WATCH LIVE: Senate Votes on Federal Abortion Rights Bill
Just be aware that the Republicans are going to be even more disgusting than usual in this hearing.
Just be aware that the Republicans are going to be even more disgusting than usual in this hearing.
Currently, Ben Sasse is lying his ass off.
BREAKING: A Tallahassee judge is actively ruling from the bench against the Florida congressional districts in North Florida, agreeing that it diminishes Black voters’ power. He’s still in the wind-up of his ruling, but he’s made clear he’s ruling against the NE FL districts. https://t.co/gm0Lsv68Fm
— Andrew Pantazi (@apantazi) May 11, 2022
Ben Sasse lying his ass off, with that cloying fake concerned look he always uses. pic.twitter.com/kV1SAXeyYO
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 11, 2022
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Currently, Ben Sasse is lying his ass off.
So, just another day ending in -y, then.
NY court rules to lift the contempt order, Trump must pay what is now a $110,000 fine, detail policies on how docs kept or destroyed, and a few final boxes are searched.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) May 11, 2022
In other words - comply or keep accruing the fines.
Think about how much you have to hate the American people to do this.
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) May 11, 2022
What does it say that the “liberal media” did not much publicize protests outside the homes of Democrats and liberals but have gone all in on publicizing peaceful protests outside the homes of conservative justices? https://t.co/AYXTo6vsN5
This show is the best thing on YouTube.
Baked Alaska won’t enter into a plea deal today after announcing he is innocent at the start of the hearing.
Now Gionet’s lawyers are popping into a breakout room with the federal prosecutor. They say they only need about five minutes.
Gionet’s lawyer hinted this isn’t going to move forward today.— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 11, 2022
re: #8 Charles Johnson
I heard an NPR White House media person doing a chirpy report on how the abortion issue would create problems for Biden’s campaign. Absolutely no sense that the Republican Party is threatening her status as a full person, and potentially her survival.
This sounds like Despicable Me https://t.co/Y7MCT4VFw8
— MidTerm MAK (@NovusDivus) May 11, 2022
I *knew* it sounded familiar…
re: #10 No Malarkey!
Baked Alaska won’t enter into a plea deal today after announcing he is innocent at the start of the hearing.
Okay, no plea from Tim Gionet today. AUSA Aloi says that with a trial date set for next March, the govt has agreed to hold open the current plea offer for 60 days, at which point it will expire
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 11, 2022
re: #10 No Malarkey!
Baked Alaska won’t enter into a plea deal today after announcing he is innocent at the start of the hearing.
Probably something along the lines of, “You dumbass, that’s not the sort of thing you spring on us at your damn plea deal hearing. Now either plead guilty like you agreed, or you’re going to owe us a fuck-ton of money to fix this and you still might end up in jail, probably even more than what you were facing with the plea. Still want to go through with this?”
re: #9 gocart mozart
Dana Gould is amazing. Find the episodes he did on Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast. His stories of working with the very elderly Bob Hope will make you wheeze.
I don’t like saying it, but unless Americans take to the streets and start protesting in large numbers, the Republicans are going to force women back into chattel slavery.
They want to shove their religion down our throats https://t.co/SK9JE0TkpV
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) May 11, 2022
re: #14 Dopamine Fish
Probably something along the lines of, “You dumbass, that’s not the sort of thing you spring on us at your damn plea deal hearing. Now either plead guilty like you agreed, or you’re going to owe us a fuck-ton of money to fix this and you still might end up in jail, probably even more than what you were facing with the plea. Still want to go through with this?”
The DOJ is holding the plea offer open for 60 days, with a trial date set for March 2023.
re: #16 Charles Johnson
I don’t like saying it, but unless Americans take to the streets and start protesting in large numbers, the Republicans are going to force women back into chattel slavery.
Dalia Lithwick agrees with you. Requiring women to give birth to provide a domestic supply of babies to adopt is pretty much the definition of chattel slavery.
Baked Alaska is under the salamander, and doesn’t know it:
/3 Courts are supposed to inquire very carefully to make sure that such a innocence-proclaiming defendant understands what they’re doing and not being coerced or threatened and has talked it over with their attorney and so forth. Do they? Depends on the jurisdiction and judge.
— FreshMouthHat (@Popehat) May 11, 2022
He is really fucking around to find out. Prosecutors have enough to nail him on more than they are allowing him to plead to. This is stupendously bad move on his part. So, to trial we go unless he goes Alford/nolo contendere.
Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.
Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.
10% of the covid death count is still a lot of dead Americans.
U.S. surpasses record 100,000 overdose deaths in 2021 (WaPo via MSN)
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.
Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.
They don’t want us to think of them as monsters, but insist on being monsters.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.
Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.
You know what it’ll change? They’ll be insufferable fuckwits, because they got the victory they’ve been chasing since the 19-fucking-70’s, and they will NEVER let us hear the end of how they “beat Roe.”
“we dont believe this little girl ever has a right to her own body, and my colleagues and i will be voting to affirm that today” https://t.co/EqAE5nQuJt
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 11, 2022
That’s an extremely well-developed fetus. https://t.co/HhnshrBZIR pic.twitter.com/RwxczYtxRq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 11, 2022
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: “Before the day is over, every member of this body will make a choice: stand with women to protect their freedoms or stand with MAGA Republicans to take our country into a dark and repressive future.” https://t.co/OywsLyCcLK pic.twitter.com/JmlO6DTEO5
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 11, 2022
The so-called pro-life zealots are making death threats against the woman who PEACEFULLY protested in front of Kavanaugh’s house in her neighborhood. They are threatening to kill to both her and her children, and flooding her employer with threatening calls!
1/2— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) May 11, 2022
And why isn’t @washingtonpost covering this? It is their story that identified her by name, and opened her up to these death threats. Now they are silent on the death threats.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) May 11, 2022
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
We should stop using this “MAGA” euphemism for fascism. You stand with American women, or you stand with the fascist, theocratic, American far-right minority that does not respect our rights.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 11, 2022
Looks like someone hasn’t gotten his regular Botox treatments lately if you ask me:
Monday photo of Putin - how long has he got?
Putin is growing weak. He not only sounds weak, he looks weak too. He is clearly ill. His armed forces reflect that illness and they reflect the weakness of his regime. pic.twitter.com/XL468tG6uh— King Arthur (@Antipolluters) May 11, 2022
“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has said that he will vote against the Women’s Health Protection Act because he thinks it expands abortion.”
https://t.co/FnrZGOGFVX via @politicususa— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 11, 2022
Keeps women from dying? Let’s rape victims have some say over their body? Idk. Tragic to see these men who don’t know what they’re talking about decide to let women die.
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 11, 2022
re: #31 Dr Lizardo
The hollowed out armed forces represent the hopeless corruption in Russia that existed long before Putin got sick.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 11, 2022
It’s 90f here today, after being rainy and cold last week. All I want is some days in the low 70s.
I really hate how they use photos of cute babies to make pro-choice people out to be inhuman monsters.
re: #25 Dopamine Fish
You know what it’ll change? They’ll be insufferable fuckwits, because they got the victory they’ve been chasing since the 19-fucking-70’s, and they will NEVER let us hear the end of how they “beat Roe.”
