Police and fire departments around the country have been doing everything they can to get out of having to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s the latest on vaccine mandates. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #VaccineMandates
I really really wish Democrats would stop pretending they’re dealing with a “loyal opposition.” The Republican Party has gone full fascist and they’re not even hiding it. It’s time for Democrats to take off the kid gloves and start telling the plain truth.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 21, 2021
I always thought that much of the GOP’s rhetoric was electoral bluster, and that in a crisis they’d at least drop the show and do the right thing.
But the pandemic, where the party willfully killed hundreds of thousands of people, disabused me of that notion.— Dr. Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) October 21, 2021
Can’t stop laughing at this. Unable to find any fraudulent Democratic voters, Patrick was forced to cut his first reward check to a liberal Democrat who smoked out GOP voter fraud in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/Nb5nahw99j
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) October 21, 2021
re: #1 Charles Johnson
More so the DC and NYC media. They absolutely cannot wrap their brains around the reactionary insanity of the GOP now. The Chuck Todd/Cilizza crew will still be marveling at how ‘savvy’ McConnell is right up to the point the Republic begins to collapse.
The newest entry in the sorryantivaxxer.com sweepstakes is a nurse who spread the gospel of antivax by writing tacky poetry bashing liberals and kissing Trump’s ass.
Steve Shurden, 58, Tulsa, OK, RN - Travel Nurse, anti-vaxx poet, dead from COVID.
According to his wife’s social media post (below), Steve passed away from COVID on October 19, 2021. He leaves behind his wife Teresa, and their two daughters. Steve was a registered nurse who worked for Trustaff nurse staffing. Teresa was also a nurse as a Licensed Vocational Nurse. They had recently purchased a new touring RV just before Steve caught COVID. I think they’d planned to travel the country and help newly opened clinics or something. Both Steve and Teresa were/are adamant anti-vaxxers as you’ll see. Steve loves to write politically charged poems and was about to publish a book of his right-wing Trumparian poems. Too bad that didn’t happen ;)
re: #3 jaunte
Is Lt. Gov. Fetterman finally going to get his Sheetz gift cards?
Traitors want to smooth this over and act like the Republican party is still a legitimate political party rather than an authoritarian cult.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 21, 2021
“…Ralph Thurman, a 72-year-old Republican who Frank turned in after seeing him vote twice on Election Day, once for himself and once for his son, who was a registered Democrat.”
..
“…Thurman pleaded guilty to repeat voting. He was sentenced to three years probation and barred from voting for four years”
The vast majority of people are able to make the personal risk/reward calculation that illegal voting entails, and avoid it like the plague.
I guess “avoid it like the plague” is too rational a phrase for our current political environment.
re: #9 jaunte
I guess “avoid it like the plague” is too rational a phrase for our current political environment.
The last 18 months have shown us that human beings are astoundingly bad at avoiding the plague.
re: #3 jaunte
What a fucking cheapskate. The million dollar bet winds up with a measly $25K.
re: #8 jaunte
The vast majority of people are able to make the personal risk/reward calculation that illegal voting entails, and avoid it like the plague.
Thurman pleaded guilty to repeat voting. He was sentenced to three years probation and barred from voting for four years”
But Crystal Mason is sent to jail for 5 years
re: #11 JOE 🥓
What a fucking cheapskate. The million dollar bet winds up with a measly $25K.
Actually, that’s the full price. I remember that the original deal was $25k per verified instance of voter fraud, up to $1M total. This was discussed frequently when Lt. Gov. Fetterman laid claim to the money. Lt. Gov. Patrick was banking on tons of people coming forward to profess that they caught Democrats in the act of voter fraud. In the end, all they could find was less than a dozen cases of Republicans committing voter fraud.
re: #10 Dopamine Fish
The last 18 months have shown us that human beings are astoundingly bad at avoiding the plague.
(In the US)
Human brings are doing fine
Its republicans that are astoundingly bad at it
re: #14 Eventual Carrion
Fuck KindaSleezy Rice
Of course Comrade Ricekrispies wants to move on! It’s what The Party Commands!
the propaganda video that Jim Jordan tried to play during Garland’s hearing:
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re: #16 JOE 🥓
Of course Comrade Ricekrispies wants to move on! It’s what The Party Commands!
but Benghazi!
re: #14 Eventual Carrion
Fuck KindaSleezy Rice
Move on?
I’d ask her directly:
Don’t we want to know if the president was involved?
And
Shouldn’t everyone who participated or aided or abetted be prosecuted?
re: #16 JOE 🥓
Of course Comrade Ricekrispies wants to move on! It’s what The Party Commands!
Man, FUCK all this “party over everything” bullshit. I don’t care if you are a current or former elected official of a political party, that does not make the party God. They literally worship their political identity like a cult.
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
the propaganda video that Jim Jordan tried to play during Garland’s hearing:
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Old white Senator from Tennessee telling his grandson about how the Civil War is STILL being fought today. Tennessee is also adamantly against teaching children any sort of real American history as it pertains to race. This is how they do it. https://t.co/xtFvVCZXjN
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 21, 2021
re: #21 Barefoot Grin
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The launch of Trump’s new social network “Truth Social” was a bizarre, incompetent clown show, because of course it was.https://t.co/wz3ErWo2bU pic.twitter.com/X7Ez8HvFI4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 21, 2021
re: #20 Dopamine Fish
Man, FUCK all this “party over everything” bullshit. I don’t care if you are a current or former elected official of a political party, that does not make the party God. They literally worship their political identity like a cult.
As I posted in the last thread—People used to scoff at me when I said that the Republican Party was turning into the Soviet Communist Party.
Compare speeches made by Soviet Communists against those of Republicans and you will notice that the speeches are the same with two exceptions—When Soviet Communists said Marx, Republicans say God and when Soviet Communists say Lenin, Republicans say Reagan.
No doubt in my mind that if they get back in control of Congress they will go after Fauci and I fully expect Republican Attorneys General to indict Fauci for murder.
