The Bob Cesca Podcast: He's 81 and He Knows Things

The Bob Cesca Podcast: He’s 81 and He Knows Things

PoliticsFebruary 2024 • Views: 13,872

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

He’s 81 And He Knows Things — Joe Biden’s appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers. We hopefully put an end to the Dump Biden speculation. The nonsense about Biden using notes is a repeat of the 2012 Obama teleprompter madness. The South Carolina Primary results. How Meet the Press framed the SC results versus how Fox News framed the results. Trump illustrates just how loyal he is to Putin. Trump appealed the civil fraud judgment. Vornado vs Vornado. The RNC money problems. The Republicans are painted into a corner on IVF. We know who made the Biden AI robocall. With Buzz Burbank, music by The Metal Byrds, The Coal Men, and more!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 27, 2024 • 2:18:56pm

He doesn’t spend hours under a tanning bed or getting his combover perfect or glopping a pancake-thick base of makeup on. He gets up, gets dressed and goes to work.

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 2:19:17pm

re: #109 Joe Bacon ✅

Tucker Carlson Claims Lawyers Warned Biden Administration Would Arrest Him If He Gave Putin Softball Interview

Anyone believing this liar?

sure, i have no problem believing one of his lawyers told him this.

do i believe it’s anything other than the lawyer’s own speculation and he’d have an actual source? nah.

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 2:20:01pm

bringing forward:

I dont much care about the apparent ‘hypocrisy’ w/r/t R’s who’ve had IVF, successfully or not, and are now out to ban it.
They are well known for pulling up the ladder after themselves.
But it was a few judges who manufactured the Alabama decision.
And laws do change all the time - sometimes things that were legal, no longer are.
You know, like Roe.

The hypocrisy around Roe is found when speculating whether any hard line supporters had, or financed abortions themselves.

So my question to someone like Pence, who used IVF, is are they still storing their unused ‘embroys’ or were they in fact accomplices to murder (or whatever the ALA court called it) when they (presumably) let their extra ones go?

Or didn’t they see it that way themselves at the time.

Because that, to me would be as much a disqualifier as Herschel Walker’s abortions. (I’da said tfg’s abortions but we know they wouldnt move the needle)

Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 2:20:38pm

omg

these white people really did convert a former slave plantation into a wedding venue

the f-ck

*Eye.* Cannot. https://t.co/3nseh6K6Iy

— 18 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) February 27, 2024

I’m only looking at the single frame, but it looks like they painted stuff white, and then took down the plantation sign, and that’s it.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 27, 2024 • 2:21:53pm

re: #3 Dangerman

Because that, to me would be as much a disqualifier as Herschel Walker’s abortions. (I’da said tfg’s abortions but we know they wouldnt move the needle)

Herschel Walker was completely coherent compared to what has been oozing out of DJT’s pie hole lately

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 27, 2024 • 2:23:02pm

re: #4 Belafon

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I’m only looking at the single frame, but it looks like they painted stuff white, and then took down the plantation sign, and that’s it.

Do they do “period theme” weddings with hoop skirts, gray uniforms and staff in white linens?

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 2:24:38pm

another musing, this regarding DA Bragg’s motion for the gag order

i’m not following it but i’d bet the volume of threats surrounding Engoron, those specifically targeting his clerk and the other court personnel on that case have probably dropped to almost zero

and as soon as the next case heats up, they’ll all magically move to that roster.

think that’s some natural phenomenon?

Dr. Matt Feb 27, 2024 • 2:37:59pm

re: #4 Belafon

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I’m only looking at the single frame, but it looks like they painted stuff white, and then took down the plantation sign, and that’s it.

This is not uncommon unfortunately.

BeenHereAwhile Feb 27, 2024 • 2:41:26pm

The Bob Cesca Podcast: He’s 81 and He Knows Things

” The nonsense about Biden using notes is a repeat of the 2012 Obama teleprompter madness. “

The Obama teleprompter meme was started by Jon Stewart,

Backwoods Sleuth Feb 27, 2024 • 2:45:36pm

Mastodon

Eclectic Cyborg Feb 27, 2024 • 2:51:27pm

re: #4 Belafon

Southern lizard here. I know of several former plantations in AL, MS and LA that are available as wedding venues.

Despite their history, some of the properties are quite nice. I’m not surprised some of the current owners are going this route to make money off them.

Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 2:53:50pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

Southern lizard here. I know of several former plantations in AL, MS and LA that are available as wedding venues.

Despite their history, some of the properties are quite nice. I’m not surprised some of the current owners are going this route to make money off them.

I can see that, and, unless you’re turning it into a museum, something will be made of it. It’s just that, in the image I can see, those buildings on the left look a lot like the shacks where slaves would have been housed. Those probably could have been replaced.

gwangung Feb 27, 2024 • 2:54:07pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

Southern lizard here. I know of several former plantations in AL, MS and LA that are available as wedding venues.

Despite their history, some of the properties are quite nice. I’m not surprised some of the current owners are going this route to make money off them.

No doubt. But the literal whitewashing of the space gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Decatur Deb Feb 27, 2024 • 2:59:03pm

re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Do they do “period theme” weddings with hoop skirts, gray uniforms and staff in white linens?

When Wife attended Millsaps College in Jackson MS (1966) a fraternity did precisely that for a cotillion, annually. She didn’t stay long.

BeenHereAwhile Feb 27, 2024 • 3:00:48pm

re: #14 Decatur Deb

When Wife attended Millsaps College in Jackson MS (1966) a fraternity did precisely that for a cotillion, annually. Didn’t stay long.

Kappa Alpha Old South.

It’s an annual thing.

ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 3:01:47pm

re: #4 Belafon

My former wife was born and raised on a former Southern Virginia Plantation. (Too far north for cotton, they raised tobacco.)

There were still several original slave cabins on the much diminished and divided property. The slave cabins were small single room, single floor, and constructed very roughly.

What the video shows in a single cabin probably is larger than the floor space in all of the Virginia slave cabins together. Ignoring the running water and central heat. In my ex’s case, her parents’ family farm did not get electricity until 1948.

I will give her father a lot of credit. He was a retired elderly farmer selling off land and renting other parts of it to survive. But he made sure that he did everything that he could to help any of his neighbors in need, white or black.

gocart mozart Feb 27, 2024 • 3:02:51pm

Tiny Johnson waiting in the principal’s office

pic.twitter.com/GJ6Igmhu7G

— Puppy (@liberalpuppy) February 27, 2024

wrenchwench Feb 27, 2024 • 3:04:45pm

re: #13 gwangung

No doubt. But the literal whitewashing of the space gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Michael Twitty could do something to uncurse it.

[…]

Twitty founded and oversees the Southern Discomfort Tour, a journey through the American South designed to raise awareness about the impact racism had on Southern cuisine.[13] As part of this project, Twitty recreates the experiences of his enslaved ancestors, picking cotton, chopping wood, working in fields, and cooking in plantation kitchens.

[…]

Dr. Matt Feb 27, 2024 • 3:09:46pm

“We call upon our Republican colleagues to join us and abandon the growing Pro-Putin wing of their party.”

Translation: They will be left with no one.

ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 3:12:43pm

re: #18 wrenchwench

He needs to add pellegra and ground itch to the experience.

nines09 Feb 27, 2024 • 3:17:59pm

re: #17 gocart mozart

Moses hung up on him.
Repeatedly.

Backwoods Sleuth Feb 27, 2024 • 3:20:18pm

Mastodon

ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 3:21:04pm

Well… That was unexpected…

The Washington Post published an article on the ways that AI is affecting the US Porn Industry. I didn’t see anything salacious or giggle-inducing.

It asks questions like:

How will the porn-associated internet infrastructure be affected.
What boundaries will AI developers place on their engines.
Will there be custom/bespoke porn
How will chatbots affect customer/sex worker interaction
How will the actors and other workers protect their brands

Gift Link: AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for porn stars’ jobs
AI will change adult entertainment forever. The risks — for sex workers and the rest of us — are profound.

nines09 Feb 27, 2024 • 3:24:49pm

re: #23 ckkatz

Whenever I watch a movie or show, I always try to figure out which city they are in, and then the neighborhood by the scenery.
With AI you can kiss that goodbye.

A picture is worth a thousand words.
But what if the picture lies?

Jay C Feb 27, 2024 • 3:30:56pm

re: #17 gocart mozart

For all of his obvious and manifold shortcomings as Speaker, Kevin McCarthy was Sam Fucking Rayburn compared to this clown. At least when having to deal with the rest of the government, Kevin could at least put on a reasonable façade of knowing what he was doing: Moses Mike can’t even manage that.

danarchy Feb 27, 2024 • 3:31:38pm

re: #12 Belafon

I can see that, and, unless you’re turning it into a museum, something will be made of it. It’s just that, in the image I can see, those buildings on the left look a lot like the shacks where slaves would have been housed. Those probably could have been replaced.

The link has a video tour, and when they go inside, those shacks are nicer than most of the places I have lived, certainly nicer than most hotels or cabins I have stayed in.

BeenHereAwhile Feb 27, 2024 • 3:31:49pm

re: #18 wrenchwench

Michael Twitty could do something to uncurse it.

In my personal experience - it was still going on in central FL in the 1960s.

Doing business with one of my father’s customers who owned orange groves. On his property there were small concrete block structures - maybe 20X20 - which had openings for a door and windows, except there was no door or windows - just the openings.

They were housing for Jamaicans who they would fly in to pick fruit and fly back to Jamaica after fruit picking season.

One segment of Edward R. Murrow’s broadcast “Harvest Of Shame” featured my home town.

“You have to be carefully taught.”

gocart mozart Feb 27, 2024 • 3:32:17pm

“If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives”
- Deuteronomy 22:28–29

— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) February 27, 2024

Dr. Matt Feb 27, 2024 • 3:32:34pm

re: #17 gocart mozart

Tiny Johnson waiting in the principal’s office

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He’s wearing his big boy clothes today. How precious.

Dave In Austin Feb 27, 2024 • 3:32:54pm

re: #12 Belafon

Mostly new construction. But there’s the issue of the foundation.
I’m sure there’s a graveyard in the nearby woods.

gocart mozart Feb 27, 2024 • 3:33:09pm

Who should be Lara Trump’s RNC co-chair?

— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) February 27, 2024

Hecuba's daughter Feb 27, 2024 • 3:33:21pm

re: #4 Belafon

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I’m only looking at the single frame, but it looks like they painted stuff white, and then took down the plantation sign, and that’s it.

From comments re the original post, it’s all new construction. The interior of course is nothing like a 19th century cottage at all (slave quarters or not).

Nerdy Fish Feb 27, 2024 • 3:33:26pm

re: #28 gocart mozart

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Where in Jeremiah 1:5 does it say the soul enters the body when the body is formed? Does it even mention a soul at all?

A Cranky One Feb 27, 2024 • 3:33:55pm

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 3:34:36pm

Mastodon

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 3:35:24pm

Vaughn should have said, “Lady, you’re a fucking idiot.”

ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 3:35:31pm

re: #24 nines09

Whenever I watch a movie or show, I always try to figure out which city they are in, and then the neighborhood by the scenery.
With AI you can kiss that goodbye.

A picture is worth a thousand words.
But what if the picture lies?

Yup, it used to be extremely expensive in time and money to construct an artificial filming location. As computers and software have improved the cost has gone down and the complexity the software provides has increased. And now, things can be modified in small, seamless and likely unnoticed ways.

When my sister and brother-in-law lived in Seattle they took me to Snoqualmie where Twin Peaks was filmed. It was interesting to see how the producers had modified specific visual avenues for filming purposes, but left others unmodified as they were not going to be used.

I remember reading a story about when JFK flew into Germany to give his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech. To save money, the base commander had a plot of every angle JFK would be able to see of the post. And then only painted and renovated those specific parts.

Yes, what is truth?

Nerdy Fish Feb 27, 2024 • 3:35:37pm

I’m so fucking sick of these supposed “pro-lifers” hanging every single fucking thing on a single Bible verse that doesn’t even explicitly say what they want it to say, it’s just that they interpret it to be so and then look down their noses at anyone who doesn’t agree with their interpretation.

sizzzzlerz Feb 27, 2024 • 3:37:17pm

re: #19 Dr. Matt

Translation: They will be left with no one.

re: #10 Backwoods Sleuth

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I’d make it “pro-Putin and pro-Nazi wings of the Republican party” but I suspect that the Venn diagram of the two would already be just a circle.

steve_davis Feb 27, 2024 • 3:41:08pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

Southern lizard here. I know of several former plantations in AL, MS and LA that are available as wedding venues.

Despite their history, some of the properties are quite nice. I’m not surprised some of the current owners are going this route to make money off them.

yeah, ashtabula here.

William Lewis Feb 27, 2024 • 3:41:52pm

re: #23 ckkatz

Well… That was unexpected…

The Washington Post published an article on the ways that AI is affecting the US Porn Industry. I didn’t see anything salacious or giggle-inducing.

It asks questions like:

Gift Link: AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for porn stars’ jobs
AI will change adult entertainment forever. The risks — for sex workers and the rest of us — are profound.

Combine this with VR for the next generation of the porn industry and you’ll see a level of change like when VHS killed the porn theaters.

ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 3:42:01pm

Budd Xitter post

A Cranky One Feb 27, 2024 • 3:43:31pm

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 3:45:00pm

re: #28 gocart mozart

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In Jeremiah 1:5 [somebody wrote that] God ~~says~~ said, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born,

steve_davis Feb 27, 2024 • 3:47:16pm

re: #38 Nerdy Fish

I’m so fucking sick of these supposed “pro-lifers” hanging every single fucking thing on a single Bible verse that doesn’t even explicitly say what they want it to say, it’s just that they interpret it to be so and then look down their noses at anyone who doesn’t agree with their interpretation.

or as a wise man said, “the Bible isn’t a cookbook.” and it certainly isn’t ceremonial magick.

coin operated Feb 27, 2024 • 3:48:55pm

re: #45 steve_davis

or as a wise man said, “the Bible isn’t a cookbook.” and it certainly isn’t ceremonial magick.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 3:49:50pm

re: #46 coin operated

The Bible shows ~~the~~ a way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 3:52:13pm

The pro-life party

Arizona Republicans want to let ranchers in southern Arizona legally shoot and kill undocumented immigrants who cross their land,” the Arizona Mirror reports.

“A bill moving through the state House of Representatives would make changes to the state’s existing ‘Castle Doctrine’ law, which permits Arizonans to use deadly force against people who are trespassing or breaking into their home.”

Ps…will never pass

Hecuba's daughter Feb 27, 2024 • 3:52:28pm

re: #10 Backwoods Sleuth

“As Congress comes back into session tomorrow, we continue to offer our Republican colleagues a bipartisan path forward,” says House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a letter to lawmakers. “We call upon our Republican colleagues to join us and abandon the growing Pro-Putin wing of their party.”

