The Bob Cesca Podcast: He Was Nothing

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

He Was Nothing — Buzz has some choice words for UPS. Biden might have check-mated Trump on the border. A word about secession. Trump has to pay E. Jean Carroll $83M for defaming her. Does Trump have the money? What’s next for E. Jean? Rudy Giuliani isn’t helping Trump. Trump can’t remember what was on his cognitive test so he lied about it. The RNC and the Trump campaign have serious financial issues. CBS News Miami journalist shows us how you question Republicans. More about the Trump White House’s pill mill. Nikki Haley targeted by Red Hats. With Buzz Burbank, music by Matt Jaffe, The Bitter Elegance, and more!

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451 comments

Ace Rothstein Jan 30, 2024 • 4:10:09pm

I just read that there is a fear of violence with Hot Wheels’ refusal to follow the SCOTUS ruling in regards to the border.

That’s the point.

Decatur Deb Jan 30, 2024 • 4:12:13pm

The Army of Derp gaggle has made it to Buc-ee’s in Alabama. Just have to cross 2 more state lines, Mobile, and New Orleans. Then they can rest or hold services all night, as they choose.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 4:13:04pm

re: #1 Ace Rothstein

Motherfather is begging for Joe to overreact

Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 4:13:30pm

re: #1 Ace Rothstein

I just read that there is a fear of violence with Hot Wheels’ refusal to follow the SCOTUS ruling in regards to the border.

That’s the point.

The point is to get Biden to do something aggressive with federal law enforcement so Abbott can call it an invasion.

Decatur Deb Jan 30, 2024 • 4:14:57pm

re: #4 Belafon

The point is to get Biden to do something aggressive with federal law enforcement so Abbott can call it an invasion.

Y’all have been invaded a couple times before.

Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 4:16:17pm

re: #5 Decatur Deb

Y’all have been invaded a couple times before.

Yep, and we’ve had to get the federal government to intervene.

Decatur Deb Jan 30, 2024 • 4:17:13pm

re: #6 Belafon

Yep, and we’ve had to get the federal government to intervene.

It was the Federal government that did the best invading.

Ace Rothstein Jan 30, 2024 • 4:18:27pm

When people around here drive around with “TEXAS SUCCEED!” bumper stickers, I don’t think they’ve thought it through.

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 4:19:06pm

re: #1 Ace Rothstein

I just read that there is a fear of violence with Hot Wheels’ refusal to follow the SCOTUS ruling in regards to the border.

That’s the point.

Quell any violent protests or behavior with extreme prejudice. They’ll get the message that they shouldn’t fuck with the federal government.

Oh, shooting at migrants across the border is a federal crime? Greg Abbott can’t just let me off? We were only having fun! Dipshit immunity!

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 4:21:16pm

His bonus would have more than covered for the money he lost on X.

friendica.myportal.social

thehill.com

A Delaware judge ruled Tuesday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk must give up a 2018 bonus agreement that could be worth up to $55.8 billion, determining that it was not negotiated fairly.

A group of Tesla shareholders sued Musk and the company after the company announced the bonus package, which grants Musk a 1 percent stake in the company for each of 12 stock price and revenue milestones laid out in the agreement.

EstebanTornado1963 Jan 30, 2024 • 4:24:08pm

From earlier
nbcsandiego.com
I lived about 2 blocks from that house and was a member and golfed at Bernardo Heights Country Club all the time.
I am Hispanic and I was definitely in the minority among all the white people there. (Besides the grounds crew and restaurant staff)
I wasn’t as political as I am today, but knew that those members definitely didn’t think the way I did.
This story has me reminiscing about all the things that happened there that I just brushed off at the time, but if I was there today and that stuff happened, I definitely would been a thorn in the management and ownership’s side there.

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 4:24:36pm

Boom…now that’s how you hurt them.

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teleskiguy Jan 30, 2024 • 4:24:49pm

Mississippi, Missouri GOP: No popular votes on abortion access | The Christian Science Monitor

Eventual Carrion Jan 30, 2024 • 4:25:54pm

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 4:33:08pm

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 4:34:48pm

From AP: 4 NHL players are charged with sexual assault.
apnews.com
Headline from my cell app says 4, ap online says 3

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 4:35:50pm

Let’s keep this at 100%

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darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 4:36:22pm

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darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 4:37:55pm

Sounds like he agreed to give his ex more money…now will Trump pay her even more to blow up the divorce which has nothing to do with him?

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gocart mozart Jan 30, 2024 • 4:40:34pm

Listen, if we don’t do something to nip this Trucker Convoy thing in the bud it could lead to a revolution. The energy and enthusiasm really seems to be building. https://t.co/LeBjajB8rJ

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 31, 2024

JC1 Jan 30, 2024 • 4:40:58pm

re: #4 Belafon

The point is to get Biden to do something aggressive with federal law enforcement so Abbott can call it an invasion.

Throw his ass in gitmo.

Charles Johnson Jan 30, 2024 • 4:43:39pm

re: #20 gocart mozart

It’s a dumbass lunatics’ convention. They all get together and be dumbass lunatics in public.

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 4:44:20pm

re: #21 JC1

Throw his ass in gitmo.

Nah. Have the CIA rendition his miserable ass to The Hague and charge him with Crimes against Humanity.

JC1 Jan 30, 2024 • 4:44:29pm

Judge in Delaware ruled that Musk must give up ~50Billion in Tesla comp. 😂 😂 😂

cnn.com

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 4:45:06pm

re: #24 JC1

yay

gocart mozart Jan 30, 2024 • 4:48:50pm

After expanding some more on his Taylor Swift op theory, Jack Posobiec adds: “We don’t have Taylor Swift on our side, but you know who we have? We have Kid Rock. We have Ted Nugent. We have influencers. We have all these people — Jon Voight.” pic.twitter.com/IWIvNtYsdz

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 30, 2024

teleskiguy Jan 30, 2024 • 4:49:16pm

Just signed the contract for the company’s biggest on-snow demo event this winter so far, the Blister Summit in Crested Butte. We’ll be slinging our wares to professional skiers and testers for five days. We arrive Sunday afternoon.

Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 4:49:28pm

Dear political people who text me: I will not respond in a favorable way to any message that is aggressive or insulting.

Decatur Deb Jan 30, 2024 • 4:50:49pm

re: #21 JC1

Throw his ass in gitmo.

There’s an artillery casement in the wall of Ft. Monroe that is just made for insurrectionist leaders.

loc.gov

Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 4:51:33pm

re: #26 gocart mozart

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 4:54:45pm

re: #20 gocart mozart

Be like Ashlii…now there’s a slogan they should take to heart.

jaunte Jan 30, 2024 • 4:56:06pm

re: #20 gocart mozart

Hoarse vessels.

ipsos Jan 30, 2024 • 5:00:02pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

It’s a dumbass lunatics’ convention. They all get together and be dumbass lunatics in public.

I think we sometimes underestimate the value of just pointing and laughing at idiocy sometimes.

Pierce their inflated self-image.

Bring on the tubas. Surround them and just keep laughing at them until they slink away.

Patricia Kayden Jan 30, 2024 • 5:03:42pm

re: #26 gocart mozart

I’m disappointed that there aren’t other vocal young people on the left like Swift. All hands on deck are needed to win this election

Romantic Heretic Jan 30, 2024 • 5:06:53pm

re: #26 gocart mozart

Jack, old buddy? That’s not the win you think it is.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 30, 2024 • 5:13:08pm

BMG is to part ways with Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd co-founder whose inflammatory comments about Israel, Ukraine and the United States have caused no shortage of controversy, Variety has learned. The German-based company signed a publishing agreement with the musician in 2016 and was scheduled to release a newly recorded version of Pink Floyd’s epochal 1973 album “Dark Side of the Moon” last year, but new CEO Thomas Coesfeld nixed the deal after taking up his new post on July 1, 2023. The album ultimately came out through U.K.-based Cooking Vinyl.
Now, sources tell Variety that BMG is preparing to separate entirely from the veteran musician.

A BMG spokeperson declined requests for comment.

BMG Splits With Roger Waters Over Pink Floyd Co-Founder’s Comments on Israel (Variety)

Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 5:13:28pm

re: #34 Patricia Kayden

I’m disappointed that there aren’t other vocal young people on the left like Swift. All hands on deck are needed to win this election

She wasn’t wanting to get involved, but it was forced on her, the same as a lot of kids.

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 5:13:53pm

re: #21 JC1

Throw his ass in gitmo.

Drag his ass down to the shore and let him wheel his way through the razor wire.

Captain Ron Jan 30, 2024 • 5:14:21pm

Titus: I think another saying appropriately describes what’s going on here, and that’s just shoveling the same old shit and calling it sugar, pic.twitter.com/k86pSBxxV6

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 30, 2024

teleskiguy Jan 30, 2024 • 5:15:22pm

re: #36 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

David Gilmour has effectively cut ties and has called him a bellend in public numerous times. Too bad. Cranks always destroy beautiful things.

gocart mozart Jan 30, 2024 • 5:15:32pm

yes mr president. the NFL is under control. a quarterback kissing his cheerleader sweetheart is now lib coded. https://t.co/BJ7cl7ploQ pic.twitter.com/Ji4JqrJxJD

— ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ (@Andr3jH) January 30, 2024

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 5:20:23pm

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 5:20:46pm

Playing an online d&d game tonight. Gnome barbarian/rogue trying to intimidate a Balor.

Natural 1.

Oops. 🤣

Back to the game `

sizzzzlerz Jan 30, 2024 • 5:27:15pm

Sotp in the name of lvoe!

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 5:28:21pm

re: #44 sizzzzlerz

Someone needs a spell-checker.

jaunte Jan 30, 2024 • 5:28:33pm

re: #44 sizzzzlerz

Sudden Opportunity To Pause

EPR-radar Jan 30, 2024 • 5:34:40pm

re: #43 William Lewis

Playing an online d&d game tonight. Gnome barbarian/rogue trying to intimidate a Balor.

Natural 1.

Oops. 🤣

Back to the game `

That reminds me of a tabletop RPG campaign I played in undergrad. In the very first encounter, my character (a warrior) rolls a fumble. How bad is the fumble (d100)?

00: “The worst move anyone has seen in ages. 50% chance the foe is out for 2 rounds laughing their head off (failed). 50% chance player character is out for 2 weeks with a pulled groin (also failed).”

I took that as a sign and rolled up a new character.

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 5:39:37pm

re: #47 EPR-radar

That reminds me of a tabletop RPG campaign I played in undergrad. In the very first encounter, my character (a warrior) rolls a fumble. How bad is the fumble (d100)?

00: “The worst move anyone has seen in ages. 50% chance the foe is out for 2 rounds laughing their head off (failed). 50% chance player character is out for 2 weeks with a pulled groin (also failed).”

I took that as a sign and rolled up a new character.

Good old Rolemaster. I enjoyed the sense of humor in those tables 😎

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 5:40:03pm

re: #43 William Lewis

Playing an online d&d game tonight. Gnome barbarian/rogue trying to intimidate a Balor.

Natural 1.

Oops. 🤣

Back to the game `

I do fear this is going to end in a TPK though.

Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 5:47:27pm

re: #49 William Lewis

I do fear this is going to end in a TPK though.

That’s unfortunate. As DM’s, most of us try not to have that happen. It’s a natural consequence of PC’s biting off more than they can chew, but in general, we want to keep campaigns moving without spending time rerolling a whole new party. With that said, some DM’s are a bit sadistic in their punishment for overly aggressive parties.

jaunte Jan 30, 2024 • 5:52:54pm

@katzonearth.bsky.social

Insanely misleading by the Times here. The US is a massive country. Yeah we have a lot, but the US isn’t even in the top 20 countries in terms of immigrants as a percentage of population. Australia and Switzerland have about 2x the US amount per capita. Canada has a third more.

Charles Johnson Jan 30, 2024 • 5:53:55pm

I don’t know if it’s true that most people get more conservative as they get older, but in my case, I’m very much more left-leaning than I was earlier in my life. For those who get more conservative, I think it’s probably because they’ve shut down their ability to feel things deeply.

Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 5:55:15pm

re: #50 Nerdy Fish

That’s unfortunate. As DM’s, most of us try not to have that happen. It’s a natural consequence of PC’s biting off more than they can chew, but in general, we want to keep campaigns moving without spending time rerolling a whole new party. With that said, some DM’s are a bit sadistic in their punishment for overly aggressive parties.

When I played DND at a game store before the pandemic, the players would tell stories about on DM who thought it was his job to kill players.

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 5:57:31pm

re: #50 Nerdy Fish

That’s unfortunate. As DM’s, most of us try not to have that happen. It’s a natural consequence of PC’s biting off more than they can chew, but in general, we want to keep campaigns moving without spending time rerolling a whole new party. With that said, some DM’s are a bit sadistic in their punishment for overly aggressive parties.

That’s what these characters are doing. The one’s got a thing against Baphomet and going after the demon lord in his lair. It’s not going well. I’m not attached to the character so no big to me 😈. 16th level is not enough for this.

jaunte Jan 30, 2024 • 5:58:24pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

And shut down their ability to adjust their point of view when new evidence appears.

Patricia Kayden Jan 30, 2024 • 5:59:30pm

Charles Johnson Jan 30, 2024 • 5:59:31pm

re: #55 jaunte

And shut down their ability to adjust their point of view when new evidence appears.

Very much so.

Vicious Babushka Jan 30, 2024 • 5:59:46pm

re: #36 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

BMG Splits With Roger Waters Over Pink Floyd Co-Founder’s Comments on Israel (Variety)

Here are some of the comments made by Waters. He’s a devout tankie & Putinoid.

For years Waters has sounded off about politics in the press and at his concerts, most controversially Israel’s policies. But the new interview in Rolling Stone raises (or lowers) the bar considerably. While interviewer James Ball does his best to challenge some of Waters’ more far-fetched statements, the former Pink Floyd singer argues emphatically that some Jewish people in the U.S. and U.K. bear responsibility for the actions of Israel “because they pay for everything”; that well-documented accounts of Russian war crimes in Ukraine are “lies, lies, lies”; that the United States is “the most evil [country in the world] of all by a factor of at least 10 times”; that Russia’s brutal military involvement in Syria is justified because “they were there at the invitation of the Syrian government” (which is led by one of the world’s most murderous dictators, Bashar Assad), and more. (See a 12,000-word transcript of the interview here).

Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 6:00:20pm

re: #53 Belafon

When I played DND at a game store before the pandemic, the players would tell stories about on DM who thought it was his job to kill players.

There’s a popular misconception among people who haven’t played D&D, or haven’t played much of it, that the DM is the adversary of the players. While DM’s do play the bad guys, they also play the neutral and friendly NPC’s, and their role is to facilitate the campaign and keep the players having fun. I’ve knocked out a few characters in my games, but I’ve yet to kill one - though there have been a few close calls.

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 6:03:48pm

re: #59 Nerdy Fish

There’s a popular misconception among people who haven’t played D&D, or haven’t played much of it, that the DM is the adversary of the players. While DM’s do play the bad guys, they also play the neutral and friendly NPC’s, and their role is to facilitate the campaign and keep the players having fun. I’ve knocked out a few characters in my games, but I’ve yet to kill one - though there have been a few close calls.

