Some More News: How the Right Pretends Systemic Racism Doesn’t Exist

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:07:09am

GOTV (and make sure they are counted and registered)
FT (let him face the legal consequences of his term)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:09:36am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:10:20am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:11:31am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:14:20am

I can’t remember the last time I said to myself: “I appreciate what the President said.”

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:15:50am

Who would want to generate chaos?

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stpaulbear  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:16:25am

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Oh, and statues. Don’t forget the statues.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:16:35am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:18:02am

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

I can’t remember the last time I said to myself: “I appreciate what the President said.”

1/19/17.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:18:28am
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Dread Pirate  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:20:33am
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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:22:37am
“All the elected officials are switching from a live, in-person speech to videos,” Kyle Whatley, the party’s executive director, said during a town hall livestreamed Tuesday night. “They’re doing that for us in order to focus all the attention on the business of the meeting and to get everybody in and out of here as quickly and as safely as possible.”
texastribune.org

So, elected Republicans are nonessential?

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:26:20am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:27:31am

re: #13 jaunte

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Criminal negligence at best.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:29:43am

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Spinal Tap did it first… and better.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:30:19am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:30:59am

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Authentic Queens gibberish.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:31:03am
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Teukka  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:31:14am

Joke time:
Q: What happens when you eat Aluminium foil?
A: You sheet metal…
#DailyGroaner

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:32:07am

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

Basically, he’s saying since it’s “Guidance”, it’s not mandatory for anyone to follow and the CDC can fuck right off, we’re going to reopen the schools.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:33:10am

They don’t have a say in the schools thankfully but Christ their disregard for public health is disgusting.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:33:35am

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It means “President Trump has said to reopen schools so he can get reelected, and that’s what we’re doing.”

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:33:58am

re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg

Basically, he’s saying since it’s “Guidance”, it’s not mandatory for anyone to follow and the CDC can fuck right off, we’re going to reopen the schools.

Watch what happens when kids in Catholic and Christian schools start dying en masse…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:36:35am

re: #23 🌹UOJB!

Watch what happens when kids in Catholic and Christian schools start dying en masse…

God’s Will, don’cha know…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:36:42am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:37:45am

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He really deserved better. The trashing of his service by Trump and his allies is unforgivable.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:38:11am
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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:39:29am

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:40:09am

Vindman must have heard the cowards were still bending to Trump’s pettiness.

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stpaulbear  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:43:24am

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hope Vindman lands a really prime position in the Biden administration. You know they’re already looking at bringing him on board.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:46:41am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:47:27am

re: #30 stpaulbear

I hope Vindman lands a really prime position in the Biden administration. You know they’re already looking at bringing him on board.

Yeah I think he would be a great fit for anything involving Russia or Ukraine.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:50:16am

Tom Friedman has some good ideas:

Over the years, I’ve had my reservations about New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman: very smart, too often glib and too often in thrall to shiny objects. But his column today is a real home run.

A very quick summary is this: Joe Biden should debate Trump only if two conditions are met, because otherwise the debate would give Trump unfair advantages:
First, that both candidates release their tax returns, thus equalizing their exposure to being questioned;

And second, and here I will quote Friedman directly, “Biden should insist that a real-time fact-checking team approved by both candidates be hired by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates — and that 10 minutes before the scheduled conclusion of the debate this team report on any misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies either candidate had uttered. That way no one in that massive television audience can go away easily misled.”

dailykos.com

The NYT link: nytimes.com

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:51:03am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:52:05am

Some nifty propaganda for gun-libs:

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:52:15am

Pardons Eddie Gallagher. Treats him like a modern day Sgt. York. Attacks Colonel Vindman. Trump wouldn’t know honor if it bit him in his orange ass.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:55:16am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:55:18am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:56:25am
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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:58:48am

You know the scene near the end of WWZ, the movie, where Pitt’s character is rummaging through the bottles of disease samples and trying to pick one to inject himself with? The CDC should set that test up for Trump and tell him they’ll listen if he picks the right one.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 10:59:21am

re: #40 Belafon

“I will be ranting at them!!!”

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:00:42am

“The number of microorganisms in a culture will increase exponentially until an essential nutrient is exhausted.”

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:01:59am

re: #42 jaunte

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“The number of microorganisms in a culture will increase exponentially until an essential nutrient is exhausted.”

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:02:54am

re: #43 Teukka

Well, for states like AZ, FL, and TX, we are.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:04:06am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:04:17am
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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:05:34am
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Teukka  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:06:14am

re: #44 lawhawk

Well, for states like AZ, FL, and TX, we are.

No we aren’t. The really nasty thing with exponential curves is that once you get far enough on the x axis, the y axis increases with mindboggling speed.
Like, if you have an y axis which is at the height of the altitude of commercial jetliners (33,000 ‘/10,000m), even if you react correctly to input etc, the lag between reaction to results means that by the time you see any effects of you slamming on the brakes, you’re halfway to the moon…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:10:04am

re: #33 Belafon

Tom Friedman has some good ideas:

dailykos.com

The NYT link: nytimes.com

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

As if trump would ever, EVER do that.

God, I was laughing so hard I almost pissed myself.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:11:05am

re: #48 Teukka

As hospitals hit max capacity, new cases can’t go there so people die at a home without medical care or in triage tents outside the hospital, which spikes deaths. The dead bodies then have to be dealt with by the living who are now at greater risk of exposure. Inevitably some of them will get sick, but the hospitals are at max capacity…

Think like what happened in Italy except that things just kept getting worse.

There is no happy ending to this story.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:11:19am
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teleskiguy  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:12:06am

Julia Mancuso (retired Olympic champion World Cup skier) responded to my tweet about her peddling anti-vaxx quackery.

“I’m just providing information.” Typical anti-vaxx response.

This is the article she retweeeted. The tweeter is an anti-vaxx crackpot.

Sucks when someone you once admired turns out to be an anti-science loon. She’s lost several hundred followers today, including myself.

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William Lewis  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:12:10am

re: #32 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yeah I think he would be a great fit for anything involving Russia or Ukraine.

SECDEF.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:12:21am

re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth

You know it’s bad when we start needing bigger graphs.

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:13:10am

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

As hospitals hit max capacity, new cases can’t go there so people die at a home without medical care or in triage tents outside the hospital, which spikes deaths. The dead bodies then have to be dealt with by the living who are now at greater risk of exposure. Inevitably some of them will get sick, but the hospitals are at max capacity…

There is no happy ending to this story.

Indeed. But there is clear potential for a hair-raising end to the story… What I don’t want to see is an indication that the increase stops at a specific rate but stays at that rate, because it would clearly suggest that the virus is spreading as freely as the R0 and environment allows…

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:20:39am

re: #52 teleskiguy

Julia Mancuso (retired Olympic champion World Cup skier) responded to my tweet about her peddling anti-vaxx quackery.

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Sucks when someone you once admired turns out to be an anti-science loon. She’s lost several hundred followers today, including myself.

You persist very well in that conversation.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:21:18am

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

As hospitals hit max capacity, new cases can’t go there so people die at a home without medical care or in triage tents outside the hospital, which spikes deaths. The dead bodies then have to be dealt with by the living who are now at greater risk of exposure. Inevitably some of them will get sick, but the hospitals are at max capacity…

Think like what happened in Italy except that things just kept getting worse.

There is no happy ending to this story.

The states affected by this can end it the way Italy did.

Red state governments are now caught between that, in which case their citizens will come after them with pitchforks — or continuing the “everything is fine” course they’re now taking, in which case their citizens will eventually count up the dead, the permanently disabled and the ruined medical infrastructure (they can’t go on like this for much longer) and come after them with pitchforks. Or guillotines.

Couldn’t happen to nicer people.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:21:55am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:23:32am

Horrific. Heartbreaking.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:28:14am

On the good news front.

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:28:37am

The right-wing loons constantly banging on about “Civil War” are really starting to get on my nerves - such as this nutcase over at SHTF

As I noted last week, the political left is a tool for a greater agenda. They are being used as a weapon of chaos by globalist interests. This is not “conspiracy theory”, this is a conspiracy fact. Millions of dollars have poured into Antifa and BLM related groups through elitist donors like George Soros and his Open Society Foundation as well as the Ford Foundation. Globalist institutions like these have been influencing the extreme left and promoting identity politics for DECADES. This is openly admitted. What we are witnessing in 2020 is simply the culmination of a half-century-long propaganda campaign that created the modern feminist movement, victim group status, entitlement culture, etc.

The reason for the agenda should be obvious: Chaos creates fear. Fear creates division and crisis. And, crisis creates opportunity (as globalist Rahm Emanuel once bragged). Meaning, the extreme left is going to start a war because that’s exactly what the global elites created them for.

Now, some might suggest that this places conservatives in a Catch-22 position; if we don’t fight back then we will look weak. We will be culturally isolated and eventually overrun and wiped from the history books. If we do fight back we will be giving the globalists what they want - A civil war that will tear America apart.

The suggestion by certain special interests will be that there is only one way out; use government power to turn the tide to our advantage. In other words, institute martial law.

Untreated mental illness is on display every day. They feel like the whole of American society is Out To Get Them … because Fox TV shows them endless loops of flames, black people in the streets, smashed windows, etc. etc.

The gun stores near me can’t keep ammunition on the shelves.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:29:54am
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Teddy's Person  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:32:54am

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Oh, and statues. Don’t forget the statues.

And if you do, Trump will be along momentarily to remind you.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:36:56am

re: #47 lawhawk

I honestly think it’s more fucked up than that: while there is a profit motive, there’s also a motive I’d classify as “ego preservation.”

