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Charles Johnson  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:09:18am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:16:01am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Yet they are giving the “Profiles In Courage” award to RMoney….

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EPR-radar  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:16:32am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

The truth about the new GA voting law is that’s it’s just another attempt by Republicans to suppress the votes of non-Republicans.

GA Republican state officials didn’t have any commitment to democracy when they wouldn’t go along with Trump’s attempt to steal the election in 2020. Instead, they prefer to steal elections for Republicans by implementing a 21st century version of Jim Crow.

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Dangerman  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:34:29am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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Why does media have that responsibility, mitt?
Do they have any others?
Shall we talk to foxsnooze/oann/losemax?

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:36:14am

It’s utter bullshit (Mitt’s tweet). The fact that he’s able to do this is due to the Nate Cohn NYT and recent Politico article with the “GA’s new law really won’t change anything and will actually make voting easier in some cases.” Marc Elias is really, really pissed.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:39:59am

The worst part of the GA voting law is the part that allows for the legislature to take control of vote counts if they don’t like the results. The rest is awful, but that is the biggest piece of shit they could do so they did. And other states are just waiting to do the same.

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sagehen  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:40:41am

re: #3 EPR-radar

The truth about the new GA voting law is that’s it’s just another attempt by Republicans to suppress the votes of non-Republicans.

GA Republican state officials didn’t have any commitment to democracy when they wouldn’t go along with Trump’s attempt to steal the election in 2020. Instead, they prefer to steal elections for Republicans by implementing a 21st century version of Jim Crow.

If racism is not the foundational reason for Georgia’s recently enacted voting law, what legitimate ones are there?
quora.com

Racism isn’t the “foundational reason” for the law, though. It’s just a means to an end. The foundational reason for the law is trying to make sure that Republicans keep getting in Georgia like God intended. Racist provisions in the law are just a convenient (and satisfying, to some) way to do that.

(snip)

Consider a small town with a number of Christian churches and one synagogue. The town passes an ordinance against large gatherings on Saturdays, explaining that there’s a history of large parties resulting in public drunkenness and violence. That’s clearly not a law motivated by anti-Semitism, right? But it has a disparate impact on the synagogue in town and Sabbath services, so its effect is biased against the Jews in town. And if there was a history of anti-Semitism in the town, a reasonable observer might well conclude that that was the real purpose of this law.

So when parts of the Georgia law look like they’ll apply in practice almost entirely to precincts where Black people vote, parts of the law clearly have a disparate impact on them. And looking at the history of race and voting in Georgia, a reasonable observer might well conclude that this was a significant motivation behind those sections of the law.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:48:59am

My dad, who lives in Vegas, sent me something via letter mail a week ago. I still don’t have it.

Fuck Louis Dejoy.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:49:36am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:50:18am

re: #6 A Mom Anon

The worst part of the GA voting law is the part that allows for the legislature to take control of vote counts if they don’t like the results. The rest is awful, but that is the biggest piece of shit they could do so they did. And other states are just waiting to do the same.

This is the danger. If enough states enact such laws and the (strongly conservative) courts uphold them, worst case scenario is that we get a long uninterrupted stretch of Republican Presidents.

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Dangerman  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:54:59am

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

My dad, who lives in Vegas, sent me something via letter mail a week ago. I still don’t have it.

Fuck Louis Dejoy.

Birthday card from.ft Lauderdale to Philly…4 weeks

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William Lewis  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:56:09am

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

This is the danger. If enough states enact such laws and the (strongly conservative) courts uphold them, worst case scenario is that we get a long uninterrupted stretch of Republican Presidents.

Or Civil War Mk II …

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plansbandc  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:57:54am

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:58:17am

re: #6 A Mom Anon

The worst part of the GA voting law is the part that allows for the legislature to take control of vote counts if they don’t like the results. The rest is awful, but that is the biggest piece of shit they could do so they did. And other states are just waiting to do the same.

