Kickin' It 80s-Style: Michael Kiwanuka and Tom Misch, "Money"

Kickin’ It 80s-Style: Michael Kiwanuka and Tom Misch, “Money”

MusicJuly 2019 • Views: 30,350

Michael Kiwanuka & Tom Misch - Money
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Video directed by Louis Bhose

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436 comments

Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 2:11:49pm

A suggestion Charles: Under your Fun menu, provide a link to a page that contains all, or say, the last 30, of the music videos you put at the top of your pages.

Ming5000 Jul 7, 2019 • 2:12:00pm

What is the protocol for hanging around an old thread to see final postings and responses when a new thread opens?

Blind Frog Belly White Jul 7, 2019 • 2:13:24pm

Trump tweets about ‘merit-based immigration’.

To my way of thinking, somebody traveling hundreds of miles, a lot of it on foot, risking everything, spending all their money just to come here to build a better life has a lot of fucking merit.

BigPapa Jul 7, 2019 • 2:15:02pm

Brings back being a kid in late 70’s white suburbia jumping into the pool in the hot sun hearing:

Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat (1974)

KingKenrod Jul 7, 2019 • 2:16:16pm

re: #1 Belafon

A suggestion Charles: Under your Fun menu, provide a link to a page that contains all, or say, the last 30, of the music videos you put at the top of your pages.

Good idea!

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 2:17:16pm

re: #2 Ming5000

What is the protocol for hanging around an old thread to see final postings and responses when a new thread opens?

I usually keep the old thread open until the new one reaches 100 comments.
And don’t consider a previous thread “dead” until about then because people will still be commenting there.

But that’s just me.

retired cynic Jul 7, 2019 • 2:18:06pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

I usually keep the old thread open until the new one reaches 100 comments.
And don’t consider a previous thread “dead” until about then because people will still be commenting there.

But that’s just me.

I just roll over to the new thread. Usually have too many pages open anyway!

retired cynic Jul 7, 2019 • 2:20:01pm

re: #1 Belafon

A suggestion Charles: Under your Fun menu, provide a link to a page that contains all, or say, the last 30, of the music videos you put at the top of your pages.

I loved the Teskey Brothers song on the last one! Saved to play again.

BigPapa Jul 7, 2019 • 2:24:18pm

So Twitter is starting to make sense now.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 2:26:29pm

Thing is, Obama did not inflame hatred like Trump has. Trump has purposefully used race to divide The People. The People are letting Trump know what they think of him. https://t.co/pCay6uLaLO

— Hatticus Finch (@HatticusFinch) July 7, 2019

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 2:27:25pm

welcome to the moron administration’s “cleanest water in the world”

All of Mississippi’s beaches have been closed for swimming due to toxic algae https://t.co/kgUMaZ4mKW pic.twitter.com/VC9cxJZk4v

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 7, 2019

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 2:28:27pm

so full of shit

We are building the Wall now, but the reason the badly needed Wall wasn’t approved in the Republican controlled House and Senate was that we had a very slim majority in the Senate, & needed 9 Democrat votes. They were totally unwilling to give Wall votes to us, want Open Borders!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019

The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 2:29:59pm

re: #9 BigPapa

So Twitter is starting to make sense now.

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What a fucking little snowflake Diaper Boy is.

BigPapa Jul 7, 2019 • 2:31:30pm

re: #13 The Pie Overlord!

What a fucking little snowflake Diaper Boy is.

Making me wonder if Blue Checkmark or payola makes Twitter more ‘sensitive’ to infractions.

The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 2:32:43pm

re: #9 BigPapa

So Twitter is starting to make sense now.

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I did not get one of those “temporarily limited some of your account features” warning I just got suspended and then my appeal was rejected.

Oddly they haven’t suspended Pie_Overlord (yet) even though I confirmed it using the same phone number.

b.d. Jul 7, 2019 • 2:33:05pm

re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth

so full of shit

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I thought Mexico was going to pay for the wall?

PhillyPretzel Jul 7, 2019 • 2:34:18pm

re: #15 The Pie Overlord!

I hope twitter never figures it out.

BigPapa Jul 7, 2019 • 2:35:31pm

re: #15 The Pie Overlord!

I did not get one of those “temporarily limited some of your account features” warning I just got suspended and then my appeal was rejected.

Oddly they haven’t suspended Pie_Overlord (yet) even though I confirmed it using the same phone number.

This isn’t Twitter trying to make things right and objective. It’s Twitter reacting to constituencies optimizing profit and social balance.

BigPapa Jul 7, 2019 • 2:40:06pm

It’s quite apparent Twitter is still a social media platform that is still getting gamed and it’s not in control of it’s platform.

Or it is and it’s merely showing amelioration to all parties.

wrenchwench Jul 7, 2019 • 2:43:08pm

re: #16 b.d.

I thought Mexico was going to pay for the wall?

Ooops. They built a Walmart instead.

Old Liberal Jul 7, 2019 • 2:50:13pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If such a chant was EVER directed at Obama in ANY bar.
Yes none of the Teabaggers or maggots were ever uncivil. Beyond ridiculous.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 7, 2019 • 2:50:24pm

re: #19 BigPapa

It’s quite apparent Twitter is still a social media platform that is still getting gamed and it’s not in control of it’s platform.

Or it is and it’s merely showing amelioration to all parties.

It is a for-profit enterprise and these are ultimately all business decisions.

Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 3:02:26pm

Russia’s state TV is obsessively bashing Trump’s “low energy,” “weak” parade with “rusty tanks.” The hosts LOL at Trump’s claim about “revolutionary war airports” & other historical flubs. “There’s your city upon a hill, there’s your world leader—and Martians have been defeated.” pic.twitter.com/wiw2OcFCLN

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) July 5, 2019

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 7, 2019 • 3:09:04pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

welcome to the moron administration’s “cleanest water in the world”

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Mississippi resident here. Unfortunately you can’t blame this one entirely on Trump. What happened is spillways along the Mississippi river had to be opened to send water downriver and prevent flooding. All that freshwater pouring into the Gulf fucks up the salinity, which makes it easier for bacteria to grow.

It’s playing hell with the local seafood industry too.

DodgerFan1988 Jul 7, 2019 • 3:09:31pm

The female players get 13 percent of the revenue the women’s World Cup generates. Men’s players get 9 percent of the revenue their World Cup generates. The reason the men make more is that they generate well over four times as much. If anything, the women are overpaid. https://t.co/SxD234LssB

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 7, 2019

Go to Hell, Matt Walsh.

Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 3:13:02pm

re: #25 DodgerFan1988

It sounds like advertisers are overpaying for the men’s games.

— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) July 7, 2019

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 3:14:40pm

re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg

Mississippi resident here. Unfortunately you can’t blame this one entirely on Trump. What happened is spillways along the Mississippi river had to be opened to send water downriver and prevent flooding. All that freshwater pouring into the Gulf fucks up the salinity, which makes it easier for bacteria to grow.

It’s playing hell with the local seafood industry too.

I’m just blaming trump for his moron repeated insistence that we have the cleanest air and water in the world.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 3:15:24pm

re: #25 DodgerFan1988

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Go to Hell, Matt Walsh.

Matt is lying.
Women’s revenues are much higher

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 3:16:30pm

re: #26 Belafon

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and the men are losers.

women: 4 World Cups and 4 Olympic Gold medals.

Men: 0 World Cups and 0 Gold medals.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 3:28:45pm

repost from downstairs just because it makes me feel happy

the small neighbor human. is kicking around a black and white ball. and whenever it goes more than a few feet. they hold their arms out wide. and look around. as if the whole world is watching

— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) July 7, 2019

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 3:31:10pm

BRING ON THE MATRIARCHY pic.twitter.com/OvKeVjG1Hv

— marv (@mrvndn) July 7, 2019

The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 3:33:11pm

This is some fucked up shit:

JUST IN: Trump supporters swarmed Chappaqua Police Department to file criminal complaints demanding the arrest of Hillary Clinton. pic.twitter.com/3ETHLzxHUj

— Max Howroute▫️ (@howroute) July 7, 2019

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 3:35:15pm

re: #32 The Pie Overlord!

This is some fucked up shit:

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they do this every week or so and the authorities just let them do it over and over and over.

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 3:38:09pm

re: #4 BigPapa

Brings back being a kid in late 70’s white suburbia jumping into the pool in the hot sun hearing:

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I remember this song coming out when I was in 2nd grade. The one good memory I have of that year.

Decatur Deb Jul 7, 2019 • 3:38:14pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

they do this every week or so and the authorities just let them do it over and over and over.

Keeps them from directing traffic at a Burger King drive-thru.

stpaulbear Jul 7, 2019 • 3:42:24pm

re: #35 Decatur Deb

Keeps them from directing traffic at a Burger King drive-thru.

Angry Pedestrian Instant Karma Dash Cam Funny

Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 3:43:38pm

re: #32 The Pie Overlord!

This is some fucked up shit:

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“Prove it.”

The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 3:43:53pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

they do this every week or so and the authorities just let them do it over and over and over.

These cult members need to be arrested to wasting public resources.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 3:44:14pm

re: #36 stpaulbear

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the dog looks soooo embarrassed…

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 7, 2019 • 3:44:41pm

re: #32 The Pie Overlord!

This is some fucked up shit:

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In a properly governed democratic country, they would arrest these goobers for filing a frivolous complaint.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 3:48:54pm

re: #40 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

In a properly governed democratic country, they would arrest these goobers for filing a frivolous complaint.

the fines assessed against these goobers would go a long way to help balance the budget…

Decatur Deb Jul 7, 2019 • 3:49:09pm

re: #40 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

In a properly governed democratic country, they would arrest these goobers for filing a frivolous complaint.

Swear them in as undercover auxiliaries, disguised as stop-sign cleaners. Ya get clean stop signs out of it.

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 7, 2019 • 3:50:00pm

“Well, what are you waiting for? Put it in the dish, please.”

Barefoot Grin Jul 7, 2019 • 3:51:26pm

For the fans, Trump is the Donnie Brasco of perverts, a good man who risked moral compromise in order to infiltrate the world of monsters.

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 7, 2019

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 7, 2019 • 3:51:33pm

re: #40 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

In a properly governed democratic country, they would arrest these goobers for filing a frivolous complaint.

Oh, I’m sure the paperwork went in the circular file after the morons left.

Rightwingconspirator Jul 7, 2019 • 3:52:41pm

re: #23 Belafon

What if they support the defeat of Donald Trump this time, sow trouble in the primaries?

William Lewis Jul 7, 2019 • 3:54:07pm

re: #40 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

In a properly governed democratic country, they would arrest these goobers for filing a frivolous complaint.

There is a chunk of land in north eastern Wisconsin controlled by the Posse Commitatus nutjobs. Every election they would send a big manilla envelope with the “Results” from their “county” to the state elections board. We wouldn’t even open it, just filed them away for a decade before trashing them. I imagine that they treat these reports in a similar manner as the nutjobs are not worth the trouble for anything else.

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 3:55:07pm

re: #34 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

Hey! I had great taste in music even in second grade. Cut me some slack!

Dread Pirate Jul 7, 2019 • 3:59:10pm

The two biggest private prison corporations housing detained migrant families contributed $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. https://t.co/uXbkXMrBbL

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) July 7, 2019

President Trump is finishing up a three-day golf weekend, making his 16th visit to his New Jersey golf club since entering office and pushing his total travel and security costs for his hobby to $108.1 million. https://t.co/pjELxjCzuN

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 7, 2019

teleskiguy Jul 7, 2019 • 3:59:56pm

pic.twitter.com/xVbB08k4gh

— Davey Jones (@DHBJones) July 7, 2019

PhillyPretzel Jul 7, 2019 • 4:02:28pm

re: #50 teleskiguy

Strange I was able to find this:
en.wikipedia.org

The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 4:04:42pm

I have submitted another appeal to Twitter, I figure what can it hurt? I did some Googling of the message that I received and it’s a standard form reply, and people have had their accounts restored even after receiving that threat that “further appeals will not be monitored.”

I was polite & contrite & promised not to cyberpunch any more nazis. At least not any blue-checked ones.

I’m still not sure what I did to get suspended in the first place but I think it probably might have something to do with triggering some spamtrap.

Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 4:05:32pm

re: #51 PhillyPretzel

Strange I was able to find this:
en.wikipedia.org

Are you sure?

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 4:06:37pm

re: #48 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

Dammit! Only Philly recognized my musical genius!

Skip Intro Jul 7, 2019 • 4:06:50pm

re: #32 The Pie Overlord!

Be sure to check out their shirts. These people are way beyond crazy.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:06:56pm

re: #51 PhillyPretzel

Strange I was able to find this:
en.wikipedia.org

you missed the gaslit snark?

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 4:09:53pm

I hate you all! /////

PhillyPretzel Jul 7, 2019 • 4:12:44pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

Probably. My attention is focused on WHYY and a really good line-up that started with an afternoon of Cook’s Country and now Coastal Railways and next up is Poldark.

The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 4:12:47pm

Here on Reddit someone received the same suspension message and “nevertheless persisted” and eventually their account was restored.

I could continue with Pie Overlord since it’s really all the Twitter that I need, but I curated VB for 9 years and accumulated 16K followers and it really sucks to lose that.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:12:50pm

re: #57 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

I hate you all! /////

that’s why we’re all here!

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:14:11pm

re: #59 The Pie Overlord!

Here on Reddit someone received the same suspension message and “nevertheless persisted” and eventually the account was restored.

I could continue with Pie Overlord since it’s really all the Twitter that I need, but I curated VB for 9 years and accumulated 16K followers and it really sucks to lose that.

you’ve not followed me back and I was one of the first to follow Pie Overlord.

@justafarmer4 haz a sad

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 4:16:17pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

that’s why we’re all here!

Bwahahaha! I needed that right now with all the other crappy silliness going on in my life. Love you all!

I’ve got my ex who is demanding to get our daughter’s phone back.right.now, and he is calling the cops.

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 4:16:57pm

re: #62 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

Bwahahaha! I needed that right now with all the other crappy silliness going on in my life. Love you all!

I’ve got my ex who is demanding to get our daughter’s phone back.right.now, and he is calling the cops.

Said daughter is at Scout camp for the next week.

The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 4:17:55pm

re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth

you’ve not followed me back and I was one of the first to follow Pie Overlord.

@justafarmer4 haz a sad

Followed!

I hope this doesn’t trigger “unusual followback activity”

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:18:21pm

re: #62 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

Bwahahaha! I needed that right now with all the other crappy silliness going on in my life. Love you all!

I’ve got my ex who is demanding to get our daughter’s phone back.right.now, and he is calling the cops.

gurl…once my new house is ready for guests, you and the girls need to come to TheBackwoods for some decompression ~~downtown~~ downtime.
We do not suffer fools lightly here.
Not. At. All.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:18:42pm

re: #64 The Pie Overlord!

Followed!

I hope this doesn’t trigger “unusual followback activity”

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Charles Johnson Jul 7, 2019 • 4:18:52pm

re: #1 Belafon

A suggestion Charles: Under your Fun menu, provide a link to a page that contains all, or say, the last 30, of the music videos you put at the top of your pages.

Well, you can use the Categories -> Music dropdown menu to get a full index of all of them.

Dave In Austin Jul 7, 2019 • 4:23:04pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Anyway to get Youtube to string them? IE LGF channel (I know your not a fan)?

