Waiting for Snowden to comment on Russian LGBT rights: pic.twitter.com/jPYw0CKol2
— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) November 30, 2023
Russia is outlawing whatever the “international LGBT public movement” is, as an extremist organization.
This is fine, because being homophobic genocidal imperialists is hunkey dorey if you thumb your nose at the US.
Speaker Johnson has reservations about expelling Santos, but says he won’t whip the vote.
What I said on Bluesky about Margaret Thatcher:
Margaret Thatcher’s death is very instructive: The English have no inhibitions against speaking ill of the dead. Their eulogizing over Thatcher was bitter, ugly, and mean. And those were her good points! It was a glorious way to not remember someone any longer!
If the cloud gods allow it, some of you “down south” may get to see this
Aurora could be visible unusually far south tonight as strong solar storm hits
The University of Alaska’s aurora forecast predicts that the northern lights will be visible overhead late Thursday night into Friday morning as far south as Portland, Ore.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Lincoln, Neb.; Springfield, Ill.; and New York City, away from city lights. It says the aurora might be visible low on the horizon as far south as Carson City, Nev.; Oklahoma City; and Raleigh, N.C. Clouds could block the view in some places with the best viewing conditions expected in the Upper Midwest, northern United Kingdom and Norway, according to Space Weather Watch.
re: #2 No Malarkey!
Speaker Johnson has reservations about expelling Santos, but says he won’t whip the vote.
Expelling a lying criminal for lying and crimes isn’t so easy when those things are the core of your political party.
For fans of Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries, Kanopy has just mounted the German-made 18 episode series. Each show covers one book in 1hr 20 min.
A German-speaking Brunetti takes a bit of adjustment, but the production values and Venetian photography are first-class.
Note: The episodes do not follow the sequence of the books—it’s best to start with Death at La Fenice, her first novel. Surrendering 5 of Kanopy’s 15 monthly credits lets you see all 18 stories over as much as 21 days.
Someone easy to control.
— Three2001 ☮️π (@Three2001) November 30, 2023
re: #8 Captain Ron
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Just think, Republican candidates, you’re not even in consideration for second place.
re: #9 Belafon
Trump thinks this will somehow give Trump an edge in communities of color.
And it’s also a reminder that he will wreck anyone who stands in his way, including Haley, DeSantis and the clown show of pretenders who are fighting for 2d behind Trump knowing they have no chance against him - and aren’t even trying to hit Trump on his record (mostly because it’s their record too - and they doubled down on Trump insanity).
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway says the billionaire Haslam family tried to bribe at least 15 executives at the Pilot truck stop chain with millions of dollars to get them to inflate the company’s profits this year because that would force Berkshire to pay more for the Haslams’ remaining 20% stake in the company.
Just part of doing business. Maybe should have offered them all one of a signature line of Clarence Thomas RVs.
re: #6 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Lying is the core of Johnson’s being. An exemplar of the unexamined life.
re: #8 Captain Ron
Ah, so we’ve reached the “going with the token black guy to seem diverse” part of the campaign, then?
re: #6 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Expelling a lying criminal for lying and crimes isn’t so easy when those things are the core of your political party.
…especially when your governing margin is so thin
i’ve said it before, if the R’s had a comfortable margin, they would have jettisoned him at the outset of all this
LMAO!! Elon Musk, trying to sound cool, just called Andrew Ross Sorkin “Jonathan” pic.twitter.com/gGz0N0SEqk
MUSK: Jonathan, the only reason I’m here is because you’re a friend…
SORKIN: I’m Andrew.
what a most apropos demonstration of “Twit”
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
Ah, so we’ve reached the “going with the token black guy to seem diverse” part of the campaign, then?
It must be a crushing disappointment to Tim Scott that Trump didn’t choose him.
re: #17 No Malarkey!
It must be a crushing disappointment to Tim Scott that Trump didn’t choose him.
Ye haz a sad.
The Cheese Bro is singing like a bird.
BREAKING: as evidenced by Chesebro’s request to the Fulton County probation office to travel to NV and AZ last week, he is indeed being questioned as part of both of those states’ investigations. https://t.co/i01u9WH3AN
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 30, 2023
re: #15 Dangerman
…especially when your governing margin is so thin
i’ve said it before, if the R’s had a comfortable margin, they would have jettisoned him at the outset of all this
LOL.
