A Fantastic Solo Performance by Raul Midón: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

May 16, 2020 | Felix Contreras — Despite the pall cast over so many aspects of our existence these days, Raul Midón’s one man concert from his home studio shines with a vibrant appreciation of the beauty of life, down to its smallest details. It kicks off with two tracks from The Mirror, an album released just as we entered our quarantine period in mid-March: “I Love The Afternoon” and “I Really Want To See You Again,” a song that poetically captures the joy of friendship. Midón’s jazz-influenced vocal phrasing throughout comes to the fore with just his acoustic guitar as accompaniment, illustrating once again why he’s normally one of the bright spots on our musical landscape and even more so at this moment.

SET LIST
“I Love The Afternoon”
“I Really Want To See You Again”
“A Certain Café”
“Disguise”
“You’re The One”

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143 comments
1
Patricia Kayden  May 16, 2020 • 8:29:47pm
2
Ace-o-aces  May 16, 2020 • 8:34:11pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2020 • 8:47:10pm

Nebraska’s averages are starting to climb again.

nebraska.maps.arcgis.com

Cases: 10,220 (+448)
Deaths: 123 (+10)

In Wyoming:

health.wyo.gov

Cases: 741 (+26)
Recovered: 498
Hospitalised: 69 (+1)
Deaths: 7 (no change since April 23)

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 16, 2020 • 8:53:59pm

Time for bed. I will leave you with some wisdom from the master.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2020 • 8:56:14pm

Off to bed myself. Leaving with a sad video (2:45)

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Rightwingconspirator  May 16, 2020 • 9:05:13pm

Well it’s late back east but we discovered this little adult beverage gem after proper R&D
The Laguna Sunrise
Yet another Safer At Home Cocktail, Two servings.
1 ½ cups deep-frozen overnight pineapple pieces.
3 Oz Vodka, unflavored, from overnight in the freezer.
6 Oz cold Chardonnay
6 Oz Orange juice
Blend at length. The extra cold ingredients give us a creamy texture and an undiluted flavor. Pineapple acid forward and a kick in the palate on the finish. Do not operate heavy machinery or dangerous objects. And handle cats with care.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2020 • 9:06:02pm

I shared this to Facebook and it’s backfiring a little bit. A couple of older relatives didn’t get the joke and I’m frantically DMing telling them to *not* google 2 girls 1 cup. 😬

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 16, 2020 • 9:07:46pm

oK one more now bed,.

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Mattand  May 16, 2020 • 9:16:11pm

re: #7 teleskiguy

I shared this to Facebook and it’s backfiring a little bit. A couple of older relatives didn’t get the joke and I’m frantically DMing telling them to *not* google 2 girls 1 cup. 😬

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LOL, the next time I need to explain the phrase “It seemed like it was a good idea at the time”, I’m using this post.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2020 • 9:30:39pm

Hurricane season doesn’t officially start for 16 more days.

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Sherlock Hound  May 16, 2020 • 9:42:54pm

That fire in LA doesn’t seem to be terrorism.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2020 • 9:48:58pm

Don’t fuck with David Simon.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2020 • 9:51:36pm

Facebook Post

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2020 • 10:05:40pm

Asshole is going on Fox News tomorrow morning.

Meltdown incoming?

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2020 • 10:07:32pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

LOL he’s flailing. Deep down, he knows he’s fucked up……”bigly”, as it were.

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teleskiguy  May 16, 2020 • 10:12:57pm

re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg

Asshole is going on Fox News tomorrow morning.

Meltdown incoming?

He’ll tweet 50 times before 10 a.m. It’s going to be ugly.

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Belafon  May 16, 2020 • 10:20:47pm

re: #15 Dr Lizardo

LOL he’s flailing. Deep down, he knows he’s fucked up……”bigly”, as it were.

You did catch that it’s the Onion, right?

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Belafon  May 16, 2020 • 10:23:02pm
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jamesfirecat  May 16, 2020 • 10:23:07pm

re: #15 Dr Lizardo

LOL he’s flailing. Deep down, he knows he’s fucked up……”bigly”, as it were.

