Frightening New IPCC Report Warns: Time is Running Out for Humanity to Address Climate Change

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The new IPCC report released today is frightening as hell, and what’s most scary about it is the fact that we’ve seen this coming for many years, while fossil fuel industries and the Republican Party have been lying and spreading propaganda relentlessly to prevent any action to deal with the looming threat: IPCC Warns of Make-or-Break Decade for Humanity.

In a summer of unprecedented heat waves, wildfires, floods, and all the attendant death and suffering that’s come with them, the world’s leading climate scientists have issued their starkest warning yet. Humanity’s influence on the climate is “unequivocal,” the report warns, before going on to list a litany of climate impacts that will exponentially worsen if we fail to act.

“The fact that the IPCC has agreed, with the agreement of all member countries, 195 member countries, that it is ‘unequivocal’ that human activity is causing climate change, is the strongest statement the IPCC has ever made,” Ko Barrett, the vice chair of the IPCC, said on a press call.

The 234 scientists behind the report also make clear that it’s now or never for the world’s best chance to avert even more horrifying impacts of climate change—while showing that every ton of carbon pollution and every tenth of a degree matter.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:26:05pm

I think we’ve already passed the point of no return. Every single household worldwide could go as green as possible but it means nothing unless or until the big companies polluting air, soil and water get on board. Instead of spending money to do the right thing, they spend tons more to push lies and get people to sing their praises. Not to mention the zillions thrown at K Street and similar entities.

With the current political climate being what it is, fixing actual climate change and all that goes with it just doesn’t fill me with much hope. Greed, spite and turning citizens against each other is what’s going to kill us, along with infinite truckloads of stupidity.

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:27:55pm

Way back when we had an expert science guy here that was very vocal on this topic. And too angry by far but any way… It was said that by the time the effects were obvious they would be self sustaining. Like permafrost melt. Like less light reflecting back. Like deforestation consequences. Frightening as hell on earth.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:29:47pm
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Dangerman  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:32:17pm

re: #1 A Mom Anon

I think we’ve already passed the point of no return. Every single household worldwide could go as green as possible but it means nothing unless or until the big companies polluting air, soil and water get on board. Instead of spending money to do the right thing, they spend tons more to push lies and get people to sing their praises. Not to mention the zillions thrown at K Street and similar entities.

With the current political climate being what it is, fixing actual climate change and all that goes with it just doesn’t fill me with much hope. Greed, spite and turning citizens against each other is what’s going to kill us, along with infinite truckloads of stupidity.

60% of people and their businesses do “the right thing”
30-40x% free ride and don’t. that is enough to keep things effed up

sound familiar?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:33:37pm

Yep, unless we can somehow make all Republicans and rich, greedy, selfish bastards disappear from the face of the earth, we’re fucked.

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:34:02pm

re: #4 Dangerman

60% of people and their businesses do “the right thing”
30-40x% free ride and don’t. that is enough to keep things effed up

sound familiar?

Our civilisation is gettion ratio-ed.

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ckkatz  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:39:59pm

re: #45 Nojay UK

It is true that some countries have used forced marches as _one_ of the ways that they deliberately committed warcrimes. And others have managed to kill large numbers of people this way through incompetence or disinterest.

And yes, moving large masses of humans from one spot to another has historically been fraught with death and disease. (Although not always, the nomads of the Great Eurasian Steppe seemed to have successfully addressed this problem.)

It is also true that the British leadership, trying to maintain a war thousands of miles away from England, faced a manpower problem. They also faced supply problem. Particularly once the French actively intervened on the side of the American Revolution.

My understanding of the biggest problem that the leadership of the American Revolution faced was not manpower shortage, but the ability to supply and feed forces in the field. The theoretical manpower totals for New England alone were around 80,000 militia. The British Army facing them under Burgoyne ran about 8,000.

There were actually lots of benefits to getting soldiers out of the theater of operation where they could be resupplied more easily as supplies were still relatively plentiful. The Americans had to feed the prisoners anyway, And the guards were basically poorly trained militia.

With respect to warcrimes committed during the Revolutionary war…

There certainly was a lot of cruelty during the war. Mohawk Valley, Cherry Valley, Minisink, and Wyoming Valley, the Sullivan Campaign of 1779. The backwoods of North and South Carolina…

And there was also a lot of incompetence and dis-organization. Plus there is the changing concept of warcrimes.

Interesting anecdote…

Jane McCrea was a redheaded New York lady whose brothers were serving in the Revolutionary Army. However, her fiance was another local boy who joined the Loyalist Army as an officer. There was cruelty in what happened to her.

en.wikipedia.org

By the way, at the time there were a lot of ties between the ruling classes of England the leadership of the American Revolution. For example, American General Horatio Gates was an English born British Officer. And, there was a significant pool of sympathy for the Revolution in the English ruling classes.

By the way, the British soldiers were generally considered far more effective on a man for man basis than all but the ‘Continental’ grade American soldier. At least as long as their morale held.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:40:19pm

re: #2 Rightwingconspirator

Way back when we had an expert science guy here that was very vocal on this topic. And too angry by far but any way… It was said that by the time the effects were obvious they would be self sustaining. Like permafrost melt. Like less light reflecting back. Like deforestation consequences. Frightening as hell on earth.

??? Maybe I wasn’t here when the science guy was around? But being “too angry by far” may have been not sufficiently angry when it comes to the devastation that awaits us and the rest of the planet due to our short term outlook about the world and the consequences of our actions. We are focusing on addressing the wrong problems — not seeing the forest for the trees, while everything around us descends into darkness.

