Howler of the Day! Trump’s Spiritual Adviser: Before His Election, Trump Watched Nothing but “Gospel TV”

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I don’t usually like to start a post with “wow” but wow. This is an absolutely terrifying look at the cynical, opportunistic “prosperity gospel” liars who are backing and advising Donald Trump.

Kenneth Copeland is Trump’s official “spiritual adviser.” He says Trump can swear and cuss all he likes, because he’s the president.

He also says that before Trump was elected he watched nothing but “gospel TV… he didn’t watch anything else.” But now he “doesn’t have time to watch gospel television.”

Is this delusion or dishonesty? I doubt even someone like Copeland actually believes Trump was ever a “gospel TV” addict.

rightwingwatch.org

In this clip, prosperity gospel preacher and Trump spiritual adviser Kenneth Copeland blames Trump’s swearing on the fact that he’s too busy to watch Christian television, but also defends Trump by saying that since he’s president, “he can talk any way he wants to talk.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:12:33pm

Since when is Fox News called “Gospel TV”?

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makeitstop  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:13:05pm

re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg

Since when is Fox News called “Gospel TV”?

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Wingnut gospel.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:13:07pm

ǝɔuǝԀ puɐ dɯnɹ┴ ʞɔnℲ

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Targetpractice  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:13:08pm

What, “The Gospel of Ayn Rand”?

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wrenchwench  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:13:32pm

Moron.

Oxymoron.

Trump’s spiritual…

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stpaulbear  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:15:43pm
Kenneth Copeland is Trump’s official “spiritual adviser.” He says Trump can swear and cuss all he likes, because he’s the president.

So did ‘grab them by the pussy’ get special dispensation because it was spoken by a man who would someday fail himself into the presidency? There seems to be a lot of loopholes.

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IngisKahn  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:17:21pm

re: #421 mmmirele

As much as I think learning kanji is a pain in the ass, the number of homonyms for some morae (syllables are the English equivalent) are so incredible that it’s just *necessary*.

It always surprises people to hear that Japanese with 2000 characters is much harder to read than Chinese with 8000+.


Japanese: nin, jin, hito, ri, kiyo, sane, ji, tami, to, ne, hiko, hitoshi, futo, fumi, muto, me, …
Mandarin: rén

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:18:03pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:18:18pm

Mild weather in eastern Nebraska, as seventy mile per hour winds caused fifty thousand Omaha Public Power district to lose power this morning.

More than 50,000 OPPD customers lost power Monday morning when a front carrying strong winds ripped through eastern Nebraska.

About 32,700 customers in Douglas County still were without power as of 1:30 p.m., according to OPPD’s power outage map. Another 3,600 customers were without power in Washington County, and about 1,170 customers in Sarpy County were without power.

A strong storm system developed around Tekamah and Fremont and quickly intensified Monday morning, said meteorologist David Eastlack of the National Weather Service office in Valley. The system’s strength pushed out huge wind gusts to the south and east, which rolled through the Omaha area, he said.

Winds of between 55 mph and 70 mph blew through Omaha, Eastlack said. One report of 70 mph winds came in from near Standing Bear Lake in northwest Omaha, he said.

omaha.com

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BlueSpotinAL  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:18:33pm

Shiplord Kirel, is this one of your cars?

beatlesbentley.com

Note one of the grandsons drinking tea, pinky out.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:19:18pm

There is a 5:30 “news conference” on the president’s daily schedule. He got a taste of having ladies and gentlemen in waiting being present over the weekend. I wonder who’ll be roped into being the adoring crowd today. I have visions of Mark Meadows storming through the West Wing at 5:15 screaming “GET OUT THERE” to staff and visitors alike.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:21:42pm

From Mr. Johnson’s account of this thread at the top:

I don’t usually like to start a post with “wow” but wow. This is an absolutely terrifying look at the cynical, opportunistic “prosperity gospel” liars who are backing and advising Donald Trump.

Kenneth Copeland is Trump’s official “spiritual adviser.” He says Trump can swear and cuss all he likes, because he’s the president.

Holy crap. Copeland is directly arguing in this clip that you should be able to preach politics from the pulpit.

Religion poisons everything.

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Semper Fi  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:24:53pm

re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From Mr. Johnson’s account of this thread at the top:

Holy crap. Copeland is directly arguing in this clip that you should be able to preach politics from the pulpit.

Religion poisons everything.

Then, if K. Copeland wants to be involved in politics he should also be an involved tax payer.

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Dragonomics  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:25:00pm

“He can talk anyway he wants to talk…” This is another way of saying “no responsibility.” It’s a way of saying the orange hued terror clown is infallible. I despise everything about these people, including the sad fact that they are people.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:30:31pm

If you have some time:

The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie (goes to YouTube channel Innuendo Studios, 41:34)

The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:31:09pm
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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:32:03pm

re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From Mr. Johnson’s account of this thread at the top:

Holy crap. Copeland is directly arguing in this clip that you should be able to preach politics from the pulpit.

Religion poisons everything.

Religion has always been inherently political. At least within western traditions. The Hebrew texts/Old Testament was long on laws for the society that wrote it. Despite the retconning post crucifixion, Jesus was clearly preaching about creating a kingdom on earth. And Mohammed did actually create a government. Go back further, and the fusion of religion and politics was fairly overt among the Romans and Greek empires (though polytheism, by its nature was more accommodating of different faith traditions, from what I’ve read). Following the fall of the Romans, the rise of the Roman Catholic Church and then the protestant reformation along with the creation of state churches throughout Europe.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:32:08pm

He watches Gospel TV all of the time, except for when he watches “Shark Week”while cheating on his wife with a porn star

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:33:48pm

re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Copeland likes Trump because he’s moved that much closer to being able to burn his enemies at the stake.

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:34:07pm

I just realized something… granted, Biden doesn’t talk about his faith much, but he is (from what I’ve read) a fairly devout Catholic (as in regularly attends mass). I can’t wait to hear conservative American Catholics to declare him insufficiently Catholic, as they’ve done with Francis.

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wrenchwench  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:35:28pm

re: #17 KGxvi

Despite the retconning post crucifixion,

I’m here for these talks….

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:38:31pm
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Targetpractice  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:38:43pm

re: #20 KGxvi

I just realized something… granted, Biden doesn’t talk about his faith much, but he is (from what I’ve read) a fairly devout Catholic (as in regularly attends mass). I can’t wait to hear conservative American Catholics to declare him insufficiently Catholic, as they’ve done with Francis.

I expect a quick return to the days of Obama: “HE’S THE ANTICHRIST! HE’S BEEN SENT TO DESTROY AMERICA! THE RAPTURE IS SOON!!!”

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:38:44pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:38:54pm

Ugh. Kenneth Copeland hits home personally because he is a close friend and personal spiritual mentor of my father-in-law. And now you know where I come from.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:40:06pm

re: #24 jaunte

Amazing that some GOP communities are so insulated from the impacts of the virus they don’t start understand how real shit is until College Football is about to go away.

