Squid Performs Robert Wyatt’s “Pigs…(In There)”

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I don’t know much about this crazy mixed up world, but I’m fairly certain there are pigs… in there.

Squid performs Robert Wyatt’s “Pigs…(In There)” at End of the Road Festival 2019, as part of a secret session for The Line of Best Fit.

Direction and edit by Hedley Marks
Filmed by Hedley Marks and Tom Rapley
Sound by Ric James

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UPDATE at 8/2/21 5:31:30 pm by Charles Johnson

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A Mom Anon  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:34:21pm

Wait, what? What the hell is this buffoon doing now?

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:34:50pm

Am I on the right page? Or is this the sidebar page?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:35:13pm

The streams are getting mixed up.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:35:35pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:36:15pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:36:19pm

re: #1 A Mom Anon

Wait, what? What the hell is this buffoon doing now?

Meeting in person with Hungary’s fascist leader.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:38:16pm
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(((Archangel1)))  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:38:23pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

The streams are getting mixed up.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:41:10pm

Sounds familiar.

mobile.twitter.com

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Belafon  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:44:41pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:45:41pm

If there’s one thing Republicans are probably better at, it is dire revenge. This is true at least of the traditional evil but competent element, as opposed to the evil but stupid Trump cult. It would not surprise me, then, to learn that the Lincoln Project and the Cheney Collective are already working on some kind of diabolical, heinous retribution against the Trumpsters and the Conspiracy-Industrial Complex in the event that the antivaxx pandemic kills off a large percentage of the traditional Repug electorate. This seems more likely every day, and will happen if new critical cases overwhelm the healthcare system.

I also wonder if this is the looming catastrophe the Cheneys foresaw when they decided to jump ship on the Trumpsters.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:48:59pm

re: #11 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Demagoguing populists with fascistic bents, like Trump, never end well.

Never, ever.

Now perhaps there are no happy endings in human history, but some endings are worse than others.

And something like Trump ends badly.

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Belafon  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:49:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:51:40pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:51:57pm

re: #13 Belafon

That guy is going God’s work. Really.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:52:24pm

re: #10 Belafon

The Republican mayor of Jacksonville, Fla. wants you to know that you’re hurting the feelings of his party which promoted this, in one of the worst outbreak areas of the country.

Snowflake.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:54:30pm

Wait I thought Trump won Texas?

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DesertDenizen  Aug 2, 2021 • 5:55:31pm

re: #17 The Pie Overlord!

Future proofing by declaring counts in urban area suspect.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:02:26pm

My dog Chewy with a pic of his Grandfather. (plus an upcoming show).

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:13:14pm

re: #7 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wait till he meets the damnation navy…

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:14:55pm

Hey, anyone remember like 15 years ago when right-wingers lost their minds after Hasbro renamed their “Mr. Potato Head” line of toys to “Potato Head”, while retaining the individual “Mr.” and “Mrs.” Potato Head toys? Good times.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:15:30pm

Al Franken, speaking to an Atlantic reporter on his latest podcast, showed why the Dems really need him still as a consultant (I’m sure he’s acting as one to his friends who are still in Congress). About Trump calling Warren “Pocahontas”: “She chose the high road; she should have immediately called him ‘Pocapornstar’.”

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Jay C  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:16:29pm

re: #21 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Hey, anyone remember like 15 years ago when right-wingers lost their minds after Hasbro renamed their “Mr. Potato Head” line of toys to “Potato Head”, while retaining the individual “Mr.” and “Mrs.” Potato Head toys? Good times.

Has it been just 15 years?
Seems like decades….

///

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:17:48pm

re: #21 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I’m fairly sure this happened just after the Justinian Plague.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:22:58pm

re: #21 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Hey, anyone remember like 15 years ago when right-wingers lost their minds after Hasbro renamed their “Mr. Potato Head” line of toys to “Potato Head”, while retaining the individual “Mr.” and “Mrs.” Potato Head toys? Good times.

I’m old enough to remember when Jerry Fartwell and Pulpit Pimp Pat flipped out over this.

“That doll is from the Devil! How DARE Ideal make an anatomically correct doll!”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:25:23pm
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:28:19pm

re: #25 JOE 🥓

But are you old enough to remember MANLY PUPPETS?

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:36:06pm

re: #27 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

KKKandy probably hates Wilkins Coffee!

Wilkins Coffee Commercials

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DesertDenizen  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:36:08pm

re: #27 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

The Muppets - Man or Muppet song HD

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:38:40pm

Trending Twitter keeping it classy (NSFW hashtag)

Click to Reveal

#NationalBoobDay

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:40:38pm

re: #27 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Bring back manly muppets, anyone?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:41:03pm

re: #27 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

But are you old enough to remember MANLY PUPPETS?

Next thing you know they’ll be getting rid of Master and Miss Muppet Baby and liberal cancel culture will be out of control.

They have to feed their culture wars. Their voters might notice that tax cuts for billionaires really doesn’t do anything for them.

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A Three Hour Tour  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:41:28pm

re: #28 JOE 🥓

KKKandy probably hates Wilkins Coffee!

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Bad things happen to people who don’t like Wilkins Coffee.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:42:05pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:42:10pm

Speaking of Hungary:

Hungary ‘could leave EU by end of the decade’

Hungary could reassess its membership of the European Union by the end of the decade, the country’s finance minister has warned.

Mihaly Varga said Hungary was likely to rethink its position once it becomes a net contributor to the EU’s budget, adding fuel to the debate over its place in the bloc in the lead-up to the country’s elections next year.

“When we calculate that we will already be net contributors to the EU, the issue could get a new perspective,” said Mr Varga, one of the more moderate members within Right-wing prime minister Viktor Orban’s cabinet.

“Especially if the attacks in Brussels are continuous because of the choice of values.”

[…]

Very upfront of them, to declare that once they are no longer a monetary leech on the EU, then they don’t want the EU anymore.

Top that off with their “choice of values”, and that is probably why Tucker Carlson is doing his white-power tour.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:43:56pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trending Twitter keeping it classy (NSFW hashtag)

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Zefrank - Puffin Mating Dance (Lyric Video)

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:45:27pm
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sagehen  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:45:29pm

re: #12 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Demagoguing populists with fascistic bents, like Trump, never end well.

Never, ever.

Now perhaps there are no happy endings in human history, but some endings are worse than others.

And something like Trump ends badly.

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
—Orson Wells

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A Mom Anon  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:51:05pm

re: #37 jaunte

Damn it. I swear conservatives better STFU about this, but they won’t.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:52:04pm

DeSantis is starting to follow what my governor is doing (blocking Covid-19 data).

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:56:08pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:56:12pm

re: #37 jaunte

The conspiraliars are already in that thread.

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2021 • 6:57:22pm

re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve already seen someone blaming vaccine side effects.

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:00:29pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:08:23pm

Oh dear, woke Vikings???

DNA Offers New Insight Into Early Medieval Grave in Finland

According to a statement released by the University of Turku, Ulla Moilanen and her colleagues have re-evaluated the contents of the so-called Suontaka grave, which was discovered in southern Finland in 1968 during a construction project. The 1,000-year-old grave held human remains, a sword with a bronze handle, a second weapon, and jewelry typically associated with a woman’s clothing. It had been previously suggested that the grave held the remains of a man and a woman, or a woman who had been a warrior or a leader.

The new study indicates that just one person was laid on a feather blanket, wearing furs and feminine clothing, with a hiltless sword at the left hip. Elina Salmela of the University of Helsinki said that analysis of the individual’s badly damaged DNA found evidence of Klinefelter syndrome, in which a person carries the sex-chromosomes XXY. People who have Klinefelter syndrome may be anatomically male, but may also experience breast growth, diminished muscle mass, and infertility.

Moilanen explained that the highly respected person buried in the Suontaka grave may not have been considered to be strictly male or female, based upon the variety of objects recovered from the grave. The researchers also determined that the bronze-handled sword was added to the grave sometime after the original burial.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:11:21pm

re: #44 jaunte

It’s so heartbreaking to hear that. Petite dying because they believe Trump’s bullshit. Because they believe Republican bullshit. Because they believe Fox bullshit. Fuck them all. It’s so infuriating.

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:12:12pm
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jaunte  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:13:33pm

“In Texas, 21% of hospitals are reporting staff shortages, about double the national average according to a weekly federal report.”

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Dave In Austin  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:13:57pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:14:04pm

*MIC DROP*

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:15:20pm
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Dangerman  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:16:04pm

FL and TX now account for one-third of all new cases.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:20:52pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:21:19pm

We honestly need to stop treating the unvaccinated who are wasting ICU space. Live (or not) with your decisions. You’re killing other innocent people.

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calochortus  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:22:53pm

I just signed us up for a very local event where the community is going to get home owners’ notarized signatures to repeal the (unenforceable) CC&R restriction on non-Caucasian homeowners.
The co-op that originally tried to establish the community wanted it integrated, but that was not possible in the late 1940s. They couldn’t get financing and eventually it was taken over by a local developer who also couldn’t get financing without the racial restriction. Said restriction is the most bare-bones, lower case statement possible, unlike some I’ve seen that lovingly detail who can’t live there except as a servant. But it is time for this to go, however unenforceable it may be.

