Acoustic Excellence: Daniel Padim, “Milongerstyle”

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195 comments
1
Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:09:40pm

Dear Neocons:

What did my son die for?

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Dread Pirate  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:10:59pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:11:53pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon 🌹

Dear Neocons:

What did my son die for?

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Trump is owned by Putin and turning control of the world over to him

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Dread Pirate  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:17:10pm
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BeachDem  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:17:46pm

Answering an inquiry from late in the last thread about Dick Harpootlian.

re: #135 retired cynic

You are the one to know and to explain it to us! I have never heard of him, and appreciate your knowledge.

Well, on the latest Harpootlian mess, this Fitsnews article goes deep—but be forewarned, Fits is a “conservative” site that hates almost all SC legislators, but Dems more than most. But they do have the contacts with everyone in the legislature—you just need to be aware of how their “tone” is applied.

The guy who runs it, Will Folks, was the one who came out about an affair with Nikki Haley, complete with text messages, when she was running for governor. But then he endorsed her. He’s kinda nuts. ballotpedia.org

Anyway—here’s their take (and if you search for Harpootlian stories on the site, you won’t be disappointed)

fitsnews.com

A more straightforward, but less entertaining version of the story:

wistv.com

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Citizen K  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:30:02pm

re: #2 Dread Pirate

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…how does it go again? “There are never any accidents with guns, only negligence,” something like that?

Like…holy shit dude.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:39:17pm

re: #1 Joe Bacon 🌹

Don’t forget Venezuela.

bbc.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:41:32pm

re: #2 Dread Pirate

Damn, he had just moved out of the basement, into the converted attic.

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BeachDem  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:47:33pm

A few more Harpootlian quotes from back when.

In 2011, when he was running to become state chair for the 2nd time:
“If you hate government, you hate the South Carolina Republican Party, because they own it.”

On GOP governance over the last eight years, Harpootlian notes that “we’ve gone to 50th in education and number one in gonorrhea, and that’s the accomplishments of an all Republican government.”

Of GOP Gov. Nikki Haley Harpootlian said: “She’s writing a book. If she doesn’t do something about the educational system, nobody here is going to have the skills to read it.”

washingtonpost.com

When he was in a fight with Alan Wilson, our Attorney General (Joe “You Lie’s” step/adopted son)

“All I know is there is medication today that can control his condition,” Harpootlian said, referring to Wilson as someone who needed to experience “the miracle of drugs.”

fitsnews.com

And that’s as far as I want to go tonight down the Harpootlian rabbit hole. He’s exhausting!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:56:50pm

Don’t worry, they’ve listed Alabama with Michigan & Minnesota as the Top Blue Seats To Hold
(at the very tip top of their lists)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 7, 2020 • 8:57:33pm

re: #6 Citizen K

…how does it go again? “There are never any accidents with guns, only negligence,” something like that?

Like…holy shit dude.

i just fucking shot myself

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retired cynic  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:02:12pm

re: #9 BeachDem

I thank you for it!

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uriel  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:04:58pm

And of course, per standard operating proceedure, CL’d:

re: #111 Interesting Times

o_O

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You want real lunacy? Read the comments.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:24:29pm

re: #13 uriel

Up-ding for Glob-Fish

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Chrysicat  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:28:30pm
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plansbandc  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:35:42pm
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retired cynic  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:37:43pm

re: #16 plansbandc

Neat! Looks like a pair of them, as Siamese twin sea angels! With pointy heads!

Good grief; I haven’t even had alcohol. Time for bed!

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plansbandc  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:39:16pm

re: #17 retired cynic

There’s something magical about them. And I have had a bit of the sauce.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:44:17pm

Currently, in the back yard.

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Dread Pirate  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:56:34pm

They expected anything less?

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Targetpractice  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:58:40pm

re: #20 Dread Pirate

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They expected anything less?

“America’s promised this awesome trade deal with us once we leave the EU!”

“Yeah, about that…”

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plansbandc  Feb 7, 2020 • 9:58:51pm

re: #19 Dave In Austin

My cousin had a couple of foxes boinking on his front lawn in Denver. :D

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Feb 7, 2020 • 10:00:42pm
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Chrysicat  Feb 7, 2020 • 10:13:56pm

re: #20 Dread Pirate

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They expected anything less?

Admittedly, this time I’m fine with the questionably-legal retaliation, because Huawei is already a direct arm of its government that spies on everyone who uses its equipment.

We have another few months before Trump starts putting loyalists at the top of Qualcomm and the like to do the same thing with US 5G. I was furious that Westminster chose to deal with the PRC that way.

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Dread Pirate  Feb 7, 2020 • 10:36:18pm

re: #24 Chrysicat

I read yesterday that it’s been mentioned that the US government should finance a Korean company to develop the 5G equipment.

Found this. It’s not the same source.

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A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!  Feb 7, 2020 • 10:39:21pm

This is a link to a “popular” report about Coronavirus infections’ progression. There’s a link in it to the Lancet report they’re summarizing.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 7, 2020 • 10:56:19pm

Body in the Lake

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Dave In Austin  Feb 7, 2020 • 11:08:26pm

Jimmy be like Waaaa Waaaaa

Col. Bruce Hampton & ARU “Black Bottom” full jam

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Dread Pirate  Feb 7, 2020 • 11:10:04pm

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday told four automakers it had closed an antitrust investigation into a voluntary agreement the companies reached with California on emissions without taking any action, three automakers and a source told Reuters.