Would they also indict Soros? You betcha!
re: #24 Dangerman
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A theme is emerging on the GOP side of the House Judic Comm in AG Garland’s oversight hearing. The same folks who want to conceal the truth about Jan 6 are outraged DOJ is holding meetings with state & local partners to prevent threats & violence against school board members.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 21, 2021
And WHO is financing these school board protests?
Why it’s the same asshole who financed the teabaggers!
CHARLES KOCH
Koch-backed group fuels opposition to school mask mandates, leaked letter shows
A template letter circulated by Independent Women’s Forum offers a glimpse into a well-resourced campaign against public health regulations
Koch is living his Ayn Rand fantasy—killing off the weak, infirm and elderly and getting away with it!
re: #5 JOE 🥓
The newest entry in the sorryantivaxxer.com sweepstakes is a nurse who spread the gospel of antivax by writing tacky poetry bashing liberals and kissing Trump’s ass.
Steve Shurden, 58, Tulsa, OK, RN - Travel Nurse, anti-vaxx poet, dead from COVID.
Response from a pro-vax poet:
He thought the whole thing was a plot,
so he didn’t bother getting the shot.
But as these things go,
He’s now six feet below,
A lot sooner than he probably thought.
re: #19 Dangerman
Move on?
I’d ask her directly:
Don’t we want to know if the president was involved?
And
Shouldn’t everyone who participated or aided or abetted be prosecuted?
Condi Ricekrispies answer—Let’s move on. Forget about it just like we forgot about Contra Cocaine flooding into South Central Los Angeles!
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I used to say that the South won the Civil War in 1994 with the Gingrich Revolution and the Contract on America. John Roberts murdering the Voting Rights Act a couple of decades later cemented that victory.
3 Republican Senators Collins, Graham, and Murkowski joined all Democrats in voting Yes to confirm Tana Lin as US District Court judge for Western Washington.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) October 21, 2021
re: #25 Charles Johnson
“Speaking of terms of service, Truth Social’s terms forbid users from saying anything to “disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site.” At last, free speech has been restored to the Internet!” @paulwaldman1 https://t.co/hY5BEiDK35
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) October 21, 2021
If you watch this clip, mute the volume because I think it is so funny Ron DeSantis tries to mimic Donald Trump’s hand gestures. https://t.co/Q9KWNeRp53
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) October 21, 2021
Regarding Trump’s new social network ‘Truth’… ‘Pravda’ literarily means truth in Russian, and is the name of the famous propaganda paper. I’m sure that the name he chose wasn’t an accident.
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not just the hand gestures but the little shrug and head-shake as well.
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
Remember Republicans! You must always sing the praises of Mao-Ze-Trump!
re: #36 The Squire of Logos
Not just the hand gestures but the little shrug and head-shake as well.
Sir story coming in 3…2…1…
re: #35 JC1
Regarding Trump’s new social network ‘Truth’… ‘Pravda’ literarily means truth in Russian. I’m sure that the name he chose wasn’t an accident.
Putin made that very clear to his puppet!
re: #35 JC1
There is no Pravda in Izvestia and there is no Izvestia in Pravda!
re: #28 JOE 🥓
And WHO is financing these school board protests?
Why it’s the same asshole who financed the teabaggers!
CHARLES KOCH
Koch-backed group fuels opposition to school mask mandates, leaked letter shows
A template letter circulated by Independent Women’s Forum offers a glimpse into a well-resourced campaign against public health regulations
Koch is living his Ayn Rand fantasy—killing off the weak, infirm and elderly and getting away with it!
The oligarchs want to make America an underdeveloped country, to improve their quality of life and lower their taxes at the cost of making society as a whole far worse off.
In a third world country, the ultra-rich, can have an _overall_ better life, by spending money to make up for the lack of government services.
- Instead of paying taxes to hire police and other first responders, they hire private protection.
- They can buy elected officials and bureaucrats, to benefit them, rather than having public taxes
- They can buy their own electricity generators instead of dealing with a fourth class power system, that government’s don’t have money to build up.
- They can build water pumps, have water storage tanks and filtration tanks, rather than paying to have clean, reliable water provided to the community.
- They can send their children to private schools with mask and/or vaccination mandates, instead of going to underfunded public schools. It’ll be cheaper for them.
- They can send out the hired help to do their shopping outside, if they’re worried about catching something. And of course pay to have their hired help vaccinated, of course.
- They can hire a driver to drive them in a crowded city, rather than depend on a good quality public transport system.
Of course, not all of these are exclusive to the ultra-rich. In many countries, some of the above are also true for the merely rich, and even the upper middle classes. And sadly, they’re increasingly true in America.
Incredible. One of the most crucial links in the supply chain, has been for years, built on the premise that some workers would provide labor for free. https://t.co/QYG2lFGGvd pic.twitter.com/ss3EHO6vK5
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) October 21, 2021
re: #42 Scottish Dragon
And the Supreme Court basically allowed that a few years ago.
CBS now posting that Manchin offered to become an Independent if…he were causing a “problem” for Democrats…
Moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia said Thursday he had offered to drop his formal affiliation with the Democratic Party and instead be independent if he were causing a “problem” for the caucus.
He was asked by reporters at the Capitol about a report that he had threatened to leave the party if his demands weren’t met on the social spending bill under negotiation by moderate and progressive Democrats.
“No,” he said. But he disclosed a conversation in which he said that if he were ever “an embarrassment” to Democratic colleagues and the president, if “me being a moderate centrist Democrat if that causes you a problem, let me know, and I’d switch to be an independent, but I’d still be caucusing with Democrats.”
