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Awwww. Too bad so sad.
It’s fascinating that @IvankaTrump is supposed to be working on her publicity campaign to be accepted again as someone who respectable Americans shld associate with. But her Twitter feed is now filled with sullen complaints abt losing her family legal immunity.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2020
re: #2 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Awwww. Too bad so sad.
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Criming is much harder when you don’t have Get Out Of Jail free Pardon Power.
What is it?
Trump called his address, released Wednesday only on social media and delivered in front of no audience, perhaps “the most important speech” of his presidency. But it was largely a recycling of the same litany of misinformation and unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud that he has been making for the past month.
Trump, who spoke from the Diplomatic Reception Room, kept up his futile pushback against the election even as state after state certifies its results and as Biden presses ahead with shaping his Cabinet in advance of his inauguration on Jan. 20.
re: #2 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Awwww. Too bad so sad.
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Don’t commit crimes and you don’t need immunity
This is priceless. https://t.co/T4iOalINRy
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) December 3, 2020
Are we seeing the long-hoped-for pushback from institutions?
Systems theory holds that disruptions eventually hit a wall, and then the other players in the system rise up and reject it, using increasingly harsh tactics.
If this holds to be true, the next month is going to see an escalation of Trump’s attacks on democracy, America, normalcy, the Rule Of Law, etc.
The pushback is going to escalate as well. That might mean criminal charges, even GOP leaders speaking out against the madness, as the system resists a force attempting to utterly destroy it.
I’m starting to see hints of this appearing at places like RedState. More on this in a minute.
re: #5 dangerman
Don’t commit crimes and you don’t need immunity
It sounds so simple when you put it that way.
While she’s not THE trump I’d like to see in prison, it would be a start.
I hope @IvankaTrump will explain the definition of a “fair market rate”.
The inaugural committee paid the Trump Hotel 35x what another organization paid to rent the space that day. https://t.co/rmfkaz8xFA— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) December 3, 2020
The GOP crammed the WI Supreme Court with as many right-wing loons that they could find with law degrees who didn’t shit themselves in public, and even THEY could not stomach the deranged ramblings of the Trump legal team.
Amazing that this is amazing.
Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Trump’s election lawsuithttps://t.co/9E1Kew3TDA
— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) December 3, 2020
re: #4 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
What is it?
Um, that’s not actually very harsh at all.
Man, this is so pathetic. At least have some self-respect, you narcissistic cretin. https://t.co/t6QsEgFdKV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 3, 2020
“Narcissistic cretin” - now that’s harsh.
re: #9 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
While she’s not THE trump I’d like to see in prison, it would be a start.
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You think “the hotel” negotiated that rate with the committee?
Arm’s length and all?
Trump had nothing to do with it?
Hahahahahahahaha hahahahaha
re: #10 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
The GOP crammed the WI Supreme Court with as many right-wing loons that they could find with law degrees who didn’t shit themselves in public, and even THEY could not stomach the deranged ramblings of the Trump legal team.
Amazing that this is amazing.
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Not They, ONE. Three were in favor. One joined the “liberals”.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
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what is he babbling about now? Is this another “hearing” that isn’t really a hearing?
re: #13 Charles Johnson
“Narcissistic cretin” - now that’s harsh.
Indeed. But by the standards of the AP, which vigorously opinion-washes its stories, to use words like “recycling” and “futile pushback” this is fire.
Since the AP is the newswire that goes out to radio and TV stations, which pretty much “read the newspaper on-air,” this has an effect. Dimwit smalltown news anchors start shifting from “well, report the controversy” to “Trump is having a tantrum.”
Think of every word like a stone from a catapult, chipping away at the siege wall of DERP DERP DERP that smalltown voters have been fed…
Heh.
Trump team’s discredited fraud witness compared to SNL character https://t.co/RE1tsXuYCg
— The Guardian (@guardian) December 3, 2020
I’m convinced that Trump’s Star Witness Melissa Carone is a SNL Character 😂🤣 #TrumpsCircus pic.twitter.com/E3djWtZqpi
— BidenWin (@NewPrezz) December 3, 2020
re: #15 I Would Prefer Not To
A) I stole this because I want it.
B)If I weren’t scared of getting shot here in red state suburbia, I would so have that sign on my front deck.
This is bad.
Hospital bed occupancies as of Monday:
Saginaw Covenant: 100% full
Lakeland in St. Joe 100%
Saginaw St. Mary’s 99%
McLaren Port Huron 99%
DMC Detroit Receiving 99%
Bronson Battle Creek 97%
McLaren Lansing 96%
McLaren & Hurley in Flint 96%
Henry Ford Macomb 96%
Mercy Muskegon 93% https://t.co/qRuYn4YuyQ— Chad Livengood (@ChadLivengood) December 3, 2020
re: #20 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Heh.
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She’s making sure she is. Cha-Ching!! What an opportunity and she will probably fuck it up.
re: #6 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
For the reason articulated below, mass-blocking MAGAs on Twitter is wholly justified. They are here to troll, lie, harass, threaten and dance about for money like jackanapes. Many are delusional. There is no exchange of ideas to be had. https://t.co/z7aimRCH1w
— Luke O’Brien (@lukeobrien) December 3, 2020
There was a drone inspecting the Tower 4 Cables when the collapse started so we get a close up on the cables breaking, check the second video segment. pic.twitter.com/Qw37Z5byWg
— Scott Manley (@DJSnM) December 3, 2020
They were actually at Arecibo studying the damage with a drone when the telescope collapsed. They’ve got multiple cameras showing how the collapse occurred.
re: #26 lawhawk
Gravity at work. It just won’t quit.
re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So in other words, they don’t have anyone to threaten and bully and fuck with and they are bored. And here I am with my tiny violin at the cleaners. Damn it. It says a lot more about them than they realize if they can’t find something to do besides be an asshole with no consequences. Poor things.
re: #27 wrenchwench
Biden should work with PR and NSF officials to make sure that it’s rebuilt - for the fraction of the cost of a new warship, we could have a state of the art radio telescope that allows scientists do groundbreaking research.
re: #24 Dave In Austin
She’s making sure she is. Cha-Ching!! What an opportunity and she will probably fuck it up.
She definitely believes she’s a thing now, after appearing on Lou Dobbs and doing this ‘hearing.’
…14:56, 14:57, 14:58, 14:59…
re: #26 lawhawk
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:’(
Maaaan…I almost majored in Global Bio Normative Entity Scoping. Darn.
We’re hiring!
The NTI | bio team is looking for a Global Bio Normative Entity Scoping Study Lead (consultant role). More information here: https://t.co/NBvNTIfrmy pic.twitter.com/KKDzCeLsH6— NTI (@NTI_WMD) December 3, 2020
Grand-daughter1 forwarded to Wife’s FB:
“If you grab a cut-rate Advent calendar right after Christmas, it will count down to Inauguration Day.”
No link.
Last month Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Graham called him and asked if he had the power to reject more absentee ballots.
THIS IS BIG NEWS.— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) December 3, 2020
I know I’m being cynical, but I’m having a hard time with the whole “Look at the brave GOP Georgia election officials, let us tongue bathe them in praise, and erect their statues posthaste” lionizing that’s going on.
I’m glad they said what they said, but as everyone else has pointed out, it’s only because they’re in the line of fire right now. I think what’s pissing me off is how they keep stressing their MAGAt bona fides: “We voted for Trump, too! We love all the horrible shit he did for four years! Please don’t murder us and our families!”
They fucking created this mess by supporting Trump. Now we’re supposed to put them on fucking pedestals.