Our DM is not the adversary but but they PC’s wanted a bad sitch and it’s going to get. I hope one of them has a magic teleport out at the last second escape 😉

Jay C Jan 30, 2024 • 6:06:25pm

re: #51 jaunte

Misleading, maybe (in terms of numbers probably accurate, however), but true enough about the divisions - though the Times’ recent coverage of the supposed “border crisis” has been, IMHO, relentlessly anti-Biden: in effect, if not explicit opposition.

Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 6:06:57pm

re: #56 Patricia Kayden

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Parody account, but still true.

Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 6:06:57pm

re: #60 William Lewis

Our DM is not the adversary but but they PC’s wanted a bad sitch and it’s going to get. I hope one of them has a magic teleport out at the last second escape 😉

I saw that in your other comment. They asked for it, they’re about to get it. I’m trying to set my players up to succeed in their quest to kill the BBEG; thankfully, they’re willing to be patient and ride the campaign, rather than forcing the issue.

CleverToad Jan 30, 2024 • 6:08:07pm

Made Sleuth’s Honey Orange Chicken for dinner. Had to settle for a navel orange instead of a blood orange, but will definitely try that next time. My favorite kind of recipe — simple enough for this inexpert cook, tasty enough to go in the ‘definitely repeat’ folder.

Thank you very much for that recipe, BWS!

Came out great, but eated before I thought about taking a picture. Oh well.

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 6:08:49pm

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Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 6:09:20pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

I don’t know if it’s true that most people get more conservative as they get older, but in my case, I’m very much more left-leaning than I was earlier in my life. For those who get more conservative, I think it’s probably because they’ve shut down their ability to feel things deeply.

I’m 54, and I’m farther left now than I was 20 years ago, and I have never been a Republican. I make it to 70 and I’ll be calling for the Proletariat to rise up.

JC1 Jan 30, 2024 • 6:09:56pm

re: #48 William Lewis

Good old Rolemaster. I enjoyed the sense of humor in those tables 😎

I’ve often tripped over the imaginary turtle.

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 6:10:07pm

re: #65 darthstar

Should really read ‘know the difference’ - Death star vs death Tsar.

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 6:10:47pm

re: #68 darthstar

Should really read ‘know the difference’ - Death star vs death Tsar.

Just in case the toot isn’t loading for you either.

teleskiguy Jan 30, 2024 • 6:10:55pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

My Dad, rest well, became more liberal as he aged. He was friends with a former principal’s transgender daughter.

Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 6:13:13pm

My dad went more to the right over the years; I went the opposite direction. He has come to acknowledge the change, so it’s clear that my refusal to enthusiastically agree with his racist, sexist tirades has finally borne fruit.

teleskiguy Jan 30, 2024 • 6:14:13pm

re: #70 teleskiguy

My Dad, rest well, became more liberal as he aged. He was friends with a former principal’s transgender daughter.

At the time, I knew him as Chris, and he had way more video games than I did. Today she goes by Christina and she’s living her full self.

Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 6:15:03pm

re: #71 Nerdy Fish

My dad went more to the right over the years; I went the opposite direction. He has come to acknowledge the change, so it’s clear that my refusal to enthusiastically agree with his racist, sexist tirades has finally borne fruit.

My mom changed because I refused to accept her arguments, and threw them back at her enough that she started to see things more clearly. But that was a very trying process.

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 6:15:57pm

The arcane rogue killed a Balor and it blows up - killing two party members in the process. Including my cleric. LOL!

The tank is at half points.

The other tank is banished.

The other cleric is at 1 hit point.

6 demons and a demon lord left. Nope. Not a good situation.

Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 6:16:14pm

re: #73 Belafon

My mom changed because I refused to accept her arguments, and threw them back at her enough that she started to see things more clearly. But that was a very trying process.

There’s no chance that succeeds with either of my parents. I think what we’ve got now is probably the best I can hope for, where they’ve come to admit that not all liberal Democrats are bad because their son is one.

jaunte Jan 30, 2024 • 6:16:47pm

@fakertarians.bsky.social

Fellas, is it gay to have sex with Taylor Swift?

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 30, 2024 • 6:17:15pm

re: #55 jaunte

And shut down their ability to adjust their point of view when new evidence appears.

Also see a lot of people uncomfortable with the fact the world is different from the way it was as they grew up. They can’t or don’t want to adjust behaviors. Or be considerate towards things that “in the old days” were considered bad.

See it a lot in people’s language. Lots of slang terms and phrases that are no longer acceptable in public. Also indicative when you see people’s language choices appreciably change one they are in small groups are not as worried about being polite.

Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 6:17:57pm

re: #74 William Lewis

Yousa in biiiiig trouble.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 30, 2024 • 6:20:50pm

re: #63 Nerdy Fish

I saw that in your other comment. They asked for it, they’re about to get it. I’m trying to set my players up to succeed in their quest to kill the BBEG; thankfully, they’re willing to be patient and ride the campaign, rather than forcing the issue.

Key to a group lasting is everyone sort of being in agreement of what the campaign and group are trying to do. And the group needs to gel somewhat or otherwise it goes to pieces after a session or two. Sometimes it’s the GM and sometimes it’s the players. Have seen many examples of both over the years.

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Decatur Deb Jan 30, 2024 • 6:22:01pm

re: #66 Belafon

I’m 54, and I’m farther left now than I was 20 years ago, and I have never been a Republican. I make it to 70 and I’ll be calling for the Proletariat to rise up.

SDS. Seniors for a Democratic Society.

seniorsforademocraticsociety.wordpress.com

Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 6:22:23pm

re: #79 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Key to a group lasting is everyone sort of being in agreement of what the campaign and group are trying to do. And the group needs to gel somewhat or otherwise it goes to pieces after a session or two. Sometimes it’s the GM and sometimes it’s the players. Have seen many examples of both over the years.

Agreed. In fact, our group of just over a year recently lost a toxic player, and it’s amazing that we survived him that long.

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 6:23:11pm

re: #76 jaunte

@fakertarians.bsky.social

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BWA-HA-HA-HA. The jealousy is dripping from that quote.

teleskiguy Jan 30, 2024 • 6:23:27pm

re: #76 jaunte

Idiots.

Swift and Kelce were both born in 1989.

Folks dating other folks their age is gay.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 6:25:28pm

re: #76 jaunte

Just another pathetic incel.

GlutenFreeJesus Jan 30, 2024 • 6:25:44pm

re: #76 jaunte

He’s so hard up for Travis, he’s trying to blame her.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 30, 2024 • 6:37:10pm

re: #73 Belafon

My mom changed because I refused to accept her arguments, and threw them back at her enough that she started to see things more clearly. But that was a very trying process.

But it sounds like you won. Many people have lost family members over Fox and Limbaugh (may he rest in piss spinning on a spit in hell).

BeenHereAwhile Jan 30, 2024 • 6:42:27pm

How Do You Make a Weed Empire? Sell It Like Streetwear.
Berner, the San Francisco rapper, has built a legal-weed empire out of his black-market past — and blurred the lines between the two.

The closest thing to a bat signal for stoners is the blue lettering of the Cookies logo. When a new storefront comes to a strip mall or a downtown shopping district, fans flock to grand-opening parties, drawn by a love of the brand — one based on more than its reputation for selling extremely potent weed. Until recently, the company was largely a West Coast phenomenon, but as marijuana legalization spread east, so did Cookies.

A little over a year after recreational sales became legal in New Jersey, the chain opened a new location in a bland outdoor mall in Harrison, its aesthetic landing somewhere in the startup-meets-streetwear zone between Apple and Kith. I walked over to a large circular table laden with dozens of jars, each containing a different strain. There were longtime Cookies stalwarts like Gary Payton, a collaboration with the N.B.A. legend, and new variants with names like Mexican Flan and Dirty Muffler.

(no paywall)

nytimes.com

Charmingly Persistent Jan 30, 2024 • 6:46:56pm

I think the getting more conservative thing happened in a big way once. Boomers who didn’t want to be drafted were liberal, and once they couldn’t be drafted anymore they became more conservative.

Of course because it happened to boomers, it must be a universal experience.

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 6:48:44pm

Found out that one PC does have an amulet of the Planes so worst case … got healed back up a ways and the one banished guy used an artifact to come back. Eh, we’ll survive till next weeks session at least LOL!

William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 6:55:00pm

re: #89 Charmingly Persistent

I think the getting more conservative thing happened in a big way once. Boomers who didn’t want to be drafted were liberal, and once they couldn’t be drafted anymore they became more conservative.

Of course because it happened to boomers, it must be a universal experience.

It also happened to whigs and torys so they thought the same.

Charles Johnson Jan 30, 2024 • 6:56:11pm

Are we really, seriously gonna have another breathless media news cycle about THE BORDER CRISIS right on cue, as directed by the RW agitprop machine?

Why, yes. Yes, we are.

sagehen Jan 30, 2024 • 6:56:59pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

I don’t know if it’s true that most people get more conservative as they get older, but in my case, I’m very much more left-leaning than I was earlier in my life. For those who get more conservative, I think it’s probably because they’ve shut down their ability to feel things deeply.

that whole theory is based on Boomers.

People who went to Woodstock voted for Reagan.

GlutenFreeJesus Jan 30, 2024 • 7:00:27pm

In the 90s I would have been full-on MAGA. Then 9/11 and Iraq happened. Losing a few dear friends in a stupid war can really wake a guy up.

No Malarkey! Jan 30, 2024 • 7:04:03pm

While watching Echo, I was thinking about how good villains have some depth and character development to them, and aren’t just two dimensional bad guys. Then I realized that Trump has no depth, and is a two dimensional villain, as though he was born evil. Strange how reality is bad fiction. Just thought I’d share.

GlutenFreeJesus Jan 30, 2024 • 7:05:50pm

re: #95 No Malarkey!

Trump is no Kingpin.

darthstar Jan 30, 2024 • 7:07:57pm

Nice. Way to go Pennsylvania! Call the SCROTUS (typo but I like it so I ain’t fixin’) six out for what they are.

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Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 7:08:45pm

re: #95 No Malarkey!

While watching Echo, I was thinking about how good villains have some depth and character development to them, and aren’t just two dimensional bad guys. Then I realized that Trump has no depth, and is a two dimensional villain, as though he was born evil. Strange how reality is bad fiction. Just thought I’d share.

Sometimes, smart people just want the world to be complex.

piratedan Jan 30, 2024 • 7:09:25pm

re: #95 No Malarkey!

Trump really is a cartoon isn’t he? Damn near two-dimensional.

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JC1 Jan 30, 2024 • 7:11:20pm

re: #99 piratedan

Trump really is a cartoon isn’t he? Damn near two-dimensional.

Maybe now, but he was funny once upon a time. His appearances on the Howard Stern show were hilarious.

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Florida Panhandler Jan 30, 2024 • 7:12:15pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

I don’t know if it’s true that most people get more conservative as they get older, but in my case, I’m very much more left-leaning than I was earlier in my life. For those who get more conservative, I think it’s probably because they’ve shut down their ability to feel things deeply.

My observation is that the older people get typically the more they wall themselves off from new people and new experiences… unless those people and experiences are under control of managed, curated tours or cruises.

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jaunte Jan 30, 2024 • 7:13:58pm

Grandiose narcissism is no handicap for a career in show business.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 30, 2024 • 7:22:56pm

re: #83 William Lewis

BWA-HA-HA-HA. The jealousy is dripping from that quote.

So he’s claiming Taylor Swift is a man? LOL.

I watched a bunch of Taylor Swift music videos just to see what all the fuss is about. She is obscenely talented. Her music is catchy. Not my favorite type of music but you can say that I am a Swiftie now.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 30, 2024 • 7:23:12pm

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austin_blue Jan 30, 2024 • 7:25:30pm

re: #76 jaunte

@fakertarians.bsky.social

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I just can’t even. On Thursday I’ll hit 68, and if Tay Tay showed up at my front door and said “Happy Birthday! Would you like to have sex with me?” I would have a serious discussion with my wife that it would be a one time thing and not an ongoing relationship and then I would get on my knees and beg.

Really, who wouldn’t?

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Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 7:26:41pm

re: #103 Vicious Babushka

So he’s claiming Taylor Swift is a man? LOL.

I watched a bunch of Taylor Swift music videos just to see what all the fuss is about. She is obscenely talented. Her music is catchy. Not my favorite type of music but you can say that I am a Swiftie now.

She’s very talented, incredibly beautiful, clever and down to earth. It’s no wonder she’s immensely popular.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 30, 2024 • 7:30:05pm

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Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 7:31:52pm

As the saying goes, “Girls want to be her, boys want to be with her.”

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Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 7:35:21pm

Anyone else ever heard of the stevelichman.com comic? It makes the horror figures into adult dorks, and somehow manages to be funny, a bit depressing, and a little cringe at the same time.

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No Malarkey! Jan 30, 2024 • 7:37:32pm

re: #109 Belafon

Anyone else ever heard of the stevelich.com comic? It makes the horror figures into adult dorks, and somehow manages to be funny, a bit depressing, and a little cringe at the same time.

Broken link.

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jaunte Jan 30, 2024 • 7:39:39pm

A few hours ago we had a double sunset event here at Sloping Acres.

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Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 7:40:35pm

re: #110 No Malarkey!

Thanks. I didn’t type the whole thing, try again.

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jaunte Jan 30, 2024 • 7:40:46pm

And like a common trump I looked straight at it.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Jan 30, 2024 • 7:42:27pm

re: #56 Patricia Kayden

re: #62 Belafon

Parody account, but still true.

Yeah, the Swift image literally says “Parody by Back Rub”

Taylor Swift fires back at Trump for sicking Karoline Leavitt on her 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Vbi2fF289z

— Faith Back Rub (@FaithRubPol) January 30, 2024

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 7:43:21pm

re: #105 austin_blue

I just can’t even. On Thursday I’ll hit 68, and if Tay Tay showed up at my front door and said “Happy Birthday! Would you like to have sex with me?” I would have a serious discussion with my wife that it would be a one time thing and not an ongoing relationship and then I would get on my knees and beg.

Really, who wouldn’t?

Are you kidding? For me that would be a “better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission” moment. I’d be more worried that I’d not do a decent job by her and that would embarrass me more than anything else.

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Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 7:44:22pm

Not me, on nextdoor:

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 7:45:42pm

re: #106 Nerdy Fish

She’s very talented, incredibly beautiful, clever and down to earth. It’s no wonder she’s immensely popular.

A woman who is beautiful, brilliant, talented, liberal and most important, independent. Everything that terrifies a fascist white male.

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Dangerman Jan 30, 2024 • 7:47:12pm

re: #97 darthstar

Nice. Way to go Pennsylvania! Call the SCROTUS (typo but I like it so I ain’t fixin’) six out for what they are.

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Wow

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piratedan Jan 30, 2024 • 7:49:02pm

re: #117 William Lewis

A woman who is beautiful, brilliant, talented, liberal and most important, independent. Everything that terrifies a fascist white male.

I think the realization that she doesn’t need them for anything is incredibly shocking and disheartening. She’s with Mr. Kelce for reasons of her own, but the very idea that she’s “tarnished” somehow is fucking laughable. Just more RW culture war crap.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 7:52:49pm

re: #119 piratedan

I think the realization that she doesn’t need them for anything is incredibly shocking and disheartening. She’s with Mr. Kelce for reasons of her own, but the very idea that she’s “tarnished” somehow is fucking laughable. Just more RW culture war crap.

