Former Guy Is Suing Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (Or, the Grift Continues)

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He won’t win, of course, but he might be getting used to that by now.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against three of the country’s biggest tech companies, claiming he and other conservatives have been wrongfully censored.

Trump announced the action against Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, along with the companies’ CEOs, at a press conference in New Jersey on Wednesday. He was joined by other plaintiffs in the suits, which were filed in federal court in Miami.

“We’re demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well,” he said.

Actually, this isn’t about winning a lawsuit; it’s another way for Trump to bilk his cultish followers out of more money. (Like pretty much everything he does.)

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Targetpractice  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:02:23am

And by day’s end, the GQP will be either cheering him on or ducking the cameras until the media finds a new car to chase.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:03:34am
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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:03:47am

Somehow he can always afford to sue. But rarely pays the legal bills and even more rarely wins. But if so rich as he claims, why ask for money?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:05:28am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:08:29am
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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:09:26am

It’s all about the Grift.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:09:45am

re: #3 Rightwingconspirator

Somehow he can always afford to sue. But rarely pays the legal bills and even more rarely wins. But if so rich as he claims, why ask for money?

That’s how wealthy people can remain wealthy and increase their wealth — have others pay the bills. Leona Helmsley was a real billionaire; yet she cheated on taxes for decades and fought over paying contractors and vendors.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:12:30am
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Targetpractice  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:14:34am

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The history of America is of a nation that strives to overcome its flawed genesis and finally live up to the ideals of its founders. The men and women who endured struggle, hardship, and worse in the hope that one day their own children would live in a better nation.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:16:43am
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Targetpractice  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:17:11am

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Mike’s never been quite the same since Maxine Waters sacrificed him in a dark ceremony to the Elder Gods.

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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:18:11am

re: #11 Targetpractice

Mike’s never been quite the same since Maxine Waters sacrificed him in a dark ceremony to the Elder Gods.

He thinks he’s still relevant

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austin_blue  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:20:01am

“Actually, this isn’t about winning a lawsuit; it’s another way for Trump to bilk his cultish followers out of more money. (Like pretty much everything he does.)”

Exactly! And the RNC is right behind him!

But he’s arglebargle standing up for the Rights Of All Of The People something something gezpacho.

Aaaaannnd… the griftees fall for it. Every. Damned. Time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:20:55am
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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:21:45am

re: #11 Targetpractice

Mike’s never been quite the same since Maxine Waters sacrificed him in a dark ceremony to the Elder Gods.

Got to find the pic of Mikey wearing a neck collar alleging Aunt Maxine beat him that bad.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:23:10am

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Empty Podium returns.

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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:24:36am

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds 93% of Democrats said they’ve either received a coronavirus vaccine or plan to, while just 49% of Republicans said the same

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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:24:59am

A sample of nearly 1,500 female Ivy League students was asked whether they would ever date a Trump supporter and only 6% said yes, National Review reports.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:26:04am

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Our first constitution was scrapped when it showed it was flawed. The founders knew they were not perfect.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:26:15am

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:27:21am

LOL

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Targetpractice  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:27:25am

re: #17 Dangerman

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds 93% of Democrats said they’ve either received a coronavirus vaccine or plan to, while just 49% of Republicans said the same

I certainly know I got vaccinated, after spending half the following day wishing for a merciful deity to put me out of my misery.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:29:26am

I just heard the most godawful sound of breaking glass outside. The recycle truck just picked up my can apparently.

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lawhawk  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:29:40am

re: #19 Eventual Carrion

Our first constitution was scrapped when it showed it was flawed. The founders knew they were not perfect.

The Founders created an amendment process to address issues as they arose. The Constitution was meant to be a living and breathing document changing over time. It wasn’t meant to be static, no matter how much those fucking right wing judicial activists claim otherwise.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:30:03am

re: #7 Hecuba’s daughter

That’s how wealthy people can remain wealthy and increase their wealth — have others pay the bills. Leona Helmsley was a real billionaire; yet she cheated on taxes for decades and fought over paying contractors and vendors.

How Wealth Changes People

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Targetpractice  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:30:48am

re: #20 darthstar

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They say as you reach your twilight years, you tend to start reliving your childhood. In this case, we’re watching an elderly man play make-believe. The sad part is we’re humoring this shit simply because there are people who will tune in to watch it, instead of getting him the professional help he clearly needs.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:31:43am

re: #26 Targetpractice

The sadder part is no one loves him enough to intervene.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:32:00am

re: #23 darthstar

I just heard the most godawful sound of breaking glass outside. The recycle truck just picked up my can apparently.

Nick Lowe - “I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass” (Official Music Video)

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:34:53am

re: #26 Targetpractice

They say as you reach your twilight years, you tend to start reliving your childhood. In this case, we’re watching an elderly man play make-believe. The sad part is we’re humoring this shit simply because there are people who will tune in to watch it, instead of getting him the professional help he clearly needs.

I’ll admit I’ve given it a bit of attention this morning, in part because I want to see how long it takes for the mockery to surface to the network news level. Probably have to wait for Nicolle Wallace at 1pm for quality snark.

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mmmirele  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:35:31am

re: #18 Dangerman

A sample of nearly 1,500 female Ivy League students was asked whether they would ever date a Trump supporter and only 6% said yes, National Review reports.

Well, gosh, why? The average male Trump supporter is likely an Evangelical who thinks God put women on earth to serve him (and I’m not talking about God obviously). Any woman who worked hard enough to get into an Ivy is not going to put up with this religiously-based sexist nonsense.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:37:57am
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plansbandc  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:38:19am

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Olympics need to end. Not just this year, forever.

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lawhawk  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:42:24am

re: #31 darthstar

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A Mom Anon  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:43:02am

re: #30 mmmirele

Younger women than I, in their 20s and up don’t take that shit lightly these days. Many don’t cook because no one taught them and they simply don’t want to. Especially if you work in food service all day. They also tend to take less shit from men because they were raised not to rely on men for support.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:43:12am

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’ll get bounced out of court in 10 minutes flat.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:44:12am

re: #26 Targetpractice

They say as you reach your twilight years, you tend to start reliving your childhood. In this case, we’re watching an elderly man play make-believe. The sad part is we’re humoring this shit simply because there are people who will tune in to watch it, instead of getting him the professional help he clearly needs.

