In this installment of his very unfortunate segment on how knuckleheads are handling the pandemic, Stephen looks at the latest bogus Covid-19 “treatments” being promoted on the web. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
How about eating worm de-horser?
Verminequin!!!
re: #309 Decatur Deb
I don’t know much about the reliability and speed of home test kits, but they’re showing up at our pharmacies.
The pharmacy in my county doesn’t have them. There aren’t that many pharmacies in the Panhandle. Perhaps one in Scottsbluff might have them.
Since I have to go to Denver to get my car fixed, perhaps I can get some there.
Texans gonna texas…
Video shows 3 tourists from Texas assault NYC hostess who asked them to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to eat inside restaurant https://t.co/B8ruXC2Jb4
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) September 17, 2021
QAnon Anonymous Episode 158: Ivermectin Fever
I would strongly suggest this breakdown of how ivermectin became a thing,
They have to make their viewers more afraid of Democrats than Covid.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 17, 2021
This is what Newt was bitching about. Biden isn’t letting Floriduh hog all of the Regeneron.
70 PERCENT. And that’s because @RonDeSantisFL has been deploying a strategy of creating maximum COVID infection, by banning mask mandates and punishing educators and businesses for implementing them and blowing off vaccine advocacy, and then pushing people to Regeron pop-ups. https://t.co/TZO0J7FzL5
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) September 17, 2021
re: #314 No Malarkey!
Here in Kentucky, you can walk into any pharmacy and get vaccinated, no appointment necessary. I don’t understand why vaccine availability is so limited in Nebraska. Is it because demand is so low?
It’s because the state governor’s office is restricting distribution of both vaccines and tests.
Public health officials, physicians, and hospitals are livid here, but there’s not much they can do.
There are three lawsuits pending regarding restricting access to Covid-19 information in the state. By the time those are resolved, we’ll all be dead.
re: #7 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s because the state governor’s office is restricting distribution of both vaccines and tests.
Public health officials, physicians, and hospitals are livid here, but there’s not much they can do.
There are three lawsuits pending regarding restricting access to Covid-19 information in the state. By the time those are resolved, we’ll all be dead.
Psychopathic.
AAG Polite announced criminal charges against 138 defendants, including 42 doctors, nurses, & other licensed medical professionals for their alleged participation in various health care fraud schemes that resulted in approximately $1.4B in alleged losses. https://t.co/fjqK5dax38 pic.twitter.com/VIpEw73UWZ
— Criminal Division (@DOJCrimDiv) September 17, 2021
The Department of Justice announced today criminal charges against 138 defendants, including 42 doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, in 31 federal districts across the United States for their alleged participation in various health care fraud schemes that resulted in approximately $1.4 billion in alleged losses.
The charges target approximately $1.1 billion in fraud committed using telemedicine (the use of telecommunications technology to provide health care services remotely), $29 million in COVID-19 health care fraud, $133 million connected to substance abuse treatment facilities, or “sober homes,” and $160 million connected to other health care fraud and illegal opioid distribution schemes across the country.
“This nationwide enforcement action demonstrates that the Criminal Division is at the forefront of the fight against health care fraud and opioid abuse by prosecuting those who have exploited health care benefit programs and their patients for personal gain,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “The charges announced today send a clear deterrent message and should leave no doubt about the department’s ongoing commitment to ensuring the safety of patients and the integrity of health care benefit programs, even amid a continued pandemic.”
My neighbor gave out candy corn one year. As penance, he had to switch to full-size Snickers every year for 10 years.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) September 17, 2021
re: #6 No Malarkey!
This is what Newt was bitching about. Biden isn’t letting Floriduh hog all of the Regeneron.
Same people who don’t want the vaxx because of sincerely held religious beliefs, and end up on Regeneron, don’t know that
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— darth™ (@darth) September 17, 2021
i mean do any of these scenarios sound remotely plausible even given that anything could happen between now and 2024
— darth™ (@darth) September 17, 2021
i realize i left off
5) that the republican party will renounce trumpism and cast about for an alternative and land on…the guy who was trumps vice president— darth™ (@darth) September 17, 2021
re: #12 Teukka
Same people who don’t want the vaxx because of sincerely held religious beliefs, and end up on Regeneron, don’t know that
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re: #8 No Malarkey!
Psychopathic.
Genocidal.
He and his wife already had Covid-19, and because he’s a billionaire, got the best treatment available.
Gov. Ricketts, while infectious with the virus, took his wife out to a restaurant for dinner because “it’s only a mild flu.”
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The pharmacy in my county doesn’t have them. There aren’t that many pharmacies in the Panhandle. Perhaps one in Scottsbluff might have them.
Since I have to go to Denver to get my car fixed, perhaps I can get some there.
CVS and Walgreen’s both have it on their websites, but notes that delivery may be delayed due to high demand. Don’t expect to find it on the shelves — better to order online for in-store pickup.
Got CL’d - you guys move fast
Will look like the bicycle jousting from Quick Change”It’s bad luck to even see something like that!”-Randy Quaid before he lost his fucking mind pic.twitter.com/5lMHmJFkId
— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) September 17, 2021
Not entirely fair, because this freakazoid Sovereign Citizen’s trial by combat would probably be a lot less dignified.
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
He kissed Trump’s ass for 4 years to become President, and lost any chance he had on one day. Bwahaha!
re: #12 Teukka
Same people who don’t want the vaxx because of sincerely held religious beliefs, and end up on Regeneron, don’t know that
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re: #17 sagehen
CVS and Walgreen’s both have it on their websites, but notes that delivery may be delayed due to high demand. Don’t expect to find it on the shelves — better to order online for in-store pickup.
That’s a trip to Scottsbluff for me then.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How about eating worm de-horser?
Verminequin!!!
They only have that on Arrakis.
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I dunno about #5: “Trumpism” per se is pretty much a cult, and like most cults, will probably it easier to keep on keeping on when its Founder/Guru/Idol/Prophet is safely dead and buried, and not popping up on social media to embarrass his followers/the world with nasty inane gibberish, like TFG is wont to do.
Of course, with “Trumpism”, the nasty in[s]ane gibberish is what the “base” loves, expects, and revels in, so there we are…
But otherwise, yeah: Mike Pence is the ultimate Empty Suit: it’s hard to see him getting much solid traction in a Presidential run. Though he’s obviously going to try (Dog help us!).
I was not a fan of Jennifer Rubin, but unlike some never-Trumpers she admitted her mistakes and seems sincere about setting things right. Politico, on the other hand, is simply trash for doing a misogynistic hit piece like this, which is no change at all. https://t.co/B4kWaQY9NL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2021
And by the way, it’s utterly ridiculous to claim that Rubin was “one of the Obama administration’s most reactionary critics,” in an era that included Birthers and the openly racist Tea Party. She was FAR from the most reactionary of that bunch.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2021
re: #21 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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re: #25 Jay C
I dunno about #5: “Trumpism” per se is pretty much a cult, and like most cults, will probably it easier to keep on keeping on when its Founder/Guru/Idol/Prophet is safely dead and buried, and not popping up on social media to embarrass his followers/the world with nasty inane gibberish, like TFG is wont to do.
Of course, with “Trumpism”, the nasty in[s]ane gibberish is what the “base” loves, expects, and revels in, so there we are…
But otherwise, yeah: Mike Pence is the ultimate Empty Suit: it’s hard to see him getting much solid traction in a Presidential run. Though he’s obviously going to try (Dog help us!).
Pence has no traction, no charisma to build any, and no foundation to stand on with the GOP base or anti-Trump factions. In all places there will be other candidates deemed more attractive and this is not a party that will come to loggerheads and eventually select Pence as the “compromise” they can all agree on.
So it’s a continued grift, a delusion, or Pence perhaps thinks the horse can be taught to sing by 2024.
Maternal mortality rates in America are unacceptably high—especially for Black and Native American women.
Tackling this issue is a priority for this Administration, and the critical investments announced today will save lives. https://t.co/UEsqSuaNQW— Susan Rice (@AmbRice46) September 17, 2021
re: #28 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Pence is lucky he escaped alive…
Note this: Milley’s communications with China were not unusual. As I reported in Aug 2020, Trump’s advisers warned Iran and North Korea over fears he would start a war. See here: 1/ https://t.co/YOYEm7Dlli
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 16, 2021
re: #16 Teukka
Any new news on the Evergrande trainwreck?
China’s Nightmare Evergrande Scenario Is an Uncontrolled Crash (Yahoo!, yesterday)
(Bloomberg) — Protests intensify at China Evergrande Group offices across the country as the developer falls further behind on promises to more than 70,000 investors. Construction of unfinished properties with enough floor space to cover three-fourths of Manhattan grinds to a halt, leaving more than a million homebuyers in limbo.
