Powerful New Music From Garbage: “No Gods No Masters”

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Watch the official music video of the title track from Garbage’s forthcoming album ‘No Gods No Masters’, coming 11 June.

“I tried to make sense of the world, I was trying to make sense of left and right, literally. Like why do some people vote right? Why do some people vote left? And all of that comes from a concern for ourselves, for our friends, for our families, ultimately, for our babies. I was really inspired by going to Chile. I went to Santiago during the protests there, which were profoundly moving. We were driving down the street, and the whole city was covered in graffiti, like all the old museums and palaces. And I was shocked. The beautiful people that I was with said, ‘But why are you so shocked? We’re protesting human lives and you’re more shocked that property and buildings and monuments have been hurt here. And, in fact, human beings are being hurt, and this is what you must focus on.’ That was like a slap in the face.” Manson tied that awakening to the confederate statues being toppled in the U.S. and how the hand-wringing overshadowed the real struggles of the marginalized in society. “All these people, they have more value than a monument to slave traders, but they don’t have more value in the consciousness of society, and I think it’s devilish and obscene, and I want power to be dismantled, and a society re-imagined. So, this song is about re-imagining our society for the future, for our children and not making the same mistakes over and over again and allowing greed to corrupt our thinking.”

Director: Scott Stuckey
Producer: Laura Burhenn
Production Company: Our Secret Handshake
Editor/Colorist: Andy Deluca
Styling: Candice Lambert
Hair: Clyde Haygood
Makeup: Torsten Witte
DP: Stefan Mentil
Production Design: Greenhouse Creative
1st AC: Chris McMillan
Gaffer: Chris Patterson
Key Grip: Mario Sandoval
Dolly/Swing Grip: Jason Zuidema
PAs: Kurtis Mayo & Kelli Mayo

Lyrics
Be kind
Beware
Be good
Don’t be scared
Nothing lasts and no one stays
The same forever so accept the change

Where the wind blows
Round and round in circles

The future is mine just the same
No master or gods to obey
I’ll make all the same mistakes
Over and over again
Over and over again

Save your prayers for yourself
’Cause they don’t work and they don’t help
The things we do the things we don’t
The things we love the things we lost

You want what’s mine
I want what’s yours
I want what’s mine that once was yours

Where the wind blows
Round and round in circles
Where the wind blows
Round and round in circles

The future is mine just the same
No master or gods to obey
I’ll make all the same mistakes
Over and over again

All our friends
All our lovers
All our babies

You want what’s mine
I want what’s yours
I want what’s mine that once was yours

#Garbage #NoGodsNoMasters #MusicVideo

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 29, 2021 • 7:51:59pm

Brazil’s coronavirus deaths top 400,000

[…]

Brazil’s right-wing populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, has played down the threat posed by the virus and expressed doubt at the effectiveness of vaccines.

A parliamentary committee of inquiry began work on Tuesday to shed light on the president’s actions and omissions as the pandemic has escalated in Brazil.

Bolsonaro is accused, among other things, of having rejected and slowed down possible deliveries of coronavirus vaccines and of embezzling federal funds meant for the fight against pandemics.

We are so fortunate to have kicked Trump out of office.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 29, 2021 • 7:56:18pm
Click to Reveal
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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:02:09pm

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Thats rather frightening

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retired cynic  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:03:28pm

re: #3 Rightwingconspirator

Thats rather frightening

It is, indeed. And I would bet that’s the tip of the iceberg. And that’s not even looking into the armed forces.

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austin_blue  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:05:15pm

re: #3 Rightwingconspirator

Thats rather frightening

What’s frightening is that his friends are still on then loose. If he was the head of “Shadow Moses”, where are the rest of the mooks?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:08:30pm
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darthstar  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:09:51pm

re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron

That’s fine. Ventilators can see right through that shit.

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teleskiguy  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:10:31pm

Rare video of me skiing.

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Targetpractice  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:11:51pm

re: #79 Dread Pirate Ron

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The reason that our system of governing by “bipartisanship” is so alien to most of the rest of the world is because in most countries with parliamentary systems, once the majority party has the votes to move legislation forward, the most the minority party or parties may do is delay the inevitable. In most such nations, a filibuster still means standing and talking for however long you can last.

Only in America can the minority party kill a bill by simply sending an email to the majority party leader signaling their intent to “filibuster” a bill by refusing to vote for cloture. Even in those nations that do require a cloture vote, only a simple majority is required to pass rather than some arbitrarily high bar.

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darthstar  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:12:29pm

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I know it’s a slippery slope, but a few summary executions would probably put a bit of a damper on these assholes’ recruiting efforts. Yeah, constitutional process and shit…but really, a few of these fuckers need to be put down.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:26:29pm

re: #7 darthstar

That’s fine. Ventilators can see right through that shit.

Unfortunately, they can infect innocent people — people who have been vaccinated or children. Being vaccinated doesn’t provide 100% protection against infection nor, despite the messages to the contrary, 100% protection against serious or lethal consequences of the virus. It just significantly reduces the likelihood of these adverse effects.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:35:28pm

re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter

I think that this is where those of us who are vaccinated or in that process continue to do the other measures we have been doing, distancing, masking, avoiding large groups of dipshits, etc. Getting everyone vaccinated to herd immunity levels is still a way off and that’s just going to have to be a new normal for quite awhile if we want to stay well. We can ease up some, but I am beyond beginning to doubt we’ll ever go back to pre-covid life. I have really lost faith that good guys win enough to change any of this. Because of stupid, selfish, spiteful media/self obsessed assholes.

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Belafon  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:39:25pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:39:41pm

Resigned while maintaining innocence
Ref:
re: #260 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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re: #262 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 29, 2021 • 8:49:27pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 29, 2021 • 9:20:12pm

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Lies. Tim Scott said America isn’t racist.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 29, 2021 • 9:27:27pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 29, 2021 • 9:33:42pm

I wonder who isn’t sleeping well tonight besides these clowns?

