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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:38:22am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:38:51am

The Deep State: they owe their alliegance to some outdated document and not to the Greatest President who Ever Served.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:39:33am

re: #1 (((Archangel1)))

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:42:00am

re: #436 HRH Stanley Sea

That is a great catch shot.

Yeah…..

Ham…….

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:42:45am
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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:46:15am

March of the Gladiators….

That’s all I got.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:47:23am

re: #6 Dave In Austin

There’s a padded cell in Arkham Asylum waiting for her.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:48:24am

re: #8 No Malarkey!

GOP unlikely to filibuster replacement of Senator Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.

They have to block something or they don’t feel like an intestinal polyp.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:48:35am

re: #8 No Malarkey!

GOP unlikely to filibuster replacement of Senator Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.

Oh if Newsom appointed Maxine Waters as an interim replacement for Dianne that would be glorious to see Mitch’s head explode…

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:48:54am

re: #6 Dave In Austin

Crackers and Cheese are screwed, but prosecutors are giving them a lifeline with plea deal negotiations. So, yeah, they’re still screwed.

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dat_said  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:49:39am

AP: Another suit to disqualify Trump under the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause is filed in Michigan

I’m still ambivalent about disqualification but this is the first swing state.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:49:42am

re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅

There’s a lot of chatter about the replacement and that calling it interim screwed Barbara Lee who should have gotten the nod before Porter and Schiff jumped in.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:50:04am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:51:14am

re: #13 lawhawk

There’s a lot of chatter about the replacement and that calling it interim screwed Barbara Lee who should have gotten the nod before Porter and Schiff jumped in.

I’ll make it easier for Gavin.

I’m taking myself out of consideration for that. 😏

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:52:32am

The House GOP couldn’t pass the craptastic bill they proffered, that would slash and burn the safety net and make deep cuts to everything from housing to NASA.

It couldn’t get support of enough GOPers - because some GOPers want to burn it all down, and think the cuts aren’t deep enough, while others know that their districts rely on the funds to exist (like Alabama and NASA facilities there).

McCarthy again shows he can’t count, and makes no secret of it.

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:53:18am

re: #3 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:53:41am

re: #12 dat_said

AP: Another suit to disqualify Trump under the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause is filed in Michigan

I’m still ambivalent about disqualification but this is the first swing state.

I’m not.

Either the Insurrection Clause means something, or it’s empty words like the Emoluments Clauses.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:53:47am

re: #12 dat_said

AP: Another suit to disqualify Trump under the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause is filed in Michigan

I’m still ambivalent about disqualification but this is the first swing state.

I am not ambivalent, at all. We all know Trump deliberately incited a mob to attack the Capitol and prevent certification of Joe Biden’s victory. That absolutely disqualifies him from holding political office.

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nines09  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:54:51am

Want to go to Mars with this sack of hammers?

bsky.app

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:57:29am

We’re going into another shutdown thanks to the fascist/obstructionist GOP intent on burning it all down.

That’s the topline here - that’s the headline.

But media outlets will say the House failed. Or Congress failed.

Congress didn’t fail.

House GOP failed. The Senate had a plan. The President had a plan.

McCarthy had an agreement with Biden. He reneged on the deal, and this is entirely on him and the GOP for all the economic damage they’ll do with yet another shutdown caused by GOP intent to end government to deliver tax cuts to billionaires.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:57:30am

re: #8 No Malarkey!

GOP unlikely to filibuster replacement of Senator Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.

Dont know if the Article says
To be clear
This would not be a legislative filibuster/obstruction
Its a rules based

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:58:46am
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coin operated  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:01:21am

re: #16 lawhawk

The House GOP couldn’t pass the craptastic bill they proffered, that would slash and burn the safety net and make deep cuts to everything from housing to NASA.

It couldn’t get support of enough GOPers - because some GOPers want to burn it all down, and think the cuts aren’t deep enough, while others know that their districts rely on the funds to exist (like Alabama and NASA facilities there).

McCarthy again shows he can’t count, and makes no secret of it.

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I’ve never seen anyone so willing to be a human piñata before…then along came Kevin.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:03:07am

re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m not.

Either the Insurrection Clause means something, or it’s empty words like the Emoluments Clauses.

^^^^^^^^This!

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:05:59am

re: #19 No Malarkey!

I am not ambivalent, at all. We all know Trump deliberately incited a mob to attack the Capitol and prevent certification of Joe Biden’s victory. That absolutely disqualifies him from holding political office.

Remember also, the insurrection was not just the events of 1/6
It includes all the planning leading up
And the actions lawsuits and rhetoric (lies) after

It was a concerted thought out organized event of which tfg was a central player from conception to, well it’s ongoing, isn’t it?

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:06:02am
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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:06:42am

re: #1 (((Archangel1)))

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:06:45am

re: #27 lawhawk

We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious.

DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELVES?!?!? Holy shit!

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:06:52am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:08:07am

re: #6 Dave In Austin

March of the Gladiators….

That’s all I got.

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Her hair looks nice in that photo. That’s the only good thing I have to say about Ms. Powell.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:08:56am
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Mattand  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:09:06am

I think the thing with military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first is that I worry we’re eventually going to run out of military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first.

There’s an alternate universe out that where Trump managed to get Mike Flynn appointed military Chief-of-Staff.

I sometimes think that the GOP getting their ducks in a row and electing an “All the evil, none of the obvious crazy” POTUS is a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’. And from there, it’s a short step to get a bunch of Mike Flynn-loons behind them to go full SS.

And yeah, he’s mea culpa-ing all over the fucking place now, but Milley initially had no problem marching to that frigging church with Trump and his Bible, while soldiers beat the shit out of protesters. He may have instantly regretted it, but he still did it.

So, yeah, good on Milley for doing the right thing eventually, I guess, but how many more Milleys are left?

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:09:45am

re: #27 lawhawk

What a piece of shit.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:10:46am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:12:05am

Trailer dropped for the upcoming remake of The Toxic Avenger. It’s a red band trailer (for gore) so it’s behind the spoiler tag.

Stars Peter Dinklage as the titular character, with Jacob Trembley, Kevin Bacon, Taylour Paige and Elijah Wood. Written and directed by Macon Blair, based on the 1984 original film from Lloyd Kaufman.

Seems to be getting positive reviews from film critics.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:12:13am

re: #27 lawhawk

Note the grin on that Nazi’s face. Sickening.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:13:25am

good fucking grief

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:14:43am

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

Note the grin on that Nazi’s face. Sickening.

Now we know how the Nazis felt 90 years ago as they assumed power in Germany.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:14:45am

re: #38 Backwoods Sleuth

good fucking grief

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:15:02am

hahahahahahahahaaaaa

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BigPapa  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:16:13am

re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh if Newsom appointed Maxine Waters as an interim replacement for Dianne that would be glorious to see Mitch’s head explode…

That thought did cross my mind. It made me smile with an evil grin.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:16:47am

re: #27 lawhawk

Wow. There are no more quiet parts with these monsters.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:17:04am

re: #33 Mattand

I think the thing with military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first is that I worry we’re eventually going to run out of military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first.

