The Bob Cesca Podcast: Phlegmy & Coughy

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Phlegmy & Coughy — [Explicit Language] No shows the week of June 28; Bob’s maskless adventures in restaurants; PTSD is real and we’re going to talk about it here; Republicans blocking voting rights and what’s next for the filibuster; Alex Jones and Roger Stone under investigation for insurrection; Matty the Squid is about to get pinched; Trump and kompromat; Greg Abbott de-funds the legislature and vetoes bill to protect dogs from abuse; Good news for trans veterans; With Buzz Burbank; And music by Michael McDermott and the Tomirae Brown Band; and more!

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172 comments
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gocart mozart  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:12:31pm
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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:14:09pm

Crank the fear knob to ELEVEN.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:14:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:15:50pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:16:29pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:18:11pm

Harry smacks down Hee Hawley

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:23:29pm

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:24:34pm

Playing the Conservative Classics: All Poor People Are On Drugs.

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sagehen  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:33:41pm

re: #8 jaunte

Playing the Conservative Classics: All Poor People Are On Drugs.

So if you work 40 hours/week at minimum wage, that’s about $1200/month. Half of which goes to your babysitter, plus you’re gassing up the car and buying lunch every day at a deli.

Or… you use that $600/mo child tax credit to stay home and take care of the kids yourself.

Sort of a no-brainer.

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Dangerman  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:34:50pm

re: #6 JOE 🥓

Harry smacks down Hee Hawley

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josh got 20% at the Western Conservative Summit Straw Poll (who would you support for president)

even they dont believe his bullshit

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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:36:58pm

Yes, Mikey Teeney Weeney flipped out!

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Dangerman  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:37:28pm

re: #8 jaunte

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Playing the Conservative Classics: All Poor People Are On Drugs.

it’s a tax credit
for having children
the qualification is having children
not for being poor
(eta: yelling at her not you)

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:39:55pm

re: #12 Dangerman

But her message is that the money of deserving people is being diverted to the undeserving.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:42:14pm
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Dangerman  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:42:55pm

re: #13 jaunte

But her message is that the money of deserving people is being diverted to the undeserving.

then she should introduce a bill that only deserving children’s families merit a tax credit

that’ll go over well

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:42:56pm
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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:43:07pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:47:04pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:47:19pm

It really amazes me how much Republicans hate the idea of helping people, even when said help wouldn’t affect them at all or require them to lift a finger.

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calochortus  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:49:47pm

re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg

It really amazes me how much Republicans hate the idea of helping people, even when said help wouldn’t affect them at all or require them to lift a finger.

They wouldn’t have to lift a finger. It’s worse, they’d have to lift their checkbook to pay taxes.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:52:38pm

re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg

It really amazes me how much Republicans hate the idea of helping people, even when said help wouldn’t affect them at all or require them to lift a finger.

Republicans are so married to the idea of “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” that the idea of a person not HAVING bootstraps by which to pull themselves up is anathema to them. They are simply convinced that anyone can succeed if they just try hard enough, and that because they had to do it the hard way*, everyone ELSE has to, regardless of if they are able to do so or not.

* = most of them got their success from their daddies, or from general white privilege, but they’re too busy patting themselves on the back to realize this.

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:54:45pm

re: #21 Dopamine Fish

My wife got fired from one of her early secretarial jobs at a big real estate agency in Houston because her car wasn’t fancy enough for the parking lot. Even though she parked a couple of blocks away to hide it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:57:56pm

re: #21 Dopamine Fish

In general, people over estimate their own abilities and give themselves too much credit.

One reason CRT is pushing so many buttons is because one of the basic ideas is that you, the individual, are a product of your culture and past and that you can not escape that.

The hyper-individualism that characterizes American culture rebels against that, because we all think we are masters of our own fate.

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gocart mozart  Jun 22, 2021 • 2:58:40pm

re: #2 jaunte

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dat_said  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:00:12pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I suspect, when studied and documented, they will find that schools that were open had higher infection rates than schools that were closed.

It’s small numbers and only one data point so really can’t make any statistical claims but the Catholic K-8 school my girls were attending in a Twin Cities suburb stayed mostly in-person during the school year (my girls chose distance learning). They had a student population infection rate almost 2,4x what the infection rate was for the same age range in MN. And, that’s not adjusting for non-school days (school only reported cases IF the student potentially exposed others - so, summer and Christmas and spring break infections not included in the school numbers but are included in the state numbers), nor adjusting the school enrollment for those who chose distance, nor adjusting for the fact that most families are well-off could work from home white collar.

