The Bob Cesca Podcast: Effing With the Old Man

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Effing With The Old Man — [Explicit Language] Buzz’s appearance on Kimberley’s show. The Four Seasons Total Landscaping documentary on MSNBC. Evidence of Republican voter fraud in Virginia. A Trump media stock update. Revelations from Jon Karl’s new book. What’s in the infrastructure law? More subpoenas issued by the 1/6 Committee. Georgia’s prosecution of Trump. COVID guidelines. Kellyanne Conway whizzed on the electric fence. Headline of the Week. With Buzz Burbank and music by Stop Calling Me Frank and George Harris. And more!

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195 comments
1
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:05:04pm

$1.2 trillion: 60% of what we spent on Afghanistan. Imagine the infrastructure we could’ve built them with that money. Heck, they would be our friends forever.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:07:38pm

Corporations are people, my friend. And rich corporations can get away with killing people, too!

Oklahoma Supreme Court overturns historic opioid ruling against J&J

washingtonpost.com

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:07:39pm

Carry over —

re: #407 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

I guess we’re going to be doing the Performative Outrage Dance for another news cycle, so there’s this.

Guessing you don’t know Aleksandra Petri very well.

4
Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:08:03pm

re: #2 JOE 🥓

FUCK.

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:08:55pm

Remembered my phone this morning when putting Merle and Milo on the bus…we’re the last stop…look at that dirty dozen!

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:09:57pm

Actually, there were 13 dogs on there before Merle and Milo joined…

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:10:07pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

FUCK.

I double that EC…

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:10:49pm

re: #2 JOE 🥓

Corporations are people, my friend. And rich corporations can get away with killing people, too!

Oklahoma Supreme Court overturns historic opioid ruling against J&J

washingtonpost.com

That’s fuckin’ bullshit.

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dharmamark  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:12:24pm

re: #5 darthstar

Nice. I have to drive my dog to daycare…

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ckkatz  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:15:10pm

From an earlier thread:

Yes!

It was always amusing to meet FNG’s who wanted to be on that first tank into Moscow. They were so disillusioned to find out that this was not going to happen.

The concept of speedbump to a Warsaw Pact attack was discussed in depth.

There were also a lot discussions on how long we tripwires were supposed to actually survive. And whether we might expect to also survive the resultant nuclear war.

I was also extremely happy to find out that the Soviet Union had dissolved without involving an external war. I have always put that down to many in the Soviet Leadership remembering WW2.

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same here, though I was in the Mediterranean Fleet.

Our job was to get as many aircraft in the air before we were sunk.

Listing to the BBC shortwave broadcasting live on the fall of the Berlin Wall was absolutely surreal to me.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:15:49pm

re: #5 darthstar

Remembered my phone this morning when putting Merle and Milo on the bus…we’re the last stop…look at that dirty dozen!

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THE DOG BUS

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ckkatz  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:17:35pm

re: #5 darthstar

~ And they call it puppy love ~

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No Malarkey!  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:19:36pm

This is a very good boy.

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:19:55pm

re: #9 dharmamark

Nice. I have to drive my dog to daycare…

I used to, and they’d drop them off at the end of the day, then they asked me why I didn’t use the pick up service - no charge - now I can even just leave the house in the morning and Chris will open the door and get the dogs if we’re not home (we keep a key in a safe place under the little “Welcome bear” by the door)…

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:22:55pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

THE DOG BUS

There are at least three different dog services in the Half Moon Bay area that have big Sprinter vans that pick up dogs. One of the many things I like about where I live…people love their dogs and they keep them entertained.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:24:41pm

re: #2 JOE 🥓

Corporations are people, my friend. And rich corporations can get away with killing people, too!

Oklahoma Supreme Court overturns historic opioid ruling against J&J

washingtonpost.com

Gee, I’m a person too but I couldn’t get away with thousands of murders, or even one.
There must be something else at work here.

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A Cranky One  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:25:08pm

The dog shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Dog shack baby
A dog shack baby…

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ckkatz  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:25:27pm

So Hoarse Whisperer went to California. And apparently had some trouble with the local fauna:

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nines09  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:28:46pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:30:07pm

Lengthy review of new study, which basically shows that the Covid-19 vaccines not only have not caused an increase in non-Covid deaths, but that the people getting vaccinated are less likely to die of non-Covid reasons than those who are not vaccinated:

Coronavirus Vaccines vs. NON COVID-19 related deaths (New Data)

..

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:32:03pm

re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Gee, I’m a person too but I couldn’t get away with thousands of murders, or even one.
There must be something else at work here.

Gee, I wonder what it could be?????

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Dangerman  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:32:38pm

re: #18 ckkatz

So Hoarse Whisperer went to California. And apparently had some trouble with the local fauna:

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“sealions” covers all the bases

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:34:31pm

re: #19 nines09

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William Lewis  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:41:28pm

re: #10 ckkatz

From an earlier thread:

Yes!

It was always amusing to meet FNG’s who wanted to be on that first tank into Moscow. They were so disillusioned to find out that this was not going to happen.

The concept of speedbump to a Warsaw Pact attack was discussed in depth.

