The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Carnival Barker’s Bitch

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

The Carnival Barker’s Bitch — [Explicit Content] Trump Plaza casino demolished; Rush Limbaugh, dead at 70; Limbaugh’s legacy of right-wing extremism; Lies for profit; Limbaugh normalized racism; Texas is a block of ice and Republicans blame AOC and California; Ted Cruz goes to Cancun; No, Biden didn’t use weather weapons to punish Texas; Bob lost his patience with the Lincoln Project; How to get a song out of your head; Buzz’s touching story on the Tuesday show; With Jody Hamilton and TRex David Ferguson; Music by Revoir and George Harris; and more!

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182 comments
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plansbandc  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:26:23pm

Fuck Rafael, Needy, and all Republicans.

My friend on FB is ever so pissed about how the Libs are talking about Rushbo.

One of the comments on her post was: ” I want to live in the world that Rush talked about. My mother got to live in that world. That’s why I voted for Trump.”

The rest of the comments were mostly about how hateful Libs are.

Their alternate reality is something to behold.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:36:04pm

re: #1 plansbandc

Fuck Rafael, Needy, and all Republicans.

My friend on FB is ever so pissed about how the Libs are talking about Rushbo.

One of the comments on her post was: ” I want to live in the world that Rush talked about. My mother got to live in that world. That’s why I voted for Trump.”

The rest of the comments were mostly about how hateful Libs are.

Their alternate reality is something to behold.

That world never existed. It’s every bit as fictional as Vulcan or Coruscant. If you could ever find a way to get back there, you’d want to leave as quickly as you arrived.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:36:21pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:40:36pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:42:32pm

re: #3 teleskiguy

Fuckface Jr. is Uday.

Eric is Qusay.

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PrairieQueen  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:42:56pm

Unconfirmed, but for fuck’s sake. Another leg of the GOP is dominionism. Their treatment of animals is beyond the pale, always has been.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:43:26pm

re: #3 teleskiguy

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LMAO

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:53:23pm

re: #6 PrairieQueen

Unconfirmed, but for fuck’s sake. Another leg of the GOP is dominionism. Their treatment of animals is beyond the pale, always has been.

Hey now, I’ve been assured they left the dog a set of bootstraps.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:53:55pm
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KingKenrod  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:54:24pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:54:48pm

re: #195 EPR-radar

Destabilizing the US by fostering Republican treason basically costs Russia nothing. So I can’t see any reason why they would be second guessing themselves just because Jan 6 was a (deadly) clown show.

That said, I’m sure Russia is stirring up bottom feeders all across the US political spectrum. It just looks like selective agitprop of right wingers because US bottom feeders are predominantly wingnuts.

Yes and no. The financial cost is trivial, and the political cost non-existent (though potentially high). There are other resources involved though that may be in more limited supply, especially skilled operators and managers who can keep the fires smoldering. For instance, the Internet Research Agency pays its social media operatives an exorbitant wage by Russian standards, simply because there are relatively few people available with the necessary English proficiency and other skills.
It might make sense to shift some of these resources to areas that have produced good results, like local Republican parties and that old standby, subversive media.

re: #198 No Malarkey!

Wouldn’t be surprised if they have Greenwald on the payroll.

I’m pretty sure he is an asset but he is also wealthy in his own right, and I’m not quite sure he is worth the enormous amount it would take to buy him off. In that case, kompromat is more likely.
This would also work with yokel Republicans and pulpit pimps, though the latter are some of the easiest people in the world to buy off and it might be better to allot kompromat resources to other areas where cash payments would either be ineffective or would have to be too large.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 18, 2021 • 4:56:35pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:03:39pm

re: #4 The Pie Overlord!

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On the way.
I spent a pretty penny trying to undo Republican malfeasance during the election campaign. There was some gratifying success but the work has clearly not stopped. At least it’s deductible this time. I suggested to my accountant that I should form my own Holy Church of Neo-Marxist Regulatory Expansion so I could push a political agenda tax-free.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:04:55pm

LOLWUT

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Unabogie  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:06:06pm

re: #1 plansbandc

Fuck Rafael, Needy, and all Republicans.

My friend on FB is ever so pissed about how the Libs are talking about Rushbo.

One of the comments on her post was: ” I want to live in the world that Rush talked about. My mother got to live in that world. That’s why I voted for Trump.”

The rest of the comments were mostly about how hateful Libs are.

Their alternate reality is something to behold.

What does that even mean? A world in which people who die of AIDS are mocked and laughed at? A world in which people who play sports are subjected to racist accusations of being gang members because they are Black?

No offense, but your friend is a racist and a bad person. I don’t say this to shame you, but as white folks, we can’t just accept our racist friends and family. That’s how white supremacy survives.

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nines09  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:07:13pm

Trump managed to have a casino built, sold and then blown up, and he still owes the people who built it for him.

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calochortus  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:11:22pm

re: #1 plansbandc

Fuck Rafael, Needy, and all Republicans.

