And Now, Something Positive From Jason Mraz: "You Do You" (Feat. Tiffany Haddish)

And Now, Something Positive From Jason Mraz: “You Do You” (Feat. Tiffany Haddish)

MusicMay 2020 • Views: 27,084

“You Do You (feat. Tiffany Haddish)” out now: jasonmraz.lnk.to

From the new album Look For The Good – available June 19, 2020. Pre-Save/Order here: jasonmraz.ffm.to

Credits:
Director | Producer: Jen Rosenstein
Post Production: Bryan Mir | Blend; Ryan Daniels; Rick Redick; Billy Galewood
Illustrator: Sarah Hyland-Rosenstein
Photography: Jen Rosenstein

Lyrics:
Who it is that you want me to be / I can’t be / I can only do me / I can only go where life takes me
Who it is that you want me to be / I can’t be / I can only do me / I can only be how God made me

There’s only one of me incredibly uniquely designed / I keep my focus up ahead & leave my worries behind
I know that any goal I want to reach starts in my mind / I’m kind of dope ‘cause I’m one of a kind
I like to take my own path, never following the masses / I do my thing, taking risks, taking chances
I see no boundaries, no impasses to living my realized dream keeping music fresh

You do you / & I’ll do me / Together we’ll make harmony
Together we’ll make the world go round round round round
You do you / & I’ll do me / Together we’ll make harmony
Together we may dance differently but it’s all good

I’m easily inspired by the people surrounding me / But still I take pride in my individuality
I might be different from the people in my family / But the truth is their roots keep grounding me
There ain’t no mystery to my mastery / I just let myself act naturally
Whatever I dream may not be easy to achieve but I still believe in equality, so

You do you / & I’ll do me / Together we make harmony
Together we make the world go round round round round
You do you / I’ll do me / Together we make harmony
Together we may dance differently but it’s all good

I love the way you do you, no pretense / Heart open wide, no fear, no defense
You got your own style / You got your own reason / 24/7 rock your own uniqueness
& you got me on my knees, you’re my sweetness / You doing you is the ultimate realness
This me & you thing we got, let’s keep this / Loving you is much deeper than a reflex

Wait a minute lemme STAND UP for my girls / We never gonna quit ‘til we truly rule the world
Popular vote says we should rule the world / So we gonna march until our voices get heard
Who it is that you want me to be, I can’t be / All it is that I’m asking to be is just free
Free to make my choices & raise my voice up / Tell me where my sisters at & make some noise
C’mon & sing it with us! SHE READY!

You do you / I’ll do me / Together we make harmony
Together we make the world go round round round

Yo, There’s only one of me that ever will be / Never lonely by myself so I keep doing me
Never phony, I’m not tripping on how things should be / I just go with the flow carefree
Who it is that you want me to be, I can’t be / Who it is that you’re hoping to see, that ain’t me
We’re just inquisitive kids on the mystic fringe / On a mission to deliver us a happier reality, so

You do you / I’ll do me / Together we’ll make harmony
Together we make the world go round round round
You do you / I’ll do me / Together we make harmony
Together we make love & we’ll make it loud loud loud
You do you / I’ll do me / Together we’ll make harmony
Together we’ll make the world go round round round round round
You do you / & I’ll do me / Together we make harmony
Together we may dance differently but it’s all good
(Don’t it feel good when you do you?)

That’s what we talking about. Be you.

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466 comments

Patricia Kayden May 29, 2020 • 5:15:50pm

There is a concept in tort law known as the “eggshell plaintiff.” What that means is that even an extraordinary frailty on the part of an injured victim is not a valid affirmative defense to the negligence of the tortfeasor; they are still liable for the consequences 1/ https://t.co/ZvkHOczGpW

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 29, 2020

calochortus May 29, 2020 • 5:17:37pm

You know, I had kind of hoped for something on the news this week other than coronavirus, but this wasn’t really what I had in mind.

garzooma May 29, 2020 • 5:21:22pm

Dropkick Murphys singing Rose Tatoo w/Bruce Springsteen

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 29, 2020 • 5:24:02pm

re: #2 calochortus

You know, I had kind of hoped for something on the news this week other than coronavirus, but this wasn’t really what I had in mind.

The 2020 motto: “Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.”

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 5:25:36pm

Oops.

re: #175 jaunte

Looks like they want more riots.

This is just so wrong. There is no supreme state of health that allows a person to survive choking.

— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) May 29, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:33:43pm

Imagine being asked by law enforcement “is this car stolen?” multiple times by different cops. Imagine being asked “what drugs do you have in the car” as soon as you hand over your driver’s license. Imagine women clutching their purses when you walk in the elevator for years.

— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) May 29, 2020

I still have police ask me what I’m doing in MY neighborhood. I am not insulated or protected. I am tired. I am scared. All the time. Growing up, I thought if I made people laugh and went to college and smiled, I would be safe. That’s not even close to true.

— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) May 29, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:35:46pm

Brad is flatly lying. Trump’s comments were widely depicted accurately. because Trump *did* threaten military violence.

Funny that they appear to think Trump’s magical incitement powers aren’t working for him, though (the only reason Brad would roll out this new lie). https://t.co/XXQBHBR7f0

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 29, 2020

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 5:35:57pm

Last thread:

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

and it’s white people (Katie isn’t the only one saying this) asking Obama (the black guy) to fix the problem that the white guys started.

There have been calls for Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, GW Bush, and Barack Obama to appear together to unequivocally denounce the flouting of constitutional norms by the Trump Maladministration.

The idea is to set aside the unspoken rule of former presidents speaking out against each other’s policies or the current president’s policies, to state in no uncertain terms they find this unacceptable.

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:38:44pm

The protest then headed to in front of the White House. A protester was taken by the USSS in front of Pennsylvania Ave into an adjacent federal building. Unclear what he did.A couple men then splintered off from the group and spray painted “F*ck Trump” on the building. @cbsnews pic.twitter.com/OVwPu0PF6X

— Fin Gomez (@finnygo) May 29, 2020

Yes. If ONLY someone would have spearheadrd a non violent protest of this exact issue, I’m sure people would have embraced him and listened to the concerns of millions of people and changed their ways and this all could have been avoided. IF ONLY THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED pic.twitter.com/7l8Tg9bfuG

— Molly Millions (@lilorphanammo) May 29, 2020

Ace Rothstein May 29, 2020 • 5:42:30pm

I hope that every single player, black and white, on every single team in the NFL all kneel together on opening weekend.

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:44:44pm

It’s not just Minneapolis, we are now seeing protests in cities across the country over the death of George Floyd. This is in Atlanta as some smash the glass at our downtown CNN headquarters. #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/iwJxFaUfxW

— Omar Jimenez (@OmarJimenez) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:46:35pm

Lexington, Kentucky

Dozens of people have gathered downtown for a protest against police brutality. pic.twitter.com/gsAm2zEY8H

— HLpublicsafety (@HLpublicsafety) May 30, 2020

Everyone is wearing a mask

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:47:19pm

Crowd in Louisville is now on the move as two helicopters circle overhead. pic.twitter.com/QDAH4i28Wj

— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:48:53pm

“6th and Jefferson in Louisville. This is a line of white people forming a barrier between black protestors and the police. This is love. This is what you do with your privilege.” - KY NOW #NoJusticeNoPeace #SayHerName #BreonnaTaylor

Photo credit: Tim Druck pic.twitter.com/GExdLwmxSQ

— 💓🦄 (@SoQUALity) May 29, 2020

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 5:51:08pm

Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Had a Secret Daughter from an Affair in the 1970s https://t.co/240bqq1TID pic.twitter.com/MgZzNwsHuq

— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) May 29, 2020

So becoming ‘born again’ relieves you of obligations accrued before that time? Seems awfully convenient.

— Simon Templar (@RaptureSquirre1) May 29, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:53:04pm

pic.twitter.com/Y2v8nXT3rV

— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:54:22pm

One of the knuckleheads who was at that ludicrous crowd at Lake of the Ozarks has COVID-19.

If only there had been a way to see that coming. https://t.co/zuz4mVdcHX

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 30, 2020

gocart mozart May 29, 2020 • 5:55:42pm

Great concert. Here it is in its entirety on the Fenway infield

Streaming Outta Fenway | Dropkick Murphys Live Stream

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 5:56:50pm

They are covering it on their own air. And you’re retweeting a CNN reporter. Do you even care what you tweet? https://t.co/eR69iNpThi

— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) May 30, 2020

jaunte May 29, 2020 • 5:57:30pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shady Gators:
shadygators.com

PhillyPretzel May 29, 2020 • 5:57:55pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

Do not laugh too hard but that is what I am afraid of with returning to work. All it takes is one irresponsible person and all heck breaks loose.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 29, 2020 • 5:59:08pm

re: #21 PhillyPretzel

Do not laugh too hard but that is what I am afraid of with returning to work. All it takes is one irresponsible person and all heck breaks loose.

This is why I’m glad that my team and I are on the same page. Our office is technically open for “people who need to be on-site”, but we have been so remarkably effective as a virtual team (and our working conditions are such that we would be incredibly at risk) that we would rather continue as we are until we are guaranteed to be safe, i.e. a vaccine.

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:01:28pm

This is EXACTLY how Obama got saddled with the (false) RW trope: “Obama makes everything about race!”

Bcz when things like this happen, the MSM is overly-eager to put *him* in front of a bank of microphones…in a way they never did his predecessors.

He not your Magic Negro™🦸🏾‍♂️ https://t.co/1nhTIw6jun

— CandaceTX⁷ 🗽🇺🇸 (@CandaceTX) May 30, 2020

teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 6:02:14pm

re: #10 Ace Rothstein

I hope that every single player, black and white, on every single team in the NFL all kneel together on opening weekend.

You’re a betting man. How much you want to bet there will be no opening weekend?

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 29, 2020 • 6:02:58pm

re: #24 teleskiguy

You’re a betting man. How much you want to bet there will be no opening weekend?

The NFL just might. For that matter, MLB might actually have one, if they can agree on player salaries.

Dave In Austin May 29, 2020 • 6:05:04pm

Lou Dobbs blames “Black churches,” “Black teachers and leaders” for the protests in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/HJcDj5fz4T

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) May 29, 2020

Allow me to light that for you... May 29, 2020 • 6:06:32pm

Some things never change.
Fuck Trump.

House Burning Down (Jimi Hendrix Tribute)

Some Things..

gocart mozart May 29, 2020 • 6:07:51pm

Trouble Every Day - Mothers of Invention

Charles Johnson May 29, 2020 • 6:08:12pm

Haha! Benghazi! They’re still doing Benghazi!

Wingnut outrages never die, they just return from the grave over and over, looking more decomposed every time. But still they come back. https://t.co/vU9qsFTmpX

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 30, 2020

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 29, 2020 • 6:08:46pm

re: #26 Dave In Austin

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Fuck you, asshole. The black community is a major presence in Minneapolis because we took in the refugees the whole rest of the country rejected when Somalia happened. We’re proud of that fact and if you can’t handle it, shove it up your pencil-sized dick and then choke on it.

gocart mozart May 29, 2020 • 6:09:46pm

#

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) May 30, 2020

Ace Rothstein May 29, 2020 • 6:10:19pm

re: #31 gocart mozart

#asshole

jaunte May 29, 2020 • 6:13:21pm

Thread:

This is a good time for a reminder that the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO), which vets nominees like this, is run by a man who turned 30 this month, was fired from the White House, refused to disclose all of his income in his termination financial disclosure, was rehired, /1 https://t.co/xJXZu21kft

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:14:34pm

what other response did she expect?

Many Republicans were silent about the president’s tweet. Several contacted by AP either did not respond to questions about whether Trump was appropriately meeting this moment of cascading national crises or would not speak about the matter on the record. https://t.co/gtbDsDeNOu

— Julie Pace (@jpaceDC) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:15:57pm

This is how I read books now pic.twitter.com/TKE06zMhFg

— Sophie Vershbow (@svershbow) May 29, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:16:39pm

re: #31 gocart mozart

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sir we are doing shout out country names today, random symbol twitter is saturday https://t.co/0Y5WDKCNEj

— kilgore trout, potato thief (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:23:40pm

Kinda seems like Tucker wants to say it. https://t.co/bharZuKmZM

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) May 30, 2020

Belafon May 29, 2020 • 6:23:43pm

re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth

I wanted to post this earlier:

Obama is not here to solve our problems.

— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) May 30, 2020

(((Archangel1))) May 29, 2020 • 6:24:31pm

Republicans have devolved to rooting for hate to draw attention from thousands still locked in cages due to Trump’s bigotry; from 100,000+ AMERICANS DEAD of the pandemic caused by his negligence; & from 40 MILLION AMERICANS UNEMPLOYED because of his incompetence.

YOU.
OWN.
THIS.

— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:25:00pm

New Trump 2020 slogan: “Die for me” https://t.co/86YpR3DOCg

— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:27:18pm

Tucker Carlson says protests against police violence are an “ancient battle” between “thugs” and “normal people” https://t.co/XbvZQhuzsD

— Media Matters (@mmfa) May 30, 2020

(((Archangel1))) May 29, 2020 • 6:27:32pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

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With more than 102,000 Americans dead of COVID-19, these idiots would do well to STFU, seeing how that’s more than 25,500 domestic Benghazis all on U.S. soil….

gocart mozart May 29, 2020 • 6:31:59pm

Everyone should retweet a different emoji

🥦

— tom choad (@tomablogger) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:32:24pm

gaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters have made their way onto I-75 at Winchell Ave and Bank Ave. Use caution in the area. https://t.co/UW95SSe2QJ pic.twitter.com/ovK8N3FEep

— WCPO 9 (@WCPO) May 30, 2020

Charles Johnson May 29, 2020 • 6:32:25pm

Any opinions on the best food delivery service in the west side of LA?

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 30, 2020

I figure I might as well get an Impossible Whopper while I wait for the world to end.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 30, 2020

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 29, 2020 • 6:32:59pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

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Nooooo, don’t succumb to the dark side, boss!

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:34:13pm

In Louisville right now -> https://t.co/KETpD7aCsk

— Evan Millward (@EvanMillward) May 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth May 29, 2020 • 6:39:23pm

well good bye week
even tho it was only a four day week for many of us it felt like a forty day week or maybe that was just me and my bear fren

good bye pic.twitter.com/jz7CvJHHPN

— darth™ (@darth) May 30, 2020

niterz, lizardz

Dread Pirate May 29, 2020 • 6:40:14pm

All his big deals are falling apart. China, North Korea, United States of America.

— surfergal (@DesilvaErlinda) May 29, 2020

Citizen K May 29, 2020 • 6:42:35pm

This country feels like such a goddamn shitshow.

And when you get things like that suspicious ‘preliminary report’ or Fucker Failson being…himself…you kind of understand why people feel the need to riot. How the fuck else do you get to be heard, even if it’s just your anger at not only being treated as a lesser person but to have your own pain weaponized against you as reason for why you’re treated like a lesser person?

Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 29, 2020 • 6:42:47pm

Discussing foreign policy pursued by the Trump administration, Alexei Naumov from the Russian International Affairs Council said the quiet part out loud.

Naumov urged: “Russian hackers, if you’re listening, don’t help Donald Trump with his re-election.”https://t.co/8KXopTGHYr

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 29, 2020

Belafon May 29, 2020 • 6:42:49pm

re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

gaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

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Why protests don’t work here: people get annoyed at the inconvenience.

Rightwingconspirator May 29, 2020 • 6:44:28pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

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Ubereats

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 6:56:09pm

re: #295 PhillyPretzel

Happy Birthday. :)

Jumping the gun a bit. Mine is two days away. (::

Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 7:04:21pm

re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Jumping the gun a bit. Mine is two days away. (::

Well lets get the party started!

televisiontunes.com

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire May 29, 2020 • 7:06:23pm

Night Lizard. Sleep well.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 7:14:52pm

re: #313 lawhawk

Pro life GOP on display:

And, Twitter removed the Missouri GOP rep’s tweet as a violation of Twitter’s rules.

It would appear that Mr. Dorsey is tired of conservatives working the refs.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 7:16:01pm

re: #329 calochortus

Thank you!

