A Beautiful Song From Allison Young: “Wasting Time”

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Hey there! Here is an original song of mine for ya!

I wrote this song a couple of years ago when I first moved to Nashville. I definitely dealt with a lot of anxiety at the time, and I also was dealing with my imposter syndrome as moving to a city full of musicians sounds fun, but it sure can make you feel like you aren’t good enough to be there.

I’ve not shared a lot of original music on here in a while, and I’m excited to share this with you :)

LYRICS:

Well I’ve been running round in circles
And I can’t seem to catch my breath
I’ve been spending my days workin’
One of these days I’ll work myself to death

Well I’ve been wasting time
Doing things that I don’t like
Just to just get the approval in a stranger’s eye
I’ve been wasting time

Well I’ve been going through the motions
And all my days are bleeding into one
I just drink down my potion
The bleeding won’t hurt if I’m numb

Well I’ve been wasting time
Doing things that I don’t like
Just to just get the approval in a strangers eye
I’ve been wasting time

(Instr.)

Oh I think I’ll let my hair down
And cut I️t to my jaw to feel the breeze
And I’ll go get some flowers from downtown
And stop hiding the scars on my knees

And I’ll be someone I admire
Hopefully a year or so from now
And I’ll have a heart of fire
Burning with ambition and it’ll never go out

I’ve been wasting time
Doing things that I don’t like
For what reason, I’ll never know why
I spend so much of my life
Wasting Time.
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My Patreon (AKA the super cool place where you can download all of my music from my videos!):
- https://www.patreon.com/allisonyoungmusic
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Instruments:
- Jasmine classical guitar

Mic details:
- 1920’s Lifetime Spring Microphone with Sennheiser 402/1 capsule (vox)
- Shure sm57 Cardiod Dynamic mic

Video Details:
- Shot on iPhone 11
- Edited on Video Leap

Mix:
- Mixed on Logic
- Interface: SSL 2+ USB Audio

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End song credits:
George Street Shuffle by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…​)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-…​
Artist: http://incompetech.com/​​
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Bandcamp: https://allisonyoung.bandcamp.com/​​
You can find my original music on all streaming platforms!

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(Thank you 🧡)

Wishing you health and happiness,
Xo

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347 comments
1
Patricia Kayden  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:46:14pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:47:35pm
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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:48:55pm

Reading this Wonkette article on the absolutely insane idea that Trump was trying to delay or cancel the 2020 election, using COVID as an excuse, and this quote jumped out at me:

“Even assuming they wanted to do this,” said Rove, astonished by the ludicrousness of the assumption, “why would Bernie Sanders” — the clear Democratic runner-up — “allow it to happen?”

“Because,” the agitated president said, lowering his voice, “this is all being coordinated by the Obamas. And,” Trump added, more darkly “there is a very good chance that Michelle will go on the Cuomo ticket as VP.”

DAMN YOU, PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:49:40pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

Yet he was vaccinated. He should have refused to be vaccinated because Fauci recommends vaccinations then.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:50:20pm

re: #4 Patricia Kayden

Yet he was vaccinated. He should have refused to be vaccinated because Fauci recommends vaccinations then.

I bet he listened to every word of what Fauci and others said when he was at Bethesda. (Or did they take him to Walter Reed? I don’t remember)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:51:17pm

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

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gocart mozart  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:52:23pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:54:37pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:55:12pm

re: #7 gocart mozart
What the actual hell?

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:56:41pm

This is beyond disgusting!

Mother starts $5,000 GoFundMe for 1st grader she says has OCD because of ‘critical race theory’

Robin Steenman, the chapter head of “Moms for Liberty” in Tennessee, is raising money for a family she says has been so traumatized by “critical race theory” that a first grader requires psychological help.

Let me guess…the kid got “traumatized” because there’s one colored kid in her class

rawstory.com

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:56:59pm
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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 5:58:44pm

re: #11 The Pie Overlord!

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I remember getting all 3 Salk shots and they hurt like CENSORED when that needle went in

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:03:08pm

re: #12 JOE 🥓

I remember getting all 3 Salk shots and they hurt like CENSORED when that needle went in

I only got the OPV in 1982 aboard an aircraft carrier, after Sickbay corpsmen noted “how the fuque did you not get a polio vaccine?” (Answer, I dunno.)

By the way, OPV is supposed to taste like bubblegum. It tastes like crap.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:05:28pm

[pointless comment]
I wrote a song called “Wasting Time” while I was in Japan in 1982, age 17. I could see the letters from my girlfriend in America dwindling. I recorded it to a cassette tape on a friend’s 4-track. It’s pretty good. But no one will (or should, I guess) hear it, because cassette.
[/pointless comment]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:06:17pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:06:42pm

re: #12 JOE 🥓

I remember getting all 3 Salk shots and they hurt like CENSORED when that needle went in

Left a scar that lasted a long time.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:08:28pm

The vaccine that was new on the block when I was a kid was chicken pox. I did not get that vaccine; I got all the others that were standard for my era, but I got my chicken pox immunity the middle-aged-fashioned way, by normal exposure (not at an old-fashioned “pox party”).

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:09:04pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

Charles all 3 of those Salk shots went in my butt cheek I swear those needles were a foot long!

Later when the Sabin drops came out everyone in town went to the High School on 3 succeeding Sundays to get a drop of the vaccine on a sugar cube. Now that didn’t hurt!

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Dave In Austin  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:09:17pm

re: #15 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:09:54pm

re: #14 Barefoot Grin

[pointless comment]
I wrote a song called “Wasting Time” while I was in Japan in 1982, age 17. I could see the letters from my girlfriend in America dwindling. I recorded it to a cassette tape on a friend’s 4-track. It’s pretty good. But no one will (or should, I guess) hear it, because cassette.

My daughter, who is affiliated with Albuquerque’s DIY music community, just dug out an old cassette recorder/player to record some noodling to lo-fi cassette.

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Dangerman  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:11:10pm

re: #6 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:12:08pm

re: #20 A Three Hour Tour

My daughter, who is affiliated with Albuquerque’s DIY music community, just dug out an old cassette recorder/player to record some noodling to lo-fi cassette.

My parents have a CD/Cassette player. But they use it to play dad’s favorites, so it’s serving a higher purpose right now than me trying to rerecord to my computer.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:12:27pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:13:44pm

re: #17 Dopamine Fish

The vaccine that was new on the block when I was a kid was chicken pox. I did not get that vaccine; I got all the others that were standard for my era, but I got my chicken pox immunity the middle-aged-fashioned way, by normal exposure (not at an old-fashioned “pox party”).

The chicken pox vaccine didn’t become available until shortly after 24 year old me and my then-6 month old son contracted it.

Despite it going around my cousins when I was young, my brothers and I somehow avoided contracting it during childhood.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:15:42pm

re: #5 Dopamine Fish

I bet he listened to every word of what Fauci and others said when he was at Bethesda. (Or did they take him to Walter Reed? I don’t remember)

Walter Reed was moved from the DC campus and is now in Bethesda, MD.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:17:21pm

Conservative performative outrage about voter ID comes to my state.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:19:01pm

re: #22 Barefoot Grin

My parents have a CD/Cassette player. But they use it to play dad’s favorites, so it’s serving a higher purpose right now than me trying to rerecord to my computer.

We have a cassette player, and a device which plays cassettes and makes an MP3 file out of them. (You can then take a program like Audacity and chop the MP3 up into individual songs.)

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:24:15pm

re: #23 Patricia Kayden

That thread is full of Red Roses saying stupid shit. I feel like I need and Ibuprofen now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:25:04pm

Step aside Missouri. You need to up your game.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:26:59pm

re: #10 JOE 🥓

Folks need to report these GoFundMe’s as fraudulent - ‘cuz that’s exactly what they are.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:27:27pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:27:43pm

re: #28 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

That thread is full of Red Roses saying stupid shit. I feel like I need and Ibuprofen now.

There are good arguments for cancelling or reducing student debt loads. They aren’t making those.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:30:53pm

re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are good arguments for cancelling or reducing student debt loads. They aren’t making those.

The merits of the subject are not the issue. The bitching that Joe Biden didn’t Thanos Snap them out of existence on day 1 like he’s a fucking dictator, and therefore he’s as bad as the GOP…. *that’s* the problem.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:32:20pm

“…From March 2020 to September 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education estimates that student loan borrowers will get more than $90 billion of student loan cancellation as a result of student loan relief from the Cares Act stimulus.”
forbes.com

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:35:17pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Step aside Missouri. You need to up your game.

In the meantime, we’re riding high on a wave of high vaccination rates, we’re fully reopened and the governor has even given up his emergency peacetime powers (as of a week ago Friday). Data are showing that our state government’s prompt, decisive, and informed action - and the complete toothlessness of the Republican Party in our state - have saved Minnesotan lives, bringing our state into the Fourth of July weekend as a shining jewel of what happens when you put smart people in charge and trust what they say.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:37:57pm

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We have a cassette player, and a device which plays cassettes and makes an MP3 file out of them. (You can then take a program like Audacity and chop the MP3 up into individual songs.)

I’ll bet I could get something like that on Amazon. I haven’t even looked into it. Thanks.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:41:28pm
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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:43:25pm

Akiva has his live thread of Trump’s Facebook lawsuit going, and, well…

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Jay C  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:44:35pm

re: #35 Dopamine Fish

In the meantime, we’re riding high on a wave of high vaccination rates, we’re fully reopened and the governor has even given up his emergency peacetime powers (as of a week ago Friday). Data are showing that our state government’s prompt, decisive, and informed action - and the complete toothlessness of the Republican Party in our statehave saved Minnesotan lives, bringing our state into the Fourth of July weekend as a shining jewel of what happens when you put smart people in charge and trust what they say.

The key to a better existence.
Always.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:49:58pm

re: #39 Jay C

The key to a better existence.
Always.

Makes me so glad I live here instead of that hellhole my family calls home. Given that they’re unvaccinated, now I’m worried they’re going to catch the Delta variant and I’ll get a phone call from my sister that my parents are in the hospital.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:51:02pm

re: #38 Dopamine Fish

So what if Zuckerberg was personally involved in banning Trump and other users? Facebook is a private platform and anyone can be banned for any reason. There is no entitlement to any privately owned media platform. My account on YouTube was banned for “harassment” (even though I have never posted any content) until I appealed. I didn’t think to sue.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:52:55pm

re: #41 Patricia Kayden

So what if Zuckerberg was personally involved in banning Trump and other users? Facebook is a private platform and anyone can be banned for any reason. There is no entitlement to any privately owned media platform. My account on YouTube was banned for “harassment” (even though I have never posted any content) until I appealed. I didn’t think to sue.

There could be a breach-of-contract claim against Zuckerberg personally, IF:

1) He WAS, in fact, personally involved in the decision to ban each and every member of the class, and;
2) Those bans contradicted Facebook’s terms of service.

However, neither of those things are true, and more to the point, Trump didn’t even TRY to bring a claim for breach of contract. This is a First Amendment claim, and Zuckerberg is a private citizen, not a state actor or acting under color of law. This is deader than a fucking doornail.

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danarchy  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:53:23pm

re: #37 Dave In Austin

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hard to have sympathy for an arsonist.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:56:29pm
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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:57:16pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

Do you need some consultation? You have several reformed right wing shitheads who have learned how not to be shitheads. (At least, I hope so.)

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[deleted]  Jul 7, 2021 • 6:57:48pm
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A Mom Anon  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:01:12pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

The fact that you don’t understand them is testament to your good heart. That’s what I tell myself when my brain is screaming whatintheactualfuck! over the complete depravity and hate of this mess every day. I know I need to understand them, but I am really glad I don’t relate to them at all by understanding WTAF of who they are. It’s nightmare fuel.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:01:14pm

re: #45 Dopamine Fish

“I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be the shepherd.”

