#SongsOfComfort: Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Tong, “Rain Falling From Roof”

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“Rain Falling from the Roof,” composed by and performed with my dear friend Wu Tong 吳彤. Here’s his story of the music. #songsofcomfort #songsofchange #SDG3 #SDG12 Silkroad

“There is a story from the the Northern Song Dynasty, where a novice monk asks a renowned Zen master about the meaning of Buddhism. The master points to the raindrops falling from the eaves of a roof. The novice monk, after being perplexed for a long time, suddenly experiences an epiphany.
It was during a rainstorm that I first read this story. At that time, the entirety of humankind was dealing with the trials of the coronavirus pandemic. Upon hearing the sound of the falling raindrops, I was reminded that people depend upon peaceful coexistence with each other and with Mother Nature to live in true harmony. No one exists in isolation.”

中国北宋（公元960-公元1127）时期有个禅僧通过雨落屋檐而开悟的故事。一雨日，禅僧请教归省禅师何谓佛法根本要义，归省禅师随即指向正从屋檐滴落的雨滴，困扰很久的禅僧忽然从中体悟到了答案。当即做偈道：“檐头水滴，分明沥沥；打破乾坤，当下心息。”（从屋檐上落下来的雨滴，淅淅沥沥的洒落在地上，这声音打破了时间与空间的表象，让我感受到一颗平等的无差别的心）
也是一个雨后，我读到这个故事，不同的是，我们这个世界正在共同经历着新冠肺炎的考验。我仿佛也听到了那样的雨声，提醒着我们，人与人、人与自然之间是相互关联的，没有谁可以孤立存在。
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This video was originally released on August 14, 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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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:06:50pm

FT

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Charles Johnson  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:09:13pm
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BigPapa  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:10:13pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:10:59pm
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Dangerman  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:13:32pm
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Dangerman  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:15:31pm
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Dangerman  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:19:53pm

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Charles Johnson  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:20:18pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:21:16pm
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Jack Burton  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:22:14pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

At least 17,410,742 of them.

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jaunte  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:23:49pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

She’s trying to rewrite the history of the Trump debacle on the fly.

Along with a lot of others.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:25:08pm
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jaunte  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:29:26pm

NYT:

“…It was Mr. Perry, a member of the hard-line Freedom Caucus, who first made Mr. Trump aware that a relatively obscure Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark, the acting chief of the civil division, was sympathetic to Mr. Trump’s view that the election had been stolen, according to former administration officials who spoke with Mr. Clark and Mr. Trump.
Mr. Perry introduced the president to Mr. Clark, whose openness to conspiracy theories about election fraud presented Mr. Trump with a welcome change from the acting attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, who stood by the results of the election and had repeatedly resisted the president’s efforts to undo them.”

“As the date for Congress to affirm Mr. Biden’s victory neared, Mr. Perry and Mr. Clark discussed a plan to have the Justice Department send a letter to Georgia state lawmakers informing them of an investigation into voter fraud that could invalidate the state’s Electoral College results. Former officials who were briefed on the plan said that the department’s dozens of voter fraud investigations nationwide had not turned up enough instances of fraud to alter the outcome of the election.
Mr. Perry and Mr. Clark also discussed the plan with Mr. Trump, setting off a chain of events that nearly led to the ouster of Mr. Rosen, who had refused to send the letter.”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:31:32pm
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Dangerman  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:31:34pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

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He was never going to just go away
We’re stuck with him

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Dangerman  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:34:24pm
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jaunte  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:38:13pm

re: #16 Dangerman

That tweet is rendering oddly in Spy:

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Dangerman  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:38:54pm

re: #17 jaunte

That tweet is rendering oddly in Spy:

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I had nutin to do with it

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:41:04pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:43:30pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:46:07pm

John Cornyn threatens Senate Majority Leader, gets ratioed.

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Jack Burton  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:49:50pm

re: #19 Dread Pirate Ron

It will be really hard for him to do all that shit if they cooperate with investigations. There’s at least a dozen different things that can put him away past the next election cycle or three. Even if there’s no convictions, he’ll be tied up in bullshit for years.

Then he’ll probably be dead because he’s a morbidly obese 80+ year old with a horrific diet and a drug problem and stress is a killer.

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Nyet  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:51:14pm

re: #21 The Pie Overlord!

> what about former Democratic Presidents

Wait, Obama, Clinton and Carter will get impeached and won’t be able to run again? STOP THE PRESSES!

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Jack Burton  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:54:05pm

I will be amazed if Trump is still alive in 2024 based on how he takes care of himself considering the amount of stress he’s going to be looking at on top of being broke and like a billion dollars in debt.

I was stressing myself to near stroke about being 18k in debt… when I had a job.

Edit: meant 2024

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jaunte  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:55:47pm

re: #24 Jack Burton

He sure isn’t healthy, but I don’t think he worries at all because he’s a psycho.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:56:14pm
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jaunte  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:57:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:58:28pm

re: #20 Dread Pirate Ron

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he has NO muscles, political or otherwise

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plansbandc  Jan 23, 2021 • 6:58:31pm

re: #26 Dread Pirate Ron

Shouldn’t stolen valor be immediate cause for expulsion?

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PrairieQueen  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:01:49pm

re: #27 jaunte

One thing they’re forgetting is Trump is banking on his prestige and freedom to do all this. The lawsuits will come for him, seriously devaluing whatever he’s involved in.

Harvey Weinstein used to be a power player too, remember? As it turns out, the world got along fine without him once he got nailed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:01:55pm
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stpaulbear  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:03:16pm

re: #27 jaunte

But doesn’t impeachment give republican senators the power to make sure he’s never allowed to run again for anything? I don’t understand when the ‘logic’ is coming from.

Edit: Never mind. I figured it out. He creates the party for other insane candidates.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:03:20pm
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Jack Burton  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:03:49pm

re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth

MSNBC and CNN have, as far as I remember, hired really *bad* ideas in the past and public outcry got at least some of them shitcanned almost immediately.

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jaunte  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:05:18pm

re: #32 still stpaulbear

When it comes to political calculation, Trump will always be grandiose.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:05:47pm

re: #26 Dread Pirate Ron

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:05:58pm

re: #23 Nyet

> what about former Democratic Presidents

Wait, Obama, Clinton and Carter will get impeached and won’t be able to run again? STOP THE PRESSES!

Of course, having already served two terms, Clinton and Obama can’t run again.

Constitutionally, Jimmy Carter can run again, but since he’s very, very old, it would be pointless to do so.

If I were the Senate Majority Leader, I’d dare them to impeach any one of the three living Democratic former presidents, and see how it works out for them.

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danarchy  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:06:31pm

re: #29 plansbandc

Shouldn’t stolen valor be immediate cause for expulsion?

Cause for expulsion is whatever 2/3s of your colleagues agree it is.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:10:01pm

re: #32 still stpaulbear

But doesn’t impeachment give republican senators the power to make sure he’s never allowed to run again for anything? I don’t understand when the ‘logic’ is coming from.

Edit: Never mind. I figured it out. He creates the party for other insane candidates.

and, that way, he doesn’t even have to pretend to do the work of president.

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jaunte  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:10:49pm
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jaunte  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:12:00pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:12:08pm

re: #13 jaunte

Jeffrey Clark needs to be fired then.

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BigPapa  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:13:06pm

Lots of people high up the food chain need to be indicted.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:14:17pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:14:44pm

re: #43 BigPapa

Joe and Company are going to need a big broom and dustpan to clean things up.

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EPR-radar  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:15:44pm

re: #41 jaunte

There’s going to be command and control for some elements of the Trumpist mob of 1/6 that lead back to the White House and to Congressional Republicans.

If Trump’s Senate trial is after these stories come out, then even shitbag Senate Republicans will have a difficult time voting to acquit.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:17:22pm

re: #42 Patricia Kayden

Jeffrey Clark needs to be fired then.

And disbarred. Then prosecuted.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:19:51pm

re: #29 plansbandc

Shouldn’t stolen valor be immediate cause for expulsion?

It didn’t get Illinois Senator Mark Kirk expelled. It did cause him to lose his election campaign against Tammy Duckworth.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:22:52pm

re: #46 EPR-radar

There’s going to be command and control for some elements of the Trumpist mob of 1/6 that lead back to the White House and to Congressional Republicans.

If Trump’s Senate trial is after these stories come out, then even shitbag Senate Republicans will have a difficult time voting to acquit.

Please. They’re Republicans. They couldn’t do the right thing if it was written out for them on a 3 x 5 card using monosyllabic words.

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danarchy  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:22:57pm

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It didn’t get Illinois Senator Mark Kirk expelled. It did cause him to lose his election campaign against Tammy Duckworth.

It didn’t get Senator Blumenthal expelled or cost him re-election.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:25:16pm

re: #37 A Three Hour Tour

Of course, having already served two terms, Clinton and Obama can’t run again.

Constitutionally, Jimmy Carter can run again, but since he’s very, very old, it would be pointless to do so.

If I were the Senate Majority Leader, I’d dare them to impeach any one of the three living Democratic former presidents, and see how it works out for them.

It can bar them from running for any federal office, not just the Presidency. So Clinton and Obama are young enough to seek other offices, such as Senator or Congressman.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:28:21pm

re: #44 Patricia Kayden

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plansbandc  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:29:07pm

I guess the stolen valor thing doesn’t matter to Rs at all. I shouldn’t be surprised. They don’t give a rat’s ass about the military.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:33:23pm

BATS!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:35:36pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:36:50pm

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It didn’t get Illinois Senator Mark Kirk expelled. It did cause him to lose his election campaign against Tammy Duckworth.

Kirk lost for many reasons — but that wasn’t one of them. He never recovered his intellectual acuity after his stroke, but the fatal blow to his campaign was this exchange with Duckworth during a debate.

She had said, “My family has served this nation in uniform, going back to the Revolution. I’m a daughter of the American Revolution. I’ve bled for this nation.” In reply to this statement, Kirk mocked her by retorting: “I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington”. That snarky comment doomed his campaign; her mother may have been Thai but her father’s family traced its heritage back to the Revolution.