Literally living examples of the Leopards Eating People’s Face Party supporter.
re: #33 Decatur Deb
Grand-daughter1 forwarded to Wife’s FB:
“If you grab a cut-rate Advent calendar right after Christmas, it will count down to Inauguration Day.”
Lindt makes some with chocolate in them. I’ll go to work early on the 26th!
When they’re banning your snitches from government buildings, it’s pretty much over.
The official serving as Trump’s eyes and ears at DOJ has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House, per 3 sources
https://t.co/DrNGrKYxDU— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) December 3, 2020
re: #38 makeitstop
I don’t get it. Couldn’t Trump just ask Barr for that shit himself?
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t get it. Couldn’t Trump just ask Barr for that shit himself?
Could leave a paper trail which isn’t plausibly deniable?
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t get it. Couldn’t Trump just ask Barr for that shit himself?
Plausible deniability, maybe?
re: #38 makeitstop
When they’re banning your snitches from government buildings, it’s pretty much over.
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Yeah: and guess who the “liaison” on the WH side was….
Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed at the Justice Department as a White House liaison a few months ago. She was told within the last two weeks to vacate the building after top Justice officials learned of her efforts to collect insider information about ongoing cases and the department’s work on election fraud, the people said.
This had to come directly from Trump, but I’m sure it was done the gangster way so he didn’t tell her directly.
This is pure animal desperation now. A rat backed into a corner. https://t.co/CimHMmlwoZ— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 3, 2020
re: #43 Jay C
Yeah: and guess who the “liaison” on the WH side was….
Yeah, I saw that. Fuckin’ weasel. (Miller, not you!)
re: #36 wrenchwench
Lindt makes some with chocolate in them. I’ll go to work early on the 26th!
Sweet.
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t get it. Couldn’t Trump just ask Barr for that shit himself?
I think Barr is nervous as to his own future prison opportunities.
re: #44 Charles Johnson
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An enemy backed into a corner, without a way out, is one of the more dangerous ones you can encounter, to paraphrase Sun Tzu…
If this shit keeps up, they’re all going to try changing their name.
.@IvankaTrump is in very serious trouble. Diamonds from her now-defunct fine jewelry line were used in a massive money-laundering & fraud scheme to hide about $100M owed to the Commercial Bank of Dubai. #LockHerUp #TrumpCrimeFamily #IvankaForPrison https://t.co/FMlvwZkiPM
— Nicole Minet (@mouvement33) December 3, 2020
Jesus (‘Chuy’) saves… El Paso.
As the Trump administration rushed to build border barriers in its waning days, El Paso’s irrigation district became alarmed that new work could increase flooding risk. The district used a dump truck to stall the work, @ziembavision reports. https://t.co/NmODM0nwc3
— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) December 3, 2020
re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is bad.
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you need the beds where the sick people are
gah
Hospital bed occupancies as of Monday:
Saginaw Covenant: 100% full
Lakeland in St. Joe 100%
Saginaw St. Mary’s 99%
McLaren Port Huron 99%
DMC Detroit Receiving 99%
Bronson Battle Creek 97%
McLaren Lansing 96%
McLaren & Hurley in Flint 96%
Henry Ford Macomb 96%
Mercy Muskegon 93% https://t.co/qRuYn4YuyQ— Chad Livengood (@ChadLivengood) December 3, 2020
Obama says some Black men are persuaded by Trump’s ‘macho’ bravado bragging about women and money
In part two of the SnapChat interview with President Barack Obama, Peter Hamby asked how President Donald Trump was able to persuade so many Black men to support him over President-elect Joe Biden.
When Obama was elected he got about 95 percent of the Black vote, where Biden got about 80 percent.
“Well, look, I think men, generally, are more susceptible to public figures who act tough, sort of the stereotypical macho style,” Obama said, while videos of Trump showing off his flabby muscles appeared. “I don’t think Black men are immune to that any more than White or Hispanic men are. A lot of the values of pop culture are extolling wealth, power, frankly, greed, not thinking about other people because you’re so ruthless you’re just looking out for yourself.”
re: #48 Teukka
An enemy backed into a corner, without a way out, is one of the more dangerous ones you can encounter, to paraphrase Sun Tzu…
“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.”
— Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”, 7:36
An enemy backed into a corner, without a way out, is one of the more dangerous ones you can encounter.— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) December 3, 2020
re: #43 Jay C
Yeah: and guess who the “liaison” on the WH side was….
Heidi Stirrup.
What a name. Heigh-di-ho!
re: #44 Charles Johnson
Apparently she has pressured people about all manner of investigations before this as well. At least according to what I saw on Raw Story.
Just waiting for Trump to go full Cagney in White Heat. Let him climb to the top of a refinery tank and scream TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!
Here’s that link.
— Ossoff/WarnockForGEORGIA!!! (@taninthesummer) December 3, 2020
re: #51 dangerman
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One of those hospitals is like 2 miles from me.
re: #52 Dr. Matt
Obama says some Black men are persuaded by Trump’s ‘macho’ bravado bragging about women and money
“Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche!”
Or wear sweaters and act all sensitive to women’s feelings like some Mr Rogers/eighties Alan Alda hybrid.
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re: #47 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I think Barr is nervous as to his own future prison opportunities.
Barr has the goods on Trump and the orange idiot knows it. Barr will not simply be dismissed without threatening of either releasing felony accusations against Trump himself or implying Barr on his way out will somehow fail to cover up Trump’s crimes. Pardons are coming. The only question is how the SCOTUS will interpret this as any allowance for Trump to escape justice gives automatic license for Democrats to achieve extreme power while on the White House.
Ahem…
DC Attorney General responds to Ivanka Trump: https://t.co/XzuqLiyBbi— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) December 3, 2020
re: #59 A Three Hour Tour
funny enough, I read “Real men don’t eat quiche” it was hilarious
re: #53 Teukka
An enemy backed into a corner, without a way out, is one of the more dangerous ones you can encounter, to paraphrase Sun Tzu…
Sun Tzu didn’t have proximity-fuzed artillery fire available to him. Backing an enemy into a corner nowadays is just the penultimate step to raining down seventeen kinds of crew-served hell on that corner. It saves having to hunt down the stragglers later.
re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
One of those hospitals is like 2 miles from me.
do your best not to need to visit
I’m behind 31 million other Californians to get a vaccine.
re: #65 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m behind all of NJ.
I’ve seen a real cornered rat, when our cat came in at 2am carrying a gift for us: a large rat. When I got up, the rat was backed into a corner standing on its hind legs making nightmarish sounds. I very carefully put a wastebasket over it and threw it back outside. https://t.co/r8TCNODgbk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 3, 2020
BREAKING: Pfizer expects to ship half of the Covid-19 vaccines it originally planned for this year because of supply-chain problems, but still expects to roll out more than a billion doses in 2021, reports Dow Jones
— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) December 3, 2020
re: #16 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not They, ONE. Three were in favor. One joined the “liberals”.
Important to note: what was rejected was a motion for what’s called an original proceeding. SCOTUS and some state Supreme Courts have original jurisdiction in limited circumstances; meaning that they can hear the case themselves rather than it going through trial courts. In modern times it is mostly unheard of that a Supreme Court will take something on original jurisdiction. The three who dissented were willing to hear it as an original proceeding, but from what I gather they also made it clear that disenfranchising the entire electorate was a non-starter.
re: #62 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
funny enough, I read “Real men don’t eat quiche” it was hilarious
me too
i hated ‘real men are secure enough to have their gears shifted for them’
hell no, i never owned an automatic until recently
cars
convertible sports car
convertible pick up truck
motorcycles
Referencing the dangerous QAnon conspiracy theory at a meeting with Sen. Mitch McConnell and other aides, President Trump said QAnon consists of people who “basically believe in good government,” which led to silence in the room, a source saidhttps://t.co/AUzQfWor8x
— CNN (@CNN) December 3, 2020
re: #65 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m behind 31 million other Californians to get a vaccine.
mrs dm is early cause she’s immuno compromised
if she gets the shot, then she can start doing the shopping
i’ll stay home for the year
;-)
re: #71 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Is this one of those times we remind them that they had a chance to be rid of this shitstain last year?