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:26:49pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:27:24pm

re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s so heartbreaking to hear that. Petite dying because they believe Trump’s bullshit. Because they believe Republican bullshit. Because they believe Fox bullshit. Fuck them all. It’s so infuriating.

Plenty of liars in the thread trying to claim the numbers of a particular hospital says she has an agenda (“speaking from a government pulpit”).

The numbers of the particular hospital cited seem to indicate something like 20% of the patients are Covid-19 patients (that’s a damn high percentage for one condition).

They’re also lying by omission (some beds are empty specifically because she said there is insufficient staff).

You also left out they are believing Christian bullshit (though you did say “Republican” and especially younger people view those terms as synonymous).

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:28:30pm

re: #53 The Pie Overlord!

That’s a horrifying read.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:33:29pm

re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s a horrifying read.

Yes it is. Simone absolutely did the right thing. She is supposed to compete in the balance beam event tomorrow. I hope she does, but if she decides to hold back that is her own decision based on her own assessment of her ability. The “twisties” sounds cute but can kill or cripple you in very bad ways.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:34:49pm
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calochortus  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:35:26pm

re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s a horrifying read.

Yeah, we did “gymnastics” in high school. So I have a teeny bit of relevant experience, except for the fact that even if I wanted to be a gymnast, I don’t have a gymnast’s body (we’ll start with my being 5’10”.) I could walk on the balance beam, dip one foot down, turn, and if I recall correctly, sit myself down on it. To this day, watching gymnasts perform terrifies me. I cannot imagine one’s feet leaving the beam and finding it again.

edit: floor routines are slightly less terrifying than the balance beam.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:38:22pm

re: #61 calochortus

The mean freaks me out. I couldn’t do any of that on the floor, let alone 4’ above ground on a bar that’s 6” wide.

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sagehen  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:39:55pm

I was one of the hordes of teens who got interested in gymnastics after Nadia Comaneci. But every twist and flip I ever learned… in lessons I did it with a spotter, at home my parents would only let me do it off the diving board into the pool.

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sagehen  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:45:54pm

re: #62 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The mean freaks me out. I couldn’t do any of that on the floor, let alone 4’ above ground on a bar that’s 6” wide.

4” wide.

In my lessons, we set a beam on the floor to do stuff, and I fell off ALL THE TIME. Even a simple somersault was beyond my capabilities to do in a straight line. Uneven bars was my least awful event, and the spotter had to catch me at least 1/3 of the time.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:48:52pm

re: #64 sagehen

4” wide.

In my lessons, we set a beam on the floor to do stuff, and I fell off ALL THE TIME. Even a simple somersault was beyond my capabilities to do in a straight line. Uneven bars was my least awful event, and the spotter had to catch me at least 1/3 of the time.

I’m legit in awe that you did any of that!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:49:09pm
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calochortus  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:51:37pm

Fortunately, we only did a single quarter of gymnastics, but while we had a couple beams on the floor to practice on, we had the real beam too. Floor routines were OK, I think we vaulted a little bit, the uneven parallel bars were not designed for someone my size, and at least I had really good balance so what we needed to do on the beam wasn’t awful.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:52:55pm

re: #66 Dread Pirate Ron

They don’t want to repeal the right to pre-viability abortions.

They want to repeal the right to safe pre-viability abortions.

Conservatism always traffics in death.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:54:54pm

re: #64 sagehen

4” wide.

In my lessons, we set a beam on the floor to do stuff, and I fell off ALL THE TIME. Even a simple somersault was beyond my capabilities to do in a straight line. Uneven bars was my least awful event, and the spotter had to catch me at least 1/3 of the time.

I’ve never been able to do a somersault except on the ground (a roll), and even that I can’t do in a straight line.

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calochortus  Aug 2, 2021 • 7:56:50pm

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve never been able to do a somersault except on the ground (a roll), and even that I can’t do in a straight line.

You’re a guy. You need to be able to hang on a couple rings with your arms straight out to the side (iron cross?)//

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:02:28pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Hmmm. The minute our Mom n’ Pop right wing figures out they don’t speak God’s language (American English) in Hungary is when the alliance starts to really fray.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:05:15pm

I somehow think that if you grind the numbers that Hungary leaving the EU will not pan out the way they think it will. Once they are on the outside looking in a bunch of economic factors kick in and that is probably worse for them than being a net EU contributor; e.g. EU isn’t giving you more than you give it, but that doesn’t mean that your economy and trade/money balance necessarily improves if you leave the EU.

Though I also expect that part of why they have people wanting to leave the EU isn’t money, but it’s because some of the EU regulations prevent them from being total dickheads to their citizens and immigrants.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:06:04pm

WATCH: Profanity-spewing Wendy’s manager rages at ‘communist’ employee for calling out his abuse - then promptly gets fired

ibtimes.sg

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:08:49pm

Crackhead Mike is losing ONLY A MILLION DOLLARS A WEEK?

How soon will he wind up as a real life Navin Johnson?

Mike Lindell says he’s losing $1 million a week because of war with Fox News

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sagehen  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:09:04pm

re: #70 calochortus

You’re a guy. You need to be able to hang on a couple rings with your arms straight out to the side (iron cross?)//

and the parallel bars!! they’re like the ones you see in a physical therapy center, just higher off the ground.

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retired cynic  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:17:11pm

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:18:13pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:22:43pm
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stpaulbear  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:32:05pm

I used to post here about a favorite FM oldies station and a fave morning DJ who retired a year or so ago. Today when I was listening to the station, the retired DJ was reading a personal testimonial advertisement for fucking MyPillow. I almost threw up. The station is going to hear from me tomorrow, including a threat to boycott and call their other advertisers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:35:27pm

re: #64 sagehen

4” wide.

In my lessons, we set a beam on the floor to do stuff, and I fell off ALL THE TIME. Even a simple somersault was beyond my capabilities to do in a straight line. Uneven bars was my least awful event, and the spotter had to catch me at least 1/3 of the time.

I’ve never been able to do a somersault except on the ground (a roll), and even that I can’t do in a straight line.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:35:58pm

re: #27 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

But are you old enough to remember MANLY PUPPETS?

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teleskiguy  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:37:50pm

Squid is objectively a fantastic name for a rock ‘n roll band.

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William Lewis  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:38:23pm

re: #61 calochortus

Yeah, we did “gymnastics” in high school. So I have a teeny bit of relevant experience, except for the fact that even if I wanted to be a gymnast, I don’t have a gymnast’s body (we’ll start with my being 5’10”.) I could walk on the balance beam, dip one foot down, turn, and if I recall correctly, sit myself down on it. To this day, watching gymnasts perform terrifies me. I cannot imagine one’s feet leaving the beam and finding it again.

edit: floor routines are slightly less terrifying than the balance beam.

I can sometimes imagine being young and working hard enough to be an Olympic saber fencer or to try for the Modern Pentathlon team but gymnastics? Hell no. That shit’s beyond normal humans and I give great props to those able to do it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:43:34pm

re: #35 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of Hungary:

Hungary ‘could leave EU by end of the decade’

Very upfront of them, to declare that once they are no longer a monetary leech on the EU, then they don’t want the EU anymore.

Top that off with their “choice of values”, and that is probably why Tucker Carlson is doing his white-power tour.

I guess watching the crapfest which is the United Kingdom didn’t teach them anything.

At least the UK has access to ports and a whole Commonwealth which to some extent will trade with and support it. Hungary is a landlocked country with not much in the way of alliances outside the EU.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:48:53pm

re: #56 jaunte

Does Gov. Abbott’s order allow him to have Mayor Turner arrested for defying him?

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plansbandc  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:49:31pm

I was a decent athlete in junior high. So gym was always an A. Except for gymnastics.

We were on 6 week grading periods and one of those was gymnastics. I could barely do a forward roll, could not do a backward roll, and never even came close to being able to do a cartwheel.

So I would get a C or a D for gymnastics. It sucked.

I have always been fascinated by world class gymnasts. They have my respect.

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stpaulbear  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:51:56pm

re: #82 teleskiguy

Squid is objectively a fantastic name for a rock ‘n roll band.

Last night I listened to an album by a Liverpudlian group from the mid-70’s called Nutz. They sounded like Foghat with actual ideas and tons of 3-part harmonies.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:54:21pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:55:51pm
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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:56:28pm

I had no athletic ability as a kid which really set me up as a target in the hell of high school. But I did have a knack at chess and bridge which teachers really went out of their way to dissuade.

Remember Graduation day when jock after jock was awarded an athletic scholarship and lots of them boasted that they would wind up playing for the pros…none of them made it and a lot of them flunked out of college when their pro dreams evaporated. For them their life peaked at 18 and then went into a spiral downwards.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:57:33pm

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Does Gov. Abbott’s order allow him to have Mayor Turner arrested for defying him?

Nothing would please Abbott more than to lock up a black mayor.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 8:58:16pm

re: #70 calochortus

You’re a guy. You need to be able to hang on a couple rings with your arms straight out to the side (iron cross?)//

I don’t ever recall that in high school. Maybe I could do it now, I’m not sure.

