Malika Tirolien: “Change Your Life”

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Malika Tirolien’s new single “CHANGE YOUR LIFE” is out now
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New album HIGHER available early 2021
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“CHANGE YOUR LIFE” is a song about the HIGHER SELF trying to take over and showing that true compassion and empathy is embedded inside the heart; it’s a question of letting it take the lead.

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Production, Art Direction, Costume Design: Sami Chaouki, Alexis Cousineau
Editor: Sami Chaouki
Director of Photography: Marie Chemin
Dancer/Choreographer: Warda Bredy
Stylists: Nadia Bunyan fir Maison Black Mission and Bérénice Tutin Créations
Hair Stylist: Sami Chaouki
Makeup Artist: Sophie Belisle
Camera Assistant: Eugenie Tutin
VFX Consultant: Jonathan Romain
Filmed At: Espace Transmission
Sponsors: Résonance Café, Maxi and chef Marcelle

Written by Malika Tirolien
Composed by Malika Tirolien
Arranged by Michael League and Malika Tirolien

Malika Tirolien - Vocals, Keyboard
Michael League - Minimoog Bass
Jason Lindner - Keyboard
Frank Locrasto - Keyboard
Philippe L’ Allier - Guitar
Charles Haynes - Drums

Engineered by Nic Hard and Ted Tuthill
Assistant Engineer: Jacob Zacharia
Mixed by Nic Hard
Mastered by Grey Market Mastering
Recorded at Highbreedmusic Studio

With the Great and Appreciated Support of:
Factor Canada, Canada Council of the Arts and Indiegogo funders

LYRICS
Why are you so negative?
Why would you wear such bad vibes
When the world is already full of dirty laundry

Why are you so negative?
Why do you have to be so mean
With yourself, with your kin
Obligating me to intervene

Do you need some food?
Are you lacking some sleep
Do you need a warm embrace?
How can I change your mood
How can i flip your attitude
How can i put a smile on your face?

Can’t you just be cool?
Can’t you just relax and chill
And show me what’s inside your heart
Just be cool
Can’t you just be nice and real and I promise
It will change your life

But you choose to be negative
To pay attention to what you eat
And forget about the shit that comes out of your mouth

You stick to your prerogative
You’re weak enough to lose your temper
When victory is in calm and in unity

I know we all have our battles
I know we all have our flaws
But we were all born pure and perfect
What you miss must be deep
What you need must be essential
For you to be so damn insecure

Can’t you just be cool?
Can’t you just relax and chill
And show me what’s inside your heart
Just be cool
Can’t you just be nice and real and I promise
It will change your life

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1
Nyet  Jan 24, 2021 • 10:53:49pm

I wonder if in his column Hawley intentionally references Black Mirror’s Nosedive with its social scores.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:23:17pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:26:54pm

re: #1 Nyet

I wonder if in his column Hawley intentionally references Black Mirror’s Nosedive with its social scores.

Here’s hoping that Hawley is canceled from public life and forced to pursue a legitimate career. He is Trump, with complete coherent sentences and without the emoluments violations. His NY Post column was a true outrage, treating his intention to disenfranchise millions of voters as a minor difference of opinion, rather than a deliberate attempt to overturn a legitimate election. I certainly can envision him wearing a swastika in 1930’s Berlin.

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:27:54pm

Hawley is the guy we warned about for the last four years: A more competent fascist than Trump.

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Nyet  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:41:17pm

Meanwhile the überwoke idjits at U of Leicester want to cut medieval English lit (think Chaucer and Beowulf) in favor of some “decolonised” (lol) curriculum.

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Nyet  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:43:12pm

re: #3 Hecuba’s daughter

He’s dangerous, no doubt. It remains to be seen whether he does have the charisma tho. Trump’s dumbness was a huge part of the appeal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:45:45pm

I have mentioned before, but I grew up in the Industrial Midwest during the Golden Age of the (unionized) White Working Man.

A time when you just needed to finish high school, find a job at the steel mill, refinery, coke plant, chemical factory, etc., and you could afford to keep your wife at home, buy a house and a new car every few years, put your kids through state college, etc., all on a workingman’s salary.

Minimal “economic anxiety”. And those guys were every bit as racist as they are today.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:55:57pm

re: #6 Nyet

He’s dangerous, no doubt. It remains to be seen whether he does have the charisma tho. Trump’s dumbness was a huge part of the appeal.

Trump’s appeal? His “wealth” and open racism and bullying and the myth of a successful businessman who was not a politician. None of that applies to Hawley.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 24, 2021 • 11:58:37pm

Good news: we’re going to get some rain (Saturday’s event was just a wee bit too little to be a real rain storm.)

Bad news: it’s going to get even colder down here:

Cold winter storm with heavy precipitation and high wind then atmospheric river - NWS San Diego

..

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Dave In Austin  Jan 25, 2021 • 12:06:06am

Everybody Wants To Rule The World // Tears For Fears

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2021 • 12:09:38am

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have mentioned before, but I grew up in the Industrial Midwest during the Golden Age of the (unionized) White Working Man.

A time when you just needed to finish high school, find a job at the steel mill, refinery, coke plant, chemical plant, etc., and you could afford to keep your wife at home, buy a house and a new car every few years, put your kids through state college, etc., all on a workingman’s salary.

Minimal “economic anxiety” And those guys were every bit as racist as they are today.

It’s always been my belief that you can peg the tectonic shift in the white vote between the parties at the passage of the Great Society. The CRA & VRA began the transition, but even then it was largely seen as a Southern/rural rebellion when Goldwater was picked at the RNC in ‘64. But then Johnson had the audacity to say that government spending should go to helping all people get above the poverty line, and that rankled the “moderates whites” in urban and suburban voting districts who began their long-running fascination with “law and order” that translated as “keep those ni-CLANGs out of my neighborhood.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 25, 2021 • 12:10:01am

.

Malcolm Arnold: English Dances op. 27,

..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 12:16:19am

re: #11 Targetpractice

It’s always been my belief that you can peg the tectonic shift in the white vote between the parties at the passage of the Great Society.

Up to then, government aid programs were welcome if they helped the “working (white) man”. Afterwards, they became “creeping socialism”, rewarding the lazy and shiftless (i.e., non-whites).

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Jack Burton  Jan 25, 2021 • 12:56:39am

I’m almost afraid to mention this, as if I’m going to “jinx” it or something, but…

U.S. COVID-19 new cases per day seems to have have peaked around January 2. We are back down to equal to about November 13th’s case number. California is back down to about the same case number as December 3rd. LA County seems to still be a nightmare though.

There’s no big holidays for awhile to worry about that jackassery turning this around, but I have no idea what back to school for the spring is going to be like. I’m not sure everyone is getting the memo that, “yes you idiots, kids get and spread it too.”

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2021 • 1:04:49am

re: #14 Jack Burton

I’m almost afraid to mention this, as if I’m going to “jinx” it or something, but…

U.S. COVID-19 new cases per day seems to have have peaked around January 2. We are back down to equal to about November 13th’s case number. California is back down to about the same case number as December 3rd. LA County seems to still be a nightmare though.

There’s no big holidays for awhile to worry about that jackassery turning this around, but I have no idea what back to school for the spring is going to be like. I’m not sure everyone is getting the memo that, “yes you idiots, kids get and spread it too.”

I suppose it depends upon how you define “for awhile.” Valentine’s is less than a month away, St. Patrick’s the following month, and Easter not far behind that. Plenty of opportunity for community spread on Valentine’s as every restaurant that’s been “reopened” will be booked solid, as will hotels that still have rooms available at this time of the year. And there’s virtually no chance that the public events for St. Patrick’s Day will be canceled, so there’s even more chance for community spread there.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 1:12:25am

I think we are seeing the post-Christmas/New Year’s peak. There will be other peaks, hopefully not as severe.

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Jack Burton  Jan 25, 2021 • 1:19:00am

re: #15 Targetpractice

There are no holidays where people will absolutely insist to get together (or teh Commies who hate Murca win!) with families or friends until Memorial Day.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 25, 2021 • 1:22:12am

I love watching The President’s Analyst. It did as well at predicting the future as Idiocracy.

YouTube

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John Hughes  Jan 25, 2021 • 1:38:08am

re: #5 Nyet

Meanwhile the überwoke idjits at U of Leicester want to cut medieval English lit (think Chaucer and Beowulf) in favor of some “decolonised” (lol) curriculum.

The pseudo “woke” bits are a smokescreen, their to distract you from what the people proposing this really want:

“and to develop new employability modules in education, publishing and the creative industries”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 1:46:42am

re: #19 John Hughes

The pseudo “woke” bits are a smokescreen, their to distract you from what the people proposing this really want:

“and to develop new employability modules in education, publishing and the creative industries”.

Replacing professors with “Your new literary friend who’s fun to be with”

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2021 • 1:50:41am

re: #19 John Hughes

The pseudo “woke” bits are a smokescreen, their to distract you from what the people proposing this really want:

“and to develop new employability modules in education, publishing and the creative industries”.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 25, 2021 • 2:28:50am

re: #5 Nyet

Part of the real problem we are facing, as societies and even as a species, is that we are hitting our limit on what we can handle.

It seems like a major university ought to be able to have just about any kind of course… but the issue is one of resources.

It sounds like the U. of Leicester doesn’t want to expand the faculty to add what it takes to include more specializations.

Then again, it may not be in the benefit of the UK, meaning the people of the UK, to continue their higher education system as it now exists.

This is a problem that the “free college” proponents don’t like to address: we may have run our course in regards to learning.

Granted, I take a dimmer view of humanity than some people.

Even accounting for that, I challenge anyone to find a way to keep increasing the share of the population that will spend up to age 23 or so in a “school” environment.

Life is about energy, or more accurately, moving energy from one point in spacetime to another point in spacetime.

This is as true of cells (shuttling around electrons to build and destroy molecules) as it is for the composite societies of multicellular creatures, be they ants with their colonies, or humans with their nations.

The ability to move energy around is enumerated in money.

The UK is limited, very limited, in how it can go forward. It has very limited natural resources. The nationalists pushed the Brexit agenda, and now the UK, which cannot exist without extensive international trade, has to find their way in the world competing against the rest of Europe.

Personally I think the UK is overstretched as far as what they can handle financially, even more so than the US.

