The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Magical Unicorn Candidate

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

The Magical Unicorn Candidate — We discuss Lawrence O’Donnell’s stupendous monologue about how the Dump Biden effort will lead to disaster. The 1968 Democratic convention. It’s about the fundraising. Biden does better against Trump than any other Democratic hopeful. Pollsters aren’t asking the followup question. The entire Republican establishment was scammed by Smirnov. Letitia James is prepared to seize Trump’s properties. The Christian Nationalist plan for the Trump presidency. Racist Fox News guy says Black people will vote for Trump because of the sneakers. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Freekbass, Our New Autumn, and more!

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silverdolphin  Feb 22, 2024 • 3:55:00pm

Following more on the Catherine Herridge story. Now CBS says they never withheld her materials and is simply waiting for her lawyers to come by and pick it up.

I wonder if they let the FBI have a look in the meantime. Is the Smernov business now revealing MSM reporters working for Russia? Her firing was out of the blue.

It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

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steve_davis  Feb 22, 2024 • 3:55:28pm

actually, now that I think about it, (I’m just going to pretend the last thread never ended), I haven’t put thin sliced pork on toast with gravy over it in 40 years, and I don’t think it’s because I decided there was anything wrong with that. Toast is one of the food groups, right? Carbohydrates, maybe?

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silverdolphin  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:02:55pm

Biden is on the case. I included the link because the video is so gut wrenching. A national theocracy based on specific, and beyond the pale, Christian beliefs, that actually ignore the stated words of Christ from the Bible. This is the modern GOP - going back to the 1400s.

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KGxvi  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:03:13pm
We discuss Lawrence O’Donnell’s stupendous monologue about how the Dump Biden effort will lead to disaster

I’ve been resigned to a Biden re-election campaign since the midterms. That would have been the time for him to announce he wasn’t seeking re-election. At this point, he’s the nominee and those of us who might prefer someone else are just going to have to accept that he’s the least bad choice in this election. Because the only way it’s not Biden is if something very bad happens - by which I mean “riderless horse leading a parade” bad.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:04:47pm

Here is a today picture of Teddy

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:06:11pm

I played this song in more than one nightclub band in Hawaii. It was huge there.

All the Way from Memphis - Mott the Hoople | The Midnight Special

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:06:35pm

re: #5 Teddy’s Person

TEDDY!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:06:50pm

re: #2 steve_davis

Toast is one of the food groups, right? Carbohydrates, maybe?

A very important one in my house.

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:07:00pm

re: #157 Mike Lamb

It’s funny—I sit on Earth, and occasionally think “How can you miss something the size of a planet?”

But then when I overlay the distances traveled in space, the speeds of the objects being intercepted, and that a planet or moon is just a speck of dust in space, it’s like “Oh…right. There’s a reason why ‘rocket scientist’ is a synonym for genius.”

This space is 50 inches wide:

To make a scale of the Earth and Moon, one on each side, the Earth model would be 1.25 inches, and the moon would be 3/8ths of an inch.

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A Cranky One  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:08:49pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I played this song in more than one nightclub band in Hawaii. It was huge there.

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Video

But did you have the Hoople hair?

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:09:11pm

This is starting to smell a lot like math.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:09:29pm

re: #11 darthstar

This is starting to smell a lot like math.

Oh, did we forget to tell you there was math?

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:09:51pm

re: #3 silverdolphin

Biden is on the case. I included the link because the video is so gut wrenching. A national theocracy based on specific, and beyond the pale, Christian beliefs, that actually ignore the stated words of Christ from the Bible. This is the modern GOP - going back to the 1400s.

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There has always been birth control and abortion. However the women who had folk knowledge of medicinal properties of various plants that could cause fertility or miscarriage were called “witches.”

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EPR-radar  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:09:57pm

re: #11 darthstar

This is starting to smell a lot like math.

Can’t do the space exploration stuff without math.

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steve_davis  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:10:04pm

re: #4 KGxvi

I’ve been resigned to a Biden re-election campaign since the midterms. That would have been the time for him to announce he wasn’t seeking re-election. At this point, he’s the nominee and those of us who might prefer someone else are just going to have to accept that he’s the least bad choice in this election. Because the only way it’s not Biden is if something very bad happens - by which I mean “riderless horse leading a parade” bad.

“…the least bad choice…” i.e. the guy who has sheperded us through the greatest economic expansion since the early 1950’s. yeah, I think somehow we can all manage to remain motivated to vote for him again.

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EPR-radar  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:11:39pm

re: #13 Vicious Babushka

There has always been birth control and abortion. However the women who had folk knowledge of medicinal properties of various plants that could cause fertility or miscarriage were called “witches.”

And were frequently burned at the stake as threats to the patriarchy (no matter what the official cover stories were).

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:14:40pm

From below:

re: #168 Vicious Babushka

The original “Producers” with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.

??1967 “Producers” was in color.

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:15:24pm

A fucking white male Texas judge decided against the kid wearing his hair up in locks, even though the state of Texas passed the Crown act, agreeing with the school district that the hair COULD be let down and would touch his collar and change below his eyebrows.

wfaa.com

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KGxvi  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:16:56pm

re: #18 Belafon

A fucking white male Texas judge decided against the kid wearing his hair up in locks, even though the state of Texas passed the Crown act, agreeing with the school district that the hair COULD be let down and would touch his collar and change below his eyebrows.

wfaa.com

beyond clothing that include obscenities, public schools should not have dress codes.

ETA: honestly, I’m not even sure about the obscenities, but that’s as much as I’m willing to compromise

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A Cranky One  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:20:30pm

Mrs Cranky is out of town dealing with her mom’s estate.

Ozzie is in a mood. Got his full punk Mohawk going.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:31:19pm

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:31:33pm

Rumors:

On February 19, the Sci-Fi Fantasy Gazette reported a rumor that Apple was circling Robert Pattinson to play Case in a Neuromancer series. That would contradict a 2022 QuietEarth rumor that suggested Miles Teller was up for the role. To be clear, Apple hasn’t even confirmed that Neuromancer is being made, which makes these casting rumors even less substantial.

inverse.com

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Teddy's Person  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:31:36pm

re: #20 A Cranky One

Ozzie is in a mood. Got his full punk Mohawk going.

Ozzie does it his way.

The Sex Pistols - My Way

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:34:02pm

re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter

From below:

??1967 “Producers” was in color.

The Producers - Springtime for Hitler and Germany

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silverdolphin  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:40:34pm

re: #24 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Video

The clip above is from the movie of the Broadway play. Here is the original Springtime. I like the SS officer’s voice in this one than in the remake. (Yes, I know it is John Barrowman ;-)

Springtime For Hitler The Producers

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nines09  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:41:34pm

re: #5 Teddy’s Person

Here is a today picture of Teddy

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:41:38pm

CL’d

re: #118 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

No contest for me: “Doctor Strangelove”

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:43:15pm

re: #26 nines09

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:43:58pm

re: #10 A Cranky One

But did you have the Hoople hair?

I wanna know whether there were platform shoes.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:44:50pm

Live Xitter link with video in box, because at CPAC, they aren’t even pretending to believe in democracy anymore.

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nines09  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:45:14pm

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:48:06pm

re: #30 No Malarkey!

Live Xitter link with video in box, because at CPAC, they aren’t even pretending to believe in democracy anymore.

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But really, it’s all to save this country, because their vision for America is the only correct and Godly one, so therefore they have to end democracy for our own good.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:48:56pm

re: #31 nines09

Bear in the Big Blue House “Happy Birthday” Song

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:49:46pm

re: #30 No Malarkey!

How is his name pronounced anyway? “Pissy bitch”?

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No Malarkey!  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:50:48pm

re: #34 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

How is his name pronounced anyway? “Pissy bitch”?

I endorse that pronunciation

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:51:01pm

re: #33 Teddy’s Person

Saving that for my wife for her bday in April.

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nines09  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:51:24pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

All The Young Dudes was an amazing album.

Still stands the test of time.

Soft Ground

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Teddy's Person  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:52:33pm

re: #36 darthstar

Saving that for my wife for her bday in April.

Bear in the Big Blue House was the bomb! It had the best music.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:54:57pm

Wow…CPAC is CPACKED.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:56:27pm

re: #39 darthstar

Wow…CPAC is CPACKED.

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LOL. They couldn’t even pretend to have a big crowd. That is a singularly impressive lack of attendance.

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:57:02pm

re: #39 darthstar

The Nation’s Amanda Moore also documented the sparse crowd, posting a video clip and adding, “I remember when they had overflow rooms.”
mediaite.com

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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:57:42pm

re: #40 Nerdy Fish

LOL. They couldn’t even pretend to have a big crowd. That is a singularly impressive lack of attendance.

Awww..poor them. I feel so VINDICATED!

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:58:53pm

re: #40 Nerdy Fish

LOL. They couldn’t even pretend to have a big crowd. That is a singularly impressive lack of attendance.

That curtain also cuts off about a third of the room behind it.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:59:45pm

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 22, 2024 • 4:59:54pm

re: #41 jaunte

The Nation’s Amanda Moore also documented the sparse crowd, posting a video clip and adding, “I remember when they had overflow rooms.”
mediaite.com

The dog finally caught the car. They got Dobbs, now they’re left with… nothing. They have Trump, but he’s not going to be there. They have anti-“woke” and anti-LGBTQ platforms, but those don’t get people riled up to the point of attending conventions the way abortion did. Now they’re seeing how crazy it all appears, and they’re like, “I’d rather stay home and not have anything to do with this.”

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No Malarkey!  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:09:39pm

Tuberville takes all the positions on the Alabama ruling that frozen embryos are children.

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silverdolphin  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:10:50pm

Pharmacies across US disrupted following hack at Change Healthcare network

Called again to check on a prescription. Not only could they only take handwriten prescriptions that I brought in (no e-subscriptions) but I would have to pay cash and get reimbursed becasue they could contact the insurance companies.

Hope this gets corrected soon.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:10:50pm

re: #4 KGxvi

I love President Biden. He has been a phenomenal president with many accomplishments. He soundly beat Trump in 2016 and can do it again.

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:11:31pm

re: #32 Nerdy Fish

But really, it’s all to save this country, because their vision for America is the only correct and Godly one, so therefore they have to end democracy for our own good.

God hates democracy, he wants obedience.

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:12:16pm

@erinbiba.bsky.social

Every single time you complain about “the media” another VC fires a working journalist.

I don’t want to argue this with her, but I think internet comments figure into the VC calculation like they figure into sharks feeding.

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silverdolphin  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:12:22pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

We need to draft Nick Sabin to run gainst him in 2 years.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:12:32pm

re: #27 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

CL’d

No contest for me: “Doctor Strangelove”

Honestly Arsenic & Old Lace is the first thing that came to mind
Don’t think I have a “favorite” anything, to many greats in every area of life to choose

And Dr. Strangelove is fundamental element of my life
LOL

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:13:48pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

Tuberville takes all the positions on the Alabama ruling that frozen embryos are children.

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I heard a clip of the interview. “We need more babies!” was pretty much all he said.

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:14:16pm
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jaunte  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:14:18pm

re: #53 darthstar

And he left “white” out.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:15:06pm

re: #3 silverdolphin

Biden is on the case. I included the link because the video is so gut wrenching. A national theocracy based on specific, and beyond the pale, Christian beliefs, that actually ignore the stated words of Christ from the Bible. This is the modern GOP - going back to the 1400s.

[Embedded content]

The convictions he rates are espionage and treason.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:16:44pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

Tuberville takes all the positions on the Alabama ruling that frozen embryos are children.

When I see these kinds of stories about Republicans, my first thought is this:

My second thought is, fuck, he’s not even mediocre.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:17:21pm

re: #25 silverdolphin

The clip above is from the movie of the Broadway play. Here is the original Springtime. I like the SS officer’s voice in this one than in the remake. (Yes, I know it is John Barrowman ;-)

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Video

Yeah, I posted the wrong link. I had a number of videos open looking for the best clip

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jeffreyw  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:17:42pm

Mastodon

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EPR-radar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:18:09pm

re: #57 Teddy’s Person

See also “delusions of adequacy”.

Tuberville is stupid, even for a Republican. That’s difficult to do these days.

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:18:39pm

re: #29 wrenchwench

Heck, how about Charles in bell bottoms and big collar quilted-top shirt?

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A Cranky One  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:18:48pm

I have Medicare and supplemental prescription insurance.

But I’ve started using Mark Cuban’s online pharmacy for certain prescriptions.

While it’s generic only, I pay 1/3 for certain drugs than with the health care plans.

No link since this isn’t an ad. But I’ve been thanked by several doctors for mentioning it, since it’s helped some of their patients.

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EPR-radar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:18:50pm

re: #59 jeffreyw

It should be sized for a 50” waist. But other than that, it’s perfect.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:18:57pm

I don’t know what FreedomDawg’s business is.
They give away three virtual pinball tables playable using freeware pinball software, but don’t seem to sell anything.

freedomdawg.com

The J6 games descripton:

Work through each Rally mode:

Stop the Steal
Fake News
Peaceful Protest
It’s a Setup
Babbitt Murder
Have Faith
Political Prisoners
Earn bonuses for Free Speech and Don’t Tread on Me. Aim to defeat Voter Fraud, Covid Lockdowns and the DC Gulag.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:19:44pm

re: #59 jeffreyw

Did the theme song to Rocky play ironically in anyone else’s head?

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Unabogie  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:20:10pm

To all the Republicans who “haven’t read the ruling” or about their own state shutting down all the IVF services, what the fuck did they have that was more important than reading it? No votes today. No reason to rush to CPAC to Schlap Matt.

This is their job.

And yes, I know they’re lying about it. But I wish someone would ask them that question.

“What did you have to do today that was more important than finding out why all the IVF services in your state are now suddenly closed?”

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:20:41pm

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:21:36pm

re: #61 Odie Hugh Manatee

Heck, how about Charles in bell bottoms and big collar quilted-top shirt?

Don’t forget the tie-dyed headband.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:24:28pm

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:25:19pm

re: #10 A Cranky One

But did you have the Hoople hair?

My hair got pretty big without even trying. All I had to do was wash it.

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:25:19pm

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Teddy's Person  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:25:44pm

Does Trump sees images like the Trump diaper up thread or do his flunkies shield him from the mockery? Do narcissists insist on seeing everything about themselves or do they have the capacity to just ignore it?

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:26:54pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:27:04pm

@tznkai.bsky.social

Whatever the alleged moral merits of fetal personhood, its an absolutely insane idea legally with endless implications that the courts will just ignore until brainworms overtake them again.

@lutherevers.bsky.social

I refer back to my most popular tweet ever.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:27:22pm

I never worked on my look the way Ian Hunter did. Dude had a vision of what a rock star needed to embody.

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:29:15pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

I never did the headband but I do have to cop to the platforms, quilted shirt and bell bottoms.

I plead the 70’s, man.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:30:52pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:32:20pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:33:19pm

re: #73 darthstar

10-15 House Republicans is a big ask. The party is such a shit show these days. Republicans are mentally defective, morally defective, or both. There are no exceptions.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:34:36pm

re: #78 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Who forgot to remove the lens cap?

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:34:58pm

I wore headbands because it was the only way to keep my hair under control.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:35:32pm

re: #79 EPR-radar

10-15 House Republicans is a big ask. The party is such a shit show these days. Republicans are mentally defective, morally defective, or both. There are no exceptions.

They’ll get over 100 votes from the GOP when it comes to the floor. It’s time for Super Tuesday Republicans to step up - it’s too late to primary them.

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b.d.  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:36:18pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

I wore headbands because it was the only way to keep my hair under control.

musta been before the trademarked Jazzy Ponytail?

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gocart mozart  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:36:43pm

Gil Scott-Heron Whitey on the moon.avi

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:38:42pm

Do we know what caused the AT&T outage? I had no cell service on Bart from Glen Park to Embarcadero - was fine back up on the surface.

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:41:05pm

A lot of VR games are just released on Quest, and a few are only on PSVR2, but the upcoming Zombie Army game will be on both, and on PC.

Zombie Army VR - Official Reveal Trailer

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calochortus  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:41:05pm

re: #85 darthstar

Do we know what caused the AT&T outage? I had no cell service on Bart from Glen Park to Embarcadero - was fine back up on the surface.

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Apparently a software update gone wrong.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:42:16pm

Also lost connection with my webcams for a while. Today. Did not like that. Not one bit…

Yesterday

Now - about 7 feet lower.

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gocart mozart  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:43:37pm
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Odie Hugh Manatee  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:46:15pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

Feathered hair with the length to mid back. Lots of hairspray! Good thing I played guitar as I looked the part…lol!

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:47:18pm

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:48:11pm

re: #91 Nerdy Fish

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I presume making them eligible for factory work will be right behind.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:48:58pm

re: #89 gocart mozart

That was a great dressing down. “Even Forrest Gump could see this would happen.” And “I hope every one of you gets sued into bankruptcy.”

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:53:29pm

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:53:56pm

I guess he said this on Maher:

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BeachDem  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:54:00pm

re: #27 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

CL’d

No contest for me: “Doctor Strangelove”

If we’re still talking favorite b/w movie, mine is definitely “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 22, 2024 • 5:57:20pm

re: #96 BeachDem

If we’re still talking favorite b/w movie, mine is definitely “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

“Cassablanca” would be the one I’d add to the list.

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:00:05pm

re: #95 Belafon

Saw a post mentioning YeeHawdis from Talabama

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:00:18pm

I must have been thinking of another Mel Brooks movie. Young Frankenstein?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:02:05pm

re: #5 Teddy’s Person

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steve_davis  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:03:11pm

re: #21 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

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“…meanwhile my opponent spends 3 hours a night belching out illiterate twoofs because he _can’t get shit done.” Been reading Gibbon, so all periodic sentences require some kind of rhetorical twist.

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teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:04:34pm

re: #99 Vicious Babushka

I must have been thinking of another Mel Brooks movie. Young Frankenstein?

Dad told me about taking his Mom to see Young Frankenstein in the cinema and how it was her last time in her life she went to the cinema and how Dad was so happy about that…

Dad’s Mom was a heavy smoker, died of lung cancer in her 50s.

