Seth takes a closer look at the January 6 commission subpoenaing several key Trump allies (including Rudy Giuliani) and the New York State attorney general revealing her office has uncovered evidence of possible fraud committed by Trump’s businesses.
To reply to something from the previous thread:
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, which would protect your right to vote and strengthen our democracy.
Not a single Republican in Congress supported protecting voting rights.
So. Now that they put it to the vote, are Dems actually going to get credit for forcing a vote and putting the GOP on record? I was told that they would actually get credit for their votes and forcing the GOP to actually vote ‘no’ on these sorts of things.
….I’m not holding my breath for it. Just…needed to put that into the air.
How is she not asked about her vote on Kavanaugh re: Roe? Or her comments re: Trump learning his “lesson”?
I’ve never heard her asked that or seen her respond to it. https://t.co/RGwrg48fHn— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) January 20, 2022
Ossoff came back with receipts and she wasn’t at all prepared. Because she’s never had to debate on the floor.
— Joan McCarter (@joanmccarter) January 20, 2022
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
How can he impugn something that doesn’t exist?
Manchin lost the thread on how they got there tonight about five steps ago. https://t.co/3ORcVyz0mP
— Joan McCarter (@joanmccarter) January 20, 2022
re: #4 jaunte
How can he impugn something that doesn’t exist?
what is there to impugn? https://t.co/9WVnWZ67nC
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 20, 2022
Ossoff:”What I was respectfully noting Sen. Collins w/o any implications w/respect to your motives or integrity was what I believe to be an inconsistency,btwn voting consistently to reauthorize the VRA..& then voting not even to allow debate,to uphold its preclearance provision.” pic.twitter.com/zyfH4GkStz
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) January 20, 2022
“History is watching us.
Our children are counting on us.
And I hope that we will have the courage to do what is right for our communities and for our country.”
“If not tonight, we will come back again and again and again”@SenatorWarnock pic.twitter.com/gDvGGiwmVv— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) January 20, 2022
Diego Bernal is the Texas State Representative for District 123 (San Antonio)
Just left the well-managed madness at my @HEB.
After talking with people one thing is absolutely clear:
They aren’t preparing for a freeze, they’re preparing for a blackout during a freeze. #txlege— Diego Bernal (@DiegoBernalTX) January 20, 2022
I’m seeing this question being asked all over twitter now, and I am posting the best response I have seen:
People without reliable transportation if polling places are closed, people who don’t have access to a DMV if IDs are required, people who aren’t afforded time off to vote if the election does not have adequate early voting or alternative voting methods, people who can’t wait…
— City! City! (@AmericanBlue225) January 19, 2022
Municipality doesn’t have same day voter registration, people who were recently released from prison, people who have recently moved and can’t update their information in time for stringent voter laws, people who don’t know their proper polling place since that is not advertised
— City! City! (@AmericanBlue225) January 19, 2022
Polling places, people who live in rural areas, list goes on
— City! City! (@AmericanBlue225) January 19, 2022
I will make Republicans a deal: If they stop suppressing the vote, I will stop suing them for suppressing the vote. pic.twitter.com/3eIulKSUvr
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 20, 2022
“The Shining”#HorrorMovieILike pic.twitter.com/Euph0bbZPN
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) January 20, 2022
niterz, lizardz!
re: #10 Belafon
I’m seeing this question being asked all over twitter now, and I am posting the best response I have seen:
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..people who can’t vote in person and whose absentee ballot requests are denied…
…people whose voter registration applications are purposely mishandled…
Billionaires kill.
Dallas billionaire Kelcy Warren owns Energy Transfer which reaped $2.4 Billion from last year’s deadly Texas grid failure and says he’s still owed $21 million. He’s threatening to cut gas to Texas’s biggest power generator on Monday if he’s not paid. https://t.co/kQFkIcM0oe
— Rebecca Sherman (@RebeccaSherman) January 20, 2022
Forecast 14 degrees here tonight, 19 tomorrow. Should be easy to manage. We’ll be setting up a public warming center in Gordon, as we did during the Abbott Freeze last year.
re: #14 jaunte
Billionaires kill.
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We need solar emergency power, generators, propane heaters and camp stoves, warm clothes, and guillotines.
re: #15 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Forecast 14 degrees here tonight, 19 tomorrow. Should be easy to manage. We’ll be setting up a public warming center in Gordon, as we did during the Abbott Freeze last year.
Stay safe. Up I-35 from Texas, it’s going to be an entirely below 0 °F (-17.8 C) day tomorrow.
re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
We need solar emergency power, generators, propane heaters and camp stoves, warm clothes, and guillotines.
Stay safe and stay dangerous.
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. - Reynald Belizaire is Florida Lottery’s latest $1 million winner after picking up a very lucky scratch-off ticket from a local supermarket.The 59-year-old Pembroke Pines resident bought his $30 Fastest Road to $1,000,000 ticket at the Publix located at 12681 Miramar Parkway in Miramar, state lottery officials said.
Another Publix winner within a few miles of the pond
When they show you who they are…
That’s a hella racist way to word it https://t.co/qjB2WxbJue
— Kevin Gannon (@TheTattooedProf) January 20, 2022
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 20, 2022
Senators gather to shake Sinema’s hand pic.twitter.com/IG68kurQiA
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 20, 2022
And of course, the only people that will pay the price for this are every other Dem, because everything sucks, and Biden’s presser seems to have done nothing to convince the folks who needed convincing that he’s the real History’s Greatest monster and the real source of all problems.
re: #20 jaunte
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One of the more obscure moves in chess is the 𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘵, in which the king piece is replaced by an alert dog. pic.twitter.com/h7BIS9szLS
— Thinkwert (@Thinkwert) December 2, 2021
Ender’s Game, except the game is Euro Truck Simulator and the twist is that the children were making real cargo deliveries the whole time https://t.co/R6gA7qhBdn
— Joe Groff (@jckarter) January 19, 2022
CL’d (PBUH):
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Well, I don’t mean to “actually” you, Tricky Dick, but actually, you both were/are fucking liars.
The difference between you and the TFG is that Drumpf did it for personal gain and you did it to advance an agenda you believed was better for the country.
Does that make you better?
No. You were still a complete liar and asshole.
And I’m for the rack. I am being killed by Mountain Juniper (aka Cedar fever) pollen this week.
Brutal!
Eighty one degrees today and the wind is howling outside with a wake up temp of thirty degrees here in town.
Texas winter weather.
Yeah, I don’t understand this either:
What is more outrageous than the failure of American legislators to support voting rights is that voting rights seem at best to expire like library books—in the so-called greatest democracy in the world.
— David A. Love (@davidalove) January 20, 2022
re: #28 austin_blue
It was in the sixties this morning here in Rockwall and its now 36.
re: #30 Belafon
It was in the sixties this morning here in Rockwall and its now 36.
It was about +5 this morning in StP and now it’s -2. High for tomorrow is +3 according to WU.
She used to work for Sinema:
I’m in. I live in Arizona and ready to support the primary challenger.
Count. Me. In. https://t.co/lc0l2HwdYD— Erika Andiola (@ErikaAndiola) January 20, 2022
re: #27 Belafon
I have 1200 hours in Euro Truck Simulator. I joked that I could be hired in the UK!
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re: #27 Belafon
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It’s not quite as bad as the the article makes it sound. Current minimum age for interstate trucking is 21. The bill would lower it to 18.
The United States is so racist that white people are banning white people from talking about racism.
— Lance Cooper (@lmauricecpr) January 19, 2022
Ready to contribute to this:
Here’s where I remind us that 34 Senate seats are up in the midterms, and 20 of those are Republican seats. Get busy taking them!
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) January 20, 2022
With the failure of federal voting rights legislation, it will be tempting to say “welp, democracy’s fucked, I’m out.” I get it! I’m furious too!
But there’s still a path to saving this thing. Bear with me for a ~thread~. /1— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) January 20, 2022
re: #1 Citizen K
To reply to something from the previous thread:
So. Now that they put it to the vote, are Dems actually going to get credit for forcing a vote and putting the GOP on record? I was told that they would actually get credit for their votes and forcing the GOP to actually vote ‘no’ on these sorts of things.
….I’m not holding my breath for it. Just…needed to put that into the air.
The reality is that votes like these needed to be happening last year, as a way of highlighting the ongoing obstruction and putting Sinema and Manchin on the spot again and again. But instead the path of least resistance was pursued and the result is that what might have been a bold strategy to make voters aware of just how it’s impossible for even a 51 vote majority to govern in D.C. is instead looking like a desperate scramble to “pass something” before the midterms.
re: #38 Targetpractice
The reality is that votes like these needed to be happening last year, as a way of highlighting the ongoing obstruction and putting Sinema and Manchin on the spot again and again. But instead the path of least resistance was pursued and the result is that what might have been a bold strategy to make voters aware of just how it’s impossible for even a 51 vote majority to govern in D.C. is instead looking like a desperate scramble to “pass something” before the midterms.
As compared to the parts where they obstructed the funding bills?
They wouldn’t have faced any more pressure last year than they have this year.
re: #39 Belafon
As compared to the parts where they obstructed the funding bills?
They wouldn’t have faced any more pressure last year than they have this year.
Let’s be honest, if they faced any pressure at all, it was in the form of having their fee-fees hurt by being called out in the press. Every time a scenario like tonight was suggested, being forced to stand by their bullshit by having their “No” vote recorded, the immediate response was screaming fits about how they’d leave the party if made to feel too uncomfortable and then “ZOMG, WE’LL NOT BE ABLE TO SEAT ANY MORE JUDGES!!!”
