Seth takes a closer look at GOP members of Congress facing growing scrutiny over their roles in the attempt to overthrow democracy on January 6 after a bombshell report linked them to the organizers.
A friend who just lost his job because he refused to get vaccinated sent me a few messages earlier looking for sympathy, complaining about how hard his job hunt has been and asking me if I have any leads that might be useful.
I don’t want to come off like a jerk but I mean, he pretty much made his bed and laid in it here so I’m finding it very hard to not be terse in my response.
How would you folks handle this?
BG: Guy and I have been friends for about 8 years now. My wife and his wife and kids all get along pretty good.
These new charges concerning Hunter Biden’s sex games have convinced me that he needs to resign from government right now. ///////////
Like I said downstairs, Conservatives seem to really be against people having fun.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Like I said downstairs, Conservatives seem to really be against people having fun.
Since we got CL’d in that discussion:
They were never allowed to have fun when they were teenagers and tweenagers, so they’re not about to let anybody else have any, either.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Tell him you don’t know of anything that doesn’t involve getting the vaccine.
re: #6 Belafon
Tell him you don’t know of anything that doesn’t involve getting the vaccine.
I was going to say this, as well. I’d gently be like, “I’d love to help you, but all the leads I know of are implementing vaccine mandates.”
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d tell him to grow the fuck up.
CL’d
…and the fact that most journalists are framing this as a domestic issue (and thus Biden’s fault) and not a global issue. This lazy framing alone is shaping public opinion more than inflation is.
— Senator Maisel, LLC (@maiselish) October 28, 2021
I’d want to call them ‘useless’, but that sells it short. They are absolutely not useless, because they’re all happy being useful idiots for the GOP. Everything they say seems almost expertly crafted to perpetuate GOP frames ad infinitum.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t think that for a moment, I think that they are simply selfish reprehensible people that don’t want ANYONE ELSE to have fun. What I can’t condone is the hypocrisy…. people can be weak, flawed, whatever, consensual adults are gonna do consensual things, I’ve come to accept that. What I am not gonna do is watch one group condemn a bunch of behavior that they are busy engaging in at this very moment (see Gingrinch, et al) and play themselves off as some kind of moral beacon of behavior.
the GOP does this shit all the time, you try and combat racism, they claim that you’re the REAL racists, (see Freedom, Patriots, Liberals) for abuse of language and co-opting the meaning of words.
Its the same old shitburger and as we have discussed, the media looks at them dewy eyed and reports everything as if that shine-box that they’re using has magical properties.
Went into the thread on that tweet in the previous thread regarding the anti-vaxx/sov-cit pseudo-legal mumbo-jumbo, and this was too good to pass up:
😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/WgqeyvacUk
— Colin Mardell 💙 #FBPE #JohnsonOut (@ColinFiery) October 28, 2021
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
A friend who just lost his job because he refused to get vaccinated sent me a few messages earlier looking for sympathy, complaining about how hard his job hunt has been and asking me if I have any leads that might be useful.
I don’t want to come off like a jerk but I mean, he pretty much made his bed and laid in it here so I’m finding it very hard to not be terse in my response.
How would you folks handle this?
BG: Guy and I have been friends for about 8 years now. My wife and his wife and kids all get along pretty good.
send him a bunch of links to stories of employers complaining about how nobody wants to work, pictures of all those help wanted signs…
Sorry, Citizen K - had to delete that comment because something in it was killing the thread.
re: #6 Belafon
Tell him you don’t know of anything that doesn’t involve getting the vaccine.
I thought about that. It’s actually not far from the truth.
Needs a mascot. https://t.co/B3PR5S5HuQ pic.twitter.com/DhMMkAp5BB
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) October 28, 2021
I’m sure they spent millions on that mindfart of the gods.
Maybe they should have called it Meta “); drop table Defendants; commit;
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Sorry, Citizen K - had to delete that comment because something in it was killing the thread.
I was wondering what kept breaking my Spy mode.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
A friend who just lost his job because he refused to get vaccinated sent me a few messages earlier looking for sympathy, complaining about how hard his job hunt has been and asking me if I have any leads that might be useful.
I don’t want to come off like a jerk but I mean, he pretty much made his bed and laid in it here so I’m finding it very hard to not be terse in my response.
How would you folks handle this?
BG: Guy and I have been friends for about 8 years now. My wife and his wife and kids all get along pretty good.
Be of comfort to him and family.
Since you and your family are friends with his family, rustle up and send him some job leads
Either he’ll figure out that he fucked up or he won’t.
If it were me, I’d have my family maintain mask discipline.
“Meta”? Jesus, just call it, “Eat Shit, Proles.”
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) October 28, 2021
Amazon delivery woes:
I had a package out for delivery this morning by an Amazon Delivery driver - not USPS, not FedEx, not UPS, not DHL, etc. I get a notification about an hour and a half back that he’s ten stops away. I pull up the tracker and watch his progression on the map. 2 stops away, he’s at the Post Office half a block from my house. He spends between 10-15 minutes behind the Post Office. Then he pulls out of the Post Office into Main Street, takes Los Lentes north up to Route 314 and I watch his northward progress North up 314 all the way up to Albuquerque, my package undelivered.