Miley Cyrus x1000 😈

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Nerdy Fish Jan 30, 2024 • 7:55:28pm

re: #119 piratedan

I think the realization that she doesn’t need them for anything is incredibly shocking and disheartening. She’s with Mr. Kelce for reasons of her own, but the very idea that she’s “tarnished” somehow is fucking laughable. Just more RW culture war crap.

Possibly one of the oldest elements of the culture war, the idea that “pure” women who have never been touched are more desirable. Running all the way back into ancient cultures, it signifies that her husband has total possession of her. It is also not a coincidence that many of the men seeking “pure” women have never themselves touched a woman; their desire for purity would also help them mask their insecurity at being bad in bed.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 30, 2024 • 7:56:56pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

It’s a dumbass lunatics’ convention. They all get together and be dumbass lunatics in public.

You’ve heard of Comic Con, now get ready for MAGAcon.

And the whole thing is, in fact, one big con.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 8:01:03pm

re: #121 Nerdy Fish

Possibly one of the oldest elements of the culture war, the idea that “pure” women who have never been touched are more desirable. Running all the way back into ancient cultures, it signifies that her husband has total possession of her. It is also not a coincidence that many of the men seeking “pure” women have never themselves touched a woman; their desire for purity would also help them mask their insecurity at being bad in bed.

I’ve always known better - every woman I’ve been with that was more experienced than I was, brought something very interesting to the encounter. Down the road I was able to repay the gift to others only because of them.

I am 60. I do not expect to nor do I want to run into a virgin. Hell, I didn’t like it at 22 though we did last for 7 years… < is there an emoji for wistful memories? >

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 30, 2024 • 8:01:10pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

Are we really, seriously gonna have another breathless media news cycle about THE BORDER CRISIS right on cue, as directed by the RW agitprop machine?

Why, yes. Yes, we are.

It’s the modern day version of “We were always at war with Eastasia.”

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 8:03:09pm

re: #44 sizzzzlerz

Sotp in the name of lvoe!

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 30, 2024 • 8:03:32pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

Are we really, seriously gonna have another breathless media news cycle about THE BORDER CRISIS right on cue, as directed by the RW agitprop machine?

Why, yes. Yes, we are.

My braindead MAGA FB friend was agitating the other day about caravans!! How some independent journalist infiltrated one to discover who’s funding them. It’s a presidential election year so it’s time again for caravan coverage.

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jaunte Jan 30, 2024 • 8:04:14pm

“…Border Report plans to meet the caravan outside Austin and follow them to Eagle Pass.

Check back for a live blog of their activities.”
valleycentral.com

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BeachDem Jan 30, 2024 • 8:08:05pm

re: #81 Decatur Deb

SDS. Seniors for a Democratic Society.

seniorsforademocraticsociety.wordpress.com

My sister hadn’t voted in about 20 years and would avoid talking politics like the plague. I helped her re-register in 2016 and she is an avid Democrat (along with my previously non-political brother-in-law.) Oh, and they’re 80 and 74 respectively.
I’ve always been a Dem and was mostly active for years, then kind of took a break. The idiotic Palm Sunday Teri schiavo bullshit brought me back into active politicking.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 30, 2024 • 8:11:04pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

Are we really, seriously gonna have another breathless media news cycle about THE BORDER CRISIS right on cue, as directed by the RW agitprop machine?

Why, yes. Yes, we are.

That and the four-person caravan coming up from Guatemala.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 30, 2024 • 8:12:33pm

re: #114 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Yeah, the Swift image literally says “Parody by Back Rub”

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And the @ is taylorswaft

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BeachDem Jan 30, 2024 • 8:13:35pm

re: #106 Nerdy Fish

She’s very talented, incredibly beautiful, clever and down to earth. It’s no wonder she’s immensely popular.

Also kind and generous.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 8:13:57pm

Speaking of Miley, last year’s big hit, I still really f’n love this track.

Miley Cyrus - Flowers (Official Video)

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Ace Rothstein Jan 30, 2024 • 8:16:49pm

Taylor Swift is 34 and has had like maybe 3-4 relationships, most that lasted over two years. It’s nobody’s business what she does in her private life anyway. Boxwine Pirro “warned” Swift to not endorse Biden this year because it would alienate so many of her fans. Yeah, right. They are scared shitless because they know Swift is going to be the greatest GOTV voice for Biden there is. We are talking millions of voters.

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 30, 2024 • 8:17:44pm

re: #99 piratedan

Trump really is a cartoon isn’t he? Damn near two-dimensional.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Trump’s managed his entire life to escape any real punishment for his crimes and follies. Initially he was truly concerned about Mueller and we here were breathless and excited about Trump finally getting his comeuppance but that completely fizzled, at least partly thanks to Barr. Until he is bankrupted and imprisoned and kept from regaining the Presidency, I’m sure that he will retain confidence that he will not face real justice. I will not be celebrating until he is truly finished and utterly destroyed.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 30, 2024 • 8:17:45pm

re: #131 BeachDem

Also kind and generous.

I read that she tipped every attendant in the luxury box at the game on Sunday $100 cash each.

Edit: Swift is known to be a very generous tipper.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 30, 2024 • 8:19:40pm

And now for something different:

Peter Eötvös : Treize Haïkus

..

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 8:20:01pm

re: #133 Ace Rothstein

Taylor Swift is 34 and has had like maybe 3-4 relationships, most that lasted over two years. It’s nobody’s business what she does in her private life anyway. Boxwine Pirro “warned” Swift to not endorse Biden this year because it would alienate so many of her fans. Yeah, right. They are scared shitless because they know Swift is going to be the greatest GOTV voice for Biden there is. We are talking millions of voters.

She’s already shown it in previous elections. They are terrified of her. God damn, can we please clone her?

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 30, 2024 • 8:20:05pm

re: #103 Vicious Babushka

So he’s claiming Taylor Swift is a man? LOL.

I watched a bunch of Taylor Swift music videos just to see what all the fuss is about. She is obscenely talented. Her music is catchy. Not my favorite type of music but you can say that I am a Swiftie now.

No — I believe he’s claiming that Travis Kelce is gay.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 8:20:35pm

re: #138 Hecuba’s daughter

No — I believe he’s claiming that Travis Kelce is gay.

And thus that Taylor is a Fag Hag.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 30, 2024 • 8:21:23pm

re: #138 Hecuba’s daughter

No — I believe he’s claiming that Travis Kelce is gay.

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 8:22:06pm

re: #138 Hecuba’s daughter

No — I believe he’s claiming that Travis Kelce is gay.

Somehow Kelce needs a beard and somehow Swift volunteered?

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Ace Rothstein Jan 30, 2024 • 8:22:35pm

I’m 52, and the other stars that I can think of that matched Swift’s popularity in my lifetime are Madonna and Michael Jackson. But Madonna never sold out stadiums every night, and Jackson was a fucking weirdo.

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BeachDem Jan 30, 2024 • 8:24:22pm

re: #135 Ace Rothstein

I read that she tipped every attendant in the luxury box at the game on Sunday $100 cash each.

cnn.com

billboard.com

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Vicious Babushka Jan 30, 2024 • 8:24:23pm

re: #142 Ace Rothstein

I’m 52, and the other stars that I can think of that matched Swift’s popularity in my lifetime is Madonna and Michael Jackson. But Madonna never sold out stadiums every night, and Jackson was a fucking weirdo.

In my day there were The Beatles, when John Lennon claimed the group was more popular than Jesus Christ.

Now we have a former President of the United States pathetically claiming to be “more popular than Taylor Swift”

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Ace Rothstein Jan 30, 2024 • 8:28:36pm

I’m not a huge fan of Swift’s music (I don’t dislike it), but I will say that her last album “Midnights” is very good. The first three tracks are strong. Here’s the “Anti-Hero” video from said album. I really love this song.

Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (Official Music Video)

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BeachDem Jan 30, 2024 • 8:29:29pm

re: #144 Vicious Babushka

In my day there were The Beatles, when John Lennon claimed the group was more popular than Jesus Christ.

Now we have a former President of the United States pathetically claiming to be “more popular than Taylor Swift”

And way back when, she could have been talking about the asshole in “Mean.”
Someday I’ll be living in a big old city.
All you’re ever gonna be is mean…

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 30, 2024 • 8:30:45pm

re: #93 sagehen

that whole theory is based on Boomers.

People who went to Woodstock voted for Reagan.

Some people did - I didn’t.

Reagan was the first modern Republican President who thought he was the con, but actually was the mark.

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Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 8:31:39pm

re: #143 BeachDem

cnn.com

billboard.com

It would be kind of fun to send those links to wingers and tell them this is what a true Christian looks like.

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Captain Ron Jan 30, 2024 • 8:32:21pm

The weather was nice the past three days so I got to ride a bit. I’ve been complaining about my handlebar width since I got this bike. It is 810 mm wide. I thought I should take 30 mm off of each end. Today convinced me when I smashed my pinkie between the handlebar and a bollard. It got squished like a grape on both sides of the fingernail and behind it. and got part of the next finger too… about 30mm of my fingers, lol.

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Markm1960 Jan 30, 2024 • 8:32:22pm

re: #142 Ace Rothstein

I’m 52, and the other stars that I can think of that matched Swift’s popularity in my lifetime are Madonna and Michael Jackson. But Madonna never sold out stadiums every night, and Jackson was a fucking weirdo.

Springsteen can sell out stadiums regularly. His Born in the USA tour in the 80’s was the Eras tour of its time. Huge shows, huge demand for tickets. Swift though has ratcheted it up 10x.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 8:34:44pm

re: #142 Ace Rothstein

I’m 52, and the other stars that I can think of that matched Swift’s popularity in my lifetime are Madonna and Michael Jackson. But Madonna never sold out stadiums every night, and Jackson was a fucking weirdo.

Considering the stories about Michael (and what he had to pay to get the suits to “go away”…) I’d say we are NOT in the say place… Madonna? Very similar though and just as hated by the fascists. I’ll never forget when I was in Germany and i first heard Lucky Star” - that wasn’t just the usual pop song. I knew there was something different there and I’d hear her again. I got back stateside and Borderline dropped. That was a frigging bombshell and I knew she was going to be big. Wish Patty Smith had gotten that track … 😉

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Dangerman Jan 30, 2024 • 8:35:16pm

re: #144 Vicious Babushka

In my day there were The Beatles, when John Lennon claimed the group was more popular than Jesus Christ.

Now we have a former President of the United States pathetically claiming to be “more popular than Taylor Swift”

He’d say that about anyone he was losing news cycles to

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 30, 2024 • 8:39:59pm

re: #106 Nerdy Fish

She’s very talented, incredibly beautiful, clever and down to earth. It’s no wonder she’s immensely popular.

As they say in Boston, she’s wicked smart.

And she is very careful in letting her audience know she is in on the joke.

The only mis-step I’m aware of she’s made in her career, was not controlling her masters.

That has been corrected.

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jeffreyw Jan 30, 2024 • 8:41:55pm

post.news

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nines09 Jan 30, 2024 • 8:44:37pm

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DodgerFan1988 Jan 30, 2024 • 8:45:16pm

How long before the House GOP begins impeachment hearings against Taylor Swift?#TaylorSwift

— Steve Martin (@UnrealBluegrass) January 31, 2024

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 8:48:29pm

re: #156 DodgerFan1988

Heh. Give them ideas. They might be stupid enough to try it 😉

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piratedan Jan 30, 2024 • 8:48:38pm

re: #153 BeenHereAwhile

Considering how she started out and her actions post the realization that certain gentlemen were attempting to ‘control” her like a bird in a gilded cage and how she resolved that were pretty impressive. After all, SHE is the product and the performance and the music and production are all about her and how her fans can relate to who she is.

I understand that she’s not speaking to me or for me and that’s fine, I have no issue with that, not all art, music, literature is universal in nature. Her message is what makes her unique, she makes it okay to be sad, frustrated, angry, bitter, happy, joyous… you know human and that those feelings and being yourself are perfectly valid.

The GOP is stupid for trying to rope her into the culture war, she’s a generational talent with a reach that they can only dream of and are assuring their future pain by their actions. The building backlash they’re inviting is exactly what they deserve.

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 30, 2024 • 8:52:17pm

re: #158 piratedan

Considering how she started out and her actions post the realization that certain gentlemen were attempting to ‘control” her like a bird in a gilded cage and how she resolved that were pretty impressive. After all, SHE is the product and the performance and the music and production are all about her and how her fans can relate to who she is.

I understand that she’s not speaking to me or for me and that’s fine, I have no issue with that, not all art, music, literature is universal in nature. Her message is what makes her unique, she makes it okay to be sad, frustrated, angry, bitter, happy, joyous… you know human and that those feelings and being yourself are perfectly valid.

The GOP is stupid for trying to rope her into the culture war, she’s a generational talent with a reach that they can only dream of and are assuring their future pain by their actions. The building backlash they’re inviting is exactly what they deserve.

And she doesn’t feed the MAGA trolls.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 8:53:17pm

re: #158 piratedan

Considering how she started out and her actions post the realization that certain gentlemen were attempting to ‘control” her like a bird in a gilded cage and how she resolved that were pretty impressive. After all, SHE is the product and the performance and the music and production are all about her and how her fans can relate to who she is.

I understand that she’s not speaking to me or for me and that’s fine, I have no issue with that, not all art, music, literature is universal in nature. Her message is what makes her unique, she makes it okay to be sad, frustrated, angry, bitter, happy, joyous… you know human and that those feelings and being yourself are perfectly valid.

The GOP is stupid for trying to rope her into the culture war, she’s a generational talent with a reach that they can only dream of and are assuring their future pain by their actions. The building backlash they’re inviting is exactly what they deserve.

Yup.

Mostly her music doesn’t work for me.

Yet once in awhile…

For example, this one. It’s as corn as it get. As bad a rework of R&J as it gets. It should not work. I’ve seen similar pastiche’s that fail hard. Yet this doesn’t. I can’t really say why. But there it is.

Taylor Swift - Love Story

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Belafon Jan 30, 2024 • 8:56:46pm

re: #158 piratedan

Considering how she started out and her actions post the realization that certain gentlemen were attempting to ‘control” her like a bird in a gilded cage and how she resolved that were pretty impressive. After all, SHE is the product and the performance and the music and production are all about her and how her fans can relate to who she is.

I understand that she’s not speaking to me or for me and that’s fine, I have no issue with that, not all art, music, literature is universal in nature. Her message is what makes her unique, she makes it okay to be sad, frustrated, angry, bitter, happy, joyous… you know human and that those feelings and being yourself are perfectly valid.

The GOP is stupid for trying to rope her into the culture war, she’s a generational talent with a reach that they can only dream of and are assuring their future pain by their actions. The building backlash they’re inviting is exactly what they deserve.

If a male country artist were writing a song after every breakup each would be number one on the country charts and all we’d get is “Boys will be boys.” She breaks that, they hate it, and she doesn’t care.

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piratedan Jan 30, 2024 • 8:57:46pm

re: #160 William Lewis

I think that she brings an inherent sincerity to her performances, as in she tries to get inside them and make them her own. I guess that is one of those nuance things regarding singing and performing.