Matt Gaetz
Giuliani
Ron Johnsonwax
Nunes
Hawley

Criswell Bacon has the feeling the hammer is coming down hard with these assholes.

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EPR-radar  Apr 29, 2021 • 9:38:09pm

Trump was impeached twice. I’m sure if all his corruption comes to light there will be dozens of distinct cases for impeachment.

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austin_blue  Apr 29, 2021 • 9:47:03pm

re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter

Unfortunately, they can infect innocent people — people who have been vaccinated or children. Being vaccinated doesn’t provide 100% protection against infection nor, despite the messages to the contrary, 100% protection against serious or lethal consequences of the virus. It just significantly reduces the likelihood of these adverse effects.

True, but that’s the thing about vaccines. If enough people get them, the diseases disappear or go to ground where cases are just a few hundred, nationwide, per year.

Polio? Dead.

Smallpox? Dead.

Chicken pox and Mumps and Rubella? Pretty much dead.

Whooping cough and measles? On the rebound.

Once you get a critical mass of immune people, the virus finds it difficult to continue its lethal/non-lethal spread.

Look, it’s the late 19teens, and a virus is spreading across the world. It was probably a chicken virus that started in Kansas in 1918, an H1N1 bird flu that jumped ship at the beginning of the US involvement in WW1and was spread by doughboys on the way to Europe. It was pretty benign. By the end of WW1, it’s a mild pneumonic virus. As it leaves Europe and travels the world, it mutates into a monster that causes the body to initiate a cytokine swarm that kills fast.

Thus, as the doughboys leave Europe to come home, it follows them, leading to a fast moving viral disease that, at its worst in Philadelphia, left people to leave their stricken family in the street to be picked up by ambulances. The ambulance attendants noted that the people they transported were so short of oxygen and so cyanotic that they didn’t know if they were black or white.

This is the problem with the anti-vaxxers. They are actively killing people.They are stone-cold twitter killers.

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austin_blue  Apr 29, 2021 • 9:53:26pm

Night all, time for the Night Crew to show up, so to them:

Hello, all! Hope things are well in the UK and on the Continent. You have now idea how much we need to get back to The Old World. It’s in our souls. Our genes are there. We need a good stiff drink of our roots. It’s been 2 years since we have been in the UK.

Sigh.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 29, 2021 • 9:57:37pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 29, 2021 • 10:16:27pm
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2021 • 10:27:37pm

Yikes. From what I’m reading, this is worse than the 2001 Versailles Wedding Hall disaster.

Dozens of people have been crushed to death in a stampede at a Jewish pilgrimage site in the north of Israel, rescue services said.

Magen David Adom, the Israeli emergency service, said that at least 44 people were killed during the event early on Friday, adding “MDA is fighting for the lives of dozens wounded, and will not give up until the last victim is evacuated.”

aljazeera.com

The Versailles Wedding Hall collapse, which I’m sure some here recall, was the result of bad engineering and slipshod construction methods, resulting in a catastrophic structural failure that left 23 dead and close to 400 injured. There was a mini-documentary I saw about it awhile ago.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 29, 2021 • 10:59:58pm

Tomorrow on FAUX and FIENDS they will attack Joe for this…

America is running low on chicken.

washingtonpost.com

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 29, 2021 • 11:01:42pm
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 29, 2021 • 11:06:30pm

re: #26 Dread Pirate Ron

I can imagine everyone on the bridge of the Marshal Shaposhnikov was thinking “oh shit!” when the missile started cartwheeling.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 29, 2021 • 11:24:07pm

re: #26 Dread Pirate Ron

The first one appears to have been successful

Slava-class cruiser “Moskva” conducted firings of the P-1000 Vulkan missile in the Black Sea

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ckkatz  Apr 29, 2021 • 11:27:14pm

The last night of April is observed in many parts of Northern Europe as (St.) Walpurgis Night. Some celebrate the Christian aspects, some the pre-Christian aspects, some the modern day holiday, and some various neo-pagan aspects:

Faun - Walpurgisnacht - German LYRICS + Translation

Walpurgisnacht - German LYRICS + Translation - Faun

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ckkatz  Apr 29, 2021 • 11:49:08pm

re: #26 Dread Pirate Ron

As I read this, the USS Tang and USS Tullibee came to mind.

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ckkatz  Apr 29, 2021 • 11:53:37pm

One last thought before I head off to bed:

What is the difference between a hippo and a zippo?

UORty6NX9hyLoJz7slmBYyjaUmoVKLyarqmCAzgrYd7uXD/QM4K+iTkRIkFs2Bptko0Ql1znES6F8TWis6DdF9URV4BiUHtt

and on that G’Night all!

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ericblair  Apr 29, 2021 • 11:54:57pm

re: #9 Targetpractice

The reason that our system of governing by “bipartisanship” is so alien to most of the rest of the world is because in most countries with parliamentary systems, once the majority party has the votes to move legislation forward, the most the minority party or parties may do is delay the inevitable. In most such nations, a filibuster still means standing and talking for however long you can last.

Only in America can the minority party kill a bill by simply sending an email to the majority party leader signaling their intent to “filibuster” a bill by refusing to vote for cloture. Even in those nations that do require a cloture vote, only a simple majority is required to pass rather than some arbitrarily high bar.

Bipartisanship and the filibuster are the purest elitism possible this side of monarchy. A huge majority of the electorate can be in favor of something, and convincingly voted out one party’s representatives, but if this minority of defeated representatives decide they don’t like something it’s out. It has nothing to do with constitutionality, or proper debate, or anything else besides the concept that you have to please this tiny group of unrepresentative people because reasons.