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:05:10pm

re: #94 darthstar

Don’t examine the perspective of that background cabin too carefully.

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teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:06:23pm

This is my Dad’s Mom Helen modeling in Denver during WWII.

teleskiguy’s grandma, father’s side
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Sherlock Hound  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:15:29pm

re: #34 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

How is his name pronounced anyway? “Pissy bitch”?

I call him “Jack Piece-of-shit”.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:15:44pm

re: #59 jeffreyw

The Trump Baby Pants.

That’s even more repulsive than the Rick Santorum Thong!

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:15:54pm

re: #105 Sherlock Hound

I call him “Jack Piece-of-shit”.

Which I always thought was good, but I gotta admit, “Jack Pissy Bitch” is better.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:18:23pm

re: #107 Nerdy Fish

Which I always thought was good, but I gotta admit, “Jack Pissy Bitch” is better.

Closer to his name, and sounds more Russian.

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:19:16pm

Goldmacher Xitter thread

In the article, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Florida, and Nevada are all mentioned. Although Florida seems to stem from sexual practices rather than finances, criminal charges, or ideology.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:21:35pm
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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:23:18pm

re: #110 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Hah! Some things are universal.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:25:44pm

re: #105 Sherlock Hound

Just remember the CPAC slogan

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:25:58pm

re: #52 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

My vote for best B&W film is split between Fail-Safe and Doctor Strangelove. The former was produced right around the same time as Kubrick’s film. It was a classic film, playing the risks of nuclear war completely straight. But it lost the zeitgeist to Kubrick.

Nevertheless, the film was so well remembered that Noah Wylie got CBS to produce a live remake (!!!) one summer. It was a very good production.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:31:06pm

This is my favorite B&W Film—Karloff in his greatest role as The Body Snatcher. His scenes with Bela Lugosi are heartbreaking.

archive.org

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:31:26pm

This may be associated with the discovery that the North Korean missiles launched by Russia against Ukraine were composed almost entirely of US and Western manufactured components.

Rupar Xitter post

Also:

DOJ Xitter post

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teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:32:00pm

re: #110 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Road rage, an almost century-old phenomenon.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:33:53pm

The Libby iPhone app just informed me that Stephen King’s “Holly” is finally available for borrowing.

Now borrowing. Whoa, Libby lets you send it to the Kindle App. Groovy.

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piratedan  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:34:05pm

re: #27 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

I’d have to go with 12 Angry Men

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A Cranky One  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:37:29pm

Guitarists:

I’m much more comfortable playing guitar sitting down rather than standing up.

Other than Robert Fripp, I can’t think of any guitar players that perform sitting down rather than standing.

Are Fripp and I just weird?

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:38:57pm

The new public library apps like Libby and Hoopla are like having your own personal library to borrow from. Except now there are no late fees because they just vanish from your devices.

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:43:43pm

re: #119 A Cranky One

Guitarists:

I’m much more comfortable playing guitar sitting down rather than standing up.

Other than Robert Fripp, I can’t think of any guitar players that perform sitting down rather than standing.

Are Fripp and I just weird?

Most classical guitarists sit.

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:45:29pm

re: #109 ckkatz

YAY!

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Dave In Austin  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:46:02pm

re: #119 A Cranky One

Guitarists:

I’m much more comfortable playing guitar sitting down rather than standing up.

Other than Robert Fripp, I can’t think of any guitar players that perform sitting down rather than standing.

Are Fripp and I just weird?

Strunz and Farrah. Mostly sitting for obvious reasons. Leo Kotke is another.

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:46:36pm

re: #119 A Cranky One

Guitarists:

I’m much more comfortable playing guitar sitting down rather than standing up.

Other than Robert Fripp, I can’t think of any guitar players that perform sitting down rather than standing.

Are Fripp and I just weird?

Ry Cooder’s been sitting for about 4 decades.

John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder “Hobo Blues”, 1990

Ry Cooder & David Lindley Mercury Blues

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:48:08pm

re: #119 A Cranky One

Standing is temporary. It is not vital, just convenient.

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:48:49pm

re: #119 A Cranky One

I prefer sitting too but I practice both ways because of the differences in positioning. I do find that the older I get the more I sit.

Sounds like a song title…lol!

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:49:00pm

re: #124 wrenchwench

Ry Cooder’s been sitting for about 4 decades.

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That first picture of Ry Cooder, at that angle makes me think of what Keith Richards must have looked like back when the second star explosion occurred whose remnants would form our current solar system.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:52:37pm

re: #113 Sherlock Hound

My vote for best B&W film is split between Fail-Safe and Doctor Strangelove. The former was produced right around the same time as Kubrick’s film. It was a classic film, playing the risks of nuclear war completely straight. But it lost the zeitgeist to Kubrick.

Nevertheless, the film was so well remembered that Noah Wylie got CBS to produce a live remake (!!!) one summer. It was a very good production.

Fail Safe is great, one of those films I go searching for every few years. Along with The Bedford Incident

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Dave In Austin  Feb 22, 2024 • 6:55:05pm

My friend Mike Smith sits when he plays as well 😉.

Mike has huge tone.

Mike G. Smith playing live pedal steel on “HOUSTON” performed by the POTL band

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Charmingly Persistent  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:04:49pm

re: #31 nines09

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:09:23pm

re: #127 Belafon

That first picture of Ry Cooder, at that angle makes me think of what Keith Richards must have looked like back when the second star explosion occurred whose remnants would form our current solar system.

Here’s Ry with his son, Joachim, behind him and beside him, on percussion, then Ry standing 8 years ago. Maybe the Ryman just moved him.

Ry Cooder & David Lindley. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ’90s,

Ry Cooder - The Prodigal Son (Live in studio)

Whites, Skaggs & Cooder at the Ryman, You Must Unload

I’ll leave the rest of them on YouTube.

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:10:02pm

re: #128 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Fail Safe is great, one of those films I go searching for every few years. Along with The Bedford Incident

Seven samurai

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:11:17pm

re: #132 Dangerman

Seven samurai

Paper Moon.

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:11:18pm

re: #132 Dangerman

Seven samurai

Witness for the prosecution

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Markm1960  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:11:32pm

re: #119 A Cranky One

Guitarists:

I’m much more comfortable playing guitar sitting down rather than standing up.

Other than Robert Fripp, I can’t think of any guitar players that perform sitting down rather than standing.

Are Fripp and I just weird?

Didn’t the guy from the Doobie brothers play sitting?

I believe Billy Zoom of X plays sitting now too.

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:15:14pm

@mitchellepner.bsky.social

1/ In the linked exchange, Justice Engoron denied Trump defendants’ attempt to delay entry of the judgment of $355M (plus interest - taking it to $460M), which will be entered tomorrow, starting a 30 day clock for Trump to appeal and post 120% of the amount in security. If not, NYAG can enforce.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us

2/ There are many inaccurate reports that Trump must post the money to appeal. That is not correct. Trump can appeal without posting the money, but under those circumstances NYAG James could enforce against Trump’s assets while the appeal is pending, seizing bank accounts and personal property.

3/3 If Trump eventually won the appeal, the NYAG would be required to refund the money seized (plus interest) to Trump. That would be little comfort to Trump, because the disruption of losing over $500M in assets would not be reversed by getting the money back.

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JC1  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:18:01pm

re: #3 silverdolphin

Biden is on the case. I included the link because the video is so gut wrenching. A national theocracy based on specific, and beyond the pale, Christian beliefs, that actually ignore the stated words of Christ from the Bible. This is the modern GOP - going back to the 1400s.

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They’re less than a fifth of the population stuck in an echo chamber. They’re in for a rude awakening in the next few years.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:18:29pm

I hadn’t seen XR change the color and brightness of the passthrough before. Just overlays on a regular view of my room. It’s pretty cool.

Stranger Things VR: Watch My Room Transform into the UPSIDE DOWN

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:20:09pm

I said there would be math. Without taking into account wind resistance, these are the minimum speeds a bullet would have to travel given the angle to hit a target at the same level 250 yards away:

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:21:47pm

re: #138 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Why AR will be used.

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silverdolphin  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:23:32pm

re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Yeah, I posted the wrong link. I had a number of videos open looking for the best clip

Yeah, it took me a moment to be sure. It was Uma Thurman in the cotume that finally made it clear to me. It was a pretty good recreation.

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:23:34pm
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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:24:29pm
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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:26:55pm
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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:26:56pm

In the Veritasium video about the blue led, they are talking about making LEDs like a fifth of their current size. Get all of that with a few years of people optimizing algorithms and things will get pretty cool.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:27:10pm

Rearrested and it feels so bad
Rearrested ‘cause it makes him sad
There’s one certain thing
And traitor that’s one thing for sure
We’re all so excited ‘cause your
Rearrested Hey! Hey!

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:29:36pm

re: #128 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Fail Safe is great, one of those films I go searching for every few years. Along with The Bedford Incident

I liked Sabrina, Witness for the Prosecution, and Vertigo.

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jeffreyw  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:31:12pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:31:31pm

We did not have color TV for a long time

Every movie was in black and white

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:50:28pm

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:52:49pm

re: #143 Dangerman

😂 Counter judgment? What the hell?
Trump, you lost. You have to pay up. Get better lawyers for the next go around.

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:56:29pm

re: #149 Dangerman

We did not have color TV for a long time

Every movie was in black and white

Not til the late 1970’s for my family. And I only got my own used and broken color set in 1984. (I fixed the set and used it for a few years.)

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:56:30pm

re: #151 Patricia Kayden

😂 Counter judgment? What the hell?
Trump, you lost. You have to pay up. Get better lawyers for the next go around.

He thinks he’s negotiating
Totally misses that the trial was the negotiation

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wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:59:03pm

re: #149 Dangerman

We did not have color TV for a long time

Every movie was in black and white

We went to the neighbors’ house to see the moon landing in color. There wasn’t much.

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2024 • 7:59:45pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:03:45pm

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teleskiguy  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:08:44pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

This is Helen’s son Charles in the early 90s.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:09:54pm

Lisa Rubin thinks that the reason it seems to be taking so long for SCOTUS to release a ruling on Trump’s immunity claims is that one of the Justices is writing a dissenting opinion.

“Irrespective of where that comes out, the fact we’re still here a week after Trump submitted his reply brief, suggests to me that somebody has something to get off their chest that doesn’t involve where the majority of the court is on this,” Rubin said.

When Menendez asked if a decision could come as soon as Friday, Rubin said it was very possible.

“A lot of miscellaneous orders from the court in recent weeks have come on Fridays,” Rubin said. “So I think there is a chance we get it Friday. We also know the court conferences on Friday. Trump’s reply brief was announced last Thursday. They could have conferenced it last Friday, meaning that they gather around a table and discuss what they’re going to do with this motion. It’s possible that they didn’t do that last Friday, they do it tomorrow, and we hear from them soon after.”

rawstory.com

If I were a betting man, I’d wager that Thomas and Alito sided with Trump on this matter. So who knows, maybe we’ll see a Friday SCOTUS news dump sometime later today (it’s early Friday morning in my part of the world).

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:12:28pm

re: #158 Dr Lizardo

“When you’re rich and famous, they let you grab justice by the pussy. That’s how the founders wanted it. No, not the American founders, the Mongols.” - Alito

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:20:56pm

@mmfa.bsky.social

NBC Nightly News interviewed a CPAC attendee. There was no mention that she is a convicted January 6 rioter who threatened to murder Nancy Pelosi.
mediamatters.org

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:24:04pm

re: #158 Dr Lizardo

somebody has something to get off their chest that doesn’t involve where the majority of the court is on this

Some SCOTUS justice thinking absolute power is great if an unregulated narcissist is wielding it, and they’re safe enough saying so because they understand Biden is sane.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:26:35pm

re: #158 Dr Lizardo

Lisa Rubin thinks that the reason it seems to be taking so long for SCOTUS to release a ruling on Trump’s immunity claims is that one of the Justices is writing a dissenting opinion.

rawstory.com

If I were a betting man, I’d wager that Thomas and Alito sided with Trump on this matter. So who knows, maybe we’ll see a Friday SCOTUS news dump sometime later today (it’s early Friday morning in my part of the world).

Slappy T and Don Alito are waiting for the opinion being drafted by Leonard Leo’s interns.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:28:54pm

re: #161 jaunte

Some SCOTUS justice thinking absolute power is great if an unregulated narcissist is wielding it, and they’re safe enough saying so because they understand Biden is sane.

Preparing for the re-election of Trump and establishing a Nazi regime here, when the SCOTUS is a fully Federalist Society approved institution.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:29:24pm

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2024 • 8:36:46pm
Kayakers and nature lovers are flocking to Death Valley National Park in California to enjoy something exceedingly rare at one of the driest places in the United States: Water.

A temporary lake has bubbled up in the park’s Badwater Basin, which lies 282 feet below sea level. What is typically a dry salt flat at the bottom of Death Valley has for months been teeming with water after record rains and flooding have battered eastern California since August.

usatoday.com

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silverdolphin  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:14:56pm

SO, watched the highlights of the InterMiami MLS game from last night on my AVP. Holy crap. I can make the screen so that it fits my entire field of view at a distance of about 10 feet. And it is so clear I can read the Adidas logo on the ball when they show slow motion. I can even read the tatoos on the players ;-)

A lot of fun. Going to be interesting when Apple starts showing some 3D in the presentation.

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BeenHereAwhile  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:16:20pm

...

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:25:41pm

re: #158 Dr Lizardo

Or maybe all the justices are writing opinions?

This is certainly one case about which future historiographers may find worth writing.

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BeenHereAwhile  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:27:45pm

re: #134 Dangerman

Witness for the prosecution

Cape Fear with Gregory Peck & Robert Mitchum.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:30:33pm

If I were a SCOTUS justice I’d be tempted to write my own opinion, starting with the history of the divine rights of kings and why that was so bad that people figured out it is better to have democracies and why beheading the sovereigns is good ….

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:31:22pm

re: #158 Dr Lizardo

Lisa Rubin thinks that the reason it seems to be taking so long for SCOTUS to release a ruling on Trump’s immunity claims is that one of the Justices is writing a dissenting opinion.

rawstory.com

If I were a betting man, I’d wager that Thomas and Alito sided with Trump on this matter. So who knows, maybe we’ll see a Friday SCOTUS news dump sometime later today (it’s early Friday morning in my part of the world).

I doubt even they believe the appeal will succeed, but there is value in granting cert if only to delay the trials until June at the earliest. So they’re not arguing that they genuinely believe Trump will succeed, but instead they should at least hear him out for…reasons.

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TedStriker  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:38:45pm

re: #169 BeenHereAwhile

Cape Fear with Gregory Peck & Robert Mitchum.

Speaking of Robert Mitchum, The Night of the Hunter.

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EPR-radar  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:42:26pm

re: #171 Targetpractice

I doubt even they believe the appeal will succeed, but there is value in granting cert if only to delay the trials until June at the earliest. So they’re not arguing that they genuinely believe Trump will succeed, but instead they should at least hear him out for…reasons.

IMO, the conservative SCOTUS majority granting cert on Trump’s obviously frivolous immunity claim should be enough for all parts of the legal profession not on Leonard Leo’s payroll to dismiss this SCOTUS majority as partisan hacks.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:46:28pm

So, Odysseus’ landing was delayed by two hours when the laser range finders failed and they used a lidar system sent up for testing instead to handle the touchdown…pretty fuckin’ cool.

Intuitive Machines delayed the landing by two hours to perform an additional orbit of the moon. The company said that it determined that laser rangefinders on the lander, a key instrument to enable a precise landing, were not working properly. Controllers uploaded a software patch to enable to the lander to use in their place use a NASA Doppler lidar payload originally intended to be a technology demonstration.

“Basically, it is the primary system to help provide the velocity and altitude information,” said Prasun Desai, NASA deputy associate administrator for space technology, of the NASA payload during the landing broadcast.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:49:01pm

re: #171 Targetpractice

I doubt even they believe the appeal will succeed, but there is value in granting cert if only to delay the trials until June at the earliest. So they’re not arguing that they genuinely believe Trump will succeed, but instead they should at least hear him out for…reasons.

If they’re going to hear him out for…reasons…they should require him to argue his case himself so that they have to be subjected to his leaky diaper stench while he shouts that THEY OWE HIM and they should declare him king.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 9:59:57pm

So this guy came knocking on my door the other day asking for my vote…that’s never happened to me before. So I went to see him speak at the HMB Brewery and it was a really good exchange with other coastal critters and myself.

I took a yard sign and said hi to his wife. Told her I was happy his campaign colors went with my Ukraine flag.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2024 • 10:00:41pm

re: #175 darthstar

If they’re going to hear him out for…reasons…they should require him to argue his case himself so that they have to be subjected to his leaky diaper stench while he shouts that THEY OWE HIM and they should declare him king.

Which is the real reason this is going nowhere, because none of those arguing in favor of granting cert can articulate a reason for doing so that outweighs the headache of bringing the circus to town. Their colleagues aren’t convinced the appeal can succeed, any arguments about “duty” or “obligation” to hear the appeal are falling flat, and the months of increased furor from both sides is not worth it. So what we’re going to see is the majority of the bench saying “We deny certiorari” and the 1-2 fascism fetishists saying “We really wanted to hear this appeal, but the others on the bench were a bunch of meanies so no can do.”

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2024 • 10:05:08pm

re: #177 Targetpractice

And ACB, Gorsuch, and Keg Boi will all breathe a sigh of relief as they will have washed their hands of him forever.

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silverdolphin  Feb 22, 2024 • 10:06:16pm

Energy secretary joins Sen. Maria Cantwell in visit to Washington state’s burgeoning battery hub

Turning parts of Eastern Washington into green energy tech hubs using Biden’s Infrastructure legislation. Moses Lake is already one of the largest manufacturers of carbon fiber. Now it will be a hub for battery technology.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2024 • 10:52:48pm

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2024 • 10:55:26pm

Your annual reminder that today, Friday, February 23, 2024 is National Banana Bread Day.

