Trevor Noah: What the Hell Happened This Week? - Week of 3/22/21
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Maskless spring breakers in Miami, gender discrimination in the NCAA, and THESE DOGS ARE WEARING BOW TIES #DailyShow #News
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Too weird of a week. And Germany, lagging in vaccines, is being hit by the Third Wave…
Reality: a struggling single mom was able to feed her kids because school lunches were expanded at a nominal cost
Fox: ALL IS LOST ONLY DEATH REMAINS HELL AWAITS US ALL
now buy this pillow pic.twitter.com/OKOScv2HjG— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) March 26, 2021
Good things are bad when they are good for Scary Brown People.
Dang, I b0rked the thread.
OK, well, if you’re kinda snoozy this Friday, here’s the page I just did about how Fox News is getting called out for their “Lie-For-Profit” business model
re: #4 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
Dang, I b0rked the thread.
OK, well, if you’re kinda snoozy this Friday, here’s the page I just did about how Fox News is getting called out for their “Lie-For-Profit” business model
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as you mentioned earlier, fines and lawsuits will not cut it. People need to go to jail for sedition, aiding and abetting insurrection and inciting illegal acts.
re: #5 Dangerman
In a Massive Blow to Bad Cops, New York Effectively Ends Qualified Immunity
“You have noting to worry about if you aren’t doing anything wrong!!!”
re: #5 Dangerman
In a Massive Blow to Bad Cops, New York Effectively Ends Qualified Immunity
Make settlements come out of the police pension fund. It’ll stop immediately. The good apples will see to it.
The leader of Michigan’s Republican Party referred to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and two other top Democratic elected woman as “witches” and joked about assassination when asked how to remove two GOP congressman who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump,” the AP reports.
Nice, huh?
re: #8 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Make settlements come out of the police pension fund. It’ll stop immediately. The good apples will see to it.
Exactly.
And that is the essence of my gun accountability argument.
Make a dent
If it’s gonna cost your freedom finances and future many will behave better
How unusual. Republicans are seizing on a bullshit story that originated at Glenn Beck’s propaganda site and then was amplified by Politico. Who could ever have predicted that? https://t.co/AFnnIOyVsI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 26, 2021
The new mattress feels great. No sagging, fairly firm. Wife and I tried to remember when we had bought the old one. Couldn’t remember exactly but we figure it must have been 11 - 12 years ago. It was time.
Dude got his first vax. Mobility was not a problem. They had golf carts to cart people from the parking lot to the building. They offered him a wheelchair when he got inside, but he didn’t need it. He has no symptoms as of right now.
We are both extremely relieved to have had the first dose.
re: #12 Eventual Carrion
The new mattress feels great. No sagging, fairly firm. Wife and I tried to remember when we had bought the old one. Couldn’t remember exactly but we figure it must have been 11 - 12 years ago. It was time.
Mine is (much) older than that — although still comfortable with a three-inch foam pad. Now that I’m vaccinated, I plan to look into replacing it.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
How the fuck is Glenn Beck even still relevant?
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
How the fuck is Glenn Beck even still relevant?
anyone who is spreading GOP propaganda is still relevant
except Milo
no pedophilia rationalizers
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
How the fuck is Glenn Beck even still relevant?
He was doing that, “We need to all talk together” shtick for a while and people thought he was an a nice and changed good conservative.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Is Hunter in trouble for not shooting someone in the face?
I guess Hunter will have to resign as Chief of Staff.
re: #19 Belafon
I guess Hunter will have to resign as Chief of Staff.
give up his security clearance and stop running Biden Enterprises
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Can you imagine the conservative screeching if Biden bought himself a huge hotel and renamed it “Biden Tower”?
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
give up his security clearance and stop running Biden Enterprises
Give up his position as Czar for helping out Central America.
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
Can you imagine the conservative screeching if Biden bought himself a huge hotel and renamed it “Biden Tower”?
I stopped along time ago thinking about “what if a Democrat did/failed to do X, Y or Z?”
Dear Media,
This Hunter Biden story is all about the fact that Republicans have figured out you actually enjoy being played.
re: #22 aatharuv
Give up his position as Czar for helping out Central America.
Stop taking meetings with evil oil barons & shaking them down for “loans” for his daddy’s failing properties?
re: #26 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
Stop taking meetings with evil oil barons & shaking them down for “loans” for his daddy’s failing properties?
Would it help if Hunter approved of a reporter getting dismembered?
re: #27 Belafon
Would it help if Hunter approved of a reporter getting dismembered?
Only if that reporter had previously talked shit about his dad, and Hunter had green-lighted the reporter’s dismemberment.
Christ. Just remembering all the sleazy, criminal shit the Trumps got up to while they were in power makes me physically sick.
re: #27 Belafon
Would it help if Hunter approved of a reporter getting dismembered?
It’s dark in here…
TIL I’m at the “would love to cuddle a rhino” stage of isolation https://t.co/42lUfuFqvn
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) March 26, 2021
re: #4 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
Dang, I b0rked the thread.
OK, well, if you’re kinda snoozy this Friday, here’s the page I just did about how Fox News is getting called out for their “Lie-For-Profit” business model
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I wish Dominion also was suing the individual hosts on Fox for their words. They could defend themselves by saying they were just reading the script to them provided by the network.
re: #30 wrenchwench
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my head is so heavy
TIL I’m at the “would love to cuddle a rhino” stage of isolation https://t.co/42lUfuFqvn
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) March 26, 2021
Fucking right-wing assholes.
Very beyond parody.
First, and for clarity:
The “bill” in question is not remotely a serious effort at legislation. This is @RepJohnJoyce’s performative display of deplorableness. Nothing more. https://t.co/A95GgoBX6P— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) March 26, 2021
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
Can you imagine the conservative screeching if Biden bought himself a huge hotel and renamed it “Biden Tower”?
NOTHING compared to Joe getting Chinese money to buy a bunch of golf courses!