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calochortus  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:00:30pm

re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

In general, people over estimate their own abilities and give themselves too much credit.

One reason CRT is pushing so many buttons is because one of the basic ideas is that you, the individual, are a product of your culture and past and that you can not escape that.

The hyper-individualism that characterizes American culture rebels against that, because we all think we are masters of our own fate.

Except the part where we are supposed to be organized in patriarchal families and equally patriarchal churches. Both of them are supposedly essential to prevent us all going wild by telling us how to live.

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gocart mozart  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:00:42pm

re: #11 JOE 🥓

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:01:38pm

And speaking of hyper-individualism, this I propose is behind some of the Democrats not wanting to nuke the filibuster.

The traditions of the Senate can give a single Senator outsized power. An individual Senator can, and often has, held up legislation or a nomination.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:03:43pm

re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And speaking of hyper-individualism, this I propose is behind some of the Democrats not wanting to nuke the filibuster.

The traditions of the Senate can give a single Senator outsized power. An individual Senator can, and often has, held up legislation or a nomination.

Bingo. Ya nailed it.

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:03:43pm
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No Malarkey!  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:11:13pm
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No Malarkey!  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:17:04pm
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aatharuv  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:18:54pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

Eli also presumably thinks all children are living in the world of the Lord of the Flies, and don’t have… adults living with them.

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darthstar  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:22:16pm

Good to see that Manchin is joining the party line vote with the right party.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:23:37pm

re: #9 sagehen

So if you work 40 hours/week at minimum wage, that’s about $1200/month. Half of which goes to your babysitter, plus you’re gassing up the car and buying lunch every day at a deli.

Or… you use that $600/mo child tax credit to stay home and take care of the kids yourself.

Sort of a no-brainer.

Or you use it for the babysitter and take a sack lunch to work. A work history will be useful when the kids are in school all day and you want to upgrade your lifestyle.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:27:27pm

re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg

It really amazes me how much Republicans hate the idea of helping people, even when said help wouldn’t affect them at all or require them to lift a finger.

At least until the floodwaters start drowning New Orleans, or the fire levels Tucson. Then they start screaming for FEMA at once.

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DesertDenizen  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:29:57pm

re: #36 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

At least until the floodwaters start drowning New Orleans, or the fire levels Tucson. Then they start screaming for FEMA at once.

The Reoublicans hate Tucson. Make it Mesa or Scottsdale and you’re bang on.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:31:51pm

re: #27 gocart mozart

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Marxist AND followers of Hitler? Since they’re just pulling epithets out of a hat, I say they should just call them poopy-heads and be done with it.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:32:17pm

The bill is dead thanks to Sinema and Manchin.

May both of them lose their seats in 2024.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:32:36pm

re: #36 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

At least until the floodwaters start drowning New Orleans, or the fire levels Tucson. Then they start screaming for FEMA at once.

The GOP didn’t give a shit LAST time NOLA was flooded out. I doubt much has changed.

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Ace-o-aces  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:33:29pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:35:22pm

This is the time of day on the west coast when all the cable news shows are basically unwatchable.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:36:48pm
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A Cranky One  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:37:06pm

re: #35 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Or you use it for the babysitter and take a sack lunch to work. A work history will be useful when the kids are in school all day and you want to upgrade your lifestyle.

I once skipped lunches for 4 weeks to be able to take the spouse for an anniversary dinner at a nice restaurant. By rebuplican logic, if I ate at a nice restaurant I wasn’t poor.

Assholes, all of them.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:38:20pm

re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg

The GOP didn’t give a shit LAST time NOLA was flooded out. I doubt much has changed.

Someone on that side must have cared. It lost GWB his approval rating and McCain the Presidency.

(Why do I have the impression you’re completely missing my point?)

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Citizen K  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:41:35pm

re: #43 The Pie Overlord!

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I’m shocked.

A media outlet actually accurately points out that Republicans specifically blocked something in Congress, rather than leave the impression that ‘Congress’ as a whole rejected something.

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A Cranky One  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:43:29pm

re: #38 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Marxist AND followers of Hitler? Since they’re just pulling epithets out of a hat, I say they should just call them poopy-heads and be done with it.

