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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:24:17pm

From the previous thread:

re: #31 Dopamine Fish

Unfortunately, my pastor is very much a Republican, though I’ve only heard him get political one time - the sermon from a few weeks ago when he mentioned that being “woke” was in the “evil” column in the “battle of good and evil”.

Funny, I would put “bigotry” in the evil column, and therefore the pastor a promoter of evil.

I don’t go to church, but if I did, I would not set foot in that one again, and tell the pastor why.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:30:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:30:41pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:31:22pm

Wow, what a voice Lianne has.

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:32:34pm

NOBODY TELLS ME ANYTHING!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:32:43pm

Investigators said a gas leak in the home might have caused the explosion, but they have not determined where the leak came from.

“The Missouri State Fire Marshal Service, Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office, and the Gas Commission investigation unit are looking into the exact cause of the explosion,” the sheriff’s department said.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:34:33pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:36:21pm

re: #62 No Malarkey!

From the Washington Post article, it sounds like Cheney may be contemplating a long shot run for the GOP nomination, just so there is an anti-Trump voice in the debates if he runs again. She doesn’t need to run a third party campaign.

The Wyoming GOP has thrown her out of the party. I’m not sure of Wyoming election law on whether she would be eligible to file as a Republican there.

She is running thirty points behind Harriet Hageman (R-Wingnut) in polling there for the US House. If Cheney loses her primary, that would give her time to focus on higher office.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:37:20pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:43:18pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:45:00pm

re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From the previous thread:

Funny, I would put “bigotry” in the evil column, and therefore the pastor a promoter of evil.

I don’t go to church, but if I did, I would not set foot in that one again, and tell the pastor why.

From the Texas Tribune article about the man who resigned from Family Protective Services:

“She said, ‘I know your intentions are good. But by walking in that door, as a representative for the state parishioner of the church, you are saying in a sense that you condone this, that you agree with it,’” Davis told the paper.

The lawyer’s comment “hit me like a thunderbolt,” he said. “It’s true. By me being there, for even a split second, a child could think they’ve done something wrong.”

As far as the church goes, if the issue is “doing good,” I would try to have exactly one talk with the pastor on why he’s both promoting a bigoted narrative and politics in the church. If an apology is not forthcoming followed by not doing better, then I would be out of the bigot indoctrination den.

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:48:00pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:48:50pm

thread

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Jay C  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:51:05pm

Lucky guess today on #1:

Wordle 422 2/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 15, 2022 • 4:52:10pm

This is a very good read.
I’m an Atlantic sub, hopefully you can read w/out paywall. But fucking A. The Atlantic is a good investment.

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dat_said  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:03:20pm

8300 couples married/renewed vows there over the last three decades.

I guess no more getting married followed immediately by a traditional symbolic ride on the SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge roller coaster ride.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:03:56pm

From downstairs:

re: #240 John Hughes

It’s not that simple. He might be eligible, but he would have to apply, and it’s not automatic.

No. UK citizens have the right to live and work in the CTA (UK and Ireland). Not in the EU.

Almost certainly the two passports are two US passports .

Any US citizen who wants to visit Israel and Saudi (or other Arab states) will have two passports.

My grandson has visited Israel many times, has just had a vacation in the Emirates. I asked him about this and he said “They recently allowed Israeli citizens to enter the country freely so it’s not an issue any more if you have an Israeli stamp.” So 2 passports for US tourists visiting Israel and also Arab countries are no longer required although that may have been the case a few years ago.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:04:29pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:04:43pm

They did this crap with Bill Clinton and Jeffery Epstein as well.

The difference would be reasonable people on the left and centre would be saying “investigate him.” Even the appearance of wrongdoing causes a reaction from the left.

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Dangerman  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:06:10pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Not with a bang but with a whimper

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Dangerman  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:11:47pm
Border Patrol agents have made about 1.82 million arrests at the southern border in the government’s fiscal year that began in October, new figures published Monday show, the second year under the Biden administration that arrests hit an record,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

but “open borders”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:11:56pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:17:29pm

The victim is my good friend’s college roommate’s dad.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:18:09pm

re: #21 Dangerman

but “open borders”

I just thought of another reason to have 2 passports. Someone who lives near the border and crosses over frequently, let say to visit Shoppers Drug Mart, can have a driver’s license size “Passport card” and save the booklet for overseas travel.

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darthstar  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:19:33pm

This is great. For 3,000 dollars you can have your message on the barrel of a T-72 tank.
But if you don’t want to spend that much coin you can put a message on a 152mm round for $100 or a 155mm for $150.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:19:54pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:21:14pm
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Dangerman  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:21:34pm
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darthstar  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:22:22pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

Take that conspiracy nuts!

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:22:36pm

Lord Haw Haw 2.0

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:26:20pm

smells like shenanigans…

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Dangerman  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:27:47pm

‘member this?

It was followed by this

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darthstar  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:31:21pm

Still chuckling at the thought of NAFO dogs putting the word ‘Bonk!’ on artillery shells to help support the Ukraine military.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:32:04pm
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Dangerman  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:33:07pm

You’d think if he had that blockbuster info he’d make it public *before* the election to “protect the process” and ensure she doesn’t get away with it

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darthstar  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:33:45pm

Looks like another one of Devin’s defamation lawsuits is blowing up in his face…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:36:51pm

re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth

Looks like the Trumps trying to get themselves off the boards after-the-fact so that they can pull up current lists of board members and scream “See! We aren’t the officers and therefore are not responsible!”

Moves made for future proclamations for public consumption. Anyone with any knowledge knows that changing this stuff after the fact does not get you out of the legal responsibilities for actions taken while you *were* the officer or on the board. And I don’t think it will protect their personal estates either since criminal activity taken via the organization is essentially negligence and thus isn’t going to protect you.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:49:27pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:53:20pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 5:54:14pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:02:23pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:02:37pm
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Captain Ron  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:04:59pm
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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:07:44pm
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bratwurst  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:10:44pm

Are you the kind of liberal who retweets David Frum? If so, could you please check his feed today in which he comes out as a DeSantis stan and stop doing that?

Thanks in advance.

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:11:02pm

re: #43 Captain Ron

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Nobody on that ride does their own maintenance.

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:12:15pm

re: #45 bratwurst

Are you the kind of liberal who retweets David Frum? If so, could you please check his feed today in which he comes out as a DeSantis stan and stop doing that?

Thanks in advance.

You’re very polite. That’s so nice.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:13:44pm

Why are people placed in witness protection?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:13:47pm

re: #102 Dangerman

Jeremy Kauffman is running for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire as a Libertarian

Liberty to a Libertarian doesn’t mean the same thing it means to other people.

For other people it generally means something like the freedom to go about your business with minimal government interference.

For a Libertarian, they are talking about “economic freedom” (the ability to avoid paying taxes and government restrictions on how they spend their money). For American libertarians, that means they stick to a very narrow reading of the Constitution (such as the government should own no property beyond military bases).

Libertarianism always leads to an oligarchy, fascism, or anarchy anywhere it is implemented.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:14:41pm
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William Lewis  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:18:55pm

I posted a version of this image earlier. I believe that this version looks better.

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:19:04pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

If I had the ability, I would offer a huge reward to the person who offers court admissible proof that he’s actually doing cocaine.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:19:26pm

re: #43 Captain Ron

I love when Seung Min Kim goes on CNN with John King. She always looks like “what the fuck is wrong with everyone?”

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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:24:38pm

From my Step-Father’s front yard tonight. Lake Worth FL.

Beautiful

Tried to rotate many times. Frustrating. You see the colors.

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:24:43pm

re: #53 Barefoot Grin

I love when Seung Min Kim goes on CNN with John King. She always looks like “what the fuck is wrong with everyone?”

I looked up some pictures of her. She doesn’t have a poker face.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:25:29pm

Preview shows un rotated!!!! Posts correctly. Wasted stress

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mmmirele  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:30:26pm

This is just completely insane and utterly bonkers. Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, known best to me for his cozy relationship with Brian Houston, former lead pastor of Hillsong Churches, he apparently was appointed (self-appointed) to five other portfolios besides being prime minister. This is apparently causing a crisis of democracy in Australia. Per current PM Anthony Albanese:

There have been revelations of an extraordinary and unprecedented trashing of our democracy by the former Morrison government. This has been government by deception.

