Seth takes a closer look at former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin being found guilty on all counts for the murder of George Floyd.
We all thought the Joker would come into being through some dramatic break with reality rather than just being monotonously racist on cable news until he snapped https://t.co/aZBYtUVn7c
— jesse taylor (@jesseltaylor) April 22, 2021
Maybe this could be Tucker’s new trademark gimmick, the creepy burst of crazed laughter. And maybe Glenn Greenwald could start doing it too, and then it becomes a right wing thing.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 22, 2021
lots of great replies, this one is poignant
Was lost & searching for a reason to go on. Went to Grand Canyon. Sat on edge thinking how easy it be to step off & end my struggle. Then some Condors landed within feet of me & just hung out. We sat together, me & the Condors, talkin’ it out. I’m still here. Thank the Condors. pic.twitter.com/HWlmlLDj2i
— Sam I Am (@PHX2YOW) April 21, 2021
Asshole Xtians picking on an innocent kid really pisses me off!
Transgender 4th grader Kai Shappley gets death threats after testifying before Texas legislature https://t.co/22Ro34VJMS
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) April 22, 2021
Wow.
Eight years ago when I was in Congress and @BarackObama was President, I would have reflexively railed against him for saying this. Now I agree with him. And thank him for saying it. Because now I understand it. Barack Obama has always gotten it. He hasn’t changed. I have. https://t.co/53wfOZsI9x
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) April 21, 2021
re: #5 William Lewis
Wow.
What the actual fuck happened to him. I’m never going to complain, and I may never fully trust him, but… really, good for him, if he’s legit.
Did somebody tell Tucker to smile more?
He should stop. https://t.co/vzFcqYcaos— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) April 22, 2021
Why am I not surprised?
The author of the best-selling new Philip Roth biography, Blake Bailey, was accused of sexual assault. The publisher will stop shipping the book. https://t.co/Hi35EqFDyL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 22, 2021
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
lots of great replies, this one is poignant
That’s such a nice OP: I can only shudder at the thought of how TFG would celebrate National Park Week: I’m sure the only people he would want to hear from would be strip-mine operators…
re: #6 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
What the actual fuck happened to him. I’m never going to complain, and I may never fully trust him, but… really, good for him, if he’s legit.
It feels like a WWE wrestler doing a face turn. It is just such a dramatic turn it feels fake.
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mayonnaise will be outlawed
I ask you, is that really a bad thing, though?
re: #11 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I ask you, is that really a bad thing, though?
I’m pretty sure they would only be triggered if it’s Miracle Whip that’s banned.
And yes, that would be a good thing.
re: #12 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
I’m pretty sure they would only be triggered if it’s Miracle Whip that’s banned.
And yes, that would be a good thing.
GET OUT.
What evil there is in this world that could imagine Americans taking a collective action to help and protect each other. https://t.co/QexyTLflqD
— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 22, 2021
Someone sent this to me and it’s a nice read. A nice reminder that people can be good! pic.twitter.com/3ZT4po4OST
— Lauren Elizabeth (@yesimLAbaby) April 22, 2021
re: #13 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
GET OUT.
You would literally be the first person I know that likes it and doesn’t own a Confederate Battle Flag.
Here’s an idea…instead of complaining that nobody trusts them anymore, why don’t police try demonstrating that they’re worthy of that trust.
re: #16 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
You would literally be the first person I know that likes it and doesn’t own a Confederate Battle Flag.
That’s as bad a question as ‘Have you stopped beating your wife?’…I’ll assume it was a sarcastic ‘GET OUT’…easier that way. Also, Miracle Whip is a sex toy of the devil.
re: #16 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
You would literally be the first person I know that likes it and doesn’t own a Confederate Battle Flag.
The part you don’t know is that it’s because my father worked for almost his entire professional career for one company. Little outfit that used to go by the name of Kraft Foods, also known as the inventor and maker of Miracle Whip. We didn’t even keep mayo in the house when I was a teenager.
re: #17 darthstar
Here’s an idea…instead of complaining that nobody trusts them anymore, why don’t police try demonstrating that they’re worthy of that trust.
Really. The Officer Friendly I grew up with no longer exists.
Are we going to need to further subdivide the LGF tribe into mayonnaise vs. Miracle whip vs. Nope?
re: #22 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Are we going to need to further subdivide the LGF tribe into mayonnaise vs. Miracle whip vs. Nope?
What about those weirdos like myself that enjoy both?
re: #22 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Are we going to need to further subdivide the LGF tribe into mayonnaise vs. Miracle whip vs. Nope?
Only if we can’t keep the Hellman’s Brigade under control.
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re: #23 Targetpractice
What about those weirdos like myself that enjoy both?
We get to take potshots at both sides.
re: #20 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Really. The Officer Friendly I grew up with no longer exists.
“I like to stop and fri-isk,
Any people who seem a ri-isk,
If you’re a little brown,
I may just shoot you down,
But it’s just because of who I am.”
Yes the officer’s a person in your neighborhood,
In your neigborhood,
In your neigbor-ho-od,
The officer’s a person in your neighborhood.
He’s a person that you’ll meet,
When you’re walking down the street,
He’s the person on the news the next day.
re: #22 Colère Tueur de Lapin
What’s better on pineapple?
Okay, I just made that up and it obviously needs some work, but feel free to improve on it.
re: #27 jaunte
What’s better on pineapple?
If any of you assholes even suggests mayo OR Miracle Whip on pizza, people are going to die.
re: #27 jaunte
What’s better on pineapple?
I asked my wife tonight (as I just smoked some beautiful and delicious Canadian Bacon this week), “Here’s a bridge we haven’t crossed in our relationship…”
“Oh no.”
Me: How do you feel about pineapple on your pizza?
She: Against it. Extremely.
Me: Aww.
She: You’re welcome to put it on half (she likes my pizzas) and I’ll still love you…
(the implication there is the love remains but respect goes back to square one)
re: #30 darthstar
Mrs. Fish is allergic to pineapple, so I can no longer eat the delicious pineapple-y goodness on Hawaiian pizzas. She says she can eat it if it’s cooked, but I prefer to be respectful and not push the envelope.
re: #6 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
What the actual fuck happened to him. I’m never going to complain, and I may never fully trust him, but… really, good for him, if he’s legit.
As I’ve said before, it was Trump and Russia that happened to him — he was an absolute Trump devotee until December 2016 when he finally began to recognize that Trump really supported Putin. Somehow he managed to overlook this during the 2016 campaign but better late than never. My guess is that the fact that the Republican Party, in general, marched in lockstep with Trump toward this Putin alliance combined with Trump’s neglect of our traditional allies persuaded him to abandon the GOP and somehow he gave a new look at what the Democrats were selling.
re: #32 jaunte
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It’s just a cooking question: “How do you take your acid?”
With live music.
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
I wonder if he ever paid his child support. But yeah, he showed that teabaggers can recover. He was an original member of that clan, and has been trying to make restitution for four years.
Funny…I knew this tweet was four or five days early when I sent it, but because I did, it’s getting noticed now that President Biden announced hitting his adjusted goal of 200M shots in arms.
@DanCrenshawTX - Suck on this. pic.twitter.com/DI8pxMQtc3
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 17, 2021
re: #37 darthstar
Funny…I knew this tweet was four or five days early when I sent it, but because I did, it’s getting noticed now that President Biden announced hitting his adjusted goal of 200M shots in arms.
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re: #10 danarchy
It feels like a WWE wrestler doing a face turn. It is just such a dramatic turn it feels fake.
A dramatic turn that’s been going on for a couple of years now.
re: #36 Targetpractice
Just don’t take the brown acid.
It’s fine if you find someone with a friendly shirt who will hang out with you for a few hours. For the record, I never did drop acid. Loved mushrooms too much. From what I heard, they were far more intense and lasted longer. Good thing I didn’t know that. I had a couple of good summers, including one where a guy I knew gave me a pound of fungus to sell…I ate it over three months.
re: #38 Targetpractice
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Move the goals again, and Biden will hit them. He’s like fuckin’ Messi.
re: #16 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
You would literally be the first person I know that likes it and doesn’t own a Confederate Battle Flag.
I don’t own a confederate flag, but I did grow up in Texas, and ate it a lot as a kid, especially with a slice of cheese on white bread.
re: #6 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
What the actual fuck happened to him. I’m never going to complain, and I may never fully trust him, but… really, good for him, if he’s legit.
Helsinki.
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
lots of great replies, this one is poignant
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Brings to mind:
Stood alone on a mountain top
Starin’ out at the Great Divide
I could go East, I could go West
It was all up to me to decide
Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’
And my soul began to rise
And pretty soon
My heart was singin’
Roll, roll me away
I’m gonna roll me away tonight
Gotta keep rollin’, gotta keep ridin’
Keep searching ‘til I find what’s right
And as the sunset faded, I spoke
To the faintest first starlight
And I said next time
Next time
We’ll get it right
So I ended up getting totally high last night off the edibles I tried.
Very surreal experience. No regrets.
Still fuck “woke” Joe Walsh
You rode the tea party and their bullshit to Congress and went on all the shows to spew the rhetoric and now you “seem” to have turned the corner, but you have a LOT of work to do to repair the damage you did to this country.
— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) April 22, 2021
re: #42 Belafon
I don’t own a confederate flag, but I did grow up in Texas, and ate it a lot as a kid, especially with a slice of cheese on white bread.
The wildest thing to me was when I mentioned the Miracle Whip-Cheese-Bread thing and found out my family wasn’t the only one that did that. For us, it was a cheap way to get calories into us kids.
re: #46 EstebanTornado1963
Still fuck “woke” Joe Walsh
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I’m gonna have to disagree on going after people who seem to be trying to change. It doesn’t help anything, and expecting the other person to be the adult in the pair just seems petty.
re: #48 Belafon
I’m gonna have to disagree on going after people who seem to be trying to change. It doesn’t help anything, and expecting the other person to be the adult in the pair just seems petty.
Some of these Lincoln Project Never-Trump assholes are just never-Trump, ignore their past to the point of blocking people who mention it, and are still assholes. Fuck them.