This long ramble of mine is to justify this: perhaps the University of Leicester is just engaging in part of the process of down-sizing.

A process that is going to grow in scale in the UK.

Even the “woke” folk will eventually be consigned to reality. The wingnuts too… but most of them have Je$u$ to tell them that it’s better to suffer in this life in exchange for some future reward.

All of them will be faced with this: whatever ideal is held in regards to what society ought to be, it comes crashing down when faced with the limits of the physical world.

Regarding Beowulf and Chaucer - they had their day. And quite a few extra days.

I like history. I think it is important that we have historians. I think we need to pay more attention to history.

And having studied English (my minor)… I had no need to study Beowulf or Chaucer.

Yes, I do think we need to have historians and English specialists who know about the history of the language.

But almost no English speakers will have a need to study Beowulf or Chaucer to live in the 21st century.

Eventually the things of the past fade … this is entropy at play.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 2:30:51am

We want to run government like a business, right? Then education is just another overhead cost that is to be minimized or eliminated altogether for the benefit of the Bottom Line.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 2:46:06am
“Federal law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former President Donald Trump nears, including ominous chatter about killing legislators or attacking them outside of the U.S. Capitol,” the AP reports

so ” if we don’t vote to acquit, our supporters will kill us”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 2:55:57am

re: #24 Dangerman

so ” if we don’t vote to acquit, our supporters will kill us”

they would rather see you dead than see you do the “wrong” thing…

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:09:35am

think the nyt will apologize?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:12:46am

re: #26 Dangerman

They are never going to give up on the Rolex, are they?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:17:59am

re: #27 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are never going to give up on the Rolex, are they?

They’re going to ride that Rolex, the Peloton, and Hunter Biden’s Laptop all the way to the grave. They’ll do or say anything to hate that man. All in the name of being against Democrats, because The Party is more important than all.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:24:40am

re: #28 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

They’re going to ride that Rolex, the Peloton, and Hunter Biden’s Laptop all the way to the grave. They’ll do or say anything to hate that man. All in the name of being against Democrats, because The Party is more important than all.

Remember those civilized days when a new President was given 100 days to establish a new administration?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:26:10am

re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember those civilized days when a new President was given 100 days to establish a new administration?

Ah, the halcyon days when even Republicans cared enough about their country to let Democrats do their thing, because we all agreed that America was a great country and our only difference was how to make it better. No more. Now we have one party who wants to make it better and one party who wants to destroy it and turn it into a dictatorship.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:30:54am

re: #30 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Now we have one party who wants to make it better and one party who insists that the other party wants to destroy it and turn it into a dictatorship socialist/atheist/sharia-state hellhole.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:31:56am

re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That too. Over the last 30 years, the Republicans have been very successful at changing “the enemy” from Communists/Russians to Democrats.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:34:07am

re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Replacing professors with “Your new literary friend who’s fun to be with”

It’s not even that.

What the University of Leicester management, using that management-speak developed in the late 20th century, are saying this:

We need to stamp out graduates with degrees that will land them jobs. If we don’t do that, then the politicians will stop sending us money.

Here in the US, the past couple of decades or so have seen colleges (and some universities) close down programs. Either completely, or merge small departments into large ones.

Philosophy was an easy axe. Physics less so, but that’s been happening also. Classics is another easy axe (who needs Latin and Greek?) And so on.

Meanwhile, new majors sprung up: website design, gaming programming and development, etc.

The only reason English departments exist in most colleges and universities is because the colleges typically require a basic English composition class for a degree. Without that requirement English departments would be much, much smaller and rolled into the foreign language department.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:37:26am

re: #32 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

That too. Over the last 30 years, the Republicans have been very successful at changing “the enemy” from Communists/Russians to Democrats.

Because modern Russia is their dream state: authoritarian, oligarchic, militaristic, xenophobic, patriarchal, homophobic and theocratic. Only difference is that the GOP would replace Russian Orthodoxy for Fundamentalist Protestantism.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:40:20am

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

I think we are seeing the post-Christmas/New Year’s peak. There will be other peaks, hopefully not as severe.

Spring Break starts around the second week in March. Thousands of immortal yutes will crowd the beaches and bars of Florida, which is striving to be Plague Central.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:41:10am

re: #35 Decatur Deb

Spring Break starts around the second week in March. Thousands of immortal yutes will crowd the beaches and bars of Florida, which is striving to be Plague Central.

Shee-it. Forgot about that. Back to Square One.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:44:00am

re: #33 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s not even that.

What the University of Leicester management, using that management-speak developed in the late 20th century, are saying this:

Here in the US, the past couple of decades or so have seen colleges (and some universities) close down programs. Either completely, or merge small departments into large ones.

Philosophy was an easy axe. Physics less so, but that’s been happening also. Classics is another easy axe (who needs Latin and Greek?) And so on.

Meanwhile, new majors sprung up: website design, gaming programming and development, etc.

The only reason English departments exist in most colleges and universities is because the colleges typically require a basic English composition class for a degree. Without that requirement English departments would be much, much smaller and rolled into the foreign language department.

Cracks me up that they want to “decolonize” medieval England. Even through Chaucer’s time, England was essentially a French colony.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:50:10am

One of the beefs I have with the “free college” movement is that it devalues education.

And in particular, why people should educate themselves.

This is a tough take on life, one with which I myself have struggled: we have value to our fellow humans only as far as they are willing to value us.

No matter how interested one may be in a particular human creation (and note that everything in education is about studying something invented by humans - even science), no one else on the planet may care, or at least care enough to be willing to barter with you something of theirs you may value.

Pretty much all “college should be free” proponents base their belief on economics, primarily personal finance.

I think such an approach is not good for our society as a whole.

It also makes knowledge something about which only money can describe.

Personally, I think education should be curiosity driven, and based on personality traits that are probably programmed into one during the first five or so years of life.

An institute of higher learning such as the traditional university is not the place for many people. It’s not their thing.

Trying to force people into it, or trying to change the concept of a “University” to fit everybody, is not really helping people or the society as a whole.

Now that may sound pretty elitist (and it is kind of elitist), but it is true.

Most (as in 99.999% of) people have no interest in medieval English, for example. It has neither use or interest to them.

And that applies to most subjects at a university (perhaps not to the extreme that medieval English represents.)

As a society, I think it will be a much, much wiser investment to retool our primary education system (e.g., double the teachers so as to halve the class sizes), than to pay for everyone to go to college for four years and study things about which they’re not really invested personally.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:54:10am

Put in other words: All those folk at Trump rallies with their misspelled signs were not there because they lacked a college education.

Trump succeeded because the K-12 education system failed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:57:39am

re: #37 Decatur Deb

Cracks me up that they want to “decolonize” medieval England. Even through Chaucer’s time, England was essentially a French colony.

Just a way to dress things up and make it sound progressive.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 3:59:34am

re: #38 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

One of the beefs I have with the “free college” movement is that it devalues education.

And in particular, why people should educate themselves.

“Free college” is a bit of an oversimplification: how about but free or subsidized further education for those who are able and willing to pursue it? That is an investment in human capital that pays for itself.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:00:21am

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Put in other words: All those folk at Trump rallies with their misspelled signs were not there because they lacked a college education.

Trump succeeded because the K-12 education system failed.

K-12 teachers need to be educated, it is a self-reinforcing cycle.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:00:31am

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Put in other words: All those folk at Trump rallies with their misspelled signs were not there because they lacked a college education.

Trump succeeded because the K-12 education system failed.

Gradually introduce free college thus: The freshman year is free, and all subsequent years in which the student maintains an A or B average.

(About as many people are interested in Medieval English as are in Quantum Mechanics.)

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William Lewis  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:04:11am

re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Free college” is a bit of an oversimplification: how about but free or subsidized further education for those who are able and willing to pursue it? That is an investment in human capital that pays for itself.

It would be nice to have a subsidy to finally finish my Philosophy/English double major… ;)

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William Lewis  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:06:11am

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Put in other words: All those folk at Trump rallies with their misspelled signs were not there because they lacked a college education.

Trump succeeded because the K-12 education system failed has been destroyed by the GOP.

FTFY.

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JC1  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:12:16am

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Put in other words: All those folk at Trump rallies with their misspelled signs were not there because they lacked a college education.

Trump succeeded because the K-12 education system failed.

We really should have mandatory critical thinking and probability/statistics classes in highschool.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:17:45am

re: #33 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s not even that.

What the University of Leicester management, using that management-speak developed in the late 20th century, are saying this:

Here in the US, the past couple of decades or so have seen colleges (and some universities) close down programs. Either completely, or merge small departments into large ones.

Philosophy was an easy axe. Physics less so, but that’s been happening also. Classics is another easy axe (who needs Latin and Greek?) And so on.

Meanwhile, new majors sprung up: website design, gaming programming and development, etc.

The only reason English departments exist in most colleges and universities is because the colleges typically require a basic English composition class for a degree. Without that requirement English departments would be much, much smaller and rolled into the foreign language department.

Covid is going to put an additional squeeze on this. Most (all?) universities are running in financial shortfall mode right now. And the state university systems will be under additional pressure since most state budgets are going to get hit very hard for the next couple of years.

Where my brother teaches (SUNY) they are already being asked essentially to justify their departments and staffing right now. Which pretty obviously means no new hiring as well. And I expect in any case that departments will get axed, trimmed, or consolidated.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:21:08am

Hawaii Republican Official Quits Over Much-Mocked ‘QAnoners Just Love America’ Tweets

thedailybeast.com

The fool was let go because he let the truth slip out of his lips…

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:31:25am

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Put in other words: All those folk at Trump rallies with their misspelled signs were not there because they lacked a college education.

Trump succeeded because the K-12 education system failed.

Memories of K-12 when the school board’s #1 priority was fielding winning football and basketball teams. Nothing else mattered to them or to the town I grew up in. The town’s big social event was the Friday Night Football game with the packed school stadium watching the latest crop of gladiators bring glory to Rome…and then there were all those athletic scholarships handed out at graduation…and less than 10% of those who got scholarships completed college…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:31:46am

re: #48 🌹UOJB!

Hawaii Republican Official Quits Over Much-Mocked ‘QAnoners Just Love America’ Tweets

thedailybeast.com

The fool was let go because he let the truth slip out of his lips…

“People fell for Hitler out of a deep and sincere love for the Fatherland…”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:32:43am

re: #49 🌹UOJB!

