In Stephen’s Tuesday night monologue he looks at revelations from Bob Woodward’s new book, which alleges that China and the Pentagon each had serious concerns about the former president’s access to nuclear weapons, and he checks on friend of the show Nicki Minaj after her comments about vaccines set off a social media firestorm. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
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Here’s an index of all the postings in #thegreatpoolpondconversion
oi luv full english brekkie pizza innit pic.twitter.com/dxxkDXqC5e
— einstürzende neuböltōn, Ph.D. 🇮🇹👑 (@AmbJohnBoIton) September 12, 2021
OK. This is definitely a step too far.
LOL
BREAKING: Vaccinated Left wing radio host who promoted vaccines, fine.
— Titus (@TitusNation) September 14, 2021
re: #2 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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OK. This is definitely a step too far.
Where’s the pineapple?
When 2021 steps up it’s WTF game pic.twitter.com/yEwxvEOnk0
— Titus (@TitusNation) September 15, 2021
re: #5 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I rewatched his TV series recently. It still holds up.
It really does. Underrated gem of a show.
Little prick brings a knife to a school board fight…
Attended the Henderson County School Board meeting tonight to speak for continued mask mandates for schools. Meanwhile, @RepCawthorn must have feared for his life, seeing as he brought a knife to the meeting. #TogetherWeCan pic.twitter.com/bhTXYXu6uX
— JayCareyforCongress (@jrcareyncdist11) September 14, 2021
The map on the left is the recall results. The one on the right is the current COVID situation. pic.twitter.com/5An0GV13hg
— Eric Ball (@DrEricBall) September 15, 2021
My gob, it is smacked.
Don’t be afraid, little buddy. We won’t hurt you. Come on out of there, little guy. pic.twitter.com/zVFUSyIp8S
— Thinkwert (@Thinkwert) September 11, 2021
re: #10 ericblair
My gob, it is smacked.
This correlation is obviously due to both things being driven by antisocial stupidity.
re: #308 Teukka
That last paragraph… [tinfoil]
What if they believe that if they get the ‘rona, they’ll make it, and support anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-social distancing, anti-hand hygiene, etc. to be able to spread it so it can take out whoever they regard as Untermensch? 🤔
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For most it’s not that direct, it’s more that their dictum is Margaret Thatcher’s old chestnut about how their is no society, only individuals. This position is then filtered through a bunch of different perspectives that all emphasize that sickness is a kind of choice, and suffering from sickness is a kind of judgement, and thus illness is a functional of personal responsibility. So being well is a sign virtue/savviness/vague superiority, and those that get sick should not be empathized with, nor should money be spent to prevent people from getting sick.
It’s the individualism of fools, where you have to add meritocratic qualia and hierarchical distinctions to neutral experiences for self-validation. You can see this beyond wingnuts: it’s part of how capitalism sells health as a product, and part of how supplement pushers and quacks push medicine by assigning it qualia that are less about actual effect and more about consuming your identity. You are not buying a pill, you are buying how the pill makes you feel, but your milieu blurs the line between the two.
Hence the recurring “I didn’t think this would happen to me, this is what happens to other people” tableau that plays out.
But this dovetails with the base assumption that hierarchy is inherently good to create sentiments that edge closer and closer to Social Darwinism: there are lesser kinds of people that will get sick, and it is wrong to care about them getting sick. “They died, let us not linger on why they died because it’s not important” isn’t just an American thing—it’s how you have an empire that starves Indians to make sure the British have enough cotton—but Americans have their own landrace varieties. NIMBYism often creates a dilemma in which a kind of person cannot be helped but also cannot violate societal rules to ensure their own survival…leaving only the choice to cease being in society by either dying or fleeing. The way that everything is monetized in the US, but money is seen as an indicator of virtue, produces a particular kind of NIMBY thinking where the person simply has to die because the alternative is to give them unearned resources.
We are seeing a lot of “I am not supposed to care about people that aren’t as good as me” playing out in the pandemic: it is not the holders of this position want people to die, they just want their deaths to communicate nothing about the values of the society and to have no ethical implications, (for there are kinds of people that death happens to, passive voice, and thus need not be remarked). Compassion is stressful; critical thinking provides unpleasant feedback about the stability of the comfort provided by the status quo.
If your paramount value is your own comfort, you can construct a worldview in which bad things that happen to other people do not signify that bad things could happen to you. If you’re particularly invested in self-gratification, you can choose to view the suffering of others as a form of victory.
re: #7 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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re: #15 teleskiguy
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I keep thinking of the Simpsons’ “We’ve tried nothing, man, and we’re all out of ideas.”
So last week, I ordered a Ring security camera and a solar panel to keep it charged (rather than plugging it in). The camera arrived, but the mounting kit and solar panel did not. After the deadline had passed, the Amazon representative said it was “lost in transit” and helped me organize a new delivery. The mounting kit arrived today, and I think I see the problem with the previous order: The Amazon delivery woman rocked up in a Hertz rental van. I suspect that their Amazon van may have been in an unfortunate accident.
The latest entrant in sorryantivaxxer.com is tragic. He spent 15 years on death row after being coerced into confessing, and got released thanks to Project Innocence in 2012. I guess if anyone had a right to believe in a government conspiracy it was him, but it cost him his life after only 9 years of freedom. sorryantivaxxer.com
re: #16 Belafon
I keep thinking of the Simpsons’ “We’ve tried nothing, man, and we’re all out of ideas.”
Or “Can’t someone else do it?”
Little Boy Q is at it again.
Another day of RonAnon hyping PSBSR as the second coming of whatever the last nonsense hopium was that was supposed to change everything. Maybe it stands for Please Stop Bull Shitting, Ron. pic.twitter.com/UPSyhYE6K3
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) September 8, 2021
This is the whole right wing package. Barely hidden racism, historical ignorance, and whining phony victimhood. Guaranteed to sell to the base. https://t.co/vPkP20st2g
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 15, 2021
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re: #24 We all walks this ways
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re: #13 The Ghost of a Flea
If your paramount value is your own comfort, you can construct a worldview in which bad things that happen to other people do not signify that bad things could happen to you. If you’re particularly invested in self-gratification, you can choose to view the suffering of others as a form of victory.
This is the thing that informs conservatism—which started as a defense of monarchy but expanded its definition of hierarchy over time—but is absolutely essential to the kind of fascism we’ve got bubbling right now. There’s a pyramid of kinds of people, and it’s right and good to have an entirely inverted moral system when dealing with one’s inferiors, because that is the most important proof of one’s own specialness and importance.
That isn’t eugenics because you’re not trying to trim away “negative traits” to smooth out the function of society. Rather, it’s just a caste system: there will always be a distinction, that distinction will always produce worse outcomes for designated inferiors, and it is not the job of the superior to improve those conditions. Periodically this will slide into eliminationism, but that’s just an extreme variation of the day to day reinforcement of arbitrary abuse of power.
In this framework the greatest misdeed is to suggest that the high and the low are of a common substance and suffer, as individuals, in identical ways.
The rhetoric of conservative mouthpieces about COVID is not about the virus, it’s about maintaining the conceit that the Right Kind of People (their kind) are not experiencing the same kind of arbitrary suffering as the Wrong Kind of People and it is immoral and incorrect to identify the commonality…
…which is why they engage is the same kind of self-contradiction on everything. The power dynamic supercedes and informs all morality.
re: #26 Teddy’s Person
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re: #23 Charles Johnson
We could not reach notable angsty white rock and roller, Chuck Berry, for comment.
All this talk about whether Gen. Milly “did the right thing” by taking action to prevent a clearly deranged Trump from launching a nuclear strike.
Did I miss something, or were there lots of other people doing that too?
Because hear me out, that would have been bad.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 15, 2021
re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea
We could not reach notable angsty white rock and roller, Chuck Berry, for comment.
Also not available for comment is notable angsty male rock and roller, Janis Joplin.
re: #17 Dopamine Fish
So last week, I ordered a Ring security camera and a solar panel to keep it charged (rather than plugging it in). The camera arrived, but the mounting kit and solar panel did not. After the deadline had passed, the Amazon representative said it was “lost in transit” and helped me organize a new delivery. The mounting kit arrived today, and I think I see the problem with the previous order: The Amazon delivery woman rocked up in a Hertz rental van. I suspect that their Amazon van may have been in an unfortunate accident.
Mmm solar panels…
re: #30 Charles Johnson
There is a valid concern, in that we don’t want the military to become completely disconnected from the government and to basically become a law unto itself. That way lies madness. However, it’s sounding more and more like General Milley followed appropriate procedures and involved people from the Defense and State Departments, so I’m not worried about it anymore.
re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea
We could not reach notable angsty white rock and roller, Chuck Berry, for comment.
