Psychedelia From Foo Fighters: “Chasing Birds”

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Production: Bomper Studio
Animation Director: Emlyn Davies
Animation Co-Director: Josh Hicks

Producer: Nicholas Robespierre
Producer: Robyn Viney

Technical Director: Colin Wood
Production Coordination: Molly Stracy
Lead Character Artist: Eder Carfagnini
Character Artists: Mark Proctor, Francis Ogunyanwo
3D Artists: Emlyn Davies, Colin Wood, Rhodri Teifi, Zach F Evans, Josh Hicks, Mark Proctor, Craig Rothwell, Phil Highfield
FX Artists: Colin Wood, Zach F Evans
Lighting: Emlyn Davies, Colin Wood, Rhodri Teifi, Zach F Evans
Lead 3D Animator: Alan Towndrow
3D Animators: Alex Watson, Mervenur Ulcan, Joanna Adamska, Beáta Ujj, Jesiel Almeida, Brian Martinez, Sebastian Pfeifer
Rigging: Alan Towndrow, Gene Magtoto, Dan Dan Kang
Texture Artists: Colin Wood, Rhodri Teifi, Zach F Evans
Character Concepts: Josh Hicks, Guillaume Poitel
Storyboards: Josh Hicks, Mark Proctor
Compositing: Rhodri Teifi, Zach F Evans, Sebastian Pfeifer
Editing: Josh Hicks
Studio Manager: Ceri Davies
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Chasing Birds

Chasing birds
To get high
I’m never coming down
Chasing birds
Through the sky
I’m never coming down
My heart is six feet underground

The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Dark inventions of mine
The road to hell is paved with broken parts
Bleeding hearts like mine

Chasing birds
Through the sky
And deep into the black
Chasing birds
Say goodbye
I’m never coming back
Here comes another heart attack

The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Dark inventions of mine
The road to hell is paved with broken parts
Bleeding hearts like mine

Chasing birds
To get high
I’m never coming down
My heart is six feet underground

The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Dark inventions of mine
The road to hell is paved with broken parts
Bleeding hearts like mine

Chasing birds

#foofighters #chasingbirds #medicineatmidnight

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248 comments
1
teleskiguy  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:02:37pm

Degenerate waste of skin.

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jaunte  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:05:09pm

re: #1 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:06:53pm

re: #1 teleskiguy

Also, the miserable racist POS doesn’t know how to spell “country.”

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Targetpractice  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:07:22pm

re: #1 teleskiguy

Degenerate waste of skin.

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You really can hear the hopeful wingnut glee that there will be massive riots tonight so they can tell themselves that they were right to oppose this verdict.

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jaunte  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:07:47pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:13:42pm

re: #160 Romantic Heretic

What the hell would a barbarian like Carlson know about civilization?

Civilization just describes someone primed to do something really violent in a really organized fashion.

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gocart mozart  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:16:40pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:18:40pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

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I was having a good day…until I saw this shit from Garrison…

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retired cynic  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:19:25pm

re: #8 🌹UOJB!

He is truly out of his mind. I can’t imagine living with all that hate.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:20:14pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:20:33pm

Spare me the McNaughton painting with Chauvin nailed to a cross…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:22:58pm

From the previous thread:

re: #117 Ace Rothstein

I am happily eating a lot of crow tonight, because here at LGF about a month ago I said Chauvin would walk. This crow actually tastes pretty good!

Added: After looking at the manslaughter charge, I thought there was no way in hell he would walk on that one. I was surprised they convicted him of the other two.

My wife’s recipe for Crow, from one of her other Websites.

Eating Crow (goes to Gunafood)

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teleskiguy  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:26:23pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:28:42pm

You don’t need syrup of ipecac to make yourself throw up.

Just look at that crap from McNaughton.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:32:02pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

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mmmirele  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:35:58pm

re: #10 Dread Pirate Ron

One of my coworkers and I were talking about this very legislation today. Since we’re a nationally chartered bank, we can’t offer banking services to cannabis businesses, which is annoying as hell. I’m hoping this passes soon, that pot money is greeeeeeeeen…..

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austin_blue  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:36:48pm

It’s 11:19 Eastern time, 10:19 Central right now and I am seeing absolutely no riots anywhere in the US.

What is happening? I thought the world would be in flames!!

Oh wait. The Black Community wasn’t fucked up the ass.

They Fraternal Order of Police are looking pretty stupid now, aren’t they?

I imagine the National Guard troops are like “Shit, these people are happy! Let’s find a bar and get a Brandy Smash, okay?

Yeah, you betcha, I’m thirsty, right now”

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Targetpractice  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:37:47pm

So now that the flash of white anger and resentment has passed, they’re trying to regain control over the narrative by pushing the same damned “Just comply with the police!” BS.

Let’s ask Tamir Rice…oh wait, we can’t because he got shot before the cop even had time to order him to drop the toy from his hand.

Or Philando Castile…damn, can’t ask him, the cop shot him dead because his effort to comply got interpreted as going for a weapon and apparently warranted summary execution.

How about Breonna Taylor? Crap, SWAT killed her before she even had time to respond because of a drug bust gone bad.

Anybody else beginning to see a pattern?//////

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EPR-radar  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:47:02pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

My heart also ached when I head the news of Limbaugh’s death — “Why couldn’t he have died much sooner of a much worse ailment?”

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Mattand  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:52:20pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

I just want everyone to take a few moments after looking at the cartoon and acknowledge the fact that Ben Garrison is using Soros in his cartoons unironically.

He actually fucking believes this guy is a stereotypical Illuminati Jewish puppet master. Full on Goebbels shit.

In 2021.

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Mattand  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:54:00pm

re: #19 EPR-radar

My heart also ached when I head the news of Limbaugh’s death — “Why couldn’t he have died much sooner of a much worse ailment?”

Remember when Seth McFarlane had Rush Limbaugh guest on Family Guy, because he wanted to reach out and show that conservatives are just like us in the end?

Yeah, fuck that as well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:55:02pm

re: #155 Romantic Heretic

Had to laugh at that guy’s Twitter handle.

Nice to display your inferiority complex like that, Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187.

Former Daily Caller contributor.

Since all conservatives lie unless proven otherwise, and IQ norming becomes difficult beyond three standard deviations (for psychologists, that’s 15 points rather than 16), I would take the 187 as a lie. (I wouldn’t trust the 6’2” either.)

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retired cynic  Apr 20, 2021 • 8:56:15pm

re: #20 Mattand

I just want everyone to take a few moments after looking at the cartoon and acknowledge the fact that Ben Garrison is using Soros in his cartoons unironically.

He actually fucking believes this guy is a stereotypical Illuminati Jewish puppet master. Full on Goebbels shit.

In 2021.

What got me was the expression he drew on Rep. Waters’ face: he must have so much hate inside to be able to do that. Not to minimize his continual nastiness about George Soros.

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Mattand  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:00:21pm

re: #23 retired cynic

What got me was the expression he drew on Rep. Waters’ face: he must have so much hate inside to be able to do that. Not to minimize his continual nastiness about George Soros.

Yeah, his caricature of AOC is another creepy one as well. It’s like, “How the hell can you see what you’re doing with the hood on your head while you draw?”

You could literally teach a class about racism in art exclusively with his cartoons.

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PrairieQueen  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:04:24pm

re: #1 teleskiguy

If she was any dumber- nevermind. She’s just rebranded.

How it started. How it’s going.
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plansbandc  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:11:12pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

Jesus Fucking Christ.

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Targetpractice  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:15:47pm

Your moment of Zen:

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mmmirele  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:17:08pm

re: #25 PrairieQueen

If she was any dumber- nevermind. She’s just rebranded.

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I’m sorry, the woman on the left is smarter than the woman on the right.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:18:36pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:18:40pm

IN THEIR WORDS: Midwest law enforcement leaders react to Derek Chauvin trial (Omaha World-Herald)

The police officers and sheriffs interviewed in the article from several states all viewed the trial neutrally and the verdict just (except one who said all involved were inexperienced and there should have been a supervisor on the scene).

Several also note that policing tactics need to change.

Of the Nebraska officers they cited, the closest to me is Scott’s Bluff County Sheriff Mark Overman:

“I have no problem with the verdict whatsoever. From the get go, you don’t know everything or hear everything that happened. I can tell you from the moment I saw that video, it made me sick.

“We have something in this country called due process … The officer had due process. I did not watch the trial, bit by bit, but I saw the trial highlights and who the witnesses were and what they had to say. I thought the jury would find him guilty. … I thought the jury had ample evidence to do so and I don’t have any problem that they did so.”