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nines09  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:41:04pm

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Thanos  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:41:25pm

It’s not a mistake that Kenneth Copeland made his first millions off the residents of Tarrant County TX, it’s about as chock full of Republican rubes as you can get.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:41:35pm

re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From Mr. Johnson’s account of this thread at the top:

Holy crap. Copeland is directly arguing in this clip that you should be able to preach politics from the pulpit.

Religion poisons everything.

Fine.

KKKopeland wants to play the politics game, make ‘em all pay!

TAX THE CHURCHES!

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:42:48pm

re: #27 nines09

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:43:09pm

It feels a little weird to be a modern Christian in threads like these. I get the toxicity that American evangelicalism has inflicted on the world, and on our politics, but yikes.

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Interesting Times  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:44:15pm

Excellent observation here (though the excerpt leaves out the biggest advantage the reichwing has - using racist resentment to underpin their mythos):

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lawhawk  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:44:16pm

NYC is tentatively looking to do a blended school start for roughly 75% of students (mix of classroom and remote learning. 25% will be 100% at home. 15% of teachers will also start remote full time.

25% of students is nearly 300,000 kids.

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Targetpractice  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:44:45pm

re: #24 jaunte

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Fall sports were supposed to be the salvation of the Repubs, the usual distraction of watching men in heavy padding beating the snot out of each other providing the ciruses in absence of bread. But the warning was issued months ago that for that to happen, there needed to be sufficient testing and safety measures. And those never materialized, so the gladiators will not fight.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:48:16pm

re: #22 jaunte

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Play ColleGe FootBall! Or else Joe Biden!

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Mike Lamb  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:50:21pm

re: #24 jaunte

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The (apparently imminent) decision not to play, at least for the Big 10, is being made with pretty limited player input. I am certain that some don’t want to play (and a number have opted out), but I’d suspect that there are lots that do want to play. I don’t think that can be the only factor in making this decision, but it is relevant and the players need a legit seat at the table.

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wrenchwench  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:50:30pm

re: #31 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It feels a little weird to be a modern Christian in threads like these. I get the toxicity that American evangelicalism has inflicted on the world, and on our politics, but yikes.

{{{dopey covfefe}}}

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William Lewis  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:50:52pm

re: #25 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:51:39pm

re: #20 KGxvi

I just realized something… granted, Biden doesn’t talk about his faith much, but he is (from what I’ve read) a fairly devout Catholic (as in regularly attends mass). I can’t wait to hear conservative American Catholics to declare him insufficiently Catholic, as they’ve done with Francis.

They’ve been doing that. Note the asshole Cardinal who attacked Joe on Fox.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:51:47pm
In this clip, prosperity gospel preacher and Trump spiritual adviser Kenneth Copeland blames Trump’s swearing on the fact that he’s too busy to watch Christian television, but also defends Trump by saying that since he’s president, “he can talk any way he wants to talk.

We’ve come along way since “Family Values”! and “Character Counts!!”

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:53:22pm

re: #7 IngisKahn

It always surprises people to hear that Japanese with 2000 characters is much harder to read than Chinese with 8000+.


Japanese: nin, jin, hito, ri, kiyo, sane, ji, tami, to, ne, hiko, hitoshi, futo, fumi, muto, me, …
Mandarin: rén

Ha. There were two girls in a class I taught with the name 友子 and two girls with the name 雪子. One of the 友子s was Tomoko and the other was Yūko. One of the 雪子s was Yukiko and the other Setsuko. It was always so confusing to remember who was who.

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makeitstop  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:53:42pm

re: #31 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It feels a little weird to be a modern Christian in threads like these. I get the toxicity that American evangelicalism has inflicted on the world, and on our politics, but yikes.

It does seem to turn into a non-stop bash fest a lot. I feel for you.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:54:06pm

re: #20 KGxvi

I just realized something… granted, Biden doesn’t talk about his faith much, but he is (from what I’ve read) a fairly devout Catholic (as in regularly attends mass). I can’t wait to hear conservative American Catholics to declare him insufficiently Catholic, as they’ve done with Francis.

Oh, he’s pro-choice and pro-LGBT which invalidates any religious profession, according to some folks.

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nines09  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:54:16pm

re: #30 Teddy’s Person

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EPR-radar  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:54:30pm

re: #31 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It feels a little weird to be a modern Christian in threads like these. I get the toxicity that American evangelicalism has inflicted on the world, and on our politics, but yikes.

The most visible Christians in US politics are also the most malignant ones. Splash damage in the blowback from that is inevitable.

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danarchy  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:54:36pm

re: #20 KGxvi

I just realized something… granted, Biden doesn’t talk about his faith much, but he is (from what I’ve read) a fairly devout Catholic (as in regularly attends mass). I can’t wait to hear conservative American Catholics to declare him insufficiently Catholic, as they’ve done with Francis.

Didn’t a priest in SC already deny him communion?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:56:31pm

re: #20 KGxvi

I just realized something… granted, Biden doesn’t talk about his faith much, but he is (from what I’ve read) a fairly devout Catholic (as in regularly attends mass). I can’t wait to hear conservative American Catholics to declare him insufficiently Catholic, as they’ve done with Francis.

They have already started. At least one bishop has made a statement regarding Biden not being a vocal anti-abortion advocate.

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Belafon  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:58:41pm
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (D) advised Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) to “politely decline” any offer to be presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate.

Brown wrote that the vice presidency would likely hinder any further political ambitions for Harris.

“Historically, the vice presidency has often ended up being a dead end. For every George H.W. Bush, who ascended from the job to the presidency, there’s an Al Gore, who never got there,” Brown wrote in an op-ed for the San Francisco Examiner.

thehill.com

If the stats are one-to-one, that makes her odds 50%, which is actually better than probably will be if she doesn’t become the first female VP. I don’t think Brown fully grasps the dynamics right now.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:59:09pm

Question?

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 12:59:37pm

re: #48 Belafon

thehill.com

If the stats are one-to-one, that makes her odds 50%, which is actually better than probably will be if she doesn’t become the first female VP. I don’t think Brown fully grasps the dynamics right now.

Especially if Biden were to serve only one term.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:00:26pm

re: #48 Belafon

thehill.com

If the stats are one-to-one, that makes her odds 50%, which is actually better than probably will be if she doesn’t become the first female VP. I don’t think Brown fully grasps the dynamics right now.

MarTin Van bUren!!!!

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:02:14pm
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🌹UOJB!  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:02:58pm

re: #31 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It feels a little weird to be a modern Christian in threads like these. I get the toxicity that American evangelicalism has inflicted on the world, and on our politics, but yikes.

When you receive endless toxicity from people who call themselves Christians you really get contemptuous of the whole scam.

When you are a kid and Christian kids insult you and try to convert you to their cult you get contemptuous of the whole scam.

When teachers think they are so cute and they call you “N-WORD” head because your hair grows like an Afro you get contemptuous of the whole scam

When you are forced to sit in a pew and hear nothing but Republican propaganda you get contemptuous of the whole scam

When your relatives become pod people and become racist assholes in the name of Jesus you get contemptuous of the whole scam

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wrenchwench  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:03:11pm

re: #48 Belafon

thehill.com

If the stats are one-to-one, that makes her odds 50%, which is actually better than probably will be if she doesn’t become the first female VP. I don’t think Brown fully grasps the dynamics right now.