Hacks, bugs and vulnerabilities: Trump’s new social site plagued by problems — and it hasn’t even launched yet https://t.co/5AVgPpRKiw
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 21, 2021
Jason Miller grovels after Trump launches competing social network: ‘I’m still his number one wingman’ https://t.co/rmT6ewNEqW
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 21, 2021
‘This is a joke’: Business analysts ridicule Trump’s plan to go head to head with tech giants https://t.co/A7iZhC6pcd
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 21, 2021
Trump’s new social-media investors didn’t know he was involved when they loaned $300 million: report https://t.co/8o4DAJlxXY
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 21, 2021
re: #44 JOE 🥓
CBS now posting that Manchin offered to become an Independent if…he were causing a “problem” for Democrats…
Moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia said Thursday he had offered to drop his formal affiliation with the Democratic Party and instead be independent if he were causing a “problem” for the caucus.
He was asked by reporters at the Capitol about a report that he had threatened to leave the party if his demands weren’t met on the social spending bill under negotiation by moderate and progressive Democrats.
“No,” he said. But he disclosed a conversation in which he said that if he were ever “an embarrassment” to Democratic colleagues and the president, if “me being a moderate centrist Democrat if that causes you a problem, let me know, and I’d switch to be an independent, but I’d still be caucusing with Democrats.”
Which doesn’t really change much. We still complain about Bernie not being a proper Democrat.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
I really really wish Democrats would stop pretending they’re dealing with a “loyal opposition.” The Republican Party has gone full fascist and they’re not even hiding it. It’s time for Democrats to take off the kid gloves and start telling the plain truth.
Again, one of the main problems with that, cathartic as it’d be, is the same DC press filter as always, where speaking that candidly will either get you totally ignored, or completely mischaracterized and savaged on that mischaracterization.
On top of that, it’s still apparent that a lot of our voter pool still likes paeans toward bipartisanship, and won’t be animated by overt adversarial language toward the GOP like the GOP base is toward us. So we’re kind of still in a damned-if-you-do lurch with that.
re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron
“this is a joke.”
This is narcissistic personality disorder. Tech giants built social media over many years, so why shouldn’t a know nothing that bellows out orders that only trash will follow be able to replace them in months?
re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron
It’s narcissistic personality disorder, and it got him into the White House when our delusional-right decided they’d be happier living in an ineducable narcissist’s inner-world. It doesn’t go so well when you have to actually build something. Bullshit only spreads so far.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 21, 2021
re: #46 Belafon
Which doesn’t really change much. We still complain about Bernie not being a proper Democrat.
That’s because he isn’t. He’s an Independent who runs as a Democrat in primaries, then after he wins the Democratic primary in his state to become the party nominee, renounces that party affiliation to run as an Independent, then, after election, he serves as an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats. Then, whenever he decides to run for president, he runs as a Democrat in the primaries bitching about the Democratic party and, when he fails to win the nomination, reverts to being an Independent gadfly surrounded by a cult of personality, sort of like a leftist LUAP NOR.
re: #50 A Three Hour Tour
For all that Bernie has been a pain in the ass at times, he has never sabotaged the Dem legislative agenda like Manchin and Sinema. If anything, Bernie has been the biggest booster of Biden’s agenda.
Oh well, I guess it’s just God’s will. Embrace the synthetic parasite. https://t.co/8WBxzxLKri
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 21, 2021
re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron
Remember how Trump took on the giants of vodka. Like that.
At @Wonkette, we read it so you don’t have to. https://t.co/p0EajsSRsK
— Doktor Zoom (@DoktorZoom) October 21, 2021
“… Joy Pullman, the executive editor of the site, chirpily explains that it’s really a shame that so many Christians have bought into the secular, and wrong, idea that death during a pandemic is a bad thing. After all, only heretics would believe that “life is over once a person stops breathing,” or indeed that humans can actually prevent death at all.”
Subbed in a theatre arts class earlier today and showed this: 80s ABT production of La Sonnambula with Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne and Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alessandra Ferri.
Please don’t encourage Christians to do this good thing online despite how good it is, or your account might be locked.
“Don’t put lamb’s blood on your door. Embrace the Spirit passing through Egypt!”
re: #57 Belafon
“Don’t put lamb’s blood on your door. Embrace the Spirit passing through Egypt!”
That scene from the Ridley Scott version is scary AF. It’s like God just dropped the hammer.
“First, do no harm. Or what the hell, do whatever.”
On the House floor, Liz Cheney entered this into the record calling out Jim Banks for sending letters to government agencies claiming he is the ranking member of the 1/6 committee even though he is not on the committee. pic.twitter.com/C1OxGeVhXN
— Annie Grayer (@AnnieGrayerCNN) October 21, 2021
re: #60 jaunte
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re: #48 Punish Domestic Terrorists
“this is a joke.”
This is narcissistic personality disorder. Tech giants built social media over many years, so why shouldn’t a know nothing that bellows out orders that only trash will follow be able to replace them in months?
It’s notable that he had his minions construct his new social media site to look as close to Twitter as possible, so he could pretend like he was playing on Twitter with the big kids.
2nd attempt to pass Freedom to Vote Act failed again thanks to all Republicans voting NO.
SO where are those 10 republicans Joe Manchin insisted were there?
re: #62 Dopamine Fish
It’s notable that he had his minions construct his new social media site to look as close to Twitter as possible, so he could pretend like he was playing on Twitter with the big kids.
I understand. I had a hard time when Digg 4.0 ruined Digg, and reskinned Reddit for my Digg fix for a while.
re: #62 Dopamine Fish
It’s notable that he had his minions construct his new social media site look as close to Twitter as possible, so he could pretend like he was playing on Twitter with the big kids.
Don’t ya think that’s what is really going on? The lackeys are humoring him by making him a Twitter/Netflix/Amazon clone so he won’t throw a tantrum.
God what a sad little man.
At 9 p.m. every night, inmates in the so-called Patriot Wing of the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility reportedly stand at attention and sing The Star-Spangled Banner. You can even listen, if you want, to an alleged recording of it on the website called The Patriot Freedom Project.Inmates had also started their own handwritten newsletter and passed it from cell to cell, one detainee told NBC 4.