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sagehen  Feb 22, 2024 • 11:36:59pm

re: #118 piratedan

I’d have to go with 12 Angry Men

Citizen Kane.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2024 • 11:42:32pm

re: #181 ckkatz

Your annual reminder that today, Friday, February 23, 2024 is National Banana Bread Day.

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Jay C  Feb 22, 2024 • 11:47:11pm

re: #176 darthstar

Nice that Mayor Sam is doing retail politics right.. but I noticed there is not a single mention of his partisan affiliation on the web page. D? R? I?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2024 • 11:54:38pm

re: #171 Targetpractice

I doubt even they believe the appeal will succeed, but there is value in granting cert if only to delay the trials until June at the earliest. So they’re not arguing that they genuinely believe Trump will succeed, but instead they should at least hear him out for…reasons.

It’s possible, of course. Hopefully, they’ll deny cert out of hand, and that’ll be that.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2024 • 11:57:20pm

re: #177 Targetpractice

I’m imagining Thomas’ dissenting opinion opening with, “I believe that Mr. Trump’s case, his argument for immunity, is certainly well-based and deserves to be heard. Regrettably, my colleagues, who are just a bunch of mean old poopyheads, disagreed with this perspective…”

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 12:04:13am

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

I’m imagining Thomas’ dissenting opinion opening with, “I believe that Mr. Trump’s case, his argument for immunity, is certainly well-based and deserves to be heard. Regrettably, my colleagues, who are just a bunch of mean old poopyheads, disagreed with this perspective…”

“Clarence, he’s arguing that he should be a king who is above the law.”
“Well, I think we should at least hear his argument in favor of that.”
“He called me yesterday and told me I ‘owed him.’”
“Yes, we owe it to him and the nation to at least consider his arguments.”
“How big a check did Harlan cut you this time?”
“He bought me a new yacht, but that’s not the point!”

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ericblair  Feb 23, 2024 • 12:35:30am

re: #178 darthstar

And ACB, Gorsuch, and Keg Boi will all breathe a sigh of relief as they will have washed their hands of him forever.

Trump doesn’t take “hey I tried” very well. My hope is that he gets double super pissed that he was betrayed by his lackeys that he personally installed for this exact reason and loudly announces it to the world on a daily basis.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 12:40:03am

re: #188 ericblair

Trump doesn’t take “hey I tried” very well. My hope is that he gets double super pissed that he was betrayed by his lackeys that he personally installed for this exact reason and loudly announces it to the world on a daily basis.

Oh, I don’t doubt that Trump will be ranting how they “betrayed” him and that they “owe him” or something similar.

His meltdown under such circumstances would be glorious to behold.

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silverdolphin  Feb 23, 2024 • 12:46:49am

Texas is suing an immigration nonprofit after accusing them of ‘human smuggling’

Paxton trying to destroy those following Christ’s words to help the poor and the immigrant. Evil, evil man.

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 23, 2024 • 1:05:45am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 1:42:24am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I played this song in more than one nightclub band in Hawaii. It was huge there.

I had that album as a teenager.

Did you fix the line with:

Some s***d said ‘Rock and rollers’, you’re all the same!’?

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 1:44:57am

re: #191 DodgerFan1988

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Same fucking playbook, only with “abortion” scratched out and “hormonal birth control” scribbled in.

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silverdolphin  Feb 23, 2024 • 1:50:24am

re: #191 DodgerFan1988

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As usual, Musk is blowng smoke. Some studies seem to indicate there is an increase in suicide. But others that separate out those with previous mental difficulties found that ormonal contraceptives were actually protective. And in both cases, the effects mostly disappeared aftera year.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 1:52:44am

re: #174 darthstar

So, Odysseus’ landing was delayed by two hours when the laser range finders failed and they used a lidar system sent up for testing instead to handle the touchdown…pretty fuckin’ cool.

I am not at all rooting for this landing, it is just another commercial venture. I can get behind something that is there in the name of humankind, not just investors.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2024 • 1:53:37am

She watched an entire Trump rally, so you don’t have to. No surprise to any of us, he is patently unfit for office.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 1:53:46am

Stalag-17

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:04:19am

re: #194 silverdolphin

As usual, Musk is blowng smoke. Some studies seem to indicate there is an increase in suicide. But others that separate out those with previous mental difficulties found that ormonal contraceptives were actually protective. And in both cases, the effects mostly disappeared aftera year.

Elmo has a real fascination with pregnancy and birth rates, if his past remarks on the subject are anything to go by. I’m not one to kink shame, but you do need to be mindful not to include others in your fantasies unless they’re willing participants.

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silverdolphin  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:05:52am

New study shows fewer suicide attempts in women using hormonal contraceptives

This was the most recent study I could find. It looked at almost 600,000 women. Here are the results:

The research team found that attempted suicide rates between hormonal contraceptive users and non-users were similarly high in women between 15-19 (in general, suicide rates are higher in younger women and decrease with age), but suicide rates dropped in older age groups, with a greater drop in hormonal contraceptive users relative to non-users in the 20-24 and 25-29 age groups. In total the researchers saw 474 cases of attempted suicide in women who didn’t use hormonal contraceptives, with only 344 attempts in women who used hormonal contraceptives. Women not using contraceptives had a 37% greater odds of attempting suicide in comparison with those using hormonal contraceptives.

There is no consensus as Musk states.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:13:34am

re: #199 silverdolphin

New study shows fewer suicide attempts in women using hormonal contraceptives

This was the most recent study I could find. It looked at almost 600,000 women. Here are the results:

There is no consensus as Musk states.

That’s because, like I noted above, their arguments are basically the arguments they used for decades to impose various restrictions on abortion in the name of “women’s health.” They just scratched off the serial number and are now trying to sell you the same arguments as the reasons to ban/restrict safe and convenient birth control medication. And just like back then, they keep sending mixed signals by saying they’re worried about women…which is why they want to punish them with unwanted pregnancies.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:14:14am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:20:36am

re: #201 darthstar

I will sell shades of color: a hue monger

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silverdolphin  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:21:36am

And, thre: #191 DodgerFan1988

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And what about postpartum suicide attempts? 5% of all maternal deaths during the peripartum period (conception to 1 year post birth) were by suicide and were much more violent deaths than non-pregnent women used. Six months to a year after childbirth was a particularly dangerous time.

Musk needs to go fuck himself.

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EPR-radar  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:23:23am

re: #200 Targetpractice

That’s because, like I noted above, their arguments are basically the arguments they used for decades to impose various restrictions on abortion in the name of “women’s health.” They just scratched off the serial number and are now trying to sell you the same arguments as the reasons to ban/restrict safe and convenient birth control medication. And just like back then, they keep sending mixed signals by saying they’re worried about women…which is why they want to punish them with unwanted pregnancies.

Life really would get more efficient if everyone who is not a right wing nut job, especially the mainstream media, would get in the habit of dismissing all right wing arguments, apologetics etc. as worthless because axiomatically dishonest.

The error rate really would be negligible, and most right wing positions are so awful that to debate them is to give them more legitimacy than they deserve.

Of course, a policy like this would need to be ended if/when there is a significant fraction of right wingers who aren’t pathological liars and/or self-deluded fuckwits but, at least in the US, that’s a long ways off.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:25:18am

re: #203 silverdolphin

Musk needs to go fuck himself.

Must is a genius, therfore any statement he makes on any subject must be treated with reverence.

/

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:33:50am

Mastodon

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:38:00am

“Recreational sex is wrong! Sex should only be for procreation! We should punish those who engage in it outside the bonds of marriage!”

“So we’re going to make it easier to punish men for premarital sex?”

“What? NO!”

“So we’re going to punish couples who do so equally?”

“NO!”

“So we’re going to punish wo…”

“YES, PUNISH WOMEN FOR ENGAGING IN SEX OUTSIDE THE GODLY BONDS OF MARRIAGE!!!”

“…you just want a house pet you can bang until you can get bored of it and trade in for a newer model, don’t you?”

“SHHHH, not so loud.”

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silverdolphin  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:38:51am

re: #200 Targetpractice

That’s because, like I noted above, their arguments are basically the arguments they used for decades to impose various restrictions on abortion in the name of “women’s health.” They just scratched off the serial number and are now trying to sell you the same arguments as the reasons to ban/restrict safe and convenient birth control medication. And just like back then, they keep sending mixed signals by saying they’re worried about women…which is why they want to punish them with unwanted pregnancies.

A big part of the problem is that we are decades behind where we should be wrt women’s health. For example, adolescent women on the pill may have a slightly greater chance of suicide than those not on the pill. But that may very well be caused by social activities (ie immature views of romantic relationships) not something due to the Pill’s biochemistry. Older women actually have lower suicide rates when on the pill.

And using the Pill can greatly reduce the chances of getting ovarian or uterine cancers. In fact, other comorbiditites (such as overweight or smoking) saw a greater benefit from the Pill. Musk does not mention that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 2:55:28am

re: #207 Targetpractice

Men with strong sex drives are just being masculine manly men.

Women with strong sex drives are harlots and strumpets.

Bible is clear on that.

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silverdolphin  Feb 23, 2024 • 3:27:06am

re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Must is a genius, therfore any statement he makes on any subject must be treated with reverence.

/

+++++++++++++++++++++++

TL:DR - I am a genius too.
______________________________
I see the snark tag but who is to say I am not a genius? I’m just not a rent-seeking, sociopathic monster who steals companies from others, treats people like shit and misleads all the time. Or feels I need to be worshipped.

Let me make the case ;-)

I spent my life doing a longer term project (human health) than software. It takes decades to commercialize a new drug, not months. So I had less time to leverage my successes into billions. But I was able to generate enough money to make my family and I comfortable. Without having to do anything scummy. And I suspect my work may well save more lives than anything Musk has done.

I helped research, develop and bring to market two major category-defining biomedical approaches. One was Enbrel, which changed the way we deal with Arthritis in fundamental ways. The first really engineered biological (we did not just produce a natural protein at high levels; we created an entirely new protein that never existed before), we had to stop the blinded clinical trial because we could tell who was getting the drug - they stood up from their wheel chairs and walked. Ironically, I have been taking Enbrel off label for the last 7 years to control my auto-immune disease.

The other approach was researching and developing a novel Adenovirus vector to deliver specific genes, and their resulting proteins, to the immune system. Instead of injecting large amounts of the gene as mRNA (like the COVID vaccines) this system uses a non-replicating virus carrying cloned genes. SO the body reacts like it is a viral infection and raises antibodies and cell-mediated responses, even though the virus cannot replicate.

It allows us to specificaly modulate the immune system. It can be used for vaccines, especially cancer vaccines and the first major study using it it well along. It has the possibility of being even better than the mRNA vaccines as they have to suspend the refrigerated RNA in a squalene adjuvant than can be costly. Our adenovirus technology allows us to create a specific vaccine at full production levels in less than 60 days of the sequencing of the infectious agent. It will allow us to tailor a cancer vaccine specifically towards the tumor in an individual, rather than use a treatment for the masses. like chemo. And the vaccine can be stored at room temperature so it can easily be used in developing countries.

I made enough money off of these to live a very pleasant life, put my son through school and live in a house I adore with the wife I love. I do not need billions to show others how big my dick is. I realized 20 years ago that I did not want to be a serial entrepreneur because to do so successfully you really had to become an awful person.

By doing so, You did have to not really worry about meeting payroll or all those people losing their jobs.you love presenting stuff to the VCs because they would fund a fraud if it would make them money (viz Theranos). Everything was about pushing others down to raise themselves. You had to be a sociopath.

And then we make them into superstars.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 3:36:17am

re: #210 silverdolphin

We still adhere to the Calvinist doctrine that wealth is an outward sign of inner grace and moral superiority. A fact that griters and posers have been exploiting for centuries.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 3:40:15am

re: #210 silverdolphin

It feels good to do something that makes a difference. I got that feeling when I was a high school teacher…not so much in my IT career.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 3:42:25am

re: #206 darthstar

500 new sanctions…kind of makes you wonder if they had these lined up and were just waiting for the right opportunity. I hope this includes freezing a bunch of US bank accounts where oligarchs have been hiding their money so those funds can be used for Ukraine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 3:46:11am

re: #213 darthstar

500 new sanctions…kind of makes you wonder if they had these lined up and were just waiting for the right opportunity. I hope this includes freezing a bunch of US bank accounts where oligarchs have been hiding their money so those funds can be used for Ukraine.

Of course, people know that Putin’s sympathy is at near-zero over Navalny and the second anniversary of the oh-so-very-very-special military operation

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 3:47:14am

re: #213 darthstar

No doubt in my mind. They were waiting for the right moment to spring this “trap.” Putin and his cronies are going to get squeezed.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 3:50:44am

re: #215 PhillyPretzel ✅

No doubt in my mind. They were waiting for the right moment to spring this “trap.”

I like that some Russians were here to be detained. Put ‘em in Rikers until trial.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 3:51:45am

re: #207 Targetpractice

“…you just want a house pet you can bang until you can get bored of it and trade in for a newer model, don’t you?”

Quote of the day, and it’s barely even begun. Well done.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 3:52:48am

re: #216 darthstar

lol. That is where DT should go.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:00:10am

re: #218 PhillyPretzel ✅

lol. That is where DT should go.

Alvin Bragg might just send him there. I know the feds don’t use Rikers but based on the whinging from J6 ‘patriots’, the DC federal holding facility is also quite the shithole.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:00:12am

Happy Friday!
I really like this group, I hope you enjoy some of my morning drive time music!!

HotWax - Phone Machine (Official Video)

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:02:39am

re: #219 darthstar

Alvin Bragg might just send him there. I know the feds don’t use Rikers but based on the whinging from J6 ‘patriots’, the DC federal holding facility is also quite the shithole.

Prison, in general, is unpleasant. Even Club Fed is not a walk in the park. Some places are worse than others, but overall, one of the great injustices of the system is the borderline inhumane conditions prisoners are kept in - even people who have not yet been convicted of their alleged crimes. This is doubly true when you consider the appalling rate of false convictions in this country, based on bad science and preconceived notions.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:03:35am

Today is National Hospitality Workers Appreciation Day!

Created by Food Service Direct — an online store for chefs and restaurant operators — National Hospitality Workers Appreciation Day on February 23 appreciates the hard workers of the service industry who strive tirelessly to bring the best in comfort and luxury. The hospitality industry is often confused with the hotel industry, which is not the case. The latter is a branch of the former. The hospitality industry is broad and includes hotels, restaurants, bars, theme parks, tourism, and more. The presentation, creativity, entertainment, and quality of these businesses are all thanks to their hospitality workers, which is why we are celebrating them today!

nationaltoday.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:03:41am

re: #216 darthstar

I like that some Russians were here to be detained. Put ‘em in Rikers until trial.

Trade them for Gaza hostages (killing two birds with one stone)

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:05:22am

Meh. I’ll take it.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 979 4/6*

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:12:35am

Honorable mention for some drive time tuneage. Let’s get under the covers together.

Keller & The Keels - Pepper - July 29,2020 - Keller’s Cellar Episode 40

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:19:20am

Never tire of the road.

UAW commits $40 million to unionizing Southern car, battery plants
al.com

Never Tire of the Road

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:20:17am

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:20:53am

Houses, cars, tools, they used to have everything at Sears!

The Allstate is an American automobile that was offered for sale through Sears, Roebuck and Co. during the 1952 and 1953 model years. It was a rebadged version of the Henry J, an automobile manufactured by the Kaiser-Frazer company from 1950 through 1954.

en.wikipedia.org

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:25:37am

re: #228 Shropshire Slasher

Houses, cars, tools, they used to have everything at Sears!

en.wikipedia.org

Our studio shot half the photos for the Sears catalogues. Before my time (early 60s) they hauled a car to the roof of their 27th story building in the Garment District. They were still talking about it a decade later.

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William Lewis  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:32:52am

re: #227 Dr Lizardo

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Because he’s what a rich white suburban boy thinks a “rocker” would look like rather than someone who actually grew up as a broke ass rocker?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:34:48am

re: #230 William Lewis

Because he’s what a rich white suburban boy thinks a “rocker” would look like rather than someone who actually grew up as a broke ass rocker?

Oh, I know. His trailer park schtick wore off pretty fast.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:40:19am

re: #177 Targetpractice

Which is the real reason this is going nowhere, because none of those arguing in favor of granting cert can articulate a reason for doing so that outweighs the headache of bringing the circus to town. Their colleagues aren’t convinced the appeal can succeed, any arguments about “duty” or “obligation” to hear the appeal are falling flat, and the months of increased furor from both sides is not worth it. So what we’re going to see is the majority of the bench saying “We deny certiorari” and the 1-2 fascism fetishists saying “We really wanted to hear this appeal, but the others on the bench were a bunch of meanies so no can do.”

there has to be more than duty or obligation to hear it
it has to be more than just ‘an argument’
there has to be merit, coherence.
there has to be some logic for how the argument would actually succeed

unless one of them can clearly articulate how the argument could win, then they’d just be jerking off

(ianal)

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:41:01am

Ya think?

Scoop: House GOP rushes to distance from Alabama IVF ruling
axios.com

Gotta love Alabama—they don’t hide their crazy under a bushel.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:42:33am

re: #233 Decatur Deb

How far do you think they will distance themselves? A couple of blocks or a couple of miles?

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William Lewis  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:43:17am

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:44:49am

re: #232 Dangerman

And while I agree with that, it’s been my observation over the decades that SCOTUS can certainly surprise us all every now and then.

I’m not a lawyer, nor a judge, much less a Supreme Court Justice, so while it seems to me they’d deny certiorari, well….you never know.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:44:51am

re: #181 ckkatz

Your annual reminder that today, Friday, February 23, 2024 is National Banana Bread Day.

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i recently made gomer pyle’s banana bread
with the macadamias (some suggest walnuts)
i used the muffin option
they are good
i think it’s mostly because of all butter and sugar

and (humbly), mine (ok, Craig Claiborne’s) is way better

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:45:13am

re: #234 PhillyPretzel ✅

How far do you think they will distance themselves? A couple of blocks or a couple of miles?

I doubt that most of the GOP pols believe their own shit. Someone posted a picture of Saint Michael of Pence and his IVF son. How many of his little persons did he kill?

