The Amazing Rhiannon Giddens on Fretless Banjo: “Spanish Mary”

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Rhiannon Giddens performs “Spanish Mary” on Austin City Limits.

Catch Rhiannon Giddens on October 8, 2016, on your local PBS station. Watch Austin City Limits on PBS. For more visit acltv.com.

About the Episode
Enjoy performances by acclaimed singer/songwriters James Bay and Rhiannon Giddens. Englishman Bay plays songs from his chart-topping debut Chaos and the Calm. North Carolina native Giddens performs tunes from her Grammy-nominated solo debut Tomorrow is My Turn.

About Austin City Limits
ACL offers viewers unparalleled access to featured acts in an intimate setting that provides a platform for artists to deliver inspired, memorable, full-length performances. The program is taped live before a concert audience from The Moody Theater in downtown Austin. ACL is the longest-running music series in American television history and remains the only TV series to ever be awarded the National Medal of Arts. Since its inception, the groundbreaking music series has become an institution that’s helped secure Austin’s reputation as the Live Music Capital of the World. The historic KLRU Studio 6A, home to 36 years of ACL concerts, has been designated an official Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Landmark. In 2011, ACL moved to the new venue ACL Live at The Moody Theater in downtown Austin. ACL received a rare institutional Peabody Award for excellence and outstanding achievement in 2012.

ACL is produced by KLRU-TV and funding is provided in part by Dell, the Austin Convention Center Department, Shiner Beers and homeaway.com. Additional funding is provided by the Friends of Austin City Limits. Learn more about Austin City Limits, programming and history at acltv.com.

Rhiannon Giddens - vocals
Dirk Powell - fiddle, accordion
Chance McCoy - electric guitar
Hubby Jenkins - guitar
Rowan Corbett - banjo
Malcolm Parsons - cello
Jason Sypher - bass
Jamie Dick - drums/percussion

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298 comments
1
Charles Johnson  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:15:43pm

Yes, and she plays barefoot.

2
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:16:32pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Yes, and she plays barefoot.

Our church’s tech director used to be our keyboard player. He always played barefoot. He still leaves his shoes next to the stairs to the tech booth on Sundays. Some old habits die hard.

3
darthstar  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:17:24pm

One of my favorite tweets of the last week…may make this a Sunday thing.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:18:44pm

From downstairs.

re: #184 Eric The Fruit Bat

Riddle me this - how can energy markets go sky-high when they can’t/aren’t being used?
Who’s on the other side of the energy trade that stands to collect billions on non-functioning/available commodities (..like natural gas)?

This smells too much like a GameStop short-squeeze in the commodities market.

They were being used. The demand for gas was far higher than the available supply, so those few people who had electric power - and were drawing from a grid that included natural gas - were getting their costs from the price of the backing store, the natural gas, which was greatly overpriced due to the temporary and extreme lopsidedness of the market in favor of demand.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:19:12pm

CL’ed…

re: #170 b.d. (America is Great Again)

Texans who have suffered for days of freezing cold without power should not be subjected to skyrocketing energy bills due to a spike in the energy market,” Abbott said.

Riddle me this - how can energy markets go sky-high when they can’t/aren’t being used?
Who’s on the other side of the energy trade that stands to collect billions on non-functioning/available commodities (..like natural gas)?

This smells too much like a GameStop short-squeeze in the commodities market.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:24:56pm

re: #5 Eric The Fruit Bat

CL’ed…

re: #170 b.d. (America is Great Again)

Texans who have suffered for days of freezing cold without power should not be subjected to skyrocketing energy bills due to a spike in the energy market,” Abbott said.

Riddle me this - how can energy markets go sky-high when they can’t/aren’t being used?
Who’s on the other side of the energy trade that stands to collect billions on non-functioning/available commodities (..like natural gas)?

This smells too much like a GameStop short-squeeze in the commodities market.

Let’s ask the expert!

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Charles Johnson  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:29:30pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:31:30pm

Been reading up on UA328. Looks like it was a couple of the fan blades after all; the video doesn’t show them clearly enough to see the damage. Also, it looks like Pratt and Whitney might be getting in some hot water. There have been a series of uncontained engine failures on PW4000 series engines stretching back to 2018, when the damaged aircraft’s sister plane blew up one of its PW4000’s on a flight over the Pacific. The 747 that blew an engine in Belgium also was running PW4000’s.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:41:24pm

re: #176 gocart mozart

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:47:02pm
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EstebanTornado1963  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:47:43pm

re: #4 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

From downstairs.

They were being used. The demand for gas was far higher than the available supply, so those few people who had electric power - and were drawing from a grid that included natural gas - were getting their costs from the price of the backing store, the natural gas, which was greatly overpriced due to the temporary and extreme lopsidedness of the market in favor of demand.

This asshole is profiting
si.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:49:03pm

re: #4 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

From downstairs.

They were being used. The demand for gas was far higher than the available supply, so those few people who had electric power - and were drawing from a grid that included natural gas - were getting their costs from the price of the backing store, the natural gas, which was greatly overpriced due to the temporary and extreme lopsidedness of the market in favor of demand.

Wait until people get their natural gas bills. And if they have private water companies, their water bill.

I’m so glad I live in the socialist hellhole of Nebraska. /s

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:50:49pm

Meanwhile Oregon goes full QAP.

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BlueSpotinAL  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:51:25pm

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:51:46pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 21, 2021 • 5:55:27pm
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Dave In Austin  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:01:12pm
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darthstar  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:01:39pm

I like the fact that the other parents at the private school where Ted Cruz sends his kids said, “Fourteen days fuckers! Quarantine after leaving the country, assholes.”

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:02:22pm

re: #17 Dave In Austin

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Probably David Bowie… but only if he’s cool with it.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:03:09pm
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sagehen  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:03:40pm

re: #17 Dave In Austin

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prince? bowie?

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:04:15pm

Ah another Snowflake melts down!

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:04:30pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Aren’t you worried he will tweet at you? Oh, right.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:05:27pm

Good Thing | Zedd & Kehlani | funk cover ft. Abby Celso

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Charles Johnson  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:06:04pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:07:03pm

re: #17 Dave In Austin

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:08:06pm

re: #183 Targetpractice

Basically there’s no real way out of this without a bailout of some kind. A moratorium doesn’t make the bills go away, it just means no action can be taken for non-payment. The power companies are still going to expect payment and are going to take all actions they can short of shutting off power to twist the arms of their customers. And suggesting or ordering the companies to eat those bills is a legislative non-starter, as the immediate response will be screaming about how the companies will have to raise prices and cut jobs to remain “profitable.”

So yeah, either the state legislature is gonna have to dig deep into the coffers or they’re gonna have to go to D.C. to beg for money.

First question: Have you publicly acknowledged Donald Trump lied about the election and Joe Biden is the legitimate President? No? I’m sorry, we can’t help you; try Mar-a-Grifto.

They must be forced to give up the Big Lie.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:09:24pm

re: #20 darthstar

I’m going with Prince. But I really can’t make a choice. If Dwayne Allman were alive today he would prolly be dead…… (Old as shit).

Frank Zappa. What would Frank be doing today?

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:12:58pm

re: #15 jaunte

Unfortunately, Tom Lender just popped into my head!

“The mariachis would serenade!
But they would not shut up until they were paid!
We ate, drank, and made merry!
And got typhoid and dysentery!”

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Dave In Austin  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:15:32pm

Snarky Puppy - Skate U (Remixed & Remastered)

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:21:00pm

The reason I say David Bowie is two-fold. Other than him being an amazing musician worthy of being viewed right next to the greatest artists in future history classes, the beginning of a chain of horrible events in my own life occurred correlating with his death.

This was a series of increasingly bad personal relationship issues as well as the rise and election of Fuckface von Clownstick.

After 2011, every “bad” thing in my life occurred following Bowie’s death and began within a couple of days of it. I think the Timeline without Bowie is the bad timeline that I need to go back through the Guardian of Forever and correct.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:26:00pm

Siberian Husky temper tantrum

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Charles Johnson  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:27:49pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:28:05pm
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dat_said  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:29:09pm

I’d like to see some evidence as I don’t trust an Oath Keeper’s word, but…

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:29:28pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

I don’t know how anyone expects Democrats to negotiate with these people.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:31:47pm

WHOA DON’T HOLD BACK

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:31:51pm

re: #17 Dave In Austin

Mozart. I’d love to hear what he could do with a quartet of keyboard, electric guitar, bass guitar & drums.