…
The “Patriot Wing” houses the most hardcore perpetrators of the January 6 riot, roughly 40 men in all. Source: Vice News
This Oz reboot looks like it sucks.
re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron
Trump’s new social-media investors didn’t know he was involved when they loaned $300 million
Ruh roh.
re: #66 Teddy’s Person
This Oz reboot looks like it sucks.
Sounds like the federal government needs to scatter these guys around the country.
re: #66 Teddy’s Person
This Oz reboot looks like it sucks.
They’re literally locked in cells for attacking Congress, and still imagine that they’re “patriots.”
I guess admitting that they’re enemies of America who are being brought to justice wouldn’t feel so great.
Their judges should know about their complete lack of remorse.
re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump’s new social-media investors didn’t know he was involved when they loaned $300 million
Ruh roh.
People got grifted for $300 million for a Mastodon instance? Damn, right-wing authoritarians are stupid.
re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump’s new social-media investors didn’t know he was involved when they loaned $300 million
Ruh roh.
Capitalism, at this point, is just rich people passing money back and forth.
re: #65 The Squire of Logos
Don’t ya think that’s what is really going on? The lackeys are humoring him by making him a Twitter/Netflix/Amazon clone so he won’t throw a tantrum.
God what a sad little man.
It’s obviously not the entire point - he obviously wants to get people to pay attention to him again - but the fact that he’s making these things look exactly like their real-world counterparts is obviously to keep him from blowing his stack because he can’t have the real things.
re: #65 The Squire of Logos
This feels like a pump-n-dump scheme, operating in plain sight https://t.co/bD0pi4ipmM
— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) October 21, 2021
re: #73 Dopamine Fish
It’s obviously not the entire point - he obviously wants to get people to pay attention to him again - but the fact that he’s making these things look exactly like their real-world counterparts is obviously to keep him from blowing his stack because he can’t have the real things.
Plus, coming up with original ideas and/or products is hard work. Not a popular activity in Trumplandia.
re: #74 jaunte
Criminality out in the open.
re: #76 Teddy’s Person
Plus, coming up with original ideas and/or products is hard work. Not a popular activity in Trumplandia.
“Make me a Twitter clone.”
“What should it look like?”
“I DON’T CARE! I pay you to figure out what it looks like! Make it look as much like Twitter as we can without getting sued!”
re: #26 JOE 🥓
As I posted in the last thread—People used to scoff at me when I said that the Republican Party was turning into the Soviet Communist Party.
Compare speeches made by Soviet Communists against those of Republicans and you will notice that the speeches are the same with two exceptions—When Soviet Communists said Marx, Republicans say God and when Soviet Communists say Lenin, Republicans say Reagan.
No doubt in my mind that if they get back in control of Congress they will go after Fauci and I fully expect Republican Attorneys General to indict Fauci for murder.
Would they also indict Soros? You betcha!
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re: #25 Charles Johnson
What’s even more hilarious is that Trump’s social media goons have created a TOS that will ban those who criticize Trump, his platform, or violate anything that Trump and his goons deem insufficiently Trumpist.
They want a cult. They got a cult.
re: #73 Dopamine Fish
It’s obviously not the entire point - he obviously wants to get people to pay attention to him again - but the fact that he’s making these things look exactly like their real-world counterparts is obviously to keep him from blowing his stack because he can’t have the real things.
Oh sure TFG is always in need of attention. Attention is his oxygen, his life. It is so pathetic that he has neither intelligence nor insight to do anything original (except run grifts on investors and rubes).
re: #73 Dopamine Fish
It’s obviously not the entire point - he obviously wants to get people to pay attention to him again - but the fact that he’s making these things look exactly like their real-world counterparts is obviously to keep him from blowing his stack because he can’t have the real things.
Or…
Donald Trump’s new ‘social media platform’ isn’t a Twitter rival. It’s an investment scam
The truth behind TRUTH Social is right there in the first paragraph of the announcement, which is not focused on the technology behind the platform, or anything that Trump is bringing to the table. Instead, that paragraph is dedicated to explaining how the project has been given “an initial enterprise value of $875 million” and “a cumulative valuation up to $1.7 billion.” Which is amazing, because what it seems to have is nothing more than a credit line and some highly generic code that was hacked within minutes of the beta address becoming known…it doesn’t matter if the site ever sticks its head above the waste pool again. Because that’s not the point. Donald Trump is potentially walking about with $340 million, even if it fails completely. That’s the point.
re: #84 BeachDem
Jesus H. Christ. No wonder the investors are raising their eyebrows. They’re just now realizing they’ve been had.
re: #60 jaunte
Impersonating a government official/role? Yeah, there’s no consequences for that either.
Banks should be stripped of his committees for that kind of bulkshit.
Gloves off. Stop treating GOPers as though they can somehow be bargained with or that they wont put nation over the party.
The GOP have gone all in on the fascism. They don’t care about rule of law, or the rules - only those that the GOP can bend to their will and subvert to further GOP needs.
Fuckin Jim Jordan y’all:
We couldn’t find toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning supplies, chicken, and other food because Trump’s disastrous covid19 response wrecked the economy and shelves were actually barren.
You’re projecting like IMAX.
Anything to distract from Trump and GOP failures— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 21, 2021
Same fuckers are also complaining about gas prices today versus a year ago.
As if the pandemic didn’t wreck the economy a year ago and leave everything in a flaming ruin.
re: #82 lawhawk
And yeah, this was always about grifting and conning investors who didn’t care/realize they’d be the ones out of money when they finance Trump’s latest scam.
Trump’s legacy of failure continues, as he always leaves others holding the bag while he walks away with a handful of cash to keep his real estate business afloat until the next check clears and next scam can get underway.
re: #82 lawhawk
What’s even more hilarious is that Trump’s social media goons have created a TOS that will ban those who criticize Trump, his platform, or violate anything that Trump and his goons deem insufficiently Trumpist.
They want a cult. They got a cult.
They call messages on a service built because Twitter fact checks and they did not like that “Truths.” They’re not trying to hide the fact that they’re a cult.