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:46:19am

re: #188 ericblair

Trump doesn’t take “hey I tried” very well. My hope is that he gets double super pissed that he was betrayed by his lackeys that he personally installed for this exact reason and loudly announces it to the world on a daily basis.

+1

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:46:36am

re: #238 Decatur Deb

True. It is one of many reasons why I do not say much to the R’s in my area.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:48:39am

re: #236 Dr Lizardo

And while I agree with that, it’s been my observation over the decades that SCOTUS can certainly surprise us all every now and then.

I’m not a lawyer, nor a judge, much less a Supreme Court Justice, so while it seems to me they’d deny certiorari, well….you never know.

They may grant cert just to avoid the whole OUTRAGE!!!1!111one associated with a perceived “failure to exhaust all options,” namely, that he didn’t get a fair chance before SCOTUS because they just denied him outright.

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Randall Gross  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:49:08am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I played this song in more than one nightclub band in Hawaii. It was huge there.

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I’ve always also loved Ian’s later opus about touring with a band, in which he demonstrates his influence from Dylan.

Here’s Hymn for the Dudes

Hymn for the Dudes

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:50:06am

re: #191 DodgerFan1988

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protecting women from themselves because ‘few people seem to know about it”? (as if)

shall we protect fat people from food? //

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:51:40am

re: #241 Nerdy Fish

They may grant cert just to avoid the whole OUTRAGE!!!1!111one associated with a perceived “failure to exhaust all options,” namely, that he didn’t get a fair chance before SCOTUS because they just denied him outright.

Kick the can down the road.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:52:26am

re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Must is a genius, therfore any statement he makes on any subject must be treated with reverence.

/

musk is nate silver with more money

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:53:32am

re: #207 Targetpractice

“Recreational sex is wrong! Sex should only be for procreation! We should punish those who engage in it outside the bonds of marriage!”

“So we’re going to make it easier to punish men for premarital sex?”

“What? NO!”

“So we’re going to punish couples who do so equally?”

“NO!”

“So we’re going to punish wo…”

“YES, PUNISH WOMEN FOR ENGAGING IN SEX OUTSIDE THE GODLY BONDS OF MARRIAGE!!!”

“…you just want a house pet you can bang until you can get bored of it and trade in for a newer model, don’t you?”

“SHHHH, not so loud.”

ask em to explain all those rape pregnancies

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Randall Gross  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:54:10am

For any youngsters who might be wondering about that picture up top…
The whole world is watching
How the 1968 Chicago ‘police riot’ shocked America and divided the nation
theguardian.com

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:54:15am

re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Men with strong sex drives are just being masculine manly men.

Women with strong sex drives are harlots and strumpets.

Bible is clear on that.

“libertine men and scarlet women…”

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:54:28am

re: #227 Dr Lizardo

[Embedded content]

And this, children, is why Pete Townsend was right when he wrote “I hope I die before I get old.”

/

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:56:35am

re: #246 Dangerman

ask em to explain all those rape pregnancies

I would, but I already know the answer is some variation of “punishment” and my stomach isn’t as strong as it used to be against that level of hypocritical horseshit.

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Randall Gross  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:56:54am

In case anyone was wondering, Ian’s still rocking hard

Ian Hunter - Pavlov’s Dog (Lyric Video) ft. Eric Kretz, Dean DeLeo, Robert DeLeo

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 4:57:29am

re: #221 Nerdy Fish

Prison, in general, is unpleasant. Even Club Fed is not a walk in the park. Some places are worse than others, but overall, one of the great injustices of the system is the borderline inhumane conditions prisoners are kept in - even people who have not yet been convicted of their alleged crimes. This is doubly true when you consider the appalling rate of false convictions in this country, based on bad science and preconceived notions.

the thing for tfg is he’d be in a situation where he’d be told what he can and cant do every minute of the day

he’d burst

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:00:27am

re: #246 Dangerman

ask em to explain all those rape pregnancies

God does not make mistakes.

Which means that God aids and abets rapists.

Bible is also full of that.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:00:31am

re: #234 PhillyPretzel ✅

How far do you think they will distance themselves? A couple of blocks or a couple of miles?

just far enough till the figure how to harness and embrace it
they cant help themselves

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:00:32am

re: #252 Dangerman

the thing for tfg is he’d be in a situation where he’d be told what he can and cant do every minute of the day

he’d burst

Oh yeah, he’d every single minute of it. It’d be like a living hell for him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:01:21am

re: #255 Dr Lizardo

Oh yeah, he’d every single minute of it. It’d be like a living hell for him.

I cannot imagine he will get anything stricter than house arrest.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:02:01am

re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I cannot imagine he will get anything stricter than house arrest.

Heh, even that would drive him bonkers.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:03:27am

re: #241 Nerdy Fish

They may grant cert just to avoid the whole OUTRAGE!!!1!111one associated with a perceived “failure to exhaust all options,” namely, that he didn’t get a fair chance before SCOTUS because they just denied him outright.

I suspect that is the argument they’re left making, that even if none of their colleagues believe Trump has any chance whatsoever of succeeding, the Court has some “duty” to at least allow him the opportunity to make it. That history will look kinder on them and the whole process if they enter the last ruling on the matter, even if they’ll basically be cribbing from the DC Appellate ruling when doing so.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:05:14am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

Heh, even that would drive him bonkers.

He would have to have a golf course installed…

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:06:41am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I know we’ve been speculating about how Trump’s going to be able to put up the money owed in both the E Jean Carroll and NY AG cases, where he owes roughly $500 million with interest, but here’s another angle to consider.

Carroll and the AG can both seek to liquidate the properties owned by Trumpworld, including places like Trump Tower. But how much equity is actually there for those properties. If Trump has leveraged all of these properties with mortgages to acquire other properties, then the amount Trump can use to satisfy the judgment escrow requirements needed to appeal - so while Trump Tower could potentially be worth $500 million, but if it has multiple mortgages against it, then the equity that Trump can use to satisfy the judgment will be far less, and will require still more properties to be sold to satisfy.

The house of cards will come crumbling down.

Expect to know more on Monday, when the 30 day period ends for the Carroll case.

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Randall Gross  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:07:42am

re: #247 Randall Gross

For any youngsters who might be wondering about that picture up top…
The whole world is watching
How the 1968 Chicago ‘police riot’ shocked America and divided the nation
theguardian.com

I’m also thinking that the place that happened might also be the place the historic Haymarket Incident took place - does anyone know for sure if that Haymarket cocktail bar / restaurant is at the actual site of the old Haymarket?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:07:55am

re: #260 lawhawk

Being as this is Donald Trump we’re talking about, I’d guess that Trump Tower is leveraged all the way up to the helipad.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:09:27am

re: #246 Dangerman

ask em to explain all those rape pregnancies

I was told by a reliable source that the female body has ways of shutting that down.///

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:10:11am

re: #238 Decatur Deb

I doubt that most of the GOP pols believe their own shit. Someone posted a picture of Saint Michael of Pence and his IVF son. How many of his little persons did he kill?

it was before the alabama decision so it’s ok //

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:11:44am

re: #260 lawhawk

I think it was Warren Buffett who once pointed out that the Achilles’ Heel of Trumpworld is that everything is leveraged up to the hilt.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:13:50am

re: #258 Targetpractice

But cert denied is an outcome where all avenues of appeal are exhausted. The Court can simply find that the appellate court (or State Supreme Court below) ruled correctly and that the Court wont touch it because they agree with the outcome/ruling/analysis, etc.

I don’t see that happening here because of the novel issues involved, and the Court should step in to rule against Trump across the board on all these cases. But the fascist five (I know there’s a sinister 6, but the five are truly fascist - Roberts is the swing), may try to slash and burn the 14A3 to claim that he should still be on the ballot despite the fact that it clearly states the only way someone can get on the ballot after engaging in insurrection (which a majority of both the House and Senate found; and the GOP introduced resolutions) is to get 2/3 of both the House and Senate to remove the disqualification.

That means it is up to the states - no different than the state refusing to put someone who isn’t 35 or a natural born citizen. It’s up to the states to do so; and the 14A3 allows a means to override the disqualification, which the other constitutionally required minimum qualifications to be POTUS does not - you can petition Congress to get 2/3 of each chamber to override.

Fuck SCOTUS, fuck the GOP, and fuck Trump for putting us in this dangerous spot. Party over nation every fucking time because that’s what fascists do.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:14:24am

re: #241 Nerdy Fish

They may grant cert just to avoid the whole OUTRAGE!!!1!111one associated with a perceived “failure to exhaust all options,” namely, that he didn’t get a fair chance before SCOTUS because they just denied him outright.

which, imo is a stupid reason

their job is to apply the law

not be concerned with perceived possible ‘consequences’ (which imo are overblown anyway)

if there’s no merit to the argument, no possible way to succeed, then hearing it is not really an ‘option’ - as i said, it’s just jerking off

it’s overt playing politics

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:14:37am

re: #266 Dr Lizardo

I think it was Warren Buffett who once pointed out that the Achilles’ Heel of Trumpworld is that everything is leveraged up to the hilt.

But I was assured that Mar-a-Lago could easily be sold to a Saudi operative an “interested buyer” for $1.6B, so surely any loans he has on those properties can be paid off with the proper leverage.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:15:00am

re: #225 Shropshire Slasher

That was fun!

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:15:26am

re: #266 Dr Lizardo

I think it was Warren Buffett who once pointed out that the Achilles’ Heel of Trumpworld is that everything is leveraged up to the hilt.

I rather suspect that is the root of Orange Julius’ fears, that once the curtain is drawn back the people will learn that he really “owns” nothing. That all of his “success” evaporates over night and we all learn that he’s mortgaged up to his eyeballs and couldn’t actually liquidate any part of his “empire” without a bank or loan shark going “Now hold on there…”

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:16:18am

re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

God does not make mistakes.

Which means that God aids and abets rapists.

Bible is also full of that.

then the pill is ok

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:18:28am

re: #267 lawhawk

But cert denied is an outcome where all avenues of appeal are exhausted. The Court can simply find that the appellate court (or State Supreme Court below) ruled correctly and that the Court wont touch it because they agree with the outcome/ruling/analysis, etc.

I don’t see that happening here because of the novel issues involved, and the Court should step in to rule against Trump across the board on all these cases. But the fascist five (I know there’s a sinister 6, but the five are truly fascist - Roberts is the swing), may try to slash and burn the 14A3 to claim that he should still be on the ballot despite the fact that it clearly states the only way someone can get on the ballot after engaging in insurrection (which a majority of both the House and Senate found; and the GOP introduced resolutions) is to get 2/3 of both the House and Senate to remove the disqualification.

That means it is up to the states - no different than the state refusing to put someone who isn’t 35 or a natural born citizen. It’s up to the states to do so; and the 14A3 allows a means to override the disqualification, which the other constitutionally required minimum qualifications to be POTUS does not - you can petition Congress to get 2/3 of each chamber to override.

Fuck SCOTUS, fuck the GOP, and fuck Trump for putting us in this dangerous spot. Party over nation every fucking time because that’s what fascists do.

I believe we’re discussing the “presidential immunity” case and not the ballot case. They’ve already heard arguments in the ballot case, which were every bit as ridiculous as expected but indications are the entire bench is leaning towards punting in favor of “the voters.” The granting of cert is for the “immunity” case, which no serious lawyer thinks Trump has any better chance of winning on appeal than they did before the DC Appellate decided to play billiards with his balls earlier this month.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:18:49am

re: #271 Targetpractice

I rather suspect that is the root of Orange Julius’ fears, that once the curtain is drawn back the people will learn that he really “owns” nothing. That all of his “success” evaporates over night and we all learn that he’s mortgaged up to his eyeballs and couldn’t actually liquidate any part of his “empire” without a bank or loan shark going “Now hold on there…”

I completely agree. Such an exposure would psychologically destroy Trump as well. He’d stand before the world, revealed to be nothing but a charlatan, a fake billionaire, whose entire empire is nothing but IOU’s to…..well, everyone.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:22:08am

re: #247 Randall Gross

For any youngsters who might be wondering about that picture up top…
The whole world is watching
How the 1968 Chicago ‘police riot’ shocked America and divided the nation
theguardian.com

The dilemma in 1968: if you voted GOP you got more war. If you voted Democrat you got more war.

No wonder the protestors sought extreme solutions, there was nothing else left to them.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:22:44am

re: #266 Dr Lizardo

I think it was Warren Buffett who once pointed out that the Achilles’ Heel of Trumpworld is that everything is leveraged up to the hilt.

i have always guessed that him calling himself a ‘billionaire’ was based on his ego inflated value of his total assets

net worth, which is a better measure, was never in the billions

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:22:51am

re: #273 Targetpractice

My comments still apply - the immunity case is a novel application and likely should be picked up for the SCOTUS to make clear that it has precisely no basis in law or fact and deny the immunity claims in a strongly worded decision. You could cert deny it based on the rationale of the court below, but Trump could then try the same claims again in a different circuit that might be more favorable to him. Difference of outcome depending on the circuits would mean the Court would have to take the case.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:25:59am

re: #218 PhillyPretzel ✅

lol. That is where DT should go.

Conversation if that were to happen: “We both wouldn’t be here if I were president.”

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:26:08am

Womp womp

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:27:19am

re: #277 lawhawk

My comments still apply - the immunity case is a novel application and likely should be picked up for the SCOTUS to make clear that it has precisely no basis in law or fact and deny the immunity claims in a strongly worded decision. You could cert deny it based on the rationale of the court below, but Trump could then try the same claims again in a different circuit that might be more favorable to him. Difference of outcome depending on the circuits would mean the Court would have to take the case.

But doesn’t that play into Trump’s delaying tactics? OK, SCOTUS grants cert….but then we don’t get a decision out of them until the end of the calendar in June. And then the entire GOP will be screaming in unison that any prosecution is “political interference!” because by then, he’ll almost certainly have the GOP nomination sewn up.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:27:52am

Is Mike Pence’s son, who was conceived thru IVF, his only spawn? I’m asking this because I’m truly wondering if he and Mother have ever actually had sex or not?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:28:42am

re: #266 Dr Lizardo

I think it was Warren Buffett who once pointed out that the Achilles’ Heel of Trumpworld is that everything is leveraged up to the hilt.

DJT, like my ex-wife, is the sort of person who prefers to just move on to the next mess before cleaning up the last…

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:29:15am

re: #267 lawhawk

But cert denied is an outcome where all avenues of appeal are exhausted. The Court can simply find that the appellate court (or State Supreme Court below) ruled correctly and that the Court wont touch it because they agree with the outcome/ruling/analysis, etc.

I don’t see that happening here because of the novel issues involved, and the Court should step in to rule against Trump across the board on all these cases. But the fascist five (I know there’s a sinister 6, but the five are truly fascist - Roberts is the swing), may try to slash and burn the 14A3 to claim that he should still be on the ballot despite the fact that it clearly states the only way someone can get on the ballot after engaging in insurrection (which a majority of both the House and Senate found; and the GOP introduced resolutions) is to get 2/3 of both the House and Senate to remove the disqualification.

That means it is up to the states - no different than the state refusing to put someone who isn’t 35 or a natural born citizen. It’s up to the states to do so; and the 14A3 allows a means to override the disqualification, which the other constitutionally required minimum qualifications to be POTUS does not - you can petition Congress to get 2/3 of each chamber to override.

Fuck SCOTUS, fuck the GOP, and fuck Trump for putting us in this dangerous spot. Party over nation every fucking time because that’s what fascists do.

oh wait, i thought we were talking about one of the other cases.
he’s got so goddamned many of them

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:29:52am

re: #269 Nerdy Fish

But I was assured that Mar-a-Lago could easily be sold to a Saudi operative an “interested buyer” for $1.6B, so surely any loans he has on those properties can be paid off with the proper leverage.

with the deed covenants, not a chance

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:30:54am

re: #281 Dave In Austin

Is Mike Pence’s son, who was conceived thru IVF, his only spawn? I’m asking this because I’m truly wondering if he and Mother have ever actually had sex or not?

They tried once and failed and then turned to IVF so they wouldn’t have to risk commiting an act of non-procreative sex again…

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:30:55am

re: #284 Dangerman

with the deed covenants, not a chance

Mar-a-Lago is on the National Registry of Historic Landmarks, isn’t it?

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:31:07am

re: #277 lawhawk

My comments still apply - the immunity case is a novel application and likely should be picked up for the SCOTUS to make clear that it has precisely no basis in law or fact and deny the immunity claims in a strongly worded decision. You could cert deny it based on the rationale of the court below, but Trump could then try the same claims again in a different circuit that might be more favorable to him. Difference of outcome depending on the circuits would mean the Court would have to take the case.

I agree that’s what they should do, but we don’t call them the Calvinball Court for nothing. I have a feeling they are going to punt on this until they have to rule against him. I think that conclusion is foregone; they don’t want any usurper setting themselves up to be a de facto dictator, that’s Sam Alito’s job.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:31:22am

re: #273 Targetpractice

I believe we’re discussing the “presidential immunity” case and not the ballot case. They’ve already heard arguments in the ballot case, which were every bit as ridiculous as expected but indications are the entire bench is leaning towards punting in favor of “the voters.” The granting of cert is for the “immunity” case, which no serious lawyer thinks Trump has any better chance of winning on appeal than they did before the DC Appellate decided to play billiards with his balls earlier this month.

oh, so i was wrong when i just said i was mistaken

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:31:40am

re: #286 Dr Lizardo

Mar-a-Lago is on the National Registry of Historic Landmarks, isn’t it?

By all rights it should be considered a branch office of the National Archives…

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:32:05am

re: #274 Dr Lizardo

I completely agree. Such an exposure would psychologically destroy Trump as well. He’d stand before the world, revealed to be nothing but a charlatan, a fake billionaire, whose entire empire is nothing but IOU’s to…..well, everyone.

taken down by two women
(though actually by his own mouth and hubris)

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:33:03am

re: #290 Dangerman

taken down by two women
(though actually by his own mouth and hubris)

and a tiny mushroom

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:33:13am

re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So it was Mike, a copy of Men’s Health, and a Dixie Cup then……

Where’s the bleach?

