Some More News: Is George Soros Behind Everything You Don't Like?

Some More News: Is George Soros Behind Everything You Don’t Like?

Hi. This week, we’re looking at George Soros: where he came from, how he made his money, and why the right-wing obsessively thinks he’s the puppetmaster behind everything they don’t like.

Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Jonathan Harris
Edited by John Conway
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell

SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pT_3xHPVhIqfM9KUj2PbPCvw6gsmMuYzDwtLpUNysG4/edit

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
05:06 – George Soros: The Early Years
10:58 - After the War: Making Money, Honey
13:53 - The 1990s
20:57 - Philanthropizing and Philosophizing
28:04 - The Right Gets Mad: Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck
42:23 – Soros Is Chosen As “The Enemy”
50:22 - Why this is so dangerous

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146 comments

dat_said May 8, 2024 • 11:42:30am

NBC News: Trump spends day off from court hosting NFT customers at Mar-a-Lago

This is such a pathetic grift -

Trump’s newest round of digital trading cards, dubbed the “Mugshot Edition,” includes a bonus offer for a small swatch of the suit Trump wore during his mug shot in Fulton County, Georgia, where he faces racketeering charges related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.

He’s been doing the snippet of suit scam since December and somehow he still hasn’t run out of material. “It was a great suit, believe me, a really good suit. It’s all cut up, and you’re gonna get a piece of it,” Trump said in a video on Truth Social.

A Three Hour Tour May 8, 2024 • 11:43:09am

Is George Soros behind everything you don’t like?

According to a little birdy, I hear it’s actually Leonard Leo and his Federalist Society stooges who’s behind everything I don’t like.

lawhawk May 8, 2024 • 11:46:12am

re: #1 dat_said

Oh come on, you can get a good 100,000 swatches of fabric from a suit like that. Millions even. /

Nerdy Fish May 8, 2024 • 11:46:20am

From downstairs:

re: #388 No Malarkey!

What you can’t see is that he made the heart sign with his hands to her, and of course you can hear him ask her to make it to him. He even acknowledged he acted inappropriately.

Okay, that makes a difference. In the excerpt, it stated that he made the heart sign to her, but again, that just reads like an awkward adult. Asking her to make it back is really weird. I did say things could go from “borderline” to “holy shit call the cops” really quickly.

Dr Lizardo May 8, 2024 • 11:48:35am

The only reason the wingnuts go with the George Soros boogeyman is because they know perfectly well they just can’t out and out say, “IT’S THE JOOOOOOS, MAN!!”

At least…not yet.

Rightwingconspirator May 8, 2024 • 11:50:04am

Funny how the right is so dependent upon fictional villains to make their point. Windmill noise cancer. “Grooming”. Etcetera. Its never a legit policy argument.

Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 11:50:59am

The manufacturer of the iconic Swiss Army Knife said that’s releasing a new multi-tool that comes without a knife.
The pocket tool-maker Victorinox’s CEO Carl Elsener said in an interview with Swiss media outlet Blick that the company is “concerned about the increasing regulation of knives due to violence in the world.”

“We’re actually working on pocket tools without blades,” Elsener added. “For example, I have a cool tool for cyclists in mind.”

nypost.com

BlueSpotinAL ✅ May 8, 2024 • 11:52:42am

re: #3 lawhawk

Oh come on, you can get a good 100,000 swatches of fabric from a suit like that. Millions even. /

The miracle of the oaf and the kitsches.

lawhawk May 8, 2024 • 11:53:58am

Is the brain worm that ate RFK Jr’s brain transmissible or spread by casual contact?

NBC: RFK Jr hire who downplayed January 6 turns out to have been a participant. It doesn’t appear that he engaged in any violence, or entered the Capitol, which have been thresholds for prosecution.

A right-wing social media influencer hired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign who previously said Jan. 6 was “Democrat misdirection” appears to have himself been on the restricted grounds of the U.S. Capitol during the attack.

NBC News first reported that Kennedy’s campaign hired Zach Henry’s firm, Total Virality, for “influencer engagement” in March. Henry had worked as deputy communications director for Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign, as well as for Blake Masters during his Senate run in Arizona.

RFK Jr.’s new campaign hire appears to have been at the Capitol on Jan. 6
02:36
Henry, as NBC News reported, had posted that Jan. 6 was “no MAGA insurrection Just more Democrat misdirection” and appears to have embraced conspiracy theories about the Capitol attack, including posting that “antifa” was behind it, which is false.

But photos and videos uncovered by NBC News and online “sedition hunters,” who have aided the FBI in hundreds of cases against Capitol rioters, appear to show Henry among the mob outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, beyond the previously established police lines, although it is unclear whether any of the barricades and “restricted” signs remained by the time he arrived.

There is no indication that Henry entered the Capitol or that he engaged in assaults on police officers or in destruction of property. Federal prosecutors have almost entirely focused their resources on Jan. 6 participants who either went inside the building or committed violence or destruction outside it, so there is little chance that Henry would be charged; the few nonviolent Jan. 6 defendants who were charged solely for going on restricted Capitol grounds were generally charged with misdemeanors.

wrenchwench May 8, 2024 • 11:55:12am

re: #8 BlueSpotinAL ✅

The miracle of the oaf and the kitsches.

Somehow, at the end, the emperor wears nothing.

Charles Johnson May 8, 2024 • 11:58:00am

I prefer the miracle of the loaf and scritches.

dat_said May 8, 2024 • 12:00:44pm

re: #9 lawhawk

I’ve seen no mention of how RFK Jr’s brain worm died. Was it neglect and malnutrition?

Dr Lizardo May 8, 2024 • 12:03:04pm

re: #12 dat_said

I’ve seen no mention of how RFK Jr’s brain worm died. Was it neglect and malnutrition?

It probably starved to death.

wrenchwench May 8, 2024 • 12:10:23pm

re: #13 Dr Lizardo

It probably starved to death.

Food poisoning.