Oh yeah, and then there’s this:
Heh https://t.co/Bwmm7PANK2 pic.twitter.com/eNimgAic7N
— nilay patel (@reckless) October 21, 2021
re: #87 lawhawk
We had a seditious madman as President during the Trump administration. It sounds like you’re caught, and your attack on our democracy is going to end in prison time. No amount of bullshit on social media will change that.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 21, 2021
GOP showing that it is the party of insurrectionist treasonweasels who will cover up crimes in the name of Trumpworld.
These same GOPers thought nothing of years long investigations into Benghazi that revealed no criminal wrongdoing.— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 21, 2021
re: #92 lawhawk
I saw that the vote was 211-205, with two Republicans - presumably Cheney and Kinzinger - joining the Democrats. It’s a fucking cult.
re: #93 Dopamine Fish
I saw that the vote was 211-205, with two Republicans - presumably Cheney and Kinzinger - joining the Democrats. It’s a fucking cult.
I cannot escape the feeling we are watching the last days of the Republic before things fall apart very, very quickly. The Soviet Union declined for 2 decades before imploding in less than a year. I think about that a lot.
re: #74 jaunte
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Freepers are bragging on what they paid for the stock. Wishing they had more money to invest. Dreaming about this giant alternative to all other social media that will provide much better service worldwide at cheaper prices.
Apparently they think Trump will end up bypassing most existing internet infrastructure and create a satellite network of some sort. Because he always just waits for other people to fail and then sweeps in and shows them how it’s done. Or something.
re: #54 jaunte
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Dying is good! Unless you’re the one dying. These people don’t notice that their flock tend to be somewhat remorseful about their decisions as they’re about to be intubated, begging desperately for the vaccine though their fate has been cast.
We’re up to five Yea votes from Republicans on holding Bannon in contempt of congress.
re: #94 Scottish Dragon
I cannot escape the feeling we are watching the last days of the Republic before things fall apart very, very quickly. The Soviet Union declined for 2 decades before imploding in less than a year. I think about that a lot.
I keep going back and forth.
There’s a large part of me that wants to believe that truth and sanity will prevail. Most of the time, I feel optimistic that the people in charge see what’s going on, see the reality, and that any time now, we’ll see something happen that validates my faith in humanity.
But then.
But then something inevitably happens. The U.S. Senate is a complete and total floating dumpster fire, and really just needs to be scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up. The President has a great agenda lined up, but is powerless to act on his own. The DOJ is making zero noise about a serious pursuit of the criminals who tried to destroy the very fabric of our democracy for no other reason than to avoid going to jail. Texas, or Georgia, or some other backwards hellhole of a state passes a new law or executive order that guarantees more people die to the plague, or removes rights from people. And I just get dragged back into despair all over again that the bad guys are winning and that I’m going to live the rest of my life staring at a fascist autocracy that I was powerless to prevent.
re: #97 darthstar
We’re up to five Yea votes from Republicans on holding Bannon in contempt of congress.
Seven now…interesting. There were 10 who voted for impeachment so there’s a chance of at least three more, but if that number hits 11, watch for Republicans to start crumbling and some to change their votes.
8 now.
NOT EVEN FOX NEWS IS STANDING BY DEVIN NUNES’S LATEST PETTY LAWSUIT
The conservative outlet was among 35 media organizations that argued Nunes’s case against journalist Ryan Lizza—which was unexpectedly revived last month—should be reheard.
vanityfair.com
News organizations continued to sound the alarm in this week’s amicus brief. “Journalists rely on a wide and long-standing judicial consensus that providing a reader with a hyperlink to an article does not republish it for purposes of a libel claim,” the brief states. “They also rely on long-settled precedent holding that receiving a prepublication denial from the subject of a critical report does not, on its own, establish actual malice in publishing the report.” The panel’s decision to depart from what has been settled law “could significantly chill future reporting and commentary about public officials and public figures,” “threatens to upend how information is disseminated and sourced,” and could “drastically reduce the flow of information to the public,” they wrote.
9 - Nancy Mace voted yea and she didn’t vote to impeach.
Just walked my five year-old to Kindergarten.
An anti-mask protestor outside the school shouted, “Kids, you need to protect your bodies!”
My son quietly responded, “That’s why we are wearing masks.”
I fucking love him.— John Collins (@JohnCollins_KP) October 21, 2021
re: #87 lawhawk
Why do these fucking idiots think the President controls the price of everything?
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
You answered your own question with words “fucking idiots.”
Good grief. There’s no mystery about this. Twitter indulges far right personalities FAR too much and lets them get away with blatant violations of their rules.
But yeah, you go ahead and “study” it some more while the conspiracy theorists continue spreading poison. https://t.co/iELArdujvQ— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 21, 2021
220 yea…doesn’t matter if anyone else votes for it. Bannon’s fucked.
re: #106 Charles Johnson
Even if what you say were false, there’s still the fact that right wing organizations have set up systems to auto-like posts from those they want to amplify, giving them far more reach than they should have.
Today is #TrafalgarDay so here is a photo of a man who fought in it, 216 years ago https://t.co/CwKUIzg6qS
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) October 21, 2021
They should immediately hand out subpoenas to everyone that votes no. They know something.
— High-and-Outside ⚾ 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 (@cmsdual90) October 21, 2021
re: #88 lawhawk
And yeah, this was always about grifting and conning investors who didn’t care/realize they’d be the ones out of money when they finance Trump’s latest scam.
Trump’s legacy of failure continues, as he always leaves others holding the bag while he walks away with a handful of cash to keep his real estate business afloat until the next check clears and next scam can get underway.
ETTD
re: #31 A Three Hour Tour
I used to say that the South won the Civil War in 1994 with the Gingrich Revolution and the Contract on America. John Roberts murdering the Voting Rights Act a couple of decades later cemented that victory.
Unless you’re planning to surrender, no they haven’t won. Nor ever will.
She is literally on video saying that…
— pugpolitics (@pugpolitics1) October 21, 2021
re: #107 darthstar
220 yea…doesn’t matter if anyone else votes for it. Bannon’s fucked.