It looks like things went as expected with the vote. Glad to hear that Ossoff confronted Susan Collins. They need to continue giving both her and Romney hell. I hope they plan similar votes for different pieces of the BBB bill.
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So while the world fell apart I had a nice relaxing 25 mile bike ride today. It was a relatively warm 63 and the sun was out for once. I reached 1750 miles on the odometer, I hope to have at least 2500 miles for the year (Memorial Day). Winter really hinders my gumption to go out and ride.
re: #40 Targetpractice
Let’s be honest, if they faced any pressure at all, it was in the form of having their fee-fees hurt by being called out in the press. Every time a scenario like tonight was suggested, being forced to stand by their bullshit by having their “No” vote recorded, the immediate response was screaming fits about how they’d leave the party if made to feel too uncomfortable and then “ZOMG, WE’LL NOT BE ABLE TO SEAT ANY MORE JUDGES!!!”
And this is why we are in the mess we are in today — Democrats have never made the Supreme Court nor judges in general a priority in voting. If we had, we might not be facing the voting catastrophe in 2022 because the VRA would still be in effect, Citizens United would not be the law of the land, and Roe v Wade would not be on life support.
As usual, the savage and barbaric murder of Brianna Kupfer has brought MAGAts in an uproar and fueled their racism and sheer hatred of black people. I really wish the father didn’t show up on Fox News, but on the other hand I have a difficult time criticizing a grief-stricken father who just lost his daughter in the most horrific manner imaginable.
re: #43 Hecuba’s daughter
And this is why we are in the mess we are in today — Democrats have never made the Supreme Court nor judges in general a priority in voting. If we had, we might not be facing the voting catastrophe in 2022 because the VRA would still be in effect, Citizens United would not be the law of the land, and Roe v Wade would not be on life support.
We’re in this mess today because we keep aiming for mediocrity and then falling short. We win majorities and then allow ourselves to be paralyzed by what might happen if we lose that majority after taking steps to nullify Republican obstruction. We insist that we can get what we need done within the boundaries of the rules, even those “rules” that Republicans created out of thin air. Then we lose the majority because we are seen as “do nothing,” only for the Republicans to declare “fuck the rules” and do whatever they fucking like as we issue press releases about “hypocrisy.”
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Weather Channel:
Monday: “SNOWZILLA IS COMING! 5-8” MINIMUM BY SATURDAY! PREPARE FOR ARMAGEDDON!!!”
Tonight: “Er, we’re looking at maybe 3” by Saturday morning, and that’s assuming the front doesn’t just pass you by.”
My results:
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It’s like the third time in the past month that the weather guessers have called for snow here in Virginia Beach. This time there’s a good possibility they’ll be right, but the dire warnings of snow deep enough to shut down the entire city are now turning into “Well, we might see deep snow, but mostly it will just be icy roads, so watch out for dumb drivers.”
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Most amusing thing about the whole experience is that, for the first time I can remember in my life, the city sent people around this week to warn businesses about possible power outages due to the storm. Which, y’know, is nice of them to acknowledge that the power grid in this city is about as stable in inclement weather as a third-world banana republic.
re: #43 Hecuba’s daughter
And this is why we are in the mess we are in today — Democrats have never made the Supreme Court nor judges in general a priority in voting. If we had, we might not be facing the voting catastrophe in 2022 because the VRA would still be in effect, Citizens United would not be the law of the land, and Roe v Wade would not be on life support.
This is because the average person doesn’t live politics and is annoyed by having to worry about it beyond 1 day every 4 years or so. The left (the actual left, not most Democrats) are basically nearly as authoritarian as the right without really seeing it, and just want a Bernie-like messiah to fix everything in a Thanos snap without doing the work of well… any of the rest of the work.
Which also is why far left Green party people think a party that has no one in Congress, the Senate, any state governor, is ready to run a winning Presidential candidate.
re: #49 stpaulbear
That’s a rather broad range there. So like, one inch on the valley floor and 78 inches at elevations above 100 feet or something?
re: #52 Targetpractice
I’m way more freaked out about driving on ice than I am about driving in snow. With my small car I’d just gotten used to taking the bus to work (pre-covid) if there was a snowstorm in the forecast. Busses would be late but they’d still be running.
re: #56 Dr Lizardo
That’s a rather broad range there. So like, one inch on the valley floor and 78 inches at elevations above 100 feet or something?
It’s 1” across town and 78” in my driveway.
re: #57 stpaulbear
I’m way more freaked out about driving on ice than I am about driving in snow. With my small car I’d just gotten used to taking the bus to work (pre-covid) if there was a snowstorm in the forecast. Busses would be late but they’d still be running.
I’m less worried about my ability to deal with ice on the roads than I am about other drivers. I know my limitations and will not be on the road if I don’t feel capable, but I see way too many morons who are not only on the icy roads, but barreling along as if it were a sunny day. Especially the assholes who think 4 wheel drive means “I can never skid!”
You haven’t seen stupid until you have seen a Californian drive in the snow. OK, maybe Florida, but they don’t have mountains and cliffs.
re: #59 Targetpractice
I’m less worried about my ability to deal with ice on the roads than I am about other drivers. I know my limitations and will not be on the road if I don’t feel capable, but I see way too many morons who are not only on the icy roads, but barreling along as if it were a sunny day. Especially the assholes who think 4 wheel drive means “I can never skid!”
So true — it can be terrifying especially when they decide to tailgate because you’re going too slow for them — or weaving in and out of traffic.
re: #59 Targetpractice
I’m less worried about my ability to deal with ice on the roads than I am about other drivers. I know my limitations and will not be on the road if I don’t feel capable, but I see way too many morons who are not only on the icy roads, but barreling along as if it were a sunny day. Especially the assholes who think 4 wheel drive means “I can never skid!”
I remember driving 25 with chains and a 4WD passed me at 45. 200 yards ahead of me he abruptly turned 90 degrees and plowed into the hill on the side of the road and overturned. His gas tank emptied itself and when he got out beer cans spilled out onto the road.
re: #63 Dread Pirate Ron
I remember driving 25 with chains and a 4WD passed me at 45. 200 yards ahead of me he abruptly turned 90 degrees and plowed into the hill on the side of the road and overturned. His gas tank emptied itself and when he got out beer cans spilled out onto the road.
HE didn’t slide into that hill, he drove straight into it. That is the problem when a 4WD loses traction and regains it in the wrong direction.
Inside sled dog racing, the forgotten Olympic sport
“You suddenly find yourself getting wrapped around a tree, and it’s all part of the fun and part of the fact that you’re running with animals instead of a machine.” https://t.co/8D5sWSTinm pic.twitter.com/Iajqo0N1xe— CNN (@CNN) January 20, 2022
I took a helicopter from Juneau up to a glacier and had a chance to dogsled while on a cruise. I’d love to do it on a bigger scale but I’m not the kind of person that can treat working dogs as working dogs. They’d all sleep inside with me on my bed. When I camp in the snow my dog gets to share my sleeping bag.
re: #65 Dread Pirate Ron
HE didn’t slide into that hill, he drove straight into it. That is the problem when a 4WD loses traction and regains it in the wrong direction.
Locking hubs, great for the Rubicon Trail, kinda twitchy in mixed traction snow.
re: #33 Sherlock Hound
I have 1200 hours in Euro Truck Simulator. I joked that I could be hired in the UK!
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They would be happy to have you over on a temporary basis until the HGV driver shortage is over and then kick you out again.
‘Traitor in red’: Kyrsten Sinema blasted for shaking GOP senators’ hands after filibuster vote https://t.co/rGzrQlIxrb
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 20, 2022
re: #66 Dread Pirate Ron
I took a helicopter from Juneau up to a glacier and had a chance to dogsled while on a cruise. I’d love to do it on a bigger scale but I’m not the kind of person that can treat working dogs as working dogs. They’d all sleep inside with me on my bed. When I camp in the snow my dog gets to share my sleeping bag.
Dit-a-rod, Dit-a-rod, Iditarod, Dit-a-rod, Dit-a-rod, Iditarod… (to the sound of the Beach Boys)
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not that large of a scale!
re: #71 Dread Pirate Ron
Not that large of a scale!
“You’re my little poop scoop, you don’t know what I got…”
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“You’re my little poop scoop, you don’t know what I got…”
When we moved to America when I was a wee kid we lived in Santa Barbara, circa 1961-1964, surfer music was all the rage. We moved to San Francisco area just in time for hippies and anti war protests. It was a bit like a Forrest Gump script, but on a smaller scale.
Oh, and the SLA lived down the street from me.
re: #73 Dread Pirate Ron
When we moved to America when I was a wee kid we lived in Santa Barbara, circa 1961-1964, surfer music was all the rage. We moved to San Francisco area just in time for hippies and anti war protests. It was a bit like a Forrest Gump script, but on a smaller scale.
I used to hang out with a young woman who had attended the Woodstock festival…as an 11-month-old baby. I met her while working at the Athletics Department at Northern Arizona University. She was a trainer, which she basically did in order to rebel against her hippie mother…
She later realized her true nature and married a musician and settled in Durango, Colorado.
re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron
Oh, and the SLA lived down the street from me.
I once shared a TA’s office at the University of Arizona with Ken Weaver of The Fugs, a progressive experimental rock poet band that featured luminaries like Alan Ginsberg and a young Jackson Browne on their albums.
A short story, in three screen grabs. pic.twitter.com/6vrexKwQSz
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) January 12, 2022
Fight me.
#TrueConservatives Vote Democratic.#Republicans are just misguided #TrumpSupporters who have lost their souls.
— Dave’s Hiding Out till Jan. (@DaveoutofAustin) January 20, 2022
re: #80 Dangerman
It is our moral duty to keep the local watering hole open for business…
Dry January is not necessarily about virtue, it is also about physical and mental health.