And the reasons seem to be racism. It used to be that America’s Slavery Party was split amongst multiple political parties, and was actually powerful enough to stop anything they didn’t like. So, maybe a century ago or so, “bipartisanship” meant that members of the Slavery Party on both sides of the aisle were OK with it. Now, the Slavery Party is the Republican Party, so “bipartisanship” means that the Republican Party is OK with it. If you ask our political betters why we didn’t need “bipartisanship” when cutting taxes or trying to kill the ACA or installing Barrett to the Supreme Court, they’d probably laugh at you, but I don’t think they could really explain why.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 30, 2021 • 12:16:28am

They remade The Mosquito Coast into a series. It will be difficult to make it more than one season.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 12:19:42am

re: #3 Rightwingconspirator

That’s rather frightening

Not just bad apples, bad orchards.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 12:25:05am

re: #29 ckkatz

The last night of April is observed in many parts of Northern Europe as (St.) Walpurgis Night. Some celebrate the Christian aspects, some the pre-Christian aspects, some the modern day holiday, and some various neo-pagan aspects:

Faun - Walpurgisnacht - German LYRICS + Translation

It was (back before lockdown/curfew) really big in the villages. They used to fire up our village bakery house and let people bring their own pizzas or tartes flambeés or whatever to be done up, other villages hold a Tanz in den Mai with the festivities going on until the wee, wee hours, and it was necessary to bring in everything out front that was not tied down or the “witches” would steal it and cart it down to the town square.

There were other traditions, such as setting up a Maibaum and decorating it, and then stealing the one from the neighboring village, as well as other pranks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 12:35:19am

Procol Harum - Repent Walpurgis

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 30, 2021 • 12:58:40am

I’m sure they are well along the way to having new tanks to move the waste into. Right?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 30, 2021 • 1:14:41am

Two famous brass wielders:

Harry James:

Harry James - 2 O’ Clock Jump

Chet Baker:

Chet Baker au Théâtre de la Ville en 1981 pour l’émission Entrez les Artistes

..

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EPR-radar  Apr 30, 2021 • 2:03:06am

re: #32 ericblair

Bipartisanship and the filibuster are the purest elitism possible this side of monarchy. A huge majority of the electorate can be in favor of something, and convincingly voted out one party’s representatives, but if this minority of defeated representatives decide they don’t like something it’s out. It has nothing to do with constitutionality, or proper debate, or anything else besides the concept that you have to please this tiny group of unrepresentative people because reasons.

And the reasons seem to be racism. It used to be that America’s Slavery Party was split amongst multiple political parties, and was actually powerful enough to stop anything they didn’t like. So, maybe a century ago or so, “bipartisanship” meant that members of the Slavery Party on both sides of the aisle were OK with it. Now, the Slavery Party is the Republican Party, so “bipartisanship” means that the Republican Party is OK with it. If you ask our political betters why we didn’t need “bipartisanship” when cutting taxes or trying to kill the ACA or installing Barrett to the Supreme Court, they’d probably laugh at you, but I don’t think they could really explain why.

A depressing thought that occurred to me some time ago is that the US is ungovernable when the two parties can’t agree on how racist society should be and governable only when such agreement is in place.

Founding to 1840s or so, governable because slavery was deemed to be OK in slave states

1840s to 1877, ungovernable, pre civil war, civil war, reconstruction

1877 to 1960s, governable, deal of 1877 permitted Jim Crow in states that wanted to have it.

1960s to present, ungovernable, the GOP has become the party of racism, and the Democrats are anti-racist. No bipartisanship is possible on most issues.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 2:07:17am

re: #39 EPR-radar

The Senate was the bulwark against abolition for a long time: the Union was kept at a balance between slave and non-slave states, thus guaranteeing that no anti-slavery legislation could pass the Senate.

That broke down in the 1850’s and let to civil war: Southerners came to understand that slavery had to either expand or it would disappear entirely.

Now we have a system in which one particular party is disproportionately represented through gerrymandering and the structure of the Senate, and is trying to do everything it can to retain power, especially after losing two key seats in what was once the solidly GOP state of Georgia.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 30, 2021 • 2:49:41am

Meanwhile in Brexit-land, the Brexiteers are discovering it’s not so easy going alone:

UK and Norway fail to reach fishing deal

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ericblair  Apr 30, 2021 • 3:01:45am

re: #39 EPR-radar

A depressing thought that occurred to me some time ago is that the US is ungovernable when the two parties can’t agree on how racist society should be and governable only when such agreement is in place.

Founding to 1840s or so, governable because slavery was deemed to be OK in slave states

1840s to 1877, ungovernable, pre civil war, civil war, reconstruction

1877 to 1960s, governable, deal of 1877 permitted Jim Crow in states that wanted to have it.

1960s to present, ungovernable, the GOP has become the party of racism, and the Democrats are anti-racist. No bipartisanship is possible on most issues.

As mentioned before, Westminster-type parliamentary systems have the concept of the “loyal opposition”; if you’re the opposition, you’re expected to oppose (but in the context of the democratic system of government, not in the pay of foreign adversaries, ahem). However, if you can’t peel off some support from the government’s side, you’re expected to lose. As somebody who grew up in an parliamentary system, the concept of the opposition saying that “you can’t possibly pass this legislation, we oppose it” would get you laughed at, if people actually understood what crazy shit you were trying to demand.

That said, major governance problems aren’t exactly rare. Off the top of my head: Canada (Quebec), UK (NI, sort of Scotland?), Spain (Catalonia), Italy in general. And Bavaria will separate any day now…

ETA: Ha, ha, how did I forget Belgium, truly a world leader in fucked governance. la loi, le Roi, la liberte! Et le gouvernement foutu, quoi.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 3:07:03am

re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Meanwhile in Brexit-land, the Brexiteers are discovering it’s not so easy going alone:

UK and Norway fail to reach fishing deal

But those are sovereign fish!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 3:14:15am

re: #42 ericblair

That said, major governance problems aren’t exactly rare. Off the top of my head: Canada (Quebec), UK (NI, sort of Scotland?), Spain (Catalonia), Italy in general. And Bavaria will separate any day now…

Germany is far removed from the Weimar-era nightmare of having “fringe” parties who collectively control more than 50% of the vote, making a coalition impossible without bringing one or more of them on board.

