Right wing trolls were very excited last night on Twitter; violence always gets them lathered up and raving, especially when a black person is identified as the suspect. (And by the way, I suspect someone on the police force leaked this info to right wing propagandists like Jack Posobiec last night.)
Right. As if writing a book titled “Liberal Fascism” was responsible.
CNN is hell bent on rehabilitating the right. https://t.co/Oc9F9qsUQN— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
It’s sort of quaint, with the recent history of CNN’s whitewashing of the right, that some people are replying to this tweet with “What’s wrong with reporting this?”
I almost wish I could still be that naïve.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
re: #2 darthstar
Wait, you mean we don’t need some stupid code phrase to curse out someone?
Damn.. that feels good. Fuck Trump. Fuck all those who enable him and cover up his crimes. Fuck the feckless media who both sides everything about Trumpworld and the GOP when there’s no both siding any of this.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Funny response:
those are the same person, come on
— Chairman Stan (@ChairmanStan) November 22, 2021
Crop duster. Filled with COVID vax. One low pass… https://t.co/Y4Tc2f50jS
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 22, 2021
re: #6 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Wait wait wait.
Now they are BOTH COMING BACK??
re: #6 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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The dead are quite stubborn.
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
If they weren’t misogynist, Jackie O would be coming back too.
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait wait wait.
Now they are BOTH COMING BACK??
Jim Jarmush redux: The Dead Are Still Dead.
re: #6 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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trump supporters partying at the spot JFK’s brains got blown out on the anniversary of when it happened.
classy
re: #11 b.d. (The war is over)
trump supporters partying at the spot JFK’s brains got blown out on the anniversary of when it happened.
classy
Well he was a Dem so he stole the election, of course.
re: #6 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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I have a Cessna 182 fueled and ready just a few minutes away. I could kick the door open, spray the fire extinguisher toward the nutters, and scatter some hastily printed leaflets informing them that they had just been Covid vaxxed. It would be a great joke. Unfortunately, the FAA would not be amused so I will have to restrain the impulse and save the plan for some other time.
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait wait wait.
Now they are BOTH COMING BACK??
Well, if Former President Kennedy is accompanying his son, he would 104 years old now: so not surprising that he’d be moving a bit slowly…
re: #12 GlutenFreeJesus
Well he was a Dem so he stole the election, of course.
Sigh.
Look, Goldberg and Hayes both deserve a ton of criticism, but can we just collectively acknowledge that it’s a good thing they have a line they won’t cross, that they’re not *utterly* amoral like their colleagues, and that this is an admirable decision?
— Peeve (@_Peeve_) November 22, 2021
Peeve needs to go to a bookstore and dip into Liberal Fascism.
re: #6 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Airborne manure spreader would be perfect.
Or cattle slurry.
Like the planes that drop water and fire retardant on fires, except it’s fresh slurry.
I don’t believe that the reason they resigned is tucker. I know it’s the stated reason, but I’m not buying it. They were on their way out and this was a way to make a statement. tucker has been as ass for years. Why now?
re: #18 jaunte
Peeve needs to go to a bookstore and dip into Liberal Fascism.
I made the mistake of checking it out of a Library once. Read about 8 pages. Took it back the next day.
re: #21 I Would Prefer Not To
There’s pretty much a straight line from Goldberg and Hayes (and NRO generally) to Carlson’s white nationalist claptrap hour at Fox. Those two can’t clutch their pearls now when they had a helping hand in getting us to this very point.
re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I have a Cessna 182 fueled and ready just a few minutes away. I could kick the door open, spray the fire extinguisher toward the nutters, and scatter some hastily printed leaflets informing them that they had just been Covid vaxxed. It would be a great joke. Unfortunately, the FAA would not be amused so I will have to restrain the impulse and save the plan for some other time.
A largish drone might do the trick… ;)
re: #24 lawhawk
And thus my uncertainty of the Never Trump wing of the GOP.
re: #25 William Lewis
A largish drone might do the trick… ;)
A drone large enough to execute such a plan would also get you in trouble with the FAA, unfortunately.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Your naivety is precious.
The “Liberal Fascism” lie, remember? This is utterly and completely calculated by a pair of twisted little fascists who have worked hard to destroy America.— William A Lewis (@WilliamALewis4) November 22, 2021
Goldberg and Hayes were just fine with Tucker Carlson’s overt white nationalist rhetoric for, well, YEARS. But now suddenly they’re drawing a line? Pardon me if I don’t applaud them.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
re: #19 nines09
Airborne manure spreader would be perfect.
That’s it! I don’t have a spreader that will fit in the plane but there are plenty of buckets and no shortage of manure.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
They know the Rittenhouse interview tonight is going to be a career ending shit show for anyone not named Tucker Carlson. They’re just trying to save their asses.
re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I have a Cessna 182 fueled and ready just a few minutes away. I could kick the door open, spray the fire extinguisher toward the nutters, and scatter some hastily printed leaflets informing them that they had just been Covid vaxxed. It would be a great joke. Unfortunately, the FAA would not be amused so I will have to restrain the impulse and save the plan for some other time.
as long as you take reasonable precautions to avoid injury or damage to persons or property //
re: #30 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
That’s it! I don’t have a spreader that will fit in the plane but there are plenty of buckets and no shortage of manure.
A C-27 could strafe them with a load of ivermectin…that’ll protect them.
re: #30 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
There’s a dairy farm not far from here on a winding two lane. It sits in what they call a “kettle” around here, a small valley like a cook kettle. They have a large slurry tank.
In the summer if there is an air inversion or high humidity for a number of days and no breezes, it is unbelievable to me the farm owner can actually live there. Makes your eyes water and almost burns your nostrils.
JFC. And Brian Stelter actually calls these two “reality based conservative thinkers.”