Ate the Onion.

re: #18 Belafon

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Oh wait I’ve been saving a comic for just this ocassion!

Trump’s newest missile!

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Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2020 • 10:31:36pm

re: #17 Belafon

You did catch that it’s the Onion, right?

Dammit, I missed that. LOL. Not enough coffee yet, I suppose. 😄

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TedStriker  May 16, 2020 • 10:45:22pm

We lost Fred Willard:

cnn.com

Damnit, sucks getting old…

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KGxvi  May 16, 2020 • 10:50:36pm

re: #17 Belafon

You did catch that it’s the Onion, right?

One of my favorite lines from Archer:

Pam: oh, so then what’s satire?
Archer: nobody really knows!

Archer & Pam arguing during car chase S5 E5

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 16, 2020 • 11:06:07pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 16, 2020 • 11:08:09pm
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Dread Pirate  May 16, 2020 • 11:47:27pm

She’s concerned.

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Jack Burton  May 16, 2020 • 11:48:12pm

re: #25 Dread Pirate

[Embedded content]

She’s concerned.

If only she could have done something about it…

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goddamnedfrank  May 16, 2020 • 11:51:03pm
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teleskiguy  May 17, 2020 • 12:28:42am

Stick to trees or edibles, folks.

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ericblair  May 17, 2020 • 12:50:57am

re: #25 Dread Pirate

[Embedded content]

She’s concerned.

It’s so pathetic that all these gooper politicians have exactly one shtick. It doesn’t work with Trump, because he’s an even more vile and selfish monster than any of them are, but they have no idea what else to do.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2020 • 1:05:39am

re: #2 Ace-o-aces

What in the fucking hell. This is our Oresident? This cannot stand. This is psychotic

I first thought this was a parody.

It is, unwillingly so, but most of all it is quite a Rorschach test of what is going on under that mass of hair.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2020 • 1:35:37am

re: #25 Dread Pirate

I have long been a strong advocate for the Inspectors General. They are vital partners in Congress’s effort to identify inefficient or ineffective government programs and to root out fraud and other wrongdoing.

but nothing about corrupt government officials who are abusing their office?

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goddamnedfrank  May 17, 2020 • 2:07:30am

re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I first thought this was a parody.

It is, unwillingly so, but most of all it is quite a Rorschach test of what is going on under that mass of hair.

I had to check to make sure it was really his account like a dozen times before I believed it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2020 • 2:10:46am

re: #32 goddamnedfrank

I had to check to make sure it was really his account like a dozen times before I believed it.

I gather that he is pushing for end of all restrictions as of July 4th and anyone who opposes that move is obviously anti-American.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 17, 2020 • 2:13:35am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2020 • 2:27:44am

re: #34 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Experts are increasingly alarmed about the conditions in the airports.

I am not about to go near an airport, much less board an airliner unless it is a matter of life or death.

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unproven innocence  May 17, 2020 • 3:27:42am

Good morning, all. Found this opinion piece via “HackerNews” —
news.ycombinator.com
Intelligence is simply talking to many people
If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
Excerpt:

The other day I searched for an hour and couldn’t find even one. They used to be endless. You’d just click on one you knew on Blogger and either click Blogger’s random blog button, or go to the sidebar of the blog you knew where they always had a list of blogs they liked, sometimes four or 5, sometimes 20 other blogs. And the same with Tumbler.

Blogs used to exist because there were blogging platforms. But Blogger was shut down by Google years ago, and the blogs on there have been disappearing until now you just can’t find really any, and they’re not indexed in search anymore. Tumbler also was used by people to blog about their lives and interests, although there were also a lot of just pictures blogs, but it recently changed its policy and now permits no NSFW content, which compromised basically every blog that mentioned something not completely PG. All the old Tumbler blogs I had bookmarks for I can’t even access anymore because they were deemed by Tumbler to have NSFW content. I think about how those people must feel after putting all that work into making such a special thing and then Tumbler just destroys it. And that’s the end. There’s no way to find blogs, and no one is writing them because there’s no platform for them.