There’s an alternate universe out that where Trump managed to get Mike Flynn appointed military Chief-of-Staff.

I sometimes think that the GOP getting their ducks in a row and electing an “All the evil, none of the obvious crazy” POTUS is a matter if ‘when’ and not ‘if’. And from there, it’s a short step to get a bunch of Mike Flynn-loons behind them to go full SS.

And yeah, he’s mea culpa-ing all over the fucking place now, but Milley initially had no problem marching to that frigging church with Trump and his Bible, while soldiers beat the shit out of protesters. He may have instantly regretted it, but he still did it.

So, yeah, good on Milley for doing the right thing eventually, I guess, but how many more Milleys are left?

Lots actually.

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BigPapa  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:17:46am

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Wow. There are no more quiet parts with these monsters.

They’re not even ‘Just kidding, LOL! Trolling libs, LOL at you woke snowflakes’ anymore.

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Mattand  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:18:33am

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Wow. There are no more quiet parts with these monsters.

But I’m ridiculous one when I call this shit out to friends and family.

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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:19:19am

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELVES?!?!? Holy shit!

It sounded better in the original German.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:19:20am

re: #27 lawhawk

So they still want to deport me to a country which no longer exists.

Still banging on former Iowa Rep. Steve King’s fascism.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:20:17am

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Oh, he’s a good one…..

This was 20 mins ago

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:20:35am

re: #29 Nerdy Fish

DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELVES?!?!? Holy shit!

(16:05)

The Alt-Right Playbook: The Death of a Euphemism

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:21:02am

Meanwhile, Abbott is shredding the Constitution and interstate commerce, to deny women access to health care (reproductive care is health care motherfuckers).

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:21:47am

re: #41 Backwoods Sleuth

hahahahahahahahaaaaa

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Princesse de Dumballe & her dimwitted spouse do not understand “Copyright Infringement”

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:21:58am

These people are lunatics. All of them.

She’s angling to be his VP, and everyone knows it.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:23:26am

re: #53 lawhawk

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These people are lunatics. All of them.

She’s angling to be his VP, and everyone knows it.

RFK Jr. will be the VP candidate.

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William Lewis  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:23:52am

Harvest time: pears and grapes.

Picture a day challenge. Day 29 of 30:

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Mattand  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:23:57am

re: #44 Belafon

Lots actually.

Hope so. This blog excepted and sample size of one, but the few military folks I know aren’t exactly fans of certain parts of the Constitution (right to assemble/protest) and people being atheist. I had one guy unambiguously to me I was what’s wrong with America for not buying into religion anymore.

So when a conservative Republican guy with military training tells me if you don’t believe in God, you”re not an true American, I tend put a pin on that.

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Mike Lamb  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:24:58am

re: #41 Backwoods Sleuth

hahahahahahahahaaaaa

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Viscously? They using 10w40?

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Mattand  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:25:54am

re: #53 lawhawk

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These people are lunatics. All of them.

She’s angling to be his VP, and everyone knows it.

I’m calling Kari Lake as VP nom now. She’s not running against him, kisses his ass constantly, and is just as bugshit nuts as he is.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:27:23am

*chef’s kiss*

Clark loses bid to remove case to federal court.

He gets to face the music in Georgia state courts.

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Mike Lamb  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:27:47am

re: #58 Mattand

I’m calling Kari Lake as VP nom now. She’s not running against him, kisses his ass constantly, and is just as bugshit nuts as he is.

Would guarantee AZ for Biden.

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DodgerFan1988  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:28:04am


Banned in Red States history classes.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:28:09am

re: #59 lawhawk

*chef’s kiss*

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Clark loses bid to remove case to federal court.

He gets to face the music in Georgia state courts.

Good. Rot in hell, you treasonweasel bastard.

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Mattand  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:28:36am

re: #60 Mike Lamb

Would guarantee AZ for Biden.

LOL, I never said it was smart choice for Trump…

Fingers crossed!

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:29:12am

11 people are responsible for majority of school book challenges (and therefore book bans) across the US.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:30:35am

re: #56 Mattand

Hope so. This blog excepted and sample size of one, but the few military folks I know aren’t exactly fans of certain parts of the Constitution (right to assemble/protest) and people being atheist. I had one guy unambiguously to me I was what’s wrong with America for not buying into religion anymore.

So when a conservative Republican guy with military training tells me if you don’t believe in God, you”re not an true American, I tend put a pin on that.

I’ve been told the same thing, by plenty of civilians.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:30:44am

re: #58 Mattand

I’m calling Kari Lake as VP nom now. She’s not running against him, kisses his ass constantly, and is just as bugshit nuts as he is.

I don’t disagree.

I think she’s his preferred extremist.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:33:05am

re: #64 lawhawk

11 people are responsible for majority of school book challenges (and therefore book bans) across the US.

Because they face no consequences for sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong. People like that should be shunned at the minimum.

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TarHellion  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:33:49am

After making solid early gains following good news on the inflation front, markets sharply reverse with news that the Shitdown, er Shutdown, is now all but inevitable.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:34:29am
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KGxvi  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:37:24am

re: #13 lawhawk

There’s a lot of chatter about the replacement and that calling it interim screwed Barbara Lee who should have gotten the nod before Porter and Schiff jumped in.

Lee is upset that Newsom said he’d appoint a caretaker instead of someone who was already in the primary. That’s a fair position for Newsom to take, appointing someone who is already running is a tacit endorsement. It also gives them the advantages of incumbency because now they get to run as “Senator”.

And I get why Lee is upset she’s not going to get the appointment, she’s been running a distant third behind Porter and Schiff in both polls and donations - an appointment is probably her best chance of making the general election.

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Unabogie  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:39:58am

re: #49 Dave In Austin

Oh, he’s a good one…..

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This was 20 mins ago

So pardon all the violent white people but mass-incarcerate Black people and put Latino children in cages?

These people are dangerous to the world.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:42:04am

re: #51 lawhawk

Meanwhile, Abbott is shredding the Constitution and interstate commerce, to deny women access to health care (reproductive care is health care motherfuckers).

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Meanwhile, I’ve been arguing with a guy who thinks the Constitution will stop Trump all on its own, and fear that electing him will be the end of democracy is just “fear porn.”

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:43:28am

re: #51 lawhawk

So if you’re pregnant in Texas, and want to drive to New Mexico with your family for a Christmas ski vacation, Hot Wheels says “Fuck you.”

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:44:26am

re: #72 No Malarkey!

Meanwhile, I’ve been arguing with a guy who thinks the Constitution will stop Trump all on its own, and fear that electing him will be the end of democracy is just “fear porn.”

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Trump and the modern GOP are existential threats to our Constitution. That is a plain fact. I would argue that the seeds of the current crisis were sown in the Confederacy, in that we have given too much deference to the vile elements of our society in the name of peace and reconciliation. It’s time for us to put our foot down and demand that the majority finally get to rule - not with an iron fist, but with compassion and respect.

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:46:50am

There is no way in hell (not that it matters) that blocking people from traveling to other states is legal.

