The Bob Cesca Interview: Mary Trump Returns

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Mary Trump Returns — [Explicit Language] Mary is of course a clinical psychologist and the niece of the ex-president. She’s also the author of the must-read book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. You can follow Mary’s work and her brilliant political commentary on Twitter @MaryLTrump. Today we’ll talk about the insurrection and its aftermath, frustrations with the Senate, how Uncle Donald is coping with losing the election, and a lot more. Meanwhile, if you like what you hear today, don’t forget to subscribe to our bonus content at patreon.com/bobcescashow.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2021 • 2:16:10pm

Carrying over from downstairs:

re: #174 Charles Johnson

Things we’ve seen the past few Wednesdays:

- An armed mob of Terrorists take over the U.S. Capitol
- The President of the United states get impeached…AGAIN
- The Next President of the United States taking office.

Today seems a bit tame by comparison.

/ Half

darthstar Jan 27, 2021 • 2:19:04pm

re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg

Today seems a bit tame by comparison.

/ Half

It’s not over yet!

darthstar Jan 27, 2021 • 2:19:14pm

Just ate a whole bowl of hot soup while standing on a balance board. #CovidSkills

— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 27, 2021

darthstar Jan 27, 2021 • 2:20:39pm

So Ted Cruz is going to quit the Senate and run for a seat in the House?

— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 27, 2021

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo Jan 27, 2021 • 2:23:01pm

re: #4 darthstar

So Ted Cruz is going to quit the Senate and run for a seat in the House?

— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 27, 2021

He’s likely to be struck down by lightning out of a clear sky if he goes after Carter.

Nyet Jan 27, 2021 • 2:26:12pm

A mob of Boeberts.

ckkatz Jan 27, 2021 • 2:27:51pm

Regarding the Nigerian pirates in the Gulf of Guinea from last thread… Piracy has been going on since, at least, the Nigerian Oil Boom back in the 1970’s.

Piracy in West Africa: Preventing a Somalization of the Gulf of Guinea, Pt. 1
cimsec.org

” The historical epicenter is Nigeria, where pirates have parasitically fed off the country’s oil boom since the 1970s. During Nigeria’s first iteration of piracy, the crime began as simple economic opportunism. Ransacking docked ships was common, while bolder pirates—equipped with little more than canoes and machetes—ventured slightly further from port in attempts to board and rob slow-moving vessels. The theft of crude oil from refueling or anchored ships, referred to as “bunkering,” also brought a tidy profit through resale on a black market that spans the continent.”

A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp! Jan 27, 2021 • 2:32:45pm

From downstairs:

re: #158 Patricia Kayden

The Hill
@thehill
Poll: Trump’s standing rises among Republicans hill.cm

Actually, it may be because thousands of people have left the party after the Capitol insurrection. Of the ones left, the approvers are a larger percentage of the total.

🌹UOJB! Jan 27, 2021 • 2:41:05pm

The first time I remember seeing her on the screen was in Ralph Meeker’s KISS ME DEADLY.

RIP, Cloris Leachman.

people.com

BlueSpotinAL Jan 27, 2021 • 2:42:49pm

Many Trump loyalists think Democrats were out to get him from the start

Perhaps because he was a racist garbage person/president* even before he started? That couldn’t possibly be the reason.

Eric The Fruit Bat Jan 27, 2021 • 2:43:04pm

Meanwhile, in that hotbed of batshit crazy known as Michigan GOP:

Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked the appointment of 13 people to state boards and commissions, political retribution aimed at Gov. Gretchen Whitmer apparently in response to state orders related to COVID-19 and vetoes.

House Republicans matched the political machinations, announcing a plan to withhold billions in federal funding for education unless the governor agrees to a law that would strip her and the health department of emergency health powers.

Both moves are intended as a political and legislative blow to the authority of the governor, but also likely indicate a prolonged fight that could delay providing billions of dollars in already approved assistance to residents who desperately need the help.

As of this week, nearly 14,500 people have died from COVID-19 and more than 550,000 people have contracted the coronavirus. Hundreds of thousands have either temporarily or permanently lost their jobs, and millions are awaiting receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Senate voted 19-14 along party lines to reject the 13 appointments. The governor needs Senate approval for appointments; typically the process requires consideration of the individual appointees at the committee level, and rarely are they rejected as a group.

Eric The Fruit Bat Jan 27, 2021 • 2:44:01pm

re: #9 🌹UOJB!

Cloris Leachman

She was great in the Mel Brooks films.

🌹UOJB! Jan 27, 2021 • 2:46:02pm

re: #12 Eric The Fruit Bat

She was great in the Mel Brooks films.

The Last Picture Show, too!

Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 2:48:54pm

Monster
zonked out
and still peekin’

retired cynic Jan 27, 2021 • 2:54:32pm

deleted by me

William Lewis Jan 27, 2021 • 2:55:47pm

re: #15 retired cynic

Had never seen this before: Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe. Wonder how THAT meeting came about?

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Alas…
snopes.com

Decatur Deb Jan 27, 2021 • 2:58:11pm

re: #3 darthstar

Just ate a whole bowl of hot soup while standing on a balance board. #CovidSkills

Cirque du Bouillabaisse

retired cynic Jan 27, 2021 • 2:59:54pm

re: #16 William Lewis

Alas…
snopes.com

Oh, for heaven sakes! I’ve got to be more suspicious!

Thanks!

jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 3:03:13pm

Daguerreoshop

EPR-radar Jan 27, 2021 • 3:03:20pm

re: #18 retired cynic

Oh, for heaven sakes! I’ve got to be more suspicious!

Thanks!

So, no-longer-retired cynic?

Nyet Jan 27, 2021 • 3:05:12pm

re: #19 jaunte

Daguerreoshop

À la guerre comme à la guerre.

KGxvi Jan 27, 2021 • 3:05:33pm

re: #8 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

From downstairs:

Actually, it may be because thousands of people have left the party after the Capitol insurrection. Of the ones left, the approvers are a larger percentage of the total.

The really interesting thing from that poll is the question about a Patriot Party. Among Republicans it’s 36-30 staying vs going, with 8% saying neither and 25% unsure. Among Trump voters, those numbers break down 31-35-5-28.

Let’s say that 28% breaks evenly. That’s 49% of Trump’s voters going to the new party. That’s about 23.5% of the popular vote nationally. At the state level, that’s enough to put states like Oklahoma, the Dakotas, and Idaho in play.

Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 3:06:39pm

hey y’all
take a breath
listen
hear that?

its the sound of nothing going on right now

jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 3:07:05pm

watching cnbc and nodding vigorously while a hedge fund guy explains that they didn’t leverage puerto rico’s debt to privatize its public utilities and absolutely cripple its local government so that you could all treat the stock market like it’s some kind of joke.

— david tveite (@tveite) January 27, 2021

Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 3:08:06pm

At least five federal judges with lifetime appointments who have announced plans to retire or semi-retire since last Wednesday, the day Donald Trump left the White House, the HuffPost reports.
That’s after eight judges had already announced their plans to step down since Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

come on mitch
show us how unity works

KGxvi Jan 27, 2021 • 3:08:33pm

re: #24 jaunte

How dare you do the thing I was doing only at a much larger scale and in a way that is going to fuck me over?

TarHellion Jan 27, 2021 • 3:09:28pm

re: #13 🌹UOJB!