My friend on FB is ever so pissed about how the Libs are talking about Rushbo.

One of the comments on her post was: ” I want to live in the world that Rush talked about. My mother got to live in that world. That’s why I voted for Trump.”

The rest of the comments were mostly about how hateful Libs are.

Their alternate reality is something to behold.

Just a drive-by because I need to go start making dinner, but my Mom’s life extended from just before WW I to a bit after 9/11, with side trips into the Great Depression and WW II, etc. Never mind things like lynching, no reproductive rights, hell, she was born before women could vote. I’d like to do better than that.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:12:06pm

re: #10 KingKenrod

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Because all Texans can afford a business class trip to a $309/nt stay at the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun.

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Dangerman  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:12:25pm

Ted really stepped in it

Text messages sent from Ms. Cruz to friends and Houston neighbors on Wednesday revealed a hastily planned trip. Their house was ‘FREEZING,’ as Ms. Cruz put it — and she proposed a getaway until Sunday. Ms. Cruz invited others to join them at the Ritz-Carlton in Cancún, where they had stayed “many times,” noting the room price this week ($309 per night) and its good security. The text messages were provided to The New York Times and confirmed by a second person on the thread, who declined to be identified because of the private nature of the texts

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Jebediah, RBG  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:13:49pm

re: #6 PrairieQueen

Unconfirmed, but for fuck’s sake. Another leg of the GOP is dominionism. Their treatment of animals is beyond the pale, always has been.

Beyond disgusting.

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:14:34pm

re: #198 No Malarkey!

Wouldn’t be surprised if they have Greenwald on the payroll.

Tara Reade IS on their payroll, working for RT.

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plansbandc  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:14:47pm

re: #15 Unabogie

Wasn’t my friend, but a comment on her post. Her post was about how mean Libs are about Rush.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:15:56pm
“From the moment I sat on the plane, I began really second-guessing that decision.”

Because that’s when he opened up Twitter and found out that most of the English-speaking world knew he’d snuck off to a beachfront resort while his constituents were literally freezing their nuts off.

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Unabogie  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:20:06pm

re: #22 plansbandc

Wasn’t my friend, but a comment on her post. Her post was about how mean Libs are about Rush.

I guess that’s my point. If she’s defending Rush Limbaugh, who was a horrible and racist person, then she’s not a good person either. It’s your life, so live the way your conscience guides you, but I have cut out those people from mine. I can’t call myself an ally if I won’t even do that.

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Unabogie  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:20:39pm

re: #24 Unabogie

And I think I’m getting too personal here, so I apologize and I’ll leave it there.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:21:37pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

Because that’s when he opened up Twitter and found out that most of the English-speaking world knew he’d snuck off to a beachfront resort while his constituents were literally freezing their nuts off.

You know that period between when you board the plane and they close the plane door, when you’ve got literally nothing to do but sit on your phone and screw around? He found out the hard way that sometimes you’re better off going into airplane mode early.

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Dangerman  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:23:53pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

Because that’s when he opened up Twitter and found out that most of the English-speaking world knew he’d snuck off to a beachfront resort while his constituents were literally freezing their nuts off.

I repeat, he had asked Houston Cops to Escort Him to the airport for the Cancun Flight While They should have Dealt With the Storm Crisis

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:25:22pm

re: #27 Dangerman

I repeat, he had asked Houston Cops to Escort Him to the airport for the Cancun Flight While They should have Dealt With the Storm Crisis

He’s not stupid. He knew it would look bad. He was counting on the support of the Trump-humper base to bail him out, because he’s been one of Trump’s most loyal supporters. It turns out, people DO NOT LIKE being left to fend for themselves in the libertarian wastelands while their so-called representatives go off to play in the sand at a luxury resort.

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gwangung  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:26:48pm

re: #24 Unabogie

I guess that’s my point. If she’s defending Rush Limbaugh, who was a horrible and racist person, then she’s not a good person either. It’s your life, so live the way your conscience guides you, but I have cut out those people from mine. I can’t call myself an ally if I won’t even do that.

Liberals weren’t the folks who started it.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:27:02pm

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:28:25pm

I frankly find it a little distasteful to mock Limbaugh’s death, but I also think it is wholly justified and even necessary.
Decent people need to show his degenerate followers some pushback for their hero’s constant and unspeakably disgusting attacks on vulnerable people, such as 12 year old Chelsea Clinton and the deceased AIDS patients whose names he read on the air and mocked.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:28:30pm

I just logged off a slack discussion and said, “I’m going to bed now.” But I kind of want to log back on to see what’s happening. I’ve never understood why people explain that they are going to bed (which I just did) when no one cares and you’re likely to just jump back in after making the declaration.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:33:58pm

I feel icky…

I was looking up some of the things I remember Rush saying about various people. One of the links I clicked on took me to Stormfront. I really need to look closer at that shit.

I feel like I need to run a full malware scan and force my cable modem to query DHCP for a new IP.