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steve_davis  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:42:23pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep, unless we can somehow make all Republicans and rich, greedy, selfish bastards disappear from the face of the earth, we’re fucked.

they will disappear. it’s kind of like what used to be said about Russia, don’t know if true anymore: it was supposedly one of the best read nations in the world, because so much of literature was technically off-limits, which made it really enticing for young people (and old, for that matter) wanting to dip in to forbidden waters. We are not really a literate society because we don’t need to be. There’s an enormous amount of wastage, which makes us lazy as hell. When things start to get lean, like when Kansas City finds itself trying to keep itself alive when it’s under a 130 degree heat dome, Republican/libertarian b.s. will fall away.

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gocart mozart  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:45:03pm
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steve_davis  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:45:08pm

re: #7 ckkatz

It is true that some countries have used forced marches as _one_ of the ways that they deliberately committed warcrimes. And others have managed to kill large numbers of people this way through incompetence or disinterest.

And yes, moving large masses of humans from one spot to another has historically been fraught with death and disease. (Although not always, the nomads of the Great Eurasian Steppe seemed to have successfully addressed this problem.)

It is also true that the British leadership, trying to maintain a war thousands of miles away from England, faced a manpower problem. They also faced supply problem. Particularly once the French actively intervened on the side of the American Revolution.

My understanding of the biggest problem that the leadership of the American Revolution faced was not manpower shortage, but the ability to supply and feed forces in the field. The theoretical manpower totals for New England alone were around 80,000 militia. The British Army facing them under Burgoyne ran about 8,000.

There were actually lots of benefits to getting soldiers out of the theater of operation where they could be resupplied more easily as supplies were still relatively plentiful. The Americans had to feed the prisoners anyway, And the guards were basically poorly trained militia.

With respect to warcrimes committed during the Revolutionary war…

There certainly was a lot of cruelty during the war. Mohawk Valley, Cherry Valley, Minisink, and Wyoming Valley, the Sullivan Campaign of 1779. The backwoods of North and South Carolina…

And there was also a lot of incompetence and dis-organization. Plus there is the changing concept of warcrimes.

Interesting anecdote…

Jane McCrea was a redheaded New York lady whose brothers were serving in the Revolutionary Army. However, her fiance was another local boy who joined the Loyalist Army as an officer. There was cruelty in what happened to her.

en.wikipedia.org

By the way, at the time there were a lot of ties between the ruling classes of England the leadership of the American Revolution. For example, American General Horatio Gates was an English born British Officer. And, there was a significant pool of sympathy for the Revolution in the English ruling classes.

By the way, the British soldiers were generally considered far more effective on a man for man basis than all but the ‘Continental’ grade American soldier. At least as long as their morale held.

Speaking of forced marches, I have the rather rare privilege of attending church with Col. Ben Skardon—104 years old as of a couple weeks ago—who is certainly one of the last survivors of the death march at Bataan. I just shake my head when I consider that I am no longer a young man and Ben was my age in 1972.

nationalww2museum.org

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:51:32pm
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ckkatz  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:52:06pm

re: #11 steve_davis

Speaking of forced marches, I have the rather rare privilege of attending church with Col. Ben Skardon—104 years old as of a couple weeks ago—who is certainly one of the last survivors of the death march at Bataan. I just shake my head when I consider that I am no longer a young man and Ben was my age in 1972.

It is just amazing that someone who suffered such physical and mental trauma was able to not only survive in the short term, but to survive to at least the age 104. Definitely he is a survivor.

I wonder what he thinks about how the world has changed over the course of his lifetime.

All I can think of is the old Tom Lehrer quote “Why, by the time Mozart was my age; He’d been dead for 4 years.”

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Charles Johnson  Aug 9, 2021 • 12:55:58pm

re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter

I know who rwc’s talking about, and the problem was that he didn’t only get angry about climate issues. Don’t want to get into too much, but misogyny was part of it.

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JC1  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:04:59pm

Unfortunately, it’s extremely unlikely that we’ll prevent the rise of temperatures in the near future. I hate both siding this issue, as the problem isn’t anywhere near 50/50, and is complicated. But, with today’s technology the only way to get anywhere near carbon neutral is with nuclear power. Lots and lots of nuclear power.

I don’t think that it’s all doom and gloom. There will be some pain, but humanity will adjust and survive. We had a great migration of people from farms to cities during the industrial revolution. When global warming causes ocean levels to rise significantly, we’ll have another migration away from today’s coastlines. It’s not like climate change will happen all at once.

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sagehen  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:08:03pm

re: #10 gocart mozart

Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now (Official Video)

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aatharuv  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:11:33pm

re: #1 A Mom Anon

The next 100 years will be interesting in a Chinese sense*. We’re not there yet, and surviving without traumatic changes is not guaranteed.

We’re seeing several trends that counteract with each other.

Positive:
- Climate change is starting to get visible, and it might be getting through to people that they have to get things done. Even some nutjob Floridian politicians acknowlege that climate change is real and is a problem.

- Population is starting to fall in the entire developed world, which is the part of the world which is the highest per capita polluter of carbon.

- Green energy is taking off and dropping in cost much more rapidly than anyone could have thought 20 years ago.

- We’re rapidly making it easier for our automotive infrastructure to not require carbon.

Mixed:
- Large parts of the developing world already have a Total Fertility rate below 2.1. Which means that population will start dropping there. This includes most (but certainly not all) of the middle east, most (but not all) of India and the rest of South Asia, and most of South East Asia. (I think this is true of Latin America too).

- China has gone from a 1 child to a 2 child to a 3 child policy recently, and has been making policy changes to try to slow down its population drop amongst the Han majority**, by making it easier to have families. But small families might have become ingrained in China.

Negative:
- It will take decades before population starts dropping in the developing world because of the population pyramid. And Africa hasn’t reached this stage yet.

- Energy use is taking off from an _very_ low base throughout the developing world. Even if most new energy is green, any new non-green energy will counteract decomissioning of polluting sources in the developed world. It needs to be entirely green energy for all new energy everywhere.

** The one child policy applied to urban Han Chinese for the most part. Other ethnic groups or rural Chinese had looser limits.

