Seth takes a closer look at a possible criminal referral for Steven Bannon from the congressional committee’s investigation of the January 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump telling Republicans not to vote in future elections.
How you know the pee tape wasn’t real: it would have leaked by now.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 15, 2021
A big day for Texas Republicans. Openly pushing Nazi literature into Southlake schools, forcing hospitals to expose patients to infectious diseases, and now state genital inspections on children who want to play sports.
But, “liberty”. https://t.co/3jYgqm9aLd— Dr. Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) October 15, 2021
Bannon 1/5/21: “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It’s all converging, and now we’re on the point of attack tomorrow. And all I can say is: Strap in. You have made this happen, and tomorrow it’s game day.”
Bannon today: “But muh executive privilege.”— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 14, 2021
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) October 14, 2021
No words… pic.twitter.com/d29yYtNz26
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) October 14, 2021
— miles reed (@milesjreed) October 15, 2021
What??? Buy a rope and ladder? Whoops!
— David Todd (@DaveoutofAustin) October 15, 2021
The pee tape, if it exists, is in Moscow. Why would Putin leak it now?
— Edwin (@EdMix13) October 15, 2021
Today In 1976: Chris Chambliss hits a walk-off HR to win the American League pennant for the New York #Yankees vs. the Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium, leading to the most chaotic home run trot in major league history! #ALCS #MLB #Baseball #Postseason pic.twitter.com/QYFkPQ61Vv
— Baseball by BSmile (@BSmile) October 14, 2021
Still the greatest TikTok of all time. If you haven’t seen it, just wait for it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/zpnVrVVdCA
— Sam (@SamIAm2021MD) October 14, 2021
From last thread:
re: #9 A Cranky One
The often untold story of cleaning up dead kaiju finally coming to theaters next year | SoraNews24 -Japan News-
I’m thinking that some real life experiments didn’t go so well:
Fifty years ago, Oregon exploded a whale in a burst that ‘blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds’
On a clear November day in 1970 in Florence, Ore., state highway engineers lit 20 cases of dynamite to blow apart a 45-foot sperm whale carcass that had washed up on the beach and festered for three days.
…snip…
The engineers intended for the eight-ton carcass to be thrown into the ocean in pieces. Instead, chunks of flesh flew toward the beachside town and fell from the sky, crushing a car a quarter-mile away and raining down on a crowd who had gathered to watch the pyrotechnics.
…snip…
Linnman and cameraman Doug Brazil, who had arrived at the beach near the midpoint of Oregon’s coastline with cameras in hand, captured the moment the excited crowd suddenly realized the rancid blubber that had propelled into the air would soon plummet back onto their heads.
re: #11 Dave In Austin
When I saw this at first I thought it was that weird angry Islamophobic British dude, you know the one. He was very angry all the time.
In other local DC news, one of the escaped zebras that has been roaming the Prince George County, Maryland area, has died. Apparently it was caught in an illegal snare trap.
Originally, 5 zebras were reported to have escaped back in August, but authorities now say that only 3 got out.
One of the zebras that escaped a Prince George’s County farm has died
One of the zebras that escaped from a Prince George’s County farm in August, has been found dead.
Maryland Natural Resources Police spokeswoman Lauren Moses said the animal was found Sept. 16 in a snare trap near a field.
Police responded to the scene along Duley Station Road in Upper Marlboro, just a few miles from the farm where the animals came from.
Moses said, at this point, investigators don’t know who placed the snare trap there, but those kind of traps are illegal in Prince George’s County.
re: #14 A Cranky One
True. And, sadly, next year will be 2020-too
If there was a mansplaining hall of fame, this would be in it pic.twitter.com/aM4iHXjj64
— Buffy the Psych Prof (@DrPsyBuffy) October 15, 2021
What’re the fuckin’ odds?
Ruth Hamilton was fast asleep when a 2.8-pound meteorite crashed through the ceiling of her home in British Columbia, landing between her pillows and barely missing her head.
“Oh, my gosh,” she told the emergency operator, “there’s a rock in my bed.” https://t.co/zlEbrTWUVr pic.twitter.com/7W7IrWWK0O— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 15, 2021
re: #18 teleskiguy
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“I know you’d prefer to remember the good times with your dad and all the joy he brought into your life, but I just can’t get hard unless you acknowledge and give your blessing to an actor doing an impression of your dad on the day one of his good friends died.”
re: #16 ckkatz
Originally, 5 zebras were reported to have escaped back in August, but authorities now say that only 3 got out.
One of the zebras that escaped a Prince George’s County farm has died
Because 2 of them were captured by somebody who poured a bunch of Clairol and L’Oreal on them, and now there’s 2 less fewer stripey equines in Maryland.
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re: #20 Targetpractice
“I know you’d prefer to remember the good times with your dad and all the joy he brought into your life, but I just can’t get hard unless you acknowledge and give your blessing to an actor doing an impression of your dad on the day one of his good friends died.”
She said he’s talented. She just wanted people to stop sending it to her, and that guy couldn’t handle that. Lots of people argue just to argue.
re: #22 Punish Domestic Terrorists
She said he’s talented. She just wanted people to stop sending it to her, and that guy couldn’t handle that. Lots of people argue just to argue.
It’s bad when you have friends who each want you to “check this out” only to find out it’s the same damned clip/meme/joke/etc that everybody in the world has seen a dozen times because they think you’re the one person who hasn’t and they want a front row seat to your reaction.
It’s fucking ridiculous when thousands of total strangers blow up your timeline with the same damned clip going “YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!” as though you owe them a unique impression every time. And then get fucking snippy when you tell them to please stop.
re: #2 jaunte
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And don’t forget gerrymandered to the extent that it’s virtually impossible to undo any of the damage.
It feels like Texas is a rolling nightmare that cannot be contained, especially with how much what happens in Texas influences the rest of the country.
WP columnist attacks McAullife for dismissing CRT
are you following? GOP lies abt CRT being taught in schools, pundits scold *Dems* for not taking it seriously; https://t.co/XNivsbsBsw— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 15, 2021
So I spent like 30 seconds on Twitter.
What I saw was a bunch of lefties attacking RBG and the last Mouth of Mauron hilariously and hypocritically bitching about the Hatch Act.
Why do I have an account there again? JHC… I have *two* accounts there.
This now well viewed tweet:
NEW: A school administrator in Southlake, Texas, advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also have a book with an “opposing” perspective.Listen to the audio recording obtained by @NBCNews: https://t.co/vS0IjlROMu pic.twitter.com/yPtM1ncjgV
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 14, 2021
… is ripe for misinterpretation.
The key here is that the administrator was responding to Texas legislature bill 3979.
It’s all part of the ideological war.
Notice this in the bill is the part to combat the boogeyman of CRT:
(4) a teacher, administrator, or other employee of a
state agency, school district, or open-enrollment charter school
may not: […]
(B) require or make part of a course the concept
that:[…]
(vi) an individual, by virtue of the
individual’s race or sex, bears responsibility for actions
[…](viii) meritocracy or traits such as a hard
work ethic are racist or sexist or were created by members of a
particular race to oppress members of another race;(ix) the advent of slavery in the territory
that is now the United States constituted the true founding of the
United States; or
committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex;(x) with respect to their relationship to
American values, slavery and racism are anything other than
deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to, the
authentic founding principles of the United States, which include
liberty and equality; and
(C) require an understanding of The 1619 Project.
As usual, when already malicious legislators make overly-broad and/or overly-intrusive bills and laws, the masses of people affected have to interpret how to handle said burdens.
re: #21 sagehen
Because 2 of them were captured by somebody who poured a bunch of Clairol and L’Oreal on them, and now there’s 2
lessfewer stripey equines in Maryland.ETA: grammar fix
So you’re saying the fugitives dyed rather than died? :)
I understand that NBC wants to have a “gotcha” clip to drive views.
