A Timely Short Horror Film: “Snake Dick”

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Jill’s got the snake. Julia’s got the flute. Alone, they have nothing. But together, they have a secret weapon to fight the darkness.

“Snake Dick” by David Mahmoudieh

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More About “Snake Dick”:
Two women, on an undisclosed journey across the Californian wilderness, make an unplanned pit-stop at a gas station when their car breaks down.

Two men, tipsy and looking for trouble, cat-call their way into a confrontation resulting in their own humiliation.

But just when things are about to turn ugly, the women reveal they are not traveling alone; for they are in possession of a deadly and mysterious weapon unlike any other…

“Snake Dick ” Credits:
Writer/Director/Editor:
David Mahmoudieh

Cinematographer:
Chris Saul

Producers:
Annalea Fiachi
George Lako
David Mahmoudieh

Executive Producers:
Fiona Campbell-Westgate
Joshua Bachove
Steve Fusci

VFX Artist: Stephen Cunnane
Digital Compositor: Ryan Wieber
Art Director:Graham Denman
Costume Designer: Susanna Song
Make-Up: Sameerah Hoddison
Sound Mixer: James DeVore
Sound Designer: Shachar Boussani
1st AC: Kyle Wright
Steadicam: Erdem Ertal
Gaffer: Chad McClellan
Best Boy: Brandon Ruiz
PA: Mario Bosanac
Colorist: Loren White
Composer: Pilotpriest

CAST:
Jill: Poppy Drayton (The Shannara Chronicles, The Little Mermaid, Charmed)
Julia: Sierra Pond (Mommy Be Mine, The Wrong Daughter, Throw Like A Girl)
Hillbilly Joe: Micah Fitzgerald (Swamp Thing, Lost Angeles, Westworld)
Hillbilly Earl: Ross Francis (Into The Wilderness, Mr. Brooks, Skateland)

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:34:15pm
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Belafon  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:35:20pm

Was that the shortest thread ever?

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Charles Johnson  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:38:06pm

re: #2 Belafon

Was that the shortest thread ever?

I like to keep things fresh up in this muh.

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ipsos  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:38:25pm

re: #2 Belafon

Was that the shortest thread ever?

Not if Charles ends this one righ

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:39:22pm

Aw. Seems like Major Biden had a scuffle with security and both the first dogs are going back to Delaware. :(

cnn.com

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:39:36pm

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

Forgive me for saying this, but the U.S. Capitol should have a full-time military guard, rotated at regular shifts. Not a significant presence, but a bona fide military one. Any call for assistance should be answered immediately by military command.

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Dangerman  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:40:55pm

it’s like a mutually abusive relationship

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TarHellion  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:44:13pm

Reply to an early CL

He’s draining the funding to where it will be just his petty grievances against the existing GOP that will be recruiting and footing the bill for 2022.

But with an economy humming along at a post-1986 annualized record of 6 percent in 2022, the Biden administration will reap the rewards and reverse all traditional losses in the House and Senate.

Of course, Chuck Todd will wonder why these gains reflect a poor performance and problem moving forward for Democrats.

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plansbandc  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:44:42pm

re: #5 GlutenFreeJesus

Well crap. We need dogs in the White House.

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retired cynic  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:45:00pm

re: #8 TarHellion

knock wood

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TarHellion  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:48:05pm

re: #5 GlutenFreeJesus

Biden’s children out of control! What does this mean for our nation’s discipline? //

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retired cynic  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:49:05pm

re: #9 plansbandc

Well crap. We need dogs in the White House.

Articles said it COULD be because JillB is going on a trip, and they have taken them back to DE before when she was out of town. So…?

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TarHellion  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:51:04pm

re: #12 retired cynic

Somebody showed them a picture of Cruz and Hawley. Just a natural reaction.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:53:52pm
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retired cynic  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:54:47pm

re: #14 Dread Pirate Ron

????? WTH?

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gocart mozart  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:56:31pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 8, 2021 • 7:57:41pm
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EPR-radar  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:01:48pm

re: #6 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Forgive me for saying this, but the U.S. Capitol should have a full-time military guard, rotated at regular shifts. Not a significant presence, but a bona fide military one. Any call for assistance should be answered immediately by military command.

That would sharpen up the issues next time a GOP president runs off the rails. Does the military capitol guard

1) Defy their president and stay true to the oaths they swore, or

2) Arrest and/or gun down Congress to install their president as dictator?

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TarHellion  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:04:23pm

re: #14 Dread Pirate Ron

Does Bernie control the crazies or give up 2 Senate seats and an EV state through 2024?

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gocart mozart  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:05:49pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:07:19pm

re: #20 gocart mozart

Michael Ramirez is like Ben Garrison but with actual talent.

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gocart mozart  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:09:13pm
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jaunte  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:09:30pm

re: #20 gocart mozart

Ramirez doesn’t even know why he won’t use the same imagery for an anti-masker protest.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:13:22pm
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jaunte  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:14:12pm
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🌹UOJB!  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:18:41pm

re: #25 jaunte

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He just can’t make up his mind!

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TarHellion  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:25:37pm

re: #26 🌹UOJB!

FOOK FOOK FOOK FOOK FOOK FOOK FOOK You, Dan Crenshaw!!!!!

Like Rafael Cruz and Tom Cotton, you thought embracing white supremacist and anti-democratic principles would advance your career. But you are nothing but a fooking fraud!!!!

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mmmirele  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:28:46pm

re: #16 gocart mozart

this is from the same thread, these people are idiots.

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EstebanTornado1963  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:29:21pm
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mmmirele  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:34:03pm

re: #29 EstebanTornado1963

I am actually thinking this is an example of flipping a picture. We used to do it a lot in high school when I worked on the newspaper. The picture would be flipped to provide a better flow to the page. If you had the face looking out of the page, it was distracting. Of course, you couldn’t flip a picture if the person was wearing a t-shirt with words on it…

So, basically, there’s a lot of things to criticize Crenshaw about. This is probably not one of them. ETA: Unless it was his office that sent out the two pictures like that. Then, that was just stupid.

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retired cynic  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:35:24pm

re: #30 mmmirele

I am actually thinking this is an example of flipping a picture. We used to do it a lot in high school when I worked on the newspaper. The picture would be flipped to provide a better flow to the page. If you had the face looking out of the page, it was distracting. Of course, you couldn’t flip a picture if the person was wearing a t-shirt with words on it…

So, basically, there’s a lot of things to criticize Crenshaw about. This is probably not one of them.

EDIT: delete by me

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EstebanTornado1963  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:37:50pm

re: #30 mmmirele

I am actually thinking this is an example of flipping a picture. We used to do it a lot in high school when I worked on the newspaper. The picture would be flipped to provide a better flow to the page. If you had the face looking out of the page, it was distracting. Of course, you couldn’t flip a picture if the person was wearing a t-shirt with words on it…

So, basically, there’s a lot of things to criticize Crenshaw about. This is probably not one of them. ETA: Unless it was his office that sent out the two pictures like that. Then, that was just stupid.

Of course. Probably is, but there is a lot to make fun of with that piece of shit

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Belafon  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:39:21pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

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I believe that was the point.

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Belafon  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:40:56pm

re: #26 🌹UOJB!

He just can’t make up his mind!

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I’m assuming he’s a passenger doing a selfie video which flips everything.

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sagehen  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:41:49pm

re: #28 mmmirele

this is from the same thread, these people are idiots.

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when I was in 8th grade, I got a whim to read all the “banned in Boston” books. The librarian wouldn’t let me check them out, until mom went to the library and gave them written authorization to let me read anything I wanted. (Tom Jones! Lady Chatterly’s Lover! Peyton Place!)

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mmmirele  Mar 8, 2021 • 8:56:03pm

re: #35 sagehen

when I was in 8th grade, I got a whim to read all the “banned in Boston” books. The librarian wouldn’t let me check them out, until mom went to the library and gave them written authorization to let me read anything I wanted. (Tom Jones! Lady Chatterly’s Lover! Peyton Place!)

In high school, the librarians kept “dangerous books” behind the counter, only for teachers to read. When I worked in the library, I got to see some of those books. I STILL to this day do not understand why P.G. Wodehouse’s books were back there. I also knew, from having read what was available in that tiny school library, what they’d missed as far as “smutty” books were concerned. But I certainly didn’t let THEM know.

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teleskiguy  Mar 8, 2021 • 9:07:59pm

womp womp

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teleskiguy  Mar 8, 2021 • 9:11:50pm

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teleskiguy  Mar 8, 2021 • 9:13:30pm
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BeachDem  Mar 8, 2021 • 9:16:01pm

Shot:
Mar 8, 2021 / 07:56 PM EST
FLORENCE, S.C. (WBTW) — As South Carolina eases statewide mask requirements, Florence city leaders say now is not the time to let up.

City council passed an emergency ordinance Monday that extends the city’s mask requirements for another 60 days.

Chaser:

Mar 8, 2021 / 09:54 PM EST
FLORENCE, S.C. (WBTW) — Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow made an appearance Monday night in Florence to speak at the Evening of Hope.

