Astounding: Josh Meader, “Jazz, Level Five solo…take One!”

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Just an amazing run-through of some difficult diatonic jazz progressions. Josh Meader isn’t just showing off, he’s playing and developing melodic ideas with note perfect articulation — on the first take.

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This is the Level 05 solo from Ten Levels of Jazz by @joshuameader2111

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402 comments
1
Thanos  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:25:18pm

Liquidly astounding.

2
silverdolphin  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:26:15pm

While doing a little research about parasites and pythons (see downstairs) ran across this new article from the CDC.

Waterborne Infectious Diseases Associated with Exposure to Tropical Cyclonic Storms, United States, 1996-2018

Florida is in my thoughts this week.

3
austin_blue  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:27:54pm

CL’d:

re: #172 wrenchwench

And the nun had another child with a different man later. That’s all I know.

Again, a natural mistake. It was a Mexican yard boy named Jesus.

4
Florida Panhandler  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:29:09pm

We are on the cusp of a massive new understanding of Quantum Chemistry.

Evidence for Unusual Chemistry and DNA Mutation Due to Quantum Effects

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Thanos  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:30:11pm

Monday Night Music Challenge

Post your favorite GRRLLL! Power mean breakup song.
The first, but not my favorite, that I recall in this genre was Carly Simon

Carly Simon - You’re So Vain

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Captain Ron  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:30:21pm
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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:32:10pm

If only bigots would try out reversing the order of their murder-suicides. I’m sure it would work.

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Captain Magic  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:34:14pm

re: #5 Thanos

Split Enz - I Hope I Never (Official Video)

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austin_blue  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:41:04pm

Right at the very end of this radar loop, you can see Idalia’s structure improve as she starts to generate an eyewall:

star.nesdis.noaa.gov

We could very well wake up to a Cat 3 storm and end tomorrow with a Cat 4.

The environment is very, very conducive to bomb intensification.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:56:43pm
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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:59:44pm

re: #6 Captain Ron

Well, it’s easier for President Biden because everyone knows Florida’s governor is fucked in the head and incapable of responding rationally or equitably to all Floridians impacted by their annual wave of national disasters, and in some ways, only manages to make things worse.

13
Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:04:48pm

If this doesn’t make you side with Biden, nothing will:

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Thanos  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:08:42pm

OK : for it to be a proper GRRRL! Power song it needs to be performed and written by a female artist….

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:08:59pm

A dad was moving his son into a dorm at Arkansas State University, my wife’s alma mater, when he came into the room foaming at the mouth. The did CPR and used an AED, but he died on the way to the hospital. He had six kids and was engaged to a woman who had six kids of her own.

I can’t imagine how you start school like that other than knowing your dad wanted you to.

today.com

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Markm1960  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:13:11pm

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(1:44)

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I don’t know how to link videos here, but the song Crazy Women by Brandy Clark is pretty good.

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:17:09pm

re: #5 Thanos

Monday Night Music Challenge

[Embedded content]

Post your favorite GRRLLL! Power mean breakup song.
The first, but not my favorite, that I recall in this genre was Carly Simon

[Embedded content]

Tonio K. - H-A-T-R-E-D (Vinyl)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:17:29pm

re: #16 Markm1960

Youtube automatically embeds if you just post the Youtube link.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:23:42pm

NOOOOO. I want him to be the candidate. He’s easily beatable.

Mastodon

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:24:04pm

My jet lag has been so profound in the mid-afternoon that I was surprised to have energy at that time today. Then my son came up to tell me that dinner was ready and I was sitting asleep in front of the computer at 6:30PM and thought it was AM and I had missed the dog walk time and what the fuck am I doing. It’s already been four days and I’m still messed up.

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BeachDem  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:24:52pm

re: #14 Thanos

OK : for it to be a proper GRRRL! Power song it needs to be performed and written by a female artist….

Well, she didn’t write it, but I’ll nominate Kathy Mattea’s “Walking Away a Winner”

Kathy Mattea - Walking Away A Winner

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:25:12pm

So I made a quick run to town today and there was a group of people picking up trash on the highway (usually DUI offenders working off their fines because they don’t have the cash to pay it and don’t want to sit in jail). Normal looking crowd today - about 3-4 women and maybe 6 dudes. Women all looked like coastal locals - pony tails and a few tats. But the guys looked like a Guy Fieri fan club. At least four of them had bleach blond flat top buzz cuts. They could have started their own boy band SMC-Pop.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:25:59pm

bsky.app

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piratedan  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:26:03pm

re: #14 Thanos

so that eliminates Lesley Gore’s You Don’t Own Me and Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ as they were written by dudes….

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:26:18pm

re: #19 Patricia Kayden

NOOOOO. I want him to be the candidate. He’s easily beatable.

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This would be best.
That they stick with their worst possible

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:27:30pm

re: #14 Thanos

OK : for it to be a proper GRRRL! Power song it needs to be performed and written by a female artist….

howzabout… written and performed by a man, who was justifiably tossed by a woman who knows she deserves better…

Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack (Official Lyrics Video)

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:27:52pm

Post your favorite GRRLLL! Power mean breakup song

Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust (With Lyrics)

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:28:41pm

At the next debate they should put a floor scale under each podium and display the candidate’s weight under their name on the front.

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Jay C  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:31:44pm

re: #19 Patricia Kayden

NOOOOO. I want him to be the candidate. He’s easily beatable.

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Kind of a win-win situation, IMO: Trump is the candidate, he turns off vast sectors of the electorate, and Joe wins an easy second term. Trump isn’t the candidate, it turns off the MAGA deplorables, and Joe wins an easy second term.

I hope…

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:33:02pm

re: #27 BeenHereAwhile

Post your favorite GRRLLL! Power mean breakup song

[Embedded content]

You’re No Good

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EPR-radar  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:33:54pm

re: #28 darthstar

At the next debate they should put a floor scale under each podium and display the candidate’s weight under their name on the front.

A livestock scale for Trump’s podium would be ideal.

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EPR-radar  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:37:16pm

re: #23 goddamnedfrank

That’s the first time I’ve seen a suit jacket that’s a war crime.

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:37:37pm

Miley Cyrus - Flowers (Official Video)

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A Three Hour Tour  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:38:44pm

re: #32 EPR-radar

That’s the first time I’ve seen a suit jacket that’s a war crime.

Worst Sixth Doctor cosplay, ever.
Perhaps he’s trying out his Steve Ditko “Odd Man” outfit before the next Comicon.

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BeachDem  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:40:36pm

Breaking the rules again, but Kathy Mattea sings some of the best breakup songs, even if she doesn’t write them.

Clown in Your Rodeo

Kathy Mattea - Clown In Your Rodeo

and, of course, the ultimate breakup song “Goodbye Earl” (again, written by a guy)

Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:40:59pm

To the left. To the left. Take your junk and get to stepping!

Beyoncé - Irreplaceable

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:41:49pm

re: #30 darthstar

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Rosanne Cash - On the Surface

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:43:16pm

A film view of that bridge from the other day using that new to me 50/2…

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:43:47pm

Cool tag on it’s support

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:44:23pm

Not a break up song but some shreddin’ kids.

Mastodon

41
William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:44:26pm

Another view of that favorite tree :)

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:44:42pm

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:44:56pm

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:48:20pm

re: #19 Patricia Kayden

NOOOOO. I want him to be the candidate. He’s easily beatable.

[Embedded content]

1. Biden wins against all of them.
2. His polling might drop, but his supporters won’t be enthusiastic if he’s not on the ticket.
3. He might endorse the person who say they will pardon him, but that his endorsement hasn’t helped other Republicans.

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:48:33pm

If Trump wasn’t the nominee he would run as a third party candidate and nuke the GOP completely.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:50:34pm

re: #45 Ace Rothstein

Latest polls (via RCP) still indicate that Trump has a big lead.

DeSantis is fading.

Ramaswamy is surging but still has small draw.

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:51:03pm

Here’s a pretty dang good breakup song …

Miley Cyrus - Flowers (Official Video)

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:54:53pm

re: #47 William Lewis

Here’s a pretty dang good breakup song …

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and her Pilates moves are… something else.

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cat-tikvah  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:55:23pm

re: #29 Jay C

If he’s not the candidate he burns the GOP down and sets them against each other.
Maybe they can exhaust their hatred and rage and keep it all in the family

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:57:51pm

re: #45 Ace Rothstein

If Trump wasn’t the nominee he would run as a third party candidate and nuke the GOP completely.

This is an acceptable outcome.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:59:09pm

Well…….

Alison Krauss & Union Station - Paper Airplane

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cat-tikvah  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:00:33pm

My candidate for all time breakup song
Ani DiFranco Untouchable Face

Ani DiFranco - Untouchable Face

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Jay C  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:06:21pm

re: #49 cat-tikvah

If he’s not the candidate he burns the GOP down and sets them against each other.
Maybe they can exhaust their hatred and rage and keep it all in the family

Unfortunately, even despite the undoubted benefits of keeping Donald Trump away from the White House (and hopefully keeping him in jail), I think it’s too much to hope for there not to have some of that “hatred and rage” spill over into public (likely violent).

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Unabogie  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:11:26pm

re: #19 Patricia Kayden

NOOOOO. I want him to be the candidate. He’s easily beatable.

[Embedded content]

If he’s not the nominee, and his freedom depends on him being the nominee, I look to him running a scorched earth campaign against the GOP.

That said, he’ll be the nominee. Republican voters love a criminal rapist.

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wrenchwench  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:16:44pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:17:30pm

re: #23 goddamnedfrank

bsky.app

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Yeeeeesh! Peterson’s dressed like a pimp on Sesame Street!

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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:18:25pm

Sesame Street Pimp is quite the aesthetic.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:18:49pm

Youtube Video

This counts and yet sort of doesn’t count since the writing credits are for everyone in Fleetwood Mac, which was pretty rare.

But it’s also from an album recorded with everyone in the band had a relationship hitting the rocks. Often one with another member in the band.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:22:46pm

I think this is the ultimate breakup song.

Siouxsie and The Banshees - Drop Dead / Celebration

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wrenchwench  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:27:08pm

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:28:13pm

Here is somebody pearl clutching because people are making fun of TFG for being fat.

Mastodon

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Teddy's Person  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:30:33pm

re: #58 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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This counts and yet sort of doesn’t count since the writing credits are for everyone in Fleetwood Mac, which was pretty rare.

But it’s also from an album recorded with everyone in the band had a relationship hitting the rocks. Often one with another member in the band.

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:30:52pm

re: #61 Vicious Babushka

Here is somebody pearl clutching because people are making fun of TFG for being fat.

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Looks like they have a locked account and can’t spell Democratic. Conservative troll.

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wrenchwench  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:32:01pm

re: #61 Vicious Babushka

Here is somebody pearl clutching because people are making fun of TFG for being fat.

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Somewhere I saw a good response to that, pointing out that fun was being made of his inability to tell the obvious truth.

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EPR-radar  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:33:44pm

re: #64 wrenchwench

Somewhere I saw a good response to that, pointing out that fun was being made of his inability to tell the obvious truth.

There’s also that business of fat shaming vs. Trump being perfectly justified by all the times Trump has fat shamed others.

Conservatives don’t get to be uncivilized brutes and then whine about how people are being so mean to them.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:35:32pm

re: #62 Teddy’s Person

And then…..

Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl

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Captain Ron  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:35:50pm
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Sherlock Hound  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:35:54pm

Je ne connais pas “breakup song” en français, mais ici France Gall, “Babacar”:

France Gall - Babacar.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:39:22pm

Mastodon

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BeachDem  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:40:12pm

re: #66 Dave In Austin

And then…..

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Turns out he was a missing person who nobody missed at all.

(My favorite line)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:40:53pm

Guess who did this?

MAGA musician at prayer event calls for blaze to ‘sweep our city like a fire sweeps through the woods’

Yeah you’re right.

Sean Feucht was joined at the Aug. 20 “Let Us Worship” event by Matt Shea, a former state representative accused of domestic terrorism who has since become a pastor, and Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward, the report said.

Feucht at the event said “We don’t care about the smoke. Let’s pray for a fire that would consume Spokane” and “sweep our city like a fire sweeps through the woods.”