Abuse of power tends to involve three components: a loose justification for why the thing you’re going to do is actually okay, the egregious self-indulgent act that has to be justified, and the normalization phase is which pressure is applied to the victim(s) and bystanders to affirm that what just happened wasn’t really bad or wrong. And because abusers tend to be the kind of shallow conscienceless people that are comfortable having no framework for truth or sincerity, the last phase usually involves manipulation and coercion to compel a normalizing statement: the inauthenticness and context do not matter, just the *technicality* of the expiating words being said.

In the case of the schools opening, I think we’re seeing an extreme version of the coercive push to normalize. These people fucked up and did harm because they’re callous and thoughtless and ignorant, but they don’t want to acknowledge any of that, let alone feel shame or be shamed socially—so they’re instead trying to normalize the death and loss by viewing it as necessary or inevitable…but to really feel like they’ve avoided blame they have to compel everyone else to participate in the lethal mistake.

Pick your preferred scale—from the micro- of your average domestic murder-suicide to the meso- of Jonestown to the macro- of the Nero Order—you can see awful, conscienceless people make the same decision over and over: scream and threaten that everything is good and fine and normal rather than admit their plan was bad until everything is irretrievably broken, escalating until the final form of denial is to not just die, but to specifically require that other people die with you so that your death is not an admission of error.

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cat-tikvah  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:40:06am

If you’d like to send a note of thanks/support to Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, you can send it c/o of his synagogue. They were the go-to address after his testimony in the impeachment proceedings.

Message me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:45:20am

re: #64 The Ghost of a Flea

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:49:50am
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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:49:58am

Andrew Cuomo is a bigger man than I.

I would have made DeSantis publicly squirm for a minute, and that’s why I’m not governor of NY State.

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:52:28am

re: #68 makeitstop

Andrew Cuomo is a bigger man than I.

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I would have made DeSantis publicly squirm for a minute, and that’s why I’m not governor of NY State.

Cuomo understands that a substantial number of Floridians (especially the elderly) are retired former New Yorkers. Their grandchildren still live here, and they vote.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:53:11am

re: #68 makeitstop

“When Democrats called for help, the Trump administration tried to use his authority as a barganing chip. When Republicans call for help, Democrats say ‘How much?’ Who do you want running your country?”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:58:13am
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sagehen  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:59:09am

re: #69 sagehen

Cuomo understands that a substantial number of Floridians (especially the elderly) are retired former New Yorkers. Their grandchildren still live here, and they vote.

from 2008:

The Great Schlep (NSFW) - Starring Sarah Silverman

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:59:16am

re: #68 makeitstop

Andrew Cuomo is a bigger man than I.

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I would have made DeSantis publicly squirm for a minute, and that’s why I’m not governor of NY State.

Residents aren’t to blame for DeSantis killing them off.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 11:59:21am

We enjoyed RP1 The second time we watched it (for into it like 1/2 way through so we watched again) and have watched it several times now. Looking forward to RP2.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:00:27pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:00:59pm

re: #73 lawhawk

Residents aren’t to blame for DeSantis killing them off.

Would have been nice to add in a “sure we’ll help but DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING!” cuz NY is going to run out of resources and then what?

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:03:22pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:05:15pm
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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:05:26pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:05:34pm

re: #73 lawhawk

Residents aren’t to blame for DeSantis killing them off.

They voted for criminal Rick Scott — twice for governor and once for Senator — and they voted for DeSantis and for Trump. They knew what these men were and still supported them. Of course, those who voted for the Democratic candidates were not guilty, but the others? They were ok with discriminating against minorities but they may not be enthusiastic about sacrificing their own lives.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:06:47pm
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DodgerFan1988  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:13:25pm

Cancel Culture Conservative-Style.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:20:03pm

Governor DeSantis was on Ol Fourth Stage Thrice-Divorced Rushbo’s show today. The more they talk, the worse it gets.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:21:13pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:23:34pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:23:49pm

re: #82 DodgerFan1988

So he spoke out and now is being punished and nothing can be done about the retaliation? Why would any whistleblowers come forward under these conditions? Trump is a dictator.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:25:42pm

re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Someone needs to create a table of the money Politicians and their families have received and break it down by party.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:27:04pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:28:51pm

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Reagan could feign empathy and read from a teleprompter with the best of them. And with all his errors and mistakes both in domestic and foreign policy, he still projected an image of strength on the world stage. When he left office, his successors were not faced with a huge, perhaps impossible, task of repairing our relationships with other nations worldwide.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:29:07pm

re: #88 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:30:49pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:30:51pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

The cool thing about the Trump admin is that they don’t know how laws work so they’re not as effective at their evil plans as they could be.

That has been our only saving grace with a lot of Trump initiatives…

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:31:57pm

re: #6 jaunte

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Who would want to generate chaos?

“Restrictive” means expensive
And yes re threatening the children
look how well it went when they threatened the grandparents all of three weeks ago

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nines09  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:33:07pm

I’ll pass on commenting on my increasing disgust with far too many people.

Thunderstorms rolled through and Coop had to be denied the thrill of mud and wet and body slamming me with pure joy wet and muddy.
In-house

You just wait until I can really bounce…
Yes, I know…..

What a cupcake.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:36:05pm

re: #22 Belafon

It means “President Trump has said to reopen schools so he can get reelected, and that’s what we’re doing.”

Don’t they not realize
Kids don’t vote
Their parents do

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:36:09pm

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” — Ronald Reagan

(To be clear, Ronald Reagan was a terrible president and a horrible person… but the irony is amazing.)

I always wondered what it was like for the captain of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan to present his credentials in Fukushima, where his ship had been sent to render post-tsunami assistance and declare “We’re from the US government and we’re here to help!”

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:36:48pm
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mmmirele  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:38:25pm

So annoyed at my insurance.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:38:33pm
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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:39:57pm

re: #97 jaunte

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Wasn’t going to sue Univision into oblivion a few hundred Trump tantrums ago?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:40:02pm

re: #97 jaunte

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:40:13pm

re: #99 Dread Pirate

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Blink and you’ll miss it. (They’re hoping reporters will miss it.)

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:40:39pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Only one party has that goal.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:41:19pm

re: #99 Dread Pirate

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It was touch and go there, but they locked down the statues.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:41:22pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not for nothing, but ignoring a network that reaches more Spanish-speakers than any other content provider in the U.S. seems like a dumb idea if you’re trying to grow your share of the Hispanic/Latino vote.

They clearly gave up on that segment of the population some time ago.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:41:52pm

re: #49 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

As if trump would ever, EVER do that.

God, I was laughing so hard I almost pissed myself.

Fact checkers?
Biden shows up to the debates
Trump lies
Biden can think on his feet just fine
Biden hands him his ass

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retired cynic  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:42:04pm

“It’s Me!”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:42:23pm

re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They clearly gave up on that segment of the population some time ago.

Trump is going all in on rallying the Confederacy for a last stand.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:43:07pm
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SteelPH  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:43:10pm

So now I’m being told by a (now former, who’d previously caused me a nervous breakdown with their bothsiding Gish Gallop a few months back) Berniebot friend that Democrats, Biden included, are totally for reopening the economy right now.

Where the fuck has that ever happened?

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:43:12pm
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DodgerFan1988  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:43:52pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:44:33pm

re: #97 jaunte

Fox News is a Rightwing propaganda network and mouthpiece for Republicans. It’s amazing that Trump and his ilk have no self awareness and think that we’re all brainless zombies.

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:45:29pm

I don’t know why my siblings and I needed another way to say ‘dictator’, but we made one. We took apart the syllables and translated them independently, and put them partway back together to get ‘weenie spud’. It is available.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:45:34pm

re: #108 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Trump is going all in on rallying the Confederacy for a last stand.

If they can get the whole of the MAGAts out in force and suppress/miscount the rest of the voters, they might begin to stand a chance.

But I think that their strategy will switch to ensuring that this upcoming election is such an unprecedented clusterf*ck that they can claim that the outcome is invalid or indecisive or legally contestable and will continue in that vein forever.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:47:53pm
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KGxvi  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:48:49pm

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If they can get the whole of the MAGAts out in force and suppress/miscount the rest of the voters, they might begin to stand a chance.

But I think that their strategy will switch to ensuring that this upcoming election is such an unprecedented clusterf*ck that they can claim that the outcome is invalid or indecisive or legally contestable and will continue in that vein forever.

That only works if the vote is close. Based on the polling now (and let’s be honest: Trump isn’t going to do anything between now and November that actually improves his polling), he’s going to get trounced. We might not be in ‘64, ‘72, ‘84 territory (yet), but ‘88 and ‘08 are in play as possible margins of victory.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:50:02pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

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If ruling by “wakanda” means reverse-engineering highly evolved alien technology, near unlimited vibranium, and a non-aggression policy with the rest of the world I’m all in.

Otherwise, I’d just think Kanye’s nuts.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:50:22pm

if you needed them all in one place

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retired cynic  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:51:56pm

Stop saying Trump is ‘in denial.’ The truth is much worse.
by Greg Sargent, WaPo

He’s right. It’s malevolence.

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KGxvi  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:53:26pm

re: #118 Florida Panhandler

If ruling by “wakanda” means reverse-engineering highly evolved alien technology, near unlimited vibranium, and a non-aggression policy with the rest of the world I’m all in.

Otherwise, I’d just think Kanye’s nuts.

Wakanda, at least in the movies, was run as an absolute monarchy with a philosopher-king who had superpowers. Basically a whole bunch of things that have been shown not to work in the modern world.

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teleskiguy  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:55:17pm
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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:55:57pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:56:02pm

re: #112 DodgerFan1988

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This is medical insanity

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Teddy's Person  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:56:08pm

This is from an inside-baseball article over at Vanity Fair about Republicans trying to right the SS Trump. This paragraph caught my attention, mostly because it’s just so pathetic.