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BeachDem Jan 30, 2024 • 8:58:27pm

re: #160 William Lewis

Yup.

Mostly her music doesn’t work for me.

Yet once in awhile…

For example, this one. It’s as corn as it get. As bad a rework of R&J as it gets. It should not work. I’ve seen similar pastiche’s that fail hard. Yet this doesn’t. I can’t really say why. But there it is.

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So funny, I was just thinking about that song and looked up the video to see:

At the time of the song’s release, music critics praised the production but deemed the literary references ineffective. In retrospect, critics have considered it one of Swift’s best singles.

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gwangung Jan 30, 2024 • 9:05:53pm

re: #158 piratedan

The GOP is stupid for trying to rope her into the culture war, she’s a generational talent with a reach that they can only dream of and are assuring their future pain by their actions. The building backlash they’re inviting is exactly what they deserve.

They will Streisand her into an even bigger figure. Uncool, unhip, conservative OLDER mostly male attackers? Her fans will NEVER let her go.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 30, 2024 • 9:06:56pm

Latest GFS run, for total precip through 9 Feb:

GFS total precip thru 9 Feb 2024

Some of the mountain tops in LA County look to be blasted.

It should be noted that GFS can get a bit extreme when it comes to extreme weather.

Nevertheless, there are historic precedents for major flooding in LA.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 9:08:51pm

re: #164 gwangung

They will Streisand her into an even bigger figure. Uncool, unhip, conservative OLDER mostly male attackers? Her fans will NEVER let her go.

And they will never understand how it happened 😈 That’s 90% of the fun.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 9:10:42pm

Hater FA and boy did he FO!

Ohio Man Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison for Firebombing a Church that Planned to Host Drag Show Events

justice.gov

An Ohio man was sentenced yesterday to 216 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for attempting to burn down a church because of its support for the LGBTQ+ community.

Aimenn D. Penny, 20, of Alliance, Ohio, was arrested and charged last year with one count of violating the Church Arson Prevention Act, one count of using fire to commit a federal felony, one count of malicious use of explosive materials, and one count of possessing a destructive device. On Oct. 23, 2023, Penny pleaded guilty to the church arson hate crime and using fire and explosives to commit a felony.

According to court documents, on March 25, 2023, Penny made Molotov cocktails and drove to the Community Church of Chesterland (CCC), in Chesterland, Ohio. Angered by the church’s plan to host two drag events the following weekend, Penny threw two Molotov cocktails at the church, hoping to burn it to the ground. Through Penny’s guilty plea, he admitted to using force through fire and explosives, intending to obstruct CCC congregants in their enjoyment and expression of their religious beliefs.

“This sentence holds Mr. Penny accountable for carrying out violence against an Ohio church because he disagreed with the way congregants chose to express their beliefs,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Such acts of extremist violence have no place in our communities and the Justice Department is committed to bringing to justice those who would use or threaten violence to prevent their fellow citizens from freely exercising their fundamental rights.”

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 9:12:03pm

re: #161 Belafon

If a male country artist were writing a song after every breakup each would be number one on the country charts and all we’d get is “Boys will be boys.” She breaks that, they hate it, and she doesn’t care.

Patsy Cline did it and they really didn’t know how to handle her. The Nashville establishment were, I’m sure, very happy when her plane went down putting her out of their misery… ☹

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Captain Ron Jan 30, 2024 • 9:13:30pm

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Latest GFS run, for total precip through 9 Feb:

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Some of the mountain tops in LA County look to be blasted.

It should be noted that GFS can get a bit extreme when it comes to extreme weather.

Nevertheless, there are historic precedents for major flooding in LA.

Let’s hope the storm is cold enough to bring the snow level in the southern Sierra low enough to make a difference.

170

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 30, 2024 • 9:23:29pm

“Not salvageable”
Burned remnants of prized Jackie Robinson statue found after theft from public park in Kansas
The sculptor has since died but the molds still exist so the statue will be replaced. My guess is that the thieves cut the statue up and tried to melt it themselves so they could sell the material, only to find that they couldn’t do so.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 9:24:45pm

re: #170 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

“Not salvageable”
Burned remnants of prized Jackie Robinson statue found after theft from public park in Kansas
The sculptor has since died but the molds still exist so the statue will be replaced. My guess is that the thieves cut the statue up and tried to melt it themselves so they could sell the material, only to find that they couldn’t do so.

Yep, that was my guess the other day. That’s the only reason to steal something like that.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 30, 2024 • 9:32:24pm

re: #158 piratedan

The GOP is stupid for trying to rope her into the culture war, she’s a generational talent with a reach that they can only dream of and are assuring their future pain by their actions. The building backlash they’re inviting is exactly what they deserve.

But I was assured that the GOP has (checks notes) Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, washed-up ’90s Hercules and Jon Voight!!

J Jonah Jameson Laughing - Spider-Man (Bluray version)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 30, 2024 • 9:33:09pm

re: #169 Captain Ron

Let’s hope the storm is cold enough to bring the snow level in the southern Sierra to make a difference.

These are not very cold storms. The first one will lower the snow level, the “atmospheric river” which is the second storm draws from subtropical latitudes. It will be very wet and not cold (compared to the very cold storms that fall straight down from the north.)

The second storm is caused by a low pressure center that the models think will do some looping off shore for a day.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 30, 2024 • 9:43:31pm

Off to work. Back later.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 9:52:17pm

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 30, 2024 • 10:04:23pm

I am currently experiencing a compassion deficit. Someone on MSNBC was talking about how terrible it was that Trump was preying on supporters to send him money he was using for his legal and other expenses, and my only feeling was that they deserve no sympathy for impoverishing themselves to help someone who is so vile and cruel; they know what he is and they celebrate his dishonesty, his racism, his misogyny.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 10:30:09pm

Is tomorrow the day?

Judge Engoron said he’d issue his Order on or before the 31st.

Oh if he hits Trump with that maximum penalty it will make a wonderful birthday present for me!!!!!!!!!

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jan 30, 2024 • 10:32:28pm

re: #172 Dr Lizardo

But I was assured that the GOP has (checks notes) Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, washed-up ’90s Hercules and Jon Voight!!

Don’t forget Scott Baio and Scott Adams!

Scott to count for something.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 30, 2024 • 10:32:41pm

Those fools are doing it.

House Republicans vote to advance Homeland Secretary Mayorkas’s impeachment case to full chamber as Democrats call process a sham

The articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas now move from the Homeland Security Committee to the full House. But even if the House votes in favor of impeachment, Mayorkas faces little prospect of removal in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

washingtonpost.com

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sagehen Jan 30, 2024 • 10:44:58pm

re: #161 Belafon

If a male country artist were writing a song after every breakup each would be number one on the country charts and all we’d get is “Boys will be boys.” She breaks that, they hate it, and she doesn’t care.

she did a song/video on exactly that topic

Taylor Swift - The Man (Official Video)

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mmmirele Jan 30, 2024 • 10:46:56pm

re: #103 Vicious Babushka

So he’s claiming Taylor Swift is a man? LOL.

I watched a bunch of Taylor Swift music videos just to see what all the fuss is about. She is obscenely talented. Her music is catchy. Not my favorite type of music but you can say that I am a Swiftie now.

I like two songs of hers: “Love Story” and “Shake It Off.” And if I have to, I’ll drive by high schools blasting them to get the teens’ attention.

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mmmirele Jan 30, 2024 • 10:51:33pm

re: #151 William Lewis

Considering the stories about Michael (and what he had to pay to get the suits to “go away”…) I’d say we are NOT in the say place… Madonna? Very similar though and just as hated by the fascists. I’ll never forget when I was in Germany and i first heard Lucky Star” - that wasn’t just the usual pop song. I knew there was something different there and I’d hear her again. I got back stateside and Borderline dropped. That was a frigging bombshell and I knew she was going to be big. Wish Patty Smith had gotten that track … 😉

My parents went to a Madonna concert in the Houston Astrodome in ~1986. (Why? you ask? Dad was on the board of directors for the Astrodome at the time and got a pair of tickets.) They came back *RAVING*. In their minds, she was ready for a residency in Vegas, which to them was the pinnacle of success. I was completely stunned.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 11:08:14pm

re: #182 mmmirele

My parents went to a Madonna concert in the Houston Astrodome in ~1986. (Why? you ask? Dad was on the board of directors for the Astrodome at the time and got a pair of tickets.) They came back *RAVING*. In their minds, she was ready for a residency in Vegas, which to them was the pinnacle of success. I was completely stunned.

They were right. Not sure we would have agreed _why_ but, yeah, they were really really right. She was _the_ woman of the 80’s. “Lucky Star” was one thing. But when I heard “Borderline”? Christ on a fucking crutch, that was the first non-punk song that really threw every thing over. My jaw literally dropped. That song was so fucking good compared to the rest of the crap that year.

Then the next song from her was “Like a Virgin”… Oy…

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Romantic Heretic Jan 30, 2024 • 11:12:07pm

re: #97 darthstar

beliefs were driven by his goal of keeping women from encroaching upon the ~~rights~~ power of men.

It’s always about power.

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 11:21:21pm

re: #184 Romantic Heretic

It’s always about power.

Yup. Always.

It’s more obvious to those of us boys willing to keep our eyes open. So few of us were…

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ericblair Jan 30, 2024 • 11:23:08pm

re: #181 mmmirele

I like two songs of hers: “Love Story” and “Shake It Off.” And if I have to, I’ll drive by high schools blasting them to get the teens’ attention.

My not-very-educated read on her is that a lot of her songs speak to the lives of girls and young women and how to cope in a supporting and inclusive way. A big reason why the MAGAts hate her so much is that, for the longest time, they thought she was some sort of right wing Aryan princess and now feel completely betrayed.

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Eventual Carrion Jan 30, 2024 • 11:23:54pm

re: #35 Romantic Heretic

Jack, old buddy? That’s not the win you think it is.

Yes, a real Who’s Who to young people. Well more of a Who? Who?

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William Lewis Jan 30, 2024 • 11:29:30pm

Looking for something else and this popped up - MAJOR HOOT:

Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

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ericblair Jan 30, 2024 • 11:47:19pm

Hannity: Maybe Taylor Swift just bought into all the lies about Republicans that they are racist and sexist and homophobic and xenophobic and transphobic and Islamophobic and they want a total ban on abortion… If she believes all that she is believing a lie. pic.twitter.com/rO4rLCtuaw

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 31, 2024

I’d say Hannity pretty much nailed it, and then stuck the “not” on the end.

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Captain Ron Jan 31, 2024 • 12:03:22am

Sounds like the narcissist we all know.

— Barb Huber (@BarbHuber9) January 31, 2024

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 1:10:11am

re: #26 gocart mozart

After expanding some more on his Taylor Swift op theory, Jack Posobiec adds: “We don’t have Taylor Swift on our side, but you know who we have? We have Kid Rock. We have Ted Nugent. We have influencers. We have all these people — Jon Voight.”

Scott Baio is crestfallen that he was not mentioned.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 1:12:40am

re: #44 sizzzzlerz

Sotp in the name of lvoe!

befroe you beark my hreat
(thnik it orev…)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 1:25:22am

re: #66 Belafon

I’m 54, and I’m farther left now than I was 20 years ago, and I have never been a Republican. I make it to 70 and I’ll be calling for the Proletariat to rise up.

It’s all relative. In Europe, people are having vapors over the rise of nationalist/populist parties that are still well to the left of the GOP.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 1:27:42am

re: #76 jaunte

@fakertarians.bsky.social

Those grapes must sure be acidically sour…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 1:29:07am

re: #84 teleskiguy

Idiots.

Swift and Kelce were both born in 1989.

Folks dating other folks their age is gay.

Successful men date younger women.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 1:34:52am

re: #114 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Yeah, the Swift image literally says “Parody by Back Rub”

Internet.

Reading Comprehension.

Strangers since inception.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 1:37:53am

re: #151 William Lewis

I got back stateside and Borderline dropped. That was a frigging bombshell and I knew she was going to be big. Wish Patty Smith had gotten that track … 😉

Nobody in pop music knew what to do with Patty Smith when she came out.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 31, 2024 • 1:51:47am

re: #66 Belafon

I’m 54, and I’m farther left now than I was 20 years ago, and I have never been a Republican. I make it to 70 and I’ll be calling for the Proletariat to rise up.

There is a Proletariat Skate Shop in Lubbock.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 31, 2024 • 1:53:29am

Don’t know. Nobody has ever lived that long.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 2:18:08am

re: #186 ericblair

My not-very-educated read on her is that a lot of her songs speak to the lives of girls and young women and how to cope in a supporting and inclusive way. A big reason why the MAGAts hate her so much is that, for the longest time, they thought she was some sort of right wing Aryan princess and now feel completely betrayed.

I think that’s a big part of the hate the MAGAts and RWNJs have towards Taylor Swift - she started off in the country music scene, and they automatically assumed she was their very own Bible-thumping, gay-bashing, blonde, blue-eyed Aryan princess.

And when they realized she wasn’t what they assumed she was…they were furious, as the real Taylor Swift is the opposite of the fantasy Taylor Swift they’d built up in their minds.

It’s one of the oldest stories in the book: how love turns to hate when the pedestal someone’s been placed on comes crashing down.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 2:25:29am

Country Music and Football are supposed to be bastions of American Values.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 2:28:32am

JFC 😯

Approximately an hour before 9-1-1 received a call from a distraught woman stating that her husband’s head was found inside her home, a man self-identified as 33-year-old Justin Mohn posted a 14:34 long video to YouTube showing what appeared to be the decapitated head of his father and featuring calls for political violence.

Justin Mohn, who was arrested just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday in the area of Fort Indiantown Gap, a sprawling Pennsylvania National Guard Training Center and heliport, made his video manifesto as a “call to arms for American patriots.”

Mohn, of Middletown Township’s Levittown section, held up the head of his father, identified as Michael Mohn, who was in his 60s, and said he was a federal employee of more than 20 years.

“He is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country,” the younger Mohn stated.

It was not confirmed by this news organization if Mohn’s father was a government employee or what agency employed him.

In the disturbing video that has since been removed from YouTube, Mohn called on citizens to attack federal workers, kill federal law enforcement, attack journalists, and he read the name and address of a U.S. Courts judge in Montgomery County.

Mohn complained about immigrants who come into the country illegally, President Joe Biden, other high-ranking federal officials, communists, the “far-left woke mobs,” Black Lives Matters supporters, and those who are part of the LGBTQ community.

“I am now officially the acting president of America under martial law,” Mohn said, calling for a “second American Revolution.”

levittownnow.com

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No Malarkey! Jan 31, 2024 • 2:42:20am

re: #202 Dr Lizardo

JFC 😯

levittownnow.com

Will not be the last act of MAGA terrorism this year. We would have no problem identifying this as terrorism if he was a brown skinned jihadi; since he is a white American though, we’ll chalk it up for now to “mental illness.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 2:43:22am

Justin Mohn must see himself as the 21st century John Brown

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ericblair Jan 31, 2024 • 2:45:53am

😂🤣 The effects of Special K must be setting in. Is he trying to go for the “going private” scam again? I don’t think it will work this time. $TSLA https://t.co/LXILqkzopv

— JV (@JamesVictorino2) January 31, 2024

Butthurt Elmo is big mad about his $55 billion bonus being returned for more productive use, so he’s openly musing about somehow taking Tesla private. Good luck, the whole Twitter privitization thing went great so no worries.