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gwangung  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:20:56pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

IN THEIR WORDS: Midwest law enforcement leaders react to Derek Chauvin trial (Omaha World-Herald)

The police officers and sheriffs interviewed in the article from several states all viewed the trial neutrally and the verdict just (except one who said all involved were inexperienced and there should have been a supervisor on the scene)

Wot? Chauvin WAS the supervisor!

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Targetpractice  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:23:29pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

IN THEIR WORDS: Midwest law enforcement leaders react to Derek Chauvin trial (Omaha World-Herald)

The police officers and sheriffs interviewed in the article from several states all viewed the trial neutrally and the verdict just (except one who said all involved were inexperienced and there should have been a supervisor on the scene).

Several also note that policing tactics need to change.

Of the Nebraska officers they cited, the closest to me is Scott’ Bluff County Sheriff Mark Overman:

This is what Tucker and the rest of the unruly children don’t get: Chauvin is not being defended by his fellow officers because they see him a scapegoat. They’re throwing his ass to the wolves in the hopes that the verdict will tamp down calls for reforms and reinvestment of police funding into new/expanded agencies. The hope is that the “bad apple” defense will work and they can convince people that they’re every bit as “shocked” and “sickened” by his actions as the public is. If he’d been acquitted today, not a single one of these cops/sheriffs would be saying he needed to go or that the verdict was wrong.

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teleskiguy  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:25:03pm
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danarchy  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:26:10pm

Columbus police released bodycam footage of the shooting of the 15 year old girl. It was definitely no Derek Chauvin sort of situation. He gets there and it is sort of chaos and it looks like she is about to stab another girl. Using deadly force to protect someone else is probably the best excuse he can have.

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prairiefire  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:27:42pm

re: #16 mmmirele

Greeeen and growing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:28:09pm

Yay, tomorrow afternoon my wife gets her second Moderna shot.

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Targetpractice  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:28:39pm

re: #33 teleskiguy

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This is all we’re going to see for days now: “Rumors” and “I heard…” about how the jury wanted so badly to let the white cop off for murder, but those BLM “terrorists” threatened them with violence and riots. Maxine Waters personally threatened them! SOROS WAS GONNA BLOW UP THEIR HOUSES! CHAUVIN IS TOTALLY INNOCENT!!!

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prairiefire  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:29:16pm

Chauvan guilty!

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retired cynic  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:32:04pm

re: #34 danarchy

I hoped it wasn’t as bad as the first report sounded. Not sure I can watch it. Couldn’t watch the Toledo shooting, either. Will just have to wait and hope they get it right.

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sagehen  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:37:58pm

re: #19 EPR-radar

My heart also ached when I head the news of Limbaugh’s death — “Why couldn’t he have died much sooner of a much worse ailment?”

I’m hoping he died sometime after 6 pm EST… hanging on just long enough to hear the Chauvin verdict.

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Belafon  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:37:59pm

re: #5 jaunte

She’s only counting Republicans.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:38:33pm

re: #31 gwangung

Wot? Chauvin WAS the supervisor!

Scott County, Iowa, Sheriff Tim Lane

“Training, staffing and public relations is what we need. There’s a lot that is still needed to solve the problems right now in this country.”

“Even though there were multiple officers on scene, most of the officers were completely inexperienced. There was no supervisor on scene to tell the officers specifically what to do when they were doing it. A supervisor on scene directing the officers to reposition Mr. Floyd and to assess his physical condition could have saved his life.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:40:04pm

re: #40 sagehen

I’m hoping he died sometime after 6 pm EST… hanging on just long enough to hear the Chauvin verdict.

He died on February 17.

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danarchy  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:40:27pm

re: #39 retired cynic

I hoped it wasn’t as bad as the first report sounded. Not sure I can watch it. Couldn’t watch the Toledo shooting, either. Will just have to wait and hope they get it right.

Here is a screen cap from just before the shooting. The resolution isn’t great, but you can make out the knife and the girl in the Pink looks like she was about to have a very bad day.

Click to Reveal
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Belafon  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:47:38pm

re: #40 sagehen

I’m hoping he died sometime after 6 pm EST… hanging on just long enough to hear the Chauvin verdict.

He died in February.

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Belafon  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:51:06pm

re: #34 danarchy

Columbus police released bodycam footage of the shooting of the 15 year old girl. It was definitely no Derek Chauvin sort of situation. He gets there and it is sort of chaos and it looks like she is about to stab another girl. Using deadly force to protect someone else is probably the best excuse he can have.

This goes back, though, to excessive force. She had a knife, and he had a gun. A bullet to the arm or leg if he can’t physically get between the two in time is enough. Even if he’s such a bad shot that he had to hit the chest, why four?

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Targetpractice  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:52:07pm

re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And there it is. “If only we had more money, the problems would go away. Give us more money and we’ll stop killing people.”

That’s all we ever hear. More money for training. More money for staffing. More money for “community outreach.” It’s not that they know they have “bad apples” in their ranks who need to be disciplined/fired, or that they train their rookies to treat every situation like the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. No, it’s that they just need more money, and you’re the one at fault for not giving it to them.

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mmmirele  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:52:13pm

Apparently Tucker Carlson was kind of losing his shit about his yearbook being found. He’s going to be able to explain himself out of this one, but if true, it goes far to show that he’s always been a shit.

Behind the button…

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I kinda hope I’m wrong, but I have a feeling I am not.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:55:26pm

re: #40 sagehen

I’m hoping he died sometime after 6 pm EST… hanging on just long enough to hear the Chauvin verdict.

There’s still hope: Tucker Carlson has lasted long enough to hear the Chauvin verdict. Now, though……….

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danarchy  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:55:39pm

re: #46 Belafon

This goes back, though, to excessive force. She had a knife, and he had a gun. A bullet to the arm or leg if he can’t physically get between the two in time is enough. Even if he’s such a bad shot that he had to hit the chest, why four?

Did you see the screen cap? If he aimed for an arm or leg and missed he could have easily hit the other girl. And you may question the training, but police are trained to fire until the target is stopped.

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gocart mozart  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:56:47pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:58:02pm

Cities and states might have more money for law enforcement if they weren’t constantly dealing with lawsuits due to “bad apples.”

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ckkatz  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:58:56pm

re: #46 Belafon

This goes back, though, to excessive force. She had a knife, and he had a gun. A bullet to the arm or leg if he can’t physically get between the two in time is enough. Even if he’s such a bad shot that he had to hit the chest, why four?

You certainly have a lot more confidence in the ability of someone to carefully hit a limb in the midst of rapidly moving tangle of people.

The general expectation regarding pistol shots, as I understand it, is that you shoot center of mass and continue to shoot until the target is no longer able to carry out whatever they were doing that caused you to shoot. The presumption is that use of the pistol is likely to be fatal. And at best, likely maiming.

Non-lethal arms would be a taser, baton, or beanbag. And even those can kill or maim.

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Belafon  Apr 20, 2021 • 9:59:35pm

re: #50 danarchy

Did you see the screen cap? If he aimed for an arm or leg and missed he could have easily hit the other girl. And you may question the training, but police are trained to fire until the target is stopped.

And if he’d missed shooting her in the chest/torso? And the problem is that they’re trained to think that the only way to stop someone is to shoot until they are dead, which isn’t always true.

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William Lewis  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:01:50pm

re: #46 Belafon

This goes back, though, to excessive force. She had a knife, and he had a gun. A bullet to the arm or leg if he can’t physically get between the two in time is enough. Even if he’s such a bad shot that he had to hit the chest, why four?

There is no such thing as shooting to wound. If you pull a firearm, you are intending to kill. Given the visible knife and the history of tasers not stopping people, the officers reaction is, honestly, appropriate. A potentially lethal threat to a second person equals shoot to stop the armed person.

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danarchy  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:03:05pm

re: #54 Belafon

And if he’d missed shooting her in the chest/torso? And the problem is that they’re trained to think that the only way to stop someone is to shoot until they are dead, which isn’t always true.

Still a risk but less. If he shoots once and waits to see if he stopped her the other girl may have taken a knife to the chest. I am not saying this was a good outcome, but I also find it difficult to fault this cop.

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Belafon  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:05:07pm

My dad told me about this in an Indianapolis Walmart: google.com. A shoplifter, confronted by a security person pulls out a gun and points it at a guard. Another citizen, in the store, pulls out his gun and fires three times at the shoplifter, missing all three times. Where in the heck did the bullets go?

