Yo-Yo Ma’s #Songsofcomfort: “El Cant Dels Ocells” (Song of the Birds) - Catalan Folk Song

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Last May I was in Lima, Peru, where I met some of the amazing artists of the Shipibo-konibo tribe. I learned how their spiritual practices, painting, and singing transmit their profound knowledge of the Amazon across generations. When they first moved to the city, they settled together in Cantagallo, a densely packed neighborhood in the heart of the capital. Like so many, the Cantagallo community is facing tremendous challenges today. This is for them, and for the many millions who don’t have the luxury of distance.
El cant dels ocells (Song of the Birds) #songsofcomfort
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En mayo del año pasado, en Lima (Perú), conocí a grandes artistas de la comunidad Shipibo-konibo. Aprendí sobre sus prácticas espirituales, su pintura, su arte y su música que transmite conocimiento profundo y ancestral de la Amazonía. Cuando ellos se mudaron inicialmente a Lima, se establecieron en Cantagallo, un área pequeña muy cercana al corazón de la capital. Como muchas otras comunidades en el mundo, Cantagallo está enfrentando tremendos desafíos. Esto es para ellos, y para los muchos millones que no tienen el lujo de la distancia que los protege. El cant dels ocells.
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This video was originally released on May 20, 2020, as part of Yo-Yo Ma’s #SongsOfComfort project, which was launched at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide comfort in a time of anxiety and fear. The project inspired thousands of people around the world to upload their own songs of comfort in the months that followed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:44:38am

Go, Joe!!! Cannot get started quickly enough undoing the damage from the Trump Administration.

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Nyet  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:45:42am

Ben G. seems to be in the grief phase now.

m.facebook.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:47:25am

Repeated from the previous thread, as this is important to me, on “low education Trump voters.”

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same with me. That’s just a reframing of the “economically anxious” argument.

The number of people in my town with only a high school education or lower is three. The same three who did not vote for Donald Trump. (Five of the university-educated also voted for Joe Biden, and three others for Jill Stein and two for Gary Johnson.)

It would take no effort for conservative propagandists to turn that right around and say “See, it’s the Democratic voters who are uneducated: They don’t know any better.”

The correct answer is not education, or age, or other determinants. It is “fascists,” “racists,” &c.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:48:27am

A recent newsmax headline: ” Biden Fills Out State Department With Obama Retreads”

I seem to recall that numerous key posts went unfilled under Trump because he could not find qualified people willing to take them.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:48:46am

So if you put in this head attorney at the NSA as an embedded trump plant who’s a civil servant, can they be transferred to the same level (G whatever) for another agency? If you can’t fire them there had to be a way to move them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:49:18am

re: #2 Nyet

Ben G. seems to be in the grief phase now.

m.facebook.com

Ben Garrison back on his anti-vaxxer grift.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:49:58am

re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Maybe they can put them in an office with six watchers.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:50:20am
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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:53:03am

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Nyet  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:55:12am

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A recent newsmax headline: ” Biden Fills Out State Department With Obama Retreads”

I seem to recall that numerous key posts went unfilled under Trump because he could not find qualified people willing to take them.

Has to read that last word twice, which was probably the intent.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 10:55:58am

re: #2 Nyet

Ben G. seems to be in the grief phase now.

m.facebook.com

Marky Mark will continue to push Garrison’s lies. He won’t stop him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:00:11am

re: #11 🌹UOJB!

Marky Mark will continue to push Garrison’s lies. He won’t stop him.

I just look on him and his cartoon rants as the cuckoo in the clock mine

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:01:07am

re: #147 Jay C

Yeah, Sasse says all the right things here, but (even giving him the benefit of assuming that he may be serious - always chancy with Republicans) - when he says:

I have a sinking feeling as to exactly what choice about half of all GOPers will make, (and they won’t like Ike)…

I don’t give him the benefit of the doubt, as he’s one of my senators.

He has consistently voted with Trump; he voted against both witnesses and conviction in February, he knew exactly what he was doing.

All he’s doing now is trying to cover his butt.

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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:02:26am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:04:37am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:06:42am

re: #15 Dread Pirate Ron

I read that Russian security forces and police were out in large numbers to “greet” him at the airport.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:07:32am
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Alephnaught  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:07:45am

Looks like the Republic of Ireland is following the example of Scotland. From the Irish Mirror via The Star: Government says Donald Trump won’t be allowed jet into Ireland to play golf

Speculation has been mounting that Trump could make a last minute trip to his hotel at Doonbeg, Co Clare, ahead of President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20.

It comes after Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned that Trump is not welcome in her country to play golf, as the country enters a new strict COVID-19 lockdown.

And now The Star has learned that the Irish Government also won’t be allowing Trump, who is said to want to flee the US, to use golf as an excuse to come here — amid a global pandemic.

In a statement to this paper, a spokesperson for the Government confirmed that anyone flying into Ireland, including Trump, can only come here for essential purposes.

There’s nowhere else on the British Isles where Donald Trump has a golf course.

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Jay C  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:12:15am

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A recent newsmax headline: ” Biden Fills Out State Department With Obama Retreads”

I seem to recall that numerous key posts went unfilled under Trump because he could not find qualified people willing to take them.

TBH, to me, the fact that a Biden nominee to State (or anywhere, really) had experience in the Obama Admin would be a positive:

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:13:53am
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:15:02am

re: #20 Dread Pirate Ron

Yay.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:15:36am

Does that tweet look like this for others?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:16:15am

re: #22 Dread Pirate Ron

Does that tweet look like this for others?

[Embedded content]

Yeah. I figured Charles was playing around. 😁

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:17:25am

re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Yeah. I figured Charles was playing around. 😁

This is what it looks like expanded.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:17:45am

re: #18 Alephnaught

Looks like the Republic of Ireland is following the example of Scotland. From the Irish Mirror: Government says Donald Trump won’t be allowed jet into Ireland to play golf

There’s nowhere else on the British Isles where Donald Trump has a golf course.

When I mention that countries in Asia, such as South Korea and Vietnam, are doing far better at controlling COVID, our RW brother laughs and says (approvingly) it’s because they bar others from entering the country. There is something to be said about closing borders when a high contagious air-borne disease is rampaging throughout the world. It’s difficult to control it in your own nation if you admit others from elsewhere, where the disease is not controlled.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:17:54am

Yeah, I’m still messing around with embedded tweets.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:18:02am

Do NOT let your guard down!

The assholes will keep trying even after Joe lays his hand on the Bible.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:19:48am

re: #27 🌹UOJB!

Do NOT let your guard down!

The assholes will keep trying even after Joe lays his hand on the Bible.

Thus all the hackish embeds around the govt. I hope someone’s keeping track.

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Jay C  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:20:05am

re: #20 Dread Pirate Ron

This was the case over the nine (count ‘em, 9) discarded ballots that the Trumpsters were claiming were absolute, indisputable proof-positive of vote-rigging in PA.

So with the ones John Fetterman dug up, this makes, what? A whole dozen or so “bad” votes? Out of 6.9million cast?

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:20:32am

re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So if you put in this head attorney at the NSA as an embedded trump plant who’s a civil servant, can they be transferred to the same level (G whatever) for another agency? If you can’t fire them there had to be a way to move them.

They just spent 4 years telling us the president can do anything. Fuck them. Remove him and let them bitch.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:21:00am

re: #26 Charles Johnson

Yeah, I’m still messing around with embedded tweets.

And, apparently it’s not going well

/s/

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:23:57am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:24:31am

thread

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:24:37am

re: #30 Eventual Carrion

They just spent 4 years telling us the president can do anything. Fuck them. Remove him and let them bitch.

So when they were screaming about the Deep State, they were really telegraphing their intention to seed Trump loyalists throughout the government to undermine the rule of law and handicap any Democratic successor to Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:25:18am

The next thing for him to buy? A political seat for Gov. Pete Ricketts. The natural progression of capitalism is to control the government which regulates it.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:28:32am

re: #29 Jay C

This was the case over the nine (count ‘em, 9) discarded ballots that the Trumpsters were claiming were absolute, indisputable proof-positive of vote-rigging in PA.

So with the ones John Fetterman dug up, this makes, what? A whole dozen or so “bad” votes? Out of 6.9million cast?

John is still waiting for TexAssHole Dan Patrick to cough up $3 Million to pay off his bet.

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Jay C  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:29:00am

re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The next thing for him to buy? A political seat for Gov. Pete Ricketts. The natural progression of capitalism is to control the government which regulates it.

Is “Billionaire Joe” related to “Governor Pete”?

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:29:23am

re: #36 🌹UOJB!

Why am I not surprised?

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gwangung  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:30:03am

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A recent newsmax headline: ” Biden Fills Out State Department With Obama Retreads”

What a freaking STUPIDLY PARTISAN headline.

Generally, you want experienced hands at the top. Who are the experienced hands? Folks who are employed by the LAST Democratic administration.

You do NOT want to put inexperienced hands on the wheel.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:32:11am

re: #37 Jay C

Is “Billionaire Joe” related to “Governor Pete”?

What I just learned via Wiki: His father!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:32:54am

Trump did start a war.

In THIS country.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:33:54am

Oh note how the Trump Pulpit Pimp Posse is now attacking Joe over his catholicism…demanding that the catholic bishops excommunicate Joe because of his pro-choice stands…

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Nyet  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:34:31am

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Not only conservatives, also some on the far-left.

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:35:19am

Idea from a letter to the editor at electoral-vote.com

R.S.B. in Ventura, CA, writes: The biggest gift Chuck Schumer could give President Biden would be to adjourn the Senate to a date at least 10 days beyond the date of the adjournment. By adjourning the Senate for 10 days, it would allow President Biden to appoint all 1,000+ Executive Branch Secretaries and political appointees that require Senate confirmation on the day of adjournment to Recess appointments, with the intention of having the Senate confirm all 1,000+ appointees within 300 days of the recess appointment, or before the current session adjournment at the end of the year. This requires a concurrent resolution with the House, which Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) can provide, and a majority vote of those Senators present, with no debate allowed. Amendments are allowed but can be easily defeated. Due to the extraordinary situation this country finds itself, as unconventional as this approach would be, it would be warranted to prevent any obstruction by the opposition of any and all appointees Biden needs on the 21st of January

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:36:36am

I swear I’ll be so pissed if Betty White doesn’t make 100.

I can’t think of someone more deserving of becoming a centenarian.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:37:36am

re: #45 Eclectic Cyborg

I swear I’ll be so pissed if Betty White doesn’t make 100.

I can’t think of someone more deserving of becoming a centenarian.

I can think of someone else who deserves to make 100!