BeenHereAwhile May 8, 2024 • 12:12:31pm

re: #379 Randall Gross

Before Maga, they were the tea party, before the tea party they were the biggest patriots fighting the clash of civilizations, before that they were Ron Paul’s YaFF, Pat Buchanan’s brigade at the WTO demonstrations in Seattle and Portland, and before that they were Reagan & Buckley’s Young American’s Foundation (YAF.)

They do not go away - they just reinvent themselves and rename. While they might tone things down a bit if Trump loses, they aren’t going to go away or change much.

In FL , early 2000s, we had Agenda 21 (America is in danger of falling under the of the UN) which (at least in FL) morphed into the Tea Party.

Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 12:13:52pm

re: #12 dat_said

I’ve seen no mention of how RFK Jr’s brain worm died. Was it neglect and malnutrition?

Steroids…

lawhawk May 8, 2024 • 12:14:29pm

re: #12 dat_said

George Soros. /do I really need this?

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 8, 2024 • 12:16:28pm

re: #12 dat_said

I’ve seen no mention of how RFK Jr’s brain worm died. Was it neglect and malnutrition?

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 12:18:19pm

re: #18 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

The worm ate the logical part.

darthstar May 8, 2024 • 12:20:45pm

Mastodon

darthstar May 8, 2024 • 12:21:43pm

re: #20 PhillyPretzel ✅

The worm ate the logical part.

Obviously the worm was vaccinated and that’s what killed it.

JC1 May 8, 2024 • 12:22:29pm

re: #12 dat_said

I’ve seen no mention of how RFK Jr’s brain worm died. Was it neglect and malnutrition?

Mercury poisoning? He used to eat so much tuna that supposedly his mercury levels were 10x higher than safe.

Hecuba's daughter May 8, 2024 • 12:23:29pm

re: #19 Eventual Carrion

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Shropshire Slasher May 8, 2024 • 12:23:40pm

and that is why you use distilled water in your neti pot.

Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 12:26:21pm

re: #15 BeenHereAwhile

In FL , early 2000s, we had Agenda 21 (America is in danger of falling under the of the UN) which (at least in FL) morphed into the Tea Party.

Yeah! I forgot that chapter!

gocart mozart May 8, 2024 • 12:33:19pm

We all intuitively know that Mike Johnson will always be completely full of shit.

— Edwin Mix (@EdMix13) May 8, 2024

Charles Johnson May 8, 2024 • 12:37:25pm

TIL RFK Jr. had an actual real life brain worm that ate part of his brain and then died.

That shit was too toxic even for a brain worm.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-08T19:34:49.000Z

EPR-radar May 8, 2024 • 12:38:12pm

re: #27 gocart mozart

It’s not intuitive any more. It’s ironclad deductive logic.

For example,

All Republican office holders are lying sacks of shit

Mike Johnson is a Republican office holder

Therefore, Mike Johnson is a lying sack of shit.

wrenchwench May 8, 2024 • 12:40:09pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

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The most literal case of shit-for-brains. It’s a verb.

Captain Ron May 8, 2024 • 12:40:58pm

‘No one knew she was dead’: GOP primary winner reportedly died 2 months agohttps://t.co/5b1sER0skq

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 8, 2024

Hecuba's daughter May 8, 2024 • 12:41:29pm

re: #18 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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Totally different take on the brain worms story—

So — maybe something else is going on… lots of discussion on bluesky about it..

It’s not that he made up a story about brain worms. It’s that he made up a story about brain worms to argue cognitive impairment to avoid paying alimony to his former wife, who then committed suicide. www.mediaite.com/news/rfk-jr-…

— Dan Murphy (@bungdan.bsky.social) 2024-05-08T14:01:41.388Z

Charles Johnson May 8, 2024 • 12:42:04pm

re: #31 Captain Ron

It can be difficult to tell.

PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 12:44:00pm

re: #31 Captain Ron

That is a twist on the old voting phrase “the dead getting up to vote.” This time the candidate was dead.

Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 12:45:11pm

re: #21 darthstar

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Bullshit. Freedom Jerks now calls the shots in the GOP!

goddamnedfrank May 8, 2024 • 12:47:04pm

At approximately 8:46 Tuesday morning, Reuven Kahane, 57, took a left hand turn onto Park Avenue in Manhattan, stopped short, and then accelerated his Volvo towards a group of Columbia student protesters in the crosswalk. Kahane struck one person, 55-year-old Maryellen Novak, a volunteer who was one of three people there to protect the protesters from harm. As one Columbia student witness told me Wednesday morning, “It was one of the most terrifying things I’ve witnessed.”

…

If you recognize the Kahane name, there’s a good reason: Reuven is a cousin of the late Meir Kahane, the American-Israeli political extremist and founder of the infamous Jewish Defense League. Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, “The JDL’s position with regard to Israel is denial of any Palestinian claims to land and the calling for the removal of all Arabs from the ‘Jewish-inherited soil.’ The group has orchestrated countless terrorist attacks in the U.S. and abroad, and has engaged in intense harassment of foreign diplomats, Muslims, Jewish scholars and community leaders, and officials.”

Targetpractice May 8, 2024 • 12:48:45pm

re: #27 gocart mozart

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Yeah, we all “know intuitively” that illegals are voting in federal elections. Just as we all “know intuitively” that crime has skyrocketed. And we all “know intuitively” that the economy is the worst since the 70s. And we all “know intuitively” that Biden is guilty of numerous crimes. We can’t prove any of it, there’s actually plenty of evidence to the contrary, but we must act as though it’s been proven accurate because if we don’t then “the terrorists win” or something like that.

Wile E. Wonka May 8, 2024 • 12:50:09pm

re: #15 BeenHereAwhile

In FL , early 2000s, we had Agenda 21 (America is in danger of falling under the of the UN) which (at least in FL) morphed into the Tea Party.

Oh yeah, I remember that one! Even made an image-macro out of it at the time.

Dr Lizardo May 8, 2024 • 12:52:00pm

re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter

— Chill Schweiger (@chillschweiger.bsky.social) 2024-05-08T16:54:47.360Z

darthstar May 8, 2024 • 12:59:27pm

Fox noticed.

lizardofid May 8, 2024 • 1:00:32pm

Good afternoon everyone. Monday Jeff Daniels was on the Kelly Clarkson Show to promote his latest Netflix show. It was a pretty good interview, and I learned that he was a musician (at about the 8:30 mark if you want to jump).