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Egregious Philbin  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:34:31am

re: #281 Dave In Austin

The least sexy word you could ever call your wife is “mother”

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:35:04am

re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They tried once and failed and then turned to IVF so they wouldn’t have to have non-procreative sex again…

so mikey went into a room with a Playboy magazine…??!?!?!

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:35:18am

re: #293 Egregious Philbin

The least sexy word you could ever call your wife is “mother”

Maybe that’s what floats his boat.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:35:23am

re: #293 Egregious Philbin

The least sexy word you could ever call your wife is “mother”

Not true, if you are into that sort of thing…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:35:42am

re: #294 Dangerman

so mikey went into a room with a Playboy magazine…??!?!?!

He went in with a picture of Ronald Reagan

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:36:22am

re: #292 Dave In Austin

So it was Mike, a copy of Men’s Health, and a Dixie Cup then……

Where’s the bleach?

re: #294 Dangerman

so mikey went into a room with a Playboy magazine…??!?!?!

damn!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:36:32am

Time for another episode of STUPID TREK

Wonkette found this golden nugget on Telegram…or should I say…”McNugget”????

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:36:59am

re: #294 Dangerman

so mikey went into a room with a Playboy magazine…??!?!?!

Playboy? That’s far too risqué for Pence.

More like a copy of Simplicity or McCall’s.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:37:19am

re: #283 Dangerman

The 2 cases going to SCOTUS are the immunity case and the 14A3 insurrection disqualification case.

Trump should lose both on the merits and the law. He’s lost at the lower courts on all of his claims, but SCOTUS is more likely to eviscerate the 14A3 to “grand bargain” the immunity case against him.

The Court could expedite the rulings on both. Should we count on that? Perhaps, because the 14A3 case has deadlines to get on the ballot, and that will play into the ruling timeline.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:38:08am

re: #299 Joe Bacon ✅

Time for another episode of STUPID TREK

Wonkette found this golden nugget on Telegram…or should I say…”McNugget”????

[Embedded content]

just wasted a minute of my life.

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jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:38:43am

Good morning!

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:39:25am

re: #299 Joe Bacon ✅

Time for another episode of STUPID TREK

Wonkette found this golden nugget on Telegram…or should I say…”McNugget”????

McDonald’s….home of the forbidden snacks!

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:39:35am

re: #300 Dr Lizardo

Playboy? That’s far too risqué for Pence.

More like a copy of Simplicity or McCall’s.

montgomery ward’s catalog lingerie section?

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:41:35am

re: #304 Dr Lizardo

McDonald’s….home of the forbidden snacks!

the movie with Heston and Edward G was better

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:42:10am

re: #301 lawhawk

The 2 cases going to SCOTUS are the immunity case and the 14A3 insurrection disqualification case.

Trump should lose both on the merits and the law. He’s lost at the lower courts on all of his claims, but SCOTUS is more likely to eviscerate the 14A3 to “grand bargain” the immunity case against him.

The Court could expedite the rulings on both. Should we count on that? Perhaps, because the 14A3 case has deadlines to get on the ballot, and that will play into the ruling timeline.

I suspect that the bargain is that the liberal justices agree to punt on the ballot issue in exchange for their conservative counterparts agreeing to deny cert on the immunity case without too much of a fuss. There’s nothing to be gained by dragging out the latter until June if they’re just going to agree with the DC Appellate ruling, all they’ll do is piss both sides off by burning up four months just to acknowledge that the lower court got it right in the first place.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:42:27am

re: #306 Dangerman

the movie with Heston and Edward G was better

“Soylent Green The McRib is people!!”

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:42:49am

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:43:09am

re: #299 Joe Bacon ✅

Time for another episode of STUPID TREK

Wonkette found this golden nugget on Telegram…or should I say…”McNugget”????

[Embedded content]

Mein Gott, I didn’t think I could see stupidity greater than the website from the days of yore that tried to argue that Star Trek was “satanic.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:43:39am

It isn’t global warming that will trigger human extinction.

It’s stupidity that will do the trick.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:43:50am

re: #303 jeffreyw

re: #309 Dave In Austin

not the toilet paper argument again.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:45:20am

Wilted lettuce spotted at CPAC:

Liz Truss Visits America To Warn Trump Supporters Against ‘Woke’?

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:45:56am

re: #311 Joe Bacon ✅

It isn’t global warming that will trigger human extinction.

It’s stupidity that will do the trick.

As a wise sage once said, “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:46:17am

re: #312 PhillyPretzel ✅

not the toilet paper argument again.

That’s not an argument. Look again. That’s plainly art.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:47:39am

Welcome to Florida!! 🤔

With a brief memo, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has subverted a public health standard that’s long kept measles outbreaks under control.

On Feb. 20, as measles spread through Manatee Bay Elementary in South Florida, Ladapo sent parents a letter granting them permission to send unvaccinated children to school amid the outbreak.

The Department of Health “is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance,” wrote Ladapo, who was appointed to head the agency by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose name is listed above Ladapo’s in the letterhead.

Ladapo’s move contradicts advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“This is not a parental rights issue,” said Scott Rivkees, Florida’s former surgeon general who is now a professor at Brown University. “It’s about protecting fellow classmates, teachers, and members of the community against measles, which is a very serious and very transmissible illness.”

cbsnews.com

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:47:58am

re: #312 PhillyPretzel ✅

not the toilet paper argument again.

For the sake of economy, low-quality paper producers incorporate waste streams of local agricultural fiber. In Hawaii, that could be pineapple fronds.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:48:03am

re: #315 Dave In Austin

Is that from the Museum of Modern Art?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:48:32am

re: #294 Dangerman

so mikey went into a room with a Playboy magazine…??!?!?!

Now now now we know Mikey went into a room with a REAL dirty book—the Bible with all those naughty bits…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:49:27am

re: #319 Joe Bacon ✅

I thought it was Penthouse.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:49:51am

re: #318 PhillyPretzel ✅

I’ve never been in that particular rest room.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:51:11am

Boy when you lost Matt gaetz….

Something is totally wrong. The people who want to have a family should have the government and the law on their side. And the notion that discarded embryos in an IVF somehow turn these people who want children and want families and want the American dream, into criminals is really wrong.

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JC1  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:52:11am

re: #213 darthstar

500 new sanctions…kind of makes you wonder if they had these lined up and were just waiting for the right opportunity. I hope this includes freezing a bunch of US bank accounts where oligarchs have been hiding their money so those funds can be used for Ukraine.

Kind of makes you wonder why these and many more weren’t done 2 years ago? Why are we still playing softball?

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:55:09am

re: #173 EPR-radar

IMO, the conservative SCOTUS majority granting cert on Trump’s obviously frivolous immunity claim should be enough for all parts of the legal profession not on Leonard Leo’s payroll to dismiss this SCOTUS majority as partisan hacks.

There is enough evidence already that they are partisan hacks and have been for years.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:55:39am

re: #323 JC1

Kind of makes you wonder why these and many more weren’t done 2 years ago? Why are we still playing softball?

I’m still waiting on the US State Department to add Russia to the state sponsors of terrorism list.

Yeah, some of our allies/trade partners might scream (I don’t doubt that) but enough is enough.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:55:43am

When you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel…

Democratic Presidential Candidate Dean Phillips Says He’s Open to Being Nikki Haley’s Running Mate on a ‘Unity Ticket’

mediaite.com

After WCCO radio host Chad Hartman asked Phillips whether he would vote for Haley over Biden if she were to somehow become the 2024 Republican nominee, Phillips said:

Wouldn’t all your listeners be more compelled by maybe Nikki Haley and Dean Phillips getting together on a unity ticket and actually doing for the first time, perhaps in our country’s history, what most Americans really want, which is cooperation, collaboration, participation, decency, common sense, leadership? So I’m gonna turn the question that way because there’s no way Nikki Haley will become the nominee in the GOP, and the fact of the matter is right now the Democratic Party doesn’t want competition and seems to want to coronate Joe Biden.

“Let’s say she ran as an independent, you would run as her VP?” questioned Hartman.

Phillips replied, “I think it’s a conversation Ambassador Haley and I should have, if that’s what this comes down to.”

He continued:

In the event of a Donald Trump victory this November, which is almost certain if Joe Biden is the nominee, I think any American who opposes that should celebrate, encourage, and inspire an alternative that can actually win and lead our country in the way that people want, and I think anybody, including myself, should keep open minds and hearts about that. I hope Nikki Haley does and I think America could be very well served by some type of a bipartisan ticket that restores faith in government and most importantly demonstrates to the world, to the world, that America can work together and restore its extraordinary brand around the entire world.

Phillips concluded, “That’s my aspiration, Chad. One way or another.”

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:56:20am

re: #326 Joe Bacon ✅

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:58:17am

re: #323 JC1

Kind of makes you wonder why these and many more weren’t done 2 years ago? Why are we still playing softball?

Just guessing, but the West probably overestimated the effect of sanctions on a massive semi-centralized economy. In a few hours Putin’s 3-day walkover begins its 3rd year.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 5:59:27am

re: #326 Joe Bacon ✅

Translation: Nobody over at the “No-Labels” office is returning Dean’s calls.

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jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:01:24am

re: #237 Dangerman

i recently made gomer pyle’s banana bread
with the macadamias (some suggest walnuts)
i used the muffin option
they are good
i think it’s mostly because of all butter and sugar

and (humbly), mine (ok, Craig Claiborne’s) is way better

cooking.nytimes.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:01:47am

By the way where’s that stock market crash Trump and the GOP keep telling us is happening?

US stocks soared to new highs on Thursday after Nvidia, the third largest company on Wall Street, blew past earnings expectations and bolstered investor optimism on Wall Street.

cnn.com

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Jay C  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:04:13am

re: #271 Targetpractice

I rather suspect that is the root of Orange Julius’ fears, that once the curtain is drawn back the people will learn that he really “owns” nothing. That all of his “success” evaporates over night and we all learn that he’s mortgaged up to his eyeballs and couldn’t actually liquidate any part of his “empire” without a bank or loan shark going “Now hold on there…”

This is likely true, but also old news: that the “Trump Empire” (outside of the golf properties) is basically a huge pile of debts with a flimsy, if gaudy, facade has been reported on for a long time. Oh, Donald has plenty of money: he’s always been adept at raking off the max, but yeah, his “net” -I.e. unencumbered - worth has always (even ignoring his megalomaniac overvaluations) been less than popular imagination (and Trumpian PR) has made it. There’s a reason why his business rep was in eclipse even before
The Apprentice, and it’s likely that even had he not ran for (and, disgracefully, been elected) President, he might have ended up in front of Judge Engoron for his frauds anyway.

Not that the red-hat crowds slavering at his rallies are going to know or care, they’ll likely buy into Trump’s “victim” narrative the same way they’ve unquestioningly bought every other line of bullshit he’s peddled them.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:04:38am

re: #191 DodgerFan1988

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:06:55am

re: #329 Targetpractice

Translation: Nobody over at the “No-Labels” office is returning Dean’s calls.

Nor is the DFL Party back home supporting him. We’re all waiting for him to pull a Toolsi Gabbard and just come out and announce he’s a Republican.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:08:39am

And it’s a Pulpit Pimp Theater Update

First he said…this…

And after that clip went viral he did this

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:08:46am

re: #331 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump - the price is soaring because everyone knows I’ll be in the WH come January.

Reality: it’s soaring because it has precisely DICK to do with Trump or his chances.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:10:40am

re: #335 Joe Bacon ✅

And it’s a Pulpit Pimp Theater Update

First he said…this…

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They want so badly to be the American Taliban, all they lack is the numbers.

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JC1  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:11:56am

re: #331 Joe Bacon ✅

By the way where’s that stock market crash Trump and the GOP keep telling us is happening?

US stocks soared to new highs on Thursday after Nvidia, the third largest company on Wall Street, blew past earnings expectations and bolstered investor optimism on Wall Street.

cnn.com

Nvidia had a spectacular quarter, but it’s not going to end well. They can’t keep this rate of growth going, and Wall Street will punish them once that becomes obvious. This quarter and the next will be as good as it gets for them.

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jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:13:09am

re: #266 Dr Lizardo

I think it was Warren Buffett who once pointed out that the Achilles’ Heel of Trumpworld is that everything is leveraged up to the hilt.

finance.yahoo.com

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Vicious Babushka  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:18:54am

re: #127 Belafon

That first picture of Ry Cooder, at that angle makes me think of what Keith Richards must have looked like back when the second star explosion occurred whose remnants would form our current solar system.

Joe Biden is 1 year older than Keith Richards! So we should be making all these age jokes about Joe! (also: reclaim the “age” trope from the Trumporrhoids & Tankies)

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:19:10am

re: #322 Dangerman

Boy when you lost Matt gaetz….

The problem with crazy or evil is that no matter how crazy of evil you are, someone will always be worse.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:19:43am

re: #309 Dave In Austin

No!

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:20:06am

re: #331 Joe Bacon ✅

By the way where’s that stock market crash Trump and the GOP keep telling us is happening?

US stocks soared to new highs on Thursday after Nvidia, the third largest company on Wall Street, blew past earnings expectations and bolstered investor optimism on Wall Street.

cnn.com

I saw the other day that the DOW replaced Walgreens with Amazon.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:22:34am

re: #332 Jay C

it’s likely that even had he not ran for (and, disgracefully, been elected) President, he might have ended up in front of Judge Engoron for his frauds anyway.

…

been saying this on and off for months

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:23:10am

re: #3 silverdolphin

Biden is on the case. I included the link because the video is so gut wrenching. A national theocracy based on specific, and beyond the pale, Christian beliefs, that actually ignore the stated words of Christ from the Bible. This is the modern GOP - going back to the 1400s.

[Embedded content]

Fuckin’ Chris Rufo has joined with the BAN BIRTH CONTROL AND NON PROCREATIVE SEX jam that started this week. The falangist right are going all in on a frontal attack on Obergefell, Lawrence and Griswold.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:24:57am
A New Orleans magician says a Democratic operative paid him to make the fake Biden robocall

Dean Phillips’ presidential campaign denounced the alleged actions of one of its consultants and said it may take legal action against him.

nbcnews.com

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:27:52am

re: #345 Scottish Dragon

I love how all these guys have confidently declared themselves the arbiters of “the point of sex.” Nowhere in the Bible does it declare that sex is only procreative - only that adultery is bad. In fact, the Bible doesn’t even specifically declare that premarital sex in and of itself is bad, only that Christians are not to engage in “sexual immorality” - the meaning of which is up for debate. I tend to lean toward an interpretation that means that if sexual activity is drawing you away from God’s purpose, or (in the context of the time in which the passages were written) you are participating in sexual rituals to pagan gods, it is immoral. And again, louder, for the idiots in the back: None of this should be illegal. Christian moral code should not be law; that way is legalism.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:28:05am

Seeing in Czech news that Germany has just legalized cannabis, effective 1 April 2024.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:30:03am
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Scottish Dragon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:30:08am

re: #45 Nerdy Fish

The dog finally caught the car. They got Dobbs, now they’re left with… nothing. They have Trump, but he’s not going to be there. They have anti-“woke” and anti-LGBTQ platforms, but those don’t get people riled up to the point of attending conventions the way abortion did. Now they’re seeing how crazy it all appears, and they’re like, “I’d rather stay home and not have anything to do with this.”

No, they want their great white whale: Griswold

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:30:24am
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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:30:35am

...

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:31:10am

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:34:18am

re: #347 Nerdy Fish

The Catholic rad read crowd leans real heavily or Roman and Greek philosophers, and medieval theology around natural law to get to their whole notion that birth control is BAD. They have now been joined by the tiki torch Nazis who are convinced that white women need to have five kids apiece to prevent “white genocide”. Rufo and Matt Walsh et al are probably more on the tiki torch side

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:35:15am

“Premarital sex is bad” is an interpretation of the Biblical phrase “sexual immorality” that came about as a counter-revolution to the Sexual Revolution of the 1960’s. Christians of the time looked at all the hippies having a good time with drugs and sex and how it drew people away from the “old-time religion,” and declared they weren’t about all that. Thus arose purity culture, a revitalization of the old patriarchal value of female chastity that layered on rules about drug use, piercings, and tattoos in order to set themselves up as the guardians of culture, forever warring against the rebellious younger generation.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:43:27am

re: #316 Dr Lizardo

Welcome to Florida!! 🤔

cbsnews.com

Measles, possible war with Russia, America landing on the moon…feels like the 1960s again.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:44:28am

Went back to sleep for 2 1/2 hours…nice. Oh, and the above, while witty, is something I saw on mastodon at 2am when I was unable to sleep so no credit to me.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:49:15am

re: #337 Targetpractice

They want so badly to be the American Taliban, all they lack is the numbers.

The right wing will always continue to push the boundaries of rhetoric and actions further into aggression and cruelty until it hits their bottom line.

Always.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:53:11am

re: #234 PhillyPretzel ✅

How far do you think they will distance themselves? A couple of blocks or a couple of miles?

A couple of yaps to the media worth. And then every single vote as if they are totally in favor of it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:57:31am

re: #348 Dr Lizardo

Seeing in Czech news that Germany has just legalized cannabis, effective 1 April 2024.

Have they also passed legislation to allow growers’ clubs?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 6:58:31am

re: #361 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Have they also passed legislation to allow growers’ clubs?

Haven’t heard the specifics yet.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:00:11am

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:00:23am

re: #361 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I found a bit more detail here, in Süddeutsche Zeitung:

sueddeutsche.de

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:03:24am

Here’s from the BBC on Germany’s legalization of cannabis.

The German parliament has backed a new law to allow the recreational use of cannabis.

Under the law, over-18s in Germany will be allowed to possess substantial amounts of cannabis, but strict rules will make it difficult to buy the drug.

Smoking cannabis in many public spaces will become legal from 1 April.

Possession of up to 25g, equivalent to dozens of strong joints, is to be allowed in public spaces. In private homes the legal limit will be 50g.

Already police in some parts of Germany, such as Berlin, often turn a blind eye to smoking in public, although possession of the drug for recreational use is illegal and can be prosecuted. 

Use of the drug among young people has been soaring for years despite the existing law, says Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who is instigating the reforms.

