The Bob Cesca Podcast: Take Away Their Toys

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

Take Away Their Toys — [Explicit Language] Buzz is dealing with a family emergency so the great Rocky Mountain Mike — Mike Hardeman from the Stephanie Miller Show is here to fill in; House Democrats introduce an article of impeachment against Trump; Will Trump be removed before the inauguration; The FBI warns of further attacks starting January 16; Alex Jones says he coordinated with the White House; Cumulus Media warns Dan Bongino, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and other Red Hats; “Silencing conservative thought”; Parler is gone; Deutsche Bank severing ties with Trump; The nation is rejecting Trumpism; The DC attorney general; Trump and pardon powers; With music by Rocky Mountain Mike, L-Lo and The Masker of One, and Nick Lutsko; and more!

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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:16:10pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:17:31pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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Considering that the man he’s protecting almost ensured that Pence didn’t continue to live at all, that’s pretty remarkable.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:18:07pm

Look at the flouting of metal detectors by Republicans in this light:

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:19:52pm

Good. Finally some accuracy.

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:20:00pm

Make MAGA mean “My ass got arrested” again.

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EPR-radar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:20:17pm

re: #2 thedopefishlives

Considering that the man he’s protecting almost ensured that Pence didn’t continue to live at all, that’s pretty remarkable.

That suggests that the only reason that Pence didn’t buy into ‘playing the Pence card’ is that trying to install Trump as dictator would harm Pence’s own political career (especially if successful).

Even when a Republican does the right thing, there’s usually at least a rotten motive.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:21:22pm

The GOP is one of the most racist, authoritarian parties in the Western world. That is why we must root for the corrupt establishment Republicans to exise Trump from the GOP.

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:22:54pm

re: #4 jaunte

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Good. Finally some accuracy.

Let the expression “lying cocksucker” be entered into the congressional record.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:23:43pm

In “News I forgot happened during my chaotic day”, Capitol terrorist Chris Georgia, from Georgia, took the easy way out when he shot himself on Saturday.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:24:05pm
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EPR-radar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:24:42pm

re: #7 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The GOP is one of the most racist, authoritarian parties in the Western world. That is why we must root for the corrupt establishment Republicans to exist Trump from the GOP.

Of course. The GOP has been working diligently to make itself more perfectly corrupt and fascist for well over 50 years. Even this gang of clowns will have made significant ‘progress’ given so much time.

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KingKenrod  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:24:56pm

Pence probably doesn’t have the votes in the cabinet anyway. Probably wouldn’t get more than 3 votes with that gang.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:25:15pm
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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:25:17pm

re: #4 jaunte

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Good. Finally some accuracy.

I can’t tell you how much I would enjoy tapping into my vast treasury of invective were I a congressman tomorrow.

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EPR-radar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:25:23pm

re: #8 darthstar

Let the expression “lying cocksucker” be entered into the congressional record.

Ditto with “Satan’s anus”, “witless fucking cocksplat” etc.

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i(m)p(each)(again!)sos  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:25:29pm

Has anyone seen anything definitive about when Warnock and Ossoff will be seated and when Schumer will take over as majority leader? What’s the holdup?

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:26:10pm

re: #15 EPR-radar

Ditto with “Satan’s anus”, “witless fucking cocksplat” etc.

Putin’s cockholster, to quote Stephen Colbert.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:26:19pm

re: #16 i(m)p(each)(again!)sos

Has anyone seen anything definitive about when Warnock and Ossoff will be seated and when Schumer will take over as majority leader? What’s the holdup?

The Georgia elections have to be certified first; I don’t know the deadline for this. McConnell has said that the Senate will not reconvene until a week from today, so that a minimum is a blocker.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:27:26pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:27:50pm

re: #4 jaunte
House passes rule allowing members to savage Trump personally during impeachment proceedings.

Good. Finally some accuracy.

All over the Hill, staffers with Liberal Arts degrees are furiously refreshing from their copies of Cicero—Contra Catalina, Contra Varus.

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i(m)p(each)(again!)sos  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:28:38pm

re: #18 thedopefishlives

But as the current majority leader, how long could he hold the Senate in recess and prevent it from reconvening to replace him with Schumer?

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EPR-radar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:29:06pm

re: #14 darthstar

I can’t tell you how much I would enjoy tapping into my vast treasury of invective were I a congressman tomorrow.

I would not be adequate to that awesome responsibility, if I were in Congress. But I could still get it done.

1) Start with a searing factual indictment of Trump.

