The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Washington Buzz Burbanks

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

The Washington Buzz Burbanks — [Explicit Language] The Radio Antiques Roadshow; Ron from Ron and Fez with a great suggestion for the Washington football team name; Poland’s president re-elected; The shirkers don’t understand why isolating is important; Ashley Parker and the ‘presidential’ trope; Trump’s oppo research against Dr. Fauci; Mick Mulvaney is very confused; Fiction clashing with reality again; Buzz Burbank from Buzz Burbank News and Comment is here; With music by Rocky Mountain Mike, Richard Turgeon, and Logan Piercy; and more!

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1
I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:29:28pm

why the CL?

Instagram

Omg

FT

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i(m)p(each)sos  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:29:31pm

GOTV. Especially after today’s horror show.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:31:29pm
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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:32:28pm

I think we’re actually kinda in luck that Trump is as batshit cray-cray and dysfunctional as he is.

It’s exposing the amount of blind obedience and cult belief that the right wing has built up behind Fox, Hate Radio and their constellation of interlocking echo chambers online.

In the hands of a legit evil genius, a Reinhard Heydrich, for example, we’d all be rounded up and breaking rocks on the Koch Brothers Work Farms.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:36:31pm
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Dread Pirate  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:38:33pm
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Dread Pirate  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:41:30pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:41:31pm

O_o

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:42:37pm

Catherine Herridge is not there to press.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:43:37pm

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

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Translation: “I’m a bumbling dumbshit who was about to lose the Republican Governorship in INDIANA, of all places, and now I have to suck my President’s dick or he’ll have me executed mafia-style.”

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:48:45pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

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” Won multiple elections to Congress by the time she’s 30?”
AOC has only been elected to Congress once so far.I

AOC, I like you, but we don’t count primaries for bragging purposes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:49:27pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:51:15pm

The Hatch Act does not apply to the President, Vice-President, and certain high-level officials (basically Cabinet members and department heads).

It does not apply to the military (though the military is prevented from partisan speech by the UCMJ), though it does apply to civilian employees of the military.

The act was originally submitted by New Mexico Senator Carl Hatch (D) in 1939. It has frequently challenged in courts on free speech grounds but consistently upheld.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:51:19pm
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i(m)p(each)sos  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:51:51pm

For what it’s worth, my local TV stations didn’t give the “press conference” much play. Our NBC affiliate stayed in its 5:30 newscast. The CBS and ABC affiliates broke into their newscasts to take the start of it, but didn’t stay with it very long, and were both out of it again well before 6.

I think his shtick is starting to wear thin.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:52:41pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:53:08pm

welp…

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mmmirele  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:53:13pm

This got missed at the end of the last thread…so I’m bumping it.

Kansas Rep. Steve Watkins was charged Tuesday with three felonies and a misdemeanor related to an investigation into whether he illegally voted in a 2019 municipal election.

Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay announced the charges about a half-hour before Watkins, a first-term Topeka Republican, was set to appear on a televised debate with his primary challengers. Watkins’ office and campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The felony charges are interference with law enforcement by providing false information, voting without being qualified and unlawful advance voting. Watkins also faces a misdemeanor charge for failing to the notify the DMV of his change of address.

Watkins used a Topeka UPS store as his registration address for the 2019 municipal election and allegedly voted in the wrong city council district. Sources say Watkins was living with parents at the time, but used the UPS address to obscure that fact.

kansascity.com

There was a bit about him applying for the Alaska permanent fund 11 times (again a question about his residency) but this article doesn’t mention it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:55:19pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:55:28pm

re: #11 A Three Hour Tour

” Won multiple elections to Congress by the time she’s 30?”
AOC has only been elected to Congress once so far.I

AOC, I like you, but we don’t count primaries for bragging purposes.

In her case, winning the primary against an incumbent was huge. The general was almost guaranteed.

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retired cynic  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:55:30pm

re: #6 Dread Pirate

Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
Jul 14, 2020
Replying to @peterbakernyt and @JaneMayerNYer
Mountaire gave workers afflicted with coronavirus just five days of paid sick leave and only at 60% of their regular pay, according to an employee who talked with @JaneMayerNYer. As a result, sick workers could not afford to stay home, putting them back at work to infect others.

