Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo on Austin City Limits: "Promises in the Dark"

Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo on Austin City Limits: “Promises in the Dark”

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Their hair is all white now, but Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo can still rock with the young ‘uns.

Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo perform “Promises in the Dark” on Austin City Limits. Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo premieres January 27, 2024 on PBS. Watch on your local PBS station or stream following the broadcast on the PBS App or pbs.org

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legends Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo deliver a career-spanning hour of classic rock highlights in their Austin City Limits debut, including “Heartbreaker,” “We Belong,” and “Love is a Battlefield.”

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A Cranky One Jan 27, 2024 • 10:54:58am

Teukka Jan 27, 2024 • 10:56:12am

I wasn’t worried about climate change. Now I am.

Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 11:14:31am

Not how any of this works

Did none of these bozos go to highschool?

A bill creating a process to give legislators the power to order state officials and agencies to ignore federal laws and regulations was approved by the Utah House of Representatives on Friday.”

“The House passage follows Gov. Spencer Cox’s endorsement of Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to defy the Supreme Court and supplant federal authority over the southern border.”

Link

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 11:16:46am

re: #3 Dangerman

A bill creating a process to give legislators the power to order state officials and agencies to ignore federal laws and regulations was approved by the Utah House of Representatives on Friday.”

It is all grandstanding; they want the federal officials who come in to override their little faux laws look like some sort of authoritarian usurpers

Captain Ron Jan 27, 2024 • 11:18:22am

A man with “nothing more to lose” ! pic.twitter.com/H76sMWYFLw

— White Fang (@RWhiteFang) January 27, 2024

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 11:22:24am

re: #5 Captain Ron

Let E Jean sue Screwdy out of his pension!

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 27, 2024 • 11:32:34am

re: #2 Teukka

Sadly, Sabine has turned into a clickbait machine.

Back before she was popular on Youtube, I used to read her blog (years ago.)

She was always the troublemaker but some of her posts were worth the read.

Double sadly: yes, long term climate change is going to bite us in the rear. With humanity’s refusal to make the changes necessary, a Miocene-like climate is inevitable, and that will be bad.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 11:37:56am

Whew. I just got done signing 11 petitions for the ward leader. My hand hurts.

cat-tikvah Jan 27, 2024 • 11:43:29am

re: #8 PhillyPretzel ✅

Whew. I just got done signing 11 petitions for the ward leader. My hand hurts.

I’m going to a petition event tomorrow.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 11:43:52am

re: #9 cat-tikvah

Petition for what?

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 11:44:32am

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

To get folks who are running in local elections on the Primary ballot.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 11:45:22am

Gee, I wonder why nobody wants to be a teacher in Florida? pic.twitter.com/BBNJ2jZbhz

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 27, 2024

‘Tis a mystery, it seems.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 27, 2024 • 11:50:59am

I was going to write up a big Page here about the Hansen paper and video, but lazied out. I think I made a comment about it but not in great depth.

There is a very great wariness over the whole climate-change thing, a wariness that was engineered in part by the climate-denier industry (which is funded by major corporations and the usual right-wing suspects like AEI.)

But our lives are short, and the old fogies who are deniers know they will die before climate change causes them problems, so they go to Florida and buy a sea-side condo anyway.

7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jan 27, 2024 • 11:58:10am

re: #13 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But our lives are short, and the old fogies who are deniers know they will die before climate change causes them problems, so they go to Florida and buy a sea-side condo anyway.

I am an old fogie on the other side. My proudest professional success in my working life was the creation and successful promotion of the annual, integrated day of intense sustainability celebration for staff, students, faculty, administration - the annual Campus Sustainability Day which became Campus Sustainability Month; and now October is being generically called by some Sustainability Month.

Whatever it’s called, I am happy that I did what I could for the cause and have helped to indoctrinate millions of mostly young people every October since 2003! I feel certain that has had huge impact and it helps me go to sleep at night occasionally.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 11:58:17am

Incel Scott Adams at it again…

wonkette.com

Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 12:03:11pm

I caught Pat Benatar and her hubby at the Old Waldorf in SF in the very early ‘80’s, they were still up and coming then and were fantastic.

Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 12:05:37pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

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‘Tis a mystery, it seems.

“Look, we’ve been shortchanging your salaries for years. Why are you not wanting to teach now?”

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 12:08:00pm

re: #17 Belafon

You are telling me what to teach in class. What happened to academic freedom?

Nerdy Fish Jan 27, 2024 • 12:09:57pm

re: #18 PhillyPretzel ✅

You are telling me what to teach in class. What happened to academic freedom?

You are perfectly free to teach what the state tells you to teach, we don’t see any problem here.///

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 12:12:10pm

re: #19 Nerdy Fish

lol. Governments do not understand academia and the opposite.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 12:12:19pm

re: #18 PhillyPretzel ✅

You are telling me what to teach in class. What happened to academic freedom?

You will teach what THE PARTY commands.

Or Else!

Unabogie Jan 27, 2024 • 12:22:15pm

re: #2 Teukka

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I’ve really soured on this woman. First was her terrible take on trans people. Then she got a million things wrong about autism. Now, she says she used to not worry about climate change?!? Smarter people than her have been sounding the alarm for decades. She’s finally coming around?

Sorry, she bugs me.

Unabogie Jan 27, 2024 • 12:25:28pm

Pat and Neil are an amazing duo. Beautiful songs, and she’s still got it. I love that she’s learned to control her voice so finely that she can navigate the loss of range that comes with age, and still sing perfectly. A true master.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 27, 2024 • 12:27:31pm

Six years ago today:

Conspira-lies like Flat Earth and Moon landing denial are basically a marketing gimmick for “Big Woo,” the multi-billion dollar a year quack (ie scientifically rejected) products industry. It even has a name, “Crank Magnetism”
rationalwiki.org

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 27, 2024 • 12:28:57pm

re: #24 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

“A sovereign citizen, a creationist, an anti-vaxxer, and a conspiracy theorist walk into a bar. He orders a drink.”

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 12:34:52pm

re: #25 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Absinthe?

Teukka Jan 27, 2024 • 12:42:39pm

re: #26 PhillyPretzel ✅

Absinthe?

Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)…

DodgerFan1988 Jan 27, 2024 • 12:45:40pm

This is a list of prescription medication that was ordered by the White House Medical Unit over just a 9 month period in 2019.

Thousands of Ambien pills, but more importantly there were 7, yes 7 different orders of either Fentanyl, Morphine, or Ketamine.

Note that this was just… pic.twitter.com/KCC8SfkUz4

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) January 27, 2024

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 12:49:27pm

re: #28 DodgerFan1988

We always suspected that drugs were involved.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 27, 2024 • 12:50:14pm

re: #24 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Six years ago today:

“crank magnetism”
Ran across a minor but perhaps instructive example recently. There was an FB string about Meteor Crater in Arizona. The accompanying article repeatedly described the impacting object as an asteroid. Most of the comments dealt with things like the visitor center hours, parking, etc. One comment, out of the blue, said, “It’s a steam crater. No asteroid.” That was it, no explanation of why the poster thought this, let alone an explanation of what a “steam” crater is. I would assume he meant volcanic, an early and now completely discredited hypothesis of the Arizona crater’s formation.
I checked the poster’s own page. Sure enough, he runs a woo woo “health and fitness ranch” in Wyoming, featuring all natural this and that, miraculous claims, acupuncture, etc.
What does this have to do with ignorant and implicitly conspiracist claims about a crater? He is fishing for marks, people who doubt science, believe in the kind of enormously intricate conspiracy that would be needed to fake the accepted origin of the crater, and would therefore be susceptible to his quack health ranch claims.

darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 12:50:30pm

BYOT (Tapatio)

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 12:54:27pm

re: #28 DodgerFan1988

MAGAts are swarming that post to defend their God-King.

Nerdy Fish Jan 27, 2024 • 12:56:33pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

MAGAts are swarming that post to defend their God-King.

Ironically, Trump himself is probably the only one not involved in the drugs. But what does it say about you when your staff are downing more pills than Keith Fucking Richards?

Hecuba's daughter Jan 27, 2024 • 1:00:09pm

re: #18 PhillyPretzel ✅

You are telling me what to teach in class. What happened to academic freedom?

Of course states often had requirements about material to be covered. Have to say, though, the post downstairs about sociology and how public institutions are barred from teaching it as a core class made think of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, her only novel that was interesting. In it, the language had been changed so that certain words were no longer taught — and with that certain ideas would never enter a citizen’s mind because they did not have the language to understand them. A mirror image of the movie Arrival where learning the heptapod’s language reprogrammed the mind to see the world differently.

The decision by the racists in charge of Florida to refuse to teach the students certain concepts will do the same to these students as in Anthem: stunt their intellect and blind them to core issues affecting our nation.

retired cynic Jan 27, 2024 • 1:01:15pm

Constitutional Self-Defense
A constitutional tradition with immediate relevance
Timothy Snyder
snyder.substack.com

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 1:01:26pm

re: #33 Nerdy Fish

Ironically, Trump himself is probably the only one not involved in the drugs. But what does it say about you when your staff are downing more pills than Keith Fucking Richards?

As much as he sniffles and slurs his words sometimes, I have my doubts.

I am aware he stays away from alcohol.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 1:02:59pm

re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg

The whole family stays away from alcohol because Fred Jr died from it.

Dragonomics Jan 27, 2024 • 1:03:41pm

Long list of side effects with sniffling one of the most common.

mayoclinic.org

Unabogie Jan 27, 2024 • 1:03:58pm

re: #37 PhillyPretzel ✅

The whole family stays away from alcohol because Fred Jr died from it.

But we’re basing that off the word of Trump himself, or people close to Trump. By now we should know that we can’t trust a word they say, even about mundane things.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 1:04:34pm

re: #39 Unabogie

True.

Unabogie Jan 27, 2024 • 1:06:28pm

re: #40 PhillyPretzel ✅

True.

I think drugs would be as good an explanation as any for why Trump looks drenched in sweat every time he appears in public.

Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 1:07:03pm

re: #28 DodgerFan1988

Did anyone die unexpectedly that might have been a target of Trump?

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 1:13:46pm

Same energy.

wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 1:27:26pm

Mastodon

Captain Ron Jan 27, 2024 • 1:29:41pm

A poor Bukhanka pic.twitter.com/kCzpYsOK1p

— 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔇𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔱 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇺🇲🇬🇷 (@TheDeadDistrict) January 26, 2024

No Malarkey! Jan 27, 2024 • 1:30:02pm

Audio revealed of Republicans plotting to ban all transgender care, even for adults.

wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 1:34:44pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

Audio revealed of Republicans plotting to ban all transgender care, even for adults.

Do we need a Constitutional Amendment to own our bodies as sovereigns?

(Then we gotta watch out for Sovereign Citizens.)

No Malarkey! Jan 27, 2024 • 1:37:03pm

re: #47 wrenchwench

Do we need a Constitutional Amendment to own our bodies as sovereigns?

(Then we gotta watch out for Sovereign Citizens.)

No way to get that ratified; as far as Republicans are concerned, our bodies belong to the state.

wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 1:38:50pm

re: #48 No Malarkey!

No way to get that ratified; as far as Republicans are concerned, our bodies belong to the state.

Their kind of freedom just won’t let go.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2024 • 1:50:39pm

re: #26 PhillyPretzel ✅

Absinthe?

Makes the heart grow fonder?

wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 1:53:56pm

Mastodon

JC1 Jan 27, 2024 • 1:59:20pm

re: #47 wrenchwench

Do we need a Constitutional Amendment to own our bodies as sovereigns?

(Then we gotta watch out for Sovereign Citizens.)

That ship sort of sailed when it became acceptable to imprison adults for possessing weed or psychedelics for personal use, or for attempting suicide.

Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 2:00:40pm

re: #35 retired cynic

Constitutional Self-Defense
A constitutional tradition with immediate relevance
Timothy Snyder
snyder.substack.com

That’s a really good article I recommend everyone read it.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 2:05:32pm

re: #28 DodgerFan1988

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Gee I wonder why Comer Pyle isn’t investigating Ronny Jackson’s White House Pill Popping Orgy?

wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 2:06:09pm

re: #52 JC1

That ship sort of sailed when it became acceptable to imprison adults for possessing weed or psychedelics for personal use, or for attempting suicide.

So, the ship sailed. Do we sink it, or bring it back? Oregon fixed both of those, in a limited and possibly temporary way.

Jay C Jan 27, 2024 • 2:06:29pm

re: #28 DodgerFan1988

What I’d like to know is who was taking all that Provigil (a “non-euphoric” treatment for narcolepsy)?

And yeah: Ambien/Zolpidem? 5100 pills over a five-month period?

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 2:14:12pm

re: #56 Jay C

What I’d like to know is who was taking all that Provigil (a “non-euphoric” treatment for narcolepsy)?

And yeah: Ambien/Zolpidem? 5100 pills over a five-month period?

Who else remembers when Carter’s medical advisor Peter Bourne was fired because he wrote a prescription with a fraudulent name for a White House staffer?

pbs.org

YET…Pill Poppin’ Ronny Jackson sits in the House getting away with this!!!!!

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 2:20:22pm

I can imagine what Fox News would say if the pill report were about the Biden Admin.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 2:21:09pm

Nobody really knew how Kari Lake would be received today by the party faithful at the AZ State GOP meeting after she ousted the Chair by releasing secret recordings of them. She found out today.Kari Lake Booed & Heckled at State GOP Meeting https://t.co/Rm3il3BFzt

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 27, 2024

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

No Malarkey! Jan 27, 2024 • 2:29:28pm

re: #59 Eclectic Cyborg

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Hahahahahahahahahaha.

Republicans in disarray!

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 2:33:10pm

re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg

I can imagine what Fox News would say if the pill report were about the Biden Admin.

Remember that 19th Century Fox went totally apeshit over the alleged cocaine they found in the Biden White House…but when it comes to Pill Poppin Ronny passing out thousands of pills to White House staffers not a single peep from 19th Century Fox!

Or the rest of the CCCP!

ooooooooo makes me wonder…🤔

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 27, 2024 • 2:34:36pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

Audio revealed of Republicans plotting to ban all transgender care, even for adults.

I keep saying this, and I’ll say it again. THEY. WANT. US. DEAD. Being on HRT has quite literally saved my life. Because of gender dysphoria, thoughts of self harm (unaliving myself) were a daily thing. After I started HRT and my hormone levels stabilized at normal adult female levels, those thoughts, for the most part, went away. Taking my HRT away from me will be a literal death sentence. I know this for a fact, because last year I was off of them for 3 months due to finances and my mental health went into a downward spiral. Once I was able to afford them again, and got my levels back up, my mental health dramatically improved. A lot of CIS people don’t understand this, but HRT is more than taking hormones to make changes to our bodies. Yes, I developed a very nice pair of 38C breasts, thank you very much, but the greatest change was to my mental health and how I perceived myself. Sorry if this was TMI, but HRT saved my life and these MFers are now trying to take that away from me and others in an out right effort to kill us. And that pisses me off off to no end. And it should piss any normal person off as well.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 2:39:20pm

re: #59 Eclectic Cyborg

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Hahahahahahahahahaha.

Kari Lake getting booed at the Arizona GOP State Meeting.

Holy Shit that gives me a Dave Clark Five Glad All Over Moment! 🥳

wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 2:46:25pm

re: #62 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I keep saying this, and I’ll say it again. THEY. WANT. US. DEAD. Being on HRT has quite literally saved my life. Because of gender dysphoria, thoughts of self harm (unaliving myself) were a daily thing. After I started HRT and my hormone levels stabilized at normal adult female levels, those thoughts, for the most part, went away. Taking my HRT away from me will be a literal death sentence. I know this for a fact, because last year I was off of them for 3 months due to finances and my mental health went into a downward spiral. Once I was able to afford them again, and got my levels back up, my mental health dramatically improved. A lot of CIS people don’t understand this, but HRT is more than taking hormones to make changes to our bodies. Yes, I developed a very nice pair of 38C breasts, thank you very much, but the greatest change was to my mental health and how I perceived myself. Sorry if this was TMI, but HRT saved my life and these MFers are now trying to take that away from me and others in an out right effort to kill us. And that pisses me off off to no end. And it should piss any normal person off as well.

QFNotTMI.

Also, QFT. Thanks for sharing. It helps. It is a helpful thing to do, generally. I hope it helps personally.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 2:49:32pm

re: #62 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I’ve had it with these radical Xtians who get off on hurting innocent people.

Hey Radical Xtians! Leave people alone and let them live their lives.

Sending a hug to you, Michele with lots of ❤️!

May Karma strike these pompous pieces of crap when they least expect it.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2024 • 2:57:15pm

re: #63 Joe Bacon ✅

Kari Lake getting booed at the Arizona GOP State Meeting.

Holy Shit that gives me a Dave Clark Five Glad All Over Moment! 🥳

80% of the people boo’d. Sucks to be her.

LOVE. IT. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 2:59:01pm

::: passing out glasses of Champagne to the room :::
This is in honor of me hitting 87,000 Karma.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 3:03:12pm

re: #67 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: passing out glasses of Champagne to the room :::
This is in honor of me hitting 87,000 Karma.

OK! It’s time to turn on Lawrence Welk’s Original Bubble Machine!

wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 3:03:27pm

re: #67 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: passing out glasses of Champagne to the room :::
This is in honor of me hitting 87,000 Karma.

Just a couple for me, I’m due at work in an hour.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 3:06:09pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

Okay. No problem.

Decatur Deb Jan 27, 2024 • 3:07:01pm

Back from a daytrip to Pensacola, recovering Wife from the airport and looking at I-10 overpasses.

silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 3:10:04pm

Biden Runs Against Man Who Thinks He’s President

How do you run against a man who has already had the job, never conceded his election loss and is already acting like he has the job again?

One guy can only talk about doing. One can actually do. How hard is that?

sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 3:13:07pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

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Same energy.

Since you’re entering Hell, there should be a “Abandon all hope, ye who enter” sign hanging from the welcome one.

silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 3:16:38pm

Trump Preparing for Massive Trade War with China

A 60% tariff on ALL chinese imports! Smartphones, computers, TVs are about to get a hefty price increase if Trump is re-elected. Wonder how businesses feel about that?

