PBS Eons: Are Giant Animals Inevitable?

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The journey the thunder beasts took to reach such mega proportions from such humble beginnings forces us to ask an important question, one that paleontologists have been asking for more than a century: from an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better?

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1
jaunte  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:25:47pm

Roachoids say NO

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Charles Johnson  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:29:59pm

Roachoids, eh? I did not know that.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:30:53pm

snails…slow but steady…

Mastodon

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nines09  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:33:36pm

re: #112 darthstar

Decided to start a new song today in my ghee-tar lesson. Fat Bottom Girls. Super fun opening jam (drop-D tuning yet again…need to remember to use that for The Joker next time I play it - I wasn’t ready for alternate tunings when I learned that song a few years ago).

Now that you know drop D tuning, look up Slither by Velvet Revolver. Most is played on the E/A bottom strings.
And Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young is in double drop D tuning.
You drop both E strings to D, and it all becomes clear.
Andy still plays and promotes pedals and shows how to play to this day.
And he plays each pedal through a Reissue Deluxe Reverb, which gives you the foundation.
I used open E tuning for slide back in the day, and if I knew how to do open G then…
George Thorogood used open G and Keef Richards made a living on it.
Have fun.

Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl Guitar Lesson

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Captain Ron  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:39:28pm
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jaunte  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:39:41pm

re: #3 Backwoods Sleuth

I see on the map that Lewdown is in the neighborhood of Lobhillcross, Thrushelton, and Broadwoodwidger.

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:41:34pm

re: #4 William Lewis

Here’s a fun bit

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Video

The analysis was interesting but, truth be told, I just want to listen to the song.

Does anyone know where the love of god goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours

Pure, unadulterated poetry

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jaunte  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:41:43pm

“Amid the speaker impasse, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is floating a plan that would reinstall him as speaker and make conservative Trump ally, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the assistant speaker”

@joshuaholland.bsky.social

If Biden and Harris died, would there be a president, assistant president and vice president?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:43:17pm

re: #9 jaunte

“Amid the speaker impasse, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is floating a plan that would reinstall him as speaker and make conservative Trump ally, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the assistant speaker”

@joshuaholland.bsky.social

That sounds like the speaker would be Jordan, but he’d be wearing a McCarthy suit like he was some sort of giant alien cockroach.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:43:57pm
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jaunte  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:44:26pm

re: #10 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That sounds like the speaker would be Jordan, but he’d be wearing a McCarthy suit like he was some sort of giant alien cockroach.

Picturing that with the Edgar the Bug moves.

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KGxvi  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:47:58pm

re: #6 Captain Ron

are we only counting live action?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:48:27pm
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gocart mozart  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:50:00pm
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Captain Ron  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:51:49pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:54:51pm

re: #3 Backwoods Sleuth

snails…slow but steady…

‘Determined’ snails eating villagers’ mail

A sign on a postbox in the village of Lewdown warns residents

What do they expect?

It’s snail mail.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:55:59pm
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William Lewis  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:57:45pm

re: #8 sizzzzlerz

The analysis was interesting but, truth be told, I just want to listen to the song.

Does anyone know where the love of god goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours

Pure, unadulterated poetry

True enough but I still enjoyed listening to her more than Rick Beato’s rant about Rolling Stones admittedly piss poor “greatest guitarist” list.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:58:04pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:58:20pm

re: #8 sizzzzlerz

The analysis was interesting but, truth be told, I just want to listen to the song.

Does anyone know where the love of god goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours

Pure, unadulterated poetry

And a hell of a better song than the ~25 verses of The Wreck Of The Titanic.

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Unabogie  Oct 24, 2023 • 4:59:41pm

re: #20 Backwoods Sleuth

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Covid is a hoax. But also, Covid should have delayed Trump’s trial. But it’s a hoax. And a CCP bioweapon. But also the sniffles.

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jaunte  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:02:35pm

With A Little Help From My Friends

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Captain Ron  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:11:02pm

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Charles Johnson  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:14:57pm

Very cool thing about Node.js running on the server is that you can access MySQL databases with Javascript. I installed a module called “mysql-await” that lets me use async/await patterns to query the database and that totally rocks.

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Unabogie  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:18:00pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Very cool thing about Node.js running on the server is that you can access MySQL databases with Javascript. I installed a module called “mysql-await” that lets me use async/await patterns to query the database and that totally rocks.

Have you checked out Deno and Bun?

Bun just released 1.0 and while it’s got some quirks to iron out, the installs are ridiculously fast and it runs 10x faster than Node.js. In your use case, since you’re mostly I/O bound with DB queries, you may not notice, but Node tends to get bogged down when under load.

On that note, if you haven’t taken a close look at Rust yet, it’s blazing fast, but also uses a fraction of the resources that Node does, so you’ll use less electricity, pay less for server costs, etc. The only downside is there’s a learning curve that is pretty steep.

EDIT: Reading that back, I’m not selling it well. I freaking LOVE using Rust, but it’s hard to explain why until you start using it. It’s impossible to write race conditions, there’s no garbage collector because it doesn’t need one, and once you write something in Rust and add tests to it, it will almost never break because of the way the language catches most bugs for you as you write code.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:22:54pm

re: #26 Unabogie

Right now I don’t really need that much horsepower, but I was reading about Bun and it sounds interesting enough to make me want to try it at some point.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:28:02pm

Diamondbacks have themselves a hot young starter tonight.

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:33:27pm

re: #21 BeenHereAwhile

And a hell of a better song than the ~25 verses of The Wreck Of The Titanic.

Yeah but who sang the “Edmund Fitzgerald” song at summer camp?

Oh it was sad
Oh it was sad
It was sad when the great ship went down
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down!

(This was sung in an unbelievably joyful tune)

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Charles Johnson  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:35:08pm

I often wish I could have been lucky enough to have a really good math teacher at an early age.

Someone who could have impressed younger me with the beauty I now see.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:37:09pm

Memories of Mark Perlman at Pitt who taught me how to play Go and see the incredible detailed patterns that could be created. He thought that Go was interrelated with mathematics.

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BigPapa  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:37:31pm

I did great at math. Until the homework in 2nd sem Algebra. As predicted by the teacher, it went bad after I got behind.

But the good thing about that is Meadows has been singing like a bird. So there’s that.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:39:46pm

re: #32 BigPapa

I had the 8th Grade Algebra Teacher From The 10th Level Of Hell who destroyed whatever interest I had in math. I truly hated that prick and it poured over into everything else in High School Hell.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:44:19pm

re: #33 Joe Bacon ✅

I didn’t actually hate any of my math teachers but they were mostly defeated by the nature of their job and couldn’t compete with the other shit running through my hyperactive brain.

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cat-tikvah  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:44:50pm

re: #29 Vicious Babushka

Yeah but who sang the “Edmund Fitzgerald” song at summer camp?

Oh it was sad
Oh it was sad
It was sad when the great ship went down
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down!

(This was sung in an unbelievably joyful tune)

My daughters and I heard that jaunty tune when they were youngsters and made up our own verses - and everybody died. Lalalala 🎶
So incongruous!

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:45:06pm

Let’s say five Republicans from Biden districts make a deal with Democrats, defect and vote for Jeffries. Is there anything the other Republicans could do to jam the gears after that when it comes to legislation reaching the floor?

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BigPapa  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:45:11pm

My excuse: weed. Or motivation. Or both.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:45:54pm

re: #37 BigPapa

My excuse: weed. Or motivation. Or both.

Both.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:47:28pm

re: #37 BigPapa

My excuse: weed. Or motivation. Or both.

Plus coffee.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:48:33pm

re: #36 Ace Rothstein

Let’s say five Republicans from Biden districts make a deal with Democrats, defect and vote for Jeffries. Is there anything the other Republicans could do to jam the gears after that when it comes to legislation reaching the floor?

It has to get out of committee. Assuming that the defections aren’t a full party switch - which is highly unlikely - Republicans would still control all the committees. Jeffries would be Speaker In Name Only, head of a House who would never listen to him and would never bring him legislation he would actually present for a vote.

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:54:07pm

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:54:52pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

I often wish I could have been lucky enough to have a really good math teacher at an early age.

Someone who could have impressed younger me with the beauty I now see.

I feel the same way. I earned my math degree in 1986, if I had better teachers I would have achieved it in 1970. But then I would have not learned all the humanities & foreign languages that I studied.

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Dangerman  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:57:54pm

re: #41 teleskiguy

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How quickly we accept the new normal

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wrenchwench  Oct 24, 2023 • 5:59:55pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

Plus coffee.

And chocolate. Not all together.

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William Lewis  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:02:15pm

Looking back? Not so much the math but I wish I had taken photography classes in high school and then signed up for the Army as a 84B Still Photographic Specialist. That would have fit what I have learned over the decades that I like to do and am good at. Perhaps I might have gotten in someplace like AP or even National Geographic while it was still the glory days of photo journalism… I might have missed some of the things I did experience but I imagine other things would have made up for them 😎

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Charles Johnson  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:07:28pm

War - Slippin Into Darkness

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TarHellion  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:07:45pm

re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅

Mathematics and Go remind me of Pi - Darren Aronofsky’s first feature film.

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piratedan  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:11:20pm

re: #40 Nerdy Fish

depends on the rules, have seen the Dems float the idea of any legislation that meets the majority of either caucus gets to be discussed on the floor and voted upon. That way, anything that meets a truly bipartisan requirement gets moved.

Granted its convoluted but prevents the tyranny of a few from setting the agenda.

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:11:24pm

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:12:06pm
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jaunte  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:12:30pm

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social

To lose one Speaker may regarded as a misfortune. To lose four looks like carelessness.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:14:27pm

re: #48 piratedan

depends on the rules, have seen the Dems float the idea of any legislation that meets the majority of either caucus gets to be discussed on the floor and voted upon. That way, anything that meets a truly bipartisan requirement gets moved.

Granted its convoluted but prevents the tyranny of a few from setting the agenda.

I have no doubt that the end of this crisis is going to involve some convoluted rule changes. It may or may not involve an agreement with the Democrats, but the grand traditions of the House of Representatives are going to have to take a back seat to practical reality.

/Now do the Senate, please

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:17:07pm

re: #50 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

The two women look very similar.

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piratedan  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:20:08pm

re: #52 Nerdy Fish

my idea for fixing the Senate would be DOJ/FBI indictments for Senators Cruz, Hawley, Lee, Tuberville, Graham and Johnson for their efforts in the events of J6. With their removal, the Dems can enjoy a breather from the usual bullshit that passes as senatorial conduct.

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:22:49pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

I didn’t actually hate any of my math teachers but they were mostly defeated by the nature of their job and couldn’t compete with the other shit running through my hyperactive brain.

When I get my site up, it will document a path through both physics and mathematics. Maybe you can pick some of the math ones up and study them.

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William Lewis  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:27:48pm

re: #55 Belafon

When I get my site up, it will document a path through both physics and mathematics. Maybe you can pick some of the math ones up and study them.

This book:
Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (Author), Martin Gardner (Author)

taught me what advanced math I know.

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retired cynic  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:31:08pm

Ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources
Meadows said Trump was “dishonest” on election night, according to sources.

abcnews.go.com

Whoa…

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BigPapa  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:33:54pm

re: #57 retired cynic

He was granted immunity and sang like a bird, we’re just finding out. But he hasn’t pleaded out yet. So he technically hasn’t flipped, but he’s in the state of having jumped and is still turning around but not landed yet. I assume they’re like ‘you keep talking your charges keep getting lower.’ I’m not a lawyer, but he is.

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retired cynic  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:35:10pm

re: #58 BigPapa

I was gone for a few hours, and things have been popping.