Jimmy Carter.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:37:55am

re: #44 Dangerman

That would sure flush out some more insurrectionists.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:38:23am

re: #193 Mattand

Did you and the missus start the shots yet? Stay safe.

Not yet. My first shot is at the Cheyenne VAMC on January 25.

My wife is signed up for the Panhandle Public Health District list for when we get the Moderna vaccine out here. PPHD says it could be weeks or months, but my wife has been moved to Phase 1b, due to state guidelins.

It will be a long time before she can get a vaccine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:40:21am

re: #39 gwangung

What a freaking STUPIDLY PARTISAN headline.

Generally, you want experienced hands at the top. Who are the experienced hands? Folks who are employed by the LAST Democratic administration.

You do NOT want to put inexperienced hands on the wheel.

They are selling Biden as Obama Redux, because they know how much knee-jerk hatred that will generate.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:40:24am
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:41:02am

I meet with my main Dr on Wednesday to find out about vaccination status.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:42:39am

re: #22 Dread Pirate Ron

Does that tweet look like this for others?

[Embedded content]

Yes, it does for me. (Colours are reversed though due to an add-on I have.)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:42:41am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:43:28am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:44:50am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:45:45am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:46:36am

No Country for Old Men, indeed…

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:50:27am

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yes, it does for me. (Colours are reversed though due to an add-on I have.)

I have removed The two add-ons
Make America kittens again
Make trumps tweets eight Again

Don’t need em anymore

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:51:39am

Third of three memes posted to Gab showing the endless victimhood of conservatives.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:52:26am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:53:21am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Third of three memes posted to Gab showing the endless victimhood of conservatives.

Take back times when a middle-class working father could support a family with a single income?

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:53:45am

Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers: “How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency,” writes in the Washington Post that Mark Meadows is the worst to ever hold the position

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:55:36am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:56:52am

re: #34 Hecuba’s daughter

So when they were screaming about the Deep State, they were really telegraphing their intention to seed Trump loyalists throughout the government to undermine the rule of law and handicap any Democratic successor to Trump.

Of course. It’s projection with conservatives always.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:58:06am

re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I read that Russian security forces and police were out in large numbers to “greet” him at the airport.

Did they bring a 5-story building with them that contained a convenient open window?
////

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:59:06am
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Jay C  Jan 17, 2021 • 11:59:56am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Third of three memes posted to Gab showing the endless victimhood of conservatives.

[Embedded content]

“Take Back What Was Taken From Us”?

What was taken? The requirement to wear a hat with awkward fashions? SRSLY - what’s with that guy’s coat jacket?….?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:01:04pm

re: #34 Hecuba’s daughter

So when they were screaming about the Deep State, they were really telegraphing their intention to seed Trump loyalists throughout the government to undermine the rule of law and handicap any Democratic successor to Trump.

Will say it again: modern government needs skilled professionals whose careers last longer than any one administration. They are needed for continuity along with expertise and cannot just be swapped out each go-around. And truly qualified people are in short supply, which is not the case with lackeys, yea-sayers and political hacks

They have to think of the nation’s interests beyond the interests of whichever President they are serving under.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:01:15pm
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Teukka  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:02:24pm
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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:05:32pm

re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So if you put in this head attorney at the NSA as an embedded trump plant who’s a civil servant, can they be transferred to the same level (G whatever) for another agency? If you can’t fire them there had to be a way to move them.

Move him to a new nothing job, with access to nothing, a small desk, and a chair and a telephone that doesn’t work. Simple and easy

Better yet give him an impossibly hard job then maybe he can be fired for cause

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:06:08pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:06:33pm

re: #37 Jay C

Is “Billionaire Joe” related to “Governor Pete”?

Yes. Joe Ricketts is the founder of TD Ameritrade. Pete Ricketts is one of his three sons, who became a billionaire by working at (wait for it) TD Ameritrade.

Joe Ricketts also owns the Chicago Cubs. He also owns High Plains Bison, which sells bison meat at Wrigley Field.

In September 2017, Ricketts wrote, “I believe unions promote a corrosive us-against-them dynamic that destroys the esprit de corps businesses need to succeed.”

Fuque workers succeeding. They are “human capital stock.”

His group Taxpayers for Common Sense successfully targetted and ended earmarks in 2010.

He also served on the Koch’s American Enterprise Institute board. In 2012, the New York Times wrote about a publication Joe Ricketts wrote entitled “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: the Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good.”

His daughter Laura distanced herself from the family, working as a bundler for the Democratic Party.

He has a philanthropist organisation which funds training teachers in poor countries; in the United States, like our governor, he wishes to abolish public education.

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:09:08pm

re: #15 Dread Pirate Ron

Didn’t he take any lessons from what happened to Benigno Aquino?

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:09:39pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:10:26pm
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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:12:24pm
President Trump is telling his supporters and donors he wants to collect $2 billion for a presidential library and museum in Florida, the Washington Post reports

Never gets built
He pockets the money
Right?

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:13:14pm

re: #70 Teukka

Beau’s obviously not getting the real intel. //

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:13:37pm
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Jay C  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:13:56pm

re: #77 Dangerman

Never gets built
He pockets the money
Right?

He’s going get Mexico to pay for it….

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:14:31pm

re: #71 Dangerman

Move him to a new nothing job, with access to nothing, a small desk, and a chair and a telephone that doesn’t work. Simple and easy

Better yet give him an impossibly hard job then maybe he can be fired for cause

Add to that - no staff. No interns. Make them fetch their own coffee, do their own typing, and so forth.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:16:00pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:16:08pm

The ultimate in Trumporrhoid self-victimizing.

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:22:19pm

re: #83 The Pie Overlord!

Christ! These people are evil, and stupid.

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b.d. (Be Best!)  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:25:34pm

Trump hasn’t started any new wars? Does Jan. 6th ring a bell? How many troops do we have in DC?

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nines09  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:30:09pm
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still stpaulbear  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:42:02pm

re: #70 Teukka

I just watched Beau’s latest video and I usually like him but he missed today’s target by a mile. He was bitching about how Biden’s only platform during the election was “I’m not Trump”. Biden’s policies are definitely not Trump, but Biden was also providing some strong indicators about what his platforms would be. It wasn’t hard to know where he stands and what he wants to do. He was making policy videos in his basement.

Beau has stated in the past how much he dislikes Biden. I hope his knees don’t get all jerky now that Biden is in.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:42:25pm

Sacrificing athletes for the almighty dollar.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:43:02pm
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Ace-o-aces  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:46:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:47:22pm
How will you sign up? A state website is under development but won’t be ready until later this month. As officials acknowledge the slow website rollout, local health departments are stepping in with temporary online forms to bridge people to the as yet unveiled system. But the new state site will be the focus within weeks, perhaps rendering those forms moot.

When? Soon for the next group — as early as Feb. 1 in Douglas County. The first people ages 75 and up already have been vaccinated in western Nebraska. But it might be May or June for much of the general public.

For all the publicity over the initial rollout, the slow flow of vaccine into the state remains the biggest problem.

and

In North Platte last weekend, a community clinic for the 75-plus group left some seniors in line outside for three hours, and people with limited mobility had to climb steps.

Although the state is placing a lot of emphasis on its forthcoming website — and the ability of seniors having the internet savvy to access it — officials say they will have a phone system to supplement vaccine registration.

More questions than answers as Nebraska gears up for biggest vaccination campaign in history (Scottsbluflf, Nebr. Star-Herald)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:47:26pm
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nines09  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:47:38pm

Trump Administration in one picture. Enlarge.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:47:46pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:50:19pm

This is utterly fucked up.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:50:41pm

re: #95 The Pie Overlord!

This is utterly fucked up.

Da FUQ…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:51:14pm

This is one heckuva headline at the Star-Herald:

Protests start small, peacefully at fortified US statehouses

Very few people showed up, at only a few statehouses.

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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:53:03pm

re: #95 The Pie Overlord!

I was questioning whether to even post that here it’s so deranged and pitiful.

We’ve lost a lot of people.

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:53:53pm

re: #85 b.d. (We Won!)

[Embedded content]

Trump hasn’t started any new wars? Does Jan. 6th ring a bell? How many troops do we have in DC?

what wars did Obama start?

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thecommodore  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:53:54pm

All the Oogly Boogly stuff aside…

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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:56:03pm

re: #100 thecommodore

I was thinking a while ago the Washington Football Team could be call the Extra Spicy and Crispy. The logos could be changed to roosters.

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Dangerman  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:56:25pm

re: #95 The Pie Overlord!

This is utterly fucked up.

[Embedded content]

ok now they’re just making shit up

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:56:25pm

re: #95 The Pie Overlord!

This is utterly fucked up.

[Embedded content]

I think we would notice if Joe suddenly gained 250 lbs.

/

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:56:52pm

re: #58 Dangerman

I have removed The two add-ons
Make America kittens again
Make trumps tweets eight Again

Don’t need em anymore

I still get plenty of Trumpence, Jarvanka, and other such photographs, so Make America Kittens Again remains on my computer.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:56:54pm
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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:57:03pm

re: #98 BigPapa

I was questioning whether to even post that here it’s so deranged and pitiful.

We’ve lost a lot of people.

They’re just calling it in at this point.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:57:04pm

re: #99 Dangerman

what wars did Obama start?

The Trump FP lies are some one of the ones that infuriates me the most. Isolationism is NOT dovishness. It is disengagement and Trump has lost us a lot of our allies that we could be cooperating with due to that. He treats friends like shit and foes like old friends.

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:58:49pm

re: #95 The Pie Overlord!

This is utterly fucked up.

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I have been thinking about QAnon, their delusions, and my relationship to this site. I love being here and getting news and everything else, but it has consumed me needing to be so up-to-the-minute. I blame Trump and Republicans for that, but I also realize that I won’t stop unless I take a break and get through some withdrawal symptoms. So, probably starting on Thursday, I will need to sign off here for a bit for mental health reasons.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:59:00pm

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My mother gets her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday, and then the second dose two weeks later. According to the state health department, it looks like for me the earliest is in May.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2021 • 12:59:14pm
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lizardofid  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:01:32pm

re: #100 thecommodore

All the Oogly Boogly stuff aside…

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Snickers had the same thought a while back. ; )

Snickers Chefs

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thecommodore  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:01:41pm

Read the whole thing. It’s perfect.

From the Denver Post:

Silverii: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert should resign or be expelled

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:01:42pm

re: #108 Belafon

Do what you need to take care of yourself. I’m sure our esteemed host Mr. Johnson will leave the lights on for you.

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:02:02pm

re: #95 The Pie Overlord!

This is utterly fucked up.

