Dirty Projectors: “Searching Spirit” (Lyric Video)

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Dirty Projectors - Searching Spirit (Lyric Video)
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1
i(m)p(each)sos  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:23:14pm

GOTGaV! (Go Warnock! Go Ossoff!)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:29:29pm

Thread

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:32:01pm
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jaunte  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:32:10pm
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jaunte  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:34:24pm

No more sharing images or memes.

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:35:59pm

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Thread

Reminds me of why I want to see Ft Benning renamed Ft Thomas. Given how important that post is to the modern US Army, it should be named for a honorable and highly competent commander.

The only other one I’d accept would be Ft Buford for the man who’s grasp of the situation saved the Union on July 1, 1863.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:39:51pm

Moved from the last thread:

Nuremberg Laws much, Ann?

re: #55 DesertDenizen

That would rule me out. Mom’s dad came from Scotland via Canada. Guess I’m not a real ‘Murican.

re: #453 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Would rule me out, since my father’s entire family came from Danzig.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:41:04pm

re: #407 The Pie Overlord!

Whar pineapple?

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:41:58pm

Hah! I’d pay real money at a theater to see this by an appropriately snarky writer & director…

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:45:26pm

re: #5 jaunte

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No more sharing images or memes.

This is criminal but so typical of this legislation. Too many provisions magically appear in the final bill, and it’s too late to do anything about it, except pass new legislation next year to repeal these provisions. It’s all on McConnell. They had 7 months to work through the law and get something everyone could read before passing. But in fact, that’s not really true either. Even when there is plenty of time to discuss and hammer out the legislation, some party is always sneaking in language that would never pass on its own in broad daylight.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 21, 2020 • 8:49:10pm

re: #10 Hecuba’s daughter

This is criminal but so typical of this legislation. Too many provisions magically appear in the final bill, and it’s too late to do anything about it, except pass new legislation next year to repeal these provisions. It’s all on McConnell. They had 7 months to work through the law and get something everyone could read before passing. But in fact, that’s not really true either. Even when there is plenty of time to discuss and hammer out the legislation, some party is always sneaking in language that would never pass on its own in broad daylight.

How would this be enforced? Cause I’m going to do it as much as possible if it passes. Not worried about the Meme Police. (some of you will get the reference).

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:01:59pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:03:47pm

re: #447 plansbandc

I defy you to find a more eighties video than this one. Also I love Chaka Khan so much.

Sure.

(3:32)

Missing Persons - Destination Unknown

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:06:06pm

re: #11 I Would Prefer Not To

How would this be enforced? Cause I’m going to do it as much as possible if it passes. Not worried about the Meme Police. (some of you will get the reference).

Also it would appear to violate that little thing… what do they call it? Oh, yes, the First Amendment.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:15:57pm
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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:17:47pm

re: #14 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Also it would appear to violate that little thing… what do they call it? Oh, yes, the First Amendment.

Which is why someone will file a lawsuit asap after it passes. Then it’ll be a matter of either the courts nuking the idiocy or congress retracting their mistake.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:21:38pm

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Thread

Responding to that thread, your WTF moment:

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:22:02pm

re: #16 William Lewis

Which is why someone will file a lawsuit asap after it passes. Then it’ll be a matter of either the courts nuking the idiocy or congress retracting their mistake.

What else may be lurking in this law? 5500 pages that no one has read through!

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sagehen  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:24:22pm

re: #3 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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“She just wants to come home,” 18-year-old Skylar Mack’s grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told the “Today” show on Monday.

“She knows she made a mistake, she owns to up to that, but she’s pretty hysterical right now.”

Skylar is a pre-med student from Georgia. She traveled to visit her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, who was in the Cayman Islands for a jet-skiing competition.

Mack did not isolate for the mandatory 14 days.

Instead, Mack said she isolated for two days and tested negative twice for coronavirus before abandoning her tracking device and leaving isolation to attend her boyfriend’s jet-skiing competition.

“A mistake”.

Risking a bunch of other people’s lives, putting an entire nation at risk (a nation with not a lot of hospital beds and/or staff) because SHE HAD A DATE.

Fuck you, young mini-Karen. Fuck you twice. You’re lucky it was only 4 months.

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Belafon  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:27:25pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:34:33pm

re: #19 sagehen

“A mistake”.

Risking a bunch of other people’s lives, putting an entire nation at risk (a nation with not a lot of hospital beds and/or staff) because SHE HAD A DATE.

Fuck you, young mini-Karen. Fuck you twice. You’re lucky it was only 4 months.

She can come home after she completes her sentence, when the Cayman Islands deports her and bans her from their country.

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calochortus  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:38:51pm

re: #19 sagehen

“A mistake”.

Risking a bunch of other people’s lives, putting an entire nation at risk (a nation with not a lot of hospital beds and/or staff) because SHE HAD A DATE.

Fuck you, young mini-Karen. Fuck you twice. You’re lucky it was only 4 months.

That’s a whole lot of stupid. Can we consider a college major for her other than “pre-med?” Also, what was an 18 year old doing going to another country to watch a 24 year old boyfriend do stuff? What were her parents thinking? (Yes, I know she’s an adult, but I’m guessing not a self-supporting independent adult.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:39:43pm
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The FBI, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Justice Department offered tips to avoid being the victim of a scam.

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People also should be wary of ads for vaccines via social media, email, phone calls or from unknown sources. Marketers who offer to directly sell or send doses of the vaccine for payment also should be avoided.

People can report COVID-19 fraud to any of the government’s various hotlines: the inspector general hotline at 1-800-HHS-TIPS; the FBI hotline at 1-800-CALL-FBI; or the Medicare hotline at 1-800-MEDICARE.

omaha.com

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calochortus  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:43:21pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:46:38pm

Billionaire science-denying Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts got his vaccine (while he holds up delivery of the vaccines the state has received until we get “all” of it, so none is being distributed here).

Ricketts, physician push back against COVID-19 vaccine ‘myths’ (Omaha World-Herald)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:47:16pm

re: #24 calochortus

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boredtechindenver  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:47:52pm

early 80s videos (before the realization that they could be more cinematic):

J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame

J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame

Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran

This was one of the first I remember with a storyline, ZZ Top - Legs

ZZ Top - Legs (Official Music Video)

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calochortus  Dec 21, 2020 • 9:48:01pm

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Thank you.

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:01:09pm

re: #27 boredtechindenver

early 80s videos (before the realization that they could be more cinematic):

J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame

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Video

Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

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Ah, “Legs,” or as my daughter misremembered the title years after seeing the video as a toddler, ” Shoes. “

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boredtechindenver  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:01:42pm

I don’t remember this video, but I am sure I saw it because I love the song and had the 12 inch single

Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling

Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:03:00pm

re: #22 calochortus

That’s a whole lot of stupid. Can we consider a college major for her other than “pre-med?” Also, what was an 18 year old doing going to another country to watch a 24 year old boyfriend do stuff? What were her parents thinking? (Yes, I know she’s an adult, but I’m guessing not a self-supporting independent adult.)

Did her parents even know that she was making the trip? Teenagers — even those who are legally adults — don’t have the best judgement or knowledge.

Though given the educated adults I know who voted for Trump and given the voters who returned Susan Collins to the Senate, a good portion of American adults don’t have particularly good judgement, regardless of age.

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:04:13pm

re: #29 A Three Hour Tour

Ah, “Legs,” or as my daughter misremembered the title years after seeing the video as a toddler, ” Shoes. “

I have a weak spot for the ZZ Top “hot rod” videos. Silly but fun in a weird way and Legs is probably the epitome of them.

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sagehen  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:06:40pm

re: #27 boredtechindenver

early 80s videos (before the realization that they could be more cinematic):

J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame

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Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible (Official Video)

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calochortus  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:06:53pm

re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter

Did her parents even know that she was making the trip? Teenagers — even those who are legally adults — don’t have the best judgement or knowledge.

Though given the educated adults I know who voted for Trump and given the voters who returned Susan Collins to the Senate, a good portion of American adults don’t have particularly good judgement, regardless of age.

It seems to me that if they didn’t know, they should have. Though I suppose she could have been attending college in person rather than doing it online from home and have had a credit card and a passport that would let her do that without telling anyone.

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calochortus  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:10:20pm

I think it is time to head off to bed.
Hasta mañana, all.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:13:09pm

Meanwhile, the state of Nebraska has politically-vetted the Panhandle’s Covid information and determined we are now at “high risk” of transmission (dropped from “severe”).

The municipalities which remain at “severe” are Mitchell (Scott’s Bluff County near the Wyoming line), Alliance (Box Butte County seat), Hyannis (Grant County seat), Bridgeport (Morrill County seat), and Chappell (Deuel County seat).

The same three towns have never had cases (Broadwater, Lisco, Llewellen).

Deaths: 104 (+9)
Cases: 7,300 (+25)
Most by age: 40-49, then 30-39
In hospital: 27
Positivity rate: 40.2%

Total cases in my county (Morrill): 409 (about 9% of the populace)
pphd.org

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:23:04pm

re: #37 Dr Lizardo

Three quintessential 1980s music vids:

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Video

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I liked Hungry but Rio remains my favorite moment for Duran Duran. Living in flyover it was a revelation.

Duran Duran - Rio (Official Music Video)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:23:30pm

The first Eighties “story video” I remember watching.

(4:03)

a-ha - Take On Me (Official Video)

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:30:18pm

re: #38 William Lewis

I chiefly remember being blown away by the cinematic production values of the time. They weren’t so much music videos as they were mini-movies.

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:32:36pm

re: #27 boredtechindenver

early 80s videos (before the realization that they could be more cinematic):

J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame

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Literally before they went ‘Hollywood’ on “Top Gun”

Berlin - The Metro

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:35:02pm

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

I chiefly remember being blown away by the cinematic production values of the time. They weren’t so much music videos as they were mini-movies.

Oh yeah. Dire Straits did that to me several times. Here’s another…

X - 4th of July

I love playing this with my amp cranked. There’s just something so hard rock to me about this song…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:35:19pm

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

I chiefly remember being blown away by the cinematic production values of the time. They weren’t so much music videos as they were mini-movies.

Then there’s the ultimate Eighties video (3:32)

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:37:34pm

re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Then there’s the ultimate Eighties video (3:32)

I know better than to follow THAT link :D

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:37:39pm

re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Then there’s the ultimate Eighties video (3:32)

Of course, I remember that one - it was in heavy rotation on MTV long before it became a meme/prank. I also remember being genuinely surprised at that booming voice from such a spry little leprechaun.

