Every writer who ceased work, every hour by every soul walking a picket line, every captain’s shift, every organizer’s maneuver to deny a production its shoot date or location, every coworker in other unions who then honored our pickets — you were the steel in this. #WGAStrong https://t.co/qZMNX1XE9D
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 25, 2023
Menendez gives a pretty good speech, but talking about good things you do does not make crime OK.
re: #2 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Menendez gives a pretty good speech, but talking about good things you do does not make crime OK.
Yeah, don’t really care. The facts and the jury’s decision are all that matter now.
Apparently, the next Zombie Apocalypse is schedule for next week Wednesday: bsky.app. Which reminds me, I need to schedule my flu and COVID shots.
North Carolina finally expands Medicaid, which will save lives. The biggest holdouts are Texas and Florida, where millions of low income people are denied healthcare coverage because of ideology.
Finally expanding Medicaid in North Carolina is a monumental achievement that will give health care access to more than 600,000 people who need it. Today, Gov. Cooper and @NCDHHS Sec. Kinsley announced that Medicaid Expansion will launch on Dec. 1, 2023 in North Carolina. pic.twitter.com/dRiUdrv1GQ
— Governor Roy Cooper (@NC_Governor) September 25, 2023
re: #5 dat_said
Apparently, the next Zombie Apocalypse is schedule for next week Wednesday: bsky.app. Which reminds me, I need to schedule my flu and COVID shots.
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Oh, good! I’m going for my booster this afternoon. My kid and wife won’t have the latest, though; will they have to go through a Windows update-like process before their zombie mode is activated? Or am I going to wind up eating them first?
re: #5 dat_said
What a clown. But in a nation where millions of people vote for Trump to be president, it must be expected that idiocy is popular.
On a more serious note, it’s impossible to believe that the zombie apocalypse trope and the right wing fever dream of mowing down ravening hordes of undesirables when the shit hits the fan are unrelated.
re: #7 Nerdy Fish
Oh, good! I’m going for my booster this afternoon. My kid and wife won’t have the latest, though; will they have to go through a Windows update-like process before their zombie mode is activated? Or am I going to wind up eating them first?
Probably, if you will need brains to eat, you’ll starve relying on unvaccinated MAGATs.
re: #11 Eventual Carrion
They probably did not.
re: #5 dat_said
Apparently, the next Zombie Apocalypse is schedule for next week Wednesday: bsky.app. Which reminds me, I need to schedule my flu and COVID shots.
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What exactly is this freak saying is gong to happen to me? I’m turning into a literal zombie due to nanobots in my blood? The 5G signal will instantly kill me? My mortgage will become null and void because of the cell phone tower by my house? I’m going to be highlighted with a tag over my head like an video game and people are going to start shooting at me?
I really don’t get how people think like this and still function in the world.
re: #14 Mattand
So, I got my latest COVID shot Saturday.
What exactly is this freak saying is gong to happen to me? I’m turning into a literal zombie due to nanobots in my blood? The 5G signal will instantly kill me? My mortgage will become null and void because of the cell phone tower by my house? I’m going to be highlighted with a tag over my head like an video game and people are going to start shooting at me?
I really don’t get how people think like this and still function in the world.
Oct 4 will come and go without anything unusual happening, and this clown-shoes will just move on to their next lie.
re: #14 Mattand
I really don’t get how people think like this and still function in the world.
The modern world has made it really easy for people who lack critical thinking to muddle through life without ever having to actually exercise their brain cells.
re: #15 EPR-radar
Oct 4 will come and go without anything unusual happening, and this clown-shoes will just move on to their next lie.
I don’t suppose they think of it as a lie. It’s really a hysterically funny joke at the expense of the reality-based community. Or something.
In other news, I’m roasting tomatoes in the oven with garlic, thyme and balsamic vinegar. The house smells amazing.
re: #15 EPR-radar
Oct 4 will come and go without anything unusual happening, and this clown-shoes will just move on to their next lie.
Next lie: “They” abandoned their plans because meddling kids like me exposed it.
Whoever put the exclamation point next to the “L” on this tablet keyboard should be shot
Not only do I miss
A lot
But I can’t always *see* that I missed
re: #20 dat_said
Next lie: “They” abandoned their plans because meddling kids like me exposed it.
Yeah, well, that talking Great Dane you all travel with in that weird green van is proof that something is up with the 5G signal.
re: #22 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Whoever put the exclamation point next to the “L” on this tablet keyboard should be shot
Not only do I miss
A lot
But I can’t always *see* that I missed
Attach a Bluetooth keyboard with the layout you prefer.
re: #15 EPR-radar
Oct 4 will come and go without anything unusual happening, and this clown-shoes will just move on to their next lie.
I’m going to taunt them to no end.
Darth Cheney is evil and depraved enough for practically anything. Yet he is also
very loudly and clearly opposed to MAGA. I think this is because he is also one of the best connected people in the world and he foresees a bottomless catastrophe for Trumpism and everything connected with it. Am I sure of this? Of course not but it’s the way to bet. It’s a certainty that he is not acting out of principle or anything resembling moral conviction.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
Nice, we’re closer to being able to roll one up.
re: #22 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Whoever put the exclamation point next to the “L” on this tablet keyboard should be shot
Not only do I miss
A lot
But I can’t always *see* that I missed
Depending on the tablet, you can probably download custom keyboards.
re: #29 wrenchwench
“…and the intent of racial animus had since been weakened or dissolved.” Is this John Roberts’s “racism is dead” ruling rearing its ugly head? Racism is very much alive and well in America, even if they are doing a facially plausible job of concealing it.
re: #26 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Darth Cheney is evil and depraved enough for practically anything. Yet he is also
very loudly and clearly opposed to MAGA. I think this is because he is also one of the best connected people in the world and he foresees a bottomless catastrophe for Trumpism and everything connected with it. Am I sure of this? Of course not but it’s the way to bet. It’s a certainty that he is not acting out of principle or anything resembling moral conviction.
