A Bizarre Story About Sex, Clones, Cannibals and a Parade, by Zefrank: The Self-Sacrificing Amoeba

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316 comments

Patricia Kayden Aug 14, 2022 • 4:10:44pm

I’m trying not to celebrate Trump’s jail sentence in advance so this is helpful.

Be careful not to overreach, folks. There’s a lot that neither we nor the media knows about what was at Mar-a-Lago, and speculation and reflexive retweeting of attention-grabbing headlines could backfire. Caution and patience—the way Merrick Garland proceeds—will serve us best.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 13, 2022

jaunte Aug 14, 2022 • 4:11:44pm

Goodge.

Patricia Kayden Aug 14, 2022 • 4:13:12pm

Parody account

Trump to Trump supporters: get off our property 😂 pic.twitter.com/ZFaGWsfZiN

— Follow Plz? 👈 Faith Back Rub (@FaithRubPol) August 14, 2022

PhillyPretzel Aug 14, 2022 • 4:16:07pm

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

George is correct. Do not speculate.

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Aug 14, 2022 • 4:34:12pm

re: #4 PhillyPretzel

George is correct. Do not speculate.

From a couple of days ago.

JFC, Would you all quit SPECULATING abt what those classified papers MIGHT contain. The fact that they were classified & shouldn’t have been in his possession is all we know 4 sure. Burn his ass 4 unlawfully taking them. We MAY eventually find out what they contained L8er. Or not

— Michele: 🏳️‍⚧️ Out of the closet. Into the fire (@michele_out) August 12, 2022

PhillyPretzel Aug 14, 2022 • 4:35:20pm

re: #5 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

And I have up-dinged it then and now.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 14, 2022 • 4:35:24pm

Sam Donaldson tells Jim Acosta that the real un-Americans are Republicans who knowingly support and enable Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/OR6rROkhnf

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 14, 2022

The Pie Overlord! Aug 14, 2022 • 4:37:19pm

PLAIIOS!S!!S!!!

Here is how disinformation works. Baselessly attack critics in an effort to undermine their arguments. Note the lack of response to the argument itself. In fact, Trump’s claim that he “declassified” top secret documents is no defense to these charges under the law. https://t.co/rxtMFwhaPP

— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) August 14, 2022

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Aug 14, 2022 • 4:44:50pm

re: #6 PhillyPretzel

And I have up-dinged it then and now.

Thank you.

Eventual Carrion Aug 14, 2022 • 4:46:25pm

I don’t remember if I wrote about this yesterday, but I notice the sign still isn’t back up.

I was washing my car yesterday. I had just finished the outside and was at the end of my driveway having a smoke before tackling the interior. A guy down the street has had a tRump sign out front of his house forever. Not a big one, just those little placards held in place by thin pot metal shafts stuck in the ground. He pulled it out of the ground disappeared from my view up his driveway. I thought he might be moving it to mow or something. I went on with my car cleaning. I noticed later that the sign was not out there still. Today it is still not out there. I don’t know the guy at all so I am not going to ask. His next door neighbor I talk to, so he might know something. I think he may have had enough of TFG after this last shit came to light. Can only hope.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Aug 14, 2022 • 4:51:15pm

Be careful not to overreach, folks. There’s a lot that neither we nor the media knows about what was at Mar-a-Lago, and speculation and reflexive retweeting of attention-grabbing headlines could backfire. Caution and patience—the way Merrick Garland proceeds—will serve us best.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 13, 2022

Sound advice from George. Incidentally, I have been watching the 1963 flick PT-109, about the sinking of then Lieutenant (jg) John F. Kennedy’s patrol boat in a collision with a Japanese destroyer in 1942. Cliff Robertson plays Kennedy, and was JFK’s personal choice for the role, while none other than 25 year old George Takei appears briefly as the helmsman of the Japanese destroyer.
One of the amateur critics on Amazon Prime actually drags Robertson for not trying to imitate Kennedy’s accent or mannerisms, even though JFK himself had specified that the actor playing him was not to bother with that.

GlutenFreeJesus Aug 14, 2022 • 4:51:26pm

re: #10 Eventual Carrion

More likely he’s embarrassed and doesn’t want anyone making fun of him, but he will still vote for him if he runs again.

Eventual Carrion Aug 14, 2022 • 5:03:57pm

re: #12 GlutenFreeJesus

More likely he’s embarrassed and doesn’t want anyone making fun of him, but he will still vote for him if he runs again.

Possible, but I can still hope.

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Aug 14, 2022 • 5:05:19pm

re: #10 Eventual Carrion

I don’t remember if I wrote about this yesterday, but I notice the sign still isn’t back up.

I was washing my car yesterday. I had just finished the outside and was at the end of my driveway having a smoke before tackling the interior. A guy down the street has had a tRump sign out front of his house forever. Not a big one, just those little placards held in place by thin pot metal shafts stuck in the ground. He pulled it out of the ground disappeared from my view up his driveway. I thought he might be moving it to mow or something. I went on with my car cleaning. I noticed later that the sign was not out there still. Today it is still not out there. I don’t know the guy at all so I am not going to ask. His next door neighbor I talk to, so he might know something. I think he may have had enough of TFG after this last shit came to light. Can only hope.

The guy down the lane from me had been flying a F*CK BIDEN flag for the last week or so and now it’s gone. Next time I go to my local IGA affiliated store, I’ll have to check and see if the tRumper who was flying a tRump 2024 still has it up.

darthstar Aug 14, 2022 • 5:23:32pm

Dear god…do we need to pay attention to Trump again this week?

gocart mozart Aug 14, 2022 • 5:24:01pm

Fox out dumbs itself again.

I keep seeing this clip on Fox this weekend of the VP. pic.twitter.com/pdNI59ugiM

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 14, 2022

Patricia Kayden Aug 14, 2022 • 5:25:40pm

Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion Aug 14, 2022 • 5:29:05pm

re: #17 Patricia Kayden

“We will be appointing very pro-crime judges” - Fuckface von Clownstick

“They have action replays in mactified forshion” - Fuckface von Clownstick

“I know words. I have the best words.” - Fuckface von Clownstick

“It was tremendously huge, and tremendously wet.” - Fuckface von Clownstick

The Pie Overlord! Aug 14, 2022 • 5:34:14pm

PLAIIOS!S!!S!!! Alert
LOL notice that he does not say anything about TFG’s uh legal issues.

Inflation is zero.
Border is secure.
Men can be pregnant.
Afghanistan was a success.
A recession is not a recession.

Don’t fall for the lies of the Left.

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) August 14, 2022

Dangerman Aug 14, 2022 • 5:37:58pm

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

I’m trying not to celebrate Trump’s jail sentence in advance so this is helpful.

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It’s what I said at the top the last thread

George and I coordinate our messages

Captain Ron Aug 14, 2022 • 5:39:29pm

This deserves an Oscar pic.twitter.com/BF4SBY7sVx

— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) August 13, 2022

Dangerman Aug 14, 2022 • 5:41:18pm

re: #11 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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I have been watching the 1963 flick PT-109,

I just watched it last week

Shiplord and I coordinate movies

The Pie Overlord! Aug 14, 2022 • 5:44:41pm

A Palestinian gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City, wounding eight people including a pregnant woman, whose baby did not survive. https://t.co/6bIOgMwBoj pic.twitter.com/RUA5jNEZ1j

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 14, 2022

A Cranky One Aug 14, 2022 • 5:46:59pm

Admit it guitarists. You want one.

Click to Reveal

Admit it guitarists. You want one.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 14, 2022 • 5:48:02pm

jeebus

Yes, Rod Blagojevich now spends his weekends singing Jailhouse Rock at parties in Chicago.

Video from a friend who was there: pic.twitter.com/4AhQ4v9gr0

— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) August 15, 2022

Captain Ron Aug 14, 2022 • 5:54:36pm

Latest analysis article:

Six months on - lessons and impacts from the war in Ukrainehttps://t.co/J4NoU1X0um #RussiaUkraineConflict #UkraineWar pic.twitter.com/v4sC9Ypgef

— Navy Lookout (@NavyLookout) August 12, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 14, 2022 • 5:58:22pm

OLB @jjtimeee got to meet one his biggest fans today, a 5-year-old named Millie Forker!

Millie has Kabuki Syndrome and Arthrogryposis and has four fingers on her right hand. With JJ’s six fingers, they had a 10-finger high five! She’s a kindergartner at Woodlawn Elementary! pic.twitter.com/VhU9qow6By

— Kentucky Football (@UKFootball) August 13, 2022

retired cynic Aug 14, 2022 • 5:59:45pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus

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I won’t listen. I won’t.

I Would Prefer Not To Aug 14, 2022 • 6:02:37pm

from 2020, but it caught my eye.

Rand Paul is a Libertarian like Pluto is a planet. It has some vague similarities to one, but it’s small, always takes an irregular path, and is basically space trash caught up in the pull of a big orange thing.

— Edward Savio® (@edwardsavio) August 29, 2020

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 6:04:48pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus

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I want to live in a world where Trump has to do that.

Hecuba's daughter Aug 14, 2022 • 6:06:48pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus

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He’s not inflicting any harm with this “second” career. Let him continue in peace. He may be an idiot and a jerk, but he wasn’t a major criminal, even compared to the other imprisoned Illinois governors.

darthstar Aug 14, 2022 • 6:07:05pm

Can I get in trouble for this plagiarized material…even if the content is true? pic.twitter.com/bPyfZfXhCx

— Rocket ❤️’s Bridges (@catkin61) August 15, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 14, 2022 • 6:07:11pm

Take two minutes and watch this local news story about Marco Rubio running away from a reporter at his own event. You won’t be disappointed pic.twitter.com/wELFbWsB19

— Grant Fox (@grantxfox) August 15, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 14, 2022 • 6:08:09pm

Exactly the kind of rhetoric that can overcome people’s natural aversion to political violence.

These assholes all have blood on their hands. https://t.co/O2SmplzyM2

— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) August 14, 2022

William Lewis Aug 14, 2022 • 6:08:18pm

Huh. My GF is dropping her daughter off this weekend for her first semester of college and dorm life. My post High School life started with a bus ride ending at Ft Knox and a bit of a rude wake up the next morning. I imagine her alarm clock will be less startling than a trash can being thrown down the main hall to wake us up :)

BigPapa Aug 14, 2022 • 6:09:14pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

OMG Teh Cutesnesses

GlutenFreeJesus Aug 14, 2022 • 6:10:55pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh. My. God.

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 6:11:18pm

re: #35 William Lewis

Huh. My GF is dropping her daughter off this weekend for her first semester of college and dorm life. My post High School life started with a bus ride ending at Ft Knox and a bit of a rude wake up the next morning. I imagine her alarm clock will be less startling than a trash can being thrown down the main hall to wake us up :)

One of my favorite things about college is that my kids, who would sometimes go back to bed after we woke them up in the mornings, get up not only for an early alarm clock there, but sometimes earlier.

When they come home for break, you can’t get them up.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 14, 2022 • 6:11:44pm

dad? pic.twitter.com/a9Vl3mkTwa

— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) August 15, 2022

Hecuba's daughter Aug 14, 2022 • 6:12:03pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

Have they found the time to question Val Demings? They can always preface the interview by saying that Rubio has declined the opportunity to appear on their show.