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:41:06pm

I was always listening to the “wrong” things back then.

X - Around My Heart

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:43:27pm

And another moment that pop radio missed… though it hit the top 10 somehow.

X See How We Are

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:45:36pm

re: #46 William Lewis

Don’t feel bad - so was I:

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast (Official Video)

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:48:11pm

re: #48 Dr Lizardo

Don’t feel bad - so was I:

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Amen.

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:53:39pm

X - Your Phone’s Off The Hook - Live 1980 Rare!

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2020 • 10:59:50pm

Here’s some ’80s for ya….

Plasmatics - Pier 62 - 1981 (Upgraded)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:12:54pm

Some more Eighties (4:18)

John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane

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Belafon  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:15:34pm

re: #34 calochortus

It seems to me that if they didn’t know, they should have. Though I suppose she could have been attending college in person rather than doing it online from home and have had a credit card and a passport that would let her do that without telling anyone.

One of the lessons of young adulthood is learning to ask for forgiveness instead of permission. She’s learning the hard way a consequence of that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:16:01pm

And my all-time favourite group, which my grandmother and mother banned when I was a teenager in the Seventies. (4:13, 1983)

Yes - Leave It (Official Music Video)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:17:03pm

re: #33 sagehen

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Video

I like their song about a tiny antelope. A dik-dik to love.

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:19:24pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Some more Eighties (4:18)

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I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him perform twice. I danced my ass off to the point where my wife really was shocked by it. She really didn’t get how deeply I got into his music. I’ll go with Small Town because it’s still how I think of him the most. I grew up on a farm just outside a smallish town in Wisconsin and it is how I think of myself.

John Mellencamp - Small Town (Live at Farm Aid 1987)

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:26:49pm

Off to fight the masses at the supermarket (and pay a couple bills)! Back later.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:27:06pm

More animation mixed with live-action (3:48, 1989)

Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract (Official Video)

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:27:54pm

Back to the 80’s :D

Jackson Browne - Somebody’s Baby (Fast Times At Ridgemont High) (1982)

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:28:34pm

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

More animation mixed with live-action (3:48, 1989)

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Hella dancer. Good reminder!

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HypnoToad  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:32:55pm

Conjunction closest approach! My best image considering the low elevation of the planets; I had to discard 80% of them due to seeing distortions. This image shows the planets in their correct orientation and relative size. Unfortunately the image in post #4 appears to be a ‘shop; Saturn seems too big and it’s rings are parallel to the plane of Jupiter’s moons unlike the real view.

11” refractor, 4,500mm f/l, 1/50 sec. exp. Titan is visible about two ring diameters to the left of Saturn.
This image approximates the unaided eye view. Several of the viewers I attracted in spite of this site’s gated access, called this the ‘Christmas star’. I picked the airport due to its low western horizon. (And my adjacent hangar)
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:34:39pm

re: #60 William Lewis

Hella dancer. Good reminder!

The first song my son learned to sing, which he just popped out while it was playing on the radio, was Paula Abdul’s “Blowin’ Kisses in the Wind.” (Not “Itsy Bitsy Spider” or other children’s songs.)

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:40:19pm

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The first song my son learned to sing, which he just popped out while it was playing on the radio, was Paula Abdul’s “Blowin’ Kisses in the Wind.” (Not “Itsy Bitsy Spider” or other children’s songs.)

< smiles > I think the first one John remembers is my using “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” as a lullaby. I knew the words and melody so it was an easy song to sing every night when I held him in the rocking chair. That and Springsteen…

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Badlands (Live In Barcelona)

Hard to imagine it as a lullaby isn’t it? Yet it was what I knew so I sang it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:42:54pm

re: #63 William Lewis

< smiles > I think the first one John remembers is my using “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” as a lullaby. I knew the words and melody so it was an easy song to sing every night when I held him in the rocking chair. That and Springsteen…

Hard to imagine it as a lullaby isn’t it? Yet it was what I knew so I sang it.

That’s a frickin’ dark lullaby. /s

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:45:35pm

re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s a frickin’ dark lullaby. /s

Ain’t it though? One other one I remember singing for him was the Atari’s verison of The Boy’s Of Summer. It’s not much better if you actually pay attention to the lyrics…

The Ataris - The Boys of Summer (Official Video)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:47:17pm

You kids and your newfangled music. I pretty much gave up on music when MTV became big.

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:51:08pm

The destruction of a video icon (1985, 4:26)

ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag (Official Music Video)

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:51:15pm

re: #66 Dread Pirate Ron

You kids and your newfangled music. I pretty much gave up on music when MTV became big.

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Video

Oh, I loved Pete too. Especially when he was perving on one of his friend’s teenaged daughters… (yeah, that’s what this song is all about :)

The Who - You Better You Bet (Promo Video)

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William Lewis  Dec 21, 2020 • 11:56:12pm

After commenting about using “Wreck” as a lullaby, I went looking for a good version of the song to post here.

Found this instead.

Some young’un hearing it for the first time.

Almost as hard as hearing it on the radio that first time back in the 70’s.

First listen to Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (REACTION)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 22, 2020 • 12:07:49am

re: #69 William Lewis

Click to Reveal

He mentions Chapin, I assume Cat’s in the Cradle. That’s a personal loss vs. the Edmund Fitzgerald which was sadness for others who lost loved ones. Cat’s in the Cradle bites because my father died of AIDS at 59, seven months after I got married. Coming up on 30 years. I’m 5 years older than he was and it freaks me out.

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2020 • 12:17:02am

re: #70 Dread Pirate Ron

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Ouch.

I have always hated “Cats” because it was such a harsh song. While my family was nowhere near that, I could feel it all too easily and it hurt to even listen to it. To this day, if I hear the song come on the radio, I will bitch slap anyone or anything in my way to get that turned off. I really hate the song that much.

Wreck is sad but it’s a community sadness. I can find a way to deal with that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 12:35:19am

re: #71 William Lewis

Ouch.

I have always hated “Cats” because it was such a harsh song. While my family was nowhere near that, I could feel it all too easily and it hurt to even listen to it. To this day, if I hear the song come on the radio, I will bitch slap anyone or anything in my way to get that turned off. I really hate the song that much.

Wreck is sad but it’s a community sadness. I can find a way to deal with that.

I like “Cats in the Cradle” but it doesn’t strike me with sadness. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” came out shortly after the ship went down with all hands in Lake Superior. While the national press didn’t seem to give it much coverage, those of us in Michigan were thunderstruck by the news.

It had been some time since a ship had been lost on any of the lakes. On Superior, the ship before the SS Edmund Fitzgerald which sank was before I was born.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 1:16:36am

re: #71 William Lewis

The song was parodied by Aaron Wilburn in 1999, with a racist theme. I’ll take the original Chapin version.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 1:22:45am

Country music singer-songwriter K.T. Oslin dies at 78 (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

K.T. Oslin, a country music singer and songwriter who came to fame with her anthem “80’s Ladies,” has died, according to a statement from the Country Music Association.

She was 78.

Oslin became the first woman to win the CMA Award for song of the year in 1988 for “80’s Ladies.”

(more)

(4:48)

K.T. Oslin - 80’s Ladies

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 1:30:02am

re: #61 HypnoToad

Conjunction closest approach! My best image considering the low elevation of the planets; I had to discard 80% of them due to seeing distortions. This image shows the planets in their correct orientation and relative size. Unfortunately the image in post #4 appears to be a ‘shop; Saturn seems too big and it’s rings are parallel to the plane of Jupiter’s moons unlike the real view.

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The lineup of the Galilean moons in the Australian shot does not agree with yours, either.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 1:34:44am

The truth in Black and white: An apology from The Kansas City Star (Goes to the Kansas City Star)

(with audio, 9:39)

Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.

For 140 years, it has been one of the most influential forces in shaping Kansas City and the region. And yet for much of its early history — through sins of both commission and omission — it disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians. It reinforced Jim Crow laws and redlining. Decade after early decade it robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition.

That business is The Kansas City Star.

Before I say more, I feel it to be my moral obligation to express what is in the hearts and minds of the leadership and staff of an organization that is nearly as old as the city it loves and covers:

We are sorry.

(more)

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 1:39:05am

An hour ago, while waking, this bubbled up from memory. I would have been 4 when it was released.

The New Ashmolean (Marching Society And Students Conservatory Band) (1949) - Johnny Mercer

If you’re analytical,
Sensitive, or critical,
You’ll like it more the farther back you stand …
But for me, it’s bully!
It satisfies me fully
When I hear the thunder, close at hand,
Of The New Ashmolean Marching Society
And Students’ Conservatory Band!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 1:56:23am

re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The truth in Black and white: An apology from The Kansas City Star (Goes to the Kansas City Star)

(with audio, 9:39)

(more)

I thought Citians was a misspelling until it was repeated numerous times. From Merriam-Webster:

Kansas Citian noun
: a native or resident of Kansas City

I learned something new.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 2:00:39am

re: #77 Decatur Deb

An hour ago, while waking, this bubbled up from memory. I would have been 4 when it was released.

Wow you’re old! /s

(My mother would have been nine when this was recorded.)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 2:05:10am

Awesome article.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 2:23:26am

re: #78 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I thought Citians was a misspelling until it was repeated numerous times. From Merriam-Webster:

I learned something new.

I asked my wife what she thought the demonym should be for a resident of Broadwater.

She suggested “Broad.”

I told her I didn’t think the men would like that much, so she said she’s going to try it out tomorrow on the proprietor of the general store and see what he thinks.

(We have to go to Scottsbluff and into the heart of the epidemic tomorrow. Wish us luck.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 3:12:31am

re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wholly crap, this al-Qanon account sends out crap every few minutes, including the shyte that Justice Amy Coney Barrett is Joe Biden’s deceased daughter.

This (these) asshole(s) need to be reported up by the Twitterati.

OWMO6S0PpeNK3WoxejGDum7GU3cw82MkENBQnzlyU9Eft6g0VcgFvBAfku5OB8HgIiZ24uYPrOhV017s2LZaMxYlkd69kqjkIwC9Le1NHa1D5eHErx9ZQ1RX+06u6UvOFmcRh4k1KFe7fveUheYZAKng+00jHXJWHpmx/oYwo9UUHxWb2ICYX/SKQMD/F2wNNWuHrLpwdd2ykPJixqJe8Q==

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 3:16:23am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 3:24:05am

From the Lincoln, Nebr. Journal-Star:

‘I might consider coming back again’: Chambers nears end of latest term

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 3:27:02am

Tuesday mornin’ meme! GTA regional differences…

[Sauce]
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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 3:38:27am

Sweden will begin vaccinating elderly in care homes on Dec 27 with a batch of 9750 doses, another 80,000 to come during the next week. Weekly batches of Pfizer/Biontech during Jan. [Official govt link]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 3:46:32am

Going down weird Internet rabbit holes before I go to bed.