There were also a lot discussions on how long we tripwires were supposed to actually survive. And whether we might expect to also survive the resultant nuclear war.

I was also extremely happy to find out that the Soviet Union had dissolved without involving an external war. I have always put that down to many in the Soviet Leadership remembering WW2.

1st Armored Division in Bavaria, 83 - 84, near the Czech boarder. Our unit’s goal was to each take out at least 5 Warsaw pact tanks before our M-60A3 was destroyed. That, they estimated, would slow them enough for REFORGER forces to start getting their prepositioned equipment and hopefully stop them at the Rhine w/out nukes.

OTOH, our joke was that the KM road signs between villages was the number of Russian nukes in KT to take out both villages.

But I was more worried by nerve agent than by nukes. Twitching like a wasp from a nest squirted with RAID Nerve Agent was not my idea of a good death.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:48:03pm

Dog bus
Exciting and new
Come on aboard
We’re expecting you!

On the DOG BUS
Furry and canine and warm
The DOG BUS
Promises treats for every pup!

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nines09  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:48:39pm

re: #23 darthstar

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:49:46pm

re: #24 William Lewis

And Germany quickly came to realize that regardless which side won, their country was gonna be f*cked and probably even a bigger mess than at the end of WW2…

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ckkatz  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:51:22pm

re: #24 William Lewis

1st Armored Division in Bavaria, 83 - 84, near the Czech boarder. Our unit’s goal was to each take out at least 5 Warsaw pact tanks before our M-60A3 was destroyed. That, they estimated, would slow them enough for REFORGER forces to start getting their prepositioned equipment and hopefully stop them at the Rhine w/out nukes.

OTOH, our joke was that the KM road signs between villages was the number of Russian nukes in KT to take out both villages.

But I was more worried by nerve agent than by nukes. Twitching like a wasp from a nest squirted with RAID Nerve Agent was not my idea of a good death.

Yes, we had those ‘happy’ Chemical-Biological Warfare training classes too. With talking points on how to determine if an area was chemical free. (Hint - have most junior member of the unit unmask for a minute.)

It was even more unsettling when I realized that the ‘magical mystical’ decontamination wash for ones’ vehicles that they always talked about was actually (tropical) bleach.

I always wondered, though, if the Soviets actually thought that nuking or gassing an area just before they drove through it en masse was such a great idea.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:52:57pm

OT: The Cyborg household could use some good juju. Our dog Ellie has vomited up blood the past two days. She’s a ten year old Basset Hound.

Unfortunately we have no money for a vet so we’re hoping for the best. She’s still eating and drinking and doesn’t seem lethargic or in serious pain.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:53:29pm
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nines09  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:54:16pm

Turn your head

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steve_davis  Nov 9, 2021 • 1:54:18pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Dog bus
Exciting and new
Come on aboard
We’re expecting you!

On the DOG BUS
Furry and canine and warm
The DOG BUS
Promises treats for every pup!

The dog bus is calling us, “Driver, where are you taking us?” The canine awoke before dawn. He put his booties on. He licked the face from the ancient gallery, and he said, “Mother?” “Oh, fuck off, it’s 5 in the—” “I want to Alpo.” “Father?” “Oh, what the….” “I want to…..aaaaaaaaaaaaaalpo!!!!!”

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:02:39pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Dog bus
Exciting and new
Come on aboard
We’re expecting you!

On the DOG BUS
Furry and canine and warm
The DOG BUS
Promises treats for every pup!

I read that in Jack Jones’ voice.

Now, do you read this in Freddy Mercury or Weird Al’s?

And another dog’s on
And another dog’s on
Another dog rides the bus…
Hey, he’s gonna bark at you
Another dog rides the bus.

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ckkatz  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:03:44pm

re: #27 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And Germany quickly came to realize that regardless which side won, their country was gonna be f*cked and probably even a bigger mess than at the end of WW2…

This was also true. And obviously, I don’t know of anyone who wanted that kind of disaster to occur.

That said, there was not always a lot of sympathy for Germany as a nation (as opposed to Germans as fellow humans) at the time. There were still a lot of Americans who remembered why the US and Russia were in Germany in the first place and had participated in it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:16:27pm
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ckkatz  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:16:55pm

I knew a guy who had been in an Armored Cavalry unit that patrolled along the Czech border back in the early1960s. (In a quarter-ton aka jeep). He had a bunch of good stories.

Like all the times they got lost and accidentally ended up in Czechoslovakia. And the times their opposite numbers did the same. (The border was not fully marked at the time.)

The usual response was to pretend not to see it until after the lost folks managed to get back safely to their side of the border.

He also talked about how some of the guys used to toss packages of stuff, like a box of Hershey bars, over to the guards on the other side of the border. It worked out well until some US joker replaced all the chocolate bars in their wrappers with Ex-Lax. That kind of ratcheted up tension for a while.

His unit was also deployed to Southern Florida during the Cuban Missile crisis and he had some good stories about that as well.

re: #24 William Lewis

1st Armored Division in Bavaria, 83 - 84, near the Czech boarder. Our unit’s goal was to each take out at least 5 Warsaw pact tanks before our M-60A3 was destroyed. That, they estimated, would slow them enough for REFORGER forces to start getting their prepositioned equipment and hopefully stop them at the Rhine w/out nukes.