However, several of them are literally saying that they were wrong in the past and have changed. We shouldn’t be unloading on them.
re: #48 Belafon
I’m gonna have to disagree on going after people who seem to be trying to change. It doesn’t help anything, and expecting the other person to be the adult in the pair just seems petty.
Same here. You reward good behavior with good behavior, particularly if it’s a change from past behavior.
You reward good behavior with the same behavior as you do bad behavior teaches people that what they do doesn’t matter. That’s not what I want. I want good behavior.
re: #48 Belafon
re: #50 gwangung
With that said, I can also understand a lack of trust. Some people who, maybe fraudulently, make a claim to have changed and then complain about “being attacked” seem not to understand that there are people whom they have personally damaged by being wrong for years. That’s damage that they need to confront, address, and apologize for personally if they’re to be taken seriously in their change of heart.
re: #49 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Also on that note:
I’ll be the first to say that 75-85% of my political stances and/or ideas from the Bush years were misguided, wrong, or born out of privilege that I had not at that point fully understood was even a thing.
I’d be pissed and rightfully so if people were digging that shit out of LGF or Facebook from 12-13 years ago and saying I’m a terrible person *now* because of it.
I just came around much earlier, quicker, and more completely than those guys.
re: #52 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Also on that note:
I’ll be the first to say that 75-85% of my political stances and/or ideas from the Bush years were misguided, wrong, or born out of privilege that I had not at that point fully understood was even a thing.
I’d be pissed and rightfully so if people were digging that shit out of LGF or Facebook from 12-13 years ago and saying I’m a terrible person *now* because of it.
I just came around much earlier, quicker, and more completely than those guys.
Don’t… just don’t ever go back through the LGF archives and look at some of the things I said. I admit I was still making my way off the evangelical conservative derp train in 2006-2007. I’m sorry.
re: #51 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
With that said, I can also understand a lack of trust. Some people who, maybe fraudulently, make a claim to have changed and then complain about “being attacked” seem not to understand that there are people whom they have personally damaged by being wrong for years. That’s damage that they need to confront, address, and apologize for personally if they’re to be taken seriously in their change of heart.
Agree:
There were plenty of times I deserved to be dragged back then.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) April 21, 2021
My wife saw that both Emilia Clarke and Olivia Coleman will have some roles in the MCU related to Secret Wars.
re: #29 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
If any of you assholes even suggests mayo OR Miracle Whip on pizza, people are going to die.
re: #56 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
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What’s funny is that after I made the quoted statement, I relayed it to Mrs. Fish, and she said, “I could see a use for mayo on pizza, it’s made with eggs and oil and could be turned into a viable sauce. After all, I’ve put ranch dressing on pizza before.”
When we did buy mayo when I was a kid, it was often used for making cakes.
re: #58 Belafon
When we did buy mayo when I was a kid, it was often used for making cakes.
My mom put Miracle Whip into deviled eggs. She called them “angeled eggs” (because in our Christian household, deviled anything was, well, of the devil), and I didn’t know there was anything unusual about them until I moved to Minnesota and Mrs. Fish’s mom served deviled eggs made with mayo. After she learned about the Miracle Whip eggs, she has served me eggs made with both mayo and Miracle Whip, and… I love you, mother-in-law, but that unholy abomination should never have been born on this earth. Just pick one.
re: #29 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
If any of you assholes even suggests mayo OR Miracle Whip on pizza, people are going to die.
So THAT’S what that white pizza I saw was!
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re: #59 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
My mom put Miracle Whip into deviled eggs. She called them “angeled eggs” (because in our Christian household, deviled anything was, well, of the devil), and I didn’t know there was anything unusual about them until I moved to Minnesota and Mrs. Fish’s mom served deviled eggs made with mayo. After she learned about the Miracle Whip eggs, she has served me eggs made with both mayo and Miracle Whip, and… I love you, mother-in-law, but that unholy abomination should never have been born on this earth. Just pick one.
In recipes that call for mayo, I use half mayo and half plain yogurt. Much more tolerable for me. Especially anything with poultry (chicken salad, forex)
Mayo for tuna salad, egg salad, and potato salad. I only do savory. Sweet in any of those salads just doesn’t work for me.
When I ate ham and swiss sammies back in the day, I did enjoy Miracle Whip on them. There’s something about the sweetness against the saltiness of the ham that works.
re: #59 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
My mom put Miracle Whip into deviled eggs. She called them “angeled eggs” (because in our Christian household, deviled anything was, well, of the devil), and I didn’t know there was anything unusual about them until I moved to Minnesota and Mrs. Fish’s mom served deviled eggs made with mayo. After she learned about the Miracle Whip eggs, she has served me eggs made with both mayo and Miracle Whip, and… I love you, mother-in-law, but that unholy abomination should never have been born on this earth. Just pick one.
Mom would use a mix of Miracle Whip and Durkee’s Sauce for her deviled eggs.
Use mayo instead of butter on grilled cheese sandwiches.
This is too fuckin’ real. This is real estate in the inner mountain west. pic.twitter.com/d91gMDVfs9
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 22, 2021
re: #68 teleskiguy
Use mayo instead of butter on grilled cheese sandwiches.
No, definitely I vote for butter. I am NOT a mayo OR Miracle Whip person. Never bought a jar in my 73 years, that I can recall.
re: #46 EstebanTornado1963
Still fuck “woke” Joe Walsh
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Now, now, we accepted a woke and rehabilitated Senator Byrd in West By God Virginia who apologized for his sins and came to Democratic Jesus.
If Joe Walsh (NOT a guitarist for The Eagles) is crawfishing like this, I say “Go, Joe, go!”
Yes, we knew he was an asshole before he took the job.
Trump’s old ‘half-wit’ intelligence director ridiculed for not knowing where federal jobs are locatedhttps://t.co/6J7z4jBkor
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 22, 2021
That one time for Halloween when Umphrey’s McGee all dressed up as Prince.
For their Halloween show The #umphreys costumes consisted of Prince. All six guys…dressed up as Prince. pic.twitter.com/xqQbt1U1hS
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 29, 2017
Why are the Board of Governors and the Postmaster General still employed? Fire them all. Now.
— Ton Frere (@TonFrere9) April 21, 2021
re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron
Biden has three named nominations for the three empty seats. That gives Dems a working 1 vote majority. But the two existing directors say they are happy with DeJoy. I don’t know if they can be fired by the administration or not. Not easily, anyway. Fingers crossed the new people can twist some arms once they get in.
re: #70 retired cynic
No, definitely I vote for butter. I am NOT a mayo OR Miracle Whip person. Never bought a jar in my 73 years, that I can recall.
I don’t do mayo or Miracle Whip - or butter!
re: #76 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t do mayo or Miracle Whip - or butter!
Fortunately, I don’t eat a lot of butter, either, or I would bigger than I am!
re: #72 🌹UOJB!
Yes, we knew he was an asshole before he took the job.
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re: #69 teleskiguy
Yep. I know someone trying to move from Utah to Colorado and buy a house. This is exactly what he’s running into.
Stories like this keep me up at night pic.twitter.com/wU7SIkmOUf
— David Venhuizen (@David_Venhuizen) April 20, 2021
re: #81 teleskiguy
I should be in good shape, then. I just need someone to wake me up.
My father slept very few hours a night, and he lived to 90 before dying of cancer, and hadn’t lost an inch of brain that I could tell.
re: #75 retired cynic
Biden has three named nominations for the three empty seats. That gives Dems a working 1 vote majority. But the two existing directors say they are happy with DeJoy. I don’t know if they can be fired by the administration or not. Not easily, anyway. Fingers crossed the new people can twist some arms once they get in.
I looked this up a while back, and a couple of the current people have terms ending in the next year or so. (All the current directors are DT appointees.)
re: #68 teleskiguy
Use mayo instead of butter on grilled cheese sandwiches.
Yes! But you must use Duke’s! You cannot use Hellman’s! Hellman’s is of the devil! Look at the name!
Duke’s is the only mayonnaise that should ever be used in an American kitchen!
To eschew Duke’s is to eschew America!
Don’t eschew America!
(I have seen these kinds of flame wars for years over…condiments.)
We are a very strange species. I’m amazed that we have survived so far, and somewhat peckish about our surviving for another century.
In any case, I’m off for the rack. Finally got our vehicle registration cleared up after a year when noone was getting registrations. Nice. We’re good ‘til 4/22.
Tomorrow night we should be getting some decent rain from a Pacific front moving in from the west. Maybe .5 to 1”. We really need it. The crescent from Texas all the way to Washington State is really getting it in the neck right now.
If we don’t get rain, everybody is going to pay more for groceries.
PS:
I saw earlier today that Chris Christie was considering throwing his hat into the 2024 Presidential ring, and damn me to hell, a little imp jumped onto my left shoulder and whispered into my ear “Remember that Simon Pegg comedy, Run Fat Boy Run?
I really am an awful human being.
I seriously thought that Japanese TV shows were about as cruel & casually abusive towards ordinary people as it was possible to get without live vivisection.
I was wrong.
A TV show has sparked outrage in Iraq after featuring fake ISIS fighters who ‘kidnap’ celebrities, strap fake suicide vests to them and tell them they will be executed.
In the prank show Tanneb Rislan, terrified celebrities are taken to visit Iraqi families who they believe have been displaced after fleeing from extremists.
But once there, the duped participants are ambushed by fake jihadists and told they will be killed - until ‘troops’ come to the rescue and bring their ordeal to an end.
In one show, comic actress Nessma passed out with fear after being fitted with a fake suicide vest and was only brought round when the presenter poured water on her face.
In another episode, Iraq international footballer Alaa Mhawi, who has played 44 times for his country, was blind-folded and filmed begging for his life.
What looks like a close shave is, in fact, a candid camera-style television show airing during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that takes tricking celebrities for laughs to a new level. And it’s causing a scandal in Iraq, along with accusations of bad taste.
re: #71 austin_blue
Now, now, we accepted a woke and rehabilitated Senator Byrd in West By God Virginia who apologized for his sins and came to Democratic Jesus.
If Joe Walsh (NOT a guitarist for The Eagles) is crawfishing like this, I say “Go, Joe, go!”