My gymnastics at age sixty-one consists of riding across parking lots on the back of shopping carts.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:01:49pm

re: #73 JOE 🥓

WATCH: Profanity-spewing Wendy’s manager rages at ‘communist’ employee for calling out his abuse - then promptly gets fired

ibtimes.sg

I still think the cell’ ‘phone camera should have been named Time’s “Person (device) of the Year.”

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calochortus  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:02:23pm

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t ever recall that in high school. Maybe I could do it now, I’m not sure.

My gymnastics at age sixty-one consists of riding across parking lots on the back of shopping carts.

No, they don’t do that in high school because it takes a lot of strength. Mr. C. says he had a gym teacher in high school who could do it and showed off to the kids once in a while.

Anyway, I’m out for the evening.
Hasta mañana, Lizards

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stpaulbear  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:03:02pm

re: #31 jaunte

Bring back manly muppets, anyone?

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Sam the Eagle was a super manly patriotic control freak Muppet.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:04:47pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:05:14pm

This is amazing. My take: Jones finally sees where this is going, he is shitting his pants in fear of the consequences, and he is desperately trying to backtrack. Given that the media have the long term memory of a sandflea, he may pull it off.
(Or, like Sean Hannity, he might have taken my advice and looked up Julius Streicher.)

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mmmirele  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:07:30pm

I reported a bunch of Wendy Rogers’ tweets. She’s a state senator.

Her whole twitter feed is simply nuts. She wants the Maricopa county Board of Supervisors arrested, even though four of the five are Republicans.

Is it wrong to hope she gets COVID-19?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:10:27pm

re: #98 mmmirele

I reported a bunch of Wendy Rogers’ tweets. She’s a state senator.

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Her whole twitter feed is simply nuts. She wants the Maricopa county Board of Supervisors arrested, even though four of the five are Republicans.

Is it wrong to hope she gets COVID-19?

At this point a honestly believe that the only way to keep sane is to tell these idiots to fuck off. They made their choices…… FYI I’m working on a bit/more of a rant about the vaccine. I’m hoping to do it Friday night at a show. Will try and tape.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:17:16pm

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t ever recall that in high school. Maybe I could do it now, I’m not sure.

My gymnastics at age sixty-one consists of riding across parking lots on the back of shopping carts.

Mine is falling off an e-bike. I must be doing it somewhat right as I haven’t broken any bones yet. I have had to dig gravel out of my arms, twice.

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retired cynic  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:18:20pm

re: #100 Dread Pirate Ron

ow

I’m trying to use a recumbent bike in my living room without creating havoc. Have a long way to go!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:25:29pm

re: #96 Dave In Austin

“Most.”

Idaho, Montana, both Dakotas, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Iowa, Arizona, Alaska, all four Border states, all famous bastions of the Confederacy.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:25:46pm

re: #101 retired cynic

As in stationary? That sounds boring.

YouTube

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:26:41pm

re: #98 mmmirele

I reported a bunch of Wendy Rogers’ tweets. She’s a state senator.

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Her whole twitter feed is simply nuts. She wants the Maricopa county Board of Supervisors arrested, even though four of the five are Republicans.

Is it wrong to hope she gets COVID-19?

She needs to be arrested for sedition.

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retired cynic  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:28:33pm

re: #103 Dread Pirate Ron

As in stationary? That sounds boring.

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Depends on your situation, believe me! From where I sit, any exercise is important.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:28:40pm

re: #98 mmmirele

I reported a bunch of Wendy Rogers’ tweets. She’s a state senator.

Her whole twitter feed is simply nuts. She wants the Maricopa county Board of Supervisors arrested, even though four of the five are Republicans.

Is it wrong to hope she gets COVID-19?

Twitter won’t kick off fascists.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:30:24pm

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Twitter won’t kick off fascists.

@jerk & Marky Mark love their fascist pals.

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Belafon  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:33:47pm

re: #98 mmmirele

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teleskiguy  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:38:50pm

#RIPGiftOfGab

Blazing Arrow

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:48:18pm

Speaking of fascists facing consequences, I have been watching the old (1985) NBC mini-series Mussolini: The Untold Story on Prime. This is mostly a soap opera about Il Duce’s family life, with just enough presentation of Mussolini’s extraordinary brutality to keep any kind of sympathy from developing. Unlike Hitler, Mussolini at least had enough of a family life to be worth some soap, though of a rather tepid variety. The highlight, as might be expected, is George C. Scott’s performance as Mussolini. He is perfect for the role even if it is not one of his best performances. A mediocre George C. Scott is still a dazzling presence compared to most actors.
Then little known Virginia Madsen is also good as Mussolini’s ill-fated mistress Clara Petacci.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:49:19pm

Just when you thought they wouldn’t push the envelope any more…

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austin_blue  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:49:28pm

re: #12 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Demagoguing populists with fascistic bents, like Trump, never end well.

Never, ever.

Now perhaps there are no happy endings in human history, but some endings are worse than others.

And something like Trump ends badly.

I don’t know about ending well, but I kinda liked how the Non-Cheeto-Dusted-Mussolini ended up, (Hah!), hanging upside down from a lamp post next to his mistress.

That seemed, well, proper.

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mmmirele  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:53:41pm

re: #91 JOE 🥓

Nothing would please Abbott more than to lock up a black mayor.

He’d best be careful. Sylvester Turner is well-loved in Houston. And even I would chip in to bail him out if needed. He was class president and valedictorian, Klein HS class of 1973. He was one of a handful of people of color at a 96 percent white high school.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:55:03pm

People keep comparing Rev. Jim Jones to former Pres. Donald Trump.

The comparison is faulty: Jones gave away the Flavor-Aid; Trump would sell it at a considerable mark-up.

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mmmirele  Aug 2, 2021 • 9:55:47pm

re: #104 JOE 🥓

She needs to be arrested for sedition.

I forwarded one of her tweets to the FBI. I’m tired of this bullshit.

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teleskiguy  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:03:43pm

100-year-old German man to stand trial for Nazi camp crimes | Yahoo! News

A 100-year-old German man accused of working as a concentration camp guard from 1942 to 1945 has been ruled “fit to stand trial” in October.

The unidentified centenarian is accused of “knowingly and willingly” being a party to 3,518 deaths, according to the Guardian. Prosecutors claim the suspect, believed to be from Brandenburg, stood guard at the Sachsenhausen camp north of Berlin. He is accused of complicity in the 1942 slaughter of Soviet captives by firing squad as well as the gassing of other prisoners.

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teleskiguy  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:11:03pm

Hey now, Phish doesn’t come to Colorado for another month.

Boulder County drug task force finds psilocybin mushroom grow in Lyons | Yahoo! News

A man and a woman have been arrested after the Boulder County Drug Task Force connected them to a large psilocybin mushroom grow at a house in Lyons where authorities said they also found numerous other drugs.

[…]

According to an arrest affidavit, the Boulder County Drug Task Force served a search warrant at 100 Eagle Canyon Circle in Lyons for criminal mischief on July 7.

Nobody was home, so officers went in through an open glass door and found a large psilocybin mushroom grow, with 555 “clusters” of mushrooms totaling just under 3,000 pounds.

In addition, the task force found about 5 pounds of dried psilocybin mushroom.

According to the affidavit, investigators also found 30 grams of cocaine, 22 grams of Ketamine, 20 grams of LSD, 6 grams of MDMA, 28 Oxycodone pills, eight amphetamine pills, 15 pills of Clonazepam, eight Modafinil pills and 20 pills of Alprazolam, which is more commonly known by the brand name Xanax.

According to the affidavit, the search also produced about 18 pounds of loose leaf marijuana as well as marijuana concentrate and some of the supplies and tools used to create marijuana extract.

Investigators also found $57,844 in cash at the residence.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:19:41pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:24:39pm

re: #111 JOE 🥓

Just when you thought they wouldn’t push the envelope any more…

The Auschwitz Museum needs to be tagged on Twitter.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:25:01pm

My security contact in Lubbock tells me that a family of panhandlers who had been given two warnings to stay off the property, including a formal criminal trespass warning from the police, showed up again and launched their spiel Saturday. Their sign claimed they needed money for food for their child, a 3 year old they had brought along in a stroller in 100 degree heat. They were duly arrested and the child taken away by CPS. They had a new SUV and were found to be carrying $47,000 in cash. They had California plates on the SUV but actually lived in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Nothing in the media.

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austin_blue  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:27:04pm

re: #113 mmmirele

He’d best be careful. Sylvester Turner is well-loved in Houston. And even I would chip in to bail him out if needed. He was class president and valedictorian, Klein HS class of 1973. He was one of a handful of people of color at a 96 percent white high school.

At the same time, Abbot knows his audience. Turner may be a brilliant, cagey politician, but to Abbot’s polity he’s still just an urban n(clang)r. So it’s a great sell in Texas.

What confuses me is how this will possibly help him be the first Para-President in history. It’s what he’s been aiming for fifteen years.

If you take on a political opponent in your own State with eyes on a national office, you damn well better kill him dead bang. Abbot can’t kill Turner. He’s in his bastion in Houston.