BigPapa Aug 14, 2022 • 6:14:55pm

re: #35 William Lewis

Huh. My GF is dropping her daughter off this weekend for her first semester of college and dorm life. My post High School life started with a bus ride ending at Ft Knox and a bit of a rude wake up the next morning. I imagine her alarm clock will be less startling than a trash can being thrown down the main hall to wake us up :)

Nice. My twin nieces are on the path. One is gone and one leaves in 10 days. Auntie Wife Unit and I are giving them a nice book to read.

Fuck the Patriarchy

Captain Ron Aug 14, 2022 • 6:15:06pm

Swim call on @USSHARRYSTRUMAN - one of the “coolest”😉 perks of deployment! pic.twitter.com/zyBOUfDlvX

— U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet (@USNavyEurope) August 10, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 14, 2022 • 6:18:32pm

This new Exorcist reboot sucks. pic.twitter.com/xdchS1aKJw

— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) August 14, 2022

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 6:20:38pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They’re putting more demons in.

steve_davis Aug 14, 2022 • 6:21:19pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

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we all have four fingers on our right hands, don’t we?

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 6:22:26pm

re: #45 steve_davis

we all have four fingers on our right hands, don’t we?

Don’t.

steve_davis Aug 14, 2022 • 6:25:05pm

re: #46 Belafon

Don’t.

:-) Just be thankful “whomever” wasn’t misused. shit would have gotten real.

BigPapa Aug 14, 2022 • 6:25:12pm

re: #45 steve_davis

we all have four fingers on our right hands, don’t we?

Ya’ll supposed to get the demons out

Captain Ron Aug 14, 2022 • 6:25:34pm

re: #42 Captain Ron

I missed this.

Plunging from the deck is what 🇷🇺 sailors do best when they escaped from the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov on fire, without forgetting the Moskva cruiser… 😏 ✌🏼🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/azx9XloYQ8

— ParigoTraveller (@ParigoTraveller) August 10, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 14, 2022 • 6:26:21pm

WATCH: Without any evidence, ignoring all we know, @MarshaBlackburn says there’s a “cabal” inside the FBI out to get a Trump that got (TRUMP APPOINTEE) FBI director Christopher Wray to sign off on the search of Trump’s lair.

She spews lies daily without consequence or coverage🤥 pic.twitter.com/ETnXnxzjMK

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) August 15, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 14, 2022 • 6:28:08pm

Jim Acosta: “How does the “Forward Party” feel about Roe v Wade?”

Andrew Yang: “The “Forward Party” has a—not left or right- but “forward” stance on even the most divisive & contentious issues.”

Jim Acosta: “What does that even mean?!” pic.twitter.com/JqHKQdBs1x

— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) August 14, 2022

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 6:34:28pm

re: #47 steve_davis

:-) Just be thankful “whomever” wasn’t misused. shit would have gotten real.

The player had five fingers by your strict definition, so no, not everyone does.

Charles Johnson Aug 14, 2022 • 6:38:50pm

re: #15 darthstar

Dear god…do we need to pay attention to Trump again this week?

it’s gonna get worse before it gets better.

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 6:41:53pm

oglaf.com

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 14, 2022 • 6:43:04pm

re: #4 PhillyPretzel

George is correct. Do not speculate.

It would be irresponsible not to speculate. /s

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 6:47:04pm

At least in Germany they focus on educating the populace on HOW the Nazis rose to power.

Here we gloss over the “how and why”, choosing to focus on the military victories & the Holocaust.

— Bippy… as in, “bet your sweet.” (@Bysbippy) August 14, 2022

Charles Johnson Aug 14, 2022 • 6:47:12pm

I can’t help feeling that things are gonna get a lot worse before they start to get better.

Because the shit is crazy out there.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 15, 2022

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 14, 2022 • 6:58:28pm

Severe thunderstorm warning … deadly hail and lightning with torrential rain. Let’s see if my Internet service holds up. Flash flood warning in effect.

windy.com

EPR-radar Aug 14, 2022 • 7:03:20pm

re: #54 Belafon

That reminds me of this fine example of the buttered cat effect:

Flying Horse - Gatorrada (Cat-Toast)

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 7:23:55pm

LOL:

pic.twitter.com/kdZR6VEVKg

— Alex Ghenis 🇺🇦👩‍🦼🐻🥑🚰🌊 (@aghenis) August 15, 2022

Fixed pic.twitter.com/AoC1JBhuWH

— Alex Ghenis 🇺🇦👩‍🦼🐻🥑🚰🌊 (@aghenis) August 15, 2022

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 7:25:17pm

My thing about the internet is that I’m pretty good, when I want to, at skipping over the shit. It’s when there’s good stuff that I can’t get off (hence why this site is destroying my free time).

darthstar Aug 14, 2022 • 7:27:04pm

This Artichoke’s heart is almost as big as Merle’s. pic.twitter.com/aFnQhNx0kW

— Sean (@sean_s_mc) August 15, 2022

Dangerman Aug 14, 2022 • 7:29:14pm

Good thing we have a reliable Supreme Court that would never go along with Trump’s specious claims that a president has the power to give a standing verbal order, witnessed only by his sycophants, to automatically declassify everything that left the building.

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2022

retired cynic Aug 14, 2022 • 7:29:24pm

re: #62 darthstar

OMG, I want to come there to EAT!

Dangerman Aug 14, 2022 • 7:29:59pm

shutting down the government is pretty unpopular; Ds should probably highlight this. “the first thing the Rs want to do is raise your prescription drug prices and stop sending social security checks.” https://t.co/v0KNE6OXCP

— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) August 13, 2022

Dangerman Aug 14, 2022 • 7:31:03pm

Since this story broke, there have been countless threats of violence against the FBI. There was an act of violence against the FBI in Cincinnati. Yet Donald Trump hasn’t condemned these threats of violence against the FBI. Not once.

He’s a horrible, horrible human being.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 14, 2022

Of course he’s behind it…

So Cal Greek Hippie Aug 14, 2022 • 7:33:03pm

Calabasas, California

Amory Blaine Aug 14, 2022 • 7:33:28pm

re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter

He’s not inflicting any harm with this “second” career. Let him continue in peace. He may be an idiot and a jerk, but he wasn’t a major criminal, even compared to the other imprisoned Illinois governors.

Amory Blaine Aug 14, 2022 • 7:39:38pm

re: #35 William Lewis

Right before I graduated the recruiter came early in the morning to the house to pick me up and fly to Phoenix to be sworn in. I frustrated him and the old man. “Nuh uh, I ain’t going” :D

Dangerman Aug 14, 2022 • 7:40:03pm

“This egomaniac is desecrating our democracy, tearing the country apart for his own benefit. Fund-raising emails ranting about the F.B.I. search of Mar-a-Lago should be headlined: ‘Let’s Ruin America So We Can Make Some Money Off It! ‘“https://t.co/dHxYVcaVQH

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 14, 2022

Opportunity for Biden?

denounce the agenda of defund the police AND defund the FBI

Invite the leadership of both parties to do likewise.

Force the Rs to decide between Trump and the FBI.

jaunte Aug 14, 2022 • 7:40:55pm

This is one of the longest monologues I’ve done for a while but do take out 10 mins of your time to watch:

On @MSNBC, I tallied all of the Trump/Trumpworld lies and excuses in the wake of the FBI search…and debunked them all.

Please do watch and share:pic.twitter.com/gnN69Sdnox

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 15, 2022

EPR-radar Aug 14, 2022 • 7:47:44pm

re: #71 jaunte

I realize there is value in debunking the lies of liars, but there is also value in branding incorrigible liars as such, and refusing to deal with their bullshit any more.

US Republicans are long past the point where absolutely every statement they make in public should be reported on with at least the following warning: “This is a Republican statement. Therefore it is almost certainly false, and it should be treated as deliberate lies unless/until it is confirmed by non-Republican sources.”

Crush White Nationalism Aug 14, 2022 • 7:49:30pm

This was my Six Flags, but I haven’t been there in decades.

🇺🇸#DEVELOPING: Unconfirmed reports of ‘multiple people’ shot throughout the park

Reported locations of victims:
- front gate
- wave pool
- guest services
- “indoor location” pic.twitter.com/dsVXS2CRJG

— Intel Point ALERT (@IntelPointAlert) August 15, 2022

GlutenFreeJesus Aug 14, 2022 • 7:51:14pm

re: #73 Crush White Nationalism

Sigh. I was down the street at the mall the other day.

Hecuba's daughter Aug 14, 2022 • 7:52:09pm

re: #68 Amory Blaine

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Blagojevich led a band in prison for about a year; a success story of a criminal who learned a useful trade while incarcerated and was rehabilitated!
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Hecuba's daughter Aug 14, 2022 • 8:00:44pm

re: #73 Crush White Nationalism

This was my Six Flags, but I haven’t been there in decades.

⚠️🇺🇸#DEVELOPING: Reports of multiple people shot at Six Flags Amusement Park in Gurnee, Illinois #Gurnee l #IL
Multiple ambulances have been requested to the scene by police. There is no word on the exact number of victims at this time.
More information as it becomes available. pic.twitter.com/8jAqdL5uzx

— Intel Point ALERT (@IntelPointAlert) August 15, 2022

Heard the tail end of a report that said that 3 people were shot but the injuries were not life threatening. Given the customers panicked fleeing the park, it’s possible there were additional injuries in the stampede.

The Pie Overlord! Aug 14, 2022 • 8:01:08pm

LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Trump is going to cost us the senate again. https://t.co/dAkvxbueNZ

— Marc Thiessen 🆓🇺🇦 (@marcthiessen) August 15, 2022

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Aug 14, 2022 • 8:01:29pm

Kodachrome

I leave you with a stunning photo from 1942. One of the new female military workforce constructing Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress bombers, this remarkable and vibrant window into the past is original colour (not colourised). pic.twitter.com/ctSRpnhkeK

— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) September 26, 2021

jaunte Aug 14, 2022 • 8:06:23pm

Some GOP candidates are officially “cut off”. https://t.co/7b0Wp3ggzl

— Carol Morgan (@CounselorCarol1) August 15, 2022

“…The Enforcement Directorate (ED) explained that approximately 370 crore rupees were deposited by 23 entities into the INR wallets of Yellow Tune Technologies held with Flipvolt Technologies’ crypto exchange. These amounts were “proceeds of crime derived from predatory lending practices,” the authority said, elaborating:

Yellow Tune by using the assistance of Flipvolt crypto exchange … assisted the accused fintech companies in avoiding regular banking channels, and managed to easily take out all the fraud money in the form of crypto assets.

The agency alleged that Flipvolt “has very lax KYC [know-your-customer] norms, no EDD [enhanced due diligence] mechanism, no check on the source of funds of the depositor, no mechanism of raising STRs [suspicious transaction reports].”

In addition, Flipvolt failed to give the complete trail of crypto transactions made by Yellow Tune Technologies and could not supply any form of KYC of the opposite party wallets, ED noted.

The authority concluded that “by encouraging obscurity and having lax AML [anti-money laundering] norms,” the crypto exchange “has actively assisted Yellow Tune in laundering the proceeds of crime worth 370 crore rupees using cryptocurrency.”

steve_davis Aug 14, 2022 • 8:11:57pm

re: #52 Belafon

The player had five fingers by your strict definition, so no, not everyone does.

Well, by my strict definition, that means the player had four fingers on his hand. So glad we got that sorted out.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 14, 2022 • 8:16:06pm

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, a complex web of links between the arts world and the Russian state emerged. Has Putin been using culture to wield soft power beyond Russia’s borders? @spencemads reports https://t.co/wwjioNjfbH

— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) August 14, 2022

What I observed when watching some Amazon Rings of Power live streams were the usual derogatory comments, but they were in Russian.