In a nationally televised interview, El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said El Paso is facing a COVID-19 crisis because Hispanics are far more likely to be hospitalized than “normal Caucasians.”“And as the CDC said earlier this week — our population is 85 percent Hispanic and we are four times more prevalent to be hospitalized because of COVID than any other, than the normal Caucasians,” Margo said Friday on ABC’s morning news show “GMA3: What You Need to Know.”
[…]
This is the second time in recent weeks that Margo has made inflammatory remarks when discussing El Paso’s COVID-19 crisis.
In October, Margo accused city Rep. Peter Svarzbein — who lost family in the Holocaust — of proposing “Gestapo-like tactics” when he advocated for closing off inside dining at restaurants for two weeks to slow the spread of COVID-19. Margo later apologized.
The portrayal of white people as “normal” — and people of color as not — has a long, racist history in the United States. In 1982, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates said Black people might die in police chokeholds because “their veins or arteries do not open up as fast as they do on normal people.”
[…]
Jesus has a lot of work to do…
The Florida Department of Health’s county-level spokespeople were ordered in September to stop issuing public statements about COVID-19 until after the Nov. 3 election. https://t.co/h3ya4aisF6 pic.twitter.com/Q7CeU9bsX6
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) December 3, 2020
In the week before Election Day, as case counts climbed, the Florida Department of Health posted on Twitter and Facebook about flu vaccinations, the prevention of carbon monoxide poisoning and lead poisoning detection. Nothing about COVID-19. https://t.co/hFxO0vZFkf pic.twitter.com/UzkJDUBspL
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) December 3, 2020
re: #71 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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2020 was just the trailer for 2021, wasn’t it?
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re: #75 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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DeSADIST is getting away will killing people. Disgusting. He really is a 21st Century Prince Prospero spreading the Red Death!
It may be inconvenient to obey the Stay At Home orders here in Los Angeles but they will help me stay alive.
re: #67 Charles Johnson
Aye. It can be handled, but you must never forget the peculiarities of dealing with a cornered beast.
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) December 3, 2020
re: #74 wrenchwench
Oh don’t get me started about Daryl Gates and how he was too busy attending a fundraiser when the Rodney King riots broke out in 1992. And when he did get back to doing his job he continually shot his racist mouth off.
re: #69 KGxvi
Important to note: what was rejected was a motion for what’s called an original proceeding. SCOTUS and some state Supreme Courts have original jurisdiction in limited circumstances; meaning that they can hear the case themselves rather than it going through trial courts. In modern times it is mostly unheard of that a Supreme Court will take something on original jurisdiction. The three who dissented were willing to hear it as an original proceeding, but from what I gather they also made it clear that disenfranchising the entire electorate was a non-starter.
we’re a pretty well informed group here in our little corner of the internet
lots of expertise in lots of areas
and lots of general smarts
this is some pretty deep dive stuff
and we talk about it until we get it and it makes sense
now imagine the average, busy, distracted, mostly unconnected, disinterested person…
re: #81 🌹UOJB!
I was a teenager in the High Desert for those days, but I coukd tell Gates was a racist prick, along with a not insubstantial portion of the LAPD.
DC law requires nonprofits to use funds for stated public purposes, and to avoid unreasonable, wasteful expenses.
Our investigation revealed the Committee willfully used nonprofit funds to enrich the Trump family.
It’s very simple: They broke the law. That’s why we sued.— AG Karl A. Racine (@AGKarlRacine) December 3, 2020
re: #82 dangerman
Yes…like my family who abandoned “liberal” Fox for Snoozemax and the Only Asholes Need Nothingelse channels.
wut?
Racists Destroy California Monolith, Proclaim Christ Superior to Alienshttps://t.co/xyUHutzezi pic.twitter.com/BTqQVbebnt— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 3, 2020
re: #77 🌹UOJB!
DeSADIST is getting away will killing people. Disgusting. He really is a 21st Century Prince Prospero spreading the Red Death!
It may be inconvenient to obey the Stay At Home orders here in Los Angeles but they will help me stay alive.
ditto
i dont care what the rest of florida is doing
we rarely / barely leave home
(we are lucky and we know it)
Trump live-tweeted OAN nearly as frequently over the last few weeks as he did from September 2018 through August 2020. https://t.co/bQ3jFMr1Ku
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 3, 2020
Compare to these monthly totals from that two-year study — in no month did he exceed two live tweets of OAN.
Since Nov. 15, when he told his followers to switch to that network from Fox, he’s had 11. pic.twitter.com/iECwohcHta— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 3, 2020
re: #77 🌹UOJB!
DeSADIST is getting away will killing people. Disgusting. He really is a 21st Century Prince Prospero spreading the Red Death!
It may be inconvenient to obey the Stay At Home orders here in Los Angeles but they will help me stay alive.
Sadly, Flori-duh will almost certainly re-elect him too.
re: #83 DesertDenizen
I was a teenager in the High Desert for those days, but I coukd tell Gates was a racist prick, along with a not insubstantial portion of the LAPD.
The time my then girlfriend was wearing a tight halter top and cutoffs, we were walking on Sunset to go to the In N Out Burger and the cops pulled over and thought she was a prostitute. Of course they did say some naughty things because of her skin color…until they saw both of our drivers licenses with the exact same address…that satisfied them…and they parted with saying I had a thing for (Insert RACIST & SEXIST phrase here)…
re: #87 Charles Johnson
Okay, which one of you bet on “Earth becoming target of invasion after angering alien species”?And of those of you, who bet on 2020 and who bet on 2021?🤔
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) December 3, 2020
re: #75 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I don’t know if this was previously posted here, but a November 16 Politico article about DeSantis included the following:
Provocative — In the immediate aftermath of the election, Gov. Ron DeSantis went on Fox News and floated the idea that GOP-controlled Legislatures in Michigan and Pennsylvania should overturn the results and name electors for President Donald Trump.
So my theory expressed earlier that DeSantis would rig Florida results for Trump seems totally on target. Georgia Republicans limit their rigging before the voting; DeSantis rigged the election beforehand too — but does seem eager to also rig it afterwards.
Holy shit. Here’s the moment Arecibo collapsed.
This has to be read. Several tweets about Fink, the attorney for the city of Detroit. This is fucking fire.
Read them.
David Fink for the city of Detroit:
“It’s a very scary thing,” what the plaintiffs are looking for.
Quoting Kallman saying “Come next week, it will be moot,” Fink says: “Nothing could be further from the law.”
An audit isn’t a recount, Fink notes.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 3, 2020
re: #91 🌹UOJB!
Wow, and I thought Victorville was bad in those days. The poll workers tried to talk me out of voting back in 96 because of the D after my name in the book. They thought they had a dumbass kid they could bamboozle or bully.
re: #90 Dr. Matt
Sadly, Flori-duh will almost certainly re-elect him too.
Only because SCOTUS failed to strike down their clearly illegal poll tax, but Roberts has never met a voter disenfranchisement ploy that he doesn’t like.