Although it’s supposed to be delivered today by 10 PM, I just know that they’re not going to send the truck back down today to deliver my package.
re: #15 ericblair
Fun fact: The name of the company Keanu Reeves worked for in the Matrix was called “Metacortex”. And it was a computer software company.
re: #19 A Three Hour Tour
Amazon delivery woes:
I had a package out for delivery this morning by an Amazon Delivery driver - not USPS, not FedEx, not UPS, not DHL, etc. I get a notification about an hour and a half back that he’s ten stops away. I pull up the tracker and watch his progression on the map. 2 stops away, he’s at the Post Office half a block from my house. He spends between 10-15 minutes behind the Post Office. Then he pulls out of the Post Office into Main Street, takes Los Lentes north up to Route 314 and I watch his northward progress North up 314 all the way up to Albuquerque, my package undelivered.
Although it’s supposed to be delivered today by 10 PM, I just know that they’re not going to send the truck back down today to deliver my package.
A watched package is never delivered.
And you really don’t want to ask how much money they spent to come up with “Meta”.
Judge getting sick of Jan. 6 rioters’ complaints about jail conditions: ‘Some people want hotel services’ https://t.co/9IODZZFumf pic.twitter.com/MwVocLojRB
— 🌊 R Saddler (@Politics_PR) October 28, 2021
“It’s remarkable. It’s remarkable in that it’s a big vision, bigger vision than we’ve seen in a very long time, maybe dating back to Pres. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says of Pres. Biden’s spending framework. https://t.co/AFMnUwOoVU pic.twitter.com/KGYhjImAXx
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 28, 2021
Huge Update: Speaker Pelosi says, “The text is done,” and that we are on a path to get the #BuildBackBetter bill passed. pic.twitter.com/0gnUGRhETa
The Facebook metaverse stream was the most delusional thing I’ve ever seen from any company or any person in my entire lifehttps://t.co/AG13bL6q6l
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) October 28, 2021
So, which of the avatars is the lunatic antivax Nazi who is going to barge into my virtual bedroom and watch me change my clothes while some Russian no-neck takes everything out of my virtual wallet on the table?
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Part of me says to hell with helping him, but your families care for each other and that’s more than a little important. Especially in today’s world. As more time passes more employers are going to require vaccines and he is not going to be able to support his family without a decent paying job and decide it’s in his best interest. Hopefully he and his family will stay healthy in the meantime, but god, by this time how could anyone still be thinking this is ok? We’ve lost more than a quarter million lives in this country and the count is still rising. I can’t figure out how to relate to people who won’t do this simple thing. Especially since it’s actually a patriotic thing. Sigh, I don’t envy you on this one.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Sorry, Citizen K - had to delete that comment because something in it was killing the thread.
Hrm? I…still see it? The comment, I mean? Odd.
It’s now 84 in Los Angeles and the latest forecast has it going to 88.
It’s late October…88 degrees…
re: #17 BeenHereAwhile
Be of comfort to him and family.
Since you and your family are friends with his family, rustle up and send him some job leads
Either he’ll figure out that he fucked up or he won’t.
If it were me, I’d have my family maintain mask discipline.
It’s easy for me to say this, as this person is not my friend and the vast majority of my social circle are not anti-vax, but utterly ignoring this dude put his family’s financial well-being in jeopardy because he won’t get vaccinated is fucking bullshit.
re: #6 Belafon
Tell him you don’t know of anything that doesn’t involve getting the vaccine.
This needs to be put in the conversation. It’s not accusatory or hostile, so it keeps the conservative fee-fees from getting hurt (which as we all know is what really matters), but it gets the message across.
Quite frankly, not even mentioning why he got fired, even with the gentlest of kid gloves, is what these damn people want.
Also apologies to Electric Cyborg. It sounds like this guy is your friend and your families mean a lot to each other, so this can’t be easy and I hope I’m not making it worse.
re: #27 ericblair
These presentations had the familiar vibe of an overly-ambitious video game reveal. In the concert example, one friend is present in reality while the other is not; the friend joins the concert inexplicably as a blue Force ghost and the pair grab “tickets” to a “metaverse afterparty” in which NFTs are for sale. This theme continued throughout as people wandered seamlessly into virtual fantasy worlds over and over, and the presentation lacked any sense of what this so-called metaverse would look like in practice. It was flagrantly abstract, even metaphorical, showing more the dream of the metaverse than anything resembling reality.
re: #21 Belafon
A watched package is never delivered.
Well, the vehicle has been in front of house in a residential neighborhood on on Sancho Plaza Way, SW, in Albuquerque for the entire time since I posted that update.
It’s possible the GPS tracking has stopped updating in the interim. If I open a new window and try to track my package, the new window doesn’t take me to the GPS tracking map anymore.
re: #29 Citizen K
Hrm? I…still see it? The comment, I mean? Odd.