Another option that’s been discussed is for Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to go over to the campaign full-time in the same way Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff James Baker left the West Wing to run Reagan’s ‘84 campaign. A source told me Kushner has said he’s not interested. “If I go to the campaign, Trump might not let me back into the White House,” Kushner told people, according to a person briefed on the conversation. “As of now, he intends to remain in his current role,” an administration official said.

I’m imaging Jared’s lips moving but Gilbert Gottfried’s voice coming out.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:56:39pm
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KGxvi  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:57:16pm

re: #125 Teddy’s Person

This is from an inside-baseball article over at Vanity Fair about Republicans trying to right the SS Trump. This paragraph caught my attention, mostly because it’s just so pathetic.

I’m imaging Jared’s lips moving but Gilbert Gottfried’s voice coming out.

Honestly not sure which would be better/worse…

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 12:59:55pm

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If they can get the whole of the MAGAts out in force and suppress/miscount the rest of the voters, they might begin to stand a chance.

But I think that their strategy will switch to ensuring that this upcoming election is such an unprecedented clusterf*ck that they can claim that the outcome is invalid or indecisive or legally contestable and will continue in that vein forever.

Para 1 ..if only we vote, we win

Para 2 can only happen district by specific district precinct by specific precinct

There is no overarching way to invalidate only the presidential election and to target “everywhere”

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:01:04pm

re: #120 retired cynic

Stop saying Trump is ‘in denial.’ The truth is much worse.
by Greg Sargent, WaPo

He’s right. It’s malevolence.

It’s both
He’s evil
And delusional too

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A Cranky One  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:01:55pm

So I read another article arguing that the industrial feces extrusion device occupying the presidency would resign rather than being branded as a loser.

I can just picture it:

Rump: I’m resigning to spend more time with my family.

Melania:

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:04:24pm

Had to post from jail anyways:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:09:06pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:09:59pm

just came back from the weekly Publix run (broward county, 15 mi west of ft lauderdale)

had to have a sandwich with monday’s leftover dijon salmon before reporting

100% mask usage
in two different publix’s
100%

no one clamoring for attention or rigging up a gotcha stunt

everyone is very matter of fact and non nonsense

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:10:09pm

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

What mysterious liberal ideology is she fantasizing?

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:10:27pm

re: #120 retired cynic

Stop saying Trump is ‘in denial.’ The truth is much worse.
by Greg Sargent, WaPo

He’s right. It’s malevolence.

That’s certainly what I’ve believed and stated for a long time. He’s a conman controlled by Putin and he knows exactly what he’s doing. He doesn’t care to learn what’s best for this nation or how to handle any crisis. All he cares about his praise, money, and control — and certainly doesn’t care how many Americans perish in his efforts to retain power. He may indeed take pleasure in knowing that others are gullible enough to fall for his repeated deceptions.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:10:56pm

re: #118 Florida Panhandler

If ruling by “wakanda” means reverse-engineering highly evolved alien technology, near unlimited vibranium, and a non-aggression policy with the rest of the world I’m all in.

Otherwise, I’d just think Kanye’s nuts.

By his own accounting he’s bipolar and doesn’t take meds.

Though I’m not sure that explains every bit of his behavior, when I actually read the transcript of his interview about this presidential run declaration I’d say…something is wrong.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:11:10pm

re: #134 jaunte

What mysterious liberal ideology is she fantasizing?

gaslight version

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:11:15pm

Power hungry liberals eager to keep their kids home from school is a new one.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:12:37pm

re: #110 SteelPH

So now I’m being told by a (now former, who’d previously caused me a nervous breakdown with their bothsiding Gish Gallop a few months back) Berniebot friend that Democrats, Biden included, are totally for reopening the economy right now.

Where the fuck has that ever happened?

You will have to ask your ex-friend.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:15:18pm

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The GOP trying to make the Coronavirus a GOP vs. Dem. thing really aren’t doing a very good job of it….

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:15:41pm
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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:16:58pm

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Other nations have had to reclose schools after opening due to more outbreaks at the schools.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:17:50pm

re: #130 A Cranky One

So I read another article arguing that the industrial feces extrusion device occupying the presidency would resign rather than being branded as a loser.

I can just picture it:

Rump: I’m resigning to spend more time with my family.

Melania:

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it would never be anything as feeble as ‘time with the family’

- he already is a loser - everybody knows the presidency is a disaster and his reelection chances are slim to none
- if before the convention, he’d be the first (i think) to have the votes to win the nom and up and quit (i dont think anyone ever has). certainly the first incumbent
- if after the convention, again he’d be the first to win the nom and then up and quit

either way he’s a quitter

maybe he could manufacture some bogus health excuse.
but even that - given the corner he painted himself into being so strong, healthy etc, he’d still be a quitter

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Teddy's Person  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:21:15pm

re: #143 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

it would never be anything as feeble as ‘time with the family’

- he already is a loser - everybody knows the presidency is a disaster and his reelection chances are slim to none
- if before the convention, he’d be the first (i think) to have the votes to win the nom and up and quit (i dont think anyone ever has). certainly the first incumbent
- if after the convention, again he’d be the first to win the nom and then up and quit

either way he’s a quitter

maybe he could manufacture some bogus health excuse.
but even that - given the corner he painted himself into being so strong, healthy etc, he’d still be a quitter

Trump (announcing he’s exiting the presidential race): YOU DON’T DESERVE ME!!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:21:29pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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apparently you’re righter than you think!!

“A potential new addition to President Trump’s future rallies: statues,” ABC News reports.

“The idea has been discussed by White House and Trump campaign aides, but no final decision has been made, sources familiar with the planning told ABC News. It’s also not clear who exactly the statues would resemble, but sources say one idea was for ‘America’s Founding Fathers.’”

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:22:08pm

re: #143 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

either way he’s a quitter

He needs to be convinced that ‘quitter = ‘winner’.

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:23:06pm

re: #144 Teddy’s Person

Trump (announcing he’s exiting the presidential race): YOU DON’T DESERVE ME!!

That might do it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:24:28pm

re: #136 The Ghost of a Flea

By his own accounting he’s bipolar and doesn’t take meds.

Though I’m not sure that explains every bit of his behavior, when I actually read the transcript of his interview about this presidential run declaration I’d say…something is wrong.

Agreed. He definitely comes across as being in a manic phase.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:25:01pm

re: #145 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

apparently you’re righter than you think!!

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That was reported this morning, that Trump wants to include statues at his rallies.

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plansbandc  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:26:30pm

re: #94 nines09

Fabulous action shot!

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:34:23pm

Looks like Shep’s non-compete has expired…

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:35:07pm

Okay, I seriously floating the speculation that we’re now considering banning TikTok not because of China-related natsec issues, but because kids on TikTok took credit for fucking up the Tulsa rally.

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:36:47pm

You hate to see it, Nah, not really.

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EPR-radar  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:39:05pm

re: #152 The Ghost of a Flea

Okay, I seriously floating the speculation that we’re now considering banning TikTok not because of China-related natsec issues, but because kids on TikTok took credit for fucking up the Tulsa rally.

What’s strange about this? For Trump, interference with his Tulsa rally is a problem. He doesn’t give a shit about any real national security issues.

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A Cranky One  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:39:06pm

re: #152 The Ghost of a Flea

Okay, I seriously floating the speculation that we’re now considering banning TikTok not because of China-related natsec issues, but because kids on TikTok took credit for fucking up the Tulsa rally.

But of course that’s why.

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:40:19pm

Harder than it sounds.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:40:42pm
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William Lewis  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:41:48pm

re: #65 cat-tikvah

If you’d like to send a note of thanks/support to Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, you can send it c/o of his synagogue. They were the go-to address after his testimony in the impeachment proceedings.

Message me.

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EPR-radar  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:42:52pm

re: #157 jaunte

Just like Hitler thought all of Germany should die along with him for failing him.

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A Cranky One  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:46:03pm

Trump claims to be King Midas, with everything he touches turning to gold.
But he’s actually King Mortality - everything he touches dies.

And idiots still love him (unlike those who know him).

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:46:27pm

😂

KARENS GONE WILD

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cat-tikvah  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:50:01pm

re: #158 William Lewis

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:52:44pm

Oh, HELL yeah.

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plansbandc  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:52:48pm

...

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nines09  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:53:02pm

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plansbandc  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:53:36pm
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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:53:53pm

re: #164 plansbandc

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makeitstop 2020: Let’s go pee!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:55:54pm

Jesus 2020: Ow, that was my hand!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:56:10pm

re: #166 plansbandc

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:56:54pm

Promises, promises.

Eric Trump
to me

TRUMP PENCE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

Friend,
My father really needs your support, which is why he asked me to reach out and offer you ONE MORE CHANCE to get on the right side of history with us.

For the NEXT HOUR, if you contribute ANY AMOUNT, you’ll automatically reach VIP status and become a member of the Trump VIP Club - it’s that easy.

This exclusive offer expires in ONE HOUR, Friend. After that, you will permanently forfeit your potential status as a Trump VIP.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT in the NEXT HOUR to join the Trump VIP Club.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:57:38pm

Your campaign slogan is you last name + 2020 + the last thing you said to your dog.

Good 2020: I love you😘

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:57:54pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:58:14pm

re: #98 mmmirele

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 8, 2020 • 1:59:46pm

GENERAL Vindman will be back after Biden takes office.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:01:12pm
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:01:16pm

re: #144 Teddy’s Person

Trump (announcing he’s exiting the presidential race): YOU DON’T DESERVE ME!!

Nope, we don’t. It is in your best interest to show us how poorly we’ve treated your genius and quit. We will be sad. And contrite. Promise.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:02:18pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:03:45pm
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retired cynic  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:04:22pm

re: #65 cat-tikvah

If you’d like to send a note of thanks/support to Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, you can send it c/o of his synagogue. They were the go-to address after his testimony in the impeachment proceedings.

