Michelle Wolf Returns to the Daily Show: Eric Adams & Diddy Face Sex Abuse Charges & Astronauts Suffer From ED

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Michelle Wolf covers sexual assault allegations against Diddy, Eric Adams, and Jamie Foxx just before the expiration of New York’s Adult Survivors Act. She also takes on a new law banning height and weight discrimination in NYC, King Charles benefitting off of dead Brits, and space travel leading to erectile dysfunction with Michael Kosta. #DailyShow #Comedy #MichelleWolf

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:02:05pm

Dad, skiing in a ridiculous yet ridiculously warm hat. circa early 90s.

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:04:50pm

I have to pick, like, seven photos of Dad for his feature story in the Vail Daily. It’s proving difficult. Too much to choose from.

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:16:04pm

re: #2 teleskiguy

I have to pick, like, seven photos of Dad for his feature story in the Vail Daily. It’s proving difficult. Too much to choose from.

You’ve told us a lot about him via photos. UM concert, playing guitar with a student, skiing, all different aspects of the man. You’ll honor him with whatever you choose.

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:18:52pm

re: #3 darthstar

You’ve told us a lot about him via photos. UM concert, playing guitar with a student, skiing, all different aspects of the man. You’ll honor him with whatever you choose.

Finding him in the classroom doing his stuff, that one is proving elusive. I actually hope the Vail Daily might have a few in their file photos.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:23:23pm

Reuben Gallego just owned Kari Lake’s ass over on twitter.

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:25:21pm
President Joe Biden took aim at corporations Monday for charging prices he said were artificially high even though the rate of inflation has slowed and some shipping costs have fallen,” CNBC reports.

Said Biden: “Any corporation that has not brought their prices back down, even as inflation has come down, even as the supply chains have been rebuilt, it’s time to stop the price-gouging. Give the American consumer a break.”

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jaunte  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:31:54pm

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

“Solar power is too cheap — Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.”


@bartenderhemry.bsky.social

Biden has delivered hundreds of thousands more manufacturing jobs- in crucial fields- than Trump ever did but because Trump went around lying that he’d achieved “a manufacturing miracle” & the trope is “Rs are better on the economy” the media is compelled to portray D successes as a kind of fuckup

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:33:14pm

Three years ago the community honored Dad by putting him in the Eagle Valley High School Hall of Fame. The Vail Daily did a write up.

vaildaily.com

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Florida Panhandler  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:38:17pm

re: #6 Dangerman

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I love this pre-emptive strike against Trump’s potential populist talking point.

My take is that Trump will undoubtedly promise populist price controls and rent controls in a last-ditch campaign effort to attract lower class and stressed middle class votes. Biden’s campaign is wise to claim this talking point as his own, with actual action in the real world soon to follow.

Those that follow and track middle/working class price stress from pickups to housing to general price inflation know exactly what is at issue here and how many worker class voters will vote dependent on how they can buy a $30k pickup and pay a $1500 rent. Right wingers vent at government interference, but they long for government help in affording the classic American lifestyle.

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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:39:37pm

re: #7 jaunte

So who is Mike Carr?

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:40:24pm

re: #8 teleskiguy

I couldn’t attend this ceremony because I was in jail for DUI.

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Dangerman  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:42:48pm

re: #11 teleskiguy

I couldn’t attend this ceremony because I was in jail for DUI.

We remember.
You’ve come far.

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:46:11pm

re: #8 teleskiguy

Damn it. Ugly crying again. First episode in a bit.

On his very first day on the job, Vogel began coaching the high school’s cross-country team. During his tenure, he also coached Devils wrestling and baseball.

“I have had a lot of good success stories with athletics,” he noted.

He recalled one girl on his cross-country team who was struggling in school and at the foster home where she was living. She never developed into a star runner, but her time on the team was an important life lesson.

“She wrote me a letter years later and said she learned how to persevere because she kept running and always finished,” Vogel said. “You don’t have to be in first place to be successful.”

My Dad was the best.

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:49:32pm

Grief ball was big and it bounced pretty hard off the wall of the grief box just now.

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:50:28pm

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:52:07pm

The ball does get smaller over time. But it never goes away, it’ll always bounce off the pain button ‘cause the ball never stops moving.

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William Lewis  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:53:15pm

re: #9 Florida Panhandler

I love this pre-emptive strike against Trump’s potential populist talking point.

My take is that Trump will undoubtedly promise populist price controls and rent controls in a last-ditch campaign effort to attract lower class and stressed middle class votes. Biden’s campaign is wise to claim this talking point as his own, with actual action in the real world soon to follow.

Those that follow and track middle/working class price stress from pickups to housing to general price inflation know exactly what is at issue here and how many worker class voters will vote dependent on how they can buy a $30k pickup and pay a $1500 rent. Right wingers vent at government interference, but they long for government help in affording the classic American lifestyle.

I have a friend, she’s quite liberal, hard worker but wants her big f*king pickup & when I suggest perhaps a smaller, less expensive brand,. it’s gotta be a Dodge. $78k. Sigh. More than even the mortgage she’s always complaining her ex left her with. Of course part of the reason she thinks she needs that truck is to cart the MLM scam cosmetic company crap to the events she does every weekend thinking it’ll make her rich but that’s a lost cause as well.

I just need B&W film, beer, rent, gas & a little food money. Or as the cartoon put it:

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:58:26pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

The ball does get smaller over time. But it never goes away, it’ll always bounce off the pain button ‘cause the ball never stops moving.

And sometimes all of a sudden the ball gets really big out of nowhere.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 27, 2023 • 6:58:58pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:11:38pm

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:20:42pm

Elon’s getting his panties in a twist because a small strike in Sweden is being supported by other unions - postal workers refusing to deliver Tesla plates…dock workers refusing to unload Tesla cars…you love to see it.

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:25:42pm

The reason I know there are two completely different fucking economies is because Good Art HLYWD just dropped a $247 Sterling Silver Schrader Valve Stem Cap. Like, I low key love the gang over there because GET PAID BITCH, and also if this is your first introduction to LOS ANGELES HAS MORE MONEY THAN SENSE then all I can say is I’m jealous of your entire sheltered existence. But yeah what was I saying? I guess my only real point here is OMG WHO TF IS THIS ACTUALLY FOR???

I mean if they were Presta I’d understand but … SCHRADER? Like, are motherfuckers really expected to buy four of these and put them on their Bentley before YOLOing a brief flight at the Niagara Falls border crossing?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:34:15pm

OK…who was the clown who dropped a boat in the middle of the street next to me and it’s blocking traffic in both directions…and the horns are non-stop blowing…

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retired cynic  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:39:20pm

re: #22 goddamnedfrank

The reason I know there are two completely different fucking economies is because Good Art HLYWD just dropped a $247 Sterling Silver Schrader Valve Stem Cap. Like, I low key love the gang over there because GET PAID BITCH and if this is your first introduction to LOS ANGELES HAS MORE MONEY THAN SENSE then all I can say is I’m jealous of your entire sheltered existence. Also yeah I guess my only real point here is OMG WHO TF IS THIS ACTUALLY FOR???

I mean if they were Presta I’d understand but … SCHRADER? Like, are motherfuckers really expected to buy four of these and put them on their Bentley before YOLOing a brief flight at the Niagara Falls border crossing?

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The mind, she is boggled.

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teleskiguy  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:44:28pm

re: #22 goddamnedfrank

Definitely worse than the gold-plated audio hook ups.

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wrenchwench  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:49:18pm

re: #22 goddamnedfrank

Presta and Schrader. In opposite order.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:50:04pm

A fake elector is coordinating Republican-leaning cities in Fulton County, north of Atlanta, to protest the county regulating their elections. The Democratic-run county uses electronic counting machines and voting machines, which the GOP leaders oppose. Instead, they intend to hand count everything that comes in on election night.

“So good times. That’s ahead. Thanks, Georgia,” said Maddow.

“They want to run them as they did in the horse and buggy days,” said Maddow. “These towns want Fulton County to take their fancy newfangled voting machines and, you know, put them where the sun doesn’t shine. These towns are saying they will hand count all their ballots. Thank you very much, with an abacus and a MyPillow. It will all be so much cheaper. How much could it cost to run an election and hand count thousands of ballots? This plan is, in part, the brainchild of one of Georgia’s fake Republican electors, one of the folks who submitted forged documents claiming that Trump had won the state of Georgia in 2020 — one of the people who is now under investigation by Fulton County prosecutors.”

Maddow mocks Georgia cities that will hand-count ballots ‘with an abacus and a MyPillow’

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gwangung  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:52:49pm

re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅

A fake elector is coordinating Republican-leaning cities in Fulton County, north of Atlanta, to protest the county regulating their elections. The Democratic-run county uses electronic counting machines and voting machines, which the GOP leaders oppose. Instead, they intend to hand count everything that comes in on election night.

“So good times. That’s ahead. Thanks, Georgia,” said Maddow.

“They want to run them as they did in the horse and buggy days,” said Maddow. “These towns want Fulton County to take their fancy newfangled voting machines and, you know, put them where the sun doesn’t shine. These towns are saying they will hand count all their ballots. Thank you very much, with an abacus and a MyPillow. It will all be so much cheaper. How much could it cost to run an election and hand count thousands of ballots? This plan is, in part, the brainchild of one of Georgia’s fake Republican electors, one of the folks who submitted forged documents claiming that Trump had won the state of Georgia in 2020 — one of the people who is now under investigation by Fulton County prosecutors.”