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William Lewis  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:08:32pm

re: #57 Belafon

My dad told me about this in an Indianapolis Walmart: google.com. A shoplifter, confronted by a security person pulls out a gun and points it at a guard. Another citizen, in the store, pulls out his gun and fires three times at the shoplifter, missing all three times. Where in the heck did the bullets go?

Hopefully into a wall. That is exactly why I hate CCW John Waynes; untrained idiots who put more people at risk than whatever “threat” they’re shooting at. Leave it to the cops who are far from perfect but are also less likely to kill bystanders.

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ckkatz  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:11:57pm

In the Columbus case, the backstop was the car. And fortunately not the other female. I admit to being surprised that the officer shot with the closeness of the two females. But he seems to have threaded that needle quite well.

Officers, as I understand it, are trained to regard knives as just as deadly as guns if the knife wielder attempts to close with their target.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:14:11pm
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piratedan  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:15:20pm

ITS STILL BULLSHIT.

They could have attempted to disarm her
did anyone have a taser
they could have talked to her

we’ve seen Police bring in people who are deemed persons of interest in multiple mass shootings who are heavily armed unscathed.

I’m tired of excuses, they have no fucking latitude for this shit anymore and what is worse, they are completely out of motherfucking touch with what is going on in the country right now. They apparently exist in their own existential real-life game and they treat everyone of us Citizens with no more concern than a figure on a screen.

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DesertDenizen  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:18:52pm

HIGHLANDER - (Brandy ,Bottled in 1783)

This scene was inspired by the great Jim Steinman, who we lost today. May he rest in glory, and find a choir in heaven worthy of his epic music.

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gwangung  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:20:48pm

re: #54 Belafon

And if he’d missed shooting her in the chest/torso? And the problem is that they’re trained to think that the only way to stop someone is to shoot until they are dead, which isn’t always true.

That’s the purpose of a gun—-to kill.

Once he made the decision to use a gun, the only way to use It is to kill.

No such thing as shooting to wing or shooting to wound.

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Bossnova1978  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:34:52pm

re: #61 piratedan

I have to disagree on this one. There’s not a training course in the world that teaches to shoot someone in the arm or leg. The only possible exception would be specialized sniper training, and a sniper would require a steady rest, time to set up, a spotter, and perfect circumstances to even attempt it. I asked my brother in law, who served as an MP, and his opinion was that, given how close the victim was to the other girl, even a sniper would go for the center mass shot.
The situation is a tragedy since a young girl is dead, but I don’t equate this one with other shootings we’ve seen recently.

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ckkatz  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:48:09pm

There was a famous Columbus Ohio case in 1993 you may have heard about.

However, there were a lot of differences from the one today.

In the current one, there were multiple people in close proximity. The knife wielder appears to have been aggressively attempting to close and stab others. Officers had only been on the scene a short time. I suspect that only beat officers (generalists) were present.

And yes, no matter how justified, her death is a tragedy. I suspect that in other situations she may have been a very nice person.

In the 1993 situation, things had been static for hours, allowing time to get professional sharpshooters in place. There were no other people around the gunman. And the gunman held the gun in one position for a long time. Given time, opportunity, and a willingness to use them, there are often a lot of capabilities that can be brought to bear.

Legendary Columbus sniper shot

Legendary Columbus sniper shot

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ckkatz  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:50:38pm

Meanwhile, I have been listening to this. I believe that somebody here posted this video a while ago:

Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts

Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts

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piratedan  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:56:37pm

re: #64 Bossnova1978

feel free, its a free country

was there any attempt at de-escalation?
was there any attempt at communication?
no one had a taser?
no one had a night-stick?
no one had a voice?

it’s ALWAYS shoot and let some divine being sort it out?

You folks are free to pursue whatever imaginary after-report you wish.

to me there are two essential items, the 15 year old girl who is now DEAD, called the police to help her while she was being harassed

she was killed by the very people that she called to protect her

Apparently there was one really tragic mistake committed here, it was that she called the Police.

maybe on a different day, in a different year, I might perhaps be more reasonable about this and less strident and able to accept hard decisions and difficult choices. Maybe the officer did her a favor by not allowing her to be a killer. maybe I am tired of seeing well armed white people armed with semi-automatic rifles and guns being arrested (which is good) with no harm (not that I want there to be any) and yet… here we are….. Maybe I’m simply envisioning a time where a gun isn’t a choice when it comes to keeping the peace.

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ckkatz  Apr 20, 2021 • 10:59:02pm

re: #67 piratedan

Maybe I’m simply envisioning a time where a gun isn’t a choice when it comes to keeping the peace.

Amen

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danarchy  Apr 20, 2021 • 11:06:35pm

According to the press conference:

Officers had responded to an attempted stabbing call when police shot the girl at about 4:45 p.m., police said. The 911 caller reported a female was trying to stab them before hanging up, they said.

So either there were multiple calls to 911 or the initial twitter reports were wrong.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 20, 2021 • 11:06:57pm

re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was also pleasantly surprised at this one.

There are instances of police being called on to make a split-second decision that might result in an unarmed person being killed, but there was nothing split-second about kneeling on a man’s neck for nine minutes…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 20, 2021 • 11:13:39pm

re: #60 Ace-o-aces

Now “ex-gay,” Milo Yiannopoulos says his next book will be called “Make America Hate Again” and will be a defense of the “necessary [and] natural” instinct to hate disgusting things like Drag Queen Story Hour.

Hate is love

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Bossnova1978  Apr 20, 2021 • 11:20:08pm

re: #67 piratedan

I’m sorry, but the beginning of that post indicates to me you don’t have the first understanding of defense.

The victim was within striking range with a lethal weapon of another person. I’m not sure why there’s an assumption that the knife is less lethal in that circumstance. If the officer tries to de-escalate and the girl lunges, the other girl is at mortal risk. Attempting to close with a night stick or other melee option is the same.

This is not a situation where a mentally ill person has a knife where the officers could back away and let the situation play out.

You are correct that the tragic mistake was her calling police, as in the Greek meaning of tragedy.

The timing is awful given the justice that was just seen earlier today, but holding a knife on another person around the police is not going to end well no matter where or who you are.

If the situation was different and the officer knew for sure the girl with the knife was the one who called, maybe things would have ended differently.

I do agree I wish a gun was not the first choice in a lot of situations, but the duty of police in that situation would be to protect the person at mortal risk.

If further investigation turns up more info, then I’m happy to reassess my thoughts. But tagging this cop as the next Chauvin doesn’t seem to hold up.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 20, 2021 • 11:35:56pm
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Teukka  Apr 20, 2021 • 11:54:22pm

re: #51 gocart mozart

Also, is it only me that get the urge to fool around with his two middle initials?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 12:01:01am

So sites like newsmax are saying that the verdict was the result of public pressure and not due process:

”I have no real confidence that this verdict, which may be correct in some ways, but I have no confidence that this verdict was produced by due process and the rule of law, rather than the influence of the crowd,” the legal scholar said on Tuesday’s edition of ”Spicer & Co.” on Newsmax TV.

How can we expect police to keep public order if we do not let them get away with committing acts of premeditated violence with impunity?

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ckkatz  Apr 21, 2021 • 12:05:42am

Lizards who are in, or know someone in, the Washington DC area, who want Covid vaccinations…

The vaccination site near the Greenbelt Maryland Metro stop is offering walk-up vaccines for any adult, “regardless of where they live”.

On Tuesday, Maryland Health Department officials said the mass vaccination site in Greenbelt will offer daily walk-up access for coronavirus inoculations starting this week, though hours and supplies will be limited.

…snip…

Starting Wednesday, walk-up doses will be available for four hours each day or until supplies run out, whichever occurs first. Shots at the federally run site near the Greenbelt Metro station are available to all eligible adults regardless of where they live.

Walk-up access begins two hours after the site opens for appointments, and the schedule varies by day. Walk-up doses will be distributed starting at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays, at 11 a.m. Fridays through Sundays and 9 a.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays. The site, run by FEMA, can deliver about 3,000 doses per day total. Appointments can be sought through Maryland’s statewide registration portal, onestop.md.gov, or by calling 1 - 8 5 5 - MD-GOVAX.

Supposedly Covid articles, such as this one are not behind the paywall.

