State of the Art Blues From Joe Bonamassa: “Walk in My Shadow” (Live)

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When COVID-19 put the live touring industry on hold, guitar hero Joe Bonamassa did something unprecedented for his fans – he put together a one-night-only show at the iconic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN to be livestreamed for fans everywhere. That night he united people across 44 countries worldwide for a phenomenal live music presentation of his brand-new album “Royal Tea” before it was even released. The concert was re-mixed and mastered for physical release as “Now Serving: Royal Tea Live From The Ryman” on June 11th and will be available to own on CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and Double LP. To pre-order, visit jbonamassa.com. The stellar performance includes 12 incredible live tracks, featuring the best from his latest studio release Royal Tea, Joe’s his 24th #1 record on the Billboard Blues chart. Royal Tea was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London and at the time of the show at Ryman Auditorium, was unreleased, so fans got to hear the new music for the very first time. It also includes 3 electrifying tracks from his 20th anniversary album A New Day Now.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:28:38am
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carey94tt  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:35:30am

CL’d

Update on my March 3 post about Starlink.

Received my Starlink equipment today ($500 + $100/mo).

The dish has it’s own stand and currently is perched atop the horse trailer. Setup takes at 5 minutes. There is one power cord and the cord (cat-6) that runs to the dish. Connect the Starlink app on your phone to the WIFI receiver and you are up as soon as the dish aligns to find a satellite. I was impressed with the packaging and equipment. I connected my Google WIFI to the router without issue.

For me west of St. Louis (rural), I get download speeds from 5-50Mpbs with 50-100ms of latency. The only issue I see is that service drops out occasionally due to satellite availability. That could kill my Teams calls…I’ll find out tomorrow.

I cannot yet call it a win yet….but very promising.

I tired of waiting for Starlink to ship a mounting bracket so I used some duck tape to tighten the joint and put it on the old sat. dish roof mount. That eliminated the tree obstructions. I did have it on top of the horse trailer but that was partially obstructed.

I’m now calling it a big win and cancelling my existing ISP. I can attend online meetings without fear of connection drops (they are rare now). Averaging 12-150 Mbps down (10+ up) on speed tests. Snow and ice are no trouble as the dish heats itself as needed to melt it away.

Some enterprising person created a website (starlink.sx) to plot all the Starlink satellites and show realtime how your dish connects and tracks multiple satellites. It is really interesting to watch for a while.

I’m a happy internet camper now.

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:37:00am

I said it before and I’ll say it again. If you ever get the chance to see Joe Bonamassa in any of his bands, do it. Do it.
Get the best seat(s) you can afford and do it.
Drive 200 miles one way.
Do it.
Beth Hart too.
Do it.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:38:12am

I see the right wing assholes are already attacking Joe over his proclamation on Arminian Martyrs Day.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:39:48am
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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:45:58am

I’m finally starting my bucket list.

Ryman Auditorium.

So far, that’s it.

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plansbandc  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:48:57am

re: #3 nines09

I’ve always wanted to see him, but he’s just too expensive. Hopefully I can win some tix some day.

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Jay C  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:50:15am

re: #4 🌹UOJB!

I see the right wing assholes are already attacking Joe over his proclamation on Arminian Martyrs Day.

Wonder why?
Latent Turcophilia among the RW?
Or just bitching because it’s Joe Biden….?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:52:00am

re: #8 Jay C

Wonder why?
Latent Turcophilia among the RW?
Or just bitching because it’s Joe Biden….?

Probably some of both, actually. The right wing has always had a weird hard-on for Turkey, possibly because Erdogan has proven himself to be a perfectly malevolent authoritarian.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:52:09am

NPR is doing a story on Frank Lutz’s focus group about Republicans who aren’t getting the virus. He had been called by a health care group to try to get Republicans to get the vaccine. He had a stroke last year, and really wanted to get people to get the vaccine. He had asked for people who were thinking about getting it but had questions, but, when he got started, he realized he had people who weren’t going to get the vaccine and it didn’t matter what he tried.

Here’s a transcript of his focus session, which is not everything talked about on today’s story: npr.org. I hope I can find the one I heard today.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:53:19am

re: #4 🌹UOJB!