Thousands of them dumping all at once.

Clearly a bot swarm

The Russian ultra-nationalists (of which Putin is head) are a direct ally to the gamergate-style incels who whine 24/7 about Hollywood going “woke”.

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 8:25:32pm

re: #80 steve_davis

Well, by my strict definition, that means the player had four fingers on his hand. So glad we got that sorted out.

Are you actually doing “because he had five fingers and a thumb, he had four fingers and a thumb”?

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 14, 2022 • 8:25:58pm

I can’t overstate how important age-appropriate comprehensive sex education for the future of our society.

We do young people a disservice when we only teach abstinence education or politicize messaging about the medical facts of pregnancy, abortion, & reproductive health. https://t.co/R69zTFEaIo

— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) August 15, 2022

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 8:26:12pm

My dad forwarded this:

m.facebook.com

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 14, 2022 • 8:35:47pm

QAnon Pastor Who Said Trump Was Secretly Inaugurated Dies Unexpectedly (Political Flare, August 14, 2022, citing Joe My God and other sources). Like a good pastor, he has multiple convictions for DUI and theft. At least he gets out of his divorce case, which was ongoing. He was fired from his previous church for “un-Biblical moral choices.”

Right-wing pastor Jeff Jansen “prophesied” that Trump would be back in office by April. Then he moved the date to June. Now he insists that he knows “for a fact that [Trump] has already been inaugurated” on March 4. pic.twitter.com/2cO1zH6LEz

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 9, 2021

jaunte Aug 14, 2022 • 8:41:54pm

Of course. It’s also familiar to anyone who followed Putin‘s propaganda response after shooting down MH17: Keep making up new lies until people doubt the truth. https://t.co/YamFDqw0Tr

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 15, 2022

Hecuba's daughter Aug 14, 2022 • 8:42:00pm

re: #84 Belafon

My dad forwarded this:

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m.facebook.com

The military.com website reports the same story. Pretty disgraceful.

jaunte Aug 14, 2022 • 8:45:36pm

6 years of this question being super relevant https://t.co/vCq7jjWcCU

— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) August 15, 2022

Jay C Aug 14, 2022 • 8:47:06pm

re: #49 Captain Ron

I missed this.

How did they know it was on fire? Isn’t the Admiral Kuznetzov the ship that belches out huge clouds of black smoke just getting underway?

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 8:51:29pm

Just a reminder that when my mom was dying of cancer, Donald Trump slapped my father on his back and said, “Bobby, I hear it’s time to find you a new younger one…”. Back in 1997. Never forget.

— Brooke Hammerling (@brooke) August 13, 2022

retired cynic Aug 14, 2022 • 8:53:17pm

re: #90 Belafon

What a thread of things TFG has done to ordinary people!

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 8:53:59pm

~~I am buying some checks. Anyone know anything about EZShield for check or identity protection?~~

Never mind. I skipped it.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Aug 14, 2022 • 8:54:10pm

re: #89 Jay C

How did they know it was on fire? Isn’t the Admiral Kuznetzov the ship that belches out huge clouds of black smoke just getting underway?

Hecuba's daughter Aug 14, 2022 • 8:55:18pm

re: #90 Belafon

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From that same thread:

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— BJ Gifford ☮️ 🌊🇺🇸🌊 (@BJdabomb) August 14, 2022

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 9:20:36pm

Holy crap:

A man in Pennsylvania plowed his car into a fund-raising event for families affected by a recent fatal fire, killing one and injuring 17, then drove off and fatally beat his mother before police arrested him, officials said. https://t.co/TzltkoEa2m

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 14, 2022

Belafon Aug 14, 2022 • 9:34:29pm

Heh:

As a Jew, I’ve heard Christians trying to convert me warning me of the anti-christ. Then he shows up and they get mad that his house gets raided. SMH

— Benjamin Ze’ev 🇮🇱 בנימין זאב (@Zeev00685036) August 14, 2022

Targetpractice Aug 14, 2022 • 9:35:16pm

re: #86 jaunte

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Like I said the other day, if Donny had even a single competent lawyer, he’d have shut his yap on Monday and responded to every request for comment by pointing them at said lawyer and walked off. Allowed the story to peter out in the press while his sycophants in the media and the halls of power pressured the DOJ to show its hand for the public to see. And only when he knew what it was he was being accused of should he have even begun to formulate a public defense.

Instead, he’s got circus clowns working for him because they’re the only ones who’ll still take IOUs to work for him, so he’s instead just giving the DOJ a growing pile of ammunition while dragging this story out longer and longer to the detriment of himself and the GQP as a whole.

retired cynic Aug 14, 2022 • 9:37:51pm

re: #97 Targetpractice

If he had a competent lawyer, he wouldn’t listen to them, because dontchaknow, he knows more about the law they they do.

Targetpractice Aug 14, 2022 • 9:45:32pm

re: #98 retired cynic

If he had a competent lawyer, he wouldn’t listen to them, because dontchaknow, he knows more about the law they they do.

Asshats like Donny are the reason retainer fees exist.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 14, 2022 • 10:17:52pm

TOPEKA — Melissa Leavitt says her ability to raise money to pay for a statewide hand recount of votes on the constitutional amendment on abortion rights will “have a lot to do with God moving in people’s lives.”
Leavitt ordered the recount before the 5 p.m. Friday deadline after launching an online fundraiser. By Saturday morning, she had raised less than $3,000 toward a $275,000 goal. However, the Kansas City Star reported she had posted a $200,000 bond with the Secretary of State’s Office.

(more)

It looks like her hand recount will go ahead.

State Rep. Tatum Lee-Hahn, an incumbent Republican in the state House who lost to another incumbent when their districts were merged, applauds Leavitt’s challenge to the abortion vote in the Kansas Primary.

“Are we honestly so naive to think the entire nation which was watching this amendment vote and covered by every national news media outlet last week, did not have the potential to be fraudulent based on what we’ve seen the deep state do to President Trump just this week?” Lee-Hahn said on her campaign’s Facebook page.

Several recounts are underway in other elections, but those are races where votes were very close and are mandated by law.

Kansas woman says effort to recount abortion vote depends on ‘God moving in people’s lives’ (Raw Story)

She claims the vote must have been fraudulent because of all the attention on the amendment nationwide and because of the way former President Trump has been treated.

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retired cynic Aug 14, 2022 • 10:23:06pm

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

ding dong

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 14, 2022 • 10:24:12pm

Wording!!

Took 6..

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wrenchwench Aug 14, 2022 • 10:25:33pm

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[…]

She claims the vote must have been fraudulent because ~~of all the attention on the amendment nationwide and because of the way former President Trump has been treated.~~ she lost.

Sorry, I was compelled.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 14, 2022 • 10:29:14pm

(34:27)

Youtube Video

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wrenchwench Aug 14, 2022 • 10:45:23pm

This is my 23 hr. old one. I had given up. I guess I eliminated enough wrong stuff.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 421 6/6

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wrenchwench Aug 14, 2022 • 10:58:31pm

I might need this shirt. #twitterstorians pic.twitter.com/WsJcydz1ta

— Dr. Maureen MacLeod (@DrMMacLeod) August 14, 2022

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Targetpractice Aug 14, 2022 • 11:00:23pm

Proposal to pundits who want to smack Donny and his “I DECLARE DECLASSIFICATION!!!” BS upside the head: The next time a Trumpanista tries to make that asinine argument to you, ask them aloud “If President Biden decided tomorrow that he wanted to publicly release a stack of classified documents that are politically damaging to Donald Trump, could he just wave his hand over them while saying ‘They’re declassified’ and then release them in their entirety?”

Yeah, you probably wouldn’t get an immediate response of any note, but the explosion of indignant outrage that would erupt from MAL would be visible from the surface of Mars.

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Targetpractice Aug 14, 2022 • 11:30:12pm

re: #106 wrenchwench

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“A lot of you will be wondering why there are so many wonderful foreign treasures on display here at the British Museum, and the answer is quite simple, really: Gun beats spear.”

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Aug 14, 2022 • 11:44:13pm

re: #108 Targetpractice

“A lot of you will be wondering why there are so many wonderful foreign treasures on display here at the British Museum, and the answer is quite simple, really: ~~Gun beats spear~~ Trump isn’t the first leader who happily sold his country’s treasures to line his own pockets..”

And so, good night.

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Captain Ron Aug 14, 2022 • 11:50:10pm

Anne Heche, an entrancing actor whose versatility powered an admirable career in television and film spanning four decades, has died. The 53-year-old was taken off life support nine days after crashing her car into a Los Angeles home. https://t.co/TW3kyFRmD6 pic.twitter.com/H47IU8WaP1

— CNN (@CNN) August 15, 2022

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John Hughes Aug 14, 2022 • 11:53:48pm

#Worldle #206 2/6 (100%)
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Aug 15, 2022 • 12:02:30am

I downloaded Truth Social just to see how crazy it was and these are just some of the ads I saw on it. pic.twitter.com/uVVKX3tJAw

— Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) August 14, 2022

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Captain Ron Aug 15, 2022 • 12:11:21am

why do sun bears look like humans in a bear suit pic.twitter.com/GOVwpuqyaD

— glurpo (@glurpo) August 14, 2022

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 12:56:40am

re: #112 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Corn 2?

Okay, I had to look that up. It’s tagline is “the sequel to corn. The new conservative vegetable.”

On a search engine, the whole first page is different Websites about the movie “Children of the Corn 2: The Final Sacrifice.”

The first entry that isn’t that film is from Bayer, on their corn made glyphosphate tolerant (in other words, like almost all corn these days which is not heirloom corn).

Flavourless protein powder you can flavour with “liberal tears” to make you more patriotic?

Vax-dar, a device like a radar gun to see if someone had a Covid-19 vaccine? They don’t seem to have a Website; perhaps you can only buy it on Truth Social?

If I had no scruples whatsoever, I could grift from conservatives so hard.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 1:01:47am

Update:

Yes, very plausible though.
(Check his bio)

— Emberella 🏳️‍🌈 (@Rev_Colleen) August 14, 2022

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Targetpractice Aug 15, 2022 • 1:04:40am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Update:

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Honestly, after seeing products like the “Trumpy Bear” and watching grown people actually state on national TV that such a product made them feel “secure” and “confident,” I feel like Poe’s Law is buried next to Irony on Boot Hill.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 1:10:00am

The New York Times can’t bring themselves to use either “lie” or “disarray” when referring to the Republican Party.

Trump’s supporters still can’t figure out the right lie https://t.co/aZs6WmY7Zn pic.twitter.com/7OgnXsQKIU

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 15, 2022

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 15, 2022 • 1:10:04am

Youtube Video

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Targetpractice Aug 15, 2022 • 1:13:14am

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The New York Times can’t bring themselves to use either “lie” or “disarray” when referring to the Republican Party.

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They don’t know which lies they’re supposed to be parroting. They started the week figuring they were just gonna go with “THE FBI WAS ACTING ON BIDEN’S ORDERS TO DESTROY PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!” and ended the week going “Well…he said he left standing orders to declassify any documents, so he didn’t do anything wrong.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 1:16:19am

(1:58)

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) says he does not take home documents marked “special access” like the documents the FBI says were seized from Trump’s home, but argues that we don’t know if they were classified appropriately.