You’re welcome. It was a lot of work and money to go out and get those flowers, I hope you enjoy them. /s

jaunte May 29, 2020 • 7:16:17pm

Just protecting and serving… No one https://t.co/ToYQSYxCQS

— Grudge of Whales (@grudging1) May 30, 2020

calochortus May 29, 2020 • 7:17:25pm

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You’re welcome. It was a lot of work and money to go out and get those flowers, I hope you enjoy them. /s

You know me-it’s all about the amount of money you spent on the gesture,
/

teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 7:20:12pm

…

jaunte May 29, 2020 • 7:20:51pm

Who in a position of power could have possibly encouraged police and other law enforcement to shoot, non-lethal or not, directly at members of the press?

It would take a sustained campaign against the press and media to encourage this, wouldn’t it? 😬 https://t.co/U5f5hne6Le

— Dan Hon (@hondanhon) May 30, 2020

jaunte May 29, 2020 • 7:29:59pm

I feel a strange sense of deja vu, like I’m watching Putin’s police pummel peaceful protestors in Moscow this summer. Authoritarian regimes, as we know, are all very similar. https://t.co/YtGPqYZWRR

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) May 30, 2020

jaunte May 29, 2020 • 7:32:31pm

All three Fox News primetime hosts have attacked President Obama tonight for worsening U.S. race relations during his tenure.

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 30, 2020

retired cynic May 29, 2020 • 7:33:58pm

re: #64 jaunte

Good timing on their part. //

Charles Johnson May 29, 2020 • 7:34:44pm

Here we see dead-eyed Lara Logan spreading conspiracy theories about Antifa and BLM on Fox News. pic.twitter.com/9aaSqFfN7K

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 30, 2020

Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 7:35:33pm

Meanwhile there was a protest in downtown Los Angeles where demonstrators tried to block freeway access ramps but the CHP blocked them. Mayor Garcetti did a live news conference trying to cool the situation down.

Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 7:37:01pm

re: #64 jaunte

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Honestly did we expect the Presstitutes at FAUX to NOT blame Obama for these disturbances?

Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 7:49:24pm

Killer Mike speaks.

Just in case you missed it. pic.twitter.com/TZeRqEy8dM

— Brianna Dahlquist (@bridahlquist) May 30, 2020

teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 7:49:30pm

Gal I know who lives in downtown Denver.

jaunte May 29, 2020 • 7:51:02pm

Yes. The CNN/Atlanta violence was clearly white people. https://t.co/AgXxIhC7dE

— Karoli (@Karoli) May 30, 2020

jaunte May 29, 2020 • 7:52:48pm

White guy in the crowd in Minneapolis just walked up to the camera and said

“Anarchists will be coming to destroy your fcuking city”.

What does that have to do with George Floyd?

— Sasha (@SashaBeauloux) May 30, 2020

Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 7:55:01pm

KTLA 5 Live coverage in Los Angeles.

ktla.com

retired cynic May 29, 2020 • 7:57:18pm

I think, were I black, I would decide this would be a really good time to stay at home, and keep my head down. Not just the cops and the anarchists and the white supremacists, but covid-19, too. All of them on the lookout for someone black to bring down.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 8:00:06pm

A daycare centre in Scottsbluff has been closed after an administrator came down with Covid-19, spread it to a caregiver, then that person exposed the children.

teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 8:03:15pm

In the wake of riots and violence, fear and loathing. How long can it last? Where will it end? Selah.

— Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (@GonzoVice) September 2, 2014

Citizen K May 29, 2020 • 8:04:17pm

re: #72 jaunte

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Black Bloc dipshits ruin everything.

goddamnedfrank May 29, 2020 • 8:04:18pm

More of this please

If you were arrested for protesting in Houston but did not engage in any property destruction or assault anyone; I got you for free. My office number is 281.412.4151. https://t.co/BMGUxPP0Le

— Charles Adams (@bigangrylaw) May 30, 2020

My job is to tell when people are lying. I’m good at that job. If I fall for a liar, it’s on me.

— Charles Adams (@bigangrylaw) May 30, 2020

teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 8:06:34pm

Kellie Chauvin,
Through her attorney wife of former Officer Derek Chauvin the former Minneapolis Police Officer charged with murdering #GeorgeFloyd released a statement saying she is devastated by Floyd’s death, sends condolences to his family and is divorcing her husband @wcco pic.twitter.com/A5n7bYgdbK

— esme murphy (@esmemurphy) May 30, 2020

Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 8:09:07pm

retired cynic May 29, 2020 • 8:09:11pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

Shades of an abused wife. He gets locked up; she gets out of Dodge.

So Cal Greek Hippie May 29, 2020 • 8:10:12pm

Just read an interesting book on NYC draft riots back in November, courtesy of Little Free Library on my corner. I returned otherwise I could look up exact title and author

Key takeaway for me was that the riots lasted for nearly a full week and each day the riot featured a different aggrieved group acting out. The only entity in the city that could mollify and apply consequences was Tammany Hall Machine, thrust into an unwanted but desperately needed authority role.

Also, see photo of dogs from a pre Covid19 world

January 2019, Luke and Jack (RIP) coming out after the rain

The Ghost of a Flea May 29, 2020 • 8:11:40pm

re: #77 Citizen K

Black Bloc dipshits ruin everything.

Dude, is it even Black Bloc?

Half the pictures I’ve seen of white dudes doing damage it’s just basic white dudes who aren’t even balaklava’d up.

Anybody can say they’re an anarchist and, well…

…under current circumstances I wouldn’t take a white dude’s word on why he’s doing what he’s doing without knowing his background. It’s no longer just cops being agents provocateur, there are all kind of accelerationist reactionary groups that want to make things worse.

I mean, this was true back in the days of WTO protests, all the way through to the inauguration protests.

Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 8:22:37pm

Fox News needs to be shut down.

Wait for it pic.twitter.com/4qhelWXbG9

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 30, 2020

Dread Pirate May 29, 2020 • 8:23:59pm

TV reporter in Denver: https://t.co/Ey7TmZ49Tp

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 30, 2020

ckkatz May 29, 2020 • 8:24:27pm

re: #83 The Ghost of a Flea

Dude, is it even Black Bloc?

Half the pictures I’ve seen of white dudes doing damage it’s just basic white dudes who aren’t even balaklava’d up.

Anybody can say they’re an anarchist and, well…

…under current circumstances I wouldn’t take a white dude’s word on why he’s doing what he’s doing without knowing his background. It’s no longer just cops being agents provocateur, there are all kind of accelerationist reactionary groups that want to make things worse.

I mean, this was true back in the days of WTO protests, all the way through to the inauguration protests.

This is my expectation as well. For example, the guy who vandalized the Minneapolis AutoWorld was carrying an umbrella. Speculation was that it allowed some supporters to overwatch him from a distance. There does seem to be some folks quite willing to be provocateurs and commit ‘dirty tricks’ out there. Some like Roger Stone’s friends in the Proud Boys seem to be somewhat organized.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 8:26:17pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

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— Jacob T. Levy (@jtlevy) May 30, 2020

Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 8:28:13pm

I just got a DSA alert that the Proud Boys and Boogaloos will be staging several actions in Los Angeles tomorrow…now are the police going to be extra nice to those thugs????

teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 8:30:44pm

Language warning: N-word.

Mark Fuhrman? @FoxNews are you serious??? pic.twitter.com/e87zOC6Ajk

— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) May 30, 2020

jaunte May 29, 2020 • 8:30:58pm

He was installed to destroy the US. Is that clear yet? https://t.co/ccAJjdowO9

— Marc Brammer (@HeyersGhost) May 30, 2020

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 8:32:15pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

A lot of cynical people in that thread speculating wildly about the reasons for a divorce (most of being “they are protecting property from civil suits”—which is a crime by itself).

Belafon May 29, 2020 • 8:32:30pm

re: #84 Joe Bacon 🌹

Yes, there was the Jewish side and the Nazi side in 1939.

There was John Lewis’s side and cop that cracked his skull side.

There was the Trail of Tears side and the US Government side.

The point being that not every side is valid.

— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) May 30, 2020

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips May 29, 2020 • 8:40:58pm

Time Magazine a month before the 1968 Presidential election: pic.twitter.com/Avx7mLbnSO

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) May 30, 2020

Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 8:42:12pm

re: #92 Belafon

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That’s got to be a Russian bot!

Dave In Austin May 29, 2020 • 8:42:16pm

Hummingbird enters the speed force! 😁
⠀
🎥 smartereveryday IG🔥
⠀#nature #funny #science pic.twitter.com/xpkeHd0W1j

— Reg Saddler (@zaibatsu) May 30, 2020

SteelPH May 29, 2020 • 8:43:02pm

Current mood:

fuck everything

— SteelPH (@SteelPH) May 30, 2020

Jebediah, RBG May 29, 2020 • 8:48:10pm

re: #96 SteelPH

Current mood:

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seconded

teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 8:52:31pm

How about a ski tweet? I could lap this chairlift all day. Location: Obertauern, Austria pic.twitter.com/p4jy6jZv6S

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 30, 2020

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 8:55:56pm

Colin Kaepernick Offers to Pay for Lawyers for People Protesting in Minneapolis - WSJ https://t.co/v3tmufM3vy

— NESSA (@nessnitty) May 29, 2020

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teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 8:57:41pm

watching Americans burn their cities to the ground as an unrelenting pandemic rages on all I can think is, I wonder when Trump’s tee time is tomorrow?

— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) May 30, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 29, 2020 • 8:57:47pm

We really need to look at how we select police on this country, top to bottom, everywhere.

TIL During the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore some of the looting was done by members of an elite police squad that stole prescription drugs and sold them to a middleman to put out on the street.https://t.co/egHJ89CoJD

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 30, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 29, 2020 • 9:01:08pm

ya think?

In a letter to Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, House Democrats say they have “grave concerns” about Pres. Trump’s deal with Russia on ventilators. https://t.co/53Agsxl1YB

— ABC News (@ABC) May 30, 2020

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Renaissance_Man May 29, 2020 • 9:04:38pm

re: #101 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We really need to look at how we select police on this country, top to bottom, everywhere.

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America doesn’t really have police. Police forces have different purposes - peacekeeping, law enforcement, serving the common good.

America has garrisons.

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Belafon May 29, 2020 • 9:07:46pm

It’s Friday, and my parents came over to eat and watch a movie with us. We’ve run out of new movies, so we’ve been watching some I’ve seen before but I know my parents haven’t seen. Tonight’s was Real Genius. Still a good movie.

Afterwards we got on the discussion of the police and the riots. My mom thinks the protests have been somewhat counterproductive, though she does agree that the media probably would have moved onto something else besides the murder had they not occurred. But, even though mom worked at the jail and has defended some actions of cops, they agree that the cops in MN should have been arrested and that the ones shooting even pepper at reporters should have received the same fate.

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Belafon May 29, 2020 • 9:09:05pm

re: #101 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We really need to look at how we select police on this country, top to bottom, everywhere.

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I think, like Val Demmings said yesterday, that we get what we pay for. I think cops and teachers should receive a pretty significant salary, and proper training.

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retired cynic May 29, 2020 • 9:11:19pm

re: #105 Belafon

I think, like Val Demmings said yesterday, that we get what we pay for. I think cops and teachers should receive a pretty significant salary, and proper training.

I think we have learned, this year, the hard way, that jobs that are looked down on or taken for granted may be the most essential we need in our society. So we need to take a deep look at what is essential, and how we pay for it.

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Belafon May 29, 2020 • 9:14:30pm

If Trump didn’t have the bots, his tweets would probably barely crack the thousands. OTOH, Taylor Swift has gotten a few likes for hers that people have mentioned earlier today:

After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 29, 2020

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Dread Pirate May 29, 2020 • 9:14:32pm

Socrates didn’t say this. Stay in school kids🐮 https://t.co/dfp1JSrI2q

— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) May 30, 2020

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Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 9:22:36pm

re: #108 Dread Pirate

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The GRU gang is out in force stoking the hate. Putin should be so proud!

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The Ghost of a Flea May 29, 2020 • 9:22:41pm

re: #90 jaunte

The thing everyone need to get into their heads is Donald Trump was installed to destroy America by the 40% of the American population that believes that they’re the last Real Americans. Sure, trans-national kleptocrats and dictators may pitch in and try and make the situation play out to their benefit…but Donald Trump is the eidolon of reactionary conservatism.

At the bottom of US “conservatism” there’s the notion that they are moral and correct a priori, while everybody that disagrees is evil and wrong. This assumption is so persistent that it overrides the very act of holding consistent beliefs.

For some individuals, this is just lack of self reflection in otherwise normal and moral lives that leads then to make destructive choices at the ballot box, for they assume that anyone that invokes the same symbols and rituals as them must be a good person. But for many…or at least enough that they dictate the direction of conservative culture right now…the only thing that matters is their sense that they are good—even when they are not, by their own criteria—and therefore anyone that questions their authority is depraved. And in terms of the hegemons of current conservatism—well, what they all share in common is a belief in a need for a re-ordering of the nation such that people who question their license to do what they want are, at minimum, franchiseless.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 9:24:28pm

My computer is fouling up (yet again) and needs a restart.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 29, 2020 • 9:32:05pm

Chester County, PA COVID-19 stats:
Confirmed cases: 2,647 (+52)
Deaths: 249 (+6)

So confirmed cases are about 1/2 of 1% of the county population now.

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austin_blue May 29, 2020 • 9:33:49pm

re: #98 teleskiguy

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Oh, no. No, no, nope not a chance. That’s just a killer pitch.

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teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 9:34:06pm

Brother can you spare $36 million? https://t.co/Rx45yAxf8a

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 30, 2020

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! May 29, 2020 • 9:34:11pm

Well, I’ve had enough of this day, so here’s a happy squirrel and some flowers.

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jaunte May 29, 2020 • 9:34:54pm

LAPD just declared an unlawful assembly for all of downtown LA https://t.co/W0C3w4a45T

— Julia Wick (@sherlyholmes) May 30, 2020

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retired cynic May 29, 2020 • 9:35:03pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

We could all go in together!

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jaunte May 29, 2020 • 9:36:34pm

Meanwhile Brett Kavanaugh has demonstrated his unfitness for his seat on SCOTUS.

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Dread Pirate May 29, 2020 • 9:36:57pm

Moments after Tucker Carlson delivers a rant straight from The Daily Stormer about how black protesters are the real racists and that Minnesota is purposely letting race riots happen, progressive icon Glenn Greenwald happily shows up for his regular appearance on the show. pic.twitter.com/6EH46feZxK

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 29, 2020

There’s Republican Glenn Greenwald on the Fox Republican propaganda channel again.

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teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 9:38:30pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

Dude has a point.

And some! A fleet of helicopters and salaries for pilots!

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 30, 2020

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austin_blue May 29, 2020 • 9:40:16pm

re: #105 Belafon

I think, like Val Demmings said yesterday, that we get what we pay for. I think cops and teachers should receive a pretty significant salary, and proper training.

Police in Austin are paid about $3,000 less than teachers ($54,000 ->$57,000).

Then again, teachers don’t kill any of the people they are pledged to serve.

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bratwurst May 29, 2020 • 9:45:14pm

Ladies and gentlemen, your least surprising story of the night:

Partygoer at Lake of the Ozarks pool party tests positive for COVID-19, potentially exposing hundreds

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Decatur Deb May 29, 2020 • 9:49:43pm

re: #122 bratwurst

Ladies and gentlemen, your least surprising story of the night:

Partygoer at Lake of the Ozarks pool party tests positive for COVID-19, potentially exposing hundreds

Alabama coronavirus cases surge to new high as state reopens
al.com

We managed to steepen the curve again.

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Belafon May 29, 2020 • 9:52:36pm

re: #117 retired cynic

We could all go in together!

And then we’d have to still come up with the other $35.998M.

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Decatur Deb May 29, 2020 • 9:54:17pm

The problem isn’t attending a protest, it’s knowing which people to stand beside.

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BeachDem May 29, 2020 • 9:59:50pm

re: #123 Decatur Deb

Alabama coronavirus cases surge to new high as state reopens
al.com

We managed to steepen the curve again.

As more and more businesses have reopened across South Carolina over the last two weeks, inviting people to venture out of isolation and into the public despite the ongoing threat of the coronavirus, health experts also have seen a surge in confirmed infections.

From May 13 to May 26, the percent of positive cases trended upward, changing from 2.7% to a peak of 7.7%.

Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget About Me)

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sagehen May 29, 2020 • 10:00:03pm

“Whenever the cops gun down an innocent black man… they always say the same thing…. “It’s not most cops. It’s just a few bad apples.” Bad apple? That almost sounds nice. I’ve had a bad apple. It was tart. But it didn’t choke me out. Here’s the thing. I know it’s hard being a cop. I know it’s hard. I know that shit’s dangerous. I know it is, ok? But some jobs can’t have bad apples. Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like… pilots. You know? American Airlines can’t be like, “Most of our pilots like to land. We just got a few bad apples… that like to crash into mountains. Please bear with us.”

—Chris Rock

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 10:03:34pm

re: #112 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Chester County, PA COVID-19 stats:
Confirmed cases: 2,647 (+52)
Deaths: 249 (+6)

So confirmed cases are about 1/2 of 1% of the county population now.

Nebraska Panhandle cases:
pphd.org

Confirmed: 122 (+4, +3 in Scott’s Bluff County and the first in Garden County)
Recovered: 77
Doubling rate: 23 days
Deaths: 0
Largest age group: 10-19, then 40-49, then 20-29

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 10:05:26pm

re: #114 teleskiguy

Maybe we can pool our money.

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austin_blue May 29, 2020 • 10:09:35pm

It’s approaching pumpkin time, and:

Everything The Orange Shit Goblin has been doing for the past 3 1/2 years is reaching fruition in the time of plague.

The country is falling apart.

There is no one in charge.

There is no leadership.

There is a vacuum at the top.

There has been a certain level of reserved panic among the populace for the last two months.

The murder of an unarmed man in Minneapolis has lit a match.

The match has lit a fire.

Our democracy is falling apart. The police are turning into our enemies, not our protectors.

I have *no* fucking idea how this will sort itself out.

Dog help us all.

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Decatur Deb May 29, 2020 • 10:11:45pm

re: #130 austin_blue

If you spent much time in the ’60s you would be less alarmed.

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The Ghost of a Flea May 29, 2020 • 10:13:24pm

You know, for years I’ve thought about the way that reactionary anti-authoritarianism talks volubly about fighting the government, but somehow that police and military were deemed not part of government. I guessed this was because reactionaries assumed these forces would be on their side.

Now I think there’s more to it than that.

Reactionaries say law and order and do not mean either word in the normal, dictionary sense. As best I can gloss is law does not refer to what is in the law books enacted by legislation, but the complete set of legal and cultural rules that assert their privileges and deny privileges to people not like them. Order, in turn, is just a social system that conveniences them…and in the process more often than not creates chaos for other, not-like-them people.

So from the these special definitions, in turn, their understanding of police is not that they are public servants held to a standardized code of conduct as they enforce criminal law as legislated and ruled…rather the police exist to enforce their comfort. So when a policeman kills someone extrajudicially, the measure of the injustice is not the rules-as-written about what is and is not misconduct, but whether or not the death hints that reactionaries will be inconvenienced in the same way.

I’m proposing this because it explains both the instances of anti-police opinion by reactionaries and the pro-police opinion. When law enforcement happens to them…or someone like them…then it is tyranny. When extrajudicial violence and injustice happens to people they dislike and refuse to empathize with, it is justice.

And I’d say something similar is present in their, *cough*, “respect” for the military.

In their worldview that centers their subjective sense of comfort, soldiers do not exist to achieve specific in-theater objectives in accordance with a larger strategic plan that services long-term goals in international relations: soldiers exist to kill “bad guys” where “badness” is evaluated only in terms of shallow impressions that center their emotional reactions. And the act of killing is not strategic but hedonistic: it is good the bad guy is dead because it feel good to have someone strange and threatening suffer and die.

This explains why they respond so poorly to traumatized soldiers, because trauma is suggestive that war is something more complicated than gratification through eliminating opponents, and their only interest in war is the gratification; they cannot empathize with a serviceman who empathizes with his opponent. It also explains their indifference to war crimes: since war is not about specific objectives, war is not about morale or hearts-and-minds or weighing the eventually possibility of negotiated settlement…you hurt the bad guys and it is good.

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Amory Blaine May 29, 2020 • 10:13:25pm

I love you guys. Please be here for me.

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austin_blue May 29, 2020 • 10:14:49pm

re: #131 Decatur Deb

If you spent much time in the ’60s you would be less alarmed.

I marched in DC in 1970 while my dad was on his second tour in the ‘Nam. I was 14.

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Decatur Deb May 29, 2020 • 10:15:33pm

re: #134 austin_blue

I marched in DC in 1970 while my dad was on his second tour in the ‘Nam. I was 14.

Then you’ve seen all this and more.

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Dr Lizardo May 29, 2020 • 10:16:24pm

re: #89 teleskiguy

That uncomfortable moment when O.J. Simpson has a perfectly valid point.

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mmmirele May 29, 2020 • 10:16:47pm

Much to my surprise, there were protests in downtown Phoenix last night and tonight. I would note that it’s past 10 pm and still over 100 degrees.

The protests here are not just being driven by the death of George Floyd.

PHOENIX — Rallies are continuing tonight in downtown Phoenix after a vigil for Dion Johnson, a man shot and killed by DPS earlier this week in Phoenix. Protests are happening across the country tonight for George Floyd, a man that died in police custody in Minneapolis earlier this week as well.

Watch live video from the scene in the player below. Viewer discretion is advised. Strong language can be heard as this is a live event.

Dion Johnson, 28, was shot and killed by a DPS trooper Monday morning near the Loop 101 and Tatum Boulevard.

Police say a DPS trooper was patrolling the area when he saw a vehicle parked on the eastbound gore point, partially blocking traffic.

The trooper observed a man, later identified as Johnson, allegedly passed out in the driver’s seat and when the trooper made contact with him, there was a struggle and the trooper fired his service weapon striking and killing Johnson.

Of course the trooper had no dash cam or badge cam.

abc15.com

There has also been a tussle between the Phoenix Police Department and the local press. Basically, the PPD told the press that when they declare an unlawful assembly, that includes the press, and the press are like, AW HELL NAW.

To be clear: If this happens again, @abc15 journalists will not leave unless we decide to leave. Phoenix Police have been notified about our position.

There is a constitutional right to be present, report the news, and inform the public. https://t.co/lzpYo5cwep

— Dave Biscobing (@DaveBiscobing15) May 29, 2020

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austin_blue May 29, 2020 • 10:18:31pm

re: #135 Decatur Deb

Then you’ve seen all this and more.

Sadly, yes. And it’s still awful.

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Decatur Deb May 29, 2020 • 10:20:38pm

re: #138 austin_blue

Sadly, yes. And it’s still awful.

It’s awful, but it’s not fatal unless we let if fuck up the November election. Then it’s effectively fatal. If you don’t trust me, ask Presidents McGovern and Humphrey.

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mmmirele May 29, 2020 • 10:22:27pm

The protest in Phoenix is in front of the Police Department. The police just gave a “please disperse” order.

abc15.com

There’s a Facebook live embedded in this page.

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Dave In Austin May 29, 2020 • 10:22:40pm

Liberty Hangout didn’t just take their mask off. They stripped naked, rubbed shit all over their body, and sang the Horst Wessel Song. pic.twitter.com/VO8lqUXRqn

— ☣Knight of Contagion☣ (@SciOperative) May 30, 2020

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The Ghost of a Flea May 29, 2020 • 10:23:13pm

re: #132 The Ghost of a Flea

Upon reflection, that’s a lot of semiotics paragraphs to convey the same thing as “Beckys and Karens is a worldview.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 10:24:55pm

(interview of Ernie Chambers in 1966, 1:35. Ernie Chambers is now a state senator)

“It’s up to you to talk to your brothers and your sisters and persuade them that they have a responsibility. We’ve assumed ours for over four hundred years and we’re tired of this kind of stuff now. We’re not going to suffer patiently anymore.“ -Senator Ernie Chambers, 1966 https://t.co/pv5sWVO88G

— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) May 29, 2020

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austin_blue May 29, 2020 • 10:25:57pm

re: #139 Decatur Deb

It’s awful, but it’s not fatal unless we let if fuck up the November election. Then it’s effectively fatal. If you don’t trust me, ask President McGovern.

No shit. That was the last national election in which I didn’t vote. Too young.

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Belafon May 29, 2020 • 10:31:30pm

vice.com

[P]ointing a gun at your penis has nothing to do with owning the libs and everything to do with ironically mocking basic safety in gun culture. The trend is about a year old and it was born in the fires of Facebook’s gun groups. On one side are responsible gun owners, on the other is a group of men aiming a deadly weapon at their dicks to prove a point that they can only vaguely explain.

Gun enthusiasts love taking pictures of their guns. It’s common practice. America has a gun culture as robust, diverse, and complicated as comic book fans, fantasy nerds, PC gamers, or any other subculture. Like those communities, gun nerds have their own memetic language and fight among themselves. Unlike pop culture enthusiasts, the hobby of a gun nerd is based on a tool designed to kill. It’s distressing then, to the responsible gun owner, when fringe elements in their community post pictures online of them pointing guns at their dicks…

Like with any other fandom, there’s levels to gun culture. In the online gun community there are “normies” and “fudds.” Normies cover a range of people, anyone from a basic handgun owner to the completely uninitiated. Fudds—as in Bugs Bunny hunter Elmer Fudd—are the old heads, weirdos, and dedicated gun nuts. Some fudds hate normies and the way normies talk about guns. Even the normies who know their way around a firearm.

A chief complaint among fudds is the normie’s devotion to safety, typically manifested as knee-jerk praise of trigger discipline. For the uninitiated, watching trigger discipline refers to the act of keeping your finger off the trigger of a firearm until you’re ready to fire the weapon. It’s a safety basic, along with never pointing a gun at anyone or anything you don’t intend to harm, and always assuming a gun is loaded. Trigger and muzzle discipline will tell you a lot about a person holding a firearm. Typically, if they keep the muzzle away from the camera and their finger off the trigger—even while holding the grip—they know their way around a weapon.

Inevitably, when some idiot posts a picture of themselves with a firearm, another idiot will jump into the comments to praise or chide the idiot for their trigger discipline. Some fudds hate this…

To combat this apparent scourge of responsible gun ownership, some fudds have taken to posting pictures of themselves pointing allegedly loaded weapons at their own dicks, with their finger on the trigger. If this doesn’t make sense to you, you’re not alone. The trend is around a year old, and it’s an issue gun groups—especially those on Facebook—have been dealing with for a while…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 10:33:59pm

Former Omaha Chief of Police and Douglas County Sheriff

Here’s my take: within 24 hours someone should have had the presence of mind to simply arrest the officer for criminal homicide—just like anyone else. An arrest is not a conviction. He’s still entitled to proof beyond a reasonable doubt. But he should be treated like anyone else.

— Tom Casady (@TCasady304) May 29, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 10:37:43pm

re: #145 Belafon

Sooner or later one of these so-called Fudds is going to point an unloaded firearm at their dick and find out the hard way it was not unloaded.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 May 29, 2020 • 10:41:28pm

re: #145 Belafon

They got a bad case of pee pee envy.

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CarolJ May 29, 2020 • 10:49:30pm

re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I agree. This looks like playing Russian Roulette. And you just know that somebody is going to eventually fire, if only by accident. Its standing up in the roller coaster or working on a light socket with a fork and hoping nothing goes wrong.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 10:54:22pm

re: #132 The Ghost of a Flea

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This explains why they respond so poorly to traumatized soldiers, because trauma is suggestive that war is something more complicated than gratification through eliminating opponents, and their only interest in war is the gratification;

All the way back to ancient Sparta: Come back with your shield, or on it.

There is no room in society for the disabled veteran for those who view soldiers as conquering heroes.

This is some part explains why the GOP has long held the VA in such disdain, and have no problem smearing the military service of disabled veterans such as Max Cleland or Tammy Duckworth, or even one of their own such as John McCain.

It is the black-and-white thinking which is the hallmark of theology. Since those veterans did not completely and wholly give themselves over to the conservative catechism, every part of them is to be denigrated. No part of them can be spared as “good” or “right” or “true.”

All Trump did with his attacks on John McCain when he stepped out of line and voted to save the ACA was banish the heretic, and the faithful followed.

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Jack Burton May 29, 2020 • 10:56:38pm

re: #145 Belafon

On Facebook, there is (or at least was at one time) a group called “Gun People who hate Gun People”.

It was full of more reasonable gun owners constantly making fun of Gun nuts and Gun culture, and especially stupid crap like this.

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William Lewis May 29, 2020 • 10:56:49pm

re: #145 Belafon

That is not the definition of Fudd that I see daily in the gun community. Fudd is, to the gun humpers, a person who likes old fashioned weapons, has a small number of weapons, doesn’t like Ebil Black Rifles and doesn’t believe that all gun owners should be right wing nutjobs ready to fight ACW Mk II at the order of Faux News.

Fudd is essentially an insult for normal gun owners. I have been called that often even at the Liberal Gun Club.

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goddamnedfrank May 29, 2020 • 10:58:39pm

Racism had home-court advantage. https://t.co/us0gRcUVEu

— Youssef Grant (@YGLA) May 29, 2020

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Dave In Austin May 29, 2020 • 10:59:33pm

Wanna see some bullshit??

We stand in solidarity against racism and violence. When members of our community hurt, we all hurt. We’re pledging $1M in support of efforts to address social injustice.

— YouTube (@YouTube) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:01:22pm

re: #152 William Lewis

That is not the definition of Fudd that I see daily in the gun community. Fudd is, to the gun humpers, a person who likes old fashioned weapons, has a small number of weapons, doesn’t like Ebil Black Rifles and doesn’t believe that all gun owners should be right wing nutjobs ready to fight ACW Mk II at the order of Faux News.

Fudd is essentially an insult for normal gun owners. I have been called that often even at the Liberal Gun Club.

urbandictionary.com

Urban Dictionary has it the way you describe it.

I left the Liberal Gun Club because there were too many wingnuts which joined the group.

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teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 11:05:48pm

Working Fire at 152 Luckie Street. Moderate smoke showing on arrival of Engine 6. Full alarm requested. @cobbcountyfire truck on scene with mutual aide. #ATL #AFRD #Atlanta

— Atlanta Fire Rescue (@ATLFireRescue) May 30, 2020

That’s the Tabernacle music theater. What the fuck.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:07:54pm

At the request of Mayor @KeishaBottoms & in consultation with public safety & emergency preparedness officials, I have issued a State of Emergency for Fulton County to activate as many as 500 @GeorgiaGuard troops to protect people & property in Atlanta. (1/2)

— Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:14:33pm

A Black New York State Senator (@zellnor4ny) and a Black NYS Assemblywoman (@YourFavoriteASW) were both pepper sprayed in Brooklyn today.

They were present as elected leaders to keep the peace and serve their communities.

Completely, utterly unacceptable. https://t.co/NoT8g4uAli

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 30, 2020

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Targetpractice May 29, 2020 • 11:16:00pm

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Meanwhile, Faux is screaming “WHERE ARE THE BLACK LEADERS TO STOP THE VIOLENCE?!”

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Dr Lizardo May 29, 2020 • 11:16:45pm

re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s looking almost like some kind of nationwide police riot is brewing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:17:35pm

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

It’s looking almost like some kind of nationwide police riot is brewing.

This asshat needs to be reported for promoting violence on Twitter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:19:28pm

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

It’s looking almost like some kind of nationwide police riot is brewing.

Same happened in Louisville tonight to State Rep @atticascott4ky pic.twitter.com/HWvOAQB5tm

— Donnie Kornick (@dkornick01) May 30, 2020

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teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 11:20:45pm

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

It’s looking almost like some kind of nationwide police riot is brewing.

Portland, Oakland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Ft. Wayne, Louisville, Atlanta, New York. These are cities I’ve seen on my Twitter feed that have reported civil unrest and state violence.