Jane Mayer is going to be on Fresh Air tomorrow, talking about this.

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mmmirele  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:56:12pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp…

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This is on the 2020 Apocalypse Bingo card, but it’s been on the 2019, 2018, 2017, etc. cards all the way back to 1347. The bubonic plague is endemic to ground critters in southern Colorado, northern New Mexico, and the high country in Arizona. We’re told to leave them alone, don’t touch them, etc. Also, unlike COVID-19, there is a known treatment for the bubonic plague and people don’t (generally) die of it like they have in the past.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:57:19pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:58:26pm

re: #4 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

I think we’re actually kinda in luck that Trump is as batshit cray-cray and dysfunctional as he is.

But the hardcore Trumpers see him as their savior, their id-full-of-hate made flesh. Everything you see as wrong they see as right.

And they will vote in December.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:59:00pm

If you put Trump & Rush together in an isolated cabin, who would eat whom?

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plansbandc  Jul 14, 2020 • 4:59:16pm

I have never ever hated anyone as much as I hate him. And I hated dubya.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:03:20pm

re: #11 A Three Hour Tour

” Won multiple elections to Congress by the time she’s 30?”
AOC has only been elected to Congress once so far.I

AOC, I like you, but we don’t count primaries for bragging purposes.

She won another election, too. Three in total.

en.m.wikipedia.org

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:03:27pm

“They’re bringing crime, they’re bringing disease, they have guns.” — Justin Trudeau, probably.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:04:43pm

re: #15 i(m)p(each)sos

For what it’s worth, my local TV stations didn’t give the “press conference” much play. Our NBC affiliate stayed in its 5:30 newscast. The CBS and ABC affiliates broke into their newscasts to take the start of it, but didn’t stay with it very long, and were both out of it again well before 6.

I think his shtick is starting to wear thin.

Or, of they’re Sinclair channels, they don’t want to show the crazy. It’s bad for them.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:06:28pm

re: #28 The Pie Overlord!

“They’re bringing crime, they’re bringing disease, they have guns.” — Justin Trudeau, probably.

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Well, I mean, he wouldn’t be wrong. Remember the American couple that invaded Canada a couple weeks back and refused to enter quarantine? They’re from a town very close to me. It definitely tracks.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:06:28pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:07:34pm

re: #31 goddamnedfrank

I feel for him but I just cannot reach him.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:09:06pm

re: #27 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

She won another election, too. Three in total.

en.m.wikipedia.org

True, but, again, counting primaries for bragging purposes is Trumpian exaggeration. Or Berniemath, whichever term applies. She has only been elected to Congress once, so far.

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:09:33pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:10:26pm

re: #16 The Pie Overlord!

This was in the responses. I’m saving this pic.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:11:14pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:12:35pm
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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:13:16pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:17:04pm

Happy birthday, doctor. (Long thread)

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:17:58pm

If you are not following @CHUNKLED you must follow @chunkled!

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:21:18pm

The insane ranting continues, on Twitter

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:22:10pm

“Children being slaughtered by violence” is something that is happening in TRUMP’S AMERICA.

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SteelPH  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:23:09pm

re: #42 The Pie Overlord!

“Children being slaughtered by violence” is something that is happening in TRUMP’S AMERICA.

And wants to upgrade that to “Children being slaughtered by covid.”

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John Hughes  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:23:40pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

BFD. The Black Death is endemic in western US rodent populations. Has been for over a century now.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:23:46pm

re: #41 The Pie Overlord!

Everything that DT is doing he is blaming on Joe Biden. This is the same story from 2016 when he blamed everything wrong on HRC and the Democrats.

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Ming5000  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:24:08pm

re: #40 The Pie Overlord!

ok. Following. I am intrigued.

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BeachDem  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:24:09pm

re: #24 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But the hardcore Trumpers see him as their savior, their id-full-of-hate made flesh. Everything you see as wrong they see as right.