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:23:09pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

gurl…once my new house is ready for guests, you and the girls need to come to TheBackwoods for some decompression ~~downtown~~ downtime.
We do not suffer fools lightly here.
Not. At. All.

MomAnon…that goes for you and yours, too.

Your hubs will get along great with mine…two Harley guys with one homemade HD and two more project bikes in the shop.

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 4:25:34pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

gurl…once my new house is ready for guests, you and the girls need to come to TheBackwoods for some decompression ~~downtown~~ downtime.
We do not suffer fools lightly here.
Not. At. All.

OMG! I would love to be able to do that and decompress in the backwoods!

Stanley Sea Jul 7, 2019 • 4:25:47pm

My weekend:

I purchased a vanity fair subscription. 15 bucks, 2 years of print in my mailbox plus unlimited access to the online archives.

I started online with Dominick Dunne. He was sooo good.

Went off schedule & read Vicky Ward’s article from 2003 about Jeffrey Epstein.

I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 https://t.co/IjQzLujoR9

— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) July 7, 2019

It’s a fucking treasure trove of reading.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:26:34pm

re: #70 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

OMG! I would love to be able to do that and decompress in the backwoods!

open invite!

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 4:27:45pm

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

open invite!

I will remember that! What’s the nearest airport so I can keep an eye out for specials?

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:28:44pm

TheBackwoods is about 200 acres of mostly managed forest in Appalachia…lots of hills and ridges and coves and wildlife.

Every day is a freaking adventure here.

steve_davis Jul 7, 2019 • 4:31:36pm

re: #16 b.d.

I thought Mexico was going to pay for the wall?

so did mexico. i bet they’re really disappointed at this point.

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 4:34:02pm

re: #73 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:34:46pm

re: #73 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

I will remember that! What’s the nearest airport so I can keep an eye out for specials?

Closest to me by about 5-10 miles (and sanity preservation) is Bluegrass Airport in Lexington (Allegiant, American, United, Delta) is small but easiest in and out.
Greater Cincinnati International Airport (Delta, Southwest, American, United, OneJet, Frontier, Air Canada) is a nightmare but probably best for flight specials.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:35:49pm

re: #76 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:39:00pm

re: #76 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

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A Mom Anon Jul 7, 2019 • 4:43:10pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

You are sweet and I hope to take you up on that one day. 😘

steve_davis Jul 7, 2019 • 4:43:36pm

re: #71 Stanley Sea

My weekend:

I purchased a vanity fair subscription. 15 bucks, 2 years of print in my mailbox plus unlimited access to the online archives.

I started online with Dominick Dunne. He was sooo good.

Went off schedule & read Vicky Ward’s article from 2003 about Jeffrey Epstein.

[Embedded content]

It’s a fucking treasure trove of reading.

again,they want me to disable ad blocker. but abp is telling me it’s blocking 21 ads. and that means it isn’t blocking ads, but blocking data miners. i.e. harvesters of eyes.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:43:44pm

re: #76 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:44:08pm

re: #80 A Mom Anon

You are sweet and I hope to take you up on that one day. 😘

really…serious offer

Sionainn, Warrior Mother Jul 7, 2019 • 4:45:17pm

re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth

Closest to me by about 5-10 miles (and sanity preservation) is Bluegrass Airport in Lexington (Allegiant, American, United, Delta) is small but easiest in and out.
Greater Cincinnati International Airport (Delta, Southwest, American, United, OneJet, Frontier, Air Canada) is a nightmare but probably best for flight specials.

I’m writing it down now. You are a wonderful friend!

Sufficient unto the day... Jul 7, 2019 • 4:47:43pm

re: #81 steve_davis

i.e. harvesters of eyes.

Blue Oyster Cult: Harvester Of Eyes

A Mom Anon Jul 7, 2019 • 4:49:36pm

re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth

We’re looking at a huge set of life changes soon, it may take awhile, I can’t commit now. But some time on a farm sounds PERFECT, omg PERFECTION. Thank you.

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 7, 2019 • 4:49:54pm

Any other Lizards play Super Mario Maker?

Charles Johnson Jul 7, 2019 • 4:50:04pm

re: #68 Dave In Austin

Anyway to get Youtube to string them? IE LGF channel (I know your not a fan)?

I guess they could be added to a playlist, but I haven’t messed around with that on YouTube very much.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:50:26pm

here’s the thing about my place…
prior to the “Recent Unpleasantness” aka Civil War, my farm was a huge staging area for the Underground Railroad.
There was a thriving community here, loads more people than are here now (even including current population for probably 10 miles in diameter).
Tramp through the woods and you can still find remnants of where houses were, if you know what to look for.
Should things really go to shit, lizards are welcome here. Any and all skills are welcome. If you don’t think you have a skill, trust me…you do.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:51:29pm

re: #84 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

I’m writing it down now. You are a wonderful friend!

I need an apprentice holler witch. I’m thinking things…

Barefoot Grin Jul 7, 2019 • 4:52:30pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

here’s the thing about my place…
prior to the “Recent Unpleasantness” aka Civil War, my farm was a huge staging area for the Underground Railroad.
There was a thriving community here, loads more people than are here now (even including current population for probably 10 miles in diameter).
Tramp through the woods and you can still find remnants of where houses were, if you know what to look for.
Should things really go to shit, lizards are welcome here. Any and all skills are welcome. If you don’t think you have a skill, trust me…you do.

If the instructions are in Japanese I can translate. That’s about it.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:54:59pm

re: #86 A Mom Anon

We’re looking at a huge set of life changes soon, it may take awhile, I can’t commit now. But some time on a farm sounds PERFECT, omg PERFECTION. Thank you.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Jul 7, 2019 • 4:55:52pm

These people are dumb. 😂 https://t.co/cSRTjKhXHV

— Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) July 7, 2019

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 4:56:11pm

re: #91 Barefoot Grin

If the instructions are in Japanese I can translate. That’s about it.

you have no idea how valuable that might be

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Jul 7, 2019 • 4:59:58pm

Trump unleashes Twitter broadside at Fox News pic.twitter.com/bWMDccJ7BQ

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) July 7, 2019

Blind Frog Belly White Jul 7, 2019 • 5:02:22pm

re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Well, to be fair, Kim is getting everything and all he ‘s doing is stringing Trump along with love letters and photo ops.

The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 5:07:16pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

here’s the thing about my place…
prior to the “Recent Unpleasantness” aka Civil War, my farm was a huge staging area for the Underground Railroad.
There was a thriving community here, loads more people than are here now (even including current population for probably 10 miles in diameter).
Tramp through the woods and you can still find remnants of where houses were, if you know what to look for.
Should things really go to shit, lizards are welcome here. Any and all skills are welcome. If you don’t think you have a skill, trust me…you do.

I can make pie! Also bread!

There is also a reciprocal standing invite for Mr. BWS whenever the power goes out north of 8 Mile. For some reason our block always gets hit hard, but the lights are on across the street.

b.d. Jul 7, 2019 • 5:10:23pm

re: #95 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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FoxNews worse on Trump than CNN, lol

Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 5:14:48pm

re: #95 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Awwwwwww, he got his widdle fee fees hurt cause people yelled a nasty at him!

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 5:17:20pm

He already had that conversation with his consigliere which is why Barr upheld the plea deal.

— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 8, 2019

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unproven innocence Jul 7, 2019 • 5:24:56pm

While Britain and EU are pussyfooting around…

African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone
It took African countries four years to agree to a free-trade deal in March. The trade zone will unite 1.3 billion people, create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc and usher in a new era of development across the continent.

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Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 5:27:40pm

re: #101 unproven innocence

WhileBritain and EU are pussyfooting around…

African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone
It took African countries four years to agree to a free-trade deal in March. The trade zone will unite 1.3 billion people, create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc and usher in a new era of development across the continent.

That’s better than China buying them up.

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b.d. Jul 7, 2019 • 5:30:38pm

re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹

Awwwwwww, he got his widdle fee fees hurt cause people yelled a nasty at him!

lol, c’mon FoxNews put on a documentary of John McCain!

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 7, 2019 • 5:37:37pm

re: #86 A Mom Anon

We’re looking at a huge set of life changes soon, it may take awhile, I can’t commit now. But some time on a farm sounds PERFECT, omg PERFECTION. Thank you.

Louisville airport is about another hour drive west of Lexington, but it has cheaper flights.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 7, 2019 • 5:40:26pm

re: #95 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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I bet they did a story about the British Ambassador’s comments about Trump!

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lawhawk Jul 7, 2019 • 5:43:32pm

re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

North Korea’s approach is string Trump along with nonsensical photo ops that Trump craves, but gives nothing substantive in return for parity with the US. No denuclearization. No end to missile testing/development. Nothing.

Iran could follow that along, and the end result is a nuclear Iran and a nuclear North Korea that add to destabilization of key regions of the world.

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Ace Rothstein Jul 7, 2019 • 5:45:22pm

Jesus.

I’m all here for drunk Alex Morgan #USWMNT pic.twitter.com/NZ3QrRv37N

— Alex Morgan Brian 🍵 (@AcheleBaby) July 7, 2019

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 5:46:31pm

re: #104 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Louisville airport is about another hour drive west of Lexington, but it has cheaper flights.

Louisville is more than 3 (almost 4) hours west of TheBackwoods, depending on traffic.
Not a good option unless someone else is going to pick her up.
CVG is a better option if Louisville is in the mix

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Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 5:46:47pm

re: #107 Ace Rothstein

Jesus.

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Did He turn their water into wine?

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Ace Rothstein Jul 7, 2019 • 5:47:35pm

re: #109 Belafon

Budweiser, obviously.

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Ace Rothstein Jul 7, 2019 • 5:48:42pm

LOL the Mexican fans at the Gold Cup Final in Chicago have Trump masks on.

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 5:48:53pm

Donald Trump is letting the terrorists win. https://t.co/O1WEQbU2IX

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2019

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Ace Rothstein Jul 7, 2019 • 5:50:00pm

re: #112 The Pie Overlord!

Literally a tweet for everything.

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Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 5:50:57pm

re: #113 Ace Rothstein

Literally a tweet for everything.

He’s somehow managing to bat over a thousand.

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 5:52:08pm

re: #113 Ace Rothstein

Literally a tweet for everything.

Hey can I get a follow for @Pie_Overlord from @aceoaces?

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William Lewis Jul 7, 2019 • 5:52:35pm

Hey gamers. Here’s a look at why i love Warframe…

Warframe - Cinematic Trailer TennoCon 2019 [HD 1080P]

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 5:59:29pm

He’s like, addicted to Purell. Doesn’t overuse of this product lead to the development of MRSA?

He seems to understand how germs work but NO OTHER ASPECT OF SCIENCE. https://t.co/sF8uSSXACQ

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 8, 2019

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 5:59:38pm

VIDEO: In a Belfast museum, seamstresses are at work depicting gory battles and warring kings in shimmering threads of red and gold — an epic homage to the TV phenomenon “Game of Thrones” in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry pic.twitter.com/TGmjU12LMQ

— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 8, 2019

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goddamnedfrank Jul 7, 2019 • 6:02:24pm

How random

ok WTF is that? pic.twitter.com/vEIE9K9JjI

— JustJanis 💃 (@jsavite) July 8, 2019

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 7, 2019 • 6:03:52pm

re: #119 goddamnedfrank

Ross and Joey for the win!

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Barefoot Grin Jul 7, 2019 • 6:04:18pm

re: #107 Ace Rothstein

Jesus.

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That’s such fun. Though I’m a Christen Press fan in an “oh my, she’s everything” inappropriate old man kind of way that I would never disclo….

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Sufficient unto the day... Jul 7, 2019 • 6:09:16pm

re: #117 The Pie Overlord!

MRSA is resistant to antibiotics, but its still susceptible to antiseptics.

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wrenchwench Jul 7, 2019 • 6:10:03pm

re: #117 The Pie Overlord!

He’s like, addicted to Purell. Doesn’t overuse of this product lead to the development of MRSA?

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I think it causes hand shrinkage and tie growth.

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teleskiguy Jul 7, 2019 • 6:15:36pm

Pork green chili in the Instant Pot. Slow cooking it for a few hours before I pressure cook it for 15 minutes. Yum.

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Stanley Sea Jul 7, 2019 • 6:16:40pm

re: #81 steve_davis

My link was a daily beast column. I had no prob reading it. ?

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Sufficient unto the day... Jul 7, 2019 • 6:17:23pm

re: #124 teleskiguy

*begins looking up airplane tickets to Colorado*

I’ll be right over.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 6:19:06pm

NOW: Tonight in census citizenship question litigation news — DOJ announces that a new team of lawyers will be taking over the cases, doesn’t give a reason or specify who exactly is stepping in (we’ll find in new filings tomorrow) pic.twitter.com/wNZXoHIzpf

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 8, 2019

Recall the memorable comments from the career DOJ lawyer in the Maryland case last week, in which he essentially said he had no idea what was going on once Trump started tweeting https://t.co/ANMCz2Floj

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 8, 2019

Also per the DOJ official, the move away from the Federal Programs Branch means it’ll no longer be overseen by the head of that branch, James Burnham. Official declined to say who would be taking over his role

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 8, 2019

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Stanley Sea Jul 7, 2019 • 6:23:15pm

re: #115 The Pie Overlord!

I need a follow back!

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Patricia Kayden Jul 7, 2019 • 6:23:28pm

re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White

Merit based immigration? Is that what his wife used when she got her citizenship by marrying him?

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Dave In Austin Jul 7, 2019 • 6:23:32pm

So this is what Trey was talking about……
Have a smile.

Phish - Meatstick FLASH MOB - New Years Eve, 2010-2011 - Madison Square Garden -

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Jul 7, 2019 • 6:25:41pm

re: #107 Ace Rothstein

Jesus.

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I think she got thrown out of Disney World for being an obnoxious drunk several years ago

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 6:26:50pm

flailing…just flailing

Watching @FoxNews weekend anchors is worse than watching low ratings Fake News @CNN, or Lyin’ Brian Williams (remember when he totally fabricated a War Story trying to make himself into a hero, & got fired. A very dishonest journalist!) and the crew of degenerate……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019

…a “source” of information (ask the Times what they paid for the Boston Globe, & what they sold it for (lost 1.5 Billion Dollars), or their old headquarters building disaster, or their unfunded liability? @FoxNews is changing fast, but they forgot the people who got them there!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 6:28:51pm

As he left New Jersey a short while ago, @realDonaldTrump⁩ was asked about his reaction to Epstein’s arrest: “I don’t know anything about it.” https://t.co/qUmrqU3SIp

— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) July 7, 2019

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Dave In Austin Jul 7, 2019 • 6:30:03pm

pic.twitter.com/HnfVnFNaab

— I luv being Teamster (@JimKilbane) July 8, 2019

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bratwurst Jul 7, 2019 • 6:31:05pm

I will be honest: even with all of the horrors inflicted upon our country and our world by the age of Trump over the last 4 years, I still assumed it was a bad joke when I read on Twitter that Ben Garrison had been invited to the White House.

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A Mom Anon Jul 7, 2019 • 6:31:15pm

re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sure he doesn’t….riiiiiiight…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 6:36:23pm

No. You wouldn’t. https://t.co/3GFIvrnmL0

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 8, 2019

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 6:37:38pm

re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I think an explanation should be sought. https://t.co/taR7nQqVLU

— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) July 8, 2019

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wrenchwench Jul 7, 2019 • 6:39:31pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Cute babies are going viral! Many appear as bugs!