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Targetpractice May 29, 2020 • 11:21:25pm

re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Former Omaha Chief of Police and Douglas County Sheriff

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That’s what it really at the center of all this: These cops were walking free, with nobody under any illusion that they were barred from ever holding a badge again. With weeks or months, they’d all be back on the force because union lawyers would contest their terminations and win. And all the family would get is the cold comfort of being told that their loved one’s death was “still under investigation.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:21:39pm

(video, 0:08, caution for gratuitous police violence)

NYPD just casually slamming a dude with a car door pic.twitter.com/iYlFDeba49

— Wendy (@DriveWendys) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:26:37pm

Heavy thunderstorms moving in from the northwest. A powerful lightning bolt just struck in town.

wunderground.com

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Dave In Austin May 29, 2020 • 11:27:14pm

#BREAKING: Rioters storm the Justice Center of Portland, Oregon. Multiple fires have been started inside the building. pic.twitter.com/5JYEHDpREM

— UA News (@UrgentAlertNews) May 30, 2020

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Targetpractice May 29, 2020 • 11:30:04pm

re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(video, 0:08, caution for gratuitous police violence)

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The casual cruelty on display is only going to further fuel the flames. If they’re willing to do this shit when they should know that the eyes of the nation are upon them and their actions being scrutinized, the only conclusion is they get away with worse when the cameras aren’t around.

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Cheechako May 29, 2020 • 11:31:38pm

It’s gonna’ be a long, hot summer.

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teleskiguy May 29, 2020 • 11:32:09pm

Barbarians.

These Democrat-run cities went from arresting soccer moms for bringing their kids to the playground to sitting back and allowing mobs of barbarians to burn entire city blocks to the ground. It’s just an amazing juxtaposition. The Democrat Party is a blight on the earth.

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 30, 2020

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Dr Lizardo May 29, 2020 • 11:33:34pm

re: #167 Dave In Austin

Woah. I lived in Portland, OR for many years. That’s probably the most serious civil unrest incident I’ve seen.

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Targetpractice May 29, 2020 • 11:34:10pm

re: #170 teleskiguy

Barbarians.

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You’re right, Matt. They should have brought guns and yelled in cops faces about how wrong it is they can’t get haircuts and buy planting soil.

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Jebediah, RBG May 29, 2020 • 11:34:21pm

re: #142 The Ghost of a Flea

Upon reflection, that’s a lot of semiotics paragraphs to convey the same thing as “Beckys and Karens is a worldview.”

Nicely compressed right there.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:37:07pm

A city councilman was arrested in charlotte tonight, doing the same. @BraxtonWinston

— Megan Jones (@MegJonesNC) May 30, 2020

The AFL-CIO needs to kick the police unions out of their organisation.

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Dr Lizardo May 29, 2020 • 11:37:36pm

Live coverage from Portland, OR: kgw.com

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Targetpractice May 29, 2020 • 11:39:57pm

Well now, didn’t hear about this:

757 black lives matter shut down Hampton Roads Tunnel on I-64 during March in protest of police brutality. Currently peaceful protest to show that people are hurting. Pray for the continued peaceful protest don’t destroy areas where you have to work &live https://t.co/Wi7f20yWfG

— Howard Giddings (@howard_giddings) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:45:36pm

What one USA TODAY reporter saw during George Floyd protests — until he was temporarily blinded by pepper spray (Des Moines Register)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:53:19pm

On the one hand, I’m glad @senrobportman isn’t embarrassing Ohio by saying anything. On the other hand, who could possibly consider themselves a leader without trying to calm things down?

— Quit Robbing Ohio (@OhioQuit) May 29, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 29, 2020 • 11:56:21pm

One of Omaha’s busiest intersections was shut down Friday evening as thousands of people took to the streets to protest the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd, who was held down by police as he pleaded that he could not breathe. The protest started peacefully but devolved as the night wore on, as police fired tear gas on protesters, and some vandals threw rocks at nearby businesses.
At about 8 p.m., police used tear gas in an attempt to control a crowd that spilled onto Dodge Street. The chaotic scene included chants of, “I can’t breathe,” “We just want peace” and “(Expletive) the police.”

Protest began peaceful, then escalated: Omaha police used tear gas, some protesters broke windows (Omaha World-Herald, more at the link)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 29, 2020 • 11:58:50pm

Paisiello: 6 Flute Quartets Op.23

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teleskiguy May 30, 2020 • 12:04:41am

LIVE at the protests in front of the White House … https://t.co/tenLIBBiSC

— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) May 30, 2020

The tangerine lardass, meanwhile, is shitposting pseudoscience and racists on Twitter.

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Targetpractice May 30, 2020 • 12:06:36am

Y’know, when we speculated all those years back about how a national crisis would occur and Donny would totally botch it to the nation’s detriment, I didn’t imagine that we’d see three national crises in quick succession (plague, depression, riots) where he was utterly useless.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 12:07:05am

re: #181 teleskiguy

The tangerine lardass, meanwhile, is shitposting pseudoscience and racists on Twitter.

The video in that tweet will not play (just a rotating circle). It would appear Twitter has blocked the video somehow.

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Blind Frog Belly White May 30, 2020 • 12:12:20am

re: #170 teleskiguy

Barbarians.

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This is the problem with white privilege. White people see this and think it’s an anomaly, a bad cop, “one bad apple” , so we can’t understand the anger that comes from this being your reality. Many white people see the arrest and see that as the system working, but black people see it and see that without the video, George Floyd is another black man who died resisting arrest, maybe even seen by witnesses whose statements weren’t believed, because we white people know cops don’t do that.

So the anger, the rage at this happening again and again all your life, we can only distantly connect with, and then only if we open to it. If you’re not, if you want to deny systemic racism, then all these black people are rioting over an anomaly.

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teleskiguy May 30, 2020 • 12:14:25am

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I can see it just fine. The barricade on Pennsylvania Ave. has been taken down and protesters are clashing with Secret Service and National Park Police. Ongoing.

LIVE in front of the White House … https://t.co/ak3TaICyho

— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) May 30, 2020

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Dave In Austin May 30, 2020 • 12:21:32am

#BREAKING: 19 year-old protester killed in #Detroit. “Police said the man was shot by an unknown suspect who was in a gray Dodge Durango. The suspect pulled up to the area, fired shots into the crowd and fled.” 2nd killing of protester during uprising. https://t.co/Duo8FPsVp4

— It’s Going Down (@IGD_News) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 12:21:47am

re: #185 teleskiguy

I can see it just fine. The barricade on Pennsylvania Ave. has been taken down and protesters are clashing with Secret Service and National Park Police. Ongoing.

It still won’t play for me. Perhaps my telephone company is blocking it?

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teleskiguy May 30, 2020 • 12:25:00am

re: #185 teleskiguy

The Secret Service and Park Police have pepper sprayed the protesters and pushed them back into Lafayette Park.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 12:25:05am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It still won’t play for me. Perhaps my telephone company is blocking it?

I figured it out. This is a Periscope broadcast, and I have Periscope default blocked by No Script.

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Targetpractice May 30, 2020 • 12:26:51am

Fuckin’ hell:

Trump alerts ‘active-duty U.S. military police’ for possible deployment to Minnesota: report
https://t.co/yPeu0anvCv

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 30, 2020

As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis, where the police killing of George Floyd sparked the widespread protests,” the AP reported.

“Soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called, according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders. Soldiers in Fort Carson, in Colorado, and Fort Riley in Kansas have been told to be ready within 24 hours. The people did not want their names used because they were not authorized to discuss the preparations,” the AP explained.

Trump asked for the options.

“The get-ready orders were sent verbally on Friday, after President Donald Trump asked Defense Secretary Mark Esper for military options to help quell the unrest in Minneapolis after protests descended into looting and arson in some parts of the city,” the Associated Press explained.

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teleskiguy May 30, 2020 • 12:27:35am

re: #188 teleskiguy

Police just bum rushed the press pool, the live feed ended there.

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teleskiguy May 30, 2020 • 12:29:28am

At about 3:22 am Secret Service and US Park Police pepper sprayed and rushed into the crowd of protesters. They are currently dispersing the crowd from Lafayette Park across from the White House

— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) May 30, 2020

I was chased out of the park and threatened with spray despite repeatedly identifying myself as press and waving my Secret Service issued credential.

— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 12:38:12am

re: #186 Dave In Austin

(0:32)

We were out here protesting peacefully and a stupid ass trump supporter comes and hits us with their car. They hit two innocents and sent them to the hospital. The police did not one thing to that car. Share the video for awareness!!!! #protest #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/WnNAzZbVO9

— FITBOY MIKEYY (@FITBOY_MIKEYY) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 12:42:47am

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Down below in the thread there is a closeup of the asshat’s license plate. To me it appears to be from California.

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teleskiguy May 30, 2020 • 12:43:22am

Whoa. Minnesota governor says white supremacists and drug cartels are involved in destabilization. It’s “a pretty sophisticated attempt to cause problems.”

— Karen Piper (@PiperK) May 30, 2020

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 12:43:31am

So, in Portland, the downtown Apple Store got looted. But Powell’s City of Books remains (thus far) entirely unharmed.

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Blind Frog Belly White May 30, 2020 • 12:45:33am

I don’t understand why people don’t seek reasonable, peaceful change through orderly protest against a system that confers impunity for murdering them or through voting in a country that systematically tries to disenfranchise them.

— FactNotStatementHat (@Popehat) May 30, 2020

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teleskiguy May 30, 2020 • 12:47:31am

All persons in downtown Portland: it is not safe, it is dangerous, there is rioting, leave now.

— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 12:55:09am

The post office is burning at 31st Street and 1st Avenue in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/6dRmJvrSm7

— Nick Woltman (@nickwoltman) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 12:57:47am

Police shot rubber bullets at protesters on Spring St. in Downtown Los Angeles.

Follow along for live updates: https://t.co/Yv7XPeptjy pic.twitter.com/PwxDtzFG7C

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 30, 2020

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 12:59:06am

re: #130 austin_blue

It’s approaching pumpkin time, and:

Everything The Orange Shit Goblin has been doing for the past 3 1/2 years is reaching fruition in the time of plague.

The country is falling apart.

There is no one in charge.

There is no leadership.

There is a vacuum at the top.

and those are features, not bugs…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 1:01:32am

Ex-Navy Chaplain/Wingnut Suggests Black People Protest Other Black People Instead Of Racist Cops

In case you haven’t missed Godron Klingenschmitt enough yet.

Perfect Christian ‘Ex-Lesbian’ Says Coronavirus A Blessing From Jesus, Because Here’s Why

We have been waiting all week to introduce you to an amazing new inspirational Christian lady named Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, of whom we have never heard! We don’t think she has ever been in the august pages of Wonkette, which is a shame, because she has a story to tell us, both about her life, and about what a blessing coronavirus really is.

(she is a Presbyterian)

Both links go to Wonkette

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Jack Burton May 30, 2020 • 1:05:51am

re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Down below in the thread there is a closeup of the asshat’s license plate. To me it appears to be from California.

It’s in San Jose according to people in the thread.

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teleskiguy May 30, 2020 • 1:11:35am

Portland, OR.

pic.twitter.com/Qd5V7qG1ul

— Alex Zielinski (@alex_zee) May 30, 2020

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 1:13:38am

The Reichstag will be the next thing to burn…

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Targetpractice May 30, 2020 • 1:14:17am

re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Reichstag will be the next thing to burn…

…don’t give them any ideas.

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sagehen May 30, 2020 • 1:15:08am

re: #195 teleskiguy

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I suppose that’s possible; but my first guess was Erik Prince.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 1:16:26am

re: #206 Targetpractice

…don’t give them any ideas.

It is already written into their agenda

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 1:31:28am

re: #204 teleskiguy

They sacked Wells Fargo earlier. I think it was the branch near Pioneer Courthouse Square.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 30, 2020 • 1:38:24am

The trifecta of systemic racism, Trump wanting to burn everything down, and a pandemic, is bad.

It is not, however, unexpected.

Increased global transportation and population growth has long been expected to increase spread of diseases. (And it gets worse with warmer temps.)

What we’re seeing now is the result of ignoring for a couple of decades the problems that have been itching under the surface.

The Trumpers are openly declaring that the protestors be shot (I just reported one of these on twitter.)

Violent ideation is always present in right-wing law-and-justice types. To them, justice is firing on people.

Riots are caused by more than actor. I would not be surprised at all if the usual actors are involved.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 1:40:17am

Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show,” George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show (18:12)

George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 30, 2020 • 1:42:18am

Among everything else, my everyday goods that I buy are seeing significant price increases. Eg: amazon.com

I’ve bought that stuff for years. Just two years ago it was under $11 for a canister of that size. Now the asking price is $18.48 .

All over the place (Amazon, my local grocery store) I’m finding price increases right now, this after significant increases in 2019.

This is a silent problem. Probably because all our other problems are more pressing. Still, consumables are where companies are going to try and recoup any losses they experienced recently.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 1:56:41am

re: #212 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Among everything else, my everyday goods that I buy are seeing significant price increases. Eg: amazon.com

I have noticed that here in Germany, I only shop at the discounters but even they are getting more expensive.

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 1:59:39am

Some good news - Czech scientists have developed a vaccine against the European strain of Lyme Disease that, so far, has shown 100% effectiveness in test mice. Human trials are presumably next on the agenda.

Czech scientists claim to have made a breakthrough in the fight against Lyme disease. Researchers from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Science say that a vaccine against Lyme disease has shown 100% effectiveness in tests. The results were published at the beginning of May in NPJ Vaccines, a partner journal of Nature.

There is already a substance that can be used to make a vaccine against Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness caused by bacteria of the genus Borrelia. But the vaccine was developed against a strain of bacteria found only in America. It has not yet been possible to protect against the disease by vaccination in Europe.

Parasitologists from the Biological Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences in České Budějovice have now tested a promising substance whose effectiveness against Borrelia in trials has been 100%.

The vaccine was developed by American pharmaceutical concern Sanofi, and Czech scientists from the Institute of Parasitology of the Biological Center of the Academy of Sciences (BCAV ČR) of the Czech Republic chose it for testing on the European tick Ixodes ricinus.

news.expats.cz

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 2:02:16am

re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have noticed that here in Germany, I only shop at the discounters but even they are getting more expensive.

Same here in Czech Republic - food prices are getting pretty damn high, even at the discount stores like Penny Market and Lidl.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 2:03:37am

re: #215 Dr Lizardo

Same here in Czech Republic - food prices are getting pretty damn high, even at the discount stores like Penny Market and Lidl.

I try to myself to what is on special for the week.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 2:03:42am

re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have noticed that here in Germany, I only shop at the discounters but even they are getting more expensive.

I’m kind of stuck. I have my general store here in town which only has a few basic things, a market sixteen miles away, a couple more sixty miles away.

For any significant discount I have to go to FE Warren AFB Commissary in Cheyenne, 130 miles away.

So we’re stuck with price rises.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 2:04:39am

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m kind of stuck. I have my general store here in town which only has a few basic things, a market sixteen miles away, a couple more sixty miles away.

For any significant discount I have to go to FE Warren AFB Commissary in Cheyenne, 130 miles away.

So we’re stuck with price rises.

And when gasoline prices start to recover, most rural folks will have to spend even more to go shopping…that is one of the factors that led to the Yellow Vest protests in France.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 2:06:48am

re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And when gasoline prices start to recover, most rural folks will have to spend even more to go shopping…

I don’t even remember the last time I bought gasoline. The tank is still on full.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 2:11:35am

Traffic backed up as local churches distribute free produce (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

The TL;DR version: Convoy of Hope, a faith-based religious group which helps communities in times of disaster teamed up with local churches from Scottsbluff and Gering to distribute produce.

The giveaway started early because of the large crowd which assembled before the scheduled start.

“Praise the Lord for this,” he said. “What a beautiful day. This is a way to help our community, love on our community, share the love of Jesus with them. It’s amazing.”

The number of volunteers and pastors who participated helped the process, but the number of people who came for a box of fruits and vegetables came even more quickly than organizers anticipated.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 2:12:25am

re: #219 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t even remember the last time I bought gasoline. The tank is still on full.

I recall driving around with my daughter in our Smart car back when diesel fuel was around €1 per liter. We saw a sign that said “Trier 100 km.” Trier is one of the oldest cities in Germany, founded by the Romans, and the birthplace of Karl Marx. And I had yet to visit the place.

So I thought “100 km, that’s 3.4 liters, €3.50, let’s go!”

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 2:17:05am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I try to myself to what is on special for the week.

