Seth Meyers: Desperate Trump Abandoned by Rich Friends, Begs for Money to Pay Fines
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re: #1 teleskiguy
Heh…
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There’s a glitch in the matrix. I think I read that before.
I think Eric’s been taking some Ben Shapiro speedtalkin classes.
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: Billionaire Republican donors, including hedge-fund founder John Paulson and oil-and-gas magnate Harold Hamm, were working behind the scenes to put together Trump’s $450+ million bond before the NY appellate division stepped in, per Reuters
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re: #2 Belafon
I fear the USA may not be ready for the political violence Fuckface Von Clownstick unleashes from now until 6 January 2025.
re: #5 teleskiguy
I fear the USA may not be ready for the political violence Fuckface Von Clownstick unleashes from now until 6 January 2025.
Possibly, but it also always seems to me that appeal courts cut any verdict.
re: #4 jaunte
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
Hey, poor Republicans, the rich aren’t going to do this for you because you offer nothing of value to them.
re: #1 teleskiguy
Heh…
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He’s still fooked…just not as fooked as everyone had hoped…but still fooked.
Trump: You can’t have an election in the middle of a political season pic.twitter.com/U7osFRmiG3
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 25, 2024
re: #10 Dangerman
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Trump misspeaks
Give him the benefit of the doubt
Pitchbot: he shows clear signs of cognitive decline, why this proves that Joe Biden is too old to be President
re: #12 darthstar
I’m through with Mike Johnson. I want that fucker to wake up with a severe case of monkey pox.
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My question would be “Who is paying you to murder Ukrainian children?”
Rather disappointed by the birthday presents I didn’t get today, with Donny’s 10-day reprieve and infuriating bond reduction. But I’m glad to think he’s tossing ketchup at the Ides of April looming over his rally schedule. May it keep him awake and shrieking, and serve everyone around him right for sticking around.
Oh well.
Here’s a more pleasant event to mark the day, to shine on three more inches of new snow
re: #13 Vicious Babushka
Wth?!!! Outrageous. Heads need to roll.
re: #12 darthstar
I’m through with Mike Johnson. I want that fucker to wake up with a severe case of monkey pox.
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Merely being a member of the house is not sufficient criteria to be elected speaker
re: #16 CleverToad
Happy Birthday!
Here’s some Steve Kimock. It’s out there but it’s fun… and local!
re: #18 Dangerman
Merely being a member of the house is not sufficient criteria to be elected speaker
He’s prolly toast in any case. He didn’t shut the Gubmint down.
What a wimp. Time for Madge to don a strap-on and peg his ass.
He’ll have to Stream it to his son.
Uh Oh!
Everyone’s favorite crank from Tennessee got hit with a lawsuit!
Kansas City-area man files defamation suit against U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett over social media posts
Burchett posted a photo of Denny Loudermill, alleging he was mass shooter at Super Bowl victory parade
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas, alleges Burchett shared photos of Loudermill on his personal social media account, saying he was one of the shooters and referring to him as an “illegal alien.”
Loudermill, a native of Olathe, a Kansas City suburb, attended the parade celebrating the Chiefs’ Super Bowl win. An argument broke out during the parade and ended in the shooting, which killed one person and wounded more than 20 people.
Loudermill’s suit states that he attended the parade and was detained by police following the shooting for “moving too slow” as law enforcement was clearing the area. As he sat on a curb in handcuffs, people took photos of him and shared them on social media, according to the complaint.
Police did not charge Loudermill with any crime and released him.
Burchett, a Knoxville Republican, later deleted the tweet but included a screenshot of it that is still visible in a separate post.
Attorneys for Loudermilk allege he has received death threats as a result of Burchett’s post on X, formerly known as Twitter, and are asking $75,000 in damages for acts considered “willful, wanton, reckless and malicious.”
Okay, George Conway has kinda made me feel better. Not great but better. (What has made me feel better is watching the 2nd season of The Traitors UK. Some of the amateurs are so much better than the pros.)
What is better for the state - having to spend time and money running around trying to find the money after Trump loses on appeal or getting almost half imemdiately? And he still might not make the bond.
Well, gotta admit, this is a plot twist I didn’t see coming….
OFFICIALS RAIDED TWO of Sean Combs’ homes on Monday, a law enforcement source confirmed to Rolling Stone, as part of a federal sex trafficking investigation. Led by Homeland Security, the raid was carried out just four months after the rap mogul’s ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie, accused Combs of sex trafficking.
Helicopters and agents were seen swarming Combs’ Los Angeles mansion on Monday afternoon. Footage of the scene appeared to show some men — later identified as Combs’ sons Justin and King — detained and waiting outside the Holmby Hills house. Officials were also present at Combs’ Miami residence. Combs was in Florida at the time of the raid, according to NBC News, and officials reportedly seized his phones before the Bad Boy Records executive was scheduled to leave for a trip to the Caribbean.
A source tells Rolling Stone four Jane Does and one John Doe already sat for interviews with Southern District of New York investigators for a probe related to alleged sex trafficking, domestic violence and racketeering. More interviews are scheduled, the source said.
“Earlier today, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York executed law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation, with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our local law enforcement partners. We will provide further information as it becomes available,” a Homeland Security Investigations spokesperson said in a statement. Rolling Stone has contacted Combs for comment.
Douglas Wigdor, who represents Cassie Ventura and a Jane Doe accuser, says in a statement provided to Rolling Stone, “We will always support law enforcement when it seeks to prosecute those that have violated the law. Hopefully, this is the beginning of a process that will hold Mr. Combs responsible for his depraved conduct.”
Yikes. 😯
re: #24 Dr Lizardo
Well, gotta admit, this is a plot twist I didn’t see coming….
Yikes. 😯
P. Diddly.
re: #22 silverdolphin
I too have been enjoying season 2 of Traitors U.K.
I am currently 9 episodes in.
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Well, night all, be nice to each other.
Be kind.
Give food to the hungry.
Give shelter to the homeless.
Treat the ill.
Give clothes to the naked.
Is this so difficult in the richest country in the world?
What could we possibly do to make this happen?
Oh…
re: #26 CleverToad
I enjoyed this! Thank you for that cool local gift
Kimock is a great guitar player…comes out of the Grateful Dead extended family of artists… always a treat to hear. One musician I follow on Mastodon posts regular “Daily Kimock” with rare recordings spanning the last 20+ years.
re: #16 CleverToad
Rather disappointed by the birthday presents I didn’t get today, with Donny’s 10-day reprieve and infuriating bond reduction. But I’m glad to think he’s tossing ketchup at the Ides of April looming over his rally schedule. May it keep him awake and shrieking, and serve everyone around him right for sticking around.
Oh well.
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re: #21 Joe Bacon ✅
Personally, I think this guy suing for just $75K is asking way too little. I have no idea how much the average Tennessee Congressman might be worth* but I would have at least started out asking for millions.
*personal assets, etc. As a Republican Rep., “worth” is a variable concept. Usually negative…
re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg
I too have been enjoying season 2 of Traitors U.K.
I am currently 9 episodes in.
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I agree. I am through 9 also. He has been on fire, playing excellently both tactically and strategically. In the parts of the game that do not really deal with banishment or murder - the daily tasks.
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No. 1 Biglaw Firm In The Country To Represent Apple In Government’s Antitrust Suit
If the case is as light as some commentators have said, these lawyers are going to have a great time.
re: #36 silverdolphin
No. 1 Biglaw Firm In The Country To Represent Apple In Government’s Antitrust Suit
If the case is as light as some commentators have said, these lawyers are going to have a great time.
The story, as I read it, is that Apple had some texting feature, and a developer wanted to make that available to Android users when they receive texts from an iPhone. After implementing it, Apple specifically changed their code to break that. The government is arguing that Apple is too big of a company in its space to be allowed to do that.
re: #37 Belafon
The story, as I read it, is that Apple had some texting feature, and a developer wanted to make that available to Android users when they receive texts from an iPhone. After implementing it, Apple specifically changed their code to break that. The government is arguing that Apple is too big of a company in its space to be allowed to do that.
Ah a “DOS isn’t done till Lotus won’t run” case.
re: #37 Belafon
The story, as I read it, is that Apple had some texting feature, and a developer wanted to make that available to Android users when they receive texts from an iPhone. After implementing it, Apple specifically changed their code to break that. The government is arguing that Apple is too big of a company in its space to be allowed to do that.
Problem as I read it was that the developer had to hack into Apple servers using an iOS device, often using jailbroken iPhones, in order to get the messaging to work. And then it was going to charge its own customers to have access to what is a free service (They changed when Apple complained).That is, it used Apple’s servers in a way that lowered the security for Apple’s own customers. And piggybacked on Apple technology without compensation. So of the DOJ wants to make that case, there are a lot of unintended consequences.
re: #28 teleskiguy
Have you seen this? I was in the audience, closer to the stage…
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Haven’t seen it, will have to watch
re: #39 silverdolphin
Problem as I read it was that the developer had to hack into Apple servers using an iOS device, often using jailbroken iPhones, in order to get the messaging to work. And then it was going to charge its own customers to have access to what is a free service (They changed when Apple complained).That is, it used Apple’s servers in a way that lowered the security for Apple’s own customers. And piggybacked on Apple technology without compensation. So of the DOJ wants to make that case, there are a lot of unintended consequences.
It will be interesting.
What if Ford did something to their cars that required you to go into the dealership to get it fixed, and then someone figured out how to get around it, but it required adding a module to get around the protection, and then Ford applied a patch that broke that? Should Ford be allowed to have the original feature made so that they force people to go to the dealership to fix it?
re: #39 silverdolphin
Problem as I read it was that the developer had to hack into Apple servers using an iOS device, often using jailbroken iPhones, in order to get the messaging to work. And then it was going to charge its own customers to have access to what is a free service (They changed when Apple complained).That is, it used Apple’s servers in a way that lowered the security for Apple’s own customers. And piggybacked on Apple technology without compensation. So of the DOJ wants to make that case, there are a lot of unintended consequences.
The gripping hand to that would be to argue that had Apple made access freely available in the first place, rather than act as a monopolistic entity, the developers would not have resorted to such means and played within acceptable rules putting the blame for those consequences squarely on Apple.
re: #42 William Lewis
The gripping hand to that would be to argue that had Apple made access freely available in the first place, rather than act as a monopolistic entity, the developers would not have resorted to such means and played within acceptable rules putting the blame for those consequences squarely on Apple.
I think those are the fundamental questions. How far can companies go to capture a feature? How much can they be required to implement things in such a way that they can be used beyond their original intent?
Did the feature require all of the server integration or was it Microsoft integrating Internet Explorer into Windows?
Anne Laurie captured some enlightening tweets about Andy Kim and the New Jersey Democratic machine that wanted the NJ first lady, balloon-juice.com. A couple of standouts:
Hope that Kim wins and breaks the old ways there:
Meet the Dem who won a Trump district in 2018 & 2020 but now is an insurgent against the entrenched Dem machine in Jersey.
This @AndyKimNJ vs @TammyMurphyNJ matchup is 1st real Dem primary battle since ‘00.
It’s all about the lines. My weekend column.https://t.co/5Z2zSYiNav— Paul Kane (@pkcapitol) March 23, 2024
What the NJ establishment wanted, and we luckily won’t have:
He’s a good guy who has done a good job in Congress and he happened to be running against a person who is a particularly egregious example of machine politics at work & also had some unique flaws that highlighted the sleaziness of how D politics operates in NJ. https://t.co/6AKr0hbwld
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) March 24, 2024
I support Kim, but had she won the primary, I would have voted for her in Nov. There was ZERO rationale for her candidacy other than who she is married to. She’s done NOTHING as First Lady + is a former Republican. Andy Kim is a great Congressman & will be an even better Senator! https://t.co/bZAFhxJksG
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) March 24, 2024
Watched Tammy’ Murphy’s “I’m dropping out” video: completely disingenuous (no one asked her to run, she had little/no grass roots support, and she didn’t have to “tear down” a fellow Dem in order to win) and then didn’t even endorse Andy Kim. Classless, clueless, and tone deaf.