I see the right wing assholes are already attacking Joe over his proclamation on Arminian Martyrs Day his going golfing, over his not going golfing, over his wearing. Mask, over his not wearing a mask.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:57:16am

re: #11 Belafon

Boils down to “Presidenting while not Republican”.
/

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Jay C  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:58:31am

re: #12 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Boils down to “Presidenting while not Republican”.
/

An impeachable offense, to be sure..

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:58:56am

re: #7 plansbandc

Most national acts are expensive. He’s no more expensive than most.
I’ve been a fan of his since Blues Deluxe dropped.
The venue and the area also play a part. More hot in one than the other. And he gets no commercial airplay. Zero.
When the live music comes back tickets will be scalped for insane amounts.
I have 2 tickets for a Beth Hart concert in Glenside Pa. It was supposed to be March last year. It will be February next year.
2 year wait.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:07:14am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:11:15am

2nd Pfizer shot yesterday.

Some arm soreness since last night and simply feeling rundown today. Hopefully this is the worst of it and also that the 5G reception will activate soon.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:11:48am

The J&J side effects have certainly bolstered Alex Berenson’s attack on Covid vaccines.

But Berenson has never apologized for his persistent erroneous take on vaccines in Israel and the UK and elsewhere. Too many like Berenson have adopted Trump’s reluctance to admit error when the facts go against their past arguments on an issue. If you don’t admit you were wrong, then clearly you weren’t wrong and so you can move on to continue promoting your prognostications with an unblemished record.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:17:45am
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:26:57am

re: #6 wrenchwench

I’m finally starting my bucket list.

Ryman Auditorium.

So far, that’s it.

Have you seen the movie Wild Rose? If not, I highly recommend it.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:28:31am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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dharmamark  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:30:31am

re: #3 nines09

I saw him with Black Country Communion back in 2011, maybe. Such a smokin’ player.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:47:46am

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:56:51am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 24, 2021 • 11:59:02am

re: #23 wrenchwench

lol.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:03:20pm

re: #23 wrenchwench

I’ve long held the belief that everyone should have to work a front line service job at least once in their lives.

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:03:36pm

Just got off a 30 minute Phish—>Dead—>moe.—>Widespread Panic—>Umphrey’s McGee—>String Cheese Incident ride on the Peloton. Felt really good. I wish we’d bought this thing earlier in the pandemic. I love the variety of music. Did a 20 minute Latin music ride a few days ago - what fun! Listening to my wife in the other room now doing a ten minute cool down ride to Bob Marley after her 80s ride.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:05:11pm

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve long held the belief that everyone should have to work a front line service job at least once in their lives.

Agreed. If nothing else, it teaches people something that many of them currently lack - empathy.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:06:24pm

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve long held the belief that everyone should have to work a front line service job at least once in their lives.

Mr. w says there should be 2 yrs.mandatory military service. Two years of food service work could be a start….

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:12:40pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:18:00pm

re: #27 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Agreed. If nothing else, it teaches people something that many of them currently lack - empathy.

That, and how challenging and stressful low wage jobs can be. “Anyone can do it” my ass.

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mmmirele  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:19:33pm

re: #9 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Probably some of both, actually. The right wing has always had a weird hard-on for Turkey, possibly because Erdogan has proven himself to be a perfectly malevolent authoritarian.

Yeah this, plus remember that Michael Flynn was paid $530,000 by Turkey in 2016, and those funds allegedly stopped after Trump won the election. However, there were strong, strong rumors that Turkey was going to use Flynn, in his position as National Security Advisor, to render Fethullah Gulen to Turkey. This is still unresolved; just looking up stories shows the following:

1) an assertion that “Ex-Trump aide Mike Flynn ‘offered $15m by Turkey for Gulen’” (BBC, 2017) bbc.com

2) Two Turkish associates of Flynn were accused in said plot (ABC, 2018) abcnews.go.com

3) Michael Flynn seen as coconspirator in Turkish cleric plot (CBC, 2019). cbc.ca

4) And then this strangeness, in December 2020, where Ron Wyden asked Betsy DeVos and two other departing Trump cabinet officials about Gulen shenanigans. (Law & Crime) lawandcrime.com Why DeVos, you ask? Well, it’s because Gulen’s followers have taken HUGE HUGE advantage of the charter school movement here in the USA to use state monies to set up Gulenist academies. Obstensibly secular? Who knows? (For the record, this is how Gulen ended up on my radar, because of the charter school state treasury looting.)

