The Bob Cesca Podcast: Chaos Is the New Cocaine

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

Chaos Is The New Cocaine — [Explicit Content] Mary Trump returns! Her new book, The Reckoning, is out August 17. The history that led up to the rise of Trump. The impact of the Civil War and its aftermath. Jody’s new jingle. Accountability for the uncontrolled pandemic last year. Post traumatic stress. Surgeon General says the CDC needs to revise its masking guidance, even for vaccinated people. Alex Jones and the insurrection. Chaos and Trump. The KKK and the Texas senate. McCarthy and the rodeo clown caucus. Charlie Kirk’s whopper lie. With Jody Hamilton and David TRex Ferguson. And music by Rocky Mountain Mike, Feed Your Wolves, and State to State. And so much more!

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:15:07pm

At 98 and facing cancer, Bob Dole reckons with legacy of Trump and ponders future of GOP | Yahoo! News

He was one of the few elders of the traditional Republican establishment to endorse Donald Trump in 2016 and the only former presidential nominee to attend the convention that nominated Trump. In a split with the 45th president, Dole said there’s no question that Trump lost his reelection race in 2020 - narrowly perhaps but fair and square.

“He lost the election, and I regret that he did, but they did,” Dole said. “He had Rudy Giuliani running all over the country, claiming fraud. He never had one bit of fraud in all those lawsuits he filed and statements he made.”

“I’m a Trumper,” Dole said at one point during the conversation. But he added at another, “I’m sort of Trumped out, though.”

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:19:09pm

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:24:54pm

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William Lewis  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:26:23pm

re: #3 Patricia Kayden

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A gf in college used to say that the world’s best birth control was Other People’s Kids.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:29:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:31:41pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:35:51pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

JFC

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:37:24pm

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

So where are the fricking police? Why doesn’t the hospital call them to remove the harassers?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:37:39pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:39:47pm
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Dangerman  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:45:14pm
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Dangerman  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:46:11pm

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:46:25pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

So the LAPD defended the harassers. Sigh.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:48:51pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:52:25pm
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sagehen  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:53:19pm

re: #4 William Lewis

A gf in college used to say that the world’s best birth control was Other People’s Kids.

Banned Commercial - Condoms

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William Lewis  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:54:03pm

re: #8 Patricia Kayden

So where are the fricking police? Why doesn’t the hospital call them to remove the harassers?

These are Nazi anti-maskers. Cops are their allies.

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retired cynic  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:55:59pm

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Dangerman  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:56:17pm

Delta variant is one of the most infectious respiratory diseases known, CDC director says

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:57:03pm

re: #17 William Lewis

These are Nazi anti-maskers. Cops are their allies.

Past couple weeks there have been confrontations between Andy Ngo and his thugs against Trans activists. And the LAPD sided with Andy and his thugs.

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:57:19pm

From corporate America to conspiracy theory promotion: How a Minnesota man made a career out of anonymously amplifying dark plots | The Washington Post

Turnbull has identified himself online for 11 years only as “Sean from SGT Reports.” He has amassed a substantial following while producing videos and podcasts claiming that the 9/11 attacks were a “false flag” event, that a “Zionist banker international cabal” is plotting to destroy Western nations, that coronavirus vaccines are an “experimental, biological kill shot” and that the 2020 election was “rigged” against President Donald Trump, according to a Washington Post review.

[…]

For years, Turnbull’s operation has generated revenue through subscriptions and donations and by advertising survival products and precious metals, which Turnbull has recommended as a hedge against an impending U.S. economic collapse, the Post review found. He reported that his business was generating between $50,000 and $250,000 annually in 2019, according to a voluntary business survey he answered and submitted to the Minnesota secretary of state that year.

Fuck. Me.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:59:09pm

re: #20 JOE 🥓

Is it impossible to fire police officers who act in this manner? I don’t get it.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 22, 2021 • 5:59:34pm

re: #22 Patricia Kayden

Is it impossible to fire police officers who act in this manner? I don’t get it.

It’s impossible to fire police officers who BREAK THE FUCKING LAW. These guys? Not even a chance.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:00:11pm

re: #22 Patricia Kayden

Is it impossible to fire police officers who act in this manner? I don’t get it.

It’s the Police and Sheriff’s unions who pour lots of cash into City Council and County Supervisor races.

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Dangerman  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:03:56pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:04:32pm

tweetdeck.twitter.com

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Charles Johnson  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:04:58pm

tweetdeck.twitter.com

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Charles Johnson  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:05:43pm

Ah well. An issue with the TweetDeck preview. Will fix.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:06:56pm

re: #19 Dangerman

It would be cooler if it was a respiratory illness like they said in the beginning. My friend who was hospitalized for it has brain issues now. He seems himself, but basic decisions like what to watch on TV are now a steep challenge for him. Fortunately he has a simple blue collar job. Unfortunately, it’s why he caught covid while required to be at work at an airport despite flights being stopped at the time.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:09:14pm

P

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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:09:35pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:10:40pm

How about now,

tweetdeck.twitter.com

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:11:29pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

How about now,

tweetdeck.twitter.com

Negative, Captain.

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Dangerman  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:20:52pm

re: #29 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It would be cooler if it was a respiratory illness like they said in the beginning. My friend who was hospitalized for it has brain issues now. He seems himself, but basic decisions like what to watch on TV are now a steep challenge for him. Fortunately he has a simple blue collar job. Unfortunately, it’s why he caught covid while required to be at work at an airport despite flights being stopped at the time.

yeah
respiratory in how it gets in and jumps off

but not what it attacks

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A Mom Anon  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:21:13pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
There is a special place in hell for these fucking assholes. And I don’t mean the fun part of hell with all the good cookies,primo weed and the best metal bands either.

There has got to be something that can be done here to stop this shit. Cancer patients getting medical treatments have enough on their plate for fucks sake.

I can’t with this shit anymore, I just can’t.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:21:15pm

Boo Fucking Hoo Proud Boy!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:22:01pm

niterz, lizardz!

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Dangerman  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:24:04pm

re: #36 JOE 🥓

Boo Fucking Hoo Proud Boy!

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how dare I have to experience jail

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electrotek  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:24:44pm

Is it just me or does Chrome have a problem with tweets not loading fully on Windows 10?

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Teukka  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:27:45pm

Edit: New tweet with spelling FIXD.

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:28:05pm

re: #36 JOE 🥓

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William Lewis  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:29:12pm

re: #40 Teukka

“Are crunchy and taste good with ketchup ” was the version I know.

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Teukka  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:31:35pm

re: #42 William Lewis

“Are crunchy and taste good with ketchup ” was the version I know.

All variations of the same theme, that are basically a snack for them if you get them to look at you the wrong way…
SARS-CoV-2 is a freaking dragon. In the instant you cease to respect it, it turns on you and grills you at least medium rare…

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:33:22pm

re: #41 teleskiguy

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:36:01pm

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DesertDenizen  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:36:44pm

re: #38 Dangerman

how dare I have to experience jail

Terrible conditions are great for THOSE people, but not for me. Reap what you sow, asshole.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:37:58pm

re: #46 DesertDenizen

Yes, I am sure he’ll become a vocal advocate for prison reform after all this….and then I laughed and laughed….

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:49:47pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

Too bad that’s not Florida(?) where it’s legal to run over protesters now.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:51:10pm

re: #48 GlutenFreeJesus

Too bad that’s not Florida(?) where it’s legal to run over protesters now.

Only if they’re Those People (tm).

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:51:43pm
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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:52:15pm

Another time when the LAPD sided with the Proud Boys…

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 6:59:49pm
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DesertDenizen  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:00:12pm

re: #51 JOE 🥓

LAPD has been notoriously awful at least as far back as Daryl Gates.

en.m.wikipedia.org

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DesertDenizen  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:01:44pm

re: #52 JOE 🥓

If he’s got prayers, he should be fine. He doesn’t need any of those fancy doctors and their treatments.

/

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:02:30pm

re: #54 DesertDenizen

If he’s got prayers, he should be fine. He doesn’t need any of those fancy doctors and their treatments.

/

If he wants a Darwin Award let him have it.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:04:29pm
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sagehen  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:07:42pm

re: #53 DesertDenizen

LAPD has been notoriously awful at least as far back as Daryl Gates.

en.m.wikipedia.org

oh, way longer than that.

The Chief before Gates was William H Parker (for whom Parker Center is named)
en.wikipedia.org

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DesertDenizen  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:08:57pm

re: #57 sagehen

My memory only goes back to Gates, but I’m not surprised it pre-dates him.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:10:40pm

re: #48 GlutenFreeJesus

Too bad that’s not Florida(?) where it’s legal to run over protesters now.

BLACK Protestors… remember it’s legal to run over BLACK protestors and their supporters.

Protestors in favor of white supremacist goals will continue to be coddled.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:10:42pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:11:59pm

re: #59 Florida Panhandler

BLACK Protestors… remember it’s legal to run over BLACK protestors and their supporters.

Protestors in favor of white supremacist goals will continue to be coddled.

Sure, because the racism is embedded in the system and our society, so we better not teach kids about it, or they might make a better world.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:18:55pm

re: #52 JOE 🥓

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:20:15pm

There’s an interesting point:

Loans to cities and states could be cheaper.

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DesertDenizen  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:29:24pm

re: #63 Belafon

Every municipality I’ve worked for used commercial banks. There are cheaper loan options available sometimes, but it is weird dropping city money at Wells Fargo or Chase.

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dat_said  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:29:41pm

re: #63 Belafon

There’s an interesting point:

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Loans to cities and states could be cheaper.

State Bank of North Dakota is the only government-owned general-service bank in the United States. It was established when the Non-Partisan League was elected to state government.

No way the right-leaning state would establish such a socialistic institution now. No way the right-leaning state will ever get rid of it. It works too well.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:33:47pm

its all fun and games until you crash into a storefront at a strip mall and youre wearing a hot dog suit

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TarHellion  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:34:00pm

re: #63 Belafon

So true. Due to consolidation and incompetence, we now have Wells Fargo, Truist (Regional banks SunTrust and BB&T), along with VERY small interests Skyline and FirstTrust.

The latter 2 do not have the capital to bankroll projects, while only Wells Fargo is truly big enough to take on major projects.

A far cry from what we even had 5, let alone 10 years ago.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:34:21pm

tweetdeck.twitter.com

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Charles Johnson  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:35:40pm

one more time

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Charles Johnson  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:36:13pm

thats what i’m talking ‘bout

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:40:45pm
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Belafon  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:43:47pm
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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 7:59:14pm

Media’s “both sides” obsession has gone too far: Jan. 6 commission fight is fault of the GOP only

The media’s coverage of McCarthy’s stunt so far has been an extreme example of what the bloggers at Lawyers, Guns, and Money deemed “Murc’s law”: “the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics.” In this case, the assumption is that it’s somehow Pelosi’s fault that McCarthy and his fellow Republicans are singularly focused on covering up for Trump and his crimes. These men are adults who think they’re entitled to run the government, and yet they apparently can’t be held responsible for their rejection of truth, the law, or the integrity of the electoral system they’ve sworn to uphold. Nah, it’s somehow Pelosi’s fault for not somehow massaging these fascist cover-up artists into better people.