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Pawn of the Oppressor Jul 7, 2019 • 6:39:46pm

re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“He was just a coffee boy that supplied underage girls, I hardly knew him,”

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 6:46:02pm

The admiral who had been set to become the Navy’s top officer won’t take the job, a sudden move that comes less than a month after Trump’s defense secretary pick withdrew from consideration. https://t.co/QB6T0jrkxa

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 8, 2019

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 7, 2019 • 6:49:26pm

In which Kevin Kruse pwns some randumb cletus, just for a light snack.

MESSAGE FOR FOLKS WHO FLUNKED US HISTORY IN HIGH SCHOOL:

“White liberals” didn’t do any of this. https://t.co/MhQPPc84sG

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 8, 2019

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Pawn of the Oppressor Jul 7, 2019 • 6:53:02pm

re: #142 The Pie Overlord!

In which Kevin Kruse pwns some randumb cletus, just for a light snack.

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Well, there’s one more idiot I wasn’t aware of until now. I love you, Twitter. ><

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 6:54:24pm

Sneak peak of how bread is actually made pic.twitter.com/bVliPB12Yb

— Cats 🐈 (@bestcataccount) July 7, 2019

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Dave In Austin Jul 7, 2019 • 6:58:55pm

Chuckwalla found in an area of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve where I’d never seen one before. These big, harmless herbivores are called into our hotline from time to time as Gila Monsters. pic.twitter.com/6rfVifn1TS

— Bryan D. Hughes (@rattlesnakeguy) July 8, 2019

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 7, 2019 • 6:59:32pm

One more.

“the old days”

Yeah. This account is less than a month old. It demands that you follow “FBR” accounts and is outraged when it’s unfollowed or blocked.

This is a fraud. An infiltrator. Pretending to be “just one of us.” It’s not. This is the enemy. pic.twitter.com/6konToNr2J

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 8, 2019

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Old Liberal Jul 7, 2019 • 7:01:13pm

re: #135 bratwurst

I will be honest: even with all of the horrors inflicted upon our country and our world by the age of Trump over the last 4 years, I still assumed it was a bad joke when I read on Twitter that Ben Garrison had been invited to the White House.

Deplorables can be invited. It is no honor under drumpf.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Jul 7, 2019 • 7:15:27pm

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

FYI: the CNO thing is not Trump-related, contra my feed rn. May temporarily add to the long list of senior vacancies but 1) will likely be filled fast 2) this is a longstanding Navy issue dating back to 2016

— Adam Rawnsley (@arawnsley) July 8, 2019

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plansbandc Jul 7, 2019 • 7:15:33pm

re: #4 BigPapa

Love this song so much.

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teleskiguy Jul 7, 2019 • 7:40:57pm

Rewatching The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling.

We lost such a unique head when he died.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 7, 2019 • 7:45:18pm

Robert Jeffress again. Jeffress is a serious player among pulpit pimps. He is pastor of First Baptist Dallas, which is the largest such House of Superstition of that brand in the world.
Evangelical Pastor: Democrats Have Created An ‘Imaginary God’

Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress is claiming that the Democratic Party is a “godless” organization that promotes policies that are “completely antithetical to the Christian faith.”

Jeffress, a longtime supporter of President Donald Trump, warned evangelicals at a conference in Washington, D.C., this weekend not to be “fooled” when Democratic 2020 presidential candidates talk about their faith.

“When they talk about God, they are not talking about the real God — the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God who revealed Himself in the Bible,” Jeffress said Saturday, according to The Christian Post. “These liberal Democrats are talking about an imaginary God they have created in their own minds: a god who loves abortion and hates Israel.”

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Ace Rothstein Jul 7, 2019 • 7:46:28pm

re: #151 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I created a god. It’s a dog.

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Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 7:47:50pm

re: #151 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Robert Jeffress again. Jeffress is a serious player among pulpit pimps. He is pastor of First Baptist Dallas, which is the largest such House of Superstition of that brand in the world.
Evangelical Pastor: Democrats Have Created An ‘Imaginary God’

“Yeah, our God is the God of Jesus.”

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 7, 2019 • 7:50:31pm

re: #151 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

So, the short version is:

White guy who’s had three wives, multiple bankruptcies, chests at golf and lies with every other word that comes out of his mouth = Godly.

BUT

Black guy who’s been married to the same woman for 27 years, has never gone bankrupt, speaks honestly and does a ton of philanthropic work = Godless heathen.

These fucking people…

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Ace Rothstein Jul 7, 2019 • 7:51:25pm

Mexico scores. Replays in slow-mo a Mexican fan cheering with a t-shirt on that has Trump’s face on it that also says “Chingue su madre” (Motherfucker).

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HappyWarrior Jul 7, 2019 • 7:51:52pm

re: #151 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Robert Jeffress again. Jeffress is a serious player among pulpit pimps. He is pastor of First Baptist Dallas, which is the largest such House of Superstition of that brand in the world.
Evangelical Pastor: Democrats Have Created An ‘Imaginary God’

Our God isn’t a xenophobic prick who worships money and power, Bob. Please stop calling yourself a man of God. You’re a charlatan douche.

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gwangung Jul 7, 2019 • 7:52:50pm

re: #156 HappyWarrior

Our God isn’t a xenophobic prick who worships money and power, Bob. Please stop calling yourself a man of God. You’re a charlatan douche.

Yeah, Jeffres’ lust for temporal power is quite obvious.

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HappyWarrior Jul 7, 2019 • 7:53:40pm

re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg

So, the short version is:

Guy who’s had three wives, multiple bankruptcies, chests at golf and lies every other word = Godly.

BUT

Black guy who’s been married to the same woman for 27 years, has never gone bankrupt, speaks honestly and does a ton of philanthropic work = Godless heathen.

These fucking people…

That’s why I can’t stand conservative evangelicals. They blast liberal Christians for “wrongly interpreting scripture” and they champion people like Trump. They’re why young people aren’t interested in Christianity.

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Amory Blaine Jul 7, 2019 • 7:53:43pm

I’d love to see a gonzo liberal group go after these pulpit pimps.

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HappyWarrior Jul 7, 2019 • 7:54:40pm

re: #157 gwangung

Yeah, Jeffres’ lust for temporal power is quite obvious.

Him, Graham, & Falwell Jr. The trinity of power fuckers.

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Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 7:54:55pm

re: #159 Amory Blaine

I’d love to see a gonzo liberal group go after these pulpit pimps.

Then they’d get nicknamed something like antichris and people would start having fainting spells.

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HappyWarrior Jul 7, 2019 • 7:56:12pm

re: #159 Amory Blaine

I’d love to see a gonzo liberal group go after these pulpit pimps.

I would love to see Jeffress revealed to be an adulterous embezzling hypocrite. There’s a reason why men like him like Trump so much.

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Pawn of the Oppressor Jul 7, 2019 • 7:56:46pm

Evangelical Christianity is The West Wing for racist white people.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:05:05pm

re: #151 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Robert Jeffress again. Jeffress is a serious player among pulpit pimps. He is pastor of First Baptist Dallas, which is the largest such House of Superstition of that brand in the world.
Evangelical Pastor: Democrats Have Created An ‘Imaginary God’

First Baptist Church (Dallas), a Southern Baptist mega-church.

Those Southern Baptists. The group explicitly formed to oppose emancipation of slaves, then promote Jim Crow, then segregated schools right up to the present day.

This constant harping of “Democrats aren’t real Christians” seems to have a racist undertone to it, since the overwhelming majority of African-Americans are both Christian, and vote for Democrats.

Maybe I’m off here, but that particular phrasing by preachers who claim “Democrats aren’t real Christians” for decades has always come off to me as a racist statement.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:07:14pm

re: #151 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Robert Jeffress again. Jeffress is a serious player among pulpit pimps. He is pastor of First Baptist Dallas, which is the largest such House of Superstition of that brand in the world.
Evangelical Pastor: Democrats Have Created An ‘Imaginary God’

Remember this is the same Pulpit Pimp who is a rabid anti-Semite.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:08:13pm

re: #160 HappyWarrior

Him, Graham, & Falwell Jr. The trinity of power fuckers.

Make it a quartet with Jim Bakker and his freeze dried food buckets…

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gwangung Jul 7, 2019 • 8:09:25pm

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹

First Baptist Church (Dallas), a Southern Baptist mega-church.

Those Southern Baptists. The group explicitly formed to oppose emancipation of slaves, then promote Jim Crow, then segregated schools right up to the present day.

This constant harping of “Democrats aren’t real Christians” seems to have a racist undertone to it, since the overwhelming majority of African-Americans are both Christian, and vote for Democrats.

Maybe I’m off here, but that particular phrasing by preachers who claim “Democrats aren’t real Christians” for decades has always come off to me as a racist statement.

This is a frakkin’ good point.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:09:53pm

re: #158 HappyWarrior

That’s why I can’t stand conservative evangelicals. They blast liberal Christians for “wrongly interpreting scripture” and they champion people like Trump. They’re why young people aren’t interested in Christianity.

They’ve been doing that as long as the Evangelical movement has existed. And Catholics bashed all Protestants. And various Protestant groups have bashed each other.

An alternative explanation for the decline of religious belief worldwide (not just in the USA) is “the Internet is where religion goes to die.” Their false or unproven assertions can be fact-checked in near-real time.

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Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 8:10:02pm

Episode two of Stranger things, and Winona Ryder’s character is carrying some science books, and I go “I’ve got that book”:

I was a physics major before CS and I still have some of my books.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:11:00pm

Only one person can save us…SUPER CHICKEN!

Super Chicken - 01-The Oyster

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:12:01pm

re: #167 gwangung

This is a frakkin’ good point.

I’ve always thought of it that way since I’ve always been outside of Christianity looking in. To me, Southern Baptist and Pentecostal claims that “Democrats aren’t real Christians” (or Satan-worshipers) go to the heart of the base of Democratic voters.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:14:06pm

re: #170 Joe Bacon 🌹

Only one person can save us…SUPER CHICKEN!

“Fred, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it.”

(I have a DVD of all the “George of the Jungle” cartoons and their inserts such as Tom Slick and Super Chicken.)

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:17:34pm

re: #169 Belafon

Episode two of Stranger things, and Winona Ryder’s character is carrying some science books, and I go “I’ve got that book”:

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I was a physics major before CS and I still have some of my books.

[want]

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HappyWarrior Jul 7, 2019 • 8:19:29pm

re: #168 Anymouse 🌹

They’ve been doing that as long as the Evangelical movement has existed. And Catholics bashed all Protestants. And various Protestant groups have bashed each other.

An alternative explanation for the decline of religious belief worldwide (not just in the USA) is “the Internet is where religion goes to die.” Their false or unproven assertions can be fact-checked in near-real time.

I’m aware of that. I’m just saying. TBH while I have a lot of problems with Christianity and religion from a multitude of reasons, these people still bother me since even indirectly a lot of my basic philosophy comes from a humanistic liberal interpretation of scripture that my grandparents followed.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:22:54pm

re: #165 Joe Bacon 🌹

Remember this is the same Pulpit Pimp who is a rabid anti-Semite.

And anti-Muslim, and anti-Catholic, and anti-LDS. He condemed the Mormon Church as a cult back in 2011. Mitt Romney asked him to retract that statement; Jefferies never did.

The previous pastor of the church was no better:

[Dr.] W. A. Criswell, in a discussion of racial integration, stated that he expressed astonishment at the cowardice of ministers “whose forebears [sic] and predecessors were martyrs and were burned at the stake”, but who themselves refuse to speak up about “this thing of integration”. True ministers, he argued, must passionately resist government mandated desegregation because it is “a denial of all that we believe in”.

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HappyWarrior Jul 7, 2019 • 8:24:21pm

re: #167 gwangung

This is a frakkin’ good point.

I think he’s on to something. TBH their hostility towards Hispanics- predominantly Democratic yet Christian is as well. They definitely were xenophobic towards non Western European immigrants for the same reasons even if they too were predominantly Christian.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:24:24pm

re: #174 HappyWarrior

Fair enough.

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HappyWarrior Jul 7, 2019 • 8:28:41pm

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹

Fair enough.

Yeah, I consider myself agnostic but things like empathy, kindness, not being judgmental were passed down to me. These are secular values too obviously but the people who had them learned them or interpreted them through the scripture.

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Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 8:30:16pm

re: #178 HappyWarrior

Yeah, I consider myself agnostic but things like empathy, kindness, not being judgmental were passed down to me. These are secular values too obviously but the people who had them learned them or interpreted them through the scripture.

I’m from Abilene, TX. Being judgmental is something you have to UN-learn.

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Belafon Jul 7, 2019 • 8:31:17pm

Why is Amazon Prime Day on Composite numbers:

Not Prime

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Rightwingconspirator Jul 7, 2019 • 8:33:12pm

re: #178 HappyWarrior

I don’t fear hell after death. not like I fear the kind of anger or malice or love of violence that makes hell on earth.

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HappyWarrior Jul 7, 2019 • 8:36:49pm

re: #179 Belafon

I’m from Abilene, TX. Being judgmental is something you have to UN-learn.

My dad’s parents while my dad, aunts, & uncles did attend Catholic school were never judgmental towards other races or sects. My grandfather’s own father was a bit of a rebel in that he was a Lutheran who let his wife raise the kids Catholic and my grandfather himself never looked down on my grandmother from coming from a considerably poorer family. They would be thrilled to know they have a half Peruvian great granddaughter who makes friends wherever she goes.

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HappyWarrior Jul 7, 2019 • 8:38:47pm

re: #181 Rightwingconspirator

I don’t fear hell after death. not like I fear the kind of anger or malice or love of violence that makes hell on earth.

Perhaps that is what the people who conceived hell meant. I’m of this belief. I don’t know what is after this life so I want to make it worth it so I try to enjoy life but also be kind and share it.

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Dread Pirate Jul 7, 2019 • 8:46:36pm

2/2 As the NY AG has argued, judicial estoppel prevents the govt from acting contrary to its representation to courts that 6/30 was a hard deadline for finalizing census questions. Career folks likely declined to make convoluted arguments to pacify Trump given ethics obligations.

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 8, 2019

.@NewYorkStateAG responds to DOJ announcement it is shaking up its legal team in the census case, confirms she will keep the team that won at trial & in the Supreme Court in place. https://t.co/xZ8iQikEFO

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 8, 2019

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Teukka Jul 7, 2019 • 8:50:41pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

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“Well, what are you waiting for? Put it in the dish, please.”

“It puts the kibble in the bowl or it gets the claws again.”

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 8:56:46pm

As for the trash being written about Comey’s daughter being part of the Epstein case: Her career at SDNY has nothing to do with her dad. She started there before he was fired as FBI Dir. She’s one of the most talented prosecutors I’ve worked with (& I’m not alone in that view).

— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) July 7, 2019

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ckkatz Jul 7, 2019 • 9:00:37pm

From last thread:

re: #264 Dr Lizardo

What I’ve always wondered is what caused the Philistines to leave Caphtor (maybe Crete)? Was it some natural disaster? Was it all just part of the Late Bronze Age Collapse? Or just the natural ebb and flow of migration in that period?

Eric Cline ( Professor at George Washington University) is discusses some ideas here:

1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric Cline, PhD

1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)

(70 minutes)

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mmmirele Jul 7, 2019 • 9:04:24pm

re: #151 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Robert Jeffress again. Jeffress is a serious player among pulpit pimps. He is pastor of First Baptist Dallas, which is the largest such House of Superstition of that brand in the world.
Evangelical Pastor: Democrats Have Created An ‘Imaginary God’

Jeffress is also a Trump idolator. He doesn’t worship God. He worships Trump.