But it edges closer. Right now the two “mainstream” parties, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrat/Christian Socialist Union are at record lows. But for that, the Greens have gone from a fringe party to a mainstream party and even have a shot at the Chancellorship.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2021 • 3:21:45am

re: #44 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yeah, it looks like there’s a pretty decent chance that the Greens could win big later this year. Same as the Pirate Party here in Czech Republic - a few years back, they were dismissed as little more than a fringe or protest party. Recent opinion polls over the last couple of months show them now having taken the lead, meaning there’s a very good chance they could end up winning in this October’s elections and getting the chance to form a government.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 3:25:27am

re: #45 Dr Lizardo

Pirate Party never took off in Germany, they had a strong start but then their leadership fell apart.

Same with the Right-wing populist AfD, which is still strong in the former East Germany but also suffering from internal strife between the neo-Nazis and the simply nationalist populists.

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ericblair  Apr 30, 2021 • 3:28:23am

re: #45 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, it looks like there’s a pretty decent chance that the Greens could win big later this year. Same as the Pirate Party here in Czech Republic - a few years back, they were dismissed as little more than a fringe or protest party. Recent opinion polls over the last couple of months show them now having taken the lead, meaning there’s a very good chance they could end up winning in this October’s elections and getting the chance to form a government.

My uneducated opinion on many of these shifts is that the traditional social democratic parties have dropped the ball with younger voters, and are looked at as a bunch of calcified out-of-touch mossbacks. The Greens and others have been deeply involved with younger people and naturally pick up their votes.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2021 • 3:29:46am

re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Pirate Party never took off in Germany, they had a strong start but then their leadership fell apart.

Same with the Right-wing populist AfD, which is still strong in the former East Germany but also suffering from internal strife between the neo-Nazis and the simply nationalist populists.

Here, the Pirates got some solid and cohesive leadership under Ivan Bartoš, which has helped propel them to the brink of power. I know the AfD is pretty big in the former DDR and I’ve read about their internal troubles; if I’m not mistaken, I believe some parts of the AfD are being monitored by the authorities for extremism (IIRC, it was their youth wing).

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2021 • 3:33:37am

re: #47 ericblair

My uneducated opinion on many of these shifts is that the traditional social democratic parties have dropped the ball with younger voters, and are looked at as a bunch of calcified out-of-touch mossbacks. The Greens and others have been deeply involved with younger people and naturally pick up their votes.

That’s definitely the case with the Czech Pirate Party; the traditional social-democratic party, the ČSSD, has seen their older voters poached by Czech PM Babiš’ ANO 2011 party and the younger voters feel that the ČSSD is completely out of touch with the modern world.

There’s a good chance that this October, the ČSSD may end up not being able to make it to the 5% entry threshold, thus bringing about the end of parliamentary representation for the oldest social-democratic party in the country. And not that long ago, they were on the top of the world.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 4:06:12am

re: #47 ericblair

My uneducated opinion on many of these shifts is that the traditional social democratic parties have dropped the ball with younger voters, and are looked at as a bunch of calcified out-of-touch mossbacks. The Greens and others have been deeply involved with younger people and naturally pick up their votes.

very much so. a few years back a fellow went viral on the Internet here criticizing the Christian Democrats and the response from the party leadership was that perhaps more regulation of social media was called for…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 30, 2021 • 4:13:06am

re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

very much so. a few years back a fellow went viral on the Internet here criticizing the Christian Democrats and the response from the party leadership was that perhaps more regulation of social media was called for…

Ahh, the regulation of free speech, obviously that won’t make anybody angry and will be a perfect way to market oneself to the masses.

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ericblair  Apr 30, 2021 • 4:15:02am

If I were any one of these assholes, this would seem to be, uh, bad?

And, I doubt it stops there. Democrats go to jail, too, but they are one-off cases specific to the crook in question. The entire GOP is a criminal conspiracy, and have no reason not to turn on each other now that the capo can’t pardon them for keeping their mouths shut.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 4:26:49am

re: #51 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Ahh, the regulation of free speech, obviously that won’t make anybody angry and will be a perfect way to market oneself to the masses.

especially coming from an establishment politician in reaction to criticism from a young person…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 30, 2021 • 4:27:38am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 30, 2021 • 4:29:51am

re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

especially coming from an establishment politician in reaction to criticism from a young person…

Precisely. There’s literally no better way to show what an out-of-touch old fart you are than to say, “I don’t like what you’re saying, I’m going to use the power of the state to silence you.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2021 • 4:29:55am

re: #54 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

“Cancel culture”, “woke” and “PC” are just dead horses that the GOP likes to beat in order to stir up outrage, along with claims that Antifa and BLM are anti-American, foreign-funded terror organizations.

Stirring up unfounded outrage will get easier for them when Kamala Harris starts playing a more active role and announces her candidacy for 2024…

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2021 • 5:22:13am

This image of Doug Emhoff telling his wife to steal third is lovely.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2021 • 5:31:00am
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Teukka  Apr 30, 2021 • 5:57:49am

…

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2021 • 5:58:06am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Waking up this morning to hear about the horrific news out of Israel. 45 people killed and 100+ injured in a stampede after a Lag B’Omer festival in Mount Meron. A bunch of rabbis from various Orthodox groups were among those who died.

Baruch dayam emet.

They’re going to have a bunch of investigations - both into why this celebration/festival was allowed to proceed with the crowds they had, police actions before and during the festival, and other factors.

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:06:59am
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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:09:32am

re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This podcast episode makes that exact point. Going over the PC moral panic from the 90s to today’s so called “cancel culture”. It’s all bullshit right wing propaganda.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:17:50am
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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:19:01am

Big government is better than no government, is better than incompetent government.