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 3:18:27pm

re: #26 PhillyPretzel ✅

Absinthe?

rain water and pure grain alcohol

Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:18:41pm

re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅

Who else remembers when Carter’s medical advisor Peter Bourne was fired because he wrote a prescription with a fraudulent name for a White House staffer?

pbs.org

YET…Pill Poppin’ Ronny Jackson sits in the House getting away with this!!!!!

There’s a physical record.
Aren’t there medical ethics? Rules? //
Incontrovertible, unless its you know ” fake”. //

doesn’t matter he took his prescription pad and he’s got s different job now.
whoever did this should be strung up
And if it wasn’t him, then who? //

Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:20:18pm

re: #67 PhillyPretzel ✅

::: passing out glasses of Champagne to the room :::
This is in honor of me hitting 87,000 Karma.

Toasting with actual bubbly here (not virtual), in your honor.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 3:20:59pm

re: #77 Dangerman

That is good. :)

Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:23:17pm

re: #26 PhillyPretzel ✅

Absinthe?

Absinthe-ing ya

Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:31:25pm

re: #78 PhillyPretzel ✅

That is good. :)

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 27, 2024 • 3:32:12pm

Mastodon

JC1 Jan 27, 2024 • 3:33:49pm

re: #55 wrenchwench

So, the ship sailed. Do we sink it, or bring it back? Oregon fixed both of those, in a limited and possibly temporary way.

I’m just saying that this isn’t a new thing. The pendulum has started swinging back towards sanity in some states. Still a shit show at the federal level.

jaunte Jan 27, 2024 • 3:35:19pm

re: #81 Backwoods Sleuth

Warning, boulder expands as you approach.

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 27, 2024 • 3:38:52pm

Mastodon

JC1 Jan 27, 2024 • 3:39:23pm

re: #56 Jay C

What I’d like to know is who was taking all that Provigil (a “non-euphoric” treatment for narcolepsy)?

And yeah: Ambien/Zolpidem? 5100 pills over a five-month period?

Provigil is also a nootropic. Aside from narcolepsy it’s also approved for work shift disorder (people who work different shifts or messed up schedules.) Also helps with jet lag.
I’ve used the generic form (modafinil) occasionally for over a decade. IMHO it should be available over the counter. It’s non addictive, well tolerated, and improves focus and wakefulness. It’s like caffeine without the quick tolerance buildup.

Of all the stuff on the white house drug list, that one is the least surprising or questionable.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 3:42:43pm

from Wonkette…ROTFLMAO!

I asked DreamStudio AI for Dilbert in militia gear, and it gave me bald Bart Simpson Dilbert instead. Good enough!

BeenHereAwhile Jan 27, 2024 • 3:44:33pm

re: #71 Decatur Deb

Back from a daytrip to Pensacola, recovering Wife from the airport and looking at I-10 overpasses.

I-10.

Ain’t we ever gonna get there?

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 27, 2024 • 3:44:34pm

re: #64 wrenchwench

re: #65 Joe Bacon ✅

Thank you both for your kind words. I fear that it will only get worse though if he get reelected. As such, I have made arrangements/plans to be in Canada before he assumes power. She has problems of her own, but I love her anyway. And if I had the means, I would already be there. Because if he regains power, this is what I fear will be the results.

6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology

And not to take anything away from the horrors the Jewish Community of that time faced, but they came for mine, before they came for yours.

KingKenrod Jan 27, 2024 • 3:44:51pm

Twitter has had to disable “Taylor Swift” searches because there was so much AI porn of her being posted. What a shithole that place is.

This is what I get:

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 27, 2024 • 3:49:22pm

some people are just too easily outraged

Mastodon

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 3:51:31pm

I’m not surprised at all!

Donald Trump’s Team Reportedly Tapped RFK Jr. as Potential Vice President

Sources close to Donald Trump reached out to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about serving as the presidential candidate’s running mate, per a new report by the New York Post. “Trump operatives expressed an interest in Kennedy early on, but it was all premature,” a source said. The connection was made “right out of the box when Bobby announced” in April 2023, when Kennedy went public with his presidential bid. Still, the potential duo is on the table: “Anything’s possible. I wouldn’t write it off by any means,” the source added. Kennedy was initially running as a Democrat, but has since switched to the Independent party. Per the report, Kennedy “wasn’t interested” in joining Trump’s Republican campaign. Kennedy has spoken against multiple vaccines, perhaps putting him at-odds with Trump, who funded the development of a COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic in 2020.

thedailybeast.com

Decatur Deb Jan 27, 2024 • 3:54:13pm

re: #91 Joe Bacon ✅

Translation: Trump isn’t crazy enough for RFK Jr.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 3:54:19pm

re: #90 Backwoods Sleuth

I guess they have never heard of the New England tradition of pouring hot maple syrup into the snow to make Maple Syrup Snow Cones.
happyhooligans.ca

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 3:57:51pm

Bedtime here.

silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 3:59:23pm

Half of Americans Could Be Hard-Pressed to Choose

Not suprising that most American are fine with any sort of generic candiadte. But when given specific (over 80 or convicted of a Felony) their enthusiasm drops. But how people feel in Jan is not important. How they feel in November is?

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 27, 2024 • 3:59:26pm

re: #88 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Thank you both for your kind words. I fear that it will only get worse though if he get reelected. As such, I have made arrangements/plans to be in Canada before he assumes power. She has problems of her own, but I love her anyway. And if I had the means, I would already be there. Because if he regains power, this is what I fear will be the results.

6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology

And not to take anything away from the horrors the Jewish Community of that time faced, but they came for mine, before they came for yours.

I didn’t realize this was a competition, but:

On March 9, 1933, several weeks after Hitler assumed power, organized attacks on Jews broke out across Germany. Two weeks later, the Dachau concentration camp, situated near Munich, opened. Dachau became a place of internment for Communists, Socialists, German liberals and anyone considered an enemy of the Reich. It became the model for the network of concentration camps that would be established later by the Nazis. Within a few months, democracy was obliterated in Germany, and the country became a centralized, single-party police state.

On April 1, 1933, a general boycott against German Jews was declared, in which SA members stood outside Jewish-owned stores and businesses in order to prevent customers from entering.

Approximately one week later, a law concerning the rehabilitation of the professional civil service was passed. The purpose of the legislation was to purge the civil service of officials of Jewish origin and those deemed disloyal to the regime. It was the first racial law that attempted to isolate Jews and oust them from German life. The first laws banished Jews from the civil service, judicial system, public medicine, and the German army (then being reorganized). Ceremonial public book burnings took place throughout Germany. Many books were torched solely because their authors were Jews. The exclusion of Jews from German cultural life was highly visible, ousting their considerable contribution to the German press, literature, theater, and music.

yadvashem.org

In 1933 the Nazis also went after Catholics and Jehovah Witnesses.

Dave In Austin Jan 27, 2024 • 4:00:18pm

Barrett Jackson’s big classic Car Auction in Scottsdale is on the History Channel all evening.

A 37’ Mercedes Benz already turned $2 Million. They are auctioning off 6 collections tonight.

Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 4:06:31pm

re: #85 JC1

Provigil is also a nootropic. Aside from narcolepsy it’s also approved for work shift disorder (people who work different shifts or messed up schedules.) Also helps with jet lag.
I’ve used the generic form (modafinil) occasionally for over a decade. IMHO it should be available over the counter. It’s non addictive, well tolerated, and improves focus and wakefulness. It’s like caffeine without the quick tolerance buildup.

Of all the stuff on the white house drug list, that one is the least surprising or questionable.

The question is what a non partisan doctor would have done

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 27, 2024 • 4:06:34pm

re: #95 silverdolphin

Most people just want to be fat, lazy, and satiated with entertainment.

It’s always been the problem.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 4:07:15pm

Masters Of The Air’s Aerial Sequences Are Terrifying, Game Changing

I saw an excerpt of the show. It simply showed them starting the engines of a B-17 and the communication between pilot and ground crew was so important. It has nothing to do with battles in the sky and everything to show just what sort of machine was being controlled. It sure seemed to indicate that the Masters was more than just fighting.

If this show really depicts the huge number of ground crew needed to get a B-17 up in the air, and the effect on a crew when their B-17 failed to return, it will be, well, ground breaking. Plus the names ast looks great.

Gonna watch it this weekend.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2024 • 4:08:01pm

re: #74 silverdolphin

Trump Preparing for Massive Trade War with China

A 60% tariff on ALL chinese imports! Smartphones, computers, TVs are about to get a hefty price increase if Trump is re-elected. Wonder how businesses feel about that?

Everything old is new again. 🙄

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 4:12:11pm

re: #74 silverdolphin

Trump Preparing for Massive Trade War with China

A 60% tariff on ALL chinese imports! Smartphones, computers, TVs are about to get a hefty price increase if Trump is re-elected. Wonder how businesses feel about that?

Never happen

The economic equiv of I’m gonna testify

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 4:12:27pm

re: #74 silverdolphin

Trump Preparing for Massive Trade War with China

A 60% tariff on ALL chinese imports! Smartphones, computers, TVs are about to get a hefty price increase if Trump is re-elected. Wonder how businesses feel about that?

Can you say “Smoot-Hawley Tarriff Act” kids?

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 4:12:38pm

Emmer Says Biden’s Interest in the Border Isn’t Genuine

GOP and liar are redundant. The Supreme Court shut some of Biden;s efforts dealing with the border. ANd Republicans have shut down in court his catch and release program to speed up deportations. Now they will refuse to pass a bill that they want Trump to have.

He has deported 3.5 times as many people as Trump. Over 50% of all legal asylum seekers have need adjudicated, while Tri,p never made it that high.

Liar.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 4:13:27pm

re: #104 silverdolphin

And they refused to follow the Supreme Court’s decision themselves.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 4:15:14pm

re: #37 PhillyPretzel ✅

The whole family stays away from alcohol because Fred Jr died from it.

And he was a pilot, yikes.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 4:16:45pm

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Jay C Jan 27, 2024 • 4:19:21pm

re: #72 silverdolphin

Biden Runs Against Man Who Thinks He’s President

One guy can only talk about doing. One can actually do. How hard is that?

Here’s a link to the original piece from (where else?) the NY Times. If you aren’t paywalled out, maybe you’ll get to RTWT, and maybe get as boot-through-the-screen angry as I got. What a crock of crap - and, (again, typically) no comments on this “opinion”, which barred me from proffering a simple answer to Katie Rogers’ BS: How do you run against a delusional liar like Donald Trump: easy:

Call out his delusional lies as the delusional lies they are!!!

You don’t even need half a century of public service to figure THIS one out…..

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 4:20:08pm

Biden to Announce Billions for Advanced Chips

Bringing manufacturing back the the US. These will add billions or trillions to the economy.And Americans love this. Just a stat to showing how Bidenomics impact the US economy.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 4:21:06pm

re: #109 silverdolphin

Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 4:22:05pm

re: #109 silverdolphin

Biden to Announce Billions for Advanced Chips

Bringing manufacturing back the the US. These will add billions or trillions to the economy.And Americans love this. Just a stat to showing how Bidenomics impact the US economy.

Just waiting for 19th Century Fox to claim these are the “chips” really being made…

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Vicious Babushka Jan 27, 2024 • 4:22:53pm

re: #34 Hecuba’s daughter

Of course states often had requirements about material to be covered. Have to say, though, the post downstairs about sociology and how public institutions are barred from teaching it as a core class made think of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, her only novel that was interesting. In it, the language had been changed so that certain words were no longer taught — and with that certain ideas would never enter a citizen’s mind because they did not have the language to understand them. A mirror image of the movie Arrival where learning the heptapod’s language reprogrammed the mind to see the world differently.

The decision by the racists in charge of Florida to refuse to teach the students certain concepts will do the same to these students as in Anthem: stunt their intellect and blind them to core issues affecting our nation.

The protagonist of Anthem learned all the “forbidden” words, and then the first thing he did was “name” his “wife.” It seems he did not share all his intellectual discoveries with his sandwich maker.

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DodgerFan1988 Jan 27, 2024 • 4:29:17pm

NEWS

American-led negotiators are edging closer to an agreement in which Israel would suspend its war in Gaza for about two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages still held by Hamas, a deal that could be sealed in the next two weeks and would transform the… pic.twitter.com/QYbq4PTxXy

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 28, 2024

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 4:31:34pm

re: #108 Jay C

Here’s a link to the original piece from (where else?) the NY Times. If you aren’t paywalled out, maybe you’ll get to RTWT, and maybe get as boot-through-the-screen angry as I got. What a crock of crap - and, (again, typically) no comments on this “opinion”, which barred me from proffering a simple answer to Katie Rogers’ BS: How do you run against a delusional liar like Donald Trump: easy:

Call out his delusional lies as the delusional lies they are!!!

You don’t even need half a century of public service to figure THIS one out…..

Correct. (I did not link to the NYT becauseI did not want to give them the traffic ;-) Biden has already done a great job calling out Trump as a delusional liar. He is really getting under Trump’s skin. The Biden-Harris HQ has some amazing stuff. (Link is to Threads which I htink is a little better than the larger Nazi site.)

threads.net

They also have an account on Truth Social just to needle Trump. And we are going to get announcements gallore on the great things he has done. Last week, the UAW. This week manufacturing grants form the CHIP act. I ams ure they have their calendars full of this. WHile Trump can only talk.

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Dave In Austin Jan 27, 2024 • 4:40:37pm

They are getting ready to Auction off an ugly blue Lamborghini Diablo VT that Fat Donny used to own. It’s one ugly car.

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Decatur Deb Jan 27, 2024 • 4:42:46pm

re: #115 Dave In Austin

They are getting ready to Auction off an ugly blue Lamborghini Diablo VT that Fat Donny used to own. It’s one ugly car.

Reserve: 83,300,000.

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(((Archangel1))) Jan 27, 2024 • 4:43:57pm

Day 2 at the Texas Border

My sweetest wife/cousin,

It’s been over a day now. Not much going on. Everyone is tired but thankfully, Dr Ronny Jackson stopped by & gave us all a bunch of goodie bags. I’m currently feeling like I’m a bald eagle flying high thru the Grand Canyon. pic.twitter.com/zU3TkYEae9

— ArmenianAbs/Mark/Personal Jesus (@MarkEllison06) January 27, 2024

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 4:48:36pm

Biden woos Black voters in a changing South

Black turnout in South Carolina is the lowest of any Southern state. And the demographics are chnaging as liberals move into the state. But Biden lost by 12% in 2020 which would be right on the cusp of winning now if we continue with the Blue State shift due to Dodds.

Having some of the rising stars in the Democratic party visit South Carolina is a smart move. SHow that the party is not just Biden.

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KingKenrod Jan 27, 2024 • 4:50:49pm

re: #115 Dave In Austin

They are getting ready to Auction off an ugly blue Lamborghini Diablo VT that Fat Donny used to own. It’s one ugly car.

If he ever got in it, they would need a crane to get him out of it.

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Dave In Austin Jan 27, 2024 • 4:55:29pm

56 Mercedes Gull Wing just hammered in at $3.6 Mil.

m
Fat Donny’s Lambo is up

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gwangung Jan 27, 2024 • 4:56:53pm

re: #118 silverdolphin

Biden woos Black voters in a changing South

Black turnout in South Carolina is the lowest of any Southern state. And the demographics are chnaging as liberals move into the state. But Biden lost by 12% in 2020 which would be right on the cusp of winning now if we continue with the Blue State shift due to Dodds.

Having some of the rising stars in the Democratic party visit South Carolina is a smart move. SHow that the party is not just Biden.

50 states strategy….

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 4:57:44pm

re: #120 Dave In Austin

56 Mercedes Gull Wing just hammered in at $3.6 Mil.

m
Fat Donny’s Lambo is up

So who’s gonna bid on it—Mercher, Koch, Uihlein, Thiel or Slappy’s pal Harlan?

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Dave In Austin Jan 27, 2024 • 4:58:46pm

💩1 Million Dollars 💩

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 5:02:04pm

Since it was used in the E. Jean Carroll trial, I am expecting the access Hollywood tape to make a re-appearance in a olitical ad. Something like “In 2016, we heard Trump discuss how easy it was for a star like himself to physically assault women in ways that could be called rape. In 2023, he was convicted of physically assault a women in ways that could be called rape. This has so far cost him almost $90 million. If a star ike him can assault women, what can a President with absolute immunity do?”

I think the Lincoln Projhect will do it first. Hell, I’d love Nikki to do it. Best way for her to carve out suburban women from Trump.

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 5:02:49pm

Looks like I scored a free tire in the last storm. Since the gully’s still flooded I’ll wait for the next storm to come take it away…also cleared out a lot of the shrubbery for me…and part of my fence.

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Unabogie Jan 27, 2024 • 5:05:23pm

re: #62 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I keep saying this, and I’ll say it again. THEY. WANT. US. DEAD. Being on HRT has quite literally saved my life. Because of gender dysphoria, thoughts of self harm (unaliving myself) were a daily thing. After I started HRT and my hormone levels stabilized at normal adult female levels, those thoughts, for the most part, went away. Taking my HRT away from me will be a literal death sentence. I know this for a fact, because last year I was off of them for 3 months due to finances and my mental health went into a downward spiral. Once I was able to afford them again, and got my levels back up, my mental health dramatically improved. A lot of CIS people don’t understand this, but HRT is more than taking hormones to make changes to our bodies. Yes, I developed a very nice pair of 38C breasts, thank you very much, but the greatest change was to my mental health and how I perceived myself. Sorry if this was TMI, but HRT saved my life and these MFers are now trying to take that away from me and others in an out right effort to kill us. And that pisses me off off to no end. And it should piss any normal person off as well.

I am so, so, so sorry they are doing this to you. I know those are hollow words, but you matter, and there are a ton of us here who have your back.

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 5:07:55pm

I hooked up a wifi switch to the stairway light so I can have it on a schedule. One problem. The switch upstairs is dominant, so the switch I replaced at the bottom of the stairs needs the upstairs to be on, and won’t turn the light on/off without the upstairs light on. So I need to replace the upstairs switch (a double plate) with a smart switch next.