Jeff Daniels Has Written 450 Original Songs

Dr Lizardo May 8, 2024 • 1:06:30pm

re: #41 lizardofid

One actor who surprised me back in the day with his musical talent was Hal Linden.

Hal Linden & Jazz Disciples at the Blue Room

And with that, time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.

Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 1:06:42pm

re: #15 BeenHereAwhile

In FL , early 2000s, we had Agenda 21 (America is in danger of falling under the of the UN) which (at least in FL) morphed into the Tea Party.

Remember all the Jade Helm bullshit?

Patricia Kayden May 8, 2024 • 1:09:15pm

KGxvi May 8, 2024 • 1:12:35pm

re: #31 Captain Ron

honestly, if voters knew she was dead, she probably would have won by more.

Charles Johnson May 8, 2024 • 1:13:32pm

Just watched that new iPad video.

I feel sick.

WTF is wrong with these goddamned tech companies??!

William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 1:14:30pm

Sigh. It’s one of those days. Wonderful day. Sunny but a bit of fog/mist hanging in the air, giving a magical touch to things. I had, as always, my 1937 Zeiss Sonnar 50/2 collapsible mounted on my M 240. Had a glorious shot - beautiful tree in bloom framed between a couple of other trees over a pond at a park, mist in the background sun filtering in.

I did mention that the lens is a collapsible one, right… oh ^&%# That means it slides into itself to make a compact package for storage. But it won’t focus correctly. Like this:

I currently live in my childhood hometown. This house is the earliest one I remember my parents renting. I decided that would be an appropriate safety shot to get in focus 😉 Just imagine a 4 year old me standing there with my parents wearing a Felix the Cat Halloween costume some 56 years ago 🤣

If the light is good tomorrow, I’ll hit that park again.

Charles Johnson May 8, 2024 • 1:17:45pm

That ad is a serious fuckup by Apple.

The backlash is going to be ferocious.

PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 1:20:18pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

I heard that they destroyed perfectly good musical instruments to make a point. That is very sad.

The Ghost of a Flea May 8, 2024 • 1:20:32pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Just watched that new iPad video.

I feel sick.

WTF is wrong with these goddamned tech companies??!

The overly-clever ad accidentally makes explicit that yet another company envisions your existence mediated through the services: They all dream of being the landlord of the walled garden.

Targetpractice May 8, 2024 • 1:22:19pm

re: #40 darthstar

Fox noticed.

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The answer I’ve yet to hear from anyone in the far-right press is how exactly Trump is going to win these people back to his tent in time for the convention, let alone the elections in November. There seems to be a general consensus of “Oh, they’ll just suck it up and pull the lever for him in November, they don’t have any other choice!”

IOW, hope that the shit sandwich has become a little more palatable after aging in the midday sun for 4 years.

Charles Johnson May 8, 2024 • 1:22:50pm

As a musician I actually feel personally offended by that ad. I’m generally a fan of Apple tech, but this really pissed me off.

Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 1:24:33pm

re: #51 Targetpractice

The answer I’ve yet to hear from anyone in the far-right press is how exactly Trump is going to win these people back to his tent in time for the convention, let alone the elections in November. There seems to be a general consensus of “Oh, they’ll just suck it up and pull the lever for him in November, they don’t have any other choice!”

IOW, hope that the shit sandwich has become a little more palatable after aging in the midday sun for 4 years.

they dont have to explain it
they intuitively know

darthstar May 8, 2024 • 1:25:35pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

As a musician I actually feel personally offended by that ad. I’m generally a fan of Apple tech, but this really pissed me off.

Clearly they’re targeting the cybertruck owner demographic.

darthstar May 8, 2024 • 1:27:49pm

re: #51 Targetpractice

The answer I’ve yet to hear from anyone in the far-right press is how exactly Trump is going to win these people back to his tent in time for the convention, let alone the elections in November. There seems to be a general consensus of “Oh, they’ll just suck it up and pull the lever for him in November, they don’t have any other choice!”

IOW, hope that the shit sandwich has become a little more palatable after aging in the midday sun for 4 years.

Assuming a 50/50 R/D voter distribution, losing 20% of your base is a 10 point gift to the other party…that impacts more than just the top of the ticket.

William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 1:27:56pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

As a musician I actually feel personally offended by that ad. I’m generally a fan of Apple tech, but this really pissed me off.

It’s a nearly perfect bookend to the 1984 ad that introduce the Mac. The beginning and the end, as it were, of artistic freedom at Apple.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 8, 2024 • 1:28:17pm

Now with cause of death.

Chicago music icon Steve Albini dies at 61

Chicago musician, engineer and indie-rock icon Steve Albini died Wednesday from an apparent heart attack. He was 61.

The big picture: Albini has recorded thousands of bands, including national acts like Nirvana, the Pixies and PJ Harvey.

He also led two Chicago indie bands, Big Black and Shellac. The latter was reportedly preparing for a tour.

Albini’s Electrical Audio is one of the premier recording studios in Chicago.
What they’re saying: “He was one of the nicest, kindest, most generous and giving people we’ve ever known,” Sue Miller, former owner of Lounge Ax, tells Axios. “It’s just so hard to believe, and we will miss Steve forever.”

“It’s a sad day for the world to lose someone who made such an impact,” Metro Chicago owner Joe Shanahan tells Axios. “He embraced the indie spirit, and he walked the walk. He was a fan of bands, like no other.”

axios.com

Decatur Deb May 8, 2024 • 1:32:16pm

littlegreenfootballs.com

For those keeping score at home, after a merger with Triple Canopy, the nom du jour for the Blackwater complex of PMCs is Constellis Holdings.
en.wikipedia.org

Dave In Austin May 8, 2024 • 1:34:04pm

What Charles said, that serves no purpose.