I was once testing a portal for telecom administration and decided to test how long a user name could be.

So a created a user with the name crankyoneisapoopyhead.

Broke the system. Interesting reactions on the trouble ticket…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:44:19pm

re: #45 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

No, I get what you meant.

However, I would also like to point out that the economy completely shit the damn bed in the months leading up to the 2008 election. That also didn’t help Bushes approval rating or McCains chances of winning the election.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:47:33pm
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Jay C  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:47:56pm

re: #46 Citizen K

I’m shocked.

A media outlet actually accurately points out that Republicans specifically blocked something in Congress, rather than leave the impression that ‘Congress’ as a whole rejected something.

Just saw the report (ABC), and they left no ambiguity about the failure of the bill being (solely) on the heads of Senate Republicans - even replaying that disgusting clip of Mitch McConnell mumping away about “rigging” elections….

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Charles Johnson  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:48:05pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:48:44pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:49:21pm

re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth

Nice to have a classy VEEP who, you know, cares.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:50:23pm
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Citizen K  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:53:17pm

Just….

The Green Lantern Theory of politics is legitimately one of the worst things to happen to politics the last few decades or so.

EDIT: And because I’m seeing it as a general reply to folks wondering what Biden was supposed to do….what good is the fucking Bully Pulpit supposed to be when your fucking media continues to privilege the party that literally wants to cancel legitimate elections by fiat and treat them as the sole true arbiters and inheritors of legitimate power in America by default, to the point of exclusion.

Look how much pushback Biden has constantly gotten on tickytack shit while they lobbed softballs at Trump while he was planning to steamroll democracy as a whole to their faces.

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KGxvi  Jun 22, 2021 • 3:59:40pm

re: #55 Citizen K

Just….

The Green Lantern Theory of politics is legitimately one of the worst things to happen to politics the last few decades or so.

I think the disconnect is between public and private politicking. Biden has been in Washington for decades, he probably has decent personal relationships with most of the Senate. He probably believed that those relationships and some old school cloak room negotiations could get things done.

A lot of people who aren’t happy about various bills dying in the Senate are upset that there’s been no public campaign to get bills passed. And I get that, to a certain extent… the problem is, you can’t do a bunch of rallies while the pandemic is still happening. That makes it hard to put pressure on Senators who, let’s be honest, probably don’t really give a fuck what their voters actually think anyway.

I guess it comes down to people want to see Biden et al do something publicly that resembles work. It’s an Overton Window thing, I think, even if you fail at first, you can at least push open the space for wins later…

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:01:44pm

re: #55 Citizen K

Just….

The Green Lantern Theory of politics is legitimately one of the worst things to happen to politics the last few decades or so.

EDIT: And because I’m seeing it as a general reply to folks wondering what Biden was supposed to do….what good is the fucking Bully Pulpit supposed to be when your fucking media continues to privilege the party that literally wants to cancel legitimate elections by fiat and treat them as the sole true arbiters and inheritors of legitimate power in America by default, to the point of exclusion.

Look how much pushback Biden has constantly gotten on tickytack shit while they lobbed softballs at Trump while he was planning to steamroll democracy as a whole to their faces.

There’s like a bazillion replies to that Tweet asking WHAT SPECIFICALLY BIDEN COULD DO that he didn’t do. No answer tho.

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lawhawk  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:01:49pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

He went on to spew further dumbassery:

These know nothing extremists are busy claiming that we’re dealing with a crime wave (or a pandemic of crime), when we’re still at or near historic low crime rates. What’s made things worse is GOP loosening gun control laws, or overturning them altogether. Missouri has a far higher crime rate than many other states, including Democratic controlled states.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:02:02pm

Let’s eat a bunch of pizza!

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KGxvi  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:04:23pm

re: #59 The Pie Overlord!

Needs less veggies and more pepperoni (what can I say, I’m a pizza purist)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:04:43pm

Olivia is gonna need several large adult beverages after covering this Jefferson County (KY) school board meeting. Her entire thread is insane, this is just the most recent tweets:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:04:47pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s nice to see sane, rational tweets from the White House account again.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:06:08pm

re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth

This country is losing its fucking mind.

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Citizen K  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:06:35pm

re: #56 KGxvi

I think the disconnect is between public and private politicking. Biden has been in Washington for decades, he probably has decent personal relationships with most of the Senate. He probably believed that those relationships and some old school cloak room negotiations could get things done.