Not just any former mayor can become Diane Feinstein, either. Kamala’s already got that. Brown can have a seat.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:05:54pm

re: #25 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Ugh. Kenneth Copeland hits home personally because he is a close friend and personal spiritual mentor of my father-in-law. And now you know where I come from.

Copeland’s really been around a long time, too. He’s been on TV at least since the 1980’s.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:07:39pm

Re: Copeland’s chiseling the taxpayers:

“…one of the tax benefits bestowed on ministers is the “parsonage allowance,” which allows ministers to exclude the rental value of their homes from their taxable income. This statute was adopted in 1954 out of concern for clergy, most of whom were making less than $2,500 annually, according to the Committee. Although a lot has changed since 1954, this tax provision has not, and today’s millionaire and billionaire televangelists are still able to take advantage of it. The Committee reported that some churches allegedly ordain friends, family members, and employees solely for the purpose of getting them the income tax exclusion. Currently, there is no limit on the number of residences for which a minister can receive a parsonage allowance, meaning a minister can exclude the rental value of a second home or a vacation home from his or her taxable income.

According to the Committee, Copeland’s church provides the Copelands with an 18,000 square-foot mansion that was valued at over $6 million in 2008. It has two three-car garages and three boat slips. Its doors, Gloria Copeland brags, come from a castle. John Copeland confirmed the value of the house and added that their parsonage is also used for housing guest ministers, television taping, rest and relaxation, and includes offices for Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. An insider told the Committee that Randy and Paula White enjoy a $3.5 million condo in Trump Tower in New York City, in addition to their $2.6 million home in Tampa, Florida. Their church allegedly pays a “housing allowance” for both residences.
charitywatch.org

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Targetpractice  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:07:43pm

re: #48 Belafon

thehill.com

If the stats are one-to-one, that makes her odds 50%, which is actually better than probably will be if she doesn’t become the first female VP. I don’t think Brown fully grasps the dynamics right now.

Willie who?

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A Mom Anon  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:07:48pm

re: #31 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’m sending you a hug, even though I am not remotely religious. That is the fault of right wing evangelical end times Christianity with some Amway thrown in, just for fucking delightfulness. So I have no family because of it.And it’s pissed me off at ALL religion and religious peoples a lot. However, many really amazing Christian people have come across my path over the years and I have mad respect for people who really do try to use Jesus and his teachings to make the world better. To be brave and kind and honest and caring. I hold organized religion responsible for a lot of crap(it’s really the humans in charge I hold to the fire), but I also respect those who believe and value the teachings as a guide to a better world. Nothing wrong with that. It’s when religion begins damaging and hurting that people put up their defenses. Being one of those damaged by religion I understand the vitriol and anger. But I can’t bring myself to hold all religion responsible for every bit of messed up human shit. You miss out on cool people that way. I live in the south, churches are sometimes a mess here, but a good portion of the individual people aren’t except in the super right wing megachurches and their smaller wannabee churches. I’ve done enough volunteer work around here to know who cares and who doesn’t. More safely distanced hugs to you and your family.

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stpaulbear  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:10:45pm
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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:11:35pm

re: #59 stpaulbear

Roll Library!

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:13:34pm

re: #48 Belafon

thehill.com

If the stats are one-to-one, that makes her odds 50%, which is actually better than probably will be if she doesn’t become the first female VP. I don’t think Brown fully grasps the dynamics right now.

In the modern era (post-FDR), former VPs as nominees:

Nixon lost in 1960, won in 1968.
Humphery lost in 1968, ended up going back to the Senate
LBJ assumed the office after Kennedy’s assassination, so doesn’t really apply
Ford assumed the office after Nixon’s resignation, so also doesn’t really apply
Mondale got trounced in 1984
GHW Bush won in 1988
Quayle ran for president in 2000 for about 15 minutes
Gore lost in 2000
Cheney retired
Biden won the nomination in 2020 (after not running in 2016)

The tricky parts of this calculus are: will Biden actually only serve one term? What happens, despite the odds, if Trump pulls out a victory? What other future political ambitions does Harris have?

On that last point, before she ran for the Senate, there was some talk that she was eyeing the governor’s office here in California. Newsom is up for re-election in 2022, so realistically, the earliest she’d be able to seek that office is 2026 (unless Newsom’s approval falls out between now and 2022).

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:16:21pm

re: #59 stpaulbear

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I’ll admit I would miss it, if it ends up being canceled, or being significantly scaled back.

But it’s entertainment value takes a back seat to everyone’s safety.

And I’ll admit the nature of the business gives me pause, the push to win at all costs can be hazardous. I have no doubt it’s a rough life for many of the “student athletes” who are pushed by their coaches, friends, and probably even family members to risk life and limb in the slim hope that there will be a pot of gold in the NFL at the end of the rainbow.

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:18:44pm

re: #57 Targetpractice

Willie who?

I don’t know how much sway he still has in California politics, but Willie Brown was once a giant of California politics. Long time Speaker of the Assembly (and main target of the pro-term limits groups back in the 90s); then mayor of SF.

I will agree with re: #48 Belafon that Brown might be seeing the trees instead of the forest.

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:19:12pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:20:01pm

re: #61 KGxvi

In the modern era (post-FDR), former VPs as nominees:

Nixon lost in 1960, won in 1968.
Humphery lost in 1968, ended up going back to the Senate
LBJ assumed the office after Kennedy’s assassination, so doesn’t really apply
Ford assumed the office after Nixon’s resignation, so also doesn’t really apply
Mondale got trounced in 1984
GHW Bush won in 1988
Quayle ran for president in 2000 for about 15 minutes
Gore lost in 2000
Cheney retired
Biden won the nomination in 2020 (after not running in 2016)

The tricky parts of this calculus are: will Biden actually only serve one term? What happens, despite the odds, if Trump pulls out a victory? What other future political ambitions does Harris have?

On that last point, before she ran for the Senate, there was some talk that she was eyeing the governor’s office here in California. Newsom is up for re-election in 2022, so realistically, the earliest she’d be able to seek that office is 2026 (unless Newsom’s approval falls out between now and 2022).

It’s also a little morbid to think, but given Biden’s age, his VP might well be called to step in before the end of his term.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:20:10pm

re: #59 stpaulbear

Wow. College without college football would be .. about education.

Sex, drugs, and R&R.

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:21:42pm

re: #58 A Mom Anon

But I can’t bring myself to hold all religion responsible for every bit of messed up human shit. You miss out on cool people that way. I live in the south, churches are sometimes a mess here, but a good portion of the individual people aren’t except in the super right wing megachurches and their smaller wannabee churches. I’ve done enough volunteer work around here to know who cares and who doesn’t. More safely distanced hugs to you and your family.

I have had a long struggle with organized religion. Won’t go into detail, but our parish priest wound up doing 3 years at a state prison for what he did to us.

So I can’t really get on board with any religion that requires you to go to a building on a specific day, chant the magic words with everyone else, and put your money into a brass plate.

