New Music From Becca Stevens & the Secret Trio: “The Eye”

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Becca Stevens & The Secret Trio - “The Eye”
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Becca Stevens - “I knew from the onset of this project that I wanted to incorporate Turkish & Macedonian poetry in my writing. Writing for “The Eye” started with an oud demo sent to me by Michael League. Mike’s original demo was titled “Crozish Oud” because he thought it sounded like something David Crosby would write on guitar. I listened to it on loop while searching online for “modern Macedonian poets” that I liked. I found Nikola Madžirov’s poetry and style really spoke to me. His poem ‘The Eye’ stopped me dead in my tracks. It had the right sentiment, color/mood/feeling, and length.”

Filmed, Directed & Edited by David Goddard
Makeup by David Goddard
Special thanks to Corban Harper & Cassidy Nalbone

Ara Dinkjian - Oud
Tamer Pınarbaşı - Kanun
Ismail Lumanovski - Clarinet
Becca Stevens - Charango, vocals
Michael League - Moog bass, vocals

Music by Becca Stevens & Michael League
Poem by Nikola Madžirov
Produced by Michael League
Co-produced by Becca Stevens and Nic Hard
Mixed by Nic Hard and Michael League
Recorded at Big Orange Sheep in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., and Casa de Fidi and Estudi Vint in Els Prats de Rei, Catalonia, Spain
Mixed at Estudi Vint in Els Prats de Rei, Catalonia, Spain
Mastered by Dave McNair in North Carolina

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Twitter: @beccastevensbsb
Website: https://www.beccastevens.com/

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The Eye (Lyrics)
Poem by Nikola Madzirov
Translated by Sasha Dugdale

Open one eye only (x3)
The horizon is in the closed eye
Open the seashell
No solitude will escape
The stones on the riverbed drink up time
The dead fish swim towards the sun

Open one eye only (x2)

Open the sky
With one eye only (x2)

Open one eye only
The world is a young tree on a building site
Windows are rivers of our uncertainty
In my hands I keep a home
A prayer room in a hospital garden

Open one eye only (x2)

Open the sky
With one eye only (x2)
Open the sky
With one eye

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gocart mozart  Jun 3, 2021 • 9:21:49pm

To anyone interested, this is the new Driftglass account. Francis Langum is Mrs. Driftglass aka bluegal


Further Confirmation

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gocart mozart  Jun 3, 2021 • 9:29:47pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 3, 2021 • 9:38:15pm

re: #2 gocart mozart

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You can always count on the Bush family to be assholes.

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teleskiguy  Jun 3, 2021 • 9:50:28pm

Meanwhile over in an alternate universe…

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Dave In Austin  Jun 3, 2021 • 9:51:22pm

These Brazilian Bassists Need to be STOPPED

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 3, 2021 • 10:20:53pm

An estimated 38,680 people died in traffic crashes last year, the most of any year since 2007, the agency said in releasing preliminary numbers. Final numbers normally come out in the fall.

The increase came even though the number of miles traveled by vehicle fell 13% from 2019.

Motorcyclist deaths rose 9% last year to 5,015, while bicyclist deaths were up 5% to 846. Pedestrian deaths remained steady at 6,205, and the number of people killed in passenger vehicles rose 5% to 23,395, according to NHTSA.

Deaths involving a large truck fell 2%, while traffic fatalities among people 65 and older fell 9%.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 3, 2021 • 10:21:49pm

Yes I have relative plastering this on Twitter and Facebook convinced that Gawd’s Anointed King will return to the throne in August…

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 3, 2021 • 10:59:46pm

re: #8 JOE 🥓

Yeah the August thing has been picked up the Qcumbers here in Czech Republic as well. What makes this (soon-to-be-failed) “prophecy” stand out is that apparently, Trump believes it too. He must’ve been talked into it by the MyPillow crackhead.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 3, 2021 • 11:12:40pm

I am assuming that the Arizona Recount Ninjas will declare that he “won” Arizona and inspire recounts that will also conclude that he “won” Georgia and Pennsylvania, setting off another wave of protests that can only get ugly and violent.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 3, 2021 • 11:34:52pm

The early history of electric motorcycles is somewhat unclear. On 19 September 1895, a patent application for an “electrical bicycle” was filed by Ogden Bolton Jr. of Canton Ohio.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:06:52am

I want this shirt.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:34:18am

YouTube

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Sufficient unto the day...  Jun 4, 2021 • 1:03:00am

Jake Paul says something good:

brobible.com

Very closely related to that:

clickhole.com

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ericblair  Jun 4, 2021 • 1:28:05am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 4, 2021 • 2:00:39am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 4, 2021 • 2:22:54am

In case you had any question of what the GOP is about and who (not what) it stands for:

GOP Leaders to Meet With Trump on Agenda

Former President Donald Trump will meet with the Republican Study Committee in New Jersey next week to talk about the conservative agenda, the New York Post reports.

“At Republican Study Committee, we’ve been very busy as we develop the consensus conservative agenda for the future of the Republican Party, and that agenda is the Trump agenda,”

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steve_davis  Jun 4, 2021 • 2:31:30am

re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not what Joe said. “I don’t think, right now, we need to be bipartisan.” Now, aside from the really funny fact that Joe accidentally said the opposite of what he meant, the reason he sounds funny there is because he inserted the “right now” as a way of signaling that things could change. Joe isn’t an idiot. He knows an enormous amount of money may flow to West Virginia in a Democrat-only reconciliation bill, and he’s not absolutely taking that off the table.

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 2:35:21am

re: #18 steve_davis

Not what Joe said. “I don’t think, right now, we need to be bipartisan.” Now, aside from the really funny fact that Joe accidentally said the opposite of what he meant, the reason he sounds funny there is because he inserted the “right now” as a way of signaling that things could change. Joe isn’t an idiot. He knows an enormous amount of money may flow to West Virginia in a Democrat-only reconciliation bill, and he’s not absolutely taking that off the table.

Just how many times does he have to be clubbed over the head with the reality that his “friends” across the aisle are using him to achieve their own ends before he changes his mind?

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ericblair  Jun 4, 2021 • 2:40:03am

re: #18 steve_davis

I don’t know what Manchin’s deal is, although if he was simply being a crypto-Republican there are better ways to do it than make yourself look like an idiot and a chump. I’d expect Biden and Schumer have a far better idea than we do.

I have even less read on Sinema, whose position seems to be “purple monkey dishwasher.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 4, 2021 • 2:45:30am

re: #20 ericblair

Manchin is vulnerable.

As I lamented on election night, the inability of the Dems to flip the ME and IA senate seats really hurt the chances of the Dems to do what is needed.

Manchin is a Democrat in a sea of frothing religious right-wingers in WV. He could be kicked out of office by the next Trumper. Manchin probably wants this job for life… thus he’s doing what he thinks he needs to do.

Sinema is more likely just not up to the job.

She may be thinking that by pleasing McConnell that the latter won’t send out the attack forces after her. But she’d be mistaken in that.

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 2:54:50am

re: #21 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Manchin is vulnerable.

As I lamented on election night, the inability of the Dems to flip the ME and IA senate seats really hurt the chances of the Dems to do what is needed.

Manchin is a Democrat in a sea of frothing religious right-wingers in WV. He could be kicked out of office by the next Trumper. Manchin probably wants this job for life… thus he’s doing what he thinks he needs to do.

Sinema is more likely just not up to the job.

She may be thinking that by pleasing McConnell that the latter won’t send out the attack forces after her. But she’d be mistaken in that.

I personally think that Manchin’s view of WV politics matches the state’s cultural petrification in the 1980s: “Good Ol’ Boy” politics where everybody yells and screams for the cameras, but still treat each other like buddies behind closed doors. And it certainly fits with how he keeps acting as if he’s been personally betrayed when Senate Repub “moderates” vote with the party leadership time and again. While he certainly wants their support (if not endorsement) in his future reelection bids, the impression given is of Charlie Brown thinking again and again that this time Lucy won’t pull away the football.

Sinema’s just a walking example of what happens when Dunning-Kruger and the Peter principle collide together.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 4, 2021 • 3:36:01am
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Patricia Kayden  Jun 4, 2021 • 3:47:24am

re: #11 Dread Pirate Ron

Electric bikes? 🤔 Never heard of them before.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 4, 2021 • 4:33:57am

Of course it’s behind a paywall, but the NYT has a headline that Biden has offered to cut the infrastructure bill in half to compromise with Republicans. Fuck no. Damn it. Just…I really hope this is just a NYT bullshit headline.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 4:45:34am

re: #25 A Mom Anon

Of course it’s behind a paywall, but the NYT has a headline that Biden has offered to cut the infrastructure bill in half to compromise with Republicans. Fuck no. Damn it. Just…I really hope this is just a NYT bullshit headline.