She was so good in Last Picture Show. Peter Bogdanovich had predicted she would win an Oscar while the film was being made. Ellen Burstyn had turned down the role.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2021 • 3:09:33pm

re: #24 jaunte

Remember the CA energy crisis about 20 years ago?

When energy companies were deliberately CAUSING blackouts to spike the cost of power and making life miserable for almost everyone on the west coast?

Same basic idea. Profiteers give no shits about who they have to fuck over to make money.

LadyBehir Jan 27, 2021 • 3:16:29pm

Is Mary Trump actually Dr Trump? Is a clinical psychologist a doctorate designation?

EPR-radar Jan 27, 2021 • 3:17:42pm

re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg

Remember the CA energy crisis about 20 years ago?

When energy companies were deliberately CAUSING blackouts to spike the cost of power and making life miserable for almost everyone on the west coast?

Same basic idea. Profiteers give no shits about who they have to fuck over to make money.

The CA energy deregulation debacle ended what remained of my belief in ‘free market’ solutions.

Decatur Deb Jan 27, 2021 • 3:20:41pm

Humans adapt.

New Orleans celebrating “Yardi Gras”
wvlt.tv

Hecuba's daughter Jan 27, 2021 • 3:22:13pm

re: #29 LadyBehir

Is Mary Trump actually Dr Trump? Is a clinical psychologist a doctorate designation?

Mary Trump does hold a PhD in psychology, but I don’t know if you are required to have such a degree to be called a clinical psychologist.

darthstar Jan 27, 2021 • 3:23:43pm

28 years? That’s gotta suck.

Jake Angeli, Phoenix man who raided U.S. Capitol in fur hat and horns, had been transported to D.C. and is facing 28 years https://t.co/rmfevVdUgp

— Brooke - Team46 (@brookeandtodd) January 27, 2021

Decatur Deb Jan 27, 2021 • 3:26:19pm

re: #33 darthstar

28 years? That’s gotta suck.

It will improve the prison salad bar.

BeachDem Jan 27, 2021 • 3:27:49pm

Another GOP braintrust is heard from (at least they didn’t call him a FIREBRAND!)

Seems like if he had better comms staff they would have told him not to send that email

— Redacted (@miketcope) January 27, 2021

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jan 27, 2021 • 3:27:57pm

re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter

Mary Trump does hold a PhD in psychology, but I don’t know if you are required to have such a degree to be called a clinical psychologist.

[son of woman with a degree in clinical psychology hat]

To hold the job title of “clinical psychologist,” a person must hold a PhD or a PsyD.

To work in related fields of clinical psychology (education, research, hospital work, &c) they are called by their job title, but not a clinical psychologist.

A shorter form of clinical psychologist is Doctor.

[/hat]

Greup Jan 27, 2021 • 3:34:24pm

re: #33 darthstar

28 years? That’s gotta suck.

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I’m hoping this is what will doom the republicans. Once their followers are looking at decades in jail, the messaging of the leaders innocence will be hard to make stick.
The Democrats should let this take a while so more and more details will come out and more and more people will start to become desperate.

Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 3:35:03pm

re: #35 BeachDem

Another GOP braintrust is heard from (at least they didn’t call him a FIREBRAND!)

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because what has my job to do with legislation?

“I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation,” Madison Cawthorn wrote to Republican colleagues in a Jan. 19 email obtained by @abbyvesoulis https://t.co/UNhJFdi8Wi

— Tessa Berenson (@tcberenson) January 27, 2021

Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 3:36:19pm

re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[son of woman with a degree in clinical psychology hat]

To hold the job title of “clinical psychologist,” a person must hold a PhD or a PsyD.

To work in related fields of clinical psychology (education, research, hospital work, &c) they are called by their job title, but not a clinical psychologist.

A shorter form of clinical psychologist is Doctor.

[/hat]

but she’s a woman

Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 3:37:30pm

re: #37 Greup

I’m hoping this is what will doom the republicans. Once their followers are looking at decades in jail, the messaging of the leaders innocence will be hard to make stick.
The Democrats should let this take a while so more and more details will come out and more and more people will start to become desperate.

I didn’t pull the cats tail
I only held the cats tail.
it ran.

🌹UOJB! Jan 27, 2021 • 3:37:45pm

re: #35 BeachDem

Another GOP braintrust is heard from (at least they didn’t call him a FIREBRAND!)

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Read the Time article and it was just sickening to see how they kissed that Nazi’s ass.

So Cal Greek Hippie Jan 27, 2021 • 3:37:50pm

re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh. I remember that scam first hand
I used to commute past a power plant devoted to providing surplus capacity while it sat idle daily, and listening to rhetoric on the radio about how California regulations would not allow new plants, and that lack of capacity was why we had shortages and brownouts

The worst outages took place in a mild winter, when the power load was a lot lower historically than the summer. I think if the power schemers messed with a/c season there would have been a lot more public anger.

LadyBehir Jan 27, 2021 • 3:37:56pm

Picturing the wingnut head explosions if Dr Biden and Dr Trump work on a project together with full Press coverage.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 3:39:33pm

meanwhile in Kentucky:

The letter was dated today.

— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) January 27, 2021

Nemes now says the committee is sending a letter to Gov. Beshear requesting “more information.”

They adjourn taking no action.

— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) January 27, 2021

Not a great deal of info in Q&A. Nemes won’t say what info they are requesting of Beshear but says their letter to him will be posted online. Also says they didn’t have time to get into the Goforth petition.

— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) January 27, 2021

Kentucky House Impeachment Committee delays action, asks Beshear for more informationhttps://t.co/UvbEe9eSvA pic.twitter.com/J74NxeJcgu

— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) January 27, 2021

TedStriker Jan 27, 2021 • 3:40:18pm

re: #9 🌹UOJB!

The first time I remember seeing her on the screen was in Ralph Meeker’s KISS ME DEADLY.

RIP, Cloris Leachman.

people.com

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 3:40:41pm

empty and echoing Trump hotel. there’s video

fixed again pic.twitter.com/8txtDGpcGj

— ᑕᕼᑌᑎK (@chunkled) January 27, 2021

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jan 27, 2021 • 3:42:27pm

re: #35 BeachDem

Another GOP braintrust is heard from (at least they didn’t call him a FIREBRAND!)

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Hmmm…

he founded a real estate investment firm called SPQR Holdings

teleskiguy Jan 27, 2021 • 3:44:44pm

Pro-Trump/alt-right twitter influencer “Ricky Vaughn” arrested on federal charges of depriving Americans of right to vote with disinformation campaign claiming you can vote by text. https://t.co/NPziIe0lg2

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 27, 2021

Don Jr. followed “Ricky Vaughn” on Twitter. Charles pointed it out and Don Jr. blocked him.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 3:44:56pm

Hopefully thinking.

Roger Stone has some *real* indictments coming up. He appears to have conspired with Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, raised money for the attempted coup, and spread propaganda on Russian media. https://t.co/0iLXf7ywd4

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) January 27, 2021

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 3:47:02pm

At :55 or so when the yellow one looks at the other yellow one angrily after the turnover.

— Chris Barron (@thechrisbarron) January 27, 2021

sagehen Jan 27, 2021 • 3:50:39pm

re: #16 William Lewis

Alas…
snopes.com

if it makes you feel any better, Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman probably had sex:

mhpbooks.com

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jan 27, 2021 • 3:52:19pm

re: #39 Dangerman

but she’s a woman

And she’s never caught a baby (but was on the business end of delivering two).