This is still hanging out there, I strongly suspect that Flynn was going to use his place as NSA to basically give the go ahead for Turkey to kidnap Gulen, but him being ousted so quickly put the kibosh on that. I think that Biden knows this, and is basically telling Turkey, “we know you wanted to kidnap one of our green card holders, and nope, we’re not happy, and we’re going ahead to set this Armenian genocide right.”

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:23:05pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

That, and how challenging and stressful low wage jobs can be. “Anyone can do it” my ass.

I was lucky to have a very nice boss who was a family friend. I couldn’t imagine learning to run a register in a place where the boss is a hard-ass.

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mmmirele  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:29:15pm

re: #28 wrenchwench

Mr. w says there should be 2 yrs.mandatory military service. Two years of food service work could be a start….

How about military AND food service? My dad signed up for the Army one step ahead of the draft board at the tail end of the Korean War and he ended up as a cook. A very good cook. But he hated it and wanted to be with his younger brother, who was in electronics/spying. When he was in Korea, after the cease fire, he learned that the colonel who could approve his transfer to electronics/spying was coming to dinner at his unit. So he prepared a really nice meal for the guy (Dad went into this long discussion about how he made the canned brisket so yummy, based on tricks he’d learned from his mother and in the Army). At the end of the meal, dad made his pitch to be transferred and the colonel was all, “Aw hell naw, soldier. You’re a great cook, we can’t lose you. In fact, I want you to teach MY cook how you prepared that brisket.”

My dad grew to like cooking and told me that had his commanding officer in Indianapolis hadn’t been such a dick (my word, not his) he probably would have stayed in the military, which his younger brother actually did. Instead, he left when his four years was up and went to work for Western Electric. And he always was a very good cook. Yum. I miss my dad’s food.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:29:40pm

re: #31 mmmirele

Gülen was very closely linked to Erdoğan before they had a falling-out regarding the 2013 corruption scandals in Turkey.

Since then, Gülen has become to Erdoğan what Trotsky was to Stalin - a quite useful tool to smash his opponents with.

Generally, Gülen is highly influenced by Said Nursi, a Kurdish Sufi Qur’anic scholar who was a strong advocate of modern, scientific education in Islam. Generally, I’d regard Gülen as pretty much harmless, if eccentric. As far as the 2016 attempted coup, I doubt very highly that Gülen himself had anything to do with it, though I could see perhaps some fanatical followers - under the impression that Gülen is the Mahdi - trying something stupid that culminated in the aborted putsch.

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:30:52pm
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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:35:20pm

Being called as an expert witness for the defense has it’s drawbacks.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:36:56pm

re: #36 darthstar

Being called as an expert witness for the defense has it’s drawbacks.

Being called wasn’t the problem. Lying on the stand is a problem.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:37:00pm

re: #35 darthstar

[Embedded content]

People: can we get an edit feature?
Mark: You will now be able to auto-share tweets that insult minorities and women with all of your followers. And don’t worry, no one will find out you actually liked that kitten video.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:38:36pm

Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:39:11pm

The Business Insider article is behind a paywall, but the thread is a good recap of how Garland’s DOJ seems to want to outsource Trump prosecutions to New York and Georgia. This is a mistake, IMO. While there are the optics of an impartial DOJ (which Garland is committed to restoring) going after a former POTUS, said former POTUS and his toadies are an existential threat to the future of American democracy.

Perhaps, the worst mistake Barack Obama made was not prosecuting Bush, Cheney, and the banksters. It’s no surprise the GOP got worse. Much, much worse.

Garland needs to not only prosecute Trump and his toadies but spearhead DOJ reforms so that a future Bill Barr can’t act as a consigliere.

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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:40:49pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:42:47pm
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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:43:28pm

Beth. Now imagine the live performance sounds even better.
Beth.

Beth Hart - Close To My Fire (Live At The Royal Albert Hall) 2018

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Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:43:34pm
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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:44:11pm

re: #40 Secret ANTIFA Operative

This may be a defense tactic. Say the DOJ prosecutes Trump for not properly reporting Federal taxes. There will probably be an argument that this means that NY cannot go after him for state level charges for the same thing.

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mmmirele  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:46:29pm

re: #32 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I was lucky to have a very nice boss who was a family friend. I couldn’t imagine learning to run a register in a place where the boss is a hard-ass.