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teleskiguy Jul 7, 2019 • 9:06:41pm

Badassery.

It’s bright outside…it must be #SunDay pic.twitter.com/QjzDxPWeDE

— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) July 8, 2019

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ckkatz Jul 7, 2019 • 9:10:28pm

Back around 1969 there was public discussion regarding a huge earthquake in California. One theory was that California would slide into the Pacific Ocean.

Around the same time there was a Science Fiction story about a future United States with a huge inland sea. At the end of the story, I realized that it was talking about a future where California didn’t slide into the ocean after an earthquake; The rest of the US did.

Anyway, among other artifacts from that period was a song.

So… from the ash heap of history, I present:

Shango - “Day After Day (It’s Slippin’ Away)”

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 9:14:56pm

re: #190 ckkatz

Western Interior Seaway (Wikipedia)

The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, and the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that existed during the mid- to late Cretaceous period as well as the very early Paleogene, splitting the continent of North America into two landmasses, Laramidia to the west and Appalachia to the east. The ancient sea stretched from the Gulf of Mexico and through the middle of the modern-day countries of the United States and Canada, meeting with the Arctic Ocean to the north. At its largest, it was 2,500 feet (760 m) deep, 600 miles (970 km) wide and over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long.

We were underwater at that time, which is why folks occasionally dig up marine fossils here.

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Dread Pirate Jul 7, 2019 • 9:15:01pm

I wonder what could have happened over the weekend that has the President so unnerved.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 8, 2019

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teleskiguy Jul 7, 2019 • 9:15:19pm

re: #150 teleskiguy

Rewatching The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling.

We lost such a unique head when he died.

I really miss Garry Shandling. He retweeted me retweeting him, once upon a time. He was a unique and gifted head. pic.twitter.com/aofHirj5v3

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 8, 2019

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ckkatz Jul 7, 2019 • 9:17:54pm

re: #191 Anymouse 🌹

Western Interior Seaway (Wikipedia)

We were underwater at that time, which is why folks occasionally dig up marine fossils here.

What was old is new.

And of course, there are a whole bunch of puns. :)

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 9:24:02pm

Berniebots keep adding me to Google Groups and Facebook Bernie pages.

Blocking each page.

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BlueSpotinAL Jul 7, 2019 • 9:27:18pm

re: #169 Belafon

Fuckin’ magnets, how do they work?

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teleskiguy Jul 7, 2019 • 9:35:06pm

re: #196 BlueSpotinAL

Fuckin’ magnets, how do they work?

You forced my hand! AAK!

Insane Clown Posse - Miracles

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fern01 Jul 7, 2019 • 9:36:20pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thing is, Obama did not inflame hatred like Trump has

If people did not want to visit the WH under President Obama - he let it go. He welcomed those who came & did not speak ill of any who stayed away. He made it an event for the team - but trump makes it an event for himself.

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fern01 Jul 7, 2019 • 9:40:02pm

re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg

Unfortunately you can’t blame this one entirely on Trump.

You may not, I can. I blame every last negative event on trump. If he didn’t cause it - he tried hard to do so. Like the teacher who caned the wrong child - “you can save this one for the next time you get away with misbehaving”

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 9:40:48pm

re: #198 fern01

If people did not want to visit the WH under President Obama - he let it go. He welcomed those who came & did not speak ill of any who stayed away. He made it an event for the team - but trump makes it an event for himself.

Republicans endlessly stoked racist hatred of Obama and it paid off in 2010 when they got the House back. Then they turned the Obama hatred up to 11 on their 24/7 Bullshit Machine that fired up the Teabaggers who hijacked the party.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 10:10:50pm

My county seat’s population grew by about five hundred people today (it was 1,100).

Bridgeport incorporated about half the land between it and the unincorporated town of Northport (about half a mile along US-26 and the homes around it).

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 10:11:56pm

Thunder and rain: The nightly smiting of my town is beginning.
wunderground.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Jul 7, 2019 • 10:13:37pm

This particular person makes that sum in the town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where the median household income is $54K. So she is at 4x to 8x her typical neighbor. pic.twitter.com/CAMKunSK0d

— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) July 8, 2019

Just imagine, for a moment, if we had an elite journalism institution of the Times’ caliber that saw the US income distribution as it really is.

— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) July 8, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 10:17:59pm

re: #203 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Boy I’d love to be living on that 54k median income.

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Targetpractice Jul 7, 2019 • 10:26:26pm

re: #203 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Ah, the same sort of article that gets us “Family earning $500K/yr struggling to make ends meet!”

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 10:27:53pm

re: #205 Targetpractice

Ah, the same sort of article that gets us “Family earning $500K/yr struggling to make ends meet!”

“Economically anxious family explains why they voted for Donald Trump”

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 10:32:15pm

(26:49)

The Past, Present, and Future of Qanon.
(includes discussion of Jeffery Epstein)

The Past, Present, and Future of Qanon, A Conspiracy That Is Very Dumb - SOME MORE NEWS

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Ace-o-aces Jul 7, 2019 • 10:33:08pm

Quebec has passed a bill barring schoolteachers, police officers & other public employees from wearing religious symbols in the workplace, effectively excluding religious Muslims, Sikhs and Jews from positions of authority in education and law enforcement. https://t.co/Mo1J5xXgU8

— Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) June 17, 2019

Well, technically you are right that it would be impossible to serve while wearing a menorah since IT’S A FUCKING CANDLE HOLDER YOU BIGOTED IGNORAMUS!

— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 8, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 7, 2019 • 11:30:09pm

re: #208 Ace-o-aces

How convenient, a bill that primarily benefits Christians.

Considering that tax money in Québec also partially supports Catholic parochial schools (where religious leaders do wear religious garments or icons), doubly so.

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Dread Pirate Jul 7, 2019 • 11:37:33pm

THIS—> https://t.co/b7TTc1tHAx

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 8, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 12:00:23am

This essay is hilarious.

IHOP to Psychosis (goes to Public Seminar)

A recent series of ads by International House of Pancakes has been widely ridiculed. Despite their success in erasing the “Pancake” at the root of their identity through the widely used acronym IHOP, the brand seemed frustrated at its inability to untether itself from the unyielding association with pancakes carried by the “P”. The first widely mocked attempt had IHOP fully abandoning the P to become IHOB. The switch from P to B hoped to sever the pancake association once and for all in order to make way for a world of burgers. No doubt the switch from P to B also signaled an intention to offer IHOP/IHOB as a suitable destination for all times of the day.

So hapless was this attempted rebranding that IHOB quickly became IHOP in short order. One would have thought they had learned their lesson, but a new campaign emerged that amazingly doubled down on the losing strategy of the prior failed rebranding. Only this time IHOP confusingly teased the new campaign by asking consumers to guess what the P of IHOP stands for. Um pancakes? Well, it turns out that the P now indeed does stand for pancakes but the twist is that “pancakes” are no longer pancakes. IHOP is introducing Angus Beef Pancakes into its menu. The surprise is that the pancakes are actually burgers, only now they are designated as pancakes. To add to the confusion, the pancakes-formerly-known-as-burgers includes a hamburger (in the traditional sense) with a pancake (in the traditional sense) in the middle.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 12:11:49am

Large campaign donor gets award from Trump. He continues to subvert the meaning of these awards.

Jerry will be getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, well deserved! https://t.co/45YXTurlQJ

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 6, 2019

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Dread Pirate Jul 8, 2019 • 12:30:46am

Since Trump announced steel tariffs 16 months ago, U.S. Steel has lost nearly 70% of its market value. It idled two unprofitable American furnaces in June. https://t.co/03IFMIekTI via @markets

— Benn Steil (@BennSteil) July 8, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 12:32:10am

Yesterday was Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s seventy-third wedding anniversary.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution gave a list of their ups-and-downs in the last year.

ajc.com

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 12:40:33am

re: #213 Dread Pirate

There’s always a tweet (tm):

Our Steel Industry is the talk of the World. It has been given new life, and is thriving. Billions of Dollars is being spent on new plants all around the country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2018

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 8, 2019 • 12:44:31am

This is kind of funny, in a morbid and callous kind of way. It’s getting pretty easy for me to be callous when Republican fatcats meet some horrible fate. Btw, the late Mr. Cline donated a million bucks to Trump’s inaugural fund.

Billionaire coal executive Chris Cline, 6 others die in helicopter crash in the Bahamas

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Patricia Kayden Jul 8, 2019 • 1:03:09am

EVANGELICALS:

With all of the sickening atrocities being committed in the name of trump, including separating babies from their parents and LOCKING THEM IN CAGES, I wouldn’t be so quick to hitch him to your cross.

trump makes a mockery of all Jesus stood for.

AMEN. https://t.co/qcBrGGNRTV

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 8, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 1:05:40am

115% of Trump’s China Tariff Revenue Goes to Paying Angry Farmers (goes to the Council on Foreign Relations, with analysis and charts of tariffs and payments).

In a primarily agricultural area, such as those where Backwoods Sleuth (hi!) or I live, agriculture is the premier industry.

Even those who do not work in agriculture depend on it, whether they are farm workers, school teachers, or shopkeepers.

Shoveling money at farmers will not revive an economy deliberately sabotaged through tariffs.

While precisely none of my income comes from agriculture-related business, if the local market closes its doors due to the sharp downturn of business, then I have to spend it outside my local area (whether Internet or traveling to a larger city). The money I put into my economy goes away from my local area, never to be seen again.

I make a point of shopping locally, though that might cost more and take more time. I value being able to pop into the little general store in my town when I need something, whether it’s gasoline, lotto tickets, bread, milk, or cigarettes.

If that store closed, the next one is a thirty-two mile round trip. Suddenly I’m going to spend less (though I consider those stores “local” in the sense they are still in my county).

If I have to go to Scottsbluff or Cheyenne to do my shopping, or take it to the Internet, that money never winds up in local hands.

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Patricia Kayden Jul 8, 2019 • 1:07:39am

I have been trying to bring people’s attention to the rape of a thirteen year-old girl charges brought against Trump then dropped bc she received death threats. Perhaps now people will take them seriously! #EpsteinTrump https://t.co/G12g8hK1CP

— Mira Sorvino (@MiraSorvino) July 7, 2019

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 1:09:18am

re: #184 Dread Pirate

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And DOJ is bringing in a team of Consumer Protection attorneys because this Administration has no interest in protecting consumers, so why not use them for the Census case.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 1:11:47am

re: #219 Patricia Kayden

Perhaps this ought to be retweeted widely:

POLL FOR TRUMPERS ONLY: If the Epstein case proves Trump raped an underage girl, will you still support him?

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) July 8, 2019

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 8, 2019 • 1:21:01am

re: #201 Anymouse 🌹

My county seat’s population grew by about five hundred people today (it was 1,100).

Bridgeport incorporated about half the land between it and the unincorporated town of Northport (about half a mile along US-26 and the homes around it).

Bridgeport’s Manifest Destiny.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 1:24:36am

re: #222 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Bridgeport’s Manifest Destiny.

Now the mayor needs to send a team like Lewis and Clark to explore the new territory between the old city limit and the North Platte River. Perhaps some of the local natives could guide them. /s

Facebook and Twitter reportedly not invited to Trump’s social media summit https://t.co/r9WATlwAPb pic.twitter.com/t2EOXu1u7V

— The Hill (@thehill) July 8, 2019

Is he inviting Gab and Trump Dating?

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Dread Pirate Jul 8, 2019 • 1:30:29am

re: #223 Anymouse 🌹

Now the mayor needs to send a team like Lewis and Clark to explore the new territory between the old city limit and the North Platte River. Perhaps some of the local natives could guide them. /s

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Is he inviting Gab and Trump Dating?

He’s BIG on Grinder.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 1:39:56am

re: #224 Dread Pirate

He’s BIG on Grinder.

And Daily Stormer and 4chan.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 1:47:20am

Mike Cernovich being fractally wrong again.

Has anyone asked @PreetBharara why he didn’t bring this case? Preet was at SDNY during time period covered in Epstein indictment and could have filed the case. Why didn’t he, @eliehonig? https://t.co/W02oJ5Ar5g

— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 7, 2019

Wrong @Cernovich. Alex Acosta gave away his absurd, unjust, embarrassment of free ride to Epstein in 2007. @PreetBharara was working in the Senate then and came in as SDNY US Attorney in 2009. https://t.co/Kd6kkStm1I

— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) July 7, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 1:53:13am

re: #226 Anymouse 🌹

LOL

22 women accuse trump of sexual assault. Why isn’t Barr bringing it?

— Minh (@discomodjo) July 8, 2019

Epstein-Barr hereditary disease

— Schizopreneuria (@schizopreneuria) July 8, 2019

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Dread Pirate Jul 8, 2019 • 1:56:35am

House Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on Friday titled: “Constitutional Processes for Addressing Presidential Misconduct.”

I wonder which “constitutional process” will be explored… pic.twitter.com/sqJoeccAUY

— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) July 7, 2019

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 1:57:44am

re: #228 Dread Pirate

House Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on Friday titled: “Constitutional Processes for Addressing Presidential Misconduct.”

I wonder which “constitutional process” will be explored…

I wonder what sort of Presidential Misconduct will be addresed…

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Dread Pirate Jul 8, 2019 • 2:26:08am

I’m still proud of George Washington and the Continental Army even if they didn’t take control of the airports.

— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) July 7, 2019

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Dread Pirate Jul 8, 2019 • 2:28:31am

(People will have the option of completing this census online: https://t.co/7iIuHzDqoD)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 8, 2019

Yeah but if you do it online you can’t write “Go fuck yourself, Donny” over the citizenship question.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 8, 2019 • 2:30:43am

Brexiteers are Trumpers so of course they are angry the truth got out:

Dire no-deal warnings issued as top Tories join Trump and Farage venting anger over UK ambassador’s leaked remarks

Following an exclusive poll for The Independent that showed voters wanted neither Mr Johnson nor Jeremy Hunt to be PM, a separate survey has revealed Tory members - the electorate the pair is currently courting - found most backed the death penalty and thought Donald Trump would make a good prime minister.

The Tory party is in a death spiral and taking the UK with it, and Labour is too busy picking lint from its belly button to do anything.

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Dread Pirate Jul 8, 2019 • 2:33:16am

re: #232 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Brexiteers are Trumpers so of course they are angry the truth got out:

Stupid People of the World Unite!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 2:44:10am

re: #231 Dread Pirate

Trump today criticized the Census itself as overly expensive, saying the $15 billion cost is “ridiculous”: “I don’t know why we can’t do that through the computers of the world because, frankly, that’s the way you can do a census today, and probably a lot more accurately.”

“This will be the best, most beautiful census ever!”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 8, 2019 • 2:52:05am

Biochemist wins Miss Virginia 2019 with a science experiment on stage

A 24-year-old American biochemist has used a science experiment to help win her Miss Virginia.

Camille Schrier was named Miss Virginia 2019 after she wowed the judges with a colourful science showcase during the talent portion of the competition.

The biochemist has dual Bachelor of Science degrees from Virginia Tech in Biochemistry and Systems Biology.