“But that’s not rock ‘n roll.”
re: #32 Dangerman
Mmm solar panels…
I’m doing what I can. I told Mrs. Fish that I hope to do a solar install in our next home - which I plan to be our last.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
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Pseudoscience is a crackpot idea.
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Political-cult behavior is crackpot.
People who invest in them and traffic in them are either crackpots or PT Barnums.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
what is sad is that Milley had to go to such lengths to protect the world, if not the country because the GOP and the 45 Administration wouldn’t do what was obvious to everyone else that the man was unfit for any government position much less the President. If Milley broke any laws, I’m sure he weighed that against what he felt was in the actual best interests of the country in accounting for the possibility of being fired for not following what he felt would be illegal orders and Trump just whistling up a different toady to carry out his desires.
Why You Shouldn’t Trust the FLCCC Protocol and Other COVID Self-Treatment Plans
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“What’s most shocking to me is that the FLCCC protocol, which is being passed around as a PDF, does not include any kind of pregnancy warning on its instructions for using these drugs. Several other drugs in the protocol have a note about pregnancy: There’s a note that the iodine nasal spray should only be used for five days if the patient is pregnant, a footnote that the safety of Ivermectin in pregnancy has not been established, and a note recommending pregnancy as one of the risk factors to use when deciding whether to use antibody therapy.”
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There were several reasons I refused to stay in the “secure location” on the 6th. This was one of them.
Few people want to discuss the reality and implications of this because it’s politically difficult, fraught, and unpopular, but it’s right there. And we need to talk about it. https://t.co/S0ehDQk9Xj— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 15, 2021
re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea
We could not reach notable angsty white rock and roller, Chuck Berry, for comment.
Notably angsty white rock’n’roller Sister Rosetta Tharpe was also unavailable for comment.
Daily Wire: “Let’s do one of our typical racisms but … just here me out guys … let’s make this one extra stupid.” https://t.co/cqlR5o93KV
— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 15, 2021
re: #33 Dopamine Fish
Adding minor point:
There is a valid concern, in that we don’t want the military to become completely disconnected from the government and to basically become
a law unto itselfthe President’s personal militia. That way lies madness. However, it’s sounding more and more like General Milley followed appropriate procedures and involved people from the Defense and State Departments, so I’m not worried about it anymore.
And yes, the more info that comes out (pace Woodward’s “scoop’), the more it is obvious that Gen. Milley was not acting “on his own”, and followed the appropriate protocols. And that Republican/wingnut fauxtrage is just displaced anger that their idol, Trump, was outed (again!) as an unstable and dangerous incompetent.
Lol the health minister of Trinidad & Tobago had to publicly address a claim about Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s balls https://t.co/FFL7JD7tGG
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) September 15, 2021
re: #10 ericblair
My gob, it is smacked.
That whole upper third is where the wingnuts hang out. The eastern green part is very sparsely populated.
Heh.
Gavin Newsom saves dozens of lives by preventing Caitlyn Jenner victory road rally
— NoLongerYourFriendHat (@Popehat) September 15, 2021
Saying the quiet part out loud.
— Bad Vaccine Takes (@BadVaccineTakes) September 15, 2021
re: #50 The Pie Overlord!
Saying the quiet part out loud.
“I would prefer to be known as a pure blooded”
In a few months, you’ll likely be known as dead. How about that?
re: #50 The Pie Overlord!
Drinks only unprocessed, natural water fresh from the sheep pasture.
re: #9 JOE 🥓
Little prick brings a knife to a school board fight…
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re: #53 Decatur Deb
He used to have an emotional support tree, but he punched it out.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
All the right wingers are claiming Milley was out of turn, engaging in treason by overstepping command authority, when it was clear that Esper also thought the same thing, and Milley was acting in accordance with Sec. Def. Esper.
Everyone around Trump know he was going to burn everything down, or threaten to do so when he lost (and he did).
That’s the problem. Everyone knew, and far too many decided to save their information for the tell all books, instead of yelling to every reporter in earshot that Trump is a deranged lunatic who should be removed from office and is a clear and present danger to the nation.
They all failed on this spectacularly, and the GOP decided to back the deranged lunatic.
re: #45 Jay C
Adding minor point:
And yes, the more info that comes out (pace Woodward’s “scoop’), the more it is obvious that Gen. Milley was not acting “on his own”, and followed the appropriate protocols. And that Republican/wingnut fauxtrage is just displaced anger that their idol, Trump, was outed (again!) as an unstable and dangerous incompetent.
They’re dropping quotes to sell the book
Little by little were getting “the rest of the story”. (H/t Paul Harvey)
re: #55 lawhawk
Treason is the wrong word for it anyway. Treason has a very specific Constitutional definition, and what he did - IF it broke the law - well, that ain’t it, chief.
The urge to whimper, grovel and excuse ANY level of abuse was instilled in Lindsay at a very young age.
“They spoke again the next day, according to the book, and Graham said he didn’t blame Trump for hanging up. Trump lamented he would “lose my base” if he changed. But Graham urged Trump to focus on 2024, saying it would be the “biggest comeback in American history.”
“I think he’s redeemable,” Graham concluded of Trump, according to the authors. “I think he’s got magic and I think he’s got darkness.”
re: #55 lawhawk
We’re finding out daily how close to complete chaos we’ve been for months.
A 40-year friend of a Capitol Police officer reported the officer for disclosing the secure location he evacuated lawmakers to on Jan. 6.
The friend believed the officer was aligned with the rioters, per USCP discipline reports obtained by McClatchy.https://t.co/Huo6gG4bUb pic.twitter.com/wG7wnsrkqh— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 15, 2021
re: #53 Decatur Deb
That’s his Emotional Service Knife.
Bringing a knife to a gun fight? North Carolina has open carry, doesn’t it? And since the knife is behind him, how does this help protect him from someone behind him?
Aw fuckit. Forget making sense of this crap. They’re more afraid of the big bad black dude (which is their go-to for claiming to be insecure and needing the guns in the first place) but crime in NC is relatively low, all while you have a far greater chance of dying from covid because they wont wear a goddamned mask because freedumb.
re: #2 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
OK. This is definitely a step too far.
A Scottish breakfast pizza would have to be deep fried…
Back later.
Bambi saves Thumper
Deer saving a rabbit from a hawk attack.. pic.twitter.com/zyEHKTFArq
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 15, 2021
re: #44 gocart mozart
It’s gonzo porn but for politics.
The narrative doesn’t need to make sense, just crank the titillation to 11.
Trinidad and Tobago return fire at Nicki Minaj
.@NICKIMINAJ, you got some explaining to do.
According to Trinidad & Tobago’s Minister of Health Terrance Deyalsingh, it looks like you’re lying — NO REPORTS of such COVID-19 side effects.
Looks like that “cousin” of yours and those balls are cap. pic.twitter.com/Ne74MV5HEz— Ernest Owens (@MrErnestOwens) September 15, 2021
Here is how the Nicki Minaj story was covered on CNC3 Television in Port of Spain, Trinidad. I assure you this is worth all 2:20 and it’s probably better than any U.S. network covered the story pic.twitter.com/LjO1CMlq1z
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 15, 2021
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A Scottish breakfast pizza would have to be deep fried…
After being wrapped in a sheep’s gut.
re: #36 We all walks this ways
“They took our music, mannn…”
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The idea of Pat Boone recording “Long Tall Sally ” is too funny.
Long Tall Sally from Ann’s Tick Tok “restaurant ” in Macon GA in the 1950s.
And Long Tall Sally was probably trans.
And in defense of Little Richard (his road manager was a close friend), Little Richard was non-sexual, he just liked to watch.
For millennia, Jewish communities have marked Yom Kippur as an occasion to reflect and pray; fast and seek forgiveness; account for past transgressions, and commit to future change.
Jill and I extend our very best wishes for an easy and meaningful fast to all who observe.— President Biden (@POTUS) September 15, 2021
re: #64 Teukka
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all newscasters should have that ‘accent’!
Here is how the Nicki Minaj story was covered on CNC3 Television in Port of Spain, Trinidad. I assure you this is worth all 2:20 and it’s probably better than any U.S. network covered the story pic.twitter.com/LjO1CMlq1z
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 15, 2021
re: #66 Decatur Deb
I’d peel off the sheep’s gut and eat the pizza.
Co-written by Gaiman and Lenny Henry.