But I think the headlines should always read: In reaction to TX Bill 3979 school administrators are confused about what to do.
This was called a swing on appeal and bounced the Giants out of the playoffs. Sad break for Giants fans.
This “swing” ended the Giants’ season … pic.twitter.com/MAB5mhaYAq
— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) October 15, 2021
If you screen Schindler’s List (1993) in Texas, it’s gotta be part of a double feature with Triumph of the Will (1935).
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) October 15, 2021
re: #30 KingKenrod
The way to fix these sort of things is to get rid of umpires and replace them with AI that are connected to a great many sensors.
re: #31 teleskiguy
” “in the middle of a political mess”” ” - the administrator is directly addressing Texas legislature bill 3979. Please listen to the whole clip. It’s that bill which is the “political mess” of which the administrator spoke.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 15, 2021
re: #31 teleskiguy
“Der Ewige Juden” (The Eternal Jew)
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In America we measure temperature in Fahrenheit and misogyny incelsius.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 15, 2021
re: #25 Citizen K
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I do so love when an op-ed author acknowledges that what the GQP are selling is total bullshit…but then helpfully covers for them by redefining the term being used in a way helpful to their BS.
Every time you go to a store there’s a bar code scanned, by a laser.
We’ve had the ability to make scanners that can detect images for quite some time.
One could automate baseball calls.
Whether a guy swings his bat past a line is something that isn’t too difficult to detect. And if one wanted to do so, one could embed a sensor in the end of every bat.
FDA panel votes to approve booster shots for the Moderna vaccine. There’s a few hoops still to go through before it’s a go, but should be a few weeks from what I’m getting out of these stories. I had the Moderna vaccine in March and April and have been waiting for this news for awhile.
re: #36 Targetpractice
I do so love when an op-ed author acknowledges that what the GQP are selling is total bullshit…but then helpfully covers for them by redefining the term being used in a way helpful to their BS.
Iirc you are down in the Tidewater area. Any thoughts on what you have been seeing down there?
What I see up in the Northern Virginia area is that several counties, particularly Loudoun and Prince William (home of Corey Stewart) seem to be falling for the GQP culture wars. There is even an uncomfortable number of Youngkin signs in Western Fairfax County where I live.
And I have heard the same thing about the “white flight” counties around Richmond.
re: #40 ckkatz
I hate hearing that. I can’t believe VA would be so idiotic as to go with Youngkin. The polls indicate close to tied?
re: #38 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
By the time it gets full approval it’ll have been about six months since my second Moderna dose. Sometime next month, before the ski area opens, I’m jumping on that shit.
re: #41 retired cynic
I hate hearing that. I can’t believe VA would be so idiotic as to go with Youngkin. The polls indicate close to tied?
I very much hate hearing it too. At the recent primary, one of the State Senators and I exchanged memories of what it was like when the area was deep red. I really do not want to see that again.
Youngkin is trying to thread the needle by keeping the GQP base (the True Believers) and attracting enough disaffected voters to win.
From my perspective, the GQP has been throwing a lot of stuff at the wall trying to see what will stick. CRT as shorthand for the culture wars seems to be their best option at the moment. It seems to play on the disaffected while distracting them from tfg.
The polling seems to indicate that the Dems have not yet worked out how to counter this beyond reminding folks of tfg. (Which is what the WashPost was pointing out.)
The current strategy of the Dems, (and of the tfg who keeps trying to reassert himself) is to remind everybody of the tfg. It may not be enough.
Ladies comprise a significant and very active percentage of the Northern Virginia population. I have not seen them heavily involved in the current election. And I know that the Dems have been working hard to energize them.
re: #40 ckkatz
Iirc you are down in the Tidewater area. Any thoughts on what you have been seeing down there?
What I see up in the Northern Virginia area is that several counties, particularly Loudoun and Prince William (home of Corey Stewart) seem to be falling for the GQP culture wars. There is even an uncomfortable number of Youngkin signs in Western Fairfax County where I live.
And I have heard the same thing about the “white flight” counties around Richmond.
Hampton Roads has been pretty red for a long while. You might have heard of my former rep here in the 2nd District, a shitstain by the name of Scott Taylor. He lost his office during the ‘18 wave election in part because word got out in the weeks before the election that his office had been caught trying to get a third party candidate on the ballot to split the Dem vote. Then he made noises in ‘19 that he’d run against Tim Kaine, only to then decide (probably due to poor polling) to try and fail to get back his old seat by riding Trump’s (non-existent) coattails.
Realistically, it should be remembered that McAuliffe was pretty much counted out the first time he ran for the governor’s mansion, with all the talk about how he was “boring” compared to the charismatic dynamo that was Ken “Cucci” Cuccinelli. And that election was projected to be a nail-biter as well, with a lot of pundits predicting Cucci would win on a platform of abortion bans and race-baiting.
re: #41 retired cynic
I hate hearing that. I can’t believe VA would be so idiotic as to go with Youngkin. The polls indicate close to tied?
The GOP are masters at distorting positions and ideas and persuading voters that the other side is the enemy. If you keeping on hearing lies from multiple sources without counterbalancing truths, you can easily be persuaded that lies are truth, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. It is not just that CRT has been demonized but there is a constant campaign to call anything critical of racism racist and CRT.
Thanks to the EC, Trump won in 2016 and came within 45,000 votes of winning again in 2020. Our democracy is fragile, with a flawed Constitution that too often works against our best interests. McConnell could have, at any time, stopped this descent into fascism, but he has always been committed to power rather than freedom and equality. Our democracy is slowly slipping away and Manchin and Sinema do not appreciate this — nor do most Democrats. But when the media fails constantly to understand this (or doesn’t care), the task of preserving our nation seems increasingly to be on the road to failure.
On a different note, back in the 1960’s, for one brief moment, Elephant jokes were popular.
A friend just sent me a ?trove?shitload?metric fuckton? of them. Plus some ‘Dad’ jokes. A few seem to have even been updated.
I decided to inflict them, unexpurgated, upon you, poor reader.
Due to length, I’m putting them behind a private label
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re: #45 Targetpractice
Hampton Roads has been pretty red for a long while. You might have heard of my former rep here in the 2nd District, a shitstain by the name of Scott Taylor. He lost his office during the ‘18 wave election in part because word got out in the weeks before the election that his office had been caught trying to get a third party candidate on the ballot to split the Dem vote. Then he made noises in ‘19 that he’d run against Tim Kaine, only to then decide (probably due to poor polling) to try and fail to get back his old seat by riding Trump’s (non-existent) coattails.
Realistically, it should be remembered that McAuliffe was pretty much counted out the first time he ran for the governor’s mansion, with all the talk about how he was “boring” compared to the charismatic dynamo that was Ken “Cucci” Cuccinelli. And that election was projected to be a nail-biter as well, with a lot of pundits predicting Cucci would win on a platform of abortion bans and race-baiting.
I like your viewpoint much more than what I am seeing. That’s for certain!
re: #48 ckkatz
I like your viewpoint much more than what I am seeing. That’s for certain!
I’d advise taking it with a grain of salt, because while I have few illusions about my own district turning blue (it hasn’t in a gov race in a long awhile), there’s nothing that says a snake like Yongkin couldn’t have finally hit upon the formula that helps the VA GQP crack Northern Virginia. Not that it’s a new formula, he’s a “aw, shucks” asshole running as a “moderate” and trying to put as much distance between himself and the last presidential loser while still retaining as much support from the party base as he can.
Cucci tried the Trump strategy of boosting party turnout and lost by a (relatively) narrow margin while Gillespie yoked himself to Trump a year after the previous presidential election and got crucified for the effort. Youngkin seems to be trying desperately to chart a middle course that the VA GQP will no doubt look to follow next year if he’s successful.