The attitude, common in the Beltway press, is obnoxious enough when Democrats are being chastised for putting their campaign promises on infrastructure spending ahead of letting the GOP sabotage them in the name of “bipartisanship.” But now the media fetish for bipartisanship is being weaponized by Republicans to justify, and this cannot be stated firmly enough, covering up for an attempted fascist overthrow of the U.S. government. And because they want the man who instigated it to have another bite at the apple, no less.

As Crooked Media editor-in-chief Brian Beutler pointed out on Twitter, the problem is that the media treats Republican “dirty dealing as a constant,” as if it’s the weather and not the actions of autonomous actors. They, therefore, end up acting like the only people whose actions deserve scrutiny are Democrats. The result is Democrats get blamed for things completely out of their control, such as McCarthy’s choice to favor Trump over democracy.

The result, he added, is that the media is ignoring “one of the most incredible stories in U.S. history,” which is that “an organized mob of the president’s supporters attacked the Capitol and his party is trying to cover up the connections between the two.” It’s certainly a more interesting story than “Democratic leader fails to make Republicans act better,” and yet, here we are.

salon.com

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:06:27pm

Here’s yet another example of the DC Press Corpse kissing Republican Ass.

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:16:23pm

Piece of My Heart

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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:26:40pm

Another rightwing anti-vaxxer has seen the light now that he is in a fight for his life.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:30:08pm

Is the motivation of the anti-Covid vaxx movement as simple as the desire to kill Americans (including potentially themselves) solely to ruin Biden’s record and interfere with any accomplishments of his administration?

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DesertDenizen  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:32:06pm

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

Is the motivation of the anti-Covid vaxx movement as simple as the desire to kill Americans (including potentially themselves) solely to ruin Biden’s record and interfere with any accomplishments of his administration?

Yes.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:32:18pm

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

Is the motivation of the anti-Covid vaxx movement as simple as the desire to kill Americans (including potentially themselves) solely to ruin Biden’s record and interfere with any accomplishments of his administration?

Yes. That’s the Republican Game Plan—Blaming Biden for the deaths…and seeing right wing posters endlessly relating that shit on Facebook and Twitter.

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Renaissance_Man  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:32:28pm

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

Is the motivation of the anti-Covid vaxx movement as simple as the desire to kill Americans (including potentially themselves) solely to ruin Biden’s record and interfere with any accomplishments of his administration?

It’s even simpler. People I hate want me to do something, so I won’t.

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mmmirele  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:33:50pm

re: #67 TarHellion

So true. Due to consolidation and incompetence, we now have Wells Fargo, Truist (Regional banks SunTrust and BB&T), along with VERY small interests Skyline and FirstTrust.

The latter 2 do not have the capital to bankroll projects, while only Wells Fargo is truly big enough to take on major projects.

A far cry from what we even had 5, let alone 10 years ago.

Yeah, well, my employer has issues with loaning right now because there’s a market cap in place courtesy of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:34:43pm

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

Is the motivation of the anti-Covid vaxx movement as simple as the desire to kill Americans (including potentially themselves) solely to ruin Biden’s record and interfere with any accomplishments of his administration?

Basically. “Look how Biden screwed up this mess we created and made worse!”

Also, remember the GRU/Putin motivation is to create absolute chaos in the western world. “It doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to make heads spin.”

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mmmirele  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:37:49pm

Masks are good for that unexpected haboob (dust storm) which blows up without any warning from the weather service. But I’m still coughing dust out of my lungs. Blergh.

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DesertDenizen  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:39:34pm

re: #83 mmmirele

At least you live somewhere where no one freaks when you call them haboobs. Down here the rural right wingers hate that word since it’s ::shudder:: Arabic..

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:39:45pm

Instagram

It’s meee 🌈✌🏼💚 The tree hugging, nature loving, free-spirited, barefooted, adventure seeking weirdo your parents warned you about 😛 I thought I’d take a moment to sort of re-introduce myself to you guys.

I am American born from a Swedish mother and Filipino / Portuguese father. I grew up living between a van and a 1 bedroom condo with three brothers. My Dad was my ski coach and skiing has basically always been my everything.

I started to witness and experience climate change nearly 15 years ago through the lens of diminishing snowpack. When I was a teenager I toed into activism as student body president and founded a very short lived organization called “Skiers Against Global Warming” lol

I experienced a lot of trauma early in my life when I lost my brother, my mother, a partner and struggled with anxiety, depression and pain from a broken neck, femur and a few shoulder surgeries.

I’m on a perpetual healing journey to release emotional and physical trauma so that I can be the best version of myself, for myself, my loved ones and this beautiful planet.

My purpose on Earth is to help humanity live in harmony with Mother Nature.

I try my best everyday to lead with compassion and kindness. Sometimes I struggle with my confidence, imposter syndrome and immense physical pain that makes me cranky and impatient.

I am learning to fall back in love with this platform by challenging myself to be authentic and vulnerable. I love engaging with you guys and I take the time to read almost all of your comments and messages and I’m constantly blown away by the love, kindness, stories, support and experiences you share with me.

Just wanted to say thank you for following along my journey, I am truly humbled and I love you all very much. 💓 xox Sierra

Sierra is in this GoPro video.

GoPro Ski: Backcountry Skiing in Chile - The Magic of the Super C

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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:41:08pm

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

Is the motivation of the anti-Covid vaxx movement as simple as the desire to kill Americans (including potentially themselves) solely to ruin Biden’s record and interfere with any accomplishments of his administration?

No. Much of the professional anti-vaxx movement that already existed are grifters who want to sell vitamins and supplements. They have entered into an unholy alliance with the fascist right.

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sagehen  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:41:35pm

The more Olympic coverage I see, the more it sounds like

ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS - Official Trailer (HD) | Now Playing In Theaters

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:44:08pm
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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:47:08pm

Proud Boy Joe Biggs is really sad in jail.

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:49:02pm

re: #79 JOE 🥓

Yes. That’s the Republican Game Plan—Blaming Biden for the deaths…and seeing right wing posters endlessly relating that shit on Facebook and Twitter.

It’s not simply blaming him for the deaths, it’s declaring that he was handed by Trump this awesome situation (vaccines, booming economy, Middle East “peace,” etc) and he squandered it because (insert your favorite baseless MAGAt accusation). So vote for Repubs, because they’ll get things back to the way they were before Biden stole the election!

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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:51:05pm

It’s actually the Jew’s fault, like always.////

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retired cynic  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:51:48pm

re: #91 No Malarkey!

wtf?

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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:52:47pm

re: #92 retired cynic

wtf?

Exactly. Soros is probably infecting people with Covid using his space laser.

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sagehen  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:55:12pm

re: #89 No Malarkey!

Proud Boy Joe Biggs is really sad in jail.

He suddenly realizes that all those times he’s been vocally supportive of locking up all the BLM marchers, and throw away the key… he’s subject to the exact same conditions he felt were appropriate for the people he hates.

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ckkatz  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:56:44pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

Yup, Erma Franklin was the original singer of “Piece of My Heart”, recording it in 1967. Janis Joplin recorded it in 1968 with Big Brother and the Holding Company and got a lot more recognition.

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2021 • 8:58:12pm

re: #91 No Malarkey!

It’s actually the Jew’s fault, like always.////

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And surely he brought with him the evidence to prove that those reports are incorrect…right?

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DesertDenizen  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:00:06pm

re: #96 Targetpractice

Lack of evidence IS the evidence. That’s how deep it goes.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:00:10pm

In good news from Missouri, the state supreme court is forcing the state government to expand Medicaid as the voters decided.

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:00:53pm

re: #89 No Malarkey!

Proud Boy Joe Biggs is really sad in jail.

[Embedded content]

Before jail: “WE’RE ALL HARDENED BADASSES WHO ARE GOING TO USE OUR GUNS AND OUR MIGHT TO BRING DOWN THIS TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE!!!”

After jail: “Owie! My back hurts!”

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Dave In Austin  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:05:31pm

A Bass Battle vs Myself from 10 Years Ago

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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:06:52pm

re: #99 Targetpractice

Before jail: “WE’RE ALL HARDENED BADASSES WHO ARE GOING TO USE OUR GUNS AND OUR MIGHT TO BRING DOWN THIS TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE!!!”

After jail: “Owie! My back hurts!”

Joe Biggs would also like you to know that he just wandered into the Capitol by accident and is a very good boy.

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plansbandc  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:09:01pm

re: #95 ckkatz

And then Faith Hill did what may be one of the worst covers of anything ever.

Here you go:

Faith Hill - “Piece Of My Heart” (Official Video)

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:09:37pm

re: #101 No Malarkey!

Joe Biggs would also like you to know that he just wandered into the Capitol by accident and is a very good boy.

[Embedded content]

Ah, the “I banged a black/brown/yellow/etc woman and have a kid, so I can’t be a racist!” defense is always classic. And calling yourself a “political prisoner” always impresses a judge.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:10:04pm

re: #93 No Malarkey!

Exactly. Soros is probably infecting people with Covid using his space laser.

No — he’s not blaming Soros for the increase in infections — he’s blaming Soros for the fact that the news media is reporting on this increase. You know, akin to the Trump view that no testing means no cases. If you don’t report on illness and deaths, then they aren’t really happening — or at least they don’t really matter.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:10:23pm

re: #91 No Malarkey!

It’s actually the Jew’s fault, like always.////

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I need to get the keys to the Space Laser and give Asshole Mike Parsons a case of hot Pants he’ll never forget…

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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:15:00pm

re: #104 Hecuba’s daughter

No — he’s not blaming Soros for the increase in infections — he’s blaming Soros for the fact that the news media is reporting on this increase. You know, akin to the Trump view that no testing means no cases. If you don’t report on illness and deaths, then they aren’t really happening — or at least they don’t really matter.

“I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for you nosy Jews and your fake news!”

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No Malarkey!  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:16:08pm

LOL

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:17:53pm

re: #107 No Malarkey!

LOL

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If that guy had only said Baba Booey! Howard Stern’s Penis!…

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ckkatz  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:18:34pm

re: #102 plansbandc

And then Faith Hill did what may be one of the worst covers of anything ever.

Here you go:

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Video

I agree, as music goes, that would certainly not be my choice for listening.

However, it sounds like it would make an okay Texas 2 Step. Of course, I would not be doing much beyond listening to the beat at that point. And quietly mumbling to myself “Quick Quick Slow… Slow…”.

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ckkatz  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:23:19pm

A few thoughts on the DC 14th Street shooting…

1. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, 14th Street was considered part of the black ghetto. It was noted in particular then for its ‘Ladies of the Night’.

2. By the 2000’s the area had been gentrified, forcing the original residents out due to rising housing prices.

3. DC shootings have generally been located in predominantly black local neighborhoods between local antagonists who know each other. To have a shooting outside of a local neighborhood, in a gentrified area, has, up until now, been rare. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a trend. And if so, we shall see what happens when upper middle class folks face the reality lower income folks have faced for many years.

4. The DC police have deployed the “Shot Spotter System” in large areas of DC. It allows the DC police to quickly locate suspected gun-fire and direct resources to the location.

Relying on 911 calls or police on the ground generally takes a lot of time to evaluate as the information has to be gathered, sorted out and interpreted, and often the information received from callers is not always reliable to due to human weaknesses.

6. The Acosta video is about two long blocks away from the reported shooting.

7. Lots of the firearms come in to DC (and points north) through the I-95 corridor from point further south. Where gun law as are far more lax.

