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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:08:21pm

Thread begins with a “Florida Man” pro-life story.

A Florida dad threw his infant at a deputy after a high-speed chase, sheriff’s office says (CNN)

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:20:34pm

But I tried to get back into Trump’s graces and you Georgia Republicans censured me because I certified Biden and upheld the law!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:31:06pm

re: #2 JOE 🥓

2024 is shaping up to be a real shitshow but I suppose that’s just how American elections are these days, huh?

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jeffreyw  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:37:55pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:39:03pm

re: #4 jeffreyw

Mmm. That looks good.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:41:01pm

Armed Low-Cost Drones, Made by Turkey, Reshape Battlefields and Geopolitics

Drones are the perfect weapon of empires and oligarchs. The center can maim and burn the peripheral with no risk to their bodies; no need for a intermediate class of enforcers that inherently threaten their commanders with numbers and arms in hand. People have learned the word “genocide” and sort of understand the idea of a war crime, but drones have created semantic baffles and crenelations that confuse the discussion: one rolling wall of bombs overrunning Dresden looks like an atrocity; hundreds of occupied buildings detonated one-by-one, worldwide, day after day diffuses the horror, emptily promises that there’s purpose and precision guiding the casualties.

The War on Terror has been the largest transformation of doctrine since nuclear warfare was posited, and I don’t think the full implications of how the twisting of definitions of what a conflict region is, who an acceptable target is, what constitutes a combatant or an insurgent, has sunk in yet…but the rest of the world is going to start using the kinds of excuses the USA has been using for years.

Nuclear warfare has always had a quality of absurdity: even if you’re a soulless ideologue that doesn’t count human bodies, it’s the ne plus ultra of destroying precious capital and screwing the basic infrastructure that keeps society alive, a dragonlike poisoning of the world itself. Drones, though, are built to punch down neatly enough that the larger flow of the world can just continue: a little chunk of the developing world can be unmade—and let’s be clear, this is literally aerial chevauchee, it’s purpose-built to strike at random at targets that have no defense against it—and that’s their future.

Battlefields will not become war robots versus war robots. It’s going to machines run by billionaire institutions destroying the belongings and lives of normal people because it’s good value in the long run: the multi-million dollar rocket is worth it, because the people targeted that survive will have lost everything to the point that they can never recover. The unmade world…the destroyed cities, the blown up buildings, the dead infrastructure…can’t be rebuilt by the people that lived within it; they don’t have the cash, the resources, and often don’t even have the legal right because the intangible systems that create rights like ownership and compensation are destroyed with the people.

As the world gets more janky, there’s more and more versions of “lesser people can either comply or die” circulating. The excuses we make for firebombing a wedding to kill a guy aren’t much different than the ones we make for no-knock raids, and more nakedly authoritarian countries are aping the language of the War on Terror as they blow apart their own citizenry. We have fundamentally altered the perception of who can be killed, and why, and where, under what conditions, and all of this has been accepted because it was framed as counter-terrorism…but at the same time the definition of “terrorism” bends and twists to include and exclude. We kill a lot of Iraqi peasants with guns and Iraqi peasants near a guy with guns, and no insanely rich Emiratis; we’re furious at the toll of poor Islamic conservatives but indifferent to the insanely rich Islamic conservative nations that fuel conflicts. We don’t even consider the institutions that simply sell weapons indifferent how they will be applied.

I don’t know how to put this that doesn’t sound like doomsaying but…there is a plan for the future of this planet in which oligarchs retain the resources to be comfortable while the rest of the world is seething chaos. The obvious part of this is the mixture climate change denial and speculation in and privatization of assets that will become scarce as the climate worsens…but I would argue that the transformation of the culture of warfare plays into the same oligarchic mindset.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:44:35pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:46:19pm

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gee. I thought I was lucky because my Acme is giving out 10% coupons on your next purchase.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:53:15pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:59:11pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

I do not have any of the sidewalk enabled devices. Yay.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 5, 2021 • 3:59:30pm

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

2024 is shaping up to be a real shitshow but I suppose that’s just how American elections are these days, huh?

The fix is already in. The majority of this country better be prepared for Republican Party elected operatives to set aside popular votes in several states and hand the election to the Republican candidate, most likely Trump.

Trump may already be convicted by then but Constitutionally that doesn’t matter nor does any sense of basic morality enter the picture either.

We better be prepared to deal with a ruling minority intent on authoritarian edict.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:00:55pm

About that Fauci conspiracy nonsense:

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:01:22pm

Israeli security chief warns of Jan. 6-type violence

The director of Israel’s domestic security service, the Shin Bet, warned on Saturday of growing incitement that could lead to politically motivated violence.

Why it matters: Nadav Argaman’s rare public statement raised concerns about the threat of a Jan. 6-style attack in Israel to prevent a peaceful transition of power if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ousted after 12 years in office.