But they would be the one thing I’d bring back to the internet if I could bring one thing back. They’re the thing I miss the most and the most often.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 17, 2020 • 3:27:59am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 17, 2020 • 3:30:25am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 17, 2020 • 3:33:10am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 17, 2020 • 3:34:46am

re: #6 Rightwingconspirator

Well it’s late back east but we discovered this little adult beverage gem after proper R&D
The Laguna Sunrise
Yet another Safer At Home Cocktail, Two servings.
1 ½ cups deep-frozen overnight pineapple pieces.
3 Oz Vodka, unflavored, from overnight in the freezer.
6 Oz cold Chardonnay
6 Oz Orange juice
Blend at length. The extra cold ingredients give us a creamy texture and an undiluted flavor. Pineapple acid forward and a kick in the palate on the finish. Do not operate heavy machinery or dangerous objects. And handle cats with care.

like anyone ever “handles” a cat//

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 17, 2020 • 3:41:21am

re: #25 Dread Pirate

[Embedded content]

She’s concerned.

and soooo???????

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unproven innocence  May 17, 2020 • 3:49:32am

Wuhan responding to 2nd wave.

China launches a mass testing campaign after new cases emerge

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 17, 2020 • 4:36:41am

re: #40 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Dogs have masters, cats have staff.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 4:45:37am

re: #23 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Well I hope they get it off the ground today. Loading LOX into the Centaur upper stage. Have had a sensor failure, but backup appears to be operational.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2020 • 4:53:37am

re: #42 unproven innocence

Wuhan responding to 2nd wave.

“if they just didn’t test, they wouldn’t have a second wave!”

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 5:15:24am

1st stage LOX loading is complete. Topping operations have begun on both stages. This baby is loaded and ready to go!

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Shropshire Slasher  May 17, 2020 • 5:18:51am

re: #46 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

1st stage LOX loading is complete. Topping operations have begun on both stages. This baby is loaded and ready to go!

Lol, I thought you were making a bagel for breffist! Thanks for reminding me of the launch.

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William Lewis  May 17, 2020 • 5:20:52am

I wonder if we’ll ever know what the missions of the X37 really have been or are…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 5:28:02am

re: #48 William Lewis

I wonder if we’ll ever know what the missions of the X37 really have been or are…

Probably not. But here is what they are saying is on this mission.

The mission will deploy the FalconSAT-8, a small satellite developed by the U.S. Air Force Academy and sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory to conduct several experiments on orbit. The FalconSAT-8 is an educational platform that will carry five experimental payloads for USAFA to operate. In addition, two National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiments will be included to study the results of radiation and other space effects on a materials sample plate and seeds used to grow food. Finally, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, will transform solar power into radio frequency microwave energy which could then be transmitted to the ground.

I find the bolded to be interesting.

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William Lewis  May 17, 2020 • 5:30:56am

re: #49 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Probably not. But here is what they are saying is on this mission.

The mission will deploy the FalconSAT-8, a small satellite developed by the U.S. Air Force Academy and sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory to conduct several experiments on orbit. The FalconSAT-8 is an educational platform that will carry five experimental payloads for USAFA to operate. In addition, two National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiments will be included to study the results of radiation and other space effects on a materials sample plate and seeds used to grow food. Finally, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, will transform solar power into radio frequency microwave energy which could then be transmitted to the ground.

I find the bolded to be interesting.

That was how O’Neill thought the orbital habitats could pay their way. Be interesting to see if it can actually be made to work.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 5:43:07am

re: #50 William Lewis

That was how O’Neill thought the orbital habitats could pay their way. Be interesting to see if it can actually be made to work.

The idea is far from new. Tesla worked on it from 1891-1898 and Heinlein riffed about it in several of his stories.

Also, now holding a T-4 for final system checks.

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Decatur Deb  May 17, 2020 • 5:47:28am

re: #50 William Lewis

re: #51 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

The idea is far from new. Tesla worked on it from 1891-1898 and Heinlein riffed about it in several of his stories.

Also, now holding a T-4 for final system checks.

Green Power!!

Directed Energy Weapon

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 5:48:52am

Weather is a go for today’s launch.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 5:55:11am

The ULA feed is now live.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 17, 2020 • 6:00:56am

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William Lewis  May 17, 2020 • 6:02:41am

re: #51 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Eh, Tesla was at the same level as Tsiolkovski was for rocket flight. Still point taken.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 6:08:51am

We are go for launch.

