Bitcoin is struggling in the marketplace, Elon Musk breaks up with them on Twitter, President Trump comes out against the cryptocurrency, and the FBI finally figures out how to track the untraceable currency. #DailyShow #Bitcoin #Crypto
Online currency is traceable? Lol sorry not sorry. Ffs.
re: #1 Rightwingconspirator
How are you doing these days? Don’t see enough of you here.
re: #1 Rightwingconspirator
Online currency is traceable? Lol sorry not sorry. Ffs.
An FBI Cybersecurity Agent told me a couple of years ago that when TOR and bitcoin became widespread, it increased their investigation to arrest time on average from 3 weeks to 3 months. It wasn’t a golden ticket to crime with impunity, it was just an annoyance for law enforcement.
re: #3 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
An FBI Cybersecurity Agent told me a couple of years ago that when TOR and bitcoin became widespread, it increased their investigation to arrest time on average from 3 weeks to 3 months. It wasn’t a golden ticket to crime with impunity, it was just an annoyance for law enforcement.
Tor is a bigger problem for them. If you are careful, you can be essentially untouchable. Bitcoin is easy to trace and most people are idiots. ;) They need either a honeypot or a mistake to deal with TOR.
If it ever comes to that for freedom in the US, remember that.
Interesting description of some Intra-Democratic tensions in the Virginia Primary. This is exactly what happened to me there. It was a bit uncomfortable:
On the Democratic side, a close race between Del. Ibraheem S. Samirah (Fairfax) and Irene Shin in Fairfax County showcased a divide between the establishment and its more aggressive left flank — only in this case the establishment has lined up behind the challenger, Shin.
Outside Fox Mill Elementary School in Herndon, the intraparty tensions were on full display. Samirah greeted voters, opening each conversation with “Hi, I’m your state delegate, Ibraheem Samirah.” State Sen. Jennifer B. Boysko (D-Fairfax) was there as well, standing next to Samirah and telling voters to choose Shin, the director of a nonprofit voter advocacy group.
Samirah, who splashed onto the scene when he stood to yell, “You can’t send us back!” during a Trump speech in Virginia, has rankled party leaders with his rejection of the “Virginia way,” the rules of decorum that have governed Virginia politics for generations.
…snip…
During the final days before the election, Shin’s donors — including a group with unknown ties called the Democratic Principles PAC — poured tens of thousands of dollars into the race. Samirah was at the Herndon school to inform voters of those donations, calling it “dark money” — as Boysko told them that Shin would be a more collaborative lawmaker in Richmond.
Three Democratic incumbents, one Republican ousted in Virginia House primaries
washingtonpost.com
This is going to be a watershed. Strange things are afoot online right now, as the US stretches its cyber legs on a number of fronts, from RICO to ransomware response to foreign interference. https://t.co/ondXSfy95h
— Alistair Croll @ localhost (@acroll) June 8, 2021
re: #2 retired cynic
How are you doing these days? Don’t see enough of you here.
Life has been busy. Doing okay. Integrating my two cats with the other two slowly. Thats been interesting.
Hey, Charles, I tried to send a private message to you a couple of days ago. Did you not see it?
Southwest Colorado.
#DoloresRiver running 2 CFS at Bedrock. Horrible. pic.twitter.com/6LRjWb4yuT
— Rig to Flip (@rigtoflip) June 7, 2021
re: #10 teleskiguy
tears
There was a program on NPR this afternoon on water out west, focusing on the Colorado. Ghastly.
My thoughts on the highly successful “Operation Trojan Shield” which put > 11,800 “secure” devices in the hands of over 300 transnational criminal orgs and garnered 20M messages @FBI @TheJusticeDept @AusFedPolice Kudos! #crime #anom https://t.co/0ieIAR8QFN via @ClearanceJobs
— Christopher Burgess (@burgessct) June 8, 2021
re: #13 JOE 🥓
Pulpit Pimp Johnny Enlow can’t stop lying.
He Says Support for Trump Is a Measure of One’s Loyalty to God.
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As an inverse relationship, yes.
I’m so old, I remember when wingnuts used to accuse Obama supporters of viewing him as “The Messiah.”
re: #15 Targetpractice
I’m so old, I remember when wingnuts used to accuse Obama supporters of viewing him as “The Messiah.”
They project like IMAX. Everything, literally everything they accuse others of, they have done, are doing, or plan to do soon.
It’s so bad, I wouldn’t be surprised if we find a conservative pedophile ring hidden at a restaurant at some point.
re: #11 retired cynic
tears
There was a program on NPR this afternoon on water out west, focusing on the Colorado. Ghastly.
And on a related note, Ammon Bundy of occupying Malheur Wildlife Refuge infamy, is now mobilizing to fight against water restrictions in Oregon.
Anti-Government ‘People’s Rights’ Group Is Mobilizing to Fight the Government Over Water - vice.com
re: #17 aatharuv
And on a related note, Ammon Bundy of occupying Malheur Wildlife Refuge infamy, is now mobilizing to fight against water restrictions in Oregon.
Anti-Government ‘People’s Rights’ Group Is Mobilizing to Fight the Government Over Water - vice.com
Cue the party of “Law & Order” (*dun dun*) once again coming out in support of domestic terrorists.
re: #18 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Aren’t these fuckers in Nevada? Why do they keep pulling bullshit in Oregon?
The dad (Edit: Cliven Bundy) was in Nevada, but the son seems to have moved his base of operations to somewhere around Oregon and Idaho.
re: #19 Targetpractice
Cue the party of “Law & Order” (*dun dun*) once again coming out in support of domestic terrorists.
The Idaho GOP at least, hates Ammon Bundy. Apparently, he’s come out in support of both defunding the police and Black Lives Matter.
He might be more of an actual anti-government activist, rather than a fascist in waiting.
re: #21 aatharuv
The Idaho GOP at least, hates Ammon Bundy. Apparently, he’s come out in support of both defunding the police and Black Lives Matter.
He might be more of an actual anti-government activist, rather than a fascist in waiting.
The last two go-arounds, it didn’t matter about their personal politics, the GQP just loved the Bundys for the opportunity they gave to rail against the idea of the federal government owning land instead of selling/giving it to white farmers who’d make it “profitable.”
re: #22 Targetpractice
The last two go-arounds, it didn’t matter about their personal politics, the GQP just loved the Bundys for the opportunity they gave to rail against the idea of the federal government owning land instead of selling/giving it to white farmers who’d make it “profitable.”
The current Party of Davis, has become a much smaller tent. Worshipping Trump and sharing in his two minute hate is a requirement.
re: #23 aatharuv
The current Party of Davis, has become a much smaller tent. Worshipping Trump and sharing in his two minute hate is a requirement.