I’ve met some amazing priests around the world. Also monks, shaman, imams, etc. The good ones are plugged into a different voltage, and they are a force for good in this flawed world.

The bad ones who use religion and doctrine as a weapon to amass power and afflict those they are bigoted against, can burn & thrash in the blackness of blacknesses, if such a thing exists.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:23:16pm
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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:24:02pm

I’d take that deal for a week.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:24:19pm

re: #64 teleskiguy

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oh no

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SteelPH  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:24:50pm

re: #64 teleskiguy

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:25:54pm

Meanwhile, this tweet seems to be getting traction today:

The one thing that the NCAA will not, under any circumstances abide, is any attempt by the college athletes to organize & collectively bargain.

That would undo the entire plantation.

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danarchy  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:27:31pm

re: #68 jaunte

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Um Phil’s math does not compute.

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:28:06pm

re: #71 SteelPH

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:31:47pm

Here’s The College Football TV Money At Stake For Each Conference And Network
forbes.com

“…For 2020, for example, ESPN/ABC, Fox and CBS are on the hook for a combined $1.4 billion (see chart below), excluding the 12-year, $5.6 billion deal ESPN has to televise the playoffs. It also does not include conference networks, in which media companies also have sizable investments.”

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:31:57pm

The smoke is starting to blot out the sun.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:32:21pm

re: #73 danarchy

Um Phil’s math does not compute.

neither does Ted Cruz’s

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:32:49pm

re: #73 danarchy

I’d still go for seven days of payments.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:33:18pm

re: #76 teleskiguy

Stay safe! I hope you have somewhere to go if you have to get outta there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:33:18pm

re: #78 jaunte

I’d still go for seven days of payments.

h*ck, I’ll settle for one

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:33:25pm

re: #72 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

I love college sports, but the system is incredibly fucked up, and has become even more so in the last 20 years. Part of the problem is, I suspect that a lot of universities and conferences have two sets of books. Sort of like what happens in the pros when there’s a threat of lockout or strike, the owners will offer to open their books to show how they’re losing money and the players will inevitably ask to see the “real” books.

For example, I highly doubt that all these conference television networks are just showing live sporting events that are losing money as some sort of public good. Especially if it’d be more “cost effective” to show reruns of football or basketball games.

Another problem is the money/power disparity between the big conferences and the smaller conferences.

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mmmirele  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:33:29pm

re: #7 IngisKahn

It always surprises people to hear that Japanese with 2000 characters is much harder to read than Chinese with 8000+.


Japanese: nin, jin, hito, ri, kiyo, sane, ji, tami, to, ne, hiko, hitoshi, futo, fumi, muto, me, …
Mandarin: rén

Yeah. That. But Chinese characters (hanzi) grew with the language, while Japanese imported hanzi (more than once!) and insisted on bringing in both Chinese and Japanese pronunciations each time.

Since you mentioned hanzi, it’s worth mentioning that the postwar Japanese kanji reform does not match either the old style hanzi from before WWII or the modernization imposed by the Communist Party. It’s not completely out there but there are differences.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:33:44pm

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

(Negotiate!)

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:34:21pm

re: #83 jaunte

(Negotiate!)

Best, last, final:

three weeks! weekends included.

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:34:22pm

re: #79 A Mom Anon

Stay safe! I hope you have somewhere to go if you have to get outta there.

I’m in no immediate danger.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:34:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:35:12pm

re: #81 KGxvi

Another problem is the money/power disparity between the big conferences and the smaller conferences.

And the football coaches and ADs are the highest paid members of staff

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danarchy  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:35:29pm

re: #78 jaunte

I’d still go for seven days of payments.

Sure but giving every american a million dollars even for 1 day would cost about 330 trillion dollars. You could give every american a dollar a day for 20 years and it would be about 2.4 trillion.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:36:13pm

re: #86 The Pie Overlord!

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If I could only get away with making fries or Tater Tots in my Air Fryer…and not have Mr. Meter get angry…

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:41:25pm

re: #85 teleskiguy

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I’m in no immediate danger.

Wow….closing down 70 shouldn’t be much of a pain.

//

Be careful, let us pray for rain.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:44:58pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:45:16pm

re: #10 BlueSpotinAL

Shiplord Kirel, is this one of your cars?

beatlesbentley.com

Note one of the grandsons drinking tea, pinky out.

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No, don’t have one like that. I rather like John Lennon’s Romany-wagon inspired version better:

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:46:14pm

The whole western sky is orange-ish brown.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:48:25pm

Attention College Football Conferences: TRUMP is the reason you will have no season (didn’t intend for that to rhyme but it works). If we had a leader who actually knew what the fuck he was doing, you would have no problems taking the field.

Want someone to blame for the millions of dollars you stand to lose? It’s the fat orange guy right over….there.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:49:17pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:49:19pm

Brace yourself Chicago. Here comes the storm.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:49:48pm
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lawhawk  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:50:45pm

re: #84 KGxvi

Best, last, final:

three weeks! weekends included.

Negotiating against yourself. Trump and GOP strategy right now is to try and get Democrats to negotiate against themselves instead of offering up any meaningful help themselves. Trump gave away that game when he pushes clearly unconstitutional EO/memos. The GOP doesn’t have a strategy and can’t be bothered to find one.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:51:05pm

Reading comments on another website, “Trump passed a mental acquittal test.” Sigh.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:51:14pm

don’t see this every day

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:52:05pm

re: #91 jaunte

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danarchy  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:54:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:54:32pm
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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:54:33pm

re: #102 danarchy

Thanks for throwing a flag!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:55:50pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:56:42pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:57:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 1:59:28pm
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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:00:12pm
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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:01:13pm

re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth

And the football coaches and ADs are the highest paid members of staff

And usually the third highest paid person is the fired football coach who had a large buy-out. Followed by many of the assistant football coaches that were smart/good/lucky enough to have buy outs in their deals.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:02:15pm

O_o

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:03:51pm

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

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Thinly veiled racism?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:04:21pm
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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:04:52pm

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wouldn’t they just be going to classes?

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:04:58pm

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

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He really wants that Rollerball situation when there’s only a couple people able to play.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:05:02pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

Thinly veiled racism?

As far as getting Covid.

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dangerman  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:05:59pm

re: #20 KGxvi

I just realized something… granted, Biden doesn’t talk about his faith much, but he is (from what I’ve read) a fairly devout Catholic (as in regularly attends mass). I can’t wait to hear conservative American Catholics to declare him insufficiently Catholic, as they’ve done with Francis.

how times have changed:

- john f kennedy: we can’t trust him - his Catholicism will inform everything he does

- joe biden: we can’t trust him - his Catholicism won’t inform anything he does

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:06:48pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:06:59pm

re: #109 jaunte

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Wow, snowflake libtards in Corpus Christi that have Trump Derangement Syndrome and hate America.

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:07:46pm

but:

(they have to close by 10pm)

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:08:18pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

Saban is a paternalistic power hungry asshole. Has been for a long time. One of the reasons he allegedly left the NFL was because players had as much, if not more, power than him. Then there was the time he was on an ESPN special about paying players and when Jay Bilas asked why players couldn’t have agents (pointing out that everyone on stage, including coaches had agents) Saban’s response was basically “because they might tell them that their interests aren’t the same as the team’s interests.”