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sagehen  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:38:17pm

re: #44 Patricia Kayden

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cancel culture?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:39:51pm

Governor Ricketts now says that vaccinations will not proceed for 65+ and preëxisting conditions before Spring at the earliest.

It will take up to four months to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to the next priority group, including Nebraskans 65 or older, under current allocations of vaccine to the state, Gov. Pete Ricketts said Friday.

That would push vaccination of the general public in Nebraska close to June.

Estimates are based on the current allocation of 94,000 doses a month to the state and the expectation that at least 75% of the newly prioritized population of 500,000 would choose to be vaccinated.

Increased production and supply of vaccine, which President Joe Biden has identified as his initial priority, presumably could accelerate the pace of vaccination along with the possibility of an additional supplier, Ricketts noted at a news briefing.

Vaccination of people in the huge new priority category, which includes critical infrastructure workers, is likely to begin in Lancaster and Douglas counties during the first week in February, the governor said.

(more)

Vaccination timeline for 65 or older stretches into spring (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

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gwangung  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:41:53pm

re: #57 sagehen

cancel culture?

Yes, cancel culture.

It’s a culture of the right.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:42:47pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:43:25pm
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jaunte  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:46:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:46:43pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:52:01pm

re: #56 Hecuba’s daughter

Kirk lost for many reasons — but that wasn’t one of them. He never recovered his intellectual acuity after his stroke, but the fatal blow to his campaign was this exchange with Duckworth during a debate.

She had said, “My family has served this nation in uniform, going back to the Revolution. I’m a daughter of the American Revolution. I’ve bled for this nation.” In reply to this statement, Kirk mocked her by retorting: “I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington”. That snarky comment doomed his campaign; her mother may have been Thai but her father’s family traced its heritage back to the Revolution.

They was the moment I regretted ever having supported him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:56:09pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 7:57:21pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:05:47pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:06:26pm

There’s the party of free market enterprise at it again.

By the way, Senator, the state doesn’t have that authority. Twitter and Facebook have the capability of suing Nebraska into the poorhouse though.

Gotta keep those conservative voters outraged with lies and a culture war though, rather than do something useful for your constituents.

Senator seeks to fine social media giants for disabling or censoring Nebraskans’ accounts

LINCOLN — A Nebraska lawmaker wants to do what former President Donald Trump was unable to accomplish — make social media giants pay for disabling, suspending or censoring users’ accounts.

State Sen. Curt Friesen of Henderson [R-Legislative District 34], the Legislature’s Transportation and Telecommunications Committee chairman, has introduced a proposal this legislative session that would fine social media companies for violating Nebraska users’ free speech rights.

Legislative Bill 621, the Social Media Fairness Act, would hold companies to the same free speech standards as governments. Each violation would be punishable by a $100,000 fine.

(more at the Omaha World-Herald)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:11:17pm

If wingnuts start weaving a too-complicated mess of laws regarding social media companies, firms like Facebook and Twitter might just say “screw this” and shut down their platforms entirely, and take their billions of dollars and go home.

I don’t believe you can fine a company for closing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:13:44pm

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If wingnuts start weaving a too-complicated mess of laws regarding social media companies, firms like Facebook and Twitter might just say “screw this” and shut down their platforms entirely, and take their billions of dollars and go home.

I don’t believe you can fine a company for closing.

No — these companies are more likely to work to bankrupt the states and make the lives of the legislators a living hell.

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Sherlock Hound  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:14:03pm

Conservatives say it straight out: Dictators are better than democracy.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:20:25pm

re: #70 Hecuba’s daughter

No — these companies are more likely to work to bankrupt the states and make the lives of the legislators a living hell.

And to expand on this: if the firms shut down, their billions of dollars would evaporate — their shares of stock would be worth nothing. It’s not as though they have hard inventory to sell elsewhere.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:22:12pm

re: #71 Sherlock Hound

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Conservatives say it straight out: Dictators are better than democracy.

As has been quoted before from David Frum:

“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”

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EPR-radar  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:23:31pm

re: #71 Sherlock Hound

Conservatives say it straight out: Dictators are better than democracy.

Finally. Something honest from a conservative. Deplorable, of course, but honest.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:26:32pm

re: #70 Hecuba’s daughter

No — these companies are more likely to work to bankrupt the states and make the lives of the legislators a living hell.

“We’re suing for all the money in Nebraska, and the keys to the state capitol building.”

Of course the same wingnut legislators wouldn’t accept the blame for such laws, they would blame the librul commie Marxist godless tech companies. Then vote to cut taxes on millionaires.

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sagehen  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:39:09pm

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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in an interview where Cindy McCain talked about her endorsement, she said Joe introduced her and John.

John at the time was some kind of military liaison to the Senate Foreign Affairs committee, accompanied Joe on a trip to Hawaii; there was some kind of reception at Pearl Harbor, Joe noticed John and Cindy eyeing each other, so he acted as John’s wingman to ensure they met.

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sagehen  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:45:15pm

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If wingnuts start weaving a too-complicated mess of laws regarding social media companies, firms like Facebook and Twitter might just say “screw this” and shut down their platforms entirely, and take their billions of dollars and go home.

I don’t believe you can fine a company for closing.

Or they could just pack up their servers and staff and move to Ireland, or Australia, or India, or South Korea. Hell, Zuckerberg’s been learning Mandarin…

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sagehen  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:46:27pm

re: #72 Hecuba’s daughter

And to expand on this: if the firms shut down, their billions of dollars would evaporate — their shares of stock would be worth nothing. It’s not as though they have hard inventory to sell elsewhere.

Their data is pretty valuable.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 8:50:21pm

re: #71 Sherlock Hound

Michael Warren Davis is the editor of Crisis Magazine, an imprint of the Catholic outlet Sophia Institute Press (the press also publishes EWTN’s hosts).

He is also a contributor to The Federalist. In Crisis he makes the case for taking the right to vote away from women, and for monarchism.

What he’s arguing for at The American Conservative is the Estado Novo, the fascist regime established from the Ditadura Nacional (national dictatorship) by António de Oliveira Salazar. It was explicitly corporatist, anti-democratic, and anti-decolonial (to maintain Portugal’s vast ancient colonial empire).

When Salazar died in 1970 after a series of Portuguese combat losses (in the case of the Portuguese colony of Goa in India, the Nixon administration supported fascist Portugal), the Estado Novo government was overthrown in 1974 by left-wing military officers, who eventually put Portugal on the path of democracy. Portugal’s colonial wars were extremely unpopular with the masses, so the military coup was supported by the people.

Portugal suffered two years of unstable governance, with a combined military-civilian government installed in 1975 and the first free elections in fifty years in 1976 for a civilian government.

Fascist Spain considered invading Portugal during that period, concerned socialists would gain a footing in Portugal, though Franco ultimately chose not to. In 1975, the last of Portugal’s overseas colonies (except Macau) were independent.

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 23, 2021 • 9:11:03pm

re: #45 PhillyPretzel

A flamethrower would work just as well.

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EPR-radar  Jan 23, 2021 • 9:14:33pm

re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This is a good occasion to repost this gem:

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect…

…There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone….

The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get…

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 23, 2021 • 9:20:52pm

re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter

If they abandon democracy how can they call themselves conservatives? If they aren’t in favour of conserving democracy they are either authoritarians or barbarians.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 23, 2021 • 9:22:20pm

WTF??

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 23, 2021 • 9:23:49pm

re: #83 Dave In Austin

More shit going down in Portland?

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Dave In Austin  Jan 23, 2021 • 9:27:09pm

re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg

Tacoma

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Jay C  Jan 23, 2021 • 9:30:43pm

re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Minor correction: the Indian invasion and seizure of Goa (and the other bits of Portuguese India) occurred in December of 1961, so it was the Kennedy Admin, not Nixon’s, who were in place to criticize it.
And it seems that US displeasure at the Indian action was not so much support for Portuguese fascists, but a general disapproval of seizure of territory by force (always a Bad Thing when done by somebody else).
Also, the Soviets and their bloc were generally approving of the Indian action, so there was that…

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EPR-radar  Jan 23, 2021 • 9:49:27pm

re: #82 Romantic Heretic

If they abandon democracy how can they call themselves conservatives? If they aren’t in favour of conserving democracy they are either authoritarians or barbarians.

You have answered your own question.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 9:53:36pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:01:10pm

re: #83 Dave In Austin

WTF??

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:02:39pm

re: #29 plansbandc

Shouldn’t stolen valor be immediate cause for expulsion?

It’s not stolen valor.
In the eyes of the United States Army (Big A), Tom Cotton is a US Army Ranger.
Now, that doesn’t mean he’s not a douche for disregarding community/cultural norms.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:02:59pm

re: #82 Romantic Heretic

If they abandon democracy how can they call themselves conservatives? If they aren’t in favour of conserving democracy they are either authoritarians or barbarians.

Conservatism has never been democratic, except insofar as conservatives control the democracy.

It is why Edmond Burke (the so-called father of conservatism) argued strenuously against rising democratic forces in Europe, particularly France. In his view, the French aristocracy failed not because it was autocratic, but because it had poor aristocrats (the ancient version of “conservatism can’t fail, it can only be failed.”) Burke’s solution was to oppose democratic governance wherever it might break out.

When democratic governance started sweeping Europe and it was clear that conservatism could not oppose it, Burke then proposed using the rising system of capitalism to control democracies (what both Adam Smith and Karl Marx argued against).

With few exceptions, autocratic regimes are driven by conservative causes: Portugal’s Estado Novo noted above, Spain’s Falangists, Italy’s fascists, Germany’s Nazis, the USA’s slaveowner plantation economies.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:04:49pm

re: #88 Dread Pirate Ron

Capitalism is always trying to kill us, it seems.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:12:10pm

re: #86 Jay C

Minor correction: the Indian invasion and seizure of Goa (and the other bits of Portuguese India) occurred in December of 1961, so it was the Kennedy Admin, not Nixon’s, who were in place to criticize it.
And it seems that US displeasure at the Indian action was not so much support for Portuguese fascists, but a general disapproval of seizure of territory by force (always a Bad Thing when done by somebody else).
Also, the Soviets and their bloc were generally approving of the Indian action, so there was that…

You are correct. I’m confusing my dates. Too many wars to keep track of in the XX Century.