A lot of people who aren’t happy about various bills dying in the Senate are upset that there’s been no public campaign to get bills passed. And I get that, to a certain extent… the problem is, you can’t do a bunch of rallies while the pandemic is still happening. That makes it hard to put pressure on Senators who, let’s be honest, probably don’t really give a fuck what their voters actually think anyway.

I guess it comes down to people want to see Biden et al do something publicly that resembles work. It’s an Overton Window thing, I think, even if you fail at first, you can at least push open the space for wins later…

But one of the things I consistently see about the folks most upset about bills dying in the Senate is the idea that the Dems have control, thus they should be able to pass anything they want, never taking into account just how thin that margin of control is, not recognizing the filibuster for what it is, and also that Republicans ‘got everything they wanted when they had control’ because they had larger margins of error as well as were willing to get nothing done, because they didn’t have to get anything done.

Dems don’t have the benefit of taking ‘no’ for an answer precisely because of that, and that means them doing stuff was always going to be a steeper hill to climb than for the GOP. But almost to a T, all the rage is focused on Democrats for secretly not wanting anything done and being worse than Republicans, with no anger reserved for Republicans being intractable assholes. I see more rage at ‘Democrats’ as a whole than even at Manchin and/or Sinema, the two that are actually the roadblocks for the party. It’s all the same ‘Dems are the real party at fault and must burn forever’ bullshit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:08:44pm

earlier:

good fucking grief, we have got some seriously stupid people in Kentucky

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:09:55pm

re: #64 Citizen K

But one of the things I consistently see about the folks most upset about bills dying in the Senate is the idea that the Dems have control, thus they should be able to pass anything they want, never taking into account just how thin that margin of control is, not recognizing the filibuster for what it is, and also that Republicans ‘got everything they wanted when they had control’ because they had larger margins of error as well as were willing to get nothing done, because they didn’t have to get anything done.

Dems don’t have the benefit of taking ‘no’ for an answer precisely because of that, and that means them doing stuff was always going to be a steeper hill to climb than for the GOP. But almost to a T, all the rage is focused on Democrats for secretly not wanting anything done and being worse than Republicans, with no anger reserved for Republicans being intractable assholes. I see more rage at ‘Democrats’ as a whole than even at Manchin and/or Sinema, the two that are actually the roadblocks for the party. It’s all the same ‘Dems are the real party at fault and must burn forever’ bullshit.

And yet TFG got a pass calling Democrats “Do Nothing” even as he himself & the GOP ACTUALLY DID NOTHING.

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sagehen  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:11:30pm

re: #43 The Pie Overlord!

OMG!! A network accurately characterized what happened!!

(are those flying pigs outside my window?)

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lawhawk  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:12:04pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

And that’s how you get McConnell and Paul in the Senate. Racist know nothing bigots electing people telling them what they want to hear.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:13:11pm

Damn. I’d like to think that management from Sweden thought this was black people’s traditional food, but Americans probably did this.

Ikea Atlanta Juneteenth menu changed after blowback over plans to serve fried chicken, watermelon (Fox Business via MSN)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:14:50pm
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:17:23pm

After reading all the above.

I. Continue. To. Hate. People.

Why are the majority of vocal Americans so detestable? It’s really not that hard not to be an asshole.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:18:11pm

re: #11 JOE 🥓

Yes, Mikey Teeney Weeney flipped out!

Apparently, they’ve got nothing else to appropriate so they have to pretend to be like the victims of people like them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:19:22pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:20:51pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:21:00pm

re: #56 KGxvi

I doubt any Republican Senator would have changed their vote on this one, no matter how hard Biden lobbied publicly from the Bully Pulpit.

The reality is that the GOP knows who butters their bread.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:21:06pm

re: #71 Colère Tueur de Lapin

After reading all the above.

I. Continue. To. Hate. People.

Why are the majority of vocal Americans so detestable? It’s really not that hard not to be an asshole.

Decent people aren’t raging loudmouths. A minority of awful people who hate their lives and themselves make a lot of noise.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:21:17pm

The complete first episode of the new season of Rick and Morty is freaking amazing.

FULL EPISODE | Rick and Morty Season 5 Premiere: Mort Dinner Rick Andre | adult swim

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:31:46pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:32:01pm

re: #59 The Pie Overlord!