I usually just buy what’s on sale. And some selective shopping - I get my yogurt at Tesco (best value for money) fruit, vegetables milk and meat at Albert (freshest produce and least expensive meat and milk prices - their store-brand UHT milk is almost always on sale), cheese at Hruška (a local supermarket chain) and ham, sausages, etc., at a local butcher’s chain, Slezské uzeniny. I sometimes shop at Kaufland, but meat prices at Kaufland are eye-watering.

Hruška, Albert and Slezské uzeniny are all within walking distance of my apartment.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 2:23:40am

re: #222 Dr Lizardo

I also like to shop that way, but I also want to limit exposure, so I alternate between Aldi and Lidl. Sometimes I go to the Turkish supermarket to get fresh coriander, which can be hard to find around here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 2:27:58am

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

I also like to shop that way, but I also want to limit exposure, so I alternate between Aldi and Lidl. Sometimes I go to the Turkish supermarket to get fresh coriander, which can be hard to find around here.

Shopping for us is what’s seasonal. It costs a lot of money to ship out-of-season produce into the middle of the country.

When local produce comes on the market here after harvest (sweet corn, tomatoes, various vegetables) we tend to buy a lot and can them. There are two butcher shops within twenty miles, so they get the bulk of our meat purchases.

Off-topic: Dinner of champions (pressure-cooked black beans with chili powder, garlic, cumin, tomato sauce, and two ghost peppers).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 2:31:28am

Why is “Hitler Youth” trending on Twitter? Do I want to know?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 2:31:31am

re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Shopping for us is what’s seasonal. It costs a lot of money to ship out-of-season produce into the middle of the country.

When local produce comes on the market here after harvest (sweet corn, tomatoes, various vegetables) we tend to buy a lot and can them. There are two butcher shops within twenty miles, so they get the bulk of our meat purchases.

Off-topic: Dinner of champions (pressure-cooked black beans with chili powder, garlic, cumin, tomato sauce, and two ghost peppers).

Germany benefits from being the hub of the European transit network, nearly everything passes through here on its way to somewhere else. And I have read that Germany has the cheapest grocery prices in Europe after Spain, despite having some of the highest wages.

I cheat and fetch the canned black beans from the discounter, but that is one of my standards here

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rhuarc May 30, 2020 • 2:33:56am

re: #225 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why is “Hitler Youth” trending on Twitter? Do I want to know?

I was literally just clicking on that to find out. Apparently a “child” was deployed with the police in Atlanta. I doubt it was a child and was probably just a small adult. However, that appears to be where the hashtag is coming from.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 2:43:46am

re: #227 rhuarc

I was literally just clicking on that to find out. Apparently a “child” was deployed with the police in Atlanta. I doubt it was a child and was probably just a small adult. However, that appears to be where the hashtag is coming from.

But what about the hashtag “Deescalate on his dick” trending?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 2:47:43am

Apparently the Amish were protesting police brutality yesterday afternoon in Minneapolis.

Support from the #Amish community in Minneapolis #AllLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter #RIPGeorgeFloyd #Minneapolisprotests pic.twitter.com/qEkVkmOhGA

— WhatTheNed (@NedWhat) May 29, 2020

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John Hughes May 30, 2020 • 2:52:53am

re: #102 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

New York and New Jersey wound up returning the Russian ventilators to the federal stockpile after reports that several coronavirus patients in St. Petersburg were killed in fires linked to overloaded ventilators.

Hey, people who burn to death don’t go into the COVID19 stats, right?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 2:58:57am

re: #228 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

But what about the hashtag “Deescalate on his dick” trending?

Okay this is why, video from Dallas (1:20, caution for coarse language)

😂 pic.twitter.com/EcgNR4a1GA

— David (@david_dtx) May 30, 2020

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 2:59:12am

re: #230 John Hughes

Hey, people who burn to death don’t go into the COVID19 stats, right?

I also suspect this could have links to money laundering or other covert dealings…

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Dave In Austin May 30, 2020 • 3:30:50am

re: #225 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why is “Hitler Youth” trending on Twitter? Do I want to know?

Prolly this……. I’m happy to say as far as I know, it’s been quiet in Austin. I get off work in 30 mins and the drive home affords a pretty good view of town.

Fire seems to be a theme…….

Atlanta has deployed a child militia at Lenox Mall fitted with riot shields and batons. What the actual fuck is going on? pic.twitter.com/zTtmw5mDTN

— Fox Wound (@foxwoundband) May 30, 2020

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John Hughes May 30, 2020 • 3:31:08am

re: #214 Dr Lizardo

Nitpicking:

The vaccine was developed by American pharmaceutical concern Sanofi,

Wikipedia:

Sanofi S.A. is a French multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, France, as of 2013 the world’s fifth-largest by prescription sales

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 3:47:24am

Wyoming:
health.wyo.gov
Confirmed + probable: 891 (+17)
Doubling rate: 31 days
Largest age group: 19-29, then 40-49
Largest ethnic group: White 47.4%, then Native American 33.7%
Hospitalised: Total 84, current 13, ICU 0
Recovered: 642
Deaths: 15 (no change)
Doubling rate: 13 days

Nebraska statewide:
nebraska.maps.arcgis.com
Total positive cases: 13,654 (+393)
Doubling rate: 24 days
Age, ethnic group, hospitalised, or recovered are not reported by Nebraska
Deaths: 170 (+7)
Doubling rate: 23 days

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 3:48:09am

Here’s a livestream on YouTube from Portland, OR:

Riot Portland

Shit’s still going on downtown.

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 3:50:46am

re: #236 Dr Lizardo

He just made a good point about the looting that took place at the downtown Apple store - all those phones are locked and in any event, they could be easily traced through the IMEI. So that “free phone” would be pretty much useless, a brick.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 4:00:15am

Morning Lizardim.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 4:00:35am

Fight the Fake (Goes to France24 in English)

The networks of France Médias Monde - France 24, RFI and MCD - are dedicated to providing news that is based on facts. Impartial, factual reporting is the best weapon against all kinds of fake news : rumour, propaganda and clickbait.

Our global networks of contributors and correspondents help us root out fake news wherever it appears.
« Debunked » from the France 24 Observers unmasks fake photos and videos, and gives users the tools to detect fakes themselves.
« Fact or Fake » detects and corrects fake news concerning the European Union and its 28 member states.
And the « InfoMigrants » team tracks rumours about migrants.

(more)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 4:02:53am

re: #219 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t even remember the last time I bought gasoline. The tank is still on full.

I literally just refueled my car for the first time since my last day at work, in March. Mrs. Fish’s car has seen more use hauling groceries and her chiropractor appointments, so I’ve had to fill it up three times in that same period.

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 4:08:55am

re: #236 Dr Lizardo

And now the luggage is flying….

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 4:16:17am

I have officially declared a State of Emergency.

Curfew immediately in effect until 6:00 am today.

Resumes Saturday evening at 8:00 pm and lifts 6:00 am Sunday morning.

— Mayor Ted Wheeler (@tedwheeler) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 4:29:14am

YouTuber Cult of Dusty (religion counter-apologist) does a round up of videos of privileged white women insisting they care, but their rights trump your grandma’s life when it comes to wearing a mask.

A collage of Karens … (8:17)

Compilation Of “Karens” Freaking Out Over Covid-19

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 4:33:58am

re: #105 Belafon

I think, like Val Demmings said yesterday, that we get what we pay for. I think cops and teachers should receive a pretty significant salary, and proper training.

Most cops have been trained. In the military. That’s one of the problems.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 4:35:35am

Trae Crowder (Liberal Redneck) asks the question “how come no one ever talks about how much black people don’t riot, as much shit as they’ve put up with for generations?”

He doesn’t care about the protests, riots, or even looting; the blame lies solely with the Minneapolis police.

(4:26)

Liberal Redneck - Minnesota Burning

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 4:36:37am

My wife is offering me prunes and Geritol for my birthday tomorrow since I will be sixty.

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William Lewis May 30, 2020 • 4:38:11am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife is offering me prunes and Geritol for my birthday tomorrow since I will be sixty.

Ask for prune juice - A warrior’s drink!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 4:38:20am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife is offering me prunes and Geritol for my birthday tomorrow since I will be sixty.

Many (early) happy returns.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 4:45:12am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife is offering me prunes and Geritol for my birthday tomorrow since I will be sixty.

Digestion is one aspect of turning sixty that I have had no problems with…

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Nojay UK May 30, 2020 • 4:46:43am

re: #244 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

In the UK police officers are trained in specialist police colleges and training centres like Hendon in London while being paid as cadets. It takes two years from entry to full qualification of a police officer, including six months initial coursework before cadets are allowed to work alongside experienced officers in the field.

It’s normal for police officers to enter the profession from school or sometimes college with a degree and as far as I know there’s no expedited access for military veterans. If nothing else military veterans tend to be older people and the police forces prefer to recruit people in their late teens or early twenties.

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 4:46:47am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife is offering me prunes and Geritol for my birthday tomorrow since I will be sixty.

Happy Birthday in advance. And yes, ask for prune juice….as William Lewis said, it’s a warrior’s drink! Endorsed by Lieutenant Commander Worf himself!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 4:47:41am

re: #250 Nojay UK

In the UK police officers are trained in specialist police colleges and training centres like Hendon in London while being paid as cadets. It takes two years from entry to full qualification of a police officer, including six months initial coursework before cadets are allowed to work alongside experienced officers in the field.

We know all about that from Hot Fuzz

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 4:59:30am

re: #154 Dave In Austin

Wanna see some bullshit??

Not to mention the “suggestions” YouTube offers. From anti-vax to conspiracy theories on pretty much anything you could think of, like Facebook, they suggest people watch. It’s indoctrination.

If they changed their policies it would be worth billions. $1 mil is nothing.

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 30, 2020

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steve_davis May 30, 2020 • 5:03:09am

re: #27 juan carlos mescalero nine09

Some things never change.
Fuck Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 5:05:20am

re: #253 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Apparently according to some keyboard warrior on that thread, you’re living in your parents’ basement while claiming to “combat the fascist.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 5:09:53am

re: #253 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The spelling-challenged person named “Greek” in that thread seems to be obsessed with parental basements.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 5:14:27am

re: #237 Dr Lizardo

He just made a good point about the looting that took place at the downtown Apple store - all those phones are locked and in any event, they could be easily traced through the IMEI. So that “free phone” would be pretty much useless, a brick.

Sell them on eBay and disappear with the cash.

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ericblair May 30, 2020 • 5:14:53am

It looks like ex-Officer Chauvin has some extracurricular activities, like tax and mortgage fraud.

I confirmed Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is also a licensed real estate agent. I obtained his application, which states he’s a Florida resident, and not a Minnesota resident. Tax records show he and his wife own homes in Oakdale, Minnesota and Windermere, Florida.

— Tony Webster (@webster) May 29, 2020

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 5:15:14am

Things seems to have wound down in Portland as the daybreak approaches. One hell of a night. I lived in the Portland area for 20 years, and that’s the first time I’ve seen an actual straight-up riot break out.

Between the cabin fever caused by stay-at-home orders, the fact that ~25% of the country is currently unemployed, and the general rise in more aggressive behavior that comes along when the weather starts getting warm, I have a feeling this is going to be one long fucking summer. Stay safe everyone.

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 5:16:03am

re: #258 ericblair

It looks like ex-Officer Chauvin has some extracurricular activities, like tax and mortgage fraud.

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Well, whaddaya know? He’s an Al Capone wannabe.

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 5:20:09am

re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Sell them on eBay and disappear with the cash.

Yeah. Here in Ostrava, a luxury watch store was broken into about three years ago. In that case, the watches were soon found on a Polish* auction website; the Czech authorities cooperated with their Polish counterparts and busted the perps.

*Poland is only a few miles from Ostrava and the gang got busted in Katowice, which is only about 60 miles from here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 5:26:51am

re: #261 Dr Lizardo

Off-topic: If we get back to Poland again (I was supposed to be in Germany this week for my now-cancelled conference) can we drop in on you and say “hi?” We already terrorised Cheechako and Ipsos.

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 5:29:36am

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Off-topic: If we get back to Poland again (I was supposed to be in Germany this week for my now-cancelled conference) can we drop in on you and say “hi?” We already terrorised Cheechako and Ipsos.

Yeah, sure, no problem. You’re welcome anytime…I’ll show you around.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 5:29:38am

Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order extending authorization for local governments to halt evictions for renters impacted by the #COVID19 pandemic, through July 28. https://t.co/p7ntm9gMXy

— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) May 30, 2020

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Eric The Fruit Bat May 30, 2020 • 5:29:39am

re: #39 (((Archangel1)))

@realDonaldTrump didn’t build shit - instead, he presided over the destruction of the economy that @BarackObama left for him, and at the same time failed to contain SARS-Cov-2. And I’m a registered Republican to boot. Judgement Day is coming… https://t.co/Phi7z2tRa4

— ericfruitbat (@ericfruitbat) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 5:32:07am

re: #265 Eric The Fruit Bat

LOL, in that thread:

It’s true - Trump has brought more money to Trump Properties than Biden ever could have.

— ᴀʀᴛ 🇺🇸 (@__Arthur_Dent__) May 30, 2020

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 5:33:31am

re: #258 ericblair

I confirmed Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is also a licensed real estate agent. I obtained his application, which states he’s a Florida resident, and not a Minnesota resident. Tax records show he and his wife own homes in Oakdale, Minnesota and Windermere, Florida.

This is looking more and more like a subplot from some TV crime series…and really indicates that the rot behind this incident goes very deep.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 5:33:44am

Trump relies on vaugeness because he is a simple minded know nothing.

Covering his 🍑 is innate to him because he is a crook and has been all his life. That said, he has the functioning brain of a 12 year old and the behaviors of a toddler.

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 30, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 5:35:39am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is looking more and more like a subplot from some TV crime series…and really indicates that the rot behind this incident goes very deep.

I still want to know more about whether he worked security together with the guy he killed and what that was all about. Because, if true, that seems rather significant to me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 5:36:35am

re: #269 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I still want to know more about whether he worked security together with the guy he killed and what that was all about. Because, if true, that seems rather significant to me.

That is yet another twisted subplot…right out of Better Call Saul.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 5:38:07am

That awkward moment when Trump desperately tweets for people to get out of the house and protest, and then he’s mad because they protest systemic racism instead of minor inconveniences.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 30, 2020

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steve_davis May 30, 2020 • 5:43:18am

re: #89 teleskiguy

Language warning: N-word.

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well, there’s the last thing nicole simpson and ron goldman ever saw.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 30, 2020 • 5:45:51am

re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Shopping for us is what’s seasonal. It costs a lot of money to ship out-of-season produce into the middle of the country.

When local produce comes on the market here after harvest (sweet corn, tomatoes, various vegetables) we tend to buy a lot and can them. There are two butcher shops within twenty miles, so they get the bulk of our meat purchases.

Off-topic: Dinner of champions (pressure-cooked black beans with chili powder, garlic, cumin, tomato sauce, and two ghost peppers).

I have pinto beans cooking overnight in the slow cooker. :)
Just added can of diced tomatoes in to simmer with it for a few hours. (Spiced with cumin, cayenne, bay leaf, salt, garlic, onion, jalapeno peppers, and a touch of bacon grease.)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 5:47:26am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is looking more and more like a subplot from some TV crime series…and really indicates that the rot behind this incident goes very deep.

While I don’t live downtown, I’ve heard from friends who tell me that it’s widely known that the MPD is hot garbage. One of my friends even told me she personally reported Chauvin for assaulting one of her friends so badly she was afraid he would kill her.

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Shropshire Slasher May 30, 2020 • 5:47:39am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife is offering me prunes and Geritol for my birthday tomorrow since I will be sixty.

Well shit, you don’t look a day over 59!

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Jay C May 30, 2020 • 5:48:30am

re: #275 Shropshire Slasher

Well shit, you don’t look a day over 59!

/

That’s Sunday!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 5:50:09am

re: #272 steve_davis

well, there’s the last thing nicole simpson and ron goldman ever saw.

And we never, ever need to see again. Go away OJ. The only OJ I want to see is in a glass (with vodka these days).

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Shropshire Slasher May 30, 2020 • 5:50:12am

Substitute prune juice for water when cooking your oatmeal.