Fire sales pummel an already shaky real estate market, squeezing other developers and rippling through a supply chain that accounts for more than a quarter of Chinese economic output. Covid-weary consumers retrench even further, and the risk of popular discontent rises during a politically sensitive transition period for President Xi Jinping. Credit-market stress spreads from lower-rated property companies to stronger peers and banks. Global investors who bought $527 billion of Chinese stocks and bonds in the 15 months through June begin to sell.
While it’s impossible to know for sure what would happen if Beijing allows Evergrande’s downward spiral to continue unabated, China watchers are gaming out worst-case scenarios as they contemplate how much pain the Communist Party is willing to tolerate. Pressure to intervene is growing as signs of financial contagion increase.
“As a systemically important developer, an Evergrande bankruptcy would cause problems for the entire property sector,” said Shen Meng, director of Chanson & Co., a Beijing-based boutique investment bank. “Debt recovery efforts by creditors would lead to fire sales of assets and hit housing prices. Profit margins across the supply chain would be squeezed. It would also lead to panic selling in capital markets.”
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re: #5 No Malarkey!
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It’s shit like this from the TexASS GOP that makes me want to revert them back to a territory and re-do Reconstruction.
re: #28 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Pence has no traction, no charisma to build any, and no foundation to stand on with the GOP base or anti-Trump factions. In all places there will be other candidates deemed more attractive and this is not a party that will come to loggerheads and eventually select Pence as the “compromise” they can all agree on.
So it’s a continued grift, a delusion, or Pence perhaps thinks the horse can be taught to sing by 2024.
Barring an untimely death, Trump will be the 2024 GQP nominee. He’ll run because he needs the money and his ego won’t let him step aside, and the GQP base worships him.
re: #26 Charles Johnson
True. While she was critical of Obama, she never reached the screeching hysteria of Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, or any of the legion of Hate Radio hosts now falling one by one to Covid
— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) September 17, 2021
She lives entirely in a fantasy world. https://t.co/eUa7jLUxHm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2021
re: #34 No Malarkey!
Barring an untimely death, Trump will be the 2024 GQP nominee. He’ll run because he needs the money and his ego won’t let him step aside, and the GQP base worships him.
Can’t imagine a scenario in which Trump’s death is untimely.
re: #21 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
As noted in the last thread, many common over-the-counter medications such as aspirin and Ex-Lax have been tested on historic foetal cell lines as well. As such the Arkansas hospital group which is getting people making such claims to sign a waiver noting all the different medications (and giving them firepower to fire them if they are caught using them, for cause—lying).
For the religious claim to be sincere, one would think you would need to keep up with all that (such as Jews or Muslims who keep up with what foods are restricted by their religious faiths).
There’s also the meme of “what’s really in the vaccine” where a list of the chemicals of a common apple are listed, indicating that anti-vaxxers don’t really know what they’re talking about.
re: #11 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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Tooth brushes and Bible quotes. Everything else is candy, you privileged pansies.
re: #37 Barefoot Grin
Can’t imagine a scenario in which Trump’s death is untimely.
Touche. The rest of my comment stands. If Trump is still breathing in 2024, he will be the nominee. I can’t conceive of him stepping aside to allow someone else to become the leader of the GOP.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
It’s narcissistic personality disorder. Republican voters have made it clear that they are attracted to profoundly unwell people.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 17, 2021
Shit, even Bannon is looking at her like wtf is she talking about?
— PCR RitesGood (@pcrritesgood) September 17, 2021
re: #36 Charles Johnson
She lives entirely in a fantasy world. https://t.co/eUa7jLUxHm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2021
Well, if you define “effectiveness” as simply getting media mentions/clicks/retweets, etc., yeah: MTG pretty much tops that list.
However, it says a lot [negative] about her standards that that is likely to be the sole measure of “effectiveness” she considers relevant….
And btw, speaking of “fantasy world”: is that Steve Fucking Bannon she’s talking to…??
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Touche. The rest of my comment stands. If Trump is still breathing in 2024, he will be the nominee. I can’t conceive of him stepping aside to allow someone else to become the leader of the GOP.
Not if he’s behind bars. I’m still holding out hope that his life of crime catches up with him.
re: #34 No Malarkey!
Barring an untimely death, Trump will be the 2024 GQP nominee. He’ll run because he needs the money and his ego won’t let him step aside, and the GQP base worships him.
Also…nobody so far has been able to put on an equivalent show. Trump expanded the menu of what kind of pandering and cruelty could be expected from politics-as-carny-show, and no one else has the formula down quite yet.
It will be interesting if he runs, to have him on stage with people trying to directly ape his thing.
re: #16 Teukka
Any new news on the Evergrande trainwreck?
Most recent I’m seeing is this, from earlier today (my time):
Chinese property giant Evergrande is on the brink of collapse, and analysts warn the potential fallout could have far-reaching implications that spill outside China’s borders.
“Evergrande’s collapse would be the biggest test that China’s financial system has faced in years,” says Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics.
Here’s how bad its problems are, and what’s in store for investors.
I guess we’ll see if “too big to fail” is a thing in China. This might be remembered as China’s Lehman Brothers moment if it all goes sideways.
re: #44 The Ghost of a Flea
Also…nobody so far has been able to put on an equivalent show. Trump expanded the menu of what kind of pandering and cruelty could be expected from politics-as-carny-show, and no one else has the formula down quite yet.
It will be interesting if he runs, to have him on stage with people trying to directly ape his thing.
Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton terrify me.
re: #41 Punish Domestic Terrorists
What’s her definition of effective?
Being able to pass legislation? Nope. She’s done nothing.
Be able to get her brand on Fox anytime she wants? Yup. That’s her definition of effective. It has nothing to do with constituent services or legislating. She cares only about her branding, and her brand is being an amoral sociopath whose idea of winning is seeing more dead people with covid, and then trying to blame Biden for not preventing more deaths.
At Rikers I saw the most inhumane conditions imaginable.
Intake was abhorrent—100s of inmates trapped for weeks. Denied water, food, a place to sleep. COVID rampant. Staff doing multiple shifts. @NYCMayor must take action.
Each day this continues is a humanitarian crisis. https://t.co/vdO4XHVUP9— Keith Powers (@KeithPowersNYC) September 16, 2021
re: #44 The Ghost of a Flea
Also…nobody so far has been able to put on an equivalent show. Trump expanded the menu of what kind of pandering and cruelty could be expected from politics-as-carny-show, and no one else has the formula down quite yet.
It will be interesting if he runs, to have him on stage with people trying to directly ape his thing.
A lot of them are missing a primary Trump ingredient of not being politicians. Cruz, Hawley, etc. etc. are solely known as such and that is still pretty much an automatic negative with a chunk of the base towards the pseudo-libertarian/pseudo-sovereign citizen side. (I use pseudo for them since they aren’t true believers there, it’s just a convenient label for them to claim as they follow a base “Do whatever is convenient for me to do and throw a tantrum when someone inconveniences me.”)
And I wonder whether the GOP upper echelons will accept another outsider celebrity as the figurehead/leader since a competent one would also step on them heavily as part of establishing firm control of the party. Bringing out a billionaire or businessman is essentially a Romney-redux and also takes the same risk.
This suggests that there was funding the last time on Jan 6 that’s not available today.
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) September 17, 2021
1/6 was astroturfed and funded by right wing dark money. That same money isn’t available now, because those behind it are worried that they might be outed as responsible for the attempted overthrow of the US government, and they don’t care how many of their know nothing supporters/base get tossed in prison.
Had a tough conversation with a constituent about whether the universal pre-K that we’re working to include in the reconciliation package will include snacks. pic.twitter.com/vzB5qlOnLz
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) September 17, 2021
re: #26 Charles Johnson
So desperate to generate a “Biden administration bad” piece that they’ve moved down to the women-in-the-media section of their list.
Al Franken running for congress … in Ilhan Omar’s district? https://t.co/lZ1RIC3a29 pic.twitter.com/I7VFgXuk4z
— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) September 17, 2021
Meanwhile, I just paged this - there are rumblings out in Minneapolis that despite all the white guilt fueling Ilhan Omar’s continued congressional seat, that maybe a significant portion of the constituents would like a re-focus onto more relevant priorities …
re: #33 JOE 🥓
It’s shit like this from the TexASS GOP that makes me want to revert them back to a territory and re-do Reconstruction.
It would be interesting to revert the Republican only sections back to reconstruction.
re: #43 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Not if he’s behind bars. I’m still holding out hope that his life of crime catches up with him.
Even if he is indicted, tried and convicted by then, no sure thing, I expect the case will still be tied up on appeal in 2024. That will also make it more imperative for him to run, so that he can acquire presidential immunity, and pardon himself.
