Seth takes a closer look at beltway insiders ludicrously blaming progressives for Republicans winning big in a closely watched race in Virginia last night.
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re: #1 JC1
So much quiet… This has been up for 25 minutes and no posts yet.
Sorry, I’m late. Had to pledge allegiance to Satan and make my daily sacrifice to George Soros.
You know how it goes.
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A G3 geomagnetic storm brings rainbow auroras to Enumclaw, Washington this morning. Shot w/ @FujifilmX_US XE-4 w/16mm 1.4 #wawx #AuroraBorealis @TamithaSkov @NWSSeattle @TweetAurora @RandySmall @ScottSeattleWx @WaWxChasers pic.twitter.com/ePPSwANDls
— Jeff Knesebeck ☀️ 💨 🌎 (@JeffreyK_WA) November 4, 2021
re: #1 JC1
So much quiet… This has been up for 25 minutes and no posts yet.
Well since you insist. My pasta machine and ravioli stamps came in yesterday. I’ll pick up the ingredients for meat filled ravioli sometime this afternoon.
HUGE—In South Korea 🇰🇷, major study found mandatory wearing of masks reduced #COVID19 rates by 93.5% and practicing both social distancing with masks on public transport during peak hours reduced infection rates by 98.1%. 👀 #MaskUp #COVIDisAirborne https://t.co/B41w14dbp1 pic.twitter.com/VgaPOndukl
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 4, 2021
“It’s not acceptable. … There is no reason in present-day society that we should allow this sort of facility to exist.” https://t.co/mAlJzFmox1 ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) November 4, 2021
Watched the Rand Paul clip from above. I want to be his neighbor.
I think I’ve mentioned that we’re going through major internal changes at the evil too big to fail employer. One of my coworkers noted that this was like going to a new job.
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That said, I did figure out how to mute my mic on my fancy new bone conducting headset in Microsoft Teams. Just muting from the “omnibar” in Teams causes an annoying beep. I actually have to click into settings, device settings and then mute from there. Apparently MSFT introduced this beeping in a recent Teams upgrade.
re: #1 JC1
So much quiet… This has been up for 25 minutes and no posts yet.
I was catching up on the previous thread.
BTW, regarding that CNN Texas “milk paupers” story we were going over in the last thread, Laura Clawson at Daily Kos has a diary up on the subject: TL;DR version: it’s not about the family, or milk prices, or inflation in general: the big problem is CNN (what a surprise!! //).
I just got an estimate for getting the gutters replaced and HOLY SHIT.
Judge Schroeder in the Rittenhouse trial, for some strange reason, decided to give the jury a law school class on the hearsay rule, which veered off into a discussion of a Bible passage on the trial of Paul. pic.twitter.com/UHgUvrXTMs
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 3, 2021
How young is too young to teach kids about race? https://t.co/KyJPcrP98M
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 4, 2021
And frankly a lot of white kids are taught from day one by watching/listening to their parents, albeit the wrong lessons.
— Tim “Chauvin murdered Floyd” Robichaud (@Tim_theOK) November 4, 2021
But hey, some parents are mad that kids are learning that racism exists and that hurts their delicate fee fees….the parents’, not the kids. Everyone knows the best way to solve a problem is to pretend it doesn’t exist! With the added bonus of inoculating yourself from accusations of racism, because if it doesn’t exist, how can you be racist?!
The Grim Reaper goes on:
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re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron
But it’s not 100% therefore they’re useless. //
re: #15 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Four out of 33 employees dead or incapacitated due to COVID?
Pretty high casualty rate IMO - presumably no one at the company is/was vaccinated??
re: #17 Jay C
Four out of 33 employees dead or incapacitated due to COVID?
Pretty high casualty rate IMO - presumably no one at the company is/was vaccinated??
It’s Lubbock, so that’s a pretty safe bet.
re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron
That’s gonna take some time to read. Great to see it, thanks much
We all live in different bubbles of one kind or another. People I know who hate Trump and vote straight Democratic were ranting before Tuesday about the failure to get the bipartisan bill through. Manchin and Sinema are to blame for the delay in the BBB, but the public doesn’t see this — what they do see is the inability of the Democrats to pass the hard infrastructure bill. And the progressives will bear the blame if nothing passes and voters will not come out in 2022. It may not be “fair” but it is reality. If voters want more programs to help them, they need to vote for more Democrats.
We all bemoan how the MSM is in the pocket of the GOP — it’s not as though a majority of the country favors the bill. A large majority of Democrats do, but not a majority of this country. You can provide all the examples you want of voters favoring many of the BBB provisions, but these voters will turn completely against the Democrats if the smaller bill fails because it will just illustrate that Democrats refuse to get things done to benefit the country, when they had an opportunity. If the small bill passes, you can use that as an argument to elect more Democrats in 2022. If neither bill passes, then the future is dark indeed.
The Democrats have no leverage over Manchin and Sinema. Let’s see if something finally passes. If it does, then the future will look more optimistic. The Dems can orchestrate a series of ads pointing out each provision that the GOP voted against.
Oh she does not know when to shut up.
‘A travesty!’ MAGA rioter lashes out at the media after getting hit with six-month prison sentence
Awwwwww! She can’t handle the fact that she’s going to jail!