I agree. Of all the Never Trumpers I can think of, Walsh is the only one who seems to have paid a price for leaving the flock, has admitted to and apologized for the bad craziness he spewed. He still identifies as a conservative and tweets conservative opinion minus the assholery you’d expect. I guess you can still indict him for being “conservative” because that ideology has a lot of historical baggage, but he otherwise seems to be the closest thing to the real deal among the Never Trump crowd.
A couple of things about mayo and Miracle Whip:
1) We ate Miracle Whip in our family. My mother had been brought up on Miracle Whip and she brought that to the marriage. I knew what this “mayonnaise” stuff was, but we didn’t have it because my mom said it was too expensive and Miracle Whip was Just Fine. We were that family who bought jelly and jam in jars that could be turned into glasses after we ate all the jelly. And mom bought no-name or store brands, because cheaper. She had to, money was tight.
2) Best Foods is sold in the West and Hellman’s in the East. When we moved to Texas when I was a teenager, some markets had Best Foods and some had Hellman’s. The jingle was the same: “Bring out the (Best Foods/Hellman’s) and bring out the best.”
Today, it really doesn’t matter the mayonnaise or Miracle Whip. I do want mustard on that sammich, please.
re: #88 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
That is without doubt the worst premise for “entertainment” that I can possibly imagine.
re: #88 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
I seriously thought that Japanese TV shows were about as cruel & casually abusive towards ordinary people as it was possible to get without live vivisection.
I was wrong.
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You know, I thought Ramadan was when TV networks brought out their blockbuster historicals and dramas (hold the sex please, it’s Ramadan), not this kind of crazy.
(Why yes, that’s Cosmopolitan Middle East, and why yes, it’s a list of Egyptian shows for this Ramadan. Egypt cranks out a lot of Arabic TV which is watched across the region.)
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In extremely local news, my wife got her second Moderna shot today. Right now she doesn’t feel bad.
She is going to make a report to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System however. The reason is her sense of smell, which she lost in a car accident more than twenty-five years ago, came back a few days after she received her first jab. While it might be a spurious correlation, she thinks it’s important enough to report.
If others have reported a similar thing, that might be useful to Moderna.
In the meantime, a dipshit in Omaha was fired from radio station KFAB.
Radio personality Chris Baker fired after offensive tweet, calls it a ‘boomer Twitter moment’ (Omaha World-Herald, an hour ago)
Omaha radio personality Chris Baker was fired Wednesday after posting an offensive tweet about the Derek Chauvin verdict.
C. Taylor Walet III, area president/Nebraska for iHeartRadio, said Wednesday that Baker had been fired from KFAB that afternoon.
Baker’s tweet was “completely inappropriate and unacceptable,” Walet said in a statement. “Please know that this does not represent our viewpoint or our values, and we take this situation very seriously. Accordingly, Chris Baker’s employment with our company has been terminated.”
The tweet, posted soon after former Minneapolis Police Officer Chauvin, who is White, was found guilty of killing George Floyd, a Black man, featured a GIF (file image) of four Black men wearing loincloths and body paint and dancing, possibly with spears in front of them. Above the picture was the proclamation: Guilty!
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Yeah, I’m a boomer. That doesn’t make you a racist.
I personally enjoyed seeing him get the crap beat out of him by a Texas Longhorn. Stacey Abrams has a master’s degree from the LBJ School.
— Laura Chapin (@LauraChapin) April 22, 2021
Senator McCollister is the state senator who the Nebraska GOP is trying to push out because he called his own party out for a racism and Nazi problem.
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is a tweet that was posted then quickly deleted by Nebraska radio host @CBakerShow when the verdict was announced in the Derek Chauvin trial.
Racism like this is a FEATURE of conservative talk radio but they usually mask it with dog whistles.
But not this time. @kfabnews pic.twitter.com/3lr5TFyBhi— Senator McCollister (@SenMcCollister) April 21, 2021
water decried as wet
I’m frequently invited to be a guest on the @CBakerShow, but I do not allow racist shock jocks to use me to increase their ad revenue. KFAB provides a platform for this, and for that reason I cannot support them.https://t.co/h2ZcLxydFW— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) April 21, 2021
Colorado state representative (D-Denver) Leslie Herod
I’ll go first, I have 2 bills filed that deal with police accountability and chemical restraints. HB1250/1251.
— Leslie Herod (@leslieherod) April 21, 2021
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The worsening Covid situation in India should matter to investors everywhere. @markets strategist Mark Cudmore explains pic.twitter.com/DmYVmy3Wui
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) April 21, 2021
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
Was lost & searching for a reason to go on. Went to Grand Canyon. Sat on edge thinking how easy it be to step off & end my struggle. Then some Condors landed within feet of me & just hung out. We sat together, me & the Condors, talkin’ it out. I’m still here. Thank the Condors.
Grand Canyon changed my life, one hiking trip in particular led me to where I am and who I am today…
re: #23 Targetpractice
What about those weirdos like myself that enjoy both?
Miracle Whip is for salads and sauces, mayo is for sandwiches.
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the meantime, a dipshit in Omaha was fired from radio station KFAB.
Radio personality Chris Baker fired after offensive tweet, calls it a ‘boomer Twitter moment’ (Omaha World-Herald, an hour ago)
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Yeah, I’m a boomer. That doesn’t make you a racist.
Also, just because some things were accepted back then does not make them acceptable today.
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the meantime, a dipshit in Omaha was fired from radio station KFAB.
Radio personality Chris Baker fired after offensive tweet, calls it a ‘boomer Twitter moment’ (Omaha World-Herald, an hour ago)
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Yeah, I’m a boomer. That doesn’t make you a racist.
Being a boomer doesn’t make you a racist; but for early boomers, it maybe does make you oblivious to how viral tweets (even quickly deleted ones) may be.
I hope everyone is mentally prepared for covid to never go away. Republicans oppose masks and vaccines simply because Democrats advocate for them. Republicans won’t mask up, won’t get vaccinated and, even if they do, won’t get their boosters in a year. Covid is here to stay. https://t.co/EQORb0LPRz
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) April 22, 2021
The number of Texans getting vaccinated is now going down, while covid cases are rising. So basically everyone willing to be vaccinated has already been vaccinated.https://t.co/7Yppbc0z1y
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) April 22, 2021
re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron
The GOP wants a genocide.
At this point, it looks like evolution by natural selection is going to drive the reduction of conservatives (though they will take some liberals with them). Since so many conservatives don’t “believe in” natural selection, they will find out the hard way.
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Also, just because some things were accepted back then does not make them acceptable today.
This douchecanoe was a sometimes fill-in for Glenn Beck’s radio show. He knew what he was doing.
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This douchecanoe was a sometimes fill-in for Glenn Beck’s radio show. He knew what he was doing.
The dogwhistle was clear, I am just referring to expressions and images/tropes that I recall in common use from my youth, perhaps they were “harmless” back then, but no longer acceptable today.
Candace Owens ahead of Rubio https://t.co/jySMgZGvbx
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) April 21, 2021
Pretty good evidence that the Republican Party is beyond saving https://t.co/kvMz7ri68J
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 21, 2021
re: #108 Dread Pirate Ron
Pretty good evidence that the Republican Party is beyond saving
Evidence of why the only way they can win is through selective voter suppression measures.
re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron
I hope everyone is mentally prepared for covid to never go away. Republicans oppose masks and vaccines simply because Democrats advocate for them. Republicans won’t mask up, won’t get vaccinated and, even if they do, won’t get their boosters in a year. Covid is here to stay.
Not only is Covid is here to stay, but it is changing and at some point, it is possible that a highly contagious, virulent and vaccine-resistant strain will find its way back to our shores and we will wind up chasing our tails…
Local prosecutors in Colorado on Wednesday filed over 40 more felony charges against a man charged with killing 10 people at a Boulder supermarket last month. https://t.co/kQBO1eEXqz
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) April 22, 2021
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Today I read India has their own variant. I forget the number.
Insurance company: What happened to your car?
Me: I had a collision at the docks, hit a submarine coming from the right
Insurance company: So a traffic acc… YOU HIT WHAT? pic.twitter.com/ystj2lOlWg— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) April 22, 2021
The circles are not moving in this animation.
なんと動いてません#ド直球に言いますがフォローしてください pic.twitter.com/qthgo7k2UN
— じゃがりきん (@jagarikin) April 21, 2021
On a much more somber note, I have a bad feeling about Queen Elizabeth. Nothing on the news, but she is 95 now and she doesn’t look right even for someone recently widowed.
I am a rational man and do not believe in premonitions as such, but I can’t quite shake the feeling that “London Bridge” is imminent.
When she goes, the public grief will be off the scale. Only a few Britons, those over about 75, can remember any other monarch. She has been queen since I was less than 3 years old and I am an old man now.
I hope it’s just the late night creeps after a year of horrible news and she will go on for a few more years.
re: #115 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The grief will be because Charles is King.
Another optical illusion. Nothing is in motion.
スーパー錯視ブラザーズ pic.twitter.com/bLkFhBOCeU
— じゃがりきん (@jagarikin) November 20, 2020
re: #116 Dread Pirate Ron
The grief will be because Charles is King.
Yeah, if Charlie de Bigears is smart (a very big “if”) he will abdicate immediately and let William take over.
re: #118 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Yeah, if Charlie de Bigears is smart (a very big “if”) he will abdicate immediately and let William take over.
I’d prefer Anne, but that’s out.
re: #117 teleskiguy
Another optical illusion. Nothing is in motion.
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I was playing with starting and stopping this gif and I borked it. It no longer starts and stops. That’s a first.
Try to tell self-declared “conservatives” that what they hold dear is often just the product of sales jobs…
re: #116 Dread Pirate Ron
The grief will be because Charles is King.
That is why she is fighting to hold on as long as she has…she really hopes to skip him directly over to William
re: #117 teleskiguy
Another optical illusion. Nothing is in motion.
not quite: the figure on the right is moving but not changing position
re: #113 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
re: #123 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
BBC morning news again has entries on the death of young black Americans due to negligence by those who ostensibly should uphold the law.