1. Guess they should be hoping to not get the covid.
2. Last time they held the event, Kirk Cameron was the speaker, so you know it’s a bunch of nutballs.
3. Le sigh.

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teleskiguy  Mar 8, 2021 • 9:20:51pm

It was better than 50° F up at the ski area this weekend, very spring-like. I’m not ready for it, I want more snow. Snowpack is still below average, we need it. I went skiing today at Beaver Creek, it was mid 40s and snowing lightly this afternoon. A big change is coming, the ski area might get a foot by the end of the week, which would be a good storm cycle for us. Here’s hoping.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 8, 2021 • 9:21:57pm
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danarchy  Mar 8, 2021 • 9:32:03pm

re: #34 Belafon

I’m assuming he’s a passenger doing a selfie video which flips everything.

Don’t really have to assume, just look at the buttons on his shirt, the image on the left is clearly a mirror image.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 8, 2021 • 9:48:05pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 8, 2021 • 10:39:31pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 8, 2021 • 10:51:59pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 8, 2021 • 11:20:27pm

The US Covid numbers are improving each day. New case numbers are back down to the lower levels of the summer surge, although the deaths are still significantly higher than summer but down over 50% from their recent height. Hopefully, the pandemic may be heading toward the end — and hopefully the gross malpractice of certain GOP states will not result in catastrophe for us all.

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boredtechindenver  Mar 8, 2021 • 11:42:35pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

It was “Assy McGee” and “Perfect Hair Forever” that blew my mind.

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Nyet  Mar 8, 2021 • 11:53:57pm

OK, that short was ultra-dumb. A more interesting one in which monster-dicks appear (outside of Troma) is Parallel Monsters in V/H/S: Viral. The dicks are actually the worst part of the short; but two words: Satanic Blimp.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 9, 2021 • 12:08:50am

Yay!! I have completed the first pass on my federal and state taxes before the day they’re due!! A rare event for me!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 9, 2021 • 12:12:42am

Someone posted this earlier and…

…okay, so trans rights issues are comparatively new to me, but one of the first anti-trans things I ever saw was a Crowder video (I looked into him after time he got punched at a union event and posted edited video of it, cutting out the part where he made contact with a dude who didn’t know him) where he went to a Pride Parade presenting as trans and behaved in a very manner that required others to put out with outbursts and inappropriate physical contact…

So here’s what I find fascinating.

Crowder engages in bad behavior both as “himself” and as one of his “undercover” characters, but he and his audience seem to think that his performance is an indictment of the people he pretends to be, but also don’t notice the continuity of who he is.

I point this out because it’s not just him. Reactionaries is general love to create imaginary people and attribute the imagined characteristics of the people they imagined to actual people, but also do the shit they view as bad and see no contradiction. I mean, we’re fucked as society because people can D&D themselves into hate crimes but we’re learning amazing things about the contradictions inherit in the construction of the self, the similar, and the other.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 1:59:05am

re: #6 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Forgive me for saying this, but the U.S. Capitol should have a full-time military guard, rotated at regular shifts. Not a significant presence, but a bona fide military one. Any call for assistance should be answered immediately by military command.

We shouldn’t have to have such a thing, but alas, there are just too many “patriots” out there…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 9, 2021 • 2:54:27am

hi

Extremely local news: My wife and I have been watching “Agent Carter” on Disney+. We could get hooked on this television streaming newfangled fad.

I unwrapped my hand tonight, and removed the stitches the VA missed when they took them out. The centre of the surgical incision where it ripped apart looks like someone tried to drive a stake through my hand. Two weeks on and it’s still bleeding.

Local news:

Wyoming will lift mask mandate next week

Panhandle moves to vaccinating essential workers (both from the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Gov. Mark Gordon (R-WY) announced that statewide mask orders will be lifted next week, and all businesses will be allowed to return to 100% capacity.

“I thank the people of Wyoming for their commitment to keeping one another safe throughout this pandemic,” Gordon said in a statement. “It is through their efforts that we have kept our schools and businesses operating and our economy moving forward. I ask all Wyoming citizens to continue to take personal responsibility for their actions and stay diligent as we look ahead to the warmer months and to the safe resumption of our traditional spring and summer activities.”

The changes to the state’s health orders will be shared later this week, but Gordon “wanted to make sure the public knew of this important change today,” the announcement said.

I can’t wait to have another asshole threaten me in Wyoming after this.

Much of the Panhandle has moved into vaccinating persons classified as essential workers.

To date, 21.3% of Panhandle adults, or 13,958 people, have received at least their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination, Tabi Prochazka, deputy director of health preparedness and preparation for Panhandle Public Health, said.

“We’re working through that 1B category, ” she said. “And, of course, catching any of those in IA who come along the way. … If you are over 65, you should have received your call for scheduling. “

Ricketts defends Nebraska COVID-19 vaccine decision to remove co-morbidities category from Phase 1B (WOWT Omaha) Mostly because the GOP needs its genocide.

Governor Billionaire removing comorbidities (I’ll bet being a billionaire counts though) means my wife cannot get a vaccine, despite what the CDC says. Money trumps medical research.

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Ming5000  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:04:51am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:07:02am

re: #54 Ming5000

UPDATE: this backfired spectacularly—judge today orders “Q Shaman” remain in jail, points to 60 Mins interview as proof he doesn’t understand severity of crime;

Yes, it shows that the New Media Reality we lived in under Trump has started to diminish: these pricks can no longer control the narrative and convince us that what they are doing is at all acceptable or normal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:09:39am

MAGA Rioter Had Top Secret Security Clearance AND A Rap Sheet? Yeah, Don’t Faint. (Wonkette)

When I had a Secret clearance, the government wanted to know if I had any damn parking tickets (no). This asshat has a criminal record longer than my arm, but Trump allowed him a Top Secret clearance; a Republican party operative and working at the State Department.

(four tweet thread of criming)

Sure, some of that stuff is old — no one cares if the guy got arrested in 1998 for driving without a license, or busted for having beer as a kid. But the 2013 charges include crimes of both violence and theft, and he not only got his clearance in 2014, but got it renewed in 2019? What the hell is going on here?

It also begs the question of what exactly a guy with a security clearance — which would presumably open the door to more lucrative employment — was doing working as a Trump campaign staffer for the princely sum of $15,000. Just how blindingly incompetent is this asshole?

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John Hughes  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:14:22am

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It also begs the question…

AAAAARGH!

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Ming5000  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:18:43am

re: #38 teleskiguy

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:20:57am
DENVER (AP) — Colorado Republicans voiced adamant opposition during a House debate about a proposed bill that would require firearms not in use to be stored securely in order to prevent children and teens from accessing the weapons.

Republican House members spent hours opposing the bill and argued that it conflicts with the Second Amendment by restricting when firearm owners can use their gun. They also criticized the legislation as being punitive, saying it could criminalize responsible gun owners.

Point of order: If a firearm is stored in a manner where an unauthorised or incompetent person can get hold of it (such as a child), then that gun owner is not a responsible gun owner.

No children ever come in my house and my shotgun is safely stored. Additionally, it prevents theft if someone broke into my home. (That said, no one locally would steal a firearm as there are more firearms than people in my town.)

Colorado lawmakers debate bill to safely store firearms (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:24:12am

re: #38 teleskiguy

Wow, that guy has an unhealthy obsession.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:27:56am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:31:27am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s something wrong with policing when I can be in the military and not kill anyone in seventeen years, but a police officer kills five people in about the same time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:33:54am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:35:14am

I’m off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:38:19am

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s something wrong with policing when I can be in the military and not kill anyone in seventeen years, but a police officer kills five people in about the same time.

We send our police out into a war zone every day. That does not justify any excessive use of force or abuses, but it does begin to affect their mentality.

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:50:18am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:51:13am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Point of order: If a firearm is stored in a manner where an unauthorised or incompetent person can get hold of it (such as a child), then that gun owner is not a responsible gun owner.

No children ever come in my house and my shotgun is safely stored. Additionally, it prevents theft if someone broke into my home. (That said, no one locally would steal a firearm as there are more firearms than people in my town.)

Colorado lawmakers debate bill to safely store firearms (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

How, exactly, would it restrict firearm owners from using their gun? By not being able to reach under their pillow and pull it out during a home invasion? That’s why you keep a baseball bat next to the bed, stupid. If your house is being broken into, any weapon is a good weapon, it doesn’t have to be your fetish toy. In the meantime, the risk of shooting your partner or a child because you were surprised or had a PTSD episode means you’re depriving them of their inalienable right to life - but what am I saying, the Second Amendment is more important than some stupid Declaration of Independence.

