With his approval rating underwater, President Biden traveled to his hometown of Scranton to deliver one of his trademark folksy speeches, while the former president’s new social media platform attracted so many trolls that it had to be shut down. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
The sort of thing that should make a person seem human and relatable instead is used as “proof” that he is a “loser”. What a sad political climate we live in.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The sort of thing that should make a person seem human and relatable instead is used as “proof” that he is a “loser”. What a sad political climate we live in.
Everyone in the replies to the tweet yesterday about the story said something like “Good, he’s a fucking human like the rest of us.”
Hell hath no fury and all that. Now add in a willing accomplice. *evil laugh*
Good Morning my Friends. Happy Friday.
I want to be this partner in crime. pic.twitter.com/qPKvKeNro5— Alison Young🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈💉💉 (@Jugglerofgeese2) October 22, 2021
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The sort of thing that should make a person seem human and relatable instead is used as “proof” that he is a “loser”. What a sad political climate we live in.
Trump goes golfing at his own private courses virtually every weekend, media either avoids the topic or mumbles about how “stressful” the job is.
Biden goes back home to give a stump speech, media declares he’s avoiding the job and suggests he’s hiding away from voters.
re: #4 Targetpractice
Trump goes golfing at his own private courses virtually every weekend, media either avoids the topic or mumbles about how “stressful” the job is.
Biden goes back home to give a stump speech, media declares he’s avoiding the job and suggests he’s hiding away from voters.
“Why isn’t Biden more accessible?” cry the people who support Kyrsten Sinema.
Why is this even a thing? Why is there supposed to be some magical quality about physically visiting the border?
Oh yeah, because the right wing media are making it a thing and the rest of the media are dutifully following their lead. https://t.co/baYHxB9ChB— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2021
Conservatives are wrong about EVERYTHING. https://t.co/obTJpqIt4c
— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) October 22, 2021
WaPo should interview all the conservatives who went to the border for a photo-op and ask them if it had been effective in changing anything.
Sorry, but this made me laugh.. pic.twitter.com/csqzNYl0s6
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) October 22, 2021
re: #6 Charles Johnson
because, pictures or it didn’t happen…
To be fair this seems to be their preferred look. https://t.co/gEhXKhX2tI pic.twitter.com/e3Y6Ucpbzt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2021
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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Because the media is big on politics as performance art. Hence why they loved Trump so much, because he’d make a big production that was total smoke and mirrors, but it gave the media something to photograph and film, so they treated it as if it were genuine. Like how they treated his standing next to stacks of blank paper in unmarked folders as significant because he insisted it was so.
re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lesson #1 in how NOT to bring a prey animal down :-)
Eastman is a goddamned fucking liar. He wrote the plan. He was in Bannon’s war room. He committed sedition. Put him before the 1/6 Committee, then indict him on sedition charges and disbar him!
Eastman Insists He Def Doesn’t Believe Memo’s ‘Crazy’ Plots To Steal Election Were Real
BULLSHIT!
And DO NOT FORGET what that racist wrote alleging Kamala was ineligible to be Vice-President!
re: #7 jaunte
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Yeah, but which is the media going to pay more attention to: Statistics and figures proving that UEI was not what was holding the labor pool from jumping at job offers or business owners putting up self-pitying signs in their windows about how “NOBODY WANTS TO WORK!!!”?
re: #15 JOE 🥓
Eastman is a goddamned fucking liar. He wrote the plan. He was in Bannon’s war room. He committed sedition. Put him before the 1/6 Committee, then indict him on sedition charges and disbar him!
Eastman Insists He Def Doesn’t Believe Memo’s ‘Crazy’ Plots To Steal Election Were Real
BULLSHIT!
Another Trump henchman caught henching, another whining whimper about how it was all for laughs and they were never really serious about the henching.
“…In a poll of restaurant workers from earlier this year, eight in 10 said that they had experienced hostile behavior from customers who didn’t want to follow COVID-19 safety protocols. About half said they were considering leaving their jobs, and of that group, four in 10 said this was because of customer hostility and harassment.
A survey of restaurant workers released in August yielded similar results - more than two-thirds said a key reason for the labor shortage was customer disrespect.”
news.yahoo.com
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Oh, god forbid someone is forced to grow a beard in jail. The horror.
re: #7 jaunte
We’ve known for a long time that people who are driven by racism, greed, and fear do not think clearly or make good decisions.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 22, 2021
I didn’t quite process this at first, but this has to be some sort of land-speed record, right? SCOTUS is asking the S.B. 8 parties to file full briefs and hold oral arguments in just 10 days. pic.twitter.com/CXfxbkrUd9
— Matt Ford (@fordm) October 22, 2021
re: #12 Charles Johnson
An insult to Neanderthals. These were the worst of Homo Sapiens.
Since it’s on HBO Max I’ll have to watch “Dune,” but I have to admit I’m expecting it to be terrible. Am I wrong?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2021
Thread:
People who aren’t familiar w/ the traditions often don’t believe that millions of far-right Christians think they’re in a Bible story battling demons daily, and that anyone who disagrees is a servant of Satan.
All the details on this week’s @TheoryChange: https://t.co/BwmZzzMLk2— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) October 22, 2021
re: #21 Belafon
The corrupted court just can’t wait to kill Roe. And they do not care about the blowback that they will trigger.
The filibuster is not in the Constitution — but the right to vote is. Our democracy will pay the price if we keep sacrificing voting rights at the altar of the filibuster.
— James E. Clyburn (@WhipClyburn) October 22, 2021
re: #18 jaunte
“…In a poll of restaurant workers from earlier this year, eight in 10 said that they had experienced hostile behavior from customers who didn’t want to follow COVID-19 safety protocols. About half said they were considering leaving their jobs, and of that group, four in 10 said this was because of customer hostility and harassment.
A survey of restaurant workers released in August yielded similar results - more than two-thirds said a key reason for the labor shortage was customer disrespect.”
news.yahoo.com
To work in the service industry in the era of COVID is to subject yourself to the most dehumanizing, thankless, stressful work environments short of working in a sex dungeon. Especially if you’re one of those who was dubbed as “essential” at the beginning of the whole mess, only to quickly realize that being “essential” just meant they couldn’t keep the place open if they fired you. It never meant anything like higher pay, better benefits, or even a modicum of respect.
re: #25 JOE 🥓
Or the women who will be killed and maimed because of it.
re: #24 jaunte
Remember this Pulpit Pimp was on the Federal Payroll when Shithead was in the Oval Office!
Here’s Paula White, who was Trump’s top “spiritual advisor” and a federal government employee screaming about “Satanic pregnancies” and demons from the “marine kingdom” as reported by @RightWingWatch pic.twitter.com/UTkosxEjBI
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) October 22, 2021
re: #29 JOE 🥓
Remember this Pulpit Pimp was on the Federal Payroll when Shithead was in the Oval Office!
The demon sperm lady was not an outlier.
Depends if you ask them in public or in private… https://t.co/3SLHmtWTla
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) October 21, 2021
re: #29 JOE 🥓
Remember this Pulpit Pimp was on the Federal Payroll when Shithead was in the Oval Office!
AND note all the women in the front line responding to the Pulpit Pimp’s commands!
re: #26 Charles Johnson
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What should be obvious by now that the filibuster exists for only one reason: So that conservative Dems have an excuse to avoid votes on bills that lack even a single Repub vote.
re: #33 Targetpractice
What should be obvious by now that the filibuster exists for only one reason: So that conservative Dems have an excuse to avoid votes on bills that lack even a single Repub vote.
So all the bills pretty much?
re: #31 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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“We all hate Trump and think he was the worst president ever! 1/6 was an outrage! We all support raising the debt ceiling if it can be done secretly! We…we…you’re not going to print my name, right?”
Someone pointed out that today, October 22, is the 177th anniversary of the Great Disappointment, the belief that swept the settled US in the late 1830s and the first half of the 1840s. Basically, Baptist preacher taught that Jesus was going to come back, based on some formula he dug out of linking various Bible passages together.
Obviously, Jesus didn’t come back on October 22, 1844, and the Millerites first seemed doomed to the dustbin of history, but followers of this belief came up with ways to explain why it didn’t happen. Out of this came the Seventh Day Adventists and their many many offshoots, including the Waco Branch Davidians.
One could argue that other millenarian groups that set dates (e.g., Jehovah’s Witnesses, Harold Camping, others too many to count) are offshoots of this Great Disappointment.
Exactly. I wish it was only Fox News pushing this line of dumb bullshit but unfortunately it’s all over mainstream media too, as usual. https://t.co/INoceZgXV0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2021
re: #28 plansbandc
Or the women who will be killed and maimed because of it.
I’ve already decided my public action (besides whatever I do to help women needing abortions, which may just be money, unless there is a need to drive women to California) is going to be bringing body bags to protest in front of the church near my house where the pastor wants to execute women who obtain abortions.
Oh yeah, guess who is now going to church there? RON WATKINS. Yes, THAT Ron Watkins.
The Mesa Pastor Who Inspired QAnon Promoter Ron Watkins’ Run For Congress
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The Mesa Pastor Who Inspired QAnon Promoter Ron Watkins’ Run For Congress
KATYA SCHWENK OCTOBER 20, 2021 12:42PMJeff Durbin speaks at an anti-abortion rally in Oklahoma.
Jeff Durbin speaks at an anti-abortion rally in Oklahoma. via YouTube
If QAnon’s grip on the Arizona GOP wasn’t clear already, Ron Watkins made it so last week, when the Q figurehead announced that he is running for Congress in Arizona.Watkins’ candidacy is far-fetched, to put it lightly; although he’s built a major following online, he has never held any kind of elected office, and it’s not clear if he’s ever lived in the state. But his campaign does appear to draw on local inspiration — from Jeff Durbin, an extremist pastor in Mesa who has built his church into a sprawling media organization and national anti-abortion lobbying group.
In Watkins’ initial video announcing his bid to unseat Democrat Tom O’Halleran (“the dirtiest Democrat in the D.C. swamp,” Watkins said), he cited a recent sermon that Durbin gave at Apologia Church in Mesa.
Durbin convinced him, Watkins said, “to double down with God as my compass to take this fight to the swamp of Washington D.C.”
*snip*
Durbin distanced himself from Watkins, however, when New Times inquired about his candidacy. Although Watkins has been attending sermons, Durbin says, “he is not a member of Apologia Church,” and, furthermore, the church, as a practice, would not endorse political candidates. As for QAnon, Durbin calls the movement “destructive and embarrassing.”
I think it might be time, now that the weather is better, to hit Apologia church for Sunday afternoon picketing. Not with body bags yet, but to point out that Ron Watkins ran a scam.
ETA and also to remind people that Jeff Durbin wants to murder women who have obtained abortions, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of 32 million American women.
Exxon Mobil plans to close two Houston-area office towers after unprecedented job cuts and employee departures over the last 18 months https://t.co/cvaKS8Uh5g
— Bloomberg (@business) October 22, 2021
John Stoehr asks a very good question. I think it’s at least partly because too many Americans still yearn for an all-powerful monarch. See: the former guy. https://t.co/UIrKNyjBBx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2021
Oh, look, Twitter undid the stupid thing!