“Liberal Fascism” was a vicious piece of dishonest propaganda, there was absolutely nothing “reality based” about it. Both of them could and did say _anything_ to attack the left.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
re: #30 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
That’s it! I don’t have a spreader that will fit in the plane but there are plenty of buckets and no shortage of manure.
Bert Reynolds claimed that he once dropped a load of horse manure from his helicopter on the National Enquirer building after articles about Loni Anderson and he were published.
Looks like the QAnon Shaman is going to try to ride the Rittenhouse train out of jail, only this is likely to backfire spectacularly:
Yup, that’s the game, it looks like.
It’ll pretty much have to be framed as an ineffective assistance claim, since I’m pretty sure Chansley would have waived nearly all other grounds of appeal.
It’s also very likely to fail.https://t.co/6mHuUzK5an— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) November 22, 2021
The traditional “where were you?” story for this day. This is less common now, especially from people who already had some inkling of politics and history at the time.
I was 14 at the time and already developing an interest in the news and politics. Unlike most people my age, I did not find out at school. I was at home after a trip to the dentist. My mom was watching one of those godawful soap operas with the oppressive organ music. I ignored it until a news bulletin came on. It didn’t seem so bad at first, JFK had been wounded during a trip to Dallas. I thought it probably wouldn’t be serious, and he would be up joking about it in a couple of days.
I kept watching. The bulletins became more frequent and more alarming, then the network (CBS) went to solid coverage.
The part I remember most is Walter Cronkite making a visible effort to control himself as he made the now-famous announcement that President Kennedy had died. Walter was obviously aware that his every word, grimace, and breath would be of historic significance for centuries to come.
Sigh…
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re: #39 William Lewis
That’s a bloody tragedy, is what that is. I’m sorry to see it.
re: #32 Dangerman
as long as you take reasonable precautions to avoid injury or damage to persons or property //
Well, dousing Q-balls with bullshit could hardly be construed as a crime, or even unusual.
Welcome to the club! pic.twitter.com/O1Hdi1reQa
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
re: #39 William Lewis
Let me guess.
No insurance?
re: #43 nines09
Let me guess.
No insurance?
Of course not. The really rare bits - the ram & cpu - are certainly salvageable. If I can get a different Sun, perhaps the IPX lunch box sized machine, I can put them to work still, so it’s not quite as total a loss as it could be. But really…
clan’s coming to visit
bro and his in-country fam from philly will be staying at dangermom’s
Sis coming down from NC will stay with us (4 years ago she lived with us for 2 years)
thursday niece by zoom from outside tel aviv
i’ve got a huge pot of unstuffed cabbage on the stove for tonight (the first night’s) dinner.
way easier than stuffing cabbage leaves
recipe, for those interested
it’s all ad hoc
2-3 onions, slice or dice
2# ground beef, turkey or chicken
2 peeled apples, diced
28 oz can crushed tomatoes
3# green cabbage, shredded
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp pepper
⅓ c lemon juice
¼ c brown sugar
¼ c honey
¼ - ½ c raisins
separately cooked rice
Directions:
In a large pot stock pot on just over medium heat, brown onions in all the meat till meat is not pink - maybe 15 minutes or so
Stir in tomatoes, salt and pepper
Reduce heat to just under medium and simmer 20 minutes
After 20 minutes, add apples, cabbage, lemon juice, sugar, honey and raisins.
Reduce heat to just above low and cook until cabbage is soft - about 1 ½ - 2+ hours
Best to serve over rice or egg noodles.
Don’t add rice to the pot. It’ll suck up all the juice
A salad seems like over kill
Maybe a cucumber / carrot concoction
With the rice, potatoes aren’t necessary either.
We do dip a good rye bread.
You should know that every time you post something stupid to my timeline, this toad will be judging you. pic.twitter.com/DQcY1rjGIA
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 22, 2021
re: #37 Dopamine Fish
Looks like the QAnon Shaman is going to try to ride the Rittenhouse train out of jail, only this is likely to backfire spectacularly:
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He can wait out the appeal in prison. There are over 500 other people who need their first trial still.
I understand the desire to have elected Republicans like Winsome Sears on your TV show, but the problem is disinformation is central to the GOP brand right now. Here, Dana Bash lets Sears get away with claiming that “people are suffering as a result of getting the vaccine.” pic.twitter.com/Bw6UstBots
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 22, 2021
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
People are suffering… mild aches, pains, chills, and other incredibly inconvenient things. This is obviously a grave threat to our country and must be halted at all costs. In this country, if you’re going to suffer something, you need to SUFFER.
re: #26 nines09
And thus my uncertainty of the Never Trump wing of the GOP.
They aren’t heroes, and they played a big role in making the GOP so corrupt and hollow that a fascist conman like Trump could coopt it with ease. However, I’ll accept whatever help people opposed to a fascist takeover of America can give.
re: #44 William Lewis
Was it 3 point shots from the shippers, or did he pack it in tissue?
re: #51 No Malarkey!
They aren’t heroes, and they played a big role in making the GOP so corrupt and hollow that a fascist conman like Trump could coopt it with ease. However, I’ll accept whatever help people opposed to a fascist takeover of America can give.
As many of us said at the time: “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more, no less.” Groups like the Lincoln Project were useful from the perspective of defeating Donald Trump, but make no mistake: They’re still Republicans. They still represent the same kind of repressive, regressive, inhumane policies that the rest of the GOP stand for.
re: #51 No Malarkey!
They aren’t heroes, and they played a big role in making the GOP so corrupt and hollow that a fascist conman like Trump could coopt it with ease. However, I’ll accept whatever help people opposed to a fascist takeover of America can give.
They are Republicans. And they helped build the party you see today. So yes. I’ll accept the help. But no money. And I still would not trust them, because they did nothing during the runup to Trump.
