Seth takes a closer look at the Republican Party and the conservative movement punishing those who refute their deranged 2020 election beliefs.
When your campaign and direct mail vendor are top notch: pic.twitter.com/hrpHIbuDBY
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) May 6, 2021
I’m so old I remember when the R’s were the Party of Truth, Justice, and a strong National Defense.
Now? A party of liars.
Sad!!
re: #3 EPR-radar
“Party of ideas”
That was a damn long time ago.
The only ideas they have now are conspiracy theories.
re: #3 EPR-radar
“Party of ideas”
That was a damn long time ago.
No shit. They also used to be the Party that claimed they valued competency and common sense.
That’s also a laughable concept these days.
But at least they aren’t literal fascists, unlike most elected Republicans. Who would’ve thought that one day Republicans could distinguish themselves simply by believing in democracy and the rule of law.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 6, 2021
DOJ is getting involved in that ridiculous audit in Arizona
#BREAKING the DOJ Civil Rights Division has sent a letter to Senator Fann raising concerns over how the #azaudit is being conducted.
1. Election assets are not under the control of election officials.
2. Reports of door to door canvassing. pic.twitter.com/OaCWvyAM57— The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) May 6, 2021
Mitt Romney is terrible. Liz Cheney is awful. Even the best of them are horrible.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 6, 2021
re: #7 KingKenrod
DOJ is getting involved in that ridiculous audit in Arizona
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With no Chain-of-Custody documentation, nothing can be used as evidence and the process is illegal.
re: #9 austin_blue
With no Chain-of-Custody documentation, nothing can be used as evidence and the process is illegal.
The AZ “audit” isn’t about finding any actual evidence of fraud so much as manufacturing it, so as to add fuel to the Big Lie fire. It’s like those “investigations” into state voter rolls that show “dead” or “illegal” votes in the hundreds/thousands during past elections. All of it is later debunked, but the article that debunks the report gets buried in the back of the paper while “THOUSANDS OF DEAD VOTERS ELECTED DEMS!!!” gets front page, above the fold coverage.
It’s all about undermining confidence in our electoral system and about making people doubt the results of elections. That person in your office, at your church, or in line at the store who remarks that they’re not voting because “It doesn’t matter”? They’re the target for this “audit” in AZ, because the MAGAts are already convinced the election was stolen and everybody else knows it’s all horseshit.
re: #7 KingKenrod
DOJ is getting involved in that ridiculous audit in Arizona
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oh, and btw, from the previous thread, I know that I can’t sue the Arizona GOP state senators. But I bet we could sue the political party and the Cyber Ninjas who are doing this nonsense.
re: #2 austin_blue
I’m so old I remember when the R’s were the Party of Truth, Justice, and a strong National Defense.
Now? A party of liars.
Sad!!
At least they were pretty tough on Russian spies, rather than working for them.
Incoming hot take from the National Review
Oh, and utterly wrecked the global economy.
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) May 6, 2021
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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*sigh*
Let me guess, more “CHYNA VIRUS!!!!” horseshit, right?
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
At least they were pretty tough on Russian spies, rather than working for them.
Snap!
This is so absurd. I’ve been messaging Apple support for 2 hours to get imessage on my mac back to where I can send and receive messages from Android users. The last time this happened it took 5 seconds to fix. Any answers here?
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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“may have”?? Is that a hint that the NR information may not be iron-clad?
Other than that, I’m watching “Thief.” Great fucking movie.
re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter
“may have”?? Is that a hint that the NR information may not be iron-clad?
No, they’re just being stupid again.
I went out to Mark Driscoll’s Circus of “Where’s Jesus?” after work because they were having a Cinco de Comida before their sex-segregated Bible studies. The women were driven off somewhere in a 25 seat van (multiple trips). I’m tempted to follow the van and figure out where it’s going…
First my signs:
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
Then a picture of the Rent-A-Cop:
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
And finally, a picture of The Trinity Church’s bus.
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
And you’re probably wondering, what’s up with the bus? Well, back when Mark Driscoll was the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, he said the following: “There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God’s grace, it’ll be a mountain by the time we’re done.”
Driscoll is an ass. But he’s an expanding ass. If he’s not looking for a second location, he’s crazy. He’s got four services stuffed full.
Hindenburg’s decision resulted in WWII, the Holocaust, and the development of the atomic bomb.
Hindenburg appointing Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 6, 2021
It’s notable that they’re now low-balling the lunacy from “This was a Chinese bioweapon that was deliberately/accidentally released!” to now “This was possibly an accidental release from a Chinese research lab that was engaging in coronavirus research!”
But the intent is still the same as ever: Pin the blame on China in order to give incompetent leaders (couTrumpgh) a pass for failing to handle the crisis and add more fuel to the neo-Cold War fire.
re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Eisenhower was a RINO back before Republicans had invented the acronym.
re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter
“may have”?? Is that a hint that the NR information may not be iron-clad?
Other famous NR scoops:
Sacco and Vanzetti May Have Kidnapped The Lindbergh Baby!
Boers May Have Won The Boer War!
Dogs May Have Flown Spaceships!
The Aztecs May Have Invented The Vacation!
re: #24 No Malarkey!
Hindenburg’s decision resulted in WWII, the Holocaust, and the development of the atomic bomb.
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The Archduke and his wife insisting on visiting the victims of a failed assassination attempt without informing their security detail of the change in itinerary.
Idiot relative rejoicing because her pastor said that the Arizona recount has discovered 25,000 Chinese bamboo ballots for Biden that don’t have the Trump Official Watermark…
re: #24 No Malarkey!
Yeah, Hindenberg’s blunder is tough to beat. Restricting it to US history, Ike’s decision to run for president as a Republican was a big one-person mistake.
re: #26 EPR-radar
Eisenhower was a RINO back before Republicans had invented the acronym.
Eisenhower was an American who had reasonable conservative values, but always put Country before Party.
His farewell speech is prophetic.
re: #29 🌹UOJB!
Idiot relative rejoicing because her pastor said that the Arizona recount has discovered 25,000 Chinese bamboo ballots for Biden that don’t have the Trump Official Watermark…
Is this someone that has to be taken inside every time it rains lest they stare up at the clouds too long and find a way to drown?
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re: #10 Targetpractice
The AZ “audit” isn’t about finding any actual evidence of fraud so much as manufacturing it, so as to add fuel to the Big Lie fire. It’s like those “investigations” into state voter rolls that show “dead” or “illegal” votes in the hundreds/thousands during past elections. All of it is later debunked, but the article that debunks the report gets buried in the back of the paper while “THOUSANDS OF DEAD VOTERS ELECTED DEMS!!!” gets front page, above the fold coverage.
It’s all about undermining confidence in our electoral system and about making people doubt the results of elections. That person in your office, at your church, or in line at the store who remarks that they’re not voting because “It doesn’t matter”? They’re the target for this “audit” in AZ, because the MAGAts are already convinced the election was stolen and everybody else knows it’s all horseshit.
It’s not going to change anyone’s mind.
re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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You can always count on Allen West to out-asshole himself.
I’m off for the rack. Night all!
Sweet scaly dreams.
Any day without having to endure Drumpf spouting off is a day with brilliant sunshine, chirping birds, and friendly fuzzy bunnies.
re: #30 EPR-radar
Yeah, Hindenberg’s blunder is tough to beat. Restricting it to US history, Ike’s decision to run for president as a Republican was a big one-person mistake.
German generals convincing the Kaiser to sign off on violating Belgian neutrality for a war plan that ultimately failed to achieve its goals while giving the Brits casus belli to come in on the side of the French.
re: #32 EPR-radar
Is this someone that has to be taken inside every time it rains lest they stare up at the clouds too long and find a way to drown?
Je$u$ turned her into a brainwashed moron.
re: #28 Targetpractice
The Archduke and his wife insisting on visiting the victims of a failed assassination attempt without informing their security detail of the change in itinerary.
Or some other event would have triggered the conflict. Due to the various opposing alliances, the whole world was living on a razor’s edge, ready to descend into madness.
re: #29 🌹UOJB!
Idiot relative rejoicing because her pastor said that the Arizona recount has discovered 25,000 Chinese bamboo ballots for Biden that don’t have the Trump Official Watermark…
Her pastor also told her that she didn’t need to take any precautions against Covid because “God will protect you,”, right?
Duck and cover, Henny Penny has come home to roost
Remnants of a large Chinese rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere this weekend in an uncontrolled re-entry being tracked by U.S. Space Command, the U.S. military said https://t.co/TuXt4FwcyJ pic.twitter.com/hLPeiBFQvN
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 6, 2021
re: #39 Hecuba’s daughter
Or some other event would have triggered the conflict. Due to the various opposing alliances, the whole world was living on a razor’s edge, ready to descend into madness.
True. I’ve read a fair amount of history, and the origin of WWI remains obscure. WTF was Europe doing on that razor’s edge in the first place?
re: #40 Targetpractice
Her pastor also told her that she didn’t need to take any precautions against Covid because “God will protect you,”, right?
Who needs a vaccine when you got…Jay-Zuss??????
re: #39 Hecuba’s daughter
Or some other event would have triggered the conflict. Due to the various opposing alliances, the whole world was living on a razor’s edge, ready to descend into madness.
Oh, there’s no doubt that Europe was a powder keg in search of a spark. But the same is rather true of the Hindenberg example: Germany in 1933 was a mess of political turmoil and violence. If Hitler hadn’t rose to power, someone else would have eventually assumed the role. Hell, considering the state of German politics in the 1930s, the whole thing could have collapsed into civil war or a communist takeover.
re: #34 Belafon
It’s not going to change anyone’s mind.
Nope, but it will be the justification they use in 2024 when they reject thousands of Maricopa County ballots and certify Trump the winner of Arizona’s electoral votes.
re: #42 EPR-radar
True. I’ve read a fair amount of history, and the origin of WWI remains obscure. WTF was Europe doing on that razor’s edge in the first place?
I put most of the blame on Kaiser Wilhelm’s imperial ambitions, and his ability to piss off most of his neighbors into forming an alliance against Germany. Plus German war plans required a rapid mobilization and rapid fire attack on France through Belgium, guaranteed to bring Britain into the war.
I can’t believe this didn’t work. pic.twitter.com/5dGj9u2XNL
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) May 6, 2021
re: #42 EPR-radar
True. I’ve read a fair amount of history, and the origin of WWI remains obscure. WTF was Europe doing on that razor’s edge in the first place?
National pride and colonial ambitions. It was the Cold War of its day, but without the threat of nuclear war to prevent it from going hot. Germany had gone from a handful of Germanic nation-states in the middle of the 19th century to a fast-expanding empire that had kicked France in the jimmies not once but twice in the span of only a few decades. Britain and France were on quasi-friendly relations due to the threat of the German ambitions despite continuing to compete for colonial holdings. The Austro-Hungarian throne and the Ottoman Turks were slowly losing grip on their own vast empires. And the House of Romanov was dealing with the growing turmoil on its western borders while also fighting off a rapidly modernizing Japan on its eastern borders.
