GOHMERT! In Which Louie’s Refusal to Wear a Mask Bites Him Right on the Louie

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The nightmarish cartoon character known as the dumbest man in Congress, Louie Gohmert, who refuses to wear a mask and frequently spouts conspiracy theories about COVID-19 (and everything else), has today tested positive for the virus.

Louie was seen yesterday having a chat with AG William Barr after his testimony, neither of them wearing masks. And there are unconfirmed reports that Gohmert went to the Congressional gym this morning after learning he had the virus, which would fit with everything we know about the Texas turkey.

He also apparently attended a press event last night at the Trump Hotel, sans mask.

So the dumbest man in Congress may also turn out to be one of the most deadly to be around.

UPDATE at 7/29/20 10:36:09 am by Charles Johnson

Louie has thoughts about his infection.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 29, 2020 • 9:55:35am

Thoughts & Prayers.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Jul 29, 2020 • 9:55:48am

GOTV! Especially against the asparagus aspersion-casters!

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 29, 2020 • 9:56:08am

Oh yeah פאק טראמפ

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 9:58:38am
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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 9:58:41am

CNN was talking about their poll showing Trump and Biden tied in Georgia.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:03:32am

re: #5 Belafon

CNN was talking about their poll showing Trump and Biden tied in Georgia.

You know the GOP is in trouble when they are having to fight for GEORGIA.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:04:16am

He’s on a tear right now.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:05:06am

Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin’
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin’ at fools like me
Who in the hell d’you think you are
A super star
Well, right you are

Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) - Lennon/Ono with The Plastic Ono Band

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IngisKahn  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:06:01am

Infrastructure week!

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:06:57am
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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:07:26am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:09:20am

Schadenfreude overdose alert. What drives it right over the edge, into world-record karma/s-freude territory, is that Louie has been so assiduously spreading the ‘rona to other GOP bosses.

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cat-tikvah  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:11:39am

re: #12 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

If this includes Jim Jordan, and one can only dream, Bill Barr, with devastating results, I will likely die of schadenfreude.

I hate what this administration has done to my compassion. They have earned the suffering they’ve gleefully inflicted on others.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:12:00am

re: #1 The Pie Overlord!

Thoughts & Prayers.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:12:13am

Louie has been a moral leper for a long
time. Now he can be a physical one as well, and of his own volition in both cases.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:13:42am
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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:15:39am

Enough people look at Gohmert, listened to Gohmert, thought my what a fantastic candidate, and voted for Gohmert.

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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:16:43am

re: #10 Charles Johnson

I think the last time anyone was wistful for the suburban lifestyle dream was Donald Fagen on The Nightfly album.

New Frontier

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:16:57am

re: #17 plansbandc

Enough people look at Gohmert, listened to Gohmert, thought my what a fantastic candidate, and voted for Gohmert.

That or they’ve just been taught to never ever vote for a Democrat no matter what.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:17:50am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:19:39am

the second part of the tweet is even worse:

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Mike Lamb  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:20:56am

re: #10 Charles Johnson

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Still kind of shocked by this overtly racist tweet. It’s like his campaign team held a seance with Lee Atwater’s ghost to get campaign advice.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:21:35am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:25:09am
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Patricia Kayden  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:25:41am

re: #5 Belafon

CNN was talking about their poll showing Trump and Biden tied in Georgia.

A hefty dose of voter suppression tactics will fix that.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:26:05am

This is perfect.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:26:37am

re: #25 Patricia Kayden

A hefty dose of voter suppression tactics will fix that.

More effort they have to spend in a state that should have gone Republican.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:27:08am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

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[braying of horses]

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wrenchwench  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:27:29am

re: #22 Mike Lamb

Still kind of shocked by this overtly racist tweet. It’s like his campaign team held a seance with Lee Atwater’s ghost to get campaign advice.

Stephen Miller contains the ghost of Lee Atwater.

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TedStriker  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:27:54am

re: #22 Mike Lamb

Still kind of shocked by this overtly racist tweet. It’s like his campaign team held a seance with Lee Atwater’s ghost to get campaign advice.

And even Atwater had a deathbed repentance of how racist he had been.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:28:27am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:29:16am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:29:25am
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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:32:53am

re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I can’t help but think that if I wouldn’t have been wearing this seatbelt, I wouldn’t have crashed into that bridge abutment.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:33:52am

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

I don’t even know how to unpack this. On what planet is low income housing being built in suburbs? I’m in an area that was considered “exburbs” (beyond the burbs, almost “in the country”). It became the suburbs about 15 years ago. There are precisely two low income housing apartment complexes in this part of the county and they are near the shopping district, nowhere near the rest of the newer houses in upper class neighborhoods.

My house was built in 1979. It’s not in a subdivision. There are a lot of houses like mine in this area, some in smaller subdivisions, most standing alone. If anything, developers are approaching those single houses on larger pieces of land to sell so they can put 450K and up houses on them that are literally 15 ft apart. My wingnut asshole neighbors sold the land behind us and next to us on one side, it went from 6 houses to 60. It’s ugly and overcrowded and I do not even understand paying that much for a house where your neighbors can damned near reach your house while leaning out a window. (they admitted that part of why they left the land their family owned since pre Civil War times was black people living on the other side of us as well as others moving here. 1.6 million dollars for 15-18 acres obviously didn’t hurt, but they were very CONCERNED about that) There’s not a chance in hell anyone could have built low income housing in this neighborhood. The county commission is crooked as fuck and they would hold the thing up by denial of rezoning and other crap. The only affordable housing in this area is homes like mine, and you still can’t be low income and afford them. tl;dr Trump is full of actual shit. Demon Shit.

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:34:07am

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:34:58am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

*whinny*

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:37:00am

re: #35 A Mom Anon

As always with Trump, if it’s something that seems like a cultural issue: It’s racism. “Low income housing” in Trump’s mind means non-white people housing (we know this because the Trump Org has been sued multiple times for not renting to non-white people). He (still) thinks that the suburbs are overwhelmingly white and that the white flight that happened in the 60s and 70s is still a thing.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:39:16am

re: #26 The Pie Overlord!

This is perfect.

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I can name every asshole in this image except for the dude behind Saddam. Little help?

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:39:24am

It was the MASK! Louie knows.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:40:31am

OK, even I wasn’t expecting Louie to go THERE. There’s no limit to the stupid.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:41:01am

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

Noriega.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:41:19am

re: #42 jaunte

Noriega.

Ah! Thank you.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:41:44am

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

I forgot what he looks like in a hat.

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:41:54am

re: #35 A Mom Anon

Affordable housing where jobs are located is a problem in many parts of the country. Poor people are priced out of communities because they can’t afford to live there, and then incur costs for having to commute from where they can afford to live to where the jobs are (lost costs for travel/time spent traveling), etc.

NJ has an affordable housing component where if there’s a unit of housing being built in a town, the town has to make sure a percentage of the homes built are for affordable housing (based on income and local market rates, etc.).

Trump’s dog whistle goes after poor people (who are by number mostly white), but by percentage are disproportionately persons of color (because that’s how the discriminatory housing practices got their start - by denying persons of color the right to live anywhere they wanted. Racism is essential to housing policy in the US. It’s all around us - from the roads and highways binding localities and through cities, to the construction of the very suburbs themselves - white flight out of urban areas was precisely because of racist attitudes, leaving poor persons of color at the mercy of those with political power where they did not, loss of economic opportunities, etc., and now with urban areas being gentrified and reclaimed as people realize that suburban lifestyle has a lot of costs (like travel to/from jobs), they push/price those persons of color out of their homes and force them to live further away.

But here’s the thing, eliminating discriminatory housing practices doesn’t end the suburbs. It puts a stop to future discrimination against persons of color. Trump wants to see the bad old days return. That’s what this is about.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:43:58am

This is peak Ghomert….

Ghomert muses that…wait for it…he may have gotten covid because he wore a mask…

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:44:44am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:46:14am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:47:23am

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

And even my backwards-ass state is on that list.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:49:08am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:49:20am

re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg

And even my backwards-ass state is on that list.

mine too!

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:49:47am

I wonder if one of the impacts of covid moving a lot of businesses to remote work is if we will see some cities try to rezone office towers for mixed use, where they can build out apartments or condos on vacant floors. Not sure how much that will help affordability because I’m sure they’ll charge up the ass for those spaces, but more supply is generally a good thing in housing, no?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:50:29am

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

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NY’s AG is not going to back down, even after trump lives office. I can’t wait to watch her.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:50:35am
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makeitstop  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:50:47am

C’mon, Maddie. I thought you were smarter than that.

Maybe having a mountain of money makes you nuts, I dunno.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:51:11am

oh

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:51:29am

re: #52 KGxvi

We’ve seen that - The Woolworth Building in NYC was recently converted from office to a mixed use with condos on upper floors. I think we’ll see a further acceleration of that - and that retail space and malls will be reconfigured to become more mixed use.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:52:01am

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Goggles at my job is going to be real annoying.

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wrenchwench  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:52:30am

Demonstrators in Portland are explicit each night that they are demonstrating against racism. That’s why Trump can’t let them carry on.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:52:34am

re: #46 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

This is peak Ghomert….

Ghomert muses that…wait for it…he may have gotten covid because he wore a mask…

….and wearing a condom gave him syphilis. Might explain a lot.

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:53:33am

re: #55 makeitstop

C’mon, Maddie. I thought you were smarter than that.

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Maybe having a mountain of money makes you nuts, I dunno.

Madonna has dated Dennis Rodman and (I think) Jose Canseco; and married Sean Penn, so she’s probably not someone whose judgment we should generally trust.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:54:23am
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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:54:47am

re: #57 lawhawk

We’ve seen that - The Woolworth Building in NYC was recently converted from office to a mixed use with condos on upper floors. I think we’ll see a further acceleration of that - and that retail space and malls will be reconfigured to become more mixed use.