He’s learned throughout his life that he can lie, sue people into silence, dominate the stage, browbeat others, and get toadies to propagate his message. He may be an amoral psychopath but life has taught him he can get away with it — that he can overwhelm the truth with his alternative facts. And there are 74 million MAGAts who march in step and amplify his lies. He is not playing make-believe — he is in dead earnest and the Pompeos, Murdochs, Hawleys, and Carlsons of the world will pay obeisance and work to transform his “fantasy” into reality.

He doesn’t need professional help. It’s those who support him who need the professional help.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:45:15am
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lawhawk  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:45:32am

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump’s crackerjack legal staff strikes again. They can’t even get the fundamentals right, which is why they’re going ahead with this suit - not just to grift, but to remain relevant. Well, mostly just to grift.

They don’t have a chance of success since Trump repeatedly and clearly violated the TOS - including trying to circumvent bans (which is itself a bannable offense). Trump doesn’t have a leg to stand on, but will dress up Bedminster to look like a WH set because he thinks he can bluster his way through the legal mess he’s in by creating still more of them.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:47:07am
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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:48:14am

Beware this sick freak Mastriano who is a radical Xtian. He believes God has anointed him to be the next Governor of Pennsylvania.

Far-right GOP lawmaker demands Arizona-style election ‘investigation’ of Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results

In Pennsylvania, State Sen. Doug Mastriano has earned a reputation for being so extreme that he makes even hard-right Pennsylvania Republicans like U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum seem moderate by comparison. Republican Mastriano, in contrast to Toomey — who voted “guilty” in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial — has been aggressively promoting the former president’s election lies and promoting the false and debunked conspiracy theory that widespread voter fraud robbed Trump of a victory in Pennsylvania. And now, according to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Mastriano is calling for a “forensic investigation” of the 2020 election results in the Keystone State.

alternet.org

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:51:34am

more legal nonsense in the thread

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danarchy  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:53:49am

re: #32 plansbandc

The Olympics need to end. Not just this year, forever.

I don’t get this take. I understand not liking the olympics personally, or not wanting your town to host them for any number of reasons, but what reason would you have for not wanting the games to exist at all? It is the only time a lot of these athletes will ever have an opportunity to get their moment in the sun. I mean, when else do huge numbers of people pay attention to things like gymnastics, table tennis, or even track and field.

Personally, I love the competition.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:57:53am
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plansbandc  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:00:50am

re: #42 danarchy

There’s world championships every year. Athletes get their chance to shine then.

One compromise I could go with is to make a permanent home for the Olympics. That would cut out some of the massive economic burden and limit the bribes and grifting.

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lawhawk  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:01:27am

re: #42 danarchy

I think we should keep the Olympics, but instead of building new venues every few years only for them to fall into disrepair, that we make them have permanent homes.

Athens for the summer games, and maybe Nagano for the Winter? Definitely Athens permanently. I think the winter games is more dependent on climate change and snowfall availability.

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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:01:28am

re: #9 Targetpractice

The history of America is of a nation that strives to overcome its flawed genesis and finally live up to the ideals of its founders. The men and women who endured struggle, hardship, and worse in the hope that one day their own children would live in a better nation.

I just watched Jon Meacham’s “The Soul of America” (HBOMax) — him giving a series of lectures and interviews, with historical photos and videos to demonstrate his points. He describes American history as a long-running battle between our better angels and our worst instincts.

Also, he doesn’t think today is our most divisive time since the Civil War. Nor does he point to the 60’s. He’s firmly of the view that the 1930’s, when we were torn between fascism and democracy, was it. And we never answered that question, we never as a nation picked a side, because Pearl Harbor and Germany’s unilateral declaration of war took the question out of our hands.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:02:06am

re: #26 Targetpractice

They say as you reach your twilight years, you tend to start reliving your childhood. In this case, we’re watching an elderly man play make-believe. The sad part is we’re humoring this shit simply because there are people who will tune in to watch it, instead of getting him the professional help he clearly needs.

CW: discussion of abuse and self-harm.

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plansbandc  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:02:41am
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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:04:07am

re: #19 Eventual Carrion

Our first constitution was scrapped when it showed it was flawed. The founders knew they were not perfect.

(pssst: that’s why they included an Amendment process. Because they knew things would come up in the future that they hadn’t considered.)

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danarchy  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:04:57am

re: #44 plansbandc

There’s world championships every year. Athletes get their chance to shine then.

One compromise I could go with is to make a permanent home for the Olympics. That would cut out some of the massive economic burden and limit the bribes and grifting.

Nobody watches the world championships, if they are on TV at all it is like ESPN8.

If not for the Olympics, nobody outside the small niche each sport occupies would know names like Mary Lou Retton, Kerri Strug, Simone Biles. Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt etc.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:08:12am

She’s corrupted to the core and will get away with being a rubber stamp for Koch.

Amy Coney Barrett ruled in favor of one of her major backers without explaining her ties

The Americans for Prosperity Foundation sued over a California law requiring charitable organizations to disclose the identities of their major donors to the state attorney general’s office, but Barrett not only declined to recuse herself from the case — she also vigorously took part in oral arguments and joined the majority opinion without addressing questions about her involvement, reported The American Prospect.

rawstory.com

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plansbandc  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:09:30am

Maybe Americans wouldn’t know the names of some of those athletes, but the world has always paid attention.

For example, track and field is HUGE in Europe. That’s where the money is.

Anyway, I loved the Olympics from the time I was a little kid. Just think their time has passed.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:10:34am

I’ve been reading a little more about the Bay of Pigs fiasco of 1961. I am beginning to think that the real reason for sending the well-trained but inadequately equipped and outrageously out-numbered exile force to Cuba was to blackmail President Kennedy into intervening with US forces rather than see the exiles overwhelmed and captured. The tactic is familiar from history, from Gordon at Khartoum toTownsend in Kut in 1916. The exiles were not only out-numbered 100-1, their CIA provided air force failed to include any fighters that could have provided cover for an evacuation. It would have been easy to provide these, almost any obsolete jet fighters could have kept Castro’s tiny air contingent at bay long enough to get the exiles off the beach.

JFK didn’t bite and he didn’t order an intervention by nearby US forces. The exiles were marched into captivity before being ransomed. This would have been a soul-searing decision, since Kennedy had every reason to believe the men would be shot as traitors. I think there may have been a secret deal between Kennedy and Castro that the prisoners would be treated as uniformed US soldiers (which they essentially were) rather than bandits and traitors, in return for the US not attempting a rescue.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:13:31am

well gee…

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Teukka  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:14:31am

[Sauce]

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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:15:19am

re: #42 danarchy

I don’t get this take. I understand not liking the olympics personally, or not wanting your town to host them for any number of reasons, but what reason would you have for not wanting the games to exist at all? It is the only time a lot of these athletes will ever have an opportunity to get their moment in the sun. I mean, when else do huge numbers of people pay attention to things like gymnastics, table tennis, or even track and field.