They just want to save their party. To what end, I know not.
re: #37 Dopamine Fish
Looks like the QAnon Shaman is going to try to ride the Rittenhouse train out of jail, only this is likely to backfire spectacularly:
There is a reason that defendants are sworn in and required to testify that they understand their rights and are entering a plea upon advise of counsel and of their own free will. Plea deals aren’t shopping expeditions in which you can express buyers remorse and withdraw it if you don’t get the sentence you want.
This cat will co-sign. pic.twitter.com/O8IwY0KOwa
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
re: #57 No Malarkey!
There is a reason that defendants are sworn in and required to testify that they understand their rights and are entering a plea upon advise of counsel and of their own free will. Plea deals aren’t shopping expeditions in which you can express buyers remorse and withdraw it if you don’t get the sentence you want.
Fine the lawyers for wasting court time.
re: #53 nines09
Was it 3 point shots from the shippers, or did he pack it in tissue?
The seller dropped it off at the shippers who put it in a box. There was a bit of bubble wrap at the connector end. Nothing else. The bottom of the box had started ripping out from the 25 pounds of steel chassis. Just disappointing.
re: #54 Dopamine Fish
As many of us said at the time: “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more, no less.” Groups like the Lincoln Project were useful from the perspective of defeating Donald Trump, but make no mistake: They’re still Republicans. They still represent the same kind of repressive, regressive, inhumane policies that the rest of the GOP stand for.
Absolutely. But when the GOP tries to steal the 2024 election and install Trump as dictator, we are going to need all the help we can get before going back to arguing policy. Its kind of like allying ourselves with the Soviet Union to defeat the Third Reich, even though the Soviets had been helping the Nazis before they were attacked in 1941.
re: #61 No Malarkey!
Absolutely. But when the GOP tries to steal the 2024 election and install Trump as dictator, we are going to need all the help we can get before going back to arguing policy. Its kind of like allying ourselves with the Soviet Union to defeat the Third Reich, even though the Soviets had been helping the Nazis before they were attacked in 1941.
Precisely so.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
So Hayes and Goldberg just now discovered that Tucker is a dangerous propagandist? Why didn’t they quit FOX News when the insurrection happened? They know that it was Fox News hosts which helped to instigate January 6th.
re: #60 William Lewis
Yes it is. It’s amazing isn’t it?
“I put bubble wrap on it!”
Yeah.
Well how ‘bout dat?
Been there. Good luck.
Phone the shipper up. Thank them for the great pack job.
re: #60 William Lewis
The seller dropped it off at the shippers who put it in a box. There was a bit of bubble wrap at the connector end. Nothing else. The bottom of the box had started ripping out from the 25 pounds of steel chassis. Just disappointing.
It should’ve been packed in styrofoam, but that’s expensive and I don’t know how many shippers actually keep loose pieces of styrofoam on hand.
re: #65 Dopamine Fish
They advertise as “shippers” they should have the needed supplies.
re: #64 nines09
Yes it is. It’s amazing isn’t it?
“I put bubble wrap on it!”
Yeah.
Well how ‘bout dat?
Been there. Good luck.
Got a line on a barebones IPX already from someone who will ship it properly.
The 43-year incarceration of Kevin Strickland
by Judd Legum
popular.info
Sickening. And the end is almost worse than the beginning.
re: #65 Dopamine Fish
It should’ve been packed in styrofoam, but that’s expensive and I don’t know how many shippers actually keep loose pieces of styrofoam on hand.
The UPS shop in Madison, in another lifetime, had a foam injection machine and, while expensive, it was a joy shipping fragile computers via them. I shipped a DEC VAXStation 4000 internationally with no damage because of them. SMDH.
re: #70 William Lewis
The UPS shop in Madison, in another lifetime, had a foam injection machine and, while expensive, it was a joy shipping fragile computers via them. I shipped a DEC VAXStation 4000 internationally with no damage because of them. SMDH.
Now that would be amazing.
re: #63 Patricia Kayden
So Hayes and Goldberg just now discovered that Tucker is a dangerous propagandist? Why didn’t they quit FOX News when the insurrection happened? They know that it was Fox News hosts which helped to instigate January 6th.
Apparently Carlson’s propaganda documentary claiming January 6 was a false flag operation was the final straw. Maybe they finally decided they wanted to go down in history as opponents, rather than enablers, of the rise of Fascist America. If they have an angle, I don’t know what it could be; they are going to be labeled as traitors to the fascist right.
re: #52 steve_davis
I meant to tell you this when I read you had bought new guitars. SAVE your boxes they came in. If and when you wish to sell them, you will need proper boxes if you ship. It will save you a lot of aggravation and money.
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Embedded content] I understand the desire to have elected Republicans like Winsome Sears on your TV show, but the problem is
disinformationLYING is central to the GOP brand right now. Here, Dana Bash lets Sears get away with claiming that “people are suffering as a result of getting the vaccine.”
The official end to the #CohenConfinementCountdown…This is what freedom finally looks like! pic.twitter.com/mc1rpeCglb
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) November 22, 2021
@TwitterSafety I’m just wondering why you’re going to allow this kind of menacing behavior, and tell me it doesn’t violate your rules when I report it?https://t.co/HYU0DJ5OR2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Tons of that shit.
But I tell someone to walk off a roof and POOF!
Someone click on my Twitter button on my profile please and tell me what you see.
I can still read as they carefully review my suspension.
It comes up with no followers/following to me.
Afternoon Lizards:
Photo editor doing the heavy lift here. $JPM $TSLA https://t.co/lXoL42KMet
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) November 22, 2021
re: #39 William Lewis
Sigh…
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sure, Virginians will benefit from the infrastructure bill, but it’s also many pages long, so who knows? pic.twitter.com/zK4xFjhj3V
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 22, 2021
re: #79 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
“TGHEY WON’T LET US READ THE ACA! WHO KNOWS WHAT’S IN IT??!!~?!??!??!!!”