Something that the media are not giving much air time when screaming about how it’s a “close” race: At no time in the past three months has Yongkin held the lead or been above 50% in the polls. In fact, the polls have been pretty stable for the past month with McAuliffe holding a 2-3% lead. But facts like those are inconvenient to the “horse race” narrative that pundits push every election for fear of being seen as “biased” if they report the bleedin’ obvious.
re: #49 Targetpractice
Your memory is very good. There certainly was a lot more media drama during the past few Va governor elections than was justified in the end.
I voted at the Fairfax County Government Center last week. The lines were extremely short. And the current voter engagement seems fairly small.
When I voted during the 2020 Presidential election, the voting lines at the Govt Center were huge. Out the doors and almost to the end of the very large parking lot.
I am really hoping that the wingnut screamers are a very shallow astro-turf this time too.
Well, off to bed with me.
One more dad joke before I head off:
I’m getting a reversible jacket for Christmas,
I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
Another thing to bear in mind about VA: The pundits played it up as a “bellweather” in ‘17 about Trump and his influence, insisting that the results of not only the gubernatorial election by the state rep elections would give a glimpse of what the GQP might expect the following November. The VA GQP tried to play up their support of Trump and boost party voter numbers.
So what happened when they got crushed at the polls and the overall result of the night was an electoral bloodbath that not only saw the Dems hold the governor’s mansion but take both houses of the General Assembly for the first time in years? A couple of days of mumbling from the media about how VA is “unique” before moving on to telling us all that the GQP was gonna carry the day the following November on a platform of tax cuts and immigration.
re: #49 Targetpractice
I’d advise taking it with a grain of salt, because while I have few illusions about my own district turning blue (it hasn’t in a gov race in a long awhile), there’s nothing that says a snake like Yongkin couldn’t have finally hit upon the formula that helps the VA GQP crack Northern Virginia. Not that it’s a new formula, he’s a “aw, shucks” asshole running as a “moderate” and trying to put as much distance between himself and the last presidential loser while still retaining as much support from the party base as he can.
Cucci tried the Trump strategy of boosting party turnout and lost by a (relatively) narrow margin while Gillespie yoked himself to Trump a year after the previous presidential election and got crucified for the effort. Youngkin seems to be trying desperately to chart a middle course that the VA GQP will no doubt look to follow next year if he’s successful.
The real wildcard in the race is the Texas anti-choice law. The question is will the suburban women look at this as a GOP threat to their rights, especially given the Federal Appeals Court has allowed the law to remain in effect while they are considering it. If there is anything that might invigorate turnout against the GOP, it is this legislation and the court’s refusal to stop it.
re: #53 Targetpractice
Virginia politically today is definitely more akin to Massachusetts than North Carolina.
I was up at the ski area today. It got snowed on.
East Ridge at the ski area got frosty. @sunlightmountainresort
re: #56 teleskiguy
Starting in mid December I’ll be up at the ski area *every day.* Tick tick tick…
re: #54 Hecuba’s daughter
The real wildcard in the race is the Texas anti-choice law. The question is will the suburban women look at this as a GOP threat to their rights, especially given the Federal Appeals Court has allowed the law to remain in effect while they are considering it. If there is anything that might invigorate turnout against the GOP, it is this legislation and the court’s refusal to stop it.
I’m less interested in the governor’s mansion than I am in the General Assembly this go-around, largely because the VA Dems are defending their majority in the House of Delegates and a bad night could mean gridlock even if Terry carries the election. On the other hand, if suburban women think that a divided Assembly means less chance of abortion being under attack here in VA, they might be willing to give Youngkin their votes.
re: #27 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This now well viewed tweet:
… is ripe for misinterpretation.
The key here is that the administrator was responding to Texas legislature bill 3979.
It’s all part of the ideological war.
Notice this in the bill is the part to combat the boogeyman of CRT:
As usual, when already malicious legislators make overly-broad and/or overly-intrusive bills and laws, the masses of people affected have to interpret how to handle said burdens.
And the Swedish School authority is under heavy fire for a similar footbullet, for issuing poorly worded guidelines to teach media literacy, source criticism and similar, involving … *drumroll* … holocaust denial…
I just wanted to let you all know
Im glad we can discuss the news and the headlines of the day and have fun while doing it also.
— wint (@dril) October 11, 2021
re: #47 ckkatz
Why do elephants paint their balls red?
So they can hide in apple trees.
How did Tarzan die?
He picked the wrong apple.
There was also a brief fad for grape jokes but I only remember this one.
What was round and purple and conquered the world?
Alexander the Grape.
re: #12 ckkatz
From last thread:
I’m thinking that some real life experiments didn’t go so well:
Fifty years ago, Oregon exploded a whale in a burst that ‘blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds’
I love stuff like this. it’s like a little time capsule. I have still have a large paperback called the Wrath of Agnes that is a picture history of the great Wilkes Barre flood of 1972. The flood itself is less interesting than looking at the people—the hairstyles, the clothing. It’s 1972, so people don’t look radically different, but little old ladies, for instance, aren’t wandering around jean shorts or pants. They’re all in little “grandmother” outfits with various hair wraps to protect hair salon work-ups from rain. The college kids all look like college kids, but even there, while many are in jeans, there’s just kind of a different vibe to the clothes. You don’t see kids walking around in loafers and cargo shorts for instance. I’m sure that look existed, but it just didn’t seem to be the fad of that time period. The cars are fun, because there are a ton of pretty non-descript automobiles of the late 60’s-early 70’s, but there are also the remnants of vehicles driving around that had been on the road since sometime in the 50’s.
re: #30 KingKenrod
This was called a swing on appeal and bounced the Giants out of the playoffs. Sad break for Giants fans.
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This is what August 21, 2017 eclipse totality looked like on Borah Peak, Idaho (3,859 m above sea level) [source: https://t.co/siC5v7XlyB] pic.twitter.com/We03SOJeIf
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 15, 2021
Watch this become permanent. UK concedes on every form of access without getting anything from the EU in return.
Welcome to the EU’s sphere of influence https://t.co/ITy1qvLFSB— Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) October 14, 2021
A reminder that you can grind out all the Facebook-accelerated right wing racist bullshit propaganda you want, but reality doesn’t care.
re: #65 ericblair
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A reminder that you can grind out all the Facebook-accelerated right wing racist bullshit propaganda you want, but reality doesn’t care.
Pre-Brexit: “If we just get rid of all the foreigners, then our labor issues will be solved! There will be jobs for everyone that will pay better wages because businesses won’t be able to rely upon ‘cheap’ labor anymore!”
Post-Brexit: “WHY DOES NOBODY WANT TO WORK FOR SHIT WAGES?!”
re: #66 Targetpractice
Pre-Brexit: “If we just get rid of all the foreigners, then our labor issues will be solved! There will be jobs for everyone that will pay better wages because businesses won’t be able to rely upon ‘cheap’ labor anymore!”
Post-Brexit: “WHY DOES NOBODY WANT TO WORK FOR SHIT WAGES?!”
And you could raise wages until the jobs were filled, because in this case the Econ 101 solution works just fine. But it mostly won’t happen, because Those People don’t deserve higher wages, see.
re: #67 ericblair
And you could raise wages until the jobs were filled, because in this case the Econ 101 solution works just fine. But it mostly won’t happen, because Those People don’t deserve higher wages, see.
“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas. Let’s bring back some of the foreigners…but not to be citizens, just to work for us until we figure out this whole ‘How do we get people to work for starvation wages’ business.”
I got to see some live music at Red Rocks this last summer, I feel lucky to have done so.
This was one song I saw.