COVID Delta is hurting Abbot and De Santis, right now. In a month it’ll be a millstone around their necks. Neither planned for Delta because they never understood the threat and didn’t hire staff a year ago, who understood how viruses mutate, to make them effective Governors today.

Hoisted on their own ego-driven petards, their national aspirations are dust.

Oddly, the OFG is doing very nicely, thank you. I think he has a decent chance of running a Presidential campaign *from fucking prison* with a chance of winning.

Only half-kidding.

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teleskiguy  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:34:42pm

re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Sounds like the cops are shaking down their suspects before the media hears anything.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:36:42pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:42:45pm
BOSTON (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s, court records show.

Court documents obtained by The Boston Globe shows that McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14.

McCarrick is the first cardinal in the U.S. to ever be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor, according to Mitchell Garabedian, a well-known lawyer for church sexual abuse victims who is representing the man alleging the abuse by McCarrick.

“It takes an enormous amount of courage for a sexual abuse victim to report having been sexually abused to investigators and proceed through the criminal process,” Garabedian said in an email. “Let the facts be presented, the law applied, and a fair verdict rendered.”

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Ex-Cardinal McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting teen (Religion News, July 29, 2021)

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:45:23pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:52:55pm

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JOE 🥓  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:56:21pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 10:58:51pm

Via Pink News (July 29, 2021)

Anti-LGBT+ megachurch fails in ‘meritless’ legal bid to overturn ‘hate group’ status

The Fort Lauderdale-based Coral Ridge Ministries Media, also known as D James Kennedy Ministries, filed a lawsuit in 2019 alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) had defamed the church by designating it a hate group.

The suit also included a religious discrimination claim against Amazon for banning the megachurch from a lucrative charity partner program due to its hate group status.

The ministry’s challenge was rejected by a federal judge in 2019, and on Wednesday (28 July) the 11th Circuit appeals court upheld the decision.

In a 15-page opinion, both claims against the SPLC and Amazon were struck down on the basis that the SPLC hadn’t “acted with actual malice” by labelling the church a hate group.

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Essentially, the ruling says the church has the right to their opinion, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has the right to theirs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 11:06:28pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 11:08:36pm

Reductress also has one up today which reminds me of Curious Lurker’s shared love of guinea pigs with me.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 2, 2021 • 11:12:36pm

Typhoid Lindsey strikes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 11:24:01pm

Remember yesterday the threat the Indian government made to sue Facebook and Twitter in US court over Atheist Republic’s Blasphemous Art Project (NSFW)?

Most folks here said Facebook wouldn’t cave because a) we don’t have blasphemy laws and b) Mark Zuckerberg has more money than God.

My prediction was that Faceborg would in fact comply because it is much easier to simply ban a minority and discriminate against them rather than fight for their rights, especially when Faceplant’s purpose is to make money, not defend people’s rights.

Facebook has now complied with India’s threat and has banned Atheist Republic in India. Users now get “This content is unavailable in India.”

Atheist Republic was not told of Facebook’s decision by Facebook; they only learned about it from other people. Zuck is also a coward.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 11:40:14pm

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Facebook is an American company that is a full member of the Global Network Iniative (GNI), a consortium of companies, universities, and NGOs that agree to uphold principles based upon international covenants to protect human rights and advance free expression globally. Despite this, Facebook has taken the unprecedented step of complying with an authoritarian government’s order to deny a foreign citizen access to an entire country.

Facebook Joins the Global Network Initiative (GNI)

WASHINGTON, DC—The Global Network Initiative is pleased to announce that Facebook has become the sixth company to join GNI. “We welcome Facebook as a full member of GNI and look forward to working more closely with them to advance the freedom of expression and privacy rights of Internet users worldwide,” said GNI Executive Director Susan Morgan. “Adding the power of Facebook’s community of one billion global users puts GNI in an even better place to press governments to fulfill their obligations to protect rights online,” she added.

“Advancing human rights, including freedom of expression and the right to communicate freely, is core to our mission of making the world more open and connected,” said Elliot Schrage, Vice President of Communications, Marketing and Public Policy at Facebook. “We’re pleased to join GNI and contribute to its efforts to shed a spotlight on government practices that threaten the economic, social and political benefits the internet provides.”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 2, 2021 • 11:40:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 11:50:02pm

re: #134 Dread Pirate Ron

The Republicans are fuquewittes all the way down.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2021 • 11:57:45pm

This is the religion Facebook caved to (goes to New Delhi TV Ltd., caution for disturbing video of a murdered girl)

The body of a 17-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria district hung off a bridge for hours between Monday evening and Tuesday night, after she was allegedly murdered, and the body thrown off the bridge by the girl’s grandfather and two uncles. While the police have not said on record why the girl was killed, an aunt has said the accused had a problem with the girl’s ‘lifestyle’.

The lifestyle that merited murder by a Hindu? Wearing blue jeans.

UP Girl’s Body Found Hanging Off Bridge, Killed In Fight With Family: Cops

Lucknow:

The body of a 17-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria district hung off a bridge for hours between Monday evening and Tuesday night, after she was allegedly murdered, and the body thrown off the bridge by the girl’s grandfather and two uncles. While the police have not said on record why the girl was killed, an aunt has said the accused had a problem with the girl’s ‘lifestyle’.

Gory videos shot by bystanders on Tuesday showed the girl’s body hanging from a railing on the bridge, as a policeman and a local attempt to retrieve it. Another video showed senior police officials inspecting the area.

Reports say the girl and her mother had recently come to live at the home of their in-laws in Deoria.

“She was on a fast and wore a jeans and a top after her evening bath. And was going for puja when she was told off by the father for her attire, but she resisted. They then attacked her with sticks, said were taking her away to get medical aid but threw her off the bridge,” said the girl’s mother.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 2, 2021 • 11:59:13pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 12:06:35am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 3, 2021 • 12:11:19am

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Herbie Hancock - Driftin’ [1962]


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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 12:12:35am

Not going to interest me in buying a ticket, and I like roller coasters.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 12:45:27am

re: #115 mmmirele

I forwarded one of her tweets to the FBI. I’m tired of this bullshit.

The FBI doesn’t monitor the @FBI account. Tips have to go to tips.fbi.gov

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 3, 2021 • 12:45:37am

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Williams: Rey’s Theme uit ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ - Ramon van Engelenhoven - HD



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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 1:15:13am

I need to do a computer reboot to install a new version of Spybot and a new license. BRB

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 3, 2021 • 1:39:59am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 2:36:31am

I’m back. I had an older version of Spybot, requiring me to upgrade the software first (and Windows 10 wanted to do an update at the same time), then port over my new license.

We’re good to go now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 2:45:08am

Rebecca Shoenkopf notes Wonkette is short of money. If you’re poor she says your money is no good there, and she doesn’t want your Biden bux because those are for food and electricity and such.

Bad news for people who were hoping for a little romance before dying of COVID: the Apple store gave the boot to anti-vaxx dating app “Unjected” this weekend.

The app, which users on the Google Play site have described as “useless,” “painfully glitchy,” “terrible,” and “cold dogshit” — and that’s from people who agree with their mission! — first came out in May of this year. While the “Tinder for anti-vaxxers” debuted as a dating site, it also promotes businesses where one can easily catch COVID-19, a social feed and “a database where users can list their blood types.”

It’s not clear if that last one is some kind of anti-vaxxer “thing” or if they just recognize that their behavior may lead to a need for a blood transfusion at some point, as “spontaneous bleeding” is an occasional complication of COVID.

On their since-deleted Instagram page, the founders claimed Apple hated them for sharing their “medical autonomy” and “freedom of choice,” though it is just as likely that they hated them because they were beautiful.

Apple says Unjected was kicked off because its “social networking app inappropriately refers to the COVID-19 pandemic in its concept or theme.” Apple requires all information about COVID-19 come from “recognized entities such as government organizations, health-focused NGOs, companies deeply credentialed in health issues, and medical or educational institutions.” So, you know, not your kooky, Q-obsessed uncle who thinks the vaccine is a ploy to give everyone the mark of the beast.

The app is still on Google Play, however Unjected has been given a deadline to get rid of some of its more objectionable bullshit.

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Anti-Vaxxers Denied Opportunity To Find True Love Among The Equally Deluded

If I wasn’t ethical this would be like shooting fish in a barrel.

See also Why Is Matt Yglesias? (I don’t think Robyn Pennacchia likes him very much)

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Dave In Austin  Aug 3, 2021 • 2:45:49am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:15:43am

re: #10 Belafon

My kids can’t get vaccinated, and we’re burning through the Greek alphabet. Get vaccinated or fuck off.

By the time we get to the Omaga variant, it will be 100% lethal and transmissible on sight. We will need to wear full-face masks and welder’s glasses.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:30:13am

re: #127 JOE 🥓

He should also be subpoenaed

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:36:08am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:41:35am

Recall backers try to block Trump mentions from California voter guide (Politico)

OAKLAND — Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent months framing the California recall vote as a Trump-aligned Republican power grab, but recall proponents want to block him from saying so in state campaign materials.