(CNN)

cnn.com

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Targetpractice Aug 15, 2022 • 1:18:15am

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(1:58)

(CNN)

cnn.com

The line in 2016 was pretty clear: If the intel services said that something is classified, then it’s classified and being in possession of it is a federal crime that deserves jail time or at the very least being blackballed from government service.

Oh right, IOKIYAR, my mistake.//////

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Greup Aug 15, 2022 • 1:22:11am

Pretty good party at work when you have both Rush and Primus on stage.

Youtube Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 1:30:07am

re: #4 PhillyPretzel

George is correct. Do not speculate.

heck, at this point, they want us to over-speculate and sensationalize so they can then pull the “see, it was not as bad as all that” defense…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 1:34:45am

From Reddit’s r/VaxxHappened they are running into polio antivaxxers.

Thanks GOP.

reddit.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 1:35:02am

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It would be irresponsible not to speculate. /s

you beat me to it (again)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 1:36:16am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

heck, at this point, they want us to over-speculate and sensationalize so they can then pull the “see, it was not as bad as all that” defense…

The basic issue is, regardless of the classification of the material, is it’s government property he was not authorised to have.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 1:41:39am

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The basic issue is, regardless of the classification of the material, is its government property he was not authorised to have.

He issued as blanket authorization!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 1:42:53am

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He issued as blanket authorization!!!

For theft?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 1:43:36am

re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

For theft?

for which he issued a proactive blanket pardon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 1:47:15am

Republicans in Montana trying to spread more disease and sicken or kill people in the name of Christianity.

HELENA, Mont. — State health officials want to create a religious exemption from routine vaccinations for kids and staff members in childcare facilities and children in certain foster homes.

Under the two proposed administrative rule changes, parents, guardians, and child care staff could submit a notarized affidavit that says being vaccinated against diseases such as polio, measles, and whooping cough goes against their religious beliefs or practices. The childcare measure also would delete an existing requirement that unvaccinated kids stay away from a facility if someone there has contracted a disease against which they are not completely immunized.

The state regulations for foster families currently say all children living in a foster home, other than the foster child, must be immunized against 11 diseases unless they have a medical exemption. The proposed change would add a religious exemption to the medical exemption.

(more)

Montana seeks more religious exemptions to vaccination requirements (NBC Montana, August 12, 2022)

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ericblair Aug 15, 2022 • 1:47:58am

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The New York Times can’t bring themselves to use either “lie” or “disarray” when referring to the Republican Party.

It’s also written like it’s a perfectly reasonable and proper thing for a political party to figure out a believable cover story for a criminal investigation of their boss regardless of the contradictory bullshit said boss is spewing, instead of, you know, demanding a full and objective investigation. Well, the GOP anyway. The reaction of the New York Fucking Times to a comparable situation with a former Democratic president is an exercise for the reader.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 1:55:05am

re: #131 ericblair

It helps that they can say whatever they feel they need to say at the moment with little fear of being called out on contradictions or contrary facts coming to light later.

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Targetpractice Aug 15, 2022 • 1:55:39am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

heck, at this point, they want us to over-speculate and sensationalize so they can then pull the “see, it was not as bad as all that” defense…

I meant to say this the other day with regards to speculation about the nuclear secrets story being leaked by Trump and/or his cronies to WaPo, but I genuinely don’t think we’re in any real danger of falling prey to some grand scheme by Donald J Trump to catch us believing things that aren’t true about him. If the last two years have taught me anything, it’s that often the rumors and stories about what he did in office were tame compared to the reality.

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TarHellion Aug 15, 2022 • 1:57:22am

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Meh. A couple of wild guesses kept the score from being better. Went to a minor-league baseball game yesterday. Amazing how the pitch clock keeps the game flowing. Beautiful drive through the Smoky Mountains only made the day better. Can see why the Cherokee loved this land.

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Targetpractice Aug 15, 2022 • 2:08:22am

re: #131 ericblair

It’s also written like it’s a perfectly reasonable and proper thing for a political party to figure out a believable cover story for a criminal investigation of their boss regardless of the contradictory bullshit said boss is spewing, instead of, you know, demanding a full and objective investigation. Well, the GOP anyway. The reaction of the New York Fucking Times to a comparable situation with a former Democratic president is an exercise for the reader.

Not surprising from the paper that very publicly busted a nut when it learned via “leak” that the FBI was “reopening” the Buttery Males investigation just days before the elections.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 2:16:04am

Conservatives can’t write secure Websites, number eleventy million five:

EXCLUSIVE: Anti-vax dating site that let people advertise ‘mRNA FREE’ semen left all its user data exposed (Daily Dot, July 25, 2022)

An anti-vaccine dating website that allows users to procure “mRNA FREE” semen left its users’ personal data exposed online.

The site, Unjected, launched in May 2021 and claims to be the “largest unvaccinated platform” on the internet. Unjected initially made headlines in August after its app was removed from the Apple App Store for violating the company’s policies regarding COVID-19.

Similar in design to Twitter and often referred to as the “Tinder for anti-vaxxers,” Unjected has remained under the radar ever since, quietly adding new features for its small userbase. The site now offers what it describes as “mRNA FREE blood match & fertility directories” where unvaccinated users can donate blood, sperm, or eggs to one another.

While some of the ads for blood appear legitimate, others, such as one offering up unvaccinated semen, appear to have been made in jest. The site’s fertility section allows users the option to offer up their eggs, breastmilk, or semen. Users can also offer to be a surrogate.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 2:22:55am

re: #133 Targetpractice

… I genuinely don’t think we’re in any real danger of falling prey to some grand scheme by Donald J Trump to catch us believing things that aren’t true about him…

It’s all about distracting us and blowing up enough smoke to buy them time to come up with another ploy.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 15, 2022 • 2:24:30am

41 years ago, the future was easy to predict (and get very close to right):

Youtube Video

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 2:27:42am

This guy needs to be dropped off a pier.

Martin Shkreli is allowing interested parties to sign up for time slots so they can go on a date with the former ‘pharma bro,’ according to a tweet on his somewhat anonymous alt.

The formerly incarcerated Shkreli—who spent four years in prison for securities fraud—said he will be “free for dates starting on September 14th,” which is when his ankle monitor comes off. All dates, he said, come with a “standard gift bag (with NDA).”

The gift bag, according to the form, will include either jewelry, a handbag, or shoes.

The form, a public Google Sheets titled “Date Martin Shkreli,” has categories such as whether the interested party requires travel or a hotel, what their height and weight are, their chest size, and whether they would have any interest in getting pregnant.

There is also a tab asking respondents if they “FOTFD” or “fuck on the first date.”

Some say “yes,” others say “no.” One person agreed only if Shkreli was willing to take an STI test. That date was approved.

(more)

Martin Shkreli is using Google Docs to find women who f*ck on the first date (Daily Dot, August 2, 2022)

He’s got at least 14 first dates planned.

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Targetpractice Aug 15, 2022 • 2:30:32am

re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s all about distracting us and blowing up enough smoke to buy them time to come up with another ploy.

See, I think that makes them sound way more clever than they’ve demonstrated they are. They tried to float the idea that any damning evidence was “planted” by the Feds, only for Ms. OAN to admit they had CCTV coverage of the entire search. They tried to pin the DOJ by suggesting that publishing the warrant would show it was all a hoax only for Garland to call their bluff and the judge to give them less than a day to either put up or shut up. At this point, saying “IT’S NOT AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS!!!” is likely to be met with “Yeah, BECAUSE IT’S WORSE!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 2:33:23am

re: #138 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

41 years ago, the future was easy to predict (and get very close to right):..

My sister bought a ZX-81 Timex Sinclair when they first became available in the USA.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Aug 15, 2022 • 2:35:21am

Clive Sinclair died last fall.

From his Wikipedia entry:

Despite his involvement in computing, Sinclair did not use the Internet, stating that he does not like to have “technical or mechanical things around me” as it distracts from the process of invention.[60][61] In 2010, he stated that he did not use computers himself, and preferred using the telephone rather than email.[62] In 2014, he predicted, “Once you start to make machines that are rivalling and surpassing humans with intelligence, it’s going to be very difficult for us to survive. It’s just an inevitability.”

A futurist to the end, he was probably onto the truth.

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Targetpractice Aug 15, 2022 • 2:45:02am

What may ultimately end up sinking Trump isn’t what he had, but rather who had access and what they did with it. Considering the cabal of conmen and shysters that he surrounds himself with, any one of them may have been selling state secrets even if he wasn’t directly involved. It’s a massive breach of national security and he is ultimately responsible for it happening at all.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 2:51:35am

re: #143 Targetpractice

What may ultimately end up sinking Trump isn’t what he had, but rather who had access and what they did with it. Considering the cabal of conmen and shysters that he surrounds himself with, any one of them may have been selling state secrets even if he wasn’t directly involved. It’s a massive breach of national security and he is ultimately responsible for it happening at all.

Plus considering that cabal of weasels he surrounds himself with, it seems likely at least one would flip to avoid severe prosecution.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 3:04:28am

re: #143 Targetpractice

What may ultimately end up sinking Trump isn’t what he had, but rather who had access and what they did with it. Considering the cabal of conmen and shysters that he surrounds himself with, any one of them may have been selling state secrets even if he wasn’t directly involved. It’s a massive breach of national security and he is ultimately responsible for it happening at all.

“The FBI broke into my safe”

Remember that DT statement?

The background: Government officials visited Mar-a-Lago months ago and found government documents in an unlocked basement room. They advised the Trump Organization to at least padlock the door, which they did.

This is the “safe” that they purportedly broke into.

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 3:19:13am

re: #88 jaunte

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6 years of this question being super relevant https://t.co/vCq7jjWcCU

— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) August 15, 2022

This is what I asked
This is what they answered
This is obviously a lie

Easy

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Targetpractice Aug 15, 2022 • 3:20:22am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“The FBI broke into my safe”

Remember that DT statement?

The background: Government officials visited Mar-a-Lago months ago and found government documents in an unlocked basement room. They advised the Trump Organization to at least padlock the door, which they did.

This is the “safe” that they purportedly broke into.

Yeah, that’s something that’s also gonna come back to bite whichever lawyer signed off on a government form that all the requested documents had been returned. Especially if they knew the statement they were signing their name to was false, as it not only gets them for lying on the form but also assisting their client in committing a felony.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 3:24:27am

re: #146 Dangerman

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This is what I asked
This is what they answered
This is obviously a lie

Easy

“If someone tells you it’s raining, you don’t just write that down, you go outside and see for yourself”.

But our writers simply keep their heads down and report on “only the best weather” and “alternative meteorological observations”.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 15, 2022 • 3:50:45am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Update:

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You had to know it was ~~said~~ satire because the MyStraws were blue! Any RED blooded MAGAt would never buy a blue straw!

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 3:57:54am

Sometimes you take a leap and it works out.

Click to Reveal

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 15, 2022 • 3:58:33am

re: #149 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

You had to know it was ~~said~~ satire because the MyStraws were blue! Any RED blooded MAGAt would never buy a blue straw!

Fixed. Flipping autocorrect.

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Shropshire Slasher Aug 15, 2022 • 4:12:09am

First day switching from heavy cream to oat milk in my coffee. Other than using more oat milk than cream, it is quite good.

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 4:34:05am

re: #150 Dopamine Fish

Wordle 422 4/6

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Pretty confident you and I guessed the same third word.

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 4:35:23am

re: #153 Eclectic Cyborg

Wordle 422 4/6

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Pretty confident you and I guessed the same third word.

Yeah, that tracks.