For a while, New York City was tracking seized firearms. It traced a lot of these firearms to a few specific Virginia gun dealers. However, the then Republican Virginia State administration blocked New York City from doing much about these dealers.

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plansbandc  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:28:28pm

re: #109 ckkatz

But it’s a hard bluesy song turned into a horrible country bop. I still hate her for it. Do like some of her music though.

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sagehen  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:33:13pm

re: #101 No Malarkey!

Joe Biggs would also like you to know that he just wandered into the Capitol by accident and is a very good boy.

well I’m convinced…

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:33:32pm

re: #105 JOE 🥓

Something like this?

Real Genius Space opening

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:34:30pm

Even with an 80% vaccination rate (and it’s not) California would have more un-vaccinated people (8 million) than most states have in total population.

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sagehen  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:34:42pm

re: #104 Hecuba’s daughter

No — he’s not blaming Soros for the increase in infections — he’s blaming Soros for the fact that the news media is reporting on this increase. You know, akin to the Trump view that no testing means no cases. If you don’t report on illness and deaths, then they aren’t really happening — or at least they don’t really matter.

Like playing peek-a-boo.

Doesn’t even last long for toddlers; by age 3 they understand object permanence.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:35:37pm

OH NO HE DIDN’T!

OH YES HE DID!

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ckkatz  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:39:59pm

re: #111 plansbandc

But it’s a hard bluesy song turned into a horrible country bob. I still hate her for it. Do like some of her music though.

Sounds like a totally reasonable position to me.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:41:15pm

re: #116 JOE 🥓

OH NO HE DIDN’T!

OH YES HE DID!

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You’d think somebody who wore shorts would have tanned legs. He looks like a Canadian.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:47:27pm

If you look old video games check out the Google Doodle (in the us). It’s seems to be in honor of the Olympics. Updings if you know what games this is.

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:48:32pm

re: #114 Dread Pirate Ron

Even with an 80% vaccination rate (and it’s not) California would have more un-vaccinated people (8 million) than most states have in total population.

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It’s missing Florida because they’re not reporting regularly.

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:49:31pm

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:50:21pm

re: #120 Belafon

It’s missing Florida because they’re not reporting regularly.

They do but it’s delayed for some days as they backfill the days, that is a really a single day count.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:52:54pm

here is yesterday’s count.

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2021 • 9:55:20pm

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Belafon  Jul 22, 2021 • 10:07:22pm
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sagehen  Jul 22, 2021 • 10:13:38pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 22, 2021 • 10:13:46pm

The headline is all you need.

Judge tosses out lawsuit by Candace Owens over Facebook fact checks

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2021 • 10:18:15pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

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Hannity: “I’m not saying ‘get vaccinated,’ I’m saying you should consult with your doctor.”

Rest of Faux: “BIDEN’S STORMTROOPERS ARE COMING TO KICK YOUR DOOR IN, INJECT YOU WITH THE DEADLY VACCINE, TAKE YOUR GUNS, AND BURN YOUR BIBLES!!!”

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Targetpractice  Jul 22, 2021 • 10:30:30pm

It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but eventually karma’s gonna take a bite out of your ass:

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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2021 • 10:31:51pm

re: #127 I Would Prefer Not To

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 22, 2021 • 10:33:18pm

Some more of my e-bike BS, skip over if you like. The heat has been eating into my e-bike rides so I took a long ride today (45 miles) I saw more e-bikes on the trail than ever, at least 20, including an East Bay Regional Parks Police Bicycle officer on an e-bike. It was supposed to be only 86 today but turned out to be a 92 degree day (even with only 30% humidity it was quite warm) so I relied on throttle rather than pedal a lot on the trail out so I had to pedal all the way back (using minimal motor on pedal assist level 1). The last mile is all uphill so I needed at least 25% battery to make it uphill before it quit providing any motor assist on heavy load. When I got home the odometer was at exactly 500 miles. which keeps me above 60 miles a week.

If you know you need exercise but your body is limiting you I recommend an e-bike. if balance is a problem there are trikes (you can go fast or you can turn), semi-recumbent trikes and recumbent trikes. It makes you want to go out and explore. You can exercise as much as you want to (or are able to do), and then there’s the throttle for when you don’t.

…and what this guy said.

YouTube

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Dave In Austin  Jul 22, 2021 • 10:39:38pm

Let’s talk about what we can learn from security failures….

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 22, 2021 • 11:02:29pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 22, 2021 • 11:13:39pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 22, 2021 • 11:18:08pm

re: #133 Dread Pirate Ron

The right wing message machine on covid right row is Robocop when Directive Four hits.

Giphy

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 22, 2021 • 11:25:10pm

Trust me, this beats that Pendleton thingie that would sit unused in your family room or garage.

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piratedan  Jul 22, 2021 • 11:39:17pm

re: #136 Dread Pirate Ron

my spouse swears by hers, she doesn’t use the assist all the time but it’s a great comfort having it available upon need. She uses it here in the Tucson area quite a bit because we have a lot of trails with some significant inclines (being surrounded on all four sides by mountains and having old washes and rivers will give you a varied topography). For the last few years she’s even used it to ride in the Painted Desert/Petrified Forest National Park….

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Dave In Austin  Jul 22, 2021 • 11:42:22pm

“Meditation” // Live On The Lake with Cory Wong and Dave Koz

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 22, 2021 • 11:58:15pm

re: #137 piratedan

I have a fat tire bike (70 lbs) so even on flat ground I can’t pedal above 3rd gear (of 9) without pedal assist (even more so as I lower tire pressure for a smoother ride, damn hard-tails). With pedal assist in the lowest level I can ride with less effort than as on a standard bike. Back in time when I was 30 years old I rode a normal mountain bike on the local canal trail for 12 miles (a long ride) and I was worn out. Now at age 65, on the e-bike, I consider that same ride as slightly more than a short ride. I consider 10 miles a short ride, 20 miles a medium ride, and anything over 35 miles a long ride.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 23, 2021 • 12:03:19am

re: #138 Dave In Austin

Wonderful instrumental! It looks they’re on a boat. Did you know I like boats, too? Just not stink-boats. Sail on sailor.

YouTube

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 23, 2021 • 12:49:44am

YouTube

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 12:51:30am

re: #4 William Lewis

A gf in college used to say that the world’s best birth control was Other People’s Kids.

Russians of the late Soviet Era tell me that that best contraceptive was said to be the salary of a junior engineer (120 Rubles per month, sufficient to live off but for almost nothing else)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 23, 2021 • 12:56:35am

Dontcha hate when you’re playing air guitar to a song and you look up and see your daughter staring at you like you are an idiot?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 1:02:15am

re: #121 Belafon

Brown ones have been removed and sent to Eddie Van Halen

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 23, 2021 • 1:08:09am

YouTube

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 1:08:33am

Answer to Brexit food shortages? Lower safety and health standards. Along with a plan to allow truck drivers to work longer hours,

Covid: Food workers given exemption from isolation rules

Supermarket depot workers and food manufacturers will be exempt from quarantine rules as the government tries to prevent food supply problems.

The move comes after the rising number of retail workers being forced to self-isolate was beginning to affect the availability of some products.

The government said workers, regardless of vaccination status, could do daily Covid testing instead of isolating.

Up to 10,000 workers are expected to qualify for the scheme.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 23, 2021 • 1:31:57am

re: #143 Dread Pirate Ron

At least she didn’t see me playing air piano to “Joe Cocker - Feeling Alright, too.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 23, 2021 • 2:10:02am

YouTube

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Dave In Austin  Jul 23, 2021 • 2:18:11am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 2:24:19am

I still cannot escape the concern that new strains will be more virulent, deadly and vaccine resistant and we will wind up chasing our tails for the rest of the year or even the decade…

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Ming5000  Jul 23, 2021 • 2:43:06am

re: #39 electrotek

Is it just me or does Chrome have a problem with tweets not loading fully on Windows 10?

I stopped using Chrome over a year ago due to Chrome not loading LGF properly. I use Edge now.
I use Edge for LGF and Twitter, mostly.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jul 23, 2021 • 2:43:07am

My dog is pissed at me. I’m all out of slivers of BBQ baby-back ribs for him. He’s pouting in his bed now.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 23, 2021 • 3:18:05am

Hot and dry it has been, hot and dry it will be:

Drought expansion and record heat continues with extreme wildfire threat - NWS San Diego

..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 3:31:03am

hi

POTENTIAL PROGRAMMING WARNING

(did that get your attention?)

A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn (Vice)

Stories on major news sites like ‘The Washington Post,’ and ‘New York Magazine’ currently have porn embedded in them because of an old site called Vidme.

As pointed out by Twitter user @dox_gay, hardcore porn is now embedded on the pages of the Huffington Post, New York magazine, The Washington Post, and a host of other websites. This is because a porn site called 5 Star Porn HD bought the domain for Vidme, a brief YouTube competitor founded in 2014 and shuttered in 2017. Its Twitter account is still up, but the domain lapsed.

Seemingly any vidme embeds now redirect to the 5 Star Porn HD homepage. The site vidme also redirects there. For example, if you check out this New York magazine article about former House Majority leader John Boehner’s “creepy kissy face,” you will see photos of Boehner but also images of a man with a gigantic penis fucking a woman.

(Link goes to The New Yorker, “John Boehner Answers Questions with Creepy Kissy Face”, February 26, 2015)

(more, the article is now Safe for Work)

I checked the New Yorker article in question. The video is removed, and NoScript no longer shows Vidme as one of the third-party redirects from the site. The New Yorker has apparently disabled it and removed the entire comment section for the article.

If you own a Website which has embeds from the former Vidme site, you might want to go back and remove them, as they will now show porn (unless you like porn, then I suppose you can keep them).

If you go to the original Vid (dot) me site, it is now all free porn (NSFW).

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Nojay UK  Jul 23, 2021 • 3:33:48am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Answer to Brexit food shortages? Lower safety and health standards. Along with a plan to allow truck drivers to work longer hours,

Two different things. The planned exemption for vaccinated food supply workers and others to the current isolation rules is because of the massive increase in reported cases of COVID-19. The contact tracing system, intended for much lower numbers of cases is triggering on people like shop workers who are in proximity to dozens or hundreds of different people each day. If one of those customers tests positive all the shop workers present are supposed to self-isolate for ten days. It’s the same for places like health centres and hospitals and a number of other places. The exemptions will only apply to fully vaccinated people, anyone who isn’t vaccinated are still supposed to go through the ten-day isolation process. Also note that shop workers won’t necessarily get paid for self-isolating.

The lorry driver problem is tied into COVID-19 since there’s a lot of new heavy-goods vehicle (HGV) drivers who are waiting for their licences to get issued since the issuing offices are closed or running with a skeleton staff. At the same time the UK is facing a shortage of HGV drivers after Brexit since many of the EU-citizen drivers left the UK once the onerous work and residency qualifications needed to stay cut in. Part of it however is press reports issued by the trade organisations and large businesses. They are facing higher wage demands from drivers after a long period when the market was saturated with non-UK drivers and they could be fobbed off with low hourly rates. That period of low wages meant that HGV driving was not seen as a good career move by younger people resulting in a reduction in the numbers of new drivers coming up through the HGV training schools which were also affected by COVID-19 early on.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 3:48:38am

That article has also had all Vidme content removed, and NoScript shows Huffington Post does not do redirects to that site.