It’s infuriating that Trump has not been arrested for treason; his behavior makes it obvious to everyone who pays attention and is not a braindead MAGAt that Trump is working on behalf of Putin.

Backwoods Sleuth Feb 27, 2024 • 3:52:34pm

Mastodon

Nerdy Fish Feb 27, 2024 • 3:53:08pm

re: #45 steve_davis

or as a wise man said, “the Bible isn’t a cookbook.” and it certainly isn’t ceremonial magick.

The problem is that people have taken the idea of “the Bible is the inspired Word of God” a bit too far. It’s supposed to mean that the Bible is the authoritative book God gave us for how to practice our religion. The literalists take it to mean that the Bible is literal, factual truth, and that it is a complete guide to life, the universe, and everything. I mean, for Christ’s sake, literally 2/3 of the Bible is history, poetry, or rules for goat herders living in the fucking desert. What’s that supposed to teach us about science?

Florida Panhandler Feb 27, 2024 • 3:55:37pm

re: #47 Dangerman

The Bible shows the way a series of Bronze-age largely anonymous sources thought about the world and their oral history, filtered through an ad-hoc council in 300AD dictated over by a Roman Ceaser.

Decatur Deb Feb 27, 2024 • 3:56:38pm

re: #52 Florida Panhandler

The Bible shows the way a series of Bronze-age largely anonymous sources thought about the world and their oral history, filtered through an ad-hoc council in 300AD dictated over by a Roman Ceaser.

Aquinas tried to make it more rational, and they all dropped a cubit of shit.

Romantic Heretic Feb 27, 2024 • 3:56:54pm

re: #10 Backwoods Sleuth

Did he manage to say that with a straight face?

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 4:01:19pm

And there it is
they’re gonna do it

Senate conservatives are signaling they’ll block Wednesday’s planned Democratic bid to enshrine protections for in-vitro fertilization into federal law - and they’re calling IVF a states-rights issue,” Politico reports.

Now follow this:
Ivf is a states rights issue
But abortion should be banned nationwide

William Lewis Feb 27, 2024 • 4:01:23pm

re: #51 Nerdy Fish

The problem is that people have taken the idea of “the Bible is the inspired Word of God” a bit too far. It’s supposed to mean that the Bible is the authoritative book God gave us for how to practice our religion. The literalists take it to mean that the Bible is literal, factual truth, and that it is a complete guide to life, the universe, and everything. I mean, for Christ’s sake, literally 2/3 of the Bible is history, poetry, or rules for goat herders living in the fucking desert. What’s that supposed to teach us about science?

What I would give for a trip in a TARDIS to go back and sneak in a verse about the number 42 being the answer to everything and to be thankful for all the fish…

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 4:02:38pm

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 4:04:22pm

re: #52 Florida Panhandler

The Bible shows the way a series of Bronze-age largely anonymous sources thought about the world and their oral history, filtered through an ad-hoc council in 300AD dictated over by a Roman Ceaser.

(unless you think they we’re the ones specifically inspired by god) //

Nerdy Fish Feb 27, 2024 • 4:07:01pm

re: #56 William Lewis

What I would give for a trip in a TARDIS to go back and sneak in a verse about the number 42 being the answer to everything and to be thankful for all the fish…

Have the latter one be a line in the book of Jonah somewhere. ;)

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 4:07:32pm

re: #55 Dangerman

And there it is
they’re gonna do it

Now follow this:
Ivf is a states rights issue
But abortion should be banned nationwide

Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 4:11:25pm

re: #48 Dangerman

The pro-life party

Ps…will never pass

Rando explained

Apparently AZ is mostly against this

Background on this, Its based on a murder case for a guy called George Kelly (75) , an AZ rancher who shot at a group of unarmed migrants crossing his property in 2022 and he killed one of them and is on trial for manslaughter currently.

Yeah but this will blow up in their stupid faces, sure, we are in an election year and AZ is a battleground state but stupid shit like this is pretty offensive to all but a small group of true believers, it will be dubbed the murder bill or something and will be a complete electoral liability, as James Carville said, if you see your opponent drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anchor.

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 4:24:52pm

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2024 • 4:39:16pm

Watching today’s Veritasium:

The Trillion Dollar Equation

Reminds me of some acquaintances back in the late 1980’s who had started to delve into neural nets (then a new thing, as far as computers) to take advantage of the non-efficient stock market.

The video touches on some of the mathematics, which by itself is not too over-the-top for someone who has had a calculus class, but the implications are far more profound.

The entire ideas of randomness and efficiency when applied to groups of humans, as in a “market”, calls into question beliefs about ourselves as free-will actors.

Somehow we can act individually as though we have free will, but in the big picture we are part of a group that will manifest itself according to physics as described by math.

ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 4:46:46pm

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 4:48:18pm

Decatur Deb Feb 27, 2024 • 4:51:09pm

re: #65 darthstar

Not Phillips head—JIS (Jawa Industrial Standard).

Backwoods Sleuth Feb 27, 2024 • 4:52:59pm

This is Blaze. He’s formally announcing that he’s running for president in 2024. Couldn’t be happier about it. 14/10 he’s got our vote pic.twitter.com/4vVvd7x2mb

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) February 27, 2024

Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 4:53:53pm

re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We’re governed by laws that physics is uncovering. Those laws seem to include a randomness that averages out over scale.

We are people, we have basic functions and needs, and those are somewhat predicament especially in the aggregate. Our system can generally handle that people aren’t exactly the same, except in the extreme situations such as a pandemic or someone walking into a school and killing.

Nojay UK Feb 27, 2024 • 4:54:13pm

re: #66 Decatur Deb

Not Phillips head—JIS (Jawa Insdustrial Standard).

Ooooh, a fastener nerd. Come sit next to me and let’s talk about why Torx Plus is superior in the production environment compared to old-school regular Torx and the difference between Whitworth and SAE thread profiles.

Backwoods Sleuth Feb 27, 2024 • 4:54:25pm

This is Korey. He’s a diabetic alert dog. While his human was keeping her blood sugar intentionally low to prep new scent samples for training, he kept alerting her and bringing her more and more juice. Turns out it’s tricky to explain homework to a dog. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/B6PkArr4G6

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) February 27, 2024

Decatur Deb Feb 27, 2024 • 4:56:00pm

re: #69 Nojay UK

Ooooh, a fastener nerd. Come sit next to me and let’s talk about why Torx Plus is superior in the production environment compared to old-school regular Torx and the difference between Whitworth and SAE thread profiles.

My truck requires Whitworth, SAE, and metric wrenches. Made in Solihull, of course.

Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 5:03:49pm

re: #68 Belafon

I’m also like the cop in Free Guy: does it matter? In going to study physics, math, the trumpet, and Spanish, and make sure Trump doesn’t get reelected.

Nojay UK Feb 27, 2024 • 5:04:29pm

re: #71 Decatur Deb

My truck requires Whitworth, SAE, and metric wrenches. Made in Solihull, of course.

No BA fasteners? I’ve recently pulled some old lab gear apart and ended up with a bunch of British Association nuts and bolts (6BA and 2BA mostly). I needed some BA nuts and bolts a few years ago to fix up the electrical switchgear on some workshop tools rescued from a school that was being demolished and I had to source new stock for mucho dinero, now I’ve got them coming out of my ears.

The instruments on your truck might use BA threads if they’re Smiths Industries come to think of it. Joe Lucas, the Prince of Darkness, used them too if I recall.

Decatur Deb Feb 27, 2024 • 5:05:52pm

re: #73 Nojay UK

Smiths 24v and Lucas, for my sins.

Nojay UK Feb 27, 2024 • 5:07:15pm

re: #74 Decatur Deb

Smiths 24v and Lucas, for my sins.

You poor poor thing…

Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 5:08:31pm

Seems they’re just reporting this today:

McCanna Anthony “Mac” Sinise, a multi-instrumental musician and the son of actor Gary Sinise, died of a rare cancer called chordoma on Jan. 5. He was 33. https://t.co/i1A4M1Ignr

— Variety (@Variety) February 28, 2024

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 5:10:54pm

re: #51 Nerdy Fish

Goat herders guide to the galaxy.

William Lewis Feb 27, 2024 • 5:11:44pm

Listening to this, I’m having flashbacks to my ‘77 Triumph Bonneville… Beautiful T-140V 750cc and a delight on the rare occasions it ran. Purple & Silver.

I finally sold it to a restorer in the mid-80’s after the old Triumph had died and before the new Triumph and started.

BeenHereAwhile Feb 27, 2024 • 5:12:13pm

re: #74 Decatur Deb

Smiths 24v and Lucas, for my sins.

Positive or negative ground?

Decatur Deb Feb 27, 2024 • 5:13:18pm

re: #79 BeenHereAwhile

Positive or negative ground?

Negative, where there are still earthing straps at all.

Nerdy Fish Feb 27, 2024 • 5:14:26pm

re: #79 BeenHereAwhile

Positive or negative ground?

Oh, man, that brings back some memories. Old 6- and 12-volt positive ground systems I used to work on as a teenager. High voltage mechanical ignition from a magneto… That sucker laid me out once.

Backwoods Sleuth Feb 27, 2024 • 5:14:49pm

re: #17 gocart mozart

Tiny Johnson waiting in the principal’s office

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I’m not above finding this hilarious. pic.twitter.com/zKG542SVBf

— John Collins (@Logically_JC) February 27, 2024

Backwoods Sleuth Feb 27, 2024 • 5:24:15pm

Jon Stewart remembers his best boy, Dipper. pic.twitter.com/S8p4nuOFZ5

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 27, 2024

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 5:24:55pm

So it looks like Michigan is hell bent on embarrassing President Biden. They low-balled their hopes so they could claim victory once they crossed 10,000. They’re at 11,000+ already, so STOP THE PRESSES!!! Fucking assholes.

Unabogie Feb 27, 2024 • 5:27:18pm

re: #84 darthstar

So it looks like Michigan is hell bent on embarrassing President Biden. They low-balled their hopes so they could claim victory once they crossed 10,000. They’re at 11,000+ already, so STOP THE PRESSES!!! Fucking assholes.

This will turn out great. Trump will be 10,000 times better for the Palestinians. It’s gonna be fantastic.

(And once Trump starts his assault on Muslims, these same folks will blame Democrats for not stopping him)

Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 5:33:14pm

re: #33 Nerdy Fish

Where in Jeremiah 1:5 does it say the soul enters the body when the body is formed? Does it even mention a soul at all?

And when God looks at other women, he knows they’re not ready, and doesn’t prevent then from getting an abortion. He either controlls it all or he doesn’t.

Decatur Deb Feb 27, 2024 • 5:33:34pm

The GFM to offer succor to the impoverished Trump family has pretty much hit the wall below $1.3M. Almost 23,000 suckers are sending their kids to school with PBJ foldovers this week.

sizzzzlerz Feb 27, 2024 • 5:34:51pm

re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Watching today’s Veritasium:

The entire ideas of randomness and efficiency when applied to groups of humans, as in a “market”, calls into question beliefs about ourselves as free-will actors.

Somehow we can act individually as though we have free will, but in the big picture we are part of a group that will manifest itself according to physics as described by math.

Author Isaac Asimov used this concept in his Foundation series, written back in the early ’50s. He called it “psychohistory” invented by psychohistorian Harry Selden. In the book, psychohistory’s fundamental premise is that it is impossible to predict future actions taken by individual humans but, grouped in large numbers, their actions can be predicted and, as a result, directed.

Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 5:36:18pm

re: #24 nines09

Whenever I watch a movie or show, I always try to figure out which city they are in, and then the neighborhood by the scenery.
With AI you can kiss that goodbye.

A picture is worth a thousand words.
But what if the picture lies?

Marvel now films in a stage where a room the size of a small stadium has walls where they project the scenery. They don’t green screen most of the shot.

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 5:36:22pm

Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 5:41:02pm

re: #41 William Lewis

Combine this with VR for the next generation of the porn industry and you’ll see a level of change like when VHS killed the porn theaters.

I think it was in Burning Chrome, but there was a story where the viewers could feel what the actors felt.

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 5:43:03pm

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William Lewis Feb 27, 2024 • 5:43:10pm

re: #91 Belafon

I think it was in Burning Chrome, but there was a story where the viewers could feel what the actors felt.

That will be the next gen fleshlight/suit I’m sure…

Semper Fi Feb 27, 2024 • 5:43:46pm

re: #44 Dangerman

To me, that translates to: I knew you when you were a spirit.

Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 5:44:09pm

re: #90 darthstar

That’s where the cookies are, dude.

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 5:44:52pm

re: #91 Belafon

I think it was in Burning Chrome, but there was a story where the viewers could feel what the actors felt.

I remember that movie…

Kentucky Fried Movie - Feel Around

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 5:54:10pm

re: #96 darthstar

I remember that movie…

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Video

The spoof of Enter the Dragon in that movie was fucking hilarious…as well as the porn spoof Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.

Decatur Deb Feb 27, 2024 • 5:55:00pm

The Tingler (1959)

“Percepto!” was a gimmick where Castle attached electrical “buzzers” to the underside of some seats in theaters where The Tingler was screened to provide “tingling” sensations during certain scenes.[14][8] The buzzers were small surplus airplane wing deicing motors left from World War II. The cost of this equipment added $250,000 to the film’s budget.[1] It was used predominantly in larger theaters. The prologue claimed some people might not be susceptible to the “tingling” to take account that not all seats were wired.[8]

en.wikipedia.org

darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 5:57:15pm

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Patricia Kayden Feb 27, 2024 • 6:02:15pm

re: #84 darthstar

Just a question but don’t Muslims tend to vote for Republicans? At least pre-Trump. I assume that most of them are socially conservative.

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sagehen Feb 27, 2024 • 6:04:43pm

re: #88 sizzzzlerz

Author Isaac Asimov used this concept in his Foundation series, written back in the early ’50s. He called it “psychohistory” invented by psychohistorian Harry Selden. In the book, psychohistory’s fundamental premise is that it is impossible to predict future actions taken by individual humans but, grouped in large numbers, their actions can be predicted and, as a result, directed.

Until a “nobody could have predicted this” couple of outliers (the Mule; and the one girl who liked him well enough as-is that he didn’t alter her emotions) came along and fucked up all Harry’s expectations.

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The Ghost of a Flea Feb 27, 2024 • 6:07:53pm

re: #97 darthstar

The spoof of Enter the Dragon in that movie was fucking hilarious…as well as the porn spoof Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.

The various cells full of old men sorted by whether they are drunk and/or no longer care remains a bit that makes me dissolve into laughter just thinking about it.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Feb 27, 2024 • 6:09:43pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle isn’t worried about that sea mine off the port bow. It can’t hurt us, it’s one of ours.