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Nojay UK  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:54:53am

re: #30 mmmirele

The picture would be flipped to provide a better flow to the page. If you had the face looking out of the page, it was distracting. Of course, you couldn’t flip a picture if the person was wearing a t-shirt with words on it…

There’s a promo poster for the original Beverly Hills Cop movie showing Eddie Murphy sitting on the front of a Mercedes while holding a gun and wearing a T-shirt. The pic was reputedly taken for promo purposes in South Africa after the movie was in the can and the only high-end cars available for the photoshoot were right-hand-drive since South Africa drives on the left. To make it look like a LHD car they flipped the picture horizontally but they had to blur the text on his T-shirt. However it looks like he’s holding the gun in his left hand and all the things like ejection ports, safety, slide release etc. on the gun are wrong.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 3:58:48am

re: #66 Dangerman

Trump Sends Cease and Desist to RNC, NRCC, NRSC Over Their Continued Use of His Name to Fundraise

Yeah, for a man who is so touchy about rights to his own name and image he does not seem to pay much attention when it is a matter of other people’s…

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 9, 2021 • 4:05:47am

What a Snowflake.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 9, 2021 • 4:14:10am

So apparently, this is a thing, and I am here for it:

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steve_davis  Mar 9, 2021 • 4:27:27am

re: #50 Hecuba’s daughter

Yay!! I have completed the first pass on my federal and state taxes before the day they’re due!! A rare event for me!

meanwhile, because I forgot to write down last year’s AGI and then changed computers, I had to sent in written copies rather than doing it electronically, which means it’s gonna be probably another month before someone down in the mailroom goes, “Okay, maybe time to dig out the February 14 returns.”

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 9, 2021 • 4:30:14am

re: #72 steve_davis

meanwhile, because I forgot to write down last year’s AGI and then changed computers, I had to sent in written copies rather than doing it electronically, which means it’s gonna be probably another month before someone down in the mailroom goes, “Okay, maybe time to dig out the February 14 returns.”

I changed computers, but I still had access to the old computer, so I was able to transfer my tax files and pick up where I left off. My tax refund is already in my account; I have the paperwork for my MN homestead tax credit, but I’m holding off on it because MN has added an online option for this refund. However, the new tax year won’t be available until 3/15 in their online portal, so I’m hanging onto the paper copies until I can try to submit it online, and I’ll mail it in if that fails.

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steve_davis  Mar 9, 2021 • 4:30:15am

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

hiExtremely local news: My wife and I have been watching “Agent Carter” on Disney+. We could get hooked on this television streaming newfangled fad.

I unwrapped my hand tonight, and removed the stitches the VA missed when they took them out. The centre of the surgical incision where it ripped apart looks like someone tried to drive a stake through my hand. Two weeks on and it’s still bleeding.

Local news:

Wyoming will lift mask mandate next week

Panhandle moves to vaccinating essential workers (both from the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Gov. Mark Gordon (R-WY) announced that statewide mask orders will be lifted next week, and all businesses will be allowed to return to 100% capacity.

I can’t wait to have another asshole threaten me in Wyoming after this.

Ricketts defends Nebraska COVID-19 vaccine decision to remove co-morbidities category from Phase 1B (WOWT Omaha) Mostly because the GOP needs its genocide.

Governor Billionaire removing comorbidities (I’ll bet being a billionaire counts though) means my wife cannot get a vaccine, despite what the CDC says. Money trumps medical research.

The good thing about your story is that it does rather kill the action movie meme where someone gets shot through the shoulder with a .50 cal and is then in an action scene a couple supposed days later, operating at full speed.

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steve_davis  Mar 9, 2021 • 4:32:52am

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

MAGA Rioter Had Top Secret Security Clearance AND A Rap Sheet? Yeah, Don’t Faint. (Wonkette)

When I had a Secret clearance, the government wanted to know if I had any damn parking tickets (no). This asshat has a criminal record longer than my arm, but Trump allowed him a Top Secret clearance; a Republican party operative and working at the State Department.

[Embedded content]

(four tweet thread of criming)

doesn’t beg question. it asks the question. begging the question has to do with arriving at a conclusion while assuming facts not in evidence.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 4:35:08am

re: #75 steve_davis

doesn’t beg question. it asks the question. begging the question has to do with arriving at a conclusion while assuming facts not in evidence.

That Mitchell and Webb Look - Grammar Nazi

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:12:10am

Now I’m in the vaccine queue for my county’s health department and my local Meijer’s.

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:15:04am

I’m definitely more pissed that Trump gave a security clearance to a guy with a long rap sheet.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:18:10am

re: #78 Belafon

I’m sure this guy isn’t the only one by a long shot. With these fucking people it’s always: what we know is horrific, what we don’t know is terrifying. His fucking kids got security clearances, that’s awful enough on its own.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:21:47am

re: #79 A Mom Anon

I’m sure this guy isn’t the only one by a long shot. With these fucking people it’s always: what we know is horrific, what we don’t know is terrifying. His fucking kids got security clearances, that’s awful enough on its own.

Yes, nobody seemed too worried about Jared’s security clearances.

Again, imagine Hunter Biden getting a clearance like that.

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danarchy  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:25:04am

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s something wrong with policing when I can be in the military and not kill anyone in seventeen years, but a police officer kills five people in about the same time.

I am trying to find any mention to Chauvin being involved with other police killings. I am not finding it anywhere. “Involved with” is one of those weasel words that can mean he was one of the officers who responded after the fact, or he had previously arrested some of the people on the list. I would love some details about how he was involved.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:28:09am

re: #81 danarchy

I am trying to find any mention to Chauvin being involved with other police killings. I am not finding it anywhere. “Involved with” is one of those weasel words that can mean he was one of the officers who responded after the fact, or he had previously arrested some of the people on the list. I would love some details about how he was involved.

Second-hand story - I have a friend who had a run-in with Chauvin personally. She said she filed a report on him and nothing ever came of it. He had apparently been violent with someone and she was a witness to the altercation. I do wish the organizers would make public the records that show exactly what they mean by “involved with”, but at least from my perspective, it is beyond dispute that this guy is an asshole and shouldn’t have been wearing a badge by the time he murdered George Floyd.

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jeffreyw  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:35:36am

Denver adjacent

Good morning!

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:47:39am

That little film’s got some Ray Wiley Hubbard to it.
Snake dick,
Just sounds nasty
Snake dick,
Pretty much is
Snake dick
It’s a reptile penis
Snake dick, oooohhh.

I should probably find Snake Farm and link that…great song.

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:51:22am

re: #84 darthstar

That little film’s got some Ray Wiley Hubbard to it.
Snake dick,
Just sounds nasty
Snake dick,
Pretty much is
Snake dick
It’s a reptile penis
Snake dick, oooohhh.

I should probably find Snake Farm and link that…great song.

Ray Wylie Hubbard “Snake Farm”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:57:30am

While we recognizing our legless brethren here:

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:58:20am

This still makes me happy. I don’t want any of these assholes getting celebrity status.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 5:59:53am

re: #87 darthstar

I love how these guys think they can just talk their way out of federal crimes like it was just a misunderstanding.

Also, his fellow inmates will see him on 60 Minutes and realize what a privileged whiny douche-bag he is.

Because they saw Trump getting away with it.

The New Media Reality no longer has such a firm grasp on the narrative. We are no longer accepting this as somehow normal or just “one side of the issue”.

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:01:53am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because they saw Trump getting away with it.

The New Media Reality no longer has such a firm grasp on the narrative. We are no longer accepting this as somehow normal or just “one side of the issue”.

It wasn’t just Trump, but everyone around Trump for four years. The DOJ was the White House’s d-o-g and nobody was held accountable.

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:13:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:18:03am

re: #90 darthstar

let them go after Biden for his dogs just so the world can see how fucking petty they are

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plansbandc  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:18:56am

re: #84 darthstar

Love RWH. Puts on an excellent show. Got to meet him and he’s a cool guy. Funny too.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:24:14am
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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:25:09am
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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:25:28am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:27:10am

re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

let them go after Biden for his dogs just so the world can see how fucking petty they are

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:28:23am
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lawhawk  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:30:41am

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s an indictment of the lax security clearance system in place that dates back to Obama (2014 is when President Obama was still in office). That it was renewed despite additional crimes committed shows that they didn’t care about the crimes or that it showed this guy to be lacking in character or judgment.

Same as Trump.

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:31:17am
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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:33:37am
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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:35:41am

re: #93 No Malarkey!

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Let’s fix the butterfly reserves, sacred lands, and hills Trump destroyed.

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:36:57am

re: #99 Belafon

My mate had side effects after the first Pfizer shot, and worse after the second. I had the Pfizer shot 23 hours ago and no real side effects, maybe because I was asleep, maybe because I took a hit of some Gelato strain last night that kicked my ass. We both had Covid last June, if you have had it, they say the shot’s side effects are more pronounced.

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b_sharp  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:39:16am

Just to give everyone a humour break, I sacrificed some of my skin yesterday. I was brad nailing two pieces of lumber together, supporting it with my left hand, while wielding the brad gun in my right. I forgot that I had 2” brads in it instead of the 1-1/2” I usually use and ended up effectively nailing my hand to the wood.

Now don’t you feel better? And far more competent in comparison?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:43:03am

re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We send our police out into a war zone every day. That does not justify any excessive use of force or abuses, but it does begin to affect their mentality.

