The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Good News Show

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

The Good News Show — [Explicit Content] The Trump Stress gave way to some really good news; Deutsche Bank handed over Trump financial documents to Cy Vance; Trump’s bank and insurance fraud; The New York attorney general announces a civil proceeding to dissolve the NRA; The actual purpose of the NRA; Tony and Ezekiel; Democrats working on a fix for the Postal Service; Facebook and Twitter remove Trump’s disinformation; Mike DeWine tests positive; Mayor Garcetti versus the COVID shirkers; Stink-palming the president; Florida man spits on kid for wearing a mask; Trump’s Beirut Gaffe; Trump’s RNC speech at the White House; Jody Hamilton and TRex David Ferguson are here; With music by Brian Lisik and Scott Cook; and more!

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1
Dave In Austin  Aug 6, 2020 • 11:30:56pm

Yeah, Hey FUCK TRUMP!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 6, 2020 • 11:37:28pm

White Man’s God, White Men’s guns, White Man’s Energy!!!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 6, 2020 • 11:39:42pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 6, 2020 • 11:41:49pm

It’s not like there are new tenants lining up when these people get evicted…

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:53:47am

This film was supposed to be released in August of this year, but owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’ll be in theaters next year.

Judas and the Black Messiah - the story of Fred Hampton, who was targeted by COINTELPRO and assassinated under the initiative of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH - Official Trailer

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:54:27am

re: #3 Dread Pirate Ron

Yesterday I was looking at the San Diego county real estate (residential) figures.

The bottom line is that prices thru July were holding the line… but only because the market supply of houses is way, way, down. There’s now less than a month supply of houses in the lower price ranges. The luxury market still has a few months supply, but that is way down too.

So the house average price is up year over year, and the median price too.

So what is happening - and this harkens back the 1930’s and the Great Depression - is that people who have money can still buy houses, but the number of people who can support such an industry is squeezing down.

And as the weeks march on, this will get worse. Fewer people will be able to move, which then cascades throughout the real estate market.

When the financial collapse happened in 2008, the real estate industry turned downward and that continued for a couple of years. If someone bought a house in 2009 they bought at (or around) the bottom, and at least here in San Diego county such people have seen the past 11 years continual asset appreciation.

What will happen over the next 12 months I do not know. It seems to me that like 2009 we can expect house prices to come down, but by how much I do not know.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:07:44am

When Biden gets elected, he can count on the GOP blaming him for all of this…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:11:20am

Ooh… a bass flute:

Jazz à la Flute - Essenza (Official Music Video)

..

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:13:31am

Seven comments, no FT, no GOTV.

The Mouse Police never sleep.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:15:01am

re: #33 makeitstop

Man, Dinesh is one dim-ass motherfucker.

Left hanging on the last thread:

LOL

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:19:08am

re: #9 Decatur Deb

Mappy, Mouse Police

You mean, this Mouse Police? ///
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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:19:12am

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Left hanging on the last thread:

LOL

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That English-speaking country pronounces it “Sigh-am”.

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Jay C  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:24:19am

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Left hanging on the last thread:

LOL

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Maybe someone can get D’Souza to record the classic “ ancient Thai chant”:

“O Wattana Siam”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:29:44am

Comedienne Blair Erskine (0:59)

It’s hard to tell satire from conservatives.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:30:42am

re: #11 Sherlock Hound

You mean, this Mouse Police? ///

Could have been calling for Dangermouse.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:33:33am

re: #11 Sherlock Hound

Jethro Tull - And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps (Rockpop, 03.06.1978)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:39:37am

She was parodying this wingnut.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:40:27am

Fixed #17.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:49:50am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:53:59am

Brownshirt Lives Matter!!!

/

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Amory Blaine  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:55:41am

We smoked a lot of thigh stick back in the day.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:03:26am

re: #21 Amory Blaine

We smoked a lot of thigh stick back in the day.

Always makes you crave p-hoe.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:12:28am

Public school student strike rising in Omaha. Dr. Ali Khan of the University of Nebraska Medical Center weighs in.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:14:00am

re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Corn-fed Commies.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:20:52am

re: #24 Decatur Deb

Corn-fed Commies.

The Republican Party led by Pete Ricketts is doing a magnificent job of ensuring every up-and-coming voter will despise the Republican Party for the rest of their lives.

From the students’ open letter:

Some teachers have children; all teachers have families. What happens when one of them dies? Some OPS teachers are already preparing for the worst. One teacher, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote that

I miss my kids. I miss my classroom. I miss my colleagues. But going back to school puts my kids, my colleagues, and myself at risk. I am immunocompromised, and I’m scared I’m going to die. In preparation for my return to school, I have filled out a Living Will as well as a Medical Power of Attorney. These things should not be on my “Back to School” list … We are teachers, not martyrs.

Most of us have teachers who, aside from their teaching responsibilities, also act as parents, counselors, and therapists for their students. They are not replaceable, they are humans with families, and in many cases, they are also an integral part of a student’s family away from home.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:39:20am

Well, continuing to flout science, Torrington, Wyo. seeks to recreate the Liberty Bond parades after WW1 ended.

Parade brings community together for Goshen County Fair (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Parade floats cruised down Main Street on Thursday, bringing Goshen County community members together at the annual fair parade.

Goshen County residents lined Main Street to watch parade floats pass by, sharing smiles and waves on Thursday at the annual Goshen County Fair Parade.

Fair Board Vice Chairman Michael McNamee’s voice came over the load speaker to announce the names of parade floats as they passed by the judges’ table at the fair parade. McNamee said the fair is an important event for the community.

(more at the link, lots and lots of unmasked people in the photographs at the bottom of the article)

Goshen County commission passes resolution speaking out against state’s ‘overblown’ coronavirus orders (Goes to the Casper, Wyo. Star-Tribune, yesterday)

The Goshen County commission passed a resolution Tuesday to urge its constituents to make their own health decisions and indicating it opposes health orders, both at a county and state level, that have been instituted to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The resolution, which is nonbinding and was described by the commission’s chairman as a statement of support for local residents, passed unanimously in a county with just 19 total coronavirus cases. The document encourages residents to “refrain from any county-level virus-related mandates concerning individual health care decisions.”

(more)

We are surrounded by feral conservatives.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:47:04am
Researchers behind an influential model are projecting that the US death toll from coronavirus could reach nearly 300,000 by December 1 — but that can be changed if Americans consistently wear masks,” CNN reports

we are surrounded by idiots.
stunningly stupid idiots.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:51:54am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:52:15am

re: #27 dangerman

we are surrounded by idiots.
stunningly stupid idiots.

Just as in the Black Death, conservatives then and conservatives now pack themselves into churches looking for divine intervention to save themselves from their own actions.

While medical science was in a poor state then, even then it was known that simple things like staying away from crowds and sick people would slow the spread of disease.

Neither religion nor conservatism changes very much. Seven hundred years later and they’re doing the same things.

Conservatives won’t change unless it affects them personally (hence the exhortations in the press of a conservative who thought it was a hoax or overblown and got sick from this).

They’re own actions will kill them in huge droves. They will take some of us with them, but the overwhelming majority will be them.

The blame lies squarely on the pastors and politicians who made this into a political issue to grasp power just a tiny bit longer.

Evolution by natural selection does not favour the survival of those individuals or species which will not or cannot change.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:53:33am

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:56:18am

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

When Biden gets elected, he can count on the GOP blaming him for all of this…

they already are…
from last time

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:01:48am

That would be Garden and Deuel Counties. Garden is a few miles east, and Deuel is south of Garden along the state line with Colorado.

I’ll have to keep an eye on what’s going on to see if they’re coming here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:04:09am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:10:33am

Northeast of me, in Gordon:

One for WrenchWench:

“We sold out of (the store’s stock of) bikes, replenished it, sold out of those and replenished again.” Caldwell said. “We then sold out of those, and now we pretty much don’t have anything and we can’t even get anything right now.”

The story has been the same at Alive Outside.

“One week we got six or seven bikes in and they were going off the floor pretty much as soon as we put them out there,” said Shawn Rosenberg, an employee at the bike and fitness store at 601 S. Jeffers St.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:22:40am

Yay, boring weather.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:42:21am

GOP: Get a job, moochers, as they cut the $600 unemployment benefit addition.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:47:13am
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Nojay UK  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:17:43am

re: #37 Dave In Austin

The US Constitution requires all Federal funding to be authorised by bills from Congress. Stuff like defense spending gets tacked on to any bill going through the sausage-making process in the Capitol in the hope it will get passed. No biggie, the long-term plan is to fund the production of F-35 fighters in small batches like this over the next couple of decades and this bill was just a convenient bucket to put it in.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:23:45am

Canada’s last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses (Reuters, twelve hours ago)

(Reuters) - The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40% of its area in just two days at the end of July, researchers said on Thursday.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:33:11am

re: #38 Nojay UK

The US Constitution requires all Federal funding to be authorised by bills from Congress. Stuff like defense spending gets tacked on to any bill going through the sausage-making process in the Capitol in the hope it will get passed. No biggie, the long-term plan is to fund the production of F-35 fighters in small batches like this over the next couple of decades and this bill was just a convenient bucket to put it in.

And it can be stripped out as an amendment when it goes to the House.

More likely though, the GOP will accuse the Democrats of not really caring about coronavirus relief and conveniently forget to mention that F-35 funding (which could be in its own bill and debated on its own merits).

Parrots across right-wing media outlets from small blogs will start the farm league feeder of propaganda until they get to the Big Show, FOX News Channel.

The people intended for this message will never hear about funding for the F-35 in this bill.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:39:40am

Important regional news update:

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Nojay UK  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:45:26am

re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It takes time and effort to get a bill up and running, it takes debate and process and committee meetings and there are only so many hours in a day and so many days when Congress is sitting to get all the sausage made that needs to be made. The Founding Slaveowners never envisaged that the US would become as big and as complicated as it ended up and their concepts of budgeting and finance were, well, 18th century at the best, something that contributed to regular financial crises all the way up to and including the Great Depression because of the Constitution.

The F-35 funding is not a contentious issue, the US is spending about a trillion dollars over 40 years or so of design, testing, manufacture, production, training, operation etc. on the F-35 program. It can’t or won’t spaff all that cash out in one big front-loaded lump, it will be paid for in chunks as the years roll by and this is one of the chunks. Sure, if it was contentious, if there was a big difference of opinion on the necessity for funding a particular additional item then it might be stripped out in debate but Both Sides are fine with this project going ahead and getting funded. The presence of this particular funding in this particular bill does make a good Outrage Du Jour though.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:45:34am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:48:07am

re: #42 Nojay UK

If they want the funding so badly, they can put it in the Democrats’ HEROS Act bill, which actually provides useful relief.

Or they can put it in a separate bill.

This is only there to create a talking point for the Republicans to claim Democrats don’t care about economic relief. To quote Rachel Maddow: Watch this space.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:51:51am

(1:13)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:54:29am

re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not much Arctic sea ice left:

Image: arcticictn-nowcast-anim30d-6-Aug2020.gif

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:00:46am

re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Can’t disagree with anything TikTok said.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:05:42am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:11:24am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:13:41am

Those same two guys up there did a reaction video to Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” back in June.

It turned out they really liked the song. They start playing the song at 0:45, the video is 4:58.

FIRST TIME HEARING Dolly Parton - Jolene REACTION

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:15:19am

(Livestream) Let’s Enjoy Universal Studios Japan CityWalk Walking and Eating with Local Japanese

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:16:03am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:20:49am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:22:15am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:23:12am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:25:13am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:25:21am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:27:16am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:29:44am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:31:37am
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John Hughes  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:35:26am

re: #38 Nojay UK

The US Constitution requires all Federal funding to be authorised by bills from Congress. Stuff like defense spending gets tacked on to any bill going through the sausage-making process in the Capitol in the hope it will get passed.

Normal countries pass an annual budget where this stuff is authorised. New big ticket items might get their own special bills, but this crazy add stuff to random legislation is just another sign that the US is moribund, tied to an obsolete, unchangeable constitution like a drowning sailor tangled with an anchor.

Performance and process is all, substance is unimportant.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:37:28am

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lots of people in that thread dragging the Internet Tough Guy (tm).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:40:26am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:41:25am

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lots of people in that thread dragging the Internet Tough Guy (tm).

He’s a TurningPoint loon. He should be used to dragging by now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:44:54am

Extremely local news: My wife reserved our room in Valentine for Aug. 12-16 for our trip to Smith Falls State Park. There’s also Fort Falls and Snake River Falls within a few minutes of Valentine.

We stayed at that motel when we were first looking for a house in Valentine to buy, before we moved here from Oklahoma.

Photographs will follow.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:47:26am

Always need more sleeping kitty photos

Good morning everyone.

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Mike Lamb  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:52:40am

re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Northeast of me, in Gordon:

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Lack of inventory on fitness equipment and bikes is stunning. And this goes all the way up to the most expensive road and mountain bikes ($5k and MUCH higher). Everyone is out of everything.

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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:56:46am
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Mike Lamb  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:57:32am

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Left hanging on the last thread:

LOL

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Holy fuck….what?

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Mike Lamb  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:58:21am

re: #68 (((Archangel1)))

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Seems like the criticism of the admin’s reaction to COVID was pretty spot on…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:01:35am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:02:56am

re: #69 Mike Lamb

Holy fuck….what?

Thai for “You are stupid.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:09:25am
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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:13:28am

I’m a bit ticked off that I didn’t think of this one myself early on…

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:18:10am

re: #73 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Birx’s spot in the history of CV-19 will be like that of Chamberlain in WWII: Hopelessly naive at best, disastrously incompetent at worst. it’s nicer to think that the reason she so badly botched predicting the way this outbreak would unfold because she was wildly optimistic, rather than the more likely reality that she played politics to gain Trump’s favor while Dr. Fauci stuck to the data and thus drew Needy Amin’s ire.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:21:11am

Another principled “Never Trumper.” His deal breaker is abortion.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:32:33am

If Donald Trump is reëlected, he will kill us all.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:34:17am

re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Another principled “Never Trumper.” His deal breaker is abortion.

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If you have a “deal breaker” when it comes to voting for Biden, then you’re not “Never Trump.”

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jeffreyw  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:34:17am

Ollie

Good morning!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:36:12am

re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lewis said that a while ago, and he still hasn’t owned up to the obvious revelation that is knocking on his door.

That is, the rabidity of the anti-abortion movement is one of the direct causes that led to Trump.

Trump is the end result of several atavisms raging this country, but among the most important for politics is the heat generated by hardcore religious anti-abortionists.

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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:38:47am

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Phil Collins… subverting expectations.. :)

Love it when folks hear something new.

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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:39:15am

re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:41:23am

re: #78 Targetpractice

If you have a “deal breaker” when it comes to voting for Biden, then you’re not “Never Trump.”

I’m a single-issue voter too: Pry the Burnt Orange Il Douche and his whole Fascist Party out of office.

All these: I’m voting Green, I’m voting Libertarian, I’m writing in Bernie, I’m not voting.

I wish Trump supporters would be honest and stop dressing it up as some sort of principled protest. It’s not principled, unless the principle is “lying” or “cowardice.”

That asshat in the Daily Beast piece is just another conservative who is fine with Trump’s policies, just not giving away the game in public.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:41:55am

Ostrava’s new double-decker buses have arrived!

moravskoslezsky.denik.cz

They’ll head into the shop for some minor modifications (security cameras, WiFi installation, debit card readers, etc.) and they should hit the streets by mid-October.

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:42:25am

re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I think we saw him the other day. He’s just looking for an excuse.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:44:49am

re: #85 Belafon

I think we saw him the other day. He’s just looking for an excuse.