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 3:56:28pm

Bad humans. https://t.co/fDgpHGFgOd

— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) January 27, 2021

jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 3:56:52pm

How about shining a light on all of us sane law-abiding Americans that are not ok with white supremacist terrorism? How about a story describing our horror at knowing these despicable monsters live amongst us? How about a couple of opinion pieces on OUR real existential
anxiety?

— Eyes Shut Open 🏳️‍🌈✊🏽 (@kia1hernandez) January 27, 2021

William Lewis Jan 27, 2021 • 3:58:22pm

re: #33 darthstar

28 years? That’s gotta suck.

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They must have changed the charge sheet after that second grand jury. OOPS!

retired cynic Jan 27, 2021 • 3:59:58pm

re: #51 sagehen

if it makes you feel any better, Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman probably had sex:

mhpbooks.com

Doesn’t do anything for me.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 4:00:37pm

re: #55 William Lewis

They must have changed the charge sheet after that second grand jury. OOPS!

It’s all fun and games until you’re looking at spending a few decades behind bars.

jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 4:06:08pm

Takes a tip top coms team to come up with “Cry more, libs.” https://t.co/mNsidlFp5s

— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 28, 2021

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 4:08:39pm

This is so … presidential. https://t.co/pB6jaTh4MZ

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 27, 2021

teleskiguy Jan 27, 2021 • 4:09:04pm

Report this troglodyte for directing hate at transgender people. Behind a clicky because gross.

Click to Reveal

Coming soon to women’s restrooms everywhere: pic.twitter.com/9S8ghJwFai

— Rich Leighton (@RichLeighton) January 27, 2021

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 4:12:24pm

good fucking grief

I’m excited to be joining the Judiciary Committee this Congress. The committee has jurisdiction over laws that affect intellectual property, industrial hemp, civil liberties, firearms, and other topics that were among the reasons I ran for Congress! https://t.co/NaiFmKdJHz

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 27, 2021

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jan 27, 2021 • 4:12:31pm

JUST IN: Amanda Gorman, America’s youth poet laureate, will recite an original poem before Super Bowl LV, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced.

— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) January 27, 2021

BeenHereAwhile Jan 27, 2021 • 4:12:49pm

re: #33 darthstar

28 years? That’s gotta suck.

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Nothing complicates your life quite like a federal indictment.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 4:13:39pm

Missouri apparently has vaccines ready that the GOP state government is refusing to allow them to administer to people in need while the death tolls mount.

As I have said, I think it’s pure authoritarian “because we’re in charge.” https://t.co/I5EkRjJDd6

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) January 27, 2021

No Malarkey! Jan 27, 2021 • 4:14:27pm

Adding lying to the FBI to his crimes is nearly as boss as wearing his 8 year old varsity jacket to an insurrection!

— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) January 28, 2021

Jay C Jan 27, 2021 • 4:17:20pm

re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth

good fucking grief

“Industrial hemp”
SRSLY?
Is that what they’re calling it these days….?

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2021 • 4:18:19pm

re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth

good fucking grief

Ugh. Darrell fucking Issa is on there too.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 4:18:49pm

Unprecedented: DHS issues terror threat advisory about our own people - National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - January 27, 2021 | Homeland Security ⁦@DHSgov⁩ https://t.co/By96vE2Ua7

— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) January 27, 2021

teleskiguy Jan 27, 2021 • 4:19:12pm

re: #65 No Malarkey!

I lettered in two sports (skiing and soccer) all four years in high school, never got a jacket. My sister lettered in skiing and academics and did get a jacket, she gave it to a thrift store a couple of years after she graduated.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 4:19:20pm

re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg

Ugh. Darrell fucking Issa is on there too.

and Chip Roy

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2021 • 4:19:25pm

Missouri apparently has vaccines ready that the GOP state government is refusing to allow them to administer to people in need while the death tolls mount.

As I have said, I think it’s pure authoritarian “because we’re in charge.” https://t.co/I5EkRjJDd6

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) January 27, 2021

How. The. Fuck. Is. This. Legal?

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jan 27, 2021 • 4:19:31pm

re: #64 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

As I have said, I think it’s pure authoritarian “because we’re in charge.”

It’s genocide.

Belafon Jan 27, 2021 • 4:19:56pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

About fucking time.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jan 27, 2021 • 4:21:02pm

Marine veteran and freshman Congressman @RepAuchincloss becomes the first member of the House to call for the expulsion of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Others are expected to join in calling for the resignation or expulsion of @RepMTG. https://t.co/CtBW3Qv22t

— Travis Akers (@travisakers) January 27, 2021

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 4:22:10pm

re: #71 Eclectic Cyborg

Tweets by ericgarlandHow. The. Fuck. Is. This. Legal?

What?

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 4:23:52pm

A message from me as @thesnp leader on transphobia. pic.twitter.com/ewjM7xWLjG

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) January 27, 2021

William Lewis Jan 27, 2021 • 4:28:50pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

I lettered in two sports (skiing and soccer) all four years in high school, never got a jacket. My sister lettered in skiing and academics and did get a jacket, she gave it to a thrift store a couple of years after she graduated.

I was an academic letterman (Debate and Forensics)and even got given the letter much to my humor. I think it’s still floating around in my piles of junk. Last time I thought of it I considered having it sewn onto my field jacket along with my sgt stripes after I got out but I didn’t think anyone would really get it.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2021 • 4:29:14pm

re: #75 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What?

Refresh the comment. Specifically, the Missouri government being allowed to withhold vaccinations from its residents simply because they don’t want them vaccinated.

Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 4:31:50pm

re: #57 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s all fun and games until you’re looking at spending a few decades behind bars.

and known as fur and horns guy

Sherlock Hound Jan 27, 2021 • 4:35:12pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

I lettered in two sports (skiing and soccer) all four years in high school, never got a jacket. My sister lettered in skiing and academics and did get a jacket, she gave it to a thrift store a couple of years after she graduated.

Charlestown, Massachusetts, had a murder problem in the nineties. Everyone knew, but you know about snitches and what they get.

The cops found one guy. He was pissed. Cop tells him, “You don’t want to be caught, then don’t wear your fucking school jacket!” He was just one of several suspects they rolled up in the same way.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 4:38:46pm

Did @GOPLeader go to Mar-a-Lago today to prep for his conversation with Marjorie Taylor Greene, ya know, to practice speaking moron?

— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) January 27, 2021

plansbandc Jan 27, 2021 • 4:42:12pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

I lettered in basketball and lacrosse and got a jacket. LOVED it. Lost it in my fire.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jan 27, 2021 • 4:43:59pm

Another conservative who doesn’t understand how the Constitution works.

Ted Cruz threatens to impeach
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama if Trump is convicted after leaving office
I wish I was kidding

— William Buecker (@wcbuecker) January 27, 2021

Impeachments start in the US House, Ted. But you knew that. You’re lying to your supporters.

O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave.. Jan 27, 2021 • 4:49:20pm

Probably already posted because I had one whale of a shitty day, but here’s today’s Legaltainment (tm):

Good Afternoon, followers of post-election-I-seditioned-got-scared-of-the-FBI-stayed-up-too-late-and-think-the-deep-state-plugged-my-drains litigation.

It appears the judge has read the ‘in re Gondor’ complaint.