I used to say that Scott Morrison had two jobs as Prime Minister and he botched them both. It turns out I was wrong about there being just two jobs.

He told us he was a bulldozer and his Coalition colleagues just shrugged their shoulders and cheered him on, not in one election but in two elections. Turns out, he was the world’s first stealth bulldozer. Operating in secret, keeping the operations of the government from the Australian people themselves. A misleading parliament as to who was holding what portfolios and who was responsible.

Our democracy is precious. We should be very proud of the democracy we have put created here in Australia. But the Westminster system relies upon checks and balances. The former government, Scott Morrison and others who were involved in this, deliberately undermined those checks and balances that are so important and essential for our democracy.

The Guardian is liveblogging:
theguardian.com

Public broadcaster ABC is currently broadcasting Albanese:

Youtube Video

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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:31:06pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:34:38pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:39:28pm

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Liberty to a Libertarian doesn’t mean the same thing it means to other people.

For other people it generally means something like the freedom to go about your business with minimal government interference.

For a Libertarian, they are talking about “economic freedom” (the ability to avoid paying taxes and government restrictions on how they spend their money). For American libertarians, that means they stick to a very narrow reading of the Constitution (such as the government should own no property beyond military bases).

Libertarianism always leads to an oligarchy, fascism, or anarchy anywhere it is implemented.

To a libertarian the “tragedy of the commons” is that there are laws out there trying to prevent them from unilaterally exploiting and ruining the commons without concern for anyone else.

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gocart mozart  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:45:36pm
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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:48:51pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:53:16pm

re: #61 gocart mozart

That little riff really needs to end with “and then bragged about being the greatest baseball player of all time”.

After all, Trump’s hero Hitler liked to style himself as the Greatest Field Commander of All Time.

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Captain Ron  Aug 15, 2022 • 6:55:58pm

Let he who hasn’t punched one of those fucking machines throw the first stone.

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mmmirele  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:02:21pm

This is absolutely not good. I don’t get why this person and her followers think that harassment is going to endear them to hospital staff.

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Dangerman  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:17:28pm

re: #64 Captain Ron

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Let he who hasn’t punched one of those fucking machines throw the first stone.

Cool hand luke?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:24:24pm

re: #65 mmmirele

Why the fuck is her account not banned?

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:26:33pm

re: #65 mmmirele

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:30:06pm

It just boggles my mind. Why in the ever-loving hell would you gleefully TRY to get people to send death threats to fucking children’s hospitals and cancer centers. It doesn’t make sense. Even IF you believed they were abusing kids with their treatment policies - there are better remedies to that problem. Shutting down hospitals by siccing armed mobs on them is not the play.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:35:33pm

re: #69 Dopamine Fish

It just boggles my mind. Why in the ever-loving hell would you gleefully TRY to get people to send death threats to fucking children’s hospitals and cancer centers. It doesn’t make sense. Even IF you believed they were abusing kids with their treatment policies - there are better remedies to that problem. Shutting down hospitals by siccing armed mobs on them is not the play.

When you have an armed mob all your problems look like lib owning exercises.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:37:42pm

re: #70 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

When you have an armed mob all your problems look like lib owning exercises.

Look, George Floyd died in OUR STREETS. Armed mobs are old hat to us. If you’re gonna try to terrorize someone, pick a better target. (Fun fact: When I last visited my cancer doctor for a follow-up on the bespoke benign tumor, I drove past the area where Floyd was killed. Allina Health’s hospital complex is literally in the same neighborhood.)

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EPR-radar  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:40:17pm

re: #69 Dopamine Fish

It just boggles my mind. Why in the ever-loving hell would you gleefully TRY to get people to send death threats to fucking children’s hospitals and cancer centers. It doesn’t make sense. Even IF you believed they were abusing kids with their treatment policies - there are better remedies to that problem. Shutting down hospitals by siccing armed mobs on them is not the play.

For generic Republicans, the domestic terrorism is the point — these are people who have basically turned themselves into Nazis, but haven’t quite gotten around to talking of final solutions and the like.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:42:43pm

re: #15 HRH Stanley Sea

This is a very good read.
I’m an Atlantic sub, hopefully you can read w/out paywall. But fucking A. The Atlantic is a good investment.

… The danger is not organized civil war but individual Americans with deep resentments and delusions.

Certainly accords with my impression of Trump fanatics — they are universally delusional, with delusions fed them by RW media personalities.

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jaunte  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:44:06pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:46:01pm

re: #74 jaunte

“Nice country you’ve got there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it, friend.”

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retired cynic  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:49:08pm

re: #74 jaunte

Somebody needs to start hitting that boy in his pocket book.

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jaunte  Aug 15, 2022 • 7:52:42pm
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jaunte  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:00:38pm

Agitator

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EPR-radar  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:01:08pm

re: #76 retired cynic

Somebody needs to start hitting that boy in his pocket book.

That’s damn hard to do — Tuckums is US Royalty (i.e., inherited wealth).

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:04:43pm

re: #74 jaunte

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jaunte  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:13:20pm
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retired cynic  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:19:20pm

re: #81 jaunte

They should probably also have to build a small private space for the bucket and wipes and snacks, because kids are going to be oh so distressed at going to the bathroom in front of their classmates. In fact, the kids could help, and learn some shop skills at the same time.

//// grrrrrrrrrr

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:23:26pm

Tonight is the Rings of Power premier in LA, and Bezos himself shows up:

It seemed to me at first that his arm-candy may be just that, but when reading his Wiki entry I guess he’s had a gf for a couple of years, Lauren Sánchez.

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sagehen  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:30:01pm

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Tonight is the Rings of Power premier in LA, and Bezos himself shows up:

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It seemed to me at first that his arm-candy may be just that, but when reading his Wiki entry I guess he’s had a gf for a couple of years, Lauren Sánchez.

they got outed when somebody hacked his phone, or maybe her phone, or maybe it was her husband at the time… and tried to extort a significant sum of money from Bezos to keep quiet about it. Jeff said “fuck that! I guess now everybody gets to know, and let’s try to prosecute the would-be blackmailer.”

He’s been with Lauren ever since, and Mercedes Bezos got $38 Billion.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:35:29pm

If I live to be 99 (G-D willing!) how many great-grandkids do you think I will have?

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jaunte  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:39:40pm
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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:39:53pm

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Tonight is the Rings of Power premier in LA, and Bezos himself shows up:

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It seemed to me at first that his arm-candy may be just that, but when reading his Wiki entry I guess he’s had a gf for a couple of years, Lauren Sánchez.

They’re only five years apart. Interesting.

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jaunte  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:40:36pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:41:16pm

re: #84 sagehen

Yes, I seem to recall that now. Wikipedia does not go into a lot of detail with it other than Bezos went after the company.

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retired cynic  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:43:30pm

re: #87 Belafon

They’re only five years apart. Interesting.

That was my first thought, too!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:44:17pm

The gamergate-gang is out tonight:

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:44:45pm

re: #84 sagehen

they got outed when somebody hacked his phone, or maybe her phone, or maybe it was her husband at the time… and tried to extort a significant sum of money from Bezos to keep quiet about it. Jeff said “fuck that! I guess now everybody gets to know, and let’s try to prosecute the would-be blackmailer.”

He’s been with Lauren ever since, and Mercedes Bezos got $38 Billion.

His ex and Lauren are the same age. So unlike most wealthy men his age, he wasn’t trading his wife for a younger model.

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retired cynic  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:46:22pm
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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:48:32pm

From my cousin and my reply:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:53:37pm
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TarHellion  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:55:48pm

re: #91 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Been one of the biggest Tolkien fans around since I could read and re-read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings on or under my bed - and in my nook next to a window. Never subscribed race or ethnicity to any of it. Just a magical realm - where wizards are real and a ring can make you disappear.

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retired cynic  Aug 15, 2022 • 8:57:16pm

re: #96 TarHellion

Me, too. I always knew I was a stay at home hobbit, but I loved hearing the stories ‘round the fire!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:02:42pm

re: #96 TarHellion

The current outrage is being encouraged by the usual right-wing throw-backs.

Nearly all the whiners I come across on twitter now, about RoP, clearly (upon reviewing their twitter timeline) are deep into the right-wing hate.

And then there are the misogynists.