MAGA rioter Jenna Ryan on Thursday lashed out at the media after she received a six-month prison sentence after boasting earlier this year that she was “definitely not” going to jail.
WATCH: Jenna Ryan spoke to @EricFlackTV after her sentencing today. He asked if she had a statement of remorse. She blamed the media for her jail time, and said she should be able to tweet without being “persecuted.” #CapitolRiot pic.twitter.com/RoIyAPsQ2b
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) November 4, 2021
re: #17 Jay C
Four out of 33 employees dead or incapacitated due to COVID?
Pretty high casualty rate IMO - presumably no one at the company is/was vaccinated??
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But he ignored them and drove away in his $80,000 Maserati. Chuckling, probably. https://t.co/qkpR4nZ0vx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 4, 2021
re: #3 JOE 🥓
Rand Paul is quite possibly the biggest asshole in DC.
re: #22 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #11 Jay C
BTW, regarding that CNN Texas “milk paupers” story we were going over in the last thread, Laura Clawson at Daily Kos has a diary up on the subject: TL;DR version: it’s not about the family, or milk prices, or inflation in general: the big problem is CNN (what a surprise!! //).
A lot of media “not in balance” issue is the not-so-visible editorial side where they pick and choose events to fit the desired narrative or what the editorial staff decide is the best eyeball-chasing stories to actually broadcast. Which, in part I think, trends rightward since those are chasing the outrage by both the conservatives *and* the liberals. Conservatives who those in the stories echo what they think/want to be true about the various boogeymen the conservative talking points yell about. Liberals essentially get to see ignorance and stupidity in action to feel insulted about.
Might be time to do a mini-poll among my friends and relatives. (And tempted to try on Facebook as well for a slightly wider group.) I’m curious to see what their top 2-3 sources are for current events and politics in the country.
re: #21 JOE 🥓
Oh she does not know when to shut up.
‘A travesty!’ MAGA rioter lashes out at the media after getting hit with six-month prison sentence
Awwwwww! She can’t handle the fact that she’s going to jail!
MAGA rioter Jenna Ryan on Thursday lashed out at the media after she received a six-month prison sentence after boasting earlier this year that she was “definitely not” going to jail.
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Ha ha! The privileged classes just aren’t what they used to be. Marie Antoinette, for example, showed great courage and composure when she went to the guillotine and she wasn’t the only one by any means. Now a short jail sentence, the kind these gentry-MAGATs gleefully send poor people to every day, has them melting down like spoiled children.
re: #27 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
As always, it’s the audience that is the problem for pointing out that the story doesn’t hold water.https://t.co/TvhGFhUyk5
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) November 4, 2021
If both parties went off the rails into paranoia, voters in both parties would call the other party a danger to society. But if one party went off the rails while the other remained within normal range, voters in both parties would still call the other party a danger to society.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) November 2, 2021
Bothsides and Whatabout are pure tried and true propaganda techniques. If everyone or anyone is guilty of it nothing in particular matters. Cynicism to get us to resign to our fate.
— michael mattison (@Mattison_MA) November 2, 2021
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
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but the 1/6 ‘protesters’ had to share a nail clipper……..
“It’s not acceptable. … There is no reason in present-day society that we should allow this sort of facility to exist.” https://t.co/mAlJzFmox1 ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) November 4, 2021
re: #31 Dangerman
Aren’t these the same people who tout the virtues of privatizing prisons?
Dude, you have an office down the hall from mine. Maybe you should visit campus once in a while. https://t.co/vozOkJpDRU
— Bear Braumoeller (@Prof_BearB) November 4, 2021
re: #15 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The Grim Reaper goes on:
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re: #12 The Pie Overlord!
I just got an estimate for getting the gutters replaced and HOLY SHIT.
Is it enough to make you want to get the supplies from Home Depot and do it yourself? My dad (RIP) replaced shingles on the roof of the house until he was 75 (scared me to death). That stopped when there was a haboob with microburst which took off half the roof. It was too much for him to do alone, so he gave in and had the whole roof replaced.
Another day in ‘Murca. Let’s Go Brandon! (and Trump has had a garbanzo on his face).
A 16-year-old Georgia student who was shot in the head while waiting for a school bus has died
The suspect and the victim knew each other and there had been some sort of conflict between them.
Guns don’t kill! Abolish teenage rivalry instead!/
re: #36 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The suspect had previously been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony.
But no, we don’t need any gun laws.
//
Enthusiastic parents and kids across America.
- Willmar, MN: “KIDS GET THEIR TURN”
- Jopin, MO: “Kids, roll up your sleeves”
- Elyria, OH: “Kids vax popular”
- Dallas, TX: “A few tears, many smiles” pic.twitter.com/cr6wV1oZug— Benjy Renton (@bhrenton) November 4, 2021
So, the Grim Reaper is named Brandon? Who knew?
Dinner with working class folk hero John Dammit Vance and the big tech billionaire bankrolling his campaign will only set you back $10,800. https://t.co/exAsGYmGU8
— Appodlachia Podcast (@appodlachia) November 4, 2021
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Enthusiastic parents and kids across America.