Also, news of the COVID pandemic reaching a new peak in India:
..
“Negligence”? Is that what we’re calling it?
re: #128 sagehen
Maybe I have an unrealistic view of the price of firearms, but… doesn’t that stack of “evidence” look to be salable for way more than the unpaid rent he’s getting evicted for?
I can well image that it is going to be spun as a patriot being persecuted for his views
Since my wife’s sense of smell seems to be returning after a quarter-century, I don’t think the issue with the vaccine is a 5G chip.
Perhaps her midichlorians are ramping up, and I should have her tested.
The call of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jakub Kulhánek, for Moscow to take back twenty expelled Czech diplomats by 12:00 today, has expired. In response, about 70 employees, including 22 diplomats, will now have to leave the Russian embassy in Prague. This will equalize the numbers at both embassies. Retaliation from Russia is expected, but it is still unclear what it will be like. Minister Kulhánek will probably comment on the situation this afternoon.The Czech ambassador to Russia, Vítězslav Pivoňka, will probably learn the reaction first. He has been invited to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he will have a “specific conversation” about how Moscow will behave.
The Russians are butthurt:
A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the Czech Republic of acting under a foreign dictatorship. “There is simply an order for such behavior. This is by no means related to common sense, pragmatics, diplomacy at all, “said Marija Zacharovová. Vladimir Putin indirectly described the Czech Republic as a small barking dog.
According to Prime Minister Babiš, the approach of our country is legitimate. “It simply came to our notice then. Of course, the reaction of the Russian side is not justified, because the Czech Republic has done nothing against the Russian Federation, “said the Prime Minister.
Original, in Czech: forum24.cz
YouTube counter-apologist Telltale now has his apartment in New York City, having moved from his hometown in West Virginia.
He has sent for his daughter to come to their new home, after she was sent into hiding over the death threats they both received from townspeople for recording her health teacher proselytising Christianity in the classroom.
I presume the town feels it achieved a victory in driving a couple atheists out.
I’m officially in my new apartment pic.twitter.com/DrV2rhe7Og
— Telltale (Owen Morgan) 👄wearing a mask👄 (@telltaleatheist) April 17, 2021
Italy ends censorship of films on moral and religious grounds (The Guardian, April 6)
Born in 1914 at the dawn of cinema, Italy’s censorship law felled some giants of the silver screen - including Last Tango in Paris - but now faces its own curtain call.
“Film censorship has been abolished,” announced culture minister Dario Franceschini in a statement late on Monday.
“The system of controls and interventions that still allow the state to intervene in the freedom of artists has been definitively ended.”
As a result, it will now no longer be possible to block the release of a new film or demand edits for moral or religious reasons. Filmmakers will instead classify their own movies based on the age of the audience.
Their decisions will be verified by a new commission made up of 49 members chosen from the film industry, but will be experts in education and animal rights.
“It’s a form of self-regulation. We are mature enough,” said director Pupi Avati, whose 1970s film Bordella was censored.
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:Jaw Drop:
How Mastercard’s Rules Against Child Pornographers Could Be Used To Ban Conservatives From Bankinghttps://t.co/BegArMgQ9f
— The Federalist (@FDRLST) April 19, 2021
Also, h/t to reddit.com
re: #136 Teukka
Now that’s a headline that needs to go back for an edit, LOL.
Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase (R), a prominent candidate for governor, said that the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin this week made her “sick” and that jurors didn’t acquit because they feared a violent backlash, the Washington Post reports.
awfully similar to believing if their candidate loses an election, it has to have been stolen.
as if a democratic institution does something Republicans don’t like, it must be nefarious
specifically to the case it’s like they’re saying all the jurors lied under oath
re: #137 Dr Lizardo
Now that’s a headline that needs to go back for an edit, LOL.
Remember how they finally got the Roman Catholic Church to cooperate on child abuse investigations…threatening them with RICO.
re: #138 Dangerman
awfully similar to believing if their candidate loses an election, it has to have been stolen.
as if a democratic institution does something Republicans don’t like, it must be nefarious
That is the central image of the Tea Party: a foreign tyrant is the same a democratically elected government if you disagree with what it is doing.
re: #136 Teukka
:Jaw Drop:
Also, h/t to reddit.com
Is The Federalist arguing that all conservatives exploit children for pornography? /s
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Is The Federalist arguing that all conservatives exploit children for pornography? /s
I think the notion is that they are complicit in protecting known child pornographers.
re: #137 Dr Lizardo
Now that’s a headline that needs to go back for an edit, LOL.
AMEN!
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember how they finally got the Roman Catholic Church to cooperate on child abuse investigations…threatening them with RICO.
And even when government shows it means SRS BZNZ, there will be Reeeeeee:ing and butthurt.
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Is The Federalist arguing that all conservatives exploit children for pornography? /s
That was my and several other test subjects opinion… Proper self-pwn…
re: #138 Dangerman
awfully similar to believing if their candidate loses an election, it has to have been stolen.
as if a democratic institution does something Republicans don’t like, it must be nefarious
specifically to the case it’s like they’re saying all the jurors lied under oath
Also, thanks for the sidebar insult, implying that my people are weak and that we shirked our duty in the face of the almighty BLM and Antifa. Fuck you very much. We’re made of sterner stuff than that.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
YouTube counter-apologist Telltale now has his apartment in New York City, having moved from his hometown in West Virginia.
He has sent for his daughter to come to their new home, after she was sent into hiding over the death threats they both received from townspeople for recording her health teacher proselytising Christianity in the classroom.
I presume the town feels it achieved a victory in driving a couple atheists out.
If that room (plus a kitchenette and bathroom) is the whole apartment… it’s about $1500/month.
re: #146 sagehen
If that room (plus a kitchenette and bathroom) is the whole apartment… it’s about $1500/month.
Dayum. It’s like 3x my 1 bedroom + kitchenette and bathroom in rent. Per month.
No wonder that a local leftist joke here goes:
Teacher: “How do you spell market rent levels?”
Student: “U-S-U-R-Y…”
re: #147 Teukka
Dayum. It’s like 3x my 1 bedroom + kitchenette and bathroom in rent. Per month.
No wonder that a local leftist joke here goes:
Teacher: “How do you spell market rent levels?”
Student: “U-S-U-R-Y…”
German Supreme Court just overturned a rent cap law for Berlin.
Like everything from Trump’s administration - just smoke and mirrors. They haven’t even started building the factory. That process itself could take another freakin’ year.
“A senior HHS official in the Trump administration said it was surprising that the FDA hadn’t approved the device yet” - why are those assholes still being granted anonymity? https://t.co/3LRrVJQbmw via @nbcnews
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 22, 2021
All 14 pages? I’d be impressed if she read all 10 commandments.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 22, 2021
re: #150 darthstar
Objection: Assumes facts not in evidence. She has yet to demonstrate she can actually read anything at all.
re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron
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And GOP governors/legislatures will affirmatively ban any potential policies/laws that would incentivize or otherwise mandate vaccinations….up to and including preventing private business owners from requiring proof of vaccination to enter their establishment. Blue cities that pass proof of vaccination ordinances? Forget it.
re: #136 Teukka
conservatives may just need to add banks and financial service providers to internet servers, social media outlets, and schools as things they need to build from scratch.
Okay, go for it.
The no true Scotsman fallacy she uses “reasonable people may disagree”
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think the notion is that they are complicit in protecting known child pornographers.
The six hundred eighteen tweet threat of Republicans convicted of domestic assaults, incest, child rape, child exploitation photography, sexual harassment, sexual assaults, &c.
Full .@GOP Pedophile and sexual deviants thread with links this time. Thank you @Cajsa for your amazing work!
#1 Insurrectionist Ricky Williams has been arrested for child pornography. His daughter stole Pelosi’s laptop. https://t.co/4uyZ8EvFrC— ReesusP™💉 (@ResusCGMedia) April 18, 2021
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
not quite: the figure on the right is moving but not changing position
No. Try viewing the animation covering one eye at a time (the usual “reveal” for optical illusions). The spinning colors are deceptive, but the position of the circles is actually fixed.
Neat Illusion, though.
re: #152 Mike Lamb
And GOP governors/legislatures will affirmatively ban any potential policies/laws that would incentivize or otherwise mandate vaccinations….up to and including preventing private business owners from requiring proof of vaccination to enter their establishment. Blue cities that pass proof of vaccination ordinances? Forget it.
Here in Czech Republic, that would actually run into some major constitutional issues regarding the well-enshrined right to privacy in the Czech Constitution. The government’s been looking at it for the past month or so, along with their epidemiological advisors and constitutional lawyers, and they’ve all concluded - thus far - that there’s simply no way around it. Not even in a state of emergency (the Constitutional Court made that quite explicitly clear here a few months back).
All they can realistically do is recommend that establishments take those kind of measures, but given the strongly libertarian nature of Czechs in general, it won’t fly.
re: #9 Jay C
Trump “celebrated” National Parks by shrinking national monuments like Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante because he did want strip mining and exploiting lands that are sacred to Native Americans. He slashed Bears Ears by 90% and Grand Staircase by 50% from 3.2 million acres to just about 1.3 million acres.
I hope that President Biden moves to reestablish the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Trump shrank.
Oh, and the US population is about 330 million. In 2019, about 327 million visited national parks. I know some folks visit multiple units, and there are foreign visitors who love the parks, but you know what the actual govt budget is for the national parks? Just under $3 billion, despite the economic benefits of more than $41 billion in added economic activity in surrounding communities.
Sorry, Ms. Bitecofer, that’s not how this works.
Gotta say, that @lisamurkowski broke ranks on Gupta AFTER McConnell publicly pledged 0 GOP votes…That’s not nothing
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌 (@RachelBitecofer) April 22, 2021
Sen. McConnell is very good at counting votes. He knew that he didn’t have the votes to stop Vanita Gupta’s nomination, as Vice-President Harris would break the tie. Sen. Cornyn had stalled as long as he could, and it was over.
So he allows Sen. Murkowski to vote with the Democrats (and denies Harris the opportunity to break the tie) to make Murkowski look like the “principled moderate.”
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Added to the above comment.