Virginia’s emergency alert on coronavirus vaccine availability startles some
washingtonpost.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2021 • 12:15:18am

re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So sites like newsmax are saying that the verdict was the result of public pressure and not due process:

”I have no real confidence that this verdict, which may be correct in some ways, but I have no confidence that this verdict was produced by due process and the rule of law, rather than the influence of the crowd,” the legal scholar said on Tuesday’s edition of ”Spicer & Co.” on Newsmax TV.

How can we expect police to keep public order if we do not let them get away with committing acts of premeditated violence with impunity?

It would appear they are losing the narrative, since so many police and sheriffs’ departments are saying as far as they can see the verdict was a just outcome.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 12:21:41am

re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It would appear they are losing the narrative, since so many police and sheriffs’ departments are saying as far as they can see the verdict was a just outcome.

Chauvin is a hard case to defend in any sense. And they want to distance themselves from people like him and the methods he used.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2021 • 12:36:55am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Chauvin is a hard case to defend in any sense. And they want to distance themselves from people like him and the methods he used.

That may be.

Considering the worldwide response in protests following the murder, I imagine police departments have been asked over and over about this by local media outlets across the country.

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ericblair  Apr 21, 2021 • 12:59:34am

re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So sites like newsmax are saying that the verdict was the result of public pressure and not due process:

How can we expect police to keep public order if we do not let them get away with committing acts of premeditated violence with impunity?

Pretty much: that’s how authoritarians think. They’re not concerned about justice, except as a word to beat others with. They want their tribe, via racist cops, to enforce dominance over all the other tribes. And impunity means dominance. So, they’re freaked out that their tribe has been punished for its act, and probably more freaked out that other cops agree with the verdict and are therefore traitors to their tribe.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2021 • 1:19:07am

Being an atheist, or a respected scientist, does not preclude being a bigot or an ass.

Richard Dawkins Stripped of “Humanist of the Year” Award after Anti-Trans Tweets (goes to The Friendly Atheist)

Citing the American Humanist Association:

Regrettably, Richard Dawkins has over the past several years accumulated a history of making statements that use the guise of scientific discourse to demean marginalized groups, an approach antithetical to humanist values. His latest statement implies that the identities of transgender individuals are fraudulent, while also simultaneously attacking Black identity as one that can be assumed when convenient. His subsequent attempts at clarification are inadequate and convey neither sensitivity nor sincerity.

Consequently, the AHA Board has concluded that Richard Dawkins is no longer deserving of being honored by the AHA, and has voted to withdraw, effective immediately, the 1996 Humanist of the Year award.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 21, 2021 • 1:41:59am

.

Nat King Cole Quartet - Embraceable You [1943]

..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 21, 2021 • 1:48:46am

The Chauvin verdict made it to the top of the BBC morning news:

Derek Chauvin found guilty of George Floyd murder after three-week trial - BBC News live 🔴 BBC

..

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 21, 2021 • 1:48:55am

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Being an atheist, or a respected scientist, does not preclude being a bigot or an ass.

Richard Dawkins Stripped of “Humanist of the Year” Award after Anti-Trans Tweets (goes to The Friendly Atheist)

Citing the American Humanist Association:

Nu Atheism bravely demonstrated that atheism doesn’t preclude all the fucking stupidity they attributed to religiosity.

It’s almost like human beings all use the same cognitive frameworks, and one completely imaginary first cause isn’t meaningfully different from another imaginary first cause, and there actually is no shortcut around rigor.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 1:55:17am

re: #84 The Ghost of a Flea

Nu Atheism bravely demonstrated that atheism doesn’t preclude all the fucking stupidity they attributed to religiosity.

It’s almost like human beings all use the same cognitive frameworks, and one completely imaginary first cause isn’t meaningfully different from another imaginary first cause, and there actually is no shortcut around rigor.

My ex-father-in-law is a RIchard Dawkins-style atheist and massive asshole. To the point that he drove his wife to a nervous breakdown. While recovering in the clinic, she fell in with a group of Billy Graham Baptists and is now a Born Again Christian.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 2:00:07am

Trauma:

Trump declares being president was “very traumatic” in softball Sean Hannity interview

Hannity asked Trump what he missed most about being president, to which No. 45 in the parade of august leaders stretching back to George Washington and John Adams replied by complaining about how tough he had it leading the country.

“I miss the most, helping people … that’s why I did it. Look, this has been very traumatic,” Trump responded. “I had a great life, great company, great business, no problems, and now all I do is, people go after you. It’s vicious, it’s horrible, but you know what? I loved doing it because I helped people. And I’ve helped them more than any president.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2021 • 3:23:04am

(video, 0:59)

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 3:26:27am

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Chauvin verdict made it to the top of the BBC morning news:

I have to admit, I never once thought that a dour grey concrete building in the middle of downtown Minneapolis, of all places, would briefly become the center of the entire world’s attention, but here we are.

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steve_davis  Apr 21, 2021 • 3:33:34am

re: #46 Belafon

This goes back, though, to excessive force. She had a knife, and he had a gun. A bullet to the arm or leg if he can’t physically get between the two in time is enough. Even if he’s such a bad shot that he had to hit the chest, why four?

that’s all movie theater. nobody shoots for arms or legs. handguns are not accurate. You put 3 in the biggest piece of mass on the assumption that two are going to miss.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 3:50:25am

re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Random nutcase slut-shames an innocent woman just for wearing a beige long sleeve

I cannot begin to fathom what sort of sick and twisted condition motivated the blond moralist to berate another young woman like that.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 3:55:33am

re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I cannot begin to fathom what sort of sick and twisted condition motivated the blond moralist to berate another young woman like that.

It’s this thing called the “moral high ground”. People who contract this sometimes deadly disease develop symptoms of an insufferable fragile ego, fits of rage, inability to inhibit speech, and selective memory loss. There is no known cure; researchers are currently focused on curbing the symptoms using exposure to positive media to try to break the impenetrable thought barrier that envelops the victims’ brains. They also say that they don’t feel a breakthrough in treating this disease is likely to happen until the mental conditioning systems that contribute to the development of the disease are broken down and either completely overhauled, or destroyed entirely.

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ericblair  Apr 21, 2021 • 4:03:52am

Lalala, I want this to magically go away forever!
You can’t tell me what to do!
Get rid of Mr. Smarty-pants!

If you’re not a white conservative, you are expected to calmly manage and de-escalate a swarm of hair-trigger cops with deadly weapons otherwise they’ll shoot you and it’s your fault. If you’re a white conservative, it’s everyone else’s responsibility to wrangle you into taking two goddamn shots like a toddler who refuses to eat his broccoli.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 4:20:09am

re: #92 ericblair

Lalala, I want this to magically go away forever!
You can’t tell me what to do!
Get rid of Mr. Smarty-pants!

If you’re not a white conservative, you are expected to calmly manage and de-escalate a swarm of hair-trigger cops with deadly weapons otherwise they’ll shoot you and it’s your fault. If you’re a white conservative, it’s everyone else’s responsibility to wrangle you into taking two goddamn shots like a toddler who refuses to eat his broccoli.

In fact, Mrs. Fish and I turned our shot appointments into a bit of a holiday. She (cautiously) browsed the shops at Mall of America while waiting for her anxiety to die down prior to her appointment yesterday. We both brought home a special takeout meal after each of our shots; we already have the final one planned for her second shot in a couple of weeks. But these people, I suppose, have been going out of the house and going about their normal business every day and have been studiously ignoring that a pandemic is even happening in the first place.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 21, 2021 • 4:44:32am

re: #9 retired cynic

He is truly out of his mind. I can’t imagine living with all that hate.

I like it because Garrison’s visual vomit is an unfiltered glimpse into the mind of a true-believer Conservative …and the necessary detachment from reality to hold onto this ideology.

Included in Conservative doctrine as promoted by Garrison, threats come from everywhere. You are under attack all the time from all sides. Scary foreign and minority persons are automatically enemies and all violently hostile.

It is pure projection to be sure. Everything Conservatives fear is exactly what they want to do to others. It is necessary to diminish and eventually eliminate others because it is the only way actual reality can keep from intruding on the flimsy upside-down pyramid on which Conservatism is based.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 21, 2021 • 4:54:57am

re: #94 Florida Panhandler

I think they’re also terrified that if they lose power/majority population, that all those minorities are gonna join forces and treat them as awful as they’ve treated minorities. They forget or simply don’t know that quite a lot of their fellow humans are not hateful,spiteful, mean assholes. Most people just want peace, justice, fairness and stability in their lives, it shouldn’t be this fucking hard to have that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 4:56:10am

re: #94 Florida Panhandler

because your opponents are not just people who have a different view of taxation, regulation or the role of government, they are ENEMIES who are paid by DEMONIC, FOREIGN POWERS to DESTROY AMERICA.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 4:56:47am

re: #95 A Mom Anon

I think they’re also terrified that if they lose power/majority population, that all those minorities are gonna join forces and treat them as awful as they’ve treated minorities.