#NowPlaying Umphrey’s McGee > 19 June 2021, Morrison, CO > Kula https://t.co/5MxbfzS4ML
— ballfootski (@ballfootski) October 15, 2021
re: #41 retired cynic
I hate hearing that. I can’t believe VA would be so idiotic as to go with Youngkin. The polls indicate close to tied?
projects.fivethirtyeight.com has McAuliffe up by three points.
UPDATE: Gothenburg explosion: www-expressen-se.translate.goog
(Woman dead after explosion)
Morning Lizardim from the cold and clear wild north country. How go things among the lizardfolk on this almost-frosty fall Friday?
re: #73 Dopamine Fish
‘tis Friday. And for now, that is good enough.
re: #64 teleskiguy
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A new CNN poll finds that 75% of the Democratic Party’s voters want an expansive reconciliation bill, compared to 20% who prefer a scaled-back version.
A bigger bill wins support even from two-thirds of moderate and conservative Democrats.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 14, 2021
Leader Schumer tells Democratic colleagues that he’ll file cloture on the Freedom to Vote Act, which he describes as “consequential voting rights legislation that has the support of our entire caucus” on Monday. That would set up an initial vote on Wednesday of next week.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 14, 2021
re: #78 Belafon
That legislation was written with the intent on it not passing, IMHO.
How does Russia scare its people into getting the shot without giving out the actual information:
⚡ Russia on Friday reported new record highs of 32,196 coronavirus cases and 999 fatalities from Covid-19 over the last 24 hourshttps://t.co/hlTJozrRy5
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 15, 2021
Around 43,000 people may have been wrongly told their Covid PCR test was negative, after being processed by one lab in Wolverhampton, UKhttps://t.co/72sTn15pfA
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 15, 2021
U.S. donates 17 million J&J doses to African Union https://t.co/glyVlaJOkx pic.twitter.com/fZAanDjLtr
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 15, 2021
2/
- blood clots are rife
- complete remodeling of the blood system in lungs
- death of alveoli — no “trees” means no oxygen & suffocation
- breakdown of the linings of capillaries, so that they leak
Don’t kid yourselves: #COVID19 is a terrible, awful disease.— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 14, 2021
1/📌As SARS-CoV-2 becomes endemic — more widespread & perpetually around — reinfections will be more common. This study suggests reinfections could occur as early as 3 months after initial infection. Another reason why vaccination, which provides better protection, is important🧵 pic.twitter.com/fBsd2DNumb
— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) October 10, 2021
3/But getting vaccinated increases protection: in this CDC study, being vaccinated was associated with 2X more protection against reinfection compared to the unvaccinated. Besides vaccination, distancing, indoor ventilation & masks continue to be critical.https://t.co/kIR4AlIwal
— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) October 10, 2021
British lawmaker stabbed multiple times while meeting constituents
A British lawmaker from the Conservative Party was stabbed multiple times in an attack in his home district in southeast England.
David Amess, who represents Southend West in Essex, was meeting with constituents when he was attacked.
Amess received treatment at the scene, Sky News reported.
Police were at the scene.
Police reported arresting a suspect and recovered a knife.
Who’s gonna chime in first—MTG, Bobert or the little Nazi snot?
Ali did a commercial promoting vaccines in NYC. So no we wouldnt “turn” on him. https://t.co/NZHtPshlkt pic.twitter.com/5pdq5EwNAB
— supreme bey (@trellodelagetto) October 13, 2021
re: #86 JOE 🥓
British lawmaker stabbed multiple times while meeting constituents
A British lawmaker from the Conservative Party was stabbed multiple times in an attack in his home district in southeast England.
David Amess, who represents Southend West in Essex, was meeting with constituents when he was attacked.
Amess received treatment at the scene, Sky News reported.
Police were at the scene.
Police reported arresting a suspect and recovered a knife.
Who’s gonna chime in first—MTG, Bobert or the little Nazi snot?
Odd: I just saw this very story a minute ago on the BBC site, and they mentioned the stabbing- without specifying that it was the MP who had gotten stabbed….
Trump’s stooge in the PA Senate Race not having things go his way!
A judge is refusing to seal records and proceedings in the ongoing custody battle involving Sean Parnell, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania.
The judge, in his Thursday ruling, also rejected Parnell’s request to bar his wife from talking about past restraining orders she had sought against him.
Parnell had made the requests after a rival for the Republican nomination, Jeff Bartos, and an associated super PAC attacked Parnell over the matter, calling him “unelectable.”
Parnell’s campaign has disputed the notion that the restraining orders sought by Laurie Parnell in the contentious divorce case were evidence of any wrongdoing. Neither lasted more than a matter of days.
— Voting, vaccines, masks, testing/tracing matter (@BumphBean) October 15, 2021
It’s good for dads to be closely involved in their kids’ lives, so they won’t grow up to be like Tucker. https://t.co/6gjqob3GjH
— NotIntoGoldenPopehat (@Popehat) October 15, 2021
re: #91 Dopamine Fish
He’s such a piece of shit. JFC.
re: #91 Dopamine Fish
I can think of nothing better than being able to take leave to bond with a child for a period of time to help them during critical months, especially when child care costs are insane. In NYC metro area, the typical day care cost is around $1,500 a month.
If you tried to pay a nanny for a 40 hour week at $15 an hour, you’d be looking at $600 a week or $2400 a month. It’s little wonder many people decide to be stay at home parents because they can’t afford to work and send their kid to day care. Something has to give.
And if you’re a single parent, what are your choices? It’s even worse.
So right wingers attack Buttigieg because he’s taking FMLA? Fuck these right wing lunatics with a rusty pitchfork sideways. He’s not only entitled to the FMLA, but it’s something we should encourage because there’s nothing more important than caring for your family.
It’s become all too abundantly clear that far too many right wingers are sociopaths who can’t and wont care about anyone else, including family.
re: #93 lawhawk
He’s mocking Buttigieg because he thinks child care is for women, which is, frankly, a horrendously misogynistic take on the world. For most of human history, there has not been clearly gender-defined roles for parenting; men and women were expected to have equal influence and put equal effort in parenting. It’s literally only the war and post-war generations of the 20th Century, where our soldiers went to war (and then later to work) while the mothers stayed home and cared for the kids, that defined this as the norm.
re: #82 Belafon
Putin and his cronies aren’t going to change their actions one bit. They don’t care how many Russians die from covid. They just want to deny the severity of the pandemic across their country, even though excess mortality tells the tale (it’s the great equalizer and shows just how devastating covid19 has truly been worldwide and across the US).
We know what we’d expect in a given year as deaths are relatively constant absent a major pandemic. With covid19, we got that pandemic condition, and deaths rose significantly worldwide. Countries like India have undercounted deaths by a factor of 10 as most people don’t go to hospitals to die - they die at home. That means they also infected many of the people caring for them in their last hours and days. It’s one of the reasons why crematoria were overwhelmed by bodies even as the govt there was claiming they had it under control.
Russia’s playing a similar game. So too are other countries (and some states like Florida and Texas) where they’re trying to game the numbers to appear better than they actually did. The politics is getting in the way of public health.
re: #30 KingKenrod
This was called a swing on appeal and bounced the Giants out of the playoffs. Sad break for Giants fans.
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re: #76 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Same eclipse as seen from the Stanley, Idaho Ranger Station. Aug 21, 2017
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Is anyone else having a problem with the “new comments” button jumping around?
The Diary of Ann Coulter.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 15, 2021
re: #98 The Pie Overlord!
At least it wasn’t a airliner dumping its toilet load.
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re: #92 A Mom Anon
He’s such a piece of shit. JFC.
Almost everyone who supports Trump is a similar POS — the adoring masses at Trump rallies, those who are Faux News, Noisemax, and OAN devotees. They have lost their ability (assuming they ever had it) to care for others.
re: #103 Hecuba’s daughter
Almost everyone who supports Trump is a similar POS — the adoring masses at Trump rallies, those who are Faux News, Noisemax, and OAN devotees. They have lost their ability (assuming they ever had it) to care for others.