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:04:30pm

re: #47 A Mom Anon

I have a page on this from years back. Basically, the wingnut mindset is programmed by fear. From an early age, it’s drilled into us that we listen to the authorities God gave us, or there WILL be hell to pay. (Either now or later, depending on the authority being crossed.) From there, everything follows in a logical fashion: If you make them afraid of something, they will listen to anything you have to say on that subject, without question. Therefore, the end goal of all right-wing media is to figure out how to package the latest outrage to make their programmed robots afraid of it.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:06:33pm

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:06:59pm

re: #49 Dopamine Fish

I have a page on this from years back. Basically, the wingnut mindset is programmed by fear. From an early age, it’s drilled into us that we listen to the authorities God gave us, or there WILL be hell to pay. (Either now or later, depending on the authority being crossed.) From there, everything follows in a logical fashion: If you make them afraid of something, they will listen to anything you have to say on that subject, without question. Therefore, the end goal of all right-wing media is to figure out how to package the latest outrage to make their programmed robots afraid of it.

The worst of it is drilled into small children’s heads as well until it’s permanently scarred their neural pathways.

You can tell a 4 year old the wackiest most horrible bullshit and get them to still believe it when they are 40. You can’t tell a 40 year old this shit and expect them to believe it the same way.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:07:58pm

re: #51 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

The worst of it is drilled into small children’s heads as well until it’s permanently scarred their neural pathways.

You can tell a 4 year old the wackiest most horrible bullshit and get them to still believe it when they are 40. You can’t tell a 40 year old this shit and expect them to believe it the same way.

You said it. Many of the problems I have to this day are caused by how warped my brain became from the instinctual fear drilled into me by my Bible-thumping parents at the youngest possible age.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:12:45pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:12:57pm

It’s opening day of zucchini season here in Texas:

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:14:24pm
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retired cynic  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:16:06pm

Some friends were on their way home from Minnesota to Indiana and so a struggling tiny kitten on the road. Stopped and picked her up and brought her home. She had been hit. So was so tiny! Had to have a leg amputated. They have named her Roadette, and she is doing well. Is very sweet and friendly. I think they have a new housecat.

Definitely crown in heaven territory.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:16:48pm

re: #56 retired cynic

Some friends were on their way home from Minnesota to Indiana and so a struggling tiny kitten on the road. Stopped and picked her up and brought her home. She had been hit. So was so tiny! Had to have a leg amputated. They have named her Roadette, and she is doing well. Is very sweet and friendly. I think they have a new housecat.

Definitely crown in heaven territory.

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That’s a wonderful story. I hope she has a long and peaceful life with lots of pets and lazy days in the sun.

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retired cynic  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:19:47pm

re: #57 Dopamine Fish

That’s a wonderful story. I hope she has a long and peaceful life with lots of pets and lazy days in the sun.

They are good peeps. She’s made it home. They have multiple cats, house and barn, so she’s in good hands.

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William Lewis  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:24:45pm

Finished “Forget the Alamo”. Good discussion on the reality of the Texas slaveholder revolt against the abolitionist Mexican government and the whitewashing of that history since.

Next up is “Almost Human” by Lee Berger and John Hawks about the recent discovery of Homo naledi and how that new hominin has upended the applecart of paleoanthropology. That discovery along with this years announcement of the Denisovan skull from Northern China reshapes a bunch of the thinking about the evolution of the Homo genus.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:25:25pm
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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:27:43pm

I can’t help it.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:28:05pm
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A Mom Anon  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:31:54pm

re: #49 Dopamine Fish

I have to agree with that. Their fear runs bone deep, which usually doesn’t turn out well. What baffles me is how they can not have even the smallest twinge of guilt. I mean at the end of the day, lying in bed, trying to fall asleep time. How does that work? I feel bad if I get on Cleo’s case for digging up the lavender, I feel bad for yelling at her. I’m not wired like that, but it doesn’t mean I won’t fight back when I have to or need to. It’s just so much easier not to be an asshole. Why is this such a challenge? Breaks my heart, truly.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:34:09pm

re: #36 Barefoot Grin

I’ll bet I could get something like that on Amazon. I haven’t even looked into it. Thanks.

As it happens, we did get it on Amazon.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:34:28pm

re: #63 A Mom Anon

Two things: Either they feel they’ve been forgiven for the wrongs they’ve done, or they don’t feel what they’re doing is wrong, because it’s in the name of God that they’re doing it. Their selective reading and interpretation of the Scripture has left them with a warped sense of morality.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:37:15pm

re: #53 Charles Johnson

CST is also known as “This is why we can’t have nice things.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:37:28pm

re: #51 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

The worst of it is drilled into small children’s heads as well until it’s permanently scarred their neural pathways.

You can tell a 4 year old the wackiest most horrible bullshit and get them to still believe it when they are 40. You can’t tell a 40 year old this shit and expect them to believe it the same way.

Based on my experience over the past 30 years, you can tell a 40 year old the most ridiculous political stories and they will lap them up and ask for more, and repeat them to their friends. Not all Trump acolytes are evangelicals or religious fanatics, but people are very gullible, especially to anecdotes that support their pre-existing biases.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:37:38pm

Aaron Lewis, lead singer of Staind released a new single last week: “I am the only thing one?”

Lyrics are as follows:

Am I the only one here tonight
Shakin’ my head and thinkin’ somethin’ ain’t right?
Is it just me? Am I losin’ my mind?
Am I standin’ on the edge of the end of time?

Am I the only one—tell me I’m not—
Who thinks they’re takin’ all the good we got
And turnin’ it bad? Hell, I’ll be damned
I think I’m turnin’ into my old man

Am I the only one willin’ to bleed
Or take a bullet for bein’ free
Screamin’ “What the fuck!” at my TV
For tellin’ me? Yeah you’re tellin’ me
That I’m the only one willin’ to fight
For my love of the red and white
And the blue burnin’ on the ground?
Another statue’s comin’ down in a town near you
Watchin’ the threads of Old Glory come undone

Am I the only one not brainwashed
Makin’ my way through the land of the lost
Who still gives a shit and worries ‘bout his kids
As they try to undo all the things he did?

Am I the only one who can’t take no more
Screamin’ “If you don’t like it there’s the fuckin’ door!”?
This ain’t the freedom we’ve been fightin’ for
It was somethin’ more, yeah, it was somethin’ more

Am I the only one willin’ to fight
For my love of the red and white
And the blue burnin’ on the ground?
Another statue’s comin’ down in a town near you
Watchin’ the threads of Old Glory come undone

I’m not the only one
I can’t be the only one

Am I the only one who quits singin’ along
Every time they play a Springsteen song?

Am I the only one sittin’ here
Still holdin’ on, holdin’ back my tears
For the ones who paid with the lives they gave?
God bless the U.S.A.

I’m not the only one willin’ to fight
For my love of the red and white
And the blue burnin’ on the ground
Another statue comin’ down in a town near you
Watchin’ the threads of Old Glory come undone

I’m not the only one
I can’t be the only one

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:38:05pm
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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:38:23pm

I loved the original movie but Robert Wise’s 2001 fix was even better!

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:38:55pm

re: #67 Hecuba’s daughter

Based on my experience over the past 30 years, you can tell a 40 year old the most ridiculous political stories and they will lap them up and ask for more, and repeat them to their friends. Not all Trump acolytes are evangelicals or religious fanatics, but people are very gullible, especially to anecdotes that support their pre-existing biases.

Those people were raised by racists and religious fanatics who were telling them other horrible shit when they were young, setting the stage for them accepting Q Anon when they were 40.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:40:46pm

re: #71 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Or people who were told over an over to “never trust anyone” or “always question authority” or various other edgy bullshit that makes you sound like you aren’t “sheeple”.

So they become conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers when they are older.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:42:55pm

I’m pretty sure half of twitter are just competing for the title Edgiest Edgelord who ever Lorded over an Edge.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:45:34pm

JFC

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:45:57pm

re: #71 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Those people were raised by racists and religious fanatics who were telling them other horrible shit when they were young, setting the stage for them accepting Q Anon when they were 40.

There are plenty of people who were not raised by racists and religious fanatics who accept Q Anon and other related Trump CTs. Stephen Miller is one of the worst in the Trump orbit — but there is no evidence that it was his upbringing that led him astray. Many of those addicted to Fox did not start out brainwashed. For some, it was the trauma of 9/11 that started them down this dark path from which they have never deviated, though now it is a different Messiah with a different message that they follow.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:51:37pm

re: #71 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Those people were raised by racists and religious fanatics who were telling them other horrible shit when they were young, setting the stage for them accepting Q Anon when they were 40.

If you see the disgusting crap my nephews and nieces post on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere it proves Jack’s thesis.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:52:48pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:58:14pm
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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:58:44pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:58:45pm

re: #77 JOE 🥓

Michael Tracey… Exhibit A on the Edgiest Edgelord title theory.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:59:46pm

Mary Kay hearse? No, it’s a Cadillac van custom. I would seriously grok this if it were, say, turquoise rather than pink.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 7:59:54pm

Confirmed global death toll from COVID-19 tops 4 million.

Don’t let anyone pretend it’s over.

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jaunte  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:00:29pm

re: #81 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Looks like a Cadillac Battle Jitney.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:00:47pm

Poor housefly landed on my computer screen and when it walked down to the Michael Tracey tweet it flew away.

Even the fly knows what a fucking liar Tracey is!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:01:13pm

re: #79 jaunte

And remember the real toll is much higher because of significant underreporting and lack of testing.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:02:57pm

re: #74 The Pie Overlord!

She’s broken. I have no idea what the hell happened to her, but she is just a broke down mess. I truly wish she would go away. There is a strong Dem preparing to challenge her next year, he’s a veteran, but he’s also black in that district. It doesn’t put him at an advantage. The area is mostly white and rural before it slides down next to the Atlanta suburbs.

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William Lewis  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:05:50pm

re: #81 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Mary Kay hearse? No, it’s a Cadillac van custom. I would seriously grok this if it were, say, turquoise rather than pink.

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Take and cut a hole in the roof for a Sperry Type A-1A twin .50 turret from a B-17 and then it’ll be much more interesting.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:06:59pm

re: #49 Dopamine Fish

I have a page on this from years back. Basically, the wingnut mindset is programmed by fear. From an early age, it’s drilled into us that we listen to the authorities God gave us, or there WILL be hell to pay. (Either now or later, depending on the authority being crossed.) From there, everything follows in a logical fashion: If you make them afraid of something, they will listen to anything you have to say on that subject, without question. Therefore, the end goal of all right-wing media is to figure out how to package the latest outrage to make their programmed robots afraid of it.

Also, when their Dad brings out the belt (and he ALWAYS does, because Dad is the authority figure), said conservative survives only by letting someone else take the punishment, be they brother, sister or Mom (often).

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retired cynic  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:08:20pm

re: #88 Sherlock Hound

Also, when their Dad brings out the belt (and he ALWAYS does, because Dad is the authority figure), said conservative survives only by letting someone else take the punishment, be they brother, sister or Mom (often).

Or one of the kids can’t stand it, and confesses to something they didn’t do to stop the tension.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:08:22pm

re: #52 Dopamine Fish

You said it. Many of the problems I have to this day are caused by how warped my brain became from the instinctual fear drilled into me by my Bible-thumping parents at the youngest possible age.

“Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.”—Attributed to Ingatius of Loyola by Voltaire. Ignatius was famous for his hatred of women promoted as piety, along with his self-hatred promoted as piety, as a member of the Jesuits. For that he was made a saint.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:11:31pm

re: #89 retired cynic

Or one of the kids can’t stand it, and confesses to something they didn’t do to stop the tension.

Yup. Any way you figure it, they’re getting lessons. Not good ones.

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Jay C  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:14:55pm

re: #84 JOE 🥓

Poor housefly landed on my computer screen and when it walked down to the Michael Tracey tweet it flew away.

Even the fly knows what a fucking liar Tracey is!

Funny: flies are usually attracted to shit….

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Dave In Austin  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:27:48pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:31:42pm

re: #93 Dave In Austin

Imani… please step away from the Twitter.