Meanwhile relatives are now attacking Joe because he does NOT play golf…
Miss the bus to Cancun did you? @tedcruz https://t.co/fursMJHBms
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) March 26, 2021
“They are filed and given all the necessary readings and assignments purely so lawmakers can strip them and put in something new at the last minute, with little public input. They are fish waiting to be gutted and turkeys waiting to be stuffed,” from @drdesrochers https://t.co/nSLIMKEXHe
— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) March 26, 2021
show me one person under 40 in this picture https://t.co/1Yb3W2qMKu
— tinfoil crown brennam (@LazyTinfoil) March 26, 2021
re: #33 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Fucking right-wing assholes.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Now, let’s talk to them about The Last Temptation of Christ.
re: #33 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The “bill” in question is not remotely a serious effort at legislation. This is
Rep John Joyce’s performative display of deplorableness. Nothing more.
one state, two state
red state, blue state
now completely screwed state
re: #33 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Fucking right-wing assholes.
We’re still in a fucking pandemic and this is what they choose to waste their time on.
Guy loses in Nevada in November. Comes back four months later as a bull rider in Texas.
You should see @danrodimer’s Cher impression. He kills!
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 26, 2021
re: #33 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Fucking right-wing assholes.
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Another Peoples Republican, trying to nationalize private media. He is even aligned with the Kremlin. What more does it take?
The John Birch Soviet, er Society, has long tried to warn us about the communist menace. What they didn’t tell us is that they are it.
re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth
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- there is no ‘crisis’
it’s been going on 30-40 years
- you wont see it ‘playing out’
it’s not gonna be resolved today, tomorrow or this month
Miss the bus to Cancun did you? @tedcruz https://t.co/fursMJHBms
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) March 26, 2021
So the darlings from Covington Catholic HS (remember the MAGA hat kid?) are appealing the Kentucky state court’s dismissal of their case against me for tweets I sent out during the incident on the national mall. They want $$$ and to set a precedent.
I will not back down. Ever. pic.twitter.com/KXJjtqqI11— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) March 26, 2021
😂😂😂😂😂
Season 7 of Lost looks really bad. pic.twitter.com/AdEZ1esFD1
— Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) March 26, 2021
re: #41 Eclectic Cyborg
We’re still in a fucking pandemic and this is what they choose to waste their time on.
let em
He
Could
Be
Anywhere
I just can’t….every time I see this I start laughing. I bet that’s really just some kind of weird pond he has in his backyard. https://t.co/E1pEIq3qWm— ❄️Julie❄️ShadyTomatoStudio (@vintagegoddess) March 26, 2021
You’re in a Border Patrol boat armed with machine guns.
The only threat you face is unarmed children and families who are seeking asylum (as well as the occasional heckler).
If you’re looking for a crisis to cosplay Senator for, I’m happy to point you in the right direction. https://t.co/mDyWs6rQOM— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021
re: #45 Dangerman
- there is no ‘crisis’
it’s been going on 30-40 years
- you wont see it ‘playing out’
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ps ted
what have you individually and specifically done in the last 8 years regarding immigration - and i dont mean voting
re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The “bill” in question is not remotely a serious effort at legislation. This is
Rep John Joyce’s performative display of deplorableness. Nothing more.one state, two state
red state, blue state
now completely screwed state
I will not help immigrants with a coat,
I will not help them on a boat.
I will not help to keep them safe,
I will not help them. Will not, I say!
I will not help them in a car.
I will not help them near or far.
I will not help to give them hope.
I just won’t do it. Nope nope nope!
I will not help them find a home,
I will not help them get a phone.
I will not help improve their health.
I will not do it! I will not help!
I will not help girl, boy or man,
I will not help them, Mitch I am!
THANK GOD YOU SURVIVED THE HECKLING! https://t.co/IT7vQdldWy
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021
We will not live in fear and we will not be controlled. We have a right to our future and a right to our freedom. We will come together and continue fighting white supremacy in all its forms. https://t.co/kKsiPZBuqV
— Representative Park Cannon (@Cannonfor58) March 26, 2021
Thank you all for the your love and support. My family, team and I are going to take some time to rest and refuel so that we may continue this fight, as this is just the beginning. pic.twitter.com/i6IiKa8Vkd
— Representative Park Cannon (@Cannonfor58) March 26, 2021
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
Countless women + children.
And you guys are wanting to shoot them? Do you understand why sane and rational Americans hate you and call you monsters?
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
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not our pond for sure
He
Could
Be
Anywhere
I just can’t….every time I see this I start laughing. I bet that’s really just some kind of weird pond he has in his backyard. https://t.co/E1pEIq3qWm— ❄️Julie❄️ShadyTomatoStudio (@vintagegoddess) March 26, 2021
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
By “fair” they mean that Republicans have at least an even chance of winning despite having massively unpopular positions and fewer voters. They see a horse race, not democracy. They loathe democracy.
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
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cartels?
multiple?
how did you identify them?
and biden has to address this immediately?
this goes back 40+ years.
you’ve been a senator for 8.
what have you done?
wtf is wrong with you?
THANK GOD YOU SURVIVED THE HECKLING! https://t.co/IT7vQdldWy
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021
re: #60 Dangerman
countless hordes! heckling!
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
What Senate Republicans need to do, immediately, is fuck themselves massively and repeatedly with rusty farm implements.
Let me guess: The GOP senators are on some rich Republican assholes property near the border and just doing all of this for theater?
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
Let me guess: The GOP senators are on some rich Republican assholes property near the border and just doing all of this for theater?
Ted Cruz was giving them a tour of his drug-running operation.///
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
Let me guess: The GOP senators are on some rich Republican assholes property near the border and just doing all of this for theater?
Asshole is seriously redundant there. GoddamnRepublicanAsshole needs to get into the language as a shorter word.
Biden on new Georgia voting law: “This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century. It must end. We have a moral and Constitutional obligation to act.” Repeats call for passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. “I will take my case to the American people,” he vows. pic.twitter.com/oR0SvQz7Zx
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 26, 2021
The ghost of lizards past. pic.twitter.com/ItVCxLFlyy
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) March 26, 2021
Mike Pompeo will never be president.