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steve_davis May 30, 2020 • 5:51:21am

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My computer is fouling up (yet again) and needs a restart.

that sometimes means your hard drive is failing.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 5:51:42am

re: #279 steve_davis

that sometimes means your hard drive is failing.

“Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?”

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Belafon May 30, 2020 • 5:53:45am

Wow. I didn’t even know that the person recording #GeorgeFloyd’s last agonizing moments was a 17-year-old Black girl.

We must protect her at all costs.

— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) May 30, 2020

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steve_davis May 30, 2020 • 5:54:15am

re: #121 austin_blue

Police in Austin are paid about $3,000 less than teachers ($54,000 ->$57,000).

Then again, teachers don’t kill any of the people they are pledged to serve.

I”m sure Austin is more expensive than my little shithole of a town, but 54,000 sounds pretty damned good to me.

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Belafon May 30, 2020 • 5:57:10am

re: #282 steve_davis

I”m sure Austin is more expensive than my little shithole of a town, but 54,000 sounds pretty damned good to me.

$57k is roughly median income in the large cities in Texas. Neither of those salaries seem adequate for the professions given their responsibilities.

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Belafon May 30, 2020 • 6:00:33am

The number of people dying from the coronavirus in the U.S. far exceeds the number of people who would be expected to die in a normal year. Our analysis of CDC data shows how many more people are dying in each state.https://t.co/iVlXAoIyjb

— NYT Graphics (@nytgraphics) May 29, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 6:00:54am

it’s 4am and “deescalate on his dick” and “hitler youth” are trending at the same time

what the actual fuck is going on pic.twitter.com/1r1gP5Hoat

— Shiv Bhatia (@sbhatia01) May 30, 2020

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steve_davis May 30, 2020 • 6:01:14am

re: #149 CarolJ

I agree. This looks like playing Russian Roulette. And you just know that somebody is going to eventually fire, if only by accident. Its standing up in the roller coaster or working on a light socket with a fork and hoping nothing goes wrong.

more than one already has. google gun accidents and people shot in the dick/groin.

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Belafon May 30, 2020 • 6:01:59am

Denmark and Norway exclude Sweden from tourism travel bubble https://t.co/xFKSUQIE5G

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 29, 2020

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jeffreyw May 30, 2020 • 6:02:08am

Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 6:03:19am

re: #275 Shropshire Slasher

Well shit, you don’t look a day over 59!

/

Thanks!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 6:05:35am

re: #283 Belafon

$57k is roughly median income in the large cities in Texas. Neither of those salaries seem adequate for the professions given their responsibilities.

And for cops, they constantly see vast sums of illegal money (if they’re at all involved in drug busts) and when you make barely enough to get by it’s too easy to either take some from a bust or get on the take.

Better training and better pay might help. But there is an attraction to the power of being a cop, so better hiring practices and some kind of psychological testing is needed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 6:06:23am

re: #281 Belafon

Holy Mackinac, the whole thread… .

My heart breaks for this young woman. She said she is traumatized — understandably so — by the incident. Also, folks accused her of posting the video for clout, CAN YOU IMAGINE?

I will hold her in my prayers (and if anyone knows of a fund to help HER, let me know) pic.twitter.com/C17T7JMCTW

— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) May 30, 2020

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 30, 2020 • 6:07:54am

re: #290 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And for cops, they constantly see vast sums of illegal money (if they’re at all involved in drug busts) and when you make barely enough to get by it’s too easy to either take some from a bust or get on the take.

Better training and better pay might help. But there is an attraction to the power of being a cop, so better hiring practices and some kind of psychological testing is needed.

If you made it a 1-2 year program training/academy program and did not let them near a gun until at least 1/2 done I wonder if that would winnow out some of those least suited to be police officers by default.

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Shropshire Slasher May 30, 2020 • 6:13:22am

re: #292 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If you made it a 1-2 year program training/academy program and did not let them near a gun until at least 1/2 done I wonder if that would winnow out some of those least suited to be police officers by default.

And live where you work.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 6:13:36am

re: #282 steve_davis

I”m sure Austin is more expensive than my little shithole of a town, but 54,000 sounds pretty damned good to me.

The average teacher pay in Nebraska is $53,000, but it varies widely by length of service, area, &c.

Additionally, certain areas such as Valentine’s school district in Cherry County provide housing for one-room schools in the rural areas of the county. (Cherry County is sparsely populated, so it maintains one-room schools which are only open when there are children living in the area of the school. As an incentive to work for the public school district, the county provides housing attached to the schoolroom and pays utilities in addition to pay.)

Valentine’s school district is always looking for teachers for its one-room schools, but requires significant experience as a teacher first, and a willingness to live in a remote area.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 6:16:17am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 6:18:20am

re: #292 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If you made it a 1-2 year program training/academy program and did not let them near a gun until at least 1/2 done I wonder if that would winnow out some of those least suited to be police officers by default.

I’m all in on the community policing which used to exist in many areas but is rare now.

Aside from our town marshal, when the county sheriff or a state patrol officer comes into town, they might drive around the village first. After that, they will park their car and walk through the village and talk to people in town.

Community policing regardless of the size of the area patrolled goes a long way to promoting trust in the police department.

Unfortunately many areas have chosen to invest in cars to patrol larger areas and hire fewer police. Cars don’t require pay and don’t complain about poor working conditions.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 6:25:15am

Wow. He’s completely unhinged. Read three whole thing.

Great job last night at the White House by the U.S. @SecretService. They were not only totally professional, but very cool. I was inside, watched every move, and couldn’t have felt more safe. They let the “protesters” scream & rant as much as they wanted, but whenever someone….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2020

….have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. “We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2020

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 6:26:05am

re: #281 Belafon

We must protect her at all costs.

Perhaps by not publishing her existence and description to the universe?

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Belafon May 30, 2020 • 6:26:14am

re: #290 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And for cops, they constantly see vast sums of illegal money (if they’re at all involved in drug busts) and when you make barely enough to get by it’s too easy to either take some from a bust or get on the take.

Better training and better pay might help. But there is an attraction to the power of being a cop, so better hiring practices and some kind of psychological testing is needed.

And way more enforcement of the consequences of their actions.

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steve_davis May 30, 2020 • 6:27:04am

re: #219 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t even remember the last time I bought gasoline. The tank is still on full.

before the last fill up, it was a month from the one before.

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Belafon May 30, 2020 • 6:28:17am

re: #298 Decatur Deb

Perhaps by not publishing her existence and description to the universe?

That horse has already left the farm, let alone the barn.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 6:32:46am

re: #301 Belafon

That horse has already left the farm, let alone the barn.

Our cultural skills, including “how to police-brutalize” and “how to riot”, have not kept up with Intertube technology.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 6:34:55am

re: #184 Blind Frog Belly White

This is the problem with white privilege. White people see this and think it’s an anomaly, a bad cop, “one bad apple” , so we can’t understand the anger that comes from this being your reality. Many white people see the arrest and see that as the system working, but black people see it and see that without the video, George Floyd is another black man who died resisting arrest, maybe even seen by witnesses whose statements weren’t believed, because we white people know cops don’t do that.

So the anger, the rage at this happening again and again all your life, we can only distantly connect with, and then only if we open to it. If you’re not, if you want to deny systemic racism, then all these black people are rioting over an anomaly.

…after the last anomaly and the one before that and the one before that..and then you come to realize that this constant string of anomalies…aren’t anomalies

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 6:39:31am

re: #199 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Hope there were no mail in ballots in there… //

The post office is burning at 31st Street and 1st Avenue in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/6dRmJvrSm7

— Nick Woltman (@nickwoltman) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 6:39:53am

Wow, I missed this hot take.

Funny you should say that because North Korea is what every country would turn into if women were in charge https://t.co/IPFDrLC8u8

— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) April 25, 2020

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 6:40:47am

re: #304 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Hope there were no mail in ballots in there… //

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Just a bunch of stimulus checks and Trump autographs.

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PhillyPretzel May 30, 2020 • 6:43:15am

re: #305 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oy Vey. If HRC were President we would not be having these problems. There would not be this many riots and COVID-19 would not have killed this many people.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 6:43:57am

re: #212 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Among everything else, my everyday goods that I buy are seeing significant price increases. Eg: amazon.com

I’ve bought that stuff for years. Just two years ago it was under $11 for a canister of that size. Now the asking price is $18.48 .

All over the place (Amazon, my local grocery store) I’m finding price increases right now, this after significant increases in 2019.

This is a silent problem. Probably because all our other problems are more pressing. Still, consumables are where companies are going to try and recoup any losses they experienced recently.

No whey!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 6:44:59am

re: #305 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wow, I missed this hot take.

[Embedded content]

Wait, is she still relevant?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 6:45:00am

beating up their undercover colleagues has been a real problem for police in the past! https://t.co/nVZl2kEk5y

— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) May 30, 2020

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Teukka May 30, 2020 • 6:45:49am

Tehee…

[Sauce]

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Belafon May 30, 2020 • 6:47:17am

re: #307 PhillyPretzel

Oy Vey. If HRC were President we would not be having these problems. There would not be this many riots and COVID-19 would not have killed this many people.

There might have been this many riots because local law enforcement would still be proving to blacks that they are in charge. There would just be a better voice trying to bring everyone together.

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PhillyPretzel May 30, 2020 • 6:48:35am

re: #312 Belafon

Very true. And we know from what Joe Biden had to say that the deaths from COVID-19 would have been fewer.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 6:49:29am

re: #307 PhillyPretzel

Off-topic: I want to congratulate Philly Pretzel on his achievement of 39,233 karma points.

You may redeem those at the Little Green Footballs store for the cruise ship trip of your choice (some restrictions may apply).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 6:50:20am

re: #308 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

No whey!

-50 downfists. /s

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PhillyPretzel May 30, 2020 • 6:50:40am

re: #314 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ahem. As I have stated before I am a woman.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 6:52:47am

re: #244 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Most cops have been trained. In the military. That’s one of the problems.

Another is many forget who exactly they are protecting and serving

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 6:53:19am

This includes a quasi interview with the dude in question.

Reading the letter in type (vs the picture I read the other day) really drives home the crazy.

Read This Christian Dad’s Letter to the Boy Who “Stole” His Daughter’s Virginity https://t.co/lkliRbT6zZ pic.twitter.com/A6qQH5gxqJ

— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) May 30, 2020

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 6:53:56am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife is offering me prunes and Geritol for my birthday tomorrow since I will be sixty.

Don’t mix em // (1/2)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 6:54:51am

re: #316 PhillyPretzel

Ahem. As I have stated before I am a woman.

I swear to God, I thought you were a guy, too. I’m so sorry! (hanging head in shame)

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 6:56:34am

re: #258 ericblair

It looks like ex-Officer Chauvin has some extracurricular activities, like tax and mortgage fraud.

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The 2020 question is where does he vote?

I confirmed Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is also a licensed real estate agent. I obtained his application, which states he’s a Florida resident, and not a Minnesota resident. Tax records show he and his wife own homes in Oakdale, Minnesota and Windermere, Florida.

— Tony Webster (@webster) May 29, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 6:56:37am

re: #318 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This includes a quasi interview with the dude in question.

Reading the letter in type (vs the picture I read the other day) really drives home the crazy.

[Embedded content]

Oh Lord… I’m not going to read it, but I already know what it’s going to say.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 6:57:40am

re: #322 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Oh Lord… I’m not going to read it, but I already know what it’s going to say.

If you haven’t read it, please do. It’s a doozy. Epically so.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 6:59:43am

re: #316 PhillyPretzel

Ahem. As I have stated before I am a woman.

My apologies. Too much rum, past my bedtime, plus I think of the gender of pretzels as male for some reason.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 7:00:30am

re: #323 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If you haven’t read it, please do. It’s a doozy. Epically so.

Okay, so I read it. It sounds like a letter my father-in-law would write. In fact, about half of it (less the part about the bride-price and restitution) was in the speech he gave me when he suspected I was sleeping with his daughter before we were married.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 7:01:37am

re: #299 Belafon

And way more enforcement of the consequences of their actions.

This!

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 7:04:31am

re: #321 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

All of the above?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 7:04:35am

re: #325 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Okay, so I read it. It sounds like a letter my father-in-law would write. In fact, about half of it (less the part about the bride-price and restitution) was in the speech he gave me when he suspected I was sleeping with his daughter before we were married.

Last evening I posted the Utah Outcasts take on this letter, after Joe Bacon and I sent the tweet in question to X.

X read the whole letter with commentary. Let’s say he was not impressed.

I’ll post it again, because why not. Caution for coarse language, adult subject matter, wingnuts.

(20:52)

Angry Christian Dad Sends Unhinged Letter

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 7:04:53am

re: #315 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

-50 downfists. /s

C’mon, it was a grapefruit pitch

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sagehen May 30, 2020 • 7:05:22am

re: #303 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

…after the last anomaly and the one before that and the one before that..and then you come to realize that this constant string of anomalies…aren’t anomalies

Reminder:

The Rodney King riots weren’t because cops beat the crap out of Rodney. Nobody rioted when the tape came out.

The riots were because the trial court, judge and jury, shrugged it off. Because the “justice” system called it no big deal.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 7:06:38am

re: #330 sagehen

Reminder:

The Rodney King riots weren’t because cops beat the crap out of Rodney. Nobody rioted when the tape came out.

The riots were because the trial court, judge and jury, shrugged it off. Because the “justice” system called it no big deal.

I’m just old enough to remember Rodney King and the scenes of Los Angeles on fire. I was having some flashbacks when I saw the scenes of my beloved City of Lakes burning in the cool spring night.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 7:08:48am

re: #325 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Okay, so I read it. It sounds like a letter my father-in-law would write. In fact, about half of it (less the part about the bride-price and restitution) was in the speech he gave me when he suspected I was sleeping with his daughter before we were married.

What was really weird to me, and the thought that kept popping into my head, was that Dad was pissed because HE wanted to take her virginity.

Didn’t mean to make you read that. I’m sorry.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 7:10:03am

re: #332 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What was really weird to me, and the thought that kept popping into my head, was that Dad was pissed because HE wanted to take her virginity.

Didn’t mean to make you read that. I’m sorry.

Don’t apologize, it was an entertaining look back on a sordid past. Memories of the purity culture and my dad cleaning his bolt-action rifle in the front room when my sister’s now-husband came over. It does give a really creepy vibe when you view it from a jealous dad’s perspective.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 7:12:10am

re: #316 PhillyPretzel

Ahem. As I have stated before I am a woman.

re: #320 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I swear to God, I thought you were a guy, too. I’m so sorry! (hanging head in shame)

I thought you were taller

335

PhillyPretzel May 30, 2020 • 7:13:38am

re: #334 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

lol. Like Queen Victoria I am a petite. She was 5’ 1” and I am 4’ 10”.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 7:14:55am

re: #333 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Don’t apologize, it was an entertaining look back on a sordid past. Memories of the purity culture and my dad cleaning his bolt-action rifle in the front room when my sister’s now-husband came over. It does give a really creepy vibe when you view it from a jealous dad’s perspective.

Wife and I came in at the end of that era. After one tense fried chicken dinner I (Spec4) asked him (Master SGT) for permission to marry. I knew I had to ask, he knew he had to grant it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 7:15:51am

re: #330 sagehen

Reminder:

The Rodney King riots weren’t because cops beat the crap out of Rodney. Nobody rioted when the tape came out.

The riots were because the trial court, judge and jury, shrugged it off. Because the “justice” system called it no big deal.

That probably should go up on social media.

The community waited for a proper condemnation and punishment to be handed down by the courts. The riots occurred because of justice denied.

There is a reason for the phrase “no justice, no peace,” and Rodney King’s beating by the police and subsequent acquittal of those accused despite the video evidence is what sparked the protests and riots.

338

Backwoods_Sleuth May 30, 2020 • 7:16:32am

In his tweets, President Trump has declared himself safe inside his heavily fortified mansion, from which he said he watched last night’s protests and provided a play-by-play. He appears to be summoning his supporters there tonight.

— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) May 30, 2020

There were repeated efforts last night by white supremacists to burn down, KKK-style, BIPOC businesses last night like fade factory. These are alt-right arsonists.https://t.co/GiF4VCVP8J

— Dara Grumdahl (@DearDara) May 30, 2020

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lizardofid May 30, 2020 • 7:19:35am

re: #324 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My apologies. Too much rum, past my bedtime, plus I think of the gender of pretzels as male for some reason.