UNITED STATES COMPUTER COMPANY BOWS BEFORE UNITED KOREAN PEOPLE AND 300,000 STRONG WORLD JUCHE MOVEMENT!
10,000 YEARS OF LIFE TO MARSHAL KIM JONG-UN! pic.twitter.com/BxuYh17fYc— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 22, 2021
re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg
YAY!!!
Great start to my weekend!
Right?! When I saw they banned that account, I was like, you have got to be FREAKING kidding. Such a stupid move on their part (even though I know it was automated).
Jury in New York federal court finds Lev Parnas guilty on all six criminal counts in connection with a scheme to make illegal campaign contributions. pic.twitter.com/FjijI4DN4W
— JOSH RUSSELL (@jruss_jruss) October 22, 2021
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above… https://t.co/8hO24Z8dYh
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 22, 2021
re: #40 Charles Johnson
The Constitution of the United States grants many of the powers of an absolute monarch to the President, a single individual — pardons, patronage, warmaking, immunity from prosecution etc. All democracies with a actual monarch as Head of State accord them no political powers and their own elected heads of government (Prime Ministers, Chancellors etc.) rule only at the behest of a political coalition which can and often does rein them in when they overstep their bounds.
Well look who was just found GUILTY!
Rudy’s Buddy!
Rudy Giuliani henchman Lev Parnas found guilty on all counts
The jury also convicted his co-defendant Andrey Kukushkin, whom prosecutors also accused of funneling oligarch Andrey Muraviev’s money into U.S. elections in order to facilitate their cannabis businesses. Jurors returned guilty verdicts on all charges of a six-count indictment.
A key figure in Donald Trump’s first impeachment in 2019, Parnas became a national figure after cooperating with Democratic-controlled House committees probing the former president’s dealings in Ukraine. Arrested two years ago with his reputed sidekick Igor Fruman, Parnas was the only one of the case’s four co-defendants to embark on a full court press counteroffensive dishing the then-Trump administration’s secrets in Ukraine, Venezuela and Turkey. His name was mentioned more than 100 times in the House impeachment report.
re: #46 Nojay UK
The Constitution of the United States grants many of the powers of an absolute monarch to the President, a single individual — pardons, patronage, warmaking, immunity from prosecution etc. All democracies with a actual monarch as Head of State accord them no political powers and their own elected heads of government (Prime Ministers, Chancellors etc.) rule only at the behest of a political coalition which can and often does rein them in when they overstep their bounds.
This was by design. Alexander Hamilton explicitly wanted to make the President an elective King, and originally proposed _lifetime_ terms for the President, only removable by impeachment.
And in the actual constitution, war is supposed to be declared by Congress not by the President. The ability of Presidents to react to ongoing attacks and direct wars after Congress has declared wars has been twisted into effectively undeclared war by Presidents.
re: #47 JOE 🥓
Well look who was just found GUILTY!
Rudy’s Buddy!
Rudy Giuliani henchman Lev Parnas found guilty on all counts
The jury also convicted his co-defendant Andrey Kukushkin, whom prosecutors also accused of funneling oligarch Andrey Muraviev’s money into U.S. elections in order to facilitate their cannabis businesses. Jurors returned guilty verdicts on all charges of a six-count indictment.
A key figure in Donald Trump’s first impeachment in 2019, Parnas became a national figure after cooperating with Democratic-controlled House committees probing the former president’s dealings in Ukraine. Arrested two years ago with his reputed sidekick Igor Fruman, Parnas was the only one of the case’s four co-defendants to embark on a full court press counteroffensive dishing the then-Trump administration’s secrets in Ukraine, Venezuela and Turkey. His name was mentioned more than 100 times in the House impeachment report.
I can’t say that I expected cannabis businesses to be part of a Russian scheme to buy American politicians.
re: #17 Targetpractice
Another Trump henchman caught henching, another whining whimper about how it was all for laughs and they were never really serious about the henching.
I guess he just forgot to clarify that while he was helping to incite Trump’s mob on January 6.
re: #46 Nojay UK
The Constitution of the United States grants many of the powers of an absolute monarch to the President, a single individual — pardons, patronage, warmaking, immunity from prosecution etc. All democracies with a actual monarch as Head of State accord them no political powers and their own elected heads of government (Prime Ministers, Chancellors etc.) rule only at the behest of a political coalition which can and often does rein them in when they overstep their bounds.
We tried the other way and found a president with no authority couldn’t govern. The immunity from prosecution while President is meant to deter political prosecution, but is meant to be balanced by impeachment and conviction. This still does not match a monarch who could only be removed by revolution.
Woo Hoo! Welcome on the crazy ride!
Interesting thread.
If this is correct, we have lots of stuff coming in to the country. But it cannot get into or out of Long Beach port due to the complete foul up regarding containers.
1. The trucking trailers (container chassis) needed to haul full containers are tied up holding empty containers.
2. But the empty containers cannot be put on container ships. Because the container ships need to offload their filled containers. And there is no further space to store filled, or empty containers in the port.
3. But there aren’t any trucking trailers available to haul off the filled containers, because (see #1)
And, as part of tfg’s failed trade war, we have imposed a massive tariff on importing new trucking container chassis.
(The tweeter’s company Flexport) is a California based freight forwarding company.
Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport’s partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here’s a thread about what I learned.
— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) October 22, 2021
Capitol riot committee may now seek referrals on financial crimes after ‘following the money’: CNN report https://t.co/FVMqYhjbCP
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 22, 2021
Matt Gaetz is facing an investigation for underage sex trafficking and has had fundraising slow down to a drip. Now he’s been deemed ineligible to practice law in Florida. https://t.co/1J70m2L6iN
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 22, 2021
re: #54 Dread Pirate Ron
Because he didn’t pay his dues to the Bar, rather than because he’s totally unethical.
Ok so that takes of the next three minutes of the rest of your life @AllisonW_Sports pic.twitter.com/ggQ08DGXI1
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 22, 2021
re: #17 Targetpractice
Another Trump henchman caught henching, another whining whimper about how it was all for laughs and they were never really serious about the henching.
Reminds me of the guy in the hot dog suit meme. “We’re just trying to find out who did this!”
re: #52 ckkatz
Woo Hoo! Welcome on the crazy ride!
Interesting thread.
If this is correct, we have lots of stuff coming in to the country. But it cannot get into or out of Long Beach port due to the complete foul up regarding containers.
1. The trucking trailers (container chassis) needed to haul full containers are tied up holding empty containers.
2. But the empty containers cannot be put on container ships. Because the container ships need to offload their filled containers. And there is no further space to store filled, or empty containers in the port.
3. But there aren’t any trucking trailers available to haul off the filled containers, because (see #1)
And, as part of tfg’s failed trade war, we have imposed a massive tariff on importing new trucking container chassis.
(The tweeter’s company Flexport) is a California based freight forwarding company.
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re: #23 Charles Johnson
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Possibly.
Stephen Colbert is excited as all get-out about it, and he loves Dune almost as much as he loves Lord of the Rings. His advice is to see it first on a big screen, then watch it again on HBOmax.
He’s seen and been disappointed by the David Lynch version and the Sci-Fi miniseries, but he seems to think this is the one that did it right.
I think we all knew the on set accidental shooting situation in New Mexico was going to result in much “right wing comedy”. Even so, I will never get over how sociopathic these people are.
If you hate Alec Baldwin so much you are willing to shit on a dead woman and her family, fuck you.
re: #59 Teddy’s Person
A THREE hour tour. What could go wrong? //
Heh! I guess that someone could do a tv show on it. It being 2021, though, it would likely be true.
re: #61 bratwurst
I think we all knew the on set accidental shooting situation in New Mexico was going to result in much “right wing comedy”. Even so, I will never get over how sociopathic these people are.
If you hate Alec Baldwin so much you are willing to shit on a dead woman and her family, fuck you.
That’s precisely what my Xtian relatives are doing on Facebook and Twitter….
re: #63 JOE 🥓
That’s precisely what my Xtian relatives are doing on Facebook and Twitter….
For how else would we know that they were filled with the love of Jay-zuss?
We all know they would immediately enjoin a law infringing on the sacred right to buy and possess guns.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) October 22, 2021
re: #24 jaunte
This crap is what destroyed my birth family. Hal Lindsay and his bunch of garbage started it and it went to total shit from there. I can’t forgive that. My mom has ptsd from childhood abuse from the Catholic Church and her parents and I think it made her vulnerable to a new “faith” with all the trappings to make everything everyone else’s fault. It’s also got a certain amount of feeling superior to others because they are chosen and safe and you aren’t. It’s gross and it pisses me off.
re: #57 DodgerFan1988
It’s sad that you’re so desperate that you have to work for an absurd propagandist. If only you were well enough to understand the need for vaccines, your life wouldn’t be a disaster.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 22, 2021
Has Texas already seceded, and I missed it? https://t.co/lVdyhpdE7O
— 🎈PennywiseDon’tPlayThat🎈 (@62cinmar) October 22, 2021
re: #69 No Malarkey!
Republicans will legally remove your right to be a human being, and they’ll celebrate doing it.
It’s Groundhog Day in Miami. Another disastrous silt breach from @MyFDOT_Miami construction site spewing tons of sediment into a gasping for breath dying #BiscayneBay. What will it take to get real corrective action here & shut down these sites ?!@CityofMiami @MiamiDadeCounty pic.twitter.com/pCVzreckHK
— Louis Aguirre (@LOUISAGUIRRE) October 22, 2021
re: #67 A Mom Anon
This crap is what destroyed my birth family. Hal Lindsay and his bunch of garbage started it and it went to total shit from there. I can’t forgive that. My mom has ptsd from childhood abuse from the Catholic Church and her parents and I think it made her vulnerable to a new “faith” with all the trappings to make everything everyone else’s fault. It’s also got a certain amount of feeling superior to others because they are chosen and safe and you aren’t. It’s gross and it pisses me off.
Oh that smug arrogance that Jay-Zuss makes them the Chosen Ones really pisses me off when it comes to my brainwashed relatives!
re: #69 No Malarkey!
Well why not? They’ve pretty much eliminated democratic representation and abortion. SCOTUS has done Jack to stop them.
After utterly bombing in a real job on a campaign, Briahna Gray reached a fork in the road:
Work to become politically competent or just go back to grifting the most gullible leftovers from the Bernie ‘16/‘20 database.
She chose Column B. Performative clownery. https://t.co/YMNOXnHEbb— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 22, 2021
Tennessee:
Please watch these 2 minutes.
“You can’t censor when it’s uncomfortable for you. THAT’S JUST LIFE. Life is uncomfortable.”
School board member Karista Jones has some words for Ronda Thurman, who’s trying to ban books mostly by black authors.pic.twitter.com/qKw9QDSLT6— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 22, 2021
re: #69 No Malarkey!
All things considered, Andrew Jackson should rank with Reagan and Ayn Rand as a present-day conservative icon. It might therefore be useful to remind them of what he said about the South Carolina Nullifiers:
“If one drop of blood be shed there in defiance of the laws of the United States, I shall hang the first man of them I can lay my hand on from the first tree I can reach.”
