Seth takes a closer look at a shocking executive order drafted by the Trump administration that would have directed the secretary of defense to seize voting machines after the 2020 election.
My second fiver. I really thought my fourth guess was it.
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Thanks, you guys have claimed another victim
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re: #46 Belafon
I do wish we had Nyet’s perspective on this.
I’m as in the dark about the R-U situation, as the rest of the world, aside from those that get the real intel. As for what moves Putin - sure, this is a semi-collective dictatorship (like in Stalin’s earlier days) in which Putin takes into account not the will of the non-existent 100 families, but of a certain number of people close to him, including the military and businessmen (oligarchs), but given the concentration of power in his hands it is questionable whether they can be a real threat to him, at least unless they act as a group, and that they let him go so far already, at the expense of Russia’s economy, tells volumes. That said, if Putin were to start the war and lose badly, all bets are off - he’s getting old, people are noticing, it would be indeed a good chance for the elites to start from the scratch and blame everything on the bad old guy. Not that they would necessarily succeed, and were he to lose the war with huge consequences, also expect the unrest on the streets, which makes the whole even more unpredictable.
Gee, it’s been two posts about world issues without a wordle. Let me fix that:
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re: #5 Nyet
A friend tonight dismissed my view of Russia as basically a failed state; he (a Bernie guy who voted for Hillary with great reluctance) claimed that Putin was really the most powerful man in the world, with a huge military, natural resources that provided much wealth to the nation, and the ability to reconquer those nations that had been part of the former Soviet Union without our being able to respond because we did not want to ignite a World War. Eastern Europe is in Russia’s sphere of influence, and we don’t have the capability of any real reaction to stop him.
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
Failed states can also bite.
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
A friend tonight dismissed my view of Russia as basically a failed state; he (a Bernie guy who voted for Hillary with great reluctance) claimed that Putin was really the most powerful man in the world, with a huge military, natural resources that provided much wealth to the nation, and the ability to reconquer those nations that had been part of the former Soviet Union without our being able to respond because we did not want to ignite a World War. Eastern Europe is in Russia’s sphere of influence, and we don’t have the capability of any real reaction to stop him.
And you know what will cause that paper tiger to fold? The moment he can’t exploit those natural resources due to international sanctions. That huge military means nothing if he can’t pay the soldiers to fight or the officers to lead. There’s no commissars there to use fear and coercion to force the men to fight against their wishes. And if he tries to bring all that back, he’s quickly going to find those tanks rolling not into Kiev, but towards the Kremlin.
Canada transfers command of Standing NATO Maritime Group Onehttps://t.co/MXcJWXQkaG#canada #nato #naval #navy
— navaltoday (@navaltoday) January 17, 2022
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
Eastern Europe is in Russia’s sphere of influence, and we don’t have the capability of any real reaction to stop him.
We lack the political will and organization to counter him decisively.
re: #13 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We lack the political will and organization to counter him decisively.
Too true. For example, if FDR’s domestic opposition had been like today’s Republicans, then there wouldn’t have been a coherent US response to WWII in Europe even after Hitler declared war on the US.
Darn it. Might have gotten it in 4 but I fat fingered the 3rd attempt.
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re: #15 EPR-radar
Too true. For example, if FDR’s domestic opposition had been like today’s Republicans, then there wouldn’t have been a coherent US response to WWII in Europe even after Hitler declared war on the US.
The entire time the FDR was in office, the Democrats had a supermajority in the Senate and as far as I know, in the house until 1943.
Except for the fact that Southern Democrats were essentially a 3rd party so they couldn’t always be counted on, the Republicans were basically a paper weight until the war was almost over.
re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not Wordle and am starting to grow tired of it.
Can’t we install some sort of filter, or rather a Wordle-Hurdle?
We all see things we’re not into. Just scroll on by.
re: #17 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
The entire time the FDR was in office, the Democrats had a supermajority in the Senate and as far as I know, in the house until 1943.
Except for the fact that Southern Democrats were essentially a 3rd party so they couldn’t always be counted on, the Republicans were basically a paper weight until the war was almost over.
How I wish those numbers in Congress were possible now. But I was thinking more of what Fox News and hate radio would be like if sent back in time to WWII. At least 10x worse than the real-life Father Coughlin
Sorryantivaxxer has an official song! It’s pretty good, too:
re: #19 EPR-radar
How I wish those numbers in Congress were possible now. But I was thinking more of what Fox News and hate radio would be like if sent back in time to WWII. At least 10x worse than the real-life Father Coughlin
Coughlin had a built-in limiter, because the WASP power structure still saw him as part of a large and distrusted minority. He would have a lot more establishment GOP support today. Of course he had a face for radio. His XXI Cent replacement will not.
re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not Wordle and am starting to grow tired of it.
Can’t we install some sort of filter, or rather a Wordle-Hurdle?
Or a Wordle Room… for all the Gurdles and Mertles to Wordle each other. This might just be Fertle….
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Crazy for Putin to plan an invasion of Ukraine because he’s concerned about Biden’s polling numbers. https://t.co/7Amk3jMVaf
— What Biden Has Done (@What46HasDone) January 24, 2022
There is a direct line from Fr. Coughlin to the current RWNJs through Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagle Forum. It carries a lot of the Bad Crazy from the early Birchers.
Send Fat Donny to Moscow and burn the plane on the tarmac.
huffpost.com
re: #25 Dave In Austin
Send Fat Donny to Moscow and burn the plane on the tarmac.
huffpost.com
That’s a brilliant idea in a way—offer him the ambassadorship to Putin’s regime. He couldn’t resist.
You went full Qball Eric. You never go full Qball…
Eric Clapton claims YouTube is using subliminal advertising to keep the masses subservient – in an interview posted to YouTube https://t.co/vsTexulQBb pic.twitter.com/bpq3nUgvZJ
— Weird News (@weirdnews) January 25, 2022
Clapton says that the public (but not him) has been hypnotised into believing vaccines are a good idea.https://t.co/359sCf46eP
re: #27 Teukka
You went full Qball Eric. You never go full Qball…
What a shame. Sounds like Eric of Derek’s cheese has slipped off its cracker. Welp, I suppose I can still enjoy the music.
re: #18 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
We all see things we’re not into. Just scroll on by.
I give tours of Bacharach, which is (or was until recently) big on US tourists’ radar thanks to Rick Steves. They ask if there is some connection to Burt Bacharach.
Actually there is, he adopted the stage name Bacharach because his family originated from the vicinity.
Then I take them to see the Josefskapelle, The Chapel of St. Joseph, and tell them that they now know the way to San Jose. Then I point out the many passages and alleyways that are so narrow that you could just Walk On By.
And when I am inspired, I tell them about the Karen Carpenter lane, which just gets narrower and narrower until it completely peters out…
re: #22 Dave In Austin
Or a Wordle Room… for all the Gurdles and Mertles to Wordle each other. This might just be Fertle….
“…And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindleWordles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!”
Well, since Wordles are becoming taboo, how about the weather? Current air temperature here in the wild north country is -19 °F (-28.3 C), and unfortunately cloudy. Thankfully, though, it looks like snow is out of the forecast for a few days; don’t get me wrong, I love snow, but having to dispose of it 4 times in the last 3 days got a bit old.
re: #31 Dopamine Fish
Well, since Wordles are becoming taboo, how about the weather? Current air temperature here in the wild north country is -19 °F (-28.3 C), and unfortunately cloudy. Thankfully, though, it looks like snow is out of the forecast for a few days; don’t get me wrong, I love snow, but having to dispose of it 4 times in the last 3 days got a bit old.
Balmy and mild on the Rhine, temps in the low 40’s…no winter in sight, just some traces of snow up on the hillsides.
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Balmy and mild on the Rhine, temps in the low 40’s…no winter in sight, just some traces of snow up on the hillsides.
This is traditionally the time where we have wind chills approaching -40 (°F and C); mid- to late January is the deepest part of winter here in the wild north country. It’s not supposed to get above 0 °F (-17.8 C) today, and the low tonight is going to be right around where the current air temperature is. This is the time when I like to do a little science demonstration; throwing a pot of boiling water out the back door results in a shower of snow, as the steam instantly freezes into a spray of powder.
re: #31 Dopamine Fish
Well, since Wordles are becoming taboo, how about the weather? Current air temperature here in the wild north country is -19 °F (-28.3 C), and unfortunately cloudy. Thankfully, though, it looks like snow is out of the forecast for a few days; don’t get me wrong, I love snow, but having to dispose of it 4 times in the last 3 days got a bit old.