Can you imagine if Roberts somehow works some magic on Kavanaugh and/ or Barrett and preserves the right to abortion access in the first 15 weeks? They would be apoplectic with rage. I’m not really expecting that, but it would be a surprising twist.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.
Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.
For people with enough money for a plane ticket and a hotel room, and enough control over their schedules to not lose a desperately-needed job when they take off for a week or so… for them it won’t change much.
Everyone else, well FYIGM.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.
Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.
Luckily I don’t have any of those…that I know of. Otherwise my reaction to them would be something along the lines:
Get the fuck out of my house and never speak to me again. (Mumbles) Evil motherfuckers.
Note: Baked Alaska probably had to proffer some stuff to GET this misdemeanor.
So … he likely just fucked himself.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 11, 2022
Connecting abortion to the border. A MAGA Daily Double. pic.twitter.com/Ahmr1ZN0Wz
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 11, 2022
re: #38 sagehen
For people with enough money for a plane ticket and a hotel room, and enough control over their schedules to not lose a desperately-needed job when they take off for a week or so… for them it won’t change much.
Everyone else, well FYIGM.
Also women tech savvy enough to order abortion pills from overseas.
They should be more careful with those 3 ton turrets… they could poke an eye out.
Also, we now can see why they call Russian tracks Jack ink the box.
Chinese television crew caught the moment of launching the turret of a Russian tank into the sky pic.twitter.com/gsPCSTtlmD
— Mykhailo Golub (@golub) May 11, 2022
Look, Folks, if you’re from the Alternate Universe, you have to wear the little goatee. Those are the rules.
Otherwise, it’s like she’s just insane. https://t.co/haIfo4PuD0— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 11, 2022
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s like she’s a sociopath who saw an opportunity to advance herself in the lie-driven Republican party when Liz Cheney of all people turned out to be too honest for the party of traitors.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 11, 2022
More than a quarter of women of childbearing age are uninsured in Texas and the state has chosen to cap Medicaid benefits for new moms earlier than other states. https://t.co/JQlhNHpRIa
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 11, 2022
“Can’t a fascist lifetime appointed judge rip away freedoms in the dark of night unquestioned behind 9ft high fences go home at 5 and enjoy some undisturbed private time?”
— 15 Boxes (@HopelessLiberal) May 11, 2022
For MAGA Republicans, this has always been about making abortion illegal everywhere.
Today, the Senate will vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act to codify abortion rights into federal law.
We’ll see where every senator stands.— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 11, 2022
Just as rape is about power rather than sex, Republican efforts to control women are only about power, not about life.
re: #49 Ming5000
I’m sure Kavanagh, Barrett, Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito all have European vacations scheduled for the first week of July.
Today the largest County in Texas reaffirmed our commitment to Roe v. Wade and called on Congress to codify the rights enshrined so many decades ago. 78% of Texans support choice in some form and we have their back. https://t.co/ZcyFTmCyLu
— Lina Hidalgo (@LinaHidalgoTX) May 11, 2022
So were trucks trying to ram the Biden bus off the road, you tiny little speck of a man, and you thought that was hilarious.
No step stool to the cookie jar for you, Marco. https://t.co/bvkBTqDfrp— Steve Marmel 💉💉💉💉 (@Marmel) May 11, 2022
re: #49 Ming5000
Let’s not call perpetrators “badly shaken” like this right-wing American version of an Islamic Guardians Council, that the justices lied their way into creating, isn’t the bad guys here. They’ve attacked American women, which means they’ve attacked us all and change is needed.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 11, 2022
Joe Manchin is gonna hide from them in McConnell’s office. https://t.co/BpvBach2Eh
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) May 11, 2022
An unoccupied house on stilts in Rodanthe, North Carolina, as it collapses into the ocean this afternoon.
Was worth $381,200 according to Zillow. pic.twitter.com/RxkgOkBIv0— Tolly Taylor (@TollyTaylor) May 10, 2022
Before it was claimed by the sea. pic.twitter.com/E9MtUGOn8M
— Tina Webb (@LaundryPrncss) May 11, 2022
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
Whew, that is pretty close to the ocean.
re: #58 Ming5000
Whew, that is pretty close to the ocean.
appears that beach erosion is a real problem
What are employers going to do? Are people going to want to work at federal agencies like NASA in Florida or Texas if that state doesn’t protect reproductive health? Or are we going to have a brain drain because people won’t want to live & work in states that ban abortion. https://t.co/48aWG6oN97
— Sen. Maria Cantwell (@SenatorCantwell) May 11, 2022
None of us should accept a future in which our daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than we did.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 11, 2022
Hot diggity doggie! 2/6
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re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
For some reason this tends not to happen to Gullah Geechee houses.
The last time Republicans controlled the U.S. House, they brought this guy in to testify on “The State of Intellectual Freedom in America.” pic.twitter.com/QtDXwrGbXF
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 11, 2022
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Already having RWNJ acquaintances telling me Roe going down “won’t really change much” and it’s not “that big a deal”.
Shut the FUCK UP with this shit, already.
Definitely true — the ones who are not theocrats just say that the woman(or child) can always just travel to a different state. No problem — because only affluent women count and the rest don’t matter.
re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter
Definitely true — the ones who are not theocrats just say that the woman(or child) can always just travel to a different state. No problem — because only affluent women count and the rest don’t matter.
“What do you mean, you’re too poor to take two days off of work and drive for 4+ hours to go to another state, stay in a hotel overnight, and drive 4+ hours back? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps if you want to be a slut!”
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ocean view from every room. Unusual because it’s also ocean view through the floor.
I wonder how much those houses will be worth when every insurance company refuses to cover them. At any price.
re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter
Definitely true — the ones who are not theocrats just say that the woman(or child) can always just travel to a different state. No problem — because only affluent women count and the rest don’t matter.
The rest will produce the unwanted children that will become predators, giving our right-wing authoritarians an excuse to be even more openly authoritarian.
A prosperous America isn’t a comfortable place for the far-right.
re: #66 Dopamine Fish
“What do you mean, you’re too poor to take two days off of work and drive for 4+ hours to go to another state, stay in a hotel overnight, and drive 4+ hours back? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps if you want to be a slut!”
I’m 11 and was raped by an uncle.
You know, the one who sings in the church choir.
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
“We all float down here.”
re: #71 Dangerman
I’m 11 and was raped by an uncle.
You know, the one who sings in the church choir.
Ugh, I don’t like where my brain went with that one. Continuing the theme of wingnut responses, it started with, “You’re a liar.”
re: #71 Dangerman
I’m 11 and was raped by an uncle.
You know, the one who sings in the church choir.
Then you should think of this as an “opportunity”, for the theocratic Republicans to destroy your potential.
re: #72 Dr Lizardo
“We all float down here.”
Waiting for a homeowner to sit astride his drifting house like Slim Pickens riding his bomb!
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re: #17 jaunte
Where, Janice? You mean the part where Jesus panicked over his upcoming death, and then rescinded that order the next day?
re: #64 Charles Johnson
We should talk about the fact that Republicans are literally insane more.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 11, 2022
re: #58 Ming5000
Whew, that is pretty close to the ocean.
Doesn’t the Bible say something about building on sand?
Current mood: trying to untangle the godawful mess of cables behind my computer desk, preparing to move the new iMac into place.