I’ve never heard someone who has actually had shingles say that they would rather have shingles than the vaccine.
— Sapient Hominid (@wedietz) October 22, 2021
This post on LinkedIn made me so happy pic.twitter.com/HMg1KVgFPl
— Melinda Byerley (@MJB_SF) October 22, 2021
re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ve had shingles.
I used to say that I would not wish it on my worst enemy…until I see how Republicans are hell bent on turning us into a fascist state.
John Eastman wouldn’t last 1 minute with a shingles attack.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
It’s on max? So I don’t have to pay for it (other than what I pay already)? Cool. Buddy went to the theater and lasted 30 minutes.
re: #15 JOE 🥓
Eastman is a goddamned fucking liar. He wrote the plan. He was in Bannon’s war room. He committed sedition. Put him before the 1/6 Committee, then indict him on sedition charges and disbar him!
Eastman Insists He Def Doesn’t Believe Memo’s ‘Crazy’ Plots To Steal Election Were Real
BULLSHIT!
And DO NOT FORGET what that racist wrote alleging Kamala was ineligible to be Vice-President!
Did he sign it?
re: #18 jaunte
“…In a poll of restaurant workers from earlier this year, eight in 10 said that they had experienced hostile behavior from customers who didn’t want to follow COVID-19 safety protocols. About half said they were considering leaving their jobs, and of that group, four in 10 said this was because of customer hostility and harassment.
A survey of restaurant workers released in August yielded similar results - more than two-thirds said a key reason for the labor shortage was customer disrespect.”
news.yahoo.com
Like school board meetings
Easy targets
Wow. The latest allegation is that Facebook specifically EXEMPTED hate sites like Breitbart “News” from policy enforcement.
New whistleblower claims Facebook allowed hate, illegal activity to go uncheckedhttps://t.co/ekqw2qOhl3 pic.twitter.com/iGbUcQy5Wm— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2021
re: #83 Charles Johnson
Waiting for the next revelation that shows how much Russian money is invested in Facebook…and Twitter…
re: #83 Charles Johnson
I want to start a fight with Steve Bannon…tired of people telling me I look like him.
re: #84 JOE 🥓
Waiting for the next revelation that shows how much Russian money is invested in Facebook…and Twitter…
It wouldn’t hurt to take a look.
re: #3 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I hope she’s not going to kill a possum! How does she have a dead possum just lying around? 😂
re: #70 jaunte
Republicans will legally remove your right to be a human being, and they’ll celebrate doing it.
The cruelty is the point (TM).
re: #73 Patricia Kayden
Well why not? They’ve pretty much eliminated democratic representation and abortion. SCOTUS has done Jack to stop them.
Except on rare occasions (and don’t forget they didn’t hear Trump suits to overthrow the election and they did right by the ACA), the current SCOTUS will do evil on almost all major cases. If only Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh could be struck by a bolt of lightning, or at least have federal charges that force them to depart the bench. Maybe Thomas involvement with his wife’s role on January 6? Kavanaugh with some financial irregularity? Alito because he is terrible beyond words, and maybe involvement with January 6?
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
I hope she’s not going to kill a possum! How does she have a dead possum just lying around? 😂
check the roadsides…
And that raises the question of whether Twitter is doing something similar, with people like Jack Posobiec and Mike Cernovich, who have been promulgating hatred and lies in this bird app unchecked for years. https://t.co/I9373Ux6bq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2021
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
I hope she’s not going to kill a possum! How does she have a dead possum just lying around? 😂
Road kill?
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
I hope she’s not going to kill a possum! How does she have a dead possum just lying around? 😂
Doesn’t everybody keep a few dead possums around for emergencies?
dangermom was 93 on wednesday
we’re celebrating tonight
taking over parmesan chicken along with rice and scallions
house is kinda smokey right now…
re: #91 Charles Johnson
It’s like I fucking said. The right wing noise machine makes a ton of money for these tech companies. They don’t want to kill their golden goose, so the rest of us have to put up with all the nazi assholes while the companies give us lip service about “trying to make the platform a safer place.”
re: #93 Charles Johnson
Doesn’t everybody keep a few dead possums around for emergencies?
I’m not sure they’re dead, but yes.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
Doesn’t everybody keep a few dead possums around for emergencies?
Just check to make sure they are actually dead. Possums are sneaky that way.
re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg
Just check to make sure they are actually dead. Possums are sneaky that way.
it’s right there in the job description
This got me…
A public apology to my dog, Dexy. We were trying to remove a tick from her that turned out to be one of her nipples. pic.twitter.com/m4ZDw4Attx
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) October 22, 2021
And for that matter, how can Twitter justify allowing Donald Trump’s son to continue spreading the same garbage his father was permanently banned for? Maybe it has something to do with his 7 million followers, hmm?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2021
re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s what I was worried about when my dog brought a dead possum into my house. Thankfully, it was dead. Terrifying times.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
Doesn’t everybody keep a few dead possums around for emergencies?
Or revenge.
re: #102 Charles Johnson
or let Liz be tfg’s megaphone there
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
I hope she’s not going to kill a possum! How does she have a dead possum just lying around? 😂
Fuckin’ Terry again…
This is infuriating. The film/tv business has to change, and change now. https://t.co/qnPdcZknSs
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) October 22, 2021
Bob Newhart pays tribute to the late “Newhart” star Peter Scolari: “We were friends and colleagues for over 40 years… He was a fantastic person, and it was a joy to work together. He will be sorely missed and his passing at 66 is much too early.” https://t.co/7YVmYCBl0N pic.twitter.com/jUXOOrGPLs
— Variety (@Variety) October 22, 2021
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
So sad to hear this!! Way too young.
New via CNN: Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark to testify before Jan. 6 committee next Friday after being subpoenaed for testimony
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) October 22, 2021
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
From @ IA_Members. “From a member of the #Rust camera team, this was not an isolated incident” pic.twitter.com/Y1ZMqL6dDv
— Cybel Martin (@CybelDP) October 22, 2021
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
On any of these, don’t be frustrated if all any of these people do is sit there and plead the 5th the whole time.
jeebus
Well it looks like Ben Domenech‘s plans for Meaghan‘s political future just got incinerated. pic.twitter.com/AvVSPLaw1e
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 22, 2021
Last time DOJ indicted & tried a witness for contempt of Congress after the witness defied a Congressional subpoena was in 1983: Reagan EPA official Rita Lavelle. It took just 1 week for DOJ to indict Lavelle after she was referred by Congress. DOJ, if you’re listening …
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) October 22, 2021
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
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My brother in DC says he gets the same results when searching for Korean restaurants…
Google Maps tries to use photos attached to reviews as photos of menu items and this is what happens for a cat cafe lol pic.twitter.com/coS8lKQJbk
— ︀ (@tjhorner) October 17, 2021
Hedgehogs were nicknamed JACK SHARPNAILS in 18th century English. pic.twitter.com/lxUnF9RifK
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) October 22, 2021
Project Stardust: A Photographer Scours Rooftops Across the Globe for Minuscule Cosmic Particles
thisiscolossal.com
According to Olso-based photographer and researcher Jon Larsen, the most exotic particles from across the universe are likely hiding in a rain gutter or scattered among debris on rooftops. Larsen, who works in the geosciences department at the University of Oslo, has been at the forefront of micrometeorite discovery since 2009 when “a shiny black dot suddenly appeared on my white veranda table while I was having strawberries for breakfast.”
The photos are fascinating: the burnt dot on the dust dot of unbelievably ancient particles blows my mind.
The Swivel-Eyed Cretins https://t.co/eFweShIvWj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 22, 2021
re: #121 Charles Johnson
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This group? “The Losers”…..??
I hate to say it, but I recognize everyone there by sight, except for the guy with the beard standing at back.
For those watching the medical stats, have the reports of pumpkin-carving amputations started to come in yet?
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
Meghan versus Drumpf.
Rooting for disabling injuries on both sides.
From the Wiki:
The use of strikebreakers is a worldwide phenomenon; however, many countries have passed laws outlawing their use, as they undermine the collective bargaining process. As of 2002, strikebreakers were used far more frequently in the United States than in other industrialized countries.
America, FUCK YEAH!
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re: #121 Charles Johnson
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The Fraudulent Five.
Like others here, I don’t recognize the guy standing next to MTG. Given his attire and his tattoos, he might not be a member of Congress.
If we come to find out MTG planted those damn bombs I’m gonna be pissed the FBI let that human Vienna sausage troll the US Congress for the last god damn year. @RepMTG
— NoelCaslerComedy (@caslernoel) October 22, 2021
re: #123 Jay C
This group? “The Losers”…..??
I hate to say it, but I recognize everyone there by sight, except for the guy with the beard standing at back.
Let’s see. We have:
A.) One greasy spoon truck stop waitress
B.) Pink Yondu (” I’m Mary Poppins, y’all! “)
C.) One sleazy televangelist looking f*cker with a thing for the underaged.
D.) Edith Prickley ‘s daughter with slightly less tacky taste in clothing.
E.) A former Jeopardy producer auditioning to play Fonzie playing Professor X in “What If?”
We call them “The Aristocrats.”
A Missouri Republican. Please watch this. And wait for his very last words. This is not SNL… https://t.co/7KJqwRgnj5
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 22, 2021
re: #132 A Three Hour Tour
Changing the punch line to “The Aristocraps” is worth considering.
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
Coke adds life … like vaccines.
It’s the real thing … like vaccines to Covid.
Scientists at the University of Utah (UoU) and Spain’s Miguel Hernandez University have given artificial vision to a blind woman through a brain implant. Surgeons implanted the Utah Electrode Array (UEA) into Berna Gómez’s visual cortex; she wore eyeglasses with a video camera, and software encoded and transmitted the camera’s visual data to the UEA. The array stimulated neurons to generate phosphenes, seen as white points of light, to produce an image. Gómez successfully identified lines, shapes, and simple letters evoked by different stimulation patterns. UoU’s Dr. Eduardo Fernández said, “These results are very exciting because they demonstrate both safety and efficacy.” Fernández added, “We have taken a significant step forward, showing the potential of these types of devices to restore functional vision for people who have lost their vision.”
re: #135 A Three Hour Tour
Coke adds life … like vaccines.
It’s the real thing … like vaccines to Covid.
Only if it’s imported from Mexico (Cane sugar, not that fructose crap).
re: #115 Barefoot Grin
I’m trying to find a rag to sop up the beer I just spewed laughing at that.
Freakin’ hat trick! There’s three fucks I don’t have to give:
Domenech
Trump
John McCain’s daughter.
Coke sort of underwrote my education. Robert Woodruff donated tons of money to the school allowing for my financial aid (to some extent; I still had a $15K loan to pay). In return he made the school promise not to spend a cent on varsity sports.
re: #139 Barefoot Grin
Coke sort of underwrote my education. Robert Woodruff donated tons of money to the school allowing for my financial aid (to some extent; I still had a $15K loan to pay). In return he made the school promise not to spend a cent on varsity sports.