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Unabogie  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:46:51am

re: #72 No Malarkey!

Meanwhile, I’ve been arguing with a guy who thinks the Constitution will stop Trump all on its own, and fear that electing him will be the end of democracy is just “fear porn.”

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I just can’t with people who insist that being sanguine is the position of the “savvy”

It’s what Jay Rosen laments in our media. It’s not savvy to live blissfully unaware of real danger to people who aren’t white, male, Christian, and cis.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:48:12am

re: #75 Ace Rothstein

There is no way in hell (not that it matters) that blocking people from traveling to other states is legal.

No, it’s not, but these states are going to try to sell it as, “these people are traveling to other states to do things that are crimes in our states!” The City of Las Vegas would like a word with you; they have made a literal name for themselves out of allowing people to travel there to do things that are illegal at home.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:49:43am

re: #75 Ace Rothstein

There is no way in hell (not that it matters) that blocking people from traveling to other states is legal.

It is, for now. The Christofascists are patient; they worked for 50 years to reverse Roe v. Wade, and they will keep working until they have turned America into Gilead, no matter how long it takes.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:50:13am

I would be willing to contribute to a fund for brave women who will drive through this county, pretend to be looking for an abortion, and sue their assessment off.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:52:58am

re: #78 No Malarkey!

Maybe these folks should have a lesson from Margaret Atwood of what The Handmaid’s Tale is really about.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:54:18am

re: #78 No Malarkey!

It is, for now. The Christofascists are patient; they worked for 50 years to reverse Roe v. Wade, and they will keep working until they have turned America into Gilead, no matter how long it takes.

It would take infinite time. They’re the most stupid people among us, and want to make life here worse, so outside of the reddest, most-stupid states, they have no chance.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:55:06am

I’ll put the over/under on the shutdown at five days. McCarthy will be under a lot of pressure to make a deal to reopen the government from his members, because they know they will be taking the blame from angry voters, and they have no leverage over the Democrats, who also know the Republicans are taking all the blame. McCarthy has to shut down the government, at least for a short time, to delay the inevitable motion to vacate the chair that is coming.

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:58:00am

McCarthy, what a donkey. Let me give these maniacs everything they want, including only needing one person to invoke a motion to vacate, therefore giving me no leverage or power whatsoever, just so I can fulfill my wet dream of being Speaker that no one will ever remember me being. Well done, schmuck.

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:58:01am

re: #82 No Malarkey!

That’s an expensive chair.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:58:46am

It’s not an Ozempic side-effect. She had surgery to limit her ability to eat, then lost too much weight on the drug.

Sharon Osbourne, 70, reveals devastating side effect of Ozempic weight loss (Metro)

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 11:59:30am

re: #82 No Malarkey!

The tweet makes it look like Republicans tried to keep the government open.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:00:31pm

re: #82 No Malarkey!

I’ll put the over/under on the shutdown at five days. McCarthy will be under a lot of pressure to make a deal to reopen the government from his members, because they know they will be taking the blame from angry voters, and they have no leverage over the Democrats, who also know the Republicans are taking all the blame. McCarthy has to shut down the government, at least few a short time, to delay the inevitable motion to vacate the chair that is coming.

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Delay, not prevent. He’s going to get a motion to vacate, no matter what happens. I don’t know if he fully understands that yet.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:01:33pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

Wow. There are no more quiet parts with these monsters.

Fucker is already doubling down too:

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:01:51pm

re: #87 Nerdy Fish

Delay, not prevent. He’s going to get a motion to vacate, no matter what happens. I don’t know if he fully understands that yet.

If he doesn’t understand that his days are numbered, he’s even dumber than he looks. He grabbed a stupid destructive tiger by the tail.

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:02:39pm

re: #89 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

If he doesn’t understand that his days are numbered, he’s even dumber than he looks. He grabbed a stupid destructive tiger by the tail.

You love to see it.

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:03:52pm

re: #28 Vicious Babushka

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:06:59pm

re: #87 Nerdy Fish

Yep, he’s a political dead man walking. He just doesn’t see it yet.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:07:12pm

SO that House measure mandated a 30% cut to Social Security’s operating budget forcing the closure of 1/3 of the offices and terminating at least 12,000 employees.

Yeah that will really play well with AARP.

Also those assholes don’t realize that under Civil Service rules severance pay has to be issued to employees under Reduction In Force rules.

Example I’ve worked 46 years with the agency. Under a RIF if my job is eliminated the severance pay is 1 week of pay for the first 10 years and 2 weeks of pay for all years over that.

They got to cough up 82 weeks of pay if I get RIFed…

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:10:52pm
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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:15:02pm

re: #94 Backwoods Sleuth

When you watch the Martian, this is what the astronauts actually saw. They just embellished the story a bit. /

(Every story gets one beyond belief idea.)

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:16:29pm
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William Lewis  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:19:10pm

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:23:45pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:23:53pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:24:19pm

re: #96 Backwoods Sleuth

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When people pretend to represent a god, and children believe them, those children are made to be very vulnerable. We should be keeping a close eye on all organized religion.

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:25:09pm

re: #96 Backwoods Sleuth

Keeping their eyes on the prize.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:25:20pm

re: #98 Vicious Babushka

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I expected that ass to do that all along. He’s this year’s Jill Stein.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:28:04pm

re: #89 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

If he doesn’t understand that his days are numbered, he’s even dumber than he looks. He grabbed a stupid destructive tiger by the tail.

Unfortunately any other GOP representative is likely to be far worse than McCarthy as Speaker: a devout Trumpster who is truly owned by Putin.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:29:06pm

re: #102 Joe Bacon ✅

I expected that ass to do that all along. He’s this year’s Jill Stein.

I swear, if this asshole manages to get Trump elected again…

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:29:59pm

re: #103 Hecuba’s daughter

Unfortunately any other GOP representative is likely to be far worse than McCarthy as Speaker: a devout Trumpster who is truly owned by Putin.

I don’t know that another Republican can win a vote for the position. The party is extremely dysfunctional, and some of the worst of them are in the House.

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:30:33pm

re: #98 Vicious Babushka

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:31:33pm

re: #102 Joe Bacon ✅

I expected that ass to do that all along. He’s this year’s Jill Stein.

Cornell West too.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:32:27pm

re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg

I swear, if this asshole manages to get Trump elected again…

Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:34:37pm

re: #105 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I don’t know that another Republican can win a vote for the position. The party is extremely dysfunctional, and some of the worst of them are in the House.

It’s going to be McCarthy again, but with significant concessions to the Democrats this time in exchange for saving his bacon. It’s the only way they avoid continually taking votes for Speaker until 2025.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:35:02pm
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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:36:23pm

re: #108 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.

RFK Jr.’s primary draw is his significant anti-vaccination record. That’s only going to appeal to a very specific audience, the right-wing anti-vaxx nutjobs. Joe Biden’s campaign manager isn’t going to lose sleep over RFK Jr. running as an independent.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:36:43pm

re: #99 Backwoods Sleuth

Since much of NYC’s hydrological features have been paved over or built over, the water has no where to go except to streets and basements. That tool is great for showing it.