Yeah, that’s the thing: the GOP legislatures want the power to be able to just declare that elections they don’t like (read: where brown people vote and they don’t win) are illegitimate.

Hey - does that work the other way too? Can maybe legislatures in Illinois and California and New York and Massachusetts all decide that elections there are “suspect” and that GOP voters should have their votes chucked out?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:58:37am

re: #11 Dangerman

Birthday card from.ft Lauderdale to Philly…4 weeks

At this point I want Biden to declare an emergency and fire dejoy. He won’t but I want him to.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 10:59:22am

Just got a bill from Bottom Line in my mailbox…postmarked 3/1/21.

And the issues were coming 3-4 weeks late…

Since the Postal Board loves DeJackoff fucking with the mail it’s time to repeal Nixon’s Postal Service Act and go back to the old system with a Postmaster General in the cabinet.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:00:11am

Man….just, fuck these people. ALL OF THEM.

After skipping the temperature screening required in order to enter Disney World, a man insisted that he couldn’t be arrested for trespassing because he’d paid $15,000 for his family’s vacation at “the most magical place on Earth.”

When the man, Kelly Sills, was confronted by security at a Disney restaurant about missing the safety procedures required to enter the park, body camera footage shows that he yelled and refused to leave. He also reportedly tried to reason with officers by explaining he was a Disney stockholder, which, unsurprisingly, didn’t stop them from arresting him and ruining his $15,000 vacation.

When speaking to the Washington Post about the incident, Sills said he had inadvertently walked into the park through an exit, blamed the security manager for escalating the conflict, and compared Disney security to “Nazis” and “the mafia.” Ah yes, a totally rational and not at all absurd response to being asked to stand still for 10-15 whole seconds while having your temperature taken!

Sills was arrested on the first night of his family’s five-day trip to Disney World, for which he had paid—in case you missed it before—a whole $15,000. He pled not guilty to a trespassing charge. “Covid is a very serious thing,” Sills said to the Post, “but so is my vacation with my family.”

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Belafon  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:02:00am

Biden ought to declare that the USPS will be shipping the vaccines first class mail and that he will be boosting equipment and personnel to support it.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:04:46am

re: #18 Belafon

Biden ought to declare that the USPS will be shipping the vaccines first class mail and that he will be boosting equipment and personnel to support it.

He can’t do that because that was stripped from the President when Nixon made the Post Office into a government corporation. De Joy calls the shots until the board removes him and the blue dogs on the board signaled their support for DeJoy in their reply to Tammy Duckworth.

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Dangerman  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:05:31am

re: #18 Belafon

Biden ought to declare that the USPS will be shipping the vaccines first class mail and that he will be boosting equipment and personnel to support it.

He could announce that dejoys paychecks would be mailed first class from now on

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Belafon  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:15:39am

re: #19 🌹UOJB!

He can’t do that because that was stripped from the President when Nixon made the Post Office into a government corporation. De Joy calls the shots until the board removes him and the blue dogs on the board signaled their support for DeJoy in their reply to Tammy Duckworth.

Then DeJoy can hold a news conference for why the USPS can’t do it.

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:17:20am

Just paged this:

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garzooma  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:18:24am

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

This is the danger. If enough states enact such laws and the (strongly conservative) courts uphold them, worst case scenario is that we get a long uninterrupted stretch of Republican Presidents.

The worse case scenario is that they get rid of elections all together:

“He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:18:34am

To put this in data-science terms:

Qualitatively, we knew they to be true - that Trump’s base was in a constant state of rage & terror because Brown People were resisting all their attempts at disempowerment and subjugation

Quantitatively, the numbers and statistics are in, and they back up the story that have all long known - but that polite Beltway Journalists refuse to acknowledge that this is the case.