Rep. Santos again says he won’t resign… and he tells @CBSNews - he instead wants his GOP colleagues to be forced to take a “tough vote” tomorrow
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) November 30, 2023
re: #17 No Malarkey!
It must be a crushing disappointment to Tim Scott that Trump didn’t choose him.
Herman Cain has no comment at this time.
re: #8 Captain Ron
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so any criticism of him is “you’re being racist!! because black conservatives yadda yadda yadda democrat plantation yadda.”
Must-see holiday commercial from Chevrolet. This will be the best five minutes you spend today. Warning: Be prepared to cry. pic.twitter.com/T0FkFRNl6i
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) November 30, 2023
re: #20 No Malarkey!
Rep. Santos could startle everyone by switching his registration from Republican to Democrat.
The mineral-rich stew bubbling thousands of feet beneath the shores of Southern California’s Salton Sea contains one of the largest lithium deposits in the world, with enough of the valuable metal to make batteries for more than 375 million electric vehicles, according to a long-awaited analysis published Tuesday.“It’s pretty exciting how much is there,” said Michael McKibben, a geology research professor from UC Riverside who worked on the 371-page report commissioned by the Department of Energy.
Since there are fewer than 300 million vehicles on the road in the United States today, the study suggests there’s ample lithium in this remote desert outpost to help replace every gas-guzzler in the country with an emission-free EV. That should allow us to eventually halt problematic lithium imports from South America and China, which McKibben said would boost U.S. energy security as we push toward President Biden’s goal of making 50% of vehicles electric by 2030.
That could also leave enough lithium to allow the United States to become an exporter of a metal that’s viewed as key to decarbonizing economies around the world.
But that hinges on the success of three companies — Berkshire Hathaway, EnergySource and Controlled Thermal Resources — that have been working for years on plans to extract lithium from the area’s geothermal field in a cost-efficient, eco-friendly way.Those companies’ timelines for starting commercial lithium production at the Salton Sea all have been nudged back multiple times. But Rod Colwell, chief executive of Controlled Thermal Resources, said the new report “confirms much larger lithium reserves than originally thought,” which he said “will no doubt assist with financing” to keep his company’s lithium plant project moving forward.
Carlsbad-based EnergySource expects to break ground early next year on the area’s first full-scale lithium extraction plant. McKibben said he’s hopeful that we’ll then start to see commercial production from these companies in 2028 — the same year global demand for lithium is projected to exceed supply.
re: #23 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Very well done Chevy. And you are right I did make me cry (a little).
To these ancient eyes the slogan initially looked like “To the Store!”
re: #27 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I can see that.
re: #16 Dangerman
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The jacket still kills me, one of the richest men in the world rolling around in that cheap Launchpad McQuack ass rig with carpeting scraps glued to the collar. I mean, if dude wants to wear a costume that suggests rugged mid century male virility fine, I get it, have a few myself though I don’t go for the biker look. But at least pay for the good stuff. Take for instance this BUCO J-24L from The Real McCoys in Japan, a very similar jacket but executed with actual style instead of being just hammered shit with terrible fit and finish that looks like it was assembled by the same team that puts together Cybertrucks:
I mean yes, if you wear that to DealBook you’re still going to look like a tool, but you’d look like a tool with an eye for quality.
Here’s a week’s forecast. I think it’s good through February, if you add a little bit of snow on a few days.
This Afternoon
Rain, mainly before 2pm. High near 45. Southwest wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Tonight
Rain, mainly after 1am. Steady temperature around 40. South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Friday
Rain. High near 49.
Friday Night
Rain. Low around 43.
Saturday
Rain.
Saturday Night
Rain.
Sunday
Rain.
Sunday Night
Rain.
Monday
Rain.
Monday Night
Rain.
Tuesday
Rain.
Tuesday Night
Rain.
Wednesday
Rain.
re: #31 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Figures…
China mourns Kissinger — ‘a most valued old friend’
Criminals love other criminals …
Is inflation falling too fast?
🚨Narrative violation alert🚨
Six-month core PCE inflation rate, the measure I and others watch closely, is officially lower this month than when President Biden first took office.