“Sure the infrastructure bill might help my people but, like really, who has time to read it?”
A Trumper actually faces some consequences.
Breaking Politico: Pennsylvania Republican Sean Parnell is suspending his campaign for Senate.
Parnell, endorsed in the race by Trump, lost a fight for custody of his children to his estranged wife, who had accused him of abuse in court testimony.https://t.co/IXz7qMpGBP— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 22, 2021
re: #70 William Lewis
The UPS shop in Madison, in another lifetime, had a foam injection machine and, while expensive, it was a joy shipping fragile computers via them. I shipped a DEC VAXStation 4000 internationally with no damage because of them. SMDH.
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
So nice to see a convicted felon celebrating his celebrity status…and as he has dirt on Trump he’ll be a regular on the weeknight talk shows.
re: #83 No Malarkey!
A Trumper actually faces some consequences.
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One less piece of shit on the ballot. Good for Pennsylvania.
The new “bracket guides” feature of VS Code is fantastic.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
re: #83 No Malarkey!
“COME ON. YEAH I HIT HER. OPEN HAND!!!!! OPEN HAND!!!!!! I STILL LOVE HER. BITCH.”
re: #61 No Malarkey!
Absolutely. But when the GOP tries to steal the 2024 election and install Trump as dictator, we are going to need all the help we can get before going back to arguing policy. Its kind of like allying ourselves with the Soviet Union to defeat the Third Reich, even though the Soviets had been helping the Nazis before they were attacked in 1941.
This is where I am, but I’ll add that if you want to vent about past bad actions here, let it rip. Just try to tone it down on Twitter.
Police identified those killed in the deadly Christmas parade crash in Waukesha, Wisconsin as four women ages 52 to 79 and an 81-year-old man. Members of the “Dancing Grannies” club were among those killed, as was an employee of Citizens Bank. https://t.co/Os1SDBRQDR
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 22, 2021
re: #84 darthstar
So nice to see a convicted felon celebrating his celebrity status…and as he has dirt on Trump he’ll be a regular on the weeknight talk shows.
He could’ve stayed loyal to Trump and gotten a pardon, so I’ll give him a little credit for cooperating with prosecutors and doing his time. I remember reading about him giving a bunch of interviews to prosecutors and thinking that surely something will come of this, and all that happened was that the Trump Organizations CFO was indicted.
re: #79 The Pie Overlord!
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NEW: Trump-endorsed Pennsylvania Republican Sean Parnell is suspending his campaign for Senate. Earlier today, Parnell lost a fight for custody of his children to his estranged wife, who had accused him of abuse in court testimony. https://t.co/cmlYL29P8e
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) November 22, 2021
re: #90 No Malarkey!
He could’ve stayed loyal to Trump and gotten a pardon, so I’ll give him a little credit for cooperating with prosecutors and doing his time. I remember reading about him giving a bunch of interviews to prosecutors and thinking that surely something will come of this, and all that happened was that the Trump Organizations CFO was indicted.
True…and I’m okay with his making the TV rounds and being a thorn in Trump’s ass…with receipts. But he’s still a POS.
Legal experts say prosecutors in the #AhmaudArbery trial may not have mentioned racial animus in testimony because of the jury’s racial makeup.
▪️ 11/12 jurors are white (county is 27% Black)
▪️ Judge admitted defense may have used “intentional discrimination” in jury selection pic.twitter.com/W6JBfERiC6— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 22, 2021
#AhmaudArbery’s killers used a Civil War-era “citizen’s arrest” law once used to justify slave patrols to defend chasing and killing him.
Police testified:
▪️ Killers were not deputized
▪️ No proof Arbery stole anything
▪️ Would have gotten a trespass warning if not killed pic.twitter.com/L54kwWMXTq— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 22, 2021
re: #85 darthstar
A few more would make me happy. They have some absolute stooges in the legislature here. I’m well represented by Republican ass kissers, most who signed on after Jan 6th insurrection as backing Trump.
And the people around me have mostly whitewashed themselves by removing Trump posters, banners and bumper stickers. Most. Not all.
Curious thing here though. Most of them, and I am familiar with all of them, have a small American flag out. Like a marker.
Since when does Fox News have a problem with heavily armed militias?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) November 22, 2021
If you think Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes are representatives of the “sane, reality-based” right, you must have a very short memory. They have both pushed every right wing conspiracy theory that popped up, until they suddenly got cold feet around Tucker Carlson.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
For many years, Goldberg worked for National Review, including when they had several scandals in a row about openly white nationalist writers they published repeatedly. They both pushed the Benghazi madness relentlessly. That’s just for starters.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
re: #97 Charles Johnson
We don’t refer to Jonah Goldberg as the Doughy Pantload for nothing. And National Review is essentially a Nazi publication by this point.
re: #55 A Cranky One
Damnit, give me one of those French fries NOW!
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As I said about Brooks the other day…the whole commentary class is trash and should be criticized for being fundamentally unserious, but on top of that they laid the groundwork for all the shit they’re upset about.
Goldberg in particular…it doesn’t matter if Liberal Fascism was edgy posturing to say something hurtful or genuine pseudointellectual babble, it’s a document that has defined the descent of the right into reaction and the manner in which they code their excuses for eroding democracy while crying self-defense.
It’s not that repentance or regret is impossible—it is better that they’ve recognized how far things have gone—but that this was a predictable outcome that was predicted by people that Hayes and Goldberg viewed as unworthy of hearing. We’re at this point precisely because so much time and energy was put into invalidating anyone who said there would be consequences for irresponsible rhetoric.