Any alleged Never-Trumper who starts with “I can’t stand Trump but I can’t pull the lever for Biden” is doing precisely that.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:45:25am

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m a single-issue voter too: Pry the Burnt Orange Il Douche and his whole Fascist Party out of office.

All these: I’m voting Green, I’m voting Libertarian, I’m writing in Bernie, I’m not voting.

I wish Trump supporters would be honest and stop dressing it up as some sort of principled protest. It’s not principled, unless the principle is “lying” or “cowardice.”

That asshat in the Daily Beast piece is just another conservative who is fine with Trump’s policies, just not giving away the game in public.

The only “principle” I’ve seen so far in practice by the “Never Trump” crowd is insisting that they’re against the things Trump is doing, except when it’s one of their pet issues. Then they suddenly jump up and declare that as much as one may hate Trump, they “have to admit” that whatever he’s doing to address said issue is “the right thing.”

See also: The assholes who argued in the lead-up to the midterms that the Dems were going to hurt themselves with “independent” voters if they spoke out against Trump’s military response to “THE CARAVANS!!!!”

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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:46:07am

Fucking predictable Trumpists are predictable. Job figures are misleading at best.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:47:03am

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Any alleged Never-Trumper who starts with “I can’t stand Trump but I can’t pull the lever for Biden” is doing precisely that.

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That really was Gore’s biggest mistake during that campaign. And even with it, I still believe he won. History is very different if Rehnquist administers the oath to Gore on 1/20/01.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:47:43am

what in the utter pluperfect actual fuck

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:47:52am

So today is August 7th.

75 years ago today, the Japanese woke up to a new reality.

The Japanese government had to say something so issued statements about some new kind of bombs (plural), not seeming to want to admit that a single bomb could destroy an entire Japanese city.

These events of 1945 are mostly ignored in American society today, and I don’t expect anything from Trump or Trumpers.

But we should reflect on how significant the change was, going into the Atomic Age.

And how horrible our wars really are.

American’s are loathe to admit that last part.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:48:27am

re: #87 Targetpractice

And another Never-Trumper weighs in at The Bulwark:

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:49:05am

re: #90 The Pie Overlord!

what in the utter pluperfect actual fuck

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Who the fuck made him, the Republican who polled the worst with black voters not running against Obama the arbitrator of the African American vote. Stupid fuck.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:50:10am

Tired of far left and far right assholes demanding Biden do things their way. Fuckers.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:50:43am

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Pundit industry are lining up their gigs for after the election.

If Trump loses, which is likely, then the pundits will get immediate memory loss, and all that will matter are Biden’s shortcomings.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:50:53am

re: #90 The Pie Overlord!

what in the utter pluperfect actual fuck

Wingnuts all day yesterday were claiming Biden’s a racist because he allegedly called Hispanics “more diverse” than Blacks.

Biden’s actual statement was clunky, but they’re busy misrepresenting it.

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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:53:26am

called it:

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:54:14am

re: #88 lawhawk

Fucking predictable Trumpists are predictable. Job figures are misleading at best.

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There’s always “job creation” in the summer. It’s always seasonal, it’s always cheap, and it generally never lasts past August. Just like in three months, we’ll be told about the stellar “job creation” in winter…as businesses hire to deal with Christmas shopping.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:58:08am

re: #98 Targetpractice

All the jobs created are in food service, other service industry jobs and retail. The lowest paying jobs least likely to have decent health insurance and decent pay. Why that is great news I have no idea.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 6:58:14am

Sam Wang (Princeton Electoral Consortium) predicts the final Electoral College vote to be Biden 407, Trump 131.

He gives the following toss-ups to the Democrats:

TX, AZ, FL, GA, NC, OH, PA, MI, ME-2, NE-2.

That would be the sort of landslide we’re looking for.

270towin.com

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:00:57am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sam Wang (Princeton Electoral Consortium) predicts the final Electoral College vote to be Biden 407, Trump 131.

He gives the following toss-ups to the Democrats:

TX, AZ, FL, GA, NC, OH, PA, MI, ME-2, NE-2.

That would be the sort of landslide we’re looking for.

270towin.com

I really think it’s possible. We need to bury these assholes.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:02:34am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sam Wang (Princeton Electoral Consortium) predicts the final Electoral College vote to be Biden 407, Trump 131.

270towin.com

How, I ask how, can those states that will vote for Trump ever reconcile reality to what Trump is and what he has done?

Oh, I know - to a measure those states are populated by religious right masses, who are using Trump to wage a religious war on their behalf.

(I suppose Alaska might be an exception, where some fantasy of being in the wild makes them hate Democrats for some reason.)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:03:31am

Ralph Reed? Isn’t he in prison or am I thinking of someone else?

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:04:45am

re: #61 John Hughes

Normal countries pass an annual budget where this stuff is authorised. New big ticket items might get their own special bills, but this crazy add stuff to random legislation is just another sign that the US is moribund, tied to an obsolete, unchangeable constitution like a drowning sailor tangled with an anchor.

Performance and process is all, substance is unimportant.

$686m
Just an add on
Over half a billion
No biggie

And merit or not, sticking it here was specifically intended to muddy the waters

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:04:56am

re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Ralph Reed? Isn’t he in prison or am I thinking of someone else?

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Someone else. I don’t think Reed’s ever been in criminal trouble.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:05:35am

re: #101 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I really think it’s possible. We need to bury these assholes.

So far down they will never see the light of day again.

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cat-tikvah  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:06:37am

re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I want an extinction level event.
And then it will be so toxic to have been a Republican that it will be like admitting you were a Nazi.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:06:46am

re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

How, I ask how, can those states that will vote for Trump ever reconcile reality to what Trump is and what he has done?

Oh, I know - to a measure those states are populated by religious right masses, who are using Trump to wage a religious war on their behalf.

(I suppose Alaska might be an exception, where some fantasy of being in the wild makes them hate Democrats for some reason.)

I mean to at least 40% of the country I just find myself saying really what the fuck to. Tell ya this much, I have a much better understanding of how the NSDAP was able to get enough political capital to take over Germany.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:06:46am

re: #99 A Mom Anon

All the jobs created are in food service, other service industry jobs and retail. The lowest paying jobs least likely to have decent health insurance and decent pay. Why that is great news I have no idea.

It’s great for capitalists.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:07:30am

re: #99 A Mom Anon

All the jobs created are in food service, other service industry jobs and retail. The lowest paying jobs least likely to have decent health insurance and decent pay. Why that is great news I have no idea.

This is the Cult of the Magic Line tm, people who measure success or failure of the economy…by whether or not the stock market line is going up or down.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:08:13am

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s great for capitalists.

It’s the same mentality that leads to celebrations that a company has posted “record profits”…just before it fires half its workforce while giving the CEO a massive bonus.

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:08:25am

re: #67 Mike Lamb

Lack of inventory on fitness equipment and bikes is stunning. And this goes all the way up to the most expensive road and mountain bikes ($5k and MUCH higher). Everyone is out of everything.

The longer this pandemic drags on, the less appealing “I’ll just call an Uber” looks and feels.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:08:40am

re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So far down they will never see the light of day again.

Make the Trumps Irrelevant Again.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:10:47am

So the BBC (actually, originally an FX show) has a drama that looks at American politics wrt women’s rights, Mrs. America. This morning BBC posted a short clip:

The women against gender equality in America - BBC

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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:11:12am

Sane thread

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:11:46am
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John Hughes  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:12:24am

re: #75 Targetpractice

Birx’s spot in the history of CV-19 will be like that of Chamberlain in WWII: Hopelessly naive at best, disastrously incompetent at worst.

This is a totally incorrect analysis of both Birx and Chamberlain.

Birx is not naive, nor incompetent. She is lying for party political reasons.

Chamberlain was neither naive, nor incompetent. The British government and military consensus was that the coming war had to be delayed until Britain had finished rearmament. He was maybe optimistic about how long he could delay the war, but he knew it was coming.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:13:17am

re: #112 sagehen

The longer this pandemic drags on, the less appealing “I’ll just call an Uber” looks and feels.

Worksman Cycles has their inventory in stock. They’re pretty expensive, but they’ll last forever.

I can’t talk my wife into buying a $5,000 pedal surrey though.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:13:46am
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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:14:08am

re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Another principled “Never Trumper.” His deal breaker is abortion.

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There are only two ways to vote for president
Biden
Trump

One of these two will be the next president

If you are a “never Trumper” then you must vote for biden.
Abstaining is a vote for trump
Unless you vote positively for Biden, You are directly or indirectly voting for trump and therefore you are not a never Trumper.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:14:09am

I’ll level with y’all. Like FLOTUS Obama, I too have been struggling with anxiety and depression. I’m finding myself more irritable, my temper more quick, & sometimes just wanting to curse loudly or cry. I definitely feel a little bit of hopelessness. I’m optimistic about Biden’s chances. But I’m resigned to that we’re going to be fixing this mess for a long time and I’m petrified of voter amnesia giving a more shrewd version of Trump a shot. Hopefully the kids will remember the Trump years as the clusterfuck they’ve been and not fall for the propaganda.

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JC1  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:14:35am

re: #67 Mike Lamb

Lack of inventory on fitness equipment and bikes is stunning. And this goes all the way up to the most expensive road and mountain bikes ($5k and MUCH higher). Everyone is out of everything.

Try Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. Got a like new condition Norditrack ski machine for $5 last week. Bikes available too.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:14:49am

re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If Donald Trump is reëlected, he will kill us all.

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Kids are immune. //

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:15:10am

re: #78 Targetpractice

If you have a “deal breaker” when it comes to voting for Biden, then you’re not “Never Trump.”

You got there in less words than me

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:15:49am

re: #119 The Pie Overlord!

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Oh shut the fuck up, you inbred Evangelical asshole. You look up to fucking Trump who gave the Chinese government the go ahead to enslave people but go on about satanic bullshit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:16:41am

Incoming hot take from the Libertarians.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:18:43am

re: #123 dangerman

Kids are immune. //

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Trump’s got that kids blood on his little, orange hands.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:19:12am

re: #119 The Pie Overlord!

LOL

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:21:18am

re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wingnuts all day yesterday were claiming Biden’s a racist because he allegedly called Hispanics “more diverse” than Blacks.

Biden’s actual statement was clunky, but they’re busy misrepresenting it.

He meant politically diverse. And said so.
And yes they are.
Because ” Hispanic ” is neither a monolith or a common history/root/source

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:23:08am

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Scratch a Libertarian, find a Nazi.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:26:06am

re: #129 dangerman

He meant politically diverse. And said so.
And yes they are.
Because ” Hispanic ” is neither a monolith or a common history/root/source

The most pathetic thing I see is white people citing other white people to go after Biden on this when Biden could potentially be the first person to be VP to an African American and to have an African American running mate. Sometimes Biden isn’t the most eloquent but it’s indisputable that African Americans are solid Democrats and it’s offensive as shit coming from people like Trump who repeatedly demean African American political leaders based on their views on him.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:27:17am

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Scratch a Libertarian, find a Nazi.

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Cultural Marxism aka I am a Nazi hack who has nothing of value to offer a conversation. The heirs of McCarthy can stfu about cancel culture.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:27:43am

re: #120 dangerman

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There are only two ways to vote for president
Biden
Trump

One of these two will be the next president

If you are a “never Trumper” then you must vote for biden.
Abstaining is a vote for trump
Unless you vote positively for Biden, You are directly or indirectly voting for trump and therefore you are not a never Trumper.

How much longer do we need to hear from these Never Trumper Goldilocks?

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:27:46am

re: #117 John Hughes

This is a totally incorrect analysis of both Birx and Chamberlain.

Birx is not naive, nor incompetent. She is lying for party political reasons.

Chamberlain was neither naive, nor incompetent. The British government and military consensus was that the coming war had to be delayed until Britain had finished rearmament. He was maybe optimistic about how long he could delay the war, but he knew it was coming.

There was no more a “consensus” against war than there was one for it. If one wanted to make a case for war with Germany in 1939, they would have found military leaders just as ready to argue Britain’s armed forces were large enough and strong enough to blunt Hitler’s ambitions, just as the peace crowd could find generals and admirals who felt the military was woefully antiquated and threadbare. Even within Parliament the parties were split, with half of each pushing for war and the other half pushing for negotiated settlement. Before the Blitz, Chamberlain and Lord Halifax had a stronger argument for agreeing to a “live and let live” non-aggression treaty with Hitler than Churchill had for going to war.

Chamberlain was not naive for believing he’d negotiated “peace in our time,” as Churchill and his allies would later accuse the man. He was naive for believing that the Reich’s ambitions would stop with a few colonial concessions and an agreement not to interfere in Germany’s continental expansion.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:30:40am

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Incoming hot take from the Libertarians.

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“Cancel Culture” is “Political Correctness” with the serial numbers filed off. It’s the same idea in a new coat: Racists, bigots, sexists, and other assorted assholes angry that they’re no longer welcome in polite society. The best example I’ve seen in recent years was Dave Chappelle moaning about “Cancel Culture” because all his old jokes are no longer getting the laughs they once did.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:32:17am

re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So the BBC (actually, originally an FX show) has a drama that looks at American politics wrt women’s rights, Mrs. America. This morning BBC posted a short clip:

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We watched it
Schlafly was an absolute evil witch. Even her personal life.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:34:33am

re: #135 Targetpractice

“Cancel Culture” is “Political Correctness” with the serial numbers filed off. It’s the same idea in a new coat: Racists, bigots, sexists, and other assorted assholes angry that they’re no longer welcome in polite society. The best example I’ve seen in recent years was Dave Chappelle moaning about “Cancel Culture” because all his old jokes are no longer getting the laughs they once did.

I loved Chappelle in the Bush years but dude has multiple Netflix specials. He’s the opposite of cancel culture. He’s just pandering via comedy to a bunch of whiners, the same way Louis CK did whining about the Parkland kids.

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:35:00am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sam Wang (Princeton Electoral Consortium) predicts the final Electoral College vote to be Biden 407, Trump 131.

He gives the following toss-ups to the Democrats:

TX, AZ, FL, GA, NC, OH, PA, MI, ME-2, NE-2.

That would be the sort of landslide we’re looking for.

270towin.com

It’s certainly possible, but a lot of those toss-ups are in voter suppression states. I’m not so optimistic.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:35:45am

re: #110 Targetpractice

The Cult of the Magic Line ™️
That is such a great terminology for the business culture of the last 150 years

Some of the first productivity metrics were developed in railroad cargo loading. The bosses fired the usual workers and hired immigrants, who wanted to prove themselves.

They all worked really hard for a month to improve previous efficiency but a great collective physical cost, were summarily fired and the old crew rehired

Metrics in hand management presented the rehired workers with the new productivity goals.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:35:53am
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Teukka  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:35:54am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:38:05am

OT: Great personal news for a Friday!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:38:13am

re: #133 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

How much longer do we need to hear from these Never Trumper Goldilocks?

About as long as we heard from Trump voters in diners after the election.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:39:17am

re: #131 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

The most pathetic thing I see is white people citing other white people to go after Biden on this when Biden could potentially be the first person to be VP to an African American and to have an African American running mate. Sometimes Biden isn’t the most eloquent but it’s indisputable that African Americans are solid Democrats and it’s offensive as shit coming from people like Trump who repeatedly demean African American political leaders based on their views on him.

He should just say that:

I was VP to an aa president for 8 years
I just selected an aa to be my vp
What the hell is wrong with you?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:39:35am

re: #101 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I really think it’s possible. We need to bury these assholes.

This times a thousand (votes).

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:40:28am

re: #105 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Someone else. I don’t think Reed’s ever been in criminal trouble.

Depends how you define “criminal trouble”.

He was a huge component of the Abramoff mess.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:40:32am

re: #133 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

How much longer do we need to hear from these Never Trumper Goldilocks?

We won’t need em after 11/3

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:40:40am
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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:41:19am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Did this happen in a hipster coffee shop?