EPR-radar May 8, 2024 • 1:36:23pm

re: #56 William Lewis

It’s a nearly perfect bookend to the 1984 ad that introduce the Mac. The beginning and the end, as it were, of artistic freedom at Apple.

For all of his many faults, I can’t imagine an Apple ad like that when Steve Jobs was there.

sizzzzlerz May 8, 2024 • 1:39:47pm

re: #1 dat_said

He’s been doing the snippet of suit scam since December and somehow he still hasn’t run out of material.

Grifters have been selling pieces of the True Cross® to the marks for 2000 years. When you got a good scam going, you find a way.

Decatur Deb May 8, 2024 • 1:40:08pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Just watched that new iPad video.

I feel sick.

WTF is wrong with these goddamned tech companies??!

Not enough Liberal Arts majors.

Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 1:43:31pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Just watched that new iPad video.

I feel sick.

WTF is wrong with these goddamned tech companies??!

I ask myself that every day.

There was someone in the Twitter replies who said the ad would be way more effective in reverse and they posted a video of that. The contrast was striking.

Targetpractice May 8, 2024 • 1:43:58pm

re: #60 EPR-radar

For all of his many faults, I can’t imagine an Apple ad like that when Steve Jobs was there.

Honestly, ever since Jobs died, it’s felt more and more like Apple is falling back into bad habits. The company has fallen back on the safe but hollow strategy of iterating the same stable of products year after year, such that I’ve heard even hardcore fans are beginning to wonder aloud if Apple has lost the plot.

darthstar May 8, 2024 • 1:47:19pm

Yay, I finally closed my BofA account which has been sitting mostly unused for four years. Managed to get the last auto-pays from it turned off…surely I’ll find out if I missed anyone in the next month.

steve_davis May 8, 2024 • 1:48:37pm

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

One actor who surprised me back in the day with his musical talent was Hal Linden.

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And with that, time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.

he’s an adequate clarinetist. nothing particularly earth-shattering. kind of like woody allen.

darthstar May 8, 2024 • 1:49:04pm

re: #64 Targetpractice

Honestly, ever since Jobs died, it’s felt more and more like Apple is falling back into bad habits. The company has fallen back on the safe but hollow strategy of iterating the same stable of products year after year, such that I’ve heard even hardcore fans are beginning to wonder aloud if Apple has lost the plot.

Well, hopefully they won’t launch a competitor for GCP and AWS…the last thing we need is a cloud service that’s only compatible with Apple products.

BeachDem May 8, 2024 • 1:49:41pm

re: #41 lizardofid

Good afternoon everyone. Monday Jeff Daniels was on the Kelly Clarkson Show to promote his latest Netflix show. It was a pretty good interview, and I learned that he was a musician (at about the 8:30 mark if you want to jump).

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And he can sing and play guitar

Jeff Daniels - That’s How I Got to Memphis (The Newsroom Series Finale)

goddamnedfrank May 8, 2024 • 1:51:59pm

For what it’s worth there is a specific, prescribed way to artistically destroy a piano, that requires the piano to first be beyond repair. Here’s Clipping’s version of Annea Lockwood’s Piano Burning off of the album There Existed an Addiction to Blood.

Piano Burning (Annea Lockwood, 1968)

Florida Panhandler May 8, 2024 • 1:52:57pm

re: #21 darthstar

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I will repeat this over and over..the whole entire modern Libertarian movement kicked off and popularized by Ayn Rand, after appropriating from more orthodox writers like von Mises, was merely a means to more and more tribalism and xenophobia to be exploited by more and more racist con men and women.

It had nothing to do with any sort of actual adherence to “free markets” as envisioned by classical Libertarian thinkers or writers oh- And the Libertarian originalists were also full of pure bunkola they peddled along the way all the while receiving funding and support not from actual blue collar-associated work, but from patronage and direct support from elites and the already wealthy eager to effectively push the whole “I’ve got mine…FUCK YOU” narrative that so infects the USA now.

GlutenFreeJesus May 8, 2024 • 1:52:59pm

re: #20 PhillyPretzel ✅

The worm was the logical part.

Targetpractice May 8, 2024 • 1:54:00pm

re: #69 goddamnedfrank

For what it’s worth there is a specific, prescribed way to artistically destroy a piano, that requires the piano to first be beyond repair. Here’s Clipping’s version of Annea Lockwood’s Piano Burning off of Clipping’s There Existed an Addiction to Blood.

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I prefer the time-honored Top Gear tradition:

Top Gear drops a piano on the Morris Marina

sizzzzlerz May 8, 2024 • 1:55:33pm

re: #69 goddamnedfrank

For what it’s worth there is a specific, prescribed way to artistically destroy a piano, that requires the piano to first be beyond repair. Here’s Clipping’s version of Annea Lockwood’s Piano Burning off of Clipping’s There Existed an Addiction to Blood.

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May I ask why the piano needs to be beyond repair? Seems like any piano made of wood would burn just fine, if someone was so inclined to make it so.

Charles Johnson May 8, 2024 • 1:56:01pm

It’s not about destroying musical instruments; that’s ugly enough, but the message of that ad is far uglier.

danarchy May 8, 2024 • 1:57:02pm

I had no problem with the Apple ad. “Look at everything we packed into this tiny little package” It isn’t particulary original, but I think you have to want to be offended to be offended by it.

I am guessing there was nothing special about the instruments they destroyed, to me it is no different than when a car gets destroyed in an ad or something. Feels like a waste to me but as long as they aren’t destroying anything irreplaceable who cares.

darthstar May 8, 2024 • 1:57:37pm

re: #69 goddamnedfrank

For what it’s worth there is a specific, prescribed way to artistically destroy a piano, that requires the piano to first be beyond repair. Here’s Clipping’s version of Annea Lockwood’s Piano Burning off of Clipping’s There Existed an Addiction to Blood.

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Several years ago, someone dumped a piano at the end of Kelly Ave in Half Moon Bay and dragged it out to an old house pad near the bluff overlooking the bay. It sat there for a few weeks then someone tuned it up and began holding Friday Sunset concerts for the last 45 minutes or so before the sun went down. People would sit and play a bit throughout the day.