He added: “Jesus, we know that you are in control of the fires. And we are on fire for you.”

rawstory.com

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piratedan  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:41:36pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

geez, if I had known you were in town, I would have invited you over for a beer or a quality beverage……

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:48:59pm

She made this song her own.

Edith Massey - Big Girls Don’t Cry 1982

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:51:55pm

Just heard this one and it definitely fits:

Rhiannon Giddens - Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad (Official Audio)

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EstebanTornado1963  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:55:26pm

Looks like nobody took the bluesky code I posted the other day
Reposting

Click to Reveal

bsky-social-tilzv-aagkv

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SandwichKed  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:56:11pm

re: #61 Vicious Babushka

Here is somebody pearl clutching because people are making fun of TFG for being fat.

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So… I am a dude who has lost a lot of weight, and yet is still probably heavier than Donald Trump. It’s hard sometimes.

When someone simply goes on a rant about TOFG being fat with no other point other than his being fat defining his value as a person, it hurts. That doesn’t come up a lot but it shows up at some relatively lefty places more than I would expect. I don’t have any sympathy for him, but there needs to be a little effort to not be generally offensive.

However in the context of the last week, when he baldly lied about his weight to legal authorities (and in turn literally everyone else) then I have no problem at all with mocking him. After all, he’s taunting us.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:57:52pm

re: #63 darthstar

Looks like they have a locked account and can’t spell Democratic. Conservative troll.

Oh look here is another tankie blaming Joe Biden for GOP SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade because he didn’t “do something” RIGHT AWAY!

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:58:21pm

Que Cobarde (What a Coward)

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:05:06pm

re: #77 Vicious Babushka

Biden didn’t nominate three maniacs to the SCOTUS.

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Captain Ron  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:06:47pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:06:48pm

Any of you lizards still need Bluesky invites? Come on in, the water’s fine. EstebanTornado1963 posted one above, and I now have two invite codes as well, so speak up if you wanna get in.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:09:56pm

Elected Republicans are afraid to admit they’re connected to reality.

“There’s no evidence that Joe Biden got money, or that Joe Biden, you know, agreed to do something so that Hunter could get money. There’s just no evidence of that,” one GOP lawmaker, speaking anonymously, told CNN. “And they can’t impeach without that evidence. And I don’t I don’t think the evidence exists.”
newrepublic.com

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:10:45pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

Any of you lizards still need Bluesky invites? Come on in, the water’s fine. EstebanTornado1963 posted one above, and I now have two invite codes as well, so speak up if you wanna get in.

A fourth one can be found here as well :) I’m finding it a far more… interesting 😁 place than Mastodon in some ways.

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EPR-radar  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:11:35pm

re: #82 jaunte

This guy is also not connected to reality, since he thinks a mere lack of evidence will stop House Republicans from impeaching Biden.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:13:59pm
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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:15:06pm
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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:15:43pm

On the trial dates:

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piratedan  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:15:48pm

re: #75 EstebanTornado1963

I went ahead and grabbed it ty … so I am piratedan7@bsky.com

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EPR-radar  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:17:31pm

re: #86 Belafon

Let me guess — Jones was telling truths Republicans didn’t want to hear, therefore they said he was ‘out of order’.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:29:53pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:31:27pm

OAN Staffers ‘Embarrassed’ by Host’s Cringey MAGA Rap Video

thedailybeast.com

That cringe-inducing pro-Trump rap video starring multiple One America News hosts has left staffers at the little-watched cable outlet deeply embarrassed, multiple sources told Confider. MAGA rapper Forgiato Blow teamed up with the far-right conspiracy-laden channel’s top star Dan Ball for the “Real America” video, which featured Ball railing against Donald Trump’s latest indictment and stiffly dancing like an uncle at a wedding. Throughout the video, Blow interacts with other OAN personalities, including the channel’s 82-year-old owner, and runs through the newsroom while staff dramatically tear apart folders reading “Trump Indictment #4.” The video is guaranteed secondhand embarrassment for any viewers not fully living a MAGA alt-reality. And OAN employees seemed to realize that, as two people familiar with the matter told Confider that some staffers walked out prior to filming because they didn’t want to be a part of it. One OAN employee added that staffers generally did not know about the video shoot until the last minute and just went along with it. Much of the finger-pointing was aimed directly at Ball: “I need to leave OAN ASAP! I am sick and tired of Dan Ball’s antics, and so are so many others,” one current OAN anchor wrote to Confider. Other current and former staffers told Confider they are “officially taking OAN off my resume after watching this” or that they “can’t stop laughing” at the “bizarre” video. Ball wrote in a statement: “We’d like to thank all the American Patriots out there who downloaded the song ‘Real America’! Within the first 24 hours of the songs release we reached #11 on the Top 100 ITunes billboard charts in the Rap/Hip-Hop genre, all thanks to you! God Bless you.”

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:32:29pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

I got one too, but I’m saving up so I can sell them on dKos to people who post a new receipt for a donation to a local (to them) food bank.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:33:40pm

re: #88 piratedan

Followed.

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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:34:58pm

Taking a poll: how many of you are 6’ 3” and 215?

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piratedan  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:36:38pm

re: #93 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

ty all, returned the favor….

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:38:49pm

re: #94 BigPapa

Taking a poll: how many of you are 6’ 3” and 215?

I am
If you meant 5’10” and 150

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dat_said  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:43:20pm

re: #96 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I am
If you meant 5’10” and 150

I’m 1/3rd of a rod and just over 12 stone.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:45:05pm

re: #88 piratedan

Followed. You’ve been warned.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:51:28pm

re: #94 BigPapa

Taking a poll: how many of you are 6’ 3” and 215?

5’ 6” 136 lbs

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Jay C  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:53:55pm

re: #94 BigPapa

Taking a poll: how many of you are 6’ 3” and 215?

Me, for one!

Within a certain range of variation, of course….

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:55:12pm

re: #94 BigPapa

Add an inch and 15 pounds.

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:56:53pm

re: #94 BigPapa

Taking a poll: how many of you are 6’ 3” and 215?

6 even & 300, down from 375 in march due to the diet & meds I’m on from the VA.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:03:35pm

New article about a park we’ve talked about here.

From drownings to deadly rides - the truth about America’s most dangerous theme park (metro.co.uk)

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wrenchwench  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:06:07pm

Mastodon

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:15:59pm

re: #103 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

New article about a park we’ve talked about here.

From drownings to deadly rides - the truth about America’s most dangerous theme park (metro.co.uk)

Son1 was a 16-yr old staffer staffer there when I worked at Picatinny. He worked the tanks and speedboat pool. The stories are largely true.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:23:01pm

Are there actually chuds out there paying $300 for a Bluesky Invite code?

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:24:37pm

re: #104 wrenchwench

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That’s beautiful.

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SandwichKed  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:25:06pm

re: #106 Charles Johnson

I remember waaay back when gmail was invite-only I had a few coworkers that paid for them. One might have dropped 40 or 50 on it.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:25:10pm

re: #106 Charles Johnson

Are there actually chuds out there paying $300 for a Bluesky Invite code?

Buy some extras at that low price. The price and value can only go up from here!

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wrenchwench  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:27:55pm

re: #107 darthstar

That’s beautiful.

You’re very flexible.

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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:29:08pm

re: #101 jaunte

Add an inch and 15 pounds.

UR Bigly. I’m actually 6’ 2” 250. But I don’t have chirrens so half my name is a lie.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:31:50pm
After a two-year battle, beloved saxophonist James Casey has passed away at 40. The artist and prominent member of the Trey Anastasio Band died surrounded by his family and loved ones this morning. The confirmation of his passing was shared on social media this afternoon.

The statement reads, “It is with profound grief and a broken heart that we confirm the passing of James Casey. He died peacefully in the early morning of August 28, 2023, surrounded by his wife and family. James persevered through his colon cancer battle for two years, and it was the honor of his career to release solo music and perform during that time. James brought joy to everyone around him and his legacy will live on, both through his music and the advocacy work that’s become so integral to him.

“It was so important to James to help others avoid his fate - to learn the importance of early colon cancer screenings, know your family history, and be an advocate for your own health. When detected early, colon cancer is almost always curable. He shared his diagnosis publicly and illuminated his ongoing battle to raise awareness and help others. James was a remarkable human being, beloved for his wit, humility, kindness and generosity. He will be dearly missed.”

R.I.P.: James Casey Dead at 40 After Battle with Colon Cancer (Relix)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:38:28pm

Offering a Blue Sky code… only $399, get it now before they are all gone:

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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:39:23pm

I’ll sell mine for $299 or a BOFA.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:39:38pm

re: #113 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Offering a Blue Sky code… only $399, get it now before they are all gone:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:41:41pm

re: #115 Decatur Deb

Denarius aureus only.

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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:42:09pm

I always read Dogecoin and DodgeCoin. AMIRITE?

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:46:48pm

re: #106 Charles Johnson

Are there actually chuds out there paying $300 for a Bluesky Invite code?

PLEASE tell me where to find one so I can buy that Contax IIa I posted this morning! LOL!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:54:11pm

re: #115 Decatur Deb

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But haves I gotta a code for you!

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rhuarc  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:57:22pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

I also have an invite available.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:57:39pm

Blue Sky is growing but even with the invite-code scheme it now seems clear that users are not pushing their codes into where they need to be:

Blue sky percent growth daily

A free code every two weeks means, if they were all used, the number of users would double each fortnight.

Which means something around 5% per day growth if you want to double user count every fortnight.

But the stats say the growth has been averaging around 2% per day.

While that is impressive growth, it’s not as fast as I had hoped.

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TedStriker  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:58:59pm

re: #36 Patricia Kayden

To the left. To the left. Take your junk and get to stepping!

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Speaking of “get ta steppin”:

I Better Get Ta Steppin’

Ike might have co-wrote it, but Tina singing it was a bit of foreshadowing, given her and Ike’s relationship.

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teleskiguy  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:00:26pm

re: #112 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Incredibly sad. I’m 41 for frame of reference.

I saw him play with Umphrey’s McGee, I was at this show.

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teleskiguy  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:02:51pm

I’ve had three colonoscopies, most recent one was in 2019.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:03:14pm

re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Blue Sky is growing but even with the invite-code scheme it now seems clear that users are not pushing their codes into where they need to be:

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A free code every two weeks means, if they were all used, the number of users would double each fortnight.

Which means something around 5% per day growth if you want to double user count every fortnight.

But the stats say the growth has been averaging around 2% per day.

While that is impressive growth, it’s not as fast as I had hoped.

We’re not passing them out on Twitter, which would be where the biggest impact would be. And trying to be very selective means a slower adoption rate. I definitely wouldn’t want to make a tweet that says “New code: ”.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:05:04pm

re: #94 BigPapa

Taking a poll: how many of you are 6’ 3” and 215?

Sorry Big Papa. I’m 1.7 and 113…in meters and kilograms.

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teleskiguy  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:06:32pm

Dimensions? Fine.

5’ 9” 166 lbs.

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silverdolphin  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:08:19pm

The best “you’d better shape up or I’m gone” song. So it explains the mean girl breakup before the breakup.

Youtube Video

I still remember hearing this in 1963 and being knocked back on my feet (well I was 7 and I Wanna Hold Your Hand was number 1. I was a real Beatlemaniac until I saw American Graffitti and realized how much good music there was pre-1963 ). It was like no other song I had heard. It was the first song I can remember where the girl was not crying about losing her boy or wishing she had a date. I have always loved strong women vocals since.

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teleskiguy  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:10:12pm

I’m going through a lot. But no one is going through more shit than my Mother. Here she is at approximately *my age today.*

Mastodon

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Lilah  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:11:01pm

Youtube Video

Back to Black

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SandwichKed  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:13:28pm

re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That chart is very nicely flat… but it still is an exponential growth curve over a decent length of time. I think they’re getting the controlled growth that they want. If they wanted faster uptake, they could easily change how fast new codes are released by editing one variable, or add more channels to hand them out.

Everyone wants it to be the new Twitter right now before Elon totally wrecks the old one, but it doesn’t look like they’re at a stage where they can grow as fast as we want. Whether the constraint is code development, infrastructure scaling, or financial, I don’t know.

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teleskiguy  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:14:16pm

re: #130 Lilah

bad link

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Lilah  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:16:37pm

re: #132 teleskiguy

Yeah, oops.