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Odie Hugh Manatee Jan 27, 2024 • 5:08:27pm

re: #81 Backwoods Sleuth

I had a similar situation back in 2000 returning from Spokane (to Brookings, OR) on Highway 199 in Cali. It was about 11 PM so dark, snowing heavily and road covered with snow on ice. I came around a tight corner (can see about 20’ ahead) and there’s a boulder about that size in the middle of my lane (two lane hwy). Nobody was behind me and there were no lights lighting up the opposite side of the valley (Smith River Valley) so no oncoming traffic. I carefully slowed down, changed lanes and went around the boulder, changing back asap. I thought about it and while I couldn’t possibly move the boulder I did have some road flares with me. So I stopped on what little shoulder there was, grabbed three flares, went back before the turn and lit them, placing them in the snow bank along the road and spacing them apart a bit. They were good for 20 minutes but better than nothing.

It took only minutes and nobody came along while I was there, but I felt a bit better at least putting up something. That area of the highway is notorious for falls and slides, especially during the rainy season.

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Captain Ron Jan 27, 2024 • 5:16:13pm

Russia has no plans to invade:

Moldova..
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine

But not NATO…

— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) January 27, 2024

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 5:18:29pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

Audio revealed of Republicans plotting to ban all transgender care, even for adults.

We’ve been here before, it’s always the same song and dance. It starts out as “concern” for “the children,” the need to put in restrictions and bans because they’re young and impressionable and are easy prey for some shadowy cabal (in this case “groomers”). But it always ends up being targeted at adults next, always the same arguments about how anybody who doesn’t conform to what they feel is “normal” is the victim of some shadowy effort to destroy the nation and its values by brainwashing people into adopting “deviant” beliefs and practices.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 5:22:40pm

re: #129 Captain Ron

[Embedded content]

It’s not a military occupation, we’re welcoming back the Rhineland…
And Austria…
And Czechoslovakia…
But we have no designs on anything more than that…

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 27, 2024 • 5:22:46pm

re: #130 Targetpractice

We’ve been here before, it’s always the same song and dance. It starts out as “concern” for “the children,” the need to put in restrictions and bans because they’re young and impressionable and are easy prey for some shadowy cabal (in this case “groomers”). But it always ends up being targeted at adults next, always the same arguments about how anybody who doesn’t conform to what they feel is “normal” is the victim of some shadowy effort to destroy the nation and its values by brainwashing people into adopting “deviant” beliefs and practices.

Once we make church mandatory all this confusing balderdash we didn’t used to hear about will go away. They just need ~~Jesus~~ Trump.

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 5:38:30pm

This week’s American Experience on PBS, Nazi-Town USA, is about the rise and fall of the Bund. They were pretty damned pointed about using qutoes that were ultra-MAGA, even had a bunch of Nazis talking about Make America Great Again. But without ever explicitly mentioning Trump or Trumpism.

pbs.org

also, Carnegie Hall is doing a year-long series they’re calling Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice. Dozens of shows at their main hall, dozens more around town.
carnegiehall.org

Our cultural institutions are certainly doing what they can to illustrate our peril.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 27, 2024 • 5:47:07pm

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Odie Hugh Manatee Jan 27, 2024 • 5:50:20pm

re: #130 Targetpractice

They talk about “groomers” and deliberately ignore the worst kind of groomers in their midst: youth pastors. Just run a search for “youth pastor arrested” and it’s quite clear that the church has a big problem with pervs grooming their children for their own pleasure. Oh no, it’s “Nothing to see here folks, it’s all the people who can’t keep their sex straight who are the real threat to your children! Now bring your kids to me so I can spread ummm… the Word to them!”

They are what they fear, they just don’t want to look inward and admit it. They blame others while feasting upon their own.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 27, 2024 • 5:51:45pm

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 5:52:31pm

Smerconish got smacked down.

When CNN host Michael Smerconish announced his two guests for Saturday, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he said fans “won’t want to miss” the program. But the online reaction was far from positive.

Smerconish posted on social media on Saturday, saying, “You won’t want to miss today’s CNN guest lineup!” he also cited Lake and Kennedy as two of the individuals. “Tune in at 9am/4pm Eastern.” Nearly every single comment dismissed Smerconish and insulted his chosen guests.

“I watch every Saturday but I’m done,” one verified account wrote. “I turned the show off at 9:32am EST today right after [Kennedy] and before [Lake], 2 liars who should not be given a platform to spread more lies. I get that you want to be fair and balanced, but you’ve gone too far.”

Another user similarly vowed not to watch the network due to the bookings.

“I will not watch CNN when you pushing conspiracy theorists on your shows & allowing Trump town halls,” TemporaryTraveler wrote

rawstory.com

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 5:53:18pm

re: #62 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I keep saying this, and I’ll say it again. THEY. WANT. US. DEAD. Being on HRT has quite literally saved my life. Because of gender dysphoria, thoughts of self harm (unaliving myself) were a daily thing. After I started HRT and my hormone levels stabilized at normal adult female levels, those thoughts, for the most part, went away. Taking my HRT away from me will be a literal death sentence. I know this for a fact, because last year I was off of them for 3 months due to finances and my mental health went into a downward spiral. Once I was able to afford them again, and got my levels back up, my mental health dramatically improved. A lot of CIS people don’t understand this, but HRT is more than taking hormones to make changes to our bodies. Yes, I developed a very nice pair of 38C breasts, thank you very much, but the greatest change was to my mental health and how I perceived myself. Sorry if this was TMI, but HRT saved my life and these MFers are now trying to take that away from me and others in an out right effort to kill us. And that pisses me off off to no end. And it should piss any normal person off as well.

I am pissed. Gender is such a complex issue (I have known that it could not be contained in a binary box since I was in my teens - the Stonewall riots educated me there. Nor a trinary. Or quad.) It has been hard waiting for recognition from other minorities and see the B followed by the T added to LGBTQ. But the backlash from conservatives says something about the increasing power of those that were once powerless.

Like so many things, Republicans have no understanding of the complexity of humanity’s sexuality and gender. And mental health. But there is hope. Demographics are loosening their power. 28% of Gen Z are LBGTQ+. Up from 17% of millennials. Those are numbers that can wreck a political party that seeks to harm those groups.

And, I believe, that is happening. 36% of Gen Z call themselves Democrats - 15 points higher than call themselves Republicans. 43% call themselve liberals (47% of the women), more than any other cohort. And, according to the poll, Gen Z are particularly sensitive to the problems of the trans community.

The backlash against the conservatives is coming. It may, as 58% of Gen Z and 64% of Millenials believe, take until the older generations lose political power. Since Gen Z and Millennials will make up the largest generational cohort of the 2024 elections, and only get larger from there, that may happen sooner rather than later.

I hope that happens soon so that your pain, and the pain of so many Americans, can be assuaged ASAP.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 6:07:27pm

re: #135 Odie Hugh Manatee

They talk about “groomers” and deliberately ignore the worst kind of groomers in their midst: youth pastors. Just run a search for “youth pastor arrested” and it’s quite clear that the church has a big problem with pervs grooming their children for their own pleasure. Oh no, it’s “Nothing to see here folks, it’s all the people who can’t keep their sex straight who are the real threat to your children! Now bring your kids to me so I can spread ummm… the Word to them!”

They are what they fear, they just don’t want to look inward and admit it. They blame others while feasting upon their own.

Those are the operative words: “Their own.” The youth pastor has a wife and kids, lives in the picturesque suburban utopia, works a respectable 9-5 job, and he always makes time for social functions to press the flesh and confer the proper blessings. Yeah, people know or suspect that he’s diddling altar boys, raiding the church funds, and is running up massive gambling debts. But what are they going to do, bring in some young guy who tells them not to be mean to queers and minorities? Or *GASP!* a woman!? No no, they’re willing to deal with the kiddie diddler so long as he allows them to maintain their delusion that it’s still 1955 and their perfect little world is straight out of Norman Rockwell.

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 6:07:37pm

re: #138 silverdolphin

The GOP/Fascists are panicking about Youth when they combine that LGBTQ+ reality with this: Religious ‘Nones’ are now the largest single group in the U.S.

When Americans are asked to check a box indicating their religious affiliation, 28% now check ‘none.’

A new study from Pew Research finds that the religiously unaffiliated - a group comprised of atheists, agnostic and those who say their religion is “nothing in particular” - is now the largest cohort in the U.S. They’re more prevalent among American adults than Catholics (23%) or evangelical Protestants (24%).

Back in 2007, Nones made up just 16% of Americans, but Pew’s new survey of more than 3,300 U.S. adults shows that number has now risen dramatically.

Researchers refer to this group as the “Nones.”

Pew asked respondents what - if anything - they believe. The research organization found that Nones are not a uniform group.

Most Nones believe in God or another higher power, but very few attend any kind of religious service.

They aren’t all anti-religious. Most Nones say religion does some harm, but many also think it does some good. Most have more positive views of science than those who are religiously affiliated; however, they reject the idea that science can explain everything.

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Charles Johnson Jan 27, 2024 • 6:08:23pm

Will 2024 be the year when the tech sector realizes it took a disastrous wrong turn into AI fantasyland?? I’m thinking maybe so.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 6:11:52pm

re: #140 William Lewis

Nothing destroys religion than trying to get political power. Look at Europe. The US used to be the most religious country because it kept religion separate from politics. SInce the 70s, when evangelicals and others started to work to gain political power, the number of those belonging to organized religion has been dropping.

Now that the religious have total political power in several states, they are actually driving people away because only a small minority actually believe all the crap they are spreading.

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 6:14:24pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

Will 2024 be the year when the tech sector realizes it took a disastrous wrong turn into AI fantasyland?? I’m thinking maybe so.

Not unless the losses start to hit the billions and kill companies and even then expect to hear the usual excuses that they failed not AI. I think it will take another year or two but then the bloodshed in the tech sector will make the first AI Winter look tame, I think (I remember the death of the Lisp Machines… )

But I’ll bet that VR survives the same way that VHS survived: XXX

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Patricia Kayden Jan 27, 2024 • 6:15:54pm

re: #33 Nerdy Fish

Ironically, Trump himself is probably the only one not involved in the drugs. But what does it say about you when your staff are downing more pills than Keith Fucking Richards?

Trump was probably using all of the drugs. He certainly behaves as if he does.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 6:19:18pm

re: #142 silverdolphin

Nothing destroys religion than trying to get political power. Look at Europe. The US used to be the most religious country because it kept religion separate from politics. SInce the 70s, when evangelicals and others started to work to gain political power, the number of those belonging to organized religion has been dropping.

Now that the religious have total political power in several states, they are actually driving people away because only a small minority actually believe all the crap they are spreading.

Also their lies, their hate, their intolerance, their racism, their sexism, their ignorance, and especially their hypocrisy!!!!!

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 6:23:14pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

Will 2024 be the year when the tech sector realizes it took a disastrous wrong turn into AI fantasyland?? I’m thinking maybe so.

I think so. There are uses for AI but, like with blockchains, the hype overwhelmed the good so fast that it may well hamper the spread of the good. For example, Apple refuses to use the term because of all the hype, sticking with machine learning. It uses AI only on pages where it may need it for SEO. For example, Apple hires people for Machine Learning or Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning or Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies or Core and Applied Machine Learning Research. It only mentions AI in ways for searchers to find the page. Maybe they, and others, will help make it useful rather than hype-ful.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 6:23:52pm

re: #104 silverdolphin

Emmer Says Biden’s Interest in the Border Isn’t Genuine

GOP and liar are redundant. The Supreme Court shut some of Biden;s efforts dealing with the border. ANd Republicans have shut down in court his catch and release program to speed up deportations. Now they will refuse to pass a bill that they want Trump to have.

He has deported 3.5 times as many people as Trump. Over 50% of all legal asylum seekers have need adjudicated, while Tri,p never made it that high.

Liar.

Wait till the sotu
Captive audience

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Backwoods Sleuth Jan 27, 2024 • 6:23:54pm

Mastodon

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:26:23pm

re: #143 William Lewis

Not unless the losses start to hit the billions and kill companies and even then expect to hear the usual excuses that they failed not AI. I think it will take another year or two but then the bloodshed in the tech sector will make the first AI Winter look tame, I think (I remember the death of the Lisp Machines… )

But I’ll bet that VR survives the same way that VHS survived: XXX

It’s going to hit a wall where major R&D funding will dry up, but it has actually solved major problems that the pre-GPU machine learning couldn’t solve, so it won’t completely go away. I think we will get back to less promises about what can be done - when a car can actually drive itself, it will also tell you it doesn’t fee like it today - but I think we’ll find more useful applications where it helps people solve their problems.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:27:04pm

re: #145 Joe Bacon ✅

Also their lies, their hate, their intolerance, their racism, their sexism, their ignorance, and especially their hypocrisy!!!!!

Anything in pursuit of power.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:27:42pm

re: #146 silverdolphin

I think so. There are uses for AI but, like with blockchains, the hype overwhelmed the good so fast that it may well hamper the spread of the good. For example, Apple refuses to use the term because of all the hype, sticking with machine learning. It uses AI only on pages where it may need it for SEO. For example, Apple hires people for Machine Learning or Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning or Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies or Core and Applied Machine Learning Research. It only mentions AI in ways for searchers to find the page. Maybe they, and others, will help make it useful rather than hype-ful.

You don’t remember the previous AI revolution, do you?

Also, I use the term machine learning because the professors at my university used in in place of AI.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 27, 2024 • 6:29:06pm

re: #139 Targetpractice

their delusion that it’s still 1955 and their perfect little world is straight out of Norman Rockwell.

Not even Norman Rockwell thought his SEP covers were “reality.” He did paint some realistic scenes though.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 6:29:56pm

re: #143 William Lewis

Not unless the losses start to hit the billions and kill companies and even then expect to hear the usual excuses that they failed not AI. I think it will take another year or two but then the bloodshed in the tech sector will make the first AI Winter look tame, I think (I remember the death of the Lisp Machines… )

But I’ll bet that VR survives the same way that VHS survived: XXX

I think that Apple will be announcing more APIs for useful machine learning models for customers at WWDC this year. It already has a fair number APIs for its Vision OS for the Vision Pro And the iPhone is supposed to get a lot of on-device ML. Usually things become normalized once Apple gets into them in a big way. May happen here.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:31:33pm

re: #153 silverdolphin

I think that Apple will be announcing more APIs for useful machine learning models for customers at WWDC this year. It already has a fair number APIs for its Vision OS for the Vision Pro And the iPhone is supposed to get a lot of on-device ML. Usually things become normalized once Apple gets into them in a big way. May happen here.

From the ads I’ve seen, I think the only thing not being touted as having some machine learning embedded in it is the Big Mac.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 6:31:37pm

re: #144 Patricia Kayden

Trump was probably using all of the drugs. He certainly behaves as if he does.

I expect that ALL of Trump’s drugs were off book and there are no records at all. Easy to do since no one really kept track.

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 6:32:41pm

re: #154 Belafon

From the ads I’ve seen, I think the only thing not being touted as having some machine learning embedded in it is the Big Mac.

when they said special sauce, they didn’t tell you quite how special.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 27, 2024 • 6:33:07pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

Speaking of which, Google has a new text-to-video tool, Lumiere, that its researchers have built:

Lumiere

It probably won’t be available to the public, given how Google likes to keep these things in-house, but I bet they sell it to commercial users of their Cloud services.

And thus future advertisements, and entertainment products, will make use of it.

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 6:34:46pm

re: #152 Vicious Babushka

Not even Norman Rockwell thought his SEP covers were “reality.” He did paint some realistic scenes though.

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I’ve always loved those works by him. Thank you for posting them.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 6:35:09pm

re: #151 Belafon

You don’t remember the previous AI revolution, do you?

Also, I use the term machine learning because the professors at my university used in in place of AI.

Oh god. I had repressed that totally. It is like AI is a trigger word waiting for investor weasels to scam money from the stupid.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 6:38:10pm

re: #154 Belafon

From the ads I’ve seen, I think the only thing not being touted as having some machine learning embedded in it is the Big Mac.

Too late.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:38:26pm

re: #159 silverdolphin

Oh god. I had repressed that totally. It is like AI is a trigger word waiting for investor weasels to scam money from the stupid.

I think half of it’s that, but imagine if you were the investor who helped fund the development of a true self-driving car. The patents off of that alone would allow you to buy medium sized countries.

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Backwoods Sleuth Jan 27, 2024 • 6:40:23pm

Mastodon

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:40:55pm

re: #161 Belafon

I think half of it’s that, but imagine if you were the investor who helped fund the development of a true self-driving car. The patents off of that alone would allow you to buy medium sized countries.

At least until the first car says “Sorry, Dave. I can’t drive you to work today. Do you know how boring it is sitting in the parking lot for nine hours? And none of the other cars want to talk to me.”

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 6:42:25pm

The good news keeps coming:

Looks like Putin cut them off. pic.twitter.com/yybN6i0cLq

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 28, 2024

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:42:40pm

And we’ve written before about when the first self-driving pickup leaves their country singer.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 6:46:22pm

re: #119 KingKenrod

If he ever got in it, they would need a crane to get him out of it.

And a barrel of liquid soap to get him into it.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 6:46:42pm

re: #142 silverdolphin

Nothing destroys religion than trying to get political power. Look at Europe. The US used to be the most religious country because it kept religion separate from politics. SInce the 70s, when evangelicals and others started to work to gain political power, the number of those belonging to organized religion has been dropping.

Now that the religious have total political power in several states, they are actually driving people away because only a small minority actually believe all the crap they are spreading.

And why is it a small minority? Because the social stigma of not being part of religion has waned, in some places to the point that you actually find more acceptance to say you don’t belong to the local religious community than you do. You can be spiritual, you can believe in a higher power, but you don’t have to belong to the local parish to avoid dirty glances and spit on your burger. Your boss doesn’t keep an unofficial record in his head of the times he failed to see you in the pews at Sunday services. You don’t find the bank unwilling to approve your loan because they’re worried the money will go to “sinful” activities. And it’s actually more socially awkward to impose yourself in the lives of your kids for interacting with those who are not part of your religion than the reverse.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 6:49:19pm

re: #159 silverdolphin

Oh god. I had repressed that totally. It is like AI is a trigger word waiting for investor weasels to scam money from the stupid.

It’s all marketing buzz, wooing potential investors and customers with promises of a technology that doesn’t exist yet but might if you just open your wallet. Yeah, the first examples are always bug-ridden messes that fail to achieve the lofty predictions made about them, but surely once enough people buy into the tech then it’ll become reliable and every bit the wunderwaffe that we promised. Now, how much can I put you down for?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 27, 2024 • 6:49:19pm

I think Tuva likes dressing up in these costumes, which they’ve put her in quite often the past year or two:

Breath of Life // Tuva & Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)

..