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) March 24, 2024
And something to make you smile about him:
My wife wasn’t thrilled when I put this Lego Millennium Falcon on our wedding registry. To not seem completely self-indulgent, I told her I’d wait until we had kids to build it. Today, after 10 patient years, the adventure begins. #MayThe4th #MayThe4thBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/LTEWOUa6oi
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) May 4, 2021
Happened in Israel earlier today:
🚨BREAKING: Conservative Minister Gideon Saar resigns, and his party will leave Netanyahu’s emergency government
🚨Why it matters: Saar’s move will put more pressure on Benny Gantz and his centrist party to leave the government too— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) March 25, 2024
re: #41 Belafon
It will be interesting.
What if Ford did something to their cars that required you to go into the dealership to get it fixed, and then someone figured out how to get around it, but it required adding a module to get around the protection, and then Ford applied a patch that broke that? Should Ford be allowed to have the original feature made so that they force people to go to the dealership to fix it?
As I understand it, the registration process required the Android app (Beeper mini) to pretend to be an iOS device in order to get connected to the Apple servers to exchange encryption keys (eventually the only way to set this up after Apple’s blocks was to buy an old iOS device, register your phone number through that phone then add it to your Android phone). This seems a little hinky to me. And should Apple be forced to allow unauthorized access to its private servers through people pretending to be one of their customers so that Beeper mini could work?
I wish Apple had provided an Android version of iMessage a decade ago, as they did with iTunes. But I think the economics are bad. iTunes on Android still brought money in to pay for the servers and perhaps help drive iPhone sales. But iMessages is free so why should Apple pay for supporting a competitor without compensation?
“There is a clear understanding who’s behind this attack”
~ Vladimir Solovyov
When Russia loses an A-50: Ukraine says they did it, Russia says it was Russian Air Defense
When there’s a terrorist attack: ISIS says they did it, Russia says it was Ukraine
Logic doesn’t live here pic.twitter.com/VZI7susGx5— Prune60 (@Prune602) March 25, 2024
ISIS carries out a terrorist attack in Russia, so naturally head of RT Margarita Simonyan tells Russians they should kill more Ukrainians. This logic works only in Russia. https://t.co/FcrlGnCIcT pic.twitter.com/Wl0ykGJgnK
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 25, 2024
Nobody
Got
The
Powerball
Jackpot
Estimated jackpot on Wednesday $865M…
re: #49 Joe Bacon ✅
Nobody
Got
The
Powerball
JackpotEstimated jackpot on Wednesday $865M…
I may just have to stop by the store and get a ticket. Anyone got an insight into the best numbers to use? ;-)
re: #50 silverdolphin
I recommend picking five numbers between 1 and 69 and a sixth number between 1 and 24, inclusive on both.
re: #50 silverdolphin
I may just have to stop by the store and get a ticket. Anyone got an insight into the best numbers to use? ;-)
I just do quick pick. It never works but nothing ever does.
Has MegaMillions hit yet either?
re: #51 Belafon
I recommend picking five numbers between 1 and 69 and a sixth number between 1 and 24, inclusive on both.
Exactly the smart alecky answer I was hoping for. Thanks. Now to pick the winning number. Should be easy now due to your spot-on advice ;-)
re: #52 William Lewis
I just do quick pick. It never works but nothing ever does.
Has MegaMillions hit yet either?
That’s tomorrow, or later today depending on your time zone.
re: #52 William Lewis
I just do quick pick. It never works but nothing ever does.
Has MegaMillions hit yet either?
1.1 Billion jackpot…
Tomorrow’s Wordle wants to know the effect of an atomic bomb on a nude Welshman holding a rice pudding.
Wordle 1,011 3/6
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I just had a truly terrifying crossover thought. Deadpool visits LA and needs a favor from Lucifer Morningstar. Hilarious chaos ensues.
re: #57 William Lewis
I just had a truly terrifying crossover thought. Deadpool visits LA and needs a favor from Lucifer Morningstar. Hilarious chaos ensues.
But Wade can’t sell his soul…because he already traded it for pogs.
re: #49 Joe Bacon ✅
Nobody
Got
The
Powerball
JackpotEstimated jackpot on Wednesday $865M…
I now play only at the last draw of the month, which will be Saturday this month.
That way I can save my pennies all month, and in one night play as many lines as possible.
Tuesday is MegaMillions day. Once a jackpot hits real money (> Billion dollars) so many people play that we can expect a winner.
I will likely wait it out until PowerBall on Saturday.
re: #58 Targetpractice
But Wade can’t sell his soul…because he already traded it for pogs.
Oh, but Luci’s said he doesn’t buy them either … 😈
re: #61 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿
Oh fuck.
I would always get squeamish hauling loads across big bridges for that reason. In a semi you’re really screwed in an emergency…
re: #50 silverdolphin
I may just have to stop by the store and get a ticket. Anyone got an insight into the best numbers to use? ;-)
The winning ones.
Yeah, there were definitely some vehicles on the bridge when it collapsed. This tweet has the video from a slightly different angle and it’s a longer video. Looks to me (from this camera angle) like the ship turned when it shouldn’t have and plowed straight into a bridge support.
Here’s a longer and higher quality video of the Baltimore bridge collapse. Crash and collapse happens at 2:34 pic.twitter.com/Vyp3rQLLHl
— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) March 26, 2024
re: #65 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, there were definitely some vehicles on the bridge when it collapsed. This tweet has the video from a slightly different angle and it’s a longer video. Looks to me (from this camera angle) like the ship turned when it shouldn’t have and plowed straight into a bridge support.
That’s a nightmare level hit of the main bridge across that strait. Falls like it was made of toothpicks.
re: #68 William Lewis
That’s a nightmare level hit of the main bridge across that strait. Falls like it was made of toothpicks.
re: #69 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Took off a big part of the ship’s superstructure, too, and shut down its lights. This is very bad.
According to this:
WTOP has also received word from petty officer Matthew West from the Coast Guard in Baltimore that it was a container ship flying under a Singapore flag that crashed into the bridge. The vessel, called “Dali,” was headed through Baltimore to Colombo, Sri Lanka, as its final destination, according to Marine Traffic and Vessel Finder maps and data.
Yeah…the investigation on this disaster is going to be one of those major investigations. I’d hate to be any crew member on the M/S Dali right now.
Here’s the specs on the Dali, BTW: classnk.or.jp
As per The Guardian,
The Synergy Marine Group, manager of the Singapore-flagged container ship, the Dali, has said that all crew members, including two pilots, have been accounted for and there are no reports of any injuries, Reuters reported.
Fuel prices in Baltimore are about to go through the roof. Shit prices for everything. Almost the entire port of Baltimore is up river of the bridge.
Now they’re going to have to weigh the needs of the investigation with the desperate need to open a shipping channel through the wrecksge
re: #66 Dr Lizardo
Livestream of the FSK bridge collapse aftermath:
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Looked like the ship was has significant power problems. Kept seeing all the lights onboard going off and on as it approached the bridge
re: #73 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Looked like the ship was has significant power problems. Kept seeing all the lights onboard going off and on as it approached the bridge
Yeah, maybe some kind of onboard power failure. Ship’s not that old, either, only 10 years old.
re: #73 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Looked like the ship was has significant power problems. Kept seeing all the lights onboard going off and on as it approached the bridge
Somebody trying to reboot the ship by switching it off and back on again?
I’ve spoken with Gov. Moore and Mayor Scott to offer USDOT’s support following the vessel strike and collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge. Rescue efforts remain underway and drivers in the Baltimore area should follow local responder guidance on detours and response.
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) March 26, 2024
re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Somebody trying to reboot the ship by switching it off and back on again?
What was that US Navy Nuclear Powered Cruiser that had Windows in the engine room that kept BSOD’ing? Ticonderoga class IIRC.
re: #77 William Lewis
What was that US Navy Nuclear Powered Cruiser that had Windows in the engine room that kept BSOD’ing? Ticonderoga class IIRC.
Who puts windows in a submarine?
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
haven’t seen those since Captain Nemo and the Nautilus…. (oops forgot Richard Basehart and that old 60s show).
re: #79 piratedan
haven’t seen those since Captain Nemo and the Nautilus…. (oops forgot Richard Basehart and that old 60s show).
Soviet-era subs have windows in their conning towers, but those are only for when the ships are surfaced to protect the lookouts in bad weather, otherwise they are counter-flooded when the ship is submerged.
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Who puts windows in a submarine?
Surface combatant, but still bad enough. As I recall it got stuck in Chesapeake Bay and had to be towed back to port where Windows itself was defenestrated.
re: #77 William Lewis
What was that US Navy Nuclear Powered Cruiser that had Windows in the engine room that kept BSOD’ing? Ticonderoga class IIRC.
Tico’s aren’t nukes
Going backwards the US nuke cruisers were the:
4 Virginia-class
2 California-class
& USS Truxtun (a modified Belknap-class)
re: #83 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Tico’s aren’t nukes
Going backwards the US nuke cruisers were the:
4 Virginia-class
2 California-class
& USS Truxtun (a modified Belknap-class)
Damn it, left out USS Long Beach. She was a one-off the share a superstructure design with USS Enterprise
re: #83 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Tico’s aren’t nukes
Going backwards the US nuke cruisers were the:
4 Virginia-class
2 California-class
& USS Truxtun (a modified Belknap-class)
Virginia is the one I think I was remembering and for whatever reason I’ve always kept thinking that the Ticonderoga’s were nuclear too. I’ll stick to tanks, I know what I’m talking about with them … usually 😈
re: #82 Patricia Kayden
Horrific. I hope the people on the bridge were rescued
News says that there were some 20 people on the bridge, but I cannot find any report of fatalities.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
News says that there were some 20 people on the bridge, but I cannot find any report of fatalities.
Search and rescue is still underway.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
News says that there were some 20 people on the bridge, but I cannot find any report of fatalities.
Air temp is low, water temp is low, that went down too fast. Unless someone landed on the ship, they died of hypothermia/drowning quickly. We won’t know for days all of whom is missing and then for weeks till where all the vehicles are when all the scrap is cleared.
re: #89 William Lewis
Air temp is low, water temp is low, that went down too fast. Unless someone landed on the ship, they died of hypothermia/drowning quickly. We won’t know for days all of who is missing and then for weeks till where all the vehicles are when all the scrap is cleared.
Plus, it’s a long damn fall. With huge chunks of steel and concrete falling with you
re: #90 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Plus, it’s a long damn fall. With huge chunks of steel and concrete falling with you
Yup. That’s long enough to know you’re dying.
re: #89 William Lewis
Air temp is low, water temp is low, that went down too fast. Unless someone landed on the ship, they died of hypothermia/drowning quickly. We won’t know for days all of who is missing and then for weeks till where all the vehicles are when all the scrap is cleared.
The only positive thing is that this happened at 1:30 a.m. local time. If this had happened during morning rush hour, say, around 7:30 a.m., then yeah, that would’ve gone down in the history books as one of the worst bridge disasters in American history.
Port of Baltimore is gonna be blocked for the foreseeable future, too.
Crap
I should probably try to get some sleep. Won’t be long before the alarms start going off and Odysseus inquiries about his morning constitutional
An incredibly tasty Tweet. The ratio is sooooo tasty!