The cue card responses Goldberg invented always lent themselves to empty, no-you anti-intellectual posturing…documents do not matter, history does not matter, political philosophy does not matter; there is only the rhetorical game of tying the opponents of the present to the blackest black. To understand why this was stupid and would create harm to everyone—to conservatives duped into going down a hole into reaction that subtracts from their material welfare and their…soul, for lack of a better…they didn’t have to listen to liberals or leftists, but deep, compassionate thinkers like CS Lewis. It’s not just the left/right axis that’s screwing us, it’s the way that shallowness and performativity—all rhetoric, no epistemology—has destroyed meaning.
Like most “reasonable” conservatives, they have spent their lives cultivating this unreality of heightened emotions for their audience—constant fear, constant betrayal, constant reinforcement of the in-group’s axiomatic goodness and smartness—while believing themselves capable herdsmen…they can steer the rubes because they’re the clever ones, the top of the intellectual hierarchy that needs the proles to vote a certain way. But—as always happens—conservatives don’t actually understand that at some point you’ve changed the culture and the rubes will now con themselves and each other: we’re in a different stratum of grifting now, even nastier and more nihilistic.
The rubes believe they’re the only smart and moral people, a priori, and that questioning this base assumption is an attack. They were trained to think this way by decades of reinforcement and hand-holding by previous generations of assholes making short-term gains. Anti-intellectualism and anti-epistemology are now so deep that there’s no need for pundits that do conservative casuistry, that tell cunning lies. The vehement assertion—these are today’s axioms, we are entitled to dictate truth and you are not—is sufficient for the culture they germinated. That’s the core appeal of “Liberal Fascism” and its myriad brethren—an opiate substitute for actual rigor thought, a series of talking points that end genuine discussion.
There is a natural flow from self-serving assumptions required to write a book that does tu quoque with Nazism, but also necessary to start a forever war based on falsified intel, but also to viewing Donald Trump as a truth-teller.
They’re not in the reality based community; they make their own reality; people that try to declare that things are real are losers.
(Mind you, the effort to destroy critical thinking is Hydra-like in scale and has accrued over centuries. Empires and slaves had to invent gradations of humanity—in contradiction of the obvious—to explain their inhumanity,. Companies fucking up people and the world through pollution decided to destroy the basis of empiricism. Churches needing to hold power and capital in ways opposed to their own doctrine had to destroy the idea of doctrine. The wealthy cannot justify their wealth with existing paradigms, and must therefore invent new economics in which their thefts are not theft but sign of superior virtue and intellect…over and over, with “science,” with “theology,” with “ideology”…)
…but US conservatives have constructed their own bespoke version, procedurally generated from existing bullshit, where the emphasis is that their followers don’t have to have beliefs, just signify their belief through rituals of conservative-ness that are most acts of consumption.)
Basically—the right has been trained to see bullshit that sounds right as a form of validity, and the old pseudointellecualism no longer titillates the audience: they want permission, not justification. Tucker Carlson is a transparent panderer—a man who set out to provide Trumpists what they wanted because he could not sell anti-Trump to a big enough market share—but he provides license…to be prurient, to be contemptuous, to be entitled to harm your inferiors…and that is what is desired.
It is not wrong, when reaping, to observe who sowed.
…but that’s exactly what mainstream conservatives and “centrists” are going to do, pretend that the far-right fell from the sky and are not a natural cultural outcome of decades of declaring that beyond their assumptions curiosity is weakness, skepticism is disloyalty, and that it’s offensive to demand rigor or citation. They’ve built the juggernaut; the audience has learned the lesson so well that they don’t need guidance. So the only thing to do is pretend they had nothing to do with it.
re: #76 Charles Johnson
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Live thread in progress, on a court case where the defendant, a large company, is about to get benchslapped completely out of the courtroom because they were playing “fuck around and find out” with the judge in order to avoid producing their employees’ time and pay records, which the plaintiffs claimed were necessary to prove their case that their employer was playing dirty.
If a federal judge ever began a court order (94 pages long!!!) about me this way, I might just walk into the ocean. I’d beg you to yeet me into the sun’s fiery maw as a mercy.
But it’s not about me, so instead, you can join me as I schadenfreude my way through this order. 🧵 https://t.co/5k1FaL9J76 pic.twitter.com/zGNh3JqK6C— KP (@gokpkd) November 22, 2021
re: #102 steve_davis
You need to learn to speak more in the subjunctive. “If a gentleman were to walk off a roof, the Gods would favor it if gravity were to come into play.”
So along the lines of the reply in Arkell v. Pressdram, then.
We note that Mr Arkell’s attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off.
It’s really lovely but I get a vibe that when the photographer leaves she’s going straight off to make mud pies 😂
— Alice Milligan (@AliceMilligan6) November 21, 2021
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
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i dont know this case that well
were they thinking of this civil war era law and relying on at the time?
or is it just post hoc justification to get away with it?
same as the judge tossing the gun charge in wisconsin - he had to dig deep to find that.
re: #101 The Ghost of a Flea
The core proposition of conservatism is that there should be an in-group the laws protect but don’t bind, and out-groups the laws bind but don’t protect.
Until recently, this was indefensible on its face, spawning the entire industry of right wing pseudo-intellectual bullshit justification crap. Over time this has amounted to millions of pages of drivel, all of which is axiomatically dishonest, and David Brooks is a perfect representative of the people who generated that drivel.
However, that entire industry of right wing pseudo-intellectual bullshit justification crap is now totally obsolete. The Trump years have shown that, for a dangerously high fraction of the electorate, the core proposition of conservatism is no problem at all if they think they will be the in group.
The playbook for how jackasses with power evade consequences for poor decisions is small and transcends ideology, which is why shit feels so Soviet right now.
But the playbook for jackasses trying to evade consequences after their poor decisions have unleashed a monster is even smaller.
“Jury of your peers” is a fucking joke these days.