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:11:49pm

re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter

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sagehen  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:12:45pm

re: #15 JC1

I don’t think that it’s all doom and gloom. There will be some pain, but humanity will adjust and survive. We had a great migration of people from farms to cities during the industrial revolution. When global warming causes ocean levels to rise significantly, we’ll have another migration away from today’s coastlines. It’s not like climate change will happen all at once.

When the plague swept through Europe, it killed somewhere around 40%.

Pretty fucking miserable for the people there at the time, but 100 years later Europe was the better for it.

If worldwide climate stuff has a similar casualty rate… the planet will still have 4 billion people. Humanity is in no danger of extinction. Our great-great-grandchildren will feel sorry for us, but at the same time they’ll think we were so primitive and ignorant that our fate was only to be expected.

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Mike Lamb  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:14:41pm

re: #10 gocart mozart

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Nojay UK  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:15:36pm

Fifteen terawatts (15,000 gigawatts). That’s the amount of energy the world needs to give everyone on the planet access to heat and aircon and lighting and clean water and washing machines (the Number One labour-saving device of all time!) and hospitals and pickup trucks and Internet and everything that makes life livable.

More than half the world’s population doesn’t have access to their rightful 2kW allocation of energy so they’re ready, willing and able to dig coal and pump oil and gas to get as much as they can and the rich West can write their IPCC reports and wring their hands over climate change and rising sea levels and global warming until the cows come home because freezing to death in the dark is not an alternative.

Despite all the Powerpoint presentations and glossy brochure pictures of wind turbines and solar panels, the amount of fossil carbon being extracted from the ground and burned in the atmosphere is increasing year on year. Not surprisingly the amount of CO2 released by this carbon-fuelled scramble for better living standards is also increasing and even the rate at which CO2 levels increase year on year is itself increasing — between January and December 1996, the year of the Kyoto Climate Protocols, the CO2 level in the atmosphere went up by about 1.2 ppm. In 2016, the year of the Paris Climate Accords it went up by 2.6 ppm.

All the talk about net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 or 2050 or whatever is just that, talk, punting the problem down the field for someone else to deal with. It just isn’t going to happen.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:16:44pm

re: #2 Rightwingconspirator

Way back when we had an expert science guy here that was very vocal on this topic. And too angry by far but any way… It was said that by the time the effects were obvious they would be self sustaining. Like permafrost melt. Like less light reflecting back. Like deforestation consequences. Frightening as hell on earth.

How can someone who is aware that we’re already off the cliff and in freefall possibly be too angry?

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I know who rwc’s talking about, and the problem was that he didn’t only get angry about climate issues. Don’t want to get into too much, but misogyny was part of it.

Nevermind.

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William Lewis  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:23:21pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

I know who rwc’s talking about, and the problem was that he didn’t only get angry about climate issues. Don’t want to get into too much, but misogyny was part of it.

Hadn’t thought of him in awhile. There are others I miss more like SFZ.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:43:09pm

re: #23 William Lewis

Hadn’t thought of him in awhile. There are others I miss more like SFZ.

The person I don’t miss is the guy who crushed a kitten getting out of bed, and said it happened to him, rather than being something he did to the kitten. That one still haunts me.

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retired cynic  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:45:29pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Sent to a friend. Her response: Oh Dickmas Tree, Oh Dickmas Tree, how…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:45:31pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:48:51pm

MAGA: Lies. It’s weather control satellites!!!

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:50:27pm

This made me chuckle…

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JOE 🥓  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:54:28pm

re: #28 darthstar

This made me chuckle…

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take it sleazy…take it sleazy…

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:54:39pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Friend of mine came back from Indonesia and gave me a big ass wooden dick bottle opener. A few weeks later he and I and another guy went to a ballgame together - my wife brought us a six-pack of beer in the stands (because she can do that kind of thing). I had the opener in my backpack. Friend #3 wasn’t aware of it. When he asked for an opener I handed it to him…funny moment.

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 1:55:14pm

re: #29 JOE 🥓

take it sleazy…take it sleazy…

don’t let various DAs use the law to squeeze me…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:03:47pm
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Dangerman  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:07:49pm
Daily Beast: “According to the 13 campaign finance experts interviewed for this article, WinRed has not disclosed possibly tens of millions of dollars in PAC expenses. In doing so, WinRed, which Republican leaders forced on campaigns in the 2020 election, has kept secret the identities of the people and firms who work for it and provide its services.”

“According to these experts, based on WinRed’s disclosures, the PAC appears to have potentially crossed the blurry lines of federal campaign finance laws.”

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retired cynic  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:16:48pm

The Newest UNESCO World Heritage Sites, In Photos
cntraveler.com

14 of the 32 new sites, with a link to all of them

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:20:47pm

In case you were wondering if we are fighting a war, this is from inside the tent we set up today outside the emergency room at the Rockwall Presbyterian hospital:

We had a while lot of ch(i)efs cooking this tent and at the end I heard two of them talking about the new variants, the mask mandates, and how will this will end. “This cannot go on forever,” one said, “people have to get their lives back to normal.” I replied “The virus doesn’t really care about people’s agendas.”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:23:29pm

re: #32 Dread Pirate Ron

Good news, Repugs! There is no known treatment or vaccine so your freedom is not in danger.

Marburg virus disease (WHO)

Marburg virus disease is a highly virulent disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, with a fatality ratio of up to 88%. It is in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola virus disease.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:25:01pm

re: #35 Belafon

In case you were wondering if we are fighting a war, this is from inside the tent we set up today outside the emergency room at the Rockwall Presbyterian hospital:

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We had a while lot of ch(i)efs cooking this tent and at the end I heard two of them talking about the new variants, the mask mandates, and how will this will end. “This cannot go on forever,” one said, “people have to get their lives back to normal.” I replied “The virus doesn’t really care about people’s agendas.”

Some people don’t understand that they can’t lie or bully their way through this and just get back to normal because they’re too stupid to adapt.