Why the ban on use for sports?
re: #137 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Only if it’s imported from Mexico (Cane sugar, not that fructose crap).
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And sold in proper glass bottles. I need to get me an old-fashioned bottle opener.
re: #141 A Three Hour Tour
And sold in proper glass bottles. I need to get me an old-fashioned bottle opener.
If it didn’t come from the soda fountain at the drug store, it’s newfangled junk.
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
Why the ban on use for sports?
I don’t entirely recall. My recollection is that he came from a tough background, got into the school and saw lots of profligate behavior from his classmates that must have included obsession with sport, and then had to drop out. He later emerged as the key guy who took Coke global. I may have that wrong, but that’s my memory.
Facebook spokespeople parroting NRA talking points to avoid culpability for their role in enabling the attack on the Capitol is just so gross pic.twitter.com/UUG8YJqap6
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) October 22, 2021
I’m gonna say it
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KFC’s classic chicken sandwich is better than Popeyes
I can’t offer an opinion on either’s spicy version though.
New from the Facebook leaks, by @BrandyZadrozny:
Facebook staffers created a Trump-loving, Fox News-watching fake identity.
The account went wherever the algorithm told it to go.
It went full-on QAnon in two days.
Facebook told nobody about this.https://t.co/8XonN3glrV— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 22, 2021
Regarding the movie set gun incident, I’m not saying this happened but I am saying we need to let the investigators do their thing, before blaming anyone. Just my $.02.
re: #142 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If it didn’t come from the soda fountain at the drug store, it’s newfangled junk.
If it doesn’t contain cocaine …
My review of Dune: “Wait, come back! You’re like halfway through the book!” Oh, and now a google search reveals that was apparently part I. Thanks for nothing!
Y’all leave Ohio alone. They wouldn’t know. They weren’t there. #FirstInFlight ✈️https://t.co/bKL1TlT1Z8
— NCDOT (@NCDOT) October 21, 2021
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Shut up, NC. You can’t fault a couple Ohio boys for wanting soft ground to land their asses after testing their prototype built in a Dayton bicycle shop.
This license plate is an Ohio-family dispute. https://t.co/LMWDDAHKDV— Micah Derry (@MicahDerry) October 22, 2021
re: #146 jaunte
That explains a few people that I know.
Heading into the weekend like an autonomous rover on Mars.https://t.co/cLIxFOhLza pic.twitter.com/O7uPeC9NNb
— NASA (@NASA) October 22, 2021
Now this is a super spreader event https://t.co/fGF7M49Nyl
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) October 22, 2021
Dear Washington Post Toasties!
All you had to do was look at my brainwashed relative’s Facebook and Twitter posts from Election Day to 1/6 to see how Facebook and Twitter whipped up the suckers to participate in the failed coup!
Toxic grifters sponsoring the Nashville conference:
“…The Bollingers and others were already in the business of selling vaccine disinformation before the coronavirus began its inexorable march across the globe. But the pandemic presented the couple and others a huge opportunity to expand their reach.
The Bollingers aligned themselves with right-wing supporters of former President Donald Trump — establishing a Super PAC to push what they call “medical freedom,” participating in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and promoting lies like the assertion that the election was stolen from Trump.
apnews.com
‘…”If we’re superspreaders, we’re superspreaders of the truth,” Charlene Bollinger says. “We have countless testimonies of people that are alive today because of our work, and this is straight from heaven. God has put us on this Earth for such a time as this.”
The Bollingers got their start by promoting unproven alternatives to chemotherapy. Then they cashed in on their DVDs that push falsehoods about vaccines.’
From a Texan living through our collective hell. pic.twitter.com/pu6dKCfN9U
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 22, 2021
re: #155 jaunte
If they won’t vaccinate, this is the next best thing. They wanted to kill their way through the pandemic from the beginning, now they can get together and have it their way.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 22, 2021
re: #159 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Fine. If those Hate Radio Jackoffs want to get together and spread the Covid like their pal Praeger, let them. They want the Darwin treatment so bad well who am I to deny them?
re: #160 JOE 🥓
Fine. If those Hate Radio Jackoffs want to get together and spread the Covid like their pal Praeger, let them. They want the Darwin treatment so bad well who am I to deny them?
They should just lock them in the conference room for 14 days and drop bags of Chik-fil-A through the ceiling.
re: #161 darthstar
They should just lock them in the conference room for 14 days and drop bags of Chik-fil-A through the ceiling.
C’mon! Give them some variety! Add In-N-Out Burgers to the mix!
Two men use technology to understand each other, I love everything about this pic.twitter.com/E64zytsPGW
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) October 22, 2021
🎥 tiktok: shakafarmshttps://t.co/MC9qNem5Dk pic.twitter.com/LhXVXrkrJn
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) October 23, 2021
It’s a good thing I got banned from Twitter a few months ago or I’d certainly get banned for going to every Republican and saying, “MATT GAETZ FUCKS CHILDREN AND YOU DEFEND HIM”…
A trove of internal documents turned over to the SEC provides new details of Facebook’s role in fomenting the storming of the U.S. Capitol, the Washington Post reports.
“Facebook has never publicly disclosed what it knows about how its platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, helped fuel that day’s mayhem. It rejected its own Oversight Board’s recommendation that it study how its policies contributed to the violence and has yet to fully comply with requests for data from the congressional commission investigating the events.”
“But thousands of pages of internal company documents disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission by the whistleblower Frances Haugen offer important new evidence of Facebook’s role in the events
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Something like 40% or more of those here illegally are on visa overstays, not because they crossed the border.
You can’t stop visa overstays with a militarized border. In fact, the militarization of the border has caused more illegal immigration, not less. It means more people are stuck on both sides with hard choices in ability to get back and forth.
Visa overstays? Yeah, Congress could fix that with more immigration judges. Same with improving other immigration issues.
Want to deal with the border? Start with Congressional inaction.
Congress could have solved this years ago, but the GOP blocked it from enactment because they saw it as a wedge issue to keep in their hip pocket.
There are times when you get home from a Friday night out thinking “why am I single?” and then you reach into your coat pocket and discover that your keys are covered in macaroni cheese due to an unfortunate pocket pie mishap and oh aye that’s why.
— Donaeld The Unready (@donaeldunready) October 23, 2021
No shelter pet should go hungry, especially not when pet stores nationwide are throwing away surplus food.
Proud to introduce the #BARKAct to provide liability waivers to donating pet suppliers. It’s a win-win—we’ll reduce food waste and support animal shelters in need. pic.twitter.com/GyR4God4LQ— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) October 22, 2021
We just introduced the #BARKAct in the House, and I had to tell my puppy, Harley, about it. She thought our bi-paw-tisan bill was just paw-fect! pic.twitter.com/vumCTqIkFy
— Rep. Lucy McBath (@RepLucyMcBath) October 22, 2021
“I have come to think of what those on the right like J.D. Vance are doing now as ‘vice signaling,’” says @chrislhayes. “‘Look at me, I’m a loud, ostentatious jerk.’ But that is increasingly what it means to be a right-wing politician in America these days.” pic.twitter.com/QdGEnxY3EH
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) October 23, 2021
Why did Facebook allegedly create a white list for far right politicians and personalities, and let them violate their so-called “community standards” with impunity? Because the right generates an incredible amount of bullshit every day and that makes Mark a rich boy.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 23, 2021
That’s tart!
Lemonade Berry is a native woody shrub that produces small fruit or berries with a tart flavor like a lemon. The California ground squirrels at @CABRILLONPS like to munch on these pucker-inducing snacks. pic.twitter.com/tpNtWhNqXG— US Department of the Interior (@Interior) October 23, 2021
re: #170 Charles Johnson
So what you’re saying is, the content these treasonweasels generate WOULD get them banned, if Facebook wasn’t playing favorites? That makes a lot of things make a lot more sense.
re: #172 Dopamine Fish
It’s all about the eyeballs.
Facebook could have banned all of these people for TOS violations, but it would have put a crimp on their revenues, and that was more important than everything else.
re: #173 lawhawk
It’s all about the eyeballs.
Facebook could have banned all of these people for TOS violations, but it would have put a crimp on their revenues, and that was more important than everything else.
Yeah, the picture has become crystal clear for everybody now. I admit it took me a while to see it, but they’ve finally laid everything out in the open. They’re literally acting as right-wing media, favoring the partisan hacks, for no reason other than the outrage drives clicks and thus revenue. They let themselves become willing tools of radicalization and the destruction of civil discourse in this country out of greed. Fucking assholes. I hope they’re happy with their riches when they die.
Not sure what everyone else’s experience with weighted blankets are, but I started using one this week, and have seen a marked difference and improvement in my sleep. Far less restless sleeping, and waking up more rested, which is a pretty impressive thing all things considered.
I got a 12 pound weight twin blanket, and the mrs has her own. We also have a regular comforter to go along with it.
Definitely not a fad. There’s definitely something to it.
re: #174 Dopamine Fish
Yeah, the picture has become crystal clear for everybody now. I admit it took me a while to see it, but they’ve finally laid everything out in the open. They’re literally acting as right-wing media, favoring the partisan hacks, for no reason other than the outrage drives clicks and thus revenue. They let themselves become willing tools of radicalization and the destruction of civil discourse in this country out of greed. Fucking assholes. I hope they’re happy with their riches when they die.
My question is a ‘chicken or egg’ situation. Do right wing clicks actually create more revenue and thus get preferential treatment? Or are they getting more clicks because they’ve gotten privileged treatment and are basically promoted by the algorithm? I seem to remember some years back that even before it was apparent that social media was tapping into right-wing outrage that many Facebook execs were heavily pushing to promote conservative outlets above all else.
re: #175 lawhawk
Not sure what everyone else’s experience with weighted blankets are, but I started using one this week, and have seen a marked difference and improvement in my sleep. Far less restless sleeping, and waking up more rested, which is a pretty impressive thing all things considered.
I got a 12 pound weight twin blanket, and the mrs has her own. We also have a regular comforter to go along with it.
Definitely not a fad. There’s definitely something to it.
My problems with it became obvious when you had to remove the outer liner and wash it and replace it of the inner liner. I can’t do that kind of complex maintenance. Otherwise, the weighted blanket idea is amazing.
Today, the House passed a bill I sponsored to support millions of moms who need to pump breast milk while on the job. I urge the Senate to send it to POTUS’ desk. It’s past time to close a loophole in current law & ensure returning to work is not a barrier to breastfeeding. pic.twitter.com/EUGogvu8nB
— Rep. Lauren Underwood (@RepUnderwood) October 22, 2021
re: #174 Dopamine Fish
Yeah, the picture has become crystal clear for everybody now. I admit it took me a while to see it, but they’ve finally laid everything out in the open. They’re literally acting as right-wing media, favoring the partisan hacks, for no reason other than the outrage drives clicks and thus revenue. They let themselves become willing tools of radicalization and the destruction of civil discourse in this country out of greed. Fucking assholes. I hope they’re happy with their riches when they die.
You can’t take it with you
You’ve got to be kitten me, this is otterly adorable. pic.twitter.com/n0VCo7jvYu
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) October 21, 2021
niterz, lizardz!