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makeitstop  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:41:55am

re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg

OT: Great personal news for a Friday!

That’s definitely good news.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:43:13am

re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Another principled “Never Trumper.” His deal breaker is abortion.

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That ass got roasted on Twitter. He’s in the Cult Of The Fetus which means it’s OK to cage kids whose skin is darker than his.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:48:59am

re: #144 dangerman

He should just say that:

I was VP to an aa president for 8 years
I just selected an aa to be my vp
What the hell is wrong with you?

Seriously. I get that sometimes he says things that make people go huh but this statement wasn’t anywhere close to Trump bitching about John Lewis not attending his inauguration.

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makeitstop  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:49:04am

Kudlow’s ‘bout to spin himself right into the ground…

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:49:54am

re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So the BBC (actually, originally an FX show) has a drama that looks at American politics wrt women’s rights, Mrs. America. This morning BBC posted a short clip:

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Phyllis Schlafley was a blight on America, every single day of her adult life.

For Americans who missed it and want to watch it now, It’s on Hulu.

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:51:10am

re: #153 makeitstop

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Mike Lamb  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:51:39am

re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thai for “You are stupid.”

I meant D’Souza’s “defense”.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:51:45am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lemme guess….he was enjoying an iced frappe in a “hipster coffee shop”.

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:52:45am

re: #117 John Hughes

Chamberlain was neither naive, nor incompetent. The British government and military consensus was that the coming war had to be delayed until Britain had finished rearmament. He was maybe optimistic about how long he could delay the war, but he knew it was coming.

Even so, without FDR the Brits would be speaking German today.

(so would Americans; we were next on the Nazis’ to-do list once they secured the UK.

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:53:24am

re: #157 Dr Lizardo

Lemme guess….he was enjoying an iced frappe in a “hipster coffee shop”.

It could have been a registered Democrat that hasn’t voted for once since 1980.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:53:57am

re: #158 sagehen

Even so, without FDR the Brits would be speaking German today.

(so would Americans; we were next on the Nazis’ to-do list once they secured the UK.

I criticize FDR a lot but he was the best President we could have had during WWII.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:54:35am

re: #79 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:55:25am

re: #159 Belafon

It could have been a registered Democrat that hasn’t voted for once since 1980.

Some people just make their rep of being “I’m this party but I actually spout bs for the other party.” FNC used to have a lot of em.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:55:38am

re: #149 Targetpractice

Did this happen in a hipster coffee shop?

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Rep. Don Bacon is part of the cult. All Democrats are radicals.

This presumably refers to Kara Eastman, the Democratic challenger for his seat.

ballotpedia.org

Real radical there.

As state Senator Morfeld said, come on, this is Omaha, Nebraska. You’re not likely to find someone very far to the left-of-centre: Probably state Senator Megan Hunt is it.

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John Hughes  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:57:35am

re: #141 Teukka

CF: Missile Gap by Charlie Stross.

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KGxvi  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:58:51am

re: #163 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

According to the ballotpedia link you have there. She’s such a radical that when she ran two years ago, she lost by… 2 percentage points. Apparently Omaha is basically a haven for antifa

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 7:59:35am

re: #159 Belafon

It could have been a registered Democrat that hasn’t voted for once since 1980.

Kim Davis of “I’m not issuing marriage licenses to TehGeyhHomoSatanicAgenda” was a Democrat, until she made her job about her religion. After Tailgunner Ted and a bunch of other Republicans parachuted in for fame, she switched parties for the next election in 2015. She was defeated in 2018.

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John Hughes  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:00:19am

re: #158 sagehen

re: #158 sagehen

Even so, without FDR the Brits would be speaking German today.

Russian.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:00:41am

re: #165 KGxvi

According to the ballotpedia link you have there. She’s such a radical that when she ran two years ago, she lost by… 2 percentage points. Apparently Omaha is basically a haven for antifa

It’s so funny to read the right wing trolls and hacks calling my very middle of the road Congresswoman a Marxist. Motherfucks think anyone who doesn’t share their skewed interpretation of capitalism is a Marxist.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:01:09am

ברוך דיין אמת

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KGxvi  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:01:37am

re: #168 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

It’s so funny to read the right wing trolls and hacks calling my very middle of the road Congresswoman a Marxist. Motherfucks think anyone who doesn’t share their skewed interpretation of capitalism is a Marxist.

I’m fairly certain they couldn’t actually define “Marxist” either

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:01:45am

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Lifts are getting the better of him these days.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:02:01am

re: #165 KGxvi

According to the ballotpedia link you have there. She’s such a radical that when she ran two years ago, she lost by… 2 percentage points. Apparently Omaha is basically a haven for antifa

When you think cities with radical leftists, socialists, anarchists, and communists (all of whom are the same thing to Republicans), Omaha just naturally rolls out as your first choice.

Kara Eastman is practically Ché Gueverra dressed as a woman to Don Bacon.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:02:59am

re: #170 KGxvi

I’m fairly certain they couldn’t actually define “Marxist” either

Jew.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:04:03am

re: #170 KGxvi

I’m fairly certain they couldn’t actually define “Marxist” either

Oh I’m certain of that. They think BLM is Marxist ffs. Everything I dislike is Marxism has been in the playbook a loooong time.

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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:04:20am

re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg

OT: Great personal news for a Friday!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:05:18am

re: #174 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Oh I’m certain of that. They think BLM is Marxist ffs. Everything I dislike is Marxism has been in the playbook a loooong time.

Except when BLM are Nazis. Because Nazis and Marxists are the same thing, really.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:05:30am

re: #107 cat-tikvah

I want an extinction level event.
And then it will be so toxic to have been a Republican that it will be like admitting you were a Nazi.

They’ll be back. They always come back. And we must be sure our grandchildren are here, waiting for them.

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KGxvi  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:05:47am

re: #167 John Hughes

Russian.

The Germans would have eventually turned east and the likely outcome of their eastern campaign would have been similar to what happened in this time line. It also would have allowed the British and French resistance to organize and fight any sort of occupation. That also raises the question of what Asia under a Japanese empire and Africa under Italian control would look like

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:06:14am

re: #134 Targetpractice

There was no more a “consensus” against war than there was one for it. If one wanted to make a case for war with Germany in 1939, they would have found military leaders just as ready to argue Britain’s armed forces were large enough and strong enough to blunt Hitler’s ambitions, just as the peace crowd could find generals and admirals who felt the military was woefully antiquated and threadbare. Even within Parliament the parties were split, with half of each pushing for war and the other half pushing for negotiated settlement. Before the Blitz, Chamberlain and Lord Halifax had a stronger argument for agreeing to a “live and let live” non-aggression treaty with Hitler than Churchill had for going to war.

Chamberlain was not naive for believing he’d negotiated “peace in our time,” as Churchill and his allies would later accuse the man. He was naive for believing that the Reich’s ambitions would stop with a few colonial concessions and an agreement not to interfere in Germany’s continental expansion.

Before we leave this topic, I remind you that there was one country and one leader who went to war with Hitler without first being invaded or having war declared against it. That country was Britain, and the man was Neville Chamberlain.

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calochortus  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:06:32am

re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Except when BLM are Nazis. Because Nazis and Marxists are the same thing, really.

Of course they are. National Socialist party. My nephew is convinced of it.

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KGxvi  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:08:50am

re: #180 calochortus

Of course they are. National Socialist party. My nephew is convinced of it.

Well the Nazis also decided that Nordic people were the real Arryans instead of people from Iran… so, they probably aren’t the best people to trust on what words mean

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gwangung  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:09:05am

re: #180 calochortus

Of course they are. National Socialist party. My nephew is convinced of it.

Even though most of the American sympathizers were conservative and right wing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:09:35am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:09:38am

re: #180 calochortus

Of course they are. National Socialist party. My nephew is convinced of it.

I mean I’ll be the first to acknowledge there were Nazis that took the socialist part seriously but they were also purged early on. Hitler courted both industrialists and the military brass who were not fans of the German left. I’ll concede that Nazism was different from mainstream German conservatives which is why you did have those like Adenhauer who opposed them but they were right wing.

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calochortus  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:09:53am

re: #181 KGxvi

Well the Nazis also decided that Nordic people were the real Arryans instead of people from Iran… so, they probably aren’t the best people to trust on what words mean

Wait. You mean we aren’t?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:10:42am

re: #138 sagehen

It’s certainly possible, but a lot of those toss-ups are in voter suppression states. I’m not so optimistic.

We are two points behind.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:11:11am

re: #179 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Before we leave this topic, I remind you that there was one country and one leader who went to war with Hitler without first being invaded or having war declared against it. That country was Britain, and the man was Neville Chamberlain.

That country did so because it thought that the threat of war with Britain and France together would be enough to either force the Reich to abandon their conquest of Poland or at least force them to the negotiating table. And had Lord Halifax’s efforts to negotiate a backdoor peace agreement with Hitler succeeded, Chamberlain would have happily accepted it…if only to piss in Churchill’s tea.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:11:15am

re: #182 gwangung

Even though most of the American sympathizers were conservative and right wing.

Yep the old war who like Trump was fond of isolationism and hostility towards international cooperation were Hitler’s biggest champions in the US. They hated the Roosevelt administration for being anti Hitler.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:12:36am

re: #181 KGxvi

Well the Nazis also decided that Nordic people were the real Arryans instead of people from Iran… so, they probably aren’t the best people to trust on what words mean

People like Calc’s nephew would be shocked how North Korea describes itself.

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KGxvi  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:13:52am

re: #186 Decatur Deb

We are two points behind.

We are winning and need to run up the score

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calochortus  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:14:28am

re: #189 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

People like Calc’s nephew would be shocked how North Korea describes itself.

What? You mean you can’t always trust that countries or political parties name themselves honestly and accurately??
I’m so disappointed.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:14:47am

re: #190 KGxvi

We are winning and need to run up the score

You run up the score by being two points behind.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:14:52am

Story time:

Two years before we moved here, there was a huge political fight over the proposed water project in town which would float a municipal bond (now paid off early) to purchase reverse osmosis units and replace village-owned lead water lines to the first joint inside a house (not just to the water meter).

The Republican village board chairwoman at the time supported the project, since USDA was paying for 90% of the cost.

That led to fist fights in village meetings, someone sticking a bloody pig’s head on a pole in her yard, vandalism of her property, and the county sheriff sending a deputy to meetings armed (he still was when we moved here).

But it’s those radical leftists who are the real problem.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:15:38am
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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:15:42am

re: #181 KGxvi

Well the Nazis also decided that Nordic people were the real Arryans instead of people from Iran… so, they probably aren’t the best people to trust on what words mean

Worse than that. People from India (you know, the ones the Anglo-Saxons had conquered). But I agree with you about definitions.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:16:44am

re: #191 calochortus

What? You mean you can’t always trust that countries or political parties name themselves honestly and accurately??
I’m so disappointed.

I know. I was so disappointed that the people’s republic of China isn’t a republic but instead a single party dictatorship.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:17:06am

re: #187 Targetpractice

That country did so because it thought that the threat of war with Britain and France together would be enough to either force the Reich to abandon their conquest of Poland or at least force them to the negotiating table. And had Lord Halifax’s efforts to negotiate a backdoor peace agreement with Hitler succeeded, Chamberlain would have happily accepted it…if only to piss in Churchill’s tea.

The facts remain as I stated them.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:18:05am

re: #178 KGxvi

The Germans would have eventually turned east and the likely outcome of their eastern campaign would have been similar to what happened in this time line. It also would have allowed the British and French resistance to organize and fight any sort of occupation. That also raises the question of what Asia under a Japanese empire and Africa under Italian control would look like

It’s debatable about how long that “eventually” would have lasted, whether it were a few months or a few years. There’s strong evidence that Hitler only pursued Barbarossa in 1941 because he believed that with the USSR neutralized, Britain would be more willing to enter into a negotiated peace. And that he pushed up the timetable with an eye towards accomplishing such before winter set in. Of course, he also wildly overestimated not only the capabilities of his own forces, but the strength of the Soviet forces that they would face. So he may have pushed forward with the invasion at roughly the same time in a timeline where Britain bowed out of the war.

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KGxvi  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:18:53am

This might be my favorite thing from the Princeton election consortium:

Image: ev_histogram.png

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:19:10am

re: #197 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

The facts remain as I stated them.

And 1.9m jobs “created” means the economy is recovering. Facts in absence of context can be spun however the user wishes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:19:20am

re: #196 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I know. I was so disappointed that the people’s republic of China isn’t a republic but instead a single party dictatorship.

Or that the United States of America are fifty meth labs of democracy.

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retired cynic  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:21:17am

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Ooh… a bass flute:
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I can’t imagine the air it would take for that! There is no resistance. The air just flows away. (Remember from my music ed degree, when we had to take each instrument, from flute to string bass to percussion.)

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Jay C  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:22:38am

re: #134 Targetpractice

Chamberlain was not naive for believing he’d negotiated “peace in our time,” as Churchill and his allies would later accuse the man. He was naive for believing that the Reich’s ambitions would stop with a few colonial concessions and an agreement not to interfere in Germany’s continental expansion.

True: but among Chamberlain’s other failures at Munich, the main one was letting himself be convinced by Hitler that “Germany’s continental expansion” was going to be limited only to “German” regions (like the Sudetenland) which had been “unjustly” detached from the Reich after WWI - rather than the entire continent of Europe (the Fuhrer’s actual plan).

Personally, I think Edouard Daladier (French PM) was every bit as derelict at Munich as Chamberlain: probably worse, since he was only too willing to let the Brits do the “negotiating” in selling out the Czechs, and then simply signing on to the deal with - basically - a Gallic shrug - French commitments to Czechoslovakia (and Britain) notwithstanding.

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aatharuv  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:23:46am

re: #195 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Worse than that. People from India (you know, the ones the Anglo-Saxons had conquered). But I agree with you about definitions.

Technically Aryan includes both northern Indians and Iranians (and other speakers of related languages). Ironically, the “Aryan” group with the largest percentage of blue eyed, blonde haired people would be…. the Rroma, who were on the Nazi list for genocide.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:24:04am

John Lewis’s words ring down to a new generation.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:24:30am

The economy can’t fully recover until we get the pandemic under control.

There’s no other way around this. We HAVE to address the first problem before we can tackle the other.

It’s like if you were watering a garden and you had a number of different hoses and a watering can but they all had multiple holes in them. You can still get some water on the garden regardless, but it’s chaotic and uncontrolled. However, if you have good quality hoses and a sturdy watering can, it’s far easier to cultivate healthy flowers.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:25:33am

re: #206 Eclectic Cyborg

The economy can’t fully recover until we get the pandemic under control.

There’s no other way around this. We HAVE to address the first problem before we can tackle the other.

It’s like if you were watering a garden and you had a number of different hoses and a watering can but they all had multiple holes in them. You can still get some water on the garden regardless, but it’s chaotic and uncontrolled. However, if you have good quality hoses and a sturdy watering can, it’s far easier to cultivate healthy flowers.

That you, Chauncy?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:26:11am

The ACLU is aware of the Georgia student.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:26:56am
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Teukka  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:27:27am

For yer edumacation…

[Click Here for Report]
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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:28:58am

re: #192 Decatur Deb

You run up the score by being two points behind.

The analogy sort of breaks down when one remembers that the scores in sports are evident to everyone as the game goes on, rather than all the points tallied at the very end. Even the teams most committed to fighting as though they’re the underdog eventually have to acknowledge that they’re kicking the other team’s ass black and blue. Otherwise you start crushing morale, telling the players that no matter how good they’re playing, they’re still not doing enough to beat the other side.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:30:01am

re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Ralph Reed? Isn’t he in prison or am I thinking of someone else?