Click to Reveal

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SibData: 3,3,3,5,6

Was this posted here earlier? I’ve added a caption.

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Jay C Feb 27, 2024 • 6:18:20pm

re: #103 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Yes, already posted, but still funny.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 6:20:49pm

re: #98 Decatur Deb

The very first movie my Dad took me to was THE TINGLER and he sat in one of the seats with PERCEPTO. Oh when the screen went blank as the Tingler ran wild in the movie Vinnie the P shouted SCREAM FOR YOUR LIFE as the Percepto was turned on and Dad YELPED from his seat.

I was so BLEEPING embarrassed…

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sizzzzlerz Feb 27, 2024 • 6:21:16pm

re: #101 sagehen

Until a “nobody could have predicted this” couple of outliers (the Mule; and the one girl who liked him well enough as-is that he didn’t alter her emotions) came along and fucked up all Harry’s expectations.

if that hadn’t happened, the series would only have had two volumes.

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Florida Panhandler Feb 27, 2024 • 6:22:57pm

re: #84 darthstar

So it looks like Michigan is hell bent on embarrassing President Biden. They low-balled their hopes so they could claim victory once they crossed 10,000. They’re at 11,000+ already, so STOP THE PRESSES!!! Fucking assholes.

No, these are the same assholes who willl parse themselves into those influential few with power and wealth that support the New Trump Reality and pledge eternal loyalty to Trump himself for protected status.

The 99% rest of their area population can go to hell as Trump’s Christian warriors do what they have always wanted to do in that area with free reign.

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Vicious Babushka Feb 27, 2024 • 6:29:01pm

re: #84 darthstar

So it looks like Michigan is hell bent on embarrassing President Biden. They low-balled their hopes so they could claim victory once they crossed 10,000. They’re at 11,000+ already, so STOP THE PRESSES!!! Fucking assholes.

Biden won Michigan, fuck Rashida.

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Vicious Babushka Feb 27, 2024 • 6:29:38pm

I am in Florida now. Fuck Ron DeSantis.

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Charles Johnson Feb 27, 2024 • 6:31:07pm

That Google Adsense policy violation I had earlier? Now removed after I requested a review. Again.

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wrenchwench Feb 27, 2024 • 6:31:38pm

Mastodon

I said birb, but I lack lips.

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wrenchwench Feb 27, 2024 • 6:32:49pm

re: #109 Vicious Babushka

I am in Florida now. Fuck Ron DeSantis.

He doesn’t stand a chance, now.

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Eclectic Cyborg Feb 27, 2024 • 6:34:17pm

Despite the fake media narrative, Biden crushed Dean Phillips, and the so-called ‘Uncommitted’ protest vote was barely higher than the number of people who voted Uncommitted for Obama in 2012. Meanwhile, Trump continues to underperform the polls. Story. https://t.co/MXlmIA2J0s

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 28, 2024

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Vicious Babushka Feb 27, 2024 • 6:34:44pm

My son put me up at this fancy shmancy hotel, not the Holiday Inn where I usually stay. Because this one is on the beach. Tomorrow I will post pictures of me on the beach. I forgot to bring flip flops.

Anyway here is the room. Looks just like a Holiday Inn room. The only difference between this place and the Holiday Inn (other than the price!) is that this joint is on the beach.

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 6:34:49pm

Also appearing in Florida right now. Even though most of us have already done the “measles thing”, Florida Lizards, please be careful!

Feigenbaum Xitter post

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BeenHereAwhile Feb 27, 2024 • 6:35:53pm

re: #78 William Lewis

Listening to this, I’m having flashbacks to my ‘77 Triumph Bonneville… Beautiful T-140V 750cc and a delight on the rare occasions it ran. Purple & Silver.

I finally sold it to a restorer in the mid-80’s after the old Triumph had died and before the new Triumph and started.

Norton Commando.

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Vicious Babushka Feb 27, 2024 • 6:37:30pm

All of my grandkids have been vaccinated.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 6:41:40pm

re: #78 William Lewis

Listening to this, I’m having flashbacks to my ‘77 Triumph Bonneville… Beautiful T-140V 750cc and a delight on the rare occasions it ran. Purple & Silver.

I finally sold it to a restorer in the mid-80’s after the old Triumph had died and before the new Triumph and started.

Mine?

Dad said it was the car with the ass kicked in…

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 6:47:19pm

ManhattanBirdAlert Xitter post

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wrenchwench Feb 27, 2024 • 6:49:26pm

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 6:49:46pm

re: #117 Vicious Babushka

All of my grandkids have been vaccinated.

As wise and pro-active family!

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HRH Stanley Sea Feb 27, 2024 • 6:57:22pm

re: #114 Vicious Babushka

Relax. You’ve gone through a lot. I’m so glad you have such a large wonderful family.

Here’s to Zeddo’s rehab.

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steve_davis Feb 27, 2024 • 6:57:54pm

re: #97 darthstar

The spoof of Enter the Dragon in that movie was fucking hilarious…as well as the porn spoof Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.

Oh god yes… “Bruce Lee” lecturing the German shepherd: “concentrate! Con…cen…trate!”

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 6:58:23pm

Gee, I wonder who this comment and another comment: “Come to think of it, she would be a marvelous U.S. attorney general in a second Biden term.” might be aimed at. ;)

Rubin Xitter post

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Dave In Austin Feb 27, 2024 • 7:03:00pm

I got the upper respiratory Hochie Cue.
Hacking paste.
100.4 temp. Covid test is cooking

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teleskiguy Feb 27, 2024 • 7:04:19pm

re: #109 Vicious Babushka

I am in Florida now. Fuck Ron DeSantis.

A state of almost 22 million people. I can’t fathom that.

I live in western Colorado, empty space is literally walking distance from my front door.

And also there’s not enough affordable housing but we’re working on it I guess…

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Vicious Babushka Feb 27, 2024 • 7:12:10pm

re: #126 teleskiguy

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 7:15:15pm

re: #109 Vicious Babushka

I am in Florida now. Fuck Ron DeSantis.

Hoping that Florida will fire Prick Scott!

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teleskiguy Feb 27, 2024 • 7:17:37pm

re: #127 Vicious Babushka

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BeenHereAwhile Feb 27, 2024 • 7:21:54pm

Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenwei…
Remember, tomorrow the Supreme Court hears cases aimed at forcing social media platforms to promote Nazi and other hate speech and horrific lies.
Feb 25, 2024 at 12:32 PM

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Nerdy Fish Feb 27, 2024 • 7:25:03pm

re: #130 BeenHereAwhile

Lauren Weinstein
@lauren @mastodon.laurenwei…
Remember, tomorrow the Supreme Court hears cases aimed at forcing social media platforms to promote Nazi and other hate speech and horrific lies.
Feb 25, 2024 at 12:32 PM

I saw all the threads about these arguments. Ironically enough, Beerbro Fratboy might actually single-handedly save the First Amendment from complete destruction. He was having none of either Florida or Texas’s shit. I’ve said before: Whatever Kavanaugh’s personal failings, he appears to be doing his level best to be a reasonable facsimile of a thoughtful jurist.

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teleskiguy Feb 27, 2024 • 7:41:51pm

Saw a bunch of Discourse about the Taylor Lorenz/Chaya Raichik interview.

Vaush did it right, IMHO.

I Have Never Seen Someone Look This Bad In An Interview

It’s super long and sometimes annoying BUT it is a good analysis of Chaya Raichick. She is DUMB

Taylor did a good here, IMO.

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BeenHereAwhile Feb 27, 2024 • 7:44:09pm

.… The DOJ has argued that Google’s deal with Apple—valued at $26 billion in 2021—helped to build a “moat around Google’s monopoly” by blocking any meaningful new entrants in the general search market. This alleged monopoly, the DOJ claimed, has kept Google from improving its own search quality, only doing so when competitors like Bing started to get ahead. This means that Google can afford to spend years providing slower and less accurate results, the DOJ alleged, without losing its market dominance.

At the antitrust trial, Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained that Google pays Apple 36 percent of its search advertising revenue from Safari to keep its search engine set as the default in Apple’s browser because default placements can be “very valuable.” . .

arstechnica.com

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 7:50:30pm

re: #132 teleskiguy

Saw a bunch of Discourse about the Taylor Lorenz/Chaya Raichik interview.

Vaush did it right, IMHO.

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It’s super long and sometimes annoying BUT it is a good analysis of Chaya Raichick. She is DUMB

Taylor did a good here, IMO.

She is dumb, but she’s also pure hate, and that’s why people do her bidding.

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silverdolphin Feb 27, 2024 • 7:52:02pm

re: #133 BeenHereAwhile

.… The DOJ has argued that Google’s deal with Apple—valued at $26 billion in 2021—helped to build a “moat around Google’s monopoly” by blocking any meaningful new entrants in the general search market. This alleged monopoly, the DOJ claimed, has kept Google from improving its own search quality, only doing so when competitors like Bing started to get ahead. This means that Google can afford to spend years providing slower and less accurate results, the DOJ alleged, without losing its market dominance.

At the antitrust trial, Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained that Google pays Apple 36 percent of its search advertising revenue from Safari to keep its search engine set as the default in Apple’s browser because default placements can be “very valuable.” . .

arstechnica.com

From reading the article, a big problems comes from Google’s early mover advantage. Microsoft said ti would take 17 years to accumulate the same data that Google had. Apple shut down its own search engine because it would take too long to become competitive. .

Is the DOJ case actually going to make things better for consumers? Or only for the investors in these companies?

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Patricia Kayden Feb 27, 2024 • 7:54:41pm

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 7:54:59pm

re: #135 silverdolphin

From reading the article, a big problems comes from Google’s early mover advantage. Microsoft said ti would take 17 years to accumulate the same data that Google had. Apple shut down its own search engine because it would take too long to become competitive. .

Is the DOJ case actually going to make things better for consumers? Or only for the investors in these companies?

I think the deal should actually go in reverse: Google should be forced to license access to it’s data at reasonable prices and let others build on top of it. It can keep it’s search algorithm proprietary, but not the data.

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silverdolphin Feb 27, 2024 • 7:55:31pm

Florida Republicans run scared from ‘unborn child’ bill after backlash to Alabama ruling

The bill would have allowed a rapist to sue if their victim got an abortion. That was okay, But now they are worried about IVF. Likely because many of those paying the GOP’s bils are also in favor of IVF. Poor people get raped and have to raise the child. Rich people have access to IVF.

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 7:57:28pm

re: #136 Patricia Kayden

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They could also offer random versions where they serve from unmixed to mixed but not cooked to partially cooked to fully cooked. They’re all cakes.

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Patricia Kayden Feb 27, 2024 • 7:57:49pm

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Vicious Babushka Feb 27, 2024 • 7:58:16pm

re: #138 silverdolphin

Florida Republicans run scared from ‘unborn child’ bill after backlash to Alabama ruling

The bill would have allowed a rapist to sue if their victim got an abortion. That was okay, But now they are worried about IVF. Likely because many of those paying the GOP’s bils are also in favor of IVF. Poor people get raped and have to raise the child. Rich people have access to IVF.

Well, you would not do IVF with a rapist, although some guys in Alabama might want you to.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 7:58:28pm

re: #136 Patricia Kayden

Better yet—customer wants a cake sell them frozen batter! 😏

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 8:04:03pm

World stuff that I am currently following:

1. Ukraine claimed that it downed a 2nd Russian SU-34 today.

2. The Houthis launched 5 ‘suicide’ drones against a US and a German warship. All were reportedly shot down. But one of these days, the Iranians and Houthis are going to get lucky. And the Germans may have neglected to reorder enough anti-aircraft missiles.

3. Yesterday somebody sent an envelope with “unknown white powder” to tfg’s eldest failson. There was excitement. I’m wondering if his most recent cocaine order got intercepted.

4. Macron of France and Polish President Dudaj said that NATO must be prepared to put “boots on the ground” in Ukraine. And German Chancellor Sholz replied that “that is a great big Nope”. Scholz is also under pressure to send more Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. He has declined so far.

5. One French and 3 Jordanian C-130s, in coordination with the Israelis, airdropped Humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip.

6. 6 Members of an alleged Russian spy ring have been busted in the UK.

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 8:04:20pm

Outside of Dearborn, Michigan, things look good for @JoeBiden. Spoke to over a dozen Democrats in Detroit, who have all voted for him.

Suzy Villarreal, 63, self-employed, voted for Joe at the Maybury Elementary School in Detroit.

“The alternative is a nutcase, who is trying to… pic.twitter.com/f2dgZWBc3d

— Nandita Bose (@nanditab1) February 27, 2024

Results so far according to the google:

Dean can’t even beat the woman not in the race.

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Hecuba's daughter Feb 27, 2024 • 8:04:56pm

re: #131 Nerdy Fish

I saw all the threads about these arguments. Ironically enough, Beerbro Fratboy might actually single-handedly save the First Amendment from complete destruction. He was having none of either Florida or Texas’s shit. I’ve said before: Whatever Kavanaugh’s personal failings, he appears to be doing his level best to be a reasonable facsimile of a thoughtful jurist.

Color me skeptical but I do not think anyone who supported the Dobbs decision can be characterized as a thoughtful jurist.

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 8:06:24pm

re: #143 ckkatz

4. Macron of France and Polish President Dudaj said that NATO must be prepared to put “boots on the ground” in Ukraine. And German Chancellor Sholz replied that “that is a great big Nope”. Scholz is also under pressure to send more Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. He has declined so far.

The likelihood of direct action against Russia goes up the worse it goes for Ukraine, Chancellor, and you can help Ukraine by sending missiles.

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Patricia Kayden Feb 27, 2024 • 8:06:43pm

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Interesting Times Feb 27, 2024 • 8:06:52pm

re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter

Color me skeptical but I do not think anyone who supported the Dobbs decision can be characterized as a thoughtful jurist.

The most generous thing I could possibly say about such a person is that they’re too dumb to comprehend the concept of unintended consequences.

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Ace Rothstein Feb 27, 2024 • 8:07:51pm

re: #35 darthstar

If Russia isn’t our enemy, who is?

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Vicious Babushka Feb 27, 2024 • 8:08:14pm

re: #149 Ace Rothstein

If Russia isn’t our enemy, who is?

Wokeness.

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 8:09:34pm

And Haley could end up with delegates:

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 8:11:44pm

re: #149 Ace Rothstein

If Russia isn’t our enemy, who is?

