WATCH LIVE: Kyle Rittenhouse Trial for Kenosha Shooting, Closing Arguments
As I write this, the prosecution is making their closing arguments.
As I write this, the prosecution is making their closing arguments.
Wendy’s reverse-makeover from glamorous grinning proud boy vigilante hero mom receiving standing ovations—to bedraggled self-defense victim-mom crying foul on FOX— is quite stunning. pic.twitter.com/q5RUoeM0OU
— scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) November 15, 2021
Just a shame he didn’t resist arrest https://t.co/eZlkk251rW
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 15, 2021
Yo’ momma’s so stupid her son can drive to a protest in another state, yank out an assault rifle, shoot three people, and she’ll still act like he’s the victim.
— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) November 15, 2021
Wearing at least three shirts, maybe more.
And they’re actually letting him turn this into a media event. https://t.co/PiEKJfPR1H— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 15, 2021
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Ask yourself are you covering the facts of the story or letting a bad faith actor spread lies and propaganda https://t.co/5DTYnN45Hf
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 15, 2021
LOfuckinL
A lot of pushback by Ky lawmakers against a report presented today about a lack of competitive bidding in state road contracts.
Road contractors are great people doing great work, they say.
“We don’t have bad contractors,” says Rep. Sal Santoro. ^JC pic.twitter.com/GSzgsiG3a9— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) November 15, 2021
I notice a distinct lack of diversity in that group of media.
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
The contractors cut corners, do subpar work and make huge profits.
That’s not “bad” if you’re a Republican.
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
The contractors cut corners, do subpar work and make huge profits.
That’s not “bad” if you’re a Republican.
Having been in road construction for 27 years, I am really going to have to disagree with you on that.
Heavy rains, flooding, and landslides have closed numerous roads on the Olympic Peninsula. Power outages, falling trees, and dramatic high tides are also expected. It’s a good time to stay safe at home. Check here for specifics on the closures: https://t.co/kG1eYcVtvr@wsdot pic.twitter.com/uUzGIpOUir
— Olympic NPS (@OlympicNP) November 15, 2021
One thing to note about closures that involve debris blocking the road. Reopening often isn’t about clearing the debris, but making sure the hillside is stable, which can take some time, especially in this kind of weather. https://t.co/5kRrQk34k9
— Washington State DOT (@wsdot) November 15, 2021
At 11am: Wind speeds of 67, gusting to 99 MPH at Mt Rainier at 6880ft in elevation. https://t.co/v8G3q9qbUM#wawx pic.twitter.com/a6DtZX0cXB
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) November 15, 2021
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
Narcissistic personality disorder is obviously very common among malcontents who try to tear our nation down. He’ll never even be able to admit to himself that he’s made himself an enemy of his own nation. It’s all other people’s fault for supporting rule of law and democracy.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 15, 2021
#BREAKING #USCG is on scene with air assets assisting local authorities with evacuation of residences west of Forks, WA, near HWY 110. Report of ~10 people in danger of rising flood waters in the area. No reported injuries. Follow for updates.#ProtectingThePNW#SearchAndRescue
— USCGPacificNorthwest (@USCGPacificNW) November 15, 2021
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
Steve Bannon claims his case is about freedom of speech. Actually Bannon is charged with refusing to speak! Congress wants him to speak as much as he wants. It’s Bannon who refuses to speak.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) November 15, 2021
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bannon: This is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden. Joe Biden ordered Garland to prosecute me… Nancy Pelosi has taken on Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, she should ask Hillary Clinton how that turned out.
Trump is gone. Nancy is still here.
Bannon was whisked in & out of his arraignment so that he can spend more time punching up his stochastic terrorism speech for the 2,000 militant maga extremists expected at his Baltimore rally tomorrow
For someone indicted, the man’s still busy as an insurrection-pollinating bee— scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) November 15, 2021
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
I would have required that he not get online or do any public speaking.
re: #9 Shropshire Slasher
Having been in road construction for 27 years, I am really going to have to disagree with you on that.
Okay, I know all contractors are not like that, but I suspect most contractors favored by Republicans are.
Also, I realize there’s a difference between “profits” and “executives personally enriching themselves as much as possible.
re: #9 Shropshire Slasher
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
McNeil says he found single-bid road paving contracts were $7.8 million over state estimates in 2021, recommended state audit of bidding practices. Legislators forcefully disputed there is an issue here, with Santoro stating” We don’t have any bad contractors.” #LeonardLawson
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) November 15, 2021
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bad contractors, no. Bad practices for accepting bids on contracts, very much yes.
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s a good thing that crazy like Austrian painter is in prison now. I’m sure he won’t be provoking any further insurrections.
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This, I’m sure, comes as a complete shock to the rubes that Powell et al are fleecing. And to nobody else.
The order’s here; we will discuss it some today. I’ll probably save the full read for tomorrow night.https://t.co/rm6gUwbGfn— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) November 15, 2021
I’m old enough to remember when The Onion was satire. https://t.co/WyJfvs9Try
— Miranda Yaver, PhD (@mirandayaver) November 15, 2021
Liable by default. Don’t repeat the NYT sloppy reporting.
The jury will still deliberate but only on the issue of how much money Alex has to fork over. Denouncing the people of CT will not help lower the damages they will award against you.— Edwin (@EdMix13) November 15, 2021
Primetime speaking slot at 2024 Republican convention https://t.co/wUuMfO6Nn5
— Jeff Yang (@originalspin) November 15, 2021
I hope the jury finds the little fucker guilty and then the judge loses his shit and shouts, “That’s not the verdict I was paid to deliver!”