I edited it to fix the problem and restored it.
re: #33 A Three Hour Tour
Well, the vehicle has been in front of house in a residential neighborhood on on Sancho Plaza Way, SW, in Albuquerque for the entire time since I posted that update.
It’s possible the GPS tracking has stopped updating in the interim. If I open a new window and try to track my package, the new window doesn’t take me to the GPS tracking map anymore.
I’m wondering if that means that the system has determined that the truck has moved on past your stop - i.e. your package was missed. I’m kinda surprised that packages can get missed these days; I figured truck drivers had the route put on their device from the loading scan.
re: #33 A Three Hour Tour
Well, the vehicle has been in front of house in a residential neighborhood on on Sancho Plaza Way, SW, in Albuquerque for the entire time since I posted that update.
It’s possible the GPS tracking has stopped updating in the interim. If I open a new window and try to track my package, the new window doesn’t take me to the GPS tracking map anymore.
Maybe you’ll see it on the evening news, surrounded by cop cars with a chyron reading something like “Delivery Van Carjacked”.
re: #27 ericblair
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So, which of the avatars is the lunatic antivax Nazi who is going to barge into my virtual bedroom and watch me change my clothes while some Russian no-neck takes everything out of my virtual wallet on the table?
Neal Stephenson, 1992
… wearing spock’s science blues, nyc mayor bill de blasio called his costume an “homage to captain kirk” who wore a gold command uniform. he then referred to the vulcan blessing, “live long and prosper,” as the prime directive which is actually starfleet’s guiding principle. 🖖🏼 pic.twitter.com/SeO2a2jSza
— fake nick ramsey (@nick_ramsey) October 28, 2021
re: #34 Charles Johnson
I edited it to fix the problem and restored it.
Ahhh, ok, no worries then. Just was extremely confused for the moment.
re: #38 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I refuse to believe there are no Trekkers on Deblasios staff who could have clarified things for him.
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
These presentations had the familiar vibe of an overly-ambitious video game reveal. In the concert example, one friend is present in reality while the other is not; the friend joins the concert inexplicably as a blue Force ghost and the pair grab “tickets” to a “metaverse afterparty” in which NFTs are for sale. This theme continued throughout as people wandered seamlessly into virtual fantasy worlds over and over, and the presentation lacked any sense of what this so-called metaverse would look like in practice. It was flagrantly abstract, even metaphorical, showing more the dream of the metaverse than anything resembling reality.
Aaand NFTs, which is just 2021’s version of the bullshit “get a star named after you” crap from the old days. You pay real money, and get someone to put a line in a worthless book that nobody cares about and nobody reads. But BLOCKCHAIN!
The sort-of joke that keeps cropping up is that Facebook/Meta is making a nice new fake world for us after they spent the last decade ruining the fuck out of the real one.
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
I refuse to believe there are no Trekkers on Deblasios staff who could have clarified things for him.
I don’t know if it was an intentional joke, the ramblings of someone who thought he knew what he was talking about, or if someone on his staff that hates him wrote that.
re: #36 Nojay UK
Maybe you’ll see it on the evening news, surrounded by cop cars with a chyron reading something like “Delivery Van Carjacked”.
That has ACTUALLY shown up on my Citizen app!
Author of coup memo lied about his support of it, and he is plotting with state legislators to steal the election in 2024.
EXCLUSIVE: Author of Jan 6 coup memo John Eastman told us Mike Pence didn’t take his solid legal advice & overturn the election bc Pence is “an establishment guy”
(He previously told @NRO the memo was not “viable” and would have been “crazy” to pursue.)
Stay tuned for Part 2. pic.twitter.com/RQeUceH1bn— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) October 26, 2021
NEW: Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams told us that Jan 6 coup memo author and Claremont Senior Fellow John Eastman is “still very involved with a lot of the state legislators and advising them on election integrity stuff.” pic.twitter.com/SNqq6YToiN
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) October 27, 2021
In which Katie Porter levels up from the white board to the white…well watch the whole thing:
Here’s the clip from today’s Big Oil hearing where @RepKatiePorter eviscerates the executives of Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP for their greenwashing and lobbying against climate action. #SlipperySix pic.twitter.com/j7zoVk5d94
— Jamie Henn (@jamieclimate) October 28, 2021
(also how you to tell someone to go fuck themselves without telling them to go fuck themselves)
re: #33 A Three Hour Tour
I wonder if my toilet paper is on that van. :D
Facebook becoming meta, as in, “I never meta conspiracy theory I couldn’t promote.”
re: #37 sagehen
Neal Stephenson, 1992
My favorite book of his, though I have only read about four or five.
Testing.
…and the fact that most journalists are framing this as a domestic issue (and thus Biden’s fault) and not a global issue. This lazy framing alone is shaping public opinion more than inflation is.
— Senator Maisel, LLC (@maiselish) October 28, 2021
Hey, I fixed that issue with the embedded JSON. Groovy.
re: #41 Dopamine Fish
Uhh
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I’m intellectually curious enough that I wouldn’t get picked for these types of juries, and I don’t have Mein Kamp on my list.
re: #41 Dopamine Fish
Uhh
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I just read that whole thread. Is this the asshole who drove his car into a crowd killing a woman?