2) Have a group of intelligent and dirty minded liberal teenagers spice up the language.

3) Have Samuel L Jackson deliver the results in a House speech.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:29:30pm

re: #20 Decatur Deb

I would call him a gentleman but he fails both sides of the portmanteau.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:31:36pm

re: #16 i(m)p(each)(again!)sos

Has anyone seen anything definitive about when Warnock and Ossoff will be seated and when Schumer will take over as majority leader? What’s the holdup?

Schumer won’t be majority leader until January 20, when VP Harris can cast the tiebreaking vote.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:33:06pm

re: #21 i(m)p(each)(again!)sos

But as the current majority leader, how long could he hold the Senate in recess and prevent it from reconvening to replace him with Schumer?

I don’t think that’s a thing he can do. Once the election is certified, he’s no longer Majority Leader, regardless of if the Senate is in session.

I also have an answer to my original statement. The votes must be tallied by January 22 in order for certification to proceed.

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i(m)p(each)(again!)sos  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:33:17pm

re: #24 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Schumer won’t be majority leader until January 20, when VP Harris can cast the tiebreaking vote.

Ahhh… good point!

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:33:24pm

Their calls for unity are lies, just like everything else they say.

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EPR-radar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:33:41pm

re: #23 jaunte

I would call him a gentleman but he fails both sides of the portmanteau.

The “Friends, Romans, countrymen” speech, with the refrain “for Brutus is an honorable man” replaced with “for Trump is a piece of shit” would be an interesting starting point.

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:33:46pm

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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:34:48pm

re: #28 EPR-radar

The “Friends, Romans, countrymen” speech, with the refrain “for Brutus is an honorable man” replaced with “for Trump is a piece of shit” would be an interesting starting point.

Shakespeare would approve.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:36:17pm

And here comes more lawtwitter legaltainment.

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retired cynic  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:36:51pm

Charlie Pierce, on Republican calls for unity and calling Democrats intemperate and inflammatory:

The gall. The sheer, unmitigated, steel-belted, gold-plated gall it takes for these people to make this argument, not a week after five people died in the worst battle in the U.S. Capitol since the Royal Marines blew town, can only be attributed to politicians who are confident that the forces of unreason and violence have their backs. And Republican conservatives have been playing footsie with those forces for decades.

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gocart mozart  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:38:28pm
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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:38:59pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:39:48pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:39:50pm

To make it easier to show embedded tweets, the LGF blue tweet bar now has a “Render Tweet” icon if it’s un-rendered.

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Dizzy  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:43:04pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

To make it easier to show embedded tweets, the LGF blue tweet bar now has a “Render Tweet” icon if it’s un-rendered.

Chrome on Windows for me, no tweets are rendering unless I refresh the comment or tweet.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:43:13pm
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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:44:04pm

“…House Democrats were briefed by the new Capitol Police leadership Monday night about threats to the inauguration from groups supporting President Trump, and the new security measures they are putting in place to avoid a repeat of last Wednesday’s riot.

According to members who were on the briefing call, the threats included promises to execute members of Congress, with the most dangerous coming from a handful of extremist groups. They are surfacing amid calls for a million “MAGA” devotees to flood Washington, D.C.

On Tuesday, police in the Chicago suburbs arrested 45-year-old Louis Capriotti, charging him with making threats to lawmakers last year in which authorities say he promised to kill any Democrat who attempted to enter the White House on Inauguration Day.”

And now Republicans are performatively violating metal detectors, to show how it’s done.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:44:33pm

re: #35 Dread Pirate Ron

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I used to use Telegram for a social group I helped manage. (The decision to go to Telegram was not mine.) The app itself was decently solid, but I shudder to think what information of mine is currently in the hands of the Russians. Anyhow, this seems like a great way to get some good intel from the rubes their puppets in Washington have created.

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Dizzy  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:45:14pm

re: #37 Dizzy

Chrome on Windows for me, no tweets are rendering unless I refresh the comment or tweet.

Firefox seems to be fine though.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:45:30pm

re: #37 Dizzy

Chrome on Windows for me, no tweets are rendering unless I refresh the comment or tweet.

Scroll up to the top of the comments - to show embedded tweets by default, click that checkbox.

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Dizzy  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:46:15pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Scroll up to the top of the comments - to show embedded tweets by default, click that checkbox.

Missed that option. Thanks. Nice improvement!