The same is true for the Washington Post article in question.

5 Star HD Porn got a worldwide free advertisment for their porn site by buying the defunct domain of the former Vidme.

This goes to an issue that concerned me when the US Navy stopped running domains and the GOP demanded that be privatised (such as Go Daddy).

There are no laws in place to deal with a corporation which goes bankrupt regarding their defunct social media accounts and Website names. Vidme’s Twitter account is still up, with its last corporate post in 2017.

If the porn company could get control of its Twitter account, it could spread explicit porn across the Internet.

IANAL but it seems to me that when a company is wound up, the domain names of that company could be retired by the courts to prevent misuse, as is going on tonight with the old domain vid (dot) me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 3:52:24am

re: #155 Nojay UK

The point is that none of this would have been an issue but for them Brexiting in the first place…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 3:53:46am

re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The point is that none of this would have been an issue but for them Brexiting in the first place…

But they have their blue passports, and those millions of pounds for the NHS the Leave campaigners promised. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:02:45am

They baying mob should be calling her a RINO any minute now. Regarding Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama:

GOP Governor Says It’s Time To ‘Blame The Unvaccinated’ For Pandemic Surge (Huffington Post)

Gov. Kay Ivey also called out right-wing media disinformation about the vaccine.

Good luck with that, Governor. I’m glad you’re on board now, but where were you when your party was busy programming their voters?

Oh, this is you only three months ago:

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey lifts mask rules, urges common sense instead to combat virus (FOX News Channel, April 7, 2021)

Ivey said she’s issuing a “greatly slimmed down” health order that has few restrictions. It encourages people to keep taking precautions such as voluntarily wearing masks, but no longer includes a statewide mask order.

You won’t admit you’re wrong though, as you went along with the rest of your party. You can only shift blame to “right wing media outlets” because a conservative’s decisions are rooted in their religious fervor; they can never admit their faith is misplaced and their religion of conservatism is wrong.

So you have to blame someone else.

Prepare to be underbussed by the faithful.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:12:27am

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lots of people in the antivaxxer-breast cancer patient thread pulling the “not true Christian” card.

The entire history of the religion is of them killing others, each other, and harassing people.

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Nojay UK  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:13:48am

re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The point is that none of this would have been an issue but for them Brexiting in the first place…

Oh sure. UK drivers have been bitching about EU HGV drivers working here for a long time as they clearly kept wages down (ten quid an hour?) as well as (anecdotally) being more willing to break the law if the bosses demanded it, driving overloaded or unsafe vehicles to get a job done. The low wages depressed the takeup of training slots for new drivers in the HGV driving schools because it was perceived as a badly paying high-stress job, irregular long hours away from home and no job security. Brexit up-ended all that as the EU drivers returned to Poland and other Eastern European countries or moved to the Netherlands or Germany to work.

The haulage companies are facing a squeeze, their drivers are asking for more money while their business customers like the supermarkets are not willing to pay higher logistics prices. The bad companies who hired and fired on a day’s notice and got a shit reputation but knew they could always get EU drivers to work for them are really struggling now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:15:47am

re: #13 Patricia Kayden

So the LAPD defended the harassers. Sigh.

The Proud Boys were there. They have to protect their own.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:17:52am

None other than Albert Schweitzer at the keyboard (1935):



Bach by Albert Schweitzer - Chorales, Preludes and Fugues, Toccatas, Fantasias (Century’s recording)



..

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:18:40am

re: #137 piratedan

my spouse swears by hers, she doesn’t use the assist all the time but it’s a great comfort having it available upon need. She uses it here in the Tucson area quite a bit because we have a lot of trails with some significant inclines (being surrounded on all four sides by mountains and having old washes and rivers will give you a varied topography). For the last few years she’s even used it to ride in the Painted Desert/Petrified Forest National Park….

Owners of the AirB&B I stayed at for a few nights in Albuquerque had an e-bike, so I asked about it. Since the area they live in to the place they work at is relatively flat it was very useful for running errands or shuttling back and forth with minimal loads, especially in the cooler weather, instead of needing a car.

(I’m not sure what the city has in terms of bike lanes in the middle of town, but the main road along the eastern edge has bike/pedestrian trail running parallel to it in addition to very wide shoulders that I also saw a decent number of bicycles on.)

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:23:35am

re: #151 Ming5000

I stopped using Chrome over a year ago due to Chrome not loading LGF properly. I use Edge now.
I use Edge for LGF and Twitter, mostly.

I switched back and forth from Edge and Chrome a few times trying to find one that wasn’t a memory leak farm or caused other problems.*

I gave up on Edge after the third time it decided to spontaneously reinstall and wipe my entire list of favorites. (MS solution to this is for you to save your favorites in IE and then reimport them. <.< )

* - My current annoyance is how my laptop (Win 10) doesn’t like recovering from hibernate mode. Tends to hang up somewhere in bringing Win 10 back up. I found it odd that it tended to have fewer issues if I closed my browser and Discord first - which makes me think it’s some sort of perverse resource lock or similar conflict.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:26:21am

re: #165 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I switched back and forth from Edge and Chrome a few times trying to find one that wasn’t a memory leak farm or caused other problems.*

I gave up on Edge after the third time it decided to spontaneously reinstall and wipe my entire list of favorites. (MS solution to this is for you to save your favorites in IE and then reimport them. <.< )

* - My current annoyance is how my laptop (Win 10) doesn’t like recovering from hibernate mode. Tends to hang up somewhere in bringing Win 10 back up. I found it odd that it tended to have fewer issues if I closed my browser and Discord first - which makes me think it’s some sort of perverse resource lock or similar conflict.

It’s most likely a dodgy driver for some hardware that’s installed in the machine. If the drivers don’t properly control hardware state when hibernating or waking up, the OS will crash. This is generally true regardless of the OS; and to make it fun, hardware that works on one OS might not work properly on another.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:26:56am

re: #62 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I do not have sympathy when an evil person dies.

By definition denigrating life-saving treatments to a wide audience is evil. If they believe their own claim this is a Chinese weapon, then they are working for the enemy. Intent in a crime is what matters, so I’m fine with prosecution under the 1917 Espionage Act.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:32:32am

re: #114 Dread Pirate Ron

Even with an 80% vaccination rate (and it’s not) California would have more un-vaccinated people (8 million) than most states have in total population.

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California is big. I noticed that even though Trump lost California by a huge margin, he got more votes in California, 6 million, than he did in any other state, even Texas.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:35:05am

I saw a local news article this morning about a Native American restaurant that just opened on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. That sounds amazing; Mrs. Fish and I might have to check that out sometime.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:35:06am

Patients at a Cedar-Siani hospital? My understanding those places are fookin’ expensive, meaning the patients are probably very well off.

The solution is the same as always. Sue the city. About a billion dollars ought to do it.

If the voters want to put craven politicians on their board who won’t control their sworn officers, make the voters pay for it. There should be a penalty for voting stupid, and that’s the best one you can impose.

Then make sure no unrestricted bond is ever passed (which can be used to pay off the penalty).

Voter stupidity has to be punished to end fascist policing. If councilmembers are too cowardly to stand up to their own sworn officers, then they should not be politicians.

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Nojay UK  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:39:58am

re: #166 Dopamine Fish

It’s most likely a dodgy driver for some hardware that’s installed in the machine. If the drivers don’t properly control hardware state when hibernating or waking up, the OS will crash.

Anecdotally, on my desktops under Win8 and Win10 I’ve found that AMD video cards allow me to “sleep” my machines overnight i.e. I hit a key in the morning and they wake into the login screen within a couple of seconds. Fitting an nVidia card (and the requisite drivers) disables the sleep option in Windows and I can only hibernate the system i.e. it takes thirty seconds or so from pressing a key to get to the login screen.

Sleep keeps the system state live in RAM using a trickle of power, hibernate saves the system state to the HDD or SSD so it needs more time to restore the next day, especially if you have a lot of RAM (I have 32GB on this machine).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:41:09am

re: #164 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Owners of the AirB&B I stayed at for a few nights in Albuquerque had an e-bike, so I asked about it. Since the area they live in to the place they work at is relatively flat it was very useful for running errands or shuttling back and forth with minimal loads, especially in the cooler weather, instead of needing a car.

Very popular on the Rhine, as the embankment trail itself is level but you have to really power it uphill to get anywhere away from it.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:42:53am

re: #171 Nojay UK

Anecdotally, on my desktops under Win8 and Win10 I’ve found that AMD video cards allow me to “sleep” my machines overnight i.e. I hit a key in the morning and they wake into the login screen within a couple of seconds. Fitting an nVidia card (and the requisite drivers) disables the sleep option in Windows and I can only hibernate the system i.e. it takes thirty seconds or so from pressing a key to get to the login screen.

Sleep keeps the system state live in RAM using a trickle of power, hibernate saves the system state to the HDD or SSD so it needs more time to restore the next day, especially if you have a lot of RAM (I have 32GB on this machine).

Some Google searching has turned up a few different potential explanations for the problem. Related generally to sleep and hibernation settings, potentially drivers*, and also one claiming an issue with the “fast restart” setting could cause something to start back up out of order.

* - A diagnostic says that my drivers are up to date.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:43:42am

re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They baying mob should be calling her a RINO any minute now. Regarding Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama:

GOP Governor Says It’s Time To ‘Blame The Unvaccinated’ For Pandemic Surge (Huffington Post)

Gov. Kay Ivey also called out right-wing media disinformation about the vaccine.

Good luck with that, Governor. I’m glad you’re on board now, but where were you when your party was busy programming their voters?

Oh, this is you only three months ago:

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey lifts mask rules, urges common sense instead to combat virus (FOX News Channel, April 7, 2021)

You won’t admit you’re wrong though, as you went along with the rest of your party. You can only shift blame to “right wing media outlets” because a conservative’s decisions are rooted in their religious fervor; they can never admit their faith is misplaced and their religion of conservatism is wrong.

So you have to blame someone else.

Prepare to be underbussed by the faithful.

She may have been premature — but this was before delta struck and case levels in Alabama were down to where they were in May 2020. They continued to decline until mid-June, well after the CDC lifted its mask restrictions on the vaccinated. But at least she has changed her tune now that Alabama is seeing a spike in cases.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:47:38am

re: #64 DesertDenizen

Every municipality I’ve worked for used commercial banks. There are cheaper loan options available sometimes, but it is weird dropping city money at Wells Fargo or Chase.

Our former village board chairwoman worked for Platte Valley Bank. She routinely abstained any time questions came up about borrowing or paying money, since that was our bank after we withdrew with prejudice all our accounts from Wells-Fargo over their checking account fraud scheme perpetrated on their customers.

With the notable exception of North Dakota’s socialist bank owned by the state, every municipality, county, and state government which needs to borrow money has to ensure their project doesn’t run afoul of a commercial bank, which is just the way conservatives want it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:49:05am

re: #174 Hecuba’s daughter

She may have been premature — but this was before delta struck and case levels in Alabama were down to where they were in May 2020. They continued to decline until mid-June, well after the CDC lifted its mask restrictions on the vaccinated. But at least she has changed her tune now that Alabama is seeing a spike in cases.