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Cochise County in Arizona tried that, numb nut. Not only was it wayyyyy more expensive, but in the three separate counts they did by hand, they came up with three different results.

Idiot.

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jaunte  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:53:01pm

re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅

These towns are saying they will hand count all their ballots.

And whoever’s ahead by 11 p.m. is the winner, no late counting!

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wrenchwench  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:53:33pm

re: #22 goddamnedfrank

If you’re cool enough, you only need one. Are they sold in singles?

Details fredandfriends.com PIZZA PEDDLERpizza cutter he’s a bipedal pizza primate He glides through the cheese with the greatest of ease, all from the seat of his unicycle! Take hold of this cute monkey and watch him pedal his way through the crust and into your heart. He’s soft, washable silicone with a stainless steel wheel for real cutting power.

(It’s the only thing tagged unicycle in my image library. Non-pneumatic.)

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 27, 2023 • 7:54:34pm

My cell is an Iphone 12 mini running IOS 16.6.1. Should I update to 17.1.1? I’ve read some online experiences that suggest there could be problems.

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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:00:54pm

One set down, one to go:

I’m building these to out on each side of the front entrance to my house. My dad is using his CNC to cut out some letters to spell North Pole, which I will backlight, and put on top of these.

If I have time, I’m gonna try to build the front of the town hall from the Nightmare Before Christmas and put it on the wall in I different part of the front of the house,

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William Lewis  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:05:28pm

Going to have South Pole on the other one < whistles innocently > ?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:19:18pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:35:02pm

re: #32 Belafon

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:51:49pm

re: #34 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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According to an article about Jason Eaton, it appears that his only contact with law enforcement were traffic infractions. According to Vermont state court records, he apparently has six traffic and vehicle-related tickets since 1998, most recently in 2016. He purchased his gun legally. No red flags at all.

Terrifying. Perhaps further investigation will reveal more serious disturbances in his background. He was skeptical about Covid vaccines and recently let go from his job but nothing that would suggest that he would suddenly attack 3 innocent men with whom he had no prior relationship.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 27, 2023 • 8:59:23pm

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:05:33pm

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darthstar  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:07:23pm

re: #34 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

BREAKING: “Kind and loving person” shoots three men for being Palestinian…

“Jason has had a lot of struggles in his life but he is such a kind and loving person,” his mother told us.

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jaunte  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:08:45pm

Trump’s evolving remarks [2016-2023] on Russian election interference

President Trump this week acknowledged for the first time that Russian forces tried to aid his path to victory in 2016.
………..
In the example on Thursday, Trump wrote on Twitter that Russia “has disappeared [as an issue] because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.”

He then almost immediately told reporters outside the White House that “Russia did not get me elected,” contradicting his tweet.
thehill.com

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jaunte  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:09:39pm

Russia got him elected and he knows it.

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retired cynic  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:10:30pm

re: #41 jaunte

Russia got him elected and he knows it.

With a wee bit of help from James Comey.

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mmmirele  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:14:49pm

re: #22 goddamnedfrank

Really, someone would pay $247 for one valve stem cap? Why?

BTW, I depressed myself this evening by watching the first episode of “Let Us Prey” which is on Investigation Discovery but also on HBO Max (I don’t understand it). Basically, it’s a documentary series following up on the work Sarah Smith of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram did back in 2018 about Independent Fundamental Baptist churches shuffling off predator preachers to other IFB churches. I could only get through one (2 hour episode) in between the commercials and the trauma. The next episode is about the “residential schools” these people run to deal with disobedient children and teens. I decided that could wait until tomorrow.

I mean, maybe I am more aware of this than most people, but holy….it just feels like to me that when it comes to religion, it doesn’t matter the group, there are (overwhelmingly) male predators taking advantage of their position and authority to assault girls and women. It’s depressing as hell.

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Targetpractice  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:22:01pm

re: #9 Florida Panhandler

I love this pre-emptive strike against Trump’s potential populist talking point.

My take is that Trump will undoubtedly promise populist price controls and rent controls in a last-ditch campaign effort to attract lower class and stressed middle class votes. Biden’s campaign is wise to claim this talking point as his own, with actual action in the real world soon to follow.

Those that follow and track middle/working class price stress from pickups to housing to general price inflation know exactly what is at issue here and how many worker class voters will vote dependent on how they can buy a $30k pickup and pay a $1500 rent. Right wingers vent at government interference, but they long for government help in affording the classic American lifestyle.

Trump and/or his campaign will do like the Tories are doing across the pond: He’ll promise to bring down inflation and spin that as the same as bringing down prices, conning people into believing that if inflation goes from 3% to 2.5% then it means prices will come down 0.5% rather than simply rising a bit slower. And push the idea that inflation is tied to government spending and not corporate greed, so the “solution” to the problem is cutting the budget to the bone coupled with yet more tax cuts to himself and his buddies in the 0.01%. You’ll get promised $1 more per paycheck and told that that will help you cover the grocery bill.

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Belafon  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:24:20pm

re: #34 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

At least he’s being held without bail.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:50:28pm

re: #44 Targetpractice

Trump and/or his campaign will do like the Tories are doing across the pond: He’ll promise to bring down inflation and spin that as the same as bringing down prices, conning people into believing that if inflation goes from 3% to 2.5% then it means prices will come down 0.5% rather than simply rising a bit slower. And push the idea that inflation is tied to government spending and not corporate greed, so the “solution” to the problem is cutting the budget to the bone coupled with yet more tax cuts to himself and his buddies in the 0.01%. You’ll get promised $1 more per paycheck and told that that will help you cover the grocery bill.

Often we have lamented the innumeracy of the populace.

Inflation simply is. It’s the result of many things. Those who control the money supply can do things to push inflation down, like raising interest rates, but nothing they can do will be without consequences.

So now interest rates are higher than in the past few decades, which means mortgages are higher, and thus people have slowed down house buying.

Recent headline story was about a record fraction of American house-owners being mortgage-free. While that is good in some regards it also implies that new wanna-be house buyers aren’t coming forth, because they can’t afford to buy a place.

Demagogues like Trump always exist to take advantage of the hardships of the masses, to ply them with incendiary rhetoric. Trump can do nothing about inflation.

And inflation itself is currently rather low. That goes against GOP talking points but that will not stop the Republicans from making the high price of goods, and mortgages, a campaign issue.

While I appreciate Biden wanting to campaign on issues, he too is not able to control prices.

Some self-identifying progressives in this area have tried recently to put in wage controls on executives, to raise the minimum wage for health care workers, etc.

But wage controls are just the flip side of price controls.

Argentina elected a demagogue over the issue of inflation. There it really was, is, a problem, unlike here. We’ll see how long it takes before the winner crashes and burns on his inability to really fix things.

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jaunte  Nov 27, 2023 • 9:57:07pm

Adobe Stock is Selling AI-Generated Images of the Israel-Hamas Conflict
petapixel.com

“…Crikey, an Australian website which broke the story spoke to a senior lecturer from RMIT University in Melbourne who says there are concerns whether audiences are recognizing the images as fakes.

“There is potential for these images to mislead folks, to distort reality, to disrupt our perception of truth and accuracy,” Dr T.J. Thomson tells Crikey.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:00:13pm

re: #39 darthstar

BREAKING: “Kind and loving person” shoots three men for being Palestinian…

Come on, guys, that’s his mother talking.

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Targetpractice  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:07:48pm

re: #7 jaunte

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

@bartenderhemry.bsky.social

Anybody else remember all the talk when Obama took office and oil prices were high about how there were all of these oil/gas projects like shale oil that would magically cause oil prices to crash “tomorrow” if only Dems would agree to new/higher subsidies or to “cut the red tape”? And then, when oil prices dropped as a result of higher OPEC quotas and lower domestic consumption, suddenly all the talk about those oil/gas projects disappeared and we instead heard about how domestic oil producers were in danger of job losses and shutdowns due to Obama’s policies?

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jaunte  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:11:56pm

Fake image:

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Targetpractice  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:32:31pm

re: #46 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Often we have lamented the innumeracy of the populace.

Inflation simply is. It’s the result of many things. Those who control the money supply can do things to push inflation down, like raising interest rates, but nothing they can do will be without consequences.

So now interest rates are higher than in the past few decades, which means mortgages are higher, and thus people have slowed down house buying.

Recent headline story was about a record fraction of American house-owners being mortgage-free. While that is good in some regards it also implies that new wanna-be house buyers aren’t coming forth, because they can’t afford to buy a place.

Demagogues like Trump always exist to take advantage of the hardships of the masses, to ply them with incendiary rhetoric. Trump can do nothing about inflation.

And inflation itself is currently rather low. That goes against GOP talking points but that will not stop the Republicans from making the high price of goods, and mortgages, a campaign issue.

While I appreciate Biden wanting to campaign on issues, he too is not able to control prices.

Some self-identifying progressives in this area have tried recently to put in wage controls on executives, to raise the minimum wage for health care workers, etc.

But wage controls are just the flip side of price controls.

Argentina elected a demagogue over the issue of inflation. There it really was, is, a problem, unlike here. We’ll see how long it takes before the winner crashes and burns on his inability to really fix things.