- Willmar, MN: “KIDS GET THEIR TURN”
- Jopin, MO: “Kids, roll up your sleeves”
- Elyria, OH: “Kids vax popular”
- Dallas, TX: “A few tears, many smiles” pic.twitter.com/cr6wV1oZug— Benjy Renton (@bhrenton) November 4, 2021
Not to worry, Repugs. We still don’t have a vaccine against bullets.
re: #31 Dangerman
but the 1/6 ‘protesters’ had to share a nail clipper……..
This is a gut-wrenching article about how bad overcrowding makes living conditions - bordering on human rights abuses.
But here’s the dirty secret: there are financial incentives for this kind of overcrowding and our penal code reflects that.https://t.co/5PFwG3zk4u https://t.co/571f3ze0lb— Dustin Pugel (@Dpugel) November 4, 2021
The Senate has confirmed Robert Santos as the next U.S. Census Bureau director. As a third-generation Mexican American, he will be the first person of color to lead the nation’s largest statistical agency on a permanent basis. https://t.co/WD2RhzfnTY
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 4, 2021
Let me help your research team…the precedent is Jacobson v Mass, 197 US 11(1905)
Related: STOP WASTING MY TAXES pic.twitter.com/EEw0st16D9— Blatina Momma, Esq. (@73mbh) November 4, 2021
When I was a kid, nobody taught me about race - except other kids, from whom I learned an amazing assortment of racial slurs at a very young age. https://t.co/ERUs9UEkgw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 4, 2021
re: #46 Charles Johnson
Oh same here starting with the first day of kindergarten…
re: #35 mmmirele
Is it enough to make you want to get the supplies from Home Depot and do it yourself? My dad (RIP) replaced shingles on the roof of the house until he was 75 (scared me to death). That stopped when there was a haboob with microburst which took off half the roof. It was too much for him to do alone, so he gave in and had the whole roof replaced.
apropos of doing it yourself and because i have five minutes to vent
the other night we saw our dishwasher didnt drain
so i quick reran the cycle
next day it was full again but we hadn’t run it
all of a sudden backing up from the disposal?
nope. it’s clean water
a little google and more than likely its the inlet valve
turned off the supply valve and next day no water, so yup
took off the kick plate, doesnt seem too hard but wait…
it’s copper pipe, a compression fitting and a bad angle for my weary bones so…
probably coulda called a plumber or a local fix-it, but who knows who to call, so…
whirlpool website, we book an appointment and they route it to a local company for the next day! note: “Dishwasher fills with clean water. Likely the inlet valve”
got a confirming email
day before got a confirming text from the local
night before got a confirming phone call from the local
an hour before the appointed time, mrsdm gets a phone call “part is discontinued by whirlpool, nothing can be done, click.”
ok it is 25 years old, but we havent heard one good word from anyone who replaced a dishwasher in the last 15 years.
back to google. oh wait, there is a replacement part.
on the whirlpool website
guess who makes it? whirlpool
off to amazon. the whirlpool store on amazon
same part - half the price
off to youtube
we learn a bit about compression fittings, hopefully enough
we’re gonna tackle it tomorrow morning.
probably not as big a deal as it first seemed to me.
after all, we built a pond (but there’s no water under pressure)
water’s shut off, so if all else fails, then we can call a plumber
re: #36 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Another day in ‘Murca. Let’s Go Brandon! (and Trump has had a garbanzo on his face).
A 16-year-old Georgia student who was shot in the head while waiting for a school bus has died
The suspect and the victim knew each other and there had been some sort of conflict between them.
Guns don’t kill! Abolish teenage rivalry instead!/
wanna stop school shootings?
close the schools
re: #46 Charles Johnson
I was in Kindergarten when I started to realize some kids got treated very differently than others.
re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth
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doesnt say you’re invited
says for $10,800 you get the details
Dinner with working class folk hero John Dammit Vance and the big tech billionaire bankrolling his campaign will only set you back $10,800. https://t.co/exAsGYmGU8
— Appodlachia Podcast (@appodlachia) November 4, 2021
Catch me in the @latimes today, sharing my experiences being profiled by sherrifs, as part of their investigation. The data proves what we all know, police profile people riding their bikes #BikeLA #EastLA @peopleforMJ via @AleneTchek https://t.co/O6NossU6Qu pic.twitter.com/Hx6yvgsu4T
— (╯°□°）╯︵∀⊥ᴚƎ∩H ⋊ƆIᴚƎ (@ElRandomHero) November 4, 2021
I love how many media outlets are now attempting to frame the (racist as fuck) right wing freakout over CRT as “kids are too young to learn about race.”
Please.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 4, 2021
Baby gorilla born at Ohio zoo for first time in its 139-year history: https://t.co/wpWpDoxJV5 pic.twitter.com/TsMBw886z9
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) November 4, 2021
The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo announced Thursday the birth of a male gorilla, the first born at the Zoo in its 139-year history.
The infant western lowland gorilla was born the morning of October 26, 2021, to mom, 23-year-old Nneka, and dad, 34-year-old Mokolo. He weighed approximately 3 pounds at birth.
The Zoo said when Nneka did not show appropriate maternal care, the troop’s eldest female, Fredrika or “Freddy”, 47, instinctively took over maternal care of the newborn. Freddy has raised four infants.