Prosecutor Thomas Binger concludes #KyleRittenhouseTrial argument that Rittenhouse was an active shooter who left 2 dead and 1 wounded when he shot up a racial justice protest in Kenosha. “No reasonable person would have done what the defendant did…
he is guilty on all counts.” pic.twitter.com/GIaxpQITbN— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) November 15, 2021
“Please Clap” https://t.co/Os9JSgBQvH
— Heather Gardner (@heathergtv) November 15, 2021
This is true: Trump discussed it for 208.5 weeks while he was president. He just never did anything about it. https://t.co/2F9oWfvxyn
— Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) November 15, 2021
NOW: Schumer says “we’ve been told for years infrastructure is coming….it is now here … to quote my favorite ex-Vice President’This is a big f..in deal.’” pic.twitter.com/SpLwLUcqnB
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) November 15, 2021
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reading some of the poorly written tweets, they are talking about collusion. So either there is collusion going on amongst the contractors in various counties, or the State entity that puts together the paving proposals don’t know what they are doing and they are getting very high bid(s).
re: #30 Shropshire Slasher
Reading some of the poorly written tweets, they are talking about collusion. So either there is collusion going on amongst the contractors in various counties, or the State entity that puts together the paving proposals don’t know what they are doing and they are getting very high bid(s).
It’s old news in Kentucky how this works. The Commonwealth was divvied up into regions and contractors informally agreed to not compete for bids outside their own regions.
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
What would make a person do that, considering Trump’s attempts to end our democracy? Anyone still crediting the madman has put kissing the asses of the worst of us before our democracy, and before rule of law. Portman should resign.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 15, 2021
In multiple Republican states, with more to come, kids will be able to read about Ruby Bridges via posts like this on Twitter but not in school, because some white parents don’t want their kids to know that some white people at some time in history did mean things and that’s CRT. https://t.co/EKQS7gNLYW
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) November 15, 2021
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
Forks? They’re just all a bunch of vampires and werewolves. No biggie. //////
UPDATE: 5 total people have been transported to the hospital. Age ranges are 14-17.
Central HS remains on lockdown. Incident did not happen inside of the school but just north at Nome Park.
Updates will be here— Aurora Police Dept 🦃 (@AuroraPD) November 15, 2021
CORRECTION: Central High School is on a secure perimeter, not a lock down.
All updates will be on this thread.— Aurora Police Dept 🦃 (@AuroraPD) November 15, 2021
The judge DENIED a mistrial request today at the trial of three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery after defense attorneys claimed jurors were tainted by “quiet weeping” from the gallery where the parents of the slain Black man sat with the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) November 15, 2021
Religious right keyboard warrior thinks he can bluff his way through a conversation (on abortion):
Go ahead, list the verses. NT and OT. Let’s see how far you get.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) November 15, 2021
This is really cool:
Check Out Copenhill, the Snow-Free Ski Hill and Climbing Wall Atop a Copenhagen Power Plant
thisiscolossal.com
A year since its opening, the snow-free ski hill and entertainment hub that sits above a waste-to-energy power plant in Copenhagen is fully open to outdoor enthusiasts. New aerial photographs from Hufton+Crow capture the rooftop complex Copenhill (previously) through a blanket of fog, revealing the now lush landscaping that lines hiking trails and visitors as they peer out over the surrounding water. The multi-use site, which is located at the Amager Resource Centre, even has the world’s tallest climbing wall, an 80-meter-high rock structure that scales the entirety of the building.
Copenhill is the project of Danish architectural firm BIG and is the highest outlook in the capital city. The new complex also boasts multi-faceted energy reuse, with the indoor plant converting waste into heat for residents’ homes, while the biodiverse hill outside absorbs heat, filters the air, and minimizes water runoff.
The climbing wall? I don’t even want to look at it! Otherwise, this is awesome.
The Magpie is a magnificent bird! 😍
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset.#TwitterNatureCommunity 🐦 pic.twitter.com/43FiGpFmGo— Carl Bovis (@CarlBovisNature) November 15, 2021
How can you not retweet a birb?
re: #15 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Trump is gone. Nancy is still here.
Who is bing sued / investigated in multiple states?
Greek helmets, Classical period, from Olympia Museum store room. #History #Historia #Ancient pic.twitter.com/XjmNhUctcb
— Maarit J. Hellsten (@MaaritJohanna) November 15, 2021
re: #38 retired cynic
Years back, NYC decked over one of its sewage treatment plants and turned it into a state park on the Hudson River. That was a big deal then. This is something else entirely. I’m all for this kind of use and colocations.
re: #41 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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I thought for a sec (before the pic loaded) it said from the Olympia Museum Store room. I was gonna say— they can’t complain about the British Museum any more.
re: #41 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
All that copper turning green. Hopefully the store room has extra low humidity.
This shit used to make the world stop and hold its breath. https://t.co/30ZzcvT4kP
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) November 15, 2021
ON THE FARCICAL RITTENHOUSE TRIAL IN ADVANCE OF THE VERDICT pic.twitter.com/rLJtqgMt6L
— Trae in LEXINGTON 11/12-13 (@traecrowder) November 15, 2021
re: #39 wrenchwench
How can you not retweet a birb?
Two birds and a sunflower.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/mW26Spk0cC
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 15, 2021
I didn’t know Chuck Johnson was in jail!
Proud Boys leader complains to judge about jail conditions: ‘There are feces in my room right now’ https://t.co/3iUbuAW8Ei
— Thomas Kaine (@thomaskaine5) November 15, 2021
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I noticed I CL’d myself
About all I recall Pence doing during his term, aside from performing his job on Jan 6th and attending the Biden inauguration without Trump, was the staged departure from a Colts football game in response to players kneeling during the national anthem
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) November 15, 2021
Dear @CawthornforNC: Then why did you apply to the Naval Academy? https://t.co/PC9mjDbak3
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 15, 2021
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reagan sent the willfully-ignorant Conservatives off the deep end. Now they’re dying of their own willful-ignorance - believing vaccines from the government are the problem rather than COVID, but you’re so dumb that you keep up the nonsense that kills Conservatives.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 15, 2021
JFC
Here’s why a judge dropped the charge of being a minor in possession of a firearm against Kyle RIttenhouse. https://t.co/H3rFsAkGPl
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 15, 2021
As Schroeder and attorneys from both sides debated the wording of jury instructions on Monday the defense renewed its request to dismiss the possession charge. Assistant District Attorney James Kraus argued that reading the statute to allow minors to carry any weapon except a short-barreled rifle or short-barreled shotgun basically negates the prohibition on minors carrying weapons.
