The Bob Cesca Podcast: Land War in Asia

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

Land War In Asia — [Explicit Content] Late start for the show today — we apologize for the inconvenience. There’s a guy threatening to blow up three city blocks in DC today. The suspect is a white Trump supporter who thinks Trump will pardon him. Ron and Jim Watkins and Donald Trump made this. The latest on the Afghanistan withdrawal. Nikki Haley is a soulless automaton. Great news about jobs. Trump’s Save America PAC grift continues. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID. South Carolina Republican dies of COVID after criticizing masks. Trumpism in Arizona. Planet Fitness’s mask policy. Ted Cruz bulk-purchases his own book. With Jody Hamilton and David TRex Ferguson. And music by Prehab and Freekbass. And more!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:25:25pm

The swallowtail caterpillars who I posted a picture of the other day munching on parsley have reduced the plant to a few stalks and most have apparently left looking for greener pastures.

I told the neighbor that if I went grocery shopping I could pick some parsley up to give them an additional supply.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:28:19pm

re: #1 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Did the neighbor agree to that?

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:28:33pm

Say Hello to the Qanon Shaman for us there dude.

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darthstar  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:30:47pm

Cost of being a dick on flights is getting sky high…over $500K in fines for the last 34 people who disrupted flights.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:31:48pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:33:12pm

re: #2 PhillyPretzel

Did the neighbor agree to that?

She just sort of chuckled. There were only two on the remains of the plant at the time from the original eight or nine. Not sure where the others had gone since IIRC the various swallowtail species are sort of picky about what they eat. This particular kind like both parsley and dill. I think the native species in the area they feed on is Queen Anne’s Lace, which is not uncommon but doesn’t grow much in close proximity to the apartments. (Gobs of it along the Schuylkill as I recall from my walks when I lived in Center City.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:33:16pm

re: #5 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

If God had wanted us to hear your imbecilic ideas you would have been born with a microphone and speaker installed…

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:36:25pm

Those animals …

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:38:11pm
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darthstar  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:40:11pm

Cool oatmeal tribute to Gene Roddenberry on his 100th birthday.

theoatmeal.com

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darthstar  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:41:01pm

re: #8 Eventual Carrion

Those animals …

But that person is free from worms.

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Jay C  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:43:21pm

re: #11 darthstar

But that person is free from worms.

Well, with too much Ivermectin, he’ll probably be worm food before too long….

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:43:50pm

re: #11 darthstar

But that person is free from worms.

I totally expect the number of people Ivermection is putting way more people in the hospital than vaccines are.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:44:21pm
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Teddy's Person  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:44:33pm

re: #12 Jay C

Well, with too much Ivermectin, he’ll probably be worm food before too long….

And the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:44:50pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:45:39pm

re: #11 darthstar

But that person is free from worms.

Until they bury him…

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Jay C  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:45:50pm

re: #15 Teddy’s Person

And the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout

Thanks, TP: now I have an earworm as well…. 😉

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:47:16pm
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darthstar  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:48:14pm

re: #18 Jay C

Thanks, TP: now I have an earworm as well…. 😉

It deserves to be shared.

Harley Poe - The Hearse song ( with lyrics :o )

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:48:14pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

One way or another they are going to get around it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:49:13pm

LOL

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:49:41pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, ever since Reagan said, “The scariest words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help,’” a number of folks have decided destroying the government is their life’s goal.

And with certain people in politics and media egging them on that number has grown.

So here we are.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:49:42pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:49:46pm

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves let out some frustrations during a Thursday press conference on the state’s COVID-19 response.

Reeves again stressed he will not be issuing a mask mandate.

“I do not give a damn about any political agenda,” he said. He says people on the right want him to politicize vaccines and masks and people on the left want to “grow their Twitter platform” by suggesting he should enact “mandate after mandate.”

The press conference came as Mississippi’s hospital systems are inundated with patients.

With thousands of new cases each day, Mississippi has been one of the areas most impacted by the Delta variant’s surge.

Last week, Reeves said the state is “calmly dealing” with the issue. He also mapped out plans to have additional healthcare workers in place in the state.

Reeves admitted hospitals are struggling, but offered hope that more vaccinations could turn things around.

“In the last month, 89% of our hospitalizations and 87% of our deaths have occurred amongst the unvaccinated,” Reeves said.

He says despite mild side effects, vaccines are very effective at preventing serious disease and death.

More Mississippians are getting vaccinated in response to the Delta variant. Vaccinations are higher than they have been at any point since April, Reeves says.

The need for testing is also increasing. More testing centers have opened across the state, including at Trustmark Park in Pearl.

He says he’s willing to give local governments every tool they need to keep schools open.

“We know there will be outbreaks and there will be quarantines. This is the nature of an airborne virus,” he said.

State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs says the state is very fortunate to see an increase in vaccinations.

“People are recognizing how important that is for surviving not only COVID but the Delta surge,” Dobbs said.

Dobbs also preaches the use of monoclonal antibody treatment in patients with COVID. He signed a statewide executive order for monoclonal antibodies to be given by nurses and clinics without having to go through the health department.

MEMA Director Stephen McCraney says officials have been handing out supplies like youth masks and hand sanitizer to schools across the state in an effort to keep things open.