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EstebanTornado1963  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:32:27pm
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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:35:06pm

re: #13 🌹UOJB!

Meanwhile Oregon goes full QAP.

My first thought: Is this the kook wing of the party?

Halfway through the article:

The in-person election of top party officials was held Saturday at a VFW hall in Salem. Photos sent to OPB from a person who reported attending the event showed a hall packed with people in close quarters, none of them wearing face masks.

Yep, kook wing.

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:35:32pm

re: #39 EstebanTornado1963

Also, they said what “Musician” so he fails to qualify on that count too.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:36:19pm
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🌹UOJB!  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:38:08pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:38:36pm

re: #21 sagehen

prince? bowie?

Lennon.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:39:24pm

re: #17 Dave In Austin

Bob Marley.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:39:27pm

re: #37 The Pie Overlord!

I approve this tweet.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:40:43pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:42:07pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Sadly, I run into people on the left who are vehemently anti-COVID-19 vaccination as well including family and friends. I get the fear since it’s a new vaccination and there have been a few (blown out of proportion) deaths but I’m anxious to get it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:43:52pm

Rumble is a video hosting service based in Toronto which is popular with conservatives. It became popular after Devin Nunes accused YouTube of BIAAAASSSS1uno11 against conservatives.

Rumble just filed an anti-trust suit against Google alleging Google favours YouTube videos over Rumble videos in its search engine.

Rumble runs on the same libertarian speech ideas as Parler, so much of the content is a cesspool. They only ban porn, harassment (lol), racism (lol), or illegal content.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:45:07pm

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Rumble is a video hosting service based in Toronto which is popular with conservatives. It became popular after Devin Nunes accused YouTube of BIAAAASSSS1uno11 against conservatives.

Rumble just filed an anti-trust suit against Google alleging Google favours YouTube videos over Rumble videos in its search engine.

Rumble runs on the same libertarian speech ideas as Parler, so much of the content is a cesspool. They only ban porn, harassment (lol), racism (lol), or illegal content.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:45:38pm

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Another rightwing platform soon to die because there are no libs to own.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:45:47pm

re: #32 Dave In Austin

That’s interesting because I have to force my dogs to bathe and they go crazy whenever I say “walk”. Cute doggy though.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:47:58pm

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trump and his Dad hated when Kapernick exercised his free speech by kneeling at football games though. Conservatives are fine with the suppression of speech that doesn’t support their agenda.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:48:03pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Unless I’m missing something, if there’s anything to the handwringing about the vaccines may only be stopping symptomatic infections and not actually stopping transmission, herd immunity is impossible under those circumstances.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:53:22pm
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BigPapa  Feb 21, 2021 • 6:57:07pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Yes, and she plays barefoot.

She is amazing. Only just discovering her now.

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retired cynic  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:03:44pm

Opinion: Pundits are wrong. We don’t need a functional GOP. Jennifer Rubin, WaPo

It is no secret that modern conservatism, in large part a response to the Cold War, is ideologically spent. …

However, as we think through this next era in politics, we should abide by one core principle: A right-wing, populist and authoritarian party should not be allowed to hold power. It has proved to be dangerous, racist and fundamentally un-American. Everything else should be up for debate.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:04:44pm

re: #37 The Pie Overlord!

WHOA DON’T HOLD BACK

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:06:33pm

re: #45 Patricia Kayden

Bob Marley.

Chris Squire.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:06:43pm

re: #54 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Unless I’m missing something, if there’s anything to the handwringing about the vaccines may only be stopping symptomatic infections and not actually stopping transmission, herd immunity is impossible under those circumstances.

That’s the worst case scenario at this point.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:10:09pm

re: #57 retired cynic

While I agree with Rubin, Republicans have been awful for some time. Trump just revealed them for what they are.
She quotes Bill Kristol:
“Modern American conservatism was born in 1955, peaked in full flower in the 1980s, and then aged, mostly gracefully, for three decades.”
That is such a lie. Conservatism has been a mess since Nixon.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:11:14pm

re: #47 jaunte

These 100-year storms they have every ten years or so and were warned about.

Extreme cold is why our windmills in Nebraska all went dead. /s

And not all of Texas windmills did either. Some did.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:14:20pm

re: #38 William Lewis

Mozart. I’d love to hear what he could do with a quartet of keyboard, electric guitar, bass guitar & drums.

Now I’m thinking of the Beethoven mall scene in Bill And Ted’s.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:14:31pm

re: #39 EstebanTornado1963

I shouldn’t laugh but I’m dying. 😂

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garzooma  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:16:11pm

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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These 100-year storms they have every ten years or so and were warned about.

Extreme cold is why our windmills in Nebraska all went dead. /s

And not all of Texas windmills did either. Some did.

Also, they have windmills in Antarctica:

At the main U.S. research station in Antarctica, annual temperatures average zero degrees Fahrenheit, but often drop much lower. There, near the United States’ McMurdo Station, a few wind turbines can provide enough electricity to power 100 American homes, and avoid burning over 120,000 gallons of diesel fuel each year.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:16:37pm

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That person is a fool.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:16:40pm
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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:17:26pm

To clarify: she retweeted that from the “Tea Party Patriots.”

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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:20:12pm
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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:23:38pm

re: #17 Dave In Austin

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Duane allman

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:23:41pm
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Belafon  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:29:25pm

re: #47 jaunte

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I have amuse blocked, but I could see some replies and they were, to say the least, interesting. Imagine if you took all of our tweets and comments and just replaced Republican with Democrat. They were the same “they’re lying” or “they don’t know anything” or “they’ll do anything to maintain power.”

The big failure of the internet is that it doesn’t require you to back up what you say. Now, the internet isn’t unique in that regard: Talking to your neighbors, coworkers, or fellow church members didn’t require it either. But the internet at least provides you a way of showing your sources.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:39:30pm

Mrs. Brown you’ve got a lovely daughter.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:42:39pm

re: #71 DodgerFan1988

I don’t expect everything to go exactly how we want it to or how it necessarily should, but these “they are all getting away with it while Chuck Todd blows them on national TV” things I keep seeing from various Negative Nancys are a bit premature.

We don’t even have an AG yet. It takes awhile to build a GIANT case like this.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:43:18pm
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🌹UOJB!  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:43:32pm

re: #66 jaunte

That person is a fool.

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But my Qasshole relatives say that Biden is controlled by Soros…

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:44:41pm

re: #76 🌹UOJB!

Of the Hangzhou Soroses?

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:44:46pm

re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron

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Am I surprised? Nope because during the last Congress the QAP called Hitler Lover KKKandace Owens as a witness.

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:45:19pm

Not sure what the state of Texas law regarding contracts is right now, but one would hope that some contracts are so unconscionable as to be rendered illegal. We’ll have to see.

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sagehen  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:51:39pm

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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These 100-year storms they have every ten years or so and were warned about.

Extreme cold is why our windmills in Nebraska all went dead. /s

And not all of Texas windmills did either. Some did.

Canada, Denmark and Antarctica keep their windmills going all winter. Apparently “extreme cold” is something they can be prepared for.

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plansbandc  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:54:26pm

re: #14 BlueSpotinAL

Love yours, but still my favorite.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:56:50pm

re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron

Nothing Republicans do is remotely stunning at this point in time.

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plansbandc  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:59:15pm

re: #28 Dave In Austin

I would probably go with Hendrix just because it would be interesting to see what he would have come up with with many more years.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 7:59:49pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:00:01pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:02:26pm

re: #79 mmmirele

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plansbandc  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:02:40pm

re: #32 Dave In Austin

Of all the breeds that came into the grooming shop, Huskies were the biggest wusses. My God the crying over nail clips, bathing, blow drying, brushing. It was always BOOOOOOHOOOHOOOHOOWAHRAWRRRRRR about everything. Just so funny.

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PrairieQueen  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:04:21pm

re: #76 🌹UOJB!