I turn into a good Catholic and go off meat during Lent, not out of any religious consideration, but just to clear my body of all the hormones and antibiotics that most modern meat is treated with.
And because then Easter breakfast with bacon and eggs really tastes incredible!!!
It’s significantly more expensive, but you can avoid the hormones and antibiotics if your red meat is grass-fed and your poultry free-range (sadly, duck doesn’t seem to be available in free-range. Maybe because their wings actually work and they can leave?)
re: #84 sagehen
It’s significantly more expensive, but you can avoid the hormones and antibiotics if your red meat is grass-fed and your poultry free-range (sadly, duck doesn’t seem to be available in free-range. Maybe because their wings actually work and they can leave?)
yes, I would rather pay more for smaller quantities of better quality meat but we don’t eat much to begin with (once or twice a week) and usually just get what’s on sale at the discounter.
Not so bad today.
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Today in “federal judges are not known for diplomacy or reserve”https://t.co/MuBCwvqV8S
— MinorIncursionHat (@Popehat) January 20, 2022
re: #87 Dopamine Fish
Today in “federal judges are not known for diplomacy or reserve”
He has no more Federal Fucks to give for the recalcitrantly unvaccinated.
re: #87 Dopamine Fish
Imma file this under “Well, that’s gonna leave a mark…”
Parents, please take note of this important finding on 90% vaccine protection vs MIS-C below.
And good to see new data that the recovery of heart function for MIS-C is fairly rapid in most children when this dreaded outcome occurshttps://t.co/Jm6vBukm5Z https://t.co/XNJDnpALl9 pic.twitter.com/Op4ITae7dr— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 19, 2022
Placebo effect’s evil twin? Most side effects experienced after Covid vaccination can be blamed on the ‘nocebo’ effect. Researchers reviewed 12 randomized clinical trials of Covid shots & found the nocebo effect accounted for 76% of ‘adverse reactions’ https://t.co/El3USlBXtm
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) January 19, 2022
go get vaccinated, it’s free. they give you a free vaccine card
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) January 20, 2022
Good point about Senator Schumer’s decision to hold the vote:
I had questioned @SenSchumer’s strategy on voting rights, but I think he did something important tonight. He got everyone on record. Some of us had a gut feeling that maybe Manchin and Sinema were the vocal ones covering for other Dems. But it wasn’t true. We only need two.
— What Biden Has Done (@What46HasDone) January 20, 2022
re: #93 Ming5000
Good point about Senator Schumer’s decision to hold the vote:
That’s an excellent point. It’s all out on the table now. It’s very clear that Manchin, Sinema, and the 50 Senate Republicans are the obstacles to our democracy.
BOOBIES!
Red-footed Booby (Sula sula)🐦🦜🕊️🎵🐤❤️🐤 pic.twitter.com/ozwPGQElYV
— World birds (@worldbirds32) January 19, 2022
re: #61 Hecuba’s daughter
Found today’s wordle a real challenge; my standard approach had problems this time:
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Yeah, I am struggling mightily with this one. I may not make it through. We’ll see. I will be back at it after my morning meetings.
For safety’s sake, be source-critical and pay attention to what you share online. Both extremists and foreign powers use the pandemic to spread disinformation and extremist propaganda online. Read more here: sakerhetspolisen.se #försäkerhetsskull
För säkerhets skull, var källkritisk och uppmärksam på vad du delar på nätet. Såväl extremister som främmande makt utnyttjar pandemin för att sprida desinformation och extremistisk propaganda på nätet. Läs mer här: https://t.co/QvmINIWPkM #försäkerhetsskull pic.twitter.com/5PsHarJkwi
— Säkerhetspolisen (@SAPOsverige) January 19, 2022
re: #93 Ming5000
Good point about Senator Schumer’s decision to hold the vote:
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Makes it even more important for Wisconsin to put Moscow Ron on the unemployment line.
re: #79 Dangerman
Blackburn’s “rap sheet” shows she thinks the guy is Common, or Fiddy, or Tupac for all we know. She’s a racist moron.
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re: #101 Egregious Philbin
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Since you are all into sharing your games.
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re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Dancing snowflakes here. Not likely to stick, much less last any length of time.
The morning’s air temperature was -15 °F (-26.1 C) this morning when I got up. I just took the garbage and recycling outside, and the subjective temperature test says, “Hella fucking cold.”
The bill prohibits lessons that make kids feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.” I imagine lessons that glorify enslavers and colonizers and downplay the contributions of POC would do just that. So, ok, sure!
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) January 19, 2022
re: #84 sagehen
It’s significantly more expensive, but you can avoid the hormones and antibiotics if your red meat is grass-fed and your poultry free-range (sadly, duck doesn’t seem to be available in free-range. Maybe because their wings actually work and they can leave?)
re: #110 The Pie Overlord!
The bill prohibits lessons that make kids feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.”
What they mean is “anything that makes white people feel bad about their heritage”.
I have tested positive for SARS-CoV2. (Home test, confirmed by lab PCR.) I had cold/allergy symptoms for 1 day, and seem to be over it.
I can’t guarantee, but I suspect my symptoms have been very mild due to prior infection 2 years ago. Also, perhaps this was omicron?— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 20, 2022
re: #96 Ming5000
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re: #91 Belafon
Truly interesting stuff. I can honestly say that I did get side effects - you can’t really fake a fever (Bueller? Bueller?) in conjunction with the other symptoms. But it also throws into question most of the stuff being thrown into VAERS as claims that the vaccines are causing problems.
BREAKING: CIA says that the mysterious symptoms known as Havana Syndrome are not the result of a sustained global campaign by a hostile power aimed at hundreds of American diplomats and spies. https://t.co/HBrcmTS6tQ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 20, 2022
This is about the hysteria generated by the call for people to report symptoms. They do not rule out an attack in Havana.
re: #100 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Blackburn’s “rap sheet” shows she thinks the guy is Common, or Fiddy, or Tupac for all we know. She’s a racist moron.
Can’t qwhite put my finger on why a black man would be pulled over for going a bit above the speed limit.
re: #117 BlueSpotinAL
Can’t qwhite put my finger on why a black man would be pulled over for going a bit above the speed limit.
It’s more of a wonder he got out of that situation alive…
Why is trumps big lie so hard to discredit?
Thomas Edsall has written an essay that starts with that question and then goes on for another 3,000 words trying to answer it. But we’ll give you Edsall’s answer in one sentence: “It’s all about race.”
re: #51 Cheechako
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re: #102 jeffreyw
It looks disappointed you didn’t set out a meal.
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue (R) “called for the creation of an election police unit in Georgia, echoing a proposal by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and continuing Perdue’s focus on election falsehoods,” CNN reports
Here we go…
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It looks disappointed you didn’t set out a meal.
He got up on the wrong side of the picnic table.
re: #95 Captain Magic
BOOBIES!
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Red-footed boobies!?! Why, you…. Red Team Traitor!! Moral and decent people give their allegiance to Blue-Footed Boobies.
re: #90 Belafon
That’s great news - and one more reason to hope that vaccinations for those under 2 can get approved soon.
re: #126 lawhawk
That’s great news - and one more reason to hope that vaccinations for those under 2 can get approved soon.
What about the under 2 vaccine skeptics?
Good morning…gotta jet. Need to walk the boys before taking Merle for an early drop at the vet…surgery day.
re: #115 lawhawk
Truly interesting stuff. I can honestly say that I did get side effects - you can’t really fake a fever (Bueller? Bueller?) in conjunction with the other symptoms. But it also throws into question most of the stuff being thrown into VAERS as claims that the vaccines are causing problems.
anecdotal, of course:
i have a friend who had a ‘reaction’ after the 2nd shot (i said after, not from)
arm pain and loss of strength. severe
initially she couldnt raise them above her head at all
it’s been 3 months or so and it’s still there
both arms
she won’t get the booster. no way no how.
also hasnt seen a doctor!!
i did a little googling and yeah, i know dont rely on webmd etc
still it sounds like SIRVA —- shoulder injury related to vaccine administration
that means she probably got jabbed in the wrong spot on the arm.
ie operator error, that could happen with any injection and has nothing to do with the vaccine
her mind has inextricably linked the two - correlation / causation - and there will be no talking her out of it. ever
re: #119 Dangerman
A lot of people still believe it was a bad idea to expand the voting franchise beyond white, land-owning Protestant males.
re: #129 Dangerman
anecdotal, of course:
i have a friend who had a ‘reaction’ after the 2nd shot (i said after, not from)
arm pain and loss of strength. severe
initially she couldnt raise them above her head at all
it’s been 3 months or so and it’s still there
both armsshe won’t get the booster. no way no how.
also hasnt seen a doctor!!i did a little googling and yeah, i know dont rely on webmd etc
still it sounds like SIRVA —- shoulder injury related to vaccine administration
that means she probably got jabbed in the wrong spot on the arm.
ie operator error, that could happen with any injection and has nothing to do with the vaccineher mind has inextricably linked the two - correlation / causation - and there will be no talking her out of it. ever
can’t really blame her. i’ve been putting off the booster just from having been wiped out for two days after the second shot. If I couldn’t raise my fucking arms after the second for three months, I’d be like “fuck it. bring on the rona.”
re: #2 prairiefire
Hey hey the Supremes voted against Trump!!11!