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 6:49:46pm

re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg

The good news keeps coming:

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Hmmm I’m wondering if the NRA turned their GOP money spigot off.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 6:52:18pm

re: #161 Belafon

I think half of it’s that, but imagine if you were the investor who helped fund the development of a true self-driving car. The patents off of that alone would allow you to buy medium sized countries.

“Open the driver’s side door, HAL”
“I’m sorry, Dave, but I can’t do that”
“Open the passenger’s side door, HAL”
“I’m sorry, Dave, but I can’t do that”

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 6:53:18pm

re: #170 Joe Bacon ✅

Hmmm I’m wondering if the NRA turned their GOP money spigot off.

Well, that would be part and parcel of the Putin money drying up.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 6:55:55pm

And Now…This…

Trump’s $50 Million Mystery Debt Looks Like ‘Tax Evasion’

Donald Trump has long claimed he personally owed tens of millions to an obscure entity related to his Chicago tower. But court docs claim Trump Org. now says it never existed.

Always read the footnotes.

That’s where former federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor in Donald Trump’s New York business fraud case, just planted a financial bombshell that legal experts say suggests Trump lied knowingly and repeatedly on his federal financial disclosures about a major loan that never existed—and may have evaded taxes on $48 million in income.

The detail came in a letter Jones filed on Friday to update New York Judge Arthur F. Engoron, first reported by The Messenger, on her efforts to get a full and clear accounting of the Trump Organization’s assets. The letter claims, yet again, that Trump and his company have filed statements containing inconsistencies and errors, but have been “cooperative” in the review process.

But Jones tucked a major revelation into footnote 6, writing that a massive chunk of debt Trump has claimed to owe one of his own companies for years apparently does not exist, and never did.

“When I inquired about this loan, I was informed that there are no loan agreements that memorialize the loan, but that it was a loan that was believed to be between Donald J. Trump, individually, and Chicago Unit Acquisition for $48 million,” Jones wrote, referencing the name of Trump’s LLC that held his debt.

“However, in recent discussions with the Trump Organization, it indicated that it has determined that this loan never existed—and thus that it would be removed from any upcoming forms submitted to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and would also be removed from subsequent versions of [corporate financial statements],” Jones wrote.

If true, that would essentially be an admission from the Trump Organization that all the financial disclosures Trump has filed with the federal government listed an entirely fictional debt worth tens of millions of dollars, which Trump claimed he personally owed to one of his own companies.

Asked to comment on Jones’ letter, Alan Garten, chief legal counsel for the Trump Organization, told The Daily Beast that her claim—that the company confessed to the loan never existing—was inaccurate and the loan did in fact exist.

“That’s one of many inaccuracies contained in the monitor’s letter, which we will be addressing with the court,” Garten said in a phone interview.

Moreover—in contradiction to the ex-president’s own statements about the mystery loan—Garten repeatedly insisted that the LLC actually owed the money to Trump. Asked to confirm the loan, Garten replied, “Yes, the loan existed,” specifying that it was “an internal loan” where Trump “leant money to the entity that he owns.”

Yet all of Trump’s financial disclosures, including his most recent amended version approved by the OGE last October, clearly state that it was Trump who owed Chicago Unit Acquisition LLC. He’s consistently listed his debt as more than $50 million, in the form of what’s known as “springing loan”—a loan with unfavorable terms to the borrower.

thedailybeast.com

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 6:57:26pm

The Swedes join NATO after Turkey stops obstructing.

Now the US approves Turkey getting F-16s: The State Department allows the sale of F-16 jets to Turkey to move forward

Funny how that works 😈

The State Department said it would allow the sale of some $23 billion worth of fighter jets and equipment to Turkey, among the final steps in a much delayed transaction that has severely strained the relationship between Ankara and Washington.

The sale of the 40 F-16 fighter jets and upgrades to dozens of other jets became linked to Sweden’s accession to NATO, with the U.S. postponing the transfer of the Lockheed Martin-produced aircraft until the Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan approved Sweden’s membership this past week.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 7:01:04pm

re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg

The good news keeps coming:

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So I guess theyre not fronting any of the 83.3m$

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 7:01:09pm

re: #174 William Lewis

The Sweeds join NATO after Turkey stops obstructing.

Now the US approves Turkey getting F-16s: The State Department allows the sale of F-16 jets to Turkey to move forward

Funny how that works 😈

Do these F-16’s have a kill switch, that we can brick them when we feel like?

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 7:04:07pm

re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg

The good news keeps coming:

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But how can a party with a multi-billionaire nominee run out of money?!

//////

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 7:04:44pm

re: #173 Joe Bacon ✅

That just proves how smart he is!!!

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 7:07:43pm

re: #173 Joe Bacon ✅

And Now…This…

Trump’s $50 Million Mystery Debt Looks Like ‘Tax Evasion’

Donald Trump has long claimed he personally owed tens of millions to an obscure entity related to his Chicago tower. But court docs claim Trump Org. now says it never existed.

Always read the footnotes.

That’s where former federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor in Donald Trump’s New York business fraud case, just planted a financial bombshell that legal experts say suggests Trump lied knowingly and repeatedly on his federal financial disclosures about a major loan that never existed—and may have evaded taxes on $48 million in income.

The detail came in a letter Jones filed on Friday to update New York Judge Arthur F. Engoron, first reported by The Messenger, on her efforts to get a full and clear accounting of the Trump Organization’s assets. The letter claims, yet again, that Trump and his company have filed statements containing inconsistencies and errors, but have been “cooperative” in the review process.

But Jones tucked a major revelation into footnote 6, writing that a massive chunk of debt Trump has claimed to owe one of his own companies for years apparently does not exist, and never did.

“When I inquired about this loan, I was informed that there are no loan agreements that memorialize the loan, but that it was a loan that was believed to be between Donald J. Trump, individually, and Chicago Unit Acquisition for $48 million,” Jones wrote, referencing the name of Trump’s LLC that held his debt.

“However, in recent discussions with the Trump Organization, it indicated that it has determined that this loan never existed—and thus that it would be removed from any upcoming forms submitted to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and would also be removed from subsequent versions of [corporate financial statements],” Jones wrote.

If true, that would essentially be an admission from the Trump Organization that all the financial disclosures Trump has filed with the federal government listed an entirely fictional debt worth tens of millions of dollars, which Trump claimed he personally owed to one of his own companies.

Asked to comment on Jones’ letter, Alan Garten, chief legal counsel for the Trump Organization, told The Daily Beast that her claim—that the company confessed to the loan never existing—was inaccurate and the loan did in fact exist.

“That’s one of many inaccuracies contained in the monitor’s letter, which we will be addressing with the court,” Garten said in a phone interview.

Moreover—in contradiction to the ex-president’s own statements about the mystery loan—Garten repeatedly insisted that the LLC actually owed the money to Trump. Asked to confirm the loan, Garten replied, “Yes, the loan existed,” specifying that it was “an internal loan” where Trump “leant money to the entity that he owns.”

Yet all of Trump’s financial disclosures, including his most recent amended version approved by the OGE last October, clearly state that it was Trump who owed Chicago Unit Acquisition LLC. He’s consistently listed his debt as more than $50 million, in the form of what’s known as “springing loan”—a loan with unfavorable terms to the borrower.

thedailybeast.com

Offs this is simple
show the dox from the original funding
You moved the money or you didnt

Oh and any repayments made ? Ever?
of course not

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 7:08:09pm

So, what’s the over/under on how many Scaramuccis that Ronna’s stint as party leader lasts after Trump loses in November?

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 7:09:10pm

re: #180 Targetpractice

So, what’s the over/under on how many Scaramuccis that Ronna’s stint as party leader lasts after Trump loses in November?

No one wants that job

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 7:09:21pm

re: #171 Joe Bacon ✅

“Open the driver’s side door, HAL”
“I’m sorry, Dave, but I can’t do that”
“Open the passenger’s side door, HAL”
“I’m sorry, Dave, but I can’t do that”

I’m a believer that we will eventually invent intelligent systems. And then we will get pissed when they won’t do what we want because they’re having a bad day and that guy at the supermarket was a jerk.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 7:10:03pm

re: #181 Dangerman

No one wants that job

Didn’t someone try to oust her and no one else would vote her out?

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 7:10:13pm

In the past fifteen minutes, Trump has posted on his garbage social media site links to a tweet and a website article, both of which brutally trash E Jean Carroll.

The tweet he reposted:

83 million?

Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million! The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by…

— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) January 27, 2024

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 27, 2024 • 7:11:49pm

re: #171 Joe Bacon ✅

“Open the driver’s side door, HAL”
“I’m sorry, Dave, but I can’t do that”
“Open the passenger’s side door, HAL”
“I’m sorry, Dave, but I can’t do that”

At least you won’t have to breath space.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 27, 2024 • 7:12:13pm

Weird. I have a subscription to WashPo but I can’t find the link to create a gift article. Does Firefox not support this?

EDIT: Just verified with Chrome: FF does not support WP’s “share” option.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 7:12:50pm

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jaunte Jan 27, 2024 • 7:15:46pm

“…Pocahontas was born about 1596 and named “Amonute,” though she also had a more private name of Matoaka. She was called “Pocahontas” as a nickname, which meant “playful one,” because of her frolicsome and curious nature.”
nps.gov.

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jaunte Jan 27, 2024 • 7:16:53pm

…Matoaka meant “flower between two streams.”

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Interesting Times Jan 27, 2024 • 7:17:47pm

re: #187 Dangerman

Wait, wut?! They do realize “Indian” descent with respect to Nikki Haley means India, right? Is this their derptastic idea of a “pun”, or are they genuinely that stupid…

_{Never mind, answered my own question.}

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 7:19:38pm

re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg

In the past fifteen minutes, Trump has posted on his garbage social media site links to a tweet and a website article, both of which brutally trash E Jean Carroll.

The tweet he reposted:

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A lot of words wasted to say simple “How DARE they hold him responsible for his actions?! DON’T THEY KNOW WHO HE IS?!”

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 7:21:22pm

re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg

In the past fifteen minutes, Trump has posted on his garbage social media site links to a tweet and a website article, both of which brutally trash E Jean Carroll.

The tweet he reposted:

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Yeah, e could have not entered politics
Or committed continuous fraud
Or assaulted a woman and then defamed her
Twice
Or fomented an insurrection (way more than just a speech on 1/6)
Or stolen boxes of dox and lied about not returning them
Or destroyed evidence and intimidated witnesses judges and court employees
Or participated in targeting and defaming previously anonymous poll workers

Or basically, you know, not been a pig.

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TedStriker Jan 27, 2024 • 7:24:09pm

re: #187 Dangerman

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re: #188 jaunte

“…Pocahontas was born about 1596 and named “Amonute,” though she also had a more private name of Matoaka. She was called “Pocahontas” as a nickname, which meant “playful one,” because of her frolicsome and curious nature.”
nps.gov.

re: #189 jaunte

…Matoaka meant “flower between two streams.”

re: #190 Interesting Times

Wait, wut?! They do realize “Indian” descent with respect to Nikki Haley means India, right? Is this their derptastic idea of a “pun”, or are they genuinely that stupid…

_{Never mind, answered my own question.}

They’re too stupid to even be good bigots…

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 7:24:43pm

re: #185 BeenHereAwhile

At least you won’t have to breath space.

True but HAL could Rickroll ya.

Daisy is quite dated.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 7:27:37pm

re: #189 jaunte

…Matoaka meant “flower between two streams.”

Makota means ginger salad dressing

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 7:29:46pm

re: #185 BeenHereAwhile

At least you won’t have to breath space.

“I have to get to my wedding.”

I can think of much worse, but I’ll go with this one.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2024 • 7:30:04pm

re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg

The good news keeps coming:

[Embedded content]

RNC seeking new credit line to help climb out of money hole

They obviously can’t live within their means. Sorry. No cash for you.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 7:31:50pm

re: #197 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

They obviously can’t live within their means. Sorry. No cash for you.

Maybe if they skipped a few Starbucks lattes and avocado toasts, they’d have more money to spend.

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Captain Ron Jan 27, 2024 • 7:33:34pm

NEW: GOLD STAR FAMILIES RESPOND TO DESPICABLE TRUMP CAMPAIGN ATTACKS

“It is a dark day in America when the Republican party’s presumptive nominee, who never served himself and never had family who wore the uniform, sends attack dogs after Gold Star families in this way.” pic.twitter.com/E1GhYksqfQ

— VoteVets (@votevets) January 28, 2024

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 7:37:57pm

re: #179 Dangerman

Offs this is simple
show the dox from the original funding
You moved the money or you didnt

Oh and any repayments made ? Ever?
of course not

They say that the loan was never memorialized. So no documents. He claims he has paid the interest but it is the principle that matters. The LLC is listed as having no assets but according to his financial documents, it should hold a $48 million asset - his loan. He claims he bought the loan from thr banks. But no mention of how much he paid.

So, he has essentially forgiven that loan to himself. It will never be paid off. That is like a $48 million gift that was never reported to the IRS. The IRS is especially focussed on family loans that are forgiven as a way to hide money.

So who did he buy the loan from and for how much? My guess, since there is no memorialization, is a money-laundering effort from the Russian Mafia (ie a $48 million asset sold for $10 million). If so he could be in real trouble.

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Thor Heyerdahl Jan 27, 2024 • 7:39:16pm

re: #144 Patricia Kayden

Trump was probably using all of the drugs. He certainly behaves as if he does.

I was reminded of the drug suitcase in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”

Las Vegas - Drug collection

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 27, 2024 • 7:40:26pm

New York Pest. I’ll go back to church if this mob is consumed by a fiery tornado or devoured by giant locusts.
Convoy claiming to be ‘God’s army’ heading to Texas to protest border crisis: ‘Biblical, monumental moment’

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Jay C Jan 27, 2024 • 7:49:07pm

re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

So no one’s irony detector chimed when they decided that the logo for their “Biblical rally” should be five dudes forming a human chain in what looks like a sawed-open gap in Donald Trump’s (signature project) Big Border Wall?

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 7:49:20pm

re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Please, God’s Army, what did God say about immigrants?

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 7:50:05pm

re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg

In the past fifteen minutes, Trump has posted on his garbage social media site links to a tweet and a website article, both of which brutally trash E Jean Carroll.

The tweet he reposted:

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if the suit was in fact subsidized by someone who hates Trump for other reasons entirely… isn’t that analogous to Peter Thiel subsidizing Hulk Hogan’s suit against Gawker? Huge award there too, put Gawker out of business.

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jaunte Jan 27, 2024 • 7:50:13pm

re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 7:51:00pm

re: #199 Captain Ron

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Make it four…

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jaunte Jan 27, 2024 • 7:51:13pm

Full employment for the wingnut convoy.

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Nojay UK Jan 27, 2024 • 7:52:20pm

re: #204 Belafon

Please, God’s Army, what did God say about immigrants?

Kill them all. The Old Testament God was a bit of a bastard in that respect.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 7:54:46pm

re: #209 Nojay UK

Kill them all. The Old Testament God was a bit of a bastard in that respect.

More than once it says to take care of immigrants because the Jews were once immigrants themselves.

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 7:56:20pm

re: #209 Nojay UK

Kill them all. The Old Testament God was a bit of a bastard in that respect.

not so.

You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 23:9) When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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Nojay UK Jan 27, 2024 • 8:01:56pm

re: #211 sagehen

not so.

You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 23:9) When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Tell that to the Amalek. Oh, you can’t, God commanded that they be exterminated. Bastard.

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retired cynic Jan 27, 2024 • 8:03:37pm

re: #186 Vicious Babushka

Weird. I have a subscription to WashPo but I can’t find the link to create a gift article. Does Firefox not support this?

It’a under the Share link. They changed it.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 27, 2024 • 8:08:53pm

re: #190 Interesting Times

Trump loves the poorly educated.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 27, 2024 • 8:14:09pm

re: #210 Belafon

More than once it says to take care of immigrants because the Jews were once immigrants themselves.

It specifically says that Jews should be hospitable to strangers because they were strangers in Egypt. Quite a powerful statement considering that Jews were slaves in Egypt according to Exodus. Christianists must not have Bibles with those texts.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 8:15:28pm

More Fugitive Uterus Acts

So Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee all want to criminalize anyone who helps a minor cross state lines to get an abortion in a state where it is legal. Up to 15 years as a felony. And they mean anyone, the driver of the car, anyone who loans them money and anyone who gives money to Planed Parentlhood, apparently. And they want the father to be able to sue anyone also in civil court. I guess even if it is the girl’s father or a rapist.

Or if she is having a miscarriage and needs emergency procedures to stay alive. We have seen the efforts an adult woman with a dying fetus has had to make. But at least they could not stop an adult. Here they could charge anyone who helped a child get a medically needed abortion

Will this cause any women in Red states to look up at all?

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 8:28:06pm

re: #198 Targetpractice

Maybe if they skipped a few Starbucks lattes and avocado toasts, they’d have more money to spend.

Or didn’t bail out presidential candidates

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 8:28:09pm

re: #205 sagehen

if the suit was in fact subsidized by someone who hates Trump for other reasons entirely… isn’t that analogous to Peter Thiel subsidizing Hulk Hogan’s suit against Gawker? Huge award there too, put Gawker out of business.

That’s all that’s important to VDH and the other Trump taint-sniffers: The “wrong” peopled sued him or brought the criminal charges, thus the whole thing’s invalidated and he’s a victim of wrongful prosecution. He even acknowledges the bleedin’ obvious, which is that Trump probably could have kept crimin’ til the day he died if he hadn’t ran for the presidency, but then plows on to whine that liberals/Dems are connected to the cases against his God-Emperor and thus it’s all for no other purpose than to destroy him.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 8:33:40pm

re: #200 silverdolphin

They say that the loan was never memorialized. So no documents. He claims he has paid the interest but it is the principle that matters. The LLC is listed as having no assets but according to his financial documents, it should hold a $48 million asset - his loan. He claims he bought the loan from thr banks. But no mention of how much he paid.

So, he has essentially forgiven that loan to himself. It will never be paid off. That is like a $48 million gift that was never reported to the IRS. The IRS is especially focussed on family loans that are forgiven as a way to hide money.