Basically, everybody was trying to either get ahead or just keep their own head above water going into the 1910s, weaving a web of various agreements and treaties that their diplomats never actually expected to make good on. So when a band of incompetent assassins managed to knock off the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, what had been a “it’ll never happen” scenario suddenly became reality.
re: #2 austin_blue
I’m so old I remember when the R’s were the Party of Truth, Justice, and a strong National Defense.
Now? A party of liars.
Sad!!
You must be way older than me then. I turn sixty-one this month.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You must be way older than me then. I turn sixty-one this month.
How about I remember when they CLAIMED to be in favor of those things? And I’m 43.
Was this before or after you made her pick up your dry cleaning https://t.co/7T0OOnGId5
— Karen Schwartz (@pithywidow) May 5, 2021
re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Duck and cover, Henny Penny has come home to roost
It isn’t just China.
SpaceX rocket debris recovered from Central Washington farm after fiery fall (Yahoo!, April 2)
re: #52 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It isn’t just China.
SpaceX rocket debris recovered from Central Washington farm after fiery fall (Yahoo!, April 2)
At least SpaceX tried a deorbit burn that just went wrong, China is just like “20 ton rocket stage, screw it let it fall.”
Now I have a dislodged sense of humor, but this might be the funniest Politico story I have ever read. https://t.co/HJQvqAdGPe It’s also VERY Politico. All about “the inside game essential to political survival in Washington.”
To me, hilarious. To you, maybe not. But maybe yes!— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) May 6, 2021
Kkkevin McCarthy and the rest of the treasonous bastards blame Cheney for not being able to unite with the fascists in the party and move on from the Big Lie, or something.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It isn’t just China.
SpaceX rocket debris recovered from Central Washington farm after fiery fall (Yahoo!, April 2)
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 26, 2021
It would be fitting karmic retribution if that Chinese rocket debris scattered all over Mar-A-Lardo!
Today Lakehurst is Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. These photos are from a Sept 2011 visit to the spot of the disaster - it’s essentially a very large parking lot. Hangar No. 1, which HINDENBURG was designed to fit, still stands pic.twitter.com/Imz9cs5cLc
— Chris Cavas (@CavasShips) May 6, 2021
re: #59 🌹UOJB!
It would be fitting karmic retribution if that Chinese rocket debris scattered all over Mar-A-Lardo!
That a nice one. I’ve recently been using Orange Overlard for Trump.
re: #57 Dread Pirate Ron
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Kkkevin McCarthy and the rest of the treasonous bastards blame Cheney for not being able to unite with the fascists in the party and move on from the Big Lie, or something.
tl;dr: Cheney has lost support because the party wants to act as though the past 4 years didn’t happen and she’s making that impossible.
Marxism sucks @JoyAnnReid and I’m so sorry that you believe it is a good thing.
— Truth & Unity (@Truthnews2017) May 6, 2021
re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Also very wide hands
— Nicholas Carlson (@nichcarlson) May 5, 2021
They want Cheney gone so bad because she refuses to embrace the Big Lie, which is cramping the style of those Repubs who have been convinced (either by McCarthy or other “moderates”) that the best way to undermine Biden without outright accusing him of having “stole” the election is to repeat talking points about “irregularities” and “states breaking their own laws.”
The reason why she’s lost those who voted for impeachment? Because they thought that vote was all they’d need to do to break ranks with Trump, a bit of performative art that would allow them to run for reelection as opposing him personally but liking the things he did. And here’s Liz, cramping their style by saying that a vote is not enough, they need to help remove his influence from the party when all they want to talk is about how “evil” Biden is.
Those Pulpit Pimp Prophets are such sore losers!
Spiritual Warfare: A Battle Is Raging in the ‘Prophetic Community’ Over the 2020 Election
In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, a variety of self-proclaimed “prophets” were nearly unanimous in their announcements that they had all heard from Heaven that Donald Trump would win the election and serve a second term as president.
Even though that did not happen, many of these “prophets” have vehemently refused to admit they were wrong and continue to insist that God will vindicate them by miraculously returning Trump to the White House.
Concerned about these false prophecies and the refusal of such “prophets” to acknowledge them, a collection of conservative Christian leaders recently signed on to a document laying out standards for the prophetic movement, declaring, among other things, that those who refuse to abide by such standards run the risk of being designated as “false prophets.”
It is no surprise that the “prophets” who have been most vocal in insisting that their false election prophecies will soon be proven true did not sign on to this “prophetic standards statement” and have, in fact, been quite vocal in criticizing it.
And of course that asshole Johnny Enlow had his fee fees hurt over this!
I truly feel sorry for whoever the Duggars have hired to defend Sex Fiend:
Why is real life so badly written? pic.twitter.com/Rz5aweZVnO
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 6, 2021
re: #62 Targetpractice
tl;dr: Cheney has lost support because the party wants to act as though the past 4 years didn’t happen and she’s making that impossible.
Several county GOP committees have voted to censure Rep. Cheney in Wyoming, just as most of the county GOP here in Nebraska have censured Sen. Ben Sasse (and state senator John McCollister).
You must conform.
Meanwhile, maskholes in Canada:
Video shows man shove woman off Vancouver bus after she spits on him (Global News)
That wasn’t a light shove either.
Head of the Omaha Police Union out here saying “We need to defund schools.” pic.twitter.com/EeiYALEOOJ
— Dave Sund (@davesund) May 5, 2021
I cannot wait to get my beef passport https://t.co/rczjN87mW9
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) May 5, 2021
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #30 EPR-radar
Yeah, Hindenberg’s blunder is tough to beat. Restricting it to US history, Ike’s decision to run for president as a Republican was a big one-person mistake.
If I’m going to pick an Ike error, it’s overthrowing Mossadegh.
*sigh*
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re: #73 sagehen
If I’m going to pick an Ike error, it’s overthrowing Mossadegh.
Hell, we can go further back to the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which was a secret agreement between the Brits and French to go back on public support for Arab independence after the Ottoman Empire fell in favor of divvying up the land to feed their own colonial ambitions, then laundering that as “mandates” through the League of Nations by saying they were just “governing” the land until the locals could rule themselves (sound familiar?).
but the question was ONE MAN, ONE DECISION. Sykes-Picot is two whole countries.
re: #73 sagehen
If I’m going to pick an Ike error, it’s overthrowing Mossadegh.
Ike was conned a couple of times early in his tenure, by Churchill in the Mossadegh business in 1953, and by the Dulles brothers in the 1954 Guatemala coup. He learned continuously though. In 1956, he refused to play along when the UK, France and Israel ganged up on Egypt in an attempt to retake the Suez Canal and, in fact, joined Krushchev in demanding that the conspirators withdraw.
Incidentally, monitoring the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt was one of the first real world operations for the revolutionary Lockheed U-2.
re: #76 sagehen
but the question was ONE MAN, ONE DECISION. Sykes-Picot is two whole countries.
Fair point.
It has become warm enough this week for the AC to turn on at 11:30 PM to cool the house to 76 for sleeping comfort. It still hasn’t turned on during the day, that would take a day of 94 or higher. Today was only 93.
re: #79 Dread Pirate Ron
It has become warm enough this week for the AC to turn on at 11:30 PM to cool the house to 76 for sleeping comfort. It still hasn’t turned on during the day, that would take a day of 94 or higher. Today was only 93.
Nope nope nope.
74 during the day, 73 at night. It’s running right now.
Reading through a Twitter search of “Cheney” tweets is hilarious, mostly because of all the wingnut women who are arguing that Liz’s job is not to be a leader or a prominent voice in the caucus…it’s to shut up and follow McCarthy’s lead in pushing the Big Lie.
re: #80 IngisKahn
Nope nope nope.
74 during the day, 73 at night. It’s running right now.
That is long sleeve shirt temps for me, even in direct sun.
re: #81 Targetpractice
Reading through a Twitter search of “Cheney” tweets is hilarious, mostly because of all the wingnut women who are arguing that Liz’s job is not to be a leader or a prominent voice in the caucus…it’s to shut up and follow McCarthy’s lead in pushing the Big Lie.
The grotesquely subservient nature of these authoritarian freaks is beyond belief.
I suppose low level Nazis were just like this — incomparable bootlickers for anyone above them in the Nazi party, and tyrants to anyone below them.
re: #83 EPR-radar
Without the Trump Base, they have no chance of getting back into power. The party has to pander to what they have rather than risk losing their established voters by appealing to new constituencies.
re: #82 Dread Pirate Ron
That is long sleeve shirt temps for me, even in direct sun.
I’m sweating just thinking about it.
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Without the Trump Base, they have no chance of getting back into power. The party has to pander to what they have rather than risk losing their established voters by appealing to new constituencies.
Yeah, I think the GOP is going to go after new voters that came out for Trump in 2020 by being even shittier than Trump was. Unfortunately, that has a dangerously high chance of working.
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Without the Trump Base, they have no chance of getting back into power. The party has to pander to what they have rather than risk losing their established voters by appealing to new constituencies.
The issue the party faces is they have to thread the needle between keeping the MAGAts happy while somehow winning back the suburban white vote that voted Needi Amin out of office. What they seemed to have settled on…is industrial-strength gaslighting. The Big Lie is sold as “states broke their own laws” and “irregularities” in the vote casting/counting process that Repubs who voted against certification just wanted a “bipartisan investigation” to answer their questions.
Jan 6th? Totally a “peaceful protest,” the media lied about the violence and blamed Trump supporters for a cop dying from natural causes, with any acts of violence or property damage caused by “agitators” who were no doubt BLM/Antifa.
But Cheney is a big obstacle to all that because she keeps pointing out that Trump lost, that he whipped his violent supporters into a froth and set them loose on the steps of the Capital Building, and that the party cannot claim to be moral or right if they never shake this taste for Trump shoe leather. So Kevin’s decided that the mark of a true leader…is to remove Cheney in favor of a Trump bootlick who will lie with a straight face about how the party totally doesn’t serve the man but also totally thinks he was robbed of the election. And is doing it with the support of other Repubs who want you to know that they never liked Trump, but Cheney has to go because she’s being a jerk by continuing to remind people that the majority of the party remain Trump supporters.
re: #80 IngisKahn
Nope nope nope.
74 during the day, 73 at night. It’s running right now.
37°F here right now. No furnace running though, because it’s been dead all winter.
My question of course for @LeaderMcConnell - If 100% of your focus is on “stopping this new administration” are you not admitting you have absolutely NO FOCUS on helping the United States?
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 6, 2021
re: #86 EPR-radar
Yeah, I think the GOP is going to go after new voters that came out for Trump in 2020 by being even shittier than Trump was. Unfortunately, that has a dangerously high chance of working.
We cannot forget that Trump got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016 but that is not likely to repeat itself without Trump at the helm.