Pass it on https://t.co/24bJHF2Qpx— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 26, 2021
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Jen Psaki telling Fox News to cry more is my Friday mood. pic.twitter.com/hrzQbg8Qso
— Anita (@AnitaM86) March 26, 2021
re: #71 Belafon
What did she say?
Doocy was whining about the list of reporters the President calls on, and asking why Fox has never been on the list. Psaki basically said, “Are we talking right now? Has the President taken your questions? Then STFU and have a nice day.”
re: #71 Belafon
What did she say?
He was complaining that Fox reporters [sic] never get called on and she said “Didn’t I just call on you now?”
Always a good sign when the most racist person in the room, who also isn’t a lawyer, tries to start a legal org https://t.co/XkGymt7JYu
— jesse taylor (@jesseltaylor) March 26, 2021
this is one of the most inscrutable things i’ve ever seen - it’s actually so strange it might not even be mockable https://t.co/k6eEI8I1uW
— jesse taylor (@jesseltaylor) March 26, 2021
This looks like a considerable improvement from their last outing.
The Suicide Squad - directed by James Gunn. Red Band trailer, so in a spoiler tag:
Ted Cruz, who was born in Calgary, Canada, to a father, who was born in Mantanza, Cuba, is bitching and moaning about people wanting to come to the country he came to. 😒
— Not Trying To Help (@katcourt78664) March 26, 2021
BEHOLD, THE HECKLING!!!
We encountered human traffickers & cartel members tonight, yelling at us across the Rio Grande and preparing to cross. #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/yXl3AyUIPd
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 26, 2021
re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s the second in a Human Centipede chain?
There is no shmurah matzah in Orlando. Something is wrong here.
— Liddle Pecan Pie (@Pie_Overlord) March 26, 2021
Boat falls onto highway in Florida, blocks traffic https://t.co/WDhXYj2AB9 pic.twitter.com/sACPKFfnZU
— Orlando Sentinel (@orlandosentinel) March 26, 2021
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well, here we fucking go….first the Suez Canal, then that little boat in Britain, and now this shit?
We’re boned, I tell ya.
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
This isn’t funny. Boats only do this when they’re VERY distressed.
— Cari Hernandez (@eatinginmycar) March 26, 2021
re: #84 Dr Lizardo
Well, here we fucking go….first the Suez Canal, then that little boat in Britain, and now this shit?
We’re boned, I tell ya.
Everyone thought it would be the robots. No one expected the boats.
re: #86 Belafon
Everyone thought it would be the robots. No one expected the boats.
Well, I, for one, welcome our new boat-y overlords.
Uffington’s prehistoric white horse. This is the oldest hill figure in the United Kingdom, thought to be over 3,000 years old. It is big too, at 360 ft in length, situated high above the dramatic steep hillscape.https://t.co/lUKLR03JcQ#uffingtonwhitehorse #valeofthewhitehorse pic.twitter.com/DkuSEqg39B
— Hedley Thorne (@thorneh) March 26, 2021
The Suez Canal Authority hasn’t gotten the ship unstuck yet but they did make this great sizzle reel of them not getting the ship unstuck set to what sounds like a royalty-free version of the Tenet soundtrack https://t.co/WEf27ekums pic.twitter.com/ZRTeO3m7yU
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) March 25, 2021
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
This looks like a considerable improvement from their last outing.
The Suicide Squad - directed by James Gunn. Red Band trailer, so in a spoiler tag:
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Looks a heck of a lot more interesting than the grim dark x1000 Zackie Cut.
The @SecondGentleman and I enjoyed participating in the White House’s Virtual Passover Celebration. To Jewish families in the U.S., the State of Israel, and across the globe: Happy Passover. Next year in person! pic.twitter.com/0u72fERGaU
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) March 26, 2021
White people under 50 who think they would have done something to stop Jim Crow if they had been around in the 50s and 60s… Georgia is calling your damn bluff.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 26, 2021
re: #90 William Lewis
Looks a heck of a lot more interesting than the grim dark x1000 Zackie Cut.
Yeah - it looks a bit cheesy, but in a good way. One of the reasons the first Guardians of the Galaxy was the hit that it was is because it was fun. It wasn’t all that terribly serious, it was occasionally goofy…and there’s nothing wrong with that at all.
Everyone got all “dark and gritty” after Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, but Nolan wanted to make a comic-book superhero film that was (more or less) grounded in reality. He absolutely hit it out of the ballpark with The Dark Knight, which is easily one of the greatest comic-book superhero films ever made, perhaps even the greatest.
But that doesn’t mean that all such films need to be a rehash of The Dark Knight.
Time warp: Six white guys hovering, as the GA governor signs the biggest and most egregious roll back in voting rights since Jim Crow.
(I guess the only positive thing you can say is that at least they were wearing masks!) https://t.co/ypp7k9GoWF— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 26, 2021
The Biden administration is sending a team of dredging experts to the Suez Canal after the government of Egypt accepted an offer of help from the US government. https://t.co/fBXXKXlgHH
— What Biden Has Done (@What46HasDone) March 26, 2021
Yes, Mexican drug cartels are infamous for their merciless heckling. https://t.co/vatc6Qbmyh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 26, 2021
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
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fortunately it aint up to the people in that room
Mike Pompeo will never be president.
Pass it on https://t.co/24bJHF2Qpx— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 26, 2021
re: #97 Charles Johnson
Ted Cruz: “Anyone who heckles me is a cartel.”
re: #69 The Pie Overlord!
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i thought he was taller
you too
;-)
mazel tov
Chag Pesach Sameach
So how much cash did you guys drop at the strip club?
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) March 26, 2021
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Most Republicans of today would have been standing tall by Bull Connor’s side.
Wait isn’t this illegal? https://t.co/Ht6BfATUC0
— NAACP (@NAACP) March 26, 2021
only if you’re not white
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
And if you don’t think it’s a return to Jim Crow, go get your head examined. It’s not about you.
re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Oh Faux gnus, FUCK YOUR FEELINGS YOU WHINNY FUCKS. Biden should call on them once just to call them FAKE NEWS and then move to the next question.