Having some trouble?
Abbott’s top political advisor Dave Carney says he’s looking for “political folks” who give “a fuck about their work” #txlege pic.twitter.com/R2URSdUiro— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) September 17, 2021
re: #55 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
So, you think she was elected because of white guilt?
re: #58 jaunte
That would probably involve moving to Texas.
Speaking of Texas, my brother-in-law called last night to say his electricity was just restored after Hurricane Ida.
Sorryantivaxxer is on a roll in the past 24 hours:
They have a 28 year old, and also 41, 55, 32, 40, 61.
They are all so arrogant, and their demise is so mundane and routine. The virus just does its thing.
re: #40 No Malarkey!
Touche. The rest of my comment stands. If Trump is still breathing in 2024, he will be the nominee. I can’t conceive of him stepping aside to allow someone else to become the leader of the GOP.
I agree. I have a Repub guy on FB who sometimes goes on rants about how democrats can’t get over Trump and I say to him ‘do you even know who the head of your party is?’
re: #16 Teukka
Any new news on the Evergrande trainwreck?
Sound like the Muse of History (the bitch!) is setting China up for a rerun of 2008: although with a few different factors in play we (i.e. US/West-in-General) didn’t have back then [From the linked Bloomberg piece]:
Without a social safety net and with limited places to put their money, Chinese savers have for years been encouraged to buy homes whose prices were only ever supposed to go up. Today, real estate accounts for 40% of household assets and buying a house (or two) is a cultural touchstone
40% sounds awfully high; though it’s surprising to read the words “without a social safety net” wrt to Communist China. Though one has to presume that what “safety net” most Chinese have to rely on would mean something like North-Korea-levels of living standards….
“Given that the bulk of people’s wealth is already in property, even a 10% correction would be a serious knock to many people,” said Fraser Howie, an independent analyst and co-author of books on Chinese finance who has been following the country’s corporate sector for decades. “It would certainly knock their hopes and dreams and expectations about what property is.”
Just looking at the numbers (IMHO), China would seem lucky to be able to get away with a mere “10% correction”. Barring a serious intervention by the government, that is.
Another potential flashpoint is whether Evergrande can repay high-yield wealth management products that it sold to thousands of retail investors, including many of its own employees. About 40 billion yuan of the WMPs are due to be repaid, according to Caixin, a Chinese financial news service.
No one said the Chinese can’t be creative when they need to be: “wealth management product” as a euphemism for “risky junk instrument not worth the pixels it’s rendered in” is pretty clever.
Though of course, it being Communist China, they DO have a few remedies other governments don’t in terms of enforcing responsibility on the financial sector: probably involving firing squads…
Marine Cpl. Daegan Page laid to rest in Omaha (Omaha World-Herald, fifteen minutes ago)
He was one of those who died in the terrorist attack on the gate of Kabul’s airport.
Governor Ricketts ordered the flag to half-mast when the news came through (August 31) until sunset today.
When his remains arrived at Offutt AFB, there was a massive state and city police parade to accompany him from Offutt to the funeral home.
The American Legion’s Patriot Riders lodged a complaint with the City of Omaha and Mayor Jean Stothert (R), because they were prohibited in participating in the parade. The Marine’s family has specifically asked that they be allowed to participate, but were rejected.
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Apparently my representative was busy doing something else.
Page’s death has captured the hearts of people across the Omaha community, Nebraska and Iowa.
Last Friday, thousands lined the processional route as his remains were returned to Omaha.
Page’s remains were to be committed at Omaha National Cemetery following Friday’s funeral.
Dignitaries at Friday’s funeral included U.S. Sens. Joni Ernst, Deb Fischer and Ben Sasse, U.S. Reps. Don Bacon and Jeff Fortenberry, Govs. Kim Reynolds and Pete Ricketts, and Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert.
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Real estate is a highly artificial market in China: the only land that people are allowed to buy and sell are parcels that metropolitan areas put on the market to raise money.
re: #52 lawhawk
1/6 was astroturfed and funded by right wing dark money. That same money isn’t available now, because those behind it are worried that they might be outed as responsible for the attempted overthrow of the US government, and they don’t care how many of their know nothing supporters/base get tossed in prison.
Charlie Kirk isn’t bussing terrorists in this time.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 17, 2021
re: #64 Jay C
Though of course, it being Communist China, they DO have a few remedies other governments don’t in terms of enforcing responsibility on the financial sector: probably involving firing squads…
Bilking investors and all manner of financial shenanigans?
Yep, that’s a paddlin’ bullet to the back of the head.
A Lehman Bros-sized failure of Evergrande would be a major fiasco for Beijing. And a lot of ordinary, hardworking people are almost certainly going to be feeling the squeeze if that happens.
re: #34 No Malarkey!
Barring an untimely death, Trump will be the 2024 GQP nominee. He’ll run because he needs the money and his ego won’t let him step aside, and the GQP base worships him.
Only thing that could stop him would be serious legal complications. And not just misdemeanor charges or civil suits: I mean nothing short of a felony conviction.
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Only thing that could stop him would be serious legal complications. And not just misdemeanor charges or civil suits: I mean nothing short of a felony conviction.
That might not even stop him. There is nothing to prohibit a felon running from jail in the Constitution.
re: #70 Dr Lizardo
Yep, that’s a
paddlin’bullet to the back of the head.
I wonder: does the present government adhere to the old Chinese custom of billing the prisoner’s family for the cost of the execution bullet(s), or has that practice been “reformed”…?
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That might not even stop him. There is nothing to prohibit a felon running from jail in the Constitution.
Plenty of people would still vote for him.
re: #55 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
I don’t get it. Omar is focused on her constituents. I really don’t like this attack on her. It sounds xenophobic. I may not agree with all of her positions but she’s a good progressive.
re: #60 Belafon
So, you think she was elected because of white guilt?
It’s a D+26 district, previously held by Keith Ellison.
I don’t know who her primary opponents were, but her Republican opponent in the general is wholly irrelevant.
re: #75 Patricia Kayden
I don’t get it. Omar is focused on her constituents. I really don’t like this attack on her. It sounds xenophobic. I may not agree with all of her positions but she’s a good progressive.
I like Al Franken a lot, but I feel like this is a mistake. Omar has been just fine as a representative, and this is a bad look from a man that’s already got an undeserved black mark on his record.
Another antivaxxer listed.
He died because he thought the vaccine was the “Mark of the Beast.”
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, he died without getting the Mark of the Beast then. 👍🏿
Fun fact: Flavor Flav is 83 days older than Mike Pence.
re: #73 Jay C
I wonder: does the present government adhere to the old Chinese custom of billing the prisoner’s family for the cost of the execution bullet(s), or has that practice been “reformed”…?
I honestly have no idea. It wouldn’t surprise me if they still did that, though.
Time to call it a day. Have a good one Lizards, and stay healthy.
re: #79 Patricia Kayden
Yep, and his wife had the vaccine, so he was OK with her being marked.
I don’t even want to know what the mark of the beast does to you.
re: #76 sagehen
It’s a D+26 district, previously held by Keith Ellison.
I don’t know who her primary opponents were, but her Republican opponent in the general is wholly irrelevant.
2018:
Democratic (DFL) Ilhan Omar 65,238 48.2
Democratic (DFL) Margaret Anderson Kelliher 41,156 30.4
Democratic (DFL) Patricia Torres Ray 17,629 13.0
Democratic (DFL) Jamal Abdulahi 4,984 3.7
Democratic (DFL) Bobby Joe Champion 3,831 2.8
Democratic (DFL) Frank Drake 2,480 1.8
Jennifer Zielinski was the sacrificial lamb for the GOP in the General Election, getting 21.68% of the vote.
re: #82 Ming5000
Yep, and his wife had the vaccine, so he was OK with her being marked.
I don’t even want to know what the mark of the beast does to you.
Dumps your Pornhub selections to your Facebook page.
This is Tony. He’s been patiently waiting for hot girl summer to end so he can start his wrinkly potato autumn. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/SB3LGPopLg
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) September 16, 2021
This is my cousin’s friend in Trinidad. He can’t believe how stupid some humans are. pic.twitter.com/2veFvVPefj
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) September 17, 2021
Trump has a larger than life, transgressive persona created over decades that thrills the Trumpist base. I’m having a hard time thinking of who could fill those shoes, and turn out those poorly educated, low propensity whites to vote other than him. Certainly not the empty suits who make up the GOP establishment.
Now’s your chance to own your very own copy.
Sotheby’s announced Friday — appropriately on Constitution Day — that in November it will put up for auction a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/Sl1Bd8atZm
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) September 17, 2021
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
How many of them will now run for Congress on the GOP ticket?