“I believe that this … essentially swallows the entire statute,” Kraus said.
But this time Schroeder dismissed the charge after Kraus acknowledged that Rittenhouse’s rifle wasn’t a short-barreled. The judge noted that prosecutors filed a “very nice brief” laying out their arguments but that it should have been clear he had a “big problem” with the prohibition statute.
He said prosecutors could have asked a state appeals court to rule on whether the charge was valid “all along.” Then he caught himself, noting that he never issued a ruling against the prosecution that might have triggered such a request until just then with closing arguments minutes away.
“I think it ought to have been mighty clear that I had big problems with this statute,” Schroeder said. “I made no bones about that from the beginning. And there always was access to the court of appeals all along here. Well, I guess that’s not fair for me to say because I was sitting on it. So shame on me.”
I got no words that are polite.
re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth
How do we protect the country against crappy judges? “He was a good judge until he fired off his mouth.”
Steve Bannon leaving the courthouse today, “They took on the wrong guy this time.” pic.twitter.com/x9bumyOciN
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 15, 2021
lol, the ratio
re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shooting in Nome Park
So I went to see what state this Aurora was, and had a choice of shootings in Aurora, Illinois, the Aurora Theater and this one (Colorado).
I haz a sad.
re: #56 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
So I went to see what state this Aurora was, and had a choice of shootings in Aurora, Illinois, the Aurora Theater and this one (Colorado).
I haz a sad.
It worked out better for me. I work in Aurora, Illinois when I go into the office.
Something very bad is reportedly happening at the Poland-Belarus border! Belarusian soldiers are pushing migrants onto the fence. A woman is heard shouting, someone is using gas, Polish and Belarusian soldiers are shouting at each other. A lot (!) of swearing. pic.twitter.com/uZnPiQNbmp
— Tadeusz Giczan (@TadeuszGiczan) November 15, 2021
Jen Psaki audibly sighs after Peter Doocy complains about Kyle Rittenhouse being called ‘white supremacist’ https://t.co/ph2v49U6UP pic.twitter.com/N6f9odAFIg
— 🌊 R Saddler (@Politics_PR) November 15, 2021
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
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wow. that reminds me of the metholated gal from an adjacent apartment complex who finally got thrown into court-ordered detox while her apartment was literally having shit shoveled out of it by those cleaners who come in hazmat suits. She looked to be a badly-vintaged 50 when she was on the rock, but came back looking about 80. apparently she and the meth had a kind of symbiotic understanding: it would eat her alive, but it would do most of it from the inside. Once she betrayed it, it just kind of ate the rest of her down on the way out.
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
“How about I rip that mask off and shove it down your throat, pal?”
re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg
“How about I rip that mask off and shove it down your throat, pal?”
Jen is not a Conservative.
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
Republicans keep getting elected so 🤷🏽♀️. Vote for politicians who believe in gun control and we will see a change.
re: #65 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Jen is not a Conservative.
No, but the mask is the nearest available weapon.
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Forty years ago, upon the tenth anniversary of the debut of “Sesame Street,” the New York Times offered an appraisal of the revolutionary children’s television program, reminding readers that the show with universal appeal initially declared its target audience, “the four-year old inner-city black youngster.” This year, as the show commemorates its 50th anniversary and is broadcast in more than 150 countries, it’s worthwhile to take a look back at how since its inception, “Sesame Street” has been rooted in African-American culture, more specifically the historically black community of Harlem. The New York City neighborhood played such an outsized role in the development of the program—from set design to casting and marketing—the answer to the question from the “Sesame Street” opening song, “Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street,” ought to be Duke Ellington’s “Take the A Train.”
The Unmistakable Black Roots of ‘Sesame Street’ (Smithsonian Mag)
That’s an old photo. Melania could still open her eyes.
— CC 🇺🇸 (@jawarajabbi) November 15, 2021
and obviously long before her “kidney procedure”.
Rittenhouse lawyer on Drew Hernandez: “He doesn’t have a dog in this fight.”
Hernandez is an extreme right wing operative who works for the org that hosts Steve Bannon’s videos, and he coordinates with other extremists like Andy Ngo.
The judge refused to allow this in. pic.twitter.com/l0knNqshOe— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 15, 2021
Ah well….
Michael Cohen lost his suit for reimbursement of legal expenses from the Trump Org on summary judgment late last week. Here’s the decision: https://t.co/ZRPniTc2nR pic.twitter.com/DaT6o3TDd6
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 15, 2021
re: #66 Patricia Kayden
Republicans keep getting elected so 🤷🏽♀️. Vote for politicians who believe in gun control and we will see a change.
my position has been, and remains, what do we have a better chance of achieving:
- banning the manufacture, import, sale or possession of any gun and taking them from those who currently own them
or
- crafting laws that hold gun owners responsible for their own undisputed actions
re: #68 Punish Domestic Terrorists
—the answer to the question from the “Sesame Street” opening song, “Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street,” ought to be Duke Ellington’s “Take the A Train.”
The Unmistakable Black Roots of ‘Sesame Street’ (Smithsonian Mag)
You drop that quote but not the track?
Pete Buttigieg on the CNN report yesterday against @VP: “There are always these parlor games of trying to gin up drama in an administration that has been incredibly focused and disciplined to deliver a win on infrastructure that has eluded president after president.”
— United for THEE People (@people4kam) November 15, 2021
The first time I saw Sesame Street was in its first year. We couldn’t get it at our house in Quincy, IL, but the YMCA came up with some way to access it. So there was a b/w TV on a table top in a rec room with a cable-like attachment and a couple of dozen of us on the cold floor. I was not impressed. I preferred Johnny Quest at that particular time of my life. I learned to like it later, as an adult.
re: #75 Barefoot Grin
The first time I saw Sesame Street was in its first year. We couldn’t get it at our house in Quincy, IL, but the YMCA came up with some way to access it. So there was a b/w TV on a table top in a rec room with a cable-like attachment and a couple of dozen of us on the cold floor. I was not impressed. I preferred Johnny Quest at that particular time of my life. I learned to like it later, as an adult.