Way too much lumping of the vaccine hesitant and the vaccine resistant crowds going on… The former has a very different makeup than the latter.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) May 5, 2021
I think he’s got a point, and it’s something that I’ve had to deal with in my family. They’re not ideologically opposed to getting the vaccine, but the news has convinced them that it’s a coin flip whether you’ll keel over and die afterwards from blood clots. It’s like the SHARK ATTACK! shit that went on in simpler times, when the papers had everyone convinced that putting a toe in the ocean meant you were fish shit ten hours later. Except this time there are malign state actors making things worse.
There is a broad spectrum from the inherently anti-vax, anti Big Pharma, to the anti Big Government to those who inform themselves chiefly via social media…
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a broad spectrum from the inherently anti-vax, anti Big Pharma, to the anti Big Government to those who inform themselves chiefly via social media…
Someone I know who may or may not work in the pharmaceutical industry said once, “Don’t talk about ‘Big Pharma’, call it ‘Big Lifespan Extension’ or ‘Big Reduced Child Mortality’ or ‘Big Healthy Old Age’ or…”
re: #95 Nojay UK
Someone I know who may or may not work in the pharmaceutical industry said once, “Don’t talk about ‘Big Pharma’, call it ‘Big Lifespan Extension’ or ‘Big Reduced Child Mortality’ or ‘Big Healthy Old Age’ or…”
Big Seizure-Free.
re: #95 Nojay UK
Someone I know who may or may not work in the pharmaceutical industry said once, “Don’t talk about ‘Big Pharma’, call it ‘Big Lifespan Extension’ or ‘Big Reduced Child Mortality’ or ‘Big Healthy Old Age’ or…”
My main issue is that the way they function has very little to do with our concepts of the Free Market or Capitalism.
Just think of Shkreli and his Epipens.
It certainly cannot be compared to Adam Smith’s pin manufactory, and in the end it is not about the products at all but about the benefits garnered.
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My main issue is that the way they function has very little to do with our concepts of the Free Market or Capitalism.
Regulation is explicitly anti-capitalist. Given no regulation, corporations will gravitate toward monopoly.
Back to Edmund Burke, he argued for conservatism using capitalism to control government to sidestep democracy.
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Regulation is explicitly anti-capitalist. Given no regulation, corporations will gravitate toward monopoly.
Back to Edmund Burke, he argued for conservatism using capitalism to control government to sidestep democracy.
Like monopoly defense contractors obtaining no-bid cost-plus contracts with no oversight?
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like monopoly defense contractors obtaining no-bid cost-plus contracts with no oversight?
And buying the politicians to do that.
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My main issue is that the way they function has very little to do with our concepts of the Free Market or Capitalism.
You mean like the NHS in Britain which has little or nothing to do with Free Markets or Capitalism?
The folks who have latched on to the ‘Big Pharma’ label usually forget or ignore just how much the supposedly-despised international pharmaceutical business keeps a lot of people alive and in good health most of the time while being regulated up the wazoo in terms of product quality and efficacy. When things go wrong or go bad they get jumped on from a great height — see for example the QA issues that caused 15 million doses of J&J vaccine to get dumped recently.
Like most men of a Certain Age it’s part of my daily routine to swallow a handful of Big Pharma’s finest when I get up in the morning. Without them I would probably require surgery from Big Scalpel and a degraded life experience until Big Coffin comes to cart my carcass away. Frankly I’m all for Big Pharma keeping on keeping on, TYVM.
re: #101 Nojay UK
Like most men of a Certain Age it’s part of my daily routine to swallow a handful of Big Pharma’s finest when I get up in the morning. Without them I would probably require surgery from Big Scalpel.
And that is one of the arguments for ACA. A lot of people who cannot afford a visit to the doctor and obtain a course of treatment wind up in an emergency room receiving an expensive major life-saving operation which could have been prevented by the much cheaper treatment.
Since these people as a rule cannot pay for the life-saving surgery, the costs get passed on to the rest of us who can. Is it not cheaper in the long run to pay for their blood pressure pills upfront rather than their bypass surgery down the line?
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
More often than not the rational and left-of-center solution to a problem ends up being cheaper and more efficient as well.
Republicans are the masters of spending a dollar to save a penny.
re: #104 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
More often than not the rational and left-of-center solution to a problem ends up being cheaper and more efficient as well.
Republicans are the masters of spending a dollar to save a penny.
They will tell you it is a matter of principle.
But in the end, they would just prefer that poor people die from lack of medical care.
re: #49 Targetpractice
National pride and colonial ambitions. It was the Cold War of its day, but without the threat of nuclear war to prevent it from going hot. Germany had gone from a handful of Germanic nation-states in the middle of the 19th century to a fast-expanding empire that had kicked France in the jimmies not once but twice in the span of only a few decades. Britain and France were on quasi-friendly relations due to the threat of the German ambitions despite continuing to compete for colonial holdings. The Austro-Hungarian throne and the Ottoman Turks were slowly losing grip on their own vast empires. And the House of Romanov was dealing with the growing turmoil on its western borders while also fighting off a rapidly modernizing Japan on its eastern borders.
Basically, everybody was trying to either get ahead or just keep their own head above water going into the 1910s, weaving a web of various agreements and treaties that their diplomats never actually expected to make good on. So when a band of incompetent assassins managed to knock off the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, what had been a “it’ll never happen” scenario suddenly became reality.
By the way, one kind of cool thing I heard in a documentary was that the fall of Russia was less the result of WWI and the blinding incompetence demonstrated, but more the building of the trans-siberian railway, that effectively bankrupted the joint. If so, it’s kind of a sad lesson. My guess is our transcontinental railroad worked because the graft involved got spread out better, and the smaller distances meant that rail lines actually tended to go to logical places, exploiting natural resources that the country as a whole benefited from. Meanwhile, in Siberia, you can run 1,000 miles of rail and not really be making that much progress.
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will tell you it is a matter of principle.
But in the end, they would just prefer that poor people die from lack of medical care.
Conservatives here have an awful lot in common with conservatives in the Muslim world.
Given the opportunity, our fate here might be that of Abdul Khader Puthiyangadi, an ex-Muslim atheist from Kerala, India who lives in the United Arab Emirates.
Muslims in Kerala reported his TikTok channel to UAE authorities, who arrested him on the charge of “trolling Islam” (Islam is not a person). That falls under the UAE’s blasphemy law.
If he is lucky, his fate will be deportation to India. If not, he faces the death penalty for apostasy.
re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Speaking of which:
Pro-Trump Pastor Mario Murillo Says God Wants Christians to ‘Terrify National Democrat Leaders’ (Newsweek, May 4)
Pro-Trump Evangelist Mario Murillo has claimed that God is calling for Christians to “terrify national Democrat leaders.”
During a sermon shared to Youtube by Destiny Image and surfaced by Right Wing Watch, Murillo told followers in Pasadena, California that “the Lord wants the prophetic movement to take its stand in the arena.”
(video, 1:52)
Right-wing evangelist Mario Murillo says that God is calling right-wing Christians to mobilize politically and “terrify national Democrat leaders.” https://t.co/yYqYPf6Ok0 pic.twitter.com/fL92z9evVn
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 4, 2021
re: #106 steve_davis
By the way, one kind of cool thing I heard in a documentary was that the fall of Russia was less the result of WWI and the blinding incompetence demonstrated, but more the building of the trans-siberian railway, that effectively bankrupted the joint. If so, it’s kind of a sad lesson.
Also, it was completed just after the Russo-Japanese War of 1095, which greatly diminished Russia’s presence and influence in the Far East, all of which made the railway even less economically viable.
re: #72 Targetpractice
Levels of chutzpah the likes of which even God has never seen.
God had to deal with Steinitz, who believed he could beat God at chess with pawn odds, so yes, God has seen it.
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And that is one of the arguments for ACA. A lot of people who cannot afford a visit to the doctor and obtain a course of treatment wind up in an emergency room receiving an expensive major life-saving operation which could have been prevented by the much cheaper treatment.
Since these people as a rule cannot pay for the life-saving surgery, the costs get passed on to the rest of us who can. Is it not cheaper in the long run to pay for their blood pressure pills upfront rather than their bypass surgery down the line?
But even cheaper is to let them die and blame them for it. Ultimately, the serfs are replaceable.
re: #111 Renaissance_Man
But even cheaper is to let them die and blame them for it. Ultimately, the serfs are replaceable.
We have that annoying Emergency Care Act…
Just been out to vote in the Scottish government elections being held today. The polling place was moved from its usual location in a nearby hotel to a church which was a lot more open and spacious. Not very many people voting when I was there, two or three at the most. The weather’s kind of dreich here, cold and showery and that usually has an negative impact on the voting numbers. It’s possible a lot of people have plumped for postal votes this time around though, we’ll see.
Sign of the times, for reasons of hygiene the polling card recommended I bring my own pencil to mark my choices on the two ballots. The first ballot was for a local constituency MSP and the second for the regional slate of electors. This second ballot included a lot of no-hopers and loonies like a pro-life anti-abortion party, the Scottish Libertarian party (all three of them), the Jesus is Lord party and, coming up on the outside in the Crazy Stakes race, the UKIP who want to abolish the Holyrood parliament because they don’t believe in independence.
A Christian pastor named Robin Bullock has told his congregation that it’s a sin to refer to Joe Biden as “president.”
A video of Bullock’s sermon, reposted by Right Wing Watch, shows the pastor telling his congregants that they should pray for Biden.
“You can pray for a man named Joe Biden. You should. No, no, don’t get off in hate. You should pray. Okay?” he began. “You can pray for the office of the president. But you cannot pray for President Joe Biden, because you might as well pray for the Easter Bunny, because he don’t exist.”
“And there’s no anointing,” he said of Biden’s office. “And if you celebrate it or congratulate him, you’ve entered into his sin.”
(more)
Pastor Robin Bullock Says It’s a Sin to Recognize Joe Biden as President (Newsweek, May 3)
Bullock has refused to accept that Biden won.
“Joe Biden is not the legitimate president,” Bullock said in an April 20 YouTube livestream for The Eleventh Hour. “He is a jackal sitting in the White House seat.” Bullock has called Biden “dangerous to America.”
re: #55 Targetpractice
Yes, a totally real analyst who totally exists once said this to him. Her name? Oh, nobody you know, she lives in Canada.
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And she had tears in her eyes …
re: #101 Nojay UK
[snip]
Like most men of a Certain Age it’s part of my daily routine to swallow a handful of Big Pharma’s finest when I get up in the morning. Without them I would probably require surgery from Big Scalpel and a degraded life experience until Big Coffin comes to cart my carcass away. Frankly I’m all for Big Pharma keeping on keeping on, TYVM.
Thanks for reminding me, it’s morning pills time.
re: #116 Eventual Carrion
Thanks for reminding me, it’s morning pills time.
It’s my morningtime rum. For some reason, instead of Sailor Jerry, my wife bought Military Special. (bleah)
In cringe, former Z-list actor turned Z-list preacher.