Nixon’s declassified tapes in 2020 showed Nixon’s racism and sexual repulsion toward India and support of Salazar, but that was after Goa had been already conquered. Those ideas are what drove Nixon’s foreign policy against India (driving India closer to the Soviet Union during that period).

Nixon also calls Indians “most sexless”, “nothing” and “pathetic”, according to the tapes.

“As Americans grapple with problems of racism and power, a newly declassified trove of White House tapes provides startling evidence of the bigotry voiced by President Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his national security adviser,” Gary Bass, professor at Princeton, wrote in an opinion piece ‘The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism’ in The New York Times.

Richard Nixon, a Republican, was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974.

Nixon said in a conversation that Indian women are “undoubtedly the most unattractive women in the world.”

“The full content of these tapes reveal how the US policy toward South Asia under Nixon was influenced by his hatred of, and sexual repulsion toward, Indians,” Bass says. He is the author of ‘The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide.’

Declassified: Former US Prez Nixon called Indians ‘pathetic, most sexless’ (The Federal, September 5, 2020)

Such an attitude by the Republican president and his Secretary of State might also explain some of the hatred shown toward Vice-President Harris today (besides Black).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:18:02pm

I see the edit window now has a new radio button, presumably for YouTube something something.

Let’s click it and see what happens.

Uh oh.

Russia releases secret footage of 1961 Tsar Bomba hydrogen blast

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coin operated  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:22:09pm

Couple of thoughts…

1. I had never heard a sheng played before. That piece up top was incredible.

2. Regarding Cotton, the stolen valor scum sucker: My roommate in the Army Practical Nurse program was a Ranger that served in the 2nd BAT out of Ft. Lewis (now Joint Base Lewis McCord) in Washington. He was *very* clear about this…if you didn’t serve in one of the Ranger battalions, you were not a Ranger. Full stop.

*edited because faulty memory…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:25:31pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

Capitalism is always trying to kill us, it seems.

That’s the “extra” which is in every vaccine vial, which Pfizer itself noted is normal, to ensure every dose is full-strength.

With a different type of syringe you can get at it, and because the whole country is desperate to get the vaccine, they have the bully pulpit (pay us or else).

I am not a physician or nurse, but that would make me wonder if that “sixth dose” actually comes out full-strength.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:30:19pm

re: #82 Romantic Heretic

If they abandon democracy how can they call themselves conservatives? If they aren’t in favour of conserving democracy they are either authoritarians or barbarians.

I’ve never thought of conservatism as being tied to democratic values. It does depend on the context — but political/religious conservatism is associated with preserving “traditional” customs/values, however those are defined, and not particularly open to new experiences, looking to the past and not the future, retaining the old power structure and old families, not admitting others who look/act/believe differently into the ruling class.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:43:18pm

Poking around the vehicle registration site for Nebraska. If we keep our car twenty-two more years, we can get antique plates for the Smart. (They’re boring plates though, just green print on white.) Alternatively, we could get “vintage” status (which means using plates which were in force during the year the car was made as long as they are not specialty plates).

In either case though you can only register the car that way for special events and purposes.

If both the car and me are still around, I guess I’ll just keep using my current specialty plates.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:54:21pm

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Poking around the vehicle registration site for Nebraska. If we keep our car twenty-two more years, we can get antique plates for the Smart. (They’re boring plates though, just green print on white.) Alternatively, we could get “vintage” status (which means using plates which were in force during the year the car was made as long as they are not specialty plates).

In either case though you can only register the car that way for special events and purposes.

If both the car and me are still around, I guess I’ll just keep using my current specialty plates.

In California when a car is over 25 years (iirc) you no longer have to get a semi-annual smog check. Some fuck spun out on the freeway and killed my last car when it was 19 years old. My new car replacement is 13 years old now, 12 years to go.

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Targetpractice  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:54:23pm

re: #97 Hecuba’s daughter

I’ve never thought of conservatism as being tied to democratic values. It does depend on the context — but political/religious conservatism is associated with preserving “traditional” customs/values, however those are defined, and not particularly open to new experiences, looking to the past and not the future, retaining the old power structure and old families, not admitting others who look/act/believe differently into the ruling class.

Modern American conservatism could really be boiled down to 14 words. An entire political party flipped the fuck out when a black man was not only elected, but reelected to the presidency in a 4 year span. Such that it readily embraced a racist con-man whose entire sales pitch was “I’m going to beat up on all those minorities you hate.” And the uber-white near-coup at the beginning of this month, composed primarily of the affluent and connected, was the final nail in the coffin of any argument that Trump supporters are primarily working class white folks who are “economically anxious.”

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Jack Burton  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:57:45pm

re: #99 Dread Pirate Ron

In California when a car is over 25 years (iirc) you no longer have to get a semi-annual smog check. Some fuck spun out on the freeway and killed my last car when it was 19 years old. My new car replacement is 13 years old now, 12 years to go.

They stopped doing that a long time ago. Now it has to be a 1975 model year or older. They tried to raise it to 1980 a few years ago but that flew like rock through the state legislature.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 10:59:14pm

Opinion piece by a public health expert and two economists.

Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights (New York Times, December 7, 2020)

Several World Trade Organisation member countries argued due to the emergency, intellectual property rights on the coronavirus vaccine should be suspended so poorer countries with manufacturing capability could make the vaccines in their countries.

About one hundred countries favoured the proposal from South Africa and India in October. WTO has one hundred sixty-two members. Since WTO rule changes require consensus, a small number of countries can thwart change (similar to the filibuster in the US Senate). Thus:

The idea was immediately opposed by the United States, the European Union, Britain, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, Australia and Brazil. It was opposed again at another meeting in November, and again last week.

The USA argued that protecting intellectual property rights is the best way to achieve swift delivery of the vaccine (never mind we can’t even do that in our own country). The United Kingdom argued it’s an extreme measure for an unproven problem, and the European Union argued there is no indication that intellectual property rights are a genuine barrier to delivery.

The funding to develop the three vaccines all came from public money in different nations.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:02:47pm

re: #101 Jack Burton

They stopped doing that a long time ago. Now it has to be a 1975 model year or older. They tried to raise it to 1980 a few years ago but that flew like rock through the state legislature.

Smog checks are required where we bought our car (Colorado, the first two years are exempt on a new car), but not required in Nebraska.

When our smog check sticker was expiring, I asked my wife if we should have it checked out anyway (since we get our car serviced at the Mercedes-Benz dealer in Denver), but she just shrugged “why? It costs money and we’re not required to have it at home.”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:11:51pm

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My Pathfinder passed every time and now my Xterra passes every time. I don’t think modern cars need smog checks for at least the first 65,000 miles. I’ve only bought Nissan for the last 40 years, so with other brands YMMV.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:18:30pm

WTAF. GOP is now the QOP.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:19:22pm

re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron

VW should be checked every month.

1/2 /

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:19:27pm

I’m still not sure on the pollution math on California formulated gasoline. Here I get about 21 MPG at 65 MPH. In Oregon on their gas I get 26 MPG at 80 MPH. California formulated Gasoline trades about 10% less pollutants per gallon? for a 20% reduction in MPG.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:25:13pm

re: #105 GlutenFreeJesus

Sorry. Wrong screenshot in previous post. Here’s the one I meant.
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:26:19pm

re: #83 Dave In Austin

WTF??

Tacoma police car plows through crowd of pedestrians gathered at downtown street race (Tacoma News-Tribune, with video)

The video footage is clear, and hard to watch: a Tacoma Police patrol car running into and through a group of pedestrians.

The 48-second clip, shot shortly before 7 p.m., was shot in the downtown area. The patrol car, surrounded by groups of shouting people, revs its engine and suddenly surges forward, striking the group and running over at least one individual before driving on.

Mark, the eyewitness who shot the video and provided it to The News Tribune, saw five to six cars spinning in circles on South 9th Street between the intersections of Court A and Pacific Avenue.

A crowd of three dozen people were gathered around the intersection, cheering on the drivers, Mark said. Traffic through the area came to a standstill.

Mark, who asked that his last name not be used, said a fire truck first went through the intersection, temporarily putting a stop to the action. But the racers and crowd quickly reformed.

(more)

These were not protestors (though police should not be intentionally running over anyone).

The article describes the onlookers of the street race and doughnut-turning as pounding on the car’s windows, and the officer fearing for his safety.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:28:15pm

re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron

My Pathfinder passed every time and now my Xterra passes every time. I don’t think modern cars need smog checks for at least the first 65,000 miles. I’ve only bought Nissan for the last 40 years, so with other brands YMMV.

My car has over eighty thousand miles on it. (It gets its ten thousand mile checkups more frequently due to the poor road conditions around here; the next checkup will be the 100,000 mile checkup; at that time I will probably have them check the emission system anyway).

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Ace-o-aces  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:30:07pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:31:02pm

re: #108 GlutenFreeJesus

The Hawai’i GOP is staffed by morans.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:34:34pm

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My car has over eighty thousand miles on it. (It gets its ten thousand mile checkups more frequently due to the poor road conditions around here; the next checkup will be the 100,000 mile checkup; at that time I will probably have them check the emission system anyway).

I’m a car abuser. I go 20k miles between oil changes, wash the car even less. About the only thing I ever have trouble with in Nissan ‘truck’ chassis is the Power windows.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:35:12pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:36:06pm

re: #108 GlutenFreeJesus

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Quackers have a “sincere and deep love,” but it’s not for America. Or you could argue it is, in the same way that an abusive spouse “loves” the target of his abuse.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:38:12pm

(video, 1:11)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:45:09pm

LOL

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:49:31pm

Wu Tong is for the children!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 23, 2021 • 11:55:59pm

re: #113 Dread Pirate Ron

I’m a car abuser. I go 20k miles between oil changes, wash the car even less. About the only thing I ever have trouble with in Nissan ‘truck’ chassis is the Power windows.