Amazon’s next Neil Gaiman adaptation has found its main star (MSN)
re: #55 lawhawk
All the right wingers are claiming Milley was out of turn, engaging in treason by overstepping command authority, when it was clear that Esper also thought the same thing, and Milley was acting in accordance with Sec. Def. Esper.
Everyone around Trump know he was going to burn everything down, or threaten to do so when he lost (and he did).
That’s the problem. Everyone knew, and far too many decided to save their information for the tell all books, instead of yelling to every reporter in earshot that Trump is a deranged lunatic who should be removed from office and is a clear and present danger to the nation.
They all failed on this spectacularly, and the GOP decided to back the deranged lunatic.
yeah we’re learning that org charts and general moral principles don’t actually mix very well
Mesa High is on lockdown after a report of a suspicious device. Avoid the area. Please use Gilbert or Stapley to get around.
— Mesa Police Dept. (@MesaPD) September 15, 2021
Any reports of a device being found are incorrect at this time.
— Mesa Police Dept. (@MesaPD) September 15, 2021
All students have now been evacuated from campus. Southern Avenue is still shut down at Harris. Please avoid the area.
— Mesa Police Dept. (@MesaPD) September 15, 2021
re: #67 BeenHereAwhile
I saw Little Richard once. He actually closed the Atlantic City Pop Festival in 1969 and absolutely killed it. His horn section was not of this earth. Grand piano, full length fur coat and in fine voice.
He played Bony Moronie like 4 times in a row and the crowd went nuts.
re: #36 We all walks this ways
“They took our music, mannn…”
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Memories of Pulpit Pimps Paul & Jan Crouch kicking Pat Boone off their network for that blasphemous record…until he showed up on the Praise The Loot show begging forgiveness.
re: #67 BeenHereAwhile
The idea of Pat Boone recording “Long Tall Sally ” is too funny.
Long Tall Sally from Ann’s Tick Tok “restaurant ” in Macon GA in the 1950s.
And Long Tall Sally was probably trans.
And in defense of Little Richard (his road manager was a close friend), Little Richard was non-sexual, he just liked to watch.
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I can’t remember who told the story—I think one of the Beatles—about going up to Little Richard’s apartment or hotel room and finding a book on the coffee table that was just close-up shots of vaginas.
Cops want vaccine exemptions but then at the end of the year, when a couple hundred have died from COVID, police organizations will include them in the annual total of ‘police who lost their lives in the line of duty.’ Even though they did it to themselves. Shameless…
— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) September 15, 2021
re: #75 JOE 🥓
Memories of Pulpit Pimps Paul & Jan Crouch kicking Pat Boone off their network for that blasphemous record…until he showed up on the Praise The Loot show begging forgiveness.
And Jan cried.
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) September 15, 2021
Gavin Newsom carried Devin Nunes’s district last night. Ruh roh.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) September 15, 2021
This is a BS. If the Commander-in-Chief is a drunk dancing monkey with keys to ATOMIC BOMBS, teetering at the edge of madness, you have a DUTY to prepare to defend the Constitution ABOVE ALL. NO BLIND LOYALTY, ESPECIALLY WITH NUKES. https://t.co/lML0I2PKNF
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) September 15, 2021
@McKaylaMaroney my lord, how horrible. 🤮
— Lynda Szeltner (@lyndaszelt) September 15, 2021
Not sure about modern UCMJ rules (I Am Not A JAG), but it was once the right of a besmirched officer to demand a court martial. Wonder how many people in DC would like to see GEN Milley do that.
re: #46 jaunte
Love that Trini accent and his attempt to keep from busting out laughing. I can just imagine the jokes Caribbean people are telling about Nicki’s ridiculous tall tale. She should be ashamed of herself.
re: #78 DodgerFan1988
The leading cause of death for cops in 2020: covid19.
The leading cause of death for cops in 2021: covid19.
It’s not even close. Firearms is a distant second (and firearms is the leading cause of death in most every other year not called 9/11/2001).
So yeah.
The police unions are kvetching about mandates for this. Rank and file are claiming religious exemptions to this vaccination.
And yet….
nearly every last one of these mofos had to take a bunch of vaccines in order to go to school or to be on the police force. They didn’t claim the exceptions then, and should be denied now. It’s not religious belief in any event. It’s a personal belief, and that’s just bulkshit because fuck their feelings.
Anti-vaccine activist who said “there’s no epidemic” dies of COVID - Newsweek https://t.co/SvgSwLPykS
— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) September 15, 2021
He had it coming… he had only himself to blame.
re: #86 lawhawk
The leading cause of death for cops in 2020: covid19.
The leading cause of death for cops in 2021: covid19.It’s not even close. Firearms is a distant second (and firearms is the leading cause of death in most every other year not called 9/11/2001).
So yeah.
The police unions are kvetching about mandates for this. Rank and file are claiming religious exemptions to this vaccination.
And yet….
nearly every last one of these mofos had to take a bunch of vaccines in order to go to school or to be on the police force. They didn’t claim the exceptions then, and should be denied now. It’s not religious belief in any event. It’s a personal belief, and that’s just bulkshit because fuck their feelings.
A large proportion are ex-military, so they’ve had the world-wide course and didn’t bitch about it.
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thank you Mr. Nance!! It’s infuriating how too many people discount the danger our democracy was in on January 6th. Trump is a despot and instigated a rebellion to hold on to power. General Milley should be sainted!!
re: #60 lawhawk
Bringing a knife to a gun fight? North Carolina has open carry, doesn’t it? And since the knife is behind him, how does this help protect him from someone behind him?
Aw fuckit. Forget making sense of this crap. They’re more afraid of the big bad black dude (which is their go-to for claiming to be insecure and needing the guns in the first place) but crime in NC is relatively low, all while you have a far greater chance of dying from covid because they wont wear a goddamned mask because freedumb.
I’d just set his break.
re: #88 Decatur Deb
Yeah, like that guy who claimed he was getting out after 19 years.
That puts him in the timeframe of being required to get an anthrax vaccination along with vaccines for a whole host of exotic diseases that aren’t prevalent in the US, so as to be ready to deploy worldwide as needed.
His story doesn’t hold water.
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
This episode (among many others) should lead everyone to question the competency of the FBI.
re: #93 jaunte
This episode (among many others) should lead everyone to question the competency of the FBI.
I don’t think it’s the rank and file agents that are the problem, I think it’s the leadership.
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
The tendency to treat victims as a disturbance of the regular order.
Oh c’mon. We only rate dogs. This is a Silly Seaside T-Rex. Please evacuate the beach immediately. Thank you… 13/10 pic.twitter.com/SK5qDDcVA9
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) September 14, 2021
“All we needed was one adult to do the right thing”…Aly Raisman
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) September 15, 2021
re: #92 lawhawk
Yeah, like that guy who claimed he was getting out after 19 years.
That puts him in the timeframe of being required to get an anthrax vaccination along with vaccines for a whole host of exotic diseases that aren’t prevalent in the US, so as to be ready to deploy worldwide as needed.
His story doesn’t hold water.
wait…the defense’s case doesn’t hold water?
re: #87 lawhawk
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He had it coming… he had only himself to blame.
He looks better in the photo where he’s already dead from ruined lungs and just being kept going by the o2 line.
re: #101 Dangerman
wait…the defense’s case doesn’t hold water?
Lawhawk is referring to an Army LTC who flounced.
The real treasure is the weight you lost along the way.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 15, 2021
Marco Rubio served on the Senate Intelligence Committee for half of the 20-year war in Afghanistan ending in that rapid collapse https://t.co/fR5auPFK6T
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 15, 2021
So, since Rubio thinks we have the wrong people in charge of intelligence, when is he resigning?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 15, 2021
re: #76 Barefoot Grin
I can’t remember who told the story—I think one of the Beatles—about going up to Little Richard’s apartment or hotel room and finding a book on the coffee table that was just close-up shots of vaginas.
My last sighting of Little Richard was in the early 1980s when he and Bumps Blackwell came by the office in Macon to discuss recording some sessions. As another Macon talent, he had known Phil from the late 1950s & 60s, when Phil managed Johnny Jenkins, and Otis Redding.
re: #93 jaunte
and if the guys at the top are… lets say… less than optimal, just who do you think that they’ve been hiring… probably more of the same that share their worldview and methodology.
re: #103 Decatur Deb
Lawhawk is referring to an Army LTC who flounced.
i know i know
i was failing at trying to channel joe pesci
re: #108 Dangerman
i know i know
i was failing at trying to channel joe pesci
Ah.