Amazon has as lead characters several women, and a lot of young guys are really having a hard time with that.

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retired cynic  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:04:41pm

re: #98 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ll make up for them with the number of times I watch it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:12:11pm

re: #99 retired cynic

I often don’t have a Prime subscription, just cycle through subscriptions over a year or so.

Right now I’m seeing a movement among the young that is very poisonous, being orchestrated by those who are from the ugliest part of society.

And that is why I push back (the very little that I do.)

To me this has nothing to do with Amazon (or even Tolkien), but it has everything to do with societal angst in the year 2022.

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Captain Ron  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:17:12pm
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retired cynic  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:19:18pm

re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It is certainly mostly that, but I can remember hanging by my fingernails, waiting for LOTR and keeping current with all of the “news”. There was a lot of this sort of thing on blogs and youtube comments even then. I don’t push back on twitter, because I am trying to keep a very low profile there. I’m on mostly for ease of exploring and also so I can “like” and retweet items I think should be raised in profile. More power to you. I try to follow up with “likes” for LGF tweeps, without sitting on the computer twitterboard constantly.

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cat-tikvah  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:35:37pm

re: #101 Captain Ron

Even Jose Andres trolled Oz for this!
It’s been glorious.

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cat-tikvah  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:38:42pm

From Fetterman campaign:
FYI: There is no market named Wegners. There’s Redner’s and Wegman’s.

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:45:01pm

re: #103 cat-tikvah

Even Jose Andres trolled Oz for this!
It’s been glorious.

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I agree with the chef that we should write 1$ not $1.

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:50:54pm

When you’ve lost Cenk: //

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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 9:52:01pm
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Belafon  Aug 15, 2022 • 10:02:54pm

Make sure to look at all of the images (there are three):

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mmmirele  Aug 15, 2022 • 11:03:03pm

re: #107 Belafon

You still need a prescription.

I’d note that the anti-abortion crowd’s next target is distribution of meds for medication abortions via the mails. I think they’re going to HONEST TO GOD try to bring back the Comstock laws. That said, we just need to get in touch with our sisters in Argentina and other countries where they have had this problem and learn how they dealt with it.

And I think I posted an article from the Texas Tribune a week or two back about how people on the other side of the Mexican border have ramped up to help Texas pregnant people (for sure, dunno about AZ) to get abortions. It’s going to be a cat and mouse game and the clock is ticking until the first person dies—either because they had an unsafe, unsupervised abortion or because they were denied an abortion because they weren’t quite dead enough before an abortion would be approved (the Savita Halappanavar death).

And finally, I dunno how safe this is, but a DIY anarchist collective is experimenting with putting misoprostol on cards, which you’re supposed to tear off and put in each cheek. These would be even more easily distributable than pills. Like I said, NOT AT ALL SURE HOW SAFE THIS IS but it’s out there. One of the collective’s members said:

“Organizations like mine should not exist, we should not exist,” Laufer told Motherboard after the talk. “There’s nothing reasonable about this being a thing—it shouldn’t be. Makes no sense.”

vice.com

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wrenchwench  Aug 15, 2022 • 11:13:42pm

Youtube Video

That was yesterday. Today I did cut my hair. 22”, 10” of it braided, for the collection. I left a ponytail.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 11:33:41pm

re: #48 The Pie Overlord!

Why are people placed in witness protection?

Maybe the Twitterati should start reporting every one of these Republican tweets as “promoting violence” since the goal seems to be to get the whistleblower (or plural) and his/her family (or plural) harassed or murdered.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 11:38:23pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 11:41:29pm

re: #60 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

To a libertarian the “tragedy of the commons” is that there are laws out there trying to prevent them from unilaterally exploiting and ruining the commons without concern for anyone else.

“Why can’t I erect a coal power plant in my backyard?”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 11:46:19pm

re: #65 mmmirele

This is absolutely not good. I don’t get why this person and her followers think that harassment is going to endear them to hospital staff.

She’s not trying to endear herself to hospital staff. She’s trying to endear herself to violent wingnuts. She’s trying to cook off one or more with stochastic terrorism.

A better question is why Twitter hasn’t kicked her off. Apparently “libertarian free speech” or enough of the Twitterati haven’t reported her.

Libs of TikTok at Twitter

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 15, 2022 • 11:51:46pm

re: #85 The Pie Overlord!

If I live to be 99 (G-D willing!) how many great-grandkids do you think I will have?

Eleventy billion.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 16, 2022 • 12:02:37am

My wife has to go to the doc later today, so I’m going to shuffle off to bed.

On the way, we’ll stop at the county seat, where the local VFW is holding a hamburger/hot dog cookout for a fundraiser at the courthouse. Since I’m a member (whether they like it or not), I’ll put in an appearance.

Catch y’all later.

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wrenchwench  Aug 16, 2022 • 12:25:25am

Current streak: Three; a six, a five, and a two.

Wordle 423 2/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wish I knew what the trick was.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 16, 2022 • 12:39:10am

re: #117 wrenchwench

Current streak: Three; a six, a five, and a two.

Knowing in advance what the words would be? /s

My “trick” is to select a first word which has the most common consonants and vowels. I had to switch first words when that came up as the word and I got a 1/6.

I’ll mix up my first word now, but usually start with “aisle,” “train,” or “storm.”

Wordle 423 5/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
nytimes.com

On Heardle, the only think I can think of is have an encyclopaedic knowledge of popular and rock music, especially after the Nineties.

For example, another person I never heard of (this is getting depressingly common).
#Heardle #173

🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

On geography porn, paying attention to politics and history helps, along with knowledge of where distances from the centres of countries puts you.
#Worldle #207 4/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜↗️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↘️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↖️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
worldle.teuteuf.fr
spotify.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 16, 2022 • 12:44:35am

Man Who Threatened Anthony Fauci Over Covid Response Is Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison (Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2022)

A man who made threats against Anthony Fauci was sentenced to roughly three years in federal prison, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Thomas Patrick Connally Jr., of West Virginia, sent emails threatening Dr. Fauci, the infectious-diseases expert who has helped steer the U.S. Covid-19 response through two administrations, and members of his family, according to the Justice Department. Mr. Connally also threatened others, including former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins, the department said.

(more, paywalled)

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Captain Ron  Aug 16, 2022 • 1:06:13am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 16, 2022 • 1:29:11am

re: #120 Captain Ron

No way that wouldn’t fall over with an actual rocket in it. 😂

Youtube Video

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 16, 2022 • 1:35:40am

Looks like the Ukrainians are experiencing further success in demilitarizing Crimea:

There’s probably gonna be another exodus of Russians skedaddling back home pretty soon.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Aug 16, 2022 • 1:58:08am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 16, 2022 • 2:03:21am

I continue to be amazed at how much a volcano can change over a few hours.

The Meradalir volcano finally raised its outlet channel so the new caldera surface of lava was raises. Then finally an outlet channel formed where the original outlet was… and then a second one formed on the southeast side that now appears to be the highest flow.

Not only that, but overnight the east side of the volcano, up against the hill, suddenly filled with fresh lava, and one of the first vents, on the hillside, started to outgas. I think that lava must have come from one of the vents that capped itself off early with lava.

A week more of this and it will look even more different.

Also, this video from yesterday gives a hint of just how many people are showing up to watch. The owners of the land (it’s an association of 19) are passing up a lot of money by not have concession stands.

Youtube Video


..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 16, 2022 • 2:04:11am

whoops… forgot to add the video. Reload for link.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 16, 2022 • 2:56:32am

re: #109 mmmirele

You still need a prescription.

I’d note that the anti-abortion crowd’s next target is distribution of meds for medication abortions via the mails. I think they’re going to HONEST TO GOD try to bring back the Comstock laws. That said, we just need to get in touch with our sisters in Argentina and other countries where they have had this problem and learn how they dealt with it.

And I think I posted an article from the Texas Tribune a week or two back about how people on the other side of the Mexican border have ramped up to help Texas pregnant people (for sure, dunno about AZ) to get abortions. It’s going to be a cat and mouse game and the clock is ticking until the first person dies—either because they had an unsafe, unsupervised abortion or because they were denied an abortion because they weren’t quite dead enough before an abortion would be approved (the Savita Halappanavar death).