Driving the news: Netanyahu on Friday published a Facebook post that cited a story from the Bible, which compared his political rivals on the right to the spies Moses sent to tour the land of Canaan and that lied to the people when the returned.

According to the Bible, the spies received a punishment from God and died of a plague.
Netanyahu’s right wing rivals who are part of the “change government” - mainly Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett and his party members — have been the subject of social media attacks in recent days by Netanyahu’s supporters.
Netanyahu’s backers demonstrated in front of their houses and sent them text messages with death threats.
The Shin Bet decided to give Bennett a security detail even though he hasn’t assumed office yet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:08:05pm

Every high school graduation is a small miracle.

This one, though, feels more miraculous than most. The boy Rae Carruth once tried to kill has become a young man about to graduate from a Charlotte high school.

Chancellor Lee Adams has already tried on his cap and gown to make sure it fits. He has an orange-and-blue shirt and tie to wear underneath the gown and match his school’s colors. He plans to walk across the stage with the other Vance High graduates at 5:30 p.m. June 5 at Charlotte’s Bojangles’ Coliseum, not with the aid of the walker he uses less and less, but instead standing tall and holding onto the arm of his favorite high-school teacher.

Chancellor Lee is 21 years old. He has permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy owing to the chaotic circumstances of his birth in 1999, when his pregnant mother, Cherica Adams, was shot four times in Charlotte by a hitman hired by Carruth, the former Carolina Panther.

Cherica Adams would eventually die from her injuries that night — her murder trial was nationally televised 20 years ago. But she saved her unborn son’s life with a haunting 12-minute “911” call she made from her car after the drive-by shooting on Nov. 16, 1999.

Carruth was a wide receiver from Sacramento who starred collegiately at Colorado and was the first-round draft pick of the Carolina Panthers in 1997. In 2001, he was convicted by a North Carolina jury of conspiring to murder Adams, his on-and-off girlfriend at the time of the ambush.

more at the link

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:14:14pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:16:40pm

so many new and wonderful phrases!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:19:17pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:24:13pm

Paging Hans Brinker… paging Hans Brinker… you failed:

LAVA BREACHED the Western Defensive Wall 💥 June 5



..

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Dave In Austin  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:26:00pm
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gwangung  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:32:05pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

so many new and wonderful phrases!

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Those threads of Gaiman owning the “alphas” are…exquisite.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:35:23pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:38:34pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

I cannot make out the plate. I think there is a coiled snake in the middle of it. Is that Virginia?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:39:42pm

Oh hell is the orange shitstain doing a rally tonight?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:40:04pm

Busy day under the fumaroles , mag 5.3 and a whole lot of aftershocks:

Volcanos are atypical at a slip fault… but if you’re a spreading ridge things are a bit tricky.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:40:37pm

re: #22 PhillyPretzel

I cannot make out the plate. I think there is a coiled snake in the middle of it. Is that Virginia?

Gadsden flag plate maybe?

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:41:11pm

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

I just checked it on google. It is Virginia.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:41:37pm

re: #22 PhillyPretzel

I cannot make out the plate. I think there is a coiled snake in the middle of it. Is that Virginia?

yes

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:45:10pm

The livestream is at the Russian stooge-site ZeroHedge.

Trump and his inner circle are going to try another violent coup. They got away with it last time, since the only real punishment is being born by a few hundred dupes whom they regard as completely expendable anyway. I think they are counting on major help from the moles who remained in place in various departments.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:45:12pm
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Teddy's Person  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:45:57pm

re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh hell is the orange shitstain doing a rally tonight?

Maybe. He’s currently 45 minutes late. The C-SPAN live stream says it will start “shortly.”

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:46:57pm

re: #30 Teddy’s Person

Maybe. He’s currently 45 minutes late. The C-SPAN live stream says it will start “shortly.”

Being the narcissistic person that he is, Trump gets off on the rush of people waiting for HIM, PERSONALLY, to appear.

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Teddy's Person  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:49:27pm

re: #31 Dopamine Fish

Being the narcissistic person that he is, Trump gets off on the rush of people waiting for HIM, PERSONALLY, to appear.

It really is a “power” play of the narcissist. I have very little patience with people who are consistently, inconsiderately late. My fucking time is valuable to me. Do. Not. Waste. It.

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b.d. (Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up!)  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:49:37pm

re: #30 Teddy’s Person

Maybe. He’s currently 45 minutes late. The C-SPAN live stream says it will start “shortly.”

What on earth could his excuse be for being over 45 minutes late?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:49:59pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:50:21pm

re: #33 b.d. (Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up!)

He is waiting for the meds to kick in.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:50:48pm

re: #32 Teddy’s Person

It really is a “power” play of the narcissist. I have very little patience with people who are consistently, inconsiderately late. My fucking time is valuable to me. Do. Not. Waste. It.