I thought Google had banned those fuckers from being listed.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:35:00pm

This is just an inkling of what is to come, as fundamentalists step up their efforts in light of the Trump era:

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:36:28pm

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

He’s not stupid. He knew it would look bad. He was counting on the support of the Trump-humper base to bail him out, because he’s been one of Trump’s most loyal supporters. It turns out, people DO NOT LIKE being left to fend for themselves in the libertarian wastelands while their so-called representatives go off to play in the sand at a luxury resort.

What he counted on was that nobody would call him on his BS. That if he were caught, he could just spin some shit about “escorting the girls on a trip” and “I intended to come right back, honest!”

What he didn’t bear in mind is he is such a shitheel that his “friends” would quickly sell his ass out the moment he started trying to use his kids as a shield.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:38:11pm

re: #35 Targetpractice

What he counted on was that nobody would call him on his BS. That if he were caught, he could just spin some shit about “escorting the girls on a trip” and “I intended to come right back, honest!”

What he didn’t bear in mind is he is such a shitheel that his “friends” would quickly sell his ass out the moment he started trying to use his kids as a shield.

That’s generally what I was getting at. He might be Trump’s personal hero, but his “friends” see him as an insufferable douchecanoe (at best) and his enemies see him as a traitor. He’s fucked.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:41:18pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:43:12pm

The reason the religious right supported Trump was to overturn abortion.

Some subset of them may have had other reasons (guns, Mexicans, etc…)

But the unifying theme across all religious conservative movements in the US is to end abortions.

And this is why: once it is accepted that we are animals descended from other animals, the god-game is up. Oh, you can still have “librul” Christianity with all its do-good stuff, but the idea that each person is specifically “knitted together in the womb” from the instance of fertilization by an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful God with a purpose and plan for their life… all that latter stuff is gone.

And this is the problem.

And this describes American politics today, why it is the way it is.

Take away the abortion issue, and American politics is left with fights over money and regional resources and racism.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:44:08pm

#TedFled is trending

Texas is facing one of its worst crises since the Alamo, which happened 185-years ago, coincidentally during a late winter freeze in San Antonio. But this time it’s not Mexican Generalissimo Sant Anna causing the death and destruction. Rather, it’s an unprecedented failure of governance by the state GOP.

Legendary American Davey Crocket fought to the death against Mexico at the Alamo. This week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) took a decidedly different approach and fled the crisis to Mexico, presumably for their ample heat and hot water.

Ironically, the fallout from this failure should be similar to that of the Alamo, which led to the Republic of Texas joining the United States in the first place. Perhaps, just maybe they’ll join the United States’ electric grid for the first time, and prevent these sorts of manmade disasters in the future.

Texans could even find themselves more open to elect Democrats to replace their Republican trifecta in state government because it’ll be the only way to get adults to step in and regulate its basic utilities and critical infrastructure.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:45:07pm
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jaunte  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:45:57pm

re: #38 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But the unifying theme across all religious conservative movements in the US is to end abortions.

Not to end. They need the issue to agitate about.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:46:13pm

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

And how long is this going to last? Do you think that people are going to remember this at the next election?

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:47:10pm

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

“Zimmerman Flew, Tyler Knew”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:49:16pm

re: #42 PhillyPretzel

And how long is this going to last? Do you think that people are going to remember this at the next election?

I think it will mostly be forgotten, save some Democrats who hope to make a bit of hay out of it.

In a week it’s going to be warm in Texas.

The 2022 and 2024 elections will be about abortion and the Supreme Court. Trump will try to insert himself. If he does, it may be about him too… but frankly at his age and health I can see him taking the dirt nap any time.

If a crisis comes out of nowhere it could dominate the election… but who can forsee those?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:50:36pm
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Dangerman  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:54:22pm

re: #36 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

That’s generally what I was getting at. He might be Trump’s personal hero, but his “friends” see him as an insufferable douchecanoe (at best) and his enemies see him as a traitor. He’s fucked.

I’m liking this 2021 so far

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:55:25pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:56:02pm

re: #1 plansbandc

Well, the majority of voters didn’t want to live in Rush’s world and we won.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:56:33pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:56:47pm

re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron

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At this point, I don’t even have to check the usual suspects to know they believe this is all because Hunter has investments/business interests in Iran.

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:56:51pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

“Look what you perceived me do.”

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:57:49pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 5:58:18pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

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“It was a mistake.”

Obviously the “mistake” he’s talking about was offering to take others along on the trip, because if he’d known his “friends” would sell him out, he’d have talked Heidi out of sending those texts.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:00:08pm

re: #51 jaunte

“Look what you perceived me do.”

“Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else…. noticed?”

I was thinking that Cruz was using all this as a cover to flee the country before being indicted over 1/6.

But then he came back. So either he’s stupid or I was wrong… or more probably I was probably wrong, and he’s still dumb as a box of hair.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:01:35pm

re: #44 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I think it will mostly be forgotten, save some Democrats who hope to make a bit of hay out of it.