Personally, I love the competition.

I love the opening and closing ceremonies, the diving and gymnastics and beach volleyball, this year I’m looking forward to the skateboarding. In 2024, they’re adding breakdancing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:18:44am
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austin_blue  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:21:15am

re: #33 lawhawk

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re: #31 darthstar

My CongressCritter, Chip Roi, who only flies on planes w/ two right wings.

Professional asshole.

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William Lewis  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:21:42am

re: #50 danarchy

Nobody watches the world championships, if they are on TV at all it is like ESPN8.

If not for the Olympics, nobody outside the small niche each sport occupies would know names like Mary Lou Retton, Kerri Strug, Simone Biles. Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt etc.

If the Olympics stopped, TV would happily broadcast the championships so they can get their advertising revenue. They will make celebrities’ out of their own needs just as they did with those individuals in the past.

In the end, the sports I personally find interesting - yachting, modern pentathlon, fencing, ISSF shooting - are never on TV anyway so no big to me either way.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:23:25am

jeebus, mtg just quadruples down on the stoopids

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:25:28am

So much of the country struggling with drought, while here where I’m at in the South it has rained EVERY day (not all day, just portions of the day) since about mid-June. I have yardwork I haven’t been able to get to in three weeks because it just hasn’t stopped raining long enough.

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Teukka  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:26:18am

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:30:10am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:30:40am

re: #62 Teukka

It was probably less of a hack and more of a “let’s just make sure these passwords still work.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:31:03am

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

If we teach that the founding of the United States of America was somehow flawed. It was corrupt. It was racist. That’s really dangerous. It strikes at the very foundations of our country.

One of the things that Makes America Great (or Any Other Nation as well) is the ability to learn from mistakes and strive to form a more perfect union.

In fact, in using the phrase “in order to form a more perfect union” our Founding Fathers were acknowledging that there were flaws.

And if you do not see it as flawed to enslave a large share of the population, build an entire economy and society out of exploiting their labor, fighting a civil war over the perpetuation and expansion of slavery, and then continuing to deny former slaves education, basic rights and government benefits and subsidies, the you are the one who needs to revise your views.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:33:00am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:34:50am

this is really getting out of hand

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:34:55am

re: #49 sagehen

(pssst: that’s why they included an Amendment process. Because they knew things would come up in the future that they hadn’t considered.)

like muskets that can fire several hundred rounds a minute accurately at up to 400 yards…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:36:52am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:39:30am
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Teukka  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:40:14am

re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg

It was probably less of a hack and more of a “let’s just make sure these passwords still work.”

TRU.DAT

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:41:33am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:41:49am

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

Twice, Donald Trump notes that his name was “not mentioned” in the recently released Senate report on January 6. In fact, his name appears 44 times.

Trump, the Master of Ruining His Own Arguments in Court…one of the reasons they banned him was for repeatedly making false or misleading statements.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:47:26am

sure, Jan…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:48:21am

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

sure, Jan…

Because me and my progressive buddies ALWAYS refer to ourselves as “liberal democrats.”

//

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Jay C  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:49:15am

re: #53 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I’ve been reading a little more about the Bay of Pigs fiasco of 1961. I am beginning to think that the real reason for sending the well-trained but inadequately equipped and outrageously out-numbered exile force to Cuba was to blackmail President Kennedy into intervening with US forces rather than see the exiles overwhelmed and captured. The tactic is familiar from history, from Gordon at Khartoum toTownsend in Kut in 1916. The exiles were not only out-numbered 100-1, their CIA provided air force failed to include any fighters that could have provided cover for an evacuation. It would have been easy to provide these, almost any obsolete jet fighters could have kept Castro’s tiny air contingent at bay long enough to get the exiles off the beach.

JFK didn’t bite and he didn’t order an intervention by nearby US forces. The exiles were marched into captivity before being ransomed. This would have been a soul-searing decision, since Kennedy had every reason to believe the men would be shot as traitors. I think there may have been a secret deal between Kennedy and Castro that the prisoners would be treated as uniformed US soldiers (which they essentially were) rather than bandits and traitors, in return for the US not attempting a rescue.

Ok think you may be right about the latter part, but another take on the whole Bay of Pigs fiasco goes back to its origins in the Eisenhower Admin: the fundamental flaw was that the invasion was devised and planned by the CIA with “official” deniability the overriding concern: Ike and his people were (understandably) loath to be seen to be overthrowing Castro in the good old-fashioned Yanqui Imperialist manner, I.e. via outright military invasion: but OTOH, they always kept the “intervention” option in the back of the book: that, IMO was the main thing that Kennedy didn’t “bite” over. And supposedly, the reason why “Democrat” is a curse-word for Florida Cubans to this day…

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mmmirele  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:50:03am

re: #45 lawhawk

I’d suggest Sapporo for the Winter Games. It’s hosted the Games before, is located on Hokkaido which is snow country and Japan has a best in class transportation system.

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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:50:05am

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

One popular post on a major Q forum last month had parenting advice for “QAnon Parents” in the title.

The top reply was quick to point out “there is no QAnon,” therefore no Q parents.

So… Know-Nothings.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:50:50am

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

The QAssholes are following the Moron Majority/Xtian KKKoalition playbook from the 80s. And yes, one of my relatives is running for a school board seat in PA as a Republican Mastriano backer.

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

As for Captain Underpants, every word out of his mouth is a lie. Even when he farts and belches he lies.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:50:58am
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Belafon  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:51:27am

re: #59 William Lewis

If the Olympics stopped, TV would happily broadcast the championships so they can get their advertising revenue. They will make celebrities’ out of their own needs just as they did with those individuals in the past.

In the end, the sports I personally find interesting - yachting, modern pentathlon, fencing, ISSF shooting - are never on TV anyway so no big to me either way.

The Olympics are like the World Cup. Why do both every four years?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:51:36am

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

…and had a sex toy named after him!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:53:28am

re: #81 Belafon

The Olympics are like the World Cup. Why do both every four years?

I used to follow at least the Winter Olympics, liked the hockey (less violent than NHL) and some of the skiing, GF was always big into the skating.