1/ Facebook whistleblower @FrancesHaugen said she made copies of internal company research. We found examples from our past investigations that bear out Haugen’s own findings, lending further credibility to her efforts. https://t.co/S4dzTPwcbs
BEST BOOSTER? Mix it up — but depends which you had first. Switching vaccine for the booster seems to be the best—Pfizer to Moderna booster, Moderna to Pfizer for booster, and J&J should switch to Moderna / Pfizer booster. HT to @ScientistSwanda. #COVID19 #BoosterShots #vaccinate pic.twitter.com/Yw0R6atC7i
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 22, 2021
Anti-mask activist Marlena Pavlos-Hackney told the Zeeland (MI) School Board that she contacted the local Sheriff to stop their “unconstitutional” mandate, but he wouldn’t help her, so she is going to call in the Michigan Militia. pic.twitter.com/AQVMAnIlwj
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 22, 2021
There’s a pretty simple reason why almost every case of supposed voter impersonation turns out to BS: stealing even one vote is incredibly difficult. And no one is going to take such an incredible risk for such an insignificant gain. Except Trump fans, of course. https://t.co/Gzitb6drF6
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 23, 2021
St. Louis’ power company is, um…
mining Bitcoin
so
😂 f**k it, sure, why not?🤡 https://t.co/WLhthZm1TG— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) October 22, 2021
Ameren’s getting a half-billion in Federal subsidies while manufacturing a money laundering instrument.
How does @USTreasury feel about that? https://t.co/933okOVCO1— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) October 22, 2021
re: #23 Charles Johnson
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Two Dune related stories:
1. My sister told me this evening that her girl friend who has lived in Madrid since the 70’s saw the film with her husband in a Madrid theater back on Sept 29th and both of them loved it. Few customers were attending and all but one wore a mask.
2. An acquaintance who is currently visiting Dallas for a BBQ competition called earlier today and told me that a friend of his who lives in Waco rented out a movie theater there to show the film and he was joining him. My acquaintance then posted on FB tonight that he loved the movie. Full disclosure: He was a big fan of the original 1984 film .
I completely support this https://t.co/mllqGnfBWG
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) October 23, 2021
Let’s envision three different types: a intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM), a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), and a fractional orbital bombardment system (FOBS).
— Joshua H. Pollack (@Joshua_Pollack) October 22, 2021
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re: #192 Dread Pirate Ron
A small plug here for the diagram put together by my colleague @AdMeara, which aims to make these differences (and similarities) clearer: https://t.co/f9nUHKY8PP pic.twitter.com/TakpDjrwWT
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) October 22, 2021
https://t.co/k8EDQ87OMP pic.twitter.com/2aRRC8ixfz
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) October 22, 2021
Night Lizards. Movie night with my gal. Sleep well my friends.
re: #192 Dread Pirate Ron
That was a really good explainer. Thanks for posting!
I love being able to post this at 33,000 ft…
Another Qatar Airways flight arrived in Doha on Oct 20 with U.S. citizens and LPRs on-board. The United States has facilitated the departure of 234 U.S. citizens and 144 LPRs from Kabul since August 31. Our efforts continue and we will provide updates as they are available.
— Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) October 22, 2021
re: #187 jaunte
One of my all-time favorite songs.
it’s almost as if…and hear me out now…the right wing freak out of the moment (such as CRT now, which no one on the right had heard of a year ago) has always just been made up propagandistic BS that right wing elites shamelessly promote for clicks and $$$. https://t.co/MfqRGDIjMj
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) October 22, 2021
So, it didn’t start when they complied with a directive to stop their perfectly serviceable cars for a red light? Or to use lights at night? Or to drive on the right hand side of the road? Just how goddamn stupid are these people? Since they are dying in wholesale lots over this bullshit, the answer to that is obvious.
re: #203 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
re: #182 jaunte
I just tried to share this on Facebook and was IMMEDIATELY banned for 24 hours “due to unusual activity on your account”. Zuckerberg is watching….
— Bruce N Morgan (@nagromone) October 23, 2021
Does anyone here have a Facebook account they don’t mind being locked out of for a day? I’d like to know if this is true but I’m not willing to be locked out until Sunday night, because I don’t want to test if my Quest 2 is still functional during a timeout.
re: #175 lawhawk
Not sure what everyone else’s experience with weighted blankets are, but I started using one this week, and have seen a marked difference and improvement in my sleep. Far less restless sleeping, and waking up more rested, which is a pretty impressive thing all things considered.
I got a 12 pound weight twin blanket, and the mrs has her own. We also have a regular comforter to go along with it.
Definitely not a fad. There’s definitely something to it.
I didn’t get one, but I have discovered i sleep better with an extra blanket on my legs for the weight.
re: #206 Belafon
I have 45 pounds of sleepy bed-hogging Brittany dog when I need weight on my legs at night…
Also, I will never be able to top this, the most terrifying costume that I have ever worn: pic.twitter.com/qC2xCJMbPE
— Gremliny Nussboo (@emilynussbaum) October 23, 2021
re: #175 lawhawk
I’ve been using one for a couple of years now when my anxiety and panic disorder gets bad. They are amazing. I was very skeptical at first, but they were developed for autistic kids initially, and lots of parents swore by them. Best purchase I made for myself in years. The key is for the blanket to be no more than 10 percent of your body weight to be comfortable and for kids it’s a safety thing too.
I had to pick up my wife’s prescription at the medical center today so I hopped into the flu shot room and got my first “old people’s” dose.
Authoritarians always spawn male imitators in terms of body language, performance, and attitude. Remember @mikepompeo’s “swagger”? Now it’s @GovRonDeSantis. Read #Strongmen to learn how the system populates with these “little Mussolinis.” https://t.co/O7ctXxZ5DW
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 22, 2021
My Astros are in the World Series again and the Yankees aren’t.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Just watched it at the movies. Not horrible, but needed to lose 20 minutes for the content it had.
re: #84 JOE 🥓
Waiting for the next revelation that shows how much Russian money is invested in Facebook…and Twitter…
Doesn’t matter. It’s a public company now that’s printing money. FB’s biggest fear is losing eyeballs because the younger generation doesn’t think it’s cool. Second biggest fear is a US government crack down/break-up. They couldn’t care less about foreign money.
re: #215 Ace Rothstein
My Astros are in the World Series again and the Yankees aren’t.
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yeah i love dune. dune 55 in a school zone
— raandy (@randygdub) October 22, 2021
I skied on Mon. Wed. and Fri. this week. All three days I both alpine skied and telemark skied. I can see myself getting into trouble on the Kästle piste skis I got, fuckers are Ferraris, capable of angled high speed turns with little to no chatter. I gotta watch myself on those.
re: #218 JC1
Could it have been sabotage by a unie?
That’s my fear. Not necessarily to cause harm but just to create issues. But the replacements were too incompetent or too lazy to do their jobs properly and so someone died.
re: #221 teleskiguy
These are the skis I’m talking about. Got a great deal on them at the ski shop I used to work for. High performance machines, you have to fill them with premium. First pair of alpine skis I’ve owned in over a decade and a half.
Hey, if I’m getting back into something I haven’t been into in many years I might as well get the good shit.
re: #214 ozharas
Thanks for letting me know about this! I suspect that this will not resolve the ongoing Charlie Foxtrot. But, hopefully it will help.
At least until some idiot finds out why there was a 2 container limit to stacking.
I recall seeing an estimate of how many millions of tons of shipping was sitting and waiting in front of Long Beach and it was huge! And, iirc, the thread estimated 500,000 containers waiting unloading.
24 to 48 inches of snow possible on I-80 at Donner Pass.
Dude.
Most snow forecasts are “2 to 4 inches,” “4 to 8 inches,” I get excited when they bandy about the “8 to 16 inches.” “24 to 48” ???
Damn, dude.
re: #228 teleskiguy
Most snow forecasts are “2 to 4 inches,” “4 to 8 inches,” I get excited when they bandy about the “8 to 16 inches.” “24 to 48” ???
Damn, dude.
And at Donner Pass. Hmmm.
re: #198 Dread Pirate Ron
LPR - Legal Permanent Residents
As you well know, the government loves itself a bunch of tla’s (Three Letter Acronyms).
re: #229 sagehen
And at Donner Pass. Hmmm.
NWS says stoopid heavy snow above 8,000 ft. So yeah, Donner Pass might just get deluged with rain.
Oh, it went over my head for a second. Donner Pass. Heavy snow. Didn’t make the connection there for a sec.
Who’s hungry?
re: #215 Ace Rothstein
My Astros are in the World Series again and the Yankees aren’t.
Good morning from Minute Maid Park. Here’s our story on the #Astros, baseball’s greatest villains, returning to the World Series: https://t.co/mAzk2jkRTM #ALCS #RedSox
— Ken Davidoff (@KenDavidoff) October 23, 2021
re: #231 teleskiguy
NWS says stoopid heavy snow above 8,000 ft. So yeah, Donner Pass might just get deluged with rain.
The summit of Donner Pass is at 7,000 feet. So, we’ll see. I-80 has been closed off and on in and around Truckee for a couple of days.
MSNBC’s Ari Melber had Historian Tim Snyder on Friday evening. Snyder studies how countries turn authoritarian.
Melber asked Snyder if Snyder thought it possible that the US might go down that path. Snyder replied that it is ongoing right now.
Snyder also mentioned “The Administrative State”, which he described as a Russian concept. Basically Snyder described it as the idea that voting was one thing. But that “The Administrative State” is what counts the votes and determines the vote results.
All I could think of was the Herodotus quote:
“The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.”
(Basically, to know what is going to happen, but not to be able to do anything about.)
Glad to see Twitter come to its senses with DPRK News Service.
Marshal Kim Jong-un effortlessly launches into 473 m glide with precision landing, shattering records. pic.twitter.com/x4Hzze34Dd
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 23, 2021
re: #236 teleskiguy
The summit of Donner Pass is at 7,000 feet. So, we’ll see. I-80 has been closed off and on in and around Truckee for a couple of days.
“They sing of Darcy Farrow where the Truckee runs down…”
Reportedly a true story.
Well, except that she didn’t fall off her pony, she was actually kicked in the head.
And that Vandemeer did not commit suicide. In fact he didn’t exist.
Because Darcy Farrow was 12 years old at the time. And actually she recovered.
By the way, her name was actually Darcy Gillette. And it probably did not happen in Nevada at all.
But other than that, it’s a true story.
G’Night all, time for me to head to bed.
Let me leave you with this:
I had a Slovakian friend who was a sound engineer…
and a Czech one too, a Czech one too.
Old primary school classmate (seriously, Autumn and I were classmates in like, the first grade) just got honored.
OMG! @Mabelina82 did it, Teacher of the Year!
I’ve known Autumn since we were little kids, she’s one of those rare breeds of teacher that is absolutely engrossed in her work and cares deeply about her students. She instills in the youth a lifelong love of learning. ❤️ https://t.co/xJITgkKRqs— ballfootski (@ballfootski) October 23, 2021
re: #226 teleskiguy
24 to 48 inches of snow possible on I-80 at Donner Pass.