Just a little east of there - air temp is -21 F (-30 C) and, thankfully, no wind.
re: #15 EPR-radar
Too true. For example, if FDR’s domestic opposition had been like today’s Republicans, then there wouldn’t have been a coherent US response to WWII in Europe even after Hitler declared war on the US.
If? IF?!?
The only thing that finally shut down the Bund was that after Pearl Harbor, because Nazi Germany and the Japanese were allies, Germany declared war on us. Literally, they started it. The German ambassador delivered a declaration of war, lovely calligraphy, to the State Department…
(this is where I give my occasional Hooray for Meyer Lansky, who entertained himself between crime sprees by taking carloads of Jewish gangsters to Bund rallies to PUNCH NAZIS!! The Judge they consulted with prior asked them to please don’t kill anybody, we don’t want to give them martyrs. Lansky obliged and instructed his goons of the Rules of Engagement. But with lead pipes, baseball bats, brass knuckles, they filled all the hospitals in Manhattan with Nazis with broken bones.
Lansky’s partner, Lucky Luciano, offered to help out, but Lansky told him “thanks, but this has to be a Jewish thing.”)
re: #34 William Lewis
Just a little east of there - air temp is -21 F (-30 C) and, thankfully, no wind.
It’s going to be a nearly 50 °F swing here, as we go from ~-20 tonight to 24 (-4.4 C) tomorrow for the high. This weather, man. It’s all over the place.
re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not Wordle and am starting to grow tired of it.
Can’t we install some sort of filter, or rather a Wordle-Hurdle?
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re: #31 Dopamine Fish
Well, since Wordles are becoming taboo, how about the weather? Current air temperature here in the wild north country is -19 °F (-28.3 C), and unfortunately cloudy. Thankfully, though, it looks like snow is out of the forecast for a few days; don’t get me wrong, I love snow, but having to dispose of it 4 times in the last 3 days got a bit old.
Sorry, I will Wordle until it is no more. And sharing is part of the fun. You can only take my Wordle from my cold, dead fingers!
re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Sorry, I will Wordle until it is no more. And sharing is part of the fun. You can only take my Wordle from my cold, dead fingers!
Oh, I’m still doing the Wordle. It’s way too fun to stop actually solving the puzzles. ;)
re: #27 Teukka
From the esteemed NY Post on Clapton:
He claimed that he’d been duped into getting the COVID-19 jab by subliminal messaging in pharmaceutical advertising — and urged others not to fall for it.
“Whatever the memo was, it hadn’t reached me,” he said, referring to the “mass formation hypnosis” conspiracy theory, which gained traction in 2021 as part of anti-vaccine propaganda. (In related circles, it’s also been called “mass formation psychosis.”)
Credited to Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet, the theory essentially points to a sort of mind control that has taken over society, allowing for unscrupulous leaders to easily manipulate populations into, for example, accepting vaccines or wearing face masks.
re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Sorry, I will Wordle until it is no more. And sharing is part of the fun. You can only take my Wordle from my cold, dead fingers!
The best thing about Wordle is it’s only 1 a day.
re: #35 sagehen
Lansky’s partner, Lucky Luciano, offered to help out, but Lansky told him “thanks, but this has to be a Jewish thing.”
Lucky Luciano gained early release from prison by aiding the US forces in Sicily by urging local Mafia bosses to offer no resistance.
re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Sorry, I will Wordle until it is no more. And sharing is part of the fun. You can only take my Wordle from my cold, dead fingers!
I understand and maybe someday I will check it out. But lately I seem to encounter people holding it up with their warm, living fingers everywhere I look…
re: #40 Shropshire Slasher
From the esteemed NY Post on Clapton:
You can learn a lot from a hermit.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Lucky Luciano gained early release by aiding the US forces in Sicily by urging local Mafia bosses to offer no resistance.
also, by getting Teamsters and other dockworkers to be vigilant about protecting against sabotage at US ports.
Not so shocking, really.
The Shocking Truth of What Happens to COVID-19 Patients in the ICU on Life Support.
re: #39 Dopamine Fish
Oh, I’m still doing the Wordle. It’s way too fun to stop actually solving the puzzles. ;)
As I get older, I do all kinds of things to keep my mind going. I watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy nightly as they work different parts of the brain. Wordle is just another tool to work the brain. And they’re all fun.
re: #41 sagehen
The best thing about Wordle is it’s only 1 a day.
I find myself wishing it was twice a day. One for the morning and another before I go to bed. But that’s just me.
I am enjoying Ckkatz’s Rob Lee rabbit hole.
re: #63 ckkatz
By the way, for those wanting to follow the Ukraine situation two interesting twitter accounts are:
Rob Lee
Former Marine
twitter.com(He likes to go through those short videos of Russian military vehicle convoys and assemblies, and explain what is being seen.)
and
Dmitri Alperovitch
Former CTO CrowdStrike and Russian-born
twitter.com
re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I understand and maybe someday I will check it out. But lately I seem to encounter people holding it up with their warm, living fingers everywhere I look…
Like I said, we all see things daily we don’t like. And I think it is very unfair that you don’t just want to not see things other people are interested in but want us to not post those things. This is a community. When we start policing what people post, we lose people. That’s how we lost Joe Bacon, who I miss terribly. It’s not like this is offensive in any way.
re: #50 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Like I said, we all see things daily we don’t like. And I think it is very unfair that you don’t just want to not see things other people are interested in but want us to not post those things. This is a community. When we start policing what people post, we lose people. That’s how we lost Joe Bacon, who I miss terribly. It’s not like this is offensive in any way.
You are interfering with my God-Given, Constitutional and Religious Right to lead a Wordle-free existence and I will take this to the Supreme Court if I must!!!
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Tricked?
They weren’t tricked. They knowingly went along with the anti-mask, anti-vax Trumpist/GOP agenda, because they’re dying to pwn the libs.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) January 25, 2022
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. You cannot be for civil rights and support the filibuster. They are simply incompatible concepts.
And every time either Manchin or Sinema make the claim that they back civil/voting rights, they’re lying. They’re putting a racist procedure to deny civil and voting rights above that of those actual civil and voting rights.
You cannot claim to be for the voting rights act that’s passed the House and support the filibuster that prevents its passage in the Senate.
They’re incompatible.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) January 25, 2022
re: #36 Dopamine Fish
It’s going to be a nearly 50 °F swing here, as we go from ~-20 tonight to 24 (-4.4 C) tomorrow for the high. This weather, man. It’s all over the place.
How much further south are you???? weather.gov forecast for 54843 says “Partly sunny, with a high near 13. Wind chill values between -30 and -40. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.” That extra 11 ~ 12 degrees may not sound like much but … ;)
re: #54 William Lewis
How much further south are you???? weather.gov forecast for 54843 says “Partly sunny, with a high near 13. Wind chill values between -30 and -40. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.” That extra 11 ~ 12 degrees may not sound like much but … ;)
Well, slightly better over here on the east side of the state: “Sunny and cold, with a high near 5. Wind chill values between -10 and -20. West northwest wind 9 to 11 mph.”
Lower high but it doesn’t sound like the wind chill is going to be quite as bad as your neck of the woods.
re: #54 William Lewis
How much further south are you???? weather.gov forecast for 54843 says “Partly sunny, with a high near 13. Wind chill values between -30 and -40. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.” That extra 11 ~ 12 degrees may not sound like much but … ;)
I live about 2 miles south of the 45th parallel. I don’t know where that puts me on the north-south axis relative to you.
re: #56 Dopamine Fish
I live about 2 miles south of the 45th parallel. I don’t know where that puts me on the north-south axis relative to you.
We’re at 46.0192 so say 70 miles north of the 45th. I think the real difference is going to be that freaking wind. I am going to hide in my sleeping bag in front of my space heater all day tomorrow ;)
re: #56 Dopamine Fish
I live about 2 miles south of the 45th parallel. I don’t know where that puts me on the north-south axis relative to you.
45th parallel is pretty close to the tip on the mitten in Michigan.
About the first knuckle of index finger? :P
“Remote education is terrible! We’re doing incalculable damage to the learning and mental health of an entire generation!”
But your kids are homeschooled. Over the Internet.