But despite its lofty ideals of Fair Play and the Pursuit of Excellence, it regularly highlights its dark underside of pettiness and the pursuit of grift.

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Belafon  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:55:15am

re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I used to follow at least the Winter Olympics, liked the hockey (less violent than NHL) and some of the skiing, GF was always big into the skating.

But despite its lofty ideals of Fair Play and the Pursuit of Excellence, it regularly highlights its dark underside of pettiness and the pursuit of grift.

So, like the World Cup.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:55:40am
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Belafon  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:56:38am

In the age of television, I would split the sports into various countries. We could expand the number of sports.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:57:40am

I’ve never had any interest in Olympic Games and I REALLY detested the 1984 games here in Los Angeles that endlessly snarled traffic.

I’ve never had any interest in watching steroid junkies show off and based on all the disability cases I’ve seen from these fools they want to show off muscles…and then they whine when they come down with kidney failure, liver, brain or pancreatic cancer, arthritis, strokes, heart attacks…well they made their choice…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:57:41am

re: #84 Belafon

So, like the World Cup.

Yeah, I sometimes go down to watch a big game at the village hall or on the local outdoor viewing screen, but mostly to socialize and try to culturally integrate myself. I have little real interest in the outcome.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:00:22pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

Once again I ask why hasn’t Ali Alexander been arrested?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:02:09pm

re: #76 Jay C

Ok think you may be right about the latter part, but another take on the whole Bay of Pigs fiasco goes back to its origins in the Eisenhower Admin: the fundamental flaw was that the invasion was devised and planned by the CIA with “official” deniability the overriding concern: Ike and his people were (understandably) loath to be seen to be overthrowing Castro in the good old-fashioned Yanqui Imperialist manner, I.e. via outright military invasion: but OTOH, they always kept the “intervention” option in the back of the book: that, IMO was the main thing that Kennedy didn’t “bite” over. And supposedly, the reason why “Democrat” is a curse-word for Florida Cubans to this day…

The plan was so badly flawed that intervention or complete defeat were inevitable. Either of those would completely destroy what few shreds of deniability there were in the first place. I think CIA and exile planners tried to hoodwink the successive administrations.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:02:18pm

re: #89 JOE 🥓

Once again I ask why hasn’t Ali Alexander been arrested?

Someone powerful is protecting him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:02:31pm
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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:04:38pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

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‘tourists’ need to lose their security deposits

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:04:52pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

You should hand this out for those who go maskless…
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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:06:59pm

re: #94 Eric The Fruit Bat

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great for what ails ya

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:07:19pm

re: #93 Dangerman

Let me guess—the Coup Clucks Clan left Ron Johnson’s office in pristine condition!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:08:29pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:08:52pm

I am so bored that I just put England-Denmark on the live stream…

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cat-tikvah  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:15:37pm

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

Did you keep your underwear on while you voted, Alan?
You’re a permanent slimebag and traitor to America.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:15:39pm

re: #36 Hecuba’s daughter

He is not playing make-believe — he is in dead earnest and the Pompeos, Murdochs, Hawleys, and Carlsons of the world will pay obeisance and work to transform his “fantasy” into reality.

He doesn’t need professional help. It’s those who support him who need the professional help.

Hopefully Trump will vapor lock before 2014, and his base who refuse to be vaccinated die in significant numbers to make any GOP who seeks the presidency look like the fascists that the GOP have become.

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cat-tikvah  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:16:46pm

re: #79 JOE 🥓

CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS! HAHAHHA

(although I love the Dav Pilkey books)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:18:49pm

re: #100 Eric The Fruit Bat

Hopefully Trump will vapor lock before 2014, and his base who refuse to be vaccinated die in significant numbers to make any GOP who seeks the presidency look like the fascists that the GOP have become.

At least now that the bulk of people who are willing are already vaccinated, we can finally start letting Natural Selection take its course with the remaining refuseniks

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:22:01pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:23:55pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

Suspect said he was going coyote hunting.

AR = Assault Roadrunner

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:28:16pm

re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

At least now that the bulk of people who are willing are already vaccinated, we can finally start letting Natural Selection take its course with the remaining refuseniks

Except and until one of them spins off a more virulent variant that makes our vaccines impotent.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:28:17pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:32:18pm

re: #105 Rightwingconspirator

Except and until one of them spins off a more virulent variant that makes our vaccines impotent.

That is the ongoing issue…at some point we might well find ourselves chasing our tail.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:33:12pm

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

Nobody in the GOP remembers “Infrastructure Week”, it was just one of those faceless weeks that used to fetch coffee.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:33:20pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Those tourists were some messy, destructive people.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:34:39pm

re: #89 JOE 🥓

Once again I ask why hasn’t Ali Alexander been arrested?

Could be he’s the inside informant

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:34:56pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:35:27pm

A great way to prevent new variants would be to take all those vaccines that wingnuts won’t take and send them to countries that need them desperately.

It would also make the pigfuckers angry enough that they’d consider getting a vaccine just to obstinately fulfill their zero-sum nativist understanding of everything.

It also might get us a little bit of bad-needed international goodwill.

Win-win. Just sayin’.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:35:27pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:39:31pm

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Nobody in the GOP remembers “Infrastructure Week”, it was just one of those faceless weeks that used to fetch coffee.

Covfefe.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:40:22pm

re: #111 JOE 🥓

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:40:59pm

re: #114 A Three Hour Tour

Covfefe.

The real blockbuster revelation is that the Fs were always intended to be read as long Ss.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:41:53pm

re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

AR = Assault Roadrunner

Gun and Roadrunner Magazine reader: You mean Armalite Roadrunner. Meep-meep.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:42:24pm

re: #117 A Three Hour Tour

Gun and Roadrunner Magazine reader: You mean Armalite Roadrunner. Meep-meep.

Acme Rifle

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:42:57pm

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Acme Rifle

Automatic Roadrunner

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:44:43pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:47:20pm

re: #109 Eventual Carrion

Those tourists were some messy, destructive people.

Perhaps it was English football hooligans?

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:48:11pm

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Perhaps it was English football hooligans?

English football hooligans have more composure than that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:49:51pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:50:37pm

Fuck this asshole. Video link is at TPM

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:54:51pm

re: #116 The Ghost of a Flea

The real blockbuster revelation is that the Fs were always intended to be read as long Ss.

fcrew our political enemief

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lawhawk  Jul 7, 2021 • 12:55:14pm

The hits keep on coming for Trumpworld.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:00:35pm

This is such fun—

Pexachu VS Godzilla (Pokémon/Godzilla stop motion)

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:02:06pm

re: #125 JOE 🥓

fcrew our political enemief

the C and the V in covfefe are Roman numerals, too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:02:15pm
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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:02:34pm

FIFA and OOC are about the most corrupt “corporations” imaginable.

