Kenneth Copeland saves us all by blowing “The Wind of God” on the Virus.
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It seems oxymoronic on its face, but believe it or not, there are actual Christian Metal bands.
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
It seems oxymoronic on its face, but believe it or not, there are actual Christian Metal bands.
Yes I remember Stryper showing up at my Aunt’s Pulpit Pimp Palace and they tossed bibles out to the audience…
Shut up, you pathetic piece of anti-American garbage. https://t.co/iR8WSqSvu9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 9, 2020
Ah yes, Kenneth Copeland, my father-in-law’s favorite grifter.
I wonder if Copeland has seen these videos, and what he thinks about them.
The guitarist does a good job locking the music in to Copeland’s vocal cadence.
The real cheater is projectin’ like an IMAX in Outer Space… SPACE… SPAAAAACE! #CryBabyTrump #Election2020 #BidenHarris #TrumpLost pic.twitter.com/452OGtDkHJ
— Key Lime Victory Pie (@Pie_Overlord) December 9, 2020
It is all about getting people worked up to a level of hysterical trance, that is the common denominator between fundamentalist religion and rock music.
They both came out of the same sort of tent show circuit, and look at how much crossover there is: Little Richard, Al Green, Jimmy Swaggart/Jerry Lee Lewis (cousins)…not to mention the overlap between gospel and soul/blues and church choir singing and country/bluegrass.
Just look beyond the surface and you will see that they all arise from the same wellspring and are appealing to the same aspects of humanity.
re: #4 thedopefishlives
Ah yes, Kenneth Copeland, my father-in-law’s favorite grifter.
Yeah, Kenny the Billionaire Pulpit Pimp. Learned at the feet of the Master Oral Roberts…
Trump is such a fucking idiot.
It’s not like even if the election results DID get overturned that he would automatically get to stay on for a second term.
Kelly Loeffler is campaigning on understanding what it feels like living paycheck to paycheck.
This is one of her 5 homes. pic.twitter.com/eyNfrLk601— YS (@NYinLA2121) December 4, 2020
re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is all about getting people worked up to a level of hysterical trance, that is the common denominator between fundamentalist religion and rock music.
They both came out of the same sort of tent show circuit, and look at how much crossover there is: Little Richard, Al Green, Jimmy Swaggart/Jerry Lee Lewis (cousins)…not to mention the overlap between gospel and soul/blues and church choir singing and country/bluegrass.
Just look beyond the surface and you will see that they all arise from the same wellspring and are appealing to the same aspects of humanity.
I never connected ‘hysterical trance’ to rock music. Not even Woodstock nor Altamont. Not even the mosh pit at the Whiskey a Go Go. Maybe I just do it wrong.
re: #12 wrenchwench
I never connected ‘hysterical trance’ to rock music. Not even Woodstock nor Altamont. Not even the mosh pit at the Whiskey a Go Go. Maybe I just do it wrong.
That is what it is all about to me.
Breaking on through to the other side, so to speak…
re: #13 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is what it is all about to me.
Breaking on through to the other side, so to speak…
The Doors do it for you?
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Kelly Loeffler is campaigning on understanding what it feels like living paycheck to paycheck.
This is one of her 5 homes.
I understand her loathing for radical socialists
re: #11 Charles Johnson
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“One of”. As if it being her home isn’t enough of a disconnect.
If somebody cheated in the Election, which the Democrats did, why wouldn’t the Election be immediately overturned? How can a Country be run like this?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2020
“How can a Country be run like this?”
Does someone need to remind him who is the POTUS right now?
re: #19 Dr. Matt
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“How can a Country be run like this?”
Does someone need to remind him who is the POTUS right now?
In name only. It’s not like he’s working. He hasn’t in 4 years.
The “I’m sorry for beating my wife, but she legitimately deserved it” apology.
WATCH: Joe Scarborough Says He ‘Screwed Up’ Covering Hillary Emails in 2016 But Still Says Was ‘Legitimate’ Story https://t.co/HNa8w5ZA3V
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) December 9, 2020
Copeland had a minor career as a C&W singer before he took up pulpit pimpery. One of his songs actually made the Top 40 (“Pledge of Love”, which charted in the Top 40 on April 20, 1957, stayed on the charts for 15 weeks, and peaked at #17).
I don’t think he speaks Metal though.
I cannot stand Joe Scarborough. I don’t know why his show is popular, it sucks.
“Home” is sort of a misnomer when its a wealth totem with nothing homey about it.
One of the true signs that vastly wealthy people are psychopaths is the grim unpleasantness of the spaces they occupy, no matter how gilded.
No, it is Loeffler’s home. https://t.co/42bQdN7GLV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 9, 2020
re: #11 Charles Johnson
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Big paycheck
Kelly Loeffler is campaigning on understanding what it feels like living paycheck to paycheck.
This is one of her 5 homes. pic.twitter.com/eyNfrLk601— YS (@NYinLA2121) December 4, 2020
re: #26 dangerman
I believe that architectural style is officially known as fuckthepoor.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I cannot stand Joe Scarborough. I don’t know why his show is popular, it sucks.
And Holy Joe et al. had a front row seat on the Trump Train until Trump made fun of Mika and her facial plastic surgery.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
This isn’t Loeffler’s house. It belongs to Steve Harvey, he bought it earlier this year. It was Tyler Perry’s home.
If you google her house you will find a similar ostentatious, over priced pile of opulence, on Tuxedo Rd in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. It’s even got a name, Descantes. Google that and take a look inside. It’s full of over the top nonsense like a dinosaur foot print fossil as part of the kitchen floor, supposedly 70 million years old.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
Not her home
politifact.com
tmz.com
forbes.com
re: #24 jaunte
That monstrosity is an homage to the western European despots that were the monarchy and (en)titled class*. It had no purpose other than to display wealth. No different than a Viking wearing her gold. Only much less appropriate.
*- aside, it is interesting to see how the word entitlement has come to have such negative connotations, now.
re: #29 A Mom Anon
This isn’t Loeffler’s house. It belongs to Steve Harvey, he bought it earlier this year. It was Tyler Perry’s home.
If you google her house you will find a similar ostentatious, over priced pile of opulence, on Tuxedo Rd in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. It’s even got a name, Descantes. Google that and take a look inside. It’s full of over the top nonsense like a dinosaur foot print fossil as part of the kitchen floor, supposedly 70 million years old.
I had a hard time believing that house was in Buckhead. That’s right in Atlanta proper and I don’t recall grounds like that anywhere in Buckhead.
re: #30 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Not her home
politifact.com
tmz.com
forbes.com
Loeffler’s home
virtualglobetrotting.com
re: #32 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
All the homes on Tuxedo Rd are huge, but their acreage isn’t as huge as the former Perry estate. What I think happened is photos got mixed up, but the Descantes house is on Tuxedo Rd, the other home is not. I had a boss a million years ago who lived on that road, it’s famous for the huge mansions and opulent wealth. I found it annoying, lol. Especially since I wasn’t being paid near enough to be this rich lady’s personal assistant and she could totally afford more.
Twitter, which has committed to more stringent rules against peddling misinformation this year, like labeling rule-breaking tweets, has repeatedly slapped Trump on the wrist for his behavior. But unlike normal platform abusers, the company has refused to banish Trump outright because, well, he’s the president. Twitter’s ‘World Leaders’ policy was codified last year and treats some rule-breaking tweets as newsworthy. But that designation will no longer protect Trump once he’s a former president.”
—adweek
re: #32 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I had a hard time believing that house was in Buckhead. That’s right in Atlanta proper and I don’t recall grounds like that anywhere in Buckhead.
When my mom’s brother and sister lived in Buckhead, most of the homes—theirs included—sat on large lots set well back from the road. Last time I visited many of the lots had been subdivided so that now three or four obscenely large mansions sat on former a lot that used to have one house.
Turns out that multiple sources reported this incorrectly. That photo going around is not Kelly Loeffler’s home. However, this one is. pic.twitter.com/95xAAONsRw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 9, 2020
CNN: “While the President is busy figuring out a way to stay in the White House, the first lady is determining what to put in storage, what goes to Trump’s New York City digs, and what should be tagged for shipment to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.”
Shorter: first lady acknowledges trump lost.
re: #38 Charles Johnson
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Oh that’s *much* better
Turns out that multiple sources reported this incorrectly. That photo going around is not Kelly Loeffler’s home. However, this one is. pic.twitter.com/95xAAONsRw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 9, 2020
re: #39 dangerman
CNN: “While the President is busy figuring out a way to stay in the White House, the first lady is determining what to put in storage, what goes to Trump’s New York City digs, and what should be tagged for shipment to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.”
Shorter: first lady acknowledges trump lost.
I wonder how much of the stuff being shipped out was there already before the Trumps moved in.
Part of how we got so many megamansions:
🚨This chart should enrage you. For a decade the IRS has disproportionately audited poor Americans while letting wealthy tax cheats off scot-free. https://t.co/095TOiKS8w
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) December 9, 2020
re: #36 dangerman
Twitter, which has committed to more stringent rules against peddling misinformation this year, like labeling rule-breaking tweets, has repeatedly slapped Trump on the wrist for his behavior. But unlike normal platform abusers, the company has refused to banish Trump outright because, well, he’s the president. Twitter’s ‘World Leaders’ policy was codified last year and treats some rule-breaking tweets as newsworthy. But that designation will no longer protect Trump once he’s a former president.”