Nobody is planning White Genocide for Chrissakes.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:00:49am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You and I know this, but they are convinced they’re going to end up in camps or relegated to where those awful poors live now. This is also triggered by any mention of reparations because oh no. Even if you called it investments in poor communities they still hate it. They are scared, even if they don’t always say it out loud.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:04:42am

Morning all.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:08:28am

re: #98 A Mom Anon

You and I know this, but they are convinced they’re going to end up in camps or relegated to where those awful poors live now. This is also triggered by any mention of reparations because oh no. Even if you called it investments in poor communities they still hate it. They are scared, even if they don’t always say it out loud.

They’re convinced of this because this is what they would do if they had unrestricted power to do it, and they are terrified that their enemies are as inhuman and soulless as they themselves are. That’s why the Chauvin verdict has them screaming about breaking the power of the police: They are frightened that this is the start of society turning against them and preparing to stomp them under the jackboot of wokeness, when in reality, all we want is for people to be treated fairly.

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jeffreyw  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:08:45am

Homer is well pleased with his dog

Good morning!

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Mike Lamb  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:23:18am

re: #44 danarchy

Here is a screen cap from just before the shooting. The resolution isn’t great, but you can make out the knife and the girl in the Pink looks like she was about to have a very bad day.

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This is why I’ve never understood why right wing assholes hitch their wagon to guys like Chauvin or George Zimmerman. They are pieces of shit who did everything wrong and give policing or “self defense” a bad name. They should want those types arrested so they can focus on a defense of situations like what happened in Columbus. The Columbus shooting could have been all wrong, but it appears a much closer situation.

I mean, I understand racism isn’t rational, but still.

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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:36:51am

re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Former Daily Caller contributor.

Since all conservatives lie unless proven otherwise, and IQ norming becomes difficult beyond three standard deviations (for psychologists, that’s 15 points rather than 16), I would take the 187 as a lie. (I wouldn’t trust the 6’2” either.)

187 = murder, death, kill. It’s from the California penal code. It has nothing to do with IQ and everything to do with being a sociopath.

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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:40:25am

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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:41:12am

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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:44:50am

re: #52 Targetpractice

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Cities and states might have more money for law enforcement if they weren’t constantly dealing with lawsuits due to “bad apples.”

NYC spends more to settle excessive force complaints against the NYPD than exists budgets for entire cities elsewhere in the US.

$200 million a year each of the past few years.

Cedar Falls, Iowa paid out $8 million to settle excessive force case where black victim was left paralyzed. Cedar Falls police budget is around $45-50 million a year.

Police and localities consider this a cost of doing business and the burdens fall back on the taxpayers, who are often the very persons of color brutalized by the cops that abuse their power on a regular basis.

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ericblair  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:47:52am

re: #102 Mike Lamb

This is why I’ve never understood why right wing assholes hitch their wagon to guys like Chauvin or George Zimmerman. They are pieces of shit who did everything wrong and give policing or “self defense” a bad name. They should want those types arrested so they can focus on a defense of situations like what happened in Columbus. The Columbus shooting could have been all wrong, but it appears a much closer situation.

I mean, I understand racism isn’t rational, but still.

I think it’s the fact that their tribe can act with impunity on Those People, including killing them, that is important for the bigots. It doesn’t show your tribe’s power over others when you follow the rules, live and let live. And if your whole worldview is funneled through a tiny little lens of tribalism and dominance, that’s what makes you feel better.

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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:49:58am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:52:51am

re: #104 Dangerman

There was a famous quote from a Leftist politician in Germany, Gregor Gysi, in response to people complaining that they had money to take in Syrian refugees but not enough for Germany’s own homeless:

“Even without the refugees, there still wouldn’t be enough money for the homeless.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:54:47am

re: #108 ericblair

This is why I’ve never understood why right wing assholes hitch their wagon to guys like Chauvin or George Zimmerman. They are pieces of shit who did everything wrong and give policing or “self defense” a bad name.

“Don’t retreat, reload!”

Cannot allow those leftist liberals a victory lap

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 21, 2021 • 5:56:18am
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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:02:23am

re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My ex-father-in-law is a RIchard Dawkins-style atheist and massive asshole. To the point that he drove his wife to a nervous breakdown. While recovering in the clinic, she fell in with a group of Billy Graham Baptists and is now a Born Again Christian.

Karma

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jeffreyw  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:06:42am

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Dave In Austin  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:07:03am
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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:09:39am

re: #92 ericblair

[Embedded content]

Lalala, I want this to magically go away forever!
You can’t tell me what to do!
Get rid of Mr. Smarty-pants!

If you’re not a white conservative, you are expected to calmly manage and de-escalate a swarm of hair-trigger cops with deadly weapons otherwise they’ll shoot you and it’s your fault. If you’re a white conservative, it’s everyone else’s responsibility to wrangle you into taking two goddamn shots like a toddler who refuses to eat his broccoli.

there are 2 reasons to get vaccinated
they are the exact same two reasons to mask, distance, and wash your hands

1 - to protect yourself
2 - to protect others

if you dont want to protect others including your family and friends, protect yourself
if you dont want to protect yourself, i got nothing.

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A Cranky One  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:15:55am

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Dave In Austin  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:20:02am

re: #117 A Cranky One

In 20 yrs it will be more than one thing trying to stand…….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:21:23am

re: #29 Dread Pirate Ron

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:23:30am
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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:27:16am

How about we get rid of the smaller Red states first Mittens?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:27:25am

divorce at the very least

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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:32:54am

There’s a few assumptions here - namely that the American public knows how bills become law in the US, because it’s clear that one party has completely divorced itself from reality and how things are supposed to work.

This is all about getting a global minimum tax so companies can’t avoid paying tax anywhere in the world (as more than a few are trying to do by setting up in offshore tax havens, when their primary business is in places like US, EU, UK, India, China, S Korea, or Japan).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:33:12am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:34:48am
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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:35:29am
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:38:44am

re: #46 Belafon

There is no such thing as “shooting to wound”. It simply does not exist. Shooting accurately with a pistol is very difficult under ideal situations. Moreso under stress. Deliberately hitting a person in motion in the arm or leg would be a heroic feat for even the most highly skilled marksman, which the typical police officer certainly is not. The idea of aiming for center-mass is that 1) that’s the place you’re most likely to hit successfully, and 2) that’s where most of the vital organs are, damage to which is most likely to swiftly end the situation. The only reason to deploy a firearm against another person is that you intend to kill them. That police feel so comfortable going immediately to lethal intent is a problem we have to somehow fix.

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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:41:19am

re: #127 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Cops are trained to shoot center mass. They’re trained to keep shooting until the person they’re firing at is neutralized.

There’s no way people can do things like you see in the movie, like firing to disarm someone with a knife or gun. It just doesn’t work like that. The physics makes it virtually impossible.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:42:42am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:43:55am

re: #117 A Cranky One

Songs about things that take twice as long as ten years ago:

“Takin’ Care of Business”

“Hold On I’m Coming”

“Just One More Time”

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:44:03am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:44:40am

Birmingham mayor

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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:47:17am

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

Schumer has called on federal decriminalization by 4/20/22.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:47:33am
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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:49:49am

I was looking forward to waking up to no news of riots after a police murder trial. Feels good. A few white people complained about oppression on Fox, but without TFG to rally the riff-raff on Twitter, they stayed in their lane.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:50:47am

re: #134 Belafon

1. Hungary currently has the highest per-capita death rate in the world bloomberg.com …

Last I read, Hungary had one of the highest inoculation rates in Europe.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:51:24am

re: #135 darthstar

But doncha know that the streets are quiet because everyone is barricaded at home, terrified of the antifa rioters that were waiting to strike.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:52:54am

re: #135 darthstar

I was looking forward to waking up to no news of riots after a police murder trial. Feels good. A few white people complained about oppression on Fox, but without TFG to rally the riff-raff on Twitter, they stayed in their lane.

You are quite correct, but there was this:

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:53:07am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:53:28am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:55:13am

oh

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:56:25am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:57:41am

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

JUST IN: Chris Christie Reportedly Gearing Up for a 2024 Run for President

There was a time when I rather grudgingly admired him: for his bipartisan co-operation with Obama over Hurricane Sandy relief, over his taking no shit from people who criticized his choice of a Muslim judge, but there is no way I could ever support that bridge-blocking beach hog anymore.