I swear these cables have a mind of their own, and they’re laughing at me.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 11, 2022
I wanted to experiment a little with cryptocurrency, so I bought $100 worth of Ethereum a couple of months ago.
It’s now worth $63.
(opens door, walks in, tosses on table)
— Paul Leigh 🇺🇦 I Stand With Ukraine (@Pleightx) May 11, 2022
(walks out, shuts door)
re: #80 Charles Johnson
I wanted to experiment a little with cryptocurrency, so I bought $100 worth of Ethereum a couple of months ago.
It’s now worth $63.
Not a very positive trend…
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
And just cite this vote any time someone talks about why Democrats have the majority but can’t get anything done.
Oldie but goodie:
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
re: #80 Charles Johnson
I wanted to experiment a little with cryptocurrency, so I bought $100 worth of Ethereum a couple of months ago.
It’s now worth $63.
Your life savings!
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re: #82 Jay C
Not a very positive trend…
Things are gonna change, I can feel it. We should put more money in now while it’s low.
/
re: #79 Charles Johnson
Someone go find the Amazing World of Gumball segment where the computer cables get tangled up.
If you have all your cables neatly organized and labeled, I hate you.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 11, 2022
re: #88 Charles Johnson
I did that. Being organized breaks down over time, and now I have a mess.
re: #80 Charles Johnson
I wanted to experiment a little with cryptocurrency, so I bought $100 worth of Ethereum a couple of months ago.
It’s now worth $63.
Playing with money you can afford to lose is fine - like spending spare change buying lottery tickets. But too many have been deceived into believing that there is something magical about crypto.
re: #91 Hecuba’s daughter
Playing with money you can afford to lose is fine - like spending spare change buying lottery tickets. But too many have been deceived into believing that there is something magical about crypto.
A tale as old as money. Grifters will never run out of marks to fleece.
Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who has had an outsized influence over President Joe Biden’s agenda, has dramatically impressed voters back home, according to a new poll released Monday.The centrist lawmaker’s approval rating jumped from 40% to 57% in West Virginia over the past year — the biggest increase of any senator, Morning Consult found.
The double-digit boost largely stems from West Virginia Republicans. At the beginning of Biden’s term, only 35% of GOP voters in the red state approved of Manchin. Now, that figure has nearly doubled, with 69% of Republicans in support of his job performance.
re: #91 Hecuba’s daughter
Playing with money you can afford to lose is fine - like spending spare change buying lottery tickets. But too many have been deceived into believing that there is something magical about crypto.
It’s kind of like playing the stock market, except even more volatile.
re: #88 Charles Johnson
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re: #67 lawhawk
Ocean view from every room. Unusual because it’s also ocean view through the floor.
“Motivated Seller!”
Wow! Sound up! #Lightningstrikes in Sebring, FL pic.twitter.com/i2po2GiLb3
— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) May 9, 2022
re: #94 Charles Johnson
It’s kind of like playing the stock market, except even more volatile.
Not quite — the stock market represents publicly trading companies providing goods and services essential to the functioning of our society. There are well-established firms and high flyers in the markets. Appropriate strategy involves investing in a wide range of companies (usually through mutual funds). Crypto is more akin to putting all your eggs in a single company that has a single new product on the market, a product that is not as functional or reliable as existing comparable products. Think of it as being Theranos, but with less intrinsic value.
re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter
Crypto is more akin to putting all your eggs in a single company that has a single new product on the market, a product that is not as functional or reliable as existing comparable products. Think of it as being Theranos, but with less intrinsic value.
re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter
The stock market is also heavily regulated. Crypto isn’t.
(For some, that’s a selling point)
Welp. That’s, uh, not ideal. https://t.co/ccgjngyZ14
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 11, 2022
re: #101 Charles Johnson
I always find it both funny and sad when dumb people lose everything to a scam.
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
That guy is lucky those lightning strikes didn’t hit him. They didn’t hit the building, but the ground itself.
Reminder: 70 percent of Americans oppose overturning Roe. What Pence claims here is false. pic.twitter.com/aQXI6ImTCG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 11, 2022
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
Exactly, Chyron, abortion should be between a woman and the doctor she sees.
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
Abortion WAS in “the hands of the people.” Oh shit, sorry. Women aren’t people. My b.
re: #86 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Things are gonna change, I can feel it. We should put more money in now while it’s low.
/
Buy low, sell lower.
It’s ridiculous how much time Congress wastes on these long drawn-out rituals of reading each member’s name and their vote. This could be done in 5 minutes. But I guess they need to justify their inflated salaries somehow.
re: #99 Dr Lizardo
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Ran across a Moon landing denier on FB who confused Moon rocks with Pet Rocks. Said he remembered the commercials for Moon rocks and the dumb displays for them in the toy section at K-Mart, and how stupid everyone thought it was. He wondered how many people fell for the scam. He was promptly eviscerated and his liver served up with fava beans and an adequate chianti. My contribution was to tell him that he had just proven that conspiracy dupes are literally dumber than rocks.
“Between 2010 & 2020…3 murders…20 arsons…621 acts of vandalism, nearly 6k acts of trespassing, 2 bio-terrorism threats…& 551 death threats by anti-abortion activists against abortion providers. Where is the right-wing outrage over that?” - mepic.twitter.com/56JZtLQGLa
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 11, 2022
re: #109 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Ran across a Moon landing denier on FB who confused Moon rocks with Pet Rocks. Said he remembered the commercials for Moon rocks and the dumb displays for them in the toy section at K-Mart, and how stupid everyone thought it was
I was wondering how the hell anyone could get that mixed up, then I went and looked it up and saw that the Pet Rock craze was a six-month, one-shot fad in 1975. From about June ‘75 until Xmas of that same year and then the fad was pretty much over.
Damn good marketing, though; classic case of being in the right place at the right time. Made Gary Dahl a millionaire.
re: #111 Dr Lizardo
I was wondering how the hell anyone could get that mixed up, then I went and looked it up and saw that the Pet Rock craze was a six-month, one-shot fad in 1975. From about June ‘75 until Xmas of that same year and then the fad was pretty much over.
Damn good marketing, though; classic case of being in the right place at the right time. Made Gary Dahl a millionaire.
You’re right about how quickly the fad faded. The market crashed right after I bought a breeding pair.
re: #113 lizardofid
You’re right about how quickly the fad faded. The market crashed right after I bought a breeding pair.
Your head must have been full of….
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Took me all of 2 minutes to check the Lowes app to see your Alexandria, Va Lowes has 15 models available for pick up today & countless more available by 5/19. pic.twitter.com/ixjokZT5Ui
— Drew 🇺🇲🇨🇴🌄 (@DrewWhite9) May 11, 2022
re: #112 The Pie Overlord!
If you like Wordle and you like food, try phoodle.net.
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Sorry it is only once a day. My bad.