A friend of mine who had been exposed earlier this week had to go to SIX different locations to even get tested because none of the first five had any tests left. It’s a fucking mess down here.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:52:14pm

I still love New Zealand’s solution to their whopping 6 cases. They went back into lockdown.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:52:33pm

re: #26 PhillyPretzel

I still love New Zealand’s solution to their whopping 6 cases. They went back into lockdown.

They’re also run by a woman, so…

//

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:54:07pm

re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes. Isn’t it wonderful that she has a better idea of what to do than men.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:54:21pm

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

Animal House - All Is Well!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:56:03pm

re: #29 Romantic Heretic

Pretty much.

I’ll be happy as fuck if my first vote as an American citizen is used to help kick this GOP asshole to the curb.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:57:32pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:59:12pm

re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth

What is NTI?

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darthstar  Aug 19, 2021 • 3:59:36pm

So I started watching the series Titans on HBO Max. Not bad (2 episodes in) but fuckin’ HBO Max is buggy as hell and keeps crashing. The only other option is to pay 30 bucks a season for it on Amazon…not that I haven’t done that before but it’s not that good.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:00:53pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

What is NTI?

Non-Traditional Instruction

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:01:32pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

Non-Traditional Instruction

It’s a program that encourages the continuation of learning on days when school would otherwise be canceled

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darthstar  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:02:05pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

What is NTI?

non-traditional instruction - home learning

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:02:39pm

Nice surprise in the mail today… which is 5 hours late compared to a typical day. A rebate check from my health insurance provider thanks to the ACA. I wish they called it Obamacare though. *snicker*

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:02:59pm

re: #33 darthstar

So I started watching the series Titans on HBO Max. Not bad (2 episodes in) but fuckin’ HBO Max is buggy as hell and keeps crashing. The only other option is to pay 30 bucks a season for it on Amazon…not that I haven’t done that before but it’s not that good.

I have no issues with HBO Max. Try a different playback device.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:04:22pm

re: #38 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I have no issues with HBO Max. Try a different playback device.

Max works okay on my iPad and my wifes smart TV. It’s not so great on my iPhone though. I’ve never tried it on an android device.

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JC1  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:10:33pm

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

Max works okay on my iPad and my wifes smart TV. It’s not so great on my iPhone though. I’ve never tried it on an android device.

Works okay on firetv stick 4k.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:12:00pm
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Decatur Deb  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:17:59pm

re: #41 Patricia Kayden

Alabama has 29 more critical patients than it has ICU beds. This is where the dying starts.
al.com

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:18:18pm

re: #41 Patricia Kayden

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:19:45pm

After a few tantalizing days with lower numbers, we get this.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:24:44pm

re: #43 Rightwingconspirator

Similar to a post I made on faceplant

Triage is a bitch if you’re an idiot and didn’t vaccinate.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:27:45pm

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

Max works okay on my iPad and my wifes smart TV. It’s not so great on my iPhone though. I’ve never tried it on an android device.

I have a TCL Smart TV with Roku built in and as far as I know, HBOMax, now that they finally added it to Roku, works fine.

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aatharuv  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:27:57pm

re: #41 Patricia Kayden

So Republican Texas is the first to implement the Death Panels they said the Democrats were going to impose. Color me surprised.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:28:06pm

re: #41 Patricia Kayden

I don’t feel bad for the suicidal antivaxxers at all anymore. I do feel bad for people like this.

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danarchy  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:31:43pm

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

Max works okay on my iPad and my wifes smart TV. It’s not so great on my iPhone though. I’ve never tried it on an android device.

I have used it frequently with both fire tv and roku devices with no issues. I hear it is so bad on Apple TV that they are redeveloping from scratch and plan to have a new app by the end of the year, so if that is what you are using…sorry

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:33:11pm

re: #38 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I have a Roku 4 Ultra and HBO Max is either completely fine or an unusable mess, nothing in between. For me it’s easily the worst of all the major streaming services.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:33:37pm

An enhanced version of Quake came out today. It’s on Gamepass on PC and Xbox, and on several other consoles.

It’s so primitive. Blocky graphics at 120fps, and very simple enemy logic.
It was huge fun when it first came out.
Playing this evening, I still remember where at least some of the hidden stashes are.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:34:24pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:34:40pm

re: #48 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I don’t feel bad for the suicidal antivaxxers at all anymore. I do feel bad for people like this.

My niece is among the unvaccinated. Back when the CDC announced that the vaxed could go maskless, and Biden tweeted about it, she said it was awful that our “President” (her use of quotes) was dividing us this way.

Imagine my shame - having worked in BioPharma for 40 years, most of it in Infectious Disease, and a lot of that in vaccines particularly, to have my niece, who sells used cars, tell me she thinks the vaccine “haven’t been tested enough”.

Vaccines should be mandated because used car salespeople think they have sufficient expertise to decide for themselves.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:35:48pm

re: #53 Blind Frog Belly White

my idiot congresscritter:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:35:50pm

re: #47 aatharuv

So Republican Texas is the first to implement Death Panels they said the Democrats were going to impose. Color me surprised.

And who could have fucking seen this coming?

Oh, I know! EVERYONE.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:36:43pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

my idiot congresscritter:
Implementing a vaccine mandate that doesn’t recognize natural immunity from prior infection is UNSCIENTIFIC.