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Belafon  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:51:10pm

re: #93 Dave In Austin

Looks like it’s her birthday.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:53:17pm

I somehow posted the same thing twice. Weird…

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gocart mozart  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:56:57pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 8:57:52pm

Yes

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:01:38pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:06:07pm
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A Mom Anon  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:12:44pm

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Testing, and I have to hope boosters are being developed to cover or partially cover the Delta variant. We have the Pfizer vaccine in my house, and it’s effectiveness supposedly drops to 67 percent from the mid nineties with the delta virus. That’s a bit terrifying to be honest. I’m on lockdown for the foreseeable future, unless I can get to a place where people aren’t afraid of vaccines. I have a good size mask supply plus washable ones, I won’t leave home without one probably ever again. I worry about my son, he’s working full time and planning on going to see live music again and flying on his own for the first time in August.(yes I am terrified, and trying not to stress, but the destination is Las Vegas. Help me, lol.) He has masks, but no way is he going to see heavy metal bands and wear a mask.

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teleskiguy  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:13:51pm

re: #54 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

That looks just like Jimmy Herring, guitarist for Widespread Panic.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:14:09pm

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That whole article is some Grade A bullshit.

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teleskiguy  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:14:51pm

I want to ski this.

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Follow the leader! Throwback to @timdurtschi & @kaijonesski entering a lesser known portal at @jacksonhole this winter… 🔮🧙🏻‍♀️ Tag your adventure buddy below! #tgrlivethedream

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:15:39pm

re: #101 A Mom Anon

Same here regarding masks. The only place I would want to travel is an outdoor site like a park, or a sane blue state where they don’t want “my kind” (resident of a red state).

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:15:49pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

I think I broke a bone just watching that.

/

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Belafon  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:16:59pm

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same here regarding masks. The only place I would want to travel is an outdoor site like a park, or a sane blue state where they don’t want “my kind” (resident of a red state).

Just show them your vaccine card.

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danarchy  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:18:17pm

re: #101 A Mom Anon

Testing, and I have to hope boosters are being developed to cover or partially cover the Delta variant. We have the Pfizer vaccine in my house, and it’s effectiveness supposedly drops to 67 percent from the mid nineties with the delta virus. That’s a bit terrifying to be honest. I’m on lockdown for the foreseeable future, unless I can get to a place where people aren’t afraid of vaccines. I have a good size mask supply plus washable ones, I won’t leave home without one probably ever again. I worry about my son, he’s working full time and planning on going to see live music again and flying on his own for the first time in August.(yes I am terrified, and trying not to stress, but the destination is Las Vegas. Help me, lol.) He has masks, but no way is he going to see heavy metal bands and wear a mask.

it is 64 percent effective at preventing symptoms, it is still highly effective at preventing serious disease and hospitalization.

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William Lewis  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:18:39pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

I want to ski this.

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Not quite as bad as that one the other night but still rates a hard “NOPE” from me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:18:52pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

I want to ski this.

Sane people: Skull and crossbones, high risk of death or injury, maybe nah.

Skiers: YOLO!

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Belafon  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:25:37pm
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A Mom Anon  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:28:19pm

re: #108 danarchy

I worry about my husband getting even a milder version of this. He’s got serious heart disease(including congestive heart failure), diabetes, and high blood pressure. With the Delta variant being the source of most of the new infections, it’s a concern here. I also have trust issues with a significant percentage of my fellow humans, it’s something that will take a very long time to remedy.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:34:11pm

re: #111 Belafon

I managed to go years without seeing the inspiration for that thing…

It was completely out of my head finally. Now it’s all come back.

I need BLEACH! STAT!

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sagehen  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:35:41pm

re: #107 Belafon

Just show them your vaccine card.

and don’t wear a red hat.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:37:20pm

re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg

That whole article is some Grade A bullshit.

Indeed.

The ROGD in Zinnia Jones’s handle stands for “rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” the bullshyte claim TERFs and Republicans claim is at best a delusion amongst teenagers. Therefore, “to think of the children, we must ban gender-affirming treatments, because it could be peer-pressure.” (Lots of people like to join historically marginalised, harassed, or murdered groups.)

Like Natalie Wynn, Zinnia Jones went through her transition publicly whilst a prominent religion counter-apologist.

The whole bullshyte idea of “sudden onset gender dysphoria” comes from the disconnect children or teenagers who experience gender dysphoria, and when parents figure it out (usually when the child speaks up, therefore “sudden”). It is no different than “sudden onset gay” or “sudden onset atheist.” There are real reasons children don’t speak up, ranging from punishment from parents to being thrown out on the street to outright murder.

Zinnia Jones wrote about the bullshyte theory and where it came from at her blog Gender Analysis on April 30, 2021, in three parts.

What parents don’t know: Trans youth study reveals fatal flaw at the heart of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) pseudo-diagnosis (1 of 3)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:56:39pm

Tropical Storm Warnings go up for North Carolina and the Mid-Atlantic States.

LOCATION…32.1N 82.3W
ABOUT 80 MI…125 KM NW OF BRUNSWICK GEORGIA
ABOUT 150 MI…240 KM WSW OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…45 MPH…75 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNE OR 25 DEGREES AT 16 MPH…26 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1006 MB…29.71 INCHES

CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:

A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued from Little River Inlet
South Carolina to Great Egg Inlet New Jersey, including Pamlico and
Albemarle Sounds, Chesapeake Bay south of North Beach and the tidal
Potomac south of Cobb Island and Delaware Bay south of Slaughter
Beach.

The Tropical Storm Warning south of Altamaha Sound Georgia has been
discontinued.

nhc.noaa.gov

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 7, 2021 • 9:57:55pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:02:40pm

re: #117 Dread Pirate Ron

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:04:21pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:10:55pm

Lots of people in that Tucker Carlson thread (and many other places) say “and FOX News Channel is played on military bases or VA clinics 24/7.”

Anecdotally as only one veteran, I have never seen FOX News played in VA hospitals or clinics, nor on military bases.

For one thing, if you’re at work at a military base, you’re supposed to be working, not watching television.

As for VA clinics, I’ve asked at Cheyenne VAMC about that very question, since I’ve never seen FOX (or any real news channel) played in a VA clinic. Doctors and nurses have told me that news (particularly FOX) is not good for blood pressure and such.

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TedStriker  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:13:38pm

re: #70 JOE 🥓

I loved the original movie but Robert Wise’s 2001 fix was even better!

About fucking time, Paramount.

I have had the Wise director’s edition on DVD since it came out and I much prefer it to the theatrical cut (though there are some little things in the theatrical cut I do like and miss from the DC); IIRC, the main reason it’s taken so long to get the Wise DC in HD/4K is that all of the new and the cleaned-up effects shots they put in it were basically done in standard definition for DVD, so there was really no way to easily use them as-is for an 4K release. However, people on Wise’s team that are also going to be involved with the 4K version say they have all of the original assets used in those added effects shots ready to go, so at least they shouldn’t have to create everything that was added from scratch.

Also, me when I saw that tweet:

;-P

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:15:56pm

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lots of people in that Tucker Carlson thread (and many other places) say “and FOX News Channel is played on military bases or VA clinics 24/7.”

Anecdotally as only one veteran, I have never seen FOX News played in VA hospitals or clinics, nor on military bases.

For one thing, if you’re at work at a military base, you’re supposed to be working, not watching television.

As for VA clinics, I’ve asked at Cheyenne VAMC about that very question, since I’ve never seen FOX (or any real news channel) played in a VA clinic. Doctors and nurses have told me that news (particularly FOX) is not good for blood pressure and such.

The only “waiting room” I’ve ever even seen a TV in, turned on, and tuned to regular cable or broadcast television have been the ones in auto repair shops or tire shops. Never in a doctor or dentist. Most times it wasn’t the news on either. Last one I remember for sure was a Steve Harvey hosted Family Feud, time before that Family Guy was on.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:18:38pm

re: #122 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

The only “waiting room” I’ve ever even seen a TV in, turned on, and tuned to regular cable or broadcast television have been the ones in auto repair shops or tire shops. Never in a doctor or dentist. Most times it wasn’t the news on either. Last one I remember for sure was a Steve Harvey hosted Family Feud, time before that Family Guy was on.

At my last occupational therapy appointment at Sidney Regional Medical Center, televisions in the waiting area were either playing the Game Show Channel, or going through medical lectures for non-medical people. (Do you know the onset signs of Type II Diabetes? That kind of stuff.)

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:18:43pm

re: #122 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

In fact, the only place I ever remember seeing Fox news on a TV in public was at a bar I know of that during the day is a hangout for retired Law Enforcement officers.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:21:53pm

re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

At my last occupational therapy appointment at Sidney Regional Medical Center, televisions in the waiting area were either playing the Game Show Channel, or going through medical lectures for non-medical people. (Do you know the onset signs of Type II Diabetes? That kind of stuff.)

My optometrist has a TV playing “How to recognize potential eye health problems” type videos in a loop too. Most of the time, there’s not even any sound just subtitles or on screen text.

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TedStriker  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:23:59pm

re: #121 TedStriker

Also, Paramount’s giving the same 4K HDR treatment to ST:TMP’s theatrical cut, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home in a box set, on sale 9/7.

trekmovie.com

P.S.: I can understand if they skip doing this for The Final Frontier, the red-headed bastard stepchild that it is (and that Paramount never really wanted to make in the first place, kneecapping it all through production and giving Shatner a shit budget, because TNG was starting to ride high and demanded much of the studio’s attention by this point), but Paramount better give The Undiscovered Country the 4K HDR treatment too at some point soon; frankly, it’s one of my very favorites in the entire franchise (TOS, TNG, or Kelvinverse).

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:27:32pm

re: #108 danarchy

it is 64 percent effective at preventing symptoms, it is still highly effective at preventing serious disease and hospitalization.

Also, all those numbers are preliminary. And variable — another study said the Pfizer vaccine remains 84% effective against the delta variant.

For me the bottom line is still that at least 99% of deaths from covid are in unvaccinated people.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:28:11pm

Oh Neighbors!

It’s way past the 4th! Would you PLEASE stop with the fucking bottle rockets and fireworks?

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teleskiguy  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:30:04pm

I heard one jackass set off a mortar on Saturday night here, and that’s it. Elko, NV on Sunday night sounded like a war zone.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:30:14pm

re: #126 TedStriker

Colorful metaphors in 4K HDR. Damn. Can’t wait!

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teleskiguy  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:32:44pm

Fire restrictions are easing in my county starting on Friday. Still no campfires but you can build fires in existing grates.

I don’t think they should do this. We got some rain in the last couple of weeks, sure, but it’s still bone fucking dry out there.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:37:03pm

re: #126 TedStriker

One problem with this is that it’s UltraBluRay for the 4K version (obviously) and then a BluRay version as well. I don’t know a single person who has an UltraBluRay player. Everyone who has 4k TVs get the content from streaming.

I don’t think they even make UltraBluRay drives for PCs either so I can’t buy it and rip to digital format.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:41:37pm

re: #132 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I stand corrected, LG and Asus make drives for it. Ripping the video to digital format is not straight forward though from what I’m seeing.

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TedStriker  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:44:18pm

re: #130 GlutenFreeJesus

Colorful metaphors in 4K HDR. Damn. Can’t wait!

My loins are already aflame about it already ;-P

re: #132 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

One problem with this is that it’s UltraBluRay for the 4K version (obviously) and then a BluRay version as well. I don’t know a single person who has an UltraBluRay player. Everyone who has 4k TVs get the content from streaming.

I don’t think they even make UltraBluRay drives for PCs either so I can’t buy it and rip to digital format.