And they will vote in December.

Let us hope they don’t vote till December//

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:24:15pm

re: #43 SteelPH

And wants to upgrade that to “Children being slaughtered by covid.”

Here’s the thing: The kids won’t be slaughtered by the virus. Their parents will. Their teachers will. And from there, it will just branch out into the furthest reaches of society.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:24:20pm

re: #22 mmmirele

This is on the 2020 Apocalypse Bingo card, but it’s been on the 2019, 2018, 2017, etc. cards all the way back to 1347. The bubonic plague is endemic to ground critters in southern Colorado, northern New Mexico, and the high country in Arizona. We’re told to leave them alone, don’t touch them, etc. Also, unlike COVID-19, there is a known treatment for the bubonic plague and people don’t (generally) die of it like they have in the past.

Plague was endemic to the prairie dogs in the Nebraska Panhandle, but was eliminated.

The the Republicans took over with the Tea Party wave and started defunding the USDA programme which keeps prairie dogs in check. Now we have towns being undermined by them, and it’s only a matter of time before plague returns here.

The disconnect between conservatives wanting to kill everyone and the voters here still voting for conservatives is stunning.

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plansbandc  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:25:19pm

re: #31 goddamnedfrank

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:27:03pm

re: #25 The Pie Overlord!

If you put Trump & Rush together in an isolated cabin, who would eat whom?

Make it a three way; Alex Jones said the same thing a couple months ago.

Please Don’t Eat Your Neighbor: Why What Alex Jones Just Said Is So Dangerous (Forbes, May 2)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:27:30pm

425 votes separates sessions from tuberville (or whatever his name is) in AL.

Then there’s this. 👀

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plansbandc  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:30:57pm

Magikal Maiden is a big ole troll.

I’ve noticed pretty much all of the “magats” making noise over the last couple of weeks have been bots/trolls. I haven’t seen a legit magat in awhile. I think he’s losing his base.

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John Hughes  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:31:29pm

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Plague was endemic to the prairie dogs in the Nebraska Panhandle, but was eliminated.

Was plague eliminated or were the prairie dogs eliminated?

The way the USDA does “pest control” is deeply weird.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:31:40pm

re: #53 plansbandc

We should be that lucky.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:32:46pm
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Sherlock Hound  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:36:05pm

Propane Jane quotes from an article in Bloomberg about what billionaires truly think.

I’d like to tell him, “Hon, your taxes have ALWAYS gone to people you didn’t know. That’s the deal. By the way, I pay taxes and I don’t know you, so…”

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plansbandc  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:36:56pm

I just watched videos of rabid animals. No, really. It started with peacock screams and devolved into watching rabid animals.

Send help. :D

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:37:55pm

re: #58 plansbandc

I just watched videos of rabid animals. No, really. It started with peacock screams and devolved into watching rabid animals.

Send help. :D

If it makes you feel any better, I’m watching YouTube videos of nerds playing video games they’re not any good at but are recording just for the lulz.

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John Hughes  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:39:47pm

Ok, if anyone needs some toilet paper here is a transcript of DT’s speech.

rev.com

10 thousand words of gibberish.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:40:56pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:43:04pm

re: #45 PhillyPretzel

Everything that DT is doing he is blaming on Joe Biden. This is the same story from 2016 when he blamed everything wrong on HRC and the Democrats.

PROJECTIN’ LIKE AN IMAX IN OUTER SPACE… SPACE… SPAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:44:00pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:44:30pm

re: #58 plansbandc

I just watched videos of rabid animals. No, really. It started with peacock screams and devolved into watching rabid animals.

Send help. :D

The Devil is definitely an algorithm

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:46:20pm

Erratic behavior on site display using iPhone 8.
Flashes and blinks upon upvotes and scroll
Very disconcerting

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:47:35pm

re: #65 So Cal Greek Hippie

That is why yesterday I left a message for the general population to give another LGF member a message.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:50:21pm
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plansbandc  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:51:11pm

Our local NBC affiliate just tweeted the tweet of amazing wisdom:

“Both major political parties have been ramping up their efforts to pull off wins in November.”