How old were you then?
re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow that guy knows how to answer.
re: #76 Belafon
How old were you then?
I was five or six. We lived in that town from ‘67-‘70. So I know it’s in that range.
He wants the Trump fascists to reenact the 2000AD comic in South America. I’m for it if they can be prevented from hurting the locals.
Subpoenaed Jan. 6 Leader Loses It After Bannon Indictment: ‘Accept That You Will Die’ (DailyBeast)
When I said the defense summation in the Rittenhouse trial is “they all had it coming”, I mean the defense lawyer is basically saying “these bad people deserved to get shot on principle for being bad people”
Not sure that counts as self-defense— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 15, 2021
Completely improper argument with no objection from the prosecutor in the Rittenhouse trial. Defense says about one of the victims: “I’m glad he got shot,” then speculated that the victim would’ve probably grabbed Rittenhouse’s gun and murdered people. pic.twitter.com/3lZqBLoHxr
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 15, 2021
re: #80 jaunte
I’m sure that shortly the judge will indicate that he has issues with the state and federal statutes regarding shooting people and will simply dismiss all charges.
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re: #81 jaunte
Can you object during closing arguments?
re: #84 Belafon
Can you object during closing arguments?
You can, but only in pretty extreme circumstances. Otherwise, it’s frowned upon.
re: #87 jaunte
This judge would frown on it.
this judge frowns upon anything that makes Kyle look bad
Larry Kudlow is wrong about everything all the time no matter what
Larry Kudlow is wrong about everything all the time no matter what
Larry Kudlow is wrong about everything all the time no matter what https://t.co/nXJtcBHa2E— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 15, 2021
re: #75 Barefoot Grin
The first time I saw Sesame Street was in its first year. We couldn’t get it at our house in Quincy, IL, but the YMCA came up with some way to access it. So there was a b/w TV on a table top in a rec room with a cable-like attachment and a couple of dozen of us on the cold floor. I was not impressed. I preferred Johnny Quest at that particular time of my life. I learned to like it later, as an adult.
That gets an up-ding for Jonny Quest. I really enjoyed that show. Have you seen this stop-motion version of the opening credits? Was done about 10ish years ago.
re: #72 Dangerman
my position has been, and remains, what do we have a better chance of achieving:
- banning the manufacture, import, sale or possession of any gun and taking them from those who currently own them
or
- crafting laws that hold gun owners responsible for their own undisputed actions
The first is 100% impossible. The second is only 99 point repeater 9 percent impossible.
I think the regrettable reality of this issue is that talking about doing something sensible about guns is a thing a Democratic candidate should only do if they really feel a pressing need to lose their election.
re: #77 Rightwingconspirator
Wow that guy knows how to answer.
Buttigieg has mortal political enemies. In most cases, that really improves a politician’s focus on never forgetting who the enemy is.
The bias from the judge is crystal clear. Once again white guy that shot someone in the freaking back gets off easy. Probably.
Only because I taught this stuff for years do I know of these things. I paid attorneys and police to come lecture at my classes.
Proper self-defense means the trouble came to you. When you prepare for violence, travel to the location of violence you are a combatant, not a defender. It also does not include stepping out as a minor in illegal possession of a gun to go defend someone else’s property uninvited.
Edit-The possession has been ruled legal. I think it’s nuts.
From last thread after I found out I was ridiculously behind in the comments:
re: #9 A Mom Anon
I wonder if it’s possible or if anyone has figured out the numbers on this for companies like Walmart and Amazon or most other large retailers. And then look at companies like Costco who actually raised their starting salary to 17 dollars an hour. I have a feeling it would just be a lot less expensive to just be a decent employer. You don’t have huge turnover, retraining or burned out employees, don’t have to deal with lawsuits and paying even larger groups of attorneys than you already have to as a company. I have to wonder about the same logic applied to what they do to fight taxes, labor laws and fair wages.
I hate lobbyists, that whole system is a huge part of why we’re here. And yet it’s rarely addressed, reported on and nothing is done about it.
FedEx struggled during its latest quarter due to labor shortages. UPS, which pays its unionized drivers the highest wages in the industry, is maintaining a stable workforce and rising profits https://t.co/Ops9jV3BPs
— Bloomberg Markets (@markets) November 4, 2021
You might find some items of interest in the Bloomberg article linked in the tweet. It’s another example of treating employees well (even if it was unions that forced that on you) reduces business risks.
re: #92 EPR-radar
A lesson I always wished Obama had learned.
For the “Where’s Kamala” chorus. https://t.co/lrwpNGHRy4
— Bodak Red 🍂🍂🦃🦃🍁🍁 (@AFarray) November 15, 2021
re: #94 dat_said
I still prefer to give my money to the USPS, but that makes me support UPS more.
re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth
Look at Biden, not elbowing her out of the way to get to the podium.
re: #93 Rightwingconspirator
It came out that Rittenhouse’s gun was legal, under an insane Wisconsin law that allows kids as young as 12 to carry semi-auto weapons.
Attorneys for Kyle Rittenhouse, who is charged with fatally shooting two people during a protest in Wisconsin last year, argued that hunting laws allowed him to carry the assault-style weapon used during the shootings.
Wisconsin law prohibits anyone under age 18 from being armed, but Rittenhouse’s attorneys argued that state laws only forbid minors to carry short-barreled rifles and shotguns. The other prohibitions pertaining to children fall under hunting laws, which say children under age 12 can’t hunt with guns, Rittenhouse’s attorneys said at a hearing Tuesday.
Unless it’s legal to hunt humans in Wisconsin, he wasn’t hunting.