“Yes, well, I meant YOUR kids, not mine.”— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) January 25, 2022
HEADS-UP: Court has set 11am hearing for Jan 6 defendants accused of *seditious conspiracy*
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 25, 2022
re: #61 lawhawk
Is it just me, or is this indicative of charges of attempted sedition (at least) being further down the line? 🤔
re: #62 Teukka
Is it just me, or is this indicative of charges of attempted sedition (at least) being further down the line? 🤔
We are just north of the 50th parallel, above the Canadian border, but an entirely different climate.
re: #63 Teukka
I like the “warble. warble.” part.
re: #62 Teukka
I’m not sure, and the conspiracy charge plus the other charges would put these Oathkeepers away for a very long time. Prosecutors could issue another superseding indictment based on additional evidence gathered, but I’d like to see the charges filed against Trumpworld figures directly.
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— Chrysocolla Cabochon💍 (@cabchrys) January 25, 2022
re: #60 lawhawk
My kids school is going back to remote learning for the rest of the week because they have run out of healthy teachers. So much for in person learning.
re: #68 Barefoot Grin
Greenwald blocked me long ago… but that’s a perfect example of his situational bulkshit.
re: #67 lawhawk
I’m not sure, and the conspiracy charge plus the other charges would put these Oathkeepers away for a very long time. Prosecutors could issue another superseding indictment based on additional evidence gathered, but I’d like to see the charges filed against Trumpworld figures directly.
Also, this is pure Tinfoil on my part, but…
[tinfoil type=attempted]What if the reason they are in such a hurry is that the window before RF involvement in said sedition is blown wide open is closing?[/tinfoil]
US officials say Putin probably hasn’t decided to invade yet, and it’s not clear what the officials leading the talks with the US know.They’ve threatened “unpredictable and grave consequences” if those aren’t met – and won’t say what they are or why they’re in such a hurry.
— max seddon (@maxseddon) January 25, 2022
Also, I don’t see FMV activiating crisis and war staffing as a good thing at all, it’s a very ominous omen:
”The Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV), which supplies the defense with, among other things, combat aircraft, submarines and radar systems, has activated crisis and war staff due to the security policy situation.” https://t.co/54Y8lEv3Q2
— Jamming (@balticjam) January 25, 2022
We are hitting new Omicron highs, as US deaths in the past week have gone over 15,000, and deaths over the last month have gone over 50,000. coronavirus.jhu.edu
re: #62 Teukka
Is it just me, or is this indicative of charges of attempted sedition (at least) being further down the line? 🤔
Case dismissed! Somebody pointed out that all the defendants are white and it’s making the Klan uncomfortable.
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re: #53 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. You cannot be for civil rights and support the filibuster. They are simply incompatible concepts.
And every time either Manchin or Sinema make the claim that they back civil/voting rights, they’re lying. They’re putting a racist procedure to deny civil and voting rights above that of those actual civil and voting rights.
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imo it’s worse because they are not protecting or supporting the filibuster.
filibuster means talking. i am not being pedandic.
this new thing - declaring a filibuster and not having to stand and talk is a, more or less, contemporary morph.
though it’s not a ‘variant’. it’s a fundamentally different mechanism and it has fundamentally different effects. it should have a new name.
no one seems to want to recognize that maintaining the current status quo is not protecting the filibuster and again, is way, way worse.
re: #55 2020 Blue Wisconsin
Well, slightly better over here on the east side of the state: “Sunny and cold, with a high near 5. Wind chill values between -10 and -20. West northwest wind 9 to 11 mph.”
Lower high but it doesn’t sound like the wind chill is going to be quite as bad as your neck of the woods.
Guess I can’t complain it was 50 here when I ran at 6am
re: #75 Dangerman
They should call it the Clusterfuck. Republicans are clusterfucking voting rights.
Neil Young pulling music from Spotify over Joe Rogan’s vaccine misinformation https://t.co/UTX54a3AFX pic.twitter.com/nHIbbK3kjt
— Stereogum (@stereogum) January 24, 2022
re: #73 No Malarkey!
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I just ordered another pair of those wireless phone chargers that The Host mentioned the other day. The charger is getting rave reviews in the homestead.
re: #80 Ming5000
I just got one the other day. So far, so good. For $10, it’s quite the deal.
re: #78 gocart mozart
This is great, but Spotify is paying Rogan a shit ton of money because he brings in large numbers of subscribers. I’m going out on a limb here, but I can’t help but think Neil Young doesn’t have those numbers and Spotify isn’t going to beg him to stay or do a thing to rein Rogan in or get rid of him. Now if a large number of artists follow suit and the numbers take a hit, it could have an effect.
re: #80 Ming5000
I just ordered another pair of those wireless phone chargers that The Host mentioned the other day. The charger is getting rave reviews in the homestead.
First thing I did was buy a wireless charging pad for my wife’s Tesla when we got it so we didn’t have two charging cables to deal with. Then I bought a two phone charging pad for the kitchen and one for my desk at work that I haven’t really needed for two years.
It’s nice not having to replace charging cables every six months because they break down.
re: #81 dharmamark
What wireless charger is this?
re: #83 darthstar
First thing I did was buy a wireless charging pad for my wife’s Tesla when we got it so we didn’t have two charging cables to deal with. Then I bought a two phone charging pad for the kitchen and one for my desk at work that I haven’t really needed for two years.
It’s nice not having to replace charging cables every six months because they break down.
My wife also mentioned that for her Apple phone, she can charge and still plug in earphones for her conference calls.
re: #63 Teukka
Also, is it too early for this here GIF? 🤔
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I prefer King Theoden for that…
@docrocktex26 👇🏾👇🏾 https://t.co/K8vVCUFoee
— creative scorpio (@vinivinidogo) January 25, 2022
re: #7 stpaulbear
Gee, it’s been two posts about world issues without a wordle. Let me fix that:
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re: #87 William Lewis
I prefer King Theoden for that…
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re: #83 darthstar
First thing I did was buy a wireless charging pad for my wife’s Tesla when we got it so we didn’t have two charging cables to deal with. Then I bought a two phone charging pad for the kitchen and one for my desk at work that I haven’t really needed for two years.It’s nice not having to replace charging cables every six months because they break down.
It must be huge
I mean if all four tires have to fit on it
re: #86 Ming5000
My wife also mentioned that for her Apple phone, she can charge and still plug in earphones for her conference calls.
I got my wife a pair of these. The case recharges the buds several times over, and it charges on the flat pad itself so you don’t need to keep the charging cord.
They’re under $40 and work just as well as the brand name ones. Wasn’t sure she’d like them so we started with these. They do the trick.
re: #48 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I find myself wishing it was twice a day. One for the morning and another before I go to bed. But that’s just me.
The once a day thing is part of the brilliance of the design, but there’s Wordle Unlimited if you want to do the puzzle more often.
re: #79 Captain Magic
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Former President Donald Trump’s forthcoming Truth Social calls itself a “free speech platform” but will use AI censors to moderate posts to keep it “family-friendly,” Fox Business reports
1. Knew this was coming
2. Won’t work (if the big guns can’t get it right, this cheap, two bit operation doesn’t have a chance)
re: #75 Dangerman
imo it’s worse because they are not protecting or supporting the filibuster.
filibuster means talking. i am not being pedandic.this new thing - declaring a filibuster and not having to stand and talk is a, more or less, contemporary morph.
though it’s not a ‘variant’. it’s a fundamentally different mechanism and it has fundamentally different effects. it should have a new name.
no one seems to want to recognize that maintaining the current status quo is not protecting the filibuster and again, is way, way worse.
The current status quo is obstruction.
re: #97 Dangerman
1. Knew this was coming
2. Won’t work (if the big guns can’t get it right, this cheap, two bit operation doesn’t have a chance)
It should be fun to watch their robo-censors slowly turn into Nazis. Because that’s who these people are, not to mention that’s usually what trolls try to do.
re: #95 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The once a day thing is part of the brilliance of the design, but there’s Wordle Unlimited if you want to do the puzzle more often.
Okay…did one…but part of the joy for me is it’s one and done. There are no second chances.
You’re going to hear a lot of lying about Putin’s War from Putin apologists on the Carlson right and the Greenwald left. Don’t let them get away with it. Putin is plotting this conflict, only Putin, and any excuse for Putin is an excuse for a war wanted by nobody in the West.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) January 24, 2022
Gov Pritzker vetoes proposal to pay COVID-19 sick leave to all school employees, says only fully vaccinated should be compensated
Chicago trib
re: #97 Dangerman
1. Knew this was coming
2. Won’t work (if the big guns can’t get it right, this cheap, two bit operation doesn’t have a chance)
I agree that it won’t work because Trump does everything half assed. I don’t agree that FB and Twitter can’t get it right. They absolutely could (at least for English language content); they don’t want to.
re: #100 darthstar
Okay…did one…but part of the joy for me is it’s one and done. There are no second chances.