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teleskiguy  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:48:30pm

Have to pace myself, I’m working 12+ hour days (including today, setting up) until Sunday up at the ski area, big archery tournament. Gonna be surrounded by an enormous gaggle of good ol’ boys with their huge pickup trucks and expensive compound bows. It’s event pay so I’ll make as much money in five days that I do in two weeks during the winter.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:51:39pm

re: #134 TedStriker

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 7, 2021 • 10:57:17pm
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TedStriker  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:04:56pm

re: #136 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:09:44pm

re: #139 TedStriker

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 7, 2021 • 11:16:31pm

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Ben Webster - Where Are You [1957]



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ericblair  Jul 8, 2021 • 12:05:02am

re: #97 gocart mozart

“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” Satchel Paige

“Dance like nobody’s watching. Write emails like they are being read back to you at your deposition” - shamelessly stolen from some wag on teh twitter

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Targetpractice  Jul 8, 2021 • 12:33:15am

re: #126 TedStriker

Also, Paramount’s giving the same 4K HDR treatment to ST:TMP’s theatrical cut, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home in a box set, on sale 9/7.

trekmovie.com

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P.S.: I can understand if they skip doing this for The Final Frontier, the red-headed bastard stepchild that it is (and that Paramount never really wanted to make in the first place, kneecapping it all through production and giving Shatner a shit budget, because TNG was starting to ride high and demanded much of the studio’s attention by this point), but Paramount better give The Undiscovered Country the 4K HDR treatment too at some point soon; frankly, it’s one of my very favorites in the entire franchise (TOS, TNG, or Kelvinverse).

ST:V was basically doomed from the start, due to a combination of an ego-driven director and executive meddling. To start with, Shatner basically dragooned Paramount into letting him direct the film by leveraging “favored nation status” to declare that since Nimoy got to direct two films, he was entitled to direct a film himself. He wanted a serious film about God and religion based upon his disgust with a late-night viewing of the Bakkers plying their televangical trade, but Paramount wanted another comedy film after the success of ST:IV. He had to twist Harve Bennett’s arm to get him to come back to the franchise after Bennett had had a falling out with Roddenberry over meddling in the production of the aforementioned film. The writer’s strike delayed shooting and pre-production, ILM was busy with Indy III and Ghostbusters II so effects went to a much smaller company that underperformed, and the finished product went up against both films in the summer schedule.

Any seasoned director would have had a hard time getting their film to the finish line under such conditions, but you had a rookie director who was working on a passion project fueled by ego. All of which is why the only reason that the film franchise survived is because the franchise’s 25th anniversary was coming up and they wanted one last hurrah for the TOS cast.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 12:38:57am

re: #136 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 12:43:17am

re: #134 TedStriker

My loins are already aflame about it already ;-P

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 12:45:17am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2021 • 12:54:45am

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The most Virtuosic Organ Pedal Solo written in history? J.S.Bach Toccata, adagio and fugue, BWV 564



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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 12:55:00am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:02:38am

A couple of researchers reminisce about the Geldingadalir volcano about the start… only back in March of this year. Seems like longer, but maybe because I check the livecams too much. Anyway, some great drone shots from the first couple of weeks of the eruption:

Unexpected Eruption Allows Real-time Look at Icelandic Volcano for University Researchers

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:04:45am

Eight-tweet thread.

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Targetpractice  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:12:27am

The most likely outcome of this lawsuit being filed is a quick motion to dismiss that will likely be granted, only for Donny to then declare that the courts are in cahoots with the social media companies and Congress needs to “take action.”

But the opportunity is here for the lawyers on the other side to force TFG to sit for a deposition that could touch on virtually any subject germane to the lawsuit itself. That could include questioning him on his involvement in the efforts to overturn the election results and 1/6. A scenario I’m sure his lawyers have no desire whatsoever to ever see actually happen.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:15:26am

Tropical Storm Elsa is moving into South Carolina.

As the storm moves into the Westerlies, the track tightens, as it becomes much more predictable how the storm will travel.

nhc.noaa.gov (predicted track)

The Tropical Storm Warning is likely to be extended further north from New Jersey.

A Tropical Storm Watch is posted for the eastern half of Long Island, Long Island Sound, New Haven, Conn. to Sagamore Beach, Mass.

The predicted track takes the tropical storm over eastern Long Island, Rhode Island, southeastern Mass., extreme eastern Maine before it becomes an extratropical storm. It should be absorbed by a larger weather system over the cold waters of the Labrador Current in the Atlantic.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:26:10am

Environment Canada is in some disagreement with the National Hurricane Center.

weather.gc.ca

Their track carries Tropical Storm Elsa over central North Carolina by Thursday afternoon; near Washington DC and suburbs overnight on Friday into southeastern New Jersey (Philadelphia is in the uncertainty area as is Greater New York), through eastern Connecticut, then a strike from the landward side of Boston, Mass., eastern Maine, and New Brunswick passing near or through Fredericton before becoming extra-tropical, passing into the North Atlantic near the northern tip of Newfoundand.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:27:44am

These tropical weather updates brought to you from the safety of the High Plains. Now back to our regularly scheduled tornadoes. /s

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:30:22am

re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Environment Canada is in some disagreement with the National Hurricane Center.

Nothing that a Sharpie cannot fix.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:31:48am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Nothing that a Sharpie cannot fix.

Take cover, Alabama.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:38:10am

I’m going to need to mosey. The gas company will be here tomorrow to inspect our furnace to see what’s required to permanently cut off the gas, as well as inspect the route to the attic for the installation of our new furnace/central air.

In the meantime, National Weather Service radio just said it will be a brisk 100°F tomorrow. I figure we’ll get this air conditioner just in time for Winter.

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Targetpractice  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:43:07am

Figure I know the next act in the Tucker/Russia business is: “THE NSA TRICKED ME INTO LETTING THEM READ MY EMAILS!!!” His whole shtick when caught is never to fess up, but to double down via DARVO. So now that he’s been caught acting as a Russian propaganda agent, he’ll declare that the whole thing was an NSA “sting” meant to catch him in a compromising position. That the Russian intermediaries were really covert NSA agents meant to tempt him into thinking he could get an interview with Putin (which is totally not a bad thing in the eyes of MAGAts) so they could then “leak” his emails to the press. And so he remains as he always is: A perpetual victim of a grand conspiracy to destroy a Faux news host because he supposedly is the greatest threat to their efforts to “control” America.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:46:26am

re: #129 teleskiguy

I heard one jackass set off a mortar on Saturday night here, and that’s it. Elko, NV on Sunday night sounded like a war zone.

Well that sucks. You were only a couple of hours south of me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:50:09am

re: #158 Targetpractice

The thing about sting operations is if you aren’t inclined to break the law, a sting will not catch you.

In such a putative sting by the NSA (which has no authority to collect intelligence on Americans unless they are incidental to a foreign target), if someone was presenting themselves as a foreign agent, the correct response is to say nothing to them and call the FBI.

When we lived in Oklahoma, my wife was approached via E-mail with an offer of a large sum of money to write a piece of software. They had a back-and-forth over that, and they even sent a cheque as an advance. Wary of this, she backtracked the E-mail to North Korea. After that, a call to the FBI.

We had the Feds at our house asking her all sorts of questions like “how did they choose you” and “what do you know about them.” The FBI collected the information she’d gathered, along with the letter and cheque.

Being as they’re the FBI, they don’t really tell you anything after they’ve interviewed you as a tipster or a witness, so we didn’t hear what came from that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 1:56:00am
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 8, 2021 • 2:05:47am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When we lived in Oklahoma, my wife was approached via E-mail with an offer of a large sum of money to write a piece of software. They had a back-and-forth over that, and they even sent a cheque as an advance. Wary of this, she backtracked the E-mail to North Korea. After that, a call to the FBI.

Iranians tried similar crap with the company I used to work for. Multiple times.

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Targetpractice  Jul 8, 2021 • 2:07:43am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The thing about sting operations is if you aren’t inclined to break the law, a sting will not catch you.

In such a putative sting by the NSA (which has no authority to collect intelligence on Americans unless they are incidental to a foreign target), if someone was presenting themselves as a foreign agent, the correct response is to say nothing to them and call the FBI.

When we lived in Oklahoma, my wife was approached via E-mail with an offer of a large sum of money to write a piece of software. They had a back-and-forth over that, and they even sent a cheque as an advance. Wary of this, she backtracked the E-mail to North Korea. After that, a call to the FBI.

We had the Feds at our house asking her all sorts of questions like “how did they choose you” and “what do you know about them.” The FBI collected the information she’d gathered, along with the letter and cheque.

Being as they’re the FBI, they don’t really tell you anything after they’ve interviewed you as a tipster or a witness, so we didn’t hear what came from that.

Which is all true of a normal citizen who has a grasp on what is and isn’t illegal and generally leans towards caution when approached about something that they either aren’t sure on the legality of or are aware is illegal. But when you’re a trust fund kid whose parents instilled a sense of entitlement into, the idea that the law applies to you is ridiculous and so anything you do is legal if you say it is. So Tucker working through Russian back channels to score an interview that could seal his place as one of the leaders of the far-right is totally “legal” because he says it is. Just like how the NSA or any other intel agency catching his actions in a drag net meant to catch collusion between Russian intel assets and American citizens is “illegal” because he got caught in it.

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Nojay UK  Jul 8, 2021 • 3:20:16am

re: #143 Targetpractice

ST:V was basically doomed from the start, due to a combination of an ego-driven director and executive meddling. To start with, Shatner basically dragooned Paramount into letting him direct the film by leveraging “favored nation status” to declare that since Nimoy got to direct two films, he was entitled to direct a film himself.

I recall seeing a fan-made “music” video which consisted of the title scrolls from the first five movies, with Shatner’s name prominently featured including the last movie where he was also named as director. The background music was “You’re so vain.”

“You probably think this song is about you, you’re so vaaaiiiinnnn…”

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 3:49:23am

Repiblican candidates are such profiles in courage

Youngkin Admits to Hiding His True Abortion Views

A new video shows Virginia gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin (R) saying that he has to limit his antiabortion comments for fear of alienating independent voters, but that he would go “on offense” if he wins office and Republicans take a majority in the House of Delegates, the American Independent reports

J.D. Vance Admits He Had to ‘Suck It Up’ to Support Trump

Ohio U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance (R) tried to explain away his about-face on Donald Trump in a Time magazine interview but admitted that he had no choice but to “suck it up” and support the former president.

Said Vance: “I’m not just a flip-flopper, I’m a flip-flop-flipper on Trump.”

He called Trump the “the leader of this movement” and that “I need to just suck it up and support him.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 3:50:10am

re: #99 DodgerFan1988

But … but Tucker Carlson guest Charlie Kirk LOVES apartheid.

That all depends on who has to live in the townships and who gets to live in the gated subdivisions.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 3:51:34am
“The simple reality is that we do not have a pandemic among the vaccinated. This is only, right now, a pandemic among the unvaccinated.”

— New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), quoted by WHYY

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 3:58:01am

re: #165 Dangerman

Repiblican candidates are such profiles in courage

Youngkin Admits to Hiding His True Abortion Views

J.D. Vance Admits He Had to ‘Suck It Up’ to Support Trump

The only “struggle” going on within the GOP is a matter of style: how loud and upfront one should be with one’s hypocritical religiosity, misogyny, racism, nationalist chauvinism, xenophobia and patriarchalism.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 3:59:31am
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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:00:29am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The only “struggle” going on within the GOP is a matter of style: how loud and upfront one should be with one’s hypocritical religiosity, misogyny, racism, nationalist chauvinism, xenophobia and patriarchalism.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:04:31am
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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:04:36am
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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:08:38am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:10:49am

re: #172 Dangerman

One weird thing about all this is that Hillbilly Elegy - which I actually quite liked as a book - is deeply reactionary and basically makes the case - sometimes explicitly sometimes implicitly - that the people Vance grew up with are indolent and left behind for a reason.

I liked the first part of Hillbilly Elegy, just because I recall that growing up in the Industrial Midwest in the 60’s, those folks from Appalachia who moved to our neighborhood really were a separate ethnicity, distinct from the other WASP or Central/Eastern European whites who made up most of the rest until the blacks and Latinos started moving in.

And say what you want about “economic anxiety”, the people I grew up with during the Golden Age of the American Worker were racist as hell, even with steady jobs and relatively high incomes.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:11:42am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:11:45am

Candace Owens trending on Twitter for coming out as an antivaxxer. Gotta work the conservagrift.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:13:45am

re: #175 Dangerman

“Trump has mobilized and consolidated a cohort that now exercises control over the GOP…which disdains democratic principles, welcomes authoritarian techniques to crush racial & cultural liberalism…and suffers from the mass delusion that Trump won”

…and without whose support the GOP cannot win. And the only way to truly address and motivate this cohort is through Trump personally.