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
in a nutshell: I’m having a conversation with you right now…
more accurately, the administration is having a conversation with you right now. do you think an answer from him would be different than an answer from me?
he’s complaining fox is not ‘on the list’
since she takes his questions, and he admitted that biden has taken his questions, this ‘list’ is kind of meaningless
For some reason the feds have decided to mail us our latest stimulus check rather than direct depositing it like the previous two. Weird.
re: #82 The Pie Overlord!
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there is plenty of Manischewitz in broward
concord grape and cream white
no thanks
you can have them both
The trump legacy continues:
After oil rained onto a U.S. Virgin Islands community, the EPA pulled a key permit for the refinery
ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands - Two hours after midnight in this island paradise, a cloudy vapor rose from a massive oil refinery and floated over nearby homes as quietly as a ghost.
The fine mist of oil and water from Limetree Bay Refining rained down on the community of Clifton Hill, showering the slick mix onto cars, gardens, rooftops and cisterns filled with rainwater that residents use for daily tasks.
The vapor, caused by a pressure release valve triggered by an accident on Feb. 4, came three days after the Limetree Bay refinery reopened for the first time in nearly a decade, and the incident prompted the Biden administration to investigate. The Trump administration had approved the reopening of the plant, which had shut down after facing a deluge of lawsuits alleging serious environmental violations.
(More in the article)
re: #85 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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out of the sky or off a truck?
it’s important
Boat falls onto highway in Florida, blocks traffic https://t.co/WDhXYj2AB9 pic.twitter.com/sACPKFfnZU
— Orlando Sentinel (@orlandosentinel) March 26, 2021
re: #98 Dangerman
fortunately it aint up to the people in that room
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David Crosby has really let himself go if that picture is to be believed.
Time to call it a day. Have a good one Lizards, and stay healthy.
re: #111 Dangerman
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“OH GILLIGAN YOU MESSED UP AGAIN!”
“SORRY, SKIPPER!”
re: #86 Belafon
Everyone thought it would be the robots. No one expected the boats.
This is one case where we’re NOT going to need a bigger boat.
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🖕🖕🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/QWOtIduKxx
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 26, 2021
“The New York attorney general’s office has partnered with Manhattan’s district attorney to investigate Stephen Bannon for the alleged fundraising scam that prompted his federal pardon in the waning hours of Donald Trump’s presidency,” the Washington Post reports.“The move adds prosecutorial firepower to a criminal case widely seen as an attempted end-run around the former president’s bid to protect a political ally.”
it sucks when they talk to each other //
Cartels don’t “heckle.”
@tedcruz is a boob. https://t.co/x322TJkOdp— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) March 26, 2021
re: #107 DesertDenizen
For some reason the feds have decided to mail us our latest stimulus check rather than direct depositing it like the previous two. Weird.
My first check was mailed (late). My second was a debit card. My third was direct-deposited. Weirder.
re: #104 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
And if you don’t think it’s a return to Jim Crow, go get your head examined. It’s not about you.
I can’t upvote this enough. Jim Crow didn’t happen immediately. Even as Jim Crow was being built up, African Americans still had _some_ political power, and some ability to influence things, but their power kept on decreasing. It took _decades_ to implement, starting from the corrupt bargain that ended Reconstruction, to voting rights restrictions, to 25 years later when the last African American member of the House of Representatives left.
It also took decades to undo, starting from the first African American representatives returning to the House of Representatives to… we’re much better than the 1940’s but we’re still not where we should be.
re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth
Is this a buttfucking reference? It seems as though it is.
re: #119 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
My first check was mailed (late). My second was a debit card. My third was direct-deposited. Weirder.
We didn’t change anything from last year either, tax wise. We did owe this year and had to pay, but that seems a strange reason to mail a check instead of direct deposit.
re: #119 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
My first check was mailed (late). My second was a debit card. My third was direct-deposited. Weirder.
And I’d hate to get it as a debit card. I want it in my account since I’m paying off a credit card with a big chunk of it.
.@tedcruz if you can’t handle a few hecklers maybe you shouldn’t have gone into standup comedy
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) March 26, 2021
re: #69 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #122 DesertDenizen
We didn’t change anything from last year either, tax wise. We did owe this year and had to pay, but that seems a strange reason to mail a check instead of direct deposit.
I haven’t filed yet. I usually owe the state about what I get back from the feds. Might be different this year.
re: #123 DesertDenizen
And I’d hate to get it as a debit card. I want it in my account since I’m paying off a credit card with a big chunk of it.
I deposited the debit card in my checking account.
re: #106 Dangerman
more accurately, the administration is having a conversation with you right now. do you think an answer from him would be different than an answer from me?
he’s complaining fox is not ‘on the list’
since she takes his questions, and he admitted that biden has taken his questions, this ‘list’ is kind of meaningless
No one is more oppressed than the son of the guy who hosts fox and friends.
pic.twitter.com/Kcy2NdkyRE— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) March 26, 2021
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Exactly what I was thinking. People that want to fly under the radar don’t advertise their presence and position. I call bullshit.
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We were heckled by cartels
Did they use sarcasm? Might have been the Piranha Gang.
re: #130 garzooma
Did they use sarcasm? Might have been the Piranha Gang.
If Cruz goes back there, they shall taunt him some more.
re: #82 The Pie Overlord!
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A Manischewitz shortage is proof that god loves us.
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last!!
also, umpteenth rerun of Maccabeats’ best Passover song:
re: #43 darthstar
I’m rooting for the bull. Always.
re: #133 HRH Stanley Sea
Hey, anything from Decatur Deb??
I haven’t seen anything since the last bunch of tornadoes. Hope it is just power, but concerned.
you’d think that a GOP asshole, suggesting that two sitting Congressman be assassinated, might call for a visit from the FBI - no knock style? https://t.co/nQbJ7aBbTS
— Gregg Smith (@GreggSmithCO3) March 26, 2021
re: #136 retired cynic
I haven’t seen anything since the last bunch of tornadoes. Hope it is just power, but concerned.
He was last here on Wednesday.
So, he means that Americans are fleeing into Canada?