Best news I’ve had today.
re: #106 Charles Johnson
The thing is the Trumpers and RWNJs spend way the hell more time consuming social media than the rest of us do. In other words, they are making the tech companies a ton of money.
They don’t want to kill their golden goose, so all we get is lip service and a fucking ridiculous double standard.
Several bars around the country refuse to check if customers are vaccinated. Which is now law for them, because they don’t want to be the “vaccine police”. But they still card you because they’re already the alcohol police.
— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) October 21, 2021
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
Watching Liz Cheney body slam MTG is one of the more entertaining aspects of this.
Gavel down. Once the last Democrat voted they called it. And there was one Republican non-vote.
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m becoming quite fond of Liz Cheney. (in spite of all the reasons I never was)
re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg
So, does Bannon get arrested now?
Yep, unless he flees the country or goes into hiding. I would love to see federal marshals dig him out of a hole, Saddam Hussein style.
re: #98 Dopamine Fish
On my reading list. Reviewers say it’s a fairly dense academic sociology work, but I’m gonna check it out.
How all great powers decline—including the United States
The extent and irreversibility of US decline is ever more obvious as America loses one war after another and its industries slip behind the competition. Richard Lachmann explains why the United States will find it impossible to retain global dominance. He contrasts America’s relatively brief period of hegemony with the Netherlands’ similarly short primacy and Britain’s far longer era of leadership.
Decline in those cases was not inevitable and did not respond to global capitalist cycles. It was the product of the success elites had in grabbing control of resources and governmental powers. In this process, not only are ordinary people harmed, but capitalists become increasingly unable to coordinate their interests as a class. They fail to adopt policies and make the investments necessary to counter economic and geopolitical competitors elsewhere in the world.
Following this model, Lachmann traces the transformation of US politics from an era of elite consensus to its present-day condition of paralysis and plunder, explaining the paradox of an American military with an unprecedented technological edge unable to subdue even the weakest enemies, and the consequences of finance’s cannibalization of the economy.
re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg
So, does Bannon get arrested now?
nah
Now it goes to the DOJ, the US Atty for DC. He maybe (probably) impanels a Grand Jury. Which if/when it indicts, send the case to trial. (with a DC jury). If/when Bannon is convicted, THEN he gets arrested.
re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg
So, does Bannon get arrested now?
Watch him run into the Brazilian Embassy and request asylum.
re: #120 sagehen
I’m becoming quite fond of Liz Cheney. (in spite of all the reasons I never was)
She’s standing up for the country against her failed party, knowing it means no political future for her unless the Trumpists are stopped. She pretty much has to follow through with rooting out everyone in Congress who has betrayed the nation for Trump.
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
She said “Jewish space lasers,” which is anti-Semitic, but at the level she “thinks,” she did not say anti-Semitic space lasers.
re: #122 Scottish Dragon
On my reading list. Reviewers say it’s a fairly dense academic sociology work, but I’m gonna check it out.
The iron rule of history is that all empires fall. They fall when they overextend militarily while ignoring domestic concerns.
The US has been in decline since the first OPEC oil embargo in 1973. Ever since then its’ decline has been accelerating. More and more wealth has gone to the wealthy as the middle class has completely collapsed. It’s only a matter of time before the inevitable breakup.
Resident Evil 4 VR is out for the Quest 2 today. The reviews are good, and I’ll be playing in an hour.
I hate to be a pessimist but I doubt anything is really going to happen to Steve Bannon. This feels like an empty ritual at this point.
re: #42 Scottish Dragon
Incredible. One of the most crucial links in the supply chain, has been for years, built on the premise that some workers would provide labor for free.
I worked for a while for TNT, a courier company, and all those delivery guys are “free-lance entrepreneurs” who lease their trucks from TNT, have them painted with company livery, work the schedule assigned to them by their supervisor, and get paid piece work at a rate determined by TNT.
No benefits, no paid time off. If they deliver late, they either get docked or not paid at all.
re: #129 Charles Johnson
I got to agree with Charles. Thanks to the corrupted courts I expect Bannon to get away with it.
re: #131 JOE 🥓
I got to agree with Charles. Thanks to the corrupted courts I expect Bannon to get away with it.
Same here. I’d love to be wrong.
re: #127 JOE 🥓
The iron rule of history is that all empires fall. They fall when they overextend militarily while ignoring domestic concerns.
The US has been in decline since the first OPEC oil embargo in 1973. Ever since then its’ decline has been accelerating. More and more wealth has gone to the wealthy as the middle class has completely collapsed. It’s only a matter of time before the inevitable breakup.
I had a dispute with my ultra-conservative sister recently. She’d tried to claim that FDR destroyed capitalism, but I think I was able to persuade her otherwise. Pointed out that during (and due to) the worldwide Great Depression, Europe went full-on genocidal fascist. Asia went full-on genocidal communist. The US remained a capitalist democracy, because the New Deal gave everyone a stake in keeping it that way. FDR and his “socialism-lite” is what held off the torches and pitchforks.
The question is whether Merritt Garland will act on the referral. If so, he’ll be tried in the courts that are putting away the 1/6 insurrectionists.
re: #133 sagehen
I had a dispute with my ultra-conservative sister recently. She’d tried to claim that FDR destroyed capitalism,
He destroyed the kind of capitalism that led to the Great Depression in the first place, yes…
re: #133 sagehen
I had a dispute with my ultra-conservative sister recently. She’d tried to claim that FDR destroyed capitalism, but I think I was able to persuade her otherwise. Pointed out that during (and due to) the worldwide Great Depression, Europe went full-on genocidal fascist. Asia went full-on genocidal communist. The US remained a capitalist democracy, because the New Deal gave everyone a stake in keeping it that way. FDR and his “socialism-lite” is what held off the torches and pitchforks.