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I say we go with it. “Yeah, it’s all Trump calling for an increase in the minimum wage, the arrest of the Mercers, and for McConnell to be questioned in his wife’s money dealing in transportation.”

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:03:08pm

Ok, one of those cute ones you didn’t know you needed to see…

Man Deals With Kid Setting Off Security Alert In Sweetest Way

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:03:39pm

re: #90 Ace-o-aces

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oldie but a goodie and oh so still relevant:

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:04:00pm

QAnon and Trump actually won the election feel to me that they have if we don’t stop it the potential to turn into the Protocols of Elders of Zion and the stab in the back legend for our times. It feels like we have lost so many people to a basic reality. I don’t expect conservatives to agree with me on issues. I do expect a basic reality. And the basic reality has been that from the start Trump has repeatedly attacked the democratic process. He was literally pulling a heads I win, tails you lose back in 2016 where he said as he did now four years later “If I lose it is fraud.” We’re never going to eliminate conservatism as an ideology. The problem is what it means to be a conservative now in 2021 is to be inherently anti democratic. I’m not defending Trump’s elected predecessors by a long shot here but it is the difference between a 50% and a 0 on a test to use an analogy.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:07:27pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:08:11pm

re: #118 Patricia Kayden

Sure! I’m down with President Harris.

/

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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:08:52pm

Dems in Disarray!

Probably…

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:08:59pm

re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg

Madam President has a nice ring to it. :)

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:10:36pm
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thecommodore  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:10:54pm

re: #121 PhillyPretzel

Madam President has a nice ring to it. :)

As it would have four years ago.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:11:07pm

re: #101 BigPapa

I was thinking a while ago the Washington Football Team could be call the Extra Spicy and Crispy. The logos could be changed to roosters.

I always thought they should keep the name, just change the logo:

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:11:15pm

I haven’t been on regularly as much though still engaged with the news. It makes me feel all sorts of emotions. I’ve felt anger, sadness, confusion, and uncertainty a lot the past year but especially now. I’m not someone who is saying I told ya so about Trump, it’s more like a silent anger at the people who has supported this madness without question and disparaged people like us. Wasn’t only a month ago that they scoffed at the idea of a coup attempt. Well what we saw last week was a coup attempt. We went full fucking circle from 9/11. Those terrorist assholes on the Capitol succeeded where the hijackers of 93 could not.

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b.d. (Be Best!)  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:12:58pm

Will the Secret Service allow someone to serve papers to Trump? Can New York serve papers on someone in Florida?

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:13:07pm

re: #125 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

The light is at the end of the tunnel with Biden/Harris about to be sworn in on Wednesday. It has been a rough four years so I know how you feel. I’m hoping that we don’t see another Republican President for another 20 years if ever.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:13:10pm

Letter from my Republican state senator to the Star-Herald

STEVE ERDMAN: Move Game and Parks to Sidney

How convenient, Senator, that Sidney is in your own district.

He touts five reasons for this, four of which are horeshit. The fifth (lots of office space since Cabela’s was purchased by Bass Pro Shops and they closed the main Cabela’s office building) almost makes sense, if Game & Parks already didn’t have office space in Lincoln (you know, where the seat of government is),

He also uses the phrase “you can smell the taxes” (regarding those evil civil servants who work in Lincoln and spend their money in Lincoln and Omaha). Without a shred of irony, he has no problem with the same civil servants spending tax money in Sidney or Bridgeport.

So moving a large state agency to a town of 6,000 people is just the solution for this.

starherald.com

In a letter, a local calls for the resignation of Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE3).

starherald.com

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:14:29pm
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nines09  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:16:36pm

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Alephnaught  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:17:23pm

I’ve noticed that the official Dr Who channel on YouTube is now doing a “greatist clips!” thing on some of the episodes of “classic” era (ie before 1989).

This is my favorite, and also of my favourite episode of Doctor Who: “The Curse of Fenric”

The Curse of Fenric | Doctor Who

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:18:27pm

re: #126 b.d. (We Won!)

Will the Secret Service allow someone to serve papers to Trump? Can New York serve papers on someone in Florida?

Yes, New York can serve papers on someone anywhere in the country. What they can’t do is send officers to arrest him in another state, but they can coordinate with the local police department and court system in Florida to have him arrested and extradited to New York to stand trial.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:20:06pm

re: #108 Belafon

I have been thinking about QAnon, their delusions, and my relationship to this site. I love being here and getting news and everything else, but it has consumed me needing to be so up-to-the-minute. I blame Trump and Republicans for that, but I also realize that I won’t stop unless I take a break and get through some withdrawal symptoms. So, probably starting on Thursday, I will need to sign off here for a bit for mental health reasons.

I understand the feeling and the need for a break. After Obama won, I took a four month sabbatical from even looking at all political blogs to detoxify myself from years of Pajamanoid brainwashing.

Outside of that break, I’ve been trying to keep myself “up to the minute” with the twists and turns of apocalyptic American political craziness since September 2001. After almost 20 years, I’m exhausted. I’m not 35 anymore, or 42 for that matter, and the last four years of the Trump nightmare has taken its toll.

I’ve toyed with the idea of again taking a multi-month break from online life to decompress and detoxify, to again regain some sense of equilibrium.

For some reason, though, I don’t think it will be as easy as the last time.

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John Vreeland  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:21:09pm

re: #132 thedopefishlives

There was a song about that in the musical, “Fiddler on the Roof of the Burning Capitol.” I think the chorus was “Ex-tradition” or “Sedition” or something like that.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:25:12pm

re: #134 John Vreeland

There was a song about that in the musical, “Fiddler on the Roof of the Burning Capitol.” I think the chorus was “Ex-tradition” or “Sedition” or something like that.

SEDITION! - A Randy Rainbow Parody

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:28:16pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:28:19pm
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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:28:49pm

re: #133 A Three Hour Tour

The hard part will be trying to stay somewhat current with what is going on.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:29:04pm

They still haven’t suspended the Rage Furby’s latest sock.

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still stpaulbear  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:33:14pm

re: #108 Belafon

I have been thinking about QAnon, their delusions, and my relationship to this site. I love being here and getting news and everything else, but it has consumed me needing to be so up-to-the-minute. I blame Trump and Republicans for that, but I also realize that I won’t stop unless I take a break and get through some withdrawal symptoms. So, probably starting on Thursday, I will need to sign off here for a bit for mental health reasons.

I’ve been going through the same thing. Best of luck to you.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:37:37pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:37:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:40:47pm

re: #132 thedopefishlives

Yes, New York can serve papers on someone anywhere in the country. What they can’t do is send officers to arrest him in another state, but they can coordinate with the local police department and court system in Florida to have him arrested and extradited to New York to stand trial.

Which Gov. Ron DeSantis can interfere with, along with his AG.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:46:49pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:48:31pm

re: #144 Dread Pirate Ron

I would not be surprised if DT was behind the riot.

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:50:12pm

re: #141 jaunte

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thecommodore  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:53:37pm

re: #124 The Pie Overlord!

I always thought they should keep the name, just change the logo:

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That would work.

Taters for short. If they get beat badly, people would say “damn, the taters got mashed!” Or fried.
Or scalloped.

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ckkatz  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:56:07pm

re: #141 jaunte

Sullivan agreeing with Frum’s post. Two immigrants arguing that Biden will allow the US to be overrun with … immigrants.

Sure sounds very Republican - “I got mine. Fuck you.” And, at the same time - “Two white guys demanding - Stop all those brown folks from coming in.”

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lizardofid  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:57:44pm

re: #147 thecommodore

That would work.

Taters for short. If they get beat badly, people would say “damn, the taters got mashed!” Or fried.
Or scalloped.

Every youth league would have a team called the Tater Tots.

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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:58:13pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:58:42pm

boo fucking hoo

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 1:59:48pm

re: #147 thecommodore

That would work.

Taters for short. If they get beat badly, people would say “damn, the taters got mashed!” Or fried.
Or scalloped.

Or hasselbacked.

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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:00:26pm

I like that people are using the term Big Lie now. It’s appropriate. But which one? There’s so many Big Lies. There’s Medium and Small Lies too.

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thecommodore  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:00:32pm

re: #149 lizardofid

Every youth league would have a team called the Tater Tots.

Think of the possibiilties. It’s genius!

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thecommodore  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:01:31pm

re: #153 BigPapa

I like that people are using the term Big Lie now. It’s appropriate. But which one? There’s so many Big Lies. There’s Medium and Small Lies too.

It’s the Big Lie of the week. One of the early ones was NO COLLUSION NO OBSTRUCTION.

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ericblair  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:02:21pm

re: #71 Dangerman

Move him to a new nothing job, with access to nothing, a small desk, and a chair and a telephone that doesn’t work. Simple and easy

Better yet give him an impossibly hard job then maybe he can be fired for cause

NSA head attorney needs, obviously, a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence (TS/SCI) clearance with access to a lot of compartments. Criminal activity and questions on allegiance to the United States (like support for an insurrection) is grounds for denial of clearance, where you do get to sit in a little room in Northern Virginia for however long it takes to go through the administrative procedures (which can easily be over a year). So anybody who has anything solid on this guy, drop a dime on him to the FBI.

Happy reading.

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thecommodore  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:02:30pm

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

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boo fucking hoo

Always the victim.

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ckkatz  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:07:05pm

re: #147 thecommodore

That would work.

Taters for short. If they get beat badly, people would say “damn, the taters got mashed!” Or fried.
Or scalloped.

Dang! Now I’m getting hungry

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nines09  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:13:25pm

re: #137 Charles Johnson

Nothing like the non stop in depth Trump supporter interviews at all…..
“BREAKING: We are here at Cop A Squat Diner in beautiful Burn Barrel Pennsylvania. Some folks in Dead Deer County think Trump is not getting the respect, adulation, worship and unwavering support that white people once held and are upset about it.
We will speak to them. But first, this….”

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danarchy  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:14:16pm

re: #98 BigPapa

I was questioning whether to even post that here it’s so deranged and pitiful.

We’ve lost a lot of people.

See, I see that and I see someone, who as the Brits say, is taking the piss.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:14:28pm
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Nyet  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:16:21pm

I like my lies medium rare.

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jeffreyw  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:16:29pm

re: #155 thecommodore

It’s the Big Lie of the week. One of the early ones was NO COLLUSION NO OBSTRUCTION.

The Big Lie Of the Year of the Week.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:18:03pm
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ckkatz  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:21:01pm

Here’s a current list of _current_ plans for DC Inauguration related closures. I would guess that this list can change at a moment’s notice.