After reading tonight’s order from the Supreme Court and rereading Judge Millett’s opinion for the D.C. Circuit, I’m not sure it’s possible to overstate how thorough and brutal a defeat this short-lived litigation was for Trump and his allies.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 20, 2022
… on the vital importance of the legislative purposes being served by the Jan. 6 select committee’s investigation.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 20, 2022
re: #131 steve_davis
can’t really blame her. i’ve been putting off the booster just from having been wiped out for two days after the second shot. If I couldn’t raise my fucking arms after the second for three months, I’d be like “fuck it. bring on the rona.”
Putting off the booster while Covid is peaking to its highest infection rate of the entire pandemic is a bad idea. I’d urge you to go get a booster shot now.
re: #133 No Malarkey!
Putting off the booster while Covid is peaking to its highest infection rate of the entire pandemic is a bad idea. I’d urge you to go get a booster shot now.
yeah, i’m urging me to get the booster as well, but trying to explain it to myself rationally isn’t really helping that much. I’m probably just going to have to call for an appointment rather than thinking about doing it walk-in. If I have an appointment, I’ll treat it like a root canal and just say, “okay, gotta do it.”
re: #124 jeffreyw
He got up on the wrong side of the picnic table.
My birds are pissed off this morning. I was going to buy some golden safflower seed yesterday but apparently there has been a crop failure due to drought and it won’t be available until next fall (if things go well). They’re looking at the regular white safflower and I can clearly tell they’re thinking “what is this crap?” Only good thing is that it may lower the number of House Sparrows at my feeder. Goldfinches are happy because they can still go over to their thistle feeder.
I don’t used mixed food because the birds just throw everything they don’t like on the ground to get to their favorite seeds.
re: #133 No Malarkey!
Putting off the booster while Covid is peaking to its highest infection rate of the entire pandemic is a bad idea. I’d urge you to go get a booster shot now.
The vaccine didn’t cause it
The needle went into the wrong part of the arm (I’m guessing)
If the vaccine did cause it she’d probably be the only person in the world to have this reaction
re: #134 steve_davis
yeah, i’m urging me to get the booster as well, but trying to explain it to myself rationally isn’t really helping that much. I’m probably just going to have to call for an appointment rather than thinking about doing it walk-in. If I have an appointment, I’ll treat it like a root canal and just say, “okay, gotta do it.”
Good idea. You are on a device, so there is no reason you can’t make an appointment right now. Sorry if I sound bossy, but one of my coworkers died of Covid because she wasn’t vaccinated, and I feel a bit guilty that I didn’t try harder to convince her to do so.
Tell me you’re a white supremacist without telling me you’re a white supremacist.
Mitch McConnell: “African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as American voters.”
Jesus fvcking Christ. A bit of overkill, Mitch.
Those damn racist Dems!🤦♂️#DemVoice1 pic.twitter.com/t5kzKffY1r— The Jewish Ginger Resister (@JewishResister) January 20, 2022
“American”?
Wow
re: #131 steve_davis
can’t really blame her. i’ve been putting off the booster just from having been wiped out for two days after the second shot. If I couldn’t raise my fucking arms after the second for three months, I’d be like “fuck it. bring on the rona.”
But I’d go see a doctor.
re: #137 No Malarkey!
Good idea. You are on a device, so there is no reason you can’t make an appointment right now. Sorry if I sound bossy, but one of my coworkers died of Covid because she wasn’t vaccinated, and I feel a bit guilty that I didn’t try harder to convince her to do so.
Don’t feel guilty. When people really want to be stupid, there’s nothing that can be done to save them.
re: #13 Dangerman
..people who can’t vote in person and whose absentee ballot requests are denied…
…people whose voter registration applications are purposely mishandled…
Pictures would help, like this one from an NPR article Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have To Wait In Line For Hours? Too Few Polling Places:
re: #138 Dangerman
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Wow
Holy shit:
Mitch McConnell: “African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as American voters.”
Toni Morrison: “In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) January 20, 2022
re: #129 Dangerman
A situation where both arms are affected doesn’t sound like vaccination related - after all, you’re not vaccinated in both arms during one administration. There might be something entirely unrelated going on but she’s inexorably linked vaccine to the malady, and that also means she’ll have a problem going forward.
re: #140 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Don’t feel guilty. When people really want to be stupid, there’s nothing that can be done to save them.
Some, like my friend are just lousy at critical thinking.
Ignorance more than abject stupidity
re: #140 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Don’t feel guilty. When people really want to be stupid, there’s nothing that can be done to save them.
I know that in my head; my heart says I should’ve tried harder.
re: #143 lawhawk
A situation where both arms are affected doesn’t sound like vaccination related - after all, you’re not vaccinated in both arms during one administration. There might be something entirely unrelated going on but she’s inexorably linked vaccine to the malady, and that also means she’ll have a problem going forward.
At least she got the two shots
And she cloisters up pretty well
re: #138 Dangerman
Mitch: [citation needed]
re: #134 steve_davis
yeah, i’m urging me to get the booster as well, but trying to explain it to myself rationally isn’t really helping that much. I’m probably just going to have to call for an appointment rather than thinking about doing it walk-in. If I have an appointment, I’ll treat it like a root canal and just say, “okay, gotta do it.”
Last fall I was supposed to get a root canal but I had a severe panic attack in the chair. I felt like I was being waterboarded (now I know I would tell them everything). They had to close it up and reschedule me for an extraction instead. It was a back molar so I’m doing ok without it.
Go get the shot. It’s not like a root canal.
re: #147 Dopamine Fish
Mitch: [citation needed]
I found it!
I need you to understand that this is who Mitch McConnell is.
Being Black doesn’t make you less of an American, no matter what this craven man thinks.
pic.twitter.com/Esk1NgIhD9— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) January 20, 2022
What I take from this is that America is more attractive than China is.
They make some good points, but they also try to shift blame for COVID out of China, claiming it’s like the Spanish Flu.
World’s No. 1 power: USA
World’s No. 1 #COVID cases & deaths: USA
How come? Let’s take a step back and look at the whole process.
Get ready and sing with me! @Dier0806 pic.twitter.com/25tD0WqmDQ— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) October 17, 2021
re: #95 Captain Magic
BOOBIES!
I had no idea boobies came with red feet. Those are beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
re: #135 stpaulbear
I don’t used mixed food because the birds just throw everything they don’t like on the ground to get to their favorite seeds.
This is interesting. I don’t have a feeder now but would be curious to see a reduction of the discarded seeds. I always assumed birds were just sloppy or frantic in greed. I might have to apologize.
Another random example of the Jewish conspiracy myth alive and well today: A group of bigots has been picketing a Michigan synagogue for 18 *years* over alleged Jewish and Israeli control of America. Just systematic harassment of a Jewish community: https://t.co/AaIjuhrod9
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) January 20, 2022
re: #153 Ming5000
This is interesting. I don’t have a feeder now but would be curious to see a reduction of the discarded seeds. I always assumed birds were just sloppy or frantic in greed. I might have to apologize.
I was advised to use suet to avoid this problem.
re: #129 Dangerman
anecdotal, of course:
i have a friend who had a ‘reaction’ after the 2nd shot (i said after, not from)
arm pain and loss of strength. severe
initially she couldnt raise them above her head at all
it’s been 3 months or so and it’s still there
both armsshe won’t get the booster. no way no how.
also hasnt seen a doctor!!i did a little googling and yeah, i know dont rely on webmd etc
still it sounds like SIRVA —- shoulder injury related to vaccine administration
that means she probably got jabbed in the wrong spot on the arm.
ie operator error, that could happen with any injection and has nothing to do with the vaccineher mind has inextricably linked the two - correlation / causation - and there will be no talking her out of it. ever
When I got shot 3, I was fine on day 1, fine on day 2 but on day 3 and for about two weeks my arm hurt like crazy. I couldn’t lift my arm much and the area freaking hurt. Badly.
Would I get shots 4, 5, 6, etc., forever? ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY! Not a chance I would pass up on it.
re: #132 No Malarkey!
I am curious if at any time anyone in any of these proceedings mentioned the Presidential Records Act. I mean, does that even mean anything any longer?
re: #134 steve_davis
yeah, i’m urging me to get the booster as well, but trying to explain it to myself rationally isn’t really helping that much. I’m probably just going to have to call for an appointment rather than thinking about doing it walk-in. If I have an appointment, I’ll treat it like a root canal and just say, “okay, gotta do it.”
This is my take…better sick than dead, or hospitalized or on a vent or ECMO or having to relearn to walk, talk, or eat.
re: #137 No Malarkey!
Good idea. You are on a device, so there is no reason you can’t make an appointment right now. Sorry if I sound bossy, but one of my coworkers died of Covid because she wasn’t vaccinated, and I feel a bit guilty that I didn’t try harder to convince her to do so.
well, i am vaxxed, so probably it won’t kill me. And I know it seems like a simple thing to persuade yourself about the booster, but the plusses and minuses aren’t really that simple in a practical sense. If it were “get the booster and you have a 95% of being able to walk around maskless while you suck in omicron from the maskless rednecks in walmart, and the process is completely hassle-free,” then of course I’d get the booster in the next ten minutes down at my local pharmacy. But at the moment, it’s “get the booster and you get some additional protection against omicron, but yes, you still may very well get the virus, and get sick as a dog for a week, but just not hospital-level sick, mostly. And to achieve that state, you just have to look forward to likely experiencing the same rotten symptoms you felt after you got the inarguably life-saving second dose of the vaccine.” Yes, I’ll get myself to do it, but it’s very, very easy to keep putting it off.
re: #148 stpaulbear
Last fall I was supposed to get a root canal but I had a severe panic attack in the chair. I felt like I was being waterboarded (now I know I would tell them everything). They had to close it up and reschedule me for an extraction instead. It was a back molar so I’m doing ok without it.
Go get the shot. It’s not like a root canal.