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jeffreyw  May 17, 2020 • 6:10:00am

Good morning!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 6:10:35am

T-4 Countdown has resumed.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 6:11:59am

ulalaunch.com

T-3

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 6:14:32am

Ignition and Lift off.

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Barefoot Grin  May 17, 2020 • 6:15:37am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 17, 2020 • 6:16:59am

Wow, that thing took it’s damn time leaving the pad

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 6:18:22am

Fairing separation.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 6:18:59am

MECO and stage seperation

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 17, 2020 • 6:23:58am

And that’s a wrap.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 17, 2020 • 6:42:51am
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The Pie Overlord!  May 17, 2020 • 6:52:12am
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The Pie Overlord!  May 17, 2020 • 6:52:34am

Jeff Tiedrich is like Rude Pundit but without the profanity filter.

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 17, 2020 • 7:05:02am

re: #69 The Pie Overlord!

Jeff Tiedrich is like Rude Pundit but without the profanity filter.

True.

I don’t require a profanity meter, but that’s me. I’m more of fuck it type of guy.

Fuck trump, for example.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2020 • 7:05:50am

re: #68 The Pie Overlord!

imagine that Obama had encouraged his fans to take up arms against Republican governors. Hannity would have shit radioactive murder hornets. the twenty-megaton furor from the entire wingnut outrage-industrial complex would have ripped a fucking hole in the space-time continuum

I stopped asking that question long before Trump even took office: imagine if Obama had five children from three different wives and affairs with porn stars.

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Sherlock Hound  May 17, 2020 • 7:14:33am

After reading Slavitt yesterday, my profanity filter exploded into tiny pieces.
I think I will be sheltering-in-place. Forever.

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Eventual Carrion  May 17, 2020 • 7:17:41am

re: #72 Sherlock Hound

After reading Slavitt yesterday, my profanity filter exploded into tiny pieces.
I think I will be sheltering-in-place. Forever.

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“If you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about”, hence if they are worried …

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Teukka  May 17, 2020 • 7:28:13am

WTFITSICE…

Yet another CoViD-19 conspiracy theory… [Sauce]
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The Pie Overlord!  May 17, 2020 • 7:31:56am

Without a doubt, Failson the Second is the stupidest Trump.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  May 17, 2020 • 7:32:00am

Jack (2004-2019) & Luke in 2017

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Jay C  May 17, 2020 • 7:39:37am

re: #67 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Gee, so the RNC is figuring out that Joe Biden’s closet is mostly bare of bones?
I guess they just have to fork over some more bucks to those “consultants” to come with something to fuel the Smear Machine with….
(but these are trained professionals, I’m sure they will be able to handle the task!)

Just a WAG, but I’m figuring they will be going with “senile” or “sick” - while touting Trump as being as hale as a Ben Garrison cartoon of himself - or maybe toss in some of the classic “Hunter/Burisma/Ukraine/corruption” BS.

But of course, they can always shift the to the classic “political” attacks: his past by tarring him with eight years of association with Barack Hussein Antichrist; and his future by painting a Biden Administration as a dystopian hellscape run by atheist communist baby-killer gun-grabber America-haters who are going to dismantle the borders, outlaw Christianity and meat, , and force everybody to get gay-married in front of a windmill….
I’m sure they’ll come up with something.

And that last paragraph is only partly snark.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 17, 2020 • 7:43:18am

re: #75 The Pie Overlord!

Without a doubt, Failson the Second is the stupidest Trump.

[Embedded content]

So go to a red state and hold a rally
I dare you

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 17, 2020 • 7:43:26am

re: #58 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western (wet) good morning!

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stpaulbear  May 17, 2020 • 7:44:28am

re: #75 The Pie Overlord!

Without a doubt, Failson the Second is the stupidest Trump.

The video below was in my YouTube recommendations this morning. I’ve seen some of his previous videos and I find him to be pretty interesting - kind of a Stonekettle-type character who used to train cops. He watched Erik Trump last night…

Let’s talk about Eric Trump’s comments last night….