Additionally, while I have lived in the area for many decades, I do not always remember what roads are one way in what direction at what time; nor what turns are permitted and when. Let alone who can park on what street at what time. Nor will I be able to remember all of these changes let alone the ones that are enacted after this list was compiled.

I remember that generally having LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) attention in a time of tension is usually not a good thing. Nor is getting attention from trouble-makers generally a good thing.

I think that I will not venture into DC the next few days.

LIST: Here’s what is closed and restricted for inauguration events in DC

wusa9.com

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nines09  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:25:10pm

Have a great Sunday night. If you do not follow this sanctuary, do. Sweet, sweet, sweet.

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TedStriker  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:25:41pm

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m not Jewish, but even I know Andres is a real mensch.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:28:24pm

re: #167 TedStriker

He certainly is. :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:28:29pm
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TarHellion  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:29:42pm

Mahomes out for Chiefs with concussion. Browns pull within a score.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:30:40pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:31:44pm
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jeffreyw  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:33:04pm
Only some demonstrators supported President Trump; others said they had come to voice their support for gun rights or oppose government overreach.

Only some - what a difference a mocked failure makes. This one seems to have a few too many fathers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:33:40pm
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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:34:40pm

re: #162 Nyet

I like my lies medium rare.

Medium rare. With extra burrito sauce.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:36:33pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:37:11pm

Preach on, Joe!

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Jebediah, RBG  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:37:45pm

re: #71 Dangerman

Better yet give him an impossibly hard job then maybe he can be fired for cause

Would refusing to do one’s job in accordance with the Biden policy agenda constitute cause? I don’t know but I’m thinking maybe, since that agenda eventually becomes simply one’s supervisor saying “do this, and do it this way.” If the magat is clever enough to avoid direct insubordination by refusing and instead chooses to just do a piss-poor job of it, wouldn’t the resulting terrible job performance also count as cause?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:40:18pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:41:51pm

re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cowards.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:42:54pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:42:56pm
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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:44:02pm

re: #182 Charles Johnson

That’s it. I’m voting for him.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:44:20pm
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danarchy  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:46:53pm

re: #177 thedopefishlives

Preach on, Joe!

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I just got off the phone with my mom. Apparently one of my parents best friends tested positive for Covid. He has been home for the past week and just told my mom he was going to the grocery store because he was out of food. She told him he couldn’t do that and offered to go for him but she couldn’t talk him out of it. He said he was feeling fine and he would wear a mask. I am so pissed, if I knew the dudes last name I would report him to someone.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:48:07pm

re: #185 danarchy

I just got off the phone with my mom. Apparently one of my parents best friends tested positive for Covid. He has been home for the past week and just told my mom he was going to the grocery store because he was out of food. She told him he couldn’t do that and offered to go for him but she couldn’t talk him out of it. He said he was feeling fine and he would wear a mask. I am so pissed, if I knew the dudes last name I would report him to someone.

Depending on where they live, having someone deliver groceries (Instacart, Shipt) is an option. We even have those services here, where we don’t have food delivery services like Grubhub/Doordash.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:48:27pm
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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:49:12pm

Wife Unit calls from store:
‘Do you want pizza sauce or those tomatos you asked for?

‘If they have the San Marzano tomatos in the can, get those.’

‘I’ll get the pizza sauce. It’s only 14oz so we won’t waste leftovers.’

‘Wait, what’s the cost difference?”

‘$1.85.’

‘Get the San Marzano tomatoes in the can. The price diff is half of the coffee you had this morning. DEATH STARE THROUGH PHONE’

‘OK Baby!’

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:49:37pm
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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:54:07pm

Stand back and stand by.

Jan 6.

Case closed.

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Jack Burton  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:54:34pm

re: #100 thecommodore

All the Oogly Boogly stuff aside…

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All kidding aside, I really do not see any major pressing reason for the KC Chiefs or the Golden State Warriors to change their names. Those words have means outside of references to Native Americans good or bad. Chief and Warrior are not even native terms. They are terms white people used for them and always have had other meanings as generic terms to describe someone who leads and someone who fights. Remove any mascots or symbolism that’s problematic, rename Arrowhead Stadium, and move on. KC could change the symbol to a locomotive or something and you could put a Klingon on the damn GSW logo.

Altanta Braves on the other hand, harder to argue this.

Cleveland Indians. Why is that still a thing?

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danarchy  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:55:07pm

re: #186 thedopefishlives

Depending on where they live, having someone deliver groceries (Instacart, Shipt) is an option. We even have those services here, where we don’t have food delivery services like Grubhub/Doordash.

Oh, he could absolutely do delivery, they live in south east Massachusetts, it isn’t like they are out in the boonies. I’m sure there is a stop&shop within a mile of his house that will either deliver directly or through peapod.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:57:46pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:58:09pm

re: #192 danarchy

Oh, he could absolutely do delivery, they live in south east Massachusetts, it isn’t like they are out in the boonies. I’m sure there is a stop&shop within a mile of his house that will either deliver directly or through peapod.

Yeah. That’s what we did after we tested positive. Mrs. Fish enjoyed the experience so much, we now always have our groceries delivered. In fact, we’ve got a delivery scheduled for later tonight.

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ipsos  Jan 17, 2021 • 2:59:23pm

re: #191 Jack Burton

Cleveland Indians. Why is that still a thing?

This will be the last year of it. They’ve already announced a rebranding coming for 2022.

Which is still 30 years too late, but at least it’s happening.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:02:54pm
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Greup  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:03:02pm

I hope Biden gets the whole news cycle for a few days after the inauguration.
But I have a hunch that one of the big stories will be the avalanche of court cases filed regarding Trump the moment Biden is sworn in from both the feds, states and private companies since the date on the paper, and the order of cases might be important, especially if it is suspected that there isn’t enough money to satisfy all the claims.

We will see in a few days.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:04:19pm
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TarHellion  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:07:10pm

Wow! Chiefs THROW on 4th and inches to clinch game! Andy Reid with major cajones!

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:07:16pm
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ckkatz  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:08:07pm

re: #108 Belafon

I have been thinking about QAnon, their delusions, and my relationship to this site. I love being here and getting news and everything else, but it has consumed me needing to be so up-to-the-minute. I blame Trump and Republicans for that, but I also realize that I won’t stop unless I take a break and get through some withdrawal symptoms. So, probably starting on Thursday, I will need to sign off here for a bit for mental health reasons.

Last night I was thinking about whether my LGF use case was changing after January 20th. Hopefully I will not need to spend so many hours doomscrolling through different social media. And it is time to start planning for the beginning of spring yardwork season. Plus there are a number of projects that I want to move closer towards completion.

I do think that LGF will remain a primary source for me.

I had heard that many organizations are facing this same issue. Somewhere I read that MSNBC was talking to all their leads about the direction of the network after January 20th. Lincoln Project has already announced their intended post inaugural direction. I have no doubt that this is playing out in a lot of places.

But yes, the current administration was, essentially, a serial abuser. And many would benefit from a breather to do some healing.

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danarchy  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:09:03pm

re: #199 TarHellion

Wow! Chiefs THROW on 4th and inches to clinch game! Andy Reid with major cajones!

This is one of those instances where if it works you have cajones, if it doesn’t you are just a dumbass.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:09:06pm

re: #199 TarHellion

Wow! Chiefs THROW on 4th and inches to clinch game! Andy Reid with major cajones!

Browns almost managed a hella comeback there. Well, it’s looking like a GB/KC Superb Owl this year now.

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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:09:39pm

If you educate people about addicting drugs you risk romanticizing people to those drugs.

Keep that in mind when talking about CT/Qanon.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:10:02pm
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TarHellion  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:10:49pm

re: #197 Greup

In “normal” times, we would be getting soft-focus features on Biden - his achievements, his challenges, his incredible perseverance. We would have transitioned as a country and be ready to move forward.

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TarHellion  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:12:09pm

re: #203 William Lewis

Depends if Mahomes can play. Buffalo is playing as well as anyone right now, especially on defense.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:13:10pm

There were just so many conservative lies, all of which translate to Democrats bad.

Here is someone who has no idea how the visa lottery actually works, he just knows that Donald Trump said it was bad (since conservatives have wanted to mostly end immigration and strip my citizenship my whole life)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:14:09pm

re: #205 Dread Pirate Ron

Six months. I’m sure the GOP is quaking at the thought. SIX. MONTHS. Oh, the horror.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:14:17pm

re: #207 TarHellion

Depends if Mahomes can play. Buffalo is playing as well as anyone right now, especially on defense.

I admit I am presuming that. A Rogers/Mahomes matchup would be fun though.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:14:26pm

re: #202 danarchy

This is one of those instances where if it works you have cajones, if it doesn’t you are just a dumbass.

Just ask the Seahawks…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:15:30pm

re: #210 William Lewis

I admit I am presuming that. A Rogers/Mahomes matchup would be fun though.

That would be a shootout to end all shootouts. I admit I’ve become a bit of a Rodgers fan over the last decade or so, despite never being anything resembling a Packers fan at any point.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:15:51pm

Every Christmas DC 33 gives ShopRite gift cards to their members. I just went over to the ShopRite website and was put into an online waiting room. That was weird. Google Maps had the opening time of 7:00 AM. I will try to get there around that time.

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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:16:36pm

re: #79 Charles Johnson

Ooh. You drew an anti-mask nutter. Good work!

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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:19:16pm

QaWomp Womp.

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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:19:18pm

re: #86 nines09

“He’s a pehty bastard”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:19:20pm

re: #200 Charles Johnson

Cletus Safaris aren’t interesting enough for the press. Qloons are much more interesting.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:19:55pm

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Cletus Safaris aren’t interesting enough for the press. Qloons are much more interesting.

The media find it easy to sensationalize crazy people. Rednecks aren’t usually crazy, just feral.

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steve_davis  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:20:35pm

Wow. Watching an Avengers episode, and he’s opening Christmas cards with Mrs. Peel. “Mrs. Gale!” he exclaims in surprise, looking at a card. “What _can_ she be doing at Ft. Knox?” Just when I think I’ve seen every moment of every episode, along comes something I’d never noticed before. (Honore Blackman left the Avengers to co-star in Goldfinger, with Ft. Knox being a large part of the plot therein).

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:21:07pm

re: #210 William Lewis

I admit I am presuming that. A Rogers/Mahomes matchup would be fun though.

Ah, well, now we can just hope that Brees sends Shady Brady home.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:21:17pm

re: #153 BigPapa

I like that people are using the term Big Lie now. It’s appropriate. But which one? There’s so many Big Lies. There’s Medium and Small Lies too.

Trump only gets the Supersized ones.
//

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:21:58pm

re: #220 William Lewis

Ah, well, now we can just hope that Brees sends Shady Brady home.