Delta has been a wake-up call to a number of GOP office holders, but, given the extent that the base have been indoctrinated and browbeaten into maintaining the Party Line, it is Too Little Too Late to turn them around.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:51:27am

re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I still cannot escape the concern that new strains will be more virulent, deadly and vaccine resistant and we will wind up chasing our tails for the rest of the year or even the decade…

I suspect that with a few exceptions, such as Australia and New Zealand and perhaps a relative handful of other nations, most countries will just shrug and say, “Oh well, there’s nothing more that can be done. We’re just going to have to accept a higher mortality rate and a slight decrease in life expectancy. That’s how it goes, folks.”

I reckon we’ll see the same response in regard to climate change by the end of this century. “Sorry, folks, too late to do anything about it now; we’re fucked, so go out there and live your best life - while you still can. We’re doomed anyway, so he who dies with the most toys wins! Hooray!!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 4:57:51am

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

Is the motivation of the anti-Covid vaxx movement as simple as the desire to kill Americans (including potentially themselves) solely to ruin Biden’s record and interfere with any accomplishments of his administration?

Yes. They don’t care how many of their own they take out, as long as they take out more of us along the way.

Moreover, conservatism naturally leans toward authoritarianism. As defined by the grandfathers of the movement back in the 1700’s, its goal is to ensure that democracy does not lead to the loss of power of their rulers.

When aristocracies started falling in Europe, they explicitly noted that controlling capital would be the key to controlling democracies and rendering them toothless.

Conservatives would rather destroy a country rather than share power. They always undermine the rule of law to their advantage. The reason they have no new ideas is because the only idea they have is power.

(12:15)

Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:15:42am

re: #79 JOE 🥓

Yes. That’s the Republican Game Plan—Blaming Biden for the deaths…and seeing right wing posters endlessly relating that shit on Facebook and Twitter.

According to The Economist, India’s ruling BJP Hindu religious nationalist party in power, has now charged Twitter with treason.

The reason? Because areas outside India that nation claims, Twitter marks on maps as “not India.”

The pattern of conservatism is repeating there, just as it has in many other countries throughout the ages. Certain moneyed companies or individuals think they can control the crazy people they work to put in power, only to find out that the crazy people no longer need them when they get in power.

It is a failure of conservatism repeated again and again throughout history.

Since the BJP people are also religious radicals, folks who work for Twitter in the United States could come under physical threat from a radical Hindu.

As I’ve noted about myself and Christians, it takes only one to make a really bad day. Jack Dorsey and his board might have oodles of money to defend themselves, but their workers do not (and even being on top of the world doesn’t guarantee you are protected).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:21:39am

re: #84 DesertDenizen

At least you live somewhere where no one freaks when you call them haboobs. Down here the rural right wingers hate that word since it’s ::shudder:: Arabic..

That might explain why they hate al-gebra.

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steve_davis  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:26:53am

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

Is the motivation of the anti-Covid vaxx movement as simple as the desire to kill Americans (including potentially themselves) solely to ruin Biden’s record and interfere with any accomplishments of his administration?

No. The motivation is that conservatism has become a disease built around nihilism. These folks are willing to kneel on their little mats and commit hari kiri in the name of the God Emperor Trump, and all the true believers will happily go with them. The ones who express regret in the hospitals that they weren’t vaccinated clearly were not true believers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:27:35am

re: #91 No Malarkey!

It’s actually the Jew’s fault, like always.////

Antisemitism is a core principle of both Christianity and conservatism.

As a matter of fact, they share many commonalities (submission to authority which they pick, slavery, war, rape, oppression of women, &c). There is a reason they go together so well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:29:53am

re: #98 No Malarkey!

In good news from Missouri, the state supreme court is forcing the state government to expand Medicaid as the voters decided.

We went through the same here in Nebraska in 2016. The voters overwhelmingly approved Medicaid expansion on a ballot referendum (north of 80%) and the Republican-led Unicameral refused to bring up enabling legislation.

It took a lawsuit to force them to do it, and it is now being implemented this year, five years after it was approved.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:30:47am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Since the BJP people are also religious radicals, folks who work for Twitter in the United States could come under physical threat from a radical Hindu.

Like a fatwa?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:31:06am

re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That might explain why they hate al-gebra.

all they like is trigger-nometry

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:32:24am

re: #104 Hecuba’s daughter

No — he’s not blaming Soros for the increase in infections — he’s blaming Soros for the fact that the news media is reporting on this increase. You know, akin to the Trump view that no testing means no cases. If you don’t report on illness and deaths, then they aren’t really happening — or at least they don’t really matter.

Gov. Bullethead here isn’t blaming Soros (yet), but he has blacked out all reporting information (which is why on recent maps showing spread of Covid-19 Nebraska shows as if it has no cases).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:32:41am

re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Antisemitism is a core principle of both Christianity and conservatism.

As a matter of fact, they share many commonalities (submission to authority which they pick, slavery, war, rape, oppression of women, &c). There is a reason they go together so well.

Christianity (the OT at least) came about the a time of a Patriarchal nomadic society, hence the view of God as a bearded male in robes like a Middle-Eastern goat herder…

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:36:35am

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Christianity (the OT at least) came about the a time of a Patriarchal nomadic society, hence the view of God as a bearded male in robes like a Middle-Eastern goat herder…

Personally, I think the Christian view of God came more from Zeus and Greco-Roman civilization.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:37:15am

re: #171 Nojay UK

Anecdotally, on my desktops under Win8 and Win10 I’ve found that AMD video cards allow me to “sleep” my machines overnight i.e. I hit a key in the morning and they wake into the login screen within a couple of seconds. Fitting an nVidia card (and the requisite drivers) disables the sleep option in Windows and I can only hibernate the system i.e. it takes thirty seconds or so from pressing a key to get to the login screen.

Sleep keeps the system state live in RAM using a trickle of power, hibernate saves the system state to the HDD or SSD so it needs more time to restore the next day, especially if you have a lot of RAM (I have 32GB on this machine).

I’m not sure what removes it, but you can re-enable sleep mode.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:37:39am

re: #119 I Would Prefer Not To

If you look old video games check out the Google Doodle (in the us). It’s seems to be in honor of the Olympics. Updings if you know what games this is.

Pong?

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:40:36am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:41:03am

re: #188 Dr Lizardo

Personally, I think the Christian view of God came more from Zeus and Greco-Roman civilization.

Who were likewise based on Patriarchal nomadic figures.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:41:09am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:43:41am

We are somehow supposed to accept as reasonable and plausible notions and possibilities that

a) they were just harmless tourists

b) the police let them in and the FBI encouraged them

c) they were just expressing their freedom of speech in disagreeing with the outcome of the election

d) this was a false flag Antifa/BLM operation

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:44:13am

Mother news: She went across the street yesterday and got her first vaccine dose, as she said she would when I called her on her birthday.

She has stayed home for more than four months.

Her issues have been:

She lives in the extreme northwest corner of Chicago (6500W, 6500N) and has no car.
Illinois Website signups excluded her since she has no Internet service (too expensive).
The areas she could get vaccines were far away from her home (she deemed the risk of exposure to get a vaccine too great versus staying at home).
The store across the street from her apartment started offering vaccines (so she could walk there).
Medical concerns over her medications were assuaged by her physician. He suggested she not take the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to the sorts of medications she takes.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:54:49am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:54:50am

Harsh but accurate. We must still do what we can to protect the genuinely vulnerable. As for the lemmings and dupes, I am out of fucks to give.
(Clarification: The poster is in Lebanon, Missouri.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:56:08am

re: #133 Dread Pirate Ron

Sean Hannity has a far larger audience on FOX Radio than he does on FOX News Channel.

He frequently says one thing on TV and a different thing on radio.

If he’s going to preserve his grift, he has to save the larger portion of his audience.

Folks might be going after FOX News Channel for spreading disinformation, but they are ignoring the huge audience FOX Radio has, particularly in rural areas where they might be the only radio news besides Christian hate stations.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:57:05am

re: #197 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Harsh but accurate. We must still do what we can to protect the genuinely vulnerable. As for the lemmings and dupes, I am out of fucks to give.

Dear, Kayla,

The virus doesn’t care if you want to be a statistic or not.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 5:59:51am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:00:59am

re: #200 Belafon

Because relaying health and safety rules (regarding truck drivers’ maximum times) is the ONLY solution to these self-inflicted shortages…

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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:01:46am
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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:01:48am

so 67% is roughly herd immunity:

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Nojay UK  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:02:58am

re: #189 Belafon I did try to get sleep to work when I swapped in an nVidia card (GT 1050 non-ti model) and the nVidia drivers but there was no option to enable sleep anywhere in Windows afterwards, even deep-diving into the registry. The internet wasn’t much help as most Howtos assumed sleep worked and getting any search results matching my exact problem just didn’t happen.

Hibernate worked fine for both AMD and nVidia cards but it was a pain compared to the snappiness of sleep mode. I ended up cable-tying a spares-box fan to the front shroud of the AMD card (R5 270) in place of the original-fitment low-profile fan that had died and put it back into service to get my sleep mode back.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:11:08am

re: #203 Belafon

so 67% is roughly herd immunity:

But it is still a Socialist Hellhole, so there’s that…

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:11:25am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:11:39am

A Labour MP in the UK Parliament argued for the return of blasphemy laws (goes to Atheist Republic, 19:38)

British MP Effectively Argues for Blasphemy Law in UK Parliament

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Teukka  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:12:35am

re: #200 Belafon

Wasn’t this already tried in the U.S., and didn’t it really not end well there? /R

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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:16:00am

re: #208 Teukka

Wasn’t this already tried in the U.S., and didn’t it really not end well there? /R

It ended well for Killer Kristi and Killer Kim But for the workers in the meat plants…well them there’s the breaks…

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No Malarkey!  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:16:33am
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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:17:47am

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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As they say: Duct tape can’t fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:21:46am

re: #173 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I brought up a new motherboard and moved my old OS to the new machine. Unknown to me, I ended up with two almost-identical storage drivers for the same device. This caused all kinds of weird problems. Most notably, the system would crash on sleep.

When the OS commands a sleep or hibernate, it must notify all the drivers. If there is no response from any driver function, the system times out and triggers a crash.

Most inbuilt driver diagnostics won’t find this problem.

I used a system diagnostic tool called Autoruns to find the duplicate drivers. I’m stubborn in that way. //

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Teukka  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:41:22am

[vent]

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jeffreyw  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:48:35am

Good morning!

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:53:46am
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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2021 • 6:56:43am

re: #107 No Malarkey!

The bump matters more than the content way down in the segment.

It’s the same way you can bury the important stuff on page A-26, not the front page, or in the 30th paragraph of a 32 paragraph story, while leading with inflammatory nonsense that isn’t justified by the facts.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:00:11am

My first reaction to this is Guardians of what exactly?

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:01:35am

re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sean Hannity has a far larger audience on FOX Radio than he does on FOX News Channel.

He frequently says one thing on TV and a different thing on radio.

If he’s going to preserve his grift, he has to save the larger portion of his audience.

Folks might be going after FOX News Channel for spreading disinformation, but they are ignoring the huge audience FOX Radio has, particularly in rural areas where they might be the only radio news besides Christian hate stations.

+1
These people are not stupid

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sagehen  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:02:22am

re: #217 The Pie Overlord!