Immigrants, blacks, Jews, women, gays, trans, deer, magnetic catapults, electric cars, 15 minute cities…

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Patricia Kayden Feb 27, 2024 • 8:13:59pm

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Ace Rothstein Feb 27, 2024 • 8:15:48pm

re: #152 Belafon

Immigrants, blacks, Jews, women, gays, trans, deer, magnetic catapults, electric cars, 15 minute cities…

Bud Light, Taylor Swift, tan suits, Garth Brooks, ice hockey, puppies, kittens, medium rare steaks…

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 8:16:04pm

re: #153 Patricia Kayden

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Based on primary results so far, everyone else can tell what centrists actually are.

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 8:23:52pm

Yaver Xitter post

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silverdolphin Feb 27, 2024 • 8:26:09pm

Just a heads up to deal with the NYT style news from Michigan. Polls had shown that Biden would get 77% of the vote and uncommitted would get 16%.

Right now Biden is over 80% and uncommitted is less than 14%. One side seems to be overperforming the polls.

The same poll said Trump would get 76% and Haley would get 24%. Trump now has 67% and Haley has 27%.

SO, once again, Biden is overperforming and his competiiton is underperforming compared to the polls (but not by much. The polls were not too far off). However, Trump really underperforms once again by 9 points and Haley overperforms.

But the media will all be about the 14% uncommitted for Biden, even though it is less than the polls suggested. Will anyone talk about the 27% for Haley or the 3% uncommitted bringing us to 30% who do not want Trump

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 8:28:27pm

re: #156 ckkatz

Hey Clay Travis!

What does this Grown Man love to get from the local Mom and Pop gelato shop?

This!

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Romantic Heretic Feb 27, 2024 • 8:28:34pm

re: #146 Belafon

Yeah. I’m in the “Send them everything they ask for” camp.

If Russia wins in Ukraine it’s only a (short) matter of time before Putin goes after NATO. That will cost far more in treasure and blood than helping Ukraine now.

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 8:29:22pm

Republicans in disarray!
(Senator R-IN)

Desiderio Xitter post

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 8:33:40pm

‘Benedict Arnold’: Carlson slammed over claim he can’t be a ‘traitor’ since his family fought in Rev war

During a recent interview with the conservative show Chief Nerd, Carlson mentioned, “The idea that I’ve been flacking for Putin when my relatives fought in the Revolutionary War. I’m as American as you could be. [Atlantic staff writer] Anne Applebaum calls me a ‘traitor.’ It’s just, like, so dumb.”

Applebaum replied to Carlson’s statement via X (formerly Twitter), writing, “Lots of people whose relatives fought in the Revolutionary war took up arms against the United States in 1861, and they were traitors too.”

alternet.org

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 8:34:30pm

(Tenbarge is an NBC Reporter.)

Tenbarge Xitter post

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Jay C Feb 27, 2024 • 8:34:49pm

re: #144 Belafon

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Dean can’t even beat the woman not in the race.

Well, to give him his due, he DID attract more voters in the D primary than Ron DeSantis did in his….
But then again, even Marianne the non-candidate collected more votes than Ron.

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darthstar Feb 27, 2024 • 8:36:26pm

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 8:36:32pm

re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅

That gelato looks delicious!

I learn a heck of a lot of new (to me) things from the folks here.

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Dangerman Feb 27, 2024 • 8:38:37pm

So Trump is “cruising” to victory over Haley with 67% of the vote while Biden is facing “significant” opposition with 80% of the vote.

Yeah, the media isn’t biased.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 8:39:31pm

CK here’s the web place of the Mom & Pop Gelato shop I love to go to. They make Gelato in small batches and love to experiment.

eccounpoco.com

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silverdolphin Feb 27, 2024 • 8:40:23pm

re: #166 Dangerman

So Trump is “cruising” to victory over Haley with 67% of the vote while Biden is facing “significant” opposition with 80% of the vote.

Yeah, the media isn’t biased.

And Trump is underperforming what the polls said while Biden is again over performing. Will it be mentioned?

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BeenHereAwhile Feb 27, 2024 • 8:47:19pm

re: #135 silverdolphin

From reading the article, a big problems comes from Google’s early mover advantage. Microsoft said ti would take 17 years to accumulate the same data that Google had. Apple shut down its own search engine because it would take too long to become competitive. .

Is the DOJ case actually going to make things better for consumers? Or only for the investors in these companies?

Apparently even Microsoft doesn’t have the resources to make a sustainable move into the data market..

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mmmirele Feb 27, 2024 • 8:49:17pm

re: #117 Vicious Babushka

All of my grandkids have been vaccinated.

Bless your children for taking care of this! I keep seeing signs about needing to vaccinate one’s children for what we called “childhood diseases” and I think it’s because we’ve got low levels of infection in the local schools.

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 8:51:47pm

re: #167 Joe Bacon ✅

CK here’s the web place of the Mom & Pop Gelato shop I love to go to. They make Gelato in small batches and love to experiment.

eccounpoco.com

I’m thinking I may be on the wrong side of the country. You seem to have found an excellent group of restaurants!

Pre-Covid I use to go to a couple of ice cream places in Falls Church, and to Toby’s in Westover Village-Arlington.

When in Westover, I would generally head over to the Lost Dog (pizza) or Stray Cat (hamburger/’American’) chain for dinner. (They support a dog and cat adoption foundation.)

There were a couple of good ice cream places in Downtown DC in Georgetown and Dupont Circle. But my enthusiasm for schlepping down there has been decreasing.

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silverdolphin Feb 27, 2024 • 8:59:48pm

re: #170 mmmirele

Bless your children for taking care of this! I keep seeing signs about needing to vaccinate one’s children for what we called “childhood diseases” and I think it’s because we’ve got low levels of infection in the local schools.

If the outbreak in Florida increases much more, it will be very hard to stop. It could run through the elections. And a very high percentage of children are hospitalized with this disease. Will it change any minds?

Of worry also are whooping cough outbreaks in low vaccination areas. These have been seen in a few places already. Since it is a spring-summer disease, this could get worse. Infants cannot be given the vaccine for the disease and can easily succumb to pneumonia if they get it.

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BeenHereAwhile Feb 27, 2024 • 9:08:02pm

re: #170 mmmirele

Bless your children for taking care of this! I keep seeing signs about needing to vaccinate one’s children for what we called “childhood diseases” and I think it’s because we’ve got low levels of infection in the local schools.

Die to the increasing numbers of (vaccinated) parents who refuse to get their children vaccinated, “childhood diseases” will become adult diseases as the non-vac population ages.

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William Lewis Feb 27, 2024 • 9:09:48pm

re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter

Color me skeptical but I do not think anyone who supported the Dobbs decision can be characterized as a thoughtful jurist.

OTOH, we are talking in comparison to Alito and Thomas…

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silverdolphin Feb 27, 2024 • 9:13:46pm

Federal judge rules against pregnant workers in win for Paxton

Yep, Paxton hates pregnant women in the workforce. And, of course a nutball Texas Federal judged decided he could rule on House protocols. On its way to the Supreme Curt, undermining a lot of legistation from the COVID years.

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ckkatz Feb 27, 2024 • 9:15:01pm

Just caught a bit of a weather report. Multiple tornado touchdowns in Chicago area. Currently rotation detected in a storm approaching Kalamazoo County, Michigan.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 9:22:51pm

Ever see an eclipse from the surface of Mars?

NASA Releases Trailblazing Video Of Partial Eclipse On Mars

NASA’s Mars Rover captured video of one of the planet’s moons partially eclipsing the sun.

Phobos passes in front of the Sun.

weather.com

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jaunte Feb 27, 2024 • 9:28:52pm

@scalzi.com

Tornado watches in Ohio in February, very normal weather we’ve made for ourselves these last few years for sure

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 9:35:46pm

re: #175 silverdolphin

Federal judge rules against pregnant workers in win for Paxton

Yep, Paxton hates pregnant women in the workforce. And, of course a nutball Texas Federal judged decided he could rule on House protocols. On its way to the Supreme Curt, undermining a lot of legistation from the COVID years.

Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see if the Supreme Court decides to rule in favor of the House making its own rules or not. Each House can make up its own rules, unless Paxton decides otherwise.

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 9:41:10pm

I’ve held plenty of meetings where none of us are in the office, and guess what? We can still make decisions.

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Belafon Feb 27, 2024 • 10:00:16pm

An update:

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silverdolphin Feb 27, 2024 • 10:16:24pm

re: #181 Belafon

An update:

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Biden increasingluy overperforms the last poll (was predicted 77%) and uncommitted underperforms (was predicted 16%). Both now outside MOE.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 10:32:24pm

Dean Phillips said his campaign was gonna take off in Michigan.

Note that he’s running behind Marianne Williamson which means it looks like that takeoff blew up at the launch pad…

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William Lewis Feb 27, 2024 • 10:37:25pm

re: #183 Joe Bacon ✅

Dean Phillips said his campaign was gonna take off in Michigan.

Note that he’s running behind Marianne Williamson which means it looks like that takeoff blew up at the launch pad…

It took off just fine.

Just like a SpaceX Starship 🤣🤣🤣

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 27, 2024 • 10:41:27pm

re: #184 William Lewis

Farm Film Report2

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Dave In Austin Feb 27, 2024 • 11:39:48pm

Lauren Boebert’s son was just arrested for several crimes including contributing to a minor’s delinquency

Same son who impregnated a kid

Her ex was arrested for exposing his genitals to kids

She herself was exposed for groping genitals in public

Party of Family Values y’all😏

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) February 28, 2024

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 12:59:09am

re: #19 Dr. Matt

Translation: They will be left with no one.

There is no “pro-Putin wing” they are the pro-Putin party.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 1:01:49am

re: #23 ckkatz

AI will change adult entertainment forever. The risks — for sex workers and the rest of us — are profound.

They are like uber drivers, a provisional stopgap until they can be replaced by self-driving cars or self-fucking bots.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 1:07:20am

re: #55 Dangerman

And there it is
they’re gonna do it

Now follow this:
Ivf is a states rights issue
But abortion should be banned nationwide

remember their big hit:

slavery is a states rights issue
But northern states are required to return escaped slaves

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 1:15:14am

re: #149 Ace Rothstein

If Russia isn’t our enemy, who is?

Bud Light
LGBTQ
Antifa
BLM
DEI
Kale

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 1:49:34am

Wake me up when the thread recovers…

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Patricia Kayden Feb 28, 2024 • 2:29:38am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 28, 2024 • 2:35:38am

Elvis Presley - The Girl I Never Loved (Official Audio)

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William Lewis Feb 28, 2024 • 2:36:26am

re: #192 Patricia Kayden

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Yeah, he’s stupid enough that he might actually believe that.

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ericblair Feb 28, 2024 • 2:45:50am

The yam’s performance in Michigan is even worse if you look at where he was in 2020.

I’m guessing that the rather thorough unfunding and unpersoning of RFK Jr and No Labels(TM) lately are from the gooper realization that they were magnets for disaffected goopers and not Dems.

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steve_davis Feb 28, 2024 • 2:59:15am

re: #161 Joe Bacon ✅

‘Benedict Arnold’: Carlson slammed over claim he can’t be a ‘traitor’ since his family fought in Rev war

During a recent interview with the conservative show Chief Nerd, Carlson mentioned, “The idea that I’ve been flacking for Putin when my relatives fought in the Revolutionary War. I’m as American as you could be. [Atlantic staff writer] Anne Applebaum calls me a ‘traitor.’ It’s just, like, so dumb.”

Applebaum replied to Carlson’s statement via X (formerly Twitter), writing, “Lots of people whose relatives fought in the Revolutionary war took up arms against the United States in 1861, and they were traitors too.”

alternet.org

Benedict Arnold also fought for the Americans in that war.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 28, 2024 • 3:08:01am

“Apocalypse” in Critical Scholarship

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Targetpractice Feb 28, 2024 • 3:14:58am

re: #181 Belafon

An update:

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It didn’t really matter how well “Uncommitted” did, anything greater than 1% is going to be portrayed as Biden in “danger” and the pundits screaming louder that he needs to drop out.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 28, 2024 • 3:18:02am

re: #197 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Here I will apply it to climate change (as mentioned in the video.)

The “doomers” are pushing harder the idea that there cannot be, and some asserting there should not be, a “soft landing”.

This is a subject for a long discussion, but here I will raise the problem of waste heat.

Currently, waste heat compared to trapped solar energy, is much smaller than the latter.

Annual energy addition to the surface of the Earth-system, by waste heat, is estimated to be 1.5% of that of trapped solar energy.

But something overlooked by many is that most of that waste heat is generated by a small minority of the planet.

The US consumes about one sixth of all the energy used by us humans on the planet.

But we are only a bit over 4% of the planet’s population.

IF we believe that all humans have a right to live the luxurious life we Americans have, then the waste heat figure will go up dramatically.

What this means: a global civilization living at American standards will heat the surface of the Earth about one third as fast as the trapped solar energy. Up from just 1.5%.

This means after 3 centuries, a global civilization will have raised the surface temp around 2C just from waste heat alone.

This, btw, is why movie representations of global advanced civilizations are just wacky. Take Star Wars for example, with the center of the Empire on a planet covered by a giant city. Said planet would be boiling hot.

So yes, the doomers have a point.

Any civilization in which humans use machines that require energy (and they all do), will end in disaster.

Or should we say apocalypse.

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Targetpractice Feb 28, 2024 • 3:22:05am

re: #195 ericblair

[Embedded content]

The yam’s performance in Michigan is even worse if you look at where he was in 2020.

I’m guessing that the rather thorough unfunding and unpersoning of RFK Jr and No Labels(TM) lately are from the gooper realization that they were magnets for disaffected goopers and not Dems.

The 538 average had Trump at 78.7% going into last night, and Biden down at 70.7% in the latest poll. So Trump continues to underperform and Biden continues to overperform, yet the Beltway theme will continue to be that Trump is strutting his way to the nomination while Biden is in dire straits.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 28, 2024 • 3:25:33am

re: #199 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I think I over estimated the total waste heat of 8 billion people living at US standards.

Still, the total will be significantly greater than what it is now.

Maybe it’ll take 6 centuries to get to plus 2C from waste heat, instead of 3.

Regardless, there will be no millenium-long high-energy-consumption civilization.

The waste heat problem will just be too big (to say nothing of the resource extraction problem.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 28, 2024 • 3:29:26am

Some people are claiming that everybody has the right to air-conditioning.

This is part of the “climate justice” conundrum.

It’s all a fantasy, because the resources need to provide every household with an air conditioner, even if it is a heat pump, are too great.

Heat pumps are wonderful but they are not perpetual energy machines.

I suspect that this will all be given-up by 2050. Assuming we’ve not killed ourselves via world war, the pressure of maintaining a high-energy lifestyle will drive the world into a frenzy and then economic collapse.

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William Lewis Feb 28, 2024 • 3:47:26am

Fan made trailer …

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 28, 2024 • 3:50:26am

One application of all this apocalypticism:

The current US political system is broken, I think we can all agree, if one expects a government to truly represent its people.