OTOH, our joke was that the KM road signs between villages was the number of Russian nukes in KT to take out both villages.

But I was more worried by nerve agent than by nukes. Twitching like a wasp from a nest squirted with RAID Nerve Agent was not my idea of a good death.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:17:54pm

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) and Southwest District Health (SWDH) have confirmed the first death of an Idaho child due to COVID-19. The child was an infant and died in October.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:18:48pm

New video from Bill Mummy as Barnes & Barnes…

“American History” Barnes & Barnes (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from “Pancake Dream”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:21:11pm
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nines09  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:21:37pm

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:21:38pm

Are they getting closer?

JANUARY 6 Committee investigating Capitol riot hits Kayleigh McEnany and Stephen Miller with subpoenas

Will Garland finally do his job?

deadstate.org

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:22:12pm

re: #38 JOE 🥓

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:23:39pm

snowflake…

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:25:34pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sue the venue…they have deeper pockets.

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ckkatz  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:25:56pm

Timothy Snyder just came out with another of his short videos, this one on the concept of ‘Truth’.

In it he discusses authoritarians efforts to destroy the concept of knowable truth. He describes it as both authoritarian and post-modern. That the truth is unknowable and there are only opinions.

This then encourages people to attach themselves to the ‘Leader’ and accept only what he says as the ‘truth’.

He then discusses the concept of the ‘Great Lie’ and how it often leads to explanation through conspiracy theories. Because there is no rational way to explain it otherwise.

Finally, he points out that use of the Great Lie usually ends up with violence because that is the only way to defend the Great Lie.

This is one reason why we are currently seeing both conspiracy theories and violence associated with the Trump big lie of the stolen election. And how it is bleeding into other vaccine and school big lies as well.

LESSON 10: Believe in Truth

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Belafon  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:26:26pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

snowflake…

I kind of agree with the German law, and I also agree with the anonymity. A good-faith effort at reporting crap like Massie should not be punished.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:33:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:34:46pm
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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:36:07pm

Someone’s giving in to temptation…

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:36:36pm

First there was Herschel Walker whipping out a gun at a girlfriend

Next Sean Parnell beating his wife and kids

And now…

Star GOP congressional candidate accused of abusing 14-year-old girl

On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that De La Cruz, who’s running in the 15th Congressional District, is accused by her estranged husband of “cruel and aggressive conduct” toward his 14-year-old daughter.

De La Cruz is going through a divorce from her husband, Johnny Hernandez.

“Hernandez, who has been married to De La Cruz since 2015, has accused her of mistreating him and his daughter in documents filed in the Hidalgo County district court,” the Post reports. “In one incident described in the petition for divorce, Hernandez says that on a recent Sunday at church, his daughter began crying after some coffee was spilled. He alleges that De La Cruz took her to the bathroom and pinched her to stop her from crying, rather than try to console her.”

rawstory.com

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jaunte  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:37:30pm

re: #49 darthstar

Varroomspringa!

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:38:09pm

re: #51 jaunte

Varroomspringa!

Motorcycles and horses aren’t all that different.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:39:05pm

Look who wanted a pardon from His Ass Holeyness!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:39:39pm
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sagehen  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:39:49pm

re: #44 darthstar

Sue the venue…they have deeper pockets.

When Puff Daddy promoted a Heavy D show at NYCC in 1991 and they had a stampede that killed 9 people, the judge in the civil suit (no jury I guess?) assigned liability half to the venue, and half to Puffy and Heavy.

By the time the verdict came down (1998), Puff had a lot more money than he’d had in 91; he was able to pay his half. City College, due to a 1976 bailout when the city almost went bankrupt, is now actually owned by the State, so that’s where their half the award came from.

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ckkatz  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:42:52pm

I am so sorry to hear this. Perhaps there are some free veterinary clinics that might be able to assist you.

I do not know where in Ms you are located, but I understand that organizations such as the Humane Society, and some of the Veterinary Schools sometimes offer low cost care options.

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

OT: The Cyborg household could use some good juju. Our dog Ellie has vomited up blood the past two days. She’s a ten year old Basset Hound.

Unfortunately we have no money for a vet so we’re hoping for the best. She’s still eating and drinking and doesn’t seem lethargic or in serious pain.

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:44:00pm

re: #53 JOE 🥓

Look who wanted a pardon from His Ass Holeyness!

[Embedded content]

Honestly, I know he was just a comical feature of a shitty day, but I hope the judge gives him the max sentence. That’ll cause the others to start pleading out in earnest.

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Belafon  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:44:49pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

I guess I need to say “i’m off to bed” more often if that’s what it means.

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jaunte  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:45:07pm
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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:48:41pm

re: #59 jaunte

I want to see this from a reliable source outside of Twitter. If that actually happened, then some people are looking at serious jail time. Deactivating Pence’s access is akin to an attempted assault on his life. Yeah, he’s an asshole. But he was still VP of the USA on 1/6…

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:48:43pm

re: #59 jaunte

Very interesting.