Memories of K-12 when the school board’s #1 priority was fielding winning football and basketball teams. Nothing else mattered to them or to the town I grew up in. The town’s big social event was the Friday Night Football game with the packed school stadium watching the latest crop of gladiators bring glory to Rome…and then there were all those athletic scholarships handed out at graduation…and less than 10% of those who got scholarships completed college…

Because college sports are the unpaid bush leagues for the NFL and NBA.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:35:42am

re: #49 🌹UOJB!

Memories of K-12 when the school board’s #1 priority was fielding winning football and basketball teams. Nothing else mattered to them or to the town I grew up in. The town’s big social event was the Friday Night Football game with the packed school stadium watching the latest crop of gladiators bring glory to Rome…and then there were all those athletic scholarships handed out at graduation…and less than 10% of those who got scholarships completed college…

Our school didn’t have football (only one school in our entire district did), but they spent as much time and money as they could on trying to bring home that coveted basketball championship, since we lived in the State of Basketball. The irony wasn’t lost on me that I, myself, and a squad of my nerd friends brought in the school’s first-ever state championship, in mathematics. (We followed up the next year with three more, and I think to this day they still don’t have a basketball championship.)

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Jack Burton  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:43:08am

“Free College” seems to work just fine in Norway.

Combine it with having K-12 prepare you for most jobs, so not everyone thinks they need to go to college, and I think we have a winner.

It’s not a one or another thing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:47:04am

re: #53 Jack Burton

“Free College” seems to work just fine in Norway.

Combine it with having K-12 prepare you for most jobs, so not everyone thinks they need to go to college, and I think we have a winner.

It’s not a one or another thing.

That is much the system in Germany, which has its flaws, such as tracking children way too early (at the end of the 5th grade) and putting them into completely different school systems, which leads to a greater degree of social striation, but in general, the schools and universities turn out people ready to take up a profession and not just go out and struggle to find a job somewhere.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:47:26am

FiveThirtyEight has a surprisingly thoughtful article on the underlying processes of radicalization that culminated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. It touches on a lot of the themes we’ve discussed here in prior days - dehumanization, casting political opponents as “the enemy”, isolating in “social bubbles” where only like-minded people are allowed. It does a little bit of both-siderizing, but to be truthful, in the Trump and post-Trump eras, we have seen our fair share of liberal Democrats on the road to radicalization, too.

What happened at the Capitol was the culmination of years of right-wing extremism, a political force that has increasingly manifested as actual violence. But Mason’s research — and her worries — go beyond right-wing extremists. Much of this nation now hates Americans who don’t affiliate with their party. The reasons for and consequences of that hatred look very different on the right than on the left, but it still leaves President Biden with a nearly impossible task: governing a radicalized country.

For decades, researchers like Mason have watched as multiple trends — white Americans’ resentment of Black Americans, growth in inequality, how we feel about political opponents — pointed this country in a dangerous direction. Any one of these things, on their own, can destabilize democracies and lead to violence, experts told us. We are grappling with some half dozen. And now the country has come to a place where it’s much, much easier to throw a punch than to work things out. None of that is likely to change just because we have a new administration focused on unity.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:48:20am

re: #22 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

“But almost no English speakers will have a need to study Beowulf or Chaucer to live in the 21st century.”

True but I still believe that reading those classics is a good way of learning about medieval life. We can hold onto some of our past while expanding our range of courses to reflect current racial/ethnic diversity.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:48:45am

re: #53 Jack Burton

“Free College” seems to work just fine in Norway.

Combine it with having K-12 prepare you for most jobs, so not everyone thinks they need to go to college, and I think we have a winner.

It’s not a one or another thing.

Italy uses the merit-based college tuition system, after a sharp break in educational tracks early in HS. Grades 1-8 are surprisingly effective use of a short school day, because there are no BS activities. (Art is not BS—Daughter2 was expected to describe the workings of a single-lens reflex by the time she graduated Scuola Media Dante Alighieri.)

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Jack Burton  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:52:03am

re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is much the system in Germany, which has its flaws, such as tracking children way too early (at the end of the 5th grade) and putting them into completely different school systems, which leads to a greater degree of social striation, but in general, the schools and universities turn out people ready to take up a profession and not just go out and struggle to find a job somewhere.

I’ve always thought the Gymnasium vs Oberschule thing in Germany was pigeonholing kids before they have a chance to really know wtf they want to do with their lives.

That is assuming this is still how Germany does it and I’m not going off of info from the 80s.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 4:58:09am

re: #58 Jack Burton

I’ve always thought the Gymnasium vs Oberschule thing in Germany was pigeonholing kids before they have a chance to really know wtf they want to do with their lives.

That is assuming this is still how Germany does it and I’m not going off of info from the 80s.

It has not significantly changed, although the system has become a bit more flexible and porous, I think the end of the 5th grade is too early to make such a momentous decision about a child’s future educational career.

Especially for children from Immigrant families whose German is not up to native standards, and just as importantly, whose parents are unfamiliar with the German school system and what is expected of its students (as was the case with my oldest daughter)

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:11:02am

re: #35 Decatur Deb

Spring Break starts around the second week in March. Thousands of immortal yutes will crowd the beaches and bars of Florida, which is striving to be Plague Central.

The University of Kentucky solved that for this year by starting the semester a week later and eliminating Spring Break.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:12:08am

re: #60 Belafon

The University of Kentucky solved that for this year by starting the semester a week later and eliminating Spring Break.

a “cruel” ploy, but effective…seems like they could have just ended earlier so the kids would be able to enjoy the early summer…

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:18:44am

re: #38 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

As someone who was only able to go to school on scholarships:

One of the beefs I have with the “free college” movement is that it devalues education.

This is crap. First off, it will never be free, as someone will have to pay for it, even in your “it should be about curiosity” stance, since teachers need to get paid. Second, as someone who is an autodidact, one of the great benefits of a structured system for education is having someone else reason out the best way to get introduced and taught in a subject.

Elitist? Talk about sounding like someone who hasn’t had to pull themselves out of their station in life.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:19:49am

re: #60 Belafon

The University of Kentucky solved that for this year by starting the semester a week later and eliminating Spring Break.

When Is College Spring Break 2021?
thecollegemonk.com

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:21:35am

re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

a “cruel” ploy, but effective…seems like they could have just ended earlier so the kids would be able to enjoy the early summer…

Which probably isn’t a good thing either, but otherwise it’s the same result. The only reason I think they didn’t do that is graduation events, even covid ones, are already planned.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:23:55am

re: #62 Belafon

As someone who was only able to go to school on scholarships:

As someone who took nearly 30 years to pay off his (and his ex’s) student loans I would never wish that kind of debt on anyone starting out.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:24:40am

re: #63 Decatur Deb

When I went to Pitt in the 70s they had no spring break because they had a trimester system.

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:24:52am

I think that we should be paying for all types of post-secondary education, including continuing education for adults beyond the initial few years for whatever they choose to go into.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:27:13am

re: #66 🌹UOJB!

When I went to Pitt in the 70s they had no spring break because they had a trimester system.

U of L probably had a spring break, but the assembly line at Appliance Park didn’t.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:28:17am

re: #62 Belafon

As someone who was only able to go to school on scholarships:

I was fortunate to graduate without debt between Social Security paying for my undergrad degree and a TA position to cover most of my Master’s.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:30:34am

re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was fortunate to graduate without debt between Social Security paying for my undergrad degree and a TA position to cover most of my Master’s.

I wound up with a total loan debt of $8,750 which took 10 years to pay off.

Now we’re hiring kids in our office with student debt in excess of $100-150K that they will NEVER be able to pay off. Buying a home? a car? having kids? FORGET IT!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:31:35am

re: #70 🌹UOJB!

I wound up with a total loan debt of $8,750 which took 10 years to pay off.

Now we’re hiring kids in our office with student debt in excess of $100-150K that they will NEVER be able to pay off. Buying a home? a car? having kids? FORGET IT!

Spending the rest of your working life grunting away at any job you can find and never really getting ahead?

-your only option!

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nines09  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:32:12am

Rudy has an exciting Monday ahead.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:33:40am

162K Karma!

Thank you all again, everyone who has helped me so far towards my lifetime goal of 250K

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:34:22am

re: #70 🌹UOJB!

I wound up with a total loan debt of $8,750 which took 10 years to pay off.

Now we’re hiring kids in our office with student debt in excess of $100-150K that they will NEVER be able to pay off. Buying a home? a car? having kids? FORGET IT!

The GI Bill covered 4 yrs and a year of grad school, so I got out with only a couple thousand in debt. Getting drafted was sort of “paying it forward”.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:35:03am

re: #72 nines09

Rudy has an exciting Monday ahead.

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Dear Dominion Systems:

Please sue the My Pillow Guy next!

Thanks!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:36:08am

re: #74 Decatur Deb

The GI Bill covered 4 yrs and a year of grad school, so I got out with only a couple thousand in debt. Getting drafted was sort of “paying it forward”.

I was also lucky that in-state tuition back then was piddling, as I recall around $250-$400 per semester, something that could be covered by a part-time job and summer work.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:37:58am

re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was also lucky that in-state tuition back then was piddling, as I recall around $250-$400 per semester, something that could be covered by a part-time job and summer work.

When I started Pitt in 1973—Tuition and Board both cost $480 a trimester. When I graduated in December 1977 both were $600.

Now the tuition alone is $14K+ a semester…

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:39:44am

re: #77 🌹UOJB!

When I started Pitt in 1973—Tuition and Board both cost $480 a trimester. When I graduated in December 1977 both were $600.

Now the tuition alone is $14K+ a semester…

U of L was 512/semester. It kept that when it entered the KY state system.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:43:46am

re: #77 🌹UOJB!

When I started Pitt in 1973—Tuition and Board both cost $480 a trimester. When I graduated in December 1977 both were $600.

Now the tuition alone is $14K+ a semester…

Between 1981 and 1986 I saw the rough per credit cost at Pitt (in-state, double for out-of-state) go from ~$80 to ~$160. And the increases were higher for the engineering and medical schools. And they pretty much doubled again by 1990.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:46:21am

re: #72 nines09

Rudy’s going to need a better class of lawyers than his client has had.