206

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 2:47:20am

The modern Galt’s Gulch: Musk’s Rat Hole

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No Malarkey! Jan 31, 2024 • 2:57:43am

Too good pic.twitter.com/CMcQp34VQk

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) January 31, 2024

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 3:08:20am

re: #205 ericblair

LOL and just like that, Tesla’s gone.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 3:17:19am

re: #207 No Malarkey!

He does not care about alien invasions!

(I for one welcome our new landscaping overlords)

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 31, 2024 • 3:42:21am

A little humpday drive time music!

Faith Hill - “Piece Of My Heart” (Official Video)

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Nerdy Fish Jan 31, 2024 • 3:45:29am

I made a bold play on guess 3. It turned out poorly.

Click to Reveal

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 3:48:36am

How cleverly they hid the gazillion dollars from china. Absolutely no proof, therefore it must be true.

Someone who served as a personal financial advisor for Joe Biden when he was vice president told impeachment investigators Tuesday that he had no knowledge of Biden receiving any compensation for his family’s business dealings,” The Messenger reports..

In Republicanland biden is a demented old man that doesn’t know if he is wearing pants, and is also the greatest criminal mastermind of all time.

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 4:18:37am

re: #116 Belafon

Kia Carnival minivan?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 31, 2024 • 4:20:22am

re: #211 Nerdy Fish

I made a bold play on guess 3. It turned out poorly.

Line three was a poor guess, here, too. Another PITA wordle.
Wordle 956 4/6

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Dizzy Jan 31, 2024 • 4:20:50am

re: #210 Shropshire Slasher

I won’t down-ding, but that version is just awful. White bread and mayonnaise with no emotion.

This is the canonical version of that song:

YouTube

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Patricia Kayden Jan 31, 2024 • 4:22:24am

re: #199 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

No matter how old you are, you never fully know what’s going on. Take it from a 55-year old, kid.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 31, 2024 • 4:24:18am

re: #189 ericblair

Texas literally tried to force a woman to give birth to a nonviable fetus, thus placing her life in jeopardy. We can all see what’s happening, Hannity including young people like Taylor.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 31, 2024 • 4:33:01am

re: #135 Ace Rothstein

I read that she tipped every attendant in the luxury box at the game on Sunday $100 cash each.

Edit: Swift is known to be a very generous tipper.

If this wasn’t already mentioned, during COVID lockdowns, she gave all her tour people (roadies, etc.) $100k each.

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 4:39:34am

MAGA maniac chops off his dad’s head
nbcnews.com
H/T Adam Serwer:
bsky.app

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 31, 2024 • 4:40:44am

re: #172 Dr Lizardo

But I was assured that the GOP has (checks notes) Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, washed-up ’90s Hercules and Jon Voight!!

[Embedded content]

Can we please not forget Kevin Sorbo, James Wood and Scott Baio? Pinnacles! Pinnacles, I say!

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 4:45:21am

re: #220 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Can we please not forget Kevin Sorbo, James Wood and Scott Baio? Pinnacles! Pinnacles, I say!

Yeah, forgot James Woods (who hasn’t done anything of particular note since his small-ish role in Casino) and I have no idea what Baio is doing these days. Maybe dinner theater in Toad Suck, Arkansas or something. My reference to “washed-up ’90s Hercules” was meant to be Kevin Sorbo.

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 31, 2024 • 4:45:44am

Watching it fold a shirt is pretty neat.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the company’s humanoid robot Optimus on a short walk, but not everyone seemed to be on board, some quipping to “kill it with fire.”

“Going for a walk with Optimus,” Musk posted on X Wednesday, updating the world on the bot’s progress in a 15-second clip.

The video shows the robot moving slowly around a room while a small group of people observe its movements.

The Tesla CEO has said in the past the goal is to create a robot “capable of performing tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring.”

Musk had previously shared a video earlier this month of the humanoid robot showing off its new skill of folding shirts.

nypost.com

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 31, 2024 • 4:51:43am

The cats just wanted to hear it purrrrfectly.

Ed Sheeran performed for a tough crowd in Japan on Tuesday.

The “Bad Habits” singer, 32, recently returned to the same cat cafe where he sang “Thinking Out Loud” to a group of uninterested felines in 2014, and the cats didn’t become fans over the 10 years Sheeran was away. In a video Sheeran posted to Instagram Tuesday, the musician appears with an acoustic guitar surrounded by several feasting felines.

As soon as Sheeran attempts his first strum, most of the cats quickly scatter, forgetting their food to escape the music.

“Trying to win over the same kitties that ran away from me in 2014, same results,” Sheeran playfully captioned the post.

people.com

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 31, 2024 • 4:51:52am

re: #220 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Can we please not forget Kevin Sorbo,…

That’s covered in washed up Hercules.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 31, 2024 • 5:04:00am

This was…interesting. Worked out in the end. 4/6

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Eventual Carrion Jan 31, 2024 • 5:04:47am

re: #211 Nerdy Fish

I made a bold play on guess 3. It turned out poorly.

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4/6 for me

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 31, 2024 • 5:08:48am

re: #202 Dr Lizardo

That’s not going to be on national news tonight.

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 5:11:05am

re: #189 ericblair

Here’s the short version for people in a rush….Each and Every word of Colin is fire 🔥 He woke up and chose violence against the Dads. Brads, and Chads regarding Taylor Swift! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/r38ZTbckbr

— jaidev joshi (@jdjoshi60) January 31, 2024

How long she’s actually been on TV during the games, and then compares that to the times famous guys are on during other sports games,

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Eventual Carrion Jan 31, 2024 • 5:11:21am

Perfect! Connections this morning

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:11:24am

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Latest GFS run, for total precip through 9 Feb:

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Some of the mountain tops in LA County look to be blasted.

It should be noted that GFS can get a bit extreme when it comes to extreme weather.

Nevertheless, there are historic precedents for major flooding in LA.

5 inches of rain is a bit more than I expected.
Looks like the river will spike fast tomorrow...but not as much as previously predicted.

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 31, 2024 • 5:14:28am

re: #202 Dr Lizardo

If you want to watch his video.

dailymail.co.uk

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 5:22:43am

re: #231 Shropshire Slasher

That’s some real “bargain-basement batshit crazy Rupert Pupkin” energy in the ninth photo (the one where he’s rocking the red suit and tie).

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 31, 2024 • 5:23:13am

The Empire State is considering relaxing qualifications for thousands of jobs to hire migrants who have legal work status in the US.
New York officials are looking to create “transitional titles” to allow migrants who have received federal work authorization to work in the state workforce, according to a memo being circulated by the state Civil Service Commission and obtained by The Post.

State agencies have identified 4,000 state jobs that could be filled by migrants, according to the memo first reported by Bloomberg News.

Most are “hard-to-recruit, entry-level titles” — and the plan would allow the migrants to skirt requirements like English proficiency or proof of education and previous employment, according to the memo.

“Governor Hochul has prioritized modernizing our State workforce and eliminating red tape, and she has instituted a series of reforms to achieve that goal,” a spokesperson for Hochul wrote in a statement. “This initiative, which has not yet been implemented, would offer temporary employment opportunities that are available for anyone who can legally work in the United States.”

State Department of Civil Service Commissioner Timothy Hogues emphasized that the proposed requirements for migrants were similar to those of existing apprenticeship programs, and that the relaxed rules would apply to all New Yorkers if adopted.

nypost.com

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:29:18am

Where to begin…dropping it in a spoiler so you can skip the details.

Anti-woke is deadly…and disturbing.

Click to Reveal

Mastodon

clip of the linked article:

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:31:48am

re: #234 darthstar

Spoiler killed the toot…better that way I suppose.

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 5:32:11am

re: #52 Charles Johnson

I don’t know if it’s true that most people get more conservative as they get older, but in my case, I’m very much more left-leaning than I was earlier in my life. For those who get more conservative, I think it’s probably because they’ve shut down their ability to feel things deeply.

Fuck you, I got mine. Screw the commies and socialists. I want tax cuts, but don’t dare cut Medicare, Medicaid, or my Social Security. That’s the reasoning.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 5:34:00am

re: #215 Dizzy

I won’t down-ding, but that version is just awful. White bread and mayonnaise with no emotion.

This is the canonical version of that song:

It ain’t bad, but not a patch on the Janis version, which is pure screaming soul.

This is a fine little version from John Hartford:

John Hartford - Piece Of My Heart

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 31, 2024 • 5:34:04am

re: #231 Shropshire Slasher

If you want to watch his video.

dailymail.co.uk

MAGA will blame marijuana.

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:34:08am

Mastodon

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 5:34:54am

re: #219 Randall Gross

MAGA maniac chops off his dad’s head
nbcnews.com
H/T Adam Serwer:
bsky.app

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Nerdy Fish Jan 31, 2024 • 5:35:39am

re: #238 GlutenFreeJesus

MAGA will blame marijuana.

No, no, no. DEI is the new far-right bugaboo. He’ll say something about his dad being involved in woke DEI efforts that furthered the agenda of the Deep State.

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:36:21am

He’s got the hots for Kelce.

Mastodon

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:37:05am

re: #240 Randall Gross

That was the toot I was having a hard time deciding to post above.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 5:38:01am

re: #233 Shropshire Slasher

The Empire State is considering relaxing qualifications for thousands of jobs to hire migrants who have legal work status in the US.

Immigrants — we get the job done!

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:39:14am

re: #243 darthstar

That was the toot I was having a hard time deciding to post above.

And of course I forgot the first rule of LGF - scroll up to see that everyone’s been talking about it for a half hour already.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 5:40:03am

re: #239 darthstar

“Those who forbid the teaching of history are the ones who intend to repeat it!”

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:43:01am

Mastodon

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Decatur Deb Jan 31, 2024 • 5:43:03am

re: #234 darthstar

Where to begin…dropping it in a spoiler so you can skip the details.

Anti-woke is deadly…and disturbing.

[Embedded content]

He could have copypasta’d his screed from Free Republic.

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 5:43:08am

Elmo’s question on Twitter yesterday of how we are doing made GMA.

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 5:44:15am

Fascist GOP advances impeachment effort against DHS Mayorkas, all while the GOP blocks any action to advance the bipartisan Senate immigration bill.

Make it make sense? Trump. That’s it. It’s all about politics, and the GOP deciding to obstruct and block any action to address immigration, because it takes away one of the big bugaboos of the Christian white nationalist GOP - immigration by nonwhites and non Christians.

Mayorkas hasn’t engaged in any impeachable conduct. The GOP are busy trying to impeach over a policy dispute, and cannot identify an actual high crime or misdemeanor. It’s all performative bulkshit, and the media will buy into it, despite the fact that they can’t find anything to impeach over.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 5:44:21am

re: #248 Decatur Deb

He could have copypasta’d his screed from Free Republic.

Betcha the Freepers are frantically searching to see if he was frequent poster there. 😄

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Patricia Kayden Jan 31, 2024 • 5:45:34am

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 5:47:41am

More misogynistic small government GOPers looking at government intrusions into bathrooms - by pushing bathroom access limits on transgendered persons. Government so small they want to check your genitals and birth certificates. Papers please. Utah is the latest to push the bathroom bill. Because that’s a more important issue to most Americans than say, gun violence.

Never mind that there’s absolutely no way to police any of this. It’s all about limiting rights of LGBTQ+. And drag queens, like Rudy (who may have to live in a bathroom sized room for the rest of his life thanks to bankruptcy, prison, and losing everything in both civil and criminal cases).

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Egregious Philbin Jan 31, 2024 • 5:47:59am

re: #251 Dr Lizardo

I am on a pretty good political discussion board, but we have a few whackjobs there, I instantly thought of a few that it could be.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 31, 2024 • 5:48:30am

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 5:49:19am

re: #252 Patricia Kayden

TX Gov Abbott is doing everything possible to provoke a crisis, by engaging in unconstitutional conduct, including engaging in border skirmishes, denying federal officials access to the border, etc.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 5:50:17am

re: #254 Egregious Philbin

I am on a pretty good political discussion board, but we have a few whackjobs there, I instantly thought of a few that it could be.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this guy turned out to be a frequent poster over at Free Republic or Breitbart or one of the other fever swamps.

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:50:55am

re: #256 lawhawk

TX Gov Abbott is doing everything possible to provoke a crisis, by engaging in unconstitutional conduct, including engaging in border skirmishes, denying federal officials access to the border, etc.

Abbott’s like our own little version of Bibi.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 31, 2024 • 5:51:04am

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 5:53:17am

He’s bad at his job and is enforcing wrongheaded Biden administration border policies, but there is no current evidence he is corrupt or committed an impeachable offense

When you can’t even get Jonathan turley…

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 5:53:55am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this guy turned out to be a frequent poster over at Free Republic or Breitbart or one of the other fever swamps.

re: #251 Dr Lizardo

Betcha the Freepers are frantically searching to see if he was frequent poster there. 😄

They’re probably more concerned with scrubbing their interactions with him. “Yeah, we should lop their heads off! All of them!” because that shit’s going to come up in court when his lawyers try to use temporary insanity as a defense.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 5:59:19am

re: #261 darthstar

They’re probably more concerned with scrubbing their interactions with him. “Yeah, we should lop their heads off! All of them!” because that shit’s going to come up in court when his lawyers try to use temporary insanity as a defense.

That’s pretty much exactly what I was thinking - places like FR are going to be looking to see if he was a regular and if he was, they’ll be scrubbing that shit as fast as they can.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:01:40am

So my message to America is, do not panic—but organize

Those readers who are nervous about what the future holds might wish to read the entire piece, as opposed to just our summary.

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Dave In Austin Jan 31, 2024 • 6:03:05am

Happy Birthday Mr. Bacon……

Seriously, It’s Joe’s Birthday.

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Nerdy Fish Jan 31, 2024 • 6:05:05am

re: #264 Dave In Austin

Happy Birthday Mr. Bacon……

Seriously, It’s Joe’s Birthday.

And then tomorrow is somebody else’s birthday, I think steve_davis?

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 6:05:08am

China’s crushing debt levels, ageing population and an ongoing property crisis means it may never surpass the US to become the world’s largest economy, according to a leading investment bank.
Nathan Sheets, global chief economist at Citi and a former US Treasury official in the Obama administration, said it was no longer “inevitable” that the size of the Chinese economy would surpass the US after Beijing lost major ground over the past two years.

Mr Sheets pointed out that China had in fact shrunk in comparison to the US. China’s economy is now equivalent to 65pc of America’s GDP, down from 75pc in 2021.

The Wall Street economist said many of the factors that powered China’s rise to become a global economic superpower over the past two decades were now fading.

The benefits of urbanisation, where millions of workers moved from the countryside to the cities, is now largely “tapped”, for instance. The country also has an ageing population, with almost a third expected to be over 60 by 2040 according to the World Health Organisation.

A debt-fuelled construction boom that helped power the domestic economy has also ground to a halt. Earlier this week a Hong Kong judge ordered the liquidation of Chinese developer Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property company, in a symbolic embodiment of the unravelling.