History has repeatedly figured out that Rand Paul is egregiously incorrect but he won’t stop talking.
— Geiiga (@anyone_famous) November 4, 2021
re: #51 Dangerman
doesnt say you’re invited
says for $10,800 you get the details
A fake working class hero is nothing to be, you’re nothing but an aspiring czar to me.
#MarjorieTaylorGreene, has been fined $48K, for not wearing a mask on the house floor 20 times. That’s 1/4 of her Congressional salary. Let’s hope she keeps it up because America deserves to get back 100% of the money that they’ve been obliged to spend on this worthless baggage.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) November 4, 2021
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rand Paul’s never correct about anything. A reactionary shithead.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
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CRT is the Bigfoot of politics. All these guys say it’s real. But not one bone, hair, or even a poop sample has ever been proven. Nobody has the textbook, the curriculum, or even a lesson plan for elementary to high school CRT. And they sure don’t want to talk about the glaring gaps between the “All Men Created Equal” and slavery, then the emancipation proclamation and the equal rights act. Or voting act.
“Creeping Sharia” last time. Or was it Obama gonna take my guns?
re: #60 Rightwingconspirator
CRT is the Bigfoot of politics. All these guys say it’s real. But not one bone, hair, or even a poop sample has ever been proven. Nobody has the textbook, the curriculum, or even a lesson plan for elementary to high school CRT. And they sure don’t want to talk about the glaring gaps between the “All Men Created Equal” and slavery, then the emancipation proclamation and the equal rights act. Or voting act.
“Creeping Sharia” last time. Or was it Obama gonna take my guns?
They want a dumbed down version of history to teach kids. Honestly, the more history I learn and I’m usually reading something historical (listening to the Power Broker now), the more I realize how significant a role race has played in our country and that to deny it is absurd. Highly recommend everyone watch Henry Louis Gates’ four part series on Reconstruction. Infuriating to watch really because Reconstruction had it succeeded in its proponents intentions would have had this country in a much better direction post 1865.
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
Is it confirmed that this has actually been deducted from her salary?
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re: #60 Rightwingconspirator
CRT is the Bigfoot of politics. All these guys say it’s real. But not one bone, hair, or even a poop sample has ever been proven. Nobody has the textbook, the curriculum, or even a lesson plan for elementary to high school CRT. And they sure don’t want to talk about the glaring gaps between the “All Men Created Equal” and slavery, then the emancipation proclamation and the equal rights act. Or voting act.
“Creeping Sharia” last time. Or was it Obama gonna take my guns?
remember ‘caravans’, and not a picture of even one
This is similar to the way the re-introduction of wolves into ? Yellowstone Park changed all sorts of things for the better. In this case, the Otters are the predators who clean up on sea urchins, etc. Fascinating article. At least people who object to wolves surely can’t object to sea otters!
The Cutest Way to Fight Climate Change? Send in the Otters
Saving California’s adorable (and very hungry) sea otters helps control other species, leading to the growth of more carbon-sequestering vegetation.
wired.com
re: #61 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They want a dumbed down version of history to teach kids. Honestly, the more history I learn and I’m usually reading something historical (listening to the Power Broker now), the more I realize how significant a role race has played in our country and that to deny it is absurd. Highly recommend everyone watch Henry Louis Gates’ four part series on Reconstruction. Infuriating to watch really because Reconstruction had it succeeded in its proponents intentions would have had this country in a much better direction post 1865.
I think that you’re giving them too much credit. They (the GOP politicians) don’t really care what gets taught in schools. Their kids go to boarding schools and Ivy League colleges. CRT is just the latest outrageous outrage of the day, like migrant caravans and whatever BS issue they spin up every cycle to rile up their base.
re: #65 JC1
I think that you’re giving them too much credit. They (the GOP politicians) don’t really care what gets taught in schools. Their kids go to boarding schools and Ivy League colleges. CRT is just the latest outrageous outrage of the day, like migrant caravans and whatever BS issue they spin up every cycle to rile up their base.
True. Just another way to rally up the base. I’m disappointed it worked and got enough swing voters into Youngkin’s camp. I saw that Sears, who isn’t from here originally either was pulling the out of state liberals ruined Virginia card. Exactly why I’m pissed about this election. Funny how it didn’t matter that George Allen, Ed Gillespie, Corey Stewart, Ken Cuccinelli, and Bob McDonnell weren’t from here.
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
And if she pulls a DT and doesn’t pay…what happens next?
re: #63 Dangerman
remember ‘caravans’, and not a picture of even one
Funny how the caravans always show up near election time to get Republicans who live nowhere near the southern border spun up.
Strike a blow against elitism by shelling out $10,800 to have dinner with these two far right jackweasels! https://t.co/jvqvJjx2MZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 4, 2021
re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg
And if she pulls a DT and doesn’t pay…what happens next?
Take it from her paycheck. Or lien her house.
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
I think it’s designed to be taken direct from her pay.
Unfortunately people like her see the fine as just part of the cost of performance.
re: #69 Charles Johnson
Someone should ask if it’s okay to bring a vial of virgin’s blood (I think I recall a weird story about Thiel having some weird obsession with it). But yep just your garden variety working class heroes right here. Tim Ryan isn’t my favorite Democrat but I hope he goes after these frauds with all he can. They don’t care about anyone who isn’t bankrolling their shitty movement.