Meanwhile, rivers are seeing substantial to major flooding in the Bronx and some flooding in NJ.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:38:59pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:40:05pm

re: #108 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.

Joe never had the far left anyway. They were going to vote for the first clown that showed up.

I have to admit I no longer trust the voters of the US not to fall for someone like RFK Jr. though. This country is off the rails.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:46:50pm

re: #110 Backwoods Sleuth

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:50:18pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:50:29pm

re: #108 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.

Sadly there are DSA members in Los Angeles who will work for Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr. The same folks who embraced Jill Stein in 2016 and the No-Name Green fool who ran in 2020. And there are others behind Cornholio West.

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DodgerFan1988  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:52:33pm
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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:52:45pm

re: #108 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.

The really far left that didn’t vote for him in 2020 and wouldn’t have voted for him if it was just him and Trump that ran.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:53:15pm

re: #117 Joe Bacon ✅

Sadly there are DSA members in Los Angeles who will work for Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr. The same folks who embraced Jill Stein in 2016 and the No-Name Green fool who ran in 2020. And there are others behind Cornholio West.

To Charles’s point, though, they never would’ve voted for Biden anyway. If it wasn’t Stein, or West, or RFK Jr., or Bernie, they’d just sit at home and cry about their purity ponies.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:53:23pm

2 1/2 years of probation. Can’t talk to the media or other witnesses. Can testify at other trials.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:54:13pm

re: #121 darthstar

2 1/2 years of probation. Can’t talk to the media or other witnesses. Can testify at other trials.

Go to trial, go to jail

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:55:17pm

re: #122 Dangerman

Go to trial, go to jail

They dropped the most serious charge - racketeering - in order to secure his cooperation on the other charges. I always figured that was the strategy: Dangle the big time (Georgia RICO) over the small fish to get them to bite at the lesser charges, use their testimony to nail the big fish.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:55:29pm

19 Georgia defendants in the hall
19 Georgia defendants…
Plea one deal
Hear him squeal
18 Georgia defendants in the hall.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:58:27pm

It’s people like Jeffrey Clark doj environ aag not obvious outspoken Mike Flynn types that end up being the straw that broke the camel’s (democracy’s) back

A malleable toadie in an opportune place and time

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:59:06pm

My oven may have been designed by a stoner. The incineration cleaning cycle takes four hours and twenty minutes.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:02:14pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:03:33pm
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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:04:20pm

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:06:16pm

re: #127 Backwoods Sleuth

Sidney Powell will be lucky if she doesn’t get sentenced and incarcerated in a Georgia state prison before Xmas.

Her trial won’t take long. And she should start looking for a property management company to rent her house out until she gets back from prison.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:07:47pm

Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”

Plans A through N have failed.
Yeah O (15th) is gonna be the winner to get past the FC, Senate and Biden

Did you save it for last for the nostalgia of #15?

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:09:44pm

re: #131 Dangerman

Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”

Plans A through N have failed.
Yeah O (15th) is gonna be the winner to get past the FC, Senate and Biden

Did you save it for last for the nostalgia of #15?

In the meantime, the House D’s and the Biden 18 are working on a discharge petition for the Senate CR, bypassing poor Qevin altogether.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:09:48pm

Oops

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:10:17pm

re: #123 Nerdy Fish

They dropped the most serious charge - racketeering - in order to secure his cooperation on the other charges. I always figured that was the strategy: Dangle the big time (Georgia RICO) over the small fish to get them to bite at the lesser charges, use their testimony to nail the big fish.

Speaking of the next fish in the food chain…who wore it better?

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:11:48pm

re: #132 Nerdy Fish

In the meantime, the House D’s and the Biden 18 are working on a discharge petition for the Senate CR, bypassing poor Qevin altogether.

I’m wondering how they get around that it has to be referred to a committee 30 days prior

Unless I’m missing something

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:12:15pm

re: #110 Backwoods Sleuth

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Rats be turning, says you.
I think I feel a change in the wind, says I.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:13:23pm

Sometimes my autocorrect does something and I just want to shout SEDAGIVE?!!???

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:14:11pm

Had to put that in a toot to get proper side by side alignment.

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:14:46pm

That smell is the smell of a BURN

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KGxvi  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:14:58pm

re: #102 Joe Bacon ✅

I expected that ass to do that all along. He’s this year’s Jill Stein.

Because of the electoral college outcome, we pay a lot of attention to Stein’s impact on the 2016 race, but the numbers show that Johnson had a fairly solid impact the other way…

In Nevada, more people voted for Johnson than Clinton’s margin of victory (Clinton won by 2.4%, Johnson got 3.29%).
In Pennsylvania, while more people voted for Stein than Trump’s margin of victory, nearly three times as many people voted for Johnson than for Stein.
New Hampshire is the same story, Clinton won by 0.37%, 4.15% voted for Johnson
Wisconsin, Trump won by 0.77%, 1.04% went for Stein, 3.58% went for Johnson
Michigan looks almost the same as Wisconsin - 0.23% margin of victory, 1.07% for Stein, 3.59% for Johnson.
Clinton won New Mexico by 8%, but over 9% voted for Johnson
In Minnesota, more people voted for Johnson than Clinton’s margin of victory.

But as others have said, RFK Jr is not going to draw much from Biden’s vote totals. It’s unlikely any third party votes are going to make an impact - it’ll be pretty close to the 2% it was in 2020 and what it has been most years (2016 was an outlier).

The general election is ultimately going to come down to turnout. Trump’s ceiling is 46-47% of the vote - that’s what he got in 2016 and 2020. He’s not done anything to convince anyone who didn’t vote for him last time to vote for him this time, so his best case scenario is to match what he did last time (which was about 74m votes nationally). Of course, he doesn’t have the advantages of incumbency, he’s spending more money on legal fees than campaigning, and most of his free press this time around is going to be him on trial. My guess is that he won’t reach 74m votes nationally this time.

Biden, on the other hand, has the advantage of incumbency, a good economy, and not being crazy. If he can turn out the 81m he did last time, he’ll win. If he can grow that number, it’ll be a blow out.

I like Biden’s odds of growing his voter pool more than Trump growing his.

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:15:28pm

re: #138 darthstar

The camo doesn’t work. We can still see who she is.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:16:50pm

re: #131 Dangerman

Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”

Plans A through N have failed.
Yeah O (15th) is gonna be the winner to get past the FC, Senate and Biden

Did you save it for last for the nostalgia of #15?

The Wanker Of The House will keep Plan 9 From Outer Space as a last resort.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:17:55pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:18:08pm

re: #139 Dangerman

That smell is the smell of a BURN

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“The Senate has done zero.”

Yes, because they can’t FUCKING DO ANYTHING until you idiots do!

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:19:23pm

re: #131 Dangerman

Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”

Coincidentally, 111 years, 5 months, and 14 days ago, Captain Edward Smith, late of the Titanic, uttered these very same words.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:19:46pm

re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg

The Senate has done zero.”

Yes, because they can’t FUCKING DO ANYTHING until you idiots do!