It could simply be like recognizing like. Establishment Republicans like Cheney et al. have been working on their version of eternal one party GOP rule for decades.
IMO they are anti-Trump because if he gets his dictatorship, they don’t get theirs.
re: #32 Backwoods Sleuth
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So, apparently, the Russian forces got ripped off by contractors who delivered “dragon’s teeth”… 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
where were you when you found out the cryangles were hollow? pic.twitter.com/fvsxsMK4nW
— a ghostly fella (@mr_gh0stly) September 25, 2023
re: #32 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #33 Backwoods Sleuth
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hmmm, bet he was lying again anyways….
It would be a crime for him to actually buy this gun because he’s under felony indictment. Did he actually go through with this purchase? https://t.co/v3AG5uofJY
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) September 25, 2023
re: #36 Backwoods Sleuth
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he most likely didn’t actually buy it; sure looks like it was just a pandering maneuver and photo op
How unusual.
re: #31 EPR-radar
It could simply be like recognizing like. Establishment Republicans like Cheney et al. have been working on their version of eternal one party GOP rule for decades.
IMO they are anti-Trump because if he gets his dictatorship, they don’t get theirs.
It’s sort of that, but Trump’s dictatorship destroys our standing in the world.
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I’m pretty sure the appropriate response is “HA HA!”
re: #26 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Darth Cheney is evil and depraved enough for practically anything. Yet he is also
very loudly and clearly opposed to MAGA. I think this is because he is also one of the best connected people in the world and he foresees a bottomless catastrophe for Trumpism and everything connected with it. Am I sure of this? Of course not but it’s the way to bet. It’s a certainty that he is not acting out of principle or anything resembling moral conviction.
Darth Cheney wants a law and order Empire universe. Trump and his MAGA cohorts want a Mad Max universe. The two are not compatible.
Still can’t imagine Trump firing a hand gun. Or any gun for that matter.
re: #43 darthstar
Still can’t imagine Trump firing a hand gun. Or any gun for that matter.
Maybe it’s for himself, if he’s convicted and facing the rest of his life in prison.
re: #41 Belafon
I’m pretty sure the appropriate response is “HA HA!”
Imagine how the Ukrainians felt when they got across the tank ditches and discovered they could move the dragon’s teeth by hand.
re: #44 Charles Johnson
Maybe it’s for himself, if he’s convicted and facing the rest of his life in prison.
I can easily imagine him goofing off with it, more than likely showing it off and accidentally shooting himself or someone else.
re: #31 EPR-radar
It could simply be like recognizing like. Establishment Republicans like Cheney et al. have been working on their version of eternal one party GOP rule for decades.
IMO they are anti-Trump because if he gets his dictatorship, they don’t get theirs.
I don’t see a division there. Trump IS an Establishment Republican since he is the logical and natural outcome of 60 years of Republican agitation and subversion. As we have seen in the farcical pre-primary campaign, he is the party’s overwhelming favorite. People like Cheney aren’t afraid he will succeed in gaining absolute power, they are afraid he will fail and permanently eliminate their chances of achieving the same power. Among conservatives that I know, there is a pervasive feeling that the demographic clock is ticking and the end of pluralistic democracy is “now or never.” They are afraid Trump will drop the ball, and it will be “never.”
re: #44 Charles Johnson
Maybe it’s for himself, if he’s convicted and facing the rest of his life in prison.
He’ll brag about buying it at his next speech even if he didn’t…because he can’t.
Suicide is the most likely use of any handgun bought in the US. 80% of them in Oregon.
re: #48 darthstar
He’ll brag about buying it at his next speech even if he didn’t…because he can’t.
Trump will be waving it around on his campaign events. Just watch.
if he *did* buy it, he sure didn’t use his own money to pay for it
re: #44 Charles Johnson
Maybe it’s for himself, if he’s convicted and facing the rest of his life in prison.
Suicide is the most likely use of any handgun bought in the US. 80% of them in Oregon.
Ramadamadingdong lets loose with another fart.
Vivek Ramaswamy implies Hunter Biden is reason behind US aid to Ukraine
During a Saturday Iowa appearance, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy alleged that President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is the reason for the United States’ aid to Ukraine, NBC reports.
The GOP hopeful made his remarks as “Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) and his colleagues have been alleging that President Joe Biden took a bribe from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which Hunter Biden represented as a lobbyist.”
NBC notes:
Russia invaded Ukraine in the winter of 2022, years after Biden left Burisma’s board. Since the invasion, the Biden administration and Congress have given billions of dollars of aid to Ukraine despite polls that show the American people are split on sending more funding.
I love this pic so much… pic.twitter.com/cNkXdBnuej
— Gvnzng - personification of chaos - Time Traveler (@gvnzng) September 25, 2023
it’s so stupid how he flashes that fake grin and immediately goes back to his maga frowny face the nano-second that the photo is taken
So much fun at the dentist.