No longer the party of “when they go low, we go high.” https://t.co/csA1q5WgMP
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) March 26, 2024
re: #56 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿
Tomorrow’s Wordle wants to know the effect of an atomic bomb on a nude Welshman holding a rice pudding.
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Hey, Oppenheimer is on Australian Netflix. Went to see it in the cinema when it came out but I certainly up for watching it again
If you ever need to link an article on Why Do Some Vaccines Work Better Than Others?
If someone is vaccinated against the measles virus, they likely won’t get measles.
If someone is vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, there’s still a good chance they’ll get COVID-19—maybe multiple times.
A quick glance at the above example and one might think the measles vaccine “works,” and the COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t—with “works” implying complete prevention of disease. But what does it mean for a vaccine to be effective? That depends on the virus.
And how much it’s spreading.
re: #14 Belafon
For a minute, the time was the identity matrix:
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You completed the binary sudoku challenge…that one always stumped me.
re: #95 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
I got it in three. I’ll take that.
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There are multiple BNO news posts on Bluesky.
re: #102 William Lewis
How the heck did hitting that one spot bring down so much of that bridge? I mean the upper most section? Why?
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How the heck did hitting that one spot bring down so much of that bridge? I mean the upper most section? Why?
Hit it in just the right spot. The M/S Dali is one hell of a big ship, almost 1,000 feet long.
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How the heck did hitting that one spot bring down so much of that bridge? I mean the upper most section? Why?
Hard to be sure, but you’ll note that it’s the through truss sections that collapsed. It probably hit the stress point just right to cause it to buckle. Apparently there was a construction crew doing work on the bridge at the time too. If the bridge wasn’t in good condition on top of the hit…
re: #102 William Lewis
From local news:
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Somebody’s order for empty shipping containers is going to be delayed.
re: #106 William Lewis
Hard to be sure, but you’ll note that it’s the through truss sections that collapsed. It probably hit the stress point just right to cause it to buckle. Apparently there was a construction crew doing work on the bridge at the time too. If the bridge wasn’t in good condition on top of the hit…
The video is great illustration of how the truss system works…until it doesn’t.
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
Hit it in just the right spot. The M/S Dali is one hell of a big ship, almost 1,000 feet long.
Pretty much this. Bridges are designed to put support for the majority of the span in a few key places, namely, where they are anchored to the shore or to the riverbed. You impact one of those places, there’s a whole cascade of failures that occurs as the other anchoring points suddenly take on more load than they were designed to take and fail.
re: #109 Nerdy Fish
Pretty much this. Bridges are designed to put support for the majority of the span in a few key places, namely, where they are anchored to the shore or to the riverbed. You impact one of those places, there’s a whole cascade of failures that occurs as the other anchoring points suddenly take on more load than they were designed to take and fail.
The video of the collapse is a perfect illustration of that failure cascade.
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
Hit it in just the right spot. The M/S Dali is one hell of a big ship, almost 1,000 feet long.
and stacked full of containers: a lot of mass & momentum
re: #107 darthstar
Somebody’s order for empty shipping containers is going to be delayed.
those are empty containers?
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How the heck did hitting that one spot bring down so much of that bridge? I mean the upper most section? Why?
Like modern society, bridges are tensile structures, the pieces are interdependently supporting each other and when an important part goes you can get a real cascade failure.
* Yeah, what Nerdy Fish said in #109
Here’s the vid, you can see there’s one point where the tension is taken off, like a kid suddenly jumping off one end of the see-saw.
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
those are empty containers?
Going to Sri Lanka? Yeah, I’d bet on it. Going back to the sweat shops to get filled up for Walmart & Dollar General.
re: #110 Dr Lizardo
The video of the collapse is a perfect illustration of that failure cascade.
Francis Scott Key couldn’t have orchestrated a better crescendo ending himself.
re: #115 William Lewis
Going to Sri Lanka? Yeah, I’d bet on it. Going back to the sweat shops to get filled up for Walmart & Dollar General.
I see. because those people don’t have any money to buy anything but the basics needed for survival
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
those are empty containers?
There’s a lot of sub-waterline hull visible. And the ship was headed to a port in Sri Lanka - more an export location than an import one.
I just watched the video (DAMN) and you can see this big black blob heading into the bridge for the first 2/3 of the video. If you look behind the blob, it looks like a huge amount of black smoke. I wonder if that’s from the ship and if it had some kind of catastrophic event before hitting the bridge.
That bridge collapse is going to make Baltimore traffic hell for a long time. It’s a major part of the traffic system.
re: #109 Nerdy Fish
This reminds me of the I-35W collapse in Minneapolis back in the mid-2000s..
re: #119 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Just the normal black carbon exhaust of a poorly maintained and tuned diesel powered transport. All of that shit is really bad for warming, and it’s pretty carcinogenic as well. This is why we need to buy our junk from our nearer neighbors in Mexico and South America - it would certainly burn less fossil fuels.
re: #119 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I just watched the video (DAMN) and you can see this big black blob heading into the bridge for the first 2/3 of the video. If you look behind the blob, it looks like a huge amount of black smoke. I wonder if that’s from the ship and if it had some kind of catastrophic event before hitting the bridge.
Speculation is there may have been some type of catastrophic failure onboard the ship that may have caused the collision. The ship did have two pilots onboard when it happened, and they would’ve done everything possible to avoid such a disaster. However, if it was some issue with the ship itself that was beyond their control, there’s little else they could do except witness an unfolding disaster.
re: #113 Eventual Carrion
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re: #121 Captain Magic
This reminds me of the I-35W collapse in Minneapolis back in the mid-2000s..
Reminds me of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster back in 1980.
re: #121 Captain Magic
This reminds me of the I-35W collapse in Minneapolis back in the mid-2000s..
I was in the Minneapolis area when that happened; for an unrelated reason, I was at a hospital. My dad called me, and I gave him some spectacularly un-reassuring reassurances.
re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I see. because those people don’t have any money to buy anything but the basics needed for survival
Oh they buy lots but it comes in smaller lots from India and Africa rather than the US.
re: #120 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
That bridge collapse is going to make Baltimore traffic hell for a long time. It’s a major part of the traffic system.
Let’s hope that they can design a fix like PA did when that semi hit a pylon and took down a part of the interstate overpass.
re: #120 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
That bridge collapse is going to make Baltimore traffic hell for a long time. It’s a major part of the traffic system.
Clean up will take a few months but assuming architects have already been planning a replacement bridge that project will be expedited…expect Baltimore to get one of those big white fan shaped bridges that are all the rage…like Boston, San Francisco, etc…
Urgh… I’ve been watching the vids and reading so much I forgot to get coffee. I’m getting that tightness across the bridge of my nose… be back in a bit.
So TFG now has 9 days to find a 175 million dollar bond. Now, while that doesn’t sound nearly as bad as 450 million, it’s still a sizeable chunk of change. I’m guessing/hoping the thirty or so bond companies he approached previously, and who said they required liquid collateral, will now respond along the lines of, “We like lending money to people who haven’t been found guilty of fraud.”
re: #133 darthstar
So TFG now has 9 days to find a 175 million dollar bond. Now, while that doesn’t sound nearly as bad as 450 million, it’s still a sizeable chunk of change. I’m guessing/hoping the thirty or so bond companies he approached previously, and who said they required liquid collateral, will now respond along the lines of, “We like lending money to people who haven’t been found guilty of fraud.”
Or alternatively, “We like lending money to people who aren’t notorious deadbeats.”
re: #133 darthstar
So TFG now has 9 days to find a 175 million dollar bond. Now, while that doesn’t sound nearly as bad as 450 million, it’s still a sizeable chunk of change. I’m guessing/hoping the thirty or so bond companies he approached previously, and who said they required liquid collateral, will now respond along the lines of, “We like lending money to people who haven’t been found guilty of fraud.”
I don’t mind if he gets it. He’s still going to lose. The bond will be forfeited and him and the suckers will be out every penny 😎
Has Diaper Donnie/maga/fox/stormfront blamed the bridge disaster on Biden yet?
re: #134 Dr Lizardo
Or alternatively, “We like lending money to people who aren’t notorious deadbeats.”
Sorry…It’s not us, it’s you…we COULD front you the money…we just don’t WANT to front you the money.
re: #136 William Lewis
I don’t mind if he gets it. He’s still going to lose. The bond will be forfeited and him and the suckers will be out every penny 😎
Rumor has it that Harlan Crow and other right-wing billionaires have been looking to bankroll Trump’s bond, so all this move did was save them a few hundred million - chump change, to them. Expect that funding to be announced as soon as they can find a way to hide it from the court-appointed monitor.
re: #137 Dr. Matt
Has Diaper Donnie/maga/fox/stormfront blamed the bridge disaster on Biden yet?
I’m just waiting for Elmo Skum to start up with the conspiracy theories.
re: #139 Nerdy Fish
Rumor has it that Harlan Crow and other right-wing billionaires have been looking to bankroll Trump’s bond, so all this move did was save them a few hundred million - chump change, to them. Expect that funding to be announced as soon as they can find a way to hide it from the court-appointed monitor.
That may be easier said than done. She’s got a pretty tight grip on Trump’s finances right now.
re: #136 William Lewis
I don’t mind if he gets it. He’s still going to lose. The bond will be forfeited and him and the suckers will be out every penny 😎
Buyer beware…nice way to think about it. Oh, and as this is just an appeal and not some kind of case that requires a year of discovery, the NY appellate court should grant him a speedy hearing…hell, get it out of the way before April 15 so he can focus on his criminal trial…it’s only a matter of simple courtesy.
re: #140 Dr Lizardo
I’m just waiting for Elmo Skum to start up with the conspiracy theories.
I’m sure SMOTI already has. But not I’m giving his website any traffic by checking.
re: #143 Dr. Matt
I’m sure SMOTI already has. But not I’m giving his website any traffic by checking.
I don’t know what SMOTI means but I assume it’s not flattery.
re: #141 Dr Lizardo
That may be easier said than done. She’s got a pretty tight grip on Trump’s finances right now.
They’re billionaires. They’ve had decades of experience in hiding transactions from the government. They’ll find a way.
re: #144 darthstar
I don’t know what SMOTI means but I assume it’s not flattery.
SMOTI = Smartest Man on the Internet = “Dim” Jim Hoft, chief liar of Gateway Pundit.
re: #144 darthstar
I don’t know what SMOTI means but I assume it’s not flattery.
Stupidest man on the Internet = Jim Hoft
re: #137 Dr. Matt
Has Diaper Donnie/maga/fox/stormfront blamed the bridge disaster on Biden yet?
Sounds like something the Ukrainian Hionist Fascist Islamists would pull off, after all the ship was headed to Indonesia…
re: #146 Nerdy Fish
SMOTI = Smartest Man on the Internet = “Dim” Jim Hoft, chief liar of Gateway Pundit.
Those two should hook up and combine their intellect.
re: #133 darthstar
So TFG now has 9 days to find a 175 million dollar bond. Now, while that doesn’t sound nearly as bad as 450 million, it’s still a sizeable chunk of change. I’m guessing/hoping the thirty or so bond companies he approached previously, and who said they required liquid collateral, will now respond along the lines of, “We like lending money to people who haven’t been found guilty of fraud.”
The trumper billionaires will point up the cash.
re: #137 Dr. Matt
Has Diaper Donnie/maga/fox/stormfront blamed the bridge disaster on Biden yet?
They’re wapping for Frank Luntz to approve the talking points.
re: #149 darthstar
Those two should hook up and combine their intellect.
I’m not sure the world can handle that much stupid all in one place, to be honest. Actually, now that I say that, I believe Elno did, in fact, host a Twitter space with SMOTI one time, so that particular wingularity has already occurred.
re: #139 Nerdy Fish
Rumor has it that Harlan Crow and other right-wing billionaires have been looking to bankroll Trump’s bond, so all this move did was save them a few hundred million - chump change, to them. Expect that funding to be announced as soon as they can find a way to hide it from the court-appointed monitor.