—adweek
I read earlier this week that if he announces his 2024 candidacy, he’ll be afforded the ‘World Leaders’ designation again.
re: #42 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I wonder how much of the stuff being shipped out was there already before the Trumps moved in.
All of it Katie //
OK, how about this instead? https://t.co/fSMocb6oqt pic.twitter.com/i0rBs4bEpZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 9, 2020
re: #38 Charles Johnson
That too is in the style of fuckthepoor.
Me, too.
— Ben Alpers 🗽 (@Ben_Alpers) December 9, 2020
Yay! I might be able to go to a restaurant in the next 6 months or go back to the gym.
BREAKING: Health Canada approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine https://t.co/OA5nxWtRpg #cdnpoli #COVID19
— Rachel Aiello (@rachaiello) December 9, 2020
re: #45 Dr. Matt
I read earlier this week that if he announces his 2024 candidacy, he’ll be afforded the ‘World Leaders’ designation again.
So we’ll still be stuck with this insufferable prick until he inevitably kicks the bucket?
re: #39 dangerman
CNN: “While the President is busy figuring out a way to stay in the White House, the first lady is determining what to put in storage, what goes to Trump’s New York City digs, and what should be tagged for shipment to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.”
Shorter: first lady acknowledges trump lost.
She probably voted for Biden.
Because of the REPUBLICAN PARTY.
How about if we don’t both-sides this? https://t.co/olJSKuiUsL— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 9, 2020
re: #38 Charles Johnson
re: #41 dangerman
Oh that’s *much* better
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The first image is also NOT Kelly Loeffler’s house.
It’s in Draper UT, and belongs to a “David Loeffler”
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re: #50 Dizzy
Yay! I might be able to go to a restaurant in the next 6 months or go back to the gym.
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Asked how Canada was able to beat the U.S. FDA in deeming the vaccine safe, Sharma said jokingly “we’re just better.”
The dissents were about how the court should handle the case, not the merits. The concurring opinion explains that this implicated unsettled areas of law, and there were enough other problems with the case on its face that it wasn’t the vehicle to get into all that pic.twitter.com/H0h1vmtGZC
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) December 9, 2020
re: #52 thedopefishlives
So we’ll still be stuck with this insufferable prick until he inevitably kicks the bucket?
And with Cain as an indicator the account will live long after the Donald himself is gone.
Starship SN8’s flaps are now fully extended. Still tracking towards no earlier than 2 pm CST for the launch attempt.
Live coverage: https://t.co/a7W5S8ZvCj— Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) December 9, 2020
Cult.
Republicans strip committee assignments from Rep. Cynthia Johnson, who received death threats after Guiliani committee hearing. She posted video warning Trump supporters of consequences of threats, saying she turned voice mail messages over to authorities.
— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) December 9, 2020
re: #55 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Man, there’s a lot of wrong info about this on the internet. I’m just gonna delete that tweet and move on.
This twitter thread of Lord of the Rings characters in the pandemic is a hoot:
Well, rewatching Lord of the Rings this year was… different.
Consider BILBO: just wants to finish his damn book; “butter spread over too much bread”; ages dramatically pic.twitter.com/YoqidHADo7— Ed Yong (@edyong209) December 5, 2020
Narrator: He did use his White House job to get a billion-dollar bailout for his company.
BREAKING: Congress is now investigating Jared Kushner to see if he used his White House job to get a billion-dollar bailout for his company, from Middle Eastern countries
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) December 9, 2020
Buckingham Palace. Versailles. When you’re living paycheck to paycheck, it’s hard to tell the difference.
Parler trolls are fuckin’ vicious. You love to see it.
“Next up for the Trump crime family is to becomes the SDNY’s bitch.” 😎 pic.twitter.com/cdLHEF4hgy
— Parlertakes (@parlertakes) December 9, 2020
You know, not even the Scientologists threatened to blow up my house when I was regularly picketing their shops. The GOP has really turned into a death cult.
— Dee *I am a Judges 4:21 woman* Holmes (@mmmirele) December 9, 2020
Knight Rider was the story of a gay car and his husband
— Supership79 (@supership79) December 9, 2020
re: #66 mmmirele
Brought to you by the same people that love to tell us Democrats are the real terrorists.
On my shopping trip in a red area of the state yesterday for groceries and supplies (read cat supplies), I noticed EVERYONE wearing a mask and properly.
Red but not stupid.
My friend Andee did a Christmas album.
First snow of the season today! https://t.co/WIHSvrO4P4
— Andee Blacksugar (@AndeeBlackSugar) December 9, 2020
re: #64 Teddy’s Person
Buckingham Palace. Versailles. When you’re living paycheck to paycheck, it’s hard to tell the difference.
It’s like when Marie Antoinette and her BFF Princesse de Lamballe, built a little farm on the grounds of Versailles and pretended they were milkmaids.
They also want to make sure the public never learns the true identity of an “expert” who “opines at great risk to himself” about various statistical tests. pic.twitter.com/ETdXT2uQHa
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 9, 2020
— Dark Stock Photos (@darkstockphotos) December 9, 2020
re: #73 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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In that filing, why does “Spider’s” catalog of “qualifications” really read like it ought to conclude with “Please take this seriously. I am not a crank”??
re: #75 Jay C
In that filing, why does “Spider’s” catalog of “qualifications” really read like it ought to conclude with “Please take this seriously. I am not a crank”??
I believe that’s verbatim in one of the footnotes. 😂
re: #74 Charles Johnson
“I got your holiday cheer right here, pal!”
THREAD
(Thread) How did the #TexasLawSuit go off the rails?
Let me count the ways.https://t.co/3aQ9ummLRC
First, given the allegations, the remedy is [to say the least] inappropriate. The better word is “insane.”
The allegations are that: pic.twitter.com/TLN8bK2vcP— Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) December 9, 2020
Ire: #73 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Riiiiiight. “The 305th Military Intelligence”. I’d presume he means the 305th MI Battalion, which is a training outfit here at Fort Huachuca. It doesn’t even do IT, or counter intel stuff, but trains Analysts. Geez, these people can’t even get basics correct.
Is it “Spider” or “Spyder” ?
And, if they can’t be consistent with a code name, should they really be allowed to mask their identity(ies).
After all, are we really sure how many “experts” they are talking about?— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) December 9, 2020
re: #74 Charles Johnson
Someone stood their ground after this intruder came down the chimney?
re: #64 Teddy’s Person
Buckingham Palace. Versailles. When you’re living paycheck to paycheck, it’s hard to tell the difference.
Maybe I’ve watched too many versions of King Arthur, but I always had the impression those enormous British castles with the thick stone walls was so the entire village could shelter there during attacks.
They’d bring in all the crops, and could withstand a siege while the invaders got hungry and cold and tired of waiting.
re: #5 makeitstop
I wonder if Copeland has seen these videos, and what he thinks about them.
The guitarist does a good job locking the music in to Copeland’s vocal cadence.
Jesus in 4/4 time
NASA WB-57 has not yet departed it’s airfield. Current flight plan has departure in 30 or so minutes. And, with an approximate 1 hours transit time, SN8 launch should be at least an hour and a half away.
re: #82 sagehen
Maybe I’ve watched too many versions of King Arthur, but I always had the impression those enormous British castles with the thick stone walls was so the entire village could shelter there during attacks.
Or equally likely, to keep the “entire village” out, when it was doing the attacking…
re: #82 sagehen
Maybe I’ve watched too many versions of King Arthur, but I always had the impression those enormous British castles with the thick stone walls was so the entire village could shelter there during attacks.
They were castles as well as forts. I’m sure the aristocratic families of court had a safe space in the castle. Not sure about Joe and Jane Peasant.
Melania trump says she “just wants to go home.”
Good. Get the fuck out.
Go back to Slovenia.
Good riddance.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) December 9, 2020
re: #82 sagehen
Maybe I’ve watched too many versions of King Arthur, but I always had the impression those enormous British castles with the thick stone walls was so the entire village could shelter there during attacks.
From my reading and limited experience* with them a lot of them (at least the thick-walled parts) and I suspect would mainly hold the lord, immediate retainers, a bit of a garrison and a bunch of storage in order to attempt to ride out a siege. An outer bailey could probably hold additional people (and livestock) to give them a degree of protection from raiders.
* - Former castle site outside of Salisbury (Old Sarum), White Tower in London, and seeing some of the old town defenses of Chester and York. Clifford’s Tower in York not being that large - but it was also part of a larger defensive system.
re: #82 sagehen
Maybe I’ve watched too many versions of King Arthur, but I always had the impression those enormous British castles with the thick stone walls was so the entire village could shelter there during attacks.
There’s a series on Netflix called Secrets of Great British Castles that’s fun. I found the host quite engaging.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I cannot stand Joe Scarborough. I don’t know why his show is popular, it sucks.