Let’s eat a bunch of pizza!

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Did someone say pizza… ;)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:33:18pm
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Targetpractice  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:34:05pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:34:07pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:36:08pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:36:47pm
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:41:08pm

re: #79 GlutenFreeJesus

That’s not pizza, it’s a casserole.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:42:24pm

re: #69 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It’s Atlanta. I wouldn’t call it an accident. Atlanta may be a more progressive city than many in the South, but I have been here long enough to not give credit where none is usually due. We have way too many racists here that seem to think it’s still the 1940s or earlier.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:45:35pm
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lawhawk  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:46:47pm

re: #84 Charles Johnson

Trump, captain of the Stupid Sopranos, is having a thing. He’s hoping a guy can help him out, and his other guys can help toe the line and whip the street into line. They all think that they’re smarter than everyone else, while the FBI is doing their thing (all too slowly).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:47:21pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:51:55pm

re: #59 The Pie Overlord!

That looks sooooooo delish. Guess I’ll be baking me a pie for dinner tonight. And yes, it will have pineapple. :-)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:56:42pm

American Airlines cancels summer flights

CHARLESTON, W. Va. (WSAZ) - American Airlines slashed nearly a thousand flights over the weekend due to staffing shortages, maintenance, and other issues.

The TSA reported a record number of travelers during the weekend.

Yeager Airport has also seen an increase in the number of travelers.

“We are near our pre-COVID numbers again. We have been above that a handful at a time. It has been nice to see travel again and getting to some of the favorite vacation spots they couldn’t go to last year, ” said Chris Williams, public affairs manager at Yeager Airport.

Before the pandemic, Yeager Airport averaged about 800 passengers daily.

The surge in travel demand along with labor industry shortages caused American Airlines to cut flights to avoid potential strains.

A spokesperson for American Airlines said, “The first few weeks of June have brought unprecedented weather to our largest hubs, heavily impacting our operation and causing delays, canceled flights, and disruptions to crewmember schedules and our customers’ plans. That, combined with the labor shortages some of our vendors are contending with and the incredibly quick ramp-up of customer demand has led us to build in additional resilience and certainty to our operation by adjusting a fraction of our scheduled flying through mid-July. We made targeted changes to impact the fewest number of customers by adjusting flights in markets where we have multiple options for re-accommodation.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:58:10pm

re: #64 Citizen K

How many of them are butthurt Sanders fans?

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Charles Johnson  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:59:21pm
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William Lewis  Jun 22, 2021 • 4:59:56pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Shrug. Didn’t know it was still around.

Thankfully my son has lost interest in the nihilism duo so I no longer have to see it.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:07:04pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

earlier:

good fucking grief, we have got some seriously stupid people in Kentucky

That is how McConnell keeps getting reelected.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:09:39pm

re: #75 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I doubt any Republican Senator would have changed their vote on this one, no matter how hard Biden lobbied publicly from the Bully Pulpit.

The reality is that the GOP knows who butters their bread.

And it’s just as impossible to get all 50 Democratic Senators to vote to abolish the filibuster.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:10:31pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:11:08pm

Play silly games, win silly prize. The idiots went to Court and lost.

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marcusgorillius  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:11:19pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

Look at their reps

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:12:24pm

re: #48 Eclectic Cyborg

No, I get what you meant.

However, I would also like to point out that the economy completely shit the damn bed in the months leading up to the 2008 election. That also didn’t help Bushes approval rating or McCains chances of winning the election.

But what I was saying is that repugs are against “handouts” unless they are the recipients.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:13:41pm
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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:14:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:15:37pm
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No Malarkey!  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:16:01pm

re: #98 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Play silly games, win silly prize. The idiots went to Court and lost.

I hadn’t realized that the total refusing to get vaccinated was less than 1% of the Hospital workforce. Impressive!

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lawhawk  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:16:18pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

Dred Scott was originally tried in St. Louis. Missouri is the most racist place I’ve ever visited. It was racist a century ago, and it’s no better now - we see that on an almost daily basis, especially from elected leaders like Hawley.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:16:37pm

re: #55 Citizen K

I wonder just what he thought Biden could do (so far, it’s not over yet) that he hasn’t done. It would be helpful if his detractors would let us know.