The Trump administration in September issued a determination that California cannot set its own vehicle emission standards and had been investigating if the companies engaged in anti-competitive conduct in striking the deal.

The White House still must finalize the rollback of the Obama-era standards. Last month, Reuters reported the White House is reviewing a draft final proposal that would boost the stringency of U.S. vehicle emission standards by 1.5% annually from the 2021 through 2026 model years, which will still be considerably lower than planned Obama-era standards that hiked yearly requirements by about 5% annually.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 7, 2020 • 11:26:41pm
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Dave In Austin  Feb 7, 2020 • 11:30:09pm

I didn’t know Jimmy Herring got his start with ARU. This is a long ride back in 92’. The Col. got it going on.

Col. Bruce Hampton and Aquarium Rescue Unit 10-6-92 Hittin the Note Macon

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Dread Pirate  Feb 7, 2020 • 11:38:03pm
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Dread Pirate  Feb 7, 2020 • 11:41:21pm

It has a 4k display for a front window.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 7, 2020 • 11:42:34pm

re: #32 Dread Pirate

Impressive.

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Skip Intro  Feb 7, 2020 • 11:50:51pm

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

Why did he allow this pic to be released?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 7, 2020 • 11:56:57pm

re: #35 Skip Intro

I don’t know - maybe the photographer just went ahead and published it without seeking WH approval.

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Skip Intro  Feb 8, 2020 • 12:02:57am

.

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Ace-o-aces  Feb 8, 2020 • 12:34:58am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 8, 2020 • 12:58:28am

re: #38 Ace-o-aces

Heh, same goes for the Czech PM, Andrej Babiš.

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Targetpractice  Feb 8, 2020 • 1:28:50am

re: #38 Ace-o-aces

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I thought Susan Collins assured us he’d learned his lesson?

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John Hughes  Feb 8, 2020 • 2:13:05am

re: #25 Dread Pirate

The thing is there are rumours that Huawei kit may contain backdoors, but we know that Cisco kit has contained NSA mandated backdoors because they’ve been found before.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 2:33:59am

re: #25 Dread Pirate

I read yesterday that it’s been mentioned that the US government should finance a Korean company to develop the 5G equipment.

Found this. It’s not the same source.

Trump buying Ericsson or Nokia? Both? US controling stake via Cisco or directly via Defense Department?

Sounds like Socialism to me…

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Feb 8, 2020 • 3:15:40am

re: #6 Citizen K

…how does it go again? “There are never any accidents with guns, only negligence,” something like that?

Like…holy shit dude.

publication of that video should be enough to lose his gun ‘rights’ forever.

he’s proved he cannot control his weapon at all times..

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Sufficient unto the day...  Feb 8, 2020 • 3:33:04am

re: #43 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

And his dancing rights too.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Feb 8, 2020 • 4:21:49am

re: #44 Sufficient unto the day…

And his dancing rights too.

well you are supposed to ‘dance like there’s nobody watching’

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Citizen K  Feb 8, 2020 • 4:30:38am

re: #40 Targetpractice

I thought Susan Collins assured us he’d learned his lesson?

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He did learn his lesson though.

He learned that he had enough Republicans in the Senate that he could get away with anything he wanted and no one could hold him accountable.

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Chrysicat  Feb 8, 2020 • 5:21:02am

re: #46 Citizen K

He did learn his lesson though.

He learned that he had enough Republicans in the Senate that he could get away with anything he wanted and no one could hold him accountable.

That got me searching on variants of “he DID learn his lesson, which got me here:

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 8, 2020 • 5:22:13am

re: #1 Joe Bacon 🌹

Dear Neocons:

What did my son die for?

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Capitalism. And Iraq is following that by shopping for the best deal.
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Chrysicat  Feb 8, 2020 • 5:25:26am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 8, 2020 • 5:26:47am

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

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Looks like a robot from Westworld about ready to need some maintenance.

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jeffreyw  Feb 8, 2020 • 5:34:15am

The cardinal is back to squabbling with the redbelly.

Good morning!

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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:00:38am

I saw on tv that they had a 60 year old American in China die from the coronavirus.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:02:20am

re: #52 Belafon

I saw on tv that they had a 60 year old American in China die from the coronavirus.

That is what scares me, just read that it affects older men (of my age) most.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:08:40am

re: #50 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Looks like a robot from Westworld about ready to need some maintenance.

But yes, it is symptomatic of the fact that he tolerates no outside output, even in the form of constructive criticism on how he presents and expresses himself.

That is a potentially dangerous trait in a Chief Executive.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:16:52am

re: #52 Belafon

I saw on tv that they had a 60 year old American in China die from the coronavirus.

Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus

One should not joke about this but they caught it in the town of Contamines-Montjoie

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jaunte  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:20:53am
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jaunte  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:25:19am
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jaunte  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:25:36am
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jaunte  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:26:59am

“…underscoring the sense of retribution is that Alexander Vindman recently told senior officials at the NSC and the Army that he intended to leave his White House position by the end of February, months ahead of schedule. That appears not to have been soon enough for the president.”
washingtonpost.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:29:50am

re: #59 jaunte

This is not about sending a message, it is pure pettiness and vindictiveness,

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jaunte  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:30:18am

re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“You can’t quit, I fire you!”