In a week it’s going to be warm in Texas.

The 2022 and 2024 elections will be about abortion and the Supreme Court. Trump will try to insert himself. If he does, it may be about him too… but frankly at his age and health I can see him taking the dirt nap any time.

If a crisis comes out of nowhere it could dominate the election… but who can forsee those?

Covid isn’t going anywhere. “100-year” weather events every year aren’t going anywhere. Trials for insurrection aren’t going anywhere. White supremacy isn’t going anywhere. What about the agricultural collapse (drought brought on by climate change) of summer 2021, the new pandemic, and the mass-casualty white-terrorist attack of spring 2022?

Fact is, we have no idea what the 2022 elections will be about, and all we can do is work to pile up successes and highlight the failings of the other side.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:02:27pm

re: #52 jaunte

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What’s happening in Texas is what happens when Repubs get high on their own supply. Deregulation and privatization run amuck. We’re already seeing the next phase in action, as people see the sticker shock that comes when “cheap, plentiful” fossil fuels cease to be.

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:05:25pm
“I was trying to take care of my kids. It’s unfortunate, the fire storm that came from it. It was not my intention. In saying yes to my daughters to somehow diminish all the Texans that were going through real hardship.”

Still using his daughters as shields.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:05:54pm

re: #55 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Covid isn’t going anywhere. “100-year” weather events every year aren’t going anywhere. Trials for insurrection aren’t going anywhere. White supremacy isn’t going anywhere. What about the agricultural collapse (drought brought on by climate change) of summer 2021, the new pandemic, and the mass-casualty white-terrorist attack of spring 2022?

Fact is, we have no idea what the 2022 elections will be about, and all we can do is work to pile up successes and highlight the failings of the other side.

Any predictions about the midterms are like 5 day weather forecasts: At best a wild-assed guess, at worst total bullshit. Nobody predicted in spring 2019 that the world of spring 2020 would be in the grip of a global pandemic that would be so badly mismanaged by Trump that it would wipe out virtually of his advantages going into November.

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:07:24pm

Thinking of all the Texans that couldn’t do what their kids wanted right away, because they had jobs to do, and a Senator that doesn’t know he has a job.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:07:33pm

What someone should point out about the whole “THIS BLACKOUT WAS DUE TO WINDMILLS!!!” business is that Texas power companies aren’t blaming iced over turbine blades for why they’re about to send people bills reading 4 digits or higher.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:07:53pm

re: #56 Targetpractice

Yep. Libertarian doesn’t work for effective governance. Sad that Texans have to die to bring home this point.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:08:18pm
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darthstar  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:12:53pm

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darthstar  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:13:27pm

re: #61 Patricia Kayden

Yep. Libertarian doesn’t work for effective governance. Sad that Texans have to die to bring home this point.

Texas is a Libertarian wonderland.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:13:56pm

re: #63 darthstar

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plansbandc  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:14:48pm

re: #63 darthstar

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:15:24pm

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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:19:30pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:20:00pm

good fucking grief

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:22:29pm

Fox going apoplectic over Beto…AND I FUCKING LOVE IT!

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:23:28pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

good fucking grief

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Ben Rhodes did not say that. The article claims Netanyahu said it, but the entire quote is taken out of context.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:23:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:27:21pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:29:39pm

re: #42 PhillyPretzel

And how long is this going to last? Do you think that people are going to remember this at the next election?

I think the local Democrats will make sure nobody forgets. This issue is very personal for millions of Texans, so that will help imprint it on their memories.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:34:36pm

Hey CBS! I want to pitch a new series about an immoral Senator from Texas and how he lies, cheats and steals his way to the top?

Wait! you say that’s too much like Dallas?

Well how about kicking it up a notch and doing Dallas on steroids?

Hello? Hello?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:34:54pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:36:02pm
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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:36:53pm

Rafael better pay top dollar to Frank Luntz for coming up with these talking points!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:39:12pm
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jaunte  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:40:08pm

“During Covid” the way we do everything changed, like paying attention to the CDC when it says “Don’t travel to Mexico.”

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:40:09pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’d have assumed that calling a lid would make it easier for him to actually think and work productively, because he doesn’t have to entertain the usual media circus.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:41:02pm
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plansbandc  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:42:44pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:43:42pm

re: #83 plansbandc

Leave it to the Russians to be crazy enough to send something to the surface of Venus just to take selfies.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:45:24pm

re: #84 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Leave it to the Russians to be crazy enough to send something to the surface of Venus just to take selfies.

They made the ultimate horror film.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:47:22pm

He left his poodle to freeze…

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:48:33pm

re: #86 🌹UOJB!

He left his poodle to freeze…

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The private security guard who chased Michael Hardy off the property said that he was feeding the pooch.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:48:52pm

So just how tight is that vice on Rafael’s nuts that he’s leaving Heidi out of this and putting all the blame on their daughters?