My first reaction to this is Guardians of what exactly?

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danarchy  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:03:00am

re: #132 Dave In Austin

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Video

So I have a policy that I don’t listen to random opinions on youtube, If I wanted a random opinion I could just talk to my neighbors, so I like to check what qualifications people have. Found out Beau’s real name is Justin King and Beau is a character he plays. He doesn’t really hide that but it isn’t obvious just by watching the video’s. He writes articles for a number of online outlets.

He also spent a couple years in federal prison for visa fraud where he was facilitating fraudulent h2b visas for eastern europeans to work as hotel workers and may have been scamming the workers themselves out of wages.

I find Beau’s opinions to be fine, but I always struggled to get through his videos because they are a little boring. Knowing he is a character makes it worse. Take it for what it is worth.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:03:17am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:13:31am

From my daughter’s office hours:

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:22:45am

re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They baying mob should be calling her a RINO any minute now. Regarding Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama:

GOP Governor Says It’s Time To ‘Blame The Unvaccinated’ For Pandemic Surge (Huffington Post)

Gov. Kay Ivey also called out right-wing media disinformation about the vaccine.

Good luck with that, Governor. I’m glad you’re on board now, but where were you when your party was busy programming their voters?

Oh, this is you only three months ago:

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey lifts mask rules, urges common sense instead to combat virus (FOX News Channel, April 7, 2021)

You won’t admit you’re wrong though, as you went along with the rest of your party. You can only shift blame to “right wing media outlets” because a conservative’s decisions are rooted in their religious fervor; they can never admit their faith is misplaced and their religion of conservatism is wrong.

So you have to blame someone else.

Prepare to be underbussed by the faithful.

You dont blame the sheep for being in the wrong field, you blame the shepherd who led them there.

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Teukka  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:23:03am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:25:31am

Google celebrates Olympics with an entire JRPG

Today isn’t the first time a Google Doodle has been a game, but this is surely the most intricate so far. This Friday morning, if you open a new Chrome page or begin a search, you can click on a pixel-art icon that starts an Olympic-themed JRPG, complete with anime sequences by Studio 4°C, played right in your browser.

With the Olympic opening ceremony taking place in Tokyo today, the year-delayed and still very controversial sporting event takes place under a cloud of Covid-19. Fortunately no such pandemic conditions exist in the world Google has created to mark the event, as the game is set on an idyllic island, and is presented in classic JRPG pixel style.

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JC1  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:27:07am

re: #203 Belafon

so 67% is roughly herd immunity:

Vermont is also pretty sparsely populated. 67% wouldn’t be enough with higher population density.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:30:44am

re: #217 The Pie Overlord!

My first reaction to this is Guardians of what exactly?

Mine was “Yay, no longer the Indians.”

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No Malarkey!  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:30:56am

re: #217 The Pie Overlord!

My first reaction to this is Guardians of what exactly?

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:31:19am

re: #225 Eclectic Cyborg

Google celebrates Olympics with an entire JRPG

Today isn’t the first time a Google Doodle has been a game, but this is surely the most intricate so far. This Friday morning, if you open a new Chrome page or begin a search, you can click on a pixel-art icon that starts an Olympic-themed JRPG, complete with anime sequences by Studio 4°C, played right in your browser.

With the Olympic opening ceremony taking place in Tokyo today, the year-delayed and still very controversial sporting event takes place under a cloud of Covid-19. Fortunately no such pandemic conditions exist in the world Google has created to mark the event, as the game is set on an idyllic island, and is presented in classic JRPG pixel style.

Are they being called the 2020 games?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:35:40am

re: #229 Dangerman

Are they being called the 2020 games?

Yes, they stuck with that because was everything was branded 2020 since the games were supposed to take place last year. So although this is 2021, they are still technically the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

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darthstar  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:36:14am

There are idiots and there are idiots who waste 30 million dollars of their own money.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:38:47am

re: #231 darthstar

There are idiots and there are idiots who waste 30 million dollars of their own money.

Except that would’ve left that land open to invasion by THOSE PEOPLE. Not one inch of American soil is to be yielded to the godless invaders who want to steal the jobs nobody is working and commit the crimes nobody is noticing that would result in them getting deported if they actually happened.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:40:22am

Cleveland Rocks would’ve been a great name to change to.

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sagehen  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:44:30am

already has a theme song…

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A Mom Anon  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:47:52am

re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If you look at radio across the country, fox commentators aren’t just on Fox radio. Atlanta’s WSB radio potentially reaches over 8 million listeners every day. It used to be Rush Limbaugh’s home along and is still home to Hannity and others. There is no actual news radio channel here that has no conservative spin. It’s not just rural areas. WSB TV was the first network TV station in the South, it leans less conservative fortunately, but as is the case with most local TV, actual journalism is very limited. One of the local anchors for the station has had a breakthrough covid infection and I am waiting for the spin to start, hopefully not, but they are making a huge deal out of it and I think it’s possible anti vaccine shitheads are going to have a field day with it. They have too much influence as it is.

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William Lewis  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:48:33am

Ok, this one surprised me. Still not sure about the song, but YES dropped a new single today…

YES - The Ice Bridge (Official Video)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:49:17am

re: #231 darthstar

Dude could have wasted a lot less money by not building his wall around a salient. Check out my cheaper version of the wall

At some point that river will meander and leave that fence meaningless or undermined

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mmmirele  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:49:59am

A couple of observations after being away from work for a week (COVID-19 related):

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:52:15am

re: #236 William Lewis

Ok, this one surprised me. Still not sure about the song, but YES dropped a new single today…

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Video

A seven-minute singles? What do they think they are, some kind of prog-rock band?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:54:06am
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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:56:53am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A seven-minute singles? What do they think they are, some kind of prog-rock band?

Queen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:56:59am

re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is all about “PC wokedness run rampant”

How about renaming the Atlanta Braves the Atlanta Toothless Inbred Redneck Crackers?

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:57:00am

re: #236 William Lewis

Ok, this one surprised me. Still not sure about the song, but YES dropped a new single today…

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Thanks for that heads up!

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2021 • 7:57:18am

This is pretty amazing.

Paul McCartney, Beck - Find My Way (Official Video)

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William Lewis  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:00:53am

re: #244 Dr Lizardo

Never been fond of Beck and this doesn’t really change that. Still, better than I expected probably due only to Sir Paul’s influence.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:02:37am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There’s five songs on Iron Maiden’s upcoming studio album over seven minutes long - the longest one clocks in at 12:39 (“The Parchment”, written by Steve Harris).

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ericblair  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:03:06am

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

This is all about “PC wokedness run rampant”

How about renaming the Atlanta Braves the Atlanta Toothless Inbred Redneck Crackers?

The Atlanta Biden Wons.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:04:30am

re: #247 ericblair

The Atlanta Biden Wons.

The Georgia Runoff Elections

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:04:52am

re: #245 William Lewis

Never been fond of Beck and this doesn’t really change that. Still, better than I expected probably due only to Sir Paul’s influence.

The song itself is okay, but the digital 3-D facemapping of a young Paul McCartney is genuinely impressive (overlaid on to a professional dancer named Jordan Johnson).

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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:07:08am

re: #219 sagehen

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Venice Beach? I swear I’ve seen those folks there! 😉

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:08:39am

re: #217 The Pie Overlord!

My first reaction to this is Guardians of what exactly?

Keeping the Cuyahoga from catching fire again and burning down Lake Erie.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:09:58am

re: #251 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Keeping the Cuyahoga from catching fire again and burning down Lake Erie.

Calumet river in Gary also used to catch fire and burn.

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ericblair  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:14:48am

Well, um, yeah. At least he’s saying it.

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Citizen K  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:17:23am

When you do something this shady, just because you can, and you know you can get away with it because all the levers of power that could hold you accountable have basically said ‘No, this is more than fine, go for it’.

Again, this feels less like the act of desperation of folks afraid of losing the state and more like the absolute confidence of someone taunting those who thought they could ever stand up to absolute, impenetrable power.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:21:54am

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Christianity (the OT at least) came about the a time of a Patriarchal nomadic society, hence the view of God as a bearded male in robes like a Middle-Eastern goat herder…

Shockingly, it also forbids any representation of any sort of the deity and teaches that no image can exist, an interdiction that continues (among orthodox Jews) to this day

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:23:27am

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

Who were likewise based on Patriarchal nomadic figures.

You’re telling us that the Greeks and the Romans were nomads? When did that happen?

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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:25:29am

And today’s Asshole Of The Day is nutcase Jesse Lee Peterson!

Jesse Lee Peterson’s Panel Of ‘Experts’ Agree That It Was A ‘Mistake’ To ‘Educate Women’

On the July 20, 2021 episode of his eponymous online talk show, far-right radio host Jesse Lee Peterson spoke with his panel about the most pressing issue of our time: whether it was a “mistake” to “educate women.” His panel of “experts,” unsurprisingly, all answered in the affirmative.

angrywhitemen.org

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Jay C  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:25:52am

re: #256 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

You’re telling us that the Greeks and the Romans were nomads? When did that happen?

The advancement of a developed civilization- the Deity was reimagined from a bearded male in robes to a bearded male in a toga. Progress.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:25:56am

re: #255 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Shockingly, it also forbids any representation of any sort of the deity and teaches that no image can exist, an interdiction that continues (among orthodox Jews) to this day

Don’t forget Muslims.

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Teukka  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:33:55am
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:35:13am

re: #214 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Back atcha!

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No Malarkey!  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:36:16am
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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:42:02am

C’mon Crackhead Mike! Crash and Burn!

Mike Lindell promises his ‘cyber symposium’ will be bigger than Elvis’ 1973 Hawaii concert

Is Crackhead Mike going to wear a rhinestone studded jumpsuit when he hosts this farce?

“Elvis Presley in 1973,” Lindell reminisced. “Over a billion people watched that ‘Aloha From Hawaii’ because at that time, it was epic. This is going to be so important for the whole world to see — I’m hoping the word keeps spreading so that everybody at least tunes in,” he added.

A devoted Elvis fan, Lindell wasn’t shy about the prospect of upstaging the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Asked whether his event could really be bigger than the legendary Elvis concert — one of the first global satellite pay-per-view spectacles — Lindell expressed optimism. “I’m hoping it is. I just hope a lot of people see it,” adding earnestly that no matter your political party, by the final day of the gathering, the entire world will be convinced to “right the wrong” of the 2020 election.

alternet.org

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:44:51am

re: #259 The Pie Overlord!

Don’t forget Muslims.

The discussion was about the Bible. Muslims weren’t among the authors.

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sagehen  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:45:14am

re: #247 ericblair

The Atlanta Biden Wons.

The Atlanta Shermans.

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Teukka  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:46:05am

Does this qualify as a quality burn?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:48:14am

re: #256 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

You’re telling us that the Greeks and the Romans were nomads? When did that happen?

People in general were nomadic before they settled down and got civilized and agrarian. And in those societies, the Patriarchs ran things and served as the model for the image that the Big Sky Patriarch was based on.

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wrenchwench  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:52:38am

I know I don’t do that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:53:26am

re: #268 wrenchwench

endless thinking is not necessarily productive thought, just like endless work is not necessarily productive

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ericblair  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:53:54am
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wrenchwench  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:54:44am

re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

endless thinking is not necessarily productive thought, just like endless work is not necessarily productive

I never thought of that.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:55:45am

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:56:08am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People in general were nomadic before they settled down and got civilized and agrarian.