Goodfellas Pesci or Vinny Pesci?
re: #9 JOE 🥓
Little prick brings a knife to a school board fight…
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The knife is there to just cut through the red tape.
re: #112 Dangerman
God, Marisa Tomei is gold. Never made a bad movie.
Seriously. Either you believe Kamala Harris has the Constitutional authority to disregard your votes if she wants to, or you believe that Trump *tried to get his Vice President to violate the Constitution and steal an election*
Stark, binary, and no middle ground— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) September 15, 2021
Secretary of State Blinken needs a couple of sidekicks named Winken and Nod.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 15, 2021
Holy shit! I’ve run the skepto-scanner over this and it’s real (NYT tracker).
If this doesn’t tell a fucking story I don’t know what does. Just wow. https://t.co/bNQvDCnMm0
— Kate 🤍🇺🇸 (@ImSpeaking13) September 15, 2021
This is the vaccination map, an almost perfect inversion of the case map and an analog of the election results.
The GQP is committing mass suicide right before our eyes.
re: #114 Dopamine Fish
C) IOKIYAR - it’s okay if you’re a Republican and try to overthrow govt and elections by ignoring the Constitution, so there’s no way a Democrat would ever be allowed to do the same thing.
re: #106 BeenHereAwhile
My last sighting of Little Richard was in the early 1980s when he and Bumps Blackwell came by the office in Macon to discuss recording some sessions. As another Macon talent, he had known Phil from the late 1950s & 60s, when Phil managed Johnny Jenkins, and Otis Redding.
Cool!
re: #116 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Holy shit! I’ve run the skepto-scanner over this and it’s real (NYT tracker).
This is the vaccination map, an almost perfect inversion of the case map and an analog of the election results.
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The GQP is committing mass suicide right before our eyes.
Pity, ‘tis.
re: #114 Dopamine Fish
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you’re basing this on consistency, logic and non-hypocrisy.
where there is none
Harris does not have the authority because the presidency is illegitimate / stolen.
qed
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Sincere questions for anyone considering Trump in 2024:
1) Do you believe Pence had the Constitutional authority to do what Trump was asking him to?
2) If so, do you agree Kamala Harris has whatever Constitutional authority Pence had?
3) If not, how can you support Trump? https://t.co/XPV76IsWUS— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) September 15, 2021
re: #115 Charles Johnson
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like he didnt hear that all through his growing up
Secretary of State Blinken needs a couple of sidekicks named Winken and Nod.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 15, 2021
A. Blinken needs a guy named Youesg Rant
— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 15, 2021
re: #114 Dopamine Fish
re: #117 lawhawk
They believe there is a distinction between Pence and Harris, but cannot state that distinction outright because it would reveal that they do not believe in the core values of the rest of the nation or the inscribed basis of governance.
Like 70% of conservative waffling is stepping around that their actual beliefs are fundamentally antisocial in ways that other people would rightly respond to through self-defense.
The rally in DC on Saturday is shaping up to be a failed venture as many far-right leaders are telling their supporters not to attend. The far-right Gateway Pundit says the event might be a “FBI manufactured and funded operation” despite a former Trump campaign aid heading it up.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) September 15, 2021
CV Day 6—
Kids, never marry someone you wouldn’t want to be quarantined with.
re: #124 No Malarkey!
Paranoid delusions delivered Trumpism and their coup attempt, so it’s not surprising to see the same break them up.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 15, 2021
re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea
And yeah, I’m going to go there are point out that this particular hypocrisy is a necessary component of building a society where you rely on slaves or near-slaves but have to construct reasons why those bonded laborers are not permitted to assert their own autonomy, defend themselves, or accurately describe their utility to society.
It’s why they’re pseudo-scientists, pseudo-lawyers, pseudo-intellectuals: you can’t sincerely interact with ideas if your immovable assumption is that some people are not people…you have to method in which the ideas of not-people are invalid a priori no matter how precisely they articulate them.
re: #125 Decatur Deb
CV Day 6—
Kids, never marry someone you wouldn’t want to be quarantined with.
That’s the next level of the relationship troubles that start when you move in together.
re: #128 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s the next level of the relationship troubles that start when you move in together.
People should spend their engagement in a tiny camping trailer. It would be fun.
re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea
Been following your posts over the last day.
If I’m reading them right, I’m behind you 100%.
A “moderate” Republican will eventually knife you in the back in order maintain bona fides with the main corps of lunatics. Just a matter of “when”, not “if”.
I love the motherfuckers who profess to be horrified at Trump and then immediately let you know their ‘only’ options are to stay home at election time, or keep voting GOP because that’s all they know, despite all evidence the party’s gone full white fascist (the Dark Falcon effect).
I’m getting the distinct impression that Nicki Minaj is not a very deep thinker.
re: #131 Charles Johnson
I’m getting the distinct impression that Nicki Minaj is not a very deep thinker.
Someone in her entourage told her it would be good publicity.
I really don’t care about any revelations or allegations against Trump in any books or interviews. I want to see evidence presented against him in a court of law.
I want to watch him try to testify under oath with perjuring himself.
I want to see him lose the right to hold public office ever again.
re: #132 BeenHereAwhile
Someone in her entourage told her it would be good publicity.
Pee Wee Herman’s press agent?
re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea
They believe there is a distinction between Pence and Harris, but cannot state that distinction outright because it would reveal that they do not believe in the core values of the rest of the nation or the inscribed basis of governance.
Like 70% of conservative waffling is stepping around that their actual beliefs are fundamentally antisocial in ways that other people would rightly respond to through self-defense.
Conservatism is the view that there must be an in-group the laws protect but don’t bind, and out-groups the laws bind but don’t protect.
As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible, its supporters have generated a mountain of apologia for it, all of which, without exception, is axiomatically dishonest.
The market for such apologia is steadily decreasing in this age of tl;dr, the tedious attempted justifications being replaced by naked power grabs and use of force.
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I really don’t care about any revelations or allegations against Trump in any books or interviews. I want to see evidence presented against him in a court of law.
I want to watch him try to testify under oath with perjuring himself.
I want to see him lose the right to hold public office ever again.
This. Why is all this fucking shit about Trump coming out in Woodward’s goddamn book?
It should have been in official records at the time, which at least would have pinned more Trump-shit on his GOP Senate enablers.
re: #130 Mattand
Been following your posts over the last day.
If I’m reading them right, I’m behind you 100%.
A “moderate” Republican will eventually knife you in the back in order maintain bona fides with the main corps of lunatics. Just a matter of “when”, not “if”.
I love the motherfuckers who profess to be horrified at Trump and then immediately let you know their ‘only’ options are to stay home at election time, or keep voting GOP because that’s all they know, despite all evidence the party’s gone full white fascist (the Dark Falcon effect).
The GOP cannot be reformed from within. Any Republican who professes to be an anti-Trumper can start by leaving the party and doing what they can to oppose it in all general elections.
The dominant trend in the GOP has been consistently toward Trumpism for at least the last 50 years, and arguably for much longer than that.
You have got to be kidding https://t.co/4P1YTv8ReX
— Patty Hartwell (@Pishba) September 15, 2021
What could go wrong.
re: #138 jaunte
What could go wrong.
They will keep looking until they have something they consider to be grounds to cry FRAUD!!! and attempt to overturn election results
re: #138 jaunte
What could go wrong.
“Partial” Social Security number almost always means Last 4. In most cases, the First 3 are linked to the state where it was requested. Let’s see if a kid with an Apple // can find the Middle 2.
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
“He was prepared to succumb to presidential pressure; he actively explored ways to corrupt the process.”https://t.co/iUKlkZLQ3Q
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 15, 2021
re: #137 EPR-radar
The GOP cannot be reformed from within. Any Republican who professes to be an anti-Trumper can start by leaving the party and doing what they can to oppose it in all general elections.
The dominant trend in the GOP has been consistently toward Trumpism for at least the last 50 years, and arguably for much longer than that.
Toward fascism. We don’t talk about Hitlerism or Mussoliniism.
jeebus, these people are insane
Why don’t they spray children with DDT anymore?
Because someone questioned the science.
It was allowed back then. #HandsOffOurKids #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/k62EBh87pR— Doctors for Covid Ethics (@Drs4CovidEthics) September 15, 2021
A 64 year old Fugitive who escaped from prison in 1992 turned himself in because Sydney’s lockdown has left him unemployed and homeless. news.yahoo.com
I have been sexually harassed more times than I count. I have never reported & won’t
The same true is true for countless women across America
When men in power like Wray do nothing and men in power like Kavanaugh get away with it why do you still ask why we don’t come forward?— Lindy Li (@lindyli) September 15, 2021
re: #114 Dopamine Fish
Seriously. Either you believe Kamala Harris has the Constitutional authority to disregard your votes if she wants to, or you believe that Trump *tried to get his Vice President to violate the Constitution and steal an election*
Put this in the form of a Congressional Resolution: “The Vice President has no Constitutional authority to refuse to certify an election.” Force Republicans to go on record.
re: #145 No Malarkey!