About the English Gematria Calulator. The English Gematria Calculator is an online calculator for finding the value of a word or a phrase in gimatria, but not only, it also searches the database for more phrases and words that equals in the gematria value to the searched element.

E.g. Hello = Devil

It is numerology which assigns a number value to a word, which is then compared to other words with the same value.

You can search your name or any other phrase and the online gematria calculator will calculate the Gimatria value not only in English but also in Hebrew Gematria, Jewish Gematria and the Simple Gematria method. Searching by value will also work. You can check any number and see more parallel results for this number gematronic value. E.g. 100, 666, 312.

(more)

gematrix.org

So it turns out when I type my full name, it comes back with nothing. I do not match any other word or phrase.

I don’t know if I should be happy or sad about this. I guess you can’t equate me to the Antichrist or something.

“Donald John Trump” comes up with equivalences such as:

Jewish Gematria
The Soul Destroyer
The Pillar of Villanism
Host Body of the Dragon Satan
A Wasp Nest
You Are the Illuminati
Kill the Witches
How Long Oh Lord
(more, maybe there is something to Jewish numerology)

English Gematria
Amy Coney Barret (not sure about this since we’ve seen them in the same room)
Stock Market Crash
Rejected by His Own
Targeted Individual
US Dollar Collapse
The Truman Show
Enemy of the People
Alister Crowley (we haven’t seen both of them in the same room)
Impending Judgement
(more, maybe there really is something to this numerology thing /s)

gematrix.org

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 3:56:16am

re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ll post some of the lowlights from mine:

Jewish Gematria
Second Coming
Kamala Harris (!)
Emmanuel (!!!)
Ellen Degeneres (LOL)
Bible God Satan
Gods Son (Well, I’m also Emmanuel, I guess it’s confirmed)

English Gematria
Pope Francis
America First (haha nope)
Bill Clinton
Remdesivir
Michael Flynn
Its Jesus
King Of Kings (these last two are clearly confirming something)

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 3:57:39am

I dunno. I have a sneaking suspicion I might run into some difficulty if I take all of those gematria and try to convince Evangelicals that I’m the Second Coming of Jesus.///

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:03:25am

re: #90 thedopefishlives

I dunno. I have a sneaking suspicion I might run into some difficulty if I take all of those gematria and try to convince Evangelicals that I’m the Second Coming of Jesus.///

Don’t, they’d just treat you the same way they would the real carpenter’s lad if he’d pop by again, and nail you to a cross for insurrection…

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:05:18am

re: #91 Teukka

Don’t, they’d just treat you the same way they would the real carpenter’s lad if he’d pop by again, and nail you to a cross for insurrection…

And as barbaric as the modern right-wing nutters are, it might even be a literal cross.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:09:00am

This is fine, this is normal, very presidential, nothing to see here, move along.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:10:46am

re: #92 thedopefishlives

And as barbaric as the modern right-wing nutters are, it might even be a literal cross.

That, or torn to pieces by an angry mob.

Spoilered scene description due to trigger warning

Click to Reveal

J. Random Fundie coming to just in time to hear Jesus’ last breath, her/his hands covered in his blood, realizing what (s)he’s done.
Next follows a scene where in which Jesus resurrects (again), and the poor sods having to try to explain things away to an omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient deity…

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:12:01am

re: #94 Teukka

Your spoiler tags are broken, but the description therein is hauntingly accurate. Though my suspicion in recent years is more like:

Fl3t0ki7EyH4cwW/lw493PYGMqTL9ebIXYT/gR+GyRM4/6qrlRo/L+hnsZXJwwr82IwI25hcIuMxw6e4Dt0mwdfjdAuQD8/ZyDXlkUhn2kQxIQY10VYwwE7QfaxSm5jQELhbltr2a9li7OjlipaEiniHG0+X3GgFo5/sD1x8USoUtX1YXlzl4jUh5rvf0KVra0+xuvq227kzwTn8tU8Az1LvJk/DVZ4feOVie6uqaxWmTScPB9i2LjR/O1r8uh0yVukeC9AO+Uk=

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:14:04am

re: #95 thedopefishlives

Your spoiler tags are broken, but the description therein is hauntingly accurate.

Noticed it right after I posted. FIXD. And yeah, that would be the brief synopsis of events…

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:15:06am

re: #94 Teukka

And what follows that would look a whole like the final scene of Drag Me To Hell.

Drag Me To Hell Movie Ending Scene

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:16:45am

re: #89 thedopefishlives

Maybe someone should inform Ellen DeGeneres and Kamala Harris they are both really you.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:20:09am

re: #97 Dr Lizardo

And what follows that would look a whole like the final scene of Drag Me To Hell.

[Embedded content]

Video

I’m preferential to what happens to the bad guys in “Ghost”…

Ghost (1990) Dark shadow screams

(Bonus part is what the sound is when sped up (sorta comic relief))

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:23:47am

re: #99 Teukka

Huh, whaddaya know? I never realized that’s how they accomplished that sound effect. Pretty slick and ingenious in its simplicity.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:24:31am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Maybe someone should inform Ellen DeGeneres and Kamala Harris they are both really you.

Does this mean I can request a Secret Service security detail now?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:27:09am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Maybe someone should inform Ellen DeGeneres and Kamala Harris they are both really you.

I mean, you could be. Have we ever seen any of you together?

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:28:09am

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I mean, you could be. Have we ever seen any of you together?

Someone needs to tell David Icke, he will positively flip his lid when he learns that lizard people really are running the world.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:30:18am

re: #100 Dr Lizardo

Huh, whaddaya know? I never realized that’s how they accomplished that sound effect. Pretty slick and ingenious in its simplicity.

Not the first time it has been done for both audio special effects and even soundtracks…

How the Terminator 2 music was made

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:43:28am

re: #93 thedopefishlives

Pathetic.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:45:41am

re: #105 Patricia Kayden

Pathetic.

He chooses only the best people, you know.

Honestly, it’s embarrassing. Like, Mrs. Fish and I want to travel (once COVID is no longer a barrier), but even if there wasn’t a pandemic, I wouldn’t want to show my face in any foreign country as an American. I’d, like, pretend to be Canadian and hope they didn’t ask for a passport or something.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:49:49am

re: #106 thedopefishlives

He chooses only the best people, you know.

Honestly, it’s embarrassing. Like, Mrs. Fish and I want to travel (once COVID is no longer a barrier), but even if there wasn’t a pandemic, I wouldn’t want to show my face in any foreign country as an American. I’d, like, pretend to be Canadian and hope they didn’t ask for a passport or something.

No kidding.

Although people around here accuse me of having a Canadian accent (probably because I grew up in proximity to the border with Ontario), I don’t think I could fool a Canadian.

Perhaps if I go to Uruguay.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:51:06am

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

No kidding.

Although people around here accuse me of having a Canadian accent (probably because I grew up in proximity to the border with Ontario), I don’t think I could fool a Canadian.

Perhaps if I go to Uruguay.

Mrs. Fish could probably do a convincing impression, born and raised the daughter of life-long Minnesotans. I, on the other hand, have too much of the neutral-Southern mixed accent that is unique to the central Indiana region of my own roots. I definitely sound like an American.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 22, 2020 • 4:56:30am

re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The first Eighties “story video” I remember watching.

And still one of the best music videos ever.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 5:02:09am

The most Republican of the Republicans, everybody:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 22, 2020 • 5:08:26am

I’m off to bed. Leaving with this from the Seattle Times.

Power of the ‘Nones’ in a growing religious gap, or why sex ed passed so easily

In short, the state legislature passed a bill signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee (D) for comprehensive sex education, including contraception, how to identify predators, date rape, respect for each other, &c.

Predictably, Republicans and churches went wild. They sponsored a petition for the Nov. 3 ballot to repeal the law. That referendum went down in flaming defeat. It wasn’t even close, making Washington the first state to approve sex ed by voter referendum.

In surveys of state voters released for the 2020 election, the group answering “none” to the question of “what is your religion?” easily forms the largest religious group in this state. The “Nones” made up 34% of the state electorate this year, according to the Votercast survey of 110,000 voters by AP and other news organizations in all 50 states (including about 2,400 here).

That’s far higher than evangelical and born-again Christians at 19%, or Catholics at 14%. It’s quite different here than nationally, where both Protestants and Catholics outnumber the Nones.

Also 45% of Washington voters answered “never” when asked how often they go to church.

The campaign to repeal the sex ed law was energized by churches and anti-abortion groups, and backed by the Washington State Catholic Conference.

“It’s not for nothing that two-thirds of the signatures on the Parents For Safe Schools petition came from church sites,” the conservative magazine National Review noted. “Christianity has its own theology of sexuality and the body that has been thought-through and developed over the course of two thousand years.”

(more)

In more progressive states, it’s becoming a non-starter for politicians to ignore “nones” (yet both parties do).

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2020 • 5:18:21am

I’d say the Chili con Carne turned out well.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 5:22:56am
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A Mom Anon  Dec 22, 2020 • 5:25:33am

Business Insider has a headline on my news app that’s cracking me up. “Wealthy Americans are getting ready to flee the US, add new passports.” I can’t read the article because it’s behind a paywall with Apple News, but my first response to the headline?

Need help packing? Are you planning on coming back? No hurry, please go the fuck on.

Not nice I know, but we’re in this shitshow because of rich assholes. Besides, how can we miss them if they won’t go away?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 5:32:27am

Government’s gone wild worldwide.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 5:43:10am

Good.

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jeffreyw  Dec 22, 2020 • 5:46:52am

Good morning!

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:04:28am

re: #116 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

These people are incredibly slow.

We could have told him this literally on election night.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:04:55am
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🌹UOJB!  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:10:50am

re: #119 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

But what could be more American than lying, cheating and stealing your way to the top?

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Thanos  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:11:29am

Since we are doing shipwreck ballads, here is one of the best.