Our streets are not a war zone. That the police (and society and the media) often treat and portray it as one is one of the issues we are facing.

They *are* going into places which are socially and behaviorally volatile. And part of the job is confrontations and interactions that can, and often, have teetered over into violence being used as a solution. Which is part of the difficulty in community policing.

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garzooma  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:44:24am

re: #78 Belafon

I’m definitely more pissed that Trump gave a security clearance to a guy with a long rap sheet.

According to the story, the guy got his clearance in 2014, before Trump.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:45:04am

Some more good news.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:45:38am

re: #103 b_sharp

Just to give everyone a humour break, I sacrificed some of my skin yesterday. I was brad nailing two pieces of lumber together, supporting it with my left hand, while wielding the brad gun in my right. I forgot that I had 2” brads in it instead of the 1-1/2” I usually use and ended up effectively nailing my hand to the wood.

Now don’t you feel better? And far more competent in comparison?

OUCH!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:46:07am

re: #102 Egregious Philbin

My mate had side effects after the first Pfizer shot, and worse after the second. I had the Pfizer shot 23 hours ago and no real side effects, maybe because I was asleep, maybe because I took a hit of some Gelato strain last night that kicked my ass. We both had Covid last June, if you have had it, they say the shot’s side effects are more pronounced.

How serious were your cases when you had COVID?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:48:19am

re: #104 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Our streets are not a war zone. That the police (and society and the media) often treat and portray it as one is one of the issues we are facing.

They *are* going into places which are socially and behaviorally volatile. And part of the job is confrontations and interactions that can, and often, have teetered over into violence being used as a solution. Which is part of the difficulty in community policing.

How many police are military trained having served in war zones? Do they see our streets as war zones?

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b_sharp  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:50:31am

re: #104 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The police are a real mix of attitude. The job attracts people who are inherently authoritarian & can be prone to violent reactions when their commands are not obeyed. There has also been some intentional infiltration of the forces by white supremacists & in all likelihood, sadistic assholes. Add in mob mentality (sometimes labelled as ‘team spirit’) and even those who joined to make a difference get swept up in the fear mongering & manipulation of the others.

We’re not a naturally rational species.

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b_sharp  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:51:42am

re: #107 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

OUCH!

It was just a tiny hole.

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mmmirele  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:51:57am

re: #104 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Our streets are not a war zone. That the police (and society and the media) often treat and portray it as one is one of the issues we are facing.

They *are* going into places which are socially and behaviorally volatile. And part of the job is confrontations and interactions that can, and often, have teetered over into violence being used as a solution. Which is part of the difficulty in community policing.

Last summer, during the Portland protests, one of my friends who lives in Portland near downtown was agonizing over getting her house painted. Not because of the protests, but because of the weather. She was far more concerned about it being too damp when the painting was done for the paint to stick properly. That was her concern.

Oh, and she took her teenage daughter to one of the protests.

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:52:42am

The insurrectionist who bought a one-way ticket to Kenya after participating in the insurrection, who was sent back by the Kenyan government and charged by ours, was released on a $250K bond. Talk about the definition of white privilege. He’s obviously a flight risk.

nypost.com

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b_sharp  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:54:20am

“I come to LGF for the company and entertainment.
I linger for the insanity.
But I’m not sure its insane enough.”

I mean, how often have you heard that?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:56:11am

re: #104 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Our streets are not a war zone. That the police (and society and the media) often treat and portray it as one is one of the issues we are facing.

They *are* going into places which are socially and behaviorally volatile. And part of the job is confrontations and interactions that can, and often, have teetered over into violence being used as a solution. Which is part of the difficulty in community policing.

“war zone” is hyperbolic, but in almost every instance, police officers have to reckon with the likelihood that the person they are approaching is armed. Compare this to other countries:

US cops killed 100 times more than German police in 2015

Police shootings: German cops shot dead 14 people in 2017

Police throughout Germany fired a total of 75 times at people in 2017. The resulting deaths were far fewer than the United States, where more than 950 people died as a result of police shootings.

Of course, Germany is a Socialist hellhole where people cower in fear of having their Dr Seuss Books confiscated and their Mr Potato Head figures castrated…

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:57:46am
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b_sharp  Mar 9, 2021 • 6:59:10am

I’m building a partition in our basement right now. It’s something a competent framer could do in an afternoon, but it’s taken me 3 days so far, because I spend way too much time making sure everything is perfectly level & vertical. Sometimes my OCD, which can be useful when dealing with computers and coding, gets in the way.

Does that sound familiar to anyone else?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:02:23am

re: #116 darthstar

That was so so good!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:02:35am

re: #109 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

How many police are military trained having served in war zones? Do they see our streets as war zones?

A lot, and yes.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:03:05am

re: #117 b_sharp

I’m building a partition in our basement right now. It’s something a competent framer could do in an afternoon, but it’s taken me 3 days so far, because I spend way too much time making sure everything is perfectly level & vertical. Sometimes my OCD, which can be useful when dealing with computers and coding, gets in the way.

Does that sound familiar to anyone else?

Remember: measure once cuss twice.

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John Hughes  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:04:05am

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Of course, Germany is a Socialist hellhole where people cower in fear of having their Dr Seuss Books confiscated and their Mr Potato Head figures castrated…

Yeah, German people are used to having their civil rights trampled, why, they aren’t even allowed to buy a copy of Mein Kampf!

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:04:33am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Point of order: If a firearm is stored in a manner where an unauthorised or incompetent person can get hold of it (such as a child), then that gun owner is not a responsible gun owner.

No children ever come in my house and my shotgun is safely stored. Additionally, it prevents theft if someone broke into my home. (That said, no one locally would steal a firearm as there are more firearms than people in my town.)

Colorado lawmakers debate bill to safely store firearms (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

Control your weapon at all times.
The only “rule” that should ever need to be enforced.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:06:01am

Greitens was allowed to resign as Governor of Missouri, in return for all charges against him being dismissed. Now he wants to run for the US Senate.

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:06:33am

re: #117 b_sharp

I’m building a partition in our basement right now. It’s something a competent framer could do in an afternoon, but it’s taken me 3 days so far, because I spend way too much time making sure everything is perfectly level & vertical. Sometimes my OCD, which can be useful when dealing with computers and coding, gets in the way.

Does that sound familiar to anyone else?

The useful thing to remember in construction is that there are no actual 90 degree angles. They are 87 and 93 degrees. The only thing that matters at the end is the plaster and paint you put on it.

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b_sharp  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:07:47am

re: #120 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Remember: measure once cuss twice.

I got that nailed. V keeps yelling downstairs asking if I need help. It’s a one man job, but I’m talking & cussing as if there are several of me.

EDIT: Thought of a better pun.

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lawhawk  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:08:37am

re: #124 Belafon

The useful thing to remember in construction is that there are no actual 90 degree angles. They are 87 and 93 degrees. The only thing that matters at the end is the plaster and paint you put on it.

Getting to true as opposed to level and plum are important as your eye will pick up the differences as no older home is perfectly squared.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:09:02am

re: #121 John Hughes

Yeah, German people are used to having their civil rights trampled, why, they aren’t even allowed to buy a copy of Mein Kampf!

That, like the Dr Seuss story, was a matter of publishing rights to Mein Kampf. These were owned due to some historical reason by the German State of Bavaria, and they refused to allow even an annotated and commentated edition (which even Israel has since allowed)

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:09:25am

Marc Elias has already filed suit against Iowa’s brand new voter suppression law.

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b_sharp  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:11:15am

re: #126 lawhawk

Getting to true as opposed to level and plum are important as your eye will pick up the differences as no older home is perfectly squared.

I’ve noticed a couple of areas where one side is farther from the ceiling than the other because the ceiling is no longer level. After the brad nail incident I decided to not be so picky & to split the difference more often. I’ll see how well I stick to that today.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:11:53am

re: #124 Belafon

The useful thing to remember in construction is that there are no actual 90 degree angles. They are 87 and 93 degrees. The only thing that matters at the end is the plaster and paint you put on it.

My house would drive an OCD person dippy: there are no right angles in it: it is an old farmhouse build around 100 years ago and if you look at the tiles and the parquet squares in the rooms, they are all squint.

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Mattand  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:14:56am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Rummaging through the Adult Swim catalog on HBO Max, discovered “Twelve oz. Mouse,” and I’m afraid it may have broken something in my brain.

Ugh, I really tried with that series, but Twelve oz. Mouse is where Adult Swim’s “Weird for weird’s sake” model just collapses into a black hole of its own pretentiousness.

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:15:56am

re: #90 darthstar

[Embedded content]

The best take I’ve read on it:

This story is basic Biden. He is just a regular Joe who adopts a rescue dog that is having difficulty adjusting to the new reality of the changed circumstances.

This is what regular people experience in life; difficulty with adaptation with flawed yet lovable characters. Go Joe go!

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:17:23am

re: #118 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That was so so good!

Yes it was. Randy Rainbow is really quite talented. I haven’t enjoyed all of his parodies but he seems to have made the shift from Trump successfully.