A 64 year old Fugitive who escaped from prison in 1992 turned himself in because Sydney’s lockdown has left him unemployed and homeless. news.yahoo.com
3 hots & a cot.
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus, these people are insane
Bottom line is that you’re psycho-killers who get off on encouraging idiots to die horribly of COVID, so you’re trying to create FUD.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 15, 2021
re: #148 BeenHereAwhile
3 hots & a cot.
Bingo. He spent one night on the beach and said that at least in prison he’ll have a roof over his head.
re: #130 Mattand
A “moderate” Republican will eventually knife you in the back in order maintain bona fides with the main corps of lunatics. Just a matter of “when”, not “if”.
Yes but with provisos?
Conservatism hacks culture, which means there’s a lot of people that live inside that milieu unwittingly. And those people tend to be…screwed but also screwing the rest of us over. Self-aware conservatives that truly hustle within the hierarchy ride herd over people who’ve just been trapped inside a set of blinders. Conservatism obsesses over family structure and patriarchial authority because that’s the best culture hack: from childhood you learn to not question and to associate intimacy and ideology.
[This order is the best things can be, it proposes. And when the appetites of those with power demand something new that should be wrong, the proposition—endure, this is still the best things can be—holds. Hence the nonces and sadists.]
It’s like an actual cult as opposed to a stereotypical cult…because cults aren’t actually abnormalities, they’re modern variations on how societies create boundaries and hierarchies. There are the people that have license to dictate terms to the rest, the people in good faith invested in obedience, the people in bad faith invested in exploitation, and the people that accept the notion that they must given deference and obedience…and all those categories overlap such that there are oppressors that are also oppressed.
And it sucks being on the outside of that cult and seeing people that aren’t truly invested being flensed—stripped down to enforcers of a despicable discipline or used and discarded—while you don’t have the power to unravel all of the emotion and culture that makes them participate.
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why don’t they spray children with DDT anymore?
Because someone questioned the science.
It was allowed back then.
Probably another scientist.
Science progresses.
DDT is generally harmless against humans, it is only dangerous to most higher animals in high concentrations.
It was legal and necessary back then to dampen the spread of parasites.
re: #17 Dopamine Fish
So last week, I ordered a Ring security camera and a solar panel to keep it charged (rather than plugging it in). The camera arrived, but the mounting kit and solar panel did not. After the deadline had passed, the Amazon representative said it was “lost in transit” and helped me organize a new delivery. The mounting kit arrived today, and I think I see the problem with the previous order: The Amazon delivery woman rocked up in a Hertz rental van. I suspect that their Amazon van may have been in an unfortunate accident.
this must be happening a lot to amazon lately. I’ve had them lose a couple of things over a couple of months, and that never used to happen.
re: #145 No Malarkey!
A 64 year old Fugitive who escaped from prison in 1992 turned himself in because Sydney’s lockdown has left him unemployed and homeless. news.yahoo.com
I am using the Magnum Lotto Pension Plan: buy a lottery ticket every week until I retire, if I do not win by then, I will buy a .44 Magnum and go rob a bank. Even if I get caught, I am guaranteed a warm place to stay, meals and medical care for the rest of my life…
“Catch me if you can” 😂
Man trying to catch his dog in the neighbour’s yard..
🎥 TT: scullyglasses pic.twitter.com/aJSrWFZIQM— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 15, 2021
I’m reminded of a fascinating 2009 Rolling Stone profile of Kris Kristofferson written by Ethan Hawke. Toby Keith’s name was blinded as “the Star” in this wild anecdote from Willie Nelson’s 70th birthday concert. https://t.co/UzABl92jfT pic.twitter.com/YiM2gIstXK
— Jerad Walker (@jeradwalker) January 14, 2021
re: #113 Decatur Deb
God, Marisa Tomei is gold. Never made a bad movie.
I remember, after Vinny, how she was described, like Sean Young and Deborah Winger, of being hard to manage and deal with on set, and I wonder how much of those comments were because of Harvey Weinstein.
re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Probably another scientist.
Science progresses.
DDT is generally harmless against humans, it is only dangerous to most higher animals in high concentrations.
It was legal and necessary back then to dampen the spread of parasites.
IIRC there are still emergency protocols for its use.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Nickelback destroyed rock n roll.
re: #117 lawhawk
C) IOKIYAR - it’s okay if you’re a Republican and try to overthrow govt and elections by ignoring the Constitution, so there’s no way a Democrat would ever be allowed to do the same thing.
D) Pence is still the VP so she has no power to exercise.
I suspect that the poll itself didn’t exclude every religion but Christianity, and it was pared down to fit a Tweet.
US vaccinated by religion via new Pew poll:
90% atheist
86% Hispanic Catholic
84% agnostic
79% White Catholic
73% White mainline protestant
70% Black protestant
57% White evangelical protestant— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) September 15, 2021
re: #116 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The GQP is committing mass suicide right before our eyes.
That’s just terrible.
/
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus, these people are insane
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The only people who would spray their kids with DDT now won’t get the vaccine.
re: #156 We all walks this ways
Holy cats!
I think that is a downpour.
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The rainy season in Los Angeles used to start around Columbus Day…
After 5000 stories asking whether Democrats can govern with the Squad holding veto power, a similarly sized group of centrists is causing the most problems for the White House and leadership at pretty much every single step of the process
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 15, 2021
re: #168 Belafon
The only people who would spray their kids with DDT now won’t get the vaccine.
I heard it cures COVID.
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So there’s this:
AL Gov Ivey joined the GOP pack loudly ranting about Biden’s Yankee imposition of CV control measures. (All media.)
Facebook closed her 2022 campaign site, and sent a boilerplate violations message.
Alabama RW and Ivey go nuts. Her campaign appeals.
FB says “Oops, our mistake, it was flagged as an impostor account. Had nothing to do with content.” Account is up in 45 minutes.
Ivey says “BS. You ‘re cancelling us, you hate us, we won’t bend, why do you hate Jesus?”
re: #172 Decatur Deb
“We couldn’t find Jesus on the page.”
re: #116 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Holy shit! I’ve run the skepto-scanner over this and it’s real (NYT tracker).
This is the vaccination map, an almost perfect inversion of the case map and an analog of the election results.
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The GQP is committing mass suicide right before our eyes.
I concur. Autogenocide. And that nagging question I mentioned earlier, the eugenics aspect.
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t think it’s the rank and file agents that are the problem, I think it’s the leadership.
The problems in police departments aren’t limited to leadership but are widespread in the force, reflecting the type of people who apply and who are recruited. There is no reason to expect anything different in the FBI
re: #176 Hecuba’s daughter
The problems in police departments aren’t limited to leadership but are widespread in the force, reflecting the type of people who apply and who are recruited. There is no reason to expect anything different in the FBI
It was funny to come of age in the ’60s, then watch police and the FBI slowly find liberal rehabilitation through the media.
re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth
she’s testifying as one of Larry Nassar’s abuse victims
Thanks. I couldn’t see anything on the tweets that said why she was there.
Meanwhile in the shower.. 😅
🎥 TT: sabrinatangg pic.twitter.com/pTwWZkx9J4— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 15, 2021
USA Gymnastics and the FBI “turned a blind eye” as hundreds of athletes were abused by a team doctor, Simone Biles said during emotional testimony before Congress. McKayla Maroney said the FBI “minimized and disregarded” her when she reported the abuse. https://t.co/SxADJBKDkJ
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 15, 2021
“I blame Larry Nassar and I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse,” Biles said in her testimony. The hearing was part of a congressional effort to hold the FBI accountable after multiple missteps in investigating the case. https://t.co/ZIIz3MUNip
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 15, 2021
The Joe Manchin voting rights bill HAS TO PASS because voting rights are under attack. For that reason, I’ll support it. But let’s be clear about the flimflam the Senate Dems behind this watered down just pulled. They took out ALL of HR1’s ethics provisions. EVERY LAST ONE! /1
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) September 14, 2021
Albuquerque, NM.
The billboards are the work of ProgressNow New Mexico, which works to keep the procedure legal and stop efforts to shame women for seeking abortions. pic.twitter.com/1NFqQspD06— 𝙏𝙤𝙢 𝙃𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙨 (@tlhicks713) September 15, 2021
re: #174 Teukka
I concur. Autogenocide. And that nagging question I mentioned earlier, the eugenics aspect.