Like he’d fucking know.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:36:47pm

re: #51 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I had a friend who used to make maps for Quake (he started with DOOM). We used to stay up all night playing deathmatch in his custom maps. He eventually went on to work for 3D Realms and then Gearbox. I’m not sure what all he’s worked on but I know he worked on the Borderlands series.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:37:37pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:38:07pm

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

She knows she’s trash.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:38:25pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

Are you sure his name is Massie and not Messy? He is creating one heck of a mess that no one needs.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:38:27pm
Pushing those who care for our elderly into other careers is UNSYMPATHETIC.

Nobody’s being pushed into other careers. They’re being required not to go around spreading death to the people in their care.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:38:31pm

re: #56 Blind Frog Belly White

Like he’d fucking know.

hey now, he has TWO DEGREES FROM MIT!!11!!!

which makes him an expert in everything.

sigh

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:39:30pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:39:30pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

hey now, he has TWO DEGREES FROM MIT!!11!!!

which makes him an expert in everything.

sigh

In what? Underwater Basketweaving?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:40:00pm

re: #64 Blind Frog Belly White

In what? Underwater Basketweaving?

Pompous Asshattery

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:40:29pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:40:49pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

my idiot congresscritter:

He at least panders to idiots, but the latest data does say that natural immunity is very good, so they probably shouldn’t have to vaccinate, especially considering how upsetting it is to these idiots.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:41:55pm

re: #61 Blind Frog Belly White

Nobody’s being pushed into other careers. They’re being required not to go around spreading death to the people in their care.

First do no harm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:41:55pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:42:26pm

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

Reminds me of Rango. To my shame, I didn’t take care of his teeth, so now at age almost 12, he’s reduced to 5 of them - his upper and lower fangs, plus one spare pointy on the lower left.

The Younger Boy says he’s now a Staple Remover.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:44:58pm

re: #64 Blind Frog Belly White

In what? Underwater Basketweaving?

Performative Dumbfuckery and Performative Assholery.

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Jay C  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:45:56pm

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I mean, I get that spouting off stupid nasty partisan shit on social media is pretty much all that Meghan McCain has left to do, but SRSLY?
“On vacation”???

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EPR-radar  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:46:29pm

re: #67 Punish Domestic Terrorists

He at least panders to idiots, but the latest data does say that natural immunity is very good, so they probably shouldn’t have to vaccinate, especially considering how upsetting it is to these idiots.

The problem is that redcaps are completely untrustworthy — the moment you say “no vax needed if you have natural immunity” then they will just lie about their prior infection and/or start whining if an antibody test is used to verify (if it’s even capable of verifying prior infection with sufficient accuracy).

The bottom line is that vaccine refusal and “hesitancy” in white conservatives is driven exclusively by the kind of willful stupidity that must be opposed at every opportunity, since if it is accommodated it just festers and grows into a larger problem.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:47:03pm
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William Lewis  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:47:22pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:48:16pm

I looked it up. His degrees are in Engineering, so of course he thinks - mistakenly - he’s been trained in Science. (with apologies to any engineers who know better)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:48:52pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:51:01pm

re: #59 Punish Domestic Terrorists

She knows she’s trash.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:51:33pm

re: #73 EPR-radar

The problem is that redcaps are completely untrustworthy — the moment you say “no vax needed if you have natural immunity” then they will just lie about their prior infection and/or start whining if an antibody test is used to verify (if it’s even capable of verifying prior infection with sufficient accuracy).

The bottom line is that vaccine refusal and “hesitancy” in white conservatives is driven exclusively by the kind of willful stupidity that must be opposed at every opportunity, since if it is accommodated it just festers and grows into a larger problem.

I would expect a documented case or antibody test would be required. You obviously can’t take the word of malicious assholes.

The universe is handling opposing willful-stupidity for us, when these idiots have to trade their health for their immunity, or give up their lives because they took the pre-scientific route.

I just wish we could vaccinate all kids, like six weeks ago.

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:51:52pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

Federal Judge meddling in state affairs for what reason?

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EPR-radar  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:53:51pm

re: #76 Blind Frog Belly White

I looked it up. His degrees are in Engineering, so of course he thinks - mistakenly - he’s been trained in Science. (with apologies to any engineers who know better)

Creationists and the like with engineering backgrounds are a stain on the profession.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:55:25pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:56:26pm

re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron

Good to moderate on most of the Peninsula today. Fingers crossed. I was on the verge of switching from riding IRL to Zwifting yesterday afternoon, because Woodside and Portola Valley were all >100 AQI, but then the wind kicked up.

On the plus side, better air.

On the minus side, well - wind.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:56:27pm

re: #80 Belafon

The judge in question is 85 years old and was appointed by Carter.

I still haven’t heard a reason why federal judges don’t have a mandatory retirement age. Oxford professors have to step down at 67.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:57:22pm

Insurance companies who waived fees on COVID treatment to stop waivers (if they haven’t already done so):

nbcnews.com

Michigan insurers to stop on Oct 1st.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:58:35pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 4:59:54pm
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PhillyPretzel  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:00:53pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another reason to give to PBS. ABC is now on my crumb list.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:01:34pm

re: #84 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

The judge in question is 85 years old and was appointed by Carter.

I still haven’t heard a reason why federal judges don’t have a mandatory retirement age. Oxford professors have to step down at 67.

Imma teach until I die. No other way I can retire.

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JC1  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:03:17pm

re: #47 aatharuv

So Republican Texas is the first to implement the Death Panels they said the Democrats were going to impose. Color me surprised.