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Dragonomics  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:49:07pm

Ted says… we had a candlelight dinner because that’s ALL we had, and we ALSO had flashlights… lies pour easier than Morton’s salt. It’s an itty itty-bitty lie, yes, but still he wants to make it sound like his loss of electricity made him Pa fucking Ingalls.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:49:47pm
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:50:42pm

Maybe he promised the dog a nice mole souvenir?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:51:26pm

re: #85 Barefoot Grin

They made the ultimate horror film.

They were also very persistent - they sent a total of 15 Venera probes to Venus. 7 was the first one to land, but it kinda crashed when the parachute melted early, and the data they got was garbled as a result of it falling over when it hit. They over-engineered their probes for the surface of Venus, and that’s saying something, designing them to operate at over 1,000 degrees F and 100 atmospheres of pressure.

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plansbandc  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:53:18pm

re: #92 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I find their research on Venus fascinating. For some reason, it resonates with me more than the Mars stuff. Maybe because there’s so little of the Venus stuff in comparison.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:53:20pm

re: #86 🌹UOJB!

He left his poodle to freeze…

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The worst part of the poodle story is that no matter what the he did the dog was glad to see him when he got back. Also poodles like the cool. My ex and I used to take her poodle up to

Snow Dog

Vermont. Loved the snow and 20 degree temps. (If you don’t cut their hair short).

PS I would leave my ex behind before I left my dog and Ted is an ass.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:53:57pm

re: #87 The Pie Overlord!

The private security guard who chased Michael Hardy off the property said that he was feeding the pooch.

Not only did Rafael abandon the people of Texas…he abandoned his doggy named…SNOWFLAKE…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:55:15pm

re: #93 plansbandc

I find their research on Venus fascinating. For some reason, it resonates with me more than the Mars stuff. Maybe because there’s so little of the Venus stuff in comparison.

The Venus stuff is definitely fascinating. I’m mostly a software geek, so the rovers with their fascinating complex semi-autonomous AI and the incredible degree of self-repair enabling years-long extensions to supposed 90-day missions engage me more. I cried when Opportunity was lost.

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:55:18pm

I hope this is one of those IT BEGINS moments.

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Jay C  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:57:22pm

re: #90 The Pie Overlord!

And AOC’s total includes $25 of mine: somehow I feel assured that she really will remit 💯%! of the proceeds to Texas relief efforts.

Wonder how much Cancun Ted has raised…..?

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jaunte  Feb 18, 2021 • 6:58:29pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:01:14pm

In the NYT story about Heidi’s texts, one other item is that a parent whose kids go to the same private school that Rafael’s daughters attend shared with the Times a notice to parents about restrictions on out-of-state travel: 2 weeks quarantine or 3-5 day wait after a CV test before they can return to classes.

So, in essence, what he’s saying is his daughters and their friends declared they wanted to skip school for 2+ weeks to go to Cancun, and he not only agreed with this plan but he paid for their trip.

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plansbandc  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:01:23pm

re: #99 jaunte

Naturally.

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:01:42pm

re: #99 jaunte

If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to
Why don’t you go where fashion sits?
Putin on the Ritz!

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:03:09pm

People really are deluding themselves that #CancunTed will affect his political calculus. It won’t, not one iota. Some Democrats might make a stink for a couple of news cycles. But let’s face it, the average American has the attention span of a gnat politically.

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gocart mozart  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:03:53pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:06:25pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

People really are deluding themselves that #CancunTed will affect his political calculus. It won’t, not one iota. Some Democrats might make a stink for a couple of news cycles. But let’s face it, the average American has the attention span of a gnat politically.

It will be up to his opponents to bring it up. It will not hurt him much, but it will not help.

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:06:44pm
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Renaissance_Man  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:10:33pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

People really are deluding themselves that #CancunTed will affect his political calculus. It won’t, not one iota. Some Democrats might make a stink for a couple of news cycles. But let’s face it, the average American has the attention span of a gnat politically.

Americans have exactly the attention span of their media narrative. A story has as much legs, and carries as much consequence, as the narrative has in the national media. Millions of Americans, even those who aren’t complete wingnuts, believe that ‘something’ was shady about the 2020 election, that Joe Biden is at least a little demented, and that Benghazi was a huge scandal and a permanent stain on Hillary Clinton. The media narrative in the US is all-powerful. If the largest networks and papers want to make something a permanent scandal, it will be. Those things, however, don’t include Republican malfeasance, or Republican rebellion.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:12:39pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

People really are deluding themselves that #CancunTed will affect his political calculus. It won’t, not one iota. Some Democrats might make a stink for a couple of news cycles. But let’s face it, the average American has the attention span of a gnat politically.

Why did the coronavirus hurt Trump?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:12:40pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

People really are deluding themselves that #CancunTed will affect his political calculus. It won’t, not one iota. Some Democrats might make a stink for a couple of news cycles. But let’s face it, the average American has the attention span of a gnat politically.

How many people remember Mitt Romney strapping his dog to the top of his car for a trip?