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And then god said, “Let there be roulette!”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:31:40am

re: #208 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The ACLU is aware of the Georgia student.

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Her suspension was apparently lifted. Insufficient. I hope she keeps going.

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:32:47am

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s nothing wrong with calling BS on people’s writing. It is wrong, however, to incite mobs to destroy their livelihoods.

Remind me again, did this author take a similar stance regarding the Dixie Chicks? Or Bill Maher, Phil Donahue, Ward Churchill, Colin Kapernick?

Didn’t think so.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:32:55am

re: #211 Targetpractice

I heard enough complacent shit in the Summer of 2016. Trump’s disapproval peaked three weeks ago.

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aatharuv  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:34:04am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Her suspension was apparently lifted. Insufficient. I hope she keeps going.

My first thoughts were that the suspension was a blessing in disguise…. as long as it gets removed from her permanent record. What student should have to go back to school with out even social distancing or masks.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:34:24am

re: #215 Decatur Deb

I heard enough complacent shit in the Summer of 2016. Trump’s disapproval peaked three weeks ago.

Would you agree that one can be confident without being complacent? That one can express a belief that the election is in our favor without believing that it is impossible for the other side to win?

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:35:12am

re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Ralph Reed? Isn’t he in prison or am I thinking of someone else?

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:35:43am

re: #214 sagehen

Remind me again, did this author take a similar stance regarding the Dixie Chicks? Or Bill Maher, Phil Donahue, Ward Churchill, Colin Kapernick?

Didn’t think so.

It’s only “Cancel Culture” when it targets conservatives. When it targets liberals, it’s “Freedom of association” or “Market forces.”

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:37:04am

re: #217 Targetpractice

Would you agree that one can be confident without being complacent? That one can express a belief that the election is in our favor without believing that it is impossible for the other side to win?

We don’t have the data and we don’t have the precedent for the coming election. This is not going to be a roll-over.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:38:41am

re: #216 aatharuv

My first thoughts were that the suspension was a blessing in disguise…. as long as it gets removed from her permanent record. What student should have to go back to school with out even social distancing or masks.

I hope it sparks an “I am Sparticus” moment amongst the other students, with all sorts of photographs flooding the Intertoobs if this keeps up.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:39:02am

re: #220 Decatur Deb

We don’t have the data and we don’t have the precedent for the coming election. This is not going to be a roll-over.

How can we have no precedent but must keep assuming things will play out like 2016 unless we act as if we’re “2 points behind”?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:40:15am

re: #219 Targetpractice

It’s only “Cancel Culture” when it targets conservatives. When it targets liberals, it’s “Freedom of association” or “Market forces.”

Such as the conservative boycotts which brought Nike, Wal*Mart, Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods all to their knees. /s

Liberals boycotting a racist? Cancel culture.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:40:48am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:40:50am

re: #222 Targetpractice

How can we have no precedent but must keep assuming things will play out like 2016 unless we act as if we’re “2 points behind”?

Because if I’m wrong I’m going to be very happy November 5. If you’re wrong, you’re not.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:41:32am

re: #154 sagehen

Phyllis Schlafley was a blight on America, every single day of her adult life.

For Americans who missed it and want to watch it now, It’s on Hulu.

I want to watch it because I hear it’s got some great performances, but just hearing/reading Phyllis Schlafley makes my blood boil.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:42:07am

re: #216 aatharuv

My first thoughts were that the suspension was a blessing in disguise…. as long as it gets removed from her permanent record. What student should have to go back to school with out even social distancing or masks.

At this point, I think most good colleges would look at this positively. Same with suspensions in general.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:43:22am

re: #223 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Such as the conservative boycotts which brought Nike, Wal*Mart, Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods all to their knees. /s

Liberals boycotting a racist? Cancel culture.

The boycott that sticks out most in my mind was wingnuts going after the sponsors of TLC for daring to propose a show that would follow the everyday life of a Muslim family in America. These would be the same people who were cool with Josh Duggar sexually abusing his sisters while also thinking it was a “hoax” meant to get the show pulled from the network.

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aatharuv  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:44:44am

re: #227 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

At this point, I think most good colleges would look at this positively. Same with suspensions in general.

If she acts on her suspension, and builds up something based on her post, definitely.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:45:06am

re: #119 The Pie Overlord!

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Funny, I feel the same way listening to him

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:47:01am

re: #228 Targetpractice

The boycott that sticks out most in my mind was wingnuts going after the sponsors of TLC for daring to propose a show that would follow the everyday life of a Muslim family in America. These would be the same people who were cool with Josh Duggar sexually abusing his sisters while also thinking it was a “hoax” meant to get the show pulled from the network.

The ones that stick out in my mind recently is the boycott against Hallmark for airing an advert with two women in love, and General Mills for their Cheerios advert with two gay men and a child.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:50:46am

re: #225 Decatur Deb

Because if I’m wrong I’m going to be very happy November 5. If you’re wrong, you’re not.

Can I take a sec to point out that saying “run up the score” is assuming Trump can’t win is as ridiculous as saying “defund the police” means disbanding all police forces?

At no time has anybody said “running up the score” means rest on our laurels and assume Biden can coast to victory. If anything, it is about redoubling our efforts to get votes to the polls and make sure they count, only the attitude is one of confidence and not of desperation.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:52:03am

re: #149 Targetpractice

Did this happen in a hipster coffee shop?

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No, but she was crying

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:53:17am

LOLWUT

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:54:39am

re: #234 The Pie Overlord!

LOLWUT

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Felon D’ouchebag seems to be speaking from the fuckin’ mirror universe.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:55:21am

re: #232 Targetpractice

…

At no time has anybody said “running up the score” means rest on our laurels and assume Biden can coast to victory. …

It has that effect. I watched the HRC campaign sleepwalking through N Florida in 2016.
We underestimated this mofo’s support and ratfucking once. Not again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:57:15am

Nebraska is entangled in New York’s fight against the NRA’s alleged fraud, because Wayne LaPierre made several stop-offs at the NRA’s expense in Nebraska. Those flights were to pick up or drop off his niece with family. Mr. LaPierre states the flights were appropriate and related to NRA work.

omaha.com

LaPierre is quoted in the lawsuit attributing the Nebraska flights to his niece’s work with his wife on the NRA’s Women’s Leadership Forum. Several Nebraska flights are detailed in the suit, including one in January 2017.

That’s when LaPierre allegedly authorized a private jet to pick up his niece’s husband in North Platte on the way to Las Vegas for a Safari Club convention.

“LaPierre testified his niece ‘was working the entire time’ attending various donor meetings at the convention, so he authorized a flight to bring her husband ‘over [to] help babysit the child while the mother was working because there was nobody else to do it,’ ” according to the suit.

The lawsuit says LaPierre also authorized a private flight to fly the husband back to Nebraska two days before his niece was ready to return.

(more)

In the same article, they quote the Louisiana Attorney General as saying New York’s Attorney General is engaged in a “political hit job.”

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:58:22am

re: #101 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Trump is certainly doing his part to make it so.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:58:46am

re: #234 The Pie Overlord!

LOLWUT

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Either Trump has some serious dirt on Dinesh or the poor boy is just hopelessly whipped.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:58:54am

re: #224 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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That’s all?

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:58:59am
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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:00:03am

re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Kim Davis of “I’m not issuing marriage licenses to TehGeyhHomoSatanicAgenda” was a Democrat, until she made her job about her religion. After Tailgunner Ted and a bunch of other Republicans parachuted in for fame, she switched parties for the next election in 2015. She was defeated in 2018.

Yes but she’s riding the Tax-Exempt Jesus Gravy Train now going from right wing church to right wing church “testifying” about God’s Anointed King Trump who gonna stomp on them queers!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:02:54am

re: #241 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:03:35am

re: #236 Decatur Deb

It has that effect. I watched the HRC campaign sleepwalking through N Florida in 2016.
We underestimated this mofo’s support and ratfucking once. Not again.

“We” also insisted that the Repubs would somehow overcome the clear lop-sided polls in the midterms and manage to hold the House or at least hold Dem gains to a majority of only a few votes. Or that the results of that election were a fluke and that they’d manage to hold the line in 2019.

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:04:32am

re: #194 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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So his strategy to run out the clock when he from day 1 knew what the decision was likely to be… was totally effective.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:04:48am

Personally, I don’t see a downside with this.

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calochortus  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:05:10am

re: #234 The Pie Overlord!

LOLWUT

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Umm, I have an MS and have lived in 3 states, never mind the travel part. Please explain how that makes me an uncomprehending hick.
Anyway, I thought it was those horny-handed sons of the soil, True Americans that they are, that supported Trump.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:05:53am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Personally, I don’t see a downside with this.

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I’m not quite singing the Anthem of the Soviet Union just yet, but I am humming a few bars…but that’s mostly because I was playing World of Tanks earlier.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:10:57am

re: #247 calochortus

Umm, I have an MS and have lived in 3 states, never mind the travel part. Please explain how that makes me an uncomprehending hick.
Anyway, I thought it was those horny-handed sons of the soil, True Americans that they are, that supported Trump.

I only have a high school diploma, but I’ve lived in eight states (not counting additional travel) and two other countries.

I thought GOP apologists were trying to sell Trump as the anti-elite outsider.

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Jay C  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:11:43am

re: #234 The Pie Overlord!

“… poorer, less educated, and many have not left their home states”.

Sounds to me way more like the description of typical Trump supporters, rather than critics, but what do I know…?

re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg

Either Trump has some serious dirt on Dinesh or the poor boy is just hopelessly whipped.

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mmmirele  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:12:03am

re: #247 calochortus

Umm, I have an MS and have lived in 3 states, never mind the travel part. Please explain how that makes me an uncomprehending hick.
Anyway, I thought it was those horny-handed sons of the soil, True Americans that they are, that supported Trump.

Blazing Saddles 1974 - People Of The Land

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:12:12am

re: #237 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nebraska is entangled in New York’s fight against the NRA’s alleged fraud, because Wayne LaPierre made several stop-offs at the NRA’s expense in Nebraska. Those flights were to pick up or drop off his niece with family. Mr. LaPierre states the flights were appropriate and related to NRA work.

omaha.com

(more)

In the same article, they quote the Louisiana Attorney General as saying New York’s Attorney General is engaged in a “political hit job.”

If so, then Ted Nugent, Allen West, and Ollie North have joined up with with the gun-hating com-libs, because all three have been denouncing Wayne LaPeePee and his merry band of thieves for more than a year.
I think these three could settle their differences with Wayne and two flunkies of his choice by engaging in a shootout on a Hollywood backlot, live ammunition only. Imagine what the video rights would bring

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:13:13am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Personally, I don’t see a downside with this.

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One way or another, they will get paid.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:13:26am

re: #252 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

If so, then Ted Nugent, Allen West, and Ollie North have joined up with with the gun-hating com-libs, because all three have bren denouncing Wayne LaPeePee and his merry band of thieves for more than a year.
I think these three could settle their differences with Wayne and two flunkies of his choice by engaging in a shootout on a Hollywood backlot, live ammunition only. Imagine what the video rights would bring

So like this, but far less epic:

Film Studies: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” Final Shoot-out scene [HD]

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:13:44am

41% of Trump supporters voted to bomb Agrabah, a fictional country from the film Aladdin. I think that’s all one needs to know about the education or world knowledge of those idiots.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:14:03am

re: #248 Targetpractice

I’m not quite singing the Anthem of the Soviet Union just yet, but I am humming a few bars…but that’s mostly because I was playing World of Tanks earlier.

(3:11)

The Internationale (Jamaican Reggae Version)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:17:07am

So, we’re back to “Obama is Satan” again are we?

Well, can’t go wrong with a classic, I guess.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:17:28am

Twitter question:

If you post a tweet here, does it show up as a retweet count over at Twitter?

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:18:22am

re: #257 Eclectic Cyborg

So, we’re back to “Obama is Satan” again are we?

Well, can’t go wrong with a classic, I guess.

/

Obama is not Satan. At least he wasn’t back when I sold my soul.

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:18:47am

re: #258 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Twitter question:

If you post a tweet here, does it show up as a retweet count over at Twitter?

Nope

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John Hughes  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:20:17am

re: #234 The Pie Overlord!

Not being able to pronounce the names of well known countries is a sign of being a “cosmopolitan”?

What?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:20:33am

re: #260 Belafon

Nope

The posters don’t get exposure bux for reposts? /s

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John Hughes  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:21:00am

re: #235 Targetpractice

Felon D’ouchebag seems to be speaking from the fuckin’ mirror universe.

Hell, no. People are hot in the mirror Universe.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:24:31am

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I raise you this:

FIRST LISTEN TO | Ram Jam - Black Betty THIS S#!T SO DOPE MY NEW FAVORITE! (REACTION)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:25:09am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:25:42am

re: #263 John Hughes

Hell, no. People are hot in the mirror Universe.

If my mirror universe double has a badass goatee, I’m happy.

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plansbandc  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:27:38am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:30:29am

re: #267 plansbandc

Or Nigeria for that matter.

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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:30:39am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:33:10am

re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Personally, I don’t see a downside with this.

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Truth. If two thirds of the banksters and all the advertising execs fell over dead, nobody would miss them. Indeed, we would probably be better off. If two thirds of the meat packers, store stockers or garbage collectors fell over dead, we would be up shit creek without a paddle, and very soon.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:33:54am

As veterans and VA staff report USPS prescription delays, officials say to order early (Radio dot com)

With the thirty-day restriction and limitations on when I can refill my epilepsy medication, I’m fooked.

The vast majority of Department of Veterans Affairs prescriptions are fulfilled by mail. But as U.S. Postal Service delays mount, more and more veterans are reporting long wait times to receive critical medication and VA staff says the problem is only growing.

In fiscal year 2016, VA’s mail-order pharmacy processed nearly 120 million outpatient prescriptions and VA provides about 80% of all its outpatient prescriptions to veterans by mail using seven “highly automated pharmacies,” according to the department. The other 20% are filled at local VA medical facilities.

VA’s mail-order pharmacy system, the Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP), processes nearly half a million prescriptions daily and each working day, more than 330,000 veterans receive a package of prescriptions in the mail. Veterans who live further from VA medical facilities, especially in rural and remote areas of the country, often depend on mail-order prescriptions.

More than two dozen veterans and more than half a dozen VA employees who work in department pharmacies nationwide reported delays for mail-order prescriptions to Connecting Vets. Those veterans and staff spoke on condition of anonymity because they said they feared retaliation from the department or stigma for the medications they use. They provided documents showing medication shipping delays.

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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:34:36am
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John Hughes  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:36:19am

re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg

Bound to have.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:38:49am

re: #272 (((Archangel1)))

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Meanwhile, Trump also netted not only the worst one-day drops in both percentage and value on the stock market, he also suffered job losses not seen since the Great Depression.

But sure, let’s celebrate that the hole he dug for the country isn’t as deep today as it was yesterday. //////

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:41:00am

I swear, if Dems grab the Senate and keep the House after November, they better pass a bill to fix USPS ASAP.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:41:18am

Missouri man killed in Pearl Harbor attack laid to rest (Stars & Stripes)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Mo. — Nearly eight decades after he was killed in the attack at Pearl Harbor that launched the U.S. into World War II, a Missouri man has been laid to rest next to his parents.

KYTV-TV reports that the remains of Navy Seaman 1st Class Orval Austin Tranbarger of Mountain View were buried Wednesday. The TV station said people lined highways and streets from Willow Springs to the cemetery in Mountain View to pay their respects.

“He’s somebody they obviously didn’t know, who was well before many of their times. It showed they love America and they love people that support America, the troops, him being one of them. Happy to see him get a welcome home,” Army Veteran Brandon Wright said.

(more at the link)

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plansbandc  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:41:22am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:44:13am

Man, I just got scared as hell when I saw Betty White trending on Twitter.