Look, because Senator Manchin is a complete fucking asshole, our choices are apparently “half an infrastructure bill” or “nothing”. I don’t like it either, but if those are our choices, honestly, I’ll take half the infrastructure bill. It’s not Biden’s fault that there are two nominal Democrats in the Senate who are actively trying to derail his agenda just because they want to feel important.

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John Hughes  Jun 4, 2021 • 4:54:12am

re: #26 Dopamine Fish

Look, because Senator Manchin is a complete fucking asshole, our choices are apparently “half an infrastructure bill” or “nothing”.

Nah, the choices are “nothing” or “nothing”.

The only infrastructure bill the Republicans will accept is the “Donald Trump reinstatement infrastructure bill”.

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ericblair  Jun 4, 2021 • 4:58:56am
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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 5:11:10am

re: #26 Dopamine Fish

Look, because Senator Manchin is a complete fucking asshole, our choices are apparently “half an infrastructure bill” or “nothing”. I don’t like it either, but if those are our choices, honestly, I’ll take half the infrastructure bill. It’s not Biden’s fault that there are two nominal Democrats in the Senate who are actively trying to derail his agenda just because they want to feel important.

My proposal: Agree to cutting the bill ask down to half, but it all has to be new spending. None of this creative accounting horseshit of moving funds from side of the ledger to the other and calling it “new,” as has been the heart of virtually every Repub “compromise” bill offered so far.

Likewise, none of this “revenue neutral” shit that really amounted to stealth cuts to existing social safety net programs. If Repubs want the funding in this bill to be “revenue neutral,” then they’ll agree to new/higher taxes to pay for it. Otherwise they’ll have to do like they did with the Trump Tax Cuts and agree to more deficit spending. At least this time, the economic growth sparked will have a real chance of paying things back.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 5:40:21am
Donald Trump does indeed believe quite genuinely that he — along with former senators David Perdue and Martha McSally — will be “reinstated” to office this summer after “audits” of the 2020 elections in Arizona, Georgia, and a handful of other states have been completed. I can attest, too, that Trump is trying hard to recruit journalists, politicians, and other influential figures to promulgate this belief — not as a fundraising tool or an infantile bit of trolling or a trial balloon, but as a fact.

National review

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:02:50am

re: #30 Dangerman

National review

They sprinkle in some bullshit because it’s National Review, including failing to acknowledge that the party is anti-American and Trump is a crook. NR is fine with fascism. They just don’t want Trump to make a fool of himself, and that ship has sailed.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:06:05am

re: #30 Dangerman

National review

Its mainline news now

Trump’s Planned ‘Reinstatement’ Is No Joke

Seth Masket: “If Trump is trying to recruit allies for his reinstatement, at what point to we treat this not as a delusion but as a coup attempt? He kinda has priors.”

Lilly Goren: “Usually this turns into a civil war of some kind, at least if the deposed king is still wandering around. #Machiavelli had a lot to say about what to do with bloodlines, though that was much more in keeping with principalities and monarchies and not elected democracies/republics.”

Jonathan Bernstein: “It’s quite possible that Trump doesn’t realize what he’s proposing is flat-out illegal.”

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Belafon  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:06:30am

re: #179 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It’s ruined, and not even because of some terrible person named Karen.

If I remember correctly, the first few women we started seeing in videos being assholes were actually named Karen. That’s why it stuck.

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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:06:44am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Given that summer is right around the corner and people are acting as though the pandemic is over in the US (it isn’t, but they’re acting like it), it’s a good reminder to see which states are managing to get their residents protect from covid, and which are failing miserably.

The results are entirely predictable. GOP dominated states are severely lagging, particularly those in the South. The Northeast is doing particularly well, but even in states where they’ve got high vaccination rates, the vaccination rates drop among communities of color, and those are some of the most vulnerable people during the pandemic because they’re often in the jobs that see the most risk: service jobs that can’t work remote, like food service, retail, supermarkets, etc.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:09:05am

re: #32 Dangerman

Its mainline news now

Trump’s Planned ‘Reinstatement’ Is No Joke

So let me repeat this from yesterday

challenge EVERY republican to this:

do you agree with TFG that this is going to happen - that’s it’s even possible?
or is he a loon/wrong/delusional

there is no third option - that’s not the question
there is no ‘well he believes it’ - that’s not the question

there is no not answering - we’ll just ascribe ‘both’ as your answer
- if you dodge and won’t answer that’s clearly just outright political cowardice

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jeffreyw  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:15:40am

YouTube

Good morning!

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:16:12am

re: #35 Dangerman

So let me repeat this from yesterday

challenge EVERY republican to this:

do you agree with TFG that this is going to happen - that’s it’s even possible?
or is he a loon/wrong/delusional

there is no third option - that’s not the question
there is no ‘we’ll he believes it’ - that’s not the question

there is no not answering - we’ll just ascribe ‘both’ as your answer
- if you dodge and won’t answer that’s clearly just outright political cowardice

Which is why the media will simply avoid the topic or (having failed that) treat the matter as “unimportant.” The GQP and their buddies in the “liberal media” have latched onto their chosen talking point: “Trump’s losing influence, he’s not going to be a problem going forward, so why talk about him as if he matters?”

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:19:36am

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:23:02am

re: #38 Dangerman

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Which is why the current “labor shortage” is scaring the ever-loving shit out of them. All that work to scare away “illegals” and make it harder for “legals” to find jobs has left them reliant upon “real Americans” who are tired of being treated as slaves.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:24:11am

re: #38 Dangerman

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What’s funny is that the pandemic is finally starting to make people realize this, as people are refusing to come back to work for places that pay substandard wages. I only wonder if it’s a permanent thing, if people truly are fed up with being paid peanuts for shitty jobs, or if people will willingly return to being wage slaves in more “normal” conditions.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:36:31am

re: #40 Dopamine Fish

What’s funny is that the pandemic is finally starting to make people realize this, as people are refusing to come back to work for places that pay substandard wages. I only wonder if it’s a permanent thing, if people truly are fed up with being paid peanuts for shitty jobs, or if people will willingly return to being wage slaves in more “normal” conditions.

Some will, out of necessity
I think enough won’t that it will start to exert real upward wage pressure..slowly

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:40:37am

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:52:22am

re: #41 Dangerman

Some will, out of necessity
I think enough won’t that it will start to exert real upward wage pressure..slowly

We’ll start to get an idea of how things will play out in the next couple months, as red states deliberately strangle the poor in a desperate bid to save the 1% by cutting off the expanded UEI benefits.

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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:53:23am

Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. China continues to clamp down on all references/memorials to it inside China.

Hundreds, if not thousands of Chinese, were killed, imprisoned, or disappeared as a result of the crackdown.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:54:05am

Goodbye Tex-Ass-Hole! Scared of an indictment coming your way???

Allen West, the Trump-loving chairman of the Texas Republican Party, has abruptly resigned after less than a year on the job.

In an announcement posted on the Texas GOP’s website, the party revealed that West “has submitted his irrevocable resignation,” although he “will remain at the helm of the Texas GOP until a new Chairman can be selected.”

The party gave no reason for West’s resignation and would only say that he “will take this opportunity to prayerfully reflect on a new chapter in his already distinguished career.”

rawstory.com

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:57:27am

re: #45 JOE 🥓

Goodbye Tex-Ass-Hole! Scared of an indictment coming your way???

Allen West, the Trump-loving chairman of the Texas Republican Party, has abruptly resigned after less than a year on the job.

In an announcement posted on the Texas GOP’s website, the party revealed that West “has submitted his irrevocable resignation,” although he “will remain at the helm of the Texas GOP until a new Chairman can be selected.”

The party gave no reason for West’s resignation and would only say that he “will take this opportunity to prayerfully reflect on a new chapter in his already distinguished career.”

rawstory.com

Who the eff submits a “revocable” resignation?
Only the rs could come up with this to make it sound more pompous

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ericblair  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:57:31am

So it looks like Alan West has hung up his fake cowboy hat, and quit as TX GOP chair. He is leaving a financial mess and unnecessary service contracts, ignored party building activities, and picked a bunch of stupid fights with other goopers. Wow, couldn’t have seen that one coming. Hopefully the Texas crazies will hire another incompetent nutjob to finish off West’s fine work.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:58:36am
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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:59:14am
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Florida Panhandler  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:59:18am

yahoo.com

What is going on here? One theory here is that big business actually supports Republican one-party rule. They pretend to care about democracy as a branding exercise, but will gladly overthrow the Constitution in exchange for a tax cut.