In the legal vernacular, he’s fucked.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:46:25am

re: #18 Dread Pirate Ron

I love watching The President’s Analyst. It did as well at predicting the future as Idiocracy.

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Video

We were watching designated survivor
The president is getting some therapy after his wife’s death .
therapists computer gets hacked and his private notes are published

At that moment I said to mrsdm have you seen this movie….
(she hasn’t. Yet)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:48:25am

re: #80 lawhawk

Rudy’s going to need a better class of lawyers than his client has had.

In the legal vernacular, he’s fucked.

He is going to be portrayed in the RW media as a loyal patriot now being hounded and witch-hunted by big-money Deep State interests with a stacked legal system against him…

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steve_davis  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:49:22am

re: #4 Targetpractice

Hawley is the guy we warned about for the last four years: A more competent fascist than Trump.

Hawley discovers he’s lost his corporate donors….

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:50:18am

Looking forward to getting a good night’s rest on Dominion pillows and playing a round at Dominion National in Bedminster one day…

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:51:18am

re: #75 🌹UOJB!

Dear Dominion Systems:

Please sue the My Pillow Guy next!

Thanks!

Lindell is named in the suit.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:51:43am
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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:52:43am

re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

they would rather see you dead than see you do the “wrong” thing…

Implicitly acknowledging that these *are* the people they represent

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:53:36am

re: #27 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are never going to give up on the Rolex, are they?

until they find something “better”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:54:05am

re: #87 Dangerman

Implicitly acknowledging that these *are* the people they represent

Yes, and if you don’t represent ‘em right, expect to pay the price…these people don’t wait around until Election Day to extract revenge for feeling betrayed.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:55:46am

re: #88 Dangerman

until they find something “better”

Note how Lady G endlessly fusses about Hunter when it whines on Fox…

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steve_davis  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:57:52am

re: #21 Targetpractice

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absolutely. currently working for some folks who removed their sophomore literature requirement for all students. turns out not as many students could be packed into lit courses, and it necessitated paying more otherwise useless English faculty to teach it.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 5:58:20am

re: #48 🌹UOJB!

Hawaii Republican Official Quits Over Much-Mocked ‘QAnoners Just Love America’ Tweets

thedailybeast.com

The fool was let go because he let the truth slip out of his lips…

More of this please

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:01:36am

re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was also lucky that in-state tuition back then was piddling, as I recall around $250-$400 per semester, something that could be covered by a part-time job and summer work.

I was lucky in that I had a rich upper-middle-class dad who could afford to take loans and pay them off, and did so.

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Ming5000  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:01:52am

Someone posted this a while ago. :-)

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:01:57am

re: #86 🌹UOJB!

Can’t wait to see #lawtwitter’s read-through of this.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:03:20am

re: #55 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

FiveThirtyEight has a surprisingly thoughtful article on the underlying processes of radicalization that culminated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. It touches on a lot of the themes we’ve discussed here in prior days - dehumanization, casting political opponents as “the enemy”, isolating in “social bubbles” where only like-minded people are allowed. It does a little bit of both-siderizing, but to be truthful, in the Trump and post-Trump eras, we have seen our fair share of liberal Democrats on the road to radicalization, too.

I don’t hate the other side(s)
I have no tolerance for irrationality, hate and deceit masquerading as honest broker compromise politics

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:03:41am

re: #94 Ming5000

Someone posted this a while ago. :-)

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Another person added vocals to that tik tok. I wonder if it’s grown more since then.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:04:28am

re: #95 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Can’t wait to see #lawtwitter’s read-through of this.

I assume Dominion pays good lawyers good money to get things right.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:04:43am

re: #96 Dangerman

I don’t hate the other side(s)
I have no tolerance for irrationality, hate and deceit masquerading as honest broker compromise politics

Meanwhile Jimmy Dore Lets a Boogaloo Boy do his hate thing…

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:05:52am

re: #89 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, and if you don’t represent ‘em right, expect to pay the price…these people don’t wait around until Election Day to extract revenge for feeling betrayed.

“Free GoFund the Four Seasons 4 !!!”

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:07:05am

If this doesn’t leave you in awe!

Look at how she energizes her teammates!

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:08:12am

re: #96 Dangerman

I don’t hate the other side(s)
I have no tolerance for irrationality, hate and deceit masquerading as honest broker compromise politics

They did point out that the left has far less of an animus toward the right than vice versa, which we already knew. The most surprising thing is that the support for violence against members of the opposite party seemed to be about the same across both sides, according to their polling, which kinda seems wrong. Or maybe it speaks to bloodlust being a non-political issue.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:09:18am
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A Mom Anon  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:11:41am

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. I have a kid with a disability. He went through public K-12 and while his early education was excellent, his middle and high school education did little if anything of merit. If I knew then what I know now I would have homeschooled from grade 6 on.

In our district there is a huge push for 4 yrs or more of college. That’s all the school counselors in high school do here, help those with the grades get into college.There is little if any mention of job training programs or trade schools. Those are for the “trouble makers and delinquents” and that’s about it. Four years of school isn’t for everyone, and any intellectual pursuits are awesome, but it’s also a sign of privilege. So much of our culture, society, whatever this is we’ve created for ourselves, is dependent on jobs that get your hands dirty. And those jobs are also undervalued and disrespected. I couldn’t find a single educator or administrator that would help us find a tech/trade school that might be able to work with my son to encourage and mentor him in a program where he could now be making a decent living. Meanwhile, his confidence in his ability to learn enough to be proficient in any skilled trade went into full scale crash and burn. He’s almost 27 now, and school makes him have anxiety attacks-just talking about it. He’s making 12 bucks an hour via a temp agency at a warehouse filling orders for used books, CDs, dvds, etc. Compared to most of his adult autistic peers he’s doing very well, but this is another issue we face. Formal education has been narrowly defined for good reasons. A degree in literature or even business is a whole different critter than becoming a plumber or HVAC tech. Both have value and both need those who can share knowledge and teach as well as mentor students.

As someone who missed the window of cheap college or some higher education, not because of when I was born , but homelessness and life being shitty, it’s my biggest regret. I am 60 now, a degree won’t get me a job, so the cost of school is prohibitive unless I can find free classes and class materials, or audit classes. If I’m going to do the work, I want the degree/diploma, auditing seems like a waste unless it’s for a particular class or two that interests you.

I guess my point is that we’ve lost the point of much of what we’re doing. There’s also a little problem of the highest paying state employee in many states is a university football coach. Sports and education are too closely codependent. I know a couple of former college athletes who will tell you they would have been a lot better served had they been allowed to go to trade school or something less traditional. One of those guys went on to be a plumber, quite a successful one, after a full ride scholarship via football. We just don’t seem to be able to figure out how to best match people to what will work for them via education and work. And payment for that work that allows you to be an independent adult human.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:12:20am

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:12:44am

re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

162K Karma!

Thank you all again, everyone who has helped me so far towards my lifetime goal of 250K

Good thing you got that masters huh? ////

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:13:42am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:14:59am
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jeffreyw  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:17:38am

Good morning!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:17:40am

re: #104 A Mom Anon

I guess my point is that we’ve lost the point of much of what we’re doing.

There’s also a little problem of the highest paying state employee in many states is a university football coach.

Sports and education are too closely codependent.

This.

And this.

And this.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:17:55am

...

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:18:31am

re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Do they have their own twitter feeds? /

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:19:27am

re: #14 Jack Burton

I’m almost afraid to mention this, as if I’m going to “jinx” it or something, but…

U.S. COVID-19 new cases per day seems to have have peaked around January 2. We are back down to equal to about November 13th’s case number. California is back down to about the same case number as December 3rd. LA County seems to still be a nightmare though.

There’s no big holidays for awhile to worry about that jackassery turning this around, but I have no idea what back to school for the spring is going to be like. I’m not sure everyone is getting the memo that, “yes you idiots, kids get and spread it too.”

Covid peaked until the UK variant takes complete hold. The UK had been in a lockdown from beginning of November till early December and then opened up. Suddenly, courtesy of the variant cases and deaths exploded — and death rate is significantly higher than here. So beginning of January, UK imposed a new lockdown. Here in Illinois, they are opening restaurants because the numbers have improved — let’s see how long that lasts.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:19:35am

re: #112 lawhawk

Do they have their own twitter feeds? /

There is a first dogs account I follow - Jill linked it. Gimme a sec.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:20:47am
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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:21:00am

re: #18 Dread Pirate Ron

I love watching The President’s Analyst. It did as well at predicting the future as Idiocracy.

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Video

Loved that movie when I saw it decades ago. Wonder if it’s ultimately the origin of the contemporary fear that a 5G chip is going to be injected via vaccine.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:21:41am

re: #114 darthstar

There is a first dogs account I follow - Jill linked it. Gimme a sec.

I stand corrected - firstdogs46 wasn’t official. and it’s suspended.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:22:05am
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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:22:16am

re: #109 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Those boys are ready to rumble.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:23:18am

What I meant to post. Rudy meet consequences.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:23:21am

re: #85 darthstar

Lindell is named in the suit.

Would love it if ALEC could be named in the suit, given that they are behind the plot to overturn the election. Certainly Cleta Mitchell wasn’t acting on her own.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:23:26am
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mmmirele  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:24:10am

re: #103 darthstar

This makes me laugh because one of the complaints I’ve had about the US Godzilla series is that the lighting is murky and seems to have been set either at night or during a rainstorm. Or both. It made the first two films nearly unwatchable for me.

Hey filmmakers: Not every day with Godzilla is like a rainy night in San Francisco. You’d hate to do Godzilla stomping on Phoenix, with our 300+ days of sun and clear skies at night.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:24:46am

re: #93 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I was lucky in that I had a rich upper-middle-class dad who could afford to take loans and pay them off, and did so.

my sister and brother-in-law took out a second mortgage on their house to pay for my nieces’ college…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:25:20am
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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:25:27am

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

It was always about white supremacy.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:25:32am

re: #120 No Malarkey!

What I meant to post. Rudy meet consequences.

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I liked the first tweet though. All good consequences of Biden’s win.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:26:45am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:27:24am

re: #106 Dangerman

Good thing you got that masters huh? ////

I won’t even tell you what I got it in…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:29:28am

re: #77 🌹UOJB!

When I started Pitt in 1973—Tuition and Board both cost $480 a trimester. When I graduated in December 1977 both were $600.