And finally, I dunno how safe this is, but a DIY anarchist collective is experimenting with putting misoprostol on cards, which you’re supposed to tear off and put in each cheek. These would be even more easily distributable than pills. Like I said, NOT AT ALL SURE HOW SAFE THIS IS but it’s out there. One of the collective’s members said:

vice.com

Another reason we must elect a Democratic President in 2024, to protect the US Mail.

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Teukka  Aug 16, 2022 • 3:00:12am

re: #122 Dr Lizardo

Looks like the Ukrainians are experiencing further success in demilitarizing Crimea:

There’s probably gonna be another exodus of Russians skedaddling back home pretty soon.

You mean smoking ban adherence issue at a Crimean base? Long-distance Marlboros?

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No Malarkey!  Aug 16, 2022 • 3:07:05am

The inflation reduction act includes $20 billion to help make farms more environmentally friendly. Though the one thing that would help the most is for us all to become vegetarians.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 16, 2022 • 3:15:19am

Forced Birth activist/election conspiracy theorist Melissa Leavitt has a new goal on her GiveSendGo account since she couldn’t raise the money for a statewide recount of Kansas’ abortion referendum:

Our goal is now 119,000 since the official filing for 9 counties.

These 9 counties represent 60% of ballots cast on the VTB Amendment.

OUR TIMEFRAME FOR OUR GOAL IS THURSDAY MORNING. (8/18/2022)

She still needs nearly $77,000 to reach her new goal.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 16, 2022 • 3:19:46am

I don’t know if there is any truth to this, but I hope it heightens Putin’s paranoia.

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 3:20:06am
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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 3:29:13am
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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 3:32:27am

re: #130 No Malarkey!

I don’t know if there is any truth to this, but I hope it heightens Putin’s paranoia.

[Embedded content]

Wanna end the war?
Stop shooting and Leave
No one’s stopping you

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 3:36:44am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 3:48:39am

re: #10 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

NEW: According to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump’s passports. Trump had accused the FBI of stealing his three passports during the search of his Mar-a-Lago home.

Again: the FBI would have given him a receipt of everything they removed.

Maybe somebody else in his organization hid them away…my ex-MiL did that once with my wife’s passport.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:05:23am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Again: the FBI would have given him a receipt of everything they removed.

Maybe somebody else in his organization hid them away…my ex-MiL did that once with my wife’s passport.

It is entirely possible that the FBI took them in error, and when they found them in the boxes they took, returned them immediately. Shit happens, especially when you’re doing a raid on a former President and you know your actions will be on the evening news.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:08:03am

Just another par for the course.

Wordle 423 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:15:16am

re: #131 Dangerman

Can we please all agree that this experiment of giving a dumb TV host and shady real estate developer with no government knowledge, 6 bankruptcies, 68 charges of sexual assault, 7,300 lawsuits, and $1,000,000,000 in debt our nuclear secrets did not go well at all?

It is seen as a brilliant success as it wound up pissing off 81 million liberals!!!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:20:02am

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My “trick” is to select a first word which has the most common consonants and vowels. I had to switch first words when that came up as the word and I got a 1/6.

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
nytimes.com

I change my starting word every day. I think “what near common letters haven’t I seen in a while (p, d, c, and the like). I shoot for two vowels and two consonants +, but sometimes I do one vowel because there are some great one vowel words.

I also adjust letters based on day of the week because I noticed the NYT is doing with Wordle what the do with the crossword, it gets progressively harder with Monday being easiest.

Just some thoughts.

Wordle 423 2/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:40:57am

re: #134 Dangerman

LOL did they really believe that Trump - of all people - would actually allow the common rabble, the hoi-polloi, to just stroll on in to Mar-a-Lago to take a whizz or maybe drop off a couple friends at the pool?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:44:12am

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

LOL did they really believe that Trump - of all people - would actually allow the common rabble, the hoi-polloi, to just stroll on in to Mar-a-Lago to take a whizz or maybe drop off a couple friends at the pool?

He doesn’t even want them to drop a deuce in the toilet. The pool is way off limits.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:46:27am

re: #141 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

He doesn’t even want them to drop a deuce in the toilet. The pool is way off limits.

Heh - “dropping off a couple friends at the pool” is a euphemism for taking a dump, at least when I first heard it up in the Pacific Northwest.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:47:04am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Again: the FBI would have given him a receipt of everything they removed.

Maybe somebody else in his organization hid them away…my ex-MiL did that once with my wife’s passport.

re: #136 Dopamine Fish

It is entirely possible that the FBI took them in error, and when they found them in the boxes they took, returned them immediately. Shit happens, especially when you’re doing a raid on a former President and you know your actions will be on the evening news.

See my #27

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:48:02am

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

Heh - “dropping off a couple friends at the pool” is a euphemism for taking a dump, at least when I first heard it up in the Pacific Northwest.

I have heard it referred to as “dropping the kids off at the pool.”

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 16, 2022 • 4:55:16am

re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Why can’t I erect a coal power plant in my backyard?”

Hell, in our upcoming Libertarian Utopia hellscape, I’m already planning where to put my Ricin factory along with the chain of Opium dens.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:06:01am

A real post by Trump on Truth Social.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:10:24am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:12:31am

I ought to do this.

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lawhawk  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:12:49am

re: #36 darthstar

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lawhawk  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:14:55am

Weisselberg’s criminal conduct is just barely scratched with this first case. There are others. He and his family are *fooked* (legal term). He thinks that Trump’s going to cover for him? Trump wont cover for his kids, let alone anyone else.

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lawhawk  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:18:33am

re: #147 No Malarkey!

NY DA Bragg is handling this case, and he’s already fucked up one huge part by dropping the case against Trump despite two senior prosecutors gathering sufficient evidence to bring indictments against Trump personally.

Bragg is not cut out for the job. He never was.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:31:00am

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

Heh - “dropping off a couple friends at the pool” is a euphemism for taking a dump, at least when I first heard it up in the Pacific Northwest.

“The lifeguard caught me peeing in the pool. I was so startled that I almost fell in…”

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No Malarkey!  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:39:39am

Big day today; taking my daughter to college.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:40:45am

re: #153 No Malarkey!

Big day today; taking my daughter to college.

I hope it is a good day. Hopefully she isn’t as insensitive as I was when my parents dropped me off at my university.

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ipsos  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:51:50am

re: #153 No Malarkey!

Big day today; taking my daughter to college.

Saturday for us. Beyond anxious for her and for us.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 16, 2022 • 5:58:59am

re: #94 Belafon

Tell him that we are perfectly fine with migrants, immigrants, refugees, etc. in Sanctuary states. I live in the DMV and we don’t hate immigrants here. We’re a diverse, multicultural region and it works out just fine. Many of us are ourselves immigrants so 🤷‍♂️

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austin_blue  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:00:47am

re: #12 wrenchwench

Blue tit in England.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:02:50am

re: #156 Patricia Kayden

Tell him that we are perfectly fine with migrants, immigrants, refugees, etc. in Sanctuary states. I live in the DMV and we don’t hate immigrants here. We’re a diverse, multicultural region and it works out just fine. Many of us are ourselves immigrants so 🤷‍♂️

The problem with the “Abbott Express” isn’t the immigrants, it’s that hundreds of people are being dumped onto the bureaucracy without warning. Once the paper-pushers get caught up with the unexpected influx of work, everything will work out - probably better than it would have if the governors had kept those people captive in their respective states.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:03:08am

re: #151 lawhawk

NY DA Bragg is handling this case, and he’s already fucked up one huge part by dropping the case against Trump despite two senior prosecutors gathering sufficient evidence to bring indictments against Trump personally.

Bragg is not cut out for the job. He never was.

Or Bragg is getting a cut of something for this job.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:07:47am
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Mattand  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:09:31am

re: #149 lawhawk

Someone is going to have a cow over that…

I see what you did there…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:10:28am
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jeffreyw  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:16:46am

Good morning!

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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:21:11am

Difficult.

dVhhWCtMS2paeURLL1d0NUVuVkpFREdHQThDU1QySDBQb3hoSGhKUzFjcVdmZDFtZHJEUnZQL2J3WE4xZ29lQy9kcWtvQWUzYTY3ZE9wSE0zSlU5cVVnUXh1SmVkN1ZGc3V0VkRLM05YSlZnSGRURVI2c2UzUmhQYWR4WjhzQlZNMjlOYlhSR29wR1VRTFhJQXdicm5Hb25QellaRWIwQlZOQnpnOGxQL3o3bVpCNFJhdmxwOFJKYU5UQm9RTDFROjqQhJd7bJ/TND2liBIlO4cT

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:27:55am

re: #117 wrenchwench

Current streak: Three; a six, a five, and a two.