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:36:21pm

Up to this point in his miserable life this undoubtedly has been the worst day of Fuckface Von Clownstick’s life. And it can only get worse.

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JC1  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:38:48pm

re: #56 William Lewis

This book:
Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (Author), Martin Gardner (Author)

[Embedded content]

taught me what advanced math I know.

Great math site:
3blue1brown.com

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BigPapa  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:39:51pm

He was granted immunity but has charges pending. So I’m not sure if it’s immunity for anything else he’s not charged with but the charges still stand.

Either way, he’s some level of flippage.

This is why it’s bad for Biden.

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:40:32pm

Emptywheel’s right. I don’t trust Meadows as far as I can throw him. If he really flipped, let’s see it.

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:42:10pm

I was never that good at Algebra, but I absolutely smoked my Geometry classes.

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Captain Magic  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:42:52pm

RIP, Richard Roundtree, 81, pancreatic cancer.

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:44:06pm

I did well in math in high school until trig. I struggled with trig but still got a passing grade. Pre-calc? Forget it, might as well have been in a completely different language, I dropped out of that course after a week.

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William Lewis  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:45:12pm

re: #61 JC1

Great math site:
3blue1brown.com

Bookmarked for later exploration. Thanks!

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:46:04pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:46:37pm

re: #65 Captain Magic

RIP, Richard Roundtree, 81, pancreatic cancer.

That’s a fast one…PC. Doesn’t fuck around.

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:47:34pm

re: #68 darthstar

Reminds me of a Carlin bit: On television you can say “Well you’ve made a complete ass of yourself.” But you can’t say “Hey, let’s go get some ass!”

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:48:56pm

re: #69 darthstar

Killed two of my friends’ fathers just in the last year. They had about two to three months to get their affairs in order and say goodbye. Rough stuff.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:54:36pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

It’s one of the worst ways to go IMO.

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:55:16pm

Mastodon

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:56:07pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

Up to this point in his miserable life this undoubtedly has been the worst day of Fuckface Von Clownstick’s life. And it can only get worse.

I’m fine with this.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:56:50pm

I’m with Other

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Dangerman  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:57:16pm
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Dangerman  Oct 24, 2023 • 6:59:34pm

re: #75 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I’m with Other

[Embedded content]

re: #76 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

Just a few seconds….

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BeachDem  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:00:29pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:00:52pm

I admit I haven’t been watching the news but a friend just texted about Karine Jean-Pierre possibly resigning because of some “pro-Palestinian” statement she made. Does anyone know what that supposedly was?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:01:08pm

re: #75 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I’m with Other

[Embedded content]

re: #76 Dangerman

Correction
I am not with Other
Other=write in votes

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:04:38pm
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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:05:13pm

@andrewkjennings.com

For sale: speaker gavel, never used.

bsky.app

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jaunte  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:06:23pm

re: #79 Hecuba’s daughter

“…White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre misheard a question about concern over the rise in antisemitism amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas during a press briefing, she told POLITICO on Tuesday.”
politico.com

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:08:26pm

thedopefishlives
@thedopefishlives.bs…

Sing to me, O Muse, of the wrath of Matthew the son of Gaetz, that brought countless ills upon the Republicans.
Many a brave Speaker did it send hurrying down to Hades.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:11:45pm

Mike Johnson emerges as the new Speaker-Designate…

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:12:42pm

re: #79 Hecuba’s daughter

I admit I haven’t been watching the news but a friend just texted about Karine Jean-Pierre possibly resigning because of some “pro-Palestinian” statement she made. Does anyone know what that supposedly was?

I think she claimed that IDF reports of murdered babies was “unverified” but now that it is in fact verified, she has not repeated it.

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retired cynic  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:12:43pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

Mike Johnson emerges as the new Speaker-Designate…

ugh! he’s a smarmy one!

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Dangerman  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:13:04pm

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Dangerman  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:13:15pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:14:03pm
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Nerdy Fish  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:15:34pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

Mike Johnson emerges as the new Speaker-Designate…

Has Elise Stefanik given him the kiss of death yet?

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:15:52pm

Fuckface’s latest spew at Troof Soshul is naked witness intimidation of Mark Meadows.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:16:11pm

re: #91 Nerdy Fish

Has Elise Stefanik given him the kiss of death yet?

Yeah…

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A Cranky One  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:16:20pm

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:18:35pm

Elections in Franklin, TN seem to be rejecting the nazi candidates. Good.

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wrenchwench  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:18:58pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

Fuckface’s latest spew at Troof Soshul is naked witness intimidation of Mark Meadows.

Instead of an ankle bracelet, they should make him wear baseball gloves. Two at all times.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:19:18pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

Fuckface’s latest spew at Troof Soshul is naked witness intimidation of Mark Meadows.

Haul him in and throw him in jail. Order him to be in court by noon tomorrow.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:20:03pm

re: #91 Nerdy Fish

Has Elise Stefanik given him the kiss of death yet?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:20:03pm

re: #88 Dangerman

Took me a minute…

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:21:23pm

re: #95 teleskiguy

Elections in Franklin, TN seem to be rejecting the nazi candidates. Good.

Oh wow. The nazi candidate for mayor of Franklin, TN, who refused to disavow white supremacists that showed up to debates, got her ass handed to her by the incumbent mayor.

Final election results how Moore garnered 12,822 votes (79.4%), compared to Hanson’s 3,322 votes (20.6%)

newschannel5.com

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:21:55pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:26:38pm

re: #91 Nerdy Fish

Has Elise Stefanik given him the kiss of death yet?

re: #98 Ace Rothstein

[Embedded content]

When tracking Mets games online and they have the bases loaded I always tweet #SlamWatch and the batters name

It rarely works, but my average seems to be better than Stefanik’s

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silverdolphin  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:27:18pm

Stunning Mazda Iconic SP Concept Is the Rotary Hybrid Sports Car We’ve Been Waiting For

Could the rotary engie make a comeback ina green world?

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wrenchwench  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:27:27pm

re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg

Took me a minute…

Took me two.

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Interesting Times  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:27:56pm

malcolmkenyatta
7m

Damn, the Phillies are playing like Elise Stefanik congratulated them on being Speaker-designate.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:28:57pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

Mike Johnson emerges as the new Speaker-Designate…

Gabby Johnson??

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:29:39pm

re: #84 BeenHereAwhile

Shades of Homer & Hunter S. Thompson.

thedopefishlives
@thedopefishlives.bs…

Sing to me, O Muse, of the wrath of Matthew the son of Gaetz, that brought countless ills upon the Republicans.
Many a brave Speaker did it send hurrying down to Hades.

Lee Ziffer
@lziffer.bsky.social

We were somewhere around the fifth failed candidate on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
Oct 24, 2023 at 8:04 PM

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wrenchwench  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:32:32pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:33:14pm
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Ace Rothstein  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:33:17pm

re: #102 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

When tracking Mets games online and they have the bases loaded I always tweet #SlamWatch and the batters name

It rarely works, but my average seems to be better than Stefanik’s

Ray Charles had a better batting average than Stefanik.

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jaunte  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:37:29pm

@thembo.bsky.social

Okay it’s hour SEVEN of our fucking EXTREME Speaker of the House watch party LIVESTREAM FUCK YEAH! My next guest is the manager of the FIVEGUYS we’re broadcasting from! OKAY man let’s RAP! Does TOM EMMER have the OOMPH - hahah sorry, pepper spray stopped working on me like 5 red bulls ago

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:39:54pm

re: #103 silverdolphin

Stunning Mazda Iconic SP Concept Is the Rotary Hybrid Sports Car We’ve Been Waiting For

Could the rotary engie make a comeback ina green world?

Twinkle, twinkle little Wankel,
Wonder if it’ll crankel.
Enough torque to turn itself,
Or will it end up on the shelf.

(Doggerel from before Mazda)

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Dangerman  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:46:02pm
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darthstar  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:46:06pm

Siri, show me a picture of schadefreude

Click to Reveal
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Belafon  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:46:29pm

re: #109 teleskiguy

Is there an unrolled link to that since Musk broke twitter?

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Dangerman  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:47:16pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

Fuckface’s latest spew at Troof Soshul is naked witness intimidation of Mark Meadows.

Always smart to intimidate a witness after he’s already sung

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:52:52pm

re: #61 JC1

Great math site:
3blue1brown.com

Grant Sanderson, creator of the site, has put out a number of videos on various mathematical topics using amazing animations developed with a software package he also wrote. Some cover more advanced topics but many others are very accessible to nearly anyone that has an interest in math. While you may not use it in your daily life, it’s still worth learning about.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:56:12pm

re: #113 Dangerman

The best?
Hmmm…

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:57:38pm

I’m reading the book Symmetry, by Marcus Sautoy. It’s about the history of mathematics related to group theory. This paragraph relates to John Conway, he of the Game of Life, and John McKay, upon Conway’s discovering the structure of a symmetry in 24 dimensions:

Conway stayed the night at McKay’s house. In the middle of the night, McKay burst into Conway’s room in a state of agitated excitement. ‘What you’ve discovered is one of the deepest secrets of the universe!’ He launched into a frantic description of how important Conway’s discovery was. McKay’s wife came in and tried to calm him down, but nothing would bring him down from the high he was on. Eventually, Conway noticed, his wife slipped him a sedative. She explained that mathematics quite often had this effect on her partner.

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:58:07pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

Fuckface’s latest spew at Troof Soshul is naked witness intimidation of Mark Meadows.

Indeed it is…

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Oct 24, 2023 • 7:59:13pm
Off-duty pilot took ‘magic mushrooms’ 48 hours before allegedly trying to shut down plane

Yeah, he wasn’t high at all then.

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Unabogie  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:01:52pm

re: #120 darthstar

Indeed it is…

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Seriously, how does this not violate the gag order?

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:02:10pm

re: #120 darthstar

It’s also a classic of the canon. It’s got it all. Stupid misspellings, random quote marks and capitalization, delusions of grandeur, every sentence is a lie, schoolyard insults, and a MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! to top it all off.

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darthstar  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:06:32pm

Nice…good day to be a glazier.

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mmmirele  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:06:59pm

My cats know something is up. I’m leaving at 04:00 for the airport.

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wrenchwench  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:21:37pm

re: #125 mmmirele

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My cats know something is up. I’m leaving at 04:00 for the airport.

“Separate bags, please.”

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Egregious Philbin  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:24:07pm

The reason the pilot did shrooms….because they don’t show up in a drug test. And pilots are subject to a drug test any time they are at work.

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:25:58pm

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Egregious Philbin  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:26:23pm

So, I don’t follow beisbol much, or football. And, I live in a city where, evidentially a team is in the world serious. Another two weeks of this shit? Oy

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Belafon  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:32:23pm

re: #129 Egregious Philbin

So, I don’t follow beisbol much, or football. And, I live in a city where, evidentially a team is in the world serious. Another two weeks of this shit? Oy

Luckily Arlington is far enough away from Rockwall that I only have to put up with hearing from people who are paying attention and not have to put up with the traffic.

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teleskiguy  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:39:36pm

For the spoarts people…

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retired cynic  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:42:42pm

The 39 Most Beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has more than 1,100 locations on its prestigious World Heritage list.
cntraveler.com

If I subscribed to this magazine, I would never get anything else done, and this web page will soak up all the time I can spare for quite a while!

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retired cynic  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:47:38pm

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:53:08pm

re: #115 Belafon

Is there an unrolled link to that since Musk broke twitter?

(couldn’t get the thread to unroll intact - some duplication)

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William Lewis  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:54:39pm

Another WS I don’t have to even pretend to care about.