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silverdolphin  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:17:50pm

re: #132 teleskiguy

bad link

Yep. I figured out it was missing a semicolon before the slashes. It’s Amy WineHouse.

Youtube Video

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teleskiguy  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:18:27pm

re: #129 teleskiguy

Mom and Dad saw this show together two years before they got married, four years before I was born.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:29:04pm

re: #94 BigPapa

Taking a poll: how many of you are 6’ 3” and 215?

5’10” and 125

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:31:01pm

re: #106 Charles Johnson

Are there actually chuds out there paying $300 for a Bluesky Invite code?

I have one for sale if someone wants one. /s

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:37:05pm

A bunch of the big accounts on Bluesky have been roiled up in fucking middle school level drama for the last week. It’s just Lord of the Flies up in that bitch now. Hope they snap out of it soon.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:38:36pm
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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:41:20pm

re: #110 wrenchwench

You’re very flexible.

I’m as flexible as a Pringle potato chip when it comes to yoga though.

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wrenchwench  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:45:07pm

re: #140 darthstar

I’m as flexible as a Pringle potato chip when it comes to yoga though.

I have a very flexible brother who is really into tai chi.

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:45:42pm

re: #94 BigPapa

Taking a poll: how many of you are 6’ 3” and 215?

6’ 2” and 250lbs, and I still look lighter than Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:59:05pm

re: #139 Belafon

I get a “nothing to see here” page on that tweet.

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:02:31pm

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I get a “nothing to see here” page on that tweet.

That’s weird, because I can see it. But here’s the text and the picture:

“I want to show you that being beautiful and happy is possible, regardless of anything!”

Ruslana Danilkina. Unbreakable.

At the age of 18, she left her native Odesa and volunteered to go to war. She became a communications operator. On February 10, 2023, a russian cluster bomb hit her car in the Kherson region. Ruslana lost her leg.

She underwent several difficult surgeries. Prosthetics. Rehabilitation.

She lives a full life. She travels. She helps other wounded people return to normal life.

“I want our country to have no pity for people whom war has left its mark on. People who have been injured remain the same people they were. Only each of them has their own story of struggle, a story of fear and victory. I want every person who has sacrificed themselves to not be afraid to return into society and interact with people.”

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Belafon  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:03:15pm
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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:13:23pm

Thanks. I knew most of you were 6’ 3” 215. Bigly.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:20:11pm

Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney

ARRAIGNMENT: Donald Trump’s arraignment in Fulton County, GA has been set for 9:30am on Sept. 6, per the court docket there.

9:30 Trump
9:45 Giuliani
10:00 Eastman
10:15 Powell
10:30 Meadows
10:45 Latham
11:00 Hall
11:15 Chesebro
11:30 Kutti
11:45 Floyd
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3:00 Hampton

@FAFO @ifyouareinlinestayinline
Aug 28, 2023, 23:05

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BeachDem  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:20:15pm

re: #128 silverdolphin

The best “you’d better shape up or I’m gone” song. So it explains the mean girl breakup before the breakup.

[Embedded content]

I still remember hearing this in 1963 and being knocked back on my feet (well I was 7 and I Wanna Hold Your Hand was number 1. I was a real Beatlemaniac until I saw American Graffitti and realized how much good music there was pre-1963 ). It was like no other song I had heard. It was the first song I can remember where the girl was not crying about losing her boy or wishing she had a date. I have always loved strong women vocals since.

And in 2012 it was an anthem for Democratic women.

“You Don’t Own Me” PSA

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Thor Heyerdahl  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:36:19pm

re: #81 Charles Johnson

Long time lurker. Would really appreciate a bluesky invite code.

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Captain Ron  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:39:58pm
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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:45:20pm

re: #149 Thor Heyerdahl

Here ya go.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:45:41pm

re: #124 teleskiguy

I’ve had three colonoscopies, most recent one was in 2019.

I have not had one. I’ve written before over the harassment campaign I got from the local VA over wearing masks in the clinic (Wyoming, man) when I was getting the “short” version of one.

They went as far as schedule me appointments in a local civilian hospital recently without telling me. When I received a call from the hospital confirming my appointment, I told them I didn’t make it and never accept a call from the VA on my behalf again.

At my last appointment a couple weeks ago with the nurse in Sidney, I had her remove my telephone number from the computer system so they can’t call me any more. Apparently someone at the Ombudsman office has the telephone written down because they called me again yesterday saying they needed to see me. (That’s why I have an answering machine.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:45:43pm

re: #131 SandwichKed

I do wonder how Blue Sky is going to generate revenue.

Won’t they just fall into the same trap as the former Twitter?

The soviets of Mastodon pretty much outlaw advertising (though some instances may not be as hard core as others.)

Blue Sky will need to sell advertising space, yes?

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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:45:54pm

I read Kon Tiki in my teens. Blew my mind.

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Captain Ron  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:46:47pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:48:03pm

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:48:15pm

re: #155 Captain Ron

I get a “nothing to see here” on that tweet too. Did they finally successfully block people with no account?

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:51:57pm

Mastodon

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mmmirele  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:57:57pm

Ummm, yeah, oddly enough I could see this in Japan.

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SandwichKed  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:06:19pm

re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I do wonder how Blue Sky is going to generate revenue.

Won’t they just fall into the same trap as the former Twitter?

There was a lot of nonsense spewed about Twitter’s financials when EM was setting up the purchase. Twitter was fine. They were basically breaking even, while growing. When they eventually topped out on services scaling they could fiddle the monetization and ad placement to make it profitable.

From the shareholders’ short term point of view, perhaps it wasn’t great, but fuck the shareholders. Businesses run for short-term stock price trends inevitably do so by destroying the actual value of the company.

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teleskiguy  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:14:57pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:30:42pm
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IngisKahn  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:32:13pm

Damn you all. I guess I’ll take a bluesky invite.

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:35:27pm

re: #163 IngisKahn

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Captain Ron  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:37:55pm
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BigPapa  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:38:50pm

re: #163 IngisKahn

Here ya go.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:43:49pm

re: #160 SandwichKed

But does Blue Sky even have any revenue streams?

And will the shiny-new-toy feeling of Blue Sky go away once they start selling advertising space?

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:46:54pm

re: #162 Captain Ron

I don’t care how much window dressing Lockheed does supporting programs on defense contractor ethics, Congress should serve them with a subpoena.

The Republican house? ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Is this within Senate jurisdiction?

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SandwichKed  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:57:36pm

re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But does Blue Sky even have any revenue streams?

And will the shiny-new-toy feeling of Blue Sky go away once they start selling advertising space?

Twitter was fine. This is all solved issues.

The only disadvantage Bluesky has is that they are one player in a fragmented marketspace whereas Twitter was the full, essentially undivided, public commons. Mastodon can survive on its own as a hundred separate vanity projects. Threads (spit) is just another face of Facebook and has unlimited funding. I haven’t looked into the funding behind Bluesky, but if they have deep enough pockets and perhaps the sense to set it up as a NFP then really the only meaningful limit they face is market share.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 11:06:01pm

re: #156 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 28, 2023 • 11:17:54pm

I give up. My braindead Trumper FB friend was screeching again about something — it had to do with Biden visitor logs revealing the Biden administration lied about their closely coordinating the “persecution” of Trump by working with prosecutor teams. Does anyone know what this is about?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 11:35:22pm

re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter

I give up. My braindead Trumper FB friend was screeching again about something — it had to do with Biden visitor logs revealing the Biden administration lied about their closely coordinating the “persecution” of Trump by working with prosecutor teams. Does anyone know what this is about?

I’m not great at searching on-line, but I can’t find anything about it other than Trump claiming that happened.

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2023 • 12:00:07am

I hate it when I wake up after sleeping for no more than a couple of hours and my brain will not go back to sleep even though I have to be up in five more.

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silverdolphin  Aug 29, 2023 • 12:16:37am

re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter

I give up. My braindead Trumper FB friend was screeching again about something — it had to do with Biden visitor logs revealing the Biden administration lied about their closely coordinating the “persecution” of Trump by working with prosecutor teams. Does anyone know what this is about?

Trump attacks special counsel over report that an investigator had a meeting at the White House

There have been some right wing nutballs claiming that Biden irresponsibly had meetings with Jack Smith before the indictments to give his approval

What happend is on March 31, the DOJ head of Cybersecurity has a meeting with a the deputy chief of staff for the White House Counsel. And that it was to facillitate a meeting with a career White House staffer who held the same position under Trump. An FBI field officer was also present.

According to the source, the White House Counsel’s office would attend such a meeting because it represents the institution of the White House and the employees under that umbrella, not just the president.

Sounds to me like they wanted to talk with the WH staffer to find out something about Trump. The Counsel’s Office needed to be there for the staffer’s protection, not to talk with Biden.

Sounds like that staffer might be an important witness if they are going after them.

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2023 • 12:18:38am

re: #173 Belafon

I hate it when I wake up after sleeping for no more than a couple of hours and my brain will not go back to sleep even though I have to be up in five more.

Had that problem this afternoon and it’s making for a very long night at the hotel.

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steve_davis  Aug 29, 2023 • 12:19:00am

re: #173 Belafon

I hate it when I wake up after sleeping for no more than a couple of hours and my brain will not go back to sleep even though I have to be up in five more.

I’m here doing the same.

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Targetpractice  Aug 29, 2023 • 12:25:27am

re: #175 William Lewis

Had that problem this afternoon and it’s making for a very long night at the hotel.

Ditto.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2023 • 12:55:35am

Stay safe in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina tomorrow.

SUMMARY OF 100 AM CDT…0600 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…22.6N 85.0W
ABOUT 55 MI…90 KM N OF THE WESTERN TIP OF CUBA
ABOUT 190 MI…315 KM SW OF THE DRY TORTUGAS
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…70 MPH…110 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…N OR 10 DEGREES AT 8 MPH…13 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…983 MB…29.03 INCHES

WATCHES AND WARNINGS
——————————
CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:

None.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:

A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for…
* Englewood northward to Indian Pass, including Tampa Bay

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for…
* Cuban province of Pinar del Rio
* Middle of Longboat Key northward to Indian Pass, including Tampa
Bay

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for…
* Yucatan Peninsula from Tulum to Rio Lagartos, including Cozumel
* Isle of Youth Cuba
* Dry Tortugas Florida
* Chokoloskee northward to the Middle of Longboat Key
* West of Indian Pass to Mexico Beach
* Sebastian Inlet, Florida to Altamaha Sound, Georgia

A Storm Surge Watch is in effect for…
* Chokoloskee northward to Englewood, including Charlotte Harbour
* Mouth of the St. Mary’s River to South Santee River South
Carolina

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for…
* Englewood to the Middle of Longboat Key

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for…
* Lower Florida Keys west of the west end of the Seven Mile Bridge
* Altamaha Sound northward to South Santee River South Carolina

Tropical Storm Idalia Prediction Cone

At the end of the period, the storm will still be a tropical storm and starting to curl back to the south.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 1:21:29am

re: #106 Charles Johnson

Are there actually chuds out there paying $300 for a Bluesky Invite code?

oh please oh please. I have a couple and the car’s in te shop.

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A Cranky One  Aug 29, 2023 • 1:29:08am

Hey! This bear stole my pic-a-nic basket!

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 1:37:59am

re: #138 goddamnedfrank

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A bunch of the big accounts on Bluesky have been roiled up in fucking middle school level drama for the last week. It’s just Lord of the Flies up in that bitch now. Hope they snap out of it soon.

I have avoided it. I had a cool conversation with a Japanese woman who shared with me the story about a hanging scroll I noticed in a photo of her cat that turns out to have been handwritten by her grandfather. She explained that he wanted to be an artist, but his brothers died and his father, who came from strict samurai lineage, demanded that he do something to make money. The scroll, with a Chinese poem in calligraphy and a painting of three frogs (he and his brothers) with one reaching up for fruit from a flower leaf, was something he created later in life and that she treasures as a memory of him.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 1:49:36am

And an astronomer in New Zealand just mentioned the Japanese word “subaru” (The Pleiades) so I shared a great song called Subaru, yo. Turns out he was an intern at the U. of Kyoto astronomy department in 1991 and sang the song a few times with friends out for karaoke. I was never on twitter because it was already becoming a cesspool under Jack by the time I found out about it. But bluesky, at least now, is pretty cool.