He wants to undermine the black market, protect smokers from contaminated cannabis and cut revenue streams for organised crime gangs.

But legal cannabis cafes will not suddenly spring up all over the country.

bbc.com

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:04:00am

Mastodon

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JC1  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:05:46am

re: #347 Nerdy Fish

I love how all these guys have confidently declared themselves the arbiters of “the point of sex.” Nowhere in the Bible does it declare that sex is only procreative - only that adultery is bad. In fact, the Bible doesn’t even specifically declare that premarital sex in and of itself is bad, only that Christians are not to engage in “sexual immorality” - the meaning of which is up for debate. I tend to lean toward an interpretation that means that if sexual activity is drawing you away from God’s purpose, or (in the context of the time in which the passages were written) you are participating in sexual rituals to pagan gods, it is immoral. And again, louder, for the idiots in the back: None of this should be illegal. Christian moral code should not be law; that way is legalism.

Sorry, but who cares what the Bible says? Like seriously? It obviously doesn’t matter to Christians what’s actually in the Bible. Why do we even keep bringing it up? Might as well consider what the Harry Potter books say about anything.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:07:40am

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:07:41am

re: #363 Joe Bacon ✅

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It will only be a matter of time before GQP MAGAt Nazis start passing personhood protections on gametes. At this point in history, this is not hyperbolic or an exaggeration.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:09:14am

re: #367 JC1

Sorry, but who cares what the Bible says? Like seriously? It obviously doesn’t matter to Christians what’s actually in the Bible. Why do we even keep bringing it up? Might as well consider what the Harry Potter books say about anything.

We can throw in “The Call of Cthulhu” and “The Dunwich Horror” to spice things up a bit.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:09:39am

Okay, it’s after 10am on the east coast…c’mon, SCOTUS, just deny cert without comment.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:10:18am

re: #371 darthstar

Okay, it’s after 10am on the east coast…c’mon, SCOTUS, just deny cert without comment.

I was just thinking, when does SCOTUS do their rulings drops?

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Dr. Matt  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:10:19am

REMBER, BLUU LIFES MADDER!!

CPAC Panel Recasts January 6 Rioters as ‘The Real Heroes’ for ‘Putting Their Lives on the Line’ After Police Started ‘Attacking the People’

The injustices are breathtaking, and that’s why our country is in such turmoil and people are upset. And that the real heroes, I think, and it doesn’t mean no — let’s just say some of our real heroes were there on January the 6th, actually putting their lives on the line when they saw the police attacking the people. It’s a sordid story and I would recommend the Epoch Times’ recent video on this just if you’re not sure about some of the details we can’t get into.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:10:30am

re: #371 darthstar

They need their morning coffee.

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BeenHereAwhile  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:12:12am

re: #309 Dave In Austin

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A la Marcel Duchamp.

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mmmirele  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:14:14am

re: #190 silverdolphin

Texas is suing an immigration nonprofit after accusing them of ‘human smuggling’

Paxton trying to destroy those following Christ’s words to help the poor and the immigrant. Evil, evil man.

Normally I’m against the “my religion requires me to do this” but when it comes to actually feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, I’m all for it. Because it’s a net good.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:14:40am

re: #373 Dr. Matt

REMBER, BLUU LIFES MADDER!!

CPAC Panel Recasts January 6 Rioters as ‘The Real Heroes’ for ‘Putting Their Lives on the Line’ After Police Started ‘Attacking the People’

CPAC is entirely fascist, but it’s also tiny.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:15:18am

re: #367 JC1

Sorry, but who cares what the Bible says? Like seriously? It obviously doesn’t matter to Christians what’s actually in the Bible. Why do we even keep bringing it up? Might as well consider what the Harry Potter books say about anything.

While I understand your point, as a Christian who intends to fight back against the growing tide of white nationalism that is sweeping across my religion, it’s important to articulate what the Bible - our supposedly authoritative guide to our religion - actually says, and where and when these misinterpretations to which they subscribe come from. I am fighting my own culture war here; a war for the soul of Christianity, a religion that is being overtaken by Christofascists who believe that they, and they alone, are the rightful rulers of the world, and wield the power of God and anime in their crusade. I post it here because it’s really the only place I have to put my ruminations on theology and historical Christianity, and because you guys are so goddamn good at fact-checking me, a youngster who didn’t live through most of the times where these things came about.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:16:09am

re: #376 mmmirele

Normally I’m against the “my religion requires me to do this” but when it comes to actually feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, I’m all for it. Because it’s a net good.

I’m mostly ok with “my religion requires me to do this.” “My religion requires you to do this” is the bad part.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:18:22am

re: #372 Dr Lizardo

I was just thinking, when does SCOTUS do their rulings drops?

This would be a good day for it. Trump’s CPAC speech tomorrow would be a barn burner…before an empty room.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:22:13am

re: #371 darthstar

Okay, it’s after 10am on the east coast…c’mon, SCOTUS, just deny cert without comment.

Slappy T and Don Alito are still waiting for Leonard Leo’s approval of the dissenting opinion his interns are submitting.

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BeenHereAwhile  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:23:32am

re: #350 Scottish Dragon

No, they want their great white whale: Griswold

And the Johnson Amendment.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:24:04am

re: #380 darthstar

This would be a good day for it. Trump’s CPAC speech tomorrow would be a barn burner…before an empty room.

Just took a look over at SCOTUSblog, and Trump’s immunity case is still “pending”.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:24:47am

MSNBC reporting that Haley needs a historic number of independents and democrats to vote for her in the SC Primary to not get blown out by Trump. I would encourage any SC lizards who didn’t vote in the democratic primary to vote for Haley. Not because she’s good or can win the GOP nomination, but just to weaken Trump.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:25:05am

re: #383 Dr Lizardo

Just took a look over at SCOTUSblog, and Trump’s immunity case is still “pending”.

Sigh…didn’t want to spoil his weekend I guess.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:25:36am

re: #379 Belafon

The problem is that you choose to believe that your religion requires you to do this or that. It’s cherry picking. I grew up Adventist and picked and chose what I wanted to do and what I didn’t want to do. That is how religion works. This is why I don’t care to hear about your religion if I need a service or product from you. Keep that to yourself.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:26:47am

re: #313 Targetpractice

Wilted lettuce spotted at CPAC:

One big-ass loser coming to support another batch of losers.

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mmmirele  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:28:47am

re: #200 Targetpractice

That’s because, like I noted above, their arguments are basically the arguments they used for decades to impose various restrictions on abortion in the name of “women’s health.” They just scratched off the serial number and are now trying to sell you the same arguments as the reasons to ban/restrict safe and convenient birth control medication. And just like back then, they keep sending mixed signals by saying they’re worried about women…which is why they want to punish them with unwanted pregnancies.

I want these asshats, almost uniformly men, to understand that they have NO IDEA what it’s like and how it feels to realize you might be pregnant and it’s absolutely Not The Time. Pretty much every person who can get pregnant has had that experience. Men will NEVER have the experience of “Oh, God, what do I do now?”

If they think women are going to stand idly by while our birth control is taken from us, they have another thing coming. Mai ghod, rolling back to prior to 1960, NOPE.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:28:55am

re: #322 Dangerman

Boy when you lost Matt gaetz….

I just read an Atlantic article on him, and despite him being a privileged little scumbag and political gadfly, he did support some progressive pro-gay and pro-marijuana legalization measures in Florida (although the measure was tailored so as to allow family friends to be granted dispensary licenses)

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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:29:18am

re: #378 Nerdy Fish

While I understand your point, as a Christian who intends to fight back against the growing tide of white nationalism that is sweeping across my religion, it’s important to articulate what the Bible - our supposedly authoritative guide to our religion - actually says, and where and when these misinterpretations to which they subscribe come from. I am fighting my own culture war here; a war for the soul of Christianity, a religion that is being overtaken by Christofascists who believe that they, and they alone, are the rightful rulers of the world, and wield the power of God and anime in their crusade. I post it here because it’s really the only place I have to put my ruminations on theology and historical Christianity, and because you guys are so goddamn good at fact-checking me, a youngster who didn’t live through most of the times where these things came about.

You’re my fundy whisperer.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:29:43am

re: #386 Patricia Kayden

The problem is that you choose to believe that your religion requires you to do this or that. It’s cherry picking. I grew up Adventist and picked and chose what I wanted to do and what I didn’t want to do. That is how religion works. This is why I don’t care to hear about your religion if I need a service or product from you. Keep that to yourself.

That would be an interesting question to all of these people: Name one thing you would do that your religion prevents you from doing?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:31:00am

re: #332 Jay C

Why do you think DJT was so panicked at the thought of the Pandemic closing down his resorts and golf courses? He had major loan repayments due and he needed the cash flow

so he came up with an industry and finance bailout with minimal oversight: you know that a large share of that wound up in his hands via shell companies.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:31:45am

re: #367 JC1

Sex is Dirty and y’all are going to Hell if you touch your’s or someone else’s Pee Pee in any aggressive manor.

This means ALL Y’ALL!!

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:35:24am

re: #393 Dave In Austin

Sex is Dirty and y’all are going to Hell if you touch your’s or someone else’s Pee Pee in any aggressive manor.

This means ALL Y’ALL!!

Where’s the line on aggressive? Will I burn for writing my name in the snow?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:36:42am

re: #338 JC1

Nvidia had a spectacular quarter, but it’s not going to end well. They can’t keep this rate of growth going, and Wall Street will punish them once that becomes obvious. This quarter and the next will be as good as it gets for them.

and when their rate of growth slows down it will be more BAD NEWS for you-know-who…

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mmmirele  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:37:05am

re: #313 Targetpractice

Wilted lettuce spotted at CPAC:

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Yeah, she announced her book on the bird hellsite. I replied that I’d rather hear from the head of lettuce.

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ericblair  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:37:20am

re: #329 Targetpractice

Translation: Nobody over at the “No-Labels” office is returning Dean’s calls.

Looks like the asshole spoilers are falling apart. So sad.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:37:31am

re: #394 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Where’s the line on aggressive? Will I burn for writing my name in the snow?

Only a “Handwriting” expert can tell….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:38:26am

re: #332 Jay C

and it’s likely that even had he not run for (and, disgracefully, been elected) President, he might have ended up in front of Judge Engoron for his frauds anyway.

that is the one grain of truth behind all his claims of a Deep State Witch Hunt.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:38:56am

Vice Media’s New Owners to Lay Off Hundreds, Cease Publishing on Website

The ownership group that bought Vice Media out of bankruptcy last year is preparing to eliminate the bulk of the once-colossal digital publisher’s staff over the next few days, Vice CEO Bruce Dixon announced Thursday. He said the company will “fully transition to a studio model” and no longer publish its digital content on Vice Media’s flagship website. Additionally, Dixon said ownership is in advanced talks to sell the entertainment website Refinery29. The news came hours after rumors of the site’s shuttering—which executives did not immediately address—gripped Vice’s editorial staff. Vice Media was once valued at $5.7 billion following investments from Disney and A&E Networks but has been reduced to a shell in recent years as the digital landscape has crumbled. After suffering yearly layoffs and losses, Vice filed for bankruptcy last year and was purchased by private equity firm Fortress Investment Group. Rather than reinvest in the company, Fortress has decided to institute the deep and sweeping cuts trending across digital media. The layoffs at Vice come as other prominent news outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal have either slashed payrolls or closed shop altogether.

thedailybeast.com

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:39:30am

re: #399 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

that is the one grain of truth behind all his claims of a Deep State Witch Hunt.

I mean, sooner or later, he probably would’ve ended up in court for his BS. But entering high-level politics really brought the microscope down to bear on him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:39:42am

re: #348 Dr Lizardo

Seeing in Czech news that Germany has just legalized cannabis, effective 1 April 2024.

I just ordered my seeds online, adults can grow up to three plants at home.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:41:45am

re: #397 ericblair

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Looks like the asshole spoilers are falling apart. So sad.

And the Russian collusion in the GOP is also falling apart at the same time…all we need is a criminal conviction for their candidate and we’ll have a hat trick.

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Scottish Dragon  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:42:41am

re: #400 Joe Bacon ✅

After management was busy giving themselves six figure bonuses as late as last year.

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Jay C  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:43:29am

re: #402 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I just ordered my seeds online, adults can grow up to three plants at home.

So would something like a cubic-meter indica bush count as “one plant”?

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:43:43am

re: #402 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I just ordered my seeds online, adults can grow up to three plants at home.

May your daughters grow to be beautiful women who bare (bear?) you heavy fruit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:43:52am

re: #373 Dr. Matt

Police “attacking” rioters who broke into the Capitol

“I was just sitting there quietly, photographing pages out of my sister’s diary when SHE SUDDENLY ATTACKED ME FOR NO REASON!!!”

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:43:57am

re: #400 Joe Bacon ✅

I saw that early this morning when I couldn’t sleep. Consolidation of media companies is the next step toward training the population to accept one approved narrative.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:45:27am

Trump can’t remember that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

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JC1  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:45:37am

Did you guys see the latest on Moses Johnson?
He was the dean of a university that never opened/didn’t exist.
This guy is so f*cking shady. Why isn’t the DoJ going through his past with a fine toothed comb?

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:47:35am

re: #405 Jay C

So would something like a cubic-meter indica bush count as “one plant”?

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:48:22am

re: #410 JC1

Did you guys see the latest on Moses Johnson?
He was the dean of a university that never opened/didn’t exist.
This guy is so f*cking shady. Why isn’t the DoJ going through his past with a fine toothed comb?

There’s nothing legally wrong with a Congressperson making up their life story.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:48:22am

re: #410 JC1

Did you guys see the latest on Moses Johnson?
He was the dean of a university that never opened/didn’t exist.
This guy is so f*cking shady. Why isn’t the DoJ going through his past with a fine toothed comb?

I can’t confirm the veracity of such a claim, but it’s been stated the Johnson doesn’t have a bank account.

So….how does he get paid?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:48:41am

First Vice closes down it’s internet page and now this…

NPR Affiliate Shutters Local News Site DCist

NPR affiliate WAMU announced on Friday that it would shutter local news site DCist, which it had acquired in 2018. The call came from station manager Erika Pulley-Hayes, who in about 10 minutes told all staff employees that WAMU would slash DCist’s newsroom as part of a strategy change to focus primarily on audio journalism. She took no questions. DCist joins the ever-extending list of digital media outlets shuttered in just the first two months of 2024, its announcement landing the day after Vice’s mass layoff. CBS News and the Wall Street Journal made significant cuts in early February, and Business Insider, the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, and Pitchfork all faced major layoffs in January. The Messenger CEO Jimmy Finkelstein axed hundreds of employees without severance pay when he shuttered the site last month, callously calling their GoFundMe “wonderful.”

thedailybeast.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:48:48am

re: #264 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Well, that was ugly.
Wordle 979 6/6

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eagle!!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 979 2/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Group: 2,2,3,4

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:49:33am

re: #406 Dave In Austin

May your daughters grow to be beautiful women who bare (bear?) you heavy fruit.

We once grew a crop in the swamps in Gary, Indiana, we named them after the Tsar’s daughters: Olga, Tanania, Maria and Anastasia…we then came and played Bolsheviks with them.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:49:39am

re: #413 Dr Lizardo

I can’t confirm the veracity of such a claim, but it’s been stated the Johnson doesn’t have a bank account.

So….how does he get paid?

“De Lawd Will Provide…”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:50:13am

re: #410 JC1

Did you guys see the latest on Moses Johnson?
He was the dean of a university that never opened/didn’t exist.
This guy is so f*cking shady. Why isn’t the DoJ going through his past with a fine toothed comb?

The man who never had a bank account?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:50:23am

re: #411 Dave In Austin

Hello DEA I would like to make anonymous tip…
Just kidding.

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Jay C  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:50:32am

re: #411 Dave In Austin

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Yep. Three of those would be quite adequate for a personal supply….
😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:50:57am

Jesus Saves, and also balances my checking account!

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:52:46am

re: #414 Joe Bacon ✅

The -ist universe of news sites is essential to knowing what’s going on in many major metro areas. I rely on gothamist quite a bit to know what’s happening in NYC. It’s powered by wnyc.org. If that goes… so goes another local news outlet, when the NYT is already abdicating their local news, and the Daily News and NY Post are almost always facing bankruptcy.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:53:32am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The dilemma in 1968: if you voted GOP you got more war. If you voted Democrat you got more war.

No wonder the protestors sought extreme solutions, there was nothing else left to them.

Hey! Don’t forget Nixon’s secret plan to end the war that he promised during the 1968 campaign!

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:53:33am

re: #414 Joe Bacon ✅

This gets back to my idea that liberals are going to need to invest in some media. We can’t hope someone else will pick it up for us.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:54:02am

HOLY TOWERING INFERNO, BATMAN!

Space Needle to be open as normal Friday after small fire in elevator control room

Fire crews had to climb 90 flights of stairs to reach the fire since the elevators were out of operation.

king5.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:55:20am

re: #425 Joe Bacon ✅

They certainly got some exercise with that call.

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Jay C  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:55:42am

re: #412 Belafon

There’s nothing legally wrong with a Congressperson making up their life story.

One George Anthony Santos Devolder might want to disagree with that….

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:57:08am

re: #281 Dave In Austin

Is Mike Pence’s son, who was conceived thru IVF, his only spawn? I’m asking this because I’m truly wondering if he and Mother have ever actually had sex or not?

Per Wiki, he has 3 children.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 7:57:50am

re: #427 Jay C

One George Anthony Santos Devolder might want to disagree with that….

Except he wasn’t kicked out for making up his background, he was kicked for stealing money from his campaign and fraudulent business activities.

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Unabogie  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:01:48am

Trump filed a bunch of ridiculous briefs to Aileen Cannon last night. I’m wondering what she does with them.

1. Grants one and lets him go free.
2. Doesn’t grant them, but stays the case indefinitely while she mulls it over for the next 10 years.
3. Doesn’t grant them, doesn’t stay, but lets them fester until May when she announces she has to delay the case to finally read them.
4. Denies them instantly because everyone knows they’re stupid (LOL)

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JC1  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:01:56am

re: #429 Belafon

Except he wasn’t kicked out for making up his background, he was kicked for stealing money from his campaign and fraudulent business activities.