Wah the Senate hasn’t done my job for me.
Double wah, the Senate won’t pull my ass out of the fire

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:19:51pm

re: #143 Vicious Babushka

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Things I never worried about living in Canada:

1. The government shutting down every 5 years or so.

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:25:15pm

re: #131 Dangerman

Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”

What words did Butch Cassidy say to Sundance down in Bolivia when they were surrounded by the Federales?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:25:25pm

re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg

Things I never worried about living in Canada:

1. The government shutting down every 5 years or so.

Yes because if your government can’t pass a budget it falls and you have a snap election for a new House of Commons.

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:26:03pm
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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:31:23pm

This is from the same guy who posted the supermarket clock.

Mastodon

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gocart mozart  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:42:35pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:42:44pm

re: #151 wrenchwench

This is from the same guy who posted the supermarket clock.

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He’s reposting an image that has been circulating since 2021 or before. 2021 was the earliest reference I could quickly find.

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:45:57pm

I got an extended warranty notice about my car. By snail mail. I don’t have a car. I like seeing the Post Office getting a little income. They have a handy recycling bin right there.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:49:22pm

re: #154 wrenchwench

I got an extended warranty notice about my car. By snail mail. I don’t have a car. I like seeing the Post Office getting a little income. They have a handy recycling bin right there.

What if something goes wrong with the car you do not have. Can you handle that very unexpected expense?

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:49:37pm

re: #152 gocart mozart

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Still gotta deal with ballot access, no?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:50:43pm

re: #70 KGxvi

Lee is upset that Newsom said he’d appoint a caretaker instead of someone who was already in the primary. That’s a fair position for Newsom to take, appointing someone who is already running is a tacit endorsement. It also gives them the advantages of incumbency because now they get to run as “Senator”.

And I get why Lee is upset she’s not going to get the appointment, she’s been running a distant third behind Porter and Schiff in both polls and donations - an appointment is probably her best chance of making the general election.

She’s my Congresscritter. I like her. But seniority is everything in the Senate, and she is 77. How many terms could she serve?

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:51:38pm

re: #155 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

What if something goes wrong with the car you do not have. Can you handle that very unexpected expense?

The level attained by the unexpectedness would be so extreme, I’m afraid I could not handle that.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:52:56pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:54:09pm
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Barefoot Grin  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:55:22pm

re: #33 Mattand

I think the thing with military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first is that I worry we’re eventually going to run out of military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first.

There’s an alternate universe out that where Trump managed to get Mike Flynn appointed military Chief-of-Staff.

I sometimes think that the GOP getting their ducks in a row and electing an “All the evil, none of the obvious crazy” POTUS is a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’. And from there, it’s a short step to get a bunch of Mike Flynn-loons behind them to go full SS.

And yeah, he’s mea culpa-ing all over the fucking place now, but Milley initially had no problem marching to that frigging church with Trump and his Bible, while soldiers beat the shit out of protesters. He may have instantly regretted it, but he still did it.

So, yeah, good on Milley for doing the right thing eventually, I guess, but how many more Milleys are left?

From the 1931 Mukden self-bombing in Manchuria and subsequent terror campaign i Tokyo against politicians and business leaders to the 1936 attempted coup, it was a combination of ultra-nationalists with junior officers (informed by radical writings by people like Kita Ikki that pushed the senior corp to come to the conclusion that the running of the government couldn’t be left to the politicians. That’s my concern here—the linking of the ultra-right and Christian ultra-nationalists continuously radicalized joining with lower ranking officers who don’t agree with Milley and senior officers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:03:04pm

re: #75 Ace Rothstein

There is no way in hell (not that it matters) that blocking people from traveling to other states is legal.

It’s been done in this country before (such as using the National Guard and police to prevent people from fleeing the Dust Bowl at state lines).

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:03:35pm
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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:03:38pm

re: #160 Backwoods Sleuth

Ridiculous bronzerjowl.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:09:28pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:11:21pm
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BeachDem  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:12:59pm

re: #157 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

She’s my Congresscritter. I like her. But seniority is everything in the Senate, and she is 77. How many terms could she serve?

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:17:05pm

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s been done in this country before (such as using the National Guard and police to prevent people from fleeing the Dust Bowl at state lines).

Cannot believe that would be legal in this nation today.
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:18:39pm

re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter

Cannot believe that would be legal in this nation today.

It wasn’t legal then either. They did it anyway.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:21:43pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:23:32pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:24:59pm

re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It wasn’t legal then either. They did it anyway.

We are far more litigious today — that would definitely be going to the court.

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sagehen  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:25:15pm

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s been done in this country before (such as using the National Guard and police to prevent people from fleeing the Dust Bowl at state lines).

There’s “legal” and there’s “so what if it’s not, who’s going to enforce that law?”

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:25:26pm

re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth

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So really the only thing to do is trash the economy so that we can hopefully begin a deflationary cycle where prices are at the point that we can pay people $3.50/hr again.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:25:58pm

jfc

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:26:46pm
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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:27:31pm

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s been done in this country before (such as using the National Guard and police to prevent people from fleeing the Dust Bowl at state lines).

The Mann Act.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:28:26pm

re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth

Luna has a net worth of around $6 million.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:28:47pm

re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth

Performative bulkshit.

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:32:52pm

re: #177 Vicious Babushka

The Mann Act.

So the Mann Act only applies to women. Sneaky.

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:33:15pm

re: #176 Backwoods Sleuth

California is such a horrible place to live you can buy a house in LA for a dollar.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:35:31pm

re: #27 lawhawk

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We really do have a lot of worthless, scumbag, pieces of fucking shit in this country.

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Mattand  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:39:41pm

re: #164 jaunte

Ridiculous bronzerjowl.

That’s my rap name.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:39:52pm

re: #152 gocart mozart

RFin’K has broad appeal across the whole spectrum of batshit beliefs. He has Trump dead to rights on a lot of it, too: His “warp speed” promotion of vaccines, his failure to expose the UFO cover-up, the faked Moon landing, secret underground child prisons, etc. I think he could take half the repug vote and only a tiny percentage of mostly elderly Democrats.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:41:41pm
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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:42:34pm

re: #185 Backwoods Sleuth

Zero wasted effort.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:43:02pm

re: #186 jaunte

Zero wasted effort.

nothing but air

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:43:19pm

re: #180 wrenchwench

So the Mann Act only applies to women. Sneaky.

Mann Act applies to women & Black people. It was created to stop interracial couples from cross state lines to elope.

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BeachDem  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:46:04pm

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

Luna has a net worth of around $6 million.

And a backstory almost as full of holes as Santos’.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:46:54pm

re: #186 jaunte

Zero wasted effort.

It’s the nonchalance after the 10/10 landing that kills me.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:48:57pm

I guess it rained in New York today.

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:48:57pm

re: #180 wrenchwench

So the Mann Act only applies to women. Sneaky.

Chuck Berry found out.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:50:54pm
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BeachDem  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:51:20pm

re: #188 Vicious Babushka

Mann Act applies to women & Black people. It was created to stop interracial couples from cross state lines to elope.