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jaunte  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:44:40am
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A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:49:48am

re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is what scares me, just read that it affects older men (of my age) most.

It’s more complicated than that. See my #26 above and breathe (a little) easier.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:51:18am

Ford’s dual clutch transmission sucks, especially in snow, that is all.

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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 6:56:55am

Vote Vets did a MJ Hegar commerce I just saw on TV touting her backing affordable health care.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:01:35am

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump buying Ericsson or Nokia? Both? US controling stake via Cisco or directly via Defense Department?

Sounds like Socialism to me…

It’s Big Government picking winners and losers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:02:12am

re: #63 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!

It’s more complicated than that. See my #26 above and breathe (a little) easier.

Good, I hope I have “low comorbidities” other than a few excess pounds and too much cholesterol…

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A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:06:17am

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

Good, I hope I have “low comorbidities” other than a few excess pounds and too much cholesterol…

Lung issues look like the main thing. And we still don’t know how dangerous it is in the general population.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:09:38am

re: #68 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!

Lung issues look like the main thing. And we still don’t know how dangerous it is in the general population.

I quit smoking again this year

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CleverToad  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:12:16am

re: #13 uriel

And of course, per standard operating proceedure, CL’d:

You want real lunacy? Read the comments.

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Not as evident in the black & white version, but what struck me in the color original is the resemblance to some of the pictures of Mary Trump. Something about the hair swept back, the narrowed eyes, the set of the mouth. Maybe it’s just me, I haven’t seen anyone else mentioning it.

Minus the clown mask, minus the knowledge of what lurks beneath it, it would just be a fairly generic, not unbecoming picture of an elderly person. As it is, a stark exposure of addled vanity.

How are the sycophants portraying it, as the rest of us snicker?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:16:23am

re: #70 CleverToad

How are the sycophants portraying it, as the rest of us snicker?

A Warrior wearing War Paint

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retired cynic  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:17:22am

BobCesca.com/trainwreck-2/ by JM Ashby

Meanwhile, Kudlow also says Trump’s “national security” tariffs on European cars and car parts are on hold while they want to see if they’ll make a deal with the European Union.

The truth is the legal authority to impose them for “national security” reasons expired.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:19:51am

re: #26 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!

This is a link to a “popular” report about Coronavirus infections’ progression. There’s a link in it to the Lancet report they’re summarizing.

Seems like you are exceedingly more at risk if you are a smoker, which I believe China has many of. Also, China certainly isn’t known for its air quality. Great article.

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retired cynic  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:20:47am

This Mexican Mineral Looks Like a Shimmering Serpent
Gypsum is common, but this specimen is remarkable. Atlas Obscura

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Disloyal Archangel  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:22:49am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:23:31am

re: #73 Shropshire Slasher

Seems like you are exceedingly more at risk if you are a smoker, which I believe China has many of. Also, China certainly isn’t known for its air quality. Great article.

I’ve been noticing that as well - it seems that older male smokers seem to be at significantly higher risk from the Wuhan Coronavirus. And the bad air quality which people are living in on a day-to-day basis probably isn’t making matters any better.

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Interesting Times  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:25:33am

re: #13 uriel

You want real lunacy? Read the comments.

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The more I see that picture (and really, one can’t unsee it), the more it strikes me as a combination of creepy, horrifying, but also pathetic. Somewhat reminiscent of Norma Desmond at the end of Sunset Boulevard.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:26:04am

re: #76 Dr Lizardo

I’ve been noticing that as well - it seems that older male smokers seem to be at significantly higher risk from the Wuhan Coronavirus. And the bad air quality which people are living in on a day-to-day basis probably isn’t making matters any better.

Sort of like the Spanish Flu of 1918 being exacerbated by malnutrition, bad ventilation, and poor environmental and hygiene conditions

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:27:22am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Sort of like the Spanish Flu of 1918 being exacerbated by malnutrition, bad ventilation, and poor environmental and hygiene conditions

Yep, and smoking among Chinese men is very prevalent.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:28:02am

re: #77 Interesting Times

The more I see that picture (and really, one can’t unsee it), the more it strikes me as a combination of creepy, horrifying, but also pathetic. Somewhat reminiscent of Norma Desmond at the end of Sunset Boulevard.

The thing I see again is that he obviously does this on his own, no proper make-up artist would let a disaster like that appear in public, and again, it shows how impervious he is to outside input even in the most basic matters of how he presents or expresses himself (in his ungrammatical, misspelled, randomly capitalized Tweets)

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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:31:11am

re: #26 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!

This is a link to a “popular” report about Coronavirus infections’ progression. There’s a link in it to the Lancet report they’re summarizing.

From the article:

“The reduced susceptibility of females to viral infections could be attributed to the protection from X chromosome and sex hormones, which play an important role in innate and adaptive immunity,” the report suggested.

Nature should create a disease that requires a heavy dose of estrogen to survive.