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:58:26am

Good to see facial recognition software being used by the feds. Hopefully they’re burning as much energy going through social media images as a bitcoin mining operation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 6:59:42am

re: #142 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Racism doesn’t exist, but if it did, black folks would still be killing each other, stealing, robbing, rioting, dealing drugs, abandoning their children. “Racism” is just an idea to try to explain immorality among the blacks and illegals and give their wickedness a pass.”

There are a lot of reasons for high rates of crime, drug use, unemployment and broken homes in black communities, but “because they are black” is not one of them…

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:00:10am

re: #138 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

You are quite correct, but there was this:

Dear god, a mozzarella stick? Get that statue on Tucker’s show. This can’t stand.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:00:27am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:01:14am

re: #146 darthstar

Dear god, a mozzarella stick? Get that statue on Tucker’s show. This can’t stand.

I know, right? Crime of the century material right there. At least it wasn’t lutefisk, that’s unforgivable.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:03:06am

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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These are the kinds of people that make me hope Biden is able to run again in 2024, mainly because Harris shouldn’t have to stoop to their level.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:08:09am

It doesn’t affect young, healthy people:

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:09:31am

re: #92 ericblair

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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:13:39am

We’re plateauing in the number of doses administered, despite opening up vaccinations to anyone essentially over 16/18?

Who’s the most likely group not to want to get vaccinated? Trumpists. They’re the ones who insisted herd immunity will save us, except that by not getting vaccinated, they’re preventing that very outcome.

This is what happens when know nothings have completely rotted the minds of the Fox viewers. Peddling woo and junk science nonstop as Fox does on a daily basis is all Fox crowd ever hears, so they refuse to get vaccinated, even though Trump got vaccinated in secret.

Meanwhile, India, which managed to hold the line in their first big wave of cases last year is being completely overwhelmed now with the new more virulent variants, and the cases/death toll are skyrocketing.

India’s cases are going to have global repercussions, and it may undo all the hard work to contain it, especially if a new variant emerges there.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:16:08am
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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:24:55am
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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:28:22am
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plansbandc  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:28:42am

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

I would probably be in prison for what I would do to that dude.

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:30:48am

The SF Giants are expanding the number of people allowed at games, adding Vaccinated Only sections to the ballpark with a little less social distancing enforced.

Going to my first game of the season on Saturday - we’re renting a suite with neighbors who are also vaccinated. Because of crowd limitations suites only hold 5-6 people instead of 24-30. Once restrictions are lifted they’ll get swept back up by their corporate buyers.

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:32:23am

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

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divorce at the very least

Snake jokes never end well.

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:33:47am

re: #155 lawhawk

They were promised $4billion from the local communities. They should still get it. Teach these communities a thing or two about the dangers of electing Republicans.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:35:54am

re: #159 darthstar

They were promised $4billion from the local communities. They should still get it. Teach these communities a thing or two about the dangers of electing Republicans.

How many of these local communities voted for Republicans?

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:37:46am
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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:38:58am

re: #160 Belafon

How many of these local communities voted for Republicans?

Should have added a sarc tag. But Republicans like Walker should be mocked and shamed until after they’re all voted out.

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cat-tikvah  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:40:14am

re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Reminding me again how grateful I am not to hear him anymore.
Meanwhile, GOP claims Biden is mentally compromised while having nothing to say about former occupant who has a vocabulary of 20 words at best.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:41:53am

re: #154 lawhawk

Like many laws, laws against prostitution primarily serve as an excuse to harass sex workers. Law enforcement should focus on protecting minors from trafficking, and leave adults engaged in consensual sexual activity alone.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:44:17am

re: #157 darthstar

The SF Giants are expanding the number of people allowed at games, adding Vaccinated Only sections to the ballpark with a little less social distancing enforced.

Going to my first game of the season on Saturday - we’re renting a suite with neighbors who are also vaccinated. Because of crowd limitations suites only hold 5-6 people instead of 24-30. Once restrictions are lifted they’ll get swept back up by their corporate buyers.

Looking forward to getting together with friends at a Reds game this summer.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:45:02am

re: #60 Ace-o-aces

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:45:16am

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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This pretty much sums up my reaction:

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:45:32am
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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:47:04am

re: #165 No Malarkey!

Looking forward to getting together with friends at a Reds game this summer.

We have a good friend who’s a Reds season ticket holder. Meet up with her for Spring Training in Arizona sometimes. Not this year, and last year we all agreed to cancel last minute, but next year we’re back.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:47:08am

re: #166 🌹UOJB!

Congrats to Milo Yiannopoulos on becoming “ex-gay” and now sounding exactly like every one of the viciously anti-LGBTQ religious-right activists we have covered for decades.

He is just trying to climb back on the Gravy Train: he got chucked off as their token gay conservative misogynist, so now he is trying it as their token Seen-the-Light converted homophobe.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:49:01am

re: #169 darthstar

We have a good friend who’s a Reds season ticket holder. Meet up with her for Spring Training in Arizona sometimes. Not this year, and last year we all agreed to cancel last minute, but next year we’re back.

I’m debating going to Target Field this fall, as Mrs. Fish and I haven’t missed a season except for last year, for obvious reasons. I’m also debating going out to a movie this weekend with friends; Friday is my D+14 day, and I might enjoy celebrating.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 21, 2021 • 7:55:32am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

Satan’s Tinkerbelle needs to STFU!

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:04:36am

And now here’s another Pulpit Pimp who got a “divine revelation from The Big G” that Trump is still President.

Plenty of Christians are stupid enough to believe this.

Todd Coconato Says Christians Don’t Believe Biden Is President Because God’s ‘Mantle of Anointing’ Remains on Trump

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:04:54am

re: #171 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I’m debating going to Target Field this fall, as Mrs. Fish and I haven’t missed a season except for last year, for obvious reasons. I’m also debating going out to a movie this weekend with friends; Friday is my D+14 day, and I might enjoy celebrating.

Monday was my D+14 but I went to an outdoor concert last Saturday - smallish crowd, pretty socially distanced, nice breeze…no risk, wore a mask when I wasn’t sipping beer…everyone I was with was >14 days. We had a nice outdoor dinner party with two couples after. Then on Sunday the CDC said if you’re +14 you should reward yourself by hanging out with other vaccinated people and enjoy your shared immunity.

So yeah, go to the movie.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:05:59am

Somebody remind Beck what Jim Crow is.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:07:21am

Conservatives: Covid is a hoax! It’s just a flu. I don’t want your stupid vaccinations, it’s all lies!

Also Conservatives: Why the hell can’t we go back to normal yet?! This sucks!

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:08:28am

re: #173 🌹UOJB!

And now here’s another Pulpit Pimp who got a “divine revelation from The Big G” that Trump is still President.

Plenty of Christians are stupid enough to believe this.

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Who TF “anointed” Trump? Stormy Daniels or the “Golden Shower” girls in Moscow?

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:08:59am

It’s so nice to see Christian Pulpit Pimps pushing the QAnon shit.

Take these Pulpit Pimps off of welfare. Kick them off of the tax-exempt Gravy Train.

TAX THE CHURCHES!

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:10:46am

re: #175 🌹UOJB!

Somebody remind Beck what Jim Crow is.

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Glenn should ask people who actually lived under Jim Crow. Some of them are still alive.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:11:54am

re: #173 🌹UOJB!

And now here’s another Pulpit Pimp who got a “divine revelation from The Big G” that Trump is still President.

Plenty of Christians are stupid enough to believe this.

If you can’t get the Electoral College or the SCOTUS to back you up, then you appeal to the next highest instance

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:13:48am

re: #173 🌹UOJB!

Across the spectrum of insane to cynical, conservatives are committed to a fantasy version of reality.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:13:52am

re: #101 jeffreyw

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Western good morning!

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:14:34am

Thread, eight tweets, your morning reassurance that Alan Dershowitz is a complete fucking tool:

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:14:44am

Amy’s still great.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:16:35am

re: #183 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Thread, eight tweets, your morning reassurance that Alan Dershowitz is a complete fucking tool:

The overall talking point is that this was a Leftist Kangaroo Court railroading Chauvin due to liberal media pressure and fear of a wave of BLM-fueled terror and vandalism breaking out all over America.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:19:07am

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

The overall talking point is that this was a Leftist Kangaroo Court railroading Chauvin due to popular pressure and fear of BLM-fueled terror breaking out all over America.