But my Qasshole relatives say that Biden is controlled by Soros…

Man, you do have some asshole relatives. I think a lot of us have a passel of Qs in the woodpile though.

Everywhere I turn, somebody is warning me about the COVID hoax or the stolen election or those uppity BLM terrorists or the scary vaccine or… it just fucking wears you out.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:06:33pm

re: #76 🌹UOJB!

But my Qasshole relatives say that Biden is controlled by Soros…

We’re all controlled by Soros.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:08:45pm

I am reading through a book on Tensorflow 2.0. I was looking at the training datasets they include. The last one is called “yes_no”. I loaded it to look at the info, which describes the dataset as this:

Sixty recordings of one individual saying yes or no in Hebrew; each recording is eight words long.

The main point of the dataset is to provide an easy and fast way to test out the Kaldi scripts for free.

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EstebanTornado1963  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:12:26pm

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:17:01pm

re: #86 The Pie Overlord!

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Charles Johnson  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:19:29pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:27:19pm

re: #91 EstebanTornado1963

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:29:51pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:31:24pm

re: #15 jaunte

I’m actually a little surprised to see that Raphael lives in a decent-looking house rather than the kind of butt-ugly, architecturally illiterate mcmansion normally favored by GOP traitors, gougers, and Mammon cultists.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:32:53pm

re: #96 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I’m actually a little surprised to see that Raphael lives in a decent-looking house rather than the kind of butt-ugly, architecturally illiterate mcmansion normally favored by GOP traitors, gougers, and Mammon cultists.

Maybe Ted’s wife has some taste in that particular direction.
//

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Targetpractice  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:33:16pm

I’m split between Neal Peart and Freddie Mercury.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:33:35pm

re: #95 jaunte

Is CPAC2021 going to be before or after the Georgia AG indicts her?

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:33:48pm

re: #96 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

River Oaks, just around the corner from his office.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:34:45pm

re: #99 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Maybe the process servers will attend.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:35:15pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:36:50pm

CPAC2021 represents a fantastic opportunity for the FBI and various state prosecutors. All these traitors in one place.

Shit just lock the doors on the building and call it ADX Orlando.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:37:06pm

Omaha native’s assassination anniversary today.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:37:39pm

Fair warning, they’re going to “protect” the hell out of elections in future.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:37:48pm

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fixed, not birthday.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:43:19pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:44:20pm

re: #98 Targetpractice

I’m split between Neal Peart and Freddie Mercury.

Mercury for me, with Johnny Cash a very close second.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:58:22pm

I will bring back Ted Nugent or Kid Rock, cause I get to kill them first.

too dark?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 8:59:55pm

Right Wing Domination of Media & Politics Keeps Us Stuck in Disinformation and Right Wing Government (Julie Hotard at Medium on how conservative manipulation of media keeps a minority party in power to advance a libertarian hellhole on the whole country—starts with an example of a water provider poisoning some customers and the media inexorably trying to find balance in a both-sides narrative).

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:05:03pm

re: #98 Targetpractice

I’m split between Neal Peart and Freddie Mercury.

I said Mozart earlier but was thinking a few moments ago that Buddy Holly would be a good choice too.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:11:24pm

re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg

Mercury for me, with Johnny Cash a very close second.

I went with Billy Squire, but could go with Liszt as well (9:46)

Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

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Targetpractice  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:14:09pm

re: #111 William Lewis

I said Mozart earlier but was thinking a few moments ago that Buddy Holly would be a good choice too.

Him, Ritchie Valens, or the Big Bopper would be a good choice.

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coin operated  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:15:27pm

In the ‘bring a musician back’ department

Stevie Ray Vaughn.

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retired cynic  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:18:17pm

re: #114 coin operated

In the ‘bring a musician back’ department

Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Franz Schubert.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:20:41pm
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:20:51pm

re: #115 retired cynic

Franz Schubert.

I was just about to say. GMTA.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:24:39pm

re: #116 Dread Pirate Ron

These aren’t very smart people and things got out of hand.

They got used to crime-ing out in the open and with little or no consequences during the Clownstick Regime.

A real fucking rude awakening is a coming. We just need to have some patience and realize this isn’t a movie. This is going to take a while because it’s going to be the biggest group of interconnected criminal cases in the history of the US, if not the world.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:27:43pm

re: #116 Dread Pirate Ron

And you know about Cuomo because the media is not covering it? Does every conservative lie?

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Targetpractice  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:29:31pm

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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And you know about Cuomo because the media is not covering it? Does every conservative lie?

By “cover it,” most wingnuts generally mean “Running hourly calls for his immediate resignation and incarceration.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:31:04pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:35:56pm

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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And you know about Cuomo because the media is not covering it? Does every conservative lie?

Yes

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:50:05pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:51:33pm

re: #120 Targetpractice

By “cover it,” most wingnuts generally mean “Running hourly calls for his immediate resignation and incarceration.”

I wonder about the accuracy of any information from Florida. DeSantis models his behavior after Trump and so suppressing statistics would certainly be in his repertoire of how to handle Covid-19.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 9:56:49pm

LOL

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 21, 2021 • 10:07:36pm

re: #95 jaunte

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Why haven’t any of these shysters—Mitchell, Ellis, Giuliani, Powell, Toensing, DiGenova had disbarment proceedings initiated against them?

And that goes double for Orly Taitz who resurfaced from the brain dead!!!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 10:12:19pm

re: #124 Hecuba’s daughter

I wonder about the accuracy of any information from Florida. DeSantis models his behavior after Trump and so suppressing statistics would certainly be in his repertoire of how to handle Covid-19.

He had his IT manager fired, then her home raided, for reporting real statistics. Florida claimed she hacked into the health department message system, but it turns out the system had a common login and password.

Then his freshly-appointed judge who issued the warrant to raid her home and seize her computer equipment jailed her.

No conservative believes in free speech or democracy.

The same sort of allegations about special treatment over vaccines are going around here, where districts which did not vote for Gov. Ricketts are not getting vaccines.

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Targetpractice  Feb 21, 2021 • 10:13:00pm

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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It became a “false flag/psyop” the very moment that Repubs went form “THIS IS AWESOME!” to “LOCK’EM UP!!!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 10:22:19pm

Well, I took off my makeshift bandage over my healing surgery incision from Wednesday (they didn’t give me anything to change the dressing with).

Ewww, my hand is still bleeding. Tomorrow when I go to Cheyenne for my vaccine I will go stand on the front desk in the Orthopaedic Department until I get someone to take a look.

I’m off to clean up for tomorrow.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 10:23:34pm

re: #128 Targetpractice

It became a “false flag/psyop” the very moment that Repubs went form “THIS IS AWESOME!” to “LOCK’EM UP!!!”

CONINCELPRO

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 21, 2021 • 10:44:49pm

re: #128 Targetpractice

It became a “false flag/psyop” the very moment that Repubs went form “THIS IS AWESOME!” to “LOCK’EM UP!!!”

When your relatives post the “false flag” ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream…and one of them is still in Uncle Sam’s B&B for being a naughty little scamp…

Every LGFer can game the situation out!

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 21, 2021 • 10:46:26pm

12 hours from now I will be on my way to Kaiser Hollywood for my first shot…and I will have to walk the gauntlet between $¢ientologi$t$ and Anti-Vaxxers…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 21, 2021 • 10:47:10pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2021 • 10:47:23pm

re: #132 🌹UOJB!

12 hours from now I will be on my way to Kaiser Hollywood for my first shot…and I will have to walk the gauntlet between $¢ientologi$t$ and Anti-Vaxxers…

Well you’ve got two middle fingers to get the job done.

/

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:02:10pm

re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg

Well you’ve got two middle fingers to get the job done.

/

Every time I was up in LA for any reason I had to drive by the $cientology palace I made sure I gave them a one finger salute out the car window.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:03:23pm
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PrairieQueen  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:03:34pm

re: #102 jaunte

JFC, the GOP never met a dirtbag they didn’t put on a pedestal and glorify. Four years in prison, and he’s a star guest. What the fucking fuck.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:05:39pm

This LGF page in Spy mode is causing my Mac/Chrome problems. Flashing screen, etc. I think it may have something to do with twitter embeds.