Ballad of Yarmouth Castle- Gordon Lightfoot

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:23:43am

We’re under a winter storm watch now; the forecast has increased to 3.5” of snow tomorrow, with a bitter low of -3 degrees F (-19.4 degrees C) and a high the following day of only 4 degrees F (-15.6 degrees C). That really cold low temperature is going to make the ice and snow a LOT of fun to deal with, I can assure you.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:25:37am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:27:52am

re: #9 William Lewis

Hah! I’d pay real money at a theater to see this by an appropriately snarky writer & director…

Me too. Though I’d have the time to death cut to 20 minutes.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:30:45am

re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was into new wave electro-pop in the 80’s. Big hair, too much makeup,this is very 80’s.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:31:35am

re: #125 Colère Tueur de Lapin

I was into new wave electro-pop in the 80’s. Big hair, too much makeup,this is very 80’s.

Dance With The Dead - Only A Dream (Miami Vice 1984–1990 Tribute)

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:32:29am

For 8 years the teabagging extremists were screeching that President Obama was going to use the military to install himself as a life-long authoritarian. Well, here we are today.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:33:18am

re: #127 Dr. Matt

For 8 years the teabagging extremists were screeching that President Obama was going to use the military to install himself as a life-long authoritarian. Well, here we are today.

IOKIYAR.

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:33:48am

Early 80’s pop masterpieces:

The Clash - Rock the Casbah

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:34:03am

re: #128 thedopefishlives

IOKIYAR.

IOKIYAAF.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:39:02am

This thread. 🔥

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:43:44am

GOP in disarray. Trumpworld in chaos (same as always).

Trump’s sycophantic suckups are still feeding Trump’s insane and illicit attempt to steal the election and engage in felony conduct. So he’s brought in the handful of toadys from Congress who totally buy into Trump’s bulkshit to feed his ego.

That’s even as a bunch of others are trying to get Trump to just give up the ghost and exit stage right.

Meanwhile, Trump’s threatening to veto the stimulus/budget deal. That’s despite sufficient votes for an override. But even there, GOPers like Paul are going to try and fuck things up and kill the stimulus/budget by delaying actions so that the lame duck Congress can’t override - meaning that the bill dies with no action after January 3.

That’s right - the GOP are still intent on trying to fuck things up badly.

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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:43:59am

re: #89 thedopefishlives

Posted about this earlier this year, lots of fun with results.
In English Gematria, my full name gives:
“Michael the Archangel” (Not that surprising, similar names)
“Quetzalcoatl” (Say what?)
“Benjamin Franklin” (Kinda works, we both messed around with lightning)
“It’s God, Kill Eric” (“Um, God, which one? I know so many!”/)
The Illuminati (Dun dun duun!)
Kayleigh Mcenany (DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUN!!! *Screams*)

In Jewish Gematria, it gives:
“American Citizen” (spot on)
“A Lot Can Happen in One Second of Time” (no arguments there)
Cessation of Hostilities (I do tend to have that effect)
No Money After Death (Damn it, how am I gonna tip the ferryman at the river Styx?)
“Yes Gods, Human.” (um… who am I confirming this to?)
“Do Not Alter My DNA.” (A disturbing but reasonable request)
“Leave Earth.” (“Hi, is this NASA? I need to borrow a shuttle for 48 hrs…”)

I’m gonna try and make a sc-ifi story out of those last three (“Confronted with troubling visions of divinity, one of the last humans on Earth must embark on a harrowing journey across the stars…”)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:45:53am
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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:47:56am

re: #130 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

IOKIYAAF.

Not sure what this one means, but I have zero doubt it’s correct.

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mmmirele  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:48:35am

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m just going to point out that the two thousand year old “theology of the body” that the National Review talks about includes the following:

* the theology was written by men who were obstensibly supposed to be celibate but who had relationships outside of marriage but we’re not supposed to pay attention.
* consent is optional and not necessary (i.e., marital rape is OK because you all said “I do.”)
* female bodies are always owned by male bodies, *always*.
* there are separate roles for male bodies and female bodies
* female bodies are supposed to get pregnant and remain pregnant as much as possible, because that’s our role
* there’s no acknowledgment that not everyone falls into the male body/female body paradigm.
* and so on. I didn’t even get into sexual minorities, for example.

I could go on and on and on, but I’d just point out that this is what happen when you have a bunch of guys who are being paid to examine their theological belly button lint and make rules for everyone else. Jesus never said anything about this. Hell, Paul has his issues, but he didn’t go nuts like this. Ultimately, all of this hot garbage is to justify the status quo.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:48:51am

re: #129 Florida Panhandler

Early 80’s pop masterpieces:

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Video

[Embedded content]

I love The Clash. London Calling is one of my favorite albums of all time. I wish I got to see them live.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:49:42am

re: #135 thedopefishlives

Not sure what this one means, but I have zero doubt it’s correct.

I assumed AF stood for “a fucker”.

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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:50:38am

re: #135 thedopefishlives

Not sure what this one means, but I have zero doubt it’s correct.

I’ve seen that before as “It’s OK If You Are A Federalist”.

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:50:59am

re: #131 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This thread. 🔥

[Embedded content]

RP is quite right, of course - though he closes with what I am sure is a rhetorical question [re Ross Douthat]:

How wrong can you be and still have a job? Like how fucking wrong?

When it comes to the New York Times’ Opinion section, there is no bottom to that pit…..

PS: RTWT

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 6:53:02am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:00:27am

re: #135 thedopefishlives

Not sure what this one means, but I have zero doubt it’s correct.

It’s ok if you’re a fascist.

Shudda been IOKIYAAFFR. It’s ok if you’re a fucking fascist REPUBLICAN.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:01:32am

re: #142 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I first interpreted it as “It’s okay if you’re all out of fucks” but then I realized there was no O in the acronym.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:02:03am

re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:02:26am

re: #143 Eclectic Cyborg

I first interpreted it as “It’s okay if you’re all out of fucks” but then I realized there was no O in the acronym.

They all work.

But don’t call them Fuckers. Fuckers.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:03:48am

Hi! My granddaughter (14) made this cake for her little sister’s birthday.

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:04:02am

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Christianity has its own theology of sexuality and the body that has been thought-through and developed over the course of two thousand years.”

To catastrophic effect.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:04:07am

re: #146 The Pie Overlord!

Hi! My granddaughter (14) made this cake for her little sister’s birthday.

[Embedded content]

That’s very impressive.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:04:26am

re: #65 William Lewis

Ain’t it though? One other one I remember singing for him was the Atari’s verison of The Boy’s Of Summer. It’s not much better if you actually pay attention to the lyrics…

Ataris’ version leaves off the killer three-note guitar solo at the end.

To me, that solo meant that he was going to either get the girl back or get over her and find a better girlfriend.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:04:27am

re: #146 The Pie Overlord!

Hi! My granddaughter (14) made this cake for her little sister’s birthday.

[Embedded content]

That’s beautiful! Well done!!

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:05:18am

Does anyone know if there’s a place to donate the $600 to help someone who actually needs it?

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:07:26am

We’re on MSNBC, and they mentioned that this new, more transmissable strain, has actually been around since September.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:07:39am

re: #151 Belafon

Does anyone know if there’s a place to donate the $600 to help someone who actually needs it?

I keep reading that if you talk with your friends and family, you’ll likely find someone close to home that probably needs help desperately. Direct help is the most helpful.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:07:48am

re: #19 sagehen

“A mistake”.

Risking a bunch of other people’s lives, putting an entire nation at risk (a nation with not a lot of hospital beds and/or staff) because SHE HAD A DATE.

Fuck you, young mini-Karen. Fuck you twice. You’re lucky it was only 4 months.

Just like Jenna Ellis

No personal responsibility at all

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:08:22am

re: #146 The Pie Overlord!

Hi! My granddaughter (14) made this cake for her little sister’s birthday.

[Embedded content]

Wow. Girl has got skills. :)

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:08:29am

re: #150 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s beautiful! Well done!!

I paid $40 for her mother (my middle daughter) to take a cake decorating class at a local craft store, and additional money (don’t remember how much) for a cake decorating kit with many many pieces.

She made exactly ONE CAKE after completing the class, which was very nice & also delicious! but never went near it again.

I am glad that she kept the kit because now her daughter gets the use out of it, and also she has never taken a cake decorating class, just watched videos on the Internet.

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:08:38am

re: #119 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Fifty-eight cadets admitted cheating on the exam, which was administered remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of them have been enrolled in a rehabilitation program and will be on probation for the remainder of their time at the academy.

WTAF?

Dishonorable discharge, surely?

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:08:59am

re: #154 Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don’t play one on TV

Just like Jenna Ellis

No personal responsibility at all

Americans, taken as an aggregate, are the most ignorant and self-centered people. While there are plenty of us who do care and are respectful, Texas is just too big of a place for the rest of us to overcome.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:09:07am

re: #151 Belafon

Does anyone know if there’s a place to donate the $600 to help someone who actually needs it?

SDNY Prosecutors funding for investigating Trump? *whistles innocently*

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:10:10am

re: #119 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We made a deliberate decision to uphold our academic standards during the pandemic.

— Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, the academy’s superintendent

At what point was that even a question?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:11:02am

re: #19 sagehen

“A mistake”.

Risking a bunch of other people’s lives, putting an entire nation at risk (a nation with not a lot of hospital beds and/or staff) because SHE HAD A DATE.

Fuck you, young mini-Karen. Fuck you twice. You’re lucky it was only 4 months.

I wonder if the fact Covid restrictions aren’t really enforced in this country for the most part led this young lady to believe it really wasn’t a big deal if she broke the rules elsewhere too?

Regardless, sometimes the ONLY way people learn actions have consequences is by suffering said consequences. No sympathy here. You can survive four fucking months in jail, sweetheart.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:11:37am

re: #157 John Hughes

WTAF?

Dishonorable discharge, surely?

This would be a really good time to reinforce the quaint notions in the Honor Code. The survival of democracy seems to be depending on it.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:12:20am

re: #153 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I keep reading that if you talk with your friends and family, you’ll likely find someone close to home that probably needs help desperately. Direct help is the most helpful.

I’m an introvert, and I’m not part of any large group like a church, so that group is pretty small and none of them need it.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:12:39am

re: #161 Eclectic Cyborg

A standard part of international travel is knowing what to do (and more specifically, what NOT to do) while in your country of destination. Traveling in a pandemic is no different. If you can’t plan ahead to accommodate a 14-day quarantine period, that’s your own damn fault and not the problem of the country which is going to throw you in jail for being a short-sighted dumbass.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:12:51am

re: #157 John Hughes

WTAF?