Anyone counting on our 0.1% overlords to care about our country and its current democracy-hanging-by-a-thread reality really needs their heads examined.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 6:59:42am

re: #45 JOE 🥓

Goodbye Tex-Ass-Hole! Scared of an indictment coming your way???

Allen West, the Trump-loving chairman of the Texas Republican Party, has abruptly resigned after less than a year on the job.

In an announcement posted on the Texas GOP’s website, the party revealed that West “has submitted his irrevocable resignation,” although he “will remain at the helm of the Texas GOP until a new Chairman can be selected.”

The party gave no reason for West’s resignation and would only say that he “will take this opportunity to prayerfully reflect on a new chapter in his already distinguished career.”

rawstory.com

I’m actually wondering if it’s a resignation or a “resignation”.

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:01:45am

re: #50 Florida Panhandler

yahoo.com

Anyone counting on our 0.1% overlords to care about our country and its current democracy-hanging-by-a-thread reality really needs their heads examined.

“Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.”

- John Ralston Saul

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:02:27am

re: #51 Dopamine Fish

I’m actually wondering if it’s a resignation or a “resignation”.

Could be the latter. IOW, he might’ve been forced out owing to some as-yet-unknown scandal.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:04:31am

re: #46 Dangerman

Who the eff submits a “revocable” resignation?
Only the rs could come up with this to make it sound more pompous

Or they could be pushing him out and don’t want him running to the press later claiming “I was just kidding, I’m gonna stay!”.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:04:51am

re: #53 Dr Lizardo

Could be the latter. IOW, he might’ve been forced out owing to some as-yet-unknown scandal.

The terse statement from the Party, saying he is going to “prayerfully consider the next chapter”, definitely evokes the thought that they forced his resignation due to something that they found or decided.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:04:55am

re: #33 Belafon

If I remember correctly, the first few women we started seeing in videos being assholes were actually named Karen. That’s why it stuck.

Adolf used to be fine German name.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:05:19am

re: #8 JOE 🥓

Yes I have relative plastering this on Twitter and Facebook convinced that Gawd’s Anointed King will return to the throne in August…

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:05:50am
President Trump plans to make Anthony Fauci a top target at upcoming rallies, using increased attention to the Wuhan lab-leak theory as a weapon against an official long viewed as more trustworthy,” Axios reports.

“Trump and conservative media have made Fauci an improbable face of the opposition, trying to give him the cartoon-villain status once accorded to former Sen. Harry Reid, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or — in Trump’s case — Hillary Clinton

Can’t lay a glove on Joe so this is all you got?

Ps its not a theory
Its nutter conspiracy thinking. (Ok not so much thinking)

Two thoughts here..one we’ve already said…who made it worse regardless of its source?

More important: who was president and didn’t find any evidence of this lab leak?

Answer to both: you

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:08:17am

re: #53 Dr Lizardo

Could be the latter. IOW, he might’ve been forced out owing to some as-yet-unknown scandal.

Total incompetence?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:09:36am

Since we know dead girl or live boy has no consequence…

Dead boys?

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:10:08am
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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:11:51am

re: #61 Dangerman

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I suppose we’ll see if MAGAts really give a shit about that whole “NO POLITICAL DYNASTIES!!!” BS.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:12:47am

re: #61 Dangerman

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:14:16am

re: #62 Targetpractice

I suppose we’ll see if MAGAts really give a shit about that whole “NO POLITICAL DYNASTIES!!!” BS.

They want the ultimate political dynasty — a hereditary monarchy.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:16:34am

re: #57 The Pie Overlord!

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:17:55am

re: #65 JOE 🥓

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:19:21am

re: #66 The Pie Overlord!

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:19:28am

re: #66 The Pie Overlord!

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:29:49am

re: #58 Dangerman

Can’t lay a glove on Joe so this is all you got?

Ps its not a theory
Its nutter conspiracy thinking. (Ok not so much thinking)

Two thoughts here..one we’ve already said…who made it worse regardless of its source?

More important: who was president and didn’t find any evidence of this lab leak?

Answer to both: you

Using a scapegoat to avoid accountability is the most overused tool in Trump’s arsenal. And the MAGAts are running with it, convinced that the email dump finally “proves” that Dr. Fauci was deliberately lying to the American people in order to sabotage the effort to deal with CV.

Of course, none of the “revelations” mean what they think they mean. Knowing the origin of a virus doesn’t mean much if it’s already running rampant in your civilian population, so “lying” about a lab leak doesn’t give Donny an out. And commerical-grade masks being ineffective fits with Dr Fauci’s admissions that he advised against masks at the beginning to dissuade hording of medical-grade masks, rather than the supposed “bombshell” that Donny was right about masks being unnecessary. Finally, a physicist asking/suggesting HCQ as a treatment for CV is not proof that Donny was right to push is any more than the same physicist declaring climate change a “hoax.”

It’s like when Hillary’s emails were made public, confirmation bias is running wild among those who are looking to prove that the person they think a criminal truly is one.

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gocart mozart  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:31:53am
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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:34:07am

re: #69 Targetpractice

Fauci was also concerned that a run on masks would limit access by actual health professionals to that critical gear in the early stages of the pandemic, because if health professionals got sick and died, it could quickly lead to the collapse of health care delivery systems across the regions where the outbreak struck first and hardest.

It was a calculated decision. And once it became clear that masking general population would be beneficial, that’s what Fauci recommended and suggested.

Trump ignored it. He ignored it in the micro sense - not masking in his own sphere, and refused to insist on others masking or imposing masking despite evidence that it would reduce spread and save lives.

The origin of covid19 doesn’t change Trump’s disastrous handling. Once it entered the US, Trump’s response made every aspect of the pandemic response worse.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:34:30am

Why you really shouldn’t expect the GOP to rush to abolish the filibuster if they regain power in 2025. It has a conservative bias.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:42:59am

re: #49 lawhawk

The disease could have arisen in nature AND been a lab leak. After all, the lab studies viruses it discovers in nature all the time. Virologists could have brought the disease from another part of the country into the lab for further investigation and then it could have accidentally escaped (no modification to its genetic code) due to an inadvertent mishandling.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:43:18am

GO FOR IT!!!!

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:43:36am

re: #72 No Malarkey!

Why you really shouldn’t expect the GOP to rush to abolish the filibuster if they regain power in 2025. It has a conservative bias.

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There’s a fair argument to be made that a lot of those people figured one of two things was going to happen: They were going to ride the TCJA to a larger Congressional majority in the midterms (which, to be fair, seemed to be conventional wisdom at the time) or that Trump was basically guaranteed a second term and so there was no rush because they’d get everything they wanted come 2021.

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:45:47am

re: #74 The Pie Overlord!

GO FOR IT!!!!

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Jay C  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:46:04am

re: #74 The Pie Overlord!

Prime Minister @netanyahu retweeted a statement on Friday afternoon that said “overthrowing” him would cause the “collapse of the global right-wing.”

And he’s saying this as if it’s a BAD thing…..????
//

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No Malarkey!  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:46:40am

re: #75 Targetpractice

There’s a fair argument to be made that a lot of those people figured one of two things was going to happen: They were going to ride the TCJA to a larger Congressional majority in the midterms (which, to be fair, seemed to be conventional wisdom at the time) or that Trump was basically guaranteed a second term and so there was no rush because they’d get everything they wanted come 2021.

But all Mitch McConnell wants is tax cuts and judges, and neither one requires the filibuster be abolished, so he won’t do it, just as he wouldn’t do it when Trump was tweeting that he should.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:48:31am

re: #77 Jay C

And he’s saying this as if it’s a BAD thing…..????
//

If it was really about saving rightwing government, Bibi would resign so that Likud could form a government without him as PM. Bibi is about saving Bibi.

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darthstar  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:50:04am
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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:50:06am

re: #74 The Pie Overlord!

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:50:34am

re: #78 No Malarkey!

But all Mitch McConnell wants is tax cuts and judges, and neither one requires the filibuster be abolished, so he won’t do it, just as he wouldn’t do it when Trump was tweeting that he should.

Yet neither was really the first item on his agenda in 2017, abolishing the ACA was and he was prepared to do everything in his power to make it happen. The TCJA was the fallback, passed largely because the clock on reconciliation was ticking down and they needed something “major” to run on the following year.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:52:32am

re: #36 jeffreyw

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Video

Good morning!

Western good morning!

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jeffreyw  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:54:50am

re: #83 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Western good morning!

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Pretty!