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Captain Ron  Oct 24, 2023 • 8:58:43pm
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mmmirele  Oct 24, 2023 • 9:03:04pm

re: #135 William Lewis

Another WS I don’t have to even pretend to care about.

I didn’t even know until last week that the D-backs were playing as well as all that. And I live here. That’s how much I care.

Mom news

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William Lewis  Oct 24, 2023 • 9:06:45pm

re: #134 BeenHereAwhile

Reminds me…

My ex recently sent me this essay by some “feminist” writer from England claiming that the sexual revolution was a mistake, thinly veiled TERF & etc. I tried to tell her that these were classic far right/fascist arguments straight from places like stormfront but all I’ve been getting from her is refusal to accept that and that I don’t understand what fascism is and she’s going to send me a book on what fascism really is and that I need to stop being so manipulative 🤦‍♂️

I finally told her to 1) not send me anything and 2) to stop with her own manipulations and have simply deleted every email since unread. Been much calmer since then… 😉

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wrenchwench  Oct 24, 2023 • 9:31:45pm

They’re predicting frost for Friday night here.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 24, 2023 • 9:42:18pm

It’s time to get in the Halloween mood.

HORROR EXPRESS with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee & Telly Savalas!

Horror Express 1972 | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas | Full Movie | with Subtitles

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Captain Ron  Oct 24, 2023 • 9:57:30pm
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Nerdy Fish  Oct 24, 2023 • 10:00:06pm

I am increasingly worried that they’re going to go from “doing a coup” to “doing a civil war.”

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Captain Ron  Oct 24, 2023 • 10:04:20pm
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William Lewis  Oct 24, 2023 • 10:12:07pm

re: #142 Nerdy Fish

I am increasingly worried that they’re going to go from “doing a coup” to “doing a civil war.”

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There’s a lot of them that think that. Most of them will discover that, like the boys at the First Bull Run, that it isn’t as fun and glamorous as all that & go home instead. The ones that keep at it will find that without serious aid from outside sources like Moscow, they’ll find themselves at the short end of the Army and police stick in relatively short order. And if such sources were to happen, well that’s WWIII not a civil war.

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Captain Ron  Oct 24, 2023 • 10:42:32pm
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wrenchwench  Oct 24, 2023 • 11:05:44pm

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EstebanTornado1963  Oct 24, 2023 • 11:24:24pm

re: #144 William Lewis

There’s a lot of them that think that. Most of them will discover that, like the boys at the First Bull Run, that it isn’t as fun and glamorous as all that & go home instead. The ones that keep at it will find that without serious aid from outside sources like Moscow, they’ll find themselves at the short end of the Army and police stick in relatively short order. And if such sources were to happen, well that’s WWIII not a civil war.

I always like to go back to this thread when civil war talk pops up

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Sherlock Hound  Oct 24, 2023 • 11:27:58pm

Also math:
mindyourdecisions.com

Presh Talwalkar is also on YouTube.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 24, 2023 • 11:57:20pm

Looks interesting:

FUNGI IMAX movie - narrated by Björk, presented by Merlin Sheldrake, time-lapses by Planet Fungi.



..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 25, 2023 • 12:08:14am

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Summer of’ 42





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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2023 • 12:22:51am

re: #147 EstebanTornado1963

I always like to go back to this thread when civil war talk pops up

Can you imagine them living on stew made from canned chicken and canned veggies from rusted cans that had expiration dates a couple of years ago? Much less without their morning coffee or their Laz-e-boy and Sunday night football?

So many of those “big hunters” couldn’t dress that game or gather any fixings to go with it either.

And that’s only the tiniest bit of the logistic train that gets broken in that kind of conflict.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:04:22am

re: #14 Backwoods Sleuth

Donald Trump directed those around him to lie and scheme to make his fantasy a reality.

He simply fired all of those who refused to go along with his alternate reality.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:11:07am

re: #33 Joe Bacon ✅

I had the 8th Grade Algebra Teacher From The 10th Level Of Hell who destroyed whatever interest I had in math. I truly hated that prick and it poured over into everything else in High School Hell.

I skipped the second grade at which point I fell behind in math and never really caught up. I struggled all the way up to first sememster calculus but then gave up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:12:14am

re: #41 teleskiguy

You know, the scenario that eventually the GOP nominate EACH Republican House member to be speaker and then fail to elect ANY of them no longer seems crazy.

What then?

As I already suggested, just draw straws. Or a Last Man Standing cage match.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:15:58am

re: #70 teleskiguy

Reminds me of a Carlin bit: On television you can say “Well you’ve made a complete ass of yourself.” But you can’t say “Hey, let’s go get some ass!”

you can prick your finger but don’t finger your prick

a baseball announcer can say “He’s got two balls on him!” but not “That stray pitch just caught him in the balls!”

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ericblair  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:18:34am

re: #147 EstebanTornado1963

I always like to go back to this thread when civil war talk pops up

The only crisis the preppers are prepped for is a race war where the cable TV never goes out. That was obvious from COVID.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:20:01am

re: #109 teleskiguy

What we all have to understand is that Republicans fundamentally believe the 1960s destroyed their country. They believe that the Civil Rights movement, gay rights, the Sexual Revolution and the antiwar movement wrecked America.

Ask a Consertvative and they will tell you it was a bad idea to expand the voting franchise beyond landowning white Protestant males.

They have already turned back the clock on reproductive rights, now they are (literally) gunning for the advances we have made in personal freedoms, minority, LGBTQ and women’s rights.

Oh and the New Deal, they want to abolish that completely.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:23:36am

re: #142 Nerdy Fish

I am increasingly worried that they’re going to go from “doing a coup” to “doing a civil war.”

I hate to be a Cassandra about it, but there will be bloodshed. Too much rhetoric and it is only just starting to get whipped up to a red-mist fever pitch.

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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:30:38am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I hate to be a Cassandra about it, but there will be bloodshed. Too much rhetoric and it is only just starting to get whipped up to a red-mist fever pitch.

The problem for them is that they don’t realize that many of them will be the ones shedding the blood.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:42:10am

re: #159 William Lewis

The problem for them is that they don’t realize that many of them will be the ones shedding the blood.

There will be armed vigilantes out “monitoring” polling places and drop boxes of signs of “voter fraud” and just itching to pull the Trigger of Righteousness.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:44:33am

Anyways, on the title post: to many people confuse “survival of the fittest” with “survival of the biggest and baddest”.

Which evolution has repeatedly proved - from T. Rex to the mastodon & smilodon - that “the fittest” means the most adaptible to changes in their environment.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:45:22am

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There will be armed vigilantes out “monitoring” polling places and drop boxes of signs of “voter fraud” and just itching to pull the Trigger of Righteousness.

Jesus Christ, chill out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 1:50:33am

re: #162 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Jesus Christ, chill out.

I wish I could, but again, just think how many mass shootings there are in America on a “normal” week without the political rhetoric having been cranked up past 11.

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TarHellion  Oct 25, 2023 • 2:39:24am

Making a par on a 450-yard uphill hole into a driving wind felt more like a birbie.

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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2023 • 2:39:26am

re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I wish I could, but again, just think how many mass shootings there are in America on a “normal” week without the political rhetoric having been cranked up past 11.

Eh, the clocks have to be striking 13 before I get too excited 😉

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 2:52:18am

re: #165 William Lewis

Eh, the clocks have to be striking 13 before I get too excited 😉

We have people out there who would love to strike the 13th.

As in Amendment.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 3:09:37am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We have people out there who would love to strike the 13th.

As in Amendment.

Yes, but contrary to your posts above, I doubt they’re going to do anything about it. Yet. It’s one thing to be in favor of political violence, but everybody’s waiting for somebody else to act. While I do still think the risk of a pseudo-war is real, it’s more going to take the form of a dozen J6’s than a Second Confederacy. The one thing we have going for us is that this is the last gasp of a dying ideology. If we can make it out of the 2020’s, we’ve got a good chance.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 3:13:17am

re: #167 Nerdy Fish

Yes, but contrary to your posts above, I doubt they’re going to do anything about it. Yet. It’s one thing to be in favor of political violence, but everybody’s waiting for somebody else to act. While I do still think the risk of a pseudo-war is real, it’s more going to take the form of a dozen J6’s than a Second Confederacy.

I am not foreseeing any mass uprising, but random acts of crazy violence seem entirely likely as they are a part of everyday life in America lately.

And yes, they also have the sense that this is their last shot at maintaining power and control and are going to be all the more desperate and dangerous about what sort of actions they feel they have to resort to.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 3:20:48am

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2023 • 3:37:45am

Some early morning drive time music to get your hands in the air like you just don’t care!

Wham! - I’m Your Man (Official Video)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 3:53:58am

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2023 • 3:58:51am

If women don’t find you handsome, at least they find you handy.

A Tennessee man’s DIY “rubber bumper” caused a false alarm “bomb threat” and led to local businesses closing and nearby schools being sent into lockdown for hours.

Police in Murfreesboro were called to First Watch restaurant Tuesday morning about a “bomb” being strapped to a car in the parking lot of the “health-minded” cafe.

When officers arrived, they found two white cloths duct-taped to the passenger side of a grey sedan with wires running out around the front door handle.

“All businesses in the shopping plaza were evacuated for nearly two hours as a precaution,” the Murfreesboro Police Department said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.

nypost.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:01:16am

re: #172 Shropshire Slasher

If women don’t find you handsome, at least they find you handy.

nypost.com

next the terrorists will resort to using rubber baby buggy bumpers!

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:17:03am

I think there are a few Molly Ringwald fans here. She is always gorgeous and I love the shoes!

Molly Ringwald was joined by her stylish daughter Mathilda Ereni Gianopoulos at the American Ballet Theater Fall Gala in New York on Tuesday.

The Breakfast Club star, 55 - who recently got candid about cancel culture - stunned in a floor-length champagne glittering gown, which she paired with a nude clutch and pointed-toe red heels.

The actress’ auburn tresses were pinned up in a chic updo for the event, hosted at the Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater. As for glam, she rocked a bright red lipstick and smokey eyeshadow.

dailymail.co.uk

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:19:34am

re: #150 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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Francis Lai - A Man and A Woman - Un Homme et Une Femme

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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:20:50am

re: #174 Shropshire Slasher

I think there are a few Molly Ringwald fans here. She is always gorgeous and I love the shoes!

dailymail.co.uk

I have to thank you for that link, I’ve been a fan since I first saw her far too long ago…

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:28:54am

re: #151 William Lewis

Can you imagine them living on stew made from canned chicken and canned veggies from rusted cans that had expiration dates a couple of years ago? Much less without their morning coffee or their Laz-e-boy and Sunday night football?

So many of those “big hunters” couldn’t dress that game or gather any fixings to go with it either.

And that’s only the tiniest bit of the logistic train that gets broken in that kind of conflict.

Waiting for notification the neighborhood superbox store has received a supply of toilet paper, other necessary, or life sustaining prescription, then standing in a long line in the sun, rain or snow, while hoping stock doesn’t run out before you make your purchase.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:29:50am

re: #177 BeenHereAwhile

Waiting for notification the neighborhood superbox store has received a supply of toilet paper, other necessary, or life sustaining prescription, then standing in a long line in the sun, rain or snow, while hoping stock doesn’t run out before you make your purchase.

Having to walk to the nearest store because there is no gasoline…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:34:32am

re: #164 TarHellion

Possible spoiler.

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Fair warning…Possible spoiler. You’ve been warned.