It was a colorful demonstration:

How Miss Virginia Won Her Crown Thanks to Science

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 8, 2019 • 2:55:23am

Biography book review, of someone worth reading about:

Jacob Bronowski: the complex life of a science popularizer

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 2:57:18am

re: #236 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Biography book review, of someone worth reading about:

Jacob Bronowski: the complex life of a science popularizer

I was a big fan of his BBC series when it aired on PBS.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 8, 2019 • 3:17:22am

BBC put up another clip from their new show Serengeti:

Kali the Lioness Vs Warthog | Serengeti: Story Told by John Boyega | BBC Earth

The Beeb is getting pummelled in the comments, though, and rightfully so for the “dramatization” that has gone into this show.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 8, 2019 • 3:18:57am

“Consolation” by Paul Ibbotson + Sheet Music - Performed by Esther Abrami

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HappyWarrior Jul 8, 2019 • 3:33:56am

re: #226 Anymouse 🌹

Mike Cernovich being fractally wrong again.

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Actually learn history Cerno but I get it you’re a Trump cultist .

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HappyWarrior Jul 8, 2019 • 3:35:42am

re: #231 Dread Pirate

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Yeah but if you do it online you can’t write “Go fuck yourself, Donny” over the citizenship question.

He loves complaining about the cost of things when it’s not benefiting him directly.

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HappyWarrior Jul 8, 2019 • 3:36:42am

re: #235 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Biochemist wins Miss Virginia 2019 with a science experiment on stage

It was a colorful demonstration:

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Very cool. Tons of my family are VT alums.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 3:38:29am

re: #231 Dread Pirate

Yeah but if you do it online you can’t write “Go fuck yourself, Donny” over the citizenship question.

And if they slip that citizenship question on the Website, I’d bet you can’t get past it leaving it blank to complete the census.

We will be doing the paper form, thanks. If they go full Andrew Jackson “let him enforce it” on the question, it’s a simple matter to skip that question.

In the meantime, if wingnuts want to boycott the census entirely (it seems that every ten years they want to boycott it over something), well, that reduces a whole host of federal programs for them in their states (and counting for House districts).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 3:38:42am

re: #235 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Biochemist wins Miss Virginia 2019 with a science experiment on stage

making stupid women everywhere feel inadequate. is that what we really want?

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 3:48:50am

Two unimportant things at Chez Tumbleweed:

1) My wife yesterday found how the birds got into our attic. It seems the last tornado which hit our house took off about a two-foot section of a single slat of our wooden siding just under the eave of the roof on the north side of our house. (The siding is original to the house.) It left a hole about 4” x 2 feet, which is more than enough space for birds to get in. When the baby birds get out of there, we’ll close it off and get them out of our attic.

2) Drinking Tab and Sailor Jerry is a very strange taste.

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Dread Pirate Jul 8, 2019 • 3:55:33am

Tab hasn’t been right since the end of sodium cyclamate, and don’t get me started on spiced rum!

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A Mom Anon Jul 8, 2019 • 3:56:25am

I kinda went into the weeds on a twitter thread about Epstein and I probably shouldn’t have. I am a rape and violence survivor and my brain went somewhere that triggered some serious anxiety. So why not share? 🤷‍♀️

Epstein is just one rich pig who built himself a system to feed his sickness. His web is probably huge due to the amount of time that has passed and planning it took. And the number of people involved. And he’s ONE DUDE. How many more are there like him? Trump’s sketchy as hell modeling and pageant history is probably its own web of Awful. No way is Epstein some anomaly. This shit ALWAYS has deep and disgusting layers that get hidden, sometimes forever.

I’ve always had this “issue” of being “hyper sensitive” to the suffering of other people. Empathy sucks sometimes. Throw in PTSD, anxiety and depression and you might imagine it can be tough on those of us who fight hard every day to hang on and “tough it out”. Right now I can literally FEEL the hate and hostility roaming at large, much of it directed at women. The depth and scope of that hate takes my breath away at times, literally. I honestly am just over most humans right now. Not all of us, but my list of Awesome is getting smaller. Which sucks.

I wish I had better words to communicate all this but it’s just exhausting and overwhelming sometimes. My own little piece of the world is crumbling away and our country is eating itself alive from the inside out. Are we going to have to completely lose everything and deteriorate into chaos and shit? Is that necessary? Because working hard and doing your best (even if that best isn’t spectacular compared to others) isn’t a guarantee of shit. It means nothing to others how hard you work or how much integrity you have. We’ve become mostly a nation of self absorbed jerks. Maybe we have this fate coming, but honestly I don’t think most of us are awful. It’s just that Awful seems to rule the day. Besides beating the shit out of all the Awful(which is gonna require full time shifts, people) and going full vendetta, I mean what is there to do? All the shit I was taught about being good and working hard just does not seem anything but naive and quaint right now.

I am discouraged. Not the first time. Or the last. Maybe shit just has to fall apart to be built up stronger again? I hope so. I really do.

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Ming5000 Jul 8, 2019 • 4:05:30am

re: #247 A Mom Anon

I was just in the Epstein threads too. There seems to be such a huge trove of evidence and so many threads of contact and corruption. It is overwhelming.

One additional thing I am picking up is, where did all of Epstein’s money come from? “Hedge Fund Manager” seems to be a throw away excuse. One thing I have learned in the past 2-3 years is, the rich move money around with ease. Epstein’s trafficking may have been an income stream on its own.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 8, 2019 • 4:08:43am

re: #247 A Mom Anon

All the shit I was taught about being good and working hard just does not seem anything but naive and quaint right now.

As I get older I appreciate the old adage of taking care of oneself.

There are many in society, and they build organizations (like churches) which sell this or that idea of what we should (or shouldn’t) do, but frankly I find most of these things useless. This probably is somewhat marxist of me, but I find religion to exist mostly to keep the masses busy and placid in light of the injustices of the powerful.

The strong and powerful prey on the weak, because they can.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 4:10:19am

re: #249 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The strong and powerful prey on the weak, because they can.

And they put structures in place to make it legal and even to make seem virtuous.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 4:14:30am

re: #247 A Mom Anon

I kinda went into the weeds on a twitter thread about Epstein and I probably shouldn’t have. I am a rape and violence survivor and my brain went somewhere that triggered some serious anxiety. So why not share? 🤷‍♀️

Epstein is just one rich pig who built himself a system to feed his sickness. His web is probably huge due to the amount of time that has passed and planning it took. And the number of people involved. And he’s ONE DUDE. How many more are there like him? Trump’s sketchy as hell modeling and pageant history is probably its own web of Awful. No way is Epstein some anomaly. This shit ALWAYS has deep and disgusting layers that get hidden, sometimes forever.

I’ve always had this “issue” of being “hyper sensitive” to the suffering of other people. Empathy sucks sometimes. Throw in PTSD, anxiety and depression and you might imagine it can be tough on those of us who fight hard every day to hang on and “tough it out”. Right now I can literally FEEL the hate and hostility roaming at large, much of it directed at women. The depth and scope of that hate takes my breath away at times, literally. I honestly am just over most humans right now. Not all of us, but my list of Awesome is getting smaller. Which sucks.

I wish I had better words to communicate all this but it’s just exhausting and overwhelming sometimes. My own little piece of the world is crumbling away and our country is eating itself alive from the inside out. Are we going to have to completely lose everything and deteriorate into chaos and shit? Is that necessary? Because working hard and doing your best (even if that best isn’t spectacular compared to others) isn’t a guarantee of shit. It means nothing to others how hard you work or how much integrity you have. We’ve become mostly a nation of self absorbed jerks. Maybe we have this fate coming, but honestly I don’t think most of us are awful. It’s just that Awful seems to rule the day. Besides beating the shit out of all the Awful(which is gonna require full time shifts, people) and going full vendetta, I mean what is there to do? All the shit I was taught about being good and working hard just does not seem anything but naive and quaint right now.

I am discouraged. Not the first time. Or the last. Maybe shit just has to fall apart to be built up stronger again? I hope so. I really do.

[[[Mom]]] Don’t let the bastards get you down.

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A Mom Anon Jul 8, 2019 • 4:24:43am

re: #251 Anymouse 🌹

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 4:26:43am

re: #252 A Mom Anon

“Teach a man to fish” also fails if there is no access to unpolluted waters and sufficient stocks of fish

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jeffreyw Jul 8, 2019 • 4:28:01am

Good morning!

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retired cynic Jul 8, 2019 • 4:48:05am

The Astronomy Picture of the Day is great today: The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT array of 64 dishes just going online in South Africa. The image is annotated with rollover on the site; not sure how well that will transfer. The black hole is the bright area just right of center.

apod.nasa.gov

Edited to add that the annotations are flat here.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 4:48:24am

re: #252 A Mom Anon

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 4:49:24am

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

Teach a man to fish also fails if he can’t afford a fishing rod.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 4:51:08am

re: #257 Anymouse 🌹

Teach a man to fish also fails if he can’t afford a fishing rod.

It was assumed that the recipients of all those Obamaphones were just using them to call their drug dealers and not to look for work…

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retired cynic Jul 8, 2019 • 4:55:44am

The rotten cabinet, on Judd Legum’s Popular Information popular.info

[Current Labor Secretary Alex] Acosta personally negotiated the plea deal with one of Epstein’s lawyers and agreed to keep the terms secret from Epstein’s victims. In a 2011 letter to the media, Acosta suggested he gave Epstein a favorable deal because he was intimidated by Epstein’s team of “legal superstars.”

What followed was a year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors. I use the word assault intentionally, as the defense in this case was more aggressive than any which I, or prosecutors in my office, had previously encountered. Mr. Epstein hired an army of legal superstars: Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, former Judge and then Pepperdine Law Dean Kenneth Starr, former Deputy Assistant to the President and then Kirkland & Ellis Partner Jay Lefkowitz, and several others…

The defense strategy was not limited to legal issues. Defense counsel investigated individual prosecutors and their families, looking for personal peccadilloes that may provide a basis for disqualification.

But asked about the case in his 2017 nomination hearing to be Secretary of Labor, Acosta said the outcome was “a point of pride.”

After the federal court’s ruling in February, Acosta said that his actions were “approved by departmental leadership and followed departmental procedures” and declined further comment, citing the ongoing litigation.

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Teukka Jul 8, 2019 • 4:57:00am

re: #257 Anymouse 🌹

Teach a man to fish also fails if he can’t afford a fishing rod.

Teaching a man to fish also fails if you charge him for the fishing course and he can’t pay.

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retired cynic Jul 8, 2019 • 4:58:59am

re: #259 retired cynic

259 edited to clarify the quote

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retired cynic Jul 8, 2019 • 5:01:49am

https://www.distractify.com/fyi/2015/04/13/19NMFR/the-19-most-mind-blowing-sentences-in-the-english-language-1197891759

A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed

The letter combination “-ough” has nine possible pronunciations in English (depending on regional dialect), and this delightful sentence contains them all: “uff,” “oh,” “auh,” “ow,” “uh,” “oo,” “off,” and “uhp.” How’s that for a tongue-twister?

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Teukka Jul 8, 2019 • 5:03:35am

re: #260 Teukka

Teaching a man to fish also fails if you charge him for the fishing course and he can’t pay.

Or if you teach him to fish a fish which doesn’t have a habitat where he lives, or is already overfished.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 5:11:28am

re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It was assumed that the recipients of all those Obamaphones were just using them to call their drug dealers and not to look for work…

LOL.

And the “Obamaphone” argument was actually against the Universal Service Fund in 1996 (a tax assessed to telephone owners). Amongst other things it was to support rural connectivity and provide the final push for 911 service (for example, my town got 911 in 2012 paid for from that fund).

Since 1985 the law has allowed for a “Lifeline” service (a $10 subsidy for first landlines, then cellphone service, then Internet service for people below 135% of the poverty line, more in extremely remote places such as Alaskan native villages). That is the part of the USF which is attacked as “Obamaphones.” (It’s really an attack on the tax.)

No actual phones were given out. (Funny that, anti-tax conservatives lied.)

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 5:14:35am

Just read this and really see how the Republican Party has mutated into the Soviet Communist Party.

The GOP Embraces Anti-Democratic Ideology

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 8, 2019 • 5:14:47am

When I lived in Japan, vending machines were indeed everywhere and I frequently bought drinks out of them.

Never larvae, though:

I Tried Unique Japanese Vending Machines In Tokyo

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 5:17:24am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 5:31:35am

re: #267 Joe Bacon 🌹

all too painfully close to the New Media Reality.

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Weaselone Jul 8, 2019 • 5:39:07am

re: #180 Belafon

Why is Amazon Prime Day on Composite numbers:

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I didn’t see an answer to this upthread. I’m assuming it’s because 15+16=31 which is prime.

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Weaselone Jul 8, 2019 • 5:39:54am

re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

all too painfully close to the New Media Reality.

I’m pretty sure this exact segment was on CNN last night.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 5:40:30am

Qwazy Qbots now posting that Bill and Hillary Clinton will be arrested this afternoon in connection with the Epstein case…

Monday Morning and I already want to throw my hands up at these assholes…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 5:42:10am

re: #270 Weaselone

I’m pretty sure this exact segment was on CNN last night.

I just recall summer of 2015 when Trump was talking about how exciting his rallies were and how people were falling asleep at Jeb Bush rallies.

20 minutes later, CNN aired an interview with a woman who had fallen asleep at a Bush rally.

That was another moment when I began to despair for the future of the Republic.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 5:51:42am

Peer into the mind of a Trump cultist.

“Would it be too much to pray for a day when the Bible gets a ‘Book of Trump,’ much like it has a ‘Book of Esther’ celebrating the deliverance of the Jews from ancient Persia?” Miriam Adelson writes an op-ed in the paper she and her husband own: https://t.co/yh1bRTIZ3X

— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) July 7, 2019

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steve_davis Jul 8, 2019 • 5:58:35am

well, just told someone on Facebook that I haven’t physically seen in 20 years that I loved her and was praying for her. Now, apparently, what I thought was a cryptic statement about a terminal cancer diagnosis may have actually related to her dog having bad teeth. sigh…..last fucking time I try to be empathetic.

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jeffreyw Jul 8, 2019 • 6:01:12am

Nice cup, be a shame anything happened to it. pic.twitter.com/aAglW7dWHN

— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) July 8, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 6:08:27am

re: #273 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Peer into the mind of a Trump cultist.

But the Bible is the immutable word of God …

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 6:09:38am

re: #274 steve_davis

well, just told someone on Facebook that I haven’t physically seen in 20 years that I loved her and was praying for her. Now, apparently, what I thought was a cryptic statement about a terminal cancer diagnosis may have actually related to her dog having bad teeth. sigh…..last fucking time I try to be empathetic.

Nothing wrong about being empathetic with her dog. Bad teeth are really painful.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 6:12:00am

re: #276 Anymouse 🌹

But the Bible is the immutable word of God …

If they can add a New Testament or a Book of Mormon to it, why not a Book of Trump, and Ivanka and Donald Jr while we are at it…

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 6:14:18am

re: #273 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Peer into the mind of a Trump cultist.

Miriam Adelson. Wife of Sheldon Adelson. Helped buy the Republican Party. Got a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump (presumably for being such a large donor to the GOP).

Grifting the rubes is what they do.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 6:17:20am

re: #273 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Interesting she references the Book of Esther. God is never mentioned in that book.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 6:19:50am

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹

Interesting she references the Book of Esther. God is never mentioned in that book.

and it is told as a work of fiction, an illustrative tale

fake news, in a word

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Belafon Jul 8, 2019 • 6:19:59am

No matter how many times we say this:

My thoughts on Jeffrey Epstein: it is a just thing he may finally be held to account. And all those who were connected to him whether president or former, republican or Democrat, lawyer or layman should be held to account as well.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) July 7, 2019

*Trump and Bill Clinton both implicated*
Democrats aren’t willing to prosecute Clinton!