Garcia ran against Democratic incumbent Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez
“… Artiles recruited Alexis (Alex) Rodriguez, a longtime acquaintance and Facebook friend. …”
BREAKING: Sources say former Miami state Sen. Frank Artiles boasted that he planted a no-party candidate in the Miami-Dade Senate race, which Garcia won after a three-day recount by just 32 votes out of more than 215,000 cast. https://t.co/SzAPmTZdFP
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) December 3, 2020
“… The no-party candidate with the same surname as the incumbent Democrat had been a registered Republican until just before his qualifying papers were filed to make him a candidate for the Florida Senate. He received 6,382 votes in the election. …”
Now YouTube will probably start recommending dozens of building demolition videos.
re: #2 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s fascinating that Ivanka Trump is supposed to be working on her publicity campaign to be accepted again as someone who respectable Americans shld associate with. But her Twitter feed is now filled with sullen complaints abt losing her family legal immunity.
the ultimate white privilege
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
the ultimate white privilege
Well, “Trumpen” means “sullen” in Swedish….
re: #10 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
Wisconsin Supreme Court throws out Trump’s election lawsuit. Story coming shortly.
So does this mean he is not getting his day in front of the SCOTUS?
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) has vowed to continue her office’s investigation into President Trump’s businesses that are based in the state, according to Westchester Business Journal.
Trump:
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So does this mean he is not getting his day in front of the SCOTUS?
That would not come from the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision. He would have to be in federal court for that, I think. And so far, they haven’t even let him get his foot in the door.
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So does this mean he is not getting his day in front of the SCOTUS?
Trump will invite the whole court over for dinner and turn it into his trial.
re: #106 thedopefishlives
That would not come from the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision. He would have to be in federal court for that, I think. And so far, they haven’t even let him get his foot in the door.
You can go from a state Supreme Court to SCOTUS but usually it has to involve a federal question (most often it is equal protection under the 14th Amendment). But even then, SCOTUS is typically wary of ruling on something decided entirely on state law.
Wisconsin court rules there is enough evidence to warrant a trial for Kyle Rittenhouse in the killing of two men and the wounding of a third in Kenosha in August. The killings came two days after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man.https://t.co/Nn8TlP5lGF
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 3, 2020
Interesting. Seems even the gun nuts can cave to reality sometimes. From an ad for a Az broker I get regularly:
The December Gun Show is back on! Friday through Sunday Dec 4-6 in Phoenix at the AZ State Fairgrounds. This show is all outdoors, with required mask wearing. We will have piles of ammo, but no guns this time.
I bolded the part that surprised me. Or is Arizona finally cracking down?
Also worth noting, all of these cases are being kicked based on basic civil procedure grounds like standing or failure to state a claim or failure to properly plead the requisite facts. Those are not typically the sort of cases the Supreme Court will hear. They typically get bounced pretty quick from the Courts of Appeal, for that matter. They’re literally losing on things that are part of a first year law school civil procedure final exam, it’s actually pretty embarrassing from a lawyerly point of view.
re: #110 William Lewis
Interesting. Seems even the gun nuts can cave to reality sometimes. From an ad for a Az broker I get regularly:
I bolded the part that surprised me. Or is Arizona finally cracking down?
Cities are cracking down since Ducey dropped his prohibition on mask mandates. Tucson just enacted a curfew, week sauce as it may be.
Trump aide banned from Justice after trying to get case info
The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press.
Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed at the Justice Department as a White House liaison a few months ago. She was told within the last two weeks to vacate the building after top Justice officials learned of her efforts to collect insider information about ongoing cases and the department’s work on election fraud, the people said.
re: #4 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
That’s harsh? They’re just stating facts and not even in a rude manner.
re: #37 Belafon
I’m not asking you to.
LOL, I hadn’t realized I was directing that comment at you.
So, thanks?
And that’s what people need to understand. All right?” he added. “He’s raising more money now than he did when he was actually running for the job that he’s now trying to say that they stole from him! So, look, the grift is on, baby! It is just on. You need to understand it.”
re: #114 Dr. Matt
Trump aide banned from Justice after trying to get case info
Since Miller’s involved, I wonder if there was an extra slimy layer of racially profiling voters attached to all this.
re: #109 dangerman
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Ah, good news,
Now for the follow up of “Life without the possibility of parole.”
Found around the internet today. Click thru if you need a chuckle.
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re: #70 dangerman
me too
i hated ‘real men are secure enough to have their gears shifted for them’hell no, i never owned an automatic until recently
cars
convertible sports car
convertible pick up truck
motorcycles
I bought a 300 cc scooter because I wanted to ride but couldn’t coordinate braking, clutching and shifting at the same time. I love the scooter and also love how no manly biker wants to be seen on the road within 300 feet of it.
Current car has a stick shift, but it’s a 2009 Pontiac Vibe wagon so the manliness quotient is negative. I like the Vibe too.
re: #121 stpaulbear
I bought a 300 cc scooter because I wanted to ride but couldn’t coordinate braking, clutching and shifting at the same time. I love the scooter and also love how no manly biker wants to be seen on the road within 300 feet of it.
Current car has a stick shift, but it’s a 2009 Pontiac Vibe wagon so the manliness quotient is negative. I like the Vibe too.
I wanted a stick shift for my daily driver, but Mrs. Fish wouldn’t have it because she said she might have to use my car someday, and she can’t drive a stick. That’s not my problem; if you can’t drive it, I’ll buy you a car you can drive, and you can just stick to that, honey. Next daily driver I get will be clutched and shifted the way God intended.
I gave up and went automatic this year when there wasn’t anything manual that suited my needs after my 2003 Element finally croaked.
re: #121 stpaulbear
I bought a 300 cc scooter because I wanted to ride but couldn’t coordinate braking, clutching and shifting at the same time. I love the scooter and also love how no manly biker wants to be seen on the road within 300 feet of it.
Current car has a stick shift, but it’s a 2009 Pontiac Vibe wagon so the manliness quotient is negative. I like the Vibe too.
i have absolutely no comment on what anyone else chooses to drive or ride.
i wave at everyone on 2 motored wheels
it’s fun to josh about bros on hondas but that is all in fun.
riding anything is better than not riding at all.
i had one of these for a number of years
re: #118 Mattand
Since Miller’s involved, I wonder if there was an extra slimy layer of racially profiling voters attached to all this.
Probably trying to for info by Trump/ Miller in an attempt at witness intimidation and even more obstruction of justice.
We should already be working on a memorial to those who die of Covid19 after refusing the vaccine. I have in mind a gigantic polished bronze cow-pie, with the inscription: “THEY DIED FOR FREEDUMB.”
re: #123 DesertDenizen
I gave up and went automatic this year when there wasn’t anything manual that suited my needs after my 2003 Element finally croaked.
I drove two manual Honda Civics for 31 years until the second one got to be too big a hassle to fix in 2017 and I got a Chevy Bolt.
My gas milage for all that time was insane; something like 30 to 35 MPG. I would hit 40 MPG on legit highway trips.
I have a 1995 Schwinn that I shift with the old-fashioned levers that pull (or release) cables. I live in a flat enough town now that I could go single-speed. Don’t know whether I can safely operate with just a coaster brake. Maybe front-wheel handbrake. I used to think that was a stupid way to go, but I have become stupid enough…
re: #115 Patricia Kayden
That’s harsh? They’re just stating facts and not even in a rude manner.
AP would consider that as harsh and editorializing. That they did it actually amazes me as they’re some of the most hardcore “who what when where why how in the lead paragraph” journalists left.
re: #127 Mattand
I drove manual two Honda Civics for 31 years until the second one got to be too big a hassle to fix in 2017 and I got a Chevy Bolt.
My gas milage for all that time was insane; something like 30 to 35 MPG. I would hit 40 MPG on legit highway trips.
The Honda always got 25mpg due to having the aerodynamics of a lunchbox. I have a Hyundai Kona now and I get 35 easily with 40+ on highway trips. If the highway was flat I’d easily get 45+, but the road to Tucson is hilly.