I have one use for Joe Scarborough: whenever someone says that MSNBC is simply the flip side of the coin from Fox, I ask them to point out what the Fox News equivalent of Scarborough Country is.
Still surprises me how quickly that convo gets shut down.
DHS Attempted to Comply with a Court Order to Post a Welcome to Dreamers, But the Judge Found the Website Is Not Up to Snuff https://t.co/YrhY5UWHcA via @lawcrimenews
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 9, 2020
re: #78 The Pie Overlord!
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we just have to wait till tomorrow for the SC to throw this one out too
Loeffler’s address on an official document (from 2012):
Matching address and estate name (“Descante”), last sold in 2009:
Google map:
re: #93 KingKenrod
Loeffler’s address on an official document (from 2012):
Matching address and estate name (“Descante”), last sold in 2009:
Google map:
My family will have to come up with a good name for our home.
re: #80 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“Spider/Spyder” DiaperDon’s 400 pound fat guy sitting on his bed.
whispers - it’s not just @Facebook its their other acquisitions of @WhatsApp —> @instagram too
BAHAHAHAHAAAAAAhttps://t.co/qn09dda84v pic.twitter.com/7qUoSEMPuy— File411 (@File411) December 9, 2020
re: #97 So Cal Greek Hippie
Frank Lloyd Wrong
Heh. There were a lot of people in the Madison era during his lifetime who would say that really was his name. I refer to him as “Cranky Frankie” for much the same reason.
This should be interesting. The fact that Mafia Don Trump is eagerly awaiting the list of names is, to be blunt, terrifying.
Email to every member of House GOP from @RepMikeJohnson, R-LA, soliciting signatures for an amicus brief in the longshot Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate electoral college votes from GA MI PA and WI. Trump is “anxiously awaiting the final list” to see who signs on. pic.twitter.com/QrksypyHv9
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 9, 2020
re: #100 thedopefishlives
Fucking fascists.
and there’s a bunch of GOP dominated states who are signing on to the Texas suit against WI, GA, PA, with amicus briefs in support of the TX position.
Of course, the logical consistency of said briefs strains reality.
A lot of this brief is people in glass houses casting stones. It argues that allowing absentee ballots to arrive after Election Day undermines faith in democracy. But Kansas and Mississippi, which both signed on, also count mail-in ballots that arrive late. pic.twitter.com/vOuGvjQjVW
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 9, 2020
All of these GOP suits boil down to one thing: the only election any of them consider legit are the ones where the GOP wins. Everything else is suspect.
These aren’t people to be bargained or negotiated with. They must be defeated. Those breaking the law (and Trump and his cohorts/cronies are breaking the law) should be prosecuted.
re: #82 sagehen
Maybe I’ve watched too many versions of King Arthur, but I always had the impression those enormous British castles with the thick stone walls was so the entire village could shelter there during attacks.
They’d bring in all the crops, and could withstand a siege while the invaders got hungry and cold and tired of waiting.
Castles, yes. Buckingham Palace started out as Buckingham house and George III acquired it as a summer house or something like that. Versailles started as a hunting lodge. So, no walls.
re: #99 William Lewis
Here in So Cal we also have
Crapsman, Art Gacko, and Brokedown Taco Bell Palace architectural styles as well
re: #21 Dr. Matt
To be honest, if anyone was dissuaded from voting for Secretary Clinton because of that stupid email story, he/she really wasn’t going to vote for her anyways. Trump was a horrible candidate who made racist, sexist and xenophobic comments and encouraged violence against protesters at his rallies. Secretary Clinton’s email usage was no reason to vote for someone as odious as Trump.
Thread…
Republicans have become just like Hitler’s SA…
And as our federal and state officials have consistently failed to provide the kind of leadership needed in this moment of crisis, those responsibilities have fallen on local leaders, health board members, and public health employees. (1/9)
— Diana Lachiondo for Ada County (@Lachiondo4Ada) December 9, 2020
A nailbiter:
It’s official: Election results have now been certified in all 50 states and D.C. https://t.co/CavMmcqIRQ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 9, 2020
re: #102 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Castles, yes. Buckingham Palace started out as Buckingham house and George III acquired it as a summer house or something like that. Versailles started as a hunting lodge. So, no walls.
Right, these were built after cannons showed up, so castle walls weren’t as useful as they used to be.
re: #106 Dr. Matt
A nailbiter:
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Guess Shithead is gonna fire off another Tweetstorm.
re: #107 garzooma
Right, these were built after cannons showed up, so castle walls weren’t as useful as they used to be.
And palaces are generally a lot more comfortable to live in than castles.
re: #106 Dr. Matt
A nailbiter:
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But I’m assured by Parler that the Texas lawsuit is Kraken and by mister president donald j trump that the texas lawsuit meets all the merits of very serious legislation court room lawsuit.
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re: #101 lawhawk
Fucking fascists.
and there’s a bunch of GOP dominated states who are signing on to the Texas suit against WI, GA, PA, with amicus briefs in support of the TX position.
Of course, the logical consistency of said briefs strains reality.
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All of these GOP suits boil down to one thing: the only election any of them consider legit are the ones where the GOP wins. Everything else is suspect.
These aren’t people to be bargained or negotiated with. They must be defeated. Those breaking the law (and Trump and his cohorts/cronies are breaking the law) should be prosecuted.
yeah our fraud scheme was so fantastic that it depended on…waiting to see if it would be worthwhile to send in a bunch of late ballots or something.
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re: #101 lawhawk
Fucking fascists.
and there’s a bunch of GOP dominated states who are signing on to the Texas suit against WI, GA, PA, with amicus briefs in support of the TX position.
Of course, the logical consistency of said briefs strains reality.
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All of these GOP suits boil down to one thing: the only election any of them consider legit are the ones where the GOP wins. Everything else is suspect.
These aren’t people to be bargained or negotiated with. They must be defeated. Those breaking the law (and Trump and his cohorts/cronies are breaking the law) should be prosecuted.
Love this part:
“these non-legislative changes raise CONCERNS about election integrity in Pennsylvania…..”
WERE VERY CONCERNED NOW OVERTURN AND OVERRULE FOR MAGA POTUS TRUMP
re: #110 Sir John Barron
But I’m assured by Parler that the Texas lawsuit is Kraken and by mister president donald j trump that the texas lawsuit meets all the merits of very serious legislation court room lawsuit.
//
ANY MINUTE NOW WE WILL LEGIT WIN!!!
Mre: #111 Sir John Barron
yeah our fraud scheme was so fantastic that it depended on…waiting to see if it would be worthwhile to send in a bunch of late ballots or something.
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And closer margins in the House and the Senate’s outcome in limbo until two weeks for the inauguration. This conspiracy is stupid even by right wing standards.
re: #107 garzooma
Right, these were built after cannons showed up, so castle walls weren’t as useful as they used to be.
The newest castle-type fortification ever built is in Hakodate in Japan, a classic medieval European-style star-fort built in the 1850s to defend against direct cannonfire which would normally bring down regular masonry curtain walls.
There were many coastal forts built to defend against seaborne bombardment all the way through the 1940s but they weren’t castles per se which were meant to protect a core from attack on all sides.
Trump’s last-gasp lawsuit, filed by Texas AG Ken Paxton, makes some absolutely bananas claims about the likelihood of Biden’s win. Just utterly nonsensical claims meant to impress people with the number of zeroes shown. https://t.co/Y9QouwXFMh
— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 9, 2020
what bothers me the most about these bullshit lawsuits is the short step it appears to be from losing in the courts to those who want to use said losses as justification for what I expect will be more intimidation and acts of violence, perpetuated by the usual bad faith actors while others get assaulted or shot at.
re: #44 jaunte
Part of how we got so many megamansions:
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That’s partly because the IRS is so poorly funded it can’t take on the big guys any more.
The big guys have larger legal and accounting teams, and pay them better.
Legislators making comfy laws for the big guys doesn’t help.
re: #115 Nojay UK
The newest castle-type fortification ever built is in Hakodate in Japan, a classic medieval European-style star-fort built in the 1850s to defend against direct cannonfire which would normally bring down regular masonry curtain walls.
Ahem. Have to disagree here. That’s not “classic medieval European-style” style, that’s “Vauban-style”. Vauban designed its fortification model in the second half of the 17th century, long after the medieval period and the invention of artillery fire. In fact, the Vauban model was specifically designed to withstand cannon fire (hence the “star” shape), and was so efficient that it was widely used right up to WWI (see for example the forts around Paris, built at the end of the 19th century and in the early 2Oth century), so Hakodate is not the last one either… It’s only during the interwar period that it was supplanted by the concrete bunker/fort (see Maginot line). What eventually made the Vauban model obsolete was not artillery, but aviation.
Spacex calls a countdown hold
re: #123 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Spacex calls a countdown hold
the “STD” is venting
There are still a couple hours in the window, so a scrub for the day has not been called
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is she a naturalized US citizen?
Yes, otherwise, it would have been nearly impossible for her to sponsor her parents for Green Cards.
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is she a naturalized US citizen?