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nines09  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:49:05pm

re: #49 darthstar

Wait until he discovers “TURBO”!😜😜😜

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:49:25pm

re: #52 darthstar

Motorcycles and horses aren’t all that different.

My bike had 77x the horsepower of a horse. The math is very easy.

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jaunte  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:50:39pm

“…Former Vice President Mike Pence is trying to block the release of official photos of him taken on Jan. 6 as supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent attempt to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl told Stephen Colbert that he saw the images while working on his new book, “Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show,” and said they are “wild.”
“He was in a loading dock in an underground parking garage beneath the Capitol Complex,” Karl said. “No place to sit. No desk, no chairs, no nothing. He was in this concrete parking garage.”
huffpost.com

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jaunte  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:51:37pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:52:00pm

re: #49 darthstar

Someone’s giving in to temptation…

[Embedded content]

I remember taking my kids to the Cincinnati Zoo once and seeing a group of teenagers dressed similarly. They could have been Mennonites, but I don’t think so. Anyway, the PA system started playing Michael Jackson’s “Bad” and a couple of guys started to bust a few MJ moves right near the primates’ area.

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sagehen  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:52:58pm

re: #66 Barefoot Grin

I remember taking my kids to the Cincinnati Zoo once and seeing a group of teenagers dressed similarly. They could have been Mennonites, but I don’t think so. Anyway, the PA system started playing Michael Jackson’s “Bad” and a couple of guys started to bust a few MJ moves right near the primates’ area.

Maybe they were on Rumspringa.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:53:21pm

re: #64 jaunte

Man, I hope those photos get released.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:53:47pm

re: #67 sagehen

Maybe they were on Rumspringa.

Could well have been.

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jaunte  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:54:54pm

re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg

The historical interest is undeniable.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:55:25pm

re: #60 darthstar

I want to see this from a reliable source outside of Twitter. If that actually happened, then some people are looking at serious jail time. Deactivating Pence’s access is akin to an attempted assault on his life. Yeah, he’s an asshole. But he was still VP of the USA on 1/6…

I seem to recall that tfg refused to allow Pence’s chief of staff entry into the White House while all this was going down.

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jaunte  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:56:28pm

JAN. 6, 2021: VPUSA hides in parking garage from murderous mob sent by POTUS.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 2:57:27pm
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jaunte  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:04:10pm
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Belafon  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:05:36pm

re: #74 jaunte

The Romans fiddled.

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Belafon  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:06:17pm

re: #74 jaunte

Wait until they meet our parkour robots.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:17:52pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You mean there are other people besides me who do this?

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:19:15pm

re: #72 jaunte

JAN. 6, 2021: VPUSA hides in parking garage from murderous mob sent by POTUS.

LIKE A DOG! Sorry…was channeling my inner Trump for a second. Yeah, let’s get those photos into circulation stat! If Pence was that fucked in real time, there’s going to be some hell to pay up the security food chain.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:19:32pm

So, I’ve got one of my libertarian economists on the hook — he’s argiung science is bad because bad things have been done in the name of science — but seems unwilling to acknowledge that science is not the problem.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:19:37pm
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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:20:27pm

Also, Jan 6 rioter posts photo on Zillow leading FBI to file another search warrant.

Dipshit selling his house had a white board in the pic with his list of coup necessities - including flash-bang grenades.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:21:10pm

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

that’s PRESIDENT Biden, you alleged dentist.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:21:59pm

“The Greatest Deal Maker Of All Time In The Entire History Of The Universe!!1!!!!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:22:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:23:48pm
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aatharuv  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:28:44pm

re: #74 jaunte

Nice parody account there

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:31:08pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

Really glad I’m off that platform.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:34:40pm

re: #79 Colère Tueur de Lapin

So, I’ve got one of my libertarian economists on the hook — he’s argiung science is bad because bad things have been done in the name of science — but seems unwilling to acknowledge that science is not the problem.

Ask him about the real bad things economists have done to people—especially those from the Austrian School of Laisseiz Faire crap…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:37:24pm

re: #79 Colère Tueur de Lapin

So, I’ve got one of my libertarian economists on the hook — he’s argiung science is bad because bad things have been done in the name of science — but seems unwilling to acknowledge that science is not the problem.

Economics may be the black sheep of science, but I would nevertheless ask your friend why he is an economist if doing economics is bad.

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nines09  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:37:44pm

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:37:51pm
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Jay C  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:38:05pm

re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, as a historical fact, most slave owners in antebellum America WERE Democrats ( a legacy of the partisan alignments begun by Andrew Jackson) - the bullshit part of it, though, is why anybody thinks the partisan preferences of 150 years ago has any relevance today.

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:38:26pm

re: #90 nines09

You’ve got a backward bracket on your private tag…but nice appetizer.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:39:42pm

re: #91 The Pie Overlord!

Yasssss.

Eat shit, orange man.

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:40:30pm

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:45:04pm

Another busy day, successfully executed. I’ll now have the funds to fix my Outback’s door-vs-truck damage.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:47:58pm

It’s so much fun to have a rheumatoid arthritis attack while teleworking.