Running a fake university? Where have we seen this before?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:03:17am

good grief

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:03:24am

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Mike Lamb  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:04:08am

re: #345 Scottish Dragon

Fuckin’ Chris Rufo has joined with the BAN BIRTH CONTROL AND NON PROCREATIVE SEX jam that started this week. The falangist right are going all in on a frontal attack on Obergefell, Lawrence and Griswold.

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I’ll take them seriously when they ban boner pills.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:05:27am

re: #431 JC1

Running a fake university? Where have we seen this before?

Santos probably would have made a great running mate for Trump if he didn’t look better in a dress than Giuliani did.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:05:52am

re: #322 Dangerman

Boy when you lost Matt gaetz….

TBF — there are certain issues where Gaetz has taken the unexpected position. He supported Katie Hill, the Democrat who felt she had to resign her seat because of a sex “scandal”.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:06:33am

re: #421 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Jesus Saves, and also balances my checking account!

Jesus Saves, everybody else takes 8d6 fire damage.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:07:16am

re: #432 Backwoods Sleuth

I just heard that mentioned in this video from Meidas Touch…

NY Judge Quickly DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump

It’s towards the end of the video.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:07:39am

@johnrogers.bsky.social

If you don’t think the Sex Stasi is coming for you next, WHATEVER your gender or sexual identity, then my friends, you do not know the Sex Stasi.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:08:26am

re: #438 Dr Lizardo

I will take your word for it.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:08:55am

re: #437 Nerdy Fish

Jesus Saves, everybody else takes 8d6 fire damage.

Why would someone who has an automatic resurrection spell worry about saving throws?

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Mike Lamb  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:10:00am

re: #432 Backwoods Sleuth

good grief

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Off topic, but as an attorney—the way New York practices law is fucking weird man. Writing letters/emails to the judge, who responds in kind is 8 types of strange.

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Captain Magic  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:10:00am

re: #437 Nerdy Fish

Jesus saves, Moses invests, but only Buddha pays dividends.

444
Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:10:13am

re: #441 Belafon

Why would someone who has an automatic resurrection spell worry about saving throws?

It still consumes an action, and he’ll need that to call down fire from heaven in the next round.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:10:41am

re: #443 Captain Magic

Jesus saves, Moses invests, but only Buddha pays dividends.

Jesus saves, throws it to Ronaldo, he passes it upfield… GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL

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Mike Lamb  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:11:58am

re: #439 jaunte

@johnrogers.bsky.social

Only missionary style during ovulation. No kissing. No foreplay. No eye contact. No sounds.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:12:50am

re: #440 PhillyPretzel ✅

I will take your word for it.

I was chuckling…it’s like he’s trying to commit more fraud on top of the fraud he’s been found guilty of.

It’s turtles fraud all the way down.

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:12:56am

re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We still adhere to the Calvinist doctrine that wealth health is an outward sign of inner grace and moral superiority. A fact that griters and posers have been exploiting for centuries.

Fixed it for you.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:13:48am

re: #447 Dr Lizardo

DT is pure fraud. There is nothing honest about it.

450
Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:15:04am

Just a reminder that Tom Tomorrow warned folks years ago that Kookynelli and the Republican Sex Police want to go snooping

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:16:40am

re: #442 Mike Lamb

Off topic, but as an attorney—the way New York practices law is fucking weird man. Writing letters/emails to the judge, who responds in kind is 8 types of strange.

It’s not normal. What Trump is trying to do is not normal. But they’re attaching it to the record because it’s an official comms between the court and the parties.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:17:10am

re: #450 Joe Bacon ✅

Just a reminder that Tom Tomorrow warned folks years ago that Kookynelli and the Republican Sex Police want to go snooping

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Popehat has a great thread on Bluesky, on the theme that it’s not about sex so much as it is control. While the religious fundamentalists may have moral concerns about sex and sexuality, at the end of the day, they have allied with the fascists over both groups wanting to exercise direct control over people’s personal lives through the power of the State.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:18:43am

re: #432 Backwoods Sleuth

good grief

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This will require big time sanctions and possible loss of law licenses by Trump’s hack lawyers. Correct?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:19:43am

re: #451 lawhawk

It’s not normal. What Trump is trying to do is not normal. But they’re attaching it to the record because it’s an official comms between the court and the parties.

What’s your opinion on Trump using those addresses in FL? I suspect he was trying to pull a fast one, hoping the AG wouldn’t read them too closely, then his lawyers would try to argue in a FL courtroom that NY has no jurisdiction.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:20:33am

re: #432 Backwoods Sleuth

good grief

This is how democracy dies, with hubris and shamelessness.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:20:37am

re: #432 Backwoods Sleuth

good grief

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This is basically criming for dummies. Since I live in Florida all my businesses are in Florida too. Sorry, asshole, it doesn’t work like that. Can’t wait to hear what the legal experts have to say about this.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:20:42am

How low will they go?

This low.

Trump investigator offers cell phone data casting doubt on Fani Willis relationship timeline

thehill.com

Special prosecutor Nathan Wade visited Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) at her condo at least 35 times prior to when they claim their relationship began, according to an analysis of cell phone data compiled by an investigator working with former President Trump’s legal team.

The new document, filed on Friday, raises questions about the veracity of Willis and Wade’s testimony regarding the timeline of their relationship.

Trump and his co-defendants are attempting get their historic election racketeering indictment tossed by disqualifying the district attorney’s office over the duo’s romantic ties, claiming it created conflict of interest. Willis’s office has acknowledged the relationship but insists there is no conflict.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:21:51am

re: #456 darthstar

This is basically criming for dummies. Since I live in Florida all my businesses are in Florida too. Sorry, asshole, it doesn’t work like that. Can’t wait to hear what the legal experts have to say about this.

I’m not a business person, but isn’t there a process for registering a corporation in a specific state? Wouldn’t the business’s state of incorporation be the most relevant factor in determining if a state has jurisdiction to seize its assets?

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:22:00am

Update:

With the “original” two 40a relays, voltage drop was 1/2 a volt across the distribution panel.

That’s a lot when you’re starting with 12 volts.

When I swapped out the relays for two ssrs it was a whopping 2 volts. A massive loss.

Now with one heavy duty relay and more efficient wiring, voltage drop across the distribution panel is near zero.

Stay tuned

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:23:25am

re: #423 Hecuba’s daughter

Hey! Don’t forget Nixon’s secret plan to end the war that he promised during the 1968 campaign!

“I have a secret plan to end an undeclared war supported by a silent majority!”

461
Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:23:25am

re: #457 Joe Bacon ✅

And where did they get the cellphone data? And how do they know what was going on?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:23:59am

re: #458 Nerdy Fish

Yes there is. It depends on the state and the type of corporation.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:24:01am

re: #454 Dr Lizardo

What’s your opinion on Trump using those addresses in FL? I suspect he was trying to pull a fast one, hoping the AG wouldn’t read them too closely, then his lawyers would try to argue in a FL courtroom that NY has no jurisdiction.

It most certainly is an attempt to circumvent the NYS monitor and ability to attach. However, the state has clearly found a pattern of behavior by Trumpworld and its business organizations’ properties around the nation routinely inflating values to members/creditors, while lying about the valuations to tax authorities. The businesses were NY businesses at the times the crimes occurred, so it will still be able to attach conditions to those properties and the businesses that operate them (the small business corporations - the LLCs, LLPs, S corps) that Trump set up for each. It is possible that Trumpworld thinks that moving them to FL will allow the FL AG to interfere and thwart the outcome.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:25:03am

re: #441 Belafon

Why would someone who has an automatic resurrection spell worry about saving throws?

He rolls stones, not dice!!!

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:25:50am

re: #463 lawhawk

It most certainly is an attempt to circumvent the NYS monitor and ability to attach. However, the state has clearly found a pattern of behavior by Trumpworld and its business organizations’ properties around the nation routinely inflating values to members/creditors, while lying about the valuations to tax authorities. The businesses were NY businesses at the times the crimes occurred, so it will still be able to attach conditions to those properties and the businesses that operate them (the small business corporations - the LLCs, LLPs, S corps) that Trump set up for each. It is possible that Trumpworld thinks that moving them to FL will allow the FL AG to interfere and thwart the outcome.

And I’ll bet that’s what’s at the bottom of this.

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prairiefire  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:26:24am

Trumpworld thinks the actual world is very very stupid!

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:26:55am

The Sun is still unhappy.

I run an app at home that displays the time, the day-night boundaries, and the state of the Sun. This is from a few minutes ago:

The Sun is not happy.

The solar flare scale goes from A through X. It’s M1.5 right now.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:27:05am

re: #458 Nerdy Fish

Winner winner chicken dinner. The business has to make appropriate filings to incorporate, and annual filings thereafter (or biannual depending on the state). Change of principal office requires a change form submitted to the state too. Change of agent requires a change form.

You can’t just up and change things on a whim thinking that you’ll avoid jurisdiction issue or asset seizures. That’s not how that works.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:27:06am

re: #466 prairiefire

Trumpworld thinks the actual world is very very as stupid as they are!

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BeachDem  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:27:29am

re: #384 No Malarkey!

MSNBC reporting that Haley needs a historic number of independents and democrats to vote for her in the SC Primary to not get blown out by Trump. I would encourage any SC lizards who didn’t vote in the democratic primary to vote for Haley. Not because she’s good or can win the GOP nomination, but just to weaken Trump.

I disagree 100%. Haley needs to be totally blown out of the water and humiliated in her home state, so shame on any of my fellow SC Dems who vote for her tomorrow.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:29:25am

re: #468 lawhawk

You can’t just up and change things on a whim thinking that you’ll avoid jurisdiction issue or asset seizures. That’s not how that works.

Bear in mind that Trump thinks he can declassify documents by using the Jedi Mind Trick. He saw it in a documentary, back in 1977.

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:29:29am

re: #422 lawhawk

The -ist universe of news sites is essential to knowing what’s going on in many major metro areas. I rely on gothamist quite a bit to know what’s happening in NYC. It’s powered by wnyc.org. If that goes… so goes another local news outlet, when the NYT is already abdicating their local news, and the Daily News and NY Post are almost always facing bankruptcy.

I miss Bostonist. It was a Gawker property.

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Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:29:40am

re: #468 lawhawk

Winner winner chicken dinner. The business has to make appropriate filings to incorporate, and annual filings thereafter (or biannual depending on the state). Change of principal office requires a change form submitted to the state too. Change of agent requires a change form.

You can’t just up and change things on a whim thinking that you’ll avoid jurisdiction issue or asset seizures. That’s not how that works.

So in other words, while this may be an early attempt at pulling these assets out of the reach of the NY AG, the formal paperwork still has to go through. And my guess is that the SEC, or somebody (certainly somebody in New York), would have something to say if these corporations that are under the cloud of a looming legal judgment suddenly up and moved to Florida.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:30:06am

re: #470 BeachDem

I disagree 100%. Haley needs to be totally blown out of the water and humiliated in her home state, so shame on any of my fellow SC Dems who vote for her tomorrow.

How is taking her off the stage better than the current situation where she’s one of very few Republicans talking honestly about what Trump is?

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JC1  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:30:32am

re: #470 BeachDem

I disagree 100%. Haley needs to be totally blown out of the water and humiliated in her home state, so shame on any of my fellow SC Dems who vote for her tomorrow.

Nah, the longer she stays in the race the more unhinged Trump will become.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:31:13am

re: #474 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

How is taking her off the stage better than the current situation where she’s one of very few Republicans talking honestly about what Trump is?

And it is irrelevant, unless DJT has a heart attack or stroke or similar, he will be the GOP nominee.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:33:11am

It just gets better and better.

Bipartisan ethics regulators in Wisconsin have recommended felony charges against one of Donald Trump’s fundraising arms and other Republicans in a scheme that they say was meant to circumvent campaign finance laws to take out a powerful GOP lawmaker who has turned against Trump.

The prosecution referrals became public Friday and add to the legal troubles of the former president, who is already facing 91 charges in four cases in other jurisdictions. The website WisPolitics first reported on the referrals in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Ethics Commission this week found probable cause that Trump’s Save America committee and several state and local Republican officials committed felonies and recommended several district attorneys investigate and prosecute them, according to records released Friday. The commission’s investigation centers on the 2022 primary race between Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, one of the most powerful Republicans in Wisconsin, and Adam Steen, a political newcomer who embraced Trump.

Individuals and most political entities can give a maximum of $1,000 each to candidates for the Wisconsin Assembly under state law, but arms of political parties can give them unlimited amounts. The commission alleges Steen, Steen’s campaign and three county Republican parties arranged to sidestep campaign finance laws by having donors give money to one of the county parties, which would then steer it to Steen’s campaign or his vendors, according to the records released Friday.

washingtonpost.com

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:34:30am

re: #476 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And it is irrelevant, unless DJT has a heart attack or stroke or similar, he will be the GOP nominee.

It’s relevant in the general election. Her long-shot attempt to be the default candidate when Trump is convicted won’t work because the party will still want Trump, but in-duh-pendents are seeing her talk about what Trump is, which undermines the madman.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:36:48am

re: #473 Nerdy Fish

So in other words, while this may be an early attempt at pulling these assets out of the reach of the NY AG, the formal paperwork still has to go through. And my guess is that the SEC, or somebody (certainly somebody in New York), would have something to say if these corporations that are under the cloud of a looming legal judgment suddenly up and moved to Florida.

Trumpworld should be sanctioned for trying to circumvent the asset seizure and monitoring. That’s just my hot take. They are NY businesses and these changes are being done to try and avoid the civil fraud judgment in NY. Courts and the DOS of each state shouldn’t take kindly on that kind of action, especially when reciprocity on enforcement is a keystone of interstate relations. You want to be able to seize assets in another state to enforce judgments in your state just as the other state wants to be able to seize in your state to enforce their judgments.

480
BeachDem  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:37:01am

re: #428 Hecuba’s daughter

Per Wiki, he has 3 children.

And who can ever forget the daughter who wrote the book that John Oliver then outsold, outranked, out…everythinged with his Marlon Bundo book.

When Oliver heard that Charlotte, the daughter of American Vice President Mike Pence, had written a children’s book about Pence’s pet rabbit called Marlon Bundo, he decided to ask Jill Twiss to write a book about Marlon too. The purpose was to write a book with genuine appeal to children but which also strongly supports same-sex marriage - to which Pence is fanatically opposed. A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo is the happy result.

artshub.com.au.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:37:14am

re: #478 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Yes, I ment it is irrelvant to the outcome of the GOP primary how well she fares in any particular state. The nominee has been chosen. By God, of course, and he never makes mistakes.

/

482
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:38:05am

This video breaks down Trump’s attempted fast one in switching his business addresses to Florida….

Trump Tries LAST MINUTE SCAM on NY Judge, FAILS MISERABLY

483
Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:38:24am

Ex-KGB agent played Pompeo for a fool

Ex-KGB agent handed Mike Pompeo ‘dirt’ on Biden at a 2019 Beverly Hills gala: report

At a gala on May 11, 2019, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was handed a thumb drive from a “foreign national” with “dirt” on Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, according to a new report.

An exclusive report from Insider cited “two sources with direct knowledge of the incident, who explained that the thumb drive was given to Pompeo’s aides by an FBI informant, and former KGB agent, with the code name “Rollie.” Insider said it had decided not to print the informant’s real name.

When asked about it, “Rollie” first denied the claim and, when shown photos of him with Pompeo, he wrote over WhatsApp, “You can publish. It’s advertising for me. I’m not interested in the past.”

He denied handing over the thumb drive.

On the drive was the same information he gave months earlier to Justice Department officials in Los Angeles, Insider reported.

The documents contain “poorly sourced allegations” from old news articles and links from Ukrainian and Russian websites saying Hunter Biden was laundering money. They frequently refer to President Joe Biden using his first name but misspelling it “Josef,” Insider wrote.

“They contain no evidence of criminal activity,” the report said.

Rudy Giuliani is known to have given Pompeo a folder of documents containing unproven allegations he got while in Ukraine in March 2019. It’s also when, as Insider characterized him, “right-wing investigative reporter John Solomon” also began writing about Burisma and the Bidens for The Hill.

businessinsider.com

484
Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:39:05am

re: #443 Captain Magic

Jesus saves, Moses invests, but only Buddha pays dividends.

Jesus saves, (Rod) Gilbert tips it in…

485
(((Archangel1)))  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:39:49am

The look on his face at the end… xD

486
Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:39:55am

re: #447 Dr Lizardo

I was chuckling…it’s like he’s trying to commit more fraud on top of the fraud he’s been found guilty of.

It’s turtles fraud all the way down.

When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose

487
darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:40:57am

re: #466 prairiefire

Trumpworld thinks the actual world is very very stupid!

Hey, you just got fined a half billion dollars for fraud…what are you going to do next?
Move all my assets to Florida before they can be seized!

488
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:42:07am

re: #485 (((Archangel1)))

The look on his face at the end… xD

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That’s perfect. Humor is universal - the look that says, “Uh….WTF? Are you serious?”

489
darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:42:12am

re: #468 lawhawk

Winner winner chicken dinner. The business has to make appropriate filings to incorporate, and annual filings thereafter (or biannual depending on the state). Change of principal office requires a change form submitted to the state too. Change of agent requires a change form.

You can’t just up and change things on a whim thinking that you’ll avoid jurisdiction issue or asset seizures. That’s not how that works.

But he told Alina Habba to just change them on paper and they’d be good…I mean, isn’t committing more fraud the best way to beat a fraud rap?

490
BeachDem  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:45:18am

re: #474 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

How is taking her off the stage better than the current situation where she’s one of very few Republicans talking honestly about what Trump is?

Nikki Haley hasn’t said an honest word in her life. She is a fucking lowlife liar who goes whichever way the wind blows, as long as it favors her. Giving her any status as a truth-teller or honest broker is just looking for more trouble down the road. We don’t need Nikki to tell us what Trump is.

491
darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:46:06am

Mastodon

Mastodon

492
danarchy  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:49:39am

re: #413 Dr Lizardo

I can’t confirm the veracity of such a claim, but it’s been stated the Johnson doesn’t have a bank account.