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Markm1960  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:37:10am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Having to walk to the nearest store because there is no gasoline…

Only to find out that the local store only has sardines, a head of garlic and one onion on the shelves.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:39:43am

re: #180 Markm1960

Only to find out that the local store only has sardines, a head of garlic and one onion on the shelves.

With three people fighting over the onion and two over the garlic. No one wants the sardines.

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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:43:22am

re: #181 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

With three people fighting over the onion and two over the garlic. No one wants the sardines.

I’d be grabbing them. Lots of old field ration tricks with canned fish. Smoked kippers are better but sardines can be made to work… 😉

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:47:06am

Can we have kippers for breakfast, can we can we mommy dear?
Surely they have them in Texas ‘cause everyone’s a millionaire!

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:48:25am

re: #114 darthstar

Siri, show me a picture of schadenfreude

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You’re welcome.

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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:53:15am

re: #184 Dave In Austin

You’re welcome.

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BWA-HA-HA!

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:54:12am

re: #41 teleskiguy

Government shutdown, which is exactly what these saboteurs and obstructionists want.

They want to destroy government. They don’t care about governing. They never did.

This crop of GOPers is all about destroying government and institutions so that they can accumulate power for themselves and in a small group of people they install in the WH - because elections don’t matter if the winner isn’t the one they want.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 25, 2023 • 4:57:48am

This looks like a most promising adaptation:

Leave The World Behind | Official Trailer | Netflix

Some serious top-notch talent there. Gonna have to see this one.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:01:03am

Maybe today is the day

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:12:22am

re: #184 Dave In Austin

*cough*
scha*deN*freu*de
/ˈSHädəNˌfroidə/

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:15:03am

re: #189 Thanos

Thanks,. I can fix that

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:15:27am

re: #190 Dave In Austin

Thanks,. I can fix that

Yw

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:18:04am

re: #181 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

With three people fighting over the onion and two over the garlic. No one wants the sardines.

My wife does 😵‍💫😹

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:19:24am
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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:19:36am

If you haven’t read the article from this skeet I highly recommend it:

bsky.app

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:19:44am

re: #188 Dave In Austin

Maybe today is the day

As I mentioned earlier, Rudy is not gonna flip until he gets to Step 5 in his AA program: “confess your wrongdoings to yourself, to God and to others”

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steve_davis  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:20:29am

Started watching Nancy Drew on Max just because. Okay, this isn’t bad. It’s actually got me more hooked on at the moment than Discovery of Witches.

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mmmirele  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:21:01am

I made it to the airport and through security theatre without throttling anyone. Seriously, what is up with having people walk across a space with a dog and his handler circling?

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:21:31am

and another good one from yesterday

bsky.app

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:22:28am

re: #197 mmmirele

I made it to the airport and through security theatre without throttling anyone. Seriously, what is up with having people walk across a space with a dog and his handler circling?

I always wonder if it’s a drug sniffer or bomb sniffer, and hope for the latter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:26:20am

re: #198 Thanos

and another good one from yesterday

People finally being allowed to talk openly about gender choices and personal identity =
people starting to talk openly about gender choices and personal identity

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:27:01am

re: #199 Thanos

I always wonder if it’s a drug sniffer or bomb sniffer, and hope for the latter.

only one way to find out: bomb in one sock, drugs in the other, and see which one the dog sniffs first…

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mmmirele  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:27:08am

re: #138 William Lewis

British “feminists” have really been showing their asses with their embrace of trans-exclusionary radical feminism. The rhetoric they’re using is straight from the right-wing religious nutter playbook.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:28:34am

re: #197 mmmirele

Heightened Security with things being what they are.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:29:12am

re: #202 mmmirele

British “feminists” have really been showing their asses with their embrace of trans-exclusionary radical feminism. The rhetoric they’re using is straight from the right-wing religious nutter playbook.

I guess that JK Rowling is one of their major spokespersons.

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:29:25am

It looks like something that can’t possibly be good, but it is surprisingly high quality & full of unexpected things — Joe Pickett comes from an award winning series of books from C.J. Box. The only thing I hate about it is that I have to wait until late 2024 or early 2025 for season 3 because of the studios not doing right by actors.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:33:21am

re: #198 Thanos

There were a lot of trash journals in the past, then an explosion in the early aughts when people realized that gathering trash articles was a way to wealth, and then with the advent of online publishing, it has become insufferable.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:34:13am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

only one way to find out: bomb in one sock, drugs in the other, and see which one the dog sniffs first…

Science with a jail pause, sounds like a plan.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:34:14am

Been watching The Fall of the House of Usher, not outstanding but kind of interesting in that they rework the famous Edgar Allan Poe stories against the backdrop of a modern family based on the demise of the Sacklers, the owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals who made their fortune peddling opioids to millions of Americans.

Plus it has Mark Hamill as Arthur Pym, the grey eminence family lawyer and enforcer who knows all the family secrets.

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:35:17am

Mastodon

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:38:49am

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:40:14am

re: #197 mmmirele

I made it to the airport and through security theatre without throttling anyone. Seriously, what is up with having people walk across a space with a dog and his handler circling?

They scent drugs, bomb materials, all kinds of illegal things. I’d feel much safer with that circling dog’s presence.

Fly safe!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:46:39am

re: #210 Thanos

Our modern conservatives love theater and performative politics, making a ghoulish spectacle out of justice fits in nicely in their concept.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:51:37am

re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Our modern conservatives love theater and performative politics, making a ghoulish spectacle out of justice fits in nicely in their concept.

It’s not even that. They don’t believe in justice, but punishment. They think that making an example of people who are even accused of crimes will prevent future criminals; like, “Wow, they executed an innocent man without blinking an eye, maybe I’d better think twice about criming.” Their philosophy is that it is better to kill 10 innocent men than 1 guilty man should go free, because it is unconscionable to them that anyone should get away with defying their absolute authority.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:53:36am

re: #213 Nerdy Fish

yes, deterrence plays a big role, which is what their border control and immigration policies are based on. start deterring young children and they wont come back as adults…

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:54:28am

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

yes, deterrence plays a big role, which is what their border control and immigration policies are based on. start deterring young children and they wont come back as adults…

The former guy even said that out loud in his last unhinged screed at that rally a few days ago. They’re not hiding it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:57:46am

re: #215 Nerdy Fish

The former guy even said that out loud in his last unhinged screed at that rally a few days ago. They’re not hiding it.

“Don’t come here if you don’t like our religion!”

Our Constitutionally established religion that is, of course.

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 5:57:55am

re: #213 Nerdy Fish

It’s not even that. They don’t believe in justice, but punishment. They think that making an example of people who are even accused of crimes will prevent future criminals; like, “Wow, they executed an innocent man without blinking an eye, maybe I’d better think twice about criming.” Their philosophy is that it is better to kill 10 innocent men than 1 guilty man should go free, because it is unconscionable to them that anyone should get away with defying their absolute authority.

They are and always will be, wanting the return of feudalism & might makes right. It’s why they worship vigilantes, it’s why they are authoritarian, it’s why they favor societies with classes.
There’s a dark streak of hand me down philosophy and justifications that run all the way back to pre magna carta, the legacies of feudalism begat colonialism, begat fascism, begat authoritarianism.

It’s my tribe & my scary leader guy UBER ALLES! … *and you only matter until he says you don’t…
(you best not do anything strange, or look different or you might get that mob angry, and if you get that mob angry, he’s likely to say you don’t matter…)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:00:19am

re: #217 Thanos

“Possession is 9/10ths of the law!” say those who already possess 9/10ths of everything…

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:08:37am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:18:24am

Environmentalism Is Baal Worship, Says Texas Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian

rightwingwatch.org

On Monday, the Christian nationalist organization Christians Engaged broadcast a panel from the organization’s 2022 conference in which several elected officials discussed how their Christian faith shapes their work in office.

Among the participants was Wayne Christian, who serves as Texas Railroad Commissioner. Despite its name, the Railroad Commission of Texas does not actually oversee the state’s railroad, but rather wields jurisdiction over the state’s oil and natural gas industry and infrastructure.

During the panel, Christian declared that concern about protecting the environment is Baal worship.

“How does your Biblical understanding of Christian principles translate into this conversation and apply to this conversation about energy and resources and how we are stewards of God’s earth?” asked the moderator, Texas state Rep. Matt Schaefer.

“Well, the most important thing is it’s God’s gift to man,” Christian replied. “God told us real quick that man was the one that was supposed to take care of this and it was our responsibility to do it.”

“The biggest scam in history—I’ve found in the six years I’ve been as your Railroad Commissioner—is this Green New Deal,” he continued. “All this is the biggest scam on the public worldwide.”

Christian went on to mock concerns over rising global temperatures, declaring that even though temperatures have increased, “we’ve decreased environmental deaths by 98 percent” thanks to oil and gas which he said “has kept us warm and cool during hot and cold times.”

“We’re going to fix it by doing away with the protections God gave us the last 100 years?” Christian sneered. “Does this sound like a logical process? …. We think—as they have been teaching us for 40 years, from Al Gore’s time—that Mother Earth if it weren’t disturbed by man would be in perfect balance, and anything man does messes that up. So, anything we do is bad. If we make water cleaner, stronger, better available, that’s wrong because that’s disturbing Mother Nature. Now that’s the same thing that I read in the Bible as worshiping Baal. We worship Mother Earth.”

“Why would God have created the Garden of Eden if Mother Earth was so friendly outside?” Christian then concluded, triumphantly.

It is worth noting that when hundreds of Texas died in 2021 as a result of the state’s power grid collapsing during a severe winter storm, Christian was quick to blame renewable energy and fight efforts to strengthen the power grid.

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:19:57am

I’ve been speccing out cargo e-trikes, I don’t have the requisite young kids pictured in the video anymore, just very large ones, but these higher end models look interesting.

3 Wheel Electric Cargo Bike with Passenger Seat

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:21:41am

re: #209 Thanos

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Everyone should bookmark that guide for discussions we are bound to have as the conflict continues, it’s really good and concise.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:23:44am

The local gelato shop’s e-mail—for Halloween they’re making a special limited batch of apple cider donut gelato…why do they tempt me like this????

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:27:07am

And it’s time once again for another episode of Pulpit Pimp Theater!

Conveniently, Robert Henderson No Longer Believes the President ‘Should Never Be Criticized’

Right-wing pastor Robert Henderson was a deeply committed member of the Cult of Trump when former President Donald Trump occupied the White House, so much so that he declared that God had called him to serve as Trump’s spiritual running mate in the 2020 election.

Henderson was so committed to Trump, in fact, that he proclaimed that anyone who opposed Trump was “fighting with God” and went so far as to insist that Trump “should never be criticized.”

“We are violating the laws of God, and we are violating the ways of God by rising up and speaking evil against President Trump,” Henderson said during a church service in 2020. “People may not like his mannerisms, they may not like the way he does things, they may question his motives, but here’s the reality: He sits in the seat of the president of the United States of America, and because of that, he should never be reviled, he should never be spoken evil of, he should never be criticized.”

BUT KIDS, WHAT A DIFFERENCE AN ELECTION MAKES!!!!!

Obviously, now that Trump is no longer president, Henderson no longer believes that whoever “sits in the seat of the president of the United States of America … should never be spoken evil of, he should never be criticized” because when he appeared on “The Jim Bakker Show” today, he did not hesitate to criticize President Joe Biden.

“This is what I do know,” Henderson said. “All the Biden administration is doing, everything that they’re seeking to accomplish, it is all designed to weaken America. They’re either the most ignorant people that’s ever been in power, or they have an agenda to bring America down. That is what’s going on because the ultimate agenda is to bring a one-world government into place. That’s what they want to do.”