A Catholic school in Philadelphia was selling artificial roses for Mother’s Day. Unaware they actually purchased thongs folded into roses. pic.twitter.com/m01myztnqZ
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) May 11, 2022
Here: https://t.co/JLDTH9wODL
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) May 11, 2022
re: #93 Shropshire Slasher
Time for the DNC to kick Manchin out. He’s not a Democrat.
spare a thought for Mike Pence, who says he now has to pay for his own gas pic.twitter.com/cXv9bct9mF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 11, 2022
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
OOPS. LoL
We Will Not Forget: Republicans And Joe Manchin Block Bill To Codify Abortion Rights https://t.co/pLw7VejdKi pic.twitter.com/TaFmIhrF7m
— 🌊 R Saddler (@Politics_PR) May 11, 2022
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe the person you called is a patriotic American and didn’t want to deal with you. I could get a dishwasher in a couple of days, but I don’t spew hate and disinformation for a living.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 11, 2022
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
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joe manchin is gonna get crushed next time he runs, because he isn’t going to be able to out-crazy some maga republican. and i hope biden calls him and says, “just think, you might well still have lost if you’d supported democratic ideas, but your post-senatorial time would have been glorious and lucrative.”
I’d put that down, Steve…. pic.twitter.com/AbjLrOXmIk
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) May 6, 2022
“Here we are today, a body of 100, 76 percent of which are male, making decisions about the private lives of the nearly 168 million women in this country. That’s ludicrous,” @SenatorLeahy
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) May 11, 2022
re: #119 Romantic Heretic
Time for the DNC to kick Manchin out. He’s not a Democrat.
Please stop this. If McConnell becomes Majority Leader, Biden will not get a single appointment approved and will not be able to pass ANY legislation, including that which cannot be filibustered. If you think things are bad now, wait till McConnell takes over. It’s not as though West Virginia is going to elect a progressive or liberal for Senate anytime in the next decade.
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
The U.S. Senate, as you know, is currently divided 50-50 along party lines, thanks to the impressive double win in Georgia, and counting the two technically “independent” senators as Democrats, since they caucus with the Democrats.
But, according to the calculation of Ian Millhiser, writing for Vox, if you add up the population of states and assign half to each of their two senators, “the Democratic half of the Senate represents 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.”
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
The U.S. Senate, as you know, is currently divided 50-50 along party lines, thanks to the impressive double win in Georgia, and counting the two technically “independent” senators as Democrats, since they caucus with the Democrats.
But, according to the calculation of Ian Millhiser, writing for Vox, if you add up the population of states and assign half to each of their two senators, “the Democratic half of the Senate represents 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.”
Interesting. I was just thinking of doing the math on this the other day.
re: #124 steve_davis
joe manchin is gonna get crushed next time he runs, because he isn’t going to be able to out-crazy some maga republican. and i hope biden calls him and says, “just think, you might well still have lost if you’d supported democratic ideas, but your post-senatorial time would have been glorious and lucrative.”
Um
Joe Manchin’s approval rating sky-rockets in West Virginia
According to a poll by the Morning Consultant, Manchin now has an approval rating in West Virginia of 57%, which is one of the top 10 highest approval ratings among all senators. That has increased from only 40% in the first quarter of 2021.
re: #131 BeachDem
Um
Joe Manchin’s approval rating sky-rockets in West Virginia
According to a poll by the Morning Consultant, Manchin now has an approval rating in West Virginia of 57%, which is one of the top 10 highest approval ratings among all senators. That has increased from only 40% in the first quarter of 2021.
Republicans like assholes, and WV is infested with Republicans.
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
Let’s really do something about protecting “the children”
These fucking right wing bastards don’t care one little shit stain about babies or children. They only care about their own sense of power and control.
A big priority should be to immediately turn the tables on them after the next Democratic majority. The next Dem majority should stack the SCOTUS with 5 more Justices and overturn the Heller case that essentially re-wrote the Constitution, striking “well-organized militia” phrase right out of it in favor of gun nuts roaming free looking to murder people.
Children, like yours truly, are true victims of bad law and bad court decisions. Like the time I faced down the barrel of a loaded .22 long rifle at age 12 being threatened by a similarly young family member with death. How many other stories like this that don’t result in injury or death never even make it to police reports or news stories? The US gun culture is appalling and if these right wing cretins really care about children, let’s tackle this issue head on.
re: #124 steve_davis
joe manchin is gonna get crushed next time he runs, because he isn’t going to be able to out-crazy some maga republican. and i hope biden calls him and says, “just think, you might well still have lost if you’d supported democratic ideas, but your post-senatorial time would have been glorious and lucrative.”
I wouldn’t be to sure about that.
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re: #112 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #134 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I wouldn’t be to sure about that.
Weird. I can’t copy and paste from the body of the OP. Link below.
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re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #119 Romantic Heretic
Time for the DNC to kick Manchin out. He’s not a Democrat.
he’s the closest thing West Virginia has to a Democrat. Which I know seems of very little worth, barely a hairsbreadth different from a Republican, but it’s the difference between Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell being majority leader and deciding what issues and nominees get votes.
Overwhelmed by feedback from pastors who are fighting—and so often, losing—these wars in their own churches.
This isn’t some fad affecting megachurches & celebrity preachers. It’s a crisis of staggering scale—a serious threat to your community and mine.https://t.co/aEewXKCIRA— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) May 11, 2022
The most recent confirmation to the Federal Reserve doesn’t happen without Manchin.
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
“the Democratic half of the Senate represents 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.”
more or less exactly the population of Ukraine.
re: #133 Florida Panhandler
Let’s really do something about protecting “the children”
These fucking right wing bastards don’t care one little shit stain about babies or children. They only care about their own sense of power and control.
A big priority should be to immediately turn the tables on them after the next Democratic majority. The next Dem majority should stack the SCOTUS with 5 more Justices and overturn the Heller case that essentially re-wrote the Constitution, striking “well-organized militia” phrase right out of it in favor of gun nuts roaming free looking to murder people.
Children, like yours truly, are true victims of bad law and bad court decisions. Like the time I faced down the barrel of a loaded .22 long rifle at age 12 being threatened by a similarly young family member with death. How many other stories like this that don’t result in injury or death never even make it to police reports or news stories? The US gun culture is appalling and if these right wing cretins really care about children, let’s tackle this issue head on.
Unfortunately due to the inherent gerrymandering in the Constitution, it’s difficult to see when the Democrats will get a substantial majority in the Senate. Expanding SCOTUS will not necessarily work in our favor. It will be much harder to get a majority if the GOP has 12 out of 16, instead of 6 out of 9. I don’t know if it’s possible to impose term limits on judges.
re: #141 John Hughes
more or less exactly the population of Ukraine.
2 million more than the population of California.
Idle thought: Do Senate rules prevent Schumer bringing the abortion vote again? If not, maybe make the Republicans block it again tomorrow.
What will happen if the red states ban abortion and contraception, and hand the education system over to grifters and quacks? In 20 years there would be 2 Americas, more distinct from each other than East and West Germany were during the Cold War. The blue states will be full participants in the modern world of progress and prosperity. Their residents would seldom venture into the red states. Those red states will be feudal, impoverished enclaves, where corrupt, compliant media and evil religion manipulate superstitious, ignorant voters to keep a vicious male oligarchy in power. All industry will be built around cheap labor. Hordes of unwanted, un-educated children will reach their teens and produce a crime wave the like of which has never been seen anywere in the world. The oligarchs will plead desperately for aid and, most of all, for money to restore order. Deny it. Let them be destroyed, root and branch. Put the surviving oligarchs and pulpit pimps on trial, then pick up the pieces and rebuild from scratch the way it should have been done after the Civil War.
re: #130 EPR-radar
Interesting. I was just thinking of doing the math on this the other day.