Thankfully, she’s okay. She’s trending because folks want her in some video or something.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:45:28am

re: #277 plansbandc

See how binary thinking can ruin shit quickly?

I don’t even have enough words for how much the GOP sucks.

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Alephnaught  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:45:39am

re: #234 The Pie Overlord!

LOLWUT

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I like Hoarse Whisperer’s reply.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:46:04am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:46:15am
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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:47:51am

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Related: I just remembered how great Jolene played at 33 rpm instead of 45 sounds

There’s a guy named Tyler Mahan Coe (the son of David Allen Coe) who created a podcast about the history of country music that went in some really interesting directions. It’s not the usual stuff. He used the 33 1/3 version of Jolene as his lead-in music (although just the instrumental part). It looks like he only created one season of the show but I found most of the episodes pretty engaging.

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wrenchwench  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:49:13am

re: #135 Targetpractice

“Cancel Culture” is “Political Correctness” with the serial numbers filed off.

Bears repeating.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:49:59am

re: #282 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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The man is running a campaign that would only make sense if the economy were still running on all cylinders and the pandemic weren’t ongoing. As is, he’s President “Old Man Yells At Clouds.”

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Mike Lamb  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:54:01am

re: #203 Jay C

True: but among Chamberlain’s other failures at Munich, the main one was letting himself be convinced by Hitler that “Germany’s continental expansion” was going to be limited only to “German” regions (like the Sudetenland) which had been “unjustly” detached from the Reich after WWI - rather than the entire continent of Europe (the Fuhrer’s actual plan).

Personally, I think Edouard Daladier (French PM) was every bit as derelict at Munich as Chamberlain: probably worse, since he was only too willing to let the Brits do the “negotiating” in selling out the Czechs, and then simply signing on to the deal with - basically - a Gallic shrug - French commitments to Czechoslovakia (and Britain) notwithstanding.

Not exactly on point, but after reading Erik Larson’s “In the Garden of Beasts”, a recurring theme throughout was just how many people would not/could not/refused to recognize what was happening in Germany, and the expectation that Hitler/Nazis would start to behave rationally as they consolidated power domestically or that moderate voices inside Germany would act as a brake on Hitler’s ambitions.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:55:13am

re: #280 Alephnaught

I like Hoarse Whisperer’s reply.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:55:15am

re: #167 John Hughes

Russian.

Maybe. I read somewhere that when the Germans planned Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain (the “Keep Calm and Carry On” invasion), it was thought that the Germans would not or could not hold Britain indefinitely. The best they could have hoped for is a satrapy.

Which is exactly what the US is now vis-a-vis Russia. We’re a Russian satrrapy. Putin doesn’t need to invade and in fact cannot invade. He just needs a good bitch or two. Trump and the Republicans fill that role.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:56:46am

re: #280 Alephnaught

I like Hoarse Whisperer’s reply.

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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 9:58:42am

re: #284 wrenchwench

Bears repeating.

“Cancel Culture” is “Political Correctness” with the serial numbers filed off.
“Cancel Culture” is “Political Correctness” with the serial numbers filed off.
“Cancel Culture” is “Political Correctness” with the serial numbers filed off.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:00:30am
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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:01:28am

re: #285 Targetpractice

The man is running a campaign that would only make sense if the economy were still running on all cylinders and the pandemic weren’t ongoing. As is, he’s President “Old Man Yells At Clouds.”

But unfortunately 27-40% of this country is afraid of clouds and hates them.

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Mike Lamb  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:02:46am

re: #234 The Pie Overlord!

LOLWUT

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A guy that eats fast food all the time; eats well done steak with ketchup; serves cold McD’s to a visiting football team; and whose culinary preferences/imagination are so limited that state dinners have to be scaled down to accommodate is child-like tastes is pretty much the exact opposite of cosmopolitan. Furthering that idea, I’d bet that when he did travel as a private citizen, it was almost exclusively to one of his properties, and that during such visits, he never left the grounds or had any cultural experiences.

He is the poor man’s (and D’Souza’s) caricature of a rich person.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:05:36am

re: #283 stpaulbear

There’s a guy named Tyler Mahan Coe (the son of David Allen Coe) who created a podcast about the history of country music that went in some really interesting directions. It’s not the usual stuff. He used the 33 1/3 version of Jolene as his lead-in music (although just the instrumental part). It looks like he only created one season of the show but I found most of the episodes pretty engaging.

I read through his write-ups for the episodes. That sounds like something I’d like to listen to, but I don’t think I can play them (no Apple or Google account).

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Mike Lamb  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:05:52am

re: #265 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Democrats would lose me if they don’t thoroughly investigate the Trump admin from top to bottom.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:07:55am

This morning Teddy and I were out for a short walk. We encountered a couple of guys on their way for a hike up in the mountain. Teddy was extra sniffy this morning so we were poking along. As they passed us, one of the guys said he’s pretty sniffy and asked Teddy’s age. I told him 13. He was like wow, I would have guessed 2 or 3. The other guy goes, clean eating and meditation man. First guy then asked his name, and I told him. Ah, he goes, that explains it.

I love it when people think Teddy is still a yoot. Makes me feel like I’m taking good care of my little fren.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:08:15am

re: #290 stpaulbear

The Republicans haven’t had a new idea in decades, maybe ever. They just keep renaming and recycling the same shit over and over. It’s always the same thing that we’re all supposed to be terrified of. (…cue scary music…) “Scary liberals are coming to take your guns and Jesus and murder the unborn while they’re being born! They want to give YOUR tax dollars to poors and minorities who HAVEN’T EARNED IT!!! If you get healthcare “they” will too, VOTE NO!!!!! ” And as of late all those ads with this shit for content are all dark in color, black and white or altered to be darker than they are. All they have ever had is fear, I think the public, at least most of us, are fucking over it now. Even their “new” commercials, are exactly the same as the ads they pulled for not being fresh enough just a week or two ago. You can only sell shit in so many different packages, it all still smells and feels like shit, no matter what the package looks like. They have not one solid policy that is well thought out and constructed to help anyone but CEOs and family members steal more money “legally” (or not as we see with the NRA. Which makes me giggle out loud that they are a sinking ship. Good Riddance)

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:09:15am

re: #211 Targetpractice

The analogy sort of breaks down when one remembers that the scores in sports are evident to everyone as the game goes on, rather than all the points tallied at the very end. Even the teams most committed to fighting as though they’re the underdog eventually have to acknowledge that they’re kicking the other team’s ass black and blue. Otherwise you start crushing morale, telling the players that no matter how good they’re playing, they’re still not doing enough to beIat the other side.

THIS.
It’s soul-crushing. It’s worse than that. When professional coaches tell their teams to “do better”, they usually give very specific examples of what team members are doing or not doing in their specific positions and responsibilities. On the net, talking about politics, it doesn’t work like this.

Most people are giving naive thoughts about what we should do. Like following a sporting event or calling sports talk radio and saying, “My team should PLAY HARDER!” Most of us “aren’t in the room where it happens” or even close. But we are asked to TRY HARDER because we must pretend we’re fifty points down. It’s soul-destroying. (In real life, if your basketball team is down by 50 points, and you’re a player, prepare your resume.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:09:43am

re: #295 Mike Lamb

Democrats would lose me if they don’t thoroughly investigate the Trump admin from top to bottom.

Same here. The GOP certainly has no restraint when it comes to investigating all manners of things, such as Monica Lewinsky or Benghazi.

What’s going on now seems criminal on its face.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:09:44am

re: #237 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nebraska is entangled in New York’s fight against the NRA’s alleged fraud, because Wayne LaPierre made several stop-offs at the NRA’s expense in Nebraska. Those flights were to pick up or drop off his niece with family. Mr. LaPierre states the flights were appropriate and related to NRA work.

omaha.com

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In the same article, they quote the Louisiana Attorney General as saying New York’s Attorney General is engaged in a “political hit job.”

What part of the government is the NRA?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:09:59am

re: #283 stpaulbear

There’s a guy named Tyler Mahan Coe (the son of David Allen Coe) who created a podcast about the history of country music that went in some really interesting directions. It’s not the usual stuff. He used the 33 1/3 version of Jolene as his lead-in music (although just the instrumental part). It looks like he only created one season of the show but I found most of the episodes pretty engaging.

David Allen Coe of Fuck Anita Bryant fame?

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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:10:30am

re: #293 Mike Lamb

He only went to places to be seen there, never to see (except for the female human wares). He needed to be celebrated for his presence.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:11:47am

Guys, don’t be like this mfr

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bratwurst  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:15:16am
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makeitstop  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:16:00am

Cuomo clears NY state schools to open, with a qualification.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:16:12am

re: #303 goddamnedfrank

Guys, don’t be like this mfr

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What, he didn’t want to try the Keith Richards method?

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A Mom Anon  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:17:08am

re: #303 goddamnedfrank

I have to dig my tiny violin out of the trash….I’m only concerned for the people he could infect, sorry, not sorry. And how he is a licensed psychologist or mental health professional of any kind is not really an encouraging thought. That he’s even remotely successful is depressing as fuck.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:18:19am

re: #303 goddamnedfrank

Guys, don’t be like this mfr

I don’t wish Jordon Peterson ill (he did that to himself), but as much racist and misogynistic crap as he’s stirred up, I’m not going to waste a bunch of sympathy on him either.

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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:18:26am

re: #301 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

David Allen Coe of Fuck Anita Bryant fame?

I’ve always really disliked everything I’ve seen or heard from the father. I don’t know what Tyler’s life has been like, but it appears that the apple has landed quite a ways from the tree. I had listened to a couple of episodes before I realized who his dad was. I imagine that he heard some really juicy stories about the business while he was growing up and it shows in his long and winding podcasts.

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Alephnaught  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:18:56am

re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Related: I just remembered how great Jolene played at 33 rpm instead of 45 sounds

That happened one time to me when I got “Victorialand” by Cocteau Twins. It’s an LP, but it’s a mini-LP, so the vinyl version plays at 45rpm rather than the usual 33.

As the opening track was a slow, almost ambient, number, it took me a couple of minutes to realise I was actually playing it at the wrong speed.

Unusual formats like this were quite common on UK Indie record labels at the time, so the UK’s most famous radio Indie DJ, John Peel, would often get it wrong too, the same way I did, often on air. Famously, when this happened, he would say something to effect that he preferred it at that speed.

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wrenchwench  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:19:07am

re: #264 Dr Lizardo

I raise you this:

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Video

Bam ba lam.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:21:14am

re: #307 A Mom Anon

I have to dig my tiny violin out of the trash….I’m only concerned for the people he could infect, sorry, not sorry. And how he is a licensed psychologist or mental health professional of any kind is not really an encouraging thought. That he’s even remotely successful is depressing as fuck.

Amazing what you can do with a YouTube channel and Patreon account.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:21:17am

lol everything is Opposites in Trumpworld.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:22:07am

re: #313 The Pie Overlord!

lol everything is Opposites in Trumpworld.

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Apparently “respect” is hearing every other nation either laughing or grumbling.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:22:42am

re: #300 Eventual Carrion

What part of the government is the NRA?

The part where “liberals want to take your guns and repeal the II Amendment.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:23:22am

re: #314 Targetpractice

Apparently “respect” is hearing every other nation either laughing or grumbling.

Or closing their borders to American travellers.

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wrenchwench  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:25:00am

re: #290 stpaulbear

“Cancel Culture” is “Political Correctness” with the serial numbers filed off.
“Cancel Culture” is “Political Correctness” with the serial numbers filed off.
“Cancel Culture” is “Political Correctness” with the serial numbers filed off.

Thank you.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:27:45am

On Lincoln and Lancaster County’s health department defying Gov. Ricketts and ordering mandatory masks anyway:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:28:56am
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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:29:23am

re: #310 Alephnaught

That happened one time to me when I got “Victorialand” by Cocteau Twins. It’s an LP, but it’s a mini-LP, so the vinyl version plays at 45rpm rather than the usual 33.

As the opening track was a slow, almost ambient, number, it took me a couple of minutes to realise I was actually playing it at the wrong speed.

Unusual formats like this were quite common on UK Indie record labels at the time, so the UK’s most famous radio Indie DJ, John Peel, would often get it wrong too, the same way I did, often on air. Famously, when this happened, he would say something to effect that he preferred it at that speed.

I used to listen to a “progressive” rock station in the early 70’s before it was taken over and formatted. One afternoon they were playing some long drawn out Black Sabbath song and the DJ got bored with it, so he flipped the turntable up to 45 rpm to finish the song. It was exactly what was needed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:30:47am

His business is now open. The police are ignoring him. Thread:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:32:06am

re: #303 goddamnedfrank

Guys, don’t be like this mfr

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Wow.

At the time the elder Peterson was flown out of country for treatment, Mikhaila Peterson told the National Post father was put in a medically induced coma because Russian doctors have “the guts to medically detox someone from benzodiazepines.”
Mikhaila Peterson, daughter of author, professor Jordan Peterson.

Mikhaila Peterson said her dad caught COVID-19 in a Serbian hospital, where he’d been recovering from treatment, and had also caught pneumonia.

Apples and trees and shit.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:33:17am

re: #308 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t wish Jordon Peterson ill (he did that to himself), but as much racist and misogynistic crap as he’s stirred up, I’m not going to waste a bunch of sympathy on him either.

Y’all are way better people than me.

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ckkatz  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:35:51am

re: #120 dangerman

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There are only two ways to vote for president
Biden
Trump

One of these two will be the next president

If you are a “never Trumper” then you must vote for biden.
Abstaining is a vote for trump
Unless you vote positively for Biden, You are directly or indirectly voting for trump and therefore you are not a never Trumper.

Yup!

Matt Lewis:
“Why is it that I, an outspoken Never Trump conservative well versed in Trump’s failings, am unwilling to pull the lever for Uncle Joe?”

Lewis is playing dishonest games here. This a reference to Joseph “Uncle Joe” Stalin. Lewis is attempting to paint Biden, a vanilla centrist, as a dangerous commie. And yes, Never-Trumper means ensuring that Trump is not re-elected. And in this tweet Lewis is, most obviously, not in that camp either. I smell rodent copulation.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:36:23am

re: #322 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Yeah, the family is utterly fucked. The all meat diet was his daughter’s idea.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:36:58am

re: #234 The Pie Overlord!

LOLWUT

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a cosmopolitan is a person who feels at home all over the world. someone who travels the world free of prejudices and with an open mind.

that’s the very antithesis* of trump

*think trump knows what that means or how to pronounce it?

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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:37:06am

(Tipesh is the English transliteration of the Hebrew word טיפש - idiot or moron.)

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Mike Lamb  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:39:34am

re: #325 goddamnedfrank

Yeah, the family is utterly fucked. The all meat diet was his daughter’s idea.

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Just so I understand, the dude went to Russia for a Rip Van Winkle treatment of a benzo addiction?

And let’s assume for a second that it is a functioning therapy for beating the physical aspect of addiction, isn’t that kind of a scrotum way of dealing with it for an alpha male? Just “sleeping” it off?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:39:47am

re: #325 goddamnedfrank

Yeah, the family is utterly fucked. The all meat diet was his daughter’s idea.

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Between that and pneumonia, of this guy survives I’ll be shocked and will henceforth consider team COVID headed up by Satan.

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:39:58am

re: #319 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:40:02am

re: #327 (((Archangel1)))

“Cosmopolitan” means traveling the globe with an open mind & free of prejudices

Well, unless you pair it with a certain adjective first.

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:44:24am

re: #265 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Yes, there will be angry people if Trump and his enablers are charged.