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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:46:38pm

It’s a new feature to prevent crashing problems a lot of people have been experiencing, because Twitter’s embedded tweets use a lot of memory.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:49:41pm
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retired cynic  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:50:37pm

More Charlie Pierce:

There Will Be No ‘Unity’ Until Republicans Give Up Voter-Suppression as a National Policy
Brad Raffensperger doesn’t believe all the wicked fairy tales that inspired last week’s insurrection, but he will support legislative efforts to “correct” these non-existent problems—and disenfranchise people in the process.

There can be no talk of “unity” or bipartisan anything until the Republican Party makes one basic conciliatory move: it must give up on voter-suppression as a national policy. The party must give up on it in national elections, and it must give up on it in state elections, and it must give up on it in local elections. It must stop huffing its own product about phantom “voter fraud.” It must embrace the philosophy that the more people who vote, the healthier our republic is. Republican members of Congress could demonstrate their good faith in this regard by voting for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which is sitting in the Senate Judiciary Committee at the moment. Until the Republican Party does all this, there is no unity to be had that’s worthy of the name.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:53:11pm

Today’s Covid numbers. Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska not reporting. Daily deaths set a new record.

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EPR-radar  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:53:57pm

re: #46 retired cynic

That’s a big part of what is needed. But my demand for GOP reform is more comprehensive — the GOP must stop with the deliberate dishonesty in all its political campaigns before any Republican can be worth talking to.

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lawhawk  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:54:27pm

GOP treasonweasels suddenly find that metal detectors installed because of a clear and present danger to members of Congress is unconstitutional as applied to them.

On what fucking grounds? Is this limiting speech and debate? Are they not able to get to their jobs? Are they suddenly worried about the 4A? Seriously, be fucking specific and show your fucking work.

The GOP caterwauls a lot about the Constitution but it’s clear that not a one of them has actually read the Constitution, let alone understanding it.

Hold these treasonweasels accountable. If the GOP wont comply with the security requirements, eject them from the Chamber and hold them in contempt. In fact, move directly to expulsion in the case of Gohmert and his buddies.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:54:28pm
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retired cynic  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:56:18pm

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:57:12pm
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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:57:35pm

Impeach Pence, too.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:58:39pm
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Grunthos the Flatulent  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:58:41pm

re: #22 EPR-radar

I would not be adequate to that awesome responsibility, if I were in Congress. But I could still get it done.

1) Start with a searing factual indictment of Trump.

2) Have a group of intelligent and dirty minded liberal teenagers Glaswegian spice up the language.

3) Have Samuel L Jackson deliver the results in a House speech.

My 20 millidollars.

P.S. Charles, any chance you can make embedded tweets optional in Spy as well? I suspect it would help my iPhone 7 to cope immensely.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 5:59:33pm

re: #55 Grunthos the Flatulent

P.S. Charles, any chance you can make embedded tweets optional in Spy as well? I suspect it would help my iPhone 7 to cope immensely.

I was going to suggest that, but in Spy mode you can turn down the number of items displayed. However, it might still be worthwhile for older devices if embedded tweets are that big.

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:03:26pm

re: #53 jaunte

Impeach Pence, too.

THIS. Let Pelosi sit in as POTUS for the next 6 1/2 or 7 days.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:04:07pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:05:06pm

re: #55 Grunthos the Flatulent

My 20 millidollars.

P.S. Charles, any chance you can make embedded tweets optional in Spy as well? I suspect it would help my iPhone 7 to cope immensely.

That’s next on the list.

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:05:22pm

Love this - going to use the meme machine to make my own copy for FB

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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:05:52pm

In the meantime, just set the number of comments shown to a lower number if you’re having trouble. That should help.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:09:08pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:10:16pm
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Grunthos the Flatulent  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:10:17pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

That’s next on the list.

Thanks! I’ve been turning down the number of comments displayed but it’s getting silly.

There comes a point where Apple’s “it just works“ becomes “it just works.”

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:10:47pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:12:00pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

They would open their eyes as to what is going on around them. They have lived in a bubble of privilege for too long.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:15:04pm

Heh. According to ESPN, a UFC Hall of Fame fighter lost his job as a color commentator for being at the riots.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:15:11pm

re: #65 darthstar

This this symbol was hiding in plain sight all along. Every time he spoke.
We were just all distracted by the “accordion hands” pic.twitter.com

I think he has used that gesture for a long time, before it became the deniable WP/OK sign. Hell, they might have developed it from him.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:17:38pm
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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:17:41pm

re: #20 Decatur Deb

House passes rule allowing members to savage Trump personally during impeachment proceedings.