And I have a Dr appt to check it on Thursday.

If I wasn’t teleworking I’d be taking a sick day…

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:51:25pm

re: #86 aatharuv

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Nice parody account there

In visiting the site, I saw that Caitlan Flanagan is part of this venture and that explains so much to me. She was on Maher’s panel a couple weeks ago and, despite her assertions that she was a Democrat, she was complaining about CRT as though all she knew was what the GQP has been promoting. These people are ignorant beyond words; they do not want a thoughtful discussion of issues but only the ability to promote their propaganda. They are unable to utter a single original thought.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:54:08pm

They want $2.99/month for Twitter Blue. That’s not a lot but the feature list is unimpressive.

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:55:32pm

Lalo nails it…

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:55:58pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

They want $2.99/month for Twitter Blue. That’s not a lot but the feature list is unimpressive.

60 seconds to fix a tweet. That’s something.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:57:50pm

re: #101 darthstar

60 seconds to fix a tweet. That’s something.

I can wait 60 seconds before hitting the tweet button…

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:58:53pm

As a kid we would have Sunday Drives and when Dad went into Ohio, I loved getting some Buckeyes from a roadside stand. Better than Reese’s (and I’m old enough to remember when Reese’s were imported from England!)…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 3:59:30pm
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plansbandc  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:00:03pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Set a course for adventure
Your mind on a new

SQUIRREL!!!!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:00:29pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is that Kayleighs sister in the photo?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:00:47pm
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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:01:26pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Is that the daughter of Satan’s Tinkerbelle?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:02:30pm

re: #106 Eclectic Cyborg

Is that Kayleighs sister in the photo?

yes

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:04:43pm

re: #101 darthstar

60 seconds to fix a tweet. That’s something.

The Chrome extension I’ve been developing has a much better solution; instead of submitting it right away, you get a preview window that has an option to read it aloud with speech synthesis, and a timer that auto-submits after an interval you can set, or you can exit and go back to the editor if it needs to be fixed. The speech option really helps catch errors.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:05:15pm
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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:05:57pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So Biden’s approval is 115%?

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darthstar  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:07:14pm

re: #110 Charles Johnson

Yeah, but do you get to pay $2.99 a month for that? I’m suspended anyway, but I’ll bet if I tried to sign up for blue I could be suspended AND pay $2.99 a month for the privilege.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:08:43pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:08:47pm

re: #97 JOE 🥓

It’s so much fun to have a rheumatoid arthritis attack while teleworking.

And I have a Dr appt to check it on Thursday.

If I wasn’t teleworking I’d be taking a sick day…

I have a follow-up for my cardiac appointment on Thursday at the county hospital, with a travelling cardiologist from the University of Colorado.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:09:09pm

re: #92 Jay C

Well, as a historical fact, most slave owners in antebellum America WERE Democrats ( a legacy of the partisan alignments begun by Andrew Jackson) - the bullshit part of it, though, is why anybody thinks the partisan preferences of 150 years ago has any relevance today.

Because it does. My impression is that the Dinesh movie pointed out all praise was due to Republicans for their freeing slaves 150 years ago and that the parties are exactly the same today as back then. That is the meme that the GOP continues to promote today. The Dems were the bad guys (and yes, many Dems were — they were the original party of the South) and until the great realignment started in the 1960’s, they remained so. And nothing has changed.

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:09:11pm

re: #113 darthstar

One has to pay for twitter? I will stick with WaPo. At least I get something that passes for news.

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:10:09pm

re: #59 jaunte

And there’s still a a very good chance that Trump will be elected in 2024. Nothing matters.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:12:06pm

Wow. Greenwald actually calling O’Keefe a “journalist.” That’s a new low.

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gocart mozart  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:13:10pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:14:32pm

re: #116 Hecuba’s daughter

Because it does. My impression is that the Dinesh movie pointed out all praise was due to Republicans for their freeing slaves 150 years ago and that the parties are exactly the same today as back then. That is the meme that the GOP continues to promote today. The Dems were the bad guys (and yes, many Dems were — they were the original party of the South) and until the great realignment started in the 1960’s, they remained so. And nothing has changed.

This is a map of the 1860 election. There were 4 parties, the Northern Democrats (Douglas), the Southern Democrats (Breckenridge), the Constitutional Union (Bell) and the Republicans (Lincoln). The Southern Democrats became the Confederates, and after Reconstruction the Dixiecrats, the Constitutional Union party disintegrated, and the Northern Democrats became the Democrats of today.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:14:43pm

re: #114 Dread Pirate Ron

Viewing Glenn’s Tweet, Twitter thinks I should also hear what Mike Cernovich and Matt Walsh have to say. They have Greenwald’s number.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:14:53pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:16:48pm

re: #110 Charles Johnson

The Chrome extension I’ve been developing has a much better solution; instead of submitting it right away, you get a preview window that has an option to read it aloud with speech synthesis, and a timer that auto-submits after an interval you can set, or you can exit and go back to the editor if it needs to be fixed. The speech option really helps catch errors.