Evangelist David Heavener says, “Any pastor that does not have body odor that I can’t smell, chances are that pastor is not preaching a real sermon.” h/t @RightWingWatch pic.twitter.com/jSGFDUHOWu
— Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) May 4, 2021
re: #118 Mike Lamb
He thinks he is being clever.
I don’t recall cases of teachers kneeling on students’ necks until they suffocate
re: #90 Dread Pirate Ron
McConnell would just say the Biden administration’s radical left wing agenda is bad for America and stopping him is part and parcel to helping Americans.
re: #120 Mike Lamb
McConnell would just say the Biden administration’s radical left wing agenda is bad for America and stopping him is part and parcel to helping Americans.
His Green New Deal would take away our hamberders and his Woke New Order would take away Dr. Seuss and Disney.
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like monopoly defense contractors obtaining no-bid cost-plus contracts with no oversight?
Eh. DoD acquisition is fucked up, but not usually in that way. The US has multiple contractors for different sizes of contract, unlike most other countries, and practices that would be completely normal in commercial contracting could send you to the clink and your business into bankruptcy if you tried it on a government bid. Most of this contracting is bureaucratic beyond belief. If you look into the financials, the publicly-traded defense contractors are low-risk low-margin businesses, and look a lot more like grocery store stocks than Exxon or Cisco do.
What governments should be doing is handling public health spending more like defense spending. The purpose of the military services is readiness: the nation doesn’t expect to sit around doing nothing and figure that we can just buy a ton of armored personnel carriers or destroyers in a couple of months if the shit hits the fan, so why are we doing it with public health? We do have public health stockpiles, but obviously they are grossly inadequate. We’d be a lot better off if Congresscritters would shovel pork in the form of ventilators and field hospitals into their districts instead of more tanks the Army doesn’t need.
re: #122 ericblair
Eh. DoD acquisition is fucked up, but not usually in that way. The US has multiple contractors for different sizes of contract, unlike most other countries, and practices that would be completely normal in commercial contracting could send you to the clink and your business into bankruptcy if you tried it on a government bid.
How many bidders are there on major projects like the F-35 Clusterfuck?
And don’t forget the security contractors like Blackwater who get hired out to do things that we could not let our soldiers get away with.
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How many bidders are there on major projects like the F-35 Clusterfuck?
And don’t forget the security contractors like Blackwater who get hired out to do things that we could not let our soldiers get away with.
There were two. Lockheed Martin beat out Boeing’s bid with their X-32.
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How many bidders are there on major projects like the F-35 Clusterfuck?
And don’t forget the security contractors like Blackwater who get hired out to do things that we could not let our soldiers get away with.
The X-35 beat out the Boeing X-32 on the Joint Strike Fighter contract. This was not a no-bid contract, and there are not that many companies that could do it. The fucked-uppedness of the F-35 is to do with perverse incentives, inter-service rivalry, and scope creep, not the sort of featherbedding corruption you’re talking about.
Most private security contracts are not no-bid contracts, since there is no rationale for that, but I think they should be banned for military or intelligence. You carry a gun on DoD property or on US government mission, you should be government personnel. It’s too easy to turn them into deniable mercenaries. The Bush and Trump administrations sure did their share of illegal shit with them, so add it to the list of illegal shit they did everywhere else.
re: #125 ericblair
The X-35 beat out the Boeing X-32 on the Joint Strike Fighter contract. This was not a no-bid contract, and there are not that many companies that could do it. The fucked-uppedness of the F-35 is to do with perverse incentives, inter-service rivalry, and scope creep, not the sort of featherbedding corruption you’re talking about.
Most private security contracts are not no-bid contracts, since there is no rationale for that, but I think they should be banned for military or intelligence. You carry a gun on DoD property or on US government mission, you should be government personnel. It’s too easy to turn them into deniable mercenaries. The Bush and Trump administrations sure did their share of illegal shit with them, so add it to the list of illegal shit they did everywhere else.
And that came from combining programmes since the 1980’s involving several companies, to try to make a joint fighter (later a joint strike-fighter) for the USAF, USMC, and USN all the same aircraft.
The program as it was originally envisioned was to come up with technological advances over aircraft such as the F-15, A-6, F-14, Harrier, &c as they were approaching the end of their lives and airwothyness. Eventually, the programmes were all merged together to come up with one aircraft, including covering NATO and allied assets, now the F-35.
For the second day in a row, a Florida Republican official had to issue a “corrective prayer” after an atheist gave an invocation, this time in the Polk County commission meeting.
Last August, two county commissioners walked out on Sarah Ray rather than be in the same room with an atheist giving an invocation.
(2:00, her invocation followed by a commissioner giving a corrective prayer)
Every last one of the motherfuckers who were insisting on opening fast and soon were declaring that vaccines would make this possible. Now that we’ve got not one but three solid choices, these fuckers are saying that vaccines are bad and we shouldn’t be taking them because of the side effects, which are typically mild, and the rare side effects (those blood clots that seem to affect only certain people) are 1 in a million, and far less serious than dying of covid19 or spreading it to others who could die of covid19.
I wonder whether there’s vaccine hesitancy in Europe or Asia to the same extent as here.
I’m not talking about hesitancy over the Russian sputnik vaccine, which it seems has its own set of issues on quality control.
Is it something specific to the psyche of American exceptionalism that puts dumbasses here in the US in a different class of hesitancy or do we see this wherever we go?
All I do know is that states with solid outreach efforts to vaccinate are getting the job done, and most of the South is not. New England into the Middle Atlantic are doing a great job of vaccinating, even as there are pockets where they’re not getting through to everyone (many urban areas have uneven vaccination rates - often based on wealth and race - go figure). New Jersey identified locales that have low vaccination rates, and are shifting resources from the mega vaccine sites to popup and mobile sites to get into these communities.
So much of the hesitancy and fearmongering is coming from Fox and the right wing echo chamber, which prolongs the crises and makes the death toll far worse than it need be.
States led by key GOPers like Noem and DeSantis had weeks and months to prepare for the pandemic and instead ignored it or downplayed the significance, or lied about the outcomes.
Now, SD has among the worst per capita case rates - and it’s nearly all from the summer 2020 to now. Months to prepare and mask/social distance, and Noem just flat out whiffed. DeSantis had less time to prepare, but still blocked key measures to slow the spread, and then lied about the death toll.
Of course, GOPers are holding those two fuckers out as examples of what *to do*, such as NYC mayoral candidate Fernando Mateo, who said that we need to reopen faster and thinks that vaccine passports are unconstitutional or affect your personal liberties.
It’s a mass delusion of dumbassery and dumbfuckery. The GOP doesn’t have any new or original ideas to improve lives of people. It’s all culture war all the time, and they have to increasingly get outlandish in their lies to keep their base engaged.
Good Morning Y’all.
Haven’t posted in a while, as this year has been so much busier than normal for me, but have always kept up on contributions from everyone here. Thanks for the sanity.
re: #128 lawhawk
I wonder whether there’s vaccine hesitancy in Europe or Asia to the same extent as here.
I’m not talking about hesitancy over the Russian sputnik vaccine, which it seems has its own set of issues on quality control.
Is it something specific to the psyche of American exceptionalism that puts dumbasses here in the US in a different class of hesitancy or do we see this wherever we go?
I think the European contingent here can agree there’s a pretty big problem on the eastern side of the pond too. You’ve got rightwing conspiracists and plenty of woo types who are saying that they’re not going to get vaccinated. Apparently the rates of vaccine hesitancy are worse in France than they are in the US, and Germany’s up there too, but it’s not a big issue yet since Europe is still behind on vaccine delivery.
re: #131 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Good Morning Y’all.
Haven’t posted in a while, as this year has been so much busier than normal for me, but have always kept up on contributions from everyone here. Thanks for the sanity.
Hi Smith! Haven’t seen you around in a while!
re: #106 steve_davis
By the way, one kind of cool thing I heard in a documentary was that the fall of Russia was less the result of WWI and the blinding incompetence demonstrated, but more the building of the trans-siberian railway, that effectively bankrupted the joint. If so, it’s kind of a sad lesson. My guess is our transcontinental railroad worked because the graft involved got spread out better, and the smaller distances meant that rail lines actually tended to go to logical places, exploiting natural resources that the country as a whole benefited from. Meanwhile, in Siberia, you can run 1,000 miles of rail and not really be making that much progress.
Railroad issues also had another negative effect on Czarist Russia’s preparations for the runup to WWI: they required a great deal of money to construct (which Russia was lacking) - access to French capital to finance an improved rail network was one of the
motivations behind the Franco-Russian alliance of 1894 (which was why Russia was one of the Allies in WWI). However, as you note, a lot of the cash was spent on the TSR, and less (ultimately) on where the French thought it would be better employed: I.e. on bolstering their rail system in the western sectors of the Empire (where it would be of more use in fighting Germany). Plans which were made, but never implemented.
re: #131 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Good Morning Y’all.
Haven’t posted in a while, as this year has been so much busier than normal for me, but have always kept up on contributions from everyone here. Thanks for the sanity.
Good to see ya stop back in
re: #132 ericblair
I wonder, did the US export this stupidity? If we never had Trump and his ship of morons would this have even happened? I know we can’t accurately say much about this mess for sure, but I do wonder how much our right wing assholes like Tucker Carlson(who has literally said vaccines have killed 3 million people, while you know this asshole had his shots) have influence beyond our shores.
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Hi Smith! Haven’t seen you around in a while!
We opened up school in person in August, and had very strict rules/regulations for our schools. When you teach HS students, it does add another layer of the job that is stressful. We went virtual, and then hybrid, and then back full through the course of the year.
Coaching a sport, I was in charge of implementing and enforcing CDC and Health Department regulations for a team of 100 players and 20 Coaches, while still trying to win games. I can’t wait for this to end. Today is our Senior Classes last full day, so I get to play Senior Prank Prevention Police. I know I am preaching to the choir on this, but if you know a teacher/school official/lunchroom person- thank them. There may never have been as hard a year to deal with than this one.
re: #129 lawhawk
and don’t forget the Sergeant York, the AA tank that could not keep up with the tanks it was to protect nor could it distinguish ground targets from aircraft…
Inside the Christian Right’s Final Efforts to Stop Canada’s Ban on Conversion Therapy (Vice)
Regina, SK has become the latest city to support bill C-6, which would ban most forms of Christian so-called “conversion therapy.”
Christian efforts through prayer and contacting legislators also has the support of some conservative MPs, though the bill is expected to pass by Summer.
Bill C-6 defines conversion therapy as a practice designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual, to change a person’s gender identity or gender expression to cisgender, or to repress or reduce “non-heterosexual attraction” or sexual behaviour or non-cisgender gender expression.
That vaccine card is going to be six feet long
— Mike Bauer (@MikeJackBauer) May 5, 2021
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yeah, every recent Pentagon project has been built by committee to do one mission, and others glom on to add to the mission to the point that it can no longer do the original job well, let alone any of the new missions properly.