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
Take it from her paycheck. Or lien her house.
The Detroit News states “The fines are deducted from their congressional pay of $174,000 annually” but is there definitive confirmation that the fines are actually being paid?
Remember this asshole?
Remember his name—Jason Robo!
He’s been FIRED
KMUD news director Lauren Schmitt said “immediate action is being taken” after Robo made “several deplorable statements,” the Times of San Diego reports.
Robo had reportedly had the gig for five years.
Robo may also be in trouble for an incident two days before the hearing.
“Meanwhile, Robo is facing a possible defamation suit by the owner of Roma Mia restaurant in the Gaslamp District. Restaurateur Sergio Torrisi said Robo, 39, drove drunk into an outdoor dining area a half-hour after the Fourth Avenue eatery closed at 10 p.m. Sunday and later lied about the Halloween night incident that allegedly saw Robo pepper-spray the Italian restaurant’s manager,” the Times of San Diego reports.
re: #75 JOE 🥓
Oh, he was a right wing “comedian”. We should have recognized the material.
“You should resign, [Nora] Vargas. I can’t wait for your arteries to clog. They’re not doing it fast enough. And Nathan [Fletcher], you should kill yourself. … A dishonorable discharge would be you blowing your brains out. … [Terra] Lawson-Remer, I like to call you a little monkey. I’d like to see you hang from a tree. And [Dr. Wilma] Wooten, you’re a f*cking Aunt Jemima,” Robo said.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
From my birth in 1966 until I was enrolled in first grade in 1972, I learned from one set of grandparents and their neighbors that black people were scary and bad.
In 1972, Portsmouth’s elementary schools finally integrated. Most of the children of my grandparent’s younger neighbors and I were assigned to a black teacher. (I lived two blocks up the street from that set of grandparents, then.) According to my mother years later, my childhood playmates’ parents raised a big stink about their children being taught by a black person and had their children reassigned to classes taught by white teachers.
My mother’s family were more liberal on race than my father’s (so, from that, you can guess which set of grandparents lived in this neighborhood). According to my mother, she decided not to join the other parents and kept me with the teacher to whom I was assigned.
From the first day of school onward, I learned that my paternal grandparents and their neighbors racist attitudes were bullshit. (Though I didn’t use that term then. Especially not in front of adults.)
re: #72 jaunte
Unfortunately people like her see the fine as just part of the cost of performance.
She and her husband have grifted themselves a small fortune so her salary is unimportant.
Love seeing this racist getting karmic retribution in the courtroom!
Richard Spencer confronted with ‘embarrassing’ evidence as he takes the stand in Charlottesville conspiracy trial
Richard Spencer, the preeminent leader of the white nationalist movement in 2017, took the witness stand in a federal courtroom in Charlottesville, Virginia on Thursday and testified about his role as a headline speaker at the violent Unite the Right rally that resulted in the death of antiracist activist Heather Heyer.
Spencer testified on Thursday that he is not a white supremacist or someone who believes that white people should rule over people of other races.
The plaintiffs played audio for the jury of Spencer launching into a tirade in the presence of co-defendants Jason Kessler, Nathan Damigo and Elliott Kline after learning about Heyer’s death following the Aug. 12, 2017 rally. (The leaked audio was previously published by alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in 2019.
“Little fucking k*kes,” Spencer said. “They get ruled by me. Little f*cking octoroons… I f*cking… my ancestors f*cking enslaved those pieces of f*cking sh*t. I rule the f*cking world. Those pieces of f*cking sh*t get ruled by people like me. They look up and see a face like mine looking down at them. That’s how the f*cking world works. We are going to destroy this f*cking town.”
Soooo the moose in Saskatoon just broke through the window at Sylvia Fedoruk school.
No one was hurt. Kids are fine.
What a morning. #yxe pic.twitter.com/GrnldG5J4z— Pat Dubois (@patdubois) November 4, 2021
“Petunia” was lightly injured but has been tranquilized and relocated.
re: #46 Charles Johnson
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when I was a kid, my parents told me that Black people were like, if Jews could be identified on sight from 50 yards away. Everything that anybody said or did to us when they found out we were Jewish, Black people didn’t have to wait for anyone to find out.
re: #80 jaunte
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“Petunia” was lightly injured but has been tranquilized and relocated.
No mask…sad.
re: #81 sagehen
when I was a kid, my parents told me that Black people were like, if Jews could be identified on sight from 50 yards away. Everything that anybody said or did to us when they found out we were Jewish, Black people didn’t have to wait for anyone to find out.
It’s always rubbed me wrong when people claim they don’t see race. Having talked to and mostly listened to black people talk about it, I know that’s a patronizing and bs way of going about it. I don’t describe myself as “woke” because I understand the word’s actual definition has nothing to do with what’s called that. I do try to be aware of race, ethnicity and my own privilege.
re: #48 Dangerman
probably coulda called a plumber or a local fix-it, but who knows who to call, so…
whirlpool website, we book an appointment and they route it to a local company for the
One of the best things about living in a co-op. Anything needs fixing, I tell the doorman on duty. He fills out a task ticket, and one of the building’s handymen shows up within a couple of hours.
re: #85 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s always rubbed me wrong when people claim they don’t see race.