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Shropshire Slasher Aug 15, 2022 • 4:37:11am

Damn, now I want my homemade sauce, cooking the meatballs in a pot of the cheapest spaghetti sauce I can find, usually Ragu.

California leads the world in production of processing tomatoes — the variety that gets canned and used in commercial kitchens to make some of the most popular foods. The problem is the worst drought in 1,200 years is forcing farmers to grapple with a water crisis that’s undermining the crop, threatening to further push up prices from salsa to spaghetti sauce.
Lack of water is shrinking production in a region responsible for a quarter of the world’s output...

finance.yahoo.com

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steve_davis Aug 15, 2022 • 4:48:42am

This morning’s listening: Harvey Mandel’s Baby Batter. Oh, the Stones should have gone with him when they had the chance.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 5:04:07am

re: #156 steve_davis

This morning’s listening: Harvey Mandel’s Baby Batter. Oh, the Stones should have gone with him when they had the chance.

I had a buddy who introduced me to him back in the 70’s, great musician.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 5:06:46am

re: #146 Dangerman

This is what I asked
This is what they answered
This is obviously a lie

Easy

“This is my access going up in smoke.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 5:12:14am

Bleah.
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Who the hell are these people? Bleah.
#Heardle #172
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spotify.com
Something to assuage my sorrow:
#Worldle #206 1/6 (100%)
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worldle.teuteuf.fr

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 5:30:12am

Wyoming newspapers were all reporting for a whole week about a planned rally in front of the FBI in Cheyenne yesterday. US House primary candidate Harriet Hageman was spinning up people at rallies and press releases to go.

The cops were all set up, but nobody showed. None.

I just have a feeling that after the mostly bust rallies in Phoenix and Washington, if they couldn’t turn out anyone in freakin’ Wyoming this might be blowing over. (That doesn’t mean a small group or single nutjob won’t try something though.)

If the government charges Donald Trump with anything, then things might be different.

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 5:34:53am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yeah, if Trump gets arrested (or arrested and perp walked), expect the RWNJs to rage something fierce.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 5:35:29am

Rawlins, Wyo. is in south-central Wyoming in the upper North Platte River Valley.

The “catastrophic” municipal water system failure in March that prompted a temporary boil advisory in Rawlins was the result of poor engineering and aging infrastructure, exacerbated by drought conditions driven by climate change.

Even as crews scramble to repair and upgrade water facilities, some residents are not complying with lawn watering restrictions, according to city officials. So they’ve stepped up enforcement efforts.

“This is getting really bad, and if we don’t stop [rogue water users] we won’t have any water at all,” Rawlins City Engineer Austin Gilbert told city council members during a recent meeting.

Water delivery volumes for Rawlins are down by about half this summer — a situation that, without major infrastructure upgrades, could get worse for a community that relies on wintertime snowpack to feed the natural springs that provide the bulk of the city’s water. The springs are flowing at about one-third the usual rate this water season, according to the city.

The south-central Wyoming region is experiencing moderate drought conditions and a longer-term climate trend of warmer temperatures and more erratic precipitation. The annual mean springtime temperature in the Upper North Platte Valley has increased by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit since 1920, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data.

That’s twice the global average.

(more)

Rawlins’s municipal water failure part of a growing climate concern (WyoFile, August 4, 2022)

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 5:38:23am

re: #161 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, if Trump gets arrested (or arrested and perp walked), expect the RWNJs to rage something fierce.

There’s absolutely no way that the people who condemned BLM for “completely destroying American cities” in the summer of 2020 would EVER riot violently. NEVER.

///

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 5:42:29am

What the actual fuck are they smoking at the Wall Street Journal, and can they please stop.

When you just utterly refuse to acknowledge that trump’s behavior matters to what an appropriate response to him is, you can make all sorts of stupid arguments https://t.co/DZU3ePbRS5 pic.twitter.com/eU4VaGtbAZ

— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) August 15, 2022

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lawhawk Aug 15, 2022 • 5:42:36am

I’m sorry, but the excuses that Trumpworld is throwing up is getting more absurd by the day.

Just yesterday, they were claiming that they were incompetent and failed to properly handle classified info because they were rushing to leave the WH.

You don’t just throw classified info into a bunch of boxes.

That is de facto mishandling of classified info. Then, when the DOJ and NA identified documents, and told you to secure them because they were openly available, you put them in a basement padlocked area, again mishandling.

This isn’t about Trump somehow declassifying documents with zero papertrail of him ever doing it. It’s about the theft of classified documents, mishandling that information, and the contents turning out to be nuclear secrets.

Mishandling classified info and nuclear secrets was result of Trump’s negligence and incompetence?

And his effort to overthrow the govt got in the way of his proper handling?

That’s the defense they’re throwing up against the wall to see if it sticks?

Yeah, that’s a hard no.

— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) August 14, 2022

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 5:43:33am

re: #163 Dopamine Fish

There’s absolutely no way that the people who condemned BLM for “completely destroying American cities” in the summer of 2020 would EVER riot violently. NEVER.

///

They will do their damnedest to provoke a reaction and then blame it on the authorities’ “overreach” (which is the FBI raid in a nutshell)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 5:45:41am

re: #164 Dopamine Fish

What the actual fuck are they smoking at the Wall Street Journal, and can they please stop.

Kimberly Strassel, conservative, her whole career at the Journal, now a member of the editorial board.

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lawhawk Aug 15, 2022 • 5:45:57am

Kari Lake says Desantis has ‘BDE,’ (Big Dick Energy), the same kind of BDE that Trump has. “He has the same BDE that we want all of our leaders to have.” pic.twitter.com/hcFlNiRrCn

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2022

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Dr Lizardo Aug 15, 2022 • 5:46:39am

re: #165 lawhawk

I’m sorry, but the excuses that Trumpworld is throwing up is getting more absurd by the day.

This is how I know that behind the scenes, Trumpworld is shitting bricks. The more preposterous the excuses, the greater the panic. I suspect that a good many of Trump’s innermost circle would tell you, probably after a nice glass of single malt and a good Cuban cigar, that they fully expect Trump to be indicted in the not-too-distant future.

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 5:46:54am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Kimberly Strassel, conservative, her whole career at the Journal, now a member of the editorial board.

That woman doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together, if this article is anything to go by.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 15, 2022 • 5:47:24am

re: #77 The Pie Overlord!

LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They shouldn’t be so hard on the TFG. It’s not just him, it’s also the Supreme Court members that he and Mitch installed.

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lawhawk Aug 15, 2022 • 5:48:51am

BREAKING: A federal judge has *denied* Lindsey Graham’s attempt to quahs his Fulton County grand jury subpoena.

“[T]he Court finds that the District Attorney has shown
extraordinary circumstances and a special need for Senator Graham’s testimony.”https://t.co/9Red9FgbRh

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 15, 2022

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 5:50:18am

re: #168 lawhawk

Kari Lake says Desantis has ‘BDE,’ (Big Dick Energy), the same kind of BDE that Trump has. “He has the same BDE that we want all of our leaders to have.”

According to other sources, DT has PLME (Pathetic Little Mushroom Energy)

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 5:50:55am

re: #168 lawhawk

I would have been happy to go the rest of my life not having a clue what BDE was.

Although I agree Desantis IS a giant dick…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 5:51:44am

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

I would have been happy to go the rest of my life not having a clue what BDE was.

And why it is so vital for a political candidate…

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No Malarkey! Aug 15, 2022 • 5:52:05am

Another insurrectionist going on trial this morning.

Trial begins at 9am in Jan 6 case of Erik Herrera. Feds allege Herrera “came prepared, wearing a gas mask, googles & tactical vest—some of which he had ordered just a few week before January 6” .. and went inside Parliamentarian’s office

His effort to move trial outta DC failed pic.twitter.com/2Q7WvhwIxC

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 15, 2022

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 5:54:44am

re: #164 Dopamine Fish

What the actual fuck are they smoking at the Wall Street Journal, and can they please stop.

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you all keep tossing ‘em in
i’ll keep swatting them for easy homers:

no former president ever did anything warranting a warrant ;-), ‘raid’, or possible criminal charges

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 5:56:27am

re: #168 lawhawk

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Kari, do you have this ‘BDE’?
can you define what a woman is? //

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 5:57:21am

re: #177 Dangerman

you all keep tossing ‘em in
i’ll keep swatting them for easy homers:

no former president ever did anything warranting a warrant ;-), ‘raid’, or possible criminal charges

“A 232-year norm”.

“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is the refusal to believe that DT would violate such a norm and prompt such a reaction.

ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS COMPLY WITH THE SUBPOENA AND RETURN THE DOCUMENTS

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jeffreyw Aug 15, 2022 • 5:58:45am

Sometimes you just need a non-judgemental ear.

Good morning!

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 6:00:30am

Trump was the one who broke the damn norm, not the FBI or DOJ.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 6:08:35am

Women on a public stage talking about the big dick energy of a governor of a different state must be more of those Christian values I keep hearing about.

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Barefoot Grin Aug 15, 2022 • 6:08:55am

We haven’t seen a lot of Obama Derangement Syndrome from Trumpers for a few years. Why? Because Obama left the office quietly, gracefully, and in a manner that should have allowed Trump a seamless transition. And then he kept out of the public spotlight for the most part. Trump has hungered for the spotlight since the 1970s. We could ignore him mostly (sorry, New Yorkers). I never saw a single minute of his gross reality show. But he has insisted on jumping into every frame since Jan. 20, 2021 and a majority of Americans are fucking sick of him and some of those speak out on social media.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 6:09:02am

re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg

Trump was the one who broke the damn norm, not the FBI or DOJ.

Remember how “George Floyd would still be alive if he had only cooperated with the Police?”

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darthstar Aug 15, 2022 • 6:10:16am

Russian mom worries about her captured son’s IPhone 13 much more than about her son.

Well, it’s not surprising, actually. They still owe payments for the phone, and they got their (now captured) child for free. pic.twitter.com/hfgwXq1kgp

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) August 15, 2022

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HRH Stanley Sea Aug 15, 2022 • 6:11:16am

What a trickster

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 6:11:44am

re: #178 Dangerman

Kari, do you have this ‘BDE’?
can you define what a woman is? //

I’m sure we’re going to hear NPR get right on that tone trolling, just like they did when Beto O’Rourke cussed out a man laughing at dead children and teachers.

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Ming5000 Aug 15, 2022 • 6:16:33am

News about Ukraine/China relations.
Ukraine is looking at their relationship with China as a “strategic partner.”

China is in a tough position internally on so many fronts, including both economically and demographically. They are pushing other nations away which makes their position even more tenuous.

1/ UKR politicians for the first time began to articulate the need to change UKR’s approaches, calling for a review of the strategic partnership with CHN. This demonstrates that the critical attitude towards CHN in UKR expert circles is gradually spreading to political circles.

— Yurii Poita (@PoitaYurii) August 15, 2022

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Eventual Carrion Aug 15, 2022 • 6:18:04am

re: #102 Hecuba’s daughter

Wording!!

Took 6..

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Took me to 5/6

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 6:20:33am

re: #172 lawhawk

A whole lot of Republicans seem to have a lot more interest in the V Amendment than the II Amendment these days. Huh.

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lawhawk Aug 15, 2022 • 6:22:24am

The common thread is that Trump thinks he can pick his legal team based on what they look like and how they sound on Fox News.

That’s it.

Competency was never part of the deal.

— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) August 15, 2022

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 6:26:11am

Holy cow! This was widely considered the worst thing Nixon every said and proof positive of his corruption. But, hey, @FoxNews that’s sort of your jam, isn’t it? The whole backing corruption at any cost, anytime, anywhere without regard for the republic. Cool cool cool cool cool https://t.co/lklOmxrUAe

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 14, 2022

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 6:26:57am

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Quoting Richard Fucking Nixon unironically as a defense for your crimes. That’s… a choice.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 6:28:51am

re: #193 Dopamine Fish

Quoting Richard Fucking Nixon unironically as a defense for your crimes. That’s… a choice.

Then there’s this to look forward to this evening.

Anyway Tucker is back from vacation tonight and I’m sure he’ll have a calm, measured take on last week’s events.

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 15, 2022

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lawhawk Aug 15, 2022 • 6:31:42am

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This morning Fox’s Steve Doocy repeatedly criticized the right’s “harmful rhetoric” against the FBI (rhetoric that’s been frequent on Fox). He seemed to be speaking to Trump here: “It would be great if he called for an end to the violent rhetoric against federal law enforcement.” pic.twitter.com/NPk2YncaGE

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 15, 2022

Legal should shut down the “news” side of the business until they can figure out what’s going on.Because everyone on the “news” side has spewed toxic crap, incited others to violence, and misinformed the masses for a generation. Those actions have consequences.

— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) August 15, 2022

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 6:32:09am

re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Then there’s this to look forward to this evening.

Oh, great. So tomorrow morning, my Twitter feed will be full of clips of that crazy fucker going full-on “Joe Biden is Adolf Hitler”.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Aug 15, 2022 • 6:34:13am

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Holy cow! This was widely considered the worst thing Nixon every said and proof positive of his corruption. But, hey, @FoxNews that’s sort of your jam, isn’t it? The whole backing corruption at any cost, anytime, anywhere without regard for the republic. Cool cool cool cool cool https://t.co/lklOmxrUAe

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 14, 2022

In that case, it would not be illegal for Biden to have them all rounded up and shot.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 6:35:51am

Editorial in the Lincoln, Nebr. Journal-Star

One of the arguments in 1933 for making the Nebraska Legislature a single house was the people of the state would be the second house (something like a direct democracy for a lower house).

Local View: Unfair ballot initiative process takes power from people (August 11, 2022)

1,216.

That number may seem arbitrary, but in Nebraska, it’s a direct reflection of how undemocratic some of our oldest legislative practices are. That number reflects the number of Douglas County voters [population 584,526] it takes to have the same ability to qualify an issue for the ballot as a single voter in Arthur County [population 434].

How is this possible?

In Nebraska, for an initiative to be on the ballot, campaigns must collect signatures from 5% of registered voters in 38 of the state’s 93 counties. This means that when it comes to influencing whether their respective counties will meet the signature threshold for certain measures, it takes significantly more voters in the most populous counties to match the power of one voter in the least populous.

This unconstitutional law is a direct violation of the 14th Amendment and has tipped the scales, suppressing the voices of thousands of voters on issues such as tax reform and marijuana legalization.

When it comes to elections and representation, the crux of the 14th Amendment is “one person, one vote.” By continuing the current practice, Nebraska’s officials are prioritizing geography over voices, with small population counties wielding more power in meeting the signature threshold.

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 6:38:38am

re: #193 Dopamine Fish

Quoting Richard Fucking Nixon unironically as a defense for your crimes. That’s… a choice.

As if Nixon saying it automatically made it so.

It didn’t

Further he said that to David frost in an interview.
In 1977.
Long since disgraced by then.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Aug 15, 2022 • 6:47:16am

re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Arthur County is not even the least populous county in the state (it is 3rd least, McPherson County has 379 people).

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Aug 15, 2022 • 6:49:50am

I honestly thought this was Florida https://t.co/RBF3sS6QX7

— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) August 15, 2022

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 6:51:15am

“I believe that white men are the most persecuted identity in America.”

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

Sez the woman who took her job from a white man

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Belafon Aug 15, 2022 • 6:51:24am

.@POTUS: “The big drug companies spent nearly $100 million to beat this bill. And every Republican voted against it.”

We face a choice: “whether we protect the already-powerful or have the courage to build a future where everybody has an even shot.” pic.twitter.com/XXtBPPXnV2

— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) August 12, 2022

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 6:56:51am

Another further different investigation

INTERESTING: DOJ indicates in a filing this AM that the *other* search warrant signed by Magistrate Reinhart on Aug. 5 is NOT related to the search of Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/vyUavHZ0GO

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 15, 2022

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 6:58:18am

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Belafon Aug 15, 2022 • 6:59:47am

Democrats haven’t

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Belafon Aug 15, 2022 • 7:00:29am

These “deep fissures within the party” are between Republican officials who defend Trump violently and unreservedly, and those who only do it emphatically. https://t.co/R8p3QdVpw4

— Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org (@froomkin) August 15, 2022

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 15, 2022 • 7:03:03am

re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

heck, at this point, they want us to over-speculate and sensationalize so they can then pull the “see, it was not as bad as all that” defense…

It is a useful distraction from the 440 times Trump pled the 5th last week. And it’s dampening coverage of Biden’s legislative successes.

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 7:04:17am

A federal judge in Georgia denied Sen. Lindsey Graham’s bid to avoid testifying before a Atlanta-area grand jury investigating interference in the 2020 election, rejecting the Trump ally’s claim that he was shielded from such scrutiny by legislative privilege,” USA Today reports.

To which it was pointed out:

This entire line of argument makes zero sense. If he is immune due to legislative privilege then he can testify and he wouldn’t be able to plead the 5th. Legislative privilege doesn’t shield him from testifying it only theoretically shields him from prosecution.

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Belafon Aug 15, 2022 • 7:09:32am

I’m not saying Trump let Russia see our nuclear secrets - Russia is saying Trump let them see our nuclear secrets. https://t.co/eVmhSLrKFc

— Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) August 13, 2022

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Crush White Nationalism Aug 15, 2022 • 7:09:36am

Some idiot hung a banner in front of the Phoenix FBI office saying FBI HONOR YOUR OATH ARREST ALL TRAITORS and then proceeds fly a confederate flag.

Who’s gonna tell him? pic.twitter.com/mxr4q5ixck

— WTFUSA😒 (@dudeonthebay) August 14, 2022

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 7:10:02am

re: #191 lawhawk

The common thread is that Trump thinks he can pick his legal team based on what they look like and how they sound on Fox News.

That’s it.

Competency was never part of the deal.

Trump assumes that all he has to do is to win this case in the media. It has always worked before.

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Belafon Aug 15, 2022 • 7:11:00am

A highly recommend read from my friend and Ohio Native, Bush and Portman staffer, John Bridgeland: Republicans should be wary of JD Vance for US Senate in Ohio https://t.co/24Xu6Cuco5

— Barbara Comstock (@BarbaraComstock) August 14, 2022

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Belafon Aug 15, 2022 • 7:12:41am

He’s not saying there’s never been one, just not in the last 30-ish years would be my guess:

I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.

— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) August 12, 2022

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Belafon Aug 15, 2022 • 7:14:16am

Refresh for the chart:

“This bill does about two-thirds of the work we need to do to hit our climate goals, which for a single piece of legislation is a really big deal” - @JesseJenkins https://t.co/nCUeQmYbhL

— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) August 13, 2022

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 7:16:10am

Gee, no wonder nobody wants to teach in Florida.

*Parents can request alternative instructional materials for ANYTHING we teach
*If we want to read anything to our kids, we have to get it approved in advance
*Don’t give kids any gifts tied to reading
*Our amazing librarian can’t even do read alouds with our youngest students

— Jaye T. (@JayeJaybird54) August 14, 2022

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 7:18:37am

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“President Nixon said, that if the president does it, that it is not illegal. Is that not truly the standard when it comes to classified documents?”

- The same network that barked endlessly for 8 years about the “illegal” stuff Barack Obama should have been prosecuted for.

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 15, 2022 • 7:21:25am

re: #164 Dopamine Fish

What the actual fuck are they smoking at the Wall Street Journal, and can they please stop.

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If this article is on the WSJ editorial page, it’s standard rhetoric for that forum.

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 7:22:46am

Special prize today to @Delta for letting me and my husband into their lounge because we have a specific credit card and informing us our 4yo would have to pay a fee or wait outside bc she “not a cardholder”

Good job Delta, you really thought that through

— Emily Galvin-Almanza (@GalvinAlmanza) August 14, 2022

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 7:23:05am

re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump assumes that all he has to do is to win this case in the media. It has always worked before.

He’s never been charged criminally before.
And he has settled/lost a lot of times civilly.
Most recently his ndas have been axed.

Though he does do “delay” pretty well

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 15, 2022 • 7:28:47am

re: #165 lawhawk

I’m sorry, but the excuses that Trumpworld is throwing up is getting more absurd by the day.

Just yesterday, they were claiming that they were incompetent and failed to properly handle classified info because they were rushing to leave the WH.

You don’t just throw classified info into a bunch of boxes.

That is de facto mishandling of classified info. Then, when the DOJ and NA identified documents, and told you to secure them because they were openly available, you put them in a basement padlocked area, again mishandling.

This isn’t about Trump somehow declassifying documents with zero papertrail of him ever doing it. It’s about the theft of classified documents, mishandling that information, and the contents turning out to be nuclear secrets.

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And why is this a rushed and chaotic exit from the White House? He knew he lost in mid-November; he had as much time as any recent president to prepare for his departure. But he really believed his various plots would succeed in granting him another turn in office. He has led a charmed life, overcoming every obstacle and every crime, and he believes that he will succeed again. His party is certainly doing its best to make his dreams and our nightmares come true.

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The Pie Overlord! Aug 15, 2022 • 7:28:56am

6/6 & 2/6

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 7:29:31am

When I was on vacation I took this photo of myself in a park and then realized it looks almost EXACTLY like a generic RWNJ avatar image.

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Obviously, I didn’t plan it that way.

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 15, 2022 • 7:32:31am

re: #189 Eventual Carrion

Took me to 5/6

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 15, 2022 • 7:34:41am

re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Then there’s this to look forward to this evening.

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Steve Doocy being the voice of reason?? Will wonders never cease?

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 7:36:24am

re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter

And why is this a rushed and chaotic exit from the White House? He knew he lost in mid-November; he had as much time as any recent president to prepare for his departure. But he really believed his various plots would succeed in granting him another turn in office. He has led a charmed life, overcoming every obstacle and every crime, and he believes that he will succeed again. His party is certainly doing its best to make his dreams and our nightmares come true.

It wasn’t rushed

And as if classified material was just laying around all over the place like a toddler’s toys

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 7:37:48am

re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg

When I was on vacation I took this photo of myself in a park and then realized it looks almost EXACTLY like a generic RWNJ avatar image.

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Obviously, I didn’t plan it that way.

I thought you were taller.

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ipsos Aug 15, 2022 • 7:39:15am

re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg

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Belafon Aug 15, 2022 • 7:39:22am

From the Lincoln Project:

Youtube Video

Transcript:

What is politics about?

MAGA Republicans believe it is all about chaos, owning the libs, white grievance and anger.

That’s wrong. Governing is about making our lives better.
In just one piece of legislation, Democratic Senators took action to lower prescription drug prices, giving Medicare the ability to negotiate with Big Pharma, shifted tax burden from the middle class to the very wealthy, protected our future with the most sweeping climate change action in U.S. history.

What do you want, (crowd yelling) anger or results?