They’re also hypocrites of the highest order as well as opportunists to a fault. If a situation breaks out that could harm Biden politically, they’ll overlook their differences with Bundy to support his “cause.”
re: #16 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
They project like IMAX. Everything, literally everything they accuse others of, they have done, are doing, or plan to do soon.
It’s so bad, I wouldn’t be surprised if we find a conservative pedophile ring hidden at a restaurant at some point.
Yeah, it’s called Mar-a-Lago.
re: #21 aatharuv
The Idaho GOP at least, hates Ammon Bundy. Apparently, he’s come out in support of both defunding the police and Black Lives Matter.
He might be more of an actual anti-government activist, rather than a fascist in waiting.
Ammon Bundy, like his father, has a kind of anarchronistic cattle baron conservatism going on that they express through sovereign citizen warblegarble.
They don’t really give a shit about the bigger picture of the world, they just want rid of all the laws that prevent them from having lots of a land out West and never being told what to do.
There’s a deeper part to this that involves their particular reading of Mormonism, which informs them that they have an absolute right to Western lands that isn’t simply about law. I think it’s notable that people like Ammon might respect black folks protesting cops, but they ain’t got shit to say about native land rights.
In effect, they’re a vestigial kind of reactionary that literally wants to be a feudal king in their lands, who detest more modern reactionary modalities where the highest authorities are operators on a global scale that dwarf them.
They hate the cops because they, in the old style, want to have their own regulators instead.
Wingnuts are also binary creatures, their worldview saying that if you’re not for something, then you’re against it. In this scenario, that would mean opposing the Bundy “siege” would put them on the side of Biden and the Feds. So while they might snicker at suggestions that Ammon call up BLM, they’ll still support his “cause” in the hope that it leads to another Waco or Ruby Ridge in time for the midterms.
re: #27 Targetpractice
The Feds went out of their way to avoid any sort of bloodshed with the Bundys.
So instead of a martyr, we have a figurehead.
I like that he basically says, “Evil tech companies are destroying our democracy, and I could have stopped them, but they kept saying flattering things to me so I let them slide.”
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) June 9, 2021
The ability to communicate with anyone, anywhere in near-real time was not foreseen by our Founding Fathers, and so the companies that came to provide such services managed to keep ahead of legislation and regulations, and in fact, to grow powerful enough to influence and shape any legislation and regulations affecting them.
I’m running for U.S. Senate because I will never tire of standing up for what is right. Never tire of serving Florida. Never tire of doing good.
Join my campaign today: https://t.co/rHVPBuSzKU pic.twitter.com/HuWB80Mrxh— Val Demings (@valdemings) June 9, 2021
good morning, Marco! :D
lol
Former President Donald Trump reached less than a million measurable television viewers over the weekend in his return to the public stage at a North Carolina political event. https://t.co/EXISKeb0p9
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) June 9, 2021
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
Former President Donald Trump reached less than a million measurable television viewers over the weekend in his return to the public stage at a North Carolina political event.
And yet his party lacks the courage to finally recognize that he has passed his sell by date and cast him aside just as he casts all others aside for whom he has no use…
Everyone should see a penguin who is excited for a cuddle pic.twitter.com/YLu5r3zGPk
— Disappointed Optimist (@disappoptimism) June 9, 2021
re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And yet his party lacks the courage to finally recognize that he has passed his sell by date and cast him aside just as he casts all others aside for whom he has no use…
He managed to lose the House, Senate, and Presidency for them, and they’re desperate for his political advice. Okay, then.
re: #37 ericblair
He managed to lose the House, Senate, and Presidency for them, and they’re desperate for his political advice. Okay, then.
(Shhhhh!)
They need his Big Lie to continue to dismantle the electoral system so they can simply ignore the results of the next Presidential election if it does not go their way.
re: #37 ericblair
He managed to lose the House, Senate, and Presidency for them, and they’re desperate for his political advice. Okay, then.
i’d say though it’s not so much political advice he offers as much as, at the moment, some ability to keep the critical base in line / loyal
Pharmacist sentenced to federal prison for tampering with hundreds of COVID-19 vaccine doses (KMBC)
MILWAUKEE —
A Wisconsin pharmacist who attempted to destroy nearly 500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine has been sentenced to federal prison.
Steven Brandenburg, 46, admitted to removing the vaccine vials from a pharmacy refrigerator on two occasions.
A federal judge sentenced him Tuesday morning to three years in prison.
Brandenburg will then be on federal probation for three years after his release.
He apologized and said he felt ashamed by his actions.
(he’s ashamed he got caught)
In victim impact statements …
Several co-workers said Brandenburg brought guns to the hospital in a rolling briefcase and “created an ongoing, justified and constant fear around the risk of an active-shooter event.”
An attorney for Aurora said Brandenburg’s former co-workers lived in fear so the hospital came up with a new and improved safety plan designed to protect them from him.
The attorney also told the court Brandenburg faked his own flu shot at the hospital by creating a false label on a saline syringe.
Prosecutors wanted Brandenburg held in custody, saying he may be a danger to the public.
Court documents said Brandenburg believed the Earth is flat and that he is a prophet.
Prosecutors said he also believed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were fake and the vaccines were “of the devil.”
Brandenburg told the court he was not dealing with any mental health issues.
(more)
We’re not allowed to call religious zealotry that.
More than a dozen people around Omaha have reported since Saturday night that they have been hit by paintballs. Get the story from @kyleehaueter: https://t.co/7m3iMl1Gri
— Omaha World-Herald (@OWHnews) June 9, 2021
braintrusts one and all
A Proud Boy member accused of breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and then boasting about it to his mother and other Facebook users was arrested Tuesday in New Jersey.
Shawn Price, 26, of Rockaway, New Jersey, is a self-described member of the Proud Boys and held a leadership position in the extremist group’s northern New Jersey chapter, according to court documents. He was charged with six federal offenses over his alleged role in the attack and made his first court appearance in his home state Tuesday afternoon.
……
A man from one of Chicago’s richest suburbs was arrested and charged Tuesday with unlawfully entering the U.S. Capitol and engaging in disorderly conduct on Jan. 6.
Christian Kulas, 24, of Kenilworth, wore a Burberry coat and a Keep America Great cap as he documented his movements around the Capitol grounds and inside the building in a series of Instagram stories, federal authorities alleged in court documents. He faces two misdemeanor charges, which carry significantly lesser sentences or penalties than criminal counts.
Partial solar eclipse tomorrow morning along much of the eastern US and Canada. Annular eclipse starts on the north shore of Lake Superior, moves across northern Ontario and Quebec, Nunavut, and Greenland.