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:25:57pm

re: #36 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Good news, Repugs! There is no known treatment or vaccine so your freedom is not in danger.

Marburg virus disease (WHO)

There will be 200 people dying a day November, 2021 from Covid-19, and this will be they will be talking about on Fox even though there will be no confirmed cases in the Americas.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:27:06pm

re: #35 Belafon

Sources in Lubbock tell me that University Medical Center is working around the clock to convert its cardiac IC and other facilities for covid. This includes installing huge HEPA air filtration machines in each room. They also have tents ready to go up but have not raised any yet. The atmosphere is like waiting for the storm front of a massive hurricane.

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aatharuv  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:27:47pm

re: #38 Belafon

There will be 200 people dying a day November, 2021 from Covid-19, and this will be they will be talking about on Fox even though there will be no confirmed cases in the Americas.

And knowing the Biden administration, they will probably do what the Obama administration did when there were Ebola outbreaks — send in a CDC team to help them contain the outbreak before it spreads.
I shudder to think what would have happened if the TFG were still in charge.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:29:47pm

re: #35 Belafon

One tiny comfort: With Biden rather than TFG in charge, we will probably have enough tents, body bags and burial space.

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Mattand  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:30:35pm

Apropos of nothing: 1Password 7 and an Apple Watch really make life easier when it comes to handling accounts on your browser.

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:31:31pm
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Mattand  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:32:21pm

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Sources in Lubbock tell me that University Medical Center is working around the clock to convert its cardiac IC and other facilities for covid. This includes installing huge HEPA air filtration machines in each room. They also have tents ready to go up and have not raised any yet. The atmosphere is like waiting for the storm front of a massive hurricane.

It’s stuff like this that’s killing any ounce of empathy I have left for MAGAt anti-vaxxers when I hear of yet another one who died begging for the vaccine.

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Mattand  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:34:22pm

re: #43 jaunte

Florida could move to withhold salaries of those who violate ban on mask mandates in schools

I really think the Republican strategy, as it were, is to hope this thing will burn itself out and then blame Biden for all of the death.

For me, it’s the only thing that has the tiniest shred of logic.

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:35:39pm

Sometimes I promise my wife I’ll do a bunch of household chores between calls on Monday or Tuesday when I don’t feel like doing them on the weekend. This weekend was one such time.

Today I actually did what I said I would do. Still got a few things left on the honey-do list, but it feels good to take care of the most visible ones.

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:37:21pm

re: #45 Mattand

I’m starting to think authoritarian impulses don’t come from logic. All of these threats seem more like an emotional response.

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DesertDenizen  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:39:05pm

re: #47 jaunte

It comes from deep seated insecurity. They need to know their place in the hierarchy. They’re only comfortable if someone is below them. They’ll accept someone above them as long as they’re not at the bottom.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:40:14pm

re: #45 Mattand

Won’t work. We all see how passionate President Biden is about vaccinations and masks. We see the exact opposite amongst Republicans.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:44:10pm

re: #43 jaunte

It’s probably a bet for $1.

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piratedan  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:44:44pm

re: #45 Mattand

that would follow their modus operandi and damn near everything else and when you have a media wired for their message dissemination like it is, it’s hard to counterpunch.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:46:32pm

re: #50 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It’s probably a bet for $1.

Upding for Trading Spaces reference.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:49:36pm

re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg

Upding for Trading Spaces reference.

You get one back for recognizing it.

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:50:34pm

Those crazy Duke brothers…go figure.

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TedStriker  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:50:36pm

re: #50 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It’s probably a bet for $1.

re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg

Upding for Trading Spaces reference.

re: #53 Punish Domestic Terrorists

You get one back for recognizing it.

Trading Places, not Trading Spaces (one of them dime-a-dozen HGTV/Discovery “reality” shows):

The One Dollar Bet - Trading Places (8/10) Movie CLIP (1983) HD

(NSFW for the N-word)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:52:29pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:54:37pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:56:47pm

Happy return to Canada day! Vaccinated Americans can cross over into the great white north.

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mmmirele  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:57:52pm

Sharing…

The pastor of the church is a friend of a friend. We’re going to need to have a chat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 2:58:41pm

Trevor Moore, comedian and co-founder of The Whitest Kids U Know, dead at 41

Trevor Moore, comedian, actor, producer, and co-founder of the sketch comedy group The Whitest Kids U Know, has died at the age of 41.

His death was confirmed by his manager, Kara Welker, in a statement issued on behalf of Moore’s family.

Moore died “in a tragic accident” on Friday evening, according to the statement.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:00:40pm
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Dangerman  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:01:21pm

re: #45 Mattand

I really think the Republican strategy, as it were, is to hope this thing will burn itself out and then blame Biden for all of the death.

For me, it’s the only thing that has the tiniest shred of logic.

first mistake.
they do not do logic or consistency

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:01:52pm

re: #45 Mattand

I really think the Republican strategy, as it were, is to hope this thing will burn itself out and then blame Biden for all of the death.

For me, it’s the only thing that has the tiniest shred of logic.

Rudimentarily the logic is “I punch the wall and break stuff, it’s your job to stop me because one possibility is that I’ll escalate and you’ll die.” There’s not one objective that fanning the pandemic advantages, but fanning the pandemic creates instability and panic that allows all of their bad and self-serving ideas to either (1) be tabled there’s basically a hostage situation where the “reasonable” party concedes to stop a more immediate moral atrocity, (2) be camouflaged as righteous reaction to the reasonable party who “failed” to stop the unreasonable party.

We can see both of these things playing out in parallel in right wing media: everyone trying to follow epidemiological best practice is to blame for things getting worse because they couldn’t stop the people that won’t comply…but also the epidemic was never so bad that we should have listened to the reasonable people so it’s outrageous that the unreasonable people were ever scrutinized.