Now Brees I’ve been a fan of for a very long time. He was my boi after Peyton retired.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:22:08pm

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

She still has it as of a couple seconds ago.

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danarchy  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:22:45pm

WWE has a lot of issues and has had it’s fair share of bad press, but a lot of the WWE superstars prove to be pretty good people, or they have good PR teams.

msn.com

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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:23:13pm

re: #93 nines09

Only “real” patriots piss on the United States Capitol.

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TarHellion  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:23:25pm

re: #212 thedopefishlives

Green Bay drafting a quarterback last year lit a fire under Rodgers. That offense is operating with tremendous precision. Would love to see a repeat of Super Bowl I - which officially was known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. Fun fact about that game: There were two second half kickoffs because NBC - which had the AFL contract - was not out of commercial when the OK to kick off was given by CBS - which had the NFL contract.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:25:07pm

re: #222 thedopefishlives

Now Brees I’ve been a fan of for a very long time. He was my boi after Peyton retired.

Rumor is he will probably retire after this season so today could be his last game.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:26:08pm

re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg

Rumor is he will probably retire after this season so today could be his last game.

It would be great if he could follow in Peyton’s footsteps and hang up his cleats while he’s on top. My whole family adores him, since he’s a Purdue grad, where my father also got his degree.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:27:04pm

re: #228 thedopefishlives

Huge Saints fan here. Agree with you 100%.

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Mattand  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:28:50pm

re: #201 ckkatz

Last night I was thinking about whether my LGF use case was changing after January 20th. Hopefully I will not need to spend so many hours doomscrolling through different social media. And it is time to start planning for the beginning of spring yardwork season. Plus there are a number of projects that I want to move closer towards completion.

I do think that LGF will remain a primary source for me.

I had heard that many organizations are facing this same issue. Somewhere I read that MSNBC was talking to all their leads about the direction of the network after January 20th. Lincoln Project has already announced their intended post inaugural direction. I have no doubt that this is playing out in a lot of places.

But yes, the current administration was, essentially, a serial abuser. And many would benefit from a breather to do some healing.

I found that my MSNBC viewings have dropped off a cliff, because they were basically repeating everything I had read about during the day. I really am not learning anything new when I watch them.

I’ll probably keep up the same reading pace after Tuesday, though. I have a feeling I’m going to be dealing with a lot of “Why hasn’t Biden solved four years’ worth of disasters in 100 days????” bullshit from conservative and ‘independent’ acquaintances.

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Mattand  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:30:17pm

re: #213 PhillyPretzel

Every Christmas DC 33 gives ShopRite gift cards to their members. I just went over to the ShopRite website and was put into an online waiting room. That was weird. Google Maps had the opening time of 7:00 AM. I will try to get there around that time.

ShopRite’s app and overall web presence is frigging abysmal. We’ve had similar problems.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:31:53pm

re: #191 Jack Burton

All kidding aside, …

Altanta Braves on the other hand, harder to argue this.

Cleveland Indians. Why is that still a thing?

Naming arguments are what progressives do when they won’t or can’t do anything real. Get rid of a couple insults and double the appropriations for health clinics in the Nations.

If you want to rename Alabama, I have a couple suggestions.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:31:55pm

re: #231 Mattand

Thanks. As I said Google Maps had the opening time.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:32:23pm

re: #232 Decatur Deb

Naming arguments are what progressives do when they won’t or can’t do anything real. Get rid of a couple insults and double the appropriations for health clinics in the Nations.

If you want to rename Alabama, I have a couple suggestions.

Northwest Florida?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:34:22pm

As for post 1/20 LGF, I’m looking forward to NOT talking about politics as much.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:34:33pm

re: #234 thedopefishlives

Northwest Florida?

Florida is still trying to get us to take the poor half of the panhandle, but they won’t come up with the child support.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:34:49pm

re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg

As for post 1/20 LGF, I’m looking forward to NOT talking about politics as much.

You’re right. We can go back to pineapple on pizza.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:34:50pm

re: #234 thedopefishlives

Northwest Florida?

Or East Texas.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:35:53pm

re: #150 BigPapa

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From what my friends in Western PA & West Virginia are telling me—Derrick Evans’ shenanigans pissed Joe Manchin off but he got even more pissed off when he saw The New Yorker video of the assholes rummaging thru Senators desks and stealing classified documents.

Bob Casey also blew his stack over the desk pilfering…and when FuckFace Hawley allegedly said those traitors had a right to do that, Casey blew up at Hawley and Cruz and almost came to blows with them…

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sagehen  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:36:31pm

I just heard from my wingnut sister; she’s still all-in on “Antifa did all the damage”. She insists the boogaloos are a tiny little nothing, and right-wingers aren’t nearly as dangerous as our “fake news mainstream media” suggests. She tells me that the plot to kidnap and kill the Michigan governor wasn’t a real danger, just some silly LARPers, that if they’d really wanted to do such a thing they’d have done it. Because the right wing is so well-trained, so disciplined, if they were serious about they’d have achieved their aims.

Also, that no police anywhere have done anything wrong. And “defund the police” has them feeling so embattled we’re lucky they all don’t just quit their jobs and go home to protect their families. Same with the military; because Antifa is the real danger.

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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:37:25pm

re: #237 thedopefishlives

You’re right. We can go back to pineapple on pizza.

LGF Third Rail Bullshit

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Mattand  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:37:34pm

re: #237 thedopefishlives

You’re right. We can go back to pineapple on pizza.

And the inhuman monsters who endorse that.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:37:44pm

re: #239 🌹UOJB!

From what my friends in Western PA & West Virginia are telling me—Derrick Evans’ shenanigans pissed Joe Manchin off but he got even more pissed off when he saw The New Yorker video of the assholes rummaging thru Senators desks and stealing classified documents.

Bob Casey also blew his stack over the desk pilfering…and when FuckFace Hawley allegedly said those traitors had a right to do that, Casey blew up at Hawley and Cruz and almost came to blows with them…

Quoth Mrs. Fish: “Wait, there are higher-ups that APPROVED of those things?” Um, yeah. Why do you think I’ve been on my “All Republicans are bad” rant for the last week and a half?

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:37:55pm

re: #240 sagehen

When my relatives post the same BS it goes into one ear…and out my ass…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:38:04pm

re: #242 Mattand

And the inhuman monsters who endorse that.

You’re right, I’m not human. I’m a reptilian overlord.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:38:09pm

re: #205 Dread Pirate Ron

“for at least six months”
Absolutely useless. Those Republicans will be running for re-election in two years which is beyond the two year ban. How convenient.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:39:39pm

re: #243 thedopefishlives

But in seriousness, we could use a good fistfight on the Senate floor. Bring back some of the spirit of the Caning of Charles Sumner. (Although that one was in the wrong direction.)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:40:02pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:40:04pm

re: #201 ckkatz

Last night I was thinking about whether my LGF use case was changing after January 20th. Hopefully I will not need to spend so many hours doomscrolling through different social media. And it is time to start planning for the beginning of spring yardwork season. Plus there are a number of projects that I want to move closer towards completion.

I do think that LGF will remain a primary source for me.

I had heard that many organizations are facing this same issue. Somewhere I read that MSNBC was talking to all their leads about the direction of the network after January 20th. Lincoln Project has already announced their intended post inaugural direction. I have no doubt that this is playing out in a lot of places.

But yes, the current administration was, essentially, a serial abuser. And many would benefit from a breather to do some healing.

LGF is a community to me. With everyone’s differing interests I keep up on all kinds of current events, learn new stuff daily, and feel like I have friends, something that I don’t have a lot of IRL (moving from the big city to a small town at 50, now 60, I have a great family but no personal friends). And let’s be real, now isn’t a great time to want to be with friends anyway.

I’m not going anywhere. You guys mean a lot to me.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:40:48pm

re: #249 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

LGF is a community to me. With everyone’s differing interests I keep up on all kinds of current events, learn new stuff daily, and feel like I have friends, something that I don’t have a lot of IRL (moving from the big city to a small town at 50, now 60, I have a great family but no personal friends). And let’s be real, now isn’t a great time to want to be with friends anyway.

I’m not going anywhere. You guys mean a lot to me.

We’ve grown into a family, those of us who are newer and those of us who’ve been around a while all together.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:41:03pm

I want to see Kavanaugh dragged back to the House Judiciary Committee and questioned about the Sugar Daddy that paid off his debts…and then nail Slappy Thomas over his wife’s involvement in the coup.

Then I want to see them drag every possible asshole Trump put on the bench and explain who paid them off

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Mattand  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:41:58pm

re: #239 🌹UOJB!

From what my friends in Western PA & West Virginia are telling me—Derrick Evans’ shenanigans pissed Joe Manchin off but he got even more pissed off when he saw The New Yorker video of the assholes rummaging thru Senators desks and stealing classified documents.

Bob Casey also blew his stack over the desk pilfering…and when FuckFace Hawley allegedly said those traitors had a right to do that, Casey blew up at Hawley and Cruz and almost came to blows with them…

IIRC, the idiot who had his feet up on Pelosi’s desk stole a document and claimed he left a quarter behind, because that somehow made it a legal transaction.

As a reminder, this is a guy in his late 50’s, barely a few years older than me, navigating this world with the mentality of an 11 year old.

In a perfect world, all of these fuckheads would get 10 years minimum with no chance of parole for Jan 6th.

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calochortus  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:42:09pm

re: #250 thedopefishlives

We’ve grown into a family, those of us who are newer and those of us who’ve been around a while all together.

Even those of us who don’t post all that often. :)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:42:52pm

re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg

As for post 1/20 LGF, I’m looking forward to NOT talking about politics as much.

No such luck. There’s always an election going on somewhere.

Virginia and New Jersey have gubernatorial elections this year.
ballotpedia.org

There are 748 executive seats spread across 13 distinct types of offices in the United States. Of the 13 executive offices, only seven exist in all 50 states: governor, attorney general, superintendent of schools, insurance commissioner, agriculture commissioner, labor commissioner and public service commissioner.

Other common offices include lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, controller, auditor and natural resources commissioner.

April 6 is the Consolidated Election in Cook County, Ill. About 700 school board candidates are on the ballot for 145 seats. Municipal seats are up all over the state.

Statewide in Illinois is the Consolidated Primary election on February 23 for municipal candidates.

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Mattand  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:43:21pm

re: #250 thedopefishlives

We’ve grown into a family, those of us who are newer and those of us who’ve been around a while all together.

Yeah, well, I didn’t get my fire-breathing, gold plated unicorn with Bluetooth for my birthday.