All I can think is this: “Ok, for those of you who don’t believe, we’re going to recreate the incident. You will play Floyd, and I will lean on your neck. Let me know when it’s too much for you and I will continue to keep my knee on your neck for the full 9 and a half minutes.”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:20:03am

re: #173 🌹UOJB!

And now here’s another Pulpit Pimp who got a “divine revelation from The Big G” that Trump is still President.

Plenty of Christians are stupid enough to believe this.

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Someone should tell that poor fella that if he’s hearing voices in his head, he might want to seek professional help because auditory hallucinations are a well-recognized symptom of schizophrenia.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:21:59am

re: #186 Belafon

All I can think is this: “Ok, for those of you who don’t believe, we’re going to recreate the incident. You will play Floyd, and I will lean on your neck. Let me know when it’s too much for you and I will continue to keep my knee on your neck for the full 9 and a half minutes.”

This was not a case of mistaking one’s own pistol for a taser or mistaking a phone/wallet/bag of skittles in the victim’s had for a weapon and making a split-second decision in a potentially life-threatening situation.

This was entirely premeditated and cold-blooded.

But it took a viral video and multiple witnesses to even bring it to trial…

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:22:07am

re: #186 Belafon

All I can think is this: “Ok, for those of you who don’t believe, we’re going to recreate the incident. You will play Floyd, and I will lean on your neck. Let me know when it’s too much for you and I will continue to keep my knee on your next for the full 9 and a half minutes.”

Captain Underpants is the chief “legal correspondent”, er, Presstitute for Newsmax.

That’s all you need to know.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:23:29am

If this would get us to herd immunity, I’m for it. Whatever it takes to get the dumbasses vaccinated.

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William Lewis  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:26:04am

re: #187 Dr Lizardo

Someone should tell that poor fella that if he’s hearing voices in his head, he might want to seek professional help because auditory hallucinations are a well-recognized symptom of schizophrenia.

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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:27:44am

re: #190 No Malarkey!

Yeah, they should designate it to the Trump Foundation. /oh… wait.

No. Trump doesn’t get to profit more from his grifts/scams. As it is, the reason J&J had to stop production of its vaccination at Emergent Biosolutions is that EB got the deal thanks to Trump despite warnings about the quality control being piss-poor and all kinds of production issues there.

Those very production issues contaminated repeated batches. Millions of doses lost.

He was rewarding his cronies with that deal.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:28:58am

re: #187 Dr Lizardo

Someone should tell that poor fella that if he’s hearing voices in his head, he might want to seek professional help because auditory hallucinations are a well-recognized symptom of schizophrenia.

I’m sure you know this, but christians like this are just hearing their own voice in their head telling them what they already believe, and they call it “God.”

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Jay C  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:31:19am

re: #193 No Malarkey!

Minor edit:

I’m sure you know this, but Christians like this are just hearing their own voice in their head telling them what they already somebody has told them they should believe, and they call it “God.”

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No Malarkey!  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:31:21am

re: #192 lawhawk

Yeah, they should designate it to the Trump Foundation. /oh… wait.

No. Trump doesn’t get to profit more from his grifts/scams. As it is, the reason J&J had to stop production of its vaccination at Emergent Biosolutions is that EB got the deal thanks to Trump despite warnings about the quality control being piss-poor and all kinds of production issues there.

Those very production issues contaminated repeated batches. Millions of doses lost.

He was rewarding his cronies with that deal.

If Trump could get his dumbass cultists to get vaccinated, I’d be for paying him. Of course, I’m also for indicting and imprisoning him for his many crimes.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:32:10am

re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth

From the NYTimes opinion piece on India:

There is anecdotal evidence that the new wave of Covid-19 cases in India is attacking a younger population, including children, and resulting in more rapid disease progression than seen earlier.

There is need for systematic evidence to link the upswing in cases and easier transmissibility and lethality of novel variants. One variant, B. 1.617, that may have originated in India is spreading widely and has been found in other countries.

This is what happened to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

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lawhawk  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:36:00am

Been toying with the following;

1) most cops never actually draw their firearms in the line of duty.
2) most cops never actually fire their firearms in the line of duty.
3) most cops get inadequate training on firearms.
4) most cops get inadequate training on deescalation of situations.
5) most cops get inadequate training on use of less-lethal means (tasers, etc.)

Given the preceding, it makes sense to reduce the number of cops who carry firearms in the line of duty. Reserve firearms for SWAT/ESU type units to respond to situations. Get cops walking the beat and interacting with the community (they should live in communities where they work would help with the empathy and understanding of the issues/concerns).

This is similar to what several European countries do right now, and the result in far fewer gun deaths at the hands of cops.

It wont stop all excessive force/police brutality/officer-involved shootings, but the reductions would be significant.

To help address training, national standards should be set as a floor for training. States would be free to provide more training (and should), including annual refreshers. Pysch evals should be standard for officers. Online postings suggesting violent responses to various situations should count against cops being allowed to remain on the job. That goes to motive and abuse of power/discretion.

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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:36:26am

today mrsdm and i celebrate our first day of full vaccine ‘immunity’

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A Cranky One  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:41:30am

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William Lewis  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:41:44am

re: #197 lawhawk

As an aside, the finest cop I ever knew was a detective in Madison in the 70’s. The one time he pulled his revolver, he used it as a cosh and sprung the cylinder in the process making it unusable without repairs. The department issued him an actual blackjack after that and it was the only weapon he ever used in the line of duty.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:42:16am

Operator, I’d like to report a murder.

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William Lewis  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:43:12am

re: #199 A Cranky One

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Green means go.
Red means stop.
Yellow means go faster.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:48:09am

re: #200 William Lewis

cosh?

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William Lewis  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:50:16am

re: #203 Belafon

cosh?

blackjack.
sap.
various names for a handheld weight used to hit people with. It is best considered a less lethal weapon since too much force can be fatal; however prior to the taser it was the best less lethal weapon available to a skilled user.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:50:43am

re: #203 Belafon

cosh?

Also known as a blackjack.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:52:11am

re: #205 Dr Lizardo

Also known as a blackjack.

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Had one when I was a deputy sheriff. As with my gun, I never used it.

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danarchy  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:52:57am

re: #197 lawhawk

Been toying with the following;

Given the preceding, it makes sense to reduce the number of cops who carry firearms in the line of duty. Reserve firearms for SWAT/ESU type units to respond to situations. Get cops walking the beat and interacting with the community (they should live in communities where they work would help with the empathy and understanding of the issues/concerns).

This is similar to what several European countries do right now, and the result in far fewer gun deaths at the hands of cops.

Those other countries don’t have a populace armed with approximately 300 million guns. Unless that is addressed I can’t see sending police out unarmed or poorly armed.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:53:04am

re: #204 William Lewis

blackjack.
sap.
various names for a handheld weight used to hit people with. It is best considered a less lethal weapon since too much force can be fatal; however prior to the taser it was the best less lethal weapon available to a skilled user.

Thanks. All google was giving me was hypercosin.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:53:49am

re: #207 danarchy

Those other countries don’t have a populace armed with approximately 300 million guns. Unless that is addressed I can’t see sending police out unarmed or poorly armed.

That’s step zero in my plan.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:55:06am

re: #206 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Had one when I was a deputy sheriff. As with my gun, I never used it.

When I was a kid, the LAPD’s uniforms had a place on them for a blackjack. I only remember seeing a couple cops actually carrying one.

Meanwhile, looks like an Indonesian Navy sub has gone missing:

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:56:49am

re: #210 Dr Lizardo

When I was a kid, the LAPD’s uniforms had a place on them for a blackjack. I only remember seeing a couple cops actually carrying one.

A number of officers here in Minnesota carry nightsticks. My brother-in-law had one, and I know the officers in the local PD that have stopped by my house during the last year’s tumult had them.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:57:01am

re: #210 Dr Lizardo

Could be bad news on the missing submarine, unfortunately:

Indonesian rescuers searching for a submarine that went missing with 53 people on board found an oil spill on Wednesday near where the vessel dived, authorities said.

The 44-year-old submarine, KRI Nanggala-402, was conducting a torpedo drill in waters north of the island of Bali but failed to relay the results as expected, a navy spokesman said.