I tend to baby cars, mostly because I can’t afford expensive maintenance.

My first car was a 1976 Chevy Vega Nomad which I bought in 1978 with 22,000 miles on it. I sold it when it had 250,000 miles in 1984. The only major maintenance it required was an overhaul of the automatic transmission somewhere around 200,000 miles.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 24, 2021 • 12:04:01am

Wingnut scandal floating around the Interwebz: Joe Biden had a Chinese handler during the inauguration.

What’s false: All of that.
What’s true: The man they are identifying as “Chinese” is really a Korean-American Secret Service agent who was in charge of the inauguration detail, named David Cho.

He earned the Department of Homeland Security Gold Medal for exceptional service.

Funny thing, he was also in charge of the Secret Service detail when Donald Trump went to meet Kim Jong Un in Panmunjom.

h/t to Juanita Jean.
juanitajean.com
Other Biden scandals also noted in the article, such as the Rolex watch.

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sagehen  Jan 24, 2021 • 12:04:27am

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nixon also calls Indians “most sexless”, “nothing” and “pathetic”, according to the tapes.

Seems a puzzling way to characterize the people who wrote the Kama Sutra.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 24, 2021 • 12:06:35am

re: #121 sagehen

Seems a puzzling way to characterize the people who wrote the Kama Sutra.

You’d think so. Apparently President Nixon was really racist. It turns out racism is bad when applied to foreign policy.

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John Hughes  Jan 24, 2021 • 12:09:26am

re: #71 Sherlock Hound

Almost half of the houses on my street are occupied by* Portuguese immigrants, refugees from Salazar’s economic depression and political oppression.

(* And built by.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 24, 2021 • 12:12:20am

I’m going to stagger off to bed. It’s early Sunday morning, meaning tomorrow I go to Cheyenne and get my Fauci Ouchi.

Catch y’all later.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 24, 2021 • 12:23:34am

YouTube

Elton John and Rod Stewart had both worked with John Baldry back in the 60s, when Elton (Reg Dwight) was keyboardist in the band Bluesology. Elton made up his new name at that time taken the name “Elton” from Elton Dean, the sax player, and the name “John” from Long John Baldry!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jan 24, 2021 • 12:29:50am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 24, 2021 • 12:59:05am

We’ve only had 1.90” of rain since July 1st here in the east bay. I think California is going to be in a Severe Drought condition this year.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 1:41:37am

re: #105 GlutenFreeJesus

WTAF. GOP is now the QOP.

QAnon was able to thrive in the Alternative Reality field generated by the Trump administration and its information policies.

Now that their main source of energy is dissipating, they will start to fall apart.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 1:44:51am

re: #108 GlutenFreeJesus

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We should make it abundantly clear, the people who fell for Adolf Hitler were largely motivated by a deep and sincere love for the Fatherland. Patriotism and love of country should never be ridiculed or de-Nazified. In the name of Unity.

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2021 • 1:51:05am

re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

QAnon was able to thrive in the Alternative Reality field generated by the Trump administration and its information policies.

Now that their main source of energy is dissipating, they will start to fall apart.

The biggest issue is that there are those who retain power and influence who would look to use QAnon to fuel their own ambitions. Hawley and Cruz are both vying for the spot as “Trump 2.0,” but you can be sure that there will be others in the coming weeks and months. By 2024, assuming Orange Julius doesn’t make another run, the race is liable to become one of who is best suited to be his “successor.”

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Nyet  Jan 24, 2021 • 1:53:10am

re: #105 GlutenFreeJesus

WTAF. GOP is now the QOP.

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While the GOP is the QOP in the big picture, pointing to a GOP account debunking Q doesn’t prove this thesis ;)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 1:57:47am

I mentioned earlier, QAnon was a group of intersecting and overlapping layers: the true believers, the folks who simply go along because it confirms their preconceived notions, the attention-seekers and sociopaths who just enjoy getting a rise out of people and seeing how much damage they can do with their far-fetched CTs, and then then the cynical manipulators who find it all as means to their end. Ted Cruz definitely being among the latter.

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2021 • 2:14:11am

Basically, QAnon became the dumping ground for all those who either couldn’t deal with the real world or saw money to be made in preying upon those folks.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 24, 2021 • 2:17:10am

We supposedly have a week of rain ahead.

but the weather chart seems to contradict the forecast.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 2:18:22am

re: #133 Targetpractice

Basically, QAnon became the dumping ground for all those who either couldn’t deal with the real world or saw money to be made in preying upon those folks.

many overlapping groups. the true cultish believers looking for leaders and the manipulative cynics looking for shills.

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2021 • 2:43:25am

The biggest issue with the idea of QA just falling apart is that it’s long since outgrown its dependence upon Trump. We see it in the crazed theories about Biden either secretly working with him or the even crazier ones that there’s been some sort of body switch. Others are buying into the whole BS about March being the site of “The Storm” because of the original inauguration date. And even others are just downright fed up with Trump and ready to toss him on the bonfire in favor of some other savior.

I don’t think QA is gonna fall apart, I strongly suspect they’ll end up turning into a Reich in search of a Fuhrer. That if they don’t choose a new figurehead, one will slot himself into the role if only to profit off of it all.

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iceweasel  Jan 24, 2021 • 3:07:59am

re: #136 Targetpractice

The biggest issue with the idea of QA just falling apart is that it’s long since outgrown its dependence upon Trump. We see it in the crazed theories about Biden either secretly working with him or the even crazier ones that there’s been some sort of body switch. Others are buying into the whole BS about March being the site of “The Storm” because of the original inauguration date. And even others are just downright fed up with Trump and ready to toss him on the bonfire in favor of some other savior.

I don’t think QA is gonna fall apart, I strongly suspect they’ll end up turning into a Reich in search of a Fuhrer. That if they don’t choose a new figurehead, one will slot himself into the role if only to profit off of it all.

I agree with this. l i also think there’s another aspect to the Qcraziness- the sense of community and fellowship that it gives to the psychologically adrift in search of belonging.
I think that’s true of conspiracy theories generally, though— they’re suspectible to those with overactive pattern recognition.

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John Hughes  Jan 24, 2021 • 3:17:29am

re: #26 Dread Pirate Ron

Ugh, I wanted to make a small joke about Rangers being what the French call army boots and now my internet is full of ads for army boots.

Damn you, Google.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 24, 2021 • 3:18:33am

.

Show Boat (1951) - HD Open

..

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Ming5000  Jan 24, 2021 • 3:25:30am

This made me smile:

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 24, 2021 • 3:45:12am

Someone in the last thread expressed an interest and like of old photographs. I might have picked the website link below up here, or possibly somewhere else. In any case, it’s a site where old photographs from Pittsburgh have been archived, often along with an attempt to get a photo from roughly the same vantage point in modern times.

retrographer.org

Since I went to college and then lived in/near the city for about 20 years afterwards it’s interesting to see place I am familiar with and how they used to look. And also noting how a lot of things there have changed in the decade plus since I worked there.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:08:55am

re: #136 Targetpractice

The biggest issue with the idea of QA just falling apart is that it’s long since outgrown its dependence upon Trump.

but again, it thrived in a world where alternative facts and alternative realities were treated as if they had some validity.

and they reflected a culture where anything negative about one’s opponents, no matter how far-fetched, was taken seriously

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Nojay UK  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:12:27am

re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

but again, it thrived in a world where alternative facts and alternative realities were treated as if they had some validity.

The world has always believed in deities and spirits and witches. Q is no different from the Southern Baptist Convention or Scientology.

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steve_davis  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:14:24am

Wow. Looking at the wine bottle this morning, and apparently I knocked out more of that last night than I’d realized. Helps explain why I wound up in bed at 8:15, singing the entirety of Al Stewart’s “Year of the Cat” to what, looking back, I now realize was one very startled kitty. I do seem to remember her not leaving to hide under the bed until I tried vocally to recreate the excellent guitar solo.

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:18:27am

re: #144 steve_davis

Kitty will get used to it. I sing many songs to Sophie, aka Furball, with appropriate words changed to kitty, cat, etc. Nowadays she’s more likely to give me this look than run:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:22:01am

re: #143 Nojay UK

but again, it thrived in a world where alternative facts and alternative realities were treated as if they had some validity.

The world has always believed in deities and spirits and witches. Q is no different from the Southern Baptist Convention or Scientology.

except that our broadcast media gave it an undeservedly large deal of attention and influence.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:27:57am

re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron

My Pathfinder passed every time and now my Xterra passes every time. I don’t think modern cars need smog checks for at least the first 65,000 miles. I’ve only bought Nissan for the last 40 years, so with other brands YMMV.

when I lived in ny my 74 tr6 would never pass. so they would stick the sensor up the tailpipe of another car. nice guys back then

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:29:09am

re: #108 GlutenFreeJesus

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sincerely held beliefs are a pass again.
so q is a religion

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:38:52am

the biggest problem with Q and whether it falls apart is the people still exist

the thinking that made them vulnerable doesnt change
-not the specific jfk jr / take over america stuff
but the inability to understand, face and evaluate reality

these idiots are all around us
we work with them
we work under them
they’re driving the cars around us
we let them run our local state and natl govts
They operate on us and treat us medically
They prepare and serve our food
They prescribe drugs
Fly planes
Etc

even if ‘Q’ doesnt reorganize into ‘R’ or whatever, they are still out there

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JC1  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:46:22am

re: #148 Dangerman

sincerely held beliefs are a pass again.
so q is a religion

To some it is, or it will become such. That’s why religious beliefs shouldn’t be beyond criticism.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:51:05am

re: #150 JC1

To some it is, or it will become such. That’s why religious beliefs shouldn’t be beyond criticism.

Which is why I am glad that our Founding Fathers had the Divine Foresight to separate Church and State.

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Ming5000  Jan 24, 2021 • 4:54:35am

NYT again

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 5:00:26am

what if she explains that these “chills” were actually caused by fear of America descending into a socialist-atheist hellhole?