And to keep Warren Beatty from taking Stockard Channing across state lines and engaging in immoral relations. Oh wait, that was just a movie.

imdb.com

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:53:41pm
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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:53:49pm

re: #194 BeachDem

And to keep Warren Beatty from taking Stockard Channing across state lines and engaging in immoral relations. Oh wait, that was just a movie.

imdb.com

I’d cross state lines for Stockard Channing. She’s always been one of my movie crushes.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:55:13pm

re: #193 Vicious Babushka

That looks delicious.

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EPR-radar  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:59:38pm

re: #195 Backwoods Sleuth

It continues to be annoying that this Hitler wannabe is free to travel all over the country inciting his present-day Nazis.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:00:18pm

O_o

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Decatur Deb  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:00:25pm

On topic of loyalty in the military:

After 30 years of working with the last and current generation of Army officers, I have some worries.
+I worry that some of our officers aren’t as bright as they need to be.
+I worry that too many of our officers believe their own bullshit.
+I worry that the OER evaluation system is a powderpuff.

I do not worry at all that any significant number of soldiers, officer or EM, are disloyal or a threat to the country. It ain’t there.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:00:59pm

re: #195 Backwoods Sleuth

The troubling thing is his marks believe him.

They can be convinced that the beautiful people in Beverly Hills, one of the coveted locations on this planet in which to live, somehow smell worse than the the marks themselves.

It’s telling about the nature of H. sapiens , that such things as words from Trump’s mouth can be believed simply because he repeats them often enough.

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Captain Magic  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:02:22pm

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

Luna is one of the worse GOP congresscritters. Her hypocricasy is way up there.

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William Lewis  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:02:28pm

re: #193 Vicious Babushka

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Oh My. Wish I had that in my lunch box for 2 am tonight ;)

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:04:16pm

re: #127 Backwoods Sleuth

SCOTT HALL has become the first co-defendant in the Fulton election interference case to take a plea deal with prosecutors.

If not me - who will be next?

(is what his co-defendants are thinking)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:05:54pm

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Captain Magic  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:09:13pm

re: #185 Backwoods Sleuth

That kitty looks like my late Minuet - had her for 16 years before I sent her across the Rainbow Bridge and moved to Minnesota for my job.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:10:30pm

re: #205 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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Three Dog Fight
EDIT: Three Dog Shiite

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BeachDem  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:11:50pm

re: #207 Vicious Babushka

Three Dog Fight
EDIT: Three Dog Shiite

Or Three Dog FRIGHT

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:12:16pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:20:38pm
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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:21:50pm

This is funny. A pro-DeSantis “journalist” got ejected from the Reagan Library for harassing Kari Lake, with questions like, “when Mar-a-Lago is repossessed, where are you going to live.”

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:22:20pm

re: #210 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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Video

That was my favorite part.

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:23:35pm

wasn’t bleeped when I first heard it

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:26:50pm

re: #210 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Black women bringing the fire again.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:32:01pm

Carville on The Weaker Of The House—when you elect a bowl of Jello you get a bowl of Jello

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:33:34pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:37:57pm

re: #200 Decatur Deb

On topic of loyalty in the military:

After 30 years of working with the last and current generation of Army officers, I have some worries.
+I worry that some of our officers aren’t as bright as they need to be.
+I worry that too many of our officers believe their own bullshit.
+I worry that the OER evaluation system is a powderpuff.

I do not worry at all that any significant number of soldiers, officer or EM, are disloyal or a threat to the country. It ain’t there.

As I recall, Christofascist wingnuts had a particular focus on the Air Force, perhaps in part because the Air Force academy is in Colorado Springs, which for a long time was Jesus Freak Central (maybe less so these days).

Has this threat abated?

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Decatur Deb  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:41:38pm

re: #217 EPR-radar

As I recall, Christofascist wingnuts had a particular focus on the Air Force, perhaps in part because the Air Force academy is in Colorado Springs, which for a long time was Jesus Freak Central (maybe less so these days).

Has this threat abated?

Only worked with USAF during a 2-year DoD stint in Israel. The threat is real enough to cause day-to-day problems (besides being plain wrong). The structure and culture of the services won’t let it rise to the point of subversion.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:45:19pm
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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:47:02pm

re: #219 No Malarkey!

Let’s turn every Tom, Dick, and Harry into a one-man judge, jury, and executioner. Let anyone shoot anyone any time they suspect someone of committing a crime. Full stop, no justification necessary beyond, “I thought they were criming.” What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!

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Decatur Deb  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:47:14pm

re: #219 No Malarkey!

For the sake of god and country, keep him talking.

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William Lewis  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:48:25pm

OK, this has been a weird ass news day.

Feinstein passed.

Two are arrested in England - a 16 year old and a man in his 60’s - over cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree.

They finally arrested someone for 2Pac’s killing.

And the least surprising bit is that the Weaker of the House, blew it again.

If I didn’t have to work at 11, I’d go buy some Guinness…

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:49:36pm

re: #219 No Malarkey!

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It’s getting more difficult to insist that the media cover him seriously.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:50:52pm

re: #223 wrenchwench

It’d getting more difficult to insist that the media cover him seriously.

He has a lock on the all-important “Old Man Yells At Clouds” demographic.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:54:05pm

re: #219 No Malarkey!

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A Cranky One  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:54:50pm

re: #207 Vicious Babushka

Three Dog Fight
EDIT: Three Dog Shiite

Hey, wait a minute. Are you implying that MTG is a bitch?

Oh wait. Never mind.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:57:35pm
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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:59:53pm

re: #227 Backwoods Sleuth

Maybe a court can sentence him to six to ten years of forest dampening.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:01:05pm

re: #228 jaunte

Maybe a court can sentence him to six to ten years of forest dampening.

According to an expert professional witness, he lacks the equipment.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:04:58pm

re: #219 No Malarkey!

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Can we shoot on sight shoplifters of top secret materials?

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:14:52pm

re: #227 Backwoods Sleuth

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Does raking forests not work any more?

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:16:17pm

re: #231 No Malarkey!

Does raking forests not work any more?

Nonono, they made fun of him too much for that one. He’s got to come up with a new grift that they won’t laugh out loud at him for.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:16:22pm
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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:18:07pm

re: #232 Nerdy Fish

Nonono, they made fun of him too much for that one. He’s got to come up with a new grift that they won’t laugh out loud at him for.

Yeah, dampening forests is just the ticket for being taken seriously

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:19:58pm

Another banger:

“Austria, you look at so many countries, they live in the forest, they’re considered ‘forest cities,’ so many of them,” Trump told Fox News. “And they don’t have fires like this. And they have more explosive trees.

But the reason that Austria and Germany haven’t had megafires recently is part luck. Those countries tend to be cooler and rainier. But climate change is causing hotter, drier summers in central Europe, and the region could see bigger wildfires as the trend continues. Close-to-nature forest management may hold some solutions.
theworld.org

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:20:09pm

re: #234 No Malarkey!