And didn’t like it.https://t.co/eY78RXtxcp pic.twitter.com/eVCVlAp6eT

— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 27, 2021

BeenHereAwhile Jan 27, 2021 • 4:50:03pm

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Another conservative who doesn’t understand how the Constitution works.

Impeachments start in the US House, Ted. But you knew that. You’re lying to your supporters.

Or he could be trying to appear to be as ignorant as his supporters.

“Look - he thinks like I do.

He’s one of us!”

Dread Pirate Ron Jan 27, 2021 • 4:55:06pm

#Netherlands: Since last weekend, protesters against #COVID19 restrictions have targeted journalists in an unprecedented wave of violence. @RSF_inter calls for the attacks to stop, for a swift investigation & better protection of reporters. THREAD pic.twitter.com/I2GsZBUoJR

— RSF in English (@RSF_en) January 27, 2021

teleskiguy Jan 27, 2021 • 4:56:35pm

Speaking of skiing, it was very nice today. Good soft snow, not too crowded.

Although a snowboarder almost took me out. I cussed him good, called him a fucking asshole and told him to watch where he was going and “you’re lucky I don’t whack your knees with my pole!” He said he was sorry.

This is China Bowl at Vail.

Glorious bluebird day! pic.twitter.com/uZPlwIJZav

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) January 27, 2021

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jan 27, 2021 • 5:00:21pm

Breaking News: Cloris Leachman, an Oscar winner who was best known for her roles in television comedies such as “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died at age 94. https://t.co/xTocT1myMP

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 27, 2021

Such sad news—Cloris was insanely talented. She could make you laugh or cry at the drop of a hat. Always such a pleasure to have on set. Every time I hear a horse whinny I will forever think of Cloris’ unforgettable Frau Blücher. She is irreplaceable, and will be greatly missed.

— Mel Brooks (@MelBrooks) January 27, 2021

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 5:00:38pm

Palm Beach Conducting ‘Legal Review’ Of Trump’s Use Of Mar-A-Lago As A Residence https://t.co/lqmeXdlgsF via @Yahoo

— Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair) January 27, 2021

Belafon Jan 27, 2021 • 5:01:05pm

Proof I didn’t just have a weird dream, Pop became the POTUS.

Craziest part though is he went straight to work after this photo was taken and I just woke up from a week long nap. pic.twitter.com/8yoVOLGy6j

— Naomi Biden (@NaomiBiden) January 27, 2021

ckkatz Jan 27, 2021 • 5:04:38pm

re: #34 Decatur Deb

Ken White (PopeHat) had a thought on that:

When a judge orders a jail to do something for you, you might find yourself tripping on the stairs or running into a door on the way there, is all I am saying.

— TortiousInterferehat (@Popehat) January 18, 2021

By the way, I hope that you didn’t get caught up in the tornado that hit the Birmingham ‘burbs Monday?

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 5:05:25pm

Here is full opinion. https://t.co/Q6xVyVNKvj

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) January 27, 2021

Belafon Jan 27, 2021 • 5:05:42pm

Just a friendly reminder that if you make under $75k your taxes are going up beginning this year and will increase every two years. You can thank 45 and the @GOP for this gift. They made the stepped increases part of the 2017 “tax cuts.”

— michael 🏳️‍🌈🧢😷 (@mistererickson) January 27, 2021

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 5:08:58pm

Die broke and homeless. Or in prison.

Members quitting Mar-a-Lago after Trump leaves office just highlights the corruption inherent in his continued ownership of his businesses while he was in office.https://t.co/luqCuBARDE

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 27, 2021

EPR-radar Jan 27, 2021 • 5:12:23pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

A DHS bulletin about the threat posed by the Republican stochastic (or worse) SA really shouldn’t omit “Republican” from the threat description.

Romantic Heretic Jan 27, 2021 • 5:13:06pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

The yellow ones need to work on their team skills. Especially their defence.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 5:13:25pm

😂😂

Oh god, we’re about 2 days away from a Marjorie Taylor Greene sex tape to drop, aren’t we?

— YS (@NYinLA2121) January 27, 2021

O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave.. Jan 27, 2021 • 5:13:59pm

re: #92 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I read the opinion in full. They actually pleaded, in court, that masks are medical equipment and that they have a right to refuse medical treatment. Okay, then, you go ahead and have your COVID parties. Just keep ‘em to yourselves. You can all go die alone and in pain for all I care.

No Malarkey! Jan 27, 2021 • 5:14:09pm

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Another conservative who doesn’t understand how the Constitution works.

Impeachments start in the US House, Ted. But you knew that. You’re lying to your supporters.

After the GOP regains control of the House in the 2022 midterms, they can impeach former Democratic Presidents in between voting to repeal Obamacare, since they don’t want to pass legislation anyway.

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The Pie Overlord! Jan 27, 2021 • 5:14:13pm

Poll: Biden hits 54 percent approval, higher than Trump ever hit https://t.co/lPZfB9Y5KC pic.twitter.com/5jQaD35O6a

— The Hill (@thehill) January 28, 2021

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jan 27, 2021 • 5:14:42pm

Not related to the Capitol insurrection, a criminal moran is caught.

It’s common to be asked to fill out a bank withdrawal slip and give a photo ID if you want a large sum of cash. But not if you’re trying to rob the place. https://t.co/ynwra4UkEc

— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) January 27, 2021

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teleskiguy Jan 27, 2021 • 5:17:34pm

Wall Street: But but but, Reddit! We went to Wharton! We’ve got boat payments! Reddit! These basement dwellers can’t just manipulate the market like this! That’s *OUR* job! https://t.co/YtQjqecEmW

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) January 28, 2021

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teleskiguy Jan 27, 2021 • 5:21:42pm

I think it’s about new modes of information and social media collaboration colliding with the fundamental illusions of our cabalistic finance system being aided from within by institutional market actors but it could also be about pussy.

— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) January 27, 2021

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 5:27:56pm

@RepMTG has arrived. She says when Nancy Pelosi sent them home this week, she wanted to see as many Georgians as possible. pic.twitter.com/03lmxVnkKP

— Meredith Aldis WRCB (@MeredithAWRCB) January 27, 2021

@RepMTG says she wants to diligently continue to work on impeaching President Biden for abuse of power. She says she’d also like to see VP Kamala Harris & Nancy Pelosi impeached, too.

— Meredith Aldis WRCB (@MeredithAWRCB) January 27, 2021

I tried to ask a question during the Town Hall meeting and was threatened to be arrested by Whitfield County Sheriff’s Deputies and was escorted out. @WRCB

— Meredith Aldis WRCB (@MeredithAWRCB) January 28, 2021

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thecommodore Jan 27, 2021 • 5:28:54pm

Accountability for seditionists brings unity. You need to be dealt with next.#ExpelLaurenBoebert #SeditionHasConsequences #SeditionCaucus #Sedition

— Hal Perry (@halperry) January 27, 2021

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 5:29:20pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

“we’re not allowed to ask questions to her or anyone in the building”

FREEDOM!!!