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Nyet  Jan 24, 2021 • 5:07:32am

More interesting is the GOP promoting an alt-righter flirting with Holocaust denial.

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jeffreyw  Jan 24, 2021 • 5:43:19am

Good morning!

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Greup  Jan 24, 2021 • 5:46:14am

re: #154 Nyet

Isn’t it precious how they still warn for “profanity”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 5:48:22am

re: #156 Greup

Isn’t it precious how they still warn for “profanity”.

nothing more profane than waving a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol building: it is a great big “Fuck you, America!”

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lawhawk  Jan 24, 2021 • 5:51:40am

re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

nothing more profane than waving a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol building: it is a great big “Fuck you, America!”

Or ripping down the US flag outside and hoisting a Trump flag.

These aren’t patriots; they’re insurrectionists.
They’re not American patriots; they’re patriots answerable to a foreign power.
They’re not American patriots; they’re confederate treasonweasels.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 24, 2021 • 5:57:00am

re: #145 William Lewis

Kitty will get used to it. I sing many songs to Sophie, aka Furball, with appropriate words changed to kitty, cat, etc. Nowadays she’s more likely to give me this look than run:

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I once posted an alternative lyric set to David Bowie’s “Fashion” called “Kitten” over in DailyKos. I think it was the most highly rated thing I ever did there.

dailykos.com

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:00:32am

re: #155 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

No one else around. That bird must have been being a pecker to the others and they left.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:01:06am

re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

what if she explains that these “chills” were actually caused by fear of America descending into a socialist-atheist hellhole?

that’s the first think i thought of
- they decided for her, what she meant

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Nyet  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:02:12am

So, WandaVision is interesting so far.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:02:44am

re: #154 Nyet

More interesting is the GOP promoting an alt-righter flirting with Holocaust denial.

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you all should try it

It is is good to periodically step outside the “bubble”

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:05:39am

re: #160 Eventual Carrion

No one else around. That bird must have been being a pecker to the others and they left.

we watched a woodpecker this AM chase grackles away from the feeder - about 15 times.

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mmmirele  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:09:18am

re: #99 Dread Pirate Ron

In California when a car is over 25 years (iirc) you no longer have to get a semi-annual smog check. Some fuck spun out on the freeway and killed my last car when it was 19 years old. My new car replacement is 13 years old now, 12 years to go.

Agh, that reminds me that I have to get a smog check (Arizona). Thanks, no thanks for the reminder.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:12:01am

re: #165 mmmirele

Agh, that reminds me that I have to get a smog check (Arizona). Thanks, no thanks for the reminder.

In Germany you get an Abgassonderuntersuchung or ASU. As a Sun Devils Alumnus, I always appreciate that sticker.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:26:50am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In Germany you get an Abgassonderuntersuchung or ASU. As a Sun Devils Alumnus, I always appreciate that sticker.

All this reminds me that I should charge the Rover batteries and run it up for a while. I’ve only put a couple miles on it this year. (Don’t know the Alabama rules for smog—don’t think there are any. The truck will run on high-test booze with enough retardation of the spark.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:31:50am

re: #167 Decatur Deb

All this reminds me that I should charge the Rover batteries and run it up for a while. I’ve only put a couple miles on it this year. (Don’t know the Alabama rules for smog—don’t think there are any. The truck will run on high-test booze with enough retardation of the spark.)

I wanted to wax my moonshine mobile but it was waning…

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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:45:50am

Floridaman is threatening to create a third party to keep the Senate from convicting him, and backed fascist Kelli Ward for Az State GOP Chair. She narrowly won reelection. 60% of GOP voters still follow dear leader. Trump also has a $70 million warchest he plans to use to primary Republicans who didn’t support his election fraud lie. Floridaman must be indicted and incarcerated if convicted, because otherwise he will be the GOP nominee in 2024, and Congress will install him as dictator if the fascists control Congress. The fight for democracy is far from over.

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:48:08am
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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 6:53:00am

re: #170 Belafon

And when the Kentucky General Assembly returns to session next month, they will override Governor Beshear’s veto of the bill they passed limiting his emergency powers, and all Covid regulations in Kentucky will expire, causing unnecessary death.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:00:02am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:02:08am
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:02:33am

So, I had this earworm of Judy Collins singing a medly of songs from “Marat/deSade” and it wouldn’t go away so I listened to “The Wellerman Song” like 5 times and now Judy Collins has gone away.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:04:04am

re: #174 The Pie Overlord!

So, I had this earworm of Judy Collins singing a medly of songs from “Marat/deSade” and it wouldn’t go away so I listened to “The Wellerman Song” like 5 times and now Judy Collins has gone away.

Maybe it’s time to send in the clowns.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:05:51am

re: #175 Barefoot Grin

Maybe it’s time to send in the clowns.

I hate that song.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:06:35am

re: #172 The Pie Overlord!

Nice try at sarcasm Jeff. All most everyone who has voted for Joe will be happy that he is doing a heck of a lot more about this *&^% virus than DT did.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:10:20am
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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:11:21am

Letter to the editors of electoral-vote.com (fwiw)

W.S. in Austin, TX, writes: You wrote: “And finally, let us reiterate that just because the president orders a nuclear strike doesn’t mean one will actually be launched. If Joe Biden were to try to nuke Canada tomorrow, so as to forestall their imminent invasion and takeover, he would have to provide some explanation to the general who would actually carry out the order.”

Canadians would not likely invade or take over America, but they did popularize pineapple as a pizza topping and for that alone they deserve death.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:11:39am

re: #169 No Malarkey!

Floridaman is threatening to create a third party to keep the Senate from convicting him, and backed fascist Kelli Ward for Az State GOP Chair.

The party needs to face him down or he will be blackmailing them forever…

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:12:09am

re: #178 darthstar

That is good news. :)

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:12:09am

re: #177 PhillyPretzel

Nice try at sarcasm Jeff. All most everyone who has voted for Joe will be happy that he is doing a heck of a lot more about this *&^% virus than DT did.

Yeah, but he wore a watch.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:13:28am

re: #178 darthstar

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Stench must be unbearable.

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:13:31am

re: #154 Nyet

“Is good to periodically step outside the ‘bubble’ of reality for Bizzaro World perspective.”

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:14:53am

re: #182 darthstar

Quid ad me. (Latin for What is that to me)
Honestly I rather have a governmental official with almost fifty years of experience wearing a Rolex than a political new comer who is constantly tweeting incorrect or bad information.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:15:14am

re: #181 PhillyPretzel

That is good news. :)

I want to read about mass exoduses at Bedminster and Doral too. I want to see Scottish authorities subpoena the financials for Trump and his club in Scotland. I want Deutsch Bank to put a lien on Trump tower. I want the next Downfall movie to be the only one made about Trump.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:15:58am

re: #186 darthstar

You are not the only one.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:17:12am

re: #175 Barefoot Grin

Maybe it’s time to send in the clowns.

Oh, damn you!

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:18:47am

re: #183 Barefoot Grin

Stench must be unbearable.

It’ll be a few months yet but soon he’ll be forced to demo his helipad which will take some heavy equipment as it’s a fairly thick concrete slab. Be easier to build a gazebo on it.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:20:11am

re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:20:16am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

except that our broadcast media gave it an undeservedly large deal of attention and influence.

Amplified by Twitter Facebook and the uncurated streaming media

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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:21:21am

Watching MTP. Pelosi wants to pass Covid relief in two weeks using reconciliation, because she knows they can’t get 10 GOP votes in the Senate. Biden’s COS said they are having a zoom meeting with a bipartisan group of Senators, and hope to have a fast and bipartisan bill passed.

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jeffreyw  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:23:46am

re: #160 Eventual Carrion

No one else around. That bird must have been being a pecker to the others and they left.

Red bellies are the Karens of the bird world.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:25:39am

re: #191 Dangerman

Amplified by Twitter Facebook and the uncurated streaming media

which is a self-amplifying system, as #trendingontwitter is a news item in and of itself

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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:26:34am

Dick Durbin is open to ending the filibuster if it renders the Senate helpless. Warning shot to McConnell?

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:29:17am

Fauci told Maddow that he had been wanting to get on her show for a long time, but had been forbidden by Trump.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:29:41am

Who says Twitter is useless?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:29:59am

re: #195 No Malarkey!

Dick Durbin is open to ending the filibuster if it renders the Senate helpless. Warning shot to McConnell?

I think it’s coming. Can’t be afraid about what Republicans will do if they get a majority. Obama implementing a lot of his agenda through Congress is why we still have ACA. Same can be done here. It’ll also show how out of touch with people the GOP is.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:30:25am

re: #189 darthstar

It’ll be a few months yet but soon he’ll be forced to demo his helipad which will take some heavy equipment as it’s a fairly thick concrete slab. Be easier to build a gazebo on it.

Still waiting for palm beach to act and enforce the contract

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:31:06am

re: #196 Belafon

Fauci told Maddow that he had been wanting to get on her show for a long time, but had been forbidden by Trump.

He has obviously been biting his tongue massively, I guess figuring that he could still do a decent enough there than if he got himself fired for actually doing the job the way he was supposed to

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:31:11am

re: #196 Belafon

Fauci told Maddow that he had been wanting to get on her show for a long time, but had been forbidden by Trump.

He seems so liberated working for Biden. I mean how could one not be.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:32:07am

Also I think we’re due for a midterm that favors us going forward.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:32:13am

re: #192 No Malarkey!

Watching MTP. Pelosi wants to pass Covid relief in two weeks using reconciliation, because she knows they can’t get 10 GOP votes in the Senate. Biden’s COS said they are having a zoom meeting with a bipartisan group of Senators, and hope to have a fast and bipartisan bill passed.

There aren’t 10 Republicans to support covid relief

Hammer that
Its not a unity thing
Its a humanitarian thing

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:32:15am

re: #197 The Pie Overlord!

You just hold down the & on your iPhone keyboard and it makes the §.

very useful sign, found on all German keyboards, it indicates a Paragraph of any law or ordinance.