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Teukka  Jun 4, 2021 • 7:58:25am

re: #74 The Pie Overlord!

GO FOR IT!!!!

Please proceed :3

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:00:04am

re: #83 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Passion flower is the most beautiful invasive vine ever

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Teukka  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:01:31am

re: #77 Jay C

And he’s saying this as if it’s a BAD thing…..????
//

re: #79 No Malarkey!

If it was really about saving rightwing government, Bibi would resign so that Likud could form a government without him as PM. Bibi is about saving Bibi.

re: #81 lawhawk

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:03:16am

Bibi’s gotten used to the opposition being so disorganized that all he had to do to remain in power was keep them too busy bickering with each other to pose a real threat to his rule. It never occurred to him that all that stomping on his enemies would eventually unite them just to see him finally gone from office.

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Teukka  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:09:01am

Now playing in this Lizardim’s lair:

Petruality - Ethnic Collision [Epic Dark Intense Trailer Music]

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:09:44am

re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter

The disease could have arisen in nature AND been a lab leak. After all, the lab studies viruses it discovers in nature all the time. Virologists could have brought the disease from another part of the country into the lab for further investigation and then it could have accidentally escaped (no modification to its genetic code) due to an inadvertent mishandling.

Except that didn’t happen. Someone posted the link to a Forbes article yesterday that included demolition of that CT.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:10:20am

re: #74 The Pie Overlord!

GO FOR IT!!!!

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From his lips to God’s ears.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:12:52am

re: #86 So Cal Greek Hippie

Passion flower is the most beautiful invasive vine ever

I’m voting for nasturtiums in that category.

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plansbandc  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:24:46am

re: #92 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

I’m simple. Morning Glories.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:27:57am

re: #90 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Except that didn’t happen. Someone posted the link to a Forbes article yesterday that included demolition of that CT.

The author of the Forbes article is an astrophysicist, not a biologist or virologist or epidemiologist. He may be correct but he has no credentials in the relevant fields.

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piratedan  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:29:06am

going to have a take here that is likely not going to be very popular… while many of us are pissed off at Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema for their positions on the filibuster and getting legislation passed and playing into the hands of the GOP and the “do nothing” paintbrush that they use to justify their criticisms on Congress and Government (and to be honest I am as well) I need to remind us all that this is brought to us courtesy of Mitch McConnell.

This “standoff” doesn’t happen if McConnell doesn’t lean on his fellow Republicans and that they GO ALONG WITH IT to perpetuate this farce.

If the GOP Senators were “allowed” to vote their conscience on certain issues, we would likely have some creaky semblance of bipartisanship and see slower incremental change, but change all the same… instead, they enable McConnell to have an inordinate amount of leverage in what gets passed and what gets voted on and to illustrate that he is the one who has the final say (which is twisted to say the least) in regards to being a hurdle that refuses to be cleared.

In a way, Manchin and Sinema are quaint, misguided, stupid and out of touch with how the GOP actually is and while that is indeed infuriating they are right on this one thing… it doesn’t have to be this way. The REASON for why it is this way boils down to Mitch McConnell and the scorched earth tactics approach to Government and the spineless members of the GOP caucus who could simply ignore him and cast votes as they wish.

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:32:32am

Good riddance. And probably running for governor, because Greg Abbott is not quite corrupt or incompetent enough for the new R party.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:39:06am

re: #96 jaunte

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Good riddance. And probably running for governor, because Greg Abbott is not quite corrupt or incompetent enough for the new R party.

It’s very hard to find a sane black man in a white nationalist political party.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:39:35am

re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter

The author of the Forbes article is an astrophysicist, not a biologist or virologist or epidemiologist. He may be correct but he has no credentials in the relevant fields.

His article summarizes what I’ve been seeing from competent people since the spring of 2020. And you don’t need credentials to recognize a conspiracy theory, you need to know the principles of specious argument.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:40:07am

No, I am not shocked.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:41:41am

re: #95 piratedan

going to have a take here that is likely not going to be very popular… while many of us are pissed off at Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema for their positions on the filibuster and getting legislation passed and playing into the hands of the GOP and the “do nothing” paintbrush that they use to justify their criticisms on Congress and Government (and to be honest I am as well) I need to remind us all that this is brought to us courtesy of Mitch McConnell.

This “standoff” doesn’t happen if McConnell doesn’t lean on his fellow Republicans and that they GO ALONG WITH IT to perpetuate this farce.

If the GOP Senators were “allowed” to vote their conscience on certain issues, we would likely have some creaky semblance of bipartisanship and see slower incremental change, but change all the same… instead, they enable McConnell to have an inordinate amount of leverage in what gets passed and what gets voted on and to illustrate that he is the one who has the final say (which is twisted to say the least) in regards to being a hurdle that refuses to be cleared.

In a way, Manchin and Sinema are quaint, misguided, stupid and out of touch with how the GOP actually is and while that is indeed infuriating they are right on this one thing… it doesn’t have to be this way. The REASON for why it is this way boils down to Mitch McConnell and the scorched earth tactics approach to Government and the spineless members of the GOP caucus who could simply ignore him and cast votes as they wish.

Just need to add that Moscow Mitch is brought to us by Senate repugs who voted him in and follow him.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:47:27am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:49:08am

Your tax dollars being used to fund Christianity, via the block grant, the discriminating conservative’s favourite vehicle for theft.

At least 10 states divert federal welfare funding to anti-abortion clinics (The Guardian, today)

At least 10 US states have siphoned millions of dollars from federal block grants, meant to provide aid to their neediest families, to pay for the operations of ideological anti-abortion clinics.

These overwhelmingly Republican-led states used money from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (Tanf), better known as welfare or direct cash aid, to fund the activities of anti-abortion clinics associated with the evangelical right. The clinics work to dissuade women from obtaining abortions.

The states in question:

Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas have used federal Tanf funds to support anti-abortion clinics.

The revelation is to be published in a report by the accountability group Equity Forward, which was provided exclusively to the Guardian. Equity Forward produces investigative research on human rights, gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and justice.

These 10 states funneled the money through “Alternatives to Abortion” programs, part of state budgets established by conservative legislatures and often run through state health departments. They not only send millions in federal welfare funds, but also state taxpayer dollars to such centers.

(more)

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:49:36am

re: #78 No Malarkey!

But all Mitch McConnell wants is tax cuts and judges, and neither one requires the filibuster be abolished, so he won’t do it, just as he wouldn’t do it when Trump was tweeting that he should.

this here is why

they dont need it gone
abolishing it wont help them
abolishing it will hurt them

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piratedan  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:51:14am

re: #100 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

for all we know, it’s the Chinese who are pulling his strings (via his handler, his beard) because the destruction of Democracy would also be very much in the interests of the folks over in China just as well. Not saying that the Chinese and Putin are in lockstep here, but this would be one time where their interests coincide.

From what I can see, the Sonofabitch from Kentucky is certainly not working for American best interests and the simple fact that the caucus lets this shit pass is just as serious an indictment that they are shot thru with folks who are compromised, stupid and myopic.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 8:55:13am

re: #95 piratedan

going to have a take here that is likely not going to be very popular… while many of us are pissed off at Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema for their positions on the filibuster and getting legislation passed and playing into the hands of the GOP and the “do nothing” paintbrush that they use to justify their criticisms on Congress and Government (and to be honest I am as well) I need to remind us all that this is brought to us courtesy of Mitch McConnell.

This “standoff” doesn’t happen if McConnell doesn’t lean on his fellow Republicans and that they GO ALONG WITH IT to perpetuate this farce.

If the GOP Senators were “allowed” to vote their conscience on certain issues, we would likely have some creaky semblance of bipartisanship and see slower incremental change, but change all the same… instead, they enable McConnell to have an inordinate amount of leverage in what gets passed and what gets voted on and to illustrate that he is the one who has the final say (which is twisted to say the least) in regards to being a hurdle that refuses to be cleared.

In a way, Manchin and Sinema are quaint, misguided, stupid and out of touch with how the GOP actually is and while that is indeed infuriating they are right on this one thing… it doesn’t have to be this way. The REASON for why it is this way boils down to Mitch McConnell and the scorched earth tactics approach to Government and the spineless members of the GOP caucus who could simply ignore him and cast votes as they wish.

you are not wrong

however

wishing things were different, wanting them to be different, explaining that they ‘should’ be different, instead of recognizing how they actually are at this moment, does not get anything passed.

(i’m aiming at those 2, not you)

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:08:50am

re: #105 Dangerman

you are not wrong

however

wishing things were different, wanting them to be different, explaining that they ‘should’ be different, instead of recognizing how they actually are at this moment, does not get anything passed.