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:08:42pm

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The president* has done a lot, a lot more than any other president, to bring racist people together.

//

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dangerman  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:09:16pm

re: #24 jaunte

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i know im late to this thread

college football seems to be recognizing that no profit motive is worth what is likely to happen - that it will fail anyway

and in the face of that, says a lot about opening schools, sturgis, churches, restaurants, beaches, and on and on

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:10:35pm

Gettysburg…oh my

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:11:03pm

re: #91 jaunte

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“Oh no that’s not what we meant….”

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:13:09pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:13:48pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gettysburg…oh my

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That noise you hear is Lincoln spinning in his grave.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:13:54pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gettysburg…oh my

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He’s already defiled Mount Rushmore and the White House

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:14:06pm

re: #117 dangerman

how times have changed:

- john f kennedy: we can’t trust him - his Catholicism will inform everything he does

- joe biden: we can’t trust him - his Catholicism won’t inform anything he does

I wonder how much of it is/was xenophobia/racism. By 1960 were Irish and/or Italian Americans (the two then largest populations likely to be Catholic) considered sufficiently white? The Birchers and Klan were also anti-Catholic and their influence has obviously dropped since then too.

I mean, nobody really brings up Pelosi’s religion (also Catholic), nor was much made of Kerry’s religion (also Catholic). Like, how much more of an issue would it be if Julian Castro was the nominee?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:14:08pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:14:40pm

re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg

That noise you hear is Lincoln spinning in his grave.

“Lincoln gave an OK speech I guess here many years ago. But my speech will be better because I’ve done much more than Lincoln and have much better ratings!”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:14:53pm

re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth

Unfortunately the Republicans in Kentucky would probably try and kneecap Beshear if he did much else.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:15:08pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gettysburg…oh my

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Gettysburg is a beautiful place to visit. When I went you wouldn’t believe the North won the Civil War with all the Stars and Bars I saw.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:16:36pm

re: #131 Sir John Barron

“Lincoln gave an OK speech I guess here many years ago. But my speech will be better because I’ve done much more than Lincoln and have much better ratings!”

You forgot to add “Nobody knows that” between sentence 1 and sentence 2.

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gocart mozart  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:18:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:18:58pm
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dangerman  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:20:22pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gettysburg…oh my

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icymi

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said he would prefer President Donald Trump give his Republican National Convention speech “miles and miles away” from the White House after the President floated the idea of delivering it on White House grounds.

Those decisions are still in flux, but I can tell you what I’m advocating for is miles and miles away from here,” Meadows said, referring to the White House complex in a pre-taped interview that aired on Gray TV’s “Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren” Sunday morning.

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:22:22pm

re: #137 dangerman

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icymi

I was about to try to say something witty about the “miles and miles away” part but I just can’t.

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dangerman  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:23:40pm

re: #129 KGxvi

I wonder how much of it is/was xenophobia/racism. By 1960 were Irish and/or Italian Americans (the two then largest populations likely to be Catholic) considered sufficiently white? The Birchers and Klan were also anti-Catholic and their influence has obviously dropped since then too.

I mean, nobody really brings up Pelosi’s religion (also Catholic), nor was much made of Kerry’s religion (also Catholic). Like, how much more of an issue would it be if Julian Castro was the nominee?

the best i can remember they ‘thought’ kennedy would have a direct line to the vatican.
he fairly quickly dispatched that idea in a couple of speeches

the rest are all good questions

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:25:42pm

snerk

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:25:44pm

re: #129 KGxvi

I wonder how much of it is/was xenophobia/racism. By 1960 were Irish and/or Italian Americans (the two then largest populations likely to be Catholic) considered sufficiently white? The Birchers and Klan were also anti-Catholic and their influence has obviously dropped since then too.

I mean, nobody really brings up Pelosi’s religion (also Catholic), nor was much made of Kerry’s religion (also Catholic). Like, how much more of an issue would it be if Julian Castro was the nominee?

No, in my home town Italian catholics were on the edge between black and white, only becoming white in the 1960s. Lots of curly black hair, you know.

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stpaulbear  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:25:53pm

re: #138 Sir John Barron

I was about to try to say something witty about the “miles and miles away” part but I just can’t.

Shawn Colvin - Get Out Of This House

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:28:41pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:29:47pm

re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth

snerk

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He’s pretty good

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:30:09pm

re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Gym Jordan and sports…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:32:08pm
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William Lewis  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:32:48pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gettysburg…oh my

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Put him up on the Emmitsburg Road facing up at Cemetery Ridge and it would be perfect. Plus he would not understand the symbolism… 😎

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:33:24pm

re: #146 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m glad to see that our president* has finally gotten his flunkies over at the CDC to over-ride whatever those brainy scientists type people are saying.

/

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:35:02pm

re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth

Going from Great Britain to Average Britain… can’t be great for his brand.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:36:03pm
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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:36:20pm

re: #131 Sir John Barron

“Lincoln gave an OK speech I guess here many years ago. But my speech will be better because I’ve done much more than Lincoln and have much better ratings!”

Trump plans on giving a rebuttal to the Gettysburg Address.

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:36:53pm

re: #150 Dave In Austin

Beavis and Butthead Get Married

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Sir John Barron  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:37:04pm

re: #150 Dave In Austin

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Is that the brainy congresscritter who wore a gas mask onto the floor of Congress?

Man he’s a funny guy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:38:20pm
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William Lewis  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:38:49pm

re: #142 stpaulbear

I forgot how glorious that song is. Thank you.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:39:10pm

re: #150 Dave In Austin

Frankenstein and his bride.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:40:27pm

re: #151 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!

Trump plans on giving a rebuttal to the Gettysburg Address.

… and that government of me, by me, for me, shall not perish from the earth.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:40:39pm
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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:43:03pm

re: #150 Dave In Austin

Herman and Lilly Munster: Vacation/Procedures/Love in Rio

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makeitstop  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:43:26pm

re: #137 dangerman

a pre-taped interview that aired on Gray TV

…the hell is Gray TV?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:44:26pm

re: #161 makeitstop

…the hell is Gray TV?

“dingy white”

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retired cynic  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:47:01pm

Trump dupes the press, by Judd Legum

On Sunday, Trump appeared at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and announced a series of executive actions he alleged would address the continued economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic.

The first impression the media delivered to the public was of a decisive leader, breaking through Congressional gridlock, and delivering desperately needed aid to the American people. That was the story told by headlines in the nation’s largest wire services, including the Associated Press:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:47:13pm
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William Lewis  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:49:13pm

re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Thankfully my bp meds from the VA are caught up. Fu** that Mango Moron.

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mmmirele  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:49:20pm

re: #36 Mike Lamb

The (apparently imminent) decision not to play, at least for the Big 10, is being made with pretty limited player input. I am certain that some don’t want to play (and a number have opted out), but I’d suspect that there are lots that do want to play. I don’t think that can be the only factor in making this decision, but it is relevant and the players need a legit seat at the table.