昴 すばる Subaru - 谷村新司 Shinji Tanimura (Re-arranged HD version) 2K

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:16:29am

Meanwhile, in China…

Just how cash-strapped embattled Country Garden Holdings (2007.hk) is will be the focus when China’s largest private property developer is due to report its first-half results on Wednesday.

The liquidity stress in the company became public this month after it missed two dollar coupon payments and sought to extend an onshore private bond repayment, deepening contagion fears in China’s struggling property sector, and the wider economy.

Country Garden’s total liabilities stood at about $194 billion at the end of 2022. It has already flagged a net loss of up to 55 billion yuan ($7.55 billion) in the first six months, a staggering slide from the 6.7 billion yuan loss it posted in the second half of 2022 and from the net profit of 1.9 billion yuan it posted a year earlier.

reuters.com

One thing to keep an eye on is China’s shadow banking system, which is apparently flailing, and also LGFVs (local government financing vehicles), as some provinces are in debt up to their eyeballs and struggling to make ends meet.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:28:56am

re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But does Blue Sky even have any revenue streams?

And will the shiny-new-toy feeling of Blue Sky go away once they start selling advertising space?

I can live with ads. (I mean when have we not lived with ads?) I’d prefer to live without Nazi’s.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:32:47am

re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Idalia is now a hurricane and expected to make Cat 3 before landing.

It will make landfall in the low-population part of Florida.

Also note that the models have Idalia doing a loop once it emerges into the Atlantic from either Georgia or South Carolina.

The GFS has it looping and re-hitting Florida.
The European model has it looping at sea and may hitting the eastern seaboard.
The hurricane-specific model doesn’t project far enough into the future but it looks like it is similar to the European model.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:33:37am

This birb had symmetry!

VngrQk9xa0YzZ0hRaE5yR2FTazZCeSs2bk8ydVZvcW5kMEdVOHpGaTFnMmRPdll1cmtQSlZBQU9FOFRGQXAzNHhSYWVWblpZd3d4cWttTSsvUElQNHZaS1c5QzdZbDM1RDRNVjErSzk5VkZYUG1UY3Juc0F3MW5Udmd6Z0ZCU046OhGUZb1p/Kp1TldCmO0s7ak=

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2023 • 2:45:33am

re: #184 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I can live with ads. (I mean when have we not lived with ads?) I’d prefer to live without Nazi’s.

We ganged up on one and got him kicked off quickly last night. Anymouse couldn’t even report him because he was gone too fast ;)

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:08:04am

re: #187 William Lewis

We ganged up on one and got him kicked off quickly last night. Anymouse couldn’t even report him because he was gone too fast ;)

All hail the power of the lizard collective.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:12:42am

I should’ve taken the road less traveled by.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 801 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:29:51am

“Hurricane is headed to Florida and Biden doesn’t even have a Sharpie”

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:40:56am

Some misty morning drive time music. I didn’t realize that there is an upcoming holiday weekend!

Dawes - From A Window Seat (Official Video)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:48:05am

re: #5 Thanos

Monday Night Music Challenge

Post your favorite GRRLLL! Power mean breakup song.
The first, but not my favorite, that I recall in this genre was Carly Simon

This is a very menacing song:

Marianne Faithfull - Why D’ya Do It?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:51:43am

re: #61 Vicious Babushka

Here is somebody pearl clutching because people are making fun of TFG for being fat.

because he still pretends he weighs 215 pounds and is highly athletic

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2023 • 3:53:24am

re: #188 Nerdy Fish

All hail the power of the lizard collective.

Sky collective - I saw a repost a posted it here too :) Nothing like two groups together against a common enemy.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:08:29am

I love living here. The state just paid me over $1000 from our budget surplus, plus my property tax refund from my primary residence being a homestead. It’s a really nice fall bonus in the run-up to the fish couple’s anniversary.

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:13:35am

re: #195 Nerdy Fish

I love living here. The state just paid me over $1000 from our budget surplus, plus my property tax refund from my primary residence being a homestead. It’s a really nice fall bonus in the run-up to the fish couple’s anniversary.

Could use something like that… fripping gerrymandered to hell state government…

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:16:55am

re: #196 William Lewis

Could use something like that… fripping gerrymandered to hell state government…

Yeah, I honestly feel such empathy for you guys across the river. Over here, we have all the nice things, and just a few miles away, you guys… really don’t. I’m sorry.

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:26:40am

re: #27 BeenHereAwhile

Post your favorite GRRLLL! Power mean breakup song

[Embedded content]

Excellent choice!

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:26:46am

re: #197 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, I honestly feel such empathy for you guys across the river. Over here, we have all the nice things, and just a few miles away, you guys… really don’t. I’m sorry.

But do you have Sunday beer sales yet?

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:27:57am

re: #199 Barefoot Grin

But do you have Sunday beer sales yet?

That went through a few years ago. Something like 5-6 years ago, if I remember correctly.

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:29:17am

re: #128 silverdolphin

The best “you’d better shape up or I’m gone” song. So it explains the mean girl breakup before the breakup.

[Embedded content]

Video

I still remember hearing this in 1963 and being knocked back on my feet (well I was 7 and I Wanna Hold Your Hand was number 1. I was a real Beatlemaniac until I saw American Graffitti and realized how much good music there was pre-1963 ). It was like no other song I had heard. It was the first song I can remember where the girl was not crying about losing her boy or wishing she had a date. I have always loved strong women vocals since.

Excellent choice!

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:29:40am

re: #200 Nerdy Fish

That went through a few years ago. Something like 5-6 years ago, if I remember correctly.

Well….

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:30:31am

Some modern Grlll power mean breakup songs follow.

Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know (Official 4K Music Video)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:34:54am

Dancin’ on his grave…

The Brown Girl, Steeleye Span

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:37:27am

Halsey - You should be sad

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:42:23am

You can’t talk Grlll power without Katy Perry

Katy Perry - Wide Awake (Official Video)

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:43:05am

Pink might have a song or two…

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 4:55:37am

Side of the Road

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:05:07am

re: #207 Thanos

Pink might have a song or two…

Indeed she does.

P!nk - So What (Official Video)

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Dizzy  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:06:40am

One of my favorites

YouTube

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:07:41am

re: #82 jaunte

Elected Republicans are afraid to admit they’re connected to reality.

Republicans and their voters are used to the paradigm where they control 100% of the narrative, 100% of the right wing media machine, repeat repeat repeat lie after lie until it becomes the truth. It never fails to utterly and totally fluster and confuse them when reality meets their ideological foundation and flips it over into a flaming train wreck of twisted garbage.

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:12:49am

re: #209 Dr Lizardo

P!NK - Blow Me (One Last Kiss)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:13:09am

Marlon, up close and personal

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:16:28am

Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

… of course posting Taylor Swift is cheating because half her catalog is breakup songs.

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:19:37am

re: #215 lawhawk

Great choice!

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Dave In Austin  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:24:12am

Bait.
x.com

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:24:18am

Not an original, but a cover of Scandal’s “Goodbye to You”.

The Methadones - Goodbye To You

Performed by The Methadones, with Annie Holoein of The Soviettes on vocals.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:24:19am

if only it were a grrlz song

YouTube

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:30:58am

Dolly parton wrote and performed “I will always love you”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:34:50am

And now on to business

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William Lewis  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:37:06am

re: #215 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Excellent choice.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:39:53am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

Not an original, but a cover of Scandal’s “Goodbye to You”.

[

Performed by The Methadones, with Annie Holoein of The Soviettes on vocals.

I like this version

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:41:40am
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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:41:58am

re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I like this version

It’s a great cover. Solid pop-punk and Annie Holoein’s vocals are at just the right level of seethe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:42:49am

re: #224 Belafon

Kevin McCarthy says a government shutdown would hurt the American public by shutting down Republican investigations of the Bidens

Hitting ourselves on the head might damage this hammer!

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Belafon  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:43:12am

re: #221 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

From Jonathon Chait:

Keep in mind that supporting Trump came with costs never associated with supporting Bush, McCain, or Romney. Trump supporters lost friendships. Brothers and sisters stopped talking to each other. There are parents whose children disowned them, and grandparents who will never see their grandchildren again because they stood by Donald Trump.

Every Republican has these stories. Every Republican knows Republicans who have these stories.

Attacking Trump was effectively telling every Republican who made real sacrifices that they were stupid for doing so because Trump was just a poser.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:45:20am

re: #227 Belafon

And again, the MAGA crowd, successors to the Tea Party, hate politicians in general. They hate the GOP only marginally less than they hate the Democrats, and tolerate the GOP only because and to the extent that it is the Party of Trump.

As soon as at ceases to be the PoT, they will turn their backs on it in droves.

That is the Deal with the Devil that the GOP got itself into.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:49:13am

re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As soon as at ceases to be the PoT, they will turn their backs on it in droves.

That is the Deal with the Devil that the GOP got itself into.

When the GOP is no longer the Party of Trump, the GOP will be hard-pressed to get themselves elected municipal dogcatcher - and they damn well know it.

The hitched their party to his wagon, and now it’s going straight off the damned cliff and there’s nothing they can do to stop it.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:53:27am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Hitting ourselves on the head might damage this hammer!

He’s trying to sell averting a government shutdown to the hardcore MAGAts, who think shutting the government down is a good idea “to own the libs.” He’s speaking to the people who elected the Freedumb Caucus and trying to get them to convince those idiots to back down off the ledge. It’s not meant to be an intelligent, sane, or rational idea; this is his ploy to try to get the government funding bill through the House without negotiating a deal with the Democrats, because if he does that, his time in the chair is over. Qevin McCarthy is many things, but a drooling moron is not one of them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:55:04am

re: #230 Nerdy Fish

He’s trying to sell averting a government shutdown to the hardcore MAGAts, who think shutting the government down is a good idea “to own the libs.”

These are people who think that the Federal Government doesn’t do anything useful.
Except investigating the Biden Crime Family.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 29, 2023 • 5:56:23am

re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

These are people who think that the Federal Government doesn’t do anything useful.
Except investigating the Biden Crime Family.

I have to give him points for creativity on this one. It sounds astoundingly stupid to those of us who live in reality, but when you realize what he’s trying to do with this - who this message is really for - it’s actually kind of clever. I don’t think it’ll work, but he has my begrudging respect for at least thinking of it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:00:45am

re: #232 Nerdy Fish

I have to give him points for creativity on this one. It sounds astoundingly stupid to those of us who live in reality, but when you realize what he’s trying to do with this - who this message is really for - it’s actually kind of clever. I don’t think it’ll work, but he has my begrudging respect for at least thinking of it.

The people at the onion are really banging their heads hard on their desks right now

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:08:59am

There is evidence of a slight erosion of Trump’s support in the GOP, however the only candidate making any gains is Vivek Ramaswamy, who broke into double digits and is closing in on DeSantis for distant second place. Trump still has the support of nearly half of GOP primary voters, and will be the nominee unless his support drops considerably and somebody closes with him. The notion that the white nationalist GOP might nominate a brown skinned Hindu for President is fairly outlandish, though Ramaswamy has done his best to model himself after Trump.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:21:55am

It’s a Two-fer smackdown for Krazy Kari and as an added bonus her buddy Abe gets butt-bongoed for lying.

rawstory.com

AZ Supremes rebuff 2 more requests to overturn GOP’s 2022 losses as Abe Hamadeh gets busted for lying

On Aug. 24, the high court shot down a special action petition urging justices to void the election results in Maricopa County for failing to go through appropriate legal avenues. Scottsdale-based attorney and avid Kari Lake fan Ryan Heath had argued, on behalf of voter David Mast and Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby, that Maricopa County violated signature verification rules during the 2022 midterms.

Crosby, a Republican, came under fire last year for refusing to certify the 2022 election results in Cochise County, spreading baseless allegations about the validity of tabulating machines and pushing for a hand count. After a court ordered him and his fellow reticent supervisor Peggy Judd to carry out their statutory duties, he did not show up to the board meeting in which the county’s tally was finally certified.

Election officials, Heath said, erred in comparing early ballot signatures to those on previous early ballots instead of to signatures on the voter registration, as required by state law.

A similar claim was made by failed attorney general nominee Abraham Hamadeh last year. That argument proved ineffective, with a Mohave County Superior Court judge dismissing it on the grounds that the practice of verifying early ballot signatures using past ballots has been widespread for several years and could have been challenged before the 2022 election.