Wouldn’t that be autoderpocide? It’s not a race or even a religion being wiped out. It’s just the dumbest half of right-wing “Christians.” The other half will be fine, and so will most of every other kind of Christian.
re: #183 The Ghost of a Flea
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Use the new law to make Manchin and all of those other Democrats irrelevant.
As angry as I am about the ethics provisions being dropped, the Freedom To Vote Act is a very good voting rights bill that we urgently need to pass. It’s no overstatement to say that the survival of the republic depends on it.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) September 15, 2021
I’d printed a no-tangle spool holder for my 3D printer in PLA. Last night I accidentally switched on the heat rather than the exhaust fan in the half-bath I use for the printers, and the plastic sagged badly. Now I’m attempting my first ABS print, making a more durable replacement. 3D printers are slow, so it’ll take me a week to reprint all the parts. This is why it’s good to have more than one printer.
It took a petition signed by 12% of California voters in the last election to initiate the recall. The recall cost the state $278 million. The race was effectively decided within 15 minutes of polls closing. https://t.co/PgFWfKnqJX
— Anthony Zurcher (@awzurcher) September 15, 2021
They did. The former mayor of San Diego.
The problem is that Republicans are the party of Donald Trump and they prefer someone like Larry Elder.— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 15, 2021
Newsom’s landslide win bad news for Dems
noted https://t.co/LLlAp8OSTf— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 15, 2021
“Underscore”—a word no longer used in real life—is classic newspaper-speak for “we have nothing informative to say about this.” You see it all the time with “the violence underscored the instability in the region,” etc. https://t.co/e92jhiVoB3
— David Nir (@DavidNir) September 14, 2021
Why are there so many Trump staff memoirs? The authors need to whitewash their reputations
Every time a memoir by a former Trump staffer is announced it is marketed with words such as “bombshell”, “tell-all” and “scandal”. So far, however, none of these books have told us much we didn’t already know.
and
you know what secret I wish Grisham would reveal? How on earth she has managed to fail upwards so spectacularly throughout her career. Grisham, it has been reported, managed to lose a private-sector job after being accused of filing false expense claims, and then lost another job after being accused of plagiarism. She has also been arrested for driving under the influence. All those things would have been a career impediment to most people, but they didn’t stop her from landing one of the most prestigious gigs in politics. She did a terrible job at that, but has still managed to get a (presumably lucrative) book deal. Truly, it’s a charmed and baffling career trajectory.
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
Depending on whether Milley was working in concert with Esper, there’s some benefit of the doubt to be given to Milley. I suspect this was more along the lines of reminding those involved in the chain of command the duty to refuse illegal orders (which a unilateral nuclear strike without a declaration of war would absolutely be). If that’s the case, then this is much ado about nothing. But if it is more than that, it’s problematic.
Of course, the most problematic part of this is the failure of the civilian/political class to do anything. And it should also be a reminder that the electoral college needs to go - preventing someone like Trump was the alleged purpose, we have eliminated that purpose and now it’s time to eliminate the electoral college
Go figure! pic.twitter.com/4FgXCesZQ0
— Florida Man 🏖 (@patricknflorida) September 15, 2021
re: #194 BlueSpotinAL
Just a thought, but a lot of young liberals should sign up to take the place of the cops dying of COVID.
re: #193 KGxvi
Depending on whether Milley was working in concert with Esper, there’s some benefit of the doubt to be given to Milley. I suspect this was more along the lines of reminding those involved in the chain of command the duty to refuse illegal orders (which a unilateral nuclear strike without a declaration of war would absolutely be). If that’s the case, then this is much ado about nothing. But if it is more than that, it’s problematic.
Of course, the most problematic part of this is the failure of the civilian/political class to do anything. And it should also be a reminder that the electoral college needs to go - preventing someone like Trump was the alleged purpose, we have eliminated that purpose and now it’s time to eliminate the electoral college
Which won’t happen, because it requires a constitutional amendment.
Even in the College of Cardinals, there are some anti-vaxers and one of them, poor man, is in hospital with the virus. But life is ironic.”
— Pope Francis, quoted by the New York Times.
“A federal judge overseeing columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against TFG has denied his request to stop the case from moving forward as they await an appeals court decision,” CNN reports.
State Secrets that Aren’t Secret
Next month, the Justice Department will argue to the Supreme Court that the “state secrets privilege” requires concealment of evidence about the CIA’s torture of a prisoner named Abu Zubaydah, evidence that has been public for over a decade.
but this part stands out just because
Mitchell was not an interrogator. He and his fellow contractor and future business partner, Bruce Jessen, were psychologists who had worked as instructors with the U.S. Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape school, which trained U.S. military personnel to resist coercive interrogations that they might face in enemy hands. Mitchell and Jessen believed that they could use more brutal forms of the techniques used at the school to induce a state of “learned helplessness” in CIA prisoners, leaving them unable to resist telling interrogators everything they knew. The CIA’s counterterrorism center concurred. Mitchell and Jessen’s company would eventually receive over $81 million for their central role in operating what the CIA euphemistically called its “enhanced interrogation” program.
In mid-April 2002, Mitchell began using “enhanced” techniques on Zubaydah, including nudity and sleep deprivation. Soufan objected, both to his FBI superiors and to Mitchell, and left Thailand with his supervisors’ approval. Eventually Gaudin left too, and the FBI ordered him not to return.
Mitchell made a list of 12 brutal interrogation techniques he proposed to use on Zubaydah. They included not only sleep deprivation but also physical blows; slamming a prisoner into a wall; stress positions; “cramped confinement” in coffin-sized or smaller boxes; the use of diapers; the use of insects; waterboarding; and mock burial. He also suggested that the CIA hire Jessen.
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which is supposed to provide guidance to agencies on whether their proposed actions are legal, formally approved all of the techniques other than mock burial. The CIA then authorized Mitchell and Jessen to begin using them on Zubaydah. Starting on August 4, 2002, they tortured him for almost 24 hours a day for several weeks.
Torture is quackery: there was no reason to think this would work, no reason to pay $81 million to keep it going, and very little that was actionable was produced.
But as I said above about pseudo-science and pseudo-intellectualism, torture isn’t really about finding an answer that is true, it’s about finding the answer that you’re already seeking. If you have to have the answer you want, you can’t operate in good faith…you have to destroy the process of determining truth to force the outcome.
We didn’t do these things to create a better outcome, we did these things because they satisfied a pre-existing need to believe that cruelty would produce better outcomes because the subject deserved cruelty. The actual torturers were simply playing with a body they could inflict their theories on, but were being given so much money that…what were their incentives to admit failure?
re: #186 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Wouldn’t that be autoderpocide? It’s not a race or even a religion being wiped out. It’s just the dumbest half of right-wing “Christians.” The other half will be fine, and so will most of every other kind of Christian.
They are killing other people too: unvaccinated children and breakthrough cases. I have a theory — not based on medical knowledge, of which I have none — that if a vaccinated person is repeatedly exposed to delta from unvaccinated hordes around them, that person is more likely to develop a breakthrough case, and if there is enough exposure, be at risk of dying.
re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter
They are killing other people too: unvaccinated children and breakthrough cases. I have a theory — not based on medical knowledge, of which I have none — that if a vaccinated person is repeatedly exposed to delta from unvaccinated hordes around them, that person is more likely to develop a breakthrough case, and if there is enough exposure, be at risk of dying.
Repeated exposure builds greater immunity. It’ll be one massive dose from an unvaccinated Delta factory that will do it. If you pack your respiratory system with virus it’s going to do some damage before the immune response kicks in.
This is Buster and Roscoe. They were separated from their humans during Hurricane Ida. Both were reunited this week by @LASPCA. You all raised over $43k for their relief fund, and helped make this possible. 14/10 for all ❤️ pic.twitter.com/omPVE3MpVK
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) September 15, 2021
re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter
They are killing other people too: unvaccinated children and breakthrough cases. I have a theory — not based on medical knowledge, of which I have none — that if a vaccinated person is repeatedly exposed to delta from unvaccinated hordes around them, that person is more likely to develop a breakthrough case, and if there is enough exposure, be at risk of dying.
killing other people in their religious-like zeal to commit suicide makes them terrorists
Sore loser Caitlyn Jenner angrily lashes out at California voters after getting 1% in election #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #queer https://t.co/fmnnjjR95m
— LGBTQ Nation (@lgbtqnation) September 15, 2021
A handful of former Trump officials are making a concerted effort to amass opposition to Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban, the AP reports.“The former officials are writing position papers, appearing on conservative television outlets and meeting privately with GOP lawmakers — all in an effort to turn the collapse of Afghanistan into another opportunity to push a hard-line immigration agenda.”
so TFG was only gonna pull out americans?
re: #45 Jay C
That’s a worthy point. If I understand this right, the good General looked each key officer in the eye and made them swear to stick to the procedure.