China’s crushing debt levels, ageing population and an ongoing property crisis means it may never surpass the US to become the world’s largest economy, according to a leading investment bank.

telegraph.co.uk

Though China cites official figures of 5.2% GDP growth, more financial experts are taking an increasingly skeptical view of such assertions. And China’s debt levels - in particular, municipal and regional debt, a good deal of which is hidden off the books through Local Government Financial Vehicles (LGFVs) - are said to be catastrophic.

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 6:05:13am

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Dizzy Jan 31, 2024 • 6:08:41am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It ain’t bad, but not a patch on the Janis version, which is pure screaming soul.

This is a fine little version from John Hartford:

[Embedded content]

Video

I don’t know. A person with a wry smirk on his face singing “take another little piece of my heart” just doesn’t have the emotional impact that the lyrics seem to suggest.

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 31, 2024 • 6:09:19am

re: #238 GlutenFreeJesus

MAGA will blame marijuana.

I was going to blame him living at home with his other two thirty something brothers.

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Eventual Carrion Jan 31, 2024 • 6:11:15am

re: #255 Patricia Kayden

[Embedded content]

This. I was talking to a person I know in passing a week or so ago. They were bitching about immigrants. I asked him what Native American tribe he was a member of. Of course he said he wasn’t. He looked so confused when I informed him that somewhere in his family tree was an immigrant also. It’s as bad as that vid clip from a few years ago when some community board member or some such told a Native American person confronting them to “Go back to where you came from?”, fucking idiots.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:16:30am

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jeffreyw Jan 31, 2024 • 6:17:11am

peanut butter pairs well with chili

Good morning!

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Nojay UK Jan 31, 2024 • 6:17:33am

re: #270 Eventual Carrion

This. I was talking to a person I know in passing a week or so ago. They were bitching about immigrants. I asked him what Native American tribe he was a member of.

There’s ongoing debate among archaeologists as to when Native Americans first emigrated to the continental US. It might only be 20,000 years ago, it might have been earlier.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:19:42am

re: #217 Patricia Kayden

Texas literally tried to force a woman to give birth to a nonviable fetus, thus placing her life in jeopardy. We can all see what’s happening, Hannity including young people like Taylor.

Nearly 65,000 Pregnancies Resulting from Rape in States with Abortion Bans

A new study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, has findings that cannot make anyone happy, regardless of where they stand on abortion access. Working with data from various governmental sources, the authors conclude that since the Dobbs decision, the 14 states with the harshest abortion bans have seen roughly 520,000 rapes, resulting in 64,565 pregnancies.

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 6:22:36am

re: #271 Dangerman

Trump’s finding that Habba can’t lie on behalf of Trump because she’s getting tired of paying sanctions resulting from pushing baseless allegations and sanctions including nearly $1 million in the FL case she brought claiming a conspiracy by Hillary and others to undermine Trump’s campaign.

So, she’s hunting for yet another fame whore lawyer who will blow up their reputation and career to lie for Trump.

He’s going to find that there are fewer and fewer of these law firms available to him as even Tacopina and Cobb and all the rest have quit/left/resigned as counsel. Those that remain have been sanctioned, indicted, convicted, and imprisoned (Habba, Rudy, Cohen, etc.)

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 6:23:12am

re: #273 Nojay UK

There’s ongoing debate among archaeologists as to when Native Americans first emigrated to the continental US. It might only be 20,000 years ago, it might have been earlier.

So, they only had the property for 15,500 years?

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:24:33am

re: #242 darthstar

He’s got the hots for Kelce.

[Embedded content]

This is how an adult, running for the presidency ~~behaves~~ thinks

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 6:26:07am

re: #273 Nojay UK

There’s ongoing debate among archaeologists as to when Native Americans first emigrated to the continental US. It might only be 20,000 years ago, it might have been earlier.

There is evidence of immigration by sea before the Land Bridge opened up.

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Eventual Carrion Jan 31, 2024 • 6:26:48am

re: #273 Nojay UK

There’s ongoing debate among archaeologists as to when Native Americans first emigrated to the continental US. It might only be 20,000 years ago, it might have been earlier.

Damn new comers

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 6:28:58am

re: #279 Eventual Carrion

Damn new comers

That was before Trump’s ancestors built the Bering Strait.

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 6:29:44am

Mastodon

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 6:29:56am

re: #242 darthstar

More basic than that - Trump can’t tolerate the fact that a woman is better or more popular than him. He’s a misogynist at heart, and everything he does relates to this indisputable fact.

He can’t stand women who are smarter than him or are more popular than him - like Hillary (who he stalked and engaged in stochastic terrorism to threaten with his minions). He sexually assaulted more than a dozen women, including E Jean Carroll (who he confused with ex wife Marla Maples). He is a sleazebag who operated a beauty pageant, and would leer at women in varying states of undress all because he could. He was in the same circle as sex predator and child sex traffickers Maxwell and Epstein.

So yeah, Taylor Swift threatens Trump on all of the greatest hits:

1) she won person of the year - Trump didn’t.
2) she’s one of the most well known performers in the world in history - Trump isn’t.
3) she’s dating a football player - Trump cheated on his post-pregnancy wife with an adult film star.
4) she’s got adoring crowds who will follow her everywhere - he’s got a bunch of crazed wackjobs who will launch an armed insurrection at his say so. Okay, both sides on that one. /

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Eventual Carrion Jan 31, 2024 • 6:30:08am

re: #280 darthstar

That was before Trump’s ancestors built the Bering Strait.

The orca’s should have built a wall

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:30:10am

re: #270 Eventual Carrion

This. I was talking to a person I know in passing a week or so ago. They were bitching about immigrants. I asked him what Native American tribe he was a member of. Of course he said he wasn’t. He looked so confused when I informed him that somewhere in his family tree was an immigrant also. It’s as bad as that vid clip from a few years ago when some community board member or some such told a Native American person confronting them to “Go back to where you came from?”, fucking idiots.

Egocentric perspective

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 6:31:30am

re: #270 Eventual Carrion

This. I was talking to a person I know in passing a week or so ago. They were bitching about immigrants. I asked him what Native American tribe he was a member of. Of course he said he wasn’t. He looked so confused when I informed him that somewhere in his family tree was an immigrant also. It’s as bad as that vid clip from a few years ago when some community board member or some such told a Native American person confronting them to “Go back to where you came from?”, fucking idiots.

“God never told the Indians they could move here.”

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 6:31:43am

China has no interest in the kind of chaos Trump would bring if given a second chance.

Mastodon

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:32:24am

re: #273 Nojay UK

There’s ongoing debate among archaeologists as to when Native Americans first emigrated to the continental US. It might only be 20,000 years ago, it might have been earlier.

Anytime before Europe ~~showed up~~ barged in is native enough for me

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 6:34:37am

re: #282 lawhawk

Popularity contest. He announces a rally in a football stadium…has three weeks to fill it as much as possible.
She announces a show in the same stadium with three hours of ticket sales.

Let’s see who sells more tickets (remember, his are free).

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:36:26am

re: #282 lawhawk

More basic than that - Trump can’t tolerate the fact that a woman is better or more popular than him. He’s a misogynist at heart, and everything he does relates to this indisputable fact.

He can’t stand women who are smarter than him or are more popular than him - like Hillary (who he stalked and engaged in stochastic terrorism to threaten with his minions). He sexually assaulted more than a dozen women, including E Jean Carroll (who he confused with ex wife Marla Maples). He is a sleazebag who operated a beauty pageant, and would leer at women in varying states of undress all because ~~he could~~ no one had the balls to even call him out or stop him. He was in the same circle as sex predator and child sex traffickers Maxwell and Epstein.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:37:32am

re: #285 Belafon

“God never told the Indians they could move here.”

Whose god?
I bet theirs did

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:38:52am

re: #286 darthstar

China has no interest in the kind of chaos Trump would bring if given a second chance.

[Embedded content]

CNN - Chinese leader Xi Jinping told US President Joe Biden that China would not interfere in the 2024 US presidential election when the two men met in November — an assurance reiterated by the Chinese foreign minister to Biden’s national security adviser this past weekend.

Oh we certainly could. But we wont.

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 6:39:36am

re: #289 Dangerman

Because Trump always surrounds himself with sycophantic suckups and toadies. He wants yes men - not people who’ll tell him what he needs to hear. He doesn’t want someone telling him no, especially women.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 6:40:01am

re: #288 darthstar

The Taylor Swift concert would be sold out in less than 10 minutes. She’d have to add another performance.

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No Malarkey! Jan 31, 2024 • 6:41:10am

re: #263 Dangerman

So my message to America is, do not panic—but organize

Those readers who are nervous about what the future holds might wish to read the entire piece, as opposed to just our summary.

That is what they often thought in countries just before a dictator takes power, that it can’t happen here. We had a fascist takeover in the US, after Reconstruction, when white supremacist terrorist groups used violence to impose Jim Crow and strip black citizens of their civil rights for nearly a century. Trump will attempt a coup if he loses the election in November, many Republicans will support his coup attempt, and it might succeed.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:42:53am

Trump National Press Secretary @kleavittnh brutally ROASTS the Taylor Swift psyop to rig 2024 for Joe Biden:

“They’re calling it their Hail Mary pass to drag Biden over the finish line.. This woman has made a career off of writing songs about picking the wrong guy. We should… pic.twitter.com/wi9XysBB7B

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 30, 2024

Because fictional songs are a 100% reflection of the writers real life, and, or,

Ow my head hurts

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Decatur Deb Jan 31, 2024 • 6:45:21am

Army of Derp is awake, trying to organize for AM takeoff from Baton Rouge. They have about 100 vehicles, few trucks. Truly nutcase local is giving them a safety/security brief.

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Nerdy Fish Jan 31, 2024 • 6:46:13am

re: #295 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

Because fictional songs are a 100% reflection of the writers real life, and, or,

Ow my head hurts

Taylor Swift has famously made several of her songs at least somewhat related to her real life. With that said, this whole “psyop” conspiracy theory was already on the “11” end of the 1-10 scale of batshit crazy, and it just keeps getting worse. And to call this a “brutal ROAST” is, well, whatever Benny is smoking, he should probably lay off.

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 6:46:25am

re: #295 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

Because fictional songs are a 100% reflection of the writers real life, and, or,

Ow my head hurts

They’re trying to laugh off their conspiracy theories after they’ve crashed and burned on the national stage so they can pretend it never happened. But the displays of misogyny and hate are all on tape, and will be played on loop.

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 6:47:12am

re: #293 Dr Lizardo

The Taylor Swift concert would be sold out in less than 10 minutes. She’d have to add another performance.

Or three.

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 6:48:19am

Trump can barely fill a 5,000 seat auditorium.
Swift fills 100,000 seat stadiums with the greatest of ease.

Both sides.

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Decatur Deb Jan 31, 2024 • 6:50:53am

re: #300 lawhawk

Trump can barely fill a 5,000 seat auditorium.
Swift fills 100,000 seat stadiums with the greatest of ease.

Both sides.

The Pope fills stadiums without showing much ankle.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:50:59am

re: #294 No Malarkey!

That is what they often thought in countries just before a dictator takes power, that it can’t happen here. We had a fascist takeover in the US, after Reconstruction, when white supremacist terrorist groups used violence to impose Jim Crow and strip black citizens of their civil rights for nearly a century. Trump will attempt a coup if he loses the election in November, many Republicans will support his coup attempt, and it might succeed.

This article is saying he couldn’t successfully take over from the inside given just 4 years

He’d have even more obstacles from the outside

He would not be “in command” of the military
There’s too much unsympathetic media he could not control
The judiciary is not his friend
There’s just too much blue -states, cities, governors , mayors etc

Damage and destruction
Localized chaos
Sure

Long and drawn out? No.

ultimate success? Not a chance

Now: organize, so it doesn’t become an issue

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 6:51:31am

re: #300 lawhawk

Trump can barely fill a 5,000 seat auditorium.
Swift fills 100,000 seat stadiums with the greatest of ease.

Both sides.

She got 35,000 people to register to vote. She can do that again as there are a lot more fans who have come of voting age since then.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 6:57:00am

re: #292 lawhawk

Because Trump always surrounds himself with sycophantic suckups and toadies. He wants yes men - not people who’ll tell him what he needs to hear. He doesn’t want someone telling him no, especially women.

Help Wanted:
Looking for prestigious and cheap parking building attorneys to file career-ending frivolous and futile lawsuit. Must sign NDA and criminal waiver. Send CV and bikini selfies to Mar-a-Lago.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 6:57:32am

DJT insisted that more people came to his inauguration than to Obama’s. Despite photographic evidence to the contrary which we were instructed to disregard.

Of course he will insist that he is more popular than TS. He has to brag his way to the top because that is the only way left open to him.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 31, 2024 • 7:00:39am

re: #211 Nerdy Fish

I made a bold play on guess 3. It turned out poorly.

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After guess three, I was out of options. Par.

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 7:09:26am

re: #306 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I took it all the way to six.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 31, 2024 • 7:20:07am

re: #264 Dave In Austin

Happy Birthday Mr. Bacon……

Seriously, It’s Joe’s Birthday.

Thanks, Dave.

Today the Old Fart just got a little bit older…and the countdown today is—-R Minus 5 Months AND COUNTING!

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jeffreyw Jan 31, 2024 • 7:21:00am

Come on! Come on!
Take another piece of..

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 31, 2024 • 7:21:19am

re: #265 Nerdy Fish

And then tomorrow is somebody else’s birthday, I think steve_davis?

It’s also Bill Mumy’s birthday.

Will Robinson is gonna be 70 tomorrow.

Let. That. Sink. In…

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steve_davis Jan 31, 2024 • 7:21:21am

re: #265 Nerdy Fish

And then tomorrow is somebody else’s birthday, I think steve_davis?

nope! I’m december’s child. That’s me next to Brian Jones on the cover.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 31, 2024 • 7:22:01am

The Republicans have their own Taylor, and are fighting back in their own stupid way.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 7:23:10am

re: #309 jeffreyw

What can I say more about Luscious Boneless Butt Slices?

Reminds me of Candide

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austin_blue Jan 31, 2024 • 7:24:07am

re: #156 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

That guy, Steve Martin (#unreal bluegrass)?

Here is another post of his:

If Trump becomes president again, after all we know, and you supported his campaign, you will have participated in the end of American democracy.
You will not be rewarded by your leader beyond a rush you might seek for upending civility.
You aren’t part of his plan.
He is the entirety of his plan and the future will belong to him.
Not you.
You won’t get a thank you or a knowing nod.
He will allow you to buy trinkets with his image and name emblazoned.
Trump is a despicable example of human kind.
Devoid of compassion.
Devoid of any respect for knowledge and education.
Trump is the fully realized Id.
He will have no guardians , no guard rails and no shame.
He cannot tell the difference between what he is and what he wants.
There is none when you analyze the situation.
He flunks Descarte’s building block syllogism automatically.
He can’t think so no therefore.
Ego driven rage and revenge.
If you’re inclined to assist him please rethink your reasons.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 7:26:00am

re: #312 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Again, TS has been caught up in America’s pre-Super Bowl hype media feeding frenzy, which is spilling over into pre-election media feeding frenzy, which is all rolled up in the Culture Wars.