Death panels are essentially needed. We have the technology to provide more end of life care than we can afford for everyone. That’s the bottom line.

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:04:31pm

re: #67 Punish Domestic Terrorists

He at least panders to idiots, but the latest data does say that natural immunity is very good, so they probably shouldn’t have to vaccinate, especially considering how upsetting it is to these idiots.

You’re still 2.4 times more likely to get reinfected than a vaccinated person. Your antibodies are lower. The advantage is you might only need one shot instead of two.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:05:59pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:08:08pm

oh dear

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:08:36pm

Legendary Detroit Tigers catcher Bill Freehan passed away, age 79 from Alzheimer’s.

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:10:04pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:10:13pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:11:12pm

hmmm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:13:48pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:14:52pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:15:39pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:17:17pm

I’m watching episode 2 of Search. I love this guest star.

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:24:28pm

The governor of New Jersey hasn’t signed the legislation banning private prison contracts in the state, and it’s been on his desk for two months:

m.dailykos.com

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:24:32pm

Welcome to the likely next rhetorical step: if someone that resisted masking and vaccines died; they were killed.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:26:47pm

re: #103 The Ghost of a Flea

Welcome to the next rhetorical step: if someone that resisted masking and vaccines died; they were killed.

I wonder whether Wood actually believes what he’s saying, or is this just part of his grift. If he does, that guy’s brain is a bag of squirrels.

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EstebanTornado1963  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:27:12pm

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

And this DUNT isn’t letting anybody comment in her tweets. Talk about a troll snowflake

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Charles Johnson  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:28:02pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:28:15pm

re: #104 Blind Frog Belly White

I wonder whether Wood actually believes what he’s saying, or is this just part of his grift. If he does, that guy’s brain is a bag of squirrels.

His brain is a bag of squirrels and nuts.

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Targetpractice  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:29:38pm

re: #103 The Ghost of a Flea

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Welcome to the likely next rhetorical step: if someone that resisted masking and vaccines died; they were killed.

Honestly, I’ve been wondering how long it would be before the MAGAts started insisting that COVID was a bioweapon created by the “Deep State” to wipe them out.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:31:42pm

re: #108 Targetpractice

Honestly, I’ve been wondering how long it would be before the MAGAts started insisting that COVID was a bioweapon created by the “Deep State” to wipe them out.

Pretty sure some have already gone there, like claiming Fauci is the creator of COVID. Can’t remember whether that was MTG or Boebert. Can’t tell the nutbags apart anymore.

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EPR-radar  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:31:56pm

re: #103 The Ghost of a Flea

People like Lin Wood can’t handle the truth.

The truth is that the covid bug is just a virus — anyone can get it, anyone can die from it.

Another truth is that there are only two things normal citizens can do to help themselves and others in this pandemic — masking + social distancing, and getting vaccinated.

A harder truth for the Lin Woods of the world is that they are members of a sociopathic cult which has latched onto anti masking and antivaxxing as a core political identity, based on spite, malice and wanting to oppose anything liberals say, do or suggest.

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Targetpractice  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:32:48pm

re: #106 Charles Johnson

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There are few things as disgusting as white people comparing their being inconvenienced to the worst horrors they have visited on minorities over the centuries. Being told you cannot enter a restaurant unless you’re vaccinated is not like being lynched, no matter how much it hurts you fee-fees.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:33:06pm

Bodega Cat art to soothe the soul

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Targetpractice  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:34:07pm

re: #109 Blind Frog Belly White

Pretty sure some have already gone there, like claiming Fauci is the creator of COVID. Can’t remember whether that was MTG or Boebert. Can’t tell the nutbags apart anymore.

Yeah, but now they’re slowly starting to move towards conspiracy theories that they’re being singled out, and there’s not much of a leap from there to believing that the conspiracy theory now is that medical workers are being ordered to execute wingnuts and cover it up by blaming it on COVID.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:37:05pm

re: #104 Blind Frog Belly White

I wonder whether Wood actually believes what he’s saying, or is this just part of his grift. If he does, that guy’s brain is a bag of squirrels.

I not sure it matters any more.

Sincerity and falseness aren’t really poles; people have base assumptions, then invent beliefs that fit their base assumptions with the full knowledge they’re fabricating, but then they repeat the fabrication enough they view their own falsehood as authentic. And it gets even more complicated than that when you look at the multiple forms of epistemology that a person can use to evaluate a thought. A lot of people see something as intuitively or emotionally true—it feels true to them—and then construct
“proofs” that resemble more concrete forms of episteme.

And as an observer it takes time and effort to divine the immovable parts of another person’s thought process—the base assumptions that don’t waver—and those foundational beliefs often aren’t even case-specific. Many people first assumption is that they can’t be wrong, and that people that disagree have to be malicious…and then everything after that is just a long string of improvisations and cold readings to defend that starting point.

So with a soup brain like Lin Wood he could start out a liar, convince himself it’s true because he needs it to be true because the alternative is the ego-wound of being wrong, but then circumstances require a new “truth” to protect those base assumptions so he changes his mind and authentically defend a new position. It’s the ship of Theseus but made entirely of awfulness and vanity.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:37:33pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:37:47pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:38:00pm

re: #103 The Ghost of a Flea

Rants like this shit from Lin Wood make me long for just one day where every political “lie from the pits of Hell” would see the liar instantly annihilated by lightning from a clear sky.