NUT GRAF:

One driver overwhelmingly stood out: fear of the “Great Replacement.” Great Replacement theory has achieved iconic status with white nationalists and holds that minorities are progressively replacing White populations due to mass immigration policies and low birthrates. Extensive social media exposure is the second-biggest driver of this view, our surveys found. Replacement theory might help explain why such a high percentage of the rioters hail from counties with fast-rising, non-White populations.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:20:17am
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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:20:39am

Spending the weekend with relatives, back in the hinterlands of rural America, this really rings true:

The unifying thread, analysts say, is the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which maintains that global elites are intentionally replacing Europe’s white majorities with immigrants from North and sub-Saharan Africa.

“The Great Replacement theory has become the master narrative for a vast number of far-right attacks,” said Neumann, the terrorism researcher. “It’s the narrative that connects them all.”

Versions of the Great Replacement theory have existed for decades, but it was most recently popularized by Renaud Camus, the French writer who penned “Le Grand Remplacement” in 2012. Camus has denied any responsibility for the El Paso attack. But he maintains that immigration is still the real global menace.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:24:34am

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

My dad, who lives in Vegas, sent me something via letter mail a week ago. I still don’t have it.

Fuck Louis Dejoy.

My friend sent me something on the 2nd. It’s still in IL where it originated.

At this rate I’ll see it next year.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:25:13am

re: #25 Dread Pirate Ron

Right-wing media is why we can’t have nice things.

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:25:34am

All the kerfuffle around the baseball All-Star game is just another manifestation of the screaming rage & fear of racist white right-wing freaks, lashing out against their fears of being made to live alongside people who don’t look like them.

Same as it ever was.

Saw this on a flag flying outside a farmhouse in rural Illinois. Found via reverse-image search. Seriously. WTF?
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Dangerman  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:28:44am

re: #25 Dread Pirate Ron

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biden really picked well with her

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jaunte  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:30:05am

re: #30 Dangerman

If Peter Doocy had any sense of shame he wouldn’t keep coming back.

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jaunte  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:30:57am
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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:32:34am

I have to admit, I missed the Kirk-Spock combo in the lower right corner, which is kinda ironic, given that they are both Jewish, and the whole Great Replacement theory is pretty much neo-Nazi bullshit.

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jaunte  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:39:34am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:42:24am
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aatharuv  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:43:04am

re: #33 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)

I have to admit, I missed the Kirk-Spock combo in the lower right corner, which is kinda ironic, given that they are both Jewish, and the whole Great Replacement theory is pretty much neo-Nazi bullshit.

And in the context of Star Trek, Spock is bi-racial with a White human mother.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:47:45am

I really think Jen Psaki enjoys knocking Peter Doocy around.

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mmmirele  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:48:15am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Agreed. I gave him some Jesus to think about.

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mmmirele  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:50:21am

re: #29 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)

Ugh, that’s a Sonnenrad, a fave of Neo-Nazis.

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:54:18am

re: #36 aatharuv

And in the context of Star Trek, Spock is bi-racial with a White human mother.

There is a real opportunity there that I hope they explore on the next season of “Picard” - featuring a bunch of mouth-breathing violent bigots screaming about “miscegenation”.

Maybe give their leader a Trumpian hairdo?

Nah. The special-effects guys could never, on their worst day, come up with something as ugly & gross as Trump’s hairdo.

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:55:42am

re: #39 mmmirele

Ugh, that’s a Sonnenrad, a fave of Neo-Nazis.

en.m.wikipedia.org

It was flying next to an upside-down American flag.

Also, a Gadsden flag.

My heart went out to the county sheriff who has to deal with that ignorant dumbshit when he inevitably roars into town armed to the teeth, angry about something he heard on Hate Radio.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:57:38am

‘The carnage needs to come’: Man accused of threatening Schumer over Trump’s election lies to plead guilty

n November, Brian Maiorana — a 54-year-old Staten Island resident, white supremacist, Donald Trump supporter and registered sex offender — was arrested for making death threats against then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats. And now, according to Law & Crime reporter Adam Klasfeld, court papers indicate that Maiorana plans to plead guilty.

alternet.org

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steve_davis  Apr 6, 2021 • 11:59:26am

keeping fingers crossed. 6 hours after second pfizer and nothing major to report. perhaps a vague sense of punkishness, but even that is probably psychosomatic.