Tomorrow I was supposed to have a root canal…but now I have to have TWO of them.
Oh bliss! Oh frabjulous joy…
re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅
So much fun at the dentist.
Tomorrow I was supposed to have a root canal…but now I have to have TWO of them.
Oh bliss! Oh frabjulous joy…
Two for the price of…two? Condolences.
if Joe Biden confused Jeb and George W. Bush, Hannity would anchor special coverage that would last until the 2024 election https://t.co/SwygRYGX5A
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 25, 2023
re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅
I hope it goes smoothly and with as little pain as possible.
re: #56 Backwoods Sleuth
it’s so stupid how he flashes that fake grin and immediately goes back to his maga frowny face the nano-second that the photo is taken
Much work goes into his smile. He needs to rest between efforts. Doesn’t come naturally.
91 indictments and he gets to buy a gun in South Carolina.
And what do we hear from Comer Pyle and Gym Neighbors Jordan?
More bullshit about Hunter Biden…
re: #63 Joe Bacon ✅
91 indictments and he gets to buy a gun in South Carolina.
And what do we hear from Comer Pyle and Gym Neighbors Jordan?
More bullshit about Hunter Biden…
I doubt he actually bought it. It’s a photo op. If he did buy it, they’re daring the feds to actually charge him with the crime. You know that shit will end up before SCOTUS by the end of the week.
The most dangerous inanimate object in the USA today according to the GOP and the mainstream media is Fetterman’s hoodie.
re: #65 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Dang that means I have to hide my LaSalle U hoodie.
re: #24 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Attach a Bluetooth keyboard with the layout you prefer.
then i cant complain ;-)
re: #55 Backwoods Sleuth
“I bought this Glock like you should buy one, because when they come after me, they’re really coming after you!”
re: #47 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Trump is the kwisatz Haderach of the Republican party. They had been building up to lawful dominance of the minority, and then someone comes along that they can’t control.
re: #65 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The most dangerous inanimate object in the USA today according to the GOP and the mainstream media is Fetterman’s hoodie.
Fetterman ought to enter the Senate chamber in full Roman Warrior garb with half a dozen aides tossing rose petals into the air to signal his entrance.
Trump’s spokesperson now says he did not actually buy the gun following this post. “He simply indicated that he wanted one.” https://t.co/t9Ec9sfDWS
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 25, 2023
guess he was hoping they would just give it to him…like a gift or something…
re: #55 Backwoods Sleuth
I’m not a “gun person” (I’ve never fired one that wasn’t attached to a video game or that shot anything other than water), I’ve only ever handled, maybe three, in my life (and one was a bb gun), but… um, that doesn’t seem like a very safe way of holding a gun.
re: #60 Backwoods Sleuth
My wife heard about Biden having trouble with LL CoolJ’s name and started trying to declare him too old and I had to talk to her about 1) who he’s going to run against, and 2) who else could run.
re: #74 Belafon
My wife heard about Biden having trouble with LL CoolJ’s name and started trying to declare him too old and I had to talk to her about 1) who he’s going to run against, and 2) who else could run.
I can see how trying to work a stutter around “LL CoolJ” might be a bit problematic.
re: #62 wrenchwench
Much work goes into his smile. He needs to rest between efforts. Doesn’t come naturally.
they forget
he’s an actor
the ‘businessman’ is a role
nothing authentic
re: #72 Backwoods Sleuth
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margarine tater greens is with him South Carolina
re: #72 Backwoods Sleuth
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guess he was hoping they would just give it to him…like a gift or something…
I’m a bit concerned that Kaitlan Collins is fact-checking this story, but you know, stopped clock, twice a day, etc., etc.
re: #75 Backwoods Sleuth
I can see how trying to work a stutter around “LL CoolJ” might be a bit problematic.
I also talked to her about that.
Donald Trump tried to peel off union support for President Joe Biden by accusing him of sending jobs to China Monday.
The president will visit Michigan on Tuesday - a day before Trump is expected there - to show support for the striking United Auto Workers, and on Monday morning the ex-president raged against Biden in a social media post.
“Crooked Joe Biden, who is killing the United Autoworkers with his WEAK stance on China and his ridiculous insistence on All Electric Cars, every one of which will be made in China, saw that I was going to Michigan this week (Wednesday!), so the Fascists in the White House just announced he would go there tomorrow,” Trump posted on his Truth Social website.
“That was the only way to get him out of the basement and off his lazy [a—]!”
Showing once again that Trump is a real CLASS (LESS) HOLE.
re: #73 KGxvi
I’m not a “gun person” (I’ve never fired one that wasn’t attached to a video game or that shot anything other than water), I’ve only ever handled, maybe three, in my life (and one was a bb gun), but… um, that doesn’t seem like a very safe way of holding a gun.
“No, no, Mr. President, it’s even better if you do that with bullets.”
re: #73 KGxvi
I’m not a “gun person” (I’ve never fired one that wasn’t attached to a video game or that shot anything other than water), I’ve only ever handled, maybe three, in my life (and one was a bb gun), but… um, that doesn’t seem like a very safe way of holding a gun.
It’s how you hold a gun when your bone spurs are acting up. He missed his chance to learn proper handling.
re: #81 Joe Bacon ✅
Donald Trump tried to peel off union support for President Joe Biden by accusing him of sending jobs to China Monday.