The recall’s original supporters want the courts to edit references to Republicans and to former President Donald Trump out of the official argument Newsom has proposed for inclusion in the state’s voter information guide, which will be mailed to voters by Aug. 24. Recall backers argue Newsom’s partisan arguments inappropriately “mirror his and his supporters’ paid advertisements.”

“The Guide is not a paid advertisement,” they argue in their complaint filed Friday in Sacramento Superior Court.

Their demand: Recall supporters say that Newsom’s language misleadingly casts the recall as illegitimate and falsely implies only Republicans are in support. They want to strip out various references to Republicans and to mute Newsom’s attempts to frame the recall as a nefarious effort to seize power.

Newsom’s proposed argument opens by describing the recall as “an attempt by national Republicans and Trump supporters to force an election and grab power in California.” Recall supporters want to remove that language, as well as references to “the Republican takeover of our state,” to Republicans “abusing our recall laws in order to gain power and advance their partisan agenda” and to how the recall could result in “handing power to Republicans and supporters of President Trump.”

They also want to block Newsom’s attempt to refer to himself as a “Democratic” governor. A judge already rebuffed Newsom’s last-minute effort to be labeled as a Democrat on ballots after Newsom’s team missed a critical deadline to list party affiliation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:45:25am
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sagehen  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:49:47am

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Recall backers try to block Trump mentions from California voter guide (Politico)

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They also want to block Newsom’s attempt to refer to himself as a “Democratic” governor. A judge already rebuffed Newsom’s last-minute effort to be labeled as a Democrat on ballots after Newsom’s team missed a critical deadline to list party affiliation.

That’s yet another own-goal by Kimberly Guilfoyle’s ex-husband.

I sure hope the Dems have a credible D alternative replacement gov on offer. (that’s how they fucked up in the last recall. They didn’t take it seriously until too late.)

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:52:24am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:52:35am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:53:51am

re: #154 Patricia Kayden

Was this vaccination goal really President Biden’s, or was it a hope that the press then declared a goal (then said he missed)?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 3:59:09am

re: #76 retired cynic

Right now, my favorite supermarket chain, LIDL, is in the midst of expanding and re-arranging their supermarkets. So some still have the old layout while others have the new one and I cannot seem to find anything in either of them anymore…I used to be able to shop there blindfolded.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 4:04:47am

I’m going to sashay off to bed. Catch y’all later.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 3, 2021 • 4:07:04am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 4:09:19am

re: #137 Dread Pirate Ron

A-10 Warthogs are about to operate from a U.S. highway for the first time:

So Allied air forces in WW2 had bombed out all the German airfields with runways long enough to accommodate the new Luftwaffe jet fighters and couldn’t figure out how the things were still getting up in the air.

Then aerial reconnaissance photos noticed melted patches of snow near several Autobahn bridges and realized that they were parking the jets under the bridges and using the Autobahn as the runway.

Then they took out all the Autobahn bridges and put an end to that trick.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 3, 2021 • 4:12:48am
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 3, 2021 • 4:38:24am

re: #117 teleskiguy

Hey now, Phish doesn’t come to Colorado for another month.

Boulder County drug task force finds psilocybin mushroom grow in Lyons | Yahoo! News

That’s funny because the last time I ate mushrooms was at a Phish concert

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 3, 2021 • 4:41:53am

A Southern Idaho good morning to you Lizards.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 3, 2021 • 4:52:08am

The coronavirus is rife in common US deer

Survey results show that many white-tailed deer, a familiar sight on US lawns and golf courses, have antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19.

[…]

The real mystery, says Banerjee, is how the deer were exposed. It could have been through contact with people, other animals or even contaminated wastewater. “If there is a common source of exposure for the deer, then likely the same source can expose other animals.”

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“How?” they ask. Here’s a proposition: some infected geezers playing on one of Trump’s golf courses in the northeast, that’s how.

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jeffreyw  Aug 3, 2021 • 5:01:14am

Good morning!

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 3, 2021 • 5:03:19am
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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 5:15:42am

re: #153 sagehen

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 5:33:15am

So, there was a 400 meter hurdles race at the Olympics, and it was one for the books.

The winner, Norwegian Karsten Warholm smashed the world record that he previously set. The runner up, silver medalist Rai Benjamin, also smashed the world record and set an American record. The bronze medalist came close to breaking it.

Heck, they didn’t just trim a few hundredths of a second off the WR time. Warholm smashed it by .75 seconds.

That’s Michael Johnson territory.

Nearly the entire field would have set world records in prior Games. Many set personal best times.

Warholm would have won a regular 400m race in Britain - against flat track racers.

Sure, it might be the track composition contributing to the record pace, but it’s still up to these athletes to perform, and they kicked some serious butt.

twitter.com

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 3, 2021 • 5:33:38am

re: #167 lawhawk

Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
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Sorry, not sorry. She willfully climbed into a swamp filled with blood sucking leaches. That they bled her dry & then discarded her desiccated corps comes as no surprise to me & if I may be so bold, anybody else in the Trans community. E We all saw it coming & pretty much said so.

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sagehen  Aug 3, 2021 • 5:43:33am

Family of Bears Take Dip in Pool #Shorts

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Targetpractice  Aug 3, 2021 • 5:56:53am

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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OFFS, it’s become like Christmas, starting earlier and earlier ever year.

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sagehen  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:23:46am

Simone wins bronze on beam.

She did an easier routine than what we would have expected a few weeks ago, so difficulty points were less; her dismount had some flips but no twists.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:31:26am

Later Lizards. My 4 legged “owner” is demanding her morning walk and then it’s out to the “Star Dock” to start repairs on the secondary power system. Preliminary checks yesterday found that the main power transfer relay was fried. No surprise given the amount of damage done to the wiring. The new one “should” be here Friday. Today will be mainly pulling and terminating wiring for the vehicle charging system. Have a good one.

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retired cynic  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:36:30am

re: #125 JOE 🥓

The eviction pronouncement from Kavanaugh is evidently not legally binding, as it was outside the case being decided, according to Judd Legum.

popular.info

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:36:45am

Projecting like IMAX. Turns out that antivaxxers are a bunch of “crisis actors” who show up to protest and have no visible means of income. Right wingers are likely bankrolling these efforts.

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Danack  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:41:43am

re: #35 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of Hungary:

Hungary ‘could leave EU by end of the decade’

Very upfront of them, to declare that once they are no longer a monetary leech on the EU, then they don’t want the EU anymore.

Although Brexit is a bit of a shit-show, I’m still finding it hard to say that it was the wrong choice for the UK.

One of the long term problems with the US is that some parts of the country are filled with nasty people, who think and act like assholes, which over the past 150 years has caused a brain-drain from those regions to more progressive regions.

That wouldn’t be that big a problem by itself, but the Constitution of the US also guarantees those regions political power by allocating two Senators per state, regardless of population or economic dependence. Those regions also continue to receive huge amounts of Federal money, which means that they are protected from the effects of being backwards assholes.

The way the EU is currently setup seems to be heading on this path.

Individual countries are free to be run by right wing bigots (Hungary and Poland), or by fraudsters (Greece and Italy) and there doesn’t seem to be much the EU can (or wants) to do about it. Having backwards regions be subsidised by regions that aren’t as backwards doesn’t seem a great long term plan.

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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:46:22am

Thread:

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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:47:46am
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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:48:54am

We’re the test lab for the rest of the world:

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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:52:03am
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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:55:37am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:59:03am

re: #181 lawhawk

Again, opportunistic folks are selling fake credentials. This probably won’t work.

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 6:59:49am

National Review is spewing more covid19 lab leak/bioweapon bulkshit today, courtesy of a House GOP “report” claiming to have uncovered a massive spike in funding at the Wuhan lab.

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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:02:10am
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darthstar  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:02:57am
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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:03:06am

re: #183 lawhawk

So Trump is complicit in letting a biological weapon loose unchecked?

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:07:01am

re: #183 lawhawk

National Review is spewing more covid19 lab leak/bioweapon bulkshit today, courtesy of a House GOP “report” claiming to have uncovered a massive spike in funding at the Wuhan lab.

How did they get the Chinese government to turn over financial info like that?

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:08:24am

re: #187 Eventual Carrion

They greased a few palms.

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Targetpractice  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:11:23am

re: #185 darthstar

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“You can look anywhere but the basement. If you try to look in the basement, we’ll sue!”

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darthstar  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:12:55am

re: #189 Targetpractice

“You can look anywhere but the basement. If you try to look in the basement, we’ll sue!”

I really hope the start by subpoenaing Meadows and Javanka. Let’s just get the Trump admin and family out of the way first, shall we?

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ericblair  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:15:58am

re: #176 Danack

Although Brexit is a bit of a shit-show, I’m still finding it hard to say that it was the wrong choice for the UK.

It was the wrong choice, because the entire Brexit project was an enormous pile of lies for the political gain of a bloc of right-wing grifters. If the supporters of Brexit had come out and said that leaving the EU will make a number of things harder that Britons have taken for granted, and that there was a lot of work to do to surgically disconnect the UK, but that there were concrete reasons why the UK will be better off in the long run (and document all of that), that would be one thing.