Dude.
I was snowshoeing at Echo Summit one winter and overnight we got 48” of snow. As we slept in the tent the snow buried it, as we moved we packed the snow above us. By morning we were trying to sleep under about 200 lbs of snow each. we had to swim through the snow to undo the tent tie-downs, it took 30 minutes to find our snowshoes, hiking out we sank 2 feet into the snow and each time we lifted our foot there was a foot of snow on our snowshoes. Finally we got to a road that was plowed the day before and was much easier to walk on. That’s the closest to death I’ve been. I caught my socks on fire in front of the fireplace at the tavern on the highway. My feet were frozen and I couldn’t feel the heat. took off my socks and I had ice between my toes.
So then we had to dig out the Suburban that had been buried from snowplow spray. We dug and dug this 8 foot mound of snow only to find out it was a Yugo, then we looked down the road to this 16 foot mound of snow. Yep, “mother fucker.” It took hours of digging and a $20 bill to the plowman to plow out in front so we had less to dig.
re: #242 Dread Pirate Ron
It’s no wonder why The Donner Party was such a calamity, and still talked about 175 some odd years after it happened. They saw what you saw. You were prepared, in a different time, with roads and shit.
Glad you made it!
I ordered a bike trunk bag. I dunno what carbon leather is but it gots it.
re: #244 Dread Pirate Ron
First off, YES it is leather. What our manufacturer has done is taken a nice supple hide and laminated a black nylon weave to the top that has a herringbone pattern that matches true carbon fiber. Why didn’t they use real carbon? Simple, when real carbon fiber was tried as a laminate, it had a tendency to fray and scuff. This eventually left it looking like an old sweater with those funky little fuzzy things all over it. The custom made black nylon doesn’t do that and holds up very well to constant use.
Candace Owens says she was victimized yesterday by a twitter/media conspiracy because we are so “fearful of an awakening” that her “very powerful monologue” would’ve created, that we sabotaged her credibility by only reporting the part about invading Australia. pic.twitter.com/GhOQCOAqke
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 23, 2021
re: #246 Belafon
Oh that gasbag NEVER SHUTS THE FUCK UP!
And the cops get onto the woman for cussing:
Woman calls out white cops for arresting Black man instead of the white guys who went after him. They let him go. She’s a hero. #BLM#DemVoice1 #ONEV1 #Dems4USA #FRESH #ResistanceUnited https://t.co/5WW9jBDsup
— Natalie (@Nat4Democracy) October 22, 2021
MTG: “My gynecologist recognized me at the supermarket today.”
Bobert: “You’re gonna have to start wearing longer skirts!”— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) October 22, 2021
I guess my sense of humor is not up to speed.
I’m a constituent of Boebert, been paying attention to that nutcase for much longer than she’s been a congresswoman. I hate her fucking guts. That said. How is this shit funny? Explain the joke. Because I don’t think this is funny.
— ballfootski (@ballfootski) October 23, 2021
I’m fucking alone apparently, on the outside of an inside joke, I guess. Because every response to this tweet is people LOL’ing in approval.
Sara Blakely sold fax machines door-to-door and started Spanx with $5,000 in savings & no experience.
She never raised money & has now sold a majority stake in the brand at a $1.2 billion valuation.
The best part?
The gift she gave her 500+ employees to celebrate.
Amazing 🙏 pic.twitter.com/JvdpbgVWX5— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) October 23, 2021
Every day is an opportunity to explore and find new places ⚡️#WildGoose#ebikeplus #ottawa #daymak #electricbike #bicycletrip #mountainbike #adventurecycling #mtb #fromwhereiride #exploremore #bikepacking #worldbybike #traveladdict #adventurebybike #travelbybike pic.twitter.com/T8AimQUT3a
— Ebike Plus (@plus_ebike) October 22, 2021
Sinchin’ with friends
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•#Aventon #MyAventon #Ebike #Ebikes #ElectricBike #Uphill #Fitness #ElectricBikeLife #ElectricBikeLovers #EbikeStyle #EbikeLife #EbikeAdventures #Ebikestagram #EbikeShop #Ebiker #Health #HealthyLifestyle #Bikeride #Bike #Bikelife pic.twitter.com/iXURzwXapH— Aventon (@AventonBikes) October 23, 2021
Short, tall, skinny and fat – e bikes certainly come in a range of different sizes, don’t they? The #electricfatbike in particular, is one we constantly keep coming back to, given how…https://t.co/QHlhhS7IzD
— E4TP (@E4TheP) October 22, 2021
A new series on Apple TV, ‘Invasion’. Alien invasion, pretty weird. Three episodes posted.
re: #256 Dread Pirate Ron
Alien invasion? Better get out the Slim Whitman album!
We have two Great Horned Owls in the neighborhood again. The first I’ve heard in 18 months. I’ve thought of getting an owl box to put in on my side of the neighbor’s oak tree that is pushing down my fence.
re: #252 teleskiguy
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I’m fucking alone apparently, on the outside of an inside joke, I guess. Because every response to this tweet is people LOL’ing in approval.
It’s a bad takeoff on an old blue joke.
Woman passes gynecologist on the street.
“Hi doc.”
“Oh are you a patient? I’m not good with faces”
re: #258 Dread Pirate Ron
Kills Martians every time.
re: #256 Dread Pirate Ron
A new series on Apple TV, ‘Invasion’. Alien invasion, pretty weird. Three episodes posted.
Is it along the kind of themes of, say, “V”?
Lin Wood is telling people on Telegram that he’s not voting again because it’s all rigged. These are some responses. pic.twitter.com/8ea3wcQLFW
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) October 23, 2021
re: #262 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Is it along the kind of themes of, say, “V”?
It’s hard to tell so far. No sightings of aliens, just weird events like meteors hitting the ground, power outages, strange events…
re: #225 ckkatz
At least until some idiot finds out why there was a 2 container limit to stacking.
There’s an old saying about red tape, that’s it’s red because it’s dyed in blood.
How strong are the pads the containers are being stacked on? Are they just compacted dirt or are they well-laid reinforced concrete, properly levelled? Are the pads strong enough to cope with a six-high stack of containers? Has the ground moved since it was laid out (and what happens if there’s an earthquake?)? Does the facility have mobile cranes that can safely lift containers to stack them six-high? Are the crane operators trained to do this safely while other people on the ground are moving around nearby?
I presume the six-high stack exemption will be limited to empty containers (which weigh about 2.5 tonnes each) just to get them out of the way for the moment. That is still risky but maybe the site operators won’t end up killing or crippling a bunch of people. Maybe.
He’s right
He doesn’t need Twitter if y’all keep sharing the crazy. You’re doing exactly what he wants.
— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) October 22, 2021
re: #264 Dread Pirate Ron
Well, it’s being trashed on IMDB, but the whiners appear to be the usual incels in pain about “PC”.
re: #263 Dangerman
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So, I had a dream the other night. Rush Limbaugh was there, and he had been nominated to sit on the USSC.
I hope this is not foreshadowing the next nominee for the court.
Troubled have been my dreams of late.
Four hours apart. pic.twitter.com/39AHuD6BIF
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) October 23, 2021
re: #270 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So, I had a dream the other night. Rush Limbaugh was there, and he had been nominated to sit on the USSC.
I hope this is not foreshadowing the next nominee for the court.
Depends on whether or not Breyer retires before the midterms, or if he decides to cling to office until he dies while the GOP controls the Senate.
There is no downside to anti-vaxxer public employees quitting instead of getting vaccinated.
— Ben Auslander (@Ben_Auslander) October 23, 2021
re: #274 No Malarkey!
There is no downside to anti-vaxxer public employees quitting instead of getting vaccinated.
And the no-vaccine service industry places that still want to pay garbage wages will get plenty of “I resigned due to principles” applicants!
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Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon’s open-source license with botched social network launch (The Register)
Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
A Florida man has been accused of breaking the copyleft license of Mastodon by running an online instance of the software without providing its source code as required.
And not only that, the real-estate baron and wannabe tech tycoon has been told he has a month to fall in line with the fine print or put himself potentially at risk further action.
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re: #225 ckkatz
At least until some idiot finds out why there was a 2 container limit to stacking.
According to Long Beach, it was to prevent things like blocking the view of the area, not anything to do with safety.
Former State Fair finance director to pay back $160,000 stolen from fair https://t.co/E3XpfksC66
— Senator Carol Blood (@senatorblood) October 23, 2021
Story time.
So every Friday, I do a class room wellness check. Just to make sure I know every student in the school. Every classroom is named after a University or College, Black and White schools. Today, I walked into “Howard University” classroom. I jokingly asked where is— 👑 Black Professor 👑 (@WonderKing82) October 23, 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - Less than a week after Gov. Pete Ricketts said there weren’t enough votes to call a special session of the Unicameral to discuss vaccination mandates, 26 Nebraska state senators are doing just that.State Sen. Ben Hansen and Robert Clements sent an email to their fellow senators asking them to support legislation banning government and educational entities in Nebraska from installing COVID-19 vaccine mandates. A similar ban signed into law in Iowa has prompted an ongoing legal battle with the ACLU of Iowa and a mother in Council Bluffs.
The Nebraska state senators, who are looking for enough support to call a special legislative session, say their goal is to protect workers from losing their jobs over such mandates.
State Sen. Carol Blood, who announced last month that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor, responded to the request asking that the senators also remove the legislation that makes Nebraska an “at-will” employment state.
“You can’t cherry-pick which part of that policy you want to honor and which part you don’t. If you are concerned about workers’ rights, you must be concerned about all of their rights including protecting LGBTQ rights.”
State Sen. Carol Blood
(more at WOWT-TV, Omaha)
Nebraska senators looking for special session on COVID-19 vaccine mandates
My state senator (Steve Erdman, District 47) is one of those who signed this crap letter for a special session. Twenty-six senators have signed it; it takes thirty-three to call a special session.
This crap is in the letter:
We want to be clear in the intent of calling this special session. It is not to affect mask mandates, question the science of vaccines, prevent schools from mandating current vaccinations to attend K-12 school, support the effectiveness of alternative treatments, say whether vaccines in general are good or bad or to consider any other non-relevant topics. It is solely to discuss and adopt legislation to prohibit employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccines and legislation to prohibit governmental and/or educational entities from mandating COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of receiving services.
If you want to ban vaccination mandates, you are questioning the science of vaccines. The Republican senators are lying to themselves as well as the public.
OAN Loses Appeal Against Rachel Maddow, Must Pay MSNBC at Least $250,000 https://t.co/jpR7H5h86B
— Greg Todd (@GregTodd_) October 23, 2021
re: #246 Belafon
Candace Owens says she was victimized yesterday by a twitter/media conspiracy because we are so “fearful of an awakening” that her “very powerful monologue” would’ve created, that we sabotaged her credibility by only reporting the part about invading Australia
Granted, there are plenty of cases where quotes are taken out of context, but I can hardly think of a context where advocating that we invade Australia is not bugnutz fuggin’ crayzee…
A firestorm ignited across the state, as the governor tries to mess with Nebraska’s socialist electric system.