Does the court care where it came from if it’s not his? I mean it’s still forfeited no matter, so isn’t it better for NYS that it comes from somewhere else? They’ll get more that way.
An unclassified Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency report said the container ship Dali “lost propulsion” as it was leaving port and warned Maryland officials of a possible collision.The crew notified officials that they had lost control, the report said.
“The vessel notified MD Department of Transportation (MDOT) that they had lost control of the vessel and an allision with the bridge was possible,” the report said. “The vessel struck the bridge causing a complete collapse.”
re: #156 William Lewis
With 2 harbor pilots on board that makes much more sense.
Yep. Thankfully, we’ll have the testimony of the two harbor pilots and the crew of the Dali, so the NTSB/Coast Guard report on this will likely be relatively easy to conduct.
re: #156 William Lewis
With 2 harbor pilots on board that makes much more sense.
There’s always a chance that the harbor pilot(s) make a mistake; see, e.g., the MV Ever Given from the Suez Canal incident a few years back. But the chances are low, and it’s usually much safer to start with the assumption that something went wrong and rule that out (or not) first.
re: #156 William Lewis
With 2 harbor pilots on board that makes much more sense.
Those big ships don’t exactly stop on a dime. It’s not like when you cut power on a ski boat at full speed and drift harmlessly up to the dock. I read somewhere that a ship of that size moving as slow as 3-5mph would continue moving forward for about a mile.
re: #137 Dr. Matt
Has Diaper Donnie/maga/fox/stormfront blamed the bridge disaster on Biden yet?
Not yet, but I’ll bet Putin blames Ukraine//
re: #159 darthstar
Those big ships don’t exactly stop on a dime. It’s not like when you cut power on a ski boat at full speed and drift harmlessly up to the dock. I read somewhere that a ship of that size moving as slow as 3-5mph would continue moving forward for about a mile.
Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch on the high seas.
re: #159 darthstar
Those big ships don’t exactly stop on a dime. It’s not like when you cut power on a ski boat at full speed and drift harmlessly up to the dock. I read somewhere that a ship of that size moving as slow as 3-5mph would continue moving forward for about a mile.
Yeah - the M/S Dali is a 985-foot long, 95,000 ton ship. That’s a lot of momentum.
re: #102 William Lewis
What a horror show and luckily it happened at a time when vehicle traffic is at its lowest for the day. That’s a savings grace, but traffic throughout the Baltimore region is fooked for the foreseeable future, including all ship traffic. Baltimore is a major port, so nearby ports in Norfolk VA, Philly, NYC, and even Savannah/Charleston are going to have to pick up the slack as ships are rerouted.
One thing I noticed from the aerial shot is that there are no major fenders, let alone bridge dolphins ahead of the bridge supports. There are 4 small fender piers, but it looks like the ship just ran right through it as if there was nothing there. It completely wrecked the main span pier and once that went, it took down all the adjacent spans (main span and the adjacent spans). Loss of power is definitely going to get a good look as proximate cause, but other problems relate to the lack of safety fenders or bridge dolphins.
Dolphins are steel and concrete structures designed to deflect and absorb impacts to keep ships well away from the piers.
Sunshine Skyway comes to mind - it lacked the necessary safety dolphins/fenders, and a cargo ship hit one of the piers, knocking the main deck into the water hundreds of feet below. The new bridge there has major dolphin arrays to prevent this kind of scenario from occurring again.
The lack of this critical safety measure is going to come under scrutiny as well. I’m sure they’ll look at the channel geometry and other factors, but this was a good weather incident, so mechanical and other factors are going to get bulk of the scrutiny.
re: #163 lawhawk
Sunshine Skyway comes to mind - it lacked the necessary safety dolphins/fenders, and a cargo ship hit one of the piers, knocking the main deck into the water hundreds of feet below. The new bridge there has major dolphin arrays to prevent this kind of scenario from occurring again.
IIRC, there were foggy conditions on the day that happened, and drivers just sailed off into the water below because they couldn’t see that a section of the bridge was simply no longer there.
Frank Luntz is a flaming dumpster fire today.
Stop delaying the Trump trials and hoist Alito and the seditious-adjacent six on their own petard. Demand that the Court rule expediently to make sure that justice is done, and to avoid the possibility that should he win, he’d avoid justice entirely despite being guilty as fuck.
Donald Trump is determined to avoid accountability before the general election, and, so far, the U.S. Supreme Court is helping him.
Trump has no legal ground whatsoever to delay a ruling in his plea for presidential immunity. The reason Trump has nevertheless sought to slow down the immunity appeals process is obvious: to postpone the trial date, hopefully pushing it into a time when, as president, he would control the Department of Justice and thus could squash the prosecution altogether. The Supreme Court has shamed itself by being a party to this, when the sole issue before the Court is presidential immunity. By contrast, Special Counsel Jack Smith has both law and policy on his side in seeking a prompt determination on immunity and a speedy trial soon thereafter. Yet the Court has ignored all that.
It’s as if this was all coordinated with the media to guarantee ratings gold: everybody was tuned in for the deadline to see DJT take it in the testicles, then the last-minute stay…no wonder there are so many people who want to keep him on as President.
I remember that after the Exxon Valdez mega tanker spill, the oil company tried to avoid liability by blaming it on the Captain, who was under the influence of alcohol at the time.
After which it came out that the company knew all about his alcohol problems but kept him on anyways…
re: #164 Dr Lizardo
I had to look that up - weather conditions on the day of the Sunshine Skyway disaster was heavy rain, which limited visibility and created slick driving conditions, meaning some drivers just couldn’t stop in time…including a Greyhound bus which fell 150 feet into Tampa Bay, resulting in 35 dead.
re: #42 William Lewis
The gripping hand to that would be to argue that had Apple made access freely available in the first place, rather than act as a monopolistic entity, the developers would not have resorted to such means and played within acceptable rules putting the blame for those consequences squarely on Apple.
re: #165 Dave In Austin
Frank Luntz is a flaming dumpster fire today.
I’ve never paid him any attention…what’s he on about?
As Lizards have mentioned, the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is gonna be a massive headache - and not just for commuters in the region, either.
In a potentially crippling blow to commerce in the region, the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore is likely to be shut down after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday morning when it was struck by a cargo ship.
Before shipping can resume into and out of the port, crews will need to pull debris out of the water and clear the 50-foot-deep channel that ships use, said William P. Doyle, a former director of the port who now heads the Dredging and Marine Construction Association of America.
“You’re going to have to pick out the trusses and parts of the bridge that are in the water,” Doyle said. “The channel is going to be closed. That means any of the larger vessels that are in the Inner Harbor Port of Baltimore - inside of the Key Bridge - are going to remain there until further notice. All the other ships coming up the Chesapeake Bay are going to have to go on anchorage or divert to another port.”
Doyle quickly began contacting dredging and marine companies on Tuesday, seeing what equipment is available to help clear the water.
re: #169 Patricia Kayden
So not its first rodeo
re: #176 Dr Lizardo
As Lizards have mentioned, the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is gonna be a massive headache - and not just for commuters in the region, either.
Any Navy guys here know what the USN has in terms of engineering assets? I’d think they’d be able to help with this.
re: #175 darthstar
I’ve never paid him any attention…what’s he on about?
Some wharrgarbl about how prosecuting Trump only makes him stronger because MAGA martyr complex.
re: #163 lawhawk
Ian Firth, a British structural engineer and bridge designer, said Tuesday that the bridge had a “lightweight” support structure and appeared to have vessel protection devices in the water around it but that the objects were “not adequate.” https://t.co/M74OG2CMAB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 26, 2024
re: #179 Nerdy Fish
Some wharrgarbl about how prosecuting Trump only makes him stronger because MAGA martyr complex.
Obese Wank Kenobi
re: #179 Nerdy Fish
Some wharrgarbl about how prosecuting Trump only makes him stronger because MAGA martyr complex.
Sounds like he’s got a serious man-crush for Honest Don going. He should seek help.
re: #178 ericblair
They’d need to bring in heavy lift cranes. I know that the East Coast Lifter (a huge crane that helped build the new Tappan Zee bridge span) is in NYC, and it’d take a few days to get it down to Baltimore. There might be smaller cranes available immediately from within Baltimore harbor to help recover and remove smaller pieces. The Navy would need to mobilize similarly - any effort would take days to get the right ships/equipment in place.
re: #182 darthstar
Sounds like he’s got a serious man-crush for Honest Don going. He should seek help.
So do millions of deeply fucked up Americans who think being stupid, lawless, and abusive is winning at life.
re: #39 silverdolphin
It’s Merrick Garland, so you know this suit against Apple is stupid.
I’ve taken another look at the video. There was a bridge maintenance crew on the bridge at the time - note the flashing lights on the bridge. They were doing overnight repairs/maintenance. No idea how many workers were on the bridge.
Also, there’s a splash immediately preceding the pier hit that takes down the span. That’s the ship likely hitting the lone fender protecting the pier. It did nothing to stop the ship or deflect it out of the way.
re: #188 lawhawk
I’ve taken another look at the video. There was a bridge maintenance crew on the bridge at the time - note the flashing lights on the bridge. They were doing overnight repairs/maintenance. No idea how many workers were on the bridge.
Also, there’s a splash immediately preceding the pier hit that takes down the span. That’s the ship likely hitting the lone fender protecting the pier. It did nothing to stop the ship or deflect it out of the way.
Those fenders were probably designed to deflect smaller vessels, not deepwater heavy ships.
re: #182 darthstar
Sounds like he’s got a serious man-crush for Honest Don going. He should seek help.
Luntz has always had a man crush on The CONFATHER!
This post on X shows a slightly different angle of the moment of collision. Looks like the pier (bridge support) just disintegrated when it got hit.
🚨#BREAKING: Mass Casualty has been Declared after a Large Container Ship Collides with Key Bridge Causing it completely Collapse⁰
📌#Baltimore | #Maryland
Currently, numerous agencies, including the Coast Guard and fire department have just declared a mass casualty incident as… pic.twitter.com/wvOTOVbvHE— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 26, 2024
OK this is gonna throw yet another monkey wrench in the agency since it’s HQ’d in Baltimore and folks who use that bridge to get to work are gonna get detoured.
Just what I needed when I’m trying to get my replacement trained and up to speed before I go on 6/30…
We are three days out from Good Friday, and this Sunday is Easter. At my house we are shipping a package off to our grand daughter, but otherwise just cooking a big meal. Anyone have any big plans for the weekend?
Hawley’s wife is as fucked in the head as he is.
re: #189 Nerdy Fish
Designed before the Skyway bridge disaster, so the fenders/piers/dolphins were not built with that in mind.
re: #195 darthstar
Hawley’s wife is as fucked in the head as he is.
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“This is God’s country. This is Jesus’s country. This is not the domain of atheists or devil worshippers or perfidious Jews. This is Christ country.”
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 26, 2024
re: #194 Randall Gross
We are three days out from Good Friday, and this Sunday is Easter. At my house we are shipping a package off to our grand daughter, but otherwise just cooking a big meal. Anyone have any big plans for the weekend?
I’m volunteering at church on Sunday, where we will have six services in the morning. It’s going to be a brutal day, but a good one as well.
re: #199 Teukka
And yet that motherfather Trump expects all of us Jews to vote for him because he “loves” Israel.
Fuck that anti-Semite and the racist right wing Xtian slime that totally embraces him
re: #194 Randall Gross
We are three days out from Good Friday, and this Sunday is Easter. At my house we are shipping a package off to our grand daughter, but otherwise just cooking a big meal. Anyone have any big plans for the weekend?