It’s not something that is common at all in California. You might have some retail/restaurant space on the first floor of an apartment/condo tower out here, but commercial and residential are typically separated.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:55:20am

too bad Mitt isn’t in a position to do more than tweet about it…

oh…wait…

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:56:42am

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

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too bad Mitt isn’t in a position to do more than tweet about it…

oh…wait…

Fuck Mitt. He still wants to take away Medicare & Social Security. Fuck him sideways.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:58:27am
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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:58:46am

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

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too bad Mitt isn’t in a position to do more than tweet about it…

oh…wait…

His boss right now is Mitch McConnell.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 10:59:20am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:00:00am
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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:00:52am

re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Take that image, replace Spanish Flu with Covid-19, and see if anyone contacts you about acquiring one.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:01:04am

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

I can name every asshole in this image except for the dude behind Saddam. Little help?

If no one has answered yet, it looks like Panama’s Manuel Noriega, whom George H.W. Bush took out in 1989.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:01:25am
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A Mom Anon  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:01:31am

re: #52 KGxvi

I wonder how many office complexes will be left to rot. There are 5 near me that have one or two tenants and have sat otherwise empty for a long time, since the last economic crash back in 2008ish. In one spot, 40 acres were cleared 5 years ago to build office spaces and a “gun club”. One building sits on the land, it holds a bank with a drive thru and the rest of the building is empty. The gun club got a better deal a few miles up the road after the people in the houses across the street decided they didn’t want an outdoor firing range visible from their front porches. So the land is cleared and empty with no takers. Other spots are abandoned strip malls in places with really shitty access off the main road, a project that ended before it even started (meant to be mixed use and then the contractor went bankrupt) and one that finally got sold early last year to become a storage unit place. There’s a couple of half finished buildings that have now fallen into disrepair with no takers. Such a waste of money and resources too. Our county commission is terrible at planning. All they see is immediate dollar signs and promises.

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:01:44am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:02:20am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:04:22am
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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:04:49am

re: #71 A Three Hour Tour

If no one has answered yet, it looks like Panama’s Manuel Noriega, whom George H.W. Bush took out in 1989.

D’oh! I should’ve read down a couple of posts. That’s what I get for coming back late.

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retired cynic  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:05:31am

Politics at the point of a gun

Conservative armed groups move into politics as backlash builds against protests, stay-at-home orders

by Joshua Partlow, WaPo — long but a good analysis of where we are with the militias becoming more active, both physically and politically.

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:06:32am

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:07:13am

re: #40 Charles Johnson

“I can’t help but wonder if by keeping a mask on and keeping it in place, if I might have put some… of the virus on the mask and breathed it in”

That is EXTREMELY possible, Louie. If you had required that all of your staff members and everyone at meetings you attended wear masks, they would have been tons less likely to blow virus onto you, just like you’ve been blowing virus onto everyone you’ve met over the last few days. It’s a fucking team effort, Louie. You willfully ignorant moron.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:07:24am
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(((Archangel1)))  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:07:25am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:08:20am

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:09:10am

re: #30 TedStriker

And even Atwater had a deathbed repentance of how racist he had been.

It took a brain tumor to make Lee Atwood apologize and beg for forgiveness.

Steven Miller will go to his grave a sleazy racist asshole who never apologized for his actions.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:10:21am
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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:10:41am

re: #26 The Pie Overlord!

This is perfect.

Should have added Pinochet, Franco and Thatcher in there with them.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:11:36am

Man, has the GOP really boxed themselves into a virus riddled corner here. They know they can’t be seen wearing masks in public except when absolutely necessary or their supporters will want their heads on a pike, so they go maskless and force the people who work for them to do the same, meaning infections are basically inevitable.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:11:48am

re: #71 A Three Hour Tour

If no one has answered yet, it looks like Panama’s Manuel Noriega, whom George H.W. Bush took out in 1989.

That photo op must have been a scheduling nightmare!

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:11:58am

re: #27 Belafon

More effort they have to spend in a state that should have gone Republican.

At this point Georgia is likely way easier to turn than Texas
One or maybe two major media markets vs what like 20 in Texas

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:11:59am
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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:12:04am

re: #71 A Three Hour Tour

If no one has answered yet, it looks like Panama’s Manuel Noriega, whom George H.W. Bush took out in 1989.

Heh. I looked back at it and went “Oh, the Panama Dude. WTF was his name again?” and before I could look it up, there you were :D

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:12:18am

re: #86 William Lewis

Should have added Pinochet, Franco and Thatcher in there with them.

Don’t forget Ceaucescu,

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retired cynic  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:13:14am

Ex-CIA director Brennan writes in upcoming memoir that Trump blocked access to records and notes, WaPo

DT really hates Brennan. Good read.

From that point on, the intelligence community, and Brennan in particular, became one of Trump’s favorite political foils. Looking back, Brennan regrets that he didn’t challenge Trump in their first and only conversation.
“It was one of the few times in my professional career that I successfully suppressed my Irish temper when dealing with a politician,” he writes. “I wish I hadn’t.”

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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:13:44am

re: #57 lawhawk

We’ve seen that - The Woolworth Building in NYC was recently converted from office to a mixed use with condos on upper floors. I think we’ll see a further acceleration of that - and that retail space and malls will be reconfigured to become more mixed use.

Reinventing New York’s Woolworth Building

This YouTube channel has some great videos.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:14:49am
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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:15:22am

re: #90 Charles Johnson

Can’t wait to learn that Loeffler, Burr, and others engaged in insider trading yet again (because we know that’s how this will go down).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:15:57am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:16:11am

re: #79 lawhawk

Here’s an idea: quit en masse.

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:16:57am

re: #94 stpaulbear

The Woolworth building is one of the most gorgeous buildings in NYC. The renovations really show it off quite well.

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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:17:27am

re: #94 stpaulbear

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has some great videos.

Urk. Shudder. I could not live anywhere that high up. I can barely tolerate going to an office in one of those things.

It’s funny, if I’m flying I don’t have any issue but in a building? I get terrified of heights easily.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:18:44am

re: #55 makeitstop

C’mon, Maddie. I thought you were smarter than that.

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Maybe having a mountain of money makes you nuts, I dunno.

Certainly gives you the freedom to try

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:19:44am
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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:19:53am

re: #36 nines09

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:20:44am

re: #46 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

This is peak Ghomert….

Ghomert muses that…wait for it…he may have gotten covid because he wore a mask…

Here’s a thought Louie
You didnt get it from wearing a mask too much
You got it from not wearing a mask enough

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:22:22am

re: #104 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Here’s a thought Louie
You didnt get it from wearing a mask too much
You got it from not wearing a mask enough

Stop mixing your facts with his conspiracies.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:22:34am

re: #86 William Lewis

Should have added Pinochet, Franco and Thatcher in there with them.

Maybe they’re all under his desk! 😈

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:22:38am

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

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too bad Mitt isn’t in a position to do more than tweet about it…

oh…wait…

Mitt, you’re still not gonna be president

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:22:49am

re: #73 A Mom Anon

I wonder how many office complexes will be left to rot. There are 5 near me that have one or two tenants and have sat otherwise empty for a long time, since the last economic crash back in 2008ish. In one spot, 40 acres were cleared 5 years ago to build office spaces and a “gun club”. One building sits on the land, it holds a bank with a drive thru and the rest of the building is empty. The gun club got a better deal a few miles up the road after the people in the houses across the street decided they didn’t want an outdoor firing range visible from their front porches. So the land is cleared and empty with no takers. Other spots are abandoned strip malls in places with really shitty access off the main road, a project that ended before it even started (meant to be mixed use and then the contractor went bankrupt) and one that finally got sold early last year to become a storage unit place. There’s a couple of half finished buildings that have now fallen into disrepair with no takers. Such a waste of money and resources too. Our county commission is terrible at planning. All they see is immediate dollar signs and promises.

Part of the issue is local zoning rules. Newer cities and towns like to separate the residential and commercial spaces as much as they can. Some older cities don’t have that luxury because their downtowns (at least) were built before zoning laws.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:23:25am
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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:25:30am

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, she’s trying to lose?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:25:45am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:26:10am

Oy. This thread. Start at the top.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:27:57am

re: #104 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Maybe before they have to intubate him they can explain this to his stupid face. I try very hard not to wish ill on people, but this Ship of Fools do not make it easy. Nor do I feel bad wishing for a little enlightenment to befall them.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:28:31am

re: #40 Charles Johnson

It was the MASK! Louie knows.

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What are you touching your effing face for?
Did no one explain to you how this works? //

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:31:01am

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

She’s as crazy as trump. And I mean in a clinical way.

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:31:29am
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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:31:53am

Gym Neighbors continues to make an asshole of himself.

‘Put on your mask!’ House’s tech hearing briefly goes off the rails as GOP’s Jim Jordan clashes with chairman

rawstory.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:34:11am

re: #117 🌹UOJB!

upding for Gym Neighbors.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:34:29am
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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:34:44am
Kodak stock is up EXPONENTIALLY since TUESDAY, when Trump announced that it was providing $750 million loan to help the company get into generic drugs

No mention of “Gubmint picking winners and losers?”

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A Mom Anon  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:35:27am

re: #108 KGxvi

That’s true. Atlanta seems to be sort of figuring this out, but it’s still too gentrified for people to afford living in most of the renovated buildings. Some of the work being done looks really lovely though. Sadly some really cool buildings have been torn down (the one that used to be a music venue called the Masquerade got torn down to build a combo farmer’s type market and apartments, it was an old mill converted into a three level music venue. First place my son went on his own to see shows) and replaced, but I guess that’s bound to happen.

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:35:43am

re: #116 teleskiguy

Be sure to click the picture icon for the full effect.

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calochortus  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:36:12am

re: #114 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

What are you touching your effing face for?
Did no one explain to you how this works? //

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First off, I don’t recall him spending a lot of time with a mask on.
Second: Can’t he afford a mask that fits right and doesn’t require futzing with?
Third: He doesn’t touch his face when he doesn’t wear a mask so he wouldn’t have caught it?

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Thanos  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:37:41am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Frau Blucher

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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:39:04am

Louie Gohmert is going to deny that wearing a mask helps prevent the spread of the ‘rona right up until a healthcare worker shoves a tube down his redneck to keep him alive.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:39:25am
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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:40:44am

Rest in Power Mr. Lewis.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:40:45am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:42:06am

VVV Most recent in live tweet thread VVV

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:43:27am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:44:03am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:44:13am

re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Now there’s an asshole I hadn’t heard about in awhile.