Also, saw this just below that thread…
Judge Mandates Prosecutors Only Refer To Kyle Rittenhouse As ‘Hero’ https://t.co/r8mdK6U0G9 pic.twitter.com/j2uIyWLFQG
— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 27, 2021
re: #52 Belafon
I’m intellectually curious enough that I wouldn’t get picked for these types of juries, and I don’t have Mein Kamp on my list.
There is a possibility I might read Mein Kampf once. However, it damn well ain’t gonna be because I like what he’s saying. More along the lines of, “Know thy enemy.”
I hadn’t seen this. What a dope.
Comedian Jim Breuer announced last week he was cancelling a gig in Montclair and other venues that require proof of vaccination for audience members, and for this we should be thankful, because this is not someone you’d choose to have within particle range when he’s dropping his viral load.
The popular standup comic, looking as though he had just escaped from a week of electrical torture, used Facebook to make his announcement, and his 18-minute post was a breathtaking display of someone trying to disguise ignorance and paranoia as intellectual heft.
Among many other things, Breuer declared that “doctors are out of their minds,” that we are all being led by unspecified “tyrants, these soulless evil, fear-driven animals,” and much of his stuporous soliloquy sounded like it was the preamble to a warning about satanic pedophilic pizza parlors.
“Wake up. Wake up,” he sneered. “This has nothing to do with safety. Zero.”
This wasn’t a bit, and it wasn’t funny. Unencumbered by clue, the Saturday Night Live alum is the latest big-time celeb incapable of accepting science or math, and that should scare anybody who knows the reach he has on social media and on various podcasts.
Jim Breuer skips town, short of a shingle | Editorial (nj.com)
re: #53 darthstar
I just read that whole thread. Is this the asshole who drove his car into a crowd killing a woman?
Also, saw this just below that thread…
The thread just picked up again, the author meandered off for a while. Yes, it’s that guy from Charlottesville, and he is representing himself because he is a colossal dumbass. As you read, the judge has already had to get after him.
re: #19 A Three Hour Tour
Amazon delivery woes:
I had a package out for delivery this morning by an Amazon Delivery driver - not USPS, not FedEx, not UPS, not DHL, etc. I get a notification about an hour and a half back that he’s ten stops away. I pull up the tracker and watch his progression on the map. 2 stops away, he’s at the Post Office half a block from my house. He spends between 10-15 minutes behind the Post Office. Then he pulls out of the Post Office into Main Street, takes Los Lentes north up to Route 314 and I watch his northward progress North up 314 all the way up to Albuquerque, my package undelivered.
Although it’s supposed to be delivered today by 10 PM, I just know that they’re not going to send the truck back down today to deliver my package.
been there. for me, it’s ups. last month, the truck pulled up in the parking lot and the guy went and ran a package off to another apartment. “No problem. My package is heavy. He’ll be this way in a minute.” Then, he climbed back into the truck and drove away. Minutes later, I get the “package undeliverable” message. Feeeeck!
Pandemic fashion:
My granddaughter came by for a visit the other day, wearing flowered sunglasses, a blue wolf mask, Girls Rule The World t-shirt, and flowered pants. The whole ensemble was so striking I had to do a drawing:
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re: #55 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I hadn’t seen this. What a dope.
Jim Breuer skips town, short of a shingle | Editorial (nj.com)
He’s gone full Qwazy Q. Guess he’s hanging out with the ass I posted about yesterday who claims to be JFK Jr.
LGF Colonoscopy Update after the tags:
So: inspired by my fellow Lizards’ scintillating threads on the subject, I scheduled myself for a long-procrastinated (19 years) follow-up colonoscopy: last night, I drank the usual disgusting chemicals, had the usual disgusting reaction, and trundled off for the procedure early this morning with my vaccine card and my cellphone (since LGF, for whatever reason, is one of the few sites I can access and follow without a network: even in the subway).
Good news: absolutely NOTHING untoward was discovered. Less-good news: the excess air in my lower GI tract, which was supposed to just flatulate away, didn’t: not very comfortable. And it’s taken most of the
afternoon to subside.
I was sent off with a reminder that I should have another one done in ten years: my thought was “I should only live so long!”
re: #58 jaunte
That’s a little bit more than a drawing.
re: #55 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I hadn’t seen this. What a dope.
Jim Breuer skips town, short of a shingle | Editorial (nj.com)
I wonder if he could book that field in Alabama Trump went to?
/
re: #61 Belafon
I’ve been doing scary faces on cardboard for the kids Halloween decorations, and I decided to try the same technique for something a little more permanent.
re: #56 Dopamine Fish
The thread just picked up again, the author meandered off for a while. Yes, it’s that guy from Charlottesville, and he is representing himself because he is a colossal dumbass. As you read, the judge has already had to get after him.
His dropping the N-word in his opening statement probably scored some points with the jury…said nobody, ever.
re: #58 jaunte
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re: #65 HRH Stanley Sea
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re: #55 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I hadn’t seen this. What a dope.