But enough of them will read the charging documents, look at the evidence, and their anger will will to some extent dissipate. Then they’ll be angry at us, crying out “why didn’t you warn us, we wouldn’t have stood for it if we’d known, it’s the D’s fault we didn’t know”. But deep in their heart of hearts, a substantial percentage will realize we did warn them, and it was their choice to ignore those warnings.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:46:13am

re: #304 bratwurst

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Right were just too dumb to understand him

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:46:24am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:48:03am

2020 continuing to suck eggs.

At least 14 dead, 123 injured after Air India jet splits in two in runway accident (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

NEW DELHI — An Air India Express flight with 190 people on board skidded off a runway and split in two while landing Friday in heavy rain in southern India. Police said at least 14 people were killed and 123 others injured.

Abdul Karim, a police officer, said the dead included one of the pilots. He said at least 15 of the injured were in critical condition. CNN reported the government flight was meant to bring home Indians stranded abroad by COVID-19 travel limits.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:49:36am

re: #313 The Pie Overlord!

lol everything is Opposites in Trumpworld.

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You can’t see it, or feel it and it’s not in the news
But im tellin ya…

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:50:46am

Rats off a sinking ship.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:52:10am

Two Wyoming youth who attended a baseball tournament in Chadron earlier this month have tested positive for the coronavirus, resulting in an alert from health officials to the public.

During Thursday’s daily briefing from Panhandle Public Health District, officials announced that the Cal Ripken 11 and Under State Tournament, held July 31-Aug. 2, in Chadron as a community exposure site.

starherald.com

Tabi Prochazka, deputy director health promotions and preparedness, said organizers had worked with health officials, implementing different measures and posting signage advising of the need to social distance, wear mask and other preventative measures. However, she said, the case highlights the need for people to follow social distancing measures, such as staying in groups of eight and distancing six feet from other groups. When attending events, Prochazka urged people to follow health guidelines so that events didn’t have to be announced as community exposure sites.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:52:19am
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dat_said  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:52:36am

re: #327 (((Archangel1)))

Hope you’ve saved my birth state (ND) for last. You can get a free t-shirt and a mild round of applause at the Fargo visitor center.

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:52:41am
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:53:31am

Let me tell you my story of a song played at a slower tempo than expected.

The worst, and I mean the ABSOLUTE WORST background shopping Christmas song that I ever heard, was a slow, romantic ballad styling of (I kid you not) “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.”

It went on and on and on I think for the entire time I was in the store.

I get PTSD whenever I walk into that store.

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:54:16am

re: #342 The Pie Overlord!

Now I have earworm.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:57:07am

At the checkout I asked the cashier if there was some switch to turn the “music” off or at least lower the volume, and also how could she stand it all day, day in day out?

She shrugged and said “After a while I don’t even hear it. It’s just a bunch of noise.”

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SerialUpDinger  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:58:00am

Virtual 5K Champions

My son is a Marine. He and his buddies are affected by covid-19 - postponed deployments, reduced social opportunities, and yet they are still boys at heart. Clowning around after winning a competition that meant the non-winners had to perform additional physical training.

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Targetpractice  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:58:53am

re: #344 The Pie Overlord!

At the checkout I asked the cashier if there was some switch to turn the “music” off or at least lower the volume, and also how could she stand it all day, day in day out?

She shrugged and said “After a while I don’t even hear it. It’s just a bunch of noise.”

Yeah, but nothing is as bad as the 2+ months of constant, wall-to-wall Christmas music. A lot of stores don’t even observe the “midnight after Thanksgiving” rule anymore.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:59:33am

re: #342 The Pie Overlord!

Wanda Jackson, “Funnel of Love” at 33 1/3 rpm (2:51)

Wanda Jackson - Funnel of Love played at 33 rpm

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 7, 2020 • 10:59:43am

re: #346 Targetpractice

Yeah, but nothing is as bad as the 2+ months of constant, wall-to-wall Christmas music. A lot of stores don’t even observe the “midnight after Thanksgiving” rule anymore.

Hate Christmas music, my solution is Amazon.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:01:01am

re: #346 Targetpractice

Yeah, but nothing is as bad as the 2+ months of constant, wall-to-wall Christmas music. A lot of stores don’t even observe the “midnight after Thanksgiving” rule anymore.

You know you’re getting old when the grocery store is playing stuff you listened to in your teens and twenties (and sometimes thirties).

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Alephnaught  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:02:37am

re: #320 stpaulbear

I used to listen to a “progressive” rock station in the early 70’s before it was taken over and formatted. One afternoon they were playing some long drawn out Black Sabbath song and the DJ got bored with it, so he flipped the turntable up to 45 rpm to finish the song. It was exactly what was needed.

Sounds interesting! Do you remember which song this was? I have enough knowledge of sample editing in Audacity to try this one out…

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:02:46am
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:02:49am

re: #349 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You know you’re getting old when the grocery store is playing stuff you listened to in your teens and twenties (and sometimes thirties).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:03:30am

One more.

Cyndi Lauper, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” at 33 1/3, 5:06

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun 45 at 33

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:05:22am

re: #349 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You know you’re getting old when the grocery store is playing stuff you listened to in your teens and twenties (and sometimes thirties).

..they’re using your music in commercials

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:07:01am

re: #353 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sounds like a black male 60’s doo-wop lead.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:07:40am

re: #281 goddamnedfrank

All the updings for front door doughnut.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:09:53am

re: #337 jaunte

Rats off a sinking ship.

New York Times playing stenographers.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:13:31am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:14:37am

re: #358 dangerman

Aww, no Wi-Fi or HBO?

/

Also, number of tunnels a border wall can stop: 0

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:15:06am

re: #281 goddamnedfrank

I fly a regular US Flag and a Gold Star Family flag.

I don’t need a piece of psuedo-patriotic kitsch like this, even if it was made from a real bald eagle.

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:16:29am

re: #358 dangerman

Must be Antifa.

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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:18:26am

re: #358 dangerman

Mexico paid for it. /half

Once again, Trump’s boondoggle wall is circumvented with methods that go back millenia.

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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:18:28am

re: #350 Alephnaught

Sounds interesting! Do you remember which song this was? I have enough knowledge of sample editing in Audacity to try this one out…

I can’t remember what song it was. It was one of the fairly popular ones at the time.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:19:55am

re: #359 Eclectic Cyborg

Aww, no Wi-Fi or HBO?

/

Also, number of tunnels a border wall can stop: 0

On the Korean DMZ in 1980 the USFK Tunnel Neutralization Teams (TNT) knew how to detect tunnels.

Step 1: “Want to find the tunnel.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:22:15am

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And another Never-Trumper weighs in at The Bulwark:

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I recall Mona Charen from her vitriolic anti-Clinton columns in the 1990’s. This time she supports either Duckworth or Demings as VP picks who would not harm the ticket. Either nominee would be fine with me — my sister has a close friend who is an attorney and she has been on the Demings’ bandwagon ever since the impeachment trial. Duckworth may help with Midwestern states. Either woman would be a good representation for the future of the party. All I want is someone who can boost Biden’s chances.

Trump is doing all he can to make the pandemic in the US and the resulting economic dislocation someone else’s fault. It’s crucial for him to make sure that voters see this as China’s failing and not his. His supporters, fed by RW media and GOP lies certainly see it that way. He has never been forced to take responsibility for any misdeeds or errors in his life — and so far, he has never been truly punished for his crimes. November is our last opportunity to make sure that this time he begins to pay — because there will be no second chance.

I have always been a glass half-empty type person and have learned repeatedly that optimism never bears out, especially when there will be so many opportunities due to the pandemic to suppress the vote. Shutting polling places, evicting people so that they can no longer voter, slowing down the mail — all can lead to an electoral victory for the worst person to ever serve as President.

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Jay C  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:22:39am

re: #358 dangerman

Well, at least somebody is paying attention to infrastructure projects…..

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:27:44am
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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:31:19am

re: #367 jaunte

I know some right wingers were bitching that this was a politically motivated move, except that state law mandates the AG to go after nonprofits that break NYS Nonprofits Law. They’ve got an entire bureau at Empire State Plaza to deal with this.

The argument falls flat when they should have prosecuted NRA long ago for these violations, just as they should have gone after Trumpworld too. Those decisions were also “political”.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:33:01am

re: #328 Mike Lamb

Just so I understand, the dude went to Russia for a Rip Van Winkle treatment of a benzo addiction?

And let’s assume for a second that it is a functioning therapy for beating the physical aspect of addiction, isn’t that kind of a scrotum way of dealing with it for an alpha male? Just “sleeping” it off?

What kind of moron goes to Russia for medical treatment? Jordan Peterson always was a misogynist — but this level of stupidity is astounding. His health outcome also adds another data point to my certainty that COVID-19 is significantly under reported in Russia. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin had been advising Trump from the beginning that not testing is the best way to prevent the virus from becoming a political issue that could harm him.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:34:14am

re: #348 I Would Prefer Not To

Hate Christmas music, my solution is Amazon.

“If you want peace, prepare for war “

It is therefore never too early to begin our preparations for this year’s War on Christmas. Intelligence is being collected and all command-level
Grinches, Scrooges, and allied Puritan leaders will soon receive their initial briefing documents.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:35:14am

re: #351 goddamnedfrank

I checked out the video to that song. Not particularly my style.

I wonder what that guy would think of this:

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (Official Video – Who Made Who)

BTW, that’s my favorite version of the music vid for that song. Truly captures that AC/DC attitude of that era.

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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:36:19am

re: #370 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Costco has already rolled out: winter, Halloween and Christmas related gear.

That’s right. We’re in August and they’re already rolling out winter 2020/21 stuff, including Christmas gear. Christmas is now fully 5 months out of the year.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:36:28am

re: #369 Hecuba’s daughter

What kind of moron goes to Russia for medical treatment? Jordan Peterson always was a misogynist — but this level of stupidity is astounding. His health outcome also adds another data point to my certainty that COVID-19 is significantly under reported in Russia. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin had been advising Trump from the beginning that not testing is the best way to prevent the virus from becoming a political issue that could harm him.

It’s that Canadian medicine he hate, apparently.

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wrenchwench  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:37:29am

re: #366 Jay C

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Well, at least somebody is paying attention to infrastructure projects…..

Once upon a time, a smol boy from San Luis, AZ, got on the wrong school bus, got off, and walked into Mexico. No tunnel needed, at the time. But 6 year olds look so damned innocent, they can get away with a lot.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:38:07am

re: #371 Dr Lizardo

Or this:

James - Laid

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:38:49am

The article is a long read, here’s the meat:

Klan fan faces Killer Kinda Karma

Dismukes, for those who have been in a cave so long they think the South won that war, is the Alabama representative who, on the weekend Alabama celebrated the life and mourned the death of John Lewis, decided to go instead to a birthday party for the founder of the Ku Klux Klan.

On Thursday, Montgomery County DA Daryl Bailey revealed that Dismukes - who wears a Confederate battle flag on his lapel instead of Old Glory - was charged with stealing thousands of dollars from the flooring company where he works. How many thousands we don’t know, but the prosecutor said it is waaaaaay more than the $2,500 required to make it first-degree theft.

al.com

This isn’t some ancient codger holdover from Jim Crow. He’s 30.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:39:56am

re: #370 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

“If you want peace, prepare for war “

It is therefore never too early to begin our preparations for this year’s War on Christmas. Intelligence is being collected and all command-level
Grinches, Scrooges, and allied Puritan leaders will soon receive their initial briefing documents.

I would invite the Jehovah’s Witnesses to join since they, too, don’t believe in Christmas. Alas, they don’t believe in war either so they wouldn’t be much help.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:45:17am

re: #375 Eclectic Cyborg

Or this classic:

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls (Official Lyric Video)

Written by Brian May. 😁

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:45:40am

re: #374 wrenchwench

Once upon a time, a smol boy from San Luis, AZ, got on the wrong school bus, got off, and walked into Mexico. No tunnel needed, at the time. But 6 year olds look so damned innocent, they can get away with a lot.

No little boy is innocent. None of them. They’re made of snips & snails & puppy dogs tails.

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:47:05am

re: #379 sagehen

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:47:16am

re: #372 lawhawk

Costco has already rolled out: winter, Halloween and Christmas related gear.

That’s right. We’re in August and they’re already rolling out winter 2020/21 stuff, including Christmas gear. Christmas is now fully 5 months out of the year.

I’m surprised they didn’t roll Christmas junk out in July since the Hallmark Channel does Christmas in July (movies) 24/7 throughout the whole month.

Wasted marketing opportunity.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:50:12am

David Ferguson’s (T-Rex) new song “Waiting For The World To End” has dropped over at Band Camp. Bob Cesca featured it on his show a couple of weeks ago.

astralsummer.bandcamp.com

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:50:29am
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wrenchwench  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:50:35am

re: #379 sagehen

No little boy is innocent. None of them. They’re made of snips & snails & puppy dogs tails.

I thought I had made a Page about it. I have searched before. This time I found it.

BARBARA CISTERNA with her son Sebastian, whom ended up lost in San Luis Rio Colorado, Son., recently after getting on the wrong school bus.
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:52:33am

re: #360 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I fly a regular US Flag and a Gold Star Family flag.

I don’t need a piece of psuedo-patriotic kitsch like this, even if it was made from a real bald eagle.

I think I’m going to get a white flag from Amazon (can get one for $7). When people ask why I have a white flag along with my American flag I can say, “Seems everyone is big on flying a Confederate flag so I decided to fly the last, and I think the best, one.”

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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 11:54:20am

re: #379 sagehen

No little boy is innocent. None of them. They’re made of snips & snails & puppy dogs tails.

Bela Lugosi - Beware of the dragon!

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:02:28pm

re: #376 Decatur Deb

The article is a long read, here’s the meat:

Klan fan faces Killer Kinda Karma

al.com

This isn’t some ancient codger holdover from Jim Crow. He’s 30.

But many have learned at the feet of ancient codgers from Jim Crow era.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:04:59pm
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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:08:04pm

re: #388 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Trump invited the world to interfere in our elections with his “Russia If You’re Listening” comment.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:12:24pm

re: #383 jaunte

We’ll have to see if that executive order actually gets written.

I imagine if he does write one, there will be a legal challenge in about five nanoseconds.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:12:51pm

re: #388 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Why not? He blames China for everything else.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:14:34pm

re: #388 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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OUTRAGE!!!! ONLY THE RUSSIANS ARE ALLOWED TO MEDDLE IN OUR ELECTIONS!!!!

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wrenchwench  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:20:44pm
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:25:35pm

re: #393 wrenchwench

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Not saying they were aliens, but …

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:25:57pm

re: #388 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:31:45pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:32:18pm
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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:35:18pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:35:24pm

This is a dystopian headline in the Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph.

Board of Directors Cancels 2020 Night of Hope

Night of Hope is a walk to raise funds for cancer patients.

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nines09  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:36:18pm

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:36:40pm

Apparently the penalties for Hatch Act violations need to be increased.
And prosecuted by the next DoJ.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:36:52pm

re: #398 jaunte

I’m sure Bill Barr will get right on that, like he has with all the other people violating the Hatch Act. /s

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Alephnaught  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:39:34pm

re: #322 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Okay, I’ve heard about this story, but I didn’t notice this particular detail…

At the time the elder Peterson was flown out of country for treatment, Mikhaila Peterson told the National Post father was put in a medically induced coma because Russian doctors have “the guts to medically detox someone from benzodiazepines.”.

Now, I had read previous profiles of Peterson, which noted by way of his house art that he had a fondness for Soviet propaganda, but… Naming your daughter Mikhaila?!?!?! With Peterson as the surname!??!?! That’s like being named Quisling Brezhnev.

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retired cynic  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:40:55pm

Brace yourself: America is about to act really awkward about Biden’s female VP pick
Monica Hess, WaPo

She’s right!

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:41:40pm

re: #404 retired cynic

Brace yourself: America is about to act really awkward about Biden’s female VP pick
Monica Hess, WaPo

She’s right!