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:44:13am

re: #103 Teddy’s Person

Cooper In Philly on a hot hot day.
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Ace Rothstein  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:44:32am

Demon Semen is one hell of a band name.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:44:43am

re: #130 Charles Johnson

I like it only insofar as it’s a kickass rhyme.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:47:12am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:49:34am

still waiting here in TheBackwoods

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:51:04am
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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:52:49am

re: #133 nines09

Cooper! 💛💙

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makeitstop  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:53:17am

re: #100 William Lewis

Click to Reveal

Yo! Andee’s side band has got a new EP out.

He’s so good, the bastard. :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:53:41am
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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:55:17am

re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

If you aren’t hearing “Happy little accident” in your head, something is wrong with you.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:56:52am
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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:58:54am

re: #140 makeitstop

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:59:18am

OK.
Back to my oasis. And this guy popped up on my Pandora.
Ahhhhh. Can’t remember when and where I heard this first. Bought it first chance. Only 15 years ago.
Tab Benoit. (ben-wah)

Youtube Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 11:59:41am
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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:00:11pm

re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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I hope the judge finds Piece Of Shit Milo in contempt of court and jails him.

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Citizen K  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:01:05pm

re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

re: #114 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

The only way to be this stupid is to be aggressively and purposeful about it. Gohmert goes out of this way to maintain this level of stupidity, because that’s what his political gospel asks of him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:01:23pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:01:38pm

re: #133 nines09

SQUEEEEEEEE!! So cute!!!

How much does he weigh now?

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:01:39pm
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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:02:35pm

re: #150 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Last vet check 8 lbs and change.

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:03:05pm

re: #133 nines09

what breed is Cooper?

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:04:35pm
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Interesting Times  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:05:46pm

Ha:

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:06:58pm

re: #155 Interesting Times

LMAO!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:06:59pm

re: #153 KGxvi

what breed is Cooper?

Fluffy? 😁

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:07:04pm

re: #153 KGxvi

Aussie Doodle. Australian Shepard and Poodle mix. They come in all assorted shapes and sizes and my oldest son has one in Denver and it’s twice as big and shorter hair.
Unless those Mennonites lied to us……///

He is a cupcake and one smart ass mutt. Slick. Quick. And snuggley.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:08:26pm

re: #151 jaunte

What unfairness is he whining about?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:09:23pm

re: #159 Belafon

What unfairness is he whining about?

He’s pissed because Twitter limited his sons account for like a day because of some bullshit Coronavirus disinformation video.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:09:32pm
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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:10:20pm

re: #159 Belafon

What unfairness is he whining about?

Copernicus called and told him he’s not the center of the universe.

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makeitstop  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:12:02pm

re: #144 William Lewis

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:12:45pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:14:11pm

re: #134 Ace Rothstein

Demon Semen is one hell of a band name.

I like Wall of Moms.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:14:23pm

Louie hellbent on spreading the ‘rona far and wide (or at least giving that impression).

Gohmert said he received guidance from the doctors at the White House and the attending physician at the Capitol that he only needed to self-quarantine for 10 days. He said he will drive back to his East Texas home and that his staff is all getting tested for the virus. Source: Texas Tribune

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:16:19pm
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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:17:29pm

Cats, they get the job done.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:17:50pm

re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth

For $250,000 he will personally show you the Egress.

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:17:52pm

re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth

You can stuff your head up his ass for $1,000,000 or he can pretend your face is a pussy and grab it.

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gocart mozart  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:18:13pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:18:13pm

re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth

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How much extra for a mask? How much more to get him to wear a mask?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:23:33pm

sounds like the hearing is going swimmingly

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:28:47pm

Gym Neighbors still not wearing his mask?????

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:29:40pm

re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:32:14pm
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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:33:26pm

re: #158 nines09

Aussie Doodle. Australian Shepard and Poodle mix. They come in all assorted shapes and sizes and my oldest son has one in Denver and it’s twice as big and shorter hair.
Unless those Mennonites lied to us……///

He is a cupcake and one smart ass mutt. Slick. Quick. And snuggley.

Oh, we had an Aussie mix growing up. Probably mixed with a Lab, based on her coat. Awesome dogs. Cooper looks a bit like a Havanese, so I was wondering.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:33:42pm
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Sherlock Hound  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:34:26pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

Don’t forget Ceaucescu,

He knew about being booed!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:34:27pm
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Dr. Matt  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:35:09pm

It’s a shame that parasitic assholes like Louie have unlimited access to some of the best medical care in the country.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:35:44pm

oh really now…

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:36:32pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

How many beers?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:36:37pm

re: #181 Dr. Matt

It’s a shame that parasitic assholes like Louie have unlimited access to some of the best medical care in the country.

not gonna make a ventilator a more pleasant experience, though…

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:37:36pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh really now…

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Let me guess!

SHREWsan Collins is “concerned”…

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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:37:38pm

Well foo. Grumble grumble…

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:38:08pm

Ok going away a bit.
Remember this?

Squirrel Nut Zippers “Hell” - Music Video directed by Norwood Cheek and Grady Cooper

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Sir John Barron  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:38:17pm

re: #166 Teddy’s Person

Louie hellbent on spreading the ‘rona far and wide (or at least giving that impression).

So he’s gonna drive home to Texas and then self-quarantine?

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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:38:22pm

re: #99 lawhawk

The Woolworth building is one of the most gorgeous buildings in NYC. The renovations really show it off quite well.

I think the Woolworth tower was Cass Gilbert’s first major project after the MN State Capitol Building. I’ve never been inside the Woolworth building but our state capitol is awesome inside.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:38:25pm

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

not gonna make a ventilator a more pleasant experience, though…

Hopefully he refuses such a librul snowflakey device.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:38:51pm

re: #183 nines09

How many beers?

All of them, Katie.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:40:42pm

re: #154 goddamnedfrank

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Good, so all the low income housing will continue to be built in the low housing neighborhoods so all the poors wil continue to be confined together in low income neighborhoods with food deserts, which won’t create any problems at all.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:41:03pm

re: #188 Sir John Barron

So he’s gonna drive home to Texas and then self-quarantine?

It was unclear in the article. In the next line of the article, they quoted Louie - “There’s no place like home.” I took that to mean he wanted to quarantine at home or give the impression that he was heading home since ‘rona ain’t no big thing.

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gocart mozart  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:42:02pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:42:34pm

re: #179 Sherlock Hound

He knew about being booed!

With extreme prejudice.

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Sir John Barron  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:42:42pm

re: #159 Belafon

What unfairness is he whining about?

All the unfairness cuz everything is really unfair to Drump and Repubs.

/

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:42:44pm

re: #191 Teddy’s Person

“WHO THE FUCK IS HIDING THE BEER!!?!??”

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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:43:18pm

Schedule for Trump’s fundraising luncheon in Texas (prepared remarks included).

Qusay: You finally showed up. I convinced my father to give you another chance.

Uday: My father really wants YOU on his team as a member of the Trump 100 Club. I’m a member, my brother Qusay is a member - we’re just waiting on YOU. We’re going to play the national anthem now. If anyone kneels, I’m going to shoot you like an endangered elephant.

[Kidd Rock sings national anthem]

Trump: LOVE ME! So it sort of is curious I send fascist thugs into an American city and try to make American suburbs white again and yet nobody likes me? It can only be my personality, that’s all.

[argle bargle]

Trump: Person Woman Man TV Camera

[sniffle snuffle]

Trump: I alone can fix the beautiful mess I’ve made. Bigly men, crying sir.

[ramps, water, FAKE NEWS]

Trump: In conclusion, send me all the money.

Reporter: Any comment on Representative Gohmert”s recent positive coronavirus test?

Trump: Who?

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Dr. Matt  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:44:05pm

We have reached the point of absurdity where masks are to blame for covid19 infections:

Rep. Louie Gohmert Blames Masks in Absurd Explanation for His Covid Diagnosis: I Might Have Put ‘Some of the Virus Onto the Mask and Breathed it in’

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:44:50pm

re: #190 Dr. Matt

No Anesthesia.
Right?
Snowflake?

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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:47:00pm

re: #197 nines09

“WHO THE FUCK IS HIDING THE BEER!!?!??”

I’m picturing RGB stroking Bret’s forehead and speaking to him in soothing tones. Just finish the brief Bret, and I’ll get you the beer.

I spelled Judge Beer’s name wrong and I’m not going to fix it because fuck him that’s why.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:49:00pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:50:17pm
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retired cynic  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:51:22pm

re: #177 KGxvi

Oh, we had an Aussie mix growing up. Probably mixed with a Lab, based on her coat. Awesome dogs. Cooper looks a bit like a Havanese, so I was wondering.

We had an Aussie-doodle. Not deliberately. Was supposed to be a purebred Australian Shepherd. When all that hair started growing and curling, we asked the breeder, what the heck? And she said, oh the Standard Poodle must have gotten to her. Well, yeah! Unfortunately, this one was Stubborn and not overly bright, and was Very into everything. Got hit by a car. (We lived way out in the country. Only road was gravel and a dog would have to work at it to get rolled. It ruptured his diaphragm, and we lost him. Looked like a great big, more grey, Cooper. We called him Tie-Dye.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:52:04pm
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calochortus  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:53:46pm

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Starting an ad with “lots of people say I’ve been selling my votes” is not likely to be a super-effective message that she doesn’t do that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:54:16pm
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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:55:13pm

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

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With the excepting of the voting 7000 time IN A ROW (thanks for showing up, I guess), that sounds like a challenger’s ad introducing themselves not a fifth term incumbent. Plus, whiny much.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:55:14pm
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calochortus  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:56:40pm

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

Excuse me. If you’ve tested positive, how can you “have taken all the necessary steps to prevent myself from contracting and transmitting the virus?” I think you’ve already contracted it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:57:45pm

LADIEEEEEEES!!!

the replies are killing me :D

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:58:54pm
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calochortus  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:59:03pm

re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth

LADIEEEEEEES!!!