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ckkatz  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:07:10pm

Still feeling the Balkans thing…

Among the peoples of the Balkans are the Romani, colloquially called Gypsies under the false assumption that they are from Egypt rather than from the much more likely India.

As a foreign minority, Romani have rarely been able to settle and maintain their culture in the ethno-states in Europe and Middle East. Thus they tend to live on the edge of society and nomadically migrate from place to place. One of their sought after skills is their music making. Many Romani formed Tarafs. (Traditional Romani music groups)

One of the most well known Romani songs is called “Djelem Djelem” which translates English to “I travel”. It was written in the aftermath of World War 2 when the Romani were among the peoples targeted by the Nazis for genocide. There are a lot of different approaches and version of this song. This version is not as grim as the version in the wiki.

(Btw - Romani are a different peoples than the Romanians. Although there is a large community of Romani in Romania.)

Djelem Djelem musica Gitana

Djelem Djelem musica Gitana

en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org

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Targetpractice  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:08:00pm

re: #137 PrairieQueen

JFC, the GOP never met a dirtbag they didn’t put on a pedestal and glorify. Four years in prison, and he’s a star guest. What the fucking fuck.

These are people who idolize a war criminal who murdered an unarmed man in cold blood and think his own men who testified against him are the criminals for “betraying” him.

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PrairieQueen  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:09:06pm

re: #105 jaunte

I hope to hell Dominion has some flag-waving plants in the audience. When the GOP thinks they’re in good company, they’ll let the most damning shit come out of their mouths.

And they should suffer for it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:11:03pm

re: #136 Dread Pirate Ron

If Stone is involved, I am 100% confident that he engaged in illegal activity. He certainly knows that the current administration is not going to be issuing him any pardons and Trump’s pardon applies only to activities committed on or before the date of the pardon. But he’s been getting away with unlawful activity his entire life — yes he was ensnared during the Trump administration but that vanished with the pardon. Any activity after December 23 would not be covered.

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BigPapa  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:21:34pm

I’m hooked on Rhiannon Giddens now. This is a great read/listen:

Why These Four Banjo-Playing Women Resurrected the Songs of the Enslaved
The new Folkways album “Songs of Our Native Daughters” draws spiritually from slave narratives and other pre-19th-century sources

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:24:26pm

Greenwald busted? Still unverified.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:27:35pm

re: #144 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Greenwald busted? Still unverified.

[Embedded content]

If so…

Charles, Bob Cesca, Driftglass, and well…. all of us should be thinking:

Man I’m tired of being right.

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Targetpractice  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:29:55pm

re: #144 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Greenwald busted? Still unverified.

[Embedded content]

Based upon the dates from the earliest examples of that Forensic News tweet, the whole thing’s been resting in an “unverified” limbo since 2019.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:36:08pm

re: #132 🌹UOJB!

12 hours from now I will be on my way to Kaiser Hollywood for my first shot…and I will have to walk the gauntlet between $¢ientologi$t$ and Anti-Vaxxers…

My condolences (on the Scientologists and anti-vaxxers). I suggest bear spray or deer urine.

I really hate the idea my wife has to bathe and shave me right now. I suspect I am not going to enjoy being really old.

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ckkatz  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:38:25pm

Man…. I greatly appreciate all the postings here about the GOP’s continued refusal to accept the November election as well as the GOP’s continued refusal to accept the Constitution and their continued sedition.

I have been following with great interest, but have generally stayed quiet since about there is not much I feel I can contribute.

I am reminded about how my father, who lived through it, described the Great Depression and how close American Society was to collapse.

The folks who lived through the Great Depression and fought in World War 2 defined the United States (and to a great extent the world) for next 50 years. It seems that we are on the cusp of another such redefinition. Either the rebirth or end of the great experiment of the United States Democracy.

One of the things that I remember about the history of the Civil War was the timing of it’s start. The slavers could read the writing on the wall and could see that, as state after state ended slavery, they were demographically losing their battle for slavery. One of the arguments for starting the Civil War in 1860 was that their position was only going to continue to get worse.

I do wonder if the GOP’s allied racists, white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, and all the other loonytunes are starting to see the writing on the wall and are reacting the same way.

Thank you lizards for all your postings. I greatly appreciate them.

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ckkatz  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:44:45pm

Bad ‘Dad’ joke in honor of “tgim”:

A weasel walks into a bar.
The bartender says “Wow, I’ve never served a weasel before. What can I get you?”
“Pop,” goes the weasel.

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BigPapa  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:46:04pm
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ckkatz  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:49:36pm

One more for the road:

I thought my girlfriend was joking when she said that she wanted to attend a Monkees cover band concert in Switzerland.
Then I saw her face, now I’m in Geneva.

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PrairieQueen  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:50:37pm

re: #148 ckkatz

I am reminded about how my father, who lived through it, described the Great Depression and how close American Society was to collapse.

Oddly enough, many of the Olds that lived through the pro-American propaganda during the war, or grew up during the Depression, that should fucking know better, are the ones watching Fox News and believe every goddamned word of their bullshit.

They voted for Trump. They believe the election was stolen. They thought Limbaugh spoke the truth, was speaking for them. They think that the Left pushing against this assault on democracy are the Nazis. Their minds have turned to mush thanks to Fox News and people like Alex Jones.

So, they survived that trying time in US history and learning nothing. Not a goddamned thing.

Thankfully, it sounds like your dad wasn’t one of them.

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PrairieQueen  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:55:12pm

Well, at least the person that posted the video has discovered fire. That’s progress.

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ckkatz  Feb 21, 2021 • 11:56:03pm

re: #150 BigPapa

Yup, What was old is new again… Dredged up rotting from the depths of the past.

Thanks for posting that article!

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:10:18am

re: #152 PrairieQueen

The points that you so successfully make, remind me of this Letterman quote:

“America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.”

― David Letterman

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ckkatz  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:13:25am

This is where I am at these days:

We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.
- John Foster Hall

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:26:25am

re: #146 Targetpractice

Based upon the dates from the earliest examples of that Forensic News tweet, the whole thing’s been resting in an “unverified” limbo since 2019.

According to an op-ed from January 15, 2021 in Folha de São Paulo by Greenwald’s husband and federal deputy from Rio de Janeiro David Miranda, Jair Bolsonaro and Sergio Moro (Bolsonaro ally who was the Minister of Justice and Public Securty), are using the judiciary to try to punish Greenwald for “the crime of journalism.”

Sr. Miranda also says they have come to the realisation that Bolsonaro is a fascist (duh), using Donald Trump’s methods of violence and claims of election fraud to push his narrative to try to win the Brazilian 2022 election.

Não é fácil apoiar Baleia Rossi, mas é o correto (goes to Folha de São Paulo, in Portuguese)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:27:26am

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Corrected: The op-ed is from 2021, not 2020. I fat-fingered the keys.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:44:28am

re: #153 PrairieQueen

Well, at least the person that posted the video has discovered fire. That’s progress.

A tiny-ass tealight isn’t going to melt a hard-packed snowball.

Goofs want to make a conspiracy out of anything: Reading up on this, a lot of people are claiming Texas had “synthetic snow” (without explaining how or why someone would do that).

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:46:04am

re: #150 BigPapa

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One of the ways that wingnuts kept telling themselves that Obama hadn’t won ‘09 “fairly” and couldn’t possibly win ‘12 was because of “white guilt.” That whites had voted for him rather than Clinton or McCain in ‘09 because they were afraid of being seen as “racist,” but now that a black man had won the presidency those white voters would feel free to vote for a white candidate in ‘12.

That was what led to them not only endorsing the “unskewing” nonsense, but even believing those polls were pessimistic, convinced that white voters were either avoiding being polled for fear of admitting they were voting for the white guy or that the ones who did get polled gave the answer the pollsters wanted to hear.

So when he not only beat those polls to win, but became the first president since Reagan to win 51%+ of the popular vote in both elections, the only explanation that wingnuts would accept was “voter fraud.” And just like now, they went wild with all sorts of conspiracy theories: hacked machines, boxes of fake ballots, dead voters, illegal voters, and so forth. And just like now, back then they used all these examples of “fraud” to excuse the very voter suppression efforts that helped them steal the election four years later.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:46:13am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:46:42am

re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I remember seeing this CT pop up before. I forget where and when but it has happened before.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:51:14am

re: #4 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

From downstairs.