No WAY!

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:53:08pm
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retired cynic  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:53:39pm

One More Reason Why You Should Elect Democrats, by Juanita Jean Herownself

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:54:10pm

re: #52 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Q was wrong, yet again.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:55:22pm
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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:55:55pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

Q was wrong, yet again.

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This gives Sessions more time with Mueller to go get those pizza pedos!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:56:59pm

re: #61 Charles Johnson

Yeah, this is another one of those times where reactionaries are confessing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:57:55pm

re: #54 John Hughes

Was plague eliminated or were the prairie dogs eliminated?

The way the USDA does “pest control” is deeply weird.

They were eliminated from towns. There’s no way you can eliminate all the prairie dogs here without nuking the whole area.

The program basically ring-fenced towns to prevent prairie dogs from undermining them.

After the Tea Party wave, freezes on federal hiring meant that gradually the people working in that programme for the USDA were reduced. Now we have only one, and he is responsible for all 69,000 or so square miles of Panhandle.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:58:07pm
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CleverToad  Jul 14, 2020 • 5:59:59pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp…

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Okay, what was that squirrel doing hanging out with the prairie dogs? (or do we want to know…)

Morrison is the western edge of the Denver metroplex. Check off another square on the 2020 bingo card.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:03:44pm

re: #57 Sherlock Hound

Propane Jane quotes from an article in Bloomberg about what billionaires truly think.

I’d like to tell him, “Hon, your taxes have ALWAYS gone to people you didn’t know. That’s the deal. By the way, I pay taxes and I don’t know you, so…”

Doesn’t work that way. Taxes are for little people. Billionaires paying taxes? Ha.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:06:45pm

OK, but, can it protect you?

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:09:18pm

re: #9 jaunte

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Catherine Herridge is not there to press.

She’s just another lying GOP Presstitute. Just like the rest of those spineless wimps in the DC Press Corpse who tossed endless softballs at Shithead McCesspool.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:11:31pm

Fuckin’ USAToday, of course they’re giving these goddamned grifters a platform.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:13:50pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:14:16pm

re: #81 teleskiguy

I did see it in The Washington Post but at the moment I cannot find it. Many from the scientific community are supporting Dr Fauci.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:15:58pm

re: #83 PhillyPretzel

I did see it in The Washington Post but at the moment I cannot find it. Many from the scientific community are supporting Dr Fauci.

Scientists band together like that, they’re all shifty./

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:17:35pm

re: #84 Dread Pirate

Scientists band together like that, they’re all shifty./

Gangs of scientists, roaming the suburbs, threatening your daughters and wives… .

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:17:40pm
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Jack Burton  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:19:45pm

re: #81 teleskiguy

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Fuckin’ USAToday, of course they’re giving these goddamned grifters a platform.

Says Peter Narvarro. A man who actually is wrong on everything, and invited a fake “expert” to cite in his book who’s name was just an anagram of his own.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:20:32pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

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Hey! We don’t WANT cannibalism but ya know, that Hunter Biden guy……..What are we supposed to do?!

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:24:09pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:29:00pm

re: #89 jaunte

Make the Donners Great Again.

“The Donner Party is an example of people doing an amazing job and is being recognised more and more.”

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:29:46pm

JFC this dumbshit is dumber than shit.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:30:10pm

re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Let us in, we’re just here to chew the fat.”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:30:38pm

What we’re seeing is language that states more and more outright that it’s right to not care about your inferiors, and it’s right to demand that they do what you want even if it endangers them.

Thirty years ago, these people found the idea of women assertions about sexual harassment not just contemptible but a disruption of what was “natural” interaction between men (with power) and women.

As I’ve said before, they keep telling on themselves: they don’t beliefs in universal rights…the opposite, they believe that there is a natural hierarchy and those below them do not have inherent dignity or worth, and that it is offensive for the lower orders to insist that they do not deserve to be mistreated, sexually abused, or die unnecessarily.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:31:37pm

LA Times opinion piece:

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:32:19pm

re: #64 goddamnedfrank

The Devil is definitely an algorithm

You can tell by the first two letters. ///

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:32:33pm

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Gangs of scientists, roaming the suburbs, threatening your daughters and wives… .