Dishonorable discharge, surely?

Make them serve out the rest of their seven-year term as enlisted men.

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:12:57am

re: #119 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Army Col. Mark Weathers, West Point’s chief of staff, said in an interview Monday that he was “disappointed” in the cadets for cheating, but he did not consider the incident a serious breach of the code

The “code” being:

“A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”

Ok, they have an out, it says “A cadet will not … tolerate those who do”.

Apparently it’s ok if the chief of staff tolerates those who cheat, after all he’s no longer a cadet.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:13:11am

re: #151 Belafon

Does anyone know if there’s a place to donate the $600 to help someone who actually needs it?

Designate $50 per person to 12 different people (or however you’d like to work the math), then reach out on Twitter DM to Yashar Ali. He can easily point you to some people you can help by donating to them directly.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:14:35am

re: #164 thedopefishlives

A standard part of international travel is knowing what to do (and more specifically, what NOT to do) while in your country of destination. Traveling in a pandemic is no different. If you can’t plan ahead to accommodate a 14-day quarantine period, that’s your own damn fault and not the problem of the country which is going to throw you in jail for being a short-sighted dumbass.

Of course, but surely you’re aware of the disrespectful American Traveler stereotype. Some people in this country just don’t travel well for some reason.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:16:05am

re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg

Of course, but surely you’re aware of the disrespectful American Traveler stereotype. Some people in this country just don’t travel well for some reason.

Because a lot of them don’t know how - parents, friends never traveled. That was me, once upon a time. By the time I took my first international trip in 2008, though, at least I’d managed to correct that oversight. I still made the mistake of renting a car, but to be fair, this was before the wide prevalence of Uber/Lyft/etc. (which still aren’t viable options in some locales; it’s not a thing in Rome, for example, where apparently the Mafia still run the taxi industry.)

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:17:13am

re: #133 (((Archangel1)))

“Benjamin Franklin” (Kinda works, we both messed around with lightning)

Yeah, but the famous treatise on farting?

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:17:37am

re: #119 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m thinking we need to find out what Mark Weathers did to get through school.

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:18:06am

re: #133 (((Archangel1)))

“It’s God, Kill Eric” (“Um, God, which one? I know so many!”/)

It is not thy place to question the will of God. Kill them all.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:18:26am

re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg

Meanwhile, Americans are traveling to Mexico in significant numbers to vacation in places like Riviera Maya and Cancun because they can’t go to Europe or Asia.

So it’s entirely fucking predictable that covid19 cases are exploding in that part of Mexico.

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:19:13am

re: #146 The Pie Overlord!

Hi! My granddaughter (14) made this cake for her little sister’s birthday.

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WOW!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:20:14am
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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:21:22am

re: #173 lawhawk

Meanwhile, Americans are traveling to Mexico in significant numbers to vacation in places like Riviera Maya and Cancun because they can’t go to Europe or Asia.

So it’s entirely fucking predictable that covid19 cases are exploding in that part of Mexico.

We aren’t sending them our best people.

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:21:32am

re: #136 mmmirele

the theology was written by men who were obstensibly supposed to be celibate

Well, no, not if we’re talking about 2000 years. Priestly celibacy is less than 1000 years old.

The practice of priestly celibacy began to spread in the Western Church in the early Middle Ages. … The Church was a thousand years old before it definitively took a stand in favor of celibacy in the twelfth century at the Second Lateran Council held in 1139, when a rule was approved forbidding priests to marry.

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Renaissance_Man  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:21:55am

re: #161 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if the fact Covid restrictions aren’t really enforced in this country for the most part led this young lady to believe it really wasn’t a big deal if she broke the rules elsewhere too?

Regardless, sometimes the ONLY way people learn actions have consequences is by suffering said consequences. No sympathy here. You can survive four fucking months in jail, sweetheart.

As an attractive young white girl in the US, she has never actually had any public constraints on her activities or any consequences thereof. It is only natural that she would think that rules don’t apply and there would be no consequences.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:23:17am

re: #118 thedopefishlives

These people are incredibly slow.

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We could have told him this literally on election night.

…in 2016

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:25:35am

re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Make them serve out the rest of their seven-year term as enlisted men.

No.

That is not a punishment. Enlisted man is an honorable position. Cheating and lying should get an enlisted man discharged as surely as an officer.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:27:48am

re: #180 John Hughes

No.

That is not a punishment. Enlisted man is an honorable position. Cheating and lying should get an enlisted man discharged as surely as an officer.

Let them serve seven years as a private and then get a dishonorable discharge…

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:28:18am

re: #180 John Hughes

No.

That is not a punishment. Enlisted man is an honorable position. Cheating and lying should get an enlisted man discharged as surely as an officer.

And resentful enlisted men would suck for the rest of them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:29:22am

re: #178 Renaissance_Man

As an attractive young white girl in the US, she has never actually had any public constraints on her activities or any consequences thereof. It is only natural that she would think that rules don’t apply and there would be no consequences.

I see no overriding humanitarian or political concerns or mitigating circumstances in ignoring laws on quarantining in this young woman’s case.

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A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:29:44am

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:29:47am

re: #117 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:31:02am

re: #180 John Hughes

No.

That is not a punishment. Enlisted man is an honorable position. Cheating and lying should get an enlisted man discharged as surely as an officer.

I concur as a former enlisted sailor. Those “cadets” have no business leading troops let along wearing the uniform. Dismiss them. End of story. They should have lost the trust of their leaders.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:31:05am

re: #51 Dr Lizardo

Here’s some ’80s for ya….

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Video

Saw them in the early 80’s at Univ. of Houston. Quite a different show.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:31:23am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I see no overriding humanitarian or political concerns or mitigating circumstances in ignoring laws on quarantining in this young woman’s case.

Her prison biography will make an Oscar-worthy script.

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:32:44am

re: #188 Decatur Deb

Her prison biography will make an Oscar-worthy script.

Oscar the Grouch?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:32:48am

re: #188 Decatur Deb

Her prison biography will make an Oscar-worthy script.

Naranja es el nuevo negro

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:34:15am

re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Naranja es el nuevo negro

I Want To Lyft

imdb.com
edited for improvement

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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:36:50am

re: #185 wrenchwench

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Sometimes one simply must retweet.

Birbs.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:37:25am

Dudes build the world’s first retractable plasma lightsaber

4000° PLASMA PROTO-LIGHTSABER BUILD (RETRACTABLE BLADE!)

Nerd and cool factors at 10.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:42:57am

Accessories. Complicit. Corrupt. Accomplices. Coconspirators.

Those are the words that need to identify every last motherfucking one of the Trumpists who aided and abetted Trump’s interfering in state election counts in an effort to steal the election.

Had this been any other country on the planet, the US under any other admin would be calling on that country’s officials to arrest and charge Trump with election interference and uphold the election laws of the country.

Trump’s acting like a foreign agent and saboteur in his effort to destroy the rule of law. GOPers remain sycophantic suckups enabling his misconduct. That a number of them are getting cold feet is irrelevant. They enabled his misconduct to this point. They’re accomplices to the interference until the meeting where they think Trump’s gone too far.

Too far was contesting an election that wasn’t close.
Too far was bullying GA and other state officials to disenfranchise millions of voters.
Too far was lodging 60+ suits against the election outcome with zero evidence but a shitton of conspiracy theories.
Too far was all of those steps. Throughout that period, those fuckers: McConnell, Christie, etc., were willing to go along with Trump.

All of them are responsible for wrecking the nation and the rule of law. None should be let off the hook. None. Hold them accountable.

If Trump’s attempted to interfere in 31 state election counts, that’s 31 jurisdictions that have standing and capacity to prosecute Trump for malfeasance. 31 separate jurisdictions that can go after Trump and his sycophantic suckups for conspiracy to interfere in the election.

Not all of them will, because more than a few are GOP strongholds, and they’ll protect their own even when engaging in felony conduct. But other states should prosecute the shit out of Trumpworld.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:44:41am

re: #156 The Pie Overlord!

I paid $40 for her mother (my middle daughter) to take a cake decorating class at a local craft store, and additional money (don’t remember how much) for a cake decorating kit with many many pieces.

She made exactly ONE CAKE after completing the class, which was very nice & also delicious! but never went near it again.

I am glad that she kept the kit because now her daughter gets the use out of it, and also she has never taken a cake decorating class, just watched videos on the Internet.

Stunning! I think we’ll see her on some Holiday Baking Challenge in the future.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:45:59am

re: #157 John Hughes

WTAF?

Dishonorable discharge, surely?

I don’t think so. Apparently, integrity went out the window when trump came in.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:46:14am

re: #194 lawhawk

The Dream Team.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:48:28am

re: #197 jaunte

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The Dream Team.

Elite Strike Force.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:48:35am

re: #158 thedopefishlives

Americans, taken as an aggregate, are the most ignorant and self-centered people. While there are plenty of us who do care and are respectful, Texas is just too big of a place for the rest of us to overcome.

If it was only Texas.

It’s not.

The wholesale scam of rugged individualism has started the nation of empathy, compassion and the ability to think critically. Want proof? Think loving medical bankruptcy.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:49:23am

re: #199 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If it was only Texas.

It’s not.

The wholesale scam of rugged individualism has started the nation of empathy, compassion and the ability to think critically. Want proof? Think loving medical bankruptcy.

No, I know. I was just using Texas to try to get a laugh. Assholes are everywhere.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:51:23am

re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And my all-time favourite group, which my grandmother and mother banned when I was a teenager in the Seventies. (4:13, 1983)

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IIRC, MTV had like 12 different versions of that video. They played a different one each day, with the final one having all the weird effects.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:52:49am

He’s still at it.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:52:55am
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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:53:15am

re: #127 Dr. Matt

For 8 years the teabagging extremists were screeching that President Obama was going to use the military to install himself as a life-long authoritarian. Well, here we are today.

All projection, all the time.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:53:33am

re: #203 jaunte

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A large percentage of Americans are brainwashed Republican cultists, Ron. Your conclusion is invalid.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:54:22am

re: #205 thedopefishlives

Pounding the table hasn’t worked in court, so he’ll take it outside.

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:54:40am

re: #117 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

Too far to see the naked ladies…
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:55:18am

I see the MAGA nuts are going all “America First” on twitter this morning.

It’s pretty obvious that the lot of them are suffering some great delusion combined with just a mean spirit.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:57:33am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2020 • 7:57:48am

re: #199 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If it was only Texas.