Yeah. I know how much my time is worth. If you don’t, well, that’s your problem, not mine. Call me back when you figure your shit out.

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Teddy's Person  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:51:05pm

re: #33 b.d. (Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up!)

What on earth could his excuse be for being over 45 minutes late?

Waiting for the drugs to kick in.

See D-Fish at #31.

He’s throwing some sort of tantrum.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:51:43pm

Who else made people wait a long time before he spoke?

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:53:06pm

I wouldn’t be as inclined to believe this is just his NPD acting out if it wasn’t a consistent pattern with him. Every single speech, rally, press conference, throughout his entire miserable four years as President**, he was ALWAYS late. ALWAYS. Sometimes it was as little as 15 minutes, but sometimes it was over a fucking hour. That’s intentional.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:53:22pm

re: #33 b.d. (Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up!)

What on earth could his excuse be for being over 45 minutes late?

Too few attendees and he’s trying to figure out how to ban cameras?

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:54:48pm

One of the original dudes in the Guns Save Life org and sign movement was a well-respected Prof. of Physics at the University of Illinois named Richard Klein.

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Teddy's Person  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:55:18pm

At least C-Span is talking about May’s job growth and unemployment dip rather than showing pundits’ breathless anticipation.

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sagehen  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:56:17pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

The livestream is at the Russian stooge-site ZeroHedge.

Trump and his inner circle are going to try another violent coup. They got away with it last time, since the only real punishment is being born by a few hundred dupes whom they regard as completely expendable anyway. I think they are counting on major help from the moles who remained in place in various departments.

Plus Russia is undoubtedly assisting in various ways. Hacks to disable the people who’d protect us, fake orders being issued, weapons…

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:56:36pm

re: #42 Teddy’s Person

At least C-Span is talking about May’s job growth and unemployment dip rather than showing pundits breathless anticipation.

It’s just a shame that 80% of the people who watch C-SPAN are just taking a quick break from Fox, OANN, or Newsmax.

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Teddy's Person  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:57:33pm

re: #39 Dopamine Fish

I wouldn’t be as inclined to believe this is just his NPD acting out if it wasn’t a consistent pattern with him. Every single speech, rally, press conference, throughout his entire miserable four years as President**, he was ALWAYS late. ALWAYS. Sometimes it was as little as 15 minutes, but sometimes it was over a fucking hour. That’s intentional.

I suspect he’s been doing this all his life, which is why I can’t understand how he escaped getting the snot beat out of him on a daily basis.

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Teddy's Person  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:58:32pm

re: #44 Barefoot Grin

It’s just a shame that 80% of the people who watch C-SPAN are just taking a quick break from Fox, OANN, or Newsmax.

I’m sure those RWNJ venues have been pre-gaming all day.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:59:21pm

re: #45 Teddy’s Person

I suspect he’s been doing this all his life, which is why I can’t understand how he escaped getting the snot beat out of him on a daily basis.

He had a rich white daddy. I dunno about you, but in my school, you knew who the privileged people were and why.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 5, 2021 • 4:59:48pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dick van Dyke is looking great for 95. He is a Bernie guy and had this to say about TFG during the 2016 campaign:

“I haven’t been this scared since the Cuban Missile Crisis. I think the human race is hanging in a delicate balance right now, and I’m just so afraid he will put us in a war. He scares me.”

We survived that but it was a close-run thing and it’s not over yet.

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jeffreyw  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:01:24pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:02:09pm

re: #49 jeffreyw

Looks good. :)

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:03:37pm

re: #49 jeffreyw

Where’s the pineapple?

[Ducks.]

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:04:05pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

He’s gonna call for the coup…

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Jay C  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:04:15pm

re: #45 Teddy’s Person

I suspect he’s been doing this all his life, which is why I can’t understand how he escaped getting the snot beat out of him on a daily basis.

Probably because for most of Trump’s career, the people forced to wait for him either
1) Did so because they wanted something from him.
2) Did so because they wanted to do something FOR him.
3) Had no choice (I.e. when he was - disgracefully - President)

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:06:09pm

re: #48 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Dick van Dyke is looking great for 95. He is a Bernie guy and had this to say about TFG during the 2016 campaign:

We survived that but it was a close-run thing and it’s not over yet.

My dad and Dick Van Dyke were likely track rivals—Dad from Champaign, Il and DVD from Danville (along with Gene Hackman and a couple of other famous folks). They are the same age (I’m not sure they ran the same events—dad was hurdles). My dad was clear as a bell until about two years ago. He took care of himself and looks as fit as Dick, but he’s now fully in mental decline. I’m driving out with one of my sons next week to see him and I know it will be heartbreaking. I’m thrilled for Dick, though.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:06:50pm

re: #53 Jay C

Probably because for most of Trump’s career, the people forced to wait for him either
1) Did so because they wanted something from him.
2) Did so because they wanted to do something FOR him.
3) Had no choice (I.e. when he was - disgracefully - President)

Also process-servers and desperate creditors hoping to collect.