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2020 • 7:47:19am

You’re a sociopathic, narcissistic asshole, medically.

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jeffreyw  May 17, 2020 • 7:50:34am

re: #79 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Western (wet) good morning!

[Embedded content]

It would seem that wringing a duck’s neck is not always, in itself, fatal.

Or ZOMBIE DUCKS! They will have you Quacking in Horror!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2020 • 7:50:57am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 8:01:06am

Liberal Redneck on Democratic campaigning in rural America. (3:42)

Liberal Redneck - Progress in Rural America

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 17, 2020 • 8:02:04am

re: #82 jeffreyw

It would seem that wringing a duck’s neck is not always, in itself, fatal.

Or ZOMBIE DUCKS! They will have you Quacking in Horror!

360 degrees. That’ll do it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 8:04:19am

re: #72 Sherlock Hound

After reading Slavitt yesterday, my profanity filter exploded into tiny pieces.
I think I will be sheltering-in-place. Forever.

I don’t have a Democratic rep (I don’t even have a rep who will represent Democrats).

It’s up to y’all who do to make sure that you tell your rep that you do not agree with Sen. McConnell’s plan to make you die for the Dow.

Democratic framing on this should be “Conservatism kills, and Mitch McConnell wants to kill you. If you agree to it, I support your next primary challenger.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2020 • 8:06:27am

I’d like to think Nancy saw this coming and has some way to get the bill passed while at the same time getting Mitches balls in a vise.

But I don’t know.

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jaunte  May 17, 2020 • 8:06:50am
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Jay C  May 17, 2020 • 8:08:14am

xcld

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jaunte  May 17, 2020 • 8:08:15am

A referendum on Ivanka’s trademarks.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 17, 2020 • 8:08:26am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Liberal Redneck on Democratic campaigning in rural America. (3:42)

[Embedded content]

Pity isn’t it. We think that people who vote against their own best interests are stupid to do it (no-one who’s done political canvassing believes that’s all rural people), they vote against their own best interests to own the liberals.

Meanwhile, those of us who do that kind of thing will continue to reach out to their saner neighbors.

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 17, 2020 • 8:09:01am

re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg

I’d like to think Nancy saw this coming and has some way to get the bill passed while at the same time getting Mitches balls in a vise.

But I don’t know.

At this point she deserves credit for knowing what the fuck she is doing.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2020 • 8:09:11am

re: #89 Jay C

Basically clever cartoon - but what’s with the duck feet?

He’s a “quack” doctor.

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Jay C  May 17, 2020 • 8:10:40am

re: #93 Eclectic Cyborg

He’s a “quack” doctor.

Got it.
But too late to remove……
The Internet moves at light-speed: gotta remember that…. ;)

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sagehen  May 17, 2020 • 8:11:24am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Liberal Redneck on Democratic campaigning in rural America. (3:42)

[Embedded content]

I love his accent. Where’s he from?

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jaunte  May 17, 2020 • 8:15:09am
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The Pie Overlord!  May 17, 2020 • 8:16:27am

Protect your hamsters.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 17, 2020 • 8:20:18am

beautiful “boaters” are beautiful…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 17, 2020 • 8:20:45am

he must be talking about hats

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 17, 2020 • 8:27:42am

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

he must be talking about hats

I like guys who don’t wear hats.

Safety Dance - Men Without Hats Official Video

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 8:33:46am

re: #95 sagehen

I love his accent. Where’s he from?

Celina, Tennessee.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 17, 2020 • 8:37:38am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 8:39:03am

Scottsbluff City Council to conduct in person meeting Monday (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

TL;DR, “we need to get back to normal,” masks will be recommended but people will not be turned away, social distancing will be applied to the council but recommended to attendees.

Scottsbluff has the most active cases by far of any town in the Panhandle.

Good luck, guys, because God isn’t going to save you, and neither will Governor Ricketts.