She may be a citizen, but there’s nothing natural about her.
re: #124 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
the “STD” is venting
There are still a couple hours in the window, so a scrub for the day has not been called
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re: #124 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
the “STD” is venting
There are still a couple hours in the window, so a scrub for the day has not been called
Spacex: “Clock paused, standing by for new T-O
(clock currently holding at T-minus 2:06 minute)
Again, the scary thing is that the GOP is treating it is normal and natural that the certified results of an election continue to be challenged up to the point that the President Elect is sworn in.
That is a shocking precedent.
YouTube advises right-wing propagandist Tim Pool on how to spread election fraud conspiracies without any repercussions pic.twitter.com/blF4sp8oh7
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) December 9, 2020
Hunter Biden in a new statement: “I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs.” pic.twitter.com/bweC2o5OKt
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 9, 2020
re: #122 peguyjaures
Late medieval-period, then? People like Da Vinci, as Florence’s chief military architect were designing fortifications to absorb or survive sustained direct artillery fire. Siege pieces like Mons Meg were operational as early as the 1450s so the solutions to defend against such artillery were being developed. The star-fort was just the final polished development of a number of ideas that worked (angled low soft-faced walls, wide moats, bastions and ravelins etc.), just in time for them to be obviated by future developments in warfare and especially artillery.
re: #133 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So glad that that Hunter Biden brouhaha never got any traction. I guess we all learned our Clinton email server lesson.
re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
YouTube advises right-wing propagandist Tim Pool on how to spread election fraud conspiracies without any repercussions
So Right-wingers in Germany came up with a fictional brand “LONSDAPLE”. The gag being that you can wear a T-shirt with that logo on it with a shirt open over it to display “NSDAP”, Nationalsozialistische Deustche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party..
So Germany went on to pass a law that it is still legal to wear a Lonsdaple shirt, but just not in such a way that the first and last two letters are obscured.
I kid you not. Those skinhead crackers love playing cat-and-mouse with any attempts to outlaw their symbols and ideology.
re: #136 Patricia Kayden
So glad that that Hunter Biden brouhaha never got any traction. I guess we all learned our Clinton email server lesson.
I still feel awful for how he was used to lie about and distort his father’s record and agenda. Trump is the one whose kids have financially benefited from his political career.
Trump’s lawyer on the brief is John C. Eastman, who wrote the infamous editorial about VP-elect Kamala Harris’s eligibility denounced widely as birtherism. https://t.co/JaQZ9Ru6mX https://t.co/426eipJXsh
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 9, 2020
re: #136 Patricia Kayden
So glad that that Hunter Biden brouhaha never got any traction. I guess we all learned our Clinton email server lesson.
What is going on? Seems to be all over the headlines.
re: #133 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Lindsay Graham has said that he will subpoena Hunter Biden and order him to appear before the Judiciary Committee.
On this day in 1979, after an extensive worldwide vaccination campaign, @WHO declared smallpox eradicated.
We can do hard things.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) December 9, 2020
re: #142 Patricia Kayden
On this day in 1979, after an extensive worldwide vaccination campaign,
WHO declared smallpox eradicated.
Smallpox was a hoax invented by Native American activists to make white settlers look bad…
re: #142 Patricia Kayden
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I’m always gonna be sad that my grandmother and my niece didn’t get to celebrate the first woman POTUS together. I think a lot of people owe Clinton apologies especially as we’re learning that Trump was the warmonger all along but that didn’t matter because a bunch of hacks think isolationism is dovishness.
Spacex: “Tentative T-0 now 4:40 PM CST / 22:40 UTC”
re: #136 Patricia Kayden
So glad that that Hunter Biden brouhaha never got any traction. I guess we all learned our Clinton email server lesson.
Another way we got lucky. First, with the Ukrainians’ reluctance to play ball. Second, and more importantly, with Parnas and Fruman getting busted for a totally different crime.
re: #138 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
To be fair, it’s plausible that Hunter Biden got his foreign gigs because of his father’s VP position. I don’t see that he did anything wrong though. If my parent was in a powerful position, I’d use it to my advantage. That’s what Hunter appeared to have done.
re: #147 Patricia Kayden
To be fair, it’s plausible that Hunter Biden got his foreign gigs because of his father’s VP position. I don’t see that he did anything wrong though. If my parent was in a powerful position, I’d use it to my advantage. That’s what Hunter appeared to have done.
Yeah I mean I don’t like that he got on that board either but the hypocrisy of the enablers of Javanka, Eric, & Don Jr can kiss my ass.
re: #148 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I mean I don’t like that he got on that board either but the hypocrisy of the enablers of Javanka, Eric, & amp; Don Jr can kiss my ass.
that is the scary part, they know they can get away with it and nobody will call them out on it…
re: #147 Patricia Kayden
To be fair, it’s plausible that Hunter Biden got his foreign gigs because of his father’s VP position. I don’t see that he did anything wrong though. If my parent was in a powerful position, I’d use it to my advantage. That’s what Hunter appeared to have done.
Rich and powerful parents don’t have to actively do anything to help their kids. No one had to say “let’s do Joe a favor and hire his kid.” Companies want a “name” on their board of directors.
re: #151 Teddy’s Person
Rich and powerful parents don’t have to actively do anything to help their kids. No one had to say “let’s do Joe a favor and hire his kid.” Companies want a “name” on their board of directors.
That is what seems to me what happened here. They had a former Polish President or PM on the board too. Ukraine has had trouble since the fall of the USSR. I really hope we can help them become fully democratic and respectful of human rights and EU members. We all know the Nazis were terrible to the Ukrainian people but so too the Soviets.
We need more investigation into how compromised the Mainstream Media is. They always hold Democrats to much higher standards than Republicans
— Phlip (@Pen_Bird) December 9, 2020
re: #151 Teddy’s Person
Exactly. That’s why I don’t believe that Hunter did anything wrong. Several prominent Republicans have spawn working (or previously working) for Trump in various capacities.
I really wish the media would STOP saying that the Pfizer vaccine is good after just one dose. That graph that shows protection beginning around day 10, when the 2nd dose is on day 21 is meaningless. No one in that trial only took one dose so there’s no 3rd line on that graph to show if it stays effective over time compared to 2 doses.
It’s completely irresponsible to say something that idiots will read as “I don’t need 2 doses!”
re: #156 Dr. Matt
I’m not an expert here, but if it’s an electric guitar, can’t you make it out of anything as long as it’s rigid and vaguely shaped that way?
re: #157 Jack Burton
I’m not an expert here, but if it’s an electric guitar, can’t you make it out of anything as long as it’s rigid and vaguely shaped that way?
re: #150 plansbandc
Why did they crop out the Chupacabra?
re: #157 Jack Burton
I’m not an expert here, but if it’s an electric guitar, can’t you make it out of anything as long as it’s rigid and vaguely shaped that way?
Yup. The creator even said that his concrete guitar sounds just as good as a wood.
I’ve seen people make guitars out of epoxy, colored pencils, paper, etc.
Maybe The Most Publicity Shy Of All Scam PACs, Juanita Jean Herownself
There’s a couple of guys who kinda hide out who have scammed tens millions of dollars from people who thought they were giving to political PAC with precious names like American Wounded Veterans PAC, Wounded American Veterans PAC, Security in America PAC, and Law Enforcement for a Safer America PAC. I guess they forgot Poor Little Homeless Puppies With Guns To Their Heads PAC.
Alan Bohms and his lawyer, Matthew Fisher, have stayed in the shadows with putting together intricate schemes where people send them money that goes into advertising for more money and their pockets. Generally less than 1% of the money goes to politicians. Salon did a great job tracking down all the subsidiary companies these guys have set up to funnel the money.
Congress trying to pass coronavirus relief: pic.twitter.com/65GbDzBiIl
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 9, 2020
re: #135 Nojay UK
Late medieval-period, then? People like Da Vinci, as Florence’s chief military architect were designing fortifications to absorb or survive sustained direct artillery fire. Siege pieces like Mons Meg were operational as early as the 1450s so the solutions to defend against such artillery were being developed. The star-fort was just the final polished development of a number of ideas that worked (angled low soft-faced walls, wide moats, bastions and ravelins etc.), just in time for them to be obviated by future developments in warfare and especially artillery.
Late-late medieval then - I would not describe Da Vinci and the Renaissance period as “medieval” ;)
but let’s not nitpick, we both agree on the general picture - this model started developing when artillery came into play, was perfected in the 17th century by Vauban (and a few other architects across Europe) as the “star-shape fort”, then was constantly adapted to keep up with the progress of artillery until no further evolution was possible and it finally became obsolete. Variations of this model were still in use surprisingly late, though, see for example this fort near Strasbourg, built from 1872 to 1895: clipimage.net
People are so dumb
— Evan Jacobs (@probablyup) December 9, 2020
Once Republicans accepted corruption as their Party platform, it’s like lemmings over a cliff.