There, i said it.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:22:31am
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:24:49am
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:26:11am
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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:27:00am
Jennifer Van Laar, RedState: “The most terrifying part of his speech, and the Democrats’ agenda, is H.R. 1, the “For the People Act,” which takes the most hideous parts of California’s voting laws (universal absentee ballots, extended early voting, ballot harvesting, same-day registration) national. It’s not hyperbole to say that if this bill is passed and fully enacted, it would guarantee permanent Democrat Party rule.”

yes please, keep saying the quiet parts out loud…

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:30:27am

re: #68 Dangerman

yes please, keep saying the quiet parts out loud…

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jeffreyw  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:33:02am

peppered pork belly

Good morning!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:34:51am

Was at the barbershop this morning getting my mop of Covid-hair cropped back to something reasonable.

Fox News on the TV and it’s still a constant sell of fear and hatred. “Facts” tossed out without context, or out of context. Five minutes while I was there on the “surge” of illegal immigrants, how dangerous they are, and how they are also smuggling drugs and other things into the country. (Ignoring totally that the numbers are not what were, that the vast majority of drugs come into the country via the ports and not over the southern border, etc. etc.)

Also trotting out some Obama-admin guy to say bad things about Biden’s spending plans. Fox and the GOP have turned back into deficit hawks the moment there is a Democratic administration.

And, of course, how court packing is part of the “socialist handbook” as practiced by such places like Venezuela.

(One thing I have noted is that the one barber’s license there is older than I am. Dates to December 1961.)

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:42:05am

re: #71 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

GOPers don’t get to talk about court packing, when state GOPers across the nation are looking to expand (or have expanded) state courts to affirm their voter suppression efforts, anti-abortion laws, and a raft of other measures near and dear to the treasonweasel set.

GOPers have long supported expanding the judiciary when it suits them.

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:45:24am

Overnight: shooting outside famed NYC Steakhouse Peter Lugers. Altercation may have led to the shooting.

NYPD claims that the rise in shootings is due to the courts not processing suspects who were previously arrested on gun charges fast enough, and letting them out on bail awaiting other charges.

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Teukka  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:46:22am

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:47:01am
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:48:45am
Federal prosecutors are planning to indict Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers on civil rights violations for their roles in the murder of George Floyd, The Star-Tribune reported. Justice Department officials spent months gathering information on Chauvin and the other officers in connection with Floyd’s death but did not make investigations public as they feared publicity would disrupt the state’s case.

According to The Star-Tribune, if Chauvin was not found guilty by the jury, federal prosecutors had a contingency plan to arrest Chauvin at the Minnesota courthouse. Under that backup plan, the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office would have charged Chauvin by criminal complaint, a process known to be quicker for federal charges as it does not require a grand jury, sources told The Star-Tribune. In that situation, the arrest would be immediate and a grand jury would later be asked for an indictment.

dailykos.com

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:52:05am

Just remember, government moves at the speed of the cosmos:

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:52:45am

Welp, I broke my own self-imposed rule of not ever replying directly to the crap racists post on Twitter, and I told a racist to “fuck off and die.” This caused Twitter to put me in a 12-hour timeout for “encouraging self-harm and suicide.”

My account is restored now but I have to tread carefully. RIP Vicious Babushka!

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:54:08am

re: #22 Dread Pirate Ron

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Viaduct redux.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:54:14am
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darthstar  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:56:01am

Just fired? She should be run out of town on a rail.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:56:28am

re: #76 Belafon

dailykos.com

Credit where due, the feds appear to have thought that one out pretty well. I’ve no doubt they also had the full backing and support of Governor Walz, who had no desire to face an angry mob after last summer’s widely publicized disaster.

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Teukka  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:58:26am

re: #80 Belafon

Figures that they’d cheated somehow.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2021 • 6:59:27am
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:03:20am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:05:43am

re: #80 Belafon

No one doubts the ability of Russian scientists or engineers; generally speaking, they’re world-class.

The problem, as it has long been, is quality control. I’ve owned Russian products in the past and their QC is hit or miss….and that’s being generous. Some items will last for decades and others will fail before the sun goes down. The Russians simply don’t take quality control all that seriously.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:08:38am
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Eventual Carrion  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:10:04am

re: #85 Belafon

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See, TFG was right. It just took him being removed from office for it to happen.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:11:29am

re: #87 Ace-o-aces

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I could be next? That’s fine, I have done nothing wrong

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:13:53am

I am just heartbroken about the tragedy in Meron. We visited the site in 2012 for our grandson “Zeke’s” 3rd birthday, where he had his first haircut. It was a private family gathering, so no huge crowds, but Zedushka noticed the narrow openings around the shrine and commented that unless the infrastructure was upgraded there could be a disaster at some time.

For more action than “thoughts” and “prayers” please consider making a donation to United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom the paramedic organizations. I have a special connection to United Hatzalah since their President saved Zed when he had a hypoglycemic episode aboard an El Al fight & make a large donation every year on Z’s birthday.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:16:41am

re: #87 Ace-o-aces

That almost went well. I wonder if there’s a much less popular take where the stunt goes perfectly.

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Teukka  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:31:21am
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Ace-o-aces  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:34:59am
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:35:16am

re: #78 The Pie Overlord!

OT.

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A Cranky One  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:38:36am

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No Malarkey!  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:39:49am
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Teukka  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:40:24am

re: #92 Teukka

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:46:51am

2nd Moderna shot update: I feel MUCH better this morning. Still not back to 100%, but no more aches and chills.

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mmmirele  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:48:20am

re: #78 The Pie Overlord!

Welp, I broke my own self-imposed rule of not ever replying directly to the crap racists post on Twitter, and I told a racist to “fuck off and die.” This caused Twitter to put me in a 12-hour timeout for “encouraging self-harm and suicide.”

My account is restored now but I have to tread carefully. RIP Vicious Babushka!