Heavy rains start Friday night and will continue into Monday here in Los Angeles. Just gonna stay in my apartment and go on line to play chess or bridge.
The Shocking Story Behind One Megadonor’s Support of RFK Jr.
Daniel Thropp was featured in a Politico article this weekend. Not mentioned was his past.
A Politico story this weekend about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attracting a “whole new kind of political donor” featured a New Jersey man who never cut a check for a federal candidate before he put more than a quarter of a million dollars toward the Camelot outcast’s longshot presidential campaign.
What wasn’t mentioned in the story is that the donor, retired landscaper Daniel Thropp, had been in the news before: He killed his brother with a sawed-off .22 rifle in 2006 and was institutionalized for five years after a judge found him not guilty by reason of insanity.
A profound thrashing if you can’t read the thread.
No longer the party of “when they go low, we go high.” https://t.co/csA1q5WgMP
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) March 26, 2024
re: #197 Randall Gross
What’s interesting in this is that as you see the ship approach the running lights all go out for a period, and then come back on, as if the ship lost all electric at that point. If that also caused loss of rudder, that could explain the collision.
Alternative speculation : you see the ship really pour on the power judging from stack exhaust a bit before striking after the power returns, — so that either indicates someone steaming their hardest to avoid the bridge join, or someone steaming hard to hit it…
Tell Luntz we learned our lesson.
Now when Republicans go low WE GO LOWER and if it makes Frank Luntz cry and whine like the spoiled brat he is we love it!
re: #194 Randall Gross
We are three days out from Good Friday, and this Sunday is Easter. At my house we are shipping a package off to our grand daughter, but otherwise just cooking a big meal. Anyone have any big plans for the weekend?
Going to my aunts house on Sunday. Big family get together. This will be a much happier get together than the last few get togethers that have come after funerals.
If you haven’t seen 3 Body Problem yet I do highly recommend it. *
warning: ep1 is a bit slow in the set up — but stick with it.
re: #210 Randall Gross
If you haven’t seen 3 Body Problem yet I do highly recommend it.
If you want to watch it for a lot longer, there’s Three Body.
As Truth Social starts trading, @DanAlexander21 says, “Truth Social is a bad business…By any measure, this business has been a failure, but that doesn’t mean that there can’t be mania around it, which is what you’re seeing in the markets right now.” pic.twitter.com/GdtGI85iGv
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) March 26, 2024
re: #212 lawhawk
So what you’re seeing is nothing but hype and anyone looking for a fundamentally good company will be looking elsewhere. It’s shitshow all the way down, no matter what money was raised off the rubes.
re: #211 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
If you want to watch it for a lot longer, there’s Three Body.
Thanks! I did not know that was out there.
re: #194 Randall Gross
We are three days out from Good Friday, and this Sunday is Easter. At my house we are shipping a package off to our grand daughter, but otherwise just cooking a big meal. Anyone have any big plans for the weekend?
Were going to naples(fla) to meet up with mrsdms friends from Cleveland.
They haven’t seen each other for at least 20 years.
(They’re olds. they lost count exactly)
It’ll be fun
re: #215 Dangerman
Were going to naples(fla) to meet up with mrsdms friends from Cleveland.
They haven’t seen each other for at least 20 years.
(They’re olds. they lost count exactly)
It’ll be fun
Sounds like a ton of fun, enjoy it!
Photos of the M/S Dali in the aftermath of the FSK bridge collapse:
re: #199 Teukka
Screen cap that crap so you don’t drive traffic to X please.
re: #218 Dr Lizardo
New overhead photos show that the upstream fender doesn’t appear to have been involved, and the spray I thought I saw was the hull hitting the bridge pier itself (it is behind the bow that struck higher up on the pier first).
Apparently suggesting that the yard guys can use our powder room if they need to go to the bathroom is Something That Just Isn’t Done Ever, because why would you ever extend common courtesy to a fellow human being?
People wonder why I am the way I am. Well, here you go.
re: #212 lawhawk
I first read that as “Truth Social is bad ass” and almost spit my coffee. Calling it out for the pump and dump scam that it is is the right thing for financial reporters to do.
“The window to make money off Truth Social is closing fast! If you want to lose money like you did on crypto now may be your last chance before it crashes to a penny stock!”
Buy high! Sell low!
re: #221 Mattand
I do that with contractors…they’re always surprisingly grateful.
re: #225 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Where did we go so wrong that we no longer offer simple common courtesy & kindness? Reading that makes me very sad.
This is Ayn Rand’s America where selfishness rules.
re: #205 Dave In Austin
A profound thrashing if you can’t read the thread.
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re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅
This is Ayn Rand’s America where selfishness rules.
Not where I live. We thrive on neighbor helping neighbor…got us all through Covid and continues to make our lives better as I leave my cat in my neighbor’s care and she leaves her plants in mine.
When you are black in Misery:
This is in Ferguson, where some of the major BLM demonstrations started right after Michael Brown was shot to death by police. en.wikipedia.org
I missed this tidbit re “the bond”
Tfg has 10 days to come up with the $175m
If he doesn’t , he’s back on the hook for the full amount
— fuser (@JaviFuser) March 26, 2024
Honest Don digging himself another hole…
Federal investigators in South Florida recently probed transactions linked to Jim Biden as part of a criminal investigation,” Politico reports.“Meanwhile, Justice Department officials prosecuting an ongoing Medicare fraud case in Pennsylvania were seeking information about the activities of President Joe Biden’s brother as recently as last year.”
his lawyer said the president’s brother is not under investigation in Florida or Pennsylvania cases.
So the inevitable Pitchbot: Insiders wonder if the President is politically viable after his brother was mentioned in investigations he is not a defendant in”
re: #235 darthstar
Honest Don digging himself another hole…
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Engoron? Who’s he?
re: #194 Randall Gross
We are three days out from Good Friday, and this Sunday is Easter. At my house we are shipping a package off to our grand daughter, but otherwise just cooking a big meal. Anyone have any big plans for the weekend?
If weather permits, go attend a Medieval Market and Fair at the Loreley, otherwise, just chill and eat a lot.
re: #237 Dangerman
I predicted this
Engoron? Who’s he?
Making threats against the judge or judge’s family in a criminal case is great way to get remanded into custody pending the trial.
Start with a gag order banning him from mentioning the case , the judge, the jury, the charges, etc. and from using social media to re-post such comments from his followers then lock him up as soon as he violates this…so 24 hours after the gag order is in place.
re: #226 Joe Bacon ✅
This is Ayn Rand’s America where selfishness rules.
These people are menials. They are below us and their needs mean nothing to us.
re: #242 darthstar
Making threats against the judge or judge’s family in a criminal case is great way to get remanded into custody pending the trial.
Start with a gag order banning him from mentioning the case , the judge, the jury, the charges, etc. and from using social media to re-post such comments from his followers then lock him up as soon as he violates this…so 24 hours after the gag order is in place.
Anyone else would have already been in jail - if not for the threats against the courts, witnesses, etc., but for the stolen/mishandled classified docs. Trump continues to get preferential treatment undeserving of a con.
re: #240 Nerdy Fish
Consequences are only for little people.
Considering he faced possible life in prison, I’d say he got off easy.
Can’t think of any other reason why the nationality of the crew is important.
re: #248 darthstar
Can’t think of any other reason why the nationality of the crew is important.
The racist shitheads that are so prevalent in America these days are going to love this.
re: #186 jeffreyw
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re: #247 darthstar
Ships are required to have a harbor pilot on board while transiting in/out. The nationality of the crew is almost besides the point (though the racists will be racist regardless of what was found).
re: #235 darthstar
Honest Don digging himself another hole…
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Interesting missing bit of context - he’s talking about CFO, Alan Weisselberg here:
He was recently the judge on an unrelated trial of a long term employee, elderly and not in good health. This judge treated him viciously, either you cooperate or I’m putting you in jail for 15 years. He plead and went to jail for very minor offenses, highly unusual, served 4 months in Rikers, and now they are after him again, this time for allegedly lying (doesn’t look like lying to me!), and they threatened him again with 15 years if he doesn’t say something bad about “TRUMP.” He is devastated and scared!
I’m certain the judge will appreciate this interpretation of what happened.
re: #252 dat_said
Interesting missing bit of context - he’s talking about CFO, Alan Weisselberg here:
I’m certain the judge will appreciate this interpretation of what happened.
Weisselberg should be scared. I hope all financial fraudsters are scared of the consequences of breaking the law. But as we see with Trump and Ken Paxton, it’s far more common for these crooks to use their money and power to avoid it.
re: #251 lawhawk
I’m far from an expert on maritime commerce, but even I know that (as has been for a long time), the crews of container ships in international trade are usually “Third World” sorts - ships’ officers and specialists not so much. But it doesn’t look like the nationality of the mariners is of any relevance in the Key Bridge collision. Though the Internet will, as you note, likely opine otherwise.
That video of the bridge collapsing was truly amazing: this is going to be a MAJOR project to replace. Even with Pete Buttigieg on the job…
re: #256 Joe Bacon ✅
So how does FAUX report the bridge collapse?
Linking it to their bullshit “border crisis” line.
You can always count on FAUX to beat the racist drum no matter what.
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— Elon Musk, probably
re: #250 wrenchwench
Curve Bill Thrasher, young one. Or that’s what I’d call it in New Mexico. My favorite bird when I was there. The young ones had all the spots.
This one is a Northern Flicker. It’s a common visitor to our suet feeder.
re: #256 Joe Bacon ✅
So how does FAUX report the bridge collapse?
Linking it to their bullshit “border crisis” line.
You can always count on FAUX to beat the racist drum no matter what.
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I keep going back to this, but this is just overt racism. People who nod along are doing so because they like the racism. Period.
re: #259 jeffreyw
This one is a Northern Flicker. It’s a common visitor to our suet feeder.
Cool! Gets to keep the spots!
It’s already one of those days and I really needed a belly laugh.
Crackhead Mike comes to my rescue!
‘It’s the End Times’: Mike Lindell says God will rapture him over voting machines
I clicked on the video link and I just can’t stop laughing at that ass!
re: #255 Dr Lizardo
In this video, you can clearly see two power losses on the M/S Dali, then thick black smoke coming out of the port funnel.
Yeah…there had to be some kind of catastrophic failure onboard, which led to the disaster in Baltimore earlier today.
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Katie changed her ways after getting fired for saying someone was Indian as an attempt at an insult. She blames Stephen Miller for turning her into a monster, but does admit she was already a racist when hired by Breitbart.
Former Breitbart Editor: Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. I know, I was one too. (CNN)
re: #263 Joe Bacon ✅
A pair of experts decide to chime in on who done it…
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If Jones believed the shit he says, the stress caused by the delusion of constantly being under attack would kill him.
re: #268 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
If Jones believed the shit he says, the stress caused by the delusion of constantly being under attack would kill him.
He would’ve been dead 20 years ago.
re: #251 lawhawk
Ships are required to have a harbor pilot on board while transiting in/out. The nationality of the crew is almost besides the point (though the racists will be racist regardless of what was found).
Some tour guide in Astoria, OR, made it sound like the mouth of the Columbia was the most treacherous sailing anywhere, necessitating a Harbor Pilot.
re: #235 darthstar
Why not? What are the consequences? So far, he’s getting everything he wants.
re: #263 Joe Bacon ✅
A pair of experts decide to chime in on who done it…
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I love how Tate confidently states it was “deliberately steered.” Are you a boat captain? What are the telltale differences between a ship being “deliberately steered” in a direction and losing steering control involuntarily?
re: #270 wrenchwench
Some tour guide in Astoria, OR, made it sound like the mouth of the Columbia was the most treacherous sailing anywhere, necessitating a Harbor Pilot.