That is also the case with the DD-X that became the Zumwalt class. It was meant to be stealthy and 32 ships ordered. The costs ballooned and they capped the class at 3 ships. Then they indicated they wanted long range cannon because it was cheaper than a bank of missiles, until they realized the ammo would be even more expensive and have less range. Now, they’re talking of converting it to a missile carrier, and even building in silos for the hypersonic missiles they’re looking to add to the former ballistic missile subs (Ohio class). To make room for those silos, they have to remove the guns, which were the original purpose of the ship.
What appears to be going against the grain is the B-21 Raider, which seems to be on target and on cost as a replacement to the B-1 and B-2 bombers.
Mind you, they’re keeping the B-52s more than 60 years after they entered service, and they’re looking at new engines and wings for that design because it proved to be spectacularly successful. Those planes are so old, that the original pilots grandkids can be doing missions in them.
re: #134 Jay C
Railroad issues also had another negative effect on Czarist Russia’s preparations for the runup to WWI: they required a great deal of money to construct (which Russia was lacking) - access to French capital to finance an improved rail network was one of the
motivations behind the Franco-Russian alliance of 1894 (which was why Russia was one of the Allies in WWI). However, as you note, a lot of the cash was spent on the TSR, and less (ultimately) on where the French thought it would be better employed: I.e. on bolstering their rail system in the western sectors of the Empire (where it would be of more use in fighting Germany). Plans which were made, but never implemented.
They also lost the Manchurian lines to Japan in 1905.
Super-spreader event coming to your town, Dallas, TX.
The group’s leader [Promise Keepers] told Steve Bannon that they need to “call men back” to fight the LGBTQ “agenda.” So they expect 80,000 men to fill the Dallas Cowboys’ home stadium in a few weeks.
Anti-LGBTQ evangelical group’s leader is planning to rally thousands of men at a NFL stadium (LGBTQ Nation)
An evangelical group previously known for standing against marriage equality and described as far-right is planning to have a “relaunch” event this summer, planning to gather men who are willing to stand up for “what’s right” because LGBTQ people are “destroying the identity of the American people.”
Ken Harrison, the chairman of the Promise Keepers, appeared on former Trump aide Steve Bannon’s podcast, and said in anti-LGBTQ remarks that the gathering is necessary because of “how quickly we went from homosexual marriage to, now, men putting on dresses and being called women.”
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Broadway theaters have been given the green light to re-open in September following a year-plus layoff because of the pandemic. Theaters can decide on entry requirements, including whether audience members must be vaccinated, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. https://t.co/EA2ZSYCzqH
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 5, 2021
re: #81 Targetpractice
Reading through a Twitter search of “Cheney” tweets is hilarious, mostly because of all the wingnut women who are arguing that Liz’s job is not to be a leader or a prominent voice in the caucus…it’s to shut up and follow McCarthy’s lead in pushing the Big Lie.
Stockholm Wifes, Stepford Syndrome
(video, 1:20, of Steve Bannon’s War Room with the douchecanoe from Promise Keepers)
The commentary on the tweet is not kind to Mr. Harrison or the Dallas Cowboys for spreading hatred and Covid-19.
Anyone else disturbed that @ATTStadium and @CityOfArlington are allowing this anti-LGBTQ+ group of men to use their facility? https://t.co/TJDIlH5gFi
— 🏳️🌈 This Doctor Says, “Ban assault weapons!” (@beluga_smile) April 29, 2021
re: #136 A Mom Anon
I wonder, did the US export this stupidity? If we never had Trump and his ship of morons would this have even happened? I know we can’t accurately say much about this mess for sure, but I do wonder how much our right wing assholes like Tucker Carlson(who has literally said vaccines have killed 3 million people, while you know this asshole had his shots) have influence beyond our shores.
I’d say this wasn’t America’s fault; this was baked in from the get-go. The same sorts of psychological forces drive these reactions, and distrust of the big bad gummint is hardly a US-only factor. Plus the same state-level disinformation from the usual suspects is blasted all over Facebook and Twitter here, too. The Russian media sources who are trying to pump up vaccine acceptance domestically are telling everyone else how all the non-Russian vaccines will kill you dead if you so much as look at them.
In the summer of 1938, small ads starting appearing in the Manchester Guardian from Jews in Nazi-run Vienna looking for families in Britain to take in their children. My dad was one of them and was saved. I set out to find what happened to the others.https://t.co/IrGoWJICzr
— Julian Borger (@julianborger) May 6, 2021
re: #145 Belafon
That was already in line with what Broadway was planning to do - they were planning a fall 2021 open, with limited in-person audience due to spacing requirements.
Really nothing else left to say at this point. This show is pure evil and is/will be responsible for countless deaths. https://t.co/2noUokWl91
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) May 6, 2021
re: #151 Belafon
Would really like to see pharmaceutical companies sue FOX News into oblivion over this.
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’m not nearly that old. When was that?
re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Duck and cover, Henny Penny has come home to roost
It’s not an uncontrolled re-entry. It’s just falling space junk.
Interesting news out of Arizona:
Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday signed a bill that will allow community colleges to begin offering four-year degrees.
No longer will students have to go into hock to attend one of the state’s three research universities, the only public schools that now can offer bachelor’s degrees in Arizona.
“Arizona is a school choice state, and today’s action is school choice for higher education,” Ducey said, in signing the bill. “This is ‘Opportunity for all’ in action.”It’s also a long-overdue move, given the state’s need for more teachers, more nurses and an all-around more highly educated workforce.
Woke up in my own bed this morning, made coffee for my wife. Feels good.
Andrew Brenner, a state senator in Ohio, participated in a Zoom meeting using his office as the background while he’s clearly driving. They were discussing a bill that would create additional penalties for distracted driving.
Oh, the irony pic.twitter.com/Rj16An806S— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 6, 2021
re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Would really like to see pharmaceutical companies sue FOX News into oblivion over this.
The Dominion lawsuit shut down his voter fraud rants, so I imagine a similar one by “big pharma” would do the same.
re: #159 🌹UOJB!
Memories of the Skylab re-entry when Pittsburgh comic Bill Elmer invited journalists to his home for a re-entry party…
Why didn’t they just fly up and tow it back out into orbit?
Banned for TOS violations. Spewing the same kind of nonsensical and dangerous crap as others who get banned for TOS violations.
Private businesses are not violating your constitutional rights. GOP intent to use govt to force GOP speech on everyone is a 1A violation.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) May 6, 2021
Fuckers don’t know what the 1A is, or that it applies to government action, not the actions of a private business.
re: #161 darthstar
Why didn’t they just fly up and tow it back out into orbit?
Bill showed his Allstate Insurance policy to journalists…and the big magnet he had in his yard that he turned on to pull Skylab down so he could get a big payoff…
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The highest ranking “out” officer in the Army, Brigadier General Tammy Smith has retired.
In 1778, George Washington had a soldier drummed out of the military for sodomy. 243 years later, the Fife and Drum Corps, Honor Guard Company, and the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard were all there to celebrate a lesbian general’s retirement.
September marks the 10th anniversary of the repeal of the ban on LGBT people in the military. Brig Gen Smith survived the ban which has existed since the end of World War 2 in a thirty-five year career.
re: #162 lawhawk
The Libertarian masters of the Republican Party are not fans of Rep. Stefanik.
Elise Stefanik is NOT a good spokesperson for the House Republican Conference. She is a liberal with a 35% CFGF lifetime rating, 4th worst in the House GOP. House Republicans should find a conservative to lead messaging and win back the House Majority.
— Club for Growth (@club4growth) May 5, 2021
re: #49 Targetpractice
Purest revisionism. WW1 started because a guy called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.
re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Libertarian masters of the Republican Party are not fans of Rep. Stefanik.
She’s parroting Trump though and he likes that so she’s their pick.
Good luck with that.
A Saskatoon church that was fined $14,000 for allegedly exceeding the worship services gathering limit has posted notices warning police and government officials against trespassing.
Fellowship Baptist Church on Taylor Street north of Aden Bowman Collegiate was issued the fine March 11, but the fine was omitted from the province’s daily COVID-19 update by mistake, the Ministry of Health explained in an email.
The “no trespassing” notices posted on Fellowship’s entrances names police or “any other party acting on behalf of the government” without permission or a search warrant (italics mine).
A video posted this month on the far-right website Rebel News features Pastor Steve Flippin, who says the church intends to keep defying public health rules that limit the number of people who can attend worship services.
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Saskatoon church fined $14,000 posts warning for police, government (National Post, Canada)
re: #162 lawhawk
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Fuckers don’t know what the 1A is, or that it applies to government action, not the actions of a private business.
Hey Elise, bake your own fucking cake.
Definitely not a GOP propaganda network just the network getting exclusive access to a Republican governor’s signing ceremony for a bill to curtail voting so he can do it during a live Fox & Friends interview. pic.twitter.com/2FQp0zqxVQ
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 6, 2021
Florida takes election fraud seriously. https://t.co/W2PaOM16ef
— Still Masking Indoors Out Of Politeness Dawg (@PresidentDawg) May 6, 2021
re: #170 🌹UOJB!
You beat me by a few seconds.
DeSantis Signs Voter Suppression Bill Live On Fox News - https://t.co/YnbYrr0GYm pic.twitter.com/MhzuxszEBg
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) May 6, 2021
He already has a track record of molesting family members.
By the way, AP, language matters. Porn is consensual. Child exploitation is not.
Josh Duggar granted release as he awaits child porn trial
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday allowed former reality TV star Josh Duggar to be released as he awaits trial on charges that he downloaded and possessed child pornography.
Magistrate Judge Christy Comstock ordered Duggar, 33, confined to the home of family friends who have agreed to be his custodian during his release and prohibited Duggar from any Internet-accessible devices pending his July 6 trial on the child pornography charges.
Duggar was indicted on the federal child pornography charges on Friday, a day after U.S. Marshals arrested him. He has pleaded not guilty.
“I have full confidence in the United States Marshal Service to find you if you decide not to comply with these conditions of release, so don’t make me regret this decision,” Comstock said after a four-hour hearing conducted over Zoom.
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You wouldn’t have to worry about “regretting your decision” if you left him in jail, as he has a track record as a threat to the community.
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
IOKIYAR strikes again. Because the Duggars are big Republicans, Molester Josh can use his Get Out Of Jail Free card…
France has joined the U.S. in supporting an easing of patent and other protections on COVID-19 vaccines that could help poorer countries get more doses and speed the end of the pandemic. But many obstacles remain. https://t.co/vbxgqeuUtk
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 6, 2021
Keep making an asshole out of yourself, Jenner!
‘Great humanitarian’ Caitlyn Jenner decimated for complaining about California homeless people
Caitlyn Jenner to Hannity: “My friends are leaving California. My hangar, the guy right across, he was packing up his hangar and I said, where are you going? And he says, ‘I’m moving to Sedona, Arizona, I can’t take it anymore. I can’t walk down the streets and see the homeless’” pic.twitter.com/Z1WbBBQXq7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 6, 2021
VOTE NO ON THE RECALL!