President Joe Biden: Working for America

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 7:44:30am

re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter

Steve Doocy being the voice of reason?? Will wonders never cease?

Even Steve Doocy does not want to be the one to have to report on the murder of an FBI officer or family member at the hands of a rabid Trumphorroid

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darthstar Aug 15, 2022 • 7:45:16am

pic.twitter.com/TWRxCfY1LR

— Sean (@sean_s_mc) August 15, 2022

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 7:46:09am

re: #227 Dangerman

I thought you were taller.

About 5’3. Most people in my family are on the shorter side except my brother who somehow grew to about 5’10.

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darthstar Aug 15, 2022 • 7:46:46am

re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Even Steve Doocy does not want to be the one to have report on the murder of an FBI officer or family member at the hands of a rabid Trumphorroid

He keeps this up and Kilmeade won’t want to share a morning couch with him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 7:51:09am

re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg

About 5’3. Most people in my family are on the shorter side except my brother who somehow grew to about 5’10.

We have that split in our family, my maternal grandmother, middle sister and my oldest daughter are all 5’3” or smaller, my paternal grandmother was 5’9” and my oldest brother 6’4”…I fell somewhere in the middle.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Aug 15, 2022 • 7:52:21am

re: #180 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 7:53:44am

re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We have that split in our family, my maternal grandmother, middle sister and my oldest daughter are all 5’3” or smaller, my paternal grandmother was 5’9” and my oldest brother 6’4”…I fell somewhere in the middle.

My family is in the opposite direction. Most of the men, except for my father, are > 6 feet. My mother is 5’ 5”, and my sister is 5’ 2”. She’s two years older than me, but I sometimes jokingly call her “little sister” because I tower over her.

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 7:54:49am

re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg

About 5’3. Most people in my family are on the shorter side except my brother who somehow grew to about 5’10.

It’s my obligatory joke when I see someone’s pic who I don’t know personally.
Especially if they’re sitting down.

Anyway many people are 6 feet tall.
Their bodies just don’t know it

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A Cranky One Aug 15, 2022 • 7:55:49am

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 15, 2022 • 7:57:02am

re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Even Steve Doocy does not want to be the one to have to report on the murder of an FBI officer or family member at the hands of a rabid Trumphorroid

Bill O’Reilly’s venomous rhetoric led to Tiller’s death but he never suffered any consequences for this behavior. But then O’Reilly wasn’t playacting as an “objective” journalist.

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 7:57:51am

re: #237 Dangerman

It’s my obligatory joke when I see someone’s pic who I don’t know personally.
Especially if they’re sitting down.

Anyway many people are 6 feet tall.
Their bodies just don’t know it

Oh, I am SO stealing this! 👍🏼

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Hecuba's daughter Aug 15, 2022 • 8:05:10am

re: #226 Dangerman

It wasn’t rushed

And as if classified material was just laying around all over the place like a toddler’s toys

Trump’s personal residence? They may very well have been lying around. They were his toys that he could show to impress other leaders on the world stage.

And how many documents may he have taken over the years to Mar-a-Lago and kept there? It’s not just those he spirited away in the last days — but there were doubtless others that he transferred there and never returned.

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No Malarkey! Aug 15, 2022 • 8:16:58am

Democrats call for allowing the voters to decide if abortion should be allowed in West Virginia. The W.V. special session to ban abortion failed to pass a new law, so the A.G. is battling in court to enforce a 19th century abortion ban instead of the 20 week ban instituted in a modern law; I have a hard time understanding why a 19th century law banning all abortion wasn’t superseded by the modern law.

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Belafon Aug 15, 2022 • 8:21:43am

re: #242 No Malarkey!

Democrats call for allowing the voters to decide if abortion should be allowed in West Virginia. The W.V. special session to ban abortion failed to pass a new law, so the A.G. is battling in court to enforce a 19th century abortion ban instead of the 20 week ban instituted in a modern law; I have a hard time understanding why a 19th century law banning all abortion wasn’t superseded by the modern law.

Because the AG said so.

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No Malarkey! Aug 15, 2022 • 8:24:18am

re: #243 Belafon

Because the AG said so.

LOL, Love to see him argue that to the WV Supreme Court.

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No Malarkey! Aug 15, 2022 • 8:29:32am

Peter Strzok calls out GOP FBI hypocrites, “I spent a year and a half working on Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server. Where we executed multiple
4search warrants. I never heard one Republican once raise a finger talking about how we were using Gestapo tactics or overreaching.” pic.twitter.com/hBOHHi3LA0

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 13, 2022

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 8:34:26am

re: #245 No Malarkey!

I thought the line was “Obama and Clinton were never searched!”

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No Malarkey! Aug 15, 2022 • 8:36:17am

re: #246 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I thought the line was “Obama and Clinton were never searched!”

They were lying, of course, like they do about everything.

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jaunte Aug 15, 2022 • 8:37:54am

The latest Hail Mary attempt is claiming 14 FBI whistleblowers came to Jim Jordan and he’s taking action.

The same man accused of knowing, but taking no action, on serial sexual assault of students at Ohio State University from 1987 to 1995.

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 15, 2022

“Jordan said, “Fourteen FBI agents have come forward* to our office as whistleblowers, and they are good people. There’s lots of good people in the FBI. It’s the top that is the problem, but some of these good agents are coming to us telling us this is baloney what’s going on. God bless ‘em for doing it. For talking to us about the school board issue about a whole host of issues. I mean it’s become a well-worn trail of agents saying this has got to stop.”
politicususa.com

*Very possibly with tears in their eyes.

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The Pie Overlord! Aug 15, 2022 • 8:39:23am

My grandson has finally received his name (& snip)

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jaunte Aug 15, 2022 • 8:39:32am

Very non-specific whistle-blowing that doesn’t point out any ethical or legal violation in particular.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Aug 15, 2022 • 8:41:31am

re: #249 The Pie Overlord!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 8:42:33am

re: #250 jaunte

Very non-specific whistle-blowing that doesn’t point out any ethical or legal violation in particular.

like all those “affidavits” that Sydney Powell and Rudy Guiliani kept offering up “proving” that there was election malfeasance?

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 8:48:49am

re: #240 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh, I am SO stealing this! 👍🏼

paraphrased from MASH s3:E18
(Radar gets elevated shoes in the mail, among other goings on)

Hawkeye: Listen. There’s height that people never see. Some guys are ten feet tall, only their bodies don’t know it.

Radar: Honest?

H: Sell those to somebody little.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 15, 2022 • 8:50:54am

Our model now shows a 0% chance that Trump’s theft of classified documents will affect his political future. And Nate tells you where to get the best risotto in Midtown. All that and more on the next 538 podcast.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) August 15, 2022

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 8:51:55am

re: #250 jaunte

Very non-specific whistle-blowing that doesn’t point out any ethical or legal violation in particular.

of course they all banded together and said, our only option is to tell what we know to Jordan. there’s no other mechanism, no other way. just Jordan’s office.

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Captain Ron Aug 15, 2022 • 8:52:51am

Britain First To Approve Booster That Targets Variants - https://t.co/c5CJ1BLViV pic.twitter.com/Hv8Vc6F8ZO

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) August 15, 2022

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HRH Stanley Sea Aug 15, 2022 • 8:52:59am

re: #250 jaunte

Very non-specific whistle-blowing that doesn’t point out any ethical or legal violation in particular.

School Board issue……

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Crush White Nationalism Aug 15, 2022 • 8:53:14am

re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth

If lying about covid, extorting Zelenski, and attempting a coup didn’t put off his voters, why would stealing highly classified documents in service of a foreign power make a difference to these lawless monsters?

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Eventual Carrion Aug 15, 2022 • 8:53:47am

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If pres does it it is not illegal? So Biden or someone he chooses can go into the Supreme Court chambers, shoot dead all the rightwing justices. It would not be illegal for him or he could pardon the person he sent to do it. Then he can announce the justices he wants to replace them with. Then make it clear he will kill anyone who votes against his picks. Is that the kind of America they want?

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No Malarkey! Aug 15, 2022 • 8:54:39am

re: #259 Eventual Carrion

If pres does it it is not illegal? So Biden or someone he chooses can go into the Supreme Court chambers, shoot dead all the rightwing justices. It would not be illegal for him or he could pardon the person he sent to do it. Then he can announce the justices he wants to replace them with. Then make it clear he will kill anyone who votes against his picks. Is that the kind of America they want?

Yes, but Trump doing it. IOKIYAR

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Eventual Carrion Aug 15, 2022 • 8:55:20am

re: #197 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

In that case, it would not be illegal for Biden to have them all rounded up and shot.

GMTA

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 9:00:40am

re: #259 Eventual Carrion

If pres does it it is not illegal? So Biden or someone he chooses can go into the Supreme Court chambers, shoot dead all the rightwing justices. It would not be illegal for him or he could pardon the person he sent to do it. Then he can announce the justices he wants to replace them with. Then make it clear he will kill anyone who votes against his picks. Is that the kind of America they want?

i am not a nixon fan and i’m not rehabilitating him here.

there is a legitimate reading that there are limitations and he was answering david frost’s context when he made that comment

from the wiki

In part 3, Frost asked Nixon whether the president could do something illegal in certain situations such as against antiwar groups and others if he decides “it’s in the best interests of the nation or something”. Nixon replied: “Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”, by definition

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William Lewis Aug 15, 2022 • 9:01:10am

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William Lewis Aug 15, 2022 • 9:02:01am

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jaunte Aug 15, 2022 • 9:05:08am

I just looked over NPR’s coverage of the past week.

It is far, far worse than I thought.

This story is a full hands-in-the-air wondering why Dems and Republicans don’t trust each other—equally. Some mysterious force caused it?
https://t.co/FLvckzH7OR

1/

— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) August 15, 2022

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Jay C Aug 15, 2022 • 9:07:19am

re: #249 The Pie Overlord!

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wrenchwench Aug 15, 2022 • 9:09:22am

re: #265 jaunte

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It occurred to me this morning how often people talk about culture when they want to avoid the politics of a situation.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 15, 2022 • 9:10:29am

re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg

When I was on vacation I took this photo of myself in a park and then realized it looks almost EXACTLY like a generic RWNJ avatar image.

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Obviously, I didn’t plan it that way.

Except you have the wrong hat on.

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retired cynic Aug 15, 2022 • 9:14:27am

Underwater Photos by Steven Kovacs Frame the Shimmering Unearthly Bodies of Larval Fish
thisiscolossal.com

Wait for the larval Fu Manchu Flying Fish!

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Crush White Nationalism Aug 15, 2022 • 9:15:38am

Home Run Inn. Just the “deluxe” version with sausage, pepperoni, onions, peppers, and now bits of metal.

More than 13,000 pounds of frozen pizza, perhaps tainted with metal, recalled (NBC News)

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Aug 15, 2022 • 9:16:55am

re: #270 Crush White Nationalism

Home Run Inn. Just the “deluxe” version with sausage, pepperoni, onions, peppers, and now bits of metal.

More than 13,000 pounds of frozen pizza, perhaps tainted with metal, recalled (NBC News)

GOP guts the FDA and the associated food purity and inspection laws and you never see that reported.

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The Pie Overlord! Aug 15, 2022 • 9:19:24am

re: #258 Crush White Nationalism

If lying about covid, extorting Zelenski, and attempting a coup didn’t put off his voters, why would stealing highly classified documents in service of a foreign power make a difference to these lawless monsters?