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Jay C  May 17, 2020 • 8:39:28am

CAVEAT: it’s in a diary over at Daily Kos, but I saw this interesting electoral map , supposedly from recent polling: showing the Biden/Trump EV breakdown at 309-229 (more than The Orange Anus’s margin in 2016).
Of course, the big problem (as fucking always!) is Florida, but (too close as it is for me), it wouldn’t be a result I’d hate to see on Nov. 4.

BTW, the main theme of the diary is a caution against complacency: a view I would heartily concur with…..

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i(m)p(each)sos  May 17, 2020 • 8:41:25am

I don’t know why I still waste Sunday mornings watching the gasbag shows, but it was amazing today to see Alex Azar on MTP and Peter Navarro on FTN (or was it the other way around, I think?) using PRECISELY the same words in the same unsolicited bullshit answer “explaining” how this isn’t a choice between lives and the economy because keeping the economy closed somehow kills people too.

And no pushback from either host. Grrrr.

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Jay C  May 17, 2020 • 8:42:35am

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

beautiful “boaters” are beautiful…

BTW, what IS that float-by?
A reenactment of the Dunkirk evacuation??*

*ADD: whose 80th anniversary starts May 26.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2020 • 8:43:57am

re: #105 i(m)p(each)sos

this isn’t a choice between lives and the economy because keeping the economy closed somehow kills people too.

People don’t die from poverty, they die from the associated lack of food, shelter and medical care.

but to these people, poverty is a disease that can only be eradicated through hard work

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 8:45:17am

re: #104 Jay C

CAVEAT: it’s in a diary over at Daily Kos, but I saw this interesting electoral map , supposedly from recent polling: showing the Biden/Trump EV breakdown at 309-229 (more than The Orange Anus’s margin in 2016).
Of course, the big problem (as fucking always!) is Florida, but (too close as it is for me), it wouldn’t be a result I’d hate to see on Nov. 4.

BTW, the main theme of the diary is a caution against complacency: a view I would heartily concur with…..

Sounds like wishful thinking.

270towin.com

From polling, baked-in electoral votes or lean are 232 for Democrats, 204 for Republicans, 102 toss-up.

Toss up states: NE-2, AZ, WI, MI, PA, NC, FL.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2020 • 8:45:20am

re: #106 Jay C

BTW, what IS that float-by?
A reenactment of the Dunkirk evacuation??

I assume that they re-opened the marinas and people are flocking to take their boats out.

Which is fine, they all seem to be keeping a safe distance.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 17, 2020 • 8:45:54am

Woo hoo. Just hit 20,000. A small number, but my own.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 8:45:56am

They are gathering for church across the street. I will stay inside away from Christian plague carriers until they leave.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 8:48:17am

re: #110 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Woo hoo. Just hit 20,000. A small number, but my own.

Now 200,002. Congradumalashuns. You may turn in your karma points for a ticket on the cruise line of your choice at the Little Green Footballs redemption centre.

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BigPapa  May 17, 2020 • 8:53:21am

Tapper does OK but doesn’t lean in hard when Ron Johnson starts getting rattled doing his best Tom Cotton:

State Of The Union With Jake Tapper 5/17/20 | CNN News Sunday May 17, 2020

Johnson said the IG’s serve the President, not the orgs they work for. Then he says a few minutes later two IG’s under Obama resigned under his oversight.

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PhillyPretzel  May 17, 2020 • 8:55:09am

re: #110 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Congrats.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 17, 2020 • 8:56:26am

re: #113 BigPapa

Tapper does OK but doesn’t lean in hard when Ron Johnson starts getting rattled doing his best Tom Cotton:

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Johnson said the IG’s serve the President, not the orgs they work for. Then he says a few minutes later two IG’s under Obama resigned under his oversight.

GOP leaders are being pretty honest know that they want absolutism in government as an oligarchy (only, of course, when they are the oligarchs). A solid indication that they’ve lost touch with the concept that the government is there to serve the people (all of them!) and simply the executive. Assuming that they ever accepted the concept in the first place.

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sagehen  May 17, 2020 • 8:59:00am

re: #106 Jay C

BTW, what IS that float-by?
A reenactment of the Dunkirk evacuation??*

*ADD: whose 80th anniversary starts May 26.

It’s an organized, deliberate pro-Trump boat parade.