I had to train cashiers in a bookstore, and one of the things I had to train them to do was to learn how to count cash. In other words, they couldn’t use the still really new and fancy “gee input the amount the customer hands you” key, they had to take the money and count up the change.

Example: someone bought $64.29 worth of textbooks and they handed you a $100 bill (this was the 80s and we got $100 bills all the time). You’d pull the change and bills as follows, 1 penny to get to 30 cents, two dimes to get to 50 cents, two quarters to get to $65, then a $5 and a $10 to get to $80, and a $20 to get to $100. It’s hard to explain how to do, but it works, and my manager was absolutely convinced that it was better than the “gee input the amount the customer hands you” button. And I had to teach temporary cashiers how to do it. Now, decades later, I completely don’t remember how I did it.

Another thing about alleged “low skill” jobs is that they can be both physically and mentally taxing. When I worked in the bookstore, I was slinging around big cartons of books, up to 70 pounds at a time. I was loading books on to carts and then taking them out and building endcaps. And then breaking down the endcaps and cleaning and packing the books for return to the publishers. I ordered books and I had to decide how many to order for a class, taking into account past sales history (stored in my head, not in a computer), how many books we could expect our competition to buy, whether we could get used books, and so many other factors. But it was a low-wage, allegedly low skill job. I’m not even talking about customer service, including the joy of having a student yeet an old edition of a freshman biology textbook at me when I told them that the buyback value was zero because there was a new edition. Yeah, I’d like those bean counters to have done all that!!!

(I also cooked and waited tables, also very hard jobs.)

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:49:47pm

re: #46 mmmirele

I worked in a hardware store, so I had to learn where in the store everything was (which was easy for me), but I also had to learn to do very esoteric jobs that most people have no idea how to do, such as cutting keys and mixing paint. Those are definitely jobs that have to be trained, you can’t just walk up to a paint mixer and make the color come out perfectly unless you know how the base, the pigments, and the color chart work together.

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mmmirele  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:51:56pm

re: #45 Belafon

This may be a defense tactic. Say the DOJ prosecutes Trump for not properly reporting Federal taxes. There will probably be an argument that this means that NY cannot go after him for state level charges for the same thing.

Well, NY wouldn’t go after TFG for federal taxes, they are not within NY State’s jurisdiction. There are, however, a SHITTON of taxes I am completely convinced TFG stiffed NY State, NY City and god only knows what other local taxing jurisdictions on. But in order to make the case, NY needed TFG’s federal returns so they could build a complete picture of his financial shenanigans.

Remember, the government got Al Capone for cheating on his federal taxes. I suspect NY State is going to get TFG on taxes he thought he could just blow off. You know, like library taxes or something. Just saying.

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mmmirele  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:56:46pm

Before I wander off to my mother’s, and while we’re on the subject of the Armenian genocide, I just want to remind people that the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre is May 31-June 1 of this year. We had better have some somber remembrance around that event or I will be exceedingly pissed off.

And yeah, I expect we’re going to see a LOT of people airing out their white sheets and pointy white hats during the commemoration of this terrible event, so be prepared to kick ass and take names.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:01:54pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:02:56pm

Lorne Michaels is trending on Twitter. Don’t worry, he’s not dead. This is worse.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:04:55pm

re: #51 I Would Prefer Not To

Lordy. Ack.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:18:29pm

re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron

using a permit with a 1988 expiration date

I thought that looked familiar…. They’ve bottled and sold an ocean since then.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:20:47pm
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Secret ANTIFA Operative  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:22:20pm

re: #48 mmmirele

Well, NY wouldn’t go after TFG for federal taxes, they are not within NY State’s jurisdiction. There are, however, a SHITTON of taxes I am completely convinced TFG stiffed NY State, NY City and god only knows what other local taxing jurisdictions on. But in order to make the case, NY needed TFG’s federal returns so they could build a complete picture of his financial shenanigans.

Remember, the government got Al Capone for cheating on his federal taxes. I suspect NY State is going to get TFG on taxes he thought he could just blow off. You know, like library taxes or something. Just saying.

I get the idea of getting Trump for whatever you can get him on. But he abused his office in such a spectacular way to make Richard Nixon look like someone who tore off the mattress tag.