For U.S. viewers, this will happen at sunrise.
As the sun is coming up Thursday morning, the moon will already appear to be taking a bite out of it.
To watch it, you’ll want to find a clear view of the eastern horizon.
Those farther to the north and east will see a more complete eclipse.
In northern Europe, the solar event will take place around lunchtime.
Solar eclipse is coming Thursday morning (WOWT Omaha)
re: #45 jeffreyw
Raccoons in the wild are so cute. In your attic, not so much.
re: #10 teleskiguy
The Colorado River watershed is in one of the worst droughts to hit the region, and there’s no sign it will be getting any better any time soon. Half of the West region is in D3/D4 drought condition, and over 95% is in drought.
Hydrology maps show that water flow across the West is low. Really fricking low.
(CNN-Scott Jennings)The news that infrastructure talks have broken down between President Joe Biden and Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) is disappointing, if not surprising. Despite giving several inches, Biden was always unlikely to agree to a price tag that Republicans would accept (although he should have, as a way to show America that he — and not progressive factions of the Democratic party — are leading the charge).
is jennings high?
you settle for about 15% of what you asked for
give the other side virtually EVERYTHING THEY OFFERED AND GET NOTHING BACK
in order to show that you are ‘leading the charge’
how the eff does conceding everything show that you are ‘leading’?
is jennings an idiot?
re: #46 Patricia Kayden
Raccoons in the wild are so cute. In your attic, not so much.
They are an invasive species here in Europe since some imported specimens escaped a fur ranch in the 1930’s. I saw one a while back waddling down our village street.
re: #48 Dangerman
is jennings high?
you settle for about 15% of what you asked for
give the other side virtually EVERYTHING THEY OFFERED AND GET NOTHING BACK
in order to show that you are ‘leading the charge’how the eff does conceding everything show that you are ‘leading’?
is jennings an idiot?
Not only that - if Biden agreed to everything they offered, THEY STILL WOULD NOT VOTE FOR IT. See, for example, the 1/6 Commission for an example of exactly this sort of behavior, giving rise to the 2065th round of “Lucy yanking the football away” memes concerning congressional Republicans.
re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
More than a dozen people around Omaha have reported since Saturday night that they have been hit by paintballs. Get the story from @kyleehaueter:
I am waiting for a Nebraska government to now ban paintball guns, because, you know, those can be used unsafely and hurt people.
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Partial solar eclipse tomorrow morning along much of the eastern US and Canada. Annular eclipse starts on the north shore of Lake Superior, moves across northern Ontario and Quebec, Nunavut, and Greenland.
Solar eclipse is coming Thursday morning (WOWT Omaha)
It would be barely visible in my neck of the woods; I doubt I will even try to see it. Sad panda.
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
good morning, Marco! :D
I keep getting e-mails from Alan Grayson (REMEMBER HIM?) slamming Val and saying he’s the only one who can beat Screwbio.
No thanks, Alan. You self destructed.
Germany will only be able to see about 15% coverage, about the same as the last eclipse we had here.
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They’re used for fur? 😢
re: #53 JOE 🥓
I keep getting e-mails from Alan Grayson (REMEMBER HIM?) slamming Val and saying he’s the only one who can beat Screwbio.
No thanks, Alan. You self destructed.
I remember when I first heard Alan speak. I was mighty impressed kind of in the way I was impressed for a couple of minutes by people like Cenk for Young Turks. I feel like they all went over the horizon together. No use for any of them.
re: #51 ericblair
I am waiting for a Nebraska government to now ban paintball guns, because, you know, those can be used unsafely and hurt people.
They’d have to rename them something clever first
re: #11 retired cynic
tears
There was a program on NPR this afternoon on water out west, focusing on the Colorado. Ghastly.
Ammon Bundy is creating an army to force open a dam in Oregon where the federal government has restricted water flow to farms to provide for fish.
re: #55 Patricia Kayden
They’re used for fur? 😢
that’s what the wiki says…how else you gonna make a Davey Crockett cap?
There is another way to save democracy: Keep D’s in House majority and elect more D senators in 2022 to come up with a majority to reform the filibuster. Just saying… Win. Elections.
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) June 8, 2021
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that’s what the wiki says…
Yes, it’s true - and in fact, in many places in the United States, it is illegal to simply kill them because of this. I’m not 100% sure what their fur is used for these days, but there is a partially true stereotype from early American history where men would wear coonskin caps made from the pelt of a raccoon, with the tail still attached.
re: #58 No Malarkey!
Ammon Bundy is creating an army to force open a dam in Oregon where the federal government has restricted water flow to farms to provide for fish.
pretty good book
Grant Stevens, a mid-level manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, only wanted to build dams. He never imagined he would be swept into a desperate race against an environmental terrorist bent on restoring the Colorado River by blowing up the dams. Left temporarily in charge of the Bureau, Grant must react when the first dam is attacked. He faces the unthinkable task of mitigating the massive flood roaring down the Colorado. The flood will eventually threaten the mighty Hoover Dam, and if Hoover fails, the other dams downstream will fall like dominos. Working with the FBI, Grant uses his engineering skills, river knowledge, and plenty of gut instinct in an attempt to outmaneuver the terrorist. The chase will lead all the way downstream to the Gulf of California in a cat and mouse game where the stakes are high and the potential for destruction is enormous.
Can I give everyone some advice, as someone who has lived with a lifelong anxiety disorder? The biggest lie your anxiety tells you is that it’s important, that the world will end if you stop being anxious.
— Reinstated Doorknob Licker (@agraybee) June 8, 2021
People have asked me how I stay calm in times like this. That’s my secret, captain, I’m never calm.
— Reinstated Doorknob Licker (@agraybee) June 8, 2021
The White House press charter, flying from Dulles to Europe ahead of President Biden, has been delayed for hours - due to mechanical issues caused by cicadas
Yes. Cicadas.— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) June 9, 2021
re: #65 Belafon
People have asked me how I stay calm in times like this. That’s my secret, captain, I’m never calm.
The Barney Fyfe approach
A crooked GOP politician and his wife have been indicted for wire fraud in Kentucky. They allegedly embezzled $365,000.
Michael Hogan, a Kentucky prosecutor who ran on Goforth’s gubernatorial ticket in 2019 GOP primary, indicted on federal wire fraud charges following @KyAuditorHarmon audit: https://t.co/G3Zx0Dgbnw
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) June 9, 2021
The U.K. has fairly high vaccination levels, but the Delta variant of Covid is spreading there. People with only one shot of a two-dose vaccine aren’t heavily protected.