I wonder what it would look like if you used the percentage of votes for Biden and Trump in each state, and used those to represent the percentage of representation of the population for each party.
re: #144 lizardofid
Idle thought: Do Senate rules prevent Schumer bringing the abortion vote again? If not, maybe make the Republicans block it again tomorrow.
Did he vote against it? If not, I don’t think he can bring the same bill again. OTOH, if the House would pass a reinstatement of Roe like Manchin asked, he could put that one to a vote.
If this was just a cloture vote, I don’t think that rule applies.
re: #146 Belafon
I wonder what it would look like if you used the percentage of votes for Biden and Trump in each state, and used those to represent the percentage of representation of the population for each party.
Red states have more draconian voting restrictions — Florida would be blue if the new law to allow former felons to vote had not been, in effect, overturned using Jim Crow voting rules.
re: #149 Hecuba’s daughter
Red states have more draconian voting restrictions — Florida would be blue if the new law to allow former felons to vote had not been, in effect, overturned using Jim Crow voting rules.
Understood, but I don’t think we have any Democratic senators from Florida, do we, which means the above count didn’t include any for Democrats from Florida.
Election officials in Colorado now wearing bulletproof vests following threats from pro-Trump groups https://t.co/RymiXgMX6o
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 11, 2022
re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter
Exactly.
Manchin votes for Biden’s appointees.
Manchin comes from one of the most religious-right dominated states. He can’t be a flaming liberal fighting for progress.
Unless he wants to scuttle any chance of being re-elected.
Now some people perhaps hope that. They wish Manchin chose to go down in flames, voting for abortion, etc.
But I believe if he did that, he’d just be replaced by a worse Republican.
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re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter
Please stop this. If McConnell becomes Majority Leader, Biden will not get a single appointment approved and will not be able to pass ANY legislation, including that which cannot be filibustered. If you think things are bad now, wait till McConnell takes over. It’s not as though West Virginia is going to elect a progressive or liberal for Senate anytime in the next decade.
Considering nothing of note is in any danger of being passed before November anyway, I don’t consider that a great loss.
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
appears that beach erosion is a real problem
My brother runs a lab for one of his geology classes where he has the department’s wave tank set up with a “beach” extending across the tank. He gives each of the students a parcel of beach, a “house” to place, and also some sort of object set representing some of the various beach preservation methods (sea wall, matting, etc.)
Once he students have set up their house and other objects the tank is started.
Besides using it to show sand transporting down the beach you get to see how the various system affect said transport. Some hold sand by disrupting the flow down the beach, which unfortunately for those further down they just lose sand to the wave action. And so forth.
LEESBURG — Former students and since-deleted videos, coupled with a police report, shed more light on the allegations that a cult was run by Leesburg High School’s longtime band director and an LHS guidance counselor, who later had a sexual relationship with a former student.The Leesburg Police Department released an incident report Thursday detailing an interview with a former Leesburg High School student who told investigators that he was involved in a “cult-like” “secret society” led by band director Gabriel Fielder.
That secret society — the Elder Council — was dissolved last year.
The report contained other disturbing allegations, including that Lenny Finelli, who has resigned from his position as a guidance counselor, texted the former student and asked him “sexual questions.” It also says Fielder — who, as a school employee, is a mandatory abuse reporter — knew about the messages between the student and Finelli and deleted them.
Former students describe ‘toxic’ environment, astral projection under Leesburg band director
re: #132 EPR-radar
Republicans like assholes, and WV is infested with Republicans.
I don’t know WV at all, but I’ve driven through many times. Beautiful scenery in most places. But the towns and cities strike me as not dissimilar from Pennsyltucky and maybe a bit of western Maryland. Listening to local radio, it’s got the range of NPR to local fire and brimstone evangelical. Last time I was through they were banging on and on about reintroducing God and the Bible into public schools (about 5 years ago, I think). Feels like the GOP transformed into them and their brethren in other emerging reactionary states. I sense that Joe Manchin represents Joe Manchin and he just wants to hold onto power. Others here have already said this, but he would be a centrist Republican and would quickly be attacked and defeated by a Trumpist opponent. At least—again, not really knowing WV—that’s my opinion.
re: #144 lizardofid
Idle thought: Do Senate rules prevent Schumer bringing the abortion vote again? If not, maybe make the Republicans block it again tomorrow.
Charlie Sykes at the Bulwark thinks they should bring a narrow bill that just focuses on the R’s weak spots — exceptions for rape and incest (especially very young victims) and woman’s health, treating ectopic pregnancies, D&C’s as after-care for miscarriages, homicide investigations for all miscarriages…
re: #154 Targetpractice
Considering nothing of note is in any danger of being passed before November anyway, I don’t consider that a great loss.
Alito dies of a heart attack tomorrow…
re: #160 Belafon
Alito dies of a heart attack tomorrow…
SCOTUS passes Roberts’ “compromise” on a 5-4 vote. Or deadlocks at 4-4, likely with the case being sent back to the lower court until Alito’s replacement was seated, at which time they pass the “compromise.”
re: #132 EPR-radar
Republicans like assholes, and WV is infested with Republicans.
West Virginia democrats like conservative assholes, too.
Rule one: West Virginians hate outsiders.
Rule two: West Virginians particularly hate liberal outsiders looking down their enlightened noses at them.
Rule three: West Virginian democrats are no different from other West Virginians with regard to Rule Two.
Rule four: West Virginia politics does not operate according to your political calculus. What you predict will happen will not happen the way you think it will.
re: #162 A Three Hour Tour
West Virginia democrats like conservative assholes, too.
Rule one: West Virginians hate outsiders.
Rule two: West Virginians particularly hate liberal outsiders looking down their enlightened noses at them.
Rule three: West Virginian democrats are no different from other West Virginians with regard to Rule Two.
Rule four: West Virginia politics does not operate according to your political calculus. What you predict will happen will not happen the way you think it will.
Ok, that’s a big help. And I suppose the “but he drives a Mazerati and lives on a yacht” would provoke the “he may be an out of touch asshole, but he’s OUR out of touch asshole.”
re: #157 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Former students describe ‘toxic’ environment, astral projection under Leesburg band director
That is one creepy story.
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No offense, but we could sit here all day imagining scenarios where Joe F’ Manchin is the “savior” of the party by providing that vital 50th vote to make something significant happen. And while I like fantasy stories as much as the next person, the reality is that we’re headed into midterms dragging dead weight that is threatening our only real chance to tip the scales back in our favor. Personally, I expect the days after Election Night 2022 to be like Election Night 2010: A whole lot of despair, a whole lot of anger, and a whole lot of screaming about how progressives fucked the party over for failing to show up and how it was a “mistake” to appeal to them when we should have been working to win the suburban white vote.
Waterman-Duke: The Ambassador of Aloha ran on American Masters on our local PBS station last night. If you have the opportunity to see it, it is so worth your time.
re: #166 Targetpractice
No offense, but we could sit here all day imagining scenarios where Joe F’ Manchin is the “savior” of the party by providing that vital 50th vote to make something significant happen. And while I like fantasy stories as much as the next person, the reality is that we’re headed into midterms dragging dead weight that is threatening our only real chance to tip the scales back in our favor. Personally, I expect the days after Election Night 2022 to be like Election Night 2010: A whole lot of despair, a whole lot of anger, and a whole lot of screaming about how progressives fucked the party over for failing to show up and how it was a “mistake” to appeal to them when we should have been working to win the suburban white vote.