I think even wingnuts might get the idea 20+ hours into this.

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gocart mozart  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:40:40pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:42:35pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:44:28pm

Everybody’s responding to this by mentioning Operation Paperclip, as they should. But also…the Galen Organization, Otto Skorzeny, Shiro Ishii, Operation Gladio, Nobusuke Kishi.

To say nothing of the clean Wehrmacht myth that was very useful because we put all the commanding officers back into place because that was important for Cold War reasons

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:51:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:52:04pm

hi

Now that the founders made their millions off providing a safe space for sex workers, they are kicking off the sex workers.

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gwangung  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:54:21pm

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They also apparently got threatened by Visa, Mastercard AND the banks.

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William Lewis  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:54:41pm

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

hi

Now that the founders made their millions off providing a safe space for sex workers, they are kicking off the sex workers.

I figured it had more to do with the Anti-Porn folks coming down on the credit card companies. I’ve had to argue with my bank that, no, it was not a case of fraud and, yes, I really did want to subscribe to x’s account there.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:55:03pm
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jaunte  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:56:14pm

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe a bunch of Iowa GOP voters will write in Gaetz.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:56:42pm

re: #123 gwangung

They also apparently got threatened by Visa, Mastercard AND the banks.

That appears to be the reason. They have a choice of making the change, or no longer collecting fees in dollars. I know which route is much lower risk and won’t attract government scrutiny.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:57:33pm
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:57:34pm

Thoughts and/or counterpoints?

Let’s talk about equipment left behind….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:58:10pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 5:59:06pm

re: #127 Punish Domestic Terrorists

That appears to be the reason. They have a choice of making the change, or no longer collecting fees in dollars. I know which route is much lower risk and won’t attract government scrutiny.

Is that why Tumblr destroyed their business? Or was it a Liar for Jesus on their board who used that as the excuse? PornHub seems to have no trouble dealing with banks.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:00:45pm

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The C suite goes public and gives themselves a jillion dollars in bonuses, and everyone else can eat shit and die. Capitalism 101.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:01:31pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:09:59pm

re: #123 gwangung

They also apparently got threatened by Visa, Mastercard AND the banks.

Banks: OnlyFans, we would like to give you all the money, as opposed to the mere a great deal of money, but there’s just one problem with your business plan that’s deterring investors.

OnlyFans: Tell us. Being porn landlords just hasn’t made us all the money, and that’s the only thing that matters.

Banks: Well…your pornographic site has too much pornography on it.

OnlyFans: Come again? Hopefully context indicates that’s not a literal command.

Banks: Look, this is a reputable institution and it’s not like you’re a shell company moving money Russian mobsters make from actually selling women, or a dictator’s slush account. Dick and pussy adjacent money is fungibly dirty.

OnlyFans: Pardon?

Banks: Your site is nasty. Nasty money has hidden liabilities that venture capitalists find unappealing. [consults chart] See here? Nasty money is indexed as worth far less money than fake cancer cure money or stolen from exploded peasants money. It’s a bad risk. Can’t tarnish our reputation.

OnlyFans: So in this entirely rational economic system the valuation of our company that derives entirely from the cut we get from sales on porn…but we would be worth more if there was no porn?

Banks: Obviously. You would be worth all the money. Exactly like video game companies: the more you do video games the worse you’re an investment. Do less video game per video game and you can make all the money, forever.

OnlyFans: So how do we do this? After all, we do want all the money.

Banks: Currently you’re sitting at balls nasty, and we need to get you down to merely slightly nasty.

OnlyFans: Look, this is confusing but perhaps we can meet you halfway and merely be hella nasty.

Banks: Nope, as you can see on this chart hella nasty stymies growth by 70% per quarter.

OnlyFans: Thanks for the advice, this makes perfect sense. Clearly consumers, who are perfectly rational actors as we all know because that is the basic assumption of all classic economic theory, will appreciate when we remove their ability to purchase explicit material from our site that exists primarily as a marketplace of custom explicit material.

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Targetpractice  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:10:46pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Is that why Tumblr destroyed their business? Or was it a Liar for Jesus on their board who used that as the excuse? PornHub seems to have no trouble dealing with banks.

Tumblr got delisted from the App store because Apple claimed to have found child porn images, so they went with the nuclear option and just deleted all adult content.

And Pornhub basically went “Library of Alexandria” to its own archives when the CC companies and banks accused them of hosting child porn and rape videos, promising that only videos from “verified” accounts could be posted going forward.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:11:50pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Is that why Tumblr destroyed their business? Or was it a Liar for Jesus on their board who used that as the excuse? PornHub seems to have no trouble dealing with banks.

Well, PornHub got in trouble with processors and banks before. They had to hatchet a bunch of amateur material of dubious provenance to get back in good grace.

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danarchy  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:12:22pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Is that why Tumblr destroyed their business? Or was it a Liar for Jesus on their board who used that as the excuse? PornHub seems to have no trouble dealing with banks.

Except when they had to delete millions of videos because the banks refused to process their transactions.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:13:50pm

re: #101 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I’m watching episode 2 of Search. I love this guest star.

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Researching episode 1 - script was tight, and O’Brien was good as Lockwood.

Shame it was only one season long….

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:14:16pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:14:49pm

Hey OnlyFans! Welcome to much the same place legal weed has been for some time now.