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the replies are killing me :D

Good taste? A desire to attract women? The list is endless.

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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 12:59:47pm

re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth

LADIEEEEEEES!!!

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the replies are killing me :D

It’s the new country duo, Smarmy and Gross.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:00:54pm

Not sure if I mentioned this, but I’m doing another Pop Up comedy set tomorrow.

bit.ly

pay what you want. Thursday 6PM EDT 3PM PDT

I’ll be riffing on covid, death, and relegion.

Thanks

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Sir John Barron  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:01:23pm

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They’re owning us libs something awesome.

/

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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:01:37pm

re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth

Snort

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Sir John Barron  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:02:44pm

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“I’m fine, in perfect (cough) health.”

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A Mom Anon  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:02:49pm

All these reps saying they will drive home to Texas from DC to quarantine? I call bullshit.
Junior’s disaster of a girlfriend or was supposed to have driven home after the rally where all those people got sick, including Herman Cain. Later, it was revealed she flew home on a chartered jet. There is no way these soft, spoiled republicans are driving anywhere. It’s at least a full day’s drive and about 1300 miles to Dallas from DC. I just don’t buy it. And how are they going to do anything close to self quarantine on a cross country road trip?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:06:45pm

re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth

LADIEEEEEEES!!!

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the replies are killing me :D

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Teddy's Person  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:07:25pm

re: #219 A Mom Anon

All these reps saying they will drive home to Texas from DC to quarantine? I call bullshit.
Junior’s disaster of a girlfriend or was supposed to have driven home after the rally where all those people got sick, including Herman Cain. Later, it was revealed she flew home on a chartered jet. There is no way these soft, spoiled republicans are driving anywhere. It’s at least a full day’s drive and about 1300 miles to Dallas from DC. I just don’t buy it. And how are they going to do anything close to self quarantine on a cross country road trip?

The only way I would do it (if it was absolutely necessary) is through careful planning and a Winnebago.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:07:28pm

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

My gosh, I haven’t felt this good in a while.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:09:40pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh really now…

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“If you rule in favor of the president giving those up, then they could ask for those records from any of us.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:12:50pm
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retired cynic  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:15:24pm

re: #220 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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I was going with self-respect.

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BeachDem  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:15:28pm

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

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She should have used a voice-over talent because her smarmy voice is just about as annoying as everything else about her.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:16:45pm
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bratwurst  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:19:16pm

I have been quaking in volcanic anger for almost two days now. This is taking place about a mile from my home.

Click to Reveal

wgntv.com

The town has now taken action by WASTING police resources enforcing masks and social distancing.

I never once felt the need to contact a local elected official in my life before yesterday (I only ever contacted my senators when Trump nominated his bankruptcy attorney who compared liberal Jews to Nazi collaborators as ambassador to Israel!). Now I am going to war against my city. There have to be consequences for putting my life in danger like this. “Mistakes were made” is not going to cut it. Someone must lose their job.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:20:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:22:03pm
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Sir John Barron  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:24:14pm

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Just Obey the Law!!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:25:49pm
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piratedan  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:26:02pm

re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth

as a FYI, Grijalva’s the guy who has been raising a stink about the border wall issues in regards to infringement of park and wildlife preserve property and the plans on installing it across the Reservation lands… He’s been an anchor in S. AZ for decades and while it’s a heavily democratic district its because he has the trust of the people down here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:28:58pm

I suspect Sally Yates is gonna kick ass and take names

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:29:44pm

re: #231 Sir John Barron

Just Obey the Law!!!!

Executive Orders aren’t the law - never have been, never will be.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:31:42pm
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Interesting Times  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:33:50pm

I forgot all about these guys! But yes, if anything vindicates them for shooting that meddling missionary all those years ago…

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:33:55pm

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Molotov-Rippentrop Pact Part 2.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:37:06pm

So today Florida reports 216 more Covid-19 deaths.

I wonder how many old folk have died in Florida and the death cert simply says “pneumonia” without any testing?

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:37:42pm

re: #239 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So today Florida reports 216 more Covid-19 deaths.

I wonder how many old folk have died in Florida and the death cert simply says “pneumonia” without any testing?

DeSADIST doesn’t want you to know!

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:40:03pm

About mixed-use buildings: The John Hancock Building in Chicago was designed from the start to that strategy. That was in the late ’60s, sold as “Commute by Elevator”. Son2’s first big job was to design a database to manage the power consumption from its complex A/C system. (The building is so big that it needs no centralized heating system—even in Chicago. It needs A/C year round to dump its excess heat from lighting and other activity.Tenants can have a window unit or heater.)

en.wikipedia.org

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:41:43pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:44:47pm

when you’ve been sheltering at home a bit too long

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A Mom Anon  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:45:30pm

re: #240 🌹UOJB!

He can’t keep any deaths secret though. It’s a matter of record. At some point the total deaths for the year 2020 will be compared to deaths over the 5 or so years prior and that will show something a lot closer to the truth. It’s just too awful that we have to wait it out until then. I’m sure someone with expertise in all this is watching closely. In Georgia, we have Amber Schimdtke, PhD who is an expert in medical microbiology and immunology and has worked for the CDC. Right now she’s focused on numbers of cases and deaths using a lot of data and methods that are beyond me, but she puts everything into easy to understand language and charts. And she’s doing it while moving to a new job out of state. She’s said she’s committed to seeing this through. I hope so, because she’s one of the few reliable sources for GA.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:46:51pm

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

Why now? My town has had that law for four months. I live in an apartment and I have been wearing face coverings since March.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:48:27pm

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

when you’ve been sheltering at home a bit too long

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We need to come up with some big problem for people to help solve in their spare time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:48:31pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:48:48pm

Shocka!

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:53:57pm

re: #248 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Shocka!

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I wonder how many Republicans are involved in getting petition signatures for Kooky Kanye?

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:55:28pm

re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth

In fairness, if anyone I didn’t know sat down next to me on a park bench, I’d probably leave.

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bratwurst  Jul 29, 2020 • 1:57:55pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:01:06pm

re: #249 🌹UOJB!

I wonder how many Republicans are involved in getting petition signatures for Kooky Kanye?

How many Democrats would vote for Kanye?

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:03:19pm

Not that I expect there to be a college football season (and if they try and play in the spring, a lot of guys who have a chance to play in the NFL are going to skip it), but it looks like Notre Dame will, for the first time ever, be competing for a conference championship.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:10:52pm

this should work out ok… O_o

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:12:11pm

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BeachDem  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:15:14pm

Are gobinor are smart.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster ordered that all remaining businesses that closed as the coronavirus started spreading across the state can reopen starting Monday…

The reopenings extend to racetracks, concert venues, movie theaters, adult entertainment venues, spectator sports, parks, festivals, and performing arts theaters. However, employees and patrons at those businesses will be required to wear masks and to follow social distancing and personal hygiene procedures.

(Like any of these fools will follow those rules. Yesterday, at the grocery store, in a city where there is a mask mandate, more than half of the morons had their noses flying free or weren’t wearing masks at all)

The latest reopenings will include allowing football games to go on if scheduled in the Fall, McMaster said.

The move comes as more than 1,600 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in South Carolina on Wednesday by the Department of Health and Environmental Control and as the White House coronavirus task force has listed South Carolina as a COVID-19 “red zone.” (bolding ,mine)

thestate.com

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makeitstop  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:15:35pm

Have I mentioned that I love Annie Lennox lately?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:18:26pm

re: #255 nines09

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:19:39pm
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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:20:32pm

re: #256 BeachDem

The bug doesn’t care. If Dems consistently avoid exposure and Republicans consistently seek it out, we will eventually run out of Republicans. Of course we’ll lose one of ours for every two of theirs….

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:21:39pm

re: #257 makeitstop

Have I mentioned that I love Annie Lennox lately?

WTF is wrong with Madonna?

She’s not Cyndi Lauper.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:25:35pm

“It’s been Hell for Suburbia!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:25:56pm
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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:26:05pm

re: #258 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:29:30pm
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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:30:46pm

re: #257 makeitstop

Makes you think if you made a gazillion bucks and just had half the world just hanging on every word for a few decades and marketing tells you maybe you should take the belt off your neck as you jack off into your favorite island, beach mountain…..
Be TODAY.
jfc I’m never, never surprised.

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Greup  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:32:12pm

re: #262 The Pie Overlord!

These rule changes…Will any of them actually be functional before the election. I assume they at least will bog down in courts and then Biden vill kill them. So is it just promises at this point?

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Mike Lamb  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:33:04pm

re: #262 The Pie Overlord!

“It’s been Hell for Suburbia!”

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I know the answer, but is no member of the media going to draw full throated attention to the blatantly racist angle he is taking?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:33:07pm

re: #264 nines09

ubFQm2ti9YbTRufGz893KM4LozZpes+KUXZIUaadDyOeqRpPmECw7u2ZuIS3TWsB

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:33:18pm

re: #267 Greup

These rule changes…Will any of them actually be functional before the election. I assume they at least will bog down in courts and then Biden vill kill them. So is it just promises at this point?

He is not going to actually DO anything, just run his mouth off.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:34:13pm
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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:34:55pm

re: #267 Greup

These rule changes…Will any of them actually be functional before the election. I assume they at least will bog down in courts and then Biden vill kill them. So is it just promises at this point?

That’s the same thing with the troop movements in Germany he’s announcing.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:35:36pm

re: #268 Mike Lamb

I know the answer, but is no member of the media going to draw full throated attention to the blatantly racist angle he is taking?

I”m pretty sure MSNBC will.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:35:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:39:52pm

re: #272 Belafon

That’s the same thing with the troop movements in Germany he’s announcing.

yeppers…the planning alone won’t be finished before he’s out of office

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:40:58pm

re: #273 Belafon

I”m pretty sure MSNBC will.

Rachel and Joy will

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:41:25pm

re: #262 The Pie Overlord!

“It’s been Hell for Suburbia!”

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I didn’t fight all my life to get into suburbia and own a beautiful home. Neither did my parents: they had three suburban homes (sequentially, not simultaneously) by the time Dad was 32, and we were lower middle class.