The Columbia Bar is known as the “Graveyard of the Pacific”.
re: #254 Jay C
Baltimore has a couple of major transit projects that are going to be critical for regional transportation -
1) the Frederick Douglass tunnel. This tunnel project replaces the Civil War era tunnel on the NEC with a modern replacement allowing high speed transit through Baltimore.
2) Key bridge replacement - essential for trucks and hazardous material shipments through the region since the tunnels prohibit that kind of cargo. This is essential and critical for regional vehicular transit.
3) there’s also a major mass transit project underway as well.
We’re talking billions of dollars across these projects.
re: #273 Nerdy Fish
I love how Tate confidently states it was “deliberately steered.” Are you a boat captain? What are the telltale differences between a ship being “deliberately steered” in a direction and losing steering control involuntarily?
The only thing Andrew Tate is knowledgeable about is sex trafficking.
I just read “trading is halted for Trump’s truth social due to volatility “? Nooo, can’t be true! Ha
re: #95 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
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re: #276 Dr Lizardo
The only thing Andrew Tate is knowledgeable about is sex trafficking.
The answer to my second question, in case it wasn’t obvious, is, “There aren’t any.” Even a trained boat captain would have no way of knowing if the steering input was deliberate or accidental, unless evidence surfaced one way or the other. Given that we know of the Mayday and the power loss, the answer seems intuitively obvious to me, but Mr. Sex Trafficker over here is determined to be as big of a jackass as he can be.
re: #274 Dr Lizardo
The Columbia Bar is known as the “Graveyard of the Pacific”.
Those are some old jettys. And the tour guide did not overstate the case.
The nearby United States Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment, Washington, is renowned for operating in some of the roughest sea conditions in the world, and is home to the National Motor Lifeboat School. It is the only school for rough weather and surf rescue operation in the US, and is respected internationally as a center of excellence for heavy boat operations.
Warning - incoming old man grumbling.
I have to shovel again today (sure, it’s only like the fourth time this season but still).
re: #277 prairiefire
I just read “trading is halted for Trump’s truth social due to volatility “? Nooo, can’t be true! Ha
I got an alert on my Schwab IRA about issues with DJT and to call their support line for assistnace. LOL! I was wondering what was going on with it.
re: #262 Joe Bacon ✅
It’s already one of those days and I really needed a belly laugh.
Crackhead Mike comes to my rescue!
‘It’s the End Times’: Mike Lindell says God will rapture him over voting machines
I clicked on the video link and I just can’t stop laughing at that ass!
It’s about fucking time. Buh bye asshole.
(Don’t I wish? Alas, we’re stuck with this tool.)
Someone mentioned the Valdez above, and I recently learned that part of what caused that spill is that tankers were supposed to go out to a designated lane far from shore to safely move product, but it was standard industry practice to cut time by sailing as close to the shore as possible…and there was no traffic enoforcement and no rules about overworking crew.
The Valdez was doing what was normal…until it rolled a 1.
Companies always engage in this kind of brinksmanship: get as close to malicious neglect as possible, and when things tip over suddenly “the problem” is not that it was only a matter of time until a catastrophe happened, but because individual actors (ignore those people’s circumstances, but also that their responsibility is downstream of the accountability of the people that hired them and told them what to do) were not able to salvage the win.
Much like Bhopal, the accident was a predictable outcome like a live round is a predictable outcome in Russian Roulette, but the entire system of fast-and-cheap commerce relies on pulling that trigger while the gun’s pointed at poor people and/or commonwealth.
re: #262 Joe Bacon ✅
It’s already one of those days and I really needed a belly laugh.
Crackhead Mike comes to my rescue!
‘It’s the End Times’: Mike Lindell says God will rapture him over voting machines
I clicked on the video link and I just can’t stop laughing at that ass!
They keep promising it’s happening but they’re still here!
SCOTUS hearing on mifepristone is underway, and it’s exactly as you’d expect. SCOTUS is gonna steamroll and limit access by ignoring precedent, and harms to women who will be forced to carry to term, when doctors can choose not to write those scripts.
If a doctor doesn’t want to prescribe, they don’t. That’s between the doctor and their patient, but the Court doesn’t care what the patient (women) want. They want to put their religious beliefs ahead of all else.
Justice Jackson calls the seditious adjacent six out for this BS too.
re: #286 lawhawk
Sigh. It’s going to take us two full generations to undo all the damage these six corrupt assholes are doing in the span of four years.
re: #260 Unabogie
I keep going back to this, but this is just overt racism. People who nod along are doing so because they like the racism. Period.
All we have to do is close our borders completely and let neither people nor goods in.
Problem solved, purity of blood assured.
re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If weather permits, go attend a Medieval Market and Fair at the Loreley, otherwise, just chill and eat a lot.
Here’s hoping for good weather for you, we had some snow overnight here in KC, but it did not stick.
re: #287 Nerdy Fish
Sigh. It’s going to take us two full generations to undo all the damage these six corrupt assholes are doing in the span of four years.
and if DJT gets re-elected, it might not ever be corrected…
re: #271 wrenchwench
I believed your last post, but nice proof!
I tried to include that as a mastodon embed in my answering post but those are not working for me this morning. It’s kinda hit n miss. Usually my own posts work OK, but not today!
People online be thinking a bridge support with extra concrete ‘armor’ would tank a hit from a 120k ton vessel going ~5-8 knots.
Okely dokely.
Oi, what a mess.
Hello.
re: #293 Varek Raith
People online be thinking a bridge support with extra concrete ‘armor’ would tank a hit from a 120k ton vessel going ~5-8 knots.
Okely dokely.
Oi, what a mess.
Hello.
Good morning, friend. Yes, the stupid is extra thick today. It’s 9/11 Twoof all over again, but with the power of the social media bubble behind it.
re: #134 Dr Lizardo
Or alternatively, “We like lending money to people who aren’t notorious deadbeats.”
Except for GOP billionaires: “We like lending money to people who will allow us to ravage the environment and evade taxes and eliminate unions and provide us with low paid child labor”
re: #287 Nerdy Fish
Sigh. It’s going to take us two full generations to undo all the damage these six corrupt assholes are doing in the span of four years.
Not necessarily.
SCOTUS declares that the President has absolute immunity.
Dark Brandon becomes Darth Brandon who then goes full Palpatine, executes Order 66, outlaws the GOP, ships Trump to Gitmo, removes the conservative justices from SCOTUS and appoints his own (hey, neat - no Senate approval needed!) and we can be back on track in 18 months!
re: #296 Hecuba’s daughter
Except for GOP billionaires: “We like lending money to people who will allow us to ravage the environment and evade taxes and eliminate unions and provide us with low paid child labor”
GOP Billionaires: “Regulations and red tape are destroying America! Oh, wokeness too”
re: #293 Varek Raith
The ship lacked sufficient dolphins that would absorb/deflect a ship. For comparison, the Skyway bridge dolphins - bridge protection system were designed to protect the bridge and withstand the impact of an 87,000-ton ship.
The piers themselves could never absorb a ship strike of this size. That was never within their design considerations (the bridge was built before the Skyway disaster). Construction started in 1972, and opened in 1977. The Skyway disaster occurred in 1980.
re: #284 The Ghost of a Flea
We can see this whole phenomenon play out with Boeing.
Management cuts corners on construction overall, management decides to half-ass training on the SuperMax so pilots don’t know how the MCAS engages, but in the breach it’s argued that individual responsibility is the primary cause of each problem.
The efficacy of the work that needs to be done—making a thing that functions as it should—is secondary to profit, and it is part of your lower-tier job to account for how management’s priorities make the work and the product nonviable…up to and including when cutting costs kills people.
re: #297 Dr Lizardo
Not necessarily.
SCOTUS declares that the President has absolute immunity.
Dark Brandon becomes Darth Brandon who then goes full Palpatine, executes Order 66, outlaws the GOP, ships Trump to Gitmo, removes the conservative justices from SCOTUS and appoints his own (hey, neat - no Senate approval needed!) and we can be back on track in 18 months!
Oh… IOKIYAR. The absolute immunity applies only to a guy under indictment and has been impeached during the 2017-2021 period. Any other POTUS for any other time frame is subject to rule of law and prosecution for criminal conduct as any other person in the US.
And it’s time for another episode of STUPID TREK!
Nancy Mace blames Biden’s infrastructure law after ship strike collapses Baltimore bridge
re: #301 The Ghost of a Flea
and all this from a company for which government contracts comprise 40% of revenues.
(37% USA, another 3% foreign, which would then involve government approval)
re: #295 Nerdy Fish
Good morning, friend. Yes, the stupid is extra thick today. It’s 9/11 Twoof all over again, but with the power of the social media bubble behind it.
Conspiracy has to be the answer because that makes the problem solvable by identifying the malefactor and hurting them. This creates the illusion of control, but also reinforces that bad things can only come from external agents.
Always, always, it’s the rejection of complexity; most of the time, it’s the rejection that the prevailing system created the conditions in which the specific bad event was likely.
I’m seeing some silliness online saying, “Why didn’t they just drop anchor?!” (in fact, I think they did drop anchor as a desperate measure anyway)
Physics doesn’t work like that. e_e
re: #309 BeenHereAwhile
… It’s also the entryway to the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore, which is the largest port in the U.S. for specialized cargo like trucks, tractors and trailers…
This is a huge mess. Ships are going to have to be re-routed to other major East Coast ports.
re: #209 Eventual Carrion
Going to my aunts house on Sunday. Big family get together. This will be a much happier get together than the last few get togethers that have come after funerals.
That sounds great, hope you enjoy it immensely.
re: #310 Varek Raith
I’m seeing some silliness online saying, “Why didn’t they just drop anchor?!” (in fact, I think they did drop anchor as a desperate measure anyway)
Physics doesn’t work like that. e_e
Dropping the anchor won’t just instantly stop a massive cargo carrier like this. Maybe the silly folks think it’s like the emergency brake on their car or something.
re: #313 Dr Lizardo
Dropping the anchor won’t just instantly stop a massive cargo carrier like this. Maybe the silly folks think it’s like the emergency brake on their car or something.
Even emergency brakes don’t stop the car on a dime - you’d still have to screech to a stop.
re: #294 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Thanks for those vids, it’s speculation like what I did upthread, but that guy actually knows what he’s talking about.
re: #313 Dr Lizardo
Dropping the anchor won’t just instantly stop a massive cargo carrier like this. Maybe the silly folks think it’s like the emergency brake on their car or something.
They’re thinking of Pirates of the Caribbean, where they did that neat maneuver dropping the anchor to stop the ship and turn on a dime. Because real life is just like the movies, you know.///
re: #304 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and all this from a company for which government contracts comprise 40% of revenues.
(37% USA, another 3% foreign, which would then involve government approval)
At this point my base assumption is that most government contracts are padded to oblivion, and quality control only kicks in if the project could feasibly injure someone with a Congressional vote.
Smedley Butler correctly diagnosed that war is a racket; Eisenhower attempt to describe the progress of that disease in his speech about the military-industrial complex. Now we’re at the point where the government exists in constant parallel processing with giant lumps of private money, and government only serves the people when that doesn’t interfere with number go up.
re: #314 lawhawk
Even emergency brakes don’t stop the car on a dime - you’d still have to screech to a stop.
You can even drive with the emergency brake engaged - my car will ping me if I accidentally leave it on.
re: #303 Joe Bacon ✅
And it’s time for another episode of STUPID TREK!
Nancy Mace blames Biden’s infrastructure law after ship strike collapses Baltimore bridge
Mace hadn’t been in the news for a few days, so she needed to run her mouth about something, no matter how stupid.