(i’m aiming at those 2, not you)

Exactly. You deal with the situation as it is, not the situation you wish it was.

And I believe that so much of the talk about how Joe is playing some long game with the Repubs is wishful thinking at this point. The man has spent more time in recent weeks trying to sell his own party (and the public) on whatever “compromise” that Senate Repubs insist they’d be willing to back than the bills his own party are trying to pass. This is not a chess master who’s trying to set the country up for his announcement that he’s suddenly okay with abolishing/reforming the filibuster, this is a man who is desperately chasing unicorns.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:10:36am

thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210530 edition ———————>
“Three Steps Forward, One Step Back”

Here’s an index of all the postings in #thegreatpoolpondconversion

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A Cranky One  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:11:06am

re: #104 piratedan

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:13:29am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:13:35am

re: #108 A Cranky One

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Would someone who’s chicken risk being as corrupt as McConnell is? I do not think so. The man is bold, hypocritical, and lawless.

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:15:25am

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Do you know if anyone credible has done a study on the cost-effectiveness of ‘alternative to abortion’ programs and anti-abortion centers?

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:15:28am

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I love that she knows that she’s beautiful as she is, and doesn’t feel the need wear a wig to cover up her condition like phony politicians do even for ordinary baldness.

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A Cranky One  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:16:18am

re: #110 Punish Domestic Terrorists

He may not be chicken but he sure spews shit.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:17:06am

re: #113 A Cranky One

He may not be chicken but he sure spews shit.

That’s for sure.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:19:14am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:19:32am

re: #111 jaunte

Do you know if anyone credible has done a study on the cost-effectiveness of ‘alternative to abortion’ programs and anti-abortion centers?

There has been none done I can find.

The point of crisis pregnancy centers isn’t cost-effectiveness, it’s to shame women or delay them from getting an abortion.

The few which give out newborn items such as diapers also require women who get the items to work in proselytising for Christianity or attend Bible classes.

No religious outfit is “cost-effective.”

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:20:55am

re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My immediate reaction was that it was a huge giveaway without any effect on the problem they claim to be solving. I doubt anyone involved wants evidence of that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:25:59am

re: #117 jaunte

My immediate reaction was that it was a huge giveaway without any effect on the problem they claim to be solving. I doubt anyone involved wants evidence of that.

In the most egregious example in The Guardian article, for years Pennsylvania used both TANF block-grant money and state tax money to the tune of tens of millions of dollars to set up CPCs in Michigan.

Therefore the “benefit” to Pennsylvania taxpayers was exactly 0.

As for cost-effectiveness, the religious zealots like the Catholic Church or evangelicals could not care less (since they run CPCs).

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:29:05am

“Tens of millions every year to pretend we are reducing the number of abortions.”

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:29:53am

Spend it on contraception.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:31:04am

re: #119 jaunte

“Tens of millions every year to pretend we are reducing the number of abortions.”

According to the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report that documented the corruption in the Catholic Church, lots of that diverted loot wound up in the pockets of priests who spent it on themselves.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:31:19am

re: #120 jaunte

Spend it on contraception.

They oppose contraception as well. They lie about what it does.

As for states, they fund CPCs in other ways, such as selling “Choose Life” license plates. (In every state that money goes to the religious groups running CPCs)

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:36:16am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:36:17am

(long read, full study)

A Web-Based Geolocated Directory of Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) in the United States: Description of CPC Map Methods and Design Features and Analysis of Baseline Data (National Institutes of Health, March 2020)

Abstract

Background

Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are nonprofit organizations that aim to dissuade people considering abortion. The centers frequently advertise in misleading ways and provide inaccurate health information. CPCs in the United States are becoming more medicalized and gaining government funding and support. We created a CPC Map, a Web-based geolocated database of all CPCs currently operating in the United States, to help individuals seeking health services know which centers are CPCs and to facilitate academic research.

Objective

This study aimed to describe the methods used to develop and maintain the CPC Map and baseline findings regarding the number and distribution of CPCs in the United States. We also examined associations between direct state funding and the number of CPCs and relationships between the number of CPCs and state legislation proposed in 2018-2019 to ban all or most abortions.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:36:39am

re: #121 JOE 🥓

According to the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report that documented the corruption in the Catholic Church, lots of that diverted loot wound up in the pockets of priests who spent it on themselves.

Shocking. /////

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piratedan  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:36:54am

re: #105 Dangerman

no arguments from me, their insistence on not seeing what the rest of do is frustrating and could have incredibly dangerous repercussions

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:38:17am

re: #93 plansbandc

I’m simple. Morning Glories.

There’s a wall on my way to the store that’s covered with both morning glories and nasturtiums. One day it will be completely covered, and the plants will fight to the death. But for the moment, it’s lovely to look at.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:40:23am

re: #123 jaunte

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:41:42am

“…The scope of the questions, however, is limited to information attributed to McGahn in the redacted version of Mueller’s report and whether the report accurately reflected McGahn’s statements to the special counsel.

McGahn can refuse to answer questions outside that narrow line of questioning, including queries about communications between McGahn and other administration officials that do not appear in the public version of Mueller’s report.

That limited scope raises questions about how much the committee and the American people will learn from McGahn’s interview beyond what’s already publicly known.”
npr.org

The coverup continues as the Republicans continue to abuse the system.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:46:39am

re: #125 Eclectic Cyborg

Shocking. /////

Oh and there was a certain bishop in West Virginia who got to siphon off that sweet tax-exempt cash to refurbish his mansion…

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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:50:51am
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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:52:09am

re: #131 lawhawk

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They kick the Trump can down the road for 2 years yet allow Crackhead Mike and his pals to continue pushing for a coup.

Crackhead Mike needs to be arrested along with the rest of Trump’s thugs.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:53:48am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:56:35am

re: #132 JOE 🥓

They kick the Trump can down the road for 2 years yet allow Crackhead Mike and his pals to continue pushing for a coup.

Crackhead Mike needs to be arrested along with the rest of Trump’s thugs.

At the very least, he’s going to lose everything to Smartmatic and Dominion. With so many fascists getting locked up, the “Christian” alternative to GoFundMe dollars won’t be enough to go around.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:56:44am

re: #74 The Pie Overlord!

GO FOR IT!!!!

Gee, he says that like it’s a bad thing.

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wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:57:24am

Bears repeating:

Resplendent Quetzal booty

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 9:58:32am

re: #135 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Gee, he says that like it’s a bad thing.

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wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:00:20am

re: #133 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It’s worth reminding people that, as bad as things are, they could be worse. Persistence is key.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:00:33am

re: #136 wrenchwench

Bears repeating:

Bears Repeating
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wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:02:27am

re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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Those bears appear on a few walls around town. They always make me happy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:02:31am

re: #131 lawhawk

January 2023 is right around the time the 2024 campaign will start kicking in to high gear.

But I’m sure that’s just a coincidence…

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Teddy's Person  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:03:53am

re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg

January 2023 is right around the time the 2024 campaign will start kicking in to high gear.

But I’m sure that’s just a coincidence…

Trump’s return to Facebook will be the escalator ride of the 2024 election.

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aatharuv  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:04:45am

re: #80 darthstar

Ibtisam is Arabic for smile. So that’s an appropriate signature :-)

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:12:11am

As if we really expected Crackhead Mike to do anything sane…

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Skewered for ‘Craptastic’ Lawsuit Against Dominion and Smartmatic That Alleges ‘Ghosts in the Machines’

The filing has been described as a “nonsense,” “half-assed,” “craptastic legal job” filled with “baloney” and “lunacy” that is even “cringier and more incoherent than” than even Lindell’s critics expected. One attorney called it a “flaming bag stuffed with feces” because it attempts to litigate similar issues in a separate U.S. District Court from where Dominion sued Lindell originally — among other alleged transgressions.

Lindell seems undeterred by his critics.

He’s going to continue calling for a coup until he’s locked up.

lawandcrime.com

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:12:31am

re: #132 JOE 🥓

They kick the Trump can down the road for 2 years yet allow Crackhead Mike and his pals to continue pushing for a coup.

Crackhead Mike needs to be arrested along with the rest of Trump’s thugs.

they’re hoping he gets indicted or something, or maybe dies

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:12:40am

The Russians are deorbiting the Pirs ISS module, which is being replaced with a new docking module. Pirs mean “pier,” which I think is a great name for a docking module. The new module’s name, nauka, means “science.”
yahoo.com

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plansbandc  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:13:57am

Chiween is very pleased that his fren has come home for a visit. <3

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:19:53am

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Facebook Says It’ll Stop Letting Politicians Post Whatever Hateful Garbage They Want (The Daily Beast)

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:21:37am

re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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from when i was a youth

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John Hughes  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:23:27am

re: #111 jaunte

Do you know if anyone credible has done a study on the cost-effectiveness of ‘alternative to abortion’ programs and anti-abortion centers?