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b.d. (America Is Great Again!)  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:32:19am

re: #195 No Malarkey!

Dick Durbin is open to ending the filibuster if it renders the Senate helpless. Warning shot to McConnell?

This kind of puts the reality into simple terms

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plansbandc  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:34:42am

re: #155 jeffreyw

Nature bringing out some of the reddest red that reds.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:34:48am

re: #195 No Malarkey!

Dick Durbin is open to ending the filibuster if it renders the Senate helpless. Warning shot to McConnell?

2 easy solutions
Stand and talk
Or
Limit the number of legislative filibusters say by quarter

Or both

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:35:16am

re: #197 The Pie Overlord!

re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

holding alt and & makes the paragraph symbol appear on a Mac ¶

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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:36:34am

re: #205 b.d. (Be Best!)

This kind of puts the reality into simple terms

Yep, the GOP will obstruct Biden, then shamelessly blame Biden for nothing getting done. I watched them do it to Obama.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:40:55am

re: #209 No Malarkey!

Yep, the GOP will obstruct Biden, then shamelessly blame Biden for nothing getting done. I watched them do it to Obama.

I think that’s gonna be harder to do. People may not generally love Biden but they like him in a way they don’t the GOP leadership.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:41:36am

re: #207 Dangerman

2 easy solutions
Stand and talk
Or
Limit the number of legislative filibusters say by quarter

Or both

Lot of possible reforms. At some point, the notion that the majority only gets to pass one bill a year will have to end.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:42:39am

re: #209 No Malarkey!

And Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer will take it out of their hides. ::: evil grin :::

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steve_davis  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:44:13am

re: #173 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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that’s great until you’re trying to get hold of Frieda and autocorrect gives you fuck fucking, who doesn’t want to hear any of your shit.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:45:25am

Forgot to take pics of the brisket I smoked yesterday - only 2 1/2 lbs but squat and thick end piece, 3 hours of smoke at 225 then foil wrapped for a couple more hours at 250 - didn’t quite get up to the gelatinous 204 - maybe 186 after resting but jesus it was good. Dry rubbed with anchiote chile powder, sugar and a little pepper plant dry rub.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:46:06am

re: #199 Dangerman

Still waiting for palm beach to act and enforce the contract

This too. No safe harbor.

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jamesfirecat  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:46:07am

re: #201 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He seems so liberated working for Biden. I mean how could one not be.

Fauci, I wish for your freedom.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:47:15am

re: #210 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I think that’s gonna be harder to do. People may not generally love Biden but they like him in a way they don’t the GOP leadership.

Nice thought, but most voters aren’t well informed enough to understand the filibuster and how the GOP abuses it. If things go south, the President gets the blame. They aren’t going to have patience with the argument that sure, the Democrats have a majority, but they let the GOP have veto power.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:47:18am

This is odd. Amazon says that the latex gloves I ordered are still in transit and I will be getting them sometime next week. I just went to the front door and the very nice delivery lady handed them to me. I did thank her after all she is working on a Sunday.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:48:26am

re: #217 No Malarkey!

Nice thought, but most voters aren’t well informed enough to understand the filibuster and how the GOP abuses it. If things go south, the President gets the blame. They aren’t going to have patience with the argument that sure, the Democrats have a majority, but they let the GOP have veto power.

See what happens. I’m hoping they ditch it after they pass Covid relief.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:50:29am

re: #219 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

See what happens. I’m hoping they ditch it after they pass Covid relief.

Fingers crossed.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:52:02am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:53:11am

re: #221 darthstar

Red Giant about to implode

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No Malarkey!  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:53:47am

Even without the filibuster, there is plenty of negotiation and compromise required between the Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders wings of the majority in order to pass legislation. Giving people who don’t want to enact anything veto power does nothing to promote compromise.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:54:45am

Someone won the PowerBall again, the draw after the big one.

Because all the white numbers were 28 and under, i.e., can be dates in a calendar month (people by nature will play their birth days and why not?)

The winner was not in California, but we did have no less than 7 five-white-ball winners… which is highly unusual (often weeks go by when there are no five-white-ball winners.)

And the irony is that these five-white-ball winners in California will only get $33k each, because in California the payout (other than the jackpot) are based on parimutuel betting.

Nationwide there were an amazing 35 five-white-ball winners. That has to be some sort of record. These winners in other states will get $1M (save for the seven who put in an extra buck for “power-play”, who will get $2M.)

This shows the nature of these lotteries and how people bet. It also explains why months can go by and there be no jackpot winner. If all the white balls are over 31 there likely will be no winners.

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jimmyvluv4u  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:56:26am

re: #118 Deep State SuperElite Satinist

YES

I came to the comments just to make sure someone had posted this.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:56:55am

re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Red Giant about to implode

I took it down.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 24, 2021 • 7:59:39am

The a priori odds of getting five PowerBall white-balls in a draw is 1 in 11,688,054.

Imagine getting only $33,827 (pre-tax) for winning such a bet of $2.

This is one reason lottery sales are down. People not only enjoy the scratch-offs for the physical involvement and immediate evidence of winning, but there is not the negative feedback as in the lottery example I just outlined.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:03:06am

Looks like I helped getting that whackjob Garrison garroted:

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Decatur Deb  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:05:14am

Most politicians don’t want their constituents dead. Then there’s Alabama:

What went wrong with the vaccine rollout in Alabama and what happens next
al.com

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:05:55am

re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Beer is an incompressible fluid. No implosion possible…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:07:08am

Charles, I think you broke some code again.
If I select the ‘render tweet’ icon, it bounces me back to the main page.
Neither the ‘reply’ nor ‘quote’ buttons are working for me.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:10:47am

re: #155 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:14:44am
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stpaulbear  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:17:07am

re: #138 John Hughes

Ugh, I wanted to make a small joke about Rangers being what the French call army boots and now my internet is full of ads for army boots.

Damn you, Google.

Last night I was looking at some photos in a folder on my computer and when I went back to YouTube it was recommending sites based on what was in the photos. I think that that will be 1) the last time I access anything on my computer via the Quick-Access folder and 2) the last time I don’t log out from YouTube/Google when I open files on my personal computer.

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b.d. (America Is Great Again!)  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:20:58am

Dr. Birx is unloading on Face the Nation.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:21:41am

re: #235 b.d. (Be Best!)

Dr. Birx is unloading on Face the Nation.

Fuck Dr. Birx. She’s just trying to salvage her reputation.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:22:41am

re: #236 darthstar

Fuck Dr. Birx. She’s just trying to salvage her reputation.

She had eight months where she could have said facts. She didn’t even speak up when he talked about drinking bleach which killed a bunch of his supporters.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:23:02am

re: #236 darthstar

Fuck Dr. Birx. She’s just trying to salvage her reputation.

that’s true for all of them, Katie.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:23:58am

re: #198 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I think it’s coming. Can’t be afraid about what Republicans will do if they get a majority. Obama implementing a lot of his agenda through Congress is why we still have ACA. Same can be done here. It’ll also show how out of touch with people the GOP is.

Without the filibuster, what the repug majority passed would have become law, and they and their constituents would have to live with it. It’s easy to be extreme when your votes have no consequences.

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b.d. (America Is Great Again!)  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:24:18am

re: #236 darthstar

Fuck Dr. Birx. She’s just trying to salvage her reputation.

Oh big time!

She has thrown every single person under the bus and Face the Nation has given her the entire show to do it. It is still amazing to hear the stuff, even if it is through her filter.

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Acemarilllion  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:25:01am

re: #233 darthstar

Squeeze - Black Coffee in Bed (Stereo)

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Decatur Deb  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:25:09am

From #229, above:

In Alabama, the fraught history of the Tuskegee study, where researchers knowingly failed to treat African Americans with syphilis in the 1950′s, continues to fuel mistrust in minority communities.

In a set of UAB focus groups with Blacks and Latinos in Alabama, only 1 in 6 said they would take a vaccine.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:26:20am
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jeffreyw  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:27:47am

When I punch the new comments button nothing happens. If I check the Auto box new comments will load as expected.

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plansbandc  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:29:39am

Can’t reply, can’t load new comments. FUBAR

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:29:55am

OT Yesterday when I went shopping at my local Acme my favorite cashier told me that they are no longer going to be using plastic bags. I just bought some cotton string bags for the purpose. I was going to use my old L L Bean tote bag but right now with COVID-19 the cashiers will not even touch it. At least they are washable whereas my old tote bag is spot clean only.
amazon.com

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:30:46am

re: #245 plansbandc

Hmm. It appears to work for me. Is Charles playing around with the code again?

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stpaulbear  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:33:09am

re: #199 Dangerman

Still waiting for palm beach to act and enforce the contract

If all of Mara Lago’s members quit, he can re-rezone it and turn it back into a residence. Problem solved!

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:36:40am

I like Amy…this would be kind of funny though.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:38:05am

re: #248 still stpaulbear

If all of Mara Lago’s members quit, he can re-rezone it and turn it back into a residence. Problem solved!

In three years it will be a community center and affordable housing.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:39:05am

re: #249 darthstar

AK-47 is a gun and I would not want to be known by that name. Also in Yiddish AK refers to a dirty old man.

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:42:24am
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Belafon  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:43:14am

I sent that thing about Tom Cotton and Ranger school to my dad, who was an Army helicopter mechanic in Vietnam, and he replied with “Yeah I went to A&M for fiber optic school. Doesn’t make me an Aggie.”

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:44:35am
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:45:28am

re: #251 PhillyPretzel

AK-47 is a gun and I would not want to be known by that name. Also in Yiddish AK refers to a dirty old man.

AK = Alter Kacker = Old Shitter

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:45:57am

re: #255 The Pie Overlord!

Thanks. :)

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:48:10am

Good…I hope his career is destroyed.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:48:17am

Nothing works on iOS. I have to reload to add new comments. I can’t quote or reply to anything. Just FYI.

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Teukka  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:49:01am

Same proplem as #258.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:49:06am

re: #258 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Nothing works on iOS. I have to reload to add new comments. I can’t quote or reply to anything. Just FYI.