I know we were all told there would be no math, but for anyone who wants to nerd out with me on the bogus statistics being presented by the Quacken team, there is a thread.
People are into math and election lawsuits these days, so here’s a thread on one of the statistical claims in the infamous #kraken lawsuits being brought by Sidney Powell and her merry band of misfits, the law side of which is well covered by @questauthority and @AkivaMCohen
— Bryan Duva (@duva60) December 3, 2020
re: #110 William Lewis
Interesting. Seems even the gun nuts can cave to reality sometimes. From an ad for a Az broker I get regularly:
I bolded the part that surprised me. Or is Arizona finally cracking down?
People can’t buy weapons if they get sick and die.
re: #127 Mattand
I drove manual two Honda Civics for 31 years until the second one got to be too big a hassle to fix in 2017 and I got a Chevy Bolt.
My gas milage for all that time was insane; something like 30 to 35 MPG. I would hit 40 MPG on legit highway trips.
I had a 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit with the 1.6L diesel engine. It served as my daily driver for a couple of years between 2010 and 2012, after I had just bought my house and wasn’t yet in a position to accumulate funds to pay a down payment on a new car. I drove it until the rear axle separated from the frame on one side. I could get 50 mpg over a full week of driving when traffic was light.
re: #130 DesertDenizen
The Honda always got 25mpg due to having the aerodynamics of a lunchbox. I have a Hyundai Kona now and I get 35 easily with 40+ on highway trips. If the highway was flat I’d easily get 45+, but the road to Tucson is hilly.
Anymouse would chuckle. We also had a Smart until my ex totaled it on a snowy road in December of 2004, she walked away unharmed. Solid little buggers and it used 3.4 liters of diesel per 100 km, which is…(gotta look it up)…69 mpg.
But only a two-seater. I now drive a 4-seater Volkswagen Lupo that uses 5.5 l/100 km, or around 42 mpg.
@Alyssafarah spotted leaving the White House. pic.twitter.com/PPxXABgT83
— Mark Feinberg (@MarkLFeinberg) December 3, 2020
I averaged 54 PMPGs* with my 2000 Suburban named Clifford the Big Red Dog.
*Person-Miles Per Gallon
re: #110 William Lewis
Interesting. Seems even the gun nuts can cave to reality sometimes. From an ad for a Az broker I get regularly:
I bolded the part that surprised me. Or is Arizona finally cracking down?
IF the attendees follow the requirements. And if they don’t, who’s going to enforce it?
re: #315 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I’m never getting a shot
Based on your risk profile, we believe you’re in line behind 23.0 million people across the United States.
When it comes to Nebraska, we think you’re behind 151,700 others who are at higher risk in your state.
And in Morrill County, you’re behind 300 others.
re: #328 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Behind 23 million. There are some advantages to being an old.
I don’t mind the “old” part so much, but I could really do without the “risk” factor part.
Plus, I’m not a Republican, which I imagine will also be a triage factor in my state for the vaccine.
re: #128 wrenchwench
I have a 1995 Schwinn that I shift with the old-fashioned levers that pull (or release) cables. I live in a flat enough town now that I could go single-speed. Don’t know whether I can safely operate with just a coaster brake. Maybe front-wheel handbrake. I used to think that was a stupid way to go, but I have become stupid enough…
Just don’t get a fixie.
My wife seems to think I’d be a great scooter guy. I’m not sure why, I’ve never had much interest in them.
Not that I wouldn’t try one…
One more nutty day in trumphell
Trump literally installed a spy in the Justice Department to get the inside scoop on their investigations. https://t.co/tIWF0OzwQi
— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) December 3, 2020
re: #141 wrenchwench
No fixie. My stupidity has its limits.
Fixies were a fad in the Twin Cities a while back and their riders were always annoying.
Heidi Stirrup.
The writers are starting to steal from Damon Runyon.
You’re already getting your pardon, dude. Ease up, have a drink. https://t.co/Alxjio7I4z
— David Roberts (@drvox) December 3, 2020
re: #127 Mattand
I drove two manual Honda Civics for 31 years until the second one got to be too big a hassle to fix in 2017 and I got a Chevy Bolt.
My gas milage for all that time was insane; something like 30 to 35 MPG. I would hit 40 MPG on legit highway trips.
I currently have a Chevy Silverado, V6 automatic.
I’m lusting after a 2003 BMW Z4 with the 3.0i & 6 speed manual and rag top. $7500 at 110,000 miles. Decent shape, 2 owner vehicle that’s well maintained. The bank however would laugh at me.
But she sure is purty.
re: #145 teleskiguy
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So I guess Republicans in Congress are waiting for one of Trump’s deranged supporters to kill an election worker before they condemn the violence emanating from his sycophants.
The threats have been sent not just to high-ranking officials whose profiles have been raised in news media interviews, they said, but to members of their staffs, too. Some refused to speak publicly, for fear of making the problem even worse. https://t.co/1298R2JySU pic.twitter.com/NxnvymMdFS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 3, 2020
re: #141 wrenchwench
No fixie. My stupidity has its limits.
I had a bike shop recommended to me to rehab my late 80’s Rockhopper. I was also told he was kind of eccentric. I called him last week and asked about what was involved in rehabbing a bike and he told me he only fixed stuff ala carte (no rehab package) and that I couldn’t drop the bike off and leave it for the repairs. I’d have to bring it in and then go wait in the car while he made all the repairs at one session. He then said he’d try to sell me a $2000 bike that I wouldn’t be able to refuse. When I balked, he said it probably wasn’t available to me anyway as if I wasn’t good enough for it. He then suggested he’d sell me all the tools to do it myself, and then he hung up on me. I may have been indecisive but I wasn’t rude to him. Needless to say - no sale.
re: #148 Patricia Kayden
So I guess Republicans in Congress are waiting for one of Trump’s deranged supporters to kill an election worker before they condemn the violence emanating from his sycophants.
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re: #148 Patricia Kayden
So I guess Republicans in Congress are waiting for one of Trump’s deranged supporters to kill an election worker before they condemn the violence emanating from his sycophants.
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Nah. Even then they will be too craven to do so, lest they call the crazies down on themselves.
re: #146 William Lewis
I currently have a Chevy Silverado, V6 automatic.
I’m lusting after a 2003 BMW Z4 with the 3.0i & 6 speed manual and rag top. $7500 at 110,000 miles. Decent shape, 2 owner vehicle that’s well maintained. The bank however would laugh at me.
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But she sure is purty.
Did you ever sit in one? They’re very, really, super, incredibly narrow. Like the door and console dig into your hips - badly - unless your hips are 30” or less.
tonight will be vegetable pie
sauteed eggplant, onions, zucchini, then smothered in gruyere and baked
and a diy (bittman) focaccia
i’m thinking vodka, oj and pineapple instead of bourbon on ice
Number of citizens who lost health care coverage since the pandemic began:
14,600,000 United States
0 Australia
0 Belgium
0 Canada
0 Denmark
0 Finland
0 France
0 Germany
0 Italy
0 Japan
0 Norway
0 South Korea
0 Spain
0 UK— Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) December 3, 2020
re: #5 dangerman
Don’t commit crimes and you don’t need immunity
For a trump, that is like asking a bear not to shit in the woods.
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
69 mpg
I’m somewhat surprised that the US never got a good hybrid turbodiesel - VW’s mild hybrid was a joke, and VW ain’t the most reliable beasts on the road anyway.
re: #152 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Did you ever sit in one? They’re very, really, super, incredibly narrow. Like the door and console dig into your hips - badly - unless your hips are 30” or less.