Doesn’t take too long of a history search to figure that out.

And just for shits and giggles how about the Winter Olympics come back to Sarajevo and rebuild?

Abandoned Olympic Ruins in Sarajevo

Or the summer Olympics back to Brazil?

The Rio Olympics were only a year ago, but the venues look like they’ve been deserted for decades

Take the money and run

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:05:14pm

re: #87 JOE 🥓

I’ve never had any interest in Olympic Games and I REALLY detested the 1984 games here in Los Angeles that endlessly snarled traffic.

True fact: Mary Lou Retton had to have hip replacement surgery - twice for the same hip, when the first artificial hip was poisoning her.

Her 1984 Olympic Gold Medals would have more significance if it wasn’t for the fact the Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 games as payback for our boycotting the 1980s Moscow games.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:15:18pm
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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:15:50pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

Suspect said he was going coyote hunting.

Lock him into a cell filled with flea-ridden gophers.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:16:26pm

Some people don’t appreciate coyotes enough.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:17:36pm

re: #132 darthstar

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I’ll believe the Palmer Report when that traitor gets court-martialed.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:19:06pm

re: #135 JOE 🥓

I’ll believe the Palmer Report when that traitor gets court-martialed.

That’s why I found the source article. Also, how’d Palmer Report get such a bad reputation? Did they do a Louise Mensch or something?

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:21:05pm

re: #131 Eric The Fruit Bat

True fact: Mary Lou Retton had to have hip replacement surgery - twice for the same hip, when the first artificial hip was poisoning her.

Her 1984 Olympic Gold Medals would have more significance if it wasn’t for the fact the Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 games as payback for our boycotting the 1980s Moscow games.

TBF, she was born with hip dysplasia.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:26:11pm
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Belafon  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:28:55pm

The uncle of Darnella Frazier, the girl who took the video of George Floyd’s murder, will killed when his car was struck by a Minneapolis police car while they were chasing someone else.

dailykos.com

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:29:24pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:31:29pm

re: #134 jaunte

Some people don’t appreciate coyotes enough.

I believe in coyotes, and time as an abstract…. (obscure reference alert).

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:32:22pm

re: #140 darthstar

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:33:38pm

re: #136 darthstar

That’s why I found the source article. Also, how’d Palmer Report get such a bad reputation? Did they do a Louise Mensch or something?

Bill Palmer has always been a conspiracy theorist.

Palmer Report at Wikipedia

Prior to launching Palmer Report, he had a Website called Daily News Bin, the accuracy of which was compared to Infowars or Gateway Pundit, but for the left.

Amongst other things, Daily News Bin published lies about Sen. Bernie Sanders and Wisconsin voting machines during the 2016 primaries. (There are many more conspiracy theories in the Wikipedia article.)

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:35:57pm

re: #133 jaunte

Colorado Prairie Dogs.

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:40:52pm

One state and DC. Uh oh.

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Teukka  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:41:00pm

Is it just me, or does the Climate Change issue have “Does not end well” written all over it?

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Jay C  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:41:38pm

re: #142 darthstar

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Actually, unlike your grant of Texas*, the House Judiciary Committee at least has the opportunity to introduce these proposals for legislative consideration. It still doesn’t make them any less stupid, mitigate the aura of whiny ideological butthurt around them, or give them any particularly better chance of actually passing - but at least they can get some publicity by being an “official” Congressional initiative (probably the main purpose).

*an excellent idea, btw.

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:42:47pm

re: #147 Teukka

Best way to say it is, what’s the difference between ice and water?
One fucking degree.
Fahrenheit.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:42:53pm

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thanks…I saw a long ass thread from the Palmer Report complaining about being attacked ‘by the left’ and the ‘threats’ he was receiving the other day. Almost made me unfollow. But I treat it like Raw Story - as an aggregator - and always look for the source link and ignore most of what they say.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:43:14pm

re: #147 Teukka

Is it just me, or does the Climate Change issue have “Does not end well” written all over it?

It required that man see a problem, and address it rather than denying it while they extract cash from the public selling fossil fuels. The choice was made in the 70s, and we’re fucked now. The Conservatives will get the failed societies and constant wars they want.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:46:14pm

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:46:29pm
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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:47:29pm

Kraken litigants clogging up the system WILL be personally inconvenienced.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:47:58pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:48:03pm
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Teukka  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:49:44pm

re: #156 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

What’d happen if some news outlet does a FOIA on “Russian Federation Asset Tucker Carlson”?
Semi-/S.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:51:11pm
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KingKenrod  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:56:30pm

Tucker Carlson is claiming the NSA is leaking his emails to “discredit” him, to use as “leverage”. Sounds like this whole NSA story is an attempt to get ahead of a scandal.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:57:32pm
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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:57:51pm

re: #159 KingKenrod

“…The “‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.’ “
npr.org

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:58:19pm

“…[Judge] Vyskocil, an appointee of President Trump’s, added, “Whether the Court frames Mr. Carlson’s statements as ‘exaggeration,’ ‘non-literal commentary,’ or simply bloviating for his audience, the conclusion remains the same — the statements are not actionable.”

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Teukka  Jul 7, 2021 • 1:58:57pm

re: #159 KingKenrod

Tucker Carlson is claiming the NSA is leaking his emails to “discredit” him, to use as “leverage”. Sounds like this whole NSA story is an attempt to get ahead of a scandal.

I get that vibe as well…

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:01:42pm

re: #159 KingKenrod

Tucker Carlson is claiming the NSA is leaking his emails to “discredit” him, to use as “leverage”. Sounds like this whole NSA story is an attempt to get ahead of a scandal.

re: #163 Teukka

I get that vibe as well…

I wonder if Tucker was in contact with the insurrectionists on Jan 6.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:03:36pm
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451_Montag  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:09:05pm

re: #130 nines09

I saw the Rio Olympics and the aftermath. The main village went from a thriving hub to an abandoned wasteland almost immediately. For example the cycle velodrome just went to waste.

Biggest waste of money I ever saw.

