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)
But I tried to get back into Trump’s graces and you Georgia Republicans censured me because I certified Biden and upheld the law!
Here’s a version of the resolution that just passed at the GOP convention that “censured” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for “dereliction of his Constitutional duty” and calls on @GovKemp to “repair the damage that has been done.” #gapol pic.twitter.com/l5mE8Mbg9L
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) June 5, 2021
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?
Pizza Tonight pic.twitter.com/AIVvd8KEpu
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) June 5, 2021
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.
There is no better time than now to sign up for your vaccine at https://t.co/OOO3XBV5WW. Kentuckians who have received their first shot can enter a chance to win $1 million dollars or one of 15 scholarships. https://t.co/Iu8qkHcJkT.
— Governor Andy Beshear (@GovAndyBeshear) June 5, 2021
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gee. I thought I was lucky because my Acme is giving out 10% coupons on your next purchase.
If you’ve got an Amazon Echo or Ring, it’s about to start sharing your Wi-Fi network with your neighbors.
Here’s what privacy experts are worried about — and how you can opt out of it.https://t.co/kycLILmYzz— NPR (@NPR) June 5, 2021
re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth
I do not have any of the sidewalk enabled devices. Yay.
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.
About that Fauci conspiracy nonsense:
Following up on my emails to Dr. Fauci from early 2020 about SARS-CoV-2 (nCoV), a couple of important questions came up:
1. What looked engineered to you?
2. What made you change your mind?
👇 pic.twitter.com/RFJ9iSNOT0— Kristian G. Andersen (@K_G_Andersen) June 4, 2021
Here’s my previous tweet, linking to the email in question.
Textbook example of why it’s so important we stick to the scientific method of data and evidence, and don’t resort to unsupported speculation.https://t.co/wpixohFdqY— Kristian G. Andersen (@K_G_Andersen) June 4, 2021
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.
TODAY is the day for Chancellor Lee Adams, the son of Rae Carruth and Cherica Adams.
He will graduate from Vance High School in Charlotte today at 5:30 pm.
Here’s a bonus photo we didn’t use in our original @theobserver piece, plus that story ICYMI: https://t.co/bql7GhUi27 pic.twitter.com/LVKV0yudlt— Scott Fowler (@scott_fowler) June 5, 2021
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
Surreal TV moment as six-stroke leader Jon Rahm learns he tested positive for COVID and Jim Nantz tries to make sense of it without knowing what Rahm’s been told pic.twitter.com/WvD6LmAlxs
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 5, 2021
Rahm’s a good guy. I don’t think the personal attacks are warranted. https://t.co/uAe4tE5pGb
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 5, 2021
so many new and wonderful phrases!
Holy fuck you’ve really upset the tender loin clackwankers with your fictional world of words- I hope they all wake up with buttons for eyes https://t.co/IZNJerSs8u
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) June 5, 2021
Will end up killing these people. Trump thinks he’s swell. 0/10 #KimJungUn pic.twitter.com/UfbgyPC6Ta
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) June 5, 2021
Nothing sez “Small Johnson” like……….
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 5, 2021
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
so many new and wonderful phrases!
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Those threads of Gaiman owning the “alphas” are…exquisite.
The “guns save lives” bumper sticker juxtaposed with the gun as a threat of political assassination and murder because zealots are unable to see anyone they disagree with as human.
They also cannot comprehend irony.
Or that they have, in point of fact, become terrorists. https://t.co/nKzj6BK2B6— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 5, 2021
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?
Oh hell is the orange shitstain doing a rally tonight?
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?
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
I just checked it on google. It is Virginia.
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
#BREAKING Trump vows ‘we’re going to take back the White House sooner than you think’ #DonaldTrump #WhiteHouse #TheUSsun #Breakingnewshttps://t.co/iuAOL7wDcp https://t.co/TkMfHqskkJ pic.twitter.com/tLydnSAAiF
— 🌎 Sarwar 🌐 (@ferozwala) June 5, 2021
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.
President Biden has resumed the tradition of inviting Kennedy Center honorees to the White House — something his predecessor decided to skip.
In a year of “profound loss and pain,” Biden said, “the artist’s vision is as important as ever.”https://t.co/qTx4VTG8tp— NPR (@NPR) June 4, 2021
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.”
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.
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.
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?
Trump chose North Carolina convention speech over rally to avoid embarrassment of empty seats: Former RNC spokesperson https://t.co/MVKzHZXGB2 pic.twitter.com/SErLTuCqIx
— 🌊 R Saddler (@Politics_PR) June 5, 2021
re: #33 b.d. (Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up!)
He is waiting for the meds to kick in.
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.
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.
Who else made people wait a long time before he spoke?
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.