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jaunte  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:44:18am
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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:44:42am

There was a story on TV about the Fort Worth Stockyard show. Check out this kid’s wheelchair:

All Terrain Not-Armored Wheelchair
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jaunte  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:44:44am
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:48:59am

re: #83 Belafon

That is a really neat wheelchair. I know it is early in the morning and some people are not fully alert but please check the spelling of “Sotckyard”

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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:50:20am

re: #85 PhillyPretzel

Thanks. Fixed.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:50:27am

Morning Lizardim from the frigid (-6 degrees F / -21.1 degrees C), clear, and beautiful wild north country. How go things among the lizardfolk on this bitterly cold winter Saturday?

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:52:02am

re: #86 Belafon

You are welcome. :)

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makeitstop  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:53:27am

Mass shooting in a Thai shopping mall this morning, at least 17 dead.

Shooter is a solider and apparently a Breivik fanboi.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:54:05am

re: #84 jaunte

Unintended consequences: To save conservatism at any cost, you have to break rules.

Once the rules are broken, all fairness is gone. Those who voted for rule breakers thinking they’ll benefit, but they suffer when there are no rules.

I recall when John McCain tried to silence Tea Party hecklers and declare that “Obama is an honorable man!” and was shouted down. I heard nobody in the GOP come to his defense.

That started an attention-grabbing race to the bottom in that the most ridiculous and unfounded charges went unchallenged: Birtherism, Jade Helm, Pizzagate, nothing was too outrageous as long as it seemed to “piss off the liberals”.

And all were exploited by trolls who saw how easy it was to spread such drivel.

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retired cynic  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:58:54am

re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

She says she is planning a thread on things that are being done to break the cycle of becoming a mafia state. I really want to see that! It is easy to see what is happening; I want to know what we DO about it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:59:26am

re: #52 Belafon

I saw on tv that they had a 60 year old American in China die from the coronavirus.

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Sort of like the Spanish Flu of 1918 being exacerbated by malnutrition, bad ventilation, and poor environmental and hygiene conditions

The Spanish flu also seemed to progress more rapidly than this virus. People are not dying the day they become symptomatic, as often happened in 1918. It’s also more lethal among the older and infirm, unlike the 1918 pandemic which killed the young and healthy.

The American who died was a woman who had health problems.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 7:59:43am

re: #91 retired cynic

She says she is planning a thread on things that are being done to break the cycle of becoming a mafia state. I really want to see that! It is easy to see what is happening; I want to know what we DO about it.

Get out and vote and make sure that our votes are registered and counted.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:00:45am

re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Get out and vote and make sure that our votes are registered and counted.

That is becoming more difficult as Republicans introduce measures to prevent people from voting, and explicitly ally with partners who go to strenuous efforts to prevent votes from being counted fairly.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:05:26am

More info about one of Trump’s SOTU stunts at the link.

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump turned a Philadelphia fourth grader into a poster child for the school-choice movement Tuesday when he told the nation thousands of students were “trapped in failing government schools” and announced that she was finally getting a scholarship to attend the school of her choice.

But the student, Janiyah Davis, already attends one of the city’s most sought-after charter schools, the Inquirer has learned. In September, months before she was an honored guest at Trump’s State of the Union Address, she entered Math, Science and Technology Community Charter School III.
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When Trump said their names, Davis said she was “really surprised” and “honored.”

She was also surprised that Janiyah was chosen to receive a scholarship: “I don’t view MaST as a school you want to get out of at all. I view it as a great opportunity.” She isn’t sure whether Janiyah will stay at MaST, saying she and her daughter are still discussing their options.
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Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:07:05am

The parallels with the fall of Rome are evident

chicago.suntimes.com

Don’t be glum, chum. It isn’t as if the United States Senate is the first legislative body to dissolve into an impotent puddle at the feet of a domineering leader. History’s full of ‘em. The most glaring example, alas, is the senate in the ancient Roman Republic.

If it’s been a while since you reached for your Edward Gibbon, save yourself the back strain. I’ve spent the weekend thumbing through “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” and, buddy, as bad as the news is today, by consulting history we are reminded that it can get worse.

Much worse.

The Roman people ruined themselves. He quotes Petrarch:

“Behold, the relics of Rome, the image of her pristine greatness! Neither time nor the barbarian can boast the merit of this stupendous destruction: it was perpetrated by her own citizens, by the most illustrious of her sons.”

Remember: the Russians didn’t conquer us. We surrendered. The senate surrendered. The people surrendered. To Donald Trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:09:51am

re: #95 Teddy’s Person

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump turned a Philadelphia fourth grader into a poster child for the school-choice movement Tuesday when he told the nation thousands of students were “trapped in failing government schools” and announced that she was finally getting a scholarship to attend the school of her choice.

“Government schools” have to take all students who apply and can only kick them out if they pose a serious threat or disruption.

Private schools can be selective.

Apples and Oranges and totally against the basic principle of Freedom of Opportunity.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:12:49am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Government schools” have to take all students who apply and can only kick them out if they pose a serious threat or disruption.

Private schools can be selective.

Apples and Oranges and totally against the basic principle of Freedom of Opportunity.

Plus, government schools aren’t so much failing as being destroyed in order to privatize.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:13:50am

re: #98 Teddy’s Person

Plus, government schools aren’t so much failing as being destroyed in order to privatize.

Just like the ACA is being systematically sabotaged so the GOP can declare that it is “not working”.