Now, my wife and I were pushing forty before we bought our first (and presumably, last) downmarket home in the desert because we’re even poorer than our parents were, and they weren’t rich.

Suburbia can go fuck itself with its “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality and its homeowners associations poking its nose everywhere and dictating what you can do with your own damned property.

Trump and his spawn wouldn’t be caught dead living in suburbia. And I, who was raised in suburbia, wouldn’t be caught dead living in a secure, gated community.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:41:50pm
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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:42:48pm

Anything to do with Obama just sparks the need to one-up on Trump’s part.

Maybe we can show Obama and Joe running down a steep flight of steps, over and over? If the Mango Manureheap tries that, he’ll go flying head over heels?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:43:12pm

re: #277 A Three Hour Tour

Suburbia can go fuck itself with its “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality and its homeowners associations poking its nose everywhere and dictating what you can do with your own damned property.

I see you’ve met Cynthia…

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:44:09pm

re: #279 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

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Anything to do with Obama just sparks the need to one-up on Trump’s part.

Maybe we can show Obama and Joe running down a steep flight of steps, over and over? If the Mango Manureheap tries that, he’ll go flying head over heels?

Also, you know that the *second* that Mitch starts to try to separate himself from Trump to save his precious, precious Senate majority … Trump will turn on him like a rabid rat.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:46:20pm

re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth

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As certain high profile Republicans like Confederate Mitch praise the late Congressman John Lewis, one line from Tom Lehrer’s “National Brotherhood Week” from 1965 keeps playing in my head: “It’s nice to eulogize the people you despise, just as long as you don’t let ‘em in your schools.”

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Jay C  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:48:41pm

re: #281 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

Also, you know that the *second* that Mitch starts to try to separate himself from Trump to save his precious, precious Senate majority … Trump will turn on him like a rabid rat.

Yeah, and do what? Fly to Kentucky and hold a big rally to demand that the voters write in Ivanka for Senator?

So let him: AFAICT, getting KY voters to sour on Moscow Mitch can only have positive results…..

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:48:47pm

I vote Anthony Fauci becomes TIME Person of the Year.

Not only because he is deserving, but also to watch Trumps head explode when it gets announced.

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:49:23pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:49:43pm

re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth

I see you’ve met Cynthia…

No, but I’ve heard horror stories.

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:50:26pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:54:02pm

re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg

I vote Anthony Fauci becomes TIME Person of the Year.

Not only because he is deserving, but also to watch Trumps head explode when it gets announced.

It’s an election year, it’ll be Biden (assuming he wins)

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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:55:30pm

Not eating any asparagus for a week, in case Gohmert cast aspirations on it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:55:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:56:51pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:58:04pm

re: #288 KGxvi

It’s an election year, it’ll be Biden (assuming he wins)

Yeah but it’s anything but a normal election year, so who knows?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:58:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 2:59:55pm
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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:00:59pm

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s because he couldn’t care less.

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Jay C  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:03:04pm

re: #292 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah but it’s anything but a normal election year, so who knows?

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:03:19pm

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

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King is just pissed that Trump has cornered the market on horror stories.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:04:08pm

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood…

This goes beyond dogwhistle, this goes back to keeping black folks on the other side of the railroad tracks…

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:04:51pm

re: #283 Jay C

Yeah, and do what? Fly to Kentucky and hold a big rally to demand that the voters write in Ivanka for Senator?

So let him: AFAICT, getting KY voters to sour on Moscow Mitch can only have positive results…..

Indeed. It will be cinematic - Mitch may finally be empowered enough to give Trump the dressing-down he has needed since he was a toddler.

Mitch threatening to convene the Senate to vote to convict and imprison Trump would make him soil his tightie-whities.

I’ve never understood why he didn’t use the whip hand on Trump back in April, when it could have made a difference. Had Trump actually done anything other than posture and retweet morons, this pandemic might not have been this bad, and Mitch might have been able to keep his majority.

Now, though?

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:05:35pm

re: #297 Decatur Deb

King is just pissed that Trump has cornered the market on horror stories.

Well, King was being optimistic in Dead Zone.

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:06:46pm

re: #292 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah but it’s anything but a normal election year, so who knows?

I could see Time doing one of those “generic” person of the year award and naming medical care givers or some such.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:08:13pm

re: #301 KGxvi

I could see Time doing one of those “generic” person of the year award and naming medical care givers or some such.

An even better idea.

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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:10:38pm

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bratwurst  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:11:58pm

re: #303 BlueSpotinAL

If another public figure had that fucking ridiculous hair, do you know who would goof on it mercilessly? Donald Trump.

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calochortus  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:12:01pm

re: #262 The Pie Overlord!

“It’s been Hell for Suburbia!”

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What about younger people (you know, their kids,) trying to buy a house?

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:12:51pm
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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:13:38pm

re: #299 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

Indeed. It will be cinematic - Mitch may finally be empowered enough to give Trump the dressing-down he has needed since he was a toddler.

Mitch threatening to convene the Senate to vote to convict and imprison Trump would make him soil his tightie-whities.

I’ve never understood why he didn’t use the whip hand on Trump back in April, when it could have made a difference. Had Trump actually done anything other than posture and retweet morons, this pandemic might not have been this bad, and Mitch might have been able to keep his majority.

Now, though?

They all knew they could have been done with Trump with a single vote. So, there’s only a couple of possible reasons why they didn’t:

1. They honestly didn’t believe it was an act worthy of removal from office
2. They thought Pence would (somehow) be worse for the country
3. They were so afraid of his base turning on them in the primaries that they put their own re-election concerns above the nation’s interests (forgetting that they still have general elections to win and/or that the base may be different in 2 or 4 years anyway)
4. The Susan Collins option: they were really stupid enough to believe that Trump learned his lesson and would be better after impeachment

I can’t believe that if you gave them sodium pentathol and asked them if they believed it wasn’t worthy of removal at least 30 would say it was grounds for removal. Pence is a religious nutjob, sure, but he’s not the rolling disaster that Trump is. So that leaves choices 3 and 4 - and since I don’t believe even Collins believed that when she said it, it has to be a Tigers Eating Peoples Faces Party situation.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:14:44pm

in addition to posting weekly pond updates here, we also send it out to a mailing list

this is the most popular picture by far

(that’s a pitcher of water, not vodka)

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calochortus  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:15:30pm

McConnell is being interviewed on the PBS Newshour. He looks unhappy. Which is fine with me. He also is slightly less coherent than usual and even slipped up and referred to his Democratic colleagues.

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aatharuv  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:15:52pm

re: #31 The Pie Overlord!

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Can Gohmert’s office be that tone deaf?* Telling the world, we forced all our staffers including interns to come in even when not strictly necessary.

*I know, that’s rhetorical.

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calochortus  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:17:03pm

re: #308 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

in addition to posting weekly pond updates here, we also send it out to a mailing list

this is the most popular picture by far

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(that’s a pitcher of water, not vodka)

Should be a nice white wine.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:17:30pm

re: #307 KGxvi

1. They honestly didn’t believe it was an act worthy of removal from office
2. They thought Pence would (somehow) be worse for the country
3. They were so afraid of his base turning on them in the primaries that they put their own re-election concerns above the nation’s interests (forgetting that they still have general elections to win and/or that the base may be different in 2 or 4 years anyway)
4. The Susan Collins option: they were really stupid enough to believe that Trump learned his lesson and would be better after impeachment

5. Through a couple layers of moral gauze, they are all complicit in his crimes.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:18:06pm

re: #301 KGxvi

I could see Time doing one of those “generic” person of the year award and naming medical care givers or some such.

A montage of ALL the health care workers who have died from Covid-19 while treating those who also had it would be better IMHO.

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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:18:56pm

re: #273 Belafon

I”m pretty sure MSNBC will.

And the Washington Post except for a couple of columnists.

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:19:35pm

re: #312 Decatur Deb

5. Through a couple layers of moral gauze, they are all complicit in his crimes.

Ok, but isn’t that even more reason to toss him overboard? What better way to create plausible deniability for Republican Senators than to toss Trump and leave it all on his door step?

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:20:09pm

re: #262 The Pie Overlord!

I live in the biggest suburb in Texas (The Woodlands), 30 minutes north of Houston. It hasn’t been a living hell here. Ever. The only time the housing prices go down is when Republicans fuck the economy up.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:20:39pm

re: #311 calochortus

Should be a nice white wine.

remember at that moment we were still working (well sort of)
it was very hot and we had more to do

i celebrated with beer at dinner
mrs dm is off the sauce due to her lung condition, so i drink enough for both of us

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:20:44pm

re: #315 KGxvi

Ok, but isn’t that even more reason to toss him overboard? What better way to create plausible deniability for Republican Senators than to toss Trump and leave it all on his door step?

Labor Day.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:21:16pm

I could not stand to live in a neighborhood filled with snooty white people.

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piratedan  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:21:20pm

re: #307 KGxvi

I hate to disagree… I actually think it’s #5

5) there’s a significant number of them that are just as bought by Putin as POTUS is. Remember the infamous July 4th trip to Moscow? The Ryan and McCarthy snippet of who else Putin owns in the GOP. Maria Butina, the foreign policy decisions that the GOP says bupkis to, the letting the entire Trump Administration off for treason with the withholding of foreign aid, the 2016 campaign assistance… you don’t think that they only helped Trump do you?

While I would like to agree that some of them are certainly stupid enough and racist enough to go along, you can’t explain EVERYBODY being in lockstep, Cruz, Rubio, Graham, Johnson especially in light of what has unfolded.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:21:48pm

re: #315 KGxvi

Ok, but isn’t that even more reason to toss him overboard? What better way to create plausible deniability for Republican Senators than to toss Trump and leave it all on his door step?

assumes they are that clever, analytical and forward thinking
they clearly havent been up to now

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:22:41pm

re: #315 KGxvi

Ok, but isn’t that even more reason to toss him overboard? What better way to create plausible deniability for Republican Senators than to toss Trump and leave it all on his door step?