Thread……
Over the weekend ~15 California condors descended on my moms house and absolutely trashed her deck. They still haven’t left. It sucks but also this is unheard of, there’s only 160 of these birds flying free in the state and a flock of them decided to start a war with my mom 😭 pic.twitter.com/bZyHsN58Bk
— Seana Lyn (@SeanaLyn) May 5, 2021
re: #173 darthstar
Pass HR1. Erase all these state bills.
HR 1 is one of two voting rights measures that can be acted upon. HR 4 restores the VRA and preclearance.
The GOP will block even this measure, because the GOP stands for voter suppression and used the door Roberts opened in Shelby to suppress turnout for persons of color.HR1 is the 2021 version; HR4 was the prior version and subsumed into HR1.
When your sister posts how she admires the “deep christian faith” of Jenner…you just want to puke…
re: #176 🌹UOJB!
IOKIYAR strikes again. Because the Duggars are big Republicans, Molester Josh can use his Get Out Of Jail Free card…
She was a transportation and maritime lawyer in Fayetteville, Ark. before becoming a federal magistrate
re: #178 🌹UOJB!
Keep making an asshole out of yourself, Jenner!
‘Great humanitarian’ Caitlyn Jenner decimated for complaining about California homeless people
VOTE NO ON THE RECALL!
“My hanger”?!
As in, my own private airplane indoor parking spot?
My heart bleeds for Caitlyn.
re: #178 🌹UOJB!
Keep making an asshole out of yourself, Jenner!
‘Great humanitarian’ Caitlyn Jenner decimated for complaining about California homeless people
VOTE NO ON THE RECALL!
“I can’t see the homeless.”
I experienced that from a lot of conservatives.
Last time I checked, Sedona is an “exclusive community” for the wealthy.
So why doesn’t Jenner move there?
re: #178 🌹UOJB!
Keep making an asshole out of yourself, Jenner!
‘Great humanitarian’ Caitlyn Jenner decimated for complaining about California homeless people
VOTE NO ON THE RECALL!
PSA: She also doesn’t represent my Community and needs STFU.
re: #181 🌹UOJB!
When your sister posts how she admires the “deep christian faith” of Jenner…you just want to puke…
I experienced a lot of “I can’t see the homeless” from Christians as well.
Evangelical Christians are the largest portion of Christianity (making the claim “no true Christian” false). They are far ahead of the next largest group (Catholics).
The whole thread pisses me off…
Caitlyn Jenner wonders why high speed rail is needed between LA and SF since people can just fly pic.twitter.com/5K1V2BJ2Wh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 6, 2021
This must be driving the orange asshole mad:
Donald Trump used to be everywhere on social media — but lately, it feels like he’s nowhere.
Many have noted just how little people have been talking about Trump — from cable news to Google searches — since he lost the election and was kicked off Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube four months ago.
New data Recode obtained from social media measurement firms Zignal Labs and CrowdTangle shows just how drastic the drop in conversation about Trump has been.
Mentions of Trump went down by 34 percent on Twitter and 23 percent on Facebook the week after he was banned from both platforms following the Capitol riot on January 6. Since then, Trump mentions have continued to decline around 90 percent on both platforms from where they were the week of the riots. (That decline may be even greater than what the current data reflects on Twitter because it doesn’t include retweets and tweets from accounts that have since been deleted, like Trump’s.)
The party that wants to abolish the Department of Education because the federal government shouldn’t be telling the states how to educate kids is angry that Biden hasn’t forced all of the schools open yet.
State rights advocates are angry that Biden has failed to use the power of the federal government to coerce all of the schools to reopen.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 6, 2021
re: #189 🌹UOJB!
The whole thread pisses me off…
Why are aircraft needed? People can just drive (isn’t California one big Interstate?)
For that matter, why are cars needed? People can just walk.
It’s a moronic argument, so it should play well at FOX.
re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg
The MAGATS continue with the Trump worship on Facebook and Twitter.
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The hypocrisy of all these right wing Pulpit Pimps backing Jenner…
And more from the meandering MAGAT
In Trumpian fashion, Caitlyn Jenner takes credit for Gavin Newsom loosening Covid restrictions pic.twitter.com/EoS7bDPS3S
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 6, 2021
re: #95 Nojay UK
Someone I know who may or may not work in the pharmaceutical industry said once, “Don’t talk about ‘Big Pharma’, call it ‘Big Lifespan Extension’ or ‘Big Reduced Child Mortality’ or ‘Big Healthy Old Age’ or…”
“Big Diabetes Can Be Kept At Bay” or “Evil Psych Drugz are GRRRREEEAATT!!!” Oh, wait, maybe not the last one, although the psych drugs did give me my life back.
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why are aircraft needed? People can just drive (isn’t California one big Interstate?)
For that matter, why are cars needed? People can just walk.
It’s a moronic argument, so it should play well at FOX.
LA to SF is a one-hour flight.
But if you add in the time to fight traffic to get from residential areas or downtown to the airport, go through security, get through the airport at the other end and catch a cab to your destination, it’s closer to 4 hours door-to-door. If you’re checking a bag, add another half hour. High-speed rail would get you there quicker.
re: #197 sagehen
LA to SF is a one-hour flight.
But if you add in the time to fight traffic to get from residential areas or downtown to the airport, go through security, get through the airport at the other end and catch a cab to your destination, it’s closer to 4 hours door-to-door. If you’re checking a bag, add another half hour. High-speed rail would get you there quicker.
THIS.
re: #186 🌹UOJB!
Last time I checked, Sedona is an “exclusive community” for the wealthy.
So why doesn’t Jenner move there?
I lived there in the late 70’s before it really boomed, I was ranch-sitting six acres of property. I can see why millionaires would wanna retire there: perfect weather, gorgeous scenery and easy to isolate oneself from the lesser and unsightly members of society.
And the intense Crystal Vortex Energy.
re: #197 sagehen
LA to SF is a one-hour flight.
But if you add in the time to fight traffic to get from residential areas or downtown to the airport, go through security, get through the airport at the other end and catch a cab to your destination, it’s closer to 4 hours door-to-door. If you’re checking a bag, add another half hour. High-speed rail would get you there quicker.
Mythbusters did an episode involving this, and it basically came down to traffic timing as far as which one is quicker between a short-haul flight and driving. Long flights are obviously a different story.
re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
CAGE MATCH!
Also, my spineless (with one exception, voting to convict, but only in impeachment #2) right wing ideologue senator Pat Toomey was previously head of Club for Growth.
Happily, he decided not to run for re-election - or PA governor, as was expected - back in the fall of 2020 and there was much rejoicing.
re: #197 sagehen
LA to SF is a one-hour flight.
But if you add in the time to fight traffic to get from residential areas or downtown to the airport, go through security, get through the airport at the other end and catch a cab to your destination, it’s closer to 4 hours door-to-door. If you’re checking a bag, add another half hour. High-speed rail would get you there quicker.
Driving the Smart on SR-99 in Sacramento, I thought my wife and I were going to be killed repeatedly. There were two speeds: 100 and 0.
re: #200 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Mythbusters did an episode involving this, and it basically came down to traffic timing as far as which one is quicker between a short-haul flight and driving. Long flights are obviously a different story.
It is also different in Europe, where more business districts are located downtown near the train station and there are not as many isolated commercial parks.
re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg
This must be driving the orange asshole mad:
Donald Trump used to be everywhere on social media — but lately, it feels like he’s nowhere.
[snip]
Mentions of Trump went down by 34 percent on Twitter and 23 percent on Facebook the week after he was banned from both platforms following the Capitol riot on January 6. Since then, Trump mentions have continued to decline around 90 percent on both platforms from where they were the week of the riots. (That decline may be even greater than what the current data reflects on Twitter because it doesn’t include retweets and tweets from accounts that have since been deleted, like Trump’s.)
re: #200 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Mythbusters did an episode involving this, and it basically came down to traffic timing as far as which one is quicker between a short-haul flight and driving. Long flights are obviously a different story.
Same with the Northeast corridor. 45 minute flight, but from midtown Manhattan to the US Capitol, it would take 4+ hours with all the delays/screening/taxi from Reagan National or Dulles from JFK or EWR or LGA. If you get just the right time/connections, you could get it down to 3 hours and change.
Meanwhile, it’d be 90 minutes door to door on HSR via the Northeast corridor. It’s currently 2.5 hours.
re: #204 Eventual Carrion
Despite Trump being banned, there’s no hit to Twitter revenue, so there’s that. In fact, Q1 2021 revenue was up 28% year over year.
That it was less than consensus estimates was quite besides the point. It shows Trump had no bearing on Twitter revenue.
Today is the National Day of Prayer, a religious observance mandated by Congress.
Public Law 100-307 requires the President to issue a proclamation for the National Day of Prayer (to drive home by force of law that atheists are not welcome in this nation).
President Biden has issued that proclamation which does not include us as participants in our country, as he calls “all people of faith in prayers for spiritual guidance, mercy, and protection.”
The Freedom from Religion Foundation sought to overturn the National Day of Prayer on the grounds of government endorsement of religion in 2011; it was unanimously rejected in appellate court.
Billy Graham suggested the modern version of this in 1952. Representative Percy Priest (D-TN) called this an issued challenge, upon which the Senate passed a bill mandating a National Day of Prayer. It was signed into law by President Harry Truman.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As long as they do not mention a specific religion or type of prayer I have little problem with that.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Bidens message was directed at people who are religious. It was not meant to suggest that those who are not are of any less importance to this country.
re: #183 sagehen
“My hanger”?!
As in, my own private airplane indoor parking spot?
My heart bleeds for Caitlyn.
Her own hangar? Gee, my 182 has to share a hangar with a bunch of other peasant- planes. I guess I should be appreciative that it isn’t completely homeless.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As an atheist, when I pray, I make sure to exclude all of the people that don’t share the same views I do.
re: #209 Eclectic Cyborg
Bidens message was directed at people who are religious. It was not meant to suggest that those who are not are of any less importance to this country.
Biden’s message is mandated by law.
The message sent is “separate but equal.”
re: #210 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Her own hangar? Gee, my 182 has to share a hangar with a bunch of other peasant- planes. I guess I should be appreciative that it isn’t completely homeless.
Like that rabble out in the desert outside Tucson…
re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Biden’s message is mandated by law.
The message sent is “separate but equal.”
A message commemorating women or Native Americans or veterans would also be “separate but equal”
I find the concept of a National Day of Prayer unnecessary but nothing odious.
re: #210 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Her own hangar? Gee, my 182 has to share a hangar with a bunch of other peasant- planes. I guess I should be appreciative that it isn’t completely homeless.
If it becomes homeless I don’t want to see it.