Instead, this was to be “the easiest deal in history”, there would be 350 million extra pounds per week for the National Health Service, and that the EU would be over a barrel to continue trading with the UK, and that Turkey was going to join the EU and all the grubby Turks will invade Britain. Anyways, Brexit will destroy the EU and there will be no need to deal with them anymore, so the UK will be able to pick off the weak desperate European countries one by one. All of that was a crock of shit and now all of the UK will pay the price.

Individual countries are free to be run by right wing bigots (Hungary and Poland), or by fraudsters (Greece and Italy) and there doesn’t seem to be much the EU can (or wants) to do about it. Having backwards regions be subsidised by regions that aren’t as backwards doesn’t seem a great long term plan.

The EU is not a supergovernment, and member states are sovereign except in narrow competencies that they have agreed to delegate. It’s not an easy problem to deal with, and remember that both of those governments are relatively unpopular in their own countries, especially in the non-“backwards” parts of them. In countries that are run by authoritarian assholes, the delegated authority of the EU can be the only check on the assholes treating their citizens even worse.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:21:30am

Well last night folks here were talking about their childhood gymnastics experiences. When I was in 3rd grade, the kindly PE teacher noticed that I was the shortest kid in the class, always the last chosen for team sports, yada yada. There was a balance beam in the gym. She tried to get me to board it. I could walk across and even run across but that was as far as it went.

I was & am such a klutz I could never do a handspring or a cartwheel.

In high school I had the choice of a PE class in gymnastics or modern dance. I chose the dance class because AYFKM.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:23:37am

re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not going to interest me in buying a ticket, and I like roller coasters.

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No, Carnival.

Death…exciting and new…come aboard…we’re expecting you…The Plague Boat…soon will be making another run…

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darthstar  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:24:25am

Imagine the heads exploding if Trump’s assets were frozen. THAT’S THE GOP’S MONEY HE RAISED!…

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:24:48am

Just in time for me & Zedushka to celebrate our Golden wedding anniversary:

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:25:07am

re: #188 PhillyPretzel

They greased a few palms.

To get them info that can’t be verified or refuted (because it can’t be verified). Like “just start an investigation into Hunter. You don’t have to really investigate, just say you are.”.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:25:31am

re: #192 The Pie Overlord!

Same here. I was the shortest and yes the last one chosen for a team sport. I could just about manage the low beam as for the higher one I could just about get on it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:26:53am

re: #187 Eventual Carrion

How did they get the Chinese government to turn over financial info like that?

Trump’s tax returns?

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darthstar  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:27:42am

re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not going to interest me in buying a ticket, and I like roller coasters.

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That thing moves way too fast. //

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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:32:12am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:33:27am

Greg Abbott is a mass murderer. Prove me wrong.

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darthstar  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:34:01am

I did this once when I was a kid…home & garden show at the Civic Auditorium…loved running around that place checking out exhibits. Hot tubs were all the rage and they had several filled with water and bubbling along at 102 degrees to impress the rednecks. On the second level some salon was giving out bars of soap…Well, you do the math…what’s a 14 year old to do? With the help of the power jets that thing foamed over like a volcano.

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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:34:35am

re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg

Again, opportunistic folks are selling fake credentials. This probably won’t work.

There will be some, but most people will follow the rules. When Abbott announced a mask mandate last summer, the number of people wearing masks went from like 30% to over 80%.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:35:54am
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darthstar  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:42:03am

This whole thread is an eye opener…

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darthstar  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:47:08am
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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:49:28am

I’m not surprised…Our Sheriff loves his Proud Boys pals…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:50:26am

re: #207 JOE 🥓

Is every cop in this country racist as fuck? Because it sure seems like it.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:52:31am
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darthstar  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:52:50am

I know some people who got the J&J - sent this to them already.

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Targetpractice  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:55:59am

re: #194 darthstar

Imagine the heads exploding if Trump’s assets were frozen. THAT’S THE GOP’S MONEY HE RAISED!…

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That’s the GQP for ya: They know this shitbird is toxic with everybody outside the MAGAts and is robbing them blind, but they’re paralyzed with fear of what will happen if they cross him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 7:59:04am

re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg

Greg Abbott is a mass murderer. Prove me wrong.

“Prove to me that mass murder is a bad thing when it is in the name of Freedom and for the Good of the Economy!!!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:02:25am

re: #211 Targetpractice

That’s the GQP for ya: They know this shitbird is toxic with everybody outside the MAGAts and is robbing them blind, but they’re paralyzed with fear of what will happen if they cross him.

Just like Trump is the domestic abuser and the GOP is the terrified spouse…

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ericblair  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:04:12am

Fuckin A; duct tape, the handyman’s secret weapon.

These shits are all animals in the bad sense. They will not control themselves, because the right wing crooks have given them permission to indulge their worst impulses. They will have to be shunned, fired, locked up, in a hospital bed, or in a pine box before they stop.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:05:29am

re: #165 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:06:25am

re: #215 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Ahh. Those flowers are very pretty.

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Targetpractice  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:08:32am

re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just like Trump is the domestic abuser and the GOP is the terrified spouse…

Because really, that’s how their relationship is now. If anything, it’s like the relationship between a domestic abuse victim and an ex-spouse, the fear still there because whenever they think he’s moved on and they can start living normally, they get a call in the middle of the night where he angrily tells them that if they don’t stop telling people “lies” about him then he’s gonna have to come over there and “correct” them.

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JC1  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:13:27am

re: #214 ericblair

Fuckin A; duct tape, the handyman’s secret weapon.

These shits are all animals in the bad sense. They will not control themselves, because the right wing crooks have given them permission to indulge their worst impulses. They will have to be shunned, fired, locked up, in a hospital bed, or in a pine box before they stop.

What an ass. Hope he gets a nice long prison sentence to ponder life’s mistakes.

As an aside, I hate frontier airlines. Would never fly with them. They have (or at least they used to have) a policy that if the flight doesn’t get full enough they don’t have to fly; that’s pretty ridiculous.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:14:58am

re: #214 ericblair

Let me guess: Max Berry is a white dude who will get off with a slap on the wrist.

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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:15:42am

re: #214 ericblair

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Fuckin A; duct tape, the handyman’s secret weapon.

These shits are all animals in the bad sense. They will not control themselves, because the right wing crooks have given them permission to indulge their worst impulses. They will have to be shunned, fired, locked up, in a hospital bed, or in a pine box before they stop.

I want that crew on all my flights.

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:17:34am

The Pentagon is on lockdown after a shooting at a nearby metro bus station.

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:18:28am
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JC1  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:20:43am

re: #222 jaunte

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He needs to go. F him.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:21:32am

re: #222 jaunte

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:23:46am

179 witnesses. This was a long time coming.

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Targetpractice  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:24:16am

re: #214 ericblair

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Fuckin A; duct tape, the handyman’s secret weapon.

These shits are all animals in the bad sense. They will not control themselves, because the right wing crooks have given them permission to indulge their worst impulses. They will have to be shunned, fired, locked up, in a hospital bed, or in a pine box before they stop.

Let’s see: Verbally and physically abusive douchebag, sexually assaults female flight attendants, then punches male flight attendant, before being restrained in his seat while screaming about how his parents have money.

*checks* Well, what do you know, young white male douchebag on his way to vacation in Florida. Another “bright future” wrist slap coming right up.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:25:22am

re: #183 lawhawk

So what if the virus came out of a lab? The bottom line is that we have to live with it. Trump dealt with it horribly. President Biden is doing a great job addressing its urgency. That’s all that matters.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:26:29am

re: #227 Patricia Kayden

So what if the virus came out of a lab? The bottom line is that we have to live with it. Trump dealt with it horribly. President Biden is doing a great job addressing its urgency. That’s all that matters.

If it is not Trump’s fault, he cannot be held responsible.

Even if it was, it is the states’ responsibility for planning, what are we a mail-order warehouse?

/

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sagehen  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:28:38am

re: #205 darthstar

This whole thread is an eye opener…

and they said conservatives couldn’t get work in Hollywood.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:29:45am

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

I hope Republicans aren’t making such blatantly stupid arguments. I know you’re just joking around but Republicans are being ridiculous with their Wuhan lab nonsense. I don’t care where the virus came from. I care about how we address this worldwide pandemic.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:31:04am

Nice to see that the same asshole sect that rallied around Nixon doubled down with their defense of the Orange Turd.

‘Good way to die’: An AR-15 worshiping Moonies sect mobilized for Jan. 6 and is recruiting the far right to its apocalyptic vision

rawstory.com

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:31:15am

re: #210 darthstar

I know some people who got the J&J - sent this to them already.

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That would include the wife and me. They start that down here in SoCal and I’m in.

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Targetpractice  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:31:42am

re: #225 jaunte

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179 witnesses. This was a long time coming.

And now we can look forward to days of screaming from MAGAts and dirt bag progressives alike that if you’re not demanding Cuomo’s immediate resignation/incarceration every waking hour, then you’re “defending him.”

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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:33:07am

re: #233 Targetpractice

And now we can look forward to days of screaming from MAGAts and dirt bag progressives alike that if you’re not demanding Cuomo’s immediate resignation/incarceration every waking hour, then you’re “defending him.”