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CleverToad  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:17:17am

re: #83 Belafon

There was a story on TV about the Fort Worth Stockyard show. Check out this kid’s wheelchair:

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Cool little tank! Looks like the track chairs they are running at one of the Colorado state parks, which let someone with limited mobility get out on a mountain trail. We took my mom for a hike/ride for her 94th birthday, and then I did the same last summer.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:17:49am

re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just like the ACA is being systematically sabotaged so the GOP can declare that it is “not working”.

It’s quite depressing that more people don’t see through their bullshit.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:17:50am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Seems like there might be some things one could do with failing “government schools”,like oh I don’t know…..PROPERLY FUND THEM!!! Not one damned dime of tax dollars should be funding private schools. I’m so sick of seeing this all around me. And there is no real evidence that private schools avoid the problems attributed solely to public schools.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:21:53am

re: #83 Belafon

There was a story on TV about the Fort Worth Stockyard show. Check out this kid’s wheelchair:

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This is the venue I have long suggested for an auction that would replace state-wide elections in Texas. It has plenty of seating for lobbyists, fatcats, foreign agents and other bidders, good road and airport access, and even VIP suites for billionaires and Russian oligarchs. Just herd the yokel politicians onto the floor and let the bidding begin! It would save a lot of time and money and the result would be largely the same

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Chrysicat  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:22:37am

re: #57 jaunte

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And defecting is the right word. Washington is now in a Cold War against the Free World.

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Chrysicat  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:26:28am

re: #104 Chrysicat

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And defecting is the right word. Washington is now in a Cold War against the Free World.

Also note I didn’t say “we are in a cold war”…
At this point anyone who feels loyalty to the Constitution is basically actively called to not have any loyalty whatsoever to the regime in current control.

He’s going to send out portraits to be put in a place of honour in every residence in this country. The only question is, before 3 November or after?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:30:30am

Three nights in a row I’ve had a dream that Mitt Romney was assassinated by a MAGAT…I am hoping that is not a premonition…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:31:05am

re: #101 Teddy’s Person

It’s quite depressing that more people don’t see through their bullshit.

Because we are conditioned to see it as “socialized medicine” and not an attempt to create healthy and balanced market conditions.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:32:11am

re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because we are conditioned to see it as “socialized medicine” and not an attempt to create healthy and balanced market conditions.

Or you’re like my family and you hated the black man who signed the bill so much that you are wiling to go without health care and die for your race.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:33:03am

re: #106 Joe Bacon 🌹

Me too. I am not terrible fond of Mitt but I do not want to see him killed. I can think of someone … I will not go there.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:35:54am

re: #104 Chrysicat

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And defecting is the right word. Washington is now in a Cold War against the Free World.

Fortunately, the free-world allies are still in control of a nearby territory to which dissidents can flee.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:36:23am

re: #109 PhillyPretzel

Me too. I am not terrible fond of Mitt but I do not want to see him killed. I can think of someone … I will not go there.

The problem really is this whole “2A solutions” mentality. I don’t own a firearm. I choose not to. As awful as I find my local Republican delegate, I don’t want harm on him or his family. I just wish he would get the stick out of his ass about LGBT rights, expanding public transit, the right to choose, etc.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:41:42am

re: #108 Joe Bacon 🌹

Or you’re like my family and you hated the black man who signed the bill so much that you are wiling to go without health care and die for your race.

piss off a liberal!

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:44:48am
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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:48:58am

I love George.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:50:13am

re: #114 I Would Prefer Not To

Hmm. Excuse me Lindsey G-d will be asking you that question.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:53:26am

re: #114 I Would Prefer Not To

I’m sure the question is the least of that Confederates transgressions.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:54:51am

re: #115 PhillyPretzel

Well…G-d already knows the answer…and I’m sure if there is a just G-d, Sen. Graham is in for a very warm welcome in the afterlife…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:57:40am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:58:27am

Our hero Ed McGinty is still at it, taking the fight to the MAGAts right in the heart of darkest Trumpistan.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Feb 8, 2020 • 8:59:27am

re: #119 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Our hero Ed McGinty is still at it, taking the fight to the MAGAts right in the heart of darkest Trumpistan.

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Ed would fit in nicely with my older relatives.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:00:54am

re: #120 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I work definitely share tomato plants with Ed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:01:41am

re: #115 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. Excuse me Lindsey G-d will be asking you that question.

Funny how Mitt referred to his faith to make the entirely opposite decision.

I am so thankful that God gave our Founding Fathers the Divine foresight to separate Church and State…

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Teddy's Person  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:03:49am

A. Ham would have shot your daddy in a duel.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:04:45am

re: #123 Teddy’s Person

He sure would.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:04:58am

re: #119 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I’d love to buy a beer or two or three for Ed.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:05:11am

re: #123 Teddy’s Person

A. Ham would have shot your daddy in a duel.

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What the fuck has Ivanka done? show your work.

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mmmirele  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:05:42am

re: #119 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Our hero Ed McGinty is still at it, taking the fight to the MAGAts right in the heart of darkest Trumpistan.

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This guy is my spirit animal. He’s doing what I would do (but not for Trump, I have other targets) if I didn’t have a day job and other obligations. Go Ed!

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Teddy's Person  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:08:21am

re: #126 I Would Prefer Not To

What the fuck has Ivanka done? show your work.

This quote is evergreen.

An unnamed Indian diplomat told Bobby Ghosh, the editor-in-chief of the Hindustan Times: “We regard Ivanka Trump the way we do half-wit Saudi princes. It’s in our national interest to flatter them.”