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jaunte  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:12:53pm
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Jay C  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:13:36pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Also process-servers and desperate creditors hoping to collect.

They are probably still waiting…..

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:13:36pm

re: #42 Teddy’s Person

At least C-Span is talking about May’s job growth and unemployment dip rather than showing pundits’ breathless anticipation.

That they’re showing it at all is an abomination.

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jaunte  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:14:17pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:15:09pm

Our local NH booze monopoly has Japanese Ozeki “one-cup” sake on sale. It’s the choice of snobby day drunks in Japan. I got one because it had a rainbow label supporting societal diversity (a problem in Japan, too), and though low quality is actual sake—as opposed to your Gekkeikan or Shochikubai, which are fortified with grain alcohol and best used for cooking. Anyway, it’s definitely potable.

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jaunte  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:15:13pm

Defund..and defend… and defund….

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:17:00pm

re: #52 JOE 🥓

He’s gonna call for the coup…

Yep.

“Napoleon’s hat is in the ring.”

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Charles Johnson  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:24:06pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:29:20pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:29:45pm

So much great music on YouTube suddenly!

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:30:27pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:32:23pm

There’s a complete Pat Metheny professionally produced live show doing the “Secret Story” album. I’d post it except Pat’s manager contacted me once and asked me not to post stuff that shows up on YouTube because it’s never with permission unless it’s in Pat’s channel, so I’m honoring that request.

But I watched the fucking video and loved it. It’s not available anywhere else as far as I know.

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nines09  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:32:58pm

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:33:16pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Makes me wonder if maybe you should report it.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:39:06pm

re: #69 Dopamine Fish

I’ve seen videos like it appear before and they’re usually gone in a few days. I think Pat’s manager is doing a good enough job without my help! 🙂

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Teddy's Person  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:39:18pm

re: #68 nines09

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Dave In Austin  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:43:44pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:45:31pm

Lara Trump on Senate bid: ‘No for now, not no forever’

Why run for Senator when your father in law can put you on the Supreme Court if he comes back into power?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:51:12pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:52:28pm

Did he piss off his next door neighbor again?

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jaunte  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:52:28pm

re: #74 Eric The Fruit Bat

Greg Ponzi.

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b.d. (Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up!)  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:53:14pm

re: #74 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Doesn’t blockchain technology need reliable power?

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:53:50pm
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jaunte  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:54:27pm

Blockchain puts money in Abbot’s pocket.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 5:59:29pm
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jaunte  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:00:23pm

re: #77 b.d. (Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up!)

Doesn’t blockchain technology need reliable power?

A few seconds after you posted that my power went out for a minute.

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jaunte  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:01:21pm

Texas power grid defeated by *checks outside*
… rain.

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lawhawk  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:06:05pm

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

The Israeli security forces are not equipped to deal with this kind of threat. They weren’t when Rabin was assassinated, and they aren’t now when right wingers are threatening to overthrow a government to keep Bibi in power.

The threats are the same, and the Israeli military and security forces are still unequipped to deal with things spiraling out of control.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:08:20pm

I’d love to know the recipe for the Earl Grey Mousse on these tartlets!

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mmmirele  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:09:12pm

This has got to hurt:

Golfer Jon Rahm out at Memorial with six-shot lead after positive COVID-19 test

Basically, what happened was this. Contact tracing early this week showed that Rahm had been in contact with a person who has COVID. He had two choices—either withdraw from the tournament, or stay in the tournament and undergo daily testing. He stayed in and his tests for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were clear. His test for today was not. He was tested a second time and it confirmed the earlier result. My brother and I were watching it on TV as tournament people walked out in masks on the 18th to tell him the news. At that point, he was six under par for the day. He walked off the course and signed his card. A few minutes later, the leaderboards were updated to show Morikawa and Cantley in the lead.

news.yahoo.com

The US Open starts on June 17 and Rahm has to stay in isolation until the 15th.

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lawhawk  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:10:49pm

re: #74 Eric The Fruit Bat

NFTs = modern pet rocks.

Prove me wrong.

87
b.d. (Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up!)  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:12:06pm

re: #82 jaunte

Texas power grid defeated by *checks outside*
… rain.

Windmills must have froze again.