It became a thing, and people showed up with picnic baskets and wine and occasionally other musicians would sit in. As the piano degraded, the sound changed until it eventually became unplayable.

Good times.

goddamnedfrank May 8, 2024 • 1:58:50pm

re: #73 sizzzzlerz

May I ask why the piano needs to be beyond repair? Seems like any piano made of wood would burn just fine, if someone was so inclined to make it so.

Because otherwise it’s pointlessly wasteful.

Similar to how the prescribed way of properly retiring a flag is to burn it.

BeenHereAwhile May 8, 2024 • 1:59:14pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Just watched that new iPad video.

I feel sick.

WTF is wrong with these goddamned tech companies??!

Option creep?

Hecuba's daughter May 8, 2024 • 2:00:56pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

It’s not about destroying musical instruments; that’s ugly enough, but the message of that ad is far uglier.

I originally linked to the ads on google and they seemed benign. But I finally tracked down a link from downstairs and Wow!! could not believe any firm run by non-psychopaths would approve such an ad. Absolutely amazing they thought it would sell their product.

Charles Johnson May 8, 2024 • 2:00:58pm

re: #75 danarchy

I’m pretty sure I don’t go through life wanting to be offended.

EPR-radar May 8, 2024 • 2:01:36pm

re: #64 Targetpractice

Honestly, ever since Jobs died, it’s felt more and more like Apple is falling back into bad habits. The company has fallen back on the safe but hollow strategy of iterating the same stable of products year after year, such that I’ve heard even hardcore fans are beginning to wonder aloud if Apple has lost the plot.

Jobs was a CEO that actually seemed to be useful, newsworthy because that is so rare.

That’s what makes US executive compensation an exceptionally annoying issue — they all pay themselves as if they are useful, but almost all of them are just greedy mediocrities.

Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 2:02:08pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

It’s not about destroying musical instruments; that’s ugly enough, but the message of that ad is far uglier.

Seconded. I’m not a big time creator, but I am very much a creative person.

And the ad really bothers me.

William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 2:03:07pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

It’s not about destroying musical instruments; that’s ugly enough, but the message of that ad is far uglier.

Hell, even Pete Townshend’s thing with guitar’s started accidentally with a too low ceiling and got out of hand from there. But this is just “above and beyond the call of stupidity” …

Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 2:03:44pm

Also, a properly maintained musical instrument can last WAY the fuck longer than any iPad can.

BeachDem May 8, 2024 • 2:05:38pm

Then there was the 145 year old guitar destroyed during the making of, IMO, one of the worst movies in history (William, are you nearby??)

That time a priceless 145-year-old Martin acoustic was smashed on the set of a Quentin Tarantino film

guitarworld.com

Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 2:05:54pm

Here’s the reversed version of the ad.

Hey @Apple, I fixed it for you (sound on) pic.twitter.com/OwVnYNgXhT

— Reza Sixo Safai (@rezawrecktion) May 8, 2024

goddamnedfrank May 8, 2024 • 2:07:05pm

re: #75 danarchy

I had no problem with the Apple ad. “Look at everything we packed into this tiny little package” It isn’t particulary original, but I think you have to want to be offended to be offended by it.

I am guessing there was nothing special about the instruments they destroyed, to me it is no different than when a car gets destroyed in an ad or something. Feels like a waste to me but as long as they aren’t destroying anything irreplaceable who cares.

It’s more about the larger context of AI being used to destroy artists’ livelihoods and replacing human art with a heavily processed gruel extruded from unthinking machines. It’s about the old tools that took real effort to master being replaced essentially with fancy slot machines that queef out stuff people delude themselves into thinking they actually made by supplying the machine with a simple prompt.

sizzzzlerz May 8, 2024 • 2:08:22pm

re: #77 goddamnedfrank

Because otherwise it’s pointlessly wasteful.

Similar to how the prescribed way of properly retiring a flag is to burn it.

Pointless? I agree with that. Wasteful is a bit more subjective. We live in a wasteful society where things are used and then thrown away for a variety of reasons, not all of which include the items no longer being useful. Pianos are no different, in that respect, than cars, books, or kitchen sinks.

Randall Gross May 8, 2024 • 2:08:25pm

It’s more like “throw away all that stuff you use to create with — come to our tiny screen and we will do all that creating for you in our AI walled garden.” It’s the epitome of techbro hubris.

Vicious Babushka May 8, 2024 • 2:09:50pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Just watched that new iPad video.

I feel sick.

WTF is wrong with these goddamned tech companies??!

They want to sell you a box that does nothing but show you ads all the time. Who wouldn’t want their very own streaming service of carefully curated ads for stuff that you just recently bought, like a new car, so maybe you will buy another one!

danarchy May 8, 2024 • 2:10:48pm

re: #87 goddamnedfrank

It’s more about the larger context of AI being used to destroy artists lives and replacing human art with a heavily processed gruel extruded from unthinking machines. It’s about the old tools that took skill to master being replaced essentially with fancy slot machines that queef out stuff people delude themselves into thinking they actually made by supplying the machine with a simple prompt.

The ad doesn’t once mention AI. It is about the thinnest ipad ever. I have seen some incredibly creative people create amazing things with an iPad with no AI involved. You are seeing things that aren’t there.

goddamnedfrank May 8, 2024 • 2:14:03pm

re: #91 danarchy

The ad doesn’t once mention AI. It is about the thinnest ipad ever. I have seen some incredibly creative people create amazing things with an iPad with no AI involved. You are seeing things that aren’t there.

I’m just telling you what the context is. The ad doesn’t have to spoon-feed the audience facts for the audience to understand what’s going on. The M4 chip in the new iPad Pro is being marketed as Apple’s first commercial foray into AI hardware.

Dave In Austin May 8, 2024 • 2:16:56pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

It’s not about destroying musical instruments; that’s ugly enough, but the message of that ad is far uglier.