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PrairieQueen  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:13:56am

re: #126 I Would Prefer Not To

She’s proven it isn’t a matter of being qualified, it’s who your daddy is. Like finding work in your crime family’s business, it’s a guaranteed job with good pay, even if the pay isn’t above the table.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:17:37am

re: #123 Teddy’s Person

A. Ham would have shot your daddy in a duel.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:18:42am

re: #126 I Would Prefer Not To

What the fuck has Ivanka done? show your work.

She’s Heir Apparent to the Throne!

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Dave In Austin  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:19:38am

re: #119 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:19:59am

re: #131 Joe Bacon 🌹

She’s Heir Apparent to the Throne!

On the business side but no way she’ll be the political heir. I know you say the preachers promote her but the rank and file aren’t going to like her perceived social liberalism and Judaism.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:20:39am

re: #126 I Would Prefer Not To

What the fuck has Ivanka done? show your work.

Why, she was born on a mountain one day as God Emperor looked to the sky and said softly MAGA, MAGA.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:21:32am

re: #121 Freedom Turnip

I work definitely share tomato plants with Ed.

I’d buy him a round. Takes guts to go against the grain like that.

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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:25:28am

re: #128 Teddy’s Person

This quote is evergreen.

That should go on billboards everywhere and ads in New York.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:29:27am

re: #131 Joe Bacon 🌹

She’s Heir Apparent to the Throne!

Gotta start padding the resume.

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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:39:05am
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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:41:56am
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Jay C  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:53:10am

re: #118 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

“Forget it, Jake: it’s China…..”

Though I’m guessing if the, ummm… “lady” were a carrier, “airing” isn;t going to help much….

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:54:22am
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Amory Blaine  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:55:23am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 8, 2020 • 9:59:32am

re: #142 Freedom Turnip

This is how fucked up our country is now. No one can run for President without a few Billionaires in their corner.

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garzooma  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:06:18am

re: #96 Joe Bacon 🌹

Don’t be glum, chum. It isn’t as if the United States Senate is the first legislative body to dissolve into an impotent puddle at the feet of a domineering leader. History’s full of ‘em. The most glaring example, alas, is the senate in the ancient Roman Republic.

[…]

Remember: the Russians didn’t conquer us. We surrendered. The senate surrendered. The people surrendered. To Donald Trump.

It’s just embarrassing. The Roman Republic fell to Julius F’in’ Caesar. Our republic is falling to a ridiculous clown.

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A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:07:09am

re: #143 Eclectic Cyborg

This is how fucked up our country is now. No one can run for President without a few Billionaires in their corner.

Isn’t Elizabeth Warren doing that?

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makeitstop  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:07:35am

New Biden ad takes Mayor Pete to the woodshed.

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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:09:24am

re: #142 Freedom Turnip

1. I hope the PACs backing all the campaigns get this scrutiny. It’s not going to be easy work.
2. I also think this falls under the “If you can’t take their money and vote against their wishes, then you don’t need to be in office” type of thing.
3. When Trump points this out, people need to howl with laughter.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:11:34am

re: #146 makeitstop

New Biden ad takes Mayor Pete to the woodshed.

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Saw that earlier. TBH right now I’m undecided between Joe, Amy, and Elizabeth. Amy impressed me last night.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:14:11am

re: #144 garzooma

It’s just embarrassing. The Roman Republic fell to Julius F’in’ Caesar. Our republic is falling to a ridiculous clown.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:14:56am

re: #149 Dr Lizardo

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I prefer Orangus Assholius Maximus.

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Skip Intro  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:16:40am

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:19:47am

re: #151 Skip Intro

LOLOL

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Rightwingconspirator  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:22:04am

re: #140 Jay C

Iframe

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:22:35am

re: #151 Skip Intro

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Lord Dampnut of Mar Al Lago., occupant of the golden lavatory.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:24:00am

re: #151 Skip Intro

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Even a 50¢ bag of Planters has more nuts than Trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:24:45am

re: #143 Eclectic Cyborg

This is how fucked up our country is now. No one can run for President without a few Billionaires in their corner.

Russian billionaires at that…

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Belafon  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:26:48am

re: #151 Skip Intro

LOL. Now all we need to do is update the scene from the Chamber of Secrets.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:26:53am

re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Russian billionaires at that…

And the five corrupted, crooked Republican whores on the Supreme Court see nothing wrong with that. This is why the court has to be expanded from 9 to 15!

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Charles Johnson  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:30:09am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:31:42am

re: #159 Charles Johnson

Charles, it’s ticking me off seeing all those Trump, NRA and Epoch Times ads while I’m watching anything on You Tube.

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mmmirele  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:34:13am

I’ve got a couple of privacy blockers on, specifically to deal with YouTube’s nonsense. I used to be better about autoplaying commercials, but on Christmas Day 2014, I got one autoplaying ad too many, it stepped on my last nerve, and I was all, EFF IT. Hence the blockers.

I’m not opposed to ads, but I want ads for things I’m interested in, like art and Japanese tours and other stuff. Not the latest new cool thing or the newest twist on scams.