I imagine Democrats could make a bigger deal about Ted’s dog than his daughters, since conservatives don’t seem to think much about females. The people who defended Heidi the most were Democrats.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:14:59pm
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jaunte  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:16:23pm
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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:16:25pm

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just remember that same ass shot her mouth off about Hitler

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:16:29pm

Ted Cruz sees his job as basically being a guy who records a podcast, goes on Fox News, and tweets snarky jokes. And increasingly that’s what being a conservative politician is. It’s a form of performative trolling.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:18:39pm

re: #70 🌹UOJB!

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teleskiguy  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:20:13pm

re: #108 Belafon

Why did the coronavirus hurt Trump?

It didn’t hurt him. He lost the election, sure. But more Republicans voted for him than any other Republican politician in all history, and he still commands a slavish cult.

I drove back from Telluride yesterday through a section of far western Colorado, really isolated towns like Norwood, Naturita, Gateway. People in that part of the country are still flying their Trump flags and signs on their property. I even saw a TRUMP 2024 sign.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:20:21pm
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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:22:17pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:24:06pm

re: #115 teleskiguy

It didn’t hurt him. He lost the election, sure. But more Republicans voted for him than any other Republican politician in all history, and he still commands a slavish cult.

I drove back from Telluride yesterday through a section of far western Colorado, really isolated towns like Norwood, Naturita, Gateway. People in that part of the country are still flying their Trump flags and signs on their property. I even saw a TRUMP 2024 sign.

And more Democrats voted for Joe Biden than any other Democrat in history. That has more to do with population growth. There’s a couple of Trump signs and flags here too (but they are slowly going away).

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ipsos  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:26:18pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I have been very pleased, in my occasional driving excursions to the it’s-basically-Appalachia parts of rural western NY, to see that nearly all the Trump signs have come down now. The ones that are left seem to be part of larger “HI I AM A CRAZY PERSON AND YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO BE MY NEIGHBOR” displays of multiple signs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:28:03pm

re: #117 🌹UOJB!

If they renamed “electrical grid” to “uterus,” maybe Texas would try to regulate it.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:29:20pm

I also remember when people would say that the 47% remark wouldn’t hurt Romney.

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William Lewis  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:30:09pm

Gah. I really dislike snomobilers. Bunch of aggravating nut cases.

Back to folding towels.

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austin_blue  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:32:24pm

From the last thread, for clarification:

re: #142 retired cynic

Isn’t the governor in TX a rather weak office?>>

Yes, the Guv appoints unelected members of Boards and Commissions, some quite important.

He has the power of the veto which will kill a bill for two years (which is how often little towns across the State send their idiots to Austin).

And he has the bully pulpit, which is no mean thing, here.

The real power lies in the Light Guv, who controls and sets the Legislative agenda.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:35:28pm

re: #106 teleskiguy

Because Ted Cruz loves Je$u$ and all those little babies in wombs that liberals want to murder.

That’s how the likes of Ted Cruz get away with what they do.

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Targetpractice  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:35:44pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

People really are deluding themselves that #CancunTed will affect his political calculus. It won’t, not one iota. Some Democrats might make a stink for a couple of news cycles. But let’s face it, the average American has the attention span of a gnat politically.

I don’t think anybody’s really convinced that his career is over. Political scandals only destroy the careers of Democrats, while Republicans generally have all the career resiliency of a cockroach. But I’m sure Josh Hawley is taking notes, as are any Texans who might consider challenging him for either the presidency or his Senate seat. He won’t be forced to resign, but his hope to rise above the Senate may be stymied for the foreseeable future.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:36:07pm

Vaccines are coming into Nebraska now. On the way home listening to Wyoming Public Radio, they noted Nebraska today moved its priority age group down from sixty-five to fifty. That means my wife is now in the window.

Monday I go back to Cheyenne for my second shot.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:37:35pm
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austin_blue  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:46:13pm

I have to mention this. We are getting a little short on food, but holding up. And we broke freezing after 144 hours, a new record. Yay!

So we had no real dessert, and cracked open a couple of fortune cookies from last Friday (Hunan Lion- Yum). As usual, we played the add “in bed” to the end;

Mine: “How about another Fortune?” Oops, wrong side. Umm, here- “Adversity willingly undergone is the greatest virtue.”

SHE’s: “Stay in touch, above all, with your family.”

I think the manufacturers’s of Fortune Cookies are getting wise to the game. Sick bastards.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:47:00pm

4 Generations Of Assholes.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 7:54:14pm

Oh my.

He did it twice…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:04:58pm

State news:

In voter restrictions, state senator Mike Greone (Dick, district 42 North Platte) introduced a bill to cut early voting and mail ballots from thirty-five days to twenty. He was the only state senator to speak positively of the bill.

Rolling blackouts will continue in Nebraska for at least two more days. Unlike Texas, ours are not caused by equipment freezing but lack of capacity. Nebraska is also sharing power with Louisiana to help relieve their issues with arctic cold in that state.