The president will visit Michigan on Tuesday - a day before Trump is expected there - to show support for the striking United Auto Workers, and on Monday morning the ex-president raged against Biden in a social media post.
“Crooked Joe Biden, who is killing the United Autoworkers with his WEAK stance on China and his ridiculous insistence on All Electric Cars, every one of which will be made in China, saw that I was going to Michigan this week (Wednesday!), so the Fascists in the White House just announced he would go there tomorrow,” Trump posted on his Truth Social website.
“That was the only way to get him out of the basement and off his lazy [a—]!”
Showing once again that Trump is a real CLASS (LESS) HOLE.
he must have had a miserable time in elementary school.
he’s never gotten over it
John Fetterman says he will be giving back the $5,000 Senator Bob Menendez gave to his 2022 campaign.
A spokesperson for Fetterman said the campaign would give the donation back “in envelopes stuffed with $100 bills.” pic.twitter.com/TWYTxM87z3— PocketCast News (@PocketCastNews) September 25, 2023
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
So, Hunter Biden is being prosecuted for a gun charge? pic.twitter.com/3KfhX5f2zg
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 25, 2023
no wonder he likes this gun
re: #73 KGxvi
I’m not a “gun person” (I’ve never fired one that wasn’t attached to a video game or that shot anything other than water), I’ve only ever handled, maybe three, in my life (and one was a bb gun), but… um, that doesn’t seem like a very safe way of holding a gun.
let’s not be too cavalier; “it’s just for a picture.”
NO.
you take someones gun and hold it, you’re fucking responsible.
someone gives you their gun to hold, they’re fucking responsible too.
there is no ‘it’s just a photo op, or a movie set’
this is serious, deadly shit.
if YOU dont know how to verify a gun is safe, DONT ACCEPT IT.
cause the gun doesnt fucking care what you don’t know.
remember that short story i told this morning about diving and electoral-vote.com?
here’s what i learned from ‘R.P’ in 1995. i make sure it’s page 1 of every dive manual i teach from:
Cardinal Rule of Diving #1 - The Responsibility Contract
WHATEVER happens to you when you willingly go underwater is COMPLETELY and ENTIRELY your own responsibility! If you cannot accept this responsibility, stay out of the water!
guns are no goddamned different.
O_o
Trump tried to campaign in South Carolina and said that he was going to beat Joe Biden in five months, but the election is next year.https://t.co/TQpwtar5FD via @politicususa
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) September 25, 2023
re: #90 Backwoods Sleuth
Is it 5 months to the SC primary?
re: #91 Decatur Deb
Is it 5 months to the SC primary?
yes, but pretty sure Biden isn’t running in any Republican primary
re: #69 Belafon
Trump is the kwisatz Haderach of the Republican party. They had been building up to lawful dominance of the minority, and then someone comes along that they can’t control.
I prefer a more direct characterization of Trump —True Voice and Prophet of the Pig-People.
Imagine the aftermath if Trump unintentionally shot himself. It would guarantee employment for generations of conspialiars unless, of course, their audience was wiped out in some self-inflicted disaster.
re: #95 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Imagine the aftermath if Trump unintentionally shot himself. It would guarantee employment for generations of conspialuliars unless, of course, their audience was wiped in some self-inflicted disaster.
Small price.
re: #95 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Imagine the aftermath if Trump unintentionally shot himself. It would guarantee employment for generations of conspialuliars unless, of course, their audience was wiped in some self-inflicted disaster.
if he did it on fifth avenue, they’d totally buy it.
re: #95 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Imagine the aftermath if Trump unintentionally shot himself. It would guarantee employment for generations of conspialuliars unless, of course, their audience was wiped in some self-inflicted disaster.
I’m here for the pretzel logic they’ll deploy to make it sound like Trump *meant* to shoot himself and that makes him the most “presidential” candidate to run in the last 50 years.
small edit for clarity…
re: #16 Nerdy Fish
The modern world has made it really easy for people who lack critical thinking to muddle through life without ever having to actually exercise their brain cells.
Every pro-vaccine message on Xitter is swarmed by blue check antivaxxers to reinforce the message that the vaccines are dangerous.
re: #90 Backwoods Sleuth
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And yet all media pound the message that Biden is slipping mentally.
Trump attacked Comcast. I have a conflict.
Trump blasted for threats against Comcast, NBC
thehill.com
re: #100 No Malarkey!
And yet all media pound the message that Biden is slipping mentally.
Because the CCCP has cast their lot with the Republican Party. They will do or say anything to put Republicans back in full control so they can get more welfare for the rich.
re: #100 No Malarkey!
And yet all media pound the message that Biden is slipping mentally.
Gang, we’re all slipping mentally. Some are slipping faster than others.
re: #101 Decatur Deb
Trump attacked Comcast. I have a conflict.
Trump blasted for threats against Comcast, NBC
thehill.com
Comcast sucks, but Trump is worse.
Everything is awful, so here’s some marmots fighting in the street to the theme from Strictly Come Dancing.🔊🆙️ pic.twitter.com/YmkCm1oUEa
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) September 24, 2023
re: #16 Nerdy Fish
The modern world has made it really easy for people who lack critical thinking to muddle through life without ever having to actually exercise their brain cells.