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All over the Hill, staffers with Liberal Arts degrees are furiously refreshing from their copies of Cicero—Contra Catalina, Contra Varus.

Quo usque tantum abutere, Donald, patientia nostra? (Not more than a week, anyway.)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:17:47pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:17:48pm

re: #67 thedopefishlives

Heh. According to ESPN, a UFC Hall of Fame fighter lost his job as a color commentator for being at the riots.

He should know how to take a fall.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:18:59pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:19:15pm

It seems with every post that has a tweet in it I have to reload to see the tweet as it would appear in twitter.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:19:15pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:19:28pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:19:47pm

re: #74 PhillyPretzel

It seems with every post that has a tweet in it I have to reload to see the tweet as it would appear in twitter.

Correct. There is discussion upthread and downstairs of a new feature Charles added to improve memory usage. Check the “Show embedded tweets” box on your page.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:22:07pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:22:11pm

re: #77 thedopefishlives

I found it. Thanks.

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:23:03pm

Narrator: Pence chose the latter.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:23:57pm

re: #73 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Great. I’ll subscribe to Disney+, and let them know why.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:24:12pm

re: #80 darthstar

Some things are just Fated.

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stpaulbear  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:26:39pm

re: #82 jaunte

Some things are just Fated.

He’s so dumb he thinks that every statement he’s made puts him back in a positive place where he can continue a respected career without repercussions. He thinks his ass is covered.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:27:13pm

This has me pretty excited.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:27:16pm

re: #82 jaunte

Some things are just Fated.

Some are born wimps, some achieve wimpiness, and some have wimpiness thrust upon them.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:30:04pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:31:19pm

re: #86 jaunte

Everybody’s the asshole.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:35:05pm

WOMP WOMP

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:38:33pm

Inciting a riot is just like leaving your driver’s license in your other pants pocket.

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:39:13pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:39:30pm

re: #89 The Pie Overlord!

Inciting a riot is just like leaving your driver’s license in your other pants pocket.

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They crucified Bill Clinton over a mistake. This was much, MUCH more than a mistake.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:39:59pm

A can of Goya black beans stamping on a human face - forever.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:40:51pm
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:46:42pm

Have Jared and Ivanka chartered a flight out of the country yet?

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:46:53pm
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Dangerman  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:48:32pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

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how in the absolute fuck is this communist ?

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:50:07pm

re: #96 Dangerman

“Anything I don’t like is Communism.”

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:50:40pm
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Ace-o-aces  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:51:51pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:54:22pm

re: #96 Dangerman

how in the absolute fuck is this communist ?

Apparently someone who has never flown on a commercial airliner in the past 20+ years.

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:55:12pm

re: #96 Dangerman

how in the absolute fuck is this communist ?

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Communist means “we don’t like this.”

Liberal means “we don’t like you.”

You’re welcome.

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Dangerman  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:56:03pm

re: #100 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Apparently someone who has never flown on a commercial airliner in the past 20+ years.

or been in many schools, courthouses, sports stadiums, ….

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 6:57:10pm

re: #84 Punish Domestic Terrorists

This has me pretty excited.

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Excited? Holy fucking shit! I get to go tweet at Don Jr. now. I’ve always ignored that failson.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:01:04pm

Fuck “BothSiders”

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:02:32pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:03:00pm
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EstebanTornado1963  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:06:26pm

It’s gonna be hard going forward not to bash these fuckers in the head

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electrotek  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:08:08pm

Yet the Trump administration has usurped everything that makes this country great without having to invade a single country

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thecommodore  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:11:00pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:11:10pm

re: #96 Dangerman

how in the absolute fuck is this communist ?

This is an actual thing from 1984: deliberate poverty of language means it’s hard to have complicated thoughts, therefore it becomes harder to think in critical terms. “Communism” is just another gestural word where it doesn’t describe anything precise, just that it’s bad and contemptible and not-American.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:12:18pm
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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:13:09pm
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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:13:55pm

I think Democrats should stop calling these seditionist assholes “colleagues.”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:15:50pm

re: #108 electrotek

What haunts me is that one definition of fascism is the application of colonialist control techniques on one’s own nation.

A lot of War on Terror “logic” and “policy” under-girds the way Trumpers think about Americans who aren’t compliant with their demands.

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electrotek  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:17:38pm

re: #114 The Ghost of a Flea

What haunts me is that one definition of fascism is the application of colonialist control techniques on one’s own nation.