And then, if you still manage to post a tweet with a typo, the extension has a “delete/redo” option that quickly deletes the tweet, then lets you edit a perfect copy of it to fix it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:17:30pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Wow. Greenwald actually calling O’Keefe a “journalist.” That’s a new low.

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Isn’t Greenwald’s handling of Reality Winner worse than this?

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:17:45pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Wow. Greenwald actually calling O’Keefe a “journalist.” That’s a new low.

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And it’s a Two-fer. Glenny defends Dork Tracey and O’Queef…

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:19:38pm

re: #121 The Pie Overlord!

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This is a map of the 1860 election. There were 4 parties, the Northern Democrats (Douglas), the Southern Democrats (Breckenridge), the Constitutional Union (Bell) and the Republicans (Lincoln). The Southern Democrats became the Confederates, and after Reconstruction the Dixiecrats, the Constitutional Union party disintegrated, and the Northern Democrats became the Democrats of today.

But the Dixiecrats were part of the Democratic Party.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:23:55pm
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mmmirele  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:27:33pm

OK, I don’t know how true this is. That said, I specifically took off January 6 because I was convinced Something Bad Was About To Happen (and it was my mother’s 81st birthday). Keeping that in mind, here’s this:

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:28:50pm

re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter

But the Dixiecrats were part of the Democratic Party.

The Dixiecrats are Republicans now.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:30:18pm

re: #89 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Economics may be the black sheep of science, but I would nevertheless ask your friend why he is an economist if doing economics is bad.

Yeah, already asked why his “science” is OK. The silence was defining.

Econ is not the black sheep — it is not science. But you know that.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:31:19pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:31:29pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:33:19pm

Reuters has deleted the Tweet I posted in Comment 91

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A Mom Anon  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:34:13pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

There are so many people just itching to hurt someone right now. Most of them don’t need much prodding to hurt people. And this asshole knows this. And yet he thinks he’s soooo clever and I am not holding my breath that any consequences will come from this.

I am just so tired, anxious, worried and scared, wore the hell out by all of it. I’m overwhelmed and depleted. Between that and now trying to find health insurance for next year that doesn’t have ridiculously high deductibles and out of pocket maximums that don’t even cover a fucking specialist office visit, I find myself sad, angry and in tears all the time. While the people who craft and make the laws get gold plated healthcare, much of which is paid for by US. I truly hate these fucking people.

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mmmirele  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:36:44pm

Recap of the second full day of the Major Software rollout.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:38:05pm

How the heck am I 135 comments behind? I thought I was posting in the latest thread… Which was 135 comments ago.

Man, it’s one of those days.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:38:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:40:11pm

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am sooo stealing that graphic

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:42:22pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:42:43pm

re: #123 Eric The Fruit Bat

Re-tweeted.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:43:17pm

So, I haven’t been posting anything remotely about my kitchen remodel.

Here’s the backslash kinda with the stove in the middle of the floor.

The black thing above is the hood
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:44:15pm

re: #134 The Pie Overlord!

Reuters has deleted the Tweet I posted in Comment 91

they fixed it:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:46:47pm

re: #18 ckkatz

So Hoarse Whisperer went to California. And apparently had some trouble with the local fauna:

I literally burst out laughing when I read those. I’ve got tears running down my face.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:49:44pm

re: #18 ckkatz

While Hoarse posts some good stuff. He seems to be kinda a dick. .

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:50:12pm
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Teukka  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:50:17pm

re: #45 ckkatz

Timothy Snyder just came out with another of his short videos, this one on the concept of ‘Truth’.

In it he discusses authoritarians efforts to destroy the concept of knowable truth. He describes it as both authoritarian and post-modern. That the truth is unknowable and there are only opinions.

This then encourages people to attach themselves to the ‘Leader’ and accept only what he says as the ‘truth’.

He then discusses the concept of the ‘Great Lie’ and how it often leads to explanation through conspiracy theories. Because there is no rational way to explain it otherwise.

Finally, he points out that use of the Great Lie usually ends up with violence because that is the only way to defend the Great Lie.

This is one reason why we are currently seeing both conspiracy theories and violence associated with the Trump big lie of the stolen election. And how it is bleeding into other vaccine and school big lies as well.

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Whole stack of 10 (11 in some places), as a playlist for thy edumacation:

LESSON 1: Do Not Obey In Advance

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:52:44pm

re: #122 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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Viewing Glenn’s Tweet, Twitter thinks I should also hear what Mike Cernovich and Matt Walsh have to say. They have Greenwald’s number.

It always lines up that way: Greenwald, then Mate, Tracey, Taibbi, and the other second-stringers Cernovich, Pieceofshitbiec, Walsh, and the their hangers-on.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:53:54pm

re: #145 Colère Tueur de Lapin

While Hoarse posts some good stuff. He seems to be kinda a dick. .