My nose now burns and the there is whiskey all down my shirt.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:24:31am

re: #150 John Hughes

My nose now burns and the there is whiskey all down my shirt.

such a waste of good alcohol…

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wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:24:35am

re: #149 Dangerman

from when i was a youth

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Just reading the list I hear Allan.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:25:00am

re: #149 Dangerman

from when i was a youth

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It was this one that was in my home.

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John Hughes  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:25:05am

re: #115 Dangerman

And when he does they say “ok, but no”.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:27:01am

re: #152 wrenchwench

Just reading the list I hear Allan.

i sing parts of i see bones and one hippopotami a lot

mrsdm is most tolerant - most of the time

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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:29:20am

re: #144 JOE 🥓

As if we really expected Crackhead Mike to do anything sane…

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Skewered for ‘Craptastic’ Lawsuit Against Dominion and Smartmatic That Alleges ‘Ghosts in the Machines’

The filing has been described as a “nonsense,” “half-assed,” “craptastic legal job” filled with “baloney” and “lunacy” that is even “cringier and more incoherent than” than even Lindell’s critics expected. One attorney called it a “flaming bag stuffed with feces” because it attempts to litigate similar issues in a separate U.S. District Court from where Dominion sued Lindell originally — among other alleged transgressions.

Lindell seems undeterred by his critics.

He’s going to continue calling for a coup until he’s locked up.

lawandcrime.com

The law firm that brought Lindell’s action, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, should close up shop and end business, because there’s some serious professional responsibility violations going on, along with piss-poor lawyering. Wrong venue. Trying to file suit in a completely different venue from original venue. Lack of jurisdiction. It just goes on and on.

B&T clients should review all of their filings and positions, because it’s clear that B&T is more than happy to mismanage and advise on any lawsuit, no matter the merits. They’re willing to file frivolous lawsuits that do nothing but cost the client. Sanction the heck out of B&T.

B&T is willing to flambee its reputation by associating with Lindell. Good for them.

Judges don’t take kindly to clear fuckups on basic civil procedure, like knowingly suing (or countersuing) in wrong jurisdictions, countersuing in a federal district court knowing that there’s an action in a completely different federal district court between the parties on the same/similar set of facts.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:29:54am

re: #131 lawhawk

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:31:50am
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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:34:09am

re: #153 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It was this one that was in my home.

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we had
my son the folksinger
my son the nut
and my son the the celebrity

we played them endlessly
and had little idea what was going on

probably explains my later obsession with spike jones

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:34:34am

re: #154 John Hughes

And when he does they say “ok, but no”.

exactly the point

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No Malarkey!  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:35:08am

re: #82 Targetpractice

Yet neither was really the first item on his agenda in 2017, abolishing the ACA was and he was prepared to do everything in his power to make it happen. The TCJA was the fallback, passed largely because the clock on reconciliation was ticking down and they needed something “major” to run on the following year.

And the GOP doesn’t even talk about repealing the ACA anymore, because their attempt to do so was toxically unpopular. Now they just pursue court challenges against it, and try to sabotage it when they control the executive branch.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:35:13am

re: #156 lawhawk

The law firm that brought Lindell’s action, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, should close up shop and end business, because there’s some serious professional responsibility violations going on, along with piss-poor lawyering. Wrong venue. Trying to file suit in a completely different venue from original venue. Lack of jurisdiction. It just goes on and on.

B&T clients should review all of their filings and positions, because it’s clear that B&T is more than happy to mismanage and advise on any lawsuit, no matter the merits. They’re willing to file frivolous lawsuits that do nothing but cost the client. Sanction the heck out of B&T.

B&T is willing to flambee its reputation by associating with Lindell. Good for them.

Judges don’t take kindly to clear fuckups on basic civil procedure, like knowingly suing (or countersuing) in wrong jurisdictions, countersuing in a federal district court knowing that there’s an action in a completely different federal district court between the parties on the same/similar set of facts.

I was reading one of #lawtwitter’s threads on the subject - I don’t remember which one - and the author basically said explicitly that there are already general counsel telling him that they will refuse to take their business to B&T in the future because of this disaster of a lawsuit. The thread from @AkivaMCohen is particularly savage, and specifies in detail all the ways in which they fucked up as a matter of law.

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William Lewis  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:36:30am

re: #153 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It was this one that was in my home.

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wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:36:50am

If you have 2 minutes to waste, this will do it.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:38:50am

re: #163 William Lewis

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we had this one

and i always thought that box was a radio

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:39:30am

re: #164 wrenchwench

If you have 2 minutes to waste, this will do it.

I thought that was a not-bad-looking woman until he spoke.

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wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:43:42am

re: #166 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I thought that was a not-bad-looking woman until he spoke.

Time to recalibrate the people-seers, or put a pause in the concluder-mechanism.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:46:08am

re: #167 wrenchwench

Time to recalibrate the people-seers, or put a pause in the concluder-mechanism.

I blame his glasses for tripping up my heuristics.

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William Lewis  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:48:05am

Ok, just as happy but NOT the same topic as usual of late:

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:49:56am

re: #169 William Lewis

Ok, just as happy but NOT the same topic as usual of late:

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:50:39am

Associated Press: “Bargain hunters are swooping in to take advantage of prices in Trump buildings that have dropped to levels not seen in over a decade, a crash brokers attribute to a combination of the former president’s polarizing image and the coronavirus pandemic.”

“It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.”

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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:54:06am

re: #171 Dangerman

Gilded crap is still crap.

Trump hasn’t built a luxury building in years, and his namesake NYC tower is ancient compared to Billionaire’s Row. People are trying to flee from Trump thanks to his toxic and criminal syndicate relationships, which allows the bargain hunters to seem to get in at a discount.

Trump’s also back trying to sell a bunch of buildings from his portfolio to raise money, and that will also backfire as people look to downrate his buildings, again for the same reason - it’s a dumpster fire.

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gocart mozart  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:54:17am
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Charles Johnson  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:55:43am
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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 10:59:03am

Interesting watching the training of a new corporal the WH to follow appropriate protocol and procedure on something as “simple” as opening and closing the door.

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:00:57am

re: #172 lawhawk

Gilded crap is still crap.

Trump hasn’t built a luxury building in years, and his namesake NYC tower is ancient compared to Billionaire’s Row. People are trying to flee from Trump thanks to his toxic and criminal syndicate relationships, which allows the bargain hunters to seem to get in at a discount.

Trump’s also back trying to sell a bunch of buildings from his portfolio to raise money, and that will also backfire as people look to downrate his buildings, again for the same reason - it’s a dumpster fire.

Including the dc hotel lease he can’t unload

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:03:06am

An interesting live update on the flaming shitpile of a lawsuit Mike Lindell dropped on the US District Court here in Minnesota yesterday…

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:10:39am

re: #177 Dopamine Fish

An interesting live update on the flaming shitpile of a lawsuit Mike Lindell dropped on the US District Court here in Minnesota yesterday…

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looks like the asshole who filed that lawsuit is going to wind up delivering pizzas for Dominos…

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gocart mozart  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:10:56am
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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:11:35am

re: #178 JOE 🥓

looks like the asshole who filed that lawsuit is going to wind up delivering pizzas for Dominos…

What I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall at that partners’ meeting. I imagine lots of shouting and pointy words.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:13:14am

re: #180 Dopamine Fish

What I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall at that partners’ meeting. I imagine lots of shouting and pointy words.

Add in the humiliation that soon to be fired fool is getting

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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:14:16am

re: #174 Charles Johnson

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What does it say about a political party when their “leader” is such a jackass he gets banned from Facebook for 2 years?

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:15:10am

re: #182 Dangerman

What does it say about a political party when their “leader” is such a jackass he gets banned from Facebook for 2 years?

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Jay C  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:15:41am

re: #172 lawhawk

Gilded crap is still crap.

Trump hasn’t built a luxury building in years, and his namesake NYC tower is ancient compared to Billionaire’s Row. People are trying to flee from Trump thanks to his toxic and criminal syndicate relationships, which allows the bargain hunters to seem to get in at a discount.

Trump’s also back trying to sell a bunch of buildings from his portfolio to raise money, and that will also backfire as people look to downrate his buildings, again for the same reason - it’s a dumpster fire.