If they get purchase with this tactic, they will simply use it to advance the exact same bullshit as: that they are the superior people that should be protected by the law but not bound by it, and that nothing that goes wrong is their fault because all problems are the products of outsiders and weirdos that need to be punished for existing.

We’re getting state laws that penalize small institutions for having masking policies precisely because there was a rash of chuds screaming at grocery clerks: the chuds now have a legal vehicle with which to injure people that (1) ask them to be considerate by masking, (2) makes choices that suggest that unmasked people are in error.

It’s more nuanced than that because there’s a spectrum from good to bad faith that’s hard to describe. There’s definitely powerful people who are vaccinated and taking no risks who are playing with the lives of others—effectively using klling the MAGA base the way an abusive parent can use threats against the kids to terrify and render uncertain the other partner. There’s also ones that believe they’re entitled to not get sick and are thus in some warped form operating in good faith.

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:04:13pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

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teleskiguy  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:09:33pm

They removed 13 tons of material this weekend off the highway. Today was the first day they could send CDOT engineers to do the serious structural damage assessment.

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DesertDenizen  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:09:41pm

re: #64 jaunte

Did they expect to hold him back somewhere so Grassley could screw with the counting?

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teleskiguy  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:10:27pm

re: #65 teleskiguy

That’s an old picture. Here’s something more current.

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:14:22pm

Rand Paul gave a video statement saying “They can’t arrest all of us” to promote vaccine resistance. What a piece of shit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:14:31pm
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jaunte  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:15:35pm

re: #66 DesertDenizen

Grassley slipped and his staff covered.

“…Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said he would preside over the U.S. Senate debate surrounding disputes of the 2020 election results if Vice President Mike Pence does not show up.

He suggested Pence was not expected to attend but Grassley’s staff later said that was a “misinterpretation” and that Pence was expected to be there.”
iowacapitaldispatch.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:16:20pm

re: #17 aatharuv

…..
Positive:
- Climate change is starting to get visible, and it might be getting through to people that they have to get things done. Even some nutjob Floridian politicians acknowlege that climate change is real and is a problem.
……

Matt Gaetz being a stellar example

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:16:53pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“There’s rules, I don’t wanna have to go find out what they are”

That is some total Karen Zen there…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:18:32pm
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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:18:32pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

Given what Tigger rhymes with I would think Karen should have no problem with that flag.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:23:49pm
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DesertDenizen  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:23:58pm

re: #74 darthstar

She probably thinks the flag is “gay”.

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

re: #74 darthstar

Given what Tigger rhymes with I would think Karen should have no problem with that flag.

Maybe she does not want to offend her Master, Chairman Xi…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:26:28pm

BURN!

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:27:37pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-DarkMoney.)

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JOE 🥓  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:29:38pm

re: #66 DesertDenizen

Did they expect to hold him back somewhere so Grassley could screw with the counting?

Yes.

The GRASSHOLE was in on the coup.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:30:29pm

re: #58 darthstar

Happy return to Canada day! Vaccinated Americans can cross over into the great white north.

My Canadian friend is from a small town, and wanted to kill her way through Covid because she thinks bicycling in her late 50s means she’s not vulnerable to the virus, and she put small businesses before human life having married a small business owner since I last saw her.

I do not expect to visit Canada again.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:30:53pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

Let’s hope the checks at the entrances go better than they did at Lollapalooza.

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teleskiguy  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:31:30pm

Last minute decision. I’m going to see Joe Bonamassa tonight at Red Rocks. I’m going masked.

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:32:18pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:33:30pm

re: #83 teleskiguy

Last minute decision. I’m going to see Joe Bonamassa tonight at Red Rocks. I’m going masked.

F u I’m sooo jealous. I hope he plays Blues Deluxe for 30 min!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:36:25pm

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:36:36pm

I hate it when you go to a page and can’t find a damn price on the thing they say they’re selling:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:38:18pm
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JOE 🥓  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:38:22pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I know why Aunt Crabby hates the Tigger flag…it’s the same reason relatives boycott Disney…It’s cause Disney puts all them nasty sex messages in them there movies!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:39:55pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:42:22pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:42:44pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

$400 extra for the privilege to choke and die when they can’t possibly do the right, simple thing.

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jaunte  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:46:04pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:46:42pm

re: #80 JOE 🥓

Yes.

The GRASSHOLE was in on the coup.

Grassley was never part of the Cruz group to oppose the certification. He’s 87 and doesn’t appear to be as intellectually sharp as in the past. I doubt he played a real role in Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:47:30pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s not just Indigenous Americans. Conservatives are trying to erase and whitewash American history.

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Teukka  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:49:05pm

Crikey

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:52:40pm

re: #96 Teukka

Crikey

At what point do these people become responsible for committing a crime?

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 3:55:04pm

re: #96 Teukka

Crikey

If she wasn’t trash, she’d have left him by now. Too many people are happy to be vile.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:00:02pm
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DesertDenizen  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:01:45pm

re: #93 jaunte

There’s a word for an executive that can effectively disband the legislature. I know it’ll come to me.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:02:57pm

re: #100 DesertDenizen

There’s a word for an executive that can effectively disband the legislature. I know it’ll come to me.

Chancellor?

//

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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:03:47pm

re: #93 jaunte

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Two branches have ganged up on one half of the third. One-party rule in Texas isn’t a hypothetical, it’s happening in real time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:04:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:05:34pm
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Florida Panhandler  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:05:59pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

Holy Straw Man, Batman.

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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:06:44pm

re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah, that shit mattered last year when there was no vaccines. Now? Now they just look desperate to keep the culture war horseshit going.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:06:53pm

re: #96 Teukka

Fucking pigs deserve Covid. LET. THEM. DIE.

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BeachDem  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:07:20pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wonder if that’s why the original meeting was in Dublin, OH. I’m still intrigued by that—want to know exactly where it took place.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:07:47pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:09:02pm

re: #96 Teukka

Crikey

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Deplorables will be deplorable.