They NEVER had it to begin with.
Trump made it acceptable to be an asshole in public.
re: #101 DodgerFan1988
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re: #105 Barefoot Grin
Hitler sure did turn that economy around, didn’t he? /////////////////
Lindbergh and the Duke of Windsor sure thought so!
re: #94 Dopamine Fish
He’s mocking Buttigieg because he thinks child care is for women, which is, frankly, a horrendously misogynistic take on the world. For most of human history, there has not been clearly gender-defined roles for parenting; men and women were expected to have equal influence and put equal effort in parenting. It’s literally only the war and post-war generations of the 20th Century, where our soldiers went to war (and then later to work) while the mothers stayed home and cared for the kids, that defined this as the norm.
As a stay-at-home dad, I was the primary caregiver for our children. I mentioned the economic reasons a few days back (the cost of daycare being more than what my working would add to the family’s finances, tending to a child on the spectrum). There was also the lack of an extended family support system for us as outsiders far, far away from our respective families. My parents could count on our relatives to help out, if needed. The clannish nature of Appalachian society runs on extended familial relationships. We could not rely on that for a back-up.
Fuck Tucker Carlson with a rusty chainsaw.
A couple more elephant/grape jokes. View at your own risk.
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re: #86 JOE 🥓
British lawmaker stabbed multiple times while meeting constituents
A British lawmaker from the Conservative Party was stabbed multiple times in an attack in his home district in southeast England.
David Amess, who represents Southend West in Essex, was meeting with constituents when he was attacked.
Amess received treatment at the scene, Sky News reported.
Police were at the scene.
Police reported arresting a suspect and recovered a knife.
Who’s gonna chime in first—MTG, Bobert or the little Nazi snot?
Update:
British MP David Amess died from stab wounds inflicted by an assassin
re: #112 JOE 🥓
Wow.
Wasn’t there another British MP who got stabbed to death a few years back? A woman IRC.
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
Wow.
Wasn’t there another British MP who got stabbed to death a few years back? A woman IRC.
Jo Cox
re: #8 gocart mozart
The pee tape, if it exists, is in Moscow. Why would Putin leak it now?
Trump was so completely compliant and friendly that Putin saw no need to use his leverage…
re: #114 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Jo Cox
She was passionately pro-immigration and was killed by a white supremacist.
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The pee tape, if it exists, is in Moscow. Why would Putin leak it now?
Trump was so completely compliant and friendly that Putin saw no need to use his leverage…
I wonder, do we have a chance to see it leaked should Vlad & the Kremlin Krew be caught with their hands in the cookie jar? 🤔
re: #65 ericblair
A reminder that you can grind out all the Facebook-accelerated right wing racist bullshit propaganda you want, but reality doesn’t care.
They can rest at the King Henry Cabotage Lodge
The WSJ identified 61 judges who didn’t just own stock in companies that were litigants in their courtrooms. They, or their families, or their brokers traded these shares as suits were progressing. w/ @coulterjones @JamesVGrimaldi https://t.co/iBrFT5OvNP
— Joe Palazzolo (@joe_palazzolo) October 15, 2021
We have a crisis in judicial oversight.
re: #119 ericblair
We have a crisis in judicial oversight.
If the Executive and Legislative branches can get away with such practices, why not the Judiciary?
The volcano in La Palma, Spain is now going on four weeks of eruptions and this is what the streets look like now pic.twitter.com/M0hILfR6dX
— Wu-Tang Is For The Children (@WUTangKids) October 15, 2021
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They can rest at the Henry Cabotage Lodge
Reality does care. Spewing racist garbage with no explicit use of obscenities or direct attacks, but surreptitiously, using code words such as MAGA, CRT, and birtherism, can be quite successful at persuading others to follow your lead and converting them to your way of thinking. The worst offenders will rise up in indignation and claim they are not racist, while they promote every subtle racist trope imaginable. Those who fell down the QAnon rabbit hole did not start that way, but step-by-step they were led into this dark destructive ideology.
re: #122 Hecuba’s daughter
Those who fell down the QAnon rabbit hole did not start that way, but step-by-step they were led into this dark destructive ideology.
As my nephew pointed out, one does not fall down the rabbit hole, you are herded there by your news feed algorithms that keep ramping up the RW crayzee the more you click on them.
Like a victor, every single time https://t.co/tHDpF68e7A
— supply in a chainstack (@jesseltaylor) October 15, 2021
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If the Executive and Legislative branches can get away with such practices, why not the Judiciary?
Uh, they shouldn’t? However lax the standards for Congresscritters and state legislators and executive branch members, these people do get fired and go to prison on occasion.
Judges seem to have little oversight from the other branches, and are acting like it.
…the House Dems have referred criminal contempt charges to DOJ twice as many times as the Republicans over at least the past 20 years. Be angry, be urgent, but be reasonable about who your enemy is, and it’s not the House Democrats.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 15, 2021
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hello Vaxxed people. Honest question here (as I fully support your decision to get vaxxed), how do you feel when showing your vaxx passport knowing it excludes people?
It is a voluntary self-exclusion that you are free to end almost any time and free of charge.
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
I saw the original tweet as a quote tweet from @questauthority. In replies to his response, there were people saying things such as, “How do you feel when you present your driver’s license at a bar, knowing it excludes people?” Or, “How do you feel when you present your USA passport at the border, knowing it excludes people?” The idea that a vaccine passport should somehow be offensive because it hurts the fee-fees of the willfully stupid is laughable.
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As my nephew pointed out, one does not fall down the rabbit hole, one is herded there by your news feed algorithms that keep ramping up the RW crayzee the more you click on them.
The #1 force that opens the Q portal are churches.
Tennessee congressman thinks people who quit get paid unemployment. https://t.co/S3m4hIfH4F
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 15, 2021
And what would Friday be without yet another episode of Pulpit Pimp Theater?
Super cool “prophet” Robin Bullock screams that Anthony Fauci is a “serpent” and “a rat” who has had his appearance distorted by a demonic spirit. Or something like that. We don’t really have any idea what he’s talking about. pic.twitter.com/XsR8dGuoKH
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 14, 2021
Charles, I think the code for the tweets I put in #79 are corrupted and it’s messing up the site function.
Just someone doing their job and not complaining about it. Most of my life I was on red alert when a bee was nearby. We worried about getting stung or worse - getting stung to death by “Africanized” bees. After a few years observing them close up - I do not think twice about remaining quiet and calm in their presence. Watching them in the yard is a small pleasure.
The image was converted to black and white in photoshop using a plugin - seim?
Yeah, this is getting kicked to the courts for sure. What utter garbage. 6-5 GOP in a Biden+10 state is completely unacceptable. https://t.co/dYYWGvnU0A
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 15, 2021
Because of course, even in states where Dems have some modicum of local control too, we’re just basically supposed to swallow an in-borne GOP advantage via cracking.
Today, I’m heading to Hartford to highlight how my Build Back Better Agenda will invest in child care and keep costs down for working families. See you soon, Connecticut!
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 15, 2021
Nikolas Cruz will plead guilty to killing 17 people in Parkland mass shooting, defense team says
Lock this piece of shit up for the rest of his life.
re: #134 Citizen K
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This commission was on the VA ballot in 2020 (I think) and the VA Dems recommended voting against it. This is why.
And we got another episode of Pulpit Pimp Theater where “firefighter” Mark Taylor does another one of his patented flip outs.
Mark Taylor, the so-called “Firefighter Prophet,” claims that “90 percent of Congress is under an alias because they’re hiding their bloodline. They don’t want you knowing who they are.” pic.twitter.com/pcKuZStXzp
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 15, 2021
Every officer who died in the line of duty last year in Chicago, died from Covid.