Message me.

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retired cynic  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:06:23pm

re: #162 cat-tikvah

Sorry; I misunderstood what to do. I have the address now.

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IngisKahn  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:06:43pm

Kahn 2020: Do you want to go outside?

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:08:43pm

Huh. Someone came to their senses. Imagine that.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:08:47pm

re: #157 jaunte

Seriously. They are 100% asking you to die. They, their rich donors, and their friends shouldn’t be too inconvenienced by your pathetic attempts to stay alive.

In 1920 coal miners and iron puddlers were expected to show up, work, and cough their lungs out. In 2020 meat cutters and school librarians are expected to show up, work, and cough their lungs out. Progress !!1!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:09:22pm
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Decatur Deb  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:13:32pm

re: #182 makeitstop

Huh. Someone came to their senses. Imagine that.

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Wasn’t the TX GOP. The mayor got the site owners to pull the contract.

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:14:22pm

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:15:23pm

re: #160 A Cranky One

Trump claims to be King Midas, with everything he touches turning to gold.
But he’s actually King Mortality - everything he touches dies.

And idiots still love him (unlike those who know him).

The Wolfhounds - The Anti-Midas Touch

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Jay C  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:16:22pm

re: #185 Decatur Deb

Wasn’t the TX GOP. The mayor got the site owners to pull the contract.

Maybe they can go out and hold their convention in some convenient outdoor location?
It’s Texas: I’m sure there’s a vacant stockyard somewhere which could accommodate them?

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:17:12pm

re: #160 A Cranky One

Trump claims to be King Midas, with everything he touches turning to gold.
But he’s actually King Mortality - everything he touches dies.

And idiots still love him (unlike those who know him).

The Hollies “King Midas In Reverse”

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Decatur Deb  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:17:33pm

re: #188 Jay C

Maybe they can go out and hold their convention in some convenient outdoor location?
It’s Texas: I’m sure there’s a vacant stockyard somewhere which could accommodate them?

They should go stand along the wall fragments.

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:22:55pm

Harsh. But true.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:24:14pm

re: #191 makeitstop

Harsh. But true.

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or at one of his pageants when he waltzed into the contestant dressing room

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:24:55pm

re: #188 Jay C

Maybe they can go out and hold their convention in some convenient outdoor location?
It’s Texas: I’m sure there’s a vacant stockyard somewhere which could accommodate them?

I have long recommended the Fort Worth stockyard arena as a venue for auctions that could replace Texas elections. It would be cheaper and quicker and the results would be largely the same.
It has some of the best auctioneers in the world, convenient air and road connections (including a heliport), ample parking, and plenty of seating for the lobbyists, fatcats, and foreign agents who would do the bidding. It even has VIP facilities for billionaires and Russian oligarchs. The pols would simply be herded onto the floor and the bidding could begin.
I see no reason that it wouldn’t be just as serviceable for the GOP state convention.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:24:59pm

re: #188 Jay C

95º and sunny.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:26:39pm
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mmmirele  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:27:59pm

re: #185 Decatur Deb

Wasn’t the TX GOP. The mayor got the site owners to pull the contract.

Sylvester Turner. He’s turning into the most famous graduate of my high school. Second most famous? Lyle Lovett.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:31:28pm
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Decatur Deb  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:31:30pm

re: #193 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I have long recommended the Fort Worth stockyard arena as a venue for auctions that could replace Texas elections. It would be cheaper and quicker and the results would be largely the same.
It has some of the best auctioneers in the world, convenient air and road connections (including a heliport), ample parking, and plenty of seating for the lobbyists, fatcats, and foreign agents who would do the bidding. It even has VIP facilities for billionaires and Russian oligarchs. The pols would simply be herded onto the floor and the bidding could begin.
I see no reason that it wouldn’t be just as serviceable for the GOP state convention.

Excellent. I take it there is ample provision for handling bullshit in industrial volumes?

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:32:55pm

re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth

Unhealthiest state in the country plus 25% of the state’s citizens smoke (highest in the country) equals one big disaster.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:33:41pm
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EPR-radar  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:33:50pm

re: #198 Decatur Deb

Excellent. I take it there are ample provision for handling bullshit in industrial volumes?

That wouldn’t actually be needed for a convention of TX Republicans.

The dining habits of the attendees would easily take care of that sanitation chore.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:34:04pm

re: #198 Decatur Deb

Excellent. I take it there are ample provision for handling bullshit in industrial volumes?

Don’t forget the large, well-kept men’s rooms. Larry Craig may be gone, but he’s not forgotten, and was never alone. Widen those stances. Tap-tap-tap-tap!

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nines09  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:35:23pm

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:36:05pm

re: #203 nines09

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It was the groundhog, Dad.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:36:33pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:38:40pm

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

Four months ago, the mango moron said the 12 cases would be zero in a couple of days.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:42:25pm

re: #206 Ace Rothstein

Four months ago, the mango moron said the 12 cases would be zero in a couple of days.

See. Our most consistent president.

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mmmirele  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:43:44pm

*Hot Damn!*

You all probably remember, about three years months ago, when Trump talked about getting disinfectant into the body and that would kill COVID-19? And then how we learned that Mark Grenon of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing had sent Trump a letter a week prior to this nonsense extolling the efficacy of his industrial bleach concoction, aka “Miracle Mineral Solution” against COVID-19? (The letter to Trump had been provoked by a warning letter sent by the FDA on April 8 telling Grenon to cut it out. fda.gov)

The feds initially got a temporary injunction on April 17 telling Genesis II to stop peddling their industrial bleach (fda.gov). A federal judged granted a preliminary injunction on May 1 (bradenton.com). But Grenon persisted.

Today, the feds and a hazmat crew rolled up to the “church’s” headquarters and served some warrants and hauled away the following “sacraments” from the “church”:

50 gallons muriatic acid

22 gallons of the finished “Miracle Mineral Solution”

8,300 pounds sodium chlorite

Additionally:

The Associated Press is reporting that Mark Grenon, Jonathan Grenon, Jordan Grenon and Joseph Grenon are all charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to violate the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and criminal contempt.

It appears that the federal judge issued a permanent injunction in the case (a proposed permanent injunction appears at the bottom of the news story).

mysuncoast.com

Even when all the shit is coming down, some parts of the federal government are still working to keep people safe from quacks, cranks, tinfoil hatters and lunatics. It’s not enough, obviously, but they’re trying.

Here’s the DoJ press release. justice.gov

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:46:38pm

jeebus

Justin wisely told trump to piss off

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:48:21pm

re: #146 wrenchwench

He needs to be convinced that ‘quitter = ‘winner’.

He’d certainly try and convince us of that

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:49:51pm
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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:49:52pm

re: #210 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

He’d certainly try and convince us of that

He’s trying with the Covid response.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:49:59pm
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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:49:59pm

re: #188 Jay C

Maybe they can go out and hold their convention in some convenient outdoor location?
It’s Texas: I’m sure there’s a vacant stockyard somewhere which could accommodate them?

They find some mega-churches someplace in the DFW Metroplex that will accommodate them. Or Jerry Jones could put them in Cowboy Stadium.

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nines09  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:50:00pm

re: #204 makeitstop

It was the groundhog, Dad.

“I’ve been telling about those rabbits……..So now you see?!??

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Decatur Deb  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:51:14pm

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus

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Justin wisely told trump to piss off

Did Obrador bring the down payment?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:55:27pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:56:49pm

re: #181 IngisKahn

Kahn 2020: Do you want to go outside?

Man 2020: we have a dog?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:56:53pm

*SPIT*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 2:58:55pm
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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:03:29pm

I keep hearing this in Luca Brasi’s voice.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:04:06pm

re: #196 mmmirele

Sylvester Turner. He’s turning into the most famous graduate of my high school. Second most famous? Lyle Lovett.

Dee snyder
Taylor Dane
Body by jake

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:04:08pm

Not to be outdone by the Lincoln Project…

#creepytrump is trending

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:04:20pm
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stpaulbear  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:05:22pm

re: #110 SteelPH

So now I’m being told by a (now former, who’d previously caused me a nervous breakdown with their bothsiding Gish Gallop a few months back) Berniebot friend that Democrats, Biden included, are totally for reopening the economy right now.

Where the fuck has that ever happened?

The Social Medias!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:06:06pm

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

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15 was gonna be zero three months ago

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:06:20pm

re: #206 Ace Rothstein

Four months ago, the mango moron said the 12 cases would be zero in a couple of days.

Ah gmta

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mmmirele  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:07:17pm

re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth

The local Hillsong franchise got between $350,000 to $1 million.

I was actually looking through a list, by zip code, for another church, and came across this. Hillsong is a huge conglomerate based in Australia. They didn’t need my tax dollars.

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gocart mozart  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:07:45pm

#CreepyTrump is trending

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:08:04pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:16:03pm

A former White House official who frequently interacted with President Trump told Politico he is “very surprised” Mike Pence remains on the Republican ticket and claims the president would throw his vice president “in a wood chipper if he needed to.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:17:13pm
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Jack Burton  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:17:41pm

re: #231 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Trump would throw anyone, even Ivanka in a wood chipper if he “needed” to.

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Cheechako  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:19:39pm

re: #221 jaunte

After developing a Covid-19 vaccine we need to create an anti-stupidity cure. Of course those who would need it the most would continue to be stupid and not take the cure.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:19:43pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:19:54pm
Gabriel Sherman: “Trump continues to discuss shaking up his campaign. According to a source, former Ted Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe is in talks to join the campaign as a strategic adviser, effectively taking over for embattled campaign manager Brad Parscale. A source said Parscale has threatened to resign if Roe joins…. Some question the wisdom of bringing on Roe.”