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re: #99 Charles Johnson
Right, point taken. But that’s not out hunting! Anyway we agree on this one. SMH
re: #90 The Squire of Logos
That gets an up-ding for Jonny Quest. I really enjoyed that show. Have you seen this stop-motion version of the opening credits? Was done about 10ish years ago.
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Holy cow, that’s magnificent. I was terrified by the spider robot as a child. Also, kind of unfortunate that “Race” Bannon is a name and that he looks like Pence.
re: #93 Rightwingconspirator
… When you prepare for violence, travel to the location of violence you are a combatant, not a defender. …
This is the key point. In my view (unless applicable state law totally ruled this out), this should have been the one and only issue argued by the prosecution.
re: #100 jaunte
Unless it’s legal to hunt humans in Wisconsin, he wasn’t hunting.
Agree - that’s why I called it an insane law.
re: #80 jaunte
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I thought a defense argument of “he needed shooting” only worked in Texas. So now it’s a Wisconsin thing too?
I’m not sure I agree with you 100% on your legal work, there, Judge.
re: #99 Charles Johnson
It came out that Rittenhouse’s gun was legal, under an insane Wisconsin law that allows kids as young as 12 to carry semi-auto weapons.
WHAT. WAS. HE. HUNTING. AT. A. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. RALLY. AT. NIGHT.
re: #100 jaunte
Unless it’s legal to hunt humans in Wisconsin, he wasn’t hunting.
Of course it’s legal to hunt humans in many parts of the US, subject to applicable white privilege.
SCORPION ATTACK https://t.co/OuOVXCxJBS
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 15, 2021
Man, this really makes me think twice about the Wisconsin taxidermy shops I referenced a couple of days ago.
re: #99 Charles Johnson
It came out that Rittenhouse’s gun was legal, under an insane Wisconsin law that allows kids as young as 12 to carry semi-auto weapons.
So summer is hunting season in Kenosha? Who knew?
re: #103 Barefoot Grin
Holy cow, that’s magnificent. I was terrified by the spider robot as a child. Also, kind of unfortunate that “Race” Bannon is a name and that he looks like Pence.
Inorite? It is literally a shot for shot redo of the opening credits. The spider robot created by the evil Dr. Zinn!
If only Pence had the courage, charisma and good humor of Race Bannon (despite the unfortunate name) he mighta been a contender! Actually strike that. Probably best that he is an impotent weenie.
re: #107 jaunte
I’m not sure I agree with you 100% on your legal work, there, Judge.
Apparently WI doesn’t have much in the way of requirements needed to practice law, and this judge would appear to be one lamentable result of such a system.
re: #115 The Squire of Logos
Inorite? It is literally a shot for shot redo of the opening credits. The spider robot created by the evil Dr. Zinn!
If only Pence had the courage, charisma and good humor of Race Bannon (despite the unfortunate name) he mighta been a contender! Actually strike that. Probably best that he is an impotent weenie.
Race Bannon in Pence’s position would have thoroughly dealt with Trump, probably some time in Jan 2017.
Holy what the fucking goddamnit:
Breaking: Cleta Mitchell — an attorney who who was integral in helping Trump craft the false narrative he won the 2020 election — has been named to the board of advisors for the Election Assistance Commission. pic.twitter.com/aerONsu1tD
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) November 15, 2021
re: #115 The Squire of Logos
Inorite? It is literally a shot for shot redo of the opening credits. The spider robot created by the evil Dr. Zinn!
If only Pence had the courage, charisma and good humor of Race Bannon (despite the unfortunate name) he mighta been a contender! Actually strike that. Probably best that he is an impotent weenie.
In my opinion Race Bannon was riffing on the look of Jeff Chandler.
re: #119 Barefoot Grin
Holy what the fucking goddamnit:
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I don’t know. Maybe the board has no real power. One can hope.
Defense just objected on something that seems pretty insignificant and Schroeder didn’t freak out, so they obviously can.
re: #121 Barefoot Grin
Kill the Election Assistance Commission?
2014:
“…The EAC’s reality, however, is marked by leadership vacuums and little sense of purpose.
It’s endowed with almost no regulatory powers. All four commissioner positions and have been vacant since 2011, and it hasn’t conducted a public meeting since then. It hasn’t had a quorum of three commissioners — what’s needed for the EAC to conduct votes, write policy and issue advisory opinions — since 2010. The commission has no permanent executive director or general counsel. It used to distribute grants to states so they may better administer elections. But today, lacking leaders, the EAC no longer make grants.”
The only real hope for this trial is for a hung jury. That would allow a retrial and presumably a less corrupt judge in charge.
Doing a call back to the cop shooting an unarmed black man, IN THE BACK, which started the protests against police brutality as justification for your client crashing the party with an assault rifle because he wanted to hunt human beings is fucking sick, dude. Fucking sick. https://t.co/y72QkRnaK8
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) November 15, 2021
re: #124 jaunte
Kill the Election Assistance Commission?2014:
Why would Republicans help voters? That’s why 2011 is significant.
re: #126 jaunte
Only in America could that kind of argument find legitimacy in a courtroom.
the little guy is like hey Hey HEY MF’er!
If it fits.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/uw2ldCvinQ
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 15, 2021
re: #102 Rightwingconspirator
Right, point taken. But that’s not out hunting! Anyway we agree on this one. SMH
apparently it now *is* legal to hunt humans in Wisconsin, if you are a pasty little Pillsbury dough creature
re: #114 sagehen
So summer is hunting season in Kenosha? Who knew?
apparently don’t even need to get a tag for a legal harvest…
Can we stop with the “nobody wants to work anymore” rhetoric now, please? https://t.co/zKI3d274vT
— Leftist Maniac (@curmudge_john) November 15, 2021
re: #125 William Lewis
The only real hope for this trial is for a hung jury. That would allow a retrial and presumably a less corrupt judge in charge.
what if the judge decides that a hung jury is a mistrial with prejudice?
re: #78 Barefoot Grin
I was five or six. We lived in that town from ‘67-‘70. So I know it’s in that range.
you would have been watching syndicated jonny quest at that point, because the assholes who ran the networks decided that kids could only handle “let’s pretend” scary stuff, so the monsters were all various carnival barkers trying to run various grifts in various towns. Admittedly, Jonny Quest was racist as hell, but it was also way better than what followed. (Except for that episode where the dog is swimming around with everyone else in scuba gear. That was completely unrealistic. Unlike the completely sympathetic portrayal of Asian villains and African tribespeople).