But when it comes to the Mini Mushroom Man harassing and raping women—God forgives him…

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sagehen  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:34:06am

re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg

Is every cop in this country racist as fuck? Because it sure seems like it.

not Newark NJ.

nj.com

Newark Police officers did not fire a single shot during the calendar year 2020, and the city didn’t pay a single dime to settle police brutality cases. That’s never happened, at least in the city’s modern history.

At the same time, crime is dropping, and police recovered almost 500 illegal guns from the street during the year.

“This is significant,” says Aqeela Sherills, head of the Newark Community Street Team, a group of mostly former offenders who work to defuse violence in the city’s most violent wards. “It speaks to how reform has really taken hold in the city.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:35:00am

re: #230 Patricia Kayden

I hope Republicans aren’t making such blatantly stupid arguments. I know you’re just joking around but Republicans are being ridiculous with their Wuhan lab nonsense. I don’t care where the virus came from. I care about how we address this worldwide pandemic.

Those are more or less Trump’s own words, remember the “Kung flu”?

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:35:49am

re: #232 Rightwingconspirator

That would include the wife and me. They start that down here in SoCal and I’m in.

I’d do it if I’d had J&J, just on general principles. Although J&J by itself seems just as protective against serious illness, it doesn’t look as good against mild illness, and I wouldn’t want that either.

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plansbandc  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:35:51am

re: #214 ericblair

If you assault a flight attendant, you lose your flying privileges. For all airlines.

If there aren’t serious consequences, the dipshits will do it again.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:36:44am

re: #238 plansbandc

If you assault a flight attendant, you lose your flying privileges. For all airlines.

If there aren’t serious consequences, the dipshits will do it again.

His parents can afford to buy him his own plane…

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danarchy  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:38:50am

re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg

Is every cop in this country racist as fuck? Because it sure seems like it.

When you look for something or set a google alert for it you will find it. There are something like 700,000 law enforcement in the country. No, not all of them are racist as fuck.

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wrenchwench  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:41:26am

re: #240 danarchy

When you look for something or set a google alert for it you will find it. There are something like 700,000 law enforcement in the country. No, not all of them are racist as fuck.

How racist can one be without reaching ‘as fuck’?

Subjectiveness may be at work.

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:41:57am
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danarchy  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:42:57am

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

His parents can afford to buy him his own plane…

Probably not, I mean worth 2 million? A big chunk of that is probably the house and the rest retirement accounts. I mean it is definitely comfortable, but who brags about being worth 2 million in this day and age?

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:44:43am

re: #243 danarchy

Dr. Evil 2 will be his prison nickname.

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:47:46am

re: #225 jaunte

Cuomo’s resignation is going to come. He can’t bluster and bullshit his way out of this.

AG James isn’t one to trifle with. Her office found substantive violations of state and federal law.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is going to make history as New York’s first female governor. The only question is when that occurs in the next few weeks.

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:52:36am
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steve_davis  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:52:48am

re: #67 calochortus

Fortunately, we only did a single quarter of gymnastics, but while we had a couple beams on the floor to practice on, we had the real beam too. Floor routines were OK, I think we vaulted a little bit, the uneven parallel bars were not designed for someone my size, and at least I had really good balance so what we needed to do on the beam wasn’t awful.

my pe class spent the supposed mandatory weeks doing gymnastics. kid fell off something and we thought he’d broken his neck. fortunately, it turned out he just got his wind knocked out. After that, our football coach/pe teacher rolled the gym mat up and that was the last of that shit.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:55:26am

re: #247 steve_davis

When I was in elementary school, our gym doubled as the school auditorium, so there was a big stage at one end of it. Sometimes, our teacher would pull out these huge crash mats and just let us divebomb off the stage on to them.

Despite a few bumps and bruises, that was a lot of fun.

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:56:58am
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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:57:51am

Texas Mask-up Rebellion

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steve_davis  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:58:36am

re: #98 mmmirele

I reported a bunch of Wendy Rogers’ tweets. She’s a state senator.

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Her whole twitter feed is simply nuts. She wants the Maricopa county Board of Supervisors arrested, even though four of the five are Republicans.

Is it wrong to hope she gets COVID-19?

No. It would be wrong to hope she gets it and dies from it. I’m not sure if it would be wrong to hope she gets it and is in agony for two or three weeks.

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JC1  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:58:38am

re: #243 danarchy

Probably not, I mean worth 2 million? A big chunk of that is probably the house and the rest retirement accounts. I mean it is definitely comfortable, but who brags about being worth 2 million in this day and age?

Frontier is an airline you fly when cheap prices trump all other considerations. I would literarily rather wait an extra day for a different airline than fly frontier.
And yeah, the fact that he thinks that 2 million is a lot in today’s day and age tells me that he’s very likely lying about that.

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sagehen  Aug 3, 2021 • 8:59:35am

re: #243 danarchy

Probably not, I mean worth 2 million? A big chunk of that is probably the house and the rest retirement accounts. I mean it is definitely comfortable, but who brags about being worth 2 million in this day and age?

When I was a child a “millionaire” was somebody with a net worth over a million.

Today, a “millionaire” is somebody with an annual income over a million.

ETA: But I’m pretty sure Billionaire is still based on net worth.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:01:16am

re: #243 danarchy

Probably not, I mean worth 2 million? A big chunk of that is probably the house and the rest retirement accounts. I mean it is definitely comfortable, but who brags about being worth 2 million in this day and age?

They will gladly sell them to make their sun happy…or he will throw a temper tantrum.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:02:05am

re: #250 jaunte

Texas Mask-up Rebellion

“Who was that un-masked man?”

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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:02:57am

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

“Who was that un-masked man?”

The Lone Asshole!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:03:24am

re: #253 sagehen

When I was a child a “millionaire” was somebody with a net worth over a million.

Today, a “millionaire” is somebody with an annual income over a million.

When I was a child, “poor” was someone who had no light, heat, electricity or plumbing…

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:04:15am

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

re: #256 JOE 🥓

I get all of the references and just would like to gently remind my fellow Lizards that I still remain a Lone Ranger fan. :)

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:04:47am

re: #246 jaunte

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Four options that are not exclusive. Cuomo can be sued in civil court and prosecuted for violating federal and state laws. He can be forced to resign or removed by the legislature.

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JC1  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:04:57am

re: #253 sagehen

When I was a child a “millionaire” was somebody with a net worth over a million.

Today, a “millionaire” is somebody with an annual income over a million.

Only if you mean income in the colloquial sense, not the IRS sense. The wealthiest people I know had their income/salary capped at around 200k. Everything else was provided in a way that allowed for long term cap gains treatment.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:11:37am

re: #256 JOE 🥓

The Lone Asshole!

Or The Corona Ranger?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:12:37am

The CisCOVID Kid?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:13:13am

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:22:38am
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sagehen  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:23:38am

re: #245 lawhawk

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is going to make history as New York’s first female governor. The only question is when that occurs in the next few weeks.

What do we know about her? Will she be good at it?

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:35:41am

re: #195 The Pie Overlord!

Just in time for me & Zedushka to celebrate our Golden wedding anniversary:

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My FB Trumpster friend was ranting last evening about the scandal de jour: Obama’s big birthday bash on Martha’s Vineyard. The one where Doocy kept trying to trip Psaki up with his characterization of the celebration as a “superspreader” event.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:44:45am

re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just like Trump is the domestic abuser and the GOP is the terrified spouse…

Most are not the terrified spouse — they are willing partners in the abuse he inflicts on others and model their own behavior after his.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:48:40am

My shy kitten was just in my lap for the first time.
I had Mindy in my lap, and was eating pizza, which was enough to lure him over so I could pet him, then he got into my lap with Mindy. Now he’s attacking one of my feet while Mindy attacks the other, presumably so all future pizza can belong to them.

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:50:15am

re: #259 lawhawk

Fucking dumbass Maggie Haberman seems to ignore facts/reality just as she has done all along.

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:55:08am
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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:55:36am
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Jay C  Aug 3, 2021 • 9:57:39am

re: #265 sagehen

What do we know about her? Will she be good at it?

Here’s some info (Wiki):

1. Her name is pronounced “HOH-kull” (as in “Governor HOH-kull”)
2. She has (just IMO) an outstandingly non-outstanding work record as an official.
3. She is likely to be *reasonably* good as a Cuomo’s replacement (til the general election next year, at any rate).
4. (Again, just IMO) if she does end up as Governor, Hochul is likely to be just a place-holder/seat-warmer until/unless the NY Dems come up with an attractive candidate (though Hochul as an “upstater” may be “attractive” enough.).

My overvalued $0.02

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:01:41am

re: #251 steve_davis

No. It would be wrong to hope she gets it and dies from it. I’m not sure if it would be wrong to hope she gets it and is in agony for two or three weeks.

Wendy Rogers is not the only problem; the tweets of supporters show that she has widespread support.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:04:34am

re: #267 Hecuba’s daughter

Most are not the terrified spouse — they are willing partners in the abuse he inflicts on others and model their own behavior after his.