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:19:43am

re: #128 No Malarkey!

Marc Elias has already filed suit against Iowa’s brand new voter suppression law.

Sneaky liberals…letting Iowa go through with some big ass voter suppression so they can show off to other conservative run states and then slapping them down for not reading their own constitution.

Now, watch Iowa Republicans talk about changing their state constitution to see how that goes.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:20:53am

I rented a house in Kentucky for a couple of years in which if you dropped a marble or similar round object it would always roll to one side of the house. My wife claimed the house made her a little nauseous because of the unevenness. Didn’t bother me so much.

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:24:37am

re: #128 No Malarkey!

Marc Elias has already filed suit against Iowa’s brand new voter suppression law.

Iowa’s Constitution isn’t all that great either:

ARTICLE II. - Right of Suffrage

Electors. Section 1. [Every (white)* male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty one years, who shall have been a resident of this State six months next preceding the election, and of the County in which he claims his vote sixty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or hereafter may be authorized by law.

*The above section was amended in 1868 by striking the word white from the first line thereof: See Amendment [1]


*For qualifications of electors, see also Amendments 19 and 26, U.S. Constitution

A proposal to strike the word male was defeated in 1916.

**In 1970, this section was repealed and a substitute adopted in lieu thereof: See Amendment [30]

Amendment 30:

Electors. SECTION 1. Every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of this state for such period of time as shall be provided by law and of the county in which he claims his vote for such period of time as shall be provided by law, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or hereafter may be authorized by law. The General Assembly may provide by law for different periods of residence in order to vote for various officers or in order to vote in various elections. The required periods of residence shall not exceed six months in this state and sixty days in the county.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:25:39am

Manchin and Biden would both prefer a bipartisan infrastructure bill. But Manchin has expressed potential support for filibuster reform, so let’s hope something gets done when the GQP obstructs a wildly popular infrastructure package like we know they will.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:26:39am
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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:26:47am

re: #103 b_sharp

Just to give everyone a humour break, I sacrificed some of my skin yesterday. I was brad nailing two pieces of lumber together, supporting it with my left hand, while wielding the brad gun in my right. I forgot that I had 2” brads in it instead of the 1-1/2” I usually use and ended up effectively nailing my hand to the wood.

Now don’t you feel better? And far more competent in comparison?

So…nailed it?

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:31:22am

re: #137 No Malarkey!

Manchin’s talking like a kingmaker now, having successfully and single-handedly tied the Senate in knots for a day over the COVID-19 relief. He says he won’t allow the next big spending bill on Biden’s agenda—a massive climate and infrastructure plan—to move under budget reconciliation rules. “I’m not going to do it through reconciliation,” he told Axios’ Mike Allen. “I am not going to get on a bill that cuts [Republicans] out completely before we start trying.”

dailykos.com

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:32:55am

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“war zone” is hyperbolic, but in almost every instance, police officers have to reckon with the likelihood that the person they are approaching is armed. Compare this to other countries:

US cops killed 100 times more than German police in 2015

Police shootings: German cops shot dead 14 people in 2017

Police throughout Germany fired a total of 75 times at people in 2017. The resulting deaths were far fewer than the United States, where more than 950 people died as a result of police shootings.

Of course, Germany is a Socialist hellhole where people cower in fear of having their Dr Seuss Books confiscated and their Mr Potato Head figures castrated…

The problem is deciding someone is a threat before actually determining it
The problem is treating everyone as an equal kind of threat
The problem is escalating the situation
The problem is we find all this out after its too late

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:35:07am

re: #83 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

No, mom, we’re just watching TV!
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:35:28am

re: #141 Dangerman

The problem is deciding someone is a threat before actually determining it
The problem is treating everyone as an equal kind of threat
The problem is escalating the situation
The problem is we find all this out after its too late

I was not stating that to rationalize or justify their actions, just to point out that we subject police to a degree of threat and ensuing mental strain in our country (and a lesser degree of training) than many other countries do, most of which have stricter gun control legislation and also lower instances of both gun violence and police-related violence.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:38:38am

It has been 19 hours since receiving the 2nd COVID shot. So far the only reaction I have is that my upper arm is sore where I received the injection, the same as a regular flu shot.

Meanwhile WE’RE GOING TO FLORIDA for Passover!

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:39:41am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:43:58am

re: #139 Dangerman

So…nailed it?

Duuuuude!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:44:29am

This thing with Bidens dogs is so stupid.

Even perfectly adjusted doggos can seem somewhat aggressive and unfriendly to people they aren’t familiar with.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:44:43am

re: #131 Mattand

You haven’t experienced strange until you watch what Adult Swim does during their April Fool weekend specials.

It’s a shame that they canceled “The Venture Brothers”, tho.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:44:54am

re: #135 Barefoot Grin

I rented a house in Kentucky for a couple of years in which if you dropped a marble or similar round object it would always roll to one side of the house. My wife claimed the house made her a little nauseous because of the unevenness. Didn’t bother me so much.

you’ve been to my house!

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:47:47am

re: #140 Belafon

dailykos.com

Yep. We’ll see if Manchin is willing to move on filibuster reform after months of bad faith negotiations with the GQP over infrastructure.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:49:13am

re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg

This thing with Bidens dogs is so stupid.

Even perfectly adjusted doggos can seem somewhat aggressive and unfriendly to people they aren’t familiar with.

Let’s talk about how well-behaved Trump’s dogs were

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:54:52am

re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was not stating that to rationalize or justify their actions, just to point out that we subject police to a degree of threat and ensuing mental strain in our country (and a lesser degree of training) than many other countries do, most of which have stricter gun control legislation and also lower instances of both gun violence and police-related violence.

Agreed
And I wasn’t disagreeing, just spouting

This issue burns me

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Broad With Sass  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:55:07am

re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg

re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg

This thing with Bidens dogs is so stupid.

Even perfectly adjusted doggos can seem somewhat aggressive and unfriendly to people they aren’t familiar with.

I want to know who he “bit” , might be justified…I trust my dog’s people sense

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:55:47am

re: #144 The Pie Overlord!

It has been 19 hours since receiving the 2nd COVID shot. So far the only reaction I have is that my upper arm is sore where I received the injection, the same as a regular flu shot.

Meanwhile WE’RE GOING TO FLORIDA for Passover!

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:56:21am

re: #146 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Duuuuude!

C’mon
Grapefruit pitch

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Mattand  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:56:35am

re: #148 Eric The Fruit Bat

You haven’t experienced strange until you watch what Adult Swim does during their April Fool weekend specials.

It’s a shame that they canceled “The Venture Brothers”, tho.

LOL, I remember when they ran the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie in a tiny window during their normal programming.

And, yeah, I put on my black mourning speed suit for Venture Bros. One of the best shows on TV, period.

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Mattand  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:57:13am

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

Let’s talk about how well-behaved Trump’s dogs were

I’m pretty sure Eric and Don Jr. were house-trained.

Pretty sure.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:57:29am

re: #153 Broad With Sass

I want to know who he “bit” , might be justified…I trust my dog’s people sense

Perhaps a MAGA holdover?

/half sarc.

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b_sharp  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:57:44am

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

Let’s talk about how well-behaved Trump’s dogs were

Well, Eric isn’t a really bad dog, but likely because he’s not a very bright dog. Don Jr. is a terribly bad dog that has been allowed to run undisciplined for far too long. He must be an expensive dog to maintain with all the drugs necessary to calm him down.

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:57:58am

re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg

This thing with Bidens dogs is so stupid.

Even perfectly adjusted doggos can seem somewhat aggressive and unfriendly to people they aren’t familiar with.

Plus there are protocols in place that weren’t written with possible semi random dog behavior considerations

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lawhawk  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:59:25am

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

Let’s talk about how well-behaved Trump’s dogs were

All the sycophantic suckups did exactly what Trump wanted to hear and see. They were the most obedient kind of dog known to mankind.

Lackeys. Fascist fuckers.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 9, 2021 • 7:59:35am

re: #117 b_sharp

I’m building a partition in our basement right now. It’s something a competent framer could do in an afternoon, but it’s taken me 3 days so far, because I spend way too much time making sure everything is perfectly level & vertical. Sometimes my OCD, which can be useful when dealing with computers and coding, gets in the way.

Does that sound familiar to anyone else?

I’ve built a Habitat house with a cabinet maker. Never put a cabinet maker to carpentry.

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Mattand  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:00:28am

re: #137 No Malarkey!

Manchin and Biden would both prefer a bipartisan infrastructure bill. But Manchin has expressed potential support for filibuster reform, so let’s hope something gets done when the GQP obstructs a wildly popular infrastructure package like we know they will.

Can someone explain to me why Manchin and Sinema have this pathological love of the filibuster? Is it part of their “I really want to be a Republican, so I’ll support things they support” mindset?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:01:50am

re: #152 Dangerman

Agreed
And I wasn’t disagreeing, just spouting

This issue burns me

and another issue that oddly gets very little attention or discussion:

Namely, the inherent conflict of interest any District Attorney or Prosecutor faces when they go after a police officer.