Maxwell man found dead; temperature in his home was 14 below zero (Omaha World-Herald)

MAXWELL, Neb. — The body of a 65-year-old Maxwell man was discovered in his home Monday night during a welfare check at the residence.

The cause of death for Danny Effenbeck is currently unknown but not considered suspicious. Pathology tests are pending.

He was found by members of the Maxwell Volunteer Fire Department, who then contacted the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.

“They were doing random checks of people around Maxwell who live alone, and they knew (Effenbeck) had a history of not having utilities,” Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer said Wednesday.

Kramer said Effenbeck had relied on a propane heater for warmth for a number of years. The temperature was 14 below zero in the house when the body was discovered.

(more)

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:21:30pm

Abbot is a Republican is trending on Twitter. Thanks to Don Jr. and Cocaine. Who says drugs are bad for you?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:24:10pm
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danarchy  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:25:11pm

re: #130 🌹UOJB!

Oh my.

He did it twice…

For republicans traveling against CDC recommendations on Covid is a plus, unless Texas was was under some state of emergency at the time this is basically apples and oranges.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:25:28pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:29:34pm

re: #125 Targetpractice

I don’t think anybody’s really convinced that his career is over. Political scandals only destroy the careers of Democrats, while Republicans generally have all the career resiliency of a cockroach. But I’m sure Josh Hawley is taking notes, as are any Texans who might consider challenging him for either the presidency or his Senate seat. He won’t be forced to resign, but his hope to rise above the Senate may be stymied for the foreseeable future.

You don’t need the MSM to focus on a scandal to remind voters of issues; it only requires that Democrats be as ruthless as Republicans in their advertising. Democrats must bludgeon voters repeatedly with stories of Cruz’s negligence, as well as the negligence of other GOP candidates.

We know that we cannot rely on the press to assist us in taking down Republicans — though they will do so occasionally. Roy Moore was undone by bad press as were Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich, and Bob Livingston. And if we are every fortunate enough for someone to release the videos hanging over Lindsey’s head, he will be gone too.

The saying is “God helps those who help themselves”. We need a Democratic Frank Luntz to assist in this endeavor; but a sustained effort, especially one based on the truth, can bring others down.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:31:11pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:33:42pm

Sure enough, colder than a witch’s tit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:34:51pm

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE1, Lincoln) is on a “listening tour” in my district (NE3, everywhere which isn’t Omaha and Lincoln) to hear the concerns of rural Nebraskans. I presume this is because my representative (Adrian Smith) almost never comes home (he is from Gering in Scott’s Bluff county), or maybe he wants to move here.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:35:02pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:41:00pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:43:43pm

re: #140 Belafon

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IngisKahn  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:46:58pm

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:52:18pm
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Dave In Austin  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:52:18pm
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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Feb 18, 2021 • 8:59:52pm

He’s a stranger to love
He knows the rules and he don’t care
His own commitment’s what he’s not thinking of
Cancun Ted is gonna take to the air

Ted just cares about how cold he’s feeling
Texas just has to understand

Cruz is gonna give you up
Cruz is gonna let you down
Cruz is gonna run around and desert you
Cruz is gonna make you cry
Cruz is gonna say byebye
Cruz is gonna tell a lie and hurt you

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:09:32pm
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Chrysicat  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:10:00pm
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DodgerFan1988  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:12:57pm
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retired cynic  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:17:22pm

re: #149 DodgerFan1988

Is Cupp trying to follow Rubin’s lead?

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William Lewis  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:20:10pm

re: #149 DodgerFan1988

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The only way to make a GQP asshole notice is to Cunningham them: Arrest, Convict & Imprison.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:26:06pm

Medication question for those who know drugs behind the privacy bar.

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We still can’t get hand sanitiser around here. (Since the start of the pandemic it has been unavailable, along with anything else useful like disinfectant wipes, Lysol, bleach, &c.)

Since grain alcohol has been shown as an effective disinfectant, a fellow here is selling squirt bottles of homemade corn liquor in our general store. At least I have something.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:27:32pm

Brother-in-law: An unusual sight around Texas is Republican politicians’ hands in their own pockets for a change.

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Belafon  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:29:04pm

re: #149 DodgerFan1988

Woke SE Cupp is way weirder than woke Bill Kristol.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:31:26pm

re: #154 Belafon

Woke SE Cupp is way weirder than woke Bill Kristol.

I saw that on CNN. Weird. I don’t think Republicans consider her a real conservative (because atheist, support for immigration, &c).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:33:54pm

There have been three deaths in my town now from Covid (the Korean War vet from a couple weeks ago, now a couple both in their twenties—neighbours are minding their children until other family can take them in).

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retired cynic  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:34:27pm

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s horrible!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:35:13pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:36:56pm

re: #157 retired cynic

That’s horrible!

I wasn’t aware they were ill; they both died while we were in Cheyenne. They have two small children. I presume the state will need to make a ruling on who can take permanent custody of them; they have no other family in town,

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retired cynic  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:40:59pm

re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One doesn’t expect people in their 20s to die of it, let along a husband and wife. Perhaps they just tried to tough it out at home for two long, because of the two kids?