The anti-democratic forces in the US are pushing very hard to stamp out any advances made in the right to vote.

This is in great measure desperation on their part.

The US now has 340 million people. Even at only a .5% population growth rate, by 2100 the US population will be near 500 million.

The current arrangement of 435 Representatives is not enough for such a population.

And if the electoral college survives, it will be even more archaic than it is now.

The push to live high-energy lifestyles is not going to go away.

This is all a formula for some dramatic shifts that will happen in our society.

The anti-immigrant faction of our electorate is going to continue to scream louder and louder.

For example, in my Facebook timeline popped up a meme (from an in-law) championing that the “wall” needs to be “electrified”.

Putting aside the maliciousness of such thinking, how is one going to run an electric fence in the middle of the Rio Grande for a thousand miles?

Ok, so the xenophobic Trumpers are not very bright. Not a new revelation.

Yet they are salivating with hate.

The pressure from migrants will not go away.

The Trumping wing of the American electorate will not be able to reconcile that with their beliefs.

This issue of migration will be played out in borders all over the world.

We really do need to adjust our political system to handle:
1) a population of half a billion people, who will be concentrated in about half the states;
2) massive migration pressure.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 28, 2024 • 3:59:42am

re: #204 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Another example of where governance is currently missing the urge to change: Australia.

Earlier I linked the latest Veritasium video, in which Derek mentioned he has relocated to Australia.

He did not explain why.

Perhaps it was a family thing.

Australia has lots of resources but not many people.

And the right wing know-nothings are very prominent in Australia (remember the Murdochs came from Australia.)

But Australians do seem to be less affected by their religious right, at least in their governance.

Regardless of their internal political machinations, the demands on Australia for accepting migrants is going to go up, significantly, as the century moves on.

As sea level rises, the very populated nations of the Indonesia and Malaysia will need an outlet. And the small island nations will need to be rescued.

Some nations (currently on small islands) may need to be completely relocated.

And Australia is the closest large land mass.

But will the Australian electorate be able to handle this?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 4:01:37am

re: #205 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Australia has a large and powerful fossil fuels lobby.

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dharmamark Feb 28, 2024 • 4:01:42am

Pope taken to hospital - how this is bad for Biden…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 4:02:59am

re: #207 dharmamark

Pope taken to hospital - how this is bad for Biden…

If Biden has to be hospitalized between now and November, even briefly for a minor condition, there will be no end of howling about how he is too old and weak and sickly for another term…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 4:09:58am

re: #171 ckkatz

A little outside of the VA area, Morkerko’s in Silver Spring has great ice cream.

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Patricia Kayden Feb 28, 2024 • 4:11:52am

re: #204 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

“The US now has 340 million people. Even at only a .5% population growth rate, by 2000 the US population will be near 500 million.”

By 2000?

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Dangerman Feb 28, 2024 • 4:21:45am

Kimberly Godwin, the president of ABC News, said privately that recent comments by President Donald Trump about Black people were “as racist as they come,” Semafor reports.
Said Godwin in an email: “No matter one’s politics, the fact that a person running for President of the United States made these remarks period — but also to a public crowd — and with so many black people present — and that they stand with him — is mind blowing. Shocking.”

that’s some profile in courage

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 4:22:24am

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 4:23:26am

re: #211 Dangerman

that’s some profile in courage

He’s not President.

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Nerdy Fish Feb 28, 2024 • 4:28:50am

I felt sure I had this on the third guess.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 984 4/6*

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Second spoiler for actual spoiler.

Click to Reveal

I guess it’s in the details, as they say.

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Patricia Kayden Feb 28, 2024 • 4:28:55am

re: #211 Dangerman

Black Conservatives appear to be as anti-Black as any Neo Nazi. It doesn’t surprise me that they support Trump no matter what racist garbage spews out of his mouth. Thankfully, they are in the minority in the Black community. Most of us aren’t delusional.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 4:29:16am

re: #213 darthstar

He’s not President.

one addresses even former Presidents by that title.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 4:33:09am

The word fits.
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 28, 2024 • 4:37:26am

re: #210 Patricia Kayden

“The US now has 340 million people. Even at only a .5% population growth rate, by 2000 the US population will be near 500 million.”

By 2000?

Ooops … 2100.

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 4:38:39am

re: #214 Nerdy Fish

Indeed. My first ace. Thanks for the assist.

Wordle 984 1/6

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Nerdy Fish Feb 28, 2024 • 4:39:19am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

one addresses even former Presidents by that title.

Only in certain circumstances. With respect to this particular former President, I feel it is dangerous to refer to him as President in any circumstance that is not the exactly correct (extremely formal) situation, because it feeds into his delusion that he is, in actual fact, still President.

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 4:40:20am

My first ace should have been BEACH about five or six months ago because that was my starting word for a good year. Then one day I mixed it up and started with REACH and had to settle for an eagle. I was fuckin’ pissed at myself that morning.

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Patricia Kayden Feb 28, 2024 • 4:42:19am

Deleted. Mastadon link didn’t work.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 4:43:21am

re: #220 Nerdy Fish

Only in certain circumstances. With respect to this particular former President, I feel it is dangerous to refer to him as President in any circumstance that is not the exactly correct (extremely formal) situation, because it feeds into his delusion that he is, in actual fact, still President.

I understand aned generally agree, just stating that it is not (formally) incorrect.

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Patricia Kayden Feb 28, 2024 • 4:43:23am

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 4:44:01am

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Nerdy Fish Feb 28, 2024 • 5:10:34am

I know one of the common counter-arguments against the Alabama Supreme Court’s theocratic “every embryo is a living person” decree runs along the lines of, “So if I serve you an egg, does that mean I murdered a chicken?” There’s a problem with how this argument lands, though. In our minds, it’s perfectly rational; embryo -> human = egg -> chicken, right? But the thing you have to realize is, in the minds of the theocrats, humans are special. According to the literalist interpretation of the Bible, God explicitly and specifically created man and woman as separate from the animals. Therefore, any comparison of an embryo to any other undeveloped animal is automatically invalid, because only humans are worthy of having a soul, the fundamental difference that makes them special. Put more simply, to them, an embryo has a human soul, whereas an egg does not; so there’s no difference between serving chicken meat or a chicken egg.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 5:20:09am

re: #226 Nerdy Fish

Those arguments just highlight the fallacy of their legal premise.

And they quote an obscure bit from Jeremiah while wilfully ignoring other Biblical passages that state clearly that life starts at the first breath and treat killing an unborn child as a form of property damage.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 5:20:58am

re: #224 Patricia Kayden

DJT has been compromised since long before he took office.

At least as far back as 2008 when he had to turn to some shady lenders to keep his property empire afloat.

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Nerdy Fish Feb 28, 2024 • 5:26:42am

re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Those arguments just highlight the fallacy of their legal premise.

And they quote an obscure bit from Jeremiah while wilfully ignoring other Biblical passages that state clearly that life starts at the first breath and treat killing an unborn child as a form of property damage.

I never said their legal argument was a good one; I just wanted to explain the mindset behind why, when you make these sorts of arguments to these people, they will dismiss you out of hand. It’s not that the “egg = embryo” argument is factually wrong; it’s that it doesn’t comport with their religious notions of what makes human beings special, so they simply discard it altogether. And when they are making legal decisions based on their highly distorted religious dogma, it’s worth pointing out their thought processes.

As for the last part, I think we’ve been over that ad nauseam. I was careful to point out that the verse in question doesn’t even make the argument they want to make, they simply took a conclusion (“life begins at the instant of fertilization”) and reverse-engineered a Bible verse so that it became a religious issue, and thus subject to the First Amendment’s freedom of religion clause.

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Decatur Deb Feb 28, 2024 • 5:28:18am

How bad are our local (Baja Alabama) politics? My incumbent puke is challenging an even greater nutcase incumbent in a redistricted US House race. Our current guy, the saner one, is bringing Marjorie Taylor Greene in to help him this week.
al.com

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Dr Lizardo Feb 28, 2024 • 5:29:31am

Some drive time music for you, from the Canadian band The Beaches:

The Beaches - Blame Brett

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Shropshire Slasher Feb 28, 2024 • 6:08:34am

I would buy this in a heartbeat.

The eclectic London home that Freddie Mercury designed to fit his eccentric lifestyle has hit the market for offers over £30 million (US$38 million).

Garden Lodge, in the capital’s posh Kensington, was Mercury’s much-loved home from 1980—when on a first viewing he decided to buy the property on the spot—until his death in 1991, at which point the Queen frontman’s residence and everything in it was bequeathed to his one-time fianceé and close friend, Mary Austin.

mansionglobal.com

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lawhawk Feb 28, 2024 • 6:09:09am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Looks like Michigan again confounds pollsters and continues that trend. Pollsters keep overestimating Trump support and underestimating Biden support. Trump keeps underperforming the expected outcomes by significant margins, while Biden overperforms slightly.

Why?

Biden support is stronger than we give him credit for, even as Michigan protest vote is comparable to what happened in 2012 with Obama. It’s a fraction of the uncommitted vote from 2008.

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Dr Lizardo Feb 28, 2024 • 6:12:55am

And here…
we…
go…..

Pro-Russian separatist officials in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria have appealed to Moscow for “protection”, according to a resolution passed by a special congress of the region on Wednesday.

Officials will ask Russia’s Federation Council and State Duma “to implement measures to protect Transnistria in the face of increased pressure from Moldova”, the resolution said, according to local and Russian news agencies.

barrons.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 6:13:12am

From the AP: out -of-control wildfires in Texas. Nuclear weapons facility had to briefly shut down.

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lawhawk Feb 28, 2024 • 6:14:34am

Google’s image AI is .. um… what’s the phrase? All kinds of fucked up beyond all recognition.

Just last week, Google was forced to pump the brakes on its AI image generator, called Gemini, after critics complained that it was pushing bias … against white people.

The controversy started with — you guessed it — a viral post on X. According to that post from the user @EndWokeness, when asked for an image of a Founding Father of America, Gemini showed a Black man, a Native American man, an Asian man, and a relatively dark-skinned man. Asked for a portrait of a pope, it showed a Black man and a woman of color. Nazis, too, were reportedly portrayed as racially diverse.

The technical reasons? The AI is trying to compensate for the fact that there are now things like female or persons of color who are attorneys and can be president or VP. Or business leaders.

But of course there’s a freakout because this generated images of the Founders as persons of color. The freakout is by exactly who you’d think.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 6:15:42am

re: #234 Dr Lizardo

“Why did Soviet forces spend so much time in their occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968?”

-“They were looking for the person who requested their help!”

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Nerdy Fish Feb 28, 2024 • 6:19:45am

re: #233 lawhawk

But I am told by Reliable Sources (tm) that this is just a flash in a pan, that Biden is old and is not doing a good job as President, and that the Democratic Party should immediately take him off the ballot and replace him, regardless of how impossible it is.

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Dave In Austin Feb 28, 2024 • 6:21:01am

18 years old

22 charges

Who could have predicted this?

All of us. pic.twitter.com/vB22TbiOk3

— CoffeyTimeNews (@CoffeyTimeNews) February 28, 2024

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lawhawk Feb 28, 2024 • 6:30:53am

re: #239 Dave In Austin

Boebert’s out to make Sarah Palin’s kkklan look tame by comparison.

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 6:34:34am

re: #239 Dave In Austin

What did her son get arrested for?

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Decatur Deb Feb 28, 2024 • 6:35:51am

re: #241 darthstar

It looks like a string of car break-ins with theft of ID and credit cards. Must have had a young companion.

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rhuarc Feb 28, 2024 • 6:36:14am

re: #241 darthstar

What did her son get arrested for?

huffpost.com

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Dr Lizardo Feb 28, 2024 • 6:37:55am

re: #241 darthstar

What did her son get arrested for?

Rep. Lauren Boebert’s 18-year-old son, Tyler Boebert, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and is facing 22 charges, including several felony charges relating to a string of crimes in her Colorado district.

According to a Facebook post by the Rifle Police Department, the 18-year-old Boebert was arrested after a “recent string of vehicle trespass and property thefts” in Rifle, a town in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district.

According to Garfield County Jail’s records, the younger Boebert is facing four counts of criminal possession of a financial device, four counts of criminal possession of ID documents, and a count of conspiracy to commit a felony.

He’s also charged with four misdemeanor counts of ID theft, three misdemeanor counts of first-degree criminal trespass, and three misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

businessinsider.com

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 6:43:16am

re: #244 Dr Lizardo

Oh my Cthulhu!

Watch Klannie Oakley double down on her Hunter Biden attacks.

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 6:44:22am

“I don’t know how many political lives he has,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said of the speaker. “But I think it’s really important that we get [Ukraine] done.”

He suggested Johnson could attach HR 2 and send it back to the Senate

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) February 27, 2024

Mikey, you have utterly butchered the spelling and the pronunciation of “Donald.” https://t.co/V2XQR2youH

— Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@SlavaMalamud) February 27, 2024

The senate didn’t “drop the issue” they passed a bill with bipartisan support!

A bill Johnson is obstructing as a pretext for obstructing a bipartisan Ukraine aid bill while his caucus gorges on Russian propaganda about Hunter Biden. https://t.co/TXIoASIQgr https://t.co/Flc1ZGm15X

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 28, 2024

UNBELIEVABLE: As Speaker Mike Johnson holds up Ukraine aid, questions reemerge about the illegal money he received from at least one Russian oligarch.

In 2018, Johnson received campaign contributions from the company “American Ethane,” 88% of which is owned by three Russian… pic.twitter.com/64Y7a5L84T

— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) February 28, 2024

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jeffreyw Feb 28, 2024 • 6:46:40am

pickle, onion, mustard, habanero mango hot sauce

Good morning!

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 6:48:59am

re: #236 lawhawk

But of course there’s a freakout because this generated images of the Founders as persons of color.

The only thing wrong with images of our founding fathers as black is that the blacks at the time weren’t dressed that well.

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 6:49:06am

re: #243 rhuarc

re: #244 Dr Lizardo

Pshaw! That’s her old district…no wonder she moved…the crime there is terrible. He should just argue he was collecting campaign donations for his mother and that’s why he needed other people’s credit cards and IDs.