In the words of Jeff Tiedrich “what the small-batch artisanal fuck?”
re: #306 Patricia Kayden
and if someone has any reason to doubt the authenticity of your documentation, you can have your right suspended for the next two years…
re: #310 Varek Raith
I’m seeing some silliness online saying, “Why didn’t they just drop anchor?!” (in fact, I think they did drop anchor as a desperate measure anyway)
Physics doesn’t work like that. e_e
Tell them they can sign on as a Harbor Pilot, get big bucks, because they have it all figured out.
re: #318 Nerdy Fish
You can even drive with the emergency brake engaged - my car will ping me if I accidentally leave it on.
A couple of winters ago, with a little ice on the street, I saw a driver drag his unturning rear wheels with front wheel drive, for more than a block.
re: #316 Nerdy Fish
They’re thinking of Pirates of the Caribbean, where they did that neat maneuver dropping the anchor to stop the ship and turn on a dime. Because real life is just like the movies, you know.///
and because on the Internet, everyone is an expert whose conclusions are equally valid
re: #292 dat_said
THAT’S why there was no traffic right before impact. Nice save.
re: #316 Nerdy Fish
They’re thinking of Pirates of the Caribbean, where they did that neat maneuver dropping the anchor to stop the ship and turn on a dime. Because real life is just like the movies, you know.///
This is actually what happens when you pull the emergency brake on your ship….
re: #50 silverdolphin
I may just have to stop by the store and get a ticket. Anyone got an insight into the best numbers to use? ;-)
Pick numbers over 31. It won’t increase your likelihood of winning, but if you win it’ll increase the likelihood that you’re not splitting the prize (people tend to play date numbers).
re: #316 Nerdy Fish
They’re thinking of Pirates of the Caribbean, where they did that neat maneuver dropping the anchor to stop the ship and turn on a dime. Because real life is just like the movies, you know.///
Recall that “torture works, I saw 24” is an actual argument serious human beings made for a decade and change.
People really do think they understand the world via fiction. Look at how many sour motherfuckers imagine that they should have been a Horatio Alger protagonist, and when that didn’t happen they switched over to some kind of Randian “I’m being fucked over by the mediocrities” rage.
Gets even worse when you talk about international stuff. You cannot convince Americans that large chunks of the world are not zones of pornographically over-the-top ultraviolence or constant peril.
re: #316 Nerdy Fish
They’re thinking
of Pirates of the Caribbean, where they did that neat maneuver dropping the anchor to stop the ship and turn on a dime. Because real life is just like the movies, you know.///
Assumes facts not in evidence
re: #327 The Ghost of a Flea
Recall that “torture works, I saw 24” is an actual argument serious human beings made for a decade and change.
Oh, God. I forgot all about that shit. Even at the time, when I was nominally pro-torture (I was a shitty person years ago), I thought that argument was incredibly stupid.
re: #256 Joe Bacon ✅
So how does FAUX report the bridge collapse?
Linking it to their bullshit “border crisis” line.
You can always count on FAUX to beat the racist drum no matter what.
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Newsmax is jumping on the BS talking point train too:
Matt Schlapp on Newsmax admits he’s “no expert” but tries to blame the Baltimore bridge collapse on “drug-addled” employees and covid lockdowns pic.twitter.com/TAxjgRU5Dt
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 26, 2024
re: #329 Nerdy Fish
Oh, God. I forgot all about that shit. Even at the time, when I was nominally pro-torture (I was a shitty person years ago), I thought that argument was incredibly stupid.
I’m in my 40s and it was a normal part of cultural consumption to encounter the idea that roughing up people would make them tell the truth, but also that when “good guys” are tortured they’ll have the character to say nothing at all.
Encounter with unhoused individual….
” Hey can you spare a few million?”
I laugh at the guy. ” Hey it works for Trump” he says….
re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg
Not to be outdone - over on Fox, Maria Bartiromo says this is the result of wide open borders.
Maria Bartiromo tries to link the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse in Baltimore to “the wide open border” pic.twitter.com/bkMdvFNa3g
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 26, 2024
I second the use of Tiedrich’s what in the small artisinal batch fuck is she going on about? This has precisely nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with older infrastructure, accidents, and tragic errors.
re: #301 The Ghost of a Flea
Lives are cheap but money is dear. //
The SCOTUS oral arguments over mifepristone access is concluded. It appears that the Court is likely to keep the status quo - noting the lack of standing by the anti-abortion extremists party to this suit to question the FDA regulation of the drug.
re: #334 lawhawk
Not to be outdone - over on Fox, Maria Bartiromo says this is the result of wide open borders.
I second the use of Tiedrich’s what in the small artisinal batch fuck is she going on about? This has precisely nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with older infrastructure, accidents, and tragic errors.
Another popular thing among the conservo-net is this was caused by a DEI hire.
Like, wtf.
I’ve driven over the Dames Points twice, within minutes of each other. Missed an exit so had to cross to turn around. Have no urge to ever cross it again, just to damn high.
Could bridge collapse happen in Jacksonville? Mayor assures Dames Point has safeguards https://t.co/M5TFFrLY3W
— Florida Times-Union (@jaxdotcom) March 26, 2024
re: #270 wrenchwench
Some tour guide in Astoria, OR, made it sound like the mouth of the Columbia was the most treacherous sailing anywhere, necessitating a Harbor Pilot.
The mouth of the Columbia River is notoriously nasty. Large river feeding into ocean within a relatively constrained valley instead of being a broad estuary like the Mississippi or various rivers entering a bay first. Often carrying fairly large logs (especially a century or so back). The sandbanks at the mouth shift constantly. And the outflow fighting the tide can make things very choppy.
That stretch of coast is known for ship wrecks and I think the museum in Astoria had a display showing them. Plus there is still the wreck from 1904(?) rusting away on the beach in the state park just to the south.
re: #338 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
I’ve driven over the Dames Points twice, within minutes of each other. Missed an exit so had to cross to turn around. Have no urge to ever cross it again, just to damn high.
Hate to be that guy, but I don’t think a dolphin structure of that size would have stopped the Dali from hitting the support pier.
re: #338 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Key Bridge is/was higher. George Washington bridge on I-80 is higher than either.
Golden Gate has both beat.
re: #334 lawhawk
Not to be outdone - over on Fox, Maria Bartiromo says this is the result of wide open borders.
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I second the use of Tiedrich’s what in the small artisinal batch fuck is she going on about? This has precisely nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with older infrastructure, accidents, and tragic errors.
I guess that means she wants us to cocoon our nation off like Medieval Japan: no trade, no foreigners, purity of ideology and blood guaranteed.
re: #34 Jay C
Personally, I think this guy suing for just $75K is asking way too little. I have no idea how much the average Tennessee Congressman might be worth* but I would have at least started out asking for millions.
*personal assets, etc. As a Republican Rep., “worth” is a variable concept. Usually negative…
$75K is probably the statutory minimum amount of damages to get into KY court. Note: this is being heard in federal court, probably due to some sort of diversity jurisdiction, but the law is going to be Kentucky’s. Which would include the statutory minimum amount.
“But joining Kennedy’s ticket appears to open a pathway for Shanahan to inject her own wealth directly into the campaign instead of into an outside group, which would allow Kennedy to use the funds for key projects like gathering petition signatures for ballot access.” https://t.co/efMEVEc6aw
— Ben Kamisar (@bkamisar) March 26, 2024
Don’t overlook this: RFK Jr’s new running mate, Nicole Shanahan, has lots of money. That could fund his push for ballot access. Senior Dems tell me they worry he really might get on the ballot in many swing states.
Time to get ready for that. 1/
Link:https://t.co/Qmht5Eohf1— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) March 26, 2024
Nicole Shanahan already bankrolled RFK Jr’s Super Bowl ad to the tune of $4 million. That’s why for Dems, her money is what really looms large in RFK’s decision to pick her. 3/https://t.co/Qmht5Eohf1 pic.twitter.com/m6g9KpWYm8
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) March 26, 2024
RFK benefits from a two-fer: He has high name rec and positive association w/the Kennedys, even as voters don’t know his crazy positions or that the family opposes his run.
Dem polling finds voters turn on him when details are filled in, I’m told. 5/https://t.co/Qmht5Eohf1 pic.twitter.com/ukwpcSIgdF— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) March 26, 2024
re: #344 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Gotta start running ads against RFK, Jr. right now. Put his crackpot positions out there for voters to see, so that by the time November rolls around, he’ll be polling at 1% or so.
re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg
Doesn’t Matt have anyone to grope today?
re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg
Matt should focus on his expertise which is how to sexually assault men. Otherwise, he can shut it.
re: #137 Dr. Matt
Has Diaper Donnie/maga/fox/stormfront blamed the bridge disaster on Biden yet?
It only took a few hours…..
Nancy Mace blames Biden’s infrastructure law after ship strike collapses Baltimore bridge
re: #341 nines09
Key Bridge is/was higher. George Washington bridge on I-80 is higher than either.
Golden Gate has both beat.
The steep ass climb really gets me.
re: #348 Dr. Matt
It only took a few hours…..
Nancy Mace blames Biden’s infrastructure law after ship strike collapses Baltimore bridge
Image from visualcapitalist.com
Over 2/3rds of infrastructure bill goes to roads, bridges and other major projects which makes her statement a lie.
Mace insisted that the infrastructure funds were not going to roads and bridges.
re: #318 Nerdy Fish
You can even drive with the emergency brake engaged - my car will ping me if I accidentally leave it on.
Reminds me of that time I rescued a ‘65 Dodge coronet from a junkyard - it had no brakes except the emergency one, and the muffler was gone. To get to the parts store for the muffler and brake cylinder I had to drive down 2nd Ave in Anchorage which was two miles of stoplights every block. So pretty much every intersection it was RAWWWWWWRRRRRRR!!! RAWWWRRRR! RAWWWRRR! then SCREEEEEECH! to stop at the next light all the way there.
This timeline is seriously flawed
Told you https://t.co/WQQfWGj73p pic.twitter.com/qE1plMs9QH
— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) March 26, 2024
Comer is giving up on ever holding an impeachment vote on Biden. Wont stop him from holding hearings, because that’s what these fuckers do. He’s also hoping to smear everyone around Biden to get the equivocation between Biden and Trump’s clear and ongoing criminal conduct.
re: #342 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think she wants us to cocoon ourself off like Medieval Japan: no trade, no foreigners, purity of ideology and blood guaranteed.
This itself is giving too much credit; the point is to say the line again.
What really happened, how frightening, how sad, how scary, how complicated to fix, is unimportant compared to saying the line again.
And it’s not even a position held in good faith: conservative nativism and isolationism is performative but substanceless. As politicians and commentators they exist to say whatever the system of ownership and exploitation needs said moment to moment, and there will be no consistent follow-through.
What happens next can’t be sakoku because the US is an imperial metropole: it needs cheap shit from everywhere else to even minimally function; “immigrant labor” props up whole industries; and the people that take that value are the people that FOX and the GOP respond to. Indeed, by all indications what’s coming is actually…much worse that genuine isolation, because it makes more explicit and aggressive the coercion we apply to poorer countries (that’s what unilateral deals are: a poor as shit country trying to make a deal with the richest, most-coup-backing MFer on the planet), effectively re-adopting the banana-war mode of “we don’t care what you do, we’re just here for the money” as international policy…but at the same time creating tons and tons of new niches of exploitation—child labor, penal labor, retiree labor—and expanding overall precarity such that people cannot help but participate.
They’ll only get rid of immigrants to the extent they can fill those same positions…at the same compensation level…with Americans. They’ll only bring home manufacturing if they can cut the same corners they do in Jakarta.