It’s not.

The wholesale scam of rugged individualism has started the nation of empathy, compassion and the ability to think critically. Want proof? Think loving medical bankruptcy.

“Rugged individualism” means that individuals and families with limited assets and income are free to negotiate one-on-one with multi-billion-dollar international corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage and financial services.

What could be more ruggedly individual than refusing outright to sacrifice our (limited) bargaining options in exchange for the benefits of joining a union or consumer association?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:04:27am

re: #138 Belafon

I assumed AF stood for “a fucker”.

That’s what I thought, but fucker and federalist (of the paper) are pretty much the same.

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:09:46am

re: #161 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if the fact Covid restrictions aren’t really enforced in this country for the most part led this young lady to believe it really wasn’t a big deal if she broke the rules elsewhere too?

Regardless, sometimes the ONLY way people learn actions have consequences is by suffering said consequences. No sympathy here. You can survive four fucking months in jail, sweetheart.

She deserves the jail time, but I attribute this mostly to her being 18ish. Sure, the fact that lots of places don’t enforce the rules may have contributed (I wouldn’t know, I’ve never seen anyone breaking them except a few of our chronic homeless, who are frequently undiagnosed psychotics.), but when I was that age, we broke plenty of rules without much appreciation of the consequences.

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:11:30am

re: #163 Belafon

I’m an introvert, and I’m not part of any large group like a church, so that group is pretty small and none of them need it.

Find a food bank. Or maybe some business you patronize is struggling..

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:11:47am

re: #131 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This thread. 🔥

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Some of the foreign policy speculation is not that far off, as is the assertion that “Trump has total control of the G.O.P. (Ryan having slipped into retirement)”. But the most amazing statement was that a retiring Clarence Thomas was replaced by Ted Cruz. In what world would the only black on SCOTUS be replaced by a white man? This speaks volumes about Douthat’s clear racial insensitivities or is it outright racism?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:14:55am

The MAGA not-so-cryptic bigots are really pumped up this morning over “America First”:

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:16:18am

re: #213 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Find a food bank. Or maybe some business you patronize is struggling..

Thanks. My last choice in this case will be a food bank, since I donate to our local one already. I’m hoping in this case to get it to someone that needs money. I’ll probably see if Yashar Ali does an updated Twitter thread on people who need help.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:20:50am

re: #213 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Find a food bank. Or maybe some business you patronize is struggling..

It’s not easy anywhere. Shit, I need new glasses (that’s not covered by health insurance over here), mine are 4 years old right now. But even a cheap pair of glasses (around $150 here, which isn’t too bad all things considered)….LOL might as well be me contemplating buying a Bugatti. 😂

Thankfully I got at least online teaching as a side hustle so I don’t starve.

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austin_blue  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:22:36am

“Death of a Horse, But Not Furlong”

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:23:03am

Matt Gaetz trending on Twitter…and I’m blaming that on last night’s Jupiter/Saturn conjunction…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:23:49am

re: #179 Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don’t play one on TV

…in 2016

That was my original interpretation.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:24:14am

re: #219 🌹UOJB!

Matt Gaetz trending on Twitter…and I’m blaming that on last night’s Jupiter/Saturn conjunction…

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:24:18am

re: #218 austin_blue

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“Death of a Horse, But Not Furlong”

” The Story Of A Stable Relationship “

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A Mom Anon  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:25:21am

re: #195 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Or her own bakery. She can call it Overlord’s. Or Babushka’s. It looks like she inherited her grandma’s talent and love of baking.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:25:27am

re: #219 🌹UOJB!

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:27:22am

re: #208 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I see the MAGA nuts are going all “America First” on twitter this morning.

It’s pretty obvious that the lot of them are suffering some great delusion combined with just a mean spirit.

America First when their President refuses to acknowledge Russia’s hacking into the computer systems and databases of major American federal agencies. That America First?

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:29:24am

re: #225 Patricia Kayden

America First when their President refuses to acknowledge Russia’s hacking into the computer systems and databases of major American federal agencies. That America First?

America First. Russia Zeroth.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:31:43am

re: #222 Jay C

” The Story Of A Stable Relationship “

My Farrier Lady

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:33:25am

re: #218 austin_blue

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“Death of a Horse, But Not Furlong”

Necroprancer will be my Brony name.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:33:29am

re: #224 lawhawk
Wasn’t there a ruling that employers can mandate a vaccine in order to stay employed? If so, fire his ass, or refuse to allow him in any public building in DC. Though my money is on he’s a lying sack of shit and has already been vaccinated.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:35:17am

re: #229 A Mom Anon

Wasn’t there a ruling that employers can mandate a vaccine in order to stay employed? If so, fire his ass, or refuse to allow him in any public building in DC. Though my money is on he’s a lying sack of shit and has already been vaccinated.

Ditto for Trump

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:36:15am

re: #229 A Mom Anon

Wasn’t there a ruling that employers can mandate a vaccine in order to stay employed? If so, fire his ass, or refuse to allow him in any public building in DC. Though my money is on he’s a lying sack of shit and has already been vaccinated.

I’d rather that he not get seated due to being a seditionist fucker.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:42:15am
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:42:47am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:45:40am

re: #231 lawhawk

I’d rather that he not get seated due to being a seditionist fucker.

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Doesn’t that mean he should object to electors from Florida? After all, the GOP maliciously disenfranchised felons who had voting rights restored, only to see them eliminated through a poll tax.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:46:44am

re: #233 The Pie Overlord!

It’s like in the movies when a character makes an unprompted statement of having NOT done some very specific thing…

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:53:30am

re: #233 The Pie Overlord!

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No pardon is going to save Screwdy’s ass!

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:53:46am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:55:48am

They’re going down hard. It is too late for the walk-backs to do anything but mitigate the damage to major outlets. Conspira-liars like Sydney Krackenpot are going to see all their hard earned Rubles and lepertarian crypto-bucks vanish in a tsunami of legal judgements.

The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media

Voting machine companies threaten “highly dangerous” cases against Fox, Newsmax and OAN, says Floyd Abrams.

Last week, a lawyer for Antonio Mugica sent scathing letters to Fox, Newsmax and OAN demanding that they immediately, forcefully clear his company’s name.
Last week, a lawyer for Antonio Mugica sent scathing letters to Fox, Newsmax and OAN demanding that they immediately, forcefully clear his company’s name.
By Ben Smith

Antonio Mugica was in Boca Raton when an American presidential election really melted down in 2000, and he watched with shocked fascination as local government officials argued over hanging chads and butterfly ballots.

It was so bad, so incompetent, that Mr. Mugica, a young Venezuelan software engineer, decided to shift the focus of his digital security company, Smartmatic, which had been working for banks. It would offer its services to what would obviously be a growth industry: electronic voting machines. He began building a global company that ultimately provided voting machinery and software for elections from Brazil to Belgium and his native Venezuela. He even acquired an American company, then called Sequoia.

Last month, Mr. Mugica initially took it in stride when his company’s name started popping up in grief-addled Trump supporters’ wild conspiracy theories about the election.

Mugica’s lawyer is J. Erik Connolly, who won a $177 million settlement for a beef producer whose “lean finely textured beef” was described by ABC News as “pink slime.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:56:42am

re: #237 jaunte

But if Giuliani accepts a pardon, he’s admitting to a crime. Wouldn’t that give NY State potentially more ammo to go after him?

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:59:27am

re: #233 The Pie Overlord!

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2020 • 8:59:29am

“But Trumporrhoids are just regular folks like you and me!”

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:01:03am
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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:01:04am

re: #241 The Pie Overlord!

“But Trumporrhoids are just regular folks like you and me!”

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And another Trumphorroid is promising genocide on democrats…

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:01:40am

re: #241 The Pie Overlord!

“But Trumporrhoids are just regular folks like you and me!”

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Caesar Sayoc’s brother?

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:02:10am

re: #241 The Pie Overlord!

“But Trumporrhoids are just regular folks like you and me!”

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Whoever said we need to extend an olive branch to these people needs to get bent. I don’t negotiate with terrorists.

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Mattand  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:02:17am

My best friend’s son, all of 19, has gone full MAGAt wingnut. Kind of a Family Matters thing situation: both parents are left-leaning (my bud’s a Quaker, nominally); kid goes away to college and “figures” everything out, politically.

It’s been pretty tense when politics come up, particular between Mom and son (Mom isn’t patient with bullshit in general, and not particularly from someone whose diapers she changed when he was a baby.)

At one point, my bud told Son to stop and look at what Trump’s flunkies say when he inevitably casts them aside. These are people who willingly signed up for that ride, and yet when they’re fired, they all pretty much say the same thing: Dude’s fucking nuts.

I haven’t spoken to my friend in a while. It was about a week or so after PA certified for Biden. He hadn’t spoken with with his kid because my friend had zero idea how despondent/irrational he might be.

After watching Trump accelerate the craziness over the last week, I’m genuinely concerned about the kid’s mental state. He’s a good kid, but he has that late teens/early 20’s male hubris that unfortunately clouds your better judgment. It just kills me to think he’s watching the news and agreeing that the military needs to take control of the country and run a do-over election, because Cheetolini can never lose anything.

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Mattand  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:03:15am

re: #241 The Pie Overlord!

“But Trumporrhoids are just regular folks like you and me!”

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Man, that “economic anxiety” makes these folks cranky…

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:04:48am

re: #247 Mattand

Yeah. Economic an卐iety.

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Mattand  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:06:35am

re: #246 Mattand

Quick addendum: not really relevant, I guess, but the aforementioned son was like 9 or 10 when I joined LGF.

Now he’s running around praising the guy who wants to be America’s first dictator.

That’s upsetting.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:07:03am
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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:10:52am
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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:11:15am

“…”My legislation will support the incoming Biden-Harris Administration as it redoubles efforts to support a more secure, democratic and prosperous Central America,” said Chairman Engel. “In particular, it will be impossible to make sustained progress in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras without a commitment from regional leaders to fight corruption and democratic backsliding. My bill requires President-elect Biden to publish a list of individuals from these countries who are engaged in significant corruption and the undermining of democratic institutions and ensure that they are denied entry into the United States.”

The legislation has two main components: (1) It requires the publication of a list of corrupt and undemocratic actors from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras who wil be denied entry to the United States (some in Central America have started to refer to this as the “Engel list”); and (2) it requires the creation of a five-year strategy from the Secretary of State and USAID Administrator on efforts to advance prosperity, combat corruption, strengthen democratic governance and improve civilian security in the Northern Triangle and curb irregular migration.”