Right, during the Obama years we were sold on the idea that inflation was a consequence of government spending “crowding out private investment” and that efforts to raise wages or employee benefits was actually a negative because “they’ll just raise prices.” Yet when inflation fell in the latter years of his presidency, suddenly we were being told daily by the same talking heads that the Feds were afraid that deflation was on the horizon and “your money will be worthless!”, while production gluts that were bringing down prices were sold to us as a negative thing because the producers would slow/close production to “stabilize” prices at the cost of jobs.

Then a Repub takes office and magically production gluts are a sign that their policies are leading to “energy independence” or “record production” and we’re supposed to be thrilled that inflation is rising because it means people are earning more and can spend more.

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William Lewis  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:33:03pm

God save me from morons at tech support that know less than I do.

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Targetpractice  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:34:09pm

re: #52 William Lewis

God save me from morons at tech support that know less than I do.

A-fuckin-men.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:39:41pm

re: #51 Targetpractice

…….. Yet when inflation fell in the latter years of his presidency, suddenly we were being told daily by the same talking heads that the Feds were afraid that deflation was on the horizon and “your money will be worthless!”, while production gluts that were bringing down prices were sold to us as a negative thing because the producers would slow/close production to “stabilize” prices at the cost of jobs.

…….

Wait a second!! Under deflation, money actually becomes more valuable; i.e. products cost less.

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Targetpractice  Nov 27, 2023 • 10:57:40pm

re: #54 Hecuba’s daughter

Wait a second!! Under deflation, money actually becomes more valuable; i.e. products cost less.

The right-wing spin was that the value of everything you owned would drop in the event of deflation, meaning you were spending more to pay your bills and taking home less pay because your boss was cutting your hours or even firing you in order to lower their own costs. Of course, you also have to remember that the people who were pushing the “deflationary scare” the loudest were the ones who’d gotten us into the whole recession in the first place: The banks who were looking for more bailouts.

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silverdolphin  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:16:36am

Louisiana governor wants to prosecute women who seek abortions

This needs to be part of every Dem ad - here in LA, the governor wants to prevent New Orleans from being able to enhance its water infrastructure (remember the failure of that infrastrure led to the deaths in Katrina) if the DAs there do not prosecure women who seek an abortion. Not tht doctor. not Planned Parenthood. The woman.

This is the end game for every MAGA Republican.

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:47:34am

re: #56 silverdolphin

Louisiana governor wants to prosecute women who seek abortions

This needs to be part of every Dem ad - here in LA, the governor wants to prevent New Orleans from being able to enhance its water infrastructure (remember the failure of that infrastrure led to the deaths in Katrina) if the DAs there do not prosecure women who seek an abortion. Not tht doctor. not Planned Parenthood. The woman.

This is the end game for every MAGA Republican.

This is after literal decades of insisting that they viewed women who sought abortions as “victims” and would only focus their attention on abortion doctors and clinics because they were “preying” on vulnerable women.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:13:08am

re: #21 darthstar

Elon’s getting his panties in a twist because a small strike in Sweden is being supported by other unions - postal workers refusing to deliver Tesla plates…dock workers refusing to unload Tesla cars…you love to see it.

yeah, but they have a gang violence problem so Sweden does not count!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:15:19am

re: #28 gwangung

Cochise County in Arizona tried that, numb nut. Not only was it wayyyyy more expensive, but in the three separate counts they did by hand, they came up with three different results.

Idiot.

The whole point is to turn the 2024 presidential election into such an unmitigated clown car clusterfuck that results have to be thrown out and the issue decided in the House, where the GOP hopes to retain a majority…

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No Malarkey!  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:59:09am

The middle aged white guy who shot three Palestinian college students for no reason is also an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, shocka!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 2:24:07am

re: #60 No Malarkey!

In one LinkedIn post, [Eaton] said he’d started scrubbing his social media because his posts were making employers not want to hire him.

Freedom of Speech =/= Freedom from Consequences

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 2:30:59am

re: #60 No Malarkey!

The middle aged white guy who shot three Palestinian college students for no reason is also an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, shocka!

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In one LinkedIn post, he said he’d started scrubbing his social media because his posts were making employers not want to hire him.

Translation: Employers started steering clear of him once they realized he was two cans short of a six-pack.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 28, 2023 • 2:43:11am

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

Freedom of Speech =/= Freedom from Consequences

Well he did FA. The FO has just begun.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 28, 2023 • 2:45:23am

The next Governor of Louisiana is threatening to cut off funds for New Orleans unless the city’s prosecutors prosecute women for getting abortions. Remember when forced birthers said they wouldn’t prosecute women? They were lying.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 2:57:08am

re: #64 No Malarkey!

Remember when forced birthers said they wouldn’t prosecute women? They were lying.

Remember them saying they were fine with individual states determining abortion legislation?

-They’re lying!

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:01:23am

re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember them saying they were fine with individual states determining abortion legislation?

-They’re lying!

Which would have only come as a surprise to anybody who totally ignored the conservatives preaching “states rights” when a red state explicitly banned gay marriage then campaigning for national seats on a “Sanctity of Marriage” platform calling for a national gay marriage ban.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:06:03am

re: #66 Targetpractice

Which would have only come as a surprise to anybody who totally ignored the conservatives preaching “states rights” when a red state explicitly banned gay marriage then campaigning for national seats on a “Sanctity of Marriage” platform calling for a national gay marriage ban.

The same people who insisted on States’ Rights regarding slavery but then passed the Fugitive Slave Act, compelling other states to aid in returning “escaped property”.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:18:01am

re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The same people who insisted on States’ Rights regarding slavery but then passed the Fugitive Slave Act, compelling other states to aid in returning “escaped property”.

NO, NO, NO, THE DEMOCRATS WERE THE SLAVERS, REPUBLICANS ARE THE PARTY OF LINCOLN! GET YOUR HISTORY RIGHT, LIBTARD!!!1!111onety

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:18:54am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:19:20am

re: #68 Nerdy Fish

NO, NO, NO, THE DEMOCRATS WERE THE SLAVERS, REPUBLICANS ARE THE PARTY OF LINCOLN! GET YOUR HISTORY RIGHT, LIBTARD!!!1!111onety

…and modern Dems just wanna keep blacks on the “Plantation” of government dependency, right?

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:21:03am

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…and modern Dems just wanna keep blacks on the “Plantation” of government dependency, right?

Wait, is that actually a thing they say? Oh my God, that’s vile.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:24:46am

re: #71 Nerdy Fish

Wait, is that actually a thing they say? Oh my God, that’s vile.

Yes, that was a big talking point with the GOP.

2019 WaPo article:

How the ‘Democratic plantation’ became one of conservatives’ favorite slurs
Since the 1960s, the right has explained away black Democrats by denying them agency.

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EPR-radar  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:42:15am

re: #71 Nerdy Fish

Wait, is that actually a thing they say? Oh my God, that’s vile.

It’s also decades old.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:43:39am

re: #73 EPR-radar

It’s also decades old.

Yeah, that tracks. There’s not an original thought in their brains these days.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:46:27am

If you would like to make a charitable donation that will make the lives of everyone in one poor village better.

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 3:49:05am

When it comes to stripping you of your basic rights, conservatives have three levels of “authority” they appeal to when the numbers aren’t on their side:

The highest level is the one they invoke when they think they’ve got the votes in Congress or the SCOTUS bench to impose their will, at which time they start belching about the “Supremacy Clause” and the idea that federal law is supreme. That’s when they get their pet AG to start lobbing lawsuits at the sinn…er, at state and local governments who won’t bend the knee.

When they don’t have the WH or Congress, then it’s “states rights” and a lot of talk about “labs of democracy” and “tenth amendment trumps your laws,” with the state AG being the attack dog and his usual target being any federal laws/rules/executive orders that don’t fit with “God’s” plan.

And if find themselves so unpopular that they can’t even form a majority in the state government, then it’s down to “local control” and the idea that 90% of your town of 47 thinking gays are icky means they don’t have to listen to the state government telling them to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Though at this point, they usually can’t call on an AG and have to settle for the town asshole who is running for state office on a platform of “fighting for your rights” by filing ridiculous lawsuits against state/federal laws that the assholes in his future constituency don’t approve of.

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William Lewis  Nov 28, 2023 • 4:32:20am

I’m gonna strangle one of my cow-orkers… Totally screwed up a stay. First didn’t have a pet on a room that was here for 4 nights after a car broke down. Then the same room turned out to be Active duty military so should have been at the per diem rate rather than our regular, fair bit higher rates. I was able to fix everything in the end but bedad the dude needs to freaking pay attention to what he’s being TOLD by the guests.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 4:39:21am

re: #78 William Lewis

listening skills?

in short supply

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steve_davis  Nov 28, 2023 • 4:51:47am

re: #22 goddamnedfrank

The reason I know there are two completely different fucking economies is because Good Art HLYWD just dropped a $247 Sterling Silver Schrader Valve Stem Cap. Like, I low key love the gang over there because GET PAID BITCH, and also if this is your first introduction to LOS ANGELES HAS MORE MONEY THAN SENSE then all I can say is I’m jealous of your entire sheltered existence. But yeah what was I saying? I guess my only real point here is OMG WHO TF IS THIS ACTUALLY FOR???