Red states marching to the desperate whims of their fascist, authoritarian leader is not surprising.#TexasLawSuit https://t.co/tBSQYe73RK— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) December 9, 2020
Just noticed, Spacex has a new clock running around T-minus 46 minutes
re: #164 Dread Pirate Ron
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If the video truly represented Congress trying to pass covid relief, it would contain Moscow Mitch taking the ball away from the kid and kicking them in the face.
re: #135 Nojay UK
There’s a picture somewhere of me sitting on Mons Meg with my Grandfather standing next to me. I was probably about 2 at the time. When I was back as a teenager, there was a sign, “stay off of the cannon”.
re: #171 DesertDenizen
17 States Tell Supreme Court They Support Texas Bid to Reverse Biden Win
nbcboston.com
re: #156 Dr. Matt
Cute. I think I’ll stick to my hollow bodies though… :)
“…The states supporting the suit, all of which have Republican attorneys general, are Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
Trump defeated Biden in the popular vote in all of those states, though one of Nebraska’s electoral votes was awarded to Biden.”
“The complete collapse of the Republican Party is where we start this hour.” - @NicolleDWallace
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) December 9, 2020
re: #174 jaunte
“…The states supporting the suit, all of which have Republican attorneys general, are Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
Trump defeated Biden in the popular vote in all of those states, though one of Nebraska’s electoral votes was awarded to Biden.”
These cowardly anti democratic assholes.
re: #176 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I don’t think they have an argument for exactly how it infringes on their rights when they’re outvoted.
re: #176 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
These cowardly anti democratic assholes.
In other words, Republicans.
re: #121 Romantic Heretic
That’s partly because the IRS is so poorly funded it can’t take on the big guys any more.
The big guys have larger legal and accounting teams, and pay them better.
Legislators making comfy laws for the big guys doesn’t help.
the other end of this is that it’s also partly because so may scammers defrauded the irs through bogus use of the EITC and stole the refundable credit.
the info supporting the eitc claim went largely unverified - the irs accepted the ‘signature under penalty of perjury’ threat as adequate
then people quickly learned how to create fake ID’s or steal them, and file fraudulent tax returns, and then how to scale it up
which, now, like so many other areas of life and law, it’s the law abiders that have to jump through hoops to prove they are entitled to what they always were. AND that innocent mistakes or misinterpretations are now met by draconian penalties
re: #172 jaunte
17 States Tell Supreme Court They Support Texas Bid to Reverse Biden Win
nbcboston.com
The probability that the 17 state Attorney Generals who support overturning the election are Republicans is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000!!11!eleventy!
Hard to have a democracy when only one of the two parties is committed to it. https://t.co/EBqxDIL13y
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 9, 2020
re: #126 aatharuv
Yes, otherwise, it would have been nearly impossible for her to sponsor her parents for Green Cards.
havent you been paying attention these last four years? ;-) //
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Again, the scary thing is that the GOP is treating it is normal and natural that the certified results of an election continue to be challenged up to the point that the President Elect is sworn in.
That is a shocking precedent.
i’ve predicted, and still do, that it will not stop at 12noon on 1/20/21
So. Hunter is under a “tax investigation” by the Delaware AG. He should just say he’s under audit and ignore everything.
re: #142 Patricia Kayden
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we could be doing a whole lot better w/r/t covid
vaccination aside, it’s not that hard
On this day in 1979, after an extensive worldwide vaccination campaign, @WHO declared smallpox eradicated.
We can do hard things.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) December 9, 2020
re: #185 dangerman
i’ve predicted, and still do, that it will not stop at 12noon on 1/20/21
Of course not: Trump’s whole post-Presidential career is going to be based on the playing the Voice Crying in the Wilderness, the President-in-Exile, cheated out of his second term by a massive Deep State/Soros/Gates/Obama/Clinton conspiracy.
And his party will not dare distance themselves too greatly as they will rely on his base for upcoming elections.
what a shock to learn that baby-caging racists hate free and fair elections
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 9, 2020
re: #183 jaunte
It takes a very special kind of asshole to file a patently frivolous lawsuit and ask the court for coverage of the legal costs.
The internet is undefeated… pic.twitter.com/kEGvS6vuik
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) December 9, 2020
Stabbed in the back by simple addition.
“…the problem Paxton faces is the same one that has dogged all the legal challenges filed so far by Trump allies: There’s simply no evidence of significant irregularities. Elections officials in dozens of states spanning the red-to-blue spectrum have found no evidence of significant voter fraud marring the results. And they’ve looked.
“Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so,” wrote Trump-appointed Judge Stephanos Bibas while rejecting a Trump legal challenge to Pennsylvania’s results. That sentiment was echoed by a conservative justice on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, Brian Hagedorn, who wrote in response to another failed Trump legal challenge, “Judicial acquiescence to such entreaties built on so flimsy a foundation would do indelible damage to every future election.”
vox.com
re: #105 🌹UOJB!
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Republicans have become just like Hitler’s SA…
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gee. I wonder if Tucker Carlson has a comment about this…
Spacex clock now pushing through T-minus 20 minutes
re: #194 jaunte
conservative justice on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, Brian Hagedorn…wrote in response to another failed Trump legal challenge, “Judicial acquiescence to such entreaties built on so flimsy a foundation would do indelible damage to every future election.”
To paraphrase Rudy G: “Big words, your honor!”
re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The toddler kicking and screaming on the floor wants an A on the test, but it would do damage to math education to agree that 2 and 2 is 6.
re: #194 jaunte
Stabbed in the back by simple addition.
“…the problem Paxton faces is the same one that has dogged all the legal challenges filed so far by Trump allies: There’s simply no evidence of significant irregularities. Elections officials in dozens of states spanning the red-to-blue spectrum have found no evidence of significant voter fraud marring the results. And they’ve looked.
none of these people consider that it’s not just ‘count the votes, send in the number and done’
there are checks
double checks
systems
procedures
internal verifications and back checks
probably internal audit checks
and on and on
all going on behind the scenes
no one wants to find out they actually effed up an election
Mike’s last tweet…😂😂😂😂😂😂
I mean, they’ve sued most of those states individually. And lost. They’re just assuming that if they don’t tell SCOTUS, SCOTUS won’t notice.
(Bad assumption.)— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) December 9, 2020
re: #198 jaunte
The toddler kicking and screaming on the floor wants an A on the test, but it would do damage to math education to agree that 2 and 2 is 6.
Let’s go interview some white rural people for their opinion on 2 plus 2…
As a matter of fact, Governor Abbott of Texas moved the start of early voting up by two weeks - and Texas Republicans sued him over it, claiming that this was in defiance of state election law. (They lost.)
Yes, you read that right. https://t.co/mXrVhUVCLC— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) December 9, 2020
re: #202 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I also agree that it would only be fitting to start challenging results in states that Trump won.
Let him prove that there were no irregularities.
re: #202 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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— GramGramDenise (@DeniseLNelson1) December 9, 2020
why would it be ok?
dude: because he won
re: #200 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Mike’s last tweet…😂😂😂😂😂😂
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It gets better.
Oh good more clowns just what I wanted. https://t.co/6K6haeGIJQ
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) December 9, 2020
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I also agree that it would only be fitting to start challenging results in states that Trump won.
Let him prove that there were no irregularities.
Which is great except for the part where they’d just want to throw it into the House so they could reelect Trump.
The GOP’s war on voting predated Trump & will long outlast him. The entire Republican Party is complicit in nullifying democracy
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) December 9, 2020
SCOTUS even hearing this case will be similar to Trump meeting with Kim Jong Un. There is no way SCOTUS overturns the election, but they need to nip the whole thing in the bud by refusing to hear it.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) December 9, 2020
It’s the guy at Fox News who called Arizona for Biden way too early and accidentally hamstrung an ad hoc effort to overthrow our democracy https://t.co/AYxbR1Xewb
— Matt Ford (@fordm) December 9, 2020
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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re: #212 teleskiguy
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Lauren Qbert should go back to waiting for JFK Jr. to reappear from his grave and not waste her time, and that of her constitutents with the charade of not even trying to be a responsible legislator.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I cannot stand Joe Scarborough. I don’t know why his show is popular, it sucks.
It can be a decent show when he’s not on. I only watch it via YouTube so I can skip forward when necessary.
re: #200 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Mike’s last tweet…😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Wrong tweet above. GAH. THIS one.
This brief is basically Eastman giving Trump a reach-around and making him feel better.
Oh, and shitting on the republic. That too.
So SSDD.
/fin— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) December 9, 2020
This is really Chuck C. Johnson isn’t it?
— And The Wind Cries: “I LIKE CUCUMBERS! ANYONE?” (@DaveoutofAustin) December 9, 2020
From the comments on the SpaceX youtube feed, I don’t know if the ‘soft landing’ part was part of the test.
re: #224 Dave In Austin
Rudy had legitimate steam, and look where it got him.
re: #165 peguyjaures
Late-late medieval then - I would not describe Da Vinci and the Renaissance period as “medieval” ;)
but let’s not nitpick, we both agree on the general picture - this model started developing when artillery came into play, was perfected in the 17th century by Vauban (and a few other architects across Europe) as the “star-shape fort”, then was constantly adapted to keep up with the progress of artillery until no further evolution was possible and it finally became obsolete. Variations of this model were still in use surprisingly late, though, see for example this fort near Strasbourg, built from 1872 to 1895: clipimage.net
I don’t know anything about this but I love your conversation. I also think it’s fun to speculate what might have happened had Enomoto Takeaki and his French advisors succeeded in establishing the Republic of Ezo, envisioned as a semi-democracy of samurai rule. Also, I think it’s fun that the new Imperial navy included an ironclad meant to be used by the CSA in the American Civil War, but unused, was sold to Japan.
re: #224 Dave In Austin
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“I’ll accept the outcome either way”
That’s some good old-fashioned USDA Grade-A BULLSHIT.
re: #224 Dave In Austin
I’m sure SCOTUS is very excited about overturning an election based on no evidence.
re: #225 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
From the comments on the SpaceX youtube feed, I don’t know if the ‘soft landing’ part was part of the test.