Because inflation, tied to the pandemic and supply chains, was already increasing in late 2020. pic.twitter.com/eI5wiNaSy5— Mike Konczal (@mtkonczal) November 30, 2023
re: #29 goddamnedfrank
He could find better ones on google.
google.com
re: #34 PhillyPretzel ✅
He could find better ones on google.
google.com
It’s important for the richest man in the world to dress in a manner to let the hoi polloi know that he doesn’t give a fuck what they think because they are all beneath him.
My Kissinger story. Every 6 months, the DC @ap would send reporters to the National Archives in College Park to search through a roomful of newly declassified docs to see if anything 30 years old was newsworthy. I made one such trek in 2002.
— Ron Kampeas (@kampeas) November 30, 2023
They made clear to thier supposed peers that they were the big cheeses and they’d better get out of their way. so I wrote the story that way. Buried deep inside was this sentence: “In his meeting with Heath, Nixon … boasts that U.S. ally Brazil rigged the election in Uruguay.”
— Ron Kampeas (@kampeas) November 30, 2023
I did not know that. I thought surely, this must be known that the US rigged the election in Uruguay in the early 1970s. People suspected, but there was never a smoking gun … until it popped up on a decades old typewritten sheet at the National Archive. Story in next tweet
— Ron Kampeas (@kampeas) November 30, 2023
put it in the community note hall of fame pic.twitter.com/rCk8IBeoWB
— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) November 30, 2023
YES
— Is Henry Kissinger Dead Yet? (@DidKissingerD1e) November 30, 2023
Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65
As frontman for the Pogues, he romanticized whiskey-soaked rambles and hard-luck stories of emigration, while providing a musical touchstone for members of the Irish diaspora.
(no paywall)
This Santos expulsion debate has been fun to watch.
From the previous page.
re: #322 The Ghost of a Flea
Politeness has nothing to do with morality.
Mediating language about a powerful dead person to be respectful, when their life was built upon fundamental disrespect for the lives of others, is bullshit done not out of kindness for the dead but to make the powerful dead person signify nothing uncomfortable.
Because if it meant something that powerful people can be this way, can get away with things, can be praised and admired in a way that shows an infinite regress of conditional statements appended to those hard-coded values and morals that justify power, can fail and get a do-over even when that failure has a body count…
…then that power is not moral and cannot be justified by pointing to a document or pledge; but also that that power is not utilitarian in the way that it presents itself to be, but instead performs some other kind of utility that is simply left unsaid.
Politeness is the simplest form of manipulation.
re: #22 sagehen
So Conservatives can racially profile President Obama, Vice President Harris and other high profile Black politicians and then cry “racism” when someone correctly points out Dr. Carson’s extremism? Nah. Not gonna work.
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Rain tomorrow and a wash out for the weekend.
forecast.weather.gov
re: #46 HRH Stanley Sea
Can’t even read the screenshots. Sigh
It’s the image compression, settings are especially onerous on mobile.
re: #44 No Malarkey!
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Ok back from lunch waiting for Act 2 of today’s Jury Duty Follies
re: #51 Joe Bacon ✅
That is one way of looking at it.
A 21-year-old Israeli woman who was snatched from the Nova music festival and then paraded in a chilling Hamas hostage video has today been released by the terrorists in front of a baying crowd of Palestinians.Terrifying footage shows Mia Schem surrounded by a screaming mob and guarded by masked Hamas gunmen as she was walked from a car and handed over to Red Cross operatives this afternoon.
The French-Israeli hostage had been held captive for 54 days since October 7 when she was dragged away in to Gaza. In that time she was forced to film a propaganda video which showed the captive receiving treatment for injuries she sustained in her kidnapping.
Associated Press: “The Republican National Committee’s rules for next year’s nominating contest and convention were released this week without addressing a question the GOP could well face next summer: Can the party’s delegates vote for a different candidate if the presumptive nominee is convicted of a felony?”
“Even if he were to be convicted in Washington or another trial, top party leaders and many voters have indicated they would stand by Trump anyway.”
but, but, but… “rule of law”
Johnson says the Republican impeachment effort against Joe Biden is “exactly the opposite”of the Trump impeachment because Republicans stand for the “rule of law” pic.twitter.com/1aIwppghRl
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 29, 2023
re: #54 Dangerman
but, but, but… “rule of law”
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Does he know that no one buys that these days while we can watch them commit crimes and support a hardcore criminal for President?
re: #56 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Does he know that no one buys that these days while we can watch them commit crimes and support a hardcore criminal for President?
wait…Santos is running for President?? //
NEW:
A former employee of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster filed a lawsuit against the golf club, claiming she was sexually harassed and coerced into sex by her supervisor and then tricked by attorney Alina Habba into an illegal non-disclosure agreement. pic.twitter.com/IUKbe3KZvM— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 30, 2023
re: #5 Cheechako
If the cloud gods allow it, some of you “down south” may get to see this
Aurora could be visible unusually far south tonight as strong solar storm hits
TheBackwoods is at a higher latitude than Raleigh, so fingers crossed it stays clear long enough.