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Randall Gross Feb 28, 2024 • 6:52:52am

From Justin Doyle, who does not care about Taylor Lorenz’s brand:

jude-doyle.ghost.io

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 7:02:45am

re: #250 Randall Gross

From Justin Doyle, who does not care about Taylor Lorenz’s brand:

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jude-doyle.ghost.io

I went to go google Lorenz, because I didn’t remember who she was, and the Hill has an article titled “Watch: Libs of Tiktok obliterates Taylor Lorenz over Transgenderism”. Same video that others were talking about how it makes Libs look like an idiot

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 7:06:07am

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Patricia Kayden Feb 28, 2024 • 7:06:25am

re: #239 Dave In Austin

Classy

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Randall Gross Feb 28, 2024 • 7:07:15am

re: #250 Randall Gross

From Justin Doyle, who does not care about Taylor Lorenz’s brand:

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jude-doyle.ghost.io

Chaya and Taylor, the “ally” and the “enemy,” represented two sides of the same baseline contempt for trans people. Both of them were equally determined to make sure that trans people did not become the focus of this story. Neither of them believed that trans people ought to be allowed to speak for themselves. Taylor Lorenz is not Chaya Raichik’s adversary. She is her collaborator, in a very successful joint project. Both of them set out to make bank and boost their brands on the back of a dead fucking kid.

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 7:08:36am

re: #251 Belafon

I went to go google Lorenz, because I didn’t remember who she was, and the Hill has an article titled “Watch: Libs of Tiktok obliterates Taylor Lorenz over Transgenderism”. Same video that others were talking about how it makes Libs look like an idiot

This is why she was stupid to do the interview. Libs is an evil piece of shit who should be shunned and ignored…and sued until she’s penniless by Nex’s parents and has her wages garnished for the rest of her life to pay the damages.

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Patricia Kayden Feb 28, 2024 • 7:08:58am

re: #234 Dr Lizardo

I hate to say this but I wouldn’t want an enclave of Russians in my country if I was Eastern European. This feels like a trend. I doubt Russia can afford two invasions at once though.

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 7:12:42am

re: #239 Dave In Austin

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I’m starting think Bobert is not only a terrible politician, but she is also a terrible person, mother, and grandmother….that’s sarc…..this isn’t—> She really needs some self-reflection and worry less about pwning the Libs and worry more about getting her shit together.

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 7:19:05am

re: #257 Dr. Matt

Kid’s just following in her footsteps. She was arrested when she was his age. She’s not going to win in the 4th district. They have other MAGA shitheads with less baggage there to choose from.

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Jay C Feb 28, 2024 • 7:20:48am

re: #258 darthstar

Kid’s just following in her footsteps. She was arrested when she was his age. She’s not going to win in the 4th district. They have other local MAGA shitheads with less baggage there to choose from.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 7:21:42am

So they really are Al and Peg Bundy in real life!

Donald and Melania Trump’s Many Fights Outlined in New Book

thedailybeast.com

Former President Donald Trump and his wife Melania had more than their fair share of spats during their time in the White House, according to a new book released Tuesday. In American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden author Kate Rogers detailed many of the couple’s feuds, highlighting how the president tried to suppress his wife’s independence and the small ways in which Melania tried to fight back. Rogers wrote about Melania’s efforts to decorate the White House residence, only to have her choices replaced by her husband. In another instance compiled by People, Trump flew into a fury on Air Force One when he caught his wife watching CNN, which she preferred, rather than his preferred Fox News. The commander-in-chief ordered that all their televisions needed to be turned to Fox News going forward. Rogers also documented Melania’s attempts to break from her husband’s extremist messaging. “Her tweets were small gestures that amounted to little more than digital ephemera,” Rogers writes. “Still, compared with her husband’s bridge burners, Melania’s missives established her as a rare figure in the Trump administration who seemed more interested in calming a cultural divide than widening it.”

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 7:23:39am

re: #258 darthstar

Kid’s just following in her footsteps. .

Another MAGA influenced white privilege on parade.

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Hecuba's daughter Feb 28, 2024 • 7:23:51am

re: #182 silverdolphin

Biden increasingluy overperforms the last poll (was predicted 77%) and uncommitted underperforms (was predicted 16%). Both now outside MOE.

and uncommitted is actually not against Biden — but against the Netanyahu. If a miracle happens and somehow this war ends soon(hopefully with a defeat of Hamas) with progress toward some two state solution, those uncommitted will all move to Biden

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lawhawk Feb 28, 2024 • 7:25:55am

re: #260 Joe Bacon ✅

So they really are Al and Peg Bundy in real life!

Donald and Melania Trump’s Many Fights Outlined in New Book

thedailybeast.com

Former President Donald Trump and his wife Melania had more than their fair share of spats during their time in the White House, according to a new book released Tuesday. In American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden author Kate Rogers detailed many of the couple’s feuds, highlighting how the president tried to suppress his wife’s independence and the small ways in which Melania tried to fight back. Rogers wrote about Melania’s efforts to decorate the White House residence, only to have her choices replaced by her husband. In another instance compiled by People, Trump flew into a fury on Air Force One when he caught his wife watching CNN, which she preferred, rather than his preferred Fox News. The commander-in-chief ordered that all their televisions needed to be turned to Fox News going forward. Rogers also documented Melania’s attempts to break from her husband’s extremist messaging. “Her tweets were small gestures that amounted to little more than digital ephemera,” Rogers writes. “Still, compared with her husband’s bridge burners, Melania’s missives established her as a rare figure in the Trump administration who seemed more interested in calming a cultural divide than widening it.”

I call bulkshit. She was no more interested in calming a cultural divide than indicating that she doesn’t care what happens to anyone not named Trump.

All these Trump books are one of a kind - hagiographies and revisionist history that underplays just how criminally deficient Trump and his cabal of cronies were in running the US government in every facet.

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Dr Lizardo Feb 28, 2024 • 7:26:06am

re: #256 Patricia Kayden

I hate to say this but I wouldn’t want an enclave of Russians in my country if I was Eastern European. This feels like a trend. I doubt Russia can afford two invasions at once though.

Yeah - having a Russian enclave of sizeable proportions seems to be a pretext Putin will cheerfully use to move on in to “protect” them.

OK….off to see Dune: Part Two. Tonight’s the premiere evening here in Czech Republic.

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Hecuba's daughter Feb 28, 2024 • 7:26:27am

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is no “pro-Putin wing” they are the pro-Putin party.

With an anti-Putin wing.

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 7:27:37am

re: #260 Joe Bacon ✅

The commander-in-chief ordered that all their televisions needed to be turned to Fox News going forward.

Looky, looky, Diaper Donny and Dick Cheney are twins: Cheney’s Hotel Room Checklist: Fox News. Diet Sprite. And keep the lights on for him.

Now it turns out that Cheney really likes the news at Fox — so much so that when he travels, the television at his hotel room needs to be turned on to Fox when he arrives

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lawhawk Feb 28, 2024 • 7:28:16am

re: #265 Hecuba’s daughter

With the pro-Putinists wondering if those anti-Putin folks have wings…

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Shropshire Slasher Feb 28, 2024 • 7:28:44am

An emotional Chippewa Falls School Board meeting was filled with parents seeking answers as to why they weren’t notified immediately after a potential school threat in October 2023.
Several people at Tuesday night’s meeting interjected with shouts of “Irrelevant” or “Why don’t you lie louder?”

Ten Chippewa Falls residents spoke during public comment. Many of them thanked the district for taking swift action to what could’ve been a tragedy, and many of those same speakers harshly criticized administrators on what they call a ‘lack of transparency’ and a ‘lack of accountability.’

It was months later that parents learned of the potential threat after the release of police records on a right wing YouTube channel called Louder with Crowder.

Gerald Morgan with Louder with Crowder, and who is also a Chippewa Falls resident, said district leaders deprived parents of information.

“These parents could have been your line of defense asking questions to their kids saying, ‘Hey, have you been talking about this stuff? Has this been happening?’ If the lawyers say you can’t put somebody’s information out there specifically, I understand that, too. It could’ve been very general,” said Morgan. “You have to understand that you deprived parents of this (info.) and if you’re going to say the law is preventing you, then guess what? This fight just got bigger and the law needs to change.”

wqow.com

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lawhawk Feb 28, 2024 • 7:28:58am

re: #266 Dr. Matt

Tell me what I want to hear, or else.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 7:29:25am

re: #236 lawhawk

But of course there’s a freakout because this generated images of the Founders as persons of color. The freakout is by exactly who you’d think.

Probably because as some point it sampled images from Hamilton.

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Teukka Feb 28, 2024 • 7:31:01am

Personal Update:

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 7:35:11am

West Virginia loses a cultural icon. 😢

Hundreds Gather At Candlelight Vigil for Last Hooters in West Virginia

Hundreds of devoted friends and neighbors gathered to honor the closure of a beloved restaurant ahead of its planned demolition on Monday. The Kanawha City eatery was West Virginia’s last remaining Hooters. “It’s a lot of memories going down with that building,” one resident who attended the vigil told a local station. The restaurant known for chicken wings and its provocatively dressed waitresses fell victim to pandemic closures in 2020 and never reopened; instead, the land will be used for a Sheetz gas station. Though the vigil began partly in jest, plenty of former employees and guests attended to reunite with familiar faces there. They brought signs in the chain’s signature orange and wore merch to honor the good times, hot wings, and tiny clothes enjoyed at the establishment. Though the chain has been hit with a number of scandals and backlash in recent years, there were only loving sentiments at the West Virginia gathering. “Long live Hooters!” an emotional crowd cheered. “Long live Hooters!”

thedailybeast.com

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 7:36:17am

re: #272 Joe Bacon ✅

West Virginia loses a cultural icon. 😢

Hundreds Gather At Candlelight Vigil for Last Hooters in West Virginia

Hundreds of devoted friends and neighbors gathered to honor the closure of a beloved restaurant ahead of its planned demolition on Monday. The Kanawha City eatery was West Virginia’s last remaining Hooters. “It’s a lot of memories going down with that building,” one resident who attended the vigil told a local station. The restaurant known for chicken wings and its provocatively dressed waitresses fell victim to pandemic closures in 2020 and never reopened; instead, the land will be used for a Sheetz gas station. Though the vigil began partly in jest, plenty of former employees and guests attended to reunite with familiar faces there. They brought signs in the chain’s signature orange and wore merch to honor the good times, hot wings, and tiny clothes enjoyed at the establishment. Though the chain has been hit with a number of scandals and backlash in recent years, there were only loving sentiments at the West Virginia gathering. “Long live Hooters!” an emotional crowd cheered. “Long live Hooters!”

thedailybeast.com

It’s because John Cole is now in Arizona, isn’t it. //

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lawhawk Feb 28, 2024 • 7:38:08am

re: #270 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Immigrants. We get the job done.

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Eventual Carrion Feb 28, 2024 • 7:39:55am

re: #103 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Tomorrow’s Wordle isn’t worried about that sea mine off the port bow. It can’t hurt us, it’s one of ours.

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4/6 morning here

Click to Reveal

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 7:40:27am

re: #272 Joe Bacon ✅

West Virginia loses a cultural icon. 😢

Hundreds Gather At Candlelight Vigil for Last Hooters in West Virginia

Hundreds of devoted friends and neighbors gathered to honor the closure of a beloved restaurant ahead of its planned demolition on Monday.

Are they going to use a pair of pink wrecking balls?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Feb 28, 2024 • 7:41:05am

re: #274 lawhawk

Immigrants. We get the job done.

AI = American Immigrants

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lawhawk Feb 28, 2024 • 7:43:01am

re: #276 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Truck junk.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 7:49:32am

And Hunter Biden opens fire on Comer Pyle

Hunter Biden testified Wednesday that he “did not involve” his father, President Biden, in his business dealings, delivering the message at the beginning of his highly anticipated deposition as part of the GOP’s impeachment inquiry into the president.

“I am here today to provide the committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business. Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist. Never,” Biden said during his opening statement.

thehill.com

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 7:52:37am

re: #269 lawhawk

Tell me what I want to hear, or else.

Exactly. This is why Limbaugh, am hate radio, OAN/Fox/News, etc are so popular.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 7:55:03am

From the AP: Chatbots inaccurate misleading responses about US elections might keep voters from the polls

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 7:57:20am

Love That Jamie!

‘Comedy of errors’: Jamie Raskin sticks a fork in GOP impeachment probe

rawstory.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 8:01:51am

re: #282 Joe Bacon ✅

I agree. Rep Raskin is very good. :)

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Hecuba's daughter Feb 28, 2024 • 8:03:51am

re: #204 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

….

The US now has 340 million people. Even at only a .5% population growth rate, by 2100 the US population will be near 500 million.

…..
We really do need to adjust our political system to handle:
1) a population of half a billion people, who will be concentrated in about half the states;
2) massive migration pressure.

The world cannot handle an annual .5% population growth — our nation cannot handle that either … not in the long term. At that rate, in 300 years, there would be 35 billion people on the planet and 1.5 billion here. Drastic measures will be needed to save our planet and our nation from catastrophic collapse.

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Hecuba's daughter Feb 28, 2024 • 8:06:32am

re: #214 Nerdy Fish

I felt sure I had this on the third guess.

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3 for me

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gocart mozart Feb 28, 2024 • 8:06:37am

The short answer as to what young master Boebert is charged with: stealing credit cards and buying shit with them.

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Hecuba's daughter Feb 28, 2024 • 8:10:19am

re: #224 Patricia Kayden

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It didn’t take legal fees for him to be for sale. He was already sold before he was elected the first time — sold to anyone who would enrich him further. Wealth has always been his sole motivation.

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Shropshire Slasher Feb 28, 2024 • 8:11:35am

Wear your seatbelt.

This is the crazy moment a suspect was propelled from their car after a high speed car chase and crash, which shockingly left the one-year-old passenger unscathed.

Antoine L Lindsey, 30, of Cleveland, Ohio, led the North Olmsted Police Department on a high speed car chase on Sunday night.

The car chase stared near Great Northern Mall after officers tried to stop Lindsey for license plate and brake light violations just before 5:30 pm.

dailymail.co.uk

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steve_davis Feb 28, 2024 • 8:13:06am

Damn, this rocks…..Joe should never have gone off to the Eagles.

James Gang - Walk Away (1971)

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Shropshire Slasher Feb 28, 2024 • 8:19:27am

President Biden told reporters Wednesday he’s getting his annual physical as questions mount about his mental fitness as he seeks a second term in November.
The 81-year-old president shouted, “I’m going to Walter Reed to get my physical” as he walked to the Marine One helicopter on the White House lawn.

The doctor’s appointment was not announced in advance, nor was it on the presidential schedule given a day ahead of time to the executive press corps.

nypost.com

Olivia Newton-John - Physical (Official Music Video) [Remastered 2021]

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Vicious Babushka Feb 28, 2024 • 8:20:16am

re: #172 silverdolphin

If the outbreak in Florida increases much more, it will be very hard to stop. It could run through the elections. And a very high percentage of children are hospitalized with this disease. Will it change any minds?

Of worry also are whooping cough outbreaks in low vaccination areas. These have been seen in a few places already. Since it is a spring-summer disease, this could get worse. Infants cannot be given the vaccine for the disease and can easily succumb to pneumonia if they get it.