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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:09:33pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Tiger Beat on the Potomac working its tail off to argue BSAB. Must be a day ending in “y.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:11:09pm
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PhillyPretzel  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:11:52pm

re: #96 Teukka

re: #110 Rightwingconspirator

Wash off the credit card with Purell.

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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:11:59pm

re: #96 Teukka

Crikey

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This is why most businesses have moved to payment terminals, so they no longer have to touch the gross-as-fuck cards that people hand over.

As for other items, like photo IDs that some businesses need to see? Yeah, I’d tell them to just hold that shit up where I can see it. And if they refuse or try to insist on handing it over to me after that? I’m tell them to take their gross asses back the way they came. If they don’t like that, they can call the customer service line and make a complaint.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:13:32pm

re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:14:40pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

They should require vaccination. There are jobs out there for people who are too dumb to be vaccinated to go to school. I hear that terrible employers need desperate workers right now.

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sagehen  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:19:01pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

so South Dakota doesn’t want their students to know that, according to the Supreme Court, the entire State is the rightful property of the Lakota.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:19:13pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

For the love of… can we get rid of this stupid debt ceiling thing.

Or pass a law that the party that causes a government shutdown has to mass resign to do so. Or something. This is ridiculous.

All it is, is another dumb thing that republicans can use in an intellectually dishonest way to try to pretend the care about deficits and the national debt by further pretending this has anything to do with it.

It’s even worse than when they intentionally confuse the national debt and budget deficits for the rubes.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:19:40pm

re: #115 Patricia Kayden

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:20:17pm

re: #96 Teukka

Crikey

Then I’ll spray those fuckers with Lysol.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:22:23pm

That’s my primary complaint about anti-vaxxers.

Inevitably a not small portion of them are dumbasses who will wind up sick and when they do they will start taxing our healthcare resources and putting OTHER PEOPLE (particularly other unvaccinated people) at risk of getting sick, not to mention hoarding ICU beds so those of us with strokes, heart attacks, car accidents and other emergencies are fucked from the get-go.

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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:22:26pm

re: #115 Patricia Kayden

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Of course not. “Private the profit, socialize the risk” is their guiding star. They expect to get a free ride all the way to the fuckin’ grave.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:23:20pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:24:30pm

How about hospitals require the social media pages of all incoming unvaccinated COVID patients. If they are deniers, turn them away. (If only)

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:25:23pm

re: #87 Belafon

I hate it when you go to a page and can’t find a damn price on the thing they say they’re selling:

Speaking of which, I just bought a four button foot switch for my Boss amp. Now that my instructor is teaching me how to play lead with back up tracks, I want to be able to switch effects…right now everything is played clean.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:26:58pm
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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:28:13pm

Three minutes until Greenie time. Don’t tell me my dog can’t read no clock.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:31:46pm

re: #113 PhillyPretzel

Wash off the credit card with Purell.

Very slowly and ostentatiously put on gloves (if already wearing gloves, change them). Take card and sanitize it. Very slowly. Swipe card. After approval. sanitize swiping implement, sanitize card again before giving it back, sanitize the area with great care before bagging the purchase and giving the customer his stuff. This process should take at least five minutes.

If The Bosses don’t like it, there’s a place down the road that wants you badly. (Better still, if they won’t 86 anyone who pulls that stunt, see previous sentence.)

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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:35:14pm

re: #118 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

For the love of… can we get rid of this stupid debt ceiling thing.

Or pass a law that the party that causes a government shutdown has to mass resign to do so. Or something. This is ridiculous.

All it is, is another dumb thing that republicans can use in an intellectually dishonest way to try to pretend the care about deficits and the national debt by further pretending this has anything to do with it.

It’s even worse than when they intentionally confuse the national debt and budget deficits for the rubes.

The “debt ceiling” used to get raised whenever the budget was passed, but that was before Newt and his “Contract (on) America,” when the GQP decided that they could use the budget as a weapon against the Clinton admin. They got blamed for two successive government shutdowns (‘95 & ‘96) until they caved on the budget, after which they declared the debt ceiling no longer had to be yoked to the budget in order to get an increase.

And so through the Dubya years the debt ceiling got increased without much comment aside from hypocritical bitching from Repubs whenever Dems suggested it was getting too high. Then they decided to start playing chicken with the national debt again in 2011 and we’ve been dealing with that shit ever since. “

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retired cynic  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:36:11pm

re: #127 darthstar

Three minutes until Greenie time. Don’t tell him my dog can’t read no clock.

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My two cats let me know when Greenie time is. Pippi gets up on my chair, grabs a mouthful of my hair and pulls. Boots stands up with one paw on my knee, extending one claw to get my attention. If I say bedtime, they both head for the kitchen as soon as I get up.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:40:37pm
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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:41:31pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m not taking a victory lap until the $3.5T reconciliation bill is on Biden’s desk. Any bill that has Mitch grinning at this point is a bill too compromised to amount to much.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:41:41pm

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

I could hear sirens in DuPage county, but found no warning for my area.

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Belafon  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:44:00pm

re: #132 Targetpractice

T not B.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:45:07pm

re: #133 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I could hear sirens in DuPage county, but found no warning for my area.

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Teukka  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:45:23pm

re: #96 Teukka

Crikey

Crikey, chaser…

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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:45:45pm

re: #134 Belafon

T not B.

Might as well be B, considering Li’l Miss Quirky has announced she won’t sign off on $3.5T and is gonna “work with the party” to come to a number she’s (read: Mitch) is happy with.

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austin_blue  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:46:01pm

re: #83 teleskiguy

Last minute decision. I’m going to see Joe Bonamassa tonight at Red Rocks. I’m going masked.

I expect a review of the show tomorrow.

Have fun!