AGAIN.

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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:44:33pm

re: #228 thedopefishlives

Brees is one of those guys I just knew was going to be great in the NFL.

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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:45:35pm

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

My NFC teams are the Packers and Saints.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:45:38pm

Why do I consider LGF to be a safe space?

Answer—because I know nobody will ever approve of a Gohmert Pizza covered with asparagus and drenched in hollandaise sauce! 😉

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:46:31pm

re: #258 🌹UOJB!

Why do I consider LGF to be a safe space?

Answer—because I know nobody will ever approve of a Gohmert Pizza covered with asparagus and drenched in hollandaise sauce! 😉

I had pizza for dinner. That is now seeming like a mistake.

Side note: Domino’s has a “bacon cheeseburger” pizza that has ketchup and mustard for sauce. Part of me is tempted to try it, part of me is revolted.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:47:26pm

re: #250 thedopefishlives

We’ve grown into a family, those of us who are newer and those of us who’ve been around a while all together.

Once the Trumpian Plague is over, it would be kewl to have a “family reunion” somewhere (get a group rate on a hotel, &c).

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:48:23pm

re: #260 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Once the Trumpian Plague is over, it would be kewl to have a “family reunion” somewhere (get a group rate on a hotel, &c).

I’d drive for that. I’ve offered to meet some of the MN lizards if they’re ever in my neck of the woods; seems like I’m the only one in Wingnut Central, the rest of them are fortunate enough to live in saner climes.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:49:52pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:51:51pm

re: #258 🌹UOJB!

Why do I consider LGF to be a safe space?

Answer—because I know nobody will ever approve of a Gohmert Pizza covered with asparagus and drenched in hollandaise sauce! 😉

Sorry. Asparagus on pizza is a real (Italian) thing. My favorites usually include artichoke.
Italians will put anything the customer wants on a pizza, including Pizza Hawaiana for the Germans overrunning Lake Garda.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:52:48pm

re: #263 Decatur Deb

Sorry. Asparagus on pizza is a real (Italian) thing. My favorites usually include artichoke.
Italians will put anything the customer wants on a pizza, including Pizza Hawaiana for the Germans overrunning Lake Garda.

The first thing Mrs. Fish and I ate on landing in Rome was a basil pesto pizza. It was also one of the best things we had, next to the gnocchi she ordered a few days in from the restaurant that we wound up favoring the most.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:53:24pm

re: #237 thedopefishlives

You’re right. We can go back to pineapple on pizza.

Opposing pineapple is the root cause of insurrection, K? < whistles innocently >

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ckkatz  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:54:26pm

re: #230 Mattand

I found that my MSNBC viewings have dropped off a cliff, because they were basically repeating everything I had read about during the day. I really am not learning anything new when I watch them.

I’ll probably keep up the same reading pace after Tuesday, though. I have a feeling I’m going to be dealing with a lot of “Why hasn’t Biden solved four years’ worth of disasters in 100 days????” bullshit from conservative and ‘independent’ acquaintances.

I agree, there will probably be a lot of silliness and invented silliness from the various media. Much of it, I will view as trial balloons by anonymous republican operative sources. Essentially throwing plates of crap against a wall to see what might stick.

As you point to, Trump provided a lot of content. Which the media loved because it brought in a lot of terrified viewers. Going back to quiet competence and non-life threatening activities will be a difficult thing for the media.

I also agree that MSNBC rarely matches the quality of raw information provided by the many alert and knowledgeable lizards here.

I use MSNBC for a couple of things…

I have generally found Rachel Maddow, in particular, very useful when she focuses for a whole segment on a particular issue. It reduces some of the assembly I would ordinarily have to do on my own.

I also have found useful the fact that network has access to a good list of the movers and shakers in Congress. This provides, at least for me a more complete understanding of key players’ views. I suspect that MSNBC will also have good access to the Biden Administration.

Finally, I have found that I can concentrate on making dinner whilst half listening to the shows.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:56:23pm

I just finished working my 2020 income taxes.

My federal taxes went UP compared to 2019 and my refund went WAY DOWN…

Meanwhile Coworkers are pissed off about the FICA whammy since Trump stopped FICA withholding for Federal employees and now folks will pay double the FICA tax PLUS penalties until they are caught up…

I’m one of the lucky ones who knew Reagan was full of shit when he changed the Federal Employee Retirement System in 1984. I did not switch to it, kept my old Civil Service plan which spared me from Trump’s Stop FICA withholding scam!

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:56:51pm

re: #267 🌹UOJB!

My refund is about the same as it was. I think I adjusted my withholdings this year to make sure.

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Jack Burton  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:57:40pm

re: #258 🌹UOJB!

Why do I consider LGF to be a safe space?

Answer—because I know nobody will ever approve of a Gohmert Pizza covered with asparagus and drenched in hollandaise sauce! 😉

lolwut?

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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:57:54pm

I think it would be delightful to meet up somewhere. Hopefully we can some day.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 3:58:22pm

re: #194 thedopefishlives

Yeah. That’s what we did after we tested positive. Mrs. Fish enjoyed the experience so much, we now always have our groceries delivered. In fact, we’ve got a delivery scheduled for later tonight.

If my wife and I tested positive, we’d be fuqued on getting groceries. Perhaps someone in town would do it for us (particularly with an offer of payment), but there are no such delivery services here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:01:07pm

re: #242 Mattand

And the inhuman monsters who endorse that.

Pineapple on Pizza
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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:01:42pm

The Chefs (Chiefs) are the new Patriots. They are going to dominate for a couple of decades.

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Mattand  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:03:11pm

re: #266 ckkatz

My big problem with Maddow is that she gets stuck in these goto loops where she rephrases the same point five different ways, while the same 8 seconds of video is repeated ad nasuem during the segment.

That said, she’s by far the best journalist on TV. It’s not even close. That’s why it’s so painful to know that Chuck Todd is somehow her boss.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:03:55pm

When we first moved to Italy wife heard of the Asparagus Festival around Bassano. She drove up and bought a bunch, including the labor-intensive white variety. We were still not used to the 1000 Lira/Dollar thing, and realized she had spent 40 bucks on graze. She was visiting the new neighbors that afternoon and mentioned it.

“Ah, but you bought the blanco. It’s prized!”
“I didn’t know I was buying breeding stock.”

They all laughed and had asparagus sandwiches with mayo.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:04:59pm

re: #252 Mattand

IIRC, the idiot who had his feet up on Pelosi’s desk stole a document and claimed he left a quarter behind, because that somehow made it a legal transaction.

As a reminder, this is a guy in his late 50’s, barely a few years older than me, navigating this world with the mentality of an 11 year old.

In a perfect world, all of these fuckheads would get 10 years minimum with no chance of parole for Jan 6th.

What’s even better is the “document” he stole was a piece of mail. Never, ever piss off a postal inspector. You’ll find yourself in prison for a long, long time.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:05:40pm

re: #271 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If my wife and I tested positive, we’d be fuqued on getting groceries. Perhaps someone in town would do it for us (particularly with an offer of payment), but there are no such delivery services here.

Speaking of which, your comment was timed with the arrival of said groceries. Now we have both mayo and Miracle Whip in this house again. Also, water softener salt and curry paste.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:07:30pm

re: #268 thedopefishlives

My refund is about the same as it was. I think I adjusted my withholdings this year to make sure.

Mine is as well ($0 on no tax paid or income received).

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:09:02pm

Why are they remaking this?

Damn I loved the original Toho film with Kong always stoned from eating big red berries.

Yeah King Kong took the red pills in the original…

Godzilla Vs. Kong 2021 - Teaser

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:09:47pm

re: #261 thedopefishlives

I’d drive for that. I’ve offered to meet some of the MN lizards if they’re ever in my neck of the woods; seems like I’m the only one in Wingnut Central, the rest of them are fortunate enough to live in saner climes.

Well no matter where it’s held we’d probably have to drive to it. I’m pretty sure no one here wants to take over a motel in Scottsbluff or Alliance (even if we can make a side trip to Carhenge).

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:11:22pm

re: #272 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If I put pineapple on a pizza it has to have Pina colada sauce along with shaved coconut and be topped with powdered sugar.

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:11:53pm

re: #260 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Once the Trumpian Plague is over, it would be kewl to have a “family reunion” somewhere (get a group rate on a hotel, &c).

I’m going to try to set something up for the Metroplex and anyone that wants to drive up.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:12:22pm

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well no matter where it’s held we’d probably have to drive to it. I’m pretty sure no one here wants to take over a motel in Scottsbluff or Alliance (even if we can make a side trip to Carhenge).

Yes, I was saying that I would be willing to do that. I don’t drive hours out of my way for just anybody. ;)

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:12:43pm

re: #281 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If I put pineapple on a pizza it has to have Pina colada sauce along with shaved coconut and be topped with powdered sugar.

Might work.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:13:50pm

re: #282 Belafon

I’m going to try to set something up for the Metroplex and anyone that wants to drive up.

Which metroplex? I call my town “the greater Broadwater metroplex” but mostly as a tongue-in-cheek joke.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:15:53pm

omaha.com
Lee Greenwood’s signature bourbon will be made at La Vista distillery

Sorry about that, Omaha.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:16:10pm

re: #125 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I haven’t been on regularly as much though still engaged with the news. It makes me feel all sorts of emotions. I’ve felt anger, sadness, confusion, and uncertainty a lot the past year but especially now. I’m not someone who is saying I told ya so about Trump, it’s more like a silent anger at the people who has supported this madness without question and disparaged people like us. Wasn’t only a month ago that they scoffed at the idea of a coup attempt. Well what we saw last week was a coup attempt. We went full fucking circle from 9/11. Those terrorist assholes on the Capitol succeeded where the hijackers of 93 could not.

I had noticed that you hadn’t been contributing as much to the conversation but hope you will be resuming your regular discourse here. We are heading into unchartered waters — a post-Trump era, with a Democratic President and Democrats in charge (barely) of both Houses and at least 60 million people inflamed by lies spewed by the President and his enablers about the legitimacy of the election and the character of the incoming administration.

On CNN, William Cohen just compared the New Yorker footage of the siege to scenes from World War Z — where those infected with the virus stormed the walls everywhere. He said we need to be angry about what’s happening to our country — that there is a moral rot descending on our country.

Let’s hope that this virus loses its potency over the next few months or our nation may not recover from this fascist interlude.

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BigPapa  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:17:52pm

Sweary Aussie Cooking Show: Risotto
I’m obsessed.

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:18:31pm

re: #279 🌹UOJB!

Why are they remaking this?

Damn I loved the original Toho film with Kong always stoned from eating big red berries.