That was most of my family 40 years ago, not much has changed.
re: #104 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
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Pity. I’d hoped that firing the main guy for being - no surprise! - a DV pig, that nihilistic garbage would be off the air. But money changes is the only thing that really matters.
re: #109 William Lewis
Pity. I’d hoped that firing the main guy for being - no surprise! - a DV pig, that nihilistic garbage would be off the air. But money changes is the only thing that really matters.
It’s an excellent show that you hate.
This account followed me. Is it the real douchebag? It seems otherwise legit but it only has about 1100 followers which seems very low. twitter.com
re: #111 gocart mozart
And the bird thing wants me to sign in to see it. No Thanks.
re: #32 Backwoods Sleuth
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Hell, TFG is so stupid he might just take himself out. Stare at the sun during an eclipse, look down the barrel of the gun, with finger on the trigger, to see if it is loaded.
The women I talk to have a lifetime of trauma. Sexual abuse, family violence, and addiction are common. Mental health care is hard to find and often too costly. In many cases the result has been dissociation and delusion.
2/7— Noelle Cook (@NCookBouton) September 23, 2023
Thread on how MAGA women got there from someone writing a book on it.
re: #111 gocart mozart
This account followed me. Is it the real douchebag? It seems otherwise legit but it only has about 1100 followers which seems very low. twitter.com
FWIW it’s misspelled. The real problem is the site itself. No way remains to determine facts. The service you provide us by posting from there has a dwindling appreciability.
re: #112 PhillyPretzel ✅
And the bird thing wants me to sign in to see it. No Thanks.
I hovered to see the spelling.
re: #111 gocart mozart
This account followed me. Is it the real douchebag? It seems otherwise legit but it only has about 1100 followers which seems very low. twitter.com
look at how OKeefe is spelled
re: #115 wrenchwench
The former bird thing wants me to sign in. As I said before No Thanks.
re: #118 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
In the @username. There’s an extra “e.”
that’s what I was talking about
re: #119 PhillyPretzel ✅
The former bird thing wants me to sign in. As I said before No Thanks.
I don’t like the way google keeps offering me itself to use to sign in all over. Makes me want to move my email.
re: #114 ericblair
Drop the sexual abuse, mostly, and a number of the men fall in the same description.
Conservatism is the end result of generations of abuse for a lot of people, a lot of it psychological.
re: #125 darthstar
So far so good. Drilling done. No novacaine.
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Sending a hug…been there before…
A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works. There are studies underway to fluoridate … ice cream. Ice cream, Lindsay, children’s ice cream!
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) September 25, 2023
Still watching a lot of Fox, which is big on the windmills/whales thing https://t.co/iWNuvP7BX3 https://t.co/7MfdqfcuSQ
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) September 25, 2023
re: #127 gocart mozart
Though William needs to be encouraged to use fluoride toothpaste, and quoting Dr. Strangelove won’t help.
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
Birbie today
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re: #127 gocart mozart
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re nonflouride toothpaste
i havent used store bought toothpaste in 15 years
it started in order to save on landfilling the empty tubes
i make a powder
4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp pickling salt
1/4 tsp ground cloves
(no flouride)
there’s lots of recipes and flavors
dentist has no issues with my teeth and has no idea what i use.
we also make dishwashing machine soap, laundry soap, and liquid dish soap
again mostly to save on the trash aspect
For the last several years, The New York Times, supposed bastion of the “liberal media,” has been posting endless diatribes about the supposed “excesses of the left,” usually from white men like Ross Douthat and David Brooks, with a few Bari Weisses thrown in for good measure. In other words, people who largely benefited from the previous status quo. They’ve also published an untold number (perhaps thousands at this point, who even knows!) of op-eds desperately trying to make the case that it is possible to be a super good person who really cares about other human beings but also doesn’t so much think that trans people should have human rights.
They have yet to get the reception they have been hoping for. They’ve been widely criticized by the Left, and the Right has failed to embrace them, largely on the grounds that they are The New York Times.
Clearly desperate, they have ceased beating around the bush and published an op-ed this past Friday from Yascha Mounk, literally titled “How to Argue Against Identity Politics Without Turning Into a Reactionary.”
Mounk starts out with The Legend of Bret Weinstein — the evolutionary biologist who quit his job at Evergreen College in Washington because people criticized him for refusing to participate in a school-wide anti-racism awareness activity and went from someone who considered themselves a liberal into a founding member of the so-called “Intellectual Dark Web” (a term invented by his own brother) and a conspiracy theorist and crank who “has insinuated that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job and called for health officials who recommended that children be vaccinated against Covid to face prosecution modeled on the Nuremberg Trials.”
And Mounk? He wants to help people be Weinstein in the first half of the story without turning into the reactionary he turned into in the second.
re: #132 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
is your water flouridated?
oh
Trump just visited the gun company (Palmetto State Armory) that supplied August’s racist Jacksonville mass murderer of 3 Black people at a Dollar General store with the gun he painted a swastika on https://t.co/edn4kT5IIo
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) September 25, 2023
re: #135 Backwoods Sleuth
How come I am not surprised.
re: #71 Joe Bacon ✅
Fetterman ought to enter the Senate chamber in full Roman Warrior garb with half a dozen aides tossing rose petals into the air to signal his entrance.
I am for reinstating the toga as official garment of the US Senate
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A white toga with a red stripe down the center.