“You can never have a one-world government when you have a strong America,” Henderson continued. “You can’t have a one-world government and an Antichrist arise and all that as long as there is a strong America. So I personally believe that everything that they’re doing is designed to sabotage our success and to bring us down and to make us as weak as we possibly can.”

In 2020, Henderson warned that those who “[think] that we have a right to our opinion” were bringing “a curse on our nation” by daring to criticize the president, but apparently that no longer applies now that Biden holds that office.

rightwingwatch.org

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Thanos  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:35:00am

New version of Psycho Killer from Duran Duran

Duran Duran - PSYCHO KILLER (feat. Victoria DeAngelis) [Visualizer]

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jeffreyw  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:35:34am

Chicken Fried Chicken

Good morning!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:39:41am

re: #226 jeffreyw

Memories of Mom’s fried chicken with Cole slaw and succotash…

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:43:16am

robotj @robotj.bsky.s..

~ Reply to Anonymous any truth to putin already being dead and them using doppelgängers?

Anonymous @anony..

No
Why would his keen successors stand for such idiocy?
What would the massive strategic advantage be?
Makes no sense

Reposted by Halley E. Froehlich

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Florida Panhandler  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:46:13am

re: #147 EstebanTornado1963

I always like to go back to this thread when civil war talk pops up

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Just tell these nutcases that civil war means no gasoline anywhere and no definitely no ammo available in stores.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:52:41am

re: #164 TarHellion

Making a par on a 450-yard uphill hole into a driving wind felt more like a birbie.

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Par here too.

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Group: 3,4,4,5
Should have been a birbie — but I chickened out and used my third try to identify letters — and it verified the letter (and word) I was going to try.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:53:20am

re: #230 No Malarkey!

Oh boy. This general election is not going to be enjoyable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:57:38am

re: #230 No Malarkey!

Trump tells his supporters not to bother voting, but to focus on harassing voters instead.

and this is what makes me into such a pessimist when it comes to the threat of violence surrounding the 2024 elections

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:58:14am

re: #184 Dave In Austin

You’re welcome.

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Funny, but a photoshop (see Snopes)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:58:54am

re: #220 Joe Bacon ✅

The guys last name is actually Christian??

Are we sure the Onion didn’t write this?

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 6:59:29am

re: #220 Joe Bacon ✅

Another part of the Bible they skip, the one where were supposed to take care of the earth.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:00:02am

re: #236 Belafon

Another part of the Bible they skip, the one where were supposed to take care of the earth.

It’s literally in Genesis Chapter 1. What did God create Adam to do? TAKE CARE OF THE FUCKING PLACE.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:00:40am

re: #230 No Malarkey!

Trump tells his supporters not to bother voting, but to focus on harassing voters instead.

Take lessons from African Americans and vote, and they’ll be left wondering why no one voted for Republicans.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:01:47am

re: #237 Nerdy Fish

It’s literally in Genesis Chapter 1. What did God create Adam to do? TAKE CARE OF THE FUCKING PLACE.

Refer those bozos to the parable of the good steward.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:01:48am

re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and this is what makes me into such a pessimist when it comes to the threat of violence surrounding the 2024 elections

It seems all but inevitable that some Trump supporters will show up at polling places with assault weapons. I will hope for there being zero.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:01:57am

re: #237 Nerdy Fish

It’s literally in Genesis Chapter 1. What did God create Adam to do? TAKE CARE OF THE FUCKING PLACE.

They actually believe God put Adam in charge of everything so Adam can do what he wants (including destroy the planet if desired)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:03:23am

We agree.

Being a Republican has never been ‘more embarrassing’: Georgia GOPer

Geoff Duncan, the former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, is not holding back his feelings about his party’s continued devotion to former President Donald Trump.

In an interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution conducted in the wake of multiple one-time Trump allies copping to guilty pleas in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ sprawling racketeering case, questioned what Republicans were still doing loyally serving the former president.

Duncan expressed particular bewilderment that the party rushed to obey Trump when he came out against the speakership bid of Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), whose candidacy collapsed mere hours after he was named speaker designate.

“Has there ever been a more embarrassing moment in time to be a Republican?” he said. “It’s so hard to watch so many friends in the GOP not realize what a direct threat to this country Donald Trump has become.”

Duncan has been critical of Trump ever since the former president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat in Georgia led to multiple death threats leveled against election workers and local officials.

Trump also infamously called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and asked him to “find” the nearly 12,000 votes that he would need to overturn Biden’s victory.

rawstory.com

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:03:57am

re: #241 Eclectic Cyborg

They actually believe God put Adam in charge of everything so Adam can do what he wants (including destroy the planet if desired)

Yeah, I’m aware, but that’s a very poor reading of the passage. As with all their misinterpretations, it’s based on selectively grabbing parts of specific verses to stitch together the narrative, without looking at the passage as a whole. God created everything, then He created man and said, “Here, name all these things and look after them for me while I do cosmic stuff. Oh, and don’t eat the damn fruit, please and thank you.”

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:05:06am

As I’m reading it mark meadows testified in front of the federal grand jury
Hes got federal/jack smith immunity
but not Georgia (As of now)

You probably all knew this.
I’m slow sometimes

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:05:11am

re: #237 Nerdy Fish

It’s literally in Genesis Chapter 1. What did God create Adam to do? TAKE CARE OF THE FUCKING PLACE.

In the absence of actual gods, religious people can claim that their god(s) wants whatever they want. There’s little downside to pretending that a manager that does not exist shares their goals because other religious people don’t stop them.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:06:38am

re: #242 Joe Bacon ✅

We agree.

Being a Republican has never been ‘more embarrassing’: Georgia GOPer

Geoff Duncan, the former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, is not holding back his feelings about his party’s continued devotion to former President Donald Trump.

In an interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution conducted in the wake of multiple one-time Trump allies copping to guilty pleas in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ sprawling racketeering case, questioned what Republicans were still doing loyally serving the former president.

Duncan expressed particular bewilderment that the party rushed to obey Trump when he came out against the speakership bid of Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), whose candidacy collapsed mere hours after he was named speaker designate.

“Has there ever been a more embarrassing moment in time to be a Republican?” he said. “It’s so hard to watch so many friends in the GOP not realize what a direct threat to this country Donald Trump has become.”

Duncan has been critical of Trump ever since the former president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat in Georgia led to multiple death threats leveled against election workers and local officials.

Trump also infamously called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and asked him to “find” the nearly 12,000 votes that he would need to overturn Biden’s victory.

rawstory.com

Trump can’t make a speaker but he sure can break one

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:07:22am

re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg

The guys last name is actually Christian??

Are we sure the Onion didn’t write this?

His Twitter feed is precious.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:07:44am

re: #243 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, I’m aware, but that’s a very poor reading of the passage. As with all their misinterpretations, it’s based on selectively grabbing parts of specific verses to stitch together the narrative, without looking at the passage as a whole. God created everything, then He created man and said, “Here, name all these things and look after them for me while I do cosmic stuff. Oh, and don’t eat the damn fruit, please and thank you.”

What? This fruit?
Chomp!!

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William Lewis  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:12:16am

re: #229 Florida Panhandler

Just tell these nutcases that civil war means no gasoline anywhere and no definitely no ammo available in stores.

They like to blather about reloading and I like to ask them where they’re going to get primers and powder from, especially after how it became nearly impossible to source them during the pandemic.

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:16:09am

Mike Johnson, another seditious treasonweasel, is claiming to be speaker designate and hopes to get a floor vote today.

He sought to invalidate the election results simply because he didn’t like the outcome. He and the rest of the GOP had no evidence of election wrongdoing by anyone other than GOPers themselves. That’s it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:16:42am

re: #240 No Malarkey!

It seems all but inevitable that some Trump supporters will show up at polling places with assault weapons. I will hope for there being zero.

I hope so too, but these people are going be convinced that they are Thin Red Line defending America and all it stands for (in their minds)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:16:51am

House speaker debacle underscores MAGA’s ‘Leninist’ quest for ‘domination’: ex-GOP strategist

On Tuesday, October 24, Republicans nominated Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) for House speaker — only to watch Emmer withdraw from the race a few hours after the nomination. Later that same day, Republicans nominated Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) for the position. But it remains to be seen whether or not Johnson will be able to get the 217 votes needed for confirmation.

In a scathing article published by The Bulwark the following day, Never Trump conservative Tim Miller argues that the speaker debacle underscores the overall dysfunction in the GOP and the MAGA movement.

“Tom Emmer’s four-hour run as the Republican nominee for speaker of the House yesterday — 3/200ths of a Scaramucci, for those counting at home — will be remembered, if it is remembered at all, as one of the final gasps in the long overdue reckoning that has been coming for leaders of a bygone Republican party,” laments Miller, a former GOP strategist. “For about a decade and a half now, the governing wing of the party has attempted every strategy imaginable to delay handing congressional leadership power to the group of lawmakers who better represent the desires of today’s GOP voters — the erstwhile renegades the late John McCain dubbed ‘wacko birds.’ That group has grown from only a handful of troublemakers to a significant bloc of Congress that’s bolstered by an additional group of ‘closet normals’ who dress in wacko bird costumes for the retweets.”

Far-right MAGA Republican and “War Room” host Steve Bannon has described himself as a “Leninist” — not because he favors communism, but because, like Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, he believes that a political movement has to destroy in order to create. Bannon believes that the MAGA movement cannot be successful if it reaches any compromises with either liberals or traditional non-MAGA conservatives.

Miller argues that the chaos in the U.S. House of Representatives underscores the “Leninism” in the MAGA movement.

“This behavior is just the latest bit of evidence that the MAGA movement is based not on policy, but on domination,” Miler stresses. “As my colleague Jonathan V. Last has written, at its core MAGA has a Leninist objective: power. Who will overtake whom? When you know that that is the central question — when you know that one side is willing even to threaten democracy itself to win the power struggle — eventually, you reach a point where there is no middle ground left.”

alternet.org

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:18:00am

re: #250 lawhawk

I always loved the circular logic involved in that whole pile of bullshit. Trump claims election was stolen -> cultists talk about ways it could be stolen -> lawmakers file lawsuit based on “many people are saying” election was stolen -> Trump uses lawsuit to claim election was stolen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:18:54am

re: #253 Nerdy Fish

I always loved the circular logic involved in that whole pile of bullshit. Trump claims election was stolen -> cultists talk about ways it could be stolen -> lawmakers file lawsuit based on “many people are saying” election was stolen -> Trump uses lawsuit to claim election was stolen.

20,000 mules tell us so!

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:19:04am

Therefore, electing the Speaker has nothing to do with governing (yes, it’s already been said multiple times here, I’m just supplying the documentation).

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:20:12am

re: #164 TarHellion

Making a par on a 450-yard uphill hole into a driving wind felt more like a birbie.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:20:33am

Also, if you file a whole-ass lawsuit and get your friends to sign an amicus brief all based on “many people are saying,” you are having a bad time and you will not go to court today.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:22:18am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:23:03am

re: #255 Belafon

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Therefore, electing the Speaker has nothing to do with governing (yes, it’s already been said multiple times here, I’m just supplying the documentation).

Correct. It has nothing to do with governing. It has everything to do with shutting down the government, impeaching Joe and Kamala while sticking a shiv in Ukraine.

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A Cranky One  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:23:55am

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:26:55am
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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:31:33am

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:32:12am

re: #259 Joe Bacon ✅

Correct. It has nothing to do with governing. It has everything to do with shutting down the government, impeaching Joe and Kamala while sticking a shiv in Ukraine.