Even with Trump out of office, this country remains in a serious crisis. The election of Biden bought us four years, but unless the DOJ makes a good faith effort to hold the Trumpists accountable, they will be back, and they will be successful next time.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:22:58pm

re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron

From the article:

The Forest Service charges Nestle a permit fee of $2,100 per year, but there is no charge for the water.

Criminal level of corruption, on display.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:24:03pm

re: #4 🌹UOJB!

I see the right wing assholes are already attacking Joe over his proclamation on Arminian Martyrs Day.

Because it was a hoax just like the Holocaust?

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:25:11pm

re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because it was a hoax just like the Holocaust?

Said right-wing assholes are probably unaware of the fact that Armenians tend to be very religious and very conservative.

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:26:07pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:27:59pm

re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because it was a hoax just like the Holocaust?

Denying ethnic nationalism results in body counts is reactionary solidarity. Each team of shitheads in their own region wants to insist that they’re the moral arbiters, and thus can’t have done something wrong.

It’s a subtype of the larger agreement between authoritarians to collaborate in destroying egalitarians, with the full acknowledgement that when that’s done the different kinds of authoritarian will fall on each other.

re: #58 Secret ANTIFA Operative

Said right-wing assholes are probably unaware of the fact that Armenians tend to be very religious and very conservative.

No…they don’t care.

The established norm for American conservatism is to make participants foreswear their individual and collective suffering at the hands of the powerful…across all of history…for the sake of maintaining the shared fiction of a wholesome traditional society that only fails because of outsiders and freaks.

If that suffering can be converted into a narrative that bolsters that fiction, it is allowed to persist…but eventually a moment will come when the solidarity between abusers of power matters more than any particular subgroup’s narrative of their values, even if those values are conservative.

This is the basic trick at the bottom of all the positions that propose a binary of in-group and out-group: the categories aren’t real and the borders continuously fluctuate in an opportunistic manner. Whiteness (and nationalism, and conservatism, and fundamentalism) constantly revises its borders to gull people in when their labor and capital is needed to force-multiply the process of stripping assets from the world and passing them to a tiny number of monarchs and hegemons…but there always comes a point where those mid-level peons are discarded and re-assigned to the outgroup.

I mean, this goes all the way back to Burke and the defense of monarchy…it’s not just that hierarchy is inherently right and good, but that the upper echelons have the entitlement to define the lower ones. Bad faith is baked into the concept.

In the case of the Armenian conservatives…these wingnuts are going to ignore them if they complain, or challenge them to further comply with American conservatism by re-interpreting their past and present such that conservatives are not doing the wrong thing. And it will probably work, because people are not inherently rational or internally coherent, and are often willing to maintain group cohesion by accepting cognitive dissonance as an ongoing state.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:29:26pm

re: #60 The Ghost of a Flea

Or a sign of weakness for defending the Armenian “losers” who succumbed to a “superior” empire?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:30:25pm
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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:35:50pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

More proof the Trump administration had no idea how infectious disease works.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:38:21pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

Put him in jail. Crimes against humanity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:39:36pm

re: #63 jaunte

More proof the Trump administration had no idea how infectious disease works.

This is an expression of how his concept of “America First” is supposed to work…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:45:04pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:48:27pm

I haven’t watched Saturday Night Dead since Billy Crystal and Martin Short left.

No reason to tune in to see a union buster…unless he launches himself into space…

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:49:23pm
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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:49:31pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:49:41pm

re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth

There was a blowup in 2018 involving Peter Bywaters of Peter and the Test Tube babies being denied entry to America when customs officials found a Trump Parody video by Peter on the Internet.

Turns out that the reason he was denied entry was because he was coming to America on a tourist visa in order to perform a gig, the video was just offered as proof that he was not a tourist, the fact that it contained a Trump reference was rather irrelevant to the case at hand.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:50:27pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

Growing up, I thought people were singing about a Shoe fly bothering them.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:51:15pm

re: #71 jaunte

Growing up, I thought people were singing about a Shoe fly bothering them.

They weren’t?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:53:36pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:54:14pm

re: #71 jaunte

Growing up, I thought people were singing about a Shoe fly bothering them.

Did somebody say Shoo Fly as in…PIE!!!!!

Homemade Shoofly Pie Recipe

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:54:22pm

American conservatives haven’t changed much.