This is why I tell people to “put a sock in it”. Told one anti masker yesterday that she should put a sock in it but I’d prefer that she wear a mask!

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:50:02am

re: #78 The Pie Overlord!

Welp, I broke my own self-imposed rule of not ever replying directly to the crap racists post on Twitter, and I told a racist to “fuck off and die.” This caused Twitter to put me in a 12-hour timeout for “encouraging self-harm and suicide.”

My account is restored now but I have to tread carefully. RIP Vicious Babushka!

LOL, I’ve gotten that one for something just as ridiculous. Conservatives do not report infractions in good faith. Their dishonesty is the root of a lot of problems.

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Teukka  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:50:05am

re: #97 Teukka

Also, over/under on this being one of the reasons some of the researchers behind the vaccine met unexpected demises?

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nines09  Apr 30, 2021 • 7:55:14am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:00:44am

re: #78 The Pie Overlord!

Welp, I broke my own self-imposed rule of not ever replying directly to the crap racists post on Twitter, and I told a racist to “fuck off and die.” This caused Twitter to put me in a 12-hour timeout for “encouraging self-harm and suicide.”

My account is restored now but I have to tread carefully. RIP Vicious Babushka!

I’ve been there too.

What really pisses me off at @jack is when my relatives post racial slurs on Twitter @jack gives them a pass. When they post Republican lie after lie, @jack gives them a pass. When they post slurs on the President’s twitter feed, @jack gives them a pass. And when they do the same to Kamala’s twitter feed @jack gives them a pass.

But when I got into exchanges with Ann KKKolter @jack put me on a 7 day suspension and banned me from reporting people.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:17:45am

And today’s episode of Pulpit Pimp-O-Rama…

Robin Bullock Claims President Hillary Clinton Would Have Ushered in The Great Tribulation

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:18:36am

re: #93 Ace-o-aces

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no one got shot in their own home from a wrong address
that they got the right apartment also helps that no one got shot

count yourself lucky white rudy

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:22:58am

re: #70 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:23:00am

re: #99 mmmirele

This is why I tell people to “put a sock in it”. Told one anti masker yesterday that she should put a sock in it but I’d prefer that she wear a mask!

‘wear a mask’ is a great universal retort

its more of insult to these people than ‘fuck off and die’

it cant be misconstrued as some ‘terms and conditions’ threat

and it does double duty as public service message to others reading later

win, win, win

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:24:01am

re: #105 Dangerman

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no one got shot in their own home from a wrong address
that they got the right apartment also helps that no one got shot

count yourself lucky white rudy

I know Trump watches enough tv to know there have been lots of raids.

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Jay C  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:27:07am

re: #108 Belafon

I know Trump watches enough tv to know there have been lots of raids.

And he probably cheers on the cops when someone gets shot….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:32:55am

So do we know yet what Josh Duggar got nailed for?

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:35:09am

re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg

So do we know yet what Josh Duggar got nailed for?

Criswell Bacon predicts it involves Josh not keeping Mr. Ding Dong in his pants again…

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:38:28am

re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg

So do we know yet what Josh Duggar got nailed for?

A 12-minute-old article says the info has not been released.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:39:16am

re: #111 🌹UOJB!

Criswell Bacon predicts it involves Josh not keeping Mr. Ding Dong in his pants again…

Does DHS police that sort of thing now?

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:40:16am

re: #112 Punish Domestic Terrorists

A 12-minute-old article says the info has not been released.

Got arrested by the Feds, though. That seems like pretty serious shit.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:42:37am

re: #113 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Does DHS police that sort of thing now?

Just a reminder of how Josh couldn’t control Mr. Ding Dong:

Josh Duggar and the rest of his family enjoyed widespread popularity for years as a result of their show, which depicted the day-to-day of a cheerfully pious, enormous clan. That fame cratered in 2015, after allegations surfaced that Josh Duggar molested girls in the early 2000s. It was later discovered that some of the alleged victims were his sisters.

Soon after, Duggar also admitted that he’d cheated on his wife, Anna, through Ashley Madison, a site designed to help people cheat on their spouses or partners.

Duggar also got sued over a real estate deal in 2019 in a dispute he ultimately lost.

Soon after the cancellation of “19 Kids and Counting” in 2015, a spinoff called “Counting On” started to air on TLC in its wake. Josh Duggar’s wife and children are listed as cast members and the show is currently on the air. The couple is still together, and they are expecting their seventh child.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:42:43am

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

Got arrested by the Feds, though. That seems like pretty serious shit.

Agreed. I think he has an arraignment today so I expect we’ll know more soon.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:47:38am

re: #113 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Does DHS police that sort of thing now?

DHS involvement (which I never saw confirmed; does anyone have a link to that?) would imply some sort of trafficking, most likely sex trafficking or drug trafficking.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:48:56am

re: #117 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

DHS involvement (which I never saw confirmed; does anyone have a link to that?) would imply some sort of trafficking, most likely sex trafficking or drug trafficking.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was kiddy porn. But I’m sure Jesus will forgive Josh since he’s a Republican…

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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:49:13am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:50:57am

Marilyn Manson Sued for Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking by ‘Game of Thrones’ Actress Esme Bianco

rollingstone.com

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 30, 2021 • 8:55:48am

re: #81 darthstar

Just fired? She should be run out of town on a rail.

Paging Tim Scott.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:00:52am

re: #119 wrenchwench

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Well, yeah. I don’t see how that’s controversial.

Here’s my controversial take: The only thing you need to know about integrals is that you add a constant. Now, go look up the derivative that has what you’re trying to solve on the right hand side and add that constant to the equation on the left.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:03:11am

re: #117 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

DHS involvement (which I never saw confirmed; does anyone have a link to that?) would imply some sort of trafficking, most likely sex trafficking or drug trafficking.

But not Rock & Roll trafficking.