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Teukka Jul 8, 2019 • 6:24:07am

re: #273 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Peer into the mind of a Trump cultist.

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re: #276 Anymouse 🌹

But the Bible is the immutable word of God …

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹

Interesting she references the Book of Esther. God is never mentioned in that book.

Trololo… The Full Original Version.

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A Mom Anon Jul 8, 2019 • 6:24:28am

re: #277 Anymouse 🌹

Yep. I can attest from personal experience and having a kitty who had bad teeth as his health deteriorated from kidney failure. It’s awful.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 6:26:57am

re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If they can add a New Testament or a Book of Mormon to it, why not a Book of Trump, and Ivanka and Donald Jr while we are at it…

I wonder if this story of Trump repeatedly raping girls procured for him by Epstein will make it into the “Book of Trump”?

Now that billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news, it seems like a good time to take a closer look at allegations that Donald Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at Epstein’s Manhattan home in 1994.

Trump is more than overdue for his #MeToo reckoning… pic.twitter.com/pumMTXcA3h

— Ian Madrigal - The Monopoly Man (@iansmadrig) November 30, 2018

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 6:27:23am

re: #273 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Peer into the mind of a Trump cultist.

Hmm. As a Jewish woman, it would seem she’s ignoring the Jewish Psalms.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. Psalm 18:30

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. Psalm 19:7

If the Law is perfect, and Donald Trump is not mentioned there, then she’s trying to change the Law as promulgated by God.

I don’t specifically know how Judaism treats that, but most religions would call it blasphemy.

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Belafon Jul 8, 2019 • 6:28:29am

re: #190 ckkatz

Back around 1969 there was public discussion regarding a huge earthquake in California. One theory was that California would slide into the Pacific Ocean.

Around the same time there was a Science Fiction story about a future United States with a huge inland sea. At the end of the story, I realized that it was talking about a future where California didn’t slide into the ocean after an earthquake; The rest of the US did.

Anyway, among other artifacts from that period was a song.

So… from the ash heap of history, I present:

Shango - “Day After Day (It’s Slippin’ Away)”

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The rest of the US sliding into the ocean was also in a Garfueld episode.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 6:32:38am

re: #273 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The Old and New Testament speak directly against what Trump and the GOP are doing right now.

Everything from their inhumane treatment of people seeking asylum and a better life in the US to their awful treatment of women and minorities.

The Bible speaks against such things. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of their irredeemable nature and inhospitality towards travelers and migrants.

Trump brings out the worst in people, and he surrounds himself with the worst sort of people - criminals, cronies, and sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear (I know, I’m a broken record, but it’s still indisputably true). He doesn’t think he’s breaking the law because others did it (it’s still breaking the law if others broke the law - and in most cases, it’s his deflection/lies that he’s broken the law and trying to gin up an excuse for the criminal acts).

We see it with his hypocrisy and lies around systematically hiring undocumented workers at his golf resorts. He’s ultimately responsible for the hiring and payroll. He was fine profiting from undocumented workers getting paid a fraction of what the jobs/roles entailed. It’s okay when he breaks the law, but not when others do it.

His is the GOP mindset - fuck you, I got mine.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 6:32:54am

He knows all the best people.

The best at sex trafficking
The best at being undeclared foreign agent
The best at financial crimes.

He surrounds himself with criminals because he thinks this is how things are. He is a criminal.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 8, 2019

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 6:36:50am

re: #289 lawhawk

He surrounds himself with criminals because he thinks this is how things are. He is a criminal.

Honest and competent people will not touch him, nor will anyone who cares to maintain their long term reputation over advancing their own interests over the short term.

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Belafon Jul 8, 2019 • 6:40:43am

Anyone who thinks this is a serious politics tweet should maybe chill out just a teeny tiny bit. (I’m a journalist, I super don’t endorse candidates. :D)

— Dara Lind (@DLind) July 7, 2019

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 6:41:00am

re: #290 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Speaking of….

Deutsche Bank is laying off 18,000 globally in a massive restructuring. They’re eliminating their global equities operations and cut some in fixed income. They’re forecasting losses.

Deutsche Bank was one of the few banks that would even lend to Trump (and even then, their underwriters threw red flags but the bank overruled the cautions to lend to Trump anyways - the dictum “if you owe a bank $100, they own you, but if you owe the bank $1 billion, you own the bank, applies”).

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Sir John Barron Jul 8, 2019 • 6:41:40am

re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White

Trump tweets about ‘merit-based immigration’.

To my way of thinking, somebody traveling hundreds of miles, a lot of it on foot, risking everything, spending all their money just to come here to build a better life has a lot of fucking merit.

We need a merit-based presidency.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 6:43:30am

Good. I assume this means the immunity deal for his co-conspirators doesn’t bind the SDNY either.

— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 8, 2019

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Sir John Barron Jul 8, 2019 • 6:44:03am

re: #273 NO SMOCKING GUN!

“Would it be too much to pray for a day when the Bible gets a ‘Book of Trump,’

Yes, it would be too much.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 6:44:26am

re: #292 lawhawk

Speaking of….

Deutsche Bank is laying off 18,000 globally in a massive restructuring. They’re eliminating their global equities operations and cut some in fixed income. They’re forecasting losses.

Deutsche Bank was one of the few banks that would even lend to Trump (and even then, their underwriters threw red flags but the bank overruled the cautions to lend to Trump anyways - the dictum “if you owe a bank $100, they own you, but if you owe the bank $1 billion, you own the bank, applies”).

They just tried to merge with Commerzbank (another major German Bank) but that deal collapsed. But that, too, would have resulted in massive redundancies and layoffs involving thousands.

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Sir John Barron Jul 8, 2019 • 6:46:23am

re: #282 Belafon

And all those who were connected to him whether president or former, republican or Democrat, lawyer or layman should be held to account as well.

Friends, neighbors, friends of friends who had cousins who had neighbors who had friends who were connected…..

How exactly is this “held to account” process supposed to work?

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 6:47:07am

re: #288 lawhawk

I can leave the Bible part out and just say that Donald Trump and the GOP are doing the opposite of what moral people would do.

No one seeking help (asylum) would be thrown in prisons by moral people.
No one seeking a “more perfect Union” would try to undermine its principles.
No one would treat more than half of the populace (women and minorities) as unequal to white men.
No one would lie to enrich themselves (the Tax Scams of Reagan, the Bushes, and Trump).

Conservatism by its nature seeks to maintain the status quo. For the overwhelming majority of humanity, that was aristocracy on top, serfs on the bottom. It was only the Enlightenment breaking free of the shackles of religion and aristocracy which declared “all people’s rights are worth something.”

Our nation has often fallen short of that lofty position, but it has always striven to attain it. Conservatism throughout the nation’s history has sought to return to an aristocracy and serfs.

Conservatism is the ideology which longs for a new Dark Age, where the “correct” people have rights and the lives of the rest only matter to the extent the aristocracy needs them to maintain power.

Gaining and maintaining power is always the goal of conservatism, in all times and all nations, to maintain the status quo of the “right” people ruling.

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Belafon Jul 8, 2019 • 6:48:36am

re: #297 Sir John Barron

Friends, neighbors, friends of friends who had cousins who had neighbors who had friends who were connected…..

How exactly is this “held to account” process supposed to work?

I figure it’s Democrats saying “We will want even Democrats convicted if some are found to have taken advantage of Epstein’s ‘services’.” I don’t mind Democrats saying it, but it’s not going to buy any points with anyone.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 6:49:19am

re: #294 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I think that’s accurate. The SDNY is investigating crimes beyond what the Florida prosecutors dealt with, and there’s no statute of limitation on child sex trafficking charges, which means that if SDNY is going after Epstein and those he conspired with to get underage children to perform sex acts, those other people are in legal jeopardy and there’s no deal to protect them.

SDNY could get reined in by Barr, but that’d raise still more obstruction charges against Trump and Barr (who said he’d recuse from acting re: Epstein since Barr was a member of the law firm Kirkland and Ellis that repped Epstein).

I hope Epstein goes down hard for this - and there’s minimum mandatory sentencing on child sex trafficking charges - 10-15 years per count.

There’s also the possibility that the indictment/charging sheet provides other names or alludes to other persons, which could other famous/powerful people. They all should go down. Don’t care if it’s Dershowitz, Clinton, or Trump. They engaged in child sex trafficking and related criminal acts? Prison. Throw away the key.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 6:50:13am

re: #297 Sir John Barron

Friends, neighbors, friends of friends who had cousins who had neighbors who had friends who were connected…..

How exactly is this “held to account” process supposed to work?

Courts and laws. A jury of their disgusted peers as the lurid details of trafficking minors for a lurid crypto-currency are laid out to a juror mom or dad with a daughter or son.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 6:50:13am

re: #298 Anymouse 🌹

Gaining and maintaining power is always the goal of conservatism, in all times and all nations, to maintain the status quo of the “right” people ruling.

There are a handful of cynical people at the top trying to maintain power and exploiting not only the fear, hatred, bigotry and xenophobia of the masses, but also exploiting their other ideals, corrupting nationalism, religion and sense of duty and civic pride and co-opting to their own power-grabbing ends.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 6:52:14am

re: #299 Belafon

I figure it’s Democrats saying “We will want even Democrats convicted if some are found to have taken advantage of Epstein’s ‘services’.” I don’t mind Democrats saying it, but it’s not going to buy any points with anyone.

David Vitter was thrown under a bus by Democrats when his information came out.

One party says “prosecute anyone who broke the law.”

The other says “not our guys, though.”

I wonder which would resonate more in a kitchen-table talk with a mom and dad with a couple minor daughters or sons.

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Sir John Barron Jul 8, 2019 • 6:53:30am

re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“This will be the best, most beautiful census ever!”

So, “We need to add a question to the Census, which will create more work, and make it more expensive” and also, too “The Census is too damn expensive”?

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 6:54:24am

re: #303 Anymouse 🌹

David Vitter was thrown under a bus by Democrats when his information came out.

One party says “prosecute anyone who broke the law.”

The other says “not our guys, though.”

I wonder which would resonate more in a kitchen-table talk with a mom and dad with a couple minor daughters or sons.

I see…. and raise Alabama, the GOP, and Roy Moore.

They still took the alleged child sex predator over anyone with a D after their name.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 6:55:22am

re: #305 lawhawk

I see…. and raise Alabama, the GOP, and Roy Moore.

They still took the alleged child sex predator over anyone with a D after their name.

And he lost.

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Sir John Barron Jul 8, 2019 • 6:59:11am

re: #303 Anymouse 🌹

David Vitter was thrown under a bus by Democrats when his information came out.

One party says “prosecute anyone who broke the law.”

The other says “not our guys, though.”

I wonder which would resonate more in a kitchen-table talk with a mom and dad with a couple minor daughters or sons.

Vitter was/is a Republican, though, right?

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Belafon Jul 8, 2019 • 7:00:04am

re: #303 Anymouse 🌹

David Vitter was thrown under a bus by Democrats when his information came out.

One party says “prosecute anyone who broke the law.”

The other says “not our guys, though.”

I wonder which would resonate more in a kitchen-table talk with a mom and dad with a couple minor daughters or sons.

In rational times, I think “It could have been your daughter” would have resonated.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 7:00:58am

re: #308 Belafon

In rational times, I think “It could have been your daughter” would have resonated.

she was a minor should be enough to get most normal people to react

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Sir John Barron Jul 8, 2019 • 7:02:38am

re: #282 Belafon

No matter how many times we say this:

*Trump and Bill Clinton both implicated*
Democrats aren’t willing to prosecute Clinton!

OK, might have misread this tweet, and misunderstood what he means by “connected”. Obviously anyone aware of his particular activities or in anyway involved in them should, and it sounds like they will, be held accountable.

Might have misunderstood him to suggest that anyone who knew or worked with Epstein should be held to account. Obviously not everyone, and I suspect most of his acquaintances had little idea what all he was involved with.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:03:21am

re: #307 Sir John Barron

Vitter was/is a Republican, though, right?

I stand corrected. He is a Republican.

That made it easier for Democrats to throw him under a bus. /s

I was thinking of Anthony Weiner and got the wrong sexual predator.

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 8, 2019 • 7:03:57am

ok but what is the downside https://t.co/eGKUrAnoeS

— darth™ (@darth) July 8, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:07:11am

re: #282 Belafon

No matter how many times we say this:

*Trump and Bill Clinton both implicated*
Democrats aren’t willing to prosecute Clinton!

They’re like Pokémon: Gotta catch them all.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 7:07:49am

Cong Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has cancelled his NH campaign swing, flew home to California and will be making an announcement this afternoon related to his presidential campaign. Most believe he is withdrawing from the race … and possibly announcing he will instead seek reelection.

— politics1.com (@Politics1com) July 8, 2019

I suspect we’ll see more of this in coming weeks as the next round of debates culls the field more (and it definitely needs to be a reaping).

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:13:35am

This Epstein crap hitting the impeller now is going to make next year’s election a real issue. If politicians are involved (and I have no doubt some are), this will make Watergate look like Hide and Seek.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:14:20am

re: #314 lawhawk

Swalwell’s that ends well I guess

— GP (@gp2k) July 8, 2019

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MsJ Jul 8, 2019 • 7:19:39am

3 years ago I walked into a store in Baghdad & asked the sales guy how much was one of the items. He refused to answer, turned his head to my mother & told her: Teach your daughter to lower her voice in the presence of men.

Me today: Who’s your daddy now? #WoMenInBlack✊🏻 pic.twitter.com/SlTc4wCUlH

— Sarai (Sarah Idan) Miss Iraq (@RealSarahIdan) July 4, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:23:07am

Sasse Statemnt on Epstein Ruling (Goes to the US Senate page of Ben Sasse, NE-R)

“Jeffrey Epstein is a monster and his victims deserve justice,” said Senator Sasse. “I’m relieved that the court agrees that it was wrong to hide this child rapist’s pathetically soft deal from his victims, in violation of federal law. The fact that it’s taken this long to get this far is heartbreaking and infuriating. The Department of Justice should use this opportunity to reopen its non-prosecution agreement so that Epstein and anyone else who abused these children are held accountable.”

Gee, Senator, you voted to confirm Alex Acosta as Labor Secretary.

Either you didn’t do your homework (in which case you shouldn’t be in politics), you didn’t care (in which case you shouldn’t be in politics), or you knew (which puts you in the “monster” camp).

We’re working really hard here to ensure you’re one-and-done. A never-Trumper who votes for everything Trump wants.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 7:24:17am

The Epstein indictment is out… and there’s just two charges: conspiracy to engage in child sex trafficking, and child sex trafficking.

The conspiracy means one or more other people are going to get arrested as part of this. The indictment does indicated that Epstein, his associates, or employees paid girls to find other girls to engage in sex acts for Epstein. That’s a broad group of people, and could lead to any number of prominent people. At least three employees are specifically identified as Employee-1 (NY), and Employee-2 and Employee-3 (FL) whose actions furthered the criminal acts, with phone calls on behalf of Epstein or other affirmative actions.

Three minor victims are identified in the filing.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:28:11am

re: #319 lawhawk

The Epstein indictment is out… and there’s just two charges: conspiracy to engage in child sex trafficking, and child sex trafficking.