Good, the big majority of voters will be repulsed by that shit. If the majority of Congressional Republicans are willing to let the Treasonweasels run the House before they’ll make a deal with the Democrats to elect a rational conservative Speaker to keep the government functioning, they’ll get what they deserve.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:32:33am

re: #249 William Lewis

They like to blather about reloading and I like to ask them where they’re going to get primers and powder from, especially after how it became nearly impossible to source them during the pandemic.

Say 15% of Dems think ” violence” may be necessary
And maybe double, 30% of rs
the difference:

Ds think it’ll be necessary to defend the government
Rs think it necessary to overthrow the government.

Both sides are not “patriots”.
Ignorant morons, fueled by conservative media, think violence against the govt is patriotic.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:32:44am

re: #238 Belafon

Take lessons from African Americans and vote, and they’ll be left wondering why no one voted for Republicans.

Killed a million of their own voters and now this.

Where’s that gif of the guy pointing at his head. These guys are mental midgets. The dumb is stunning?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:34:04am

re: #252 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh no! The leopards are eating our faces!

And there will be their equivalent to the Night of the Long Knives to consolidate power in The GOP as part of the overall scheme.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:36:55am

It’s the BatFart & Rotten Show!

Vivek Ramaswamy Teams Up With Alex Jones to Slam Sean Hannity

The GOP presidential hopeful sat down with the Sandy Hook truther for a friendly hour-long chat culminating in them slamming the Fox News star.

GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is now joining forces with far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to go after Fox News star Sean Hannity, who put Ramaswamy through the wringer earlier this month in a “disaster” interview.

Ramaswamy’s anti-Fox collaboration with the notorious Sandy Hook truther is particularly noteworthy considering it was just this past summer that the biotech entrepreneur appeared to be the conservative cable giant’s preferred non-Trump contender for the Republican nomination.

During the latest episode of his TRUTH podcast, which streams on the social media platform formerly called Twitter, Ramaswamy welcomed Jones, describing the Infowars founder as the “most censored man in the world.” Despite Elon Musk reversing the suspensions of most controversial figures after purchasing Twitter, Jones and his media outlet remain banned from the site now known as X.

For the vast majority of the friendly hour-long sitdown, Ramaswamy largely whistled past Jones’ history of peddling wild conspiracies about the 9/11 terror attacks and the Sandy Hook mass shooting, suggesting that Jones was merely a truth-seeker pushing back against the establishment.

Describing Jones as just “curious,” Ramaswamy went on to tell the Infowars host that “you’re in this to seek underlying truth that other people aren’t getting to.” The presidential candidate said this means that “once in a while, you’re going to find something that looks one way that wasn’t exactly the way you thought, and so maybe you were wrong.”

Jones, meanwhile, admitted that he’s “made a lot of mistakes,” seemingly satisfying any concerns Ramaswamy had about Jones’ unhinged conspiracy theories. Of course, at the same time, Ramaswamy himself has been accused of peddling trutherism about 9/11 being an “inside job.”

After expressing sympathy for Jones having to pay over a billion dollars to Sandy Hook families that he defamed, Ramaswamy eventually brought up the Hannity interview, which Jones admitted he had not seen yet. The “anti-woke” politician helpfully described it in detail for his guest.

thedailybeast.com

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:39:43am

re: #267 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s the BatFart & Rotten Show!

Vivek Ramaswamy Teams Up With Alex Jones to Slam Sean Hannity

The GOP presidential hopeful sat down with the Sandy Hook truther for a friendly hour-long chat culminating in them slamming the Fox News star.

GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is now joining forces with far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to go after Fox News star Sean Hannity, who put Ramaswamy through the wringer earlier this month in a “disaster” interview.

Ramaswamy’s anti-Fox collaboration with the notorious Sandy Hook truther is particularly noteworthy considering it was just this past summer that the biotech entrepreneur appeared to be the conservative cable giant’s preferred non-Trump contender for the Republican nomination.

During the latest episode of his TRUTH podcast, which streams on the social media platform formerly called Twitter, Ramaswamy welcomed Jones, describing the Infowars founder as the “most censored man in the world.” Despite Elon Musk reversing the suspensions of most controversial figures after purchasing Twitter, Jones and his media outlet remain banned from the site now known as X.

For the vast majority of the friendly hour-long sitdown, Ramaswamy largely whistled past Jones’ history of peddling wild conspiracies about the 9/11 terror attacks and the Sandy Hook mass shooting, suggesting that Jones was merely a truth-seeker pushing back against the establishment.

Describing Jones as just “curious,” Ramaswamy went on to tell the Infowars host that “you’re in this to seek underlying truth that other people aren’t getting to.” The presidential candidate said this means that “once in a while, you’re going to find something that looks one way that wasn’t exactly the way you thought, and so maybe you were wrong.”

Jones, meanwhile, admitted that he’s “made a lot of mistakes,” seemingly satisfying any concerns Ramaswamy had about Jones’ unhinged conspiracy theories. Of course, at the same time, Ramaswamy himself has been accused of peddling trutherism about 9/11 being an “inside job.”

After expressing sympathy for Jones having to pay over a billion dollars to Sandy Hook families that he defamed, Ramaswamy eventually brought up the Hannity interview, which Jones admitted he had not seen yet. The “anti-woke” politician helpfully described it in detail for his guest.

thedailybeast.com

When I think “woke anti-MAGA media personality” Sean Hannity immediately comes to mind./

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:40:25am

The Vote is at 12 eastern….

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:41:12am

re: #255 Belafon

Ok. Ask about his misogynistic anti abortion stance where he’d criminalize abortions.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:43:07am

When you have lost Bill Mitchell

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:44:24am

re: #269 Dave In Austin

The Vote is at 12 eastern….

And may actually result in the election of a Speaker this time.

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:50:05am

re: #84 BeenHereAwhile

thedopefishlives
@thedopefishlives.bs…

Sing to me, O Muse, of the wrath of Matthew the son of Gaetz, that brought countless ills upon the Republicans.
Many a brave Speaker did it send hurrying down to Hades.

Brilliant - but my dudes & dudettes - WTF is up with BlueSky?
I had an invite code that I’ve been muttering. about for the last month or so, finally used it today and HOLY. SCHNIZZBALLS IS THAT SITE FULL OF PR0N & HORNYFOLK!

Was it Xitter cracking down on folks who were using it to promo their naked-type businesses? Is that why the feed there is seriously NSFQ?

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:51:43am

re: #272 No Malarkey!

Kiss of death.

None of these fuckers know how to count. We’ve seen that before - McCarthy (and allies) said he had votes. Scalise (and allies) said he had the votes. Jordan (and allies) said he had the votes.

Emmer lasted all of four hours from being named to withdrawing.

Johnson isn’t any better.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:56:46am

re: #273 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

Lucky you. I haven’t seen any of that.
Bsky allows you to set a lot of filters, but you’ll have to look them up.

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dat_said  Oct 25, 2023 • 7:59:27am

Major Snowstorm to Hit North Dakota on Thursday October 26, 2023

Best weatherman for ND blizzards - Frankie lives in Nova Scotia

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:02:46am

re: #276 dat_said

As per the Nat’l Weather Service Northern ND already has snow.
wpc.ncep.noaa.gov

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:05:15am

Seditious treasonweasel.
Misogynistic anti abortion extremist who wants to criminalize abortion and eliminate access to reproductive care.

Yeah, he’s perfect to lead the GOP.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:08:07am

re: #270 lawhawk

Ok. Ask about his misogynistic anti abortion stance where he’d criminalize abortions.

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The irony is that legal abortions actually increased after Dobbs, as blue states were energized to protect abortion access, which resulted in an increased capacity to satisfy unmet needs for reproductive care.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:09:03am

Give me $20 on “Johnson doesn’t win the vote today”.

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dat_said  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:09:16am

re: #277 PhillyPretzel ✅

As per the Nat’l Weather Service Northern ND already has snow.
wpc.ncep.noaa.gov

Yeah, but the NWS is a little bit more, let’s say, staid than Frankie. Talking with my sister this morning, she said flurries in Williston right now but nothing in Bismarck. Expect it to start raining around suppertime and hitting hard beginning after midnight. Rain followed by heavy snow is nasty.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:10:26am

re: #274 lawhawk

Kiss of death.

None of these fuckers know how to count. We’ve seen that before - McCarthy (and allies) said he had votes. Scalise (and allies) said he had the votes. Jordan (and allies) said he had the votes.

Emmer lasted all of four hours from being named to withdrawing.

Johnson isn’t any better.

We’ll see this afternoon. Presumably at some point the Republicans will elect a Speaker despite themselves.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:11:39am

re: #278 lawhawk

Seditious treasonweasel.
Misogynistic anti abortion extremist who wants to criminalize abortion and eliminate access to reproductive care.

Yeah, he’s perfect to lead the GOP.

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The attack ads write themselves; I couldn’t have picked a better Speaker for the Democrats to run against if I tried.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:12:30am

re: #278 lawhawk

Mike Johnson is currently the cosponsor of at least three bills that would ban abortion nationwide

and once those bills are in place, there will be mandatory medical inspections for all women of chldbearing age who are leaving or re-entering the country.

Gilead Idiocracy 451

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jeffreyw  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:13:19am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:14:45am

re: #279 No Malarkey!

The irony is that legal abortions actually increased after Dobbs, as blue states were energized to protect abortion access, which resulted in an increased capacity to satisfy unmet needs for reproductive care.

One of the reasons that Tommy Tubesteak is blocking military promotions is their policy of allowing female serivce members medical leave to access health care procedures that are not available in the state in which they are stationed.

We all know what that means.

That and the woke poetry.

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Charmingly Persistent  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:15:58am

re: #273 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

Brilliant - but my dudes & dudettes - WTF is up with BlueSky?
I had an invite code that I’ve been muttering. about for the last month or so, finally used it today and HOLY. SCHNIZZBALLS IS THAT SITE FULL OF PR0N & HORNYFOLK!

Was it Xitter cracking down on folks who were using it to promo their naked-type businesses? Is that why the feed there is seriously NSFQ?

Click on the gear and then moderation. Here are my settings. I don’t see porn.

My Bluesky moderation settings
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jeffreyw  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:17:38am

re: #282 No Malarkey!

We’ll see this afternoon. Presumably at some point the Republicans will elect a Speaker despite themselves.

Just goes to show: The easiest way to get to them is to laugh at what they do. You can’t shame them but ridicule works, eventually it pierces their bubble.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:20:01am

re: #288 jeffreyw

Just goes to show: The easiest way to get to them is to laugh at what they do. You can’t shame them but ridicule works, eventually it pierces their bubble.

and once they elect a new speaker they will act as if none of this ever happened

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Mike Lamb  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:20:15am

re: #274 lawhawk

Kiss of death.

None of these fuckers know how to count. We’ve seen that before - McCarthy (and allies) said he had votes. Scalise (and allies) said he had the votes. Jordan (and allies) said he had the votes.

Emmer lasted all of four hours from being named to withdrawing.

Johnson isn’t any better.

There were 30 “others” when Johnson “won” the vote to be the next in the barrel. And if folks like Ken Buck wouldn’t vote for Jordan because he wouldn’t say Biden won, how will Johnson fare in that regard?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:24:31am

I’d lay pretty good odds the next Speaker won’t last long either.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:27:21am

re: #291 Eclectic Cyborg

I’d lay pretty good odds the next Speaker won’t last long either.

AFAIK, the rule for “one person can move to vacate” is still in place, so until that is no longer the case, anyone who takes that seat is sitting on a literal powder keg.

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dat_said  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:30:13am

re: #287 Charmingly Persistent

Click on the gear and then moderation. Here are my settings. I don’t see porn.