And that’s in addition to Kushner, who thinks the campaign would be a banishment

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Jack Burton  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:21:06pm

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that the Chinese Viruses have started to commit suicide under the walls of America. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:21:11pm

re: #163 makeitstop

Oh, HELL yeah.

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That’s a burn it all down ad. Those Lincoln people are seriously not fucking around.

DAY-UM. Like holy shit DAY-UM!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:24:09pm

re: #170 jaunte

Promises, promises.

That’s flop sweat so thick it’s fucking cement.

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KGxvi  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:24:21pm

re: #234 Cheechako

After developing a Covid-19 vaccine we need to create an anti-stupidity cure. Of course those who would need it the most would continue to be stupid and not take the cure.

We already have treatment for stupidity, it’s called a well rounded education. Unfortunately we underfund the fuck out of education and focus on the wrong shit when we do spend money on education.

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:24:53pm

re: #238 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s a burn it all down ad. Those Lincoln people are seriously not fucking around.

DAY-UM. Like holy shit DAY-UM!

And Wilson says there are more ads dealing with Congress on the way, especially senators who are up for re-election.

Can’t wait.

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KGxvi  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:25:31pm

re: #238 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s a burn it all down ad. Those Lincoln people are seriously not fucking around.

DAY-UM. Like holy shit DAY-UM!

They’ve made it clear they aren’t stopping at Trump. It looks like they’re going to be around for a couple of election cycles (at least) going after all his enablers.

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stpaulbear  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:26:03pm

re: #182 makeitstop

Huh. Someone came to their senses. Imagine that.

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I’m going to guess it was the shit ton of delegates screaming at them when told that all of the ‘dignitaries’ would only attend via video conferencing.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:26:31pm

re: #56 wrenchwench

You persist very well in that conversation.

agreed

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:26:46pm

re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:28:42pm

re: #182 makeitstop

Huh. Someone came to their senses. Imagine that.

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No Republicans wanted to go. It would have been a bigger failure to trump than Tulsa.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:29:19pm

re: #245 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Except for the fact that each month of 2020 will take 8 hours to get through.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:29:37pm

re: #146 wrenchwench

He needs to be convinced that ‘quitter = ‘winner’.

Sister Sarah Palin could advise.

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Jack Burton  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:30:12pm

re: #240 KGxvi

We already have treatment for stupidity, it’s called a well rounded education. Unfortunately we underfund the fuck out of education and focus on the wrong shit when we do spend money on education.

That takes years to get rid of enough stupidity to matter. That’s more of a maintenance method once you’ve reduced stupidity to a harmless level at this point. We need something that will work well enough to get to that harmless level or close to it in 4 years, preferably 2.

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KGxvi  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:30:52pm

re: #245 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I keep imagining it as a 30 for 30 intro…

What if I told you that a major political party nominated a man for president with no experience in government?

What if I told you, by the workings of an antiquated system, he managed to win the presidency?

What if I told you, he conspired with America’s enemies for his own personal gain?

What if I told you, he was impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate?

What if I told you, it all went to hell after that?

This is that story…

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Jack Burton  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:31:44pm

And I’m not sure putting far right wing wackjobs, Qanon kooks, and other conspiracy nutbars into the mental health system en masse like they should be, is going to fly.

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KGxvi  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:32:44pm

re: #146 wrenchwench

He needs to be convinced that ‘quitter = ‘winner’.

“Go out on your own terms, sir”

“Go out on top!”

“They can never say they beat you! You accomplished what you wanted to [looks at portfolio of ill gotten gains], there’s nothing else to do”

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:33:59pm

re: #251 Jack Burton

And I’m not sure putting far right wing wackjobs, Qanon kooks, and other conspiracy nutbars into the mental health system en masse like they should be, is going to fly.

That’s what South Carolina is for.

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KGxvi  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:36:03pm

re: #251 Jack Burton

And I’m not sure putting far right wing wackjobs, Qanon kooks, and other conspiracy nutbars into the mental health system en masse like they should be, is going to fly.

Whenever I think about Qanon, I am reminded of that cheesy ass Mel Gibson movie Conspiracy Theory. He was a wackjob conspiracy theorist and it turned out all the conspiracy theories were real.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:36:18pm

So the Court will rule tomorrow that the President will be above the law by a 5-4 vote…

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:37:11pm

re: #254 KGxvi

Whenever I think about Qanon, I am reminded of that cheesy ass Mel Gibson movie Conspiracy Theory. He was a wackjob conspiracy theorist and it turned out all the conspiracy theories were real.

Only one was true, iirc? It was funny that he wasn’t sure which one.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:38:20pm

re: #65 cat-tikvah

If you’d like to send a note of thanks/support to Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, you can send it c/o of his synagogue. They were the go-to address after his testimony in the impeachment proceedings.

Message me.

7L7KZBIDmomsrXWmlgQNUF6yP3DTgmuedNtCsFU7L58=

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:38:44pm

re: #255 🌹UOJB!

So the Court will rule tomorrow that the President will be above the law by a 5-4 vote…

It will probably have a Do Not Use As Precedent asterisk on it like Bush v. Gore did

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:39:07pm

this is just pathetic

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Jack Burton  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:40:42pm

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

this is just pathetic

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I will quote Barack Obama. “He’s a jackass.”

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mmmirele  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:41:27pm

I just got an autocall from the evil medication manager and they are approving my medication until July 8, 2023.

Oh, and btw, someone needs to hogtie Kanye West and take him away. I think he’s in a manic phase.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:41:53pm

hi

Extremely local news update.

The plumber was here (cha-ching $75 travel charge) to check the water running down the outside of my house and other things (when you get him here for one thing, you make that $75 work for you).

The reason I could not find the leak by listening to the pipes is because the leak is in the reverse osmosis unit. Since that belongs to the village he couldn’t work on it.

I called the village clerk, who called the company the village uses to service the units, and they talked to the plumber to instruct him how to cut off the water to it.

The plumber will be back tomorrow with parts needed for the other jobs (no additional charge) and the mechanic for the r/o unit will also be here tomorrow.

In the meantime, we have a Britta water filter pitcher for just such emergencies.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:42:32pm

re: #235 Barefoot Grin

Iceberg, Goldberg, has anyone mentioned that?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:43:18pm

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

this is just pathetic

And he cannot get on the ballot with a ballot line in most states already, unless the Libertarian Party nominates him (LOL). Filing dates are closed out. It is a stunt, regardless of whatever he says about being serious.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:44:57pm

re: #258 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)

It will probably have a Do Not Use As Precedent against Republicans asterisk on it like Bush v. Gore did

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:46:32pm

re: #247 Belafon

Except for the fact that each month of 2020 will take 8 hours to get through.

Hey, Burns can do that. :)

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JC1  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:47:16pm

re: #240 KGxvi

We already have treatment for stupidity, it’s called a well rounded education. Unfortunately we underfund the fuck out of education and focus on the wrong shit when we do spend money on education.

I went to decent public and private schools through grad school. I somehow managed to get a master’s degree in a technical field without a single class on critical thinking, cognitive biases, or logical fallacies.
Even the philosophy electives I took didn’t really delve into those areas.

We need to start teaching critical thinking skills from a young age.

The problem isn’t stupidity so much as it is the inability to spot BS, lack of awareness of one’s blindspots, and an inability to critically analyze evidence.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:47:43pm

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You have lead or arsnic in your water, or both?

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:48:18pm

New LG air conditioner installed. Five minutes working and apartment temperature has dropped from 88 to 83.

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:48:29pm

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

this is just pathetic

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Totally not a stunt, even with that ‘I haven’t submitted any paperwork’ thing…

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teleskiguy  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:50:15pm

Feral conservative got arrested at a local grocery store on Sunday.

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Cheechako  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:50:21pm

The wave is still growing:

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Dread Pirate  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:50:34pm
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nines09  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:50:54pm

You only thought you knew how cool Prince was.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:51:20pm

re: #182 makeitstop

Huh. Someone came to their senses. Imagine that.

Cowards.

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:51:32pm

“32% of householders missed their house payments in June.”

That’s…disastrous.

For the banks/mortgage holders, first off.

What does “householders” mean? Does this mean owners, renters, or both? If it means both, it’s disastrous for landlords.

And if it is true, it means that there will be a vast number of people getting kicked out of their homes on September 1st and dumped onto the streets.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:51:36pm

re: #203 nines09

Cooper’s innocent I tell ya. Innocent.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:52:26pm

re: #271 teleskiguy

Feral conservative got arrested at a local grocery store on Sunday.

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He seems nice.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:52:27pm

re: #182 makeitstop

Huh. Someone came to their senses. Imagine that.

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Jack Burton  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:53:06pm

Can we start working on a constitutional amendment that will stop these fucking stunt candidates? I’m thinking more Trump than Kanye here but it will stop that shit too.

Like you need to completely serve an entire term as a state governor, in the house, the senate, or a state level office, or in a state legislature to qualify to be on the ballot.

Possibly require a bachelor’s degree or in lieu of that a full military career to retirement as well.

Require release of educational credentials and tax returns for the last 10 years.

Independent medical board of physicians and psychiatrists must also clear you.

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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:53:13pm

re: #274 nines09

You only thought you knew how cool Prince was.

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The hoop was part of his stage rig for one tour - a friend of mine saw him here in NY, said he had a sweet jumper.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:53:24pm
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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:54:32pm

re: #279 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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And a big sigh of relief was had by all, even some of the wingnuts who were going to be pressured to attend.

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nines09  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:54:40pm

re: #281 makeitstop

Anyone who can twirl a basketball on tips of his fingers has my respect.

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nines09  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:55:45pm

re: #277 Teddy’s Person

Cooper’s innocent I tell ya. Innocent.