[Embedded content]

Got a 3 today.

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:29:39am

re: #157 austin_blue

Blue tit in England.

It does get cold there

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:31:07am

re: #133 Dangerman

Wanna end the war?
Stop shooting and Leave
No one’s stopping you

Have to eliminate Putin first.

Story from a tabloid does not carry much credibility.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:36:14am

re: #151 lawhawk

NY DA Bragg is handling this case, and he’s already fucked up one huge part by dropping the case against Trump despite two senior prosecutors gathering sufficient evidence to bring indictments against Trump personally.

Bragg is not cut out for the job. He never was.

If it’s Bragg, he’s letting everyone walk. He is a disgrace. But then so was Vance when he let the Trump family walk years ago, before Trump was on the radar as a political candidate.

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darthstar  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:41:18am

Crimean cookoff.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:41:23am
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:46:10am

re: #104 cat-tikvah

From Fetterman campaign:
FYI: There is no market named Wegners. There’s Redner’s and Wegman’s.

[Embedded content]

Even I know that and I live in freakin Michigan!

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:47:34am
Actor Ezra Miller has spoken out after facing allegations of abuse and other legal troubles, saying they are now seeking treatment for “complex mental health issues” after a “time of intense crisis.”

“Having recently gone through a time of intense crisis, I now understand that I am suffering complex mental health issues and have begun ongoing treatment,” Miller, 29, said in a statement provided to NBC News by their spokesperson.

“I want to apologize to everyone that I have alarmed and upset with my past behavior,” said the actor, who identifies as gender nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. “I am committed to doing the necessary work to get back to a healthy, safe and productive stage in my life.”

The statement comes as Miller’s starring role in the upcoming DC Comics-adapted superhero movie “The Flash,” has faced growing scrutiny in light of their alleged off-camera behavior.

Ezra Miller seeking treatment for ‘complex mental health issues’ after period of ‘intense crisis’ (NBC News)

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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:55:06am

From the grandson of FDR:

Democrats are on the verge of a huge legislative accomplishment, to significantly reduce energy and health care costs and tax inequality. This moment reminds us of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the historic 1934 midterm elections. There, the Democrats saw electoral gains instead of losses — generally a rare occurrence for the party in power.

We, the descendants of FDR and his New Deal cabinet, believe FDR and Democrats in Congress saw gains in 1934 in large part because they weren’t afraid to propose and pass ambitious pieces of legislation known collectively as the New Deal. In 1933 and 1934, FDR and the 73rd Congress enacted a slew of historic legislation that stabilized the economy by providing jobs for millions of unemployed, rescued the banking system, held major corporations and the wealthiest more accountable, and invested heavily in basic infrastructure and the sustainability of our natural resources. […]

We are frankly amazed that Democrats have accomplished so much for the common good with such slender congressional majorities. We think FDR would be mightily impressed — but also hyper-vigilant about the risks still lying ahead — from the health of our economy to our basic freedoms to our democracy.

thehill.com

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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:58:55am
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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 6:59:30am
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Patricia Kayden  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:00:14am

re: #108 Belafon

Love her but can anyone who donated demand their money back based on her blatant scam?

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lawhawk  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:00:45am

re: #175 Belafon

Airstrikes are down tremendously and the one notable strike took out Zawahiri.

That’s a remarkable hit rate.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:00:46am

re: #153 No Malarkey!

Big day today; taking my daughter to college.

Congrats: my youngest daughter starts college in Glasgow this fall.

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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:02:17am

re: #176 Patricia Kayden

Love her but can anyone who donated demand their money back based on her blatant scam?

She may not even be this cruel, but it would be kind of funny to put up a “People who asked for a refund” page.

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Jay C  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:03:41am

re: #173 Belafon

From the grandson of FDR:

thehill.com

This.
X infinity.

I’ve thought for a long time (well, since the last election, anyway) that we need the 2022 midterm election to look like that of 1934. Not just for the “legislative” factors -though those are important- but to, basically, save our democracy.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:06:33am

5/6 & 4/6

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:18:41am

Am I the only one? Who cares about the “Wegner’s” gaffe. Who the fuck makes a veggie tray with broccoli, asparagus, carrots, salsa and guacamole?! Wtf?! Blehhhhhh.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:24:24am

re: #176 Patricia Kayden

Love her but can anyone who donated demand their money back based on her blatant scam?

how blatant, she can always claim that at the moment she posted the appeal, she was a True Believer in Trump.

Remember again: in Today’s America, sincerely (and even momentarily) held beliefs are Constitutionally Protected!!!

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:30:07am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

how blatant, she can always claim that at the moment she posted the appeal, she was a True Believer in Trump.

Remember again: in Today’s America, sincerely (and even momentarily) held beliefs are Constitutionally Protected!!!

Only if the Beliefs are in accord with the current GOP ideology!

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mmmirele  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:30:12am

Not mature enough to decide on an abortion, but mature enough to force to become a parent. *headdesk*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:37:31am
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Dopamine Fish  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:37:38am

re: #185 mmmirele

Not mature enough to decide on an abortion, but mature enough to force to become a parent. *headdesk*

The girl could just give the kid away to a nice Christian family instead, like God intended.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:37:51am

re: #185 mmmirele

Need to smuggle that poor girl out of there somehow.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:39:02am

and he wonders why no one wants to be a teacher

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:39:56am
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Patricia Kayden  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:40:07am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

😂 Right. I have to say that she was smooth with her con artistry — like a Trump!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:42:39am

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:43:53am
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dat_said  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:47:00am

Should be interesting - ND may be conservative but this has a good chance of passing (IMO) just like SD had a voter-approved legalization last year.

SD Gov Noem and SD Republicans have done everything they can to prevent implementation in SD so it’s also back on the ballot there: ballotpedia.org.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:47:13am

re: #175 Belafon

President Biden needs to toot his own horn. We’re not like Republicans who have talking points.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:47:54am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:52:15am

re: #163 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:53:13am

re: #44 Belafon

“Given up on Oz”, as we all should.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:53:21am
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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:53:29am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Congrats: my youngest daughter starts college in Glasgow this fall.

Niece #1 is moving from Israel to Edinburgh to start grad school.
in September she will run her first half marathon, conveniently right there

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:54:00am
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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:54:24am

re: #182 GlutenFreeJesus

Am I the only one? Who cares about the “Wegner’s” gaffe. Who the fuck makes a veggie tray with broccoli, asparagus, carrots, salsa and guacamole?! Wtf?! Blehhhhhh.

That’s some cruddy crudites

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:54:35am
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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:56:04am

re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I want hippo ears.
More even than cat ears

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lawhawk  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:58:57am
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retired cynic  Aug 16, 2022 • 7:59:58am

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lawhawk  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:01:39am

re: #103 cat-tikvah

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:02:33am

re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This is all misdirection

A side show of a side show - General murray, Lawrence of arabia

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lawhawk  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:02:41am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

Handmaid’s Tale in action:

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:06:26am

re: #209 lawhawk

Handmaid’s Tale in action:

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If they can’t force her to give the baby up, this is truly fucked up thinking
If they can force her to give the baby up, this is truly fucked up thinking

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:07:01am

re: #210 Dangerman

If they can’t force her to give the baby up, this is truly fucked up thinking
If they can force her to give the baby up, this is truly fucked up thinking

THIS ^^^^^^

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jeffreyw  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:07:48am
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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:13:55am
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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:14:43am
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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:15:28am
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:17:17am

re: #214 Belafon

A good guideline in 2022 is anything you might think China is “good” at or “better” than the US/Europe…

Take a closer look.

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:17:29am

Today Republicans are pissed they are being charged with crimes they committed.

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:18:27am

re: #150 lawhawk

Weisselberg’s criminal conduct is just barely scratched with this first case. There are others. He and his family are *fooked* (legal term). He thinks that Trump’s going to cover for him? Trump wont cover for his kids, let alone anyone else.