Something Something crushing creativity with tech.
And then it farts at the end.

retired cynic May 8, 2024 • 2:17:07pm

re: #91 danarchy

I’m not creative enough, I guess. Graduated U of I with a degree in music education, playing clarinet. Now trying to keep my life going working with four non-profits, publishing a quarterly magazine, publishing some books over the years. Did graphics for Microsoft Press, although that was not creative AT ALL! But all I do with my iPad is store my personal digital library of books.

Targetpractice May 8, 2024 • 2:18:20pm

re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, a properly maintained musical instrument can last WAY the fuck longer than any iPad can.

I think that’s the thought that rings louder to me than some of the others mentioned. Oooh, aaah, “the thinnest iPad” ever…since the last “thinnest iPad ever” they sold you a few years ago. And the “thinnest iPad ever” until the next one in a year or two.

silverdolphin May 8, 2024 • 2:20:00pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Just watched that new iPad video.

I feel sick.

WTF is wrong with these goddamned tech companies??!

Worst Apple ad since the Lemmings one. There are so many other ways to get the point across without zeroing in on the destruction.

It was done by some well known music video direstors Vania & Muggia but instead of having the message that all these wonderful things can be found in an iPad, it suggests they all have to be destoryed to make way for the iPad.

William Lewis May 8, 2024 • 2:22:17pm

re: #85 BeachDem

Then there was the 145 year old guitar destroyed during the making of, IMO, one of the worst movies in history (William, are you nearby??)

That time a priceless 145-year-old Martin acoustic was smashed on the set of a Quentin Tarantino film

guitarworld.com

I remember. I was not amused.

sagehen May 8, 2024 • 2:24:38pm

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

One actor who surprised me back in the day with his musical talent was Hal Linden.

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And with that, time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.

Hal Linden is an excellent singer. He was lead in the Broadway show The Rothschilds. (Meyer Rothschild, patriarch of the family)

Hal Linden & Cast Of The Rothschilds “Sons” on The Ed Sullivan Show

Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 2:26:17pm

re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, a properly maintained musical instrument can last WAY the fuck longer than any iPad can.

my grandma (dad’s mom) bought him a saxophone in 1940.
he was 16 and played in school i guess. (he was very bad im told.)

in third grade they were testing all the kids for musical ability for the band and orchestra, etc.
they said i should play the saxophone.
i went home and told my parents and they said ‘well we have a saxophone in the attic…” (because i had no idea at the time)

local store fixed it up a bit and i played concert band, marching band, and partway through college. i was…meh.

i still have it, but it’s not any good anymore.

the best part is i have the original paperwork, which includes notes my grandma wrote on the back of a deposit slip from a local uptown NY bank that we’d become the auditors for.

here’s the letter from the company:

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sizzzzlerz May 8, 2024 • 2:28:50pm

re: #95 Targetpractice

I think that’s the thought that rings louder to me than some of the others mentioned. Oooh, aaah, “the thinnest iPad” ever…since the last “thinnest iPad ever” they sold you a few years ago. And the “thinnest iPad ever” until the next one in a year or two.

Don Draper, of Mad Men, had a great line in the first season where he’s presenting an ad campaign to some Kodak clients for their new slide viewer. He talks about an old ad man he used to work with who said that the most effective word in advertising is “new”. It creates, as he said, kind of an itch. He was spot on.

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 2:31:06pm

So Maga Mike Johnson comes out and gives a press conference where he says that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not going to call for a vote, and then she does.

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sizzzzlerz May 8, 2024 • 2:32:16pm

re: #101 darthstar

So Maga Mike Johnson comes out and gives a press conference where he says that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not going to call for a vote, and then she does.

Be honest. Did you really expect anything different?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 2:36:54pm

re: #5 Dr Lizardo

The only reason the wingnuts go with the George Soros boogeyman is because they know perfectly well they just can’t out and out say, “IT’S THE JOOOOOOS, MAN!!”

At least…not yet.

I still recall MTG and the Rothschild Space Lasers and when asked if she did not find that at all anti-Semitic, she responded that she was unaware that the Rothschilds were Jewish.

I just about believe that she could be that cluelessly stupid.

Like Michelle Bachmann’s famous quote on Obama when he sent advisors to Uganda: “First he got us into Libya, now he’s getting us into Africa!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 8, 2024 • 2:39:49pm

re: #27 gocart mozart

Speaker Mike Johnson: “We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it’s not been something that’s easily provable. We don’t have that number.”

Sounds legit.

The SCOTUS will find it fully legit when they use it as an excuse to disqualify millions of votes in November.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 2:40:10pm

re: #101 darthstar

So Maga Mike Johnson comes out and gives a press conference where he says that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not going to call for a vote, and then she does.

Totally on brand for these dysfunctional assholes.

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darthstar May 8, 2024 • 2:41:01pm

You know the expression/slogan, “Everything tastes good on a Ritz?” Well, that’s especially true for whitefish salad.

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Sherlock Hound May 8, 2024 • 2:41:14pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Just watched that new iPad video.

I feel sick.

WTF is wrong with these goddamned tech companies??!

Instead of musical instruments, I would have a pile of MBA’s in suits and briefcases, being crushed by the press. LLM’s should replace them. At least those poor emojis would be spared!

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So Cal Greek Hippie May 8, 2024 • 2:44:03pm

Catching up:

On Apple: been a user of their products since 1994and this disgusting commercial does a lot to erase goodwill. One reason I like the mac is that it’s a good interface with my instruments and mic. Dumbassssss tunnel vision in the NorCal spaceport HQ doing a Kurt Russell x 💯

On porn star interactions: I met Marilyn Chambers in Oxnard way bitd. The crew was in line at a local eatery and there she was looking lovely. We let her hold my 1 year old child which lit her up, because I had a chill and beautiful child (turned into a great adult). We managed to have a five minute conversation that didn’t involve porn or pyjama. Nice lady and I was sad she died tragically a short time later

On local scene: see photo

2024: Santa Barbara, California

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 2:49:08pm

Empty Green went ahead with her motion to unseat Speaker Jesusbot.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 2:50:08pm

re: #109 Joe Bacon ✅

Of course. You expected her not to do it?

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 2:50:53pm

re: #110 PhillyPretzel ✅

Of course. You expected her not to do it?