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:27:18am

re: #117 Dread Pirate Ron

So, I know who the FBI, NSA and CIA are.

But what is OUR?

(Sorry)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:31:10am

Nebraska has now ended its public-facing Covid-19 dashboard, by the state government’s orders.

The dashboard now requires a state government account to log in to see it.

The rule was passed down by (??) on June 30 to end public access to the dashboard.

That means researchers from out-of-state such as media outlets will now have to use individual city or public health district dashboards.

Panhandle Public Health District’s dashboard is available to the public. Currently the vaccination rate here is 32% complete.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:35:17am

Counting on her followers to not know she is lying out her ass.

Probably lying about this too.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:36:42am

re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She’s on a very long unconnected thread of tweets about how the former guy’s brilliant Operation Warp Speed vaccine is really poison, and that’s all the left’s fault as they send their jack-booted thugs to forcibly vaccinate you and your children and leftie employers will fire you.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:39:40am
The State of Nebraska COVID-19 Dashboard is no longer available as of June 30, 2021. Any future updates regarding coronavirus will be provided in news releases and through other means.

And that is all you get about that decision. Whar Sunshine Act?

dhhs.ne.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:41:10am
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Patricia Kayden  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:46:29am

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:50:41am

re: #184 Patricia Kayden

That is just like Northerners who fly Confederate flags.

At least Southerners can make some partial claim to it belonging to their “culture and heritage”.

To the rest of us, it is pure, unadulterated treason

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 4:56:18am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is just like Northerners who fly Confederate flags.

At least Southerners can make some partial claim to it belonging to their “culture and heritage”.

To the rest of us, it is pure, unadulterated treason

There was the rancher northeast of us openly flying two Nazi flags from his ranch gate, but his ranching business went under when suddenly other ranchers and businesses no longer wanted to deal with him. His ranch is now owned by someone else and he left.

That guy used to mail a newspaper he had printed all over the Panhandle every few weeks; that trash showed up in my mailbox promoting Nazism. Up in Sheridan County he also used to put it out in “take one” racks.

There was the guy in our county seat who used to fly the Confederate Battle Flag above his Nebraska Huskers flag (sacrilege!) but the town shamed him into taking it down.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:00:35am

re: #122 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

The only “waiting room” I’ve ever even seen a TV in, turned on, and tuned to regular cable or broadcast television have been the ones in auto repair shops or tire shops. Never in a doctor or dentist. Most times it wasn’t the news on either. Last one I remember for sure was a Steve Harvey hosted Family Feud, time before that Family Guy was on.

Waiting rooms in the doctors’ offices I go to in Philly generally have one of the local affiliates on - ABC usually I think. So by mid- to late- morning it’s stuff like The View*, Rachel Ray, etc. etc.

When I was getting radiation treatments five years ago earlier in the morning it likewise was a non-FOX local station and had the local or national network “Good Morning” program on.

All of which was pretty much dreck in my opinion and I’d prefer the set off.

* - Of course pre-election I got to see Meghan McCain sit there and lob softball questions at Chris Christie.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:00:39am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, slavery, racism and Jim Crow are certainly part and parcel of White Southern heritage. And White Northern heritage to a lesser degree.

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Renaissance_Man  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:04:13am

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lots of people in that Tucker Carlson thread (and many other places) say “and FOX News Channel is played on military bases or VA clinics 24/7.”

Anecdotally as only one veteran, I have never seen FOX News played in VA hospitals or clinics, nor on military bases.

For one thing, if you’re at work at a military base, you’re supposed to be working, not watching television.

As for VA clinics, I’ve asked at Cheyenne VAMC about that very question, since I’ve never seen FOX (or any real news channel) played in a VA clinic. Doctors and nurses have told me that news (particularly FOX) is not good for blood pressure and such.

I have worked at multiple VAs and I see FOX in over 50% of their clinics and waiting rooms. Not in mine, naturally. If it’s not FOX I see CNN, which is not much better.

I consider it to be elder abuse to have it on. If I see someone in the hospital and it’s on in their room, I tell them it is bad for them and they should quit, just like I would tell someone to quit smoking. I can’t bill for it yet, but one can hope.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:06:00am

re: #188 Patricia Kayden

Yes, slavery, racism and Jim Crow are certainly part and parcel of White Southern heritage. And White Northern heritage to a lesser degree.

Let us ban Critical Reich Theory.

Stop fixating on concentration camps, genocide and goose-stepping over conquered nations and focus on the positive aspects that we can all be proud of: Autobahns, space technology, anti-Bolshevism and all those advances made in pediatric medicine…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:07:24am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:10:31am

So it has been hyped up from “vaccines are worse than the disease” to “vaccines transmit even worse diseases”?

Break out the Brawndo. We are a step further towards Full Idiocracy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:13:06am

Yes, it’s heartbreaking, but Covid-19 (nor any disease) doesn’t give a crap about disabilities, your feelings, psychological needs, &c.

I feel for the kid, but I guess the parents here were not concerned they would bring Covid-19 into an institution and sicken their own kid or other people.

One mother’s human-rights victory over hardline COVID restrictions (Maclean’s, July 6, 2021)

When Pamela Libralesso reunited with her son last August after six months apart, she could tell he wasn’t himself. His brow was furrowed. He wouldn’t make eye contact. He walked right past his dad, his favourite person in the world.

When he’s himself, her 15-year-old, who is non-verbal and has an intellectual disability, is cheerful, social and “brightens any room,” Libralesso says. “He is just a very easy-to-please joy to be around. He loves his family. He loves all people. If you are kind to him, he loves you.”

After half a year of fighting to see him under his group home’s strict new visitation rules aimed to stop the spread of COVID-19, it was heart-breaking to see J.’s sadness, his mother says. (She requested that we not publish his name, to protect his privacy.) His demeanor said: Where have you been? What took you so long? “There’s zero way to explain COVID to him, to explain a virus, to explain public health measures,” she says. “It took a while for us to get him back. Clearly, he had suffered some impact from the isolation.”

(more)

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:18:20am

re: #89 retired cynic

Or one of the kids can’t stand it, and confesses to something they didn’t do to stop the tension.

How did you learn so much about my family?

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:20:48am

The usual bigots all manage to find ways to spread their toxic agenda.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:23:34am

re: #195 lawhawk

Remember, Spotify is paying him millions to spout scientific racism. I cancelled my Spotify account when they signed Mr. Rogan.

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darthstar  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:30:23am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:32:38am

When Joe Rogan Offends You, Spotify Profits From It (Bloomberg, May 2, 2021)

He also spouts anti-vaxxer nonsense to his largely libertarian under-30 male audience.

Joe Rogan has a lot of opinions. Chances are you don’t agree with all of them.

That is what makes him so popular, and why Spotify is paying him tens of millions of dollars a year. It’s also why he’s a constant thorn in the company’s side.

On a recent episode of his podcast, Rogan said he understood why a healthy 21-year-old wouldn’t want to get vaccinated. Dr. Anthony Fauci rebutted Rogan, and deemed the perspective selfish.

Rogan then clarified his comments, describing himself as a buffoon who is routinely drunk or stoned while taping his show and doesn’t think before he speaks. He didn’t quite say that 21-year-olds should get vaccinated, but he acknowledged there was logic to the idea.

Spotify has remained quiet. The company said it had no conversations with Rogan about the episode, or about his follow-up remarks. When I asked CEO Daniel Ek about Rogan this past week, here is what he said:

“I don’t have any specific comments on that. What I will say is we have 8 million creators, and hundreds of millions of pieces of content. We have a content policy, and we do remove pieces that violate it.”

Shorter Daniel Ek: Why are you trying to harsh my profits?
Lenin enters the chat: The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:37:12am

re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Let us ban Critical Reich Theory.

Stop fixating on concentration camps, genocide and goose-stepping over conquered nations and focus on the positive aspects that we can all be proud of: Autobahns, space technology, anti-Bolshevism and all those advances made in pediatric medicine…

On time train performance

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:40:30am

re: #191 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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The problem is not so much that people are ignorant or will blindly accept what they’re told and continue it and run with it.

It’s those doing the telling who are supposed to know better

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:43:29am

re: #200 Dangerman

The problem is not so much that people are ignorant or will blindly accept what they’re told and continue it and run with it.

It’s those doing the telling who are supposed to know better

Or they’re just lying to make money. Antivaxxer conclaves and Websites always have a plethora of stuff to sell.

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darthstar  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:44:37am
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jeffreyw  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:46:06am

Good morning!

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:46:29am

re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Technically, she’s not only anti-vaxxer, but pro choice, because that’s the same exact line of reasoning supporting a woman’s right to choose:

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:50:02am

Pro Tip: when you claim that there are too many cases to mention in a legal brief to the court hearing your case, there aren’t. You name names. You cite the cases. You cite the leading case in your jurisdiction.

Reality: There are no cases supporting their position, and these fuckers should be sanctioned and referred for disciplinary action and disbarment.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:50:13am

re: #204 lawhawk

Technically, she’s not only anti-vaxxer, but pro choice, because that’s the same exact line of reasoning supporting a woman’s right to choose:

She insists that abortion is murder. The line of reasoning might be the same, but conservaliars don’t care.

That’s been brought up to a number of antivaxxers/foetus worshippers. Every one of them will claim “that’s different!”

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:52:41am

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:55:32am

re: #206 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She insists that abortion is murder. The line of reasoning might be the same, but conservaliars don’t care.

That’s been brought up to a number of antivaxxers/foetus worshippers. Every one of them will claim “that’s different!”

So is infecting other people (imo)

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 8, 2021 • 5:57:24am

re: #52 Dopamine Fish

You said it. Many of the problems I have to this day are caused by how warped my brain became from the instinctual fear drilled into me by my Bible-thumping parents at the youngest possible age.

Yep, same here. It’s only been the last 5 years or so that I’ve come to accept that I grew up in a fucking cult. Mine was the Church of Christ.

Nice people. Except these flim-flam supremacists not only ignore, excuse, or support mainstream white-power, but also directly attack all other Christian sects as “not Biblical” and therefore “not real Christians.” I was taught fear and hate since birth under the guise of “the Love of Jesus.”

It’s only been very recently that I’ve broken free enough to have Zero Fucks to Give towards my family about any conversations about their cult or politics. The damage up to now was life-long. Fundamentalist religion truly and outrageously sucks.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:04:40am

Trump’s crackerjack legal team is about to go through some things, but more than that, Trump’s bank account (or rubes legal defense fund), because they filed that idiotic 1A suit in the wrong forum.

According to Twitter and Facebook TOS, all actions must be filed in the NDCA. There’s a forum selection clause that has been upheld repeatedly by the courts. It’s not going to be ignored just for Trump.

So, expect Twitter and Facebook lawyers to argue two things in their response:

1) motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action (1A is inapplicable as to the private business decisions to ban a person from a social media platform who repeatedly violates said TOS, tries to circumvent the suspension with dummy accounts, and uses platform to incite to violence, misinform during a public health crisis, etc.)
2) wrong venue.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:12:56am

re: #210 lawhawk

Trump’s crackerjack legal team is about to go through some things, but more than that, Trump’s bank account (or rubes legal defense fund), because they filed that idiotic 1A suit in the wrong forum.

According to Twitter and Facebook TOS, all actions must be filed in the NDCA. There’s a forum selection clause that has been upheld repeatedly by the courts. It’s not going to be ignored just for Trump.

So, expect Twitter and Facebook lawyers to argue two things in their response:

1) motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action (1A is inapplicable as to the private business decisions to ban a person from a social media platform who repeatedly violates said TOS, tries to circumvent the suspension with dummy accounts, and uses platform to incite to violence, misinform during a public health crisis, etc.)
2) wrong venue.

I read, probably in jest, they shouldn’t oppose
Just go for discovery

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:17:20am

re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Imagine having all that money to you name and not being able to use any of it to defend yourself.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:17:32am

re: #211 Dangerman

I read, probably in jest, they shouldn’t oppose
Just go for discovery

Discovery would end badly for Trumpworld, but the FB and Twitter lawyers aren’t interested in a fishing expedition of that sort. They’re out to kill these kinds of lawsuits as quickly as possible. That means sticking closely to motion to dismiss, venue change, and if the case survives those things, then to move on to discovery and making that as ugly for Trumpworld as they can make it.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:23:43am

re: #147 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That’s a beautiful piece; thanks for sharing.