Delta is now 6% of tracked cases in the U.S., prompting a warning today from Fauci:https://t.co/wn5Bp3O8BY— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) June 8, 2021
Fauci stressed that people who are fully vaccinated still have strong protections.
But he said the U.S. can’t let the Delta variant (first recorded in India) surge here like it has in the U.K.— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) June 8, 2021
Florida, the North Korea of the US:
Excluding Florida, which is no longer reporting, the US had +13,542 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today. (The total stands at over 34.2 million). The 7-day moving average rose again to 14,416 new cases per day - a somewhat troubling reversal of the previous downward trend. pic.twitter.com/uVQa5my4hC
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 9, 2021
US eases travel rules for 61 countries - but not UK
https://t.co/nAB1RVBMK2— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 8, 2021
Pfizer says it will expand testing of COVID-19 vaccines to children younger than 12. Pfizer plans to enroll about 4,500 young volunteers at more than 90 sites in the U.S., Finland, Poland and Spain. Enrollment of children ages 5-11 began this week. https://t.co/XqhiRaKfja
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 8, 2021
Both Pfizer and Moderna have applied for full FDA approval—a great step. There are technical differences between EUA and approval, but the bottom line is vaccines were rigorously studied and proven to be amazingly effective and remarkably safe.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) June 7, 2021
In the lab: Metformin —a type 2 diabetes drug— inhibits SARSCoV2’s capacity to induce the release of cytokines from white cells known as monocytes. Metformin has shown potential uses in other infectious diseases, particularly TB, a bacterial infection https://t.co/HQdXoudfza
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 8, 2021
If you raged against lockdowns and mask mandates, but now cheer the government enabling you to force yourself on businesses that don’t want you, what you believe in isn’t “freedom,” it’s free riding. https://t.co/o33471rAQk
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) June 8, 2021
The rule of unintended consequences.
‘You are a moron.’ North Carolina county ends Coke vending machine ban after pushback
“I’m here tonight because the commission has made a decision that directly impacts our business and the livelihood of the 37 employees and their families that work here in Surry County,” she said. “We’re respectfully asking that you reconsider your actions.”
And in true rethuglican fashion.
“I am holding my ground because I feel like that’s the right thing for me to do,” Tucker said Monday. “I was trying to send a message to the flagship Coca-Cola and if there were some casualties beneath, sorry about that.”
Looser interpretation: I don’t care if my futile grandstanding could have cost you your job and home. I’ve got mine so fuck off.
re: #72 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Wow. Talk about saying the quiet part out loud. They literally said, in a public statement, “In the process of trying to get our way, we literally don’t care if we run over a few small potatoes. Your lives mean literally nothing to us.”
re: #70 Belafon
Pfizer is doing two groups of trials - one for group six months to five years, and the other from 5 to 11 years.
They’ll be looking at dosage and side effects. The expectation is that they might get EUA by the fall, and full authorization shortly after.
Metformin as a potential treatment option is great, although it will likely send diabetes drug prices soaring.
How. What is the goddamned mechanism that enables Trump to get “reinstated”. Make the clueless dupes show their fucking work.
Narrator: There is no fucking way in hell Trump gets “reinstated”. There’s only another Trump inspired attempted coup in future.— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) June 9, 2021
Every last one of these motherfuckers claiming Trump will be reinstated should be asked a baseline question: what is the mechanism that allows this to happen. Where in the law and Constitution does it say that someone can be “restored”.
The only thing we need to know about these people is that they’re setting up for another coup attempt, and that they’re out to claim election results are illegitimate if a GOPer doesn’t win. They are authoritarian and fascist and white supremacist for good measure.
They don’t care about facts or the law. They just want their guy to stay in power. They want their party to remain in power, and they’ve applied pressure to the levers of government at all levels to secure that outcome- voter suppression to deny the voters their ability to shape government going forward, packing the courts with right wing extremists to roll back the rights and protections we currently have, and support for fascists and thugs in elected office to push ever more extreme policies.
re: #73 Dopamine Fish
Wow. Talk about saying the quiet part out loud. They literally said, in a public statement, “In the process of trying to get our way, we literally don’t care if we run over a few small potatoes. Your lives mean literally nothing to us.”
Yep. The mask fell off during the last 4 years and they’re in no hurry to put it back on.
re: #62 Belafon
Easier said than done with the theocratic Republicans cheating as much as they can get away with at the state-level. There’s a reason we need action now. As someone who was part of the sick subculture for so long, you know how dangerous the anti-reality crowd is.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 9, 2021
re: #76 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Yep. The mask fell off during the last 4 years and they’re in no hurry to put it back on.
Republicans don’t believe in masks, as the last year and change has proven.
re: #75 lawhawk
That’s lower than I thought it would be.
re: #77 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yes, but Georgia was supposed to be impossible.
While we are trying to get stupid Democrats to change the way they think the Senate works, we definitely need to be ramping up the GOTV machine for next year’s elections.
This photo is so majestic, it looks like a painting.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 9, 2021
re: #75 lawhawk
Every last one of these motherfuckers claiming Trump will be reinstated should be asked a baseline question: what is the mechanism that allows this to happen. Where in the law and Constitution does it say that someone can be “restored”.
They’re under the delusion that by proving that the President is illegitimately elected, he basically ceases to be President and that his opponent becomes President automatically. It doesn’t work like that. If - IF - it is ever proven that a President is elected through fraudulent means, I’m not clear on what the consequences for that would be, but just yeeting him/her out on the street and installing his/her opponent is not on the list. The ONLY mechanisms that provide for the replacement of the President are impeachment and the 25th Amendment. Period.
El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law https://t.co/mlNV8EfCn1
— CNBC (@CNBC) June 9, 2021
re: #75 lawhawk
Including my brainwashed relatives who insist that THE BIG G will place Trump back on the Oval Office in August.
How?
Their Pulpit Pimps say that THE BIG G will work a mighty miracle…
re: #82 Dopamine Fish
They’re under the delusion that by proving that the President is illegitimately elected, that he basically ceases to be President and that his opponent becomes President automatically. It doesn’t work like that. If - IF - it is ever proven that a President is elected through fraudulent means, I’m not clear on what the consequences for that would be, but just yeeting him/her out on the street and installing his/her opponent is not on the list. The ONLY mechanisms that provide for the replacement of the President are impeachment and the 25th Amendment. Period.
They thought that Obama would be removed as President as soon as they proved he had been born in Kenya and his Hawaii birth certificate was fake.
re: #84 JOE 🥓
Including my brainwashed relatives who insist that THE BIG G will place Trump back on the Oval Office in August.
How?