So….how does he get paid?

Johnson didn’t disclose any bank accounts, doesn’t mean he doesn’t have any. Congress only needs to disclose interest bearing accounts with more than $5000 in it. So a checking account that doesn’t pay interest or savings accounts under $5000 don’t need to be disclosed.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:50:04am

re: #468 lawhawk

Winner winner chicken dinner. The business has to make appropriate filings to incorporate, and annual filings thereafter (or biannual depending on the state). Change of principal office requires a change form submitted to the state too. Change of agent requires a change form.

You can’t just up and change things on a whim thinking that you’ll avoid jurisdiction issue or asset seizures. That’s not how that works.

looks like they possibly made some of these address changes in april 2023

see: sunbiz.org

eta: from my quick check these entities already were registered in florida with NY addresses. some for many years

ie TRUMP ENDEAVOR 12 LLC goes back to 2011
registered as a foreign LLC organized in Delaware

494
Oblongatis  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:50:30am

re: #97 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

“Cassablanca” would be the one I’d add to the list.

Always had a soft place for “Harvey”.

495
7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:51:04am

re: #425 Joe Bacon ✅

HOLY TOWERING INFERNO, BATMAN!

Space Needle to be open as normal Friday after small fire in elevator control room

Fire crews had to climb 90 flights of stairs to reach the fire since the elevators were out of operation.

king5.com

OMG! When I was a young lawyer I used to run down and then up and then down and then up again 41 floors of the Penobscot Building at lunch. I can’t imagine 90 floors straight up, in a real rush, hauling equipment and gear. Strong people there.

496
darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:52:10am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:53:03am

re: #492 danarchy

Johnson didn’t disclose any bank accounts, doesn’t mean he doesn’t have any. Congress only needs to disclose interest bearing accounts with more than $5000 in it. So a checking account that doesn’t pay interest or savings accounts under $5000 don’t need to be disclosed.

OK. I didn’t know. So he might well have a checking account with 0% interest.

498
PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:53:07am

re: #496 darthstar

Good. ::: evil grin :::

499
A Cranky One  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:53:23am

So while I avoid the hate site X, I found this amusing.

Happened to click on a video from the Ukraine war that went to X and noticed this:

Heh..

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:53:54am

re: #498 PhillyPretzel ✅

Good. ::: evil grin :::

Killing their payment system will leave a mark.

501
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:54:39am

re: #497 Dr Lizardo

OK. I didn’t know. So he might well have a checking account with 0% interest.

Earning or paying interest is un-Christian innit?

502
Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:56:06am

re: #501 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Earning or paying interest is un-Christian innit?

Usury,
Use ta be.

503
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:58:57am

re: #502 Decatur Deb

Usury,
Use ta be.

Now it is all but a Sacrament.

504
Romantic Heretic  Feb 23, 2024 • 8:59:32am

re: #456 darthstar

This is basically criming for dummies. Since I live in Florida all my businesses are in Florida too. Sorry, asshole, it doesn’t work like that. Can’t wait to hear what the legal experts have to say about this.

We’ll have to wait for them to stop laughing.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:01:41am

re: #504 Romantic Heretic

We’ll have to wait for them to stop laughing.

I’m waiting for Judge Engoron to say, “Enough of this bullshit” and refer Alina Habba to the NY state bar.

506
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:03:06am

re: #482 Dr Lizardo

This video breaks down Trump’s attempted fast one in switching his business addresses to Florida….

If the Chump Organization had not been such bumblers, they could have done this long before the judgement was made…it’s not like they did not see this coming.

507
Sherlock Hound  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:10:00am

re: #484 Dangerman

Jesus saves, (Rod) Gilbert tips it in…

Jesus saves, and Esposito scores on the rebound!

508
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:10:31am

re: #506 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If the Chump Organization had not been such bumblers, they could have done this long before the judgement was made…

Seems like a desperation move to me - Trump’s frantically trying to get out of this, and I strongly suspect he’s so hopelessly overleveraged, there’s probably not much he could sell off to cover the judgments; And despite what he said about having $400 million cash on hand (under oath, no less) he really doesn’t have the cash (hell, he might even be underwater) and he’s probably being told to fuck off in his efforts to get a supersedeas bond.

509
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:11:54am

re: #508 Dr Lizardo

nobody is gonna loan him any money under any terms at this point

510
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:12:41am

re: #509 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

nobody is gonna loan him any money under any terms at this point

Even Brooklyn loan sharks would laugh in his face.

511
lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:13:28am

re: #509 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

nobody is gonna loan him any money under any terms at this point

Russian oligarchs might… for a fee.

512
William Lewis  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:15:06am

Ok, just discovered them on NPR this morning. This is the good shit.

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive) (Official Lyric Video)

513
jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:19:46am

This is a hell of a Popehat thread: bsky.app

514
Eventual Carrion  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:22:18am

re: #142 Dangerman

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He really should have stayed in his football lane.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:23:02am

re: #512 William Lewis

The young woman in that video has an uncanny resemblance to a former student of mine named Pavla.

I had to do a double-take. They could’ve been separated at birth.

516
Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:26:05am
A 25-year-old Texas woman’s life was put in grave danger when doctors refused to treat her ectopic pregnancy, fearing criminal charges in a state that has banned abortion, the Washington Post reports.

i fear such stories are going to follow the path of mass shootings

shock, horror etc, then eventually background noise
not quite the five stages of grief

there is hope though because we’re not fighting anything similar to the immutable 2A

vote blue and we can turn this one around

517
wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:27:28am

re: #516 Dangerman

i fear such stories are going to follow the path of mass shootings

shock, horror etc, then eventually background noise
not quite the five stages of grief

there is hope though because we’re not fighting anything similar to the immutable 2A

vote blue and we can turn this one around

Besides fixing the laws, we need braver doctors.

518
jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:30:09am

post.news

519
The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:32:43am
520
jaunte  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:34:31am

521
jaunte  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:35:50am

Pro-domestic violence conservatives finally free to say it openly.

522
Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:35:58am

Mastodon

523
The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:38:52am
524
jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:40:35am

bsky.app

525
dat_said  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:40:44am

MassDevice: Jill Biden launches $100M initiative to transform women’s health research

Happy to see this. Hopefully $100M is just the start.

526
Scottish Dragon  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:41:05am

re: #509 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

nobody is gonna loan him any money under any terms at this point

The Saudis maybe, but they will want something

527
JC1  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:41:12am

re: #522 Belafon

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GDP and market cap are not analogues. It’s like comparing the value of a house vs someone’s income.

528
Scottish Dragon  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:42:14am

re: #520 jaunte

What the chicken fried fuck?

529
Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:42:40am

Mastodon

530
wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:42:43am

Partridge. Wordle 979 4/6*

Click to Reveal

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:47:31am

On the “DV as an equal opportunity problem” point:

NIH:

Epidemiology
Domestic violence is a serious and challenging public health problem. Approximately 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men 18 years of age or older experience domestic violence.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

532
jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:48:09am

Mastodon

533
wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:48:38am

If abortion is unavailable, each rape is attempted murder.

534
jaunte  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:48:50am

Also from NIH:

“Fortunately, the national rate of nonfatal domestic violence is declining. This is thought to be due to a decline in the marriage rate, decreased domesticity, better access to domestic violence shelters, improvements in female economic status*, and an increase in the average age of the population.”

*birth control

535
jaunte  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:51:18am

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Gilead) may be the source of the ‘nuking the nuclear family’ language.

Biden’s HHS Wants To Nuke The Definition Of Nuclear Family From Its Regulations
hydesmith.senate.gov

536
Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:55:07am

ROTFLMAO!

THE FURBY ORGAN, A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MADE FROM FURBIES

537
wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2024 • 9:55:09am

re: #535 jaunte

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Gilead) may be the source of the ‘nuking the nuclear family’ language.

Mr. w once took an old slogan, one nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day, and made it a new one, based on his personal history, one nuclear family can ruin your whole life.

538
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:02:28am

re: #536 Joe Bacon ✅

“Hey. Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?”

539
Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:03:11am

Mastodon

540
gwangung  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:07:10am

re: #531 jaunte

On the “DV as an equal opportunity problem” point:

NIH:

This is extremely well known among domestic violence advocates, and liberals. Conservatives trying to gas light.

541
A Cranky One  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:10:00am

542
Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:10:39am

Mastodon

543
Backwoods Sleuth  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:12:35am

Mastodon

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:13:25am

re: #494 Oblongatis

Always had a soft place for “Harvey”.

I’d add one of my all-time favorites, color or B&W, 1947’s “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”

545
ckkatz  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:14:46am

Sams Xitter post

546
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:15:54am

re: #545 ckkatz

Lordy, there are tapes pictures.

547
A Cranky One  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:15:54am

548
Egregious Philbin  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:16:46am

re: #437 Nerdy Fish

Jesus Saves, everybody else takes 8d6 fire damage.

Jesus Saves……..Gretzky scores on the rebound!

549
lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:18:00am

re: #548 Egregious Philbin

Jesus Saves……..Gretzky scores on the rebound!

Jesus Saves …. Pele scores on the free kick.
Jesus Saves … but Warren Buffet invests for the future.

550
ckkatz  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:18:29am

re: #357 darthstar

Went back to sleep for 2 1/2 hours…nice. Oh, and the above, while witty, is something I saw on mastodon at 2am when I was unable to sleep so no credit to me.

551
lawhawk  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:20:28am

re: #546 Dr Lizardo

Now ask yourself why every last Trumpworld figure keeps taking photos of suspicious situations and encounters? It’s because everyone knows they’re up to no good and want to document it in case they’re investigated or indicted. All of them.

They know they’re in deep shit, but they’re all engaging in CYA and ready to throw others under the bus all while trying to show fealty to Trump (which is another reason they’re doing this - to show bad acts/bad loyalty to Trump to Trump).

552
wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:22:23am

re: #544 sizzzzlerz

I’d add one of my all-time favorites, color or B&W, 1947’s “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”

The B. Traven hit! We are ready for another of his books to be made into a movie: The Death Ship. Oh! It already has been! OK, maybe an American version.

553
wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:25:48am

re: #551 lawhawk

they’re all engaging in CYA

The FO stage: too many asses, not enough covers.

554
Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:26:24am

555
ckkatz  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:30:05am

Brandwin Xitter post

556
Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:30:24am

re: #309 Dave In Austin

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Hang your tp any way you want, I have a bidet.

557
Belafon  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:32:24am

re: #523 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

558
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:34:42am

re: #551 lawhawk

They all know they’re up to their necks in all kinds of shady shit. And like you said, they can use that info to throw their rivals under the bus if they have to, and kiss ass to Trump.

It really is like “Stupid Godfather” or if the whole Corleone family were made up of Fredos.

559
jaunte  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:35:13am

re: #557 Belafon

Today, the right’s position is rights can be removed by judicial and electoral minorities.

560
Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:35:24am

re: #556 Shropshire Slasher

Hang your tp any way you want, I have a bidet.

561
Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:36:44am

re: #506 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If the Chump Organization had not been such bumblers, they could have done this long before the judgement was made…it’s not like they did not see this coming.

A consequence free life doesn’t prepare you for consequences.

562
ckkatz  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:38:55am

Morning Joe Xitter post

563
Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:39:08am

re: #559 jaunte

Today, the right’s position is rights can be removed suppressed by judicial and electoral minorities.

Quibble

564
Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:40:53am

re: #520 jaunte

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Make smacking around women great again //

Serious, fuck these retrograde assholes.

565
wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:43:11am

re: #564 Teddy’s Person

Make smacking around women great again //

Serious, fuck these retrograde assholes.

And children. They give more rights to the 10-celled than to children and adults.

566
Scottish Dragon  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:44:42am

re: #97 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

“Cassablanca” would be the one I’d add to the list.

Casablanca remains my all time favorite. I still cry at the La Marseillaise scene.

567
Nerdy Fish  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:45:11am

Oh. My. GOD. Nikki Haley just sent a spam text to my wife’s phone. I am DYING.

568
ckkatz  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:46:08am

re: #470 BeachDem

Another reason to not vote for Haley -

Schwartz Xitter post

569
Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:46:09am

Um, what?????

570
Scottish Dragon  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:47:37am

re: #558 Dr Lizardo

They all know they’re up to their necks in all kinds of shady shit. And like you said, they can use that info to throw their rivals under the bus if they have to, and kiss ass to Trump.

It really is like “Stupid Godfather” or if the whole Corleone family were made up of Fredos.

571
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:47:42am

Looks like the Ukrainians took down another Beriev A-50 (Russian equivalent of AWACS).

It is official. Russian A-50 has been downed. The Ukrainian Air Force in cooperation with the Main Directorate of Intelligence take responsibility in this operation. This information has been released by Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk.

The loss of another plane of this type, which btw. cost 350 million USD, is a severe setback for Russia and gives the Ukrainian Air Force, which in foreseeable future will engage Russian forces with F-16, an immeasurable advantage.


More here: ukranews.com

572
wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:48:09am

re: #569 Dangerman

Um, what?????

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Incredulous God, looking at Trump:

I made THAT??

573
Scottish Dragon  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:49:28am

re: #571 Dr Lizardo

Looks like the Ukrainians took down another Beriev A-50 (Russian equivalent of AWACS).

[Embedded content]

More here: ukranews.com

I’d suspect NASAMS or Patriot systems

574
BeachDem  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:49:34am

re: #562 ckkatz

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Or to rephrase it as a truth sandwich:

The Biden campaign raised $42 million in January.

Although Haley outraised Trump, they both spent more than they raised, and Biden has more cash on hand than Haley and Trump combined.

575
Eventual Carrion  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:49:59am

re: #264 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Well, that was ugly.
Wordle 979 6/6

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:50:51am

re: #571 Dr Lizardo

Looks like the Ukrainians took down another Beriev A-50 (Russian equivalent of AWACS).

[Embedded content]

More here: ukranews.com

Russian version of Bat-21?

577
Vicious Babushka  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:52:13am

re: #539 Backwoods Sleuth

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EMBRYOS DON’T NEED TO EAT, WHY SHOULD ALL THOSE WORTHLESS LIDDLE MOOCHERS!!!!1!!!!

578
jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:53:00am

re: #571 Dr Lizardo

Looks like the Ukrainians took down another Beriev A-50 (Russian equivalent of AWACS).

[Embedded content]

More here: ukranews.com

This video purports to be of that downing but it’s a very unusual sequence of events. Not at all sure of what was going on:

Mastodon

579
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:53:23am

re: #576 Dangerman

Russian version of Bat-21?

One of these bad boys…..

580
jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:55:31am

re: #578 jeffreyw

This video purports to be of that downing but it’s a very unusual sequence of events. Not at all sure of what was going on:

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Maybe flares dropping?

581
Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:56:46am

re: #580 jeffreyw

Yeah, looked like flares dropping and then you see the big mid-air explosion with the plane coming apart.

582
A Cranky One  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:56:57am

re: #578 jeffreyw

This video purports to be of that downing but it’s a very unusual sequence of events. Not at all sure of what was going on:

[Embedded content]

Looks like the aircraft was releasing flares in an attempt to fool the missile. Didn’t work.

583
Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:57:24am

re: #579 Dr Lizardo

One of these bad boys…..

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Bat-21 is a fave movie because of all the O-2 footage
My dream plane was a riley skyrocket.
Alas

584
sizzzzlerz  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:57:34am

re: #569 Dangerman

Um, what?????

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He’s really going full christ-o-bot psycho these days, seeing as how they are the only one’s that still tolerate all his shit.

585
A Cranky One  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:58:42am

586
PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:58:43am

re: #582 A Cranky One

Looks like it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:59:49am

re: #569 Dangerman

Um, what?????

[Embedded content]

“God is here and God is watching and God probably can’t believe what he is seeing”

“Uh, this is The Big G here. Don’t disturb me while I’m watching Roller Derby”

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2024 • 10:59:54am

re: #582 A Cranky One

Looks like the aircraft was releasing flares in an attempt to fool the missile. Didn’t work.

Probably started dropping flares when they were locked on to.

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ckkatz  Feb 23, 2024 • 11:00:00am

re: #580 jeffreyw

Maybe flares dropping?

That is what it looks like. Decoy flares to confuse SAM’s. And it appears that the first missile missed the plane and took out a flare at 0:53. But that another missile got something large, like an A-50. And there seems to be a third SAM or something at the top of the screen that was also missing the target.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Feb 23, 2024 • 11:01:09am

re: #587 Joe Bacon ✅

lol

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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2024 • 11:01:26am

I’ve been pondering Trump’s VP pick. He will pick some version of Mike Pence. Someone who won’t have more press coverage than his orangeness would be his first priority in picking a running mate.

As far is picking a woman or person of color, I think that’s a non-starter in Trump’s addled brain. I might be giving him too much credit, but I assume he understands that the VP could potentially replace him. No way does he want to give the impression that a woman or person of color could replace him.

Pence was basically Reek in Trumpworld (until Jan. 6), but at least he’s a white man.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 23, 2024 • 11:01:35am

re: #585 A Cranky One

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Should of painted red and white strips on the stone with a R&W toque on top

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2024 • 11:09:08am

re: #591 Teddy’s Person

I’ve been pondering Trump’s VP pick. He will pick some version of Mike Pence. Someone who won’t have more press coverage than his orangeness would be his first priority in picking a running mate.

As far is picking a woman or person of color, I think that’s a non-starter in Trump’s addled brain. I might be giving him too much credit, but I assume he understands that the VP could potentially replace him. No way does he want to give the impression that a woman or person of color could replace him.

Pence was basically Reek in Trumpworld (until Jan. 6), but at least he’s a white man.

replace him assumes he’d consider himself vulnerable and mortal
Not that you’re wrong

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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2024 • 11:13:46am

re: #593 Dangerman

replace him assumes he’d consider himself vulnerable and mortal
Not that you’re wrong

That’s the part the I have trouble including in my thinking. I imagine narcissists don’t spend much time contemplating their mortality.

Anytime I try to come up with a person, my mind goes to motherfucking Jared. Not sure why. Maybe Trump has admiration for the dude banging his daughter?


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