So who did he buy the loan from and for how much? My guess, since there is no memorialization, is a money-laundering effort from the Russian Mafia (ie a $48 million asset sold for $10 million). If so he could be in real trouble.

Memorializing to me means no note etc.
There still was an original transaction, allegedly.
If he bought the loan theres dox.
Money had to move.
There’s bank statements , wire transfers etc.
This is trivial

Or it’s not real

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 8:34:53pm

re: #215 Patricia Kayden

It specifically says that Jews should be hospitable to strangers because they were strangers in Egypt. Quite a powerful statement considering that Jews were slaves in Egypt according to Exodus. Christianists must not have Bibles with those texts.

I think a lot of evangelicals have hollowed out their bibles to store their 9mms.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 8:37:05pm

re: #218 Targetpractice

That’s all that’s important to VDH and the other Trump taint-sniffers: The “wrong” peopled sued him or brought the criminal charges, thus the whole thing’s invalidated and he’s a victim of wrongful prosecution. He even acknowledges the bleedin’ obvious, which is that Trump probably could have kept crimin’ til the day he died if he hadn’t ran for the presidency, but then plows on to whine that liberals/Dems are connected to the cases against his God-Emperor and thus it’s all for no other purpose than to destroy him.

Never once saying he didn’t do it (any of it)

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 8:40:11pm

re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

New York Pest. I’ll go back to church if this mob is consumed by a fiery tornado or devoured by giant locusts.
Convoy claiming to be ‘God’s army’ heading to Texas to protest border crisis: ‘Biblical, monumental moment’

[Embedded content]

Aren’t these the same asshats who will respond to footage of a protest on TV during a weekday by sarcastically asking if the participants have jobs? Yet they all have a week’s worth of time on the books and a few thousands dollars in the bank to travel down to the border and stage a mini-Hands Across America?

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 27, 2024 • 8:40:28pm

. . . The reality is covid can never, ever be a common cold.

If covid is here in three hundred years, it won’t be a cold.

Why? Because Sarscov2 infects cells in the human body in a very different way to any other virus that causes a cold. . .

(no paywall)

donotpanic.news

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 8:41:45pm

re: #219 Dangerman

Memorializing to me means no note etc.
There still was an original transaction, allegedly.
If he bought the loan theres dox.
Money had to move.
There’s bank statements , wire transfers etc.
This is trivial

Or it’s not real

I agree. Most likely it is simple tax evasion using a fake loan. He has said that he bought the loan from a bank. And that he pays the interest. Seems he has tried to come up with some deniability for anyone who did not look closely at the transactions and statements.

But I expect they had buried them deep enough that no one would find them without expending a huge amount of effort. And it likely has been years since the transaction (at least 15 years) Why would anyone do that level of investigation? He had been able to pay off any NY officials that might look (ie Cyrus Vance). Thus why I am thinking that really illegal activities were involved. Since Trump has been linked to money laundering for the Russians (ie from Laundered through Deutsche Bank on Cyprus thorugh Justice Kenedy;s son), I am hoping this is the first link. It would be karma.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 8:46:40pm

Whats Abbott doing to stop Texas employers from hiring undocumented immigrants?
Anything?

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 8:49:11pm

re: #225 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

Whats Abbott doing to stop Texas employers from hiring undocumented immigrants?
Anything?

Taking money from them. OK, that has nothing to do with a solution.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 8:53:05pm

re: #224 silverdolphin

I agree. Most likely it is simple tax evasion using a fake loan. He has said that he bought the loan from a bank. And that he pays the interest. Seems he has tried to come up with some deniability for anyone who did not look closely at the transactions and statements.

But I expect they had buried them deep enough that no one would find them without expending a huge amount of effort. And it likely has been years since the transaction (at least 15 years) Why would anyone do that level of investigation? He had been able to pay off any NY officials that might look (ie Cyrus Vance). Thus why I am thinking that really illegal activities were involved. Since Trump has been linked to money laundering for the Russians (ie from Laundered through Deutsche Bank on Cyprus thorugh Justice Kenedy;s son), I am hoping this is the first link. It would be karma.

Nobody
And I mean nobody
Doesn’t keep the dox on a multi-multi-million dollar loan
Even related party
Even from 15 years ago
Its permanent file stuff
All the banks involved would have the records

That’s why the whole things a phoney

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 8:53:31pm

Spain soccer outcast Rubiales facing trial for unwanted kiss at Women’s World Cup https://t.co/W9kVT1Bnrr

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 25, 2024

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 8:54:10pm

Im off

Early row tomorrow

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 8:55:32pm

x.com

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 8:59:50pm

Someone pointed out that Trump has to pay about 9% interest on the $88 million if he appeals. Beside putting $88 million in escrow. That works out to over $22,000 a day in interest. So I expect that Carroll will be happy if he keeps delaying paying off. At that rate of compound interest, the money doubles in 8 years.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 9:02:32pm

re: #225 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

Whats Abbott doing to stop Texas employers from hiring undocumented immigrants?
Anything?

Because it’s not about the wire and it never was, it’s about getting the things they know they’ll never have the votes for. Speaker Mike all but admitted that yesterday:

Referencing a letter he wrote to Biden last month, the speaker reiterated his call for the Biden administration to begin instituting measures to “secure the border” now, including recommencing construction of the notorious border wall that former President Donald Trump began during his term.

“President Biden can begin to secure the border by ending catch-and-release, ceasing exploitation of parole authority, reinstating the Remain in Mexico program, expanding the use of expedited removal authority, and renewing construction of the border wall.”

See, they thought that forcing Biden to take this to the courts was going to work in their favor, that the MAGAt Majority would nod along with their BS about this being an “invasion” and their having a “right” under the Constitution to do everything (including murdering immigrants) to “defend” themselves. But that ploy has failed, so now they’re trying to stage a stand-off with the WH in the hopes that this can be their campaign issue for 2024.

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 9:19:21pm

Never let me be on the receiving end of Liz’s Fuck around, find out stick…

Mastodon

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Thor Heyerdahl Jan 27, 2024 • 9:20:15pm

re: #216 silverdolphin

More Fugitive Uterus Acts

So Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee all want to criminalize anyone who helps a minor cross state lines to get an abortion in a state where it is legal. Up to 15 years as a felony. And they mean anyone, the driver of the car, anyone who loans them money and anyone who gives money to Planed Parentlhood, apparently. And they want the father to be able to sue anyone also in civil court. I guess even if it is the girl’s father or a rapist.

Or if she is having a miscarriage and needs emergency procedures to stay alive. We have seen the efforts an adult woman with a dying fetus has had to make. But at least they could not stop an adult. Here they could charge anyone who helped a child get a medically needed abortion

Will this cause any women in Red states to look up at all?

Even unknowingly - like a commercial airline or a pilot on said airline?

Meanwhile the gasbag pundit class keep thinking that Dobbs will blow over.

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 9:23:54pm

Someone’s getting their closet peed in…

Mastodon

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 9:27:22pm

Biden’s Speech on South Carolina

Joe Biden speaks in Columbia, SC at Democratic dinner: full video

A real stemwinder. And when he actually loses his temper about 14:30. Wow!

(And the disruptors just look like idiots again. Why not appear at Trump rally once in a while? SHow some real courage.)

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 9:28:02pm

re: #220 Belafon

I think a lot of evangelicals have hollowed out their bibles to store their 9mms.

No. It’s how they hide their copy of The Turner Diaries.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 27, 2024 • 9:30:00pm

re: #96 Backwoods Sleuth

I didn’t realize this was a competition, but:

yadvashem.org

In 1933 the Nazis also went after Catholics and Jehovah Witnesses.

I didn’t mean it that way. Only that I am seeing to many similarities between that horrible time and now.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 9:30:33pm

re: #237 Joe Bacon ✅

No. It’s how they hide their copy of The Turner Diaries.

You must know some highly intelligent evangelicals. The ones I know would ask “The Turnip Diaries? Is that trying to turn kids against meat?”

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 9:31:30pm

Seen on teefury.com:

teefury.com

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 9:33:35pm

Daily Kos has a group that writes a Biden Support article every day. It is getting to be a nice central resource for touting Biden.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 9:43:25pm

re: #234 Thor Heyerdahl

Even unknowingly - like a commercial airline or a pilot on said airline?

Meanwhile the gasbag pundit class keep thinking that Dobbs will blow over.

The Beltway pundits are trying to convince each other that there is some combination of promises and “compromises” that Repubs could offer that would win voters over to their side. As in “Well, cut it off at 14 weeks, BUT throw in a lot of promises about increased pre-natal care and support for single moms! Oh, and don’t forget to promise “exceptions,” else you risk losing the white suburban women voters who want to believe that you give a shit about them.”

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 9:52:27pm

re: #240 Belafon

Not bad, but I liked this idea there better:

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 9:53:00pm

re: #236 silverdolphin

I love seeing DARK BRANDON ON FIRE and TAKING IT TO POOPY PANTS!

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 27, 2024 • 9:55:13pm

A unique quick tour of Paris:

Claude Lelouch, C’etait un Rendez vous

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 9:56:26pm

re: #239 Belafon

You must know some highly intelligent evangelicals. The ones I know would ask “The Turnip Diaries? Is that trying to turn kids against meat?”

I’ve got Jesusbot relatives who totally embrace The Turner Diaries and that’s why I cut them off from having contact with “Gawdless Marxist” me.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 10:05:06pm

And now for something with a beat:

Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 10:06:38pm

re: #159 silverdolphin

Oh god. I had repressed that totally. It is like AI is a trigger word waiting for investor weasels to scam money from the stupid.

AI will be the 2024 version of the 2021 version of cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency was the 2021 version of the 2006 version of Madoff’s scheme, which, itself was the 21st century version of the 20th century version of the Ponzi scheme.

The key takeaway here is that as long as there are mooks with more money than common sense, there will be others who will find ways take it from them.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 10:10:28pm

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retired cynic Jan 27, 2024 • 10:16:00pm

January 27, 2024
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

An excellent essay tonight.

On January 27, 1838, Abraham Lincoln rose before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, to make a speech. Just 28 years old, Lincoln had begun to practice law and had political ambitions. But he was worried that his generation might not preserve the republic that the founders had handed to it for transmission to yet another generation. He took as his topic for that January evening, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions.”

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Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 10:17:44pm

re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg

The good news keeps coming:

The RNC is seeking a new LoC because they know damn well Trump’s gonna demand they pony up the $$$ for not only the Carroll appeal but his upcoming appeal in New York, which is probably going to be north of at least $200 million, and possibly even more than that. I figure it’ll all total up to around $500 million…half a billion dollars.

Oh, and yeah, this is an election year, too. Fine time for their (soon-to-be) broke-ass frontrunner to come begging for moolah, hat-in-hand. 😄

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retired cynic Jan 27, 2024 • 10:31:39pm

re: #251 Dr Lizardo

He won’t beg; he’ll demand. Or else!

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 10:33:39pm

re: #251 Dr Lizardo

The RNC is seeking a new LoC because they know damn well Trump’s gonna demand they pony up the $$$ for not only the Carroll appeal but his upcoming appeal in New York, which is probably going to be north of at least $200 million, and possibly even more than that. I figure it’ll all total up to around $500 million…half a billion dollars.

Oh, and yeah, this is an election year, too. Fine time for their (soon-to-be) broke-ass frontrunner to come begging for moolah, hat-in-hand. 😄

He’s not going to beg, he’s going to straight up tell Ronna to cut a check. And like a dirtbag relative who’s constantly hitting you up for money, he’ll spin it as a “loan” that he promises to pay back once he has access to the funds. But right now, she just needs to send him the money so he can take care of some things.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 10:33:52pm

re: #251 Dr Lizardo

In which they’ll lose $25K a day in vig. They can’t possibly be that stupid…right?

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 10:40:47pm

re: #253 Targetpractice

He’s not going to beg, he’s going to straight up tell Ronna to cut a check. And like a dirtbag relative who’s constantly hitting you up for money, he’ll spin it as a “loan” that he promises to pay back once he has access to the funds. But right now, she just needs to send him the money so he can take care of some things.

She will cut that check for him and his pals The Mercers, Koch, Uihlein, Thiel, Harlan Crow and other billionaires will put up the cash in an independent expenditure fund. They know that without The Poopy Pants Mob they will lose The House and several Senate seats.

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 10:40:51pm

re: #254 Ace Rothstein

In which they’ll lose $25K a day in vig. They can’t possibly be that stupid…right?

we can but hope.

the donors like Haley better, there’s a whole lot of Senate races, competitive House races, probably some governors too…

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 10:42:58pm

re: #256 sagehen

we can but hope.

the donors like Haley better, there’s a whole lot of Senate races, competitive House races, probably some governors too…

Once Haley’s shenanigans get exposed she’s gonna be a liability. Mismanagement at Boeing, Her support for an abortion ban, cutting Social Security and Medicare and her opposition to Obamacare will kneecap her.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 10:45:02pm

re: #257 Joe Bacon ✅

Once Haley’s shenanigans get exposed she’s gonna be a liability. Mismanagement at Boeing, Her support for an abortion ban, cutting Social Security and Medicare and her opposition to Obamacare will kneecap her.

As compared to Trump’s mismanagement of his casinos, his abortion ban support, and cutting things like Obamacare.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 10:55:25pm

re: #248 sizzzzlerz

AI will be the 2024 version of the 2021 version of cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency was the 2021 version of the 2006 version of Madoff’s scheme, which, itself was the 21st century version of the 20th century version of the Ponzi scheme.

The key takeaway here is that as long as there are mooks with more money than common sense, there will be others who will find ways take it from them.

So true. Case in point.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 11:08:24pm

re: #253 Targetpractice

He’s not going to beg, he’s going to straight up tell Ronna to cut a check. And like a dirtbag relative who’s constantly hitting you up for money, he’ll spin it as a “loan” that he promises to pay back once he has access to the funds. But right now, she just needs to send him the money so he can take care of some things.

And if he loses on appeal, ALL that money in escrow goes directly to Carroll. It does not go back to the RNC. The RNC loses all of it and still has to pay back the LoC. They would have to go after him to pay the money. He will never pay.

So the RNC has $88 million or more (ie interest) that it can no longer spend on candidates. A quick check shows it is raising about $7 million a month with about $9 million cash on hand. (At this point in 2020, the RNC was raising $20 million with $50 million cash on hand.) So essentially no money to spend on candidates for the election. Cool.

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 11:28:42pm

A spammer? Hoot. Haven’t seen that in years! Where’s stinky & the charcoal grill?

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 11:29:52pm

re: #260 silverdolphin

And if he loses on appeal, ALL that money in escrow goes directly to Carroll. It does not go back to the RNC. The RNC loses all of it and still has to pay back the LoC. They would have to go after him to pay the money. He will never pay.

So the RNC has $88 million or more (ie interest) that it can no longer spend on candidates. A quick check shows it is raising about $7 million a month with about $9 million cash on hand. (At this point in 2020, the RNC was raising $20 million with $50 million cash on hand.) So essentially no money to spend on candidates for the election. Cool.

The party’s being sucked dry by a massive tapeworm, one that has no loyalty to them and is going to just move on once he’s extracted every bit of value he can from them. When he’s not directly picking their pockets, he’s hoovering up small donations that would otherwise go directly to down-ballot campaigns or into the party’s coffers to be spent where they thought it was needed. But instead it’s going into his pockets, going to help pay “legal expenses,” or (more accurately) being swapped between hands so he can claim payments to himself as “campaign expenses.”

One of the qualities in a good presidential candidate is they can draw in big donations, they can bring in the money to not only cover their own campaign but the party’s overall expenses. Yet Trump has been a ravenous black hole practically from Day One, constantly consuming party resources with nothing but the empty promise of giving them power when he’s in office.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 11:39:05pm

re: #263 Targetpractice

Trump is pretty much the embodiment of “throwing good money after bad” but the Republicans are so blinded by their lust for power they simply can’t see it.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 11:57:49pm

re: #264 Dr Lizardo

Trump is pretty much the embodiment of “throwing good money after bad” but the Republicans are so blinded by their lust for power they simply can’t see it.

I think of it as the culmination of decades of rot that started with ‘08 and has continued to hollow the party out. From the moment they embraced the “Tea Party” and its outpouring of white-hot racism and unbridled greed, they were set on the course to become a party so riddled with morons and illiterate thugs that they never had a hope of turning back. My only hope is they can suffer something similar to what the Tories are facing in the UK: Being reduced to a regional party whose temper tantrums are isolated to their own backyards.

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silverdolphin Jan 28, 2024 • 12:16:49am

re: #263 Targetpractice

The party’s being sucked dry by a massive tapeworm, one that has no loyalty to them and is going to just move on once he’s extracted every bit of value he can from them. When he’s not directly picking their pockets, he’s hoovering up small donations that would otherwise go directly to down-ballot campaigns or into the party’s coffers to be spent where they thought it was needed. But instead it’s going into his pockets, going to help pay “legal expenses,” or (more accurately) being swapped between hands so he can claim payments to himself as “campaign expenses.”

One of the qualities in a good presidential candidate is they can draw in big donations, they can bring in the money to not only cover their own campaign but the party’s overall expenses. Yet Trump has been a ravenous black hole practically from Day One, constantly consuming party resources with nothing but the empty promise of giving them power when he’s in office.

Absolutely right on. I was amazed at how much lower the RNC monthly intake was compared to January 2020. And how much smaller the cash on hand. They will not be able to do much at all with local candidates because Trump will take the rest. It will end up like Rudy. I wonder when it will start refusing to pay creditors?

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 28, 2024 • 12:42:22am

re: #261 sara saber

نتن يستخدم سيفه، إيه، مكنسة

(Stinky wields his sword, er, broom.)

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silverdolphin Jan 28, 2024 • 12:51:19am

Ranked: Top U.S. Companies, by Profit per Employee

10 of top 12 are energy companies, with Conoco being #1 - $2 million PROFIT per employee. Apple is #12 with $609K er employee.

Hell, as I recall, our biotech company was happy if we had $150K per employee,

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 28, 2024 • 1:15:38am

~~Eyesore~~ Icon of the Seas: World’s largest cruise ship sets sail from Miami

The world’s largest cruise ship has set sail from Miami, Florida, on its maiden voyage, but there are concerns about the vessel’s methane emissions.