Obscure state board seeks more authority over Nebraska public power districts (Omaha World-Herald)
TL;DR:
The board in question is the Nebraska Power Review Board, which has five members all appointed by the governor. Its purpose is to approve or deny the construction of new power plants, and decommissioning existing ones (such as coal-fired plants).
Public Power Districts have been moving away constructing new plants, in favour of buying electricity from privately-owend wind farms. Such contracts are not subject to the Power Review Board.
The leader of the board thinks it should extend its authority over those contracts.
The leader of the association representing all the public power districts, plus the elected heads of Omaha and Panhandle Public Power Districts, along with the Sierra Club, think this is a power-grab to take away local elected boards’ decision-making ability on where public power districts obtain their power (particularly wind, which is practically non-existent in Nebraska /s). To environmentalists, this looks like Pete Ricketts trying to promote coal and natural gas over wind.
The Power Review Board leader says they are concerned that by entering into such contracts, the public power districts could run into problems like Texas and Oklahoma faced over the bitter cold last winter. The difference is our public power districts actually winterise equipment; as it turns out, it occassionally gets cold here.
Best news all day!!!! https://t.co/jK69YZKySJ
— Free Belarus News (Eng.) (@BelarusMiniInfo) October 22, 2021
The Nebraska Panhandle Tropical Update:
Hurricane Rick has formed from the tropical wave which was off the southern coast of Mexico. Rick is expected to rapidly intensify to a major hurricane, and hurricane and tropical storm watches are in effect.
LOCATION…14.3N 101.5W
ABOUT 235 MI…380 KM S OF ZIHUATANEJO MEXICO
ABOUT 375 MI…600 KM SSE OF MANZANILLO MEXICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…75 MPH…120 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNW OR 330 DEGREES AT 6 MPH…9 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…990 MB…29.23 INCHES
The storm will plough through central Mexico, becoming an extra-tropical depression as it approaches the Texas Big Bend area.
KPA Navy patrols English Channel with impunity, regulating global trade and commerce. pic.twitter.com/ONWlfgFGZf
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 23, 2021
re: #288 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
it should move to block trade between England and Northern Ireland…
re: #289 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
it should move to block trade between England and Northern Ireland…
The EU can enter into a mutual defence treaty with the DPRK.
I’m surprised that after Twitter’s ill-advised attempt to nuke the DPRK News Service account, they didn’t nuke Nihilist Arby’s.
You’re younger than you’ll ever be ever again and soon you’ll be dead forever and meanwhile you’re literally not doing shit.
Good stuff
Eat Arby’s— Nihilist Arby’s (@nihilist_arbys) October 21, 2021
Conservative self-own turns into an attack on “leftist media hating God”
— Gourmet Hot Takes (@NuclearTakes) October 12, 2021
re: #281 William Lewis
Excellent thread, thank you for posting it.
Indeed. Being fair, balanced and neutral means telling the truth about people. You can say that Kamala Harris is a Jamaican-Indian graduate of Howard, and that Trump is a person whose dad gave him 430 million dollars through schemes to avoid taxes.
OAN Loses Appeal Against Rachel Maddow, Must Pay MSNBC at Least $250,000
Is AT&T going to pay the judgement?
Rachel Hamm, a GOP candidate for secretary of state in California, claims that she had a dream that someone was going to break into her house and murder her. She brags that she prayed it away and instead her neighbor, who was a witch, was murdered. pic.twitter.com/Q6mB3xmLmD
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 21, 2021
Can someone explain to me what this “Let’s go, Brandon” thing is all about. It’s some kind of insult created by “clever” right-wingers but I have no what it means.
re: #296 Ace Rothstein
Can someone explain to me what this “Let’s go, Brandon” thing is all about. It’s some kind of insult created by “clever” right-wingers but I have no what it means.
At a NASCAR event, people started chanting “Fuck Joe Biden” because, assholes. Some announcer claimed the crowd was saying “Let’s Go Brandon!” Still, assholes.
I’m going to stagger off to bed. Catch y’all later.
I was just reading the Asahi newspaper and saw that Japanese toilet maker Toto has proclaimed Nov. 10 as “Good Toilet” day (there’s a way that the numbers 11/10 can be read/said as “good toilet” in Japanese). Then they held a kind of haiku contest (technically, these humorous poems are called senryū).They’ve partnered with a toilet paper maker to print the winning poems on toilet paper with entries that can be translated like:
Got out of the bath
Then I had to take a dump
I feel so wronged
(better in the original Japanese)
Anyway, I want toilet paper with funny haiku.
“It’s a bloody nightmare”
Meaning: Something is proving a mild inconvenience; typically used to describe slightly heavy traffic, or the internet not working
“It’s not ideal”
Meaning: Something terrible has happened and life is almost certainly ruined— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) October 23, 2021
A former politician who called for the overthrow of the French government has been charged with terrorism in connection with what authorities have said was an extreme-right plot to attack vaccination centers, a masonic lodge and other targets. https://t.co/G8a3v0oJJm
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) October 23, 2021
Heh…Trump’s new social media site is copy/paste code from Mastodon.
it is bang on pic.twitter.com/17rncgtmeF
— Glen (@RealGlenMerlin) October 21, 2021
re: #305 darthstar
Heh…Trump’s new social media site is copy/paste code from Mastodon.
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Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko told Vice that based on the screenshots he’s seen floating around social media, Truth Social “absolutely is based on Mastodon”—and its claims to be based on proprietary software when it really isn’t would amount to “a license violation.” He even discovered another smoking gun—a 404 page using Mastodon’s mascot.
Rochko told Talking Points Memo that he is seeking legal counsel on the matter. If he does sue, Trump wouldn’t have a leg to stand on. Claiming that his site’s code is proprietary despite overwhelming evidence that it isn’t? Did he seriously think no one would sniff this out? Suffice to say that if Rochko does take Trump to court, he could really draw blood.
re: #253 sagehen
Someone in the replies was all like “this way they don’t have to pay a good salary.”
So I went and look the salaries up:
The average estimated annual salary, including base and bonus, at Spanx is $112,451, or $54 per hour, while the estimated median salary is $112,461, or $54 per hour.
At Spanx, the highest paid job is a General Counsel at $220,438 annually and the lowest is an Admin Assistant at $45,227 annually. Average Spanx salaries by department include: Marketing at $102,475, Business Development at $96,175, Legal at $220,438, and Admin at $53,026. Half of Spanx salaries are above $112,461.
re: #306 darthstar
And in a later posting it was noted that…
“MindMatter mentioned in the comments that Trump could face another potential headache. If the SPAC’s investors were told the software was proprietary rather than a Mastodon fork, that’s securities fraud.”
Little Donnie from Queens doing what he does best, ripping people off and soon to be blaming someone else for it.
re: #306 darthstar
Will probably sue and find that he is suing an empty shell since Trump and friends have already taken the cash and run. Some poor Trump besotted slob will be left holding the bag, but it won’t be Trump himself.
re: #270 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So, I had a dream the other night. Rush Limbaugh was there, and he had been nominated to sit on the USSC.
I hope this is not foreshadowing the next nominee for the court.
Hopefully there will be several (now GOP) seats for Biden to fill. Because the only way the next nominee will be a Limbaugh clone is if the next vacancy happens during a GOP presidency (or a Biden presidency when McConnell is Majority Leader)
re: #308 The Squire of Logos
And in a later posting it was noted that…
“MindMatter mentioned in the comments that Trump could face another potential headache. If the SPAC’s investors were told the software was proprietary rather than a Mastodon fork, that’s securities fraud.”Little Donnie from Queens doing what he does best, ripping people off and soon to be blaming someone else for it.
Investors? Trump will make them ‘owners’ so they’re liable for the legal defense bills.
re: #312 darthstar
Investors? Trump will make them ‘owners’ so they’re liable for the legal defense bills.
Trumps initial blunder here was founding a publicly traded company instead of a privately owned one. He seems to be unaware that different and more stringent rules apply.
re: #291 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m surprised that after Twitter’s ill-advised attempt to nuke the DPRK News Service account, they didn’t nuke Nihilist Arby’s.
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They weren’t attacking any particular individual or group of people. And they don’t need to add “parody” when “nihilist” is part of their official name.
re: #250 teleskiguy
How is this shit funny?
IMHO, it’s not*. It’s an attack on her as a woman. Misogynistic is about the best you can say about it. It’s nothing more than slut shaming. And yes, I despise this woman and what she represents. She is nothing more than a lying a Do as I say, Not as I do hypocrite. In other words, a rethuglican. Attack her as such
*Just my 2 cents as a somewhat newly minted Tans-Woman.
re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trumps initial blunder here was founding a publicly traded company instead of a privately owned one. He seems to be unaware that different and more stringent rules apply.
Or oblivious to the fact that the rules apply at all. I wonder whose idea this venture was, and who orchestrated it? Granted, his name is on it, but aside from talking about how much money he was going to get over a syrup soaked plate of French Toast at Mar a Lago, I don’t think he was involved one bit. Maybe Don Jr. or Eric?
re: #306 darthstar
DT wouldn’t know source code from sonnets and he tends to hire people as competent and knowledgeable as he is, so I’m not surprised..
re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trumps initial blunder here was founding a publicly traded company instead of a privately owned one. He seems to be unaware that different and more stringent rules apply.
Doesn’t it have to be public for there to be real money in the venture? All that really interests Trump is wealth (and fame).
re: #276 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon’s open-source license with botched social network launch (The Register)
Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
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The open source people have to do this or the licenses become meaningless.
re: #307 Belafon
Wonder what the people who actually make the products get paid? I found one source that says everything is made in the US, and another saying they only make the cotton crotches sewn into the garments here, the rest is made in as many as 15 different countries.
I think what she did was a cool thing for her employees here, and goodness knows she can afford it, but if she’s using sweatshops to make her money, enabling her to pay the white collar folks a living wage, that’s pretty shitty.
re: #279 Ming5000
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The Warren picture?! Warren should show up and talk about Harris’s work.
Oh, bugger.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had ordered the foreign ministry to declare 10 ambassadors from Western countries ‘persona non grata’ for calling for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.
Kavala has been in prison since late 2017, charged with financing nationwide protests in 2013 and with involvement in a 2016 failed coup. He denies the charges.
In a joint statement on Oct. 18, the ambassadors of Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand and the United States called for a just and speedy resolution to Kavala’s case. They were summoned by the foreign ministry, which called the statement irresponsible.
re: #325 Dr Lizardo
Oh, bugger.
Ol’ Tayyippy-ay-ay is really coming unhinged lately, having recently fired his Finance minister as well
re: #326 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ol’ Tayyippy-ay-ay is really coming unhinged lately, having recently fired his Finance minister as well
Becoming unhinged or just further centralizing his power?
re: #276 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon’s open-source license with botched social network launch (The Register)
Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
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I love how they never mention his name.
re: #326 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ol’ Tayyippy-ay-ay is really coming unhinged lately, having recently fired his Finance minister as well
Yeah, Turkish students of mine have been complaining about that ever-sinking Turkish Lira.
re: #327 Hecuba’s daughter
Becoming unhinged or just further centralizing his power?
centralizing his power in an unhinged way
Were there ever any consequences for the Turkish thugs who beat up protesters in DC?
re: #331 Barefoot Grin
Were there ever any consequences for the Turkish thugs who beat up protesters in DC?