Yes, that’s part of the brilliance. The other part is the extremely simple design that allows people to share their results, so it got social media traction without having to write any code to interface with social media.
It has a minor bug. If a letter repeats in a word, only the first instance is color coded.
If the word is orange, moons would have one yellow o and one grey one.
re: #104 Dangerman
And if antivaxxing were really about a fear of needles, what does it say when a vaccine jab is a very narrow gauge needle prick lasting a few moments, versus an iv infusion that can last 45-60 minutes with a wide gauge needle placed into the forearm or wrist?
Monoclonals don’t work against omicron.
Monoclonals don’t work against covid if you don’t administer them early enough in the infection.
DeSantis has made testing more difficult, which means it takes more time to find out if you’re sick with covid, closing the window for administering the monoclonals.
In other words, every step of the DeSantis approach is disastrous and does nothing to stop/slow spread of covid. It does actually appear that DeSantis was trying to manipulate stock prices of the company producing said monoclonals.
re: #104 Dangerman
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Of course, DeSantis is the victim in all of this… wait for it.
Biden should”ve ended the pandemic.//
The right thinks Biden is “Temper Tantrum Joe” because he calmly & accurately described a man with no business being in the WH briefing room and whose job is solely to ask deliberately stupid questions? Sure guys. FYI this is what temper tantrums look likepic.twitter.com/KMnWUBGOsJ
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈 (@AmoneyResists) January 25, 2022
I’m seeing more outrage from Republicans about President Biden’s comments toward Peter Doocy than the insurrection on January 6th.
— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) January 24, 2022
The memes kinda make themselves at this point pic.twitter.com/Bhtm0kiPy5
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 25, 2022
President Biden was wrong in calling @foxnews reporter Peter Doocy a stupid son a bitch. He should have called him an accessory to the deaths of hundreds of thousands Americans for his association with Fox News They’re not stupid, they’re immoral.
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) January 25, 2022
Four’s enough
My games:
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OOO
XXO
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XOO
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etc.
Cheryl Hines agrees that her husband is a dangerous loon.
Yes, I agree with you.
— Cheryl Hines (@CherylHines) January 25, 2022
re: #103 JC1
I agree that it won’t work because Trump does everything half assed. I don’t agree that FB and Twitter can’t get it right. They absolutely could (at least for English language content); they don’t want to.
You are right.
I meant if they won’t spend the $ necessary, then the cheapskate…
re: #114 No Malarkey!
Cheryl Hines agrees that her husband is a dangerous loon.
There have been some mass genocides comparable to the Holocaust for both brutality and relative/overall numbers, but vaccine/mask mandates or restrictions on the unvaxed/unmasked are FAR FAR from any comparison at all.
re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yes, that’s part of the brilliance. The other part is the extremely simple design that allows people to share their results, so it got social media traction without having to write any code to interface with social media.
It has a minor bug. If a letter repeats in a word, only the first instance is color coded.
If the word is orange, moons would have one yellow o and one grey one.
But for ROTOR, MOONS would have one green and one yellow O
re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Tic tac toe?
re: #114 No Malarkey!
Cheryl Hines agrees that her husband is a dangerous loon.
Imagine being RFK, Jr. right now: in the near future, he’s going to have to choose between his gorgeous, talented, funny wife, and continually promoting a batshit conspiracy theory with offensive Holocaust comparisons.
And yet, somehow, this is going to inexplicably be a hard choice for him to make.
re: #27 Teukka
You went full Qball Eric. You never go full Qball…
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that’s all right. eric’s been using subliminal advertising to convince the general public that 95% of everything he’s done since roughly the mid-70’s isn’t complete trash.
After the second line, I had to walk away — then when I saw it, I was embarrassed that it took so long
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re: #104 Dangerman
“Why is the government stopping treatments against Covid they said would work? They’re trying to kill us!”
Per Worldometer, the United States will cross 900 000 officially reported Covid deaths by this weekend. Only one other county has more than half a million (Brazil - 620 000ish) although India will get there soon (they are currently at 490 000 and change).
For comparison, Canada, a country with roughly 1/10th the population of the U.S., has reported about 33 000 deaths. That means in theory if we had managed the pandemic as well as they have, we’d currently have fewer than half a million deaths instead of rapidly approaching seven figures.
re: #106 lawhawk
And if antivaxxing were really about a fear of needles, what does it say when a vaccine jab is a very narrow gauge needle prick lasting a few moments, versus an iv infusion that can last 45-60 minutes with a wide gauge needle placed into the forearm or wrist?
Monoclonals don’t work against omicron.
Monoclonals don’t work against covid if you don’t administer them early enough in the infection.
DeSantis has made testing more difficult, which means it takes more time to find out if you’re sick with covid, closing the window for administering the monoclonals.In other words, every step of the DeSantis approach is disastrous and does nothing to stop/slow spread of covid. It does actually appear that DeSantis was trying to manipulate stock prices of the company producing said monoclonals.
One of my wife’s coworkers went in for one of the antibody treatments, and of the four shots they gave her first, two went into her abdomen.
I strayed from my original worlde game and I feel like I cheated. I need a shower. Never again.
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re: #125 Belafon
I don’t like needles in general but I’ll take them if I have to. I have not even FELT any of the three I’ve gotten for Covid vaccines.
re: #41 sagehen
The best thing about Wordle is it’s only 1 a day.
you clearly haven’t stumbled across wordleunlimited.com yet.
bc poll shows Dems are doing common sense things to protect themselves during global pandemic, NYT paints them as zealots so they can Both Sides the virus—see they’re both irrational!
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 25, 2022
this isn’t rocket science
it’s just that NYT writers have trouble keeping up— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 25, 2022
Hospitals are increasingly asking staff who have the coronavirus to work while potentially infectious, underscoring how the hyper-transmissible omicron variant has sidelined employees, overwhelmed resources and upended nearly two years of strict protocols. https://t.co/PbQdjmYdY2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 23, 2022
The Russian Health Ministry has suspended orders of the country’s second coronavirus vaccine due to low demand nationwide, the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesdayhttps://t.co/MCv4pFOosi
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 25, 2022
Anti-#vaccine protest in Brussels yesterday went violent, with attacks on the police that look familiar to those who watched Jan. 6 2021 attack on Capitol Hill. All over the West the prolonged #pandemic is spawning ever-more protest and violence. https://t.co/gLRCK8Glpp
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 24, 2022
How Covid disinformation has fuelled attacks on Czech doctors https://t.co/zxpVf0e5dn
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 25, 2022
Missus just read me a great story from Tim Flannery (former SF Giants 3rd base coach). Apparently, when he managed a AAA team, he got ejected early for arguing with the umpire. As he sat stewing in his office, the team mascot walked by. He called him over, told him his night was through, and put the costume on to go down and lead the crowd in a 7th inning stretch “Louie Louie”…then he went to the dugout and finished coaching the game.
His message: Don’t tell me masks don’t work.
“Millions of Democrats have decided that organizing their lives around Covid is core to their identity as progressives.”
How about: “Millions of Democrats have decided that staying alive and being there for their friends and loved ones is pretty important.”
re: #130 Citizen K
I just hope the Blue-v-Red voting turn out in 2022 is reflective of the vaccine rate.
re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg
“Millions of Democrats have decided that organizing their lives around Covid is core to their identity as progressives.”
How about: “Millions of Democrats have decided that staying alive and being there for their friends and loved ones is pretty important.”
But that second line doesn’t have the assumption of Democrats being out of touch and wrong out of hand by default for not being ‘Real America’. That’s not journalism!
I was exposed to a friend with covid last Friday. No symptoms yet, but I got tested this morning. Since this is my sixth PCR test, I will report the results later in Wordle format. Green for positive, black for negative.
Even Canadian Walmart is better than here:
Walmart Canada is implementing vaccine passports at all locations in Quebec. No vaccine passports no food.#BoycottWalmart https://t.co/U5y0Kk0GXg
— Sikh For Truth (@SikhForTruth) January 24, 2022
Straight talk on a Covid endemic state, new @naturehttps://t.co/J16ZGVPX7m
by @ArisKatzourakis
“There is a widespread, rosy misconception that viruses evolve over time to become more benign.” pic.twitter.com/m5iVumSUVS— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 25, 2022
re: #132 Belafon
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re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg
“Millions of Democrats have decided that organizing their lives around Covid is core to their identity as progressives.”
How about: “Millions of Democrats have decided that staying alive and being there for their friends and loved ones is pretty important.”