Every click-hungry eedjit out there is going to be referencing her in some way or another.

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Eventual Carrion Jan 31, 2024 • 7:28:32am

re: #308 Joe Bacon ✅

Thanks, Dave.

Today the Old Fart just got a little bit older…and the countdown today is—-R Minus 5 Months AND COUNTING!

Happy cake day!
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 31, 2024 • 7:32:51am

East is east and west is west and Thai cats is cats.

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jeffreyw Jan 31, 2024 • 7:39:08am

re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Reminds me of Candide

I’m sure it’s all for the best.

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mmmirele Jan 31, 2024 • 7:40:45am

re: #253 lawhawk

More misogynistic small government GOPers looking at government intrusions into bathrooms - by pushing bathroom access limits on transgendered persons. Government so small they want to check your genitals and birth certificates. Papers please. Utah is the latest to push the bathroom bill. Because that’s a more important issue to most Americans than say, gun violence.

Never mind that there’s absolutely no way to police any of this. It’s all about limiting rights of LGBTQ+. And drag queens, like Rudy (who may have to live in a bathroom sized room for the rest of his life thanks to bankruptcy, prison, and losing everything in both civil and criminal cases).

Add this to the irate father who was quite convinced last week that a transgender teen girl was playing junior varsity basketball at her Utah high school (he was wrong & was escorted from the school), and we have the ingredients for a witch hunt and vigilante “justice.”

Utah’s another state added to my list of places I used to live and I now won’t visit because of their hostility towards transgender people.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 31, 2024 • 7:41:43am

re: #92 Charles Johnson

Are we really, seriously gonna have another breathless media news cycle about THE BORDER CRISIS right on cue, as directed by the RW agitprop machine?

Why, yes. Yes, we are.

I live near one of the largest border crossing in North America and whatever “crisis” the GOP is whining about “down south” is happening up north too. We have fentanyl busts on the regular, and it’s much more convenient for terrorists to make the border crossing up our way, or at one of the U.S. many international airports which also function as “border crossing.”

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jeffreyw Jan 31, 2024 • 7:41:49am

Mastodon

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 7:42:49am

Since the enshittification of Youtube is a big topic of conversation lately, here’s a gift link to a scholarly article at Atlantic about how they plumbed the Abyssopelagic depths of Youtube’s estimated 14 billion videos

theatlantic.com

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 7:46:30am

re: #308 Joe Bacon ✅

Thanks, Dave.

Today the Old Fart just got a little bit older…and the countdown today is—-R Minus 5 Months AND COUNTING!

Happy Birthday Joe, and may you enjoy many many many many more!

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dharmamark Jan 31, 2024 • 7:49:13am

re: #264 Dave In Austin

Happy Birthday Mr. Bacon……

Seriously, It’s Joe’s Birthday.

Happy Birthday Joe!

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 7:49:58am

he leadership of the Tennessee Republican Party narrowly voted over the weekend to implement rules that the Tennessee Journal’s Erik Schelzig reports could keep several would-be primary foes for freshman Rep. Andy Ogles off the Aug. 1 ballot.
Schelzig adds that these new by-laws had been set take effect in 2026, but the party’s executive committee voted 32-29 to start enforcing them this cycle even though some members “conceded they didn’t understand entirely what they were voting on.”

Under the new plan, hopefuls who want to compete for any GOP nomination this year must have voted in three of the party’s last four primaries, which is similar to requirements that were already in place.

However, anyone who cast a ballot in the Democratic primary during this timeframe would not be allowed to run under the Republican banner even if they participated in the other three GOP contests. Another new rule also prevents any person who’s sued the state party from appearing on the primary ballot over the next decade.

dailykos.com

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 7:50:54am

re: #319 mmmirele

Add this to the irate father who was quite convinced last week that a transgender teen girl was playing junior varsity basketball at her Utah high school (he was wrong & was escorted from the school), and we have the ingredients for a witch hunt and vigilante “justice.”

Utah’s another state added to my list of places I used to live and I now won’t visit because of their hostility towards transgender people.

i’ve visited all 50 states. most more than a few times.
48 of em by bike

there are many i wouldnt even drive through to the other side anymore

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 7:52:03am

re: #290 Dangerman

Whose god?
I bet theirs did

“But they worship the sun!”

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 7:52:55am

re: #327 Belafon

“But they worship the sun!”

the sun’s real //

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 7:54:07am

re: #295 Dangerman

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Because fictional songs are a 100% reflection of the writers real life, and, or,

Ow my head hurts

They who, lady?

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Unabogie Jan 31, 2024 • 7:54:35am

re: #308 Joe Bacon ✅

Thanks, Dave.

Today the Old Fart just got a little bit older…and the countdown today is—-R Minus 5 Months AND COUNTING!

Happy birthday, Joe! For your present, I am gifting you the dissolution of the Trump Org.

(please, please, please, please, please)

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 31, 2024 • 7:56:45am

re: #316 Eventual Carrion

Happy cake day!
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

Oh I got up early because I wanted something different for my birthday.

Yesterday I got all the ingredients and I made Jim Nabors Banana Nut Bread With Macadamia nuts this morning. Pulled it out of the oven, and it’s cooling.

But I couldn’t resist the temptation and I sliced off a warm end and put a shmear of Philly Cream Cheese on it.

My verdict—Jim Nabors is a F’n genius! the chopped macadamia nuts takes banana bread to a whole new level of decadence

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Nerdy Fish Jan 31, 2024 • 8:01:11am

re: #331 Joe Bacon ✅

Many happy returns, scaly friend.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 31, 2024 • 8:01:45am

re: #330 Unabogie

Happy birthday, Joe! For your present, I am gifting you the dissolution of the Trump Org.

(please, please, please, please, please)

Damn if that happens I am gonna do the James Brown Mock Faint and beg for Maceo the slap the cape on my back!

James Brown & The Famous Flames The TAMI Show October 28, 1964 (Colored)

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Patricia Kayden Jan 31, 2024 • 8:02:47am

re: #331 Joe Bacon ✅

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 8:04:39am

David Axe writes in Forbes that according to Greek media, Dark Brandon has finalized a deal with Greece to send military surplus to Greece who will send its old stuff to Ukraine. Greece has Tor and S300 systems and ammunition for example.
Biden plans to use the authority of Excess Defense Articles (EDA) to declare items military surplus, assign them a value, and send them off to allies. This authority is capped at $500 million however there is discretion in the value he assigns to the gear.

Axe notes that historically when the the US gives Greece something they give Turkey something and connects the F16 deal for new planes + upgrade kits to this revelation.

This isn’t a cure all but it is definitely something.

dailykos.com

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Decatur Deb Jan 31, 2024 • 8:06:05am

re: #335 Belafon

There is a lot of magic in the DoD budget process.

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 8:07:53am

House Republicans in recent weeks have blown up an immigration deal negotiated by their own party in the Senate and urged President Biden to adopt border measures that courts have found illegal. A cynic might say this is all theater — that Republicans (led by former president Donald Trump) want to keep immigration problems going through the election.
But did anyone consider a simpler explanation — that Republicans have no clue how our immigration system works?…

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and others now claim Biden doesn’t need new legislation to crack down on the border. Instead, they allege Biden can use his existing authority to reduce immigration by reviving all the executive actions that Trump had put into place.

“If [Biden] wants our conference to view him as a good faith negotiator, he can start with the stroke of a pen,” Johnson said.

There are a few problems with this claim. First, Biden has already issued more than 500 immigration-related executive actions, more than Trump announced over four years, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Biden has arguably exhausted the extent of his presidential authority, and so far his measures haven’t stemmed the tide of border crossings.

Second, if Biden hasn’t revived Trump’s specific policies — as Republicans urge him to do — that’s largely because so many Trump policies were found to be illegal…
Maybe Johnson and his GOP colleagues claim Biden can do things without lawmakers’ help because they want Biden to look feckless. Maybe they grew so accustomed to Trump’s lawlessness that they figure Biden should be willing to cross a line now and then,
too
.
But again, there’s a reasonably strong case that the problem here is incompetence.

After all, this week House Republicans unveiled articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his alleged failures on immigration. Unfortunately, these articles complain about measures taken by a completely different government agency — the State Department — which Mayorkas does not control...

wapo.st

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Vicious Babushka Jan 31, 2024 • 8:07:58am

A birbie with a whiff on top.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 8:08:21am

re: #336 Decatur Deb

There is a lot of magic in the DoD budget process.

And as we see, this is what sound alliances are good for beyond a simple mater of money and who pays how much.

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 31, 2024 • 8:09:56am

re: #211 Nerdy Fish

I made a bold play on guess 3. It turned out poorly.

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3 for me.

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Group: 3,3,4,5
Was shocked with my first word; a friend had posted her wordle on FB with a solution in 2. Her first word had 3 letters in wrong place. I was totally misled because my assumption about her first word was so obviously in error.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 31, 2024 • 8:10:24am

Taylor Swift tells her father that she can’t be silent about Republicans.

That moment Taylor Swift tells her dad she’s not staying quiet anymore!

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 8:10:25am

re: #337 Belafon

GOP: Impeach DHS Mayorkas for the immigration crisis, but cite State Department failures as the rationale.

Media: You’re pointing to the State Department, not DHS policies.

GOP: Perfect. We can impeach Sec. State Blinken too!

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 8:10:28am

Yeah it would mean more if Republicans actually followed laws but Greg Abbott is sort of showing the country that Republicans don’t believe in laws https://t.co/S3ZIeOmSye

— The okayest poster there is (@ok_post_guy) January 29, 2024

The Senate has a new bipartisan immigration bill, but Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans don’t want it to pass because they don’t want Biden to get credit. They’d rather impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas than fix the border.pic.twitter.com/KsCKf1F8jZ

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) January 29, 2024

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DodgerFan1988 Jan 31, 2024 • 8:11:48am

Linda Yaccarino is to Elon what Alina Habba is to Trump: an overly made-up fascist cheerleader whose only purpose is to placate and feed the empty vessel of the malignant narcissist to prevent the next tantrum

— Stefanie Iris Weiss 🔥⚡️ (@EcoSexuality) January 31, 2024

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Decatur Deb Jan 31, 2024 • 8:11:51am

The border gaggle launched—vehicle counts all came in under 60, that’s about 200 bodies at most. The route and stops for the day changed 3 times during the briefing/prayer meeting. The Texas stop is not very near the border—anyone going to Eagle Pass is going on their own. Barring spontaneous stupidity, this action has no likely impact.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 31, 2024 • 8:13:38am

re: #342 lawhawk

GOP: Impeach DHS Mayorkas for the immigration crisis, but cite State Department failures as the rationale.

Media: You’re pointing to the State Department, not DHS policies.

GOP: Perfect. We can impeach Sec. State Blinken too!

The Republicans have turned against A. Blinkin. Is nothing sacred to them anymore?
/

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Decatur Deb Jan 31, 2024 • 8:14:45am

re: #346 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

The Republicans have turned against A. Blinkin. Is nothing sacred to them anymore?
/

They’ll be after Secretary Nod next.

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lawhawk Jan 31, 2024 • 8:15:07am

re: #345 Decatur Deb

They were expecting… more than 500,000. They’ve gotten 60? That’s a rounding error of epic proportions, and indistinguishable from normal traffic.

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Nerdy Fish Jan 31, 2024 • 8:17:25am

re: #347 Decatur Deb

They’ll be after Secretary Nod next.

*WHACK!*

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 8:18:37am

re: #345 Decatur Deb

The border gaggle launched—vehicle counts all came in under 60, that’s about 200 bodies at most. The route and stops for the day changed 3 times during the briefing/prayer meeting. The Texas stop is not very near the border—anyone going to Eagle Pass is going on their own. Barring spontaneous stupidity, this action has no likely impact.

But it will get wall-to-wall media coverage because Borderz in Crisis

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Markm1960 Jan 31, 2024 • 8:19:15am

re: #300 lawhawk

Trump can barely fill a 5,000 seat auditorium.
Swift fills 100,000 seat stadiums with the greatest of ease.

Both sides.

She fills those stadiums and has had situations where thousands more without tickets gather outside the stadiums to listen and sing along. This is a cultural phenomena that really intrigues me.
I’m not a huge fan of her style of music, but she writes good songs. Ryan Adams (asshat) covered her 1989 album in a style more in line with my tastes and it is really good.

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Decatur Deb Jan 31, 2024 • 8:19:20am

re: #348 lawhawk

They were expecting… more than 500,000. They’ve gotten 60? That’s a rounding error of epic proportions, and indistinguishable from normal traffic.

Their chat feed insists that the 500-700,000 figure was not their prediction, just that that’s how many trucks it would take to line the TX border. Interestingly, they blame Fox media for that, as much as the Left.

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Jay C Jan 31, 2024 • 8:19:39am

re: #337 Belafon

House Republicans in recent weeks have blown up an immigration deal negotiated by their own party in the Senate and urged President Biden to adopt border measures that courts have found illegal. ~~A cynic~~Anyone with a functioning brain might say this is all theater — that Republicans (led by former president Donald Trump) want to keep immigration problems going through the election.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 31, 2024 • 8:22:11am

re: #353 Jay C

Yep. They want to burn the place down so people vote for Trump to put the fire out.

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Unabogie Jan 31, 2024 • 8:22:18am

re: #341 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Taylor Swift tells her father that she can’t be silent about Republicans.

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Video

Holy shit, this lady is a powerhouse.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 31, 2024 • 8:23:19am

re: #355 Unabogie

Holy shit, this lady is a powerhouse.

I’m a big fan, just not of her music.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 31, 2024 • 8:25:35am

Between meetings now but the butthurt here is GLORIOUS!

Opinion: Republicans have a serious Taylor Swift problem

Republicans are about to be blindsided by a pop culture tsunami called Taylor Swift. They are in no way ready for it.

Republicans have always been terrible at reaching younger voters, mostly because they don’t really try. When they put the Republican National Committee chairwoman on the Sunday morning shows, the only twenty-somethings that reaches are the ones who fell asleep with the TV on, and are now too hung over to crawl to the coffee table and grab the remote.

Democrats, on the other hand, have all the avenues of pop culture under their control. They police them, shunning and canceling anything not in keeping with progressive orthodoxy, so as to stifle dissent through the threat of lost work.

…

In any case, no other artist today compares to Taylor Swift. For example, the mere fact that she is dating Kansas City Chiefs’ player Travis Kelce caused his jersey sales to increase by 400 percent, and that was just at the start of their relationship. With the Super Bowl looming, the sky is the limit.

If Swift can make her audience take a sudden interest in football, to the point of buying the uniform of a player they’d probably never heard of before this season, just imagine what she could do if she actively tried to stir up support for something.

…

Democrats already have the rest of the entertainment industry, but that goes only so far. Stephen Colbert is happy to disgrace himself on national television if that’s what it takes to help Biden, but his share of the American public is very tiny. His audience of young people — just 286,000 viewers under the age of 50 — isn’t even a rounding error.

Taylor Swift, on the other hand, has an audience of tens of millions of young people. There hasn’t been anything like her since the Beatles or Elvis. One word from her could move a mountain — or even more incredibly, make youngsters bother to care about someone as unappealing as Biden.