In which case there’s no reason to attribute a particular image to any particular person or group.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2021 • 8:58:51am

re: #214 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Mitch looks a little angry this morning

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darthstar  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:00:55am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

At some point that river will meander and leave that fence meaningless or undermined

The best response to that article was this one:

If I was this fucking dumb, I’d consider just not telling anyone.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:01:03am

re: #265 sagehen

The Atlanta Shermans.

The Atlanta Smoking Embers - perfect for cooking hotdogs!

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:01:24am

re: #275 darthstar

The best response to that article was this one:

“Better to be thought an idiot and keep silent, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:02:15am

re: #217 The Pie Overlord!

There’s an Indian Head Highway in the county adjacent to mine and I can’t believe that the name hasn’t been changed as yet.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:03:13am

re: #270 ericblair

A friend in New Mexico told me that his very elderly (85+) grandparents voted Democrat last year for the first time since JFK. He was astounded since they are very conservative church people. When he asked them about it, his grandfather said, “You were right, the Trump bastards were trying to kill us.”

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darthstar  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:04:26am
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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:05:11am

re: #279 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

A friend in New Mexico tole me that his very elderly (85+) grandparents voted Democrat last year for the first time since JFK. He was astounded since they are very conservative church people. When he asked them about it, his grandfather said, “You were right, the Trump bastards were trying to kill us.”

Mrs. Fish was talking to her parents a while back, and I had filled her in on the history of the Southern Strategy and how people who are now Republicans used to be Democrats. So when her dad said he had always voted Republican, she spoke up, and of all people, her mom chimed in and said, “Yeah, remember, Dad? We used to vote for Democrats all the time when we were younger.” Not that I’m holding out any hope that they’ll do so again in the near future, given that my father-in-law is a verified QAnon believer and a noted conspiracy theorist, but one can always hope.

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jeffreyw  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:05:47am

re: #274 Eventual Carrion

Mitch looks a little angry this morning

I was tapping on his back, hoping to make him poke his head out, and I think I may have given him shell shock😁

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:07:31am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:08:37am

re: #280 darthstar

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ALL LIVES MATTER! quoth the Repugs, unless of course they are old or obese or smoke, in which case they should be sacrificed for the benefit of the economy.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:09:31am

re: #270 ericblair

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The “audit” will add her vote.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:10:50am

Gee whodathunkit?????

The record-setting COVID-19 surge in Missouri springs from Branson, a superspreader tourist town whose visitor policy—to sell lots of tickets and take few precautions—is endangering thousands of lives.

“It’s crazy busy with no mask mandate,” said the person who answered the town’s tourist information line on Thursday.

As the crowds come and go, the infection rate for Branson and surrounding Taney County is 19.3 percent. There are 54 new cases a day in a population of 57,000, which is 10 times the national per capita average. More than two-thirds of the population are unvaccinated, including the very nice tourist information person.

“It’s not happening,” she said when asked if she had gotten the shot. “Have a blessed day.”

thedailybeast.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:11:27am
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darthstar  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:11:33am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:14:10am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:15:02am

re: #279 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

2020: grandma has to die for the economy

2021: oh shit grandma voted Republican didn’t she

Covid brought a lot of the inherent Evil of GOP thinking to the surface, namely that people exist to serve the economy rather than the economy existing to serve people.

Or rather that the economy exists to serve 1% of the People and Fuck the Rest

I also recall a GOP politician pointing out that although people would die of Covid if we re-opened to quickly that “People die of poverty, too!”

Nobody dies of poverty. People die for lack of proper nutrition, shelter and health care because we have decided that poor people do not deserve such things in our society.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:16:56am

New YES album is set to drop:

YES - The Ice Bridge (Official Video)

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mmmirele  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:18:36am

This guy turned over secrets of the US drone program to a reporter. He’s going to be sentenced for violating the Espionage Act on Tuesday.

I am not saying what he did was right. I’m not even saying the judge should give him mercy. I am saying that his statement to the judge on why he did it really makes me question a lot what the hell we’re doing with drones and the morality of same. That’s all.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:19:13am

jeebus

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:20:00am

I’m just starting this thread, but my best guess - just knowing the subject - is that this is not going to win L. Lin Wood, Jr., Esq., any favors with the judge.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:21:09am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:21:15am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus

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The President said “I’ll be with you”.

I recall him speaking those words. I almost never tuned into live Presidential speeches but I did that day.

Why does Trump not have those words hung around his neck: either he meant them, in which case he was inciting or he did not, in which case he displayed a total lack of leadership.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:23:09am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:25:43am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:25:53am

Also, thread

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:27:11am

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another piece of proud Republican heritage being relegated to the dustbin of history.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:28:01am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

Whoever wrote this needs to actually figure out why people are responding to Trump declaring the press the enemy of the people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:29:21am

re: #295 lawhawk

Opinion | I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then Cleveland named its baseball team The Guardians

A similar Wökenheimer moment came up in Germany when the German Railway decided to stop using the word Schwarzfahren (literally “riding black”) to describe people who ride without a ticket.

Faux outrage ensued in the conservative press, including a quip about how they would have to rename the Schwazwald (The Black Forest)

Of course, there is no negative connotation to the Black Forest, it is a historical name going back to Roman times. They called it the silva negra, from the incredible density of foliage that turned it dark, where as terms like Schwarzfahren or Schwarzarbeit (working under the table) are negatively laden.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:29:23am

That film I posted about a few weeks back, Pig, the new one with Nic Cage?

He’s getting rave reviews, with critics calling it his best work in years and a return to form. Nice to see he’s still got it.

rottentomatoes.com

metacritic.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:30:44am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

Extremely bad journalism advice

“People won’t believe us when we tell them that others are lying.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:31:51am
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darthstar  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:32:03am

Biden’s got very few fucks to give for GOP fee-fees.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:32:16am

re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth

The bust of Confederate Gen. and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest is off its pedestal and being wheeled out of the Tennessee Capitol.

Good, now they can replace it with a monument to the black Union POW’s massacred by Forrest’s men after the Battle of Fort Pillow…

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darthstar  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:34:57am

This is good…

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:35:44am

re: #300 Dopamine Fish

Another piece of proud Republican heritage being relegated to the dustbin of history.

Them Republicans was Democrats when the statue was erected. Best stick to “Confederate heritage.”

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plansbandc  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:35:44am

re: #272 A Mom Anon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:38:38am

re: #308 darthstar

This is good…

I used to be one but now I am an

W0ZHJhjDsKcq8fVGhZ92we19+7K2gWtGDgfxCrcxX6c=

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:39:22am
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Teukka  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:40:29am

SSPX has a very strong undercurrent of anti-semitism (hence why some call it ᛋᛋPX).
See also Opus Dei.
See also the International Judeo-Masonic-Communist conspiracy theory.

From #13 in the twitter thread:

13/ Mostly it is hatred of Jews he concentrates on and there is a deep theological element to this that is important to bear in mind. Williamson regularly visits Cork and was recorded blaming Jews for Covid-19 as well as manipulating the economy and other antisemitic tropes.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:41:40am

re: #227 Belafon

Mine was “Yay, no longer the Indians.”

Next up: Atlanta…

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:42:26am

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

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little kid in a (red) panda suit, right? //

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danarchy  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:44:08am

re: #314 Eric The Fruit Bat

Next up: Atlanta…

I don’t get why braves is problematic. Isn’t that just the equivalent of calling a team the warriors?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:46:34am

Stolen from Twitter:

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:46:50am

re: #304 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“People won’t believe us when we tell them that others are lying.”

more or less on point - in that there are objective truths if you just look for them… and many dont require all that much effort to see

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plansbandc  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:47:19am

re: #316 danarchy

Maybe it’s the tomahawk chop the whole crowd does with the stereotypical Indian chant. Also, a Brave is a Native American warrior.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:47:19am

“Posting a link isn’t broadcasting.”

Broadcast
verb (used without object), broad*cast or broad*cast*ed, broad*cast*ing.
1. to transmit programs or signals from a radio or television station.
2. to make something known widely; disseminate something.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:47:23am

re: #265 sagehen

Atlanta Shermans.

Bring back the Atlanta Flames (This time for baseball!)

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:48:28am

re: #311 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I used to be one but now I am an

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This guy…

Fiero Swamp Car

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:48:56am

re: #310 plansbandc

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:48:58am

re: #318 Dangerman

I know it’s not his direct quote, but Michael Okuda is a fucking legend in the Star Trek community. He designed practically all the console displays in TNG, DS9 and Voyager.

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:49:13am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

“Posting a link isn’t broadcasting.”

Broadcast
verb (used without object), broad*cast or broad*cast*ed, broad*cast*ing.
1. to transmit programs or signals from a radio or television station.
2. to make something known widely; disseminate something.

In fairness to Lin - and Akiva covers this in the thread - the court’s rule is intended to prevent people from recording and disseminating court proceedings without official permission. If Lin linked it from, e.g., YouTube, that’s probably not something the rule was intended to cover. With that said, the judge is already SERIOUSLY pissed off at him and all the Quacken morons, and he does himself no favors with this reply.

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Teukka  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:49:31am

re: #317 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Stolen from Twitter:

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And I stole it from you :D

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gwangung  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:49:34am

re: #316 danarchy

I don’t get why braves is problematic. Isn’t that just the equivalent of calling a team the warriors?

Well, the accompanying behavior is very problematic (Tomahawk chop and all….)…

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plansbandc  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:50:19am

re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:50:44am

re: #311 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I used to be one but now I am an

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alls i gotta say is it sure would suck if you posted that picture backwards

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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:52:35am

re: #328 plansbandc

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:52:36am

huzzah!

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A Mom Anon  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:52:37am

re: #310 plansbandc

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plansbandc  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:53:23am

re: #330 Dopamine Fish

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:57:36am
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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 9:58:47am

re: #333 plansbandc

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danarchy  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:00:03am

re: #319 plansbandc

Maybe it’s the tomahawk chop the whole crowd does with the stereotypical Indian chant. Also, a Brave is a Native American warrior.

Yeah, the chant and the chop can go, but a knight is a medieval warrior, a centurion is a roman warrior, a viking is a norse warrior, a spartan is a greek warrior, fighting irish etc. but there are teams named for all of them. I just don’t find the name problematic.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:00:22am

re: #334 Rightwingconspirator

and neither is anybody eager to make more money available for safety and hygiene measures, hiring more teachers, auxiliary and cleaning staff, expanding facilities, etc., to keep our children safe so they can get back to school so their parents can get back to work

Because we have learned how vital full-day schooling is to the American workforce…

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A Mom Anon  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:01:30am

re: #335 Dopamine Fish

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:02:47am

re: #308 darthstar

Like.
Reminds me of the tea bag quote attributed to Dwight Eisenhower “farming looks easy when the field is paper and the plow a pen”

2020 Citrus Farm near Piru, California
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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:03:37am

re: #331 Backwoods_Sleuth

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huzzah!

i love ‘muttville’

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:04:07am
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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:04:57am

Looks like the GOP realized killing or sickening a bunch of their constituents might not be a good look heading into the midterms?

Or is this just dumb fucking luck and they stumbled on to the correct answer blindly after lying/misinforming the masses for months on end?