They were being used. The demand for gas was far higher than the available supply, so those few people who had electric power - and were drawing from a grid that included natural gas - were getting their costs from the price of the backing store, the natural gas, which was greatly overpriced due to the temporary and extreme lopsidedness of the market in favor of demand.

Which again shows us that the Free Market is not the best tool for managing resources and utilities.

(Forgive my heinous blasphemies against the Prosperity Gospel Jesus)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:55:08am

re: #162 Dread Pirate Ron

I remember seeing this CT pop up before. I forget where and when but it has happened before.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — We are entering snow season, and almost every year on social media, someone posts a video of snow that doesn’t turn to water when it melts after being put up to a flame.

This gets followed up, often times, by conspiracy theories that the snow is fake or “modified”.

The video can be compelling, if you stop there.

(more)

Hey Ray! Debunking Conspiracy Theories About Fake Snow (KDKA-TV, with video, 2:19, November 7, 2020)

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:55:44am

Called it!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 22, 2021 • 12:59:31am

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(more)

Hey Ray! Debunking Conspiracy Theories About Fake Snow (KDKA-TV, with video, 2:19, November 7, 2020)

I remember it from like 2010 or earlier.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:00:11am

re: #160 Targetpractice

They did the same when John F. Kennedy narrowly won in Cook County, Illinois, pulling out “dead voters” or fraudulent elections.

Conservatives cannot conceive of losing elections, so there must be some other explanation (fraud) why they lost. Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed is the first tenet of their religious faith.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:01:25am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trump carefully planted the seeds of this myth when he claimed he won the popular vote in 2016…there is no convincing True Believers that the election was not stolen.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:02:00am

Snopes:Has Fake Snow Been Falling on the U.S.?Link

Origin

January 2014 saw the posting of many different videos to sites such as YouTube showing people around the U.S. holding butane lighters to patches or packed balls of recently-fallen snow and finding that the snow did not readily melt and seemingly turned into soot rather than water when exposed to flame.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:07:42am

re: #166 Dread Pirate Ron

I remember it from like 2010 or earlier.

France 24 notes that the conspiracy theory has been around a long time, but they don’t say how long. They say it is often linked to so-called chemtrails. The other side of the conspiracy theory that “snow doesn’t melt” is “snow burns.”

Snow of course doesn’t burn, because it is water. Synthetic snow does exist (decorations and such) but not in such quantity you could cover all of Texas or France (or why you’d want to do that or how you would pay for it, &c).

Burning snow? A conspiracy theory resurfaces (with video, 2:03)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:10:30am

re: #169 Dread Pirate Ron

I tried to find something at Snopes but my search-fu sux. Thanks.

The Internet will kill us all.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:10:57am

“Synthetic snow”? Oh, now I’m interested to hear their explanation for man-made subzero temps that brought the state to a halt.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:11:57am

re: #172 Targetpractice

“Synthetic snow”? Oh, now I’m interested to hear their explanation for man-made subzero temps that brought the state to a halt.

HAARP, or maybe Antifa super-freezers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:13:24am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

HAARP, or maybe Antifa super-freezers.

All part and parcel of the Great Climate Change Hoax

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:14:53am

The snow is government-generated or fake. (Politifact, rated “pants on fire”)

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ericblair  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:20:33am

re: #155 ckkatz

The points that you so successfully make, remind me of this Letterman quote:

“America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.”

― David Letterman

It’s a good joke, but it’s not remotely true, and just means that a lot of Americans aren’t familiar with the sort of widespread conspiracy-mongering that exists in a lot of other countries. Until recently, the US wasn’t actually too bad for this sort of bullshit, although the shitgibbon and his enablers have really done their best to make things worse and succeeded.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:23:53am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:30:43am

re: #177 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

No Democrat would propose repealing the II Amendment. Although it’s abused a lot by wingnuts, without it there would be fifty different states writing laws from “you can’t own anything” to “homemade nukes are fine.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:32:38am

LOL

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:34:02am

re: #177 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

BREAKING: I’m proposing a new Constitutional Amendment! “The 2nd Amendment must be underlined and bolded.” I suspect that this will help Democrats who, bless their hearts, seem to skip over it currently.

How about The First Clause of the 2nd Amendment must be underlined, bolded, AND IN ALL CAPS?

This will help Republicans, who, bless their pointed little heads, seem to blithely ignore the “well-regulated militia” part of it

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:36:41am

re: #177 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Madison Cawthorn is a Republican creation and North Carolina embarrassment (Charlotte Observer Editorial Board, January 28, 2021, with audio reading of the article, 3:22)

We’re all for public officials being attentive to the “public” part of their title. It’s good for everyone when elected representatives explain what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. But on behalf of a whole lot of North Carolinians, we have a request regarding one of those officials:

Can someone please keep Madison Cawthorn away from the cameras? And the microphones? And really, most situations in which he publicly tries to turn words into meaningful thoughts?

(more at the link)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:47:48am

Today’s random recognition of LGF karma points goes to Philly Pretzel, who as of this posting a couple hours after his birthday has 51,965 since 2007.

These points cannot be used to pay electric bills in Texas.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:50:53am

re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The snow is government-generated or fake. (Politifact, rated “pants on fire”)

Politifact needs an additional category: “underpants on head”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 1:52:22am

re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Today’s random recognition of LGF karma points goes to Philly Pretzel, who as of this posting a couple hours after his birthday has 51,965 since 2007.

These points cannot be used to pay electric bills in Texas.

but they can be used to upgrade seats on flights to Cancun…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:03:30am

Federalist Paper #29 explains the phrase “well-regulated militia.”

You would be unsurprised to learn wingnuts lie when they claim that phrase means to keep a firearm in working order.

From Wikipedia, that font of all human ken (citation needed):

Hamilton states that a well-regulated militia composed of the people will be more uniform and beneficial to the “public defense” of Americans. He argues that an excessively large militia can harm a nation’s work force, as not everyone can leave their profession to go through military exercises. Thus, a smaller, but still well-regulated militia, is the answer. In the end, Hamilton concludes that the militia, as it is constituted directly of the people and managed by the states, is not a danger to liberty when called into use by other states to do things such as quell insurrections.

en.wikipedia.org

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:09:42am

re: #151 ckkatz

One more for the road:

I thought my girlfriend was joking when she said that she wanted to attend a Monkees cover band concert in Switzerland.
Then I saw her face, now I’m in Geneva.

I met a beautiful woman on a dating app who was into exercise. We agreed to meet at a gym for our first date, but when she didn’t show up I knew we weren’t going to work out.

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Alephnaught  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:10:39am

re: #17 Dave In Austin

[Tweet]If you could bring back any musician from the grave, who would it be?[/Tweet]

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ericblair  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:10:45am

re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

BREAKING: I’m proposing a new Constitutional Amendment! “The 2nd Amendment must be underlined and bolded.” I suspect that this will help Democrats who, bless their hearts, seem to skip over it currently.

How about The First Clause of the 2nd Amendment must be underlined, bolded, AND IN ALL CAPS?

This will help Republicans, who, bless their pointed little heads, seem to blithely ignore the “well-regulated militia” part of it

Well, there’s stupid shit in there already. Article V says that amendments can’t change the equal number of Senators per state, but nothing there prevents an amendment removing that from Article V, then changing the distribution anyway. Passing laws to prevent repealing laws doesn’t work.

I don’t know what the history of this clause is, but it sounds like the drafters had to convince some holdouts that they were Really Serious about the equal state suffrage business.

Not that I see this being amended except by some unexpected overwhelming political pressure, because handing this sort of power to unrepresentative institutions is a legislative hole that is very difficult to get out of.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:21:58am

The GOP in this state is still trying to enforce political correctness.

Nebraska’s U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, with his vote to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, may have crossed a line with some Omaha-area Republicans.

The Douglas County Republican Party will take up a resolution on Tuesday to censure and rebuke the Fremont senator.

Earlier this month, several county parties passed censure resolutions to express their anger at Sasse for his repeated criticisms of Trump. But Republicans in the state’s most populous county have not weighed in, in part to preserve the perception of GOP unity.