The first internal reaction is “how stupid do you think I am to buy that?”
re: #46 Charles Johnson
You were lucky. I learned attitudes from my parents, who weren’t outright racists when I was really young, but we tended to avoid places where blacks were. That changed when I had a Latina girlfriend for a while. Afterwards, mom told me not to do that again.
Jenna Ryan gets 60 days in the clink.
“I wasn’t saying I was above prison, I just felt that it would be unlikely since I was pleading to entering the Capitol for 2 minutes and 8 seconds. Now I realize that was a false notion, but having a false notion does not automatically mean I deserve incarceration,” she wrote. “A tweet of me taking up for myself against a bully who is harassing me does not indicate that I feel above-the-law.”
Also, she’s still a fucking idiot. The judge told her to think about where she gets her news from in the future.
re: #87 jaunte
The first internal reaction is “how stupid do you think I am to buy that?”
It’s so damn patronizing.
re: #64 retired cynic
This is similar to the way the re-introduction of wolves into ? Yellowstone Park changed all sorts of things for the better. In this case, the Otters are the predators who clean up on sea urchins, etc. Fascinating article. At least people who object to wolves surely can’t object to sea otters!
The Cutest Way to Fight Climate Change? Send in the Otters
Saving California’s adorable (and very hungry) sea otters helps control other species, leading to the growth of more carbon-sequestering vegetation.
wired.com
I saw a PBS documentary a little while ago
Serengeti Rules
(54 minutes, free)
about what they call keystone species, who through a whole Rube Goldberg chain reaction are the answer to restoring damaged ecosystems. They give whole case studies (with gorgeous cinematography) about tide pools, tropical rain forests, veldt, your otters/kelp beds example, etc…
This is an even more damning indictment of that CNN “milk” family story this morning. It left out this critical information and said nothing about the fight in DC to extend these benefits to help families like these even more. This type of narrative shapes policy - in bad ways. https://t.co/OOMAcWZ0kb
re: #93 jaunte
That is brutally bad reporting.
re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg
And if she pulls a DT and doesn’t pay…what happens next?
I’ve read it’s withheld from her pay. Oops!
I’m impressed that no CNN producer looked at milk story’s claims (12 gallons a week, used to be $1.99/gal, etc.) before it aired and went, “Wait a minute.”
48 gallons of milk per month didn’t even raise an eyebrow. That’s some impressive obtuseness.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 4, 2021
re: #95 William Lewis
I’ve read it’s withheld from her pay. Oops!
unfortunately, more than made up in donations
re: #98 Dangerman
unfortunately, more than made up in donations
To be sure but anything less stolen by her from our taxes is a plus.
re: #59 IngisKahn
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Well according to my bible thumping hissters and pulpit pimps I was already twice damned for transitioning and practicing my Pagan/Wiccan faith even before I got any ink. So I am now thrice damned apparently.
re: #63 Dangerman
remember ‘caravans’, and not a picture of even one
I got this one as it closed in on Lubbock. They never arrived though, no doubt frightened out of it by the stern posture and steely gaze of local restaurant owners.
re: #93 jaunte
Please someone help me with my monthly budget:
$800 rent
$300 insurance
$200 food
$100 internet
$70 cellphone
$3600 milk— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) November 4, 2021
re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I got this one as it closed in on Lubbock. They never arrived though, no doubt frightened out of it by the stern posture and steely gaze of local restaurant owners.
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That’s what they looked like by the time they left Midland. They kept falling by the wayside as they drove north, stopped by the lack of anything interesting on the way.
Half world’s fossil fuel assets could become worthless by 2036 in net zero transition https://t.co/atXlwqcZEJ
— The Guardian (@guardian) November 4, 2021
This isn’t discussed enough: you can pull all the hydrocarbon crap out of the ground that you want, but at some point you can’t sell it to a world that doesn’t want it. So you can prepare now or collapse later. And it won’t be pretty.
We had long discussions about how deceptively slow exponential growth appears at first for COVID cases. The same applies for alternative energy.
re: #105 ericblair
100% of world’s economy could become worthless in mass extinction event.
re: #102 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I always wanted to know what happened to Pigpen and Rubber Duck when they said they ain’t-a-gonna pay no toll 10-4!
re: #103 b.d. (The war is over)
Please tell me someone on Twitter is on the spoof “Got Milk?” ad already.
re: #105 ericblair
During the past few years I have stumbled across stories of the large oil companies and their plans which have to face the same end if either of two scenarios play:
1) peak fossil fuel extraction due to resource depletion;
2) peak fossil fuel extraction due to customers switching away from fossil fuels.
In either case the companies need to transition to stay alive.
re: #109 steve_davis
oh my god, he’s drunk off his ass. that’s hysterical!
Ahhhhhhhh There’s just something about that fffrrreeessshhhaaammmpppaaaiiinnneee
“The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking.” pic.twitter.com/aIGqOdh229
— Edwin (@EdMix13) November 4, 2021
“A federal judge on Thursday skewered former President Donald Trump’s attempt to block the National Archives from complying with the Jan. 6 Committee to Investigate the Attack on the U.S. Capitol by claiming the subpoenas lacked a legislative purpose,” Law & Crime reports.