I’m sure that trump will be as insightful as always.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:43:04pm

re: #403 Alephnaught

Okay, I’ve heard about this story, but I didn’t notice this particular detail…

Now, I had read previous profiles of Peterson, which noted by way of his house art that he had a fondness for Soviet propaganda, but… Naming your daughter Mikhaila?!?!?! With Peterson as the surname!??!?! That’s like being named Quisling Brezhnev.

LOL. I think it’s the Russian spelling which makes that. Michaela is a common enough name in the USA.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:43:26pm

Can These Hatch Act violations be prosecuted after Fat Donny and Boo Boo are gone??

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lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:43:43pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:53:09pm

re: #407 Dave In Austin

Can These Hatch Act violations be prosecuted after Fat Donny and Boo Boo are gone??

The act was originally proposed and passed by Republicans in the FDR administration, so of course they would hypocritically violate it.

That said, it doesn’t have a criminal penalty. Reading it, the Office of the Special Counsel follows up on violations.

When it was updated under the Obama Administration, it added disciplinary penalties in addition to removal (the only penalty it had before 2012).

OSC last took action against Kellyanne Conway for using her official position to attack Democratic candidates. The OSC recommended her removal; Donald Trump said he wouldn’t do that because it violated her free speech rights.

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 12:57:28pm

re: #409 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Government officials don’t have free speech rights when they are acting in an official capacity.

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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:05:17pm

re: #408 lawhawk

Per The WaPo: White House, Democrats argue over trillions of dollars as they try to revive coronavirus relief bill talks

“Basically, what’s happening is Mr. Meadows is from the Tea Party … and they don’t want to spend the necessary money,” Schumer said of the former North Carolina congressman, who was a leader of a faction of anti-spending rabble-rousers when he served in the House.

Pelosi said for the second day in a row that Republicans don’t give “a damn” about people in need.

For their part, Republicans accused Democrats of trying to get a political outcome instead of a deal, with the election approaching.

“Rather than be part of the solution, they have chosen to be part of the problem,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said on Twitter on Friday.

The Democrats are going to get blamed for all of this because they’ve been so vocal about trying to get something meaningful done. As you said, the republicans are going to let it all fall apart out of neglect and then let Trump announce that he’s going to raid Social Security and give money to their rich buddies. What a fucking evil mess.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:08:12pm

re: #410 Belafon

Government officials don’t have free speech rights when they are acting in an official capacity.

For Trumps people, until they face consequences they won’t really give a shit.

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:10:40pm

re: #411 stpaulbear

Per The WaPo: White House, Democrats argue over trillions of dollars as they try to revive coronavirus relief bill talks

The Democrats are going to get blamed for all of this because they’ve been so vocal about trying to get something meaningful done. As you said, the republicans are going to let it all fall apart out of neglect and then let Trump announce that he’s going to raid Social Security and give money to their rich buddies. What a fucking evil mess.

That’s a bold strategy Republucans have going. I think they’ll find out people aren’t going to buy their spin.

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JC1  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:14:22pm

I hope that Pelosi holds firm.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:16:14pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:17:42pm

re: #403 Alephnaught

Okay, I’ve heard about this story, but I didn’t notice this particular detail…

Now, I had read previous profiles of Peterson, which noted by way of his house art that he had a fondness for Soviet propaganda, but… Naming your daughter Mikhaila?!?!?! With Peterson as the surname!??!?! That’s like being named Quisling Brezhnev.

Michaela, Mikayla, McKayla, etc. in all its various spellings is a pretty common name.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:18:24pm

re: #400 nines09

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:25:59pm

re: #414 JC1

I hope that Pelosi holds firm.

You just know Trump and co are going to try to pin the inevitable evictions/stock market dive/job losses, etc. on her and Schumer.

We should hope the American people are smart enough to not buy it but…

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Dave In Austin  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:27:15pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:32:09pm

re: #410 Belafon

Government officials don’t have free speech rights when they are acting in an official capacity.

That’s what the Hatch Act addresses. It was first passed when WPA administrators and workers were using their positions to stump for Democratic policies and politicians of the time. Prior to the act being passed, it was not illegal.

The act has been challenged numerous times in court and has always been upheld.

The problem is violation of the act is only remedied by someone bringing a complaint and the OSC making a recommendation on that complaint.

In the past, Hatch Act violations resulted in clearance (there was no violation), resignation, or removal. In Donald Trump’s case, he won’t remove people for violating it, and there is not another legal remedy for it (though certain officials could be impeached, then the Senate won’t remove people).

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KGxvi  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:33:24pm

Just clicked over to RCP and was looking at Trump’s approval ratings. He’s at -11.9 in the most recent average, but that’s with a Rassmussen outlier at -3. Take that one out and he’s at -13 on the average. Throw out the high (19 points under water) and low, and he’s still at -12.4. Now, I’m not an expert, but that seems like very bad numbers for a incumbent in an election year

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JC1  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:34:09pm

re: #418 Eclectic Cyborg

You just know Trump and co are going to try to pin the inevitable evictions/stock market dive/job losses, etc. on her and Schumer.

We should hope the American people are smart enough to not buy it but…

The president’s party always gets blamed. Once spending drops in a week or 2 and the stock market starts crashing, Donny will be begging for a deal.

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EPR-radar  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:44:40pm

re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg

See how binary thinking can ruin shit quickly?

I don’t even have enough words for how much the GOP sucks.

I think saying that the GOP is second only to the Nazi party in terms of being evil covers a lot of ground very efficiently.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:51:41pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:53:30pm

re: #423 EPR-radar

I think saying that the GOP is second only to the Nazi party in terms of being evil covers a lot of ground very efficiently.

Well, they haven’t quite gotten to the point of the Khmer Rouge ordering people out of the cities to starve and killing everyone with glasses, or the Hutus in Rwanda passing out machetes for people to chop up their friends and neighbours.

However, trying to withhold aid during an epidemic ranks right up there.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:53:51pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:55:42pm

re: #419 Dave In Austin

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:57:16pm

Extremely local news: The VA changed my eye appointment from March 30, 2021 to March 29, 2021. They wanted to know if that would be okay with me.

I guess?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:57:19pm

re: #421 KGxvi

Just clicked over to RCP and was looking at Trump’s approval ratings. He’s at -11.9 in the most recent average, but that’s with a Rassmussen outlier at -3. Take that one out and he’s at -13 on the average. Throw out the high (19 points under water) and low, and he’s still at -12.4. Now, I’m not an expert, but that seems like very bad numbers for a incumbent in an election year

Not bad enough. It’s never bad enough unless he’s 100% underwater.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:59:11pm

re: #421 KGxvi

Just clicked over to RCP and was looking at Trump’s approval ratings. He’s at -11.9 in the most recent average, but that’s with a Rassmussen outlier at -3. Take that one out and he’s at -13 on the average. Throw out the high (19 points under water) and low, and he’s still at -12.4. Now, I’m not an expert, but that seems like very bad numbers for a incumbent in an election year

Isn’t Rasmussen the one that usually oversamples Republicans?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 1:59:15pm

re: #426 Dave In Austin

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:00:44pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:05:17pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:08:49pm

re: #433 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That came from PBS trying to both-siderise the issue.

In turn that caused people to drag PBS over exactly that, and this particularly fact-laden response in eight tweets

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:10:14pm

re: #419 Dave In Austin

“….in good fun.”

Gee, Jerry, nobody denies that. There are plenty of rock stars who would attest that buxom groupies and primo fruit of the vine are indeed good fun.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:10:24pm

re: #428 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Extremely local news: The VA changed my eye appointment from March 30, 2021 to March 29, 2021. They wanted to know if that would be okay with me.

I guess?

You could be going to Davos that day?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:11:35pm

re: #428 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Extremely local news: The VA changed my eye appointment from March 30, 2021 to March 29, 2021. They wanted to know if that would be okay with me.

I guess?

The good news is that you will be alive in 2021.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:13:24pm

re: #436 Colère Tueur de Lapin

You could be going to Davos that day?

LOL

re: #437 I Would Prefer Not To

The good news is that you will be alive in 2021.

Well, I hope it’s good news anyway.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:15:04pm

My computer wants to update its BIOS, so I think I’ll log out and let it do that. (I’m way past bedtime anyway.) Catch y’all later.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:17:11pm

I’m beginning to see Tulsi-bots attack Kamala.

This is going to go on for a long time.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:19:25pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:22:04pm

re: #435 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Honestly, the “in good fun” line wasn’t the worst of what he said, this is worse…

“I promised my kids I’m going to try to be a good boy from here on out,” he said Wednesday during a radio interview with WLNI, adding that the picture was “just in good fun.”

Because that’s just fucking weird. Seriously, WTF?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:23:31pm

Is this what cancel culture is all about?

Falwell goes to rehab and Jesus forgives him in 1- 2-3…

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:27:02pm

re: #443 I Would Prefer Not To

“Falwells Aren’t Perfect, Just Forgiven.”

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:27:14pm

re: #443 I Would Prefer Not To

Is this what cancel culture is all about?

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Falwell goes to rehab and Jesus forgives him in 1- 2-3…

Maybe pastor Ted Haggard is available for the position.

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:27:42pm
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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:27:42pm

re: #434 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That came from PBS trying to both-siderise the issue.

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Two realities have emerged. One where people think drinking bleach will kill you. And one where people think bleach makes a tasty cocktail. Do Better PBS.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:38:56pm

How is this fucker still alive? Too putrid for the Angel of Death?

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:40:00pm

re: #447 Teddy’s Person

Two realities have emerged. One where people think drinking bleach will kill you. And one where people think bleach makes a tasty cocktail. Do Better PBS.

It may or may not be raining. You can never know for sure which one it is.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:40:26pm

re: #443 I Would Prefer Not To

Is this what cancel culture is all about?

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Falwell goes to rehab and Jesus forgives him in 1- 2-3…

Did Jerry Jr do the Jimmy Swaggart Thang Yet?

I HAVE SINNED

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:41:25pm

re: #443 I Would Prefer Not To

Is this what cancel culture is all about?

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Falwell goes to rehab and Jesus forgives him in 1- 2-3…

A very guessable Friday afternoon news dump.

Now comes the wingnuts chastising us for taking joy in this followed by a few choruses of whataboutism

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:43:06pm

Yesterday Letiticia James takes the NRA down

Today Fartwell Jr. gets booted.

Ah time to celebrate a bit!

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:45:19pm

re: #451 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

A very guessable Friday afternoon news dump.

Now comes the wingnuts chastising us for taking joy in this followed by a few choruses of whataboutism

Not sorry about celebrating. Hypocrites always be telling me that everything I believe is wrong and that I’m going to hell. F em. And FT, and FP.

Now I’m going on my walk.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:45:55pm

re: #452 🌹UOJB!

Yesterday Letiticia James takes the NRA down

Today Fartwell Jr. gets booted.

Ah time to celebrate a bit!

Good things come in 3s, who is the next despicable person to have a karma attack?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:47:08pm

re: #452 🌹UOJB!

Yesterday Letiticia James takes the NRA down

Today Fartwell Jr. gets booted.

Ah time to celebrate a bit!

Little bits of happiness wherever we can get them.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:47:22pm

re: #454 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

Good things come in 3s, who is the next despicable person to have a karma attack?

Oh I just can’t make up my mind between Barr having a heart attack or McConnell on a respirator…

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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:49:03pm

re: #340 dat_said

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Hope you’ve saved my birth state (ND) for last. You can get a free t-shirt and a mild round of applause at the Fargo visitor center.

I actually am missing North Dakota, along with South Dakota, Maine, New Hampshire, Utah, and Alaska.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:50:49pm

re: #456 🌹UOJB!

Oh I just can’t make up my mind between Barr having a heart attack or McConnell on a respirator…

The USA would never be that lucky.

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sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:52:39pm

re: #454 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

Good things come in 3s, who is the next despicable person to have a karma attack?

Are you asking for predictions, or my wishlist?

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 2:55:17pm
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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:01:35pm

Motherfucker.

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dat_said  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:04:09pm

re: #457 (((Archangel1)))

I actually am missing North Dakota, along with South Dakota, Maine, New Hampshire, Utah, and Alaska.

It’s a silly little thing, but I wasn’t kidding about the Best for Last Club. Alas, I’ll never be able to join.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:04:39pm

The origin of the hashtag # nocomradesunder1k. I knew it was iffy when I saw one guy with the nym “Barack Obama is a Harvey Weinstein Democrat”.

I propose that nuclear cruise missiles fall under the 2nd Amendment. 4chan needs a permanent outage in their data center.

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Teukka  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:06:56pm

re: #463 Sherlock Hound

The origin of the hashtag # nocommiesunder1k. I knew it was iffy when I saw one guy with the nym “Barack Obama is a Harvey Weinstein Democrat”.

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I propose that nuclear cruise missiles fall under the 2nd Amendment. 4chan needs a permanent outage in their data center.

More like needs to forget to close a door which needs to be closed to avoid the fury of the world raining down on them. There is stuff which happens where they believe they aren’t seen.

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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:07:06pm

re: #454 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

Good things come in 3s, who is the next despicable person to have a karma attack?

It was that politician who went to a birthday party for the founder of the KKK on the same day of John Lewis’ funeral. He was indicted for felony theft from a previous employer today or yesterday.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:07:58pm

I haven’t seen anyone mention it, but I’ll say it about that Fallwell Jr yacht photo…
that Peg Bundy wig allegedly preggers woman had her Daisy Duke’s zipper pulled down enough to show the top of her “hair down there”.

yeah “just fun”, my aunt fanny

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:09:06pm

re: #465 stpaulbear

It was that politician who went to a birthday party for the founder of the KKK on the same day of John Lewis’ funeral. He was indicted for felony theft from a previous employer today or yesterday.

I’m hoping for a bigger name. Fallwell and LaPierre are big time, need another marquis name to round out the trifecta.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:10:56pm

re: #466 Backwoods_Sleuth

I haven’t seen anyone mention it, but I’ll say it about that Fallwell Jr yacht photo…
that Peg Bundy wig allegedly preggers woman had her Daisy Duke’s zipper pulled down enough to show the top of her “hair down there”.

yeah “just fun”, my aunt fanny

I just looked at the photo again and I’m pretty sure that’s not hair, but a shadow from the flap of the unzipped shorts.

But I could be wrong.

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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:11:10pm

re: #467 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

I’m hoping for a bigger name. Fallwell and LaPierre are big time, need another marquis name to round out the trifecta.

I’ll root for Mark Zuckerberg.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:12:32pm

re: #469 stpaulbear

I’ll root for Mark Zuckerberg.

Oooo, good one!

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:13:13pm

re: #466 Backwoods_Sleuth

I haven’t seen anyone mention it, but I’ll say it about that Fallwell Jr yacht photo…
that Peg Bundy wig allegedly preggers woman had her Daisy Duke’s zipper pulled down enough to show the top of her “hair down there”.

yeah “just fun”, my aunt fanny

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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:13:16pm

re: #419 Dave In Austin

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Probably a thread behind but Mrs. Betty found out

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CleverToad  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:14:01pm

re: #466 Backwoods_Sleuth

I haven’t seen anyone mention it, but I’ll say it about that Fallwell Jr yacht photo…
that Peg Bundy wig allegedly preggers woman had her Daisy Duke’s zipper pulled down enough to show the top of her “hair down there”.

yeah “just fun”, my aunt fanny

Oh good, I’m not the only old lady who uses that phrase :)
I say ‘malarkey’ too, even before Joe B brought it back into fashion

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:14:24pm

re: #468 Eclectic Cyborg

I just looked at the photo again and I’m pretty sure that’s not hair, but a shadow from the flap of the unzipped shorts.

But I could be wrong.