Uh huh. And my cat has a great “I meant to do that face wash moment” after she falls on her ass in a jump.
They’ve chosen the hardest possible return mechanism and I really doubt it’s going to scale up enough for their plans. They should have started with something like the X-33 and it’s aerospike engine instead.
Cornyn, Texas’ former attorney general. https://t.co/QKb7yw6pTc
— Matt Largey (@mattlargey) December 9, 2020
Cornyn isn’t feeling the steam.
re: #229 jaunte
I’m sure SCOTUS is very excited about
overturning an electionstarting the second civil war based on no evidence.
FIFY
re: #231 jaunte
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Cornyn isn’t feeling the steam.
When you can’t get Cornyn to support your fascism you know you’re incompetent.
re: #226 jaunte
Rudy had legitimate steam, and look where it got him.
Rudy had steam coming out of his butt. That was about it.
re: #224 Dave In Austin
Friendly reminder, 270 is only the magic number if there are 538 electoral votes to be counted. If some states don’t send electors, then it’s a majority of however many are actually sent. See, for example, I don’t know, the 1864 presidential election…
re: #222 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ugh, my former Con Law prof on this one. Now I feel obligated to look at this for real.
re: #188 dangerman
I remember getting my smallpox vaccine at SCHOOL when I was in maybe first grade. Which would have been around 1966 or so. Girls were encouraged to get the shot on their hip because it left a scab and then a scar. It was free and no one even batted an eyelash. It can be done, maybe looking at the past to see what we did right wouldn’t be the worst idea.
Doing vaccines at schools would be a great way to reach a lot of people, but thanks to the fucking assholes in Trump’s stupid fan club cult, that dries up an efficient way to get more shots to more people. Trump, if there really was justice, would go to prison for negligent homicIde and depraved indifference. At the very least.
re: #115 Nojay UK
Goryokaku is like so many Japanese shogunate era castles—torn down after the Meiji Restoration. I think there are only 3 or 4 original castles standing; most of the ones you see today are copies built in the 20th century. Not even all of Kumamoto Castle (badly damaged in a 2016 earthquake) is original, but several outbuildings are.
That said, even if the castle isn’t original, the keep, walls and moats may very well be. Castle moats in Japan are serious business.
The Trumps are reportedly preparing to move out of the White House https://t.co/h7bfpo6FJJ via @Yahoo
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) December 9, 2020
Back in April, Melania Trump brought on a special, unpaid government employee — former White House Office of Administration head Marcia Lee Kelly — who has since been helping the Trumps on their outward transition. Among the first lady’s reported tasks for Kelly was asking around in the White House to find out whether she’ll get any perks once she leaves the White House. The president will get some benefits, but Melania will only get a $20,000-a-year pension if he dies.
re: #241 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Among the first lady’s reported tasks for Kelly was asking around in the White House to find out whether she’ll get any perks once she leaves the White House.
Hey, here’s a perk - we won’t throw your ass in prison, we’ll just deport you.
You’re welcome.
re: #60 makeitstop
Disgusting. She’s the victim of violent threats by thugs who are trying to install Trump despite his loss. Democrats all over the country should be yelling about this.
re: #230 William Lewis
Uh huh. And my cat has a great “I meant to do that face wash moment” after she falls on her ass in a jump.
They’ve chosen the hardest possible return mechanism and I really doubt it’s going to scale up enough for their plans. They should have started with something like the X-33 and it’s aerospike engine instead.
Looked like it was 100% nominal until the last moment engine out.
re: #241 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
😂 How is this news? He lost. Of course, he’s moving out.
Republicans, who BLATANTLY tried to rig the election OUT IN THE OPEN, have the AUDACITY to accuse Democrats and Joe Biden of trying to steal the election?
They’re just pissed off THEIR efforts to steal the election weren’t successful enough. Joe Biden didn’t cheat, the GOP did. pic.twitter.com/auOQbXsmbl— Spry Guy (@SpryGuy) December 9, 2020
re: #246 Patricia Kayden
😂 How is this news? He lost. Of course, he’s moving out.
Except no one has the balls to tell him so. 🙄
Not a single Republican who’s going along with Trump’s dishonest coup tantrum, even while it’s endangering the lives and families of their colleagues and our democracy itself, should ever be forgiven for this. They should never live it down. We should never forget.
— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@UROCKlive1) December 9, 2020
re: #248 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Except no one has the balls to tell him so. 🙄
Next time he goes golfing, just change the locks and stack his shit in LaFayette Park.
What’s clear from this s***show is that this is the strategy the GOP has had since 2000 and is going to follow for every election they lose moving forward. The only reason, I am guessing, they didn’t attempt in 2008 and 2012 was bc McCain and Romney actually cared about democracy
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) December 9, 2020
re: #249 Teddy’s Person
Isn’t an unpaid employee called a volunteer?
I’m sure they’re stealing something for her.
So, the big issue I see with this Texas vs Pennsylvania suit is this:
First, I’m not entirely sure anyone actually has standing. I see no manner in which the Texas government or any other state government has a say in how Pennsylvania conducts its elections. Nor am I convinced that Trump has standing to intervene since he’s already been found to lack standing in similar causes of action (this is surprising only because Eastman has always been big on issues of standing)
Second, there is the issue of laches/timeliness. All of the things they are complaining about happened before the election. They could have brought suit beforehand, but didn’t. We’ve already seen at least one case kicked on that basis. Relatedly, we have passed the safe harbor deadline, so even if they could have brought these (frivolous) claims after the election, they waited too long.
Third, the proposed remedy of invalidating the election results of other states is incredibly drastic. And seems incredibly inappropriate given that state courts have already ruled on these issues and found them to be unwarranted.
On a personal note, as I’ve said, Eastman was my con law professor, I even took a clinical class with him related to constitutional law. I had a lot of respect for him, he is an incredibly smart man; and I genuinely liked him. And yeah, he was always pretty far out there on the right (way too much of a social conservative for my tastes, even back then), but this is just so incredibly disappointing.
Jason Slater, original Third Eye Blind bassist, dead at 49 https://t.co/31fVJQA5fQ pic.twitter.com/ly3TnU06RJ
— New York Post (@nypost) December 9, 2020
re: #254 jaunte
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I think they made attempts in 2008 and 2012 (remember Rove melting down on Fox about Ohio), but like 2020, they couldn’t overcome Democrats marching to the polls. Trump has insured that Republicans will contest every fucking election.
re: #245 Dread Pirate Ron
Not much reusable…
Rocketry’s history is one of crashing and burning. It’s a wonder we didn’t lose more astronauts over the years.
Based on current Trumper Logic, I don’t see why the Blue States have to suffer because KY violated our rights by electing Mitch McConnell. We should sue to overturn his election. pic.twitter.com/K9QjdDzpiS
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 9, 2020
Unsurprising that The Federalist, which has pushed racist & conspiratorial content, is funded by the billionaire owner of @uline.
Like Breitbart & Daily Wire, these websites are propaganda units for billionaires to push their agendas under the guise of “news” to fool the public. https://t.co/gPVbPMarW0— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) December 9, 2020
All the while, they set up “foundations”, as Daily Caller and Federalist have done to collect anonymous donations from people looking to push their agenda.
It’s a hell of a grift.— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) December 9, 2020
I would get a vaccine, but they’re saying it will implant a tracking device and I am not sure if I want my entire cell phone injected into my arm.
— Leslie - 42 to 46. 🇺🇲 (@Leslieoo7) December 9, 2020
Starship SN8 Belly Flop @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/Hl1qyl2MPZ
— Jack Beyer (@thejackbeyer) December 9, 2020
SpaceX Starship SN8 almost nailing the landing! 🚀🔥 Next two prototypes almost ready to fly pic.twitter.com/dsA4MbCGNN
— Zac Hall // Space Explored (@apollozac) December 9, 2020
“The anti-mask forces sat with naked faces, defying the mayor’s order. One by one, they got up to air their grievances. They wept. They swore. They cited junk science: Positivity defeats the virus. So does a healthy lifestyle, eating wild-caught sardines,..
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) December 9, 2020
“The growth he had been so carefully recording had exploded in recent weeks, with 359 cases Oct. 1 to 1,912 that morning.
The positivity rate at two local testing sites — a key indicator of the virus’s hold on a community — would soar to 49% near the end of [November].”— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) December 9, 2020
re: #265 Dread Pirate Ron
I can’t even imagine trying to be the lone voice of reason in a community like this. It must be so hard, staring at friends, neighbors, maybe even family, and seeing the hatred in their eyes and hearing the venom in their voice, and you know in your head what their ultimate fate is going to be and nothing you do or say can save them, but by God, you have to try anyway because it’s the right thing to do.