I saw one guy, a potential candidate for the Heisman Trophy, lead a hashtag #LetUsPlay on Twitter yesterday. A handful of guys are very unhappy that their chances to strut their stuff on national TV and burnish their stats before moving to the NFL are being canceled with the season.

But what about the rest of us?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:49:28pm

re: #141 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

No, in my home town Italian catholics were on the edge between black and white, only becoming white in the 1960s. Lots of curly black hair, you know.

In 1950s Pittsburgh both we Irish and the Italians were White. We just didn’t like them at all. But at least they weren’t WASPs.

(BTW, Jews were never anything but White. We had issues with them, too.)

Kingston Trio-Merry Minuet

The french hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don’t like anybody very much!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:49:53pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:51:01pm

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is Myocarditis a Covid side effect??

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:51:04pm

When Nestor’s Dad Met the Woman Banned from Social Media

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gocart mozart  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:52:15pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:52:41pm

re: #170 Eclectic Cyborg

Is Myocarditis a Covid side effect??

apparently.
it’s why Eduardo Rodriguez is out for the season

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:53:20pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:53:42pm
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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:53:54pm

re: #170 Eclectic Cyborg

Is Myocarditis a Covid side effect??

Looks like it could be.

The heightened potential of a player dying on the field is probably something they really don’t want to deal with.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:54:44pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:54:46pm
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retired cynic  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:54:50pm

In Illinois:

Governor Pritzker Signs Senate Bill 471 to Expand Workplace Protections

To directly protect workers in retail, the law adds a penalty for assaulting or battering a retail worker who is conveying public health guidance, such as requiring patrons to wear face-coverings or promoting social distancing. This provision sends the message that it’s vitally important for workers to be both respected and protected while serving on the front lines.

The law also increases paid disability leave for any injury that occurs after March 9, 2020 by 60 days for firefighters, law enforcement, and paramedics whose recovery was hindered by COVID-19.

More specifically, eligible employees include:

- Any part-time or full-time State correctional officer or any other full or part-time employee of the Department of Corrections

- Any full or part-time employee of the Prisoner Review Board

- Any full or part-time employee of the Department of Human Services working within a penal institution or a State mental health or developmental disabilities facility operated by the Department of Human Services

- Any full-time law enforcement officer or full-time firefighter

Senate Bill 471 takes effect immediately.

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:55:04pm

re: #175 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

The smartass answer would be that they realized he was off his meds.

The more realistic answers are way the fuck more freightening.

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aatharuv  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:55:09pm

Trump wants the ability to use the Border Patrol to ban Americans suspected from having Covid-19 from returning to the US according to the NYTimes.

Source

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:55:14pm

re: #175 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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So the press is locked in the briefing room?

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stpaulbear  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:55:16pm

re: #175 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

The president has just been taken out of the briefing room and the briefing room doors have been locked

From the inside or the outside?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:55:22pm

re: #180 KGxvi

The smartass answer would be that they realized he was off his meds.

The more realistic answers are way the fuck more freightening.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:55:39pm

re: #174 The Pie Overlord!

President Trump was just asked to step inside in the middle of his briefing and rushed out. Not sure what is happening.

Did they let another woman reporter in?

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Dave In Austin  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:55:55pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:56:10pm

re: #171 Teddy’s Person

When Nestor’s Dad Met the Woman Banned from Social Media

Alien vs Predator?

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Ming5000  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:56:13pm

re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth

Was not terrified at that scene. 2/10

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:56:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:57:40pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:58:49pm
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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:59:11pm

re: #183 stpaulbear

From the inside or the outside?

Modern hardware doesn’t allow you to lock someone in a room (assuming it’s installed correctly). Unless there are independent deadbolts. Fire codes/egress rules/ADA require that all doors be openable from the inside with a single motion. Granted, the hardware at the White House may predate those rules.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 10, 2020 • 2:59:22pm

Trump—probably if he does his thing at Gettysburg—“People say Lincoln was great, but he only spoke for about 4 minutes or so here.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:01:44pm
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Decatur Deb  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:01:51pm

re: #193 Barefoot Grin

Trump—probably if he does his thing at Gettysburg—“People say Lincoln was great, but he only spoke for about 4 minutes or so here.”

If he dares to go there, the press will produce line-by-line comparisons of the transcripts. I.e.—it ain’t happening.

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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:01:58pm

re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth

I know that his “job” is to have takes, but sometimes, it might just be better to not say anything about a topic.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:02:13pm

IT WAS A DEMOCRAT SHOOTER!!

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Jay C  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:02:22pm

re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter

“Munster Go Home” (the reboot)?

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Dave In Austin  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:04:20pm

“The Fencing is Very Powerful”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:05:23pm

looks like a fun night ahead…

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Dave In Austin  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:06:17pm

The Secret Service are a bunch of “Really Good Looking People”!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:08:35pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:09:05pm
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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:11:08pm

Old article

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:12:08pm

not today, satan, not today

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:13:02pm

re: #204 Teddy’s Person

the shooting was more than 3 hours ago?

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:13:35pm

re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth

the shooting was more than 3 hours ago?

It was an old article. I realized after posting and have deleted.

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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:14:08pm

re: #207 Teddy’s Person

It was an old article. I realized after posting and have deleted.

Reckless googling.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:14:32pm

re: #207 Teddy’s Person

It was an old article. I realized after posting and have deleted.

ah, so a really really long time ago…

;)

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:14:48pm

re: #208 Teddy’s Person

Reckless googling.

I’m guilty of that!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:16:01pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:16:21pm

re: #195 Decatur Deb

If he dares to go there, the press will produce line-by-line comparisons of the transcripts. I.e.—it ain’t happening.

Remember who we’re talking about here.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:17:48pm

re: #212 Barefoot Grin

Remember who we’re talking about here.

Let him gopher it, then.

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LadyBehir  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:18:53pm

re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter

Which one is which?

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:19:34pm

re: #213 Decatur Deb

Let him gopher it, then.

What do Sixth Sense and Titanic have in common?

“I see dead people.”

“Icy dead people.”

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:20:01pm

Air quality warning just came down, air is dangerously polluted from wildfire smoke. Visibility is less than five miles.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:21:03pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:22:25pm

re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth

snerk

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“…..but I digest.”

Speaks excellent Maga-yokel.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:22:39pm

re: #214 LadyBehir

Which one is which?

Given his relationship with Nestor, let’s make Matt the Predator.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:23:09pm
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Decatur Deb  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:24:26pm

re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Is he referring to the Chinese Virus or the hoax virus?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:25:50pm

moron

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:26:04pm

re: #218 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

“…..but I digest.”

Speaks excellent Maga-yokel.

“Jimmy Carter would carve it out himself if he thought poor people could live there.”

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Jay C  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:26:27pm

re: #219 Hecuba’s daughter

Given his relationship with Nestor, let’s make Matt the Predator.

So that makes Laura the “Alien”…?
Explains a lot……

(And izzit or izzit not a bad sign that I recognized Matt Gaetz and Laura Looney right off the bat? I spend too much time reading blogs, I guess….)