Watching a cube of porcelain being milled into a crown based on a 3D image of my tooth from three years ago.
also electric vehicles are only a danger to good jobs because *companies are threatening to move them to the right to work antiunion states republicans have engineered*! https://t.co/R5BMYALkr2
— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) September 25, 2023
Because I wanted to get the spelling correct, I went to look up the wikipedia article on Dune. I thought this publication history was funny:
Herbert spent the next five years researching, writing, and revising what would eventually become the novel Dune,[30] which was initially serialized in Analog magazine as two shorter works, Dune World (1963) and The Prophet of Dune (1965).[31] The serialized version was expanded and reworked—and rejected by more than 20 publishers—before being published by Chilton Books, a printing house best known for its auto repair manuals, in 1965.[32] Dune won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966, and the 1966 Hugo Award.[33][34]
re: #135 Backwoods Sleuth
oh
Palmetto State is more interesting to those people because they’re cheap than anything else. They’re no more good or bad than any other gun maker in America so don’t think too hard about it. As long as background checks are swiss cheese and the gun show loophole exists, that’s a bigger threat than a company with $400 AR pattern rifles that will only last a few thousand rounds.
re: #133 Joe Bacon ✅
For the last several years, The New York Times, supposed bastion of the “liberal media,” has been posting endless diatribes about the supposed “excesses of the left,” usually from white men like Ross Douthat and David Brooks, with a few Bari Weisses thrown in for good measure. In other words, people who largely benefited from the previous status quo. They’ve also published an untold number (perhaps thousands at this point, who even knows!) of op-eds desperately trying to make the case that it is possible to be a super good person who really cares about other human beings but also doesn’t so much think that trans people should have human rights.
They have yet to get the reception they have been hoping for. They’ve been widely criticized by the Left, and the Right has failed to embrace them, largely on the grounds that they are The New York Times.
Clearly desperate, they have ceased beating around the bush and published an op-ed this past Friday from Yascha Mounk, literally titled “How to Argue Against Identity Politics Without Turning Into a Reactionary.”
Mounk starts out with The Legend of Bret Weinstein — the evolutionary biologist who quit his job at Evergreen College in Washington because people criticized him for refusing to participate in a school-wide anti-racism awareness activity and went from someone who considered themselves a liberal into a founding member of the so-called “Intellectual Dark Web” (a term invented by his own brother) and a conspiracy theorist and crank who “has insinuated that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job and called for health officials who recommended that children be vaccinated against Covid to face prosecution modeled on the Nuremberg Trials.”
And Mounk? He wants to help people be Weinstein in the first half of the story without turning into the reactionary he turned into in the second.
Centrism almost always ends up moving right because reactionary policy preserves aspects of the status quo that centrism values while leftist positions…even the most diluted socialist or anarchist notions…would be highly disruptive to the kinds of power/money norms that inform your average NYT reader that everything is fine, the contradictions inherent to the system are not adding up.
People like to sneer about horseshoe theory but historically the fascists get into power with help from “reasonable” normies that imagine that all the revanchism is manageable but the capture of state power by the bourgeoisie must be preserved. Over and over clever people who went to the right schools invent reasons that they *must* side with the brutes; most just want to keep things the same but some imagine that they’ll double their take if they bet right. To this end, they will invent justifications that speak in their preferred timbre of pseudo-skepticism and pseudo-analysis and pseudo-science.
re: #140 Backwoods Sleuth
EVs will kill some jobs because they require fewer parts and fewer people to put together (also, automation is going to continue to make people less necessary to manufacturing). But the funny thing about Trump’s arguments is that the car companies and the unions are in line with the fact that EVs are the future.
re: #134 Backwoods Sleuth
is your water flouridated?
I just looked it up
And chlorinated.
That explains so much!!
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am for reinstating the toga as official garment of the US Senate
And food fights!
darkness approaches
pic.twitter.com/bPwyfJYJjK— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) September 25, 2023
re: #140 Backwoods Sleuth
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Electric vehicles will kill jobs?
This is the buggy whips argument
re: #150 KGxvi
EVs will kill some jobs because they require fewer parts and fewer people to put together (also, automation is going to continue to make people less necessary to manufacturing). But the funny thing about Trump’s arguments is that the car companies and the unions are in line with the fact that EVs are the future.
I’ve been told that increased efficiency is good. I was also told that the workers would benefit, and that wasn’t true, but I still think efficiency is good.
re: #155 Backwoods Sleuth
This is the kind of situation where you plant additional information or even false information that differs over the copies of the information given out. So that if it leaks you actually have a chance to trace which copy of the information was the source of the leak.
re: #133 Joe Bacon ✅
For the last several years, The New York Times, supposed bastion of the “liberal media,” has been posting endless diatribes about the supposed “excesses of the left,” usually from white men like Ross Douthat and David Brooks, with a few Bari Weisses thrown in for good measure. In other words, people who largely benefited from the previous status quo. They’ve also published an untold number (perhaps thousands at this point, who even knows!) of op-eds desperately trying to make the case that it is possible to be a super good person who really cares about other human beings but also doesn’t so much think that trans people should have human rights.
They have yet to get the reception they have been hoping for. They’ve been widely criticized by the Left, and the Right has failed to embrace them, largely on the grounds that they are The New York Times.
Clearly desperate, they have ceased beating around the bush and published an op-ed this past Friday from Yascha Mounk, literally titled “How to Argue Against Identity Politics Without Turning Into a Reactionary.”