What will the Republican response be? I grew up in Detroit and I like Kid Rock, but he’s no response to Swift’s army.

gotta go. ENJOY!

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sizzzzlerz Jan 31, 2024 • 8:25:58am

re: #348 lawhawk

They were expecting… more than 500,000. They’ve gotten 60? That’s a rounding error of epic proportions, and indistinguishable from normal traffic.

Why, that’s almost as big as TFG’s over-statement of his net worth

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 8:29:26am

This is basically the opposite of what happened.

The right to asylum is a longstanding piece of American (and international) immigration law that has become dysfunctional which is why there’s now a bipartisan deal to change the rules, Mike Johnson just needs to say yes. https://t.co/eA5kIR1WMg

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 27, 2024

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DodgerFan1988 Jan 31, 2024 • 8:30:51am

It is no longer a whistle, it is a loud bark. The same alt-right talking points that assume Black female athletes are not feminine/not women are being replicated by official Russian state accounts. Russia has participated in and replicated these ideas for decades. https://t.co/xsuYuL6o37

— Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon (@ksvarnon) January 31, 2024

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Unabogie Jan 31, 2024 • 8:31:32am

re: #359 Belafon

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Not only this, but with enough funds, the asylum process could work fine. Unclog the backlog, allow more people to come here legally without asylum, and offer guest worker visas for seasonal farm workers. This isn’t a crisis except for the fact that racist white people don’t want more Latinos in the country.

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 8:32:56am

re: #357 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I do agree with his first couple of paragraphs:

Every time I write about pop culture, I get emails from my fellow conservatives with comments like, “I don’t go to movies,” or “I don’t have cable or watch TV.”

That’s all well and good, if incredibly boring. But a lack of interest in or even a strong dislike of pop culture doesn’t eliminate its impact on your life. All it means is that you aren’t aware of it and are blindsided every time it comes around.

But yeah, the rest of that is pure whine.

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A Cranky One Jan 31, 2024 • 8:33:10am

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Eventual Carrion Jan 31, 2024 • 8:33:20am

re: #349 Nerdy Fish

*WHACK!*

Wynken wynken

😉

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 8:33:25am

re: #361 Unabogie

…This isn’t a crisis except for the fact that racist white people don’t want more Latinos in the country.

While at the same time we need them. Making the border into a risky and dangerous place to cross over does not keep people out, it just makes them more desperate.

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 8:35:02am

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 31, 2024 • 8:41:11am

re: #246 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Those who forbid the teaching of history are the ones who intend to repeat it!”

That certain is DeSantis motto.

But then there’s also:

Paul Valery: ‘History is the science of what never happens twice.’
Georg Hegel: ‘We learn from history that we do not learn from history.’

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 31, 2024 • 8:42:55am

So let me see if I understand this:

Evangelicals think Taylor Swift is Demonic and Donald Trump is God’s anointed leader?

I mean, if that’s the case I’m tempted to throw in with the demons.

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!) Jan 31, 2024 • 8:49:32am

This headline on Drudge today is the type of anti-MAGA hype that has been appearing on that site more & more regularly the past few years:

Obviously, this is a psy-op meant to disguide Killary’s activities in Bucks County

Matt Drudge going anti-Trump is NOT something I would have foreseen, given how eagerly his site ball-washed The Former Guy from 2015 on.

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sizzzzlerz Jan 31, 2024 • 8:51:43am

Finally, after 7 consecutive days of bogies and worse, I finally get a 3. The NYT is either running out of the good words or they’ve decided to mess with me.

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JC1 Jan 31, 2024 • 8:51:57am

re: #369 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

This headline on Drudge today is the type of anti-MAGA hype that has been appearing on that site more & more regularly the past few years:

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Matt Drudge going anti-Trump is NOT something I would have foreseen, given how eagerly his site ball-washed The Former Guy from 2015 on.

Didn’t he sell the site a while ago?

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sizzzzlerz Jan 31, 2024 • 8:54:59am

re: #369 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

This headline on Drudge today is the type of anti-MAGA hype that has been appearing on that site more & more regularly the past few years:

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Matt Drudge going anti-Trump is NOT something I would have foreseen, given how eagerly his site ball-washed The Former Guy from 2015 on.

“but what about…” in MAGAt forums in 3.. 2.. 1..

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 31, 2024 • 8:56:34am

re: #270 Eventual Carrion

This. I was talking to a person I know in passing a week or so ago. They were bitching about immigrants. I asked him what Native American tribe he was a member of. Of course he said he wasn’t. He looked so confused when I informed him that somewhere in his family tree was an immigrant also. It’s as bad as that vid clip from a few years ago when some community board member or some such told a Native American person confronting them to “Go back to where you came from?”, fucking idiots.

The human race originated in Africa. So, in a sense, those who live elsewhere are all descendants of immigrants. But maybe the best rule should be any group that first occupies a land are the original “owners” of that land, i.e. “natives”. And anyone who comes centuries later is an immigrant.

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 8:56:57am

re: #369 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

This headline on Drudge today is the type of anti-MAGA hype that has been appearing on that site more & more regularly the past few years:

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Matt Drudge going anti-Trump is NOT something I would have foreseen, given how eagerly his site ball-washed The Former Guy from 2015 on.

Interesting, that’s the same headline (minus “live on youtube”) I used when I saw the article and re-skeeted it.

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 8:58:40am

bsky.app

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 8:59:23am

re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter

… And anyone who comes centuries later is an immigrant.

Land ownership is such a ubiquitous concept that we assume it is part of the natural order of things.
Even as recently as feudal times, nobles did not own the land, they held it in fief for the King, who held it in the name of his people.
It is simply a human convention. As are nations and national borders.

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darthstar Jan 31, 2024 • 9:01:38am

re: #331 Joe Bacon ✅

I’ve got three bananas getting ready for the Jim Neighbors treatment - and I have macadamia nuts too.

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William Lewis Jan 31, 2024 • 9:02:20am

re: #239 darthstar

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Too much truth for humor.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 31, 2024 • 9:02:35am

re: #357 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Between meetings now but the butthurt here is GLORIOUS!

Opinion: Republicans have a serious Taylor Swift problem

gotta go. ENJOY!

This pigwash was written by someone who is described as a “opinion contributor.” For some reason that doesn’t seem very authoritative.

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Nojay UK Jan 31, 2024 • 9:03:39am

re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter

The human race originated in Africa.

Our best guess, based on the information we’ve managed to gather until now, if we haven’t screwed up, is that evidence of the existence of the original ancestors of humanity has been located in the Olduvai Gorge area of Africa. Habilis may have been immigrants themselves from somewhere else.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 9:05:13am

re: #339 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And as we see, this is what sound alliances are good for beyond a simple mater of money and who pays how much.

this is also what having a team of people (and institutional people under those people) who know how the machinations of the system work

the same people tfg and ramaswamy want to axe on day one

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 31, 2024 • 9:07:40am

re: #308 Joe Bacon ✅

Thanks, Dave.

Today the Old Fart just got a little bit older…and the countdown today is—-R Minus 5 Months AND COUNTING!

A very Happy Birthday!! And may this be a fabulous year for you — celebrating retirement (and I’m a big fan of retirement) and — hopefully — the end of Trump and MAGAtism as threats to our Constitution and nation.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 9:07:54am

re: #347 Decatur Deb

They’ll be after Secretary Nod next.

that’s where i was going

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EstebanTornado1963 Jan 31, 2024 • 9:08:34am

re: #379 Vicious Babushka

This pigwash was written by someone who is described as a “opinion contributor.” For some reason that doesn’t seem very authoritative.

Exactly. I knew it was written by some RWNJ even before I read his bio.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 9:09:18am

re: #354 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. They want to burn the place down so people vote for Trump to put the fire out.

as if

he’d pour on more gasoline and watch it burn

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 9:11:40am

re: #356 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I’m a big fan, just not of her music.

i mentioned to mrsdm yesterday i know zero of her music and couldnt even pick her out of a lineup

and yet, i seem to be a fan too

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 31, 2024 • 9:11:59am

re: #314 austin_blue

That guy, Steve Martin (#unreal bluegrass)?

Here is another post of his:

If Trump becomes president again, after all we know, and you supported his campaign, you will have participated in the end of American democracy.
…….
If you’re inclined to assist him please rethink your reasons.

For most of them, their reasons are he represents their outlook: they are as racist, misogynistic, and vile as he is. They love bullies who will harm those they detest — women, people of color, non-Christians. He truly gives voice to their depravity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 31, 2024 • 9:12:35am

re: #384 EstebanTornado1963

Exactly. I knew it was written by some RWNJ even before I read his bio.

“Democrats, on the other hand, have all the avenues of pop culture under their control. They police them, shunning and canceling anything not in keeping with progressive orthodoxy, so as to stifle dissent through the threat of lost work.”

Is this chickenshit dick aware of the Dixie Chicks or Old Town Road?

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jaunte Jan 31, 2024 • 9:16:19am

re: #384 EstebanTornado1963

progressive orthodoxy

Where is this fabulous unicorn?

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wrenchwench Jan 31, 2024 • 9:16:54am

re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter

The human race originated in Africa. So, in a sense, those who live elsewhere are all descendants of immigrants. But maybe the best rule should be any group that first occupies a land are the original “owners” of that land, i.e. “natives”. And anyone who comes centuries later is an immigrant.

I have heard an indigenous point of view:

We don’t own the land. The land owns us.

One of millions of ways to look at it.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 9:16:57am

re: #361 Unabogie

Not only this, but with enough funds, the asylum process could work fine. Unclog the backlog, allow more people to come here legally without asylum, and offer guest worker visas for seasonal farm workers. This isn’t a crisis except for the fact that racist white people don’t want more Latinos in the country.

further allow people to work, with certain conditions, while they (legally) wait

it is insanity to allow this many people in to wait in limbo and not give them some ability to support themselves in that meantime

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 31, 2024 • 9:18:02am

re: #377 darthstar

I’ve got three bananas getting ready for the Jim Neighbors treatment - and I have macadamia nuts too.

Use half the recipe like I did. Oh damn it’s so good I stopped at 3 slices…for now…

I cut all the ingredients in half except for the chopped macadamia nuts. Kept that at 1/2 cup…melt in your mouth so sinfully delicious!

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 9:18:37am

re: #362 Belafon

I do agree with his first couple of paragraphs:

But yeah, the rest of that is pure whine.

Every time I write about politics, I get emails from my fellow conservatives with comments like, “I don’t vote,” or “I don’t have cable or watch TV or pay attention.”

That’s all well and good, if incredibly boring. But a lack of interest in or even a strong dislike of politics doesn’t eliminate its impact on your life. All it means is that you aren’t aware of it and are blindsided every time it comes around.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 31, 2024 • 9:18:42am

re: #392 Joe Bacon ✅

Happy Birthday!

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 9:25:40am

re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter

The human race originated in Africa. So, in a sense, those who live elsewhere are all descendants of immigrants. But maybe the best rule should be any group that first occupies a land are the original “owners” of that land, i.e. “natives”. And anyone who comes centuries later is an immigrant.

it’s best to recognize it’s used by stupid people trying to separate everyone else. they use this stupid ‘argument’ because they have nothing else.

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 9:25:53am

Almost unbelievable…
Hawley theater posture and bluster actually used for good…
threads.net

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 9:30:08am

re: #396 Randall Gross

Almost unbelievable…
Hawley theater posture and bluster actually used for good…
threads.net

What does it say for those of us who can’t go there?

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William Lewis Jan 31, 2024 • 9:31:03am

re: #380 Nojay UK

Our best guess, based on the information we’ve managed to gather until now, if we haven’t screwed up, is that evidence of the existence of the original ancestors of humanity has been located in the Olduvai Gorge area of Africa. Habilis may have been immigrants themselves from somewhere else.

Olduvai was an important location but so too was Swartkrans in South Africa, which doesn’t change your point.

Adam and Eve were Australopithecus and I don’t care who that bothers.

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DodgerFan1988 Jan 31, 2024 • 9:32:28am

Christopher Rufo, the far-right advocate who championed the ousting of former Harvard University president Claudine Gay, has been promoting a newsletter that has been accused of advocating for “scientific racism.”https://t.co/FMn9jlXPK0

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 31, 2024

It was only a matter of time before the anti-critical race theory folks start pushing scientific racism.

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 9:33:08am

re: #397 Belafon

What does it say for those of us who can’t go there?

Basically he mercilessly berates Zuckerman for the damages done to children from online exposure and bullying

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Randall Gross Jan 31, 2024 • 9:34:19am

re: #400 Randall Gross

Basically he mercilessly berates Zuckerman for the damages done to children from online exposure and bullying

… now that they want to wear the cancel culture Christian victims mantle, online bullying is now a bad thing.

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Jay C Jan 31, 2024 • 9:35:16am

re: #354 Eclectic Cyborg

Crap! I had a long comment ready to post about the “border” issue, and it got deleted (apparently by my touchpad on its own).

So: shorter version: leaving aside the RWNM media’s “open borders”/”invasion” hysteria; what exactly IS the nature of the “border crisis” which Republicans seem to be SO concerned about? A matter of numbers? personnel? finances? I know we [Lizards] see it mainly as motivated by racist/nativist xenophobia; but outside of an opposition to most - if not all - immigration entirely, what specific problems are there?

My other point was my considered opinion that the Biden Admin has seriously dropped the ball on the issue, and allowed the Republican framing on the “crisis” to become the main narrative in the media. That the GOP has mainly kicked the ball around at each others’ heads so far is just luck, IMO. And it hasn’t helped that Sec’y Mayorkas - who one would think would be the Administration’s point man on the issue - seems to have been invisible for most of Biden’s tenure.

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Belafon Jan 31, 2024 • 9:35:22am

re: #399 DodgerFan1988

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It was only a matter of time before the anti-critical race theory folks start pushing scientific racism.

Whites are inferior and he’ll have to prove to me that I’m wrong.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 31, 2024 • 9:38:42am

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka Jan 31, 2024 • 9:39:52am

Kamala Harris/Taylor Swift 2028

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gocart mozart Jan 31, 2024 • 9:40:24am

[This tweet may have been deleted.]

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Eventual Carrion Jan 31, 2024 • 9:40:51am

re: #404 Vicious Babushka

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And for a comment on this we now turn to Ted Nugent, take it away Ted

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 31, 2024 • 9:41:17am

re: #379 Vicious Babushka

This pigwash was written by someone who is described as a “opinion contributor.” For some reason that doesn’t seem very authoritative.

Conservatives mad at the effects of a free market. Zomg, cAnCeLlEd

Democrats, on the other hand, have all the avenues of pop culture under their control. They police them, shunning and canceling anything not in keeping with progressive orthodoxy, so as to stifle dissent through the threat of lost work.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 31, 2024 • 9:41:30am

Help me make this go viral.

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 31, 2024 • 9:41:56am

Just waiting for 19th Century Fox to bring on a TV preacher who will play Taylor’s songs backwards and claim that he hears “Satan, Satan, Come To The Devil!”…

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 9:42:48am

re: #404 Vicious Babushka

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TS to Fox:

I’m an american. Eff off.

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Dangerman Jan 31, 2024 • 9:43:53am

re: #407 Eventual Carrion

And for a comment on this we now turn to Ted Nugent, take it away Ted

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