Yay
North Carolina judges strike down state’s voter ID law https://t.co/5719wpYJNc
— NBCNeb Scottsbluff (@NBCScottsbluff) September 17, 2021
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law on Friday, agreeing with minority voters that Republicans rammed through rules tainted by racial bias as a way to remain in power.
Two of the three trial judges hearing a lawsuit declared the December 2018 law is unconstitutional, despite being designed to implement a photo voter ID mandate added to the North Carolina Constitution in a referendum just weeks earlier. They said the law intentionally discriminates against Black voters, violating their equal protections.
The “was motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters,” Superior Court Judges Michael O’Foghludha and Vince Rozier wrote in their 100-page majority opinion. “Other, less restrictive voter ID laws would have sufficed to achieve the legitimate nonracial purposes of implementing the constitutional amendment requiring voter ID, deterring fraud, or enhancing voter confidence.”
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Guides Just Had Their Worst Season Ever in the Cascades | Outside
It’s too warm. The glaciers are retreating, which makes climbing Cascade volcanoes extremely dangerous.
swollen balls are going places pic.twitter.com/TA95kc7dx8
— 🍂🍂Imani Gandied Apples🍁🍁 (@AngryBlackLady) September 17, 2021
re: #92 teleskiguy
Ugh, that fucking sucks.
Today is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. Now more than ever before, it is so deeply important to acknowledge the incredible burdens placed on health care professionals and the profound trauma wrought by this ongoing pandemic.
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) September 17, 2021
On this important day, I’m calling for swift and final passage of my Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act—a bipartisan bill that works to reduce and prevent suicide, burnout, and mental and behavioral health conditions among health care professionals.
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) September 17, 2021
We call health care workers our heroes. But we’ve got to make sure we really treat them like that. On #NPSADay, that starts with acknowledging this mental health crisis and reflecting on how we can better support our health care workforce.
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) September 17, 2021
Yeah, this man should represent the state of Georgia in the US Senate. Definitely a far superior choice to Senator Warnock
/s/
Listen to Hershel Walker, Trump’s pick for the next Senator from GA, bragging about playing Russian roulette. pic.twitter.com/d2M3oL2xVR
— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) September 17, 2021
Another tragedy caused by anti-vaxxers.
A boy went to a COVID-swamped ER. He waited for hours. Then his appendix burst.
Non-COVID patients are paying a price as delta and low-vaccination rates overwhelm hospitals across the country. “Wait times can now be measured in days,” said an expert. https://t.co/wl0NdLf1ew— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 17, 2021
Pathetic
Donald Trump was defeated by Joe Biden by 11,779 votes in Georgia, and officials have found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. https://t.co/IHTnTodBX2
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 17, 2021
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That might not even stop him. There is nothing to prohibit a felon running from jail in the Constitution.
Grandma and Grandpa Bacon voted for Socialist Eugene Debs in 1920.
He ran his 1920 campaign from his prison cell.
I’m just going to point out that this proposed legislation
Alabama bill would let workers sue if they get sick from employer-mandated COVID vaccines
is going to get drop-kicked as the federal government has absolutely pre-empted the area with the “vaccine court” (US Court of Federal Claims). It was decided back in the ’80s that vaccines were a public good and the federal government took the liability for any damages arising from vaccination.
So, essentially, this is stupid virtue signaling.
“sovereign citizen” has a crappy lawyer.
Bauer today told the judge that her court appearances were making it challenging for her to run her restaurant in Pennsylvania
Today’s order that she be jailed … well….. that likely won’t help the restaurant much either— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 17, 2021
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re: #98 No Malarkey!
Another tragedy caused by anti-vaxxers.
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Of note: The kid survived. He had a rough go of it, but it looks like he’ll be okay.
If you remember the pizza shop owner from Pennsylvania
**HEARING TODAY **
Feds are asking court to revoke release of Jan 6 defendant Pauline Bauer pending trial, arguing she’s following court orders, won’t surrender passport.
Bauer says she’s “sovereign citizen”, and has filed some ……. dynamic…. motions with court ===> pic.twitter.com/jk4qUI6539— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 17, 2021
today’s main meal is curried tuna casserole with broccoli and tomatoes
re: #102 No Malarkey!
“sovereign citizen” has a crappy lawyer.
lol
Bauer says “FBI has been watching me ever since day 1…. they know where I’m at 24 hours a day…. I’m not a danger to society…. I am an asset to my community…”
She says she has affidavits from people “who were there January 6”— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 17, 2021
As judge explains his finding that Bauer is unlikely to follow conditions of release…. Bauer interrupts again
Judge says Bauer is acting “above the law”….— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 17, 2021
Judge: “The problem is she’s not going to do what I direct her to do”
“Ms Bauer is now going to be incarcerated”— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 17, 2021
It’s only free speech if we approve of it
The party of free speech, the party of limited government, the party of freedom https://t.co/rKmrpcIjOF
— OwMyPopehat (@Popehat) September 17, 2021
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh her world is going to change right before her self righteous eyes.
Throw the book at her.
And make sure you hit her with it.
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
lol
You know, this may be controversial, but I feel sorry for the rank and file sov-citiots. They’ve basically been hoodwinked by their “gurus” into paying a lot of money for a song-and-dance ritual they’ve been promised will get them out of their legal difficulties. It’s a bit sad to see them suffer imprisonment because their desperation led them to believe in a quack. With that said, the 1/6 insurrectionists deserve to know that their actions have consequences, so I don’t feel 100% bad.
re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
It’s only free speech if we approve of it
It’s white nationalism.
It was surprising when he first came out as a white nationalist to try to win office as a Republican, but now this hardcore racism is just normal for this scumbag.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 17, 2021
re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth
today’s main meal is curried tuna casserole with broccoli and tomatoes
we used bowtie pasta for the noodle component and will top it with Parmesan panko during the finishing process.
re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
JD Vance wants to tax the endowments of major universities.
I’m okay with that. These universities have built up huge endowments and instead of funding education for needy students, they look at the endowment size as a feature to plug all on its own.
Tax the crap out of ‘em, and while we’re at it, tax billionaires too.
FDA advisory panel recommends against Pfizer booster shot. The FDA can overrule the panel, of course. finance.yahoo.com
re: #110 Dopamine Fish
You know, this may be controversial, but I feel sorry for the rank and file sov-citiots. They’ve basically been hoodwinked by their “gurus” into paying a lot of money for a song-and-dance ritual they’ve been promised will get them out of their legal difficulties. It’s a bit sad to see them suffer imprisonment because their desperation led them to believe in a quack. With that said, the 1/6 insurrectionists deserve to know that their actions have consequences, so I don’t feel 100% bad.
Yeah, no. I just can’t feel sorry for this idiot. She brought it on herself.
re: #110 Dopamine Fish
I have zero sympathy for them. I’ve been physically threatened by them in my days in County zoning. According to them the correct response to being told that you can’t live in a decrepit rv in the middle of town and shit in a hole is to threaten murder.
BREAKING: Gen. McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, to announce no ISIS-K fighters killed in U.S. drone strike in Kabul Aug 29. 10 civilians killed, including 7 children in Toyota. No disciplinary action expected, officials say. US military stands by intel leading to strike.
— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) September 17, 2021
re: #113 lawhawk
JD Vance wants to tax the endowments of major universities.
I’m okay with that. These universities have built up huge endowments and instead of funding education for needy students, they look at the endowment size as a feature to plug all on its own.
Tax the crap out of ‘em, and while we’re at it, tax billionaires too.
He wants to tax them because he hates their mission statements.
Is Vance willing to sign on to support “taxing religious instutions” and “non-profit think tankspropaganda outfits”?
They are going to keep the Colorado site as a “Western Headquarters”
Sort of like in military parlance “BLM Forward” (my take)
They’re definitely going to need to vet their “western employees thoroughly though, to keep out the “sagebrush rebellion” crowd
JUST IN: Interior reverses Trump administration move and moves Bureau of Land Management headquarters back to DC https://t.co/jyqmhUm2cx pic.twitter.com/1bJoKMzib5
— The Hill (@thehill) September 17, 2021
Edit:
The damage is still done though, the agency HQ lost 87% of it’s employees in the move west. Job accomplished for the GOP
re: #110 Dopamine Fish
You know, this may be controversial, but I feel sorry for the rank and file sov-citiots. They’ve basically been hoodwinked by their “gurus” into paying a lot of money for a song-and-dance ritual they’ve been promised will get them out of their legal difficulties. It’s a bit sad to see them suffer imprisonment because their desperation led them to believe in a quack. With that said, the 1/6 insurrectionists deserve to know that their actions have consequences, so I don’t feel 100% bad.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think “Soviet Citizens” whenever they see “sov-citz”?
re: #113 lawhawk
JD Vance wants to tax the endowments of major universities.