My identity as a progressive involves thinking about others and how society and I have an impact on them. Strangely, that’s what it also takes to respond to Covid.
I normally would agree with this sentiment, but, in this case, I think Covid is different. Even if Trump and Republicans had acted responsibly, I think this virus was going to turn the world upside down, and towns like the one mentioned here would have been in the same situation:
https://t.co/cFhDGHV0BU pic.twitter.com/tMQIdCzl6S
— Alisha Grauso (@AlishaGrauso) January 24, 2022
re: #70 lawhawk
Greenwald blocked me long ago… but that’s a perfect example of his situational bulkshit.
I actually had Glenn respond to me, ages ago when I think there was no such thing as twitter or likely even facebook. at the time, I thought, “wow, that’s kind of cool.” Now it’s just, “Don’t have time for this putz.”
re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t like needles in general but I’ll take them if I have to. I have not even FELT any of the three I’ve gotten for Covid vaccines.
a blood donation needle is probably about 2.5x larger in diameter than a vaccine needle
I got this in email earlier. Maybe someone is interested. I took a course from them previously from MIT.
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This online course aims to provide “vaccine ambassadors” with the tools to discuss concerns about COVID-19 vaccines with people in their communities.
The self-paced course teaches adults how to have respectful and empathetic conversations with parents and guardians who remain hesitant about vaccination for their children, even if they are vaccinated themselves.
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re: #141 Belafon
I normally would agree with this sentiment, but, in this case, I think Covid is different. Even if Trump and Republicans had acted responsibly, I think this virus was going to turn the world upside down, and towns like the one mentioned here would have been in the same situation:
The only difference is that there are thousands of people who could have been saved if they had been encouraged to get vaccinated, instead of the right-wing disinformation machine telling them lies. No American government, no matter how competent, would have been able to avoid most of the damage.
re: #130 Citizen K
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masks
distancing
hand washing
avoiding the unvaxxed
that’s some ‘organizing’
re: #147 Dangerman
masks
distancing
hand washing
avoiding the unvaxxedthat’s some ‘organizing’
Like that’s transmission mitigation protocol 101 for an air-/aerosol borne pathogen… Sheesh…
re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t like needles in general but I’ll take them if I have to. I have not even FELT any of the three I’ve gotten for Covid vaccines.
The needle sticks were the least unpleasant part of the vaccinations (I got low grade fever and ached for 24-36 hours after 2d and booster). Still better than being intubated or loaded into a grave.
re: #147 Dangerman
masks
distancing
hand washing
avoiding the unvaxxedthat’s some ‘organizing’
The closest I come to non-vaccinated people is facebook.
re: #78 gocart mozart
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Have we ever seen a President attack and malign the free press like Joe Biden has??
— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) January 24, 2022
re: #131 Belafon
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even if you’re triple vaxxed, masked and fully clad in ppe, if you’re constantly exposed to infected people or conditions, of course your chances of getting it are way higher
more exposure, more chances, no matter how careful you are.
long before covid, lots of people went into hospitals for one thing and caught all kinds of unrelated infections. some even died. hospitals; the clean and sanitary places.
re: #152 The Pie Overlord!
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— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) January 25, 2022
ARE YOU F’IN KIDDING ME????
For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing
The Federalist…killing Christians one day at a time.
— Liddle Chocolate Pie 🌈🍫🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) January 25, 2022
Matt Gaetz is having feelings.
Here’s some amusing news: Matt Gaetz went ballistic today on Bannon’s podcast over the prospect that he will be indicted in a sex-trafficking investigation that has already ensnared at least one of his close associates. It was unprompted. He went “off the rails.”
— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) January 24, 2022
re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
ARE YOU F’IN KIDDING ME????
For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing
The Federalist…killing Christians one day at a time.
You didn’t know that the Rapture would involve having a tube shoved down your throat?
re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
ARE YOU F’IN KIDDING ME????
For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing
The Federalist…killing Christians one day at a time.
That article is quite old, but yeah, American Christians have a serious martyrdom complex.
re: #152 The Pie Overlord!
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— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) January 24, 2022
yes.
though actually no. tfg was much nastier and deliberate, and uncalled for.
Tucker Carlson is going to protest the proliferation of emasculated tropical fruit.
— Robert Arthur (@jaunte) January 24, 2022
re: #110 Dangerman
They’re lawless tribal dopes. They were just fine with a Republican attempting a coup because his narcissism made accepting his loss impossible, but accurately label a clown like Doocey and it’s an outrage.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 25, 2022
re: #157 No Malarkey!
Matt Gaetz is having feelings.
And he is about to be going through some things.
re: #157 No Malarkey!
Matt Gaetz is having feelings.
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Ted Lieu, after hearing of the Gaetz rant: “Republican Rep Matt Gaetz is entitled to the presumption of innocence. He is not entitled to sit on the House Judiciary Committee that has oversight over the Department investigating him for sex crimes. McCarthy needs to remove him.”
— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) January 24, 2022
re: #160 Dangerman
yes.
though actually no. tfg was much nastier and deliberate, and uncalled for.
Biden hasn’t done that, but for four years we had a narcissistic sociopath President who did exactly that. Do you idiots think that we all have the memories of goldfish?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 25, 2022
Maybe electing people who are incapable of leadership and instead pander to idiots who won’t take COVID seriously wasn’t a good idea?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 25, 2022
re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
ARE YOU F’IN KIDDING ME????
For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing
The Federalist…killing Christians one day at a time.
“God decides when we die.” Clearly all these church affiliated hospitals should be closed as blasphemous.
In their defense, at least they have found an actually living Kennedy
— J.Dave (@JDaveCA) January 24, 2022
re: #81 dharmamark
I just got one the other day. So far, so good. For $10, it’s quite the deal.
re: #84 Captain Magic
re: #85 dharmamark
This one. Link
Just a little FYI, I got one of those and they require a special wall plug. My standard Apple plugs, for example, do not work. You need one that is more for a computer than say an iPhone. this one does not include the plug. Those are often around $20.00.
I got one of these to find that when it arrived it told me I needed something I don’t have (extra to give to this one thing).
Again, just FYI.
re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t like needles in general but I’ll take them if I have to. I have not even FELT any of the three I’ve gotten for Covid vaccines.
I felt the third one, and oddly, that’s the one for which I had really the side effects of least duration. My shoulder joints were a little achey yesterday, I had a headache that was so slight it barely qualified on Sunday, and Saturday night I had mild chills during the night that I only noticed because I did have to wake up once to pee.
re: #169 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I just plugged in into my powerstrip that has USB jacks…
re: #169 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is the one I got for our kitchen - except it’s white.
amazon.com
re: #95 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The once a day thing is part of the brilliance of the design, but there’s Wordle Unlimited if you want to do the puzzle more often.
DUDE!!!!!! You are awesome!
re: #163 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And he is about to be going through some things.
like the door of a jail cell
re: #105 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yes, that’s part of the brilliance. The other part is the extremely simple design that allows people to share their results, so it got social media traction without having to write any code to interface with social media.
It has a minor bug. If a letter repeats in a word, only the first instance is color coded.
If the word is orange, moons would have one yellow o and one grey one.
From the Wordle Unlimited (and no, I will not bore you with these in the future).
By golly, I am a happy camper!
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re: #117 darthstar
But for ROTOR, MOONS would have one green and one yellow O
I do not believe it does that.
re: #170 steve_davis
I felt the third one, and oddly, that’s the one for which I had really the side effects of least duration. My shoulder joints were a little achey yesterday, I had a headache that was so slight it barely qualified on Sunday, and Saturday night I had mild chills during the night that I only noticed because I did have to wake up once to pee.
psa:
physically feeling the jab (and some types of soreness later) is/are a function of the person administering it.
their skill and technique in hitting the arm (in this case) in the right place.
reactions due to the vaccine (or any medicine) are a separate thing and independent of whether who gave you the shot did it painlessly and correctly or not
re: #160 Dangerman
The replies are glorious!! A freaking goldmine. Everyone is tweeting receipts from Trump’s years of repeated abuse of journalists!!
I propose that Little Green Footballs temporarily change its name to Little Green Wordles. 😉
re: #179 Dangerman
psa:
physically feeling the jab (and some types of soreness later) is/are a function of the person administering it.
their skill and technique in hitting the arm (in this case) in the right place.reactions due to the vaccine (or any medicine) are a separate thing and independent of whether who gave you the shot did it painlessly and correctly or not
yes, honestly, I’m not a moron, but I appreciate the thought :-)
Hold up. Since Gaetz is on the Judiciary Committee…can he kill the investigation into his own alleged sex crimes?
re: #138 Belafon
Even Canadian Walmart is better than here:
Quebec is trying to implement no vax passport, no alcohol. When the legislature first brought it up, they had a jump in vaccines just at the thought.