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Dr. Matt  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:13:14am

re: #241 The Pie Overlord!

“But Trumporrhoids are just regular folks like you and me!”

But, don’t call them deplorables because they get sadz.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:13:30am

re: #253 Dr. Matt

But, don’t call them deplorables because they get sadz.

Or fuckers.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:13:52am

re: #206 jaunte

Pounding the table hasn’t worked in court, so he’ll take it outside.

Where there is no consequence for lying.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:13:58am

They just can’t help being caricatures of the evil rich.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:15:41am

re: #238 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

A lot of us programmers thought about the idea of writing secure voting software.

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Teukka  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:18:27am

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:24:46am

a bit of crowing (not pond related).

i happened to be at the right angle to look up into the ice and water dispenser on the door of the fridge.

Wow.

Aside from the more or less expected splashes, there was a lot of mold. A lot. A real lot. Absolutely no way this could be cleaned and remedied in place.

I watched a bunch of videos how to get at the ice door and it seemed doable. Since the fridge is a no-name knockoff that came from Sears in 2006, there was nothing exact.

I enlisted mrsdm to watch the video and we would tackle it together. Two pair of eyes are more observant, plus two pair of hands.

Got the faceplate off, then the bracket and wiring harness, and finally the ice chute and door.

We were right. Ours wasn’t exactly the same as the videos, but it was similar enough that we knew what to look for and what to do.

A thorough cleaning and then 10 minutes to put it all back together. mrsdm definitely saw things i didnt. if i tried to do it alone, there would have been much cursing and fuming and i expect it would have taken easily twice as long.

Not bad for two people who had never seen or done anything like this before.

Two takeaways:

- if you have an ice/water dispenser - have a look. Mold is dangerous, especially in that setting.

- best practice is do not dispense ice into a glass with liquid in it. that’s what leads to splashing and the obvious. put ice in the glass first, or into a separate cup and then put it in your drink.

oh, and GOTGaV (and FT)

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:28:47am

re: #257 Belafon

A lot of us programmers thought about the idea of writing secure voting software.

The trick isn’t secure software. The goal is a voting system above suspicion. In other words, it can’t be done in our psychological environment.

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:35:06am

re: #260 Decatur Deb

The trick isn’t secure software. The goal is a voting system above suspicion. In other words, it can’t be done in our psychological environment.

Truth.

Also every technological fix just makes the situation worse. Anything that can’t be seen by the unaided human eye should be avoided.

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KGxvi  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:36:13am

re: #10 Hecuba’s daughter

This is criminal but so typical of this legislation. Too many provisions magically appear in the final bill, and it’s too late to do anything about it, except pass new legislation next year to repeal these provisions. It’s all on McConnell. They had 7 months to work through the law and get something everyone could read before passing. But in fact, that’s not really true either. Even when there is plenty of time to discuss and hammer out the legislation, some party is always sneaking in language that would never pass on its own in broad daylight.

Too many members of Congress have ceded power to leadership in unhelpful ways. The annoying thing is, there’s arguably bipartisan support for doing things the right way, but too many members of Congress are scared to take a stand…

There’s absolutely no reason this should have come down to a last second negotiation between Pelosi and McConnell, except for the cowardice/ineptitude of most members of Congress.

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BeachDem  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:37:03am

So now our governor, Foghorn Leghorn, and his wife have it—

The governor kept a full schedule over the past week, attending multiple events that included a White House Christmas party on Dec. 14.

myrtlebeachonline.com

Earlier, in the “do as I say, not as I do” category—

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said that a statewide ordinance requiring the public to wear masks would be “impossible to enforce,” but urges the public to follow the guidelines of wearing masks and social distancing.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:37:55am

re: #262 KGxvi

There’s absolutely no reason this should have come down to a last second negotiation between Pelosi and McConnell, except for the cowardice/ineptitude of most members of Congress.

You missed evil and corrupt.

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KGxvi  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:39:23am

re: #264 Belafon

You missed evil and corrupt.

Eh, I’m not talking so much about the leadership as I am the rank and file. A general lack of the courage of convictions in America politics is getting rather annoying.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:43:57am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:44:36am

re: #262 KGxvi

Too many members of Congress have ceded power to leadership in unhelpful ways. The annoying thing is, there’s arguably bipartisan support for doing things the right way, but too many members of Congress are scared to take a stand…

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There’s absolutely no reason this should have come down to a last second negotiation between Pelosi and McConnell, except for the cowardice/ineptitude of most members of Congress.

With Citizens United and the party coffers it is much too easy now for out-of-state money to flow in in large amounts to affect a primary. Plus the PACs can pretty much do what they want. So the state-elected officials pretty much have to live in fear of the party leadership and their monied supporters since otherwise their political careers turn into huge uphill battles. And I’m pretty sure a major selection criteria for the PACs and party leaders is that the candidate they support will have primary loyalty to the party.

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mmmirele  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:46:19am

re: #151 Belafon

Does anyone know if there’s a place to donate the $600 to help someone who actually needs it?

I didn’t get the full $1200 in the first go-round, but I gave half of the money I did get to the local food bank and the rest divvied up among people I knew who were being fucked over by state unemployment. I did this after I confirmed with my brother that he and Mom did not need the money.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:50:22am

There ARE NO FUCKING JOBS, you tone deaf bitch.

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mmmirele  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:51:44am

re: #177 John Hughes

Well, no, not if we’re talking about 2000 years. Priestly celibacy is less than 1000 years old.

I know. But celibacy was held up as an ideal before it was enforced and simply doing away with priestly marriage didn’t stop the number of kids being born to the local priest’s woman. Or to the Borgias.

Obviously, at no point on time were women consulted on any of this. Instead it was imposed on us.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:53:23am

re: #270 mmmirele

I know. But celibacy was held up as an ideal before it was enforced and simply dping away with priestly marriage didn’t stop the number of kids being born to the local priest’s woman. Or to the Borgias.

Obviously, at no point on time were women consulted on any of this. Instead it was imposed on us.

There are some Bible passages from the Apostle Paul that men use to advance the idea that celibacy is the Christian ideal. The very same passages, for that matter, that men use to suppress all womens’ rights within the Church - the whole “A woman should be silent and keep her head covered” series.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:53:59am

re: #270 mmmirele

I know. But celibacy was held up as an ideal before it was enforced and simply doing away with priestly marriage didn’t stop the number of kids being born to the local priest’s woman. Or to the Borgias.

Obviously, at no point on time were women consulted on any of this. Instead it was imposed on us.

Well, that’s traditionally how churches roll…even today to a considerable extent.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:56:23am

re: #262 KGxvi

…and to sneak stuff in…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:57:17am
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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 9:57:23am

re: #266 Dread Pirate Ron

Not treason de jure, albeit mockery of democracy de facto. The whole electoral system needs to be overhauled. It might have been OK for the first two centuries.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:00:27am

re: #275 Nyet

Not treason de jure, albeit mockery of democracy de facto. The whole electoral system needs to be overhauled. It might have been OK for the first two centuries.

From what I’m given to understand, “sedition” is the closest big scary word to what they’re doing, though lawtwitter seems to think that it doesn’t quite rise to the level of sedition per se.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:02:50am

This cycle I’ve learned that a purely legal coup is indeed possible in the US. It’s just this year we’ve had some luck (majority in the House, a slim majority of the Senators who wouldn’t agree with the coup, mostly sane judges, conditionally sane state Republicans who didn’t go along with the coup attempts).

If the cards on the table were different, the possibility of the Congress / local legislatures getting away with a coup would indeed be there and would have been fully constitutional to boot.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:03:04am

re: #270 mmmirele

In the Roman catholic church, marriage of priests ended up being banned because the church didn’t like inheritance laws and wanted to keep their stuff. I know chastity and celibacy have become synonymous, but celibacy (no marriage) was demanded of priests because of inheritance, the chastity went along with the no sex outside of marriage bit. Any other explanation is gaslighting myth.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:03:11am

re: #276 thedopefishlives

From what I’m given to understand, “sedition” is the closest big scary word to what they’re doing, though lawtwitter seems to think that it doesn’t quite rise to the level of sedition per se.

It’s not sedition as long as it’s legal.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:05:02am

re: #271 thedopefishlives

There are some Bible passages from the Apostle Paul that men use to advance the idea that celibacy chastity is the Christian ideal. The very same passages, for that matter, that men use to suppress all womens’ rights within the Church - the whole “A woman should be silent and keep her head covered” series.

Is only recently that chastity and celibacy have become synonymous.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:05:33am

re: #258 Teukka

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:06:26am

re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg

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There ARE NO FUCKING JOBS, you tone deaf bitch.

yours, plus what “government dependency” are you talking about?
$1200 for 32 weeks? you want to limit it to zero dont you?

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:06:27am

re: #280 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Is only recently that chastity and celibacy have become synonymous.

Actually, no. The Bible passages mention, specifically, marriage - not chastity. I meant celibacy. Now, with that said, I think that is only their legalistic justification for such; certainly, I didn’t know the whole history before posting.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:07:05am

A few weeks ago, WH sources: “we’re just humoring him, of course he’ll go away”.
WH sources now, utterly predictably: “he’s unpredictable, it’s scary”.
Fuck all of them.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:09:29am

I loathe to say that your Constitution sucks, but… it kinda does. Look at how many times it had to be patched up and it can still fail everyone in the future unless patched up once again. Gah.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:11:15am

Ty re: #283 thedopefishlives

That sounds very Shaker-like and not conducive to progagation of your sect.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:11:22am

re: #281 jaunte

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An armed society is a murderous society instigated by petty bullshit.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:11:31am

re: #270 mmmirele

I know. But celibacy was held up as an ideal before it was enforced and simply doing away with priestly marriage didn’t stop the number of kids being born to the local priest’s woman. Or to the Borgias.

Obviously, at no point on time were women consulted on any of this. Instead it was imposed on us.

Celibacy makes a useful political position for the church since beyond a minor sinecure for their bastards it prevents church leaders from opting to pass on wealth or property to their offspring instead of keeping it all within The Church itself.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:12:08am

re: #285 Nyet

I loathe to say that your Constitution sucks, but… it kinda does. Look at how many times it had to be patched up and it can still fail everyone in the future unless patched up once again. Gah.

The one thing that keeps it from sucking is its built-in patchability. The amendment process is what keeps it viable

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:14:16am

Literal quote from a few weeks ago: “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?”.