Rittenhouse is going to tell Tucker Carlson tonight that he supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
Will this end his right wing celebrity before it really gets going?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
Twitter MAGAts and their numerous troll farm reinforcements are loudly condemning CNN for omitting relevant information from the headline of this story:
Police identify Waukesha Christmas parade suspect. Here’s what we know
They are especially concerned that the suspect’s name and race are being “left out,” though the name is given early in the text.
I guess they won’t be satisfied until it is changed to “Crazed Mau Mau Rapper Kills 5 White People in Rittenouse Revenge Atrocity.”
re: #101 The Ghost of a Flea
Well spoken. Wish I had more updings.
But how do you really feel?
re: #103 Dopamine Fish
I cannot stress enough how much I am enjoying this tweet thread.
Who knew that a labor dispute in a courtroom could be so highly entertaining?
Thank you!
re: #110 Charles Johnson
Zero chance.
Concern trolling.
Right wing standard.
“I understand BUT….”
re: #110 Charles Johnson
Maybe it’ll save him from becoming another Zimmerman.
Sadly, it can’t be denied that the mainstream media misled the public about Rittenhouse, leaving out facts about his father living in the area of the shooting, instead telling us his mother drove him up to a protest with a gun.
re: #109 Eclectic Cyborg
“Jury of your peers” is a fucking joke these days.
Where am I going to find 12 tequila drinking Irishmen to represent me?
re: #116 darthstar
Where am I going to find 12 tequila drinking Irishmen to represent me?
And not to mention the alternates….
They called him a “p***y”, purposely kicked snow in his face, and stomped on his neck repeatedly — while he’s subdued. There’s no reforming this… https://t.co/LJN6Hsg7KS
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 22, 2021
I don’t know who did this but Thank You! 😏🤣😭🔥 pic.twitter.com/PZObMMU8d4
— Fred Schultz (@fred035schultz) November 22, 2021
re: #116 darthstar
Where am I going to find 12 tequila drinking Irishmen to represent me?
Now that would be a fun jury.
re: #116 darthstar
Where am I going to find 12 tequila drinking Irishmen to represent me?
Not possible. Irishmen drink whiskey. If you’re looking for tequila drinkers, try California. They’ve got millions of them.
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
Standard Procedure.
Normal.
“You mother fucker! You made me hurt my hand!”
I caught part of a really good Fresh Air today wherein the guest, Ryan Busse, a former gun manufacturing executive, explained how the the white grievance identity hooked up with the gun-fetish identity movement to create the crisis we now face. He made the good point that just as Trumpism is only party about Trump, NRAism as it came to be under LaPierre is only getting worse even as the NRA struggles.
re: #124 Dangerman
We should be able to look forward to our hair coming in green every spring.
Kari Lake supporter Ethan Schmidt harassing a man at CVS getting the covid vaccine.
Kari Lake is running for Arizona Governor and appeared in one of Ethan’s videos. Lake refuses to denounce Ethan Schmidt. pic.twitter.com/NLwPZAOvva— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) November 22, 2021
All I can say is that if I’d been in CVS getting a shot, and this little twerp was bugging me, I’d be hard pressed not to smack his phone out of his hand.
Why do they all look like thumbs? https://t.co/SLMqC2H0jq
— Steve Marmel 💉 💉 💉 (@Marmel) November 22, 2021
— Kevin & Trevor (@WipeHomophobia) November 22, 2021
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They’re. Drinking. Hydrogen. Peroxide. Now. https://t.co/TdWDrFwYCx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2021
re: #127 mmmirele
All I can say is that if I’d been in CVS getting a shot, and this little twerp was bugging me, I’d be hard pressed not to smack his phone out of his hand.
Then all of a sudden people act like you’re the baddie, and you get arrested.
If you hold up your phone instead and start acting like you’re documenting cranks for your YouTube channel, you can probably shake them with much lower risk to yourself.
re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth
Everyday people like you and me, riding around in helicopters and military trucks with machine guns.
Peaceful Tourists:
We received a new set of Jan. 6 videos in the case of Robert Schornak, who pleaded guilty. It’s all surveillance footage, and I don’t believe we’ve seen this one before — it shows rioters clashing with police in the Crypt lobby, at :30 someone hurls a trash can at an officer pic.twitter.com/cPdRM1mBpV
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 22, 2021
Exhibit #2 is a view of people moving through the Crypt pic.twitter.com/UkPxx9GK5R
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 22, 2021
Exhibit #5 (final one) shows Schornak in the Crypt lobby carrying an American flag that he admitted taking from the Capitol, per his plea deal docs pic.twitter.com/xb6DmQKpgm
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 22, 2021
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thank god for videos
re: #137 Patricia Kayden
I’m still absolutely astounded by people who never met a “bad cop”.
“Oh no. They are being framed.”
Never had a cop try to intimidate or jack you?
You don’t get around.
re: #133 Charles Johnson
The other day on Alex Jones some guy called in to say that you had to nebulize food-grade hydrogen peroxide (35% concentration rather than the commercial 3%).
It’s out these. Probably related to bleach medicine claims in the quack taxonomy.
Eta:
Worth nothing that the people in Dallas are in a cult-cult. Basic belief structure is Qanon, but there’s a guy called Negative 48 who everyone has to defer to and who has constructed his own bespoke interpretation.
.@FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden receives the official White House Christmas tree. pic.twitter.com/bYl4AoW1C8
— CSPAN (@cspan) November 22, 2021
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #139 The Ghost of a Flea
The other day on Alex Jones some guy called in to say that you had to nebulize food-grade hydrogen peroxide (35% concentration rather than the commercial 3%).
It’s out these. Probably related to bleach medicine claims in the quack taxonomy.