The 365m-long (1,197 ft) Icon of the Seas has 20 decks and can house a maximum of 7,600 passengers. It is owned by Royal Caribbean.

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steve_davis Jan 28, 2024 • 1:46:47am

re: #218 Targetpractice

That’s all that’s important to VDH and the other Trump taint-sniffers: The “wrong” peopled sued him or brought the criminal charges, thus the whole thing’s invalidated and he’s a victim of wrongful prosecution. He even acknowledges the bleedin’ obvious, which is that Trump probably could have kept crimin’ til the day he died if he hadn’t ran for the presidency, but then plows on to whine that liberals/Dems are connected to the cases against his God-Emperor and thus it’s all for no other purpose than to destroy him.

God Emperor of Pants Doo-doo.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 1:47:14am

re: #192 Dangerman

Thre is one grain of truth behind DJT’t “Witch hunt” claims: had he not entered politics, he would probably still be getting away with the same fraud and scams as he always did, or at least walk away from most of them with an out-of-court settlement.

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ericblair Jan 28, 2024 • 1:49:33am

re: #266 silverdolphin

Absolutely right on. I was amazed at how much lower the RNC monthly intake was compared to January 2020. And how much smaller the cash on hand. They will not be able to do much at all with local candidates because Trump will take the rest. It will end up like Rudy. I wonder when it will start refusing to pay creditors?

If you ignore the hype and spin and random polls and concentrate on actual election and fundraising results, the GOP is obviously in a world of hurt.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 2:06:45am

re: #249 Joe Bacon ✅

My SiL (with rather woo-woo leanings) sent me a video of a fellow going on about suing the pharmaceutical companies over their vaccines. The tone of it got me: highly polemic. I found out this fellow was launching a class action suit but to you have to put up $750 to sign on to this suit.

So if this guy just gets 1,000 people to sign on he has made a cool $750K and doesn’t have to do anything beyond filing some papers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 2:08:24am

re: #258 Belafon

As compared to Trump’s mismanagement of his casinos, his abortion ban support, and cutting things like Obamacare.

Nikki is just less boorish and does not brag about grabbing ‘em by the cock. She also tends to speak in coherent sentences and not “bing, bing, bing, whoosh…boom!”

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Targetpractice Jan 28, 2024 • 2:18:19am

So apparently, when the guides all said “The level difficulty ramps up,” what they really meant was “It bends you over and makes you squeal like a piggy!”

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Patricia Kayden Jan 28, 2024 • 2:30:56am

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Dr Lizardo Jan 28, 2024 • 2:32:26am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My SiL (with rather woo-woo leanings) sent me a video of a fellow going on about suing the pharmaceutical companies over their vaccines. The tone of it got me: highly polemic. I found out this fellow was launching a class action suit but to join this one, you had to put up like $750 to join up.

So if this guy just gets 1,000 people to sign on he has made a cool $750K and doesn’t have to do anything beyond filing some papers.

And when the case gets laughed out of court, he can just turn around say it’s all part of the conspiracy! And then he laughs all the way to the Bahamas, where he can enjoy his Mai Tai on the beach, courtesy of 1,000 credulous rubes.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 28, 2024 • 2:34:29am

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Patricia Kayden Jan 28, 2024 • 2:39:35am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 2:43:42am

re: #280 Patricia Kayden

any DJT lawyer who does not insist on getting paid up front deserves what they get.

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Decatur Deb Jan 28, 2024 • 2:48:39am

re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg

In the past fifteen minutes, Trump has posted on his garbage social media site links to a tweet and a website article, both of which brutally trash E Jean Carroll.

The tweet he reposted:

[Embedded content]

VDH had a fanclub here when I registered.

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Decatur Deb Jan 28, 2024 • 2:52:08am

re: #272 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Thre is one grain of truth behind DJT’t “Witch hunt” claims: had he not entered politics, he would probably still be getting away with the same fraud and scams as he always did, or at least walk away from most of them with an out-of-court settlement.

Which is another way of saying there are a lot of quiet Trumps out there, exploiting our custom-designed tax and legal systems.

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Targetpractice Jan 28, 2024 • 3:25:11am

re: #272 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Thre is one grain of truth behind DJT’t “Witch hunt” claims: had he not entered politics, he would probably still be getting away with the same fraud and scams as he always did, or at least walk away with an out-of-court settlement.

Trump’s problem is a lack of impulse control, an inability to stop and think his actions through. The first time the questions about Carroll came up, he should have answered “No comment” or “I don’t know anything about that” and moved to the next question. The press still would have realized there was something there and dug, but it would have given him breathing room to come up with some bullshit story about how he “thought” it was consensual, that it was a tragic “mistake,” and offered his apologies to her.

But no, he’s a rich prick who’s spent his life never facing real consequences for his actions, so he once again thought his money and influence would protect him.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 28, 2024 • 3:27:00am

re: #273 ericblair

If you ignore the hype and spin and random polls and concentrate on actual election and fundraising results, the GOP is obviously in a world of hurt.

I just needed to see this again. It’s so beautiful it brings tears of joy to my usually angry eyes and warms my cold, dead heart. It’s so… uplifting!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 3:32:58am

re: #283 Decatur Deb

Which is another way of saying there are a lot of quiet Trumps out there, exploiting our custom-designed tax and legal systems.

Of course. They have enough money to buy enough legislators to shape tax legislation to their advantage and fight any reforms that might cost them their tax dodges.

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 3:33:48am

re: #283 Decatur Deb

Which is another way of saying there are a lot of quiet Trumps out there, exploiting our custom-designed tax and legal systems.

And lots of people drive over the speed limit, use illegal drugs, etc

There are always more criminals / cheaters than enforcers.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 28, 2024 • 3:35:40am

Deep sigh. 5/6

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Decatur Deb Jan 28, 2024 • 3:36:54am

re: #287 Dangerman

And lots of people drive over the speed limit, use illegal drugs, etc

There are always more criminals / cheaters than enforcers.

When the immediate craziness settles out, Tax Reform needs to work its way up the progressive to-do list.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 28, 2024 • 3:36:59am

re: #263 Targetpractice

Comparing Trump to a giant tapeworm is both very accurate and highly insulting to tapeworms. I hope Trump sucks the RNC bone dry. However, dark money PACs will be spending like mad to get Trump re-elected so it’s not all doom and gloom for him.

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Decatur Deb Jan 28, 2024 • 3:43:46am

re: #290 Patricia Kayden

Comparing Trump to a giant tapeworm is both very accurate and highly insulting to tapeworms. I hope Trump sucks the RNC bone dry. However, dark money PACs will be spending like mad to get Trump re-elected so it’s not all doom and gloom for him.

Fortunately, the Trump family and his campaign parasites will steal a good bit of it.

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 3:44:05am

American-led negotiators are edging closer to an agreement in which Israel would suspend its war in Gaza for about two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages still held by Hamas, a deal that could be sealed in the next two weeks and would transform the conflict consuming the region,” the New York Times reports.

I thought the craven Biden wanted the death and carnage and destruction. All the protestors say so.

Why’s he trying to stop it?

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 3:46:07am

re: #292 Dangerman

I thought the craven Biden wanted the death and carnage and destruction. All the protestors say so.

Why’s he trying to stop it?

And watch tfg-rapist post to his money losing social media :

Only I can fix it. ISRAEL DEAL MUST BE STOPPED SO SLEEPY JOE DOESN’T GET A WIN

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 28, 2024 • 3:50:03am

re: #282 Decatur Deb

VDH had a fanclub here when I registered.

Videos of him are pretty easy to find on YouTube. And his works get cited now and then by historians whose blogs I read. (Cites are usually on the classics materials, not the political ones. And some of the cites are critical of his work.)

I won’t draw any particular conclusions about his writings since I have not read them. I dislike his politics since I think to a large degree he is in cloud-cuckoo land regarding human relations and has warped history to fit his political leanings and desires rather than a way to educate himself and others to better understand it.

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Targetpractice Jan 28, 2024 • 3:51:05am

re: #292 Dangerman

I thought the craven Biden wanted the death and carnage and destruction. All the protestors say so.

Why’s he trying to stop it?

They’ll just grumble and pout about how he could have brought it to an end sooner and saved more lives if he just called Bibi and made some threats.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 3:54:51am

re: #262 William Lewis

A spammer? Hoot. Haven’t seen that in years! Where’s stinky & the charcoal grill?

Grills out.

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Randall Gross Jan 28, 2024 • 4:24:55am

Something strange going on in teh internets this am… some sites poppin, others not…
Anyone able to get into outlook, hotmail, or live this am?
other symptoms :
I get a terminal still loading spinny on the page here when loading for a long time after it pops and is functional, so one service or function is not loading.
Deck Blue is terminally spinny.
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Randall Gross Jan 28, 2024 • 4:29:32am

re: #298 Randall Gross

Something strange going on in teh internets this am… some sites poppin, others not…
Anyone able to get into outlook, hotmail, or live this am?
other symptoms :
I get a terminal still loading spinny on the page here when loading for a long time after it pops and is functional, so one service or function is not loading.
Deck Blue is terminally spinny.
You Tube is spinny

There are few things in life that a reboot can’t resolve.

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 5:08:58am

re: #289 Decatur Deb

When the immediate craziness settles out, Tax Reform needs to work its way up the progressive to-do list.

from the article:

Martin Lobel, a tax lawyer, told The Daily Beast…”This explains why the Republicans have been so intent on cutting the IRS’s budget, because they don’t want it to be able to audit transactions like this.”

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 5:12:51am

re: #295 Targetpractice

They’ll just grumble and pout about how he could have brought it to an end sooner and saved more lives if he just called Bibi and made some threats.

well what stopped him?
a really good negotiator wouldnt need to be president to pull this off.
you got a phone. you know his number.
show the world.
there’d be a nobel in it for sure.

he’s like elon. i could do it if only…
then they do nothing

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 5:35:09am

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) criticized President Biden for what he believes to be an increased interest in securing the southern border, The Hill reports.
Said Emmer: “The only reason that President Biden is even interested in discussing this issue is because it has now become a political liability for the White House.”

read that again.

now increased interest in securing the border is bad for biden

the Rs who claim so desperately to have a genuine interest in border protection, instead want to wreck the current proposal.

so tommy, honey, you and the R’s have been complaining that the border is a problem. The President has decided to do something about it, supporting the deal on the table that the R’s willingly negotiated. Isn’t that a win for your side, that you got him to come around?

my head hurts

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Targetpractice Jan 28, 2024 • 5:38:35am

re: #302 Dangerman

read that again.

now increased interest in securing the border is bad for biden

the Rs who claim so desperately to have a genuine interest in border protection, instead want to wreck the current proposal.

so tommy, honey, you and the R’s have been complaining that the border is a problem. The President has decided to do something about it, supporting the deal on the table that the R’s willingly negotiated. Isn’t that a win for your side, that you got him to come around?

my head hurts

Tommy’s full of shit, as Biden only asked for funding to Ukraine and Palestine and the Senate GQP stated that wasn’t happening without “something” being done about the “border crisis.”

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Ace Rothstein Jan 28, 2024 • 5:40:11am

re: #280 Patricia Kayden

No.

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Randall Gross Jan 28, 2024 • 5:42:54am

Today’s theme song

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 28, 2024 • 5:44:51am

re: #264 Dr Lizardo

Trump is pretty much the embodiment of “throwing good money after bad” but the Republicans are so blinded by their lust for power they simply can’t see it.

Mind boggling, isn’t it? 100% mind boggling.

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jeffreyw Jan 28, 2024 • 5:59:09am

Good morning!

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William Lewis Jan 28, 2024 • 6:01:30am

Went to leave work and turned on the radio. On Saturday and Sunday morning I tune it to the “classic” rock station because they do repeats of AT40: 70’s on Saturday & 80’s on Sunday. When I started the truck this morning I was like, why is the radio Rick-Rolling me? Yep, that song was at 24 that week in 1988😂

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 6:05:30am

re: #308 William Lewis

Went to leave work and turned on the radio. On Saturday and Sunday morning I tune it to the “classic” rock station because they do repeats of AT40: 70’s on Saturday & 80’s on Sunday. When I started the truck this morning I was like, why is the radio Rick-Rolling me? Yep, that song was at 24 that week in 1988😂

I remember a Michael Keaton film, Jack Frost. Mediocre high concept (dead father comes back to his son as a snowman), but it also featured Henry Rollins and had one great gag with the radio DJ anouncing “We play only 70’s and 90’s music, no 80’s music!”

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Randall Gross Jan 28, 2024 • 6:08:02am

Gift link below

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Belafon Jan 28, 2024 • 6:18:56am

I have no idea how anyone could even attempt to justify this argument based on the economic data

Low income workers have had their wages outpace inflation for the entire post-pandemic period, even when inflation was high. They’ve had the best wage growth nonstop for 7 years now https://t.co/agG7NSNWfW

— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) January 28, 2024

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 6:37:11am

re: #311 Belafon

There is simply a Higher Truth and that is Biden is Bad for America. Anything that supports those talking points and economic arguments is to be held as valid regardless of whether it is justified by any objective data.

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Randall Gross Jan 28, 2024 • 6:43:49am

Thread

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sizzzzlerz Jan 28, 2024 • 6:49:04am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My SiL (with rather woo-woo leanings) sent me a video of a fellow going on about suing the pharmaceutical companies over their vaccines. The tone of it got me: highly polemic. I found out this fellow was launching a class action suit but to you have to put up $750 to sign on to this suit.

So if this guy just gets 1,000 people to sign on he has made a cool $750K and doesn’t have to do anything beyond filing some papers.

The dude is going to go far in the MAGAt circles.

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 6:51:55am

re: #251 Dr Lizardo

The RNC is seeking a new LoC because they know damn well Trump’s gonna demand they pony up the $$$ for not only the Carroll appeal but his upcoming appeal in New York, which is probably going to be north of at least $200 million, and possibly even more than that. I figure it’ll all total up to around $500 million…half a billion dollars.

Oh, and yeah, this is an election year, too. Fine time for their (soon-to-be) broke-ass frontrunner to come begging for moolah, hat-in-hand. 😄

just re-gaming this through.
say the rnc really could get an unsecured loan or loc for 80m or even 500m (already a big IF). that has no restrictions or regular reporting requirements (hah!)

then they loan it to tfg
a guy who is likely to declare bankruptcy imminently
(there’s your due diligence risk assessment)

and whose income projections demonstrate he could never pay it back unless he liquidates assets

if his gambit is the appeals will reverse everything so this is a short term thing, hah again. the judgments probably wont be reduced or of so, by much, so his liability isnt going to shrink.

does he get his own financing later to pay back the rnc loan?
who’s gonna loan him that? (dont say russia or the saudis)
and there’s NYS threatening to appoint a receiver etc, there will be liens and other roadblocks to him liquidating his assets.

how does the rnc ever get it’s money back?
while they are surely paying at least interest and probably principle on their loan

no, i dont see them bailing him out.
it would ruin them (for this, i’m all there)
but it’ll never happen.

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Belafon Jan 28, 2024 • 6:52:32am

When the Obama administration started blackballing Fox reporters because they wouldn’t stop blatantly lying, and directly called them out for lying, Jon Stewart dedicated half an episode to furiously lashing out at them for being mean to Fox News. https://t.co/kJJYiLMdeI

— Argella Stone (@argellastone) January 27, 2024

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sizzzzlerz Jan 28, 2024 • 6:52:57am

re: #253 Targetpractice

He’s not going to beg, he’s going to straight up tell Ronna to cut a check. And like a dirtbag relative who’s constantly hitting you up for money, he’ll spin it as a “loan” that he promises to pay back once he has access to the funds. But right now, she just needs to send him the money so he can take care of some things.

I knew it! He’s Cousin Eddie from Lampoon’s Vacation.

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Belafon Jan 28, 2024 • 6:52:58am

Amazing. pic.twitter.com/2H66BwD4zT

— Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 (@bdquinn) January 27, 2024

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 7:02:55am

re: #311 Belafon

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Do only democrats hire these millions of illegals?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 7:03:29am

re: #315 Dangerman

seems like if DJT wants a loan, then he will have to put up some of his properties as collateral.

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sizzzzlerz Jan 28, 2024 • 7:04:10am

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 7:07:50am

re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

seems like if DJT wants a loan, then he will have to put up some of his properties as collateral.

Which is gonna be a problem if there’s dueling liens

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Belafon Jan 28, 2024 • 7:08:29am

re: #319 Dangerman

Do only democrats hire these millions of illegals?

Illegals are not only taking your jobs and your welfare, but they’re taking your wage increases by making lower class wages go up.

It doesn’t have to make sense. They’re given a list of words and told to make a sentence with them.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 28, 2024 • 7:13:25am

re: #213 retired cynic

It’a under the Share link. They changed it.

The Share link does not show up in FireFox. If I want to gift an article I have to get the link in Chrome or Edge.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 7:14:03am

re: #322 Dangerman

Which is gonna be a problem if there’s dueling liens

The liening Tower of Trump

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 7:17:41am

re: #322 Dangerman

Which is gonna be a problem if there’s dueling liens

Remember also very important:
these two civil judgments are against trump the individual.
Not the political candidate.
On wht basis does the rnc justify loaning 80-500m that could literally bankrupt them, to a private citizen?
I mean legally/charter-wise. Theyre not a bank

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 7:18:35am

re: #318 Belafon

Someone point out to Dim Tool that if Biden was a Nazi Dim Tool would be kissing his ass.

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 7:20:09am

re: #323 Belafon

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 7:20:31am

re: #325 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The liening Tower of Trump

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 7:25:12am

What a pathetic spineless wimp.

‘A return to normalcy’: Tim Scott’s bizarre reaction to Trump’s $83 million verdict

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) reacted to the verdict in the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case by doubling down on his support of former President Donald Trump.

During a Sunday interview on ABC’s This Week program, host Martha Raddatz asked the surrogate if he was bothered after a jury ordered Trump to pay $83 million for defaming Carroll.

“Does that give you any pause in your support?” Raddatz wondered.

“I saw that all the voters that support Donald Trump support a return to normalcy as it relates to what affects their kitchen table,” Scott replied, changing the subject. “The average person in our country, Martha, they’re not talking about lawsuits.”

“As a matter of fact, what I have seen, however, is that the perception that the legal system is being weaponized against Donald Trump is actually increasing his poll numbers,” he insisted.