Hamadeh also suffered a defeat in his ongoing bid to nullify his 2022 loss. Earlier this month, the failed GOP nominee, who lost the attorney general’s seat by just 280 votes, sought relief from the state Supreme Court after a Mohave County Superior Court judge rejected his request for a new trial. In his special action, Hamadeh’s attorneys lambasted the judge for failing to issue final, signed orders that could be appealed and for conducting a trial in December in a way that made it too difficult to present sufficient evidence.

The high court took a dim view of Hamadeh’s falsehoods and ordered attorneys fees be awarded to Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, for being forced to respond to an insincere filing.

“Because Petitioners were not only aware that they needed a final judgment to seek appellate relief but also misrepresented to this Court that they had sought such relief when they had not done so, and because this representation was the underlying premise upon which this petition was brought, and because all of (Hamadeh’s) claims for trial court error can be presented on appeal, we find that the special action unnecessarily expanded the proceeding and compelled (Mayes and Fontes) to incur the unnecessary expenses of filing their court-ordered responses,” wrote Chief Justice Robert Brutinel.

Hamadeh’s case was sent back down to the appeals court and Jantzen was ordered to issue a final, signed ruling.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:22:24am

re: #234 No Malarkey!

with him. The notion that the white nationalist GOP might nominate a brown skinned Hindu for President is fairly outlandish, though Ramaswamy has done his best to model himself after Trump.

Ramsalami is positioning himself for prominence in the post-Trump GOP, which is something that a lot of the party just does not want to face right now

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:24:00am

re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The people at the onion are really baning their heads hard on their desks right now

It’s a weird world we live in when a mainstream politician has to say something literally insane on live TV in order to encourage support for a sound domestic policy among his supporters.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:24:04am

re: #230 Nerdy Fish

He’s trying to sell averting a government shutdown to the hardcore MAGAts, who think shutting the government down is a good idea “to own the libs.” He’s speaking to the people who elected the Freedumb Caucus and trying to get them to convince those idiots to back down off the ledge. It’s not meant to be an intelligent, sane, or rational idea; this is his ploy to try to get the government funding bill through the House without negotiating a deal with the Democrats, because if he does that, his time in the chair is over. Qevin McCarthy is many things, but a drooling moron is not one of them.

We keep saying this and the FC probably keeps threatening it. And I get why.
And again I ask, boot him out, then what?
what does the FC do?
They dont have the votes for one of their own
The rest of the R house doesnt want the job-no one would consider it under the terms McCarthy did

They’re not gonna just boot him out to blow up the house functioning at all.
Cause that still requires the rest of the R votes (ie the sane and Biden district ones)

So if they had the votes to oust him, then the fc has to compromise and negotiate. give up some of their rigidity to get anyone to even consider the job. They lose.

I think everybody knows this
So its an idle threat that’s never gonna happen

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:24:47am

re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

These are people who think that the Federal Government doesn’t do anything useful.
Except investigating the Biden Crime Family.

Up until the day the SS checks stop showing up

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:24:52am

What Trump Plans To Do If He Gets Back In…

rawstory.com

He intends to follow in the footsteps of Orban…and Pinochet…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:25:56am

re: #239 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Up until the day the SS checks stop showing up

and the farm subsidies

and when the military bases lay off non-essential personnel

and the Medicade payments

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:26:19am

re: #230 Nerdy Fish

He’s trying to sell averting a government shutdown to the hardcore MAGAts, who think shutting the government down is a good idea “to own the libs.” He’s speaking to the people who elected the Freedumb Caucus and trying to get them to convince those idiots to back down off the ledge. It’s not meant to be an intelligent, sane, or rational idea; this is his ploy to try to get the government funding bill through the House without negotiating a deal with the Democrats, because if he does that, his time in the chair is over. Qevin McCarthy is many things, but a drooling moron is not one of them.

Just a person with few ethics who sold whatever soul he had to get the gavel and the power he thought it gave him. I think he has found that there is not as much power there as he thought. Or at least did not understand that positions of power rarely have the independence to reign or act without a lot of consultation and support from others. (That the GOP for decades has tried to build and have a lockstep hierarchy and belief in total party loyalty would make dictating easier for them is part of it. But even the GQP has its internal factions that must be negotiated with.)

From history reading the English monarchs seemed to need to periodically relearn that the kingship was not absolute power and that there was a delicate balance to maintain with and within the nobility and later with the growing middle class who were important as sources of royal income.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:27:06am

And once again Ashley Madison’s Adulterer Of The Century chimes in and tells Mark Levin that the real corruption in America is…

You guessed it kids!

With former President Donald Trump facing 91 charges and 4 indictments and recently found liable for sexual abuse, Newt Gingrich told Mark Levin that the real corruption comes from Hillary Clinton.

crooksandliars.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:29:29am

re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and the farm subsidies

and when the military bases lay off non-essential personnel

and the Medicade payments

I coulda just said “my government largesse”. //

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:31:40am

re: #242 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Just a person with few ethics who sold whatever soul he had to get the gavel and the power he thought it gave him. I think he has found that there is not as much power there as he thought. Or at least did not understand that positions of power rarely have the independence to reign or act without a lot of consultation and support from others. (That the GOP for decades has tried to build and have a lockstep hierarchy and belief in total party loyalty would make dictating easier for them is part of it. But even the GQP has its internal factions that must be negotiated with.)

From history reading the English monarchs seemed to need to periodically relearn that the kingship was not absolute power and that there was a delicate balance to maintain with and within the nobility and later with the growing middle class who were important as sources of royal income.

He also thought he’d be dealing with a more cohesive caucus.

And that hed be as good at this as pelosi

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:32:00am

re: #244 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I coulda just said “my government largesse”. //

Simple rule of thumb: My government check is essential spending that I earned. Someone else’s government check is waste and fraud subsidizing idleness.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:32:44am

re: #243 Joe Bacon ✅

And once again Ashley Madison’s Adulterer Of The Century chimes in and tells Mark Levin that the real corruption in America is…

You guessed it kids!

With former President Donald Trump facing 91 charges and 4 indictments and recently found liable for sexual abuse, Newt Gingrich told Mark Levin that the real corruption comes from Hillary Clinton.

crooksandliars.com

Gingrich is aware that Trump going down takes the GOP with it and he is thrashing about trying to prevent that in any way possible. Which seems to involve tying the GOP even closer to Trump since all they do is dredge up muck trying to defend him (without actually defending him since as it has been pointed out repeatedly no one has denied that he did the crimes.) Just more of the double standard that Republicans can do whatever they want since if their rhetoric was serious and legal nothing would or should prevent Biden from outlawing the GOP and establishing the feared dictatorship.

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Jay C  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:33:17am

re: #238 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

We keep saying this and the FC probably keeps threatening it. And I get why.
And again I ask, boot him out, then what?
what does the FC do?
They dont have the votes for one of their own
The rest of the R house doesnt want the job-no one would consider it under the terms McCarthy did

They’re not gonna just boot him out to blow up the house functioning at all.
Cause that still requires the rest of the R votes (ie the sane and Biden district ones)

So if they had the votes to oust him, then the fc has to compromise and negotiate. give up some of their rigidity to get anyone to even consider the job. They lose.

I think everybody knows this
So its an idle threat that’s never gonna happen

Dunno: it’s not hard to imagine the GOP KooKoo Kaucus intentionally sparking some sort of crisis in the House to try (desperately) to distract the Party/voters/media from their nominal standard-bearer’s quite-public legal woes: not to mention the general unpopularity of their party and the few policies they try to push- outside their own rabid base.

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darthstar  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:33:36am

Good morning. Good news.

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:36:37am

re: #246 No Malarkey!

Simple rule of thumb: My government check is essential spending that I earned. Someone else’s government check is waste and fraud subsidizing idleness.

+1

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jeffreyw  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:36:46am

Chicken Biscuits

Good morning!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:38:17am

re: #247 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Gingrich is aware that Trump going down takes the GOP with it and he is thrashing about trying to prevent that in any way possible. Which seems to involve tying the GOP even closer to Trump since all they do is dredge up muck trying to defend him (without actually defending him since as it has been pointed out repeatedly no one has denied that he did the crimes.) Just more of the double standard that Republicans can do whatever they want since if their rhetoric was serious and legal nothing would or should prevent Biden from outlawing the GOP and establishing the feared dictatorship.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:40:30am

re: #244 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I coulda just said “my government largesse”. //

stop body-shaming my government

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:42:38am

re: #227 Belafon

And that’s why people can’t or won’t change their minds. They gave up a lot to support trump. They CAN’T be wrong. Not now.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:44:55am

re: #246 No Malarkey!

Simple rule of thumb: My government check is essential spending that I earned. Someone else’s government check is waste and fraud subsidizing idleness.

46 years with Social Security and I have lost count of how many times I hear that from people “getting what’s rightfully theirs instead of them lazy colored folks”…

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:46:11am

i wonder has there ever been a situation where one individual was charged in four jurisdictions, serious, major crimes, and all, more or less ready and able to go to trial at the same time?

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:49:44am

re: #256 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i wonder has there ever been a situation where one individual was charged in four jurisdictions, serious, major crimes, and all, more or less ready and able to go to trial at the same time?

I was wondering that myself. When all is said and done, I think Trump will rack up the largest legal bills ever owed by an individual person in history. Whether those bills ever get paid is another issue entirely.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:55:01am

re: #249 darthstar

Czech media is reporting that so-called Russian “officials” in Tokmak are busy packing their suitcases. No word on where they’re planning to skedaddle to, though.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 29, 2023 • 6:56:57am

REEFER MADNESS!!!

..oh….

How Smoking Weed Affects Your Health

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:00:13am

re: #221 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

And now on to business

[Embedded content]

Brian Kemp’s objective is the same as Trump’s — he just wants to do it legally: prevent votes from being cast in the first place, not discard them afterwards. He does his repression politely and quietly, not bombastically.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:02:53am

re: #224 Belafon

Kevin McCarthy says a government shutdown would hurt the American public by shutting down Republican investigations of the Bidens

I’m ok with whatever excuse he uses to keep the government running. If he has to resort to such ridiculous statements to keep the GOP caucus on board, that’s fine. It’s not as though being honest or decent appeals to them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:04:42am

re: #259 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

REEFER MADNESS!!!

..oh….

nobody is claiming that alcohol, tobacco or weed are good for you

just that it is your adult choice to consume them if you are prepared to take the risks

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:12:31am

re: #260 Hecuba’s daughter

Brian Kemp’s objective is the same as Trump’s — he just wants to do it legally: prevent votes from being cast in the first place, not discard them afterwards. He does his repression politely and quietly, not bombastically.

And they’ve created an “oversight” commission with firing power to take down DAs like Fani Willis. Kemp is very dangerous. Now, the DAs are fighting back, so it’s apparently not a done deal, but I think Kemp and his allies are very determined.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:14:04am

re: #245 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

He also thought he’d be dealing with a more cohesive caucus.

And that hed be as good at this as pelosi

Pelosi never had to deal with anything as dysfunctional and disruptive and dishonest as the GOP caucus

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:16:15am

re: #264 Hecuba’s daughter

Pelosi could count.

McCarthy fails on that one basic skill.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:18:57am

Trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming film The Killer. Stars Michael Fassbender in the title role.

THE KILLER | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix

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mmmirele  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:19:14am

re: #180 A Cranky One

Hey! This bear stole my pic-a-nic basket!

[Embedded content]

That’s no bear, that’s a radioactive Japanese lizard!

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gocart mozart  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:21:30am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:21:56am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

nobody is claiming that alcohol, tobacco or weed are good for you

just that it is your adult choice to consume them if you are prepared to take the risks

Weed is good for me. It gives me the motivation to exercise. I’d just veg in front of the TV in my baseline state and be quite a bit heavier than I am without it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:25:21am

re: #268 gocart mozart

The music….

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:26:11am

re: #265 lawhawk

Pelosi could count.

McCarthy fails on that one basic skill.

Qevin can’t count past 10 without taking his socks and shoes off.

If he drops his pants he just might be able to count to 21.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:28:10am

re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

stop body-shaming my government

But it’s been bloated for years.