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Also, go find a couple of other lizards and people you think are decent and look to see who they follow. I follow a bunch of lizards and folks like Charles Johnson, Peter Sagal, Kevin M. Kruse, Jon Cryer, George Takei, Popehat, Stonekettle, and others. That seems to fill up my “Following” feed with relative decent non-furry stuff.

Also, go into # Feeds and select the cog wheel setting icon and make some edits. I have Discover, What’s Science, and Catch Up pinned and those seem pretty clean.

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sagehen  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:32:47am

re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg

Give me $20 on “Johnson doesn’t win the vote today”.

Not if it’s an even-money bet. What sort of odds can you offer?

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BigPapa  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:35:06am

The GQP in Disarray. Better than when they’re in an array, which means more unified fuckery.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:35:12am

re: #288 jeffreyw

Just goes to show: The easiest way to get to them is to laugh at what they do. You can’t shame them but ridicule works, eventually it pierces their bubble.

tubas

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:35:27am

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:36:06am

re: #294 sagehen

Not if it’s an even-money bet. What sort of odds can you offer?

I think he’ll be elected today. He is the very model of a modern MAGA Republican.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:36:50am

re: #297 Vicious Babushka

Mmm. Those sourdough loaves look great.

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Interesting Times  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:38:39am

re: #298 No Malarkey!

I think he’ll be elected today. He is the very model of a modern MAGA Republican.

So he’s Jim Jordan without the baggage? 🙄

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:39:03am

Sidney Powell pushes claims that 2020 election was rigged and prosecutors ‘extorted’ her after she pleaded guilty to election interference

Link

exactly like the convicted J6er’s yelling ‘trump won’ after their plea deals

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:40:56am

re: #301 Dangerman

Sidney Powell pushes claims that 2020 election was rigged and prosecutors ‘extorted’ her after she pleaded guilty to election interference

Link

exactly like the convicted J6er’s yelling ‘trump won’ after their plea deals

she is really trying to keep all her bases covered, ain’t she?

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:41:55am

re: #300 Interesting Times

So he’s Jim Jordan without the baggage? 🙄

Yep.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:42:29am

re: #302 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

she is really trying to keep all her bases covered, ain’t she?

Except she won’t say that when she’s under oath. Just like Rudy was careful with his claims when he was in a court of law.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:43:47am

re: #302 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

she is really trying to keep all her bases covered, ain’t she?

I wonder if a few charges are still in reserve, not covered in the plea deal, and ready to be used of Powell or others essentially rescind their cooperation or continue to be insurrectionists.

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:43:55am

re: #304 Hecuba’s daughter

The grift is real, and she’s still thinking she’s got a chance to continue the grift after this is done.

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Orange Impostor  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:46:00am

re: #300 Interesting Times

So he’s Jim Jordan without the baggage? 🙄

He’s a Republican out of Louisiana.
To a man, they are not the party of Donald Trump.

They are the party of David Duke.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:47:09am

yes the wheels of justice turn slowly & eventually grind exceedingly fine

sometimes enough of it accumulates on one person in a single day and

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:47:51am

re: #300 Interesting Times

So he’s Jim Jordan without the baggage with a jacket on. ? 🙄

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:48:40am

re: #306 lawhawk

The grift is real, and she’s still thinking she’s got a chance to continue the grift after this is done.

well she doesn’t have a job…

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:51:05am

re: #306 lawhawk

The grift is real, and she’s still thinking she’s got a chance to continue the grift after this is done.

That, or she could be fundamentally terrified of the MAGAts she’s stoked with her lies, and feels compelled to keep them up in public so as to avoid getting shot.

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 8:57:24am

re: #311 Nerdy Fish

To the point of endangering her deal with prosecutors and landing her in jail? Yeah, I don’t think so. I think she’s that monumentally stupid (as starting down this whole chain of events with no evidence, and bogus claims and misleading/frivolous filings with multiple courts) shows that she doesn’t care about facts or reality, and that she’s still pushing this act.

Prosecutors should take heed.

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:01:41am

Johnson is more legislatively accomplished than Jim Jordan.

3 sponsored bills became law. One post office naming. Changing boundaries of a national wildlife refuge. Changing boundaries of a NHS in Louisiana (Jean Lafitte).

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:02:31am

re: #312 lawhawk

To the point of endangering her deal with prosecutors and landing her in jail? Yeah, I don’t think so. I think she’s that monumentally stupid (as starting down this whole chain of events with no evidence, and bogus claims and misleading/frivolous filings with multiple courts) shows that she doesn’t care about facts or reality, and that she’s still pushing this act.

Prosecutors should take heed.

I can’t really disagree, I mean, she’s the one who even Trump himself was too batshit crazy for him. Intelligence seems to have taken a back seat a while ago.

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darthstar  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:05:19am

Mastodon

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jeffreyw  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:07:35am

From TS to Cat 5 in a day? Rapid seems too weak a term.

Mastodon

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:08:47am

Can the prosecutors rescind Powell’s agreement and go ahead with her prosecution?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:08:55am

re: #316 jeffreyw

From TS to Cat 5 in a day? Rapid seems to weak a term.

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I would not be surprised if a Cat 6 gets added to the scale within the next 10 years.

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darthstar  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:09:45am

Trump violated the gag order again - making comments about the court clerk during recess. Afterwards, his lawyers argued he was talking about Cohen - Judge Engoran said he would take that defense under consideration while he made his decision. Trump could be getting a $5,000 fine today - and if he does it again, the consequences will be more severe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:10:10am

re: #317 Ace Rothstein

Can the prosecutors rescind Powell’s agreement and go ahead with her prosecution?

we assume they have some use for her testimony

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:10:13am

re: #316 jeffreyw

Bombogenesis. That’s the rapid intensification process where tropical systems show rapid strengthening.

I think there are studies underway to see how climate change is causing an increase in rapid intensification storm, but it’s hard to figure given that we don’t have similar data from beyond the past few decades. It’s a limited data sample, but data modeling can help to a degree.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:10:19am

re: #319 darthstar

Time to make it more severe NOW.

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:11:01am

re: #317 Ace Rothstein

Can the prosecutors rescind Powell’s agreement and go ahead with her prosecution?

If she fails to adhere to the terms, or perjures herself, or otherwise misleads prosecutors or the courts.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:11:57am

re: #323 lawhawk

If she fails to adhere to the terms, or perjures herself, or otherwise misleads prosecutors or the courts.

Yes, I think plea agreements usually come with conditional language intended to ensure the government can go back and clap your cheeks if you decide to fuck around after you think you’re safe.

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darthstar  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:11:59am

re: #322 Ace Rothstein

Time to make it more severe NOW.

X link from dKos - they’re still addicted to that shit because they’re too lazy to implement a mastodon API like Charles did.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:14:14am
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wrenchwench  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:14:27am

Birb. Wordle 858 3/6*

Click to Reveal

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With the frustrating four greens on the second line.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:15:29am

re: #316 jeffreyw

This is what I could find with the NWS/Nat’l Hurricane Center:
nhc.noaa.gov

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nines09  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:15:43am

re: #276 dat_said

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Best weatherman for ND blizzards - Frankie lives in Nova Scotia

Go on his Instagram account and check out who he follows. He likes puppies.
frankiemacd1984

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jeffreyw  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:16:02am

Watched Netflix series “Bodies”. It was entertaining and a new take on time travel. Don’t ask too many questions lest you spoil it for yourself.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:17:31am

went to see a doctor in march

they got around to billing it to insurance in may
between then medicare kicked in

so they billed the wrong insurance

you’d think this was very common, like almost a daily occurrence especially in florida
nope.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:18:15am

re: #323 lawhawk

I meant with her latest comments about how her testimony was extorted by the prosecution. Can the prosecutors go “Oh really?” and bring her before the judge?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:21:27am

re: #332 Ace Rothstein

I meant with her latest comments about how her testimony was extorted by the prosecution. Can the prosecutors go “Oh really?” and bring her before the judge?

She should be suing the government for extortion and obstruction of justice, etc…

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:23:35am
Images of provocative pro-Palestinian messages projected onto the wall of a George Washington University (GWU) building have led to an outcry.

Pictures posted online by anti-hate watchdog StopAntisemitism on Tuesday showed phrases including “Glory to our martyrs,” “Divestment from Zionist genocide now” and “Free Palestine from the river to the sea” projected onto the side of the Gelman Library in the Washington D.C. university’s Foggy Bottom campus.

newsweek.com

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:24:44am

re: #334 Shropshire Slasher

newsweek.com

“provocative”? C’mon, Newsweek, do better. “From the river to the sea” is an exterminationist phrase.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:26:02am

re: #335 Nerdy Fish

“provocative”? C’mon, Newsweek, do better. “From the river to the sea” is an exterminationist phrase.

“Von der Maas bis an die Memel”

(“From the Meuse to the Memel” - a line from Deutschland Über Alles)

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jeffreyw  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:27:50am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:32:42am

re: #337 jeffreyw

All you need to do is The Magic Dance to get out of The Labyrinth!

Magic Dance

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:34:08am

re: #337 jeffreyw

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Arrested for what? Littering?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:36:54am

re: #339 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Arrested for what? Littering?

IKEAdnapping

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Captain Ron  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:38:19am
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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:39:30am

re: #340 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

IKEAdnapping

+1

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:39:49am

re: #341 Captain Ron

Just because his view or experience with school was a nightmare does not mean everyone else has to go through that.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:39:53am

Looks like the house will have a leader.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:40:58am

re: #344 Shropshire Slasher

Looks like the house will have a leader.

This should be interesting.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:43:59am

Suits to bar Trump from the ballot advancing in Colorado and Minnesota.

‘This needs to go forward’: Petition to remove Trump from Minnesota ballot heads to court

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nines09  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:44:06am

The GOP left no stone unturned in their search for the most insane person.

“WE FOUND HIM!!!!!”
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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:45:38am

So authoritarian of him:

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nines09  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:48:00am

re: #348 Belafon

Women are just tubes where babies come out.
Property.

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:49:22am

re: #332 Ace Rothstein

I meant with her latest comments about how her testimony was extorted by the prosecution. Can the prosecutors go “Oh really?” and bring her before the judge?

Absolutely - they could question the sincerity of her apology and recommend sanctions or revocation of the deal.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:50:16am

re: #348 Belafon

So authoritarian of him:

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“So remember, ladies, just lie back and think of Uncle Sam, or not only will your husband be unhappy with you and leave you, but we’ll cut off his retirement support to make him extra angry.”

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jeffreyw  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:51:19am

The hearing must have been lit!

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wrenchwench  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:55:03am

Mastodon

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BeachDem  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:55:51am

As if it couldn’t get any worse, now we have to listen to Elise run her whiny, obnoxious mouth.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:57:24am

Mastodon

Mastodon

Mastodon

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Oct 25, 2023 • 9:58:35am
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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:00:51am

jeebus

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:02:03am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:02:12am

re: #349 nines09

Women are just tubes where babies come out.
Property.

Until baby comes out then they are on their own

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Captain Ron  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:02:40am
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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:03:01am

re: #357 Backwoods Sleuth

jeebus

[Embedded content]

A group of nearly all white people ends up looking like Republicans in the House.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:03:50am

re: #357 Backwoods Sleuth

There is nothing wrong with wanting a staff that reflects and represents the entire population and not just the priveleged.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:10:20am
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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:12:04am

A quicky, and the joys of technology in diagnosing your car trouble.