That is exactly why I do sedation dentistry. I suck at dealing with dental stuff (really, really bad experience once). Now, if they need to do anything but a cleaning, sedate my ass, please.
re: #134 steve_davis
yeah, i’m urging me to get the booster as well, but trying to explain it to myself rationally isn’t really helping that much. I’m probably just going to have to call for an appointment rather than thinking about doing it walk-in. If I have an appointment, I’ll treat it like a root canal and just say, “okay, gotta do it.”
I had 36 hours of ickiness after my second shot, nothing of consequence after my booster.
re: #159 steve_davis
well, i am vaxxed, so probably it won’t kill me. And I know it seems like a simple thing to persuade yourself about the booster, but the plusses and minuses aren’t really that simple in a practical sense. If it were “get the booster and you have a 95% of being able to walk around maskless while you suck in omicron from the maskless rednecks in walmart, and the process is completely hassle-free,” then of course I’d get the booster in the next ten minutes down at my local pharmacy. But at the moment, it’s “get the booster and you get some additional protection against omicron, but yes, you still may very well get the virus, and get sick as a dog for a week, but just not hospital-level sick, mostly. And to achieve that state, you just have to look forward to likely experiencing the same rotten symptoms you felt after you got the inarguably life-saving second dose of the vaccine.” Yes, I’ll get myself to do it, but it’s very, very easy to keep putting it off.
And in the time it took you to write that, you could’ve made an appointment. Don’t count on the prior two shots to keep you out of the hospital, and don’t assume Omicron is “mild” for everyone. Just stop thinking for a moment and make the appointment; the life you save could be your own, or someone else you come in contact with.
I sometimes wonder at the political disconnect many people seem to have on the current crisis. Below is a data point about economic disconnect. It seems a lot of people live in bubbles.
Interesting thread of responses on this.
I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures. One of them thought it was $800k. Really not sure what to make of this (The real number is $45k)
— Nina Strohminger (@NinaStrohminger) January 20, 2022
re: #148 stpaulbear
Last fall I was supposed to get a root canal but I had a severe panic attack in the chair. I felt like I was being waterboarded (now I know I would tell them everything). They had to close it up and reschedule me for an extraction instead. It was a back molar so I’m doing ok without it.
Go get the shot. It’s not like a root canal.
yeah, I have to be careful at the dentist’s because I’m susceptible to panic attacks as well, and having them cut the lidocaine with adrenaline definitely will get the heart rate up. Funnily enough, I never panic (knock on wood) when they have to use the little tent to keep the tooth dry while they’re doing something complicated. In fact, I often lie there and have kind of an interesting time trying to guess what is going on based on the limited amount of feeling I may have (thankfully) in that part of the mouth.
re: #135 stpaulbear
The English sparrow colony (may they all suffer death) the lives in a neighbors Tulip Poplar, took about two weeks before they decided that white safflower seeds were acceptable — that experiment failed. They adapted
re: #147 Dopamine Fish
Mitch: [citation needed]
there’s video
I need you to understand that this is who Mitch McConnell is.
Being Black doesn’t make you less of an American, no matter what this craven man thinks.
pic.twitter.com/Esk1NgIhD9— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) January 20, 2022
re: #166 Dangerman
there’s video
Right. To you and the other poster upthread, what I meant was to address Mitch and tell him to provide a citation for his statistics. Because I’m calling BULLSHIT.
re: #167 Dopamine Fish
Right. To you and the other poster upthread, what I meant was to address Mitch and tell him to provide a citation for his statistics. Because I’m calling BULLSHIT.
ah.
it’s probably some twisted and perverse reading of something
re: #159 steve_davis
Mind you, everyone who is saying to make that appointment NOW cares about you. We care about our fellow lizards. Go make the appointment. You can do it!
re: #153 Ming5000
This is interesting. I don’t have a feeder now but would be curious to see a reduction of the discarded seeds. I always assumed birds were just sloppy or frantic in greed. I might have to apologize.
House Sparrows are super sloppy and greedy. Other birds less so. When I had a lot of feeders I’d try to use food or feeder setups that would discourage the House Sparrows.
I can see the House Sparrows tossing the white safflower out of the hanging tray feeder this morning trying to find the old stuff. Did I mention how much I hate House Sparrows?
re: #138 Dangerman
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Wow
If he had said “Blacks vote in as high a percentage as Americans overall” that would make sense, but what he said really shines a light onto what he has hidden in his personal woodpile…
re: #163 Ming5000
Trump paid for a degree from Wharton… so there’s that. It hasn’t changed much if they’re that disconnected from facts and reality. They don’t teach how to read economic data like median and average household income? Or, they don’t care and simply think about their own families?
My third guess was a hail Mary that paid off.
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— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) January 20, 2022
The Epoch Times tries to mislead its readers into thinking the vaccinated are more susceptible to Omicron than the unvaccinated. news.yahoo.com
re: #167 Dopamine Fish
I live in a really well off area in the suburbs. When we moved here it was pretty much basic working class houses built in the 60s ans 70s, now there are huge houses being built all around here. Our voting location is the elementary school my son attended. We can also vote early at a church and a couple of other locations. The longest I ever waited in line was 45 minutes the year Obama was elected the first time. In the less wealthy part of the county, we had lines you actually saw on national news. So the plan is to make that worse, yay. Also fucking asshat David Purdue wants to do what Deathsantis is proposing, an election police force. But Stacey Abrams is a strong candidate which is about the only thing keeping me from being totally depressed about all of this.
Taxpayer funded anti-semites deny foster parent training to Jewish couple. news.yahoo.com
re: #163 Ming5000
I sometimes wonder at the political disconnect many people seem to have on the current crisis. Below is a data point about economic disconnect. It seems a lot of people live in bubbles.
Interesting thread of responses on this.
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re: #177 No Malarkey!
Taxpayer funded anti-semites deny foster parent training to Jewish couple. news.yahoo.com
It violates their Religious Freedom to force them to train Christ Killers!
re: #165 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The English sparrow colony (may they all suffer death) the lives in a neighbors Tulip Poplar, took about two weeks before they decided that white safflower seeds were acceptable — that experiment failed. They adapted
A guy from the MN DNR wrote a couple great books about backyard birds and best ways to feed them. In the section about House Sparrows, he actually said that you should feel free to trap them and kill them if they overwhelm your yard. They are incredibly harmful to native species.
True story: I had a feeder setup that actually worked at discouraging House Sparrows, but then my crazy neighbor noticed that they flocked in large groups that would all fly away in panic if anything disturbed them. He thought this would be a great warning system in case anyone was trying to break into his garage and steal his stuff, so he set out trying to attract as many House Sparrows as possible. I tried to let him know that wasn’t a good idea, but he threatened to call the cops because I was harassing him (I wasn’t).
re: #169 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Mind you, everyone who is saying to make that appointment NOW cares about you. We care about our fellow lizards. Go make the appointment. You can do it!
Just went online and applied for a booster appointment. Used to be a six-month wait, but then I found out that it had been reduced to just three months
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just went online and applied for a booster appointment. Used to be a six-month wait, but then I found out that it had been reduced to just three months
Mine is scheduled for Monday next week.
re: #87 Dopamine Fish
Also, I posted the QT’d tweet in a chat, and got ” I’m not even in the USA and I can feel the burn from here.” back. And I concur, I’m in a friggid cold and windy Stockholm, Sweden, and I practically burned myself on that burn…
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re: #187 (((Archangel1)))
Would have actually been a total failure were i not adamant on staying in hard mode (forces you to use previously-discovered letters).
V-I-A-G-R-A
Its just a matter of time before a QAnon terrorist murders a healthcare worker.
For those not believing this….here is an example. Stew Peters is a Q conspiracy theorist with huge following. He is now running names of specific hospitals. In the case listed here, the nurse was named and then doxed by a bunch of Qs on telegram group and it spread from there. pic.twitter.com/ttrABj9LGi
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 20, 2022
re: #189 No Malarkey!
Its just a matter of time before a QAnon terrorist murders a healthcare worker.
That’s shouting “Kill the fireman!!” in a burning theater.
NYPD is trying to identify this woman who marched up to Jewish children standing outside a Brooklyn synagogue and shouted “Hitler should have killed you all. I’ll kill you and know where you live” https://t.co/HhEbVXHFo3
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 20, 2022
re: #190 Decatur Deb
That’s shouting “Kill the fireman!!” in a burning theater.
A new study shows that the “poison” they claim hospitals are using to kill patients, remdesivir, is safe and effective for treating covid patients. hopkinsmedicine.org
re: #192 The Pie Overlord!
Another 14 words.
re: #192 The Pie Overlord!
NYPD is trying to identify this woman who marched up to Jewish children standing outside a Brooklyn synagogue and shouted “Hitler should have killed you all. I’ll kill you and know where you live”
When Adolf Hitler says “We are the master race!” and we say “Heil! Heil Heil!” right in a schoolkid’s face…
re: #193 No Malarkey!
A new study shows that the “poison” they claim hospitals are using to kill patients, remdesivir, is safe and effective for treating covid patients. hopkinsmedicine.org
It’s part of the mix they gave Trump, FFS.
cnn.com
re: #170 stpaulbear
House Sparrows are super sloppy and greedy. Other birds less so. When I had a lot of feeders I’d try to use food or feeder setups that would discourage the House Sparrows.
I can see the House Sparrows tossing the white safflower out of the hanging tray feeder this morning trying to find the old stuff. Did I mention how much I hate House Sparrows?
When I still had a house and had a bird feeder out I just put out black oil sunflower seed. Not something that the house sparrows and mourning doves regularly ate, so I had very few of them at the feeder. Usual mix was house finch, cardinal, chickadee, tufted titmouse, nuthatch, and blue jays. When it snowed heavily the crows would come by as well.
re: #190 Decatur Deb
That’s shouting “Kill the fireman!!” in a burning theater.