Switch to Android.

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:49:38am
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Teukka  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:49:51am

Yeah Sure WhatEVs: A workaround is checking auto comment update (next to “New Comments button”)

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:50:45am
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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:51:00am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:53:22am

I can upding and favorite. When I reload it takes me back to comment 231 every time.

Really weird.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:55:07am

re: #265 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This is happening on your iPhone? That happens on my iPhone and my iPad. That is why I am on my MacBook Air at the moment.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:55:18am

re: #265 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I can upding and favorite. When I reload it takes me back to comment 231 every time.

Really weird.

is comment 231 like rule 34?

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:55:20am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:56:41am

I’m on my iPhone. I never use my computer for anything if I can help it. I fucking hate that computer.

I use my iPhone for 99.999% of everything I do.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:58:23am

Auto reload comments works.

Reloading tweets doesn’t… Takes me to the home page.

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:58:44am

Somethingu2019s amiss.

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2021 • 8:59:53am

re: #265 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I can upding and favorite. When I reload it takes me back to comment 231 every time.

Really weird.

I have that on Android because lgf remembers which comment you clicked on to get into a post.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:01:23am

@272 I didn’t do that. That was when it started misbehaving… Right around that comment.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:02:01am

re: #268 jaunte

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:03:05am

re: #271 jaunte

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Somethingu2019s amiss.

Looks like Charles is playing with Unicode.

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:03:31am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

Waldman’s tweet looks right in the comment thread for me, but subs in the numbers for an apostrophe in Spy.

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Sherlock Hound  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:04:45am

I’m on Android and it’s doing the same thing.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:05:20am

Snow up there? Not a surprise.

Snow in Malibu? Big surprise.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:05:22am
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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:06:15am

re: #268 jaunte

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“I think you make a mistake,” Paul interrupted. “Hey, George! Georgie, where you make a mistake is that people coming from the liberal side like you, you immediate say everything’s a lie instead of saying there are two sides to everything. Historically what would happen is if I said I thought there was fraud, you would introduce someone else who said there wasn’t. But now you insert yourself in the middle and say that the absolute fact is that everything I’m saying is a lie.”

“I said what the president said was he said was a lie!” Stephanopoulos pushed back. “Hold on a second! He said the election was stolen. This election was not stolen. The results were certified in every single state after counts and recounts!”

Props to Stephanopolous for not Chuck Todding this and letting Paul lie unchallenged.

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mmmirele  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:08:39am

re: #178 darthstar

I know someone who has a membership at M-A-L. Normally, I would have lost my cool over this, but I suspect the club membership was brought into her late-in-life marriage by her husband, so not going to razz her. I’ll be curious to see how M-A-L drops off the West Palm social calendar, if only because it’s a pain in the ass to have a function at a location where an ex-president is living and everything has to be screened. To say nothing about the fact that the ex-president is (currently) a pariah, and by the time next winter rolls around, he may living “elsewhere.” *we can only hope*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:08:44am
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:09:03am

re: #278 Rightwingconspirator

Snow sleet and freezing rain will be coming to Philly this week.
forecast.weather.gov

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:17:15am

re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’ll do wonders for property values.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:20:18am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:22:08am

re: #283 PhillyPretzel

Snow sleet and freezing rain will be coming to Philly this week.
forecast.weather.gov

got all of that here in TheBackwoods right now

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:22:22am

Now the New Comments button won’t work for me. ::: crossed eyes :::

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:25:25am
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Jay C  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:26:26am

Just to chime in, I seem to have had (or noticed) absolutely no problems with LGF this morning.
Of course I am on my laptop (W10/Chrome): and I haven’t dared/tried to view on the iPad yet.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:30:11am

re: #288 darthstar

I still disagree with Frum on a lot of things politically, but I stopped hating him a while back…Rubin too…the benefit of a common enemy in Trump I suppose.

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Jay C  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:35:10am

re: #285 darthstar

That’s a weird name for a golf course.

Inorite?
I had the same initial response - I guess four years of seeing notices about “POTUS has arrived at ….” and having it refer, often as not, to some golf club, builds in some reflexes.

PS: love your avatar pic (Joe and the biker babe)

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:36:10am

Just waiting for 19th Century Fox to attack Joe for going to church and not playing golf on a Sunday…

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:36:53am

My 2017 Macbook Pro’s OS is Catalina and wanted to upgrade the OS today. Can I delete the old OS’s that are still on the HD after the install?

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Citizen K  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:40:05am

Ohio really is just an unforgivable trashfire at this rate, and any chance of fixing things seems extremely far off from just how utterly and hopelessly red it is on the state level.

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nines09  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:42:08am

NSFW

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:42:56am
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:42:57am

I’m not able to click on the reply or quote buttons.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:43:34am

re: #291 Jay C

Inorite?
I had the same initial response - I guess four years of seeing notices about “POTUS has arrived at ….” and having it refer, often as not, to some golf club, builds in some reflexes.

PS: love your avatar pic (Joe and the biker babe)

Thanks…put it up on Twitter when it first came out in 2012…can’t change it now until Biden leaves office.

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Kilroy was here  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:44:07am

OT.. but can’t wait.. Looks stupid fun..

Godzilla vs. Kong – Official Trailer

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:46:39am

re: #280 darthstar

Props to Stephanopolous for not Chuck Todding this and letting Paul lie unchallenged.

“I think you make a mistake,” Paul interrupted. “Hey, George! Georgie, where you make a mistake is that people coming from the liberal side like you, you immediate say everything’s a lie instead of saying there are two sides to everything. Historically what would happen is if I said I thought there was fraud, you would introduce someone else who said there wasn’t. But now you insert yourself in the middle and say that the absolute fact is that everything I’m saying is a lie.”
……

No, Rand, there aren’t 2 sides to everything, unless you are saying there is a right side and a wrong side. Reason #780,000 that his neighbor attacked him. Rand Paul is a weasel beyond words. It is surprising that Rand did not sign on to the Cruz effort to overturn the election. So why is he now trying to defend this assertion?

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:46:56am

To Patricia K
Same here. :(
Charles please fix your website.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:48:19am

Can’t click on “new comments” either. 🤔

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:49:52am

San Francisco announces three new Vaccination centers - Moscone is already up. Also, the Ballpark isn’t listed yet but I know my wife is planning to feed 450 nurses there twice a day starting soon.

I’m in 1C

dothebay.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:51:04am
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jaunte  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:51:07am

“…In Eindhoven, 125 kilometres (78 miles) south of Amsterdam, a central square near the main railway station was littered with rocks, bicycles and shattered glass. The crowd of hundreds of demonstrators also was believed to include supporters of the anti-immigrant group PEGIDA, which had sought to demonstrate in the city.”

“…The violence came a day after anti-curfew rioters torched a coronavirus testing facility in the Dutch fishing village of Urk.

Video from Urk, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Amsterdam, showed youths breaking into the coronavirus testing facility near the village’s harbour before it was set ablaze Saturday night.”
ca.news.yahoo.com

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:51:51am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:52:53am
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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:52:58am
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(((Archangel1)))  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:53:06am

re: #152 Ming5000

NYT again

[Embedded content]

Greenwald
Verb. Past tense: greenwalded. Past participle: greenwalded.

Definition: To silence and unleash malice upon a weaker person by way of grotesque exploitation of power & influence for expressing free thought, & then to cry hypocritically when called out for unleashing said malice.

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Citizen K  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:53:25am
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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:53:28am

re: #308 darthstar

I assume that includes Trump tower.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:54:48am

re: #311 darthstar

Adding an edit since nobody else can do it. :)

I assume that includes Trump tower.

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Jay C  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:54:56am

OK: back on the iPad, and now getting problems: thread didn’t “jump to bottom”, can’t open “private” or New Comments”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:55:32am

re: #299 Kilroy was here

OT.. but can’t wait.. Looks stupid fun..

[Embedded content]

Video

Questions — I have questions…

Thought I saw 11 in one of those scenes? Am I wrong?

And why is Kong fighting Godzilla? Shouldn’t they be allied fighting against Mothra or some alien invader?

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:57:25am

I can’t reply to anyone or edit my earlier post.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:58:07am

I can jump to top or bottom if I want but the “new comments” button doesn’t work.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:58:22am

To Ace
Same here.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 24, 2021 • 9:58:51am

re: #305 jaunte

Hate to say it, but it’s only a matter of time before major civil unrest kicks off. Here in Czech Republic, I’d say things are reaching the boiling point. An inadequate and utterly incompetent government response to the ongoing pandemic isn’t helping and probably within a matter of a couple of months, there’s gonna be an army of unemployed and very pissed off people.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:00:40am

This stuff always seems to happen when Charles isn’t around.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:01:03am

I am also unable to edit posts.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:02:48am

Can someone ping Charles and please ask him to fix his website? It will be greatly appreciated.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:03:07am

re: #293 Ace Rothstein

My 2017 Macbook Pro’s OS is Catalina and wanted to upgrade the OS today. Can I delete the old OS’s that are still on the HD after the install?

I always keep the prior install OS on a backup drive just in case.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:05:52am

To Dr Lizardo re: 318. I get the same kind of feeling here in the US but worry a bit less given the sheer size of this country. Please do what you gotta do to stay safe.

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b.d. (America Is Great Again!)  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:06:37am

FINALLY!!! VICTORY IS MINE!!!!

OK, bannings begin in 10 minutes!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:06:50am
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Belafon  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:07:22am

re: #314 Hecuba’s daughter

Questions — I have questions…

Thought I saw 11 in one of those scenes? Am I wrong?

And why is Kong fighting Godzilla? Shouldn’t they be allied fighting against Mothra or some alien invader?

Yes, that was 11. She was in Godzilla: King of Monsters and this is the sequel. As they state in the trailer, Godzilla is attacking people for some reason, even though he didn’t in the previous films, and they have to figure out why (if you’re watching, it’s just a way to get them to fight). My theory is the movie sets them up to have to work together to fight mecha-Gidorah.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:07:35am

re: #314 Hecuba’s daughter

Questions — I have questions…

Thought I saw 11 in one of those scenes? Am I wrong?