(more)

Douglas County GOP to take up Sasse censure after Trump impeachment vote (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Scott’s Bluff County’s GOP was the first to censure Sen. Sasse. Since then a number of county parties have jumped on-board. Douglas County is the largest by population, seat Omaha.

The state GOP is considering censure. The Nebraska Democratic Party upheld his vote as supporting the rule of law, so he’s doomed as a RINO now.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:22:56am

re: #177 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Maddie might want to be reminded that the amendment is more than just the “shall not be infringed” bit, as much as he and every other ammosexual would like to white-out the “well-regulated militia” portion.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:24:03am

re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The GOP in this state is still trying to enforce political correctness.

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Douglas County GOP to take up Sasse censure after Trump impeachment vote (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Scott’s Bluff County’s GOP was the first to censure Sen. Sasse. Since then a number of county parties have jumped on-board. Douglas County is the largest by population, seat Omaha.

The state GOP is considering censure. The Nebraska Democratic Party upheld his vote as supporting the rule of law, so he’s doomed as a RINO now.

Repubs: “DOWN WITH CANCEL CULTURE!!!”

Also Repubs: “ANY REPUBLICAN WHO VOTED FOR IMPEACHMENT SHOULD BE MADE TO RESIGN!!!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:29:11am

re: #190 Targetpractice

Maddie might want to be reminded that the amendment is more than just the “shall not be infringed” bit, as much as he and every other ammosexual would like to white-out the “well-regulated militia” portion.

how they get from a “well regulated militia” to “it should be illegal to prevent someone from bringing an assault rifle into a Starbucks” is beyond any normal person’s interpretation of the Constitution

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:32:13am

re: #191 Targetpractice

Repubs: “DOWN WITH CANCEL CULTURE!!!”

Also Repubs: “ANY REPUBLICAN WHO VOTED FOR IMPEACHMENT SHOULD BE MADE TO RESIGN!!!”

The Wyoming GOP is after Rep. Liz Cheney as well. They are seeking someone to primary her.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:32:30am

re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

how they get from a “well regulated militia” to “it should be illegal to prevent someone from bringing an assault rifle into a Starbucks” is beyond any normal person’s interpretation of the Constitution

Their mind twists it into “well-regulated militia means I got a right to military-grade weapons because I might get called up to fight for my country!,” despite the reality that if America ever gets to the point where Meal Team 6 is needed to defend itself, terms of surrender are already being transmitted to whoever is still in charge after D.C. was wiped off the map.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:33:31am

re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

how they get from a “well regulated militia” to “it should be illegal to prevent someone from bringing an assault rifle into a Starbucks” is beyond any normal person’s interpretation of the Constitution

Essentially the same argument is used for anti-maskers: This private business can’t tell me what to do.

They’re all for private property rights, until they are not.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:35:55am

re: #195 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Essentially the same argument is used for anti-maskers: This private business can’t tell me what to do.

They’re all for private property rights, until they are not.

Most of them would probably have no problem with private businesses refusing service to blacks or gays…

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ericblair  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:37:08am

And more people learn the meaning of the words “superseding indictment”. Who knew that invading the Capitol with a weapon intending to overthrow the government and beating the shit out of a cop could get you a nice long stretch in the Federal can?

Might remind people that this was the stuff that countries used to and still summarily execute people for, if they were nice enough not to torture the hell out of the insurrectionists first, pour encourager les autres.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 2:40:39am

I’m checking out for the night, as I have a long ride in the car in the morning. Catch y’all later.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2021 • 4:00:47am

In some breaking news out of Czech Republic, the Czech Constitutional Court has overturned restrictions on the operation of retail establishments; as per the ruling, the government failed to prove its case and created a veritable telephone book of exceptions and exemptions. The court also ruled that since the closure of retail establishments was, in fact, unconstitutional, owners of retail establishments are fully entitled to compensation from this point forward, though not retroactively.

The Czech government is currently meeting to decide what to do next. The ruling only concerns retail shops, not services, as that was not part of the original lawsuit against the government.

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2021 • 4:11:11am

re: #83 plansbandc

I would probably go with Hendrix just because it would be interesting to see what he would have come up with with many more years.

that’s why I picked duane

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 4:54:37am

re: #199 Dr Lizardo

Germany is worried because cases are increasing again…warm weather brought people out in droves in all the major cities.

I only go out once a week for shopping and do my walking and hiking in the nearby vineyards and forests where I do not have to come within 10 feet of anybody.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:00:20am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Germany is worried because cases are increasing again…warm weather brought people out in droves in all the major cities.

I only go out once a week for shopping and do my walking in hiking in the nearby vineyards and forests where I do not have to come within 10 feet of anybody.

Things here are reaching a boiling point. An inept and incompetent government has led to a collapse in trust among the population - and all at the worst possible moment.

The collapse of the moral authority of the state is quite a sight to behold.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:02:46am

re: #202 Dr Lizardo

Things here are reaching a boiling point. An inept and incompetent government has led to a collapse in trust among the population - and all at the worst possible moment.

The collapse of the moral authority of the state is quite a sight to behold.

and the Astra-Zeneca vaccine is not being well received because it was insufficiently tested for people over 65.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:05:15am

re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and the Astra-Zeneca vaccine is not being well received because it was insufficiently tested for people over 65.

Same situation here. Add to that the government is sitting on two warehouses full of vaccines, but has no plan whatsoever how to distribute them. Seriously, the Three Stooges could run things better.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:20:50am

re: #177 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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No, Dems don’t skip over the 2nd. They just DON”T skip over the first words in the 2nd as gun humping repubs do.

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lawhawk  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:26:40am

re: #98 Targetpractice

Keith Emerson and Greg Lake.

But given their respective needs, it might be healing for Rush (the band) and Palmer to form a new supergroup: Rush Palmer.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:41:55am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:43:24am

re: #207 darthstar

Criminal charges will make her a favorite in the primary.

political equivalent of a rapper with a drug arrest record…

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:44:13am
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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:45:26am

re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Criminal charges will make her a favorite in the primary.

political equivalent of a rapper with a drug arrest record…

She’s on tape. God I hope others like Boebert and MTG and Gaetz are on tape. Slam dunk expulsion.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:48:11am
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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 5:59:45am

DeSantis screwed the pooch.

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:02:02am
In explaining his disastrous Cancún trip, Sen. Ted Cruz failed to mention his college roommate also was along for the visit,” Axios reports.

“Cruz invited David Panton, his longtime friend and former roommate at Princeton and Harvard Law, to join the family getaway.”

HuffPost notes Cruz’s already-flimsy excuse for jetting off to Cancun while his state suffered from one of its worst disasters continues to fall apart.

we’re to believe Ted Cruz has a friend?

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:02:32am

and

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:04:10am

re: #213 Dangerman

In explaining his disastrous Cancún trip, Sen. Ted Cruz failed to mention his college roommate also was along for the visit,” Axios reports.
“Cruz invited David Panton, his longtime friend and former roommate at Princeton and Harvard Law, to join the family getaway.”

escorting his daughters, right…

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:05:50am

why didn’t Ted just go to say Miami?
becasue he knew he’d be pilloried.

plus who takes a “friend” just to drop your kid off?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:06:03am

try again below

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:08:02am

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:09:16am

re: #213 Dangerman

we’re to believe Ted Cruz has a friend?

Why did Ted’s daughters invite his college roommate?

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Decatur Deb  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:09:25am

re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

try again below

Something broke the Intertubes.

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(((Archangel1)))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:13:09am

CNBC: Dominion sues MyPillow, Mike Lindell Over Pro-Trump Election Conspiracies

Dominion Voting Systems sued MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Monday, accusing the staunch ally of former President Donald Trump of pushing false conspiracies about the 2020 election “because the lie sells pillows.”

The $1.3 billion defamation suit says Lindell knew his repeated claims about the election being “stolen” were not backed by evidence, but kept at it anyway to spur Trump’s supporters to buy MyPillow products.