They might be souring on Trump but most of their base is not. Throwing the orange anus overboard would make GOP chances in November even WORSE.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:22:56pm

re: #316 Ace Rothstein

I live in the biggest suburb in Texas (The Woodlands), 30 minutes north of Houston. It hasn’t been a living hell here. Ever. The only time the housing prices go down is when Republicans fuck the economy up.

if you told him what the contemporary demographic breakdown of “the suburbs” is, he would definitely not believe it wasn’t 80% white and call it fake news

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:23:59pm

re: #320 piratedan

I hate to disagree… I actually think it’s #5

5) there’s a significant number of them that are just as bought by Putin as POTUS is. Remember the infamous July 4th trip to Moscow? The Ryan and McCarthy snippet of who else Putin owns in the GOP. Maria Butina, the foreign policy decisions that the GOP says bupkis to, the letting the entire Trump Administration off for treason with the withholding of foreign aid, the 2016 campaign assistance… you don’t think that they only helped Trump do you?

While I would like to agree that some of them are certainly stupid enough and racist enough to go along, you can’t explain EVERYBODY being in lockstep, Cruz, Rubio, Graham, Johnson especially in light of what has unfolded.

Romney, alone, might come out of this with some costume of integrity.

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calochortus  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:26:12pm

re: #317 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

remember at that moment we were still working (well sort of)
it was very hot and we had more to do

i celebrated with beer at dinner
mrs dm is off the sauce due to her lung condition, so i drink enough for both of us

Excuse accepted. Carry on.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:27:00pm

re: #322 Eclectic Cyborg

They might be souring on Trump but most of their base is not. Throwing the orange anus overboard would make GOP chances in November even WORSE.

if the R’s figure out that if they stand up to him, he backs down (because he always does when confronted), then they may start to stand up to him more often.

if they’re no longer scared of him, his bully act wont work. it is, after all, just an act

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:27:28pm

re: #324 Decatur Deb

Romney, alone, might come out of this with some costume of integrity.

i keep reminding him that he still won’t be president, no matter how hard he tries

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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:31:30pm

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If Trump called for one second of silence for every person who’s died of covid19, we would sit or stand in silence for over four hours.

Edit: I missed a zero. It would be almost two days, as pointed out below.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:31:47pm

And we center-lefts in the suburbs own guns too. We just don’t hump them.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:32:16pm

re: #324 Decatur Deb

Costumes abound everywhere.

As long as there are people such as inhabit my Facebook timeline, who mindlessly and enthusiastically post all sorts of bigoted and idiotic memes (often arising from a religious personality), there will be a “base” for god-grifters.

And the GOP decided back in the 1970’s to be the god-grifter party.

Gerald Ford was the last of the old Republicans (WWII Republicans). Since then the GOP has been stuck in River City with carny preachers.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:35:35pm

re: #330 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Costumes abound everywhere.

As long as there are people such as inhabit my Facebook timeline, who mindlessly and enthusiastically post all sorts of bigoted and idiotic memes (often arising from a religious personality), there will be a “base” for god-grifters.

And the GOP decided back in the 1970’s to be the god-grifter party.

Gerald Ford was the last of the old Republicans (WWII Republicans). Since then the GOP has been stuck in River City with carny preachers.

John McCain made the last few dying gasps of their kind.

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retired cynic  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:38:27pm

re: #269 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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I thought they were sunglasses.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:39:31pm

re: #331 Decatur Deb

John McCain made the last few dying gasps of their kind.

John McCain, the guy who picked the Jezus-grifting snowbilly for his VP candidate? That John McCain?

McCain on his deathbed decided he wasn’t going to take healthcare away… which I guess is a noble thing.

McCain of decades earlier who survived imprisonment - a courageous man.

But decades of having to go around fluffing Republican deep-pocket donors… and McCain was converted mostly to the new GOP.

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:39:31pm

re: #331 Decatur Deb

John McCain made the last few dying gasps of their kind.

There might still be a few left, but none of consequence. They may officially become extinct when Bob Dole shuffles loose this mortal coil.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:40:42pm

re: #333 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

John McCain, the guy who picked the Jezus-grifting snowbilly for this VP candidate? That John McCain?

McCain on his deathbed decided he wasn’t going to take healthcare away… which I guess is a noble thing.

McCain of decades earlier who survived imprisonment - a courageous man.

But decades of having to go around fluffing Republican deep-pocket donors… and McCain was converted mostly to the new GOP.

It was a slow, uneven, death.

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:41:58pm

I will say, I hold out a little hope for someone like Larry Hogan… but I don’t know enough about him to know if he’s not a jackass.

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retired cynic  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:43:19pm

re: #336 KGxvi

I will say, I hold out a little hope for someone like Larry Hogan… but I don’t know enough about him to know if he’s not a jackass.

He certainly called out the DT administration on COVID-19 preparations and PPE!

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sagehen  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:43:34pm

re: #308 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

(that’s a pitcher of water, not vodka)

You don’t really expect us to believe that?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:46:12pm

The essence of the contemporary GOP under Trump is one of malfeasance and grift, corruption being made normal by Trump’s mobster instincts.

The old guard Republicans were hardly immune from corruption.

They hid it well, though.

And they had been brought up during a time when the idea of being a leader carried with it the idea of being a moral example. Even when they failed, there was that lofty goal.

Trump - the goal is to destroy anything that doesn’t help him.

And the GOP of Ford and Dole - they were the WWII generation, many of them decorated for their service.

Trump is the draft-dodging change in the GOP.

That Republicans worship the military today has to do with the need to project strength and nationalism, not service.

Make no mistake, the Republican party under Trump is at its all time low.

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retired cynic  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:47:06pm

re: #339 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And to destroy anything touched by President Obama.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:47:31pm

re: #328 stpaulbear

If Trump called for one second of silence for every person who’s died of covid19, we would sit or stand in silence for over four hours.

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NetworkKed  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:47:43pm

re: #328 stpaulbear

If Trump called for one second of silence for every person who’s died of covid19, we would sit or stand in silence for over four hours.

Wrong.

We would be silent for almost two days.

More than two days if you go with the estimate from excess mortality numbers.

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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:48:27pm

re: #334 KGxvi

There might still be a few left, but none of consequence. They may officially become extinct when Bob Dole shuffles loose this mortal coil.

That reminds me of when the senate voted against a United Nations treaty that would ban discrimination against people with disabilities while Bob Dole sat dejected in his wheelchair after trying to rally R’s to support it.

Also reminded that it was Steve Schmidt of the Lincoln Project who pushed hard to get Palin on John McCain’s ticket.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:49:46pm

re: #342 NetworkKed

Wrong.

We would be silent for almost two days.

More than two days if you go with the estimate from excess mortality numbers.

So if he held a minute of silence, he’d shut up until we shitcan his ass?

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:50:19pm

re: #331 Decatur Deb

John McCain made the last few dying gasps of their kind.

He gasped its last gasp agreeing to palin

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:52:14pm

re: #345 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

He gasped its last gasp agreeing to palin

Still had the crazy teaparty lady and the deathbed FU to McConnell.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:52:52pm

re: #338 sagehen

You don’t really expect us to believe that?

I tried…

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NetworkKed  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:54:05pm

re: #344 Decatur Deb

So if he held a minute of silence, he’d shut up until we shitcan his ass?

No, though we’re past the election if the math I’m doing on my fingers is right.

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:54:54pm

re: #343 stpaulbear

That reminds me of when the senate voted against a United Nations treaty that would ban discrimination against people with disabilities while Bob Dole sat dejected in his wheelchair after trying to rally R’s to support it.

Also reminded that it was Steve Schmidt of the Lincoln Project who pushed hard to get Palin on John McCain’s ticket.

I really liked McCain in 2000. I actually voted for him in the primary that year. But I think by 2008, I think his time had passed. And yes, Palin was a terrible choice, and a terrible process got them there. But his first choice of Lieberman would have been a shitshow for the party. I think at that point they knew they were probably going to lose and were looking for a pick that would make a splash, and it did, just not in the way they had hoped.

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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:55:06pm

re: #342 NetworkKed

Wrong.

We would be silent for almost two days.

More than two days if you go with the estimate from excess mortality numbers.

Jezus. You’re right. I missed a zero.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:55:54pm

re: #339 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The essence of the contemporary GOP under Trump is one of malfeasance and grift, corruption being made normal by Trump’s mobster instincts.

The old guard Republicans were hardly immune from corruption.

They hid it well, though.

And they had been brought up during a time when the idea of being a leader carried with it the idea of being a moral example. Even when they failed, there was that lofty goal.

Trump - the goal is to destroy anything that doesn’t help him.

And the GOP of Ford and Dole - they were the WWII generation, many of them decorated for their service.

Trump is the draft-dodging change in the GOP.

That Republicans worship the military today has to do with the need to project strength and nationalism, not service.

Make no mistake, the Republican party under Trump is at its all time low.

Trump is all about trump. Nothing more. Nothing less.
He’s just using the republicans as a vehicle.
And they let him though I still can’t see why or why now. But they did.
With a complicit press.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:56:16pm

re: #330 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Costumes abound everywhere.

As long as there are people such as inhabit my Facebook timeline, who mindlessly and enthusiastically post all sorts of bigoted and idiotic memes (often arising from a religious personality), there will be a “base” for god-grifters.

And the GOP decided back in the 1970’s to be the god-grifter party.

Gerald Ford was the last of the old Republicans (WWII Republicans). Since then the GOP has been stuck in River City with carny preachers.

Remember in 1976 Ford was pro-choice. And believe it or not that’s why of all people Ayn Rand endorsed and campaigned for Ford. She hated Reagan because of his opposition to abortion rights…

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Alephnaught  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:57:05pm

re: #18 stpaulbear

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I think the last time anyone was wistful for the suburban lifestyle dream was Donald Fagen on The Nightfly album.

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dangerman  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:57:56pm

re: #345 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

He gasped its last gasp agreeing to palin

Amazing how many people zeroed right in on this

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:58:09pm

re: #351 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Trump is all about trump. Nothing more. Nothing less.
He’s just using the republicans as a vehicle.
And they let him though I still can’t see why or why now. But they did.
With a complicit press.