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:06:08am
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nines09  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:06:15am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:07:53am

No, this isn’t another mental health crisis. It’s actually something Beckie and I were planning on me doing before she passed. I just moved the date up as the job has become to toxic to stay (10-12 hr days w/no respite in the near future). My supervisor is also getting ready to leave as well. He’s waiting on SS and VA paperwork. Another coworker is awaiting news about a job he applied for down in Texas so he can be closer to his kids.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:12:22am

re: #126 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

No, this isn’t another mental health crisis. It’s actually something Beckie and I were planning on me doing before she passed. I just moved the date up as the job has become to toxic to stay (10-12 hr days w/no respite in the near future). My supervisor is also getting ready to leave as well. He’s waiting on SS and VA paperwork. Another coworker is awaiting news about a job he applied for down in Texas so he can be closer to his kids.

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Nothing worse than a toxic work place.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:17:49am

re: #126 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

No, this isn’t another mental health crisis. It’s actually something Beckie and I were planning on me doing before she passed. I just moved the date up as the job has become to toxic to stay (10-12 hr days w/no respite in the near future). My supervisor is also getting ready to leave as well. He’s waiting on SS and VA paperwork. Another coworker is awaiting news about a job he applied for down in Texas so he can be closer to his kids.

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I know how it feels to work in a VERY toxic work environment. For a brief time I worked for Medicare with a real asshole of a supervisor who repeatedly insulted me in front of people. HR wouldn’t lift a finger so I put in a transfer back to Social Security, didn’t tell that CENSORED and I just packed up and walked out when the transfer was approved.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:29:09am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:31:30am

re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, that definitely sounds like some serious shit.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:32:28am

I wonder if Falwell, Jr.’s house is on Gaetz’s itinerary:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:32:58am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:34:34am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:34:53am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:35:26am

re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s what I hoped it wasn’t.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:35:39am

re: #133 Dr Lizardo

“I’m not guilty. My religion doesn’t recognize the concept of a minor.”

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:35:53am

re: #133 Dr Lizardo

OK, not quite as bad. Still REALLY bad.

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calochortus  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:37:03am

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I think they are trying to say that The Elites want to force women out of their homes, where they would prefer to be, and into the workforce to serve the needs of their betters. Because good, affordable daycare is somehow coercive.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:38:28am
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:39:12am

re: #138 calochortus

I think they are trying to say that The Elites want to force women out of their homes, where they would prefer to be, and into the workforce to serve the needs of their betters. Because good, affordable daycare is somehow coercive.

But also that the CAREs act incentivized these same people to stay home and not go their jobs…..

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:41:11am

Good morning from Alabama!

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calochortus  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:42:37am

re: #140 Barefoot Grin

But also that the CAREs act incentivized these same people to stay home and not go their jobs…..

No one said they were logical.

Also, speaking as someone who did stay home with the kids, drive carpool, etc. I think subsidized daycare is a wonderful idea. I had a choice. Mr. C. and I made that decision and it was a good one for us. Other people should also have a choice. It’s not rocket science.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:43:05am
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gwangung  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:45:36am

re: #138 calochortus

I think they are trying to say that The Elites want to force women out of their homes, where they would prefer to be, and into the workforce to serve the needs of their betters. Because good, affordable daycare is somehow coercive.

God, what a STUPID argument.

If a single paycheck could pay for a family of 4+, then a lot more people (men and women) would want to stay home.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:47:20am

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:49:43am

Michael Tracey truly is a moron…

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:50:10am

re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Federal rights (rather than state rights) gov.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:50:40am

re: #142 calochortus

No one said they were logical.

Also, speaking as someone who did stay home with the kids, drive carpool, etc. I think subsidized daycare is a wonderful idea. I had a choice. Mr. C. and I made that decision and it was a good one for us. Other people should also have a choice. It’s not rocket science.

We had some flexibility. My wife had a part-time job doing work for an online Japanese fashion company and my hours are flexible. But one of the top issues on our local FB page is how to find affordable daycare (and sometimes nightcare) for kids in our area. There just isn’t enough.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:53:36am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:54:06am

re: #146 Backwoods_Sleuth

Michael Tracey truly is a moron…

He’s not the only one.

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calochortus  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:55:46am

re: #148 Barefoot Grin

We had some flexibility. My wife had a part-time job doing work for an online Japanese fashion company and my hours are flexible. But one of the top issues on our local FB page is how to find affordable daycare (and sometimes nightcare) for kids in our area. There just isn’t enough.

Bolding mine because THIS.

My granddaughter is in an excellent daycare, but it costs a mint. Fortunately her parents can afford it, but why shouldn’t everyone who wants/needs daycare know their child is also in an excellent daycare? Giving kids the best we can will help them to grow up and be better, happier people. Aside from being the right thing to do that has to save money in the long run.

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calochortus  Apr 30, 2021 • 9:58:15am

Anyhoo, time to get on with what I need to do today.
BBL

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:00:47am

re: #151 calochortus

Bolding mine because THIS.

My granddaughter is in an excellent daycare, but it costs a mint. Fortunately her parents can afford it, but why shouldn’t everyone who wants/needs daycare know their child is also in an excellent daycare? Giving kids the best we can will help them to grow up and be better, happier people. Aside from being the right thing to do that has to save money in the long run.

Yes, it does. But you’re trying to convince a party and its supporters who think spending money to reduce pollution, improve water and air quality, emphasize preventative healthcare - and expand that to as many people as possible, and improve energy production and infrastructure are all “socialism”* and intended to destroy them and the “American Way”.

* - Substitute preferred conservative buzzword meaning “someone who doesn’t totally agree with me”.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:02:29am

re: #127 I Would Prefer Not To

Nothing worse than a toxic work place.

re: #128 🌹UOJB!

I know how it feels to work in a VERY toxic work environment. For a brief time I worked for Medicare with a real asshole of a supervisor who repeatedly insulted me in front of people. HR wouldn’t lift a finger so I put in a transfer back to Social Security, didn’t tell that CENSORED and I just packed up and walked out when the transfer was approved.