All the “anti-immigrant” stuff is just reinforcing that core conservative premise of natural unequalness: problems only come from inferiors, problems are solved by pinning those inferiors in place. They’re repeating to their audience they’re the better kind of people at all times…and the implication (and more and more the declared text) is that America can only be fixed by fully encoding this caste system into governance.
Whether it’s presented as inevitability for eugenic reasons or Norman Vincent Peale reasons, some people are just meant to die in mines in some forgotten corner of the earth, and some people are just meant to die in refinery accidents in a poor town in the Midwest.
This looks like it’d be quite an interesting film - and it won Grand Jury Prize at the 80th Venice International Film Festival and picked up a couple other major prizes, too:
Synopsis: In the rural alpine hamlet of Mizubiki, not far from Tokyo, Takumi and his daughter, Hana, lead a modest life gathering water, wood, and wild wasabi for the local udon restaurant. Increasingly, the townsfolk become aware of a talent agency’s plan to build an opulent glamping site nearby, offering city residents a comfortable “escape” to the snowy wilderness. When two company representatives arrive and ask for local guidance, Takumi becomes conflicted in his involvement, as it becomes clear that the project will have a pernicious impact on the community.
Written and directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Some mansplaining going on:
(This is neither the beginning or the end of the thread)
kilgore trout @kilgoretrout…• 1h
are you suggesting a bollard will deflect a 175,000 ton cargo ship
Condor@condor.bsky.social 1h
a giant concrete block? yes. the bridges concrete foundation stopped the ship in its tracks. put and even bigger one further out and bam, ship wouldnt have hit. they put those up when they rebuilt the skyway bridge. a bridge exactly like the key bridge.
kilgore trout @kilgoretrout… •1h
listen. do you follow the p=mv concept?
Condor @condor.bsky.social • 1h
i understand the concept perfectly thanks.
kilgore trout @kilgoretrout….• 1h
then at 175k tons -three hundred fifty million pounds- a ship moving 3 mph has approx 154,000,000 Ib*ft/s of momentum. that’s roughly the equivalent of being hit by a bocce ball traveling at 1/6th the speed of light. you got a bollard for that?
Condor @condor.bsky.social
yes! its called a fuckin dolphin.
Mar 26, 2024 at 10:12 AM
re: #358 BeenHereAwhile
The answer to the age-old problem of the unstoppable force vs. the immovable object is simple: The immovable object gets destroyed, and it may or may not do significant damage to the unstoppable force on its way out. Physics is a harsh mistress.
There was only one bridge that made me nervous in my Bunky Big Rig. It had issues and pieces would fall off almost weekly. When they completed US RT 1, you could avoid it. I went over it a hundred times at least. Both ways.
It went over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal at St Georges Delaware on US 13.
St Georges sits on either side of the canal.
Temporarily closed it says.
Opened as a 4 lane, made a 2 lane for safety. You can see the wear and tear on closeups. It was a pothole laden crossing.
You could feel this shake as you rode on it slow in traffic….
Sat view. You can zoom in to view them both.
off to chores be good
re: #354 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
This timeline is seriously flawed
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It’s better than the nuclear war in the 60s timeline.
Elon made Twitter an asylum for the delusional and the antisocial.
re: #354 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
This timeline is seriously flawed
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JEWISH SPACE LAZERS TOOK OUT TEH BRIDGE!
re: #358 BeenHereAwhile
kilgore trout @kilgoretrout….• 1h
then at 175k tons -three hundred fifty million pounds- a ship moving 3 mph has approx 154,000,000 Ib*ft/s of momentum. that’s roughly the equivalent of being hit by a bocce ball traveling at 1/6th the speed of light. you got a bollard for that?
Perfection.
re: #356 The Ghost of a Flea
This itself is giving too much credit; the point is to say the line again.
What really happened, how frightening, how sad, how scary, how complicated to fix, is unimportant compared to saying the line again.
And it’s not even a position held in good faith: conservative nativism and isolationism is performative but substanceless. As politicians and commentators they exist to say whatever the system of ownership and exploitation needs said moment to moment, and there will be no consistent follow-through.
What happens next can’t be sakoku because the US is an imperial metropole: it needs cheap shit from everywhere else to even minimally function; “immigrant labor” props up whole industries; and the people that take that value are the people that FOX and the GOP respond to. Indeed, by all indications what’s coming is actually…much worse that genuine isolation, because it makes more explicit and aggressive the coercion we apply to poorer countries (that’s what unilateral deals are: a poor as shit country trying to make a deal with the richest, most-coup-backing MFer on the planet), effectively re-adopting the banana-war mode of “we don’t care what you do, we’re just here for the money” as international policy…but at the same time creating tons and tons of new niches of exploitation—child labor, penal labor, retiree labor—and expanding overall precarity such that people cannot help but participate.
They’ll only get rid of immigrants to the extent they can fill those same positions…at the same compensation level…with Americans. They’ll only bring home manufacturing if they can cut the same corners they do in Jakarta.
All the “anti-immigrant” stuff is just reinforcing that core conservative premise of natural unequalness: problems only come from inferiors, problems are solved by pinning those inferiors in place. They’re repeating to their audience they’re the better kind of people at all times…and the implication (and more and more the declared text) is that America can only be fixed by fully encoding this caste system into governance.
Whether it’s presented as inevitability for eugenic reasons or Norman Vincent Peale reasons, some people are just meant to die in mines in some forgotten corner of the earth, and some people are just meant to die in refinery accidents in a poor town in the Midwest.
One of the best examples of this mentality are the DeVos’es who made their MLM bones in Amway importing things made of questionable substances manufactured by captives of the ‘Commies’ in China.
re: #318 Nerdy Fish
You can even drive with the emergency brake engaged - my car will ping me if I accidentally leave it on.
Hey, older cars had warnings
They made noises too. Usually metal on metal.
They also smoked and smelled of brimstone
re: #360 nines09
The only bridge that I’ve ever had concerns about - the Pulaski Skyway. 2 lanes each direction - 10 feet lanes - no center median/barrier with everyone driving 40-50mph. It even has left lane exits. I didn’t drive it that often, so it was not as bad as the old Goethals bridge, which was also 2 lanes each direction, but it at least had a center barrier.
I’ve been on the other NYC metro bridges when it was windy, and you could feel the sway.
The Brooklyn Bridge never had that problem (because Roebling designed it as both a cable stayed and suspension bridge) and it used to carry rail traffic before those were removed to make way for additional car lanes.
re: #359 Nerdy Fish
The answer to the age-old problem of the unstoppable force vs. the immovable object is simple: The immovable object gets destroyed, and it may or may not do significant damage to the unstoppable force on its way out. Physics is a harsh mistress.
The last entry in the above thread:
percs cited @mrenergy.bsky.so…
i love dolphins. so majestic
Mar 26, 2024 at 10:54 AM
re: #354 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
The Stupid Never Stops.
re: #367 lawhawk
They are built to bend and not break and I felt exactly what you described on many a bridge. The bridge over the Susquehanna on State Rt 147 here gives when you are stuck in traffic on it. Bounces a little. They just opened a new one north of here that is 180 feet high, 5 feet lower than the Key Bridge. Ski jump coming west over it at the end.
SCOOP @PuckNews: NBC NEWS plans to drop ex RNC-chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following on-air revolt from NBC/MSNBC talent. Execs are deliberating over details; announcement pending. Meanwhile, McDaniel is seeking legal representation.
Full details, scoops &…— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) March 26, 2024
re: #372 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
BWA HAHAHAHA!
re: #367 lawhawk
The only bridge that I’ve ever had concerns about - the Pulaski Skyway. 2 lanes each direction - 10 feet lanes - no center median/barrier with everyone driving 40-50mph. It even has left lane exits. I didn’t drive it that often, so it was not as bad as the old Goethals bridge, which was also 2 lanes each direction, but it at least had a center barrier.
I’ve been on the other NYC metro bridges when it was windy, and you could feel the sway.
The Brooklyn Bridge never had that problem (because Roebling designed it as both a cable stayed and suspension bridge) and it used to carry rail traffic before those were removed to make way for additional car lanes.
You want to talk scary bridges:
By the 1960s, the Grace Memorial Bridge had become functionally insufficient…In 1995, the Grace Memorial Bridge scored only a 4 out of 100 (4 percent), or an F, in safety… Construction started in 2001 and the new bridge opened in July 2005, at which point the Grace Memorial and Pearman Bridges closed to traffic permanently.
Going to Charleston in the early aughts was quite an adventure.
re: #372 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Why is Ronna seeking legal representation? I thought Conservatives were all about at will employment where employers can fire you for any dang reason.
Bye Ronna. Go join Fox News (if they will have you given how Trump feels about you).
re: #376 Teukka
and brainwashed (most of) us into mindlessly obeying them!!!
re: #372 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Brought to you by the good people at How The Fuck Did You Not See That Coming?
re: #372 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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Everyone involved in the decision to hire her should go too.
re: #372 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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It’s nice that they didn’t fire the people who refused to go along with bringing a depraved liar onboard.
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re: #371 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, we have to beat them then…..
re: #382 Patricia Kayden
we have to protect women against themselves
men can make their own decisions
/
One day after he compared himself to Jesus Christ, Trump is now selling a $60 “Trump endorsed” Bible.
Grifter gonna grift. 🤮 pic.twitter.com/rNGlR49mWG— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) March 26, 2024
re: #385 Teukka
One day after he compared himself to Jesus Christ, Trump is now selling a $60 “Trump endorsed” Bible.
All the parts about theft and adultery being wrong are edited out.
re: #313 Dr Lizardo
Dropping the anchor won’t just instantly stop a massive cargo carrier like this. Maybe the silly folks think it’s like the emergency brake on their car or something.
Acme cartoon physics
re: #386 Mattand
They could save production money by leaving it blank inside. The buyers won’t care.
re: #313 Dr Lizardo
Dropping the anchor won’t just instantly stop a massive cargo carrier like this. Maybe the silly folks think it’s like the emergency brake on their car or something.
You obviously didn’t see the movie Battleship.
re: #385 Teukka
Someone must have told him not to hold it upside down.
re: #388 nines09
He hates dogs so that’s probably just his poop.
re: #389 jaunte
They could save production money by leaving it blank inside. The buyers won’t
careknow.
re: #390 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
CGI has given a lot of people very questionable ideas about physics.
re: #381 Joe Bacon ✅
“Our Father, Donald Trump, who art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy Name
Thy kingdom come, thy Will be done
In the White House, as it is at Mar-a-Lago
And give us this day our daily NFT
And indulge us in our trespasses
As we hate those who are not White
And lead us not into into being Libtards
But deliver unto us your Golden Sneakers
For thine is the power and the glory
Forever and ever.”
Amen
re: #392 Patricia Kayden
I think he could sell some. These cretins buy everything else.
re: #395 Dr Lizardo
And as an added bonus the new Lee Greenwood Bible authorized by Donald J Trump now tells churches to serve Diet Coke and Big Macs for communion!
re: #352 nines09
At approximately 0:40 starts the tutorial on how to stop a huge ocean going vessel at speed by dropping anchor.
So simple a caveman could do it.
Has to be Bidens fault with drug addled illegals taking ocean faring jobs…..[Embedded content]
Damn. Beat me by a lot.
re: #372 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Sue away you lying bitch.
re: #395 Dr Lizardo
“Our Father, Donald Trump, who art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy Name
Thy kingdom come, thy Will be done
In the White House, as it is at Mar-a-Lago
And give us this day our daily NFT
And indulge us in our trespasses
As we hate those who are not White
And lead us not into into being Libtards
But deliver unto us your Golden Sneakers
For thine is the power and the glory
Forever and ever.”Amen
I’m starting to give weight to the whole antichrist thing.
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