And why is Kong fighting Godzilla? Shouldn’t they be allied fighting against Mothra or some alien invader?

I prefer the 60s version where a red-pilled Kong took on Godzilla…and the film had 2 different endings based on where the movie was playing…

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:07:42am

re: #268 jaunte

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And I use more words than liar to describe you and your ilk. Words such as seditious, criminal, fuckwads, shitstains and much much more.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:08:40am

re: #321 PhillyPretzel

Can someone ping Charles and please ask him to fix his website? It will be greatly appreciated.

Speaking as a QA professional, let me just reassure everyone that it’s probably not a big fix and Charles probably doesn’t need people emailing him HAR logs. He’ll probably just roll back his previous deployment and play around on his sandbox environment while he figures it out. Can’t be easy flying solo.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:09:39am

re: #323 GlutenFreeJesus

I’ve noticed in the past couple of weeks that civil disobedience is slowly but steadily increasing. Czechs usually only engage in civil disobedience when they’re seriously pissed off.

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Teukka  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:10:17am

Re: Website issues:
o Clearing Cache, followed by reloading, doesn’t work.
o Auto-updating new comments only works to a point, then ceases.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:10:39am

Sundays are nice when the President isn’t shitposting all day.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:11:09am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:12:36am
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:14:06am

re: #325 Dread Pirate Ron

[Embedded content]

Fuck Greenwald.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:14:50am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:15:45am

re: #336 (((Archangel1)))

Synonym: See “Cruz”

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:16:23am

I just tried my old kindle tablet and I could not get on LGF at all. This is very frustrating.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:16:49am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:17:04am
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:17:48am

Let’s see, does this work?

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:18:00am

Win10/Chrome.

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Jay C  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:19:44am

re: #308 darthstar

re: #311 darthstar

I assume that includes Trump tower.

I may be mistaken, but I believe that Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue is one of the few “Trump” properties that the Organization actually owns (or, more likely, is the front name on the mortgages), so probably not.
I think most of the rest of them bear the Name Of Shame due to various “licensing” agreements: it’s been my understanding that The Donald has, over the years, basically had to sell off most of his real properties to pay his debts, but had them keep his name on them for the “prestige” factor (his, not the building’s). And we see how that’s worked out.

I know the Trump Palace: it’s in my old neighborhood, and has one of the last Food Emporium supermarkets left in NYC. I may have recited this anecdote before, but I’m also familiar with the Trump Plaza on Third Ave and E 62nd St. The Mrs. and I once looked at an apartment in that building many years ago: it was OK, as apartments went, but looking at the financials, we noticed that the monthly maintenance charge was something like twice the money of any other co-op we had looked at, and the only explanation we could get from the RE agent was “Trump building….” And that the building was “owned” under a long-term (99-year?) land lease, which, despite the length of time involved, always affects the resale value. Needless to say, we passed.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:20:02am

I am in spy. That seems to work.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:27:03am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:27:23am

Programming note: I cannot open the private comment at #190 (nor does the reply button work here).

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:28:34am

re: #346 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Try spy mode. Things seem to be working there.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:31:51am

I can’t use “quote” on #199 either, so I’m assuming I can’t use either of those buttons at all.

The more people who decide to hit the road from Mar-a-Grifto membership, the easier it becomes for Palm Beach County to tell Trump to get out.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:32:26am

re: #342 The Pie Overlord!

Win10/Chrome.

That’s what I am using and have seen no problems so far.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:32:35am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:33:04am

re: #347 PhillyPretzel

Try spy mode. Things seem to be working there.

That seems to work.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:34:38am

However, tweets render in Spy Mode like so:

She thinks the election was stolen from Donald Trump. He believes what dozens of courts and officials have found: that Joe Biden is the rightful winner. Theyu2019re trying to find common ground but wonder whether they u2013 and the nation u2013 can do it. t.c

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:35:10am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:36:20am

Wonder Woman 1984 was disappointing. That is all.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:38:18am

Princess Ivanka is already making her move…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:40:43am

Charles has a life outside this website. I’m sure he’ll be by in the next couple of hours and can fix whatever is going on.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:40:53am

re: #345 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I didn’t find the original statistics BUT the fact that 1/3 oppose doesn’t mean that 2/3 approve. There are also those who have no opinion and sometimes that’s a significant portion of the responders.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:41:42am

re: #349 Eventual Carrion

That’s what I am using and have seen no problems so far.

Me too!

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:42:16am

re: #356 Eclectic Cyborg

He has signed in. I believe we will see the site fixed very soon.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:43:42am

Private and new comment buttons have stopped working for me win7/firefox.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:43:50am

The Grift Continues.

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stpaulbear  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:45:26am

re: #361 The Pie Overlord!

The Grift Continues.

[Embedded content]

Another thing for twitter, facebook, and every other social media provider to ban.

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gocart mozart  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:48:28am
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gocart mozart  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:48:57am
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:49:10am

re: #363 gocart mozart

C) None of them.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:49:50am

I’m checking things out.

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:51:39am

re: #363 gocart mozart

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Teukka  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:51:45am

FWIW charles, checking points on comments works, posting works, but not reply or quote, nor “new comment” (‘cept with the “auto” workaround).

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stpaulbear  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:53:01am

Another YouTube channel that I’ve gotten hooked on. So much trash in the oceans.

Seal Rescued from Fire Hose

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Citizen K  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:53:06am

re: #325 Dread Pirate Ron

The amazing chutzpah and persecution complex of this asshole for claiming he’s being silenced when that’s exactly what he fucking did to Lauren Wolfe.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:53:49am

OK, reload the page and I think everything should be groovy again.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:53:50am

I finally cut off a Trumper friend today. Decent guy, but I can’t handle his politics.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:54:24am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:55:03am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:55:12am

re: #371 Charles Johnson

OK, reload the page and I think everything should be groovy again.

Yep. Rolling again on my end. Thanks, boss!

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:55:27am

re: #371 Charles Johnson

Thanks. It is working again.

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stpaulbear  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:55:37am

re: #366 Charles Johnson

I’m checking things out.

Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:55:48am

re: #371 Charles Johnson

OK, reload the page and I think everything should be groovy again.

Looks that way. Thanks Charles.

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:56:53am

re: #374 Dread Pirate Ron

Yeah, but it’s not 100%, so obviously we need to spend time obsessing about how he’s going to win over those Repubs who think he’s the Antichrist.

////////

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:57:58am

re: #374 Dread Pirate Ron

[Embedded content]

So, 2/3 do support it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:58:45am

re: #345 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

[Embedded content]

re: #357 Hecuba’s daughter

I didn’t find the original statistics BUT the fact that 1/3 oppose doesn’t mean that 2/3 approve. There are also those who have no opinion and sometimes that’s a significant portion of the responders.

So a different comment linked to the actual study and FormerDirtDog — it was about 2/3 who supported the Paris accords!

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(((Archangel1)))  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:59:19am
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Nyet  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:59:35am

Even assuming Q-maggots were motivated by their patriotism etc. etc., well, so were the peasant pogromists believing that Jews drink blood.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:59:43am
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stpaulbear  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:01:06am

Time to go shovel some snow. Looks like about 3” from in the house. Sunny, calm, and 27f. VERY nice January day.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:01:10am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:02:53am

re: #374 Dread Pirate Ron

So in other words most of the country is…unified?

/

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:02:57am
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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:03:29am

The weird characters you might have noticed in tweets in Spy mode are also fixed, for tweets posted from now on.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:04:39am

re: #389 Charles Johnson

Thanks Charles.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:05:24am

re: #385 still stpaulbear

Time to go shovel some snow. Looks like about 3” from in the house. Sunny, calm, and 27f. VERY nice January day.

It was about 2” out this way. It was light and fluffy and very easy to move. Took me an hour and change to clear the whole driveway and Mrs. Fish’s car, which I took to church this morning.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:05:53am
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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:06:17am
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:06:38am
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Jay C  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:09:29am

re: #386 Dread Pirate Ron

[Embedded content]

LOL.
Catholic Mass in the morning, Jewish deli in the afternoon.
Sounds like my kind of President……

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:09:32am

I’m with Patton Oswald… I’d save Cliff.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:11:01am

re: #395 Jay C

Skip the Mass go do brunch at the deli.

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:11:38am

re: #393 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

I truly am tired of the argument that goes “it’s better to let them talk and then debunk them.” Why? Because any such reporting always begins with the lie first, and then the debunking after. And that assumes the debunking is willing to call out the lie, rather than twisting the truth to be “fair.”

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Jay C  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:11:38am

re: #382 (((Archangel1)))

[Embedded content]

You forgot the lottery: set up a betting line on who falls first….
Entrepreneurship, man! Entrepreneurship!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:16:18am

This looks interesting.

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BeachDem  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:24:57am

re: #398 Targetpractice

I truly am tired of the argument that goes “it’s better to let them talk and then debunk them.” Why? Because any such reporting always begins with the lie first, and then the debunking after. And that assumes the debunking is willing to call out the lie, rather than twisting the truth to be “fair.”

People should listen to George Lakoff—he’s been correct about framing since the first edition of “Don’t Think of an Elephant—Know Your Values and Frame the Debate” in 2004.

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:25:35am

re: #400 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

This looks interesting.

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I want to see it. I thought the other movies did a good job of having giant monsters fight.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:26:44am

re: #385 still stpaulbear

Time to go shovel some snow. Looks like about 3” from in the house. Sunny, calm, and 27f. VERY nice January day.

We got light snow last night, so I’m not going to bother.

Spy mode only lets me go back to comment #378, so a lot was lost there to me. (However, I’m lost a lot anyway, so I’m used to it.)

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Teukka  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:29:12am

re: #371 Charles Johnson

OK, reload the page and I think everything should be groovy again.

Confirmed. Woiks.
re: #384 Charles Johnson

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:34:10am

re: #386 Dread Pirate Ron

They stopped to grab some bagels


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