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Belafon  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:04:45pm

re: #44 steve_davis

keeping fingers crossed. 6 hours after second pfizer and nothing major to report. perhaps a vague sense of punkishness, but even that is probably psychosomatic.

My second shot came with a minor amount of depression in that nothing happened that would keep me from going to work.

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:06:29pm

re: #45 Belafon

My second shot came with a minor amount of depression in that nothing happened that would keep me from going to work.

I felt like absolute shit for a few days, but I did also have to work all night and day immediately after, so hard to say.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:07:09pm

Newsom announced that California will fully reopen on June 15th IF metrics are still at safe levels.

Which may be sabotaged by the actions of Ironside, DeSadist, Killer Kristi, Killer Kim and other QAP assholes!

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Dangerman  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:12:45pm

re: #31 jaunte

If Peter Doocy had any sense of shame he wouldn’t keep coming back.

who does he work for again?? ;-) //

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:19:19pm

Danny Moore, chairman of the Colorado Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission was stripped of his chairmanship on Monday due to a series of controversial social media posts he shared via Facebook.

According to the Denver Post, Moore allegedly posted a series of conspiracy theories about the presidential election. During the commission’s 90-minute debate on Monday, a vote was held. Members of the 12-person commission reportedly voted 11-0-1 in favor of Moore’s removal.

Prior to the vote, Moore—a military veteran and owner of the Colorado-based defense firm—was repeatedly urged to resign, but to no avail. Amid his refusal, they opted to cast a vote to remove him from his post. Despite being forced out, the publication notes that Moore said: “he was not bitter or resentful about his removal.”

alternet.org

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:21:03pm

re: #49 🌹UOJB!

Despite being forced out, the publication notes that Moore said: “he was not bitter or resentful about his removal.”

Bullshit. He just managed to keep the politeness filter turned on. If he was into the conspiracy theory weeds, he’s probably ranting and raving that his fellow commissioners are part of the Deep State or some shizz.

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lawhawk  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:24:31pm

AR legislature overrode the governor veto. These bigots are setting themselves up for a Supreme Court fight.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:27:26pm
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No Malarkey!  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:27:27pm

Kentucky’s AG wants ARPA funds to go to tax cuts for the rich, of course.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:27:51pm

Nope

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No Malarkey!  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:29:43pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

Biden’s disapproval rating stays around 40%, about the same as the former guy’s approval rating.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:29:50pm

Here’s an interesting documentary.

Documenting A Modern Psychopath - a look at Jacob Wohl.

Documenting a Modern Psychopath

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lawhawk  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:31:23pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:31:46pm

re: #54 Dread Pirate Ron

Nope

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Republicans were able to slip Asshole Arnold in. Let them try the same with Jenner and I want to get the popcorn going when I see all those Pulpit Pimps supporting Jenner…

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:33:34pm

Ex-Trump Official Lynne Patton Violated Hatch Act With Deceptive RNC Vids: OSC

Finally one of them gets Hatched!

Lynne Patton, a Trump administration official who worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has been fined $1,000 and barred from federal employment for two years for violating the Hatch Act.

thedailybeast.com

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Belafon  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:34:21pm

re: #53 No Malarkey!

Kentucky’s AG wants ARPA funds to go to tax cuts for the rich, of course.

The government has always had the ability to place restrictions on money going to states.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:36:55pm

Kentucky State Police used Nazi propaganda from a white supremacist website for training.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:37:23pm

The husband and I have been watching For All Mankind and Ozark and I didn’t think I was going to like either one as much as I do. Welcome distraction.