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Charles Johnson Jan 27, 2021 • 5:30:07pm

The thing about Marjorie Taylor Greene is that she’s so appallingly, deliberately, belligerently stupid, and utterly sure that her stupidity is anointed by god. She’s exactly the kind of person that has helped perpetrate genocides throughout history.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2021

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plansbandc Jan 27, 2021 • 5:31:14pm

Cuteness alert!

little loki here is doing a great job at tackling stairs
(viralhog) pic.twitter.com/uggmXeVFTE

— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) January 16, 2021

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darthstar Jan 27, 2021 • 5:32:28pm

You almost expected to see it. I hope the same holds true for the Kushner brand. https://t.co/FxxUpMFJAS via @businessinsider

— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 28, 2021

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stpaulbear Jan 27, 2021 • 5:35:27pm

re: #96 Romantic Heretic

The yellow ones need to work on their team skills. Especially their defence.

Yep, and every time they scored, they turned towards the camera wondering “where is my treat!” They’re only in it for the seeds.

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 5:37:49pm

@SenSchumer CALL WITNESSES. Censure is not enough. Make every Senator listen to what he did. Every word. Every action. They want to end it now because they know worse evidence is coming and some of them are complicit. CALL WITNESSES. #CallWitnesses #TrumpImpeachmentTrial

— NKC (@ninakcarroll) January 28, 2021

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Decatur Deb Jan 27, 2021 • 5:39:36pm

re: #91 ckkatz

Ken White (PopeHat) had a thought on that:

By the way, I hope that you didn’t get caught up in the tornado that hit the Birmingham ‘burbs Monday?

Nah. We’re a couple hours south of the Yankee part of Alabama.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 5:39:40pm

SCOOP: Sen. Dianne Feinstein fails to disclose husband’s stock purchase, says she’s willing to pay a fine https://t.co/REpoFJomGk via @businessinsider

— Kimberly Leonard (@leonardkl) January 27, 2021

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Patricia Kayden Jan 27, 2021 • 5:40:06pm

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 5:42:29pm

My god, this isn’t that difficult. Everyone who entered the Capitol Building and/or assaulted police officers must be arrested and have their day in court. Lawmakers who incited the insurrection must also face justice. If this is too hard to grasp, just pretend they are Black.

— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) January 28, 2021

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(((Archangel1))) Jan 27, 2021 • 5:43:32pm

re: #102 teleskiguy

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If the hedge funds were hoping that the current closure of the main Discord channel used by the social media traders and the pressure on Reddit (which led to the WSB channel turning private) would deter or depress folks, then they were seriously wrong.

All those folks are ANGRY now.

This is starting to resemble the days of the digital music revolution in the late 90s/early 2000 and the failed efforts by the record companies to stop it over fears due to declining album sales. Sure, the RIAA may have killed Napster all those years ago, but music downloads and streaming never went away. Today, streaming music platforms are as common as white bread.
They can close one site, but these social traders will just go to another, and then another and then ANOTHER. And if they didn’t have an axe to grind with Wall Street hedge funds, you can bet they have one now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 5:43:57pm

Hhhahahahhahaa. https://t.co/DewsWLX6Dp

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) January 28, 2021

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lawhawk Jan 27, 2021 • 5:45:24pm

re: #93 Belafon

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This is not entirely accurate.

Individual income tax rates are expected to revert to pre TCJA rates after 2025; this was part of the chicanery the GOP played in getting the tax cuts for businesses and the 1%ers.

Most people see a temporary tax break (of about 7 years), while businesses get a permanent break. That’s how they gamed the JCT/CBO scoring.

The way that they’re suggesting that the tax rates are increasing for this year isn’t on the actual tax brackets (which aren’t changing) but in other breaks that are no longer operative - namely around the health care premiums tax break. Tax Foundation does address this.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave.. Jan 27, 2021 • 5:45:27pm

re: #116 (((Archangel1)))

If the hedge funds were hoping that the current closure of the main Discord channel used by the social media traders and the pressure on Reddit (which led to the WSB channel turning private) would deter or depress folks, then they were seriously wrong.

All those folks are ANGRY now.

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This is starting to resemble the days of the digital music revolution in the late 90s/early 2000 and the failed efforts by the record companies to stop it over fears of lost sales. Sure, the RIAA may have killed Napster all those years ago, but music downloads and streaming never went away. Today, streaming music platforms are as common as white bread.
They can close one site, but these social traders will just go to another, and then another and then ANOTHER. And if they didn’t have an axe to grind with Wall Street hedge funds, you can bet they have one now.

Dopefish’s First Rule of the Internet: The Internet is Forever.
Dopefish’s Second Rule of the Internet: Don’t Piss Off the Internet. It bites back. Hard.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 5:47:58pm

Alpine, New Jersey, Police Chief Christopher Belcolle told HuffPost via email on Tuesday that “an investigation is being conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office” and that “no additional information can be released.” The Conway family has a home in Alpine.
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s office confirmed “that each member of the Conway family has been fully cooperative throughout the investigation.”

So someone’s investigating

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sagehen Jan 27, 2021 • 5:50:03pm

re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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She’s 85 years old. Perhaps it’s time she retire.

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austin_blue Jan 27, 2021 • 5:50:42pm

Re: Cloris Leachman and a quick look at her IMDB history:

She was born in 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Her first mention in a movie was in “Carnegie Hall” in 1947. Her nest was in “Kiss me Deadly” in 1955. She made dozens of TV appearances before and after on pretty much every damned major serious drama production in TV in between, from Actor’s Studio, to Kraft Theater, to Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

She played June Martin, Timmy’s mom on Lassie, for 28 episodes in 1957 and 1958 until she was fired for not wanting to go on the road and flog Campbell’s Soup ( the shoe’s sponsor).

At the time of her death, she had two movies in Post Fucking Production.

That, my friends , is the definition of a working actress.

RIP.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jan 27, 2021 • 5:52:15pm

re: #108 plansbandc

Cuteness alert!

little loki here is doing a great job at tackling stairs

I only regret, that I have but one upding to give

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 5:52:44pm

Mike Pompeo was right. The Rapture is real and Trumpers apparently went first. https://t.co/2N1gn0Gslo

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 28, 2021

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 5:53:33pm

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Patricia Kayden Jan 27, 2021 • 5:54:42pm

Interspecies football match of the day. pic.twitter.com/of2ukoqezF

— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) January 22, 2021

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo Jan 27, 2021 • 6:00:03pm

re: #122 austin_blue

Re: Cloris Leachman and a quick look at her IMDB history:

She was born in 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Her first mention in a movie was in “Carnegie Hall” in 1947. Her nest was in “Kiss me Deadly” in 1955. She made dozens of TV appearances before and after on pretty much every damned major serious drama production in TV in between, from Actor’s Studio, to Kraft Theater, to Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

She played June Martin, Timmy’s mom on Lassie, for 28 episodes in 1957 and 1958 until she was fired for not wanting to go on the road and flog Campbell’s Soup ( the shoe’s sponsor).

At the time of her death, she had two movies in Post Fucking Production.

That, my friends , is the definition of a working actress.

RIP.

Timmy’s later mom, June Lockhart, is hanging on at age 95, as is Timmy himself (Jon Provost) who is now 70.

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retired cynic Jan 27, 2021 • 6:02:08pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:03:18pm

“This term there are legitimate white supremacist sympathizers that sit at the heart and at the core of the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives … Kevin McCarthy answers to these QAnon members of Congress” — AOC pic.twitter.com/n0r2bafAlL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 28, 2021

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Jack Burton Jan 27, 2021 • 6:03:46pm

re: #94 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Die broke and homeless. Or in prison.