I’m coming in late on the mayo discussion, but my wife makes a really delicious thin crust pizza with green onions and bacon. I think Duke’s is fine, but it’s not all that.
Racist shitbags all over the country fuck with persons of color in uniform who are actually serving the nation. Just the other day, a group of soldiers were accosted by a white woman in a IHOP near Fort Belvoir.
The more things change…
Some more thoughts this morning about gun violence in this country. I want to take everyone back to the 1980s. Ronnie Raygun era. Rambo.
I think that was an inflection point for the gun nuts.
They went and saw that movie and thought that they could cache guns and hold off the US military the way John Rambo did after terrorizing a town that treated the Vietnam Vet like shit.
They learned all the wrong lessons from that movie, because they fixated on the macho aspect, and not that the US government failed veterans so miserably and gutted mental health and assistance services for returning vets at a time when it was critically needed.
So, these gun nuts began caching their guns, because they thought that they could be just like Rambo and hold off the govt. They substituted this movie fantasy for reality, which is that if government wants to end you badly enough, they can bomb you out of existence, just as they did with the bombing of the MOVE compound in Philadelphia. Or they could now drone you from thousands of miles away by remote control. All those guns don’t mean shit. But these carry types think that the talisman of the gun makes them safer when there’s no actual proof it does so.
re: #162 lawhawk
Racist shitbags all over the country fuck with persons of color in uniform who are actually serving the nation. Just the other day, a group of soldiers were accosted by a white woman in a IHOP near Fort Belvoir.
The more things change…
She seems more mentally disturbed than just straight up racist. Something more going on there.
Bulkshit Ben is at home depot getting a solitary piece of poplar wood, and then he *bagged* the 1x8x24. He’s doing it because… boycotting of Home Depot by some folks is a thing?
the context doesn’t help pic.twitter.com/g7bUt1Lvwe
— Piper Ramsey-Sumner (@cbfplr) April 22, 2021
Just announced: Czech Republic will expel an additional 60 Russian Embassy staff/personnel.
re: #165 lawhawk
I’m sure some folks are choosing Lowe’s or a local vendor because of the GA voter garbage law that passed. But Home Depot is big enough that a couple thousand people boycotting their store isn’t hurting their bottom line. For many people it’s the only place they can buy home improvement in one stop, a lot of stuff in our whole house remodel came from there and a ton more contractors use HD to bring in tons of items they need for jobs. Ben is a buffoon, he spent 10 bucks on a board and thinks he’s a hero.
Also, breaking news from Czech Republic - the Czech Supreme Administrative Court has just nullified all store and service closures, on the grounds that said closures are unconstitutional.
re: #155 Jay C
No. Try viewing the animation covering one eye at a time (the usual “reveal” for optical illusions). The spinning colors are deceptive, but the position of the circles is actually fixed.
Neat Illusion, though.
I am talking about the figures on the staircase
Elections are pending in Nepal. The two principal parties are the ruling Communist Party and the opposition Royalists (who wish to restore the monarchy and the theocratic Hindu state).
The overwhelming majority of the country is Hindu; its old constitution prohibited proselytisation and religious conversion. The current constitution adopted by the Communist Party of Nepal protects freedom of religion.
The Royalist party (Rastriya Prajatantra Party) is demanding during the campaign that thirteen people who converted from Hinduism to Christianity be tried for blasphemy. Current Nepalese law has no such provision.
In an effort to cut off some of the support for the Hindu nationalists in the upcoming election, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli says he has become a “devout Hindu” (formerly an atheist). Political observers in that region view the claim as similar to other politicians who exploit religion for their own gain or to diminish rivals.
He has expelled atheist dissidents from his party, and moved three Hindu idols into his official residence. He also pledged 113kg of gold to Boudhanath Temple to re-gild its roof, and to build a temple to Ram (establishing his birthplace as Nepal).
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am talking about the figures on the staircase
Oooops!
Sorry!
Wrong illusion! I should have uncovered an eye…..
All of the baseless claims about how DC isn’t big enough to allow entry, or that crime rates are too high, don’t pass the smell test.
Crime rates are lower than Louisiana, and DC has larger population than several states (WY, VT) Growing faster than AK too (may overtake shortly)— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 22, 2021
re: #165 lawhawk
Bulkshit Ben is at home depot getting a solitary piece of poplar wood, and then he *bagged* the 1x8x24. He’s doing it because… boycotting of Home Depot by some folks is a thing?
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Unlike Coca Cola or Delta, Home Depot, whose headquarters is also located in Georgia, has been completely silent on the voter law. Some black ministers in the state are calling for boycotts.
re: #174 Belafon
Unlike Coca Cola or Delta, Home Depot, whose headquarters is also located in Georgia, has been completely silent on the voter law. Some black ministers in the state are calling for boycotts.
So now Ben has a new hobbyhorse. Good boy, Ben.
Just when I was starting to enjoy the free Wifi. https://t.co/sUhFmMEqmM
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 21, 2021
re: #164 JC1
She seems more mentally disturbed than just straight up racist. Something more going on there.
That is my take, as well. Drunk popped into mind as another option.
re: #165 lawhawk
Bulkshit Ben is at home depot getting a solitary piece of poplar wood, and then he *bagged* the 1x8x24. He’s doing it because… boycotting of Home Depot by some folks is a thing?
Odds that he knows what to do with it when he gets home?
Delaying 2nd dose of Covid vaccines may be an effective public health strategy that provides more vaccinations for more people. Canadian epidemiologists modeled the scenario based on a 9-15 week delay & concluded infections & hospitalizations would decline https://t.co/m1pqwfTlk3 pic.twitter.com/UygLlRRGqE
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) April 21, 2021
California’s coronavirus case rate now the lowest in the continental U.S. https://t.co/jWy3uFuJSi
— L.A. Times Health (@latimeshealth) April 21, 2021
Also, this is a great reason to have vaccine passports. “I understand your reasons and I respect your freedom. But you can’t come in here, eat in this restaurant, sit in this theater, or move in at this college. Sorry. Choices have consequences. Now respect our freedom, too.” https://t.co/xEQ3XuyrGF
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2021
re: #165 lawhawk
Bulkshit Ben is at home depot getting a solitary piece of poplar wood, and then he *bagged* the 1x8x24. He’s doing it because… boycotting of Home Depot by some folks is a thing?
Is he building a shelf for all of his awards?
Also, I prefer to call it Home Despot.
re: #182 darthstar
Is he building a shelf for all of his awards?
Also, I prefer to call it Home Despot.
My name, too. And I am guessing that his DIY skill level is 0 and he is unable to level because he pathetic.
re: #181 Belafon
Show us anyone who isn’t the guy who told people to mask and social distance and get vaccines.
Gotcha.
These people are bugnuts. There was a report this morning that people implored Trump to get vaccinated in public, but refused to do so after hearing his sycophantic suckups warn that he’d look awful wearing a short sleeve shirt (as if he doesn’t wear those while golfing?!). Vanity > public health. Vanity > social good. Vanity > health of his MAGA know nothing base.
That’s a damning indictment of Trumpworld in a nutshell. It’s all about him.
Are we supposed to be afraid of not making the planet inhospitable to us via fossil fuels? Most Americans are smarter than your reactionary supporters and want to move forward rather than driving off a cliff.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 22, 2021
re: #185 Punish Domestic Terrorists
“The Green New Deal will destroy the American energy industry as we know it.”
Automobiles destroyed the carriage industry as we knew it
re: #182 darthstar
Is he building a shelf for all of his awards?
Also, I prefer to call it Home Despot.
Repo Depot. Home Despot on occasion. I prefer shopping at Lowes because their layout and selection is generally better, but need HD when buying paint since Behr is superior to other brands, including Valspar.
I used to have a True Value in walking distance, but that closed up years ago, so I’m left to choose between HD and Lowes, which are about the same distance away round trip.
re: #173 lawhawk
That’s not how it works… .
Good luck to all the Democrat congressmen / woman and senators in 2022 if you are from a purple state. Nothing says I support my state by trying to diminish its influence in the senate. DC won’t become a state, but you will be wacked over the head with this for years to come.
— TheFriendlyGhost (@xfriendlyghost) April 22, 2021
If “diminish the power of your blue state” is an issue, it also diminishes the power of red states. (And it’s “Democratic congressmen and women.” Y’all have been doing this since the 1890’s with the party name; I’m starting to believe it’s intentional. /s)
Moreover, Democrats in all states prefer that American citizens have the right to vote and representation in their government. The last time I checked, residents of the District are Americans.
I still maintain we should go balls out and also admit Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, &c all as states.
Performative bulkshit (literally and figuratively- warehouse sized portions of bullshit).
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 22, 2021
re: #188 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s not how it works… .
If “diminish the power of your blue state” is an issue, it also diminishes the power of red states. (And it’s “Democratic congressmen and women.” Y’all have been doing this since the 1890’s with the party name; I’m starting to believe it’s intentional. /s)
Moreover, Democrats in all states prefer that American citizens have the right to vote and representation in their government. The last time I checked, residents of the District are Americans.
I still maintain we should go balls out and also admit Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, &c all as states.
Unless Ghost is from Alaska, every state has voted to let another state in.
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Automobiles destroyed the carriage industry as we knew it
Think of the buggywhip makers.
re: #189 lawhawk
They could have saved some trouble and dumped it in my manure pile for my garden. That would have saved me arranging with a rancher this year to bring a front-end loader to my house with cow poo.
re: #183 Colère Tueur de Lapin
My name, too. And I am guessing that his DIY skill level is 0 and he is unable to level because he pathetic.
He’s going to put it on the floor, go back and buy two shelf brackets, put those on the floor next to it, go back and buy four screws, realize he needs eight, go back and buy four more screws, put those on the floor, then go back and buy a screwdriver, and then realize he needed a philips head…
re: #193 darthstar
He’s going to put it on the floor, go back and buy two shelf brackets, put those on the floor next to it, go back and buy four screws, realize he needs eight, go back and buy four more screws, put those on the floor, then go back and buy a screwdriver, and then realize he needed a philips head…
and then get a lesson on the reason for wall plugs
At the virtual climate summit:
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro just left the ‘stage’ after making another pitch for Brazil to be paid for allowing the Amazon rain forests to exist. Calling for nations, companies, and individuals to provide “fair payment for the environmental services of our biomes to the planet.”