I feel a lot better today. It’s been a week since my shitty ER experience and my throat is doing better. Anxiety is waning but still giving me some shit. Looking for a therapist that my shit insurance will cover and not cost me a few hundred bucks a month. This should not be so hard. Sigh. But I am riding through the crisis, and I get my first Pfizer shot Friday.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:38:40pm

re: #60 Belafon

The government has always had the ability to place restrictions on money going to states.

Shhh, don’t tell them that!

It’s more fun this way. :P

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:38:44pm

re: #59 🌹UOJB!

Ex-Trump Official Lynne Patton Violated Hatch Act With Deceptive RNC Vids: OSC

Finally one of them gets Hatched!

Lynne Patton, a Trump administration official who worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has been fined $1,000 and barred from federal employment for two years for violating the Hatch Act.

thedailybeast.com

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aatharuv  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:44:12pm

re: #64 Barefoot Grin

It’s not enough. $1,000 in fines and the lack of federal employment until basically the end of the first Biden term*+ a few months is a joke of a punishment. The $1,000 in fines is relatively easily affordible by someone at that level, and it’s not as if the Biden administration would want to employ a Trump organization hack to do anything anyways.

*It’s a 48 month suspension, not a 2 year suspension from what I’m seeing.

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gocart mozart  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:44:24pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:44:38pm
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John Hughes  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:56:19pm

re: #66 gocart mozart

“Parody of his ideas”? They’re straight quotes.

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gwangung  Apr 6, 2021 • 12:56:24pm

re: #66 gocart mozart

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Laughing my ass off.

Peterson and his numbskulls have NEVER read Captain America comics.

The 50s Cap? The Nomad period? BWA HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!

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Citizen K  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:01:54pm

Jesus Christ. The idea that we’re somehow not putting enough people into prison is just….holy shit.

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piratedan  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:08:56pm

re: #70 Citizen K

well as soon as the new AG gets settled, my guess we can start filling these “under-filled” prisons with 45’s Administrative and GOP twinks who committed campaign finance transgressions, Hatch-Act violations and treason and coup plotters into those cells.

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John Hughes  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:11:41pm

re: #69 gwangung

Peterson and his numbskulls have NEVER read Captain America comics.

There are people in the replies asking “what comic is this?”.

And some guy says “Disgraceful. But Marvel was taken over and had been run by radical Marxists for six or seven years now. Unfortunately.”

Haha.

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steve_davis  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:13:26pm

re: #45 Belafon

My second shot came with a minor amount of depression in that nothing happened that would keep me from going to work.

I smartly already cancelled classes for tomorrow. I just decided that I wasn’t going to know for sure that I wasn’t going to be wretched until tomorrow afternoon.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:14:54pm

re: #72 John Hughes

There are people in the replies asking “what comic is this?”.

And some guy says “Disgraceful. But Marvel was taken over and had been run by radical Marxists for six or seven years now. Unfortunately.”

Haha.

Yep, the radical marxists of the global entertainment behemoth Disney Corporation.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:15:25pm

re: #70 Citizen K

Gee, I wonder who Cotton thinks should go to prison more?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:17:24pm

re: #74 No Malarkey!

Yep, the radical marxists of the global entertainment behemoth Disney Corporation.

If these idiots knew their shit they would know many comic books have been pretty “woke” for like, decades now.

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Citizen K  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:19:26pm

re: #72 John Hughes

There are people in the replies asking “what comic is this?”.

And some guy says “Disgraceful. But Marvel was taken over and had been run by radical Marxists for six or seven years now. Unfortunately.”

Haha.

re: #74 No Malarkey!

Yep, the radical marxists of the global entertainment behemoth Disney Corporation.

Yes, Marvel, well known safe purveyor of entertainment with well known property, X-Men, which was not a thinly-veiled allegory for civil rights from its very conception at all….

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:22:21pm

re: #70 Citizen K

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Jesus Christ. The idea that we’re somehow not putting enough people into prison is just….holy shit.

We aren’t. Not a single Trumpist or insurrectionist has gone away yet. Start there.