//

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:15:06pm

Jerusalem Post:

Iran navy in dash for Atlantic, possibly Venezuela

At least two ships from Iran’s small navy are making a high seas voyage to Venezuela. One of them, called the IRINS Makran may have several small fast boats strapped to its desk according to USNI news. This matters because it will boost the ability of Venezuela to harass ships and also because it shows that Iran has a blue water navy capable of long distance missions.
*snip*
Perhaps historically the Iranian naval foray is similar to the journey of the Goeben and Breslau, two German ships sent to the Ottoman Empire in August 1914 that encouraged Turkey to join the war against the allies. In this case though Iran’s ships, if they do make it to Venezuela, will be more a curiosity. They may provide Iran some propaganda points, if they don’t sink on the way.

Does the Post knows something we don’t?

Makran is one of Iran’s “sea base” ships, an old tanker outfitted with large helicopter facilities, extra accommodation, dry and ammunition transport space, extra boats, and fairly heavy armament. The similar (though smaller) Kharg is the ship that caught fire and sank for no obvious reason last week in the Gulf of Oman.

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Semper Fi  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:15:21pm

re: #85 mmmirele

This has got to hurt:

Basically, what happened was this. Contact tracing early this week showed that Rahm had been in contact with a person who has COVID. He had two choices—either withdraw from the tournament, or stay in the tournament and undergo daily testing. He stayed in and his tests for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were clear. His test for today was not. He was tested a second time and it confirmed the earlier result. My brother and I were watching it on TV as tournament people walked out in masks on the 18th to tell him the news. At that point, he was six under par for the day. He walked off the course and signed his card. A few minutes later, the leaderboards were updated to show Morikawa and Cantley in the lead.

news.yahoo.com

The US Open starts on June 17 and Rahm has to stay in isolation until the 15th.

Is Jon Rahm a no-vaxxer???
-or-
Is he positive despite being vaccinated??

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:21:35pm
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nines09  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:22:27pm

PKWspExhZ5UxHd5+3Zz6m8J+0/qt87b6IybmM6IEZmt6btC3y895qj8yFds2jyBjTdmfUFXlJoJUq7yMitGnji8QbfpjyjVvobF3FYQ71Ybz8fQMCOIPJRayeC8140WXUhZ9HmBCXxmfu24rN1pBB39WkFFtR99zVmol5VsNRgSPvB+l4Sk5WYo3M+WxuflADczmTTYPFJVt8Vm6kitP2x5ViG2GvdXJ/+v0hNpJQw2bg7ZNIrwmdWbjWbn5nwdgw3mjiiJfIiQiiCb/duZMMUtFk1wNEFAE0UBANp90w2uNzOCOKbqG39H1CF/rkLTZh7/71/p6ZIIzES1Beg+CCY2wkorFaPseMk0YgXvdca1G0Cwo3Gz/MASjVnC9zE3MmmiXfeJ1VmHvFEfdSoWhicoMqXIwlkNrhzAiJx/oBZoN4Z4swZowjMgHLPB5wk2Izvsw9ch7ofKpm8C1XuFBWit+mGPtz4dzKQctTjUVj3MA7xuUOgG+tfgfz9/CZv2PRq6oOPi5ZgompfbXdU2l6RVpdppezZ2Bdz1VkBVAtO2cAJt0s2Gi1xVufyvi8mGGzAJ1LXku9gDLIkOTJbr9WKbI2rii/LzBvZaD5pEroWy2ZsG/mXUNUXiMsGKvDrgnhiO9OxvI9+8MviVEP47sAiaAZtFojh7FbjeDr0VtMDUr/jXikgNU5W6axD6Ek0MyR2HP8y+Z1+D02yxNWtdUrut/nvfDx1RS735/Pr2kv04PZUp9JlDV4w==

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:27:53pm

re: #86 lawhawk

NFTs = modern pet rocks.

Prove me wrong.

Can you launder money with a pet rock.

Asking for a friend.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:28:34pm

WHOA!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:30:27pm

no cicadas here in TheBackwoods, but the lightning bugs have arrived.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:32:30pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:34:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:35:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:37:04pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:40:00pm

re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth

no cicadas here in TheBackwoods, but the lightning bugs have arrived.

I lived through the brood in 2004 in Indiana, and there were fireflies (in Illinois when I was growing up we used both “firefly” and “lightning bug”). Now, in NH we have black flies, mosquito hordes, and ticks a-plenty. And yet, everyone seems to want to move here as real estate moves yet again beyond my grasp. Need to go back to lightning bug area.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:41:37pm

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

OOPS!

Somebody had a fall out with Little Miss Pants Presser!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:42:42pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:43:29pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:44:29pm

re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth

We have done a disservice to the world by constantly presenting the notion that for someone to do great harm as a leader there must be intelligence and a plan.

The greatest corpse piles in history were all assembled by mediocre duffers who couldn’t tell their emotional life from reality and had vast armies of followers willing to facilitate their utterly, crippling stupid ideas.

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nines09  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:45:34pm

re: #91 nines09

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JC1  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:45:39pm

re: #86 lawhawk

NFTs = modern pet rocks.

Prove me wrong.