Maybe it’s just the parochial view from NYC, but AFAICR, the gilt has been off the lily of Trump properties for many years now: no one (outside of shady Russian oligarchs looking to launder funds of questionable origins) has been willing to pay a “premium” for living/renting in a Trump building in this century - if not earlier.
Supposedly, that’s the reason why TFG had been centering his development interests on golf properties in recent years: less investment required, reasonably-positive cash flow, the name still has (some sort of) cachet, and less likelihood of having to crash and bail….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:18:46am

re: #176 Dangerman

Including the dc hotel lease he can’t unload

From the quoted article:

The Trump Organization has been unable to sell the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., partly because of the stipulation that the new owners retain the Trump name.

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:19:31am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:20:06am

re: #186 Targetpractice

Damn. That was fast.

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aatharuv  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:21:54am

re: #186 Targetpractice

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Barnes and Thornburg probably also forgot, “And Mike Lindell didn’t give us the XXX million dollar retainer, we needed as payment for services and 100% destruction of our reputation.”

Edit: Changed Donald Trump to Mike Lindell.

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:23:32am
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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:23:43am

re: #186 Targetpractice

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Just waiting for Orly Taitz to refile Crackhead Mike’s insanity.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:24:16am

re: #186 Targetpractice

That statement is almost certainly a lie. There’s no way a big law firm would take on a client like that without approval. That partner is a scapegoat.

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sagehen  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:24:20am

re: #180 Dopamine Fish

What I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall at that partners’ meeting. I imagine lots of shouting and pointy words.

oh no, they only yell at the low-level staff.

When it’s just partners and partners, they hiss-whisper. While laser-beams shoot out of their eyes.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:26:40am

re: #191 Charles Johnson

That statement is almost certainly a lie. There’s no way a big law firm would take on a client like that without approval. That partner is a scapegoat.

@AkivaMCohen said the same thing in the tweet I linked. My guess is, this guy was intentionally vague during the client vetting/approval process, the partners signed off on it, he filed this absolute turd of a lawsuit and now they’re in full-on damage control mode. Complete with the Godfather-esque “I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse” meeting where he was offered a chance to summarily resign or be fired… out of a cannon.

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Targetpractice  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:27:35am

re: #193 Dopamine Fish

@AkivaMCohen said the same thing in the tweet I linked. My guess is, this guy was intentionally vague during the client vetting/approval process, the partners signed off on it, he filed this absolute turd of a lawsuit and now they’re in full-on damage control mode. Complete with the Godfather-esque “I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse” meeting where he was offered a chance to summarily resign or be fired… out of a cannon.

Into the sun.

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John Hughes  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:30:26am

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

for years Pennsylvania used both TANF block-grant money and state tax money to the tune of tens of millions of dollars to set up CPCs in Michigan.

kinda surprised that isn’t a violation of the constitutions of either or both of them.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:31:21am
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Dangerman  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:31:28am

CNN’s vaccination rate map tracks pretty closely with last year’s electoral map, with some notable exceptions (Ohio, most of all)

If only the people who thought Trump deserved more credit for the vaccine were interested in actually getting the vaccine

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:31:58am

So, it’s been raining for a week and due to rain for another week around here, and
I now have a Lowe’s subcontractor’s delivery truck stuck across my gravel driveway with its front wheels axle deep in the mud.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:32:11am

re: #196 (((Archangel1)))

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:32:53am

“You could have backed out, but no.”

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John Hughes  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:33:39am

re: #120 jaunte

Spend it on contraception.

Contraception reduces abortion.

Hell, atheism reduces abortion.

Fuck, get real — access to abortion reduces abortion.

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wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:33:44am

re: #198 jaunte

So, it’s been raining for a week and due to rain for another week around here, and
I now have a Lowe’s subcontractor’s delivery truck stuck across my gravel driveway with its front wheels axle deep in the mud.

That’s gonna be a big tow truck.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:34:01am

re: #198 jaunte

So, it’s been raining for a week and due to rain for another week around here, and
I now have a Lowe’s subcontractor’s delivery truck stuck across my gravel driveway with
its front wheels axle deep in the mud.

Send us some. It’s 96 °F up here, with brutal sun.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:34:29am

re: #199 JOE 🥓

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TFG couldn’t even qualify for a no code license, let alone have the brains to even check/adjust his VSWRs

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:34:46am

re: #203 Dopamine Fish

We need some precipitational equity.

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John Hughes  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:35:29am

re: #123 jaunte

Why is the house judiciary committee allowed to meet behind closed doors?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:35:40am

re: #199 JOE 🥓

Probably won’t be much longer until he’ll have to create a mimeographed ‘zine.

Ah, that new mimeograph smell.
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Teddy's Person  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:35:54am

re: #196 (((Archangel1)))

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Trump, the racist cranky uncle who handwrites his screeds on parchment paper and pays his nieces and nephews to take photos of his missive to post on MySpace.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:36:19am

re: #204 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

TFG couldn’t even qualify for a no code license, let alone have the brains to even check/adjust his VSWRs

Trump actually touch a Morse Code key?

Nope…Jason Miller will! 😏

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wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:36:27am

re: #205 jaunte

We need some precipitational equity.

Oregonians will not be happy to share. People are weird up here.

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:36:28am

An 18 wheeler cab has just arrived. A bold plan, Cotton.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:37:03am

re: #207 Dr Lizardo

Probably won’t be much longer until he’ll have to create a mimeographed ‘zine.

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Just like the Birchers did in my hometown…back in the 60s!

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:37:45am

Now the scolding of the drivers.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:39:08am

re: #212 JOE 🥓

Just like the Birchers did in my hometown…back in the 60s!

It’s been one hell of a long time, but I could probably still use one of those machines (I was a teacher’s assistant in high school, and used one to run off copies of worksheets and tests).

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John Hughes  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:40:14am

re: #151 Dangerman

It wasn’t very good, buy it was still a waste.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:41:34am

Modern dose 2 is in my arm. 2 weeks until I can resume normal life.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:42:25am

re: #216 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Modern dose 2 is in my arm. 2 weeks until I can resume normal life.

As much as life can be “normal” when you’re receiving phone calls from Bill Gates directly into your brain…

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Teukka  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:42:35am
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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:43:45am

Big truck now backing out to try coming in the other way.

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wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:44:52am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:44:59am

re: #214 Dr Lizardo

It’s been one hell of a long time, but I could probably still use one of those machines (I was a teacher’s assistant in high school, and used one to run off copies of worksheets and tests).

I think I could as well. It looks like a miniature version of the printing presses I ran in my after school job many years ago. I still have all my fingers.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:46:10am

re: #220 wrenchwench

Still the greatest Pallas Cat video of all time…

Pallas cat - Otocolobus manul

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:47:35am

re: #217 Dopamine Fish

As much as life can be “normal” when you’re receiving phone calls from Bill Gates directly into your brain…

Yes, but will the vaccine cause anything new?

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John Hughes  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:49:45am

re: #221 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I think I could as well. It looks like a miniature version of the printing presses I ran in my after school job many years ago. I still have all my fingers.

Yes, but try not to breathe to deeply while you’re using it.

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lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:50:35am

Gaetz who is under federal investigation and Jordan, who should be.

That’s all the GOP could muster for hearing McGahn’s testimony under oath about Trump’s misconduct and the Mueller report.

Glad to know they’re interested in learning facts and truth about what happened. They again make it clear that they don’t care about facts or information and would rather spew misinformation and agitprop to stay in power.

While I’m at it, it’s also clear that Trump’s spewing crap again about how Facebook hurt his feelings and that this somehow is an affront to those who voted for Trump.

Heck fuckface von clownstick, more people voted against you than voted for you. Record numbers in fact. Trump has never won a popular vote. Ever. He’s lost by millions of votes.

But again, every one of these utterances goes back to his original worldview - he does not accept any election results where he is not the winner.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:50:37am

Time to call it a day - up early tomorrow.

Stay healthy, Lizards.

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aatharuv  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:51:01am

re: #2 gocart mozart

George P. Bush is selling mug cozies saying how Trump thinks he’s the only Bush who got it right. Way to insult your father, mother, uncle, grandfather, and presumably also his Planned Parenthood supporting, great grandfather Senator Prescott Bush, not that Donald Trump would know anything about him.

I’ll add him to the list of elected officials even more craven than Ted Cruz along with Greg Pence.
littlegreenfootballs.com

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A Mom Anon  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:51:50am

re: #169 William Lewis

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:52:03am

re: #226 Dr Lizardo

Night.

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:52:24am

Big truck has negotiated the driveway turnaround and is backing in. Please avoid the power pole.