I’m okay with that. These universities have built up huge endowments and instead of funding education for needy students, they look at the endowment size as a feature to plug all on its own.
Tax the crap out of ‘em, and while we’re at it, tax billionaires too.
With a workaround that they’d remain tax-exempt if they spend X% of their endowment every year on scholarships, endowed chairs, or pre-college prep courses for students who attend public school in underfunded communities.
(conflict of interest declaration: my highly selective elite alma mater has an enormous endowment, but they pass out so much financial aid the average tuition paid is less than half list price. And there’s enough rich kids from rich families paying full fare, that actually works out to 1/4 of the student body paying only what they can earn themselves with a part-time work-study job at the bookstore or library or dining hall. Almost 10% of the students pay nothing, not even room room and board. Also, 1% of each class is DACA kids.)
re: #121 aatharuv
Is it just me, or does anyone else think “Soviet Citizens” whenever they see “sov-citz”?
I always think SovZits…
re: #122 sagehen
With a workaround that they’d remain tax-exempt if they spend X% of their endowment every year on scholarships, endowed chairs, or pre-college prep courses for students who attend public school in underfunded communities.
(conflict of interest declaration: my highly selective elite alma mater has an enormous endowment, but they pass out so much financial aid the average tuition paid is less than half list price. And there’s enough rich kids from rich families paying full fare, that actually works out to 1/4 of the student body paying only what they can earn themselves with a part-time work-study job at the bookstore or library or dining hall. Almost 10% of the students pay nothing, not even room room and board. Also, 1% of each class is DACA kids.)
Spending some money on research (STEM and Liberal Arts) with some percentage for funding undergrads would be nice too.
It also would be nice to have some way to make sure students in some fields don’t effectively have to pay to take an internship, but I wouldn’t want to subsidize anyone taking advantage of unpaid interns who want an “in” into their profession of their choice.
The Marine LTC obviously got the clue that his appearance in the secluded abandoned school bus with his apparent manifesto written out and taped to the roof while playing chess with himself had not effectively communicated to the public that he had gone off the rails.
Memory lane, 2010
Birther ex-Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, M.D., refused to deploy w/ his unit because Obama wasn’t the legit president. Court martial, 5 months in military prison, loss of all benefits. Kansas refused his medical license application because of dereliction of duty.— Occam’s Taser (@redmountainbike) September 17, 2021
re: #87 No Malarkey!
Trump has a larger than life, transgressive persona created over decades that thrills the Trumpist base. I’m having a hard time thinking of who could fill those shoes, and turn out those poorly educated, low propensity whites to vote other than him. Certainly not the empty suits who make up the GOP establishment.
and despite having for years’ worth of time spent in office, his supporters still see him as an outsider, a non-politician, the Anti-Politician, sent by God to Drain the Swamp.
Spectacular Winners of the 2021 Drone Photography Contest Capture a Bird’s-Eye View of the World
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Glorious!
re: #122 sagehen
With a workaround that they’d remain tax-exempt if they spend X% of their endowment every year on scholarships, endowed chairs, or pre-college prep courses for students who attend public school in underfunded communities.
(conflict of interest declaration: my highly selective elite alma mater has an enormous endowment, but they pass out so much financial aid the average tuition paid is less than half list price. And there’s enough rich kids from rich families paying full fare, that actually works out to 1/4 of the student body paying only what they can earn themselves with a part-time work-study job at the bookstore or library or dining hall. Almost 10% of the students pay nothing, not even room room and board. Also, 1% of each class is DACA kids.)
I’m not aware of that many endowments (outside of the athletics program) that doesn’t fund professor salaries, scholarships or graduate students. Funding research done by professors, maybe, but that’s part of the mission for higher education.
re: #113 lawhawk
JD Vance wants to tax the endowments of major universities.
I’m okay with that. These universities have built up huge endowments and instead of funding education for needy students, they look at the endowment size as a feature to plug all on its own.
Tax the crap out of ‘em, and while we’re at it, tax billionaires too.
Okay, I realize I’m being a pedant here, but…no, he isn’t calling for a tax even though he uses the word. He’s calling for the government to be able to take money from institutions that won’t comply with a slate of approved ideas and calling it a tax. As always, the specific language choices are rhetorical choices…it’s a very mild word for what is a totalitarian mechanism.
As always, part of the exercise is to destroy meaning: a tax isn’t a generalized levy to create a common wealth pool expanded to increase general welfare, it’s a weapon to punish deviancy and enforce cultural norms. That is…a really telling transformation of a word. That’s…100% Nuremburg Law shit right there—create a series of penalties that transfer wealth from the noncompliant, stigmatized population to the compliant volk—but even if the specific proposal fails the general principle…taxes are meant to hurt people, redistribution is good if it is from degenerate kinds to correct kinds…will persist in his audience’s understanding of how government works.
The Indianapolis Star showed Simone Biles the ‘magnitude’ of gymnastics abuse. How it got the story.
Local newspapers may be struggling, but they are still publishing journalism that makes a difference
washingtonpost.com
Inspiring.
An officer with the U.S. Marshals Service in Jackson, Mississippi was caught on camera assaulting a handcuffed Black man pic.twitter.com/VxEB3aGWIP
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) September 17, 2021
People in Mississippi to show this video to:
Governor - @tatereeves
AG - @LynnFitchAG
Senator - @SenatorWicker
Senator - @SenHydeSmith
MS-1 Rep. - @RepTrentKelly
MS-2 Rep. - @BennieGThompson
MS-3 Rep. - @RepMichaelGuest
MS-4 Rep. - @CongPalazzo
Mayor of Jackson - @ChokweALumumba— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) September 17, 2021
re: #110 Dopamine Fish
You know, this may be controversial, but I feel sorry for the rank and file sov-citiots. They’ve basically been hoodwinked by their “gurus” into paying a lot of money for a song-and-dance ritual they’ve been promised will get them out of their legal difficulties. …
Germany has freie Reichsbürger, Free Citizens of the Reich, who refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the Federal Republic of Germany and still see themselves as citizens of the German Reich, which they recognize as their country before it was dissolved in 1945.
J D Vance is proposing a kind of socialist redistribution by government agencies, but only for the right kinds of people who are nationalist in the right way, imposed on the wrong kinds of people that possess alien and degenerate ideologies that harm the nation.
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany has freie Reichsbürger, Free Citizens of the Reich, who refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the Federal Republic of Germany and still see themselves as citizens of the German Reich, which they recognize as their country before it was dissolved in 1945.
IOW, Nazis.
re: #113 lawhawk
JD Vance wants to tax the endowments of major universities.
I’m okay with that. These universities have built up huge endowments and instead of funding education for needy students, they look at the endowment size as a feature to plug all on its own.
Tax the crap out of ‘em, and while we’re at it, tax billionaires too.
And churches which actively promote political causes.
re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Normal shit.
re: #134 No Malarkey!
IOW, Nazis.
Some freie Reichsbürger will claim that the Nazis were usurpers and that they pledge allegiance to the Second Reich, which ended with the Nazis taking over in 1933…
The point is that they refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the German government - or the EU.
We are getting closer to a coherent (if still stupid and doomed-to-fail) articulation of modern American fascism that does not rely on LARPing earlier fascist movements.
It’s not the guys in the streets that should scare you, it’s the tedious gray men that create the wheedling language that makes this stuff seem “reasonable” to moderates and undecideds who understand that something is inherently wrong with the world, but want a simple, non-systemic answer that proposes nothing that disrupts their lives.
re: #121 aatharuv
Is it just me, or does anyone else think “Soviet Citizens” whenever they see “sov-citz”?
Talk to my Russian friends who fled the USSR in the 80s and they will tell you those people act exactly like Soviet Citizens!
If the comparison to the Nuremburg Laws bothers you, think of the proposal as the American version of jizya.
Anyone declaring to be a Sovereign Citizen should be denied use of public roads, services or facilities.
See how far they get from home on a private roadway.
Members of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee rejected a broader application to approve the use of booster doses of Pfizer’s vaccines in everyone 16 and older six months after they are fully vaccinated. https://t.co/vZySKbQwX8
— CNN (@CNN) September 17, 2021
LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/WEjSt9Ijs2
— Pedro 🆘🇺🇸…🚫📶🏛. Save🗽 (@Pminn76) September 17, 2021
Thank you, @HillaryClinton — I really appreciate your support. We’ve made a lot of progress, and we’re ready to keep building on it. https://t.co/eL74kh5JkD
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 17, 2021
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hillary meddling in foreign elections!!!
In light of the massive @JRubinBlogger expose, I better disclose that I used to be a Republican who became a Democrat and now writes things that are oftentimes supportive of the Biden Administration. There. I said it. Glad to get that off my chest.