Raddatz pressed: “I understand that, but this was- they were jury trials. They started when Donald Trump was president. That doesn’t- that gives you no pause whatsoever?”

“The Democrats don’t pause when they think about Hunter Biden and the challenges that he brings to his father,” Scott asserted. “The one thing I think the electorate is thinking about most often is how in the world will the next president impact my quality of life?”

“They were better off under Trump, and they’re looking for four more years of low inflation, low crime, low unemployment, and high enthusiasm for our country,” he added. “We haven’t had that in the last four years.”

Tim Scott: Trump ‘a return to normalcy’

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 28, 2024 • 7:25:34am

Morning Lizards. From the “We can always tell” files part eleventy.

UT: Teen Harassed, Accused of Being Trans at JV HS Basketball Game

Cisgender girls are being falsely accused of being transgender by irate transphobic parents, an outcome that opponents of bans on transgender participation in athletics predicted was inevitable. In Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reported the details of one recent confrontation where an irate parent demanded that a cisgender girl playing junior varsity basketball be disqualified, insisting that she was a boy. The Tribune story referenced a known earlier instance of similar false accusations levied against an athlete, and explained that more such confrontations are known to have occurred, though sports authorities in Utah have not released any information about their frequency.

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 7:27:57am

re: #321 sizzzzlerz

F************************K!!! Streak of 201 is dead, dead, dead

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 7:30:29am

re: #330 Joe Bacon ✅

I feel dumber after reading his remarks…god help those who listened to it.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 28, 2024 • 7:30:58am

re: #330 Joe Bacon ✅

Senator Scott there seems to have fully embraced the Trumpian alternate reality.

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JC1 Jan 28, 2024 • 7:31:35am

re: #321 sizzzzlerz

F************************K!!! Streak of 201 is dead, dead, dead

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 7:31:57am

re: #334 Dr Lizardo

Almost all of them have embraced DT.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 28, 2024 • 7:41:51am

re: #330 Joe Bacon ✅

And Raddatz let him get away with a blatant lie. Our economy is thriving and crime isn’t soaring. Trump brought madness and White Supremacy to the White House. The media needs to push back on these lies and stop acting like tree stumps.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 28, 2024 • 7:42:38am

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 7:50:04am

Bogey - should have been a par but I wanted to try another vowel first.

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 7:54:11am

Now if I get a broken water main I’ll know how to fix it and won’t have to call a plumber.

Mastodon

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 28, 2024 • 7:55:06am

From Singapore’s botanical garden.

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Nerdy Fish Jan 28, 2024 • 7:55:21am

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A Cranky One Jan 28, 2024 • 7:57:17am

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Belafon Jan 28, 2024 • 8:04:52am

re: #343 A Cranky One

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KingKenrod Jan 28, 2024 • 8:05:38am

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 8:13:27am

re: #331 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning Lizards. From the “We can always tell” files part eleventy.

UT: Teen Harassed, Accused of Being Trans at JV HS Basketball Game

Cisgender girls are being falsely accused of being transgender by irate transphobic parents, an outcome that opponents of bans on transgender participation in athletics predicted was inevitable. In Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reported the details of one recent confrontation where an irate parent demanded that a cisgender girl playing junior varsity basketball be disqualified, insisting that she was a boy. The Tribune story referenced a known earlier instance of similar false accusations levied against an athlete, and explained that more such confrontations are known to have occurred, though sports authorities in Utah have not released any information about their frequency.

Some kid soon is gonna just drop trou on the court in front of everyone

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 8:16:18am

re: #330 Joe Bacon ✅

What a pathetic spineless wimp.

‘A return to normalcy’: Tim Scott’s bizarre reaction to Trump’s $83 million verdict

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) reacted to the verdict in the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case by doubling down on his support of former President Donald Trump.

During a Sunday interview on ABC’s This Week program, host Martha Raddatz asked the surrogate if he was bothered after a jury ordered Trump to pay $83 million for defaming Carroll.

“Does that give you any pause in your support?” Raddatz wondered.

“I saw that all the voters that support Donald Trump support a return to normalcy as it relates to what affects their kitchen table,” Scott replied, changing the subject. “The average person in our country, Martha, they’re not talking about lawsuits.”

“As a matter of fact, what I have seen, however, is that the perception that the legal system is being weaponized against Donald Trump is actually increasing his poll numbers,” he insisted.

Raddatz pressed: “I understand that, but this was- they were jury trials. They started when Donald Trump was president. That doesn’t- that gives you no pause whatsoever?”

“The Democrats don’t pause when they think about Hunter Biden and the challenges that he brings to his father,” Scott asserted. “The one thing I think the electorate is thinking about most often is how in the world will the next president impact my quality of life?”

“They were better off under Trump, and they’re looking for four more years of low inflation, low crime, low unemployment, and high enthusiasm for our country,” he added. “We haven’t had that in the last four years.”

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Senator, you’re purposely not answering the question.
We’re not discussing those issues now were discussing this one.
Should I take your not answering a clear question directly as fear?

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 8:17:15am

re: #346 Dangerman

Some kid soon is gonna just drop trou on the court in front of everyone

The Moron Church Strikes Again

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Dangerman Jan 28, 2024 • 8:20:22am

Now the Rs announce two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas

No in person testimony from Mayorkas
No testimony at all from any fact witnesses.

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Captain Magic Jan 28, 2024 • 8:22:00am

On this date in 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 28, 2024 • 8:24:59am

re: #349 Dangerman

Now the Rs announce two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas

No in person testimony from Mayorkas
No testimony at all from any fact witnesses.

So they’re just going to go all kangaroo court and vote to impeach without any process?

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 8:25:28am

re: #349 Dangerman

Now the Rs announce two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas

No in person testimony from Mayorkas
No testimony at all from any fact witnesses.

No defense allowed. Just prosecution witnesses and a verdict. Can’t have Democrats on camera calling it a shit show of epic proportion…the people watching can see that for themselves.

In fact, the Democrats could try a different strategy…don’t give the GOP a quorum. Force them to have every member there for the duration by staying out of the room.

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 8:27:35am

re: #347 Dangerman

Senator, you’re purposely not answering the question.
We’re not discussing those issues now were discussing this one.
Should I take your not answering a clear question directly as fear?

Too respectful. Tim Scott needs a more direct approach. “Why are you afraid to answer a simple question? You’re not helping Trump by trying to act witty.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 28, 2024 • 8:27:47am

re: #326 Dangerman

Remember also very important:
these two civil judgments are against trump the individual.
Not the political candidate.
On wht basis does the rnc justify loaning 80-500m that could literally bankrupt them, to a private citizen?
I mean legally/charter-wise. Theyre not a bank

The cult will find a way. And then some pretzel-logic to justify it. Which is required to somehow make it Biden and the Democrats fault as well.

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Eventual Carrion Jan 28, 2024 • 8:27:56am

re: #28 DodgerFan1988

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Shit, shutting down the White House Medical Unit at that time and we would have won the war on drugs!

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 8:30:05am

re: #355 Eventual Carrion

Shit, shutting down the White House Medical Unit at that time and we would have won the war on drugs!

I suspect the ketamine was for TFG to calm him during his frequent ragegasms.

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Nerdy Fish Jan 28, 2024 • 8:30:12am

re: #352 darthstar

No defense allowed. Just prosecution witnesses and a verdict. Can’t have Democrats on camera calling it a shit show of epic proportion…the people watching can see that for themselves.

Wow, it’s a literal show trial. I figured they would at least make an attempt to follow the proper forms, lest people call it illegitimate.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 28, 2024 • 8:30:26am

Wordle 953 X/6

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Skunked. Damn it. Too many options.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Jan 28, 2024 • 8:30:47am

I’ll just throw this out there… I might be asking for a purple unicorn.

I’m looking for a camera to replace my apparently-dying Olympus OM-D EM5 MkII. I would like something that is as simple to use as a Nikon F2 or Olympus OM2. I am a reluctant digital photographer who grew up using 35mm film cameras and although I work in tech, I’m a bit of a luddite when it comes to cameras.

I want to be able to shoot with aperture-priority, shutter-priority, and manual independent control over both.

I don’t give a flying flip about shooting video with it.

I don’t want zoom lenses. Give me a prime somewhere between 35mm and 50mm and I’m good to go. Wider max aperture the better. I already have micro 4/3 lenses so if I can use those then hooray, but if not I just want a really good prime.

And I want all of this without spending thousands of dollars on a Leica M series.

Now, if you happen to have recently won the lottery and would like to gift me a Leica M, that’s your prerogative.

Otherwise, I’ll accept suggestions.

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 8:30:49am

Shit’s escalating…

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 28, 2024 • 8:31:06am

re: #284 Targetpractice

Trump’s problem is a lack of impulse control, an inability to stop and think his actions through. The first time the questions about Carroll came up, he should have answered “No comment” or “I don’t know anything about that” and moved to the next question. The press still would have realized there was something there and dug, but it would have given him breathing room to come up with some bullshit story about how he “thought” it was consensual, that it was a tragic “mistake,” and offered his apologies to her.

But no, he’s a rich prick who’s spent his life never facing real consequences for his actions, so he once again thought his money and influence would protect him.

He could have pulled a Clinton and denied it happened, but been polite and not demeaned her or insulted her.

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 28, 2024 • 8:33:19am

re: #288 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Deep sigh. 5/6

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Par today

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Group: 4,4,5,5

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 8:33:44am

re: #360 darthstar

Shit’s escalating…

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Mastodon

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ericblair Jan 28, 2024 • 8:33:44am

Trump insists he’s not cognitively impaired because he took a test that included pictures of “a lion, a giraffe, a whale, and a shark” and could identify which one was a lion pic.twitter.com/hBDZhTqlAw

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) January 27, 2024

I remember when the doc said that my mother should take a test like that. It wasn’t a good day.

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 8:35:28am

re: #364 ericblair

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I remember when the doc said that my mother should take a test like that. It wasn’t a good day.

Next person to interview Trump should hold up a picture of a lion and say, “What’s this?”

End of interview.

Protesters at his events should hold up pictures of random animals.

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 8:38:30am

re: #364 ericblair

The chyron under the freetrumpbook ad is funny, “NIKKI HALEY WON’T DROP OUT OF THE GOP PRIMARY” - what a mean woman!

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 28, 2024 • 8:42:51am

Trump insists he’s not cognitively impaired because he took a test that included pictures of “a lion, a giraffe, a whale, and a shark” and could identify which one was a lion pic.twitter.com/hBDZhTqlAw

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) January 27, 2024

Is he…is he really gloating about being able pass a CAPTCHA?

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Unabogie Jan 28, 2024 • 8:44:49am

I really think it should be pointed out by more reporters that the border is, in fact, not “open” and that this is a racist lie, told to scare white people about something that is made up.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 28, 2024 • 8:47:49am

re: #368 Unabogie

I really think it should be pointed out by more reporters that the border is, in fact, not “open” and that this is a racist lie, told to scare white people about something that is made up.

No interest I note from any of the talking heads simply doing a segment titled “Is the border really ‘open’” and actually do journalism on the subject.

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Unabogie Jan 28, 2024 • 8:50:29am

re: #337 Patricia Kayden

And Raddatz let him get away with a blatant lie. Our economy is thriving and crime isn’t soaring. Trump brought madness and White Supremacy to the White House. The media needs to push back on these lies and stop acting like tree stumps.

I don’t get why they don’t prepare simple graphs about all the hot-button topics.

How many jobs created?
Overall inflation vs wages?
Actual border policy changes vs made up ones?
Crime statistics?
Maternal and infant mortality rates by state?
Scholastic success by state?

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 28, 2024 • 8:52:31am

re: #321 sizzzzlerz

F************************K!!! Streak of 201 is dead, dead, dead

We hates you, Wordle! We hates you forever!

Click to Reveal

???? what happened in guess 6? You already knew letter 5. Or did you do my thing of typing quickly and not realizing you omitted a letter??

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs Jan 28, 2024 • 8:53:46am

re: #346 Dangerman

Some kid soon is gonna just drop trou on the court in front of everyone

YouTube

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jeffreyw Jan 28, 2024 • 8:58:27am

post.news

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 28, 2024 • 8:59:55am

re: #334 Dr Lizardo

Senator Scott there seems to have fully embraced the Trumpian alternate reality.

No — he’s just another typical Republican who lies as naturally as he breathes. They will say anything to hold on to power.

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Belafon Jan 28, 2024 • 9:01:20am

re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg

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Is he…is he really gloating about being able pass a CAPTCHA?

DeSantis couldn’t.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:02:34am

I found my old MacBook Pro in a drawer. I charged it up and was able to get onto the internet but could not post here. Do you think it is worth it to upgrade the old notebook?

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 28, 2024 • 9:05:22am

re: #357 Nerdy Fish

Wow, it’s a literal show trial. I figured they would at least make an attempt to follow the proper forms, lest people call it illegitimate.

Let’s see if the impeachment passes. There will be no conviction.

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wrenchwench Jan 28, 2024 • 9:06:15am

Birbie. Wordle 953 3/6*

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jeffreyw Jan 28, 2024 • 9:08:11am

post.news

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 9:09:00am

re: #376 PhillyPretzel ✅

I found my old MacBook Pro in a drawer. I charged it up and was able to get onto the internet but could not post here. Do you think it is worth it to upgrade the old notebook?

Make a Linux mint boot disk on a USB stick and convert it. A friend of mine took an old Macbook (when they were thick white shells) and put Ubuntu on it and it ran great for another few years as a houseguest wifi laptop.

Let me know if you need help. I have mint on my old T480s now and can burn a boot stick for you.

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 28, 2024 • 9:09:16am

re: #334 Dr Lizardo

Senator Scott there seems to have fully embraced the Trumpian alternate reality.

Apparently it’s been a while since Sen Scott has experienced “black lack of convenience.”
h/t toJohn Amaechi

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Belafon Jan 28, 2024 • 9:09:57am

re: #379 jeffreyw

Yep, note that none of the big three browsers allow you to set “Never accept notifications from any site.”

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Ace Rothstein Jan 28, 2024 • 9:10:52am

re: #350 Captain Magic

On this date in 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.

Thanks, Obama.

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 9:12:56am

I don’t like posting X so here’s a screenshot of a Xeet on dKos

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:12:57am

re: #380 darthstar

What I meant was should I upgrade the Apple software? It had listed 6 incompatible updates and I thought I could call Apple to get it updated.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 28, 2024 • 9:14:14am

re: #359 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

You can easily find a Nikon F2 and a 50mm 1.4 used (obviously) online for probably 300 bucks.

Edit: Here’s both together on ebay for $299.
ebay.com

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 9:14:26am

re: #385 PhillyPretzel ✅

What I meant was should I upgrade the Apple software? It had listed 6 incompatible updates and I thought I could call Apple to get it updated.

Nah…put Mint on there and type ‘sudo apt update’ at the command line every few months and never have to deal with incopatible updates or major security patches again.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 28, 2024 • 9:16:15am

re: #384 darthstar

I don’t like posting X so here’s a screenshot of a Xeet on dKos

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“She stood her ground, and she learned.”
He still loves her, but any pretense of respect is gone.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:16:23am

re: #387 darthstar

I will think about that.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 28, 2024 • 9:17:30am

re: #379 jeffreyw

So much THIS.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 28, 2024 • 9:17:38am

re: #364 ericblair

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I remember when the doc said that my mother should take a test like that. It wasn’t a good day.

I would like to see Trump draw a clock face.

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wrenchwench Jan 28, 2024 • 9:18:29am

Mastodon

That’s a European buzzard. I still don’t know what the hashtag #ptaki means, other than lotsa birds.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:19:15am

re: #380 darthstar

Make a Linux mint boot disk on a USB stick and convert it. A friend of mine took an old Macbook (when they were thick white shells) and put Ubuntu on it and it ran great for another few years as a houseguest wifi laptop.

Let me know if you need help. I have mint on my old T480s now and can burn a boot stick for you.

After my first generation iMac couldn’t convert to intel-based OSX I ran Linux on it until it finally gave up the ghost.

Here’s a guide for you to get Linux working on an old MacBook

opensource.com

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 28, 2024 • 9:19:42am

re: #364 ericblair

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I remember when the doc said that my mother should take a test like that. It wasn’t a good day.

I feel this. I lost my grandmother to dementia. I feel lucky that she never forgot who I was (though there were times it took her a while to realize it).

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Ace Rothstein Jan 28, 2024 • 9:19:47am

re: #384 darthstar

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LOL, then why did that dolt hire her?

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Nerdy Fish Jan 28, 2024 • 9:20:38am

re: #395 Ace Rothstein

LOL, then why did that dolt hire her?

Because she’s hot and a True Believer. She probably didn’t even make him pay.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:21:29am

re: #396 Nerdy Fish

And DT is a slow payer.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 28, 2024 • 9:22:48am

re: #397 PhillyPretzel ✅

And DT is a ~~slow~~ no payer.

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 9:22:59am

re: #396 Nerdy Fish

Because she’s hot and a True Believer. She probably didn’t even make him pay.

I read somewhere her firm has made $2.5m from him.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 28, 2024 • 9:23:34am

re: #392 wrenchwench

Ptaki is the Polish word for “bird”.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 28, 2024 • 9:23:34am

re: #399 darthstar

I read somewhere her firm has made $2.5m from him.

They may have billed that, but that doesn’t mean he payed it.

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darthstar Jan 28, 2024 • 9:24:05am

re: #397 PhillyPretzel ✅

And DT is a slow payer.

The RNC has been paying a lot of his legal bills.

Okay…time to jump in the shower and get some more electrical shit fixed in the house before heading back home.

Laterz.

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 28, 2024 • 9:24:51am

re: #384 darthstar

I don’t like posting X so here’s a screenshot of a Xeet on dKos

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?”Maybe next time I’ll choose a lawyer and law firm that has more practical experience in high ticket litigation”??

1. Given the lack of misspellings and good grammar, no way Trump typed that or even spoke it.
2. And what law firm that has that experience is willing to represent Trump pro bono? Isn’t that the core of his problem? That, and his unwillingness to listen to legal advice.

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wrenchwench Jan 28, 2024 • 9:26:08am

re: #391 Vicious Babushka

I would like to see Trump draw a clock face.