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:54:16am

Spiky lug nuts, check.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:54:19am

re: #224 John Hughes

Yes, but try not to breathe to deeply while you’re using it.

I’m already going to get cancer from the chemical used to stick carbonless multi-copy documents together at that job.

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jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:57:13am

Aaaand they broke the chain.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:58:30am

re: #186 Targetpractice

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But what about the mind-blowing evidence? The blowing the whole thing wide open revelations? I am crushed.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:59:03am

re: #233 jaunte

Aaaand they broke the chain.

I guess they found the… weak link.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:59:04am
237
wrenchwench  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:59:17am

re: #233 jaunte

Aaaand they broke the chain.

Now, to find the second-weakest link…

238
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 11:59:54am

re: #237 wrenchwench

Also part of the back end of the stuck truck.

239
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:00:33pm

Lots of yelling now.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:01:48pm

re: #238 jaunte

Also part of the back end of the stuck truck.

I remember having this fear the last time I helped somebody get unstuck (which is now a thing I can do again! Yay!) He had his truck buried up to the axle in mud. In his defense, he was clearly trying to show off for his girlfriend, whom he had taken down to the local makeout spot for a little Friday night action.

241
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:05:03pm

Dragging the box end of a truck 90 degrees through gravel isn’t easy, but I wouldn’t stand on the downhill side to watch.

242
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:06:18pm

“We’ll just pop it out of there.”

243
Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:06:57pm

Just your daily reminder.

Rush Limbaugh is still dead.
&
resistance is futile, you will be assimilated (or worse).

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Belafon  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:08:34pm

re: #207 Dr Lizardo

Probably won’t be much longer until he’ll have to create a mimeographed ‘zine.

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If promises that the prints are still warm he will draw in a bunch of people who like the smell.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:12:07pm

New Mexico provides Wonkette with an opportunity to report with one of their favourite pastimes.

Albuquerque Mayor’s Race Roiled By DONGCOPTER

246
Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:12:11pm

re: #227 aatharuv

247
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:13:31pm

re: #246 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Trump University graduate George P. Bush.

248
Sherlock Hound  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:14:09pm

re: #204 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

TFG couldn’t even qualify for a no code license, let alone have the brains to even check/adjust his VSWRs

Naw, his people are on 14.313 and the upper end of 80 meters. CB operators are more courteous and professional.

249
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:15:15pm

The Stuck Truck is Free!

250
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:17:03pm

Now once more the driveway challenge. x2.

251
Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:19:17pm

re: #248 Sherlock Hound

Naw, his people are on 14.313 and the upper end of 80 meters. CB operators are more courteous and professional.

Copy that.

252
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:22:00pm

Pavement achieved. Whew.

253
JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:22:19pm
254
teleskiguy  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:24:58pm

re: #253 JOE 🥓

I can get a nice unmounted pair of skis with that kind of scratch.

255
BlueSpotinAL  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:25:14pm

So this is the Texas GOP after Allen West resigns…

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:25:59pm

re: #253 JOE 🥓

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Where does she get the money for this? There’s no way she could last more than a week at any office.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:26:53pm

re: #255 BlueSpotinAL

So this is the Texas GOP after Allen West resigns…

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“Black” in this context refers to their souls, obviously.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:27:18pm

re: #256 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Where does she get the money for this? There’s no way she could last more than a week at any office.

Sugar Daddy Mercer?

259
Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:28:45pm

re: #253 JOE 🥓

Lord, that headline is like something out of Fox News Mad Libs.

260
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:31:02pm

An hour ago, NBC via MSN:

TV news stations become apparent target in cyberattack

First it was gas. Then it was meat. Now it’s local television stations.

At least two TV news stations have been completely offline since Thursday in what cybersecurity experts say appears to be a ransomware attack on their parent company.

ABC affiliate WFTV in Orlando, Florida, and NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh, which are both owned by the Cox Media Group, were told Thursday by managers to shut down company computers and phones.

“We are only able to communicate with each other over personal phones and text messages,” said a WFTV employee who wasn’t authorized to speak for the company and requested not to be named.

So far both stations were able to still put together local broadcasts, but have been limited in what they can do. Cox didn’t reply to requests for comment. But the event appeared to be the latest U.S. incident of ransomware, where hackers will infect a network and hold its files hostage while demanding payment, said Allan Liska, an analyst at the cybersecurity company Recorded Future.

(more)

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:31:48pm

re: #249 jaunte

The Stuck Truck is Free!

It’s like the MV Ever Given, but without quite as much impact to global commerce.

262
teleskiguy  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:32:44pm
263
Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:40:01pm

Mrs. Fish has commenced on a new project: Homemade (homebrewed?) kimchi. We may have watched a little too much Food Network during the last year of insanity.

264
Sherlock Hound  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:40:59pm

Has Charles been around?

265
lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:41:31pm

Northern NJ under severe t-storm warning. And it’s just gotten as dark as night here… so there’s that…

266
Dopamine Fish  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:42:24pm

re: #264 Sherlock Hound

Has Charles been around?

Charles the boss man Charles? Yeah, he was in the thread earlier.

267
teleskiguy  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:44:05pm

re: #264 Sherlock Hound

I’m right here.

Oh, big cheese top dog Charles…

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:44:36pm

re: #263 Dopamine Fish

Mrs. Fish has commenced on a new project: Homemade (homebrewed?) kimchi. We may have watched a little too much Food Network during the last year of insanity.

How Kiddie Pools of Kimchi Bind Korean Families Together

Kimjang is really interesting.

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Jay C  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:46:24pm

re: #265 lawhawk

Northern NJ under severe t-storm warning. And it’s just gotten as dark as night here… so there’s that…

Yeah, Weather Channel radar forecast shows a big hunk of red/orange/yellow weather slated to traverse right across the Metro Area in about 30 minutes. Glad I did my shopping earlier….

270
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:52:07pm

Today’s outrage from The Federalist and FOX News Channel.

271
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:53:08pm

I don’t think the Pope can work at the Federalist.

272
lawhawk  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:53:20pm

re: #269 Jay C

Yeah, Weather Channel radar forecast shows a big hunk of red/orange/yellow weather slated to traverse right across the Metro Area in about 30 minutes. Glad I did my shopping earlier….

Yeah, it’s raining pretty hard, but not too bad with wind. Lightning is cranking up, and I thought I saw some cloud rotation a few minutes ago, but nothing extending below the cloud deck - off towards Paramus NJ and heading to the East. We’re just hunkering down here…

273
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:53:46pm

re: #270 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Today’s outrage from The Federalist and FOX News Channel.

And there’s always a tweet.

274
jaunte  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:54:29pm

The Pope would be a major disruption to most offices.

275
Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:56:06pm

Ben Domenech is I believe Meghan McCain’s husband.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 12:56:42pm

re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg

Ben Domenech is I believe Meghan McCain’s husband.

Yes, and they deserve each other.

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 4, 2021 • 1:04:22pm

re: #267 teleskiguy

I’m right here.

Oh, big cheese top dog Charles…

No offense meant.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 4, 2021 • 1:05:54pm

re: #267 teleskiguy

I’m right here.

Oh, big cheese top dog Charles…

Charles in charge.

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steve_davis  Jun 4, 2021 • 1:16:33pm

re: #189 Targetpractice

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I love how in that scene, we see two mobsters who have money to blow on expensive suits, but don’t have the actual class to wear an expensive suit well.

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Amory Blaine  Jun 4, 2021 • 1:24:58pm

re: #140 wrenchwench

Those bears appear on a few walls around town. They always make me happy.

Those bears are printed on LSD blotter paper so they would make almost everyone happy 😁.

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steve_davis  Jun 4, 2021 • 1:34:36pm

re: #193 Dopamine Fish

@AkivaMCohen said the same thing in the tweet I linked. My guess is, this guy was intentionally vague during the client vetting/approval process, the partners signed off on it, he filed this absolute turd of a lawsuit and now they’re in full-on damage control mode. Complete with the Godfather-esque “I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse” meeting where he was offered a chance to summarily resign or be fired… out of a cannon.

if there’s anything all of this demonstrates, it’s just how many fourth-tier law schools there apparently are in the world, because even stuff that a non-lawyer knows would be unpalatable gets offered up by these guys.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 4, 2021 • 5:17:16pm

re: #246 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Quick takeaway: George P. Bush is that guy who is in love with fascism and who has never ever in his life been subject to real actual oppression by any authority ever.

This includes the drunken, falling off the curb disturbances that local cops conveniently wrote off as he stumbled home from college parties and his family connections made sure he never would have suffered any consequences.


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