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:17:15pm

re: #139 jaunte
The Onion
Disappointed Taliban Realizes Taking Over Afghanistan More Fun Than Running It

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—Following the terrorist organization’s rapid recapture of the Central Asian country, a disappointed Taliban informed reporters Wednesday that taking over Afghanistan had turned out to be way more fun than running it. “Obviously, storming the smaller cities and plowing toward the capital was a total blast, but now that we actually have to govern this place, it’s actually kind of a slog,” said Taliban supreme commander Haibatullah Akhundzada, describing his shock at how much of a “drag” it was to administer an impoverished country without any functioning infrastructure or durable goods that had been ravaged by two decades of warfare. “I became a terrorist to terrorize—to detonate IEDs and shoot rocket launchers at American tanks. If you had told me that instead I’d be spending most of my time trying to develop a unified national identity around fragmented tribal communities spread out over thousands of miles of mountainous terrain, I never would have signed up. Now I get why America wanted no part of this.” At press time, the Taliban decided to give up on governing and just enjoy killing people instead.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:20:59pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:21:50pm

re: #5 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:27:13pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:27:40pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:28:01pm

re: #116 Charles Johnson

That was because they didn’t investigate the Klan.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:29:33pm

re: #145 Patricia Kayden

Hey Greg! GO FUCK YOURSELF!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:30:54pm

This is disappointing

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:31:49pm

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BogeyMon  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:32:03pm

So, from the “your world doesn’t suck so much” department. Mother Nature is a bitch with an attitude. reporting from Canton, NC, up the Pigeon River, with 17” of rain in 24 hours. I had search and rescue rafts in the river behind my house poking the river banks for 20+ people who are missing. Houses washed off the foundations, roads washed out, but that doesn’t matter, people do. hug the one you’re with!
Fuck TFG!

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:32:09pm

It would suck so much to have a psycho racist neighbor.

Jan Myers, a 72-year-old white woman who was arrested in April and charged with a hate crime after allegedly hurling slurs at a Vietnamese neighbor, was accused in a lawsuit this week of continuing to harass the woman’s family in violation of a no-contact order.

But on Wednesday, police say, Myers was at it once again: this time allegedly attacking the family with her car.

Neighbor Already Charged With Hate Crime Tries to Run Over Victim’s Husband, Cops Say (The Daily Beast)

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:32:50pm

re: #138 Eric The Fruit Bat

Researching episode 1 - script was tight, and O’Brien was good as Lockwood.

Shame it was only one season long….

I loved it as a kid.

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Nojay UK  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:36:58pm

re: #148 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

This is disappointing

Memories of a discussion with someone who was part of the process — Boeing got “into space” by buying Hughes Aircraft Corporation which didn’t build aircraft any more but boy could they build spacecraft, usually for spook reasons (see also Glomar Challenger etc.). Boeing decided that commercial aircraft manufacturing processes, materials and engineering would work for spacecraft so they fired all the nitpickers and fussbudgets they inherited from HAC because they were impacting the financial bottom line. The result (predictably) was a decade and more of dismal failures on the launch pad and in orbit. This fuckup seems to be more of the same, unfortunately.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:40:19pm

This conservaliar should be reported.

aappublications.org

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:43:13pm

re: #149 Patricia Kayden

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So, -i?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:46:10pm

re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This conservaliar should be reported.

aappublications.org

Done

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:46:46pm

re: #72 Jay C

I mean, I get that spouting off stupid nasty partisan shit on social media is pretty much all that Meghan McCain has left to do, but SRSLY?
“On vacation”???

That has been a Republican politician and pundit talking point for a couple days now.

They received their orders from on high to equate “Camp David” with “vacation” and they’re all doing it.

Totally not a religion though.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:51:24pm

re: #84 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

The judge in question is 85 years old and was appointed by Carter.

I still haven’t heard a reason why federal judges don’t have a mandatory retirement age. Oxford professors have to step down at 67.

Age discrimination is against the Civil Rights Act.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:51:53pm

re: #153 Nojay UK

Memories of a discussion with someone who was part of the process — Boeing got “into space” by buying Hughes Aircraft Corporation which didn’t build aircraft any more but boy could they build spacecraft, usually for spook reasons (see also Glomar Challenger etc.). Boeing decided that commercial aircraft manufacturing processes, materials and engineering would work for spacecraft so they fired all the nitpickers and fussbudgets they inherited from HAC because they were impacting the financial bottom line. The result (predictably) was a decade and more of dismal failures on the launch pad and in orbit. This fuckup seems to be more of the same, unfortunately.

The problem appears to be a mechanical failure due to atmospheric moisture buildup within Aerojet Rocketdyne’s maneuvering thrusters. They have a rather extensive and successful history in spaceflight.

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BogeyMon  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:52:51pm

Damn! one comment and I killed the thread, take the cannoli…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:56:26pm

About damn time

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:57:54pm

re: #149 Patricia Kayden

Zero from the imaginary number system.

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2021 • 6:59:54pm

re: #155 The Pie Overlord!

So, -i?

Just because i know this: i^i is a real number.

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:01:35pm

This doctor starts out with a story about a patient who made every wrong choice with respect to covid and then goes after every excuse people have for not getting the vaccine.

latimes.com

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:02:37pm
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Decatur Deb  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:07:56pm

re: #165 Belafon

What are the good trouble options available?