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piratedan  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:28:53pm

re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth

just hoping it wasn’t Nancy Pelosi who was shot…. (halfway snark… maybe… with this administration who knows, the Media would describe her as a masked woman threatening the President)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:30:34pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:30:42pm
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Belafon  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:31:11pm

re: #36 Mike Lamb

The (apparently imminent) decision not to play, at least for the Big 10, is being made with pretty limited player input. I am certain that some don’t want to play (and a number have opted out), but I’d suspect that there are lots that do want to play. I don’t think that can be the only factor in making this decision, but it is relevant and the players need a legit seat at the table.

My company decided that we have to wear a mask at all times at work unless we are eating, and they have limited how many hours we can work from home. And they did that with no input from us.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:32:00pm

re: #223 Barefoot Grin

“Jimmy Carter would carve it out himself if he thought poor people could live there.”

“united the world…the whitest of the white and the darkest of the….white…”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:32:28pm

re: #228 Belafon

My company decided that we have to wear a mask at all times at work unless we are eating, and they have limited how many hours we can work from home. And they did that with no input from us.

Ugh, that sucks. My company recently announced we’ll be working from home until at least early next year and I was very happy to hear it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:33:51pm

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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Continually blaming China for the virus does absolutely nothing to stop it, you crazy orange jackweasel.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:34:10pm

re: #228 Belafon

My company decided that we have to wear a mask at all times at work unless we are eating, and they have limited how many hours we can work from home. And they did that with no input from us.

When I worked the assembly line, GE was constantly turning the line off and on with no input from me. Until I became the union steward.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:36:26pm
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piratedan  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:37:43pm

re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth

almost makes you wonder if there’s some sort of Lives deductable threshold that has yet to have been met.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:38:16pm
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Decatur Deb  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:39:03pm

re: #234 piratedan

almost makes you wonder if there’s some sort of Lives deductable threshold that has yet to have been met.

Just think of it as his initiative to save the Social Security fund.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:39:46pm

re: #234 piratedan

almost makes you wonder if there’s some sort of Lives deductable threshold that has yet to have been met.

somewhere in the multi-millions, I think

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:41:49pm
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🌹UOJB!  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:42:06pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:42:46pm

re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg

Continually blaming China for the virus does absolutely nothing to stop it, you crazy orange jackweasel.

He knows that the more people who hold China responsible, the fewer will blame him. It’s just another ploy in his lifelong efforts to escape blame for any of his misdeeds or crimes. If the revelation struck the Trumpster base that it was his negligence that led to 160,000 deaths and counting, he could actually lose many of their support.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:45:11pm

re: #239 🌹UOJB!

That sums up perfectly the views of the GOP base.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:47:31pm

Meanwhile, in local news, the earth is opening up:

Swarm of Earthquakes Hits Bombay Beach

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:50:15pm
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Jack Burton  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:51:28pm

re: #240 Hecuba’s daughter

He knows that the more people who hold China responsible, the fewer will blame him. It’s just another ploy in his lifelong efforts to escape blame for any of his misdeeds or crimes. If the revelation struck the Trumpster base that it was his negligence that led to 160,000 deaths and counting, he could actually lose many of their support.

Putting some blame on China for lying to the WHO and press and covering things up for a couple of months, *and* blaming him for catastrophic bumbling mismanagement and 160k deaths here are not mutually exclusive things.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:52:37pm
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Mike Lamb  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:52:54pm

re: #243 jaunte

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But Biden is “diminished”.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:55:03pm

Another M3.3 occurred, just three minutes after I posted the map and video.

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retired cynic  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:56:09pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

looks like a fun night ahead…

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That big bow line just passed through here about an hour ago. Stiff, but no hail or trees down.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 10, 2020 • 3:57:24pm

re: #243 jaunte

He certainly doesn’t deserve any benefit of the doubt but saying WWII instead of WWI seems more like a slip of the tongue. When speaking, people make those types of mistakes all the time — that is similar to Obama’s “57 states”. So it’s funny but not an indication of anything about his mental acuity.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:01:49pm

re: #249 Hecuba’s daughter

He certainly doesn’t deserve any benefit of the doubt but saying WWII instead of WWI seems more like a slip of the tongue. When speaking, people make those types of mistakes all the time — that is similar to Obama’s “57 states”. So it’s funny but not an indication of anything about his mental acuity.

This. I enjoy dunking on Trump as much as the next guy, but I’ll give him a pass here.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:04:38pm
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KGxvi  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:05:21pm

I’m more curious of this idea that the Spanish Flu was responsible for ending the Great War. That’s not one that I’ve heard before. I’ve read that the pandemic was made worse by government censors.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:05:26pm

re: #247 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Another M3.3 occurred, just three minutes after I posted the map and video.

Something is going on in the Salton Sea, looks like a couple more clusters just hit. I remember how an earthquake caused the Salton Sea to form with the rupture of an aqueduct.

And those quakes are occurring at the south end of the San Andreas which is scaring me…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:10:08pm

re: #150 Dave In Austin

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:10:45pm
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retired cynic  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:12:01pm

“There is no going back”
Thanks to Trump, Bernie, and COVID-19, a potential Biden administration is under pressure to rethink its approach to the rest of the world—and to save the State Department, where “the quisling in charge” is “not interested in doing anything that requires more than 20 seconds.” by Abigail Tracy, Vanity Fair

In corners of the State Department and embassies abroad, diplomats are playing a quiet waiting game. They “are keeping their heads down and waiting for [Joe] Biden to rescue them, rather than engaging with a Secretary who is seen as pursuing an ideology alien to the Department and the Service,” a former ambassador told me. With Donald Trump’s polling looking shaky, literally thousands of foreign policy experts have glommed onto his Democratic challenger, advising the Biden campaign in the hopes of being welcomed back into the fold if he manages to win the White House. But even under a potential Biden presidency, there are pressing questions about what shape U.S. foreign policy might take—questions that are growing all the more urgent as the Democratic Party platform comes into focus. As a second former ambassador put it, “From the foreign policy standpoint, absolutely there is no going back.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:12:33pm

re: #253 🌹UOJB!

Well, there are always earthquakes in that part of Imperial county.

The swarm may be related to movement of water under pressure underground. There are “mud volcanoes” nearby, barely qualify as a hot spring.

The continental crust is relatively quite shallow in that part of the lower Colorado desert.

While the San Andreas is a slip fault, it must also be remembered that other things are going on here. As North America slowly creeps southwestward over the Pacific plate, the Pacific plate is going northwest. That northwest motion is why the slip fault occurs. But also occurring is that thinning of the crust (in a great part of the western region of the US). Also, as evident by recent volcano activity in southern AZ and northern Sonora, water subducted is really making the whole region dynamic.

Me… I’m just hoping for a lava flow to lighten up 2020.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:13:10pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:14:29pm

re: #258 The Pie Overlord!

“A Tiny Fraction of Death”

Sounds like a great name for a Metal band.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:14:59pm

re: #258 The Pie Overlord!

“It’s just your kid. No biggie.”