I think we know the path forward. No vaxxy, no booze, no weed.
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
Hold up. Since Gaetz is on the Judiciary Committee…can he kill the investigation into his own alleged sex crimes?
He can’t kill it. The committee is more of a “how are you doing your job” type thing. But there’s a chance he could get access to what they’re doing on his case.
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They’re making fun of an absurd Glenn Greenwald Tweet at Fark.
fark.com
I’m not saying these guys look crimey, but they’re pretty crimey…
Lawyers invoking the 5th Amendment is always an interesting ride… https://t.co/USruhF7eKD
— Katie S. Phang (@KatiePhang) January 25, 2022
re: #184 steve_davis
yes, honestly, I’m not a moron, but I appreciate the thought :-)
i didnt mean you.
a lot of people are confusing these
re: #177 Teddy’s Person
JFK Jr.
How on earth do you stay married to that? She’s on that dumbass show I Can See Your Voice, right? Oy.
re: #190 darthstar
I’m not saying these guys look crimey, but they’re pretty crimey…
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re: #141 Belafon
I normally would agree with this sentiment, but, in this case, I think Covid is different. Even if Trump and Republicans had acted responsibly, I think this virus was going to turn the world upside down, and towns like the one mentioned here would have been in the same situation:
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re: #178 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I do not believe it does that.
You have to believe! Imagine a world where nobody believed…I’ll test it next time there’s a double-letter. Just have to use a different browser or device.
re: #190 darthstar
I’m not saying these guys look crimey, but they’re pretty crimey…
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“The mob takes the Fifth,” Trump declared.
re: #193 lawhawk
Never a good look when the lawyers needing lawyers themselves. And that’s Trumpworld in a nutshell.
it’s lawyers all the way down?
Here’s my post on the sedition swap.https://t.co/g3fJ8apyTa
Rakoczy just explained the swap of 371 for 1512(k), which ups the potential sentence.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 25, 2022
“Trump unsuccessfully sought to replace a legitimate election outcome with an illegitimate one; his allies aim to improve the chances of succeeding next time. Biden sought safeguards against illegitimate outcomes in elections to come.”https://t.co/rJGJ0szReU
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 25, 2022
🚨🚨🚨 Right-wing conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene just endorsed my opponent, JD Vance.
Here’s the truth: the Republican Party has lost its grip on reality. We cannot allow Ohio’s open Senate seat to fall into the wrong hands.— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) January 25, 2022
Have we ever seen a President attack and malign the free press like Joe Biden has?”— Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), on Twitter, referring to President Biden calling Fox News’ Peter Doocy “a stupid son of a bitch.”
everyplace i’ve seen this posted, Banks is getting savaged.
- Did he actually manage to get that out without laughing?
- Umm let me think of a president who constantly criticized working journalists… Oh, I think I’ve got it!
- I am torn, so I will say both: Oh the irony. Oh the hypocrisy.
- It’s remarkable how good Republicans are at pretending the previous presidency didn’t happen and substituting it with a fairy tale. like born again virgins.
re: #200 jaunte
Sedition conspiracy is no longer my garage band name.
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Looks like BCBS and Kaiser are taking COVID seriously.
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re: #204 Dangerman
Given the number of gun humpers who think journalists are the enemy, it’s a wonder their events get covered at all.
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Here’s the truth: the Republican Party has lost its grip on reality. We cannot allow Ohio’s open Senate seat to fall into the wrong hands.— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) January 25, 2022
elect jd vance!!
the guy who thinks the country is ‘a joke’
re: #206 Jay C
It changes at midnight whatever your local time is. EST, CST, MST, PST, GMT…
re: #106 lawhawk
And if antivaxxing were really about a fear of needles, what does it say when a vaccine jab is a very narrow gauge needle prick lasting a few moments, versus an iv infusion that can last 45-60 minutes with a wide gauge needle placed into the forearm or wrist?
Monoclonals don’t work against omicron.
Monoclonals don’t work against covid if you don’t administer them early enough in the infection.
DeSantis has made testing more difficult, which means it takes more time to find out if you’re sick with covid, closing the window for administering the monoclonals.In other words, every step of the DeSantis approach is disastrous and does nothing to stop/slow spread of covid. It does actually appear that DeSantis was trying to manipulate stock prices of the company producing said monoclonals.
There is a monoclonal that works, just not the ones that were widely available and successful against other variants.
Reminder: if you have comorbidities that you lived with for years, then die after catching COVID, you were killed by COVID https://t.co/mmvEnckXDL
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 25, 2022
re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #206 Jay C
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midnight NZ time
re: #214 sagehen
midnight NZ time
I did mine at six am PST. It said I have 18 hours until the next one…now 15
re: #215 darthstar
I did mine at six am PST. It said I have 18 hours until the next one…now 15
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and they were worried about microchips in the vaccine controlling everyone…
re: #215 darthstar
BTW, how do yet get the stats page to copy/paste?
When I do that with “share”, what copies is the little colored grid with the puzzle number and tries; i.e.
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re: #214 sagehen
midnight NZ time
That is if you are in NZ. It changes at midnight whatever your local time zone is.
re: #219 Teddy’s Person
JFC, next up $10,000 bounties
The Supreme Court’s conservatives have turned us into a vigilante nation.
re: #217 Jay C
BTW, how do yet get the stats page to copy/paste?
When I do that with “share”, what copies is the little colored grid with the puzzle number and tries; i.e.Wordle 220 4/6
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I use Screenshot (linux mint) and select the area I want. Snipping tool on windows.
re: #220 Belafon
The Supreme Court’s conservatives have turned us into a vigilante nation.
Reporting your kids teachers to the authorities for thoughtcrimes is totally freedumb and very cool.
re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg
Per Worldometer, the United States will cross 900 000 officially reported Covid deaths by this weekend. Only one other county has more than half a million (Brazil - 620 000ish) although India will get there soon (they are currently at 490 000 and change).
For comparison, Canada, a country with roughly 1/10th the population of the U.S., has reported about 33 000 deaths. That means in theory if we had managed the pandemic as well as they have, we’d currently have fewer than half a million deaths instead of rapidly approaching seven figures.
TBF The number of deaths in India is significantly understated. Best on best estimates there have been millions of deaths there.
Welp, Mrs. Fish just tested positive. Double vaxxed, not yet boosted.
re: #224 Dopamine Fish
Welp, Mrs. Fish just tested positive. Double vaxxed, not yet boosted.
Bummer - hope she stays asymptomatic and it leaves her quickly.
Current monoclonal antibody treatments don’t work against Omicron, so the FDA is pulling them. Republicans are melting down because they literally believe this is a form of genocide. pic.twitter.com/A6Nwx3QoZM
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) January 25, 2022
re: #142 darthstar
Now that’s what I call a music festival line up:
I had a triple album of the Isle of Wight festival. Was interesting for the variety of bands but none of the performances were outstanding
re: #224 Dopamine Fish
Welp, Mrs. Fish just tested positive. Double vaxxed, not yet boosted.
Oh shit. I hope she is ok. When was she exposed?
The bobbleheads over at Fox News seem to have forgotten how embarrassing Trump was… pic.twitter.com/Xdg5FGfwdV
— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) January 21, 2022
re: #111 Dangerman
The memes kinda make themselves at this point pic.twitter.com/Bhtm0kiPy5
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 25, 2022
re: #222 No Malarkey!
Reporting your kids teachers to the authorities for thoughtcrimes is totally freedumb and very cool.
as long as they teach the correct things they have nothing to worry about, right? //
re: #168 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
re: #226 jaunte
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just like the vaccines
a lot of anti-vax cite the ‘experimental’ nature of the vax authorization why they wont get it
odd, right?
not really.
it would be odd if consistency and hypocrisy were a thing to these people
re: #225 darthstar
Bummer - hope she stays asymptomatic and it leaves her quickly.
Oh no, not asymptomatic. She is getting better though. Basically had what amounts to strep throat - sore throat, stuffy sinuses, lost her voice for a day.
re: #236 Dopamine Fish
Oh no, not asymptomatic. She is getting better though. Basically had what amounts to strep throat - sore throat, stuffy sinuses, lost her voice for a day.
Are YOU ok? Any symptoms?
re: #239 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Are YOU ok? Any symptoms?