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Dopamine Fish  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:16:41pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

My parents simply said, “We have natural immunity, we don’t need a vaccine.” What’s embarrassing to myself and Mrs. Fish about this is that they reprimanded us for Mrs. Fish initially being anti-vax with our kids. She changed her mind, but now it’s their turn and they’re doubling down on the stupid.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:17:16pm
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teleskiguy  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:17:50pm
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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:19:23pm

Imagine having to scrape up fresh outrage fuel every damn week.

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:21:12pm

Soon the very existence of people different from the target audience will be outrageous.

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sagehen  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:22:38pm

re: #79 GlutenFreeJesus

Did someone say pizza… ;)

[Embedded content]

Jon Stewart is sometimes wrong about some things, but I totally co-sign his view that “deep-dish pizza” isn’t actually pizza. It’s tomato casserole in a bread bowl.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:23:22pm

re: #104 No Malarkey!

I hadn’t realized that the total refusing to get vaccinated was less than 1% of the Hospital workforce. Impressive!

It shouldn’t even be that high, but it is Texass, which seems to be in a contest with Floriduh for who has the most stupid people.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:23:42pm

re: #69 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Damn. I’d like to think that management from Sweden thought this was black people’s traditional food, but Americans probably did this.

Ikea Atlanta Juneteenth menu changed after blowback over plans to serve fried chicken, watermelon (Fox Business via MSN)

“Southern” fried chicken is an African-origin dish. Since I also like watermelon, I might be inclined to tell the blowbackers to STFD and STFU. But I don’t shop at Ikea, so it doesn’t really matter to me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:23:48pm
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No Malarkey!  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:24:18pm
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sagehen  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:24:48pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m so confused what we’re even arguing about anymore. From the time the country was founded and for decades after, in most states, the only people who were allowed to vote were white males who owned at least 50 acres of land. That’s racist.

But after Andrew Jackson, they didn’t have to own 50 acres of land. All white men could vote.

So… semi-yay for marginal improvement?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:27:58pm
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darthstar  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:32:13pm

re: #94 William Lewis

Shrug. Didn’t know it was still around.

Thankfully my son has lost interest in the nihilism duo so I no longer have to see it.

Is it animated masturbation porn?

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darthstar  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:33:12pm

re: #111 jaunte

Soon the very existence of people different from the target audience will be outrageous.

Tucker’s audience? They should self-select out via Covid.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:36:16pm

re: #114 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Not only is fried chicken African in origin, but I forgot to add that watermelon was originally domesticated in Africa.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:41:11pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:42:29pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

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plansbandc  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:44:18pm

re: #112 sagehen

I love Chicago style and I love New York style. It’s pizza and it’s very very good.

Extra cheese, extra sauce, mushrooms, black olives, and green chile. If green chile isn’t available, jalapenos or green peppers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:44:36pm
126
Barefoot Grin  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:45:15pm

re: #85 Colère Tueur de Lapin

That’s not pizza, it’s a casserole.

It’s a form of pizza that is very, very delicious.

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:49:01pm

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

When I get stuff like that I do type in “Stop” and those numbers are immediately entered into my call block list.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:49:21pm

The measure, named the “Christine Blubaugh Act” in memory of a 16-year-old Grand Prairie girl who was murdered by an ex-boyfriend in 2000, would have mandated that Texans learn about prevention efforts at least once in middle school and twice in high school. Those lessons would have included information about the prevalence and signs of dating violence, ways to report abuse and resources available to students.

It also would have required classroom lessons about the district’s dating violence policy, which addresses the district’s plans to uphold student safety, enforce protection orders, train teachers and offer counseling to affected students, per the state’s education code.

But Abbott said that while these are “important subjects,” SB 1109 “fails to recognize the right of parents to opt their children out of the instruction.”

The Texas education code allows parents to temporarily remove their child from a class, such as sex education, for religious or moral reasons.

“I have vetoed similar legislation before on this ground, because we must safeguard parental rights regarding this type of instruction,” Abbott said in a memo. “I look forward to working with the Legislature on a narrower approach.”

O_o

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:50:02pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

Greg Abbott, the abuser’s friend.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:51:51pm
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No Malarkey!  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:52:05pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good example, I think, of actual CRT, examining the history of institutionalized racism and how it continues to operate in our laws and institutions today.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:52:20pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

Shorter abbott: I don’t give a damn about women or girls.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:53:13pm

re: #132 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Shorter abbott: I don’t give a damn about women or girls.