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:14:36pm

re: #166 451_Montag

And Brazil spent millions to get them to choose Brazil.
And Brazil has no social issues at all.
Or governmental.
Tokyo will be a fuck fest and I hope they lose their asses but it’s not in the hands of the people of anywhere.
Japans Olympics will be a nightmare.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:15:07pm

re: #166 451_Montag

I saw the Rio Olympics and the aftermath. The main village went from a thriving hub to an abandoned wasteland almost immediately. For example the cycle velodrome just went to waste.

Biggest waste of money I ever saw.

A year after Sochi the sidewalks had all buckled. They had laid down a thin ribbon of blacktop for the pathways as they were running out of time and it barely survived the games themselves.

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Teukka  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:18:12pm

See also PSA after vid:

Scientists Warn Of Spontaneous Death During Increasing “Wet-Bulb” Conditions

Hydrate well and be attentive to your bodys signals re: temperature and stamina. Have Oral Rehydration Supplements in stock, and consider their use — in moderation — if losing a lot of fluids by means of sweat. Check your primary healthcare if you have conditions that may clash with said supplements.
I’ve had a couple of incidents where I’ve gotten bad headaches when my ‘lytes have gone too much out of whack, which has resolved relatively quickly once I’ve taken ORS to tweak the balance a bit.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:18:58pm

re: #164 darthstar

I wonder if Tucker was in contact with the insurrectionists on Jan 6.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:20:35pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:20:45pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:22:17pm

re: #164 darthstar

I wonder if Tucker was in contact with the insurrectionists on Jan 6.

Might also be from when Rep. Gaetz tried to drag him into the accusations of child rape by asking him on his own show if he remembered all those parties at Gaetz’s house.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:24:29pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:26:22pm

In cool Nebraska and Ponca news:

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:27:15pm

re: #164 darthstar

He was in contact with Trump………………so yes he was.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:29:02pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:30:39pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:31:42pm

JFC

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:31:50pm

Doing really well here as a political force:

Nebraska has the highest percentage of registered Libertarian Party voters, at 1.4%. Note also the number of states in the chart with no voters at all.

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Belafon  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:32:45pm

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The Boy Scouts already asked about limiting members in its club.

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:33:28pm

re: #179 The Pie Overlord!

Alexa. How do I tell people me and my kids are assholes…

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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:33:50pm

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“it’s gonna be september”

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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:34:33pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

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it’s not a guess or an assumption. they’re coming right out and saying it.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:34:35pm

re: #183 Dangerman

“it’s gonna be september”

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Just waiting for her to say the new date is September 17th—Constitution Day…

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:40:29pm
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John Vreeland  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:46:17pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not really sure what the big deal is since we had the same effect peak back in 2016. It will hit a low about 2025 and then increase to a peak again, like it does every 18.6 years.

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John Vreeland  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:49:13pm

re: #164 darthstar

He’s done this before. Remember when he tried to get ahead of the “Dan White Society” reveal? Not that anyone seemed to care.

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plansbandc  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:49:24pm

For those who enjoy footy,

The Euro final is England v. Italy.

England is in it’s first international final in over 50 years.

It’s going to be a great match.

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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:51:16pm

re: #166 451_Montag

I saw the Rio Olympics and the aftermath. The main village went from a thriving hub to an abandoned wasteland almost immediately. For example the cycle velodrome just went to waste.

Biggest waste of money I ever saw.

Los Angeles turned a considerable profit; mostly because they already had all the venues and didn’t have to build anything. They used the money to build public athletic facilities throughout the city; including the tennis courts where Venus and Serena trained.

Hotels, theaters and tourist attractions also made good money on the influx of foreign visitors.

The same will happen in 2028; which will be even better, because now LA has public transit. (also, LA homeowners willl clean up on AirBnB).

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:52:27pm

re: #155 Dave In Austin

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Who did the Natives Americans force off the land? There are reports that North America has been populated for some 15,000 years. But Native Americans could just be in the line of the original settlers. Or they could have kicked the Clovis peoples ass and taken their land I guess.

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plansbandc  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:52:56pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:54:23pm

re: #179 The Pie Overlord!

Remember that years ago outrage about the schoolkids singing the song that mentioned Obama?

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:57:07pm

re: #191 Eventual Carrion

Who did the Natives Americans force off the land? There are reports that North America has been populated for some 15,000 years. But Native Americans could just be in the line of the original settlers. Or they could have kicked the Clovis peoples ass and taken their land I guess.

Native American groups fought among themselves, using the same “it’s mine if I can take it” rules as the rest of the world.

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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:57:31pm

re: #191 Eventual Carrion

Who did the Natives Americans force off the land? There are reports that North America has been populated for some 15,000 years. But Native Americans could just be in the line of the original settlers. Or they could have kicked the Clovis peoples ass and taken their land I guess.

The Native Americans are many tribes, many nations. The Comanches beat the shit out of Pawnees, Osages, Arapaho, and Apaches.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:57:41pm

re: #164 darthstar

I wonder if Tucker was in contact with the insurrectionists on Jan 6.

I’m more leaning towards him being mixed up in the Matt Gaetz shitshow.

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danarchy  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:57:43pm

re: #191 Eventual Carrion

Who did the Natives Americans force off the land? There are reports that North America has been populated for some 15,000 years. But Native Americans could just be in the line of the original settlers. Or they could have kicked the Clovis peoples ass and taken their land I guess.

You are assuming they were a monolith. Indigenous people fought wars with each other on the regular. Civilizations rose and fell just like everywhere else in the world. The people whose land they stole and subjugated just happened too look a lot more like them.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:57:56pm

re: #188 John Vreeland

He’s done this before. Remember when he tried to get ahead of the “Dan White Society” reveal? Not that anyone seemed to care.

Let’s not forget Tucker’s reference to the “Jesse Helms Foundation” in the same yearbook. The fact that no one cared may have been partly because the non-RW media didn’t emulate Fox et al in having segment after segment, day after day, discussing Tucker’s racism and homophobia. But it may also be that most progressive and centrist voters and MSM are not as engaged with this type of misbehavior of 30 years earlier, when someone was a college student and the action was merely a single vicious posting.

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lawhawk  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:58:37pm

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rules generally require that you park golf carts off the green and not to drive carts on greens (for obvious reasons).

Trump ignored both those rules, repeatedly.

Anyone else does that? They could find that they’re booted from a golf course.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:59:00pm

re: #195 sagehen

The Native Americans are many tribes, many nations. The Comanches beat the shit out of Pawnees, Osages, Arapaho, and Apaches.

The Ponca tended to get beat up by pretty much any Native band who came along, because they were primarily agricultural and pacifist.