— Liddle Pecan Pie (@Pie_Overlord) March 26, 2021
re: #137 PrairieQueen
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you’d think that a GOP asshole, suggesting that two sitting Congressman be assassinated, might call for a visit from the FBI - no knock style? https://t.co/nQbJ7aBbTS
— Gregg Smith (@GreggSmithCO3) March 26, 2021
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
This looks like a considerable improvement from their last outing.
The Suicide Squad - directed by James Gunn. Red Band trailer, so in a spoiler tag:
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Yes it does. But that’s a pretty easy upgrade since the last one sucked. Idris and Nathan Fillion. I’m in!
I propose we start referring to the Fox reporter guy as Steve Douche-y from here on out.
re: #141 Dangerman
it was a joke
i was just kidding….
This is a joke:
“When I was in the Senate 120,000 years ago, I had to walk uphill barefoot on burning rocks in the snow both to and from the chambers, while battling sabertooth tigers, wooly mammoths, and Republicans”.
This is not a joke:
‘Discussions of assasination, and violent and fraudulent governmental change.’
Any questions?
re: #144 aatharuv
This is a joke:
“When I was in the Senate 120,000 years ago, I had to walk uphill barefoot on burning rocks in the snow both to and from the chambers, while battling sabertooth tigers, wooly mammoths, and Republicans”.
This is not a joke:
‘Discussions of assasination, and violent and fraudulent governmental change.’
Any questions?
He’s a republican…
re: #143 Eclectic Cyborg
I propose we start referring to the Fox reporter guy as Steve Douche-y from here on out.
Friends of mine in Arizona refer to their governor, Doug Ducey, in the same way.
As we recall the Passover story of overcoming adversity, finding hope, and becoming free, we find a renewed salience. This weekend, as Seders close with the familiar refrain, “Next year in Jerusalem,” we offer an additional prayer: Next year in person. Next year, together. pic.twitter.com/TBU2dXMPCQ
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 26, 2021
The internet is undefeated.. 😂
Sound on pic.twitter.com/OilHUYbuBh— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) March 26, 2021
Is that damn ship still suck in the Suez?
OK, that’s enough whining out of you. Nice socks, though. Next question? pic.twitter.com/zdW1DeY5QV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 26, 2021
re: #147 aatharuv
Friends of mine in Arizona refer to their governor, Doug Ducey, in the same way.
As an Arizonan I can confirm. Governor Ice Cream never really caught on.
The former traffic reporter in me couldn’t resist giving you a Suez Canal traffic update… pic.twitter.com/1CssLkQDty
— Jon Hansen (@JonHansenTV) March 26, 2021
re: #128 Dangerman
Doocy’s seem to have some very thin skin - I remember when Jesse Ventura tore apart his old man on Fox and Friends earlier in the 2010’s.
re: #5 Dangerman
In a Massive Blow to Bad Cops, New York Effectively Ends Qualified Immunity
That’s great news!! I’m shocked!
take a fucking seat, Lindsey
Lindsey Graham calls the border “the biggest issue facing the country in many ways right now” pic.twitter.com/0rwkkKOzRO
— Brennan Murphy (@brenonade) March 26, 2021
re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s not a happy cat.
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
If a top ten list of the biggest issues facing the US were compiled, Republicans one way or another would be responsible for all of them.
re: #161 EPR-radar
If a top ten list of the biggest issues facing the US were compiled, Republicans one way or another would be responsible for all of them.
The GOP Motto: “We make messes, whine and complain while adults clean them up, then take credit for it so we can make more messes again.”
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
take a fucking seat, Lindsey
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Doesn’t feel like it down here on the border. At least not on my little piece of it. The city is worried about refugees being released here without adequate resources, so we have requested that if people are released here that the city or local non profits be given resources to house and feed them. But that’s not what the GQP assholes are talking about.
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
take a fucking seat, Lindsey
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The report on the Lincoln project financials: https:\lincolnproject.us\wp-content\uploads\2021\03\2020-Stewardship-Report-The-Lincoln-Project.pdf?force_isolation=true (change the backslashed to forward to see the pdf)
from DK:
There is a lot in that report — a lot. The below is what interested me the most —
The marketing results appear between pages 7 and 9. In the end they were the number four marketers of the year — just behind McDonalds and Lowes and Tiktok. Their reach was very impressive. Much greater than I thought. Think they may have tipped 42,918 votes we needed — really?
Between pages 10 and 13 they lay out case studies of certain ads. The average ad was 30K production costs. It lays out time to produce (sometimes 3 hours) and their analysis on the effect. They ran 300 of them. Seems like some of their better ones were actually cheaper.
Go to pages 29 and 30 — that is their finances. On page 29 it is for all costs, but on page 30 it breaks out costs related solely for the two main firms controlled by 2 members within the totals. These are not disputable — they were reviewed by outside counsel and an outside compliance firm. No bullshit from people that could not possibly have known the internals — this is the real deal. 81 percent of that is costs of money raising, advertising, production costs (mostly advertising). And I am not counting live streaming, townhalls, and support they paid to help other PACs (Meidas Touch was one of them) and a myriad of overhead costs, legal, compliance etc…. All laid out for everyone. Take a look.
Now — about those two firms above — Summit and Tusk — they were indeed paid 49.7 million dollars — but guess what — almost all the advertising and production costs — they paid! 7 million of the 9 million production costs they paid —37 million of the advertising costs — were paid by them. And it goes on like that. The principals — how much were they paid? — they AND their staff got all together 7 million total — all of the principals and all their staff combined. That’s it.
This is not subject to speculation any more — this is what happened for real. It was independently checked — twice — by actual professionals. Not news paper opinion.
They raised actually 91 million dollars and spent 89 million (thru the Georgia run-offs.)
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
A lot of problems would be solved if those guys would just stay down there.
re: #161 EPR-radar
If a top ten list of the biggest issues facing the US were compiled, Republicans one way or another would be responsible for all of them.
Okay, let’s give it a shot. In no particular order:
1. Pandemic
2. Economic Anxiety
3. Russia
4. Gun violence / mass shootings
5. Immigration / Border
6. Racial tensions
7. Restriction / curtailing of voting rights
8. Spiraling healthcare costs
9. Opioid crisis.
10. Mental health crisis
Yep, I’d say your theory holds.