Yeah King Kong took the red pills in the original…

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This is the third in the American Godzilla movies, the fourth if you consider the Skull Island movie which is referenced in Godzilla, King of Monsters, with a Godzilla like the Japanese one.

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sagehen  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:19:32pm

re: #275 Decatur Deb

When we first moved to Italy wife heard of the Asparagus Festival around Bassano. She drove up and bought a bunch, including the labor-intensive white variety. We were still not used to the 1000 Lira/Dollar thing, and realized she had spent 40 bucks on graze. She was visiting the new neighbors that afternoon and mentioned it.

“Ah, but you bought the blanco. It’s prized!”
“I didn’t know I was buying breeding stock.”

They all laughed and had asparagus sandwiches with mayo.

California also has an asparagus festival.

sanjoaquinasparagusfestival.net

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:19:57pm

re: #285 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Which metroplex? I call my town “the greater Broadwater metroplex” but mostly as a tongue-in-cheek joke.

When you capitalize it, it refers to the DFW area.

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still stpaulbear  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:20:01pm

re: #274 Mattand

My big problem with Maddow is that she gets stuck in these goto loops where she rephrases the same point five different ways, while the same 8 seconds of video is repeated ad nasuem during the segment.

That said, she’s by far the best journalist on TV. It’s not even close. That’s why it’s so painful to know that Chuck Todd is somehow her boss.

I think that’s something that she conscientiously picked up from Fox News. They hammer the same talking points endlessly, and their audience eats it up. I think she’s had discussions about the tactic on-air with guests.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:20:22pm
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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:20:38pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:22:02pm

I feel safer (Scottsbluff Star-Herald)

Record gun sales leading to ammunition shortages in Lincoln, elsewhere

The tumult and uncertainty of last year led a record number of people to purchase firearms in the U.S., and that’s leading to a shortage of ammunition.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation performed nearly 39.7 million firearm background checks last year, 11.3 million more than in 2019.

Not all those background checks were for firearm sales, but data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation suggests sales last year hit 21 million, a 60% increase over 2019 and 34% more than the previous record.

Kevin Bahr, manager of Nebraska Gun in Lincoln, said there have been similar demand spikes in the past, such as after the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, but the difference is how long it has lasted this time.

Bahr said demand for firearms and ammunition spiked after the coronavirus pandemic started, and it has been pretty high ever since.

(more)

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:23:52pm

re: #290 sagehen

California also has an asparagus festival.

sanjoaquinasparagusfestival.net

I grow my own. This the second year for the new 20-foot bed, so we’ll be able to harvest for a couple weeks in June. The old bed yielded for 15 years.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:28:27pm

re: #295 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I feel safer (Scottsbluff Star-Herald)

Record gun sales leading to ammunition shortages in Lincoln, elsewhere

(more)

The ammo shortages/hording is just nuts. Now that I have a 20 gauge hunting shotgun on layaway so I can chase pheasants and mallards (a Franchi Affinity semi-auto in black) the next thing I have to find is a shot shell reloading press because at least the components are still fairly available.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:29:03pm

facebook.com

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jeffreyw  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:34:35pm

re: #259 thedopefishlives

I had pizza for dinner. That is now seeming like a mistake.

Side note: Domino’s has a “bacon cheeseburger” pizza that has ketchup and mustard for sauce. Part of me is tempted to try it, part of me is revolted.

Pickle onion and mustard with lots of fresh ground black pepper and I would do one right now.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:35:21pm

I had pineapple in an al pastor burrito today…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:35:33pm

re: #297 William Lewis

The ammo shortages/hording is just nuts. Now that I have a 20 gauge hunting shotgun on layaway so I can chase pheasants and mallards (a Franchi Affinity semi-auto in black) the next thing I have to find is a shot shell reloading press because at least the components are still fairly available.

I’m not a hunter. I have enough 12 gauge ammunition for what I need. The idea of hoarding it seems reminiscent of the wingnut claims that the Social Security Administration was buying up millions of rounds of ammunition for (???).

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:35:43pm

“…A pro-Trump nonprofit group called Women for America First hosted the “Save America Rally” on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse, an oval-shaped, federally owned patch of land near the White House. But an attachment to the National Park Service public gathering permit granted to the group lists more than half a dozen people in staff positions for the event who just weeks earlier had been paid thousands of dollars by Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. Other staff scheduled to be “on site” during the demonstration have close ties to the White House.
…..

Maggie Mulvaney, a niece of former top Trump aide Mick Mulvaney, is listed on the permit attachment as the “VIP Lead.” She worked as director of finance operations for the Trump campaign, according to her LinkedIn profile. FEC records show Maggie Mulvaney was earning $5,000 every two weeks from Trump’s reelection campaign, with the most recent payment reported on Nov. 13.

…………

The AP reviewed social media posts, voter registrations, court files and other public records for more than 120 people either facing criminal charges related to the Jan. 6 unrest or who, going maskless during the pandemic, were later identified through photographs and videos taken during the melee.

The review found the crowd was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters, including Republican Party officials, GOP political donors, far-right militants, white supremacists, off-duty police, members of the military and adherents of the QAnon myth that the government is secretly controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile cannibals.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:36:09pm

re: #300 EstebanTornado1963

I had pineapple in an al pastor burrito today…

I’ve had pineapples in several salsas before, to add sweetness. Similar in concept to the extraordinarily popular mango habanero combination.

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thecommodore  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:36:51pm

I think I may have reached the final straw with my right wing Trumpist friend. In the midst of a conversation where he, apropos of nothing, decried the “hypocrisy” of condemning the Capitol Terrorist attack on 1-6 when there “wasn’t a peep in the lamestream media about BLM burning and looting” last summer, he also said that “blacks have never had it better in America,” and cited racial quotas, free education, social engineering in every media source - see any commercials without blacks in them?” and it goes downhill from there.

He is also certain that ANTIFA was behind the 1-6 attacks and not Trump supporters since conservatives always have peaceful and respectful protests.

I just can’t even…

I’ve known the guy for more than 30 years, but he’s a cultist. He needs deprogramming. I’m muting him indefinitely.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:39:20pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:40:07pm

re: #302 jaunte

Is that shot of the 3 jumbotrons with the tight Trump close-up real? That framing is straight out of the famous Macintosh “1984” commercial.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:41:30pm

re: #306 Decatur Deb

Yes, photo by John Minchillo, AP.
theintelligencer.com

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:42:38pm

Another by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Image:
bu.edu

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Decatur Deb  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:45:41pm

re: #307 jaunte

Yes, photo by John Minchillo, AP.
theintelligencer.com

Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer (HD)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:48:55pm

re: #305 jaunte

I’m no intelligence expert but I could have fucking told you before Christmas that some shit would go down on 1/6.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:49:17pm

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:50:27pm

re: #309 Decatur Deb

Directed by Ridley Scott, cost $1 million to produce, and only ran once - the 1984 Super Bowl.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:51:23pm

re: #310 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m no intelligence expert but I could have fucking told you before Christmas that some shit would go down on 1/6.

I admit, I got caught by surprise. I knew that eventually they would go berserk, but I was expecting a few stragglers and some isolated actions, not a coordinated and massive assault on the goddamned US Capitol.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:52:04pm
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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:53:20pm

It was an attempted Republican coup.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:53:53pm

re: #312 Ace Rothstein

Directed by Ridley Scott, cost $1 million to produce, and only ran once - the 1984 Super Bowl.

Only had to. The news media ran it a zillion times after that for free :)

Jobs, for all his real flaws, was a marketing genius.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:56:25pm

Watching Gladiator.
I keep forgetting how satisfying that film is.
Especially the ending.

and yes, I am entertained.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:57:14pm

re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth

Watching Gladiator.
I keep forgetting how satisfying that film is.
Especially the ending.

and yes, I am entertained.

Russell Crowe at his best, I think. I always get chills when he delivers the classic line.

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jaunte  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:58:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:58:59pm

Cool. If you reload the page, the text-only versions of embedded tweets are no longer text-only - now they’ll show images if the tweet has them. Click the image to embiggen it.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:59:39pm

re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #318 thedopefishlives

I am watching the Downton Abbey Movie. And yes I am enjoying it.

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plansbandc  Jan 17, 2021 • 4:59:56pm

re: #290 sagehen

Asparagus if absolutely delicious. I like making cream of asparagus soup.

And I would happily eat it on pizza if anyone in this town is savage enough to make it. (I don’t think so.)

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:00:10pm

re: #321 PhillyPretzel

I am watching the Downton Abbey Movie. And yes I am enjoying it.

Mrs. Fish and I are deep into our anime phase. I am walking her through Dragon Ball Z right now.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:00:29pm

re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth

Watching Gladiator.
I keep forgetting how satisfying that film is.
Especially the ending.

and yes, I am entertained.

Glorious entertainment even if the history is Braveheart level bad.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:00:40pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:01:06pm
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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:01:12pm

re: #323 thedopefishlives

Mrs. Fish and I are deep into our anime phase. I am walking her through Dragon Ball Z right now.

Have you shown her Bebop yet?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:01:47pm

re: #327 William Lewis

Have you shown her Bebop yet?

I have not. We’ve been through Inuyasha, the original Dragon Ball, and 1-1/2 seasons of Death Note so far, plus a few others.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:02:12pm
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carey94tt  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:02:27pm

re: #320 Charles Johnson

That’s near perfect Charles. Nice.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:02:50pm

re: #328 thedopefishlives

I have not. We’ve been through Inuyasha, the original Dragon Ball, and 1-1/2 seasons of Death Note so far, plus a few others.

Though it’s American, don’t forget the original Avatar.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:03:05pm
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darthstar  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:03:23pm

re: #300 EstebanTornado1963

I had pineapple in an al pastor burrito today…

That’ll be two stations of the cross and a rosary.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:03:38pm

re: #331 William Lewis

Though it’s American, don’t forget the original Avatar.

We did that one, and Korra as well. I forgot - we started Naruto, but it didn’t engage her as much, so I might continue that one on my own.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:04:48pm

re: #246 Patricia Kayden

“for at least six months”
Absolutely useless. Those Republicans will be running for re-election in two years which is beyond the two year ban. How convenient.

Actually, early money is really important if you’re planning an election campaign. You need to find staff, rent office space, and all that. Plus, “at least” suggests that they’re looking for good behavior in the interim.

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raistuumum  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:05:21pm
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darthstar  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:06:16pm

re: #320 Charles Johnson

Cool. If you reload the page, the text-only versions of embedded tweets are no longer text-only - now they’ll show images if the tweet has them. Click the image to embiggen it.