Can’t be any worse than trying to squeeze my fat butt and long legs into a Miata!
re: #156 Eric The Fruit Bat
I’m somewhat surprised that the US never got a good hybrid turbodiesel - VW’s mild hybrid was a joke, and VW ain’t the most reliable beasts on the road anyway.
I’ve never heard that. Admittedly, the one guy I talk to most about Volkswagens is absolutely an enthusiast for the little beasties, but one of the reasons I was considering buying one was its record of reliability and efficiency.
re: #149 stpaulbear
I had a bike shop recommended to me to rehab my late 80’s Rockhopper. I was also told he was kind of eccentric.
Cycle shops around the Western world have never been so busy thanks to COVID-19. There’s a bike shop literally a metre from my street door (I measured it once) where the owner, also a bit eccentric, is working ten and twelve-hour days six days a week fixing bikes, selling new bikes and buying in old bikes[1] and refurbishing them. He takes great care to wear a mask, he has a counter across the door and no-one’s allowed in the shop because of COVID-19.
[1] Edinburgh, where I live is a student city. A lot of students buy cheap-ish second-hand bikes when they arrive at the beginning of term to get around, despite the hills and steep streets in the city centre. Comes the end of term or they finish up their degree, they’re moving out and leaving the city and they don’t want to take the bike with them. The bike shops buy them back at a fraction of the original cost, fix them up again and wait until the new term. Ka-ching!
re: #149 stpaulbear
I had a bike shop recommended to me to rehab my late 80’s Rockhopper. I was also told he was kind of eccentric. I called him last week and asked about what was involved in rehabbing a bike and he told me he only fixed stuff ala carte (no rehab package) and that I couldn’t drop the bike off and leave it for the repairs. I’d have to bring it in and then go wait in the car while he made all the repairs at one session. He then said he’d try to sell me a $2000 bike that I wouldn’t be able to refuse. When I balked, he said it probably wasn’t available to me anyway as if I wasn’t good enough for it. He then suggested he’d sell me all the tools to do it myself, and then he hung up on me. I may have been indecisive but I wasn’t rude to him. Needless to say - no sale.
I do not get how people like that stay in business, no matter how good they are.
I worked with another freelancer at a studio years ago. The guy pretty much got out of bed each morning with the singular goal of irritating everyone he met, including his clients.
I was staying late, do whatever the client wanted (who were major assholes in their own right; think Trump-style family), and this guy would pretty much be an obnoxious pain in the ass. They eventually got rid of him, but Christ; I really don’t get what this guy’s appeal was.
re: #146 William Lewis
I currently have a Chevy Silverado, V6 automatic.
I’m lusting after a 2003 BMW Z4 with the 3.0i & 6 speed manual and rag top. $7500 at 110,000 miles. Decent shape, 2 owner vehicle that’s well maintained. The bank however would laugh at me.
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But she sure is purty.
I was really holding out hope for the Nikola Badger, but apparently that has been scrapped… which just sucks.
UK education secretary on vaccine: “We’re a much better country” than US https://t.co/1ifOkbcrxR pic.twitter.com/F5RJxUcFR8
— The Hill (@thehill) December 3, 2020
re: #133 thedopefishlives
I could get 50 mpg over a full week of driving when traffic was light.
What really surprised me was when I had a 2005 Ford Five Hundred with a CVT (perhaps the first US manufacturer to use a CVT in a passenger car) I was able to eke out 30 mpg - in a full-sized sedan.
I still see some of those beasts on the road up here (either the Five Hundred or the Mercury-badged Montego) - looks like that Duratec 3.0L is hard to kill.
re: #157 William Lewis
Can’t be any worse than trying to squeeze my fat butt and long legs into a Miata!
Night and day. I’m a lifelong car nut. Starting with muscle cars from the 68-72 era eh I we a teen. The interior of the Z4 is miserable (I have owned 5 BMWs, 2 currently) and I don’t think I’ve ever been in a more uncomfortable car then the Z4 in my entire life.
There’s a good sign it’s a batshit idea…
— WildlyInappropriate (@WildlyInapprop1) December 3, 2020
re: #163 Eric The Fruit Bat
What really surprised me was when I had a 2005 Ford Five Hundred with a CVT (perhaps the first US manufacturer to use a CVT in a passenger car) I was able to eke out 30 mpg - in a full-sized sedan.
I still see some of those beasts on the road up here (either the Five Hundred or the Mercury-badged Montego) - looks like that Duratec 3.0L is hard to kill.
Ford’s pre-Ecotec engines were almost bullet-proof. Engines in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s were the final evolution of the early EFI designs, and had been refined to maximize reliability and simplicity. However, the continuing march of CAFE standards necessitated the efficiency of gasoline direct injection and/or using smaller turbocharged engines (Ford Ecotec, GM High Value/Family 0).
re: #164 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Night and day. I’m a lifelong car nut. Starting with muscle cars from the 68-72 era eh I we a teen. The interior of the Z4 is miserable (I have owned 5 BMWs, 2 currently) and I don’t think I’ve ever been in a more uncomfortable car then the Z4 in my entire life.
I had read that it was good for tall folks, hadn’t heard about width.
Is there a good 2 seat rag top for tall fat old farts? Porsche Boxter 1st gen perhaps to keep it cheap?
re: #158 thedopefishlives
I’ve never heard that. Admittedly, the one guy I talk to most about Volkswagens is absolutely an enthusiast for the little beasties, but one of the reasons I was considering buying one was its record of reliability and efficiency.
Vdubs have been trying to position themselves as being at par with Mercedes for some years now. Their prices keep going up but their quality doesn’t.
And Mercedes themselves are only so so in the quality department, so VW really had a ways to go.
re: #165 Patricia Kayden
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Tulsi who?
*whisperwhisper*
Oh, right, the woman who will be out on her ass in a month’s time. Well, I guess she wants in on the grift too.
re: #158 thedopefishlives
I’ve never heard that.
If I had to get a VW car, I’d opt for the diesel engine as they seem to build those quite solid.
re: #169 Targetpractice
Tulsi who?
*whisperwhisper*
Oh, right, the woman who will be out on her ass in a month’s time. Well, I guess she wants in on the grift too.
The grift line will be pretty long come 1/21/21.
re: #168 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Vdubs have been trying to position themselves as being at par with Mercedes for some years now. Their prices keep going up but their quality doesn’t.
And Mercedes themselves are only so so in the quality department, so VW really had a ways to go.
What is it they used to say on Top Gear/Grand Tour? Trust the Germans to engineer a car, but not design it?
I think my favorite was Clarkson reviewing a car and he says “it was engineered by the Italians and designed by the Germans… (sputter)… that’s just ass backwards”
re: #122 thedopefishlives
I wanted a stick shift for my daily driver, but Mrs. Fish wouldn’t have it because she said she might have to use my car someday, and she can’t drive a stick. That’s not my problem; if you can’t drive it, I’ll buy you a car you can drive, and you can just stick to that, honey. Next daily driver I get will be clutched and shifted the way God intended.
I went automatic transmission on my car last December for the first time. Mainly due to my Subaru catching fire 150+ miles from home just before Christmas. And the dealership I limped it into did not have any manual transmission cars available.
re: #173 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
There just aren’t many manuals left other than econo boxes and sporty rides.
re: #173 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I went automatic transmission on my car last December for the first time. Mainly due to my Subaru catching fire 150+ miles from home just before Christmas. And the dealership I limped it into did not have any manual transmission cars available.
Europeans still tend to shun automatics like the Work of the Devil and I must admit that I prefer a stick and had trouble getting used to automatic when I was back visiting the ‘States.
re: #174 DesertDenizen
There just aren’t many manuals left other than econo boxes and sporty rides.