God, I love Red Rocks. What a gorgeous venue.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:47:38pm

re: #133 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I could hear sirens in DuPage county, but found no warning for my area.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:50:15pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:50:43pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

Now we’ll see if The Squad(tm) will put up a fight and block it or just roll over….

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:52:53pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thanks! Just slightly north of me. I just heard a little thunder and the sirens.

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retired cynic  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:52:53pm

The August War, 13 years later (Part 2)
Part 2: ‘Provocations,’ ‘traps,’ and realities on the ground
Molly McKew
greatpower.us

More on the Russian “digesting” the country of Georgia.

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retired cynic  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:58:25pm

re: #143 retired cynic

Should say, the countries of Georgia and Ukraine.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 9, 2021 • 4:58:45pm

re: #132 Targetpractice

I’m not taking a victory lap until the $3.5B reconciliation bill is on Biden’s desk. Any bill that has Mitch grinning at this point is a bill too compromised to amount to much.

Let’s hope the small bill passes both Houses — and gets signed into law. Even as minimal as it is, it will still help this nation. I remain terrified that Miss Airhead from Arizona will kill the reconciliation package — or, even worse, she will listen to bribes from McConnell and switch parties.

I still recall my joy in 2008 when Obama and the Dems swept into power, only for my hopes to be dashed when they lost effective control of the Senate in early 2010 thanks to Kennedy’s death and McConnell’s intransigence and then lost the House in 2010. I fear a repeat of this nightmare — though a thousand times worse when Trump is the de facto head of the GOP.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:01:06pm

hi

The Hackberry prairie fire in Banner County has now burned into my county. The fire is completely out of control. More fire departments from around the region are trying to fight the fire in both Banner and Morrill Counties.

The air is terrible here. What sky?

Hackberry Fire notes: Number of acres burned approaching 6,000 (Sandhills Express, Broken Bow, Nebr., with photos)

BANNER COUNTY - Sunday’s weather caused more erratic fire behavior on the Hackberry Fire in Banner and Morrill Counties.

According to the Gering Fire Department, 5,761 acres have been burned, with more expected Monday. As of Sunday evening, the fire remains out of control and there is no containment.

“We can’t thank all that have supported landowners, stakeholders and firefighters,” the fire department said. “For every firefighter that has assisted in suppressing the Hackberry Fire, you guys rock!”

More information is expected to be released Monday.

NOTES:

- Firefighters from Hall and Howard Counties provided mutual aid with grass rigs from St. Paul, Danneborg, Farwell, Boelus, Wood River and Cairo Fire Departments.

“We thank you for your assistance,” Region 21 Emergency Management said. “So many departments have responded to assist this weekend. We appreciate them all, even if we aren’t able to identify them.”

Volunteer firefighters returned home Sunday evening.

- 10 members from The Well Church in Sidney drove to the Wildcat Hills to cook and serve hamburgers for first responders this weekend.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:02:36pm

Illinois

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:03:05pm

re: #136 Teukka

Crikey, chaser…

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Remember people licking toilet seats at the beginning of Covid? I think they’re all dead now.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:03:14pm

re: #141 Eric The Fruit Bat

Now we’ll see if The Squad(tm) will put up a fight and block it or just roll over….

Not for a while. Nancy won’t bring it to the floor until the reconciliation bill passes the Senate.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:04:15pm

re: #106 Targetpractice

Yeah, that shit mattered last year when there was no vaccines. Now? Now they just look desperate to keep the culture war horseshit going.

Fortunately, the War on Christmas (tm) should start soon.

I’m already signed up in the 3rd Atheist Anti-Elf Regiment.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:06:12pm

re: #136 Teukka

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Incidentally, if there is one abiding characteristic that all wingnuts have in common, it is their almost mystical faith that the principle of cause and effect does not apply to them. Whenever it strikes, they are reduced to confusion and toddler like rage.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:11:23pm

There’s always a tweet calling out a conservative as a liar.

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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:17:16pm

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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There’s always a tweet calling out a conservative as a liar.

Another day, another Trumper who suddenly found love for the virus the moment their boss lost the election.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:18:55pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:20:11pm

re: #133 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I could hear sirens in DuPage county, but found no warning for my area.

Stay safe. According to the National Weather Service, you have severe thunderstorms and a tornado watch.

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JOE 🥓  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:20:47pm

I come home from the gym and what do I see?

Why it’s the California Recall Ballot!

And golly gosh why does Larry Elder get 1st position on the replacement list?

Well, I took my ink pen and filled in the NO circle and I refuse to vote for any of the assholes on the replacement list!

My NO vote is signed sealed and soon to be delivered to the ballot drop box. It’s not going in a Post Office collection box since De Jerk removed all of them in my part of town. De Jerk even removed the collection boxes in front of all the post offices around here!

It’s so nice to live in a state where Republicans don’t fuck up our right to vote!

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:22:45pm

Rand Paul’s right…we can’t arrest everyone…how about just him?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:23:25pm
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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:23:58pm

re: #154 Dread Pirate Ron

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They also report that everyone is absolutely happy with being ruled by a pair of benevolent rulers and famine is the new way to get thin.

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darthstar  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:24:08pm

re: #156 JOE 🥓

Did you vote naked? If so, I’m not the only one!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:24:57pm

re: #157 darthstar

Rand Paul’s right…we can’t arrest everyone…how about just him?

As usual, Rand is pandering to an audience of morons. We can’t arrest all murderers, child molesters or Aqua Buddha kidnappers, but that is not a reason to stop arresting any of them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:25:01pm

Tell me I’m isolated on how most of the country works without telling me that.

One good thing about feral conservatives here, almost no one takes credit cards. It’s money, cheques, or you’re out of luck.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:25:12pm
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JOE 🥓  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:25:38pm

Well, speaking of Republicans fucking up elections…

There’s a real election security breach case — focused on a Trump-loving county clerk’s office: report

alternet.org

re: #160 darthstar

Did you vote naked? If so, I’m not the only one!

but I still had my Gorilla Wear shorts on 😏

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:25:44pm

re: #156 JOE 🥓

I come home from the gym and what do I see?