He looked over at my shed and hopped……He was trying to tell me…..

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:56:15pm

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

hi

Extremely local news update.

The plumber was here (cha-ching $75 travel charge) to check the water running down the outside of my house and other things (when you get him here for one thing, you make that $75 work for you).

The reason I could not find the leak by listening to the pipes is because the leak is in the reverse osmosis unit. Since that belongs to the village he couldn’t work on it.

I called the village clerk, who called the company the village uses to service the units, and they talked to the plumber to instruct him how to cut off the water to it.

The plumber will be back tomorrow with parts needed for the other jobs (no additional charge) and the mechanic for the r/o unit will also be here tomorrow.

In the meantime, we have a Britta water filter pitcher for just such emergencies.

Why do you need an RO unit?

Nitrates>10 ppm?

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:57:13pm
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makeitstop  Jul 8, 2020 • 3:57:56pm

Those ads are working…

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:00:49pm

re: #281 makeitstop

The hoop was part of his stage rig for one tour - a friend of mine saw him here in NY, said he had a sweet jumper.

So did Johnny Mathis, as I discovered one evening at Kent State University in the mid-60s.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:03:12pm

Florence Colorado, 2023

“Inmate Trump, you have a visitor!”

“Good, I hope it’s not Alex Jones again.”

“Huh? Of course not. He’s locked up in Leavenworth.”

“Oh yeah, forgot.”
(visitor enters)
Don: “Oh, George! I see they haven’t gotten you yet!”

George: “No, dipshit. That’s what ‘state’s evidence’ will do for you.”

Don: “Oh. Yeah. Well, why are you here?”

George: “It seems there are some people in Texas who are worried about how you’re being treated.”

Don “GREAT! I knew there were people who still cared about me.”

George: “What? No, these are the Covid survivors of Greater Houston. They’re worried that you’re being treated too well.”

Don: “Fake news! I’m rationed to just two diet Cokes a day! No Adderall. It’s awful!”

George: “Hannity gets three in the Hague. Those damned Euros are way too soft.”

Don: “So? Can’t someone get together a CARE package?”

George: “You haven’t paid for the last one.”

Don: “Well, damn, George. Eighteen cents an hour doesn’t go far. I had no idea people had to live on that.”

George: “Most people have more than that, Don, even now. The Japanese and EU aid helps a lot.”

Don: “Well, I don’t know about paying for stuff yourself. How would I? Have you heard from Ivanka and Junior?”

George: “No, but my phones are tapped you know. They claim they’re closing in but Paraguay’s a bigger country than you realize.”
Guard: “One minute!”
George: “Better go. Did hear from Ted Cruz. He says the dacha isn’t worth a shit but it’s better than this place, by a little. Clouds of mosquitoes. He’s glad you helped him get away.”

Don: “Hah! His plane was meant to be a decoy. How was I to know they’d intercept mine instead?”

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Jebediah, RBG  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:04:30pm

re: #98 mmmirele

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:06:52pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:09:43pm

re: #242 KGxvi

They’ve made it clear they aren’t stopping at Trump. It looks like they’re going to be around for a couple of election cycles (at least) going after all his enablers.

Goddammitall. I might have to change my feelings about these guys.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:11:14pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:11:25pm

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

Facebook and other social media entities have kind of boxed themselves in here. They realize they have to take action and curb hate, but then when that’s where a ton of views and advertising dollars are coming from…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:12:28pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:13:07pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:14:53pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:17:12pm

re: #279 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So, I’m confused. Is the GOP thing in Florida still on? They cancelled NC, right?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:18:27pm

re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth

*SPIT*

Page removed from Twitter

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:18:29pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:19:00pm

Jesuit Tweeter is pretty much what you would expect.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:20:38pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:21:30pm

Severe thunderstorm warning for SE Morrill County (where I live) to Sterling, Colorado.

Hazards include:

Winds in excess of eighty miles an hour, causing lifre-threatening flying debris.
Life threatening hail.
Damage to small outdoor buildings, trees, and roofs.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:23:44pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:27:01pm

re: #306 jaunte

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“A dead child weighs pretty heavily in the balance, especially when it is one’s own.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars 1939

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:27:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:30:06pm

goodfuckinggrief

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EPR-radar  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:30:11pm

re: #258 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)

It will probably have a Do Not Use As Precedent asterisk on it like Bush v. Gore did

We wouldn’t want anyone getting the outrageous idea that a D president could be above the law.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:30:12pm

re: #107 retired cynic

I finally got a chance to watch the video. Cute. I also thought this was cool:

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Dread Pirate  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:32:45pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:34:23pm

Conservative parrots are out in force announcing the latest edict of their religion.

“Schools must be open or must be closed. Why do Democrats hate education?”

Never mind that the government could repeal the 2017 tax scam tomorrow if the GOP gave a damn about dead children or parents.

Never mind there are more options than the ever-present conservative black-or-white thinking of open or closed.

As some health care officials have suggested, for those going bonkers staying in their homes, they can form small groups of trusted individuals they know are following health recommendations (with ejection from the group if they don’t). There is no reason why you can’t apply that to homeschooling as well.

My own town is considering this, since we have no cases. The two school districts which serve our town will not reopen any time soon, regardless of what Gov. Ameritrade wants. Elderly people with no children at home can also participate.

Small towns can copy Montana’s and Nebraska’s one-room schools which still exist. (Ours only closed in 2005, there is no reason we can’t reopen it. Cleaning is already in progress.)

In large cities, the small group idea also works, with the added benefit of Internet connectivity and large library systems to draw on.

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nines09  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:34:59pm

How would we know?

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plansbandc  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:36:28pm

So we just saw a OMG the Dems want to disband the police, and who are you gonna call when your gf is getting raped ad by tRump.

So I said to dude, such BS, right?

And he agreed but he’s pissed there aren’t any Biden ads on the network news. “He’s not doing anything” “Why isn’t he doing anything?”

Dude is still married to the mainstream model, since he doesn’t AT ALL live online.

Can you all help me explain to him that Biden IS doing something. He isn’t really listening to what I’m saying.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:36:35pm

I don’t know why, but I always read “Parler” as “Paler.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:37:13pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:38:45pm

I am so frigging depressed. We were supposed to get thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight and there’s nary a cloud in sight. I need that dark energy (and we really, really need rain).

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stpaulbear  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:45:21pm

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

goodfuckinggrief

Every time Hannity posts something stupid, I’m going to post this clip again.

Ed Asner to Hannity Producer: ‘Can I Piss on You?’

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:45:22pm

[Sauce]

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:45:46pm
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dnlS  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:48:15pm

Been watching the 50+k days lately. With 4th holiday its not hard to predict we’d hit 60k new cases later this week. Once San Diego reports we are probably there.

4 million by the end of the month. Take the % fatal that you like, which lag, and we are in for a bender.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:48:44pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:51:45pm

Lots of new cases here in California.

For all our closures and health orders, what we’ve done successfully is slowed down the spread. If you look at the curve of infections it still looks like a “first wave”, a pretty continuous climb in new cases.

So we slowed the spread, and slowed down the growth in hospital cases and deaths.

But the virus is still spreading.

And now I’m noticing in the grocery store that the stores are slightly relaxing their attitude. E.g., the self checkout areas were only allowing a couple of people in at a time, now all the registers are open. E.g., we were not allowed to bring back in our own bags, but now we are allowed to bring in our reusable bags again.

It’s all kind of depressing.

We needed a national strategy to suppress the virus until a vaccine is found.

But we had no strategy.

Trump is the worst President in US history. Only the deluded trumpers think otherwise. The “independents” for the most part are pretty much not buying into Trumpism, and some Republicans have given up. Not that it matters to the Republicans in the Senate, as they are there to line the pockets of their friends anyway.

It’s no surprise that the nations that have handled the pandemic the worse are the US, Brazil, and Mexico. The first two are lead by fascist strong-man-wannabes, and the latter by a macho-man in charge of a government notorious for not being well managed.

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dnlS  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:53:56pm

We as a society are accepting, mostly unwillingly, 30 to 100k more deaths before Sept. More if we don’t step up. So it goes.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:56:11pm

re: #325 dnlS

We as a society are accepting, mostly unwillingly, 30 to 100k more deaths before Sept. More if we don’t step up. So it goes.

Trump is going to claim “winning” as long as the death count stays below 2.5 million, but those goalposts will change.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2020 • 4:57:51pm

WTAFITFS

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:00:08pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:00:54pm

OMG TEH STUPIDS

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:01:23pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:02:49pm

re: #196 mmmirele

Sylvester Turner. He’s turning into the most famous graduate of my high school. Second most famous? Lyle Lovett.

Most famous from my high school? Nobody.

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gocart mozart  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:03:52pm

Trying something
neilyoungarchives.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:04:54pm
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cat-tikvah  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:06:39pm

re: #257 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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cat-tikvah  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:11:58pm

re: #238 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Add TOOMEY!
Add TOOMEY!
Senator Pat “Rubber Stamp/послушный инструмент/obedient tool” TOOMEY!

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NetworkKed  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:13:01pm

re: #322 dnlS

Been watching the 50+k days lately. With 4th holiday its not hard to predict we’d hit 60k new cases later this week. Once San Diego reports we are probably there.

Yeah, don’t look now. 61k and there’s still most of an hour for reports to come in.

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retired cynic  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:14:31pm

re: #336 NetworkKed

Yeah, don’t look now. 61k and there’s still most of an hour for reports to come in.