We need to start charging these fascist assholes with terrorism. Because that’s what they are doing, terrorism. https://t.co/EcplqyyeOb
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 9, 2020
Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2020
This guy had been on fire. He is helping so many people.
What’s happening in the replies is truly astounding. https://t.co/8B3ZtJad4o
— Tia Mitchell (@TIAreports) December 9, 2020
re: #270 Jay C
Horseshoes, hand-grenades, and rocket test flights
Ron Filipkowski, a lifelong Republican who was appointed to the 12th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission by Ron DeSantis, has resigned after reviewing the search warrant affidavit the state used to seize computers and phones from Rebekah Jones. https://t.co/aDxM8E0tNK
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 9, 2020
I’m losing count of steaming Krakens.
BREAKING:
An Arizona judge DISMISSES the “Kraken” as a hodgepodge of “gossip and innuendo.” pic.twitter.com/gzsPtdSM1R— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 10, 2020
THIS ASSHOLE. Shut up and die already.
Rush Limbaugh: “I actually think that we’re trending toward secession. I see more and more people asking what in the world do we have in common with the people who live in, say, New York?” https://t.co/tmQocGVoi4
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) December 9, 2020
re: #274 thedopefishlives
THIS ASSHOLE. Shut up and die already.
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Gettin’ close. He already looks like a corpse.
re: #275 Ace Rothstein
Gettin’ close. He already looks like a corpse.
I was just noticing how emaciated he looks in the still image.
re: #276 thedopefishlives
I was just noticing how emaciated he looks in the still image.
Not emaciated enough.
re: #277 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not emaciated enough.
I guess a lifelong diet of OxyContin does do a body good.
re: #267 jaunte
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Bang on my door like that and I’ll defend my castle through that door.
re: #279 William Lewis
Bang on my door like that and I’ll defend my castle through that door.
There was a Twitter thread I read about this somewhere where the tweeter basically said, “It’s only a matter of time until they bang on the door of a homeowner who decides to take action.”
Or…what? https://t.co/DKMvt4mT06
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) December 10, 2020
re: #274 thedopefishlives
THIS ASSHOLE. Shut up and die already.
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This is why Putin held back what Russia got from the GOP servers. The Republicans are blackmailed into doing Putin’s bidding to destabilize the US.
re: #274 thedopefishlives
I agree with Rush. But him first, and the many who follow him. On their feet, or off it. Works for me.
re: #282 🌹UOJB!
This is why Putin held back what Russia got from the GOP servers. The Republicans are blackmailed into doing Putin’s bidding to destabilize the US.
You got it.
re: #276 thedopefishlives
I was just noticing how emaciated he looks in the still image.
I watched the video and his arms look like toothpicks. He probably weighs 140 pounds now.
Meanwhile somebody begged for $$$$ on Parler and got some “unexpected” feedback…
Kelly Loeffler asked for donations on Parler again! 😚 pic.twitter.com/uFsGAWembS
— Parlertakes (@parlertakes) December 9, 2020
TEXAS SHOULD NOT BE LECTURING ANY STATE ABOUT FAIR ELECTIONS I LIVE IN HARRIS COUNTY IN TEXAS WHERE WE WERE LIMITED TO ONE DROP BOX WE HAVE OVER 4MILLION PEOPLE WITH ONE DROP BOX SO TEXAS MAY NOT KNOW WHAT FAIR ELECTIONS MEAN
— Tracy Lee Brewer (@tracyk726) December 9, 2020
AZ GOP Chair Says Trump Called Her Up After Court Smacked Down Election Challenge https://t.co/MYrnDXjLlo pic.twitter.com/qr2KW6qm9Y
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) December 10, 2020
re: #269 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This guy had been on fire. He is helping so many people.
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I get 32 hours a week and have a “great” relationship with the town pawnbroker so I haven’t gotten anything cut off. I don’t have the money for diddly else (even buying groceries for when my son visits is a stretch)
OTOH, I got him what he asked for for Christmas (a new soldering station), the rent is 1/2 paid for this month (better than some months) and next week I have an appointment with Heating Assistance so it could be worse.
Lets not mention the tires on my truck though…
re: #288 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Oh, is that why she started tweeting out “come kill and die for our cause” bulkshit? (I think I have the right one?)
New: A federal judge has dismissed Sidney Powell’s election challenge in Arizona https://t.co/qfTXLV4JRw
“…the Complaint’s allegations are sorely wanting of relevant or reliable evidence, and Plaintiffs’ invocation of this Court’s limited jurisdiction is severely strained.” pic.twitter.com/KP1x25HMsr— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) December 10, 2020
re: #292 jaunte
“Well the case is about finding more evidence,” Ward said.
Not so far.
Pro tip: If the whole point of your lawsuit is to uncover evidence to prove your lawsuit, you are going to have a bad time. Judges do not look kindly on fishing expeditions.
I changed my Twitter tag line because some asshat felt threatened by Judge 4:21.
Really? REALLY? Seriously?
— Dee *I don’t join cults, I picket them* Holmes (@mmmirele) December 10, 2020
re: #294 mmmirele
I changed my Twitter tag line because some asshat felt threatened by Judge 4:21.
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What a fucking snowflake.
Of course not. But he has had a 100% success rate in using the courts to avoid prison and to avoid paying. Go with what has always worked. https://t.co/hllhyouNya
— El Chupacabra (@top_scientician) December 10, 2020
We need some better ways to prevent abuse of the legal system so as not to create this kind of addiction.
Well, at least, the Medicare commercials are finally gone until November 2021. Now I’m seeing Grayscale ads trying to persuade viewers that bitcoin is really more valuable than gold. Mass marketing to the cable audience — the contemporary tulip bulb bubble, except tulip bulbs had real value. Maybe bitcoins are valuable for illicit transactions, until they finally implode.
re: #294 mmmirele
Show him a picture of you holding up the book it’s in.
That’s a statement from a man who has nothing to hide. If nothing was found then, nothing will come of it now.
KUDOS HUNTER BIDEN✊🏽✊🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸
I stand with Hunter!!— Toni (@outfoxed_toni) December 9, 2020
OUCH.
A good example of the common practice of judges throwing shade in footnotes pic.twitter.com/OdvIyCTr4g
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) December 10, 2020
re: #301 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That shade needed sunglasses.
Once more, for the people in the back: One does not clown around in federal court. Inside the courtroom, the judge is God, and God does not tolerate shenanigannery.
re: #286 🌹UOJB!
I wonder if she actually reads the replies. 😂
I’m sincere: Rudy should have left the hospital in a refrigerated truck.
Update on @RudyGiuliani: https://t.co/Ul6zG7cWi2
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) December 10, 2020
re: #303 Patricia Kayden
I wonder if she actually reads the replies. 😂
LOEFFLER (to staffer): “Hey, how’s that fundraising push on Parler working out?”
STAFFER: (Frantically dousing his face from a bottle labeled “brain bleach”) “Uhh, well… Great, yeah, it’s going great.”
re: #274 thedopefishlives
THIS ASSHOLE. Shut up and die already.
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re: #305 thedopefishlives
“We’re getting great engagement.”
It’s wild that HHS is only now putting out detailed data on hospital occupancy. Nevertheless, it is here, and a lot of places look very full. https://t.co/PV5GIjXNxR @LaurenLeatherby @nytgraphics pic.twitter.com/KCitVWVD7T
— Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) December 9, 2020
re: #287 jaunte
They know what it is, but want nothing to do with it because reasons.
re: #308 Dread Pirate Ron
Coloring “no data” white is grossly misleading on a plot like this :-(
— Poul-Henning Kamp (@bsdphk) December 9, 2020
re: #291 The Pie Overlord!
Still waiting for the judge to lower the boom on these fucknut lawyers and impose sanctions and refer for disciplinary conduct. There are a few who have come close, but that’s not good enough. You want to discourage frivolous filings and wasting the court’s time. You want professional lawyers who understand civ pro and basics taught in 1L about standing, ripeness, mootness, and standards of review, to say nothing of seeking relief via declaratory action supported with actual evidence.
These fucknuts do nothing of the sort. They’re treasonweasel enablers.
60,000 Americans are going to die from Coronavirus between now and the end of the year.
More Americans will die in three weeks than died in all of Vietnam and we are just numb to it.— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) December 10, 2020
re: #265 Dread Pirate Ron
It’s a society based on magical thinking. The (outdated, debunked, and sometimes violent) worldview where magical beings cure one if only one petitions them enough, where words are magical incantations, where avoidance of hard truths (family dysfunction) is encouraged, where gas-lighting is the standard form of group direction….
America is long past reckoning with the real, foundational problems in the lives of its people.
Worldometers:
3,156 Americans have died today from covid19, bringing Trump’s total failure thus far to:
drumroll
296,612.
We will break 300,000 official deaths Friday. This was fucking avoidable. Nearly all of these deaths were avoidable. Trump and the GOP wrecked the nation, ignored the threat, and still refuse to do what needs to be done to keep the nation safe.