Now the tuition alone is $14K+ a semester…

hi

I’m only here for a short time, because I need to get ready to drive to Cheyenne for my first Fauci Ouchi.

My mother entered University of Michigan, but that was paid for by the government from my father’s death in Vietnam.

When I graduated from high school in 1978, there was no college I could afford, hence my entry into the military ten years after my father was killed.

I have no doubt I could have done well, but for lack of funds. My high school counsellor was uninterested in helping me, due to my family’s “low standing in the community” and “poor.”

I joined during the time conservatives had killed the GI bill and replaced it with a laughable programme which couldn’t pay for anyone’s college (now replaced with the Montgomery GI Bill).

Anytime someone comes up with the argument “a student should have skin in the game” (the same argument used for medical insurance and healthcare) the phrase infuriates me.

I’ve paid off two student loans from my VA Disability (my ex-wife’s and my wife’s) but I never benefited from attending a university (or even a trade school) myself.

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Teukka  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:29:54am

re: #116 Hecuba’s daughter

Loved that movie when I saw it decades ago. Wonder if it’s ultimately the origin of the contemporary fear that a 5G chip is going to be injected via vaccine.

This one is making the rounds on teh intertubes. They are so out of it they have no qualms about faking evidence:

[Sauce]
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steve_davis  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:31:27am

re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was fortunate to graduate without debt between Social Security paying for my undergrad degree and a TA position to cover most of my Master’s.

same. i didn’t use social security, but college was still affordable based on what people were able to save, and then the TA in graduate school kept me going. (though the bastards always subtracted 300 dollars of my pitiful TA funding for “administrative fees” at the beginning of each semester).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:31:32am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:32:14am

re: #131 Teukka

This one is making the rounds on teh intertubes. They are so out of it they have no qualms about faking evidence:

I think that particular post is either a piss take or an example of Poe’s Law…

But regardless, too many people will wind up taking it seriously

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:33:28am
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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:34:57am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I won’t even tell you what I got it in…

Karma?

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:35:01am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think that particular post is either a piss take or an example of Poe’s Law…

But regardless, too many people will wind up taking it seriously

OMG. They’re injecting massive pieces of gear into people’s arms via a teeny tiny needle. That’s pretty fucking amazing. They used embiggen and shrinking tech. So that’s what Gates has been working on.

Of course, everyone can be tracked in the 4G/5G world simply with their fucking smartphones that keep track of everything said/done/visited. ID10T error.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:35:31am

re: #131 Teukka

This one is making the rounds on teh intertubes. They are so out of it they have no qualms about faking evidence:

[Embedded content]

Note to self: Don’t go to Radio Shack for vaccinations.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:36:44am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:38:00am

re: #136 Dangerman

Karma?

cяазу баскшаяд алрнабэт

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:38:40am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:38:58am

NO BLUE CHECK MARK ? ? ?
WHY ARE CHAMP AND MAJOR BEING MUZZLED ? ? ?

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:39:00am

re: #131 Teukka

This one is making the rounds on teh intertubes. They are so out of it they have no qualms about faking evidence:

[Embedded content]

1 this did not come out of your arm
2 it certainly did not go in through a needle/hypo ffs
3 looks like a valve stem core?

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:41:04am

re: #135 darthstar

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Starts with t and that rhymes with p and that stands for pool. //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:41:17am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:42:28am

re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth

So Trump literally got away with millions of dollars from hosting state events at his private properties? Fuck this.

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steve_davis  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:43:03am

re: #142 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

NO BLUE CHECK MARK ? ? ?
WHY ARE CHAMP AND MAJOR BEING MUZZLED ? ? ?

[Embedded content]

he had Graham, so not technically true.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:43:43am

re: #143 Dangerman

1 this did not come out of your arm
2 it certainly did not go in through a needle/hypo ffs
3 looks like a valve stem core?

Yes, I was thinking presta.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:44:04am

re: #146 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

So Trump literally got away with millions of dollars from hosting state events at his private properties? Fuck this.

If you run fast enough long enough the clock runs out

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:44:05am

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

I mean there’s all sorts of television shows and movies which are about disrespect of the police and laws being a good thing (Smokey and the Bandit, The Dukes of Hazzard, &c)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:44:16am

re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Supreme Court does not add any cases to its docket. It sends the Trump emoluments case back to the lower court with instructions to dismiss as moot.

This is where all that court-packing really pays off…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:45:06am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I mean there’s all sorts of television shows and movies which are about disrespect of the police and laws on the part of white people being a good thing (Smokey and the Bandit, The Dukes of Hazzard, &c)

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:45:34am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Supreme Court does not add any cases to its docket. It sends the Trump emoluments case back to the lower court with instructions to dismiss as moot.

This is where all that court-packing really pays off…

We have to live with a corrupted court that says Republicans are above the law.

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:45:51am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I mean there’s all sorts of television shows and movies which are about disrespect of the police and laws being a good thing (Smokey and the Bandit, The Dukes of Hazzard, &c)

Look at how old they are.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:47:06am

re: #131 Teukka

What is that thing anyway? I finally deleted my FB after the inauguration but I know a few former acquaintances who would be all-in on that BS.

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mmmirele  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:47:07am

re: #123 mmmirele

Speaking of Godzilla:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:47:53am

re: #147 steve_davis

he had Graham, so not technically true.

Graham didn’t ‘reside’ in the residence.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:48:12am

re: #131 Teukka

This one is making the rounds on teh intertubes. They are so out of it they have no qualms about faking evidence:

[Embedded content]

An air valve stem core. Maybe they have just let all their air out and need refilled?

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:48:42am

Congratulations to the US Supreme Court for writing the Emoluments Clause out of the US Constitution. By taking no action and sending it back to the lower courts by insisting the issue is moot, you’ve made it impossible to actually enforce the Emoluments Clause going forward since it takes a significant amount of time to sue and bring an action against a 1 term president.

The court should have taken the case and ruled - because it has long term application. Their refusal to act also has long term consequence - these originalists and right wingers have written a clear portion of the Constitution out of existence to protect the most corrupt admin in history. We’re now going to watch courts rule that going after Trump now is moot - getting away with crimes. That’s the line the Senate GOP is going to use in the trial, the one that they purposefully delayed until after he was out of office.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:49:03am

re: #156 mmmirele

I’ll stick with The Skipper!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:49:16am

re: #144 Dangerman

Starts with t and that rhymes with p and that stands for pool. //

LOL

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:49:40am

re: #48 🌹UOJB!

Hawaii Republican Official Quits Over Much-Mocked ‘QAnoners Just Love America’ Tweets

thedailybeast.com

The fool was let go because he let the truth slip out of his lips…

And right after that article?

Dominion Voting Systems Sues Giuliani for $1 Billion in Damages Over Baseless Election Fraud Claims

Rudy Giuliani might soon face some actual consequences for pushing completely baseless election fraud conspiracy theories. According to The New York Times, Dominion Voting Systems has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Trump lawyer, accusing him of whipping up “a viral disinformation campaign” of “demonstrably false” allegations. The suit, which was filed Monday, reportedly lists over 50 statements from Giuliani which accused Dominion—one of the biggest voting machine manufacturers in the country—of fraudulently flipping Trump votes to help Joe Biden. The company is reportedly seeking damages of more than $1.3 billion. Giuliani is yet to comment on the suit.

Now do the pillow guy. He asked you to.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:50:15am

dammit

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b.d. (America Is Great Again!)  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:50:33am

re: #160 🌹UOJB!

I’ll stick with The Skipper!

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Embedded Image

The older I get the more I realize that the Skipper wasn’t fat after all!

//

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:51:18am

re: #143 Dangerman

1 this did not come out of your arm
2 it certainly did not go in through a needle/hypo ffs
3 looks like a valve stem core?

It looks like a toggle switch for a panel to me.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:52:08am

re: #164 b.d. (Be Best!)

The older I get the more I realize that the Skipper wasn’t fat after all!

//

I remember when The Skipper had his Lobster Barrel restaurant on La Cienega Blvd. It was so cool to go there and see him chat with everyone.

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b.d. (America Is Great Again!)  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:52:19am

Good news!

Thanks Joe!

//

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sagehen  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:53:20am

re: #81 Dangerman

We were watching designated survivor
The president is getting some therapy after his wife’s death .
therapists computer gets hacked and his private notes are published

At that moment I said to mrsdm have you seen this movie….
(she hasn’t. Yet)

Handwritten notes kept in a file cabinet cannot be hacked. Cassette tapes and VHS cannot be hacked and altered. Lo-tech has its benefits.

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Teukka  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:53:54am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think that particular post is either a piss take or an example of Poe’s Law…

But regardless, too many people will wind up taking it seriously

I would say Poe’s Law coming into effect. Sadly, one thing I’ve seen again and again over decades observing various political and religious fanatics is that some of them will manufacture evidence for wrongdoing if none exist.

I would guess their thought process is something among the lines of their belief that the baddies did some heinous thing is so strong that they’re really not manufacturing evidence, only making a copy of evidence they believe exists. A similar thought process is active when they make nuisance complaints to authorities, they are convinced that if a competent enough official gets on the case, they’ll crack the case.

And this isn’t the first implant story, tho it’s the first time I’ve seen a Schrader valve being used as the “evidence”. More often than not, it’s gunk that has accumulated in a pore or something, and has the right color shape. And as far as manufactured evidence go, this is a pretty mild case…

Related Quote:
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
— Frank Herbert, “Dune” franchise.

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Teukka  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:55:04am

re: #158 Eventual Carrion

An air valve stem core. Maybe they have just let all their air out and need refilled?

Deflation usually only occurs when you catch them red handed… Sorta /// yet not…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:56:18am

Apparently, they commissioned the work.
I like the homage to JFK Jr/Resolute Desk

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:56:53am

re: #169 Teukka

Well, it’s not big enough to be a heart plug. /Harkonnen.

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BigPapa  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:58:59am

I want 5G in my body. That would be cool.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 6:59:27am

re: #173 BigPapa

I want 5G in my body. That would be cool.

I want 5G in my savings account.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:02:57am

re: #131 Teukka

LOL looks like an e-cigarette atomizer. And I’m pretty sure that’s not gonna fit in a syringe either, unless it’s one of those really jumbo-sized ones.