Memories of Henry the K using the CIA to force Gough Whitman out as Prime Minister of Australia and installing his stooge Malcolm Frazier
Henry Kissinger is still dead, and so is Rush Limbaugh.
re: #63 Ace Rothstein
Isn’t that wonderful.
re: #60 Backwoods Sleuth
As usual, when there is something interesting going on in the stars, we are totally overcast.
re: #63 Ace Rothstein
Henry Kissinger is still dead, and so is Rush Limbaugh.
and Carlson has been fired yet again
re: #58 Dangerman
Uh, what is that in the middle of her cake?
re: #58 Dangerman
That is one massively fugly sheet cake.
re: #50 BeenHereAwhile
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re: #63 Ace Rothstein
Henry Kissinger is still dead, and so is Rush Limbaugh.
Which one is in the lower level of hell?
re: #72 Joe Bacon ✅
Which one is in the lower level of hell?
Kissinger. His body count was much higher.
I used to demonstrate against Kissinger at University! He was known as a conscience-less killer even then, along with Nixon, his partner in crime.
Hey, hey, Henry K! How many millions of innocents did you kill today?
None. He’s dead.
re: #17 No Malarkey!
It must be a crushing disappointment to Tim Scott that Trump didn’t choose him.
I still don’t understand why anyone would want to be Vice President… unless you’re looking at it as an epilogue to your political career (like Cheney and what most of us thought of Biden in 2008). You have zero power or agency, your future political career is tied entirely to someone else. It really is the proverbial bucket of warm piss.
Honestly, if I could rewrite the constitution from scratch, I would probably just drop the office. Make the Speaker of the House next in line, or have a provision for a snap election in the even the office becomes vacant with either the Speaker or the Secretary of State serving as Acting President until the office is filled. As for the Senate tie breaking - a tie would mean the bill passes - or we just eliminate the Senate and have a unicameral legislature.
re: #70 jaunte
That is one massively fugly sheet cake.
Look at that room they are in. Tasteless as fuck, like the cake and that fat slob next to her.
From downstairs:
re: #340 Mike Lamb
The trilogy is never getting finished. And it is big time aggravating he keeps doing side projects and letting the main story languish.
No where near as aggravating as GRRM and his failure to finish his GOT series. Supposedly 2 books remaining and nothing has been published since 2011 in that series, but he has time for prequels galore and other projects.
re: #75 Dangerman
Reading about Medieval England; apparently gold leaf was a popular decoration for the nobility’s meatballs. The latrine emptiers who were allowed to comb through the shit for gold were called ‘scawagers.’
Unprecedented Compound Takes a Step Toward Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
cancer.illinois.edu
Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer is the most common form of breast cancer, affecting approximately 75% of breast cancer patients. In advanced and metastatic form, it is lethal, claiming the lives of nearly 350,000 individuals annually. Presently, no drug is able to eradicate these advanced tumors. [the rest behind the screen because of length of post]
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re: #80 Ace Rothstein
Look at that room they are in. Tasteless as fuck, like the cake and that fat slob next to her.
someone once described Trump’s design aesthetic as “what a poor person thinks a rich person would like” or more succinctly: tacky.
re: #84 KGxvi
someone once described Trump’s design aesthetic as “what a poor person thinks a rich person would like” or more succinctly: tacky.
So gaudy, a Persian would blush.
re: #6 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Expelling a lying criminal for lying and crimes isn’t so easy when those things are the core of your political party.
Or when your majority is so narrow, you fear losing any votes.
ETA: Posted too late and just saw the same point was made above!!
Shane MacGowan, Irish singer-songwriter and The Pogues frontman has sadly passed away.