I mean if they were Presta I’d understand but … SCHRADER? Like, are motherfuckers really expected to buy four of these and put them on their Bentley before YOLOing a brief flight at the Niagara Falls border crossing?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 4:51:50am

re: #78 William Lewis

Acceptable reaction.

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 4:52:23am

re: #14 teleskiguy

Grief ball was big and it bounced pretty hard off the wall of the grief box just now.

Grief is unexplainable. Doesn’t matter how much time passes either. It can hit, and hit hard.

It could be when someone talks about the person, or a situation you know they’d have strong opinions about.

It’s not easy, but you’ve got a community here to lean on.

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:04:32am

Some morning get your funk on drive time music!

Again And Again

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:10:18am

From new smax:

“Former President Donald Trump said he intentionally has used former President Barack Obama’s name instead of President Joe Biden’s while making some sarcastic comments.

Trump, the current clear front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said Monday he has used Obama’s name as a way to suggest his role in the current Biden administration.
…

“Whenever I sarcastically insert the name Obama for Biden as an indication that others may actually be having a very big influence in running our Country, Ron DeSanctimonious and his failing campaign apparatus, together with the Democrat’s Radical Left ‘Disinformation Machine,’ go wild saying that ‘Trump doesn’t know the name of our President, (CROOKED!) Joe Biden. He must be cognitively impaired,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“No, I know both names very well, never mix them up, and know that they are destroying our Country.”

So when he refers to “my wife, Melanie” he is just mixing her up with a pole dancer he once paid to spank him in the late 80’s?

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:16:46am

lol

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recently misquoted former President Ronald Reagan while pushing for schools to view the federal government as a partner.

The education official’s remarks from earlier this month began to go viral on social media Monday. Speaking to his department’s availability to assist public schools, Cardona claimed, “I think it was President Reagan who said, ‘We’re from the government. We’re here to help.’”

wpde.com

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:19:41am

Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones defamation suit for $85 million, even as they won judgment for $1.5 billion and Jones claims he’s bankrupt.

Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax have offered to settle that debt for only pennies on the dollar — at least $85 million over 10 years.

The offer was made in Jones’ personal bankruptcy case in Houston last week. In a legal filing, lawyers for the families said they believed the proposal was a viable way to help resolve the bankruptcy reorganization cases of both Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems.

But in the sharply worded document, the attorneys continued to accuse the Infowars host of failing to curb his personal spending and “extravagant lifestyle,” failing to preserve the value of his holdings, refusing to sell assets and failing to produce certain financial documents.

“Jones has failed in every way to serve as the fiduciary mandated by the Bankruptcy Code in exchange for the breathing spell he has enjoyed for almost a year. His time is up,” lawyers for the Sandy Hook families wrote.

The families’ lawyers offered Jones two options: either liquidate his estate and give the proceeds to creditors, or pay them at least $8.5 million a year for 10 years — plus 50% of any income over $9 million per year.

Jones claims poverty, even as his conspiracy site continues to rake in money and he spends like there’s no tomorrow.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:28:12am
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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:30:07am

re: #87 No Malarkey!

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:30:15am

re: #87 No Malarkey!

Those notes implicate Pence in the conspiracy to overthrow the government, but he chickened out at the last moment. By presiding over the session, he repudiated his involvement. No wonder Trump wants him dead.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:32:46am

re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Former President Donald Trump said he intentionally has used former President Barack Obama’s name instead of President Joe Biden’s while making some sarcastic comments.

Yeah. Cool story, Donnie.

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:32:57am

re: #86 lawhawk

Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones defamation suit for $85 million, even as they won judgment for $1.5 billion and Jones claims he’s bankrupt.

Jones claims poverty, even as his conspiracy site continues to rake in money and he spends like there’s no tomorrow.

tl;dr: The families want this shitshow over with so they can go back to their lives and are willing to let Jones off light to achieve that, but he continues to act as if he won or can win and continues to flip them the bird.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:36:27am

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

Yeah. Cool story, Donnie.

And Erdogan and Orbán are both equally cool guys, he was just being metaphorical when he mixed them up

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:36:47am

So, about that vehicle that exploded at the Rainbow Bridge last week.

Turns out that the driver of the Bentley Flying Spur lost control as the vehicle accelerated and literally flew into the barrier and exploded.

So, not terrorism. Just garden variety rich dumbass who flaunted his wealth with an expensive and impractical car trying to catch a concert, blew up when the car lost control.

Oh, and apparently the car was not involved in a recall for a stuck accelerator going back to 2021.

Fox haz sad it’s not terrorism.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:37:07am

re: #91 Targetpractice

tl;dr: The families want this shitshow over with so they can go back to their lives and are willing to let Jones off light to achieve that, but he continues to act as if he won or can win and continues to flip them the bird.

There are enough loopholes in our laws to allow him to do so and hence he shall

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steve_davis  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:38:03am

re: #48 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Come on, guys, that’s his mother talking.

momma thinks he’s handsome and she’s being kind, daddy thinks he’s normal, but he’s half blind. He got drunk last night, shot three people in the street, but I don’t care ‘cause I’m all right.

Here’s a new discussion area for this thread: greatest cover bands in rock history. I would think Three Dog Night would definitely be at or very near the top of the list.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:39:18am

re: #93 lawhawk

So, about that vehicle that exploded at the Rainbow Bridge last week.

Turns out that the driver of the Bentley Flying Spur lost control as the vehicle accelerated and literally flew into the barrier and exploded.

Fox haz sad it’s not terrorism.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:39:23am

re: #91 Targetpractice

tl;dr: The families want this shitshow over with so they can go back to their lives and are willing to let Jones off light to achieve that, but he continues to act as if he won or can win and continues to flip them the bird.

Can the fucker go to jail at some point if he keeps stiffing them?

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:41:12am

re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are enough loopholes in our laws to allow him to do so and hence he shall

Doesn’t need loopholes, just enough money to grind the process to a halt until they cry uncle.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:43:33am

re: #87 No Malarkey!

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:43:41am

re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg

Can the fucker go to jail at some point if he keeps stiffing them?

Unfortunately, no, because we don’t jail debtors here in this country. In fact, there’s not much anyone can do about it. The court has decreed he owes them $1.5B, but their only enforcement mechanism is to hold him in civil contempt and tell him he owes more (non-dischargeable in bankruptcy) money… but as long as he doesn’t care how much debt he accrues, he doesn’t have to pay a single red cent.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:44:47am

re: #99 No Malarkey!

Thank dog Pence’s son understands what duty is.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:46:14am

re: #100 Nerdy Fish

Unfortunately, no, because we don’t jail debtors here in this country.

But they throw parents in jail for non-support?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:47:01am

re: #101 Nerdy Fish

Anything that DT was involved in is weird.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:47:55am

re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

But they throw parents in jail for non-support?

Unlike most civil debts, there are criminal charges that can be brought for not paying court ordered child support.

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steve_davis  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:48:30am

re: #100 Nerdy Fish

Unfortunately, no, because we don’t jail debtors here in this country. In fact, there’s not much anyone can do about it. The court has decreed he owes them $1.5B, but their only enforcement mechanism is to hold him in civil contempt and tell him he owes more (non-dischargeable in bankruptcy) money… but as long as he doesn’t care how much debt he accrues, he doesn’t have to pay a single red cent.

I would imagine, though, the court can assign somebody with a little green accountant’s hat to rifle through his books and start forcibly liquidating assets? I mean, if you declare bankruptcy, somebody’s gonna be rifling through your shit to see what creditors can rake out of you.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:48:58am

re: #104 No Malarkey!

Unlike most civil debts, there are criminal charges that can be brought for not paying court ordered child support.

Yeah, I had to go and look this up, since I am not a lawyer.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:51:15am

re: #104 No Malarkey!

Unlike most civil debts, there are criminal charges that can be brought for not paying court ordered child support.

Which is why I made those payments on time and when a hostile right wing Xtian judge ordered me to pay more for my son’s braces, Xtian school tuition, and even buy him a car and pay the insurance on it I did with no hesitation.

Didn’t get a thank you but I got a lot of F yous…

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:51:58am

re: #105 steve_davis

I would imagine, though, the court can assign somebody with a little green accountant’s hat to rifle through his books and start forcibly liquidating assets? I mean, if you declare bankruptcy, somebody’s gonna be rifling through your shit to see what creditors can rake out of you.

Certain kinds of debts are non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, meaning that the bankruptcy court can’t touch them; you owe what you owe, regardless of how badly that puts you into debt. Alex Jones’s debt to the Sandy Hook families is one of those; I can’t remember the exact legal terminology, but it amounts to, “He did something bad, intentionally, and got himself into a metric fuckton of debt.” The bankruptcy trustee could try to gather up what assets he has and try to discharge that debt, but that process is going to drag on for a while.

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Axolotl  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:53:56am

re: #106 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, I had to go and look this up, since I am not a lawyer.

This is a good thing too. Without this we would have debtors prisons.

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:55:50am

If you ever get an opportunity to visit the WH in person, do it. Make sure that if you’re in DC during the holidays to get on the list to visit the WH.

It is so worth it, regardless of who is in the WH.

While the First Lady selects certain areas of the building for their theme (recall the Melania Shining hallway), the rest of the building is dressed to the nines in traditional decorations.

nydailynews.com

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:57:32am

re: #69 Nerdy Fish

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:57:56am

I wouldn’t doubt for a second that Jones has engaged in fraud and possibly other financial crimes to try and shield his assets from the court.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:58:34am

re: #110 lawhawk

Very nicely done. but that website has way too many pop-ups.