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) September 17, 2021
re: #121 aatharuv
Is it just me, or does anyone else think “Soviet Citizens” whenever they see “sov-citz”?
that was my thought as well, though maybe only because I was recently looking at a Sovtek amplifier.
It’s a little weird that the 4 orbiting tourists have dropped off the news cycle. Maybe a good thing.
re: #149 Decatur Deb
It’s a little weird that the 4 orbiting tourists have dropped off the news cycle. Maybe a good thing.
I, for one, do not want the whole world to watch me when I go on vacation.
re: #149 Decatur Deb
It’s a little weird that the 4 orbiting tourists have dropped off the news cycle. Maybe a good thing.
This will probably make the news (somewhere).
Watch live as the @inspiration4x crew share an update from their multi-day journey orbiting Earth https://t.co/kWB5uoFfw5
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 17, 2021
re: #150 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I, for one, do not want the whole world to watch me when I go on vacation.
Why do you hate Instagram?
re: #151 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
This will probably make the news (somewhere).
Guess there’s no competing with Swollen Balls.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Hillary meddling in foreign elections!!!
so are bernie and jane
@BernieSanders & I believe progressives must stand together across borders. In Canada, @theJagmeetSingh is taking on Big Pharma, Telecoms Giants and the ultra-rich. Vote with your heart & your head! Vote for @NDP candidates across Canada - @theJagmeetSingh @avilewis #Elxn44 https://t.co/t2xQJmBkuB
— Jane O’Meara Sanders (@janeosanders) September 17, 2021
“Take it! Take it! Take it!”
“Let’s go! Let’s go!”
“We busted in the Capitol.”
“This is my house, we pay taxes for this.”
Marilyn Fassell and Thomas Fassell of Largo, Florida, were arrested this week in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. pic.twitter.com/fQby5imFsF— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 17, 2021
she seems nice
“MARILYN described one room she and THOMAS FASSELL were in as round, with statues and paintings, red curtains, and very high ceilings.” https://t.co/LTcgzWCf5B pic.twitter.com/qxn060MH9F
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 17, 2021
they were just regular tourists!
awwwwww
Instagram blocks #naturalimmunity hashtag. Don’t forget Congress gave @CDCgov $1 billion to market the vaccines. I suspect a lot of that has made its way into the hands of social media companies. Also, factcheck-dot-org is funded by a group that holds $2 billion of vaccine stock. https://t.co/quK7iGrcd7
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 17, 2021
As somehow it may happen that a moron must be found.
Sorryantivaxxer has a list
they have a little list
And one Laura Loomer’s on the list
Yes Laura Loomer’s on the list
And she never will be missed
She never will be missed!
re: #47 lawhawk
What’s her definition of effective?
Being able to pass legislation? Nope. She’s done nothing.
Be able to get her brand on Fox anytime she wants? Yup. That’s her definition of effective. It has nothing to do with constituent services or legislating. She cares only about her branding, and her brand is being an amoral sociopath whose idea of winning is seeing more dead people with covid, and then trying to blame Biden for not preventing more deaths.
Trump is her model. All you have to do is talk, be a white supremacist, and disparage the other side as communists/socialists/Marxists , and riches and power will be thrown your way too.
The thing about sovereign citizens is that a lot of them don’t just go off and do their own thing. That magic-words understanding of law is applied to the task of imposing on others—including just straight stealing shit—and I think that’s an important part of understanding them.
Because there’s a big pattern of reactionaries creating or finding concepts that allow them to thread the needle of (1) conceiving of themselves as good, smart people, (2) doing things that are antisocial and dumb…and this is just part of the buffet options.
On Constitution Day, Donald Trump’s statement about Rep. Anthony Gonzalez reminds us all, once again, that Trump is at war with the Constitution.
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) September 17, 2021
All 513 intensive care beds in the Cincinnati region’s hospitals are full, with COVID-19 patients now making up roughly 1 in 3 ICU patients. https://t.co/xJuAoC45ND
— Enquirer (@Enquirer) September 17, 2021
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s okay. She’ll get a slap on the wrist and pay a small fine. No biggie.
NOW: France pulls its ambassador after the U.S. announces pact with Britain and Australia. https://t.co/rOUlBNOGVG
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) September 17, 2021
INBOX: “The death rate in Tennessee is about to skyrocket”
A health care worker who has messaged us before (and been accurate) tells us unvaccinated, intubated COVID patients are dying at an alarming clip, adds: “for God sakes please get vaccinated” 😷 pic.twitter.com/iazRKA7Zup— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) September 17, 2021
re: #161 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I mean, I can kinda/sorta figure out what transpires, but
1. Who is Rep.Anthony Gonzales?
2.What did TFG away about him?
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
Now Conservatives will have to be upset that Biden slighted France, a place they irrationally hated, but might now love.
Why are these all in English? That’s a good question, but I’d imagine it’s easier to make hundreds of slightly different fliers in one language. And the antivax movement is hugely popular in English-speaking countries.
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) September 17, 2021
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
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France is really, really, REALLY pissed off. I can’t remember them ever getting this angry with us.
re: #169 sagehen
France is really, really, REALLY pissed off. I can’t remember them ever getting this angry with us.
Mrs. Fish is wondering what the deal is with this deal. Is America being meddlesome, or did the Aussies just decide to say “fuck the French” and the Americans just happen to be caught in the crosshairs?
re: #166 Jay C
I mean, I can kinda/sorta figure out what transpires, but
1. Who is Rep.Anthony Gonzales?
2.What did TFG away about him?
I assume it’s about Trump attacking him over impeachment.
mediaite.com
re: #166 Jay C
I mean, I can kinda/sorta figure out what transpires, but
1. Who is Rep.Anthony Gonzales?
2.What did TFG away about him?
He’s one of the few Republicans that voted to impeach tfg.
He announced that he’s decided not to run for reelection and you can imagine tfg’s opinion.
re: #169 sagehen
Whenever I see spats over defense-spending, my mind immediately gravitates towards the question: who is getting the $$$ to build these things (in this case submarines), and who is not getting the money.
re: #166 Jay C
I mean, I can kinda/sorta figure out what transpires, but
1. Who is Rep.Anthony Gonzales?
2.What did TFG away about him?
Ever since he voted for impeachment (he’s an R), he’s had a gazillion death threats, him and his family have needed security, his House leadership has been conspicuously unsympathetic and unsupportive, and now he’s decided not to run for re-election against the TFG-endorsed primary opponent.
Ancient frog friend 🐸
A message written on this weight dates it to the second millennium B.C.
The inscription reveals that this sweet frog weighs 10 minas. One mina, a Mesopotamian unit of measure, is equivalent to 18 ounces or 500 grams.
Learn more: https://t.co/MU78AzaAze pic.twitter.com/IAk8hrnHMT— The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum) September 17, 2021
re: #175 sagehen
Ever since he voted for impeachment (he’s an R), he’s had a gazillion death threats, him and his family have needed security, his House leadership has been conspicuously unsympathetic and unsupportive, and now he’s decided not to run for re-election against the TFG-endorsed primary opponent.
Well said. And this is happening to any national, state, or local Republican politician who even vaguely criticizes T-grift.
I swear Cawthorn must have been a paint-huffer in his youth
After the Continental Army “took over the airports,” the founding fathers KNEW they had to put these protections in the Constitution. https://t.co/UatZgYR8eM
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) September 17, 2021
WaPo Ed Board: “Personal freedom does not give an individual the right to hurt others. Those not wearing masks and refusing to get vaccinated are spreading the virus and overcrowding the nation’s hospitals … This is not freedom; it is recklessness.”https://t.co/1wZQCbVGMF
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 17, 2021
re: #171 Dopamine Fish
Mrs. Fish is wondering what the deal is with this deal. Is America being meddlesome, or did the Aussies just decide to say “fuck the French” and the Americans just happen to be caught in the crosshairs?
This is my question too.
re: #169 sagehen
France is really, really, REALLY pissed off. I can’t remember them ever getting this angry with us.
re: #174 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yeah, the French reaction to losing an arms deal (valuable as it might be to French defense industry). - especially over one submarine - seems a bit over-the-top. ISTM they should mostly be pissed at the Australians, after all, they were the ultimate buyer: dunno, maybe all etrangers look alike….
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
To paraphrase the Spider-Man movie: “With great freedom comes great responsibility.”
These folks love the freedom part, they just aren’t willing to accept the rest of it.
And that fucks us all.
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just from the headlines, I gather Australia cancelling a $90B contract with France has them mad, and now Australia will be buying nuclear powered subs from the US.
re: #182 Jay C
It’s always about the money.
re: #182 Jay C
Yeah, the French reaction to losing an arms deal (valuable as it might be to French defense industry). - especially over one submarine - seems a bit over-the-top. ISTM they should mostly be pissed at the Australians, after all, they were the ultimate buyer: dunno, maybe all etrangers look alike….