Their Pulpit Pimps say that THE BIG G will work a mighty miracle…
At lot of them think the military will reinstate Trump.
re: #84 JOE 🥓
Including my brainwashed relatives who insist that THE BIG G will place Trump back on the Oval Office in August.
How?
Their Pulpit Pimps say that THE BIG G will work a mighty miracle…
Puny god if he’s can’t miracle Trump back into the WH by any means.
So, that’s why these Christian fascists are so intent on suppressing voter turnout of majority of Americans who oppose them.
This also would have been the case had there been sufficient evidence to prove that Russia actively interfered in the 2016 election (and by “actively”, I mean by physically changing vote totals - I’m not convinced that this happened, though I think there’s ample evidence that they were up to social engineering shenanigans and providing laundered money). Much as we might hate to think about it, but once Trump took office, he was President, and only an act of Congress God would have undone that.
re: #80 Belafon
Yes, but Georgia was supposed to be impossible.
While we are trying to get stupid Democrats to change the way they think the Senate works, we definitely need to be ramping up the GOTV machine for next year’s elections.
Remember to donate to voting rights organizations like Fair Fight especially in the off years. This is when the boring slog legwork happens, and a few bucks now is way more useful than hundreds of bucks two days before the election.
re: #78 Dopamine Fish
Republicans don’t believe in masks, as the last year and change has proven.
Touche. Then lets go with “The illusion of respectability” has slipped away and the rethuglicans have no interest in restoring it.
Took the day off yesterday to go salmon fishing with my brother and my nephew for his birthday. Humpers were out in force. Never could get a pic of them breaching, but they were going off all day.
Caught some decent sized fish too.
And some decent sized fish pic.twitter.com/9WhE5MpRnE
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 8, 2021
Too big to fit in a selfie *(I tried) - 32” - got 5 lbs or so of filets and put another 4 1/4 lbs of filets in brine for making lox.
*Incidentally, that’s also why I can’t post dick pics.
re: #91 darthstar
In another week and a half, I’ll be heading up to Minnesota’s gorgeous northern reaches for a fishing vacation. No salmon - it’s bass and sunfish/bluegill for us, maybe a pike if we’re unlucky. There’s walleye in the lake, but none of us have the patience for fishing those things up and we don’t keep what we catch, anyway.
re: #89 ericblair
Remember to donate to voting rights organizations like Fair Fight especially in the off years. This is when the boring slog legwork happens, and a few bucks now is way more useful than hundreds of bucks two days before the election.
I would also suggest a donation to @strikepac, which is producing ads that hit home emotionally, like GOP ads do with their base.
Terry McAuliffe is now the Democratic nominee for Governor in Virginia. Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump do not want you to retweet this. Please do.
pic.twitter.com/pF7stGfZBa— STRIKE PAC (@StrikePac) June 9, 2021
re: #91 darthstar
Memories of the one time Dad took me fishing. Spent the whole day fishing and who wound up catching fish?
Me. I caught over a dozen.
Dad? Nope he didn’t catch any.
And we never went fishing again…
SPACE DICK! (also too big for a selfie)
I marked the impact area. It’s where the arrow points. pic.twitter.com/cZp9OuKFAc
— Karsten Staack (@iUserProfile) June 9, 2021
re: #91 darthstar
Took the day off yesterday to go salmon fishing with my brother and my nephew for his birthday. Humpers were out in force. Never could get a pic of them breaching, but they were going off all day.
Caught some decent sized fish too.
Too big to fit in a selfie *(I tried) - 32” - got 5 lbs or so of filets and put another 4 1/4 lbs of filets in brine for making lox.
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*Incidentally, that’s also why I can’t post dick pics.
Nice catch. Love me some cedar planked grilled salmon.
* dicks are overrated.
re: #13 JOE 🥓
Pulpit Pimp Johnny Enlow can’t stop lying.
He Says Support for Trump Is a Measure of One’s Loyalty to God.
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They want to treat the worst person in the nation like he’s a king. It’s a huge problem that the faux-Christian American-right now worship a dope with a severe personality disorder.
re: #97 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They want to treat the worst person in the nation like he’s a king. It’s a huge problem that the faux-Christian American-right now worship a dope with a severe personality disorder.
AHEM.
Right wing know nothing extremists keep glossing over this point. Trump and GOPers claiming that this was a man-made Chinese bioweapon, and they did worse than nothing to stop the spread here that killed 500k+ and wrecked economy.
It makes Trump and GOP look even worse. https://t.co/Uw5HTLqdox— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) June 9, 2021
GOP are not serious about fiscal responsibility or infrastructure. They are dead set against both, because the ultimate benefit does not help billionaires capture even more wealth. https://t.co/gyD9N10sFD
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) June 9, 2021
Colorization compliments of Johnny Sirlande of Historic Photo Restored in Color. To view more of his impressive work visit: facebook.com Original description and photo sourced by IWM (Photographer: Lee Miller)WWII uncovered: Polish Air Force: Anna Leska
A serving officer in the Polish Air Force, Anna Leska was one of three Polish women who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary. She was certified to fly gliders, balloons and airplanes. During World War II, she escaped by plane from a field airport occupied by the Germans.
The women who flew in the ATA were extremely skilful, required as they were to fly a variety of different planes from the maintenance sheds to the airfields (in this image, Leska is in a Spitfire). Fifteen female pilots lost their lives during the war, some of whom were shot down by the enemy.
Anna died on January 21, 1998 at the age of 87. Lest We Forget.
re: #86 No Malarkey!
At lot of them think the military will reinstate Trump.
Then they are spelling “coup” wrong
re: #101 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #97 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They want to treat the worst person in the nation like he’s a king. It’s a huge problem that the faux-Christian American-right now worship a dope with a severe personality disorder.
What makes people believe in such lame shit?
“Prophet” Nathan French claims that he “saw Trump in the spirit and his ear was small” but then it “started to grow, representing his increased capacity to be able to hear and be directed by the voice of God.” pic.twitter.com/FzbtRO9rPz
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 9, 2021
re: #88 Dopamine Fish
This also would have been the case had there been sufficient evidence to prove that Russia actively interfered in the 2016 election (and by “actively”, I mean by physically changing vote totals - I’m not convinced that this happened, though I think there’s ample evidence that they were up to social engineering shenanigans and providing laundered money). Much as we might hate to think about it, but once Trump took office, he was President, and only an act of
CongressGod would have undone that.
Further ,impeachment is more problematic if the new president didn’t know or participate in the fraud.
re: #104 The Pie Overlord!
What makes people believe in such lame shit?
They are fully persuaded that Republicans are the Christian Party because abortion. It’s what I hear time and time and time again, even from friends who I hoped would know better.