1. Mount garden water misters on the lawn.
2. Leave empty gallon jugs labeled “Pfizer” or “Moderna” near them.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:08:04pm

re: #153 Nojay UK

Memories of a discussion with someone who was part of the process — Boeing got “into space” by buying Hughes Aircraft Corporation which didn’t build aircraft any more but boy could they build spacecraft, usually for spook reasons (see also Glomar Challenger etc.). Boeing decided that commercial aircraft manufacturing processes, materials and engineering would work for spacecraft so they fired all the nitpickers and fussbudgets they inherited from HAC because they were impacting the financial bottom line. The result (predictably) was a decade and more of dismal failures on the launch pad and in orbit. This fuckup seems to be more of the same, unfortunately.

I think you mean McDonnell-Douglas. Hughes as a whole was never part of Boeing. The Hughes parent company, Summa, sold Hughes Helicopters Inc. to McDonnell-Douglas in 1984 and that division passed to Boeing when it took over MD in 1997. Boeing had been involved in space for many years by then. They built the first stage for the Saturn V, for example.
Most of Hughes remaining aerospace operations stayed with Summa until they were bought at auction by Raytheon in 1985. Boeing was one of the failed bidders. Hughes Space remained independent however. Boeing finally acquired control of Hughes Space in 2000.
The notoriously ruthless bean counters and their corporate culture were famously brought over from MD at the time of the 1997 merger. This was more involved with aircraft than space (see 737 MAX), but their dire influence does indeed seem to have bled over into the space operation.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:08:18pm

re: #163 Belafon

Just because i know this: i^i is a real number.

e^i^π = -1

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:10:00pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:11:06pm

From leaked Capitol video:

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Belafon  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:14:00pm

re: #168 The Pie Overlord!

e^i^π = -1

i^i = (-1)^(i/2) = (e^(iπ))^(i/2) = e^(iiπ/2) = e^(-π/2)

Writing that out on the phone was painful.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:15:45pm

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

Why is a chapel allowed to donate to a political campaign? (That was the same church which allowed Mr. Elder to give an overt speech from the pulpit last week.)

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Teukka  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:16:02pm

This floated by… Crypto scam on Discord uses fake news websites

Well, that’s because people who peruse fake news sites are more likely to be easy marks for the scammers. Boy did some get butthurt at that remark…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:19:10pm

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:21:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:22:28pm
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jaunte  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:24:01pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:26:53pm

re: #177 jaunte

Ya beat me to it as I was busy forwarding that to @RacismDog

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:28:28pm

Even lower ranked enlisted personnel understand delegation of authority. It is one of the basic qualities of military leadership.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:32:55pm

re: #178 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Ya beat me to it as I was busy forwarding that to @RacismDog

So, Dan has given up on sacrificing old people and is now concentrating on “others.” @RacismDog will be howling at the Moon. Even more than usual.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:33:09pm

re: #151 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It would suck so much to have a psycho racist neighbor.

Neighbor Already Charged With Hate Crime Tries to Run Over Victim’s Husband, Cops Say (The Daily Beast)

It sucks harder to have a judge who insists the psycho has to actually kill or injure you to be taken seriously.

McNerthney said his office was alerted about the arrest, and that the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office asked a judge to hold Myers in jail on $25,000 bail, arguing she is a danger to the community based on the escalating behavior, her pending hate-crime case, and Pham and her family’s fear of her.

However, McNerthney said, a judge set bail at $10,000 because of Myers’ lack of conviction history. The judge did, however, find probable cause for the violation of the no-contact order.

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Teukka  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:33:53pm

re: #165 Belafon

From further down that thread:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:35:33pm

The three families meeting to discuss the upcoming garbage hauling contract awards

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:37:55pm

re: #180 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

So, Dan has given up on sacrificing old people and is now concentrating on “others.” @RacismDog will be howling at the Moon. Even more than usual.

I knew they were going to go there when about a month ago “compassionate conservatives” started making arguments that vaccination rates were lower amongst Black people because of past treatment.

That was the cover for the conservative’s actual self-interest: racism.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:38:55pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:40:23pm
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jaunte  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:41:41pm
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jaunte  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:43:18pm
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Teukka  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:45:20pm

re: #186 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:46:15pm

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

1. Sowing

2. Massive global conspiracy by foreigners and weirdos to change the outcome for which there is only spectral evidence

3. Reaping

4. Punitive actions against evil Marxist Nazis that suggest that fucking around correlates to finding out.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:46:52pm

re: #185 A Mom Anon

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gwangung  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:47:22pm

re: #181 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Really taking anti-Asian hate seriously around here…..grumble…

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Dangerman  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:50:51pm

re: #181 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It sucks harder to have a judge who insists the psycho has to actually kill or injure you to be taken seriously.

“Lack of conviction history….”

We ALL start out the same.
No one is a criminal…

Then some turn

…. till the first time

First timers should not get special bail consideration.

Do I really have to explain why?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:53:10pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:53:40pm

re: #180 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

So, Dan has given up on sacrificing old people and is now concentrating on “others.” @RacismDog will be howling at the Moon. Even more than usual.

Wait a second! Weren’t they going with the rise in cases in Texas was due to Covid infected undocumented immigrants surging into the country from Mexico? What changed their mind????