Jim Breuer skips town, short of a shingle | Editorial (nj.com)
The popular standup comic,…
Citation needed.
re: #60 Jay C
One thing about Charles’s work on the site is that once you get the base page loaded, the partial updates that occur when new comments are displayed is much cheaper than the full reloads other places have to do. I have been able to add new comments when I can’t get other sites to even load.
And good news on the check-up.
re: #64 darthstar
His dropping the N-word in his opening statement probably scored some points with the jury…said nobody, ever.
How to win friends and influence people, Nazi edition.
re: #19 A Three Hour Tour
Yeah, I ordered an expensive headset yesterday, it was supposed to be delivered last night but it says “package delayed in transit.” I’m tempted to cancel the order and try again. Maybe I’ll wait until Saturday. I’d really like this headset before we move over to our new piece of junk phone system hanging off of Microsoft Teams. This is allegedly going to happen right around the time we move over to ServiceNow.
re: #70 mmmirele
Yeah, I ordered an expensive headset yesterday, it was supposed to be delivered last night but it says “package delayed in transit.” I’m tempted to cancel the order and try again. Maybe I’ll wait until Saturday. I’d really like this headset before we move over to our new piece of junk phone system hanging off of Microsoft Teams.
Sometimes those show up. There was one order that was delayed in transit, then after 2 to 3 more days, it was changed to Undeliverable. When I re-ordered the item, the Amazon delivery driver showed up in a rental van. I wondered if maybe somebody had crashed the Amazon van and that’s where my package was.
re: #71 Dopamine Fish
That was weird. I put in “2 dash 3”, and it disappeared from my comment.
re: #73 jaunte
Stanley Sea: Here’s a fragment of the cover of the first cookbook; all I can find on this computer.
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Brilliant. Hoping you don’t stop looking, they were soo good.
re: #62 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if he could book that field in Alabama Trump went to?
/
Your career as a comic must really suck if you can’t get a gig in Branson!
re: #73 jaunte
I have both of them. Give me a minute and I can take a quick picture with my phone.
re: #79 darthstar
Gamey buttocks…haven’t heard that term in ages.
Haven’t really had a troll worthy of being slapped on the barbie in a while, either. Sigh.
re: #71 Dopamine Fish
Sometimes those show up. There was one order that was delayed in transit, then after 2 to 3 more days, it was changed to Undeliverable. When I re-ordered the item, the Amazon delivery driver showed up in a rental van. I wondered if maybe somebody had crashed the Amazon van and that’s where my package was.
depending on how badly you want something, this can work to one’s advantage. I’ve waited out a “lost” delivery, gotten the refund, and then had the thing show up once. Hell, I’m not sending it back. They’ve already taken the loss. they probably wouldn’t even know what to do if I tried.
re: #81 steve_davis
depending on how badly you want something, this can work to one’s advantage. I’ve waited out a “lost” delivery, gotten the refund, and then had the thing show up once. Hell, I’m not sending it back. They’ve already taken the loss. they probably wouldn’t even know what to do if I tried.
I’ve ended up with two of something for that reason.
re: #81 steve_davis
depending on how badly you want something, this can work to one’s advantage. I’ve waited out a “lost” delivery, gotten the refund, and then had the thing show up once. Hell, I’m not sending it back. They’ve already taken the loss. they probably wouldn’t even know what to do if I tried.
They specifically say now that if you request a refund, and the item shows up, you can keep the item and they don’t expect you to return it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2021
re: #84 Charles Johnson
But there’s clearly a liberal bias.
GOP AGs urge President Biden to drop federal vaccine mandate. If they had a good legal argument, they’d sue.
^JB pic.twitter.com/ZS71D392nc
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 28, 2021
Well, he made the trip back down to deliver my package. I pulled up the window with the tracking map and it showed the green dot in front of my house. I looked out the parlor window and there was a guy getting in a white truck across the street and my package was on the picnic table I’ve set up on the porch for deliveries.
re: #88 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
There’s the ancient clue-by-four.
It’s been over 10 years. We need a new lizard cookbook. Maybe I’ll actually contribute.
re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I got into a jam for time on the second one, so the color was put into it in Photoshop. The first was watercolor.
Interesting experience in the master luthier’s shop yesterday. made the mistake of asking if he could set up an epiphone les paul for me. A long moment of silence, followed by a gentle version of “I believe the gentleman has accidentally wandered into a shop believing it to be of a different sort from what it is.” If you’ve ever played Dragon Age and encountered the blacksmith who knows how to make outrageously high-end kit but is stuck doing what he considers meaningless drudge work, that was kind of it. But it’s all right. Once we’d established that master artisans don’t set up 400 dollar guitars, I did get him to set up my Taylor for me. This guy builds NICE fecking guitars, and in my defense, he does build custom strat/tele clones, which were hanging on one wall, and which is why I thought he might do rather plebian set ups as well. But no, he builds custom strat/teles that are in the 5k range for starters. He does NOT farm the wiring out to some apprentice on the line somewhere.