Why it’s the California Recall Ballot!

And golly gosh why does Larry Elder get 1st position on the replacement list?

Well, I took my ink pen and filled in the NO circle and I refuse to vote for any of the assholes on the replacement list!

My NO vote is signed sealed and soon to be delivered to the ballot drop box. It’s not going in a Post Office collection box since De Jerk removed all of them in my part of town. De Jerk even removed the collection boxes in front of all the post offices around here!

It’s so nice to live in a state where Republicans don’t fuck up our right to vote!

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Are there no democrats on the replacement list at all? Is it all scummy republicans and a bunch of clownshoes stunt candidates?

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Targetpractice  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:26:02pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Vaccinated: “I’m cutting off those in my life who refuse to take basic steps to not only maintain their own health, but protect me and mine from an infectious disease.”

Unvaccinated: “WHY IS EVERYBODY TREATING ME LIKE AN ASSHOLE?!”

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JOE 🥓  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:28:26pm

re: #165 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

Are there no democrats on the replacement list at all? Is it all scummy republicans and a bunch of clownshoes stunt candidates?

It’s a No Star Cast…and why the FUDGE does Larry Elder get the top position on the list?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:29:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:30:07pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:30:41pm

Oh, Florida!

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:31:08pm

re: #167 JOE 🥓

It’s a No Star Cast…and why the FUDGE does Larry Elder get the top position on the list?

I don’t know if your races are the same as in Illinois but often the order varies by county (or maybe even precinct?), thereby not giving a preferential position to any particular candidate.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:31:39pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:33:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:33:59pm

re: #142 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Thanks! Just slightly north of me. I just heard a little thunder and the sirens.

That weather is approaching my mother in Norwood Park.

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Thanos  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:34:26pm

Spencer Ackerman wrote a good piece on how Pam Geller & Robert Spencer helped create the Trumpists, interesting read at Vanity Fair:
vanityfair.com
Reminds me more of that Eurofascist alliance, since her Stop the Islamisation of America group was cloned from the Vlaams Belang no mosque movement.

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William Lewis  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:34:41pm

re: #167 JOE 🥓

It’s a No Star Cast…and why the FUDGE does Larry Elder get the top position on the list?

In Wisconsin, the order is by drawing lots.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:36:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:37:16pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:39:36pm
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JOE 🥓  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:42:06pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Damn! Doggy is singing the theme song to Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea!

televisiontunes.com

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:43:50pm

2018: Cambria, California

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:44:48pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:49:17pm

re: #175 Thanos

Spencer Ackerman wrote a good piece on how Pam Geller & Robert Spencer helped create the Trumpists, interesting read at Vanity Fair:
vanityfair.com
Reminds me more of that Eurofascist alliance, since her Stop the Islamisation of America group was cloned from the Vlaams Belang no mosque movement.

And yet, all the Shinto shrines closer to Pearl Harbor Naval Station than Cordoba House would have been to the former World Trade Center.

Aside from the hardcore racist contingent of conservatism, perhaps time over the years has softened the hatred at the time in Honolulu.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:53:26pm

re: #175 Thanos

Spencer Ackerman wrote a good piece on how Pam Geller & Robert Spencer helped create the Trumpists, interesting read at Vanity Fair:
vanityfair.com
Reminds me more of that Eurofascist alliance, since her Stop the Islamisation of America group was cloned from the Vlaams Belang no mosque movement.

She and Spencer are just dots on the number line from Goldwater to Trump. Every one of those dots was a warning that they regarded the Constitution as unnecessary and dictatorial rule as desirable. (For that matter, you can trace that number line back to the founders of conservative thought. It has always been like that.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 5:59:46pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 9, 2021 • 6:00:01pm

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She and Spencer are just dots on the number line from Goldwater to Trump. Every one of those dots was a warning that they regarded the Constitution as unnecessary and dictatorial rule as desirable. (For that matter, you can trace that number line back to the founders of conservative thought. It has always been like that.)

Misread your comment — and thought your reference to Spencer was to the author! Wrong Spencer! LOL

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 6:00:26pm

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

Similar to all the conservative staffers whinging no one would date them in Washington during (and after) the Trump Reign-of-Error.

a) The assumption that a liberal would just jump in bed with anyone seems to be common from conservatives, at the same time they denigrate the appearance of female liberals

b) The endless amount of hate they pour on Washington, as if it was an enemy nation at war

c) The absolute entitlement “you owe me a date” deriving from the requirement of hierarchies for conservatives

d) Viewing women as “less than” or “property”

Then whinge when they get the same treatment on dating applications. Makes them prime targets (and has) for grifters.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 6:00:59pm
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Aug 9, 2021 • 6:01:54pm

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

the same people loudly judging others for wearing masks and getting tested and getting vaccinated are feeling judged and let me tell u they do not like that feeling

Because they are being judged. Get used to it — and stick with your fellow sociopaths, the decent people don’t want you.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 9, 2021 • 6:02:19pm
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sagehen  Aug 9, 2021 • 6:08:17pm

re: #167 JOE 🥓

It’s a No Star Cast…and why the FUDGE does Larry Elder get the top position on the list?

they rotate the list; x number of ballots have his name in top position, x number has him at the bottom and whoever’s after him at the top, etc.

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BlueSpotinAL  Aug 9, 2021 • 6:15:16pm

re: #170 Dread Pirate Ron

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Oh, Florida!

Wife audibly laughed when she saw a double IPA I bought from Cigar City brewing. Florida Man.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 9, 2021 • 6:25:51pm
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retired cynic  Aug 9, 2021 • 6:39:08pm

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

OMFG!

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 10, 2021 • 12:38:52am

re: #10 gocart mozart

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Chuck Berry - “My Ding-a-Ling” (1972)


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