Yeah, dampening forests is just the ticket for being taken seriously

Butbutbut Very Serious People (tm) told him that it was the best idea, of course it would work, big serious people, tears in their eyes, “Sir, sir, it’s the best idea for preventing forest fires we’ve ever seen!”

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:21:01pm

It’s key to weed out the most explosive trees.

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:22:13pm

re: #237 jaunte

It’s key to weed out the most explosive trees.

Get ‘em with a rake when they’re small.

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BeachDem  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:23:17pm

re: #227 Backwoods Sleuth

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My favorite “Trump solves the California wildfires” event was when he kept calling Paradise “Pleasure.” The look on Brown’s face is priceless—you just KNOW what he’s thinking.

Trump confused over fire-hit town Paradise: ‘Pleasure, what a name’

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BeachDem  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:27:24pm

re: #232 Nerdy Fish

Nonono, they made fun of him too much for that one. He’s got to come up with a new grift that they won’t laugh out loud at him for.

And after Finland corrected him, Austria also pointed out his folly.

“There have been both serious and humorous conversations on social media about the `exploding trees’ (Trump) mentioned, as well as the fact that he claimed we live within `forest cities’ which never catch fire,” Elisabeth Koestinger, Austria’s agriculture minister, wrote. “As Austrians, fortunately blessed with a healthy sense of humour, we normally take such cliches about our country in our stride.”

“However, the gravity of current events make Trump’s words much more worrying — after all, right at this moment, thousands of people are fighting horrendous wildfires in life-or-death situations,” she said.

“In reality, Austria is a country situated in the heart of Europe, where people do not live in the forest, but rather with the forest and in a close, sustainable relationship with the natural environment,” Koestinger wrote.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:27:34pm

re: #231 No Malarkey!

Does raking forests not work any more?

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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:27:44pm

re: #227 Backwoods Sleuth

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Ivanka, Cokehead, and the Idiot, it’s time for y’all to come together an’ put Daddy in a home, now.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:28:27pm

re: #216 Backwoods Sleuth

And that’s really the crux of it. I feel like the GOP would be a little more motivated to keep the government open if a shutdown meant THEY would not get paid.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:29:17pm

re: #235 jaunte

Another banger:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:32:15pm

re: #244 Backwoods Sleuth

“water that costs us nothing that will come pouring down.”

From WHERE????

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:32:20pm

Can we just, like… stop taking this man seriously? I wish the media would collectively start treating him like the crackpot he is. “Florida Man Claims Raking Forests Will Solve Forest Fires.” “Florida Man Volunteers to Shoot Shoplifters on Sight.” “Florida Man Wants to Water California Forests.” Instead, they cover him like he’s a serious candidate for office.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:34:35pm
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Nojay UK  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:39:42pm

re: #205 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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Sousie and the Banshees

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:41:22pm

re: #201 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The troubling thing is his marks believe him.

They can be convinced that the beautiful people in Beverly Hills, one of the coveted locations on this planet in which to live, somehow smell worse than the the marks themselves.

It’s telling about the nature of H. sapiens , that such things as words from Trump’s mouth can be believed simply because he repeats them often enough.

That would be the sub-species H. sapiens optimatium

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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:42:01pm

re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth

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Joe Scarborough: Who are these people?
Me: Republicans, Joe. They’re YOUR people. They’re REPUBLICANS. You’ve been heading this way since Newt, buddy.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:42:52pm

re: #242 A Three Hour Tour

Ivanka, Cokehead, and the Idiot, it’s time for y’all to come together an’ put Daddy in a home, now.

Trump is trying out the Vincent “the Chin” Gigante shuffle in an effort to avoid prosecution.

//

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EPR-radar  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:44:09pm

re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth

“Imagine being the type of person that would laugh about an 82 year old man being assaulted with a hammer to his head. Who are these people?” — Joe Scarborough

Dear Joe, You got your start in politics as a Republican in the mid-90s. Everything in the GOP that has led to Trump was well underway back then, with Gingrich’s declaration of a scorched-earth partisan forever war by the GOP that has continued without interruption ever since then. Since you do not yet seem to realize that Trump is merely movement conservatism perfected in every way, you still need remedial political education.

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:45:30pm

re: #252 EPR-radar

He’s still trying to paper over the fascist monster and pretend the “reasonable” Republicans can control things.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:49:33pm

re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth

It would not surprise me at all if Trump wrote his own stuff and then has some poor bastard type it in to the teleprompter for him.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:49:43pm

Best rando response to Rs have no plan to avoid a shutdown

There is a much bigger story than this, and the near universal refusal of the media to even acknowledge the story is frightening.

Joe Biden, the POTUS, has made two incredible speeches the last two days. Both speeches have been beautiful but frightening. He is warning the American people of approaching fascism and the forces pushing that fascism on us. It’s beyond political. It’s an existential crisis centered around misinformation and disinformation that could very well topple our democracy. And Joe Biden laid it out there better than most POTUSs could.

Yet, the media’s reaction is horrid. Both sides. Burying the headline. Implicitly supporting the disinformation and misinformation.

American political journalism is an abject failure. A complete failure

.

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jeffreyw  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:51:03pm
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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:51:13pm

So how long before some kid stealing a baseball cap at a Cabella’s gets shot in the back by another customer doing his ‘patriotic duty’?

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:54:51pm

re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg

And that’s really the crux of it. I feel like the GOP would be a little more motivated to keep the government open if a shutdown meant THEY would not get paid.

Congress will *never* vote their own not getting paid

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:55:14pm

re: #217 EPR-radar

As I recall, Christofascist wingnuts had a particular focus on the Air Force, perhaps in part because the Air Force academy is in Colorado Springs, which for a long time was Jesus Freak Central (maybe less so these days).

Has this threat abated?

It has not. Focus on the Family moved there to be next to the Air Force Academy.

The Air Force Academy frequently gets rebuked for things like allowing their people on the base to proselytise. The Freedom from Religion Foundation was initially founded to go after their threat, but has expanded nationwide because military personnel are not safe from all Christian denominations trying to impose their will on officers, enlisted, and veterans. (I’ve made two complains to MRFF: One about FE Warren AFB displaying church challenge coins in a cross-shaped box at the security office, and the VA in Cheyenne about the “missing man” table in the cafeteria being hijacked by a local church to include Christian symbology. Both were corrected.)

Air Force staff are frequently found promoting religion in classrooms at the Academy.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:56:58pm

re: #251 BeenHereAwhile

Trump is trying out the Vincent “the Chin” Gigante shuffle in an effort to avoid prosecution.

//

Oh then he shouldn’t oughta be president, right?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:57:32pm

re: #229 Decatur Deb

According to an expert professional witness, he lacks the equipment.

We can supply him with a water hose.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:58:39pm

re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg

It would not surprise me at all if Trump wrote his own stuff and then has some poor bastard type it in to the teleprompter for him.

There are no poor bastards anymore.
At this point, you know. Everyone does.
So if you work for him, its eyes wide open

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:01:46pm

re: #252 EPR-radar

“Imagine being the type of person that would laugh about an 82 year old man being assaulted with a hammer to his head. Who are these people?” — Joe Scarborough

Dear Joe, You got your start in politics as a Republican in the mid-90s. Everything in the GOP that has led to Trump was well underway back then, with Gingrich’s declaration of a scorched-earth partisan forever war by the GOP that has continued without interruption ever since then. Since you do not yet seem to realize that Trump is merely movement conservatism perfected in every way, you still need remedial political education.