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Teukka  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:03:05am

re: #174 🌹UOJB!

I want 5G in my savings account.

I want 5 G$ or 5 G€ in my savings account.

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jeffreyw  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:03:56am

re: #119 Eventual Carrion

Those boys are ready to rumble.

Cardinal males are very competitive, and the females are no less so.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:04:13am

So I feel like one of the luckiest bastards in the world today.

On 1/5, my wife and I went out to dinner with three friends. The restaurant wasn’t very busy at all and tables were spaced out for social distancing.

That night, one of the people we ate with let us know she wasn’t feeling well.

The next morning, she was unable to taste or smell anything. She tested positive a few hours later.

This was someone whom my wife and I had sat directly across from at the table, WITHOUT masks, for well over an hour.

And yet by some miracle, we’re now 15 days removed and NEITHER of us have gotten sick, unless of course we both happened to have asymptomatic cases. However, my mother-in-law, who lives with us, has also not gotten sick.

I am (happily) stunned by this development. Lesson learned. Not eating out again for a good while.

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Teukka  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:05:28am

re: #175 Dr Lizardo

LOL looks like an e-cigarette atomizer. And I’m pretty sure that’s not gonna fit in a syringe either, unless it’s one of those really jumbo-sized ones.

Not to mention the pain and discomfort as, and after, it is inserted. Like, people who’ve gotten a hormone implant say that they get local anesthetic, and they’re bruised and sore for weeks afterwards. And hormone implants are smaller than that thing.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:05:30am
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:06:06am

re: #180 darthstar

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:06:50am

I like this account for some reason…like infinite scream…

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:07:24am

re: #181 🌹UOJB!

That one looks legit.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:08:38am

Liz will rip Gaetz’ head off and shit down his neck.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:08:45am

re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

You know the dogs didn’t originally move into the White House because they had to make sure the prior tenants didn’t leave poisoned things laying around because, yeah, they are that spiteful.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:09:04am

re: #169 Teukka

I would say Poe’s Law coming into effect. Sadly, one thing I’ve seen again and again over decades observing various political and religious fanatics is that some of them will manufacture evidence for wrongdoing if none exist.

If one is in possession of a Higher Truth, then mere facts and evidence become irrelevant.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:10:35am
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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:12:27am

re: #168 sagehen

Handwritten notes kept in a file cabinet cannot be hacked. Cassette tapes and VHS cannot be hacked and altered. Lo-tech has its benefits.

So does having a a separate not connected computer if youre a psychiatrist

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:14:05am

Audio and video tapes actually can be altered but:

1) It’s not easy.
2) You have to have said tape in your possession to do it.

So they are still much safer overall.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:15:32am

re: #188 Dangerman

So does having a a separate not connected computer if youre a psychiatrist

GF works for the German Federal Reserve. Which means that she cannot work from home during Corona, as their computer cannot be connected to the Internet, and they need at least two people in the office to countersign for each in order other to make large inter-bank transfers.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:16:35am

re: #184 darthstar

Liz will rip Gaetz’ head off and shit down his neck.

Can’t they both just lose and go back to being the miserable human beings they were before they went to Washington.

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Teukka  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:17:29am

re: #188 Dangerman

So does having a a separate not connected computer if youre a psychiatrist

A.k.a. “air-gapped system” or “ten-finger (parallel) interface”.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:18:16am

re: #168 sagehen

Handwritten notes kept in a file cabinet cannot be hacked. Cassette tapes and VHS cannot be hacked and altered. Lo-tech has its benefits.

Otoh, hacked no, but see Daniel Ellsberg

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:18:35am

re: #188 Dangerman

So does having a a separate not connected computer if youre a psychiatrist

I worked for a hospital system here for 16 years. The whole mental health system was totally separate from the rest of the medical systems. It was locked down like Fort Knox.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:20:12am

re: #192 Teukka

A.k.a. “air-gapped system” or “ten-finger (parallel interface)”.

I was surprised in the story line that he stored his notes in the cloud.
Kind of obvious you don’t do that

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:20:47am

re: #191 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Can’t they both just lose and go back to being the miserable human beings they were before they went to Washington.

She’s what counts as a moderate Republican now. The more they try to pull her right the more she’ll break with them.

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Jay C  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:22:04am

re: #175 Dr Lizardo

LOL looks like an e-cigarette atomizer. And I’m pretty sure that’s not gonna fit in a syringe either, unless it’s one of those really jumbo-sized ones.

No equipment maven, but it look to me like it could also be the metal contact end of a small plug, like for headphones.
But whatever it is, I’d really hate to be on the receiving end of whatever size hypodermic was used to “inject” it…..

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:24:39am

Lawtwitter lets loose on the Dominion vs Rudy suit:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:29:00am

Awwwww

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:30:47am
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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:34:07am

re: #200 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Awwwww

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I get tired of having to click through Raw Story to get to the actual article sometimes. I like it when they put “according to ___” in the post, as it saves me a click and I can just go to the site directly, though in this case the beast is demanding a subscription for content.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:34:32am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:35:33am

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Correction: My mother entered Michigan State University, not U of M.

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Mattand  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:36:15am

re: #202 darthstar

I get tired of having to click through Raw Story to get to the actual article sometimes. I like it when they put “according to ___” in the post, as it saves me a click and I can just go to the site directly, though in this case the beast is demanding a subscription for content.

What’s Raw Story like these days? I stopped reading both them and Crook & Liars about 10 years ago because they were lousy with 9/11 truthers. IIRC, Raw Story was good for clickbait headlines that literally had nothing to do with the story. Have they improved?

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:36:30am

Supreme court says, “Fuck it, just let him go away already.”

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Nojay UK  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:37:05am

re: #197 Jay C

I’d really hate to be on the receiving end of whatever size hypodermic was used to “inject” it…..

The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines use very small-bore needles (23 gauge, about 0.7mm outside diameter) since the dosage is very low (0.3ml) and the vaccinators don’t want to leave a significant amount of vaccine in the needle after injection. The needles are quite long since the vaccination is supposed to be delivered deep into the muscle of the upper arm so the narrower the needle the better to save on waste. The Oxford/AstraZeneca adenovirus vaccine is dispensed in larger doses (0.5ml) but it can be injected by similar-sized needles and this simplifies the logistics.

There’s a technical guide published by the UK government on handling and dispensing the various vaccines approved here in the UK which may be interesting to nerds.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:38:04am

I’m logging out. Time to get ready to leave for Wyoming.

I’ll let you know if I died from the Moderna vaccine when I get back (or I’ll have my wife tell you for me). /s

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Mattand  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:38:56am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Yeah, I suppose technically she has the title doctor since she has a Ph.D., but everyone knows it’s not the same thing.”

This is basically something you’d hear on The Simpsons, only it’s from a sitting US Senator.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:39:17am

re: #205 Mattand

What’s Raw Story like these days? I stopped reading both them and Crook & Liars about 10 years ago because they were lousy with 9/11 truthers. IIRC, Raw Story was good for clickbait headlines that literally had nothing to do with the story. Have they improved?

Still clickbait. They’re just farming the other sites for stories and then quoting enough that they don’t cross the plagiarism line - also the links are embedded in the content so you don’t notice them and click away from the site giving them a few extra seconds of advertising revenue.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:39:34am

re: #205 Mattand

What’s Raw Story like these days? I stopped reading both them and Crook & Liars about 10 years ago because they were lousy with 9/11 truthers. IIRC, Raw Story was good for clickbait headlines that literally had nothing to do with the story. Have they improved?

No. It’s almost impossible to read a story there because they make you disable your ad blocked and then hit you with a shit ton of sketchy ads so your browser seizes up.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:39:46am

re: #208 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m logging out. Time to get ready to leave for Wyoming.

I’ll let you know if I died from the Moderna vaccine when I get back (or I’ll have my wife tell you for me). /s

Say hi to Matt Gaetz!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:40:11am

re: #203 lawhawk

NEWS: Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) will not seek re-election in 2022.

as Scooby-Doo might say “Ruh, R-OH!”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:41:43am

re: #198 The Pie Overlord!

Lawtwitter lets loose on the Dominion vs Rudy suit:

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A question.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:42:25am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:45:17am

re: #205 Mattand

What’s Raw Story like these days? I stopped reading both them and Crook & Liars about 10 years ago because they were lousy with 9/11 truthers. IIRC, Raw Story was good for clickbait headlines that literally had nothing to do with the story. Have they improved?

Raw story is the worst. They’re bloated with shit that eats up CPU space and my husband swears they’re using your CPU to mine.

I’d have looked right to DB but they’re paywall blows.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:45:23am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:45:25am

re: #203 lawhawk

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:47:36am

re: #214 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The public figure status is a fact-based one. Dominion can argue that they were not seeking out notoriety and publicity until Rudy and others spewed their insane conspiracy theories. They were just plugging away at their business in the ordinary course of business. They only became public figures because of the conspiracy theories and right wing media elevating Dominion.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:48:00am

re: #218 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

GOP in disarray.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:49:21am

Judd continuing to do God’s work.

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coin operated  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:49:44am

re: #214 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Somewhere in the replies was the statement that they didn’t have a ‘negative’ public perception until Rudy and Powell started their media blitz. Now and forever Dominion will have some vote-flipping taint associated with them.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:50:29am

re: #219 lawhawk

The public figure status is a fact-based one. Dominion can argue that they were not seeking out notoriety and publicity until Rudy and others spewed their insane conspiracy theories. They were just plugging away at their business in the ordinary course of business. They only became public figures because of the conspiracy theories and right wing media elevating Dominion.

Either way, from reading the lawtwitter threads, it looks like they may have enough evidence to prove actual malice, or at least enough so to get them over a motion to dismiss.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:50:35am
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sagehen  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:51:31am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I mean there’s all sorts of television shows and movies which are about disrespect of the police and laws being a good thing (Smokey and the Bandit, The Dukes of Hazzard, &c)

Then there’s The Shield, in which disrespect of the police is well-deserved.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:51:59am

re: #223 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Either way, from reading the lawtwitter threads, it looks like they may have enough evidence to prove actual malice, or at least enough so to get them over a motion to dismiss.

Mike Dunford thinks yes. Akiva Cohen is less swayed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:52:30am

re: #225 sagehen

Then there’s The Shield, in which disrespect of the police is well-deserved.