Inhaling nebulized 35% hydrogen peroxide sound like an express ticket to the morgue, as an occupant. Ironically, it would seem to amount to a speed run of a covid infection, doing in minutes via chemical burns the same level of lung damage it takes the virus + immune response weeks to do.
This book must be wondrous, from seeing these photos.
A Photographer’s Journey With the Ancient Baobabs of Madagascar
The death of a sacred tree led to the discovery of other wonders.
atlasobscura.com
Judge ruled Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio failed to present “extraordinary and compelling” reasons to be transferred to home confinement
Judge rejected Tarrio’s request to transfer Tarrio from DC jail amid five-month sentence for taking & burning DC church’s BLM flag in Dec. pic.twitter.com/EtTwOoKWLn— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) November 22, 2021
driftglass takes on our puzzlement with how to hand Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg: There’s Still Always Work at the Post Office
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
They now suddenly care about the conditions in jails. Funny how that works, eh?
Next up: an honorary DEA badge, a spangly cape, and a valet named Hamburger James. https://t.co/xWgU4oDIyK
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) November 22, 2021
Those of us who never miss a posting on Juanita Jean’s know that she has not been the same since her husband died. She finally posted about that, and her effort to get back.
Finding the Sidewalk
re: #138 nines09
I’m still absolutely astounded by people who never met a “bad cop”.
“Oh no. They are being framed.”
Never had a cop try to intimidate or jack you?
You don’t get around.
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re: #121 sagehen
Not possible. Irishmen drink whiskey. If you’re looking for tequila drinkers, try California. They’ve got millions of them.
I’m Irish. I drink tequila. We don’t discriminate when it comes to alcohol.
re: #60 William Lewis
The seller dropped it off at the shippers who put it in a box. There was a bit of bubble wrap at the connector end. Nothing else. The bottom of the box had started ripping out from the 25 pounds of steel chassis. Just disappointing.
That’s why, whenever I sell something on eBay, I always pack it myself (and insure it); that way, I know that, unless the shipper (usually USPS, but also UPS on a very rare occasion) does something monumentally stupid or there’s a unforeseen disaster enroute (which, fortunately, hasn’t happened to me in over fifteen years of shipping eBay sales), what I’m shipping will get to the other end intact and undamaged.
I always strap the boxes in all three axes, all flap edges, and the box joints with multiple layers/runs of Scotch heavy-duty shipping tape.
re: #138 nines09
I’m still absolutely astounded by people who never met a “bad cop”.
“Oh no. They are being framed.”
Never had a cop try to intimidate or jack you?
You don’t get around.
I’ve never personally met a bad cop, and it is fair to say I don’t get out much (and never have).
But I’m usually pretty good about not extrapolating my personal experience to all of reality, so I’m not about to fall for any of that anti-BLM crap.
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
What a sad piece of shit surrounding himself with prints of his moments as president.
re: #149 A Cranky One
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re: #154 nines09
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re: #149 A Cranky One
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Know him personally or just know of him?
He sounds like a real nice guy.
Excellent. Alex Jones said he coordinated with the White House “three days before” to lead the crowd to the Capitol.https://t.co/zI7xl6C7Ac https://t.co/K0vmAMbByX
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) November 22, 2021
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
Look at that — we may be getting some info on GOP command and control of 1/6.
No way was 1/6 just a spontaneous demonstration of the seditious sentiments of Greater Gooberstan.
re: #153 darthstar
He has always been a pathetic little man desperately trying to be a big man.
Just because it’s Thanksgiving week, it’s time, once again, for my favorite Charles P. Pierce column of all time. Have the kittens stopped screaming, Maureen? (as in Dowd)
I’m wearing this when I teach evolutionary medicine next week. pic.twitter.com/E2wCQyTs1u
— Daniel Bolnick (@DanielBolnick) November 22, 2021
re: #163 A Cranky One
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re: #132 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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Person Woman Man Camera TV, Hey Ronny, I guess I’m a stable genius. https://t.co/42SsYIamOa
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) November 22, 2021
The US has been added to an annual list of “backsliding” democracies for the first time, the International IDEA thinktank has said, pointing to a “visible deterioration” it said began in 2019, The Guardian reports
Wapo
Not bothsiderism
Jennifer Rubin: “While it’s true that the country is more deeply divided along partisan lines than it has been in the past, it is wrong to suggest a symmetrical devolution into irrational hatred. The polarization argument too often treats both sides as equally worthy of blame, characterizing the problem as a sort of free-floating affliction (e.g., ‘lack of trust’).”
“This blurs the distinction between a Democratic Party that is marginally more progressive in policy positions than it was a decade ago, and a Republican Party that routinely lies, courts violence and seeks to define America as a White Christian nation.”
Didn’t want to call @SenTedCruz a goddamn liar straight up, so went to the cheapest, low end grocery store in my town, the place that doesn’t know how to order stuff even when there isn’t a “supply chain crisis.”
Turns out, Ted Cruz is a goddamn liar. Again. https://t.co/ep46Q5qsvG pic.twitter.com/JreM386Lqb— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 22, 2021
Spiritual warfare.
— Yaynj (@Yaynj1) November 22, 2021
Or maybe it’s a conspiracy fruitcake trying to treat a tragedy, a criminal driving into a crowd, as some epic fantasy.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 22, 2021
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
I mean, in addition to the 15 different kinds of Oreos in the the cookie aisle they had a totally separate display at the front of the store for CHRISTMAS Oreos. “5 cool winter designs!” no less.
That’s like 20 different kinds of Oreos.
But yeah, supply crisis! OMG
4/4 pic.twitter.com/nqwpVaI1PK— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 22, 2021
re: #171 Dangerman
The US has been added to an annual list of “backsliding” democracies for the first time, the International IDEA thinktank has said, pointing to a “visible deterioration” it said began in 2019, The Guardian reports
Wow sometimes it takes awhile for the braintrust elite to get clued in but eventually they get it. The USA has been teetering on falling into the Hybrid Regime status alongside Putin’s Russia, falling from the Flawed Democracy we have currently for awhile now.