TFG could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and still not lose any voters (as he said)

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The Pie Overlord! Aug 15, 2022 • 9:22:11am

“I am going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.” https://t.co/3pQoPycFhH

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) August 15, 2022

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retired cynic Aug 15, 2022 • 9:23:08am

why do sun bears look like humans in a bear suit pic.twitter.com/GOVwpuqyaD

— glurpo (@glurpo) August 14, 2022

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 9:26:34am

Apparently Melissa Leavitt—who paid for the recall—owns All Those Crafts in Colby, Kansas: https://t.co/1EkyeoW46n

She just needs to sell 10,000 more of these: pic.twitter.com/822KmH7qnt

— Matt Kleinmann (@matt_kleinmann) August 13, 2022

appx 165k vote margin

so she’s paying for a second chance for the rest of us to revel in the victory.

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Crush White Nationalism Aug 15, 2022 • 9:27:59am

re: #274 retired cynic

Like a human in a bear suit looked when I was a kid. That’s too thin for today’s Americans.

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The Pie Overlord! Aug 15, 2022 • 9:28:14am

This has to be the dumbest Phishing hacker who ever existed.

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 9:30:44am

re: #277 The Pie Overlord!

This has to be the dumbest Phishing hacker who ever existed.

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I learned a while back that these are done stupidly on purpose. Basically, anyone who is unable to see through the problems in the email or text message that introduces the scam is highly likely to stay on the line and pay out.

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wrenchwench Aug 15, 2022 • 9:33:16am

re: #249 The Pie Overlord!

My grandson has finally received his name (& snip)

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GlutenFreeJesus Aug 15, 2022 • 9:35:15am

“If Hunter Biden’s alleged crimes are so serious why wasn’t he charged by Trump’s FBI?”

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 9:36:12am

Friendly reminder to check your mobile subscriptions.

Ms. Cyborg got dinged $60 this morning for, of all things, a sleep tracking app. Apparently she had forgotten to cancel after the free trial.

I am going to try to get the money back but I’m expecting that effort to be futile.

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 9:36:51am

“Facing prison time and dire personal consequences for storming the U.S. Capitol, some Jan. 6 defendants are trying to profit from their participation in the deadly riot, using it as a platform to drum up cash, promote business endeavors and boost social media profiles,” the AP reports.

1. they will all fail
2. wait till tfg starts asking for his cut, and/or copyright infringement

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 9:37:41am

re: #281 Eclectic Cyborg

Friendly reminder to check your mobile subscriptions.

Ms. Cyborg got dinged $60 this morning for, of all things, a sleep tracking app. Apparently she had forgotten to cancel after the free trial.

I am going to try to get the money back but I’m expecting that effort to be futile.

When I sign up for something I have no intention of continuing, I set a reminder on my phone for the day before it would be charged. Thank you for the reminder, though; that is always a good thing to bring up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 9:38:32am

re: #272 The Pie Overlord!

TFG could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and still not lose any voters (as he said)

They would be lining up explain why shooting that pregnant woman (and her puppy) was necessary to Save America!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Aug 15, 2022 • 9:40:46am

re: #280 GlutenFreeJesus

“If Hunter Biden’s alleged crimes are so serious why wasn’t he charged by Trump’s FBI?”

Because DEEP STATE

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Captain Ron Aug 15, 2022 • 9:42:47am

So has the @FBI spoken to…Kid Rock?

sigh

— Call me Lila 🌻 🌈 (@kesayers) August 15, 2022

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 9:44:10am

The same Joe Biden suddenly looks different (cnn)

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DodgerFan1988 Aug 15, 2022 • 9:46:15am

the people who pissed themselves with glee as migrant babies were torn from their mothers’ arms because THEY BROKE THE LAW are out here telling us that Donald Trump should get a mulligan for stealing nuclear secrets and doing god knows fucking what with them. fucking hypocrites

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) August 15, 2022

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jaunte Aug 15, 2022 • 9:46:31am

re: #270 Crush White Nationalism

One of the magazine subscriptions foodprocessing.com
at my old workplace was filled with ads for various in-line magnetized devices to pull metal shavings out of the cheese or whatnot moving through the processing plant.
They must have had an unaddressed mechanical failure.

290

jaunte Aug 15, 2022 • 9:49:04am

Remember Robert Hanssen? He’s serving 15 consecutive life sentences in a Supermax for espionage. #MarALago #ArrestTrumpNow pic.twitter.com/AD8violhPr

— W Smith Ω 🧢 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@WesSmith123) August 12, 2022

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Aug 15, 2022 • 9:50:13am

re: #270 Crush White Nationalism

Home Run Inn. Just the “deluxe” version with sausage, pepperoni, onions, peppers, and now bits of metal.

More than 13,000 pounds of frozen pizza, perhaps tainted with metal, recalled (NBC News)

No great loss
That’s not even mediocre frozen pizza (IMO)

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Crush White Nationalism Aug 15, 2022 • 9:50:31am

re: #288 DodgerFan1988

Fascists don’t care about hypocrisy. We can’t expect them to have the same standards as people who are interested in facts have. They just want power so they can abuse that power.

— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 15, 2022

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Captain Ron Aug 15, 2022 • 9:50:57am

U.S. could see new ‘extreme heat belt’ by 2053 with millions hit by 125 degree heats https://t.co/oZRD8UkcCO via @nbcnews

— Catherine Kim (@CatherineKimNY) August 15, 2022

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lawhawk Aug 15, 2022 • 9:53:00am

GOPers are continuing to threaten to defund the police - because they’re investigating Trumpworld and his coconspirators.

MTG wants to defund the FBI.
Other GOPers want to defund investigators who are investigating GOP and Trump malfeasance.

They’re literally doing what they lie and obfuscate about what Democrats have done.

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Crush White Nationalism Aug 15, 2022 • 9:54:11am

re: #293 Captain Ron

It’s too bad that humans don’t have the ability to plan for the future, and just have to overrun our environment like bacteria in a “peachtree” dish. All those calories wasted on big brains that just don’t deliver effective results.

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jaunte Aug 15, 2022 • 9:54:20am

BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani has been told that he is a target of the criminal investigation in Georgia into election interference. He is scheduled to testify in Atlanta later this week. pic.twitter.com/J6AsHvAxbp

— Steven Senski 🇺🇦 🌻 (@StevenSenski) August 15, 2022

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GlutenFreeJesus Aug 15, 2022 • 9:56:04am

re: #291 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

It’s not Screamin’ Sicilian that’s for sure.

298

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Aug 15, 2022 • 9:58:47am

re: #296 jaunte

When Rudy had hair coloring running down the side of his head the main memory it triggered for me was the blood(?)* that interaction with the Great Evil made run down people’s head in “The Fifth Element”.

* - Zorg when the Great Evil “makes a call”. I also seem to recall it happening to the captain/admiral in charge of the Earth warship that tosses nuclear missiles at the Great Evil soon after it appears.

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Eclectic Cyborg Aug 15, 2022 • 9:59:25am

re: #297 GlutenFreeJesus

It’s not Screamin’ Sicilian that’s for sure.

I’ve been meaning to try that for a while now.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Aug 15, 2022 • 10:01:37am

re: #265 jaunte

This story is a full hands-in-the-air wondering why Dems and Republicans don’t trust each other—equally. Some mysterious force caused it?

It is nothing of the sort. I just read it, and it’s a report on some polling done by the Pew research group. It summarizes the results, notes that the trend is toward more distrust of the other political party, and does not ask why.

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GlutenFreeJesus Aug 15, 2022 • 10:03:05am

re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg

Go for it! :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 15, 2022 • 10:03:06am

...

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A Cranky One Aug 15, 2022 • 10:04:04am

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 15, 2022 • 10:05:07am

why r u so obsessed with us pic.twitter.com/BkVwycAruw

— Alissa Foster (@alissafosterr) August 15, 2022

again twitter with the straight facts pic.twitter.com/bwiXYLyGOX

— Alissa Foster (@alissafosterr) August 15, 2022

thank you for your service

— Alissa Foster (@alissafosterr) August 15, 2022

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 10:06:00am

She makes me laugh so hard. She’s a kindergarten teacher who makes videos talking to politicians the way she does her kindergartners. pic.twitter.com/INCNXoEEvu

— StaceyC.inKS (@StaceyCKs1) August 14, 2022

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 15, 2022 • 10:08:42am

The criteria Trump used to assemble his current legal team was great legal minds with a wealth of litigation experience. pic.twitter.com/pzsO2nkC3e

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2022

The fact that they all look like Hope Hicks is merely coincidental.

— Cyndi Borowski💙🇺🇲 (@BorowskiCyndi) August 15, 2022

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Crush White Nationalism Aug 15, 2022 • 10:10:42am

pic.twitter.com/oL33U4L3WC

— Walcandy (@Walcandy1) August 15, 2022

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Captain Ron Aug 15, 2022 • 10:11:01am

New: Forensic experts directed by Trump-allied lawyers copied sensitive data from election systems in Ga. as part of a multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader and more organized than was previously known https://t.co/TjsJz31oAq

— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) August 15, 2022

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Teukka Aug 15, 2022 • 10:11:26am

⚠️ℹ️ Re: Viral video of Russian TV claiming they have Trump docs ℹ️⚠️

Youtube Video

⚠️ℹ️ Re: Viral video of Russian TV claiming they have Trump docs ℹ️⚠️
Required Watching. https://t.co/UAY5gMiv2l

— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) August 15, 2022

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Dangerman Aug 15, 2022 • 10:18:22am

re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And white teeth?

The criteria Trump used to assemble his current legal team was great legal minds with a wealth of litigation experience. pic.twitter.com/pzsO2nkC3e

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2022

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Aug 15, 2022 • 10:18:25am

re: #303 A Cranky One

Here, now people will be able to read the damn thing

lol

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wrenchwench Aug 15, 2022 • 10:18:40am

In 1663, the partial fossilised skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered in Germany. This is the “Magdeburg Unicorn”, one of the worst fossil reconstructions in human history. pic.twitter.com/rmV1vcB3LY

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) August 14, 2022

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Aug 15, 2022 • 10:24:24am

BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani has been informed that he is considered a “target” of the Georgia criminal investigation probing the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to sources familiar with the matter. https://t.co/QBCR0L6bny

— ABC News (@ABC) August 15, 2022

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Aug 15, 2022 • 10:26:33am

re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wyoming newspapers were all reporting for a whole week about a planned rally in front of the FBI in Cheyenne yesterday. US House primary candidate Harriet Hageman was spinning up people at rallies and press releases to go.

The cops were all set up, but nobody showed. None.

I just have a feeling that after the mostly bust rallies in Phoenix and Washington, if they couldn’t turn out anyone in freakin’ Wyoming this might be blowing over. (That doesn’t mean a small group or single nutjob won’t try something though.)

If the government charges Donald Trump with anything, then things might be different.

I’d like to think that a lot of people are turned off of trump after all this. We’ll see.

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Dopamine Fish Aug 15, 2022 • 10:27:42am

re: #307 Crush White Nationalism

Apparently she’s got a ton of these videos. That’s quality entertainment.

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sagehen Aug 15, 2022 • 11:02:52am

re: #309 Teukka

⚠️ℹ️ Re: Viral video of Russian TV claiming they have Trump docs ℹ️⚠️

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and they didn’t have to spend a dollar. Dmitry/Ivan said “I need my boss’s permission, so, let me take a picture, I’ll send it to him and ask for authorization to spend the money and buy it.”

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