Anthime Gionet, the prominent white nationalist personality known as “Baked Alaska,” has asked a federal judge to remove a GPS monitor he’s been wearing since his arrest for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, saying he “does not come from a background of violence” and loves police.His argument, though, stands in sharp contrast to the charges he faces for breaching the building and live-streaming his parade through the halls. The FBI, in charging documents, noted that Gionet screamed at a Capitol police officer, labeling him a “f—-ing oathbreaker” and a “piece of s—-” as police sought to usher rioters out of the building.
‘Baked Alaska’ charged for breaching the Capitol, asks judge to remove GPS monitor (Politico)
The is a damning admission from the @USMC about the state of their AAVs — armored, tracked vehicles almost 5-decades old that ferry Marines and sailors from ship to shore and back. The MAJORITY of them failed inspections after 9 were killed last July. pic.twitter.com/pCGxfd9qra
— Andrew Dyer (@SDUTdyer) March 26, 2021
re: #168 Punish Domestic Terrorists
‘Baked Alaska’ charged for breaching the Capitol, asks judge to remove GPS monitor (Politico)
no.
next case
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
And so all this money we are throwing at DOD every budget session is going…where?
/
nyt / Paul Krugman
“That same loss of seriousness, I’d suggest, inhibited their ability to effectively oppose Biden’s rescue plan. They couldn’t do the hard thinking required to settle on a plausible line of attack. So while Democrats were pushing through tax credits that will cut child poverty nearly in half and subsidies that will make health insurance more affordable, Republicans were focused on cancel culture and Dr. Seuss.”
“And looking forward, why should we expect the G.O.P. to do any better in opposing Biden’s longer-term initiatives?”
Black people are saying it. Civil rights activists are saying it. Voter suppression is always targeted at Black votes & voting. “Dems say” reduces this outrage to just a partisan struggle rather than a violation of the civil rights of Black and Latino voters & communities. https://t.co/u4zctxYyDJ
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) March 26, 2021
re: #168 Punish Domestic Terrorists
‘Baked Alaska’ charged for breaching the Capitol, asks judge to remove GPS monitor (Politico)
They should do him like this:
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Republicans are effectively returning….”
Returning to it???
They never FUCKING LEFT!
Where have these people been??
This is Maisy. She gets an additional birthday hat for each birthday, and she just turned six. 13/10 not sure how long this can continue pic.twitter.com/qc7uqw8cck
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 25, 2021
i hope they consider lining them up on her back like a stegosaurus
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 25, 2021
Republicans will bring meth manufacturing jobs back to America! https://t.co/N0ArEl1jYP
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 26, 2021
Oh, crap. I agree with Meghan. Satan, I rebuke thee!
Truly brilliant way to completely screw over lower income and middle class Americans!
And every single person living in a rural area who has to drive far to get places! Just brilliant Pete, truly. https://t.co/z4IgJ8Nly5— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 26, 2021
In a statement he just issued, Trump uses the horrible Georgia voter-suppression law to justify his Big Lie. The GOP is a closed feedback loop of political thuggery and authoritarianism. pic.twitter.com/Y8yjjHU5kG
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 26, 2021
re: #179 Barefoot Grin
Oh, crap. I agree with Meghan. Satan, I rebuke thee!
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We’re currently taxing drivers based on the gasoline they use. So Tesla drivers pay nothing.
re: #181 garzooma
We’re currently taxing drivers based on the gasoline they use. So Tesla drivers pay nothing.
And lower income people are likely to drive older, less fuel efficient cars.
re: #172 Dangerman
Krugman is the best reason for reading The NY Times.
Apparently they only have one printout of the graph pic.twitter.com/UtC9tFgKuN
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 26, 2021
I can’t possibly think it would be feasible to tax drivers by the mile. You’d need a sizable infrastructure just to enforce that and even if you went that far, people would just lie about their actual mileage anyway.
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t possibly think it would be feasible to tax drivers by the mile. You’d need a sizable infrastructure just to enforce that and even if you went that far, people would just lie about their actual mileage anyway.
Uber drivers would be fucked.
This @SenateGOP indy horror film, “The Border”, gets 1/2 star, and that’s just for the night shoot.
— Terry Kinney (@RealTerryKinney) March 26, 2021
What if someone dressed as Jesus hands out loaves, fish, and water to voters in Georgia?
Please, Georgia, arrest Jesus. Please, please, please do that.— JRehling (@JRehling) March 26, 2021
re: #182 calochortus
And lower income people are likely to drive older, less fuel efficient cars.
Roads are mostly damaged by heavy vehicles (think big rig trucks, etc.) Weight is by far the most important component. The ‘fair’ way to tax this from a maintenance standpoint would put trucking companies out of business. I don’t know what the best answer is; it’s a complicated problem.
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
take a fucking seat, Lindsey
Having traitors like Lindsey Graham running around free to plot more treason is much more of a problem than immigration.
I grew up a hunter and served as an Army Ranger.
I didn’t take my deer hunting rifle to Afghanistan, nor did I take my assault rifle deer hunting.
Don’t be fooled by the gun lobby. The type of gun matters.
Weapons of war have no place in our communities.— Rep. Jason Crow (@RepJasonCrow) March 26, 2021
re: #190 JC1
Roads are mostly damaged by heavy vehicles (think big rig trucks, etc.) Weight is by far the most important component. The ‘fair’ way to tax this from a maintenance standpoint would put trucking companies out of business. I don’t know what the best answer is; it’s a complicated problem.
Don’t trucks pay significant road taxes? Maybe not enough to pay for the damage, but I’m not averse to subsidizing the trucks that bring my stuff to stores near me.