The first thing the lizard aliens in 1983’s “V” did was allege a conspiracy of scientists acting against the Visitors in order to discredit them and turn public opinion against scientists.

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makeitstop  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:36:14pm

Woolery tempted karma, karma said ‘Okay, no problem.’

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:38:56pm

re: #97 makeitstop

Woolery tempted karma, karma said ‘Okay, no problem.’

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Chuck Woolery’s son could be around 70 years old too!

Or, in typical wingnut fashion, his son could be a 2 year old.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:39:49pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:40:44pm
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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:44:18pm

To continue the thing from the last thread: Molly Ivins and the Great Boston Molasses Flood

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:45:43pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:47:22pm
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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:47:37pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:47:40pm

re: #102 Belafon

Regarding the Kool-aid drinters: As I noted a couple of months ago:

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:47:42pm

I thought you guitar people might find this interesting:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:49:16pm

re: #104 jaunte

Tuberville is worse, in that Trump will now crow about beating a former ally who turned on him.

And in Alabama, the football religion almost guarantees Tuberville to win in November.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:52:11pm

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Tuberville is worse, in that Trump will now crow about beating a former ally who turned on him.

And in Alabama, the football religion almost guarantees Tuberville to win in November.

I’m hoping against hope that Tuberville fucks up and Doug Jones pulls off another miracle.

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:56:16pm

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Tuberville is worse, in that Trump will now crow about beating a former ally who turned on him.

And in Alabama, the football religion almost guarantees Tuberville to win in November.

I don’t know of any people that thought Jones would win the election no matter who his opponent was.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:56:29pm

So yesterday (or the prior day?… all the pandemic days are alike to me…) I noted a link to a story about a “megaquake” in California, an item that found its way to trend on Twitter.

As I noted, the story and Twitter were really misrepresenting the San Andreas fault and should not use the term “megaquake” as the San Andreas is not the type of fault that can make the biggest quakes. In the US those conditions exist only the Pacific northwest and in Alaska.

Sure enough, on a Youtube channel today that has some following (389k subs), the host throws out “megaquake” in a video meant to scare. However, he rightly notes where such a thing can happen in the US, and it’s not the San Andreas fault:

Cascadia: The Earthquake that will Destroy Westcoast America

While I’ll give this guy credit for noting that the San Andreas is not going to destroy the US (though parts of California are going to be eventually devastated), he still throws out the idea that a Northwest “megaquake” is somehow overdue.

That is just wrong.

These things are too stochastic to make such assertions.

Surely there will be more giant thrust fault quakes in the northwest, just as there will be more in Japan, Alaska, Indonesia, and Chile/Peru. It’s what happens.

But we can’t say something is overdue, any day now, etc.

Will such a megaquake happen in my lifetime? Unknown, and unknowable. At best we can put a rough probability on an event during a long enough time period, say 50 years or 100 years. But probabilities like these are just a way of describing uncertainty and are not predictions.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:57:22pm

VOTER FRAUD
MAIL-IN VOTER FRAUD
Oh, it’s nothing. Just another Republican caught in the act

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makeitstop  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:59:24pm

re: #102 Belafon

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Video.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 14, 2020 • 6:59:51pm

re: #109 Belafon

I don’t know of any people that thought Jones would win the election no matter who his opponent was.

Alabama is Aladamned?

The only thing that can help Doug Jones is as Trump flails he really starts going to a next-level of stupidity that even the GOP Senate will have to do something.

Such an event will cause a crisis in this country, but that is where we are at in 2020.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:00:08pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

I broke out into maniacal laughter when I read that. It’s not funny but it’s so 2020. What a year.

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:01:55pm

Mary Hegar 52.18%

Royce West 47.82%

53.13% of polling locations reporting

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garzooma  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:02:10pm

re: #79 Dread Pirate

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OK, but, can it protect you?