Oh I fully expected that crackpot to go all in and get smacked down

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 2:51:03pm

re: #109 Joe Bacon ✅

Empty Green went ahead with her motion to unseat Speaker Jesusbot.

And…? Wha happnd?

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So Cal Greek Hippie May 8, 2024 • 2:52:05pm

Just remember what that ad reminds me of: original Rollerball movie where rich vaporized trees for sport with a hi tech flamethrower for no damn reason at all

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 2:53:29pm

And from CNN: The House has killed MTG’s motion to vacate the speakership.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 2:54:26pm

re: #114 PhillyPretzel ✅

And from CNN: The House has killed MTG’s motion to vacate the speakership.

359-43 to smack Empty Green down

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EPR-radar May 8, 2024 • 2:55:07pm

re: #87 goddamnedfrank

It’s more about the larger context of AI being used to destroy artists’ livelihoods and replacing human art with a heavily processed gruel extruded from unthinking machines. It’s about the old tools that took real effort to master being replaced essentially with fancy slot machines that queef out stuff people delude themselves into thinking they actually made by supplying the machine with a simple prompt.

Every conceivable context for this ad is bad. E.g., there’s also the issue of pointless/wasteful destruction being presented as new/sexy/exciting.

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EPR-radar May 8, 2024 • 2:56:56pm

re: #115 Joe Bacon ✅

359-43 to smack Empty Green down

But her constituents (i.e., the deeply stupid Republicans in her district) put her there precisely to do this kind of clown show. So in any sane world this is her loss, but in reality it may even be a win.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 2:57:54pm

RIP Pete McCloskey.

washingtonpost.com

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calochortus May 8, 2024 • 3:00:01pm

re: #118 Joe Bacon ✅

RIP Pete McCloskey.

washingtonpost.com

Very sad, but he was in his 90s, so I guess we shouldn’t be to surprised.

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gocart mozart May 8, 2024 • 3:04:32pm

Grothman attempts to lecture Raskin on the use of the word ‘Republic’ in the pledge of allegiance. Raskin provides Grothman with a history lesson pic.twitter.com/aSGsQw1wy1

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 8, 2024

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Nerdy Fish May 8, 2024 • 3:09:37pm

re: #120 gocart mozart

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I swear to fucking Christ, if one more clueless moron spouts off with that “republic, not a democracy” bullshit, I’m going to punch something. It’s an excuse to get away with authoritarianism under the guise of “following what the Founders intended.” They didn’t intend on the minority being able to completely stonewall all attempts by the majority to do anything.

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silverdolphin May 8, 2024 • 3:11:48pm

re: #95 Targetpractice

I think that’s the thought that rings louder to me than some of the others mentioned. Oooh, aaah, “the thinnest iPad” ever…since the last “thinnest iPad ever” they sold you a few years ago. And the “thinnest iPad ever” until the next one in a year or two.

I think the Crush ad may be an Apple test of their AI. It is very possible that this ad, which was developed in house at Apple, was generated by AI tools, rather than people who are experts in what they do. It plays like an ad done by someone who really does not understand how to connect with people. Like a lot of generative AI.

This is a much better way to say “It’s thin”, done by a real ad agency.

The all-new iPad Pro | The thinnest Apple product ever | Apple

Which one has more positive emotional impact?

So why have an ad done by their normal ad agency along with an in-house generated one that both say the same thing - “It’s thin.” And then send both out to the public at the same time?

Perhaps Apple is doing an A-B test of generating ads in-house with AI vs paying an outside firm to do it. If the former succeeded then they could fire the latter.

If that was their plan, I expect they will see they have a ways to go. Crush has no heart.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 8, 2024 • 3:12:37pm

re: #120 gocart mozart

Thank you Jamie.

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KGxvi May 8, 2024 • 3:25:10pm

re: #121 Nerdy Fish

I swear to fucking Christ, if one more clueless moron spouts off with that “republic, not a democracy” bullshit, I’m going to punch something. It’s an excuse to get away with authoritarianism under the guise of “following what the Founders intended.” They didn’t intend on the minority being able to completely stonewall all attempts by the majority to do anything.

In fairness, the Framers/Founders were fairly skeptical of democracy, at least as they understood it at the time. There’s a reason why the only directly elected offices in the federal government were in the House of Representatives. Everything else was sort of an indirect election - you voted for state legislators who then picked Senators and/or Presidential Electors. Of course, the problem with those indirect elections was that the central issue in state legislative races quickly became “who are you going to appoint as senators and electors?” So most legislatures pretty quickly established “advisory” elections for both positions.

But the entire point of a representative republic is that it is based on democratic principles and the consent of the governed.

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silverdolphin May 8, 2024 • 3:32:11pm

re: #124 KGxvi

In fairness, the Framers/Founders were fairly skeptical of democracy, at least as they understood it at the time. There’s a reason why the only directly elected offices in the federal government were in the House of Representatives. Everything else was sort of an indirect election - you voted for state legislators who then picked Senators and/or Presidential Electors. Of course, the problem with those indirect elections was that the central issue in state legislative races quickly became “who are you going to appoint as senators and electors?” So most legislatures pretty quickly established “advisory” elections for both positions.

But the entire point of a representative republic is that it is based on democratic principles and the consent of the governed.

The Republicans talk about Republic and disparage democracy because if the majority had its way, ther GOP would not be a viable party. They can only survive because of the Republican aspect of the government (ie based on marks on a map, as in the Senate or in gerrymandered districts).

They use the term Republic to justify minority rule.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 3:38:01pm

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 3:41:03pm

re: #121 Nerdy Fish

I swear to fucking Christ, if one more clueless moron spouts off with that “republic, not a democracy” bullshit, I’m going to punch something. It’s an excuse to get away with authoritarianism under the guise of “following what the Founders intended.” They didn’t intend on the minority being able to completely stonewall all attempts by the majority to do anything.