Horrible.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:16:52pm

Evening Lizardim from the scorching hot, humid, but dry wild north country. Hopefully the “hot” and “dry” parts change soon - it is definitely high summer up here. Minnesota is still maintaining its tenuous hold on a 3-4% new positive rate as the governor continues to dither over the political land mine that is the mandatory mask order. On that topic, more below the fold, so I will ask as always, how go things among the lizardfolk on this incredibly debilitating Wednesday?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:17:22pm

re: #267 JC1

I went to decent public and private schools through grad school. I somehow managed to get a master’s degree in a technical field without a single class on critical thinking, cognitive biases, or logical fallacies.
Even the philosophy electives I took didn’t really delve into those areas.

We need to start teaching critical thinking skills from a young age.

The problem isn’t stupidity so much as it is the inability to spot BS, lack of awareness of one’s blindspots, and an inability to critically analyze evidence.

Which is why the Texas GOP explicitly stated that they are opposed to teaching critical thinking in their platform, arguing it undermines parental and religious authorities.

Conservatism cannot stand against critical thinking. Not teaching it is about conserving power, nothing more.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:18:08pm

LOL read the thread

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:18:29pm

re: #268 Colère Tueur de Lapin

You have lead or arsnic in your water, or both?

We have arsenic and uranium in our water, which appear naturally in our water (not from pollution). The r/o filter units have to be disposed of through a HASMAT company.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:19:26pm

re: #341 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We have arsenic and uranium in our water, which appear naturally in our water (not from pollution). The r/o filter units have to be disposed of through a HASMAT company.

You really are going to be our lizard overlord, aren’t you.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:20:33pm

re: #315 plansbandc

So we just saw a OMG the Dems want to disband the police, and who are you gonna call when your gf is getting raped ad by tRump.

So I said to dude, such BS, right?

And he agreed but he’s pissed there aren’t any Biden ads on the network news. “He’s not doing anything” “Why isn’t he doing anything?”

Dude is still married to the mainstream model, since he doesn’t AT ALL live online.

Can you all help me explain to him that Biden IS doing something. He isn’t really listening to what I’m saying.

Tell him this: it’s too early for Biden “to do anything” but make occasional statements and speeches. He has no power, and any major attempt to influence things would just turn into “Why aren’t Biden’s plans effective?” And Trump is ten points down. What does Biden need to do?

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:21:31pm

re: #331 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Most famous from my high school? Nobody.

Tommy Lee of Motley Crue went to my high school

And a surprising number of USC and Stanford football players, several of whom were pro in the 1980’s.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:22:06pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:24:10pm

re: #338 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Evening Lizardim from the scorching hot, humid, but dry wild north country. Hopefully the “hot” and “dry” parts change soon - it is definitely high summer up here. Minnesota is still maintaining its tenuous hold on a 3-4% new positive rate as the governor continues to dither over the political land mine that is the mandatory mask order. On that topic, more below the fold, so I will ask as always, how go things among the lizardfolk on this incredibly debilitating Wednesday?

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gocart mozart  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:24:36pm

Click this lick for todays newspaper.
neilyoungarchives.com

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:27:59pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:28:41pm

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

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We’re supposed to get a watered-down version of that later tonight. Key words: Supposed to. We were also supposed to get some of that this morning… yeeeeah, didn’t happen.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:32:45pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:33:12pm

re: #276 austin_blue

“32% of householders missed their house payments in June.”

That’s…disastrous.

For the banks/mortgage holders, first off.

What does “householders” mean? Does this mean owners, renters, or both? If it means both, it’s disastrous for landlords.

And if it is true, it means that there will be a vast number of people getting kicked out of their homes on September 1st and dumped onto the streets.

Followed by conservative states saying “you can’t vote with your car registration as your address.” I am quite familiar with this form of disenfranchisement.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:33:15pm

re: #344 sagehen

Carolyn Jones, mainly known as Morticia Addams from The Addams Family, went to my high school.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:34:31pm

re: #352 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Carolyn Jones, mainly known as Morticia Addams from The Addams Family, went to my high school.

lol, Alex Jones went to my high school.

That is scarier.

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teleskiguy  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:36:18pm

The worst fucking people.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:37:06pm

I am just making a brief appearance. The weather in Philly is the classic hazy, hot and humid (HHH for those who have lived through it). I will be on for a good part if not all of the day on Friday. I hope everything is going okay with everyone and if it is not I hope it will be soon.

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plansbandc  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:38:57pm

re: #343 Belafon

I said that Biden was up and there’s really nothing to do right now except let tRump let him hang himself. The ad we watched was batshit insane.

It’s just frustrating. Dude is really smart, but he faithfully watches network news propaganda and the fcuking Sunday “news” shows.

We cut the cord, so he doesn’t watch cable news which I am thankful for. He does watch BBC news sometimes on PBS.

But he does not do the internets. A shame. He would be a good candidate for hanging here.

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teleskiguy  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:40:10pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:45:57pm

re: #280 Jack Burton

Can we start working on a constitutional amendment that will stop these fucking stunt candidates? I’m thinking more Trump than Kanye here but it will stop that shit too.

Like you need to completely serve an entire term as a state governor, in the house, the senate, or a state level office, or in a state legislature to qualify to be on the ballot.

Possibly require a bachelor’s degree or in lieu of that a full military career to retirement as well.

Require release of educational credentials and tax returns for the last 10 years.

Independent medical board of physicians and psychiatrists must also clear you.

Definitely not the “require a bachelor’s degree” part. Trump has a degree. I don’t. I suspect I would be a better president and I would probably be terrible at the job.

Moreover, that education test brings back Jim Crow tests.

The physical test? How do you determine physicians and psychiatrists are independent? What disqualifies you?

The test is an election. An obviously unqualified person should not be able to get into a high office if people understood how their government and republic works, which is why conservatives work so hard to undermine civics.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:51:40pm

re: #353 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)

lol, Alex Jones went to my high school.

That is scarier.

You win the battle of the Joneses. 😉

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:51:52pm

re: #344 sagehen

Tommy Lee of Motley Crue went to my high school

And a surprising number of USC and Stanford football players, several of whom were pro in the 1980’s.

Here’s our list from wikipedia. I will note my interactions with two of them:

Alison Krauss, musical artist (attended, did not graduate)
Bill Geist, TV journalist, CBS Sunday Morning
Bob Richards, two-time Olympic gold medalist in pole vault
J Leman, football player
Somi (Laura Kakoma), singer
Yvonne Suhor, actress
Tyler McGill, Olympic gold medalist swimmer
Rod Fletcher, All-American college basketball player
Todd Peat, football player
Jordan Caroline, Basketball Player

Yvonne Suhor was in “Young Guns” and a couple of other movies. Before that, she was a waiter in a small Italian restaurant where I was a cook. We had a lot of fun during work. I’m still FB friends with one of her siblings.

Todd Peat played for the Arizona Cardinals (and I think his son was drafted highly last year). In freshman year I played football as a way to lose weight and get in shape—I knew I’d likely never play in a game. Turns out I was Todd Peat’s cannon fodder on second string. I lined up against him in practice. Me: about 125# (but small and chubby still); Todd: about 225#. When I played defensive tackle against him I just turned and ran until he chased me down and pushed me into the ground; on offense when HE was defensive tackle I just dropped and rolled at this feet. But it didn’t end there. We were in “chorus” class together. He was an untalented bass who could just barely remember his lines. I was the tenor who sang solos! For several weeks as class began he was behind me and would lean in and whisper “honkies n shit.” So I finally lost it and turned around and said “n*word and shit.” He laughed hard and we got on great. I knew how horrid the word was, but I said it anyway. In those days and in that context, though, it broke the ice in a way.

Looking back, I wonder if he was just trying to get me to say what he thought I believed. In a way, I guess it worked. I had lost all of my black friends by high school. One friend, the daughter of an AA Art Professor and a white mother, told me that she had to choose and since white kids would never accept her entirely she felt far more comfortable in the black student community. No one else really explained why. We self segregated. Maybe I was happy to let that happen. I don’t know. Race was a really charged issue in the late 1970s/early 80s at my school, so I know I took the cowardly route and just didn’t address it. It was an odd bond with Todd Peat (who, I’m sure, doesn’t remember me).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:53:40pm

re: #272 Cheechako

The wave is still growing:

Three new cases in the Panhandle (one each Morrill, Box Butte, Cheyenne), total 344, active 99, hospitalised 1, largest age group 20-29, deaths 4 (no change since yesterday), women and girls are 2/3 of cases.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:56:20pm

Where is Justin Trudeau? Oh yeah, he told Trump va te faire foutre.

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stpaulbear  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:56:46pm

re: #331 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Most famous from my high school? Nobody.

The only famous person I know of from my high school was Dez Dickerson, guitarist for Prince’s pre-Purple Rain band. He was in the class one year after mine. After Prince, he moved to Nashville and into Christian music.

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Jack Burton  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:57:16pm

re: #358 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The test is an election. An obviously unqualified person should not be able to get into a high office if people understood how their government and republic works, which is why conservatives work so hard to undermine civics.

And this has completely failed. It wont be fixed by a civics education in a month, a year, or a decade. It will take a generation during which it will be fought against tooth and nail by those who wish to take advantage of things not changing. Americans also have a track record of getting bored with things and giving up the second it get “hard”. (See Reconstruction. See COVID-19.)

It’s not bad for the job to have qualifications and for them to be codified into law. Relying on “tradition” or everyone involved being good actors is exactly what got us here.

I’m still waiting to see what happens to people ignoring congressional subpoenas… spoiler alert: nothing because it relies on people just doing the right thing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:57:25pm
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retired cynic  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:57:43pm

re: #360 Barefoot Grin

I went to school with Bob Richards’ niece. She was a nice, quiet girl, who had type 1 diabetes severely, and died young.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:59:00pm

re: #356 plansbandc

I said that Biden was up and there’s really nothing to do right now except let tRump let him hang himself. The ad we watched was batshit insane.