Said U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan: “The Jan. 6 riots happened in the Capitol. That is literally Congress’s house.”
New Grand Jury Convened In Trump Organization Case
“The Manhattan District Attorney has convened a second long-term grand jury to hear evidence about the Trump Organization’s financial practices, and potentially to vote on criminal charges,” the Washington Post reports.
“An earlier grand jury — convened this spring in Manhattan — previously handed down felony indictments against two Trump companies and Trump’s longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, charging them with tax evasion. It is unclear if that grand jury is still hearing evidence about the Trump Organization.”
The extraction of iron from iron ore, and the manufacturing of cement, both take huge quantities of fossil fuel (coal.)
Transitioning those industries will be hard. It is possible, but without burning coal to make the reducing carbon monoxide making iron or cement becomes more complicated.
The best approach will likely come from using hydrogen (from hydrolysis of water.) But to generate the volume of hydrogen needed in one locale will take a great deal of electricity in one place, and nuclear reactors are good at that.
re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
They do need to transition, but it’s tough to tell what are actual plans and what’s just bullshit greenwashing.
One thing that organizations tend to do with an impending catastrophic event is simply…nothing. There is no good way out that they can see, and there’s only career risk for anyone who tries to grapple with it. It’s too big and horrible to think about, so an organization can simply ignore the oncoming freight train until it just rolls right over them and destroys them.
I grew up the only white kid on the block, so I learned about race that way. Half the kids on our street in Gary, Indiana were black, the others Latino. I got along fine with most of them.
Some picked on me, others actually stood up for me to the bullies.
re: #115 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The extraction of iron from iron ore, and the manufacturing of cement, both take huge quantities of fossil fuel (coal.)
Transitioning those industries will be hard. It is possible, but without burning coal to make the reducing carbon monoxide making iron or cement becomes more complicated.
The best approach will likely come from using hydrogen (from hydrolysis of water.) But to generate the volume of hydrogen needed in one locale will take a great deal of electricity in one place, and nuclear reactors are good at that.
What percentage of yearly CO2 do they contribute?
re: #116 ericblair
The world will still need petrochemicals and some oil companies will continue in that.
re: #119 Belafon
What percentage of yearly CO2 do they contribute?
For all extraction/processing? The IPCC has put out many graphs on that but I can’t recall off the top of my head. I believe that all the industrial uses of fossil fuels (excludes transportation) is something like one sixth of global emissions.
But this is counting all industrial uses, I think.
re: #120 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The world will still need petrochemicals and some oil companies will continue in that.
Sure, agreed, there’s a need for industrial hydrocarbons and metallurgical coal. But, of course, it’s a small fraction of the amount burned for energy. It will be a big downsizing.
re: #112 gocart mozart
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box milk is good for a year till opened - and unrefrigerated at that
pretty much all milk is only good for 5-10 days after opening
re: #116 ericblair
They do need to transition, but it’s tough to tell what are actual plans and what’s just bullshit greenwashing.
One thing that organizations tend to do with an impending catastrophic event is simply…nothing. There is no good way out that they can see, and there’s only career risk for anyone who tries to grapple with it. It’s too big and horrible to think about, so an organization can simply ignore the oncoming freight train until it just rolls right over them and destroys them.
ibm, kodak, sears
The point of all this “change of paradigm” is that we still count wealth and prosperity in terms of how many resources we consume, not the quality of life we gain from using them.
I remember Pravda annually boasting about the increase in production in the USSR, one thing that struck me was that they listed output of electronic goods in tons and were proud of how they increased from year to year…
re: #104 Belafon
That’s what they looked like by the time they left Midland. They kept falling by the wayside as they drove north, stopped by the lack of anything interesting on the way.
If you send them the length of I-10 in Texas, they look like Shriners at the other end. (We did that a couple years ago—every mile from El Paso to Beaumont.)
re: #120 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The world will still need petrochemicals and some oil companies will continue in that.
Dawn dish soap.
Have been seeing some reports from the last hour of shooting at the Hyatt Ziva in Cancun. It’s not exactly clear what the situation is. https://t.co/L2t45RN4al
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) November 4, 2021
re: #128 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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This has emerged in the last hour. Still pretty murky.
re: #97 Charles Johnson
I raised 9 kids (in the ‘80’s) & we had WIC but AT NO TIME EVER did we buy 12 gallons a week!
— Liddle Cheesecake Pie 🌈🍓🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) November 4, 2021
re: #130 The Pie Overlord!
There is a narrative to be spread, namely that the Little People are suffering from Biden Inflation.
re: #131 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a narrative to be spread, namely that the Little People are suffering from Biden Inflation.
The Narrative must be appeased. The media is helpless but to report it, lest the Narrative become agitated. Please don’t look behind The Narrative.
re: #124 Dangerman
ibm, kodak, sears
But IBM today is still a major player in certain areas of information technology.
Kodak helped to invent the devices that were their undoing.
Sears is a case of simple destructive capitalism. And none of the traditional brick and mortar stores were able to compete in the digital age.