Mounk starts out with The Legend of Bret Weinstein — the evolutionary biologist who quit his job at Evergreen College in Washington because people criticized him for refusing to participate in a school-wide anti-racism awareness activity and went from someone who considered themselves a liberal into a founding member of the so-called “Intellectual Dark Web” (a term invented by his own brother) and a conspiracy theorist and crank who “has insinuated that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job and called for health officials who recommended that children be vaccinated against Covid to face prosecution modeled on the Nuremberg Trials.”
And Mounk? He wants to help people be Weinstein in the first half of the story without turning into the reactionary he turned into in the second.
SSDD. If I had a nickel for every fire-breathing reactionary who insisted they were a “liberal” until their particular ox was gored, I could afford to give a fuck about their “concerns.” The real thrust of the article is the same as ones that have been printed over and over again for generations: “I don’t like being associated with total fucking losers, here’s how people like me can still be smug bastards without looking like total fucking losers.” Funny how every one of them begins and ends with the idea that you’re totally right, everybody else is totally wrong, and the “solution” is coming up with ways to assert that without looking like a total fucking loser.
re: #158 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I’ve been told that increased efficiency is good. I was also told that the workers would benefit, and that wasn’t true, but I still think efficiency is good.
Cars used to need service / oil changes every 2500-3000 miles.
Now it could be 2x or up to 5x or more.
Putting service stations out of work
re: #156 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Electric vehicles will kill jobs?
This is the buggy whips argument
Pretty much. More realistically, it’s the oil companies dropping a fucking brick. The car companies are happy, the workers are happy, but the guys whose industry is about to undergo a massive decline are losing their fucking minds.
This dog just got a new baby brother. Can’t believe their two favorite humans made an entirely new one. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/6AFOl5q5Lr
— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) September 25, 2023
re: #160 A Three Hour Tour
How about your children’s ice cream, Mandrake?
I have no children that Im aware of.
hi
Surprising good local news behind the hide button
My wife found my lost Tracfone flip phone and charger.
They were lost in January when we were in Denver having our car serviced.
It was lost in the bottom of her purse. It has one heck of a battery: After nine months it was still fully charged.
I’ve contacted Tracfone and they reactivated my phone and telephone number.
I still can’t use it at my house because I’m four blocks from the cell tower though. I had to go down to the village shop to turn it on so it could be loaded with its new minutes.
I’ll try it out tomorrow when I go to Cheyenne. Eye doc, staying overnight.
Oh my God. 🫠🙃😆😆 pic.twitter.com/4rv4uSFO3D
— CatGeographer (@CatGeographer) September 25, 2023
America doesn’t have a “both sides” problem, it has a Republican Party problem: A conversation about American Psychosis with @DavidCornDC 👇https://t.co/T9Wm9pQOyQ pic.twitter.com/osiECskpoS
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) September 25, 2023
;-)
🚨 BREAKING The largest national bipartisan poll of Latino voters for the 2024 election thus far this cycle shows President Joe Biden leading Donald Trump 58%-31%.
Biden won Latinos 59%-38% in the 2020 election, so it is actually TRUMP who is UNDERPERFORMING, contrary to the… pic.twitter.com/I66c5Wq4qu— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) September 25, 2023
re: #42 Florida Panhandler
Darth Cheney wants a law and order Empire universe. Trump and his MAGA cohorts want a Mad Max universe. The two are not compatible.
Darth Cheney does not consider Putin an ally; his disagreement with Trump is basically on foreign policy and I doubt there is any overlap in their perspective with dealing with other nations.
Republicans: “Protestors shouldn’t shut down traffic just to get what they want.”
Also Republicans: “We’re going to shut down the entire government just to get what we want.”
I’ll believe that the people who are screaming that EVs are a negative for American auto workers because they’ll cost jobs are actually serious about caring for those workers when they start advocating for ripping out all of the automation and return to manufacturing techniques that double or triple the work force to maintain the same level of production.
Dark Brandon
President Biden on potential government shutdown: “Funding the government is one of the most basic fundamental responsibilities of Congress and if the Republicans in the House don’t start doing their job, we should stop electing them.” pic.twitter.com/rG3XIUjmLG
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 25, 2023
re: #141 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
David McCallum, Actor on ‘NCIS’ and ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E,’ Dies at 90 (AP)
He just had his 90th birthday a couple days ago! 😪
RIP David. First time I remember seeing him on TV was in The Great Escape and 2 very scary Outer Limits episodes!
re: #173 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #164 Backwoods Sleuth
When we had our third son, our dog became his first mother. She might have been a sibling that played with the other two, but she let the youngest climb all over her and cam running when he cried.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) September 25, 2023
You can spot the Pakled house because it’s the one with the MAGA flag out front and the “Rollin’ Coal” lifted turbodiesel pick-up on blocks in the front yard.
re: #111 gocart mozart
This account followed me. Is it the real douchebag? It seems otherwise legit but it only has about 1100 followers which seems very low. twitter.com
Could be real. Joined in 2011. It’s possible that he didn’t use his personal account much until he got kicked out of his company.
Edit: nevermind. As others have pointed out, different spelling.
re: #163 Targetpractice
Pretty much. More realistically, it’s the oil companies dropping a fucking brick. The car companies are happy, the workers are happy, but the guys whose industry is about to undergo a massive decline are losing their fucking minds.
Norway and South Korea have new gas car bans that go into effect in 2025. 25 countries (and 2 states - California and New York), plan to phase them out by 2040, with Costa Rica shooting for 2050.