In most cases the DA/Prosecutor’s office has an interest in working with police officers to obtain indictments/convictions. Bringing charges against an officer jeopardizes this relationship and makes them hesitant to lean to hard on the people they otherwise need to work with.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:02:53am

re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg

This thing with Bidens dogs is so stupid.

Even perfectly adjusted doggos can seem somewhat aggressive and unfriendly to people they aren’t familiar with.

People mistake reactivity for aggressiveness all the time. And it puts a lot of dogs in situations they shouldn’t be in.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:03:35am

re: #163 Mattand

Can someone explain to me why Manchin and Sinema have this pathological love of the filibuster? Is it part of their “I really want to be a Republican, so I’ll support things they support” mindset?

It’s primarily because each needs a considerable number of conservative leaning voters to actually vote for them to keep their jobs, so they try to do the tightrope walk thing to support what their party is doing much of the time, while also opposing things here and there.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:03:49am

re: #138 DodgerFan1988

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:04:35am

re: #163 Mattand

Can someone explain to me why Manchin and Sinema have this pathological love of the filibuster? Is it part of their “I really want to be a Republican, so I’ll support things they support” mindset?

Some of it is that they’re around a lot of Republicans. Some of it is that they’re worried about being in the minority and having no power. And I get it. The two biggest accomplishments by Democrats in the last 50 years, the CRA and ACA, both ended up costing Democrats because white people. But they’re not helping their cause by not going bold on popular items. And they will destroy their power if they don’t help Democrats fix Republican attempts to restrict voting.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:05:11am

re: #165 GlutenFreeJesus

People mistake reactivity for aggressiveness all the time. And it puts a lot of dogs in situations they shouldn’t be in.

Also, a gesture that a human might see as harmless, for example, suddenly pointing at a dog and saying something excitedly, could easily agitate the animal.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:05:50am

re: #167 Patricia Kayden

For most of America, bitch!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:05:55am

re: #162 Decatur Deb

I’ve built a Habitat house with a cabinet maker. Never put a cabinet maker to carpentry.

Especially a German one.

They see themselves as skilled artisans and will tolerate no deviations from the standards inculcated into them by their Schreinermeister

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Mattand  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:06:51am

re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg

This thing with Bidens dogs is so stupid.

Even perfectly adjusted doggos can seem somewhat aggressive and unfriendly to people they aren’t familiar with.

I’m very sympathetic to the Bidens about this. We just adopted a Boxer who is slightly younger than Major. Quite frankly, he’s a fucking mess. He absolutely loves us and is full-on goofball Boxer with us.

People and other dogs, not so much. And by “not so much”, I mean “Massively flipping out at any other person or dog within 50 yards of us”. He’s got some major league reactivity that is going to take several months and possibly medication to try to get under control.

Kinda wondering if that’s what’s going on with Major to a hopefully lesser degree. He’s still unsure about the world around him and is lashing out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:07:30am

Am I showing my age here or was there not once a tradition according to which a new President got 100 days to establish their administration and put their people in place before they were publicly criticized?

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Decatur Deb  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:08:13am

If the dogs are a little aggressive around strangers and evil-doers, there’s a job for them in the halls of the Capitol.

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:10:12am

re: #150 No Malarkey!

Yep. We’ll see if Manchin is willing to move on filibuster reform after months of bad faith negotiations with the GQP over infrastructure.

another take, from electoral-vote.com

…it sure looks like the Senator is playing the long game here. By rebelling against his party on some high-profile issues (like the minimum wage) and “fighting” to save the filibuster, the Senator sets himself up to “surrender” and to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into weakening the filibuster. “It was the only option left, I’m afraid,” is what he will say.
…
It is clear that, like Manchin, Biden is setting himself up to “reluctantly” support changing the filibuster. … Biden can maintain his “opposition” to changing the rules and then, if they are changed, can claim that he certainly would not have changed things if he were still in the Senate, but it is up to the Senate to make its own rules and he doesn’t have any say in that as a a member of the Executive Branch.
…
The main audience for Manchin’s and Biden’s performances, right now, is actually Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues in the Senate. McConnell is very good at reading between the lines, and he is now on notice that if he and his caucus continue with their obstructionist ways, the filibuster could be partly or wholly on the chopping block. What they do with that implicit threat will dictate how Manchin and Biden proceed.

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:11:24am

re: #157 Mattand

I’m pretty sure Eric and Don Jr. were house-trained.

Pretty sure.

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Mattand  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:13:02am

re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s primarily because each needs a considerable number of conservative leaning voters to actually vote for them to keep their jobs, so they try to do the tightrope walk thing to support what their party is doing much of the time, while also opposing things here and there.

Appreciate it. I kinda figured that. What I’m not getting is that is it that much of a sacred cow to your average conservative? Admittedly, I’m basing a lot of this off of my partner’s Fox-addled mom. Of all the things she stews over, the filibuster is not one of them.

Cuomo, on the other hand…

Jesus Fucking Christ, the woman lives in frigging South Carolina. You’d think that Cuomo is driving all around SC spraying COVID from a T-shirt cannon they way she’s obsessing over him. I sorta kinda live next door to NY and he occupies maybe 1/30th the space I dedicate to thinking about politics.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:17:29am

re: #163 Mattand

Can someone explain to me why Manchin and Sinema have this pathological love of the filibuster? Is it part of their “I really want to be a Republican, so I’ll support things they support” mindset?

Voters like bipartisanship, in theory. Most, who don’t pay attention to politics like we do, don’t understand the utter intransigence of the GQP.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:21:17am

re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Am I showing my age here or was there not once a tradition according to which a new President got 100 days to establish their administration and put their people in place before they were publicly criticized?

That tradition ended in 2009, when the muslim, Kenyan usurper occupied the WH. Now we have another “illegitimate” President.

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EstebanTornado1963  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:22:23am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:24:01am

re: #179 No Malarkey!

That tradition ended in 2009, when the muslim, Kenyan usurper occupied the WH. Now we have another “illegitimate” President.

was it really that recent?

and did he really raise their hackles that much?

jeez

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:24:10am

re: #175 Dangerman

another take, from electoral-vote.com

If Manchin means it that infrastructure has to be paid for with tax increases, the GQP will never sign on. They will string out negotiations for as long as the Democrats will let them, though.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:25:55am

‘I was wrong’: Christian prophet shutters ministry after blowing prediction Trump would be re-elected

In a letter to his flock posted on Facebook, Jeremiah Johnson apologized and announced he would be shuttering the ministry that bears his name as well as the social media accounts promoting it.

The announcement came out of the blue after his YouTube video series titled “I was wrong” went quiet for two weeks.

Elaborating upon his decision, Johnson explained, “I believe that it is a tremendous mistake to take the next four years to argue and debate and cause division and grow more prideful talking about how we think the election was taken from Donald Trump. I actually believe we need to take the next four years and humble ourselves.”

Must be a RINO because right-wing nutcases never admit they are wrong.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:26:31am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

was it really that recent?

and did he really raise their hackles that much?

jeez

It’s been 20 years since George Bush was a new President, so my memory may be faulty, but it seems like he got a honeymoon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:27:04am

re: #183 Dr. Matt

‘I was wrong’: Christian prophet shutters ministry after blowing prediction Trump would be re-elected

Must be a RINO because right-wing nutcases never admit they are wrong.

I am assuming that he has other motives for getting out of Dodge and this is a good cover

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:27:19am

re: #184 No Malarkey!

It’s been 20 years since George Bush was a new President, so my memory may be faulty, but it seems like he got a honeymoon.

He did. Obama was really the first one that didn’t. Even Bill Clinton got a pass at the beginning of his Presidency.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:29:55am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am assuming that he has other motives for getting out of Dodge and this is a good cover

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, since it’s such a refreshingly good reaction that I wish others would emulate.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:31:57am

re: #187 No Malarkey!

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, since it’s such a refreshingly good reaction that I wish others would emulate.

I wish that, instead of shuttering the ministry, he would rededicate it to speaking the truth and fixing the mess he helped create.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:32:34am

Cartoon sexual predator Pepe Le Pew has been cancelled.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:34:02am

re: #188 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I wish that, instead of shuttering the ministry, he would rededicate it to speaking the truth and fixing the mess he helped create.

He isn’t going away completely, according to the article.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:36:02am

re: #188 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I wish that, instead of shuttering the ministry, he would rededicate it to speaking the truth and fixing the mess he helped create.

Because he needs to get to Cancun before the tax authorities are onto him…

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:37:24am

re: #178 No Malarkey!

Voters like bipartisanship, in theory. Most, who don’t pay attention to politics like we do, don’t understand the utter intransigence of the GQP.

As was said yesterday about Biden, most voters like politicians that are moderate in their presentation, because they don’t pay a lot of attention to policy. Biden did better than most Democrats, even in their own districts, because he talked in evolutionary terms, not revolutionary ones.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:37:34am

re: #96 No Malarkey!