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William Lewis  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:55:31pm

re: #27 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Agreed. If nothing else, it teaches people something that many of them currently lack - empathy.

Be nice if it did but I don’t think it does. If they don’t learn it as children, they never will.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:57:32pm

re: #74 🌹UOJB!

You are showing your PA roots.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:58:20pm

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Or a sign of weakness for defending the Armenian “losers” who succumbed to a “superior” empire?

I dunno…probably? Somewhere in here this reduces down to an assumption that the weak must suffer the strong, but at the same time the past only exists to the extent that it justifies their immediate wants in the present…so the whole idea they have a fixed opinion that will remain fixed doesn’t seem to be a good bet.

Also, the wind could bend south-by-southwest they’ll suddenly know a hawk from a handsaw, but only if Turkey’s nationalist past can be used to vilify their opponents in the current day.

It’s unlikely that conservatives doing this have any particular thing in mind with regard to Armenian conservatives, and will only generate interpretations what this means on the fly if confronted. They’ve also built up many, many thought-terminating cliches that void attempts to describe what they actually value…to the point that they don’t know their own beliefs…and more than a few apply in this circumstance—virtue signaling, libs can’t get over the past, etc.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:58:26pm

re: #76 William Lewis

Be nice if it did but I don’t think it does. If they don’t learn it as children, they never will.

I believe adults can learn it. Happens once in a while.

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:02:14pm

Look ma, no wings!

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:03:18pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

Beat me to it…pretty amazeballs.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:04:37pm

You can’t make this stuff up…

Caitlyn Jenner’s Car Crash Victim Weighs in on Run for California Governor

Lea Wolf-Millesi laughed when she was reached by The Daily Beast for comment on Jenner’s gubernatorial campaign, saying she was still processing the news. As for whether she’d vote for the Olympian, she said, “I don’t know yet! I’m still digesting it.”

And now for the punch line…

Jenner’s right-wing team could help sway the decision of Wolf-Millesi and her husband Peter, a noted pianist and composer, who were seen last January at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort supporting the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, according to photos posted to Facebook.

thedailybeast.com

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:05:16pm

re: #81 darthstar

Beat me to it…pretty amazeballs.

The impossible became the improbable. Birbs are made of surprises.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:06:28pm

re: #78 The Ghost of a Flea

To my point:

I’d wager if you told these people that Erdogan turned the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque they’d suddenly have ugly opinions about Turkish nationalism, and garnish that opinion with Continental tropes about Turks stretching back to Ottoman days, Orientalism, and modern Islamophobia.

But…it doesn’t matter because they’re not trying to have coherent thoughts about what is, what was, and thus what should be. All they care about transforming everything into a power struggle that their in-group has won, is winning, or will win.

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William Lewis  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:06:52pm

re: #41 gocart mozart

Ow. I hurt myself giggling so hard.

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William Lewis  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:08:25pm

re: #51 I Would Prefer Not To

Lorne Michaels is trending on Twitter. Don’t worry, he’s not dead. This is worse.

I actually have a weakness for Miley Cyrus so I might have watched a show with her as musical guest. Oh well, it’ll show up on Youtube afterwards.

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:20:19pm

re: #48 mmmirele

In case you missed it:

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:30:15pm

Nice. Marky Mark put me in Facebook Jail for 48 hours for a picture I posted 3 years ago. Just right now they said the picture goes again “community standards” yet my relatives can post the N word and that’s OK.

So I”ve just earned this again…

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A Cranky One  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:47:04pm

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wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:49:09pm
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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:56:58pm

Minor potential inconvenience Holocaust victims.

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jaunte  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:57:33pm
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retired cynic  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:57:41pm

re: #91 jaunte

stupid jerks

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:59:46pm

re: #91 jaunte

Oy Vey. This is going to cause some problems.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:04:54pm
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:05:37pm

My semi-regular bad joke that I stole from one of my favorite podcasts:

“Back in the ’80s I was in a goth band called Prevention. We were better than The Cure.”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:05:44pm

re: #86 William Lewis

I actually have a weakness for Miley Cyrus so I might have watched a show with her as musical guest. Oh well, it’ll show up on Youtube afterwards.

She has an amazing voice

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b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:43:03pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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Happy Saturday Lizards

This reminds me of my favorite Andrew Breitbart fact that never fails to bring a smile to my face:

Andrew Breitbart is dead.


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