Pet rocks have more utility. Paperweights, weapons, toys, etc.

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:47:37pm

re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Overlord + 77.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:47:53pm

heh

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:49:39pm

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

And this is what is happening in Philly.
weather.gov

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:50:53pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:52:00pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:55:32pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:56:25pm
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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:57:56pm

re: #113 JOE 🥓

I’m curious what Italy’s angle is on this supposed scheme. Why in the actual bejesusing fuck would they be trying to throw the election? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m sure they are MUCH happier to have a sane and rational person in the White House as compared to the former guy, but I doubt the Republicans are going to claim that as their reason.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:58:18pm

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 6:59:05pm

re: #114 Dopamine Fish

I’m curious what Italy’s angle is on this supposed scheme. Why in the actual bejesusing fuck would they be trying to throw the election? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m sure they are MUCH happier to have a sane and rational person in the White House as compared to the former guy, but I doubt the Republicans are going to claim that as their reason.

Don’t worry. Next week the QAssholes will shift the blame to Lichtenstein or Andorra.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:00:34pm

re: #116 JOE 🥓

Don’t worry. Next week the QAssholes will shift the blame to Lichtenstein or Andorra.

They seem weirdly focused on Europe. I remember that one of the original conspiracies was that the FBI (or somebody?) had raided Dominion Voting Systems servers in Germany.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:01:36pm

State Flower of Pennsylvania—the Mountain Laurel.

We had one bush of these in Ambridge and when it bloomed the flowers were so beautiful and fragrant!

119
nines09  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:02:13pm

re: #75 JOE 🥓

Oh NOE

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:05:16pm

re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

77 years ago tonight. D-Day as it happened.

[Embedded content]

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:07:47pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

They had to have good poker faces.

and of course Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
en.wikipedia.org

122
nines09  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:08:03pm

re: #118 JOE 🥓

Been all through Pennsylvanian and if the soil and altitude is right it’s beautiful.
Had a whole hillside of rhododendron and laurel along US 11-15 just north of Girtys Notch before they dynamited and widened the road.
Outside of Sideling Hill in Pa was another spot if you hit at bloom was stunning.

123
The Ghost of a Flea  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:08:13pm

re: #104 The Ghost of a Flea

This applies to current problems like climate change.

There are absolutely people that imagine that they’ve got a plan to thrive as the world changes, and have concocted ways to both monetize the collapse and built shelters for themselves…but these people are not actually that smart, because their basic premise is some kind of nice smooth arc of collapse when the progress of climate is an unknown unknown. They’re just doing the multimillionaire version of the prepper fantasy that compels people to buy giant buckets of freeze-dried slop…they’re dumb and they’re going to kill us.

With everything relating to Trump and Trump followers: it doesn’t matter that it makes no sense, yields no profit, they will do the thing they set out to do because they’re totally assured of their superiority. And when it fails they will create an external source of failure and destroy it.

The Nazis killed more people in a shorter period of time than anybody else and diverted a bunch of war resources to building rockets that couldn’t hit a precise fucking target because the leader’s feelings were hurt, and the only solace was terrorizing London. Their fucking historians so firmly believed the Pyramids were built by Aryans that they had plans to fake discoveries of shit that proved their thesis.

There is a terrifying, leaden power to hubris that cannot be diverted through analysis or skepticism.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:09:43pm
125
PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:12:08pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am not surprised. DT loves to tell stories like any con man.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:14:23pm
127
nines09  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:15:51pm

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

ASK Trump about the four dead US troops in Niger he never fucking mentioned, or even met with the families.
*spit*

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mmmirele  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:17:14pm

re: #74 Eric The Fruit Bat

I’m just going to point out that my friend David Gerard (author of two books on cryptocurrency) thinks all of this is complete horseshit. Speaking of which, here’s the article he wrote for Foreign Policy about how Chia and its proof of work by using hard disk space is completely messing up the SDD market (with a side trip into yeah, don’t buy a used high-end video card either).

foreignpolicy.com

My brother, who does not read any of this stuff, pointed out this afternoon something that Gerard has said several times—that governments are going to shut down bitcoin, the blockchain and the rest of it because the problem with ransomware is just getting out of hand. I was actually kind of astonished, but it seems so obvious, bitcoin is causing a lot of unintended problems (not to mention the serious usage of electricity and CO2 creation), best to shut it down.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:19:33pm

re: #128 mmmirele

Blockchain technology has a lot of potentially intriguing uses. However, its initial use case for cryptocurrency might just kill it off.

130
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:25:14pm
131
Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:26:16pm

re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth

I haven’t slept in days. DAYS

Please send help

132
PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:27:52pm

re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth

Joe dresses better than DT. Joe has a team of real professionals. DT has his fellow con men.