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darthstar  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:25:22pm
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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:25:27pm

The cruelty, humiliation & domination was ALWAYS the point:

The point of insisting Mexico would pay for his border wall wasn’t that we needed the money, but that we’d regain status and potency by dominating and humiliating that country. Vote for Trump and that status and potency would be restored, he suggested.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:26:01pm

re: #70 Citizen K

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Jesus Christ. The idea that we’re somehow not putting enough people into prison is just….holy shit.

KKKotton won’t rest until every colored person is locked up or deported.

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austin_blue  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:27:08pm

re: #14 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)

Yeah, that’s the thing: the GOP legislatures want the power to be able to just declare that elections they don’t like (read: where brown people vote and they don’t win) are illegitimate.

Hey - does that work the other way too? Can maybe legislatures in Illinois and California and New York and Massachusetts all decide that elections there are “suspect” and that GOP voters should have their votes chucked out?

They don’t need to.

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:28:14pm

I think this is somehow connected to the whole “Scots-Irish Borderers” mindset, which holds that the only thing that really matters is your status.

Hair-trigger tempers, instant violence, thuggishness … yeah, all the hallmarks of the Old South.

Status is complicated. It comes not only from your income, the prestige of your occupation or the esteem of your neighbors. It can also come from the feeling that you and people like you are in charge. And sometimes you don’t even notice it until it’s threatened, which is part of how cultural hegemony operates. If you start hearing people speaking Spanish in your local grocery store, the universality of English might suddenly become a political issue for you.

As someone who spent a lifetime chasing status, Trump understood that the feeling of status threat could be turned into a powerful political weapon.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:28:49pm
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darthstar  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:28:49pm
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gwangung  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:28:56pm

re: #77 Citizen K

Yes, Marvel, well known safe purveyor of entertainment with well known property, X-Men, which was not a thinly-veiled allegory for civil rights from its very conception at all….

Well, let’s go also with the 1950s Cap, the first Secret Empire, the Nomad era Cap, the Stern/Byrne Cap, and——

Captain America has ALWAYS had a “leftist” streak to the book.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:29:33pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:30:35pm

re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg

I really think Jen Psaki enjoys knocking Peter Doocy around.

Who wouldn’t?*

*If only she could also knock Pete’s father, Steve, around.

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A Cranky One  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:31:17pm

re: #85 darthstar

Your doggo companions always look so happy in the pictures. But I have to ask: doesn’t your truck smell of wet dog?

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:31:24pm

re: #86 gwangung

Well, let’s go also with the 1950s Cap, the first Secret Empire, the Nomad era Cap, the Stern/Byrne Cap, and——

Captain America has ALWAYS been a “leftist” streak to the book.

I mean, things have become so cartoonish in the US that simply believing in justice and decency is ‘leftist’. The American right has become so open in its basic evil and thuggery that they can’t even see that they’re on the opposite side to Captain fucking America. And that’s not a side you ever want to be on.

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Belafon  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:34:09pm

re: #77 Citizen K

Yes, Marvel, well known safe purveyor of entertainment with well known property, X-Men, which was not a thinly-veiled allegory for civil rights from its very conception at all….

Why do they think Captain America was punching Nazi’s?

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:35:28pm

re: #84 Dread Pirate Ron

We’ve never had a pathologically-lying demagogue kill 500K Americans, and almost win re-election before. These are crazy, stupid, times.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:35:30pm
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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:47:26pm
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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:48:18pm

Further:

The encroachments of liberalism are a daily drumbeat on Fox News and conservative talk radio, as is the message that everything you cherish is on the verge of collapse. You may have thought a “Happy Holidays” sign at the department store was just a seasonal decoration, but Fox will tell you it’s actually part of a war to outlaw your religion, so you’d darn well better get mad.