A similar incident let to mass protests in German in the late 60’s, pretty much sparking the student movement there.
They won’t stop normalizing fascists.
The “democracy dies in darkness” paper has a 9,000-word profile of domestic terrorist Kevin McCarthy framing him as a master tactician and granting credibility to Jim Banks and Jim Jordan—who *still* lie about the election—by asking them for positive quotes as character witnesses pic.twitter.com/hZtL79gSei
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) October 23, 2021
re: #333 JOE 🥓
They won’t stop normalizing fascists.
because there have to be GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES or they will lose half their audience
re: #333 JOE 🥓
They won’t stop normalizing fascists.
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Jim Banks has been lying - on official letterhead - about being part of the Jan 6 subcommittee to get information to sabotage the committee.
re: #320 Hecuba’s daughter
Doesn’t it have to be public for there to be real money in the venture? All that really interests Trump is wealth (and fame).
Public in the sense of being traded on stock exchanges. There are companies valued at 100+ billions that are still privately held (not traded on stock exchanges), even though they have many investors. For example, SpaceX is still privately held, as is Mars Inc (makers of various candy bars and treats).
re: #336 JC1
Public in the sense of being traded on stock exchanges. There are companies valued at 100+ billions that are still privately held (not traded on stock exchanges), even though they have many investors. For example, SpaceX is still privately held, as is Mars Inc (makers of various candy bars and treats).
And those privately held companies are subject to less scrutiny and require less transparency. This was Trump’s own fault for being lured into “easy money”.
Good morning Lizards,
Wondering if the Baldwin shooting happened at a school if the media would be as frenzied at trying to find a way to make sure it never happened again?
re: #338 b.d. (The war is over)
Good morning Lizards,
Wondering if the Baldwin shooting happened at a school if the media would be as frenzied at trying to find a way to make sure it never happened again?
Mass shooters don’t come into schools with blank guns and “accidentally” shoot anyone…
re: #338 b.d. (The war is over)
Good morning Lizards,
Wondering if the Baldwin shooting happened at a school if the media would be as frenzied at trying to find a way to make sure it never happened again?
You can’t switch to CGI to stop school shootings. This is an easily solvable problem, so people want it solved.
re: #339 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Mass shooters don’t come into schools with blank guns and “accidentally” shoot anyone…
Mass shooters aren’t people that make fun of Trump.
re: #341 Belafon
Mass shooters aren’t people that make fun of Trump.
Trump supporters are the ones who insist that school shootings are the price we pay to maintain a vital God-given right.
re: #340 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You can’t switch to CGI to stop school shootings. This is an easily solvable problem, so people want it solved.
Real guns kill thousands of Americans a year = shrug
Fake guns kill one person every other decade = ACTION NOW!!!!!
Asshole Robin Bullock makes another appearance on Pulpit Pimp Theater!
Self-proclaimed “prophet” Robin Bullock calls on Trump to “listen to the prophets” and “rise up,” for the time has come for him to assume his rightful position as president and save this nation. pic.twitter.com/d27F9vb08y
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 22, 2021
re: #346 JOE 🥓
Asshole Robin Bullock makes another appearance on Pulpit Pimp Theater!
You can never be too crayzee in post-Trump America
and even when they seem to turn on each other, it somehow only ramps up the ambient level of acceptable crayzee
a truly scayree phenomenon
It was a coup:
Weird that the only use of the word “conspiracy” in this piece is in referencing the Trump people’s bogus accusations of it. https://t.co/BNIfLpwZGR
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 23, 2021
I don’t want to be a part of a community that stoops to the level of my evil congresswoman.
re: #344 JOE 🥓
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Heh.
So what are those little orange guys?
Carolina Reapers??
🌶🌶🌶🌶
Gift link for the article hopefully it works. https://t.co/uQNtnN1nXV
— Lilibet1968 (@lilibet1968) October 23, 2021
I myself can never remember the names of people who ask me to write memos on how to overthrow the Constitution. It’s the damnedest thing.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) October 23, 2021
re: #349 teleskiguy
Hey at least she’s open about it. My Congress jackass is Barry Loudermilk. Every damned day he sends out a “survey” with such bullshit questions I can’t even. The abortion one has questions like:
Do you believe abortion is ok to choose the sex of your child?
Do you think it’s ok to abort a baby with Downs Syndrome?
Do you think it’s ok to abort a baby right up to the day of birth?
Etc and so on. But if you try to call them to talk about an actual issue you need help with? Either no one answers the phone or if they do they act bored as fuck with your piddling issues. He’s never on tv though, at least not that often, I bet most people around here don’t even know his name, even if they voted for him. They vote for the R after his name, nothing else matters except sticking it to the libs.
re: #350 Jay C
Heh.
So what are those little orange guys?
Carolina Reapers??
🌶🌶🌶🌶
They are cat anemones, felines often used them for protection from predators.
Can I settle for less @ACTBrigitte ? https://t.co/fnOMJLeAzu
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) October 23, 2021
“As staffers filed in, some began to shiver. Still, Trump did not close the door… The noise outside grewe louder, almost like a party.
‘Isn’t that great?’ Trump exclaimed. ‘Tomorrow is going to be a big day.’” (p. 231)— Robert Costa (@costareports) October 23, 2021
With his back to the wall and Pence not budging, and Senate Rs holding to doing their own thing, Trump decides to turn to the Willard group for backup, for more aggression. He knows the mob is outside. He knows Bannon, Giuliani, Boris, Eastman, etc. are over there. (p. 232-233)
— Robert Costa (@costareports) October 23, 2021
Am I the only one who wants to know why the Willard allowed its hotel to be used as a command post to overturn a lawful election? Has any reporter asked them?https://t.co/0QPXhOmaYZ
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 23, 2021
re: #362 darthstar
The guys on the step ladders are basically trying to snag salmon as they watch their hook and red bead for a shadow going over it…if they’re lucky and hook it in the mouth it counts as a legal catch.
No new posts in almost 24 hours?
Anyone checked on Charles?
re: #355 jeffreyw
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NO! Who would put Kitty smack dab in a reaper plant?
That’s cruel for Kitty!
This Army recruiter for the win. pic.twitter.com/tpA1Sg6EZ2
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) October 23, 2021
re: #365 JOE 🥓
NO! Who would put Kitty smack dab in a reaper plant?
That’s cruel for Kitty!
Some like it hot!
re: #365 JOE 🥓
NO! Who would put Kitty smack dab in a reaper plant?
That’s cruel for Kitty!
That seems to assume that the cat did not choose to put itself there.
re: #361 jaunte
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Why did the Trump team use the Willard Hotel as a January 6th command center instead of the Trump Hotel?
Hint: It’s because they wanted to hide what they were doing.— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) October 23, 2021
re: #336 JC1
Public in the sense of being traded on stock exchanges. There are companies valued at 100+ billions that are still privately held (not traded on stock exchanges), even though they have many investors. For example, SpaceX is still privately held, as is Mars Inc (makers of various candy bars and treats).
One of my nephews worked for Cargill for several years, another large successful family held business. But if you are in it for quick bucks, rather than spending years — or decades — investing in and developing a real business, don’t you need a publicly traded company?
re: #339 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Mass shooters don’t come into schools with blank guns and “accidentally” shoot anyone…
True
and not the same Though there are stories of police officers doing safety demos in schools and “accidentally” discharging
This is Luna. In her defense, that is her bed. 14/10 she did nothing wrong pic.twitter.com/09C4znnauJ
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) October 23, 2021
So now I am officially trained for Nov 2nd General Election Day. And for that I had to take a bus to a training center. I do not understand why they love this location. It is accessible by public transit (barely) and it does have parking (terraced) and it is supposed to be accessible to the handicapped (I think it is some sort of zig-zagged pathway). I still prefer the old location because all I had to do was walk one mile to get there.
re: #372 Dangerman
Bring a “friend”?
In 1972, my family was driving to IL from CA. We picked up hitchhikers. We had hitchhikers for lunch at Donner Pass.
re: #375 wrenchwench
In 1972, my family was driving to IL from CA. We picked up hitchhikers. We had hitchhikers for lunch at Donner Pass.
+1
re: #375 wrenchwench
That can be taken both ways. ;)
re: #375 wrenchwench
In 1972, my family was driving to IL from CA. We picked up hitchhikers. We had hitchhikers for lunch at Donner Pass.
Were they seasoned travelers?
Uh oh….
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re: #381 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #364 Eclectic Cyborg
No new posts in almost 24 hours?
Anyone checked on Charles?
An upding has been spotted.
re: #375 wrenchwench
In 1972, my family was driving to IL from CA. We picked up hitchhikers. We had hitchhikers for lunch at Donner Pass.
I bet they were delicious.
re: #351 jaunte
Wow, the details in the Wash Post report on the Willard Hotel “war room” are eye-popping put together. So the Campaign funded a command center to strong arm state officials to falsely claim fraud, reverse a democratic election and incite an insurrection? https://t.co/fuEYLVfWj1
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) October 23, 2021
From the article:
A participant on the call, Michigan state Sen. Ed McBroom (R), recalled listening as Trump, Giuliani, Eastman and others described the power state legislators have over the certification of electors. “I didn’t need any convincing about our plenary powers,” McBroom told The Post. “I was listening to hear whether they had any evidence to substantiate claims” of significant voter fraud that could change the results in Michigan. The callers did not provide additional information, he said, and he did not support a delay in the electoral vote count.
As we know, the GOP usually projects their crimes onto others. So my question, is it possible that the Trump consiglieres were confident about stealing because they did in fact “steal” many votes, perhaps enough to affect the outcome in other races? Most of the cases brought to light were one-off situations but a sufficient number of these can change results. Let’s never forget the 2018 North Carolina election fraud case in a Congressional race.
re: #381 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #386 Hecuba’s daughter
From the article:
As we know, the GOP usually projects their crimes onto others. So my question, is it possible that the Trump consiglieres were confident about stealing because they did in fact “steal” many votes, perhaps enough to affect the outcome in other races? Most of the cases brought to light were one-off situations but a sufficient number of these can change results. Let’s never forget the 2018 North Carolina election fraud case in a Congressional race.
There isn’t really enough evidence to support that. I strongly suspect that they tried, or made plans to try, but I have little doubt that we would have seen abundant evidence of large-scale voter fraud from pissed-off Democrats if they had actually gone through with it.
On the trip back to CA from IL, we picked up a pair of young men traveling to San Francisco from their native Montana. We had them with us for a whole day, then spent the night at a roadside rest stop, camped separately. They got up early but were still on the on-ramp when we got all packed up to leave. We picked them up again. Seven kids, 16 yrs. and younger, plus a dog. Mom at the wheel. Camped at another rest stop the next night. They were up VERY early, and politely turned down a third day with us. Wade and Byron. I hope they enjoyed SF.
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