ADD: I think it was just one sub: I might very well be wrong about this, and the deal bigger that I assumed..
I love that the sorryantivaxxer.com for Laura Looper lists her location as Mar-a-lago-ish.
I’ve seen her write about it and discuss it in interviews several times. But I’m not here to stan for Rubin, I just feel she was unfairly targeted as a way to smear the Biden administration.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2021
re: #189 Charles Johnson
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Yeah, I can read some of what David Frum writes now, but I don’t recall him ever atoning for his past sins.
Editing: I’d be very happy to be shown otherwise.
re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
re: #182 Jay C
re: #169 sagehen
France was warned about security when the builder got hacked. The price doubled. And the timeline was out of hand. So much so Australia will rebuild old subs it wanted to retire.
Ever wish we bailed out of a weapon system or ship for the same kind of problem?
re: #191 Rightwingconspirator
France was warned about security when the builder got hacked. The price doubled. And the timeline was out of hand. So much so Australia will rebuild old subs it wanted to retire.
Ever wish we bailed out of a weapon system or ship for the same kind of problem?
The F-35 was grounded and unavailable for comment.
This one is a certified bad ass in my book. pic.twitter.com/wrluDHDUyk
— BERSERK (@srslyberserk) September 17, 2021
This was good but attached video for #antimaskers from airline , I believe pilot receives Academy Award! pic.twitter.com/60rH8RMSDL
— #VeteransAgainstTrump (@NeverForget_1_6) September 17, 2021
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
Its bad in Kentucky as well. We have a record 463 patients on ventilators today.
No. 1 in USA in new COVID cases per capita is Knox County, Kentucky.
Just 29% fully vaxxed.
Cases in that county amount to 1 out of every ~59 people there in a week.
The worst lottery.
NYT stats.https://t.co/fuUYJn1W7k— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) September 17, 2021
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
she posted a small video afterwards explaining herself and i have SO MUCH respect for her!! pic.twitter.com/SBQFrerbkr
— Philomena (@chthonikk) September 17, 2021
re: #186 Jay C
ADD: I think it was just one sub: I might very well be wrong about this, and the deal bigger that I assumed..
It’s complicated and messy and China and all sorts of stuff. The US/UK agreement with Australia for the Royal Australian Navy to get nuclear subs came out of nowhere. The French who have/had a signed contract with the Australian government about their project to build up to 13 conventionally-powered long-range subs in Adelaide were not in the loop before the news was released. The initial French-based project wasn’t going well for reasons, the ‘solution’ is a bit of a mess too since the Australians have no nuclear propulsion reactor building experience or infrastructure. Expect lots of fudging and side-stepping to come.
My guess — the RAN will lease some older Virginia-class nuke boats from the US for operational coverage and crew training while they build monkey-model Virginia/Astute hulls in Adelaide and fit them out with US or UK-made sparkly bits for their propulsion systems.
Nuclear subs allow the RAN to cover more of the Pacific with fewer hulls than conventionally-powered subs can and they’re more effective. Australia has a very large coastline and not much of a Navy complement to crew more than a handful of subs to start with.
The attack is ongoing.
It’s ridiculous that this lawless goon, this enemy of our democracy, is still a free man.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 17, 2021
re: #175 sagehen
Ever since he voted for impeachment (he’s an R), he’s had a gazillion death threats, him and his family have needed security, his House leadership has been conspicuously unsympathetic and unsupportive, and now he’s decided not to run for re-election against the TFG-endorsed primary opponent.
A primary opponent truly in the Trump image:
Trump then proceeded to reiterate his endorsement of GOP candidate Max Miller, who has been described as a “poster child” for the former president’s impeachment revenge tour, and has a dark history marred by allegations of anger problems, assaulting women, drunken driving, and other offenses.
Sarah Palin says she hasn’t been vaccinated because she’s already had COVID https://t.co/2Mj7f9FkvJ
— 🆘🌊 68 & Still Learning 🌊🆘 (@MikeRJohnson777) September 17, 2021
wait, what???
Palin said that she “personally” liked Lemon and that he had been nice to her in the past.
“But I am one of those white, common sense conservatives,” Palin said. “I believe in science and I have not taken the shot.”
“One, because the waitress never came back to ask me if I’m ready for that shot,” she joked. “But two, because I do believe in science and the Fauci-ism of the day back then was, if you’ve had COVID—I’ve had COVID—well then, Mother Nature was creating an immunity.”
It wasn’t clear exactly which comments by Dr. Anthony Fauci Palin was referring to but the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has repeatedly urged people to get vaccinated.
(my bold)
re: #191 Rightwingconspirator
France was warned about security when the builder got hacked. The price doubled. And the timeline was out of hand. So much so Australia will rebuild old subs it wanted to retire.
Ever wish we bailed out of a weapon system or ship for the same kind of problem?
Hello, do you have a moment to discuss Sergeant York with me?
en.wikipedia.org
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 16, 2021
Sarah Sanders and Proud boy leader Enrique Tarrio. pic.twitter.com/iCwupaEBPi
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) September 17, 2021
re: #197 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The attack is ongoing.
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Wow, he’s actually too stupid to know that even if Georgia could somehow reverse the results and give him their EC votes, he STILL wouldn’t win.
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
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My great grandpa was in the IWW. He’d be proud of her!
she posted a small video afterwards explaining herself and i have SO MUCH respect for her!! pic.twitter.com/SBQFrerbkr
— Philomena (@chthonikk) September 17, 2021
re: #197 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The attack is ongoing.
A pathetic, last ditch effort to get people to show up in DC tomorrow. Trump doesn’t know that most of his regular attendees were paid actors. He’s not paying anyone now.
As of today, over 60,000 Texans have died of COVID.
Small businesses still report ~40% reductions in customers because of failure to contain the pandemic.
And Greg Abbott’s priority today is to do a press event for Goldman Sachs. https://t.co/BlAVJJC1Q3— Boot Texas Republicans (@BootTexasGOP) September 17, 2021
re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth
You know, I’m tired of people throwing around selfies of public figures posing with people to infer some type cooperative relationship. Yeah, they are both garbage people. But they are both jus deep right wing people who more than likely are just at the same event.
Without any damn context it’s just a damn selfie
re: #206 jaunte
Well, there is the Ted Cruz endorsement he needs to court.
re: #207 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
You know, I’m tired of people throwing around selfies of public figures posing with people to infer some type cooperative relationship. Yeah, they are both garbage people. But they are both jus deep right wing people who more than likely are just at the same event.
Without any damn context it’s just a damn selfie
Oh I think “SelFISHie” is more apropos! 😉
re: #208 darthstar
Well, there is the Ted Cruz endorsement he needs to court.
Don’t worry. It’s coming!
If you’re looking for symbolic moments, how about this one. https://t.co/Y79GiaVQj5
— Bill Neely (@BillNeelyReport) September 17, 2021
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
we used bowtie pasta for the noodle component and will top it with Parmesan panko during the finishing process.
I will never eat a tuna casserolle again. It is a vivid reminder that for one third of the Friday’s in my yoot I had to choke that vile swill down my throat, as did my younger sibs. The other two Fridays were Salmon cakes (Meh), and Mac & cheese (Edible).
My Catholic upbringing.
re: #212 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So…
…the symbol is that the Taliban have an department with the same name and function as our good friends Saudi Arabia?
re: #214 The Ghost of a Flea
So…
…the symbol is that the Taliban have an department with the same name and function as our good friends Saudi Arabia?
Sunni the same to me
re: #213 austin_blue
I will never eat a tuna casserolle again. It is a vivid reminder that for one third of the Friday’s in my yoot I had to choke that vile swill down my throat, as did my younger sibs. The other two Fridays were Salmon cakes (Meh), and Mac & cheese (Edible).
My Catholic upbringing.
Lucky that they gave us an option of fish sandwiches or pierogi in my high school on Fridays. I chose the pierogi and played a game to guess the filling—potato, cottage cheese or sauerkraut…
Do you need to see Mac’s ears on the fetch return? Of course you do. pic.twitter.com/cF4s1ieoHc
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) September 17, 2021
Good. Where you at @VailResorts? https://t.co/TzIiO8plnr
— ballfootski (@ballfootski) September 17, 2021
I have Vail Resorts’ Epic Pass, as their flagship ski areas Vail and Beaver Creek are a half hour from my house. I want a vaccinated workforce. Still no word from the little ski area I work at on a vaccine mandate, though I assume one won’t be put in place. The COO of the ski area is also a county commissioner, a Trumper, and has been outspoken about mask mandates (he hates ‘em) and vaccine mandates (muh freedumb, argle bargle).