Or dogs.

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Belafon  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:55:54pm

re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Or dogs.

Or people that can’t afford to fly to Cancun when it gets cold.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:58:20pm
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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:59:15pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

Spelling incel with an o.

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William Lewis  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:59:17pm

re: #119 darthstar

Is it animated masturbation porn?

That would improve the show.

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darthstar  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:59:20pm

re: #121 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Not only is fried chicken African in origin, but I forgot to add that watermelon was originally domesticated in Africa.

I only eat wild, free range watermelon.

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lawhawk  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:59:29pm

GOP/right wing: let’s teach white history

Ummm… you really want to go there?

GOP: absolutely.

*deep breath*

Whites enslaved millions of blacks, justifying it via religious dogma.

Whites expropriated Native American lands, again justifying with religion, that whites were better than everyone else, and that it was god’s will.

Whites continued enslaving millions of blacks, fighting a treasonous armed insurrection to protect their right to own slaves. They lost that war, but then redoubled their effort to reclaim their power over newly freed slaves.

Whites then spent next 80 years across South lynching and murdering blacks who sought a better life for themselves.

Whites engaged in mass killings in places like Tulsa to keep blacks subjugated.

Whites implemented segregation.

Whites implemented separate but equal to justify race-based discrimination.

Whites implemented redlining to deny blacks entry into communities.

Whites planned highways, garbage dumps, and factories where blacks lived, shifting burdens of those activities on to those least able to endure them or fight back against watching their communities torn asunder by those projects.

GOP: But Lincoln freed the slaves. Democrats opposed that.

White GOP today would oppose what Lincoln did then. The parties have flipped, and the GOP are the very treasonous party that backed an armed insurrection to overthrow the govt.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 22, 2021 • 5:59:46pm

re: #121 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I used to have a book around here about the origins of a lot of American recipes and where they came from. Slaves who worked farmland got some access to the fruits of their labor, usually the stuff the white folks didn’t want, like the fatty parts of chicken, cows and pigs. At first, white folks weren’t too interested in slave food, at best they thought it beneath them and their sophisticated tastes. Obviously that didn’t last because some of this stuff is incredibly delicious. Unfortunately some of the foods were also used in white people’s stereotypes of blacks(perpetuated by books and stories,later films), hence the fried chicken and watermelon, along with tap dancing, “jive” talking, etc.

We really have to grow up as a country. And face our dumb ass nonsense. Then we can begin having nice things. I could go for that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:00:06pm

oh

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EPR-radar  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:03:55pm

re: #129 jaunte

Greg Abbott, the abuser’s friend.

Rape and/or domestic violence are “family values” to an apparently ever growing fraction of Republicans.

They truly have no bottom.

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EPR-radar  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:04:53pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

Holy shit, that’s fugly.

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lawhawk  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:08:39pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

What in the ass?

How is that a thing? Why is that a thing?

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A Mom Anon  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:09:48pm

re: #143 EPR-radar

It’s really creepy too. Just. Creeeeepy.

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darthstar  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:12:49pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

Men should never get laid except when women want to procreate.

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JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:15:43pm

re: #79 GlutenFreeJesus

Did someone say pizza… ;)

[Embedded content]

Hell Yeah! It’s time for…

…A Reuben Pizza!!!!!!

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plansbandc  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:17:44pm

re: #147 JOE 🥓

I would eat that! NOM

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gocart mozart  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:24:13pm

Early results
2% REPORTED (counts only 1st choice)
Candidate Votes Pct.First Round
Eric Adams 55,548———- 28.1%
Kathryn Garcia 48,467———- 24.5
Maya Wiley 42,397———- 21.5
Andrew Yang 21,084———-10.7
Scott Stringer 11,629———— 5.9

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jaunte  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:28:08pm
151
JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:28:40pm

re: #148 plansbandc

I would eat that! NOM

With a Corn Rye crust! 😍

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TarHellion  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:28:52pm

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hmm…Perhaps a chance to upgrade on that 2019 I already stole from the dealership after being quoted a “sell at any cost” price?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:32:07pm

re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth

Reminds me of the local housing market.

So few houses on the market, the prices have gone through the roof.

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lawhawk  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:34:00pm

re: #149 gocart mozart

Turnout was awful. From what I can tell, about 800,000 voted, out of 5.7 million registered voters. That’s 14%.