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Makes sense. Also, from reports that some security inside the White House/Capitol were complicit in the 1/6 attack. Maybe Major knows something we should know about those he snapped at. Right now I trust the dogs to protect pres Biden better than some of the security assigned.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:38:19am

re: #184 No Malarkey!

It’s been 20 years since George Bush was a new President, so my memory may be faulty, but it seems like he got a honeymoon.

He did, briefly.

Things started to go off the rails when the Chinese fighter jet incident happened, then the dot com bubble burst and then we got 9/11 and, well, we all remembered where things went after that.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:38:51am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am assuming that he has other motives for getting out of Dodge and this is a good cover

Maybe he likes to watch his wife too, a la Jerry Jr.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:39:24am

re: #189 No Malarkey!

Cartoon sexual predator Pepe Le Pew has been cancelled.

Because Warner Brothers should totally put EVERY SINGLE FUCKING CHARACTER in all the Looney Tunes movies.

Good grief.

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Jay C  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:40:20am

re: #184 No Malarkey!

It’s been 20 years since George Bush was a new President, so my memory may be faulty, but it seems like he got a honeymoon.

Kinda/sorta: I seem to recall that Dubya was initially lauded by the Usual Beltway Crowd Of Idiots for “restoring the dignity of the office” or whatever (I.e. no blowjobs under the WH desk), but by September 10, I think that some of the luster was beginning to fade, as 43’s innate and immutable mediocrity was making itself unavoidably obvious. The rest, as they say, is history….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:42:05am

re: #189 No Malarkey!

Cartoon sexual predator Pepe Le Pew has been cancelled.

Cancel Culture is one of their new hobbyhorses and they are going to ride it to death.

All I can say to them is that they can suck my Dixie Chicks and wash the taste out of their foul mouths with an Ice-T

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:52:51am

re: #93 No Malarkey!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:54:31am

re: #199 🌹UOJB!

Are you that afraid of the Frito Bandito?

what a joke, doesn’t he know that the PC Liberals had him deported years ago?

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:55:04am

re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Cancel Culture is one of their new hobbyhorses and they are going to ride it to death.

All I can say to them is that they can suck my Dixie Chicks and wash the taste out of their foul mouths with an Ice-T

I got a relative flipping out that…

“OMG! Potato Head will have interchangeable Male and Female parts and they’re teaching kids that transexuals are normal people”

Yes that asshole DID post that!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:57:12am

re: #201 🌹UOJB!

I bet your average conservative walks past trans people EVERY DAY and doesn’t even REALIZE IT.

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:58:03am

re: #201 🌹UOJB!

I got a relative flipping out that…

“OMG! Potato Head will have interchangeable Male and Female parts and they’re teaching kids that transexuals are normal people”

Yes that asshole DID post that!

“And which parts would those be?”

Although, now, they really do need to make all the attachments. And, it’s about time they updated Barbie and Ken. They should be anatomically correct.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 9, 2021 • 8:59:46am

re: #201 🌹UOJB!

I got a relative flipping out that…

“OMG! Potato Head will have interchangeable Male and Female parts and they’re teaching kids that transexuals are normal people”

Yes that asshole DID post that!

Discover all the possibilities of the wonderful and wacky Mrs. Potato Head toy! With 11 different accessories included, kids can use their imaginations for lots of creative play when they mix and match the parts in all kinds of ways to create their own tater. Little hands will have so much fun making their favorite Spudette look wacky by rearranging parts creating mixed-up faces. Conveniently store parts inside her Tater Tush! Most parts are compatible with other Mr. Potato Head and Mrs. Potato Head toys. (Each sold separately. Subject to availability.)

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:05:57am

re: #189 No Malarkey!

Cartoon sexual predator Pepe Le Pew has been cancelled.

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what actor (as it were) is guaranteed work?
not getting a part is ‘cancelled’? //

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:12:47am

re: #205 Dangerman

what actor (as it were) is guaranteed work?
not getting a part is ‘cancelled’? //

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Is everyone at BreitFART an asshole?

Oh why even bother asking that!

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Targetpractice  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:13:41am

If you know anybody who is screaming about Pepe being “canceled,” read out the scene as described by Deadline:

Pepe was set to appear in a black-and-white Casablanca-like Rick’s Cafe sequence. Pepe, playing a bartender, starts hitting on a woman at the bar played by [Greice] Santo. He begins kissing her arm, which she pulls back, then slamming Pepe into the chair next to hers. She then pours her drink on Pepe, and slaps him hard, sending him spinning in a stool, which is then stopped by LeBron James’ hand. James and Bugs Bunny are looking for Lola, and Pepe knows her whereabouts. Pepe then tells the guys that Penelope cat has filed a restraining order against him. James makes a remark in the script that Pepe can’t grab other Tunes without their consent.

Then ask them if they believe a scene like that belongs in a movie that is going to be aimed at and marketed to families. If they try to blather about a “teachable moment” or “parents should decide,” ask them why kids need a cartoon character to teach kids not to act like rapists.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:16:53am

re: #202 Eclectic Cyborg

I bet your average conservative walks past trans people EVERY DAY and doesn’t even REALIZE IT.

Oh they can spot us a mile away don’t ya know. Just have to have their gaydar modified with the new Transdar(tm) software module.

///

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gwangung  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:21:53am

re: #207 Targetpractice

If you know anybody who is screaming about Pepe being “canceled,” read out the scene as described by Deadline:

Then ask them if they believe a scene like that belongs in a movie that is going to be aimed at and marketed to families. If they try to blather about a “teachable moment” or “parents should decide,” ask them why kids need a cartoon character to teach kids not to act like rapists.

Simpler to me. It just ain’t very funny.

Not funny? Take it out!

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Targetpractice  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:22:32am

Another bit to hit any wingnuts with about Pepe being “canceled”: The decision to remove the scene was not driven by studio meddling or public outcry. It was a new director coming onto the film, reviewing the work done up to that point, and deciding the scene didn’t belong. This sort of shit happens in Hollywood all the time, they’ve actually made it part of their marketing strategy for home releases of their films to include “deleted scenes” on DVD/Blu-ray versions. So not to worry, by this time next year Pepe will be “uncancelled” when somebody uploads the original scene to Youtube.

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Targetpractice  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:24:38am

re: #209 gwangung

Simpler to me. It just ain’t very funny.

Not funny? Take it out!

Ayep. When the scene finally sees the light of day, it’ll result in a day-long blip in the news about how people can now view it on the home release, people will rush to see Pepe in all his glory…and then everybody will move on because they agree it wasn’t worth keeping in the film.

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:29:35am

re: #207 Targetpractice

If you know anybody who is screaming about Pepe being “canceled,” read out the scene as described by Deadline:

Then ask them if they believe a scene like that belongs in a movie that is going to be aimed at and marketed to families. If they try to blather about a “teachable moment” or “parents should decide,” ask them why kids need a cartoon character to teach kids not to act like rapists.

They should do it this way:

Bugs: Hey, Pepe.
Bartender: You mean my dad. I haven’t seen him in a while.
Bugs: Your dad? You mean he settled down.
Bartender: No. He just met my mom. One night, and she ripped his heart out when she left the next morning. I met him a few times when I found out. I knew the stories about him, but he was just broken.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:29:43am

re: #189 No Malarkey!

Cartoon sexual predator Pepe Le Pew has been cancelled.

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Did LeBron start a new political party, this Democrat party. Never heard of it.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:31:26am

re: #208 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Oh they can spot us a mile away don’t ya know. Just have to have their gaydar modified with the new Transdar(tm) software module.

///

But my brainwashed relatives will insist that the Bill Gates 5G chips in the Covid vaccines program them to accept transgendered people.

Yes one of them did post that stupid f’n shit too!

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(((Archangel1)))  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:31:32am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:38:52am

re: #214 🌹UOJB!

But my brainwashed relatives will insist that the Bill Gates 5G chips in the Covid vaccines program them to accept transgendered people.

Yes one of them did post that stupid f’n shit too!

Dammit! That wasn’t supposed to be released to the general population until AFTER we take over the world (or at least the Women’s restrooms).

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:51:21am

GQP defending the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:52:18am

re: #217 No Malarkey!

GQP defending the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee.

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Well Jim Bob did rape his daughters less than most ‘round here

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:53:45am

Irish Times on the whole Megan & Harry v. the entire concept of royalty:

“Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.

The contemporary royals have no real power. They serve entirely to enshrine classism in the British nonconstitution. They live in high luxury and low autonomy, cosplaying as their ancestors, and are the subject of constant psychosocial projection from people mourning the loss of empire. They’re basically a Rorschach test that the tabloids hold up in order to gauge what level of hysterical batshittery their readers are capable of at any moment in time.

The most recent internecine struggle is between the royal family and a newly disentangled Prince Harry and his wife, the former actor Meghan Markle. Traditionally, us peasants would be nervously picking a side and retrieving our pikes from the thatch. Luckily, these days the pitched battles happen in television interviews.

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 9:56:48am

re: #217 No Malarkey!

GQP defending the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee.

And the problem is that they fail to realize that is not praise.

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KGxvi  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:05:16am

re: #217 No Malarkey!