We can also already count the number of times Manchin has voted to allow Harris to be the tie breaking vote, as it happened earlier this week.
re: #167 lizardofid
Waterman-Duke: The Ambassador of Aloha ran on American Masters on our local PBS station last night. If you have the opportunity to see it, it is so worth your time.
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They suspected her 20 years ago. It doesn’t say why they were able to make an arrest and charge her now when they couldn’t then.
She proved that she’s a psychopath at 21, and has been on the streets for the 20 years since then. People may have been friends with her, or even dated her in that time. They’ll be extremely freaked out now.
Missouri respiratory therapist charged with murder of patient 20 years ago (New York Daily Times via MSN)
re: #168 Belafon
We can also already count the number of times Manchin has voted to allow Harris to be the tie breaking vote, as it happened earlier this week.
He also announced this week that he’s basically nuking the BBB by declaring that the party has to totally renegotiate the bill to his satisfaction…but he’s not telling what he opposes in the bill and is expecting the party leadership to spend the last few months before voting season trying to guess.
re: #170 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They suspected her 20 years ago. It doesn’t say why they were able to make an arrest and charge her now when they couldn’t then.
DNA evidence would be my guess.
re: #134 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
no prob. i see it. just when I think i’ve gotten out, they fucking pull me back in.
re: #144 lizardofid
Idle thought: Do Senate rules prevent Schumer bringing the abortion vote again? If not, maybe make the Republicans block it again tomorrow.
not if he ended up voting no at the end. then, he can bring it up as many times as need be.
I don’t consider Manchin a hero when he’s the 50th vote. I hate that we depend on him. But also hate the views of some of the coworkers I have.
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This is a bit off the wall. Twitter releases a colorful video game to help people understand their privacy policy.
Also, your privacy isn’t a game.
But we DID make one to help you understand the more complex parts of our privacy policy and how you can take control of your experience on Twitter.
Play & learn: https://t.co/HRpDoZuxg4 pic.twitter.com/ku02aZV7qL— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) May 11, 2022
Funny how GOP maps always happen to disenfranchise black people.
Florida state judge has thrown out the congressional map passed by the Republican legislature and pushed by Governor Ron DeSantis, ruling that it violated state law by drawing Black voters out of a north Florida district.
Circuit Judge Layne Smith ruled Wednesday that the enacted map violates the state’s constitutional amendments on redistricting because “it diminishes African Americans’ ability to elect candidates of their choice” in Florida’s 5th District.
Florida’s GOP-friendly congressional map thrown out by judge (CBS via MSN)
re: #136 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It looks like copying works, but the clipboard does not receive the copy. Some dumbass manager was afraid that someone would steal their content, at a time when sharing content is how you get attention.
Go to reader view and copy from there, works for me in FF:
The survey by Morning Consult shows the Democrat’s approval among Republican voters has skyrocketed, up to a whopping 69%, from just 35% a year ago. Manchin’s disapproval among Republicans has dropped from 57% to just 24% over the past year.
Jonathan Kott, a political consultant who formerly worked with Manchin, told Morning Consult, “It turns out that Joe Manchin knows more about West Virginia voters than D.C. strategists. The amount of interactions he has with his voters I don’t think can be paralleled by other members.”
re: #180 jeffreyw
Realistically, anything positive we get from Manchin is gift. Any normal senator from WV would be a shitbag Republican indistinguishable from any other shitbag GOP senator.
The problem is the Senate itself, where in a 50-50 Senate, the Republicans represent over 40 million fewer people than the Democrats.
re: #180 jeffreyw
Go to reader view and copy from there, works for me in FF:
The survey by Morning Consult shows the Democrat’s approval among Republican voters has skyrocketed, up to a whopping 69%, from just 35% a year ago. Manchin’s disapproval among Republicans has dropped from 57% to just 24% over the past year.Jonathan Kott, a political consultant who formerly worked with Manchin, told Morning Consult, “It turns out that Joe Manchin knows more about West Virginia voters than D.C. strategists. The amount of interactions he has with his voters I don’t think can be paralleled by other members.”
Other than that quote by Kott making it really seem that he’s a Republican, what’s his overall approval rating in the state?
re: #181 EPR-radar
Realistically, anything positive we get from Manchin is gift. Any normal senator from WV would be a shitbag Republican indistinguishable from any other shitbag GOP senator.
The problem is the Senate itself, where in a 50-50 Senate, the Republicans represent over 40 million fewer people than the Democrats.
We seem to be working with an Ideal Spherical Voter model. That doesn’t work well for bovine Physics, and even less well for an electorate of 180 million disparate American cusses.
It’s moments like this I’m happy that Putin is using Crypto to get around sanctions…
#Cryptocrash well, it keeps dipping! Ponzi scheme pro max 😪 pic.twitter.com/cjPaAmCKad
— Segun Choji Delzake (@Segundelejnr) May 11, 2022
re: #182 Belafon
Other than that quote by Kott making it really seem that he’s a Republican, what’s his overall approval rating in the state?
According to that same poll in late April, his overall approval rating in West Virginia is 57%.
His approval rating among democrats is 44%.
Mostly because they’re delighted that he’s Biden’s brick wall.
re: #182 Belafon
Other than that quote by Kott making it really seem that he’s a Republican, what’s his overall approval rating in the state?
“In surveys conducted Jan. 1-March 31, 57% of West Virginia voters approve of Manchin’s job performance, up from 40% during the first quarter of 2021 — the biggest increase of any Senator over that time frame,” according to the Morning Consult poll.
One more reason to love Patti LuPone:
Patti LuPone Calls Out Theatergoers Wearing Masks Under Noses: ‘Get The F**k Out!’
“Put your mask on over your nose,” LuPone is heard saying in videos posted to Twitter. “That’s why you are in the theater, that is the rule. If you don’t want to follow the rule, get the fuck out!”
I’d like to ask @Sen_JoeManchin how the right to make health decisions about my own body could POSSIBLY GO TOO FAR. Does the bill remove a coal plant every time I go to planned parenthood or something? #RoeVWade
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) May 11, 2022
South Carolina man dies of heart attack while burying body of woman he killed, police say
usatoday.com
If the dude had dug a proper grave before all the killin’, he’d have saved everyone a lot of trouble.
ars?re: #191 Decatur Deb
South Carolina man dies of heart attack while burying body of woman he killed, police say
usatoday.comIf the dude had dug a proper grave before all the killin’, he’d have saved everyone a lot of trouble.
He dug a pit to put the body in. He died while filling it back in.
Authorities concluded after McKinnon strangled Dent, he bound and wrapped her in trash bags before putting her into a pit he had already dug. While McKinnon was filling the grave, he had the cardiac event, causing his death, authorities said.
re: #192 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Serves him right.
re: #192 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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He dug a pit to put the body in. He died while filling it back in.
Authorities concluded after McKinnon strangled Dent, he bound and wrapped her in trash bags before putting her into a pit he had already dug. While McKinnon was filling the grave, he had the cardiac event, causing his death, authorities said.