What I love most about this is the idea that preventing alien abduction is strictly a local council level issue like park maintenance or bin collection. Hardly worth troubling anyone at national level over. https://t.co/ntD7MLVVgN
— Dave Probert (@DaveJProbert) June 8, 2021
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 9, 2021
re: #100 No Malarkey!
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We’re not raising taxes,” Romney told us.
Hey mitt,
Wanna bet?
Fuck all of these people.
Anti-vax doctor Sherri Tenpenny - who falsely claimed forks stick to your forehead due to the Covid-19 vaccine - is a MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell sidekick. Tenpenny, who hawks MyPillows, is Lindell’s go-to for all things Covid-19. pic.twitter.com/0dHT2w5Rc8
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) June 9, 2021
Everyone here has heard of the bogus “Judeo-Christian” tradition that evangelicals like to hype, but did you know there is a REAL “Judeo-Islamic” tradition?
I am grateful to the late CL for making me aware of this kind, humble, devout gentleman. I actually met him IRL at the Ben Gurion airport in 2015.
Please join our little community of learners, both Jewish and Muslim. I will have class today at 3pm EST
We will be studying together the Judeo-Sufi classic “Duties of the Heart” by Rabbi Bahya Ibn Paquda.
Here is the link.https://t.co/i6devlS7dV pic.twitter.com/LgDoy9N5DA— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) June 9, 2021
re: #97 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They want to treat the worst person in the nation like he’s a king. It’s a huge problem that the faux-Christian American-right now worship a dope with a severe personality disorder.
Oh look, the dope is Not Helping. But if you point this out, you piss him off and then you’re on the shit list too. Seems like another of these collective action problems that the GOP has a great deal of trouble with.
My latest column: Trump’s Senate sabotage: He’s endorsing weak candidates in contested primaries, squelching the campaigns of erstwhile allies, and elevating not-ready-for-primetime contenders in must-win Senate contests.https://t.co/pDPekUSQbH
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) June 9, 2021
re: #104 The Pie Overlord!
What makes people believe in such lame shit?
it’s 40+ years of brainwashing from Xtian “churches” that produces this insanity—the kind of insanity that my relatives INSIST that Trump will be reinstated to the Presidency when The Big G brings forth a mighty miracle proving Joe was fraudulently elected. Note the clip about Mastriano I posted above!
My relatives worship Mastriano the same way they worship Trump. They believe God anointed Mastriano to be Pennsylvania’s next Governor.
re: #106 Dopamine Fish
They are fully persuaded that Republicans are the Christian Party because abortion. It’s what I hear time and time and time again, even from friends who I hoped would know better.
Of course, the whole anti-abortion thing isn’t Christian. It’s the awful Conservatives who think of women as property.
re: #112 ericblair
Oh look, the dope is Not Helping. But if you point this out, you piss him off and then you’re on the shit list too. Seems like another of these collective action problems that the GOP has a great deal of trouble with.
I think Trump played a key role in helping the Democrats sweep the Georgia Senate runoffs, and he could help them keep Congress by getting bad GOP candidates nominated.
re: #114 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Of course, the whole anti-abortion thing isn’t Christian. It’s the awful Conservatives who think of women as property.
It isn’t true to the tenets of Christianity, but you won’t find a single Christian church that doesn’t preach against abortion, and very few independent thinkers like me who disagree with the anti-abortion crusade. American churches are just as misogynist as the Conservatives, largely because the degree of overlap is ridiculously high.
re: #116 Dopamine Fish
It isn’t true to the tenets of Christianity, but you won’t find a single Christian church that doesn’t preach against abortion, and very few independent thinkers like me who disagree with the anti-abortion crusade. American churches are just as misogynist as the Conservatives, largely because the degree of overlap is ridiculously high.
There is also the racist angle to those antiabortion activists who fear that colored babies are outpacing whites.
re: #101 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
It is good to see and read about her but it is a reminder that a really hate colorized photos. I’d rather see the original image as it was taken than these pastels.
re: #112 ericblair
Here in NJ, the least bad GOPer won the nomination to run against Gov Murphy. He’s skirted the line with the MAGA crowd, while the openly MAGA and Trump won (Biden stole election) extremists lost. Heck, one of the contenders for the MAGA crowd, falsely claimed that he got endorsed by Trump (he didn’t).
Ciattarelli is a right wing extremist who simply is better at hiding his Trumpist takes than the others. He’s trying to thread needle between the openly Trumpist base and those open to Trumpism. Purity ponies on the right will sort that out and should still come up seriously short against Murphy, who is pretty popular in NJ and Democrats maintain a 1 million registered voter gap on GOPers.
The GOP will claim Murphy harmed the economy more than he should have, caused more deaths, etc., which is a hard thing to argue when masking and social distancing slowed the spread in the state significantly, and it was GOPers arguing to end both sooner than advisable.
How Murphy handled nursing homes is a different matter, since deaths and cases soared in both, and that goes to state oversight and infection controls and staffing. All states do a bad job on all those fronts, but NJ does a better job than most. That doesn’t mean it can’t do even better. But the companies that operate these facilities consistently move to water down oversight and infection control protocols. All of that should be investigated and the state should impose new more stringent infection control protocols and oversight. Covid19 revealed all the shortcomings of the existing system.
re: #111 The Pie Overlord!
Just as an offhand observation, Islam and Judaism have far more in common than Christianity has with either of the other two Abrahamic faiths. With the deification of Jesus, Christianity has more in common with the ancient Greco-Roman world (or other ancient pagan beliefs in the Mediterranean cultural milieu).
re: #115 No Malarkey!
I think Trump played a key role in helping the Democrats sweep the Georgia Senate runoffs, and he could help them keep Congress by getting bad GOP candidates nominated.
McConnell Will Have His Say on 2022 Nominees
the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which largely takes its marching orders from McConnell, said this week it will “review” Trump’s endorsements, and may back candidates other than those that he favors
Holy asparagus. Gohmert is just batshit crazy/stupid:
Watch this clip where Louie asks if BLM or the Forrest services can change the rotation of the moon or sun.
pic.twitter.com/PpXyTNq07M— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 9, 2021
re: #116 Dopamine Fish
It isn’t true to the tenets of Christianity, but you won’t find a single Christian church that doesn’t preach against abortion, and very few independent thinkers like me who disagree with the anti-abortion crusade. American churches are just as misogynist as the Conservatives, largely because the degree of overlap is ridiculously high.