Every time I hear an organ and see someone working that hard to make it sound so sweet, I think of the Simpsons episode:

The Simpsons - In the Garden of Eden - S07E04

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:24:06am

re: #46 Patricia Kayden

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Side note: This image can be a bit ToS-ish here and there in chats due to noose. FYI.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:26:02am

re: #213 lawhawk

Discovery would end badly for Trumpworld, but the FB and Twitter lawyers aren’t interested in a fishing expedition of that sort. They’re out to kill these kinds of lawsuits as quickly as possible. That means sticking closely to motion to dismiss, venue change, and if the case survives those things, then to move on to discovery and making that as ugly for Trumpworld as they can make it.

I know, but a danger can dream….
Why were you booted off?
Ok then tell us about 1/6….

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:27:33am
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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:32:22am

No spectators is the least bad option here; cases spiraling out of control should have meant cancellation of the Games. The Games will present yet another opportunity for widespread dissemination of covid19 variants around the world. This is a bad idea.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:37:14am

re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So it has been hyped up from “vaccines are worse than the disease” to “vaccines transmit even worse diseases”?

Break out the Brawndo. We are a step further towards Full Idiocracy.

That particular trope is seen most often apocalyptic Sci-Fi flicks, such as I Am Legend (though, to be fair, there have been pharmaceutical fuckups in the past, such as Thalidomide and the 1976 Swine Flu vaccine debacle).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:41:00am

re: #199 Dangerman

On time train performance

I have been reading The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway by , Alfred C. Mierzejewski and guess what?

The railroads were a disaster. They were handed over to the control party loyalists and even before the war started, were already breaking down and unable to deliver basic materials like coal and iron ore on time and in sufficient quantities.

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ericblair  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:41:38am

Good, that was total bullshit.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:42:21am
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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:43:41am

re: #221 ericblair

Good, that was total bullshit.

I have also seen that he’s planning on getting the FTC to end farm manufacturers making it so that farmers can only take their equipment to the dealers for repairs.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:44:50am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And say what you want about “economic anxiety”, the people I grew up with during the Golden Age of the American Worker were racist as hell, even with steady jobs and relatively high incomes.

I grew up in Western PA and once you got out of Pittsburgh or Erie you were in Mississippi. White racism was the norm.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:45:03am

re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have been reading The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway by , Alfred C. Mierzejewski and guess what?

The railroads were a disaster. They were handed over to the control party loyalists and even before the war started, were already breaking down and unable to deliver basic materials like coal and iron ore on time and in sufficient quantities.

but everyone says it’s true //

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:45:29am

re: #214 lawhawk

Haven’t watched the Simpsons in decades but have to admit that it had some unforgettably hilarious bits. Ditto South Park,

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:46:30am

re: #184 Patricia Kayden

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:46:57am

re: #221 ericblair

Biden is about to order the FTC to ban non-compete clauses which trap workers in abusive, low-paying, or just bad jobs. Noncompetes have become increasingly common for restaurant workers, retail workers, journalists, and day care providers.

We still have this notion that individual freedom and initiative means the “right” to negotiate as an individual or family with limited resources and income on an “equal basis” with multi-billion-dollar, international corporations

Another one of the great fallacies that the Free Marketeerians like to foist on us.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:49:13am
Washington Post: “The early contours of the infrastructure blueprint have won the White House’s support, but the IRS provision in particular is drawing opposition from well-funded conservative groups, which are strongly opposed to expanding the reach of a tax-collection agency.”

god forbid people get caught, you know, cheating.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:49:53am

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lots of people in that Tucker Carlson thread (and many other places) say “and FOX News Channel is played on military bases or VA clinics 24/7.”

Anecdotally as only one veteran, I have never seen FOX News played in VA hospitals or clinics, nor on military bases.

For one thing, if you’re at work at a military base, you’re supposed to be working, not watching television.

As for VA clinics, I’ve asked at Cheyenne VAMC about that very question, since I’ve never seen FOX (or any real news channel) played in a VA clinic. Doctors and nurses have told me that news (particularly FOX) is not good for blood pressure and such.

The YMCA used to show Fox on their video screens.

Sizzler Steakhouses in Los Angeles received their TVs from NewsCorp and the screens were locked on Fox News.

Ralphs Markets played Fox News Radio in their stores until people boycotted and forced them to change.

Izzy’s Deli in Santa Monica also had the Fox screen installed by his landlord…until the landlord died and Izzy ripped the TV off the wall.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:51:19am

re: #184 Patricia Kayden

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They still haven’t chosen between the Confederate battle flag and the American flag. I don’t hold out much hope.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:52:39am

re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We still have this notion that individual freedom and initiative means the “right” to negotiate as an individual or family with limited resources and income on an “equal basis” with multi-billion-dollar, international corporations

Another one of the great fallacies that the Free Marketeerians like to foist on us.

in the world of small businesses and individuals, non competes should only come into play when you buy an actual business or part, and the seller could still significantly influence your operating results. but only for a period of time.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:54:33am

Non RV related (surprise!), but behind the tag for personal reasons.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:56:52am

re: #202 darthstar

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Or a HUGE cow population.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 6:59:57am
Nevertheless, George W. Bush has a grammatical pet peeve: the abuse of literally. And it’s not just because Bush wants us to speak properly; it’s part of his masterful image rehabilitation to make him seem like America’s kindly old uncle who does paintings and corrects others’ grammar, and not a guy whose errors, linguistic and otherwise, cost thousands of lives from New Orleans to Afghanistan.

“I just have been on a campaign to get people to use literally less,” Bush said when his daughter cold-called him during her hosting segment on Today last week. Bush knows about campaigns: He had two successful campaigns for president, one of them so successful that he also won the popular vote.

In his literally campaign, Bush is outside the mainstream. Most people who complain about literally object to its usage as a synonym for figuratively, as in, “My mind is literally exploding right now.” (Unless you’ve hit an IED on a road outside Kabul, your mind probably isn’t literally exploding.) Bush doesn’t stop there — he doesn’t want literally used, period. Unless you’re talking about literature, Bush argues, literally is almost always unnecessary.

“It’s misunderstood,” he told Hager on the air. “It’s become a convenient habit.”
He’s not wrong. Most people misuse literally, and even when they’re using it correctly, they could probably do without it.

inquirer.com

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:00:44am
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Jay C  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:02:59am

re: #233 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:04:04am

A tale of vaccinations:

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:06:13am

re: #236 lawhawk

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“perpetuate divisive, hateful and anti-American ideologies.”

…
running
jumping
throwing
swimming
…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:06:18am

re: #221 ericblair

How can the Federal government do that unless it involves interstate commerce?

I thought labor laws are not strict enough to ban noncompete clauses (which is why they are so common.)

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:07:36am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:07:44am

re: #239 Dangerman

“perpetuate divisive, hateful and anti-American ideologies.”

…
running up Capitol steps
jumping over barricades
throwing heavy objects through glass doors
swimming in a sea of adulation from fellow conservatives
…

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:09:50am

re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

well played
take the day off

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ericblair  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:10:18am

re: #223 Belafon

I have also seen that he’s planning on getting the FTC to end farm manufacturers making it so that farmers can only take their equipment to the dealers for repairs.

As far as I understand it, this is a big issue for farmers, who are being gouged by the equipment manufacturers. If you’re actually supportive of property rights, instead of just being a huge greedy dick, Right of Repair is a big step in ensuring you can do what you feel is best with your own property and not get screwed by rent seekers.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:12:02am

re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You’ve just advanced to the finals. Rest up.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:12:31am

re: #241 Belafon

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Twenty four states have seen an uptick of at least 10% in Covid-19 cases over the past week as health experts and the federal government keep pressing for more people to get vaccinated,” CNN reports.

Said former Biden adviser Andy Slavitt: “We should think about the Delta variant as the 2020 version of Covid-19 on steroids. It’s twice as infectious. Fortunately, unlike 2020, we actually have a tool that stops the Delta variant in its tracks: It’s called vaccine.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:14:37am

re: #245 lawhawk

You’ve just advanced to the finals. Rest up.

I am working on 250K karma points so I can finally retire…just rounded 175K the other week…

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:15:29am

Wendell, you’ll be facing stiff competition though:

Speaker Pelosi throws down:

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:16:16am

re: #235 Belafon

Fuck that lying rat bastard Dumbya. May he wind up in the lowest level of hell where he belongs for lying us into wars that killed thousands including my son.

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lawhawk  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:16:29am

re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I’m no longer looking at my karma points, but rather the ratio - points to comments. Seems more apt given how long I’ve been around.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:17:08am

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:18:55am

“oh crap, it’s a thesaurus”

yup
still funny

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:24:00am

re: #251 Dangerman

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Bigger one:

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:26:33am

Gosh what took Republicans so long to do this predictable stunt?

This ex-Trump official is moving the ‘critical race theory’ hysteria into churches as he takes aim at ‘woke’ pastors

Yesirree folks, coming to your local GOP Megachurch expect to hear endless sermons during the Critical Race Theory Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama where your Pimp will recite the latest GOP talking points demanding that Real Xtians take over the school boards and make them into indoctrination centers that will worship The Big G’s anointed King—Shithead Trump!

Praise Jay-Zuss!

oh, and keep putting those green pictures in the collection plates…or whip out that American Express to prove how Jay-Zuss blesses you with wealth…and for those of you who only have a Visa or Master Card, keep praying for that Amex!

rawstory.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:31:11am

re: #254 JOE 🥓

Gosh what took Republicans so long to do this predictable stunt?

This ex-Trump official is moving the ‘critical race theory’ hysteria into churches as he takes aim at ‘woke’ pastors

The story of Noah contains the original Critical Race Doctrine: the Curse of Ham.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:32:59am

re: #224 JOE 🥓

I grew up in Western PA and once you got out of Pittsburgh or Erie you were in Mississippi. White racism was the norm.

I can vouch for that. I live (and was born) about half way between Erie and Pittsburgh, just a few miles from the Ohio line. We do have a bunch of wee minded people around here.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:40:28am

re: #256 Eventual Carrion

I can vouch for that. I live (and was born) about half way between Erie and Pittsburgh, just a few miles from the Ohio line. We do have a bunch of wee minded people around here.

Pennsyltucky. Ditto for Southern Indiana: I went to college at Indiana University in Bloomington, a small island of learning, culture and liberalism surrounded by the northern outliers of the Appalachians with the Ohio River and KY less than 100 miles away.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:40:29am

Haven’t read this one. It goes on my list:

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:40:42am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The story of Noah contains the original Critical Race Doctrine: the Curse of Ham.

Why yes it does and my brainwashed relatives LOVE to mention that Curse of Ham!

Frankly I think this is more appropriate when it comes to that Curse of Ham—Isaly’s Chip Chopped Ham!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:46:57am

re: #259 JOE 🥓

Why yes it does and my brainwashed relatives LOVE to mention that Curse of Ham!

sneak a peek at your daddy’s ding-dong and you will be turned black and forced to live forever as slaves…

sound-as-any basis for a moral and racial doctrine

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2021 • 7:46:58am

re: #259 JOE 🥓

Profane prosciutto.

“Cures” is “curse” spelled sideways.

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plansbandc  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:05:29am

re: #239 Dangerman

Oh no. Nothing like that. They’re afraid they’ll disrespect the flag while on the podium.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:06:03am

re: #203 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:06:12am

re: #254 JOE 🥓

oh, and keep putting those green pictures in the collection plates…or whip out that American Express to prove how Jay-Zuss blesses you with wealth…and for those of you who only have a Visa or Master Card, keep praying for that Amex!

rawstory.com

Dead Presidents

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:07:02am

re: #262 plansbandc

Oh no. Nothing like that. They’re afraid they’ll disrespect the flag while on the podium make white people uncomfortable.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:08:19am

What fascinates me is it’s an abusive parasocial relationship where there’s this institution that gatekeeps your access to the figure of adulation, who gatekeeps your patriotism.