Explain the founders’ intentions w/r/t the filibuster esp needing a supermajority to do…anything
Ill wait

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jeffreyw May 8, 2024 • 3:41:29pm

Our internet went out during a ferocious thunderstorm a couple of hours ago. The tech support peeps say my DSL modem is kaput and they would be sending me a new one. I am running off my phone hotspot Visible (Verizon). It’s no speed demon but I can surf the net OK, getting 5 or 6 Mb/s down. I dread resetting all my wifi passwords.

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 3:42:52pm

re: #125 silverdolphin

The use the term Republic to justify minority rule.

It is to justify and reinforce the Rs tenuous hold on power.

If the roles were reversed they wouldn’t give a damn about it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 8, 2024 • 3:43:03pm

re: #120 gocart mozart

Raskin is a treasure. Seriously.

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TedStriker May 8, 2024 • 3:43:05pm

re: #126 Joe Bacon ✅

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Scratch a “Christian nationalist”, find a full-throated fascist.

Fuck that guy and all like him.

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 3:43:55pm

re: #126 Joe Bacon ✅

[Embedded content]

Ok.
Do i get to pick who it is?
Didn’t think so

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 3:45:00pm

re: #130 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Raskin is a treasure. Seriously.

Educated and well informed

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 3:45:35pm

DARK BRANDON ROASTS FAUX AGAIN! 😈

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 8, 2024 • 3:50:19pm

Death at Ohio State graduation being investigated as ‘apparent suicide’

The death of a woman who fell from the bleachers at the Ohio State University’s commencement over the weekend is being investigated as an “apparent suicide,” according to preliminary reports from the Franklin County Coroner’s office, reviewed by The Columbus Dispatch. Larissa Brady, 53, was attending her daughter’s graduation ceremony with her husband and 12-year-old son when she told her family she wanted to get a higher seat in the Ohio State stadium. Witnesses reported seeing Brady pass the highest row of benches and climb over the top of the concrete wall at the top. Brady had previously suffered with mental health issues and attempted to end her life earlier this year. The incident went unmentioned by speakers or officials during the three-hour ceremony, disturbing some students who witnessed the fall. The coroner’s office has yet to officially release the cause of death.

dispatch.com

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 3:55:34pm

re: #114 PhillyPretzel ✅

And from CNN: The House has killed MTG’s motion to vacate the speakership.

Greene: Jeffries said ‘even though we’re in the minority, we effectively have been governing as if we were in the majority’

Democrats: *cheer* pic.twitter.com/WvenmBTcOf

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 8, 2024

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 3:58:55pm

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Jay C May 8, 2024 • 3:59:05pm

re: #134 Joe Bacon ✅

Presumably, the MSFT plant announced by the Administration today is not related to the over-hyped and under-achieved Foxconn project (Racine?) which the Scott Walker government in WI spent so much time hyping (and denigrating its skeptical opponents) - and which never worked out even remotely close to the GOP’s utopian predictions?

I’m guessing that this time - it being under Joe Biden, who prefers to spend his time touting committed (and real) projects, rather than rosy “projections” - there’s actually going to be a facility there (not just a rip-off of tax breaks)….

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Dangerman May 8, 2024 • 4:00:47pm

Good times

four years ago today, the President of the United States expressed his deep conviction that covid testing caused covid and not, you know, the virus 👇 https://t.co/GYp4ko5GWV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2024

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GlutenFreeJesus May 8, 2024 • 4:02:42pm

re: #114 PhillyPretzel ✅

She didn’t even get 50 votes. 😂😂😂

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Eclectic Cyborg May 8, 2024 • 4:07:59pm

re: #135 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Goddamn, that’s awful. 😢

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 8, 2024 • 4:12:30pm

re: #140 GlutenFreeJesus

She didn’t even get 50 votes. 😂😂😂

BUT

We can count on the New York Times to spin the “Democrats in Disarray” crap over and over.

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silverdolphin May 8, 2024 • 4:29:59pm

re: #138 Jay C

Presumably, the MSFT plant announced by the Administration today is not related to the over-hyped and under-achieved Foxconn project (Racine?) which the Scott Walker government in WI spent so much time hyping (and denigrating its skeptical opponents) - and which never worked out even remotely close to the GOP’s utopian predictions?

I’m guessing that this time - it being under Joe Biden, who prefers to spend his time touting committed (and real) projects, rather than rosy “projections” - there’s actually going to be a facility there (not just a rip-off of tax breaks)….

MSFT is using the same land that Foxconn was, but the money is there from Biden;s legislative efforts. And Biden makes sure everyone there knows.

President Biden: My predecessor claimed he would ‘reclaim our country’s manufacturing legacy’ and then he didn’t build a damn thing. In fact, he came here with your Senator Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden shovel promising to build the ‘eighth wonder of the world.’ Are you… pic.twitter.com/wYgAdhRE29

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 8, 2024

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 8, 2024 • 4:30:29pm

re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg

Goddamn, that’s awful. 😢

Yep. You have to be in a terrible place to want to inflict that on your family and community, and then the show just went on.

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sizzzzlerz May 8, 2024 • 4:35:31pm

re: #99 Dangerman

my grandma (dad’s mom) bought him a saxophone in 1940.
he was 16 and played in school i guess. (he was very bad im told.)

i still have it, but it’s not any good anymore.

the best part is i have the original paperwork, which includes notes my grandma wrote on the back of a deposit slip from a local uptown NY bank that we’d become the auditors

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I looked up the Buescher Band Instrument company as I’d never heard of them before. Being that I played both the clarinet and the tenor sax all through school and college in the 70s, I’ve had some interest in the various manufacturers for some time. The company made a line of wind instruments out of their Elkhart, IN factory but were primarily known for their saxophones. They were in business from the late 19th century until 1963 when they were bought by the Selmer company. Selmer discontinued the brand in 1980. Conn-Selmer, today, owns a variety of brands and it continues to manufacture instruments in Elkhart as well as importing instruments from France and Japan. Paul Desmond and Sonny Rollins were among pro musicians who played Buescher at one point in their careers.

Ebay is currently listing a number of saxes and trumpets for sale.

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Shropshire Slasher May 9, 2024 • 4:05:01am

oops, more coffee

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