How is that a bad thing again?
The Chinese… I gotta read this for myself. But our Generals talk to their Generals as needed. Sometimes that’s reassurances sometimes it’s warnings, sometimes it’s just informational as in routine NOTAM stuff. Misunderstandings need to be resolved.
JUST IN: Judge sets Oct. 1 hearing on Justice Department’s request for preliminary injunction against privately-enforced Texas abortion ban. Order: https://t.co/1qHqBoF7aL
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) September 15, 2021
re: #206 Rightwingconspirator
Very similar situation during the Cold War. Our negotiators met quietly in the parks with their opposite numbers and hammered out a lot of agreements.
re: #266 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
. It has happened before that issues that ” should have” won have failed because of poor turnout — that’s how brexit happened, after all.
Brexit had a turnout of 75.7% of the registered voters.
You think that’s low?
Listen, even if you disagree with me – even if you’ve stood outside my house or this Capitol and yelled about me – I care about you. I care about you and your families and I want you to be safe. These vaccines are safe. Please, go out and get yours.
— Governor Andy Beshear (@GovAndyBeshear) September 15, 2021
Manchin arrived at the WH about 45 minutes ago for his meeting with Biden. (Photo from @abdallahcnn) pic.twitter.com/2o02c33y9y
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 15, 2021
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Siri, show me something a Republican would never say.”
It was interesting how many California voters I spoke with at the polls said the Texas abortion ban motivated them to come out and vote against the recall of their governor.
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) September 15, 2021
re: #191 Belafon
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re: #158 retired cynic
Indian fox kits, photo by Sandesh Kadur
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While Roger Stone was live on the air this morning with ‘Real Talk 93.3’ (St Louis) doing an interview about the 2024 election, he gets served by a process server with the January 6 lawsuit. (Audio) pic.twitter.com/pnXBPQh3Vn
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 15, 2021
You’ve been served. pic.twitter.com/LvdCFonwgB
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 15, 2021
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
This gives me hope that the abortion thing could spell electoral doom for the GQP in the future.
May everyone at LGF be blessed and sealed with a sweet, healthy, prosperous New Year.
For millennia, Jewish communities have marked Yom Kippur as an occasion to reflect and pray; fast and seek forgiveness; account for past transgressions, and commit to future change.
Jill and I extend our very best wishes for an easy and meaningful fast to all who observe.— President Biden (@POTUS) September 15, 2021
re: #218 The Pie Overlord!
May everyone at LGF be blessed and sealed with a sweet, healthy, prosperous New Year.
And to you as well, my scaly friend.
re: #218 The Pie Overlord!
And the same for you and your family.
re: #176 Hecuba’s daughter
The problems in police departments aren’t limited to leadership but are widespread in the force, reflecting the type of people who apply and who are recruited. There is no reason to expect anything different in the FBI
The FBI are better educated.
Not sure if it’s still true, but there was a time when a baseline requirement to apply to be an FBI agent was you had to be either a JD or CPA.
re: #217 teleskiguy
This gives me hope that the abortion thing could spell electoral doom for the GQP in the future.
Texas needs a Stacey Abrams badly. Overwhelm all their bullshit obstacles and vote these motherfuckers out and never let them into another office unless they are cleaning it as part of the custodial staff.
Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert Reaches Settlement In Child Molestation Hush Money Lawsuit - https://t.co/H15etIEFRC pic.twitter.com/Ec08yzEEUn
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) September 15, 2021
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
Like you couldn’t see that coming. Chock Todd will have her on Sunday and throw softballs to her as he sits and nods and wags his tail.
“Tell me more..”
There are no losers on the (R) side. Only people who have been ripped off.
Right. I can’t speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party. Ppl aren’t human any more. If you’re black & a Democrat tells u to shove marbles up ur ass, you simply have to. If another party tells u to look out for that bus, stand there & get hit https://t.co/OhjQZCbmBa
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 15, 2021
re: #225 gocart mozart
Sorry but this is 2021. The one who either has or is the biggest ass wins.
re: #209 John Hughes
Brexit had a turnout of 75.7% of the registered voters.
You think that’s low?
No, my bad. I was thinking of the people who voted for it “to make a statement” because they were sure it would fail. A different way of being stupid.
TIL:
I didn’t know it, If you rotate your phone to landscape mode, it’s a scientific calculator. pic.twitter.com/yrT1t084Ut
— Joaquim Campa (@JoaquimCampa) September 11, 2021
re: #225 gocart mozart
I see Nikki’s sporting the “i can’t be wrong” look.
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
We learn something new everyday.
oops
Gamer dislocates shoulder while celebrating tournament victory. https://t.co/wKPHy7yQAB pic.twitter.com/4AUu95CoJ5
— Kotaku (@Kotaku) September 15, 2021
Just a drive by. Got’s to go soon. It’s an older video but I like it. Nice interaction and space and dynamics.
You never heard of these guys and you should. Tomo Fujita is one funk machine and years back he had quite a few videos up using 65-66 Fender Pro Reverbs. They are gone because either he wanted to be paid or he was endorsing another product that clashed with his old vids. He still plays his PR’s.
HE is the reason I bought an Ethos Overdrive.
He just had a Ethos and a 66PR and it sang. Talked to me.
It was salty. It’s a monster. Still is. The only pedal I will never sell.
You can see it in action on many a YouTube vid.
He’s a big fan of old Blackface Pro Reverbs.
He’s a teacher at Berklee.
He’s a talent and a half.
This is with the Music is Win guy, Tyler Larson.
In any case, this is talent and a half.
Hope you enjoy it. I recommend headphones…
WH press sec Jen Psaki on those and other calls for Milley’s firing:
“I don’t think the president is looking for the guidance of members of Congress who stood by as the leader of their party fomented an insurrection.”— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) September 15, 2021
Who had Nicki Minaj gets put in Twitter jail for spreading vaccine disinformation on their COVID-19 bingo card?
— Kate 🤍🇺🇸 (@ImSpeaking13) September 15, 2021
Nicki Minaj said she will never use Twitter again after they put her in Twitter jail pic.twitter.com/Yl6Ot9alqa
— BallerAlert (@balleralert) September 15, 2021
BREAKING: Republicans have pledged to introduce a Texas-style abortion ban here in Minnesota.
If the GOP win in 2022, it’s almost certain they’ll sign a draconian abortion ban into law. That cannot happen. #mnleghttps://t.co/deQ7Ds9i4b— Minnesota DFL Party (@MinnesotaDFL) September 15, 2021
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
The silver lining to abortion no longer being a constitutional right is that women will know that they have to vote Democratic to have reproductive freedom.
Heh
Overheard: The vote was so lopsided, it’s basically Elder abuse.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) September 15, 2021
re: #240 Patricia Kayden
Nice play on words.
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
Re: Nicki Minaj saying she’ll never use Twitter again after being placed in Twitter jail for spreading Covid misinformation
“And nothing of value was lost.”
re: #243 A Three Hour Tour
She’s back on it now defending her retweet of White Supremacist Tucker Carlson.
Biden will be picking hairs off the sofa for months afterwards… https://t.co/HgrMxzLXJb
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) September 15, 2021
Sorry if I’m repeating, but someone on one of my socials was saying turnout against the recall, in part, was driven, but the bat-shit-crazy antichoice laws recently passed in Texas. The law sucks, but it is going to drive Democrats to the polls in 2022.
TFFY (Thanks for fucking yourselves).
Fox has gone from talking about swollen testicles to talking about shoving marbles up their ass pic.twitter.com/ssSUysf5Gv
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 15, 2021
O_o
re: #225 gocart mozart
You got used by a white nationalist sociopath who is killing his own viewers by making them afraid of vaccines and telling them not to fear a deadly virus. Is that where you wanted to wind up by being a contrarian?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 15, 2021
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
This new deal where the US and UK are going to help Australia build nuclear subs just might be on the agenda. https://t.co/0UWn9RLuMa
— Manksy (@TheManksy) September 15, 2021
re: #248 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I see this has not been a learning experience.
re: #250 jaunte
I see this has not been a learning experience.