I think he stumbled on some fame and then ran with it. It’s hard to sustain for anyone.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:57:22pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 4:58:22pm

heh

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:03:37pm

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

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Hillbillies are a lot smarter than that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:04:25pm

re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:06:00pm

Ok, I swear I’m going to stop serial posting, but I just wrote a new punk song and the only lyric is WHITE DOG, BLACK SWEATER!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:08:49pm

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

No way the Parent Party isn’t some sort of Astroturf campaign, since their Twitter account dates from September and their Website looks like nothing more than a place to harvest E-mail addresses.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:09:24pm
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Nojay UK  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:10:34pm

re: #28 ckkatz

The table-top war game exercises carried out on the NATO side about a war in Europe in the 1970s devolved into first use of tactical nukes on staging areas and transport hubs deep in Warsaw Pact countries by day three of the “Orange” forces attacking across the line of demarcation. By day seven both sides would be in a full and frank silo-emptying exchange of strategic nuclear weapons.

The general impression by most Europeans who thought about it was that the US government would burn Europe into cinders to gain time to talk the Kremlin down from going strategic before day seven rolled around.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:11:56pm

re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth

I just watched the flat earther cruise episode of Inside Job, then saw your post. Coincidence? My tinfoil hat doesn’t think so.
/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:13:42pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:15:58pm

California officer dies after missing vaccination deadline (Sacramento Bee)

A police officer who was placed on leave for missing the city of San Francisco’s deadline to be inoculated has died after being stricken by COVID-19, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Officer Jack Nyce, 46, tested positive on Nov. 2 and died Saturday at a hospital in Manteca, his wife, Melissa Nyce, told the newspaper Monday.

The Chronicle said Melissa Nyce declined to say whether her husband was vaccinated but the vice president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, Lt. Tracy McCray, said Jack Nyce was on a 30-day stint of paid administrative leave because he had not received the vaccination required by the city.

(more)

Further down in the article, they actually reported the denominator.

The San Francisco Police Department said last week that as many as 70 sworn and civilian workers had been placed on leave for not meeting a Nov. 1 vaccination deadline. A press release said that as of Nov. 2, 97.5% of department employees were fully vaccinated.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:23:24pm
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:24:37pm

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Too contrarian to vaccinate, even when his employer required it, and now his widow has to live with this, all because he couldn’t do the right thing. I wonder if she fought with him to try to get him to vaccinate and not fuck up his job.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:27:42pm

re: #161 Charles Johnson

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When I’m feeling down my wife will hand me the jar that’s she’s basically already opened and ask me to do the ceremonial opening of the pickles. It’s a real ego boost.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:27:43pm

re: #161 Charles Johnson

If might be the difference in skin structure.

Or maybe, we just loosened it for them as we tried to open it.
/

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:27:51pm

We’re getting a new server soon, a super speedy new state of the art box with all the latest shit, so there may be a few days of chaos and maintenance mode as I get everything working.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:28:55pm

re: #164 Punish Domestic Terrorists

If might be the difference in skin structure.

Or maybe, we just loosened it for them as we tried to open it.
/

That’s my usual pathetic excuse to salve my injured ego. Goddammit I’m a guitar player, I’m supposed to have strong hands.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:29:09pm

re: #165 Charles Johnson

We’re getting a new server soon, a super speedy new state of the art box with all the latest shit, so there may be a few days of chaos and maintenance mode as I get everything working.

so you’re saying it will be like we’re all in Congress watching the GOP flinging poop for a couple of days?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:29:52pm

re: #166 Charles Johnson

That’s my usual pathetic excuse to salve my injured ego. Goddammit I’m a guitar player, I’m supposed to have strong hands.

You are a guitarist and MUST PROTECT THOSE HANDS!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:31:22pm

Well, North Dakota State Representative Jeff Hoverson (R), who is now sick with Covid-19 and was planning an anti-vax and anti-mandate rally, was kicked out of an airport two weeks ago by TSA.

Minot lawmaker barred from flight after run-in with TSA (Associated Press)

He threw a temper tantrum when TSA wanted to pat him down prior to a flight for his wedding anniversary.

He is also the sponsor of North Dakota’s copycat anti-abortion legislation from Texas. He’s all about personal freedom though.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker was barred from boarding a flight at Minot International Airport this week after a run-in with a security agent during a pat down.

Republican Rep. Jeff Hoverson says he and his wife were planning to travel Monday for their anniversary. Hoverson says a Transportation Security Administration agent said he was going to give him a pat down but did not ask permission.

Hoverson said he moved the agent’s hand away.

TSA said in a statement the pat down was initiated when Hoverson set off the alarm in the screening machine. The agency said Hoverson objected during the pat down and called the police, Hoeverson eventually complied, but the airline made the decision to deny boarding, TSA said.

Hoverson said everyone overreacted, including himself.

(more)

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:32:12pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:34:19pm

re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And as a freshman legislator two years ago, Hoverson protested a prayer by a Hindu cleric, saying he didn’t “want to be compelled to pray for a false god.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:36:20pm

re: #165 Charles Johnson

We’re getting a new server soon, a super speedy new state of the art box with all the latest shit, so there may be a few days of chaos and maintenance mode as I get everything working.

As long as you don’t do a gender reveal party for the new baby I think I won’t notice, given my ancient iMac is already too slow for the current server.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:37:49pm

Have you missed Pulpit Pimp Theater, folks?

Oh do I have a wild one for you to peruse!