Shell, Exxon, BP - these will continue in some form as they still have huge assets. Fossil fuel production will ramp down, not be a step function.
re: #132 Citizen K
The Narrative must be appeased. The media is helpless but to report it, lest the Narrative become agitated. Please don’t look behind The Narrative.
If they do not satisfy the Narrative, it will pack up its viewership and go elsewhere…
First world problem for tomorrow morning:
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re: #135 William Lewis
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re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If they do not satisfy the Narrative, it will pack up its viewership and go elsewhere…
Please do not taunt Happy Fun Narrative.
re: #135 William Lewis
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re: #141 JOE 🥓
Both too beautiful to play.
I can understand the feeling but that’s not a problem I’ve ever had. If they get worn a bit here and there by my playing them, then that’s a good thing. Like the brassing on my Leica or the bluing holster wear on a revolver, it’s a sign of a well appreciated & used tool.
Thanks for the opinions, everyone, especially since it was unanimous! If the red one is still there in the morning, I’ll order that one.
re: #135 William Lewis
First world problem for tomorrow morning:
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re: #142 William Lewis
I can understand the feeling but that’s not a problem I’ve ever had. If they get worn a bit here and there by my playing them, then that’s a good thing. Like the brassing on my Leica or the bluing holster wear on a revolver, it’s a sign of a well appreciated & used tool.
Thanks for the opinions, everyone, especially since it was unanimous! If the red one is still there in the morning, I’ll order that one.
this is only based on the photos, one would have to play them both to make a final judgement.
re: #142 William Lewis
I can understand the feeling but that’s not a problem I’ve ever had. If they get worn a bit here and there by my playing them, then that’s a good thing. Like the brassing on my Leica or the bluing holster wear on a revolver, it’s a sign of a well appreciated & used tool.
Thanks for the opinions, everyone, especially since it was unanimous! If the red one is still there in the morning, I’ll order that one.
And for max enjoyment of the new instrument - may I suggest you rewatch the Joe Walsh video on how to set up & tune your guitar.
re: #141 JOE 🥓
This is a Chinese seller that rips off US guitars but also sells pieces of artwork that would not hold up under playing because they are not built for gigging musicians.
BUT……….if you want a piece of artwork to hang and have the bread may I introduce you to this world of knockoffs.
Gee, I’ve never heard that one before. Did Matty think that up all by himself? https://t.co/nJalgQ6Izq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 4, 2021
re: #135 William Lewis
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re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Sorry, I’m late. Had to pledge allegiance to Satan and make my daily sacrifice to George Soros.
You know how it goes.
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Yep. I too am a minion of Satan, but my duties are mostly ceremonial.
re: #5 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well since you insist. My pasta machine and ravioli stamps came in yesterday. I’ll pick up the ingredients for meat filled ravioli sometime this afternoon.
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Evangelicals still can’t get enough of Trump
Political tensions in the pews have calmed, and another survey shows leaders’ Trump support yielded more positives than negatives for evangelicals.
Keep kissing Trump’s ass folks and you only marginalize yourselves.
re: #152 JOE 🥓
Evangelicals still can’t get enough of Trump
Political tensions in the pews have calmed, and another survey shows leaders’ Trump support yielded more positives than negatives for evangelicals.
Keep kissing Trump’s ass folks and you only marginalize yourselves.
Or be responsible for the death of our democracy.
Matt Gaetz doesn’t even see race. He sees under-age.
That take is so old, Matt Gaetz wants to date its granddaughter
— Kenneth Heintz (@ktheintz) November 4, 2021
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 4, 2021
re: #154 jaunte
Matt Gaetz doesn’t even see race. He sees under-age.
I went to see my son play in his last marching band performance (they’re not very good) last weekend. Wife and I were watching the the kids—band, cheerleaders, students in the stands all being kids—and at one point I stopped and thought, “JFC, this is what Gaetz is into; fucking monster.”
re: #153 Hecuba’s daughter
Or be responsible for the death of our democracy.
Quite a few Evangelical Christians do not want a democracy. They want an actual real life kingdom as they interpret from the Bible as thus described:
Jesus will come down and be a physical king who rules with an iron fist and sword.
All the heathens who oppose the righteous Christians will be killed and cast down into Hell.
Jews will be given a chance to convert and if they don’t they too will be eliminated.
Where the different races end up depends on how virulently racist each Christian sect is.
Some refuse to acknowledge blacks as barely human at all and eternally cursed with “the mark of Cain” and some others think each race will have their own heaven. I know this because I grew up surrounded by these nutcases in Texas.
This is a revenge porn religion we are dealing with and democracy is an enemy of their goals. They are growing in power. This country is fucked as more and more reject critical thinking and replace it with myth and hate.
re: #122 ericblair
Sure, agreed, there’s a need for industrial hydrocarbons and metallurgical coal. But, of course, it’s a small fraction of the amount burned for energy. It will be a big downsizing.
re: #135 William Lewis
First world problem for tomorrow morning:
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re: #160 sagehen
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re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s not. Conservatives just like to lie to each other, and half of them are too far gone from all the lies to be competent enough to vaccinate. Your willfully-ignorant subculture is dying from all the lies, and you’re trying to keep them too crazy to save themselves. Resign.
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