The last police union president died from Covid.
Yet the current president is threatening a 50% walk-out on the weekend over vaccine mandates. pic.twitter.com/OVO65Wnwd5— Mike Gibbs🏳️🌈 (@Mikeggibbs) October 14, 2021
I’m so old I remember one year ago, when Kayleigh was drawing a $183,000 taxpayer-financed salary to be Press Sec but then moonlighting as a campaign spokesperson on Hannity. https://t.co/SrqHrIAViH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2021
I hope everyone has read this report. It’s like watching the shark from Jaws try to bash its way into the boat.
Senate Judiciary releases 394-page staff report entitled: “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and his Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election.”: https://t.co/zASBtOCu5w Durbin’s office says these are the key findings pic.twitter.com/zWgiVbEp8N
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 7, 2021
Beshear reopens Kynect health insurance exchange that was shuttered by Bevinhttps://t.co/mB4RnGMEX1
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 15, 2021
Site Wonkiness Alert (??)
Anyone else notice this? When I log on LGF, the site headers and pages that are normally in the RH sidebar are now stacked at the bottom: below the comments box: i.e. the same way it appears on the iOS on my iPad and iPhone.
Happening off and on all this morning
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
If you don’t have a drivers license I don’t want you driving on the road. If you don’t get vaccinated I don’t want you anywhere near me.
— Still Moving Films (@StillFilmsDoc) October 14, 2021
re: #146 Jay C
Site Wonkiness Alert (??)
Anyone else notice this? When I log on LGF, the site headers and pages that are normally in the RH sidebar are now stacked at the bottom: below the comments box: i.e. the same way it appears on the iOS on my iPad and iPhone.
Happening off and on all this morning
Yeah I’m seeing the same thing. Also when I refresh a comment that contains a Tweet, to see the entire Tweet, every comment below the one being refreshed is populated with the text of that comment.
Also the New Comments button is missing.
And now it’s above the comment I just posted.
Hannah Gadsby after Netflix’s CEO cited her stand-up special as positive queer representation on the platform pic.twitter.com/3ZEJYlvCW4
— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) October 15, 2021
This is not going away. It shouldn’t either, but man, it’s still amazing how casually trans folks are thrown under the bus while simultaneously being told to check their supposed privilege.
honestly they’re gonna build a shrine to this sniveling gimbus at the chamber of commerce https://t.co/corIKidbb8 via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 15, 2021
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
What? Some countries have demanded that people traveling there be vaccinated for decade…
As to having to use vaxx passports domestically? Irritation, that I, in a developed country, have to show one, have to keep away from the unvaxxed, and have to pick up what’s left behind.— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka72) October 15, 2021
Now: The Justice Dept. will ask SCOTUS to lift the stay ordered by the 5th Circuit that keeps Texas’s 6-week abortion ban law SB 8 in effect while the legal fight goes forward, per spox Anthony Coley.
Last night: https://t.co/Jg5HzvdAar— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) October 15, 2021
re: #151 The Pie Overlord!
And now it’s above the comment I just posted.
There’s some kind of screwiness happening with the site layout right now. You can refresh the page to return the new comments button to the bottom, but it won’t move as new comments get posted.
Also, the pages that are usually on a sidebar are showing up below this comment box for me.
I’m sure Charles will uncross the wires when he arrives.
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Joël Stoppels Battlefield Tours
Amazing then and now picture of the monument to Vittorio Emanuele II and the Piazza Venezia in Rome, with Allied vehicles parked in the foreground. In the background is the Unknown Warrior’s Tomb. This picture was taken during the capture of Rome in June 1944.
re: #143 jaunte
The insurrection began on Election Day, 2020.
It began when Trump claimed that he would have won the 2016 popular vote if not for massive voter fraud.
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
If you don’t have a drivers license I don’t want you driving on the road. If you don’t get vaccinated I don’t want you anywhere near me.
A driver’s license costs a lot of time time and money. A vaccination costs nothing but the time it takes to make an appointment…
The John Deere strike has been my main source of joy this week. Endless solidarity to the union workers ✊✊✊ https://t.co/9dMb0FnnZ6
— Jane Lytvynenko (@JaneLytv) October 15, 2021
re: #139 Citizen K
A lot of zany things *could* be true. “Nearly half of Chicago police officers could be space aliens wearing human-like latex masks.” News is what *is* true.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 14, 2021
re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A driver’s license costs a lot of time time and money. A vaccination costs nothing but the time it takes to make an appointment…
Correct. Which makes it even dumber for these morons to moan about how “exclusionary” they are.
re: #138 JOE 🥓
And we got another episode of Pulpit Pimp Theater where “firefighter” Mark Taylor does another one of his patented flip outs.
Over/under on alleged “bloodline” beginning with the letter “R”? 🤔
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka72) October 15, 2021
re: #162 ckkatz
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I mean…the Union President stating something like that with such certainty is newsworthy enough, even if the internal numbers from the Union itself might not support it. What leadership says matters, especially if it’s in stark opposition to the truth.
I wasn’t having any problems with the site. That is, until I refreshed the entire page. Now new comment button is missing and the sidebar is at the bottom of the page.
re: #165 Teukka
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Wow, where would anyone get the idea that this was framed with a negative connotation? I mean, Sam clearly meant as a positive.https://t.co/fCvjTiGNWV
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) October 15, 2021
For clarification: Pete Buttigieg is on parental leave. And this is how Stein and other journos are characterizing his absence.
FWIW: I closed out the LGF tab on my browser (Chrome on W10 on HP PC), and then re-opened the page. It seemed to load and display normally, but when I selected the post/thread, it went back to the “stacked” display, and the “New Comments” are missing.
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well I was going to comment on how that was not an honest question . And how the question’s framing was dishonest, mendacious and call it a whole bunch of other unpleasant words.
But reading further, it looks like other folks here took up the cause and plain stomped that sucker flat into the ground!
re: #13 Charles Johnson
When I saw this at first I thought it was that weird angry Islamophobic British dude, you know the one. He was very angry all the time.
I thought it was SMOTI.
Trying something.
re: #174 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
It worked
FYI for those newly arrived and noticing there’s a problem with the page, Belafon thinks there’s something corrupted in his comment at #79, so we’re waiting for Charles to arrive to fix it.
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
On the first full day of John Deere using non-union workers to attempt to replace UAW members on the factory floor… didn’t even make it til 8am without a 911 call. pic.twitter.com/vBd73jX5Pe
— Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) October 15, 2021
Fire department apparently says this was a “medical” call, not “accident,” for what it’s worth
— Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) October 15, 2021
Whoathunkit?
Capitol cop indicted for obstruction of justice after he allegedly tipped off MAGA rioter on Facebook
A veteran of the Capitol Police has been indicted for obstructing justice after he allegedly tipped off a Trump supporter on Facebook and advised him to take down photos he posted of himself at the MAGA riot.
a newly unsealed indictment charges that U.S. Capitol Police Office Michael Angelo Riley went on Facebook the day after the Capitol riots and advised an unidentified rioter to remove photos he’d posted of himself at the siege.
“Hey I’m a Capitol Police officer who agrees with your political stance,” Riley allegedly wrote. “Take down the part about being in the building they are currently investigating and everyone who was in the building is going to be charged. Just looking out!”
Prosecutors say that this was the first time that Riley and the rioter had been in contact one another, although Riley mysteriously sent the rioter a friend request days earlier. According to prosecutors, both Riley and the rioter “were avid fisherman and members of fishing-related Facebook groups.”
New:
U.S. Capitol Police Office Michael Angelo Riley, who spent more than 25 years with USCP, has been charged with obstruction of justice in connection with Jan. 6. pic.twitter.com/BOr2z8Wy7N— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) October 15, 2021
re: #175 Ming5000
It worked
Not really. The new comment button stays under the last comment I posted. It only moves when I post a new comment.