It’s now against the law for teachers in North Dakota to say that racism “is systemically embedded in American society” or that the American legal system facilitates “racial inequality.” This is the Republican party, they only like free speech if it’s for ideas they agree with. https://t.co/f4VDJWuopK
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) November 14, 2021
re: #125 William Lewis
The only real hope for this trial is for a hung jury. That would allow a retrial and presumably a less corrupt judge in charge.
Corrupt implies he was bought off or something, I don’t think he is corrupt, just extremely biased.
re: #24 gocart mozart
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re: #132 jaunte
MrBWS is one of those who opted for retirement at beginning of the year 2021 after being laid off at the beginning of May 2020 (and only being called back to work for 4 days over Christmas for a storm in Albany NY).
And he is very happy about that decision.
re: #91 EPR-radar
The first is 100% impossible. The second is only 99 point repeater 9 percent impossible.
I think the regrettable reality of this issue is that talking about doing something sensible about guns is a thing a Democratic candidate should only do if they really feel a pressing need to lose their election.
schroeder once said to lucy:
“i wouldnt marry you unless you were the last woman on earth”
she asks “did you say ‘if’ or ‘unless’”
he says “I must admit, i said ‘unless’
“HOPE!!!!!”
re: #103 Barefoot Grin
Holy cow, that’s magnificent. I was terrified by the spider robot as a child. Also, kind of unfortunate that “Race” Bannon is a name and that he looks like Pence.
My theory would be that he was from an immensely wealthy family and got given the surname as his given name. It’s the same situation in which if my first name were Davis, I’d be a professional golfer.
Black residents in a country in Georgia took control of the country commission and control most things in the county, so the lone Republican has filed bills in the state legislature to add seats to dilute the power:
re: #109 darthstar
WHAT. WAS. HE. HUNTING. AT. A. BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. RALLY. AT. NIGHT.
coons, ma boy. (said with a strong mississippi tilt).
Wyoming GOP votes to disown Liz Cheney as a Republican for her criticism of Trumphttps://t.co/CPljCC0iG5
— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 15, 2021
re: #141 steve_davis
re: #103 Barefoot Grin
Holy cow, that’s magnificent. I was terrified by the spider robot as a child. Also, kind of unfortunate that “Race” Bannon is a name and that he looks like Pence.
My theory would be that he was from an immensely wealthy family and got given the surname as his given name. It’s the same situation in which if my first name were Davis, I’d be a professional golfer
.
IIRC, wasn’t Race Bannon’s given name “Roger”??
In her inimitable satiric style, Alexandra Petri shows the absurdity of the Rittenhouse defense (and of the NYT’s ridiculous take.)
Opinion: Teen who showed up in operating room with scalpel had idolized doctors all his life
The important thing to remember about the decisions that left two people dead and a lot of other people holding loose kidneys with expressions of abject horror is that the teenager who showed up in the operating room with a scalpel he had brought from home was a big fan of doctors and thought that he would be able to help.
re: #136 Belafon
ND law is now in contradiction with itself, since it demands a factual and objective curriculum that omits the objective fact of US structural racism.
re: #144 Dread Pirate Ron
Raw Story@RawStory
Wyoming GOP votes to disown Liz Cheney as a Republican for her criticism of Trump
.  .  .  interesting.
re: #145 Jay C
.
IIRC, wasn’t Race Bannon’s given name “Roger”??
Yes.
“Race” was his nickname, because of his dedication to the prosperity of the white race at any cost.
/I made that up, and can’t find the real reason.
re: #144 Dread Pirate Ron
I thought they did that months ago
re: #124 jaunte
Kill the Election Assistance Commission?2014:
Thanks. Unnecessary panic. I should have looked into it further in that very thread.
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
I thought they did that months ago
I think they’re just making it official now.
Here in bugfuck gun-crazy Alabama, I can carry a long rifle almost anywhere I please, EXCEPT TO A DEMONSTRATION. It’s a state law dating from the unfortunate times of the Outside Agitator problem.
re: #150 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yes.
“Race” was his nickname, because of his dedication to the prosperity of the white race at any cost.
/I made that up, and can’t find the real reason.
Ummm, not all that sarcastic: from Wikipedia:
Roger T. “Race” Bannon is the special agent from Intelligence One assigned to safeguard Jonny “24 hours a day and 7 days a week as tutor, companion and all-around watchdog”.[13] Race was born in Wilmette, Illinois, to John and Sarah Bannon.[14] He is an expert in judo, having a third-degree black belt as well as the ability to defeat notorious experts in various sporting techniques, including sumo wrestlers. He is also a pilot. The character was voiced by Mike Road, with his design modeled on actor Jeff Chandler.[15] The name is a combination of Race Dunhill and Stretch Bannon from an earlier comic strip.[4] The surname Bannon is Irish (from ‘O’Banain’) meaning “white”.[16][17]
Take good care of your liver, kids. pic.twitter.com/a6VoHpMzw2
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) November 15, 2021
I like that the prosecutor framed his closing by saying the fact that Rittenhouse murdered two people is not in question, the only question is if the jury wants to let him ‘get away with it.’ Hopefully that sticks in the throats of the strongest people on that jury. Deliberation could be done in an hour.
This offers some explanatory background about Sinema’s most recent behavior, though not all. It seems she’s working for Big Coin recently.