I tested negative just now. I started feeling something today, so out of an abundance of caution, I canceled my lunch that my church’s tech director scheduled.
re: #236 Dopamine Fish
Oh no, not asymptomatic. She is getting better though. Basically had what amounts to strep throat - sore throat, stuffy sinuses, lost her voice for a day.
Glad to hear it’s not a bad case. I had the sore throat and blocked sinuses Saturday. I don’t have any tests yet, so I’ll give it 10 days before going out in public, even though I’ve felt fine since Sunday.
re: #246 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Western good morning!
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re: #233 Dangerman
as long as they teach the correct things they have nothing to worry about, right? //
American history: “Baby Jesus wrote the Constitution, and everyone lived happily ever after, the end.”
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) January 25, 2022
The torrent of sludge careening down Bullshit Mountain is overwhelming me today. I feel I’m drowning in a toxic stew of malignance, corruption and power hungry assholes. The assault on teachers and education is the thing putting me over the top stress wise this morning. Magaland is focused on K-12 right now, but there already exists a cottage industry on the right where people like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk report college professors for hurting the feelings of their right-wing students. I fear this project is about to go into overdrive.
Washington State has sunshine laws that make it fairly easy for people to get information about state employees. The syllabus for each of my courses is publicly available on the college website. At the beginning of the fall quarter, I received an email request for the syllabus for one of my courses. The sender didn’t identify themselves as a potential or former student and did not provide a reason for wanting the document. It gave me a weird vibe, and I just ignored the email. I thought about talking to some colleagues about the email but felt I might be overreacting.
One positive outcome of the rightwing howler monkeys screeching about CRT is that my students are now more aware of the impact of race. I’ve noticed in the fall and now the winter quarter that my students’ reading of people like David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Ida B Wells, Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois is a little more sophisticated and takes systemic racism into account without much prompting. Full disclosure, I live and teach in Hippielandia so my students are mostly left leaning. But as we all know, the right-wingers can be a loud, obnoxious minority.
I printed this pen holder for 58 hours. I was glad to see that it turned out well after taking that long to print. I’m printing another for a friend now.
The first image is under the bright white LEDs on the printer. The rest are lit by soft white LEDs at much lower intensity.
re: #248 No Malarkey!
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re: #248 No Malarkey!
Rooting out education. The Republicans are a fascist, willfully delusional, party. There’s nothing left to salvage at this point.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 25, 2022
Secretly paid by a Trump backer involved in a case: Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court? https://t.co/QzTapSx5I3
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) January 21, 2022
In other news, I almost got the…intimidating as hell…German postal employee to laugh today. More accurately, she sort of cracked what was almost a smile. I handed her one of my hand-built custom-sized packages that I occasionally have to resort to in order to avoid having to spend money to send someone mostly empty air, with the comment “this is why they wouldn’t let me wrap my own christmas presents as a child.” Almost, she smiled. ALMOST. Then I had to go back in and tell her she fucked up the zip code on two packages and was sending my stuff to Spokane instead of Portland. That went over well…..
Spin magazine still exists, but it’s trash now.
Robert Kennedy, Jr, ostracized for his criticisms of vaccines, has written an explosive expose of America’s Doctor, Anthony Fauci. Here Kennedy has a lot to say, about Fauci, COVID and our corrupted media
re: #249 Teddy’s Person
I’m reminded of this every time I hear the fascists babble…
In early 1965, while King was jailed in Selma, Alabama, Malcolm traveled to Selma, where he had a private meeting with Coretta Scott King. “I didn’t come to Selma to make his job difficult,” he assured Coretta. “I really did come thinking that I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King” (Scott King “My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr., 1969”, 256).
re: #255 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I can’t wait for the inevitable media stories about teacher shortages in red states…
The suspects in an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer talked about sniping her armed guards, taking hostages, and hog-tying the governor, prosecutors said.United States Attorney Andrew Birge, along with Assistant United States Attorneys Nils Kessler and Jonathan Roth, filed documents on Friday in response to the defense wanting to dismiss the indictment against Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris, Kaleb Franks and Brandon Caserta.
The defense argued that informants entrapped the suspects, who “had no interest in a kidnapping plot.”
But in Friday’s documents, prosecutors said in order to prove that the suspects were entrapped, “there must be undisputed evidence of inducement and a patently clear absence of predisposition.”
“The defendants have alleged, but not proven, any inducement,” the documents stated. “More importantly, the government has yet to put its ample evidence of predisposition to the finder of fact.”
re: #167 No Malarkey!
“God decides when we die.” Clearly all these church affiliated hospitals should be closed as blasphemous.
Most of the Christians I know are of the catholic variety and every one of them is vaccinated. The pope is also a big supporter of the vaccine.
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t wait for the inevitable media stories about teacher shortages in red states…
DeSantis has already recruited doctors and nurses that don’t take COVID seriously and are no longer comfortable around sensible people from better states. They’ll do the same with wingnut teachers. Sane states will improve while red states spiral because they’re keen for fascist propaganda.
re: #248 No Malarkey!
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re: #262 danarchy
Most of the Christians I know are of the catholic variety and every one of them is vaccinated. The pope is also a big supporter of the vaccine.
Even the willfully ignorant Protestant Conservatives in my family are vaccinated rather than derping about “the blood of Jesus” like the Conservative lemmings on the Internet do.
You have to be a complete fool to fail to vaccinate against a deadly disease.
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t wait for the inevitable media stories about teacher shortages in red states…
They will simply fill the schools with party apparatchiks. States issue teaching credentials so loyalty will be the standard rather than knowledge and skill.
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t wait for the inevitable media stories about teacher shortages in red states…
they’ll replace them with compliant toadies
AND pay them more
re: #266 Teddy’s Person
They will simply fill the schools with party apparatchiks. States issue teaching credentials so loyalty will be the standard rather than knowledge and skill.
They’ll give jobs to anti-science bible thumpers, conspiracy minded gun humpers, and guys you wouldn’t trust within 30 yards of your sister. The lawsuits over child abuse will cripple some districts in another year.
Weaponizing prayer. I swear to God, my last nerve connecting me to anything Christian is being stomped on HARD right now. (This and the prominent Calvinista, Kevin DeYoung, who claims there has been an overcorrection on dealing with sexual abuse in churches. As I just tweeted at him, you can’t have an overcorrection when you barely acknowledge there’s a problem!)
My latest is about a new group of Christian prayer apps backed by the likes of Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners, A16z, JD Vance, and Rupert Murdoch. The apps, used by millions, collect devastatingly intimate information about their users.https://t.co/3yimFIoUzh
— Emily Baker-White (@ebakerwhite) January 24, 2022
WaPo: Steve Bannon was deplatformed. An obscure media mogul keeps him on the air.
Two years after being cast out of the White House, Stephen K. Bannon spoke from a steep, dusty hill outside El Paso, asking for donations. The former investment banker and Hollywood producer wanted cash in 2019 for his latest quest, to privately build President Donald Trump’s stalled border wall.
Not many news outlets were paying attention — except for one focusing on his every word.
It wasn’t Fox News or Newsmax. It wasn’t even Breitbart News, the far-right website Bannon once led, using it to help remake the GOP and elect Trump.
The coverage came from an upstart network run by a little-known media mogul in Colorado, a felon with a record of unpaid taxes and a family history marked by tragedy and violence. The mogul, Robert J. Sigg, found news value in Bannon’s mission to the desert, which ultimately resulted in fraud charges.
When Bannon launched his own talk show in the fall of 2019, calling it “War Room,” he quickly handed over its distribution to Sigg.
More than two years later, the arrangement has paid off for both men. Sigg used “War Room” as a springboard for an expanded network of conservative hosts — bringing him the commercial opportunity he sought.
The network, Real America’s Voice, helped sustain Bannon despite his removal from YouTube, Spotify and other mainstream platforms. It brings his show into as many as 8 million homes hooked up to Dish satellite television, many in rural, conservative areas without reliable cable coverage.
The rise of Real America’s Voice, built around Bannon and distant from the traditional power structures of cable television and talk radio, reveals how the country’s fractured media landscape has empowered unconventional actors following market incentives toward more and more extreme content.
re: #262 danarchy
Most of the Christians I know are of the catholic variety and every one of them is vaccinated. The pope is also a big supporter of the vaccine.
that’s because catholics, like basically all orthodox branches of christianity, have a systematic theology that they’ve worked out and struggled over for 2,000 years. I may not want to be a southern baptist (though I work for them), but their theology isn’t complete rubbish. They make some silly errors and some that are grievous, like rationalizing slavery and trying to fit a gay square into a straight hole (or maybe trying desperately NOT to fit the gay square into the straight hole), but at least they’re mostly sane. And they and I can get together and snicker at the Bob Jonesists up the road.