WATCH: @RepAdamSchiff on Jan. 6 committee moving to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt:
“He apparently feels he’s above the law. But he’s about to find out otherwise.” pic.twitter.com/PFphVB7N3S— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) October 15, 2021
re: #81 jeffreyw
Deer, deer, what can the matter be?
This is the second time the Texas abortion ban will be before the justices in an emergency posture. On Sept. 1, in a 5-4 ruling, SCOTUS refused to block the law in response to a lawsuit from abortion providers. This new case is a separate lawsuit filed by DOJ.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) October 15, 2021
re: #165 Teukka
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dunno if this got posted, but I was *astonished* to find out how little money workers at John Deere are making. Read the entire thread.
Long thread, but important: John Deere workers have reached out to me frustrated about media repeating company talking points that workers make 60-70k a year. One who’s been there over a decade showed me what they made in 2020: Under $40k. So let’s talk about wages at John Deere. pic.twitter.com/PnFXX5VMb6
— Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) October 15, 2021
I’m sure there’s some serious wage theft going on here.
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
Over half the SCOTUS justices have been happy to participate in this shitshow.
While I suspect that they don’t realize what they are getting themselves and the court and the nation into; I also suspect that most of them do not care.
Oh and Republican consultant Liz Mair is a *horrible* mother. If her seven year old kid doesn’t already have an eating disorder, he will, with this behavior.
(The basic stuff is eating. He comes home without having eaten any of his lunch? Card burnt. He doesn’t eat enough dinner? Card burnt. Bear in mind my kid is about 4’6” tall at age 7 and yet weighs less than 55 pounds. He needs to put some weight on, specifically muscle).
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) October 15, 2021
re: #187 mmmirele
dunno if this got posted, but I was *astonished* to find out how little money workers at John Deere are making. Read the entire thread.
I’m sure there’s some serious wage theft going on here.
Wow. I’ve been extremely supportive of John Deere for most of my life, since that’s what I spent my teen years cutting my mechanical teeth on; but it is extremely obvious that the CIPP and the lack of pay stubs are explicitly designed to cheat workers out of their rightfully owed wages.
re: #186 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I wouldn’t doubt that Mark the Dumpster Fire Profit is right about the Rs at least, since the privileged yokel gentry bloodlines often have strains of pool boy, gardener and star pulpit pimp.
I would have said milkman.
Which tells you how old I am…
re: #189 mmmirele
Oh and Republican consultant Liz Mair is a *horrible* mother. If her seven year old kid doesn’t already have an eating disorder, he will, with this behavior.
she is a psycho
This website is getting to be really boring. I’m starting to consider tweeting deliberately crazy and offensive stuff just to try to spice it up again.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) October 15, 2021
Andy figured something out that a lot of the rest of you have not. Read people’s Twitter timelines, people… https://t.co/LC2oFLrX3m
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) October 15, 2021
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
Wow.
Wasn’t there another British MP who got stabbed to death a few years back? A woman IRC.
you know, in all serious, there is actually tactical stuff that is designed to look like business attire. I think if I were a British mp, I’d assume my chances of being shot were pretty low, but my chances of being stabbed by some asshole with a knife would be high enough to probably wear a kevlar undershirt when hobnobbing with the Madding crowd.
re: #189 mmmirele
Oh and Republican consultant Liz Mair is a *horrible* mother. If her seven year old kid doesn’t already have an eating disorder, he will, with this behavior.
Destroying a child’s prized belongings as punishment is emotionally abusive behavior.
And child abuse doesn’t end there.
Liz really thinks she did good trolling with that because people got mad
re: #184 ckkatz
Deer, deer, what can the matter be?
They are letting the Riff-Raff in, if you know what I mean, and I think you do!
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
Liz really thinks she did good trolling with that because people got mad
Well, if she really did that to her kid, then she’s a horrible mom.
And if she used her seven year old kid as a troll, she’s STILL a horrible mom.
Liddle Pecan Pies #ShabbatShalom #Shabbat #NationalDessertDay pic.twitter.com/deGI7uQ6Od
— Liddle Pecan Pie 🌈🍁🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) October 15, 2021
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
Liz really thinks she did good trolling with that because people got mad
Typical right wing asshole.
Another prominent GOP politician in Kentucky, Clark County Judge-Executive Chris Pace, just died of Covid. I don’t know his vaccination status, but he was a very large man with young children, so if he wasn’t vaccinated he was a fool. I didn’t find any anti-vaxxer comments on his FB feed, so I’m not submitting him to sorryantivaxxer.com, but he did post a comment opposing Governor Beshear’s mask mandate as illegal, so connect the dots.
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No I am not having any guests for Shabbat. The reason I make little pies instead of one large pie is for convenience, it’s just easier to take a single-portion than to cut a slice, and pecan pie can be runny (if it is cut before it’s completely cool).
These li’l pies are great with whipped cream and/or vanilla ice cream!
EDIT: They freeze really well.
re: #201 Charles Johnson
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YOU ARE THE BEST!!!
re: #201 Charles Johnson
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Thank you Charles.
re: #198 The Pie Overlord!
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Memories of my Aunt Viv (INCREDIBLE COOK) who would make Pecan pies with the recipe she knew from working at Blum’s Coffee shops! Oh and Aunt Viv knew how to make Blum’s famous Coffee Crunch Cake too. Oh it was so good I would have a slice for breakfast!
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The #oregonstandoff crew is considering a new event - Christmas Eve in DC. pic.twitter.com/1m4rw7LCQM
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) October 15, 2021
“We recognize there are not two sides of the Holocaust.” A Texas school superintendent apologized to his district after one of his top officials advised teachers that students learning about the Holocaust should have access to “opposing” perspectives. https://t.co/MTXjz1NUVq
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 15, 2021
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
What an awful way to spend a Christmas.
this map is ridiculous
Illinois update: this Dem 14D-3R gerrymander is both uglier *and* less effective than I’d have expected. #IL03 Newman: Biden +6#IL14 Underwood: Biden +8#IL17 OPEN (Bustos): Biden +6
All of these seats are potentially flippable in a good midterm for Rs. pic.twitter.com/toEaok7day— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 15, 2021
re: #170 Citizen K
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For clarification: Pete Buttigieg is on parental leave. And this is how Stein and other journos are characterizing his absence.
it’s entirely possible sam stein has absolutely no idea what the term missing in action stems from. many journalists are idiots. the rest aspire to be idiots.
re: #196 jeffreyw
Heh, years ago I spent a couple of summers working at a Boy Scout Camp in NorthWestern Pa. One summer the cooks adopted a couple of orphaned raccoon cubs. At the time it was legal to keep raccoons as pets in Pa.
For the “end of the summer” group photo, two of the cooks decided to have the raccoons on their shoulders. They figured that the raccoons would really look good on their cook white uniforms.
This was not a wise move.
With 70 camp employees, most of them late-teenage boys running around prior to the photo, the raccoons quickly got uncomfortable. And immediately went to the highest place they could find and got a firm grip there.
This highest spot happened to be the top of the afore-mentioned cooks’ heads. And, of course, the raccoons were not exactly potty trained.
Eventually the raccoons were coaxed down without too much damage to the cooks. The formerly white uniforms were changed and the pictures were taken.
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Good. Let them do the Trump Flotilla again…and may lots of the boats sink!
if your own grandfather started rambling to a roomful of strangers about how he’s not into golden showers, at the very least you would quietly confiscate his car keys
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) October 15, 2021
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is about Trump, isn’t it?
re: #201 Charles Johnson
Thanks for all the work.