Just discovered a wrinkle in Medicare D that one can take advantage of.
A new prescription (no generic available) is a tier 3 drug, the cost of which has now put me in the prescription donut hole.
My health insurance maven told me - starting January 1 2022 - to remove the next costliest drug (annual cost ~$550) from my health care prescription package and obtain it thru one of the discount prescription providers.
She said you’ll pay the same or less, and the separate discount cumulative cost won’t count against your donut threshold for the coming year.
re: #88 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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They are soooo good.
Jaunte, all the kudos.
Would love to see more of your work btw
re: #96 BeenHereAwhile
Just discovered a wrinkle in Medicare D that one can take advantage of.
A new prescription (no generic available) is a tier 3 drug, the cost of which has now put me in the prescription donut hole.
My health insurance maven told me - starting January 1 2022 - to remove the next costliest drug (annual cost ~$550) from my health care prescription package and obtain it thru one of the discount prescription providers.
She said you’ll pay the same or less, and the separate discount cumulative cost won’t count against your donut threshold for the coming year.
Which is why I am glad I do not have to have a Medicare D plan because I hate that f’n donut hole!
re: #88 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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Wow. So many have flounced & stinkhammered.
EDIT: Loving attention in the illustration on the book titles in the background.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2021
There’s something comical about the Roman Emperor hair.
re: #101 Charles Johnson
So when does Emperor Marky Mark name his horse to be Consular of Rome?
re: #102 jaunte
There’s something comical about the Roman Emperor hair.
He’s had that same annoying ass haircut since he started Facebook. I might gain some respect for him if he went bald and grew a beard.
re: #43 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I don’t know if it was an intentional joke, the ramblings of someone who thought he knew what he was talking about, or if someone on his staff that hates him wrote that.
re: #103 JOE 🥓
So when does Emperor Marky Mark name his horse to be Consular of Rome?
Gaius Marcus Zuckerbergus.
Read more about the anti-government extremist group, CSPOA here: https://t.co/7HikTWt0Hw pic.twitter.com/mAl1iDdfN1
— ADL Arizona (@ADLArizona) October 28, 2021
The first kiss.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/SLOt4kLJcJ
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) October 28, 2021
I did not pass the bar exam. This has been the most painful year of my life. I don’t really have anything else to say.
— Kate Dwyer (@kateldwyer) October 28, 2021
Shilling for the most influential anti-vaccine propaganda outlet in the world does have its down side. https://t.co/bUiW1111wh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2021
Do they really think nobody notices the editorial board’s far right biases? https://t.co/DETaR6joZ6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2021
re: #110 Charles Johnson
I respect Cavuto a little bit for trying to do the right thing, but he spent years making this bed.
He doesn’t get to complain about having to lie in it.
re: #9 Citizen K
CL’d
I’d want to call them ‘useless’, but that sells it short. They are absolutely not useless, because they’re all happy being useful idiots for the GOP. Everything they say seems almost expertly crafted to perpetuate GOP frames ad infinitum.
This is because the default human experience is that of entitled white males who happen to live in America, at least according to our national media. Any view outside this viewpoint is skewed as suspicious, dangerous or “un-American”.
Twitter should take this down now.
November 1 pic.twitter.com/5yCRlkZlzM
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 28, 2021
re: #111 Charles Johnson
Do they really think nobody notices the editorial board’s far right biases? https://t.co/DETaR6joZ6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2021
The WSJ editorial page has always been trash. When Al Hunt was at the paper, his column would be the rare voice of sanity. But other than that, the WSJ editorial page and opinion columnists propagated nothing but lies and deceit.
re: #114 The GOP is a terrorist organization
Twitter should take this down now.
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I have him blocked. If you don’t, you shouod report it.
Nice two-sided color flyer/door hanger in my mailbox today.
Essentially the test ballot for the Democrats running for local and state-level offices. Specific for the township I live in since it covers the local school board and township supervisor offices as well.
Lucy, the spacecraft NASA sent out to explore the asteroids, has a solar panel that won’t fully open. It seems some type 9f lanyard is keeping it from fully opening. They estimate it’s between 75 and 95% fully open.
Getting things under wraps with November closing in, the hairs on the back of my neck tingle.
I slowly turn to see The Coop in full stealth mode biding his time to pounce.
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re: #116 Belafon
I have him blocked. If you don’t, you shouod report it.
I did.
Any other lizards on Twitter should do it too.
To see America through the lens of mainstream media is to believe we are a majority Conservative nation with a vocal minority of Liberals who hate “Real America” and are just trying to make things unnecessarily hard for everybody.