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stpaulbear  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:15:24pm

re: #245 jaunte

When is he going to slip up and just say that the Democrats are meddling in MY election. You know that’s what he means.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:17:15pm
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stpaulbear  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:18:18pm

re: #249 Hecuba’s daughter

He certainly doesn’t deserve any benefit of the doubt but saying WWII instead of WWI seems more like a slip of the tongue. When speaking, people make those types of mistakes all the time — that is similar to Obama’s “57 states”. So it’s funny but not an indication of anything about his mental acuity.

It would have been funny if someone pointed it out to him and he doubled down on it out of obstinacy.

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plansbandc  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:24:32pm

Just found out that our dentist, who we’ve been going to for years, who lets us do ridiculous small payments a month to allow us to get the shit we needed done, doesn’t take medicare.

Fucked.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:27:28pm
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retired cynic  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:29:23pm

re: #264 plansbandc

Medicare doesn’t do anything for normal dental services. It might for surgery.

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Citizen K  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:30:13pm

Is there any group singularly more useless than the White House Press Corps?

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:31:10pm

re: #264 plansbandc

Just found out that our dentist, who we’ve been going to for years, who lets us do ridiculous small payments a month to allow us to get the shit we needed done, doesn’t take medicare.

Fucked.

Medicare does not include dental.

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:31:46pm

re: #264 plansbandc

Just found out that our dentist, who we’ve been going to for years, who lets us do ridiculous small payments a month to allow us to get the shit we needed done, doesn’t take medicare.

Fucked.

Maybe not. Check out Medicare Advantage plans because several of them include dental coverage.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:31:48pm

re: #267 Citizen K

Is there any group singularly more useless than the White House Press Corps?

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retired cynic  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:32:04pm

re: #266 retired cynic

Medicare doesn’t do anything for normal dental services. It might for surgery.

Or vision, unless disease or surgery.

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plansbandc  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:32:12pm

re: #266 retired cynic

It does when you get the the extra package. They don’t take it.

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plansbandc  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:32:59pm

re: #271 retired cynic

Christ. We aren’t that stupid. He got the extra shit but our dentist doesn’t take it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:33:10pm

re: #263 stpaulbear

It would have been funny if someone pointed it out to him and he doubled down on it out of obstinacy.

This is NOT the first time he’s said that. He has no freaking idea what he’s talking about.

Not. One. Clue.

I’m not giving him any pass on it.

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plansbandc  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:33:22pm

I wish you guys would have been around to help dude navigate this shit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:34:27pm

...

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retired cynic  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:34:37pm

re: #273 plansbandc

Christ. We aren’t that stupid. He got the extra shit but our dentist doesn’t take it.

I beg your pardon.

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plansbandc  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:34:38pm

Not really happy about your evaluation of my and dude’s intelligence right now. Gonna take a break.

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gocart mozart  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:40:41pm

The dance remix version

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:41:27pm

ratfucking from OANN

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stpaulbear  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:42:29pm

re: #272 plansbandc

It does when you get the the extra package. They don’t take it.

I just ran into that issue too with my therapist. Therapy is covered, but my therapist won’t accept Medicare patients. I’ve been checking out all of my other doctors and so far I haven’t hit any other walls.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:43:14pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:44:24pm
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Kamrade Teddy's Person  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:44:59pm

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Grass Angels

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:50:03pm

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Ha! I usually take the dog to the local Uni that is closed in order to avoid other dogs. But yesterday I took her to the local middle school grounds. She immediately found a huge mound of fresh grass clippings and dragged me to it. She jumped in and started squirming, so I let go of the leash and let her have at it. I wish I had had my phone. It looked like she was experiencing waves of euphoria.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:54:17pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:55:07pm
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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:56:20pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 4:56:56pm
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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:00:55pm
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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:01:43pm
“…they want her transferred to the general population”

Who’s paying them?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:02:18pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:04:39pm

This is how you insult an antisemite Spanish fascist

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:07:04pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:12:30pm

The left wing vice president of Spain said nice words about Simon’s forthcoming miniseries about the Spanish civil war and for the past three days his feed has been inundated with fascist Franco apologists.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:12:49pm
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dat_said  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:14:08pm

I’m not sure which mapping service it is but, for at least a decade now, I’ve had to tell frustrated parents and kids that “Yes, indeed there are la crosse and baseball fields in the park in our neighborhood. However, they are not at the end of this cul de sac and you have to either drive two miles around or swim the third mile across the lake. By the way, your game started five minutes ago.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:19:02pm
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Interesting Times  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:22:43pm

Why I’m glad the Lincoln Project exists:

And yes, I’m well aware of idiotic, bad-faith, both-siderist double standards. Yet another reason to support the Lincoln Project since they can get away with saying things that, if uttered by a Democrat, would leave presstitutes clutching their pearls.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:24:55pm

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

I guess the other countries will just have to build some cages.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:25:45pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:30:35pm

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

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danarchy  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:32:34pm

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

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My dog does that too, but only on really thick, luscious, carpet like lawn. Which means she doesn’t do it at home…

She really loves the patch of grass in front of the local dunkin donuts though.

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Interesting Times  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:34:32pm

re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth

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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:37:07pm

Eek! I last drove through here on Saturday night.

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Belafon  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:37:26pm

re: #299 Interesting Times

Why I’m glad the Lincoln Project exists:

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And yes, I’m well aware of idiotic, bad-faith, both-siderist double standards. Yet another reason to support the Lincoln Project since they can get away with saying things that, if uttered by a Democrat, would leave presstitutes clutching their pearls.

I’m thankful for all of the people turning against Trump, but I tend to be afraid of the advice of the recently turned. A lot of them tend to be zealots.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:38:15pm
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teleskiguy  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:38:52pm

re: #305 teleskiguy

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:38:57pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:48:13pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:52:29pm

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

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spudendum. The ‘s’ is silent.

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Belafon  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:54:20pm

re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth

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stpaulbear  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:55:13pm

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

Prostate.

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jaunte  Aug 10, 2020 • 5:58:20pm

“…The measures that the Proposed Rule seeks to implement serve no public health purpose, nor do they advance our country’s national security. Rather, they are draconian and contrary to our country’s moral fabric and longstanding tradition of providing safe haven to the persecuted,” wrote Council 119, the union representing asylum officers and other U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) employees. “Simply put, the Proposed Rule serves no purpose other than to advance the Administration’s political objective to shut down the U.S. asylum program—at whatever cost to human life.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 10, 2020 • 6:01:17pm

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 10, 2020 • 6:06:46pm

Twitter is now speculating Biden will pick Mayor Pete. Posting a plane flew from South Bend to Wilmington.

But I got a feeling all the candidates are heading to Wilmington as a show of unity…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 10, 2020 • 8:19:07pm

re: #234 piratedan

almost makes you wonder if there’s some sort of Lives deductable threshold that has yet to have been met.

Maybe he thinks the virus is like killbots and has a kill limit. So he’ll throw poor people and minorities at it until the limit is reached and the virus shuts down.
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 11, 2020 • 8:19:38am

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

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certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to a 100 million people

I didn’t listen to that thing talk in teh video, but did he just refer to humanity as “they”. As if he wasn’t part of that group?


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