What’s the logic?

(that’s for the olds in the crowd)

Good morning!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 7:20:25am

re: #336 Decatur Deb

Wife and I came in at the end of that era. After one tense fried chicken dinner I (Spec4) asked him (Master SGT) for permission to marry. I knew I had to ask, he knew he had to grant it.

My father-in-law granted me permission conditional on having a Bible study with him every week, which I was fine with. It was uncomfortable, but I knew I could survive it for the length of time required (it was like 1-2 months) and the reward of getting to marry his gorgeous, crazy smart, and ferocious youngest girl. The funny thing is, even after the incident with the speech, I was still the favorite son-in-law.

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mmmirele May 30, 2020 • 7:21:02am

re: #244 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Most cops have been trained. In the military. That’s one of the problems.

I was kind of terrified that my nephew, who was a military policeman in the Air Force for six years, would go to a police department after his enlistment ended. Currently he’s a service writer for an auto dealership.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 7:21:33am

re: #335 PhillyPretzel

lol. Like Queen Victoria I am a petite. She was 5’ 1” and I am 4’ 10”.

Oooh! Can I say “say hello to my little friend” now? Please? 😁

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 7:21:50am

re: #342 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Oooh! Can I say “say hello to my little friend” now? Please? 😁

*WHACK!*

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PhillyPretzel May 30, 2020 • 7:24:06am

re: #342 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Just so long as we are respectful of each other. With everything that is going on we need places of refuge where we can express our views and not kill each other over it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 7:24:50am

re: #339 lizardofid

What’s the logic?

(that’s for the olds in the crowd)

Good morning!

The dangly bits at the bottom? 🤣

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 7:25:15am

re: #335 PhillyPretzel

lol. Like Queen Victoria I am a petite. She was 5’ 1” and I am 4’ 10”.

Ms. Philly, so you’re only a couple inches shorter than my wife (who thinks my 5’9” is tall) and the same height as my great-grandmother Mayo.

Perks of being short:
pinterest.com

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sagehen May 30, 2020 • 7:27:18am

re: #337 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That probably should go up on social media.

The community waited for a proper condemnation and punishment to be handed down by the courts. The riots occurred because of justice denied.

There is a reason for the phrase “no justice, no peace,” and Rodney King’s beating by the police and subsequent acquittal of those accused despite the video evidence is what sparked the protests and riots.

I don’t twitter (or insta or any of the rest).

If somebody else wants it, feel free.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 7:27:30am

re: #344 PhillyPretzel

Just so long as we are respectful of each other. With everything that is going on we need places of refuge where we can express our views and not kill each other over it.

It was totally said with love!!

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sagehen May 30, 2020 • 7:29:22am

re: #339 lizardofid

What’s the logic?

(that’s for the olds in the crowd)

Good morning!

The logic is backwards.

Anything longer than it is wide, is male.
Anything with a hole in it is female.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 7:30:33am

re: #340 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My father-in-law granted me permission conditional on having a Bible study with him every week, which I was fine with. It was uncomfortable, but I knew I could survive it for the length of time required (it was like 1-2 months) and the reward of getting to marry his gorgeous, crazy smart, and ferocious youngest girl. The funny thing is, even after the incident with the speech, I was still the favorite son-in-law.

I put them through hell— a penniless Yankee draftee, college dropout, Catholic. (He had already tried to get me busted for dropping her out of airplanes.) We settled in to 40 years playing Archie and Meathead. Things got cool after the second or third kid.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 7:31:07am

re: #336 Decatur Deb

Wife and I came in at the end of that era. After one tense fried chicken dinner I (Spec4) asked him (Master SGT) for permission to marry. I knew I had to ask, he knew he had to grant it.

My first marriage was fraught with negotiating religious culture with my ex-wife’s family and having a religious marriage in a Presbyterian church which had not seen a marriage at all in many years.

352

Dave In Austin May 30, 2020 • 7:34:41am

There’s word about that you boinked Chuck C. Johnson. Is there any truth to that?

— And the Wind Cries “REVOKE 230!” (@DaveoutofAustin) May 30, 2020

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sagehen May 30, 2020 • 7:35:19am

re: #350 Decatur Deb

I put them through hell— a penniless Yankee draftee, college dropout, Catholic. (He had already tried to get me busted for dropping her out of airplanes.) We settled in to 40 years playing Archie and Meathead. Things got cool after the second or third kid.

My parents lived together for a year before they got married (early 1950’s). My grandparents never knew that. Never. Even 40 years later, grandma and grandpa still believed that when mom moved to another city to be “near” dad, she lived at the YWCA. It wasn’t until all my grandparents were dead that mom and dad would admit out loud that she just used the Y as a mail drop.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 7:35:21am

Thread. With receipts.

I’m telling y all, this does not feel right…at all… pic.twitter.com/P70ZlIFXav

— 🇯🇲Black🇭🇹Aziz🇳🇬aNANsi🇹🇹 (@Freeyourmindkid) May 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 7:36:08am

re: #344 PhillyPretzel

Just so long as we are respectful of each other. With everything that is going on we need places of refuge where we can express our views and not kill each other over it.

I like pineapple on pizza.

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PhillyPretzel May 30, 2020 • 7:37:55am

re: #355 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If you like it that way enjoy it. I can’t eat pineapple. It makes me very sick.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 7:38:46am

re: #356 PhillyPretzel

If you like it that way enjoy it. I can’t eat pineapple. It makes me very sick.

Mrs. Fish is allergic.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 7:38:51am

re: #353 sagehen

My parents lived together for a year before they got married (early 1950’s). My grandparents never knew that. Never. Even 40 years later, grandma and grandpa still believed that when mom moved to another city to be “near” dad, she lived at the YWCA. It wasn’t until all my grandparents were dead that mom and dad would admit out loud that she just used the Y as a mail drop.

We had been married 10 or 20 years when MIL asked Wife if we had been sleeping together when she moved to NYC the month before we married.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 7:39:43am

Trump’s numbers are going down, down, down, where he can least afford it https://t.co/dTztSqyOSQ

— Daily Kos (@dailykos) May 30, 2020

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lizardofid May 30, 2020 • 7:40:28am

re: #349 sagehen

The logic is backwards.

Anything longer than it is wide, is male.
Anything with a hole in it is female.

And if it has 8 legs it’s an arachnid?

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PhillyPretzel May 30, 2020 • 7:40:48am

re: #359 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

May they bottom out like the oil price did a little while ago.

362

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 30, 2020 • 7:41:18am

Mayapple in the last rays of a setting sun

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 7:41:47am

re: #350 Decatur Deb

I put them through hell— a penniless Yankee draftee, college dropout, Catholic. (He had already tried to get me busted for dropping her out of airplanes.) We settled in to 40 years playing Archie and Meathead. Things got cool after the second or third kid.

We were the 5th of their 7 kids to get married (the other two are now also married). By the time we came along, there was nothing new under the sun to them. I kept my nose clean, I was an intelligent and talented white man and the son of a well-to-do white man, it was hard for me to mess up.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 30, 2020 • 7:42:19am

re: #360 lizardofid

And if it has 8 legs it’s an arachnid?

Unless it’s an octopoid, maybe.

(Hexapodia as the key insight?)

365

mmmirele May 30, 2020 • 7:43:27am

Some male descendant of Louis XVI is all very upset that the statue of his forefather had its hand removed at a protest in Louisville two nights ago.

As the heir of Louis XVI you should probably be content with just being attached to your head, my dude.

— Viv (@VivJaye) May 30, 2020

Apparently this guy is also a descendant of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who is still dead.

The response thread is filled with guillotine gifs. Just filled.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 7:45:43am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 30, 2020 • 7:46:54am

It’s way past my bedtime. The sun is up, so it’s time for bed. Catch y’all later.

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Eventual Carrion May 30, 2020 • 7:51:44am

re: #336 Decatur Deb

Wife and I came in at the end of that era. After one tense fried chicken dinner I (Spec4) asked him (Master SGT) for permission to marry. I knew I had to ask, he knew he had to grant it.

I didn’t actually ask my FIL for permission. I did show him the ring and let him know my intention to ask his daughter to marry me. So he was actually the first one to know I was going to propose. For the record he didn’t oppose my intentions (been 21 years married so far and he isn’t complaining).

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Jay C May 30, 2020 • 7:54:57am

re: #365 mmmirele

Some male descendant of Louis XVI is all very upset that the statue of his forefather had its hand removed at a protest in Louisville two nights ago.

[Embedded content]

Apparently this guy is also a descendant of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who is still dead.

The response thread is filled with guillotine gifs. Just filled.

There’s an incumbent Duc d’Anjou??

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 7:57:11am

re: #369 Jay C

There’s an incumbent Duc d’Anjou??

Just waiting for Joan Dark to get him into Rheims.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 7:58:17am

By the way, for any Minneapolis-St. Paul lizards, let it be known that the fish household is open if you need a place to stay. I have a fully finished basement with its own bedroom and 3/4 bath. I can also chip in if you need to get out but can’t afford a hotel. Drop me a PM if you need anything - even as simple as a ride to a safe place.

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ericblair May 30, 2020 • 7:58:49am

Remarkable info coming out of this presser: Gov. Tim Walls, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and now MN attorney general Keith Ellison ALL alleging outside forces, domestic and possibly foreign, have post-Tuesday infiltrated the state, and are

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 30, 2020

Shocked. Well, not shocked.

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ericblair May 30, 2020 • 7:59:57am

Mayor Carter said EVERY person arrested last night during the protests was from out of state. The governor said it is at least 80 percent, and that they will begin releasing the names. Dept of Safety Commissioner John Harrington says they are contract-tracing arrestees:

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 30, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 8:02:27am

re: #373 ericblair

Mrs. Fish was just sharing with me that a truck full of ammunition and IED components was just intercepted trying to enter the state.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! May 30, 2020 • 8:05:23am

re: #288 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

I am the symbol of death and transformation.

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Dr Lizardo May 30, 2020 • 8:06:12am

re: #372 ericblair

Someone’s seriously trying to kick off a civil war.

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Jay C May 30, 2020 • 8:06:30am

re: #370 Decatur Deb

Just waiting for Joan Dark to get him into Rheims.

Well, apparently there is a present Duc: this guy:

Louis Alphonse Gonzalve Victor Emmanuel Marc de Bourbon

46 years old, mostly Spanish descent, (second cousin of King Felipe) descended from both Generalissimo Franco and Queen Victoria.
And for those who accept it, technically King Louis XX of France as well.

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jeffreyw May 30, 2020 • 8:08:03am

As more places begin to reopen Friday, Jackson County experiences COVID-19 spike
As of Thursday, Jackson County is reporting 260 cases of COVID-19 — and 25% of those cases have been reported in the past week. Of the 65 new cases reported since May 21, two-thirds are tied to an outbreak at a Jackson County church that has been holding in-person services against public health guidance, Hagston said. The cases involve both church members and close contacts that members have in the community.

That’s a county in S Illinois. I live there. The church is a Pentecostal. [def. relating to or denoting any of a number of Christian movements and individuals emphasizing baptism in the Holy Spirit, evidenced by speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and exorcism.]

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stpaulbear May 30, 2020 • 8:08:19am

Buildings damaged in Minneapolis, St. Paul after protests

Just signed in and haven’t read the thread yet, but I wanted to post an article from the Mpls StarTrib that lists all of the businesses (hundreds) that are closed today due to looting and vandalism. I need to refill a prescription but all of the St. Paul Walgreens stores are on lockdown today. One of the stores I go to that’s not near major retail (but is on a major transit corner) suffered fire damage. This is too fucked up for words.

Now I’ll go back to the top and read the tread.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 8:08:55am

re: #377 Jay C

Well, apparently there is a present Duc: this guy:

Louis Alphonse Gonzalve Victor Emmanuel Marc de Bourbon

46 years old, mostly Spanish descent, (second cousin of King Felipe) descended from both Generalissimo Franco and Queen Victoria.
And for those who accept it, technically King Louis XX of France as well.

Someone published, a few days ago, that QE2 is related to Vlad the Impaler.

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Belafon May 30, 2020 • 8:10:18am

re: #374 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Mrs. Fish was just sharing with me that a truck full of ammunition and IED components was just intercepted trying to enter the state.

Do you have a link?

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Jay C May 30, 2020 • 8:20:19am

re: #380 Decatur Deb

Someone published, a few days ago, that QE2 is related to Vlad the Impaler.

I’d like to see that: I know that virtually every European royal/noble is related (somehow, somewhere) to every other one, but that’s one of the few connections that doesn’t seem credible.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 8:22:35am

re: #382 Jay C

I’d like to see that: I know that virtually every European royal/noble is related (somehow, somewhere) to every other one, but that’s one of the few connections that doesn’t seem credible.

Hapsburgs marrying her German family?

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 8:24:01am

re: #382 Jay C

didyouknowfacts.com

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mmmirele May 30, 2020 • 8:26:12am

re: #323 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If you haven’t read it, please do. It’s a doozy. Epically so.

Something that might help you understand what’s going on in this letter is that this guy has latched on to Robert Henderson’s “Courts of Heaven” teachings. The title of the first book “Operating in the Courts of Heaven: Granting God the Legal Rights to Fulfill His Passion and Answer Our Prayers” pretty much gives the gist of what the letter writer is saying he’s doing.

IMHO, Henderson made up this crackpot nonsense to sell books and increase his own fame. And this is what happens…yikes.

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Shropshire Slasher May 30, 2020 • 8:27:06am

re: #376 Dr Lizardo

PciCXnifmnSsRC9dcGwAmbMuWKxKi/w96fvYbkkWzuaiyfnTR8dMei0Ub5vkdAPriphYlthWO8u8TgPF/g5TqA==

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Jay C May 30, 2020 • 8:29:23am

re: #383 Decatur Deb

Hapsburgs marrying her German family?

No, not the Hapsburgs: (from the 2011 CBS News link)

The link, it appears, is his great-grandmother, Mary of Teck, who was grandmother to Britain’s current ruler, Queen Elizabeth II, and was queen during the reign of King George V. A Wurttemberg princess, Mary - the woman for whom the liner Queen Mary was named - was believed descended from two of Vlad’s sons.

“Two of Vlad’s sons”?? Interesting family…..

ADD: Quick check w/ Wiki shows Mary had a Hungarian grandmother who was descended from 17th-Century “Princes of Transylvania”, though the connection with Vlad Dracula still seems a stretch.

CHeck it out later, I have to go give blood: back in a bit

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jaunte May 30, 2020 • 8:34:26am

It’s strange to have a President that is such an agent of chaos there’s absolutely no expectation put on him to do anything but make every bad situation worse.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 30, 2020

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jaunte May 30, 2020 • 8:35:45am

This is not something a President will say, Sir! If you were not afraid, why you didn’t go out, to speak to the people?To tell them that you mourn with them. That you understand their anger. Their hopefulness. To tell them that you care….but I’m day dreaming….. You don’t. https://t.co/niVDtzoGbd

— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) May 30, 2020

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Eventual Carrion May 30, 2020 • 8:35:46am

re: #387 Jay C

No, not the Hapsburgs: (from the 2011 CBS News link)

“Two of Vlad’s sons”?? Interesting family…..

That’s why they call them “The Aristocrats”.

{Insert Gilbert Gottfried bit here}

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lizardofid May 30, 2020 • 8:37:53am

re: #376 Dr Lizardo

Someone’s seriously trying to kick off a civil war.

One thing we can be fairly certain of. Outside bad actors and mischief makers seem to be somewhat better organized than in past instances of unrest. Full of “good people on both sides” and all that.

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lizardofid May 30, 2020 • 8:41:44am

re: #389 jaunte

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With such a soul, is it any wonder that ChefJose is a gifted chef?

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mmmirele May 30, 2020 • 8:42:50am

re: #369 Jay C

There’s an incumbent Duc d’Anjou??

It’s not been legally recognized since 1795. So he might as well call himself Generalissimo.

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PhillyPretzel May 30, 2020 • 8:43:23am

re: #392 lizardofid

No. Chef Andres is a wonderful person.