I imagine he’s not going to want a jury where the members are parents.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 7:29:00am

Fmr. Border Patrol agent Jenn Budd on CBP training: “They teach agents to use racist terms for migrants. … If you’re not willing to use these terms … you’re judged by that and that reflects on whether or not they’ll retain you.”https://t.co/5aZ7B6dbpU

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 8, 2019

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 7:29:45am

re: #321 NO SMOCKING GUN!

It’s easier to treat someone in an inhumane manner if you dehumanize them at every step, starting with training.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:31:49am

re: #321 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I’m fine with sending every one of these douchecanoe leaders of CBP to the unemployment line.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 7:32:36am

Yes.

Oh, you wanted a ranked assessment?

Dershowitz is clearly having the worse day in ways that have consequences.

Piers is always awful so this isn’t anything new or consequential.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 7, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:33:35am

re: #321 NO SMOCKING GUN!

If the tweeter in this response is to be believed, there is a sickness that extends beyond CBP:

I believe the BPA because my IRS superiors in Dallas expected worse. We had to use crass language with taxpayers, label difficult taxpayers as dangerous, demand money from taxpayers that it was unlawful to collect from, ridiculed taxpayers threatening suicide

— Lena Williams (@LenaWil22590124) July 8, 2019

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 7:34:19am

Admiral set to be Chief of Naval Operations retires instead because of inappropriate professional relationship with a public affairs officer.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 7:34:46am

Shocker that the media overlooked this, I know.

The Sunday Shows apparently ignored Trump’s Census admission, that the citizenship question was about “redistricting” aka diluting minority voting power, rather than “enforcing the voting rights act” (lmao) https://t.co/0XrMZscAXS

— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) July 8, 2019

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:36:57am

The misogyny of conservatives never ceases to amaze me. In reference to the US Women’s Soccer (Football to you people who don’t speak ‘Murican) team’s victory:

In what way was this “our victory?” https://t.co/M1Tnr83qPO

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 7, 2019

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Danack Jul 8, 2019 • 7:40:24am

re: #255 retired cynic

The Astronomy Picture of the Day is great today:
apod.nasa.gov

Thanks for posting that. Instant new desktop background here. And it’s great to see something that is awesomely wonderous as a break from the standard awesomely horrifying.

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Belafon Jul 8, 2019 • 7:43:32am

re: #323 Anymouse 🌹

I’m fine with sending every one of these douchecanoe leaders of CBP to the unemployment line.

We’ll have to make sure they can’t be hired by police forces.

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Anymouse 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 7:50:28am

I’m off to bed. Catch y’all later. I hope I didn’t post too many comments … sometimes I just want to respond to everything.

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Teukka Jul 8, 2019 • 7:55:17am

Why are the peas upside down.

It’s fucking me up. pic.twitter.com/P9Y2N68IOA

— Spotty Len @ Albion 4 (@SpottyLen) July 7, 2019

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MsJ Jul 8, 2019 • 7:56:20am

re: #248 Ming5000

I was just in the Epstein threads too. There seems to be such a huge trove of evidence and so many threads of contact and corruption. It is overwhelming.

One additional thing I am picking up is, where did all of Epstein’s money come from? “Hedge Fund Manager” seems to be a throw away excuse. One thing I have learned in the past 2-3 years is, the rich move money around with ease. Epstein’s trafficking may have been an income stream on its own.

Young girls (and boys) are very expensive. I would be confident in saying that this would be not just an income stream but a major one.

And Mom is right…this is one person (serving many). This is not an exception to the rule. And when rich people are involved, they can buy and sell the rest of us at will.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 8:02:55am

Mulan Teaser Trailer #1 (2020) | Movieclips Trailers

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 8, 2019 • 8:04:14am

re: #231 Dread Pirate

[Embedded content]

Yeah but if you do it online you can’t write “Go fuck yourself, Donny” over the citizenship question.

I’ve done online questionnaires. In many cases, you cannot leave a question unanswered; it won’t allow you to advance to the next screen or submit without completing everything. Trump is a disgrace and Barr is even worse. Hopefully, Barr will face the same fate as Nixon’s John Mitchell and end up in prison, a home he richly deserves.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 8:05:02am

DC is taking it on the chin this morning with severe flooding:

The leak appears to be spreading in the few minutes I was watching. pic.twitter.com/0haFk7P1Ov

— Niina H. Farah (@niina_h_farah) July 8, 2019

Serious flooding situation on Canal Road near Fletchers Cove with numerous drivers stranded, so I’m swimming to safety #DCWX @WTOP pic.twitter.com/UNFOmZkltO

— Dave Dildine (@DildineWTOP) July 8, 2019

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Belafon Jul 8, 2019 • 8:09:13am

re: #336 lawhawk

DC is taking it on the chin this morning with severe flooding:

God tried to tell Trump on the 4th. If Trump had only listened…

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 8, 2019 • 8:10:56am

re: #319 lawhawk

The Epstein indictment is out… and there’s just two charges: conspiracy to engage in child sex trafficking, and child sex trafficking.

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The conspiracy means one or more other people are going to get arrested as part of this. The indictment does indicated that Epstein, his associates, or employees paid girls to find other girls to engage in sex acts for Epstein. That’s a broad group of people, and could lead to any number of prominent people. At least three employees are specifically identified as Employee-1 (NY), and Employee-2 and Employee-3 (FL) whose actions furthered the criminal acts, with phone calls on behalf of Epstein or other affirmative actions.

Three minor victims are identified in the filing.

Here’s the @BuzzFeedNews story on the unsealed indictment charging Jeffrey Epstein with sex trafficking: https://t.co/KcAYChGDPZ

Follow @TasneemN for updates — there will be two hearings in SDNY starting this morning, per the court (the docket is still sealed in PACER)

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 8, 2019

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 8:12:51am

re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Epstein indictment is out… and there’s just two charges: conspiracy to engage in child sex trafficking, and child sex trafficking.

Remember how fond they were of the headline “Clinton Supporter Harvey Weinstein?”

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 8:16:57am

re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes, AG Barr oversees the US Attorney’s Office in NY, so it’s possible he could attempt to interfere, though it would be obvious. Also, many years ago, Barr’s father hired Epstein to teach at the private Dalton school, with no college degree. So there’s that…

— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) July 7, 2019

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Barefoot Grin Jul 8, 2019 • 8:17:02am

re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Ghislaine Maxwell is a licensed pilot who supposedly flew the so-called Lolita Express (in addition to recruiting and grooming girls—and maybe even participating). I will be surprised if she isn’t indicted as part of the conspiracy.

Epstein’s pimp girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, a very well-connected Brit socialite cannot just walk free. This woman is his pimp. She pilots planes to and from the island. I know because she told me. She is a sex trafficker.

— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) July 7, 2019

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 8:20:32am

re: #333 MsJ

Young girls (and boys) are very expensive. I would be confident in saying that this would be not just an income stream but a major one.

And Mom is right…this is one person (serving many). This is not an exception to the rule. And when rich people are involved, they can buy and sell the rest of us at will.

I suspect he broke the law to protect men like Trump, when Acosta inexplicably granted immunity to Epstein’s unnamed co-conspirators. So his job is safe, as far as Trump is concerned. Acosta may be a target of the SDNY, if he made a corrupt bargain.

— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 8, 2019

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 8:21:13am

NEW: U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman says federal prosecutors will seek to have Jeffrey Epstein detained during trial and for him to not get bail.

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) July 8, 2019

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Belafon Jul 8, 2019 • 8:22:40am

David Anderson over at Balloon Juice has an interesting finding related to using high deductibles to force consumers to make better choices: Doctors, who are the one group with the most knowledge of the system, able to make informed choices of the type of care, were able to reduce their care only 20% compared to those less informed. 20% isn’t anywhere near enough to validate the idea that consumers can control health care prices through informed choices.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 8:24:05am

re: #344 Belafon

David Anderson over at Balloon Juice has an interesting finding related to using high deductibles to force consumers to make better choices: Doctors, who are the one group with the most knowledge of the system, able to make informed choices of the type of care, were able to reduce their care only 20% compared to those less informed. 20% isn’t anywhere near enough to validate the idea that consumers can control health care prices through informed choices.

Especially since healthcare pricing is as clear as mud.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 8:26:05am

re: #344 Belafon

Still waiting for a teabagger to tell me how I can shop for medical care when I have a stroke or heart attack…

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William Lewis Jul 8, 2019 • 8:27:51am

re: #334 lawhawk

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Video

It’s a good trailer. If the movie lives up to it, I’ll be happy. As a return gift here’s a great game trailer that dropped the other day:

Warframe - Official Intro Cinematic

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 8:30:35am

re: #345 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Especially since healthcare pricing is intentionally designed to be as clear as mud.

added that

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gwangung Jul 8, 2019 • 8:31:32am

re: #334 lawhawk

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Goddam it. I had an evil sorceress fighting a badass warrior woman script FIRST.

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danarchy Jul 8, 2019 • 8:33:32am

Apparently Eric Swallwell dropping out of the race made enough space for Tom Steyer to get in:

edition.cnn.com

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Belafon Jul 8, 2019 • 8:35:58am

re: #350 danarchy

Apparently Eric Swallwell dropping out of the race made enough space for Tom Steyer to get in:

edition.cnn.com

I’m so curious as to why these people want to become trivia answers.

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 8, 2019 • 8:36:06am

re: #346 Joe Bacon 🌹

Still waiting for a teabagger to tell me how I can shop for medical care when I have a stroke or heart attack…

And how to decide whether a symptom represents something serious that requires immediate attention or is just a minor ailment that will resolve itself in the next day. Or to buy into the disgraceful notion that the level of necessary treatment a person receives depends on their assets: it is one thing to say that non-essential amenities (e.g. the television in the hospital room) may be superior for those who can afford it but the actual treatment should be based on health needs and not income. Every effort to undermine the ACA revolves around telling poor people to die because they cannot afford treatment from their own pocketbooks.

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jaunte Jul 8, 2019 • 8:36:32am

re: #350 danarchy

Steyer really ought to use his money to swing some Senate races instead of this vanity project.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 8:38:14am

“I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr Trump was quoted as saying in [a] New York Magazine profile. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Enough to wreck any other politician’s career, not enough to move the needle here…

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 8, 2019 • 8:38:39am

re: #353 jaunte

Steyer really ought to use his money to swing some Senate races instead of this vanity project.

I agree. He could also use his assets to buy conservative media publications and convert them into platforms promoting truth.

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 8, 2019 • 8:41:20am

re: #354 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr Trump was quoted as saying in [a] New York Magazine profile. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Enough to wreck any other politician’s career, not enough to move the needle here…

“I could stand In the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 8:42:50am

re: #356 Hecuba’s daughter

“I could stand In the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters”

They would all be lining up to explain why it was a necessary act to Make America Great Again

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Decatur Deb Jul 8, 2019 • 8:43:19am

re: #356 Hecuba’s daughter

“I could stand In the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters”

Demonstrating that, from the start, Trump and his handlers had a more realistic view of the American electorate than we did.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 8:44:48am

re: #358 Decatur Deb

Demonstrating that, from the start, Trump and his handlers had a more realistic view of the American electorate than we did.

Whatever else one can say about him, he does know how manipulate the broadcast media.

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Decatur Deb Jul 8, 2019 • 8:45:44am

re: #359 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Whatever else one can say about him, he does know how manipulate the broadcast media.

The WWE taught him a lot.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 8:49:49am

A good boi break.

Oh Boy…. pic.twitter.com/BVOulmrmks

— Good doggos (@DoggoDating) July 7, 2019

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Dr. Matt Jul 8, 2019 • 8:52:55am

The donnie cult are extra unhinged today. Apparently today’s presser proves that Obama is gay, Pizzagate is real, and HRC drank children’s blood.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 8:53:05am

re: #360 Decatur Deb

The WWE taught him a lot.

He does punch at a gut level, and the crowd loves a Heel

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jaunte Jul 8, 2019 • 8:53:21am

As he left New Jersey a short while ago, @realDonaldTrump⁩ was asked about his reaction to Epstein’s arrest: “I don’t know anything about it.” https://t.co/qUmrqU3SIp

— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) July 7, 2019

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Decatur Deb Jul 8, 2019 • 8:55:21am

re: #363 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He does punch at a gut level, and the crowd loves a Heel

There are more than enough rubes to keep the show on the road.

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Dr. Matt Jul 8, 2019 • 8:55:54am

re: #364 jaunte

Narrator: But he knew all about it.

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jaunte Jul 8, 2019 • 8:56:55am

re: #366 Dr. Matt

The most absurdly unbelievable lies are now so commonplace they flow by unremarked.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 8:58:52am

You’ll never guess who was Epstein’s next-door neighbor. BILL COSBY

More fun facts fr NYT: “The house also has a heated sidewalk, a luxurious provision that explains why, while snow blankets the Eastern Seaboard, the Wexner house (and Bill Cosby’s house across the street) remains opulently snow-free, much to the delight of neighborhood dogs.”

— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) July 8, 2019

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jaunte Jul 8, 2019 • 9:03:18am

re: #368 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The end of that thread: international trafficking.

P.S. from @jkbjournalist:

“4 accomplices in Epstein’s agreement, incl Nadia Marcinkova, got immunity. Marcinkova was a young girl when Epstein brought her fr/Yugoslavia to live with him.“ “Brought fr/Yugoslavia as a young girl” suggests…global infrastructure. From the start.

— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) July 8, 2019

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 9:03:57am

“We were assisted by some excellent investigative journalism,” Geoffrey Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, says of their arrest of Jeffrey Epstein. That’s gotta be for The Miami Herald’s @jkbjournalist, even if he didn’t name her.

— Patricia Mazzei (@PatriciaMazzei) July 8, 2019

SDNY’s Berman said that people shouldn’t read into the fact that the Public Corruption Unit is handling the Epstein case, and not the human trafficking team. Except that we should. Because of the circle of people Epstein was in, and who might be swept up in the case.

There are any number of big names that could be involved.

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Dr. Matt Jul 8, 2019 • 9:06:10am

re: #370 lawhawk

The righties believe he was referring to mike cernovich regarding the “excellent investigative journalism”.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 9:08:00am

re: #369 jaunte

The end of that thread: international trafficking.

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The Q cultists were right that a global child sex trafficking network existed. They were only wrong about everything else.

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 8, 2019 • 9:10:02am

re: #372 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The Q cultists were right that a global child sex trafficking network existed. They were only wrong about everything else.

PROJECTING LIKE AN IMAX IN OUTER SPACE… SPACE… SPAAAACE…..

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 9:11:12am

re: #371 Dr. Matt

The righties believe he was referring to mike cernovich regarding the “excellent investigative journalism”.

Cernovich was getting praised on Breitbart radio this morning. No mention of the Miami Herald, of course. They blamed the “Obama DOJ” for Epstein’s wrist slap without uttering Acosta’s name.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 9:12:26am

Berman says FBI search of Epstein E. 71st mansion on Saturday yielded among other things photos of nide under age girls. Mind boggling, with the net obviously closing, he didn’t wipe the place clean.

— Rick Petree (@RickPetree) July 8, 2019

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 8, 2019 • 9:14:38am

re: #375 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Berman says FBI search of Epstein E. 71st mansion on Saturday yielded among other things photos of nide under age girls. Mind boggling, with the net obviously closing, he didn’t wipe the place clean.