Everyone in the Trump orbit- EVERYONE- this includes corrupt family members, corrupt business associates, corrupt flimflam con men like Bannon and Stone, all the 1/6 Clownshoe traitors, all of them …are counting on a Republican President in 2024, Trump or not. They will receive blanket Pardons for EVERYTHING with tacit encouragement to do it all again except this time with official corrupt government support.

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:19:02am

re: #216 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

A good guideline in 2022 is anything you might think China is “good” at or “better” than the US/Europe…

Take a closer look.

Kinda like the mythology around russia

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BigPapa  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:19:59am

re: #217 Dangerman

Today Republicans are pissed they are being charged with crimes they committed.

Damn communists and their accountability. That’s un American.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:23:14am

re: #213 Dangerman

Replace “spy” with “traitor” since the former is much too lenient for his activities.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:25:49am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

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and he wonders why no one wants to be a teacher

“we banned masks because we believe in PERSONAL FREEDOM”

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:25:56am
Joe Biden is the largest or the most destructive human trafficker in our history.”

— Wyoming congressional candidate Harriet Hageman (R), who is likely to defeat Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is a GOP primary today.

Wyoming, it’s not too late to grow the fuck up.
Otherwise, she certainly gave you enough warnings.
Oh wait, tfg….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:26:41am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

Service guarantees Citizenship. Find out More!!!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:30:02am

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

And if one of these veteran teachers snaps and beats up a 7 year-old…what then?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:30:44am

re: #216 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

A good guideline in 2022 is anything you might think China is “good” at or “better” than the US/Europe…

Take a closer look.

apples and oranges

If we had 1.4 billion people crammed into the area smaller than the USA, things would also look quite differerent…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:31:33am
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:31:42am

re: #117 wrenchwench

Current streak: Three; a six, a five, and a two.

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I ended up with a 3/6 on a lucky guess.

Wordle 423 3/6

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⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:31:57am

re: #225 Eclectic Cyborg

And if one of these veteran teachers snaps and beats up a 7 year-old…what then?

The parents will be held responsible for raising such an unruly child, just like in the good old days.

basically Florida and most of the GOP want homeschooling by proxy.

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William Lewis  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:33:58am

re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The parents will be held responsible for raising such an unruly child, just like in the good old days.

basically Florida and most of the GOP want homeschooling by proxy.

The GOP has always hated public schools because they teach children to think critically which prevents them from falling for GOP lies. This is a way to prevent that and increase the amount of Fascist indoctrination at the same time.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:34:17am
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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:34:28am

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

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totally agree the number of agents is probably ‘countless’

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:34:44am
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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:36:46am

re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth

That sounds like an FBI person who would go talk to Jr.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:38:25am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:41:48am

20 years, never wore a unit patch without an “AIRBORNE” tab
Yeah, that includes the 3 years with the “in name only” 101st

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:42:18am

re: #230 William Lewis

The GOP has always hated public schools because they teach children to think critically which prevents them from falling for GOP lies. This is a way to prevent that and increase the amount of Fascist indoctrination at the same time.

They have lots of reasons. For starters, they cost tax money. GOP ideology is that the Free Market can do anything better, even educate our children.

They also prefer private schooling because it helps to stabilize the class system. The rich will be able to afford the best schooling for their children while the poor will get the minimum education necessary to make them useful to the rich.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:44:20am
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William Lewis  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:45:58am

re: #236 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

20 years, never wore a unit patch without an “AIRBORNE” tab
Yeah, that includes the 3 years with the “in name only” 101st

Thank you for your service testing emergency escape gear by jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. Those who really need parachutes appreciate it, I’m sure /////s :D

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:48:13am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:50:31am

re: #239 William Lewis

Thank you for your service testing emergency escape gear by jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. Those who really need parachutes appreciate it, I’m sure /////s :D

I have doubts many of those air vehicles were “perfectly good”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:51:25am

re: #241 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I have doubts many of those air vehicles were “perfectly good”

“operational”

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William Lewis  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:51:45am
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:52:43am

re: #240 Patricia Kayden

…..When THE OFFICE wrapped we were watched like hawks by NBC to make sure we didn’t take any props or mementos or keepsakes with us. The prop master was even threatened! Maybe NBC/Universal should oversee Presidents leaving the White House…..

Given that it was NBC’s totally dishonest and scripted “The Apprentice” that gave Trump the nationwide fame needed to jumpstart his political career, I wouldn’t trust any policies they implemented.

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wrenchwench  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:53:43am

re: #228 Eventual Carrion

I ended up with a 3/6 on a lucky guess.

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Nice whiff on top.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:53:45am

re: #232 Dangerman

totally agree the number of agents is probably ‘countless’

But given how there was supposedly an “anti-Hillary” cabal within the FBI, I’d be surprised if the number is zero.

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:54:51am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They have lots of reasons. For starters, they cost tax money. GOP ideology is that the Free Market can do anything better, even educate our children.

They also prefer private schooling because it helps to stabilize the class system.

They don’t want child education at all as much as they want child labor with NO restrictions or minimum wage.

Speaking of DeSantis, for the first time ever yesterday, here in the Panhandle I saw a black beaten down pickup with crazy DeSantis stickers all over the back with NO references to Trump. It’s happening. It will start more and more here in Florida, but will quickly escalate across MAGA-land as Trump increasingly looks headed for prison instead of the White House. DeSantis is replacing Trump. It’s happening right now.

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William Lewis  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:55:40am

re: #241 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I have doubts many of those air vehicles were “perfectly good”

If there’s no red X, it’s perfectly fine. Uncle Sam told me so.

Of course, the same was true for my tank. But it isn’t going to fall 10,000 feet after the track falls off ;)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:58:38am
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Patricia Kayden  Aug 16, 2022 • 8:58:44am

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:00:39am
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Patricia Kayden  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:01:05am
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garzooma  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:03:02am

re: #246 Barefoot Grin

But given how there was supposedly an “anti-Hillary” cabal within the FBI, I’d be surprised if the number is zero.

There’s also John Durham. How come we haven’t had an investigation into his probe? Your best case and you can’t convince one juror — how does that not have repercussions?

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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:04:53am

re: #252 Patricia Kayden

It’s frustrating, but no, just because we don’t want “President Harris was convicted of not using a turn signal” to be an excuse. But it does mean that it’s time to expand the court.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:08:41am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:10:30am
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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:11:31am

re: #256 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I wonder if they’d let Stonekettle teach?

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:12:40am

re: #254 Belafon

It’s frustrating, but no, just because we don’t want “President Harris was convicted of not using a turn signal” to be an excuse. But it does mean that it’s time to expand the court.

No - no - no. Maybe if the Democrats get a healthy majority in both the House and Senate from the 2022 election, we can revisit the issue. Otherwise, an expansion will just give the GOP the opportunity to install an overwhelming number of justices the next time they take over. We don’t have the votes to expand the court now; if the GOP takes the Senate, a Democratic president will not be able to appoint a single judge to any court. Only if the GOP reverts to a pre-Nixon GOP will there be a possibility of some justice but that’s not happening any time in the near future.

The only hope for salvation is for lightning to strike down 3 GOP SCOTUS justices before the first Monday in October of this year.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:17:57am

re: #257 Belafon

I wonder if they’d let Stonekettle teach?

LOL.

He’d get run out of town on a rail in less than an hour.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:18:28am

Crudité for two. $8 at a grocery store that actually exists. Oz needs to shop smarter.

shop.wegmans.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:20:34am

re: #260 GlutenFreeJesus

Crudité for two. $8 at a grocery store that actually exists. Oz needs to shop smarter.

shop.wegmans.com

The last time Oz actually shopped for food was probably when he was a student.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:23:35am

re: #261 Hecuba’s daughter

The last time Oz actually shopped for food was probably when he was a student.

I think even if I had money I’d still do most of my food shopping. I’m picky about things lol.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:23:57am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:26:35am
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austin_blue  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:27:03am

re: #257 Belafon

I wonder if they’d let Stonekettle teach?

He’s already said they wouldn’t want him teaching kids.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:31:32am
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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:38:00am

re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth

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not only is Oz a carpetbagger
he’s really bad at it

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A Cranky One  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:41:27am
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Egregious Philbin  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:41:42am

re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg

When you lose a horrible person like Laura….damn

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retired cynic  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:42:03am

re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg

How delusional can they get? “Americans are 100% for Trump.” Ya, shure.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:42:23am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:42:30am

re: #263 Crush White Nationalism

Is Rubio lacking that “Big Dick Energy” needed to ensure political success?