He formed the Irish punk band Pogue Mahone, later shortened to The Pogues, in 1982 and released seven studio albums.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends. pic.twitter.com/dps2CbEXig— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) November 30, 2023
re: #58 Dangerman
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Questions:
Why is she celebrating her birthday with the vulgar talking yam instead of her family?
Why are they alone in that room with the hideous cake?
Why does he look mummified (even more than usual?)
WTF????
re: #89 BeachDem
Questions:
Why is she celebrating her birthday with the vulgar talking yam instead of her family?
Why are they alone in that room with the hideous cake?
Why does he look mummified (even more than usual?)
WTF????
Does her family talk to her? Some of these Trumpanzees are the annoying cranks in normal families.
Deliberately tanking your multibillion-dollar business despite your investors begging you not to seems like a very strange business strategy to me #ElonKilledTwitter pic.twitter.com/nY58SFSkIQ
— (((Tara Dublin))) Wrote An Awesome Book! (@taradublinrocks) November 29, 2023
re: #91 gocart mozart
His face kind of blends right into that meme.
re: #82 jaunte
Reading about Medieval England; apparently gold leaf was a popular decoration for the nobility’s meatballs. The latrine emptiers who were allowed to comb through the shit for gold were called ‘scawagers.’
well my day is complete now.
re: #86 Hecuba’s daughter
Or when your majority is so narrow, you fear losing any votes.
ETA: Posted too late and just saw the same point was made above!!
it bears repeating
re: #89 BeachDem
Questions:
Why is she celebrating her birthday with the vulgar talking yam instead of her family?
Why are they alone in that room with the hideous cake?
Why does he look mummified (even more than usual?)
WTF????
Sorry, this is not my table.
re: #37 gocart mozart
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Community Notes… I do wonder if that was released before or after Elmo took charge. (The fact that he hasn’t dropped them, is the _one_ non bad thing he’s done with X.
re: #98 aatharuv
Community Notes… I do wonder if that was released before or after Elmo took charge. (The fact that he hasn’t dropped them, is the _one_ non bad thing he’s done with X.
Community notes were released after he took over. I’m surprised they’re still there; it seems like they’re mostly calling out his right-wing “friends” on their lies and bulkshit.
re: #83 retired cynic
Unprecedented Compound Takes a Step Toward Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
Cancer research is moving so fast, and new treatments are being developed and released every year. It’s possible to custom build drugs and understand their function in ways not possible just a few years ago. If you’re diagnosed, Dr Google is seriously out of date and not your friend.
re: #99 Nerdy Fish
Community notes were released after he took over. I’m surprised they’re still there; it seems like they’re mostly calling out his right-wing “friends” on their lies and bulkshit.
Elon doesn’t see himself as a villain. His NPD has him seeing himself as a champion of free speech, even though it’s just of bigoted speech he likes. He can’t see that he’s the big problem in his life.
re: #90 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Does her family talk to her? Some of these Trumpanzees are the annoying cranks in normal families.
She has a husband and 2 kids, so I’d guess somebody talks to her.
re: #94 Dangerman
well my day is complete now.
No, wait! The next part is how they’d flatten it out and do another meatball.
Henry Kissinger’s realpolitik: Kill now, lie later.
re: #89 BeachDem
Questions:
Why is she celebrating her birthday with the vulgar talking yam instead of her family?
Why are they alone in that room with the hideous cake?
Why does he look mummified (even more than usual?)
WTF????
These are questions more likely answered by the intersection how Trump hangs around his club all the time and constantly takes photos with people and how Trump takes other people’s shit—like an employee’s birthday—and turns into into a stupid spectacle about himself, and normal employment bullshit like office birthday escalated to 11 by the workplace being Mar a Lago and it’s entire kitchen full of barrow wights plus Trump as your Cool Boss.
Like, she works there and that signifies nothing about her except that she needs a job, barring further exploration. Also, the one thing we know is that she’s talking publicly about a covered-up assault, and any other detail on her politics or nature is just non-relevant.
re: #82 jaunte
Reading about Medieval England; apparently gold leaf was a popular decoration for the nobility’s meatballs. The latrine emptiers who were allowed to comb through the shit for gold were called ‘scawagers.’
How would they find enough to make a difference? Gold leaf disintegrates easily.
re: #88 gocart mozart
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I love that this is at least the sixth different acknowledgment here. Lots of people here liked the band it seems.
re: #102 BeachDem
She has a husband and 2 kids, so I’d guess somebody talks to her.