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?
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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At least C-Span is talking about May’s job growth and unemployment dip rather than showing pundits’ breathless anticipation.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tonight’s Pizza pic.twitter.com/2sf9EdOqah
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) June 5, 2021
re: #28 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
He’s gonna call for the coup…
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)
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.
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.
Are any of the cable nets carrying this? Other than C-Span?
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 6, 2021
re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Also process-servers and desperate creditors hoping to collect.
They are probably still waiting…..
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.
Pour one out for @ddale8 tonight, folks…
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 6, 2021
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.
I just had a revelation that the big strong guys in hardhats who are always coming up to Donald Trump with tears rolling down their faces, calling him “sir,” are all actually one person…
Trump’s father.
ok i’ll show myself out— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 6, 2021
but i’m kinda serious too
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 6, 2021
So, Trump Now Wants To Run For Congress, Become Speaker, and Impeach Biden .
Who flicked his “Crazy’s switch? pic.twitter.com/7L1NNjBCfX— JFK (@JFKtheone) June 5, 2021
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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re: #67 Charles Johnson
Makes me wonder if maybe you should report it.
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! 🙂
re: #68 nines09
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It is a great fucking song and so is this version of it from Live From Darryl’s House! https://t.co/cEoYVIrZtY
— Todd Martin (@tmartatx) June 6, 2021
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?
#BREAKING: Lara Trump says whether or not she will run for Senate https://t.co/DIcpJkEXIk pic.twitter.com/WbHPldAzp7
— The Hill (@thehill) June 6, 2021
Blockchain is a booming industry that Texas needs to be involved in.
I just signed a law for Texas to create a master plan for expanding the blockchain industry in Texas.#Blockchain #Bitcoin#cryptocurrency pic.twitter.com/bMKXxxYooe— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 5, 2021
Did he piss off his next door neighbor again?
Rand Paul reveals he’s received death threats amid clashes with Fauci https://t.co/cr85XJ5i7R pic.twitter.com/fIuDxhMOzo
— The Hill (@thehill) June 6, 2021
Newsmax, along with One America News (OAN), takes Trump’s NC GOP Convention speech live - Fox News doesn’t.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) June 6, 2021
Thread: A locally prominent right-wing caravan and rally organizer with ties to Proud Boys, the Recall Newsom Campaign, and local Republican Party officials co-runs a neo-nazi telegram channel with her husband, a self-described nazi. Meet Chelsea and Victor Knight from Auburn, CA pic.twitter.com/fFvfNo124U
— Borwin (@Borwin10) May 27, 2021
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.
Texas power grid defeated by *checks outside*
… rain.
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.
I’d love to know the recipe for the Earl Grey Mousse on these tartlets!
I made these lovely little strawberry-lime tartlets with Earl Gray mousse and the truth is, they aren’t better than just eating plain fresh strawberries. I love June. pic.twitter.com/urTh91NOIq
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) June 6, 2021
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.
The US Open starts on June 17 and Rahm has to stay in isolation until the 15th.
re: #82 jaunte
Texas power grid defeated by *checks outside*
… rain.
Windmills must have froze again.
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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.
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.
The US Open starts on June 17 and Rahm has to stay in isolation until the 15th.
Is Jon Rahm a no-vaxxer???
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Is he positive despite being vaccinated??
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) June 6, 2021
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re: #86 lawhawk
NFTs = modern pet rocks.
Prove me wrong.
Can you launder money with a pet rock.
Asking for a friend.
WHOA!
Jim Acosta gives zero fucks.
Take 1 minute and watch; you deserve this.
pic.twitter.com/3kN5hlv5dq— Jesus Fucking Christ 🌈 (@SHEsus__Christ) June 5, 2021
no cicadas here in TheBackwoods, but the lightning bugs have arrived.
Background here: pic.twitter.com/p8ALaHjndD
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 6, 2021
“I’m not the one trying to undermine American democracy.”
No. Actually he is.— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 6, 2021
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Lying.— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 6, 2021
This is literally what he’s been thinking about every single day since he got kicked out of office.
Every time he was laughed at, mocked on social media, the butt of a joke. It’s eating him alive. And if he gets half a chance, he’s going to make every single one of us pay. https://t.co/qYcD4CRAtY— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 6, 2021
Oh, yeah — low energy mashed potato brains is going to be a wonderful nominee in ‘24. https://t.co/XU6znP0eoJ
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) June 6, 2021
OMG is this a real pic or photo-shopped? I mean seriously, ‘his handlers’ let him out dressed like this? #MAGA #CULT pic.twitter.com/fE3FT4hX3h
— Archivist1000 (@Archivist1000) June 6, 2021
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.