It was a simple way to pretend that, despite the pseudo-Pauline Letters to Timothy and Titus, that they were still “not Roman”. The Roman patriarchy practiced abortion and exposure of unwanted children and opposing that was an easy way for early Christians to make inroads with the slave and women populations even though there was nothing in their religion to base it on. Thus, despite Paul’s “neither Jew nor Greek” they could be “Good Germans Romans” except for abortion and praying to the emperor by carefully teaching those letters and whitewashing the actual Pauline teachings that were predicated on an immanent eschatology.
Gohmert Pyle watched too many episodes of Space 1999.
re: #121 Dangerman
the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which largely takes its marching orders from McConnell, said this week it will “review” Trump’s endorsements, and may back candidates other than those that he favors
I’m sure the yam will take it all in stride.
re: #95 darthstar
SPACE DICK! (also too big for a selfie)
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well, there’s no hair on the balls, so we can rule one suspect out. (sorry, does that actually still register in our collective memories?)
re: #101 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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“During World War II, she escaped by plane from a field airport occupied by the Germans.”
I don’t know how to set bold on stuff, so I’ll just take this moment to emphasize how absolutely fucking badass this is.
Don’t open this thread. It’s a [wonderful] time-sink.
My two oldest kids (8 and 6) ask me to tell them an “interesting fact” every night at bedtime. Having now exhausted my own supply of memorized trivia as well as several random lists on the internet, I’m taking suggestions below…
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) June 9, 2021
GOPers were *never* serious about negotiations on infrastructure. If GOP was never going to go for tax hikes to cover costs, then it also shows GOP was never interested in fiscal responsibility either.
Only thing they care about is tax cuts for billionaires and burden shifting.— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) June 9, 2021
re: #133 lawhawk
Don’t forget the other thing the Republicans care about—packing the courts with every right wing asshole they can get their hands on!
re: #116 Dopamine Fish
It isn’t true to the tenets of Christianity, but you won’t find a single Christian church that doesn’t preach against abortion, and very few independent thinkers like me who disagree with the anti-abortion crusade. American churches are just as misogynist as the Conservatives, largely because the degree of overlap is ridiculously high.
Ummm… can’t speak for your area, but if churches around here preached against abortions, they’d lose even more members than they already have. (Of course, you don’t have to go far to find churches that do.)
Psst. Don’t tell the Pope.
In today’s edition of “Where are they now?” Milo Yiannopoulos shared an image of what he called a “hotel room altar” that includes a visible copy of The Turner Diaries, a novel that has inspired decades of white supremacist terrorism
Reading on the book:https://t.co/avFrLdKsNr pic.twitter.com/nUrd6TK0es— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) June 9, 2021
re: #136 JOE 🥓
Looks like something straight out of an FBI file.
re: #133 lawhawk
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re: #135 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Ummm… can’t speak for your area, but if churches around here preached against abortions, they’d lose even more members than they already have. (Of course, you don’t have to go far to find churches that do.)
Psst. Don’t tell the Pope.
Speaking of that, another church one block from me has gone out of business…amazing how many “mainstream” churches have closed in my part of Los Angeles. However the remaining churches have become even more extremist in their Republican Party talking points.
re: #135 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Ummm… can’t speak for your area, but if churches around here preached against abortions, they’d lose even more members than they already have. (Of course, you don’t have to go far to find churches that do.)
Psst. Don’t tell the Pope.
Yeah, that’s definitely not true in my area. If they don’t take a stand against abortion, there’s a chance people might get shot.
re: #140 Dopamine Fish
Yeah, that’s definitely not true in my area. If they don’t take a stand against abortion, there’s a chance people might get shot.
Let me guess: You’re in the South like I am.
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Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) issued a warning to Republican negotiators in the new bipartisan group seeking an infrastructure deal with President Biden, CNN reports.Said Thune: “It’s hard for me to see a scenario where even 10 Republicans would vote for something that gets very far beyond where Shelley’s discussions were with the White House.”
the R’s will not move beyond “everything we want, nothing you want”
it’s an official waste of time
who’s the president?
who has the house?
who runs the senate?
wake up folks
dems are in charge
by a thin margin or not.
the majority makes the agenda - that’s how it works when the R’s are in the majority.
the minority does not dictate the agenda
the minority does not have a co-equal voice in everything - that’s how it works when the R’s are in the majority.
only an insane person would let the republicans dictate the success of their career.
wake the eff up
re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg
Let me guess: You’re in the South like I am.
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No, our idjits just fly south for the winter and come back stupider.
re: #143 Dopamine Fish
No, our idjits just fly south for the winter and come back stupider.
we export it
it’s a cottage industry for florida man
re: #75 lawhawk
Every last one of these motherfuckers claiming Trump will be reinstated should be asked a baseline question: what is the mechanism that allows this to happen. Where in the law and Constitution does it say that someone can be “restored”.
These are the GOP MAGAT base who elected Trump to be the man who would ignore rules and procedures and proceed to Kick Ass and Get Things Done.
They expect no less of him since he was “unjustly hounded from office”.
He comes to my house trying to stab me and it will be self defense. Love castle doctrine.
— Ronnie G (@redneckscuba) June 8, 2021
Yeah, but many times as likely as the Vaxx-hater’s scenario. Inbreds and perverts actually do fuck dogs, while literally nobody wants to forcibly vaccinate goobers.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) June 9, 2021
re: #146 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Acting stupid may impress your derpy little friends, but the rest of us can see that you’re performing to seek approval from complete idiots.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 9, 2021
re: #146 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Only 29% of people fully vaccinated in this backwards ass state (including everyone who lives in my household). That’s fewer than 1 in 3.
The national average is 41%.
Now that I’m a citizen the idea of running for office and trying to make this state better is appealing to me but we usually only elect GOP crazies, so I’d probably never have a chance.
Ah bringing back the good ol’ days of the 80s!
Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield transform into the infamous televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in the trailer for #TheEyesOfTammyFaye https://t.co/DoIKvQtP71 pic.twitter.com/ym7aDILqeF
— Variety (@Variety) June 9, 2021
re: #149 JOE 🥓
Ah bringing back the good ol’ days of the 80s!
The fact that they could recover from that scandal spoke volumes about the nature of Fundamentalist Televangelism.
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The fact that they could recover from that scandal spoke volumes about the nature of Fundamentalist Televangelism.
Why Brother Wendell in order to get yourself to Hay-Venn you gots to first be PAID up and then you gots to be PREYED, er Prayed up! AMEN!
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sadly, Tammy Faye is no longer among us. Heck, his son is more a Christian than his unrepentant father.
re: #110 darthstar
She’s one of the vaccines cause autism assholes. This isn’t her first, or sadly, last time at this rodeo. She’s another Andrew Wakefield.
re: #48 Dangerman
is jennings high?
you settle for about 15% of what you asked for
give the other side virtually EVERYTHING THEY OFFERED AND GET NOTHING BACK
in order to show that you are ‘leading the charge’how the eff does conceding everything show that you are ‘leading’?
is jennings an idiot?