Click through this story to read the list of books being targeted by the Texas GOP. It certainly rips the “parental concern” mask off the shrieking bigotry behind these coordinated efforts. https://t.co/2gyQdATC0J
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 28, 2021
re: #111 Charles Johnson
Screwpert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Pravda.
re: #124 JOE 🥓
Murdoch stole it from the Bancrofts.
re: #122 jaunte
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In a hearing in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Gov Affairs today, @ma_franks had a sharp response to Sen. Ron Johnson, who pushed the idea that social media moderation favors the left. She noted the asymmetry of the problem on the right as it relates to extremism. pic.twitter.com/nsPrxMplMV
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) October 28, 2021
Welp, Turdley’s at it again:
it’s remarkable this guy’s evolution to fox’s fav lib law prof to professional troll to alt right cheerleader. comment below is a cheap slur. there’s nothing ‘highly controversial’ about Elias’ career. he’s highly respected even among his courtroom opponents. https://t.co/GJOBnKkElB
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 28, 2021
re: #127 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Ron Johnson wasn’t expecting a woman to respond with so many facts.
What happened? I tried to go to the home page and was told that the server was not responding.
re: #129 jaunte
Ron Johnson wasn’t expecting a woman to respond with so many facts.
Yep. I also noticed he left the hearing room. Probably to apply an ice pack to his ass that she readily handed back to him. :-)
NEW: The top federal judge in D.C. ripped the Justice Department for an “almost schizophrenic” approach to proescuting Jan. 6 rioters — using sweeping rhetoric to describe their crimes but agreeing to light misdemeanor plea deals.
w/ @joshgersteinhttps://t.co/CVHttENQnr— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 28, 2021
During the hearing, defense lawyer Heather Shaner also criticized Fox News and Laura Ingraham for what she claimed was a misleading portrayal of her client, Anna Morgan-Lloyd’s post-plea interview.
Howell said judges felt “played” by Morgan-Lloyd.https://t.co/CVHttENQnr— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 28, 2021
re: #124 JOE 🥓
Screwpert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Pravda.
The editorial page was vile years before the publication was acquired by Murdoch — and anti-science and fact-free
“Now if any of you have had the intellectual curiosity to read Mein Kampf…” is his third sentence.
— Extremily GorCIAnski (@EmilyGorcenski) October 28, 2021
Cantwell: the greatest ideological divide of the right is race
— Extremily GorCIAnski (@EmilyGorcenski) October 28, 2021
re: #133 Hecuba’s daughter
The editorial page was vile years before the publication was acquired by Murdoch — and anti-science and fact-free
I’m sure the WSJ editorials have been awful for longer than any of us have been alive.
THIS is what real journalism looks like. Kudos @MacFarlaneNews https://t.co/hNL95ppaUV
— Sandi Bachom (@sandibachom) October 28, 2021
re: #101 Charles Johnson
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re: #134 gocart mozart
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Douchebag’s based in Keene, NH which has some diversity because of the university there, but really very little. Drive 50 miles in any direction (except toward Brattleboro, VT) and most areas are basically 100% white.
re: #111 Charles Johnson
Of course they don’t. The Right thinks its amusing that they tell outrageous lies and it doesn’t matter that everyone knows they are lying except their most dimwitted fans.
re: #131 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Yep. I also noticed he left the hearing room. Probably to apply an ice pack to his ass that she readily handed back to him. :-)
He was there to make his speech and then probably to hurry off to Faux News or Noisemax to claim how he demolished those who are trying to keep conservatives from spreading their lies.
re: #134 gocart mozart
He wants to be convicted so he can be a martyr for the White Race…
re: #131 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Yep. I also noticed he left the hearing room. Probably to apply an ice pack to his ass that she readily handed back to him. :-)
Ron Johnsonwax can dish it out but he can’t take it.
re: #142 JOE 🥓
The old saying comes to mind: If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.
NEW: Ransomware hackers believed tied to a sanctioned Russian criminal organization claim to have hacked the NRA, and published several recent files from the org as proof: https://t.co/poBY0MmIby
— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) October 27, 2021
Many replies here seem to think this is part of a master plan, bringing together some ransomware links to Russian organized crime, that world’s ties to Putin, & Russian donations to the NRA. That’s a lot of speculation. As a rule, always first assume ransomware is motivated by $.
— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) October 28, 2021
Cuomo is in deep shit. Good. But wtf. What about Trump. Smh
re: #143 PhillyPretzel
The old saying comes to mind: If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.
Except for most of today’s Republicans, the main attitude seems to be “If you can’t take the heat, demand to see the manager and scream at them to turn the A/C up….”
(And then go home and post carping reviews on Yelp…..)
re: #90 ericblair
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I can’t keep those three words in my head at the same time.
re: #146 Jay C
Yes that is what a lot of them do today.
re: #144 Dread Pirate Ron
Is it Ransomware…OR did the Tiny Penis Club scrub their files?
re: #136 jaunte
They should just pretend that the perpetrators were Black or Muslim and then we’d see real sentences. A Black woman is stuck in jail for five years just for improperly voting based on a misunderstanding for goodness sake.
re: #152 Patricia Kayden
They should just pretend that the perpetrators were Black or Muslim and then we’d see real sentences. A Black woman is stuck in jail for five years just for improperly voting based on a misunderstanding for goodness sake.
And a couple white assholes in PA get slapped on the wrist…
re: #152 Patricia Kayden
They should just pretend that the perpetrators were Black or Muslim and then we’d see real sentences. A Black woman is stuck in jail for five years just for improperly voting based on a misunderstanding for goodness sake.