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I like Bob Cesca’s idea. Bulldoze Mar-a-lago and turn it into a cemetery for COVID victims. Tear down Trump tower in Manhattan and turn it into a COVID memorial.

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2021 • 6:04:07pm

re: #120 Dangerman

So someone’s investigating

They better be. Anyone else releasing a 16 year old’s topless picture on Twitter would be in jail facing federal CP charges by now. Not saying it’s good bad or indifferent but that’s the current law and case law in the US.

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lawhawk Jan 27, 2021 • 6:05:07pm

re: #130 Jack Burton

I’m keen on turning Bedminster into a national memorial to covid19 victims; the others should be sold for restitution to the victims’ families.

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EPR-radar Jan 27, 2021 • 6:06:25pm

re: #128 retired cynic

That seems like something the younger set wouldn’t get.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:06:31pm

The @POTUS promised a whole-of-government effort to ramp up vaccinations — and that means using every tool at our disposal. https://t.co/sb6Tr2pz1n

— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) January 27, 2021

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2021 • 6:06:56pm

re: #122 austin_blue

Re: Cloris Leachman and a quick look at her IMDB history:

She was born in 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Her first mention in a movie was in “Carnegie Hall” in 1947. Her nest was in “Kiss me Deadly” in 1955. She made dozens of TV appearances before and after on pretty much every damned major serious drama production in TV in between, from Actor’s Studio, to Kraft Theater, to Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

She played June Martin, Timmy’s mom on Lassie, for 28 episodes in 1957 and 1958 until she was fired for not wanting to go on the road and flog Campbell’s Soup ( the shoe’s sponsor).

At the time of her death, she had two movies in Post Fucking Production.

That, my friends , is the definition of a working actress.

RIP.

I had never heard of “Kiss me, deadly” as a movie before today. So instead, I’ll remember her with what that made me think of instead:

Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly (Official Video)

I think she’d get a laugh.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 6:07:04pm

Gotta admit it’s really something to see Wall Streeters with a long history of treating our economy as a casino complain about a message board of posters also treating the market as a casino

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 27, 2021

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave.. Jan 27, 2021 • 6:08:23pm

re: #136 Dangerman

Just because they’re betting on black when you’re betting on red, that doesn’t mean you get to bitch when it lands on black 5 times in a row. Maybe you should just take your ball and go home.

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Jay C Jan 27, 2021 • 6:10:02pm

re: #121 sagehen

She’s 85 years old. Perhaps it’s time she retire.

Past time.
It’s not like California lacks for a deep bench of Senate-qualified Democrats, anyway…..

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 6:11:01pm

“This is not new in the Republican Party … This is the party of the Willie Horton ad. This is the party of Mitch McConnell posing in front of a Confederate flag. This is a party of birtherism …”@nhannahjones on #TheReidOut pic.twitter.com/UgesrPRTHL

— The ReidOut (@thereidout) January 28, 2021

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:12:06pm

Strolling down Fifth Avenue. Stopped at the main branch of the New York Public Library. My, how things have changed. pic.twitter.com/Ldd5eklr6M

— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) January 28, 2021

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:13:19pm

Manchin: “We all want to make sure that no one ever does this again, never thinks about doing something like a seditious insurrection such as that”

— Ali Zaslav (@alizaslav) January 27, 2021

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Dread Pirate Ron Jan 27, 2021 • 6:15:28pm

Live Caltrans Cam at Echo Summit

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2021 • 6:16:14pm

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This is why I tolerate his lesser days; when it really counts, he’s there.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jan 27, 2021 • 6:18:25pm

Some scientists are especially worried about the coronavirus variant that emerged in Manaus, Brazil.

They don’t yet understand why it has spread so explosively there. But yesterday, the U.S. confirmed its first case of it.https://t.co/VvVT6bWafy

— NPR (@NPR) January 28, 2021

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 6:18:36pm

I honestly think it’s been so long since this guy has said anything he believes that he no longer knows what he believes, or whether he ever believed anything, and when he dreams, he dreams of endless falling. https://t.co/LCWFCAzNQM

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) January 28, 2021

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:18:42pm

The most shocking revelation to my thinking here is that Trump had a private residence at his DC Hotel. https://t.co/BAkuBYdI58

— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) January 27, 2021

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 6:19:39pm

re: #144 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

The person infected with P.1. had previously traveled to Brazil.

People still aren’t taking this thing seriously.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jan 27, 2021 • 6:20:04pm

Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the doses expired: https://t.co/rCKpMQhiea

— Michelle L. Price (@michellelprice) January 28, 2021

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retired cynic Jan 27, 2021 • 6:20:41pm

re: #148 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

That’s the way to do it!

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aatharuv Jan 27, 2021 • 6:21:49pm

re: #145 jaunte

Donald Trump was acting like a Banana Republic Third World politician:
- looting the treasury for his clan’s benefit
- trying to keep power by legal and extra legal affairs
- keeping his cabinet stocked with yes men.
- Loved getting titles and accolades showered on him “Biggest effort”. Who doesn’t think he would have made himself General General Admiral if he could have.

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danarchy Jan 27, 2021 • 6:22:15pm

re: #148 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Not for nothing, but I don’t think I would take an injection from random folks going car to car…

152

lawhawk Jan 27, 2021 • 6:24:26pm

Rep. Jimmy Gomez has introduced a resolution to expel Greene from Congress.

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I Would Prefer Not To Jan 27, 2021 • 6:24:58pm

This is real, but wait there’s more. Elvis wanted to be on the anti-drug task force. Your life is now complete.

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sagehen Jan 27, 2021 • 6:25:53pm

re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth

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the mask has been on the lion for months; it’s featured in the Fallon opening credits.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2021 • 6:28:33pm

Trump appointee says Tuberville met with Trump family, advisers on eve of Capitol attack

Tuberville, through a spokeswoman, said he did not attend the meeting with Trump on the eve of the deadly attack

but there’s pix

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:29:17pm

Lost dog Zues in Houston, TX US (77080) #lostdog https://t.co/qSQgODDSoM pic.twitter.com/9WCVlzk1gq

— Fido Finder (@fidofinder) January 28, 2021

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Charles Johnson Jan 27, 2021 • 6:29:23pm

You know that scene in The Evil Dead 2 where Ash sums up the plot of part 1 and says, “Then it got into my hand, and it went bad….”

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2021

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Patricia Kayden Jan 27, 2021 • 6:29:59pm

🙏🏾

Every week for 9 years, Senator Whitehouse has made a plea/speech about the real climate crisis. Now, he’s done. Because the Biden administration is taking the climate catastrophe totally seriously. https://t.co/5y12XJW4w1

— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) January 28, 2021

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:30:35pm

GOP still attempting to hold America hostage unless it’s crimes are forgiven. https://t.co/yoeEfVOvTH

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 28, 2021

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I Would Prefer Not To Jan 27, 2021 • 6:34:46pm

F unity.

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bratwurst Jan 27, 2021 • 6:35:31pm

If you thought getting some people to wear a mask is a hard sell… https://t.co/vipKb9kPPV

— Bob Dutton (@ByBobDutton) January 27, 2021

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:36:00pm

https://t.co/44S9DR7ORl pic.twitter.com/0wTxzC7gA8

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) January 27, 2021

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:39:33pm

I don’t think Don Jr. is handling his dad’s loss very well…. pic.twitter.com/ZFYR6YitlH

— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) January 27, 2021

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stpaulbear Jan 27, 2021 • 6:40:22pm

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hope Tim Kaine has gotten a ton of shit for even suggesting it as a ‘let’s get along’ measure.