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:58:47am

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

I wouldn’t doubt for a second that Jones has engaged in fraud and possibly other financial crimes to try and shield his assets from the court.

Bankruptcy trustees are usually pretty good at sussing that sort of thing out. Courts generally frown on using bankruptcy to avoid consequences for shenanigannery.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:59:32am

re: #109 Axolotl

This is a good thing too. Without this we would have debtors prisons.

Privately owned and run debtor’s prisons. People like Musk and Bezos would own half the population by now.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 5:59:36am

Hunter Biden is willing to testify publicly, his lawyer says amid House GOP efforts to discredit him and the president

Lawyer Abbe Lowell said the president’s son is willing to testify in a public hearing before the House Oversight Committee in response to a subpoena this month that is seeking a deposition. It is a striking escalation in the battle between the president’s son and congressional Republicans, who have focused on his past business dealings and have launched impeachment hearings aimed at President Biden.

washingtonpost.com

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:00:05am

re: #113 PhillyPretzel ✅

News websites have gone to crap. All of them.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:01:31am

re: #113 PhillyPretzel ✅

Very nicely done. but that website has way too many pop-ups.

Lately GoogleAds really want me to buy Cheech & Chong’s Cruise Chews…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:04:19am

re: #117 lawhawk

News websites have gone to crap. All of them.

I hate that a lot of decent journalism is locked behind paywalls now. I understand the “why” but I can’t afford a bunch of media subscriptions at the moment.

There have been a number of articles I’ve wanted to read lately (including some on important political and environmental matters) that I have been forced to skip because I can’t afford to pay for them.

Meanwhile, all the propaganda and disinformation sites don’t charge a penny…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:05:36am

re: #117 lawhawk

re: #118 Joe Bacon ✅

WHYY has few ads.
whyy.org

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:06:43am

‘There will be receipts’: Giuliani associate Lev Parnas teases tell-all book

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were the two associates of Rudy Giuliani who funneled campaign money from foreigners to Donald Trump, according to a Justice Department indictment. But more than their scheme, their work with Giuliani as he worked to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine.

Parnas was sentenced to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release in June 2022, after pleading guilty. He did work with congressional committees when asked for information in 2020.

Posting on social media Monday, Parnas announced his upcoming tell-all book, “Shadow Diplomacy: Lev Parnas’ Wild Ride from Brooklyn to Donald Trump’s Inner Circle.”

“The book’s timeline spans his involvement in critical diplomatic efforts, spanning from his conversation with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro alongside the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to his solo discussions with two Ukrainian presidents and his former political allegiance with an obscure Florida Congressman who later became the state’s controversial Governor because of their friendship,” the Parnas site teases.

It goes on to say that his stories will shed light on the “intricate dance between political figures, governments, and behind-the-scenes operators, including the story behind the facts that led to ex-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial.”

Parnas claims that Biden’s son, Hunter, was “set up” with the seat on the Burisma board.

“It remains true that there were meetings with Rudy in early 2019 discussing the Russians having Hunter Biden’s emails, months before the same material ended up on the Hunter Biden laptop in that Delaware repair shop,” Parnas wrote in a 2022 thread. “It doesn’t take a PhD to ascertain what went on here. Parnas was later arrested and then the emails magically showed up at a blind computer repairman’s shop.”

rawstory.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:17:38am

Was it ever confirmed that laptop actually did belong to Hunter Biden?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:21:07am

“It’s an amusing truth that comes up with regularity: Men who love Donald Trump struggle on the dating market. This is neither surprising nor regrettable. Supporting Trump is much like refusing to bathe, blowing your nose in your hands or farting loudly on purpose. It’s a repugnant habit that makes you repulsive to normal people. The whole point of dating and marriage is to find happiness, not to spend the rest of one’s days suffering in silence while the racist you live with cackles over Greg Gutfeld’s latest hateful diatribe disguised as ‘comedy.’ [snip]

“But of course, women’s happiness is not actually the concern of the Washington Post editorial board. The more serious argument comes from their insistence that cross-political marriages will help save the nation from ‘the Trump-era divisions’ and social ills stemming from men’s misogyny. Basically, it’s a gussied-up version of the classic ‘Beauty and the Beast’ fantasy, where a woman’s love can turn the brute into a prince. It’s cruel on its face to expect women to give up their own happiness in hopes they can turn a redhat into a better man through patience and love. But it’s also a false hope. It’s hard enough to get anyone to change their minds about politics. Trying to get men who already think women are inferior to listen to their liberal wives is a joke…” — Amanda Marcotte, in Salon, writing why “It’s a good thing women won’t date Trump voters,” an opinion in opposition to a brain- dead, misogynist editorial (no link!) in the fast- declining Washington Post that essentially urges women to overlook political objections and give those Trumpers some lovin’. Marcotte’s response in full is a great response and well worth the read.

hackwhackers.blogspot.com

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:27:39am

10 month old baby is still a hostage in Gaza.

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:29:16am

re: #124 Vicious Babushka

I hope he is released soon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:29:58am

re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg

I hate that a lot of decent journalism is locked behind paywalls now. I understand the “why” but I can’t afford a bunch of media subscriptions at the moment.

I occasionally just break down and buy a newspaper. But even then, I am often disappointed. Just basic things like spelling checkers.

I bought a copy of Die Zeit, a rather left-leaning weekly newspaper, and was mildly bothered when they mentioned Pete Buttigieg from “South Bent” Indiana. Granted, it is an obscure town I would probably not know about except for the Chicago and South Bend Railroad.

But I was really annoyed when they showed a photo of “Manhatten”…the sort of mistake a first-year student makes.

So I then switched to reading the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which is much better written and edited, but it has started to develop a really smarmy right-wing cant to its already conservative approach.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:33:29am

re: #64 No Malarkey!

re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember them saying they were fine with individual states determining abortion legislation?

-They’re lying!

They’re republicans. Of course they’re lying. It’s what republicans do. Always.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:34:44am

re: #123 Joe Bacon ✅

That topic came up earler, and it the whole discussion of political “mixed marriages” is also based on the notion that one’s political affiliation is so deeply ingrained in one’s personality and self-image that it is immutable.

And I find that a lot of modern Conservatism is not so much about principles or policies as it is about expressing a cantankerous, contrarian and confrontational approach to life and social interaction.

And for many, Trumpism is such a cult that asking someone to amend or modify their beliefs is like asking them to stop believing in God.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:36:43am

re: #127 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

They’re republicans. Of course they’re lying. It’s what republicans do. Always.

They get upset when people say the quiet parts out loud or do not cloak them the sort of vague, qualified language that they can easily distance themselves from it when quoted, even in contet.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:38:22am

Another par.

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darthstar  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:40:50am

Apparently the Koch money will be going to Nikki Haley.

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darthstar  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:43:04am

Another Republican attempt at humor which exposes their fragility, bigotry, and bitterness.

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:45:29am

re: #133 darthstar

Victor/Victoria was funny this looks like the bomb it will be.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 6:48:42am

re: #134 PhillyPretzel ✅

Victor/Victoria was funny this looks like the bomb it will be.

Sports is also an ideology and a religion and those who would blur the gender barrier is like allowing women to sit on the men’s side of the Place of Worship

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wrenchwench  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:02:00am

Guess one laid an egg, guess two brooded, guess three hatched a birbie. Wordle 892 3/6*

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:05:14am
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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:07:35am

re: #7 jaunte

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:12:45am

re: #138 Belafon

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Just more proof that the Screw York Times has made a deal with the devil.

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A Cranky One  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:12:46am

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dat_said  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:15:00am

re: #133 darthstar

Another Republican attempt at humor which exposes their fragility, bigotry, and bitterness.

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I was good friends with many of the women basketball players at the college I attended. We (members of the men’s track team with limited eye-hand coordination) would occasionally shoot around with them for fun. Once in a while we’d get approached by a group of frat boys (almost always frat boys) who didn’t know the women were on the college team and they’d ask to play.

Most of the games seemed to end when one of the frat boys suddenly pulled a muscle. So many just got furious, even after we started telling them upfront that they were playing college basketball athletes.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:15:03am

re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The whole point is to turn the 2024 presidential election into such an unmitigated clown car clusterfuck that results have to be thrown out and the issue decided in the House, where the GOP hopes to retain a majority…

My regular reminder — a change of only 40,000 votes in the right states in 2020, and that is the nightmare we would have endured. Biden could have received a million more votes in the “wrong” states and it wouldn’t have mattered if those 40,000 had not been cast. The EC is a disaster that is waiting to happen.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:15:09am
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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:15:11am

Biden negotiates a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

Here’s why it’s bad news for Democrats.

That’s every fucking day.

Biden Negotiates Gaza Hostage Exchange and Temporary Ceasefire While Trump Calls To Repeal ACA

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:15:53am

re: #140 A Cranky One

White Friday? Oh yes when it snows Thursday night into Friday.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:16:06am

re: #140 A Cranky One

Wait until he finds out that all of the days prior to black Friday are Red days.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:17:20am

re: #142 Hecuba’s daughter

My regular reminder — a change of only 40,000 votes in the right states in 2020, and that is the nightmare we would have endured. Biden could have received a million more votes in the “wrong” states and it wouldn’t have mattered if those 40,000 had not been cast. The EC is a disaster that is waiting to happen.