Plus all that time Joe Scarborough gave him in 2016 calling into his show to interview him repeatedly. Scarborough helped elect him.

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:02:10pm

re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth

Who are these people?

They are barbarians. Civilization, its benefits and restraints, are something they do not understand and wouldn’t like it if they did.

All they understand and want is power. Power to do what they want, to who they want, when they want.

That we aren’t slapping them down, hard, every time they raise their heads will destroy us,

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:03:45pm

re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg

And that’s really the crux of it. I feel like the GOP would be a little more motivated to keep the government open if a shutdown meant THEY would not get paid.

The Constitution requires Congress to be paid. It does not prohibit Congress from being fined every day for not doing their jobs.

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Semper Fi  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:11:32pm

re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg

And that’s really the crux of it. I feel like the GOP would be a little more motivated to keep the government open if a shutdown meant THEY would not get paid.

Maybe I have an overzealous imagination but somehow I think they may consider the gov’t payday not that significant to their livelihood.

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Unabogie  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:11:32pm

Bmaz over at Emptywheel is saying the fact that Fani Willis got the first conspirator to flip with a probation deal is just proof that it’s all “penny ante bullshit”

Scott Hall participated in a break in of our voting machines in furtherance of a plot to overthrow the government.

“Penny ante?”

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:12:33pm

2023: Biplane and Dual Tail Fin in Formation, Ventura, California

Seen on tonight’s walk

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:15:42pm

Rolling Stone, yesterday

NFL Ad Ran on Zombie Twitter Account Calling for Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce’s Deaths

“The social platform continues to place brand spots alongside the dangerous extremists it refuses to rein in”

X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been at pains to lure back advertisers who deserted the platform in droves after Elon Musk’s takeover, slashing the site’s revenue in the process. Last month, the company even rolled out expanded features for brands, including tools to help keep their ads away from undesirable content like hate speech.

But those measures have proven wildly ineffective so far, at least where one major ad partner — the NFL — is concerned. Reports from Media Matters reveal that X has been serving the league’s promoted content on a number of verified and openly white nationalist accounts with a million followers between them. These include profiles for white supremacist Richard Spencer and VDare, an anti-immigrant organization (and Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group) that has specifically attacked the NFL and encouraged a boycott of the league over players supporting Black Lives Matter, denouncing the movement as “anti-white blood libel.”

NFL ads were also served on the account of Andrew Torba, CEO of the Nazi-infested rival website Gab, himself a notorious antisemite. When he retweeted a racist meme depicting a boat full of non-white migrants that warned “You’re being conquered,” an NFL clip from Sept. 14 game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Philadelphia Eagles appeared right below it.

X did not reply to a request for comment on the ad placements.

Media Matters noted that NFL spots — which are supposed to generate revenue for verified users whose timelines they appear on — likewise turned up in Rumble streaming host Stew Peters’ feed. Peters is a far-right conspiracy theorist who has regularly demonized Jews and LGBTQ people but is perhaps best known for his extreme anti-vax positions and spreading other falsehoods about Covid-19. He pushed the conspiracy theory that Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who collapsed on the field in January due to cardiac arrest but went on to make a complete recovery, actually died because he was vaccinated and has been replaced by an actor.

(more)

The NFL only met last week with Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, praising her for making the platform better for fans and partners.

Yesterday the NFL said it denounces racism and hate speech and says it has no relationship with the people mentioned by Media Matters. They say they’ve expressed their concerns to Twitter.

They did not say they were pulling their advertising from Twitter.

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EPR-radar  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:16:13pm

re: #264 Romantic Heretic

Who are these people?

They are barbarians. Civilization, its benefits and restraints, are something they do not understand and wouldn’t like it if they did.

All they understand and want is power. Power to do what they want, to who they want, when they want.

That we aren’t slapping them down, hard, every time they raise their heads will destroy us,

That bolded part is the crux. Rich sociopaths in the US back in the New Deal era decided they didn’t want to pay the taxes necessary for civilization. Later on, they formed common cause with bigots leaving the Democrats because the party was finally making progress on civil rights. That’s the foundation of movement conservatism in the US.

Everything since then — Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, W Bush, and finally Trump — has merely been the consequences of this unholy alliance playing out. Movement conservatism is destroyed or civilization is. There is no middle ground, no compromise, no both-sides.

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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:22:29pm

re: #267 Unabogie

Bmaz over at Emptywheel is saying the fact that Fani Willis got the first conspirator to flip with a probation deal is just proof that it’s all “penny ante bullshit”

Scott Hall participated in a break in of our voting machines in furtherance of a plot to overthrow the government.

“Penny ante?”

Fuck bmaz.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:25:34pm

re: #219 No Malarkey!

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I’m sure he meant to add, “if you’re a certain pigment!”.

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:28:37pm

re: #268 So Cal Greek Hippie

Short SC.7 Skyvan
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:30:56pm

re: #267 Unabogie

Bmaz over at Emptywheel is saying the fact that Fani Willis got the first conspirator to flip with a probation deal is just proof that it’s all “penny ante bullshit”

Scott Hall participated in a break in of our voting machines in furtherance of a plot to overthrow the government.

“Penny ante?”

I’m beginning to think this is about more than DA Willis’s case (cough skin colour).

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Unabogie  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:32:10pm

re: #274 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m beginning to think this is about more than DA Willis’s case (cough skin colour).

One does tend to wonder.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:37:59pm

re: #274 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m beginning to think this is about more than DA Willis’s case (cough skin colour).

It always was. Same with Tish.

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:40:59pm

re: #267 Unabogie

Bmaz over at Emptywheel is saying the fact that Fani Willis got the first conspirator to flip with a probation deal is just proof that it’s all “penny ante bullshit”
“Penny ante?”

Seems a little early to rush in to judge the entire prosecution, but I’m no legal expert.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:44:19pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:44:24pm

Mastodon

niterz, lizardz!

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Semper Fi  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:46:44pm

re: #274 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m beginning to think this is about more than DA Willis’s case (cough skin colour).

I’m anxious for the trial(s).

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:46:46pm

@joshuajfriedman.com

Special counsel Jack Smith includes Trump’s recent Truth Social attack on Mark Milley in a filing today arguing to restrict Trump’s extrajudicial statements. (Judge Chutkan today scheduled a hearing on this question for Oct. 16.)

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DodgerFan1988  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:48:14pm


A day after cosplaying as border patrol, he is now dog whistling to all the anti-immigrant militias with his “2nd Amendment solution.”

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Decatur Deb  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:00:36pm

re: #282 DodgerFan1988

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A day after cosplaying as border patrol, he is now dog whistling to all the anti-immigrant militias with his “2nd Amendment solution.”

The Barrett is a sniper system. Snipers always fire from the hip. Fuckn’ clown.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:31:13pm

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