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:43:18am

re: #251 Barefoot Grin

The Good Old Days™.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:43:19am

re: #272 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is Rubio lacking that “Big Dick Energy” needed to ensure political success?

Maybe he’s called L’il Marco for a reason. 😂

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:44:02am

re: #270 retired cynic

How delusional can they get? “Americans are 100% for Trump.” Ya, shure.

ahem “Real Americans”, of course “Real American” being defined as “one who supports Trump”

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:46:41am

re: #257 Belafon

One look at his site and his social media and DeSantis’s goons would be, “Burn the heretic!”

So, no.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:46:42am

re: #270 retired cynic

How delusional can they get? “Americans are 100% for Trump.” Ya, shure.

They chose to live in Trump’s narcissistic inner-world when they sought out a Trump propaganda site that mimics Twitter over the real site with at least a small amount of fact checking.

The people on Truth Social are fully gone and are not coming back.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:46:49am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

I started to read Hillbilly Elegy on a Kindle my ex-GF gave me before it broke.

The first part was fascinating, because as a kid growing up in the Industrial Midwest in the 60’s, I recall that Hillbilly immigrants were a separate ethnicity unto themselves, different not only from the blacks, Latinos, but from the WASPs and Central/Eastern European whites (of which my family were, second generation).

But I lost interest in his family history quite quickly. I grew up with enough stories like his.

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William Lewis  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:47:00am

My son tried coffee for the first time this morning.

He said it “tastes like dirt”.

I explained it was just ground this morning…

;)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:47:04am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

ahem “Real Americans”, of course “Real American” being defined as “one who supports Trump”

Who thinks there’s going to be a red tsunami in the midterms. Uh huh.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:48:16am

re: #280 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Who thinks there’s going to be a red tsunami in the midterms. Uh huh.

“The FBI raid energized Trump and the GOP to vote for Justice!!!”

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William Lewis  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:49:22am

After that he asked me what procrastinate means.

I told him I’d tell him later.

:)

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Jay C  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:49:40am

re: #267 Dangerman

not only is Oz a carpetbagger
he’s really bad at it

That IS surprising: for what we would assume to be a media-savvy guy, Dr. Oz seems to be astonishingly inept at crafting a statewide Senate campaign.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:49:40am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

ahem “Real Americans”, of course “Real American” being defined as “one who supports Trump”

Back when they started this “real American” shit, I told several of them that it’s insulting to Americans to claim that you have to be a bigoted propaganda-addicted idiot who has no interest in facts to be a real American. I’ve given up since then, and just make fun of them now.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:50:00am

re: #269 Egregious Philbin

When you lose a horrible person like Laura….damn

Probably the Murdochs have ordered their stars to change the tone and content of their show because they fear that Trump might be handing the November election to the Democrats (or “Demoncrats” per GOP rhetoric) as he did the Georgia runoffs in 2020.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:51:45am

re: #277 Crush White Nationalism

They chose to live in Trump’s narcissistic inner-world when they sought out a Trump propaganda site that mimics Twitter over the real site with at least a small amount of fact checking.

The people on Truth Social are fully gone and are not coming back.

Because Truth Social bans all those who are critical of Trump. No truth can penetrate the site.

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William Lewis  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:52:00am

I wonder what will happen in Florida when, after a semester or so, these vets find out what a hard bitch of a job teaching is and start joining the Florida Teachers Association union… ;)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:52:10am

re: #285 Hecuba’s daughter

Probably the Murdochs have ordered their stars to change the tone and content of their show because they fear that Trump might be handing the November election to the Democrats (or “Demoncrats” per GOP rhetoric) as he did the Georgia runoffs in 2020.

And the Georgia Runoffs is part of what made Biden’s recent political successes possible and really put the Fear of God into a lot of the GOP establishment when they saw their bastion of the Former Confederacy start to crumble

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William Lewis  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:55:00am

re: #286 Hecuba’s daughter

Because Truth Social bans all those who are critical of Trump. No truth can penetrate the site.

Reminds me of the old saying in the former Soviet Union,

There is no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvestiya.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:57:53am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

apples and oranges

If we had 1.4 billion people crammed into the area smaller than the USA, things would also look quite differerent…

They are lying about their population.

That says a lot.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Aug 16, 2022 • 9:59:07am
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:01:38am

re: #290 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

They are lying about their population.

That says a lot.

????? I’ve never heard that before. ????

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:01:45am

re: #291 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

A “Sir” story.

Sourced
In
Rectum

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:02:11am

re: #290 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

They are lying about their population.

That says a lot.

Their demographics are worse than ours in any case.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:03:00am

re: #291 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Maybe the Trumps really are Conservatives. His rotten kids seem determined to mimic their father rather than moving forward.

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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:03:18am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

apples and oranges

If we had 1.4 billion people crammed into the area smaller than the USA, things would also look quite differerent…

This doesn’t strike me as being very well controlled by the national government like they supposedly are.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:03:32am

Owing to today’s explosions in Crimea, looks like the Russians there are realizing that vacation time is over.

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wrenchwench  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:06:00am

Pocket possum.

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lawhawk  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:07:13am
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:08:28am

re: #292 Hecuba’s daughter

????? I’ve never heard that before. ????

It’s claimed that they are overreporting the population by 115 million (and the 115 phantom people are in the 18-30 range, making their demographics problem even worse). People I know who have spent time in China believe it’s much worse than that.

The demographics chart in China is so top heavy with seniors that their population is going to be cut in half in about 30 years.

Everything about the CCP is smoke and mirrors. Their military is a giant police force. The level of hand-wringing about Taiwan right now is massively overblown IMO.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:08:41am
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:09:55am

re: #299 lawhawk

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:13:14am

re: #301 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Looking over Oz’s wikipedia entry I think he is a textbook example of someone skilled in a particular field (heart surgeon in his case) where they seem to think that expertise automatically transits over into other fields. Which is certainly not the case. It looks like his attraction to alternate medicine woo and the media spotlight goes back to the 1990s. So what you see is what he has been doing for 30 years.

And he only backs away from saying something wrong and stupid after getting a pile of flak. (And probably issuing some sort of fake not-pology.)

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:13:55am

re: #303 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Looking over Oz’s wikipedia entry I think he is a textbook example of someone skilled in a particular field (heart surgeon in his case) where they seem to think that expertise automatically transits over into other fields. Which is certainly not the case. It looks like his attraction to alternate medicine woo and the media spotlight goes back to the 1990s. So what you see is what he has been doing for 30 years.

And he only backs away from saying something wrong and stupid after getting a pile of flak. (And probably issuing some sort of fake not-pology.)

Basically another Ben Carson.

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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:15:44am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

apples and oranges

If we had 1.4 billion people crammed into the area smaller than the USA, things would also look quite differerent…

Also, China has more land than we do, we just have more coastline and therefore more water to include in our area.

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austin_blue  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:16:18am

re: #268 A Cranky One

Quite the show dog, innit?

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William Lewis  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:16:18am

re: #300 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Everything about the CCP is smoke and mirrors. Their military is a giant police force. The level of hand-wringing about Taiwan right now is massively overblown IMO.

That may be possible. The problem is that Xi may see this as their last chance for a long time to seize Taiwan and make the grab anyway before that demographic collapse.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:16:25am

re: #304 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Basically another Ben Carson.

And in both cases I expect they are “mechanics” and not really well versed in the theoretical side of medicine. The latter I think could provide a background for doing some research and saying something knowledgeable about another medical field, like say epidemiology. But I also suspect that would also include having a healthy respect for what the experts in that field are saying.

This sort of gets into the “engineers vs scientists” thing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:18:07am

re: #305 Belafon

Also, China has more land than we do, we just have more coastline and therefore more water to include in our area.

China is bigger than the lower 48, but lots of it is uninhabitable.

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:20:49am

re: #287 William Lewis

I wonder what will happen in Florida when, after a semester or so, these vets find out what a hard bitch of a job teaching is and start joining the Florida Teachers Association union… ;)

a whole semester?