I could almost buy the argument if he didn’t mean Bolsonaro should be paid.
re: #193 darthstar
He’s going to put it on the floor, go back and buy two shelf brackets, put those on the floor next to it, go back and buy four screws, realize he needs eight, go back and buy four more screws, put those on the floor, then go back and buy a screwdriver, and then realize he needed a philips head…
I resemble that remark 😢
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Sorry, Ms. Bitecofer, that’s not how this works.
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Sen. McConnell is very good at counting votes. He knew that he didn’t have the votes to stop Vanita Gupta’s nomination, as Vice-President Harris would break the tie. Sen. Cornyn had stalled as long as he could, and it was over.
So he allows Sen. Murkowski to vote with the Democrats (and denies Harris the opportunity to break the tie) to make Murkowski look like the “principled moderate.”
I can assure you McConnell doesn’t want any GOP breaking ranks on this and would prefer to pitch the “Biden’s picks are so extreme that he/she couldn’t get a single GOP vote.” Particularly when Cornyn had a hard on for this particular nominee because she made him look stupid for giving an overt racist the lawman of the year award.
re: #193 darthstar
He’s going to put it on the floor, go back and buy two shelf brackets, put those on the floor next to it, go back and buy four screws, realize he needs eight, go back and buy four more screws, put those on the floor, then go back and buy a screwdriver, and then realize he needed a philips head…
That makes it sound like he knows what he’s doing. No project of mine, even when my dad the carpenter gets involved, has been completed with only one trip to the hardware store.
Republicans: The actual reason why we can’t have nice things.
WHAT IF WE DECIDED BEING A SELFISH ASSHOLE *WAS* OUR BRAND? https://t.co/78q7KnoKEN
— Justin (@JustinLawGuy) April 22, 2021
re: #180 Belafon
The US is reaching a point where states have a surplus of vaccines so for us at least it is a moot point.
re: #197 Belafon
At the virtual climate summit:
I could almost buy the argument if he didn’t mean Bolsonaro should be paid.
There’s an article in the Guardian today from other Brazilian politicians saying if you do this, naturally, the money is going to go right into Bolsonaro’s and his environment destroying buddies’ pockets. I don’t have a problem in principle with a guardianship system like this, but the governments who are going to demand it are the problems in the first place.
Only one species on Earth is so arrogantly alienated from nature it has to set aside a day just to reluctantly acknowledge it lives on a planet. #EarthDay
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) April 22, 2021
re: #202 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Republicans: The actual reason why we can’t have nice things.
I’ll bet they all identify as Christians as well, and still think Trump won the election.
re: #204 ericblair
There’s an article in the Guardian today from other Brazilian politicians saying if you do this, naturally, the money is going to go right into Bolsonaro’s and his environment destroying buddies’ pockets. I don’t have a problem in principle with a guardianship system like this, but the governments who are going to demand it are the problems in the first place.
The world should declare the Amazon a country separate from Brazil and set up local government. Then we can talk about payments. //
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#WandaVision’s Lizzie Olsen on feminism, famous sisters, and finding her power: https://t.co/v9CGXWujSs pic.twitter.com/q3zjbhdaks
— British GLAMOUR (@GlamourMagUK) April 21, 2021
There is a weird thing going on in my family. My sons are “Team Miracle Whip” and “Team Hellman’s” and they are very passionate about it. They claim that when they were growing up, I fed them Miracle Whip and some of them grew to love it while others loved the Hellman’s that they ate at friends’ homes.
The thing is, I cannot remember ever buying Miracle Whip and neither can Zedushka, in fact he hates it! But according to my kids’ memories it was a thing at our house.
US-backed peace conference for Afghanistan’s warring sides postponed as Taliban balk https://t.co/oa6msLMwHQ pic.twitter.com/8cQeGD0DwT
— Navy Times (@NavyTimes) April 21, 2021
re: #209 The Pie Overlord!
When it comes to ketchup, there is only Heinz (Kraft or Del Monte will do in a pinch, but I would generally never purchase them)
But when it comes to mayo, I settle for generic brand or if I really want it fancy, will make my own.
re: #209 The Pie Overlord!
It was always Hellman’s (Best Foods in my neck of the woods) mayo at my parent’s house. They bought a small jar of Miracle Whip once in the mid-’70s…we didn’t like it one bit, so back to Best Foods ASAP.
Our own version of Dr. Wakefield, except for masks (and he made up his credentials). This “study” has been making the rounds in Wingnuttia.
The Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, Wednesday issued a statement disavowing a study being circulated online that claims face masks are “worthless” against COVID-19.
The report, “Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis,” was published in November in the journal Medical Hypotheses. Its author, Baruch Vainshelboim, claims that “scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking” while “adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established.”
Vainshelboim’s credentials are cited as “Cardiology Division, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System/Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States.”
But Stanford’s statement says that description is inaccurate and has asked for a correction.
Stanford says Vainshelboim had no affiliation with the school at the time of the study’s publication and his only affiliation was a one-year term as a visiting scholar “on matters unrelated to this paper.”
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Stanford University Disavows Study Claiming Masks ‘Worthless’ Against COVID-19 (Voice of America)
re: #208 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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There was a picture out of Elizabeth with her sisters. She’s about a head taller than them.
My mom hadn’t realized she was their sister.
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When it comes to ketchup, there is only Heinz (Kraft or Del Monte will do in a pinch, but I would generally never purchase them)
But when it comes to mayo, I settle for generic brand or if I really want it fancy, will make my own.
For me, it’s only this stuff…
re: #209 The Pie Overlord!
There is a weird thing going on in my family. My sons are “Team Miracle Whip” and “Team Hellman’s” and they are very passionate about it. They claim that when they were growing up, I fed them Miracle Whip and some of them grew to love it while others loved the Hellman’s that they ate at friends’ homes.
The thing is, I cannot remember ever buying Miracle Whip and neither can Zedushka, in fact he hates it! But according to my kids’ memories it was a thing at our house.
Funny how memory works that way, isn’t it? I only know about the no mayo thing because of all the foods my mom made that tasted different when I moved out (deviled eggs, any kind of pasta or potato salad, etc.)
re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
More:
Vainshelboim identifies himself in his LinkedIn profile as a clinical exercise physiologist, with a doctorate from the University of Porto in Portugal.
The study has been circulating this week on right wing websites and media, including The Gateway Pundit and The California Globe, and has been shared on social media sites Facebook and Twitter by conservatives, including Ohio Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel.
Best Foods in the fridge at my house when I was a kid. Miracle Whip at grandma’s house.
Dad love Miracle Whip, but mom wouldn’t buy it. :D (He was the only one in my family that liked it.)
re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is the lying Republican Senate candidate in Ohio promoting this bogus study.
Dear Facemask “Scientists”:
You may want to read this.
Cheers, Josh
cc: @GovMikeDewine🐑 @leilaatassi🐑 @clevelanddotcom🐑 @janeymurph🩴🩴https://t.co/2rM1Zw0fF0— Josh Mandel (@JoshMandelOhio) April 19, 2021
#MarsHelicopter Flight #2 is in the books! I’ve captured its higher, bolder flight, and I’ll be sending back all my latest frames soon. Meanwhile, here’s a quick preview, including takeoff and two turns. pic.twitter.com/MmNOuIQ8ly
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) April 22, 2021
The surface of Mars captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover.pic.twitter.com/BSKRbAlOfa
— Space Explorer Mike (@MichaelGalanin) April 22, 2021
My wife went to bed a couple hours ago. She is feeling awful now after her second shot yesterday, including muscle aches and a fever (100°F).
That said, she says she’s happy she got her sense of smell back after twenty-five years.
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When it comes to ketchup, there is only Heinz (Kraft or Del Monte will do in a pinch, but I would generally never purchase them)
But when it comes to mayo, I settle for generic brand or if I really want it fancy, will make my own.
Weird thing, I was at the grocery store yesterday and all the Heinz ketchup was cleared off the shelves except for the little tiny bottles that wouldn’t even last through a small family BBQ. The other brands were there so I don’t think it is some kind of shortage,
re: #225 danarchy
Weird thing, I was at the grocery store yesterday and all the Heinz ketchup was cleared off the shelves except for the little tiny bottles that wouldn’t even last through a small family BBQ. The other brands were there so I don’t think it is some kind of shortage,
Perhaps we should buy catsup and let it ferment, so we can use it as hand sanitizer (we still can’t buy that here, though we can get corn liquor in squirt bottles as a substitute).
Peter turned to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, will there be #antivaxxers and #QAnonCult with you at the right hand of the Father?’ and Jesus responded, pic.twitter.com/3UkBvO8S2S
— Unvirtuous Abbey (@UnvirtuousAbbey) April 22, 2021
re: #202 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Republicans: The actual reason why we can’t have nice things.
You know what’s going to get these people vaccinated?
Israel is likely to require proof of vaccination to enter the country. All those “Christian Zionists” who want to visit Nazareth and Bethlehem, who want to walk the Via Dolorosa… are going to need their shots.
Thread, eight tweets.
Today I learned that the Georgia Governor’s Mansion is staffed by prison inmates serving life sentences.
The Georgia Governor’s Mansion is staffed by slaves they dress in ‘normal’ clothes, including a butler’s tux, so most people have no idea.— Persephiroth: Tiddy Tiddy Pumpkin Eater (@Persephiroth) April 21, 2021
Tales of corruption, California edition.
Alice Stebbins was hired to fix the finances of California’s powerful utility regulator. She was fired after finding $200 million for the state’s deaf, blind and poor residents was missing. https://t.co/CVeckc8496
— ProPublica (@propublica) April 22, 2021
re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife went to bed a couple hours ago. She is feeling awful now after her second shot yesterday, including muscle aches and a fever (100°F).
That said, she says she’s happy she got her sense of smell back after twenty-five years.
There were those long haulers who found that the vaccine apparently helped eliminate their symptoms — maybe that’s what is happening here?