I was being more like you the first few days, but now I’m fuck benefit of the doubt

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:16:03pm

re: #474 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was being more like you the first few days, but now I’m fuck benefit of the doubt

Honestly, it’s impossible to tell for certain without a higher res image that I think we can all agree NONE of us want to see.

So I guess it comes down to how much of a dirtbag you think Jerry Falwell Jr. is so….

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:18:56pm

Let’s be honest. If we’re talking geopolitics, both China and Russia would benefit from trump winning a 2nd term. This is all bullshit.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:19:43pm

The other tidbit we must not forget in the Falwell saga is how he went out of his way to say his drink was “black water” not an alcoholic beverage.

The grifter doth protest too much, methinks

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CleverToad  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:19:50pm

re: #474 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was being more like you the first few days, but now I’m fuck benefit of the doubt

Only reason I’d doubt it is that the fashionables these days seem to wax the heck out of anything down there. I keep rolling my eyes at all of the adverts for “manscaping” razors.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:21:01pm

re: #459 sagehen

Are you asking for predictions, or my wishlist?

Kentucky should be that lucky

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:22:42pm

re: #466 Backwoods_Sleuth

I haven’t seen anyone mention it, but I’ll say it about that Fallwell Jr yacht photo…
that Peg Bundy wig allegedly preggers woman had her Daisy Duke’s zipper pulled down enough to show the top of her “hair down there”.

yeah “just fun”, my aunt fanny

Just the thought of Al Bundy Falwell selling shoes…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:23:52pm

re: #474 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was being more like you the first few days, but now I’m fuck benefit of the doubt

Remember Jimmy Swaggart’s hooker girlfriend? I’m still traumatized by pics of her bush. It rivaled an African Savannah.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:24:03pm

re: #477 Teddy’s Person

The other tidbit we must not forget in the Falwell saga is how he went out of his way to say his drink was “black water” not an alcoholic beverage.

The grifter doth protest too much, methinks

What is “black water”? All I can think of is that mercenary group. Why wouldn’t he just say that it’s coke or pepsi or root beer?

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:26:28pm

Trump should demand that Liberty University reinstate Fallwell, the ungrateful bastard.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:29:24pm

Oh black water, keep on rolling
Mississippi moon won’t ya keep on shining on me.

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:31:10pm

Fox is currently doing “What about Zika? Why aren’t we curing it?” As if Fox wasn’t part of the reason we didn’t deal with Zika.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:31:43pm

re: #482 The Pie Overlord!

What is “black water”? All I can think of is that mercenary group. Why wouldn’t he just say that it’s coke or pepsi or root beer?

I’m trying to think of a liquor that even looks that dark?

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NetworkKed  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:33:58pm

re: #486 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

I’m trying to think of a liquor that even looks that dark?

A dark rum. I’ve also seen some very dark dessert wines, but the thing is that the black shirt behind the glass means it’s going to look dark regardless.

Or with the amount of liquid in the glass, probably a whatever-and-cola. I’m fond of tequila-and-coke myself.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:35:12pm

re: #486 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

I’m trying to think of a liquor that even looks that dark?

Cuba Libre, comandante.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:37:00pm

re: #487 NetworkKed

A dark rum. I’ve also seen some very dark dessert wines, but the thing is that the black shirt behind the glass means it’s going to look dark regardless.

I remember the first time Mom heard the Doobie Brothers Black Water song. She said, “Oh Butch, they’re singing about moonshine”.

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:37:24pm

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aatharuv  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:37:36pm

re: #467 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

I’m hoping for a bigger name. Fallwell and LaPierre are big time, need another marquis name to round out the trifecta.

I’d say Betsy De Vos.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:38:00pm

re: #488 Decatur Deb

Cuba Libre, comandante.

But why say the Dark Water was a prop? Why not just say it was a coke? That confuses me? I hate wingnuts.

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EPR-radar  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:38:34pm

re: #475 Eclectic Cyborg

Honestly, it’s impossible to tell for certain without a higher res image that I think we can all agree NONE of us want to see.

So I guess it comes down to how much of a dirtbag you think Jerry Falwell Jr. is so….

Falwell Jr. had a pool boy scandal a couple of years ago. It’s simplest to assume every Republican is a dirtbag unless specific contrary evidence is available.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:39:29pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:39:55pm

re: #491 aatharuv

I’d say Betsy De Vos.

I’d sure like to see her get covid19, but it probably can’t infect that kind of freakish cyborg.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:41:12pm

re: #482 The Pie Overlord!

What is “black water”? All I can think of is that mercenary group. Why wouldn’t he just say that it’s coke or pepsi or root beer?

This was in the original caption of the photo when Jerry first tweeted it not an excuse he made up later. He’s the one who thought people might wonder what was in his glass. My theory, he was on quite the bender.

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EPR-radar  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:42:31pm

re: #494 Dread Pirate Ron

The GOP’s anti-government ideology has gotten so extreme by now that it’s interfering with the essential government function of disaster relief/epidemic control.

Republicans literally have no other use for government than to get in charge of it so they can steal everything in sight while cutting taxes on the rich and deregulating businesses.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:42:58pm

re: #477 Teddy’s Person

The other tidbit we must not forget in the Falwell saga is how he went out of his way to say his drink was “black water” not an alcoholic beverage.

The grifter doth protest too much, methinks

So he was drinking raw sewage from the holding tanks?

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:43:21pm

re: #491 aatharuv

I’d say Betsy De Vos.

All those Dalmatian puppies she rounded up had a revolution and off with her head.

Edited to make sense.

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:44:55pm

re: #476 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Let’s be honest. If we’re talking geopolitics, both China and Russia would benefit from trump winning a 2nd term. This is all bullshit.

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China needs someone to sell to. There isn’t enough of the other markets to consume what we buy.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:45:01pm

re: #498 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

So he was drinking raw sewage from the holding tanks?

Shit fer brains need a refill.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:45:20pm

re: #475 Eclectic Cyborg

Honestly, it’s impossible to tell for certain without a higher res image that I think we can all agree NONE of us want to see.

So I guess it comes down to how much of a dirtbag you think Jerry Falwell Jr. is so….

the “shadow” is as the Church Lady would say…”convenient”.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:46:12pm

re: #491 aatharuv

I’d say Betsy De Vos.

I’m thinking a Trump backing wingnut leader with a following, like the other 2. I’d settle for Limbaugh, Levin or Hannity

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:46:27pm

re: #477 Teddy’s Person

The other tidbit we must not forget in the Falwell saga is how he went out of his way to say his drink was “black water” not an alcoholic beverage.

The grifter doth protest too much, methinks

yeppers…that was not sweet tea…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:47:20pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:47:41pm

re: #491 aatharuv

I’d say Betsy De Vos.

So, so many to choose from.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:48:40pm

re: #492 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

But why say the Dark Water was a prop? Why not just say it was a coke? That confuses me? I hate wingnuts.

Maybe Coke is forbidden (out apparently is in Mormonism, coffee, too).

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Axolotl  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:48:44pm

re: #345 SerialUpDinger

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My son is a Marine. He and his buddies are affected by covid-19 - postponed deployments, reduced social opportunities, and yet they are still boys at heart. Clowning around after winning a competition that meant the non-winners had to perform additional physical training.

As an old vet I can tell you, these pictures will by like gold to him when he gets older.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:53:20pm

And THE ONION chimes in on Q-Anon!

The Onion’s Guide To QAnon

theonion.com

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:54:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:58:02pm

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:58:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 3:59:31pm

JFC, this moron

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:00:17pm
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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:01:12pm
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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:01:37pm

The royalists assemble.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:02:01pm

writing off a golf trip

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:02:11pm

re: #515 jaunte

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“Get in here now or we’re revoking your privileges!”

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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:03:03pm

re: #516 jaunte

The royalists assemble.

Wonder if any of them are wearing masks? Hope there’s video.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:03:11pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:04:11pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:05:37pm

re: #500 Belafon

China needs someone to sell to. There isn’t enough of the other markets to consume what we buy.

At this point though, there isn’t enough US to consume any longer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:05:50pm
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Sherlock Hound  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:06:37pm

re: #519 stpaulbear

Wonder if any of them are wearing masks? Hope there’s video.

Supposedly on Fox News.

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Belafon  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:07:27pm

re: #522 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

At this point though, there isn’t enough US to consume any longer.

That’s why China needs the US back. They want to be a world power, but they’re still in the production phase.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:07:29pm

re: #511 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m in spy now as I kept crashing…

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:07:58pm
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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:08:27pm

re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Will the courtiers chant “FAKE NEWS” “LOCK HER UP” and “FOUR MORE YEARS”?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:08:30pm

re: #520 Backwoods_Sleuth

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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:09:46pm

re: #462 dat_said

It’s a silly little thing, but I wasn’t kidding about the Best for Last Club. Alas, I’ll never be able to join.

Once this blasted pandemic goes away, oh in about a decade from now (otherwise known as next January) I may very well end up doing that!
Maine and NH are almost certainly the next two I’ll be visiting seeing how I was considering doing that on my original trip that I had to cancel in March at the last minute because of the outbreak. Also, I’ve learned since posting that list of 6 that I may have technically been to Alaska during a family cruise sometime when I was really young, so perhaps I can cross that off (does it count if i was too young to remember it? I just barely remember Hawaii a few years later). That just leaves Utah, then South Dakota and from there I could wrap it up with North Dakota for last.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:19:09pm
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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:21:04pm

Harleys everywhere, masks nowhere: Sturgis draws thousands

STURGIS, S.D. — Thousands of bikers poured into the small South Dakota city of Sturgis on Friday as the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally rumbled to life despite fears it could lead to a massive coronavirus outbreak.

The rally could become one of the largest public gatherings since the pandemic began, with organizers expecting 250,000 people from all over the country to make their way through Sturgis during the 10-day event. That would be roughly half the number of previous years, but local residents — and a few bikers — worry that the crowds could create a “super-spreader” event.

Many who rode their bikes into Sturgis on Friday expressed defiance at the rules and restrictions that have marked life in many locales during the pandemic. People rode from across the country to a state that offered a reprieve from coronavirus restrictions, as South Dakota has no special limits on indoor crowds, no mask mandates and a governor who is eager to welcome visitors and the money they bring.

“Screw COVID,” read the design on one T-shirt being hawked. “I went to Sturgis.”

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:21:13pm

Good luck, kid.

534
Barefoot Grin  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:23:54pm

re: #533 jaunte

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Good luck, kid.

“Little Peter was to be schooled at home by a Ph.D. holding tutor before he was struck ill.”

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:24:19pm

re: #527 Dread Pirate Ron

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I read the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report detailing how Catholic Bishops and Cardinals shuffled pedophile priests from parish to parish and pressured elected officials to not bring charges against those perverts.

I got a major problem with assholes like Cardinal Burke who participated in that shit and got away with it.

536
b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:24:35pm

Bedminster groupies…..say Hi to Herman Cain for me

537
Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:26:40pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:26:47pm

I’m over these people.

Have a nice life… However short it may be.

539
Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:27:36pm

They’re now handing out masks cause the pics are out on twitter.

Edited for grammar.

540
Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:28:10pm

re: #526 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m in spy now as I kept crashing…

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

me, too!

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jaunte  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:28:28pm

re: #539 Teddy’s Person

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:29:20pm

re: #541 jaunte

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This is how you get the virus in your mask.

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EPR-radar  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:29:26pm

re: #539 Teddy’s Person

There now handing out masks cause the pics are out on twitter.

What a fucking clown show.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:30:36pm

re: #531 Teddy’s Person

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Look at all those terrified child sacrifices

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:31:17pm

Trump is now 30 minutes late. It’s taking longer and longer for the adderall to kick in.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:32:37pm

re: #545 Teddy’s Person

Trump is now 30 minutes late. It’s taking longer and longer for the adderall to kick in.

Maybe he’s sitting on the John waiting for the Miralax to finally kick in!

547
Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:33:06pm

I want to say any bets on whether Trump ignores the reporters and plays straight to his adorning crowds, but no on would take that bet.

548
b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:34:11pm

re: #545 Teddy’s Person

Trump is now 30 minutes late. It’s taking longer and longer for the adderall to kick in.

Hope he’s too busy coughing

549
Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:35:29pm

re: #546 🌹UOJB!

Maybe he’s sitting on the John waiting for the Miralax to finally kick in!

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:35:41pm
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stpaulbear  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:36:26pm

re: #536 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

Bedminster groupies…..say Hi to Herman Cain for me

The press should refuse to enter the room and those that are there should leave. Set up a remote camera and leave. It’s a spreader event now.

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dangerman  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:38:46pm
553
lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:39:04pm
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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:40:16pm

re: #551 stpaulbear

The press should refuse to enter the room and those that are there should leave. Set up a remote camera and leave. It’s a spreader event now.

The White House Press Corps is the most pathetic bunch of spineless sheep I have ever seen.

555
sagehen  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:40:32pm

re: #527 Dread Pirate Ron

No devout Catholic, no practicing Catholic can be in favor of abortion, could justify voting for legislation, policies that promote abortion. [Joe Biden] has a consistent record of being pro-abortion…”

How should devout Catholics, practicing Catholics, be in favor of legislation and policies that encourage the spread of a deadly virus? To pick and choose which states get PPE or ventilators or remdesivir based on who the residents of that state are likely to vote for?

556
lawhawk  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:41:31pm

re: #552 dangerman

Pregnant hot pool boy. And who knows who the baby daddy is. Because the familiarity here appears to be more than just one time. Falwell was oinking and boinking on the down low for a while, because as any good Christian knows, do as I say, don’t do as I do is the mantra of religious leaders for millennia.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:41:39pm

re: #553 lawhawk

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LOL

Quit trying to break the law so obviously, spread out a little!

558
2020 Blue Wisconsin  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:43:24pm

Unbelievable. Just walked into my favorite pizza place to pick up an order I had phoned in. No one in the food prep area was wearing a mask, gloves, or taking any other health/sanitation measures (despite being under a statewide mask order). Told them no, I wasn’t taking the order and walked back out. Truly a shame - it was my favorite pizza in the area. Complain filed with the state as well. Too many idiots, we’ll be lucky if we finally get a handle on it in 5 years.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:43:31pm

re: #542 Teddy’s Person

This is how you get the virus in your mask.

and how you turn all those children into superspreaders

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:45:16pm

re: #559 Backwoods_Sleuth

and how you turn all those children into superspreaders

Kids can’t spread the virus. Didn’t you watch the video Trump tweeted before it got banned?

//

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:47:06pm
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:48:29pm

re: #473 CleverToad

Oh good, I’m not the only old lady who uses that phrase :)
I say ‘malarkey’ too, even before Joe B brought it back into fashion

Super Troopers (5/5) Movie CLIP - Shenanigans (2001) HD

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 7, 2020 • 4:52:24pm

re: #484 Barefoot Grin

Oh black water, keep on rolling
Mississippi moon won’t ya keep on shining on me.

Well, I built me a yacht and she’s ready for floatin’
Ol’ Peggy Bundy, she’s callin’ my name

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 7, 2020 • 5:00:18pm

re: #554 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)

The White House Press Corps is the most pathetic bunch of spineless sheep I have ever seen.

Whoever is setting up for Trump is incompetent. All the good video techs left after Obama. I work in a public access cable studio and we can do better than this!

565
CarolJ  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:52:32pm

re: #381 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Given what’s been happening lately, I can’t blame them for wanting to clear the shelves early. Winter could bring a lot of folks short on everything, and locked down to boot. Get it while people are still going out. Besides, a lot of us shutins, sheltering in placers are probably already working on crafts, especially holiday crafts, to fill the time. Also a lot are working on gifts they can send to people they can’t see in person this year.

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CarolJ  Aug 7, 2020 • 8:54:46pm

re: #521 Backwoods_Sleuth

I bet a lot of people signed with fake names and anything else on all of his petitions.


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