BIDEN’S FAULT!!!1!!!!!1!!!!!///

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Vicious Babushka Feb 28, 2024 • 8:21:23am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 8:22:16am

re: #292 Vicious Babushka

That is beautiful.

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BeachDem Feb 28, 2024 • 8:23:39am

re: #263 lawhawk

I call bulkshit. She was no more interested in calming a cultural divide than indicating that she doesn’t care what happens to anyone not named Trump.

All these Trump books are one of a kind - hagiographies and revisionist history that underplays just how criminally deficient Trump and his cabal of cronies were in running the US government in every facet.

Yeah—all I can say to Katie Rogers is:
A. Who gives a fuck
B. Why wait so long to report (hah—of course she waited till it came out in her “book”)

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 8:26:07am

Fleurs

Mastodon

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 8:27:52am

re: #294 BeachDem

Melania’s as trashy as her husband.

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Oblongatis Feb 28, 2024 • 8:29:46am

re: #150 Vicious Babushka

Wokeness.

Read a comment on the Washington Post last week, going to have to paraphrase.

“When I read “Woke” used as a pejorative, I substitute “insufficiently racist”, and that usually preserves the original intent.”

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BeachDem Feb 28, 2024 • 8:33:39am

re: #296 darthstar

Melania’s as trashy as her husband.

Fer shur!! Maybe even trashier (in multiple languages//)

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Unabogie Feb 28, 2024 • 8:37:35am

Hunter should answer every question about “did you talk to your father, blah, blah, blah?” with “Yeah, I talk to my dad. I’m not Don Jr. My dad actually loves me and cares how I’m doing”

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gocart mozart Feb 28, 2024 • 8:44:30am

Please give Lauren Boebert’s family the same decency and respect in this time of crisis as she and the rest of the republicans have given Hunter Biden.

— Jay Black (@jayblackisfunny) February 28, 2024

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Hecuba's daughter Feb 28, 2024 • 8:46:10am

re: #296 darthstar

Melania’s as trashy as her husband.

100%

I don’t really care
do U?

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Feb 28, 2024 • 8:48:55am

re: #296 darthstar

Melania’s as trashy as her husband.

She married a narcissistic sociopath for his money. She’s a gold-digger and a creep, but no one is as trashy as Donald Trump is.

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KGxvi Feb 28, 2024 • 8:56:16am

re: #85 Unabogie

This will turn out great. Trump will be 10,000 times better for the Palestinians. It’s gonna be fantastic.

(And once Trump starts his assault on Muslims, these same folks will blame Democrats for not stopping him)

What do you want those voters to do? Just shut up and go along with whatever policy that the Biden has? They don’t have a right to express their displeasure/disagreement with a guy they helped elect? They’re using what political power they have to try and move Biden’s policy - maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t, but these are important issues to this voting block and they feel like they are being ignored in favor of a stupid policy (the “Hug Bibi” bullshit that has made the US look incredibly stupid).

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Teukka Feb 28, 2024 • 8:56:50am

NEW: Suspicious white powder spilled out of envelope addressed to Justice Engoron this morning, sources tell @Law360, prompting emergency response. Two are isolated. Judge not exposed. (@rscharf_ 📸) pic.twitter.com/0HvznxQhUE

— Frank G. Runyeon (@frankrunyeon) February 28, 2024

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Markm1960 Feb 28, 2024 • 8:57:16am

re: #299 Unabogie

Hunter should answer every question about “did you talk to your father, blah, blah, blah?” with “Yeah, I talk to my dad. I’m not Don Jr. My dad actually loves me and cares how I’m doing”

Since Trump is directing all of this he and his sycophants in congress are having a hard time believing that Biden isn’t directing Hunter’s activities and skimming his fair share because that’s what Trump would do.

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KGxvi Feb 28, 2024 • 8:57:54am

re: #239 Dave In Austin

the kid all the way on the right looks scarier

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The Ghost of a Flea Feb 28, 2024 • 8:58:18am

re: #265 Hecuba’s daughter

With an anti-Putin wing.

“Replace Putin with a less-upsetting autocrat like MBS and keep the cheap gas and cheap labor flowing” wing.

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Markm1960 Feb 28, 2024 • 8:59:43am

re: #306 KGxvi

the kid all the way on the right looks scarier

Crazy eyes v dead eyes

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 9:05:18am

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 9:06:50am

re: #239 Dave In Austin

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We just started watching Season 5 of Fargo. Not a spoiler alert, this is from the first episode.

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No Malarkey! Feb 28, 2024 • 9:07:07am

Womp womp Meadows will be tried in Fulton County state court.

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JC1 Feb 28, 2024 • 9:13:49am

re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter

The world cannot handle an annual .5% population growth — our nation cannot handle that either … not in the long term. At that rate, in 300 years, there would be 35 billion people on the planet and 1.5 billion here. Drastic measures will be needed to save our planet and our nation from catastrophic collapse.

The world can easily support 35 billion people. Though it’s unlikely that we’ll ever have that many.

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Teddy's Person Feb 28, 2024 • 9:14:03am

re: #260 Joe Bacon ✅

Melania really showing her independence.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Feb 28, 2024 • 9:16:33am

re: #312 JC1

The world can easily support 35 billion people. Though it’s unlikely that we’ll ever have that many.

At 7-8 billion we already have major pollution problems.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 9:18:38am

Burchett makes an ass of himself again.

MAGA congressman shares bizarre conspiracy theory about Democrats and border on Fox News

And of course Presstitute Bartiromo eggs him on…

alternet.org

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gocart mozart Feb 28, 2024 • 9:19:11am

.@RepAOC @AOC on Hunter Biden deposition: “What we just witnessed over the last hour was I think a deep sea fishing expedition because the Republican case has completely fallen apart…” pic.twitter.com/VQoVAEvZPM

— CSPAN (@cspan) February 28, 2024

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 9:21:34am

Comer Pyle throws THE GRASSHOLE under the bus.

JAMES COMER IS NOW THROWING CHUCK GRASSLEY UNDER THE BUS AS BIDEN IMPEACHMENT IMPLODES

politicususa.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 9:22:04am

re: #316 gocart mozart

AOC is exactly right. Deep sea fishing expedition that is very polite. It seems it is more likely a poo fling hoping something will stick.

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gocart mozart Feb 28, 2024 • 9:22:32am

░B░U░S░E░Y░I░N░B░I░O░ https://t.co/ynACzAc7ey

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) February 28, 2024

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 9:23:52am

From the AP: Mitch McConnell is stepping down as Senate R Leader in November.

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danarchy Feb 28, 2024 • 9:26:14am

re: #312 JC1

The world can easily support 35 billion people. Though it’s unlikely that we’ll ever have that many.

Citation needed. We are already using most of the good arable land on the planet, with GMO and advanced farming practices maybe we could double the number of people we could feed…maybe. 35 Billion, I don’t see it.

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 9:26:17am

re: #316 gocart mozart

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Democrats better appear on every cable news network and broadcast news program this evening and tomorrow to give a detailed readout from today’s farcical hearing.

323

No Malarkey! Feb 28, 2024 • 9:26:54am

Trump can’t come up with the cash to stay the NY judgment. He wants to post a $100 million bond to get a stay.

324

ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 9:27:42am

re: #292 Vicious Babushka

That is indeed beautiful! Sounds like your family really wants you to stay.

325

Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 9:27:50am

re: #320 PhillyPretzel ✅

From the AP: Mitch McConnell is stepping down in November.

The fucker should have stepped down a decade ago.

326

Dangerman Feb 28, 2024 • 9:28:05am

re: #260 Joe Bacon ✅

thedailybeast.com
…Rogers writes. “…Melania’s missives established her as a rare figure in the Trump administration who seemed more interested in calming a cultural divide than widening it.”

bullshit
she was not doing that and was not ‘interested’ in doing that

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No Malarkey! Feb 28, 2024 • 9:28:24am

re: #321 danarchy

Citation needed. We are already using most of the good arable land on the planet, with GMO and advanced farming practices maybe we could double the number of people we could feed…maybe. 35 Billion, I don’t see it.

Might as well ask how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The population is likely to be falling by the end of the century; it may not ever reach 10 billion.

328

Dangerman Feb 28, 2024 • 9:28:38am

re: #263 lawhawk

I call bulkshit. She was no more interested in calming a cultural divide than indicating that she doesn’t care what happens to anyone not named Trump.

All these Trump books are one of a kind - hagiographies and revisionist history that underplays just how criminally deficient Trump and his cabal of cronies were in running the US government in every facet.

once again i say DAMN!

i must start reading ahead

329

ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 9:29:10am

re: #260 Joe Bacon ✅

Another rat trying to leave the sinking ship.

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 9:30:31am

re: #263 lawhawk

I call bulkshit. She was no more interested in calming a cultural divide than indicating that she doesn’t care what happens to anyone not named Trump.

Bingo. Mercedes defended Diaper Don’s racist birfer tirades.

331

BeenHereAwhile Feb 28, 2024 • 9:32:07am

re: #215 Patricia Kayden

Black Conservatives appear to be as anti-Black as any Neo Nazi. It doesn’t surprise me that they support Trump no matter what racist garbage spews out of his mouth. Thankfully, they are in the minority in the Black community. Most of us aren’t delusional.

Conservative blacks consider themselves to be the “new Moses” who will lead their people to the promised land.

“Now if they would only do as I do - all would be well.”

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No Malarkey! Feb 28, 2024 • 9:32:25am

re: #325 Dr. Matt

The fucker should have stepped down a decade ago.

You would’ve thought he was looking forward to working with a President Trump as majority leader again starting next January. ///

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ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 9:32:25am

re: #325 Dr. Matt

The fucker should have stepped down a decade ago.

You have to admit that he was really good at what he did.

Granted it was toadying to the ultra-rich, selling out America, and sticking shiv’s into the backs of people trying to make the world a better place…

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Dangerman Feb 28, 2024 • 9:34:36am

re: #292 Vicious Babushka

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waving from over here near Weston

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ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 9:37:13am

re: #272 Joe Bacon ✅

Back in the 1980’s, if I can recall correctly from the deep dark past, my brother and I decided to try the local Hooters.

Our conclusion was that the food wasn’t very good, even if it had been served, like it was supposed to have been, hot, and neither of us were into underage girls.

We never went back.

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Nerdy Fish Feb 28, 2024 • 9:37:45am

re: #323 No Malarkey!

Trump can’t come up with the cash to stay the NY judgment. He wants to post a $100 million bond to get a stay.

He can go fuck himself. Pony up, or Tish James is coming for your ass…ets.

337

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Feb 28, 2024 • 9:37:56am

re: #325 Dr. Matt

The fucker should have stepped down a decade ago.

His circulatory system tried to step down some time ago. You give people a taste of power and they try to hold onto the job until the end of their life.

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Dangerman Feb 28, 2024 • 9:39:19am

re: #323 No Malarkey!

Trump can’t come up with the cash to stay the NY judgment. He wants to post a $100 million bond to get a stay.

same rules for everybody
this is not a negotiation

339

Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 9:39:21am

Moscow Mitch to step down as Senate GOP Leader in November

rawstory.com

Now which Putinista will take over?

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Feb 28, 2024 • 9:39:59am

re: #335 ckkatz

Back in the 1980’s, if I can recall correctly from the deep dark past, my brother and I decided to try the local Hooters.

Our conclusion was that the food wasn’t very good, even if it had been served, like it was supposed to have been, hot, and neither of us were into underage girls.

We never went back.

Underage girls would have to have fake IDs to waitress at Hooters.

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Oblongatis Feb 28, 2024 • 9:40:54am

re: #321 danarchy

Citation needed. We are already using most of the good arable land on the planet, with GMO and advanced farming practices maybe we could double the number of people we could feed…maybe. 35 Billion, I don’t see it.

Soylent Green will save us all.

Consider moving to the Lunar Colonies for your retirement.

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Ace Rothstein Feb 28, 2024 • 9:41:38am

re: #339 Joe Bacon ✅

Moscow Mitch to step down as Senate GOP Leader in November

rawstory.com

Now which Putinista will take over?

Cornyn I would think.

343

No Malarkey! Feb 28, 2024 • 9:41:38am

re: #339 Joe Bacon ✅

Moscow Mitch to step down as Senate GOP Leader in November

rawstory.com

Now which Putinista will take over?

Valdemort? Cancun Cruz? Whoever it is will be terrible; here’s hoping they won’t be majority leader.

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 9:41:55am

re: #323 No Malarkey!

Trump can’t come up with the cash to stay the NY judgment. He wants to post a $100 million bond to get a stay.

Sorry, son, but it doesn’t work like that.

Cash On The Barrel Head

345

Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 9:43:01am

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Dangerman Feb 28, 2024 • 9:43:34am

re: #323 No Malarkey!

Trump can’t come up with the cash to stay the NY judgment. He wants to post a $100 million bond to get a stay.

what would be great is if while he is wasting time with this ‘negotiation’, James starts slapping liens on things

he gets mad and goes b-b-but”wait, i was trying to…”
and she says, “but the court did not rule…”
merely making a junk filing doesnt create any kind of stay

347

Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 9:43:44am

Now that Moscow Mitch is slithering away, I can’t wait for the librul MSM to start labeling him a “moderate”, “centrist”, and “statesman”.

348

Ace Rothstein Feb 28, 2024 • 9:44:08am

Time to sell your ass on some street corner in Alabama, Trump.

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ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 9:44:29am

re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

remember their big hit:

slavery is a states rights issue
But northern states are required to return escaped slaves

Yup.

When the slavers ran the US govt, they used the military to enforce slavery laws and prevent States Rights. On the grounds that helping escaped slaves was a violation of “property rights”.

As soon as they lost the Federal elections, they were against “Federal Tyranny” and enthusiastically for “States Rights”.

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Dangerman Feb 28, 2024 • 9:44:46am

re: #340 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Underage girls would have to have fake IDs to waitress at Hooters.

sure
and no one ever hires anyone who’s “undocumented” but has documents

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Ace Rothstein Feb 28, 2024 • 9:45:08am

re: #347 Dr. Matt

Now that Moscow Mitch is slithering away, I can’t wait for the librul MSM to start labeling him a “moderate”, “centrist”, and “statesman”.

“Brilliant tactician;” “uncanny understanding of how to work the levers of power.”

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ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 9:47:26am

re: #340 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Underage girls would have to have fake IDs to waitress at Hooters.

I didn’t ask and didn’t want to know. I had no plans to return and never did.

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goddamnedfrank Feb 28, 2024 • 9:47:31am

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jaunte Feb 28, 2024 • 9:52:28am

re: #348 Ace Rothstein

Time to sell your ass in some palace in Riyadh, Trump.