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Belafon  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:38:34pm

re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:38:38pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:39:43pm

re: #173 JOE 🥓

Have you missed Pulpit Pimp Theater, folks?

Oh do I have a wild one for you to peruse!

Remember, in Genesis the crime Adam and Eve committed was eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Right at the start God was opposed to education.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:41:51pm

re: #172 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

As long as you don’t do a gender reveal party for the new baby I think I won’t notice, given my ancient iMac is already too slow for the current server.

Yeah, I’m still on a Mac Pro with El Capitan myself. I’ve been seriously considering getting an M1 Mini, they’re amazingly inexpensive on ebay now. But I need to find a reliable way to use it with my two 30” cinema displays, because replacing those would be expensive.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:42:14pm

re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, North Dakota State Representative Jeff Hoverson (R), who is now sick with Covid-19 and was planning an anti-vax and anti-mandate rally, was kicked out of an airport two weeks ago by TSA.

Minot lawmaker barred from flight after run-in with TSA (Associated Press)

He threw a temper tantrum when TSA wanted to pat him down prior to a flight for his wedding anniversary.

He is also the sponsor of North Dakota’s copycat anti-abortion legislation from Texas. He’s all about personal freedom though.

(more)

And Pulpit Pimp Jeff is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church which split off from the Right Wing Missouri Synod because it wasn’t conservative enough!

Eat that Horse Paste Jeff and it’s a ticket to permanent residence in a GOP Forever Box®!

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:42:45pm
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Belafon  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:46:05pm

re: #179 Charles Johnson

More clue that I have women’s hands: I have short fingers, but I’m the one with the grip to open jars and bottles.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:50:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:52:21pm
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A Mom Anon  Nov 9, 2021 • 5:57:36pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

While those fines aren’t nearly enough for the two men fined, their combined fines are more than what my husband and I are supposed to live on for a year. So, you know, fuck them.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:00:52pm

re: #130 The Pie Overlord!

The Dixiecrats are Republicans now.

Interesting way of looking at it. The former Dixiecrats either repented or migrated to the GOP, but the migration was facilitated by the GOP itself welcoming them and assuring them that their ideology would have a home in the old GOP. Of course, the Democrats had compromised for years to keep the Dixiecrats happy, including designing legislation to exclude African Americans.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:01:10pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hmmmm 300K/my annual salary = just about 4 and a fraction years…which is probably just a drop in the bucket for those folks.

How long will it take them to recoup from those fines? Maybe 2 weeks or possibly 3…

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William Lewis  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:04:28pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:06:40pm

re: #183 A Mom Anon

While those fines aren’t nearly enough for the two men fined, their combined fines are more than what my husband and I are supposed to live on for a year. So, you know, fuck them.

Their fines are worth more than my house (even with the new furnace).

Speaking of the furnace, we received a card in the mail today from the company which installed it thanking us for our business and hoping we found their work acceptable.

The card was hand-signed by all the employees of the company.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:08:16pm

I’m off to lie down. CU.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:10:03pm

Better late than never. Remember the Texas teen who hit six bicyclists? Apparently he’s facing felony charges: washingtonpost.com

A 16-year-old Texas boy is charged with multiple felony counts after he allegedly hit a group of six bicyclists with his pickup truck while trying to blow exhaust on them, authorities announced Monday.

The Waller County district attorney’s office said in a statement that a teenager who drove his vehicle into bicyclists training for a triathlon, hitting all six riders and sending four to the hospital, has been charged with six counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — one charge for each cyclist hit on Sept. 25.

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wrenchwench  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:11:34pm

re: #161 Charles Johnson

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You have to want that pickle.

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sagehen  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:12:05pm

re: #164 Punish Domestic Terrorists

If might be the difference in skin structure.

Or maybe, we just loosened it for them as we tried to open it.
/

Because men squeeze the cap, which turns a circle into slightly oval-ish. Which doesn’t turn so well on a circle jar-edge.

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Amory Blaine  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:16:30pm

re: #161 Charles Johnson

My right forearm is massive.

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wrenchwench  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:17:36pm

re: #192 Amory Blaine

My right forearm is massive.

SemiPopeye?

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Nov 9, 2021 • 6:55:30pm

re: #163 Barefoot Grin

When I’m feeling down my wife will hand me the jar that’s she’s basically already opened and ask me to do the ceremonial opening of the pickles. It’s a real ego boost.

My wife is one of the strongest people I know but she cannot open pickle jars. Or maybe she is just stroking my ego? 🧐 She’s been a statewide triathlon champion, a world champion in disc golf, an exercise physiologist and trainer, and in retirement at 63 she teaches an online zoom class twice a week - strength training with dumbbells. Very heavy dumbbells!

She teaches the classes upstairs. I can hear the weights hitting the floor, kaboom, kaboom, bumpity-bump. She swears that she does NOT drop them, ever 🙄

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A Cranky One  Nov 9, 2021 • 7:05:25pm

re: #166 Charles Johnson

That’s my usual pathetic excuse to salve my injured ego. Goddammit I’m a guitar player, I’m supposed to have strong hands.

Now now. It’s strength women develop in their hands fighting the urge to strangle men.


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