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A Mom Anon  May 17, 2020 • 9:00:07am

re: #105 i(m)p(each)sos

I’m seeing this online too. That suicides are going to cause more deaths than CV because people can’t work and are losing everything. But, when you ask them for proof, they really can’t answer, as usual.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 9:05:00am

re: #117 A Mom Anon

I’m seeing this online too. That suicides are going to cause more deaths than CV because people can’t work and are losing everything. But, when you ask them for proof, they really can’t answer, as usual.

As if conservatives give a crap about either poverty or suicide. Like most such answers, it’s vapourware which falls apart when you ask even one question.

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jaunte  May 17, 2020 • 9:05:40am

re: #113 BigPapa

It would be great if they would start saying “revealing the traitors” instead of unmasking.

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jaunte  May 17, 2020 • 9:07:54am

Ron Johnson is rage-inducing.

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jaunte  May 17, 2020 • 9:08:07am
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BigPapa  May 17, 2020 • 9:09:37am

re: #120 jaunte

Ron Johnson is rage-inducing.

Tapper had him on the ropes but was too timid to finish him.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 17, 2020 • 9:12:23am

Morning/Afternoon Lizardim.

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Jay C  May 17, 2020 • 9:12:54am

re: #113 BigPapa

Johnson said the IG’s serve the President, not the orgs they work for. Then he says a few minutes later two IG’s under Obama resigned under his oversight.

Right: the typical GOP vision of government service: when there’s a (D) President, honesty, professionalism and disinterested service to the Nation are paramount considerations: under an (R) Pres., though? It’s a mashup of feudalism and Tammany Hall…..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 9:15:53am

re: #121 jaunte

Hey, Sen. Graham, didn’t you say Trump would destroy the GOP and you would deserve it?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 9:18:45am

re: #120 jaunte

Ron Johnson is rage-inducing.

So was the senator’s trip to Moscow.

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Belafon  May 17, 2020 • 9:23:50am

re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg

I’d like to think Nancy saw this coming and has some way to get the bill passed while at the same time getting Mitches balls in a vise.

But I don’t know.

The answer is that people are going to have to tell Mitch to shove it and pass the bill.

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William Lewis  May 17, 2020 • 9:25:42am

I am pleased to note that the Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire, noting the scriptural comment that all things may be legal but not all things are beneficial, will not reopen the churches for in person services. They will not meet again on the issue for month, June 13, to consider the issue again. The Bishop’s task force includes at least one MD who’s specialty is epidemiology so that probably has a big impact on why they’re being sensible about this.

In addition his wife is suffering from Covid like symptoms and is in self-quarantine within their home.

I’ll also mention that if you hear any asshat claiming the young can’t get Covid: The girl who died twice

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PhillyPretzel  May 17, 2020 • 9:28:15am

re: #128 William Lewis

I just saw that. And DT said it is just like the flu and it will disappear in no time.
::: eye roll :::

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  May 17, 2020 • 9:30:45am

re: #130 The Pie Overlord!

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Such a millennial.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 9:34:06am

Tropical Cyclone Amphan is churning north in the Bay of Bengal, expected to hit the India-Bangladesh border in a few days with speeds of 75 knots.

metoc.navy.mil

Tropical Storm Warnings are now up for the North Carolina coastline as Arthur is moving slightly east of north off the Florida-Georgia line.

nhc.noaa.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 17, 2020 • 9:37:14am

re: #128 William Lewis

Same here in the Nebraska Panhandle. Though no one has died yet, the largest age group to come down with the disease is 10-19.

Conservatives don’t care about children. They interfere with conserving power and profit.

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2020 • 9:39:02am

re: #77 Jay C

OMG IF BIDEN IS ELECTED, THERE’S GONNA BE TACO TRUCKS ON EVERY CORNER!!

Hey….sounds damn good to me.

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Sherlock Hound  May 17, 2020 • 9:41:30am

Someone in the replies pointed out that guillotines happen (I add, so do baseball bats, guns and IEDs…)

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 17, 2020 • 9:41:33am

Sigh….

My dear friend the socialist scientist is pushing hard on getting folks in NY to vote for Bernie.