The rally fans and buffoons of the base, yes, but the people with something to lose (in terms of political power and reputation) are the ones trembling in fear and going about with their heads bowed and eyes lowered in his presence.

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DesertDenizen  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:08:30am

re: #273 Hecuba’s daughter

Arizona being a “Constitutional Carry” State, where anyone over 21 can carry a concealed weapon without any training or permit, coupled with a prohibition on State and local government facilities banning firearms in their facilities unless lock boxes are provided is a recipe for disaster. A Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting is most likely going to get shot up soon, and there’s not much they can do to prevent it.

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Jay C  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:09:46am

re: #272 Jay C

Follow-up: Gov. Cuomo is giving a video speech (presumably) answering the harassment charges - I’ll wait for the transcript: the bit I saw was a rambling discursion about a “family member“‘s sexual-abuse experience: not going to want to sit through this asshole playing Sympathetic Uncle Andy. Any address by him that fails to include the phrase “I resign” will fall short, IMHO….

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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:14:57am

I’m am tired of Democrats who can’t keep Mr. Dingy Bell in their pants.

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:15:01am
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:15:26am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The rally fans and buffoons of the base, yes, but the people with something to lose (in terms of political power and reputation) are the ones trembling in fear and going about with their heads bowed and eyes lowered in his presence.

Jim Jordan? Devin Nunes? Paul Gosar? Rand Paul? Josh Hawley? Ted Cruz? Abbott? DeSantis? Kim Reynolds? Kristi Noem? There are plenty of acolytes out there who are in positions of power. A few like McCarthy may just be cowards— but not the rest of them. And I’m not sure that McCarthy is truly a coward but just someone who looks to whatever will grant him more power. 2/3 of the House consists of lackeys, who have no moral compass.

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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:17:10am

re: #277 JOE 🥓

I’m am tired of Democrats who can’t keep Mr. Dingy Bell in their pants.

People. All people.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:22:00am

re: #277 JOE 🥓

I’m am tired of Democrats who can’t keep Mr. Dingy Bell in their pants.

That’s men in general. Do you want all Democrats to be women?

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:22:47am

re: #275 DesertDenizen

Arizona being a “Constitutional Carry” State, where anyone over 21 can carry a concealed weapon without any training or permit, coupled with a prohibition on State and local government facilities banning firearms in their facilities unless lock boxes are provided is a recipe for disaster. A Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting is most likely going to get shot up soon, and there’s not much they can do to prevent it.

Have to say that the one amusing conversation with our brother a couple weeks ago was over the new legislation that Abbott signed into law granting Texans that power. That was a step too far for him — he was vehemently opposed to the law, but not enough for him to object to anything else the GOP has done in the “great” state of Texas. He used to boast about his license and how it required that he get appropriate training to qualify and maintain one’s skills. He was not pleased that these standards have been totally eliminated and anyone can now acquire this license.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:23:48am

re: #281 Punish Domestic Terrorists

That’s men in general. Do you want all Democrats to be women?

At this point, YES!

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:25:14am

re: #281 Punish Domestic Terrorists

That’s men in general. Do you want all Democrats to be women?

Didn’t Bill Kristol, a few years ago, tweet something to the effect that only women should be eligible to run for office because of this problem on both sides of the political aisle?

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:26:14am
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sagehen  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:26:59am

re: #277 JOE 🥓

I’m am tired of Democrats who can’t keep Mr. Dingy Bell in their pants.

Don’t want to be perceived as defending the douche in any way, but Mr Dingy Bell was not present. The charges are all about getting handsy and the way he speaks to staffers and other State employees. Then retaliating when they reported him.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:27:00am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:27:58am

re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter

Didn’t Bill Kristol, a few years ago, tweet something to the effect that only women should be eligible to run for office because of this problem on both sides of the political aisle?

Women with power have done the same thing, of course, but have no Mr. Dingy Bell to let out of their pants.

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DesertDenizen  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:28:54am

re: #282 Hecuba’s daughter

So it’s more an ego thing than actual problem with the law?

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:29:19am

re: #286 sagehen

Don’t want to be perceived as defending the douche in any way, but Mr Dingy Bell was not present. The charges are all about getting handsy and the way he speaks to staffers and other State employees. Then retaliating when they reported him.

He should resign for either of those things. The retaliation should be prosecuted.

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:29:43am

re: #272 Jay C

Here’s some info (Wiki):

1. Her name is pronounced “HOH-kull” (as in “Governor HOH-kull”)
2. She has (just IMO) an outstandingly non-outstanding work record as an official.
3. She is likely to be *reasonably* good as a Cuomo’s replacement (til the general election next year, at any rate).
4. (Again, just IMO) if she does end up as Governor, Hochul is likely to be just a place-holder/seat-warmer until/unless the NY Dems come up with an attractive candidate (though Hochul as an “upstater” may be “attractive” enough.).

My overvalued $0.02

GOP has counted on running against Cuomo next year. Zeldin and Andrew Giuliani were both counting on this.

Hochul isn’t Cuomo and neither has any meaningful way to deal with it.

Who else could Democrats run? You mean besides AG James herself (which would be ironic since Spitzer was AG before going into the governors mansion, and Cuomo was AG before being governor too.

Cuomo helped push Spitzer and Paterson out…

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jaunte  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:31:55am
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Belafon  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:32:04am

re: #291 lawhawk

GOP has counted on running against Cuomo next year. Zeldin and Andrew Giuliani were both counting on this.

Hochul isn’t Cuomo and neither has any meaningful way to deal with it.

Who else could Democrats run? You mean besides AG James herself (which would be ironic since Spitzer was AG before going into the governors mansion, and Cuomo was AG before being governor too.

Cuomo helped push Spitzer and Paterson out…

Career paths that Texas also seems to follow.

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:33:30am

re: #285 jaunte

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:35:42am

re: #252 JC1

Frontier is an airline you fly when cheap prices trump all other considerations. I would literarily rather wait an extra day for a different airline than fly frontier.
And yeah, the fact that he thinks that 2 million is a lot in today’s day and age tells me that he’s very likely lying about that.

Lots and lots of privilege in both that thread and here this morning.

A “net worth” of $2,000,000 (assuming that guy was telling the truth at all) is more than the overwhelming majority of coin people in the USA can put together.

Affluence in the United States (Wikipedia)

According to the University of Chicago, the top 1% is primarily made up of owner-managers of small to medium-sized businesses of which the most profitable are physician’s and dentist’s offices, professional and technical services, specialty trade contracting, legal services. The typical business has $7 million in sales and 57 employees. With a 10% profit margin, this will place two business partners in the top 1%.

The remainder of the top 1% tends to be the classic professions: medicine, dentistry, law, engineering, finance, and corporate executive management.

People ragging on restaurant franchise owners in that thread, like Subway. You know, the 1%.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:36:10am

re: #294 lawhawk

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:36:32am

re: #277 JOE 🥓

I’m am tired of Democrats men who can’t keep Mr. Dingy Bell in their pants.

Edited for accuracy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:37:59am

Also, who the fuck ever said Andrew Cuomo was above the law??

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:39:07am

re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, who the fuck ever said Andrew Cuomo was above the law??

Projecting Republicans?

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Targetpractice  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:40:26am

re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, who the fuck ever said Andrew Cuomo was above the law??

The Dems that live in the heads of MAGAts for the purpose of accusing them of being hypocrites for not immediately demanding Cuomo be drawn and quartered.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:41:20am

Another shooting????? In the Pentagon????

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:44:16am

re: #301 JOE 🥓

It was a shooting at the Metro stop near the Pentagon.

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Dangerman  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:45:24am

re: #252 JC1

Frontier is an airline you fly when cheap prices trump all other considerations. I would literarily rather wait an extra day for a different airline than fly frontier.
And yeah, the fact that he thinks that 2 million is a lot in today’s day and age tells me that he’s very likely lying about that.

Wait till his parents say were not spending our $2m on your defense

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lawhawk  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:45:55am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:46:31am

re: #301 JOE 🥓

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teleskiguy  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:47:07am

I’m trying to wrap my mind around how all these GQP governors feel that somehow it’s politically advantageous to let their constituents die of preventable disease.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:47:18am
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DesertDenizen  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:51:34am

re: #306 teleskiguy

They are betting that they won’t lose enough constituents to make a difference. They learned from Ducey that taking any real action upsets their base. They’re terrified of being primaried from the right, especially in states where the primary is essentially the general.

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Dangerman  Aug 3, 2021 • 10:54:37am

re: #296 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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No one should be
While many still are
I wonder why….

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John Hughes  Aug 3, 2021 • 11:15:03am

re: #207 JOE 🥓

LASD, making LAPD look halfway good for 151 years.

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John Hughes  Aug 3, 2021 • 11:26:56am

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

His parents can afford to buy him his own plane…

People who boast about being rich usually aren’t that rich.

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steve_davis  Aug 3, 2021 • 12:48:40pm

re: #206 darthstar

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“what’ll you have?” the bartender asks.
“I’ve no idea,” says the hedgehog. “I’m supposed to be in a Led Zeppelin song. I’m only here because of autocorrect.” (if there’s a bustle in your hedgehog, don’t be alarmed now….)


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