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 2:59:12pm

re: #189 plansbandc

The Brits will be absolutely nuts.

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plansbandc  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:00:15pm

re: #201 nines09

Oh yeah. It’s at Wembley too.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:00:43pm

re: #191 Eventual Carrion

The weird part of that comment is the “and now we’re supposed to be ashamed.”
Acknowledging reality is not about shame.

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:02:51pm

re: #202 plansbandc

%100,000,000

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:04:31pm

re: #202 plansbandc

But the Italians will be composed…..

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plansbandc  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:05:02pm

re: #205 nines09

They’re so good.

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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:05:45pm

re: #203 jaunte

The weird part of that comment is the “and now we’re supposed to be ashamed.”
Acknowledging reality is not about shame.

We absolutely SHOULD be ashamed of what we did to the Sioux.

The Treaty of Laramie was a formal treaty, by our own laws. As formal as it gets. Negotiated by the Secretary of State, signed by the President, ratified by the Senate. It was so formal, so constitutional, and we were so in the wrong abrogating that treaty that even the US Supreme Court, in 1983, ruled that the United States owes the Sioux billions of dollars in compensation.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:06:03pm

Not a surprise — the Surfside mission is transitioning from search and rescue to recovery.

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:06:03pm

re: #206 plansbandc

I always thought football was begun by dads bringing home the heads of enemies and then they kicked it around…

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:07:33pm

re: #207 sagehen

We should pay the money. I think that’s what he’s worried about, not shame.

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piratedan  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:09:44pm

re: #203 jaunte

never understood this either, that stuff was hundreds of years ago, we’re showing that we’ve matured and want to get better. Nothing too sinister about growing up as a nation is there? It’s like if you admit past wrong-doing don’t you ever get a chance to move on from it? Doesn’t that tie into two of the major themes of Christianity, forgiveness and redemption?

These folks have gone of the emotional deep-end thinking that one mistake of their ancestry somehow invalidates everything of today. Changes are made based on evaluation and growth, I really marvel at how the RW media and so many bad faith actors have completely unraveled these people from any kind of rational thought.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:09:58pm

re: #201 nines09

The Brits will be absolutely nuts.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:10:10pm

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Might also be from when Rep. Gaetz tried to drag him into the accusations of child rape by asking him on his own show if he remembered all those parties at Gaetz’s house.

Oh, that’s right. Come on, Tucker…remember the hot tub with the teenagers! That was lit!

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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:10:22pm

re: #210 jaunte

We should pay the money. I think that’s what he’s worried about, not shame.

The Sioux said thanks much, but we’d rather have the land back. The US laughed and laughed. The money is in trust.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:10:28pm

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:13:18pm

Considering his contributions to the England team, I’m sure the racist bullshit hurled incessantly Raheem Sterling in the PL will stop now. ////

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lawhawk  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:13:47pm

re: #207 sagehen

We absolutely SHOULD be ashamed of what we did to the Sioux.

The Treaty of Laramie was a formal treaty, by our own laws. As formal as it gets. Negotiated by the Secretary of State, signed by the President, ratified by the Senate. It was so formal, so constitutional, and we were so in the wrong abrogating that treaty that even the US Supreme Court, in 1983, ruled that the United States owes the Sioux billions of dollars in compensation.

The Native Americans refuse to take the money.

They want the land.

It’s theirs.

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plansbandc  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:14:23pm

re: #216 Barefoot Grin

It’s just pathetic.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:16:11pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:18:49pm

Remember that ridiculous NR “Why won’t liberal girls fuck MAGA assholes” article from yesterday? Guess who thought it was good?
Also, read the Wonkette Mockbuttal

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:22:04pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:22:17pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:24:20pm
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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:26:25pm

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Holy Shit! How did you know the set up in my office?

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mmmirele  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:26:40pm

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:30:36pm

San Jose, California is the first large city to get to 85% vaccinated.

As I told a friend from Oregon where their town is at 55%, there are two ways to get to 85%. Vaccination is the fastest and least depressing method.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:31:18pm

re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Doing really well here as a political force:

Nebraska has the highest percentage of registered Libertarian Party voters, at 1.4%. Note also the number of states in the chart with no voters at all.

Kentucky has even more Libertarians that that chart says because we have lots of libertarians masquerading as Republicans so they can get elected (squinting at you Rand Paul and Thomas Massie).

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:32:29pm
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retired cynic  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:32:54pm

re: #151 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It required that man see a problem, and address it rather than denying it while they extract cash from the public selling fossil fuels. The choice was made in the 70s, and we’re fucked now. The Conservatives will get the failed societies and constant wars they want.

Carter was right.

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:33:25pm

When beans were high priority.
And I lived on beans and bread.
Ah…

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH
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No Malarkey!  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:33:37pm

Rudy is going through some things.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:33:41pm

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kentucky has even more Libertarians that that chart says because we have lots of libertarians masquerading as Republicans so they can get elected (squinting at you Rand Paul and Thomas Massie).

We have the same problem at the state level. Fair to say that they’ve basically taken control of our gov’t. Except for reproductive rights—seems that they farmed that out to the evangelicals.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:34:25pm
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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:34:30pm

re: #231 No Malarkey!

I hope some things go through Rudy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:35:37pm

re: #225 mmmirele

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:35:59pm

re: #228 Patricia Kayden

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:39:44pm

re: #233 Charles Johnson

Guy with J. Random Name bunch of numbers had a comment about that. It was a stupid comment.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:39:52pm

re: #234 nines09

I hope some things go through Rudy.

Some other Trump lawyers are going through some things as well.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:40:12pm

re: #230 nines09

When beans were high priority.
And I lived on beans and bread.
Ah…

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How about this immortal dish from the late A&P?

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:40:25pm

re: #237 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Reacting to something not said.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:41:38pm

Who cares about free association in the Constitution?

Should Discrimination Against Trump Supporters Be Illegal? A conservative professor says yes. (The New Yorker)

And why are you giving more time to Cletus Safaris?

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:41:44pm

re: #238 No Malarkey!

But they get paid….omfg…..the insanity. Abject terminal stupidity. Wall to wall. Treetop tall.
jfc it never ends

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:42:15pm

re: #239 JOE 🥓

For the Bridge Club?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:48:13pm

Wonkette’s rebuttal to The National Review has this little gem:

Spencer Case argues that those who politically discriminate are acting in precisely the same manner as those who justify prejudice against Muslims or Jews.