Killing black cats in the middle of a rat-driven plague.
How the media enables voter suppression:MEDIA: Biden failed to control COVID & he’s gonna lose!MEDIA: Democrats failed to pass voting rights & they’re gonna lose!MEDIA: Polls show Democrats are gonna lose!LOW-INFO VOTER: Why should I bother to vote? Dems are gonna lose.
— Liddle Chocolate Pie 🌈🍫🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) January 20, 2022
Biden’s approval rating has steadily declined over the year, from 59% in July to 50% by September and now to 43%. The AP-NORC poll shows 56% of Americans disapprove of how Biden is handling his job. https://t.co/OYApikymLD
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 20, 2022
my friend’s kid’s school in Georgia sent homework with this question pic.twitter.com/pSFhJ0Ucvz
— Jennifer C. Martin (@notreallyjcm) January 20, 2022
re: #200 The Pie Overlord!
Ayn Rand offered a justification of us expropriating the continent from its natives.
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s more of a wonder he got out of that situation alive…
Cops give out about 112,000 traffic tickets a day. I’d say he was pretty safe.
re: #187 (((Archangel1)))
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re: #200 The Pie Overlord!
That’s great; our schools are promoting ethnic cleansing now.
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ayn Rand offered a justification of us expropriating the continent from its natives.
Because they could.
Today we published the transcript of our latest @nytopinion focus group w/ 14 independents (voted for both Obama & Trump) on Biden’s first year. It was searing & surprising - surprising because many weren’t furious but resigned & out of hope. https://t.co/INAgr4gTtg
— Patrick Healy (@patrickhealynyt) January 20, 2022
Once again, what the NYT passes for ‘independent’ analysis and non-partisan perspective is almost wholly conservative grievance mongering extrapolated to absurdity.
EDIT:
Why hasn’t the @nytimes EVER talked to Biden voters? It’s like we are invisible. 20-30 times (at least) we have to read about “Trump voters”….then it’s “independent voters”….Do you know that millions of Biden voters actually exist? You have completely ignored us for years.
— Valerie (@val_casto) January 20, 2022
Alternate headline: “Fourteen people sit in a room and repeat Fox News talking points to a Republican pollster.”
— tdyja (@tdyja) January 20, 2022
re: #205 No Malarkey!
That’s great; our schools are promoting ethnic cleansing now.
One tweeted question is not a promotion. It sounds dumb, but a good teacher could make it useful for discussion. (Note “different points of view” in the header.)
re: #208 Decatur Deb
One tweeted question is not a promotion. It sounds dumb, but a good teacher could make it useful for discussion. (Note “different points of view” in the header.)
Yes, I would like to see that question in the context of the entire lesson.
And yes, Jackson most certainly received letters from people urging him to clear off the land for settlement.
re: #207 Citizen K
Once again, what the NYT passes for ‘independent’ analysis and non-partisan perspective is almost wholly conservative grievance mongering extrapolated to absurdity.
14 Trump voters are not ‘independents’, no matter what they fucking did before.
This nonsensical idea that someone voted for Donald fucking Trump out of some reasoned, measured analysis and their political decision making is thus somehow something that can be swayed by facts and debate has got to die.
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, I would like to see that question in the context of the entire lesson.
And yes, Jackson most certainly received letters from people urging him to clear off the land for settlement.
He was mainstream for the day. Sort of helped make him president.
BREAKING: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is requesting a special grand jury to aid in her investigation of Trump and his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.https://t.co/4t6ahJgh4z
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 20, 2022
re: #210 Renaissance_Man
14 Trump voters are not ‘independents’, no matter what they fucking did before.
We could be working into a good definition of “Rando”.
re: #200 The Pie Overlord!
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And “Newman” is a social studies teacher. Sigh.
The devil has enough advocates already.
— Leftist_Scientist (@LeftScientist) January 20, 2022
Stephanie Grisham was a shitty press secretary (all of Trump’s were), but she stayed on working for Melania and paid attention to a lot of the criminal behavior apparently…
The secret meetings were apparently known by only a small number of aides, the sources said. Grisham recounted that they were mostly scheduled by Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and that the former chief usher, Timothy Harleth, would wave participants upstairs, the sources said.
Harleth, the former director of rooms at the Trump International Hotel before moving with the Trumps to the White House in 2017, was once one of the former first family’s most trusted employees, according to a top former White House aide to Melania Trump.
re: #211 Decatur Deb
He was mainstream for the day. Sort of helped make him president.
Andrew Jackson was the sort of populist Trump modeled himself after.
re: #200 The Pie Overlord!
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— Jennifer C. Martin (@notreallyjcm) January 20, 2022
“Dear President,
You should run the Churkeys out and give us their stuff. Because if we steal stuff, we can have more stuff than if we had to, you know, work for it, since we don’t like to work and we need the dough we do get for booze.”
re: #217 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
It makes you wonder if that school teaches their students that the Liberty Bell was named by abolitionists.
Students: “What’s an abolitionist?”
re: #214 BeachDem
And “Newman” is a social studies teacher. Sigh.
Those thinking patterns have to be explored if we’re ever going to find out where they come from and how to change them.
re: #217 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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“Dear President,
You should run the Churkeys out and give us their stuff. Because if we steal stuff, we can have more stuff than if we had to, you know, work for it, since we don’t like to work and we need the dough we do get for booze.”
Don’t forget the reason that slavery was introduced in America: the original planters were too lazy to do the work themselves and too cheap to actually pay someone to do it. Plus the Native Americans they tried to force into labor would just run off into the wilderness and join other free Natives.
They needed to import people who were foreign to the region, less likely to r-u-n-n o-f-f-t and immediately identifiable as such.
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
Ghost dropped a new single:
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the musical guest on last night’s Colbert sounds like early 1980’s college radio
re: #155 garzooma
I was advised to use suet to avoid this problem.
If you have Starlings or Grackels, they were can eat suet cakes very quickly. And the sparrows, again.
re: #208 Decatur Deb
One tweeted question is not a promotion. It sounds dumb, but a good teacher could make it useful for discussion. (Note “different points of view” in the header.)
I am dubious about giving children an assignment to promote genocide, which is what that question literally does. Its the same thing as asking them to write a letter to Der Fuhrer explaining why removing untermenschen from Poland and Russia will provide lebensraum to the Deutsche Volk.
This one was HARD, y’all!!
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re: #210 Renaissance_Man
14 Trump voters are not ‘independents’, no matter what they fucking did before.
This nonsensical idea that someone voted for Donald fucking Trump out of some reasoned, measured analysis and their political decision making is thus somehow something that can be swayed by facts and debate has got to die.
But that would require them to believe that Dem voters are actually deserving to be considered American, and that seems to be totally anathema to their firmly held belief that conservative voices are simply too underepresented in politics….
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t forget the reason that slavery was introduced in America: the original planters were too lazy to do the work themselves and too cheap to actually pay someone to do it. Plus the Native Americans they tried to force into labor would just run off into the wilderness and join other free Natives.
They needed to import people who were foreign to the region, less likely to r-u-n-n o-f-f-t and immediately identifiable as such.
As an aside, quite a few of the Africans did run off and join the natives, especially in Florida and basically any true frontier area where there were free natives close by. Interesting heritage there.
Someone needs to explain to Justice Thomas what recusal means and why a judge whose wife is fully implicated in Jan. 6 planning needs to step the fuck aside. And by someone I mean the Chief Justice or anyone else who gives a damn about the credibility of our judiciary. https://t.co/WbLZqCqocl
— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 20, 2022
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t forget the reason that slavery was introduced in America: the original planters were too lazy to do the work themselves and too cheap to actually pay someone to do it. Plus the Native Americans they tried to force into labor would just run off into the wilderness and join other free Natives.
They needed to import people who were foreign to the region, less likely to r-u-n-n o-f-f-t and immediately identifiable as such.
In this part of the country there was a great deal of running-off, a lot of escaped slaves joined the Southeast tribes. The tribes also included a share of whites who weren’t making it in 18th Cent. society. The British adopted a policy of encouraging and arming them as long as they held on to the Carolina and Florida backwoods.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t forget the reason that slavery was introduced in America: the original planters were too lazy to do the work themselves and too cheap to actually pay someone to do it. Plus the Native Americans they tried to force into labor would just
run off into the wilderness and join other free Nativesdie of smallpox and measles and typhus and cholera.…
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t forget the reason that slavery was introduced in America: the original planters were too lazy to do the work themselves and too cheap to actually pay someone to do it. Plus the Native Americans they tried to force into labor would just run off into the wilderness and join other free Natives.
They needed to import people who were foreign to the region, less likely to r-u-n-n o-f-f-t and immediately identifiable as such.
I also learned when I toured an old South Carolina rice plantation that they kidnapped Africans to work as slave labor because they knew how to cultivate rice. The plantation owners were parasites, dependent on both the labor and knowledge of better people than they were.
re: #227 gocart mozart
Like Thomas would ever admit that his wife is a traitor and that he is compromised.
re: #230 No Malarkey!
The plantation owners were parasites, dependent on both the labor and knowledge of better people than they were.
Modern day multimillionaire CEOs also fall into this category.
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WAT. IS THIS SRS?
NEWS - 1/6 committee chair Bennie Thompson tells a small group of reporters they’ll be soon be asking Ivanka Trump to come before the committee
— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) January 20, 2022
re: #230 No Malarkey!