SMA Quicky: Ford Escape 1.6 Turbo Misfire

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:13:43am
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darthstar  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:13:58am

This is the strongest statement the judge has said about the defendant’s behavior yet:

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“I don’t want anybody killed” - he’s saying Trump’s stochastic terrorism won’t fly in his court…and you can believe Judge Chutkan is watching this as well.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:15:24am
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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:16:53am
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nines09  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:19:06am

re: #352 jeffreyw

The cops lied from the get go. Had body camera that showed the man was shot inside his car, never got out. It all happened in mere seconds. I had Philly cops throw nightsticks at me, and tried to hit me with their cars. I think if I was who I was then today I would be DOA.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:20:18am

re: #365 Backwoods Sleuth

Gonna guess that was Boebert or MTG flapping their gums.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:21:00am

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:21:02am

I think this ones in the bag folks…..

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BeachDem  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:21:56am

And all the holdouts in the other round are caving like crazy. We are going to end up with a House speaker even worse than the ones already rejected. (except for Gym—nobody is worse than Gym)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:23:00am

Gonna guess Johnson gives no shits about shutting down the government in a couple of weeks.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:24:28am

re: #370 Eclectic Cyborg

Gonna guess that was Boebert or MTG flapping their gums.

sounded like mtg

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:25:06am

re: #373 BeachDem

And all the holdouts in the other round are caving like crazy. We are going to end up with a House speaker even worse than the ones already rejected. (except for Gym—nobody is worse than Gym)

And even with a Speaker voted in it’s still a do-nothing Congress with the GOP label firmly attached to it. And a House which will drag its feet on any further CR and continue to refuse to honor a deal regarding the budget.

I just want a reporter to outright ask McCarthy or Johnson “Do you realize how stupid you sound when you blame the Democrats for your caucus being unable to do anything?”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:25:27am

re: #374 Eclectic Cyborg

Gonna guess Johnson gives no shits about shutting down the government in a couple of weeks.

This time it’s gonna be a long shutdown with a Bannonite in the Speaker’s chair.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:26:03am

re: #375 Backwoods Sleuth

sounded like mtg

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:26:33am

So basically the new Speaker is Jim Jordan without the sex scandal?

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darthstar  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:27:16am

re: #377 Joe Bacon ✅

This time it’s gonna be a long shutdown with a Bannonite in the Speaker’s chair.

Looks like we’re going to have to suffer a shutdown. Buckle up everyone.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:27:26am

re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg

So basically the new Speaker is Jim Jordan without the sex scandal?

Just another one of the Boys In The Hood…and Bedsheets.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:28:08am
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:28:41am

re: #381 Joe Bacon ✅

Or from the old mini-series Chiefs: White Sheeted Yellow Belly

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BeachDem  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:28:49am

re: #378 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I think of Luna as the Santos of the South.

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steve_davis  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:30:32am

I understand from siriusxm’s streaming that some democrats have voted present on past votes. please tell me they aren’t going to do that here, and that they were just filling republicans with false hope. sounds from the nominating speech for Jeffries like Democrats aren’t really in the mood to fuck around with the insurrection caucus.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:31:47am

re: #385 steve_davis

I understand from siriusxm’s streaming that some democrats have voted present on past votes. please tell me they aren’t going to do that here, and that they were just filling republicans with false hope. sounds from the nominating speech for Jeffries like Democrats aren’t really in the mood to fuck around with the insurrection caucus.

Jeffries has gotten every Democrats in the Speaker elections.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:31:50am

A Black woman in Mississippi reported her son missing and went 7 months with police telling her they couldn’t find him.

She sent them photos, begged for updates, and implored them to put his story on the news.

It turns out they knew where he was all along. An hour after he left his house he was struck and killed on the highway by an off duty police officer.

They hid his body in the morgue for months without ever notifying his family despite there being a prescription bottle with his name on it found at the scene.

Then they buried him in a pauper’s field with nothing but a number identifying him as corpse # “672”.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:32:34am

re: #382 Backwoods Sleuth

Pretty sure that long haired guy they claim to worship was pretty big on feeding the hungry.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:33:17am

re: #387 Backwoods Sleuth

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:33:32am

re: #384 BeachDem

I think of Luna as the Santos of the South.

I think of Luna as Santos in makeup picking up a second paycheck.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:33:44am

Looking forward to Jan. 3, 2025 when Hakeem takes the gavel.

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darthstar  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:34:02am

So it’s looking like we’re going to get to see all of Johnson’s dirty laundry in the coming weeks. I hope he enjoys living under a microscope.

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Belafon  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:34:06am

re: #387 Backwoods Sleuth

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The entire department needs to be prosecuted.

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lawhawk  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:34:31am
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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:35:54am
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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:36:22am

re: #372 Dave In Austin

I think this ones in the bag folks…..

Kev loses his way back in

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nines09  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:36:30am

re: #382 Backwoods Sleuth

The god who wants kids to go hungry.
Some god.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:37:12am

Don’t “we” get to pick a new speaker in January? Can’t wait…

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:37:17am

re: #397 nines09

The god who wants kids to go hungry.
Some god.

Those kids are sinners, God doesn’t give a fuck about no sinners. He only cares about the good Christian folk, don’tcha know.

(Spoilers: All those so-called “good Christian folk” were sinners, once. That’s the whole fucking point.)

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:37:24am

re: #373 BeachDem

And all the holdouts in the other round are caving like crazy. We are going to end up with a House speaker even worse than the ones already rejected. (except for Gym—nobody is worse than Gym)

Their excuse is they’re “tired”

They are juror 7 in 12 angry men

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:38:13am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:38:32am

re: #376 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And even with a Speaker voted in it’s still a do-nothing Congress with the GOP label firmly attached to it. And a House which will drag its feet on any further CR and continue to refuse to honor a deal regarding the budget.

I just want a reporter to outright ask McCarthy or Johnson “Do you realize how stupid you sound when you blame the Democrats for your caucus being unable to do anything?”

Bbbbut we’d get a lot done if they’d just vote the way we want

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:38:58am

re: #397 nines09

The god who wants kids to go hungry.
Some god.

It’s imagined in their own image. A cruel god that rewards people it likes, and makes people it doesn’t like poor. A god that happens to be just like cruel stupid men.

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darthstar  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:39:29am

re: #373 BeachDem

And all the holdouts in the other round are caving like crazy. We are going to end up with a House speaker even worse than the ones already rejected. (except for Gym—nobody is worse than Gym)

He’s never held a leadership position in Congress - just a back bencher. He’s going to be overwhelmed with doing regular business alone, never mind trying to manage the members of his conference who continuously step out of line and embarrass the House and insult our allies.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:40:00am

Mastodon

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:40:01am

re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg

So basically the new Speaker is Jim Jordan without the sex scandal? with a jacket

Didn’t we do this already ? :-)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:42:00am

re: #405 Backwoods Sleuth

Buckle up…

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sagehen  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:42:09am

re: #388 Eclectic Cyborg

Pretty sure that long haired guy they claim to worship was pretty big on feeding the hungry.

also housing the homeless, healing the sick, and welcoming the refugee.

But, y’know.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:42:49am

re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg

So basically the new Speaker is Jim Jordan without the sex scandal?

Without the molestation scandal. Gaetz is the one with the sex scandal. No, wait…that was child molestation too. I think I see a pattern.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:42:51am

re: #404 darthstar

He’s never held a leadership position in Congress - just a back bencher. He’s going to be overwhelmed with doing regular business alone, never mind trying to manage the members of his conference who continuously step out of line and embarrass the House and insult our allies.

What’ll likely happen is that he’ll keep pushing the hard-liner positions - national abortion ban, defund the special prosecutor, HunterBidenEmailGhaziPizzaGate, unconditional government shutdown, no aid for Ukraine - but even that won’t be enough; he’ll say or do something stupid and then we’ll have Matt Gaetz or some other House Republican dumbass (but I repeat myself) giving him the ouster, too.

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nines09  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:43:22am

re: #403 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

It’s imagined in their own image. A cruel god that rewards people it likes, and makes people it doesn’t like poor. A god that happens to be just like cruel stupid men.

The bible is a brick to beat people with. Some of the most vile assholes I know are in church twice a week to share in the fellowship of vile hatred of others.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:44:21am

re: #383 PhillyPretzel ✅

Or from the old mini-series Chiefs: White Sheeted Yellow Belly

A fave

Billy Dee williams. “And if that doesnt work, just pretend I’m…. GOD!”

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BeachDem  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:45:13am

re: #395 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Joan McCarter at Kos says it all:

An extremist was always going to get this job—the whole point of tossing McCarthy was to get someone more hardline in. That and he was just a weasel who’d promise anything to anyone. Gaetz and crew—and the puppet-master Steve Bannon—can count on Johnson’s fealty to the MAGA cause. They won’t fight him on a continuing resolution, for example, because they trust him to toe the extremist line.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:45:27am

re: #374 Eclectic Cyborg

Gonna guess Johnson gives no shits about shutting down the government in a couple of weeks.

That is what I am hoping, anyway. Remind the voters that Republicans can’t even keep the lights on.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:47:13am

re: #411 nines09

The bible is a brick to beat people with. Some of the most vile assholes I know are in church twice a week to share in the fellowship of vile hatred of others.

It depends on the sect. Conservative Christianity is entirely abuse. Liberal Christianity has some positive messages along with the abuse of threatening kids too young to know better with eternal torture in hell. Some may not even bring that up anymore.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:49:47am

re: #401 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]
He denied that his earlier comment was about the clerk but he refused to answer multiple questions about who he was referring to.

Maybe he can’t remember

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:51:45am

re: #409 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Without the molestation scandal.

..that we know about.
Cause I’ve heard people say…

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:53:35am

re: #411 nines09

The bible is a brick to beat people with. Some of the most vile assholes I know are in church twice a week to share in the fellowship of vile hatred of others.

You can tell a lot about a person by how they exit the parking lot after church.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:55:28am

re: #404 darthstar

He’s never held a leadership position in Congress - just a back bencher. He’s going to be overwhelmed with doing regular business alone, never mind trying to manage the members of his conference who continuously step out of line and embarrass the House and insult our allies.

The Speaker’s job #1 is raising money for his members reelection campaigns, and McCarthy was very good at that.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:57:15am

re: #413 BeachDem

Joan McCarter at Kos says it all:

An extremist was always going to get this job—the whole point of tossing McCarthy was to get someone more hardline in. That and he was just a weasel who’d promise anything to anyone. Gaetz and crew—and the puppet-master Steve Bannon—can count on Johnson’s fealty to the MAGA cause. They won’t fight him on a continuing resolution, for example, because they trust him to toe the extremist line.

Link

For about a decade and a half now the governing wing of the party has attempted every strategy imaginable to delay handing congressional leadership power to the group of lawmakers who better represent the desires of today’s GOP voters—[ ie maga]

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steve_davis  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:57:40am

re: #326 Dave In Austin

[Embedded content]

jesus that would be a nightmare for me. with my lifelong battle with ibs, having something 30 times bigger than me shouting, “come on, go potty!” and then me having to do it in arctic fucking conditions….could not handle it.

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steve_davis  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:58:46am

re: #387 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

okay, somebody’s getting jail time for that shit.

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Dangerman  Oct 25, 2023 • 10:59:20am

re: #419 No Malarkey!

The Speaker’s job #1 is raising money for his members reelection campaigns, and McCarthy was very good at that.

“Job” maybe
Function, not really

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 25, 2023 • 11:33:50am

re: #197 mmmirele

I made it to the airport and through security theatre without throttling anyone. Seriously, what is up with having people walk across a space with a dog and his handler circling?

Miami Airport DEA would turn a cocker spaniel loose in the main concourse and watch to see if the dog alerted by stopping and sit behind some unsuspecting passenger.

Whereupon the surprised subject would be quietly escorted to a quiet room for questioning.


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