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Dangerman  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:54:41pm

re: #195 Hecuba’s daughter

Wait a second! Weren’t they going with the rise in cases in Texas was due to Covid infected undocumented immigrants surging into the country from Mexico? What changed their mind????

The story wasnt sticking

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:55:35pm

re: #196 Dangerman

If at first it doesn’t stick, up the melanin count.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:57:32pm

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

hi

Now that the founders made their millions off providing a safe space for sex workers, they are kicking off the sex workers.

And may their platform burn to the ground for doing it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 7:58:24pm

re: #129 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Thoughts and/or counterpoints?

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On the issue of helicopters and attack aircraft falling into the hands of the Taliban: How many pilots do they have? How many mechanics do they have? Where do they get parts?

On the issue of radio communications equipment falling into Taliban hands: There is nothing secret about radio, and at least when I worked in ECM and such, you would put your life at risk to destroy those particular pieces of equipment or manuals before allowing them to be captured.

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wrenchwench  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:00:43pm

He made it less clear, but he gave a link to the source:

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William Lewis  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:00:47pm

re: #193 Dangerman

“Lack of conviction history….”

We ALL start out the same.
No one is a criminal…

Then some turn

…. till the first time

First timers should not get special bail consideration.

Do I really have to explain why?

It’s a very common practice, especially for white folks but that depends on the judge. The basic idea is that many people don’t want more trouble and shame will keep them in line. But then you have nuts like her.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:01:14pm

re: #195 Hecuba’s daughter

Wait a second! Weren’t they going with the rise in cases in Texas was due to Covid infected undocumented immigrants surging into the country from Mexico? What changed their mind????

It’s a “flood the zone” thing.

You’re not trying to convincing sell any one lie, you’re just creating a cloud of emotional discharge that your audience participates in because the alternative is choices have consequences.

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William Lewis  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:01:29pm

re: #198 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

And may their platform burn to the ground for doing it.

Tumblr is dying since they changed.

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William Lewis  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:02:31pm

re: #199 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They do have frequency hoppers and the like but so do the Russians and everyone else these days so no big deal really.

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jaunte  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:10:18pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:15:25pm

re: #199 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

On the issue of helicopters and attack aircraft falling into the hands of the Taliban: How many pilots do they have? How many mechanics do they have? Where do they get parts?

On the issue of radio communications equipment falling into Taliban hands: There is nothing secret about radio, and at least when I worked in ECM and such, you would put your life at risk to destroy those particular pieces of equipment or manuals before allowing them to be captured.

I suspect that most, if not all, of the airworthy planes and choppers have absconded to Pakistan. I saw a pic of the Taliban showing off a captured A-29 attack aircraft. The text said they had exactly one of these. The Afghan AF reportedly had 19 of them before the collapse.
Much the same happened with the much larger South Vietnamese Air Force during the collapse in 1975, though many planes and especially choppers stayed. The Royal Thai Air Force subsequently equipped whole squadrons with escaped VNAF aircraft. The most famous such aircraft is in the US, though: The Cessna O-1 Bird Dog that Major Bung-Ly landed aboard the carrier USS Midway after cramming his wife and 5 children into the nominal 2-seater and escaping from Cong Son Island. He had never seen an aircraft carrier before. The aircraft is on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:23:50pm

re: #171 Belafon

i^i = (-1)^(i/2) = (e^(iπ))^(i/2) = e^(iiπ/2) = e^(-π/2)

Writing that out on the phone was painful.

I was told there would be no maths.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:26:26pm

re: #203 William Lewis

Tumblr is dying since they changed.

Good.

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austin_blue  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:26:40pm

Biggest death toll Texas today since the end of March for COVID.

And it will be worse tomorrow and tomorrow and next week and next week.

If the US won’t require jabs, the State’s should. If they don’t, shut down all Federal monies to them.

(I know, it’s a bulkshite wish, but I want to see the Executive try it and see if the State’s either see it through the Courts or cave.)

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ckkatz  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:32:52pm

re: #206 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Hundreds of Afghan soldiers have fled over the border to Uzbekistan with dozens of military aircraft and helicopters

Hundreds of Afghan soldiers fled to Uzbekistan taking 22 military planes and 24 helicopters with them, as the Taliban tighten their grip on Kabul, according to a Reuters report.

businessinsider.com

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gwangung  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:40:14pm

re: #201 William Lewis

It’s a very common practice, especially for white folks but that depends on the judge. The basic idea is that many people don’t want more trouble and shame will keep them in line. But then you have nuts like her.

Pattern of escalation could have easily justified a higher bail.

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ckkatz  Aug 19, 2021 • 8:40:51pm

re: #129 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Beau is probably correct.

Much of the equipment is available commercially.

Most of the rest is similar to what every organized military in the world already has. Plus, it will be hard for an untrained, irregular and illiterate peasant army run by a bunch of neo-medieval religious fanatics to use it correctly, and maintain and get spare parts for.

The biggest worry is likely to be equipment that the Afghan National Army would not likely have had in the first place, such as ManPads. (Man portable air defense systems, like the 1980’s stingers.)

It will be interesting to see how much of the stuff is still running in 10 years.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 19, 2021 • 9:12:08pm

re: #152 Punish Domestic Terrorists

So didi

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 20, 2021 • 1:55:57am

re: #106 Charles Johnson

As if Carlson wouldn’t support lynchings if he lived in the pre-Civil Rights era. He supports police shooting and killing unarmed Black people right now.


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