Scott Jennings is a conservative Republican. Do we need to say more?
re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter
Scott Jennings is a conservative Republican. Do we need to say more?
Idiot or liar then.
re: #149 JOE 🥓
Ah bringing back the good ol’ days of the 80s!
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I was riding to a construction job with a fellow tradesman early one morning when the radio mentioned that scandal. My buddy said he was disgusted by it and would not be sending them another dollar. My gob was smacked that he was someone who once thought that giving them money was a good idea. I managed to stifle myself and never discussed with him anything touching on religion again.
Kristin Kobes DuMez is the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. She’s also a professor at Calvin University. (How she manages that and her book..I don’t know.) She posted this earlier today. Yiiiiikes.
…how they know because of “evidence” from Newsmax, Fox News, and Mike Lindell, and how their parents drop them off on street corners a couple times a week while they run errands.
— Kristin Du Mez (@kkdumez) June 9, 2021
Her book is just out in paperback and she’s posted the revised epilogue here:
For people like JOE 🥓 and Anymouse, this stuff is going to be achingly, disgustingly familiar. But for the rest of you, it’s worth taking the time to read, because it gives a view into what sort of crazy this country is going to have to work through.
ETA
Full-on Jesus and John Wayne. pic.twitter.com/72EppjN8hh
— Kristin Du Mez (@kkdumez) June 9, 2021
That flag oh my.
re: #158 mmmirele
Deplorables will always be deplorable.
re: #159 Rightwingconspirator
Deplorables will always be deplorable.
You are right. I added another tweet, reload and you’ll see what I mean.
re: #158 mmmirele
Kristin Kobes DuMez is the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. She’s also a professor at Calvin University. (How she manages that and her book..I don’t know.) She posted this earlier today. Yiiiiikes.
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That flag oh my.
Something weird about that flag on the Trump Tank. It has 15 stripes.
re: #161 The Pie Overlord!
Something weird about that flag on the Trump Tank. It has 15 stripes.
One for every company he’s bankrupted?
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re: #161 The Pie Overlord!
Something weird about that flag on the Trump Tank. It has 15 stripes.
A traitor’s dozen.
re: #157 jeffreyw
I was riding to a construction job with a fellow tradesman early one morning when the radio mentioned that scandal. My buddy said he was disgusted by it and would not be sending them another dollar. My gob was smacked that he was someone who once thought that giving them money was a good idea. I managed to stifle myself and never discussed with him anything touching on religion again.
My oldest sister and her idiot husband tithed to Pat ROBBERSON until they died.
re: #161 The Pie Overlord!
Something weird about that flag on the Trump Tank. It has 15 stripes.
They want to take us back to the late 18th century, when Kentucky was the newest state, and before we decided that adding a new stripe for every state would crowd things up, and switched back to one strip for each of the original 13.
re: #161 The Pie Overlord!
Something weird about that flag on the Trump Tank. It has 15 stripes.
For Puerto Rico and Washington DC?
re: #146 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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biden targeted july 4 for x% vaccinated ( i dont remember the number)
now it’s clear y% just won’t get the vax
so biden’s target might fall short - even though there is no fundamental failure or flaw in the systems that were set up
and we know what the commentary will look like - he failed, all his fault, etc.
so i propose the admin modify the target to “by 7/4 we expect x% of those willing to participate to be vaccinated”
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The fact that they could recover from that scandal spoke volumes about the nature of Fundamentalist Televangelism.
Tammy Faye became a gay icon and, unlike most of her brethren, was very accepting of the gay community; she had a close and warm relationship with them.
re: #169 Dangerman
biden targeted july 4 for x% vaccinated ( i dont remember the number)
now it’s clear y% just won’t get the vax
so biden’s target might fall short - even though there is no fundamental failure or flaw in the systems that were set up
and we know what the commentary will look like - he failed, all his fault, etc.
so i propose the admin modify the target to “by 7/4 we expect y% of those willing to participate to be vaccinated”
The good guys will have to talk about reaching the availability targets. You can’t help people who refuse to be helped, and the American-right have to act like toddlers to be accepted by their peers, so they’re not going to change.
Citizens of DPRK enjoy maximal freedom to display patriotic flags from trucks. pic.twitter.com/uCKpwb72Uk
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) June 9, 2021
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 9, 2021
re: #173 The Pie Overlord!
Boy, do they look like fools!
If VP Harris visits the border, they will be outraged that she went to the wrong place on the border.
re: #176 retired cynic
If VP Harris visits the border, they will be outraged that she went to the wrong place on the border.
They’ll criticize her for doing a photo-op.
re: #173 The Pie Overlord!
So wait a moment. It’s safe for this propagandist to be on the border, but GOPers had to be escorted with heavily armed security?
Seriously? GOP just keeps lying about the border situation, and Fox keeps base enraged and engaged. pic.twitter.com/PtGg2z1J0A— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) June 9, 2021
re: #173 The Pie Overlord!
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— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) June 9, 2021
re: #179 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
No one can say they’ve really been to the Rio Grande until they’ve been out to the middle of the Rio Grande.
re: #173 The Pie Overlord!
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I’m one of what seems to be several people who first thought this was some kind of live on-air baptism. As for my comment above about the corded mike, I remember that a preacher actually was electrocuted a few years ago when he carried a wired mike into the font during a baptism. The congregation was profoundly shocked.
re: #182 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’m one of what seems to be several people who first thought this was some kind of live on-air baptism. As for my comment above about the corded mike, I remember that a preacher actually was electrocuted a few years ago when he carried a wired mike into the font during a baptism. The congregation was profoundly shocked.
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
An insidiously sweet twist to the ANOM app, not only was it expensive, about $2K, which lead to perceived value, but you could only get ANOM on the referral of another criminal; again, perceived value. Paranoia amongst criminals is my favorite communicable disease. pic.twitter.com/18lQvVmwsI
— Zippyman818 (@zippyman818) June 8, 2021
High price = perceived value
I knew a small-time dealer of leafy substances who related that once a customer turned down a bag, saying the quality wasn’t good. Two days later, the same bag was brought back with a higher price to the same customer who said, ‘That’s more like it!’
re: #181 jaunte
No one can say they’ve really been to the Rio Grande until they’ve been out to the middle of the Rio Grande.
I was along the Rio Grande these past few weeks. But that was in New Mexico where it is not the border between the US and Mexico.
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
Cheechako
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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