When I got my Challenger back in 2013, there was only one or two manuals available in all of southern California (at least for the RT, I’m sure the SRT8 there might have been a couple more). But they mostly just don’t exist anymore… when I last took it in for service I was wandering around the lot and none of the Jeeps had manual transmissions, which just seemed weird.
I’ve seen that a lot of the supercars have gone away from manuals because drivers just can’t keep up - even with the flappy panels. I suspect as more hybrids and electrics populate the road, the manual gearbox (along with the automatic) is going to end up in the Smithsonian.
Fauci’s going to stick around.
Doctor Fauci will be staying on in his current role and advise incoming President Biden on the pandemic, he told me. Fauci says he spoke to Biden about it personally today. During the phone call Biden said he would appreciate it if Fauci stayed on to continue fighting the virus.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 3, 2020
In 2012 I intended to buy a pickup truck but no one had a pickup with a stick. So I bought a Chevy Cruz instead. It was one of only four Chevy vehicles at the time that offered a stick. The others were the Corvette, the Camaro, and the little four seater that looks like a golf cart.
I’ve driven a Tesla a few times now, and I think that as much as I love the stick, which I really do, the inertial drag/automatic braking thing gives more precise control over acceleration and deceleration AND is fun. I’m pretty sure my next car will be electric.
re: #144 jaunte
Heidi Stirrup.
The writers are starting to steal from Damon Runyon.
A girl will do a lot to get away from milking goats.
re: #6 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Thanks for getting some opinions from Trump supporters. We hadn’t heard from them in several hours, so it was important to keep up with that. Appreciate the hard work in the click mines.
— schcrt (@schcrt) December 3, 2020
re: #177 makeitstop
Fauci’s going to stick around.
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Good move, let’s hope that Darterph Orange doesn’t throw spanners in the works so the ball is dropped more than it has in combating the virus.
re: #111 KGxvi
There nor letting us show are evidince
re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I’ve seen it happen again and again on BBSs: Wingnuts either run all the reasonable people off and then turn on each other. Or else they leave in a big theatrical number after management gets tired of their shit, moving to a board where management is willing to put up with them, which inevitably leads to that board’s collapse.
I won’t be surprised when Parler ends up turning into a dead zone within a year.
re: #168 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And Mercedes themselves are only so so in the quality department, so VW really had a ways to go.
And, naturally, Mercedes being Mercedes, are much more expensive to fix when the go sideways/south.
re: #167 William Lewis
I had read that it was good for tall folks, hadn’t heard about width.
Is there a good 2 seat rag top for tall fat old farts? Porsche Boxter 1st gen perhaps to keep it cheap?
Older Corvettes were pretty nice. Not sure about the newer ones. I think there are some nice older Benz’s too.
I wasn’t into 2 seaters, myself. I just happened to take the Z4 for a spin when my car was having some work done.
If I wanted a smaller car I’d look at a BMW 2002 Cabriolet. But I’m a BMW gal through and through.
re: #183 Targetpractice
I’ve seen it happen again and again on BBSs: Wingnuts either run all the reasonable people off and then turn on each other. Or else they leave in a big theatrical number after management gets tired of their shit, moving to a board where management is willing to put up with them, which inevitably leads to that board’s collapse.
I won’t be surprised when Parler ends up turning into a dead zone within a year.
Shades of the Great Wingnut Exodus of 2008.
re: #183 Targetpractice
I’ve seen it happen again and again on BBSs: Wingnuts either run all the reasonable people off and then turn on each other. Or else they leave in a big theatrical number after management gets tired of their shit, moving to a board where management is willing to put up with them, which inevitably leads to that board’s collapse.
I won’t be surprised when Parler ends up turning into a dead zone within a year.
Or if some nutbags use Parler for stuff which throws suspicion on every user of the service…
re: #178 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
In 2012 I intended to buy a pickup truck but no one had a pickup with a stick. So I bought a Chevy Cruz instead. It was one of only four Chevy vehicles at the time that offered a stick. The others were the Corvette, the Camaro, and the little four seater that look like a golf cart.
I’ve driven a Tesla a few times now, and I think that as much as I love the stick, which I really do, the inertial drag/automatic braking thing gives more precise control over acceleration and deceleration AND is fun. I’m pretty sure my next car will be electric.
both pick ups I’ve driven (89 toyota when I turned 16, and an ‘05 F150 I got after I graduated law school) were automatics. So was the 99 Mustang I got as a 21st birthday present to myself. The Challenger is the first manual I’ve owned and it took some getting used to. I do enjoy driving a manual, but have been intrigued by the electrics lately.
Then again, the goal as always been to have a classic car for side quests, so maybe that’s still the goal? I can get an electric in the next couple of years for my daily stuff and the car from Bullitt as my side quest mobile
If there’s a sucker born every minute, Trump’s got every one of them on his email list.
Together the Trump campaign, the RNC, their joint fundraising committees and the president’s new fundraising arm raised over $207 million in the last month, per an announcement.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) December 3, 2020
Wotta fuckin’ scam.
This is true right pic.twitter.com/kr0MlotCzm
— Paul Szoldra (@PaulSzoldra) December 3, 2020
re: #188 KGxvi
You can get a classic with an automatic and not have it be lame. I have a 1979 Lincoln Continental - the hugest of the huge land yachts of the 1970’s, built with a 400 ci V8 that struggles to make as much horsepower as my daily driver’s turbo inline 4 and Ford’s legendary C6 automatic transmission. I imagine the feeling of driving it is similar to driving a tank, only smoother.
re: #187 Teukka
Or if some nutbags use Parler for stuff which throws suspicion on every user of the service…
You make it sound like it’s a bad thing.
/ (from John Leguizamo’s role as Clown in the movie “Spawn”)
(Another great quote: “Oh, why ask why, when the how is so much more fun!”)
re: #44 Charles Johnson
Trump is a hysterical fraidy cat-look at how he swallows flimsy conspiracy theories and freaks out over the smallest things. Classic rich spoiled brat.
He MUST be listening to all the people calling for him to be stripped of all his money & status and thrown into jail pic.twitter.com/jUQehSRWya— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) December 3, 2020
It makes me warm & happy inside to think of how much Trump is spinning himself into a freaking hysterical tizzy over the thought of being chained up & humiliated and put on trial.
He must be in a heavy breathing panic at all times now. Pure psychic fear & agony at all times, imagining Schiff & Mueller & Hillary & all his enemies, all Coming To Get Him.
For all that George W was a shitty president & lied us into war, I was not in such a vengeful mood with him. It was enough that he was gone.
re: #167 William Lewis
I had read that it was good for tall folks, hadn’t heard about width.
Is there a good 2 seat rag top for tall fat old farts? Porsche Boxter 1st gen perhaps to keep it cheap?
re: #190 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #63 Nojay UK
Sun Tzu didn’t have proximity-fuzed artillery fire available to him. Backing an enemy into a corner nowadays is just the penultimate step to raining down seventeen kinds of crew-served hell on that corner. It saves having to hunt down the stragglers later.
“Crew-served hell.”
Stealing + using that one. Love the mental image of a crew, grunting & sweating under the weight of boxes of evidence, loading them into a 175mm and yanking the lanyard to fire it right into Trump’s face.
Again. And again.
re: #191 thedopefishlives
You can get a classic with an automatic and not have it be lame. I have a 1979 Lincoln Continental - the hugest of the huge land yachts of the 1970’s, built with a 400 ci V8 that struggles to make as much horsepower as my daily driver’s turbo inline 4 and Ford’s legendary C6 automatic transmission. I imagine the feeling of driving it is similar to driving a tank, only smoother.