Trump is the logical conclusion of the Republican Party. He is their word made excess flesh.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:58:16pm

re: #336 KGxvi

I will say, I hold out a little hope for someone like Larry Hogan… but I don’t know enough about him to know if he’s not a jackass.

I remember Larry Hogan’s Dad being purged from the Republican Party over his vote to impeach Nixon.

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 3:58:26pm

re: #352 🌹UOJB!

Remember in 1976 Ford was pro-choice. And believe it or not that’s why of all people Ayn Rand endorsed and campaigned for Ford. She hated Reagan because of his opposition to abortion rights…

Who was the last officially pro-choice Republican to run for president?

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:00:51pm

re: #357 KGxvi

Goldwater?

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:01:43pm

re: #358 jaunte

Goldwater?

Not just nominee, because then it’s probably Ford. But just even in the primaries… maybe Pete Wilson in 1996?

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:03:06pm

re: #357 KGxvi

Before or after? Reagan and Bush 41 were both pro choice before they ran for President. I don’t even think it was an issue when Nixon ran. Goldwster’s wife was president of Planned Parenthood in Phoenix (or maybe Arizona). Hell, Bush 41’s father was involved with PP in Connecticut, and 41’s nickname as a congressman was “Rubbers” because he was the biggest proponent of birth control in Congress. Believe it or not, there was a time when Republicans were sane.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:03:10pm

re: #353 Alephnaught

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At least “Suburbia” by the Pet Shop Boys has sirens.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:04:04pm

re: #357 KGxvi

Who was the last officially pro-choice Republican to run for president?

Barbara Bush’s husband.

HILL: And he had never really been vocally anti-abortion either - if anything, had been pro-choice actually throughout his political career just until about the time that he ran as Ronald Reagan’s running mate.

MCCAMMON: When Bush ran for president in 1980, he took a moderate stance on abortion, opposing public funding without favoring an outright ban, says Mary Ziegler, a law professor at Florida State University.

MARY ZIEGLER: So for some time, there were lots of politicians that wanted to make room for people who were really neither pro-choice nor pro-life in either party or to find a kind of middle way politically when it came to abortion.

npr.org

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:04:37pm
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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:06:06pm

re: #360 Ace Rothstein

Before or after? Reagan and Bush 41 were both pro choice before they ran for President. I don’t even think it was an issue when Nixon ran. Goldwster’s wife was president of Planned Parenthood in Phoenix (or maybe Arizona). Hell, Bush 41’s father was involved with PP in Connecticut, and 41’s nickname as a congressman was “Rubbers” because he was the biggest proponent of birth control. Believe it or not, there was a time when Republicans were sane.

I don’t believe it was an important issue for Reagan (otherwise why appoint O’Connor and Kennedy to the court?), but more lip service to the religious right.

Looking at the list of candidates in 2000, maybe Lizzie Dole? I vaguely recall her being pro-choice?

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:06:54pm

re: #351 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Trump is all about trump. Nothing more. Nothing less.
He’s just using the republicans as a vehicle.
And they let him though I still can’t see why or why now. But they did.
With a complicit press.

I posted an article from Vanity Fair this morning about Pennsylvania Democrats for Trump and how they love him for being a full blown racist. Their jobs are gone their standard of living is declining but they do not care as long as Trump smacks colored people and queers down.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:07:07pm

re: #363 Dread Pirate

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Ignorant maskless prick un-teaching children.

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stpaulbear  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:08:27pm

re: #363 Dread Pirate

Where? Is? His? Fucking? Face? Mask?

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:09:22pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:11:03pm

re: #365 🌹UOJB!

Ya know, I lost my farm to the easy to win trade war, and my health insurance is gone, and my two kids had to drop out of college. But I’m votin’ for Trump because he doesn’t want the blacks to live with the rich white folks outside Philly.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:11:33pm

re: #368 teleskiguy

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Hey Bezos!

Do I get a discount for buying a pre-need casket thru Amazon? If so, I’m interested in this model!

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nines09  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:13:00pm

re: #258 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Thumbprint on lens.
Duh

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:13:48pm

re: #370 🌹UOJB!

Dimebag Darrell was buried in one of those.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:14:05pm

re: #370 🌹UOJB!

Hey Bezos!

Do I get a discount for buying a pre-need casket thru Amazon? If so, I’m interested in this model!

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There is a really cool DIY casket kit from an old Colorado company. It turns into a wine rack until needed. I’d get one, but all my wine comes in boxes that stack neatly.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:15:25pm
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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:16:20pm

re: #370 🌹UOJB!

Sorry, but my instructions are very clear:

Willie Nelson - Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die (live video)

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:17:50pm

re: #375 KGxvi

Sorry, but my instructions are very clear:

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Nobody wants to smoke old ground up dead-assed Bacon…

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mmmirele  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:19:01pm

People are still dying of other stuff besides COVID-19 in this year from hell 2020.

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sagehen  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:19:21pm

re: #357 KGxvi

Who was the last officially pro-choice Republican to run for president?

are we just talking nominees, or do failed primary contenders count?

Rudy Giuliani, in his 2008 run, was pro-choice.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:20:17pm

re: #367 stpaulbear

Where? Is? His? Fucking? Face? Mask?

God’s Anointed Vice President don’t need no face mask. He’s got Jay-Zuss to protect him!

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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:20:57pm

re: #329 Ace Rothstein

And we center-lefts in the suburbs own guns too. We just don’t hump them.

I had a co-worker comment the other day about how the Democrats are the best gun salesmen around and I simply said, most of Democrats own guns too.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:21:02pm

re: #379 🌹UOJB!

God’s Anointed Vice President don’t need no face mask. He’s got Jay-Zuss to protect him!

And Devil take the kids.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:21:38pm

re: #377 mmmirele

People are still dying of other stuff besides COVID-19 in this year from hell 2020.

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KGxvi  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:22:06pm

re: #379 🌹UOJB!

God’s Anointed Vice President don’t need no face mask. He’s got Jay-Zuss to protect him!

That’s Jeebus.

The Simpsons - Save Me, Jebus

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:23:06pm

re: #377 mmmirele

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John Hughes  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:25:58pm

re: #86 William Lewis

Should have added Pinochet, Franco and Thatcher in there with them.

No.

I was totally opposed to Thatcher’s politics and think that she was largely responsible in turning the UK into the shithole it is today. Hell, she turned me into a political and economic refugee.

But Thatcher, democratically elected multiple times, co-creator of the IPCC, driving force behind the EU single market does not deserve to be ranked with Pinochet and Franco.

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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:31:32pm

re: #385 John Hughes

Just because people were fool enough to elect her does not minimize the utter evil of her life. Reagan was elected too and if there is a Hell, they are there together for many of the same things.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:32:00pm
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John Hughes  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:33:07pm

re: #95 goddamnedfrank

God willing’s
- Praise God’s
- His will be done’s
- Lord have mercy’s
- God be with you’s
- Peace’s

Inshallah
Alhamdulillah
sayatimu eamalih
Hafidaka Allah

and so on…

(What’s with all the grocer’s apostrophes?)

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:36:57pm

re: #388 John Hughes

Inshallah
Alhamdulillah
sayatimu eamalih
Hafidaka Allah

and so on…

(What’s with all the grocer’s apostrophes?)

It’s meant to imply they want to see multiple of the phrase. “I want to see more ‘God willing’ being stated.”

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Interesting Times  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:37:07pm

To be filed under, “HALP! The leopards are eating my face!”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:37:19pm

re: #295 plansbandc

It’s because he couldn’t care less.

Trump is so broken he can’t even fake a smidgen of humanity.

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EPR-radar  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:37:54pm

re: #351 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Trump is all about trump. Nothing more. Nothing less.
He’s just using the republicans as a vehicle.
And they let him though I still can’t see why or why now. But they did.
With a complicit press.

The Republican establishment was initially against Trump in 2016. But in the excellent language of Driftglass (IIRC), Fox News et. al were supposed to have clear title to the pig-people, but Trump claim-jumped them. Why should a well-programmed Faux News meathead content himself with the watered-down bigotry of a Jeb! when Trump is delivering on the real thing?

At that point, the GOP establishment had no choice. Since then they have apparently settled on a strategy of pretending everything is normal, enjoying tax cuts and deregulation while they can, and hoping that Trumpism manages to end without drastic punishment to the GOP for the ruin it has caused.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:46:57pm

re: #334 KGxvi

There might still be a few left, but none of consequence. They may officially become extinct when Bob Dole shuffles loose this mortal coil.

Bob Dole is 97. He is largely immobile but he did manage to stand briefly during Bush 41’s funeral.
In starkest contrast to today’s superstition and grift based GOP, Dole was also a genuine hero of science. In 1946, a chronic infection was still preventing his recovery from the severe shoulder wound he had received in Italy in April 1945. He heard about a powerful but troublesome experimental antibiotic, streptomycin, and volunteered to be a test subject. The first subject had died. The second had recovered but was permanently blinded. Dole was the third. He made a complete recovery, and was the first person to be successfully treated with streptomycin.

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John Hughes  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:48:29pm

re: #153 KGxvi

what breed is Cooper?

Dog.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:49:44pm
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Eventual Carrion  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:51:59pm

re: #308 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

in addition to posting weekly pond updates here, we also send it out to a mailing list

this is the most popular picture by far

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(that’s a pitcher of water, not vodka)

Umbrella, be somebody!

The Jerk - Be Somebody

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:52:17pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:55:54pm
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Interesting Times  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:57:32pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2020 • 4:59:25pm

Texas is determined to not let Florida outstrip it in Covid-19 death reports today.

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gwangung  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:05:35pm

Well, crap…Portland Wall Of Moms showing their ass…(sorry….it is Facebook, but…)

Facebook Post

(Also, media report from Oregon Live

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:06:45pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:08:51pm

A thread I posted on reforms we desperately need. At the very least, the filibuster must be reformed, or the GOP will block all legislation except two reconciliation bills before they regain control of Congress in the 2022 midterms.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:08:55pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:09:35pm
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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:20:00pm

re: #401 gwangung

Well, crap…Portland Wall Of Moms showing their ass…(sorry….it is Facebook, but…)

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(Also, media report from Oregon Live

Sounds like a mom decided to monetize it. I wonder if Bev was ever actually there.