GQP defending the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee.

Can we compromise and install a bust of Forrest Gump?

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KGxvi  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:10:19am

re: #207 Targetpractice

If you know anybody who is screaming about Pepe being “canceled,” read out the scene as described by Deadline:

Then ask them if they believe a scene like that belongs in a movie that is going to be aimed at and marketed to families. If they try to blather about a “teachable moment” or “parents should decide,” ask them why kids need a cartoon character to teach kids not to act like rapists.

I mean, a creeper being humiliated for being a creeper isn’t necessarily a bad scene. But a scene in a movie being cut isn’t that big of a deal.

re: #212 Belafon

They should do it this way:

Bugs: Hey, Pepe.
Bartender: You mean my dad. I haven’t seen him in a while.
Bugs: Your dad? You mean he settled down.
Bartender: No. He just met my mom. One night, and she ripped his heart out when she left the next morning. I met him a few times when I found out. I knew the stories about him, but he was just broken.

A new generation wouldn’t be a bad idea… there’s probably something there, maybe.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:11:27am

re: #220 Belafon

And the problem is that they fail to realize that is not praise.

Right, as if the guy who only hits his wife once a week is a better example than the guy who hits his wife three times a week.

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Nyet  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:11:32am

re: #121 John Hughes

Yeah, German people are used to having their civil rights trampled, why, they aren’t even allowed to buy a copy of Mein Kampf!

They are now.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:14:15am

re: #222 KGxvi

I mean, a creeper being humiliated for being a creeper isn’t necessarily a bad scene. But a scene in a movie being cut isn’t that big of a deal.

A new generation wouldn’t be a bad idea… there’s probably something there, maybe.

Don’t know that it’s right for a kid’s movie though.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:16:39am

I wonder if Pepe LePew could be portrayed as a reformed ex-con, having undergone extensive therapy during his long sentence for sexual assault and stalking? What useful trade could he have learned on the inside? Pillow making is out, but there are other possibilities. It’s been about 60 years after all.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:24:17am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:25:23am

Gopt my appointment from the county for my 1st vaccine shot for next Monday - It’s either Pfizer or Moderna as it’s not J&J.

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:27:53am

re: #225 No Malarkey!

Don’t know that it’s right for a kid’s movie though.

The scene itself doesn’t really sound like it would fit in the story anyway. We should put it all in a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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Targetpractice  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:33:39am

re: #227 Patricia Kayden

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Running theme of the MAGAt grievance theater: Icons of straight, white, male culture are being “canceled” and that’s just wrong.

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aatharuv  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:34:58am

re: #19 TarHellion

Does Bernie control the crazies or give up 2 Senate seats and an EV state through 2024?

The DSA slate presumably won because presumably they were much better organized. Nevada has 2 Democratic senators, and a 3-1 congressional delegation.

Now the real question is can they can get out the vote and not just the activists and keep both House and Senate delegations Democratic. Democrats won some districts which are net Republican according to the cook PVI.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:40:59am

re: #227 Patricia Kayden

Erick son of Erick thinks the GQP made the right call.

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Belafon  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:44:23am

re: #232 No Malarkey!

Erick son of Erick thinks the GQP made the right call.

And Planet Fitness members are going to worry a lot about a man dressed like a woman.

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piratedan  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:47:06am

re: #232 No Malarkey!

well, when you have all of AM Outrage radio and three national broadcast networks, it strikes me that its entirely plausible to keep the outrage recycled and in the minds of their constituents. It’s easy to keep those that want to be pissed, pissed. We watched it with the demonization of the Clinton’s, e-mail protocols and Benghazi etc etc etc.

They don’t have policies and positions, they have grievances and as we’ve seen, when faced with real issues, they abdicate responsibility and point fingers.

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KGxvi  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:50:13am

re: #232 No Malarkey!

I think they need to learn what I’ve started learning — more voters will remember Seuss when they vote than the COVID plan.

There are a lot of SoCons still fighting the culture wars, like the proverbial Japanese Imperial Officer left on some island 30 years after the war ended… and they’ll probably be motivated by Dr Seuss or whatever stupid culture war thing happens between now and the next election.

But that is a fountain of diminishing returns. We know this because it was the game Trump played in two cycles and he managed to improve his vote share from 46% to a whopping 47%.

Most voters might not remember the Covid plan, but they will remember that Biden and the Dems got us out of quarantine. And that’s going to be something that will appeal to a lot more people than the culture war shit.

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:52:16am

The gift that keeps on Gabbing.

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Targetpractice  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:52:38am

re: #232 No Malarkey!

Erick son of Erick thinks the GQP made the right call.

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I’m so old, I remember when the GQP were gonna ride to a Congressional majority in 2018 on voter anger over Brett Kavanaugh’s life being “destroyed” because he liked beer and kept calendars.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:55:24am

re: #236 darthstar

The Hill puts it thusly:

“A little-known program carried out by President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) whipsawed small business for years, and to date no one has been held accountable. Federal officials pressured banks to close the accounts of businesses solely because they were ideologically opposed to their existence. This runs counter to the very principles of due process and fairness that form the backbone of our nation’s laws.

This program, known as Operation Choke Point, operated unrestrained for years. Officials at both the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) threatened banks with regulatory pressure if they did not bend to their will. Gun and ammunition dealers, payday lenders and other businesses operating legally suddenly found banks terminating their accounts with little explanation aside from “regulatory pressure.”

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:58:30am

States are in a competition to see who can enact the most restrictive voting laws. An Arizona bill would require absentee ballots to be postmarked five days before election day.

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:58:41am

Piers Morgan has agreed to leave his position on ITV morning television after over 40,000 complaints flooded in for his attacks against Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and walking off the show this morning when a guest called him on his behavior.

I guess he’s going to be as sycophantic in his defense of the Royal Family as he had been with Trump

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garzooma  Mar 9, 2021 • 10:58:42am

re: #238 Eclectic Cyborg

The Hill puts it thusly:

“A little-known program carried out by President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) whipsawed small business for years, and to date no one has been held accountable. Federal officials pressured banks to close the accounts of businesses solely because they were ideologically opposed to their existence. This runs counter to the very principles of due process and fairness that form the backbone of our nation’s laws.

This program, known as Operation Choke Point, operated unrestrained for years. Officials at both the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) threatened banks with regulatory pressure if they did not bend to their will. Gun and ammunition dealers, payday lenders and other businesses operating legally suddenly found banks terminating their accounts with little explanation aside from “regulatory pressure.”

Tell it to the judge.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:02:11am

re: #235 KGxvi

There are a lot of SoCons still fighting the culture wars, like the proverbial Japanese Imperial Officer left on some island 30 years after the war ended… and they’ll probably be motivated by Dr Seuss or whatever stupid culture war thing happens between now and the next election.

But that is a fountain of diminishing returns. We know this because it was the game Trump played in two cycles and he managed to improve his vote share from 46% to a whopping 47%.

Most voters might not remember the Covid plan, but they will remember that Biden and the Dems got us out of quarantine. And that’s going to be something that will appeal to a lot more people than the culture war shit.

The GQP knows their culture war shit has a limited and diminishing appeal. Their plan is simply to prevent people from voting, and if that doesn’t work, declare victory anyway. 2024-25 could see the worst political violence in America since the Civil War.

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:03:10am

re: #236 darthstar

Beat Dangerman by 3 seconds!

The gift that keeps on Gabbing.

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“Then they had the gaul to email me…”

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:03:13am

re: #236 darthstar

The gift that keeps on Gabbing.

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“Gaul”

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:03:29am

Honestly, I have no idea what Daughter of John said either.

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:05:01am

re: #238 Eclectic Cyborg

The Hill puts it thusly:

“A little-known program carried out by President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) whipsawed small business for years, and to date no one has been held accountable. Federal officials pressured banks to close the accounts of businesses solely because they were ideologically opposed to their existence. This runs counter to the very principles of due process and fairness that form the backbone of our nation’s laws.

This program, known as Operation Choke Point, operated unrestrained for years. Officials at both the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) threatened banks with regulatory pressure if they did not bend to their will. Gun and ammunition dealers, payday lenders and other businesses operating legally suddenly found banks terminating their accounts with little explanation aside from “regulatory pressure.”

And it ended several years ago

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lawhawk  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:10:37am
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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:11:16am

re: #239 No Malarkey!

States are in a competition to see who can enact the most restrictive voting laws. An Arizona bill would require absentee ballots to be postmarked five days before election day.

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Dangerman  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:12:26am

re: #243 BlueSpotinAL

re: #244 Dangerman

Three effing seconds!

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:14:34am

re: #246 Dangerman

And it ended several years ago

Yes…there is that. But that doesn’t stop them…wait until they hear about what happened in Benghazi in 2012.

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darthstar  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:15:34am

re: #248 Dangerman

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He’s got GOP on his shirt. I’m surprised the gun is pointed up.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:15:50am

Almost unanimous Democratic support for Covid relief bill, and heavy support from low income Republicans.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 9, 2021 • 11:16:03am

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