Bernie hasn’t a chance…..unless:

We have an event so powerful and so rattling that it causes the serfs to revolt against the bourgeois. But what good will it do when those who could vote for a more just and verdant world get thrown out into the streets?

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Jay C  May 17, 2020 • 9:47:46am

re: #134 Dr Lizardo

OMG IF BIDEN IS ELECTED, THERE’S GONNA BE TACO TRUCKS ON EVERY CORNER!!

Hey….sounds damn good to me.

Me, too: but then, I live in Manhattan - where we basically have that already. (or, rather, DID until the Coronavirus lockdown).

I really can’t wait til the Motorized Halal Brigade can redeploy again….

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Dr Lizardo  May 17, 2020 • 9:48:56am

re: #137 Jay C

Me, too: but then, I live in Manhattan - where we basically have that already. (or, rather, DID until the Coronavirus lockdown).

I really can’t wait til the Motorized Halal Brigade can redeploy again….

The GOP will find some ridiculous BS to pitch to their base. They inevitably do.

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mmmirele  May 17, 2020 • 9:50:33am

And now for something completely different…an update on the state of the planet from the captain of the “Freewinds,” Scientology’s cruise ship/floating classroom for its highest level, OTVIII. As if she would know.

We have an unusual leaked conference call from Scientology’s private cruise ship the Freewinds. It was intended to be heard only by Scientologists in the ANZO continent (Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania).

The commanding officer of the ship is Sharron Weber, and the call was billed as an analysis of the state of the planet during the global pandemic.

Dense with the loaded language of Scientology, the call was a motivational rally to encourage Scientologists to become more active as Field Staff Members, or FSMs, who act as salespeople, getting a commission for convincing other Scientologists to further their expensive progress up the “Bridge to Total Freedom.” Those they can bring to the org to start a course are called Selectees.

In the call, Weber stresses that the largest period of expansion for Scientology is just around the corner. This claim is as old as Scientology. Active membership at recently opened Ideal Orgs is in the dozens, not hundreds or even thousands.

tonyortega.org

The audio is 34 minutes of Scientologese—I listened to the whole thing and I would like those minutes back. Probably the most important thing for you all to know, coming out of this, is that Scientology is going to keep on keeping on and they are not going to let the pandemic get in their way. They are going to overcome the pandemic. They sound like Trump’s MAGA supporters (and, in fact, some are MAGA supporters, like the notorious Joy Villa, a Scientologist who has shown up to various H’wd events dressed in Trump paraphernalia over the past few years).

My advice to everyone is to add “Scientology orgs” to your list of places to stay away from for the sake of your health.

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Eventual Carrion  May 17, 2020 • 10:08:27am

re: #119 jaunte

It would be great if they would start saying “revealing the traitors” instead of unmasking.

I wrote this previously back when this whole stupid shit was first started way back when. The way I explained it to people that were too self ignorant to understand what had happened who pushed this bullshit:

Local police get tipped off to a drug house that is operating. They go and get a warrant for surveillance of the house. Police are filming and photographing all comings and goings at the house. Hoping to possibly find the bigger supplier for this smaller time operation.
You buy drugs from this house, so of course the cops have you on film coming and going. They check you out because they want to see if maybe you are the “Mr. Big” supplying the place. They find out who you are, what you do, who else you talk to, your life story as they can find it. “Unmask your ass”.
They were not spying on you, you just happen to be doing business with someone they were watching who was doing illegal shit. And they needed to know why and to what extent you were involved.
Moral of story: You don’t want know as a criminal, don’t do business with criminals.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 17, 2020 • 10:26:05am

re: #130 The Pie Overlord!

Avocado toast

How is our economy supposed to recover if you are squandering our resources on that?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 17, 2020 • 11:14:37am

re: #139 mmmirele

The Scientologist leaders see the MAGAs as a obvious source of gullible people to run their particular grift on. With the obvious disruptions the virus is causing it makes it all the more easy for them to sell their particular cure/explanation of what is happening.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 18, 2020 • 11:42:11pm

re: #43 Eric The Fruit Bat

Dogs have masters, cats have staff.

Dogs have buddies!


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