People that buy into this…even only part of it, are just constantly sawing back and forth between the joy of affirmation and the terror of non-affirmation. They’ve fulled accepted that everything is a transaction, that they pay to be told they’re worthy.

No wonder they need the rest of us to be miserable: they’re applying the same structure to what they perceive as downstream. We’re supposed to act like they act towards their political and cultural leaders…and not question the shape of that relationship.

Thing is, I think this explains why reactionaries are both so easy to scam and so willing to prop up explicit abuses of power: power is a currency of license, it is natural and good for those with power to have more license. Power does not exist separate from its abuse; there is a wrongness to checked power because it inverts the hierarchy.

Bonus round: this also explains the “as above, so below” of how these people end up excusing intimate abuses of power even though they have “ethics” that should demand rejection and condemnation: if your base premise is that the powerful are not bound by the rules—even their own rules—and that the less-powerful must accept that the rules are applied differently, then there is no absolute morality, there is only the pyramid-shaped charts of who is entitled to what.

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plansbandc  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:10:28am

re: #265 Belafon

Exactly!

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:13:04am

Unfortunately, being a dumbass pays better than being smart.

Joe Rogan Defends Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones From CNN: ‘Both Men Say Things That are Logical’ (Mediaite)

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John Hughes  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:19:35am

re: #169 Teukka

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.

of course that is all totally useless if the wet bulb temperature approaches 37C, you will die even if you are well hydrated, only air-conditioning will save your life.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:19:45am

re: #268 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Unfortunately, being a dumbass pays better than being smart.

Joe Rogan Defends Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones From CNN: ‘Both Men Say Things That are Logical’ (Mediaite)

Alex Jones Can’t Stop Screaming | Alex Jones Master Class Part 4

Joe needs to step away from the bong.

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:24:33am

re: #269 John Hughes

of course that is all totally useless if the wet bulb temperature approaches 37C, you will die even if you are well hydrated, only air-conditioning will save your life.

True, but those wet bulb events will be surrounded by weather where fluid loss may become an issue, and general awareness of the perils of fluid loss in the warm season is always relevant, no?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:27:25am

Seasonal colds suck. My head feels like it’s about to explode.

That is all.

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:27:59am

re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg

Seasonal colds suck. My head feels like it’s about to explode.

That is all.

Summer cold? Gah. My condolences… :shudders:

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:30:30am

re: #270 Dr Lizardo

Alex should drink some Miralax to get things going in the toilet bowl.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:30:55am

re: #273 Teukka

Summer cold? Gah. My condolences… :shudders:

I’m usually good for one cold a year in summer and winter.

And before anyone asks: I am fairly confident this is not covid.

I have no cough, I’m breathing fine, I can smell and taste, I have no fever and my blood oxygen levels are normal. Also, I’m vaccinated.

However, I am keeping a close tab on my symptoms and if anything starts going sideways, I will go get checked out and tested.

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:31:43am

My surprised face, etc. etc. etc.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:36:04am

re: #276 Teukka

My surprised face, etc. etc. etc.

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Andy Ngo and his thugs triggered a major disturbance here whipping up anti transgender hate. Police showed up and quite naturally sided with Andy while several Antifa folks were beaten and arrested.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:39:31am

re: #184 Patricia Kayden

Sad to say this assertion is not true. As mentioned before, Nazis were inspired by American Jim Crow laws. There are many articles available on this linkage. Henry Ford promoted anti-Semitism. And Henry Ford was a Nazi sympathizer. Let’s not forget the America First organization from the late 1930’s which was created to keep us out of the war. It wasn’t until Pearl Harbor and the subsequent German declaration of war against us that the committee basically disbanded. America was infested with citizens who supported Hitler in the 1930’s and it is still infested with people who hold similar views today.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:43:31am

re: #270 Dr Lizardo

Joe Rogan believes what is convenient for Joe Rogan, updated daily. He believes he believes things, he thinks that’s he open to argument when he doesn’t understand arguments well enough to understand what makes a good or a bad one. He has a series of tactics—“I’m stupid, don’t listen to me,” “let’s not be angry and let’s do DMT and love each other” etc—to evade culpability when someone points out that he self-contradicts and also keeps his thumb on the scale when evaluating the validity and morality of the ideas (and people) he interacts with. It’s incredibly shallow, but it’s not a naive shallowness…it’s developing a series of cognitive bypasses around distressing or concerning ideas, so that the world is just smooth subjective impressions and the distress of others doesn’t register beyond it’s lack of aesthetic appeal.

Alex Jones’ bypasses are all vulgar affect—performative anger and contempt, lying and distorting available information to elicit bigger anger and contempt—but Rogan’s are just as narcissistic and self-serving while pretending to be the arbiter of what is reasonable. They’re the same guy…Rush Limbaugh…in slightly different jumpsuits.

It’s not because he’s a pothead or occasionally has a head full of DMT—drugs that can profoundly connect you to other people and alter your perception of what it important—it’s in spite of it.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:43:53am

re: #278 Hecuba’s daughter

Sad to say this assertion is not true. As mentioned before, Nazis were inspired by American Jim Crow laws. There are many articles available on this linkage. Henry Ford promoted anti-Semitism. And Henry Ford was a Nazi sympathizer. Let’s not forget the America First organization from the late 1930’s which was created to keep us out of the war. It wasn’t until Pearl Harbor and the subsequent German declaration of war against us that the committee basically disbanded. America was infested with citizens who supported Hitler in the 1930’s and it is still infested with people who hold similar views today.

I would reword his as “I have decided that you can’t love both the American Flag and Adolf Hitler. They are mutually exclusive. Republicans will have to choose one.” Not going to give them any room.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:52:30am

re: #278 Hecuba’s daughter

That’s why Dad would never buy a Ford. He never forgave the company whose founder published shit like “The International Jew”.

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danarchy  Jul 8, 2021 • 8:59:20am

re: #281 JOE 🥓

That’s why Dad would never buy a Ford. He never forgave the company whose founder published shit like “The International Jew”.

Guess that means Volkswagens were out of the question too.

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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:00:08am

Who’s a good truck driver? It’s you! You’re a good truck driver.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:01:02am

re: #281 JOE 🥓

That’s why Dad would never buy a Ford. He never forgave the company whose founder published shit like “The International Jew”.

I worked at Ford for a number of years and I have always used their products. Yeah Henry was an asshole but it was a great place to work and they never gave me hassle about taking days off for Jewish holidays & Friday afternoons during the winter, in fact they included Jewish holidays in their “diversity training” material.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:09:35am

re: #284 The Pie Overlord!

I worked at Ford for a number of years and I have always used their products. Yeah Henry was an asshole but it was a great place to work and they never gave me hassle about taking days off for Jewish holidays & Friday afternoons during the winter, in fact they included Jewish holidays in their “diversity training” material.

I am glad to hear that!

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:10:26am

re: #284 The Pie Overlord!

I worked at Ford for a number of years and I have always used their products. Yeah Henry was an asshole but it was a great place to work and they never gave me hassle about taking days off for Jewish holidays & Friday afternoons during the winter, in fact they included Jewish holidays in their “diversity training” material.

An example of how an organization can change over time and how it’s not always proper to blame the children for the iniquities of the father. Similar to how Republicans will always deflect by talking about how Democrats (some, anyway) supported slavery and the Confederacy, while totally ignoring how the parties have completely switched their positions on race over the past 60 years.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:12:59am

re: #281 JOE 🥓

That’s why Dad would never buy a Ford. He never forgave the company whose founder published shit like “The International Jew”.

As I understand it, Henry Ford had a serious personal issue with Jews in the form of bankers. He was a self-made man and ran his company as he saw fit, but in 1927-28 he rand into financial difficulties over retooling his factories from Model T to Model A.

Basically due to his personal meddling, the Model T ended before the Model A production lines were ready to roll. So he had to turn to the banks for credit, and they, as was (and is) common business practice, wanted a share of his company as collateral, along with seats on the managing board.

That rankled him greatly.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:13:21am

re: #286 Hecuba’s daughter

An example of how an organization can change over time and how it’s not always proper to blame the children for the iniquities of the father. Similar to how Republicans will always deflect by talking about how Democrats (some, anyway) supported slavery and the Confederacy, while totally ignoring how the parties have completely switched their positions on race over the past 60 years.

Dad was just stubborn in some ways. But if he was still alive he’d be spitting blood about how much he hates Trump and the GOP.

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:13:34am

re: #278 Hecuba’s daughter

Sad to say this assertion is not true. As mentioned before, Nazis were inspired by American Jim Crow laws. There are many articles available on this linkage. Henry Ford promoted anti-Semitism. And Henry Ford was a Nazi sympathizer. Let’s not forget the America First organization from the late 1930’s which was created to keep us out of the war. It wasn’t until Pearl Harbor and the subsequent German declaration of war against us that the committee basically disbanded. America was infested with citizens who supported Hitler in the 1930’s and it is still infested with people who hold similar views today.

One of the reasons to love gangsters.

Meyer Lansky made it his personal mission, in between the criming, to take all his minions to Nazi and America First events and beat the crap out of fascists. He said it was the greatest joy and honor of his life.

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:14:43am

re: #281 JOE 🥓

That’s why Dad would never buy a Ford. He never forgave the company whose founder published shit like “The International Jew”.

The biggest fight my dad ever had with his little brother was when uncle bought a Mercedes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:15:38am

re: #290 sagehen

The biggest fight my dad ever had with his little brother was when uncle bought a Mercedes.

My dad drove a Ford, my brother drove a VW beetle. Never had any family issues over that.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:19:09am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As I understand it, Henry Ford had a serious personal issue with Jews in the form of bankers. He was a self-made man and ran his company as he saw fit, but in 1927-28 he rand into financial difficulties over retooling his factories from Model T to Model A.

Basically due to his personal meddling, the Model T ended before the Model A production lines were ready to roll. So he had to turn to the banks for credit, and they, as was (and is) common business practice, wanted a share of his company as collateral, along with seats on the managing board.

That rankled him greatly.

His anti-Semitism was ingrained well before then:

Ford’s anti-semitic statements date back as early as late 1915. At that time he spoke to Hungarian Jewish pacifist Rosika Schwimmer regarding World War I. “I know who caused the war - the German-Jewish bankers. I have the evidence here,” Ford stated, slapping his pocket. “Facts. I can’t give them out yet because I haven’t got them all. But I’ll have them soon.”

…….

Ford made his views known to the public for the first time in early 1920 during an interview by New York World, where he proclaimed that:

“The international financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the International Jew — German Jews, French Jews, English Jews, American Jews. I believe that in all these countries except our own, the Jewish financier is supreme… Here the Jew is a threat.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:21:12am

re: #292 Hecuba’s daughter

His anti-Semitism was ingrained well before then:

“Facts. I can’t give them out yet because I haven’t got them all. But I’ll have them soon.”

The My Pillow Guy of his age

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:24:10am

re: #290 sagehen

The biggest fight my dad ever had with his little brother was when uncle bought a Mercedes.

Our father was devoted to “Buy American”. He served in Asia during WWII, and objected equally to purchasing goods from Japan and Germany. Of course, he also objected purchases from anywhere outside the United States and inculcated those views into us. My sister, brother, and I still buy cars only from American manufacturers, although the next generation doesn’t care.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:26:07am

re: #294 Hecuba’s daughter

Our father was devoted to “Buy American”. He served in Asia during WWII, and objected equally to purchasing goods from Japan and Germany. Of course, he also objected purchases from anywhere outside the United States and inculcated those views into us. My sister, brother, and I still buy cars only from American manufacturers, although the next generation doesn’t care.

What can you do when “buy American” conflicts with the other dictum of Capitalism, namely “buy the best product at the lowest price”?

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:28:09am

re: #294 Hecuba’s daughter

Our father was devoted to “Buy American”. He served in Asia during WWII, and objected equally to purchasing goods from Japan and Germany. Of course, he also objected purchases from anywhere outside the United States and inculcated those views into us. My sister, brother, and I still buy cars only from American manufacturers, although the next generation doesn’t care.