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:20:38pm

re: #395 Dread Pirate

The trolls aren’t even trying anymore.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:22:03pm
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Sherlock Hound  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:27:40pm

re: #408 goddamnedfrank

And the human retina?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:28:41pm

re: #409 Sherlock Hound

And the human retina?

Not to mention a jaw that is often too small for all the teeth…

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:30:02pm

re: #410 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Not to mention a jaw that is often too small for all the teeth…

We weren’t designed to eat cooked food.

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:30:08pm

Still think it’s a hoax right wing lunatics?

This fucker has helped misinform the masses for years, and these propagandists are lying to a new generation of know nothings.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:32:21pm
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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:32:39pm

re: #410 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That jaw thing happened when the aliens used too much of their DNA with the big ole ape starter.

Kind of like what happens when you mix a chihuahua with a dachshund.

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:35:02pm

re: #413 Dread Pirate

That escalated quickly.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:37:09pm

re: #370 🌹UOJB!

Hey Bezos!

Do I get a discount for buying a pre-need casket thru Amazon? If so, I’m interested in this model!

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Beth I hear you calling, but I can’t come home tonight…

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:39:48pm

re: #354 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

It was when he buckled during the SC primary to the GFCNH Bush fraction who rat-fucked the rumor that McCain had secretly fathered a black daughter.

After that the maverick was polled and followed the party line.

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:47:08pm

I got a couple of bottles of Mexican coke, and I have some vanilla ice cream. Thinking it’s time for a coke float.

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EPR-radar  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:49:31pm

re: #408 goddamnedfrank

The human prostate is my favorite example of lack of intelligent design, especially since many of these intelligent design fools are middle-age and older men.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:50:20pm

re: #415 lawhawk

That escalated quickly.

Yet eerily appropriately.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:50:33pm

re: #419 EPR-radar

The human prostate is my favorite example of lack of intelligent design, especially since many of these intelligent design fools are middle-age and older men.

They never said “Benevolent Design”.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:50:45pm

re: #418 plansbandc

I got a couple of bottles of Mexican coke, and I have some vanilla ice cream. Thinking it’s time for a coke float.

I have a 12-pack of Diet Coke, a 1.75 of cheap whiskey, and way too much shit to put up with.

Evening Lizardim.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:52:12pm

Starting zoom session from the National Dems on “How to Run a Vote-by-Mail Program”.

traindemocrats.org

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:52:43pm

re: #412 lawhawk

Still think it’s a hoax right wing lunatics?

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This fucker has helped misinform the masses for years, and these propagandists are lying to a new generation of know nothings.

They quoted Caleb Hull in that article. Isn’t he the Redstate guy? If so, have they banned him?

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:52:47pm

re: #422 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Well, I didn’t mention the more than half filled bottle of tequila, but that’s neither here nor there.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:53:14pm

re: #425 plansbandc

Well, I didn’t mention the more than half filled bottle of tequila, but that’s neither here nor there.

Oh, you said MEXICAN Coke.

/half (yes, I know what Mexican Coke is)

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:54:18pm

re: #426 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I wonder if a tequila float would be good?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:54:51pm

re: #299 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

Indeed. It will be cinematic - Mitch may finally be empowered enough to give Trump the dressing-down he has needed since he was a toddler.

Mitch threatening to convene the Senate to vote to convict and imprison Trump would make him soil his tightie-whities.

I’ve never understood why he didn’t use the whip hand on Trump back in April, when it could have made a difference. Had Trump actually done anything other than posture and retweet morons, this pandemic might not have been this bad, and Mitch might have been able to keep his majority.

Now, though?

With Mitch, it all comes down to Elaine, not trump, not Moscow.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:54:56pm

re: #427 plansbandc

I wonder if a tequila float would be good?

Ugh, the only thing I can think of is the first time I drank, when I got drunk on tequila sunrises and white Russians… It was not a good night.

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:56:17pm

re: #429 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Oh no. That isn’t a good combo. Tequila and vodka in one night? BRRR

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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:56:39pm

re: #422 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I have a 12-pack of Diet Coke, a 1.75 of cheap whiskey, and way too much shit to put up with.

Evening Lizardim.

If I were closer, I’d be tempted to help you with that…

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:57:03pm

re: #430 plansbandc

Oh no. That isn’t a good combo. Tequila and vodka in one night? BRRR

I can’t stand tequila. Not sure if it’s a reflexive body memory of that, or if I just grew to dislike the pungent aftertaste of cheap tequila.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:57:53pm

re: #406 Belafon

Sounds like a mom decided to monetize it. I wonder if Bev was ever actually there.

I also think this could be a setup to weaken the movement.

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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:57:57pm

re: #429 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Ugh, the only thing I can think of is the first time I drank, when I got drunk on tequila sunrises and white Russians… It was not a good night.

Southern Comfort, chugged straight from the bottle, is a bad memory.
Rum and coke was the first bad legal one.

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:58:01pm

re: #426 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Oh, you said MEXICAN Coke.

/half (yes, I know what Mexican Coke is)

Passover Coke. (same stuff - proper sugar, not the HFCS stuff they sell here in the States).

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:58:33pm

re: #400 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Texas is determined to not let Florida outstrip it in Covid-19 death reports today.

Did you see new cases in Los Angeles today?
4,825 publichealth.lacounty.gov

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:58:38pm

re: #434 William Lewis

Southern Comfort, chugged straight from the bottle, is a bad memory.
Rum and coke was the first bad legal one.

Everclear is my other one. That was a REALLY bad night.

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 5:59:10pm

re: #434 William Lewis

Southern Comfort! I finally had some a couple of years ago after a multiple decade boycott. Worst hangover ever.

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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:00:47pm

re: #437 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Everclear is my other one. That was a REALLY bad night.

Worst thing about the rum and coke night? Still an 18 drinking age so I was living at home and got a ride home from my father. I can remember my head out the window of the van ralphing to the sound of his laughter.

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bratwurst  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:03:21pm

Went on a scotch bender the night after I got my heart properly ripped out my chest for the first time. To this day, the smell of it makes me ill.

Hell, THINKING about the smell of it makes me ill.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:04:21pm

Something I did not know existed until just today. Chessboxing

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:04:32pm

re: #439 William Lewis

The Everclear night, I was home alone. I’m surprised I didn’t choke to death, given the state I was in when I woke up. Honestly, the guy who went into the bottle that night probably wouldn’t have cared. That was years and years ago now, though.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:06:30pm

re: #395 Dread Pirate

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lawhawk  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:11:09pm

re: #443 jaunte

There’s growing evidence that one of the long term consequences of exposure is heightened risk of myocardial infections - myocarditis. It’s an infllamation of the tissue around the heart. It can be fatal.

It heightens risks for heart attacks and strokes.

Fuck Trump, the GOP, and mendacious media that still gives them cover.

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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:11:26pm

re: #440 bratwurst

Went on a scotch bender the night after I got my heart properly ripped out my chest for the first time. To this day, the smell of it makes me ill.

Hell, THINKING about the smell of it makes me ill.

Did a scotch bender the night I was in Tokyo and listened to the Challenger explosion on AFN radio. Smoked a couple of packs of Camel non-filtered & those fucked with me worse than the scotch. That night was, in many ways, harder for me than any romantic breakup I ever had.

I wonder … yep, it’s still on Scribd - my long poem about it.

Scribd Document

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:12:03pm

re: #441 Eventual Carrion

Something I did not know existed until just today. Chessboxing

Wu-Tang Clan - Da Mystery Of Chessboxin’ (Official Music Video)

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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:12:57pm

Zoom meeting is blowing up. The app is a not quite ready for prime-time.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:15:05pm

re: #447 Decatur Deb

Zoom meeting is blowing up. The app is a not quite ready for prime-time.

We were forbidden from using it for corporate meetings about two weeks into the pandemic.

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:15:57pm
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Decatur Deb  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:16:54pm

re: #433 Belafon

I also think this could be a setup to weaken the movement.

The line between ad-hoc and fly-by-night is subtle. That’s why mature orgs like ACLU and NAACP get results consistently.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:19:58pm
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Jack Burton  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:20:25pm

re: #449 plansbandc

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Phoenix

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:20:40pm

Should I stay on topic? Do I ever stay on topic? How about something super cute?

This is Rocket Man. He had his shots today and is not feeling all that great.

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Jack Burton  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:21:01pm

re: #451 Dread Pirate

10, on a scale of 1-1000

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:21:21pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:21:56pm

re: #455 jaunte

He probably already has the ‘rona from his idiot colleague Gohmert!.

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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:23:11pm

re: #449 plansbandc

Meh, just get out of the Phoenix area. Bisbee is quite nice even when it’s hot. I loved the Coronado mountains too.

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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:25:48pm

re: #457 William Lewis

I think Arizona is gorgeous. Not to live there, but visiting is lovely. I would learn to tolerate the heat, but the politics SUCK.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:26:38pm
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William Lewis  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:29:26pm

This looks like the base of the best possible chili dog…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:31:15pm

re: #430 plansbandc

Neither is a “Nazi from Hell” - half Jaget, half Rumple Minze….

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:31:45pm
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plansbandc  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:32:46pm

re: #460 William Lewis

Ooh. That would make for great buns. Now I want to get a whole bag of them to put in the freezer.

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retired cynic  Jul 29, 2020 • 6:34:54pm

re: #410 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Not to mention a jaw that is often too small for all the teeth…

I resemble that remark!!

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austin_blue  Jul 29, 2020 • 8:13:16pm

re: #282 A Three Hour Tour

As certain high profile Republicans like Confederate Mitch praise the late Congressman John Lewis, one line from Tom Lehrer’s “National Brotherhood Week” from 1965 keeps playing in my head: “It’s nice to eulogize the people you despise, just as long as you don’t let ‘em in your schools.”

I’ve got his songbook! That is surely one of his more obscure pieces, but certainly one of his most germane.


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