Breaking Bad has us rooting for the criminals most of the time…

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:52:36am
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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:52:48am
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Dr Lizardo  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:53:01am

re: #225 sagehen

Then there’s The Shield, in which disrespect of the police is well-deserved.

That one was directly inspired by one of the most notorious L.A.P.D. scandals ever, the Rampart Scandal. What a shitshow that was.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:54:24am

re: #228 lawhawk

There’s plenty of other crimes for him to face charges. Sad that the SCOTUS declined, but Roberts probably figured a conservative 5-4 in favor of Trump would do more damage to the court’s reputation than letting it slide.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:54:50am

re: #226 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Mike Dunford thinks yes. Akiva Cohen is less swayed.

Interesting, because at the close of Akiva’s thread, he says this.

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sagehen  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:54:51am

re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth

dammit

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that is unfortunate.

Their banana/strawberry kabob with chocolate drizzled on it… was my very favorite self-reward for a good workout.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:57:03am

re: #208 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Safe travels

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:57:44am
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:57:52am

re: #203 lawhawk

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Part of a plea deal so Rob doesn’t get indicted for that corruption going down in Ohio?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 7:59:05am

re: #231 darthstar

There’s plenty of other crimes for him to face charges. Sad that the SCOTUS declined, but Roberts probably figured a conservative 5-4 in favor of Trump would do more damage to the court’s reputation than letting it slide.

Invalidating the Constitution. That’s some legacy.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:00:31am

re: #232 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Interesting, because at the close of Akiva’s thread, he says this.

Good. I hadn’t read akiva’s thread. Mike said he thought Akiva was less optimistic.

Glad I’m wrong.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:01:34am

You love to see it.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:03:15am

re: #232 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Interesting, because at the close of Akiva’s thread, he says this.

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“Plaintiffs demand a trial by jury…” I like that.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:03:27am
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danarchy  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:03:29am

re: #131 Teukka

This one is making the rounds on teh intertubes. They are so out of it they have no qualms about faking evidence:

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Can you imagine the needle necessary to inject that thing? It would be like taking a core sample of your arm.

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garzooma  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:03:47am

re: #232 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Interesting, because at the close of Akiva’s thread, he says this.

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There’s also this:

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:07:29am

re: #243 garzooma

Trump, Rudy, and the rest are going to have to bone up on crime fraud exception to attorney client privilege, because that’s going to come up a lot in the next few years as their cases wind their way through court after court.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:09:08am

President Biden reverses one of Trump’s EOs - the transgender ban in the military.

Trump undermined US military readiness all to curry favor with the Christian Taliban.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:13:50am

re: #219 lawhawk

The public figure status is a fact-based one. Dominion can argue that they were not seeking out notoriety and publicity until Rudy and others spewed their insane conspiracy theories. They were just plugging away at their business in the ordinary course of business. They only became public figures because of the conspiracy theories and right wing media elevating Dominion.

fwiw
mrsdm hadnt heard of dominion until this morning

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William Lewis  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:14:28am

So let me give thanks for my boss who allowed me to put a tire on the Hotel credit card. I’ll pay her back from the money i had already budgeted for tires from that paycheck. Thinks are better than I expected, the sun is shining here and there is an adult in the White House.

Have a beautiful day.

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:15:10am

re: #245 lawhawk

President Biden reverses one of Trump’s EOs - the transgender ban in the military.

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Trump undermined US military readiness all to curry favor with the Christian Taliban.

Gay and trans soldiers are also far less likely to join militias after they leave the military and attack the congress.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:15:13am

re: #246 Dangerman

fwiw
mrsdm hadnt heard of dominion until this morning

To me, Dominion will always mean the bad guys on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

/

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:17:06am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:21:15am

re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg

To me, Dominion will always mean the bad guys on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

/

Shapeshifters, Vortas and Jem Hadar!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:22:19am

re: #248 darthstar

Gay and trans soldiers are also far less likely to join militias after they leave the military and attack the congress.

Not true, they will join gay and trans militias and start terrorizing hetero neighborhoods!

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darthstar  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:27:05am
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:28:07am

Has Gym Neighbors Jordan declared his candidacy for the Senate yet?

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William Lewis  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:29:10am

re: #188 Dangerman

So does having a a separate not connected computer if youre a psychiatrist

Encrypted 128 gb USB storage stick.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:29:15am

re: #245 lawhawk

Trump undermined US military readiness all to curry favor with the Christian Taliban.

He wanted to curry favor with people that he deep down despises and makes fun of behind closed doors.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:31:51am

re: #256 Dr. Matt

He wanted to curry favor with people that he deep down despises and makes fun of behind closed doors.

But Fucked Up Franky Graham Cracker says that Trump is the most Christian President America ever had!

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Ming5000  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:35:30am

re: #239 darthstar

You love to see it.

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Mark Meadows can be commissioned as Trump’s Fleet* Admiral


* the nation’s #1 saline enema
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:37:10am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:39:19am

re: #259 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I was told there would be winning.

//

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:40:02am

re: #257 🌹UOJB!

But Fucked Up Franky Graham Cracker says that Trump is the most Christian President America ever had!

It’s Trump’s actions that matter not his personal beliefs. During his time in office, he did more to advance the Christianist agenda than any prior President. It’s irrelevant that he mocks them as long as he’s doing their bidding. Their support for him is quite logical

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:46:19am
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Ming5000  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:47:15am

Republicans in disarray:
Liz Cheney Should Step Away From Leadership For The Sake Of GOP Voters
This comes from Molly Hemingway at the Federalist.

There are now two types of republicans: MAGA republicans and the normal, awful, republicans. It seems the normal, awful, republicans are losing the battle for the party.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:48:46am

re: #263 Ming5000

Republicans in disarray:
Liz Cheney Should Step Away From Leadership For The Sake Of GOP Voters
This comes from Molly Hemingway at the Federalist.

There are now two types of republicans: MAGA republicans and the normal, awful, republicans. It seems the normal, awful, republicans are losing the battle for the party.

Let them fight and hope for complete MAD.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:49:25am

re: #263 Ming5000

If the MAGAs take over does the whole thing burn to the ground faster or is that just wishful thinking?

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jeffreyw  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:50:04am

re: #242 danarchy

Can you imagine the needle necessary to inject that thing? It would be like taking a core sample of your arm.

I was bring prepped for an operation to, I was thinking, remove shrapnel from my arm. I saw the x-ray and the little lump of steel was smack on halfway through the limb - if it had penetrated any farther it would have been on its way out. Anyway the nurse filed a huge syringe from a bottle of some sort of local anesthetic and the fucking needle looked like a 16d nail. I made some comment about it and the nurse calmed my fears saying they just needed to fill the syringe and a much smaller needle would be used to inject the stuff.
Sure enough the surgeon picked it up and poked me up one side of the wound and down the other. He laid the syringe down and picked up the knife and started cutting. He dropped the kit into a little stainless bowl with a clatter and started sewing me up. I struggled to raise myself to look at the scrap metal he had removed and there was nothing else in the bowl. Where is.. I asked.
Oh we leave that stuff in there all the time.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:51:35am

re: #263 Ming5000

Republicans in disarray:
Liz Cheney Should Step Away From Leadership For The Sake Of GOP Voters
This comes from Molly Hemingway at the Federalist.

There are now two types of republicans: MAGA republicans and the normal, awful, republicans. It seems the normal, awful, republicans are losing the battle for the party.

The shorthand for MAGA Republicans is fascists. The fascists will probably take near complete control of the GOP, but let’s root for the normal, awful Republicans, in hopes that there won’t be another attempted coup.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:53:07am

re: #109 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:53:15am

re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg

If the MAGAs take over does the whole thing burn to the ground faster or is that just wishful thinking?

If they take over, there may be a civil war in 2025, because they will not accept losing as meekly as they did on January 6th.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:58:44am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2021 • 8:59:56am

re: #270 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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jimmyvluv4u  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:00:35am

re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yeah… but I feel like by the end I was rooting for Hank.

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calochortus  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:01:01am

re: #242 danarchy

Can you imagine the needle necessary to inject that thing? It would be like taking a core sample of your arm.

One word. Amniocentesis. (Drawing out amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman’s uterus using the world’s largest needle.)

Not actually all that bad even without the local anesthetic.

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steve_davis  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:06:20am

re: #131 Teukka

This one is making the rounds on teh intertubes. They are so out of it they have no qualms about faking evidence:

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the stupid, it burns! somehow that made it through the end of a syringe, apparently.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:08:34am

re: #159 lawhawk

Congratulations to the US Supreme Court for writing the Emoluments Clause out of the US Constitution. By taking no action and sending it back to the lower courts by insisting the issue is moot, you’ve made it impossible to actually enforce the Emoluments Clause going forward since it takes a significant amount of time to sue and bring an action against a 1 term president.

The court should have taken the case and ruled - because it has long term application. Their refusal to act also has long term consequence - these originalists and right wingers have written a clear portion of the Constitution out of existence to protect the most corrupt admin in history. We’re now going to watch courts rule that going after Trump now is moot - getting away with crimes. That’s the line the Senate GOP is going to use in the trial, the one that they purposefully delayed until after he was out of office.

So if I embezzle funds from my employers, and they don’t bring charges against me until after I’ve left the company, the case is moot?

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:09:16am

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:14:11am

re: #267 No Malarkey!

The shorthand for MAGA Republicans is fascists. The fascists will probably take near complete control of the GOP, but let’s root for the normal, awful Republicans, in hopes that there won’t be another attempted coup.

McConnell would be classified as a normal, awful Republican but he probably did more to usher in fascism than any other member of the Senate; he didn’t use physical violence but he worked at tearing down all institutional norms that prevailed before. He used the Constitution against all who believed in civil rights and progress, from his attempts to make Obama a one-term president to his refusal to consider Garland.

Let’s focus on what happened after November 3. Once the election was called on the 7th, McConnell should have come out then and declared Biden the victor. Taking that step would have led to the others in the Senate and Congress following suit. And the Georgia seats would likely have remained in GOP hands.

McConnell is as much a fascist as anyone but his preference is to quietly “knife” you, rather than take any violent actions or voice any violent rhetoric.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:16:15am

re: #276 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Shouldn’t there be a Bernie somewhere in that picture?

