lizardo

Was it this?

[Embedded content]

Awesome toy. Little plastic balls you try to get into the cup.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:09:58pm

re: #49 lawhawk

NYC Mayor Adams calls for dorm style apartments to relieve housing crunch.

Another way to frame that is that he’s offering up modern tenements. Because that’s exactly what tenements were. They had common bathrooms and limited amenities for things that we all take for granted - like kitchens and bathrooms in your own apartment that you don’t share with anyone else.

I will beat this drum until something happens

It’s absurd to let people into the country pending disposition of their status and not allow them some means to support themselves

Its absurd to see the volume of people trying to get in, the volume actually let in, and not fund and equip a proper and efficient justice system

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:11:23pm

re: #38 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

The repug fatcats need to curb their dogs. Repugs value property, especially income producing property, at the same level as their own lives and the lives of their families and far above any other human life.
If the unthinkable happens and Willis or her family are harmed, don’t be surprised if 10 billion dollars worth of MAGAt asets go up in flames by the next morning. I am not talking about some mob of hangers-on torching a second hand furniture store either.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:11:52pm

re: #52 Hecuba’s daughter

Trump was the one years ago who said American workers were too highly paid. In a 2015 GOP Presidential debate, his words were: “Taxes too high, wages too high, we’re not going to be able to compete against the world.”

Ah hell he forgot what he said yesterday.

Look how he’s flapping all over the place on abortion after taking g full credit for Dobbs when he thought it was to his advantage

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Dave In Austin  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:12:02pm

meet the parents (musician version)

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Charles Johnson  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:21:32pm

re: #53 lawhawk

A few bad apples?

Just 10 police officers in NYPD accounted for $68 million in judgments/settlements costing NYC taxpayers over the past decade.

You have a PBA that covers for the worst offenders and cows prosecutors and politicians alike into doing what the PBA wants, which is unfettered ability to commit violence against the public with no accountability or oversight. Even after these lawsuits and settlements, these officers are still around to commit more wrongdoing.

That’s absolutely nuts. And they’re still on duty.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:25:42pm

re: #15 BigPapa

Kirk is losing his shit this AM: RFK Jr could turn libertarian ticket. He stated the RFK Jr/Clapton event that just happened had 15 TPUSA donors there. Then he noted all the conservative $ behind RFK. He’s terrified all the ConservaCash could influence RFK to run on the Libertarian ticket.

The GQP Civil War is going to be awesome.

Let Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr run on the Libertarian ticket.

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gocart mozart  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:27:10pm
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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:27:21pm

this is turning into a west wing episode

“Speaker Kevin McCarthy has reached a new point in spending negotiations, with only five days until a shutdown deadline: pushing for a meeting with President Joe Biden,” Politico reports.

“While McCarthy and his allies are increasingly projecting confidence they’ll be able to notch at least one minor spending win this week, it won’t do anything to avert a shutdown. To prevent that from happening, the speaker would almost certainly need to work with Democrats, given conservative opposition. Asked about that possibility Tuesday afternoon, McCarthy implied it’d be easier to cut a deal directly with Biden.”

iirc after all the posturing, in the end the speaker sat in the oval and made a totally refusable offer. and bartlett said no. then he essentially said youll stick to what we agreed to before all this started. because that’s what we agreed to.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:28:35pm

re: #36 Decatur Deb

Grandson1 is a 6th grader at a STEM-oriented school. He just got busted for handing in a chatgpt’d homework. My feelings are somewhat mixed.

Might still be a useful object lesson to get busted for this now. And learn to not try that when it’s a much more important assignment.

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:29:13pm
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gocart mozart  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:34:24pm

MAGA is a mental illness

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:38:00pm
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sizzzzlerz  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:40:33pm

re: #24 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Let’s see, there goes Greek history and literature, some Roman, need to check and purge biography…

Michelangelo who?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:40:46pm

re: #65 gocart mozart

MAGA is a mental illness

[Embedded content]

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steve_davis  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:48:23pm

re: #62 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

this is turning into a west wing episode

iirc after all the posturing, in the end the speaker sat in the oval and made a totally refusable offer. and bartlett said no. then he essentially said youll stick to what we agreed to before all this started. because that’s what we agreed to.

to which the proper response will be: “we already cut a deal, Kevin. Now honor it.”

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2023 • 12:52:40pm

re: #65 gocart mozart

MAGA is a mental illness

[Embedded content]

who was president 2/29/2020?
who signed the deal?

President Trump said he expected U.S. troops to start leaving Afghanistan on Saturday. “I’ll be meeting personally with Taliban leaders in the not too distant future, and we’ll be very much hoping that they will be doing what they say they’re going to be doing,”

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silverdolphin  Sep 26, 2023 • 1:20:25pm

re: #12 Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

No more Harry Potter. The books that changed the market for young adults are baned because Dumbledore is gay.


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