/

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:29:53am

re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

5’10” and 125

Are you really 5’10” now or did you used to be? I was. Now I am 5’8” and 200#.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:33:11am

Mao ZeTrump gets back in and the Cultural Revolution will commence.

thedailybeast.com

A coalition of right-wing organizations has started recruiting thousands of people as part of a project aimed at gutting the federal government in anticipation of a Republican victory in the 2024 election, according to a report. The coalition led by the Heritage Foundation think tank has already signed up hundreds of people as part of the effort dubbed “Project 2025”—an unprecedented attempt to avoid the setbacks Donald Trump faced during his first term in office by having civic infrastructure immediately in place to allow a conservative president to begin implementing his or her political vision. The Associated Press reports that the plan to eradicate what the GOP calls the “deep state” would involve, in part, the firing of up to 50,000 current federal employees. “We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” Paul Dans, the project’s director, said. “This is a clarion call to come to Washington,” he added. “People need to lay down their tools and step aside from their professional life and say, ‘This is my lifetime moment to serve.’”

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:35:51am

re: #274 Joe Bacon ✅

Mao ZeTrump gets back in and the Cultural Revolution will commence.

thedailybeast.com

A coalition of right-wing organizations has started recruiting thousands of people as part of a project aimed at gutting the federal government in anticipation of a Republican victory in the 2024 election, according to a report. The coalition led by the Heritage Foundation think tank has already signed up hundreds of people as part of the effort dubbed “Project 2025”—an unprecedented attempt to avoid the setbacks Donald Trump faced during his first term in office by having civic infrastructure immediately in place to allow a conservative president to begin implementing his or her political vision. The Associated Press reports that the plan to eradicate what the GOP calls the “deep state” would involve, in part, the firing of up to 50,000 current federal employees. “We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” Paul Dans, the project’s director, said. “This is a clarion call to come to Washington,” he added. “People need to lay down their tools and step aside from their professional life and say, ‘This is my lifetime moment to serve.’”

And the great thing is, all they have to do is replace career civil servants, then not do their jobs, because the whole point is to prevent government agencies from regulating industry.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:39:14am

Texas has been disproving a major GOP talking point that fossil fuels are dependable and renewables are not this summer. As a massive heat wave baked the state, coal and gas powered energy plants went off-line while the percentage of Texas’s energy provided by solar soared to 15%.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:39:35am

re: #273 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

Are you really 5’10” now or did you used to be? I was. Now I am 5’8” and 200#.

I am 5’10”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:41:40am

re: #257 No Malarkey!

I was wondering that myself. When all is said and done, I think Trump will rack up the largest legal bills ever owed by an individual person in history. Whether those bills ever get paid is another issue entirely.

electoral-vote.com today

Trump’s attorneys could bill something in the ballpark of 100,000 hours. At $500/hour, which is cheap for serious legal representation, that would be $50 million. And we haven’t even covered things like filing fees and paying various non-lawyer workers (like paralegals), 2024 expenditures, whatever judgment Carroll is likely to get, paying for co-defendants’ representation to keep them quiet, etc. This is going to get very, very expensive.

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Unabogie  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:42:49am

re: #274 Joe Bacon ✅

It astounds me that people whose complaint about government is that it doesn’t work, keep electing people who don’t propose ideas to make it work. Instead, they buy the false claim that government CAN’T work, even though other countries around the world show that it can work great.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:43:52am

re: #279 Unabogie

It astounds me that people whose complaint about government is that it doesn’t work, keep electing people who don’t propose ideas to make it work. Instead, they buy the false claim that government CAN’T work, even though other countries around the world show that it can work great.

Those are all Socialist Hellholes

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:45:59am

Monday Night Music Challenge
Post your favorite GRRLLL! Power mean breakup song.

Here to wrap up, close out and report that you all did wonderfully well on the Monday night music challenge, you can now cull the thread for your favorites and create that themed playlist.
Next Monday I might be back with another musical challenge — if I remember.

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Unabogie  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:47:49am

re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Those are all Socialist Hellholes

Well, duh! But still, even back to the Clinton years we had Republicans like Jack Kemp, who was full of ideas to make the government work more efficiently. I didn’t vote for him, but he was trying to make things better, not declare America a lost cause.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:48:49am

re: #278 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

electoral-vote.com today

If Trump is only paying $500/hour, he is getting a steep discount.

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Unabogie  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:50:32am

Joe the Not Plumber died. I forgot about that dude. Almost a George Santos but less panache.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:50:34am

re: #283 No Malarkey!

If Trump is only paying $500/hour, he is getting a steep discount.

Trump will sue them all and try to get them to agree to being paid pennies on the dollar. He’s done that repeatedly throughout his business history.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:51:01am

re: #282 Unabogie

Well, duh! But still, even back to the Clinton years we had Republicans like Jack Kemp, who was full of ideas to make the government work more efficiently. I didn’t vote for him, but he was trying to make things better, not declare America a lost cause.

Just wait until you see the wave of prosperity generated when corporations can pollute, rip off consumers, and oppress workers without consequence!/

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wrenchwench  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:51:07am

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No Malarkey!  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:52:20am

re: #285 lawhawk

Trump will sue them all and try to get them to agree to being paid pennies on the dollar. He’s done that repeatedly throughout his business history.

Good luck to them trying to collect with Trump in prison.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:52:21am

re: #285 lawhawk

Trump will sue them all and try to get them to agree to being paid pennies on the dollar. He’s done that repeatedly throughout his business history.

Lauro set himself up for this treatment when he said, in open court, that he doesn’t know if his client can get adequate representation if they don’t get 2.5 years to prepare for trial. Trump is going to argue that he didn’t get adequate representation, thus he shouldn’t have to pay the full price for their services.

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Unabogie  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:52:37am

re: #286 No Malarkey!

Just wait until you see the wave of prosperity generated when corporations can pollute, rip off consumers, and oppress workers without consequence!/

If it’s what you say it is, I love it! I think government governs best when it poisons the air and water and sends everyone into crippling personal debt.

I am very intelligent!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:53:23am

re: #290 Unabogie

Fascism under the guise of Freedom is one of the oldest plays in the book.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:54:16am

re: #289 Nerdy Fish

Lauro set himself up for this treatment when he said, in open court, that he doesn’t know if his client can get adequate representation if they don’t get 2.5 years to prepare for trial. Trump is going to argue that he didn’t get adequate representation, thus he shouldn’t have to pay the full price for their services.

Lauro’s quip was too cute by half to claim that he can’t get adequate representation without years of discovery, when Lauro knows he’s already reviewed the 1/6 materials, and most of the discovery is of Trump’s own documents and public statements, etc.

Trump is singlehandedly going to keep a lot of lawyers busy - and booting the worst of the lot out of the profession.

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Teukka  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:54:41am

With BJP in power in India, not a surprising development, rather, a very expected development.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:57:56am

re: #283 No Malarkey!

If Trump is only paying $500/hour, he is getting a steep discount.

they were just guesstimating

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 7:59:58am

re: #292 lawhawk

Lauro’s quip was too cute by half to claim that he can’t get adequate representation without years of discovery, when Lauro knows he’s already reviewed the 1/6 materials, and most of the discovery is of Trump’s own documents and public statements, etc.

Trump is singlehandedly going to keep a lot of lawyers busy - and booting the worst of the lot out of the profession.

i did more for the legal industry than anyone.

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:05:50am

Could of been ugly given so many possibles. Happy to take a one-over on this one.

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Teukka  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:08:24am

Getting Rabies to own Big Vet Pharma (or, heck, {insertBogeyManOrScapegoatHere})

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Teukka  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:09:27am

re: #297 Teukka

Getting Rabies to own Big Vet Pharma (or, heck, {insertBogeyManOrScapegoatHere})

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:09:34am

re: #295 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Apparently this is how Trump picks his lawyers… can they pass this test?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:11:04am

re: #284 Unabogie

Joe the Not Plumber died. I forgot about that dude. Almost a George Santos but less panache.

He was ginned up as a walking reminder of how “Obama hates the white working man/ entrepreneur”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:19:29am

re: #297 Teukka

Getting Rabies to own Big Vet Pharma (or, heck, {insertBogeyManOrScapegoatHere})

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Or simply getting oneself arrested/fined for not getting pets their rabies shots.

And I’m sure the police will also feel further justification for shooting any dogs they encounter.

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Teukka  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:20:52am

re: #301 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Or simply getting oneself arrested/fined for not getting pets their rabies shots.

And I’m sure the police will also feel further justification for shooting any dogs they encounter.

Or the legal fallout of causing a small outbreak of the disease.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:25:08am

re: #297 Teukka

The dumbfuckery around pharmaceuticals and vaccinations will not stop.

The same fuckers who claim vaccines don’t work but ivermectin does will convince the gullible to ignore vaccinations, expose themselves to unnecessary risks, and increase chances they or someone they know gets sick or hospitalized or dies needlessly.

They think that vaccinations are making drug companies rich, but don’t seem to get that ivermectin gets drug companies rich - and the company that produces it (Merck) has explicitly said that it doesn’t work for covid and that you’re making it harder for those who need it for their animals or ailments for which it does work to get it.

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Teukka  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:26:30am

re: #303 lawhawk

The dumbfuckery around pharmaceuticals and vaccinations will not stop.

The same fuckers who claim vaccines don’t work but ivermectin does will convince the gullible to ignore vaccinations, expose themselves to unnecessary risks, and increase chances they or someone they know gets sick or hospitalized or dies needlessly.

They think that vaccinations are making drug companies rich, but don’t seem to get that ivermectin gets drug companies rich - and the company that produces it (Merck) has explicitly said that it doesn’t work for covid and that you’re making it harder for those who need it for their animals or ailments for which it does work to get it.

And it’s 200+ years old dumbfuckery.

Pathogen righs activism, anno 1802.
Ditto, 100 years later (early 1900’s).
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:31:34am

re: #302 Teukka

Or the legal fallout of causing a small outbreak of the disease.

That as well. Though their pets attacking other people and pets even without rabies will trigger legal consequences. Though I expect tossing negligent spreading of rabies (or threat thereof) on top of it will certainly not help their cause.

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Teukka  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:34:39am

re: #305 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That as well. Though their pets attacking other people and pets even without rabies will trigger legal consequences. Though I expect tossing negligent spreading of rabies (or threat thereof) on top of it will certainly not help their cause.

Here in Sweden, depending on harm caused, pathogen and intent, spreading of a disease that way can in the mildest case lead to 2 years up river (negligence with poison or pathogen), and in the worst case, 18 years to life in prison (gross spreading of poison or disease).

We have a case of gross spreading of poison or disease working its way through the system, a case where some idiots decided it was in good entrepeneurial spirit to sell fake negative CoViD test certificates…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:37:20am

re: #304 Teukka

There probably needs to be a traveling museum and school education program that circles the country on a repeating basis showing people in a very upfront manner the effects of people catching smallpox, measles, etc. Plus some footage of babies on iron lungs and in braces from catching polio.

And give all the warhawks some historical information on how before vaccinations became widespread how much of gathered army of militia units quickly went down to contagious diseases.

(I’ve been reading Rick Atkinson’s book on the American Revolutionary War. Covering 1775-77 and to be the first of a trilogy. Smallpox is playing its role in decimating both sides forces.)

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:40:21am

This fucker voted to end Obamacare and benefits from a government health insurance plan that will likely cover nearly all of his medical expenses.

For anyone else, they’d take a huge financial hit - it could bankrupt them, especially if they’re the breadwinner and lose time from work. It would be even worse had Scalise and the GOP ended Obamacare and rolled back health care access as they hoped to do under Trump (and are still at it nationally and at the state level).

Treatment costs for multiple myeloma in the US? Medication ranges from $74,000 on up to over $250,000. Doctor costs are $250 per visit or more.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:40:50am

re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Those are all Socialist Hellholes

Yeah, as someone who travels a great deal it’s kind of amazing the degree that Americans firmly believe that everywhere else in the world is dangerous, corrupt, and fundamentally broken. Like…absolutely convinced to a degree that me, having gone there, can’t convince them that in other places, most people are just people living their lives.

In 2018 I had someone worried their son would be in danger from terrorists…in Prague’s Old Town. I told them he should avoid touts and don’t buy drinks for ladies in sex clubs without checking the menu. They absolutely did not believe me that fucking Czechia was safe.