Apparently, they need more trials to find out:

“This is an essential building block that is needed to move forward with the trials that could actually determine whether the vaccine does protect against infection,” said Dr. Lisa Jackson of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle, who led the study.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:02:32pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:03:32pm

re: #111 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

VOTER FRAUD
MAIL-IN VOTER FRAUD
Oh, it’s nothing. Just another Republican caught in the act

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Holy crap, he’s a real pillar pf the Republican party
Steve Watkins - Wikipedia

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piratedan  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:03:34pm

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

in Alabama, being an Auburn alumni doesn’t guarantee you anything. If anything, this gives Jones a fighting chance due to the Alabama/Auburn rivalry which is stupid, yet exists.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:04:30pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:04:45pm

Dog Damnit

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:06:39pm

re: #82 Dread Pirate

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“We don’t want the park’s infestation by man-eating giant vampire frogs to be a reason why people refuse to attend our church youth picnic.”

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Dread Pirate  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:10:40pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:11:33pm
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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:13:22pm

re: #124 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Bad Casting Polaroids #1265

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:14:30pm

re: #124 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:15:23pm

re: #123 Dread Pirate

Bianca’s first tweet:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:15:29pm

re: #124 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

“Ivanka, what has our contestant won?”

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:15:44pm
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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:18:29pm
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fern01  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:23:33pm

re: #18 mmmirele

Kansas Rep. Steve Watkins was charged Tuesday with three felonies and a misdemeanor related to an investigation into whether he illegally voted in a 2019 municipal election.

So does he get 6 years in prison like the lass who voted while on probation - thinking it was allowed?

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:23:59pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:25:15pm

re: #126 teleskiguy

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Smucker’s sues for trademark infringement in five … four … three …

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:25:53pm

Racist Karen shoots her mouth off and repeatedly gets away with it.

Racist Karen stand in front of a speeding Fire Truck.

Racist Karen gets hit by the Fire Truck.

Racist Karen dies…

tmz.com

Ruit is, unfortunately, otherwise known for appearing in multiple videos in downtown Asheville spewing racism … and for her July 4 arrest for allegedly attacking both a woman in a hijab and a Black teenager.

Ruit allegedly ripped off the woman’s head covering and grabbed the teenager in the groin. She was arrested and charged with simple assault, disorderly conduct and second degree trespassing.

Before her arrest, Ruit made news after people posted videos of her from June 13 and July 1 going on racist tirades. During the July 1 incident, witnesses claim she tried to attack a child and cops were called several times … but never showed up.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:26:43pm

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

Holy crap, he’s a real pillar pf the Republican party
Steve Watkins - Wikipedia

Wow, that guy would have been a shoe-in (if he hadn’t been arrested).

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:30:11pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:31:05pm

re: #129 jaunte

(1:43)

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:33:00pm

poultry in motion (sorry)

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Jack Burton  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:35:28pm

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:35:41pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:37:10pm
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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:37:43pm
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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:38:38pm

Isn’t there a photo rule for politicians along the lines of “don’t hold up anything to the camera?”

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:39:47pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:40:21pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:41:10pm
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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:41:16pm

2018 Ventura: Luke In front of Erle Stanley Gardner Building

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:42:28pm
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🌹UOJB!  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:42:55pm

re: #142 jaunte

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Can’t stop laughing!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:43:11pm

Today on the Interstate 80 Speedway, a Utah driver weighs in.

Camaro reaches speeds of 155 mph in chase from Seward to Grand Island (Omaha World-Herald)

TL;DR, a twenty-three year old Utah man was arrested after a sixty-mile chase.

The Nebraska State Patrol notes a persistent problem with speeding during the pandemic. In the first two months, two hundred people were arrested for exceeding 100 mph.

The man did not break the Camaro record, set at the end of June by another man driving 174 mph.

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retired cynic  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:45:29pm

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t think my Camaro would have done that, but I have to admit, it wanted to go a whole lot faster than I did!