133
Sherlock Hound  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:31:01pm

re: #128 mmmirele

I buy server parts like others build gaming PC’s. This year, prices are out of sight on everything I buy. AMD server boards are expensive, processors moreso. Intel? Server CPU’s?
Even worse. Hard drives? Good luck. I mercifully declined to look up ECC memory.

134
PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:33:47pm

Thank you to the person who put me at 55,000 karma points. Tomorrow will be the Champagne Brunch or maybe a dinner.

135
A Mom Anon  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:34:44pm

re: #132 PhillyPretzel

Can you imagine opting to live in a suit if you didn’t actually have to? Suits and golf clothes, why not anything else ever? It’s weird, and not in a fun way.

136
BeachDem  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:35:42pm

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Looks like the same impressive care as his Easter ensemble from 2018

or his visit with Queen Elizabeth

137
PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:36:05pm

re: #135 A Mom Anon

DT is weird. He has a lot of problems.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:36:38pm

re: #136 BeachDem

Looks like the same impressive care as his Easter ensemble from 2018

[Embedded content]

Elizabeth be like, “You fucking twat. Do you see those wrinkles in your pants?!”

139
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:37:09pm
140
jaunte  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:38:25pm

re: #135 A Mom Anon

It’s as if he received a list of rules from his dad about how successful men dress and behave which was fixed at about 1935 and he can’t evolve. And he’s bad at the list that he has.

141
PhillyPretzel  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:39:26pm

re: #138 Dopamine Fish

More like “If he says one nasty word to me I will sic Philip on him.”

142
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:42:11pm
143
nines09  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:44:21pm

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

Fucking face down drunk in a backwoods dredged out sump pump piney sheen cheap swill and three ways out hole looks better.

144
BeachDem  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:44:33pm

re: #138 Dopamine Fish

Elizabeth be like, “You fucking twat. Do you see those wrinkles in your pants?!”

Between his wrinkled suit and Melon’s “fitted” suit, there was much to observe. Poor Elizabeth

145
JOE 🥓  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:47:58pm

re: #144 BeachDem

Between his wrinkled suit and Melon’s “fitted” suit, there was much to observe. Poor Elizabeth

[Embedded content]

She needed a set of rabies shots after coming into contact with those assholes!

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mmmirele  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:49:13pm

re: #89 Semper Fi

Is Jon Rahm a no-vaxxer???
-or-
Is he positive despite being vaccinated??

It is completely unclear. He is a Spanish citizen, not sure how vaccines work in that kind of a situation (i.e., can he get a vaccine in the USA, or does he have to go back to Spain?).

In other news: My brother had been complaining about his neck earlier today.

caoYadQxsYFhVBMnOLiJY2/9dHSZBoxYNWxeyqR3beStimC1D0RgbrVVqwZlx42loC7AYZSBAnnKufEG8GUj+QI+IfWi0hHZyShlSfeyvzX+iFFUgsQtqAqUhL8Rq13r2KNGKBvJaeXMZe/1vlnhPwzp3nkMrlsaigM0ssjvcv8YjwkVIbqCK3DFZ+mqRtPKg2wHYD9r44yTmnehoJnqZFYj9BwNMRN7XOn/tPLIivc8PhyNAARj2xAOCiW/J+pdGsQMcpFipLXYPe1JoVwOsDD5R8qg17G9ol2F1t2cvOIQsnuwcsDzpVQD1h8SvGFCm87tXBkRAIWkpFzd9JxU8XqNHyVMJneVwBzLOwWmYCwxFPkDkJAKIaui+65qRNaUqR2PDcIUcdtJ+NZIIxJ9uQhjgs506WcCY1Ec2VtjIsAA1rqqCFXzjGA7Gv6M0oi6SVHMJXflRhVxedxfvCsWlfDdRW66VCLX9Pvbj6jp4+YROkGogMmbdO7bn6BqnlclDfNympVjjHBj8IHN0lmL5Kum1v2BfYHS/y2AFUui/xaiQt109Mm4OgoKcF837FUbyL3M0bwFrWPBip+NLW2lm6/Zc2F+qqg4HDRjjs33AIeNScofQEfQ0jGGwir0xw4im841Fs6ggkhI+x+K3RC/X4niADYbVwANY6ydyLI1WNeRzjy0xe1ADqJZ194IBD3Ju5B7HxlNsuZI6mn1/5nPmIu2Y6MAQSKSa5H483kz+tgWtM7Mh+K4EQVCX2VlV4x01Xok5sEJ2d4yEHlZ4nxPGdQrO/AjK2lB3UNQtOK8C2NQqkoszub86eeZqdOgufBIDpsAf28G3Hvc8XfMd9+HCwG3WRyLE9U9YxNBIr6l+M6ba0qw1iu/3a9CV3NqDcoq

I knew there was a reason I put picketing Mark Driscoll’s church on ice because of the weirdness there. This may be it.