Countries are either failing and people are starving, tyrannies, or in a kind of action-movie state of nature where death is just constant and unremarkable. Americans are convinced of this like North Koreans are sure that everyone else is having even worse famines.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:41:42am

I usually defend NPR but this ‘All Things Considered’ article was astonishing. Lots and lots of amazement at how public distrust has grown in medical authorities and not one single mention of there being people, an entire party, who have driven that distrust and worked toward it. Nada! It was all amazement and wonder.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:44:19am

Merry Smithsas - Judge Chutkan’s calendar calls for a whole lot of work to be done by the end of the year, including various motions and list of exhibits relating to the case in chief.

Given that Smith’s team was calling for January 2, they are likely ready to go with all of that information. Trump’s team is going to be burning the midnight oil, and add to Trump’s legal bills (fuck him).

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:44:46am

re: #310 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

I usually defend NPR but this ‘All Things Considered’ article was astonishing. Lots and lots of amazement at how public distrust has grown in medical authorities and not one single mention of there being people, an entire party, who have driven that distrust and worked toward it. Nada! It was all amazement and wonder.

I view the media failure in this country as worse than the failure of the Republicans. In part due to the fact that I think if the media (and their owning corporations) had taken their responsibilities as the “fourth estate” seriously and pushed back the Republicans would never had gotten as far as they did.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:45:09am

re: #310 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

It all just sprung up out of whole cloth - no reason for why it gained a stronghold in the first place.

Figures - all part of the magic balance fairy bulkshit, which in this case is balance by omission.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:45:45am

re: #308 lawhawk

Do not forget how Scalise ridiculed Jamie Raskin when he revealed his cancer diagnosis.

Karma is giving Scalise the comeuppance he deserves.

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nines09  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:48:35am

re: #308 lawhawk

He voted to fuck America, and he enjoys literally free top shelf healthcare. Just like every single bought crook. We can’t even take care of our veterans besides mumbling “Thanks for your service.”
When those who serve in your dirty little wars come home with pieces missing, it really does fall to the kindness of strangers to care.
And moms and dads across this nation are one sickness away from losing it all. Because “freedom” is “freedom” to just go away and die out of sight.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:49:45am

Right wingers think they should get preferential treatment, when that’s explicit proof of a 2-tier justice system (on top of fact that Trump is out on bail for charges that would land anyone else in jail pending trial - espionage Act, classified docs case).

They’ll spin this every which way, but not one will hold Trump accountable. It’ll be about the judge’s “bias”, when running for political office isn’t a job, but an action Trump is taking for the explicit purpose of trying to avoid prison on all of the charges against him.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:51:38am

The #FAFO FO part is underway.

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Teukka  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:54:01am

re: #308 lawhawk

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This fucker voted to end Obamacare and benefits from a government health insurance plan that will likely cover nearly all of his medical expenses.

For anyone else, they’d take a huge financial hit - it could bankrupt them, especially if they’re the breadwinner and lose time from work. It would be even worse had Scalise and the GOP ended Obamacare and rolled back health care access as they hoped to do under Trump (and are still at it nationally and at the state level).

Treatment costs for multiple myeloma in the US? Medication ranges from $74,000 on up to over $250,000. Doctor costs are $250 per visit or more.

Isn’t this, like, cruelty against cancers? 🤔

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:54:34am

Speaking of people in the middle between the top of the Jan 6 conspiracy and the bottom level of currently finding out rioters I note that Senator “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now” Hawley has been relatively silent as of late.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 8:54:38am
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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:00:31am

re: #275 No Malarkey!

And the great thing is, all they have to do is replace career civil servants, then not do their jobs, because the whole point is to prevent government agencies from regulating industry.

I think they’re shooting for the one thing they view as better…they’re going to completely capture regulatory agencies.

So instead of doing regulatory work that makes demands of corporations…sometimes, meekly…there will be public-private partnerships in which for-profit entities effectively launder their wants into positions backed by law and certification processes.

We can see this with the EPA, where suddenly a bunch of even-more-dangerous pesticides were deemed okay, but also with the official position that all that spilled material after the derailment in East Palestine was…just fine…fter being burned off.

Basically…the ideal here is the kind of get-away-with-it that happened in Bhopal: even when the mistakes were glaring and obvious, the culpability was limited, the compensation amounting to an Xbox per family, and the creation of a long-term cancer hotspot is simply unremarkable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:02:30am

re: #321 The Ghost of a Flea

I think they’re shooting for the one thing they view as better…they’re going to completely capture regulatory agencies.

replacing the Deep State with the Deeply Held Beliefs State

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:05:02am

re: #320 lawhawk

Say WHAT????

A white man going to jail for voting more than once in the same election????

I’m shocked!

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:06:58am

re: #273 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

Are you really 5’10” now or did you used to be? I was. Now I am 5’8” and 200#.

Me too. Doc wants me down to about 180 or 170#.

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ericblair  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:07:35am

Biden continues to turn the US into a socialist hellhole by, uh, negotiating prices for goods and services. Commie.

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Semper Fi  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:10:12am

re: #312 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I view the media failure in this country as worse than the failure of the Republicans. In part due to the fact that I think if the media (and their owning corporations) had taken their responsibilities as the “fourth estate” seriously and pushed back the Republicans would never had gotten as far as they did.

….

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:13:16am

Here comes Idalia:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:15:52am

re: #325 ericblair

Biden continues to turn the US into a socialist hellhole by, uh, negotiating prices for goods and services. Commie.

“Individual Freedom and Personal Initiative” means the freedom of individuals and families with limited incomes and resources to negotiate one-on-one with multi-billion-dollar international corporations for terms of employment, insurance and financial services.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:16:18am

I FINALLY FOUND IT!

It sure moved to the right!

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:16:29am
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steve_davis  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:22:17am

re: #297 Teukka

Getting Rabies to own Big Vet Pharma (or, heck, {insertBogeyManOrScapegoatHere})

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yeah, but in most places you are still obligated to get your dog vaxxed for rabies, right? I think they just collect the dog otherwise and then bill you.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:24:10am

re: #189 Nerdy Fish

I should’ve taken the road less traveled by.

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steve_davis  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:25:00am

I’ve been really holding off setting up an appointment for a physical. I absolutely fucking hate going to the doctor’s. Personal experience suggests my going in healthy does not mean I will come out that way. ‘Subclinical hypothyroidism” for example. “It means you don’t have anything wrong with you at the moment, but we wanted to give you something to worry about for the next decade.” So today I finally got around to calling the Seiko watch repair place in New Jersey to get my Coutura’s movement fixed. I consider that kind of a warm-up to making the doctor’s appointment call.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:28:20am

re: #212 Thanos

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:30:52am

re: #331 steve_davis

yeah, but in most places you are still obligated to get your dog vaxxed for rabies, right? I think they just collect the dog otherwise and then bill you.

Pennsylvania law for dogs and cats to get rabies vaccine by age of 12 weeks and that the vaccine be renewed as needed per the manufacturers recommendations.

Which reminds me that Floof Cat is due for a checkup in the next month. And whatever shots she is due for. (The rabies vaccines I have seen the cats get has varied between being good for one year or two years. Not sure what her one last year was.)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:31:18am

re: #333 steve_davis

I’ve been really holding off setting up an appointment for a physical. I absolutely fucking hate going to the doctor’s. Personal experience suggests my going in healthy does not mean I will come out that way. ‘Subclinical hypothyroidism” for example. “It means you don’t have anything wrong with you at the moment, but we wanted to give you something to worry about for the next decade.” So today I finally got around to calling the Seiko watch repair place in New Jersey to get my Coutura’s movement fixed. I consider that kind of a warm-up to making the doctor’s appointment call.

you made me laugh
out loud

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:34:45am

re: #221 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

And now on to business

BRIAN KEMP:
“I’ll support Trump if he is the Republican nominee.”

Brian Kemp:
And I’ll dance on his grave, and maybe run for president if he isn’t.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:34:55am

re: #287 wrenchwench

Fours are broken, long live the threes.

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The 5 was my fault — before trying it out, she viewed my comment about what I did and it led her astray. If she had done her normal words, she would have solved in 4

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:35:36am

re: #337 BeenHereAwhile

Brian Kemp:
And I’ll dance on his grave, and maybe run for president if he isn’t.

yeah and when nobody’s looking Kemp will whizz on that grave…

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:36:40am

re: #331 steve_davis

yeah, but in most places you are still obligated to get your dog vaxxed for rabies, right? I think they just collect the dog otherwise and then bill you.

When “they” know you have a dog. If I’m bitten by some asshole’s unvaccinated dog, I will own his house.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:41:40am
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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:42:00am

re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Ramsalami is positioning himself for prominence in the post-Trump GOP, which is something that a lot of the party just does not want to face right now

He may be a Hindu, but he’s our Hindu.

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jaunte  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:44:54am

re: #312 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

This thought occurs to me every time a tv interviewer allows a Republican to say something like “the failed Biden policies” without immediately mentioning insulin or other overinflated drug price renegotiations, or the massive infrastructure bill, or many other examples.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:45:16am

re: #340 Decatur Deb

When “they” know you have a dog. If I’m bitten by some asshole’s unvaccinated dog, I will own his house.

I hope the dogs in this apartment complex do have their shots. Few of them* are supposed to be here since the lease agreements only allow cats. The dead giveaway is that you only see people walking dogs early and the morning and in the early evening when the office staff is most likely not on site.**

Neighbors across from me when I moved in had a dog. They moved out six months or so ago in part due to a rent increase (according to another neighbor). I did wonder if they realized how much more limiting an apartment search got when you included requirements for places that allowed pets. Then again, they might well have expected to be able to smuggle their pooch in and avoid both the extra deposits and “pet rent” that often come with the leases now.

* - There are a few that are official support animals and have been granted waivers. I’ve met one or two of those.

** - Though I guess to a degree it’s awaiting an official crackdown since more than one location in the complex has video camera coverage and I would bet the dogs are appearing on some of those.

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jaunte  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:46:04am

re: #342 BeenHereAwhile

He’s an obnoxious asshole, which under all the other rituals, is their true religion.

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:47:18am

The water actually disrupted subways until a short time ago with 1/2/3 lines suspended from essentially Battery Park through to 92nd St. Water flowed all the way down the subways to 14th St from 42nd st - 1.5 miles. (20 blocks = ~1 mile) That led to water going over the rails, requiring a shutdown and pumps being brought in to clear it out.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:48:25am

re: #344 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I walk mine at crack of dawn and after sunset because an Alabama street will broil his paws this time of year.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:49:50am

re: #342 BeenHereAwhile

He may be a Hindu, but he’s our Hindu.

Inasmuch as the GOP wants to be the American Fundamentalist Christian version of India’s Hindu Nationalist Party, he might find his niche

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:50:00am

re: #343 jaunte

This thought occurs to me every time a tv interviewer allows a Republican to say something like “the failed Biden policies” without immediately mentioning insulin or other overinflated drug price renegotiations, or the massive infrastructure bill, or many other examples.

“Boy Who Cried Wolf” effect is pretty widespread now among my acquaintances regarding the GOP and most of the media companies. The constant cascade of lies and obvious bias has them not trusting any of them. Not now or ever again. There is suspicion of the Democrats, especially among those on the edge of Bernie World, but nowhere near as strong as it is regarding the Republicans.

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Semper Fi  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:50:37am

re: #333 steve_davis

I’ve been really holding off setting up an appointment for a physical. I absolutely fucking hate going to the doctor’s. Personal experience suggests my going in healthy does not mean I will come out that way. ‘Subclinical hypothyroidism” for example. “It means you don’t have anything wrong with you at the moment, but we wanted to give you something to worry about for the next decade.” So today I finally got around to calling the Seiko watch repair place in New Jersey to get my Coutura’s movement fixed. I consider that kind of a warm-up to making the doctor’s appointment call.

Good planning. Get that blood test and tell the doc about how you’re feeling. Aging is good so live the best life you can.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:52:21am

re: #347 Decatur Deb

I walk mine at crack of dawn and after sunset because an Alabama street will broil his paws this time of year.

I just thought it was mainly people walking dogs before and after work. And that I’d sort of misunderstood the lease banning dogs since cats were my point of concern. But someone walking one of the support dogs the one day I struck up a conversation with mentioned that in fact the leases did ban dogs and that most people were walking them at that time in an attempt to avoid official attention.