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:21:08am

re: #309 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

China is bigger than the lower 48, but lots of it is uninhabitable.

It’s 27% desert, but there are people living there.
The US is 30% arid and in danger of becoming desert.

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wrenchwench  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:21:37am
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:24:02am

re: #309 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

China is bigger than the lower 48, but lots of it is uninhabitable.

Our Trumpster brother has repeatedly said the current level population world wide is not sustainable. He was thinking that 4-5 billion might be the maximum, but I’ve seen other sources that claim that if we want a first world level life style, then the earth can only support perhaps 2 billion. I am not an expert and cannot guess at the maximum level if we want a planet that supports other lifeforms too — if we don’t want a world as in TOS “Mark of Gideon”.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:24:14am

re: #307 William Lewis

That may be possible. The problem is that Xi may see this as their last chance for a long time to seize Taiwan and make the grab anyway before that demographic collapse.

This is 100% the reason why Russia is FAFO in Ukraine right now, because Russia is going to have to population of Wyoming in a few years if they don’t start pumping out units or get really cool with immigrants really fast.

I know Xi is dumb, but he’s not stupid. China has less practical experience with war. Their military’s entire reason for being has been to keep people from wanting too much of that there freedom stuff. Taiwan has been preparing for this since 1949, and is basically a fortress and it has the US, UK, Japan, and Australia backing it up.

China even looks at Taiwan the wrong way they get cut off from world markets and the power is going out in about 15 minutes, everything else collapses in 30. Playing patty-cake with Russia and Belarus isn’t going to work.

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Belafon  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:26:15am

re: #309 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is the USA bigger than China?

The United States occupies a total area of about 3.8 million square miles while China has an area of approximately 3.7million square miles. However, China has a bigger land area than the United States. The Chinese land area is about 2.2% bigger than the United States (3.5 million square miles).

worldatlas.com

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:26:46am

re: #313 Hecuba’s daughter

Our Trumpster brother has repeatedly said the current level population world wide is not sustainable. He was thinking that 4-5 billion might be the maximum, but I’ve seen other sources that claim that if we want a first world level life style, then the earth can only support perhaps 2 billion. I am not an expert and cannot guess at the maximum level if we want a planet that supports other lifeforms too — if we don’t want a world as in TOS “Mark of Gideon”.

And I’m sure the Trumpster brother has some “odd” criteria on who those 2-4 billion people should be in terms of ethnicity and/or religion?

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:30:29am

re: #313 Hecuba’s daughter

Our Trumpster brother has repeatedly said the current level population world wide is not sustainable. He was thinking that 4-5 billion might be the maximum, but I’ve seen other sources that claim that if we want a first world level life style, then the earth can only support perhaps 2 billion. I am not an expert and cannot guess at the maximum level if we want a planet that supports other lifeforms too — if we don’t want a world as in TOS “Mark of Gideon”.

12-16 billion if we stop scaremongering GMOs, nuclear power, and get serious about climate change.

We will level off naturally way before that. Whatever the population of Earth is between 2050-2100 (probably the 2050 pop) is going to be the cap. We have about 25-75 years to figure out an economy that’s not based entirely on “growth” but isn’t backwards “do without/luddite” bullshit.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:31:50am

re: #313 Hecuba’s daughter

re: #316 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

There’s a lot of variations on, “hm, climate change…what if we just let everyone die?” out there.

The spectrum is just from outright race/class eugenics to soft-walked eugenics of “we can’t do anything so people will just die and they’ll mostly be brown, poor, and in the global south.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:33:08am
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:38:39am

re: #320 lawhawk

“Asian Dawn?”

“I heard about them on 60 minutes.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:39:06am

re: #320 lawhawk

“I read about them in Time magazine”

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:39:52am

re: #322 Hecuba’s daughter

Crap I think you were right on this one.

I didn’t watch Die Hard last Christmas. So it’s been a bit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:41:23am
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ericblair  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:41:28am

re: #318 The Ghost of a Flea

There’s a lot of variations on, “hm, climate change…what if we just let everyone die?” out there.

Sure, anyone who says that, they can go first.

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sagehen  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:44:29am

re: #317 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

12-16 billion if we stop scaremongering GMOs, nuclear power, and get serious about climate change.

Youtube Video

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:45:41am

A lot of people have likened the situation that’s going on right now is, you know, they say we’re in a banana republic. I think that’s an insult to Banana Republics across the country. I mean, at least the manager of Banana Republic, unlike our president, knows where he is and why he’s there and what he’s doing.”

— North Carolina congressional candidate Bo Hines (R), trying to deride President Biden’s mental acuity while confusing the expression “banana republic” with the clothing store chain.

Roseanne Roseannadanna?

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Dr. Matt  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:46:56am

LOL. A Maga Nazi complaining about the price of crudité has exceeded looney tunes level.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:49:48am

@dangerman: Bo Hines is trying to fill the moron void that Madison Cawthorn is leaving behind.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:50:09am
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:51:48am

re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:57:23am

And of course tfg wants the affidavit released too

Watch the judge order it released but with all the names redacted

Checkmate asshole

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Ming5000  Aug 16, 2022 • 10:59:24am

re: #332 Dangerman

Glad I stayed in this thread to see this!

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Dangerman  Aug 16, 2022 • 11:00:35am

re: #332 Dangerman

Oh, here it is ;-)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 16, 2022 • 11:01:16am

re: #332 Dangerman

And of course tfg wants the affidavit released too

Watch the judge order it released but with all the names redacted

Checkmate asshole

Pissing of judges is not a good idea. But I’m sure they’ll see the FO since they’ve already done the FA part.

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aatharuv  Aug 16, 2022 • 11:02:28am

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Liberty to a Libertarian doesn’t mean the same thing it means to other people.

For other people it generally means something like the freedom to go about your business with minimal government interference.

For a Libertarian, they are talking about “economic freedom” (the ability to avoid paying taxes and government restrictions on how they spend their money). For American libertarians, that means they stick to a very narrow reading of the Constitution (such as the government should own no property beyond military bases).

Libertarianism always leads to an oligarchy, fascism, or anarchy anywhere it is implemented.

You’re right that iIt’s about economic freedom, and a narrow reading of the constitution. However, it’s also about preventing the federal government from preventing them from imposing their views on others.

The Mises Caucus has recently taken over the Libertarian party to a very paleo libertarian stance. (Think bending pure libertarianism to support a culturally conservative or reactionary point of view, or say Ron Paul.)

“Open borders — horrible idea, they allow people to come in to the country and mooch off welfare. Let’s get rid of birth right citizenship too”
“Small government federally, so we can impose as much government as we want closer to home.”
“No public schools so that we can home school or private school instead. Vouchers are redistribution.”
“End the EPA. Let everyone use the courts to sue others for pollution.” Conveniently ignoring the friction and extra costs of forcing thousands or millions to sue many polluting entities.
“F@#$k the rest of the world — Fortress America.”

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austin_blue  Aug 16, 2022 • 11:22:07am

re: #300 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

It’s claimed that they are overreporting the population by 115 million (and the 115 phantom people are in the 18-30 range, making their demographics problem even worse). People I know who have spent time in China believe it’s much worse than that.

The demographics chart in China is so top heavy with seniors that their population is going to be cut in half in about 30 years.

Everything about the CCP is smoke and mirrors. Their military is a giant police force. The level of hand-wringing about Taiwan right now is massively overblown IMO.

They should with Kinmen County, which is, literally, a long rifle shot (less than two miles) from Xiamen on the *western* side of the Formosa Strait.

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cat-tikvah  Aug 16, 2022 • 11:29:07am

re: #207 lawhawk

Wegner’s: “the crudite capital of PA”
Hahahahahaha hahahahaha 🤣😂

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 16, 2022 • 11:46:02am

re: #287 William Lewis

I wonder what will happen in Florida when, after a semester or so, these vets find out what a hard bitch of a job teaching is and start joining the Florida Teachers Association union… ;)

No. They will call on the Republican dominated Florida Government to allow teachers like themselves to carry guns to threaten and impose their will on classrooms… in the name of “security”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 16, 2022 • 2:44:33pm

re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth

My wife is a math teacher and said two full classes of calculus students will be virtual at her school due to teacher losses

If we cannot teach our students calculus, then other nations will, and we will just have to hire them instead of our own.


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