The 115-page complaint filed in Washington, D.C., federal court cites numerous statements Lindell made in television interviews and social media posts, as well as in a two-hour documentary-style film that aired on conservative media in February.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:15:29am

re: #220 Decatur Deb

Something broke the Intertubes.

image will not upload correctly

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:16:14am
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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:16:15am

re: #221 (((Archangel1)))

CNBC: Dominion sues MyPillow, Mike Lindell Over Pro-Trump Election Conspiracies

they had this written weeks ago

they just sat and sat and waited till he aired that 2 hrs of nonsense

then they filled in a paragraph or two, signed and filed it

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:16:48am

re: #221 (((Archangel1)))

CNBC: Dominion sues MyPillow, Mike Lindell Over Pro-Trump Election Conspiracies

Dominion Voting Systems sued MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Monday, accusing the staunch ally of former President Donald Trump of pushing false conspiracies about the 2020 election “because the lie sells pillows.”

Try explaining that to any sane person or one who has not been exposed to US politics & society for the past decades…

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:16:52am

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

image will not upload correctly

So it’s the image’s fault. //

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:17:55am

re: #226 darthstar

So it’s the image’s fault. //

no idea, standard .jpg and never had issues before

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Decatur Deb  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:18:46am

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

image will not upload correctly

It was a 2020 voting chart, not a jpeg. I’ll work up a comment later. It’s almost time to start reconstruction of who voted for who in November. (The common wisdom seems to be wrong again.)

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:19:20am

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

no idea, standard .jpg and never had issues before

Have you tried reasoning with it?

In other news, CPAC is looking like a freakin’ perp walk.

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Dangerman  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:28:03am

re: #229 darthstar

Have you tried reasoning with it?

In other news, CPAC is looking like a freakin’ perp walk.

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remember a pardon means you did it

(yes i know but in this case, yup)

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Decatur Deb  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:29:26am

re: #229 darthstar

Have you tried reasoning with it?

In other news, CPAC is looking like a freakin’ perp walk.

Are all these felons allowed to associate with each other? Any still on parole?

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:29:58am
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Eventual Carrion  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:33:20am

re: #219 darthstar

Why did Ted’s daughters invite his college roommate?

Maybe his wife did? Rafael was just there to watch?

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(((Archangel1)))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:37:32am
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HRH Stanley Sea  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:39:46am
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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:42:41am

Boom.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:43:15am

re: #233 Eventual Carrion

Maybe his wife did? Rafael was just there to watch?

She probably had a great time after he flew home.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:45:41am

re: #237 darthstar

She probably had a great time after he flew home.

so did the pool boys

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:45:59am

Court TV should be good this season.

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(((Archangel1)))  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:50:56am
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Belafon  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:51:02am

re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Criminal charges will make her a favorite in the primary.

political equivalent of a rapper with a drug arrest record…

Not quite. Blacks know that charge was pretty much for being black.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:52:18am
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Belafon  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:54:22am

re: #234 (((Archangel1)))

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“Your mama wears combat boots.”

At least that used to be a slur.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:55:21am
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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:56:49am

Inserted the parent tweet upthread once I realized it was threaded/

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Decatur Deb  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:56:49am

re: #243 Belafon

“Your mama wears combat boots.”

At least that used to be a slur.

DIL2 wore combat boots in Kuwait. Her mother was a career soldier. Her mother was a WAC in WWII.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 22, 2021 • 6:58:14am

re: #244 darthstar

Thomas is a fucking idiot. I don’t believe this.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:02:45am

I’m guessing CPAC will be a superspreader this year.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:04:06am

re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m guessing CPAC will be a superspreader this year.

Might be their last chance to off Gran’ma.

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lawhawk  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:09:11am

Boom goes the weasel.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:10:39am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:12:03am

re: #251 darthstar

Here’s a thought…do you think there would have been more votes for impeachment if SCOTUS had released Trump’s taxes to NY a month ago?

more votes but likely not enough to convict…

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lawhawk  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:12:28am

re: #229 darthstar

CPAC is a hive of scum and villainy.

It’s as if they’re they’ve gone full Dr. Evil.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:14:16am

re: #253 lawhawk

CPAC is a hive of scum and villainy.

It’s as if they’re they’ve gone full Dr. Evil.

The same people who aided, abetted or at least cheered on the mob storming the Capitol

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lawhawk  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:14:57am

re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not likely. The GOP doesn’t give a shit about the rule of law or the Constitution.

Heck, they and VP Pence were purposefully targeted by the insurrectionists and even then they voted to acquit Trump.

Why did they acquit? Because McConnell created the excuse for them by delaying the trial until after 1/20. They made up this bulkshit excuse and claimed it wasn’t constitutional to act even though they all knew he was guilty as fuck.

But if they were forced to act and vote before 1/20, they’d claim that they couldn’t act quickly with enough time to hear the case.

They’re fucking fascists who put party over nation and are afraid of their base that they’ve incited to violence time and again and have radicalized over the past 40+ years with nonstop misinformation.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:15:23am

Poor Donald. Probably thought ACB would help shield his tax returns.

Womp womp, bitch.

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lawhawk  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:18:36am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:22:40am
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steve_davis  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:35:19am

re: #32 Dave In Austin

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Video

LOL!! “Do you want to go for a walk?” “Oh agony! Oh woe is me! I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed!”

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:36:34am

Magic 8-ball says GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:39:45am

re: #260 jaunte

Magic 8-ball says GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY

It will finally show the extent to which he was and is in the pockets of interests in Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, etc…

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nines09  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:41:25am

Well, Cooper was going to be groomed this morning, and squalls are moving through the area. But hey, no big whoop. So me and Coop get in the car, and the first small hill in my neighborhood there is a Honda late model SUV type stuck trying to get up the hill.
Nope. Not going another 1000 feet in elevation.
nope nope nope.
Tomorrow.

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lawhawk  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:41:32am

re: #260 jaunte

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Magic 8-ball says GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY

Legal Magic 8-ball says multiple charges likely, plea deal suggested.

Trump’s tax filings are going to show serious discrepancies from what he was telling creditors and investors, which goes to wire/mail fraud (lying to creditors/investors about the valuations), and then tax fraud by shielding accurate valuations from the IRS.

Either/both could be true as it goes to lies for one or the other. Trump was maintaining multiple sets of books all to pull one over on everyone.

We saw how this worked with his property tax shenanigans with his Westchester golf club. He lied to tax authority about valuation, while puffing up the valuations to boost membership.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:44:25am

re: #260 jaunte

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Magic 8-ball says GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY

It just goes to the fact that he has fought so hard to hide them. Why do that if there is nothing incriminating in them? If they were so great they would prove that he is the “Ultimate business man” that he likes to claim to be, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

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steve_davis  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:45:44am

re: #63 GlutenFreeJesus

Now I’m thinking of the Beethoven mall scene in Bill And Ted’s.

i was about to post to that!

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lawhawk  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:46:55am

Graham is a POS who thinks he can get Garland with gotchas about Comey, the wall, and other right wing talking points.

He’s getting nowhere with any of them, except that Fox will run Graham on loop.

That’s the point. Graham doesn’t care about the answers, only hearing his own voice.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:48:19am

The Trump Organization’s tax returns are infamously complex, so Vance’s team will likely be scouring them for months before indictments follow, is my guess. The Fulton County DA may get first crack at Trump for election fraud, since his recorded call with Raffensperger presents a pretty clear cut case.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:49:48am

re: #267 No Malarkey!

Talk about timing…the political fallout will be immense but will have subsided to background noise by the next elections…

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No Malarkey!  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:51:37am

Seems like it’s dunk on Trump day at SCOTUS.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:53:58am

re: #269 No Malarkey!

Seems like it’s dunk on Trump day at SCOTUS.

all that packing and no pudding

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 22, 2021 • 7:57:40am

I’m not getting overly excited. I’m sure once SCOTUS starts dropping decisions on religious cases we won’t be too happy.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:12:31am

re: #247 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Thomas is a fucking idiot. I don’t believe this.

Why not? If seems on brand for him, he’s demonstrated many times that his powers of logic are lacking. And by lacking, I mean don’t seem to exist.

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:18:56am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:23:16am

Shit, I started wearing a mask just before the first wave of lockdowns hit (3/12/20).

In fact, if memory serves the Great Toilet Paper Wars were in full swing this time last year.