I did think a dog ban without a general pets ban was sort of surprising. Though interaction levels with cats are generally less for more people than with dogs. And I have simply come across a lot of people who are very sloppy or ignorant with how they handle their dogs.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2023 • 9:57:46am

re: #351 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And I have simply come across a lot of people who are very sloppy or ignorant with how they handle their dogs.

That too.

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Semper Fi  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:00:48am

re: #350 Semper Fi

Good planning. Get that blood test and tell the doc about how you’re feeling. Aging is good so live the best life you can.

And did I say aging also has its surprises so seeing the doc can provide some control of emerging health issues.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:03:15am

re: #308 lawhawk

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This fucker voted to end Obamacare and benefits from a government health insurance plan that will likely cover nearly all of his medical expenses.

For anyone else, they’d take a huge financial hit - it could bankrupt them, especially if they’re the breadwinner and lose time from work. …..

It could also kill them since doctors/hospitals are reluctant to take on patients for long term care who cannot pay for the services.

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Captain Ron  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:08:46am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:10:14am

re: #355 Captain Ron

Rick Scott only believes in climate change being spoken of if it can be used to put dollars in his wallet or blamed on Joe Biden and the Democrats in some way. Preferably both at the same time.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:10:32am

re: #342 BeenHereAwhile

He may be a Hindu, but he’s our Hindu.

“Look at my African American!”

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:11:45am

Well, that was quick.

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gocart mozart  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:14:12am
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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:16:03am

re: #263 Barefoot Grin

And they’ve created an “oversight” commission with firing power to take down DAs like Fani Willis. Kemp is very dangerous. Now, the DAs are fighting back, so it’s apparently not a done deal, but I think Kemp and his allies are very determined.

Kemp *is*very*dangerous*, and the Agenda 21- Tea Party-MAGNA folk would learn to love him.

Kemp is charming and projects the public persona of a reasonable politician, but the Citizens United money folk know deep down inside that if it had been Kemp and not Trump the Republican Party would be running the US today and tomorrow.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:16:16am

re: #351 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I just thought it was mainly people walking dogs before and after work. And that I’d sort of misunderstood the lease banning dogs since cats were my point of concern. But someone walking one of the support dogs the one day I struck up a conversation with mentioned that in fact the leases did ban dogs and that most people were walking them at that time in an attempt to avoid official attention.

I did think a dog ban without a general pets ban was sort of surprising. Though interaction levels with cats are generally less for more people than with dogs. And I have simply come across a lot of people who are very sloppy or ignorant with how they handle their dogs.

House cats in an apartment aren’t crapping on the lawns, and won’t chew through walls. Dogs are allowed in my complex, and it’s mostly fine, but once in a while there’s a terrible tenant that just lets their dog out to poop, leaving a mess. I had one of those next-door for months before they got kicked out.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:18:36am

re: #351 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I just thought it was mainly people walking dogs before and after work. And that I’d sort of misunderstood the lease banning dogs since cats were my point of concern. But someone walking one of the support dogs the one day I struck up a conversation with mentioned that in fact the leases did ban dogs and that most people were walking them at that time in an attempt to avoid official attention.

I did think a dog ban without a general pets ban was sort of surprising. Though interaction levels with cats are generally less for more people than with dogs. And I have simply come across a lot of people who are very sloppy or ignorant with how they handle their dogs.

Lots of apartments in Los Angeles have a standard lease that bans pets including mine.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:20:21am

re: #274 Joe Bacon ✅

Mao ZeTrump gets back in and the Cultural Revolution will commence.

thedailybeast.com

A coalition of right-wing organizations has started recruiting thousands of people as part of a project aimed at gutting the federal government in anticipation of a Republican victory in the 2024 election, according to a report. The coalition led by the Heritage Foundation think tank has already signed up hundreds of people as part of the effort dubbed “Project 2025”—an unprecedented attempt to avoid the setbacks Donald Trump faced during his first term in office by having civic infrastructure immediately in place to allow a conservative president to begin implementing his or her political vision. The Associated Press reports that the plan to eradicate what the GOP calls the “deep state” would involve, in part, the firing of up to 50,000 current federal employees. “We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” Paul Dans, the project’s director, said. “This is a clarion call to come to Washington,” he added. “People need to lay down their tools and step aside from their professional life and say, ‘This is my lifetime moment to serve.’”

The Republican Red Guard.

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gocart mozart  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:20:24am
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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:23:33am

re: #356 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Rick Scott only believes in climate change being spoken of if it can be used to put dollars in his wallet or blamed on Joe Biden and the Democrats in some way. Preferably both at the same time.

Climate change has fucked with the money of his patrons, and therefore the quantum indeterminacy of denial has collapsed.

Schroedinger’s Credit Check

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:26:09am

re: #358 lawhawk

Well, that was quick.

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Miami’s Mayor Went All In on Cryptocurrency. His Constituents Suffered.

I will put down so much money his entire campaign was/is just an attempt to get to a bigger position from which to grift.

True for like half of the R candidates: they want the fundraising mechanism and the Trump-proximate clout.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:32:29am

re: #323 Joe Bacon ✅

Say WHAT????

A white man REPUBLICAN going to jail for voting more than once in the same election????

I’m shocked!

FTFY.

368
jeffreyw  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:35:30am

re: #308 lawhawk

This fucker voted to end Obamacare and benefits from a government health insurance plan that will likely cover nearly all of his medical expenses.

For anyone else, they’d take a huge financial hit - it could bankrupt them, especially if they’re the breadwinner and lose time from work. It would be even worse had Scalise and the GOP ended Obamacare and rolled back health care access as they hoped to do under Trump (and are still at it nationally and at the state level).

Treatment costs for multiple myeloma in the US? Medication ranges from $74,000 on up to over $250,000. Doctor costs are $250 per visit or more.

I think this is what Kevin Drum has. He has been talking about his treatments for several years. There was a bone marrow treatment that he had high hopes for but those seem to have been dashed.

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Captain Ron  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:38:21am
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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:38:22am
371
Charmingly Persistent  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:39:38am

Let’s just see if a URL works:

bsky.app

Hmm not really. Let me cut and paste:

I just read on electoral-vote.com that in federal cases, the judge does voir dire instead of the attorneys. If so, isn’t it a mistake for the defendants to remove their Georgia trial to federal court? Because it seems like it will be much harder to get a die-hard MAGA on the jury

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:41:28am

re: #366 The Ghost of a Flea

Miami’s Mayor Went All In on Cryptocurrency. His Constituents Suffered.

I will put down so much money his entire campaign was/is just an attempt to get to a bigger position from which to grift.

True for like half of the R candidates: they want the fundraising mechanism and the Trump-proximate clout.

Its an income stream easier than holding a job

373
EstebanTornado1963  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:41:33am

Anybody got a bluesky available?
I forgot my brother wanted one.
Thanks.

374
Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:44:25am

re: #370 lawhawk

Navarro doesn’t need evidence. He done got Jesus.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:44:47am

re: #369 Captain Ron

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For example, a lesson in the Advanced Placement course focused on how Europeans benefited from trading enslaved people and the materials enslaved laborers produced,” the journalists reported. “The state objected to the content, saying the instructional approach ‘may lead to a viewpoint of an “oppressor vs. oppressed” based solely on race or ethnicity.’”

And??

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:49:28am

re: #371 Charmingly Persistent

Judge gets to voir dire the potential jurors based on questions both sides provide to the judge as a guide - the judge can pick/choose the questions to ask, or ask their own questions.

Getting this moved to federal court isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and a whole lot of Twitter U lawyers think that this is some 4D chess that somehow kills the GA case against Trump.

It does not.

State prosecutors regularly have their criminal cases tried in federal court when the case meets the requirements to do so, including that it is the proper venue, diversity jurisdiction, etc.

This case is proper to be held in state court, but this is an attempt to delay the case, even though it may have the opposite effect since federal courts have speedy trial provisions they have to comply with as well and trials are more streamlined in federal court (typically). Thinking that they can get a more “diverse” jury pool may not be a win for them if the judge weeds out those who’d engage in jury nullification.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:49:34am

Just a reminder…He’s still dead, Jim!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:50:14am

re: #373 EstebanTornado1963

Anybody got a bluesky available?
I forgot my brother wanted one.
Thanks.

Let him know that they’re $300 and can only go up in price.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:50:41am

re: #349 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

“Boy Who Cried Wolf” effect is pretty widespread now among my acquaintances regarding the GOP and most of the media companies

Most people don’t see trans and gays as a major threat to our society and morals

Most people are aware that the climate is changing and that our lifestyle and approach to economics is probably a contributing factor and is in any case in need of reform if we are to sustain it over the long run

And most people don’t believe that a reasonable approach to immigration policies and gun control will be the downfall of our culture and heritage

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lawhawk  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:51:04am
381
EstebanTornado1963  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:51:38am

re: #378 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I know, could’ve been making a few bucks instead of letting them go for free

382
Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:52:04am

re: #377 Joe Bacon ✅

He passed back in 2021.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:54:10am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

He passed back in 2021.

But he’s not “dead” dead.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:55:40am

re: #358 lawhawk

Well, that was quick.

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Who dat?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:56:44am

re: #257 No Malarkey!

I was wondering that myself. When all is said and done, I think Trump will rack up the largest legal bills ever owed by an individual person in history. Whether those bills ever get paid is another issue entirely.

Good. I hope he dies broke living in a fucking refrigerator box.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:58:25am

re: #380 lawhawk

Somehow, this feels like an entirely apt incident to happen at a place called “Guaranteed Rate Field”

387
🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:58:56am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

He passed back in 2021.

Hell wouldn’t take him without years of negotiations.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:59:10am

re: #383 Decatur Deb

But he’s not “dead” dead.

If they’re not legally dead, the afterlife has a way of spitting them back out…

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nines09  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:59:12am

re: #377 Joe Bacon ✅

oh. no.
I. missed. it.
oh. well.

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Thanos  Aug 29, 2023 • 10:59:38am

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:00:00am

re: #261 Hecuba’s daughter

I’m ok with whatever excuse he uses to keep the government running. If he has to resort to such ridiculous statements to keep the GOP caucus on board, that’s fine. It’s not as though being honest or decent appeals to them.

It’s like dealing with children. And it’s an utter embarrassment.

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nines09  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:02:33am

re: #221 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

All of them lick the spit off their faces and re-up because they cannot go against the insanity they wrought.
And the media is no better than Musk.

393
SandwichKed  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:03:17am

re: #383 Decatur Deb

But he’s not “dead” dead.

Attack of the zombie republican.

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retired cynic  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:05:18am

re: #373 EstebanTornado1963

Anybody got a bluesky available?
I forgot my brother wanted one.
Thanks.

Mzl6aW15OWlCdld2YklHaXZjR2kyaFNnRG9PbS9NNko4VEgwMWhlODJPbz06Og+l8v51cD1EXB5LAkA2V+A=

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:15:34am

re: #314 Joe Bacon ✅

Do not forget how Scalise ridiculed Jamie Raskin when he revealed his cancer diagnosis.

Karma is giving Scalise the comeuppance he deserves.

And he won’t get a cool assed do rag from a cool assed person.

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EstebanTornado1963  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:16:09am

re: #394 retired cynic

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Got it thanks!

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silverdolphin  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:17:01am

re: #325 ericblair

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Biden continues to turn the US into a socialist hellhole by, uh, negotiating prices for goods and services. Commie.

I am on two of the ten and lower prices would be great. I’m out a lot of pocket on each.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:18:10am

re: #317 lawhawk

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The #FAFO FO part is underway.

Here’s hoping they FO for about 250 years collectively.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:19:13am

re: #362 Joe Bacon ✅

Lots of apartments in Los Angeles have a standard lease that bans pets including mine.

I saw that in the Pittsburgh area when I moved here when using apartment search software like Zillow. You could punch in a set of criteria based on apartment size, certain ammenities, etc. etc. And get a list of locations.

Click the “pet friendly” box and 90% of the list would evaporate.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:19:53am

re: #320 lawhawk

The law schools are failing in teaching ethics. It’s highly disturbing.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:36:11am

re: #380 lawhawk

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 29, 2023 • 11:49:10am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

He passed back in 2021.

Internet crashed right when I wanted to add “He’s Still Dead, Jim!”


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