Loving the features…it’s become much more mobile friendly. Have you considered creating an app? You’d probably need to enable https, but a lightweight webview in a native app could be a fun project. Jester just did one for CoSo and it’s super compact…like 1.8mb.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:06:38pm

There’s a Special on U.S. Grant on History Channel.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:06:57pm

re: #334 thedopefishlives

We did that one, and Korra as well. I forgot - we started Naruto, but it didn’t engage her as much, so I might continue that one on my own.

I can understand that.

A black humor and bizarre one you might like is Assassination Classroom.
en.wikipedia.org

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:10:33pm

re: #339 William Lewis

I can understand that.

A black humor and bizarre one you might like is Assassination Classroom.
en.wikipedia.org

Thanks. I’ve got some good suggestions coming from another friend who has been into anime for quite some time, as well.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:12:00pm

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A recent newsmax headline: ” Biden Fills Out State Department With Obama Retreads”

I seem to recall that numerous key posts went unfilled under Trump because he could not find qualified people willing to take them.

As a huge Obama fan, that’s fine with me.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:14:26pm

re: #341 Patricia Kayden

As a huge Obama fan, that’s fine with me.

Me too. People who know their shit and can right the ship in record time. It’ll be like Trump never existed, except for the Supreme Court - hoping Kavanaugh has dirt that makes him resign and Thomas decides he’s had enough. Gorsuch I don’t hate. Barrett will have to have some kind of home crisis to make her think outside the confessional.

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still stpaulbear  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:17:14pm

re: #300 EstebanTornado1963

I had pineapple in an al pastor burrito today…

The pastor burrito is my go-to item at a local restaurant. It’s always the thing I want.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:18:11pm

re: #328 thedopefishlives

I have not. We’ve been through Inuyasha, the original Dragon Ball, and 1-1/2 seasons of Death Note so far, plus a few others.

Nobody asked, but I’m old school - Gatchaman and Space Battleship Yamato, and all that. The first season of 21st century reboot of Yamato (SBY2199) was good. (I didn’t care much for 2202).I

Assuming that you’re streaming, which service are you using? I’ve rested my subscriptions to Crunchyroll and Funimation for a bit.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:18:54pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:18:55pm

re: #344 A Three Hour Tour

Nobody asked, but I’m old school - Gatchaman and Space Battleship Yamato, and all that. The first season of 21st century reboot of Yamato (SBY2199) was good. (I didn’t care much for 2202).I

Assuming that you’re streaming, which service are you using? I’ve rested my subscriptions to Crunchyroll and Funimation for a bit.

I got on the Funimation train. Netflix has some, Hulu has an entire section dedicated to dubs, which is nice. That’s where we found Inuyasha.

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Jack Burton  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:20:28pm

re: #329 Charles Johnson

I would love to be able to visit that some day. Not going to Iraq to do it though.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:20:32pm

re: #345 darthstar

That sounds good. And with COVID-19 Bernie wants to give us more $$.

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William Lewis  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:21:32pm

re: #346 thedopefishlives

I got on the Funimation train. Netflix has some, Hulu has an entire section dedicated to dubs, which is nice. That’s where we found Inuyasha.

I have an ad sub to Hulu and the anima is one of the reasons.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:22:02pm

re: #343 stpaulbear

The pastor burrito is my go-to item at a local restaurant. It’s always the thing I want.

I do love a good al pastor burrito - I suspect the pineapple wasn’t a bad addition (at least it’s not French fries). I usually gravitate toward beans & rice and lettuce and jalapenos - just the way I like a burrito - but al pastor is one of the first meat varieties I choose, then carnitas, then steak & prawn, then chili verde, then tofu, then chicken unless there’s a burrito stuffed with a chile relleno option …that’s fuckin’ heaven.

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unproven innocence  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:23:01pm

re: #348 PhillyPretzel

That sounds good. And with COVID-19 Bernie wants to give us more $$.

I’d prefer to accept the money and decline COVID-19 offer. //

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:24:02pm

re: #351 unproven innocence

Same here.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:24:09pm

re: #349 William Lewis

I have an ad sub to Hulu and the anima is one of the reasons.

We watch the dubs because we like to still be able to catch the action when we are interrupted by fishspawn, and not have to focus on the subtitles. Finding the Hulu section, and Funimation having like 3/4 of their library as dubs, was a godsend.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:28:18pm

re: #268 thedopefishlives

My refund is about the same as it was. I think I adjusted my withholdings this year to make sure.

Ours should be ok since MrBWS got laid off (May 7, 2020) when these shenanigans were starting up.
OTOH, his estimated Social Security monthly benefit (which starts in May 2021) took a big hit since he’s been unemployed since then.

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Jack Burton  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:28:20pm

re: #353 thedopefishlives

We watch the dubs because we like to still be able to catch the action when we are interrupted by fishspawn, and not have to focus on the subtitles. Finding the Hulu section, and Funimation having like 3/4 of their library as dubs, was a godsend.

I like it when either option is available. I prefer original audio with subtitles, but there are times when I just cannot give subtitles undivided attention.

I’m not sure if non-English content on Hulu and Netflix have that ability, or if I’m just stuck with one or the other.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:29:07pm

re: #355 Jack Burton

I like it when either option is available. I prefer original audio with subtitles, but there are times when I just cannot give subtitles undivided attention.

I’m not sure if non-English content on Hulu and Netflix have that ability, or if I’m just stuck with one or the other.

I think they do, but it’s specific to a few shows. Most of them are one or the other.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:29:10pm

A take so bad it’s worthy of the NY Times pitchbot.

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darthstar  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:30:40pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:31:11pm

re: #358 darthstar

Dinesh D’umbass with the hottest of takes, as always.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:31:28pm

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ours should be ok since MrBWS got laid off (May 7, 2020) when these shenanigans were starting up.
OTOH, his estimated Social Security monthly benefit (which starts in May 2021) took a big hit since he’s been unemployed since then.

Really? I thought it went off of highest earned for a long period, not the last earned.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:32:58pm
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:34:25pm

re: #357 NO SMOCKING GUN!

A take so bad it’s worthy of the NY Times pitchbot.

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Amen. But I think a lot of it is the continuing arrests. It’s not just a lark anymore.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:35:08pm

re: #359 thedopefishlives

Dinesh D’umbass with the hottest of takes, as always.

He resembles that remark.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:36:28pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:37:28pm

re: #364 Charles Johnson

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:39:14pm

re: #364 Charles Johnson

Better safe than sorry.

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mmmirele  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:41:37pm

re: #279 🌹UOJB!

Why are they remaking this?

Damn I loved the original Toho film with Kong always stoned from eating big red berries.

Yeah King Kong took the red pills in the original…

[Embedded content]

Video

It’s all about the money. Legendary bought the rights for a lot of ca$$$h, now they’re going to dish out yet another in the series of murky as hell faux Godzilla remakes.

Stick with the originals, folks. Even when they’re campy, they’re better than this.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:41:47pm
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Romantic Heretic  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:42:47pm

So, today has mostly been spent playing Bioshock Infinite.

Because I really felt the need to kick racist, fascist assholes asses and take their names.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:43:14pm

Goddamnit. Media getting on my last nerve again.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:45:04pm

re: #294 jaunte

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HE IS WEARING A DEAD PUPPY’S HEAD ON HIS SHOULDER!!!
A DEAD PUPPY HEAD!!!

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No Malarkey!  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:45:10pm

re: #362 A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!

Amen. But I think a lot of it is the continuing arrests. It’s not just a lark anymore.

Just read an article in the Kentucky Kernel that a University of Kentucky student posted about being at the attack on Instagram and is facing charges. She is a senior economics major, and IMHO, she should be expelled without a degree, regardless of what sentence she receives.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:45:32pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:46:45pm

How about something old school like “Ge ge ge no Kitarō”

ゲゲゲの鬼太郎（昭和46年10月／1971年）

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Jack Burton  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:47:15pm

re: #347 Jack Burton

I would love to be able to visit that some day. Not going to Iraq to do it though.

Something just struck me as I was thinking of this further.

There are so many places and things I want to see in the world but will not because of the politics involved in the places. Ruins of Babylon. Pyramids of Giza. Petra. Jerusalem. Hagia Sophia. Mohenjo Daro. Great Wall of China. Forbidden City. Ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Samarkand. Red Square.

Then I though, “You know if I wasn’t already in the US and a white male who can be ignored by the crazies… I sure as fuck would be adding things in the US onto that same list, for the same reasons now. No Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, Hoover Dam, Mounds at Cahokia…”

FUCK.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:48:20pm

re: #362 A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!

Amen. But I think a lot of it is the continuing arrests. It’s not just a lark anymore.

January 6th WAS a wake-up call, just not the one the Trumpers anticipated. The law-enforcement response in the days afterward, along with their friends and relatives turning in many of their number to the authorities has shown that they don’t have the popular support they thought they had, and that the pass for their lawlessness their whiteness and professed support of Trump and “the Blue” gavr them has limits.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:49:22pm

re: #376 A Three Hour Tour

January 6th WAS a wake-up call, just not the one the Trumpers anticipated. The law-enforcement response in the days afterward, along with their friends and relatives turning in many of their number to the authorities has shown that they don’t have the popular support they thought they had, and that the pass for their lawlessness their whiteness and professed support of Trump and “the Blue” have them has limits.

That’s the part that’s funny to me. They are so isolated in their infobubble that they came home and didn’t realize how abhorrent they had become to the people closest to them, who promptly turned them in.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:53:19pm

re: #328 thedopefishlives

Don’t forget Gundam - either try Gundam Wing or Gundam 00.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 17, 2021 • 5:53:35pm

re: #376 A Three Hour Tour

January 6th WAS a wake-up call, just not the one the Trumpers anticipated. The law-enforcement response in the days afterward, along with their friends and relatives turning in many of their number to the authorities has shown that they don’t have the popular support they thought they had, and that the pass for their lawlessness their whiteness and professed support of Trump and “the Blue” have them has limits.

“Back the Blue” is pretty hollow after an assault on cops that killed one of them. It just goes to show that the “Blue Lives Matter” movement was always about white supremacy, just like we thought.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 17, 2021 • 6:03:11pm

re: #326 Charles Johnson

They’re doing some repaving a couple blocks from me and you can still see the old Yellow Car rails embedded in the street…If only they modernized those tracks…

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Belafon  Jan 17, 2021 • 6:11:03pm

re: #372 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Just read an article in the Kentucky Kernel that a University of Kentucky student posted about being at the attack on Instagram and is facing charges. She is a senior economics major, and IMHO, she should be expelled without a degree, regardless of what sentence she receives.

Do you have a link? My son is a grad student there.


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