It happened in 2016.

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jeffreyw  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:24:39am

hambeans

Good morning!

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Nerdy Fish  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:26:07am

re: #143 Belafon

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Oh, so that asshole is retiring? GOOD. He burned pretty much all his bridges here in Minnesota with that stunt.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:29:24am

Just waiting for the next stooge in the queue to challenge Joe when Dimwit Dean drops out.

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A Cranky One  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:33:43am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:35:23am

re: #151 A Cranky One

That Bacon better be Turkey or Beef based… 😉

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:38:09am

re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅

lol. Kosher Bacon (turkey)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:41:17am

Koch network pledges ‘full support’ of ‘unmatched grassroots army’ to stop Trump in GOP primary

…a fool and their money…

On Tuesday, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Action — one of the biggest and most well-funded conservative political networks in the US — announced it would be mobilizing in support of former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

The Washington Post reported that AFP Action, which is chiefly funded by influential far-right billionaire Charles Koch, is throwing its weight behind Haley’s campaign, pledging its massive organizational infrastructure to help her defeat former President Donald Trump.

“AFP Action is proud to throw our full support behind Nikki Haley, who offers America the opportunity to turn the page on the current political era, to win the Republican primary and defeat Joe Biden next November,” AFP Action senior advisor Emily Seidel wrote in a memo. “Haley will have the full weight and scope of AFP Action’s unmatched grassroots army and resources to help her earn the support of Americans to become the next President of the United States of America.”

In addition to putting the Trump campaign on notice, the endorsement of the Koch network is also a significant blow to the campaign of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who until recently was thought of as the best alternative to Trump in the GOP primary. However, DeSantis’ poll numbers in early state primaries have been sliding, while Haley’s have been steadily climbing.

alternet.org

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:55:20am

re: #17 William Lewis

I have a friend, she’s quite liberal, hard worker but wants her big f*king pickup & when I suggest perhaps a smaller, less expensive brand,. it’s gotta be a Dodge. $78k. Sigh. More than even the mortgage she’s always complaining her ex left her with. Of course part of the reason she thinks she needs that truck is to cart the MLM scam cosmetic company crap to the events she does every weekend thinking it’ll make her rich but that’s a lost cause as well.

I just need B&W film, beer, rent, gas & a little food money. Or as the cartoon put it:

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Suggest that she rents one for a weekend and see what it’s like to park a large pickup truck at different malls and grocery stores as in everyday use. Better yet take it down town and practice her parallel parking.

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gocart mozart  Nov 28, 2023 • 7:56:25am
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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:00:14am

re: #156 gocart mozart

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He’s trying to make me like her more. Last week, when we saw the Hunger Games prequal, getting her plastic cup only cost a dollar, rather than the $6 that a drink normally costs. And now this?

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:01:36am

re: #77 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

50-50 on line three, so I picked the wrong one, as usual.
Wordle 892 4/6

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The 2 3’s have identified letter 2 and so are not confronted with your 50-50 issue

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A Cranky One  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:02:15am

re: #156 gocart mozart

Well, some teenage girls could be described as demons…;-)

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:03:09am

re: #86 lawhawk

Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones defamation suit for $85 million, even as they won judgment for $1.5 billion and Jones claims he’s bankrupt.

Jones claims poverty, even as his conspiracy site continues to rake in money and he spends like there’s no tomorrow.

Infuriating. I wanted him to be forced to live on the street or homeless shelter. What they are proposing is basically a mild slap on the hand.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:03:13am

re: #156 gocart mozart

I got a feeling that “exorcist” has a bunch of fantasies about Taylor…

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Florida Panhandler  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:04:56am

re: #154 Joe Bacon ✅

I think Koch is smart enough to know by now that Trump will use populism to attack corporate interests if it means his own popularity and ability to press issues most important to him- the ability to be cruel to others not exactly like him.

This means using EO to institute price limits on everything from gasoline to rent. The Libertarians fanboys will quickly switch to populism and drop the pretenses of government out-of-my-business if it means their often violent fantasies towards enemies (liberals, LBGT+, women and anyone with brown skin) can come true.

Trump is now being gauged as bad for business. Whether the billionaire business-first crowd like Koch can muster enough grassroots to upset Trump remains to be seen, but I seriously doubt it. Frankenstein’s Populist has been constructed and released and there is no putting the monster back in the lab. It has to be defeated by Democrats.

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Mike Lamb  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:05:44am

re: #108 Nerdy Fish

Certain kinds of debts are non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, meaning that the bankruptcy court can’t touch them; you owe what you owe, regardless of how badly that puts you into debt. Alex Jones’s debt to the Sandy Hook families is one of those; I can’t remember the exact legal terminology, but it amounts to, “He did something bad, intentionally, and got himself into a metric fuckton of debt.” The bankruptcy trustee could try to gather up what assets he has and try to discharge that debt, but that process is going to drag on for a while.

11 USC 523(a)(6) - debts arising from willful and malicious injury are non-dischargeable.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:06:40am

Comer Pyle goes on a rant after Hunter calls his bluff

rawstory.com

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden’s son said that he would testify to Comer’s House Oversight and Reform Committee, but only if it was in public. Comer had requested that it be behind closed doors.

And Fox correspondent Chad Pergram reported that Comer is lashing out at the request for transparency.

“Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else,” Pergram paraphrased Comer as saying. “That won’t stand with House Republicans. Our lawfully issued subpoena to Hunter Biden requires him to appear for a deposition on December 13.”

“We expect full cooperation with our subpoena for a deposition but also agree that Hunter Biden should have [the] opportunity to testify in a public setting at a future date,” he continued.

He hasn’t revealed why he doesn’t want Biden’s hearing to be public.

There have been two previous offers by the Biden team to cooperate with the Oversight Committee that Comer has turned down, Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell’s letter to Congress says.

Lowell’s letter also points out that there is no legislative purpose for the hearing with the younger Biden. Republicans have said that they began an “impeachment inquiry,” but they have not formally voted to open a legal impeachment investigation. Without such a vote, Republicans would need a legislative purpose for the hearing — and that’s a legal discrepancy that may be headed to court.

Joseph Costello, press secretary for the Oversight Democrats, posted a video of Comer making it clear he was fine with a hearing and, further, that he would agree to testify alongside Biden.

“I will be happy — I will sit with Hunter Biden and Jim Biden, and we can go over our LLCs. […] Let’s do that. Let’s do that. We’ll be transparent,” said Comer.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:08:24am

re: #93 lawhawk

Great article

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:11:04am

re: #22 goddamnedfrank

The reason I know there are two completely different fucking economies is because Good Art HLYWD just dropped a $247 Sterling Silver Schrader Valve Stem Cap. Like, I low key love the gang over there because GET PAID BITCH, and also if this is your first introduction to LOS ANGELES HAS MORE MONEY THAN SENSE then all I can say is I’m jealous of your entire sheltered existence. But yeah what was I saying? I guess my only real point here is OMG WHO TF IS THIS ACTUALLY FOR???

I mean if they were Presta I’d understand but … SCHRADER? Like, are motherfuckers really expected to buy four of these and put them on their Bentley before YOLOing a brief flight at the Niagara Falls border crossing?

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High-fives all around when the gang-member-wantabe initiate shows with a set of Sterling Silver Schrader Valve Stem Caps after being told to go out and steal something of value. And shows up the rest of the initiates who bring Honda Civics which have previously been stolen several times before by initiates to the same gang.

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Mike Lamb  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:11:13am

re: #100 Nerdy Fish

Unfortunately, no, because we don’t jail debtors here in this country. In fact, there’s not much anyone can do about it. The court has decreed he owes them $1.5B, but their only enforcement mechanism is to hold him in civil contempt and tell him he owes more (non-dischargeable in bankruptcy) money… but as long as he doesn’t care how much debt he accrues, he doesn’t have to pay a single red cent.

Jones is in a Chapter 11. He has to propose a plan of reorganization, which requires him to pay back to his priority unsecured creditors; his secured creditors; and a portion of his general unsecured debt. Any such plan has to show that the plan is more beneficial to creditors than a straight liquidation.

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:16:44am

re: #52 William Lewis

God save me from morons at tech support that know less than I do.

Tell them to turn to the page in their script book that tells them to transfer you to their supervisor.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:17:51am

re: #125 PhillyPretzel ✅

I hope he is released soon.

With the rest of his family. Originally I was thinking the baby was by himself, being cared for by some female associate of Hamas, but at least he’s with his entire family.

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Florida Panhandler  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:18:41am

re: #167 Mike Lamb

Jones is in a Chapter 11. He has to propose a plan of reorganization, which requires him to pay back to his priority unsecured creditors; his secured creditors; and a portion of his general unsecured debt. Any such plan has to show that the plan is more beneficial to creditors than a straight liquidation.

The chances Jones is not in cahoots with likely Russian money launderers is exactly 0%. He is the type that will choose to live on the edge, in constant debt, in constant violation of the law and court orders both in reality and in spirit if it means he feels he is burning down the entire world.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:21:47am

re: #170 Florida Panhandler

Karma will bite Jones in the ass when he least expects it. But he is going to get the retribution he so richly deserves.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:23:34am

re: #129 Joe Bacon ✅

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There is actually a simple proposal they could adopt — but won’t: single payer! or a variation on Medicare for All! But never going to happen with the current sociopaths in the GOP.