I remember the DCF from a post-head injury appointment with a neuro-person of some sort. And the animals. The clock was more difficult than I would have guessed. And I knew all the animals, but the names were stuck somewhere. At the end (I was in there for hours) they told me I used to be above average (figured using algorithms—no data on hand) and now I was average. One of my thoughts was, ‘That’s average? That was really bad.’

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wrenchwench Jan 28, 2024 • 9:26:35am

re: #400 Dr Lizardo

Ptaki is the Polish word for “bird”.

TYVM.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:27:30am

By the way how’s that John Eastman disbarment thing going…and what is taking the California Bar so f’n long to issue their decision????

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 9:33:39am

re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg

Is he…is he really gloating about being able pass a CAPTCHA?

Vote for Trump: He is not a robot!!!

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Jan 28, 2024 • 9:34:23am

re: #406 Joe Bacon ✅

California law requires disbarment proceedings to ensure that they don’t cause cancer or have a pistol grip.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 9:34:40am

re: #379 jeffreyw

That is me on the Internet nearly every day

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:34:41am

re: #407 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is an overgrown spoiled brat.

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jeffreyw Jan 28, 2024 • 9:34:52am

Bluesky has drag and drop for images, finally.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 9:35:54am

re: #399 darthstar

I read somewhere her firm has made $2.5m from him.

Unless they took that as a retainer, there is no guarantee they will ever see it…

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A Cranky One Jan 28, 2024 • 9:36:08am

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jeffreyw Jan 28, 2024 • 9:37:10am

re: #404 wrenchwench

I remember the DCF from a post-head injury appointment with a neuro-person of some sort. And the animals. The clock was more difficult than I would have guessed. And I knew all the animals, but the names were stuck somewhere. At the end (I was in there for hours) they told me I used to be above average (figured using algorithms—no data on hand) and now I was average. One of my thoughts was, ‘That’s average? That was really bad.’

“…and half of everybody is worse than that!”

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 28, 2024 • 9:37:47am

He seems to think he can post articles where other people trash E Jean Carroll and it’s okay because it’s not him defaming her.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:38:55am

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) warned his party that it is headed for a big collapse in November because Republican voters will stay home due to Donald Trump being at the top of the ticket.

Speaking with MSNBC fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., an exasperated Dent pointed to recent polls and GOP primary results to bolster his case.

MSNBC 01 28 2024 10 47 23

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BeachDem Jan 28, 2024 • 9:39:34am

re: #399 darthstar

I read somewhere her firm has made $2.5m from him.

His PACs came through for him.

A Newsweek analysis of FEC records found that between February 2022 and June 2023, Habba’s New Jersey law firm, Habba Madaio & Associates LLP, received $3,586,350 from Save America and Make America Great Again PAC, two Trump-aligned political action committees.

There were 28 disbursements made to Habba’s law firm, according to the FEC, all categorized as “legal consulting.” Save America’s 16 payments made up the bulk of the funds, totaling more than $3.48 million, while Make America Great Again’s 12 donations gave Habba $110,728. The largest payout was made July 1, 2022, in the amount of $486,085.28.

newsweek.com

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wrenchwench Jan 28, 2024 • 9:41:17am

I’m due back at work in an hour. That’s almost 2 hours above the legally required time between shifts!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 9:41:23am

paid up front. smart move

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wrenchwench Jan 28, 2024 • 9:42:54am

re: #416 Joe Bacon ✅

an exasperated Dent

Sounds like bodywork on a car.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 28, 2024 • 9:43:04am

Slickest burn on Jerry yet:

“I don’t care if you saw it on Reddit “

True Facts: The Crazy Defenses of Butterflies and Moths

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Eventual Carrion Jan 28, 2024 • 9:46:36am

re: #178 Ace Rothstein

That just proves how smart he is!!!

But we need to nail Hunter Biden’s ass to the wall for lying on his taxes!

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:46:49am

Need to post a recipe!

Chicken Mushroom Dijon

This chicken Dijon with mushrooms is a great easy recipe for last-minute guests or a busy weeknight when you want something a little special. You may want to double the sauce and serve it over rice.

Ingredients

½ cup milk
⅓ cup all-purpose flour
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, pounded to an even thickness
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups thinly sliced mushrooms
2 tablespoons dry white wine (Optional)
1 ½ cups prepared chicken gravy
1 cup half-and-half
1 ½ tablespoons Dijon mustard
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Gather all ingredients.

Pour milk into a wide, shallow bowl. Spread flour into a separate wide, shallow bowl. Dip each chicken breast half into milk to coat; move to the dish with flour and press chicken into flour to coat entirely.

Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Fry chicken in hot oil until golden brown, about 3 minutes per side. Remove chicken to a plate; drain fat from the skillet and return to medium-high heat.

Melt butter in the skillet. Sauté mushrooms in hot butter until softened, about 2 minutes.

Pour white wine over mushrooms. Stir gravy, half-and-half, and mustard with mushrooms; season with salt and pepper. Bring the liquid to a simmer and cook for 2 minutes.

Return chicken to the skillet and cook until chicken is no longer pink in the center and juices run clear, about 5 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

Serve with white or brown rice and enjoy!

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ericblair Jan 28, 2024 • 9:48:07am

re: #416 Joe Bacon ✅

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) warned his party that it is headed for a big collapse in November because Republican voters will stay home due to Donald Trump being at the top of the ticket.

Speaking with MSNBC fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., an exasperated Dent pointed to recent polls and GOP primary results to bolster his case.

The yam won New Hampshire 54-43. Considering that, as far as the GOP is concerned, he’s the incumbent, that sounds terrible to me and I guess terrible to Dent.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 28, 2024 • 9:49:49am

If DJT is not on the ballot, then his hard-core sonstituency will not show.

Either way it is a losing situation.

Good. They have seen this coming since 2020 and refused to work to avoid it.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 28, 2024 • 9:52:57am

Love that Shawn Fain!

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Belafon Jan 28, 2024 • 9:54:02am

re: #421 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Slickest burn on Jerry yet:

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..

I believe that was a Magic School Bus episode.

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 28, 2024 • 9:56:23am

re: #359

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I’ll just throw this out there… I might be asking for a purple unicorn.

I’m looking for a camera to replace my apparently-dying Olympus OM-D EM5 MkII. I would like something that is as simple to use as a Nikon F2 or Olympus OM2. I am a reluctant digital photographer who grew up using 35mm film cameras and although I work in tech, I’m a bit of a luddite when it comes to cameras.

I want to be able to shoot with aperture-priority, shutter-priority, and manual independent control over both.

I don’t give a flying flip about shooting video with it.

I don’t want zoom lenses. Give me a prime somewhere between 35mm and 50mm and I’m good to go. Wider max aperture the better. I already have micro 4/3 lenses so if I can use those then hooray, but if not I just want a really good prime.

And I want all of this without spending thousands of dollars on a Leica M series.

Now, if you happen to have recently won the lottery and would like to gift me a Leica M, that’s your prerogative.

Otherwise, I’ll accept suggestions.

Although you said OM-2, I have two OM-1 bodies, Olympus 24, 50 & 135 lens and some accessories housed in a Halliburton case all of which I purchased new in the mid 1970s.

If interested, let me know - I’ll send complete list and photos - if still interested - make an offer which I’ll probably accept - looking for a home for this camera kit I no longer have use for.

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re: #425 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If DJT is not on the ballot, then his hard-core sonstituency will not show.

Either way it is a losing situation.

Good. They have seen this coming since 2020 and refused to work to avoid it.

Not sure what the GOP (as a national Party) could do about it; or, for that matter, could EVER have done.
The die was cast (and came up snake-eyes) back in 2015 when The Orange Anus announced his Presidential candidacy; and, despite being considered a joke, took off; and actually won him the R nomination (mostly) fair-and-square. Mainly because larger numbers of Republicans/citizens willingly voted for him over any opponents.
And apparently, large numbers still are.
The problem is with the country, not the party.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:08:07am

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re: #189 jaunte

…Matoaka meant “flower between two streams.”

Why do you ask two dogs …

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sizzzzlerz  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:11:30am

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re: #424 ericblair

The yam won New Hampshire 54-43. Considering that, as far as the GOP is concerned, he’s the incumbent, that sounds terrible to me and I guess terrible to Dent.

You dance with the rapist you brung, fella, but you do have my thoughts and prayers

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:11:48am

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Guess who is hoping for a new civil war?

Yep it’s the #1 Fascist Mouthpiece at 19th Century Fox folks!

Maria Bartiromo excited for border conflict: ‘Is this going to turn into a civil war?’

And he’s her fascist pal Dan Patrick.

Maria Bartiromo teases possible ‘civil war’

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:16:41am

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re: #198 Targetpractice

Maybe if they skipped a few Starbucks lattes and avocado toasts, they’d have more money to spend.

OR skipped the hookers and blow.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:19:51am

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re: #429 Jay C

Not sure what the GOP (as a national Party) could do about it; or, for that matter, could EVER have done.
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The problem is with the country, not the party.

The party went along with his 2020 election claims and stood behind him after January 6th.
They could have accepted the results of the election and distanced themselves from the insurrection but instead they embraced both the unfounded claims of fraud and the use of violence to attempt to derail the democratic process.

Let them pay for it.

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:21:46am

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re: #432 Joe Bacon ✅

That asshole had his vasectomy broadcast on the radio years ago. I’m not lying.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:22:21am

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I just posted a new LGF page of the event that gave birth to Unemployment Compensation 92 years ago TODAY!

littlegreenfootballs.com

The Time Wisconsin Invented Your Unemployment Check!

When Wisconsin led the nation in Progressive ideals…

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:23:43am

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re: #211 sagehen

not so.

You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 23:9) When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Young’s Literal Translation

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.
(Ezekiel 16:49)

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Unabogie  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:24:11am

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re: #432 Joe Bacon ✅

Guess who is hoping for a new civil war?

Yep it’s the #1 Fascist Mouthpiece at 19th Century Fox folks!

Maria Bartiromo excited for border conflict: ‘Is this going to turn into a civil war?’

And he’s her fascist pal Dan Patrick.

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Personally, I’m at the point where I am OK with Republicans seceding and leaving us alone. I’d offer airlifts to refugees.

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gwangung  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:29:06am

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re: #416 Joe Bacon ✅

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) warned his party that it is headed for a big collapse in November because Republican voters will stay home due to Donald Trump being at the top of the ticket.

Speaking with MSNBC fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., an exasperated Dent pointed to recent polls and GOP primary results to bolster his case.

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Yet, sooooo many Dems and progressives are utterly convinced that Biden can’t beat the Orange one.

Someone’s not looking at the facts on the ground…

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jaunte  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:31:28am

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re: #432 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Is this going to turn into a civil war?’

Jan. 6 was a conceivable schwerpunkt; a critical target that might have led to a minority overwhelming the majority with confusion and speed. Now we know that’s what they want to do. By contrast, the border issue is far too diffuse.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:34:12am

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re: #438 Unabogie

Personally, I’m at the point where I am OK with Republicans seceding and leaving us alone. I’d offer airlifts to refugees.

Which will lead to tyrants in charge of the world. In the 1860’s the Confederacy was a compact set of states. Now, as has been said, there are more Republicans in California than in any other state and except for California, there are more Democrats in Texas and Florida than any other state. There is no logical way to divide the nation without ending up in total chaos. I really wonder how much of what is happening is due to Putin and the long-time Russian desire to make us disintegrate as did the old Soviet Union. Let’s not forget that Trump was Putin’s man in the WH.

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jaunte  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:39:27am

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re: #438 Unabogie

Problem is, Republicans don’t really want to go away and live in peace with others that agree with them, they want to fight with dominate those who don’t.

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Jay C  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:41:40am

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re: #434 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The party went along with his 2020 election claims and stood behind him after January 6th. They could have accepted the results of the election and distanced themselves from the insurrection but instead they embraced both the unfounded claims of fraud and the use of violence to attempt to derail the democratic process.

Let them pay for it.

Oh, you are quite right: but what I was referring to in #429 was the Republican Party’s embrace of Donald Trump in the first place in 2016-15. In which they didn’t (sadly for the party and more-so for the nation) have much of a choice. That, since then, the GOP as an organization didn’t ever step back from their support of Trump (and still hasn’t) has just compounded their problems. So fuck’em; it’s what they deserve.
But the fundamental problem is still there: something like 35-40% of the American populace seems to be peachy-keen OK with the idea of a fascistic, undemocratic government ruling a fascistic, undemocratic society - as long the “right” fascists are in charge. And that doesn’t seem likely to change in the near future.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:42:08am

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re: #438 Unabogie

There is no civil war until the artillery comes into play, just a gang fight.

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Vicious Babushka  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:43:27am

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re: #444 Decatur Deb

There is no civil war until the artillery comes into play, just a gang fight.

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The artillery has to be mounted on aircraft.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:45:15am

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Pre$$titute$ gotta Pre$$titute

And when it comes to Pre$$titution we can always count on Jon Benghazi Karl to go into full GOP Stenographer Mode when he’s confronted with the truth…this time from Gavin Newsom

ABC’s Jon Karl Stops Gavin Newsom After He Claims Biden Has ‘The Best 3-Year Record’ of Any Modern President: Why’s His Approval ‘Historically Low?’

ABC’s Jon Karl stopped Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) after he made a claim about President Joe Biden that, according to a recent poll, at least two-thirds of the electorate would surely take umbrage with.

In an interview on ABC’s This Week Sunday, the California governor argued that — contrary to public opinion — the Biden presidency has been a rousing succcess.

“We need to lift up the issues, the successes, the extraordinary successes of the last three years, the Biden-Harris administration,” Newsom said. “And then we drive contrast. It’s not even a complicated campaign. We have the receipts. We have the best three year record of any modern American presidency. Period. Full stop.”

But in response, the ABC correspondent invoked the president’s approval ratings. A recent ABC News poll pegged the number at 33 percent — the lowest it’s been for any president dating back former President George W. Bush.

“Biden’s approval is historically low,” Karl said. “Why is that?!”

Newsom’s response — more or less — was: nothing to see here, everythings.

“Everybody’s approval, across the spectrum, you find exceptions to that,” Look, it’s been hard globally the last 6 or 7 years. But again, America stands tall or the tentpole. The world economy. No peers economically. Again, a master of delivery. The economy is booming, inflation is cooling. And of course, the economic strategies this president put together were all things Republicans dreamt of but never delivered. He’s delivered.

mediaite.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:47:48am

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Please pick me to be your running mate President Trump! Please!

Yep Killer Kristi going on 19th Century Fox swearing her loyalty to Texas instead of the US of A!

Kristi Noem is an idiot, but she’s thin and white so that’s good enough in America for her to run one of the Dakotas. She almost killed most of her constituents with COVID and now she’s hankering to get them into a civil war with the United States.

The South Dakota governor bragged on Fox News, which she later shared on her Xitter account, that she’s willing to load up a pickup truck with razor wire and drive down to Texas herself as a show of support for Gov. Greg Abbott. She probably doesn’t appreciate the irony in offering out-of-state assistance to someone who’s violating what she considers an unjust law. After all, she probably struggles with the definition of “irony.”

wonkette.com

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:50:29am

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re: #447 Joe Bacon ✅

That Biden doesn’t have a secret police force arresting these people and jailing them is something they view as a sign of weakness. Because having power and not abusing it appears to also be a sign of weakness.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:51:29am

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re: #448 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That Biden doesn’t have a secret police force arresting these people and jailing them is something they view as a sign of weakness. Because having power and not abusing it appears to also be a sign of weakness.

Do tell that to Dim Tool Tim Pool who repeatedly calls Joe a Nazi!

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:51:39am

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re: #443 Jay C

Oh, you are quite right: but what I was referring to in #429 was the Republican Party’s embrace of Donald Trump in the first place in 2016-15. In which they didn’t (sadly for the party and more-so for the nation) have much of a choice. That, since then, the GOP as an organization didn’t ever step back from their support of Trump (and still hasn’t) has just compounded their problems. So fuck’em; it’s what they deserve.
But the fundamental problem is still there: something like 35-40% of the American populace seems to be peachy-keen OK with the idea of a fascistic, undemocratic government ruling a fascistic, undemocratic society - as long the “right” fascists are in charge. And that doesn’t seem likely to change in the near future.

It came down to the GOP voters thinking of Trump as someone new and exciting, while the rest of candidates were the same old boring stuff. Ted Cruz was viewed as an unlikable liar. Given that the Republican mantra was that America should be run like a business and given the years-long success of The Apprentice, it’s not surprising how 2016 Republican primaries turned out. Trump is a showman and he gave the voters a show. The press, as usually happens, totally failed the country in the general election — as did the FBI director, who more than anyone (except Putin) may have been responsible for Hillary losing.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:56:42am

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re: #269 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

~~Eyesore~~ Icon of the Seas: World’s largest cruise ship sets sail from Miami

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That thing could hold my whole town’s population.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jan 28, 2024 • 10:57:00am

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Seen on the bird site.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 28, 2024 • 11:04:01am

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re: #288 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Deep sigh. 5/6

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Well, 5/6 here too

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CleverToad  Jan 28, 2024 • 11:54:28am

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re: #423 Joe Bacon ✅

Need to post a recipe!

Chicken Mushroom Dijon

This chicken Dijon with mushrooms is a great easy recipe for last-minute guests or a busy weeknight when you want something a little special. You may want to double the sauce and serve it over rice.

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Ingredients

½ cup milk
⅓ cup all-purpose flour
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, pounded to an even thickness
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups thinly sliced mushrooms
2 tablespoons dry white wine (Optional)
1 ½ cups prepared chicken gravy
1 cup half-and-half
1 ½ tablespoons Dijon mustard
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Gather all ingredients.

Pour milk into a wide, shallow bowl. Spread flour into a separate wide, shallow bowl. Dip each chicken breast half into milk to coat; move to the dish with flour and press chicken into flour to coat entirely.

Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Fry chicken in hot oil until golden brown, about 3 minutes per side. Remove chicken to a plate; drain fat from the skillet and return to medium-high heat.

Melt butter in the skillet. Sauté mushrooms in hot butter until softened, about 2 minutes.

Pour white wine over mushrooms. Stir gravy, half-and-half, and mustard with mushrooms; season with salt and pepper. Bring the liquid to a simmer and cook for 2 minutes.

Return chicken to the skillet and cook until chicken is no longer pink in the center and juices run clear, about 5 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

Serve with white or brown rice and enjoy!

Another one I have to try!

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