That means whoever wins is getting a fraction of that 14%. That’s hardly a mandate. It’s more like a shrug.

But among those who voted, there’s a already a separation among the candiates: Adams, Garcia, and Wiley. Then there’s everyone else.

NYC board of elections, round 1 unofficial tally.

155
JOE 🥓  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:37:21pm

I am picking my jaw off the floor…

Apparently the aliens are behind the 2020 election now?

156
Jay C  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:41:24pm

re: #154 lawhawk

Turnout was awful. From what I can tell, about 800,000 voted, out of 5.7 million registered voters. That’s 14%.

That means whoever wins is getting a fraction of that 14%. That’s hardly a mandate. It’s more like a shrug.

But among those who voted, there’s a already a separation among the candiates: Adams, Garcia, and Wiley. Then there’s everyone else.

NYC board of elections, round 1 unofficial tally.

Less than a shrug, IMO, but still short of an extended middle finger. Just.
I cast one of my votes for Paperboy Love Prince: I figures he deserved a nod just for the name value: I see I’m part of a dedicated minority…..

157
Belafon  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:43:08pm

We’re getting a Courage the Cowardly Dog/Scooby Doo crossover, Straight Outta Nowhere, set to release on September 14th.

animationmagazine.net

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:45:20pm

re: #146 darthstar

Men should never get laid except when women want to procreate.

That’s what my…nevermind.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:48:34pm

Rivers of lava flowing into Geldingadalir valley:

Not sure if Geldingadalir valley is still technically a “valley” as it’s filled up with lave and is now a broad plane of hot rock, with the extra lava spilling downhill into Natthagi (from where it will eventually get to the ocean.)

The civil defense people built a berm on the south-west side of Geldingadalir valley, to keep the lava from flowing down the hill westward, which eventually could endanger the town of Grindavik and a geothermal power plant.

160
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:49:41pm

I consider it a small accomplishment that I can now spell a few Icelandic names without looking them up.

161
sagehen  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:50:42pm

re: #154 lawhawk

Turnout was awful. From what I can tell, about 800,000 voted, out of 5.7 million registered voters. That’s 14%.

That means whoever wins is getting a fraction of that 14%. That’s hardly a mandate. It’s more like a shrug.

But among those who voted, there’s a already a separation among the candiates: Adams, Garcia, and Wiley. Then there’s everyone else.

NYC board of elections, round 1 unofficial tally.

Yang and Garcia have been campaigning together, each asking their voters to put the other one for their 2nd choice.

162
William Lewis  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:51:55pm

re: #157 Belafon

We’re getting a Courage the Cowardly Dog/Scooby Doo crossover, Straight Outta Nowhere, set to release on September 14th.

animationmagazine.net

That could be a blast! And cute too.

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lawhawk  Jun 22, 2021 • 6:55:06pm

re: #161 sagehen

That’s not likely to help Yang, even as the rounds go by. I think it’s unlikely that the top three change order, and it’d be exceptionally unlikely to see Yang leapfrog the others.

Odds are that Adams gets the nomination.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:01:38pm

Because it’s hard to get a sense of scale, I’ve inserted a stick figure to give one a sense of how much lava is pouring out:

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A Mom Anon  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:08:39pm

re: #164 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A reminder that Mother Nature can eat you and not even need to burp. Puny humans.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:12:19pm

re: #165 A Mom Anon

A reminder that Mother Nature can eat you and not even need to burp. Puny humans.

Hell, She would probably give a sigh of relief if we were all to disappear tomorrow.

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plansbandc  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:14:19pm

re: #162 William Lewis

I wonder who’s going to do the old man’s voice?

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jeffreyw  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:14:50pm

re: #147 JOE 🥓

Hell Yeah! It’s time for…

…A Reuben Pizza!!!!!!

[Embedded content]

pastrami, provolone, pickles, mustard

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:22:45pm

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A Mom Anon  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:28:05pm

re: #169 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 22, 2021 • 7:37:14pm

re: #170 A Mom Anon

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sagehen  Jun 22, 2021 • 8:29:24pm

re: #163 lawhawk

That’s not likely to help Yang, even as the rounds go by. I think it’s unlikely that the top three change order, and it’d be exceptionally unlikely to see Yang leapfrog the others.

Odds are that Adams gets the nomination.

It won’t help Yang… but it could help Garcia.


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