A lot of War on Terror “logic” and “policy” under-girds the way Trumpers think about Americans who aren’t compliant with their demands.

I mean I don’t disagree with her at all, just feel like it’s downplaying the current events.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:21:22pm
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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:29:52pm

Bonnie Watson, (D-NJ) got monoclonal antibodies last night…I was hoping that would happen. My guess is the company developing those offered to help Democrats subjected to Republicans who are trying to kill them.

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:35:11pm

They’re coming slower than I expected, but they’re coming…

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Kilroy was here  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:36:47pm

Mike Pence for President

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Teukka  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:38:12pm

re: #104 The Pie Overlord!

Fuck “BothSiders”

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Also, new word: Submoron

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Teukka  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:39:12pm
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Teukka  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:41:01pm

re: #106 The Pie Overlord!

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darthstar  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:42:32pm

Watching the second impeachment of Trump is like binge-watching Game of Thrones. Republican leaders are falling right and left.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:44:14pm
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Teukka  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:46:06pm

re: #124 Dread Pirate Ron

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Chaser is better:

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Teukka  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:48:04pm

re: #123 darthstar

Watching the second impeachment of Trump is like binge-watching Game of Thrones. Republican leaders are falling right and left.

Game Of Thrones - Main Theme Extended (5 Hours)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:49:06pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:49:39pm

‘Bama’s championship win should be worth another couple hundred dead. Roll Tide.

These are our best and brightest.
al.com

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:51:39pm
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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:51:42pm
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Teukka  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:53:51pm
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retired cynic  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:54:04pm

Ivanka Trump apparently thinks she’s going to ride this insurrection out and be president one day. Bess Levin, Vanity Fair

When Donald Trump was improbably elected president in 2016, his eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were among the last people on earth one would consider qualified to work in the White House advising the leader of the free world. But being Trumps and Trumps by marriage, the duo obviously saw themselves as eminently equipped for the jobs, thanks to inflated professional titles given to them by their fathers over the years and chart-topping delusions of grandeur. As Michael Wolff reported in Fire and Fury, though friends warned Javanka of the risks of getting into politics, “balancing risk against reward,” they “decided to accept roles in the West Wing over the advice of almost everyone they knew. It was a joint decision by the couple, and, in some sense, a joint job. Between themselves, the two had made an earnest deal: If sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she’d be the one to run for president. The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton; it would be Ivanka Trump.” (Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when the couple had a serious conversation deciding—as though it was actually a possibility—that she would be the one to ascend to the Oval Office. “It’ll be me. I’ll be the president,” we assume the first daughter said in her whisper voice, touching Jared’s face in a gentle way so as to not break it.)

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:55:55pm

re: #132 retired cynic

She’s the smartest of the three.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:58:31pm

re: #133 jaunte

She’s the smartest of the three.

She’s the best-looking. But she is dumber than a bag of hair.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 12, 2021 • 7:59:09pm

Of course, a bag of hair is smarter than Junior and Eric.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 12, 2021 • 8:03:12pm

re: #133 jaunte

She’s the smartest of the three.

Five. Trump has five spawn.

Who knows how Barron will turn out, but with the family into which he was born is as deplorable as they are, I wouldn’t bet on his chances to turn out to be a shining light.

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jaunte  Jan 12, 2021 • 8:05:45pm

re: #135 The Pie Overlord!

Of course, a bag of hair is smarter than Junior and Eric.

That’s it!

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BeachDem  Jan 12, 2021 • 9:25:44pm

re: #110 The Ghost of a Flea

This is an actual thing from 1984: deliberate poverty of language means it’s hard to have complicated thoughts, therefore it becomes harder to think in critical terms. “Communism” is just another gestural word where it doesn’t describe anything precise, just that it’s bad and contemptible and not-American.

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John Hughes  Jan 13, 2021 • 2:11:52am

re: #114 The Ghost of a Flea

What haunts me is that one definition of fascism is the application of colonialist control techniques on one’s own nation.

Well, by that definition America has always been fascist.

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iceweasel  Jan 13, 2021 • 3:20:48am

re: #110 The Ghost of a Flea

deliberate poverty of language means it’s hard to have complicated thoughts, therefore it becomes harder to think in critical terms.

Primo Levi has a chapter in his book, The Drowned and the Saved, talking about how the violence done to language itself in the camps was a deliberate strategy and a dehumanization technique, for the guards no less than the prisoners.

The impoverishment and violence done to language in the camps was intended to make it easier for violence done to people.


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