Edit: And to add onto that. Didn’t I see that TFG’s plane is homeless and rusting outside an airport somewhere?
re: #216 Eventual Carrion
Yep - it’s sitting at Stewart Field in New York state - and it’s missing an engine to boot. It’ll cost him well over a million to just get a replacement engine; let alone making it airworthy.
re: #216 Eventual Carrion
If it becomes homeless I don’t want to see it.
Homeless 182 (Its own fault no doubt):
Looks like you enjoy lying to idiots. No one tried to negate the results of the 2016 election. When a madman lost in 2020, traitors attempted a coup to install him as President, and traitors are still trying to minimize what happened.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 6, 2021
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A message commemorating women or Native Americans or veterans would also be “separate but equal”
I find the concept of a National Day of Prayer unnecessary but nothing odious.
The conservative Thanks-Giving Foundation of Dallas collaborated with President Ronald Reagan to resurrect the long-dormant holding of National Day of Prayer events at the White House. The group is explicitly and exclusively Christian, to celebrate the the inclusivity of “all faiths in America.”
Every Republican President since has held them, no Democratic President has.
Last year’s event was a virtual event with President Trump due to the pandemic.
Joe Biden and Mike Pence will jointly take part with pre-recorded prayers today for the National Day of Prayer, if you care to watch it, at 7PM ET.
Wonkette now has a list of court-approved things they can say about Larry Klayman. Isn’t free speech amazing?
re: #216 Eventual Carrion
If it becomes homeless I don’t want to see it.
Edit: And to add onto that. Didn’t I see that TFG’s plane is homeless and rusting outside an airport somewhere?
It’s sitting at Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, NY. Trump hasn’t flown in it in years; it needs engine and other work, and the cost to maintain/fly it is astronomical given that it’s an older 757.
This isn’t a boneyard like out in AZ, so it’s going to be a rusty hulk before long. Trump has to pay tarmac fees in the meantime. Fuck ‘em.
re: #210 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Her own hangar? Gee, my 182 has to share a hangar with a bunch of other peasant- planes. I guess I should be appreciative that it isn’t completely homeless.
shared a hanger? You were lucky.
When I was a young pilot, my 152 had an outdoor tie-down. And we liked it!
In addition to Biden and Pence, the event will feature hosts, pastors Ronnie Floyd, Sam Collier, Dr. Ed Young, Sr., Mark Driscoll and Samuel Rodriguez.
Oh, boy, the wingnut founder of Mars Hill Church. Dr. Young is the senior pastor of 2nd Baptist Church in Dallas. Sam Collier is the leader of Hillsong Atlanta. Ronnie Floyd is the previous leader of the Southern Baptist Convention. Samuel Rodriguez is an Evangelical pastor and movie producer and leader of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
Very ecumenical, as long as you’re an Evangelical Protestant. No mainline Protestants, no Catholics, no Muslims, no Jews, no Hindus, no Buddhists.
I’m going to wander off to bed. See y’all later.
re: #218 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Homeless 182 (Its own fault no doubt):
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Just needs a burning barrel next to it to complete the picture.
This facetious discussion of homeless airplanes reminds me of an important point: Conservatives respond to homeless people about the same way they do to junk cars and dilapidated houses. They are an eyesore, a threat to property values. The farther from the substantial person’s business or, God forbid, home, the better.
In my old ‘hood in Lubbock, a car on blocks in the front yard would have rated an immediate citation. This is serious sacred cow stuff to status-seekers. There are developments where it is illegal to hang laundry on a line to dry. The neighbors would feel exactly the same way about a homeless encampment. It is an outrage to them that people the status seekers regard as the equivalent of junk cars and stray animals have the same legal rights that they do, and might even be allowed to vote.
re: #218 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
re: #205 lawhawk
Same with the Northeast corridor. 45 minute flight, but from midtown Manhattan to the US Capitol, it would take 4+ hours with all the delays/screening/taxi from Reagan National or Dulles from JFK or EWR or LGA. If you get just the right time/connections, you could get it down to 3 hours and change.
Meanwhile, it’d be 90 minutes door to door on HSR via the Northeast corridor. It’s currently 2.5 hours.
Problem with HSR for the Northeast Corridor is that there is a lot of existing infrastructure in the way. Add to that that HSR really cannot have many at-grade crossings. So there is a chunk of cost there. And I expect that the existing competitors (airlines, etc.) would lobby to prevent such development getting any sort of the necessary subsidies to get it off the ground.
We’re just going to have to let paranoid idiots who trust all the wrong people die or become resistant to the virus on their own, while anyone who can think gets vaccinated. It’s a shame that so many Americans live in a tiny pre-scientific world, but you can’t help people who are determined to do the wrong thing.
re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In addition to Biden and Pence, the event will feature hosts, pastors Ronnie Floyd, Sam Collier, Dr. Ed Young, Sr., Mark Driscoll and Samuel Rodriguez.
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Very ecumenical, as long as you’re an Evangelical Protestant. No mainline Protestants, no Catholics, no Muslims, no Jews, no Hindus, no Buddhists.
Biden and Pence are the Catholics.
re: #232 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Biden and Pence are the Catholics.
They’re not pastors (although Pence might see that as his next grift since his political career is in shambles).
re: #230 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Think Minnie would like me to do something? Like mow the F-ing yard!
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Looks like my dad’s did before I got to it this past Sunday. Had to set the deck up to 5 (the highest) for the first run through.
re: #230 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Uh, that >IS< mowed for my lawn.
re: #234 Eventual Carrion
Looks like my dad’s did before I got to it this past Sunday. Had to set the deck up to 5 (the highest) for the first run through.
Weed wack first. Then mow. After this mess is cleaned up I get to start on the patio.
re: #237 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A year ago today:
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That’s the right-wing authoritarian mind on display. They can’t imagine one group not dominating another.
re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She was a transportation and maritime lawyer in Fayetteville, Ark. before becoming a federal magistrate
Ah, Admiralty courts, eh. Lots of gold fringes I bet.
re: #237 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A year ago today:
Captured from conservative twitter. Sorry, gang, they’re onto us:
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I’m not wearing leather in the summer. Or spandex. Do dominatrix outfits come in cotton or linen?
re: #240 sagehen
I’m not wearing leather in the summer. Or spandex. Do dominatrix outfits come in cotton or linen?
When you’ve enslaved all the men, you can wear whatever you want.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A message commemorating women or Native Americans or veterans would also be “separate but equal”
I find the concept of a National Day of Prayer unnecessary but nothing odious.
Since it really is just Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama where the phoniest assholes in the world endlessly bullshit about their alleged deep Xtian faith…that totally embraces the selfish materialism of atheist Ayn AS IN MINE Rand!
re: #240 sagehen
I’m not wearing leather in the summer. Or spandex. Do dominatrix outfits come in cotton or linen?
Yes, several large and small places sell them, but I can’t link them here because this is a family-oriented Website.
re: #240 sagehen
I’m not wearing leather in the summer. Or spandex. Do dominatrix outfits come in cotton or linen?
Those boots, they’d never pass OSHA inspection on a worksite like a quarry. Where’s the hi-viz, I can’t see anyone wearing helmets? The union rep should get on this pronto.
re: #237 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A year ago today:
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Silly wingnuts, they know we are against strip-mining.
re: #245 b.d. (Cry Louder Wingnuts!)
Silly wingnuts, they know we are against strip-mining.
And we believe in safety standards. A wingnut vision of “what Liberals want” is always hilariously stupid, because they just can’t understand civilized Americans.
re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The conservative Thanks-Giving Foundation of Dallas collaborated with President Ronald Reagan to resurrect the long-dormant holding of National Day of Prayer events at the White House. The group is explicitly and exclusively Christian, to celebrate the the inclusivity of “all faiths in America.”
Every Republican President since has held them, no Democratic President has.
They would all love to call it the National Day of Biblical Christian Prayer but they know they would face Constitutional issues over that…
re: #237 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A year ago today:
Captured from conservative twitter. Sorry, gang, they’re onto us:
There are Conservative guys who pay good money for that sort of thing every time they are in town…
re: #244 Nojay UK
Those boots, they’d never pass OSHA inspection on a worksite like a quarry. Where’s the hi-viz, I can’t see anyone wearing helmets? The union rep should get on this pronto.
This is a private retreat for hedge fund managers.
re: #237 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A year ago today:
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The kinkiest people always turn out to be hard core conservatives!
If you want to quit basic training, just refuse to train and deal with Drill Sergeants yelling at you for a few weeks. Please do not steal your weapon and attempt to hijack a school bus, traumatizing many young children in the process 🤦🏼♀️https://t.co/j8gwFPQCvV
— Lethality Jane (@LethalityJane) May 6, 2021
re: #250 🌹UOJB!
The kinkiest people always turn out to be hard core conservatives!
Of course they do. It takes extreme repression to develop a really extreme kink.
re: #252 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Of course they do. It takes extreme repression to develop a really extreme kink.
Example—Donn Moomaw who was Pruneface and Evita Reagan’s “personal pastor”…who was caught doing SERIOUS leather bondage sessions with his muscle boy pals…
re: #238 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s the right-wing authoritarian mind on display. They can’t imagine one group not dominating another.
Yes, good old Enoch “Rivers of Blood” Powell trying to warn his fellow Englishmen that “… in 20 years’ time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white …” Because he could not imagine it any other way.
I will spend the National Day of Reason (also today) asleep (that seems pretty reasonable to me).
The response to the legally-mandated day of prayer has never been recognised by presidents of either party. Resolutions have been introduced in the US House repeatedly to recognise it, but have been shot down.
When Rep. Pete Stark introduced the first such resolution, Eric Swalwell launched his primary challenge against him, calling atheists “un-American.”
The American Humanist Association is behind the call for a National Day of Reason, noting people of all faiths and none are humanists and support reason.
“nearly every comment and message the broadband industry submitted to the FCC and Congress was fake, signed using the names and addresses of millions of individuals without their knowledge or consent.”https://t.co/xGGn28lNDo https://t.co/wnVFktORYZ
— Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org (@froomkin) May 6, 2021
re: #257 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Today, we stopped three of these marketing companies from continuing their illegal behavior and recommended reforms to stop this type of fraud in the future.
We will continue to shine a light on abuses and disinformation that drown out the voices of the American people.— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) May 6, 2021
Remember those days when Open Religiosity and Public Prayer were seen as Patriotic Statements of opposition to Godless Communism and all who did not pray openly were suspect.
(Just like the Early Christians in Rome)
Mayor Jean Stothert (R) of Omaha was the first mayor to declare a Day of Reason (in 2012), and the only mayor in the country who has ever issued such a proclamation without a mention of religion. (Mayor Stothert is an Episcopalian.) She issues a proclamation promoting reason and humanism on the first Thursday of May (the National Day of Prayer) every year since.
Now I am off to bed after running on overtime.
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember those days when Open Religiosity and Public Prayer were seen as Patriotic Statements of opposition to Godless Communism and all who did not pray openly were suspect.
(Just like the Early Christians in Rome)
Religion is very effective if you want to dominate a society. People who cannot be moved by reason, can be manipulated with religion.