147
I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:49:52pm

I love this. I love this. This I love.

148
Patricia Kayden  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:59:00pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

The issue is not that some of us are ignoring Trump and the danger he poses to our democracy. The issue is that we can’t do anything about it beyond voting for Democrats, two of whom will do nothing to end the filibuster to protect voting rights.

What else are we supposed to do?

149
Hecuba's daughter  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:59:05pm

I am not a fan of Maureen Dowd but a few of her comments today on UFO’s really strike me as reasonable (ok — she wasn’t the source, but she did report the observation and give it more publicity).

Some argue that, if it were aliens, they would have the technology to buzz our planes without being detected.

One Redditor, SentientHotdogWater, disagrees: “If we flew drones over a wildlife sanctuary to observe monkeys we wouldn’t identify ourselves to the monkeys, but at the same time we wouldn’t really be too concerned if the monkeys saw one of the drones.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 5, 2021 • 7:59:52pm

re: #148 Patricia Kayden

The issue is not that some of us are ignoring Trump and the danger he poses to our democracy. The issue is that we can’t do anything about it beyond voting for Democrats, two of whom will do nothing to end the filibuster to protect voting rights.

What else are we supposed to do?

Get more Democratic Senators and keep the ones we do have.

151
Florida Panhandler  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:08:44pm

re: #79 jaunte

Blockchain puts money in Abbot’s pocket.

Also precedes a Secession strategy for a Texas official cryptocurrency once Republicans commit election fraud, take over the government, and allow states to secede.

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The GOP is a terrorist organization  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:12:24pm
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sagehen  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:22:33pm

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

Before D-Day launched, Eisenhower wrote two letters. One for if it succeeded (crediting both American troops and the Allies), the other for if it failed (taking full responsibility, and apologizing for not predicting and making plans to compensate for whatever the issue was that made it a failure).

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:23:00pm

re: #148 Patricia Kayden

The issue is not that some of us are ignoring Trump and the danger he poses to our democracy. The issue is that we can’t do anything about it beyond voting for Democrats, two of whom will do nothing to end the filibuster to protect voting rights.

What else are we supposed to do?

The two sites below are activist groups for democratic causes, keyed to the locality of the person who goes there, so I have no idea what you’ll see, but you may find something that looks good to you.

swingleft.org

mobilize.us

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sagehen  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:33:29pm

re: #136 BeachDem

Looks like the same impressive care as his Easter ensemble from 2018

[Embedded content]

The WaPo fashion editor had a lot to say about Trump’s attire when he met the Queen.

washingtonpost.com

Fashion is diplomacy, and so what did this wardrobe say?

For any man to bungle white-tie dress — something so regimented, so steeped in tradition, so well-documented — he must be a man who doesn’t bother with the details, who doesn’t avail himself of ready expertise, who refuses to be a student of history or even of Google. White-tie attire is more science than art. The fit of the tailcoat is just so. Great flapping yards of the white waistcoat are not meant to hang below the jacket. The sleeves should not stretch to the base of the thumb. The jacket is not to be buttoned. And so on. White tie is fact-based. One cannot fudge it. One does not make white-tie decisions based on one’s gut, lest one end up with the gut overly exposed.

The president’s iteration of white tie at the state banquet at Buckingham Palace was, in a word, a mess. The waistcoat was too long and too tight. The tailcoat did not fit. The trousers were voluminous. And the man himself looked so ill at ease in the whole unfortunate kit that his awkwardness loomed over him like Pig-Pen’s dust cloud.

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austin_blue  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:35:24pm

re: #89 Semper Fi

Is Jon Rahm a no-vaxxer???
-or-
Is he positive despite being vaccinated??

Spanish Citizen, under 30, maybe still ineligible in the State where he lives?

157
Dangerman  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:36:26pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]That was a boobytrap’: Trump offers new explanation for his bizarre walk down West Point ramp
rawstory.com

it definitely caught one

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:36:27pm

Live stream from southern end of valley, not far from the sea:

Geldingadalir Volcano, Iceland - Nátthagi camera



Just a minute ago a steam-vortex formed at the front edge of the flow (as the lava has nearly covered the seasonal pond)! Looked like a water-spout. Awesome. (It was drizzling earlier).

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Dangerman  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:38:09pm

re: #92 The Ghost of a Flea

Can you launder money with a pet rock.

Asking for a friend.

you can launder on a pet rock

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 5, 2021 • 8:41:39pm

re: #158 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Go to where that video is 03:33:00 (time stamp in lower right of video), watch the steam start to be caught up in a vortex, on the right of your screen, then it wanders off to the right.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 6, 2021 • 5:21:42am

re: #128 mmmirele

Crypto currencies are nothing more than prosecution futures, in the words of Yves Smith over at Naked Capitalism.


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