Wonder if that means that he is hoping to have big names to trade for lighter sentence? Hoping he never breathes any air in freedom again for the rest of his misbegotten life.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 9:16:50am

re: #376 Hecuba’s daughter

Wonder if that means that he is hoping to have big names to trade for lighter sentence? Hoping he never breathes any air in freedom again for the rest of his misbegotten life.

SDNY isn’t likely to give any plea deals in human trafficking cases. They want scalps, and they’re getting his - since he’s already a sex offender by terms of the FL deal.

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jaunte Jul 8, 2019 • 9:19:02am

i mean its almost like rich people usually get away with it, ya know? https://t.co/kj0g53HpME

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 8, 2019

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 9:19:25am

Prosecutors call for no bail: extraordinary flight risk and concern that Epstein could pressure witnesses.

Here’s the govt’s memo opposing bail for Jeffrey Epstein. They argue he poses an “extraordinary risk of flight” given the charges and his wealth, and say they have “real concerns” based on past experience w/ Epstein that he could try to pressure witnesses https://t.co/8TV7ES2hwR pic.twitter.com/H8GpKEiw3E

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 8, 2019

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Barefoot Grin Jul 8, 2019 • 9:23:30am

re: #354 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr Trump was quoted as saying in [a] New York Magazine profile. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Enough to wreck any other politician’s career, not enough to move the needle here…

The Cernoviches out there are pitching this as “he was sending out a coded warning.”

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Dr. Matt Jul 8, 2019 • 9:25:04am

SDNY is currently the center of the universe when it comes to all things Trump now.

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Skip Intro Jul 8, 2019 • 9:26:12am

re: #343 lawhawk

Good plan.

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jaunte Jul 8, 2019 • 9:26:22am

The Miami Herald has also reported that 2 of the Epstein victims worked at Mar a Lago.

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) July 8, 2019

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Dr. Matt Jul 8, 2019 • 9:27:07am

re: #380 Barefoot Grin

The Cernoviches out there are pitching this as “he was sending out a coded warning.”

So, Donnie knew his buddy was raping children and failed to notify authorities? Ok, please proceed…..

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DangerMan Jul 8, 2019 • 9:27:28am

g’day all

not much to update re #thegreatpoolpondconversion since this saturday post

it looks like this new structure and a new tarp will get us through about 3 months or so

mrs dm remarked “we have to make pond while the sun shines”
i rolled my eyes, gave her a kiss, and that’s what we did.

————————

here’s my summary Re us and Iran boiled down from my reading of this morning’s news

- we (actually trump himself) unilaterally withdrew from the deal
- Iran started enriching uranium. going over the limit of a deal that no longer exists (at least for us)

so what brilliant strategy awaits us?

- negotiate a new deal? would look a lot like the last deal (a la nafta 2) though he’d lie to his base. Why would Iran bother? they couldnt possibly trust him.

- more sanctions? what the hell is left that’s not already sanctioned? he’s even going after individuals in government

- war! (and, you know, screw congress). sure drones wouldnt put americans in danger (ahem) immediately. But Iran’s not stupid - they could *easily* have something blown up here. I don’t even want to game that one out.

foreign policy *is* looking at the board 20 moves into the future. well the future just smacked him in the puss.

he’s got no good options, and he did this to himself.

p.s. that ABC news poll, that’s got him “up to 44% approval”. dont waste any energy on it. if you do, note that trump loses to the top 5 dems (including mayor pete!), and is running even with “generic socialist”

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A Mom Anon Jul 8, 2019 • 9:29:02am

I saved a bee today!!! I noticed one in the rose of Sharon outside the kitchen window that looked like it was about to die, perched on a closed flower. So I got a spoon, put some sugar and a little water in it, got the bee to crawl on it and get a drink. He fell out once and landed on his back, so we tried again. A couple minutes later he was able to fly away.

I Am The Saver of BEES 🐝 !!!!

387

Barefoot Grin Jul 8, 2019 • 9:30:23am

re: #384 Dr. Matt

So, Donnie knew his buddy was raping children and failed to notify authorities? Ok, please proceed…..

Yes, the stupidity is embarrassing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 9:33:21am

re: #387 Barefoot Grin

Yes, the stupidity is embarrassing.

arrogance

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 8, 2019 • 9:34:38am

re: #385 DangerMan

…..
————————

here’s my summary Re us and Iran boiled down from my reading of this morning’s news

- we (actually trump himself) unilaterally withdrew from the deal
- Iran started enriching uranium. going over the limit of a deal that no longer exists (at least for us)

so what brilliant strategy awaits us?

- negotiate a new deal? would look a lot like the last deal (a la nafta 2) though he’d lie to his base. Why would Iran bother? they couldnt possibly trust him.

- more sanctions? what the hell is left that’s not already sanctioned? he’s even going after individuals in government

- war! (and, you know, screw congress). sure drones wouldnt put americans in danger (ahem) immediately. But Iran’s not stupid - they could *easily* have something blown up here. I don’t even want to game that one out.

foreign policy *is* looking at the board 20 moves into the future. well the future just smacked him in the puss.

he’s got no good options, and he did this to himself.

p.s. that ABC news poll, that’s got him “up to 44% approval”. dont waste any energy on it. if you do, note that trump loses to the top 5 dems (including mayor pete!), and is running even with “generic socialist”

1. Polls are worthless at such an early point in the campaign. They just serve to distract from the issues. They are also pretty much worthless later in the campaign when the voters are more familiar with the candidates.
2. Iran can just follow the NK strategy: write Trump a beautiful letter, fête him in Tehran, acclaim his brilliance, and continue developing their weaponry. Trump will willingly accede to any request they make as long as they accompany it with praise for him and especially if they allow him to build a hotel.

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DangerMan Jul 8, 2019 • 9:36:06am

re: #364 jaunte

As he left New Jersey a short while ago, @realDonaldTrump⁩ was asked about his reaction to Epstein’s arrest: “I don’t know anything about it.

it’s been in the news for three days

how do you not know anything about it?

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Teukka Jul 8, 2019 • 9:38:31am

So, I was just made aware of this. At first, I thought it was a shop. Then I searched it on twitter. It be legit.
IT IS AT THIS JUNCTURE YOU ARE ADVISED TO PUT ANY HOT OR COLD BEVERAGE DOWN ON A SECURE SURFACE AND SWALLOW OR REMOVE ANYTHING IN YOUR MOUTH.

Click to Reveal

Seriously, this will blow your mind.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 8, 2019 • 9:38:59am

Pompeo has created a “human rights” commission to undermine human rights. newrepublic.com

393

DangerMan Jul 8, 2019 • 9:40:38am

re: #386 A Mom Anon

I saved a bee today!!! I noticed one in the rose of Sharon outside the kitchen window that looked like it was about to die, perched on a closed flower. So I got a spoon, put some sugar and a little water in it, got the bee to crawl on it and get a drink. He fell out once and landed on his back, so we tried again. A couple minutes later he was able to fly away.

I Am The Saver of BEES 🐝 !!!!

amazon

394

Barefoot Grin Jul 8, 2019 • 9:41:52am

re: #393 DangerMan

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amazon

We had that when I was a child. Fun!

395

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 8, 2019 • 9:42:16am

BREAKING: Authorities found “at least hundreds—and perhaps thousands—of sexually suggestive photographs of fully- or partially-nude females,” some of whom “appear to be” underage girls. Some were in a “locked safe.”

One of those girls’ counsel corroborated she was underage. pic.twitter.com/A7wdPggl8t

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 8, 2019

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DangerMan Jul 8, 2019 • 9:42:36am

re: #389 Hecuba’s daughter

1. Polls are worthless at such an early point in the campaign. They just serve to distract from the issues. They are also pretty much worthless later in the campaign when the voters are more familiar with the candidates.
2. Iran can just follow the NK strategy: write Trump a beautiful letter, fête him in Tehran, acclaim his brilliance, and continue developing their weaponry. Trump will willingly accede to any request they make as long as they accompany it with praise for him and especially if they allow him to build a hotel.

+1 and +1

still it must suck that he’s only tied with generic socialist and losing by 6 to an actual democratic socialist

397

plansbandc Jul 8, 2019 • 9:43:07am

re: #390 DangerMan

Gosh, it’s almost like he lied about it. Shocking, I know.

398

plansbandc Jul 8, 2019 • 9:44:30am

pic.twitter.com/NtAg7Pjovq

— janitorial man (@johnthejanitor) July 7, 2019

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 9:44:38am

re: #391 Teukka

So, I was just made aware of this. At first, I thought it was a shop. Then I searched it on twitter. It be legit.
IT IS AT THIS JUNCTURE YOU ARE ADVISED TO PUT ANY HOT OR COLD BEVERAGE DOWN ON A SECURE SURFACE AND SWALLOW OR REMOVE ANYTHING IN YOUR MOUTH.

I know some Log Cabin Republicans whose mental gymnastics I cannot comprehend, but this is from a galaxy far, far away…

400

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 8, 2019 • 9:46:38am

re: #395 Backwoods_Sleuth

“I’m not a sexual predator, I’m a sex offender.”

Oh, okay. Sure. That makes it SO much better then!

*spit*

401

gocart mozart Jul 8, 2019 • 9:49:05am

My father turns out to be Jar Jar Binks?!?

Noooooooooooooooo https://t.co/gmrFrQyAC7

— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) July 8, 2019

402

Teukka Jul 8, 2019 • 9:51:26am

re: #400 Eclectic Cyborg

“I’m not a sexual predator, I’m a sex offender.”

Oh, okay. Sure. That makes it SO much better then!

*spit*

Predator and sex offender. Most likely of the kind who is in it for the power, not the attraction.

403

Joe Bacon 🌹 Jul 8, 2019 • 9:54:21am

re: #398 plansbandc

Great! I’ll be starting the Joe Bacon Beverly Hills Homesteading Company helping people homestead where the rich used to live since preachers tell us how God loves wealthy people!

— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 8, 2019

404

sagehen Jul 8, 2019 • 9:54:46am

Hmmm. Maybe the meeting WAS about Russian “adoptions”

— Andy Shore (@fakeAndyShore) July 8, 2019

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 9:55:07am

re: #402 Teukka

Predator and sex offender. Most likely of the kind who is in it for the power, not the attraction.

Still recall the ad-lib line delivered by Kevin Stacey in House of Cards (and now we know why he could bring across it with such conviction)

“Everything is about sex. Except sex itself. Sex is about power.”

406

lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 9:55:22am

NYC WHALE SIGHTING: A couple gets the surprise of a lifetime off Staten Island 🐳🌊 pic.twitter.com/3p40jakTSw

— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) July 8, 2019

This video was taken in the waters off Staten Island just outside the Narrows (the bridge seen in the distance at the start of the video). That’s pretty frickin’ awesome.

407

Dr. Matt Jul 8, 2019 • 9:56:04am

re: #395 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s going to be a big hit in prison.

408

lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 9:56:40am

re: #407 Dr. Matt

They’re going to put him in protective custody. They know.

409

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 8, 2019 • 9:58:57am

re: #408 lawhawk

They’re going to put him in protective custody. They know.

No way that fucker would not try to flee to some undisclosed location.

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lawhawk Jul 8, 2019 • 10:01:08am

There is no statute of limitation on child sex trafficking.

Prosecutors got evidence Epstein committed more crimes. FBI investigated, and found, yup, there’s more crimes - and more people involved.

This is how this works. Fox just tries to deflect/dodge/protect for Trump.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 8, 2019

Fox being Fox - and scum of the earth (but I repeat myself).

411

sagehen Jul 8, 2019 • 10:01:18am

re: #386 A Mom Anon

I saved a bee today!!! I noticed one in the rose of Sharon outside the kitchen window that looked like it was about to die, perched on a closed flower. So I got a spoon, put some sugar and a little water in it, got the bee to crawl on it and get a drink. He fell out once and landed on his back, so we tried again. A couple minutes later he was able to fly away.

I Am The Saver of BEES 🐝 !!!!

WHY WHY WHY??

That bee is going to sting somebody who has an allergy and couldn’t afford Epi-Pens and they’ll die AND IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT!!!!

412

plansbandc Jul 8, 2019 • 10:04:09am

re: #409 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In a heartbeat.

413

danarchy Jul 8, 2019 • 10:07:30am

re: #401 gocart mozart

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Why is Jabba the Hut both F and N?

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Semper Fi Jul 8, 2019 • 10:08:17am

re: #409 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

No way that fucker would not try to flee to some undisclosed location.

It’s a great excuse to lock him up!

415

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 8, 2019 • 10:14:12am

Yes! Fourth star. Back to back. Congrats to the record breakers on the @USWNT, an incredible team that’s always pushing themselves—and the rest of us—to be even better. Love this team. #OneNationOneTeam

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 7, 2019

416

MsJ Jul 8, 2019 • 10:14:34am

re: #379 lawhawk

Prosecutors call for no bail: extraordinary flight risk and concern that Epstein could pressure witnesses.

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Based on the span of losers involved, I would think he wouldn’t be the only one pressuring witnesses.

417

DangerMan Jul 8, 2019 • 10:15:35am

re: #410 lawhawk

Fox anchor on Epstein charges: “Why now? 11 years ago that then-secret plea deal was reached, why is the US government taking another run at putting him behind bars.”

someone committing more crimes after a plea or actually doing, you know, jail time?
absurd
unheard of
unthinkable

what is this ‘three strikes rule’ you speak of? why would there be such a thing?

i swear the people at fox have to stay up nights to come up with stuff so twisted

418

gocart mozart Jul 8, 2019 • 10:16:52am

Federal prosecutors have released the indictment against Jeffrey Epstein.

“Epstein knew that many of his New York victims were underage, including because certain victims told him their age.”

Paid hundreds in cash for recruits.https://t.co/XNYJB87clf

— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) July 8, 2019

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William Lewis Jul 8, 2019 • 10:17:28am

re: #403 Joe Bacon 🌹

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It is so much fun to remind them that “no one knows the time” and that the whole rapture silliness is a new heresy less than 200 years old anyway. Pre-tribulation rapture theology was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren - just another bunch of grifters.

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Dr. Matt Jul 8, 2019 • 10:19:09am

re: #410 lawhawk

Fox being Fox - and scum of the earth (but I repeat myself).

Brought to you by the same people that have been (re-)persecuting the Clintons for decades.

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DodgerFan1988 Jul 8, 2019 • 10:20:17am

Things that upset MAGA…

- The Little Mermaid
- Nike
- Starbucks
- US Soccer

This is just the last five days…

These are some dumb fuckers.

— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) July 8, 2019

Conservatives:
Baby Gulags? Meh.
Trump’s associate Epstein arrested? *crickets*
Black actress casted as The Little Mermaid? There will be hell to pay!

422

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 8, 2019 • 10:21:13am

The asphalt offsets are more sharp and therefore more obvious. The road berm is offset over a distributed series of smaller faults over a larger zone. Brittle vs. softer sediment deformation.

— Brian Olson (@mrbrianolson) July 8, 2019

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Teukka Jul 8, 2019 • 10:21:46am

re: #419 William Lewis

It is so much fun to remind them that “no one knows the time” and that the whole rapture silliness is a new heresy less than 200 years old anyway. Pre-tribulation rapture theology was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren - just another bunch of grifters.

Between Friday, 22 May 2020 and Wednesday, 16 September 2020.

Click to Reveal

1290 days after 9 November 2016 to
1335 days after 20 January 2017.
(See Daniel in Bible).

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