Digging a hole, murdering someone, then filling that hole is a lot of strain for a guy with a bad ticker.
He had the heart attack at the absolute worst part of the process possible. The alternatives were no murder attempt at all with him face down in the hole, or her laughing in his face as he had a heart attack while trying to strangle her.
re: #193 PhillyPretzel
Serves him right.
I can envision a Tales From The Crypt scene were her spirit reached out and grabs his and pulls it into the grave with her. Then cutting to the crypt keeper cackling and commenting that now they were together for eternity.
My oil painting of a Grilled Cheese pic.twitter.com/cJtUD89xw9
— Noah Verrier (@NoahVerrier) March 2, 2022
re: #197 Charles Johnson
Um, actually…that’s a grilled peanut butter sandwich.
re: #198 Barefoot Grin
Um, actually…that’s a grilled peanut butter sandwich.
I don’t see any banana, not an official grilled peanut butter.
I also heard on TV that two Republicans are planning on working on a more restrictive bill.
re: #199 jeffreyw
I don’t see any banana, not an official grilled peanut butter.
Elvis has entered the chat.
I always have to laugh when I recall that several right wing bloggers thought I’d been possessed by demons when I broke with their increasingly crazed ideology. Seriously, not kidding, possessed by demons. But that would be kinda cool, I admit.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 11, 2022
re: #198 Barefoot Grin
Um, actually…that’s a grilled peanut butter sandwich.
It’s a photo of a painting of a grilled peanut butter sandwich transmitted around the world, and displayed on several computer screens.
Speaking of yard sales…
Pontoon bridge in question.https://t.co/QdTagnV5sQ
— Dmitri 🇺🇦 (@mdmitri91) May 11, 2022
re: #199 jeffreyw
I don’t see any banana, not an official grilled peanut butter.
Doesn’t it need a layer of crushed potato chips too?
_I_ never ate those abominations but there was a guy I knew in the army who did grilled peanut butter, banana and potato chip sandwiches. < shudder > Almost as nasty as a Moonpie & RC lunch.
Of course, he thought much the same of my bologna based delicacies so he lost out there too ;)
re: #206 William Lewis
Doesn’t it need a layer of crushed potato chips too?
_I_ never ate those abominations but there was a guy I knew in the army who did grilled peanut butter, banana and potato chip sandwiches. < shudder > Almost as nasty as a Moonpie & RC lunch.
Of course, he thought much the same of my bologna based delicacies so he lost out there too ;)
Why not both?
You’ve given me inspiration for the next time I pick up some edibles.
A passenger with no flying experience radioed an urgent plea for help when the pilot of a small plane suddenly fell ill off Florida’s Atlantic coast, and was able to land the plane safely with the help of air traffic controllers. https://t.co/jM2W385yXP pic.twitter.com/LMBtfUN6Ya
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 11, 2022
re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am happy to hear that someone was able to land that plane.
Apparently that tank turret trying to reach the moon everyone(including myself) has been sharing wasn’t hit near the front. It was hit deep in Russian territory 100km from Mariupol and 13km from the Russian border.
The town has been under Russia/separatist control since 27 August 2014, when it was the scene of fighting (pictured below) during an attempted advance on Mariupol. It’s 100 km inside separatist territory, and only 13 km from the Russian border. /3 pic.twitter.com/pBKkmYR7Pu
— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) May 11, 2022
eeeewwwwwwwww
Louisiana Republican reveals his 40-year-old daughters still ‘get in his lap’ during debate on abortion bill https://t.co/NGaoTyakmV
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 11, 2022
This uneducated idiot couldn’t tell you the name of the book “Ministry of Truth” came from, let alone ever actually read it.
Nor could she tell you who Stalin or Mao were even if her life depended on it.
And the only hill she ever sacrificed herself on had a crewcab. https://t.co/H2Kd3AEuul— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 11, 2022
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
eeeewwwwwwwww
“I know how to French kiss.”
“Oh yeah, well I do too.”
“Daddy says I’m the best.”
[Paraphrasing National Lampoon’s Vacation.]
re: #203 Charles Johnson
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Off topic because…
Just found this out. It’s that time of life I suppose. Not sure if anyone knows or likes it.
But anyway, one more on the road…
Charles ‘Little Charlie’ Baty: July 10, 1953-March 6, 2020
He retired quite a while back, was worn out from the non stop touring.
Later stuff without Charles.
A simple question for Justice Clarence Thomas.
Why are you such a hater? pic.twitter.com/hMLoWo1FSc— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) May 11, 2022
re: #205 darthstar
— Слава Україні Nick Murica (@NicholasHeurich) May 11, 2022
INCREDIBLE MOMENT: Boynton Beach police sent this video out in the hopes to honor the people who got out of the car to help the woman who had a medical episode while driving. https://t.co/5XDUhTg570 pic.twitter.com/2o6G9d6MJP
— WPBF 25 News (@WPBF25News) May 11, 2022
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. —
The Boynton Beach Police Department is searching for a group of good Samaritans who stopped a moving car after a woman had a medical emergency while driving.
On May 5, a woman suffered a medical episode and was seen by her co-worker slumped over the steering wheel, according to police. The co-worker then ran into the road to stop traffic as the car slowly moved into the intersection.
The co-worker got the attention of other motorists and they came together to stop the car, use a dumbbell to smash a rear window, and move the car into a nearby parking lot.
A nurse who was in the parking lot had called 911 and provided medical attention until the fire department arrived, police said.
re: #206 William Lewis
Doesn’t it need a layer of crushed potato chips too?
_I_ never ate those abominations but there was a guy I knew in the army who did grilled peanut butter, banana and potato chip sandwiches. < shudder > Almost as nasty as a Moonpie & RC lunch.
Of course, he thought much the same of my bologna based delicacies so he lost out there too ;)
Fritos, crushed - but not powdered!
re: #222 jeffreyw
Fritos, crushed - but not powdered!
Also, RC cola can go well with a Moonpie, but is really made better by pouring a bag of salted peanuts into the cola bottle after opening.
“Under my predecessor — the great MAGA king — the deficit increased every year that he was president,” President Biden says in Chicago, accusing Republicans of not wanting to solve inflation by lowering costs, but “by raising taxes and lowering your income.”
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 11, 2022
MINNESOTA: Multiple tornado warned storms to the west of Minneapolis continue to move NE up to 45 mph. These are dangerous storms capable of producing a tornado.
Seek shelter NOW. More LIVE on @WeatherNation now. #MNwx pic.twitter.com/tUtFcJwzkP— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) May 11, 2022
You need to watch @SenatorCantwell call out Republican Senators: “What are you thinking when you are advocating for a return to pre-Roe???” pic.twitter.com/eiayBFWGtH
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) May 11, 2022
re: #223 Barefoot Grin
Also, RC cola can go well with a Moonpie, but is really made better by pouring a bag of salted peanuts into the cola bottle after opening.
Woops, I think my Georgia-born and raised mom might have preferred boiled peanuts in her RC. Or as they are called there “bowled peanuts.”
So — 18 of us at Mother’s Day lunch at my sister’s. Today I get a call from my nephew informing me that this son, who is 9(?) just tested positive for Covid, after becoming symptomatic last evening. A waiting game now for the rest of us to see if we are going to become infected too.