Hell Capitalism came out better because of the New Deal. That’s what the conservatives don’t get. They see Capitalism as stale. Liberals see it as evolving. Liberal capitalism is more closer to the vision of Smith than the conservatives who were Mercantilist absolute monarchists in Smith’s days.
re: #133 sagehen
I had a dispute with my ultra-conservative sister recently. She’d tried to claim that FDR destroyed capitalism, but I think I was able to persuade her otherwise. Pointed out that during (and due to) the worldwide Great Depression, Europe went full-on genocidal fascist. Asia went full-on genocidal communist. The US remained a capitalist democracy, because the New Deal gave everyone a stake in keeping it that way. FDR and his “socialism-lite” is what held off the torches and pitchforks.
Generally the type of person of which you speak doesn’t even know what the words socialism and communism actually mean. I don’t know that it’s worth arguing too hard with someone who thinks anyone slightly to the left of Ludwig von Mises is a communist.
The Oath Keepers are known as a violent extremist group. You can see some members here in tactical gear moving up the Capitol steps on Jan. 6. pic.twitter.com/jrB1e6WmmH
We got a membership list from an anonymous hacker.
It included 10 sitting state lawmakers, all GOP.
THREAD— Isaac Arnsdorf (@iarnsdorf) October 21, 2021
Fundamentally, it’s the monarchists against the rest of us.
re: #136 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Hell Capitalism came out better because of the New Deal. That’s what the conservatives don’t get. They see Capitalism as stale. Liberals see it as evolving. Liberal capitalism is more closer to the vision of Smith than the conservatives who were Mercantilist absolute monarchists in Smith’s days.
Adam Smith is as cherry-picked as the Bible. He was against government-sponsored monopolies like the British East India Company. He saw an active role for government to ensure that the markets worked for everyone’s benefit: workers as well as employers, producers and consumers, creditors and borrowers.
re: #139 jaunte
There you have it.
So many of them would have been pledging how much they loved George III in 1776 because they love a good cult of personality.
re: #143 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They love kissing ass if it means they can kick some.
re: #143 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So many of them would have been pledging how much they loved George III in 1776 because they love a good cult of personality.
Stability and clear respect for property rights.
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Adam Smith is as cherry-picked as the Bible. He was against government-sponsored monopolies like the British East India Company. He saw an active role for government to ensure that the markets worked for everyone’s benefit: workers as well as employers, producers and consumers, creditors and borrowers.
Exactly. He wrote against a lot of the things that those who claim to be his adherents believe about government and economics.
re: #143 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So many of them would have been pledging how much they loved George III in 1776 because they love a good cult of personality.
I can’t remember off the top of my head, but was George already starting to lose his mind by the time of the revolution or was that later?
If he was that tracks with Trump support, since his cheese is clearly starting to fall off the cracker.
re: #147 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
I can’t remember off the top of my head, but was George already starting to lose his mind by the time of the revolution or was that later?
If he was that tracks with Trump support, since his cheese is clearly starting to fall off the cracker.
Later. I think he started having the mental breakdown after the French Revolution. Interesting man tbh. First in his House (Hanover) who spoke English as a primary language. His grandfather and great grandfather- the first Georges were German speakers.
Well, I hope you’re right and I’m wrong. But if it gets to a point where he might actually go to prison I think he’ll make some kind of deal.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 21, 2021
re: #149 Charles Johnson
I’d think that deal would have to put Trump in prison for the DOJ to be willing to make it.
re: #149 Charles Johnson
AFAIK, this referral goes to the US Attorney for the DC district. I don’t necessarily think they need to check in with the AG on whether or not to prosecute a case. I’m assuming Garland could take the initiative and tell the US attorney to not proceed, but I really don’t think they need to go to the AG about it themselves. I might be totally wrong about this.
re: #149 Charles Johnson
Lawrence et al. were talking about this last night. They decided that Bannon was probably hoping for a conviction with jail time, so he can play the martyr. He’s been pretty much out of the public eye for the last few years, and this would be a way to be noticed again.
Grrr. Too late to correct “Merritt Garland. (Did I do that or was it autocorrect?)
re: #152 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Lawrence et al. were talking about this last night. They decided that Bannon was probably hoping for a conviction with jail time, so he can play the martyr. He’s been pretty much out of the public eye for the last few years, and this would be a way to be noticed again.
I doubt Bannon wants to spend time in jail at his age.
re: #154 Belafon
I doubt Bannon wants to spend time in jail at his age.
Cutting him off from booze will not be a good experience for him.
STOP THE SQUEAL https://t.co/3dAEQ6ANTW
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 21, 2021
I called Ted Cruz’s’s office asking to make an appointment to talk with the Senator about my blood pressure. They told me that the Senator was not qualified to give medical advice and that I should call my doctor. So I asked them to stop giving advice about vaccines.#covid
— Robert C Stern (@RobertCStern) October 20, 2021
I’d like to advise people of something as a legal professional but what’s happening with the Committee is a process. That’s what is happening here. I remember Rick Wilson saying that no contempt of Congress would happen and further I remember a lot of surefire that Pelosi wouldn’t move to impeach Trump. Bannon’s also not gonna win that executive privilege claim either.
No way Bannon would go to prison for Trump. I just don’t see that happening. He’s much more likely to make a deal of some kind if it gets to that point.
Can he still agree to the subpoena and testify or is that option gone? If so, I think he might end up doing that, and then take the 5th.
re: #156 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Remember when Barron then Rudy was going to advise on “Cyber.”
NEW YORK — The messages, written in Russian and shared on WhatsApp in October 2018, were celebratory.“How is Washington?” Andrey Kukushkin asked in a message to an associate, Igor Fruman.
“Everything is great!!” Fruman wrote back. “We are taking over the country!!!!” Soon after, Fruman’s business partner, Lev Parnas, provided some evidence: a picture of himself, beaming as he stood between Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
Ex-Giuliani Ally Gained Easy Access to Trump’s Orbit, Texts Show (NYT via Yahoo!)
re: #161 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Ex-Giuliani Ally Gained Easy Access to Trump’s Orbit, Texts Show (NYT via Yahoo!)