Of course, the months of misinformation have laid the groundwork for people not to trust the new govt statements in TN, which means the 180 by GOPers will take more effort to overcome than the GOP’s initial statements attacking vaccinations and masking ever did.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:05:23am

Pet-Friendly Internet Cafe - Mutt Bowl Surfers

(stole that from I, Zombie, rather too twentysomething for my taste but the writers had a lot of fun squeezing in as many music puns and references as they could)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:07:59am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:08:40am

re: #327 gwangung

Well, the accompanying behavior is very problematic (Tomahawk chop and all….)…

Maybe they should replace it with clinking bottles together and calling on the team to come out and play.
//

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:09:07am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:09:58am

re: #342 lawhawk

The Republicans are those assholes in disaster movies who ignore the obvious threat and say everything will be fine and THEN start fucking panicking when its too late to do much about it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:10:50am
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plansbandc  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:12:10am

re: #347 Eclectic Cyborg

They’re all Larry Vaughn, The Mayor of Amityville.

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austin_blue  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:14:40am

re: #214 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

What the hell did you do to piss off that turtle that much?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:14:41am

re: #347 Eclectic Cyborg

The Republicans are those assholes in disaster movies who ignore the obvious threat and say everything will be fine and THEN start fucking panicking when its too late to do much about it.

I really liked the novel World War Z (don’t even get me started on the film version).

I am no fan of zombie lore, but the book is mostly about human nature and how we totally fail to cope with a crisis. First we try to cover it up and deny it. Those measures back fire and actually contribute to the spread.

Then of course, when it can no longer be covered up, people panic and overreact, not trusting anything the authorities are telling them, which further helps the spread. Then we undertake ill-conceived, ineffective measures that likewise only help the ongoing crisis reach disastrous proportions.

We did not get to Zombie Apocalypse state with Covid, but we lost a lot more people that we might have otherwise for some of the very reasons mentioned above.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:17:18am

re: #350 austin_blue

What the hell did you do to piss off that turtle that much?

He saw the Mitch McConnell comparisons. Highly offended.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:21:48am

re: #352 Rightwingconspirator

He saw the Mitch McConnell comparisons. Highly offended.

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Poor innocent fella…no wonder he’s so upset…to be compared to such a schmuck as Mitch…

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Teukka  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:22:44am

For Dune fans only.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:24:56am

re: #352 Rightwingconspirator

He saw the Mitch McConnell comparisons. Highly offended.

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It’s Gamera!!

Gamera Vs. Iris Final Battle

No, really, that’s a clip from a Gamera movie. Gamera III: Revenge of Iris.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:29:52am
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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:30:41am

re: #354 Teukka

Fear is the mind killer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:31:52am
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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:32:12am

re: #349 plansbandc

They’re all Larry Vaughn, The Mayor of Amityville.

Amityville was a whole different horror

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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:34:25am

Uh oh!

Trump-backed prospective Senate candidate repeatedly threatened to murder his ex-wife: divorce papers

Former President Donald Trump has been pushing for supporter Hershcel Walker to run for Senate in Georgia — but a new investigation by the Associated Press shows he has major red flags about his past that include allegations of threatening repeatedly to murder his ex-wife.

In other words, he’s the typical Republican candidate…

apnews.com

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:34:25am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If people actually exercised that “responsibility” your numbers would be lower

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:35:10am
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austin_blue  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:35:44am

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

This is all about “PC wokedness run rampant”

How about renaming the Atlanta Braves the Atlanta Toothless Inbred Redneck Crackers?

Atlanta had a Triple A team called the Crackers before the Braves moved down from Milwaukee.

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:37:24am

re: #361 Dangerman

If people actually exercised that “responsibility” your numbers would be lower

Sometimes community responsibility requires that you temper your personal freedom.

Thstats the price of not living alone on an island

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:37:57am
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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:39:54am

re: #365 lawhawk

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Steve Harmon wanted his Darwin Award and he got it.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:40:28am

re: #363 austin_blue

I’d be all for the Atlanta Cracker Ass Crackers as a team name. I’ve been to a couple of Braves games over the years and that stupid tomahawk chop shit is annoying as fuck. I’m not big into sportsball of any kind, but I really don’t get digging in with both heels over getting rid of outdated bullshit, especially in the South.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:42:19am

Iowa Race Track Announcer Canned After Racist Rant About ‘Darker Toned Skin’ Over Loudspeaker

An Iowa race track announcer has called his last event after going on a long, unhinged, racist rant over the loudspeaker last week. The diatribe—which was met with cheers by some bigots in the crowd—saw the man condemning those who “won’t stand for our flag” or plan to “take a knee” during the playing of the national anthem. “I’ve got four words for you: Find a different country if you won’t do it… Get the hell out of Dodge,” he said, miscalculating the number of words he was using. The announcer went on to complain about reports that the NFL would be playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song considered by many as a Black American national anthem, before games. “They’re going to have another national anthem for those folks, I guess the darker toned skin color, I’ll just say Blacks,” he said. “They want a different national anthem.” The Kossuth County Speedway in Algona said its leaders “do not condone” the rant and said the unnamed man won’t announce again.

desmoinesregister.com

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:42:27am

re: #366 JOE 🥓

Steve Harmon wanted his Darwin Award and he got it.

Steve couldnt be here tonight so accepting the award for Steve is…..

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:43:06am

You know, personal responsibility is NOT the same as “Hey, I’m going to do whatever stupid shit I want to and I dare you to stop me!”.

It involves, you know, ACTUAL responsibility.

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JOE 🥓  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:43:57am

re: #369 Dangerman

Steve couldnt be here tonight so accepting the award for Steve is…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:45:56am

thread

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:48:08am

re: #368 JOE 🥓

Iowa Race Track Announcer Canned After Racist Rant About ‘Darker Toned Skin’ Over Loudspeaker

An Iowa race track announcer has called his last event after going on a long, unhinged, racist rant over the loudspeaker last week. The diatribe—which was met with cheers by some bigots in the crowd—saw the man condemning those who “won’t stand for our flag” or plan to “take a knee” during the playing of the national anthem. “I’ve got four words for you: Find a different country if you won’t do it… Get the hell out of Dodge,” he said, miscalculating the number of words he was using. The announcer went on to complain about reports that the NFL would be playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song considered by many as a Black American national anthem, before games. “They’re going to have another national anthem for those folks, I guess the darker toned skin color, I’ll just say Blacks,” he said. “They want a different national anthem.” The Kossuth County Speedway in Algona said its leaders “do not condone” the rant and said the unnamed man won’t announce again.

desmoinesregister.com

Racist gotta…race?

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Jay C  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:48:32am

re: #364 Dangerman

Sometimes community responsibility requires that you temper your personal freedom.

Thstats the price of not living alone on an island

Yeah: you know this, I know this, I’m sure most Lizards posting or lurking here know this: hell, I’d imagine that at the minimum, a plurality of Americans know this- the problem, though, is with the about 35% of the entire citizenry who fervently believe that “personal freedom” is paramount license, and “community responsibility” is a dangerous, if not evil foreign concept, and is only applicable in enforcing prejudices.

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:48:51am

re: #370 Eclectic Cyborg

You know, personal responsibility is NOT the same as “Hey, I’m going to do whatever stupid shit I want to and I dare you to stop me!”.

It involves, you know, ACTUAL responsibility.

Just another word that means whatever they want it to mean that minute

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:49:13am
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Jay C  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:50:12am

re: #368 JOE 🥓

Iowa Race Track Announcer Canned After Racist Rant About ‘Darker Toned Skin’ Over Loudspeaker

An Iowa race track announcer has called his last event after going on a long, unhinged, racist rant over the loudspeaker last week. The diatribe—which was met with cheers by some bigots in the crowd—saw the man condemning those who “won’t stand for our flag” or plan to “take a knee” during the playing of the national anthem. “I’ve got four words for you: Find a different country if you won’t do it… Get the hell out of Dodge,” he said, miscalculating the number of words he was using. The announcer went on to complain about reports that the NFL would be playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song considered by many as a Black American national anthem, before games. “They’re going to have another national anthem for those folks, I guess the darker toned skin color, I’ll just say Blacks,” he said. “They want a different national anthem.” The Kossuth County Speedway in Algona said its leaders “do not condone” the rant and said the unnamed man won’t announce again.

desmoinesregister.com

Maybe the guy got the wrong idea when he was offered a job “at the race track”?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:51:36am
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jaunte  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:53:14am

re: #378 Backwoods_Sleuth

Billionaires who wish to enter Heaven must ride their spaceships through this door.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:53:17am
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Dopamine Fish  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:54:18am

re: #380 Backwoods_Sleuth

Does Rafael Cruz have some kind of brain-eating parasite? There’s no way he’s actually this physically stupid from birth, right?

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:57:14am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:57:26am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2021 • 10:59:38am

re: #381 Dopamine Fish

Does Rafael Cruz have some kind of brain-eating parasite? There’s no way he’s actually this physically stupid from birth, right?

He’s NOT actually stupid. He’s just doing and saying stupid stuff to keep his base frothing because that’s how he stays in office. Most of these asshole Republicans are smart enough to know EXACTLY what they are doing.

They just don’t give a shit.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2021 • 11:00:29am

re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth

Greg Abbott steps up to soak more racist suckers.

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Dangerman  Jul 23, 2021 • 11:01:43am

I think they’ve finally realized that if their people aren’t vaccinated, they’re going to get sick, and if their people aren’t vaccinated, they’re going to get blamed for COVID outbreaks in the future.”

— GOP pollster Frank Luntz, quoted by the Associated Press, on why Republicans are starting to more forcefully push for vaccinations.

Frank, its just theater. They’re not doing anything

While some Republicans may be using strong words to promote the vaccine, few are proposing new measures to urge vaccination, such as incentives, public information campaigns or more aggressive outreach,” the Associated Press reports.

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Belafon  Jul 23, 2021 • 11:04:26am

re: #380 Backwoods_Sleuth

Stop trying to be a white man, Ted. You suck at it and they’ll still line you up against the wall.

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jeffreyw  Jul 23, 2021 • 11:09:25am

re: #350 austin_blue

What the hell did you do to piss off that turtle that much?

It’s shell shocked.

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Citizen K  Jul 23, 2021 • 11:09:56am

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Cancel Culture” seems to be the exact same boat as “Class Warfare”: it only exists when those who shouldn’t have the power to exercise power band together to do so. It’s only aberrant when those who shouldn’t be powerful forget their place.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 23, 2021 • 11:15:15am

re: #372 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve had cats since I was a teen. Now old enough to have had this experience many times. It’s hard. We outlive them by a lot. My youngest lost was 7, my oldest 23 or so. Right now I have four from 6-15. It never gets easier at the time of loss. Not ever.

The thing is time and repetition have not taken anything from the fun and joy they bring every living day. Now if I can just get the two that always lived here to be good with the two I brought from my old place it will really be all fun again.

Cinnamon
Pepper
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Ming5000  Jul 23, 2021 • 11:16:16am

re: #390 Rightwingconspirator

So sweet

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 23, 2021 • 11:16:20am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

Choosing death to own the libs.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 23, 2021 • 11:40:50am

re: #129 Targetpractice

Take her away, Oh Chluthu.


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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
Cheechako
4 days ago
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