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Somebody had a fall out with Little Miss Pants Presser!
Done at 1 hr, 25 min.
So he spent a full 20 minutes, or 23.5 percent of his remarks, undermining American democracy by claiming that elections are rigged and corrupt.— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 6, 2021
Exactly 50 years after the Freedom Riders were beaten by a white mob, Patterson welcomed 10 of them back to Montgomery in 2011, for the dedication of a museum honoring them. “It took a lot of nerve and guts to do what they did,” Patterson said. https://t.co/LHkvY33vqm
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 5, 2021
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.
re: #91 nines09
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re: #86 lawhawk
NFTs = modern pet rocks.
Prove me wrong.
Pet rocks have more utility. Paperweights, weapons, toys, etc.
re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Overlord + 77.
heh
The snowfall forecast for the next 24 hours is…..0 Temperatures will reach into the 80s for Sunday. pic.twitter.com/9vnBrd6JJU
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) June 6, 2021
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
And this is what is happening in Philly.
weather.gov
I like that Trump takes credit for the vaccine in a speech to the one demographic least likely to get the vaccine. #TrumpSpeech
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 6, 2021
YOU care. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here.
And ignoring sedition is how you end up one day in the middle of a revolution — and not the kind that results in democracy and a new Republic, but the kind that inevitably ends in mass graves and genocide. https://t.co/N8aWHF1KAq— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 6, 2021
The music before the speech was the theme song from Titanic. The music just after the speech ended was YMCA. I’m serious on both.
— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) June 6, 2021
We are at a place where Republican voters can more easily be convinced that Italy (?) secretly altered ballots using remote technology than that simply more people voted for a normal candidate from the opposing party
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) June 5, 2021
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.
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump and numerous Republicans are running on an Authoritarian ticket and they’re already making it harder to vote. I would love to ignore him but it won’t make him go away.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 6, 2021
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.
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.
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!
Mountain Laurel pic.twitter.com/4aO8fBLowR
— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) June 6, 2021
re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
77 years ago tonight. D-Day as it happened.
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— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 6, 2021
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
They had to have good poker faces.
and of course Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
en.wikipedia.org
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.
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.
Of course, he made the whole fucking thing up but ok suckers https://t.co/rx3KTN4cv1
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 6, 2021
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am not surprised. DT loves to tell stories like any con man.
Free Cat Scratching Post pic.twitter.com/h9DSc4h38c
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) June 6, 2021
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*
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).
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.
re: #128 mmmirele
Blockchain technology has a lot of potentially intriguing uses. However, its initial use case for cryptocurrency might just kill it off.
Please help me make sense of the pants. pic.twitter.com/rG8KQNoy6U
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) June 6, 2021
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
Joe dresses better than DT. Joe has a team of real professionals. DT has his fellow con men.
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.
Thank you to the person who put me at 55,000 karma points. Tomorrow will be the Champagne Brunch or maybe a dinner.
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.
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Looks like the same impressive care as his Easter ensemble from 2018
or his visit with Queen Elizabeth
re: #135 A Mom Anon
DT is weird. He has a lot of problems.
re: #136 BeachDem
Looks like the same impressive care as his Easter ensemble from 2018
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Elizabeth be like, “You fucking twat. Do you see those wrinkles in your pants?!”
something about this I just don’t trust pic.twitter.com/Tx5AhTJVp8
— shauna (@goldengateblond) June 6, 2021
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.
re: #138 Dopamine Fish
More like “If he says one nasty word to me I will sic Philip on him.”
NPR calling them lies. This is progress. https://t.co/mo9vQe9dU2
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) June 6, 2021
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.
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
re: #144 BeachDem
Between his wrinkled suit and Melon’s “fitted” suit, there was much to observe. Poor Elizabeth
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She needed a set of rabies shots after coming into contact with those assholes!
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.
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I knew there was a reason I put picketing Mark Driscoll’s church on ice because of the weirdness there. This may be it.
I love this. I love this. This I love.
C-SPAN cameras spotted Kellyanne Conway in the audience. #TrumpSpeech #NorthCarolina @KellyannePolls @gtconway3d pic.twitter.com/K0vlfDqcSr
— Matt Gaetz’ Liver 🍸 (@MattGaetzLiver) June 6, 2021
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?
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.”
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.
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.
#MAGA🏳️🌈 🙃#photography #streetphotography pic.twitter.com/J9nF32Q0oL
— Hal Perry (@halperry) June 3, 2021
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).
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.
re: #136 BeachDem
Looks like the same impressive care as his Easter ensemble from 2018
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The WaPo fashion editor had a lot to say about Trump’s attire when he met the Queen.
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.
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?
re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth
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rawstory.com
it definitely caught one
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
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.