It all goes back to why he was impeached the first time. He wanted to be an autocrat.
Donald Trump jr is a millionaire at birth who hires people to help him murder elephants for entertainment.
The nepotism, hypocrisy & coke are his most likable traits. https://t.co/WpI4ZPdSK4— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 21, 2021
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Does Don Jr know that his brother from a North Korean mother who his Daddy shared beautiful love letters with is a Communist? Same thing with Xi who his father only turned against because he knew he’d get his base’s attention if he went full Anti Chinese bigot while ignoring the fact Trump enabled Xi’s shitty human rights record. Oh and the former KGB/CPUSSR member who Trump adores.
Not one of those weird right-wing “Christian” “schools”. A public school district is acting like this in the 21st century.
School officials in Texas forced a 9-year-old boy to serve an in-school suspension for a month, deprived him of recess and normal lunch breaks, and banished him from campus to an alternative school — all to pressure the fourth-grader into getting a haircut, a new lawsuit says.
A Texas school district bans boys from wearing long hair. Now, some students are suing. (WaPo via MSN)
So, Marjorie Taylor Greene started shouting at Jamie Raskin and Liz Cheney. Raskin explains, via the pool: “I was just talking to Miss Cheney and then she started screaming at us, saying, ‘When are you going to start investigating murders over the summer and BLM?’
— Michael McAuliff (@mmcauliff) October 21, 2021
Raskin: “And then [MTG] started screaming, I don’t know. She starts screaming at Liz… I can’t remember exactly what she said, but they got into a back and forth about Jewish space lasers.”
— Michael McAuliff (@mmcauliff) October 21, 2021
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
He kills intelligent animals that are smarter and more compassionate than he is.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 21, 2021
Yall. I found out that my dad is on TikTok explaining the importance of getting vaccinated. He’s also telling people that his daughter is an emergency medicine doctor who works hard to save lives every day.
I honestly don’t know which one of us is more proud 🥺— Dr. Biosha Jones (@BioshaJ) October 21, 2021
re: #165 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Not one of those weird right-wing “Christian” “schools”. A public school district is acting like this in the 21st century.
A Texas school district bans boys from wearing long hair. Now, some students are suing. (WaPo via MSN)
That’s why I always contend that a lot of American conservatism is more reactionary than conservative. Like if they’re still getting mad about long haired boys? It’s dude. The 60’s were years ago. Not everyone wants to look like H.R. Haldeman. I like my hair a little longer especially when it’s colder out.
Looks like everyone on the West and Northwest Coasts need to be prepared. Going to be a big time ending for the drought.
Multiple atmospheric rivers to bring massive precipitation to West Coast
The maps in the article are impressive.
re: #154 Belafon
I doubt Bannon wants to spend time in jail at his age.
You’re assuming he really knows what it would mean. Would-be martyrs are often not that smart (consider the insurrectionists pre- and post-arrest).
Certainly if he had a good idea what it would be like, he’d want to avoid it.
Don’t know for sure if it moots the contempt recommendation from Congress, but, practically, it would make it almost certain no prosecution would follow from it.
— Greg Gentry (@greggentry1) October 21, 2021
I think this might be what eventually happens after Bannon makes everybody dance around a little bit.
It is baffling that @RepMattGaetz had the opportunity to question the Attorney General of the US about the section of DOJ that is investigating Gaetz for potential crimes. You think that’s okay @GOPLeader? This is why those under crim investigation should be removed from cmtes. https://t.co/jttCwmSEkL
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) October 21, 2021
Can’t wait for the next McAuliffe ad to remind people in Virginia who Glenn Youngkin likes spending time with but then again after seeing his Soros dog whistle and refusal to condemn the Antisemitic crap that Speaker Filler-Corn and Del Helmer have been dealing with leads me to believe he probably enjoyed Breitbart’s articles about “Renegade Jews” and Steve throwing a shit fit about his kids being taught in a Jewish school. He’s made it clear that Antisemitism is cool because it’s what the GOP base wants.
NEW: Federal Reserve announces ban on officials owning individual stocks and limits on other activities. https://t.co/jzpa5Spx60
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 21, 2021
In case you were wondering how things are going at the Federal Reserve: pic.twitter.com/yauddg6ZnR
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) October 21, 2021
re: #173 jaunte
See ya on SVU Gaetz. Remember there’s two separate yet equally important systems. You’re in their stories.
re: #153 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Grrr. Too late to correct “Merritt Garland. (Did I do that or was it autocorrect?)
It’s ALWAYS autocorrecting to MERRITT 🤬
re: #169 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
That’s why I always contend that a lot of American conservatism is more reactionary than conservative. Like if they’re still getting mad about long haired boys? It’s dude. The 60’s were years ago. Not everyone wants to look like H.R. Haldeman. I like my hair a little longer especially when it’s colder out.
re: #173 jaunte
Yeah: I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for anything out of “GOP Leader” McCarthy other than deflective bullshit. Or just plain bullshit.
Not only is Kevin apparently congenitally incapable of even the remotest criticism (still less serious sanctioning) of ANY member of his caucus: but it’s far more likely (IMO) that he’d just DARVO the whole thing and dismiss any accusations against Gaetz as a “political witch hunt” or something.
Maybe just my opinion, but AFAICR, Kevin McCarthy has to be one of the most useless House Leaders I can ever recall….
re: #176 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
See ya on SVU Gaetz. Remember there’s two separate yet equally important systems. You’re in their stories.
He’s already been on SVU — the first episode this season? But that guy had pretentions of running for president.
re: #169 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
That’s why I always contend that a lot of American conservatism is more reactionary than conservative. Like if they’re still getting mad about long haired boys? It’s dude. The 60’s were years ago. Not everyone wants to look like H.R. Haldeman. I like my hair a little longer especially when it’s colder out.
I’ve thought about going full jungle wild-man and not shaving or cutting my hair. Beards bother me in hot weather though.
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