I don’t know where Frank Luntz gets the wingnuts for his focus groups, but people in the Nebraska Panhandle are doing everything they can to get the Moderna vaccine.
Probably Wyoming, since they have the lowest uptake in the nation by state (and it’s not because they don’t have vaccines; the Natrona County public health director says they have no more room to store them and no one wants them; she says she wishes she could send them to Michigan but the state won’t allow it).
re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter
There were those long haulers who found that the vaccine apparently helped eliminate their symptoms — maybe that’s what is happening here?
Could be, but she lost her sense of smell over a brain injury due to a car accident. It could also be coincidental.
At any rate, when she feels better she’s going to report that effect to VAERS.
re: #233 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Could be, but she lost her sense of smell over a brain injury due to a car accident. It could also be coincidental.
At any rate, when she feels better she’s going to report that effect to VAERS.
Yeah, this is super interesting to me. That’s amazing.
i want to follow up on this from yesterday
William is not wrong.
my ideas are not to everyones taste.
And my proposal is a bit hyperbolic and sarcastic. just a bit.
of course it’s all a thought exercise that will never go anywhere because, like with police, Rs will never admit personal responsibility or ‘a mistake’ ever.
who said last night w/r/t anti-vaxxers “we have to stop coddling stupidity’?
guns, the lethality of every single weapon, has to be taken more seriously.
the potentiality of lethality has to be taken more seriously.
ALL OF THE TIME.
not sometimes
not unless X happens
not ‘these circumstances are different’.
you control your weapon all the time or you’ve proven you’re not responsible enough to have 2A rights.
as to harm:
if someone points a weapon and doesn’t shoot, no one is harmed.
if someone points a weapon, shoots and misses, no one is harmed.
imo the potentiality is exactly the same.
the only time to draw your weapon is if you intend to use it properly and legally.
if you don’t then you have demonstrated you cannot control your weapon (or yourself).
of course it has to rise to the level of a crime that the justice system can pursue. proof, evidence, etc.
so negligent discharging on your ranch maybe not.
wounding someone “by accident” on your ranch definitely.
we all know what wrong is; what it looks like.
sure, actually codifying it would be difficult
but we have to face the lethality, the preventable recklessness, and the mind set of gun as problem solver.
that’s why my penalties are draconian
to quickly cause everyone else to behave better and more carefully: read legally and responsibly like they should be doing anyway
yes - this is just a thought experiment.
it shows that if you give Rs *everything* - more than even they ever considered - it still wouldn’t matter.
they dont accept any responsibility at all for themselves or the nutters they protect.
the only way there will ever be substantive change is when there are enough D’s in
congress to do it themselves.
And heaven help us if they target the hardware then because the rest won’t change.
the careless kill people
the reckless kill people
the dangerous and unstable kill people
focus on them.
re: #234 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Yeah, this is super interesting to me. That’s amazing.
She’s been like “I can smell the feedlots!” as if that’s a good thing. /s
She also said she’s never smelled me before, unlike her previous two husbands. Over the past couple weeks it’s been kind of weird when she comes up and sniffs me.
We lived in Israel in the early ‘70’s when it was still a “third world” country and we used their brands of mayo (tasted awful, worse than MiracleWhip, we mixed it with horseradish), ketchup (so sickening sweet you could pour it on ice cream) and peanut butter (just a bunch of ground up peanuts with oil on top). For beverages, there was “Tempo Cola,” and Gold Sun orange and grapefruit drinks.
When we moved back to the U.S. (after the 1973 war) we were delighted with Hellman’s, Heinz and Jif! Although Smucker’s came out with a brand of “all natural” peanut butter that tasted exactly like Egozi Israeli brand & cost twice as much as Jif.
Today Israel is a “first world” country so you can buy all those American brands and Coca-Cola and Pepsi. I kind of miss the Gold Sun beverages though.
re: #236 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She’s been like “I can smell the feedlots!” as if that’s a good thing. /s
She also said she’s never smelled me before, unlike her previous two husbands. Over the past couple weeks it’s been kind of weird when she comes up and sniffs me.
Maybe the mRNA vaccines are telling the body to repair itself.
Thread, nine tweets, and lots of comments.
every time i see shit about how major cities are supposedly being ‘burned down’ i remember how my - liberal, democrat - family talked to me the first time i saw them while i was living in baltimore during the uprising, and think of how badly we need to destroy cable news
— Colin Spacetwinks (@spacetwinks) April 21, 2021
re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife went to bed a couple hours ago. She is feeling awful now after her second shot yesterday, including muscle aches and a fever (100°F).
That said, she says she’s happy she got her sense of smell back after twenty-five years.
did she tell you to take a shower yet?
Per Sotomayor, the majority manipulated and/or ignored earlier SCOTUS decisions to support its conclusion today.
Why have precedent if you’re going to take a hard right whenever you want?
In sum, today’s ruling is junk legally and morally.https://t.co/QuqTeTtIY0— Adrienne Lawrence (@AdrienneLaw) April 22, 2021
re: #242 lawhawk
This is a cruel decision that rolls back progress made over past two decades.
While @GovRicketts was actively blocking @noiseomaha from his press conferences, he appeared on the now ‘deemed too racist for even @kfabnews’ @CBakerShow about denying safety to refugee children and supporting suppression of the Black vote in Georgia. pic.twitter.com/o6ZA77cOXu
— Seeing Red Nebraska (@SeeingRedNE) April 22, 2021
re: #242 lawhawk
Yet another reason that we need to 1) pack the court and 2) impeach Kavanaugh.
re: #245 William Lewis
Yet another reason that we need to 1) pack the court and 2) impeach Kavanaugh.
Or we could pull a Pelican Brief on Thomas and Alito.
Uh, yes we did. https://t.co/y8tA5OkLk8
— Andrea R MD (@AndreaR9Md) April 22, 2021
re: #245 William Lewis
Yet another reason that we need to 1) pack the court and 2) impeach Kavanaugh.
What about the other 5 justices who supported this decision? Certainly the red flags about Kavanaugh’s finances may lead to the discovery of criminal conduct that would remove him from the bench.
re: #246 sagehen
Or we could pull a Pelican Brief on Thomas and Alito.
In the end, that didn’t end up helping the people who had the justices killed. The replacements didn’t help.
re: #245 William Lewis
Yet another reason that we need to 1) pack the court and 2) impeach Kavanaugh.
Democrats should also just change the law.
re: #248 Hecuba’s daughter
What about the other 5 justices who supported this decision? Certainly the red flags about Kavanaugh’s finances may lead to the discovery of criminal conduct that would remove him from the bench.
He’s the only one easy to get rid of with the mess that is his finances. Might lead elsewhere if he decides he wants to stay out of prison though.
But the biggest thing is going to 13 justices for 13 appellate districts.
The Czechs stared down the Russians - and the Russians blinked.
Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek (CSSD) announced that Russia had agreed to the parity of personnel representation at embassies.
Both countries should have seven diplomats and 25 other employees, Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek (ČSSD) announced in the early evening on Czech Television.
For the time being, the number of staff at consulates should not be reduced. “If Russia does not reduce the numbers at our consulates (in Russia), we do not plan any steps towards reductions at their consulates here in the Czech Republic,” the minister added.
Original, in Czech: novinky.cz
re: #243 lawhawk
This is a cruel decision that rolls back progress made over past two decades.
Thank the morons who didn’t vote for Hilary Clinton because reasons.
re: #252 William Lewis
He’s the only one easy to get rid of with the mess that is his finances. Might lead elsewhere if he decides he wants to stay out of prison though.
But the biggest thing is going to 13 justices for 13 appellate districts.
I’d suggest expanding the number of circuits - breaking up the 9th among others, and then explicitly matching the number of circuits to the number of seats on the SCT, just as it had been done until the 20th century when it got delinked.
Considering that the 9th is the bogeyman for the GOP, highlight that as how this works.
More judges would also reduce the reliance on the shadow docket that is allowing this Court to rewrite law without as much scrutiny as it should get.
re: #243 lawhawk
This is a cruel decision that rolls back progress made over past two decades.
According to that article, that Supreme Court decision returns the USA to the only country which permits juvenile life-without-parole sentences.
The 2016 election with all the folks saying “how dare you shame us for making this about the courts” and not voting for Hillary Clinton is going to bite our country in the ass for a long time to come.
And this portion of Sotomayor’s dissent, aimed squarely at Kavanaugh—and using his own past words against him—is one of the most savage passages she has ever written. It is also a very ominous warning. https://t.co/XS5CPsa2In pic.twitter.com/BSYlfVQJWZ
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 22, 2021
Tornado siren going off in the middle of a snowstorm (it’s a test).
Vaporware.
Despite their claim for payfors, they don’t actually show how they pay for this. It’s designed to delay, obfuscate, and obstruct. It cannot and should not be taken seriously as an actual proposal.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 22, 2021
re: #165 lawhawk
Bulkshit Ben is at home depot getting a solitary piece of poplar wood, and then he *bagged* the 1x8x24. He’s doing it because… boycotting of Home Depot by some folks is a thing?
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re: #225 danarchy
Weird thing, I was at the grocery store yesterday and all the Heinz ketchup was cleared off the shelves except for the little tiny bottles that wouldn’t even last through a small family BBQ. The other brands were there so I don’t think it is some kind of shortage,
Our store was completely out of kidney beans. I still have a can of black beans in the cupboard, so it will be black bean chili this weekend
House approves bill to make DC a state, 216-208
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 22, 2021
GOPers will thwart any action in the Senate b/c of the filibuster.
GOPers again make it clear that they deny Americans their right to be represented.
As for today’s decision from the corrupted court—Not surprised at all because this is what happens when you pack the court with six assholes.
🤔 Can he figure it out?
Florida small business owners are all telling me the same thing, they can’t find people to fill available jobs
You can come up with all kinds of reasons & wave around all the Ivy League studies you want,but what does common sense tell you is the reason? https://t.co/DxH2FHzKGm— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) April 22, 2021
re: #260 lawhawk
That last line…. they are trying to build in tax protections for corporate doners. Again.