I’ve always been partial to the muscle cars… first generation Mustangs in particular, but anything in that mid/late 60s to early 70s era works for me.
If I was getting something like a 55 Bel Air or an old school woody surf wagon, it being an auto wouldn’t really bother me.
re: #196 William Lewis
Got a point there :D
Mileage is for sissies (17 mpg in perfect tune).
Electric start is for sissies, too.
re: #21 A Mom Anon
A) I stole this because I want it.
B)If I weren’t scared of getting shot here in red state suburbia, I would so have that sign on my front deck.
Same here in rural Conservatopia.
The word did get out to the JWs, Mormons, and Baptists that I answer the door nude when their missionaries come round, so I haven’t seen one in several years.
re: #183 Targetpractice
I’ve seen it happen again and again on BBSs: Wingnuts either run all the reasonable people off and then turn on each other. Or else they leave in a big theatrical number after management gets tired of their shit, moving to a board where management is willing to put up with them, which inevitably leads to that board’s collapse.
I won’t be surprised when Parler ends up turning into a dead zone within a year.
Going the way of Gab.
re: #198 KGxvi
I’ve always been partial to the muscle cars… first generation Mustangs in particular, but anything in that mid/late 60s to early 70s era works for me.
If I was getting something like a 55 Bel Air or an old school woody surf wagon, it being an auto wouldn’t really bother me.
My dream car is a 1968 Corvette with the incredibly rare L88 racing engine package. It was from a time when endurance racing leagues required manufacturers to offer their race cars and engines as production vehicles. Like every other manufacturer, Chevrolet deliberately de-rated their race engine so that customers would opt to buy the (apparently) higher-power Tri-Power offering, leaving the stock car package for people who knew what they were offering.
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Same here in rural Conservatopia.
The word did get out to the JWs, Mormons, and Baptists that I answer the door nude when their missionaries come round, so I haven’t seen one in several years.
I joked to my brother that they stopped ringing my doorbell once I hung a Oriental/Buddhist good luck dog decoration on my door. (Not sure where it is now.)
re: #63 Nojay UK
Sun Tzu didn’t have proximity-fuzed artillery fire available to him. Backing an enemy into a corner nowadays is just the penultimate step to raining down seventeen kinds of crew-served hell on that corner. It saves having to hunt down the stragglers later.
Just so long as his friends don’t have counter battery radar… O_o
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) December 3, 2020
re: #193 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
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It makes me warm & happy inside to think of how much Trump is spinning himself into a freaking hysterical tizzy over the thought of being chained up & humiliated and put on trial.
He must be in a heavy breathing panic at all times now. Pure psychic fear & agony at all times, imagining Schiff & Mueller & Hillary & all his enemies, all Coming To Get Him.
It’s such a delightful thought it warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart.
re: #197 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
“Crew-served hell.”
Stealing + using that one. Love the mental image of a crew, grunting & sweating under the weight of boxes of evidence, loading them into a 175mm and yanking the lanyard to fire it right into Trump’s face.
Again. And again.
“Pull the lever, Powell!”
[WHUMP]
“WRONG LEVERRRrrrr….!”
re: #204 William Lewis
Just so long as his friends don’t have counter battery radar… O_o
I’ve seen a FireFinder spec that could detect, analyze, and target the source of an incoming round that would kill you. Then it could fire an answering round that would kill the bad guy after you were dead. Seemed like a perfect metaphor for modern war.
We just had the covid equivalent of another 9/11 yesterday, and the guy who’s fighting tooth and nail to stay in office hasn’t said a word about it.
That’s disgraceful.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) December 3, 2020
re: #205 teleskiguy
Obscenity First Degree.
Do tell. 👀— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) December 3, 2020
re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is bad.
Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, Nebr. had to put out information to the community that “no, family members don’t get to pick where we send people when we can’t care for them.”
RWMC is sending people as far as Salt Lake City and St. Louis. This is causing some family members of patients to object that they can’t visit their relatives.
It will only get worse here.
Panhandle Public Health District Covid-19 Dashboard
December 2:
Total cases: 6,272 (about 8% of the populace, +82, doubled since November 4)
Women, girls, and “unknown gender” make up 2/3rds of cases.
On that “unknown gender” thing, I wonder if that’s the way PPHD is classifying LGBT people here. On intake forms, I’m pretty sure “unknown” isn’t a choice,
Active hospitalisations: 66
Deaths: 79 (+12)
re: #207 thedopefishlives
“Pull the lever, Powell!”
[WHUMP]
“WRONG LEVERRRrrrr….!”
Heh. Like something out of the prequel to “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life” where the old coots rise up in the Scarlet Permanent Assurance company and fire filing cabinets full of documents out the windows like pirates …
re: #212 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
Heh. Like something out of the prequel to “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life” where the old coots rise up in the Scarlet Permanent Assurance company and fire filing cabinets full of documents out the windows like pirates …
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re: #204 William Lewis
Just so long as his friends don’t have counter battery radar… O_o
That’s what HAARM is for. Blind them then splatter them. If they do manage to get some random tubes working that just gives you the chance to counter-battery them before they can get beyond battery fire into coordinated battalion-fire missions which are the Great Destroyers.
re: #206 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s such a delightful thought it warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart.
I am sure that taking such joy & delight in the idea of Trump suffering inside, of him squirming and whining like a little scared bitch at the idea of justice coming for him … that this will weigh heavily on my karma in the next plane of existence.
Then again, whatever angel it is that greets me when I explain the dark spots on my soul may well just cock it’s head and ask: “Trump? Yeah? (sigh) No problem, child. Actually this is rather a mark in your favor. Go on in. Jimi’s warming up and Bowie and Prince are gonna be there for an extended jam with Eddie Van Halen … “
BREAKING: Biden’s national popular vote lead just surpassed 7 million (4.5%)…
Biden 81,264,673 (51.3%)
Trump 74,210,838 (46.9%)— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 3, 2020
re: #211 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
People were really stupid enough to think they could tell the hospital where to send their relatives?
SMH.
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re: #20 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Heh.
FOCUS: MANAGEMENT TRAINING
Most top ranked American lunatics encourage proper succession planning. pic.twitter.com/p0jpo1QOSF— Free Belarus News (Eng.) (@BelarusMiniInfo) December 3, 2020
re: #218 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Only if you’re field-grade.
Good thing I’d set down my tea mug.
re: #128 wrenchwench
I have a 1995 Schwinn that I shift with the old-fashioned levers that pull (or release) cables. I live in a flat enough town now that I could go single-speed. Don’t know whether I can safely operate with just a coaster brake. Maybe front-wheel handbrake. I used to think that was a stupid way to go, but I have become stupid enough…
My Specialized is 1995 also. I have the rear brake disconnected, don’t need it on account of the disk brake in front. (Not original equipment - the bike is on its 3rd fork) Does pretty well at getting me to and from work every day.
re: #223 Jebediah, RBG
My Specialized is 1995 also. I have the rear brake disconnected, don’t need it on account of the disk brake in front. (Not original equipment - the bike is on its 3rd fork) Does pretty well at getting me to and from work every day.
Now I know what your ‘RBG’ is for; Rear Brake, Gone!
My bike is on its 4th fork. I never broke one, just upgraded. The first one was a crappy suspension fork that would make me crash when I started really off-roading. The second one was a rigid fork from a Trek, the third was an upscale (but nearly worn out) suspension fork that matched the bike pretty well. When it started leaking oil, I put a rigid Trek fork on again. Not matching this time. I have an alternating red and yellow theme going on.
V-brakes were my best upgrade. My commute is only a mile, so I walk sometimes. I did an eleven mile commute for a year. That’s worth changing clothes for.
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