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lawhawk  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:24:43am

re: #273 Belafon

There’s a reason that the health experts say that Trump’s disastrous handling of the pandemic increased the death toll by 40%. It would be nearly half of the 500,000+ we see today had he followed the health experts instead of the junk science know nothings who were telling him what he wanted to hear.

Everyone around Trump were cowards who caved to Trump or sucked up to him by telling him what he wanted to hear. Even Fauci skirted this issue on occasion to avoid getting fired.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:25:05am

Governor Tony Evers
15h *
The majority of Wisconsinites agree: it’s time our state legalized marijuana. In my #BadgerBounceback agenda, I’m calling for our state to join states across the nation in legalizing marijuana—a step that would generate more than $165M annually starting in 2023.

facebook.com

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:25:54am

re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg

Shit, I started wearing a mask just before the first wave of lockdowns hit (3/12/20).

In fact, if memory serves the Great Toilet Paper Wars were in full swing this time last year.

I admit, I was pretty tardy in the wearing of the mask. Part of that was due to the fact that I literally didn’t go anywhere for pretty much the first month of lockdowns. I volunteered at church still, but it was entirely online so it was just myself and the other volunteers and the pastors, which was a small enough bubble to get away with the risk until the mask mandates started coming through.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:28:24am

Western good morning!

Squirrel porn
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Belafon  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:28:53am

re: #271 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m not getting overly excited. I’m sure once SCOTUS starts dropping decisions on religious cases we won’t be too happy.

Definitely not going to get excited about SCOTUS making the right decisions. But NY keeping Trump busy means one part of our fascism gets hobbled.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:30:18am

re: #219 darthstar

Why did Ted’s daughters invite his college roommate?

Snowflake did it. 😏

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:30:20am

re: #276 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Governor Tony Evers
15h *
The majority of Wisconsinites agree: it’s time our state legalized marijuana. In my #BadgerBounceback agenda, I’m calling for our state to join states across the nation in legalizing marijuana—a step that would generate more than $165M annually starting in 2023.

facebook.com

“But blacks. What are we supposed to do about the Blacks?!!”

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No Malarkey!  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:34:02am

And SCOTUS dismisses another election case today.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:37:56am

re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m guessing CPAC will be a superspreader this year.

Oh ye of little faith! Franky Graham Cracker and the rest of the Trump Pulpit Pimping Posse will be there to pray the virus away. And Kenny Copeland will be blowing it away to hell just like he did before!

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No Malarkey!  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:38:55am

re: #271 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m not getting overly excited. I’m sure once SCOTUS starts dropping decisions on religious cases we won’t be too happy.

Of course, this is a very conservative court that is going to make a lot of bad decisions. I’m just dancing on Trump’s grave. He is probably fuming today over “his” judges betraying him, and he can’t even tweet about it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:40:19am

Work related gripe.

My boss: We have an important meeting this morning but it will only take 15 minutes.

The actual meeting: 47 minutes.

Because who cares about sticking to a schedule? Not like that’s important or anything.

/

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:40:24am

re: #277 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I admit, I was pretty tardy in the wearing of the mask. Part of that was due to the fact that I literally didn’t go anywhere for pretty much the first month of lockdowns. I volunteered at church still, but it was entirely online so it was just myself and the other volunteers and the pastors, which was a small enough bubble to get away with the risk until the mask mandates started coming through.

We simply didn’t go anywhere we didn’t have to outside of town.

The disease only reached us last month, so now we wear masks going out in the village.

I’m out for Cheyenne now. The nurse just called and explained why the balloon thingies injured my legs. She says that the VA adopted the ring balloons for surgery over the older ones because they have many obese patients, and the ring balloons squeeze much harder, helping prevent blood clots in obese patients in surgery.

She noted I am by far the thinnest patient they have, and those things really aren’t designed for someone like me, though she never heard of someone being injured by them before.

They have updated my chart to reflect those should not be used on me in the future unless I gain a lot of weight.

Off for my shot and inspection of my surgical wound. Back tonight sometime.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:44:36am

re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg

Work related gripe.

My boss: We have an important meeting this morning but it will only take 15 minutes.

The actual meeting: 47 minutes.

Because who cares about sticking to a schedule? Not like that’s important or anything.

/

I’ve noted an uptick of this since going remote. People are like, “Well, everyone’s on the call, and your calendars are all free, so…” No. Miss me with that shit. I have other things to do with my day, such as the actual job you’re paying me an obscene amount of money to do, so get me off the damn phone. If you want to bring up a new topic, schedule a new meeting.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:47:10am

re: #287 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I’ve noted an uptick of this since going remote. People are like, “Well, everyone’s on the call, and your calendars are all free, so…” No. Miss me with that shit. I have other things to do with my day, such as the actual job you’re paying me an obscene amount of money to do, so get me off the damn phone. If you want to bring up a new topic, schedule a new meeting.

A variant of E-mails to workers who are off-shift and not being paid.

France made that illegal.

Scientists at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory are using a new machine that can sequence the virus’s entire genome to help track the movement of the virus in Nebraska and watch for mutations.

omaha.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:53:27am

re: #287 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I’ve noted an uptick of this since going remote. People are like, “Well, everyone’s on the call, and your calendars are all free, so…” No. Miss me with that shit. I have other things to do with my day, such as the actual job you’re paying me an obscene amount of money to do, so get me off the damn phone. If you want to bring up a new topic, schedule a new meeting.

Yep. I prefer email. I can take a quick look at the message, learn what I need to, then get right back to what I was doing. But on the calls, it never fails that half the meeting is spent on actual content and the other half is spent on people asking questions (many of which were already answered by the preceding content). I could easily drop off halfway through and resume my work but then I get the earful from my boss about “why weren’t you on that call?”.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:54:27am
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Eventual Carrion  Feb 22, 2021 • 8:56:09am

re: #287 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I’ve noted an uptick of this since going remote. People are like, “Well, everyone’s on the call, and your calendars are all free, so…” No. Miss me with that shit. I have other things to do with my day, such as the actual job you’re paying me an obscene amount of money to do, so get me off the damn phone. If you want to bring up a new topic, schedule a new meeting.

My immediate management does a pretty good job of keeping the meetings within the time block allocated, which I am very grateful. If things start going off track the meeting moderator is usually very good about stating that we are off track and can discuss that at another meeting. Especially if not everyone in the current meeting gives a damn about what is being discussed.

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calochortus  Feb 22, 2021 • 9:01:43am

re: #279 Belafon

Definitely not going to get excited about SCOTUS making the right decisions. But NY keeping Trump busy means one part of our fascism gets hobbled.

Freepers are lamenting the end (again) of our Great Republic as the SCOTUS fails them. Someone suggested a few AGs should go after Biden’s, Harris’, et. al’s. taxes to own the libs. Someone had to point out they’ve all released them already and Biden’s are on his web site. That ended that line of discussion.

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lawhawk  Feb 22, 2021 • 9:03:51am

Ted Cruz is being an ass complaining that Obama politicized the DOJ.

Cruz knows Obama did no such thing, but Trump did.

That’s the whole fucking point. Trump’s the one who treated the DOJ and AG as Trump’s personal lawyer, interfering in multiple criminal cases on Trump’s behalf. Barr was more than happy to do so.

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2021 • 9:06:14am

re: #292 calochortus

Freepers are lamenting the end (again) of our Great Republic as the SCOTUS fails them. Someone suggested a few AGs should go after Biden’s, Harris’, et. al’s. taxes to own the libs. Someone had to point out they’ve all released them already and Biden’s are on his web site. That ended that line of discussion.

“Why would they release their taxes if they have nothing to hide?”

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calochortus  Feb 22, 2021 • 9:08:33am

re: #294 Belafon

“Why would they release their taxes if they have nothing to hide?”

Probably all fake anyway.
/

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steve_davis  Feb 22, 2021 • 9:12:11am

re: #200 Dangerman

that’s why I picked duane

King Jimi. Mozart.

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darthstar  Feb 22, 2021 • 9:15:56am

re: #260 jaunte

Magic 8-ball says GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY

First words on Andrea Mitchell - “His goose is cooked.”

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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2021 • 10:13:50am

re: #165 Targetpractice

Called it!

Modern Capitalism in America:

Privatize the profit,
Socialize the cost.


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