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:47:03pm

re: #142 jaunte

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:48:06pm
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retired cynic  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:50:15pm

re: #154 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I can’t…

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Teukka  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:51:53pm

Antivaxx cautionary joke:

[Sauce]
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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:52:49pm

re: #154 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Never discount that when things get bad enough, proper protests with some property damage are the only way to force change.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:53:09pm
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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:53:49pm

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

The humanoid is fondant.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:55:31pm
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DodgerFan1988  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:56:03pm
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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:58:54pm

The thing about Goya beans is,

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William Lewis  Jul 14, 2020 • 7:59:04pm

re: #152 retired cynic

I don’t think my Camaro would have done that, but I have to admit, it wanted to go a whole lot faster than I did!

Once upon a lifetime ago, I was driving my mother’s Trans Am. A friend needed to get to his radio dj shift. We went from a record store in downtown Minneapolis to Eau Claire Wisconsin in just under an hour. I have no clue just how fast i was going because of the stupid 85 mph max on the speedometer. But it was Smoky and the Bandit the whole way there.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:00:12pm
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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:01:38pm

re: #164 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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That would make Daddy Trump jealous.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:07:48pm

Watched the body cam video, this dude was on something

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gocart mozart  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:08:19pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:10:10pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:10:30pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:16:58pm

Photoshop Lizards (we miss you ObserverArt, RIP) have at it.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:19:33pm

re: #170 teleskiguy

Damn! LGF has turned into a Fark Photoshop Contest!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:29:33pm

The next step is to create videos of cutting into things that because of the video staging could possibly be cake but then turn out to just be the thing they look like.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:34:10pm

re: #162 jaunte

The thing about Goya beans is,

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This aerosol/not aerosol business is beginning to seem like quarrels over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The measures New York took (also too much of Europe, Japan and South Korea) will work, if assiduously applied. We know that outdoors is safe with precautions, indoors is not (massive BLM demonstrations and the Wisconsin primary did not cause spikes in covid, parties without masks and social distancing did). We know what we have to do.

I’m not saying that research into means of transmission isn’t useful, I’m saying that arguments about degree of harm are best left to the scientists. We’re mostly not qualified to judge the arguments, and the conclusion they come to won’t change what we need to do to get ourselves out of this.

/rant

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:34:21pm

The race is pretty steady:

Mary Hegar 465,832 52.27%
Royce West 425,435 47.73%
70.29% of polling locations reporting. Last updated 10:30 pm, Jul 14, 2020.

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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:37:20pm

re: #173 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

The aerosol/not aerosol debate is important for those of us that have to work at the company and for schools. Because if it’s able to survive airborne without being in water, it can hang around longer and travel in a much larger pattern. That really means further distancing will be required.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:40:02pm

Serve this along with Welch’s Grape at your next communion dinner!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:40:27pm

re: #166 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Watched the body cam video, this dude was on something

He was on conservative conspiracy theory. It’s quite a potent drug. Shuts down all executive brain function.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:45:38pm
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🌹UOJB!  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:45:46pm

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:47:16pm

re: #170 teleskiguy

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:49:49pm

re: #175 Belafon

The aerosol/not aerosol debate is important for those of us that have to work at the company and for schools. Because if it’s able to survive airborne without being in water, it can hang around longer and travel in a much larger pattern. That really means further distancing will be required.

What I’m saying is that we know enough now. Covid-19 aerosol transmission has some, probably comparatively minor compared to droplet transmission, role in spreading the virus. The argument is over details, but what we do know already tells us that indoors is unsafe — there is a significant risk to being indoors without serious ventilation and social distancing. Does it really matter to you whether the chance is 1% or 5%? I’d want to stay out in either case.

(Are they talking about survival without water? What I’ve seen is talk of microdroplets — and we already know the virus can survive for some hours on hard surfaces like plastics.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:51:03pm
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Belafon  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:52:15pm

re: #179 🌹UOJB!

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It’s not the wife posing that the problem, but it is a particularly strange indicator for those three.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 14, 2020 • 8:57:22pm

Omaha annexed eight suburbs yesterday. (It is fairly easy for cities to annex territory.)

The city auditor expects the property owners’ taxes will go down. Trash service charges will be eliminated, since Omaha provides trash service and the eight suburbs contract with companies.


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