Do you buy Fords made in Mexico or Hyundais built in Alabama?

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:30:07am

the world makes so much more sense after i’ve cleaned my glasses

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:30:20am

re: #294 Hecuba’s daughter

Our father was devoted to “Buy American”. He served in Asia during WWII, and objected equally to purchasing goods from Japan and Germany. Of course, he also objected purchases from anywhere outside the United States and inculcated those views into us. My sister, brother, and I still buy cars only from American manufacturers, although the next generation doesn’t care.

My dad was like that for many years as well, also having served in the Pacific Theater of WWII. But after I bought a Toyota Camry, and let him drive it around, he ended up buying a Toyota (a pickup, one of their smaller 4x4’s) and went on to consider it the best and most reliable vehicle he’d ever owned.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:32:13am

re: #295 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What can you do when “buy American” conflicts with the other dictum of Capitalism, namely “buy the best product at the lowest price”?

I’ve never been particularly devoted to capitalism — it’s an economic model whose time has come and gone although it retains some advantages under certain situations as long as it’s strictly controlled. And I don’t think my father ever cared; we never discussed merits of competing economic systems in our household.

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Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:33:27am
J.D. Vance (R) told NBC News that he isn’t worried that his past criticism of Donald Trump will hurt his chances of winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Ohio.

he’s right
it won’t hurt his chances
which are just about zero

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:34:33am

re: #293 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Facts. I can’t give them out yet because I haven’t got them all. But I’ll have them soon.”

The My Pillow Guy of his age

MyFordGuy? MeinFordMann?

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darthstar  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:36:01am
303
Dangerman  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:37:02am

re: #302 darthstar

[Embedded content]

do i gotta google this really?

“Sonic the Hedgehog furry porn”

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:37:58am

re: #303 Dangerman

do i gotta google this really?

“Sonic the Hedgehog furry porn”

:puts fingers in ears in anticipation of the inevitable scream:

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danarchy  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:40:34am

Hmmm, 2 headlines this morning.

$1.19 billion worth of marijuana seized in massive drug bust in California

Gov. Newsom Kicks Off $1.1 Billion Effort to Clean Up California Freeways and Streets

Coincidence ;)

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:40:38am

Coffe or other beverages down, empty mouth…

Click to Reveal
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William Lewis  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:40:49am

re: #290 sagehen

The biggest fight my dad ever had with his little brother was when uncle bought a Mercedes.

My FiL who was in the Navy during WWII wanted to fight in the Pacific but ended up in the Atlantic due to childhood malaria. So his problem was the Japanese and was not happy when we bought a Prius. It helped when we explained that Toyota was formed after the war unlike Mitsubishi which still hasn’t apologized for POW slave labor.

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darthstar  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:41:43am

re: #303 Dangerman

do i gotta google this really?

“Sonic the Hedgehog furry porn”

Basically your anime characters with Sonic heads on them.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:42:58am

re: #302 darthstar

Shirtless old men as a response to reactionary mania and bleach-related quackery is a form of trolling comes from a Youtube channel called Internet Comment Etiquette.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:44:07am

re: #297 Dangerman

the world makes so much more sense after i’ve cleaned my glasses

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:45:24am

re: #310 Barefoot Grin

[Embedded content]

Needs more ham. I like pineapple on pizza but that’s really just ham on a pineapple pizza.

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:45:48am

re: #305 danarchy

Hmmm, 2 headlines this morning.

$1.19 billion worth of marijuana seized in massive drug bust in California

Gov. Newsom Kicks Off $1.1 Billion Effort to Clean Up California Freeways and Streets

Coincidence ;)

what, they “forget” to pay the taxes?

313
Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:46:19am

re: #311 Belafon

Needs more ham. I like pineapple on pizza but that’s really just ham on a pineapple pizza.

And poorly distributed, at that.

314
Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:47:31am

re: #303 Dangerman

do i gotta google this really?

“Sonic the Hedgehog furry porn”

Rule 34 strikes again.

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:50:42am

re: #314 Eclectic Cyborg

Rule 34 strikes again.

I once wrote what was meant to be a slash story about the great love between the red m&m and the yellow m&m. Turned out they weren’t actually same gender; they had a child (orange m&m).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:51:48am

re: #299 Hecuba’s daughter

I’ve never been particularly devoted to capitalism — it’s an economic model whose time has come and gone although it retains some advantages under certain situations as long as it’s strictly controlled. And I don’t think my father ever cared; we never discussed merits of competing economic systems in our household.

The “free market” is a good way to balance supply and demand and direct flows of capital to where they can do the most benefit. But only if that market is regulated to the extent that the price of a product or service reflects the total cost involved.

An awful lot of modern capitalism works on the principle of privatizing profits while socializing the downstream costs, while attempts to bring those costs into line with price are decried as “job-killing over-regulation”.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:52:52am

re: #315 sagehen

There are only two genders.

Male and peanut male.

318
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:54:37am

re: #305 danarchy

Hmmm, 2 headlines this morning.

$1.19 billion worth of marijuana seized in massive drug bust in California

Authorities never get their hands on more than 10% of the traffic, all that headline means is that another $11.9 billion worth of marijuana went unseized…

319
Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:54:57am

re: #317 The Ghost of a Flea

There are only two genders.

Male and peanut.

And peanut butter and fudge and caramel and pretzel.

320
The Pie Overlord!  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:55:10am

A MAGA literary allusion. Behind spoiler tags because Ben Garrison.

Click to Reveal
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:55:45am

re: #310 Barefoot Grin

What are the best examples of classic Italian foods that have been modified (and arguably improved) by English-speaking cultures? Eg, Domino’s Pizza, spaghetti with meatballs, etc.

Olive Garden

322
Belafon  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:56:30am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

A MAGA literary allusion. Behind spoiler tags because Ben Garrison.

[Embedded content]

It didn’t go well for the original Don from what I remember.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:57:52am

re: #319 Belafon

And peanut butter and fudge and caramel and pretzel.

how dare you question my “confection critical” position, you social justice warrior

324
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:58:02am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

A MAGA literary allusion. Behind spoiler tags because Ben Garrison.

[Embedded content]

The point of Don Quixote is that he was nearsighted, doddery, antiquated and ultimately hapless.

325
DesertDenizen  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:58:17am

re: #322 Belafon

Ben doesn’t seem to know that Don Quixote tilting at windmills refers to a pointless, impossible task.

326
A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:58:35am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

A MAGA literary allusion. Behind spoiler tags because Ben Garrison.

[Embedded content]

It seems he is unaware of what happened after the charge.

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Targetpractice  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:59:08am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As I understand it, Henry Ford had a serious personal issue with Jews in the form of bankers. He was a self-made man and ran his company as he saw fit, but in 1927-28 he rand into financial difficulties over retooling his factories from Model T to Model A.

Basically due to his personal meddling, the Model T ended before the Model A production lines were ready to roll. So he had to turn to the banks for credit, and they, as was (and is) common business practice, wanted a share of his company as collateral, along with seats on the managing board.

That rankled him greatly.

It was really only salt on a wound that already existed from being forced to accept that the Model T was no longer a money maker for the company and the Model A was the only option if “his” company wanted to remain profitable in the face of growing competition. Combine that with the tumble the company took the following year when the Great Depression put a damper on sales of new cars and he was absolutely convinced that he’d been right all along about the Model T being the best car available.

328
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 9:59:19am

re: #325 DesertDenizen

Ben doesn’t seem to know that Don Quixote tilting at windmills refers to a pointless, impossible task.

We are missing Rudy as Sancho Panza

329
The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:00:40am

re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We are missing Rudy as Sancho Panza

But there are so many Sancho Panzas.

A plethora of Panzas

Except…no…I’m wrong.

If we’re going all the way back, Quixote is literally a man in the throes of madness that eventually gets better, and Sancho Panza’s an everyman and very practical, if uneducated.

There are no Sancho Panzas in the current situation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:01:36am

re: #327 Targetpractice

It was really only salt on a wound that already existed from being forced to accept that the Model T was no longer a money maker for the company and the Model A was the only option if “his” company wanted to remain profitable in the face of growing competition. Combine that with the tumble the company took the following year when the Great Depression put a damper on sales of new cars and he was absolutely convinced that he’d been right all along about the Model T being the best car available.

And when his rubber plantation in Brazil totally failed because, again, Ford insisted on micromanaging every aspect of it, building homes that rotted in the jungle heat and humidity, firing workers who had no concept of industrial-age time in droves for showing up five minutes late, etc…

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Teukka  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:02:13am

re: #326 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

It seems he is unaware of what happened after the charge.

The giantwindmill took him for a spin?

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:05:05am

re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We are missing Rudy as Sancho Panza

Rudy is still busy digging around in his Panza’s.

333
JOE 🥓  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:05:43am

re: #300 Dangerman

he’s right
it won’t hurt his chances
which are just about zero

Peter Thiel poured $10 million dollars into Vance’s pocket. Ohio Republicans will be stupid enough to nominate that ass.

334
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:06:54am

re: #332 Eventual Carrion

Rudy is still busy digging around in his Panza’s.

Looking for his Sanchoad?

335
Targetpractice  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:06:58am

re: #292 Hecuba’s daughter

His anti-Semitism was ingrained well before then:

Which really only made him part of the norm for the time period. Leading right up to the attack on Pearl Harbor and even some weeks after, it was a common argument among the “America First” crowd that the war in Europe was all part of a struggle against a grand Jewish conspiracy to spread Bolshevism into mainland Europe, and that Jewish bankers/power brokers were trying to drag America into the war on the side of the Soviets.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:10:01am

re: #329 The Ghost of a Flea

Anyway, the correct literary reference is an all-Falstaff musical revue with guest appearances by Ancient Pistol and Bardolph.

337
b.d. (Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up!)  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:10:09am

re: #325 DesertDenizen

Ben doesn’t seem to know that Don Quixote tilting at windmills refers to a pointless, impossible task.

You must be referring to the Critical Race Theory Don Quixote, not the revised and approved GOP version.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:10:12am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:10:52am

re: #334 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Looking for his Sanchoad?

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William Lewis  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:12:27am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

A MAGA literary allusion. Behind spoiler tags because Ben Garrison.

[Embedded content]

When you remember the actual story of DQ, it’s really quite appropriate!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:13:16am

There only two genders.

Sir John Falstaff and anthropomorphic peanut M&M

342
sagehen  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:14:50am

re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hope they got the right guys, and not just a batch of convenient scapegoats.

343
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:17:51am

re: #342 sagehen

I hope they got the right guys, and not just a batch of convenient scapegoats.

“rounded up the usual suspects…”

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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:19:53am

re: #332 Eventual Carrion

Rudy is Sans Panza

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 8, 2021 • 10:38:38am

re: #142 ericblair

“Dance like nobody’s watching. Write emails like they are being read back to you at your deposition” - shamelessly stolen from some wag on teh twitter

My motto - don’t do anything that you wouldn’t want to testify to in court.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 8, 2021 • 12:08:58pm

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As I understand it, Henry Ford had a serious personal issue with Jews in the form of bankers. He was a self-made man and ran his company as he saw fit, but in 1927-28 he rand into financial difficulties over retooling his factories from Model T to Model A.

Basically due to his personal meddling, the Model T ended before the Model A production lines were ready to roll. So he had to turn to the banks for credit, and they, as was (and is) common business practice, wanted a share of his company as collateral, along with seats on the managing board.

That rankled him greatly.

Henry Ford had already published The International Jew and was publishing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by that time.

He was openly anti-Semitic until he decided that he might want to run for political office.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 8, 2021 • 12:11:34pm

re: #284 The Pie Overlord!

I worked at Ford for a number of years and I have always used their products. Yeah Henry was an asshole but it was a great place to work and they never gave me hassle about taking days off for Jewish holidays & Friday afternoons during the winter, in fact they included Jewish holidays in their “diversity training” material.

Henry II made a major effort to repair the damage his grandfather had done. For many years, Ford endured a boycott for refusing to abandon its small operation in Israel.


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