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ericblair  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:38:40am

re: #84 jaunte

This is exactly what I saw when I was in Hungary a year ago. The citizens didn’t mind the conservative politics as much as the blatant corruption and unpredictable autocratic rulings that often favored friends and supporters of the PM Orban & hurt others. I heard so many examples

This is pretty universal even in really authoritarian countries. People hate, hate, hate the little pack of shitty stupid overprivileged relatives and hangers-on who get tens of millions of dollars for nothing while everyone else has to struggle and can never get that kind of success. But it always happens, and it started immediately with the shitgibbon. Once people get it into their heads that there are two societies and they’re forever in the shitty one, that’s when things get dicey for the government.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:39:50am

Idle observation: There is sure a lot of bad karma being built up. In 10 years Republicans will be as hard to find as Nazis were in Berlin at the time of the Potsdam Conference (2 months after VE day). Can’t remember which writer made that observation, but it was one of the big ones.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:41:50am

re: #159 Charles Johnson

Agreed. I’ve noticed an increase recently of unskippable Youtube ads.

I’m sure some it is on purpose to try and annoy us enough that we cave and shell out the money for Youtube Premium but fuck that, I refuse to pay for Youtube.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:43:59am

re: #149 Dr Lizardo

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King Mango and the Cult of the Pig People…….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:44:10am

re: #163 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Idle observation: There is sure a lot of bad karma being built up. In 10 years Republicans will be as hard to find as Nazis were in Berlin at the time of the Potsdam Conference (2 months after VE day). Can’t remember which writer made that observation, but it was one of the big ones.

Unless Fox News disappears this will never come to pass.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:44:11am

re: #163 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Idle observation: There is sure a lot of bad karma being built up. In 10 years Republicans will be as hard to find as Nazis were in Berlin at the time of the Potsdam Conference (2 months after VE day). Can’t remember which writer made that observation, but it was one of the big ones.

They will be around, but to paraphrase your postwar analogy, they will all deny ever having supported or having anything to do with that pathetic upstart who wrecked their country.

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William Lewis  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:46:12am

I suppose I can say I’m not opposed to them in theory. But I am so tire of the NRA & other fascist organizations ads and lets not mention the garbage from Taboola et al. I just run a blocker at all times especially because of Youtube. My whitelist is tiny - there are very few places where the content is good enough to put up with ads. LGF, prior to my secret santa, was one of those few white listed.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:57:03am

The US is becoming more isolated culturally as well as politically. For instance, Franklin Graham is more or less a respectable figure in this country, at least as far as our brain-dead both-siderist media are concerned. In the UK, though, he is a social leper and literal outcast, unable to rent even a single private hall for his revival meetings. We need to see a lot more of this. We have to tolerate these charlatans and bigots, but others don’t. It would send a powerful message if they stopped giving American fascists and quacks a pass on local standards.

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plansbandc  Feb 8, 2020 • 10:58:38am

My favorite artist continues to blow my mind…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:00:24am

re: #169 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

… Franklin Graham is more or less a respectable figure in this country, at least as far as our brain-dead both-siderist media are concerned. In the UK, though, he is a social leper and literal outcast, unable to rent even a single private hall for his revival meetings.

This will be spun as the UK trying to ban the open practice of Christianity.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:09:22am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This will be spun as the UK trying to ban the open practice of Christianity.

Xtianity is well on the way to marginalization in the UK.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:13:02am

re: #172 Joe Bacon 🌹

Xtianity is well on the way to marginalization in the UK.

Despite the fact that they have a State Church with the Monarch as its nominal head…

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:14:16am

re: #161 mmmirele

I’ve got a couple of privacy blockers on, specifically to deal with YouTube’s nonsense. I used to be better about autoplaying commercials, but on Christmas Day 2014, I got one autoplaying ad too many, it stepped on my last nerve, and I was all, EFF IT. Hence the blockers.

I’m not opposed to ads, but I want ads for things I’m interested in, like art and Japanese tours and other stuff. Not the latest new cool thing or the newest twist on scams.

I could live with the periodic ad that would autoplay at the beginning of a Youtube video, but their latest tactic of actually sticking them in the middle of videos has gotten to be too much. I’ve had to resort to using an adblocker now, but even with my beefed-up desktop, I still get video stuttering while watching videos when an embedded ad is blocked.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:14:38am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This will be spun as the UK trying to ban the open practice of Christianity.

The Archbishop of Canterbury or someone could respond, “We aren’t banning Christianity, just the Golden Calf Trump cult.”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:15:26am

re: #175 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

The Archbishop of Canterbury or someone could respond, “We aren’t banning Christianity, just the Golden Calf Trump cult.”

Considering that the Evangelicals I know take a pretty dim view of the Anglican church, I doubt that would make much difference.

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William Lewis  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:18:49am

re: #176 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Considering that the Evangelicals I know take a pretty dim view of the Anglican church, I doubt that would make much difference.

Many of us consider that something to be proud of.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:19:56am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:20:58am

re: #36 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know - maybe the photographer just went ahead and published it without seeking WH approval.

I really think it’s fake.
No way is his hair that thick.
and the rest of that twitter account’s TL is off-the-wall

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:22:13am

re: #176 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Considering that the Evangelicals I know take a pretty dim view of the Anglican church, I doubt that would make much difference.

I actually hang out with some Anglicans from the Church of Christ the King in Frankfurt and find them a decent lot, I have to say they changed my attitude about Christianity. Not enough to get me to convert, but I see that it is not all Fundamentalism, doctrinal infighting and Bible-Thumping.