Fuck that creature.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:14:36am

re: #288 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Celibacy makes a useful political position for the church since beyond a minor sinecure for their bastards it prevents church leaders from opting to pass on wealth or property to their offspring instead of keeping it all within The Church itself.

It’s also critical to the missionary impulse—priests, especially those in the orders, could be sent anywhere, often on one-way trips.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:14:48am

re: #285 Nyet

I loathe to say that your Constitution sucks, but… it kinda does. Look at how many times it had to be patched up and it can still fail everyone in the future unless patched up once again. Gah.

It was not really meant to be a permanent, unchanging guide. The authors recognized that times and needs change; it’s the “originalists” who think that mouldy, hide bound adherence is a good thing. But scraping it and starting over its impossible in this climate. A constitutional convention could never complete a new version.

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Targetpractice  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:15:57am

re: #262 KGxvi

Too many members of Congress have ceded power to leadership in unhelpful ways. The annoying thing is, there’s arguably bipartisan support for doing things the right way, but too many members of Congress are scared to take a stand…

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There’s absolutely no reason this should have come down to a last second negotiation between Pelosi and McConnell, except for the cowardice/ineptitude of most members of Congress.

Remember when Repubs went absolutely fuckin’ bugnuts over the idea of voting for the ACA “WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT’S IN IT!!!” and accusing Pelosi of trying to ram the bill through before voters had an opportunity to read it?

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:16:31am

A mad ruler trying to make someone horse-faced their special prosecutor? Deja vu.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:18:25am

re: #285 Nyet

I loathe to say that your Constitution sucks, but… it kinda does. Look at how many times it had to be patched up and it can still fail everyone in the future unless patched up once again. Gah.

I doubt very many national governing documents would stand up well to a major political party with its hands on some to most of the levers of power and at least nominal support from a near majority of the populace and media actively trying to subvert it.

Words on paper are pretty easy to ignore or twist to say what you want them to say. And rapidly become meaningless unless the group subject to them has the discipline and will to see them enforced.

(Too much experience with smaller organizations being unwilling to enforce their own rules internally since it would be their “buddies”* they would be disciplining. Roughly the same route that gets you extremely corrupt law enforcement groups.

* - And they are very unwilling to listen to those telling them that their “buddies” are anything but that since they are breaking the implicit social contract that comes with being in an organization.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:20:06am

Look who got the RWNJ MadLibs book as an early Xmas present.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:20:57am

re: #295 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

It’s unnecessarily complicated; even with EC it should have ended on Dec. 14th. Too many utterly unnecessary steps.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:22:22am

re: #279 Nyet

It’s not sedition as long as it’s legal.

As long as you win

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:27:00am

re: #293 Targetpractice

Remember when Repubs went absolutely fuckin’ bugnuts over the idea of voting for the ACA “WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT’S IN IT!!!” and accusing Pelosi of trying to ram the bill through before voters had an opportunity to read it?

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And it was an absolute lie

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EPR-radar  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:28:46am

re: #295 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I doubt very many national governing documents would stand up well to a major political party with its hands on some to most of the levers of power and at least nominal support from a near majority of the populace and media actively trying to subvert it.

Words on paper are pretty easy to ignore or twist to say what you want them to say. And rapidly become meaningless unless the group subject to them has the discipline and will to see them enforced.

(Too much experience with smaller organizations being unwilling to enforce their own rules internally since it would be their “buddies”* they would be disciplining. Roughly the same route that gets you extremely corrupt law enforcement groups.

* - And they are very unwilling to listen to those telling them that their “buddies” are anything but that since they are breaking the implicit social contract that comes with being in an organization.

This. No written constitution or body of laws can plausibly constrain the omni-corruption of Republicans.

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:29:25am

re: #292 Colère Tueur de Lapin

It was not really meant to be a permanent, unchanging guide. The authors recognized that times and needs change; it’s the “originalists” who think that mouldy, hide bound adherence is a good thing. But scraping it and starting over its impossible in this climate. A constitutional convention could never complete a new version.

A Constitutional Convention would result about 3 or 4 different non-contiguous countries at this point. There would be radically different sets of laws and policies between them. At least two of the new countries would quickly become international pariahs for human rights abuses and naked racism as state policy. They would also quickly build internet fortresses a la China and Russia to control information available inside their new white Christian utopias.

What makes any sort of radical convention like this very improbable is the amount of corporate power Boeing, Lockheed, and all the rest wield in keeping it all together. Any splintering would greatly decrease big ticket programs that smaller inward-looking countries simply cannot afford.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:29:51am
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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:31:09am

re: #296 jaunte

Look who got the RWNJ MadLibs book as an early Xmas present.

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How many reams and reams does it take to interpret and enforce the constitution?

Ps…parchments. It was 4

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:31:16am

Fucking Petty Trump is Petty:

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:32:01am

re: #303 Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don’t play one on TV

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:32:03am

re: #304 lawhawk

Fucking Petty Trump is Petty:

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I’m sorry, but - aren’t the account passwords held in trust by someone else? You can’t tell me that Trump himself is the only one with that password, no one’s that stupid.

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:32:13am

re: #292 Colère Tueur de Lapin

It was not really meant to be a permanent, unchanging guide. The authors recognized that times and needs change; it’s the “originalists” who think that mouldy, hide bound adherence is a good thing. But scraping it and starting over its impossible in this climate. A constitutional convention could never complete a new version.

Just remember that the Kochs paid off a bunch of state legislatures to call for a Constitutional Convention to push a balanced budget amendment. And Asshole Cenk is also pushing for a convention to reverse Citizens United.

If these folks get their way there would be a wide open convention that would probably gut the Bill of Rights except for the 2nd Amendment and the Federal Government would be gutted to the point that it would be effectively going back to the Articles of Confederation. Note that the Asshole Governor of Texas has called for going back to the Articles…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:33:23am

re: #304 lawhawk

Fucking Petty Trump is Petty:

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Wait, what the fuck? How can Trump even do that? Doesn’t Twitter have control of the accounts?

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:33:25am

re: #304 lawhawk

Fucking Petty Trump is Petty:

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President Biden would be well advised to start his Twitter account at 0 and keep it at 0.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:34:03am

Pretty sure the government has expanded just a little bit since 1776, lady.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:34:26am

So this is how the shadow government will operate: He’ll finally start using @POTUS as his Twitter handle to make it seem like official government communication.

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:34:31am

re: #306 thedopefishlives

I’m sorry, but - aren’t the account passwords held in trust by someone else? You can’t tell me that Trump himself is the only one with that password, no one’s that stupid.

If someone else had had his maga2020! password, wouldn’t they have hinted Trump to change it?

Anyway, I don’t quite get the article. The accounts automatically switch to Biden. Why would twitter delete the followers?

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:35:02am

re: #311 thedopefishlives

So this is how the shadow government will operate: He’ll finally start using @POTUS as his Twitter handle to make it seem like official government communication.

He won’t as twitter will switch it to Biden.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:35:19am

re: #312 Nyet

If someone else had had it maga2020! password, wouldn’t they have hinted Trump to change it?

Anyway, I don’t quite get the article. The accounts automatically switch to Biden. Why would twitter delete the users?

I’m starting to wonder if this is “much ado about nothing” territory. It might be worth checking to see if this is SOP.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:37:39am

re: #304 lawhawk

Fucking Petty Trump is Petty:

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Who owns the accounts? Trump or the govt?

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Nyet  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:38:58am

re: #315 Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don’t play one on TV

Twitter/govt, so it’s not a problem as such. But the article implies the acc will be purged of followers, which doesn’t really make sense.

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:39:07am

Gov. Newsom taps Padilla to replace Harris in the Senate

washingtonpost.com

Part of me was hoping that he would name Dolores Huerta as a caretaker Senator…

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:39:21am

Hey, Governor Newsom just named Alex Padilla to Kamala Harris’ Senate seat.

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danarchy  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:40:23am

re: #311 thedopefishlives

So this is how the shadow government will operate: He’ll finally start using @POTUS as his Twitter handle to make it seem like official government communication.

Biden’s admin will get the accounts, he just won’t have the followers transferred.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:43:51am

re: #188 Decatur Deb

Her prison biography will make an Oscar-worthy script.

I know you’re being snarky, but this is a Lifetime movie in the making.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:45:50am

re: #320 Dr. Teddy’s Person

I know you’re being snarky, but this is a Lifetime movie in the making.

Or a Miley Cyrus Broadway musical.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:46:21am

re: #319 danarchy

Biden’s admin will get the accounts, he just won’t have the followers transferred.

Biden probably doesn’t want all those Russian bots as followers anyway.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:48:24am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:51:39am

re: #303 Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don’t play one on TV

How many reams and reams does it take to interpret and enforce the constitution?

Ps…parchments. It was 4

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Right-whingers get the Declaration of Independence and constitution the mixed up all the time.

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:54:25am

re: #323 I Would Prefer Not To

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:54:44am

re: #297 Nyet

It’s unnecessarily complicated; even with EC it should have ended on Dec. 14th. Too many utterly unnecessary steps.

When “the electors shall meet in the several states” was written, there were no cars. No trains. No telegraph. No telephone. It would probably take more than a week, depending on the roads and the weather, to get the news from Savannah to Philadelphia.

So the delays weren’t so unnecessary when the process began (at that, it’s been moved up from March).

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Dec 22, 2020 • 10:56:47am

re: #304 lawhawk

Fucking Petty Trump is Petty:

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How is twitter not able to deal with this?

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2020 • 11:01:49am

re: #278 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Interestingly the other Catholic church doesn’t impose celibacy on priests.

Of course it’s arguably even more misogynistic.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 22, 2020 • 11:17:01am

re: #294 Nyet

A mad ruler trying to make someone horse-faced their special prosecutor? Deja vu.

Little hands, little boots

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!  Dec 22, 2020 • 12:08:53pm

re: #71 William Lewis

Ouch.

I have always hated “Cats” because it was such a harsh song. While my family was nowhere near that, I could feel it all too easily and it hurt to even listen to it. To this day, if I hear the song come on the radio, I will bitch slap anyone or anything in my way to get that turned off. I really hate the song that much.

Wreck is sad but it’s a community sadness. I can find a way to deal with that.

There is only one song that elicits a primal urge to break my radio when it gets played.

I won’t link it but will tell you it is from the 1970s, performed by Michael Martin Murphey and the song is about a f***ing horse.

And now you can’t unhear it.


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