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retired cynic Jan 27, 2021 • 6:44:00pm

re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m agreeing with Romney! My God!

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EPR-radar Jan 27, 2021 • 6:46:06pm

re: #164 stpaulbear

I hope Tim Kaine has gotten a ton of shit for even suggesting it as a ‘let’s get along’ measure.

I expect shit like this from Collins because she is a goddamnrepublican, but Kaine is a former D VP nominee and should fucking know better.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 27, 2021 • 6:47:45pm

I’m guessing the roads are bad tonight:

Travel Warning!

The snow on area roadways is slicker than Clark Griswald’s non-chloric, silicon-based kitchen lubricant.

Unless you need to travel for an emergency, please stay home until the roadways are treated.

— Cincinnati Police Department (@CincyPD) January 28, 2021

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plansbandc Jan 27, 2021 • 6:48:34pm

Wouldn’t it be nice if Romney really had the integrity he pretends to have?

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stpaulbear Jan 27, 2021 • 6:51:14pm

re: #153 I Would Prefer Not To

This is real, but wait there’s more. Elvis wanted to be on the anti-drug task force. Your life is now complete.

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And he got to be on the anti-drug team. They sent him a badge. He used the badge to enter a plane and drag someone off. It was an ex-employee who had stolen some stuff (including Polariods of Priscilla) before leaving town. His visit with Nixon is an amazing and funny story.

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EPR-radar Jan 27, 2021 • 6:51:21pm

re: #168 plansbandc

Wouldn’t it be nice if Romney really had the integrity he pretends to have?

The sense I get is that Romney isn’t on board with the stupidity and violence of the Trumpers.

From his point of view he can get everything he wants with more traditional methods of GOP ratfucking.

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Jack Burton Jan 27, 2021 • 6:51:31pm

re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Don’t go puttin’ none of that stuff on my sled, Clark. You know that metal plate in my head? I had to have it replaced, cause every time Catherine revved up the microwave I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so. So over at the VA they had to replace it with plastic. It ain’t as strong so I don’t know if I should go sailin down no hill with nothing between the ground and my brains but a piece of government plastic.”

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Charles Johnson Jan 27, 2021 • 6:56:45pm

Except in this timeline Ash gives in to his hand and doesn’t lop it off with a chain-saw.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2021

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Dave In Austin Jan 27, 2021 • 6:58:52pm

So Dr. Biden is going to spearhead the re-unification of children taken from their parents by Fat Donny. This works for me.

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 7:01:41pm

remember when senators got coronavirus briefings before the public and sold off millions of dollars in stocks before the crash last year and faced no consequences and no regulation? then reddit made one stock into a meme and they’re talking about restructuring the whole market

— rudy betrayed (@rudy_betrayed) January 27, 2021

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stpaulbear Jan 27, 2021 • 7:05:39pm

re: #171 Jack Burton

“Don’t go puttin’ none of that stuff on my sled, Clark. You know that metal plate in my head? I had to have it replaced, cause every time Catherine revved up the microwave I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so. So over at the VA they had to replace it with plastic. It ain’t as strong so I don’t know if I should go sailin down no hill with nothing between the ground and my brains but a piece of government plastic.”

When I was growing up, a local park had a metal spiral slide that used to be part of a factory’s fire escape. When my sisters and I went to the park, mom would give each of us a sheet of waxed paper that we would sit on while going down the slide. We had it so slick that kids would go shooting full speed off the end of the landing.

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 7:09:33pm

It occasionally strikes me as weird that for my whole adult life there’s been a political party that spends a good fraction of its time telling you why what it says is not actually what it is saying https://t.co/7m0iRdMZDI

— ATXRambler (@rambler_atx) January 28, 2021

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 7:11:38pm

Could someone explanation this stock market manipulation thing to me using 3rd grade English because I have no idea what’s going on?

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Jack Burton Jan 27, 2021 • 7:12:48pm

re: #174 jaunte

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The push to “regulate” here is more FYJIGM.

As if there haven’t been thousands of stocks manipulated to ridiculous surges before by assholes on Wall Street.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jan 27, 2021 • 7:14:06pm

Is this not a Walking Dead storyline https://t.co/YoOkzlOVgR

— PATERNITY LEAVE OF TERROR (@attackerman) January 28, 2021

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Teukka Jan 27, 2021 • 7:14:39pm

re: #177 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Could someone explanation this stock market manipulation thing to me using 3rd grade English because I have no idea what’s going on?

You have this possibility on betting a certain stock, say $GME, to rise or fall, and to buy it at the value when it has risen or fallen. A lot of hedge fund managers bet on $GME falling, and r/WSB made it so that it instead rose, and rose painfully much, forcing hedge fund managers to buy at that cost. Cue:

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🌹UOJB! Jan 27, 2021 • 7:17:08pm

Jimmy Gomez is my Congressman.

Props!

Rep. Jimmy Gomez to Introduce Resolution to Expel Marjorie Taylor Greene From Congress https://t.co/qnRE8G5Opk

— Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷) (@JoyAnnReid) January 28, 2021

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 7:17:29pm

Marjorie Taylor Greene filmed a video of herself calling on @SpeakerPelosi to be executed. She has spread a conspiracy that Clinton was killing children and cutting their faces off to wear them herself. Green also tends to “like” posts that threaten to kill FBI agents. #lastword

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) January 28, 2021

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austin_blue Jan 27, 2021 • 7:20:22pm

re: #139 jaunte

This is not new in the Republican Party … This is the party of the Willie Horton ad.

<<>>

For you young un’s, the Willie Horton ad was trotted out in 1988, 32 fucking years ago.

We have been fighting overt Republican racist tropes, not dog whistles but screaming air raid sirens, for *over 30 years*.

(Edited for basic maths. See the post below, I had 42 years originally. I may have drunk scotch.)

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Patricia Kayden Jan 27, 2021 • 7:22:17pm

re: #183 austin_blue

32 years ago. You scared me for a bit. But I get your point. Republicans haven’t changed their race baiting ways. They’ve gotten progressively worst.

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retired cynic Jan 27, 2021 • 7:23:13pm

re: #184 Patricia Kayden

Over 40. Look at Reagan’s history, in 1979-80.

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🌹UOJB! Jan 27, 2021 • 7:23:14pm

I don’t need to explain why @RepMTG is a clear and present danger to Congress and our democracy. She did it herself.

And she must go.

I’m introducing a resolution to expel her from Congress immediately: https://t.co/45KyC59WDU

— Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@RepJimmyGomez) January 28, 2021

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austin_blue Jan 27, 2021 • 7:23:48pm

re: #184 Patricia Kayden

32 years ago. You scared me for a bit. But I get your point. Republicans haven’t changed their race baiting ways. They’ve gotten progressively worst.

Ack! I have lost the ability to do basic maths. I’ll edit it.

Thanks.

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teleskiguy Jan 27, 2021 • 7:24:13pm

re: #183 austin_blue

For you young un’s, the Willie Horton ad was trotted out in 1988, 42 33 fucking years ago.

We have been fighting overt Republican racist tropes, not dog whistles but screaming air raid sirens, for *over 40 years*.

ftfy

In 1990, Jesse Helms put out this ad.