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t possibly think it would be feasible to tax drivers by the mile. You’d need a sizable infrastructure just to enforce that and even if you went that far, people would just lie about their actual mileage anyway.
the tracking tech is in the vaccine. //
re: #195 Dangerman
the tracking tech is in the vaccine. //
Mine doesn’t seem to work. Or else I’m so boring no one wants to track me.
re: #196 calochortus
Mine doesn’t seem to work. Or else I’m so boring no one wants to track me.
wait till that “Infrastructure ” bill passes
Scotland beat France for the first time in Paris since 1999, down a man for the last ten minutes after Finn Russell was sent off for a high arm tackle. Wales win the Six Nations, top of the table after all matches complete.
re: #197 Dangerman
wait till that “Infrastructure ” bill passes
I’ll just have to be patient, I guess.
re: #194 calochortus
Don’t trucks pay significant road taxes? Maybe not enough to pay for the damage, but I’m not averse to subsidizing the trucks that bring my stuff to stores near me.
You’ve seen those truck weigh stations by the side of the highway? That’s because, in addition to per-gallon gas tax, they’re also taxed by the pound for traveling on the interstates.
re: #179 Barefoot Grin
If rural drivers drive more than urban drivers, then rural drivers need more gasoline than urban drivers. (It’s not 1:1 because city driving is more inefficient than highway driving.)
If rural drivers buy more gasoline, then they are paying more gasoline taxes already.
Arizona-Saddam finds himself in a world of shit in Lubbock.
Arizona man charged after allegedly holding National Guard convoy at gunpoint
Besides the state charges of unlawful detention, impersonating a public servant, interfering with state military forces etc. the poor fool has also been nailed with a federal charge of assaulting a federal officer. I’m guessing there was a PHS officer with the National Guard crew but I don’t know for sure.
re: #201 sagehen
You’ve seen those truck weigh stations by the side of the highway? That’s because, in addition to per-gallon gas tax, they’re also taxed by the pound for traveling on the interstates.
I dont think very many of them are active here in Texas.
California opening Covid vaccines to anyone 50+ starting April 1. 16+ after April 15.
“While it is true that roughly 22% of Blacks live in poverty, that means 78% do not. Why white people don’t focus on the 78% is a complicated question. Is it that they don’t know? That they don’t want to know?” https://t.co/RB7UOJkUrg
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 26, 2021
And if you’re living in Iowa and buy gasohol, your car is going to need more fuel per mile (YMMV is literally true here), which means you’re going to buy more volume, hence more money at the gasoline station.
Even if gasohol is the great socialist program for Iowa (the Republicans there will never admit it), whatever taxes Iowans pay at the pump, they already pay more than if they had to consume say half that volume.
Personally I think vehicle taxes have to be taxed by both distance and weight. Gasoline taxes are a proxy for distance already.
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t possibly think it would be feasible to tax drivers by the mile. You’d need a sizable infrastructure just to enforce that and even if you went that far, people would just lie about their actual mileage anyway.
Your mileage gets recorded when you get your car inspected.
re: #200 calochortus
I’ll just have to be patient, I guess.
if you got a shot you already were a patient//
re: #183 Patricia Kayden
Krugman is the
bestonly reason for reading The NY Times.
re: #208 Belafon
Your mileage gets recorded when you get your car inspected.
car inspections??? ;-)
this is florida
no mechanicals
no emissions
no nothing
Sidney Powell’s lies about Dominion were terrible
But she only lit the spark, Fox made it into a blaze
They did wrong & now they will face justice as I explained w/ @BrookeBaldwin on @CNN pic.twitter.com/1cg2CGJYLr— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) March 26, 2021
We’re addressing the pandemic by preventing future outbreaks and taking care of wildlife. The American Rescue Plan invests in wildlife-related pandemic issues, with $105 million to @USFWS to prevent wildlife trafficking and disease outbreaks. https://t.co/7jQ08rXAlq pic.twitter.com/gNtoOCQ1ZW
— Secretary Deb Haaland (@SecDebHaaland) March 26, 2021
re: #183 Patricia Kayden
re: #211 Sherlock Hound
I just keep direct bookmarks to the few people I like at the NYT.
Just letting all their racist flags fly these days. https://t.co/fkFjIsqEsN
— Regina Schrambling (@gastropoda) March 26, 2021
re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fun fact: He would call ANY Democrat the “Worst possible choice”.
re: #207 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
And if you’re living in Iowa and buy gasohol, your car is going to need more fuel per mile (YMMV is literally true here), which means you’re going to buy more volume, hence more money at the gasoline station.
Even if gasohol is the great socialist program for Iowa (the Republicans there will never admit it), whatever taxes Iowans pay at the pump, they already pay more than if they had to consume say half that volume.
Personally I think vehicle taxes have to be taxed by both distance and weight. Gasoline taxes are a proxy for distance already.
I make a point of not buying gasohol, since my three-cylinder car engine doesn’t like it. Smart also recommends no gasoline under 91 octane, which has the same effect (the price is higher so the tax is higher).
I despise flat gasoline taxes. They disproportionately impact the poor (Warren Buffet pays the same tax I do). I’d rather fund road infrastructure out of progressive income taxes.
re: #179 Barefoot Grin
Oh, crap. I agree with Meghan. Satan, I rebuke thee!
Blind squirrel, nut, &c.
I know everyone here is a big fan of Nextdoor.
/
I got a letter from a West 7th Street neighbor named Ms Saeteesh yesterday letting me know that our neighborhood now has its own Nextdoor app and I should sign up to connect with our neighborhood.
The letter was postmarked in Fullerton CA with a ‘presorted’ postage stamp.
No.
We are saddened to share that cherished children’s book author Beverly Cleary passed away yesterday, March 25, at 104 years old. https://t.co/Ifqu3Hfuxg pic.twitter.com/BXywlKTSac
— HarperCollins (@HarperCollins) March 26, 2021
re: #212 Dangerman
car inspections??? ;-)
this is florida
no mechanicals
no emissions
no nothing
That’s ok, Florida is going away.
re: #223 Belafon
Yep, I just saw this:
Beverly Cleary, beloved Portland author, dies https://t.co/tn4dLrQP0E pic.twitter.com/km3378rGva
— The Oregonian (@Oregonian) March 26, 2021
Long Island.
I miss the sanity from there: makeitstop.