NEW: Kyrsten Sinema raked in nearly $180,000 from a curious special interest last quarter—crypto. The industry was lobbying her to change tax language in an infrastructure bill amendment she’d co-sponsored. And guess what? She changed her mind. Here’s a mini report, with receipts
— Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers (@SollenbergerRC) November 15, 2021
re: #156 Jay C
Ummm, not all that sarcastic: from Wikipedia:
The surname Bannon is Irish (from ‘O’Banain’) meaning “white”
Huge sigh of relief that my Irish roots are Black Irish. Great-grandfather and various other male ancestors have the name Keiran/Keyran/Ciarán. It means “little dark one” or “little dark-haired one”, produced by appending a diminutive suffix to ciar (“black”, “dark”).
RIP “Infrastructure Week” - Cause of Death: Actual Infrastructure Week pic.twitter.com/YYOXlJz5Kj
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 16, 2021
Access to high-speed internet is as essential as access to water or electricity.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will make high speed internet affordable and available everywhere in America — urban, suburban, and rural — and create jobs laying down the broadband lines.— President Biden (@POTUS) November 16, 2021
I am 30 years old and your party has won the presidential popular vote exactly once in my lifetime https://t.co/lHE1jkPGJ5
— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) November 14, 2021
Well, it wouldn’t be the most ridiculous thing an allegedly competent lawyer and/or judge has said during this trial.
Heck, I’d be surprised if it made the Top 5. https://t.co/nFOacG0h9V— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 16, 2021
Charles,
Do you think Joe might reconsider his decision to leave if he knew that teleskiguy has been banned from the site? I am unhappy that they both left since previously they each contributed valuable ideas and information, but it was teleskiguy who went off the edge.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.
re: #167 danarchy
While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.
well, that’s fine if you aren’t in an extreme rural area and can find living wage work or build a business without internet.
re: #167 danarchy
While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.
It’s what we need to create jobs for educated people in the sparsely populated states where voters have disproportionate influence in the Senate.
re: #167 danarchy
While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.
In those few days you could enjoy almost 60,000 cat pictures.
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
well, that’s fine if you aren’t in an extreme rural area and can find living wage work or build a business without internet.
I personally have two spring-fed shallow wells, a spring-fed cistern, and backup solar and wind for electricity.
What I do not have is a reliable and affordable broadband internet access. My internet connection is just barely a step up from dialup.
re: #170 Decatur Deb
In those few days you could enjoy almost 60,000 cat pictures.
You could run a quick GoFundMe to get some water delivered.
Melania has sadly deteriorated
Not her leaving as soon as the cops are called 🤣 pic.twitter.com/lqCjFmg6Bg
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) November 15, 2021
I have never seen someone on trial for murder unhandcuffed standing directly behind a judge #Rittenhouse pic.twitter.com/K8j9GPKIQJ
— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) November 15, 2021
re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth
Huge sigh of relief that my Irish roots are Black Irish. Great-grandfather and various other male ancestors have the name Keiran/Keyran/Ciarán. It means “little dark one” or “little dark-haired one”, produced by appending a diminutive suffix to ciar (“black”, “dark”).
And there are the Korean Irish like the McKim clan.
If these people are mad about what the prosecutor did with a gun, wait until they hear about what Kyle Rittenhouse did with it https://t.co/PDv13C5OxC
— connectpoliticditto. (@cpoliticditto) November 16, 2021
And @NicolleDWallace made a really good point. If Brannon is proud of what he did, if he was behaving legally and doing his patriotic duty in regards to Jan 6, why doesn’t he want to come in front of the committee and tell them all about it? What is he afraid of? https://t.co/QZeZoFWxMi
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) November 16, 2021
How is this a freedom of speech issue?
re: #178 I Would Prefer Not To
How is this a freedom of speech issue?
It is most definitely not. He has every chance of speaking. He is not being denied in any way.
re: #178 I Would Prefer Not To
How is this a freedom of speech issue?
Because it makes a better tagline for the apologists in RW media than “asshole stonewalls Congress” ?
The sort of apologists who probably think Steve Bannon deserves the Presidental Medal of Freedom.
Meanwhile, in Vancouver. https://t.co/o47q9M1D7s
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) November 16, 2021
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
Update. #BCStorm #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/37h0g6Q3Eg
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) November 16, 2021
ok fine one question: of course i am, i am the ringleader of the attempt to cancel steven pinkerhttps://t.co/sseFvAXnuT
— Dr. Green, PhD in not being evil to students (@caitlinmoriah) November 16, 2021
Interested in understanding why orbital debris is concerning? Check this out 💥 https://t.co/vfbHEes5Bk
— Megs H. (@megsylhydrazine) November 15, 2021
For more insight and latest updates, follow along with @planet4589 https://t.co/WJCeYBygtF
— Megs H. (@megsylhydrazine) November 15, 2021
Some good news, apologies if this was covered already.
Alex Jones Loses Fourth Lawsuit Over Sandy Hook ‘Hoax’ Conspiracy
A Connecticut judge has found Infowars host Alex Jones liable for damages in lawsuits brought by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
huffpost.com
re: #178 I Would Prefer Not To
How is this a freedom of speech issue?
Maybe he’s claiming “persecution” for what he said on and about 1/6???
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
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@RobynOnTheRun got flooded out of her spot in the RV park she’s staying at. They woke her up this morning when the water level was almost up to the top of the tires and told her she needed to move. Thankfully there was no damage to the RV and they had a cabin on high ground she and the bean can stay in until they can reconnect to utilities. Nasty situation all around.
“We were founded on a very basic double standard. This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.”
Carlin = woke mob. Apparently… pic.twitter.com/lVyN64DYkc— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 16, 2021
re: #187 Dangerman
Maybe he’s claiming “persecution” for what he said on and about 1/6???
This freedom of speech crap is just more of the usual right wing bullshit. They all think “freedom of speech” means the freedom for them to say what they want to say, on any platform, no matter how offensive it is. It also includes the freedom to break laws at will (but only for Republicans).