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re: #220 We all walks this ways
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re: #218 jaunte
I’ve always enjoyed watching my beagles ears flop as they ran around.
Sometimes after our afternoon walks, and there was a strong breeze from the right direction, my boy Titus Argos and I would sit by the mailboxes and sniff into the wind as his ear gained lift.
So, my sister in NC just called
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re: #221 I Would Prefer Not To
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re: #213 austin_blue
I will never eat a tuna casserolle again. It is a vivid reminder that for one third of the Friday’s in my yoot I had to choke that vile swill down my throat, as did my younger sibs. The other two Fridays were Salmon cakes (Meh), and Mac & cheese (Edible).
My Catholic upbringing.
this tuna casserole was nothing like the vile concoction of our youth.
it turned out to be excellent, much to my surprise and delight.
5 death https://t.co/O1LSjt1Alu
— Dad 2.0 - 16 weeks until graduation (@DadaBaseThought) September 17, 2021
Oh my. Just heard that a supply truck filled mostly with Boss effects pedals headed for one of the few remaining Guitar Center stores in the area overturned on the interstate. Expect delays.
“I SAID LETS JUST START SATURDAY DAVE” pic.twitter.com/m5PNdAS6lX
— darth™ (@darth) September 17, 2021
“I SEE SOME PEOPLE STILL STUCK IN FRIDAY…..DAVE” pic.twitter.com/JxpMnyEHdG
— darth™ (@darth) September 17, 2021
Me waiting for Doocy to ask Jen Psaki about swollen balls. 😅 pic.twitter.com/0QY2lNofFS
— lc (@lcatboonies) September 17, 2021
Oregon Medical Board revokes license of doctor who bucked COVID guidelines, spread misinformation
The Oregon Medical Board revoked the license of a Dallas doctor earlier this month after he refused to follow COVID-19 guidelines in his office, spread misinformation about masks and over-prescribed opioids to his patients, according to medical board documents.
The board also fined Steven Arthur LaTulippe $10,000 on Sept. 2.
LaTulippe sued the medical board in January after his license was suspended the month before, when the board found his office was placing patients in danger by disregarding COVID-19 mandates and asking patients to remove their masks.
LaTulippe’s family practice, South View Medical Arts, did not properly screen patients and relied on the receptionist’s ability to visually gauge whether visitors were sick, according to the medical board documents.
“[LaTulippe] had trained his receptionist ‘to look at [the patient] and just take a look at them and see if they look sick,’ and, if the patient was ‘smiling and happy,’ the receptionist was instructed to ask how the patient was feeling,” medical board documents said.
At least 95% of patients did not use masks at the clinic, which is in the city of Dallas west of Salem, between March and December 2020, LaTulippe told medical board officials.
Patients did wear masks if they had tested positive for COVID-19 or were exhibiting extreme symptoms, according to the medical board. LaTulippe still would not wear a mask while meeting with those patients, however.
He told patients in person and through fliers in his office that masks were ineffective against COVID-19 and could even cause carbon dioxide poisoning, according to the medical board.
Shelby County District Attorney says Tennessee’s new permitless carry law is adding to the recent violence in Memphis: “It seems like just about every Monday morning, we’re talking about a violent weekend.” https://t.co/iRj2lRyIN0
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 17, 2021
I want my $17.19 back, too.
To the anti-vaxxers: We’re ‘as mad as hell,’ and we want our money back
al.com
Here’s where my figure comes from. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently studied three months of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and concluded that “preventable Covid-19 hospitalizations” have cost the health care system an estimated $5.7 billion. The foundation defines preventable hospitalization as “hospitalizations of unvaccinated adults.” (If you want to read the report, it’s at kff.org.)
re: #23 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
They only have that on Arrakis.
Can you imagine how much ivermectin (dang, Android autocorrect knows how to spell that) you’d need to kill a sandworm?
I’m seeing sarduakar (Android doesn’t know how to spell that) armed with giant ivermectin cannons.
States that ended federal unemployment benefits earlier this summer saw August job growth at less than half the rate of states that retained the benefits, according to new data.https://t.co/M3dRjFx7Ny
— Axios (@axios) September 17, 2021
Milquetoast Axios headline but at least they put this in the first paragraph: “States that ended federal unemployment benefits earlier this summer saw August job growth at less than half the rate of states that retained the benefits, according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
this tuna casserole was nothing like the vile concoction of our youth.
it turned out to be excellent, much to my surprise and delight.
I am happy for you! I’m still going to give everything described as “Tuna Casserole” a big stink-eye.
Nowadays, I prefer my tuna lightly seared, then thinly sliced with a little sesame oil, a wash of ponzu, and a small dot of fresh wasabi.
re: #227 Barefoot Grin
must…. not…. buy…. more…. pedals…. asdkolnfkl;wjdnv
And just like the poor hate the poor, they hate the people who “have Covid,” which is POC. It’s just that they’re used to hating them, so we don’t think about it.
white supremacy is a huge part of antivax for this reason - white people with covid are the aberration, not the rule— Certified Motherboy (@jacobtwop) September 10, 2021
So we can file antivax under the same pathology that brought you “white Republicans vote against their financial interest because hurting Black people is more important to them” and “West Virginia Senator blocks crucial bills that would save the poorest in his state”
— Certified Motherboy (@jacobtwop) September 10, 2021
(And why I seemed to go lawful evil this morning — because instead of explaining all this I jumped right past even saying “let’s abuse the shit out of them” and got right to the abuse. But it’s honestly what I believe.)
— Certified Motherboy (@jacobtwop) September 10, 2021
When you see an unmasked person, or a person half-assing it like their nose is sticking out, then, what they are saying is: “I’m not part of that tribe that gets Covid; I am doing the bare minimum but don’t mistake me for a poor person who fears getting a POC disease”
— Certified Motherboy (@jacobtwop) September 10, 2021
expressed in a tantrum because they don’t feel heard, which is to say they don’t feel believed - because they do know the whole thing is a playacted narrative that has nothing to do with the very real, dangerous facts on the ground & everything to do with defining oneself.
— Certified Motherboy (@jacobtwop) September 10, 2021
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #238 Belafon
When you see an unmasked person, or a person half-assing it like their nose is sticking out, then, what they are saying is: “I’m not part of that tribe that gets Covid; I am doing the bare minimum but don’t mistake me for a poor person who fears getting a POC disease”
That’s some pretty special over-thinking. A guy unmasked or improperly masked is simply saying “I’m an idiot”.
re: #35 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
True. While she was critical of Obama, she never reached the screeching hysteria of Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, or any of the legion of Hate Radio hosts
well, fuck, talk about damning with faint praise.
re: #236 austin_blue
I am happy for you! I’m still going to give everything described as “Tuna Casserole” a big stink-eye.
Nowadays, I prefer my tuna lightly seared, then thinly sliced with a little sesame oil, a wash of ponzu, and a small dot of fresh wasabi.
there was NO cream of mushroom soup in this dish.
That bit of red curry powder in with the sauteed onion and tomato really brought it to the next level.
IF YOU CAN’T STAND THE HEAT…
Acosta: Where’s the proof that the FBI was involved? Where’s the proof that Antifa was involved? Don’t you owe it to people to produce that proof?
Majorie Taylor Greene: I don’t owe it. I didn’t cause the riot. pic.twitter.com/OtGJL8hzy3 01— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) September 17, 2021
re: #42 Jay C
Well, if you define “effectiveness” as simply getting media mentions/clicks/retweets, etc., yeah: MTG pretty much tops that list.
really? You think she beats AOC on that “metric”?
re: #55 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Always attack people on your own side. That is the road to victory. Or so my enemies tell me.
re: #247 John Hughes
really? You think she beats AOC on that “metric”?
It’s not an especially praiseworthy metric for a serious person. Else the Kardashians rule.
re: #169 sagehen
France is really, really, REALLY pissed off. I can’t remember them ever getting this angry with us.
We had an undeclared naval war with them in 1800.
re: #168 jaunte
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The flyers look identical in design and style to anti-lockdown flyers I saw earlier this year.
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
This is my question too.
Seeing this discussed in a couple of discords.
Australia pulled the plug on the contract they had with the French firm for developing a new submarine for them. The contract included the fact that local (Australian) industrial development would be part of it. The French firm was not being very cooperative in the local development, and the contract costs were escalating constantly. (Someone mentioned that the original contract was probably a best case, low-ball, cost estimate and that the French company expected to be able to nickel and dime additional costs as issues arose. Which makes sense since in procurement it’s pretty easy to get cost overruns paid for.)
So Australia pulls the plug and the US (and others) quickly step in with an alternative. Which will further infuriate France since having an alternative is pretty important towards Australia making that decision.
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