It’s just frustrating. Dude is really smart, but he faithfully watches network news propaganda and the fcuking Sunday “news” shows.

We cut the cord, so he doesn’t watch cable news which I am thankful for. He does watch BBC news sometimes on PBS.

But he does not do the internets. A shame. He would be a good candidate for hanging here.

Biden had not yet been formally nominated. He’s still the presumptive nominee. I know he’s going to be nominated but he’s been, not yet. I think what the Dude is asking is a little premature.

We all want to see more of Biden but it’s not time yet. 🙂

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2020 • 5:59:19pm
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jaunte  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:00:20pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:01:27pm

Diana Ross is the most famous alumna of my high school. In fact I think they should rename the school after her, instead of the slaveowning, Native genociding dead white man it’s currently named for.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:01:36pm

re: #366 retired cynic

I went to school with Bob Richards’ niece. She was a nice, quiet girl, who had type 1 diabetes severely, and died young.

My dad ran hurdles on his high school team. They were classmates. Dad played JV football at UofI and ran track there, too. Dad—athletic, but not distinguished!

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i(m)p(each)sos  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:03:42pm

My high school?

Shirley Jackson (“The Lottery”) a long time before I went there

Jenna Marbles, a long time after I went there

And Kristen Wiig, for just a couple of years not long after me… but she was shy and quiet and made almost no impression on anyone. Go figure.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:04:26pm
374
gocart mozart  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:05:53pm

First Neil Young record 1963

1- The Squires—[Aka Neil Young & The Squires]-Aurora

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:05:57pm

re: #373 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

That suspicion has occurred to me as well…

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Jack Burton  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:07:04pm

re: #373 Charles Johnson

The military has already said ‘not only no but hell no’ to him. He’s not getting their support in a power grab.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:08:26pm

re: #373 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

I am more worried than when he loses he’ll really go to destroying stuff.

Block relief bills, let the market and economy tank, etc. He’ll add gas to a burning country to make Biden’s job that more difficult.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:09:07pm

Wow, these cakes. Dayum.

379
Dread Pirate  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:11:07pm
380
Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:11:12pm

Oh man, my earlier post sent me down memory lane. I had forgotten that I played baseball against Todd Peat’s older brother, Earl. Todd was big and beefy; Earl was tall and lanky. Earl could throw a baseball at near pro speeds, but he had no control. He also wore his hat always a little off center. As a batter, you knew there was a fair chance he’d hit you. Even good batters had a hard time standing their ground in the box. My proudest moment in Babe Ruth was getting a hit off of Earl and also striking him out in the same game. I was 14 and he was 15. I quit after that season because baseball started to bore me, but mostly because our team’s assistant coach was my former PE teacher from middle school who tormented me every fucking day about being chubby and he didn’t let up much on the baseball team even though I had lost a lot of weight. Schuster—asshole.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:14:33pm

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

The photograph is from 2018. They can’t even lie right.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:17:01pm

re: #358 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Definitely not the “require a bachelor’s degree” part. Trump has a degree. I don’t. I suspect I would be a better president and I would probably be terrible at the job.

Moreover, that education test brings back Jim Crow tests.

The physical test? How do you determine physicians and psychiatrists are independent? What disqualifies you?

The test is an election. An obviously unqualified person should not be able to get into a high office if people understood how their government and republic works, which is why conservatives work so hard to undermine civics.

Sorry, but I think a degree should be required. And, I think it should involve a lot of history and government.

The presidency is a very demanding job. Not everyone is qualified. I wouldn’t want my neurosurgeon to not have medical training and I wouldn’t want my president to only be trained in medicine.

And yes, I wouldn’t qualify right now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:17:43pm

re: #300 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So, I’m confused. Is the GOP thing in Florida still on? They cancelled NC, right?

Trump Official Says It’s ‘Too Early To Tell’ Whether GOP Convention In Florida Can Happen Safely (Forbes)

They will sacrifice their delegates on the altar of their religion. Unfortunately, lots of people in Jacksonville who didn’t want this will also be affected.

384
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:23:40pm

re: #383 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trump Official Says It’s ‘Too Early To Tell’ Whether GOP Convention In Florida Can Happen Safely (Forbes)

They will sacrifice their delegates on the altar of their religion. Unfortunately, lots of people in Jacksonville who didn’t want this will also be affected.

I’m strangely ok with that. Sacrifice away.

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Jack Burton  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:25:43pm

re: #382 Belafon

Sorry, but I think a degree should be required. And, I think it should involve a lot of history and government.

The presidency is a very demanding job. Not everyone is qualified. I wouldn’t want my neurosurgeon to not have medical training and I wouldn’t want my president to only be trained in medicine.

And yes, I wouldn’t qualify right now.

Yes, at the very least it should be clear that it’s not amateur hour and not a job for anyone. The President has the nuclear codes.

I spent the last 15 or so minutes thinking of and looking up random people of color in Congress. Every single one of them had a college education, most had advanced degrees. I don’t think this is a Jim Crow-ish barrier to entry.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:30:48pm

re: #112 DodgerFan1988

I can’t take viagra, I have high blood pressure. When I need to get it up I have to use nature’s way. 3-4 girls, 1-2 boys and a donkey.

387
John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:32:48pm

re: #113 Patricia Kayden

Fox News is a Rightwing propaganda network and mouthpiece for
R̶e̶p̶u̶b̶l̶i̶c̶a̶n̶s̶ the GRU.

388
John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:36:48pm

re: #118 Florida Panhandler

If ruling by “wakanda” means reverse-engineering highly evolved alien technology, near unlimited vibranium, and a non-aggression policy with the rest of the world I’m all in.

And sexy women in hot outfits. Don’t forget that bit.

(sexy women with agency, ok, I’m an old dick, but not that old).

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:50:46pm

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wait, what, now we post Sinclair Group content just because it has cute animals?

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 6:59:37pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

#SCOTUS rules that employers with “religious objections” can be exempt from birth control mandate.

The huge problem with this is tat the logical conclusion is that courts will be able, nay obliged, to rule whether these “religious objections” are actually consistent with the published doctrine of these religious groups.

“Point out where in the bible it condemns birth control”

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 7:03:04pm

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

“We’ve done a good job. I think we are going to be in two, three, four weeks…in very good shape.” @realDonaldTrump

Well, it is a very pretty shape. I’m just glad I don’t live under it.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 7:19:33pm

,re: #236 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Trump continues to discuss shaking up his campaign

Does the Whitehouse have a courtyard? Because if it did Trump would be ordering his USSS(*) guys to take them down there to shoot them in the back of the head.

(* To avoid confusion always say USSS, probably good guys who are probably not going to obey illegal orders, not SS).

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 7:32:49pm

re: #280 Jack Burton

Can we start working on a constitutional amendment that will stop these fucking stunt candidates? I’m thinking more Trump than Kanye here but it will stop that shit too.

Trump isn’t a “stunt candidate”. He is the actual candidate of a real political party. The RWA party. You might hate them but they’re around 30% of the population. Everywhere. Always.

Kayne? He isn’t even a candidate. How many ballots is he on? What new amendment do you want? “nobody I don’t think is serious is allowed to say they’re a candidate”?

Sounds pretty dodgy to me.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 7:34:48pm

re: #284 nines09

Anyone who can twirl a basketball on tips of his fingers has my respect.

Prince didn’t get my respect for twirling no basketball on the tips of his fingers…

[Edit: in a brainfart I said “baseball”. At least I didn’t mention rounders]

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 7:42:55pm

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is mike pence serious about masks or not

That’s not the question. The question is why is Pence close to three women? When did he become polyamorus? Does mother know?

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 7:44:39pm

re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth

2 observations.

1. Moose is not happy.

2. You should learn to knit.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 7:46:59pm

re: #303 gocart mozart

God said: be good.

Future saint A said: See you later man.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 7:49:28pm

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

Could we get some dictionary to weigh in on this one. ‘Cos I think Sean doesn’t have a clue about how language works.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 7:59:48pm

re: #324 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

For all our closures and health orders, what we’ve done successfully is slowed down the spread. If you look at the curve of infections it still looks like a “first wave”, a pretty continuous climb in new cases.

You have a classic exponential curve. Where many other places suffered a huge spike out to 40-50 days you were looking good, but you never bent it, the curve keeps going up.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 8:04:09pm

re: #350 Charles Johnson

It’s very possible that Trump is going to be forced to acknowledge reality pretty soon.

Mass graves are going to be hard to ignore.

You still, after all this time, don’t understand Trump. Orv the people who worship him.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 8:05:19pm

re: #352 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Carolyn Jones, mainly known as Morticia Addams from The Addams Family, went to my high school.

Hubba Hubba.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 8:08:24pm

re: #362 The Pie Overlord!

“We’re truly moved that you chose to make your first foreign visit since taking office … to be with us at the White House.”

You suicidal git — but I suppose a visit to Brazil would have been too hardcore.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 8:11:37pm

re: #366 retired cynic

She was a nice, quiet girl, who had type 1 diabetes severely, and died young.

So sweet.

Ok, that was a terrible joke, I’m truly sorry.

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vgranucci  Jul 8, 2020 • 8:23:22pm

re: #144 Teddy’s Person

Trump (announcing he’s exiting the presidential race): YOU DON’T DESERVE ME!!

He’d be right, just not the way he thinks he is.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2020 • 8:24:49pm

re: #382 Belafon

Sorry, but I think a degree should be required. And, I think it should involve a lot of history and government.

Yeah, just line the UK where almost all conservative prime ministers and ministers have had degrees in politics, philosophy and economics for decades if not centuries, or France where almost all politicians and high level civil servants come from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration.

China seems to be well (if harshly) governed with leaders who have engineering degrees.

Thatcher had a masters in Chemistry, Jimmy Carter had a bachelors in Engineering.


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