I also learned when I toured an old South Carolina rice plantation that they kidnapped Africans to work as slave labor because they knew how to cultivate rice. The plantation owners were parasites, dependent on both the labor and knowledge of better people than they were.
But we are not allowed to teach that because it might upset someone’s fee-fees…
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But we are not allowed to teach that because it might upset someone’s fee-fees…
A lecture which will soon be illegal in Florida because it makes white children uncomfortable.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) January 20, 2022
re: #208 Decatur Deb
One tweeted question is not a promotion. It sounds dumb, but a good teacher could make it useful for discussion. (Note “different points of view” in the header.)
I’d be okay with “what arguments did settlers use,” but making students put themselves into the role of the bad guys is a step too far. (“Write a letter to Adolph Hitler as a German bourgeois. Explain to him how you would benefit if ‘undesirables’ were removed from German cities.”)
Ivanka Trump was asked by the Jan. 6 House committee to cooperate with its investigation into the Capitol riot. The request comes after Rep. Liz Cheney said the panel had gathered evidence that Trump had implored her father to call off the violence. https://t.co/4qJQ2pRuJu
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 20, 2022
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t forget the reason that slavery was introduced in America: the original planters were too lazy to do the work themselves and too cheap to actually pay someone to do it. Plus the Native Americans they tried to force into labor would just run off into the wilderness and join other free Natives.
They needed to import people who were foreign to the region, less likely to r-u-n-n o-f-f-t and immediately identifiable as such.
the reason I have occasionally seen in textbooks is that the Indians were simply not physically designed to work for hours at a time in brutally hot weather. Hence, the use of folks who routinely wandered around in 70% humidity with a blazing sun overhead. I don’t find slavery all that shocking, when it was practiced ecumenically by the greeks and romans. Owe more than you make? Hey, slavery. Had a bad business year and need to sell a child to pay debts? We’re here for you! But the whole “we enslave black people because blackness is clearly a mark of Cain” is just southern baptist bullshit.
Wow. Go for it I said!!
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re: #239 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
I’d be okay with “what arguments did settlers use,” but making students put themselves into the role of the bad guys is a step too far. (“Write a letter to Adolph Hitler as a German bourgeois. Explain to him how you would benefit if ‘undesirables’ were removed from German cities.”)
The exercise assumes that the land-grabber was literate. If we want the Cherokee position, we could just read the newspaper they published here in 1828.
re: #224 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This one was HARD, y’all!!
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wait, how did you get three right, but in the wrong place, but then completely fuck up the third line? :-)
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t forget the reason that slavery was introduced in America: the original planters were too lazy to do the work themselves and too cheap to actually pay someone to do it. Plus the Native Americans they tried to force into labor would just run off into the wilderness and join other free Natives.
They needed to import people who were foreign to the region, less likely to r-u-n-n o-f-f-t and immediately identifiable as such.
In the 17th century there weren’t enough settlers to do intensive farming themselves, lazy or otherwise.
re: #244 steve_davis
wait, how did you get three right, but in the wrong place, but then completely fuck up the third line? :-)
The third line was to find vowels or eliminate consonants. I use that as a strategy if I need help, which I obviously did because 1 and 2 were like…HUH? because of the letters in 1 and 2.
re: #229 sagehen
The death rate among European settlers was so high that they called it “the seasoning.” Meaning that if you lasted a season, you’d probably live, but large numbers didn’t.
Re 243: The Cherokee Phoenix, New Echota, GA.
re: #244 steve_davis
wait, how did you get three right, but in the wrong place, but then completely fuck up the third line? :-)
That’s actually the optimal strategy to guarantee winning
re: #244 steve_davis
wait, how did you get three right, but in the wrong place, but then completely fuck up the third line? :-)
Some people strategize to post as many letters as they can early in the game rather than feeling a need to use letters they know are valid. I was surprised when I learned about that strategy. I can’t do it that way.
There’s an option called “hard mode” Wordle that forces you to use letters that have already been identified as being in the word, but you have to click a switch to set that option.
re: #241 steve_davis
We’re here for you! But the whole “we enslave black people because blackness is clearly a mark of Cain” is just southern baptist bullshit.
um… Southern Baptists only came into existence in the 1830’s, and became an official denomination with their own leadership in the 1840’s. Because the original baptist-Baptists became a mostly abolitionist denomination, the Southerners couldn’t stand that so they schismed. They even invented a whole new theology, out-of-context literal line-reading etc., to be able to pretend the scripture justified what they’d already decided they wanted to do and just hoped they could pretend God approved.
re: #249 IngisKahn
That’s actually the optimal strategy to guarantee winning
I would NEVER waste a line!
re: #219 Decatur Deb
Those thinking patterns have to be explored if we’re ever going to find out where they come from and how to change them.
It’s the framing. There are other ways to explore—kind of like the old “truth sandwich” approach.
re: #250 stpaulbear
Some people strategize to post as many letters as they can early in the game rather than feeling a need to use letters they know are valid. I was surprised when I learned about that strategy. I can’t do it that way.
I don’t use it often. But knowing vowels helps enormously when you’re stuck. And I always couple that with the most used consonants to maximize the move, since I know it will be a wasted word.
re: #252 HRH Stanley Sea
I would NEVER waste a line!
Well, ya, if your goal is to try to get it in 1 or 2, then you wouldn’t want that. But there are plenty of 5 letter words that differ by only 1 letter and you could need more than 6 guesses to narrow it down.
re: #113 The Pie Overlord!
Unless Massie is lying (which is always possible and likely), he’s not vaccinated. He certainly has repeatedly demonstrated that even graduates of top universities can lack real judgement or sense. He’s already shown that he has no morals or ethics.
re: #255 IngisKahn
Well, ya, if your goal is to try to get it in 1 or 2, then you wouldn’t want that. But there are plenty of 5 letter words that differ by only 1 letter and you could need more than 6 guesses to narrow it down.
Which is where the luck I talked about yesterday comes into play.
re: #253 BeachDem
It’s the framing. There are other ways to explore—kind of like the old “truth sandwich” approach.
In the hands of a good teacher, it becomes like the HS debate approach—you’re going to have to examine both sides. That doesn’t mean both are right.
I think it’s honestly less them being viewed as ‘exotic creatures’. The current press approach seems more like them treating conservative voters as oppressed silenced prisoners, with the press giving ‘voice to the voiceless’. You know, despite literal 10,000s of articles on them.
— Citizen K Dissents (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 20, 2022
I’ve never gotten this view that the press sees conservative voters as exotic attractions as far as explaining away the hyper-specific focus on them. Folks like Dean Baquet have been as explicit as possible in the view that they see such things as finally letting ‘other voices’ be heard, because they’re just SO liberal, SO exclusionary toward other voices normally, the liberal voice SO overrepresented, that they just HAVE to do this for fairness’s sake.
It’s the ultimate in over-correction from a press that has internalized the idea that they are the real enemy to free speech because they oppress conservative voices too much.
Time portal opened…
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re: #244 steve_davis
wait, how did you get three right, but in the wrong place, but then completely fuck up the third line? :-)
The third line was to find vowels or eliminate consonants. I use that as a strategy if I need help, which I obviously did because 1 and 2 were like…HUH? because of the letters in 1 and 2.
It can also work the other way: to eliminate vowels (easier, because there are only five of them). Today’s puzzle was a good example: that there was only one (duplicated) vowel left after 3 guesses made my stab at the fourth line more accurate - and correct, as it turned out.
re: #261 Jay C
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The right-wing outrage du jour is that Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino interviewed Jen Psaki on Fox. Perino and Hemmer apparently did not conduct themselves like howler monkeys and Psaki articulately answered their questions. So, MAGAs are accusing Hemmer and Perino of asking softball questions. I’ve not seen the term RINO yet, but it’s coming.
I wish I could enjoy the marks turning on the cons but don’t feel comforted that the survival of American democracy depends on infighting by the right. They’ll all talk a good game, but ultimately vote a straight party ticket on election day.
Source: Raw Story
re: #249 IngisKahn
That’s actually the optimal strategy to guarantee winning
I guess I don’t see it as optimal. I always play the “hard” version and I’ve never gone over 4 lines.
This gets a little more real—the Cherokee editor of their paper, Gallegina (Elias Boudinot), was a member of the pro-removal faction of the tribe. His brother, Stand Watie, was a slave-owner who became the last Confederate general to surrender.
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re: #263 Teddy’s Person
The right-wing outrage du jour is that Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino interviewed Jen Psaki on Fox. Perino and Hemmer apparently did not conduct themselves like howler monkeys and Psaki articulately answered their questions. So, MAGAs are accusing Hemmer and Perino of asking softball questions. I’ve not seen the term RINO yet, but it’s coming.
I wish I could enjoy the marks turning on the cons but don’t feel comforted that the survival of American democracy depends on infighting by the right. They’ll all talk a good game, but ultimately vote a straight party ticket on election day.
Source: Raw Story
That kinda stuff gets a bitter laugh from me, especially when I saw folks on the left howling that Psaki showing up on Fox shows that Dems have learned nothing and are forever dunces. Usually from the same folks who ignored or praised Bernie’s appearances on Fox.
I still think it was a bad idea, but I just want fucking consistency from everyone.
re: #249 IngisKahn
That’s actually the optimal strategy to guarantee winning
Right. A strategy to eliminate letters will get you to the correct end-of-life, but won’t get you the intuitive that will result in a two or three.
re: #240 The Pie Overlord!
Testify against daddy, Vanky.
re: #261 Jay C
Spoilerish. Kinda.
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re: #268 darthstar
Testify against daddy, Vanky.