After the past couple of decades, we should understand that there’s almost nothing Democrats can do to diffuse those feelings of cultural displacement. Fox is gonna Fox, and politicians like Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are going to see culture war rabble-rousing as their key to rising within the GOP.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:51:04pm

re: #95 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)

Republicans have whipped up the hate to 11 on their 24/7 Bullshit Machine because they want blood in the streets.

Examples—Relatives who boast that they can’t wait for Civil War so they can kill every liberal they can get in their gunsights.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:52:16pm

re: #96 🌹UOJB!

Republicans have whipped up the hate to 11 on their 24/7 Bullshit Machine because they want blood in the streets.

Examples—Relatives who boast that they can’t wait for Civil War so they can kill every liberal they can get in their gunsights.

Why would you speak to people who are that sick?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:52:31pm

re: #95 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)

Further:

Since shit stirring is basically all the GQP has, any dreams we have of uniting the country are doomed to failure. GQP strategy is entirely based on white identity politics.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:52:42pm

re: #97 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Why would you speak to people who are that sick?

I don’t. I see what they post.

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Dangerman  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:54:53pm

re: #95 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)

Further:

the republican frame is simple:

- anything a democrat does is despicable
- only democrats are capable of behaving despicably

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:56:21pm

re: #100 Dangerman

the republican frame is simple:

- anything a democrat does is despicable
- only democrats are capable of behaving despicably

Life is easy when you’re simple.

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Dangerman  Apr 6, 2021 • 1:59:17pm

re: #98 No Malarkey!

Since shit stirring is basically all the GQP has, any dreams we have of uniting the country are doomed to failure. GQP strategy is entirely based on white identity politics.

the ever more desperate republican dream is a tribal, degenerative, brutal struggle for office and hence power.

as james baldwin said: “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”

There can be no compromise if there is no respect.
R’s have long since given up on statesmanship and honest compromise.

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 6, 2021 • 2:02:14pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 6, 2021 • 2:02:26pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 6, 2021 • 2:05:09pm

re: #68 John Hughes

“Parody of his ideas”? They’re straight quotes

Maybe Jordan Peterson is a parody of Red Skull?

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sagehen  Apr 6, 2021 • 2:06:43pm

re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg

If these idiots knew their shit they would know many comic books have been pretty “woke” for like, decades now.

These are the same idiots who were shocked and dismayed to be told that Woody Guthrie was an avowed socialist.

Tear the fascists down - Woody Guthrie

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gocart mozart  Apr 6, 2021 • 2:07:59pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 6, 2021 • 2:18:37pm

re: #51 lawhawk

AR legislature overrode the governor veto. These bigots are setting themselves up for a Supreme Court fight.

I fucking knew it. I said this was going to happen yesterday. I only hope the parents of those kids were able to get extra meds before they pulled this shit.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 6, 2021 • 2:19:39pm

re: #54 Dread Pirate Ron

Nope

Not a fucking chance.

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sagehen  Apr 6, 2021 • 2:24:39pm

re: #107 gocart mozart

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gwangung  Apr 6, 2021 • 2:37:28pm

re: #105 gocart mozart

Maybe Jordan Peterson is a parody of Red Skull?

If he REALLY tried, he’d make the D-team.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 6, 2021 • 3:36:40pm

re: #54 Dread Pirate Ron

Nope

Together with the surviving Log Cabin Republicans, she can represent the leopard-eaten faces wing of the Face-Eating Leopard Party.

In an October 2018 Washington Post opinion piece, Jenner wrote that she was mistaken in her belief that Trump and his administration would support the LGBTQ community and vowed to learn from her error. “The reality is that the trans community is being relentlessly attacked by this president.” Her reversal came after a Trump administration proposal to restrict the legal definition of a person’s gender to that assigned at birth.

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TedStriker  Apr 6, 2021 • 4:15:29pm

re: #106 sagehen

These are the same idiots who were shocked and dismayed to be told that Woody Guthrie was an avowed socialist.

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And who had a “This Machine Kills Fascists” sticker on his guitar for years.

Yeah, people can be willfully stupid.


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