National Review’s Lament: No One Will F*ck Trump Voters

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:48:49pm
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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:51:17pm
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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:53:56pm
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retired cynic  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:54:27pm

re: #245 nines09

OMG!

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:55:22pm

re: #245 nines09

Brain food!

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retired cynic  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:55:59pm

The true meaning of Dumbledore, Chiggypig, Hornywink and Lang lugs, and the other old English animal names all but lost to us
countrylife.co.uk

I didn’t see Hinky-Punks or Grindelows. Maybe I need to read it again.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:57:02pm

re: #216 Barefoot Grin

Considering his contributions to the England team, I’m sure the racist bullshit hurled incessantly Raheem Sterling in the PL will stop now. ////

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:57:25pm

re: #207 sagehen

We absolutely SHOULD be ashamed of what we did to the Sioux.

I think I get why he talks about shame, instead of following the terms of a treaty. Shame is free. If he can keep the discussion focused on shame, it won’t cost anything.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 7, 2021 • 3:57:50pm

re: #216 Barefoot Grin

Considering his contributions to the England team, I’m sure the racist bullshit hurled incessantly Raheem Sterling in the PL will stop now. ////

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:00:58pm

re: #248 retired cynic

I was always surprised at what Dexedrine and warm Sherry could produce. For company at upscale homes.
Wrapped in plastic and rooms just for photos.
Killed me.

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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:01:27pm

re: #228 Patricia Kayden

The last time Christopher Wray testified at Congress, some grandstanding R’s wanted to know why his agency is only focused on the Capitol 1/6, why aren’t they equally motivated to go after BLM and antifa for last summer. So unfair, deep state, liberal bias, blah blah blah.

His answer was that what happens on the streets of Portland, or Minneapolis, or Kenosha falls under state law. It’s just plain not FBI jurisdiction. The Capitol is.

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darthstar  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:01:54pm

McCarthy’s going to put some assholes on the Jan 6 select committee. All Trump defenders.

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mmmirele  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:08:55pm

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If I have to go back to the office, I’d KILL for a seat in a cube farm. In the office I’ve not visited in 16 months, there were long rows of desks facing a 288 monitor screen. Which usually had two tv stations going (no sound) and it flickered CONSTANTLY. I started wearing a baseball cap and pulling it to shade my eyes. Then there was the “reach out and touch someone” part (five feet between chairs) l, and the air handler freezing wind tunnel part and all the surfaces you have to touch going in and out and it’s like HELL NO I WANT MY CUBE BACK. It’s not coming back, though, and there is absolutely no good reason why I should work in the office anyway. Everyone I work with is in some other part of the country and we don’t do Agile standup meetings every morning. Glargh.

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piratedan  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:09:43pm

re: #256 darthstar

He may try, no reason Nancy Smash has to let that shit pass. She has veto power, just the same way when the GOP handled Benghazi and I expect her to wield her legislative and subpeona cudgel accordingly. If you see who she’s named to the committee, I expect long boring eviscerations of the GOP to follow because I get the sense that the Dems have done all of this “being nice”, being bi-partisan pro-forma stuff because the 4th estate demands it. Now that the GOP have revealed themselves to be who WE knew them to be, we can finally get started dismantling this crime syndicate masquerading as a political party.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:11:36pm

re: #256 darthstar

McCarthy’s going to put some assholes on the Jan 6 select committee. All Trump defenders.

I don’t necessarily have a problem with Trump defenders being on the committee. If they have evidence which would exonerate Trump, that should be brought forth. [I don’t believe there is, but they didn’t ask my opinion.]

The asshole part though is another story. People like Rep. Taylor-Green or Rep. “Asparagus” Gohmert aren’t interested in anything but grandstanding and derailing.

I hope whoever is the committee chairperson is good with a gavel.

I would really like to see Del. Stacey Plaskett, Rep. Katie Porter, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others who are very good at asking probing questions and sewing them together into a simple narrative on that committee.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:14:38pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m pretty sure that sometime in May 2020 Oil futures were trading negative for a few days. I didn’t see the Fox news bitching about why it wasn’t almost free at the pump during that time.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:14:49pm

re: #256 darthstar

McCarthy’s going to put some assholes on the Jan 6 select committee. All Trump defenders.

He’ll try. Madam Speaker will have the final word as to who will be on that Committee, Not McCarthy. And I personally think she is totally out of fucks to give at this point when it comes to his B.S.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:16:39pm

re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Who cares about free association in the Constitution?

Should Discrimination Against Trump Supporters Be Illegal? A conservative professor says yes. (The New Yorker)

And why are you giving more time to Cletus Safaris?

Assholes who discriminate against basically everybody can’t take what they dish out. Film at 11.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:17:43pm

re: #261 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

He’ll try. Madam Speaker will have the final word as to who will be on that Committee, Not McCarthy. And I personally think she is totally out of fucks to give at this point when it comes to his B.S.

Get conservative voters on board with it: Call it the Jan 6 Benghazi/Clinton Kill-List/Pizzagate Committee.

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nines09  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:27:02pm

They were so good at keeping records.
That’s the only way we know those they murdered. I read them every day.
I’ll not forget.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:27:50pm

re: #220 gocart mozart

Remember that ridiculous NR “Why won’t liberal girls fuck MAGA assholes” article from yesterday? Guess who thought it was good?
Also, read the Wonkette Mockbuttal

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Why is NR still around? It was irredeemably racist under its founder William Buckley. And has anything changed since then?

So it certainly seems that the article proves that women are more likely to be concerned about a man’s character when deciding to date him.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:29:08pm

re: #256 darthstar

McCarthy’s going to put some assholes on the Jan 6 select committee. All Trump defenders.

And will Pelosi allow him to do that?

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:33:57pm

re: #259 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

..
I would really like to see Del. Stacey Plaskett, Rep. Katie Porter, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others who are very good at asking probing questions and sewing them together into a simple narrative on that committee.

The Democrats Nancy appointed to the committee are Bennie Thompson, Elaine Luria, Jamie Raskin, Stephanie Murphy, Pete Aguilar, Adam Schiff and Zoe Lofgren.

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William Lewis  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:34:29pm

re: #189 plansbandc

For those who enjoy footy,

The Euro final is England v. Italy.

England is in it’s first international final in over 50 years.

It’s going to be a great match.

England has been playing really good football and I look forward to their win next Sunday… ;)

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 7, 2021 • 4:39:19pm

re: #245 nines09

I’d eat that. In a couple of hours.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:30:56pm

re: #245 nines09

Double the gas!


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