Why?
/s, I guess.
re: #107 William Lewis
How would they find enough to make a difference? Gold leaf disintegrates easily.
I expect that they were highly motivated to find a way to separate the foul cargo from the gold.
re: #107 William Lewis
How would they find enough to make a difference? Gold leaf disintegrates easily.
Heavier gauge leaf?
re: #88 gocart mozart
Only the good die young.
re: #100 ericblair
Cancer research is moving so fast, and new treatments are being developed and released every year. It’s possible to custom build drugs and understand their function in ways not possible just a few years ago. If you’re diagnosed, Dr Google is seriously out of date and not your friend.
Cancer detection too - I have some acquaintances working on a relatively quick detection method looking at detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the breath. Different cancers have different VOC fingerprints. Big deal if they can get it too work. vocxihealth.com is the start-up.
I mean, barrow wights famously despise flavor and the linear advancement of time.
You make them bake a birthday cake and you’re getting back sawdust briquets dressed with colored lard and what appears to be a drill bit.
This time they used the correct uncursed alphabet though
Where are the NYT, Politico and Axios stories now? 👀 https://t.co/BlTaBQj9Ei
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) November 30, 2023
Well that’s no fun. Once you take out the massively overpublicized terminally online concern trolls and edgelords, the kidz vote looks like what we’ve come to expect.
re: #73 retired cynic
Kissinger. His body count was much higher.
Approaching Hitler and Mao levels, I believe.
re: #115 ericblair
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Well that’s no fun. Once you take out the massively overpublicized terminally online concern trolls and edgelords, the kidz vote looks like what we’ve come to expect.
That poll doesn’t fit the narrative.
re: #117 darthstar
That poll doesn’t fit the narrative.
That’s why you end it with “and that’s why it’s bad news for Joe Biden.”
re: #112 William Lewis
Only the good die young.
Kissinger just proved that. Can’t believe that fucker got to 100 and Betty White didn’t. So unfair.
“Let me get this straight,” Goldman tweeted at Comer at half-past-midnight. “You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing.”“If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
re: #26 PhillyPretzel ✅
Very well done Chevy. And you are right I did make me cry (a little).
I cried seeing that Joe Biden is cash-strapped enough to be doing car commercials. I’ll still vote for him!
Kissinger is dead but Keith Richards is still alive!
Keith Richards never illegally bombed Cambodia in secret for fifteen months.
re: #126 Ace Rothstein
Keith Richards never illegally bombed Cambodia in secret for fifteen months.
That we know of.
/
So it’s true, then, that only the good die young.
— Fischercutbait (@MaryFischer1) November 30, 2023
re: #3 Sherlock Hound
Margaret Thatcher’s death is very instructive: The English have no inhibitions against speaking ill of the dead. Their eulogizing over Thatcher was bitter, ugly, and mean. And those were her good points! It was a glorious way to not remember someone any longer!
I recall that the BBC had to seriously tweak the charts to keep Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead off the no 1 spot after she died
re: #8 Captain Ron
Ben Carson will help DJT keep his standing with the Fundamentalist Christians but hurt him with the racists
re: #129 gocart mozart
Charlie’s essay on the death of Kissinger is a wonderful read, if you have access to it. I don’t subscribe to many blogs, or such, but Pierce’s political blog on Esquire is one that I will hold onto until the end. Unfortunately, I can’t “gift” access to any of his essays. All I can do is encourage you to sign up. (That means coping with Esquire’s horrible membership program for reading and commenting. Join the griping club!)
Frequently, I’ve come to regret things I’ve said. This, from 2001, is not one of those times: pic.twitter.com/1NiHlupJkL
— Anthony Bourdain (@Bourdain) February 5, 2018
re: #132 retired cynic
That’s strange. Pierce’s essays in Esquire are almost never paywalled for me, a non-subscriber, and I’m not doing anything to try to make that happen.
re: #134 EPR-radar
That’s strange. Pierce’s essays in Esquire are almost never paywalled for me, a non-subscriber, and I’m not doing anything to try to make that happen.
It’s always been a men’s magazine…
re: #23 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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Awful commercial.
The Suburban sweeps away her dementia! We shepherded my wife’s dad through the process and I can tell you that that kind of rebound simply doesn’t happen at that stage of the disease.