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jaunte May 30, 2020 • 8:43:41am

re: #393 mmmirele

Generalissimo Get-A-Life.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! May 30, 2020 • 8:44:43am

If anyone’s interested, amazon has The Lord of the Rings kindle edition on sale for $2.99. This is the new corrected edition that was released for the 50th anniversary (and updated as needed since then).

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jeffreyw May 30, 2020 • 8:46:04am

I may well have an ancestor in the d’Anjou clan. I am shaped like a pear.

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Shropshire Slasher May 30, 2020 • 8:47:12am

Let’s hope they safely light that SpaceX candle today, and curse the glare.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 8:48:59am

re: #393 mmmirele

It’s not been legally recognized since 1795. So he might as well call himself Generalissimo.

“I taunt your ‘legally recognized’. We rule by divine right. Now go away or I shall taunt you again.”

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! May 30, 2020 • 8:53:16am

re: #397 jeffreyw

I may well have an ancestor in the d’Anjou clan. I am shaped like a pear.

That suggests we’re long-lost cousins. 🍐

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 8:54:08am

re: #398 Shropshire Slasher

Let’s hope they safely light that SpaceX candle today, and curse the glare.

On a clear day, Son2 can watch SST-sized launches from his patio.

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Shropshire Slasher May 30, 2020 • 8:54:09am

Dammit now I want a ripe pear.

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Eclectic Cyborg May 30, 2020 • 8:54:45am

The U.S. is seeing mass civil unrest in the middle of a pandemic that has killed more people here than in any other country in the world and the President is:

1. Ignoring the Pandemic
2. Telling the protesters they will be shot if they start looting
3. Attempting to regulate or shut down all social media
4. Attempting to mobilize the U.S. Army AGAINST American citizens
5. Threatening that anyone who protests at the White House that they will be shot or mauled by animals…or both.
6. Stating the incident that triggered the unrest was “a terrible insult to police”
7. Suggesting the Secret Service thoroughly enjoys beating up protesters who are exercising their legal rights.

If we’re not a failed state yet we’re sure as fuck starting to look like one.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 8:55:12am

wait, MAGA night isn’t the one where Ivanka has to dress like a sexy nurse, is it

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 30, 2020 • 8:55:26am

re: #365 mmmirele

Some male descendant of Louis XVI is all very upset that the statue of his forefather had its hand removed at a protest in Louisville two nights ago.

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Apparently this guy is also a descendant of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who is still dead.

The response thread is filled with guillotine gifs. Just filled.

Kentucky myth that will not die:
Kentucky ornithologist John James Audubon was Louis XVII, the Lost Dauphin.

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Hecuba's daughter May 30, 2020 • 8:57:30am

re: #399 Decatur Deb

“I taunt your ‘legally recognized’. We rule by divine right. Now go away or I shall taunt you again.”

And his children were all born in the United States. So, just think, theoretically, in 20+ years, they could be eligible to run for President! Assuming that the House of Trump eventually cedes its intent of permanent occupation of the White House.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 8:59:12am

re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kentucky myth that will not die:
Kentucky ornithologist John James Audubon was Louis XVII, the Lost Dauphin.

Hadn’t heard that one. When I was doing salvage archaeology surveys in the NE counties, I did have a time convincing locals I wasn’t looking for Jonathan Swift’s silver mine.

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jeffreyw May 30, 2020 • 9:01:37am

re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kentucky myth that will not die:
Kentucky ornithologist John James Audubon was Louis XVII, the Lost Dauphin.

Didn’t he die while on a Mississippi River float trip?

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plansbandc May 30, 2020 • 9:01:45am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I hope she’s wearing a black arm band. Happy Birthday!

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 30, 2020 • 9:05:44am

re: #408 jeffreyw

Didn’t he die while on a Mississippi River float trip?

dementia at his home in Manhattan

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 9:05:57am

re: #380 Decatur Deb

Someone published, a few days ago, that QE2 is related to Vlad the Impaler.

one of them went on to build guitars, the Fender Vladocaster

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retired cynic May 30, 2020 • 9:06:03am

re: #402 Shropshire Slasher

Dammit now I want a ripe pear.

How about an over-ripe apple?

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 30, 2020 • 9:07:59am

JFC

It’s ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don’t lay the blame on others!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2020

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retired cynic May 30, 2020 • 9:08:17am

re: #396 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

If anyone’s interested, amazon has The Lord of the Rings kindle edition on sale for $2.99. This is the new corrected edition that was released for the 50th anniversary (and updated as needed since then).

It’s available at the same price as a Nook Book. Just nabbed. Thank you!

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 30, 2020 • 9:09:48am

Stay safe people. There is great danger and high weirdness out there right now in the streets and it’s not coming from Black Americans

— Xeni Jardin 😷🏠 (@xeni) May 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 30, 2020 • 9:10:17am

Delicate Cadet Draftdodger who sent other boys to die in his place is concerned that the mayor isn’t tough like Patton. https://t.co/1k9VCOpOaW

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 30, 2020

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 9:10:34am

re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don’t lay the blame on others!

“Good people on both sides” does not apply here…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 9:11:38am

re: #416 Backwoods_Sleuth

“arrest the bad ones”

another spelling error, he meant to write “arrest the BLACK ones”

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stpaulbear May 30, 2020 • 9:12:52am

re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth

JFC

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That’s a direct response to Governor Walz.

Fuck you to hell, you stupid soulless twisted bastard.

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 30, 2020 • 9:14:40am

I usually avoid commenting on the news because I represent an animal welfare agency & I think I’m better as an oasis than a political voice but the real human behind this account needs to say that Black Lives Matter and I hope this current uprising forces some real change

— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) May 30, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 9:14:52am

re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth

JFC

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Go fuck yourself, you tangerine wankmaggot. It’s the damn alt-right neo-Nazis and you know it. There’s no reason the “radical left” would want to firebomb the jewel of the North, nor try to discredit the cause for which the protests were originally organized.

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sagehen May 30, 2020 • 9:16:01am

re: #372 ericblair

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Shocked. Well, not shocked.

I pray they find sufficient proof.

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Teddy's Person May 30, 2020 • 9:16:13am

This broke me this morning and am now sobbing. At best, Republicans in power shrug. At worst, they’re egging those who would kill this boy on.

A boy holds a sign during a protest Friday in downtown Los Angeles over the death of George Floyd.

📷 AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa pic.twitter.com/WIqJV1hAjY

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 30, 2020

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Belafon May 30, 2020 • 9:17:01am

re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth

JFC

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I saw people saying it was Antifa in the thread. I would like proof that they’ve ever targeted any property that wasn’t a Confederate statue.

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Backwoods_Sleuth May 30, 2020 • 9:17:09am

No tougher fighter, no greater strength, than a guy whose rich daddy hired a fake doctor to bullshit up some bone spurs to keep him from actually having to wear a uniform. https://t.co/1wRCDWIggW

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 30, 2020

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 9:18:27am

re: #424 Belafon

I saw people saying it was Antifa in the thread. I would like proof that they’ve ever targeted any property that wasn’t a Confederate statue.

this is important. they need to establish a narrative by which

Antifa = terrorist

ergo

anyone opposed to fascism = Antifa

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 9:19:01am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

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At the governor’s morning press conference, he, AG Ellison (who is also being roundly criticized baselessly), Mayor Frey, and Mayor Carter of St. Paul all admitted that they underestimated the degree to which things would escalate. Governor Walz took personal responsibility. THAT’S a leader. He will not be taken unawares tonight.

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LadyBehir May 30, 2020 • 9:19:33am

re: #79 teleskiguy

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What took her so long? This is nothing new for him.

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Teddy's Person May 30, 2020 • 9:20:53am

re: #428 LadyBehir

What took her so long? This is nothing new for him.

This is pure speculation, but with him in jail and the spotlight on the police department she might see a window of opportunity to safely leave.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 9:20:54am

re: #424 Belafon

I saw people saying it was Antifa in the thread. I would like proof that they’ve ever targeted any property that wasn’t a Confederate statue.

There is no monolithic Antifa. The name/term is co-opted by a whole bunch of people with a whole bunch of tactical toolkits.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 9:22:44am

re: #430 Decatur Deb

There is no monolithic Antifa. The name/term is co-opted by a whole bunch of people with a whole bunch of tactical toolkits.

But it is useful to the rhetoric of the Right to associate anyone who opposes manifestations of Fascism in America with anarchic leftist terrorism

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jaunte May 30, 2020 • 9:24:52am

It’s ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don’t lay the blame on others!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2020

Trump officially confirms the troublemakers are right-wing white supremacists.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 9:24:58am

re: #431 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

But it is useful to the rhetoric of the Right to associate anyone who opposes manifestations of Fascism in America with anarchic leftist terrorism

The good guys made the mistake when they accepted the acronym. It was already perverted decades ago.

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sagehen May 30, 2020 • 9:27:25am

re: #429 Teddy’s Person

This is pure speculation, but with him in jail and the spotlight on the police department she might see a window of opportunity to safely leave.

Possible.

Also possible it’s asset protection; if she gets most of the money and property in a quick settlement, George Floyd’s family can’t get at it in a civil suit.

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Barefoot Grin May 30, 2020 • 9:28:23am

re: #416 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Douglas MacArthur, the guy who ordered troops to fire on the veterans’ Bonus Army….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 9:29:40am

re: #434 sagehen

Possible.

Also possible it’s asset protection; if she gets most of the money and property in a quick settlement, George Floyd’s family can’t get at it in a civil suit.

She was also probably terrified of some retribution if she had tried to divorce him earlier. Now that her husband is so high-profile, it makes her relatively safer

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 9:30:24am

re: #435 Barefoot Grin

Douglas MacArthur, the guy who ordered troops to fire on the veterans’ Bonus Army….

And George S Patton, the man who bitch-slapped PTSD cases…

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stpaulbear May 30, 2020 • 9:31:19am

A liquor store right next to my usual grocery store got looted last night. I called the grocery store this morning to see if they’re closed and they said they’d be open until 6:00. I’m getting my prescription filled by a Walgreens in a suburb just south of St Paul proper.

I’m going to be keeping an eye out for out-of-state plates and calling the cops if I see anything amiss. Not going to personally confront anybody.

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Decatur Deb May 30, 2020 • 9:32:18am

re: #438 stpaulbear

A liquor store right next to my usual grocery store got looted last night. I called the grocery store this morning to see if they’re closed and they said they’d be open until 6:00. I’m getting my prescription filled by a Walgreens in a suburb just south of St Paul proper.

I’m going to be keeping an eye out for out-of-state plates and calling the cops if I see anything amiss. Not going to personally confront anybody.

Camera at the ready.

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Teddy's Person May 30, 2020 • 9:32:47am

re: #438 stpaulbear

A liquor store right next to my usual grocery store got looted last night. I called the grocery store this morning to see if they’re closed and they said they’d be open until 6:00. I’m getting my prescription filled by a Walgreens in a suburb just south of St Paul proper.

I’m going to be keeping an eye out for out-of-state plates and calling the cops if I see anything amiss. Not going to personally confront anybody.

Stay safe.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 9:33:04am

re: #438 stpaulbear

A liquor store right next to my usual grocery store got looted last night. I called the grocery store this morning to see if they’re closed and they said they’d be open until 6:00. I’m getting my prescription filled by a Walgreens in a suburb just south of St Paul proper.

I’m going to be keeping an eye out for out-of-state plates and calling the cops if I see anything amiss. Not going to personally confront anybody.

I mentioned upthread, if you need an escape, my home is open, or I can help put you up somewhere. Drop me a PM if you need anything.

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Teddy's Person May 30, 2020 • 9:33:32am

re: #434 sagehen

Possible.

Also possible it’s asset protection; if she gets most of the money and property in a quick settlement, George Floyd’s family can’t get at it in a civil suit.

This is also plausible speculation.

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Barefoot Grin May 30, 2020 • 9:35:34am

re: #437 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And George S Patton, the man who bitch-slapped PTSD cases…

One of my favorite Mad Magazine editions was the one where they sent up the movie Patton.

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Teddy's Person May 30, 2020 • 9:39:17am

It’s MAGA NIGHT, y’all! Bring the S’mores… pic.twitter.com/GBgLeUY6Nt

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 30, 2020

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel May 30, 2020 • 9:39:36am

How to remain a virgin your entire life.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) May 30, 2020 • 9:40:01am

re: #437 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And George S Patton, the man who bitch-slapped PTSD cases…

I thought that was George c scott

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 9:40:09am

re: #445 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

How to remains virgin your entire life.

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I thought that was World of Warcraft. But, this works just as well.

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stpaulbear May 30, 2020 • 9:40:58am

re: #441 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I mentioned upthread, if you need an escape, my home is open, or I can help put you up somewhere. Drop me a PM if you need anything.

Thank you. I’ve got a sister in North St. Paul who’s got room so that will be first choice.

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Allow me to light that for you... May 30, 2020 • 9:41:06am

re: #445 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

He’s the guy at the penny slots every day.

450

Charles Johnson May 30, 2020 • 9:41:06am

100,000 people dead from COVID-19 isn’t enough for Trump; now he wants to see some dead protesters. https://t.co/JSjpryPwTk

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 30, 2020

Whenever there’s a crisis, Donald Trump springs into action and does everything in his power to make things as bad as possible.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 30, 2020

But wait - didn’t your boss just say Mayor @MurielBowser “wouldn’t let the DC Police get involved?”

You mean, he was lying to smear a black woman? How … unusual. https://t.co/KyOpXqX8oR

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 30, 2020

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Teddy's Person May 30, 2020 • 9:41:24am

re: #445 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

How to remains virgin your entire life.

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The number of life decisions that went into that outcome is truly frightening.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! May 30, 2020 • 9:41:26am

re: #402 Shropshire Slasher

Dammit now I want a ripe pear.

Which one of us did you have in… no, Imma leave that right where I found it.

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Hecuba's daughter May 30, 2020 • 9:42:43am

re: #445 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

How to remains virgin your entire life.

[Embedded content]

If Stephen Miller could find someone just as vile as he is, this guy could be equally successful.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 9:42:50am

re: #443 Barefoot Grin

One of my favorite Mad Magazine editions was the one where they sent up the movie Patton.

I had that issue ass a kid and read it until the staples fell out…

455

Belafon May 30, 2020 • 9:44:27am

re: #447 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I thought that was World of Warcraft. But, this works just as well.

A couple I know met on WoW.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. May 30, 2020 • 9:45:56am

re: #455 Belafon

A couple I know met on WoW.

Mrs. Fish and I had an in-game wedding about a month or so before our actual physical wedding. Our favorite priest ministered the ceremony. One of the dimmer bulbs in the group got me killed during the post-ceremony PvP raid. It was glorious.

457

Dread Pirate May 30, 2020 • 9:46:56am

Per capita we have a bad president

— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) May 27, 2020

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jeffreyw May 30, 2020 • 9:47:29am

re: #452 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Which one of us did you have in… no, Imma leave that right where I found it.

According to recent testimony, I am “over ripe”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 30, 2020 • 9:48:11am

re: #457 Dread Pirate

Per capita we have a bad president

quid per capita pro quo

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 30, 2020 • 9:58:03am

re: #444 Teddy’s Person

White chocolate only, please!

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 30, 2020

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stpaulbear May 30, 2020 • 9:58:05am

I need to sign off for the day. I need to mow the lawn and get some groceries and get away from the computer and the news. Probably be back later this evening. The weather here is pretty close to perfect today. Sunny and in the mid 60’s.

462

PhillyPretzel May 30, 2020 • 9:58:39am

This is what is happening in Philly.
whyy.org

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LadyBehir May 30, 2020 • 10:03:08am

re: #295 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Facebook wouldn’t let me share this cartoon. I had made no comment on it.

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plansbandc May 30, 2020 • 10:18:33am

re: #278 Shropshire Slasher

I would SO eat that. Now I have to put prune juice on the grocery list.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 30, 2020 • 10:31:36am

re: #443 Barefoot Grin

One of my favorite Mad Magazine editions was the one where they sent up the movie Patton.

“Put*On” or something, wasn’t it?

I seem to recall that issue from my youth.

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danarchy May 30, 2020 • 11:01:26am

re: #121 austin_blue

Police in Austin are paid about $3,000 less than teachers ($54,000 ->$57,000).

Then again, teachers don’t kill any of the people they are pledged to serve.

I bet those police get lots of overtime and detail money as well though that teachers don’t.

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