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember those days when Open Religiosity and Public Prayer were seen as Patriotic Statements of opposition to Godless Communism and all who did not pray openly were suspect.
(Just like the Early Christians in Rome)
Now this is what passes for American Xtianity—endlessly kissing Trump’s ass!
This OBVIOUSLY has to do with a journalist with that name I’m not familiar with. I know this because Geraldo Rivera hasn’t been doing anything even remotely related to journalism for many decades now. pic.twitter.com/vTBItV9Ero
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) May 6, 2021
re: #161 darthstar
Why didn’t they just fly up and tow it back out into orbit?
Presuming that’s not sarc, we wanted to do that with one of the first Shuttle missions but it’s wasn’t ready in time and we had no other man rated systems left. The last Saturn and Apollo had been used for the Apollo-Soyuz mission of July 1975. Congress by then was only interested in cutting NASA… < spit >
Yep it be like that… pic.twitter.com/zeuNsikU3z
— ~~ 𝕯𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖆 ~~ (@Dcl_60) May 6, 2021
I had to teach a Power BI class first thing this morning. My first class in about 15 years. IT failed to grant access, so security settings locked the whole class out of the data. I did a walkthrough in place of the hands-on, and it wasn’t so bad.
It would have been a lot easier if I wasn’t withdrawing from an antidepressant and experiencing panic attacks.
“I, Caitlyn Jenner, propose that we install drapery or similar such coverings wherever non propertied miscreants gather. Additionally, state subsidized anti homeless blinders will be made available so that no Californian should have to suffer such visual assaults ever again.” https://t.co/3CG40BDvCZ
— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 6, 2021
On the one hand, she’s a feminazi libtard. On the other hand, she’s batshit nuts. After careful consideration, our committee has determined that her batshitness outweighs her feminazitude and we therefore embrace her into our MAGA sisterhood of the travelling pants pissers.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 6, 2021
His name was Lester Butts and everyone called him Les. Yep, Les Butts. It plagued him, until he grew up and legally changed it to Fewer Butts.
— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) May 6, 2021
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.
House Republicans are advancing a bill that would fine Michiganders $1,000 who have a CDC vaccine card. You know, the card that is provided when you get the vaccine. The card you need to get your second dose. #mileg
— Julie Brixie (@juliebrixie) May 6, 2021
re: #263 bratwurst
I believe that’s a character from a show called The Witcher, but I’m not 100% sure.
On one hand, I understand the desperation driving this, but on the other, I know what a pain in the Gluteus Maximus oxygen generation and hydrogen is:
Aditya I really appreciate the thought but a) I’m not an engineer and have no idea how much oxygen this would produce and b) I would not advise anyone to mess with electricity, acid and inhaled gases. Thanks for the effort but please be careful and leave it to the pros🙏🏽 https://t.co/OegXoFTLH8
— Medlife Crisis (Rohin) (@MedCrisis) May 6, 2021
You need to deal with the Hydrogen (H) safely (did I mention it is EXPLOSIVE) in all the above.
I Second @MedCrisis, thanks, but for the safety of all involved, leave this to those who do oxygen generation for a living. It’s not worth the SIGNIFICANT risks involved.
/END— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) May 6, 2021
re: #271 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I believe that’s a character from a show called The Witcher, but I’m not 100% sure.
Nickname of Geralt of Rivia. And I don’t recall him ever being referred that way in the Netflix show ( not that means much) but he is referred to as Geraldo in the game; not sure about the books the books, doesn’t seem very Polish to me.
FUCK! Reset the school shooting clock back to 0.
For the record it is THE Geraldo trending on Twitter. And he’s trending because Twitter schooled him for not knowing how the fuck free speech works RE Trump/Facebook.
re: #270 The Pie Overlord!
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.
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First they came for the uteruses
and I said nothing, because I am not a woman.
Then they came for my vaccination card…
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re: #273 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Nickname of Geralt of Rivia. And I don’t recall him ever being referred that way in the Netflix show ( not that means much) but he is referred to as Geraldo in the game; not sure about the books the books, doesn’t seem very Polish to me.
I can’t say I ever recall him being referred to as Geraldo in any of the games. Maybe I just didn’t notice it.
re: #270 The Pie Overlord!
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.
So I guess they’re giving up on that “it’s a personal choice” talking point?
re: #276 Eclectic Cyborg
First they came for the uteruses
and I said nothing, because I am not a woman.Then they came for my vaccination card…
/
re: #270 The Pie Overlord!
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.
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re: #276 Eclectic Cyborg
First they came for the uteruses
and I said nothing, because I am not a woman.Then they came for my vaccination card…
/
re: #261 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Religion is very effective if you want to dominate a society. People who cannot be moved by reason, can be manipulated with religion.
the reverse is also true:
people manipulated with religion will not be un-manipulated by reason
re: #273 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Nickname of Geralt of Rivia. And I don’t recall him ever being referred that way in the Netflix show ( not that means much) but he is referred to as Geraldo in the game; not sure about the books the books, doesn’t seem very Polish to me.
I was kidding. I know the name from coverage of the show, but haven’t watched it.
re: #272 Teukka
On one hand, I understand the desperation driving this, but on the other, I know what a pain in the Gluteus Maximus oxygen generation and hydrogen is:
That’s a 3rd-grade water cracking science experiment. I hope the person suggesting it isn’t an adult.
Replied to all of Trump’s attempts to get online last night with this. 😌 pic.twitter.com/CeW3QtQZAR
— ReesusPatriot™ (@ResusCGMedia) May 6, 2021
Ms. Stroop, thread, eleven tweets.
But honestly have they tried just not being evangelical. I mean, no one is born evangelical. It’s a destructive lifestyle choice they recruit children into https://t.co/bcp1r7yTxI
— Chrissy Stroop (@C_Stroop) May 4, 2021
re: #282 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s a 3rd-grade water cracking science experiment. I hope the person suggesting it isn’t an adult.
I’ve done water cracking in 8th grade, as well as seen a oxyhydrogen demo the teach showed us. All of us students felt the *THUMP!* in our chests when the H2/O2 mix hit the right ratio. And some of us know that the bigger of the two explosions at Block 4 at a certain nuclear power plant using RBMK reactors was a oxyhydrogen one, and that Europe narrowly dodged an even (ridiculously) larger one if it hadn’t been for three of the unsung heroes during the disaster: Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov.
There’s a reason oxyhydrogen is called “Knallgas” (lit. “Bang Gas”) in German and Scandinavian languages…
re: #272 Teukka
On one hand, I understand the desperation driving this, but on the other, I know what a pain in the Gluteus Maximus oxygen generation and hydrogen is:
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putting aside all the safety you mentioned
this isn’t gonna liberate a whole lot of O2 in any reasonable amount of time
and it couldnt be saved in any meaningful way.
there’s no pressure
- storing means pressurized which means more electricity
- or you’re gonna hook this up to a nasal cannula?
say even a 5’ hose so you’re ‘away’ from all the bubbling
what’s gonna push the O2 through the hose?
To have been impeached not once, but twice, and then to have your ban from Facebook upheld by an oversight board, is just incredibly impressive. No one else could have done all that. Congrats to the former guy.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 5, 2021
re: #286 Teukka
I’ve done water cracking in 8th grade, as well as seen a oxyhydrogen demo the teach showed us. All of us students felt the *THUMP!* in our chests when the H2/O2 mix hit the right ratio. And some of us know that the bigger of the two explosions at Block 4 at a certain nuclear power plant using RBMK reactors was a oxyhydrogen one, and that Europe narrowly dodged an even (ridiculously) larger one if it hadn’t been for three of the unsung heroes during the disaster: Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov.
There’s a reason oxyhydrogen is called “Knallgas” (lit. “Bang Gas”) in German and Scandinavian languages…
Explosions aren’t allowed in 3rd-grade, so we vented the hydrogen.
.@CarlyFiorina blames “access to power and money and influence” for former running mate Ted Cruz’s shift in principles and tone over the last 5 years.
“Turns out I was right about Donald Trump,” she says, “and sadly, it appears, I was wrong about Ted Cruz.” pic.twitter.com/aA2UrEIqmA— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) May 6, 2021
re: #288 Dangerman
If we could find a way for the former guy to feel good about himself without hurting anyone, it would solve a lot of problems.
re: #229 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Problem with HSR for the Northeast Corridor is that there is a lot of existing infrastructure in the way. Add to that that HSR really cannot have many at-grade crossings. So there is a chunk of cost there. And I expect that the existing competitors (airlines, etc.) would lobby to prevent such development getting any sort of the necessary subsidies to get it off the ground.
Existing NEC right of way has at-grade crossings in a handful of locations, but NY to DC has remarkably few. The key bottlenecks for NY to DC are: Baltimore tunnel, Susquehanna Bridge, Portal Bridge, and Hudson River tunnels, where there are 4 tracks compressed to 2 with speed restrictions at all three choke points. Replacing the portal bridge would get NYC to Newark, NJ up to 90 mph, where current speeds are half that.
For NYC to Boston, they’re contemplating a new route that sidesteps part of RI into Mass by shifting the route from New Haven to Boston.
Liz Cheney isn’t the one searching for bamboo fibers in AZ, or blaming Pence for losing the White House, or pointing the finger at McConnell over losing the Senate, or still insisting the GOP won the 2020 presidential election.
That person is Donald Trump https://t.co/qxAVikLWOH— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) May 6, 2021
re: #290 Dangerman
She doesn’t understand that Conservatism is a grift. She got fooled like Amanda Carpenter did. If you take Conservative’s claims at face-value you wind up totally lost every time.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter as newlyweds. pic.twitter.com/HBIa93MKkR
— emily nunn (@EmilyRNunn) May 5, 2021
They look like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
re: #295 sagehen
They look like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
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Jimmy looking sharp in his Navy dress whites and Rosalynn looking good, too.
Meanwhile in Lincoln …
One #lnk city council person did not vote in favor of a conversion therapy ban earlier this year. (The ban passed.)
He was voted out of office today. The man replacing him? A gay business owner.
Thank you, Lincoln. ♥️🏳️🌈— Dr. Allison L. Bitz 🌈 (@AllisonLBitz) May 5, 2021
re: #295 sagehen
It’s weird seeing Mickey young, but with old-man glasses on, when I’ve mostly known him as an old man.
re: #297 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Meanwhile in Lincoln …
Most Americans are good people, and want no part of destroying children’s minds to please bigots.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 6, 2021
Let’s do insulin next https://t.co/VWhwyxbzd9
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 5, 2021
And then epinephrine, and the injectors (which were developed under a military contract, originally intended for Atropine.)
This scrolled by in my feeds. A Karen wants to speak to the manager of the solar system to reschedule an eclipse…
Liz Cheney will probably lose her seat to a fascist who will eagerly support Trump’s effort to seize power in 2025. An article in vox.com suggests that anti-fascist Republicans might want to bite their tongues for now so that they will be in a position to oppose Trump’s coup attempt in the next election.
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