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Elton John canceled his Dallas farewell concerts set for Tuesday and Wednesday at American Airlines Center after testing positive for COVID-19.
The announcement came Tuesday morning, hours before what would have been the Rocketman’s first Dallas show as part of his goodbye tour. In a statement, representatives for the tour said new dates will be announced soon and fans’ tickets will be honored at the rescheduled concerts.
re: #270 Captain Magic
WaPo: Steve Bannon was deplatformed. An obscure media mogul keeps him on the air.
Sounds like it’s time to pressure Dish like DirecTV was over OAN.
Someone isn’t Happy.
Peter Dinklage is none too pleased with Disney’s upcoming “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” remake, which he accused of being insensitive to dwarves. The “Game of Thrones” star dropped the bombshell while promoting his movie “Cyrano” on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast, Entertainment Weekly reported.
“I’m just like, what are you doing?” the 52-year-old Emmy winner told Maron of the reboot, which will star “West Side Story” actress Rachel Zegler, who recently called herself a “white Latina,” as Snow White.
Dinklage, who has achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism that results in him being 4 feet 5, found the movie especially hypocritical as they were “very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White.”
“You’re progressive in one way, but then you’re still making that f-king backwards story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together, what the f-k are you doing, man?” the “Station Agent” actor spluttered. “Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me.”
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Why in the blue blazing hell would anyone need an APP to PRAY??
Good grief.
How else can you reach the Content Creator?
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Why in the blue blazing hell would anyone need an APP to PRAY??
Good grief.
We should all sign up using prominent GOP member’s names and pray for horrible death of other prominent GOP’ers. Drive them nuts-especially if you can use a targeted VPN…
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Why in the blue blazing hell would anyone need an APP to PRAY??
Good grief.
In order to ensure the “right things”™ are prayed for…
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Why in the blue blazing hell would anyone need an APP to PRAY??
Good grief.
Catholics: That’s what Mary is for.
re: #252 Belafon
“This is what a moderate Republican looks like, folks. Fascist to the end.”
A “moderate” Republican is one who is elected governor in a state where the legislature is fully controlled by Democrats. Any other Republican governor will behave like a MAGAt racist.
re: #278 Captain Magic
We should all sign up using prominent GOP member’s names and pray for horrible death of other prominent GOP’ers. Drive them nuts-especially if you can use a targeted VPN…
Is there a module that reminds you five times a day and gives the azimuth to Mecca?
re: #269 mmmirele
Weaponizing prayer. I swear to God, my last nerve connecting me to anything Christian is being stomped on HARD right now. (This and the prominent Calvinista, Kevin DeYoung, who claims there has been an overcorrection on dealing with sexual abuse in churches. As I just tweeted at him, you can’t have an overcorrection when you barely acknowledge there’s a problem!)
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re: #280 Belafon
Catholics: That’s what Mary is for.
She always did the heavy lifting for me when I was an active Catholic.
re: #277 Decatur Deb
How else can you reach the Content Creator?
On the Fifth Day, He created Twitter and it…wasn’t so good.
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re: #284 darthstar
She always did the heavy lifting for me when I was an active Catholic.
Immaculate Throughput—never a dropped packet.
re: #282 Decatur Deb
Is there a module that reminds you five times a day and gives the azimuth to Mecca?
Probably $29.99 (+tax) just like the Rosary module & the Guided Zazen module… ;)
re: #287 William Lewis
Probably $29.99 (+tax) just like the Rosary module & the Guided Zazen module… ;)
Church bell towers in Italy routinely sell antenna space to cellphone companies. Fur Reel.
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Why in the blue blazing hell would anyone need an APP to PRAY??
Good grief.
Jews and Muslims have prayer apps, that contain prayer times, direction of Jerusalem or Mecca, special prayers for a specific day or month and a digital prayer book.
re: #288 Decatur Deb
Church bell towers in Italy routinely sell antenna space to cellphone companies. Fur Reel.
Good locations for cell towers and good money for the owner. Can’t see why not.
How the GOP Senate primary in Ohio will be a race to the bottom, illustrated by one tweet https://t.co/mfh6Xx2IHs
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 25, 2022
Laws throttling speech are anathema to our democracy. A handful of billionaires with untrammeled speech will kill it. Our system can die of that contradiction.
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Why in the blue blazing hell would anyone need an APP to PRAY??
Good grief.
of course you dont but the very act of downloading the app and registering, before they get *all* your personal info, tells them a lot about who you are and what you’re susceptible to
just like the ads on the back of comic books
answering tell them what else they can sell you
For the 70th year in a row, Miss Universe has been from Earth.
— Latest in space (@latestinspace) January 25, 2022
re: #290 William Lewis
Good locations for cell towers and good money for the owner. Can’t see why not.
It’s a cultural factoid, not a problem. Keeps ugly masts out of Titian skies.
And now I’m mad at the government, because I owe taxes this year thanks to receiving half of the child tax credit in advance payments last year. I can no longer pay off the debt I was scheduled to pay off next month.
re: #284 darthstar
She always did the heavy lifting for me when I was an active Catholic.
Hes not here right now, how can I help you?
re: #297 Dangerman
Hes not here right now, how can I help you?
I always liked the cultural idea that if Jesus wasn’t going to let you into heaven, being a good Marion meant the back door was open anyway ;)
re: #291 Eclectic Cyborg
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 25, 2022
Um
Mtg is *in* government now
re: #296 Dopamine Fish
And now I’m mad at the government, because I owe taxes this year thanks to receiving half of the child tax credit in advance payments last year. I can no longer pay off the debt I was scheduled to pay off next month.
I think your calculations my be off. The tax credit was offset by a reduction in taxes.
re: #300 Belafon
I think your calculations my be off. The tax credit was offset by a reduction in taxes.
I mean, before I turn this in, I’m going to call a professional to make sure I’m doing this right. But that’s what the H&R Block program is telling me.
re: #296 Dopamine Fish
re: #300 Belafon
The IRS has started accepting returns, and certain families & individuals are facing smaller refunds or maybe even no refunds at all. 😲 Here’s info why: https://t.co/tu7Vr7r30q pic.twitter.com/olas627vyd
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) January 25, 2022
re: #274 Belafon
Sounds like it’s time to pressure Dish like DirecTV was over OAN.
I think Dish is run by right-wing lunatics. They hosted “Sky Angel,” a service for people who are too Christian to be able to handle regular TV, and they’re based in Florida.
re: #296 Dopamine Fish
And now I’m mad at the government, because I owe taxes this year thanks to receiving half of the child tax credit in advance payments last year. I can no longer pay off the debt I was scheduled to pay off next month.
That was the plan. Trump gave people loans that would be called in under Biden.
re: #298 William Lewis
I always liked the cultural idea that if Jesus wasn’t going to let you into heaven, being a good Marion meant the back door was open anyway ;)
They were in it together. It was the old man who was the ballbuster.
re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth
So I was right. I guess I should’ve expected this, and it makes sense to me. It’s just disappointing not to have that money to pay off my debt. And to be fair, the payments through the year were helpful.
re: #298 William Lewis
I always liked the cultural idea that if Jesus wasn’t going to let you into heaven, being a good Marion meant the back door was open anyway ;)
If the back door was open there’d be no Jesus.
I hope she doesn’t read that. Still need her to pray for this sinner…
re: #269 mmmirele
Weaponizing prayer. I swear to God, my last nerve connecting me to anything Christian is being stomped on HARD right now. (This and the prominent Calvinista, Kevin DeYoung, who claims there has been an overcorrection on dealing with sexual abuse in churches. As I just tweeted at him, you can’t have an overcorrection when you barely acknowledge there’s a problem!)
That is some sweet scammin’ there, brothers…
re: #306 Dopamine Fish
So I was right. I guess I should’ve expected this, and it makes sense to me. It’s just disappointing not to have that money to pay off my debt. And to be fair, the payments through the year were helpful.
here’s the IRS link that explains the details:
2021 Child Tax Credit and Advance Child Tax Credit Payments — Topic H: Reconciling Your Advance Child Tax Credit Payments on Your 2021 Tax Return
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Why in the blue blazing hell would anyone need an APP to PRAY??
Good grief.
We saw a young woman who was too wrapped up in her screen to notice that the pedestrian light she was standing at had switched to green. I thought “There needs to be an app for that!”
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