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Mike Lamb  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:26:20am

re: #170 Florida Panhandler

The chances Jones is not in cahoots with likely Russian money launderers is exactly 0%. He is the type that will choose to live on the edge, in constant debt, in constant violation of the law and court orders both in reality and in spirit if it means he feels he is burning down the entire world.

He’s obligated to act as a fiduciary on behalf of his bankruptcy estate. If he doesn’t, then creditors can get a trustee appointed, after which Jones would no longer be driving the bus.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:29:34am

re: #147 Belafon

It happened in 2016.

A different EC nightmare. This is the other nightmare where the election is thrown into the House — and a change of 40,000 votes would have done that in 2020.

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A Cranky One  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:33:51am
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Nojay UK  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:33:58am

re: #52 William Lewis

I used to utter the same prayer but only slightly revised — “God save me from end users that know less than I do working at tech support and who don’t listen to what I tell them.” We didn’t have supervisors, by the way but a couple of times we faked it by handing off a call to another instantly-promoted tech support person (the price for doing this favour was a coffee and pastry from the in-building Starbucks).

The result of a failure to communicate was usually me making a trip around the building or the campus to:

Plug something in that the user told us on the phone was already plugged in.

Plug something back in that should never have been removed in the first place.

Remove something the user had plugged in that should never have been plugged in in the first place.

Switch on something that the user told us on the phone was already switched on.

Switch off something the user had switched on, like the fan heater that kept blowing desk fuses.

My hero is a friend who worked in IT security for a UK Government department. He had a letter he carried in his pocket when visiting sites that said basically “The bearer of this letter has my express authority to do anything he wants to your IT infrastructure.” It was signed by the current Cabinet minister in charge of his department. He would destructively decommission privately-installed and unsecured WiFi hotspots connected to the secure government infrastructure networks with glee and the office managers couldn’t lay a finger on him.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:34:04am

re: #156 gocart mozart

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:41:58am

re: #57 Targetpractice

This is after literal decades of insisting that they viewed women who sought abortions as “victims” and would only focus their attention on abortion doctors and clinics because they were “preying” on vulnerable women.

are you telling us that they’ve been lying all this time? say it ain’t so!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:42:45am

The superstition is in our society is terrifying.

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Jay C  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:46:03am

re: #164 Joe Bacon ✅

So WTF is Comer’s problem (other than just being a Republican Congresscritter, that is)? I would have thought he and his GOPer pals would want their “testimony” from Hunter Biden out in the open: so that they can milk it for its BS value in the RW media. Even Comer has got to realize that the “Biden impeachment” effort in the House is basically a bad comedy skit for the red-hat mouthbreathers; I just can’t see what he/they get from having Hunter grilled behind “closed doors” .

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:47:40am

re: #180 Jay C

So WTF is Comer’s problem (other than just being a Republican Congresscritter, that is)? I would have thought he and his GOPer pals would want their “testimony” from Hunter Biden out in the open: so that they can milk it for its BS value in the RW media. Even Comer has got to realize that the “Biden impeachment” effort in the House is basically a bad comedy skit for the red-hat mouthbreathers; I just can’t see what he/they get from having Hunter grilled behind “closed doors” .

They can lie about what was said.

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danarchy  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:47:59am

re: #6 Dangerman

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What I don’t get, is why prices would come down? Inflation is still positive, just because it isn’t as high, the 9% inflation is still baked in plus an additional 3 percent each year. So unless we get deflation why would prices go back down? The supply chain thing is valid, but why would a lower inflation rate equal lower prices. Just means they won’t go up as fast.

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Jay C  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:57:00am

re: #181 sizzzzlerz

They can lie about what was said.

And how far is that going to get them?
Even with SCIF-level security, no public or media access, no video or audio recording, somewhere there’s going to be a (reasonably) accurate record of what was said; and barring the unlikely incidence of Hunter Biden’s testimony containing Classified information, no way to feasibly keep it from leaking (and aren’t there some Democrats on the committee?).

What it sounds like to me is that Comer’s fulminations stem from the likelihood that his own “LLC” dealings might get exposed as well: hence the huffy insistence on “the rules”…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:57:28am

re: #180 Jay C

So WTF is Comer’s problem (other than just being a Republican Congresscritter, that is)? I would have thought he and his GOPer pals would want their “testimony” from Hunter Biden out in the open: so that they can milk it for its BS value in the RW media. Even Comer has got to realize that the “Biden impeachment” effort in the House is basically a bad comedy skit for the red-hat mouthbreathers; I just can’t see what he/they get from having Hunter grilled behind “closed doors” .

Jamie Raskin roasted Comer Pyle

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 28, 2023 • 8:59:04am

re: #180 Jay C

So WTF is Comer’s problem (other than just being a Republican Congresscritter, that is)? I would have thought he and his GOPer pals would want their “testimony” from Hunter Biden out in the open: so that they can milk it for its BS value in the RW media. Even Comer has got to realize that the “Biden impeachment” effort in the House is basically a bad comedy skit for the red-hat mouthbreathers; I just can’t see what he/they get from having Hunter grilled behind “closed doors” .

They want to selectively show pieces of testimony out of context. They have excelled at doing that over the years. James O’Keefe was a master at that brand of disinformation. They also don’t want the public to see Democrats on the committee revealing the dishonesty of the entire line of questioning.

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Jay C  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:00:56am

re: #184 Joe Bacon ✅

Heh. I forgot that Jamie Raskin was on that joke of a committee.
I really LIKE Jamie Raskin…..

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:01:54am

re: #186 Jay C

Heh. I forgot that Jamie Raskin was on that joke of a committee.
I really LIKE Jamie Raskin…..

Jamie don’t take no ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream from Comer Pyle and the Coalition of Asshole Republicans on that committee.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:03:35am

re: #182 danarchy

What I don’t get, is why prices would come down? Inflation is still positive, just because it isn’t as high, the 9% inflation is still baked in plus an additional 3 percent each year. So unless we get deflation why would prices go back down? The supply chain thing is valid, but why would a lower inflation rate equal lower prices. Just means they won’t go up as fast.

Inflation over the last couple of months has been essentially flat from what I’ve read. If that’s true, and shipping costs have come down, then that should be reflected in cheaper prices for products.

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jaunte  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:07:13am

Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social

We all knew it was bad. But most of us - certainly me - wouldn’t have guessed *this* bad.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:07:29am

re: #142 Hecuba’s daughter

My regular reminder — a change of only 40,000 votes in the right states in 2020, and that is the nightmare we would have endured. Biden could have received a million more votes in the “wrong” states and it wouldn’t have mattered if those 40,000 had not been cast. The EC is a disaster that is waiting to happen.

Yes, seems it would be easier to “lose” votes in certain states than to “find” them afterwards…

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Randall Gross  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:09:36am

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Privately owned and run debtor’s prisons. People like Musk and Bezos would own half the population by now.

Where inmates work to pay for their keep and can be leased out ! Yeah!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:14:12am

re: #166 BeenHereAwhile

Took me a second, I thought this was something to do with the engine valves, but these are valve caps for tires?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:16:37am

re: #180 Jay C

So WTF is Comer’s problem (other than just being a Republican Congresscritter, that is)? I would have thought he and his GOPer pals would want their “testimony” from Hunter Biden out in the open: so that they can milk it for its BS value in the RW media. Even Comer has got to realize that the “Biden impeachment” effort in the House is basically a bad comedy skit for the red-hat mouthbreathers; I just can’t see what he/they get from having Hunter grilled behind “closed doors” .

It allows them to play it for the following slants:
1) Hunter and the stuff he is asked are a risk to national security and thus it must be private.
2) They get the initiative for spinning the results as whatever they want it to be before any transcripts are eventually leaked.
3) I think they’ve noticed videos of them asking idiotic questions or getting owned by people who are not intimidated by them do not play well to the public.

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Randall Gross  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:17:01am

re: #162 Florida Panhandler

I think Koch is smart enough to know by now that Trump will use populism to attack corporate interests if it means his own popularity and ability to press issues most important to him- the ability to be cruel to others not exactly like him.

This means using EO to institute price limits on everything from gasoline to rent. The Libertarians fanboys will quickly switch to populism and drop the pretenses of government out-of-my-business if it means their often violent fantasies towards enemies (liberals, LBGT+, women and anyone with brown skin) can come true.

Trump is now being gauged as bad for business. Whether the billionaire business-first crowd like Koch can muster enough grassroots to upset Trump remains to be seen, but I seriously doubt it. Frankenstein’s Populist has been constructed and released and there is no putting the monster back in the lab. It has to be defeated by Democrats.

Yep, he’s a modern Robespierre who sees that guillotine coming down the road.

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A Cranky One  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:17:24am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:30:24am

Jimmy Kimmel shreds MTG to bits:

Last week, in an effort to promote her new book MTG, the Georgia congresswoman posted on X, “Hey @jimmykimmel since most of your show content is your nonstop lies about me, why don’t you have me on your show? I’ll bring you a copy of my book and we can chat about what needs to happen to SAVE AMERICA!”

“I guess I’m a Hollywood libtard that’s part of the celebrity pedophile Satan club,” Kimmel joked Monday night. “Until she has a book to promote, then “I’d love to swing by!”