People get mad when corrected, and they get stupid. It’s one of our defects. We are not rational animals. She’s rationalizing herself to a place where she feels like a good person who’s being attacked by bad people, and those gyrations did not put her in a good place.
re: #252 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I hope she recovers enough to understand that nothing she said in that tweet is true.
Heh
Piazza made a promise to Dodger fans, but with a 25th-hour endorsement of someone who has already said he lost, he showed he’ll always be a Met at heart. https://t.co/5wGSryPbuH
— NY Daily News Sports (@NYDNSports) September 14, 2021
FWIW: More rumblings about a Beto for Governor announcement coming soon. Just passing it along #TxLege
— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) September 15, 2021
I sure hope he doesn’t. Beto doesn’t stand a chance in hell after he said he would take away your AR-15.
Wish he would have targeted Abbott right after his Cruz loss rather than flaming out on a Quixotist POTUS run.
This Texas democrat has waited patiently for years and years for the state party to get their stuff together, it has cost me a lot of money on wasted donations. No Beto, he is a non-starter. I’d rather vote for Matthew McConaughey and I hate Matthew McConaughey
re: #251 IngisKahn
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I wish the SpaceX crew luck so I won’t have to remember their names.
re: #249 Rightwingconspirator
That news is going to cause a lot of fallout, in the non-radioactive sense. Basically the Australians can’t build nuclear hunter/killer subs from scratch in any realistic timescale, however to get the sale through the Aussie government will want most of the construction done in local shipyards i.e. localisation.
The original replacement for the ageing Australian Collins-class subs was going to be a non-nuclear version of a French nuclear hunter-killer sub called the Shortfin Barracuda. It was a technical abortion to start with, very expensive and the localisation process wasn’t going well even after the contract was signed over five years ago. This collaboration sounds like the Australians will get to build the hull based on a British Astute or American Virginia design with the reactors and other sparkly bits coming from the nation that provides the hull blueprints. Training and operations workups will initially come from the US and UK, possibly on a Lend-Lease basis where the Aussies rent some existing nuclear boats and senior crew while their own-build hulls are under construction and being fitted out.
Expect the local Aussie population to go ballistic, in the non-radioactive sense, over this. A number of other nations in the area, like New Zealand are even more opposed to nuclear-powered naval ships operating in the area.
This. This is how we win. Sum it up and put it on a bumper sticker.
Is it 100% true? No fucking way. It works. I want to win, not feel good about my words.
Let’s call the Texas anti-choice bill what it really is: the Rapists’ Bill of Rights.
— Beth Moore, GA House Rep HD-95 (@MooreForGeorgia) September 15, 2021
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
The MN GOP is a bunch of toothless hacks. They have little real power here. Still, it’s amazing that they are putting on the performative bullshit on a scale comparable to any of the Southern states.
re: #253 jaunte
I hope she recovers enough to understand that nothing she said in that tweet is true.
The alternative is becoming Candace Owens, but that grifter didn’t have fans she had to give up to go on the wingnut media circuit. I expect her to smarten up, but you never know.
My phone is like 20 seconds closer to the launch time than my PC. Weird
re: #261 Rightwingconspirator
One might know more than the other.
re: #262 PhillyPretzel
One might know more than the other.
And on to the next episode of rich people in space!
re: #258 I Would Prefer Not To
This. This is how we win. Sum it up and put it on a bumper sticker.
Is it 100% true? No fucking way. It works. I want to win, not feel good about my words.
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They always accuse liberals of caring more about criminals that victims. Then they do shit like this.
Projection like a fucking IMAX ON THE MOON.
SEND RN KELLY CASPER TO CONGRESS! She gets up at the school board meeting right after Cawthorn speaks and destroys him, comparing covid measures with the ADA: “Madison wouldn’t have been able to get in this bldg if the govt had not stepped in to protect the freedoms of everyone.” pic.twitter.com/NRmkyg93TD
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 14, 2021
re: #261 Rightwingconspirator
My phone is like 20 seconds closer to the launch time than my PC. Weird
It’s all faked, like the elections.
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re: #257 Nojay UK
That news is going to cause a lot of fallout, in the non-radioactive sense. Basically the Australians can’t build nuclear hunter/killer subs from scratch in any realistic timescale, however to get the sale through the Aussie government will want most of the construction done in local shipyards i.e. localisation.
The original replacement for their ageing Australian Collins-class subs was going to be a non-nuclear version of a French nuclear hunter-killer sub called the Shortfin Barracuda. It was a technical abortion to start with, very expensive and the localisation process wasn’t going well even after the contract was signed over five years ago. This collaboration sounds like the Australians will get to build the hull based on a British Astute or American Virginia design with the reactors and other sparkly bits coming from the nation that provides the hull blueprints. Training and operations workups will initially come from the US and UK, possibly on a Lend-Lease basis where the Aussies rent some existing nuclear boats and senior crew while their own-build hulls are under construction and being fitted out.
Expect the local Aussie population to go ballistic, in the non-radioactive sense, over this. A number of other nations in the area, like New Zealand are even more opposed to nuclear-powered naval ships operating in the area.
I guess they will have to choose how or if to oppose the nine dash line policy China has. It takes a lot of conventional subs to cover for nukes that can stay out.
re: #261 Rightwingconspirator
My phone is like 20 seconds closer to the launch time than my PC. Weird
Let’s hope it all launches at once.
re: #268 Decatur Deb
Let’s hope it all launches at once.
If this end is pointing at the ground, you are having a bad day and you will not go to space today.
I figured it out what was bothering me so much about Beto running for Governor.
Beto is the Rick Santorum of Democrats.
He’ll never win again.
Anyone really think Trump is going to look at this and say, “Naa, time to pass the torch.” pic.twitter.com/Db4evPceDv
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 16, 2021
re: #264 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
They always accuse liberals of caring more about criminals that victims. Then they do shit like this.
Projection like a fucking IMAX ON THE MOON.
True. but we don’t write laws that protect them.
Snopes has an entry on the missing panic button. It may have been a clerical error.
In fact, an unidentified Democratic aide to the House Administration Committee, which oversees security at the Capitol, told a Washington Post columnist in February the buttons may have been missing because of a clerical error — not because of a conspiracy to harm Pressley because of her political agenda.
“A preliminary investigation suggests that Pressley’s office was inadvertently placed on the Architect of the Capitol move list, and a vendor wrongly removed their duress buttons through a clerical screw-up,” the aide said in an email to the columnist, Greg Sargent.
He wrote in a column that published Feb. 8:
The aide added that ‘it is likely relevant’ that Pressley took over the office of former congresswoman Katie Hill (D-Calif.) in an office swap at the beginning of the last Congress. Hill subsequently resigned amid an ethics investigation, which may have erroneously placed that office (despite its having been traded to Pressley) on a list to be emptied out at the end of the last Congress.
That might have resulted in the removal of the duress buttons, the aide says. […]
Still, the aide cautioned that an internal Capitol Police investigation into the matter “remains ongoing.”
re: #270 Dave In Austin
I figured it out what was bothering me so much about Beto running for Governor.
Beto is the Rick Santorum of Democrats.
He’ll never win again.
I don’t think I could be convinced of that. Oooh, you’re CLd, don’t try!
re: #218 The Pie Overlord!
May everyone at LGF be blessed and sealed with a sweet, healthy, prosperous New Year.
And to you and yours as well my friend.
re: #274 wrenchwench
I don’t think I could be convinced of that. Oooh, you’re CLd, don’t try!
Beto is young. His soul will still bring a good price.
re: #272 I Would Prefer Not To
True. but we don’t write laws that protect them.
But they accuse us of doing it. How many times have Republican’s called some bill passed by a dem legislature as a “Criminal Rights Bill” or “Pedophile Rights Bill”. I know it’s happened before. Multiple times.
re: #218 The Pie Overlord!
May everyone at LGF be blessed and sealed with a sweet, healthy, prosperous New Year.
And to you as well! It’s been a long strange trip, and you’ve been there almost from the start. Thanks for all your support over the years.
re: #276 Decatur Deb
Beto is young. His soul will still bring a good price.
Keep an eye on the successor to his congressional seat: his friend Veronica Escobar.
re: #277 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
But they accuse us of doing it. How many times have Republican’s called some bill passed by a dem legislature as a “Criminal Rights Bill” or “Pedophile Rights Bill”. I know it’s happened before. Multiple times.
They lie about everything because they have nothing to offer any American who isn’t a theocratic white nationalist. The lying to idiots has worked very well so far. They have simple religious people imagining that Democrats are demons.
re: #262 PhillyPretzel
One might know more than the other.
If you stop a live stream player, and unpaused it, it picks up playing where it last left off.
This is not necessarily real-time.
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