The biggest problem we have is that we are seriously under manned (short 4 Techs) and they refuse to rehire/hire more Techs, but expect us to carry the full load, hence the long hours. Then they bitch and moan when someone wants to take time off as that increases the work load on the other Techs as well as, GASP! creating an overtime situation that they don’t want.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:02:38am

re: #153 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The Republican and Xtian definition of daycare is this—Gawd’s role for women is to stay home and raise children.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:03:34am

There is a bacteria that arrived in Italy about 10 years ago, spread by a sucking insect, that is killing the olive trees, including some that are many hundreds of years old.

The cause of the blight was Xylella fastidiosa, a bacteria that researchers believe arrived around 2010 from Latin America, possibly from Costa Rica on an imported ornamental plant. Today, Xylella has infected at least one-third of the 60 million olive trees in Puglia, which produces 12 percent of the world’s olive oil. The bacteria leaves no chance of survival: Once a plant is infected, it’s doomed to die in a handful of years. Today, Xylella is spreading fast across Puglia, crossing into other Italian regions and Mediterranean countries, and upending the production of olives and olive oil, the symbols of the Mediterranean.

atlasobscura.com

Those of us who love olive oil better start worrying, along with those who love coffee and tea and wine and bananas and…

They have figured out a way to save a tree if caught early enough: grafting from a resistant wild tree. But it costs Big Bucks to save one tree, and Italy is not exactly flush with cash.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:04:27am

re: #150 Punish Domestic Terrorists

“Are you also in favor of these things that never happened?”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:07:16am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:10:35am

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes. Trump or Scott are lying. Probably both.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:11:16am

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:14:36am

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Tim Scott lies just like every other QAnon Republican.

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Jay C  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:14:40am

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Sen. Scott’s inspiring remarks”??

WUT?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:15:12am
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sagehen  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:35:56am

re: #138 calochortus

I think they are trying to say that The Elites want to force women out of their homes, where they would prefer to be, and into the workforce to serve the needs of their betters. Because good, affordable daycare is somehow coercive.

If somebody tries to tell you that federally-funded universal day care is unprecedented, a 21st-century progressive initiative… ask them who they think looked after Rosie the Riveter’s kids while she was doing those 12-hour shifts. It sure wasn’t their father, he was overseas.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:40:07am

I cannot emphasize how great this article is.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:49:10am

Leaked Racist Messages Show ‘Leftist’ YouTuber Isn’t (Vice)

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:49:40am

re: #165 HRH Stanley Sea

It’s scary how quickly time seems to pass as I get older.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:51:06am

I am officially fully vaccinated. Now to wait for it all to do it’s thing and in a couple of weeks my internet speed ought to be smokin’. The state site I went to had practically no one in line, I was in and outta there in less than 15 minutes. Whew.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:52:25am

The restaurant apologized. For the really angry part:

According to a statement made to WTAE from Police Chief Joseph Caporali, Moore has been taken off the schedule pending an internal investigation.
“As a result of this encounter, allegations of possible misconduct of this officer are taken very seriously and the matter is under investigation,” Caporali said. “The officer is off schedule until the conclusion of this investigation at which time Vandergrift Borough Council will take appropriate action.”

But this isn’t the first time there have been complaints about Moore. According to TribLIVE, Moore was put on paid leave in 2017 after being charged with assault and harassment of a 14-year-old boy. He pleaded guilty to those charges, then was suspended the following year for unknown reasons. It seems like Moore doesn’t have the cleanest record himself and a background check should be run on him.

White is he still a police officer?

dailykos.com

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2021 • 10:58:44am

A redditor posted this pic of a roadrunner on her nest. She’s warming 6 eggs. I’m hoping he gets pics of the babies! (The nest is under a bush in his yard)

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A Mom Anon  Apr 30, 2021 • 11:01:33am

re: #169 Belafon

That’s a huge issue all over the country. Police unions are part of the issue. Protecting the job of an abusive asshole isn’t the purpose of a union, and yet we see this shit over and over. When we talk of police reform, unions have to be part of that. I’m not sure how to accomplish that, but it needs to be addressed.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2021 • 11:02:16am

re: #169 Belafon

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The restaurant apologized. For the really angry part:

White is he still a police officer?
^^^^^^ intentional?
dailykos.com

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2021 • 11:04:15am

re: #171 A Mom Anon

That’s a huge issue all over the country. Police unions are part of the issue. Protecting the job of an abusive asshole isn’t the purpose of a union, and yet we see this shit over and over. When we talk of police reform, unions have to be part of that. I’m not sure how to accomplish that, but it needs to be addressed.

Police unions behave like the Catholic church did/does wrt their own criminal behavior

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 11:06:34am

re: #172 Dangerman

Yep.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2021 • 11:07:38am

re: #171 A Mom Anon

That’s a huge issue all over the country. Police unions are part of the issue. Protecting the job of an abusive asshole isn’t the purpose of a union, and yet we see this shit over and over. When we talk of police reform, unions have to be part of that. I’m not sure how to accomplish that, but it needs to be addressed.

I think requiring that some of any payouts for police behavior have to come from police pension funds.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2021 • 11:14:21am

re: #171 A Mom Anon

That’s a huge issue all over the country. Police unions are part of the issue. Protecting the job of an abusive asshole isn’t the purpose of a union, and yet we see this shit over and over. When we talk of police reform, unions have to be part of that. I’m not sure how to accomplish that, but it needs to be addressed.

I think making them more personally concerned about bad behavior is the key. And tying the lawsuit settlements to police pension funds and not general town budgets will certainly get the point across since illegal behavior will be coming out of *their* future income.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2021 • 11:24:57am

re: #95 A Cranky One

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steve_davis  Apr 30, 2021 • 12:21:13pm

re: #67 Belafon

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looking at that map makes it suddenly and blindingly obvious that tennessee used to be part of north carolina.


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