After reminding his viewers that Greene once literally called the police on him for making jokes about her, Kimmel marveled at the audacity that she would ask for an invitation. “Though I have to admit, part of me wants to invite her here so I can let her wait for an hour down in the green room doing power squats—and then bump her,” he said. “Even just to screw with Matt Damon it would be fun. But I also don’t want rabies so…”

From there, Kimmel spent a few moments breaking down just how poorly Greene’s book is apparently selling, noting that it’s “ranked number 65 in the Women’s Biography category” behind “a book written by Kanye’s ex-girlfriend,” two different Michelle Obama memoirs and 60 places behind Paris Hilton’s “Paris the Memoir.”

“Marjorie Taylor Greene’s book is such a bomb, I might have to report it to the Capitol Police,” the host concluded.

Though I can’t help but wonder if this was just a ploy by Empty G to draw more attention to her awful ass book.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:34:09am

re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg

Though I can’t but wonder if this was just a ploy by Empty G to draw more attention to her awful ass book.

I did not even know she had one out until I read about her pleas to come on Kimmel.

See how the Liberal Media stifle conservative speech?

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:34:14am

re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg

Though I can’t but wonder if this was just a ploy by Empty G to draw more attention to her awful ass book.

I’m sure Kimmel took that into account when he made the comments.

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Randall Gross  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:45:22am

Something many want for Christmas but this poster won’t fit in a stocking
periodictableoftools.com

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mmmirele  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:45:59am

re: #57 Targetpractice

This is after literal decades of insisting that they viewed women who sought abortions as “victims” and would only focus their attention on abortion doctors and clinics because they were “preying” on vulnerable women.

It’s never actually been like that. The whole intention was to punish women for getting abortions. That rest was just a smokescreen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:52:11am

re: #200 mmmirele

It’s never actually been like that. The whole intention was to punish women for getting abortions. That rest was just a smokescreen.

The women and anyone involved: remember in Texas you can get done for driving a woman out of state to obtain an abortion

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 9:58:01am

A bottle of Tums sounds nothing like cat treats, but they always think it’s treats.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:01:52am

I just got an e-mail from my employer. They want me to report to work on Dec 4. Roughly 20 mins later I got a letter from them recalling the previous letter. To me this shows that they are disorganized. I expect the hammer to fall in the next 24-48 hours.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:02:41am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The women and anyone involved: remember in Texas you can get done for driving a woman out of state to obtain an abortion

And now you have Idaho in a class by itself.

Idaho Asks Supreme Court To Let It Fully Impose Punitive Abortion Ban During Appeal

talkingpointsmemo.com

Six radical Xtians on the corrupted court can’t wait to force their bullshit on American women.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:03:43am

Clouds instead of fog.

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mmmirele  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:04:09am

re: #93 lawhawk

So, about that vehicle that exploded at the Rainbow Bridge last week.

Turns out that the driver of the Bentley Flying Spur lost control as the vehicle accelerated and literally flew into the barrier and exploded.

So, not terrorism. Just garden variety rich dumbass who flaunted his wealth with an expensive and impractical car trying to catch a concert, blew up when the car lost control.

Oh, and apparently the car was not involved in a recall for a stuck accelerator going back to 2021.

Fox haz sad it’s not terrorism.

My brother and I talked about this on Thanksgiving and again on Saturday. At that point we didn’t know the car was a Bentley. I’ve been texting him updates. And given that the car turned into basically a heap of metal slag due to the fire, we’re probably never going to find out much more than we already know. But interesting that it wasn’t part of a stuck accelerator recall.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:05:09am
Ron DeSantis’s chief elections fraud official collapsed after abruptly leaving a “contentious” meeting in the Florida governor’s office, then lay dead or dying for almost half an hour in the hallway outside until he was found, an investigation published on Monday has revealed.

Previously unreported details of the September 2022 death of Peter Antonacci in the Tallahassee capitol building appeared on the website of the Florida Bulldog, an independent online watchdog of the state’s politics and government.

The outlet, acting on a tip-off that Antonacci, 74, died after an argument with DeSantis, submitted a public information records request to obtain redacted documents from the Florida department of law enforcement (FDLE).

None of the 17 pages, which the Bulldog released online, confirm that DeSantis was actually present at the meeting in a conference room at his own office, attended by, among others, Florida’s secretary of state, James Byrd, and Mark Glass, the FDLE commissioner.

But they did reveal other details that were until now not publicly disclosed, including that Antonacci died after a heated meeting in the governor’s office, rather than generically “at work in the Capitol building” as first stated; and that he lay undiscovered for 24 minutes after he collapsed in the hallway immediately outside.

During the meeting, the purpose of which was redacted from the papers, Antonacci became “agitated” and “frustrated” at various times, witnesses said.

Florida state official lay collapsed for 24 minutes outside Ron DeSantis’s office (The Guardian)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:08:04am

re: #207 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Florida state official lay collapsed for 24 minutes outside Ron DeSantis’s office (The Guardian)

Not the first to do so, but this one was too close to home

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Jay C  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:23:54am

re: #206 mmmirele

My brother and I talked about this on Thanksgiving and again on Saturday. At that point we didn’t know the car was a Bentley. I’ve been texting him updates. And given that the car turned into basically a heap of metal slag due to the fire, we’re probably never going to find out much more than we already know. But interesting that it wasn’t part of a stuck accelerator recall.

From what I’ve read, the Bentley recall applied only to RHD vehicles (which had only been delivered to the UK and Australia); though it is curious that a similar issue MAY have been the cause of the Niagara Falls death flight. Though there’s so little left of the car or its passengers that determining the ultimate cause of the accident at this point is likely to be futile.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:30:47am

Hey all, Hulu is offering one year for $.99 a month, if anyone is interested. Offer expires today.

(That’s the second huge deal I’ve signed up for this week. Imagine the sheer number of shows I have to not watch!)

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jaunte  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:31:17am

re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg

Her mistake was publishing a book. Her fans could manage to watch a video.

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mmmirele  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:35:30am

This is a wowser. The International House of Prayer-Kansas City has been hit by a scandal involving their founder, Mike Bickle, who is accused of predatory behavior. With that, there’s also been other scandals that have come back to the fore, such how IHOPKC took on Brad Tebbutt as a minister, when they knew he’d sexually assaulted Jennifer Roach. There are rapes that weren’t reported at all.

Canadian Tara Jean Stevens has had a podcast for the last few years called “Heaven Bent,” which is an examination of the charismatic side of Evangelicalism. This current season, she took on IHOPKC and exposed a lot of this stuff. Right at the *end* of the current season’s run, the Mike Bickle case exploded. She’s been following up.

frequencypodcastnetwork.com

Oh yeah, one thing more you need to know about IHOPKC is that for the last 20+ years they have had a 24x7 prayer room going ALL THE TIME. Usually, most of the time, in fact all of the time, it’s live and you can watch it on YouTube. Right now, because there is a protest in the prayer room, the powers that be are apparently running video. And to that I say, GOOD. Take it right to them.

The reality is that these people will likely be trespassed, but you know, moving it out to the sidewalk is just as good, IMHO.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:39:56am

re: #206 mmmirele

My brother and I talked about this on Thanksgiving and again on Saturday. At that point we didn’t know the car was a Bentley. I’ve been texting him updates. And given that the car turned into basically a heap of metal slag due to the fire, we’re probably never going to find out much more than we already know. But interesting that it wasn’t part of a stuck accelerator recall.

Or this could become a reason for issuing a recall.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:41:23am

re: #174 Hecuba’s daughter

A different EC nightmare. This is the other nightmare where the election is thrown into the House — and a change of 40,000 votes would have done that in 2020.

Not if we can flip two house delegations (23 are democratic now). Between Mike Johnson, repealing Obamacare and nationwide prohibition of abortion, I think we have a reasonable chance of doing it.

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jeffreyw  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:41:42am

re: #210 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Hey, all, Hulu is offering one year for $.99 a month, if anyone is interested. Offer expires today.

(That’s the second huge deal I’ve signed up for this week. Imagine the sheer number of shows I have to not watch!)

There are some good ones on there: Mr Inbetween , The Old Man, The Bear, Justified: City Primeval, new season of Fargo, Only Murders In the Building. Movies are hit and miss - We watched Dangerous and Kandahar the other night, good solid B movies.

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Axolotl  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:53:46am

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Privately owned and run debtor’s prisons. People like Musk and Bezos would own half the population by now.

But we would get to snear at Alex Jones so it would be worth it. /

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sagehen  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:02:11am

re: #210 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Hey all, Hulu is offering one year for $.99 a month, if anyone is interested. Offer expires today.

(That’s the second huge deal I’ve signed up for this week. Imagine the sheer number of shows I have to not watch!)

is that only for new subscribers? because I’m definitely paying more than that…

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Axolotl  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:26:16am

re: #156 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

Did he put “religion” in air quotes when he was talking about Wicca?

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Axolotl  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:34:06am

re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg

Jimmy Kimmel shreds MTG to bits:

“Marjorie Taylor Greene’s book is such a bomb, I might have to report it to the Capitol Police,” the host concluded.

Missed opportunity, should have said “it is such a bomb you can’t carry it on a plane”

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:58:36am

re: #217 sagehen

is that only for new subscribers? because I’m definitely paying more than that…

I don’t know, but I expect so.


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