During Trump 2016 we were planted one foot in one foot out of Hybrid Regime territory but Biden has been trying to pull that one foot back into Flawed Democracy during the past 10 months.
But Trump in 2024 would be a racetrack towards total Dictatorship bypassing even Hybrid Regime via granting full immunity for Oathkeepers, III%ers, racist local police, Republican election official cheats and fraudsters via Pardon power and DOJ corruption.
I’m glad to see it’s finally sinking in but American fascism is here. It’s like beating a big bear back with a stick. It’s been obvious for anyone watching for the past 40 years.
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
WHO CAN LIVE ON OREOS?!!? I NEED DORITOS!!!!!!”
re: #169 Semper Fi
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re: #138 nines09
I’m still absolutely astounded by people who never met a “bad cop”.
“Oh no. They are being framed.”
Never had a cop try to intimidate or jack you?
You don’t get around.
Or you don’t know many cops.
The latest chapter in our national saga of “grossly illegal shit done out in the open which will not be punished in any way & thus will embolden further grossly illegal shit.” https://t.co/mgQ89sRd8s
— David Roberts (@drvolts) November 22, 2021
“…the [two payments totaling $121,670] to Fischetti are unlikely to run afoul of federal campaign finance law, said Brendan Fischer, an attorney with the Campaign Legal Center. That’s because the ban on the personal use of funds from campaign committees does not apply to spending by party committees, he said.
But Craig Engle, head of the political law group at the law firm Arent Fox, said party committees have often avoided paying for personal expenses for another reason — fear that they might lose their tax-exempt status, for appearing to use nonprofit funds for their leaders’ personal benefit.
Engle said the RNC’s spending related to the Russia investigations was clearly connected to the then-president’s campaign and position in office. “It’s hard to quarrel with that,” Engle said.But in this case, Fischer said, the idea that the investigations in New York are connected to Trump’s campaign or position in the party “seems like a real stretch.”
re: #181 BeenHereAwhile
I have so many stories from my youth. And I was the prey in some of them.
My father had a friend in the Philly police dept.
He would drive his squad car to a garage he knew, put it on the lift, lift the car 3 inches off the floor, put it in drive and let it run with a brick on the gas.
I witnessed that.
It would show miles on the odometer that he never drove in his “beat”. He had to have mileage to prove he was doing his job.
They would sit and joke, play cards. Have a beer or two sometimes. Ahhh. Work!
re: #139 The Ghost of a Flea
The other day on Alex Jones some guy called in to say that you had to nebulize food-grade hydrogen peroxide (35% concentration rather than the commercial 3%).
It’s out these. Probably related to bleach medicine claims in the quack taxonomy.
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IIRC 35% hydrogen peroxide is “effin” unstable.
re: #185 BeenHereAwhile
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IIRC 35% hydrogen peroxide is “effin” unstable.
You can buy it commercially to, in theory, dilute for cleaning purposes. It’s hazmat but not reactive.
Charlie Cox will return as Matt Murdoch/Daredevil in four MCU projects.
I’d like to see them do the same with Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones.
One-sentence “article” at msn.com
Well, this is a really, really late CL, but…
re: #36 sagehen
So was your Jabberwocky music instead of words, or music accompanying the words? And is it on video?
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves.
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,.
And the mome raths outgrabe.
<<<<<
Highly composed spoken word and solo clarsach (Celtic lever harp, in this case a Starfish Designs Glenelle starfishdesigns.co.uk ).
The composer is Kimberly Osberg ( kimberlyosberg.com ) who now lives in Portland.
Video is presently being processed from the camera to a usable html file format.
Hummingbirds! 😊 pic.twitter.com/6tgS5J127d
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 22, 2021
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
I had no ideas Hummers were so attracted to Margaritas…
Peekaboo! 😂
Sound up pic.twitter.com/iyTX83JtIN— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 22, 2021
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
They have great videos.
re: #184 nines09
I have so many stories from my youth. And I was the prey in some of them.
My father had a friend in the Philly police dept.
He would drive his squad car to a garage he knew, put it on the lift, lift the car 3 inches….
thought this was going somewhere else
My new favourite band. pic.twitter.com/eu4UQyWNrj
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) November 22, 2021
re: #127 mmmirele
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All I can say is that if I’d been in CVS getting a shot, and this little twerp was bugging me, I’d be hard pressed not to smack his phone out of his hand.
This guy is the new definition of Backpfeifengesicht.
re: #194 Dangerman
That was just a neighborhood thing. He got caught some time after that and was busted to a patrolman (on foot) down in the rougher end of that precinct at that time. Took his ride.
Not happy. Bad knees. As I think about it, I think it was bad feet. Lots of bad feet in the older folks in my young days.
This lil dude.😀
(Telescopefish. This deep-sea species lives in depths between 500 and 3000 meters.) pic.twitter.com/vg9C3MwuVO— Rich (@rpwestcott) November 22, 2021
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
“What I’ve seen, the things I have seen…”
My battery finally came and now I am charging it up. It came to me with only a 23% charge. I am also reading the instructions.
re: #200 PhillyPretzel
If it’s Lithium, that’s the level they charge it to ship.
Most rechargeable batteries are shipped drained.
You got me there. pic.twitter.com/phhwDJAdTW
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 22, 2021
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
Looks like a zombie muppet.
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #187 The Ghost of a Flea
You can buy it commercially to, in theory, dilute for cleaning purposes. It’s hazmat but not reactive.
People refinish old plastic computer enclosures with HP. They call it “retrobrighting”, and there are a million videos on YouTube. 20% HP and a UV light (usually UV LED strips).
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