Really tragic.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:41:50pm

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Medication question for those who know drugs behind the privacy bar.
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:48:17pm

re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter

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retired cynic  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:49:12pm

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:49:17pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:50:55pm

re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wasn’t aware they were ill; they both died while we were in Cheyenne. They have two small children. I presume the state will need to make a ruling on who can take permanent custody of them; they have no other family in town,

That is sad and very troubling — having a young couple both die from the disease does not seem like the typical progression of this illness. Could these deaths indicate a more lethal strain? It is unfortunate that the US is so behind in the genome-sequencing of COVID-19. Was the couple hospitalized?

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:53:02pm

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Vaccines are coming into Nebraska now. On the way home listening to Wyoming Public Radio, they noted Nebraska today moved its priority age group down from sixty-five to fifty. That means my wife is now in the window.

Monday I go back to Cheyenne for my second shot.

Meanwhile in the world of Southern California Kaiser members…

They moved from just doing healthcare workers to now vaccinating health care workers and people aged 75+. They *might* be lowering that to 65… “soon”.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:53:37pm

re: #163 retired cynic

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stpaulbear  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:53:58pm

re: #140 Belafon

I’m leaving on a jet plane
Next day I’m coming back again
Oh Babe, I hate the cold.

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retired cynic  Feb 18, 2021 • 9:55:07pm

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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William Lewis  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:01:53pm

re: #168 stpaulbear

I’m leaving on a jet plane
Next day I’m coming back again
Oh Babe, I hate the cold.

perfect! < chef’s kiss >

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:03:29pm

re: #150 retired cynic

Is Cupp trying to follow Rubin’s lead?

Ms. Cupp is almost on the side of Democrats now. She doesn’t deny human-caused climate change, she is actually fiscally conservative, she is opposed to the GOP position on LGBT (and identifies as a log cabin Republican), she is an atheist (so she’s in a party who hates her for her religious beliefs, though she says she would never vote for an atheist politicians so she’s right there with a bunch of other Democrats).

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Jay C  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:12:36pm

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Medication question for those who know drugs behind the privacy bar.

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We still can’t get hand sanitiser around here. (Since the start of the pandemic it has been unavailable, along with anything else useful like disinfectant wipes, Lysol, bleach, &c.)

Since grain alcohol has been shown as an effective disinfectant, a fellow here is selling squirt bottles of homemade corn liquor in our general store. At least I have something.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:13:54pm

The warming trend continues here (-2°F, -20° windchill). It’s much warmer in Casper and Cheyenne.

Tomorrow we’re supposed to get all the way to 34°F. Shorts and t-shirt weather, though the river probably won’t thaw.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:15:56pm

re: #172 Jay C

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:22:30pm

re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ms. Cupp is almost on the side of Democrats now. She doesn’t deny human-caused climate change, she is actually fiscally conservative, she is opposed to the GOP position on LGBT (and identifies as a log cabin Republican), she is an atheist (so she’s in a party who hates her for her religious beliefs, though she says she would never vote for an atheist politicians so she’s right there with a bunch of other Democrats).

According to Wiki, in August she announced that she was voting for Biden.

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:29:41pm

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:38:53pm

If I had to choose between this and pineapple pizza…I’ll do the pineapples…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:41:55pm

I saw an interesting clip from Rachel Maddow with a physician who noted that about 2/3 of the supply of monoclonal antibody therapy drugs which have been released under emergency use authorisation have not been used.

He notes people who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 who are mildly or not sick (yet) but are at high risk for severe disease should request it from their physicians.

He also noted a Health and Human Services Website where you can look up where it is available, and its uses in treatment.

combatcovid.hhs.gov

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piratedan  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:43:30pm

re: #177 🌹UOJB!

have to admit, when I think of Chinese food, Chef Boyardee doesn’t naturally spring to mind… although I will note that I do acknowledge that cheese is not a big player in a lot of notable Chinese cuisine that I am aware of, but perhaps I need to expand my horizons more.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:45:06pm

re: #98 Jay C

And AOC’s total includes $25 of mine: somehow I feel assured that she really will remit 💯%! of the proceeds to Texas relief efforts.

Wonder how much Cancun Ted has raised…..?

I just tossed in my $600 stimulus payment — I had been wondering what to do with it since I just donated my 2020 travel budget (sob) to my regular places. This will do.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 18, 2021 • 10:47:52pm

re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The drop-down menu (why do web designers use those) for “distance from your home” is in five mile increments to one hundred miles.

Therefore the tool is useless to someone who lives here (you can’t put in a figure higher than one hundred miles).

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 18, 2021 • 11:05:39pm

re: #181 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The drop-down menu (why do web designers use those) for “distance from your home” is in five mile increments to one hundred miles.

To reduce the amount of input validation needed, assuming they even thought of it.

Ignoring that is the cause of the majority of hacks and bugs.


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