Jesse Helms “Hands” ad

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Decatur Deb Jan 27, 2021 • 7:25:05pm

re: #175 stpaulbear

When I was growing up, a local park had a metal spiral slide that used to be part of a factory’s fire escape. When my sisters and I went to the park, mom would give each of us a sheet of waxed paper that we would sit on while going down the slide. We had it so slick that kids would go shooting full speed off the end of the landing.

The munitions plant where I worked had massive old-school slides so you could un-ass the building when the explosions started. Some of them were 3 stories high and would dump the lucky escapees a couple hundred feet from the supersonic blast front. We had no records of a successful use.

Abandoned slide (different plant):

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Jack Burton Jan 27, 2021 • 7:25:07pm

re: #180 Teukka

You have this possibility on betting a certain stock, say $GME, to rise or fall, and to buy it at the value when it has risen or fallen. A lot of hedge fund managers bet on $GME falling, and r/WSB made it so that it instead rose, and rose painfully much, forcing hedge fund managers to buy at that cost. Cue:

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Most hedge funds, if I remember correctly, are setup as 130/30, meaning 130% long, 30% short on the market or market sector they deal with. They play both ways as a “hedge” for massive losses.

They probably shorted the shit out of Gamestop because it seemed like COVID was likely pushing them out of business.

How shorting works is: Basically you borrow shares of a stock you think is going to go down from your broker, and sell them at the high price they are now. Later if it goes down you buy the shares back at a lower price and give them back to your broker. The price difference is your profit.

If the stock ends up going up, you lose money because you have to buy it at a higher price.

Apparently the share price was pushed up from around $18 to like $350 so these hedgefund managers are hosed.

They did the equivalent of buying it at $350/share and selling it at $18/share.

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Teukka Jan 27, 2021 • 7:26:47pm

re: #190 Jack Burton

Most hedge funds, if I remember correctly, are setup as 130/30, meaning 130% long, 30% short on the market or market sector they deal with. They play both ways as a “hedge” for massive losses.

They probably shorted the shit out of Gamestop because it seemed like COVID was likely pushing them out of business.

How shorting works is: Basically you borrow shares of a stock you think is going to go down from your broker, and sell them at the high price they are now. Later if it goes down you buy the shares back at a lower price and give them back to your broker. The price difference is your profit.

If the stock ends up going up, you lose money because you have to buy it at a higher price.

Apparently the share price was pushed up from around $18 to like $350 so these hedgefund managers are hosed.

They did the equivalent of buying it at $350/share and selling it at $18/share.

So that explains the mass of hedge fund managers walking around NYC bow-leggedly… ///

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 7:29:00pm

How can a capitalist defend halting the stock market because people are making too much money?

— Eddie (@SoSocialism) January 27, 2021

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2021 • 7:30:11pm

re: #190 Jack Burton

Most hedge funds, if I remember correctly, are setup as 130/30, meaning 130% long, 30% short on the market or market sector they deal with. They play both ways as a “hedge” for massive losses.

They probably shorted the shit out of Gamestop because it seemed like COVID was likely pushing them out of business.

How shorting works is: Basically you borrow shares of a stock you think is going to go down from your broker, and sell them at the high price they are now. Later if it goes down you buy the shares back at a lower price and give them back to your broker. The price difference is your profit.

If the stock ends up going up, you lose money because you have to buy it at a higher price.

Apparently the share price was pushed up from around $18 to like $350 so these hedgefund managers are hosed.

They did the equivalent of buying it at $350/share and selling it at $18/share.

Dumb question… Who’s going to be out money once the price of GameStop stock tanks?

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 7:32:37pm

One of the most important things I’ve helped produce in my career: a special @MehdiHasanShow episode dedicated to everything we know about the siege so far.

If anyone you know talks about moving on, or how it shouldn’t be a big deal, make them watch this https://t.co/ooiwmxMvzu

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) January 28, 2021

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EPR-radar Jan 27, 2021 • 7:34:11pm

re: #193 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Dumb question… Who’s going to be out money once the price of GameStop stock tanks?

Everyone unlucky enough to have bought near the peak.

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Jack Burton Jan 27, 2021 • 7:34:21pm

re: #193 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Dumb question… Who’s going to be out money once the price of GameStop stock tanks?

Well I’m assuming the people in the reddit group bought it en masse, as as it started going up lemmings jumped on, and they told people to buy, and those people told people to buy…. ala pyramid scheme. People who bought later and didn’t get out yet are the ones who will get screwed when reality comes for it.

So it’s good that some Wall Street assholes are getting punked, but those doing the punking will be screwing other people just like a pyramid scheme does as well.

So really, no one is a hero in this.

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jaunte Jan 27, 2021 • 7:35:45pm

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austin_blue Jan 27, 2021 • 7:39:54pm

re: #189 Decatur Deb

The munitions plant where I worked had massive old-school slides so you could un-ass the building when the explosions started. Some of them were 3 stories high and would dump the lucky escapees a couple hundred feet from the supersonic blast front. We had no records of a successful use.

Abandoned slide (different plant):

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When I was working in the oil industry as a wellhead geologist, I would occasionally work drillings rigs on land (most of my work was offshore, which was very much my preference for numerous reasons).

On a land rig, there was a line that ran from the stack fingers near the top of the derrick (where you would stack 90’ sections of drill pipe when you needed to change a drill bit) that ran some 200 odd feet away from the rig. It was called the Geronimo line.

If there was a big kick or a blowout when you were tripping pipe to change out a bit, the Derrickman could put his escape wheel on the line and Squee!! to safety unless the gas bubble ignited and cooked him to a cinder before he was clear of all hell breaking loose.

I met one guy who had used it and lived. His back looked like Jamie Frazier’s.

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austin_blue Jan 27, 2021 • 7:48:49pm

re: #193 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Dumb question… Who’s going to be out money once the price of GameStop stock tanks?

My understanding is that it depends on the end date of the short contract. If it’s January the 27th and you shorted the stock at $20 and the actual cost today was $200, you will owe $180 on every stock optioned. So if you optioned 100,000 stocks to short, you would lose $180,000,000 bongo buckaroos.

Again, scotch diminished math skills, here, please confirm my back of the envelope scribbles.

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Decatur Deb Jan 27, 2021 • 7:50:01pm

re: #198 austin_blue

When I was working in the oil industry as a wellhead geologist, I would occasionally work drillings rigs on land (most of my work was offshore, which was very much my preference for numerous reasons).

On a land rig, there was a line that ran from the stack fingers near the top of the derrick (where you would stack 90’ sections of drill pipe when you needed to change a drill bit) that ran some 200 odd feet away from the rig. It was called the Geronimo line.

If there was a big kick or a blowout when you were tripping pipe to change out a bit, the Derrickman could put his escape wheel on the line and Squee!! to safety unless the gas bubble ignited and cooked him to a cinder before he was clear of all hell breaking loose.

I met one guy who had used it and lived. His back looked like Jamie Frazier’s.

In the Apollo era, NASA launch pads had a giant version of that. The cable hung in a catenary arc, so the upslope at the end decelerated the users.

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austin_blue Jan 27, 2021 • 7:54:07pm

re: #200 Decatur Deb

In the Apollo era, NASA launch pads had a giant version of that. The cable hung in a catenary arc, so the upslope at the end decelerated the users.

In the oilfield, the escape wheel had a little thumb brake. Worked a treat.

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