Of course I was raised Catholic and then subjected to Campus Crusade for Christ proselytizers in college, so that really put me off Christianity for a long time.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:22:52am

re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I actually hang out with some Anglicans from the Church of Christ the King in Frankfurt and find them a decent lot, I have to say they changed my attitude about Christianity. Not enough to get me to convert, but I see that it is not all Fundamentalism, doctrinal infighting and Bible-Thumping.

Of course I was raised Catholic and then subjected to Campus Crusade for Christ proselytizers in college, so that really put me off Christianity for a long time.

That would do it, for sure. I’m sorry.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:24:15am

re: #177 William Lewis

Many of us consider that something to be proud of.

Oh, the evangelical nutjobs would absolutely hate my ass. Forever a thorn in the side of their stupid, self-centered, anti-Christian worldview.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:24:27am

re: #181 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

That would do it, for sure. I’m sorry.

But these guys from the Church of the True Elvis are actually people to just quietly live their faith and don’t push it at all. And I had a crush on the choir director for a while there until she quit…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:25:40am
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Teddy's Person  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:26:31am

Donald J Trump, junior high bully and whiner extraordinaire. It would be kind of funny (in an eye-rolling sort of way) if he didn’t delight in causing so much pain and suffering.

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Citizen K  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:26:58am

re: #163 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Idle observation: There is sure a lot of bad karma being built up. In 10 years Republicans will be as hard to find as Nazis were in Berlin at the time of the Potsdam Conference (2 months after VE day). Can’t remember which writer made that observation, but it was one of the big ones.

I’d like to say that the last time we felt like the GOP would finally be lost in the wilderness long term was in ‘08. Then the Tea Party and ‘10 midterms happened and they were basically allowed all the breadth to derail Obama as much as possible. They didn’t succeed in making him a one-termer, but they still basically only grew more and more powerful until we’re where we’re at now, and they’re positioned to get all their unicorns.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:29:44am

re: #181 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

That would do it, for sure. I’m sorry.

The Campus Crusade doofi have turned generations of lukewarm Christian young people into complete, dedicated heathens.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:31:12am

re: #144 garzooma

It’s just embarrassing. The Roman Republic fell to Julius F’in’ Caesar. Our republic is falling to a ridiculous clown.

We tripped.
Not yet fallen

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:34:00am

re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg

Agreed. I’ve noticed an increase recently of unskippable Youtube ads.

I’m sure some it is on purpose to try and annoy us enough that we cave and shell out the money for Youtube Premium but fuck that, I refuse to pay for Youtube.

Annoy me enough and I don’t pay
I tune you out

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:38:42am

re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I actually hang out with some Anglicans from the Church of Christ the King in Frankfurt and find them a decent lot, I have to say they changed my attitude about Christianity. Not enough to get me to convert, but I see that it is not all Fundamentalism, doctrinal infighting and Bible-Thumping.

Of course I was raised Catholic and then subjected to Campus Crusade for Christ proselytizers in college, so that really put me off Christianity for a long time.

I lived in Wohngemeinschaft in Berlin that was run by Jesuits (you know, God’s Marines). I’d never really encountered Jesuits before, but I can say that I gained tremendous respect for them. Prior to that, I lived in the Georg-von-Rauch-Haus, a far-left collective, also in Berlin, named after Georg von Rauch, a member of the Movement June 2 who died in a shootout with the police in late 1971.

Berlin is one helluva interesting city, LOL.

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sagehen  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:41:07am

re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Of course I was raised Catholic and then subjected to Campus Crusade for Christ proselytizers in college, so that really put me off Christianity for a long time.

I was subjected to the same crap, since high school (they have a special obsession with trying to convert Jews)… I’ve also had my share of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons knocking on my door. And since I moved to NYC (they can’t door knock here, buildings don’t allow that) there’s always somebody on the street corner or walking through the subway shouting about their faith. Gross. Muslim “missionaries” are cool; they just sit at their little table with pamphlets and oil, and only speak to people who approach them first to start a conversation.

The main things that kept me from hating Christianity is Jim Wallis at Sojourners, and Slacktivist. I’ve also recently become fond of William Barber.

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Jebediah, RBG  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:42:06am

re: #159 Charles Johnson

I came this > < close to having a rage aneurysm the first time I was really enjoying some music on youtube and bam a fucking ad in the middle of the song. I understand the need for revenue, really, but put it at the top of the video. In the middle wrecks the fucking song… they are now giving us a degraded product. Fuckers.

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Jebediah, RBG  Feb 8, 2020 • 11:45:15am

re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg

Agreed. I’ve noticed an increase recently of unskippable Youtube ads.

I’m sure some it is on purpose to try and annoy us enough that we cave and shell out the money for Youtube Premium but fuck that, I refuse to pay for Youtube.

I was considering it but I feel they want too much $.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 8, 2020 • 12:19:26pm

re: #140 Jay C

[Embedded content]

“Forget it, Jake: it’s China…..”

Though I’m guessing if the, ummm… “lady” were a carrier, “airing” isn;t going to help much….

MrBWS asked that exact thing

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VegasGolfer  Feb 8, 2020 • 12:38:24pm

Feel free to use this screen grab from the other day


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