If any of the Trump spawn turn on daddy, it will be Ivanka. Junior and Eric are still trying to make daddy love them.
re: #269 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Journalists, stop calling the failure to pass the voting rights bill a “major setback” for Democrats. It is a major setback for DEMOCRACY. The right to vote is not a partisan issue. Stop framing it as such and legitimizing anti-voter efforts.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) January 20, 2022
The most predictable thing under the sun: if Democrats actually do start speaking the truth about Republican election-theft efforts, the Beltway press will accuse them of being rude & divisive & “politicizing” elections.
— David Roberts (@drvolts) January 20, 2022
“Sen. McConnell, why do you think Americans will reward Republicans for repeatedly blocking public health, economic relief, and civil rights?” It’s not a hard question to formulate, and its answer might be newsworthy.
— Brrr D. Woolens ❄️ (@ProfBrettWilson) January 20, 2022
re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Which is where the luck I talked about yesterday comes into play.
My process: do not attempt 1st thing in the day, get quality coffee input. Then I try to take my sweet time. Ha.
re: #178 Belafon
Since I can’t read the thread at work, does she say what those students said when they found out most people make far less than six figures?
No, she never gave more information about the circumstances of her asking or about what the further, if any, discussions were.
Someone did post this golden oldie:
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Marjorie Taylor Greene https://t.co/MsnA4IM4kQ
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) January 20, 2022
re: #276 HRH Stanley Sea
My process: do not attempt 1st thing in the day get quality coffee input. Then I try to take my sweet time. Ha.
Maybe that’s where I went wrong. I was still lying in bed when I started WORDLE this morning.
re: #258 Decatur Deb
In the hands of a good teacher, it becomes like the HS debate approach—you’re going to have to examine both sides. That doesn’t mean both are right.
It reminds me too much of the current treks to rural diners to hear what “hurt” Republicans are feeling. Again, it’s not the question, it’s the framing—perhaps something like:
The genocide of Native Americans was an unforgivable, heinous act which left a lifelong stain on American history. What bogus crap did the settlers tell themselves to justify their selfish, ugly actions.
Too harsh?//
re: #119 Dangerman
Let’s not excuse the pre-Trump Republican party for its role in creating Trump. The election of Obama showed that a majority of voters were willing to moving past our historical racial divide. McConnell made clear in 2008 that he wanted to make Obama a one term president. The vile racism that always percolated in the background appeared in the open after Obama was first elected. Trump did not create birtherism; he wasn’t the one who promoted the notion that Obama was alien to American culture. You had GOP stalwarts like Gingrich ranting about that in 2010. Indeed, the GOP created Trump; he encapsulates their ideology. Their only real objection is how coarse he is in promoting their dishonesty. The only Trump policy that seems distinct from the typical Republican principles is his deference and worship of Putin; but there has long been a strain of isolationism in the GOP and Trump revived it. Putin is an oligarch who brooks no opposition and runs a white-only kleptocracy so he is the ideal model for the modern Republican Party.
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re: #281 BeachDem
It reminds me too much of the current treks to rural diners to hear what “hurt” Republicans are feeling. Again, it’s not the question, it’s the framing—perhaps something like:
The genocide of Native Americans was an unforgivable, heinous act which left a lifelong stain on American history. What bogus crap did the settlers tell themselves to justify their selfish, ugly actions.
Too harsh?//
We need to know those arguments, and the psychology behind them, if we are ever to counter them. The problem with the exercise, if it’s being truly reported, is that it’s easy meat for partisan attacks on the schools that use it.
re: #245 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
In the 17th century there weren’t enough settlers to do intensive farming themselves, lazy or otherwise.
not without forced immigration.
re: #280 Dangerman
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I think Sinema’s statement should be moved to Manchin, with Sinema saying “Look at all those Senators who congratulated me.”
The first one there to shake Kyrsten Sinema’s hand is John Kennedy, one of the 8 GOP senators who voted to overturn Biden’s election victory. https://t.co/EDkQCrHnke
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 20, 2022
re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
not without forced immigration.
Guns and chains worked in Africa, starvation in Europe and Ireland.
When asked about legislators getting COVID/not wearing masks, Beshear said that virus incidence is very likely higher in the legislature than in his office.
On legislators (almost exclusively Republicans) not wearing masks: “this isn’t some test of masculinity” pic.twitter.com/9nhC6Entwq— Austin Horn (@_AustinHorn) January 20, 2022
re: #270 Teddy’s Person
If any of the Trump spawn turn on daddy, it will be Ivanka. Junior and Eric are still trying to make daddy love them.
She could not talk sense into him last January 6th, why should she even try to tell him anything now?
Trump was literally just 1-degrees away from the militias who were channeling the normies, via those three people: Stone, Rudy, Alex Jones. And those three are being investigated.
A remarkably flat conspiracy.
[corrected]— emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 20, 2022
A remarkably flat conspiracy.
Like a family business.
re: #294 jaunte
Not even one degree. He roused the rabble face-to-face before he abandoned them.
re: #290 Decatur Deb
Guns and chains worked in Africa, starvation in Europe and Ireland.
the latter was forced emigration
and don’t forget the Highland Clearances. Heck those people paid for their own passage to leave the lands they had been turned off of.
re: #296 Decatur Deb
Not even one degree. He roused the rabble face-to-face before he abandoned them.
…after promising them “I’ll be with you!”
I will never forgive or forget those words.
re: #297 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
the latter was forced emigration
and don’t forget the Highland Clearances. Heck those people paid for their own passage to leave the lands they had been turned off of.
Too many tarried in Belfast.
The most infuriating thing is that folks are attacking Biden & others for being ‘naive’ and ‘stupid’ for making paeans toward Bipartisanship, and acting like they sold the idea too much. But never the media who persists in the idea that Dems must court conservatives for validity.
— Citizen K Dissents (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 20, 2022
To hear it reported (ironically enough from ‘both sides’), it’s instead Dems making big claims for bipartisanship out of the ether and unprompted, and media simply reporting those fantastic claims and then neutrally reporting the failures of bipartisanship in ways that, conveniently enough, lay the blame for its failures on Dems. Never on Republicans who get rewarded for being an unmoving monolith.
Dems play the game on the field they have, even as unfair as it fucking is, because when they do try to pave things another way and set the narrative themselves, they get shitkicked in the face by the media gatekeepers who scream “NO, you play by the story we make or we’ll bury your careers in our coverage!”. The same coverage that privileges Republicans just for fucking existing.
“It took Biden less than a year to make good on a transformational piece of legislation that will reshape America’s cities, towns & communities…By this point in his presidency, Trump had made 2,140 false or misleading claims.”
I write for the @latimes https://t.co/zwdJH3X6V0— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) January 20, 2022
re: #167 Dopamine Fish
Right. To you and the other poster upthread, what I meant was to address Mitch and tell him to provide a citation for his statistics. Because I’m calling BULLSHIT.
May not be an unbiased study, but here’s a report that says the opposite: brennancenter.org
I thought something was off about that “Gorsuch refused to wear a mask around Sotomayor” story, and now they’ve issued a statement denying it ever happened.
But there’s a small part of me that still wonders if Supreme Court justices would lie about something like this just to shut down a controversy.
re: #200 The Pie Overlord!
All I want in this creation,
is a pretty little wife and a big plantation,
way up north in the Cherokee Nation.
A song popular in Georgia just before the Trail of Tears.
re: #303 Charles Johnson
I thought something was off about that “Gorsuch refused to wear a mask around Sotomayor” story, and now they’ve issued a statement denying it ever happened.
But there’s a small part of me that still wonders if Supreme Court justices would lie about something like this just to shut down a controversy.
Considering their current reputation, especially of the three newest Justices? I’m not terribly inclined to give benefit of the doubt.
re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth
My wife has to work in the Kentucky Capitol Building where these idiots are swaggering around maskless spewing virus in the air.
So Russia may try to fuck around in Ukraine, daring Europe to do something about it.
They just may find out, throwing the world into a Nuclear Exchange.
CNN Business headline:
re: #305 Citizen K
Considering their current reputation, especially of the three newest Justices? I’m not terribly inclined to give benefit of the doubt.
And therein lies a big, huge, major issue.
re: #303 Charles Johnson
I thought something was off about that “Gorsuch refused to wear a mask around Sotomayor” story, and now they’ve issued a statement denying it ever happened.
But there’s a small part of me that still wonders if Supreme Court justices would lie about something like this just to shut down a controversy.
Roberts may be saying he didn’t ask Gorsuch because he in fact asked everyone to mask up without specifically directing the request to Gorsuch. Roberts is a master at twisting the meaning of words.
re: #308 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And therein lies a big, huge, major issue.
One that only the ruling majority on the Court and the hacks that got them there have themselves to blame for.
re: #304 Romantic Heretic
All I want in this creation,
is a pretty little wife and a big plantation,
way up north in the Cherokee Nation.A song popular in Georgia just before the Trail of Tears.
The next middling town North of us is Eufaula. There’s another Eufaula in Oklahoma, for a reason.
re: #264 stpaulbear
I guess I don’t see it as optimal. I always play the “hard” version and I’ve never gone over 4 lines.
Consider if the word were TARES, you could guess WARES, PARES, DARES, FARES, HARES, CARES, BARES… wait, you lost.
re: #251 sagehen
Humans are always looking for excuses to do evil.
re: #313 Romantic Heretic
Humans are always looking for excuses to
dojustify evil.
re: #303 Charles Johnson
I thought something was off about that “Gorsuch refused to wear a mask around Sotomayor” story, and now they’ve issued a statement denying it ever happened.
But there’s a small part of me that still wonders if Supreme Court justices would lie about something like this just to shut down a controversy.
NPR reported that. They also said, “NPR stands by its reporting”. I will believe them over the Chief Justice every day.
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