An aerial search found an oil spill near the submarine’s dive location and two navy vessels with sonar capability have been deployed to assist in the search, the Defense Ministry said.

reuters.com

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:57:35am

re: #212 Dr Lizardo

Could be bad news on the missing submarine, unfortunately:

reuters.com

That’s definitely not good.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 21, 2021 • 8:57:47am

re: #211 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

A number of officers here in Minnesota carry nightsticks. My brother-in-law had one, and I know the officers in the local PD that have stopped by my house during the last year’s tumult had them.

Nightsticks are still part of the Czech police kit. Every cop I see carries one.

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Targetpractice  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:00:28am

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

What’s always telling is watching a Dem mention the word “racism” at all and every Repub around them scream “STOP CALLING ME A RACIST!!!”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:01:31am

re: #213 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

That’s definitely not good.

First thing I thought of was that Argentinian sub that (apparently) imploded* back in 2017, the ARA San Juan.

*The incident is still under investigation

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:03:24am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:06:35am

re: #217 jaunte

The day after someone plows through a crowd of MAGAts in their lifted, 4x4 life-sized Hot Wheels toy, that law shielding drivers who carry out vehicular attacks against protestors will be repealed.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:14:45am

re: #216 Dr Lizardo

First thing I thought of was that Argentinian sub that (apparently) imploded* back in 2017, the ARA San Juan.

*The incident is still under investigation

The missing boat is KRI Nanggala,a Type 209/1300. It is a near sister of the San Juan (Type 209-1100) and is nearly as old (commissioned 6 July 1981).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:16:27am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

The day after someone plows through a crowd of MAGAts in their lifted, 4x4 life-sized Hot Wheels toy, that law shielding drivers who carry out vehicular attacks against protestors will be repealed.

Or when a black man tries to cite Stand Your Ground legislation in the shooting of a white person.

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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:18:34am

re: #198 Dangerman

today mrsdm and i celebrate our first day of full vaccine ‘immunity’

in the beginning we were all in the same mask, distance, wash boat.

waiting for a vaccine

yes some would possibly turn out to be allergic or in some other way contraindicated (depending on ingredients, etc)

and maybe herd immunity would have protected them.
if vaccination hadn’t turned into whatever it is - us vs them, rational vs irrational - whatever.

so there will be two groups of not vaccinated.
those who can’t and those who won’t.

some of the ‘won’ts’ will get covid. some of them will survive and some ‘won’t’.
some will become long haulers.
some may never get it and go ‘ha ha ha’ forever.
possibly, some of them may have no problem with masking etc, and just don’t want a vaccine.

it’s different for the ‘can’ts’

they will unfortunately have to continue the basic protocols to protect themselves.
masking, distance, washing.
And be careful.
Those dynamics wont end for them and it is unfortunate.
But it’s not necessarily dire.

i’m thinking about this because today as i said above my vaccination is now at ‘full strength’.

and i’m still masking, distancing and washing for the foreseeable future.
at some point that might change for me. i can ‘relax’ a bit more.
not so much for the ‘can’ts’.

protect you and your own.
there is no other way.

we’d like there to be another way.

there isn’t because this is where we are.
you deal with how things are, rather than how we thought they were gonna be or could otherwise be if only…

they aren’t

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:22:38am

heh

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:23:02am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:23:52am

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:24:33am

This is glorious - someone put up a small billboard with Czech PM Andrej Babiš’ StB card.

moravskoslezsky.denik.cz

The StB was the Czechoslovak Communist-era secret police, a local version of the KGB (they often worked together). And one of my students pointed out that his agent status was almost certainly passed along to the KGB in Moscow.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:26:36am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:30:01am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:30:14am

re: #208 Belafon

Thanks. All google was giving me was hypercosin.

My iPad’s highlight word - look up - function gave me the definition. All hail our overlords.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:31:31am

O_o

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:32:15am

re: #228 Colère Tueur de Lapin

My iPad’s highlight word - look up - function gave me the definition. All hail our overlords.

Yeah, I should have gone straight to dictionary.com.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:35:01am

re: #230 Belafon

Yeah, I should have gone straight to dictionary.com.

Google gets a little too excited suggesting answers.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:35:13am

re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

“Not saying that’s what happened here”

Then why the ACTUAL FUCK did you open your 10,000 megawatt yapper, you fuckface? Why don’t you stick to murdering the entire population of Florida, and leave Minnesota well enough alone. You’re going to kill enough of our citizens as it is, the people who fly down to your plague-ridden hellhole every year to avoid the snow.

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Jay C  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:39:15am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was wondering why the partisan split on Vanita Gupta’s nomination to DoJ - then I looked at her record.. Gee, an AAG who takes civil rights and civil liberties seriously: no wonder the GOPers don’t like her….

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:42:13am

re: #233 Jay C

I was wondering why the partisan split on Vanita Gupta’s nomination to DoJ - then I looked at her record.. Gee, an AAG who takes civil rights and civil liberties seriously: no wonder the GOPers don’t like her….

They call her record radical.

At least Manchin and Sinema aren’t being idiots.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:43:24am
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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:44:42am
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Belafon  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:51:04am

re: #236 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

“And we were all for it until they started criticizing us.”

A Democrat should propose the “Ted Cruz ‘Restore Net Neutrality and Allow Cities to Implement Local Broadband’ Act.”

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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:53:02am
Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former President Donald Trump once called “the eighth wonder of the world,” CNBC reports.

ETTD

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:53:25am

re: #236 teleskiguy

Here’s some better video of Ted Cruz (and the GOP and MAGAts in general):

Try Not to Laugh - Funniest Upset Toddlers Compilation

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:53:58am

“Waterspouts” - ie “ocean tornadoes” - scare the living shit out of me:

Am I being unreasonable? Couldn’t these things just suck up your boat (or you, off the deck of said boat) and fling you around? Isn’t this how we get rains of frogs/fish coming down?

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wrenchwench  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:55:00am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 21, 2021 • 9:58:14am

re: #240 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)

“Waterspouts” - ie “ocean tornadoes” - scare the living shit out of me:

Am I being unreasonable? Couldn’t these things just suck up your boat (or you, off the deck of said boat) and fling you around? Isn’t this how we get rains of frogs/fish coming down?

You’re sort of unreasonable. Yes, that could happen (and that is how we get “WTF it’s raining fish”), but it’d have to actually hit you first - and unlike a tornado on land, a waterspout is a bit easier to spot and avoid. They’re usually not large, also, which means that you would have to be extremely unfortunate for its path to actually intersect with yours.

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Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)  Apr 21, 2021 • 10:07:29am

re: #46 Belafon

This goes back, though, to excessive force. She had a knife, and he had a gun. A bullet to the arm or leg if he can’t physically get between the two in time is enough. Even if he’s such a bad shot that he had to hit the chest, why four?

OK, again: shooting at arms & legs is a real no-no. Despite what you see in movies, arms and legs move FAST.

Miss, and the bullet just keeps going. Maybe hits a toddler in the background, maybe goes through a window & kills mom holding baby.

Aim for center mass.

Once you’ve made the decision to use deadly force, you use it. You don’t empty the whole clip into someone. But you do put multiple rounds into them to stop them from presenting a clear danger to yourself & others.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 21, 2021 • 10:31:22am

re: #146 darthstar

Dear god, a mozzarella stick? Get that statue on Tucker’s show. This can’t stand.

It was 4/20 and that dog statue needed a doob.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 21, 2021 • 10:33:54am

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

Christie is a dead-on-announcement campaign.

He’s unpopular in New Jersey. A known loud/brash/asshole/bully - but without Trump’s following or adoring base. There is lots of footage of him as a suckup to Trump including the “deer in headlights” moment.

No one trusts him. No one would trust him.

So let him run and soak up money that would otherwise go into the coffers of other Republican candidates.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 21, 2021 • 10:36:28am

re: #158 darthstar

Snake jokes never end well.

If someone had done that to my mother or sister the response would have been “Where?” followed by an attempt to examine it.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 21, 2021 • 11:48:05am

re: #146 darthstar

Dear god, a mozzarella stick? Get that statue on Tucker’s show. This can’t stand.

Damn right, it should have been a Jalapeno popper.

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Alephnaught  Apr 21, 2021 • 1:58:12pm

re: #60 Ace-o-aces

[Quote from Milo: “a defense of the “necessary [and] natural” instinct to hate disgusting things like Drag Queen Story Hour.

Hmmm… I’ve been involved with the Glasgow Order of Perpetual Indulgence for a couple of years now. We’re drag nuns, and we’ve also been doing storytimes. I wonder what is exactly a “necessary” or “natural” instinct to hate stuff like this:

Storytime: One Love


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