“Smirk like a sociopath if you know you’re going to get away with murder.”#KyleRittenhouseIsGuiltyAF https://t.co/Z82l8KuEFL
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈 (@AmoneyResists) November 16, 2021
A simple question:
If the situation was so dangerous on of August 25, 2020 in Kenosha, how come the only three people shot all night were shot by Kyle Rittenhouse?— Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) November 16, 2021
This is what happens when your moral compass is replaced with a need for power at any cost: when Cheney pushed for a Jan 6 Comm, McConnell told her to “move on,..challenging Trump would only hurt Republicans in the upcoming elections &..her own reelection” https://t.co/TujbBUyDPF
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 15, 2021
Catch me outside, bitch! https://t.co/ZV8ogi3QjY
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) November 15, 2021
Il delta lavico che si è formato al largo dell’isola di #LaPalma si è ormai completamente unito al delta che si era formato durante l’eruzione vulcanica del 1949. È incredibile pensare che l’intera isola si sia creata proprio in questo modo.
📸 I Love The World pic.twitter.com/X87GA5W4AG— Il Mondo dei Terremoti (@mondoterremoti) November 13, 2021
Trump asked his former impeachment lawyer David Schoen to take on Bannon’s case, per folks familiar with the discussions.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 16, 2021
Keep that conspiracy tight.
re: #193 Dread Pirate Ron
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This is what happens when your moral compass is replaced with a need for power at any cost: when Cheney pushed for a Jan 6 Comm, McConnell told her to “move on,..challenging Trump would only hurt Republicans in the upcoming elections &..her own reelection” https://t.co/TujbBUyDPF
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 15, 2021
Former President Donald Trump dismissed a report that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was going to disinvite him from Joe Biden’s inauguration.
IANAL, but wasn’t Judge Schroeder’s dismissal of the gun charge equivalent to jury nullification: he didn’t like the literal reading of the law so he threw it out?
re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter
Charles,
Do you think Joe might reconsider his decision to leave if he knew that teleskiguy has been banned from the site? I am unhappy that they both left since previously they each contributed valuable ideas and information, but it was teleskiguy who went off the edge.
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Billionaire Peter Thiel anonymously purchased former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s Washington, D.C. home for $13 million, Politico reports.
The purchase of the splashy new Washington residence comes amid a burst of political activity for Thiel.
Definitely not over market price, right? //
Baby handed to U.S. soldiers at Kabul airport amid the chaos of Afghanistan airlift is still missing, parents say. https://t.co/Jv0hkXoURc
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 16, 2021
re: #199 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
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Former President Donald Trump endorsed a Republican challenger to Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI), who was one of the 10 House of Representatives Republicans to vote to impeach Trump earlier this year, Reuters reports.
And
The Wyoming Republican Party will no longer recognize Liz Cheney as a member of the GOP in its second formal rebuke for her criticism of former President Donald Trump,” the AP reports.
Wants an ice cream
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) November 16, 2021
re: #200 Dangerman
Wilbur Ross keeps making money like he’s planning to take it with him.
re: #202 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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re: #199 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
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re: #167 danarchy
While I get the sentiment, there is a hierarchy to essential. I lived without internet for almost half my life, pretty sure I would only manage a few days without water.
You can boil your own water and use firewood that you go cut down yourself. And then, when you get sick, you can burn some leaves hoping it will cure you.
No, you don’t need water from a properly functioning system, and you don’t need electricity since the human race did without it for all except the last hundred years. And you don’t need antibiotics, vaccines, packaged food, clothes, or a house. But, since we live in a world where those things go are available, it is really nice being able to look up how to solve the math problem your kid is struggling with, how to fix the faucet that is leaking, or apply online for that job you wouldn’t even know about otherwise.
Sometimes, your contrarianism is really short sighted.
Things that make you want to pre-emptively barf. https://t.co/wzGJY7hvAP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2021
re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #209 Charles Johnson
The Day The Recipe Lady Reached The End Of Her Rope.
One of my aunts was the recipe lady for Riviana Rice back in the 60s, but she never had that bad a day.
re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter
Charles,
Do you think Joe might reconsider his decision to leave if he knew that teleskiguy has been banned from the site? I am unhappy that they both left since previously they each contributed valuable ideas and information, but it was teleskiguy who went off the edge.
I haven’t emailed this info to him, but the main reason he left isn’t just ski - he felt there were others who agreed. This is the core reason he felt unwelcome, I think, and I have to respect that. If he heard from other LGF members who want him to reconsider, maybe it would change his mind. Or maybe not.
re: #210 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
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re: #210 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
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Never has there been a better representative of the Christian nationalist right. https://t.co/52H1ViVCxT
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2021
Horror movie scriptwriters alert:
I love titles that bluntly state a study’s conclusion:
A pathogenic fungus uses volatiles to entice male flies into fatal matings with infected female cadavers https://t.co/rXBcQZoyhb— Dr. Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) November 16, 2021
re: #206 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
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With respect to everyone who wants to chase after Joe and beg him to come back, Joe does not strike me as the kind of person to “get over” things, especially when he feels that he has been wronged or betrayed.
No one asked me, but if one were to do so, I would counsel giving him his space to deal with his feelings in his way.
re: #222 A Three Hour Tour
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re: #222 A Three Hour Tour
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I dislike talking about other members for just this reason. If I left, and found out everyone wanted me back just because, after I had been alienated, I would’ve felt even more so. (It’s like how I feel about the city I live in, but that’s for another thread.)
I have been online for longer than some of you, and have experienced many of the same emotions in various other settings online. I usually leave quietly, based on long experience.
I have no enemies, and no one I dislike, here, so I’m not likely to flounce. But I always think about it, no matter where I post, and I, and we, must accept that nothing is permanent. (Yahoo killed the disability list I used to run. Then my moderator died of pancreatic cancer.)
I like and respect Charles. If I left, I would still follow him on Twitter.
re: #223 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
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I probably should’ve appended my comment to one of the other posts in the thread, or just posted as a separate comment instead of piggybacking one in a reply. I’m tired and everything’s beginning to run together, now. Sorry.