And there’s enough fucknut GOPers out there to keep this pandemic going even in places that recognize the threat and are trying to do right to keep people safe.
re: #194 jaunte
so flimsy a foundation would do indelible damage to every future election.
To which the GOP replies, “But that’s the idea!”
Not discussed enough:
The right wing managed to turn a public health crisis into a culture war issue. That’s like a 10 on the Fuckery Scale.
Seriously hundreds of thousands of deaths on their hands.— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) December 10, 2020
U.S. records more than 3,000 deaths in a single day for the first time with vaccines nearing approval https://t.co/xgyqTHKIKq
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 10, 2020
“The Beard”
— And The Wind Cries: “I LIKE CUCUMBERS! ANYONE?” (@DaveoutofAustin) December 10, 2020
re: #272 Ace Rothstein
I’m sure DeSantis has a nice wing nut welfare job available for him. He did his job.
UK regulators warned people with a history of “significant” allergic reactions not to currently receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine after two people who had the jab on Tuesday had allergic reactionshttps://t.co/hyUaI1GBR0
— ITV News (@itvnews) December 9, 2020
The reality is that there’s actual evidence to substantiate suits of voter suppression and disenfranchisement in those states and more.
But the GOP are going full fascist and the only elections they think legit are the ones they win (or steal).— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) December 10, 2020
WOW: Arizona Democrats Sinema and Kelly vote to PASS Trump’s huge arms deal for the UAE, breaking with their party and ensuring the package will survive the Senate.
— Akbar Shahid Ahmed (@AkbarSAhmed) December 9, 2020
Sinema ALSO supports the F-35 for the UAE.
— Akbar Shahid Ahmed (@AkbarSAhmed) December 9, 2020
It’s not out of the realm of possibilities that flipping that one EC vote from Nebraska would be enough for Needy Amin to say he got more EC votes than Biden and end this nightmare.
The brown states believe it is a reasonable thing to ask the Supreme Court to overturn a legitimate election because they didn’t like the outcome. The state of our union is not great. https://t.co/ngn3GG97Tn pic.twitter.com/ORY7uLbDCP
— Lilliana Mason (@LilyMasonPhD) December 9, 2020
Trump is now offering pardons to associates who don’t even want one, Axios reports pic.twitter.com/WS8SYCQMf0
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) December 8, 2020
That SN8 vehicle is seriously awesome, even if I do hate calling it a “starship” because goddammit starships are supposed to go to stars. Now get off my solar system.
But it also looks more like a dick than any rocket I’ve ever seen. You might even call it dickish.
re: #320 Dread Pirate Ron
When my wife saw this she said, “Well, I’m not taking the vaccine.”
She has HUGE allergy issues.
re: #318 Dave In Austin
Why the velvet rope? Ornament pilferage at the White House?
re: #327 Romantic Heretic
When my wife saw this she said, “Well, I’m not taking the vaccine.”
She has HUGE allergy issues.
There are 2 others she could take.
re: #327 Romantic Heretic
When my wife saw this she said, “Well, I’m not taking the vaccine.”
She has HUGE allergy issues.
But allergies to what? I’m allergic to dust and mold. I’m not thinking I’m overly concerned.
re: #333 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
But allergies to what? I’m allergic to dust and mold. I’m not thinking I’m overly concerned.
Worst one is to the active ingredient in hot spices. That one is at a peanut level.
I once had to hit her with the pen because a hamburger I bought her had been flipped with a spatula also used on spicy food of some kind.
re: #279 William Lewis
Bang on my door like that and I’ll defend my castle through that door.
re: #280 thedopefishlives
There was a Twitter thread I read about this somewhere where the tweeter basically said, “It’s only a matter of time until they bang on the door of a homeowner who decides to take action.”
That would be MY door and I would open it first because door replacements are pricey and a PITA
re: #304 Sherlock Hound
I’m sincere: Rudy should have left the hospital in a refrigerated truck.
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re: #329 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Who’s the guy?
I heard Tiff like hanging with the Proud Boys because it’s safe there
re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth
That would be MY door and I would open it first because door replacements are pricey and a PITA
A little wood putty, sanding, and paint; Good as new!
re: #332 Thanos
I should have know in a thread this long that you would have corrected already.
re: #314 lawhawk
Worldometers:
3,156 Americans have died today from covid19, bringing Trump’s total failure thus far to:
drumroll
296,612.
We will break 300,000 official deaths Friday. This was fucking avoidable. Nearly all of these deaths were avoidable. Trump and the GOP wrecked the nation, ignored the threat, and still refuse to do what needs to be done to keep the nation safe.
And there’s enough fucknut GOPers out there to keep this pandemic going even in places that recognize the threat and are trying to do right to keep people safe.
NYTimes from March 18, 2020
“As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.”
And the right said they were full of shit at that time. Have the right ever been correct in any of their predictions? Yet people keep listening to them. It is a cult.
re: #339 Thanos
I should have know in a thread this long that you would have corrected already.
We’ve already had corrections on the construction of castles and palaces.
This is what I did all day.
Challah #Hanukkah pic.twitter.com/P8CnYv31kB
— Key Lime Victory Pie (@Pie_Overlord) December 10, 2020
In which Trump commits yet another potential crime:
President Donald Drumpf went off in a 15-minute phone call Tuesday to Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, telling him to stay away from opposing the Texas lawsuit against his state.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday evening that the call came shortly before Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue published a joint statement supporting Drumpf’s latest Hail Mary to the Supreme Court.
The Northern Lights Could Make a Rare Appearance Over Parts of the U.S. This Week https://t.co/2zK7tLBFIQ
— People (@people) December 9, 2020
re: #343 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I’m sorry? You just SUED HIS STATE, accusing them of running a shitty election - which isn’t true, it just happened to be one you didn’t win - and you have been consistently trash-talking Georgia officials, among others, every day since the day you lost. And you expect him to NOT CONTEST that?! You must be a special kind of stupid.
re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth
That would be MY door and I would open it first because door replacements are pricey and a PITA
And opening it lets the shot spread better and travel farther.
J FUCKING C. IT’S OVER YOU DICKBUCKET.
“10% of voters would have changed their vote if they knew about Hunter Biden.” Miranda Devine @nypost @TuckerCarlson But I won anyway!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2020
Trump now hoping Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion will pull his bacon out of the fryer. https://t.co/CBjuy5XGra
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) December 10, 2020
re: #348 The Pie Overlord!
J FUCKING C. IT’S OVER YOU DICKBUCKET.
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No, no, no, the timing of this is suspect. Is it possible that he could’ve directed the US Attorney’s Office to open an investigation?
re: #320 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #326 Charles Johnson
That SN8 vehicle is seriously awesome, even if I do hate calling it a “starship” because goddammit starships are supposed to go to stars. Now get off my solar system.
But it also looks more like a dick than any rocket I’ve ever seen. You might even call it dickish.
Kinda like Elon Musk. Dickish, good word.
re: #351 Rightwingconspirator
Pretty much like every drug and food item in the world…. Do not eat/take/drink/ingest/rub on your skin if you are allergic.
I … don’t think vaccines work that way, but I won’t kink-shame./
re: #347 Eventual Carrion
Current forecast for today isn’t great - looks like the aurora isn’t strong enough to reach down to the US.
Best chance is tomorrow night, depending on the weather.
re: #354 lawhawk
Current forecast for today isn’t great - looks like the aurora isn’t strong enough to reach down to the US.
Best chance is tomorrow night, depending on the weather.
Better chance for clear sky in western NY that way anyway… :)
re: #62 BlueSpotinAL
This twitter thread of Lord of the Rings characters in the pandemic is a hoot:
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I got around to watching the extended versions of the Hobbit trilogy a year or so ago, and I have to say, those movies are much, much better in the extended versions. For one thing, the stupid CGI towards the end doesn’t actually look that stupid in the context of many of the other action sequences that were cut from the theatrical version. There’s supposed to be a kind of mad-cap quality about the fighting scenes, so when you finally see Legolas running up a collapsing staircase, you realize it’s more intended to be humor, as well as a kind of homage to his scene in Lord of the Rings where where he comes surfing down the trunk of an elephant.
re: #106 Dr. Matt
A nailbiter:
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looking at that map, if I were a Republican, I’d be terrified. NC’s trend is blue. Georgia is going blue. Arizona, blue. It’s at a point where it really doesn”t matter what happens in texas or florida.
re: #158 Teddy’s Person
Nothing makes me smile more than looking into the face of a dog that loves me.
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my furball, the adopted stray cat, is currently sleeping in her little bed under my bed. She does very little meowing, but she has a wonderful purring motor that is loud enough to be heard while I’m lying up here in the front of the bed reading. There’s just something so emotionally supportive about having a friend in the house who takes long naps and reminds me she’s there when she’s using her claws to make biscuits in the cat bed before settling in. She also comes over after she’s done eating and actually gives me a little acknowledgement of thanks. I know cats have a reputation for being dumb as stumps, but this one is extremely polite and exercise all the social graces one could want of a cat.
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