As we traveled the forsaken countryside, we came upon fallen statues of their long-dead kings, and the shattered temples of their forgotten gods. https://t.co/7XEnBKfjcc
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 26, 2021
Agreed. This is why Democrats will fight back against these restrictions. https://t.co/O2iWN8KvAg
— Senate Democrats (@dscc) March 26, 2021
Second Pfizer plague shot tomorrow afternoon. Yay for me. I had hoped for an early-morning appointment, but NooOoOoOOoooOoo. I have heard several anecdotes about the 2nd shot being the one that people have side-effects from, but I’m hoping I’ll skate by consequence-free. Maybe if I were a Republican I would get away with it.
re: #229 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Second Pfizer plague shot tomorrow afternoon. Yay for me. I had hoped for an early-morning appointment, but NooOoOoOOoooOoo. I have heard several anecdotes about the 2nd shot being the one that people have side-effects from, but I’m hoping I’ll skate by consequence-free. Maybe if I were a Republican I would get away with it.
My second Pfizer wasn’t any different than my first, arm soreness for a while. My wife said her arm was a bit more stiff after second, but that was about it.
re: #229 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Second Pfizer plague shot tomorrow afternoon. Yay for me. I had hoped for an early-morning appointment, but NooOoOoOOoooOoo. I have heard several anecdotes about the 2nd shot being the one that people have side-effects from, but I’m hoping I’ll skate by consequence-free. Maybe if I were a Republican I would get away with it.
I got my second shot 3/18. No side effect complaints from me, although I was hoping that it would make me young again.
Just watched a PBS series on Asian-Americans, fun bit of trivia (for some values of “fun”)…
The way the DREAM Act came into being was the pianist Tereza Lee (the first Dreamer) had a music teacher who was acquainted with Dick Durbin. When she found out Tereza was born in Brazil, here undocumented since the age of 2, teacher asked Durbin “what can be done?” Durbin looked into it, discovered there were thousands of similarly situated kids, so he wrote the DREAM Act, got Orrin Hatch to co-sponsor. They lined up 62 Senators who’d vote for it, GWB scheduled a signing ceremony, they brought a piano into the Capitol so Tereza could do a little concert…
But the vote/signing was scheduled for the afternoon of 9/11. Obviously cancelled. The bill never got voted on. Immigration matters became super-unpopular. Durbin’s reintroduced it repeatedly, but it’s never again come close.
Thank you, Rep. Cannon.
John Lewis and the many courageous Americans who have led us in the fight against voter suppression would be proud. https://t.co/9LsMI0Ukgm— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 26, 2021
re: #231 stpaulbear
I got my second shot 3/18. No side effect complaints from me, although I was hoping that it would make me young again.
Heck with young, I want Captain America’s super serum! 😎
re: #190 JC1
Roads are mostly damaged by heavy vehicles (think big rig trucks, etc.) Weight is by far the most important component. The ‘fair’ way to tax this from a maintenance standpoint would put trucking companies out of business. I don’t know what the best answer is; it’s a complicated problem.
One approach: en.m.wikipedia.org
Vehicles powered by petrol, compressed natural gas (CNG), and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) do not need to pay RUC as these fuels are taxed at source. Most cars and small vehicles will fall into this category.
All vehicles that fit the criteria below are required to pay RUC:
Vehicles that have a manufacturer’s gross laden weight of 3,500 kg (7,716 lb) or more
Vehicles that use diesel or other fuel not taxed at source
Anyone using New Zealand’s roads contributes towards their upkeep. Most road users pay levies in the prices of their fuel. Others, such as drivers of light diesel vehicles and diesel-powered heavy vehicles like trucks, pay through road user charges (RUC).
The revenue collected from road user charges is dedicated to the National Land Transport Fund (NLTF). The NLTF funds road improvements and maintenance, public transport, road safety, and walking and cycling.
Charges are based on mileage driven and vehicle weight. Since it’s not taxed at source, diesel is considerably cheaper than petrol, and putting aside the extra bureaucracy of paying RUC, running a diesel powered car, SUV, or ute can be cheaper than petrol. On the other hand, large commercial vehicles pay a share more representative of their impact on roading infrastructure.
re: #224 Belafon
That’s ok, Florida is going away.
Alabama, too, apparently:
Takeaway from Alabama so far: Every person I meet is talking about which network got questions at the press conference. Incredible
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 26, 2021
It always gets worse… He signed his Jim Crow voting suppression bill LITERALLY in front of a picture of a plantation. https://t.co/GocfIfiZX8
— Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (@malcolmkenyatta) March 26, 2021
Republicans: We’re pro-life!
Voters: Can we have some water?
Republicans: Lol no.— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 26, 2021
re: #227 HRH Stanley Sea
Long Island.
I miss the sanity from there: makeitstop.
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Miss that dude. Hope he’s ok.
Bummer. Larry McMurtry and Beverly Cleary. RIP. https://t.co/cNKN7cgQ94
— Robert McBride (@vivamcbride) March 26, 2021
Larry McMurtry was a great storyteller. I learned from him, which was important. I was entertained by him, which was ALL important.
RIP, cowboy.
Horseman, pass by.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 26, 2021
If you make it a crime to give voters water as they wait in line, you’re not pro-democracy.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 26, 2021
re: #236 Barefoot Grin
Alabama, too, apparently:
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Good to connect with North Dakota Governor @DougBurgum today about science and innovation, grid resiliency, and safe cleanup programs. Look forward to open communication and partnership on our shared challenges and opportunities.👍🏾🌎 pic.twitter.com/4X0eHDR3Tm
— Michael Regan, U.S. EPA (@EPAMichaelRegan) March 26, 2021
I’ve missed seeing @KamalaHarris interact with children.
“I was waiting to talk to you!” 🥺pic.twitter.com/LWKYyQZhlv— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) March 26, 2021
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
That is a really bright reflection on the frame above and behind Administrator Regan
re: #230 Eventual Carrion
My second Pfizer wasn’t any different than my first, arm soreness for a while. My wife said her arm was a bit more stiff after second, but that was about it.
Same (minus the wife stuff).
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