The United States has been elected back onto the United Nations Human Rights Council, three years after the Trump admin’s withdrawal.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 15, 2021
re: #211 steve_davis
it’s entirely possible sam stein has absolutely no idea what the term missing in action stems from. many journalists are idiots. the rest aspire to be idiots.
That’s a benefit of the doubt I’m no longer willing to extend these days, no matter how much of an idiot it still makes Stein out to be.
When you voluntarily deny you’re into golden showers… https://t.co/mygHcZzYqY pic.twitter.com/xT6WZ1BXgQ
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 15, 2021
VOTE THEM OUT! Hate for our children in Texas has to stop! #VoteThemOut #TransLivesMatter #LetKidsPlay https://t.co/KTSdzFn9g5
— MothersAgainstGregAbbott (@MomsAGAbbott) October 15, 2021
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
Or they could go over to tfg’s golf course in Loudoun and re-enact a fictitious Civil War battle.
re: #221 jaunte
Seems there are too many assholes in Texas to keep track of these days.
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
Seems there are too many assholes in Texas to keep track of these days.
It’s not just Texas. They are everywhere.
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
Behind every great fortune there’s a crime. And an asshole.
Ronnie Floyd, the head of the SBC Executive Committee, resigned yesterday. Apparently a lot of people are unhappy, and they’re blaming the people who were sexually abused by SBC pastors.
So I dragged out one of my favorite swear words to let them know how I feel.
So you have no (and no apologies for the swear word) FUCKING problem with child sex abuse? You should be mortified. This is why the SBC should just burn to the ground, you won’t deal with your child sexual abuse! https://t.co/xArCV7ydks
— Dee *Inerrancy is a tool of the patriarchy* Holmes (@mmmirele) October 15, 2021
I’m not a Southern Baptist, but the SBC is just an example of the rot that is in Evangelicalism, and why it should just burn down. First because of the child sex abuse, then because of the second class status of women, then because people of color are expected to defer to white men, then because LGBTQIA people are seen as the worst sinners ever and then because disabled people are invisible. Fuck these guys, I’m TIRED. Donald Trump is the end of their bullshit.
re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
More crust is always a good thing.
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
Congress will be in recess. Idiots.
There’s 7383 members of state legislatures. https://t.co/bIUh5bjRq8
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) October 15, 2021
re: #230 No Malarkey!
1.9% of legislators are treasonweasel enablers who are spewing this conspiracy crap with absolutely no evidence of fraud, let alone coordinated fraud.
What we do have coordinated effort by GOP to try and overthrow the election. We’re lucky dumbassery played a role or else Trump would have become el Presidente for life, ending democracy as we know it.
These are fucking fascists.
wild they all kinda look like racism to me https://t.co/bbpxSj7qUv
— andreAAHHHHHHH! grimes (@andreagrimes) October 15, 2021
“America 2021” paints with too broad a brush IMO. This is about the deplorable state of the Republican Party. https://t.co/BNkcXG18H4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2021
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Mommy, what are those people across the street doing?”
“Making asses out of themselves in public, honey. Don’t pay any attention to them, they’ll go away on their own.”
“Oh, so they’re Republicans?”
“Good job, honey. You’re very smart.”
“Mommy, when I grow up, I don’t wanna be anything like those people.”
*sniffle* “I’m so proud.”
brief review of the tonemaster twin reverb after a day: this is just really, really fine. It is so obviously a pro-level amp that even I, a guitar tyro, can tell. I’m practicing clean stuff, like arpeggiated chords, with a bit of reverb on, and the sound coming back at me is just so damned authentic. I mean, yes, of course you can get perfectly decent clean tones out of a boss katana, but the twin reverb just sounds so rich, so much like it has this incredibly generous amount of room that I could make use of, if I didn’t live in an apartment and have to keep the volume at basically nothing louder than 5w on the attenuator in back. It so makes me want to just pick up the guitar and play. I think I want to use my musician rewards points on the santa ana overdrive pedal. we’ll see. maybe if i can find one open box.
re: #234 Dopamine Fish
“Mommy, what are those people across the street doing?”
“Making asses out of themselves in public, honey. Don’t pay any attention to them, they’ll go away on their own.”
“Oh, so they’re Republicans?”
“Good job, honey. You’re very smart.”
“Mommy, when I grow up, I don’t wanna be anything like those people.”
*sniffle* “I’m so proud.”
I was very happy to see my daughter registered to vote as a Democrat.
Not sure how to feel about so many people suggesting I be shot into space.🚀🤔
— Mark Hamill (Mar🐫) (@HamillHimself) October 15, 2021
Heartbreaking to hear that Sir David Amess has died. He gave his voice for cats and I thank him for his service. pic.twitter.com/gjjOW0CZEb
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 15, 2021
The other cadets knew that Chloe’s telekinesis made her an anomaly among the feline recruits at the Academy, but sometimes it felt as if she was just showing off.#SCIFIFRI pic.twitter.com/KEeoQJJAMC
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) October 15, 2021
They could have just gone to Wimpy and saved a lot of ££££££££’s!
A customer at a London steak restaurant is shocked after receiving a £37,000 bill for their food and drinks 🍴🍷
Thread: https://t.co/ZZedAZ4HZz— Manchester News MEN (@MENnewsdesk) October 15, 2021
re: #189 mmmirele
Well that’s abusive as hell.
About f-ing time. Give me that jab baby.
FDA Panel Endorses Booster Shot For J&J COVID-19 Vaccine
The FDA’s advisory panel voted unanimously that a booster should be offered without setting a firm time. The advisers cited growing worry that recipients of J&J’s vaccination seem to be less protected than people who got two-dose Pfizer or Moderna options — and that most got that single dose many months ago.
That bolded part does concern me a bit though.
re: #240 JOE 🥓
They could have just gone to Wimpy and saved a lot of ££££££££’s!
Most of that is the very expensive booze they chose to buy. They’re not complaining, they’re showing off.
re: #240 JOE 🥓
They could have just gone to Wimpy and saved a lot of ££££££££’s!
Don’t these people bother to check the prices before they order?
Though looking at the bill, we notice that £30,600 of that tab was for drinks: three bottles of Petrus (£9000+) and one of Dom P (£1620), so likely “no”….
Not sure Wimpy’s stocks too much Ch. Petrus.
ETA- I see PDT was quicker on the keyboard: oops
re: #244 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Most of that is the very expensive booze they chose to buy. They’re not complaining, they’re showing off.
“Local rich guy SHOCKED and OUTRAGED by how much he had to spend to get top-quality booze that nobody else can afford, wishes his habit of being elite wasn’t so expensive.”
To keep up with the previous theme, which had me giggling in politically incorrect nostalgia,
Why did the elephants paint their toenails red?
To hide in the strawberry patch
Have you ever seen an elephant in a strawberry patch?
See, it works.
Why do they tell tourists not to walk through the jungle between the hours of four and five?
That’s when the elephants jump out of the trees.
What is the dark stuff between an elephant’s toes?
Slow tourists
What’s purple and lives in the ocean?
Moby Grape
Who’s purple and swings through the trees?
Tarzan of the Grapes
re: #212 ckkatz
Heh, years ago I spent a couple of summers working at a Boy Scout Camp in NorthWestern Pa. One summer the cooks adopted a couple of orphaned raccoon cubs. At the time it was legal to keep raccoons as pets in Pa.
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Would that camp happen to have been in Carlton, PA? My uncle in Cochranton lived just down the road from the Boy Scout camp there.
re: #209 Eclectic Cyborg
What an awful way to spend a Christmas.
You kidding? They can do the Lee Greenwood Christmas Anthology.
re: #208 The Pie Overlord!
Would a viable “opposing” viewpoint be having the students read the minutes of the Wannsee Conference so that they could see what *boring* monsters the Nazis were.
Perhaps with a side helping of showing their pettiness and back-biting as a factor in Germany doing so poorly in World War 2?
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