This is Rick. He’s quite prickly for a dog. Can be a little shy but really opens up as you get to know him. 14/10 would pet carefully pic.twitter.com/FYGngYNC33
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) May 11, 2022
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
They’re thinking that they’re ushering in a Christian fascist govt. They will get to control the Courts for decades to come, and can do as they please. With redistricting, they may have a permanent control with favorable conditions in both the House and WH.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
eeeewwwwwwwww
Louisiana Republican reveals his 40-year-old daughters still ‘get in his lap’ during debate on abortion bill https://t.co/NGaoTyakmV
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 11, 2022
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Creepo-rama! I have a 40 year old daughter. This is not in any way, shape, form or fashion healthy or reasonable behavior. When my daughters were 2 and 6 it was different, but not now, no way.
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Hooked up this 2-bay external hard drive that has a USB 3.1 (gen 1) connector, and it’s noticeably faster than the Firewire port. The problem is that something is causing the drives to keep making little access sounds periodically even when I’m not using them and I can’t find the culprit.
This new iMac is totally silent, which really makes this noise stand out.
I added the drives to the Spotlight exclusion list, so it’s not Spotlight indexing the disks. Activity Monitor’s disk tab doesn’t show anything unusual. It’s a damned mystery.
re: #233 Charles Johnson
I added the drives to the Spotlight exclusion list, so it’s not Spotlight indexing the disks. Activity Monitor’s disk tab doesn’t show anything unusual. It’s a damned mystery.
I’ve been reliably told that it is Colossus.
The good life.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/emcq11uPyM
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 11, 2022
re: #231 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Creepo-rama! I have a 40 year old daughter. This is not in any way, shape, form or fashion healthy or reasonable behavior. When my daughters were 2 and 6 it was different, but not now, no way.
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Oh, and this inexpensive adapter that was supposed to let me connect my 30” Cinema Display to the iMac?
It does not fucking work. But it was only $15 with tax. I’ll probably return it if I still can.
But I did find another one that has been confirmed to work with the iMac by several sources who wish to remain anonymous. It’s 3x more expensive but hey whatever.
newsletter subscribers complain about this to me every week. the difference is that i don’t concoct any insane conspiracy theories to make myself seem like a victim https://t.co/QLcWYXsq2k
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 10, 2022
lmao of course Newsmax is taking this seriously pic.twitter.com/1miu4GkcxS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 11, 2022
re: #232 Charles Johnson
Hooked up this 2-bay external hard drive that has a USB 3.1 (gen 1) connector, and it’s noticeably faster than the Firewire port. The problem is that something is causing the drives to keep making little access sounds periodically even when I’m not using them and I can’t find the culprit.
This new iMac is totally silent, which really makes this noise stand out.
Hey Charles, what iMac you get? In the market now. Thanks
re: #240 EstebanTornado1963
Hey Charles, what iMac you get? In the market now. Thanks
I got the new 24” M1 iMac, in silver because they’re back-ordered in other colors. 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD. It’s fantastic.
re: #242 EstebanTornado1963
I actually found it on eBay from a Mac store in Florida. You can’t get one from an Apple Store until June.
re: #215 nines09
Off topic because…
Just found this out. It’s that time of life I suppose. Not sure if anyone knows or likes it.
But anyway, one more on the road…Charles ‘Little Charlie’ Baty: July 10, 1953-March 6, 2020
He retired quite a while back, was worn out from the non stop touring.
Dude been listening to some Django Reinhardt
Protesters walk by Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s house today. pic.twitter.com/FH7uEIyFJc
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 12, 2022
I really recommend going with the 8/8 core 16GB model, because it has four Thunderbolt/USB ports, and gigabit Ethernet in addition to the extra RAM. Two ports is really not enough.
You can lift this iMac with one hand. It’s unbelievably thin and light.
re: #247 Charles Johnson
Eventually they will turn into iPads.
Currently there is the iPad Pro which is roughly the size of a piece of paper.
Once Apple can make an iPad the size of the standard A2 paper size, will there be a need for an iMac?
re: #246 Charles Johnson
I really recommend going with the 8/8 core 16GB model, because it has four Thunderbolt/USB ports, and gigabit Ethernet in addition to the extra RAM. Two ports is really not enough.
Gotta link to one?
re: #248 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Eventually they will turn into iPads.
Currently there is the iPad Pro which is roughly the size of a piece of paper.
Once Apple can make an iPad the size of the standard A2 paper size, will there be a need for an iMac?
Apparently my screen fracture issues on my Macbook Air had to do with incompatibility between ultra-light screen and a too-tight body it sits in. But I’m sure they’ll work that out. Anyway, I’m happy that Apple replaced my broken screen as if under warranty. I hope it doesn’t happen again. (Still haven’t opted for Apple Care, but, you know, I have about 4 days.)
Sorry, also meant to add that my work-provided Macbook Pro has 4 ports and that is very useful at times at work. My Macbook Air personal computer only has two, but I don’t use it for complicated stuff, so that’s fine.
If I ever carry, let me die before doing what this dumbass did. Just look at the trigger guard.
Imagine getting tinnitus from standing at the check out counter pic.twitter.com/A54aavY8Yj
— Xaniken (@Xaniken) May 11, 2022
re: #251 Sherlock Hound
If I ever carry, let me die before doing what this dumbass did. Just look at the trigger guard.
They went to work with a gun in their pocket. I understand needing a gun for some jobs, but it was not for work. If I still had to work in an office, I’d raise serious hell if a coworker did this and we found out when it discharged.
Dreamsicle by Jason Isbell.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) May 12, 2022
re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I guess David French isn’t into fascism.
Read every word of this report. Tim exposes a side of American evangelicalism that a lot of elite right-wing Evangelicals on this site ignore, minimize, or don’t even know exists. https://t.co/AXymd8Z1BK
— David French (@DavidAFrench) May 11, 2022
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
I normally don’t throw money at Go Fund Me’s but I did at this one, because it sucks they’re being harassed by anti-abortion fanatics. You know it’s BAD when they’re worse than Scientology.
— Groucho’s Ghost (@GrouchoG) May 11, 2022
re: #257 DodgerFan1988
This is a piece of Russian propaganda put out by Kremlin-funded Radio Sputnik. His net worth is around $20 million, with his largest asset a 25% share in a comedy production company. See attached article by Forbes. No surprise to see Gosar peddling this. pic.twitter.com/PG0K2aoCp0
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 11, 2022
re: #255 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I guess David French isn’t into fascism.
Thank you. Reading now.
re: #258 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Is Gosar the one some Republican honcho voted “Most Likely To Be On The Payroll”?
re: #260 Decatur Deb
Is Gosar the one some Republican honcho voted “Most Likely To Be On The Payroll”?
That was Dana Rohrabacher and someone who’s name does not come to me at the moment. It could be Gozar.
Gozar’s the one whose whole family denounced him.
re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Dude, I’m supposed to feel sorry for guys who see LGBTQIA people like me as heinous unrepentant sinners? I don’t feel sorry for them. But I’d remind them & you that Jesus spent his time with his society’s outcasts, not today’s (self) righteous churchgoers.
— Dee Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) May 12, 2022