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 9:52:52am

re: #335 ckkatz

Back in the 1980’s, if I can recall correctly from the deep dark past, my brother and I decided to try the local Hooters.

Our conclusion was that the food wasn’t very good, even if it had been served, like it was supposed to have been, hot, and neither of us were into underage girls.

We never went back.

Their food is simply awful. I have ate several times when I was desperate food (e.g., late after seeing The Cure play a 3 hour set on a Sunday night) and everytime I hated their food. Chicken wings are their staple and they manage to fuck up something so simple with ungawdly amount of breading.

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ericblair Feb 28, 2024 • 9:53:16am

re: #349 ckkatz

Yup.

When the slavers ran the US govt, they used the military to enforce slavery laws and prevent States Rights. On the grounds that helping escaped slaves was a violation of “property rights”.

As soon as they lost the Federal elections, they were against “Federal Tyranny” and enthusiastically for “States Rights”.

If they don’t like what the state is doing then it’s Constitutional Sheriff time. It’s all about power, they don’t give a shit about any sort of principle.

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ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 9:54:45am

re: #309 darthstar

Hah!

Sometimes you can’t expect your audience to come to you. You have to meet your audience where they are…

Definitely a very hoppy video!

Thanks for posting!

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wrenchwench Feb 28, 2024 • 9:55:47am

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 9:59:26am

re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter

The world cannot handle an annual .5% population growth — our nation cannot handle that either … not in the long term. At that rate, in 300 years, there would be 35 billion people on the planet and 1.5 billion here. Drastic measures will be needed to save our planet and our nation from catastrophic collapse.

There was some report I read a couple of weeks ago that said that the population will hit about 10.5B and then actually start declining slightly. I think it was related to the same way our population would be declining if we didn’t have immigrants coming in.

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prairiefire Feb 28, 2024 • 10:00:11am

Crazy weather! It was 72 during the day to 27 degrees in the evening with snow.
It makes me concerned about Tornado season🌪️
Things are blooming, the bugs are out and the birds are singing. Not a Silent Spring!

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 10:00:20am

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 10:00:58am

re: #322 Dr. Matt

Democrats better appear on every cable news network and broadcast news program this evening and tomorrow to give a detailed readout from today’s farcical hearing.

I’m sure they’ll appear on every station they’re invited on.

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darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 10:01:11am

re: #346 Dangerman

His goal is to never pay anything. It’s fun watching him flail.

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lawhawk Feb 28, 2024 • 10:01:45am

re: #360 prairiefire

Heat waves in January and February. Temps 10-30 higher than normal. Wild temp swings. Sure. Everything is just fine.

Cue the fires. See also Texas Panhandle.

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sizzzzlerz Feb 28, 2024 • 10:01:48am

re: #335 ckkatz

Back in the 1980’s, if I can recall correctly from the deep dark past, my brother and I decided to try the local Hooters.

Our conclusion was that the food wasn’t very good, even if it had been served, like it was supposed to have been, hot, and neither of us were into underage girls.

We never went back.

I don’t believe they expect people to come for the food just like strip joints don’t expect people to come for the wine varieties.

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wrenchwench Feb 28, 2024 • 10:02:06am

Yesterday I did a zoom meeting with Moms Demand Action. Don’t tell them I said this, but it was dumb and minimally helpful. But it was just practice for me. I was able to unmute, keep the cat out of view, and had a nice, out of focus b&w background (default, so far as I know). I was so glad when it was done, I did my taxes.

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ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 10:03:34am

re: #209 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

A little outside of the VA area, Morkerko’s in Silver Spring has great ice cream.

That sounds great! I’ll have to check them out.

And Montgomery County even has parking garages in Silver Spring so I don’t have to play the “Is my car still going to be there when I return? And if not, who towed or stole it? Now, how do I get it back?” game

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sizzzzlerz Feb 28, 2024 • 10:04:22am

re: #360 prairiefire

Crazy weather! It was 72 during the day to 27 degrees in the evening with snow.
It makes me concerned about Tornado season🌪️
Things are blooming, the bugs are out and the birds are singing. Not a Silent Spring!

In truth, the weather and climate are screaming but there are too many that are refusing to listen.

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Teukka Feb 28, 2024 • 10:07:42am

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Eclectic Cyborg Feb 28, 2024 • 10:09:01am

Boeberts criminal son is the same one who got a girl pregnant last year and made NRA Barbie a grandmother at 36.

So he’s off to a GREAT start in his adult life.

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 10:12:34am

re: #370 Eclectic Cyborg

Boeberts criminal son is the same one who got a girl pregnant last year and made NRA Barbie a grandmother at 36.

So he’s off to a GREAT start in his adult life.

Based on Jonathon Turley’s analysis, he will be on Congress in 15 years.

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Nerdy Fish Feb 28, 2024 • 10:13:45am

So. I’m gone for 15 minutes to make lunch, and Mitch McConnell announces he’s not coming back to the Senate. Well, the one good thing I can say about that is good riddance to the greatest obstructionist and anti-democratic statesman of the last 50 years. Go fuck yourself. And I’m glad that the GOP has lost one of the master strategists of our decline into autocracy. Say what you will about the insurrectionists, but Mitch has been playing the long game, setting up decades of minority rule by abusing the minutiae of the process.

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sizzzzlerz Feb 28, 2024 • 10:16:07am

re: #319 gocart mozart

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Just watched a Busey movie last night called Big Wednesday. He plays a LA surfer back in the 60s along with Jan-Michael Vincent and William Katt. It was well before he started down White Powder Road and generally turning weird. Actually, all 3 of them looked pretty damned ripped. Movie sucked, however.

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ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 10:17:20am

re: #234 Dr Lizardo

So the bozo’s in Transnistra actually are pretending to go through with it. Probably under prodding from Putin’s thugs.

It will be interesting to see if Ukraine can find a way to intervene. And clear out the small Russian Army garrison. I suspect everyone is expecting the International borders to prevent that from happening.

If the Ukrainians do figure how to do this, action would free up Moldova to join European institutions. And to decide if they want to remain independent or join some sort of union with Romania.

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 10:19:44am

re: #347 Dr. Matt

Now that Moscow Mitch is slithering away, I can’t wait for the librul MSM to start labeling him a “moderate”, “centrist”, and “statesman”.

re: #351 Ace Rothstein

“Brilliant tactician;” “uncanny understanding of how to work the levers of power.”

First shots are fired: msn.com

◼ The veteran Republican Senate leader has become the last serious bulwark within the party against Trump populists’ animosity toward US international commitments

◼ Slowed by age but unbowed in his determination

◼ His power has been underpinned by a political shrewdness that inspired confidence

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 10:20:53am

Judge Cannon’s ruling is correct and obvious, and avoids her getting reversed for a 3rd time by the Eleventh Circuit. Predict she will also reverse herself on full disclosure of witness names/statements (for same reason). Many more motions for her to decide… https://t.co/7WFHtYDCvd

— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) February 28, 2024

Cannon did the right thing by not permitting Nauta & DeOliveira to access the classified MAL docs.

But don’t overlook the epic self-own here. Bc of this effort, she has now been extensively briefed on the contents of those docs & why their disclosure is harmful to nat’l security https://t.co/Ml1ymX5Zpt

— Secrets and Laws (@secretsandlaws) February 28, 2024

377

Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 10:22:08am

re: #372 Nerdy Fish

Did he announce retirement or, like Pelosi, is just not going to be the person at the top.

378

BeachDem Feb 28, 2024 • 10:23:20am

re: #377 Belafon

Did he announce retirement or, like Pelosi, is just not going to be the person at the top.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he will leave his leadership position but intends to serve through the end of his term in 2027.

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Nerdy Fish Feb 28, 2024 • 10:24:20am

re: #378 BeachDem

In a speech on the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he will leave his leadership position but intends to serve through the end of his term in 2027.

That’s what I meant by “not coming back to the Senate”; I knew this wasn’t his election year, and assumed that he would be stepping down as Minority Leader and would not run for re-election in his next election (which turns out to be 2026).

380

Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 10:24:28am

“I see again the forest fires are starting. They’re starting again in ~~California~~ Texas. I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests — there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up” ~Diaper Donnie

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Jay C Feb 28, 2024 • 10:24:51am

re: #372 Nerdy Fish

So. I’m gone for 15 minutes to make lunch, and Mitch McConnell announces he’s not coming back to the Senate. Well, the one good thing I can say about that is good riddance to the greatest obstructionist and anti-democratic statesman of the last 50 years. Go fuck yourself. And I’m glad that the GOP has lost one of the master strategists of our decline into autocracy. Say what you will about the insurrectionists, but Mitch has been playing the long game, setting up decades of minority rule by abusing the minutiae of the process.

True this, but (just on a WAG), the next R Leader in the Senate is likely to be either Thune or Cornyn, (since they’re next in line) and neither of those guys is really much of an improvement IMO, on McConnell.
Hopefully, the next R honcho in the Senate will be the Minority Leader: though, in an objective analysis, the election map doesn’t look too good this year: my personal prediction (i.e., another WAG) is that the best-case scenario is going to be the 51-49 D Majority we have now. However, OTOH, I think the worst-case scenario is a 50-50 tie, so not a total disaster.

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 10:24:57am

...

383

Semper Fi Feb 28, 2024 • 10:26:10am

Trump’s lawyers file a nearly 1800 page motion to stay the 464m ruling. Obvious delay, delay, delay attempt.

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 10:27:03am

re: #381 Jay C

True this, but (just on a WAG), the next R Leader in the Senate is likely to be either Thune or Cornyn, (since they’re next in line) and neither of those guys is really much of an improvement IMO, on McConnell.
Hopefully, the next R honcho in the Senate will be the Minority Leader: though, in an objective analysis, the election map doesn’t look too good this year: my personal prediction (i.e., another WAG) is that the best-case scenario is going to be the 51-49 D Majority we have now. However, OTOH, I think the worst-case scenario is a 50-50 tie, so not a total disaster.

I don’t care for Cornyn, so don’t consider this an endorsement, but at least he’s told Johnson to pass Ukraine funding, even if that just means attaching the Senate bill to something so that it gets passed.

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ericblair Feb 28, 2024 • 10:29:30am

re: #375 Dr. Matt

First shots are fired: msn.com

◼ The veteran Republican Senate leader has become the last serious bulwark within the party against Trump populists’ animosity toward US international commitments

◼ Slowed by age but unbowed in his determination

◼ His power has been underpinned by a political shrewdness that inspired confidence

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Eventual Carrion Feb 28, 2024 • 10:30:02am

re: #330 Dr. Matt

Bingo. Mercedes defended Diaper Don’s racist birfer tirades.

Upding just for referring to her as Mercedes

387

jaunte Feb 28, 2024 • 10:30:27am

re: #385 ericblair

He made that party what it is today. Fuck him.

388

Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 10:30:35am

Moscow Mitch’s legacy—all the assholes he packed on Federal benches.

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 10:32:41am

re: #388 Joe Bacon ✅

Moscow Mitch’s legacy—all the assholes he packed on Federal benches.

And denied the first Blah POTUS a SCOTUS seat…..because 12 months is “too close” to a general election.

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ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 10:32:58am

re: #235 PhillyPretzel ✅

re: #380 Dr. Matt

Wow! I could imagine wildfires in August when conditions are supposed to be seasonally dry. But in the presumably wet winter months?

391

ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 10:35:46am

re: #281 PhillyPretzel ✅

From the AP: Chatbots inaccurate misleading responses about US elections might keep voters from the polls

Sure AP, blame computers for the Nate Silver’s abject incompetence…

392

Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 10:36:51am

Michael Knowles Calls IVF ‘Immoral’

So that makes Mike Pence and Mommy immoral, eh, Mikey In The Closet?

crooksandliars.com

393

darthstar Feb 28, 2024 • 10:37:35am

re: #388 Joe Bacon ✅

Moscow Mitch’s legacy—all the assholes he packed on Federal benches.

Looking forward to seeing Ted Cruz fill his shoes. Or some other shit stain like Marsha Blackburn or Tommy Tuberville.

394

Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 10:38:33am

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ckkatz Feb 28, 2024 • 10:39:15am

re: #249 darthstar

“That’s [Boebert’s] old district…no wonder she moved…the crime there is terrible.”

Adding this quote to my “Wisdom of LGF” file for future ~~use~~… er… reference.

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Belafon Feb 28, 2024 • 10:41:27am

re: #383 Semper Fi

Trump’s lawyers file a nearly 1800 page motion to stay the 464m ruling.

“Our appeal is based on the fact that the judge didn’t remove the brown m&ms from the bowl, indicating that the didn’t really read our motion to stay.”

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 28, 2024 • 10:42:10am

re: #383 Semper Fi

Trump’s lawyers file a nearly 1800 page motion to stay the 464m ruling. Obvious delay, delay, delay attempt.

That’s a lot of toilet paper!

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sagehen Feb 28, 2024 • 10:42:22am

re: #309 darthstar

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Kangaroo research would seem to lend itself to this sort of endeavor.

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jaunte Feb 28, 2024 • 10:42:40am

re: #383 Semper Fi

Trump’s lawyers file a nearly 1800 page motion to stay the 464m ruling.

Clever plan to get judge on board by making him read through 1800 pages of garbage.

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jaunte Feb 28, 2024 • 10:43:49am

@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

your honor,, my ass is broke

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Dr. Matt Feb 28, 2024 • 10:44:17am

re: #383 Semper Fi

Trump’s lawyers file a nearly 1800 page motion to stay the 464m ruling. Obvious delay, delay, delay attempt.

Triple spaced with 3 inch margins and 24 size font?

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jaunte Feb 28, 2024 • 10:44:55am

@rincewind.run

McConnell’s legacy will be a that of a man who so effectively broke the system that he somehow created an even greater monster to succeed him

one of the worst and most craven politicians this country has ever produced

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Hecuba's daughter Feb 28, 2024 • 10:50:03am

re: #378 BeachDem

In a speech on the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he will leave his leadership position but intends to serve through the end of his term in 2027.

He is acknowledging that the GOP is now fully owned by Putin and that the leadership needs to reflect that this is the party of treason and racism and gilead.

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Markm1960 Feb 28, 2024 • 10:51:15am

re: #318 PhillyPretzel ✅

AOC is exactly right. Deep sea fishing expedition that is very polite. It seems it is more likely a poo fling hoping something will stick.

Same people have known all along that the republicans have been searching for a blue dress to tie to Biden. They also know that there is no new blue dress.

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Hecuba's daughter Feb 28, 2024 • 10:54:57am

re: #402 jaunte

McConnell’s legacy will be a that of a man who so effectively broke the system that he somehow created an even greater monster to succeed him

one of the worst and most craven politicians this country has ever produced @rincewind.run

He’s not craven — just vile and racist.

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