But it’s not like gas cars will just disappear. It will probably take close to a decade to phase out 90% of the gas cars on the road. And I suspect there will always be a handful of gas cars on the road, though I suspect most of them to be of the hot rod/vintage variety - like by 2040 you’ll see cars made after 2025 or before 1980 and almost nothing in between
So we started watching Community about a week ago. Can’t believe that I somehow missed this show when it originally aired. Some really brilliant episodes.
re: #141 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
David McCallum, Actor on ‘NCIS’ and ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E,’ Dies at 90 (AP)
Noticed this note at the bottom of the obit:
Bob Thomas, a longtime Associated Press journalist who died in 2014, was the principal writer of this obituary.
Obviously, they’ve had an obit for McCallum prepared for a long time.
re: #72 Backwoods Sleuth
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guess he was hoping they would just give it to him…like a gift or something…
Giving a working firearm to a person under felony indictment could cost the gun shop license holder their license.
re: #32 Backwoods Sleuth
His folk came out and said he didn’t buy a gun. Who knows what’s true? They’re such liars.
re: #169 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
based off nothing but my own gut feelings, I keep thinking that 2024 is going to look a lot like ‘64, ‘72, and ‘84.
re: #190 KGxvi
based off nothing but my own gut feelings, I keep thinking that 2024 is going to look a lot like ‘64, ‘72, and ‘84.
The US badly needs to decisively reject its Nazi party (i.e. the GOP) in 2024, so I sure hope your gut feeling is correct.
BREAKING:
The first shipment of U.S. Abrams tanks has arrived in Ukraine
🇺🇸🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/yRpNkkFHtz— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 25, 2023
re: #135 Backwoods Sleuth
oh
Trump just visited the gun company (Palmetto State Armory) that supplied August’s racist Jacksonville mass murderer of 3 Black people at a Dollar General store with the gun he painted a swastika on
Philadelphia, Neshoba County, MS, will be his first campaign stop in Mississippi.
re: #162 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Cars used to need service / oil changes every 2500-3000 miles.
Now it could be 2x or up to 5x or more.Putting service stations out of work
Electric vehicles needing reduced service as opposed to ICE vehicles is an attractive selling point to municipalities.
re: #185 KGxvi
Norway and South Korea have new gas car bans that go into effect in 2025. 25 countries (and 2 states - California and New York), plan to phase them out by 2040, with Costa Rica shooting for 2050.
But it’s not like gas cars will just disappear. It will probably take close to a decade to phase out 90% of the gas cars on the road. And I suspect there will always be a handful of gas cars on the road, though I suspect most of them to be of the hot rod/vintage variety - like by 2040 you’ll see cars made after 2025 or before 1980 and almost nothing in between
What’s going to kill off most of those cars is planned obsolescence and the increasing efforts by American manufacturers to cram more and more parts into their inventories that are not user-serviceable. With a YT video and a little effort most people with a basic understanding of mechanical principles can rebuild a carburetor, clean up the points in a distributor, and diagnose simple issues like timing or fuel mixture. But when an ECU goes bad, the only option for most people is to drag it to the dealer and pay out the nose for an OEM replacement. Once the inventory of those dries up because nobody can make money manufacturing them anymore, a lot of today’s sleek new models are gonna be in the scrapyard.
The University of California is joining a national initiative to offer free online courses to students at lower-income high schools across the country beginning next year.https://t.co/8UlTQ5YJCK
— KQED (@KQED) September 25, 2023
re: #196 Backwoods Sleuth
That is a good idea.
It’s always 1985 in his world https://t.co/sPey5H8k7f
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 25, 2023
re: #163 Targetpractice
Pretty much. More realistically, it’s the oil companies dropping a fucking brick. The car companies are happy, the workers are happy, but the guys whose industry is about to undergo a massive decline are losing their fucking minds.
It’s easy enough to burn oil to generate electricity to charge electric vehicles. We burn gas to do that right now because there’s a lot of gas but if the world requires far more electricity as EVs start to dominate the market and the price of oil falls then some gas consumption will be replaced with cheap oil.
re: #183 Targetpractice
You can spot the Pakled house because it’s the one with the MAGA flag out front and the “Rollin’ Coal” lifted turbodiesel pick-up on blocks in the front yard.
Friends painted their window-frames with green paint because they said it was mixed with Romulan blood.
re: #198 Backwoods Sleuth
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This is the guy that the Beltway keeps trying (desperately) to portray as a “man of the people” while the guy who used to ride the train to work daily is an “out-of-touch elitist.”
re: #200 William Lewis
one of my all time favorite movies
re: #185 KGxvi
Norway and South Korea have new gas car bans that go into effect in 2025. 25 countries (and 2 states - California and New York), plan to phase them out by 2040, with Costa Rica shooting for 2050.
But it’s not like gas cars will just disappear. It will probably take close to a decade to phase out 90% of the gas cars on the road. And I suspect there will always be a handful of gas cars on the road, though I suspect most of them to be of the hot rod/vintage variety - like by 2040 you’ll see cars made after 2025 or before 1980 and almost nothing in between
China is greatly limiting sales of gas cars starting this next year. China is the biggest car market in the world. As gas engine factories and parts suppliers make the switch to EV tech it will become clear to even the most die-hard anti-EV knuckle dragger MAGA type that EVs are far less expensive than a gas vehicle by 2028.