— SunnySide (@SunnySide1984) April 22, 2021
re: #263 lawhawk
DC’s estimated 2019 population was larger than that of 77 existing congressional districts, two states, and every district in Nebraska, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and West Virginia. https://t.co/ge3TrEaLHk
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 22, 2021
re: #265 The Pie Overlord!
Florida small business owners are all telling me the same thing, they can’t find people to fill available jobs
You can come up with all kinds of reasons & wave around all the Ivy League studies you want,but what does common sense tell you is the reason?
government aid checks are making them lazy and dependent?
legalized marijuana is making them indolent and undermotivated?
moral relativism has destroyed their work ethic and sense of duty to society?
re: #265 The Pie Overlord!
🤔 Can he figure it out?
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We know how DeSADIST would figure it out.
Toss more people in prison and contract them out.
The congressman should come to Frankfort and watch the last few hours of a Ky Leg session. ^JC https://t.co/dBNTvYQop2
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) April 22, 2021
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
a) Pandemic
b) Crap wages
(c) immigration slowdown - if you can’t find seasonal workers, it’s because they can’t get into the US to do those kinds of jobs - backend restaurant jobs, agricultural workers, etc.
If coming up with a tortured rationale for not holding Merrick Garland hearings that you then contradict four years later to rush through another GOP justice isn’t “rigging the game,” then adding justices sure as hell isn’t either https://t.co/lmckY3WpRR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 22, 2021
re: #265 The Pie Overlord!
🤔 Can he figure it out?
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Medieval Rubio: Europe is opening up after the plague, but too many people don’t want to go back to living in squalor.
Once again I see the Pre$$titutes siding with those poor oppressed QAnon Asshole Republicans.
re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why do I see students cramming into a phone booth?
I’m going to wander off to bed. It looks cold out there with all that snow coming down.
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Farriers and feedbag makers…
Farriers work hard for their money, but a lot are still needed and make a good living.
re: #274 Belafon
Medieval Rubio: Europe is opening up after the plague, but too many people don’t want to go back to living in squalor.
As horrible as it may sound, life actually improved - well, for the survivors at least. Wiping out ~50% of the population meant wages went up. On the other hand, in the quarter century after the pandemic burned through England, many laborers, artisans, and craftsmen did suffer a reduction in real incomes owing to rampant inflation in the immediate aftermath, though their position ultimately improved.
re: #136 Teukka
:Jaw Drop:
Also, h/t to reddit.com
This comment on that Reddit thread! 🤣😂🤣😂
I think they mean “Do anything you can to save the children. Except if it is even remotely possible that it will prove even an inconsequential inconvenience to us doing whatever the fuck we want to do. Or if it is suggested by anyone whose political leanings are anywhere to the left of ours. Or anyone we disagree with. But just think of the children!”
I’ll take things that aren’t happening for $400 https://t.co/ZgvXQ0SyjN
— Irreverent Testimony (@IrreverentDuo) April 22, 2021
re: #278 retired cynic
Farriers work hard for their money, but a lot are still needed and make a good living.
Former Rhode Island senator Linc Chaffee is a farrier.
Judge Amy B. Jackson is currently weighing whether to release Capitol defendant Joshua Black until trial. She said she may rule after a short recess.
Black told the FBI that God sent him on “a mission” and that “the Lord wanted me to go in there and plead the blood of Jesus.” pic.twitter.com/jqP90hgWbm— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) April 22, 2021
The government argued Black is “an identified and articulable ongoing threat to others and the community.”
Here’s Black’s motion to vacate the order of detention: https://t.co/20FIgTKNJb
And here’s the government’s opposition: https://t.co/JelQSOAxzw pic.twitter.com/QOPu3z2kUZ— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) April 22, 2021
Today, we officially reached our goal of 200 million shots in my first 100 days.
Make no mistake: This is an American achievement. It’s a powerful demonstration of unity and resolve. And a reminder of what we can accomplish when we come together in pursuit of a common goal.— President Biden (@POTUS) April 22, 2021
This is Hunter. He’s here to remind you that if you’re feeling stressed you can always stop what you’re doing and take a nap on the floor. 12/10 a true leader pic.twitter.com/EYqlNV0vK1
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) April 22, 2021
Leg warmers are making a comeback. pic.twitter.com/nXAuLmtsnJ
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) April 22, 2021
re: #278 retired cynic
Farriers work hard for their money, but a lot are still needed and make a good living.
but no longer on every corner like a tire store…
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The GOP wants a genocide.
At this point, it looks like evolution by natural selection is going to drive the reduction of conservatives (though they will take some liberals with them). Since so many conservatives don’t “believe in” natural selection, they will find out the hard way.
And there will be massive crying about discrimination when they start having issues traveling without evidence of being vaccinated or a recent negative Covid test.
(I am booking travel for next month and the airlines, agencies, etc. have have warnings and/or disclaimers about wearing masks the entire time while traveling and that there might be restrictions without said proof of not being infected or having been vaccinated already.)
This Earth Day, I’m proud to say science is back.
— President Biden (@POTUS) April 22, 2021
re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg
500,000+ Americans dead later… fuck Trump and all those who enabled that treasonweasel.
“Dollar Store silver bowl.”
OOOF!
Pretty sure it’s this ad:https://t.co/bbqlXmX2s9
— Richard Patterson (@ohmyhesgood) April 22, 2021
re: #222 Dave In Austin
So we sent a lander and little drone copter to another planet to film Nevada?
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re: #294 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So we sent a lander and little drone copter to another planet to film Nevada?
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Progress!
It’s usually the other way around….. //
Now it’s being reported that Putin’s willing to sit down and talk to Ukrainian President Zelensky.
With the Russians blinking earlier regarding the diplomatic tussle vis-a-vis Czech Republic, I can’t help but wonder if the oligarchs around Putin had a little chat with him, something along the lines of, “The Americans aren’t fucking around anymore, they’ve had it with your little games and this new President Biden, he’s not your #1 fanboy like the previous guy was, so it’s in everyone’s interests to chill out before it gets to the point of no return.”
re: #294 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So we sent a lander and little drone copter to another planet to film Nevada?
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The nice thing about the images being from another planet is that the area isn’t swarmed with social media influencers taking selfies with the probe.
re: #278 retired cynic
Farriers work hard for their money, but a lot are still needed and make a good living.
My father’s cousin was a heavy-horse farrier and blacksmith. He made more money gambling than shoeing cart-horses in the long run.
He worked in a forge outside the city during the days when horse-drawn carting was still a thing. The carters needing running repairs done on the road would leave him to fix their carts or (re-)shoe their horses while they retired to the pub. When they got back to the forge he’d bet them double-or-nothing on the bill. The bet was to pick up a hundred-weight anvil and throw it over a six-foot wall, not something anyone no matter how strong should attempt when drunk. Did I mention that my father’s cousin was a lifelong teetotaller?
He used his winnings to give up his hard life as a farrier and bought a hill-farm as he thought it would be easier…
Six Language Recruiters Indicted for Recruiting Unqualified Linguists for Deployment with U.S. Armed Forces in Afghanistanhttps://t.co/kvpqzgXRGF
— Justice Department (@TheJusticeDept) April 22, 2021
Whoa - 14 whole pages?! Are you sure you’re up for it? https://t.co/vhe4ah9uAA
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 22, 2021
Ben Shapiro only gets wood at Home Depot.
His wife gets her wood from somewhere else… pic.twitter.com/i72kdDIi6t— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) April 22, 2021
This is really something. Republicans privately admit to the NYT that there’s little rationale for new voting restrictions, given that 2020 went smoothly.
This core point continues to get overlooked. Let’s put more Republicans on the record on it:https://t.co/DyjsWsoSqi pic.twitter.com/EMmS0gaq1w— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 22, 2021
This might become a problem, but to the military, it’s Somebody Else’s Problem:
When not actively killing Marines, the V-22 takes time off to destroy critical infrastructure https://t.co/IU2no6apsB
— American Propagandist (@ArmyStrang) April 22, 2021
First Supreme Court decision today has the Court upholding life without parole for juvenile convicts.
Wouldn’t you know, it’s 6-3, with all the conservatives on the side of locking up kids forever.
“Pro-life” party my ass— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) April 22, 2021
Protecting the prison industry income stream.
Senior Senate Republicans offered a $568 billion counter to President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion jobs package Thursday, one that’s focused on more traditional infrastructure like roads and bridges and doesn’t have the corporate tax hikes that Democrats are seeking,” Bloomberg reports.
How you know its not serious: only 5 R sponsors.
Not enough for 60_votes
re: #307 Dangerman
How you know its not serious: only 5 R sponsors.
Not enough for 60_votes
So how are Republicans proposing to pay for their bill, if they’re not taxing corporations? Taking money away from COVID relief, is it? That pretty perfectly sums up the 2021 GOP: “We don’t give a shit about people or pandemics, but bah gawd, don’t you dare lay a hand on our corporate sponsors!”
re: #305 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
This might become a problem, but to the military, it’s Somebody Else’s Problem:
That helicopter isn’t even on that thin pad, so why can’t others land on the grass as well. How did it not destroy that pad when landing rather than taking off. It looks really flimsy.
re: #305 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
This might become a problem, but to the military, it’s Somebody Else’s Problem:
I did a fair number of helicopter and even C-130 movements considering I was just a leg infantry scout in the Guard. But I give thanks I never was on one of those monstrosities.
I swear it is a running battle between the Striker, the V-22 and the F-35 to see which is the more worthless POS foisted upon the military.
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
Must have been watching this:
enjoy pic.twitter.com/ci996abLkx
— Auntie Fah (@sznpeck) March 3, 2021
re: #294 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So we sent a lander and little drone copter to another planet to film Nevada?
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I kept looking for Marvin to pop up from behind one of the hills waiting for the kaboom.
re: #300 Charles Johnson
yes, of course 14 pages.
And it will take her 88 minutes to get through it.
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They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Detroit Local Powers First EV Charging Road in North America The road, about a mile from Local 58's hall, uses rubber-coated copper inductive-charging coils buried under the asphalt that transfer power to a receiver pad attached to a car's underbelly, much like how a phone can be charged wirelessly. ...
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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