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:17:14am

re: #255 William Lewis

Encrypted 128 gb USB storage stick.

sure
lots of solutions
what psychiatrist puts his notes in the cloud?

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:17:17am

re: #276 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Don’t blink or you’ll miss it… those Ponds are a real mysterious sort.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:18:25am

re: #278 Hecuba’s daughter

Shouldn’t there be a Bernie somewhere in that picture?

It turns into Bernie when you’re not looking at it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:19:43am

re: #259 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Foreign companies are turning their backs on the US, taking advantage of China’s booming economy and superior management of the pandemic.

Direct investment in the US by foreign companies plummeted 49% to $134 billion last year, according to a report.

we are winning the trade war!!!

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:20:51am

re: #277 Hecuba’s daughter

McConnell would be classified as a normal, awful Republican but he probably did more to usher in fascism than any other member of the Senate; he didn’t use physical violence but he worked at tearing down all institutional norms that prevailed before. He used the Constitution against all who believed in civil rights and progress, from his attempts to make Obama a one-term president to his refusal to consider Garland.

Let’s focus on what happened after November 3. Once the election was called on the 7th, McConnell should have come out then and declared Biden the victor. Taking that step would have led to the others in the Senate and Congress following suit. And the Georgia seats would likely have remained in GOP hands.

McConnell is as much a fascist as anyone but his preference is to quietly “knife” you, rather than take any violent actions or voice any violent rhetoric.

Without a doubt. But we have to root for the McConnell wing of the GOP to prevail over the fascists who would violently overthrow democracy and start a civil war in the process. Those are the only choices; not awful Republicans are unicorns.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:21:18am

re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg

If the MAGAs take over does the whole thing burn to the ground faster or is that just wishful thinking?

Newest member of Sacramento’s GOP leadership is member of far-right Proud Boys group

Well, we know where that will all lead…

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:25:15am

re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Newest member of Sacramento’s GOP leadership is member of far-right Proud Boys group

Well, we know where that will all lead…

Yeah…he’ll get elected to Congress…

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:25:38am

re: #262 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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photos of rudy in the body of the complaint
promo code “Rudy”

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:28:05am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:28:19am

re: #286 Dangerman

photos of rudy in the body of the complaint
promo code “Rudy”

No, the promo code should be: PANTS

/

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:37:29am
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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:44:33am

re: #158 Eventual Carrion

An air valve stem core. Maybe they have just let all their air out and need refilled?

Yep, it’s a Schrader valve core. I scrolled up to see who might have IDd it. Good job.

One of my cats is named Schrader, after the valve.

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BlueSpotinAL  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:46:12am

re: #60 Belafon

The University of Kentucky solved that for this year by starting the semester a week later and eliminating Spring Break.

Same here at my Uni. Also did not start until after MLK day, and all students tested before returning.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:49:33am

re: #275 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

So if I embezzle funds from my employers, and they don’t bring charges against me until after I’ve left the company, the case is moot?

different statute of limitations for us mere mortals
but if you run and or hide long enough, then yes

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Citizen K  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:50:00am

Heads, GOP wins, Tails, Dems lose. Same goddamn movie as always with them.

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:50:09am

I’m going to have Pearl Jam in my head all day. It’s not my fault.

Click to Reveal

The plumbing company coming to find who is leaking into the apt.below us is named ‘Evenflo’.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:50:10am
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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:50:44am

re: #277 Hecuba’s daughter

McConnell would be classified as a normal, awful Republican but he probably did more to usher in fascism than any other member of the Senate; he didn’t use physical violence but he worked at tearing down all institutional norms that prevailed before. He used the Constitution against all who believed in civil rights and progress, from his attempts to make Obama a one-term president to his refusal to consider Garland.

Let’s focus on what happened after November 3. Once the election was called on the 7th, McConnell should have come out then and declared Biden the victor. Taking that step would have led to the others in the Senate and Congress following suit. And the Georgia seats would likely have remained in GOP hands.

McConnell is as much a fascist as anyone but his preference is to quietly “knife” you, rather than take any violent actions or voice any violent rhetoric.

cause, like trump, he’s a confrontational coward.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:53:08am

re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg

No, the promo code should be: PANTS

/

sorry no dice

Giuliani then pitched his viewers on a service they could buy to protect themselves for just $596 for the 4-year service if they used the promo code “Rudy” when ordering.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:54:29am
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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:56:12am

re: #293 Citizen K

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Heads, GOP wins, Tails, Dems lose. Same goddamn movie as always with them.

regardless of trump calling you fake news
you were very friendly to the trump admin

for one example, never once did you use the word ‘lie’

what’s wrong with appearing (in fact being) independent and objective

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Citizen K  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:56:25am

re: #294 wrenchwench

I’m going to have Pearl Jam in my head all day. It’s not my fault.

[Embedded content]

Click to Reveal

I’m disappointed it’s not “State of Blub And Rust”.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:57:31am

re: #290 wrenchwench

Yep, it’s a Schrader valve core. I scrolled up to see who might have IDd it. Good job.

One of my cats is named Schrader, after the valve.

I worked at my grandpa’s service station and removed many of them when doing tire patches and such. That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw it.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:57:44am

re: #298 Dread Pirate Ron

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hint: some did

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jan 25, 2021 • 9:59:15am

re: #290 wrenchwench

Yep, it’s a Schrader valve core. I scrolled up to see who might have IDd it. Good job.

One of my cats is named Schrader, after the valve.

Which means that post had to have been meant as a piss-take and a parody of people who will believe ANYTHING that confirms their preconceived notions, but, according to Poe’s Law, it is being taken seriously by too many people…

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:00:52am

re: #285 🌹UOJB!

Yeah…he’ll get elected to Congress…

Elected President in 2024.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:01:01am
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:02:12am

re: #299 Dangerman

How about just reporting the news objectively and letting the chips fall where they may? Reporting facts isn’t biased.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:02:19am

finally someone sees it

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Citizen K  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:03:06am

re: #305 Charles Johnson

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Gee, Louie, isn’t that what you’re supposed to have guards and capitol police for? And as others have pointed out, you’re literally and legally not fucking allowed to have personal firearms on the floor, that’s the whole fucking point.

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:03:48am

re: #159 lawhawk

Congratulations to the US Supreme Court for writing the Emoluments Clause out of the US Constitution. By taking no action and sending it back to the lower courts by insisting the issue is moot, you’ve made it impossible to actually enforce the Emoluments Clause going forward since it takes a significant amount of time to sue and bring an action against a 1 term president.

The court should have taken the case and ruled - because it has long term application. Their refusal to act also has long term consequence - these originalists and right wingers have written a clear portion of the Constitution out of existence to protect the most corrupt admin in history. We’re now going to watch courts rule that going after Trump now is moot - getting away with crimes. That’s the line the Senate GOP is going to use in the trial, the one that they purposefully delayed until after he was out of office.

Wouldn’t the argument be that Congress is who is supposed to tell the President to deal with the conflicts, and since Republicans didn’t, it’s ok?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:05:47am
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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:08:03am
Playbook: “Republicans are under intense pressure to acquit Donald Trump — whether they think he committed an impeachable offense or not. At this point, it’s all about self-preservation.”

“When Mitch McConnel signaled the trial vote would be one of conscience for members — and that he wouldn’t be whipping the issue — he was, some would argue, giving Republicans room to break with the ex-president. But Senate sources tell us activists and typical Republican primary voters are pushing them in the opposite direction. Some donors fear if more than a handful of Republicans vote to convict, there is a real threat of a third-party MAGA uprising.”

“Which is to say: This is not an easy vote even for Republicans who want Trump gone for good.”

- their first problem - “conscience “

- the second is if they’re afraid that convicting him will lead to a MAGA party, what do they think acquitting him will do?

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:09:43am

re: #305 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

i’ve been asking since that asshat lady brought up the gun issue weeks ago

while in the chamber, defenseless and helpless against who?

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DesertDenizen  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:09:46am

re: #311 Dangerman

They think acquitting him will buy them time to get the tiger back under control. They’re wrong of course, but they’re going to keep delaying the inevitable reckoning as long as possible.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:09:50am

re: #311 Dangerman

- their first problem - “conscience “

- the second is if they’re afraid that convicting him will lead to a MAGA party, what do they think acquitting him will do?

They created this monster, and now they don’t know how to stop it.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:10:59am

Time for some personal responsibility.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:12:02am

moron

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:13:30am

re: #315 No Malarkey!

Time for some personal responsibility.

I’m so tired of this marketing term (cancel) for people who face the consequences of their actions.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:13:40am

re: #313 DesertDenizen

They think acquitting him will buy them time to get the tiger back under control. They’re wrong of course, but they’re going to keep delaying the inevitable reckoning as long as possible.

The problem with riding a tiger is that if you dismount, it eats you.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:14:46am

re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

The reality is that immigrants create more jobs than they take.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:15:15am

re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

[Embedded content]

Steven Miller better lawyer up because Merrick Garland is coming for his ass.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:15:26am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:15:36am

re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

He’s getting wiped out on Twitter. These assholes don’t understand that the wave of fascism that brought them to power has crested and is receding.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:15:58am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:16:25am
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:17:17am

re: #292 Dangerman

different statute of limitations for us mere mortals
but if you run and or hide long enough, then yes

(Although my question was actually rhetorical…)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:18:19am

Stephen Miller has had that account for only a couple of months (it was created November 2020)

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:20:36am

Law twitter is busy today:

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:20:49am

re: #283 No Malarkey!

Without a doubt. But we have to root for the McConnell wing of the GOP to prevail over the fascists who would violently overthrow democracy and start a civil war in the process. Those are the only choices; not awful Republicans are unicorns.

I think we root for the Romney wing.

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:21:56am

re: #325 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

(Although my question was actually rhetorical…)

I never studied those //

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Dangerman  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:25:03am

re: #328 Belafon

I think we root for the Romney wing.

I’m rooting for M.A.D.

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TedStriker  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:39:03am

re: #290 wrenchwench

Yep, it’s a Schrader valve core. I scrolled up to see who might have IDd it. Good job.

One of my cats is named Schrader, after the valve.

Looks at who posted this, thinks to self, “Yeah, that’s so definitely ww…”

;-P

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sagehen  Jan 25, 2021 • 10:58:38am

re: #328 Belafon

I think we root for the Romney wing.

Except that the “Romney wing” is just a couple of feathers.


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