Meta Black. Virtually Black.
Yikes. The weather map is getting too colorful again. Philly is going to get it tomorrow.
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re: #136 jaunte
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We have to realize that the attempted coup is ongoing — not just in GOP states which are doing their best to disenfranchise people of color and other voters who support Democrats — but in Washington DC itself where GOP Senators are maliciously blocking a host of Biden appointees. They are neutering this administration so that it fails, as well as promoting anti-vaccine anti-mask propaganda so that the people will continue to become ill and die, leading to further economic decline.
Meanwhile some Chicago aldermen are trying to stop vaccine mandates, because of the hostility from city workers, especially police and firefighters. The police need to be totally reformed and it’s not clear how that is possible given how entrenched the racism and brutality remain in their departments nationwide.
re: #153 JOE 🥓
And a couple white assholes in PA get slapped on the wrist…
Because the woman was in Texas. This would not have happened to her in PA; indeed she might have been able to vote legally there.
re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
That is most likely the case.
“False flags!?” Bullshit https://t.co/FBi03zAvoc
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) October 28, 2021
Is Rupert Murdoch a 1/6 or election truther? https://t.co/IvkAChcjCB
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) October 28, 2021
“By airing it, Fox News demonstrates yet again a willingness to profit from tearing the country down.” https://t.co/sdTClqHARz
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) October 28, 2021
re: #141 JOE 🥓
He wants to be convicted so he can be a martyr for the White Race…
I can come to peace with that.
The paid leave bill for federal employees that Trump signed into law was passed as part of the 2020 defense authorization, which Manchin voted for. https://t.co/ZYS8nnZLMO
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 27, 2021
re: #156 Hecuba’s daughter
…
Meanwhile some Chicago aldermen are trying to stop vaccine mandates, because of the hostility from city workers, especially police and firefighters. The police need to be totally reformed and it’s not clear how that is possible given how entrenched the racism and brutality remain in their departments nationwide.
Who run Chicago Town?
Look here’s another DEMS ARE TEH BAAAD GUYS!!!!!
“Warren, Tester, Klobuchar, Baldwin, etc could’ve made same threats in exchange for the same power.”
Oh they “could’ve” but they didn’t. Maybe they are not all self absorbed assholes?
Her sole power was that she was willing to tank the reconciliation bill. Warren, Tester, Klobuchar, Baldwin, etc could’ve made same threats in exchange for the same power.
— Stephen Robinson (@SER1897) October 28, 2021
re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
Because the woman was in Texas. This would not have happened to her in PA; indeed she might have been able to vote legally there.
She would not have been able to vote, because she’s not a citizen. But I agree with the rest of what you said. (Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but it can be a mitigating factor.)
re: #166 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
She would not have been able to vote, because she’s not a citizen. But I agree with the rest of what you said. (Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but it can be a mitigating factor.)
The woman sentenced to 5 years in prison was a citizen, Crystal Mason. She was on supervised release from prison. The whole case is a disgrace as are the racists in power in Texas.
re: #167 Hecuba’s daughter
I believe you but I am getting a “this page does not exist” message.
Was the wife planning to address the server in the third person? https://t.co/kEMO0jxr1c
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) October 27, 2021
re: #167 Hecuba’s daughter
Here is the Wiki page:
en.wikipedia.org
“It’s the truth that you should never trust anybody who wears a bow tie. Cravat’s supposed to point down to accentuate the genitals.”
- Tucker Carlson— Edwin (@EdMix13) October 28, 2021
re: #171 gocart mozart
Tucker would have a major problem with the late Thatcher Longstreth. He always wore a bow tie.
re: #168 PhillyPretzel
I believe you but I am getting a “this page does not exist” message.
Try again — I’m not sure what happened with my link.
re: #173 Hecuba’s daughter
I reloaded and it works I also looked it up on Wiki so I got the story.
Meta as in “we are a cancer to democracy metastasizing into a global surveillance and propaganda machine for boosting authoritarian regimes and destroying civil society… for profit!” https://t.co/jzOcCFaWkJ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 28, 2021
re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
Because the woman was in Texas. This would not have happened to her in PA; indeed she might have been able to vote legally there.
Felons who have served should be able to vote. The issue about what is a felony is a different matter.
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
AI is still falilng.
re: #176 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Felons who have served should be able to vote. The issue about what is a felony is a different matter.
IIRC, she voted having been told her rights had been restored.
re: #178 Decatur Deb
IIRC, she voted having been told her rights had been restored.
No — she didn’t know. But she cast a provisional ballot, it wasn’t counted, and she was charged with a crime anyway.
re: #141 JOE 🥓
He wants to be convicted so he can be a martyr for the White Race…
He’s not important enough to be a martyr.
re: #167 Hecuba’s daughter
The woman sentenced to 5 years in prison was a citizen, Crystal Mason. She was on supervised release from prison. The whole case is a disgrace as are the racists in power in Texas.
Oops, guess I mixed her up with another case. Still agree about the disgrace.
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